60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Psychological, Adventure, Interactive Fiction.
RAIN;CHECK tells a short story set in a small, remote town about a girl just trying to get by in the middle of a rainy, tumultuous night. On this special occasion, an unexpected storm of events brews ever closer.
The Leak
Wake up, watch tv, make a cup of cofffee and try to bear your own meaningless existence.
Siren's Call: Escape Velocity
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?
Wake up, watch tv, make a cup of cofffee and try to bear your own meaningless existence.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Abstract 13.1%, Psychological 12.5%, Minimalist 11.6%, Visual Novel 11.4%
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: Psychological 16.6%, Abstract 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Visual Novel 11%, Emotional 10.2%
In a colorless world, you open a shaved ice shop guided by a mysterious raven. Through emotion, you connect with your customers and uncover their past and the world’s hidden truth—Yume Kakigori is a quiet journey through feelings and self-discovery.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Abstract 16.2%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Anime 9.9%
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 14.9%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Mystery 11.9%, Anime 11.5%
This is the last work of a certain game creator who mysteriously disappeared. The cross reality ADV, known for its shocking conclusion, is coming back after 24 years.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Psychological 14.1%, Emotional 13.9%, Mystery 13.8%
Chronicles from the Abyss is a collection of 4 twisted Horror & Thriller stories that will play on the darkest corners of your mind, & every choice drips with dread. Twisted plots, haunting art, and chilling secrets await. Ready to uncover what lurks beneath?
Why similar: Abstract 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Incremental 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.9%
Explore the beginning of a new horrifying story in this mixture of a text-based and a 2D game. Emily's world is about to turn upside down, maybe in more ways than anyone is able to realize yet.
Why similar: Psychological 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Supernatural 13.9%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Emotional 10.9%
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: Visual Novel 14.9%, Emotional 13.2%, Psychological 12.5%, Supernatural 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%
An experimental, horror visual novel about raising a virtual pet. Help a tamagotchi-like creature navigate his angst. We love Momo!
Why similar: Abstract 18.7%, Psychological 18.2%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Minimalist 11.6%, Cute 8.4%
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 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Psychological 13.2%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Anime 10%
A choose-your-own-adventure horror game about using the memories of the dead to scavenge lost civilisations.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Psychological 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Supernatural 11.4%
A journey with your father to Lake Baikal, where a storm and an old photo album revive memories of family, loss, and reconciliation.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Emotional 15.5%, Psychological 15.3%, Visual Novel 9.5%, Female Protagonist 9.4%
In April, when cherry blossoms flutter through the air, a gruesome discovery is made—a blood-soaked corpse in a quiet town.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Emotional 12.4%, Psychological 11.4%, Mystery 11.3%
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: Psychological 20.8%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Mystery 8.8%
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 29.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Mystery 14.8%, Abstract 6.9%
Challenge fate in this psychological visual novel about a juvenile psych ward patient who discovers a book that can predict the future.
Why similar: Psychological 20.9%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Emotional 12.6%, Mystery 11.8%, Supernatural 8.7%
Mayuhara City, Tokyo. The wounds of the mass suicide event of Mayuhara Academy from eight years ago have finally begun to heal. The rumors of the “Mayuhara Curse” are still whispered amongst the students.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Mystery 13.7%, Psychological 13.6%, Anime 10%
一段探寻人类智能本质的逃亡之旅，基于现实世界观下的非幻想题材。在突如其来的变故下，一对父子踏上未知的旅途，颠沛于梦境与梦境的交界线，流离于自然智能与人造智能的变革浪潮之中。这场逃亡送给AI时代每一个勇敢活着的灵魂...
Why similar: Psychological 15.7%, Abstract 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Incremental 10%
A short psychological adventure about a stressed girl who wants to explore her ceiling.
