60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Psychological Horror, Story Rich, Interactive Fiction, Dark.
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 22.1%, Surreal 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%, 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 16.5%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Surreal 9.7%
An interactive psychological horror drama.
Why similar: Experimental 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Surreal 12%, Psychological Horror 9.5%, 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 26.7%, Visual Novel 13%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Dark 10%, Interactive Fiction 8%
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 23.8%, Surreal 13.6%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%
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 26.3%, Lovecraftian 20.3%, Surreal 13.1%, Dark 8.8%, Psychological 8.3%
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 16.6%, Hand-drawn 15.7%, 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 28.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Surreal 9.4%
A story about a woman who lives alone near the forest.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Surreal 14.2%, Hand-drawn 11.6%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Psychological Horror 11.5%
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 19.9%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Psychological 8.4%
TOMORROW DON'T COME is a contextual puzzle game about depression and how it feels to be stuck.
Why similar: Experimental 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Surreal 12.3%, Psychological Horror 9.2%, Visual Novel 9.1%
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 28.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Psychological 8.1%
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 34.4%, Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Surreal 18.3%, Multiple Endings 7.3%, Psychological 6.8%
"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 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Surreal 14.1%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Horror 8.4%
A man wakes up in Heaven.
Why similar: Experimental 34.1%, Lovecraftian 30.7%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Hand-drawn 8.8%, Horror 6.1%
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 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Experimental 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Psychological Horror 9.6%
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 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Psychological Horror 14%, Surreal 12.8%, Dark 8.8%
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 30.3%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Psychological 8.7%
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 41.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Surreal 17.9%, Dark 10.6%, 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 31.6%, Hand-drawn 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Horror 8.4%
Mother Seed is an experimental point and click horror game about a woman moving through a series of increasingly unsettling encounters. Explore surreal environments, interact with disturbed characters, and uncover what’s expected of you.
Why similar: Experimental 43.8%, Surreal 18.9%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Horror 8.1%, Dark 7.9%
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 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Surreal 13.4%, Dark 11.3%
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 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Psychological Horror 17%, Surreal 12.6%, Horror 10.2%
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 18.9%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Psychological 7.5%, Horror 7.3%
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 20.3%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Dark 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Multiple Endings 11.7%
When demons leave your head and fill the whole world, all you can do is close your eyes and go forward. Immerse yourself in the atmospheric and moving adventure of white crow Ankou — one of pain, loneliness, and salvation that no one asked for.
Why similar: Surreal 13.7%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Hand-drawn 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 10%
The Darkest Emptiness will fill the lungs with leaden weight.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.1%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Horror 9.1%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
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%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Visual Novel 13%, Hand-drawn 12.5%, Psychological Horror 12.3%
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 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Visual Novel 9.2%, Dark 7.9%
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%
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 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Surreal 11.1%, Hand-drawn 10.6%
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 30.2%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Surreal 12.1%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%
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 29.6%, Surreal 12.8%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Hand-drawn 10.4%, Psychological Horror 10.3%
A short experimental visual novel about obsessive counting.
Why similar: Experimental 36.6%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Psychological Horror 16%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Horror 9.9%
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 31.4%, Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Hand-drawn 8.9%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 38.1%, Visual Novel 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Horror 11.1%, Psychological Horror 10.3%
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 31.7%, Surreal 20.1%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Horror 12%, Psychological 9.1%
Alice Mesmerizing Episodes of Neurosis (AMEN) is a hidden object game. The player's task is to find things hidden on the map. Help Alice cross this path, destroy the ego-structure, get out of the abyss, find the key.
Why similar: Experimental 19.9%, Surreal 13.3%, Hand-drawn 12.5%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Psychological Horror 10.8%
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 34.5%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Dark 11.9%, Horror 10.5%, Surreal 9.5%
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 15.5%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Psychological Horror 11.2%
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 36.8%, Surreal 16.4%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Dark 9.9%, Horror 7%
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 16.8%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Hand-drawn 10.6%, Dark 9.2%
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%, Lovecraftian 18%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Dark 11.2%
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 19.2%, Hand-drawn 15.4%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Dark 12.3%, Psychological Horror 10.6%
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.9%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Surreal 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
Cthulhu style AVG. Main gameplay is exploration and selection.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 47.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Hand-drawn 20.5%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Singleplayer 0.2%
Ņ̴̣͕̻̤̣̞̝͑̾̉̄̃͊̀̚ͅĘ̵̢̺̞̱̙̔ͅǓ̶̢͚͕̙̙͕̙̻̖̥̗̗̦̾͆̄͋̉̈́͂̄̉̽̉̒̓R̸̨͈̝͇̰͇̺̼̙͕̄̇̃̈́͜͠Ǒ̸͔̳͇̏̽̽̒́̾Z̵̛͕͙͍͚̒̇̏̆̍̌̂̔̕Ȃ̶͇̱̫͌̌̑́̒̂́̑́̒̈͐͘͠ is a hidden object game. The player's task is to find things hidden on the map.
Why similar: Experimental 25.3%, Surreal 12.7%, Hand-drawn 11.7%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Psychological Horror 10.2%
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 30.1%, Surreal 18.1%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Psychological 8.4%, Dark 7.1%
Her ex-boyfriend became a shut-in. The girl goes to visit him... then things start to go wrong. They always do, right? Experience two stories about digital gods and loss. And remember - believe in the net.
Why similar: Experimental 40%, Visual Novel 28%, Horror 16.6%, Dark 15.4%
Surreal horror themed visual novel, with lots of branching paths, blood, tears and twisted pitch-black humour. You're playing as Ashia, who's forced to marry her slimy uncle, suffering from surreal nightmares at night. Then she meets Novalie. And then things gets REALLY strange.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.1%, Surreal 19.3%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Multiple Endings 8%
In a town of exactly 245 residents, every breath is a subtraction. A narrative experience blending Gothic hand-drawn art and natural history puzzles. Waking into a world of "domestic bliss" as thick as a fungal bloom, will you submit to the morbid order, or shatter the balance?
Why similar: Surreal 16%, Hand-drawn 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Psychological Horror 12%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%
At the heart of the action are a twelve-year-old Kenneth and his younger sister Esme, children of the Murphy family, who hit the trail of a mysterious monster following series of entangled events.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Hand-drawn 11.7%, Horror 9.6%
Enter a world filled with drunk monsters and their offbeat shenanigans: Birdman's arm got stolen as part of a performance art. Lettuce wants you to eat him. Doctor Scientist rents his body out to a Wound Parasite, and the Talking Lamp is... well, a talking lamp. Wait- WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?
Why similar: Experimental 29.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Hand-drawn 14.7%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Surreal 8.8%
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 27.7%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Psychological 8.8%
“A Lozenge” is a short interactive story about a mother-daughter road trip and motion sickness, dedicated to children of divorce.
Why similar: Experimental 31.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Hand-drawn 9.6%, Psychological 8.1%
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 28.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Hand-drawn 9.5%
❗ EARLY ACCESS ❗ This game is an anthology of visual novels, which includes the “Deep Russian Depression” (pilot chapter) and custom stories from the game community. You can create your own stories as mods for the game and publish them in the Steam Workshop.
Why similar: Experimental 34%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Psychological 9.6%
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 21.8%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Hand-drawn 13.9%, Horror 10.6%
