- #1 An Outcry
97% matchVery Positive93% of 120 reviews2022
Dev: Quinn K.
Windows
A branching-path narrative horror RPG set in Vienna, Austria. Guide the Unnamed through the worst night of their life: Harass your neighbours. Debate with birds. Smoke to survive.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Dark 14.1%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, RPG 11.5%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
- #2 Deep Under
96% matchVery Positive96% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: WildOmul
Windows
DEEP UNDER is a grim visual novel about how an ordinary camping trip with friends can turn into a real nightmare.
Why similar: Comic Book 19.4%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Dark 12.8%, Multiple Endings 6.4%
- #3 Blackout Hospital
96% matchVery Positive96% of 167 reviews2023
Dev: arcadekitten
Windows
When the power goes out while working night shift in the hospital, the emergency lights come on with an eerie glow...
Why similar: RPG 32.2%, Adventure 17.7%, 2D 12.9%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
- #4 Loop//Error
94% matchVery Positive90% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: Koro Pixel StudioPub: Dark Product
Windows
Alone in the dead of night, you find yourself sent on a simple errand to check on a quiet gas station on the outskirts of town. But nothing here feels right. You can’t outrun this place. It wants you. And it will keep you.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Psychological Horror 15%, Dark 15%, Choices Matter 10.8%
- #5 KAKUSANKIBOU / 扩散希望
95% 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: Visual Novel 20.9%, RPG 18.6%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Dark 15.2%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
- #6 DIGITAL EXORCIST case_(0);
94% matchVery Positive94% of 156 reviews2023
Dev: COOL BEANS PRODUCTIONSPub: HYPER REAL
Windows
Step into a dark world where cyberdemons haunt humankind. When mutilated bodies start appearing all over this sleepy town in the Mississippi inaka, Sawyer, ex-AGENCY operative; now unemployed shut-in, must exorcise the demon perpetrator in this story-rich, PC-98 style adventure game.
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Dark 15.6%, Adventure 9.3%, Story Rich 8.6%
- #7 You Shouldn't Be Here
93% matchVery Positive91% of 70 reviews2025
Dev: Doomster Entertainment
Windows
This short psychedelic visual novel takes place in a strange world inhabited by harrowing creatures shunned by the light. You’ll meet someone who has made this world their own, and in doing so, learn the reason why you shouldn't be there.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Dark 13.6%, Demons 7.6%
- #8 Urban Myth Dissolution Center
92% matchVery Positive88% of 5,751 reviews2025
Dev: HakababunkoPub: SHUEISHA GAMES
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Join forces with the psychic Director of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center and solve a variety of cases involving cursed relics, rental properties with shady histories, and dimensional anomalies. Monstrous oddities and otherworldly planes abound in this occult mystery adventure game!
Why similar: Visual Novel 33%, Psychological Horror 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Adventure 9.1%, Story Rich 8%
- #9 MY ADAPTATION IN(TO) HUMAN
91% matchMixed66% of 56 reviews2024
Dev: SpoocleMacBoogle
Windows
You are a body snatching creature. Capture the body, explore the environment, reproduce.
Why similar: Visual Novel 35.4%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, RPG 17.4%, Adventure 12.6%, 2D 7.7%
- #10 Mycopsychosys: Remastered
89% matchVery Positive98% of 196 reviews2025
Dev: DeltaCat Studio Pub: DeltaCat Studio
Windows
🚨 Emergency Alert 🚨 New security protocols have been activated. Remain indoors. Do not open your doors under any circumstance. Isolation is safety. Isolation is truth. Or is it?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 38.5%, Visual Novel 33.5%, RPG 19.7%, 2D 8.4%
- #11 Novena Diabolos
91% matchVery Positive96% of 56 reviews2021
Dev: H5DEV GamesPub: Giiku Games
Windows · Mac
One reporter, trying to survive nine days in an isolated village. Four demonesses who are out for blood. Several supernatural murders... Welcome to Hope Hill!
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.9%, Dark 17%, RPG 15.8%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Demons 9.6%
- #12 骸心 Mainbody
90% matchVery Positive93% of 122 reviews2022
Dev: 土豆火锅Pub: Cosmic Train
Windows
A puzzle-based horror game where the player takes on the role of a building manager who manages a haunted building and its "patients". Through the player's different options will raise or lower the pollution value, thus triggering different endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Dark 12.4%
- #13 Trench Face
87% matchVery Positive95% of 531 reviews2025
Dev: Pulse Blue
Windows
Trench Face is a horror turn based war RPG featuring exploration-based dungeons, with hanging monsters lurking around each corner. Every enemy varying in strengths and weaknesses. Escape the trench with your life.