Why similar: Psychological 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Mystery 11%, Anime 10.4%
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 14.5%, Supernatural 14.3%, Psychological 13.4%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Mystery 10.1%
At first glance, your everyday life with your younger sister seems uneventful—going to school together, chatting, living side by side. But within that endless cycle of calm routines, could those seemingly insignificant actions be quietly changing your fate?
Why similar: Psychological 22.9%, Emotional 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Cute 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Psychological 16.4%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Supernatural 12.2%, Mystery 10.1%
A short modern visual novel in which a young woman wanders into a [theoretically] abandoned train station, only to find people from her past waiting inside.
Why similar: Psychological 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Mystery 11.3%, Emotional 10.3%
Helping Ani is a psychological-horror game, where you play as Hajime, a boy who has to take something to his girlfriend, Ani. But be careful, the forest may be full of traps and strange creatures!
Why similar: Psychological 20.7%, Abstract 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Minimalist 9.1%, Visual Novel 7.3%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Horror 7.9%, Psychological 7.9%
Essence Bloom is a linear, story-focused indie visual novel that allows the player to experience a world with beautiful cherry blossoms and fun times with friends....
Why similar: Psychological 22.7%, Abstract 17%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Anime 13.5%, Emotional 13.1%
A short psychological thriller visual novel where you guide Sora through twisted interrogations, moral dilemmas, and unraveling memories...
Why similar: Psychological 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Abstract 15.2%, Visual Novel 13.1%
Enjoy the murder by the word.
Why similar: Psychological 17.9%, Abstract 16%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Minimalist 12.6%, Anime 10.2%
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: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Abstract 16.4%, Visual Novel 16%, Minimalist 14.6%, Psychological 13.2%
A 20 minute story about a mysterious ghost and an even more mysterious journalist.
Why similar: Supernatural 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Mystery 13.3%, Female Protagonist 10.5%
A psychological thriller visual novel where your choices deeply affect an 18-year-old woman's mental state, leading to multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Anime 11.1%, Psychological 10.7%
Return to a hometown that hasn’t changed the way it should have. A psychological visual novel focused on atmosphere, relationships, and a reality that slowly refuses to stay still. Can you uncover the truth before it consumes you?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Incremental 16%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Cute 7.6%
「透明人間」のクロと、「透明人間しか見えない・聞こえない」豹馬。平穏を望む２人に、世界は恐るべき牙を剥ける。何度でも。ただ、豹馬の望みが絶たれるまで。
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Emotional 16.6%, Mystery 13.9%, Anime 8.2%
Soul of Recollection is a pixel-style point-and-click puzzle game. Explore a quiet school at night, collect items, solve puzzles, and piece together lost memories to find your way out. With no horror elements, it blends light storytelling and immersive mystery.
Why similar: Psychological 18.1%, Mystery 14.9%, Supernatural 12.7%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Incremental 10.8%
Try again, as many times as it takes, to change the ending. You might be able to save everyone you couldn’t before. • Indie horror game • Playtime: approx. 2 hours • Graphics, dialogue, and the feel of the world change with each playthrough • Contains heavy themes
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Psychological 12.9%, Cute 10%, Anime 9%
Kagari, a withdrawn child, and Kagami, the robot living in society as their stand-in—Only one will be recognized as the real Kagari. Your role is to gently observe their choices and decisions. Your role is to gently observe their choices and decisions.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Psychological 14.5%, Emotional 10.9%, Anime 10.8%
A story about a beautiful river that hides deadly secrets beneath its calm surface.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.9%, Psychological 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Female Protagonist 9.1%, Mystery 8.8%
The story of three foreign students at a private British boarding school. Becoming information brokers within the school walls brought them money and respect, but knowledge can also bring trouble. The forbidden fruit was forced in their mouths and its taste will remain forever.
Why similar: Psychological 22.1%, Supernatural 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Anime 11.2%
A gloomy lesbian / yuri visual novel featuring characters based on famous Romantic poets such as Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Byron. Can you help Samantha Coleridge repair her fractured relationship with Lillian Wordsworth?
