- #1 Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 21,266 reviews2021
Dev: Nikita Kryukov
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 26.4%, Visual Novel 25.9%, Abstract 12.4%, Psychological 11.5%, Text-Based 8%
Why You'll Like It: It is the direct follow-up, expanding the same girl's fractured perspective with the same minimalist interaction, anxious inner monologue, and abstract psychological horror.
- #2 Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling
96% matchVery Positive89% of 3,231 reviews2023
Dev: silver978Pub: IndieArk
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
A short psychological adventure about a stressed girl who wants to explore her ceiling.
Why similar: Psychological 26.8%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Horror 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: This is another short anime-styled descent through everyday panic, using simple choices and looping atmosphere to portray deteriorating mental health.
- #3 Who's Lila?
96% matchVery Positive95% of 3,515 reviews2022
Dev: Garage Heathen
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.9%, Visual Novel 26.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Horror 17.8%, Surreal 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: It uses visual-novel conversations and warped perception to make every interaction feel unstable, oppressive, and psychologically intimate.
- #4 Yume Nikki
95% matchVery Positive94% of 9,908 reviews2018
Dev: kikiyamaPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 72.0 hrs≥1hr: 46%
This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.
Why similar: Experimental 29.5% ★, Psychological Horror 24.8%, Psychological 20%, Horror 12.7%, Pixel Graphics 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers a similarly abstract exploration of alien mental spaces, prioritizing mood, symbolism, and psychological unease over explicit explanation.
- #5 NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
94% matchVery Positive95% of 53,234 reviews2022
Dev: WSS playground
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD is a “multi-ending ADV” depicting daily life with “OMGkawaiiAngel”, a young girl with a rather extreme need for approval attempting to become the #1 “Internet Angel” (streamer).
Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.1%, Visual Novel 26%, Psychological 15.1%, Anime 11.2%, Text-Based 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: It mixes cute anime aesthetics with raw mental collapse, using text-heavy interactions and unstable POV to create a comparable discomfort.
- #6 Hello Charlotte EP2: Requiem Aeternam Deo
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,273 reviews2016
Dev: etherane
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 68%
A eulogy for happiness, and a lament for connection that never was.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.3%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Horror 14.3%, Philosophical 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It blends surreal anime presentation, intrusive thoughts, and identity-fracturing storytelling in a way that scratches the same experimental psychological-VN itch.
- #7 I Did Not Buy This Ticket
93% matchVery Positive87% of 369 reviews2023
Dev: Tiago RechPub: Time Galleon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 24.8% ★, Visual Novel 15.4%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Psychological 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 9%
Why You'll Like It: This is another brief, surreal indie narrative that turns ordinary transit into an anxious, reality-slipping mental spiral.
- #8 Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 30,737 reviews2023
Dev: Black Tabby Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
Why similar: Visual Novel 34.3%, Psychological Horror 29.2%, Horror 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Story Rich 4%
Why You'll Like It: It traps you in tense, looping conversations where your choices shape an increasingly disturbing psychological portrait of the person in front of you.
- #9 OMORI
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 85,929 reviews2020
Dev: OMOCAT, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 24.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 58.6%, Horror 16.4%, Story Rich 8.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%, Anime 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: It also hides devastating psychological horror inside a stylized indie presentation, with a strong focus on mental illness, dissociation, and emotional vulnerability.
- #10 the static speaks my name
92% matchVery Positive82% of 5,722 reviews2015
Dev: the whale husband
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 7%
A dark/sad/weird/funny first person exploration game. You play a man on his last night alive as he obsesses over a mysterious painting. More of a story game in that it emphasizes mood and character over gameplay. Takes ten minutes to play and has "next-gen" features like a shrimp tank.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 57.7%, Horror 31.1%, Adventure 5%, Indie 3.2%, Surreal 1.9%
Why You'll Like It: This very short narrative turns mundane actions into an existential breakdown, matching Milk's compact scale and suffocating depressive tone.
- #11 Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 30,488 reviews2021
Dev: Team SalvatoPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 79.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 36.1%, Visual Novel 31.2%, Anime 11.7%, Text-Based 9.2%, Interactive Fiction 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It weaponizes familiar visual novel framing to make each choice and line of dialogue feel increasingly unsafe and manipulative.
