- #1 Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.7 Minagoroshi
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 731 reviews2019
Dev: 07th ExpansionPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.8 hrsMean: 88.0 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 18.3%, Anime 17.9%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Horror 13.3%, Mystery 9.6%
- #2 Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.6 Tsumihoroboshi
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 948 reviews2018
Dev: 07th ExpansionPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 39.4 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 23.1%, Anime 17.2%, Horror 14%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Mystery 9.9%
- #3 CORPSE FACTORY
96% matchVery Positive80% of 869 reviews2022
Dev: RIVER CROW STUDIO
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 6.6 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 14.8%, Thriller 14.2%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Violent 9.6%
- #4 Corpse Party
95% matchVery Positive89% of 1,384 reviews2016
Dev: GrisGrisPub: XSEED Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.2 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 23%, Anime 20.2%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Gore 9.9%
- #5 PARANORMASIGHT: The Mermaid's Curse
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,353 reviews2026
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 16.1%, Supernatural 14.6%, RPG 12.2%, Horror 9.8%, Mystery 8.5%
- #6 Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.2 Watanagashi
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,894 reviews2015
Dev: 07th ExpansionPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.9 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 24.3%, Anime 16.8%, Horror 14.7%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Mystery 9.8%
- #7 The Game of Fourtune
93% matchPositive97% of 37 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 13.1%, Visual Novel 13%, Thriller 11.4%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Supernatural 10.2%
- #8 Corpse Party: Book of Shadows
91% matchVery Positive86% of 513 reviews2018
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: XSEED Games
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 15.2%, Anime 14.5%, Horror 13.1%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Gore 10.2%
- #9 Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.5 Meakashi
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,107 reviews2017
Dev: 07th ExpansionPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.7 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 19.3%, Anime 17.2%, Horror 14.9%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Mystery 9.2%
- #10 蜉蝣之国的囚徒
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 561 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 17.8%, RPG 11.9%, Thriller 11.6%, Horror 10.1%, Anime 9.9%
- #11 Wonderful Body Wanted
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: mitchaPub: Oyashiro.dev
Windows · Mac · Linux
A distracted student arrives for his internship at a girls' boarding school in the small town of Chudnogorsk. After a series of failures, Andrey finds out about a series of disappearances in this mysterious place. And that he himself is bound to disappear.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.3%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Anime 15.3%, Thriller 11.8%, Mystery 11.4%
- #12 The Shaman: What's in Your House?
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Myosi
Windows
"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 14.3%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Anime 12%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Horror 10.4%
- #13 Summer Nightmare
88% matchMixed55% of 554 reviews2017
Dev: Team Summer NightmarePub: Elkibe Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 12.2 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 24.4%, Anime 23.7%, Horror 18.4%, Gore 14%, Psychological Horror 12.7%
- #14 KOEWOTAYORINI / 声之寄托
87% matchVery Positive86% of 982 reviews2018
Dev: あみそ組Pub: Pujia8 Studio
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 257.3 hrs≥1hr: 55%
“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 16.7%, Visual Novel 15.4%, RPG 12.5%, Horror 12.3%, Psychological Horror 11.1%
- #15 DROOM
86% 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 12.1%, Anime 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Visual Novel 11%, Gore 10.8%
- #16 Fu Sha 3: Night Clinic
86% matchPositive95% of 19 reviews2026
Dev: 1号观测员Pub: 世界观测站
Windows
Spend a terrifying night of uncertain life and death in a late-night hospital via text adventure. *Fu Sha 3: Night Clinic * has numerous side choices and over twenty endings. Every choice may trigger unbearable horror—can you make the right ones, avoid fatal dangers, and escape this death curse?
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.4%, Supernatural 14.2%, Horror 12.7%, Thriller 12.1%, Anime 9.3%
- #17 Vivian Carmine
85% matchPositive85% of 20 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 22.6%, Anime 17.9%, Mystery 11.7%, Supernatural 11.3%, Gore 9.2%
- #18 The Letter - Horror Visual Novel
84% matchVery Positive86% of 1,522 reviews2017
Dev: Yangyang MobilePub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 25.9%, Horror 19.7%, Anime 11.5%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Gore 7.8%
- #19 Reverie Eclipse
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Skyfect StudioPub: Skyfect
Windows
You are the president of the student council at a high school. Six lovely girls are ready to help you! Spending time with them... is it as easy as it seems?
