- #1 Khitarii and Khimoshi
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: XeroStryker
Windows
Kitari and Kimoshi is a story about two girls who meet for the very first time through unusual circumstances. Click through the manga pages, and make choices that affect the flow of the story.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.8%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Anime 13%, Dark 10.9%, Cute 10.1%
- #2 Mado Marks
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: VAINSANE
Windows · Mac · Linux
Three students record future-self videos in a classroom room that shouldn’t exist... The next morning, one of them is gone, and only corrupted marks prove she was ever there. A short psychological horror VN about memory, proof, and erasure.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.7%, Psychological Horror 23.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Anime 10.2%, Multiple Endings 7.2%
- #3 New Meaning
96% matchMixed68% of 81 reviews2021
Dev: Brave Lobster Studios
Windows
In New Meaning you play as Luke Wilson, or do you? Luke is a struggling teenager trying to shed some light upon a dark lonely world, will you help him or will you aid his departure into depression? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.3%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Psychological Horror 20.1%, Cute 9.8%, Anime 9.4%
- #4 Eden Camp
95% 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: Psychological Horror 23.8%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Anime 13.9%, Dark 7.2%
- #5 Thorner
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Snoring Dog Games
Windows
Thorner is a horror visual novel with multiple endings. You attempt to escape your past by fleeing to the wilderness, but spilled blood can never be forgiven. The land knows what you did. The land judges. Thorner awaits.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.5%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Dark 12.9%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%
- #6 Memory Girl +
94% matchVery Positive97% of 68 reviews2025
Dev: cream△Pub: Champloo Games
Windows
A tragic love story following Memori and her search for the missing "him."
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.5%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Cute 10.7%, Anime 9.5%
- #7 5omeday
93% matchVery Positive89% of 305 reviews2026
Dev: Indigo IngotsPub: Waku Waku Games
Windows
You have been assigned to guard a dragon girl set to be executed at the end of 5 days and have the ability to kill her instantly at any time with the push of a button in this multi-ending visual novel.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.5%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Anime 10.5%, Cute 10.4%
- #8 苏菲·404恋人
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PygmaGame
Windows · Mac · Linux
As summer vacation draws to a close, you, Sophie’s childhood friend, have only one week left before parting ways. How will you spend that time together, express your love, and make a promise for the future?
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.4%, Psychological Horror 23.5%, Cute 14%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Anime 11.5%
- #9 Abandoned Village Walking Group
91% matchMixed64% of 28 reviews2024
Dev: mokosoft
Windows
He wanders into the village and comes face to face with the village customs and the mystery of the sacred tree. However, he is also a freak who wants to desecrate the mystery. The battle for the salvation of mankind by the cursed village begins.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Visual Novel 17%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Anime 9.8%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
- #10 Project Vostok: Episode 1
91% matchVery Positive83% of 117 reviews2022
Dev: Natrix
Windows · Mac · Linux
"Project Vostok" is a non-linear horror visual novel about a group of airplane crash survivors finding a mysterious Soviet-era bunker in Altai mountains. Uncover the story full of drama, horrors and decide the fate a of various cast of heroes in this free visual novel.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.7%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Anime 12.1%, Gore 10.3%, Dark 9.5%
- #11 プリンセス×オーディエンス
90% matchPositive93% of 30 reviews2024
Dev: Nyamoli@
Windows
選択肢を間違えると即エンディング!?ドS狼プリンセスから質問攻めされる短編ゲーム
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.6%, Visual Novel 21.9%, Cute 12.7%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Anime 10.8%
- #12 Stay Alive For Me
89% matchPositive80% of 10 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: Psychological Horror 19%, Visual Novel 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Dark 8.4%
- #13 Information conveyed Information received
89% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: ほんわかふわふわ
Windows
You are an AD intern at a TV studio aiming to secure a job offer. During a live talk show, you must give directions using cue cards. Convey information based on the situation to keep things running smoothly, boost audience favorability toward the guest, and earn your offer through your performance.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Anime 12.1%, Cute 11.9%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
- #14 Blackthorn Witch
88% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: BDOneArt
Windows · Mac · Linux
A psychological horror story set in the town of Blackthorn; a place that lives in constant fear of a witch. The two main suspects? Levi’s mom and sister! His only lifelines to the outside world. Can they live a peaceful life? Or will they be dragged down by the dying town?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.3%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Anime 10.6%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