Why similar: RPG 28.6%, Turn-Based Combat 27.8%, Psychological Horror 16%, Dark 12.9%, 2D 6.8%
- #14 The Price Of Flesh
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,072 reviews2022
Dev: Gatobob
Windows · Mac · Linux
An immersive choose-your-own-adventure survival horror with optional adult content featuring hand drawn backgrounds, sprites, and over 150 pieces of full screen art- and 50 endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Dark 14.5%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
- #15 Cthulhu Mythos ADV Lunatic Whispers
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Gotcha Gotcha Games
Windows
Immerse yourself in the captivating world of the Cthulhu Mythos with this 2D visual novel game featuring a thrilling TRPG-based experience! Roll the dice and use your skills and luck to escape the abandoned hospital, while experiencing the cosmic terror.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Comic Book 15.1%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Modern 8.4%
- #16 Fearbonding
86% matchVery Positive97% of 135 reviews2025
Dev: Night Asobu
Windows · Mac · Linux
Fearbonding is a Yandere x Demon BL Horror Visual Novel. Play as Hinata, a demon, and try to tame the deranged Kosuke. Will you get to satisfy your hunger for fear through your new hunting dog or will you be the one to get devoured?
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.1%, Psychological Horror 19%, Dark 16.2%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Choices Matter 8.1%
- #17 Backspace Backspace Backspace
86% 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: Visual Novel 32.4%, Psychological Horror 22.4%, Dark 8.8%, Multiple Endings 8.7%, Choices Matter 8%
- #18 You Will Die Here Tonight
84% matchVery Positive91% of 630 reviews2023
Dev: Spiral Bound Interactive LLC
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Immerse yourself in retro top-down visuals as you face the horrors of Breckenridge Hall through intense first-person combat. Scavenge, solve puzzles, and upgrade your gear. Do whatever it takes to survive—but remember: You Will Die Here Tonight.
Why similar: Dark 26.6%, Psychological Horror 21.9%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, RPG 11.3%
- #19 SIMULACRA
85% matchVery Positive90% of 4,596 reviews2017
Dev: Kaigan Games OÜ
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.2%, Psychological Horror 18.7%, Multiple Endings 15.4%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Dark 13.2%
- #20 This Is Not Your House
84% matchVery Positive88% of 252 reviews2024
Dev: Cody Tierson (Trash Eyes)Pub: Trash Eyes
Windows
Crush someone's skull, Suffer from Hypothermia, Transcend your Mortal Frame, Find all 10 Endings. GET YOUR HOUSE BACK.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.8%, Visual Novel 22.1%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.4%
- #21 A.I.L.A
82% matchVery Positive84% of 1,218 reviews2025
Dev: Pulsatrix StudiosPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A.I.L.A is a first-person horror game set in a near-future filled with immersive technology. Play as the sole game tester for a revolutionary new fictional AI. Survive intense horror experiences that prey on your deepest fears as the lines between virtual and reality begin to blur…
Why similar: Psychological Horror 36.6%, Multiple Endings 19.8%, Choices Matter 18.2%, Story Rich 11.2%, Demons 10.8%
- #22 Homicipher
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,818 reviews2024
Dev: 八名木GamesPub: Gamirror Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Homicipher is a language deciphering and exploration ADV based on the concept of "romance with horror men." The protagonist, who has wandered into another world, interacts with non-human beings to decipher their language while striving to escape.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Visual Novel 23%, Dark 14.8%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Choices Matter 10.7%
- #23 Saint Maker - Horror Visual Novel
83% 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 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Dark 11.1%, RPG 8%
- #24 The Horror at Highrook
81% matchVery Positive91% of 451 reviews2025
Dev: Nullpointer Games
Windows
The Horror at Highrook is an occult card crafting narrative RPG. Explore a haunted mansion with your team of investigators, summon dark entities, craft powerful protections, uncover the fate of the missing family, and choose your own path through the darkness.
