- #1 Стены
97% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2023
Dev: Илья Дубровский
Windows
Slava is an ordinary guy living in a shabby socket. Well, like living, existing. He has lost all his dreams, and now he has one task - not to live until dawn. But before that you need to write a will...
Why similar: Word Game 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Text-Based 11.1%, Visual Novel 8.9%, Dark Humor 8.5%
- #2 鱼缸
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 莓叁
Windows
"Fish Tank" is a school-themed visual novel game that explores the inner world of teenagers and supernatural powers. Players will make choices in the game to reach different endings for the protagonist Xie Lihe.Use your imagination wisely and remember to manage your oxygen.
Why similar: Word Game 32.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Text-Based 17.7%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Psychological Horror 9%
- #3 死掉的女儿(The Dead Daughter)
96% matchVery Positive90% of 58 reviews2024
Dev: Wicky Yu
Windows
一款单人心理恐怖视觉小说。玩家只需要持续点击体验文字和图画呈现的主线剧情。流程短但情节引人入胜。
Why similar: Word Game 35%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Drama 13.2%, Text-Based 11.5%, Horror 10.7%
- #4 Hello, Vic
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: JUST Has Games
Windows
Ellie, your new girlfriend, doesn't seem to get along well with your circle of friends. Find out what is going wrong after one of your best friends suddenly doesn't answer his phone anymore in this pixel-art, story-driven adventure.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.7%, Psychological Horror 14%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Drama 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.3%
- #5 品玉庵异谈 PinYuAn Tales
94% matchVery Positive94% of 77 reviews2024
Dev: 小青蛙妙妙制作组
Windows
PinYuAn Tales is a AVG with thematic elements of weirdness and sidekick adventures. After Bai Qiming is laid off from his company, he starts to conduct psychic live broadcasting activities, and during one of the broadcasts, he meets a strange young man, and the story of the two of them unfolds.
Why similar: Word Game 27.5%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Drama 10.7%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
- #6 看事
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 勤奋的小德
Windows
A visual novel set in Tianjin, China, in the late Qing Dynasty of 1893. The gameplay involves cards and deduction. Players will take on the role of a medium, utilizing their supernatural abilities to investigate a series of bizarre unsolved cases and eerie occurrences around them.
Why similar: Word Game 27.7%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Text-Based 15.7%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Drama 10%
- #7 Monsters of Little Haven
93% matchVery Positive88% of 436 reviews2019
Dev: Nikita Igorevich Studio
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
At the heart of the action are a twelve-year-old Kenneth and his younger sister Esme, children of the Murphy family, who hit the trail of a mysterious monster following series of entangled events.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Horror 10.4%, Narration 9.8%
- #8 The Darkest Emptiness
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: bathos.games
Windows
The Darkest Emptiness will fill the lungs with leaden weight.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.7%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Horror 11%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%
- #9 当火车鸣笛三秒
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 471 reviews2021
Dev: 蒐藏馆工作室Pub: MedusasGame
Windows
往事,往往会在淡化甚至遗忘时,以一种很难被人察觉的形态,影响着人们的生活。 这种现象叫做“后忆效应”。 而一段火车鸣笛,勾起了一位叫杨树的潦倒咨询师的过去,为了追寻自己身上的“往事”,他选择回到了自己的家乡---雾山镇。在那里,有个无比诡异的恐怖世界正在等待他的到来…… 反馈交流群:811121403
Why similar: Word Game 29%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Drama 8.2%, Psychological Horror 7.5%
- #10 久美子之死:昭和少女血色告白
90% matchVery Positive96% of 112 reviews2026
Dev: LingVision Games
Windows
1988年,日本泡沫经济破灭前夕,化身被冤枉成嫌犯的刑警,侦查青梅奇怪自杀案,牵连出持续20年的连环杀人案秘密,穿梭烟酒与霓虹的昭和街头,在人心与生死的抉择中,搜查蛛丝马迹,找出血案真相。
Why similar: Word Game 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Text-Based 12.8%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Psychological Horror 9.6%
- #11 对我好点!异世界HelloNewWorld
91% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Enchanter
Windows
A simple adventure about your life in the new world.
