
In this short visual novel, four prisoners on death row are cleared of all charges. But the prison has a quota to meet. The four are put in a room and asked to decide among themselves over the course of an hour... who will be the one to die?
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Story Rich, Adventure, Singleplayer.

In this short visual novel, four prisoners on death row are cleared of all charges. But the prison has a quota to meet. The four are put in a room and asked to decide among themselves over the course of an hour... who will be the one to die?

Jackpot Crash Course
In a game show starring only criminals, you must gamble against rival players to prove yourself worthy of being pardoned for your wrong deeds— But is the show really about proving your innocence? Jackpot Crash Course is a death game visual novel about crime, luck and spectacle.

12 Hours to Die
A mystery visual novel about six students forced to play a 12-hour long killing game.
In a game show starring only criminals, you must gamble against rival players to prove yourself worthy of being pardoned for your wrong deeds— But is the show really about proving your innocence? Jackpot Crash Course is a death game visual novel about crime, luck and spectacle.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Crime 17.3%, Psychological 11.9%, Mystery 9.2%
A mystery visual novel about six students forced to play a 12-hour long killing game.
Why similar: Visual Novel 40.4%, Mystery 26.6%, Anime 15.5%, Stylized 9.5%, 2D 5.3%
In the quiet of conscience and shadows of sin, four souls find themselves entwined in crimes involving a woman. In this narrative puzzle game, you don the sacred robe of a priest, hear the confessions of sinners, uncover secrets, seek the truth behind their crimes and deliver the final judgment.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20%, Crime 17.3%, Visual Novel 16%, Psychological 12.7%, Mystery 12%
Prison Notes is a RPG with text-based ADV and cultivation elements. You act as a young migrant worker, wrongly imprisoned in the prison known as "The Coral Reef".What challenges and adventures are awaiting? Will you finally find a way out? Your choices and actions will decide the end of your story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.3%, Dark Humor 19.2%, Crime 18.9%, Anime 11.4%, Mystery 10%
You who are unqualified to drink Meng Po's soup, you have been chosen for the game of life. A horror yuri visual novel following a series of death games in the afterlife.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Crime 20.9%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Psychological 12.3%, Anime 11.8%
Thirteen girls awaken, only to find themselves in a prison. What awaits them: a Witch Trial. Help them prepare for the trial by exploring the prison in order to find the witch hidden amongst them. Find the witch, learn what kind of magic she holds, dispel the lies, and prepare for the execution.
Why similar: Visual Novel 41.1%, Mystery 21.3%, Female Protagonist 16.5%, Anime 11.7%, Multiple Endings 5.1%
Sci-Fi Mystery Visual Novel. Nine people are trapped in an underground research facility, forced to play a game of life and death. Check your log to find the truth that connects those apparent strangers - if you even want to, that is.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Psychological 19.2%, Mystery 17.7%, Anime 11.7%
Visual novel fully animated in Live2D, Observing Scum Prisoners! In a prison called a dump, a betting card game among dangerous prisoners begins. Penalty game for the losers! Uncover the hidden pasts and bizarre crimes of these lunatics!
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.2%, Mystery 19.2%, Anime 17.2%, Dark Humor 16.3%, Crime 12.7%
A short-form psychological thriller. Confront the mysterious Finn through a monitor. No strategy or puzzles—and you are given almost no freedom of choice. Simply face the absurd situation and witness the end.
Why similar: Visual Novel 35.2%, Mystery 22.7%, Psychological 17.5%, Female Protagonist 12.4%, Story Rich 5.6%
A short psychological adventure about a stressed girl who wants to explore her ceiling.
Why similar: Psychological 19.2%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Mystery 12.9%, Anime 10.3%
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: Visual Novel 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Mystery 18%, Anime 14.8%, Psychological 10.6%
You wake up in a house, alone with two beautiful girls... But no one is allowed to leave until one of you DIES. Why is this happening? What is the purpose of this “killing game”? But most importantly...WHO SHOULD DIE?!
