- #1 Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 22,405 reviews2021
Dev: Nikita Kryukov
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.5 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 26.5%, Abstract 12.2%, Psychological 11.4%, Text-Based 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: The direct sequel expands the same girl's anxious inner world through similarly intimate, surreal, choice-driven visual-novel scenes.
- #2 Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling
96% matchVery Positive88% of 3,595 reviews2023
Dev: silver978Pub: IndieArk
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 58%
A short psychological adventure about a stressed girl who wants to explore her ceiling.
Why similar: Psychological 26.2%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Horror 10%
Why You'll Like It: A brief, highly personal psychological narrative about isolation and deteriorating perception, told through simple interactions and shifting text.
- #3 The NOexistenceN of you AND me
96% matchVery Positive93% of 22,293 reviews2024
Dev: 0x0Real StudioPub: Nino Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 18.7 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 31.1%, Psychological Horror 23.3%, Psychological 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Anime 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: This surreal visual novel similarly uses a close player-character relationship, abstract horror, and branching dialogue to unsettle the reader.
- #4 outside the door
95% matchVery Positive94% of 776 reviews2024
Dev: basandaika games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 2.8 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 25.7%, Psychological Horror 20.9%, Psychological 20.8%, Anime 10.6%, Text-Based 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its compact pixel-art visual-novel format and focus on anxiety, inner turmoil, and eerie everyday spaces closely fit the seed game's mood.
- #5 You know my name?
94% matchMixed69% of 230 reviews2024
Dev: Mystael studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short visual novel about finding your name and a girl in the fog.
Why similar: Experimental 25% ★, Abstract 15.7%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Text-Based 10%
Why You'll Like It: An experimental and abstract visual novel that creates psychological unease through fragmented writing and intimate direct address.
- #6 Backspace Backspace Backspace
94% matchVery Positive97% of 62 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 19.5%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Psychological 16.5%, Text-Based 14.1%, Horror 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A text-heavy psychological horror game that uses minimal presentation and disorienting narrative shifts to create a similarly claustrophobic feeling.
- #7 Bread around bread around bread around bread
93% matchVery Positive82% of 159 reviews2023
Dev: Mystael studio
Windows
A short story about how grandpa went to the store for bread.
Why similar: Visual Novel 38.2%, Psychological Horror 32.7%, Philosophical 13.7%, Story Rich 5.1%, Adventure 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: This strange visual novel shares the seed's deliberately repetitive everyday framing, psychological discomfort, and unsettling conversational tone.
- #8 I Did Not Buy This Ticket
92% matchVery Positive87% of 396 reviews2023
Dev: Tiago RechPub: Time Galleon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 25.3% ★, Visual Novel 15.6%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Psychological 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A short surreal horror story whose mundane transit setting becomes an increasingly abstract and psychologically oppressive experience.
- #9 NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
91% matchVery Positive94% of 58,305 reviews2022
Dev: WSS playground
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.6 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 26.6%, Psychological 14.8%, Anime 11.3%, Text-Based 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its anxious protagonist, invasive player role, and unsettling blend of cute presentation with psychological decline make it a close tonal match.
- #10 Hello Charlotte EP2: Requiem Aeternam Deo
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,449 reviews2016
Dev: etherane
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 67%
A eulogy for happiness, and a lament for connection that never was.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.3%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Horror 14.1%, Philosophical 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This darker follow-up intensifies the series' fragmented storytelling, disturbing imagery, and focus on alienation and mental instability.
- #11 Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 34,471 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 35.1%, Psychological Horror 29.3%, Horror 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Story Rich 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: Though more branching and elaborate, it shares an intimate second-person structure where dialogue choices and unreliable perspectives drive psychological horror.
- #12 Yume Nikki
90% matchVery Positive94% of 10,656 reviews2018
Dev: kikiyamaPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 70.8 hrs≥1hr: 46%
This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.
Why similar: Experimental 30% ★, Psychological Horror 24.9%, Psychological 19.4%, Horror 12.7%, Pixel Graphics 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: This foundational surreal exploration game similarly immerses players in an isolated girl's strange dreamscape without spelling out its psychological meaning.
- #13 Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 5,925 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 17.8%, Anime 17.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%, Story Rich 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: A concise pixel-art psychological horror adventure centered on a vulnerable protagonist, unsettling choices, and a reality that steadily stops making sense.
