- #1 The Watson-Scott Test
97% matchMixed67% of 815 reviews2018
Dev: Normal Wholesome Games
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 25%
Take the Watson-Scott personality test and discover your deepest and darkest fears. 30 multiple-choice questions will tell you if you're more afraid of clowns, snakes, or something more sinister...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Text-Based 21.7%, Psychological Horror 20%, Violent 17.5%, Horror 14.7%
Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror experience that uses a text-based questionnaire to mirror the interactive, choice-driven nature of your seed game.
- #2 This Book Is A Dungeon
96% matchMostly Positive72% of 294 reviews2015
Dev: Nathan MeunierPub: Plug In Digital
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Auto-cannibalism. Demonic Seduction. Occult Rituals. Bloodfeasting Worms. This dark, horrific Twine-based dungeon crawler pairs edgy interactive fiction with grisly pixel art and light RPG elements. Navigate this sprawling narrative-driven labyrinth bristling with otherworldly doom.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29%, Horror 19.2%, Adventure 8.4%, Indie 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: A dark, gothic interactive fiction title that leans heavily into the choose-your-own-adventure style while exploring mature themes.
- #3 Stories Untold
96% matchVery Positive87% of 5,426 reviews2017
Dev: No CodePub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.
Why similar: Text-Based 30.4%, Horror 20%, Psychological Horror 19.7%, Thriller 9.9%, Adventure 7%
Why You'll Like It: This game masterfully blends text-based adventure mechanics with atmospheric horror to create a deeply unsettling narrative experience.
- #4 Scarlet Hollow
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 4,749 reviews2021
Dev: Black Tabby Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Choices Matter 20.4%, Psychological Horror 17%, Horror 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven horror game where your choices carry weight and determine the survival of characters in a small, eerie town.
- #5 If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,742 reviews2021
Dev: Dead Idle Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a narrative-driven point-and-click adventure with horror elements that explores the stories of four characters in a masked ball taking place aboard a train in the late 1920s.
Why similar: Gothic 43.5% ★, Psychological Horror 18.4%, Horror 17.6%, Story Rich 13.1%, Adventure 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: A beautifully dark, narrative-focused experience that emphasizes storytelling and atmosphere over complex gameplay mechanics.
- #6 WORLD OF HORROR
94% matchVery Positive90% of 9,764 reviews2023
Dev: panstaszPub: Ysbryd Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Experience the quiet terror of this 1-bit love letter to Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft. Navigate a hellish roguelite reality with turn-based combat and unforgiving choices. Experiment with your deck of event cards to discover new forms of cosmic horror in every playthrough. The inevitable awaits...
Why similar: Horror 49.3%, Psychological Horror 40.2%, Adventure 7.4%, Singleplayer 3.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game combines gothic, cosmic horror themes with a choice-heavy, turn-based structure that feels like a classic interactive nightmare.
- #7 Trapped with Jester
92% matchVery Positive94% of 1,515 reviews2022
Dev: AntaPub: Neoclassic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
An unusual horror-themed Visual Novel about waking up in a carriage with a stranger… Whatever could go wrong?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Text-Based 16%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Horror 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror visual novel that utilizes interactive fiction elements to create a tense, claustrophobic experience.
- #8 The Letter - Horror Visual Novel
93% matchVery Positive86% of 1,515 reviews2017
Dev: Yangyang MobilePub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
When seven people fall prey to a vicious curse, they will discover that horror rests not from the shadows lurking about, but within themselves. To what ends will one go in order to survive?
Why similar: Horror 23.2%, Choices Matter 17.7%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Sexual Content 12%
Why You'll Like It: A branching narrative horror game where your choices directly impact the fate of the characters in a classic ghost story setting.
- #9 Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 33,269 reviews2020
Dev: Nikita KryukovPub: Nikita Igorevich Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 11%
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25%, Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Text-Based 21.3%, Horror 18.1%, Adventure 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: A short, intense, and highly psychological text-heavy experience that captures the surreal dread of indie horror.
