
LaughterLost takes you through a surreal journey of work and family life. Face psychological twists, narrative choices, puzzles, and unexpected unique confrontations! Will you break this dystopian cycle of everyday life?
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LaughterLost takes you through a surreal journey of work and family life. Face psychological twists, narrative choices, puzzles, and unexpected unique confrontations! Will you break this dystopian cycle of everyday life?

The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon
You'd think that after 20+ cases, there'd be no crime left in Twin Lakes - but that's not how crime works, rookie. Six new mind-melting mysteries await Detective McQueen and Officer Dooley - just as soon as they get the mustard out of Dooley's gun.

halfmoon
halfmoon is a short adventure game set in a reception office for the deceased, the final stop before the afterlife.
You'd think that after 20+ cases, there'd be no crime left in Twin Lakes - but that's not how crime works, rookie. Six new mind-melting mysteries await Detective McQueen and Officer Dooley - just as soon as they get the mustard out of Dooley's gun.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Dark Humor 15%, Dark Comedy 15%, Point & Click 13%, Text-Based 11.4%
halfmoon is a short adventure game set in a reception office for the deceased, the final stop before the afterlife.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Point & Click 18.6%, Psychological 16.4%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Dark Humor 11.9%
Face an evil corporation™ with the help of a talking monkey in Tourist Trap, a surrealist dark comedy point and click adventure set in a South American coastal city.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 19.2%, Dark Humor 17.4%, Point & Click 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Visual Novel 11.2%
Better than a birthday card. Use the Steam gift system to deliver this birthday present to your friends. The amazing Sergio Spellbound will ensure they have the magical birthday adventure of a lifetime. They will Point&Click their way to BIRTHDAY GLORY. If they’re lucky, they may even survive …
Why similar: Dark Humor 19%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Dark Comedy 14.4%, Point & Click 14.2%, Text-Based 9.5%
Join the investigation in Murder Is Game Over, a pixel art point-and-click game where you and Cleo try to solve the murder of a famous game designer. Can you uncover the clues and catch the killer before it's game over?
Why similar: Dark Humor 17.8%, Dark Comedy 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Text-Based 12.4%, Point & Click 11.7%
An emotional dark comedy about robots doing therapy. In Robotherapy, you're a robot therapist in a dystopian society that killed all the humans, but is still not happy. Treat patients, meet weird robots and enter their minds. If killing all humans doesn't bring happiness, then what does?
Why similar: Dark Humor 23.8%, Psychological 16.6%, Dark Comedy 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Visual Novel 8.2%
Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 16.4%, Dark Humor 16.2%, Point & Click 14.4%, Text-Based 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%
A self-described "chronically online" trans guy goes to a kink club thinking it will fix him. It doesn't.
Why similar: Dark Humor 22.4%, Dark Comedy 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Psychological 14.8%, Text-Based 9.8%
Unhinged, a petty act of injustice spirals into obsession. Dynamic environments and psychological horror blur reality, testing your perception—and your sanity. You will find mazes, platforms to jump on, and interactions with your neighbor to find the one responsible.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Dark Comedy 24%, Dark Humor 21.3%, Psychological 10.5%, Linear 6.9%
Agent Nelson Tethers just solved his biggest case yet. So why isn't he satisfied? Venture back to eerie Scoggins, Minnesota to solve the mystery of "the Hidden People" once and for all!
Why similar: Dark Humor 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Point & Click 14.9%, Surreal 10.6%, Puzzle 9.6%
A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Text-Based 15.2%, Point & Click 14.2%, Visual Novel 11.3%
My name is Luzia and this story is about my big sister, Sombria. Are you ready to hear it?
Why similar: Dark Humor 22.6%, Dark Comedy 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Text-Based 12.8%, Surreal 8.8%
Waking up at night, the main character realizes that he cannot move. A terrible sense of panic gradually overtakes his mind, and the imagination begins to paint frightening pictures.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.4%, Dark Humor 19.5%, Psychological 15.1%, Visual Novel 11%, Text-Based 11%
You are a man in a room. Something feels off. Or maybe it's on. A short existential comedy point-and-click non-adventure about the limitations and imitations of human existence – or, really, whatever you want it to be about.
Why similar: Dark Humor 24.1%, Dark Comedy 22.8%, Point & Click 15.2%, Surreal 10.4%, Psychological 8.8%
A comedy point-and-click adventure game about a dead uncle, a hidden treasure, a reluctant ghost sidekick, old people and pizza.
Why similar: Dark Humor 23%, Point & Click 20%, Dark Comedy 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Puzzle 10%
Solve the wacky point & click puzzles filled with horror and humor. Break the witch's curse on your home as you explore five distinct regions, each hiding a sacred key to unlock the village chest.
