60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Choices Matter, Story Rich, Emotional.
My True North - a nonlinear visual novel about Personal Choice of a Human, Love, and the Journey to Yourself in a world of the living dead. Watch. Love. And don't go under the ice. Especially in the height of summer.
September 19
September 19 is a visual novel with a deep storyline, a dark atmosphere, and complex moral choices. After being betrayed by your father, you find yourself in a world full of secrets, monsters, and people you can’t trust.
Where Control Ends
Where Control Ends is a psychological visual novel about Astra, a young girl trying to hold herself together after a night she cannot fully remember.
September 19 is a visual novel with a deep storyline, a dark atmosphere, and complex moral choices. After being betrayed by your father, you find yourself in a world full of secrets, monsters, and people you can’t trust.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Cinematic 12.5%, Choices Matter 10%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%
Where Control Ends is a psychological visual novel about Astra, a young girl trying to hold herself together after a night she cannot fully remember.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.4%, Text-Based 11.9%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Choices Matter 9.2%
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: Visual Novel 13.8%, Text-Based 13%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 9%
A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?
Why similar: Visual Novel 13.2%, Psychological 10.3%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%, Emotional 9.1%
A dark sci-fi psychological Visual Novel where your choices shape who you are. The world has ended and it's been dominated by mysterious aliens who roam the city. Despite that, you only think of what you've lost. Will you be able to rebuild your relationships? Or even... the world itself?
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 15.9%, Visual Novel 14%, Text-Based 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 10.4%, Psychological Horror 9.8%
A grounded post-apocalyptic interactive narrative. Fortify the Black Box shelter, manage supplies, trust, and evidence, and decide who survives on either side of the iron gate.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 18.9%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Cinematic 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 9.4%
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 18.1%, Text-Based 15.3%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Psychological 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%
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 21.4%, Text-Based 17%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Choices Matter 14%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
Ascension is a visual novel following three lost souls as they venture into The Zone - a dangerous and alien world. Follow the abrasive Doctor, the shy Scholar and sardonic Escort on their journey - though none of them will come out unscathed.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 16.9%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 10.1%, Emotional 9%, Psychological Horror 8.9%
In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.
Why similar: Choices Matter 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Cinematic 10.8%, Dialogue Heavy 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.3%
Something is growing on your hand. You see the Doctor. Things get weird.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.5%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Psychological Horror 12%, Psychological 12%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%
On his first visit to his father's rural hometown in seven years, Hotaru reunites with his first love—only to learn that she died three years ago. Explore Yokomizo, uncover the truth behind a family tragedy, and escape supernatural otherworlds in this Japanese horror mystery adventure.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.5%, Psychological 14%, Dialogue Heavy 12.7%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.4%
His World is a short visual novel game where you play as a young shy introvert boy and witness his life with his family and get to see his internal world and struggles. You also make a few decisions throughout the game that will decide on one of game's multiple endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.3%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.5%, Emotional 12.4%, Text-Based 10.9%
A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.5%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Text-Based 11.7%
A short workplace-horror visual novel. You play as John, a fresh grad on his first day in IT ops. The office looks completely normal—your predecessor’s ThinkPad does not. Read the notes, analyze the logs, and decide who to trust. It all ends today.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.2%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Choices Matter 16.7%, Dialogue Heavy 10%, Horror 9.3%
"The Bunker Notes" is a visual novel about a concrete trap where the past whispers through the cracks of rusted doors. In this world, survival is everything; meeting another person might be your last mistake.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Psychological 10.1%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Text-Based 9.3%
A GxG coming-of-age visual novel. Nina sucks at choosing. But when a mysterious incident happens at the arts academy, will she muster the courage to choose–or will she let someone else decide on her behalf?
