- #1 Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.7 Minagoroshi
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 663 reviews2019
Dev: 07th ExpansionPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.8 hrsMean: 91.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.3%, Anime 17.8%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Horror 13.3%, Mystery 9.5%
- #2 Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.6 Tsumihoroboshi
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 873 reviews2018
Dev: 07th ExpansionPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 40.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.8%, Anime 17.3%, Horror 14%, Psychological Horror 13%, Mystery 9.6%
- #3 CORPSE FACTORY
96% matchVery Positive80% of 855 reviews2022
Dev: RIVER CROW STUDIO
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 16.9%, Anime 14.7%, Thriller 14.1%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Violent 9.3%
- #4 The Game of Fourtune
94% matchPositive97% of 35 reviews2023
Dev: BlackLock Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Anime 13%, Visual Novel 13%, Thriller 11.3%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Supernatural 10.1%
- #5 蜉蝣之国的囚徒
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 505 reviews2026
Dev: 迩来工作室Pub: WindField Games
Windows
Fourteen from across the world are abruptly abducted to an isolated structure dubbed "Ephemera Manor". They are strangers, but now forced to partake in an ancient and eerie ritual—"the Feather-Burning Rite". A bloodstained drama spanning millennia has silently unfolded...
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.7%, RPG 12.3%, Thriller 11.5%, Horror 10%, Anime 9.8%
- #6 Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.2 Watanagashi
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,766 reviews2015
Dev: 07th ExpansionPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.2%, Anime 16.9%, Horror 14.6%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Mystery 9.8%
- #7 Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.5 Meakashi
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,008 reviews2017
Dev: 07th ExpansionPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.4%, Anime 17.2%, Horror 14.8%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Mystery 9.2%
- #8 Summer Nightmare
91% matchMixed55% of 554 reviews2017
Dev: Team Summer NightmarePub: Elkibe Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 30%
If one’s imagined world of nightmare and the real world unite…. The hide-and-seek game of death in the world of nightmare begins. Discover hints and save yourself from the nightmare!
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.3%, Anime 23.7%, Horror 18.3%, Gore 14.1%, Psychological Horror 12.8%
- #9 KOEWOTAYORINI / 声之寄托
91% matchVery Positive86% of 977 reviews2018
Dev: あみそ組Pub: Pujia8 Studio
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 261.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
“喂喂,求求你啦!救救我!” ——你接到这样一个电话 发出这样的求救,给你打电话的人,是一名被监禁的少女
Why similar: Anime 16.5%, Visual Novel 15.4%, RPG 12.8%, Horror 12.2%, Psychological Horror 11.1%
- #10 DROOM
90% matchPositive96% of 24 reviews2024
Dev: mokosoft
Windows
DROOM" is an adventure game of choice-based progression. The rooms are inhabited by a variety of alien life forms, and your choices are the key to success. As you progress through the levels, the threats in the rooms increase and the path becomes more difficult.
Why similar: Horror 12%, Anime 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Gore 11.2%, Visual Novel 11%
- #11 Awakewood
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NeuroCreativa
Windows · Mac · Linux
After your mother’s strange funeral, a black rain blocks the roads and leaves you stranded. The air smells like rotting fruit and nature begins to mutate. Can you get out of here before the forest finds you?
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.2%, Anime 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Thriller 8.8%, Adventure 7.7%
- #12 Vivian Carmine
89% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2023
Dev: Ethan ZimmerlePub: The Hand
Windows
In an average town somewhere in America, a disturbance has been felt. Vivian Carmine and her badge, Nicholas, have come from the Gap Between Worlds to investigate.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.7%, Anime 17.9%, Mystery 11.6%, Supernatural 11.3%, Gore 9.6%
- #13 Corpse Party (2021)
88% matchVery Positive90% of 1,410 reviews2021
Dev: MAGES.Pub: XSEED Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Explore the haunted halls of Heavenly Host Elementary in Corpse Party (2021), the horror cult classic now updated for the next generation.