Why similar: Dark Humor 30.4%, Dark Comedy 20.8%, Point & Click 20.7%, Puzzle 12%, Funny 7.7%
The Dark Prophecy is a 2D pixel-art Point&Click adventure inspired by the best retro games of the 90s. Welcome to a peaceful medieval village, where life is safe and calm. But one fateful night, everything changes.
Why similar: Dark Humor 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Point & Click 14.4%, Text-Based 13.1%, Visual Novel 10.1%
A dark visual novel blending psychological horror, surreal storytelling, and chatroom-inspired UI. Navigate intrusive thoughts, branching choices, and dissect a fractured mind in a twisted search for connection and meaning.
Why similar: Dark Humor 19.3%, Dark Comedy 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Psychological 11.4%, Point & Click 11.3%
A short and surreal dark comedy-horror narrative game.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 22.4%, Dark Humor 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Psychological 13%, Surreal 10.3%
Join two punk-rock royal heirs, Pretty Piss Princess and Asian American, as they dodge their royal duties in favor of adventures. This hilarious visual novel, inspired by TROMA films, follows the duo as they navigate the absurdities of royal life, and embrace their rebellious spirit.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Dark Comedy 20.3%, Dark Humor 20.2%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Surreal 12.1%
Zoe is hit by Truck-kun and respawns in a retro game, where she must face dangers in the form of clichés, meaningless choices, a plot that has more holes than Swiss cheese, and other plagues of modern gaming. Also, every notable person is trying to sing her a song! Will she endure such torment?
Why similar: Dark Humor 20.7%, Dark Comedy 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Point & Click 11.2%, Visual Novel 8.5%
Once upon a time, the Grim Reaper chose the wrong door. Angelo – a young lazy bum-a-holic, oh sorry - a blogger, powered only by his blogging skills, must turn on “point-n-click adventure” mode, go around the inferno, meet the locals, and somehow get back home. Enjoy Hell! We made it just for you.
Why similar: Dark Humor 24.6%, Dark Comedy 20.8%, Point & Click 15%, Surreal 10.4%, Puzzle 9.5%
A single-screen satirical game where you press a button to request a mortgage… and you're always told no. There is no ending. No progress. Just despair — for the price of a coffee.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.6%, Dark Humor 22.8%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Text-Based 14%, Funny 8.4%
Colin’s apartment maze has puzzles, dialogues, and some dry humor waiting for you. A surreal adventure of a special kind.
Why similar: Dark Humor 25%, Dark Comedy 19.3%, Point & Click 16.2%, Psychological 10.7%, Puzzle 9.1%
Negative Nancy is a choose your “no” adventure for people who have had enough. An interactive sitcom where you can only say “no” (or nothing at all). Your choices control the story.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 24.8%, Dark Humor 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Stylized 10.5%
Pineapple is a story-revenge-driven game where you become the hero of the school by pulling pranks on the top bully. Time to give that witch a taste of their own medicine. With a pineapple.
Why similar: Dark Humor 21.6%, Dark Comedy 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Point & Click 13.3%, Puzzle 8.7%
Do you have what it takes to work at a call centre?
Why similar: Dark Comedy 23.8%, Dark Humor 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Funny 7.3%
Can you survive a night in St Fiacre's at tiny size? This feature-length interactive visual novel returns to the world of Sensus Supra, with better visuals, dozens of animations, more complex puzzles and even more dangerous giantesses hunting for your blood. Every action has consequences...
Why similar: Dark Humor 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Dark Comedy 16.3%, Text-Based 15.8%, Visual Novel 11.5%
Step inside Crowpoint Manor, where every guest harbours a dark secret. As an undercover detective, you’ll solve bizarre puzzles, navigate dangerous traps, and witness hilariously tragic accidents. Can you uncover the “truth” before you become the next victim?
Why similar: Dark Humor 26.2%, Dark Comedy 25.2%, Point & Click 17.4%, Linear 8.7%, Funny 6.4%
Those who skip Galgames are mere corporate drones; those who play are the true masters of wealth and power. That's just the way of the world! As an ordinary boy, wager your wildest fetishes and your dignity to reach the summit: Become the 'GALGAME GOD'!
Why similar: Dark Humor 31.6%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Psychological 15.1%, Surreal 13.6%
be you 2 is an interactive visual novel. In this sequel to "be you", you must raise a child by making story choices. There are multiple routes and endings based on your offspring's personality.