- #15 Madness within
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Indra
Windows
Delve into the heart of darkness with Enelia, a chilling horror visual novel set in an Avatar-inspired biopunk realm. It's a dramatic story about adventure, love and fate.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.2%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Anime 9.6%, Dark 9.4%
- #16 Bound Between Desks
86% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2025
Dev: AnyTale Game StudiosPub: ANYTALE LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
A mystical visual novel where ordinary school life intertwines with mysterious phenomena. Every decision you make could lead to uncovering secrets... or plunge you into even greater uncertainty.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Anime 14.5%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
- #17 SPRKLS.exe
86% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: PesiiDom
Windows
⟢ SPRKLS.exe is a cute, melancholic story-driven adventure that unfolds entirely on YOUR desktop 𓂃˗ˏˋ⟢ 𓂅 ࣪⟡̵͝ ₊ ೃ̶͂ ࿔̶̽⟡̷͛*⋆ [EMOTION OVERRIDE] ࿐̵̋⟡̸̂ ࣪ ˖༄̶̀ ✦̵͗ [YOU WEREN’T SUPPOSED TO SEE THIS] ⋆.˚ ̴̡̢̛̼̬̠̰̀͟҉̢C͊͊ ༘⋆ [PLEASE DON’T CLOSE ME AGAIN] ⟡̷͛ ˖𓏲ּ𝄢 ⟡̵̂ ִֶָ 𓂃⊹
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Cute 9.5%, Choices Matter 8.6%
- #18 Turn Illness into a Weapon
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: enderverse
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a high school hidden within a centuries-old castle, terror strikes as a sinister force begins hunting the students. You must use your skills and wits to survive, evade the relentless villain, and find a way to escape.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.6%, Anime 23.2%, Visual Novel 22.9%, Story Rich 11%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
- #19 Contra Spem Spero
84% matchPositive92% of 25 reviews2025
Dev: DADZINGO
Windows · Linux
Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Story Rich 9.8%, Choices Matter 9%
- #20 What Is Love? Anime Visual Novel Vol. 1
84% matchPositive81% of 27 reviews2022
Dev: Baka Dog
Windows · Mac
What is Love is full of pretty girls with dark secrets. Keep in mind that your actions matter, so Baby, don't hurt me! Not suitable for those who are easily disturbed by their own choices. It can result in Vietnam Flashbacks/PTSD after realising what you have done.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Anime 10.3%, Dark 8.4%
- #21 Confinio: Reality Prison
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Enthariel Games
Windows
Confinio is an intriguing visual novel that delves into your sensations as you embody the protagonist who has just awakened in a prison with no memory. Make decisions, solve puzzles, interact with the environment, use objects, interrogate people, all to yourself and uncover the enigmatic reality.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Anime 11.9%, Dark 9.9%
- #22 Do you have SALT?
82% matchPositive91% of 43 reviews2024
Dev: Sin and SunPub: BRXKENVN
Windows
A girl named Anastasia, who lives in an old multi-story building, decides to leave her apartment. She goes to get some salt to ask her neighbors and find a treasure hidden in this house. But what kind of treasure is this, and is it worth looking for?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Dark 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Anime 10.6%
- #23 The NOexistenceN of you AND me
81% matchVery Positive93% of 21,072 reviews2024
Dev: 0x0Real StudioPub: Nino Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.2%, Psychological Horror 22.1%, Anime 13.2%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Cute 9.3%
- #24 Saint Maker - Horror Visual Novel
82% matchVery Positive86% of 256 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: Psychological Horror 21.8%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Anime 10.4%, Story Rich 8.7%
- #25 Grow a Girlfriend
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: True Blue Basin
Windows · Mac · Linux
You accidentally grew a mushroom girl! Overcome your social anxiety to help her live her brief life to the fullest! Or don't.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.2%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Anime 13.8%, Cute 9.8%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
- #26 Tiny Bunny
78% 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 23.1%, Psychological Horror 19.5%, Dark 12.9%, Story Rich 10.4%, Gore 9.7%
- #27 SCP: Doki Doki Anomaly
80% matchVery Positive92% of 93 reviews2021
Dev: Flightyfelon Games Inc.
Windows
SCP-8008-1 IS A HORROR DATING SIM WHERE THE BEST YOU CAN HOPE FOR IS SURVIVAL. SMOOCH SCP-173, SCP-682 AND EVEN SCP-096. DO NOT RUN THIS SOFTWARE WITHOUT CLASS-4 AUTHORIZATION.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.7%, Anime 15.4%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Cute 11.9%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
- #28 Blind Dog
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: svyat
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are a detective who is slowly going blind. The only faces you can still see clearly belong to those who are about to die. A visual novel investigation where every choice affects the fate of Tokyo and leads you either closer to the truth or deeper into darkness.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Anime 8.8%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
- #29 The Game of Fourtune
79% 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: Psychological Horror 15.2%, Visual Novel 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Anime 11.7%, Dark 10%
- #30 Delete the World
78% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Chu! & Blu?