- #14 Who's Lila?
88% matchVery Positive94% of 3,836 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 28%, Visual Novel 26.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Horror 17.7%, Surreal 3.9%
Why You'll Like It: A deeply unnerving adventure built around ambiguous social interaction, unreadable emotion, and the feeling that every conversation may be wrong.
- #15 Doki Doki Literature Club!
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 228,468 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 36.5%, Visual Novel 31.5%, Horror 14.3%, Anime 12.8%, Story Rich 3%
Why You'll Like It: It begins as a familiar anime visual novel before using player interaction, metafiction, and mental-health horror to become deeply unsettling.
- #16 OMORI
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 88,824 reviews2020
Dev: OMOCAT, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 25.8 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 56.7%, Horror 16%, Story Rich 8.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%, Anime 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: A much longer but highly compatible psychological RPG about repression, anxiety, and surreal internal worlds hiding painful everyday realities.
- #17 Perfect Vermin
85% matchVery Positive93% of 3,885 reviews2020
Dev: Talia bob MairPub: ItsTheTalia
Windows
Your task is simple, exterminate all vermin. The sledge hammer you have been provided is capable of destroying almost all office appliances and furniture that may be uncooperative. Your time is running out.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 45.5%, Horror 30.3%, Surreal 7.3%, Adventure 7.1%, Story Rich 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its extremely short runtime, simple environment, and sudden collapse from banal task to surreal horror echo the seed game's compact impact.
- #18 the static speaks my name
86% matchVery Positive82% of 5,805 reviews2015
Dev: the whale husband
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 15.0 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 5.2%, Indie 3.1%, Surreal 1.9%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, brief psychological horror vignette about mundane domestic actions masking a lonely and disturbing internal reality.
- #19 Fran Bow
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 23,083 reviews2015
Dev: Killmonday Games AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 11.1 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 46.4%, Psychological 19.5%, Horror 18.9%, Story Rich 6.2%, Adventure 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its child protagonist, hand-drawn storybook look, and shifting visions of gruesome reality make it a strong choice for psychological-horror visual-novel fans.
- #20 Psychopomp
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 7,721 reviews2024
Dev: Fading Club
Windows
Your entire life has been a lie. There are catacombs under every home and building, stretching down for miles. Something calls you deeper into the labyrinth. Delve into the depths, and discover the monstrosities below.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 39.3%, Psychological 23.2%, Horror 19.1%, Anime 9.9%, Adventure 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: A dense, dreamlike first-person horror experience that favors abstract symbolism, uncanny spaces, and disorienting emotional logic over conventional scares.
- #21 MiSide
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 142,774 reviews2024
Dev: AIHASTOPub: IndieArk
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 24.0 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 52.5%, Horror 24.7%, Anime 10.6%, Story Rich 7%, Adventure 3.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its cute anime-game framing conceals a progressively darker psychological horror story centered on an unnerving relationship with a virtual girl.
- #22 Sunflower Pie
84% matchVery Positive82% of 144 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 18.1% ★, Visual Novel 11.8%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Abstract 10.7%, Psychological 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This experimental horror visual novel uses an intimate perspective and unsettling narrative turns to make ordinary interactions feel threatening.
- #23 Hazy Mind
83% matchVery Positive87% of 355 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 23.5%, Psychological 20.6%, Horror 8.7%, Text-Based 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A psychedelic psychological visual novel that explores fractured consciousness and disturbing imagery through a compact story-focused format.
- #24 KinitoPET
82% matchVery Positive93% of 14,786 reviews2024
Dev: troy_en
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
KinitoPET is a psychological horror experience that takes place through Kinito, an early 2000s virtual assistant. Kinito is able to walk, talk, browse, adapt, and play games as Kinito is like no other with its adaptive technology!
Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.8%, Horror 18.1%, Visual Novel 17%, Psychological 15%, Retro 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: This meta-horror game turns a seemingly friendly digital companion into an intrusive relationship shaped by loneliness, manipulation, and player discomfort.
- #25 The Coffin of Andy and Leyley
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 39,585 reviews2023
Dev: Kit9 Studio
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Walk-n-talk adventure with light puzzling. Brother and sister practice cannibalism after witnessing a botched satanic ritual.
