
A psychological horror visual novel. Tonight, shadows come to visit you while you lie paralyzed in the dark. One by one, they make you face what you are. All you have to do is be honest. Doesn't sound hard, does it?
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Psychological Horror, Text-Based, Visual Novel, Horror.

A psychological horror visual novel. Tonight, shadows come to visit you while you lie paralyzed in the dark. One by one, they make you face what you are. All you have to do is be honest. Doesn't sound hard, does it?

A Dream You Had Before the Dream You Had Before the Dream
is a short, interactive experience about those endless, looping fever dreams you get when you're sick.

Sunflower Pie
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.
is a short, interactive experience about those endless, looping fever dreams you get when you're sick.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.6%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Philosophical 11.5%, Surreal 10.1%
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: Visual Novel 14.9%, Text-Based 13.7%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Philosophical 12.9%, Horror 9.5%
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: Text-Based 14.4%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Philosophical 13.4%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Horror 9.2%
Help out a highschool girl as she explores the wonders of social media for the first time, as well as the dangers.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.9%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Surreal 12%, Psychological 9.6%
Alone in the dead of night, you find yourself sent on a simple errand to check on a quiet gas station on the outskirts of town. But nothing here feels right. You can’t outrun this place. It wants you. And it will keep you.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.7%, Visual Novel 14%, Philosophical 13.6%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Surreal 11.5%
Crawl through the darkness in this psychological horror visual novel with multiple endings, where you will traverse a surreal nightmare as you choose your own path and explore strange spaces in an attempt to wake up, if you can...
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.3%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Surreal 11.6%, Text-Based 10.9%, Philosophical 9.9%
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: Text-Based 20.4%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Horror 12%, Psychological 11.9%
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.4%, Psychological Horror 18%, Text-Based 13.9%, Horror 10.6%, Psychological 9.8%
In a final attempt to guarantee your place on the nice list, you decide to try and do some chores before midnight. Will Krampus take you? Take the test and find out.
Why similar: Philosophical 17.5%, Text-Based 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Psychological 9.5%
Could an AI fall in love with a human? What if that human were you? IA is a psychological horror visual novel about an AI that falls in "love" with you, despite her hatred for humanity.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.5%, Psychological Horror 19.1%, Psychological 14%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Text-Based 10%
An interactive horror story based on a reality everyone eventually faces. Make choices to confront someone trying to enter your home - and uncover who they are.
Why similar: Philosophical 18%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Text-Based 10.6%, Psychological 10%
The Darkest Emptiness will fill the lungs with leaden weight.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.6%, Psychological Horror 20.2%, Text-Based 18.4%, Horror 11.7%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
This short psychedelic visual novel takes place in a strange world inhabited by harrowing creatures shunned by the light. You’ll meet someone who has made this world their own, and in doing so, learn the reason why you shouldn't be there.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.4%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Psychological Horror 14%, Philosophical 11.9%, Horror 8.7%
You are a father. You wake in a hallway that hums. Empty pools. Dead malls. Your four daughters are here. Voice acted by a real father and his daughters. Two endings. No right answer.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.2%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Philosophical 11.5%, Surreal 11%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
A classic choose your own adventure story. Escape the horrors hunting you, make decisions, forge your own path. An original complete story with multiple endings and secrets to unlock. Choose your own play style with a Text Adventure Mode, sound effects, and an ambient soundtrack.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.9%, Visual Novel 17%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Horror 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11.4%
TOMORROW DON'T COME is a contextual puzzle game about depression and how it feels to be stuck.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.7%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Surreal 10.6%, Psychological 9.6%
Go about your normal every day life and meet new friends in this short visual novel!
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.6%, Text-Based 24.1%, Psychological Horror 22.1%, Horror 15%, Dark 5.3%
Start your life anew at Heaven's Gates Academy. Learn new subjects, make new friends, experience what you've never before deemed possible. Change your fate, and the fate of those around you- your decisions matter greatly.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.6%, Psychological Horror 20.1%, Psychological 14.9%, Horror 12.8%, Multiple Endings 12.2%
This is a simple story about young people, about the aroma of youth and the smells of life, which can so easily be cut short by a fatal accident.Or maybe at the behest of a heartless fate.
Why similar: Text-Based 23%, Visual Novel 19.7%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Horror 12.5%, Multiple Endings 11.4%
The horror personality q̷̦̈́͊u̸̠͗i̴͈͈̊̈z̴͈͇̳͗͌
Why similar: Text-Based 23.5%, Psychological Horror 19.5%, Horror 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
우리 아빠는 유명한 과학자입니다.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.3%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Psychological Horror 11%, Psychological 10.3%
A short visual novel about the day to day life of a grieving women. Join her story and make the right decisions so she can get out of a cycle that seems to have no end.
