Games Like Midnight Syndrome

A horror channel browsing game where each channel holds a different nightmare to experience, explore them and find out the truth about what has happened in a small town where the inhabitants have disappeared.

Why similar: Visual Novel 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Horror 11.4%, Point & Click 9.9%, Dark 8.9%

Join forces with the psychic Director of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center and solve a variety of cases involving cursed relics, rental properties with shady histories, and dimensional anomalies. Monstrous oddities and otherworldly planes abound in this occult mystery adventure game!

Why similar: Visual Novel 19.7%, Mystery 10.5%, Horror 10.1%, Point & Click 10%, Exploration 8.9%

The dark is no place to be alone. After a beautiful show of summer fireworks, two young girls begin to make their way home. However, a mysterious attacker separates them, and both must brave the haunting night filled with unspeakable terrors and survive the darkness.

Why similar: Horror 51.3%, Anime 18%, Cute 16.2%, Adventure 14.5%

Your average student life quickly descents into horror as a mysterious witch takes over the college... Can you save the girl you love? Or even make it out alive?

Why similar: Visual Novel 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Anime 15.2%, Horror 13%, Dark 10.5%

Tiny Bunny: Prologue is a non-linear horror visual novel. Those, who have heard the voice of the forest, are beyond help.

Why similar: Visual Novel 29.6%, Horror 27.4%, Point & Click 11.9%, Adventure 8.7%, Dark 6.8%

A 2D exploration adventure game set in a creepy, mysterious art gallery.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Horror 16.3%, Anime 10.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%, Exploration 10.2%

It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Point & Click 14.1%, Horror 12.9%, Anime 8.9%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%

Journey through the psyche… Welcome to the Seaside Hotel, where the final hour of your night shift awaits. Tend to guests, explore their dreams, and lose your sense of Self – time and again. In this dark, labyrinthine adventure, unravel the path to the truth below.

Why similar: Visual Novel 16%, Horror 13.5%, Anime 12%, Dark 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 8.9%

Nothing is as it seems.

Why similar: Visual Novel 28.2%, Mystery 17.5%, Anime 16.9%, Horror 15.2%, Adventure 8.9%

When the power goes out while working night shift in the hospital, the emergency lights come on with an eerie glow...

Why similar: Anime 20.8%, Horror 16.1%, Cute 13%, Pixel Graphics 11.8%, Mystery 11.3%

Welcome to Midnight Special, a point-and-click survival horror game drenched in 16-bit pixel art and 1980s retro dread. On a thunderous night in 1987 in Maine, you awaken in a labyrinthine manor. You must click, explore, and solve puzzles to escape. Will you go gentle into that good night?

Why similar: Point & Click 20.7%, Horror 15.5%, Dark 13.8%, Exploration 11%, Retro 10.8%

Rose must escape the Cursed Mansion - a demonic space that preys and feeds on fear and despair. In this horror RPG you'll solve puzzles and learn the mansion’s history. Mystery, malignant spirits, and misery everywhere. Cursed Mansion brings an eerie atmosphere which leaves one with goosebumps.

Why similar: Horror 15.9%, Dark 12.7%, Mystery 11.1%, Anime 9.2%, Pixel Graphics 8.9%

Rental is a short and spooky adventure game about the dangers of renting a house in an unknown place.

Why similar: Horror 27.7%, Exploration 14.4%, Mystery 12.5%, Dark 11.1%, Cute 9%

This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.

Why similar: Horror 17.8%, Dark 13.9%, Exploration 12.8%, Psychological Horror 12%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%

Featuring a blend of 2D adventure and visual novel, The Mildew Children is a grim tale about a village inhabited only by children who follow savage pagan traditions. A young witch named Kyrphel, along with her sisters, are bound to perform a macabre Ritual in order to save their village.

Why similar: Faith 18.1% ★, Visual Novel 14.9%, Point & Click 11.8%, Exploration 9.1%, Mystery 7.9%

Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.

