
Your small town is slowly becoming corrupted by a mysterious evil, In a dream you get a premonition of your own death. How do you avoid an unknown fate? Spend your final moments wisely in this choice-based psychological horror visual novel game.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Choose Your Own Adventure, Adventure, Horror, Psychological Horror.

Your small town is slowly becoming corrupted by a mysterious evil, In a dream you get a premonition of your own death. How do you avoid an unknown fate? Spend your final moments wisely in this choice-based psychological horror visual novel game.

Contra Spem Spero
Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.

Stay Alive For Me
Survive a gripping psychological thriller in this visual novel. Make critical decisions, face a disturbed captor, and experience multiple chilling endings.
Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Psychological Horror 17%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Horror 9.8%, Choices Matter 7.4%
Survive a gripping psychological thriller in this visual novel. Make critical decisions, face a disturbed captor, and experience multiple chilling endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Thriller 11.4%, Choices Matter 7%
A classic choose your own adventure story. Escape the horrors hunting you, make decisions, forge your own path. An original complete story with multiple endings and secrets to unlock. Choose your own play style with a Text Adventure Mode, sound effects, and an ambient soundtrack.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Surreal 10.2%, Text-Based 9.7%
Alone in the dead of night, you find yourself sent on a simple errand to check on a quiet gas station on the outskirts of town. But nothing here feels right. You can’t outrun this place. It wants you. And it will keep you.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Dialogue Heavy 11.2%, Surreal 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%
可愛い後輩と2人っきり……冷凍庫の中で。 低体温症、矛盾脱衣、幻覚などの苦痛を乗り越えた先にあるのは、「真相」と「死」のみ。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Dialogue Heavy 15.2%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.2%
A quiet apartment. A friendly neighbour. A normal life. You've been in this apartment for a while now. You know the layout. The sounds. The routine. So do we. A psychological horror about control.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Surreal 9.8%, Thriller 9.1%, Dialogue Heavy 9%
Cody, haunted by psychological demons, envisions a monstrous threat eliminating all he hates.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Horror 9.5%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
Earth's Center of Gravity is a mystic horror visual novel with multiple endings. The story revolves around Tower Antiques. "No one remembers how long Tower Antiques was there. But it remembers everyone. Even the ones who did not visit it yet." Tower Antiques is waiting for you to write your story.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 13%, Thriller 12.9%, Surreal 12.3%, Visual Novel 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%
A classic 90s choose your own adventure style horror visual novel. Escape the horrors hunting you, make decisions, forge your own path. An original complete story with multiple endings. Choose your own play style with a Text Adventure Mode, sound effects, and an ambient soundtrack.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
Watercolors Sink Beneath the Surface is a nostalgic pixel-art point-and-click adventure set on Narumi Island, where only an abandoned high school stands. Years later, two girls return to complete a watercolor inspired by their school memories, gathering ideas from the remnants of the past.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Dialogue Heavy 8.4%, Text-Based 7.5%
A fable from your childhood. Don't you remember it?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Surreal 10.4%, Dialogue Heavy 10.1%
Memories swirl all around you...Or are these memories? Familiar faces and places you think you remember but somehow now seem so different. Why are you here? Where is here?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.7%, Surreal 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Puzzle 8.1%, Visual Novel 7.7%
It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Surreal 10.3%, Horror 9.7%, Multiple Endings 7.7%
"Island of Ruin" is a puzzle novel game where you collect memory cores hidden across the island and uncover the truth behind a tragedy of the past. When the horrors that befell the boys and girls and the island’s strange phenomena are revealed, what final choice will you make?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%, Puzzle 8.5%
Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time. While you sleep, he is alone. When you return to your PC he has hope. Your encouragement and advice will be the difference between his salvation or despair.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Thriller 13.7%, Visual Novel 9.4%, Choices Matter 8.6%, Puzzle 8%
Hinter is a horror game based on a brutal piece of disturbing crime case in Bavaria Germany
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Dialogue Heavy 11.6%, Exploration 8.6%
Uncover the truth behind a broken ritual in Make Moku Proud... a psychological visual novel where guilt and obedience, and what it means to make Moku proud, shape the fate of a witness watching his companions disappear.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.6%, Visual Novel 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Horror 10%, Thriller 6.8%
A Game Where You're Killed for Becoming a Couple.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Thriller 10.2%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%
This is a collection of short and experimental horror experiences, focused on surreal and bizarre plots.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Horror 10.6%, Choices Matter 8.7%, Thriller 8.5%
A choice game where you face the choice and truth of survival. An unpredictable ending awaits.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, Visual Novel 21%, Thriller 18.3%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Text-Based 11.6%
"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested." Story about life, choices and a Man vs the System. This unique interactive literature adaptation. A game, brought to You in early visual novel, text-adventure style.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Text-Based 10%, Choices Matter 8.1%
A 2D exploration adventure game set in a creepy, mysterious art gallery.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Surreal 11.2%, Horror 9%, Exploration 7.4%
