Games Like Pentimento

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 18.9%, Dark 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Psychological 8.5%

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 16.7%, Psychological 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Psychological Horror 10%, Horror 9.5%

A stranger calls at 3:33 AM. They know your name. Choose your words carefully in this fully voiced psychological horror game.

Why similar: Horror 14.7%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Thriller 11.5%, Mystery 10%, Dark 10%

Apartment 22 is a bite-sized horror game about being trapped in a loop. You look out for clues left by the previous resident or possibly by you to escape the apartment.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Psychological 12.6%, Horror 11%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Dark 8.9%

Three operatives return to their abandoned boarding school to hunt a sinister fugitive. As old traumas awaken and paranoia takes hold, will they survive their own fears?

Why similar: Visual Novel 15.5%, Psychological 14.3%, Thriller 12.5%, Psychological Horror 10%, Horror 9.8%

In this eerie, horror visual novel, you are confined in a room with a monster. How will you fare against petrifying odds? Will you be able to work your way into the mind of an indecipherable beast, or will you be added to the casualty count? A word of advice: Choose a side; don't look back.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Psychological 10.5%, Horror 9.4%, Psychological Horror 9.2%

Uncover the truth behind a broken ritual in Make Moku Proud... a psychological visual novel where guilt and obedience, and what it means to make Moku proud, shape the fate of a witness watching his companions disappear.

Why similar: Visual Novel 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Horror 10.9%, Atmospheric 7.6%

Pilot a biomechanical android through a derelict spacecraft consumed by alien corruption. Every scene, narrative, and horror is procedurally generated by AI. No two explorations are the same. Uncover what happened to the crew in this 16-bit sci-fi horror adventure.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29%, Simulation 13.9%, Dark 11.4%, Casual 8.9%, Horror 8.4%

You will answer a series of questions that will reveal your potential fate. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Horrorscope, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

Why similar: Psychological 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Simulation 9.5%

Confinio is an intriguing visual novel that delves into your sensations as you embody the protagonist who has just awakened in a prison with no memory. Make decisions, solve puzzles, interact with the environment, use objects, interrogate people, all to yourself and uncover the enigmatic reality.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Psychological 13%, Dark 10.1%, Psychological Horror 9.6%

Wake up. Get ready. Go to work. Wake up. Get ready. Go to work. Wake up. Get ready. Feed the demon? Go to work. Daily life might be getting to you, but your medication is taking care of that, right? Or maybe it's making things worse. Rise and grind or choose to snooze?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Narrative 15.4% ★, Dark 14.3%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Horror 10.8%

WARNING. Stay inside. Lock your doors. Close the blinds. Only let humans in. Eliminate all Visitors. An anxiety horror about paranoia in the End of Times.

Why similar: Psychological 12.2%, Horror 10.9%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Dark 9.3%, Narrative 9.2% ★

Listen up, bellhop! Only bring in healthy hotel guests up to the chopper. Avoid all sick or else...

Why similar: Visual Novel 22.5%, Horror 13.8%, Psychological 11.7%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Dark 6.6%

A mystery visual novel following a boy who awoke in a strange building, with no recollection of where he is, how he arrived, why he’s here, or how to leave. Discover the answers to these mysteries as you search for a way out. Meet a small but colorful cast in your journey, and escape together!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Mystery 11.8%, Dark 10.8%, Psychological Horror 9.1%

Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.6%, Visual Novel 19%, Dark 9.9%, Psychological Horror 8.4%, Horror 7.9%

Beni, a loving husband to Nadia and father to Kaila, always ensured his family's needs were met with simple contentment. However, one day, an unwitting decision dragged his small family into a spiral that threatens everything.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Psychological 10.1%, Thriller 9.4%, Horror 8.7%

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: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Psychological 12.6%, Mystery 9.1%, Psychological Horror 8.9%

PETSITTER WANTED. A horror point-and-click adventure game. Water the plants, feed the pets, and DON'T turn off the lights.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Dark 12.4%, Horror 10.8%, Psychological 8.8%

A terrifying story that immerses you in a dark world full of horrific surprises that will leave the player frozen in fear.