Why similar: Horror 17.3%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Supernatural 12.7%, Anime 12.4%, Dark 10.6%
- #14 Sound of Drop - fall into poison -
87% matchVery Positive85% of 536 reviews2015
Dev: aiueoKompanyPub: Sekai Project
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Nestled in the heart of Tokyo, the quaint little aquarium, Manten Aquarium. Numerous urban legends have arisen from here. On the night of the full moon the waters turn to blood and man faced fish lurk within.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.6%, Anime 20.4%, Horror 16.7%, Gore 11.7%, Violent 9%
- #15 Tricks, Treats and Mirrors - An EoG Side Story
86% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Lonely Rabbit Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
"Trick-or-Treat" doesn't always get you a treat.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.9%, Anime 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Supernatural 14%, Horror 10.3%
- #16 MazM: The Phantom of the Opera
86% matchMostly Positive74% of 90 reviews2021
Dev: Growing SeedsPub: CFK Co., Ltd.
Windows
A thrilling love story unfolds in a majestic Parisian opera house.
Why similar: RPG 23.5%, Visual Novel 21.6%, Anime 10.3%, Thriller 9.1%, Adventure 7.5%
- #17 PARANORMASIGHT: The Mermaid's Curse
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,800 reviews2026
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 13.6 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Will you survive the curse together this summer? A new supernatural mystery adventure begins, telling a bittersweet story of the passions of youth featuring new locations, new legends and a new cast of characters.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.5%, RPG 14.1%, Supernatural 13.5%, Horror 9.5%, Gore 8.8%
- #18 CHAOS;HEAD NOAH
85% matchVery Positive89% of 1,696 reviews2022
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 52.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
CHAOS;HEAD NOAH is now available on Steam!
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.6%, Anime 17.8%, Gore 13.8%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Mystery 10.7%
- #19 Kill or Love
84% matchVery Positive89% of 2,191 reviews2020
Dev: Andy Church
Windows · Mac · Linux
A visual novel about obsession, loneliness, and, based on your choices, varying amounts of murder.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.1%, Anime 23%, Psychological Horror 20.8%, Thriller 9.6%, Horror 9.3%
- #20 CHAOS;CHILD
83% matchVery Positive94% of 3,800 reviews2019
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 81.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
From the creators of the critically acclaimed STEINS;GATE comes a sensational new visual novel: CHAOS;CHILD. Set in Shibuya in 2015, a group of high school students who survived an earthquake six years ago find themselves at the center of a new series of bizarre murders in the city.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.5%, Anime 16.2%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Mystery 10.5%, Gore 9.9%
- #21 Cannibal Tales - Episode 1
82% matchVery Positive89% of 64 reviews2024
Dev: Fantastico Studio
Windows · Mac
Horror thriller visual novel written by cult director Ruggero Deodato. A cannibal story in three episodes. Embark on a challenging journey, where every choice has a price and consequences. Will you be able to reach the end without getting your soul devoured? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.7%, Horror 13.8%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Thriller 10%, Gore 8.5%
- #22 KAKUSANKIBOU / 扩散希望
82% matchVery Positive83% of 160 reviews2018
Dev: あみそ組Pub: Pujia8 Studio
Windows
Basically the story goes as visual novel form. Sometimes, the system switches into dot part, and you can control the character to continue the story.
Why similar: Anime 17.4%, RPG 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Horror 11%, Psychological Horror 10.6%
- #23 Nie No Hakoniwa - Dollhouse of Offerings
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 204 reviews2024
Dev: Chatte NoirePub: Sekai Project
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
"Let us celebrate, the birth of this nightmare." A story about an urban legend surrounding a certain "Box", this is a Japanese-style, supernatural visual novel about madness, love and hate.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.3%, Anime 19.6%, Horror 13.9%, Gore 12.5%, Thriller 10%
- #24 Mota Must Die
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: VAINSANE
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 20.8%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Thriller 14.5%, Horror 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
- #25 アパシー 鳴神学園七不思議
80% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2024
Dev: SHANNONPub: mebius.