- #12 BAD END THEATER
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 9,533 reviews2021
Dev: NomnomNami
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!
Why similar: Visual Novel 65.5%, Anime 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%, Story Rich 10.8%, Singleplayer 1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a compact, choice-driven narrative with minimalist presentation, repeated failures, and a bleakly playful experimentation with perspective.
- #13 Tiny Bunny
88% matchVery Positive83% of 29,932 reviews2025
Dev: SaikonoPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 34.2%, Psychological Horror 24.3%, Horror 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%, Story Rich 5%
Why You'll Like It: It similarly uses text-heavy storytelling and a young protagonist's viewpoint to make everyday scenes feel loaded with dread, trauma, and unstable meaning.
- #14 The Coffin of Andy and Leyley
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 36,042 reviews2023
Dev: Kit9 Studio
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Walk-n-talk adventure with light puzzling. Brother and sister practice cannibalism after witnessing a botched satanic ritual.
Why similar: Psychological 41%, Visual Novel 26.2%, Horror 14.7%, Drama 8.4%, Story Rich 6%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on toxic dependency, sharply written dialogue, and psychological unraveling, trading minimalism for a similarly disturbing character study.
- #15 Fran Bow
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 21,826 reviews2015
Dev: Killmonday Games AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 46.2%, Psychological 19.9%, Horror 18.8%, Story Rich 6.2%, Adventure 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: It follows a troubled young protagonist through an unsettling storybook-like descent, blending childlike framing with severe psychological horror.
- #16 MiSide
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 136,956 reviews2024
Dev: AIHASTOPub: IndieArk
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Let's imagine that you have a game in which you care for a character. But could you imagine one day getting into that game yourself?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 48.2%, Horror 22.4%, Anime 9.2%, Drama 9.1%, Story Rich 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: It starts from cute anime familiarity before warping into possessive, reality-bending horror, echoing the seed game's contrast between softness and dread.
- #17 Paper Lily - Chapter 1
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 8,133 reviews2024
Dev: Leef 6010
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Psychological Horror 44.2%, Horror 17.9%, Anime 16.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%, Story Rich 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: It continues that same intimate indie-horror style with an emotionally fragile protagonist, escalating unease, and strong focus on dialogue-driven discovery.
- #18 MAMIYA
86% matchVery Positive93% of 444 reviews2021
Dev: Kenkou LandPub: Fruitbat Factory
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
MAMIYA is a captivating, dark mystery visual novel in which a group of young men struggle against existential dread before the end of the world.
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.9%, Psychological Horror 28.1%, Horror 12.5%, Drama 8.3%, Anime 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It is a dense but intensely introspective visual novel centered on alienation, self-destruction, and the painful texture of depressive thought.
- #19 IMSCARED
86% matchVery Positive94% of 3,718 reviews2016
Dev: Ivan Zanotti's MyMadnessWorks
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
"I need a Heart in order to open it"
Why similar: Psychological Horror 41.5%, Horror 30.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%, Retro 5.6%, Adventure 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: It pairs lo-fi abstraction with direct player involvement and unreliable reality, creating the same uncomfortable sense that interface and mind are collapsing together.
- #20 Mouthwashing
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 36,133 reviews2024
Dev: Wrong OrganPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 36.7%, Psychological 25%, Horror 18.1%, Retro 7.8%, Story Rich 5%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers a similarly disorienting descent into guilt, stress, and mental fracture, though through a more cinematic first-person format.
- #21 Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 5,767 reviews2021
Dev: Leef 6010
Windows
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: Psychological Horror 44.1%, Horror 17.9%, Anime 17.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%, Story Rich 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: It is a short RPG/VN hybrid where small interactions snowball into surreal horror, matching the seed game's compact scale and oppressive mood.
- #22 OneShot
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 61,459 reviews2016
Dev: Future Cat LLCPub: KOMODO
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 32.4%, Story Rich 19.9%, Pixel Graphics 19.5%, Adventure 10.2%, Surreal 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the seed game's melancholy, meta player-character bond, and small-scale emotional storytelling, even if it is gentler than outright horror.
