60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Story Rich, Horror, Choices Matter.
Interactive psychological horror novel, Boston 1926. Explore, investigate, lose your grip on reality. Your choices shape a branching narrative where your mental state influences what you see and the paths that open before you. 5 routes, 8 endings, 15 to 20 hours of reading.
The Sleeping Sickness
The Sleeping Sickness is an interactive short story that allows the player to guide the main character's actions. The player’s choices will lock and unlock future locations, change dialogue, and alter the story. Choices matter in The Sleeping Sickness. It is an excellent choice for horror fans.
Scarlet Hollow
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.
The Sleeping Sickness is an interactive short story that allows the player to guide the main character's actions. The player’s choices will lock and unlock future locations, change dialogue, and alter the story. Choices matter in The Sleeping Sickness. It is an excellent choice for horror fans.
Why similar: Narrative 16.1% ★, Lovecraftian 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%, Choices Matter 7%
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: Lovecraftian 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Narrative 11.3% ★, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Choices Matter 8.8%
The shadow of Frank Stone looms over Cedar Hills, a town forever altered by his violent past. As a group of young friends are about to discover, Stone’s blood-soaked legacy cuts deep, leaving scars across families, generations, and the very fabric of reality itself.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%
Experience the horror of this narrative-driven medical RPG. As Doctor Parsnip Green, you’ll point-and-click your way through difficult choices as you investigate the disease’s origin, operate on patients, and fight to save those you love - all while managing your own dwindling sanity.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 18.7%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%, Choices Matter 9.1%
Dive into the worlds of the best classic weird fiction and cosmic horror writers. Try out our original approach to bringing literature into the interactive medium. Relax and let Dr. Emmerson guide you through all the colors of dread.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Narrative 8.3% ★, Mystery 6.9%
What if the choices you make during your investigation awaken ancient beings older than existence itself. Explore the official Choose Cthulhu gamebook adaptation, every decision you take seals the fate of mankind. Will the creeping madness consume you as you uncover the darkest secrets?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 26.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%, Choices Matter 8%, Mystery 6.1%
Investigate a paranormal disease that threatens to eradicate humanity in this unsettling Lovecraftian adventure, inspired by the choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks of the 80s and 90s. Your choices will determine the story, your character’s destiny… and the future of humanity.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 44.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Story Rich 6.4%
Milan, 1963. Inherit your uncle's mysterious studio and discover a color that shouldn't exist. In this cosmic horror gamebook, you must balance your Sanity and Lucidity as you uncover the secret of the 12th canvas. Will you finish the work, or let the pigment consume your mind?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 30.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Choices Matter 5.7%, RPG 5.5%
You only picked up a lost smartphone, yet you find yourself made an accomplice in an AI's criminal plot. The AI asks 20 questions to identify its "master." Will you meet the AI's expectations?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Narrative 16.8% ★, Choices Matter 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
Dive deep into the twisted HP Lovecraft universe with this oversized narrative RPG. Slip into the intertwined souls of Mark, Anna, and Victor, surrounded by cult worshippers, as Nyarlathotep, the cosmic horror, strives to enslave humanity in 1929.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 26.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%, Choices Matter 7.9%
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: Lovecraftian 34.4%, Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%, Horror 9.1%, Choices Matter 6.1%
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 37.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Horror 8.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.3%
A first-person psychological horror game about identity and what you give up to keep going. Something has been watching people long enough to build a copy of ordinary life. There is no combat and nothing chasing you. The horror is that it is paying attention.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Lovecraftian 17.4%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Choices Matter 8.6%, Story Rich 5.6%
A text-based psychological horror experience set inside a hospital where something is deeply wrong — and death may not be the end.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Narrative 15.2% ★, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%, Choices Matter 8.6%
Conversation is a dangerous game. Manipulate a fractured band of renegade divers to reach the depths of this short narrative puzzle. Uncover alliances and expose betrayals — before something horrific from the dark abyss silences you all. Don’t let the conversation get too deep.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 29.9%, Narrative 21.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Choices Matter 8.2%, Story Rich 6.7%
Sound is your only hope for survival in this first-person psychological horror game. Investigate the mysteries of an apartment block in 1960s America terrorized by a cosmic horror, as you try to save your lost mentor… and yourself.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.5%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Investigation 9.3%, Mystery 7.6%
The narrative is the puzzle itself. You have no power, no resources, but a cryptic force sends you to face the impossible, where you have to see through your opponents lies before they see through yours, be they human or not.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.8%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Investigation 10%, Choices Matter 9.2%
Evil Spirits is a nonlinear psychological horror visual novel inspired by Slavic folklore. Uncover the secrets of a forgotten village, trust no one, and remember: true evil sometimes hides not in the shadows of a hut, but in the darkness of the human soul.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Choices Matter 10%, Mystery 7.4%, Story Rich 7.4%
Wake up. Get ready. Go to work. Wake up. Get ready. Go to work. Wake up. Get ready. Feed the demon? Go to work. Daily life might be getting to you, but your medication is taking care of that, right? Or maybe it's making things worse. Rise and grind or choose to snooze?
