- #1 Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 21,578 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 26.5%, Visual Novel 25.9%, Abstract 12.3%, Psychological 11.6%, Text-Based 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: It is the direct follow-up, preserving the same fragile protagonist, anxious internal voice, and abstract psychological storytelling while expanding the scope.
- #2 Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling
96% matchVery Positive88% of 3,358 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 26.6%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Horror 10%
Why You'll Like It: Like the seed game, it uses a brief, mundane slice of a young woman’s life to explore spiraling thoughts, dissociation, and intimate psychological distress.
- #3 NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
96% matchVery Positive94% of 55,246 reviews2022
Dev: WSS playground
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 32.9%, Visual Novel 26.2%, Psychological 15.1%, Anime 11.2%, Text-Based 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: It similarly filters everyday choices through an unstable anime-styled mind, turning routine interactions into a disturbing portrait of mental collapse.
- #4 I Did Not Buy This Ticket
95% matchVery Positive87% of 374 reviews2023
Dev: Tiago RechPub: Time Galleon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 24.9%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Psychological 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 9%
Why You'll Like It: This is another compact, surreal narrative descent where dream logic, oppressive atmosphere, and alienating interactions matter more than conventional plot.
- #5 Who's Lila?
94% matchVery Positive95% of 3,610 reviews2022
Dev: Garage Heathen
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.8%, Visual Novel 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Horror 17.8%, Surreal 3.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its limited, awkward interface and surreal character study create the same feeling of being trapped inside a deeply unreliable, distressed perspective.
- #6 Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 30,999 reviews2021
Dev: Team SalvatoPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 81.7 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%, Visual Novel 31.5%, Anime 11.7%, Text-Based 9%, Interactive Fiction 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Beneath its cute visual-novel framing, it delivers a similarly intimate and manipulative psychological horror experience centered on fragile mental states.
- #7 Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 31,772 reviews2023
Dev: Black Tabby Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
Why similar: Visual Novel 34.5%, Psychological Horror 29.3%, Horror 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Story Rich 4%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the seed game’s intense focus on voice, choice, and psychological tension, with dialogue itself becoming the main horror mechanic.
- #8 Yume Nikki
92% matchVery Positive94% of 10,100 reviews2018
Dev: kikiyamaPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 71.6 hrs≥1hr: 47%
This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.
Why similar: Experimental 29.7%, Psychological Horror 24.7%, Psychological 19.7%, Horror 12.7%, Pixel Graphics 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its abstract isolation, dreamlike symbolism, and refusal to explain itself make it a foundational recommendation for anyone who liked the seed’s surreal headspace.
- #9 Tiny Bunny
91% matchVery Positive83% of 30,195 reviews2025
Dev: Saikono
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 34.4%, Psychological Horror 24.3%, Horror 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%, Story Rich 5%
Why You'll Like It: It pairs anime-style presentation and first-person narration with escalating dread, making everyday adolescence feel ominous and psychologically unsafe.
- #10 the static speaks my name
91% matchVery Positive82% of 5,749 reviews2015
Dev: the whale husband
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 15.1 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 57.6%, Horror 31.1%, Adventure 5.1%, Indie 3.2%, Surreal 1.9%
Why You'll Like It: This is a very short experimental story about mental disintegration that, like the seed, wrings dread out of ordinary actions and sparse interaction.
- #11 How Fish Is Made
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 5,490 reviews2022
Dev: Wrong Organ
Windows
Are sardines trustworthy? Are you? Do you want to be? How Fish is Made is a janky little jaunt through the world of surrealist storytelling. Now featuring a Katamari-like DLC!
Why similar: Psychological 34.4%, Psychological Horror 30.6%, Horror 22.4%, Surreal 6.1%, Adventure 3.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its brief runtime, abstract horror, and grotesque symbolic conversations make it a strong match for the seed’s unsettling, interpretive feel.
- #12 BAD END THEATER
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 9,656 reviews2021
Dev: NomnomNami
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!
Why similar: Visual Novel 65.6%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%, Anime 11.3%, Story Rich 10.8%, Singleplayer 1%
Why You'll Like It: Its short looping structure and tragedy-by-choice echo the seed game’s feeling that even small decisions are loaded, fragile, and emotionally dangerous.
- #13 The Song of Saya
89% matchVery Positive90% of 9,431 reviews2019
Dev: NitroplusPub: JAST
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 59.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Bear witness to a love that will change the world, in this classic horror romance visual novel from acclaimed writer Urobuchi Gen.