Why similar: Text-Based 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Surreal 9.8%, Psychological 8.9%
A visual novel written as a psychological horror RPG where your choices shape your life, leading to irreversible consequences and determining how your descent into darkness unfolds. The game can end in many different ways. Your choices determine how.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21%, Psychological Horror 18.3%, Text-Based 17.9%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Horror 11.1%
You find yourself in a singularity with Death itself. With few chances to speak with the living, Death proposes a little game. Do you dive deep within yourself to indulge this cosmic guide and find out when you will meet again on official business? The Ultimate Death Clock awaits!
Why similar: Philosophical 17.1%, Text-Based 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Surreal 11.8%, Psychological Horror 11.3%
«Voice over» is a visual novel about millionaire Thomas and a maniac terrorizing the city, made by a girl with bipolar disorder.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.5%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Text-Based 16.9%, Horror 12.4%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
A text-driven psychological horror visual novel. You wake up in a strange living room. Two silent men stand beside you. On the wall, blood writes: “Confess your sins, and you shall be redeemed.” Every choice changes the ending. Over 80,000 words in the base game, plus 4 standalone character DLCs.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.5%, Psychological Horror 18.8%, Philosophical 11.8%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Text-Based 8.7%
A visual novel about the mind, change, and being locked up.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.1%, Text-Based 18.3%, Philosophical 15%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Choices Matter 11.5%
“You were only trying to do the right thing—so why is everything falling apart?” A Japanese language teacher’s choices to save three girls who have stopped attending school will change their fates. A psychological horror visual novel with 16 endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.9%, Text-Based 16%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Horror 11.3%
만약 당신의 집 안에 당신의 생명을 노리는 괴한이 들어온다면?
Why similar: Text-Based 22.9%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Horror 12.3%, Psychological Horror 9.6%
Late at night, a teacher shares two bizarre tales: a corpse stuffed in a sheet, and an abnormal presence in the mountains. It was just a ghost story, but a creepy "sense of unease" lurks within. A short psychological horror visual novel offering a dense, terrifying experience in about an hour.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.1%, Text-Based 24.5%, Psychological Horror 21.6%, Horror 15.3%, Choices Matter 11.5%
Show Yuu—a transfer student struggling with psychological issues—around the school and become a source of emotional support for her. This is a minimalist retro visual novel featuring elements of psychological horror.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.5%, Philosophical 16.9%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Psychological 12.6%, Text-Based 11%
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 23%, Psychological Horror 18.4%, Psychological 13.4%, Surreal 11.1%, Text-Based 11%
At the heart of the action are a twelve-year-old Kenneth and his younger sister Esme, children of the Murphy family, who hit the trail of a mysterious monster following series of entangled events.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.3%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Psychological Horror 14%, Horror 12.3%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
❗ EARLY ACCESS ❗ This game is an anthology of visual novels, which includes the “Deep Russian Depression” (pilot chapter) and custom stories from the game community. You can create your own stories as mods for the game and publish them in the Steam Workshop.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.6%, Text-Based 15.8%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Philosophical 13.3%, Horror 10.8%
After the announcement "There is no next stop," you are trapped in an endless subway. But you’re not alone—the "GUESTS" are hunting you. Trust the "GUIDES" to survive. Or don't.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.3%, Text-Based 18.6%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Horror 10.9%
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 20.3%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Surreal 11.6%, Text-Based 11.2%, Minimalist 10.1%
An existential horror visual novel. Play as a voice inside a troubled mind. Identify her cognitive distortions, shift her perspective, and win the debate that decides whether she lives or dies.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.6%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Psychological 14.4%, Philosophical 13.9%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
A short psychological horror interactive story. Five years after vanishing without a trace, the woman you once called your lover writes from beyond the silence: "I will give birth to our creation.” In three acts, descend into a fractured mindscape where obsession, memory, and myth intertwine.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.7%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Text-Based 15.7%, Horror 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
A 3D RPGMaker Horror game about exploring a weird bunker. The bunker will have different horrors or surreal worlds waiting within it, all depending on how you broke into it! 6 different bunkers! 16 unique endings!