Why similar: Comic Book 41.2%, RPG 20.5%, Hand-drawn 11.9%, Story Rich 11.5%, 2D 8.3%
- #25 Out Of Hands
80% matchVery Positive94% of 1,468 reviews2025
Dev: Game River
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Out of Hands is a bizarre card-based adventure game that blends video-collage graphics with gripping psychological horror. Will you seek the truth lurking in this wicked, warped world—and can you bear its weight? Misty memories threaten to tear you apart, contorting you into a being... Out of Hands.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 21.3%, Psychological Horror 20.1%, Multiple Endings 17.5%, RPG 14.7%, Hand-drawn 11.6%
- #26 Hazy Mind
82% matchVery Positive86% of 318 reviews2024
Dev: betetiro
Windows · Mac · Linux
You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.2%, Psychological Horror 19%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Choices Matter 10.4%
- #27 SKALD: Against the Black Priory
79% matchVery Positive94% of 3,442 reviews2024
Dev: High North Studios ASPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
SKALD:Against the Black Priory is a retro-style party-based RPG set in a grim-dark fantasy world of tragic heroes, violent deaths and Lovecraftian horror. Take a chance and roll the dice as you embark on a compelling story filled with deadly creatures, branching story and tactical, turn-based combat
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 48.5%, RPG 14.7%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Story Rich 10.7%, Adventure 7.4%
- #28 CROWDED. FOLLOWED.
79% matchVery Positive93% of 315 reviews2024
Dev: NIGHT DIALPub: Banshee Games
Windows
You have the briefcase. Now it's after you. It's not going to stop. Be careful—it may take the form of someone else. A short horror game by NIGHT DIAL.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 61.8%, Adventure 20.7%, Stylized 10%, Singleplayer 7.5%
- #29 oneway.exe: Module 1.0
78% matchVery Positive87% of 91 reviews2025
Dev: Disordered Media
Windows
You’re stuck inside an abandoned video game, haunted by its own digital decay. In oneway.exe, uncover the mystery of UNTITLED.exe, its three developers, and the evolving Internet eras that once shaped their love. How does your story end? How did it ever begin?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.8%, Multiple Endings 23.4%, Hand-drawn 19.6%, Story Rich 11.2%, Adventure 8.2%
- #30 Subway Exorcist Girl
77% matchVery Positive83% of 304 reviews2025
Dev: 纤指游戏Pub: Delicate Fingers
Windows
A subway train plagued by strange occurrences. A part-time exorcist girl arrives to confront the supernatural chaos, with the unknown ahead.
Why similar: Visual Novel 38.1%, Psychological Horror 25.1%, RPG 17.2%, Story Rich 8.8%, Adventure 7.4%
- #31 WORLD OF HORROR
76% matchVery Positive90% of 9,731 reviews2023
Dev: panstaszPub: Ysbryd Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Experience the quiet terror of this 1-bit love letter to Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft. Navigate a hellish roguelite reality with turn-based combat and unforgiving choices. Experiment with your deck of event cards to discover new forms of cosmic horror in every playthrough. The inevitable awaits...
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 32%, Psychological Horror 29.9%, RPG 19.3%, 2D 9%, Adventure 7.4%
- #32 Deadnaut: Signal Lost
77% matchVery Positive87% of 93 reviews2023
Dev: Screwfly Studios
Windows · Linux
Deadnaut: Signal Lost is a sci-fi horror turn-based roguelike where loyalty isn't earned - it's installed. Scavenge derelict ships and abandoned moons filled with hellish creatures, brutal AI and insanity storms. Gather gear and upgrades to fight or evade the hi-tech supersoldiers hunting you down.
Why similar: RPG 29.5%, Psychological Horror 28.2%, Multiple Endings 22.5%, Choices Matter 19.7%
- #33 Mediterranea Inferno
75% matchVery Positive83% of 531 reviews2023
Dev: EyeguysPub: Santa Ragione
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Explore the inner demons of three childhood friends on a summer retreat. Unearth secrets, fears and obsessions as you help them reconnect and rediscover themselves. A mature and treacherous visual novel from the creator of Milky Way Prince – The Vampire Star.
Why similar: Comic Book 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Multiple Endings 8.8%, Choices Matter 8%
- #34 STAY
78% matchMixed68% of 566 reviews2018
Dev: Appnormals Team
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time. While you sleep, he is alone. When you return to your PC he has hope. Your encouragement and advice will be the difference between his salvation or despair.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.9%, Dark 16%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
- #35 It was a human.
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 478 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.1%, Visual Novel 26.6%, Dark 16%, Adventure 8.6%, 2D 6.7%
- #36 Interrogation: You will be deceived
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 369 reviews2019
Dev: Critique GamingPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
As a detective tasked with bringing down a dangerous terrorist group, you fight on two fronts: interrogating suspects & managing your team and its reputation. With time running out, how far will you go to stop these criminals? Manipulation, threats or even torture? Does the end justify the means?
