60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Psychological Horror, Visual Novel, Dark, Psychological.
Part travel journal, part visual novel with a hint of psychological horror, Melbourne: Route 96 is an experimental game about catching a tram in the wrong direction - and a polaroid camera.
I Did Not Buy This Ticket
Weep for the dead! In this short psychological horror story, play as a professional mourner travelling between funerals. Ride a nightmarish bus whose destination depends on how you choose to face your traumas.
River Secret
A story about a beautiful river that hides deadly secrets beneath its calm surface.
Weep for the dead! In this short psychological horror story, play as a professional mourner travelling between funerals. Ride a nightmarish bus whose destination depends on how you choose to face your traumas.
Why similar: Experimental 22.5%, Surreal 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%, Visual Novel 9.4%, Psychological Horror 9.2%
A story about a beautiful river that hides deadly secrets beneath its calm surface.
Why similar: Experimental 16.9%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Surreal 9.7%
An interactive psychological horror drama.
Why similar: Experimental 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Surreal 12%, Psychological Horror 9.4%, Visual Novel 9%
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 26.9%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Dark 10%, Interactive Fiction 7.9%
Can you survive the horror of being yourself? A cute and disturbing psychological horror about identity, isolation, and the terrifying reality of being different.
Why similar: Experimental 16.7%, Surreal 14.4%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Hand-drawn 9.2%, Psychological 8.9%
This is a psychological horror visual novel game. You wake up in an eerie old hotel with no memory. You need to meet bizarre characters and recover lost memories. There are 20 endings. Pixel art, desaturated tones, dreamlike dread. Horror comes from existential self-reflection, not jump scares.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Lovecraftian 15.7%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Surreal 14.6%, Psychological Horror 13.2%
An existential drama in handmade clay animation. Game writer Eric is replaced by AI. He loses everything, and it's the best thing that's ever happened to him.
Why similar: Experimental 18.6%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Surreal 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Hand-drawn 10.3%
Crawl through the darkness in this psychological horror visual novel with multiple endings, where you will traverse a surreal nightmare as you choose your own path and explore strange spaces in an attempt to wake up, if you can...
Why similar: Experimental 24.3%, Surreal 13.6%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%
is a short, interactive experience about those endless, looping fever dreams you get when you're sick.
Why similar: Experimental 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Surreal 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Psychological Horror 11%
In this twisted meta-game, you follow four friends on their cursed journey of love and betrayal, told through a long-forgotten Storyteller. Solve puzzles, make meaningful decisions, and unravel the mystery behind the Storyteller with the help of a reality-breaking RETURN-mechanic.
Why similar: Experimental 26.8%, Lovecraftian 20.2%, Surreal 13%, Dark 8.7%, Psychological 8.2%
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 20.2%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Hand-drawn 15.8%, Surreal 10.3%, Dark 8.3%
A short story about a parasitic sunflower and her loyal son. Eat everything you can. Enjoy the sunshine. Do whatever it takes to make her happy. This is a prequel to Siren's Call: Escape Velocity.
Why similar: Experimental 28.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Surreal 9.4%
The Nameless Dead cannot be buried, their remains pile up in a mass of indignity. You have crawled from the gutter to name them. Explore the cemetery and uncover their names before the Worm eats your insides.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Surreal 14.1%, Hand-drawn 12%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
An interactive horror story based on a reality everyone eventually faces. Make choices to confront someone trying to enter your home - and uncover who they are.
Why similar: Experimental 20.3%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Psychological Horror 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Psychological 8.3%
TOMORROW DON'T COME is a contextual puzzle game about depression and how it feels to be stuck.
Why similar: Experimental 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Surreal 12.3%, Psychological Horror 9.2%, Visual Novel 9.1%
A story about a woman who lives alone near the forest.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Surreal 14.2%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Hand-drawn 11.6%, Psychological Horror 11.5%
You take on the role of Alice, who wanders through a dark forest in search of a way out. On her journey she meets many figures — each one a reflection of her own personality, an echo of her fears, and a manifestation of her subconscious.
Why similar: Experimental 31.2%, Visual Novel 15%, Psychological Horror 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Psychological 8.6%
It's Sara's first day of work. However, when she takes the elevator to go to the office, she suddenly finds herself on a mysterious floor. What truth lies behind these weird rooms? Will you be able to move on? Or rather... will you want to move on?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Surreal 14.9%, Multiple Endings 6.7%
You've moved to a new house where the previous owner was murdered. They never found his head. But, it has found you.