- #10 Who's Lila?
91% matchVery Positive95% of 3,610 reviews2022
Dev: Garage Heathen
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Horror 14.8%, Choices Matter 14.1%
Why You'll Like It: A surreal, choice-heavy horror game that forces you to interact with the narrative in unconventional ways to uncover its dark secrets.
- #11 Nightmare Zapping
90% matchVery Positive99% of 76 reviews2023
Dev: Maldo19
Windows
A horror channel browsing game where each channel holds a different nightmare to experience, explore them and find out the truth about what has happened in a small town where the inhabitants have disappeared.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Violent 21.4%, Horror 19.6%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Story Rich 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: A 2D visual novel that leans into the choose-your-own-adventure format to present a series of short, dark stories.
- #12 Lost Diskettes Vol.1
89% matchVery Positive90% of 78 reviews2024
Dev: Puko
Windows
This is a collection of short and experimental horror experiences, focused on surreal and bizarre plots.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Choices Matter 17.4%, Psychological Horror 17%, Horror 16%, Story Rich 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A collection of horror stories that utilize choice-based mechanics to deliver multiple endings and varied scares.
- #13 The Peresmeshnik
89% matchVery Positive93% of 108 reviews2020
Dev: Sean Arnold
Windows
It is said that the last frontier is space, but the crew of the Soviet Frigate, The Peresmeshnik, is about to discover that the sea still hides a terrifying secret. Waiting to be found.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Text-Based 17.6%, Psychological Horror 8%, Horror 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A text-based interactive fiction game that relies on atmospheric writing to deliver its horror elements.
- #14 PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,838 reviews2023
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
How far would you go to bring someone back from the dead? Discover the depths that some will go to in this horror-adventure game.
Why similar: Text-Based 33.2%, Horror 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Story Rich 12.2%, Adventure 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: An interactive mystery-horror visual novel that uses branching paths and player choices to build a complex, terrifying narrative.
- #15 Endless
88% matchMixed59% of 75 reviews2023
Dev: shademakesgames
Windows · Mac
A Horror Adventure Game with Multiple Endings
Why similar: Horror 39.7%, Psychological Horror 37.8%, Adventure 14.6%, Indie 4.7%, Singleplayer 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror game that features multiple endings and a focus on narrative discovery through exploration.
- #16 Trick and Treat - Visual Novel
86% matchVery Positive90% of 3,616 reviews2016
Dev: Eternal Night StudiosPub: Alberto Herrera
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Trick & Treat is a Visual Novel that test your instincts by making choices that can get you out from the cursed forest or drive you to death… or maybe just maybe your choices can guide you to something more?
Why similar: Sexual Content 33.5%, Horror 31.3%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Story Rich 7.8%, Indie 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play horror visual novel that captures the gothic, anime-inspired aesthetic often found in indie interactive fiction.
- #17 Your Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority-
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 4,059 reviews2023
Dev: NankidaiPub: 0UP GAMES
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Your Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority- is a multi-ending horror adventure game. Sara Chidouin returns home from school late one night to discover that something's gone terribly wrong. When she comes to, she finds herself, her friend Joe, and 9 other people trapped in a mysterious place.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.5%, Interactive Fiction 31.4%, Psychological Horror 19%, Story Rich 9.2%, Adventure 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes, choice-driven horror game where your decisions determine who lives and who dies in a deadly social experiment.
- #18 Trash Horror Collection
85% matchVery Positive95% of 519 reviews2022
Dev: 616 GAMES
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Welcome to a true 80's trash horror experience. This collection has 10 short horror games that you can freely choose which one you want to play.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 41.8%, Horror 16.2%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Adventure 10.8%, Choices Matter 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A collection of short, choose-your-own-adventure style horror games that embrace a low-budget, indie aesthetic.
- #19 Welcome To The Dark Place
84% matchVery Positive88% of 585 reviews2025
Dev: Zeekerss
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 40%
The train is the only escape.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.3%, Violent 18%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Horror 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A text-based psychological horror game that emphasizes player choice and indie-style storytelling.
