Games Like Project [XYZ]

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 19.5%, Emotional 11%, Psychological 9.3%, Psychological Horror 8.8%, Surreal 8.4%

A haiku platformer. It's short and vague.

Why similar: Experimental 25.8%, Emotional 13.2%, Psychological 12.4%, Surreal 9.9%, Psychological Horror 8.7%

The silent union of two girls begins to dissolve in an abandoned high school. A melancholic and liminal short story played in a single sitting, where the fear of collapse is felt at every moment.

Why similar: Experimental 18.1%, Emotional 12.1%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Mystery 8.5%

How will you cope with the loss of yourself? Each episode of You Died! will give you an opportunity to experience a stage of grief for yourself. Make choices, deal with the consequences, and interact with your environment to express the emotions of the main character.

Why similar: Episodic 33% ★, Choices Matter 12.2%, Emotional 12%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Psychological 8.6%

A story about a beautiful river that hides deadly secrets beneath its calm surface.

Why similar: Experimental 16.1%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Psychological 10.1%, Emotional 10.1%

The definitive edition of the fan-favorite visual novel is here! A surreal, coming-of-age tale set in early 2010s Central Florida, Siren's Call is the small town you swore you'd always leave. Something inside you knows this is your last chance. Will you reach escape velocity?

Why similar: Emotional 13.8%, Psychological 12.8%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Experimental 11.5%, Surreal 10.8%

A psychological horror visual novel about healing, where saving your brother means facing your own demons. Elham’s search forces her to confront haunting visions, buried family secrets, and dark entities. Will you help her embrace the light, or let her fall into the darkness?

Why similar: Emotional 17.6%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Supernatural 10.4%, Psychological 9.8%

The Life You Missed — you achieved success, but lost yourself along the way. In an old house, you uncover someone else’s life — and your own. Relive memories and face choices in your dreams. Every decision shapes the ending.

Why similar: Emotional 23.5%, Psychological 18.6%, Story Rich 13%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Mystery 8.8%

Shame & choices = possible apocalypse. You need to figure out what’s causing the apocalypse to happen, so that you can prevent it. 2 playable characters with different relations to shame → 2 unique perspectives of the same story. Complicated families, branching choices and unforgiving consequences.

Why similar: Psychological 14.3%, Emotional 13.5%, Choices Matter 13%, Supernatural 10.5%, Surreal 10.4%

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: Choices Matter 13.9%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Psychological Horror 11%, Emotional 11%, Mystery 11%

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: Psychological 15.9%, Emotional 15.7%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.5%

"GUROBU" is a story-driven, 2D horror game about haunted apartments, ghosts of the past, and a murder mystery.

Why similar: Supernatural 13.4%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Emotional 11.1%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Multiple Endings 9.5%

A narrative-driven psychological horror visual novel. Player's choices lead to distinct emotional paths and story outcomes. "You" navigate a shifting consciousness, making choices within fragmented scenes that buried memories.

Why similar: Emotional 20.6%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Multiple Endings 10.2%

TOMORROW DON'T COME is a contextual puzzle game about depression and how it feels to be stuck.

Why similar: Experimental 24%, Psychological 12.2%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Psychological Horror 9.2%, Surreal 9.2%

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 15.7%, Emotional 12.8%, Psychological 9.7%, Visual Novel 9.4%, Multiple Endings 8.6%

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: Choices Matter 13%, Supernatural 12.1%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Emotional 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.9%

"When the graves stop whispering in your ear, it’s time for you to surrender to eternal silence". So says the Agreement, and so it must be fulfilled. Welcome to a new dimension of horror. Welcome to Midnight Scenes.

Why similar: Supernatural 15.7%, Emotional 15.4%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Episodic 10.6% ★, Psychological Horror 10.6%

The Novelist asks one central question: can you achieve your dreams without pushing away the people you love? The game focuses on Dan Kaplan, a novelist struggling to write the most important book of his career while trying to be the best husband and father he can be.