Blending fairy tale fright with psychological horror, this narrative game challenges you to survive a weird journey through the woods while being hunted by the witch you were tasked with imprisoning. Sometimes charming, sometimes frightening, she’ll force you to make hard choices.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.2%, Psychological Horror 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Horror 9.9%
INSPECTION REPORT is a horror / point & click game focused on exploration and dialogue. Fulfill your duties as a building inspector and uncover the secrets of an abandoned property in total dark using only a flashlight.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.4%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Horror 11.5%, Exploration 9.8%, Puzzle 8.6%
Resequence: The Orchard is an occult-horror adventure game in which school counselor Saito approaches an inexplicable phenomena through his counseling sessions with students.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.3%, Psychological Horror 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Horror 10.8%, Surreal 10.7%
⟢ SPRKLS.exe is a cute, melancholic story-driven adventure that unfolds entirely on YOUR desktop 𓂃˗ˏˋ⟢ 𓂅 ࣪⟡̵͝ ₊ ೃ̶͂ ࿔̶̽⟡̷͛*⋆ [EMOTION OVERRIDE] ࿐̵̋⟡̸̂ ࣪ ˖༄̶̀ ✦̵͗ [YOU WEREN’T SUPPOSED TO SEE THIS] ⋆.˚ ̴̡̢̛̼̬̠̰̀͟҉̢C͊͊ ༘⋆ [PLEASE DON’T CLOSE ME AGAIN] ⟡̷͛ ˖𓏲ּ𝄢 ⟡̵̂ ִֶָ 𓂃⊹
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Psychological Horror 18.7%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Choices Matter 8.3%, Pixel Graphics 7%
Interrogate a friend accused of murder in Mota Must Die... a psychological visual novel where belief decides whether someone lives or dies
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Thriller 15.1%, Horror 10.1%
A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Psychological Horror 14%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Text-Based 9.2%, Dialogue Heavy 8.8%
The Creepy Syndrome is an anthology that offers several psychological horror stories, with different pixel art and retro 1 bit, 8 bit, gameboy, etc. styles. Stories of a disturbed mind that intertwine with each other while being analysed by a mysterious psychiatrist.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Visual Novel 11%, Retro 7.9%, Horror 7.8%
A horror point and click game where choices matter about trying to do your final marathon training run.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 15%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Surreal 11.3%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%, Horror 9.1%
TELEFORUM is a found-footage-styled horror game exploring the unknown side of media. You’re visiting a widow’s apartment to conduct an interview about her husband's death. But that’s not the main reason why you’re here. It’s all about the tape, isn’t it?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Horror 11.2%, Choices Matter 7.7%
A slow burn retro horror game set in the English countryside. In the apocalypse ammo is scarce and you only have 3 shots left. Make them count!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Thriller 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Horror 7.9%
In a lonely station atop a mountain, a train rumbles its precious cargo to places unknown. Now is your shift. Keep the pace. Uncover a mystery. Fight for your last breath. The air is thin up here.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.2%, Thriller 11.8%, Surreal 11.5%, Horror 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8%
Help Nari and Sena make sense of a cringeworthy drink called MINDFUNK that predicts their death. Your choices in this psychological horror visual novel will determine how they deal with this MIND****.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Psychological Horror 16.8%, Multiple Endings 8.7%, Surreal 8.3%
A presence lingers in the dark, waiting. It asks. It doubts. It knows. What happened? Why are you here? Do you deserve this? The answers are yours to decide. What you choose matters. Every path leads somewhere. But will you like where it takes you?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Text-Based 8.7%, Horror 8.3%
"Something is in your house." As a Shaman, you are the only one who can face the unknown. Investigate haunted homes, uncover secrets, and exorcise malevolent spirits. Your choices determine the client's fate. Experience a chilling K-horror story where every decision matters.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Thriller 10.3%, Surreal 9.2%
Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Text-Based 12.3%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Surreal 10.6%
Endacopia is a Point-and-Click Puzzle Adventure that is visually reminiscent of early computer edutainment games... with underlying horrors.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.6%, Surreal 13.7%, Dialogue Heavy 9.2%, Horror 8.5%, Puzzle 8%
Awakened from a deep slumber, six students find themselves trapped inside an abandoned research facility, otherwise known as the "Losinglight". Escape into a war torn city, and discover the truth behind an otherworldly being like no other.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20%, Thriller 17.6%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Horror 9.9%, Text-Based 7.5%
In Republican-era Shanghai, Lu Ping returns to the forgotten Luchang Apartment after receiving a letter from her orphanage headmistress. As lost memories resurface, she uncovers buried secrets, her past, and the eerie truth behind the bond between humans and yaoguai.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16%, Thriller 13.3%, Visual Novel 13%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%, Horror 9.3%
You only wanted to save them. But in this psychological horror visual novel, a teacher’s kindness may become the thing that breaks his students.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.1%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Horror 8.6%, Text-Based 8.6%
After the announcement "There is no next stop," you are trapped in an endless subway. But you’re not alone—the "GUESTS" are hunting you. Trust the "GUIDES" to survive. Or don't.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.9%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Text-Based 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%, Choices Matter 9.2%
Join forces with the psychic Director of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center and solve a variety of cases involving cursed relics, rental properties with shady histories, and dimensional anomalies. Monstrous oddities and otherworldly planes abound in this occult mystery adventure game!