- #20 Summer Nightmare
87% matchMixed55% of 554 reviews2017
Dev: Team Summer NightmarePub: Elkibe Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 29%
If one’s imagined world of nightmare and the real world unite…. The hide-and-seek game of death in the world of nightmare begins. Discover hints and save yourself from the nightmare!
Why similar: Horror 45.8%, Psychological Horror 32.3%, Adventure 13.1%, Indie 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A short, free-to-play horror visual novel that focuses on delivering a quick, impactful, and unsettling narrative.
- #21 Channel 4 Midnight
82% matchVery Positive87% of 139 reviews2026
Dev: foolkien
Windows
A bite-sized psychological horror game about a wayward soul who seeks transformation through a sinister ritual.
Why similar: Horror 24.9%, Psychological Horror 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Story Rich 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric horror game that uses a first-person perspective to tell a short, unsettling story.
- #22 YAMIKKO TROUBLEMAKER
82% matchVery Positive98% of 96 reviews2025
Dev: お湯めのPub: 半角全角感嘆符
Windows
A long-form, choice-driven psychological horror and depression game in which the protagonist’s ending changes based on the choices made by “you,” the voice he hears in his head.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Horror 18.9%, Violent 15.7%, Story Rich 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A dark, story-rich psychological horror game that uses pixel graphics to enhance its grim, interactive narrative.
- #23 The Cat Lady
83% matchVery Positive94% of 6,142 reviews2013
Dev: Harvester GamesPub: Screen 7
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Cat Lady follows Susan Ashworth, a lonely 40-year old on the verge of suicide. She has no family, no friends and no hope for a better future. One day she discovers that five strangers will come along and change everything...
Why similar: Horror 33.3%, Psychological Horror 28.7%, Story Rich 18.6%, Adventure 10.4%, Indie 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: A dark, gothic narrative adventure that explores heavy psychological themes through a unique, choice-influenced story.
- #24 Lights Off!
81% matchVery Positive85% of 1,843 reviews2022
Dev: TheDollarGameStore
Windows
Play through a common childhood fear about turning the lights off and going to bed.
Why similar: Horror 38.8%, Psychological Horror 23.9%, Sexual Content 16.6%, Adventure 9.4%, Multiplayer 8%
Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play horror adventure that focuses on building tension through its dark, atmospheric setting.
- #25 The House in Fata Morgana
80% matchVery Positive95% of 6,235 reviews2016
Dev: NOVECTPub: MangaGamer
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 27.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A gothic suspense tale set in a cursed mansion. "The House in Fata Morgana" is a full-length visual novel spanning nearly a millennium that deals in tragedy, human nature, and insanity.
Why similar: Gothic 42.4% ★, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Horror 12.2%, Story Rich 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A gothic, narrative-heavy visual novel that explores tragic and horrific themes through a deeply immersive story.
- #26 Corpse Party
81% matchVery Positive89% of 1,376 reviews2016
Dev: GrisGrisPub: XSEED Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A group of friends unknowingly perform an occult ritual that traps them in an otherworldly elementary school. Here, the vengeful spirits of young children threaten their lives and their sanity, and the only hope of survival is to uncover the chilling details behind the murders of those trapped before them...
Why similar: Horror 43.7%, Psychological Horror 25.2%, Story Rich 10%, Choices Matter 7.4%, Adventure 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A classic horror visual novel that uses branching paths and player decisions to navigate a gruesome, supernatural school setting.
- #27 Mundaun
79% matchVery Positive93% of 1,446 reviews2021
Dev: Hidden FieldsPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Mundaun is a lovingly hand-penciled horror tale set in a dark, secluded valley of The Alps. Explore various areas full of secrets to discover, survive hostile encounters, drive vehicles, fill your inventory, and solve a variety of handcrafted puzzles.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.1%, Horror 25.4%, Thriller 18.3%, Story Rich 14.9%, Adventure 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A hand-drawn, gothic horror game that prioritizes a unique, unsettling atmosphere and narrative depth over traditional action.