Why similar: Word Game 33.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Text-Based 19.3%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Story Rich 6.5%
- #12 Spooltape
89% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: RocRac
Windows
While filming a documentary on analog horror, something goes horribly wrong. A cursed VHS tape. Lost cultists. Salvation. Are you brave enough to follow the tape’s sinister commands? Face analog nightmares and decide your fate in this horror visual novel with multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Horror 13%, Text-Based 9.9%, Psychological Horror 9.6%
- #13 Class Reunion Chat Room
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 186 reviews2023
Dev: RocRac
Windows
Amy receives an invitation to a group chat set up by some of her former classmates. Its purpose is to reconnect after all these years. But soon more and more disturbing facts about Amy's classmates are revealed, and Amy begins to fear that the people she's texting with may not be what they seem.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Horror 12%, Drama 10.7%
- #14 Hana no No ni Saku Utakata no
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 685 reviews2022
Dev: AppliquePub: HIKARI FIELD
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 63.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
《五色浮影绽放于花之海洋》是由日本知名美少女游戏品牌Applique制作的和风传奇作品。由名作《月影魅像-解放之羽-》与《黄昏的禁忌之药》的原班人马打造。由小田原箱根担当人物设计与原画,由桐月担当剧本,由鹰石忍制作音乐。主题歌《华历》由知名歌姬Ayumi.献唱,曾荣获萌系游戏大赏的年度主题曲金奖。
Why similar: Word Game 29.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Drama 13%, Text-Based 10.2%
- #15 恋爱绮谭 不存在的真相
87% matchVery Positive94% of 2,196 reviews2022
Dev: Never Knows Best
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 45.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
《恋爱绮谭~不存在的真相~》是一款文字冒险游戏。 初到江城的顾唯,意外成为了一起社会新闻的主人公。凶险的都市中,他需要在混乱的舆论和虚假的情报中找到唯一的真相,也需要在两名各有千秋的少女间完成自我的抉择。秋去冬来,覆盖城市的厚厚积雪下,究竟掩藏着什么样的秘密......
Why similar: Word Game 30.2%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Text-Based 14.4%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
- #16 Kupala
86% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Marianna Petrova
Windows
“Kupala” is a dark, non-linear horror visual novel inspired by Slavic folklore. Little Anya arrives at a village on the eve of Kupala Night — the sacred night of the ancient Slavs. In the quiet old house, her grandmother tells her tales of unclean spirits crossing into the living world...
Why similar: Word Game 23%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Horror 11.9%
- #17 cijian appearance
85% matchPositive91% of 32 reviews2025
Dev: 万象重工制作zu
Windows
《此间相》是一款有关怪谈、灵异的avg视觉冒险文字游戏。大学生安和同好友叁添因诡异傩面,意外触发诅咒,额角瞳孔”让安和窥见事物真相,但安和面临抉择,在此间之相,安和该何去何从。
Why similar: Word Game 25.7%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Multiple Endings 13%, Text-Based 12.2%, Drama 11%
- #18 The Sin
86% matchVery Positive87% of 224 reviews2021
Dev: Baba Nura
Windows
The depressing pictures of a dying village and its inhabitants to the dark ambient music of the underground performers make those who are still trying to survive in places where everything has long died, to plunge even deeper into the world of mystical horror and deep despair
Why similar: Text-Based 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Demons 10.9%, Psychological Horror 9.4%
- #19 FUSHA2 Nocturnal Fishing
84% matchPositive94% of 17 reviews2025
Dev: 1号观测员Pub: 世界观测站
Windows
: A text-based horror adventure. Make choices during a fateful night of fishing. With over 20 endings, any decision can trigger unspeakable terror. Can you evade danger and break the deadly curse?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Word Game 15.1%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Horror 12.7%
- #20 Love Stories: When Pastel Meets Grotesque
84% matchVery Positive89% of 402 reviews2022
Dev: 桐生バトラ(疑狐社)Pub: Miwu Studio
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 44.3 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Some Scary Love Stories is a visual novel game with option branches Players tap the screen to read the story and make their own choices, eventually leading to different ending branches A collection of long-updated short stories on the theme of "Distorted Love"