Why similar: Psychological 31.2%, Visual Novel 25.3%, Psychological Horror 23.9%, Horror 11.1%, Story Rich 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: A choice-driven dark psychological narrative about deeply unhealthy family dependence, bleak humor, and escalating moral discomfort.
- #26 Something Strange
81% matchVery Positive91% 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 34.6%, Psychological Horror 26.4%, Text-Based 19.5%, Horror 15.2%, Adventure 2.6%
Why You'll Like It: A short visual-novel horror experience with a minimal presentation, psychological tension, and a focus on an increasingly abnormal situation.
- #27 Little Girl On Earth Asking Why She Asking Why
78% matchVery Positive94% of 549 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 23.8%, Psychological Horror 20.9%, Philosophical 16.6%, Text-Based 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%
- #28 Buddy Simulator 1984
79% matchVery Positive93% of 4,366 reviews2021
Dev: Not a Sailor Studios
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Thanks to next generation AI technology, BUDDY SIMULATOR 1984 simulates the experience of hanging out with a best buddy! Your buddy learns from you, constantly adapting to your interests and personality. But most importantly, your buddy can play games with you!
Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.2%, Horror 17.7%, Text-Based 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Retro 9%
Why You'll Like It: A retro text-led game about an AI companion that becomes emotionally and psychologically unsettling as its relationship with the player evolves.
- #29 [Chilla's Art] The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件
79% matchVery Positive82% of 3,323 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%, Psychological Horror 30.6%, Psychological 18.6%, Anime 4.7%, Adventure 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: While more traditionally first-person, its mundane retail setting becomes a tense psychological horror scenario, making it an effective darker counterpart to the milk errand premise.
- #30 The Winter Mind
78% matchMixed67% of 85 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 21.5%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Abstract 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Psychological 11.7%
- #31 REFLEXIA Prototype ver.
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,584 reviews2022
Dev: MAHOUMAIDENPub: Nikita Kryukov
Windows · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 38%
REFLEXIA's story starts out as a parody of its genre and ends as a psychological drama.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.1%, Psychological Horror 21.8%, Psychological 20.3%, Abstract 15.6%, Anime 7%
- #32 q.u.q.
76% matchVery Positive94% of 1,977 reviews2023
Dev: motijanPub: Nikita Kryukov
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
q.u.q. is a surreal visual novel about a somewhat crude girl that wanders a desert.
Why similar: Visual Novel 49%, Anime 18%, Retro 9%, Surreal 6.9%, Story Rich 5.6%
- #33 Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 12,830 reviews2025
Dev: Ferry // Nopanamaman
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 35.4%, Psychological Horror 22.4%, Philosophical 21%, Text-Based 9.9%, Anime 4.4%
- #34 My Head On Your Body
77% 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 18.2% ★, Visual Novel 11.3%, Abstract 11.2%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Psychological 10%
- #35 HOPE LEFT ME
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 935 reviews2023
Dev: AstrophysicsPub: .orphans
Windows · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 31%
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 43.4%, Philosophical 27.3%, Text-Based 18.1%, Anime 9.4%, Indie 1.3%
- #36 Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 32,549 reviews2021
Dev: Team SalvatoPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 84.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 35.8%, Visual Novel 32.1%, Anime 11.7%, Text-Based 8.7%, Interactive Fiction 7.5%
- #37 OneShot
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 65,379 reviews2016
Dev: Future Cat LLCPub: KOMODO
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 28.2 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 31.6%, Story Rich 18.9%, Pixel Graphics 18.6%, Adventure 9.9%, Surreal 5.7%
- #38 I Am Here, I Won't Disappear. I Am Here, I Won't...