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.7%, Mystery 22.9%, Anime 18.6%, Multiple Endings 10%, Female Protagonist 9%
One day you were dispatched to a women's prison to take charge of the lives of the female prisoners and explore the inner secrets of those girls. There are six girls to be explored.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.2%, Visual Novel 30.3%, Anime 17.6%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Story Rich 5.1%
Peek into the sins and memories of five personalities through surveillance cameras──This is an immersive, mystery adventure game that unravels the thoughts of the dark past that lie dormant inside Sofia,a suspect in the murder of a presidential candidate, and uncovers the truth behind the crime.
Why similar: Visual Novel 48.9%, Mystery 29.7%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Story Rich 5.1%, Adventure 4%
Take back your identity in Muffles’ Life Sentence- a darkly quirky RPG set in a prison where inmates are remade to match their crimes.
Why similar: Dark Humor 25.5%, Crime 23.2%, Psychological 21.3%, Stylized 9.4%, 2D 7.2%
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 28.9%, Visual Novel 27.9%, Mystery 19.7%, Anime 8.1%, Multiple Endings 7.1%
A secluded mountain resort, 10 friends, 1 murderer. Investigate, interrogate and present evidence as you solve various mysteries throughout the night. Will you be able to reach the truth and uncover the culprit’s identity? Or will your deductions lead you to blame someone completely innocent...?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Mystery 16.4%, Crime 16.1%, Cartoon 8.9%
Witness to Mass Incarceration is a narrative-driven interactive story based on my life in federal prison. It is a brutally honest portrayal of the lack of humanity, how our lives inside are at risk every day, and the place you are forced to go within yourself to survive.
Why similar: Psychological 30.9%, Visual Novel 27.4%, Atmospheric 10.6%, Story Rich 9.4%, 2D 7.7%
A slice-of-death visual novel about making friends, cracking cat puns, and waiting for eternity to pass.
Why similar: Visual Novel 67.2%, Multiple Endings 14.5%, Story Rich 9.4%, 2D 6%, Adventure 1.7%
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 29%, Psychological 24.3%, Anime 20.9%, Mystery 12.8%, Female Protagonist 6.4%
Follow Sybil in her pursuit for survival, having to sacrifice everything - her culture, her identity, her values - to achieve a single objective: escape from a place that is constantly trying to kill her. A short game about persecution and identity.
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Stylized 12.8%, Atmospheric 12.6%
Mio is a young girl surrounded by death, and after an unexpected accident, she finds out where people go after they die. Maybe Heaven, or Hell...or an Underworld full of demons and mysteries.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.7%, Psychological 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Cartoon 12.4%, Cartoony 8.5%
Thrown into prison for an act of self-expression, protagonist Shuichiro must confront both a violent system and his own actions—or else try to find happiness on the inside in this visual novel from the makers of NUKITASHI.
Why similar: Crime 24.8%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Dark Humor 19.4%, Anime 13.9%, Mystery 11.9%
Detective Game. Murder Investigation. Interrogate witnesses. Rebut with evidence.
Why similar: Crime 28%, Visual Novel 23.7%, Mystery 19.4%, Anime 16.8%, Female Protagonist 8%
A supernatural Halloween whodunnit. Solve a chilling locked-room mystery before the grim reaper reveals the answer!
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.7%, Mystery 24.8%, Anime 20.2%, Female Protagonist 13.8%, Story Rich 5%
Narrative-adventure playing an Agent of Death who must take ONE life that could change the fate of a conflict-torn Nation
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26%, Visual Novel 21.9%, Atmospheric 11.1%, Female Protagonist 10.8%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
在某个和平的学园内突然发生了分身灵( Doppelganger)事件, 主人公所在的神秘学研究部的部员们开始调查背后的阴谋。
Why similar: Adventure 100%
The Zodiac Trial has begun, and everybody's life is on the line! Will these 12 jurors be able to solve the mysteries and cooperate, or will they resort to betrayal, deception, and violence? Get out alive or die, die again!