Why similar: RPG 20.5%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Anime 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Thriller 10.7%
- #20 Awakewood
83% 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 10.2%, Thriller 8.9%, Adventure 7.7%
- #21 Corpse Party (2021)
82% matchVery Positive91% of 1,468 reviews2021
Dev: MAGES.Pub: XSEED Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 17.5%, Psychological Horror 16%, Supernatural 12.5%, Anime 12.3%, Dark 10.6%
- #22 Mota Must Die
81% matchPositive91% of 11 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 14.3%, Horror 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
- #23 Sound of Drop - fall into poison -
82% matchVery Positive85% of 539 reviews2015
Dev: aiueoKompanyPub: Sekai Project
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 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 11.3%, Violent 9.2%
- #24 MazM: The Phantom of the Opera
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 92 reviews2021
Dev: Growing SeedsPub: CFK Co., Ltd.
Windows
A thrilling love story unfolds in a majestic Parisian opera house.
Why similar: RPG 22.8%, Visual Novel 21.7%, Anime 10.3%, Thriller 9.2%, Adventure 7.5%
- #25 CHAOS;HEAD NOAH
80% matchVery Positive88% of 1,885 reviews2022
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 53.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
CHAOS;HEAD NOAH is now available on Steam!
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.5%, Anime 17.9%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Gore 13.2%, Mystery 10.8%
- #26 Tricks, Treats and Mirrors - An EoG Side Story
79% 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 23%, Anime 19.2%, Supernatural 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Horror 10.4%
- #27 CHAOS;CHILD
79% matchVery Positive93% of 3,973 reviews2019
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 81.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 25.4%, Anime 16%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Mystery 10.6%, Gore 9.9%
- #28 Kill or Love
78% 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 25.2%, Anime 23.2%, Psychological Horror 20.8%, Thriller 9.5%, Horror 9.2%
- #29 匣中少女的第二次末日
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: kwonovo
Windows · Mac
Infinite flow × mild horror × ensemble visual novel. Join this doomsday carnival together with the young girls
Why similar: RPG 24.9%, Visual Novel 21.6%, Anime 19.5%, Thriller 12.9%, Mystery 9.9%
- #30 Nie No Hakoniwa - Dollhouse of Offerings
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 260 reviews2024
Dev: Chatte NoirePub: Sekai Project
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 7.8 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%, Thriller 10.1%
- #31 Cannibal Tales - Episode 1
77% 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 9.9%, Gore 8.3%
- #32 Lyset Core
76% 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 23.4%, Horror 16.2%, Violent 10.8%, Gore 9.8%
- #33 Return to Shironagasu Island
76% matchVery Positive94% of 4,118 reviews2020
Dev: HYOGO ONIMUSHIPub: TABINOMICHI
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 14.0 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 26.6%, Horror 14.5%, Anime 14.1%, Mystery 13.1%, Psychological Horror 10.2%
- #34 Even20: The Interference of Parallels
74% matchVery Positive94% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: SilverEyesPub: Wisdom Games Publishing
Windows · Mac
Two souls are drawn into a mysterious otherworld—and torn apart. In a realm filled with danger and restless spirits, each searches for the other while uncovering hidden truths. A suspenseful multi-ending adventure where every choice shapes their fate.
Why similar: Thriller 16.5%, RPG 13.9%, Horror 13.8%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Mystery 9.8%
- #35 Folklore: Shadows of the Shackled
75% 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 18.1%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Dark 12.8%, Thriller 11.3%
- #36 KAKUSANKIBOU / 扩散希望
75% 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 17.5%, RPG 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Horror 11.1%, Psychological Horror 10.6%
- #37 アパシー 鳴神学園七不思議
74% match9 user reviews67% of 9 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 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Horror 14%, Adventure 10.7%
- #38 Nightmare Zapping
73% matchVery Positive99% of 76 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 18.6%, Anime 13.6%, Horror 13.1%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Dark 9.8%
- #39 Eden Camp
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Andrealphus Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Arrive at Eden Camp as John, the newest counselor at a remote summer retreat. Three women welcome you warmly perhaps too warmly. As bonds deepen and nights grow darker, you'll learn that devotion has a price. Every choice matters. Not everyone makes it home.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.3%, Psychological Horror 20.2%, Anime 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Dark 7.8%
- #40 Monari Station
71% matchPositive86% of 14 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 22.2%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Horror 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Anime 9.9%
- #41 Gwan Moon High School : The Ghost Gate
73% matchMostly Positive78% 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%, Anime 21.7%, Horror 18.8%, Point & Click 11%, Gore 5.2%
- #42 The Doll Beneath
72% 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 17%, Anime 16.2%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Horror 13.6%
- #43 Resequence: The Orchard
71% 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 15.1%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Dark 8.9%
- #44 Lucid9: Inciting Incident
72% matchVery Positive90% of 1,041 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 32.2%, Anime 25.2%, Mystery 12.8%, Horror 11%, Psychological Horror 7.8%
- #45 Tiny Bunny: Prologue
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,261 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 31.6%, Horror 27.3%, Anime 8.3%, Psychological Horror 8%, Adventure 7.5%
- #46 ノロワレサイクル
70% matchNo user reviews2027
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 11.3%, Mystery 11%
- #47 The Haunting of the Chea-Wilson Family
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TheOdiePub: NightmarePugStudios
Windows
A Cambodian-American family becomes haunted by a ghost. Enjoy this story-driven narrative as the haunting unfolds. Inspired by horror movies in the late 2000s-2010s.