Why similar: Visual Novel 40.5%, Psychological Horror 35.8%, Horror 12.7%, Anime 6.8%, Story Rich 2.7%
Why You'll Like It: This is one of the strongest Steam visual novels about reality distorted by a broken psyche, with horror rooted in perception itself.
- #14 OMORI
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 86,619 reviews2020
Dev: OMOCAT, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 24.8 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 57%, Horror 16%, Story Rich 8.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%, Anime 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: Although larger in scope, it similarly uses cute presentation and surreal imagery to explore dissociation, repression, and painful inner worlds.
- #15 MiSide
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 138,400 reviews2024
Dev: AIHASTOPub: IndieArk
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 21.9 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 52.8%, Horror 24.7%, Anime 10.3%, Story Rich 7%, Adventure 3.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its cute surface hiding reality distortion, obsession, and horror makes it a good fit for players who enjoy anime-styled psychological unease.
- #16 Hello Charlotte EP2: Requiem Aeternam Deo
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,323 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 25.4%, Visual Novel 20%, Horror 14.2%, Philosophical 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: This episode delivers the same kind of lo-fi surrealism, unstable identity, and intimate psychological writing that make the seed game so distinctive.
- #17 Hello Charlotte EP3: Childhood's End
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 3,265 reviews2018
Dev: etherane
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
"All ended well.There was nothing to grieve about." A farewell, and a greeting.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.6%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Psychological 16.2%, Philosophical 13.1%, Horror 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It continues that fragmented, symbolic, emotionally raw storytelling, with a stronger emphasis on trauma, reality slippage, and mental distress.
- #18 The Coffin of Andy and Leyley
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 37,109 reviews2023
Dev: Kit9 Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Walk-n-talk adventure with light puzzling. Brother and sister practice cannibalism after witnessing a botched satanic ritual.
Why similar: Psychological 31.7%, Visual Novel 24.6%, Psychological Horror 23.7%, Horror 11.3%, Story Rich 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers choice-driven psychological darkness, warped relationships, and a constant feeling of moral and emotional contamination.
- #19 MAMIYA
85% matchVery Positive92% of 473 reviews2021
Dev: Kenkou LandPub: Fruitbat Factory
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 31.7%, Psychological Horror 30.5%, Horror 13.6%, Anime 8.4%, Emotional 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It is a bleak, text-heavy psychological visual novel focused on depression, alienation, and fractured people trying to endure daily life.
- #20 YOU and ME and HER: A Love Story
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 6,620 reviews2020
Dev: NitroplusPub: JAST
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 131.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 38.1%, Psychological Horror 32%, Anime 8.9%, Horror 8.2%, Psychological 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It weaponizes visual-novel structure and player choice in a meta, psychologically invasive way that will appeal if you liked the seed’s unsettling intimacy.
- #21 missed messages.
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,474 reviews2019
Dev: Angela He
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 18%
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Why similar: Visual Novel 34.4%, Psychological Horror 22.2%, Psychological 18.4%, Emotional 10.3%, Horror 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: This short visual novel also revolves around mental health, fragile communication, and the fear of failing someone who badly needs care.
- #22 Fran Bow
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 22,182 reviews2015
Dev: Killmonday Games AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 10.5 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 46.3%, Psychological 19.8%, Horror 18.9%, Story Rich 6.1%, Adventure 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: It likewise follows a vulnerable young girl through surreal, mental-health-coded horror where perception and reality are never stable.
- #23 Mouthwashing
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 36,697 reviews2024
Dev: Wrong OrganPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 36.9%, Psychological 24.8%, Horror 18.1%, Retro 7.9%, Story Rich 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: While mechanically different, it matches the seed’s claustrophobic psychological intensity by trapping you inside unraveling minds and a deeply hostile atmosphere.
- #24 Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 5,824 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%, Horror 17.9%, Anime 17.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%, Story Rich 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its brief, focused horror and schoolgirl-centered unease capture a similar sense of being quietly trapped inside an ominous personal narrative.
- #25 Cooking Companions
82% matchVery Positive94% of 1,193 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 31.2%, Psychological Horror 27.5%, Horror 18.6%, Anime 12.6%, Story Rich 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: It blends anime visual-novel aesthetics with mounting psychological horror and coercive relationship dynamics, much like the seed’s deceptively simple setup.
- #26 soundless - A MODERN SALEM IN REMOTE AREA -
81% matchPositive98% of 48 reviews2025
Dev: milk+ visual
Windows · Mac · Linux
A yuri denpa tale about the cursed pariah of a rural cult, Mercy, and her fateful meeting with the Holy Maiden Auma. Bloody, bold, and bone-chilling, this visual novel explores the complexities of the cycle of abuse and the violence in playing by the rules.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.3%, Visual Novel 23.5%, Psychological 16.1%, Horror 12.2%, Text-Based 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: This is another oppressive, text-forward psychological horror work built around isolation, instability, and an emotionally suffocating atmosphere.