Windows
怖い話を聞いているだけなのに何かおかしい……。新聞部の新人、坂上修一となり、学校新聞の特集のために集まった6人の語り部より怖い話を聞いていきます。語り部は話の途中で坂上に質問や感想を求めてきます。それが選択肢となっており、答えることによって物語が変化していきます。
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.1%, Anime 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Horror 13.9%, Adventure 10.7%
- #26 Lyset Core
79% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Lyset Team
Windows
A horror visual novel set in a steampunk universe. Young Lyset finds herself wandering through a mysterious world of sentient machines. In her desperate search for her long-lost brother, she must choose between death and immortality.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.7%, Anime 23.3%, Horror 16.2%, Violent 10.5%, Gore 10.1%
- #27 Return to Shironagasu Island
79% matchVery Positive94% of 3,990 reviews2020
Dev: HYOGO ONIMUSHIPub: TABINOMICHI
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A mystery adventure game and visual novel set on solitary Shironagasu Island. Discover its secrets, solve its mysteries, and escape from the ominous island!
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.9%, Horror 14.6%, Anime 13.9%, Mystery 13.1%, Psychological Horror 10.1%
- #28 Folklore: Shadows of the Shackled
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Infinity Green Game Studio
Windows
Folklore: Shadows of the Shackled is a first-person psychological horror game inspired by elements of the Brazilian folklore.
Why similar: Supernatural 20%, Horror 18%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Dark 12.8%, Thriller 11.3%
- #29 Love You To Pieces
77% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: SoulsofteaPub: Soulsoft
Windows · Mac · Linux
"Love You To Pieces" is a Horror/Slasher Visual Novel thematically centered around Valentine's Day. Featuring elements of grind-house, choose-your-own-adventure and mystery. Can you or any of your friends survive this bloody love fest?
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.5%, Horror 16.9%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, RPG 11.5%
- #30 Miraculo Island
78% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2021
Dev: Akumu GamesPub: Iliad Works
Windows
What you thought would be eight boring days in a remote island will become your worst nightmares. Is the place haunted? Is someone else out there to get us? Is there another motive they brought us here? Depends on you and your mates to survive in this mysterious place.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.6%, Anime 15%, RPG 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Supernatural 11.1%
- #31 Nightmare Zapping
76% matchVery Positive99% of 74 reviews2023
Dev: Maldo19
Windows
A horror channel browsing game where each channel holds a different nightmare to experience, explore them and find out the truth about what has happened in a small town where the inhabitants have disappeared.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.7%, Anime 13.7%, Horror 13.1%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Dark 9.8%
- #32 Lucid9: Inciting Incident
77% matchVery Positive90% of 1,038 reviews2016
Dev: Fallen Snow Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Lucid9 is a visual novel focused on a web of intricate mysteries set in the fictional 2018 metropolis of Isamu. Lucid9: Inciting Incident is the first part of the story, focused on a string of disappearances that occur at a prestigious, uppity boarding academy.
Why similar: Visual Novel 32.6%, Anime 25.3%, Mystery 12.8%, Horror 11%, Psychological Horror 7.7%
- #33 Resequence: The Orchard
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: CLEARRAVE
Windows
Resequence: The Orchard is an occult-horror adventure game in which school counselor Saito approaches an inexplicable phenomena through his counseling sessions with students.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21%, Supernatural 16.1%, Horror 15%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Dark 8.9%
- #34 Gwan Moon High School : The Ghost Gate
75% matchMostly Positive80% of 64 reviews2021
Dev: Studio AWE
Windows · Mac · Linux
High school students return well after hours, each with their own agenda and an ominous feeling. Come midnight...The fears deep inside become reality.
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.1%, Anime 21.8%, Horror 18.9%, Point & Click 10.6%, Gore 5.4%
- #35 The Doll Beneath
75% matchPositive86% of 22 reviews2022
Dev: SurvivalMyths
Windows
Awakened from a deep slumber, six students find themselves trapped inside an abandoned research facility, otherwise known as the "Losinglight". Escape into a war torn city, and discover the truth behind an otherworldly being like no other.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.2%, Thriller 16.8%, Anime 16.1%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Horror 13.5%
- #36 Star wish traveler
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Justicat Games
Windows · Mac
"Star wish traveler" is a visual novel game with an otherworldly adventure theme.The story follows the adventures of a teenager who is summoned to an alien world to help the world defend itself against the "Day of Approval".