76% 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 23.5%, Visual Novel 22.8%, Psychological Horror 22.6%, Text-Based 16.6%, Horror 12.1%
- #39 Mouthwashing
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 38,851 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 37.3%, Psychological 24.3%, Horror 18.2%, Retro 7.9%, Story Rich 5%
- #40 Coffee Talk
74% matchVery Positive95% of 12,615 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: Visual Novel 25%, Experimental 24.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Philosophical 12%, Emotional 7.2%
- #41 Little Misfortune
73% matchVery Positive92% of 14,190 reviews2019
Dev: Killmonday Games AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 10.4 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 46.4%, Horror 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Story Rich 7.7%, Adventure 6.5%
- #42 A House Inside Me
71% matchVery Positive88% of 128 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 22.7%, Psychological Horror 18.8%, Psychological 16.6%, Philosophical 7.5%
- #43 Snowfall's Mystery
71% matchVery Positive86% of 125 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 17.8%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Text-Based 14.2%, Philosophical 12.9%
- #44 Bad Faith
72% 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 20.8%, Psychological 19.3%, Psychological Horror 18.6%, Horror 12.1%, Text-Based 9.9%
- #45 Tiny Bunny
69% matchVery Positive83% of 30,684 reviews2025
Dev: Saikono
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.4 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 34.8%, Psychological Horror 24.2%, Horror 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%, Story Rich 5%
- #46 Inversed
70% matchVery Positive92% of 87 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 21.9%, Psychological 20.8%, Psychological Horror 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Horror 11.7%
- #47 Everyday Devil
68% matchVery Positive96% of 326 reviews2026
Dev: alleesaur
Windows
A short, linear story game of a random demon guy's life.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.4%, Visual Novel 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Text-Based 14.6%, Psychological 13.5%
- #48 Ib
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 5,340 reviews2022
Dev: kouriPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A 2D exploration adventure game set in a creepy, mysterious art gallery.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 36.7%, Horror 26.6%, Anime 13.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%, Story Rich 7.5%
- #49 tomorrow won't come for those without ██████
71% matchVery Positive94% of 1,062 reviews2020
Dev: etherane
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
That day, we told a lie.
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.4%, Philosophical 26.1%, Psychological 24.5%, Anime 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.6%
- #50 Schastye
73% matchMixed69% of 490 reviews2020
Dev: Garage Heathen
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 1.2 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 34.8% ★, Visual Novel 19%, Psychological 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Philosophical 5.9%
- #51 Critters for Sale
70% matchVery Positive94% of 1,917 reviews2021
Dev: Sonoshee
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Experience death from the comfort of your seat.
Why similar: Visual Novel 38.9%, Psychological Horror 32.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Surreal 7.1%, Adventure 4.2%
- #52 Until Then
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 19,464 reviews2024
Dev: Polychroma GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.
Why similar: Visual Novel 32.6%, Psychological 20%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Emotional 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%
- #53 Everything Will Be Fine!
68% matchVery Positive85% of 144 reviews2026
Dev: nanohanaPub: room6
Windows
A dark conversation with a girl during a nightly car trip. A short multi-ending novel game where you try to understand this girl and her pain.
Why similar: Visual Novel 34.1%, Text-Based 19%, Psychological 16.7%, Psychological Horror 14%, Adventure 8.7%
- #54 Momotype
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 799 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 23.1%, Psychological 19.6%, Abstract 18.9%, Text-Based 16.3%, Horror 9.4%
- #55 Banebush
66% matchVery Positive95% of 2,325 reviews2024
Dev: Hinterland Mood
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 6.6 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 39.2%, Psychological Horror 29.5%, Horror 21%, Story Rich 4.8%, Adventure 3.4%
- #56 My name is You and it's the only unusual thing in my life
70% matchVery Positive80% of 912 reviews2019
Dev: Nikita Igorevich Studio
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.1 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 40.1%, Visual Novel 38.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Indie 3.1%
- #57 VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 38,763 reviews2016
Dev: Sukeban GamesPub: Ysbryd Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 31.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is a booze em' up about waifus, technology, and post-dystopia life.
Why similar: Visual Novel 57.6%, Anime 17%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%, Story Rich 8.9%, Adventure 6%
- #58 Hello Charlotte EP3: Childhood's End
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 3,480 reviews2018
Dev: etherane
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
"All ended well.There was nothing to grieve about." A farewell, and a greeting.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.6%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Psychological 15.9%, Philosophical 13.4%, Horror 8.8%
- #59 Sally Face - Episode One
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 29,849 reviews2016
Dev: Portable Moose
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
An unsettling adventure following a boy with a prosthetic face. After a string of mysterious murders, Sal and his three friends discover something truly sinister casting shadows over their small town.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 39.1%, Horror 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Emotional 10.2%, Story Rich 7.1%
- #60 Paper Lily - Chapter 1
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 8,923 reviews2024
Dev: Leef 6010
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.1 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%