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.6%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%, Text-Based 9.2%, Exploration 8.8%
Am I Nima is a psychological-horror game where you must convince your mom that you really are her daughter. Combine words together in your brain and use them to talk. Get her to trust you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Dialogue Heavy 14.4%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Puzzle 7%
A psychological horror experience powered by a local AI model. You've been kidnapped by a serial killer who demands your deepest truths. Speak, type, or lie your way to freedom - but every word matters. No internet required. No data leaves your PC. 18+ only.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.6%, Psychological Horror 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Dialogue Heavy 14.7%, Choices Matter 9.9%
A story-driven psychological horror RPG about a group of friends who unintentionally become bound together after encountering 7 curses from a school.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.8%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Dialogue Heavy 9%, Horror 8.4%, Choices Matter 8.2%
Enjoy the process of the timid protagonist using hypnosis to manipulate and subjugate his abusive mother and daughter, training them to his liking.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Visual Novel 21.5%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Horror 8.9%, Text-Based 8.4%
A visual novel about a girl who escaped from a psychiatric hospital. She is pursued by a strange being from another world — and it seems she’s not the only one who can see visitors from beyond.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 15.6%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Surreal 12.1%, Dialogue Heavy 11.8%, Text-Based 8.9%
More than 30 orthodox sectarians underground. They locked themselves in man-made caves. You're a negotiator. Your task is to rescue recluses before Apocalypse.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Text-Based 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Exploration 8.1%
A suspense mystery set in a police station. Includes two visual novels. *Lost* features a multi-ending system based on player choices. *Secret A* is a short story with no choices. Both offer suspenseful storylines.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Thriller 9.5%, Text-Based 7.8%
Help Bianca to relive the 15 years of her life, but from another perspective 👁️. Enjoy this dreamcore style visual novel with escape room elements and hints of horror. Unlock different endings. ✨
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.5%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Text-Based 12%, Surreal 10.8%
“Lone Bird in the Tree” is an ADV with male and female versions of each of the four characters. The story alternates between the “future” of the main character, who is deeply traumatized by the grief of his/her best friend, and the “story leading up to the loss of his/her best friend”.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Psychological Horror 18.6%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Exploration 9.6%, Dialogue Heavy 8.6%
You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.9%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%, Dialogue Heavy 8%, Multiple Endings 7.4%
Return to a town that never changed… and a friend who's supposed to be dead. A psychological horror visual novel about memory and the cost of refusing to move forward.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Psychological Horror 21%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Thriller 8.1%, Choices Matter 6.8%
LMA2 is a Gay Bara Horror Visual Novel, with murder mystery and puzzle elements; the sequel to 2017's "Let's MEAT Adam".
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Puzzle 9.3%, Horror 8.5%
This is a terrorist decryption adventure game that took place in 1913.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.7%, Thriller 15.7%, Surreal 13.3%, Horror 10.7%, Puzzle 8.4%
The main character is looked down upon at her part-time job. Using a hypnotic object given to him by a college senior, we'll test the mother and daughter by making them do various naughty things.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.6%, Visual Novel 22.3%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Text-Based 12%, Adventure 7.4%
Thorner is a horror visual novel with multiple endings. You attempt to escape your past by fleeing to the wilderness, but spilled blood can never be forgiven. The land knows what you did. The land judges. Thorner awaits.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.7%, Visual Novel 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Horror 7%
Let's MEAT Adam is a Bara, BxB visual novel set in a neon NIGHTMARE of an escape-room-turned-death-game. Muscles, Blood, Escape, Trust, Betray, MEAT.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.9%, Psychological Horror 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Thriller 16%, Horror 9.9%
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 29.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Horror 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.5%