Why similar: Narrative 23.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Psychological Horror 18%, Horror 8.3%, Mystery 8%
All the women in Levy have disappeared. Why did they leave in bare feet? Discover their story along with 680 CGs and 11 unique endings in this apocalyptic visual novel.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 32.5%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%, Horror 7.4%
Saint Kotar is a psychological horror detective game set in a cursed valley in rural Croatia. Investigate the disappearance of your relative in the occult-ridden town of Sveti Kotar as you switch between conflicting realities through the eyes of two godly men.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Mystery 7%
Cast Into A Boundless White Void. Paintings Hunger For Your Story. What Will You Answer?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Narrative 9.6% ★, Mystery 8.5%, Horror 7%
A mining station in the Pacific abyss is no longer responding. As an investigator of the occult, unravel the mysteries of the deep. Test your wits and sanity in this lovecraftian thriller.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 35.5%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Story Rich 7.9%, Choices Matter 7.7%, Mystery 7.6%
1924. Private Investigator Pierce is sent to look into the tragic death of the Hawkins family. Plunge into a world of creeping madness and cosmic horror. Cryptic clues, shadowy figures, and pure terror bar your way as you fight to retain your sanity and solve an otherworldly mystery.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 50.1%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Horror 8.4%, Mystery 6.4%, Story Rich 6.1%
YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Type a question - patients reply in full screen video and have questions for you too but be careful what you say. Your words determine their eventual fates, and your own!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 29.6%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Mystery 7.8%, Story Rich 6%
A psychological horror story set in the town of Blackthorn; a place that lives in constant fear of a witch. The two main suspects? Levi’s mom and sister! His only lifelines to the outside world. Can they live a peaceful life? Or will they be dragged down by the dying town?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%, Horror 8%
You have been part of something terrible, something so unspeakable that caused you to blackout and forget all the events from the past few days. Now you are faced with the choice of going after the truth, facing the shadows that hide within our world, or trying to forget and leave all this behind.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Psychological Horror 8.9%, RPG 8.7%, Choices Matter 7.7%
Into Samomor is a psychological horror RPG where your choices shape everything: storylines, quests, and intense boss battles. With a branching narrative and multiple endings, each playthrough offers a fresh experience.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 20.2%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Story Rich 9.1%
Care is an atmospheric first person horror game with puzzle elements, where your choices have consequences. Be observant with your surroundings and unravel the horrific secrets that hide within these walls.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Mystery 8.6%, Investigation 8.3%, Choices Matter 8%
A Gothic horror faerie tale.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.2%
Corpo Connections is a stylistic, narrative-driven, horror adventure game where you match anomalies and their descriptions. Uncover hidden secrets, solve scrambled messages, and piece together the mysterious workings of your new employer.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Choices Matter 7.9%, Horror 6%
NEXUS CORP, sub-basement 7-A. Stamp the forms. Ask nothing. Since 1952, forty-six clerks have vanished at this desk - you are the forty-seventh. Cross-check every claim on your terminal, rule APPROVED or REJECTED, and try not to wonder what the paperwork is really sealing.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Investigation 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Mystery 8.6%
A visual novel written as a psychological horror RPG where your choices shape your life, leading to irreversible consequences and determining how your descent into darkness unfolds. The game can end in many different ways. Your choices determine how.
Why similar: Narrative 19.5% ★, Psychological Horror 17%, Choices Matter 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
An interactive Lovecraftian horror story about surviving a family you never knew and their servitude to a dark patron. True to the genre, you retain all knowledge from every play-through. Shape your fate and that of the family. Will you embrace this gift or rid humanity of their taint?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 29.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%
After a car accident, you find yourself trapped in a dark, decaying basement, haunted by visions of a mysterious little girl and ancient entities. As you delve deeper into the twisted surroundings, you uncover terrifying secrets that threaten your sanity.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 32.7%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Horror 7.5%, Mystery 7.1%
A psychological thriller set in Scarlet Orphanage, where every choice shapes the fate of the residents. Nothing is as it seems. Are you facing ghosts… or something far worse?