Why similar: Anime 14.2%, Pixel Graphics 12%, Horror 11.9%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Exploration 9.2%

A horror game about a needy female ghost. A trio of close-knit occult club girls gather late at night to enjoy telling ghost stories. Little do they know that Miss Choker, a ghost that targets girls, is just dying to appear...

Why similar: Visual Novel 20.8%, Horror 15.6%, Anime 12%, Emotional 9.6%, Exploration 8.9%

If one’s imagined world of nightmare and the real world unite…. The hide-and-seek game of death in the world of nightmare begins. Discover hints and save yourself from the nightmare!

Why similar: Visual Novel 32.4%, Horror 26.2%, Anime 24.1%, Psychological Horror 9.1%, Adventure 8.2%

可愛い後輩と2人っきり……冷凍庫の中で。 低体温症、矛盾脱衣、幻覚などの苦痛を乗り越えた先にあるのは、「真相」と「死」のみ。

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Point & Click 17.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.8%, Psychological Horror 8.7%

Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.

Why similar: Anime 15.1%, Horror 11.6%, Pixel Graphics 11.1%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, Exploration 8.8%

A story about a dead lamb walking.

Why similar: Visual Novel 20.3%, Horror 14.6%, Top-Down 12.7%, Cute 10.5%, Anime 9.3%

PETSITTER WANTED. A horror point-and-click adventure game. Water the plants, feed the pets, and DON'T turn off the lights.

Why similar: Point & Click 19.5%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Horror 15.1%, Dark 12.5%, Cute 7.3%

This is a point-and-click, command-selection style adventure game where the protagonist is a girl who has become a ghost. The objective is to fulfill her desires by speaking to her beloved "him" causing poltergeists, visiting in dreams, or even cursing.

Why similar: Visual Novel 19.4%, Horror 18.2%, Point & Click 17.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%, Adventure 8.1%

Tiny Bunny is a non-linear horror visual novel. Those, who have heard the voice of the forest, are beyond help.

Why similar: Visual Novel 25.7%, Horror 19%, Dark 14.7%, Point & Click 9.8%, Psychological Horror 8.5%

It's rumored that those who play 'BAD END'- a Visual Novel will die in REAL LIFE if they make the wrong decision in the game itself.

Why similar: Visual Novel 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Horror 15.6%, Anime 13.8%, Mystery 11.7%

Midnight Swamp is a dark point-and-click adventure where you will dive into a world of eerie fairy tales. Play as a tourist who must find a way out of a mysterious swamp, where every corner hides a riddle.

Why similar: Point & Click 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Horror 15.2%, Dark 14.6%, Mystery 11.1%

A group of friends unknowingly perform an occult ritual that traps them in an otherworldly elementary school. Here, the vengeful spirits of young children threaten their lives and their sanity, and the only hope of survival is to uncover the chilling details behind the murders of those trapped before them...

Why similar: Horror 29.6%, Anime 18.6%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Psychological Horror 8.4%, Dark 6.9%

A story-driven psychological horror RPG about a group of friends who unintentionally become bound together after encountering 7 curses from a school.

Why similar: Visual Novel 13.7%, Horror 12.6%, Anime 11.5%, Top-Down 8.6%, Retro 8.1%

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

Why similar: Visual Novel 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Horror 11.6%, Cute 9.2%, Anime 8.8%

A horror exploration game that takes place in an underground labyrinth. Avoid malicious creations that are hungry for your soul. Depart from the nightmares that constantly haunt you.

Why similar: Dark 18.5%, Anime 14.5%, Horror 13.8%, Cute 13.1%, Psychological Horror 13%

Trick & Treat is a Visual Novel that test your instincts by making choices that can get you out from the cursed forest or drive you to death… or maybe just maybe your choices can guide you to something more?

