Games Like Love, Sam

Marie's Room is a short story exploration game about an unconventional friendship between two classmates. You play as Kelsey, remembering Marie's room as it was twenty years ago. But something’s off. What happened to Marie?

Why similar: Indie 35.7%, Adventure 33.4%, Horror 15.7%, Psychological Horror 15.1%

Why You'll Like It: Like Love, Sam, this game uses a diary-like narrative structure to uncover a dark, emotional story about a past relationship.

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 54.7%, Horror 31.4%, Adventure 9.9%, Indie 4%

Why You'll Like It: This surreal, short psychological experience captures the same feeling of intimate, internal struggle and isolation found in Love, Sam.

Welcome to the club! Write poems for your crush and experience the terror of school romance in this critically-acclaimed psychological horror story.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 69%, Violent 27.2%, Indie 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: It subverts the dating-sim genre into a psychological horror experience, mirroring the way Love, Sam twists romance into something dark.

If Found... is a game about going home, coming out and erasing everything.

Why similar: Indie 61.5%, Adventure 38.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game masterfully uses a diary-based mechanic to tell an emotional, LGBTQ-focused story that resonates with the themes of identity and memory.

A sequel to Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk. Dive into demented and bizarre world once again and help the girl become a little happier.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 75.3%, Horror 16.9%, Indie 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: The sequel expands on the psychological depth and surreal narrative style of the original, offering a similarly unsettling look at the protagonist's mind.

"You Deserve" is an horror indie game in which you will experience a bullying story about revenge, starring a teenager called Amy who is lost in a world that she doesn’t know and her only objective is to escape from it without getting murdered.

Why similar: Violent 47.9%, Horror 19.7%, Adventure 17.8%, Indie 14.6%

Why You'll Like It: A direct indie horror experience that focuses on the same themes of psychological trauma and violent, dark storytelling.

An interactive thriller about a group of friends haunted by the memories of their past while being hunted by a relentless killer. From The Game Grumps (Dream Daddy)

Why similar: Violent 46.2%, Psychological Horror 37.4%, Adventure 9.7%, Indie 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror game that emphasizes exploration and puzzle-solving within a confined, high-tension environment.

A brutal murder has taken place. To that, you find yourself investigating what has happened through cameras set up in the house. Upon investigating you find yourself determining that not everything is as it seems. In the end, you are faced with an important decision to truly understand what happened to the girls with the fabric face.

Why similar: Violent 26.1%, Psychological Horror 24.1%, Horror 19.7%, Adventure 17.2%, Indie 13%

Why You'll Like It: This indie psychological horror title shares the same claustrophobic, first-person atmosphere and disturbing narrative focus.

When your loved one hurts you, what do you do? A classic love story about letting go.

Why similar: Indie 70.2%, Psychological Horror 29.8%

Why You'll Like It: This visual novel captures the emotional weight of LGBTQ romance and the complexities of relationships in a short, impactful format.

Walk-n-talk adventure with light puzzling. Brother and sister practice cannibalism after witnessing a botched satanic ritual.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 56.7%, Horror 30.2%, Adventure 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: It explores dark, intense relationship dynamics with a psychological edge that fans of Love, Sam's unsettling tone will appreciate.

You are Tommy, a local high school football hero in the town of East Bend. It’s game night for the Purchase County Turbines and your sweetheart is waiting in the bleachers. Join Tommy for a night you won’t forget...

Why similar: Psychological Horror 49.2%, Horror 38.8%, Adventure 12%

Why You'll Like It: This title uses a point-and-click format to deliver a dark, psychological thriller narrative that feels tonally similar to Love, Sam.

A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face

Why similar: Psychological Horror 58%, Horror 42%

Why You'll Like It: This surreal psychological game features a unique interaction system that mirrors the unsettling, meta-narrative feel of Love, Sam.

A visual novel about an abusive relationship, idealization, and intimacy. Live a summer of dysfunctional love through branching storylines, twists, sudden changes, and an innovative mechanic where you choose which senses to use with your boyfriend.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 48%, Horror 29.6%, Indie 12%, Adventure 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It explores the toxicity of a romantic relationship through a dark, story-rich lens that aligns with the themes of Love, Sam.