Why similar: Dark Humor 18.8%, Dark Comedy 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Text-Based 12.8%, Visual Novel 10%
Look, they don’t call me Amy ‘the tech genius’ Bailey for nothing? But just because I’m paid to fix computers, doesn’t mean I’ll sit here and listen to your life story. So what there’s been murders? Do I look like a detective?
Why similar: Dark Humor 20.3%, Dark Comedy 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Point & Click 14.6%, Visual Novel 9.6%
In this narrative-based simulation game, you play as the Son of God. Your mission: Decide, bless or condemn city residents. Uncover the person's story through their items and secrets before making decisions. Your choices alter the city's destiny, and impact your revelation on Judgment Day.
Why similar: Dark Humor 24.5%, Dark Comedy 20.3%, Point & Click 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Puzzle 8.8%
Fantasy Murder Mystery Visual Novel filled with dark humor, countless deaths, despair, suspenseful twists, and complex relationships in an exciting story!
Why similar: Dark Humor 22.3%, Dark Comedy 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Psychological 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.9%
A psychological surveillance adventure. Observe 16 real-time CCTV feeds as TOBOR, a spy unit uncovering secrets in a dystopian bunker. Monitor suspects, collect evidence, and choose who survives. Multiple endings.
Why similar: Dark Humor 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Psychological 14.3%, Text-Based 14%, Visual Novel 9.2%
A story driven theatrical performance about family, world-domination, and capitalism. Curtain simulator.
Why similar: Dark Humor 34%, Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Linear 9.1%, Stylized 9%, Funny 6.9%
An inept wizard must destroy an evil entity trapped inside a spoon. Explore towns, oceans, and other worlds in this absurd comedy point-and-click adventure on a puzzle-filled journey to the post-apocalyptic Peak District.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Dark Humor 18.2%, Dark Comedy 17.7%, Point & Click 15.3%, Visual Novel 11.4%
クリアしてはいけないゲームを、プレイしたことはありますか?Moratorium: Don’t Beat This Gameは、「クリアしてはいけない」一風変わった謎解きADVゲーム。頭を最大限までやわらかくしてパズルを解き、エンディングを回避し続けてください。
Why similar: Dark Humor 43.4%, Point & Click 20.9%, Text-Based 13%, Funny 10.4%, Puzzle 7.8%
A walk-and-talk indie adventure game where you and your dysfunctional witch parents cook teens to stay young and powerful. But when they bring in a charming girl as your next meal, will you uphold the family tradition or risk everything to save her?
Why similar: Dark Humor 21.1%, Dark Comedy 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Text-Based 16.2%, Visual Novel 11.2%
Have a human MEATGRINDER with Obi the freelance hitman! Fulfill contracts all over the planet, open a beer, turn off your brain: it's time to kill and solve the financial problems of Obi and her peculiar family!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.7%, Dark Humor 21%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Text-Based 12.1%, Psychological 11.9%
You're the maintenance man for an apartment complex that has mysteriously been transported to the middle of the ocean. Woodrot is a surreal adventure game about getting to know your neighbors who all seem to blame themselves for their recent relocation.
Why similar: Psychological 22.2%, Dark Humor 15.6%, Point & Click 15.5%, Surreal 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%
Wander from room to room in this whimsical and dark visual novel as you follow five friends trapped during a freak storm. Listen while they have hard conversations and tough realizations as they confront the conflict in their lives. For what is a house but a box with windows?
Why similar: Dark Comedy 23.3%, Psychological 17.1%, Dark Humor 15.9%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Surreal 11.2%
As a psychologist, how would you handle your clients falling victim to their own phobias? Find out in this horror visual novel infused with point-and-click gameplay elements.
Why similar: Dark Humor 21.1%, Text-Based 14.9%, Psychological 13.8%, Point & Click 13.4%, Visual Novel 10.6%
Avatar Zero is a text-based interactive narrative centered around “choice.” Set in a cyberpunk dystopia, you become the subject of a secret experiment. Your entire gameplay consists solely of sequential binary choices. Through continuous choices, you will uncover the truth behind the experiment.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.7%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Psychological 13.6%, Puzzle 12%, Text-Based 9.7%
欢迎来到11号小镇,在这个诡异的小镇里,您是一位新来的画家。为了完成镇上居民们的绘画委托,您需要收集对话中的关键词,将关键词提炼成绘画素材组合到画布上。面对居民们奇怪的委托,您能顺利完成作画并融入镇子,证明自己是“正常”的吗?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.1%, Dark Humor 23.9%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Puzzle 15.1%, Indie 3.4%
Welcome to Ostera: The curse of... Join the Adventure! Shape Your Destiny, Kiss Rats, and Slap Kids!