Windows
Delete the World is a completely normal visual novel… unless you decide to help her kill everyone.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.7%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Anime 15.1%, Story Rich 8.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.4%
- #31 Reborn
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gecko Gaming
Windows
A visual novel written as a psychological horror RPG where your choices shape your life, leading to irreversible consequences and determining how your descent into darkness unfolds. The game can end in many different ways. Your choices determine how.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.2%, Visual Novel 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Choices Matter 9.6%
- #32 Cooking Companions: Appetizer Edition
77% matchVery Positive88% of 399 reviews2020
Dev: Deer Dream Studios
Windows
Cabbage and the Chompettes want to play hide and seek! Can you find all five of them?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.1%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Anime 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Cute 11%
- #33 Love and Fear
76% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Mango x2
Windows · Mac
Visual novel with a detective plot. Summer break is a time of adventure and love! However, Hikari does not yet know that the maniac has already gone hunting!
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.4%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Anime 14.1%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Cute 9.4%
- #34 Miya Might Break
75% matchPositive94% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: VAINSANE
Windows · Mac · Linux
A psychological horror visual novel about Miya, a former prodigy trapped in a decaying home with her unstable stepfather, her talking plush Mopa, and the bystander who hears every step she takes...
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.9%, Visual Novel 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Anime 13.8%, Dark 6.3%
- #35 Doki Doki Literature Club!
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 223,416 reviews2017
Dev: Team Salvato
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.7%, Visual Novel 20.5%, Anime 16.3%, Cute 10%, Dark 9.2%
- #36 Streams Upon Memories : Dawn of the Fractured Mind
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kashi Maadsen
Windows · Mac · Linux
Awaken in a world plunged into uncertainty. You must navigate hidden truths and make crucial choices. Will you uncover the secrets of your existence? Your path will determine your fate in this journey.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.6%, Psychological Horror 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Multiple Endings 9.2%, Choices Matter 8.8%
- #37 It was a human.
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 489 reviews2024
Dev: Loser/sPub: GAMER Plan
Windows
A short SF psychedelic interrogation ADV game that focuses on the interrogation of a suspect in a dismemberment murder case. The protagonist is a lieutenant colonel, tasked with interrogating the suspect. The protagonist needs to find out why she killed the two men and how she committed the crime.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Anime 14.5%, Cute 12%, Dark 10.8%
- #38 KARA
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: IKARUS
Windows · Mac · Linux
"KARA" is a visual novel following an ordinary high schooler whose life slowly spirals into a nightmare. Sleep deprivation, a tragic chain of events, and dark secrets will force you to question reality itself.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.8%, Visual Novel 22.4%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Dark 9.8%, Choices Matter 9.3%
- #39 Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 31,431 reviews2021
Dev: Team SalvatoPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 82.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Welcome to the club! Write poems for your crush and experience the terror of school romance in this critically-acclaimed psychological horror story.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.4%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Anime 14.5%, Cute 9%, Gore 8.5%
- #40 DROOM
73% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Gore 14.7%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Anime 10.5%, Psychological Horror 10.4%
- #41 LUNADUN: LUNATIC DUNGEON
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Team BONA
Windows
You choose a favorite and walk beside them. But those you left behind — where do they go while you're gone? LUNADUN: LUNATIC DUNGEON is an emotional adventure where choices shape the fate of four characters. 'The ones you loved, the ones you ignored — you don't get to walk away from either of them.'
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Psychological Horror 17.9%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Dark 10.9%, Anime 10.1%
- #42 Date Bryne-Kun Simulator!
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Melbert Productions
Windows · Mac
You are a new transfer student from Japan attending school in British Columbia. On your first day, a simple encounter with a classmate begins to shift your seemingly normal school life into something far more unsettling.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.5%, Visual Novel 25.4%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Anime 9.6%, Gore 9.1%
- #43 Project Vostok: Episodes 2 & 3
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Natrix
Windows · Mac · Linux
"Project Vostok" is a non-linear horror visual novel about a group of airplane crash survivors finding a mysterious Soviet-era bunker in Altai mountains. Uncover a story full of drama, horrors and decide the fate of diverse cast of characters in this visual novel.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.8%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Anime 12%, Gore 11.3%, Dark 10.9%
- #44 外道催眠術師と囚われのマリオネット - The Savage Hypnotist's Puppets -
72% match4 user reviews0% of 4 reviews2022
Dev: CyberStep, Inc.