Why similar: Comic Book 22.9%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Dark 17.3%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Choices Matter 12%
- #37 Look Outside
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 11,497 reviews2025
Dev: Francis CoulombePub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Look Outside is a survival horror RPG set in a single apartment building. A mysterious event turns anyone who looks out the window into grotesque monsters, leaving the world in absolute chaos. Scavenge the building to seek food, supplies, and weapons while encountering strange characters.
Why similar: RPG 32.9%, Turn-Based Combat 32.3%, Dark 14.2%, Adventure 8.9%, 2D 5.7%
- #38 Hellslave
73% matchVery Positive85% of 3,129 reviews2022
Dev: Ars GoetiaPub: Dear Villagers
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Hellslave is a dark fantasy dungeon crawler where you make a pact with the Devil to fight back a demon invasion. Customize your character with powerful demonic abilities, explore a cursed world, and battle nightmarish enemies to save humanity if you can resist the darkness.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 26.7%, Dark 19%, RPG 17.1%, Demons 11.4%, Hand-drawn 11.2%
- #39 Head AS Code
75% matchVery Positive96% of 71 reviews2021
Dev: Miracle Moon
Windows
The first entry of the Abime Series. Eight captives must cooperate or compete to escape an underground subway under the manipulation of a dangerous psychopath. Can you really trust anyone? What about yourself? And what is the meaning of a good ending? Is reaching one even possible?
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.4%, Dark 14.2%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Psychological Horror 11.8%
- #40 The Passenger
73% matchVery Positive90% of 129 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your eldritch existence is threatened when another abomination tries to feast on you. You flee, trapping yourself in human flesh, but will that be enough?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 40.9%, RPG 29.3%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #41 DYSTHANASIA
71% matchVery Positive90% of 301 reviews2025
Dev: Madowaku KoboPub: Eroge Japan
Windows
You awaken in a cold unfamiliar building crawling with grotesque creatures. Stave off terror using your wits and anything you can find, then try to make it out alive in this highly atmospheric environmental horror game.
Why similar: Dark 41.3%, Psychological Horror 36.7%, Demons 13.8%, Adventure 8.1%
- #42 No, I'm not a Human
67% matchVery Positive93% of 26,830 reviews2025
Dev: TrioskazPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
WARNING. Stay inside. Lock your doors. Close the blinds. Only let humans in. Eliminate all Visitors. An anxiety horror about paranoia in the End of Times.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 26%, Dark 22.6%, Choices Matter 19.1%, Multiple Endings 18.7%, Story Rich 9.9%
- #43 Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 30,737 reviews2023
Dev: Black Tabby Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Comic Book 14.8%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Choices Matter 11.6%
- #44 PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,520 reviews2023
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
How far would you go to bring someone back from the dead? Discover the depths that some will go to in this horror-adventure game.
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Multiple Endings 14.3%, Hand-drawn 11%, RPG 10.2%
- #45 Sub-Verge
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 53 reviews2025
Dev: Interactive Tragedy, LimitedPub: Pantaloon
Windows · Mac
Conversation is a dangerous game. Manipulate a fractured band of renegade divers to reach the depths of this short narrative puzzle. Uncover alliances and expose betrayals — before something horrific from the dark abyss silences you all. Don’t let the conversation get too deep.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.3%, RPG 17.2%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Multiple Endings 14%, Dark 12.6%
- #46 Unforgotten
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 51 reviews2020
Dev: ScoreboardGames
Windows · Mac
UNFORGOTTEN – a story-driven, non-linear visual novel, where you can immerse in the ethnic ambience of Northern myths and horrors. Can you solve the riddles of the past - without ever losing yourself in the present? Your fate is in your hands!