Why similar: Dark Humor 24.9%, Dark Comedy 19.9%, Text-Based 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Visual Novel 11.3%
Join in the fun with an unforgettable experience unlike any other! Naked News brings some hardcore, crass, dirty, vulgar, dark humour into an easily offended world, not pulling any punches and making fun of everything with this visual novel-style comic, Sitcom-esque episodic!
Why similar: Dark Humor 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Dark Comedy 17%, Text-Based 12.4%, Visual Novel 10.8%
Bite-sized surreal horror with multiple choices. Make your own way through the claymation madness!
Why similar: Dark Humor 34.5%, Point & Click 16.3%, Surreal 15.8%, Puzzle 11.5%, Stylized 5.8%
CAPTCHA Hell is a pixel art adventure puzzle game where you are just trying to buy a concert ticket, but the CAPTCHAs have other plans.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Point & Click 22.1%, Puzzle 15.1%, Funny 10.8%, Linear 9.1%
Prepare to enter the supermarket! Supermarket Times is a surreal comedy point-and-click shopping simulator. Complete legendary supermarket tasks: buy alcohol for the teenagers, stamp on the rat, and hit a seagull with a rock. Chat to the local hoi polloi, and buy the products of your wildest dreams!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 22.6%, Dark Humor 22%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Point & Click 14.8%, Surreal 11.2%
She wakes in a cold room, an empty pill bottle by her side. Did she forget something important? Drawn into twisted dreams of anxiety and self-doubt, she must confront familiar mental shackles. Face deep grief and find the light in this psychological adventure...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Psychological 18.5%, Point & Click 16.4%, Text-Based 13.8%, Visual Novel 13.1%
Created with indie comic artist Graham Annable's unique narrative and visual sensibilities, delivered with the distinctive Telltale storytelling style, Puzzle Agent is sure to challenge, thrill and engage in more ways than you can shake a cryptogram at!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Point & Click 22%, Dark Humor 18.3%, Puzzle 15.8%, Surreal 6.5%
Five Day Detective is a point and click style adventure game featuring multiple murder cases and a twisted sense of humour.
Why similar: Dark Humor 23.8%, Dark Comedy 22.9%, Point & Click 19.9%, Puzzle 10.9%, Funny 8.6%
A short story visual novel-like game with a gently interactive narrative and some puzzling mysteries to unlock. Discover how your father got tarred and feathered. Get lost in the memory with ever-corrupting visuals and an immersive soundscape as you make your way to the emu farm.
Why similar: Dark Humor 18.2%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Point & Click 13.2%, Psychological 12.5%
Cheat or Die is a small puzzle game where you have to manage a full class of teenagers. Help Mathilde successfully pass her exams by any means possible without getting caught by the angry Supervisor !
Why similar: Dark Comedy 22.2%, Dark Humor 22.1%, Puzzle 16.9%, Stylized 16.1%, Visual Novel 8.6%
Enter the rough streets of Marquez Paz, Argentina. Explore the neighborhood and meet its peculiar inhabitants, work for "the fune" and get some cash, cave the head in of a couple of idiots and get some more cash. Get used to it, because the things you're going to see... Oh... Good heavens!...
Why similar: Dark Comedy 24.2%, Dark Humor 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Surreal 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.5%
Read words and make choices as you immerse yourself in the adventures inside the protagonist's head. This dark visual novel tells the story of a lost man among corpses in a northern Russian town. Will you help the hero find a good ending? I don't know what to do with him anymore.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.9%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Psychological 17.5%, Stylized 13.8%, Surreal 9.1%
A point-and-click visual novel updating the classic "hero vs. demon king" fantasy into a cynical modern world where you can’t win by force alone. What defines a hero now? Will they be paid, or get any compensation at all?
Why similar: Dark Humor 29%, Point & Click 21.8%, Text-Based 21.7%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Story Rich 3.9%
2033: Das Erschwachen der Macht entführt dich in die Welt der Reichsbürger, Alubommel-Sammler und Populisten. Finde deinen Weg aus der Hohlerde zurück in die Freiheit und versuche dabei E.V.A. aus dem Weg zu gehen... Ein satirisches Point & Click Adventure in 3D. (Wow)
Why similar: Dark Humor 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Dark Comedy 19.6%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Linear 5.7%
The apocalypse is here… and its beat for the gods! How likely was your debut as a drag artist to be overshadowed by a zombie apocalypse? Meet quirky characters, solve puzzles, and catfight with your rivals in this fresh narrative adventure.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Dark Comedy 16.8%, Dark Humor 16.6%, Point & Click 16.4%, Visual Novel 12.5%