Why similar: Word Game 32.3%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Drama 13.5%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Psychological Horror 9.5%
- #21 BLACKMURK: Shuffling Man
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Hinterland Mood
Windows · Mac · Linux
Fear is real. Sometimes tragedy needs nothing more than that. 💀 A short visual novel based on the story of the same name — about the silence that lets something shuffling into your home. 👁️👁️
Why similar: Visual Novel 17%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Horror 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Text-Based 10.3%
- #22 TOUQI
81% matchVery Positive92% of 406 reviews2025
Dev: 橙光游戏Pub: Paleo
Windows
《頭七》(头七怪谈)是一款中式民俗恐怖解谜游戏。作为刚入职西封杂志社的成员,你需要根据主编的要求,整合“頭七”论坛中民间灵异故事贴之间的关联,并在必要时与同伴实地探索,以揭开帖子后隐藏的秘密。
Why similar: Word Game 30.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Horror 10.4%
- #23 Paper Bride 3 Unresolved Love
82% matchVery Positive93% of 942 reviews2022
Dev: HeartBeat Plus
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Paper Bride 3 is a Chinese horror mystery puzzle game This is the third horror puzzle game from our team. This time the story takes place in Moshui Village, which is near Zangling Village, and Fulu City, a small town nearby.
Why similar: Word Game 23.7%, Text-Based 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Psychological Horror 8.8%
- #24 迷子公路
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 零旗
Windows
《BanGDream! It’s MyGo!!!!!》的末世公路AU同人游戏,ansy cp向视觉小说。
Why similar: Word Game 33.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Text-Based 11.6%, Drama 9.3%
- #25 Everyday Devil
80% matchVery Positive97% of 181 reviews2026
Dev: alleesaur
Windows
A short, linear story game of a random demon guy's life.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Text-Based 17.9%, Demons 16.4%, Psychological Horror 14%, Visual Novel 13.8%
- #26 The evil mouse
81% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Thorleif Owe
Windows
The Evil Mouse is a short linear story psychological horror game about guilt and memory. You discover a strange program on your computer that pulls you into a haunted house. Inside waits Lucy, a girl asking for help, and the evil mouse, who will do anything to keep you out.
Why similar: Demons 19.2%, Horror 14.6%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Text-Based 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%
- #27 M City
79% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: SMEK
Windows
Crazy and strange town. Mysterious events. A hero with multiple personality disorder. Laughter, tears and madness!
Why similar: Demons 13.3%, Narration 13.1%, Visual Novel 13%, Psychological Horror 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%
- #28 Paper Bride 4 Bound Love
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 619 reviews2023
Dev: HeartBeat Plus
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
"Paper Bride 4 Bound Love" is a Chinese horror puzzle game, the fourth work in the "Paper Bride" series. Welcome everyone to return to the world of Paper Bride. This time, let us uncover the secrets of Yichang Town together.
Why similar: Word Game 23.7%, Text-Based 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Drama 10.2%, Visual Novel 9.6%
- #29 Aliya: Timelink
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 8,841 reviews2024
Dev: TDGame StudioPub: Anotherindie
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 23.9 hrs≥1hr: 73%
The player connects to a girl in distress in space thousands of years later? How will they resolve the crisis and discover the truth? Through the mechanism of real-time synchronization, the game breaks through the dimensional wall and creates an immersive dialogue across time and space.
Why similar: Word Game 31.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Text-Based 14.4%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Multiple Endings 11.8%
- #30 The Last 66 Days
78% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: 曦冉Pub: Next Playground
Windows · Mac
I'm Anna, met Qiqing in a video game, he bright light in my once dark world. But in 66 days, he'll be gone, every day precious. You, my friend, the only one can help me. Please review my story, nurture our relationship, find out why he's leaving!