Why similar: Experimental 23.6%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Story Rich 9.9%, Multiple Endings 9.2%, Psychological 8.3%

Don't control. Influence. Shape Cormo's mind with every choice as he embarks on a gruelling mission to chart a mysterious island shrouded in mind-bending fog. Put your persuasion skills to the test and direct his fate with every word, but beware; he can reject your choices.

Why similar: Experimental 20.5%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Supernatural 10.4%, Psychological 10.1%, Psychological Horror 9.2%

The Lies We Tell Ourselves is an episodic first person psychological action-adventure game with introspective/horror elements and a focus on subtle storytelling and atmosphere. Explore, solve puzzles, survive and uncover truths buried deep within a castle of lies.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 14%, Episodic 13.4% ★, Emotional 11.4%, Supernatural 11.2%, Psychological 11%

Tears of Sulfuria is an emotional visual novel about two sisters in a dark fantasy world that rejects them. Marília and Adka must survive at any cost—and their choices may scar Sulfuria itself. Sacrifice yourself, lose your sanity, and do the unforgivable to move forward.

Why similar: Emotional 14.6%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Visual Novel 11%, Psychological 10.9%

Every person you choose leaves someone else behind. Spend your limited afternoons building relationships, exploring the town, and recording each day in Kanata’s diary—then face timed Shadow Choices as an old book begins to fracture his ordinary life.

Why similar: Visual Novel 15.2%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Psychological 13.3%, Emotional 12.8%, Multiple Endings 11.7%

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: Psychological 17.4%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Surreal 11.8%, Multiple Endings 10.7%

A horror visual novel exploring the dark sides of friendship and the dangerous paths taken to save it.

Why similar: Psychological 12.6%, Emotional 12.5%, Psychological Horror 11%, Choices Matter 11%, Visual Novel 9.6%

The Space Between is a surreal short narrative experience in three acts about the walls we build for us.

Why similar: Experimental 30%, Emotional 12.7%, Surreal 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Psychological 9%

"Something is in your house." As a Shaman, you are the only one who can face the unknown. Investigate haunted homes, uncover secrets, and exorcise malevolent spirits. Your choices determine the client's fate. Experience a chilling K-horror story where every decision matters.

Why similar: Supernatural 11.8%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Psychological 11%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Visual Novel 10.4%

The first of seven chapters, which will tell an amazing story about the adventures of a girl and her friends. Colorful landscapes and warm sunny atmosphere. Also, they will find the real door! And take part in the contest! Can you imagine?

Why similar: Episodic 20.9% ★, Experimental 18.4%, Emotional 16.1%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.9%

Welcome to Kosmos! In this drama visual novel, forging connections is key. There are some very special girls waiting to meet you, so go out there and make the most of this week!

Why similar: Experimental 30.2%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Supernatural 9.4%, Emotional 8.9%, Choices Matter 8.7%

A short 10 minute visual novel about being a fragment in the universe and trying to find a way out of the ****.

Why similar: Emotional 17.2%, Psychological 15.1%, Surreal 13.4%, Supernatural 10.6%, Stylized 9.4%

Step into the shoes of Subject 35452 in a claustrophobic psychological horror experiment. Navigate a compact testing facility, identify anomalies, and survive the unpredictable environment.

Why similar: Surreal 14.4%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Supernatural 12.4%, Psychological 9.2%

The art you choose is a confession. Enter a gallery that feels slightly off, where every painting you admire, and every prompt you answer, shapes the world around you. A short psychological experience where the system learns your patterns and delivers a final judgement.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 13.6%, Experimental 12.6%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Surreal 11.6%, Emotional 10.7%

A free first-person horror game about dream puzzles - unsettling, surreal and built on strange logic.

Why similar: Experimental 22.7%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Emotional 14.1%, Surreal 10.9%, Psychological 10.1%

STIGMA is a truly small indie game. It is a psychological detective horror focused on atmosphere and mystery. Uncover the haunting narrative of an old house and its forgotten past.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 15%, Emotional 14.9%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Psychological 14.3%, Multiple Endings 10.7%

Your Personality plays the game! Help strange spirits solve their Unfinished Business... or leave them to Despair. In this highly-branching narrative adventure you'll only see about 1/3 of the full story in each playthrough, but the end is whenever you want it to be.