- #27 Scarlet Hollow
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 4,749 reviews2021
Dev: Black Tabby Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Visual Novel 31.1%, Psychological Horror 27.5%, Horror 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Story Rich 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: This is a more expansive narrative horror game, but its character-driven choices and mounting paranoia create a similarly intimate sense of dread.
- #28 PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,838 reviews2023
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
How far would you go to bring someone back from the dead? Discover the depths that some will go to in this horror-adventure game.
Why similar: Visual Novel 32.1%, Text-Based 22.3%, Horror 17.2%, Anime 11.6%, Retro 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It uses text, atmosphere, and supernatural suspense to build a dense psychological mood that should land well for fans of narrative-first horror.
- #29 The NOexistenceN of you AND me
77% matchVery Positive93% of 20,460 reviews2024
Dev: 0x0Real StudioPub: Nino Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 16.7 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 30.8%, Psychological Horror 23.4%, Psychological 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Anime 8.6%
- #30 outside the door
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 619 reviews2024
Dev: basandaika games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 25.5%, Psychological 21.4%, Psychological Horror 20.5%, Anime 10.8%, Text-Based 8.3%
- #31 Little Girl On Earth Asking Why She Asking Why
75% matchVery Positive96% of 360 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 23.6%, Psychological Horror 21.1%, Philosophical 16.1%, Text-Based 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%
- #32 We Know the Devil
78% matchVery Positive94% of 1,155 reviews2016
Dev: Pillow Fight
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
WE KNOW THE DEVIL is a visual novel about teens reluctantly fighting the devil at summer camp. Follow meangirl Neptune, tomboy Jupiter, and shy shy Venus as they get to know each other--but one always gets left out.
Why similar: Visual Novel 53.2%, Psychological Horror 19.6%, Horror 16.2%, Adventure 3.9%, Indie 3.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its experimental prose, adolescent anxiety, and supernatural pressure give it the same raw, inward, emotionally unstable energy.
- #33 The Cat Lady
78% matchVery Positive94% of 6,142 reviews2013
Dev: Harvester GamesPub: Screen 7
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Cat Lady follows Susan Ashworth, a lonely 40-year old on the verge of suicide. She has no family, no friends and no hope for a better future. One day she discovers that five strangers will come along and change everything...
Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.3%, Horror 23.8%, Psychological 21.4%, Emotional 8.5%, Story Rich 6%
Why You'll Like It: This is a heavier, bleaker psychological horror story centered on depression and inner suffering rather than action or spectacle.
- #34 The Winter Mind
76% matchMixed66% of 77 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 21.2%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Abstract 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Psychological 11.8%
- #35 Backspace Backspace Backspace
74% 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 19.2%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Psychological 16.6%, Text-Based 14.5%, Horror 10.4%
- #36 You know my name?
76% matchMostly Positive70% of 221 reviews2024
Dev: Mystael studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short visual novel about finding your name and a girl in the fog.
Why similar: Experimental 24.6%, Abstract 15.7%, Visual Novel 14%, Psychological Horror 13%, Text-Based 10.3%
- #37 q.u.q.
74% matchVery Positive95% of 1,858 reviews2023
Dev: motijanPub: Nikita Kryukov
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 75%
q.u.q. is a surreal visual novel about a somewhat crude girl that wanders a desert.
Why similar: Visual Novel 48.6%, Anime 18%, Retro 9%, Surreal 6.9%, Text-Based 5.7%
- #38 REFLEXIA Prototype ver.
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,432 reviews2022
Dev: MAHOUMAIDENPub: Nikita Kryukov
Windows · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 37%
REFLEXIA's story starts out as a parody of its genre and ends as a psychological drama.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.8%, Psychological Horror 22%, Psychological 20.7%, Abstract 15.6%, Anime 7%
- #39 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 17.9%, Abstract 11.2%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Psychological 10.2%
- #40 OneShot
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 62,700 reviews2016
Dev: Future Cat LLCPub: KOMODO
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 27.5 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 31.5%, Story Rich 19.1%, Pixel Graphics 19%, Adventure 9.9%, Surreal 5.7%
- #41 Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 9,436 reviews2025
Dev: Ferry // Nopanamaman
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 35.5%, Psychological Horror 23.1%, Philosophical 18.6%, Text-Based 10.1%, Anime 5.6%
- #42 Bread around bread around bread around bread
73% matchVery Positive83% of 155 reviews2023
Dev: Mystael studio
Windows
A short story about how grandpa went to the store for bread.