In a remote provincial town, teenagers mysteriously disappear every 25 years. You're a high school student about to turn 18... But what if you become the next victim?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 40.6%, Horror 27.9%, Supernatural 17.8%, Adventure 11.6%, Indie 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric psychological horror title that focuses on the internal struggle of the protagonist in a dark, dream-like setting.

This is a terrorist decryption adventure game that took place in 1913.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 45.7%, Horror 34.6%, Adventure 14.1%, Indie 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines horror and drama to tell a story about isolation and mystery that mirrors the tone of the seed game.

Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 56.3%, Horror 26.2%, Adventure 10%, Indie 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A classic psychological horror adventure that balances a dark, surreal story with a deeply personal narrative arc.

While trying to find a payphone during a powerful storm, Mitch instead finds himself in a library filled with horrors and traps all laid out to end his life. Guide him to sanctuary or his demise in this horror adventure game found on a strange cartridge.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 53.9%, Horror 38.2%, Adventure 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror game that utilizes a point-and-click interface to deliver a haunting, narrative-driven experience.

Led by her new friend, Mr. Voice, Misfortune ventures into the woods, where mysteries are unraveled and a little bad luck unfolds.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 48.6%, Horror 27.1%, Adventure 12.8%, Indie 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: It blends dark, psychological themes with a narrative-driven adventure style that feels both whimsical and deeply unsettling.

Thanks to next generation AI technology, BUDDY SIMULATOR 1984 simulates the experience of hanging out with a best buddy! Your buddy learns from you, constantly adapting to your interests and personality. But most importantly, your buddy can play games with you!

Why similar: Psychological Horror 47.8%, Horror 32.2%, Indie 11.3%, Adventure 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a meta-horror experience that starts as an intimate connection and descends into psychological manipulation.

A dark, psychological romance VN about a British ghost who has haunted you since childhood. When you get close to a new boy at college, he starts to get possessive, and the mind games begin!

Why similar: Supernatural 74.6%, Adventure 25.4%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological dating-sim that explores complex, often dark, interpersonal dynamics within an LGBTQ context.

"In my dreams, I can get out. In my dreams, I can fit in." 'ghostpia' mixes the adorable art style of an illustrated book with glitches-and-noise effects. There are no choices to be made. There's only a lonely girl in a ghost town and her story full of mystery, friendhood...and a bit of violence.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 49.3%, Horror 36.2%, Adventure 14.5%

Why You'll Like It: A visual novel that blends a unique aesthetic with psychological horror and themes of loneliness.

The End of You is a short, emotional narrative game about love lost, the ghosts of the past, and the painful crawl towards closure.

Why similar: Horror 100%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the emotional and psychological aftermath of a relationship, echoing the themes of Love, Sam.

Black Sheep" is a 2D story-driven adventure game, you will play a high school student who explores the flooded school ruins, trace the shadow of the past, and unveil the evil those buried in the bottom of the river to see the light of day.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 36.7%, Horror 31.1%, Adventure 14.7%, Supernatural 11%, Indie 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A thriller-adventure that incorporates psychological horror elements to explore dark, hidden secrets.

It’s March of 2020; you were just sent home from college because of the coronavirus, you have a few small regrets, mainly not telling someone how you really feel.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 44.6%, Horror 21.4%, Adventure 19.1%, Indie 14.9%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game that focuses on the anxieties of modern romance and communication through a narrative-driven approach.

Your bestie seems to be hiding something. There's something about your world that seems odd as well, like it has...secrets. Dive into the Cthulhu Mythos universe of this horror game and witness a "friendship" that rewrites the world.

Why similar: Horror 50.7%, Supernatural 30.8%, Adventure 12.6%, Indie 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror RPG that features LGBTQ themes and multiple endings, similar to the branching narrative feel of the seed game.

A tragic love story following Memori and her search for the missing "him."

Why similar: Psychological Horror 53.3%, Horror 35.2%, Adventure 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A visual novel that pairs a cute aesthetic with psychological horror elements to tell a haunting story.