Why similar: Emotional 17.2%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Story Rich 9.1%

Tell Me Why is the multi-award winning episodic adventure game from Dontnod Entertainment in which twins use their supernatural bond to discover the truth of their troubled past.

Why similar: Episodic 34.9% ★, Choices Matter 17.6%, Emotional 12.2%, Story Rich 9.5%, Multiple Endings 5.8%

Dive into Yuha's nightmares. Bear witness to a glitch apocalypse. Explore the hidden layers of a 3D-dreamscape. Piece together her memories and fears. Experience a true haunting with vanishing staircases, lost voices and time that keeps running out.

Why similar: Experimental 25%, Psychological 13.8%, Emotional 12.1%, Surreal 11.5%, Psychological Horror 7.9%

You used to help the hollow maid take care of herself. This time, she's missing & the front-facing UI has disappeared, giving way to a whole new environment. Find your friend.

Why similar: Emotional 16.5%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Surreal 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Multiple Endings 10.8%

An absurdist, psychological choose your own adventure, Surreality check has the player helping Rowan Roach discover the meaning of his life through therapy sessions with the Universe personified. The Universe being a massive tool doesn't help matters.

Why similar: Visual Novel 13.1%, Psychological 12.9%, Supernatural 10.8%, Stylized 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.7%

I Would Love to Wish You Good Morning is a choice-driven dystopian psychological horror visual novel about isolation, obedience, and the price of fitting in. Will you navigate the uncanny social dynamics of the future... or die trying?

Why similar: Choices Matter 15%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Experimental 12.7%, Mystery 11.8%, Story Rich 10.7%

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: Choices Matter 13%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Supernatural 11.3%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Surreal 10.3%

Veil of Despair is an episodic psychological horror series set in a fractured mirror world born from grief and suffering. Episode 1: Death's Reach is completely free and kicks off a descent into loss, trauma and raw emotional pain through suffocating atmosphere and intense psychological tension.

Why similar: Episodic 23% ★, Emotional 20.9%, Psychological 16.5%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Supernatural 13.5%

A short Japanese-style horror game in which you explore a ryokan where the proprietress is trapped and sever the forces that bind her.

Why similar: Emotional 20.6%, Psychological 18%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Mystery 10.3%

Mira called her mother and heard a scream. She woke up inside Vossarium: a private lab that already knew her name, already had her file, already had a room waiting. Something in the walls is humming. It has been for years. And it knows her too.

Why similar: Emotional 17.3%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Psychological 12.8%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Multiple Endings 10.3%

a psychological visual novel where you investigate the souls of the dead. spend time with them, analyze their past, file reports to decide their eternal fate.

Why similar: Psychological 14.1%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Emotional 13%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Mystery 9.5%

It often happens that lewd words are inadvertently made up in conversation, doesn't it? This game is probably the world's first adventure game where you will find such "inadvertent lewd words" to advance the game!

Why similar: Experimental 27%, Emotional 17.7%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Visual Novel 9.2%

A psychological horror set in rural Thailand. After receiving a mysterious message, a university student returns home to help her grandmother sell grilled meat skewers with sticky rice. But between the smoke of the grill and the whispers of the villagers, a terrifying truth begins to emerge.

Why similar: Episodic 32.2% ★, Psychological Horror 12%, Psychological 11.6%, Supernatural 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.6%

"Pulse of Love" is a captivating visual novel set in the vibrant world of the Korean K-pop scene drama. Experience the exhilarating journey of love, passion, and self-discovery as you navigate the highs and lows of fame.

Why similar: Choices Matter 17.7%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Emotional 12.3%, Story Rich 11.4%

In the office of the afterlife, you weigh the dead. Read each soul's ledger, hear their final plea, and seal them to Heaven or Hell. But the Director's doctrine is harsh — and the souls you judge may know your name.