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.9%, RPG 31.3%, Anime 24.2%, Adventure 10%, Indie 1.6%
- #37 KOEWOTAYORINI SP / 声之寄托SP
74% matchVery Positive95% of 239 reviews2018
Dev: あみそ組Pub: Pujia8 Studio
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Escape by means of "Voice"! The second installment of the new feeling puzzle and escape game! You are being held in a room that you haven't been to before. The only thing you can do is using telephone to ask for hint from a cooperator.
Why similar: Anime 17.5%, Visual Novel 15.8%, RPG 11.5%, Horror 10.4%, Psychological Horror 8.9%
- #38 Tiny Bunny: Prologue
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,244 reviews2020
Dev: Saikono
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Tiny Bunny: Prologue is a non-linear horror visual novel. Those, who have heard the voice of the forest, are beyond help.
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.7%, Horror 27.3%, Anime 8.3%, Psychological Horror 8%, Adventure 7.6%
- #39 The Letter - Horror Visual Novel
73% matchVery Positive86% of 1,500 reviews2017
Dev: Yangyang MobilePub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
When seven people fall prey to a vicious curse, they will discover that horror rests not from the shadows lurking about, but within themselves. To what ends will one go in order to survive?
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.6%, Horror 20.2%, Anime 11.9%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Gore 8.4%
- #40 NOeSIS01_诉说谎言记忆物语
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,496 reviews2020
Dev: Classic ChocolatPub: Hikare 个人汉化
Windows
From behind the incidents, there hide the secret of the past.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.4%, Anime 16.3%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Horror 13.2%, RPG 13.1%
- #41 Monari Station
71% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: VAINSANE
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 22%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Horror 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Anime 9.9%
- #42 Corpse Party: Book of Shadows
72% matchVery Positive86% of 499 reviews2018
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: XSEED Games
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
An anthology series that serves as a Corpse Party sequel, prequel, midquel, and alternate universe tale all in one. Rejoin old friends for a deeper dive into the haunted halls of Heavenly Host Elementary...
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.4%, Anime 14.6%, Horror 13.1%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Gore 10.7%
- #43 MYTH - Steam Edition
72% matchVery Positive89% of 169 reviews2016
Dev: CircletempoPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
A world of shadows. A world of light. In the world of light where no shadows exist lived a boy - Meito Tanabe. One day, he met a girl who possessed a shadow - Shimon. She brings him to her world - a place filled with shadows.
Why similar: Visual Novel 33.4%, Horror 19.4%, Violent 14.2%, Anime 13.8%, Mystery 10.1%
- #44 Morse Academy
69% matchPositive87% of 30 reviews2025
Dev: VAINSANE
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 18.5%, Anime 16.5%, Thriller 15.4%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Horror 13.4%
- #45 Don't Beg for Help
70% matchPositive84% of 19 reviews2023
Dev: Kosmo Cat
Windows · Mac · Linux
A horror visual novel game with "Tales from the Crypt" style plot.
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.2%, Horror 18.6%, Anime 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Gore 9.1%
- #46 Corpse Party
70% matchVery Positive89% of 1,369 reviews2016
Dev: GrisGrisPub: XSEED Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A group of friends unknowingly perform an occult ritual that traps them in an otherworldly elementary school. Here, the vengeful spirits of young children threaten their lives and their sanity, and the only hope of survival is to uncover the chilling details behind the murders of those trapped before them...
Why similar: Horror 22.8%, Anime 20.1%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Gore 10.2%
- #47 Seul (Alone): The entrée
71% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2018
Dev: Paranormal Games
Windows
Seul. (Alone) is a text based choose your own adventure and philosophical thriller with horror elements. A subsistence where characters dwell. There are mysteries to solve and connections to unfold. Journey through here but remember you may not stay. Can you save Peggy?