Why similar: Word Game 30.8%, Text-Based 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Visual Novel 13%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
- #31 Backspace Backspace Backspace
77% matchVery Positive97% of 60 reviews2024
Dev: Blue Tango Street
Windows · Mac
In an AI-powered age where original authors have become largely redundant, play as a dejected writer on the brink of losing their creative drive forever.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.8%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Horror 12.1%
- #32 The Butterfly Collector
76% matchVery Positive89% of 870 reviews2025
Dev: Wicky Yu
Windows
investigate the evidence left by a stalker and kidnapper and track the fate of a college girl. The player advances and watches the plot by clicking to make choices for the heroine at key moments, with different choices leading to different endings.
Why similar: Word Game 39%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Text-Based 13%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Horror 12.7%
- #33 Prometheus in a jar
75% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2025
Dev: ShiFeiFan
Windows
Take a look—watch how the “me” in the game is shaped by your choices, pushing the story forward step by step until the truth of this game (this world) is finally revealed.
Why similar: Word Game 31%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Text-Based 16.8%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Multiple Endings 9%
- #34 禄水三江
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 禄水三江
Windows
This game is a multi perspective immersive text interactive visual novel game based on the real historical event of the Qing Dynasty in the Qingshui River Basin of Guizhou Province, known as the "Battle for the River Case".
Why similar: Word Game 31.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Text-Based 10.4%, Drama 8.8%
- #35 Whisperstring
75% matchPositive88% of 33 reviews2025
Dev: RocRac
Windows
Whisperstring is an 80s inspired text adventure game that takes place inside a “chat room”. You’re connected to Adam, a "jock" with a severe fear of strings, who seems to have been the victim of a supernatural kidnapping. Will you be able to help him escape?
Why similar: Text-Based 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Narration 9.9%, Psychological Horror 9.7%
- #36 Dark Cage1:Reincarnation For Salvation
74% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: zhuzi1
Windows
This is a short, slightly terrifying, suspenseful and bizarre visual novel game. Players will take on the role of student Mo Lan, who loses all memories and joins a school of social monsters to rescue bullied classmates and uncover the truth behind campus bullying.
Why similar: Word Game 22.1%, Demons 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Visual Novel 11%, Psychological Horror 10.7%
- #37 De Profundis
78% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2019
Dev: points contigus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Un visual novel d’horreur qui se déroule dans le noir complet, où les paroles des personnages sont mises en musique.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.9%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Narration 12.1%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Horror 10.7%
- #38 Bedtime Story : Saint
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 22 reviews2025
Dev: TinyBigger
Windows
A writer obsessed with words, a voice in their mind like that of a god, and a strange story unfolding in the depths of winter. Between a cup of coffee and a cigarette, you are the deity that intervenes in the course of the story, guiding the writer to complete the narrative and its ending...
Why similar: Word Game 33.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Visual Novel 16%, Text-Based 10.5%, 1990's 10.1%
- #39 定风波·宁州
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 瓦舍游戏
Windows
《定风波·宁州》是一款奇幻架空背景下的热血恋爱AVG游戏,游戏内包含多种结局和多个可攻略角色,玩家将扮演男主角周知,从一个寂寂无名的矿奴逐渐成长为一个英雄,和多个充满魅力的角色一起创造特别的回忆,改变宁州将面临的可怕命运
Why similar: Word Game 33.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Text-Based 14.4%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Multiple Endings 6.7%
- #40 荧惑焚心录Yinghuo
72% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: DongmianYueqiu
Windows
明末题材文字冒险游戏。背景为崇祯死后第二年(1645),你将扮演一名火器学者,无意中捡到了前朝公主,一场涉及复仇与真相、战乱与选择的旅途就此展开。约17万字剧情,有4个不同走向的结局和多个死亡结局。
Why similar: Word Game 30.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Drama 11.7%
- #41 山月记-人虎传
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 山月
Windows · Mac · Linux
A visual novel adaptation of Atsushi Nakajima’s The Moon Over the Mountain, retelling the tragic story of Li Zheng, a Tang dynasty scholar who turns into a tiger. This edition features a new Chinese translation, minimalist art and music, and a single narrative path of about 15 minutes.