Windows
The girls are deprived of their freedom by hypnosis and their hearts are about to be shattered. Is it possible to escape from this daily life that has turned into hell?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.9%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Multiple Endings 9.4%, Cute 8.2%
- #45 For Mother Matron
71% matchVery Positive92% of 168 reviews2022
Dev: Velvetique GamesPub: Neoclassic Games
Windows · Mac
A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths. A free atmospheric horror visual novel where you navigate life-or-death situations. SEEK PARADISE OR DIE TRYING
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.4%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Anime 11.3%
- #46 Mycelium Protocol
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SIMIRIALS
Windows
A nonlinear dystopian thriller visual novel. Perfect city. Perfect people. Perfect order. Perfection always comes at a price.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Gore 9.1%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
- #47 YAMIKKO TROUBLEMAKER
70% matchVery Positive97% of 104 reviews2025
Dev: お湯めのPub: 半角全角感嘆符
Windows
A long-form, choice-driven psychological horror and depression game in which the protagonist’s ending changes based on the choices made by “you,” the voice he hears in his head.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Dark 14.4%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Gore 10.4%
- #48 Endless Summer Syndrome
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jerrix
Windows · Linux
You ended the world. She, the one who holds every card, gave you an endless summer as your reward. Now your only way out is through sugar, jellyfish, sunlight, and blood — into the deepest reaches of her mind, or be dissolved along the way. Choose your path in this psycho-thriller visual novel.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.8%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Anime 9.9%, Dark 9.7%
- #49 ぼくの葬式にようこそ -happy rebirthday-
70% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: ひとりサークル「匙投げ部」Pub: Waku Waku Games
Windows
死後、白黒の世界に迷い込んだ「ぼく」は生前の記憶を取り戻す"旅"に出る。主人公の葬式から始まる、切なくて温かい成長譚。
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Anime 12.3%, Cute 11.9%, Dark 9.4%
- #50 Syutyaku Gakuen
68% matchVery Positive92% of 60 reviews2025
Dev: mokosoft
Windows
The only quality that can be measured is whether or not they possess the qualities of morbid love. As they spend their time at the school, what was once a peaceful life turns into a blood-soaked, corpse-riddled, blood-soaked day....
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Anime 11.4%, Dark 9.9%
- #51 Siren's Call: Second Wind
69% 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: Psychological Horror 19.3%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Dark 10.8%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
- #52 NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
68% matchVery Positive94% of 56,574 reviews2022
Dev: WSS playground
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD is a “multi-ending ADV” depicting daily life with “OMGkawaiiAngel”, a young girl with a rather extreme need for approval attempting to become the #1 “Internet Angel” (streamer).
Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.8%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Anime 16.1%, Cute 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
- #53 Corpse Party
69% 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: Psychological Horror 20.2%, Anime 18.9%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Gore 14.4%, Multiple Endings 6.8%
- #54 Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.7 Minagoroshi
69% 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: Psychological Horror 22.6%, Visual Novel 22.2%, Anime 18%, Gore 12.3%, Story Rich 9.6%
- #55 VT Harmony
68% matchMixed61% of 17 reviews2023
Dev: Yun Seven
Windows
Play as VT, a lonely TV-boy who seeks solitude until the sudden message from a strange bunny named IV. Discover the different endings of this cozy visual novel.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Choices Matter 8.9%
- #56 CHAOS;HEAD NOAH
67% 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 30.2%, Psychological Horror 19.2%, Gore 18%, Anime 15.8%, Story Rich 10.8%
- #57 SAEKO: Giantess Dating Sim
65% matchVery Positive87% of 726 reviews2025
Dev: SAFE HAVN STUDIOPub: HYPER REAL
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
You opened your eyes to find a giant girl looking down at you. Experience the fate of Saeko and the little people in this cruel yet captivating story with avant-garde art.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.7%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Dark 11%, Anime 10.3%
- #58 ORBIT 5
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CALIPSO
Windows
You and the luckiest man in the world! How'd you end up on a strange ship with an even stranger Russian astronaut? Who knows!? A horror/romance visual novel about to finding a lonely captain someone to talk to.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.4%, Anime 15.4%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Cute 9.8%, Gore 8.6%
- #59 Summer Pockets REFLECTION BLUE
65% matchVery Positive89% of 1,148 reviews2025
Dev: VISUAL ARTS/KeyPub: VISUAL ARTS
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 121.4 hrs≥1hr: 67%
No matter how much times passes... I remember that blue, blue summer. Summer Pockets, the midsummer story brought to you by Key, has been powered-up with even more to play, including new heroines and routes, in Summer Pockets REFLECTION BLUE, now available on Steam!
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Anime 12.9%, Story Rich 9.8%
- #60 I'll Do It Tomorrow
66% matchVery Positive96% of 83 reviews2024
Dev: Luca Morotti
Windows
It's Sara's first day of work. However, when she takes the elevator to go to the office, she suddenly finds herself on a mysterious floor. What truth lies behind these weird rooms? Will you be able to move on? Or rather... will you want to move on?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.7%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Anime 15.7%, Story Rich 9.8%, Multiple Endings 8.1%