Why similar: RPG 20.2%, Gore 18.7%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Thriller 8.4%, Psychological Horror 7.6%
- #48 Sickness
71% matchVery Positive89% of 144 reviews2016
Dev: ZetsubouPub: Unwonted Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Sickness is a visual novel centering around Suoh Tesla, an amoral high school student whose life is rapidly deteriorating. Following the deaths of his parents, a brief stay in the hospital, and the emergence of his “Sickness”, his daily life quickly devolves from carefree school days to a life of crime.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.6%, Anime 16.2%, Violent 11.6%, Dark 11%, Horror 10.4%
- #49 Evil Spirits
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NVORON
Windows · Mac · Linux
Evil Spirits is a nonlinear horror visual novel based on Slavic folklore. Explore a god-forgotten village and a forest hiding ancient evil. Trust no one. Remember: real evil often lurks not in house corners, but in the human soul's darkness.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.6%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Horror 14.4%, Gore 13.2%, Dark 11.8%
- #50 Manna for our Malices
70% matchPositive100% of 19 reviews2019
Dev: John OhnoPub: Double Mojo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Akagi Ai is unexpectedly stabbed on her way home from school. She finds her spirit possessing her body from earlier that day, and must collaborate with the past self that inhabits her body to discover why she keeps dying -- and why she keeps coming back.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.8%, Anime 23.1%, Psychological Horror 18.5%, Horror 16.8%, Mystery 13.9%
- #51 Stay Alive For Me
67% match8 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: OneRoomFilms
Windows
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 21.1%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Thriller 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Anime 8.9%
- #52 Mutual Harrow
67% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: VAINSANE
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 21.2%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Horror 13.8%, Thriller 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
- #53 Iwaihime
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 873 reviews2020
Dev: DMM GAMESPub: Shiravune
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
From hit writer Ryukishi07, the creator of When They Cry, comes a story on the theme of “curses.” Strike down the dark riddle of dolls and soot in this supernatural horror visual novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.5%, Supernatural 19.4%, Anime 18%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Horror 11.1%
- #54 Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.4 Himatsubushi
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 867 reviews2016
Dev: 07th ExpansionPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.9%, Anime 17.7%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Mystery 10.1%, Horror 10%
- #55 ノロワレサイクル
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bokusen StudioPub: PAW International
Windows
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: Visual Novel 17.9%, Horror 14.7%, Anime 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Mystery 10.9%
- #56 The Girl In White
67% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: DIG Games
Windows
What seems like a miracle at first quickly reveals itself to be more of a nightmare, as Long realizes that restless Ghosts have always Surrounded Us—unseen, until now...
Why similar: Supernatural 19%, RPG 18.2%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Horror 14.4%, Visual Novel 11.4%
- #57 Saint Maker - Horror Visual Novel
67% matchVery Positive86% of 252 reviews2023
Dev: Yangyang MobilePub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac
A haunted convent. Statues that move on their own. A buried past. Welcome to Saint Idelora’s convent, where becoming a saint comes with a price.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.5%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Horror 15.4%, Anime 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
- #58 Cursed Feed
66% matchMostly Positive80% of 83 reviews2025
Dev: Playstige Interactive
Windows
In first-person horror game "Cursed Feed," players embark on a chilling journey with the Thornvale family as they confront a malevolent force unleashed by their own patriarch's archaeological discoveries.
Why similar: Horror 23.9%, Psychological Horror 22.7%, Dark 13.6%, Adventure 10.3%, Gore 10.3%
- #59 Higurashi When They Cry Hou+
66% matchVery Positive88% of 163 reviews2023
Dev: 07th ExpansionPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 64%
The tragedy of Hinamizawa is over. Those held captive within its grip are free from the fate that bound them to June 1983. Yet the tale of Hinamizawa is not truly complete. There are many worlds not yet explored.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.7%, Anime 23.7%, Gore 10.4%, Violent 9%, Adventure 7.5%