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Dark 13.3%, Choices Matter 9.4%
- #47 SCP Operations
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 84 reviews2024
Dev: LUXO InteractivePub: LUK KUS SOFT
Windows
Step into the enigmatic world of SCP OPERATIONS. Lead your team of elite agents through tactical, turn-based combat against the Chaos Insurgency and dangerous SCP objects. Uncover secrets and protect humanity.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 43.6%, Tactical RPG 36%, RPG 13.4%, Story Rich 5.1%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #48 NO-SKIN
68% matchVery Positive95% of 1,266 reviews2025
Dev: NoEye-Soft
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Horror Roguelike characterized by an experimental artstyle and storytelling, strategic gameplay and deep mysteries
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 30.1%, Psychological Horror 24.3%, RPG 20.6%, Multiple Endings 15%, 2D 6.8%
- #49 Corpse Party
73% 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: Visual Novel 23.9%, Psychological Horror 20.1%, RPG 13.8%, Dark 11.3%, Multiple Endings 10%
- #50 7Days Origins
72% matchVery Positive86% of 342 reviews2021
Dev: Buff Studio
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
7Days Origins is a single-player story game where the storyline changes based on the player's choices. For 7 days, you will meet various characters in the world of the dead. You may become allies and embark on adventures together or become enemies and fight.
Why similar: Comic Book 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Dark 8.9%
- #51 Face of Another
69% matchVery Positive97% of 144 reviews2025
Dev: MadBug Studio
Windows
Use your phone to survive the horrors, capture clues, and solve puzzles in this first-person psychological horror experience. Trapped inside a warped digital nightmare by a mysterious entity, you must navigate a world where technology distorts reality.
Why similar: Dark 49.7%, Psychological Horror 43.6%, Singleplayer 6.7%
- #52 Welcome to the Karoshi Club
70% matchVery Positive90% of 162 reviews2023
Dev: Kamishibai Interactive
Windows
If you're nervous about job searching and interviews, face your fears head-on in "Welcome to the Karoshi Club" a Japanese horror business punk visual novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 32.5%, Dark 19.1%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Hand-drawn 13.4%, 2D 8.4%
- #53 Minds Beneath Us
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,416 reviews2024
Dev: BearBoneStudio
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Visual Novel 18%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, RPG 10.4%
- #54 Sanator: Scarlet Scarf
70% matchVery Positive89% of 524 reviews2019
Dev: Ignis SanatPub: Ignis Sanat 🔥
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 114.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Scarlet Scarf is a visual novel inspired by the legend of Plague Maiden. Dive into the dark mysteries of a dying city with the fate of Sanator Richard Murdock in your hands. Perhaps it's not too late to stop the on-going calamity...
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, RPG 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Hand-drawn 9.8%
- #55 Dig Night
67% matchVery Positive99% of 95 reviews2024
Dev: INUSHIT
Windows
A dark comedy RPG set in streets and psyches.
Why similar: Comic Book 24.4%, Psychological Horror 20.9%, RPG 20.7%, Adventure 10.4%, Story Rich 8.4%
- #56 Break Wolf
66% matchVery Positive99% of 156 reviews2025
Dev: RE Atelier
Windows
"Have we all been acting waywardly?" An Adventure RPG that deals with the life and death of wayward humans, striving to escape a syndicate that creates monsters.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 24.2%, Multiple Endings 15.9%, Dark 14.5%, Choices Matter 14.1%, RPG 9.3%
- #57 Corner Shop: NightShift
65% matchVery Positive90% of 171 reviews2026
Dev: Live Motion Games
Windows
Take a night shift job in a place that runs on habit, not purpose. Restock shelves, take deliveries, clean the mess, and try to make it till morning. Not everything feels right and you’re never quite alone. Something waits in the dark.
Why similar: Dark 23.2%, Psychological Horror 23%, Multiple Endings 19.1%, Choices Matter 16.9%, Story Rich 9.1%
- #58 Seven Mysteries: The Last Page
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 62 reviews2018
Dev: Sang Hendrix
Windows
A story-driven psychological horror RPG about a group of friends who unintentionally become bound together after encountering 7 curses from a school.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.7%, Psychological Horror 19.8%, Multiple Endings 16.4%, RPG 15.2%, Choices Matter 13.9%
- #59 Second Thoughts
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 82 reviews2022
Dev: Gestmorph Games
Windows · Mac
A psychological text-based game where each day you are tasked with executing someone based on the limited information provided until one person remains with their full story revealed.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Psychological Horror 19.8%, Choices Matter 17.8%, Dark 15.6%, Adventure 8.1%
- #60 Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition
66% matchVery Positive95% of 9,094 reviews2019
Dev: Baroque DecayPub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Join Brian Pasternack on his first working day at Sintracorp. Uncertain, unprepared, and massively unqualified, will Pasternack have what it takes to shine in Sintracorp’s hierarchy? It all depends on how he performs on his first assignment… and whether he survives it.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.9%, Multiple Endings 21.5%, Choices Matter 18.1%, Story Rich 11.1%, Adventure 9.6%