Build relationship with the characters. Your choices might earn you favor from one character, but disdain from another. Use items to solve problems. Confront various endings. Choose one person and face the end with them.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 48.4%, Horror 28.9%, Adventure 16.8%, Indie 5.9%

Some memories aren't meant to stay. We are our memories and our experiences. What happens if you delete some of them? If you change your past and, thus, your future?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 78.6%, Adventure 21.4%

Why You'll Like It: This text-based simulation focuses on the psychological toll of isolation and the weight of multiple narrative endings.

Expose the dark secrets and mysteries of your seemingly idyllic hometown in this romantic thriller! Will you fall in love or fall victim to its horrors?

Why similar: Supernatural 86.9%, Indie 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: This atmospheric thriller offers a deep, character-driven story that touches on themes of romance and psychological mystery.

A mute little thing with borrowed magic. A house that murmurs back. Ask wrong, and you might wake something that remembers your name.

Why similar: Horror 56.6%, Adventure 25%, Indie 18.5%

Emily <3 is a brand new story set on an old-new social media. Customize your facenook profile, send some friend requests and determine the outcome of your senior year.

Why similar: Horror 40.2%, Indie 31.5%, Adventure 28.3%

Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 38.2%, Adventure 26.6%, Horror 25.9%, Indie 9.3%

The glass sphere burst in the night of 1996. The world of distortion opened its gates and took away from you someone very important. However, in 2005, the past emerges again to hunt you once more. An atmospheric horror about love and time.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 42.7%, Horror 31.5%, Adventure 14.2%, Indie 11.6%

A psychological horror short story. Explore the untouched wilderness of rural Wales as you uncover the forgotten remains of a mysterious facility and find the truth behind the missing villagers of Hearth.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 38.2%, Horror 28.8%, Supernatural 23.8%, Adventure 9.2%

When your uncle Kent mysteriously disappears, you'll embark on a journey find out what really happened. What will you sacrifice when trapped in a haunted manor? Will you destroy this evil or claim its power? And can love bloom in a haunted house?

Why similar: Adventure 55.2%, Indie 44.8%

Mists of Aiden is a first-person story driven horror game. You play as a thief trapped in an eerie mansion. Each choice can open a new mystery of the house and lead to a unique walkthrough and ending. Uncover final secret of the house. Uncover your own secrets.

Why similar: Violent 32.2%, Horror 25.2%, Psychological Horror 19.5%, Adventure 8.8%, Supernatural 7.8%

HOMESICKNESS is a point-&-click psychological horror indie game exploring the nuances of nostalgia. Play as Theo, trapped in CHILDREEF’s daycare, descending floor by floor; surviving the remnants of time. Use the Kids' multi-tool, listen to obscure tapes, and make your way to the lot. She's waiting.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 59.4%, Horror 29.4%, Adventure 8.2%, Indie 2.9%

Adam Ridgewell is invited to a job interview, but things will get dark.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 39.6%, Horror 22.8%, Adventure 20.8%, Indie 16.8%

Why You'll Like It: An indie adventure that uses psychological horror to create a tense, gore-filled narrative experience.

A story-rich psychological horror inspired by real-life experiences. Follow Emily, 23, as she moves to Brooklyn for a fresh start, but finds herself drawn into a slow spiral of obsession and control. Featuring voice acting, this atmospheric and grounded experience is deeply unsettling.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 48.2%, Horror 33.6%, Adventure 14.2%, Indie 4%

After months of chatting online, she invites you over. A quiet house in the middle of the woods seems like the perfect place for a romantic encounter. But the longer you stay inside, the more you realize something is wrong with this place.

Why similar: Horror 38%, Adventure 26.6%, Psychological Horror 26.3%, Indie 9%

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 56%, Adventure 28.9%, Violent 15.2%

Paranormal first-person horror, which takes place in an abandoned orphanage. Walk through the corridors of your childhood, but do remember that you're not only one here.

Why similar: Violent 41%, Horror 25.1%, Psychological Horror 23%, Indie 6.8%, Adventure 4.1%

You’re stuck inside an abandoned video game, haunted by its own digital decay. In oneway.exe, uncover the mystery of UNTITLED.exe, its three developers, and the evolving Internet eras that once shaped their love. How does your story end? How did it ever begin?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 43.4%, Horror 38%, Adventure 9.3%, Indie 9.2%

Step into Sam’s shoes and guide him through a summer of self-discovery, complicated relationships, and unexpected desires that will change everything.