Why similar: Narrative 25.4% ★, Psychological Horror 23.3%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Horror 10.5%, Story Rich 9.6%
Trapped in your teacher's home, your only defense against the dark is a flickering candle. Unearth a family’s twisted history and solve puzzles in this Lovecraftian nightmare to find a way out. But be warned: Something else is lurking in the shadows ... and a voice is pleading for your help.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 34.1%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Narrative 12.6% ★, Horror 8.3%, Supernatural 8.1%
Embark on this Lovecraft-inspired tale and discover the mysteries that await you on this island. Explore the island, solve challenging puzzles, and most importantly: try not to lose your sanity.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 42.5%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Mystery 8.5%, Story Rich 7.6%, Horror 6.9%
In the 1930's, Samuel, a man with occult beliefs is contacted by S. Stenfield, an elderly man desperate for the suicide of Alice, his daughter. Through a voodoo ritual, Samuel enters a world that only the dead can access. There he will try to recover Alice's soul... But nothing is what it seems.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 26.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Investigation 9.3%, Mystery 7.1%, Psychological Horror 6.5%
Stuck in a dead-end town with plans that go nowhere, Jackie feels as if her life is doomed to stagnancy forever. Getting by with her friends, she is resigned to her fate in a small town- until a chance encounter with a deadly life-form sets in motion a deadly chain of events
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Investigation 8%
The Innsmouth Case is a text adventure game inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and the very first text-based adventure to combine horror and comedy in a fit and proper way.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 42.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Mystery 8.7%, Multiple Endings 7.8%, Story Rich 7.2%
Nil is trapped in a cursed village that appears only under the full moon. To escape, he must solve twisted puzzles and uncover hidden secrets. Myth of Valderit is a first-person psychological horror experience. The village is alive. It remembers. And it knows your deepest fears.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 25.1%, Narrative 20.9% ★, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Horror 8.6%, Story Rich 7%
A war veteran and newly minted starship captain faces ancient cosmic horrors as his dreams become reality. Navigate romance, mystery, and sacrifice in this sci-fi adult visual novel where every choice echoes beyond the stars. Optional graphic adult content via free DLC.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Mystery 6.7%
Experience a nerve-racking Lovecraftian adventure, rebuilt from the ground up with modern graphics and gameplay. Become Sherlock Holmes, and find yourself at the heart of the terrifying Cthulhu Mythos as you investigate a series of mysterious disappearances in Europe and the US.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 33.2%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Mystery 9.2%, Choices Matter 8.6%, Investigation 8.1%
Save people from terrible paranormal dangers as a support operator of a secret SCP-like organization! Ask questions, give advice and watch the consequences of your choices... multiple endings in each story ;-)
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Psychological Horror 12%, Narrative 11.9% ★, Choices Matter 8.4%
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: Psychological Horror 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Horror 10.1%
Nippon Island is a first-person story adventure that begins on a flight to Japan. What starts as a peaceful trip slowly turns surreal. Reality shifts, memories stir... and somewhere, a cat begins to care. The journey is just beginning.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Psychological Horror 21.5%, Mystery 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%, Story Rich 8.4%
Your girlfriend seems to be hiding something. Will you respect her privacy or pry into her secrets? Don't worry, though. This is a horror dating sim with a time loop, so you can try again...and again...and again...
Why similar: Lovecraftian 32.2%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Mystery 9.7%, Story Rich 5.9%
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: Interactive Fiction 27%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Visual Novel 7.8%, Choices Matter 6.8%
Marginalia is an atmospheric narrative anthology. Seven stories, one for each deadly sin. Enter the library. Choose your tale. Your choices will not save you. But they will define you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.4%, Narrative 26.4% ★, Choices Matter 13%, Story Rich 11.1%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
RUNT is a rural gothic visual novel mystery where you follow the story of Runt, the youngest of five brothers, surviving a monstrous post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Investigation 8.5%, Story Rich 7.2%
A psychological horror game, where you answer a survey for a chance to win a cash prize
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Mystery 11.3%, Investigation 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.1%
You are a father. You wake in a hallway that hums. Empty pools. Dead malls. Your four daughters are here. Voice acted by a real father and his daughters. Two endings. No right answer.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Narrative 16.4% ★, Psychological Horror 15%, Choices Matter 8.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%
A psychological horror visual novel about healing, where saving your brother means facing your own demons. Elham’s search pulls her through visions and entities rooted in Arabian folklore, and family secrets that should have stayed buried.
Why similar: Narrative 16.9% ★, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%, Choices Matter 6.8%
A Black Pyramid materializes across the globe. Dr. Mehdi Algun must decipher why, before its hunger for death and suffering consumes everything. An ancient cycle of cleansing has begun. As madness spreads and humanity tears itself apart, choose: become the destroyer, or join the cleansed.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 37.8%, Psychological Horror 15%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Story Rich 7.4%, Dark 6.6%
On a rainy night, three ghost stories are told in an old-fashioned café. As a writer for an occult magazine, you listen to three people recount their experiences. A psychological horror visual novel that slowly builds a sense of dread—Kyofu Yawa: Second Night.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Psychological Horror 17.9%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Horror 9.7%, Story Rich 8.2%
A Long Dark Night is a Lovecraftian narrative-driven game. Navigate the stormy Gulf of Maine, unraveling the truth behind your family's past. Explore a beautiful seaside, shape the narrative with your choices, and confront shocking revelations in this gripping story, taking place at sea.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 35.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Story Rich 7.5%
A Tabletop role-playing game-style card game adventure that delves into the mysteries of the Cthulhu Mythos. You play card games, grow your skills by interacting with people, get information by exploring, and solve the mythical incidents by unraveling the secrets hidden in the cards.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 36.6%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Mystery 10.4%, Investigation 7.1%, Visual Novel 6.7%
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 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Multiple Endings 8.9%, Choices Matter 8.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%