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.6%, Dark Humor 21.1%, Crime 16.8%, Anime 10.9%, Stylized 7.9%
When the power goes out while working night shift in the hospital, the emergency lights come on with an eerie glow...
Why similar: Cartoon 23.2%, Anime 16.2%, Cartoony 15.8%, Mystery 12.6%, Stylized 9.4%
A story about a dead lamb walking.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.1%, Visual Novel 23.6%, Female Protagonist 10.4%, Anime 10.3%, 2D 7.5%
Detective Red July must stop a serial killer who patterns his murders after optical illusions in this mystery visual novel set in the world of Methods.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Crime 14.5%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Mystery 9.8%, Cartoon 8.7%
Interrogate suspects, search for clues, & uncover a dastardly plot, as you solve a string of mystifying murders to help reluctant detective Ilmarinen escape the foreboding Fafnir Hotel.
Why similar: Crime 21.9%, Visual Novel 21.4%, Mystery 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Anime 12.9%
halfmoon is a short adventure game set in an information center for the dead before they move on.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.6%, Visual Novel 28%, Psychological 16.9%, Atmospheric 9.4%, 2D 7.6%
An algorithm decided to show you this. What now?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Visual Novel 22.4%, Mystery 19.2%, Anime 14.9%, Atmospheric 10.1%
A magical girl visual novel about giving middle-schoolers way too much power. Make (bad) choices, fight unexpected enemies, and maybe learn a lesson or two...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Dark Humor 13%, Cartoon 11.5%, Cartoony 9.5%
可愛い後輩と2人っきり……冷凍庫の中で。 低体温症、矛盾脱衣、幻覚などの苦痛を乗り越えた先にあるのは、「真相」と「死」のみ。
Why similar: Visual Novel 38.3%, Psychological 18.8%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Atmospheric 12.1%, 2D 9.9%
You're a prison officer in an experimental woman's prison. You must satisfy their every need... even their sexual desires must be tended to! Be careful though. If there are enough complaints against you, you may be transferred to the men's :male_sign: prison!?
Why similar: Visual Novel 42.8%, Anime 33.9%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, 2D 9.6%, Singleplayer 1.2%
Explore the mysterious room by traversing time, while you watch a man succumb to the room syndrome.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 33.7%, Multiple Endings 33.6%, Stylized 32.7%
Far Away is a visual novel full of dark humor depicting immersive storylines rather than romantic drama. You will play as Krosa, a typical girl who experiences gang conflicts, crimes, conspiracies, and family grudges in the port city of Bedjan.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Crime 15.3%, Dark Humor 13.6%, Anime 11.3%
A murder-mystery visual novel following 12 strangers with mysterious pasts. Make arguments and identify the murderer, but don't lose sight of the ultimate goal of eliminating the Game Master.
Why similar: Crime 31.5%, Visual Novel 28.3%, Psychological 18.6%, Anime 18.2%, Story Rich 1.5%
Five girls meet in an isolated underground city. As they slay and betray each other, what fate awaits them at the end of their journey? Hope? Or despair? Enjoy an immersive story, fully voiced and boasting multiple endings!
Why similar: Visual Novel 38.6%, Anime 24.3%, Mystery 19.8%, Story Rich 5.9%, Multiple Endings 4.9%
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 22.7%, Psychological 22%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Mystery 17.6%, Atmospheric 9.2%
You are a girl with a demonic heart, trapped with a group of suspicious individuals. A demonspawn arrives, setting off a chain of mysterious murders. Can you trust any of your fellow captives and find love in the chaos? Or will you fight for your life alone?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Visual Novel 21.8%, Mystery 19.3%, Anime 12.9%, Female Protagonist 9.3%
CAUTION: Escape from this supervillain at your own risk...A short sci-fi visual novel packed with brain-teasing puzzles, gruesome deaths and heartbreaking secrets.