Why similar: Experimental 29%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Psychological 8%
The definitive edition of the fan-favorite visual novel is here! A surreal, coming-of-age tale set in early 2010s Central Florida, Siren's Call is the small town you swore you'd always leave. Something inside you knows this is your last chance. Will you reach escape velocity?
Why similar: Surreal 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Experimental 12.6%, Psychological Horror 11.7%
After shouting "Let Me Play!" to the cast in a theatre, the fiction comes crashing down as everyone, including you, becomes aware they're only following a script. Will you let the play continue? Or will you write your own ending?
Why similar: Experimental 35.1%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Surreal 18.2%, Multiple Endings 7.3%, Psychological 6.7%
A man wakes up in Heaven.
Why similar: Experimental 34.6%, Lovecraftian 30.6%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Hand-drawn 8.7%, Horror 6%
"I want this apartment spotless!" shouts your mom before going to her night shift. Use your cleaning supplies and courage to have the house cleaned before your mom comes back. A first person short story about doing chores and avoiding evil forces to survive the night.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Surreal 14.1%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Horror 8.5%
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: Experimental 30.7%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Psychological 8.6%
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 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Psychological Horror 14%, Surreal 12.8%, Dark 8.8%
Under the cloud, pressure is crushing – only machines survive in the open. LAMINA BRUISE is a narrative-driven first-person adventure. Solve thoughtful puzzles and overcome revealing obstacles in a tense, hostile environment.
Why similar: Experimental 42%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Surreal 17.8%, Dark 10.5%, Story Rich 2.7%
In 1960s USA, Jane Ferguson, a New York restaurant owner, receives an information on her CIA agent husband Mark, who had vanished mysteriously during a Tibet mission. To uncover his hidden secrets, she follows his trail, delving into the enigma of his disappearance.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 31.7%, Hand-drawn 13.1%, Visual Novel 13%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Horror 8.5%
Mother Seed is a fixed-camera point and click psychological horror game about identity collapse, loss of bodily autonomy, and horrified fascination. A woman inhabits a universe where nothing makes sense and something beyond her understanding keeps driving her forward.
Why similar: Experimental 44.4%, Surreal 18.8%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Horror 8.1%, Dark 7.8%
Follow a recluse who is the only being left in the world as she struggles with little things in her everyday life. This game was made entirely out of scanned traditional watercolor art.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 22.1%, Surreal 19.1%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Psychological 7.4%, Horror 7.3%
You are a terrifying monster living beneath someone’s house. This is a dark, cruel, twisted interactive novel where you are the main abomination.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Surreal 13.4%, Dark 11.2%
Nui, Rumi, and Gu are about to embark on the Giggle Train to Tickle Town! Explore Gigglesville and help your pals in this cute adventure game where not everything is as it seems.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Psychological Horror 17%, Surreal 12.6%, Horror 10.3%
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: Visual Novel 20.4%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Dark 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Multiple Endings 11.7%
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.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 31.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Visual Novel 6.2%, Horror 6.1%
Put on your headphones, close your eyes and watch the story in your imagination. What seems like a game may be something more. Is it a story waiting to be told or... felt? Enter the universe of Edgar A. Poe, where reason, like the devil, says "Goodnight".
Why similar: Lovecraftian 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Hand-drawn 12.5%, Psychological Horror 12.3%
A short visual novel about a man living its worst nightmare. There is no way out, no safe place, no death, just eternal limbo. Only you can help him... if that's what you want.
Why similar: Experimental 30.7%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Surreal 12%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%
The Darkest Emptiness will fill the lungs with leaden weight.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.1%, Visual Novel 18%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Horror 9.2%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
Once upon a time, there was a miserable girl in a crimson hood. Her mother was unwell, so the girl was sent away to go stay with her grandmother, who lived deep within the woods in a strange house. People say that around those parts there resides a monster called the Gobbler, who preys on the weak...
Why similar: Experimental 30.1%, Surreal 12.8%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Hand-drawn 10.3%, Psychological Horror 10.2%
A short, interactive visual novel set in the mid-19th Century, in which a poet fights against time as she's writing the most important work of her life. Poetry is the answer, but what is the question?
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Surreal 11.2%, Hand-drawn 10.6%
Enter the doomed town of Pareildas. Watch as the flames turn bone and stone to ash. Like joined wicks, we'll all burn together.