Why similar: Psychological 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Thriller 12.4%, Mystery 10.9%, Visual Novel 9.8%

The Last Frame is a psychological horror game about a father who disappeared. As you walk through the locations he documented, you discover that watching and recording them changed the place itself — and not for the better.

Why similar: Psychological 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Horror 11.7%, Mystery 11.4%, Thriller 9.8%

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: Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Psychological 16.9%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Horror 10.7%

Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time. While you sleep, he is alone. When you return to your PC he has hope. Your encouragement and advice will be the difference between his salvation or despair.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Psychological 12.7%, Thriller 12.1%, Dark 9.9%, Visual Novel 9.6%

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: Psychological 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Narrative 9.2% ★, Dark 8.9%

When demons leave your head and fill the whole world, all you can do is close your eyes and go forward. Immerse yourself in the atmospheric and moving adventure of white crow Ankou — one of pain, loneliness, and salvation that no one asked for.

Why similar: Psychological 13.7%, Narrative 12.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Dark 10.1%

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: Visual Novel 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Psychological 14.1%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Thriller 9.8%

A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Simulation 9.3%, Choices Matter 7.3%

A psychological mystery yuri visual novel about a girl named Amelie. Forbidden from leaving the house, Amelie awaits the arrival of her long time penpal, Sofia, to her dear friend Lilika’s dismay. What secrets will Sofia unravel that were best kept buried?

Why similar: Psychological 16%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Thriller 10.9%, Mystery 9.4%, Horror 9.2%

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: Psychological 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Dark 10.5%, Psychological Horror 9.6%

Recent high school graduates gather at a remote cabin for a celebration. What begins as a night of laughter spirals into a tense mystery full of secrets, twists, and chilling choices. Who will survive? Navigate friendships, and uncover the multi-layered mystery in Shadows of Betrayal.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27%, Visual Novel 23.8%, Thriller 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%, Horror 8.1%

Vacation Terminal is a short 2D Psychological thriller, horror and survival based visual novel with evading based puzzle elements. Following the story of two strangers.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Dark 8.7%, Thriller 7.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.2%

An ordinary commute becomes a moral crucible in Monar Station, a short psychological horror visual novel. Navigate an extreme situation, make value-defining choices... Discover what lingers after the train moves on...

Why similar: Visual Novel 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Horror 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.5%

John is a young man suffering from severe depression. As he loses his sense of purpose in life, he begins to see the world in unfocused gray. Just when he begins to lose all hope, John meets a girl... a very special girl.

Why similar: Visual Novel 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Psychological 13.6%, Psychological Horror 9.4%, Horror 7.9%

Discard your sense of morality and enter the world of CORPSE FACTORY. An obscure website allows users to request a death. Victims supposedly receive a photograph of their own corpse before they are killed! With English voice acting by an all-star cast.

Why similar: Visual Novel 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Thriller 14.2%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Mystery 10.4%

Interrogate a friend accused of murder in Mota Must Die... a psychological visual novel where belief decides whether someone lives or dies

Why similar: Visual Novel 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Thriller 13.3%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Horror 11.2%

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: Interactive Fiction 23%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Horror 8.9%, Psychological 7.7%

Aki is haunted by a curse. In search of salvation, she travels into the memories of a dead classmate, where she must witness three eerie mystical stories and figure out how to break the shackles of misfortune.

Why similar: Visual Novel 16.4%, Dark 11.9%, Psychological 11%, Simulation 9.2%, Mystery 9.2%

In this GeoGuessr-like game, work at Mili Co. using GeoFinder to track missing persons. Stay safe inside the office, cooperate with coworkers, and survive in a world where only the workplace offers security.

Why similar: Horror 13.9%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Simulation 8.8%, Psychological 8.7%, Choices Matter 7.6%

It's rumored that those who play 'BAD END'- a Visual Novel will die in REAL LIFE if they make the wrong decision in the game itself.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Mystery 12.2%, Horror 11.6%, Psychological 9.6%

How far will you go to get your deepest wish granted? In The Game of Fourtune, help guide Clyde & Devon through this cruel game of life and death. Only one participant will get their wish granted. Four rounds and four deaths each round, are you ready to see if fortune is on your side?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Thriller 11.3%, Dark 11%, Mystery 9.5%

Something is growing on your hand. You see the Doctor. Things get weird.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Psychological 15.6%, Horror 11.5%, Psychological Horror 10%

The Darkest Emptiness will fill the lungs with leaden weight.