Why similar: Visual Novel 41.3%, Anime 29%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, 2D 8.9%, Story Rich 7.2%
Otome × Death Game × Mild Horror Multiple Endings Puzzle RPG
Why similar: Female Protagonist 30.3%, Mystery 27.2%, Multiple Endings 20.2%, 2D 10.6%, Story Rich 8.7%
Escape from the Cursed Convent is a narrative-driven adventure game set in a medieval girls' convent, offering a rich storytelling experience, and several gameplay styles including QTE, hunting, cooking, and puzzle-solving.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26%, Anime 15.5%, Stylized 11.8%, Female Protagonist 11.8%, Atmospheric 9.7%
Uncover the skeletons in Hana's closet in "MINE MEMORY," a gripping psychological visual novel. Dive into Hana's memories, shape her destiny, and confront haunting choices with deep consequences.
Why similar: Psychological 30.9%, Mystery 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Visual Novel 7.1%, Female Protagonist 4.9%
An unusual horror-themed Visual Novel about waking up in a carriage with a stranger… Whatever could go wrong?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Visual Novel 21.9%, Dark Humor 16.5%, Mystery 9.7%, Anime 9%
"No men in this house" is a visual novel set in Thailand. This edge-of-your-seat detective story about mysterious deaths on a touristy island will make you suspect everyone, including yourself!
Why similar: Visual Novel 35.5%, Mystery 29.8%, Dark Humor 26.4%, Story Rich 5.9%, Adventure 1.8%
Short visual novel. An all-too-familiar story, born from an all-too-familiar motive, on an all-too-familiar street.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Cartoon 14.2%, Mystery 13.8%, Anime 13.6%
An online game that you'll play with 3-11 players as a Prisoner or a Guard and will try to escape or prevent escapes. Loot, Craft, and make your way to the exit, or investigate and arrest wanted players as a guard!
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: Anime 29.1%, Mystery 22.7%, Multiple Endings 12%, Female Protagonist 10.6%, 2D 8.6%
Trials of Innocence is an indie courtroom detective game. Step into the shoes of the main character, rookie lawyer Luna Ray, and navigate her journey through the legal world. Unravel a shocking conspiracy that changes the fate of many, including herself, and confront her inner choices.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Crime 19.7%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Mystery 14.4%, Anime 11%
Your end is my beginning. A short psychological visual novel with exploration and puzzle elements... it already lays shattered.
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.8%, Anime 18.7%, Psychological 18.6%, Atmospheric 10.1%, 2D 9.1%
It all started with a simple robbery. When that thread was pulled, a tapestry of mysteries was revealed. Solve cases and outsmart criminals in a detective story full of lies, confessions, and maybe even a murder or two.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.9%, Mystery 21%, Crime 18.4%, Anime 12%, Female Protagonist 11%
Kill each other...for science! The class of '89 is trapped in an elite school killing game. Investigate, solve, and expose your classmates in Kumitantei™: Old-School Slaughter, an episodic murder-mystery ADV card-battler inspired by retro anime.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.2%, Mystery 21.5%, Dark Humor 18.7%, Anime 18.3%, Female Protagonist 8.1%
Welcome to Elsewhere High, "a school for exceptional children." In this visual novel, players are able to immerse themselves in the world of the outcast. Each student at Elsewhere High has fallen short of expectations at their original high school; they've flunked out, skipped class, wrote threatening notes, or grew to be a...
Why similar: Visual Novel 36.4%, Mystery 25.1%, Anime 18.1%, Cartoon 16.6%, Adventure 3.7%
A visual novel about a girl who loves the cemetery. When her parents go missing, she receives a mysterious text that has the potential to completely ruin her life...or fix it?
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.3%, Female Protagonist 13%, Anime 12.3%, Stylized 9.4%, 2D 8.8%
The protagonist is trapped inside a prison, please help the protagonist to escape this place by making sentences and unravel the secrets of this prison.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
Assetflip attorney is a murder mystery satire visual novel, Solve crimes in a world where everyone has gone insane and everything feels like a fever dream, interrogate witnesses, hunt for clues and take down the criminal organization that threatens to destroy reality
Why similar: Visual Novel 38.8%, Mystery 38.3%, Female Protagonist 9.8%, Story Rich 6.7%, Multiple Endings 5.6%