Why similar: Visual Novel 38.1%, Psychological Horror 33.1%, Philosophical 13.5%, Story Rich 5.1%, Adventure 4.9%
- #43 Doki Doki Literature Club!
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 221,125 reviews2017
Dev: Team Salvato
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 38.4 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 36.7%, Visual Novel 31.3%, Horror 14.4%, Anime 12.8%, Story Rich 3%
- #44 [Chilla's Art] The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件
73% matchVery Positive82% of 3,227 reviews2020
Dev: Chilla's Art
Windows
Median: 1.8 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 35.2%, Psychological Horror 30.6%, Psychological 18.5%, Anime 4.7%, Adventure 3.7%
- #45 I Am Here, I Won't Disappear. I Am Here, I Won't...
72% matchMixed67% of 82 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 23.6%, Psychological Horror 22.6%, Visual Novel 22.4%, Text-Based 16.9%, Horror 12.1%
- #46 Coffee Talk
71% matchVery Positive95% of 12,298 reviews2020
Dev: Toge Productions
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 10.2 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 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Philosophical 11.8%, Emotional 7.3%
- #47 Sunflower Pie
71% 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 17.8%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Abstract 10.7%, Psychological 9.5%
- #48 Hazy Mind
70% matchVery Positive86% of 331 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 23.2%, Psychological 20.8%, Horror 8.7%, Text-Based 7.5%
- #49 HOPE LEFT ME
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 851 reviews2023
Dev: AstrophysicsPub: .orphans
Windows · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 29%
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 43.3%, Philosophical 26.5%, Text-Based 18.7%, Anime 9.7%, Indie 1.3%
- #50 Snowfall's Mystery
68% matchVery Positive87% of 112 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 17.9%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Text-Based 14.5%, Philosophical 12.5%
- #51 Little Misfortune
69% matchVery Positive92% of 13,710 reviews2019
Dev: Killmonday Games AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 46.1%, Horror 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Story Rich 7.6%, Adventure 6.5%
- #52 Everyday Devil
67% matchVery Positive96% of 244 reviews2026
Dev: alleesaur
Windows
A short, linear story game of a random demon guy's life.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.1%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Text-Based 15%, Psychological 13.7%
- #53 Ib
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 5,122 reviews2022
Dev: kouriPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
A 2D exploration adventure game set in a creepy, mysterious art gallery.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 37.1%, Horror 26.1%, Anime 13.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%, Story Rich 7.5%
- #54 Something Strange
70% 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 34.2%, Psychological Horror 26.4%, Text-Based 20%, Horror 15.2%, Adventure 2.5%
- #55 A House Inside Me
67% matchVery Positive86% of 95 reviews2026
Dev: Ctrl HorrorPub: Skull Queens Games
Windows
A psychological horror experience told through environmental storytelling. Explore a house inhabited by trauma, denial, and fractured memories. Three endings. Multiple interpretations. This is the house that lives inside me.
Why similar: Abstract 23.9%, Visual Novel 22.5%, Psychological Horror 18.9%, Psychological 16.9%, Philosophical 7.3%
- #56 Inversed
67% matchVery Positive92% of 78 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 21.7%, Psychological 21.1%, Psychological Horror 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Horror 11.7%
- #57 Banebush
65% matchVery Positive95% of 2,161 reviews2024
Dev: Hinterland Mood
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Banebush is a nonlinear and very red visual novel in the horror genre. Do you dare to step into a fairy tale if it turns out to be reality? 💀
Why similar: Visual Novel 38.9%, Psychological Horror 29.6%, Horror 21.2%, Story Rich 4.8%, Adventure 3.3%
- #58 Bad Faith
68% matchVery Positive92% of 64 reviews2022
Dev: Mado
Windows · Mac · Linux
Sanctuaries. Secrets. Serious consequences. A solo-developed psychological horror/drama visual novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.6%, Psychological 19.5%, Psychological Horror 18.6%, Horror 12.1%, Text-Based 10.2%
- #59 Paper Lily - Chapter 1
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 8,379 reviews2024
Dev: Leef 6010
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.2 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%, Horror 18%, Anime 16.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Story Rich 6.8%
- #60 MOOD
66% matchVery Positive86% of 468 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 27%, Psychological Horror 24%, Philosophical 18.6%, Horror 13.5%, Anime 8.9%