- #28 怪話
78% matchVery Positive95% of 59 reviews2024
Dev: 法螺会
Windows · Mac
オムニバス形式で送る四章構成の心霊ホラーノベルゲーム
Why similar: Psychological Horror 23%, Horror 22.4%, Text-Based 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Adventure 8.6%
- #29 The Allure Of Wanton Cove
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 119 reviews2024
Dev: Ktulhu Solutions
Windows · Mac · Linux
An adult tale of lust and horror in the vein of HP Lovecraft. Take on the part of a former detective who could never let go of the last terrible case he worked. One day his old partner comes knocking, begging for help.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Text-Based 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Sexual Content 11.9%, Noir 11.6%
- #30 Until Dawn™
75% matchVery Positive83% of 4,730 reviews2024
Dev: Ballistic MoonPub: PlayStation Publishing LLC
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Rebuilt and enhanced for PC – Until Dawn invites you to relive the nightmare, and immerse yourself in a gripping slasher horror where every decision can make the difference between life and death.
Why similar: Choices Matter 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Horror 18.9%, Story Rich 6.6%
- #31 Sex with a Vampire 🧛♂️❤️
78% matchMixed61% of 98 reviews2024
Dev: Metroneck
Windows · Mac · Linux
🌙 Explore dark forests and mysterious caves in Sex With a Vampire 🧛♂️❤️.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Sexual Content 17.6%, Nudity 16.1%, Horror 11.7%, Psychological Horror 9.5%
- #32 House of Caravan
79% matchMixed67% of 808 reviews2015
Dev: Rosebud GamesPub: Senpai Industrial Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Taking place in a single mansion in Candlewood, northeast USA, in the early 20th Century, House of Caravan is a sinister adventure filled with dark secrets and vexing puzzles.
Why similar: Horror 58.4%, Adventure 20.2%, Indie 17%, Singleplayer 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: A gothic, narrative-driven adventure that focuses on exploration and choice within a mysterious, decaying mansion.
- #33 The Price Of Flesh
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,097 reviews2022
Dev: Gatobob
Windows · Mac · Linux
An immersive choose-your-own-adventure survival horror with optional adult content featuring hand drawn backgrounds, sprites, and over 150 pieces of full screen art- and 50 endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Sexual Content 14.9%, Choices Matter 14.6%
- #34 Darkness Revenge
75% matchVery Positive83% of 111 reviews2024
Dev: Hematite
Windows
Choose between a male or female character and take revenge on your killers as a vampire!
Why similar: Vampires 30.8% ★, Sexual Content 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Choices Matter 10.8%
- #35 Sensual Haunting
76% matchMixed63% of 65 reviews2022
Dev: Lesson of Passion
Windows
Play as a ghost and influence women in the house in order to get sexual pleasures from them and achieve your goals by manipulating both the environment as well as their mind.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Sexual Content 15.8%, Nudity 12.6%, Choices Matter 12.5%
- #36 Minds Eyes
76% matchMixed70% of 1,834 reviews2016
Dev: Stanislaw TruchowskiPub: TurnVex
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 21%
You venture through your mind, trying desperately to wake up from your nightmares. Will you make it out?