- #23 Pocket Mirror ~ GoldenerTraum
82% matchVery Positive93% of 1,607 reviews2023
Dev: AstralShiftPub: KOMODO
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 39.1%, Interactive Fiction 27.3%, Anime 16.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%, Adventure 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: This surreal RPG Maker horror about identity and trauma shares Milk's dreamy visuals and deeply internalized sense of fear.
- #24 Little Misfortune
81% matchVery Positive92% of 13,542 reviews2019
Dev: Killmonday Games AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 46.3%, Horror 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Story Rich 7.7%, Adventure 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: It mixes childlike whimsy, bleak comedy, and underlying trauma to create a story that feels cute on the surface and grim underneath.
- #25 Lily's Well
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,536 reviews2022
Dev: PureIceBlue
Windows
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: Psychological Horror 35.1%, Horror 25.9%, Anime 13.5%, Retro 7.2%, Pixel Graphics 7%
Why You'll Like It: It is a compact pixel-horror game about a neglected child, with the same interest in turning a simple premise into disturbing emotional subtext.
- #26 MOTHERED - A ROLE-PLAYING HORROR GAME
81% matchVery Positive94% of 401 reviews2021
Dev: ENIGMA STUDIO
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
An immersive first-person horror adventure where you play the role of LIANA - a young girl who arrives home after major surgery and is met with a strange mannequin claiming to be her mother.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 35.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Horror 18.2%, Emotional 14.8%, Surreal 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: It turns domestic space and routine conversations into uncanny, identity-bending horror, much like Milk's tension between ordinary errands and mental collapse.
- #27 The NOexistenceN of you AND me
78% matchVery Positive93% of 19,673 reviews2024
Dev: 0x0Real StudioPub: Nino Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 28.4%, Psychological Horror 22.5%, Psychological 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Anime 8.2%
- #28 Cooking Companions
79% matchVery Positive94% of 1,183 reviews2021
Dev: Deer Dream StudiosPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Visual Novel 31%, Psychological Horror 27.6%, Horror 18.6%, Anime 12.7%, Story Rich 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: It uses cheerful presentation and chatty interactions to hide escalating manipulative horror, rewarding the same taste for cute surfaces over dark psychology.
- #29 At Home Alone Final
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,910 reviews2021
Dev: 阿正不经Pub: 0Cube
Windows
A casual healing rpg that takes players on a journey around the house from the perspective of a young girl, what does she do when she's home alone? What strange things will you come across in the process, and while exploring, perhaps... What other strange secrets might you discover?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 37.9%, Horror 23.5%, Drama 13%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: This is another brief psychological horror game about a lonely child navigating mundane spaces that feel increasingly hostile and dreamlike.
- #30 YOU and ME and HER: A Love Story
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 6,464 reviews2020
Dev: NitroplusPub: JAST
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 128.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
YOU and ME and HER: A Love Story is the visual novel medium in its purest form. Will Shinichi choose Miyuki, the beautiful queen bee of the school, or the endearingly awkward misfit Aoi? With art by Tsuji Santa, these beautifully rendered romances will stay with you forever.
Why similar: Visual Novel 37.8%, Psychological Horror 32.1%, Anime 9%, Horror 8.3%, Psychological 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It is a meta visual novel that weaponizes player intimacy and choice, making relationships feel uncomfortably personal and unstable.
- #31 Little Girl On Earth Asking Why She Asking Why
76% matchVery Positive97% of 235 reviews2026
Dev: senpiPub: GOGOGOBATO
Windows · Mac · Linux
"Life sometimes feels like it’s going in circles." Little Girl On Earth Asking Why She Asking Why is a short pixel art Visual Novel about a girl who tell herself this, forever. Maybe you can try to help her ?
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.6%, Psychological Horror 19.7%, Philosophical 14.9%, Text-Based 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%
- #32 The Winter Mind
77% matchMixed68% of 72 reviews2025
Dev: Sempiternal Rain
Windows
This is a psychological horror in which we play as a girl who has psychological health problems, and her mother has sent her to the store. Our task is to help her buy groceries.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.1%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Abstract 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Psychological 11.9%
- #33 REFLEXIA Prototype ver.