Why similar: Choices Matter 17.6%, Emotional 13.3%, Story Rich 12.3%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Supernatural 10.1%

Henry is an elderly man with regrets. Over the course of his life, he has killed three times. He is about to kill again. Survive a home invasion as you recount his life through a series of dreamy vignettes featuring a thief, a friend, a lover, and mysterious bartender.

Why similar: Experimental 26.6%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Surreal 12.7%, Psychological 12.4%, Story Rich 9.1%

A first-person, PSX-style horror game about living with a monster. Do as you're told... or don't. Just be ready for the consequences.

Why similar: Emotional 14.7%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Surreal 12%, Psychological 9.9%

Misgiven is an emotional sci-fi adventure about the lump in your throat. Stranded in a city veiled in toxic fog, take on a stranger's mask to survive. Wrestle with your thoughts in a tangible dialogue system. Struggle to keep up the facade, or dare to drop it, to find allies as a harbinger of doom.

Why similar: Experimental 27.9%, Psychological 14.7%, Emotional 14.6%, Choices Matter 8.4%, Story Rich 7.2%

Water Delivery is a first person, horror experience where you play as a water delivery boy. Ride along in the delivery truck from house to house. Deliver filled water jugs, find and return empty jugs, and collect all the payments. Will you be able to finish your final route of the evening?

Why similar: Supernatural 12.5%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Choices Matter 11%, Surreal 9.6%, Mystery 9.5%

Meet high schooler Haruka and her classmates as they find themselves trapped in an eerie, abandoned hospital connected to an urban legend called “Ayame’s Mercy.” Try to escape, or face a multitude of gruesome ends that will leave you begging for mercy in this all new Corpse Party story.

Why similar: Emotional 15.4%, Supernatural 13.2%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Psychological Horror 8.8%, Story Rich 8.7%

The Missing Parts of Maria Gwozdek is a dark fantasy visual novel about fulfilling your aspirations by sacrificing parts of yourself. Literally.

Why similar: Supernatural 13.8%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Emotional 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Choices Matter 10.8%

Lin Yue'an embarks on a journey home, but unsettling events soon disrupt her ordinary life. Strange dreams, lost memories, and eerie occurrences lead her to uncover hidden truths. Can she trace everything back to its true origin and escape the net of fate that has already been woven around her?

Why similar: Supernatural 15%, Emotional 14%, Mystery 11.5%, Surreal 10.1%, Stylized 9.9%

In this twisted meta-game, you follow four friends on their cursed journey of love and betrayal, told through a long-forgotten Storyteller. Solve puzzles, make meaningful decisions, and unravel the mystery behind the Storyteller with the help of a reality-breaking RETURN-mechanic.

Why similar: Experimental 27.2%, Psychological 14.5%, Surreal 10.8%, Choices Matter 10%, Psychological Horror 9.1%

Do you ever feel like life is slipping away, with too many dreams left unfulfilled? Like you're trapped in wanting to do so much, but never quite getting to any of it? Doesn't that thought scare you—looking back on a life that accomplished nothing, fading without leaving a mark? It scares me too.

Why similar: Emotional 22.7%, Psychological 18.9%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Visual Novel 12.2%

Land of Infinite Dreams is a single-player, story-driven action-adventure about Princess Luna, a young girl who escapes into Lunaria — a dreamworld shaped by loss, loneliness, and imagination. She harnesses the power of moonlight to overcome challenges and confront creatures born from her fears.

Why similar: Emotional 17%, Psychological 11.7%, Surreal 10.5%, Story Rich 10.5%, Choices Matter 9.7%

Transcender is a brief interactive experience that takes place in a surreal sci-fi setting. Figuring out how to play and what to do is the main attraction of the experience. It will hopefully leave you thinking "Hmm, that was interesting"

Why similar: Experimental 34.7%, Episodic 20.5% ★, Choices Matter 11.4%, Surreal 9.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.4%

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 17.6%, Psychological Horror 16.7%, Emotional 15.5%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Multiple Endings 12.3%