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.1%, Abstract 14.6%, Anime 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Female Protagonist 11.1%
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: Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Psychological 13.3%, Visual Novel 12%, Mystery 10.4%
Games can really show someone's personality, don't you think? By way of a simple exploration-based adventure, this data-science game analyzes your actions to estimate your personality.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Emotional 11.4%, Female Protagonist 10.8%
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: Abstract 20.3%, Psychological 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Emotional 9.6%
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?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Psychological 15.8%, Mystery 13.2%, Anime 11.1%
"Trick-or-Treat" doesn't always get you a treat.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Anime 14.6%, Supernatural 13.5%, Adventure 10.6%
A yandere psychological horror visual novel. Choose a sweetheart to romance, but beware the petals of obsession.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Psychological 16.9%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Anime 11.2%
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: Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Psychological 17.7%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Emotional 10.1%, Mystery 9.7%
Go home, Alice. The past awaits you. This is the second chapter in the horror visual novel trilogy.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.3%, Interactive Fiction 24%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Anime 8.8%, Horror 8.7%
"Noodles are the food of solitude." Trapped by agoraphobia and social anxiety, your only friend is Samantha. She is your courage to open the door. But in a room of broken mirrors, who is actually speaking? A short psychological visual novel about isolation and the lies we tell ourselves.
Why similar: Psychological 23.3%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Anime 14%, Stylized 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%
A closed-circle mystery visual novel where twelve people wake up inside a bizarre, impossible mansion—and a string of murders begins. Read from Remi’s point of view as you piece together the truth through his thoughts and conversations. Linear, text-focused, Japanese/English supported.
Why similar: Psychological 24.1%, Visual Novel 21.3%, Mystery 17.7%, Supernatural 15.1%, Anime 9.3%
A psychological visual novel–style game focused on atmosphere and narrative. What feels like choice slowly collapses.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Psychological 16.7%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Emotional 9.4%
Trapped in a cursed office overnight, you must uncover a hidden password before morning... while reality distorts, blood seeps through the walls, and something watches you. Explore branching paths, face strange encounters, and survive this psychological horror visual novel.
Why similar: Psychological 22.4%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%
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: Abstract 21.1%, Visual Novel 19%, Psychological 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Anime 7.6%
You return to your hometown but no one recognizes you. But that doesn’t matter, because you are not here for them. You are here for her. Midgårdsormen, singer and artist, pervert and goddess, a being truly out of this world.
Why similar: Psychological 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Supernatural 8.8%
Something is growing on your hand. You see the Doctor. Things get weird.
Why similar: Psychological 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Supernatural 14.6%, Mystery 10.9%
You can’t understand them—yet. Decode the “Second Reality” through Talk, Mind Read, and Translate in an empathy-driven psychological mystery adventure.
Why similar: Psychological 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Mystery 12.2%, Emotional 10.6%
❗ 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: Abstract 22.1%, Psychological 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Anime 8.8%
A war veteran and newly minted starship captain faces ancient cosmic horrors as his dreams become reality. Navigate romance, mystery, and sacrifice in this sci-fi adult visual novel where every choice echoes beyond the stars. Optional graphic adult content via free DLC.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Psychological 14.5%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Supernatural 10.7%
I can't do this anymore -- but I've decided to choose. There are people I want to protect, but I can't save them all. One old book shatters an ordinary life -- a visual novel of despair and love, where your choices shape the story. Japanese voice / English subtitles / ~10hrs
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.7%, Psychological 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Mystery 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%
Explore the world of Chicken Boy, for DOS...
Why similar: Abstract 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Minimalist 11%
A workplace thriller inspired by Severance (Apple TV) where your job is finding matching values in a pile of matrices to brain map a creature's mind while the creature keeps attacking employees' minds to scare them and stop the process, making it harder to understand what is real and what is not.
Why similar: Abstract 21.7%, Minimalist 12.7%, Mystery 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