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,295 reviews2022
Dev: MAHOUMAIDENPub: Nikita Kryukov
Windows · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 37%
REFLEXIA's story starts out as a parody of its genre and ends as a psychological drama.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.9%, Psychological Horror 20.3%, Psychological 19.4%, Abstract 14.5%, Drama 7.1%
- #34 You know my name?
77% matchMostly Positive71% of 213 reviews2024
Dev: Mystael studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short visual novel about finding your name and a girl in the fog.
Why similar: Experimental 24.5% ★, Abstract 15.7%, Visual Novel 14%, Psychological Horror 13%, Text-Based 10.4%
- #35 Backspace Backspace Backspace
75% matchVery Positive97% of 60 reviews2024
Dev: Blue Tango Street
Windows · Mac
In an AI-powered age where original authors have become largely redundant, play as a dejected writer on the brink of losing their creative drive forever.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.3%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Psychological 16.1%, Text-Based 14%, Horror 10%
- #36 q.u.q.
74% matchVery Positive95% of 1,812 reviews2023
Dev: motijanPub: Nikita Kryukov
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
q.u.q. is a surreal visual novel about a somewhat crude girl that wanders a desert.
Why similar: Visual Novel 43%, Anime 16.1%, Drama 11.5%, Retro 8.1%, Surreal 6%
- #37 My Head On Your Body
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 50 reviews2024
Dev: Creepy Pop
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 17% ★, Abstract 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, Psychological 9.9%
- #38 Sunflower Pie
74% matchVery Positive82% of 141 reviews2024
Dev: ThePenSword
Windows
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 17% ★, Visual Novel 11.2%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Abstract 10.3%, Psychological 9.3%
- #39 I Am Here, I Won't Disappear. I Am Here, I Won't...
73% matchMixed66% of 79 reviews2025
Dev: Mystael studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Abstract 23.5%, Psychological Horror 22.8%, Visual Novel 22.1%, Text-Based 16.9%, Horror 12.2%
- #40 Bread around bread around bread around bread
73% matchVery Positive82% of 154 reviews2023
Dev: Mystael studio
Windows
A short story about how grandpa went to the store for bread.
Why similar: Visual Novel 37.8%, Psychological Horror 33%, Philosophical 13.8%, Story Rich 5.3%, Adventure 4.9%
- #41 Coffee Talk
73% matchVery Positive95% of 12,156 reviews2020
Dev: Toge Productions
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.
Why similar: Experimental 24.7% ★, Visual Novel 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Philosophical 11.9%, Emotional 7.3%
- #42 Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 7,695 reviews2025
Dev: Ferry // Nopanamaman
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
Why similar: Visual Novel 35.6%, Psychological Horror 23.6%, Philosophical 18.2%, Text-Based 9.6%, Anime 5.9%
- #43 Hazy Mind
72% matchVery Positive86% of 318 reviews2024
Dev: betetiro
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Psychological Horror 23.6%, Visual Novel 23%, Psychological 21%, Horror 8.7%, Text-Based 7.6%
- #44 HOPE LEFT ME
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 818 reviews2023
Dev: AstrophysicsPub: .orphans
Windows · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 27%
You wake up in a mysterious place, alone and freezing to death, the only person around seems to be a weird girl with a long sleeve soviet jersey.
Why similar: Visual Novel 42.9%, Philosophical 26.6%, Text-Based 18.9%, Anime 9.7%, Indie 1.3%
- #45 Ib
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 5,037 reviews2022
Dev: kouriPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
A 2D exploration adventure game set in a creepy, mysterious art gallery.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 37.2%, Horror 25.9%, Anime 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%, Story Rich 7.6%
- #46 Something Strange
72% matchPositive91% of 66 reviews2022
Dev: Ethan ZimmerlePub: Mr. Hand
Windows
Go about your normal every day life and meet new friends in this short visual novel!
Why similar: Visual Novel 34%, Psychological Horror 26.4%, Text-Based 20.2%, Horror 15.2%, Adventure 2.5%
- #47 Snowfall's Mystery
69% matchVery Positive86% of 102 reviews2025
Dev: Sempiternal Rain
Windows
A psychological interactive novel about a floppy disk with a mysterious program. Help Elliot cope with his mental issues and uncover the secret of the floppy disk.