Why similar: Visual Novel 40.5%, Anime 30.1%, Horror 17.6%, Psychological Horror 3.2%, Mystery 3%

Escape from the Cursed Convent is a narrative-driven adventure game set in a medieval girls' convent, offering a rich storytelling experience, and several gameplay styles including QTE, hunting, cooking, and puzzle-solving.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Horror 12.8%, Top-Down 11.1%, Anime 10.3%

1935年の洋館を舞台に織り成す、レトロな雰囲気の怪異ホラーミステリーアドベンチャー

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.1%, Visual Novel 21.4%, Horror 12%, Adventure 11.1%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%

Lucid Dream is Point and Click horror game. The girl dream of being trapped in a weird place even though you fell asleep as always. Collect the item and Find clues! Escape and wake up from the dream!

Why similar: Point & Click 32.3%, Horror 30%, Mystery 15.6%, Adventure 12.8%, Anime 9.4%

A short first-person horror game where you wander through an eerie forest using the dials of a microwave.

Why similar: Horror 24.2%, Dark 19.1%, Exploration 13.8%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.8%

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: Point & Click 22.3%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Dark 14.6%, Horror 12.2%, Exploration 9.4%

Type-NOISE: Shonen Shojo is a multi-ending mystery adventure game. A group of boys and girls who have lost their memories gather in a “Tokyo” that is both familiar and unfamiliar. They must trace their lost memories to escape the bizarre labyrinths. Are they prepared to confront their “true selves”?

Why similar: Visual Novel 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Point & Click 13.5%, Anime 12.9%, Mystery 7.4%

My Light In The Dark is a short story about a girl who lives with her abusive mother. The girl finds out some dark secrets about her mother, and she has to find a way to escape the house.

Why similar: Point & Click 17.5%, Dark 12.6%, Horror 12.2%, Exploration 8.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%

Explore an abandoned school where memories linger longer than the living. Uncover the mystery of your best friend’s disappearance. Dodge bullets.

Why similar: Visual Novel 23.8%, Mystery 15.9%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Anime 9.6%, Adventure 9.2%

Will you survive the curse together this summer? A new supernatural mystery adventure begins, telling a bittersweet story of the passions of youth featuring new locations, new legends and a new cast of characters.

Why similar: Visual Novel 20.6%, Point & Click 16.6%, Horror 13.8%, Mystery 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%

Four girls find their way into an abandoned hospital, each for her own reasons. Will they manage to unravel the dark secrets hiding within, escape safely, and return to their normal, peaceful lives?

Why similar: Visual Novel 19.1%, Horror 18.3%, Anime 16%, Exploration 11.8%, Cute 9%

Legend tells of a door deep below Tokyo's sewers. All who enter are lost forever. Detective Ito's partner is missing. Explore Tokyo & uncover the darkness that lays beneath the streets in this Point & Click - meets Visual Novel - narrative adventure that questions the very core of Ito's sanity.

Why similar: Visual Novel 20.5%, Point & Click 20.2%, Anime 16.9%, Horror 15.7%, Mystery 10.1%

The Creepy Syndrome is an anthology that offers several psychological horror stories, with different pixel art and retro 1 bit, 8 bit, gameboy, etc. styles. Stories of a disturbed mind that intertwine with each other while being analysed by a mysterious psychiatrist.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Horror 13.5%, Exploration 9.3%, Mystery 9.3%

Re:Turn 2 is a 2D psychological horror adventure game. The game follows on from the events of the first game. Saki and her fiancé, Sen, are trapped on an abandoned train that is haunted by an evil spirit that takes the form of a little girl named Ayumi.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Point & Click 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Horror 11.7%, Dark 9.4%

Explore the mysterious room by traversing time, while you watch a man succumb to the room syndrome.

Why similar: Dark 30.4%, Psychological Horror 29%, Pixel Graphics 25.7%, Multiple Endings 14.9%

Winion Virus is a pixel-art visual novel horror game. It features adorable and charming graphics paired with a dark fairy-tale story full of unexpected twists. As a point-and-click adventure, your task is to fix the errors occurring within the computer.

Why similar: Visual Novel 17.8%, Point & Click 16.8%, Horror 16.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.9%, Cute 7.7%

It is a strange high-rise elevator. The objects that appear and the people you board are all strange. Depending on your actions, you will face a variety of consequences.