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.7%, Dialogue Heavy 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Romance 9.9%, Text-Based 9.3%
Who are you? You are not the main character. You are his inner voice, speaking to him. Aren't you? A life crisis. A strange job. A lonely train station. A dead man. Someone watching from the outside. A narrative-driven interactive mystery of choices, inner dialogue, and atmosphere.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15%, Text-Based 11.9%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Dialogue Heavy 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%
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 18.8%, Psychological 14.5%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Text-Based 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.5%
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 22.8%, Psychological 16.8%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Text-Based 8.2%
Guide Mina and Rex through a dark and intense psychological visual novel of trauma, love, and insecurity... Traverse Section 56’s dangers, confront the past, and shape their fate.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.5%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Psychological 14.4%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Horror 9.1%
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 18.3%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Text-Based 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 11.5%
Faced with evil... would you pull the trigger? Tyrania Enforcers is a story-driven visual novel exploring morality, duty, and the cost of enforcing order in a world on the brink of conflict.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.5%, Text-Based 15.9%, Psychological 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 9.1%, Cinematic 8.5%
A supernatural mystery visual novel. What kind of fate will the heroine face after she relives the last seven days before her death?
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.3%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Choices Matter 11%, Romance 10.9%
In this story-focused adult visual novel you will try to survive and adapt to the new world, creating and protecting your faction of survivors in this new world. Fight the infected, experience romance, fight other factions, and protect your group.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 22%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Zombies 15.2%, Cinematic 13.6%, Romance 10.2%
It was a fake — that's exactly why I could love it. Fifteen days of Rei's summer vacation. A first-person "seeing" narrative adventure. Fully voiced (JP/EN/ZH). Playtime: 3+ hours.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.4%, Psychological 16.4%, Dialogue Heavy 14.3%, Text-Based 13.7%, Cinematic 8.5%
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 21.9%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Text-Based 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Choices Matter 12.1%
You wake in a monster’s cage with no memory and 30 days to act. Choose to escape, obey, or become its favorite.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 19.4%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Text-Based 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Psychological Horror 10.2%
A story-rich coming-of-age experience told through a 2004 desktop, where friendships, music, and late-night conversations shape who you become. Explore chats, drama, mini-games, and the early internet in a branching story about growing up, making mistakes, and finding your place.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.7%, Dialogue Heavy 16.1%, Text-Based 13.8%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%
In this dark romance, horror visual novel, a brutal attack on your village leaves you stranded and vulnerable. Making matters worse is your run-in with the beast of the nearby woods. Will you find a way to escape your demented captor, or will you earn his trust? Choose a side; Don't look back.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.9%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Romance 11.6%, Choices Matter 11%
Use an in-game computer to chat with friends to stay connected and help each other. Explore your 'empty' apartment building for items to assist them and uncover lost messages.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 21.2%, Dialogue Heavy 13.7%, Text-Based 13.4%, Zombies 13.3%, Emotional 11.2%
To escape, you must hurt someone. KIZUTSUKE is a psychological suspense visual novel about four young men trapped together. Read their conversations, make difficult choices, and discover four endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.1%, Text-Based 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Choices Matter 10.8%
"Island of Ruin" is a puzzle novel game where you collect memory cores hidden across the island and uncover the truth behind a tragedy of the past. When the horrors that befell the boys and girls and the island’s strange phenomena are revealed, what final choice will you make?
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.6%, Post-apocalyptic 18.3%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Emotional 11%, Text-Based 9.3%
A girl was murdered, and she is the only one still hunting for her killer. The day before her birthday, Han Xiaoxiao woke as a spirit with no memory, three days dead. Possess the living, gather clues, and uncover how you died. But some truths are harder to bear than death itself.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Female Protagonist 12.6%, Psychological 12.3%, Emotional 9.2%
After the unexpected death of a close friend, Kristina returns to her hometown looking for answers, only to unearth a string of dark secrets. I Saw Black Clouds is an interactive psychological thriller with supernatural elements and branching storylines.