Why similar: Psychological 18.1%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Text-Based 14.7%, Philosophical 12.5%
- #48 Doki Doki Literature Club!
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 219,150 reviews2017
Dev: Team Salvato
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 38.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 36.8%, Visual Novel 31.1%, Horror 14.4%, Anime 12.8%, Story Rich 3%
- #49 outside the door
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 543 reviews2024
Dev: basandaika games
Windows
Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office. You are about to figure out the stories of a few visitors without having a single memory of yourself.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.3%, Psychological 21.6%, Psychological Horror 20.5%, Anime 10.8%, Text-Based 8.4%
- #50 Bad Faith
71% matchVery Positive92% of 63 reviews2022
Dev: Mado
Windows · Mac · Linux
Sanctuaries. Secrets. Serious consequences. A solo-developed psychological horror/drama visual novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.2%, Psychological 18.5%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Horror 11.3%, Text-Based 9.7%
- #51 Everyday Devil
67% matchVery Positive97% of 181 reviews2026
Dev: alleesaur
Windows
A short, linear story game of a random demon guy's life.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.1%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Text-Based 15.1%, Psychological 13.7%
- #52 Inversed
68% matchVery Positive93% of 70 reviews2024
Dev: Tymedust Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 19.6%, Psychological 19.4%, Psychological Horror 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Horror 10.6%
- #53 [Chilla's Art] The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件
70% matchVery Positive83% of 3,184 reviews2020
Dev: Chilla's Art
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件 is a J-horror game about a college girl on a night shift.
Why similar: Horror 35.4%, Psychological Horror 30.4%, Psychological 18.4%, Anime 4.7%, Adventure 3.8%
- #54 MOOD
66% matchVery Positive87% of 451 reviews2025
Dev: MAT Affect
Windows
MOOD is a short visual novel combining horror, dark humor, and dialogues on a wide variety of topics, from old movies to ancient wars. You were the one who summoned your new companion, there is no backing out now!
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.9%, Psychological Horror 24.1%, Philosophical 18.7%, Horror 13.5%, Anime 8.8%
- #55 Schastye
71% matchMixed68% of 475 reviews2020
Dev: Garage Heathen
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 1.1 hrs≥1hr: 12%
A miniature frozen between the atmosphere of a small room and Castaneda with Lovecraft. The story of radical spiritual practices in the search for truth among panels and stacks.
Why similar: Experimental 34.2% ★, Visual Novel 18.8%, Psychological 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Philosophical 5.8%
- #56 Momotype
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 777 reviews2021
Dev: RimatoadPub: Rimatoad
Windows · Mac · Linux
An experimental, horror visual novel about raising a virtual pet. Help a tamagotchi-like creature navigate his angst. We love Momo!
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.5%, Psychological 19.9%, Abstract 18.8%, Text-Based 16.8%, Horror 9.4%
- #57 tomorrow won't come for those without ██████
67% matchVery Positive94% of 1,022 reviews2020
Dev: etherane
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
That day, we told a lie.
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.1%, Philosophical 25.7%, Psychological 25.2%, Anime 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.6%
- #58 Critters for Sale
67% matchVery Positive94% of 1,743 reviews2021
Dev: Sonoshee
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Experience death from the comfort of your seat.
Why similar: Visual Novel 37.7%, Psychological Horror 34.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Surreal 6.8%, Adventure 4.2%
- #59 My name is You and it's the only unusual thing in my life
68% matchVery Positive81% of 902 reviews2019
Dev: Nikita Igorevich Studio
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 52%
This is you, and this – is You. Both of you have something in common – exceptionality in a monotonous moment of time, when meaningless decisions have to be made. Or meaningful, to such an extent, that there is nothing left once they are made.
Why similar: Psychological 40.8%, Visual Novel 38.1%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Indie 3.1%
- #60 DEAD LAMB WALKING
64% matchVery Positive97% of 187 reviews2024
Dev: Lyn Mametchi
Windows
A story about a dead lamb walking.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.4%, Psychological Horror 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Horror 12.4%, Psychological 6.8%