Why similar: Point & Click 24.6%, Psychological Horror 11%, Exploration 10.5%, Cute 10.5%, Horror 10%

Unravel the mystery in this cute psychological horror VN, set deep in the woods of the Tatras Mountains. Will you wind up on the chopping block?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Horror 12.7%, Anime 11.4%, Mystery 9.6%

Kirin plays the elevator game and disappears. Will her girlfriend, Asahi, be able to find her? The Elevator Game with Catgirls is a horror visual novel with point-and-click elements, inspired by the Korean urban legend, Elevator to Another World.

Why similar: Visual Novel 23.2%, Point & Click 16.8%, Horror 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Psychological Horror 8.8%

A quiet evening stroll takes a turn for the worse as a tragic accident befalls a little girl and her dog. When her sister goes missing later in the night, the little girl decides to venture out into the eerie darkness to search for her loved ones as evil spirits haunt the alleyways and streets of her once-peaceful town.

Why similar: Horror 45.1%, Anime 19.3%, Cute 18.5%, Adventure 12.6%, 2D 2.4%

Log.in is a mystery-horror game where you explore a PC screen, digging through images, videos and files. Hidden somewhere in the system is the location of a girl being held captive. Your actions on the desktop will dramatically change the story and her fate.

Why similar: Point & Click 18.6%, Horror 15.3%, Mystery 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.8%

Trapped in a haunted mansion with only your wits and an unlikely ally at your side, what will it take to survive this endless nightmare?

Why similar: Visual Novel 27.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, Horror 17.1%, Adventure 7.8%, Psychological Horror 7.7%

Trick or treating in a vampire's house.Trick & Treat is a light-hearted Halloween adventure. It's about exploring and solving puzzles in a spooky atmosphere. There will be some horror elements, romance, many bad ends and a happy ending of true love.

Why similar: Horror 32.4%, Pixel Graphics 20.6%, Anime 18.7%, Adventure 12.6%, Cute 11.9%

A bite-sized psychological horror game about a wayward soul who seeks transformation through a sinister ritual.

Why similar: Horror 43%, Psychological Horror 19.7%, Adventure 12.9%, Dark 12.3%, Mystery 12.1%

Virtual group - PLAVE doujin game, set against the backdrop of winter school ghost stories. Experience the Night Patrol Rules of the Seven Mysteries through the eyes of all five band members, uncovering the unsettling truth hidden behind the mystery through your investigation and choices.

Why similar: Visual Novel 35.5%, Exploration 18.1%, Mystery 17%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Adventure 12.8%

Delve into the enthralling world of Pocket Mirror ~ GoldenerTraum, the acclaimed RPG Maker gothic horror game that'll take you on a moving journey of self-discovery.

Why similar: Horror 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Anime 11.7%, Dark 9.8%, Top-Down 9.2%

You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.

Why similar: Visual Novel 25.6%, Anime 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Horror 13%, Psychological Horror 12.3%

If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a narrative-driven point-and-click adventure with horror elements that explores the stories of four characters in a masked ball taking place aboard a train in the late 1920s.

Why similar: Point & Click 25.3%, Dark 14.4%, Horror 14%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%, Emotional 10.5%

Prologue to Children of Silentown, a dark adventure game that tells the story of Lucy, a young girl growing up in a village deep into a forest inhabited by monsters. People disappearing is nothing uncommon in the village, but this time, Lucy is old enough to investigate on her own. Or so she thinks.

Why similar: Point & Click 25%, Horror 19.9%, Cute 11.8%, Psychological Horror 9.1%, 2D 6.7%

Pink Noise is a nonlinear visual novel in the psychological horror genre, immersing you in the retro atmosphere of the '90s. It tells the tale of a group of teenagers who unknowingly set off a chain of terrifying events. What secrets lie within the mysterious VHS tape they should’ve never played?

Why similar: Visual Novel 18.5%, Point & Click 16%, Horror 14.7%, Mystery 9.9%, Dark 9.3%