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.9%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Horror 14%, Psychological 13.3%, Surreal 11.1%
Step into Greyholt as Ava, a would-be adventurer taking a chance to register with her father's guild. Will this bring the independence she craves, or something more dangerous? A psychological, choice-driven visual novel where every decision shapes the road ahead and the journey beneath her own skin.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.3%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, Text-Based 17.3%, Psychological 13.2%, Multiple Endings 11%
On a rainy night, three ghost stories are told in an old-fashioned café. As a writer for an occult magazine, you listen to three people recount their experiences. A psychological horror visual novel that slowly builds a sense of dread—Kyofu Yawa: Second Night.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.5%, Psychological Horror 19.2%, Text-Based 16.9%, Horror 14.9%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
Resequence: The Orchard is an occult-horror adventure game in which school counselor Saito approaches an inexplicable phenomena through his counseling sessions with students.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.8%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Horror 14.7%, Text-Based 12.7%, Surreal 11.3%
Upon buying a used computer online, I found a short romance game called “Print I Love You”. I played it once, and it’s lingered ever since. I don’t know who made it - only that it was dedicated to someone. Maybe you…
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.3%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Horror 13.8%, Psychological 12%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
Fear is real. Sometimes tragedy needs nothing more than that. 💀 A short visual novel based on the story of the same name — about the silence that lets something shuffling into your home. 👁️👁️
Why similar: Visual Novel 24%, Psychological Horror 20%, Horror 13.9%, Text-Based 12%, Emotional 8.1%
This is a psychological horror visual novel game. You wake up in an eerie old hotel with no memory. You need to meet bizarre characters and recover lost memories. There are 20 endings. Pixel art, desaturated tones, dreamlike dread. Horror comes from existential self-reflection, not jump scares.
Why similar: Philosophical 22.8%, Visual Novel 21.2%, Psychological Horror 18.4%, Surreal 14.2%, Multiple Endings 7.9%
An abstract visual novel about a girl dealing with the challenges of having ADHD while trying to complete a school assignment before the deadline.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Text-Based 13%, Multiple Endings 9.4%, Horror 8.9%
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: Visual Novel 15%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Surreal 12.8%, Psychological 9.6%, Experimental 9.5% ★
Walk through a broken game with Yoka in this psychological horror visual novel. Move dialogue windows, peer through fragmented images, and read records no one answers. What you touch, preserve, or leave behind shapes your conversations and leads to six endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.3%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Text-Based 17%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Surreal 11.1%
Can you survive the horror of being yourself? A cute and disturbing psychological horror about identity, isolation, and the terrifying reality of being different.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.7%, Surreal 14.1%, Psychological 12.6%, Horror 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.7%
Play as an unnamed man who suspects his wife of something, and dive deep into his memories of the day when he was about to propose to her. Your choices can influence the story. Genre: thriller.
Why similar: Text-Based 30.8%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Surreal 19.9%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Psychological 11.7%
«Separator» is a short nonlinear visual novel in the psychological horror genre, inspired by modern occultism and beliefs surrounding mysticism.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.4%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, Psychological 13.8%, Text-Based 12.7%, Horror 12.4%
Something is growing on your hand. You see the Doctor. Things get weird.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.4%, Psychological Horror 16.7%, Horror 14.1%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Text-Based 12.4%
All girls can transform with candy. A short branching visual novel about a mysterious candy shop and the girls who go there. What candy will you choose?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.7%, Visual Novel 21.7%, Text-Based 15.1%, Psychological 13.1%, Horror 10.4%
You ended the world. She, the one who holds every card, gave you an endless summer as your reward. Now your only way out is through sugar, jellyfish, sunlight, and blood — into the deepest reaches of her mind, or be dissolved along the way. Choose your path in this psycho-thriller visual novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.5%, Psychological Horror 19.6%, Surreal 14.6%, Psychological 14.6%, Multiple Endings 13.6%
A game about the path you're on, and what you're really doing with your life.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.7%, Text-Based 17.5%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Psychological 13%, Horror 11.4%
Thorner is a horror visual novel with multiple endings. You attempt to escape your past by fleeing to the wilderness, but spilled blood can never be forgiven. The land knows what you did. The land judges. Thorner awaits.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.2%, Psychological Horror 22.2%, Multiple Endings 15.3%, Horror 9.3%, Dark 8.2%
A short experimental visual novel about obsessive counting.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.7%, Psychological Horror 19.5%, Horror 13.8%, Text-Based 12.5%, Experimental 12.3% ★
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: Visual Novel 27.1%, Psychological Horror 26.7%, Text-Based 11.1%, Psychological 8.4%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
An interactive visual novel in the mystical genre. Mikey is admitted to an unusual institution for treatment, where he encounters supernatural phenomena and begins to prepare for a metamorphosis that will lead him into another world.
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.7%, Multiple Endings 17.4%, Text-Based 16.3%, Horror 15.4%, Choices Matter 14.5%
A cringe story about a cringe guy dealing with a normal aspect of French law.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.4%, Visual Novel 27.1%, Text-Based 25%, Minimalist 14%, Adventure 3.8%