Why similar: Word Game 39.3%, Text-Based 27.9%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Drama 13.4%, Casual 2.4%
- #42 蛆虫的幸福:腐甲病
71% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: 君羊
Windows
This work is a side-story AVG of Worms' Happiness. You can read the text by clicking the left mouse button, scrolling the mouse wheel, pressing the spacebar, or other such methods. One afternoon, you will start this short half-day story as the head of the volleyball club.
Why similar: Word Game 35.3%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Drama 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
- #43 Livber: Smoke and Mirrors
70% matchPositive97% of 38 reviews2025
Dev: InEv Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short psychological horror interactive story. Five years after vanishing without a trace, the woman you once called your lover writes from beyond the silence: "I will give birth to our creation.” In three acts, descend into a fractured mindscape where obsession, memory, and myth intertwine.
Why similar: Text-Based 13.9%, Visual Novel 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Horror 10.2%
- #44 Sunberry Care Center
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: foolkien
Windows
An analog horror adventure where you work as a staff member at the uncanny facility named Sunberry Care Center, which is dedicated to the treatment of a mysterious disease called Sunberry Syndrome.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.7%, Psychological Horror 15%, Horror 14.4%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, 1990's 13.6%
- #45 Be Honest
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rebel Jester Studios
Windows
The horror personality q̷̦̈́͊u̸̠͗i̴͈͈̊̈z̴͈͇̳͗͌
Why similar: Text-Based 22.3%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Horror 12.7%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
- #46 VOID OBSCURA Part One: Lost Little Lilith
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Chaos Texture Games
Windows
Follow Joseph, Eric, and William (as well as a handful of other characters) as they awake from cryogenic stasis at the enigmatic facility known as Intermine Laboratories. But, deep within the abyss exists an ancient evil that is seeking to enact its own twisted machinations ...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Text-Based 17.6%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Horror 12.8%
- #47 Adventure in Russia: Road to Harvetsky
73% matchPositive95% of 19 reviews2019
Dev: NewCo Entertainment
Windows
The main character is the usual average schoolboy, who can be found on the street after the 7th lesson. But it's not so simple, because he has a dream inside of his head, a dream that you have to implement!
Why similar: Text-Based 20%, Horror 19%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Drama 7.1%, Dark Humor 6.2%
- #48 唐传奇 - 上元长干行
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 虎宝喵喵喵制作组Pub: 自己
Windows
三千里流亡路,揭不开的伥鬼迷局,当志怪传说被解码成社会病理报告,当武侠式的快意恩仇撞上权力层级的铜墙铁壁,从盗匪屠村到权贵食人,乱世里谁不是待宰的羔羊?本作聚焦唐朝安史之乱的历史大背景,玩家的每个选择,都将为角色的命运刻下印记。
Why similar: Word Game 27.6%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Horror 12.5%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Narration 10%
- #49 我才不会被女孩子欺负呢
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: lingdong
Windows
The game "I'm Not Being Bullied by Girls" is a role-playing romantic adventure game. In the game, players will experience the stories and interactions between several girls from the first person perspective of the male protagonist, promote the development of the plot, and explore the city map.
Why similar: Word Game 32%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Text-Based 12.4%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
- #50 《道格拉斯警督的日记》
69% match6 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: 日食网络 solar eclipse studioPub: 日食网络
Windows
This is a detective game where you play as a middle-aged inspector searching for a terrifying serial killer in an isolated village. However, as a player, if you uncover the killer’s motives, you might consider whether to cooperate with them to achieve their goal of "killing THE time."