Why similar: Horror 56.7%, Thriller 12.1%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Adventure 6.1%
- #37 Choose Wisely
77% matchMostly Positive70% of 132 reviews2018
Dev: ID Card
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
This interactive adventure features no specific hero. YOU are the one who decides who makes it out alive - or not. Your actions determine the outcome of the story. In total there are 9 playable heroes and more than 50 different paths all featuring intense dialogues and thrilling events.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Violent 14.9%, Sexual Content 11.6%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Nudity 9.5%
- #38 VHS Collection: Goodnight Me
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 93 reviews2024
Dev: Notick
Windows
VHS Collection: Goodnight Me is a short horror game where reality blurs with nightmares over five eerie days. Experience strange events, unsettling dreams, and unravel a chilling mystery in a remote house. Can you survive the madness, or will the nightmare consume you?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25%, Horror 23.5%, Thriller 19%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Adventure 5.9%
- #39 Inhuman Resources: A Literary Machination
73% matchVery Positive93% of 68 reviews2025
Dev: Finnegan MotorsPub: Indie Asylum
Windows · Mac · Linux
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Text-Based 17.8%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Psychological Horror 11.7%
- #40 Emily is Away
73% matchVery Positive89% of 32,252 reviews2015
Dev: Kyle Seeley
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Choices Matter 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Story Rich 12.4%, Text-Based 10.9%
- #41 It Paints Me
71% matchVery Positive97% of 245 reviews2024
Dev: ENDYSIS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Take the role of a painter struggling to finish his masterpiece in this short Gothic horror visual novel about art, pain and love.
Why similar: Gothic 34.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Horror 10.9%, Historical 8.8%
- #42 The Flayed Man
71% matchVery Positive92% of 369 reviews2025
Dev: Snoring Dog Games
Windows
The Flayed Man is a short narrative-driven point and click horror game. Awaking without memories (or skin), you must uncover the sins of the past, pass judgement, and decide your fate in this macabre adventure.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.9%, Violent 17.6%, Horror 16.5%, Choices Matter 16.2%, Story Rich 10.8%
- #43 REALITY
74% matchMixed68% of 106 reviews2016
Dev: Grey Reality Studios
Windows
REALITY is a FREE short First-Person horror game, it uses a graphical style to represent the present mood of the game. It gives the player the ability to choose and get slightly different results. The game has many mysteries you might want to uncover.
Why similar: Horror 64.3%, Adventure 20.3%, Indie 15.3%
- #44 Violent Horror Stories: anthology
69% matchVery Positive83% of 615 reviews2024
Dev: IndikatorPub: Trioskaz
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 67%
4 short horror games from different authors and in different genres. Each game is an author's vision on the theme of 'pursuit'.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 35.4%, Horror 27.8%, Violent 20.2%, Story Rich 10.8%, Indie 4.4%
- #45 Cannibal Tales - Episode 1
70% matchVery Positive89% of 64 reviews2024
Dev: Fantastico Studio
Windows · Mac
Horror thriller visual novel written by cult director Ruggero Deodato. A cannibal story in three episodes. Embark on a challenging journey, where every choice has a price and consequences. Will you be able to reach the end without getting your soul devoured? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Horror 15%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Violent 14.6%, Choices Matter 7.8%
- #46 You Must be 18 or Older to Enter
72% matchVery Positive83% of 306 reviews2017
Dev: Seemingly Pointless
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 19%
It's the 1990s. You’re alone at home, and you heard about the "adult" internet at school. You Must be 18 or Older to Enter blurs several genres together to create an anxious horror experience, one that hits a little too close. How deep will you dive before your parents come home? Do you even like this stuff?
Why similar: Sexual Content 38%, Nudity 27%, Adventure 14.3%, Indie 11.1%, Horror 9.6%
- #47 Dead Dreams
72% matchMostly Positive75% of 67 reviews2020
Dev: Aiaz Marx
Windows
"DEAD DREAMS" is a 2D psychological horror game focused on puzzle-solving and atmosphere with a complex non-linear story in which every element has a meaning...