Why similar: Surreal 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Dark 13.2%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Visual Novel 10%
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 25%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Visual Novel 9.2%, Dark 7.9%
You ended the world. She, the one who holds every card, gave you an endless summer as your reward. Now your only way out is through sugar, jellyfish, sunlight, and blood — into the deepest reaches of her mind, or be dissolved along the way. Choose your path in this psycho-thriller visual novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.8%, Surreal 17%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Psychological 11.8%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
A short experimental visual novel about obsessive counting.
Why similar: Experimental 37.2%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Horror 9.8%
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 38.3%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Horror 11.2%, Psychological Horror 10.3%
A narrative-driven game where Deduction meets the Dark Arts. Invest crime scenes for evidence and navigate the razor's edge between "Rationality" and "Inspiration." Unlock branching paths through your choices, forge fragile alliances, and decide who survives the encroaching shadows.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 31.5%, Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Hand-drawn 8.8%, Multiple Endings 7.2%
If you are looking for weird dark version of Alice in Wonderland with creepy twist, AMEN is your next terrifying journey down the rabbit hole. This surreal hand-drawn psychological horror transforms the classic fairy tale into a grotesque manifestation of neurosis and mental illness.
Why similar: Experimental 20.3%, Surreal 13.2%, Hand-drawn 12.5%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Psychological Horror 10.7%
Dream the riddle. Question the village. Choose who drowns. A poetic folk-horror game about divine messages, guilty villagers, ritual games, and the terrible cost of keeping a place safe.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 26%, Surreal 16.5%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Horror 10%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
You find yourself in a strange place and the only way out is within. Navigate liminal corridors and rooms filled with psychological terrors as you traverse all six floors of this mysterious place in order to save your soul.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 31.8%, Surreal 20%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Horror 12.1%, Psychological 9%
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: Lovecraftian 17.6%, Surreal 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Psychological Horror 11.1%
Step into a liminal, cosmic horror experience set in an abandoned amusement park. Uncover the haunting narrative behind its twisted rides and empty tunnels to discover what lurks within a reality that shouldn't exist…
Why similar: Lovecraftian 34.7%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Dark 11.9%, Horror 10.5%, Surreal 9.5%
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 24.7%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Surreal 9.4%
Narrative-driven first person horror adventure inspired by Lovecraft's short novel "The Nameless City". Explore the ruins of a city that some say they are older than humanity itself. While you delve deeper into the ancient buildings, reality and visions blend into an indistinct haze.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 37%, Surreal 16.4%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Dark 9.8%, Horror 7%
Drive inside a dream, explore one of Saturn's moons, and discover the afterlife. John's Tombstone is a walking simulator; a story split in three chapters, each chapter very different from the other. It's a sci-fi story with some emotional overtones.
Why similar: Experimental 18.4%, Lovecraftian 17.8%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Dark 11.1%
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 16.7%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Hand-drawn 10.6%, Horror 9.2%
A short psychological horror adventure about living in a house with a fridge that seems empty, but it's not.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Hand-drawn 10.1%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
Before the Backrooms ... before analog horror ... there were the tapes
Why similar: Experimental 34.2%, Surreal 19.6%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Dark 9.9%, Horror 9%
Ņ̴̣͕̻̤̣̞̝͑̾̉̄̃͊̀̚ͅĘ̵̢̺̞̱̙̔ͅǓ̶̢͚͕̙̙͕̙̻̖̥̗̗̦̾͆̄͋̉̈́͂̄̉̽̉̒̓R̸̨͈̝͇̰͇̺̼̙͕̄̇̃̈́͜͠Ǒ̸͔̳͇̏̽̽̒́̾Z̵̛͕͙͍͚̒̇̏̆̍̌̂̔̕Ȃ̶͇̱̫͌̌̑́̒̂́̑́̒̈͐͘͠ is a hidden object game. The player's task is to find things hidden on the map.
Why similar: Experimental 25.7%, Surreal 12.7%, Hand-drawn 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Psychological Horror 10.1%
You wake up in an old watermill in the middle of the night ... and can't remember anything. Examine the surroundings in this thrilling point&click adventure and find out what happened.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Hand-drawn 15.4%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Dark 12.2%, Psychological Horror 10.6%
Cthulhu style AVG. Main gameplay is exploration and selection.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 47.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Hand-drawn 20.4%, Multiple Endings 10%, Singleplayer 0.2%
Henry is an elderly man with regrets. Over the course of his life, he has killed three times. He is about to kill again. Survive a home invasion as you recount his life through a series of dreamy vignettes featuring a thief, a friend, a lover, and mysterious bartender.
Why similar: Experimental 30.7%, Surreal 18%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Psychological 8.3%, Dark 7%