Why similar: Word Game 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Text-Based 11%, Drama 10%, Visual Novel 10%
- #51 大侦探之勃艮第古堡
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 知行合一
Windows
欢迎来到温泉岛,我是您的私人向导。您听说过……勃艮第古堡吗?那里是欲望与邪恶滋生的黑暗角落,那里有超出认知的生物和违反人性的生存规则。准确说,那里是另一个世界,由贪婪,欲念构成的炼狱……最后,请您一定要警惕每一个出现在勃艮第古堡里的人。祝您旅途愉快。
Why similar: Word Game 31%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Drama 12%, Psychological Horror 8%
- #52 世界之外的愚人船
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 愚人失格
Windows
This is a visual novel, in reality we create different worlds that belong only to you for various reasons, and they will gradually fade away with your memories. Please enjoy this time traveling in different worlds with the girls, and then return to where you are meant to exist - your life.
Why similar: Word Game 30.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Drama 10.8%
- #53 Next Please
67% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Feeling Potion
Windows · Mac
Your mom left you alone at the checkout. With a full cart. It's your turn. What do you do? A short psychological game about everyday anxiety.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Text-Based 14.9%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Horror 12.7%
- #54 Shrine of Haunts
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: VIVIANSOFT
Windows
In the summer of 1990, you return to the secluded mountain village of Iwao as your grandfather falls critically ill. The village shrine is said to seal the yokai "Tsuchigumo." As the "Mushi Okuri Festival" nears, its ritual flames may awaken a thousand-year-old curse…
Why similar: Word Game 24.3%, Text-Based 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Horror 12.6%
- #55 Thoughtless
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aky Heart
Windows · Mac · Linux
A dark sci-fi psychological Visual Novel where your choices shape who you are. The world has ended and it's been dominated by mysterious aliens who roam the city. Despite that, you only think of what you've lost. Will you be able to rebuild your relationships? Or even... the world itself?
Why similar: Text-Based 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Narration 10.7%
- #56 Not It: Spookiest Edition
69% matchPositive80% of 30 reviews2021
Dev: Snowhaven Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Not It: Spookiest Edition is a horror-filled visual novel full of suspense and mystery where you navigate Katie through a living nightmare. Her move-in day on Halloween throws her into a centuries-old curse. Can she make it through the night? Will her new neighbors perish? Decide their fate.
Why similar: Text-Based 17%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Visual Novel 13%, Narration 11.4%, Horror 10.9%
- #57 浮生箓 Floating Life
69% matchMixed49% of 150 reviews2022
Dev: 心流工作室(Heart Stream Studio)
Windows
《浮生箓》是一款剧情重开模拟游戏,互动式轻量小说游戏。支持创意工坊自由编辑与上传自己的剧本,融合如修仙、武侠、玄幻等小说题材的背景,可自由选择出生的剧本,体验千变万化的人生,从出生开始让你体验到丰富多变的剧情,多种多样的选择,不同选择带来不同的变化,各种有趣的梗。来吧,开始你的浮生之旅,随着进程生成自己的浮生箓!
Why similar: Word Game 35.6%, Text-Based 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Drama 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.4%
- #58 病娇X契约
67% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2024
Dev: 灵问制作组
Windows
当某一天你(张一文)被持有电击器的病娇女孩(杨小露)堵在巷子里告白 是不顾一切逃离还是暂时答应之后另寻它法?
Why similar: Word Game 36%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Drama 9.4%, Text-Based 8.1%
- #59 Inhuman Resources: A Literary Machination
66% matchVery Positive92% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Finnegan MotorsPub: Indie Asylum
Windows · Mac · Linux
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Narration 10.5%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Psychological Horror 9.7%
- #60 星际魔法使-FromTheStars-
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DTAN
Windows
"FromTheStars" is a realistic-themed visual novel with a 120,000-word text and five endings. Focused on real-life settings, the game tells the story of the male protagonist Reginald, who is abruptly and insistently demanded by the female protagonist Fiona to live together one day.
Why similar: Word Game 35%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Drama 18.8%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Multiple Endings 5.3%