Why similar: Choices Matter 22.4%, Horror 21.4%, Psychological Horror 19.7%, Thriller 15.9%, Story Rich 12.6%
- #48 Kill or Love
69% matchVery Positive89% of 2,191 reviews2020
Dev: Andy Church
Windows · Mac · Linux
A visual novel about obsession, loneliness, and, based on your choices, varying amounts of murder.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.5%, Sexual Content 16.3%, Horror 13.5%, Thriller 9.9%, Violent 8.3%
- #49 Saint Maker - Horror Visual Novel
69% matchVery Positive86% of 253 reviews2023
Dev: Yangyang MobilePub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac
A haunted convent. Statues that move on their own. A buried past. Welcome to Saint Idelora’s convent, where becoming a saint comes with a price.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Horror 15%, Choices Matter 11.6%
- #50 Infliction
70% matchVery Positive81% of 950 reviews2018
Dev: Caustic Reality
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Wander through an interactive nightmare set within the confines of a once-happy household. Piece together the mystery behind a harrowing series of events while struggling to survive encounters with an entity that relentlessly stands in the way of finding absolution.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.2%, Horror 22%, Violent 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Story Rich 8.1%
- #51 Found Horror Game 101.exe
71% matchMixed67% of 58 reviews2018
Dev: Yai Gameworks
Windows
You'll scream in pleasure... Choke with fear! Play through 101 sick, frightening and perverted games, released in an experimental episodic format Can the curious souls brave through the hidden depths of each game to reach the shocking conclusion? Maybe what's been lost was never meant to be found...
Why similar: Violent 29.1%, Horror 25.2%, Psychological Horror 18.4%, Adventure 10.8%, Indie 8.7%
- #52 SIMULACRA
68% matchVery Positive90% of 4,633 reviews2017
Dev: Kaigan Games OÜ
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.
Why similar: Choices Matter 23%, Horror 23%, Psychological Horror 21.9%, Thriller 14.4%, Story Rich 11.4%
- #53 Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 12,215 reviews2021
Dev: Bit Golem
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 29%
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Why similar: Horror 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Text-Based 14.9%, Psychological Horror 14.2%
- #54 Love Stories: When Pastel Meets Grotesque
68% matchVery Positive88% of 420 reviews2022
Dev: 桐生バトラ（疑狐社）Pub: Miwu Studio
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 41.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Some Scary Love Stories is a visual novel game with option branches Players tap the screen to read the story and make their own choices, eventually leading to different ending branches A collection of long-updated short stories on the theme of "Distorted Love"
Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Story Rich 17.1%, Text-Based 13.9%, Adventure 13.9%
- #55 Dark Nights
67% matchVery Positive92% of 412 reviews2022
Dev: Pinlin
Windows · Mac · Linux
Nothing is as it seems.
Why similar: Choices Matter 25.7%, Text-Based 21.3%, Horror 20.7%, Adventure 11%, Story Rich 10.3%
- #56 Midnight Syndrome
66% matchVery Positive99% of 93 reviews2024
Dev: ナツミカン
Windows
A summer night consumes the girls... Exploration type horror ADV game
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 45.9%, Horror 28.9%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Adventure 11.3%
- #57 Survivor
70% matchMixed64% of 116 reviews2019
Dev: Reija Meriläinen
Windows · Mac
Outwit, Outplay, Outcast.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.8%, Psychological Horror 21.3%, Adventure 17.1%, Story Rich 12.9%, Indie 11.9%
- #58 Bad Dream: Stories
68% matchVery Positive94% of 120 reviews2021
Dev: Desert Fox
Windows
Bad Dream: Stories is a collection of older games in the Bad Dream series in a new, remastered form. Play the series of short point & click titles and travel through the disturbing and atmospheric world of dreams.
Why similar: Choices Matter 31.9%, Psychological Horror 24.3%, Horror 23.6%, Adventure 13.7%, Story Rich 4.7%
- #59 星影の館殺人事件
66% matchVery Positive94% of 77 reviews2024
Dev: 法螺会
Windows · Mac
1935年の洋館を舞台に織り成す、レトロな雰囲気の怪異ホラーミステリーアドベンチャー
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 39.4%, Horror 17%, Adventure 14.2%, Text-Based 13.4%, Psychological Horror 12%
- #60 Trash Horror Collection 2
67% matchVery Positive90% of 133 reviews2022
Dev: 616 GAMES
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
This collection has 11 short horror games that you can freely choose which one you want to play.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 49.6%, Horror 18.6%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Adventure 12.9%, Indie 0.9%