Why similar: Visual Novel 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Psychological 13.3%, Horror 10.7%

Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Horror 11.3%, Psychological Horror 11%, Mystery 9.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.7%

You’ve ignored the hallucinations for years. But after visiting a shrine in search of answers, a stranger claims she sees them too. Ashen Reverie is a visual novel about the consequences of chasing a myth too far.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Psychological 11.4%, Mystery 9.6%, Psychological Horror 9.5%

The world ended long ago. Humanity didn’t. What remains is a fragile society sustained by fear and distrust. Faro is a psychological horror visual novel set on a sunless planet, where you guide four survivors as cosmic horrors linger and every decision erodes the trust holding them together.

Why similar: Visual Novel 19.9%, Dark 17.5%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Mystery 11.4%, Psychological 11.4%

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 26.7%, Visual Novel 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Atmospheric 9.2%

RUNT is a rural gothic visual novel mystery where you play as Runt, the youngest of five brothers, surviving a monstrous post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Dark 10.2%, Psychological Horror 8.7%, Horror 8.5%

In this detective horror visual novel, investigate a seabound anomaly. Explore areas of interest, uncover clues, and piece together evidence before time runs out — and before this mission becomes your last. Choose a side; don't look back.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Mystery 11.4%, Horror 10%, Psychological 9.6%

Fragments of Dread is an episodic psychological horror series. Each episode tells a self-contained story of dread, fear, and survival.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Thriller 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Horror 11.6%, Mystery 10.8%

Train of Afterlife is a mystery, psychological, horror Visual Novel.

Why similar: Visual Novel 29.9%, Simulation 11.6%, Psychological 9.3%, Casual 8.6%, Indie 7.4%

An immersive choose-your-own-adventure survival horror with optional adult content featuring hand drawn backgrounds, sprites, and over 150 pieces of full screen art- and 50 endings.

Why similar: Visual Novel 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Dark 12.2%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Thriller 9.2%

Christian Tyler is ready to investigate a new case! Uncover the mystery of the tourist town of Alkelano in our new visual novel.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Visual Novel 19.7%, Psychological 11.6%, Casual 10%, Dark 9.1%

Survive a gripping psychological thriller in this visual novel. Make critical decisions, face a disturbed captor, and experience multiple chilling endings.

Why similar: Visual Novel 19.4%, Thriller 11.7%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Dark 9.9%, Mystery 9.2%

A free drama-mystery visual novel with a modern fantasy setting. Reach out to the fourteen people trapped inside to find the truth through eighteen endings, influenced by but not exclusively bound to your own system time.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Visual Novel 23.3%, Mystery 13.7%, Dark 9.6%, Simulation 7.5%

A psychological horror story where you work in a company that serves mermaids as seafood. Gamble your blood, chat with customers, trade ingredients, and create fake mermaids. Are mermaids more like fish, people, or monsters?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Narrative 12.6% ★, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Dark 8.1%

Two misanthropic teenagers attempt to be reborn through the world of sensory deprivation. A visual novel full of death, drugs, and dolphins.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Psychological 16.3%, Visual Novel 16%, Thriller 10%, Psychological Horror 7.6%

A short psychological thriller visual novel where you guide Sora through twisted interrogations, moral dilemmas, and unraveling memories...

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Psychological 15.7%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Horror 7.9%

Neve is a non-linear interactive fiction in which your decisions can completely change the course of story. Manage your team, race against time and unravel the mysteries surrounding your ship's crash in this suffocating retrofuturistic thriller that will have you hooked from the first second.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Psychological 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Thriller 10.8%, Dark 9.4%

Jacob White, a young man in need, took a job at an old motel. It seemed easy: clean rooms, survive the nights. But he soon noticed increasingly unsettling things. Adding to his pain was the recent loss of his wife.

Why similar: Psychological 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Thriller 11.5%, Dark 11.1%, Psychological Horror 11%

A first-person dark horror game essentially tells about mental suffering, overcoming fears, and the power of true love.

Why similar: Psychological 16.3%, Thriller 14.2%, Dark 11.1%, Horror 11.1%, Psychological Horror 9.8%