Why similar: Supernatural 18.2%, Thriller 14.9%, Horror 12.5%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Mystery 9%
- #48 KOEWOTAYORINI SP / 声之寄托SP
70% matchVery Positive95% of 240 reviews2018
Dev: あみそ組Pub: Pujia8 Studio
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 36.2 hrs≥1hr: 48%
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 17.6%, Visual Novel 15.8%, RPG 11.2%, Horror 10.4%, Psychological Horror 8.9%
- #49 Love You To Pieces
69% 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 19.6%, Horror 17%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, RPG 11.1%
- #50 NOeSIS01_诉说谎言记忆物语
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,525 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 18.5%, Anime 16.5%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Horror 13.3%, RPG 12.7%
- #51 Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.3 Tatarigoroshi
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,326 reviews2016
Dev: 07th ExpansionPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 21.8 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 23.5%, Anime 18.2%, Horror 12.1%, Mystery 10.5%, Psychological Horror 10.3%
- #52 MYTH - Steam Edition
69% matchVery Positive89% of 172 reviews2016
Dev: CircletempoPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 33.2%, Horror 19.3%, Violent 14.5%, Anime 13.7%, Mystery 10.1%
- #53 Star wish traveler
68% 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 32.2%, RPG 30.6%, Anime 24.5%, Adventure 10%, Indie 1.6%
- #54 Gurobu
68% matchPositive88% of 34 reviews2020
Dev: Aiaz Marx
Windows
"GUROBU" is a story-driven, 2D horror game about haunted apartments, ghosts of the past, and a murder mystery.
Why similar: Supernatural 18.2%, Anime 16.3%, Horror 11.7%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Visual Novel 10%
- #55 回门 Way Back Home
67% matchMostly Positive72% of 520 reviews2021
Dev: 漫森游戏工作室
Windows
"Way back home" is a 2D horizontal board horror puzzle game. It takes the Republic of China period from 1905 to 1926 as the background of the times. With a large number of exquisite original paintings, rich playing methods, excellent music and dubbing, delicate script and narrative game style, it creates a strong historical...
Why similar: Supernatural 16.7%, Thriller 15.2%, Horror 14.9%, RPG 12.3%, Psychological Horror 11.7%
- #56 Evil Spirits
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NVORON
Windows · Mac · Linux
Evil Spirits is a nonlinear psychological horror visual novel inspired by Slavic folklore. Uncover the secrets of a forgotten village, trust no one, and remember: true evil sometimes hides not in the shadows of a hut, but in the darkness of the human soul.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.4%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Supernatural 14.2%, Horror 12.8%, Dark 8.9%
- #57 Tiny Bunny
64% matchVery Positive83% of 30,327 reviews2025
Dev: Saikono
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Tiny Bunny is a non-linear horror visual novel. Those, who have heard the voice of the forest, are beyond help.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.5%, Horror 16.8%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Dark 12.7%, Gore 7.9%
- #58 Mutual Harrow
65% matchPositive93% of 14 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%, Horror 13.8%, Thriller 11%, Anime 8.6%
- #59 Siren's Call: Second Wind
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ThePenSword
Windows
A wedding where one of the guests arrives dead. A strange black hole eclipsing the Florida sun. And your best friend? Gone. Is all this a butterfly dream or is reality breaking? Is their story romance or mystery? Your choices will determine the genre of his soul. Welcome to the town of Siren's Call.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.2%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Thriller 13.5%, Horror 12.1%, Dark 10.2%