Why similar: Adventure 100%

Sweet Home is a visual novel set in a Chinese high school. Parted friendships, ambiguous romances, tangled relationships, and flawed families... Are these just the pangs of adolescence—or something heavier? Step into the shoes of Zhao Ying, shape her choices, and uncover every possible path.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 65.5%, Indie 34.5%

A ritual. A festering, unrequited love. Sink into a humid and visceral Southeast Asian horror about the pursuit of a doomed lesbian love. Is a bad ending better than no ending at all?

Why similar: Horror 48.5%, Supernatural 42.6%, Indie 8.9%

You were supposed to have a relaxing cabin trip on a island all alone but after several strange encounters you had a mystery to solve, will you be able to survive a first-person psychological horror game or will you run away?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 47.2%, Horror 35.2%, Adventure 14.3%, Indie 3.4%

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 49.6%, Horror 36.4%, Adventure 14%

Early 90s. You stayed in a quiet hotel for just one night and the next morning you’ve found out that the old world was destroyed. Alien dreams, secrets of your past and other guests that are turning into monsters. This hotel will not let you to check out.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 48.2%, Horror 36.2%, Adventure 15.6%

Your eldritch existence is threatened when another abomination tries to feast on you. You flee, trapping yourself in human flesh, but will that be enough?

Why similar: Horror 61.4%, Supernatural 29.9%, Indie 8.7%

『Letters of Bernard Thorne』 is a story-driven psychological horror game about trauma. Take a seat in Bernard's motorized wheelchair. Roam around the old man's house. Discover his scarred past. Flee from his sins. Climb up the attic.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 48.5%, Horror 33.6%, Adventure 14.4%, Supernatural 2%, Indie 1.5%

A literary horror adventure made in RPG Maker MV, where you explore a land of endless rain and continue a lonely journey through fleeting encounters with ghosts. Rain-soaked landscapes and quiet conversations shape a desolate, melancholic road ahead.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 44.9%, Violent 27.6%, Adventure 22.2%, Indie 5.2%

A patchwork quilt of meanings, ideas, references, and madness. A crack in the sink of your understanding. And also the story of one unfortunate girl.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 44.5%, Horror 27.1%, Violent 18.1%, Indie 7.1%, Adventure 3.1%

A Horror Dating Sim, Lover's trophy throws you into the arena with two love interests using you for their own personal amusement. With a completely customizable main character, go on a terrifying journey into the psyce of these two very dangerous men, and have the ride of a life time.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 53.3%, Horror 46.7%

A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.

Why similar: Adventure 48.2%, Psychological Horror 37.5%, Indie 14.3%

An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 61%, Horror 30.1%, Adventure 8.9%

Classified Stories: The Tome of Myrkah is a first-person, micro-adventure game that tells the story of P.I. Jim Morrison's encounters with the occult and the extraordinary. Explore your surroundings and solve puzzles in order to uncover the harrowing story of your friend's descent into insanity.

Why similar: Violent 30.4%, Psychological Horror 22.4%, Horror 18.2%, Adventure 16.3%, Indie 12.7%

In a peaceful part of the town, a series of deaths occur, seemingly random at first, but gruesome in their nature. One day, you find an object that doesn't belong in your house. An old, worn-out, stained mirror. You'll come to discover that the simple mirror isn't the only thing that is out of place.

Why similar: Indie 33.4%, Horror 26.8%, Psychological Horror 24.8%, Adventure 15%

Experience the not-so-ordinary life of a young institutionalized woman in the 1950’s. Amidst the daily struggles and overbearing loneliness, she often sees things that others do not. However, as the imaginary begins to seep into reality, she realizes she may not be as crazy as she once thought.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 56.5%, Horror 43.5%

Until Oblivion is an atmospheric narrative game that follows 17 year old nobody Emma Wilson as she tries to rekindle a dying relationship in a dying world. Join her in an increasingly nightmarish Halloween party and find out if anything (or anyone) is worth anything at all.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 78.1%, Adventure 21.9%