Why similar: Cinematic 12.5%, Psychological 11.3%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Choices Matter 11%, Psychological Horror 10.1%
Help Elliot recover his memories and unlock the truth of what happened before it's too late. A Mexican-American gothic, boys' love visual novel, featuring interactive spell crafting and point-and-click exploration.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.8%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Emotional 11.6%, Cinematic 10.1%, Romance 8.9%
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 22.4%, Psychological 15.4%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Dialogue Heavy 9.1%, Choices Matter 8.8%
우리 아빠는 유명한 과학자입니다.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.7%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Psychological 12.1%, Female Protagonist 10.1%
Not It: Spookiest Edition is a horror-filled visual novel full of suspense and mystery where you navigate Katie through a living nightmare. Her move-in day on Halloween throws her into a centuries-old curse. Can she make it through the night? Will her new neighbors perish? Decide their fate.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.1%, Text-Based 14.9%, Psychological Horror 12%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%
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 19.8%, Text-Based 14.7%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Emotional 9.1%
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 14.2%, Dialogue Heavy 12.7%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Psychological 10.8%, Emotional 9.7%
You wake into a perfect life you don't remember choosing — warm, loving, and sealed shut. She knows everything about you. The one door has never opened. KEPT is a short psychological romance-horror visual novel with six endings, gated by how much of the truth you can bear to know.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Romance 12.9%, Horror 10.5%, Psychological 8.9%
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.7%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Emotional 11.2%, Romance 10.9%
Rabies - is an atmospheric visual novel about two young men struggling to survive in a city consumed by fog and an outbreak of a mutated rabies virus. Venture out on dangerous missions, make difficult choices, and try not to lose the person you love.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 27.3%, Visual Novel 21.3%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Text-Based 9.5%, Dialogue Heavy 8.8%
A presence lingers in the dark, waiting. It asks. It doubts. It knows. What happened? Why are you here? Do you deserve this? The answers are yours to decide. What you choose matters. Every path leads somewhere. But will you like where it takes you?
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.9%, Text-Based 13.1%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Psychological 11.5%
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: Visual Novel 15%, Dialogue Heavy 14%, Text-Based 13.7%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.5%
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 22.1%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Psychological 13.6%, Romance 12.2%, Choices Matter 10.3%
“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 16.8%, Text-Based 12.9%, Cinematic 12.5%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.4%
A mystical visual novel where ordinary school life intertwines with mysterious phenomena. Every decision you make could lead to uncovering secrets... or plunge you into even greater uncertainty.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.4%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Mystery 10.2%, Romance 9.2%
You take on the role of Alice, who wanders through a dark forest in search of a way out. On her journey she meets many figures — each one a reflection of her own personality, an echo of her fears, and a manifestation of her subconscious.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.5%, Psychological Horror 14%, Psychological 12.9%, Horror 8.6%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%
An abandoned amusement park in a broken world. It was a paradise called "Lagoon" where children were self-sufficient. A boy working as a mercenary in "Lagoon" happened to meet a silver-haired girl. The wheels of their destiny begin to move.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 31.9%, Visual Novel 28.3%, Text-Based 13.4%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Adventure 8.7%
Graveyard Girls is a halloween-themed yuri visual novel about complicated grief and overcoming hardships. Collect Elle’s “scribbles” to learn about her struggles, befriend a mysterious girl, and have a conversation about death.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.2%, Psychological 12%, Text-Based 11.3%, Emotional 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%
Sokolov Test is a psychological sci-fi visual novel in which a machine examiner evaluates your answers one by one. Face strange questions, visual tests, system anomalies, secrets and fragmented memories. The test is not asking whether you are good. It is asking whether you are a person.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.1%, Post-apocalyptic 17.7%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Dialogue Heavy 11.3%
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 17.3%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Text-Based 12.4%, Psychological 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.7%
Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.7%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Psychological 10.1%, Emotional 9.9%
⚠️ KnitBone is a story-driven psychological horror visual novel, where the therapist is more traumatized than the patient.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.9%, Psychological Horror 17%, Dialogue Heavy 15%, Psychological 11.4%, Emotional 7.3%
Investigate six haunted properties and listen to the voices of spirits trapped in nightmares. Collect fragmented clues and discover the correct combination of names, locations, and vessels. A multi-ending horror adventure where the outcome changes depending on your choices during the ritual.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.3%, Text-Based 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Horror 11.4%
The Tenth Minute is a short narrative game told through chat and novel-style reading. Revisit a school-day memory shaped by unspoken feelings, misaligned memories, and belated understanding between three people. A youthful story with light psychological mystery, complete in around 2 hours.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.1%, Text-Based 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Psychological 12.1%, Emotional 8.8%
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 24.4%, Emotional 16.5%, Psychological 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Romance 8.1%
