- #1 Scarlet Hollow
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 4,749 reviews2021
Dev: Black Tabby Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.6%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Dating Sim 10.5%, Horror 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Another hand-drawn, choice-heavy horror VN that builds tension through sharp dialogue, relationship dynamics, and consequences that radically change how scenes play out.
- #2 Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 30,999 reviews2021
Dev: Team SalvatoPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 81.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 25.5%, Visual Novel 23%, Dating Sim 16.3%, Romance 12.7%, Story Rich 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: It starts as a familiar romance VN and mutates into meta psychological horror that weaponizes player expectations and the act of choosing.
- #3 BAD END THEATER
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 9,656 reviews2021
Dev: NomnomNami
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.5%, Choices Matter 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Romance 12%, Story Rich 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: Like Slay the Princess, it is built around replaying short routes, learning the system, and reshaping doomed story paths through meta understanding.
- #4 Who's Lila?
95% matchVery Positive95% of 3,610 reviews2022
Dev: Garage Heathen
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Why similar: Psychological Horror 13.7%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Lore-Rich 11.8%, Choices Matter 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its uncanny conversations, unstable identity themes, and deeply unsettling branching outcomes scratch a very similar 'what is actually happening?' itch.
- #5 The Coffin of Andy and Leyley
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 37,109 reviews2023
Dev: Kit9 Studio
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Walk-n-talk adventure with light puzzling. Brother and sister practice cannibalism after witnessing a botched satanic ritual.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.3%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, Choices Matter 18%, Hand-drawn 13.8%, Story Rich 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Twisted intimacy, morally awful choices, and route-dependent character dynamics make it a strong match for horror fans who like relationships to feel dangerous.
- #6 Sucker for Love: First Date
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,966 reviews2022
Dev: AkabakaPub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Put the 'love' in 'Lovecraftian horror'! Perform terrifying rituals to win the affections of eldritch horrors and smooch 'em... at any cost!
Why similar: Visual Novel 15%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Romance 13.7%, Dating Sim 12.5%, Horror 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It turns monster romance into playful horror, echoing Slay the Princess's mix of attraction, danger, and 'this is a terrible idea' chemistry.
- #7 Cooking Companions
93% matchVery Positive94% of 1,193 reviews2021
Dev: Deer Dream StudiosPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Unravel the mystery in this cute psychological horror VN, set deep in the woods of the Tatras Mountains. Will you wind up on the chopping block?
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.3%, Lore-Rich 17.1%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Dating Sim 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%
Why You'll Like It: It blends cute visual-novel presentation with manipulation, dread, and multiple bad ends in a way that feels very adjacent to Slay the Princess.
- #8 YOU and ME and HER: A Love Story
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 6,620 reviews2020
Dev: NitroplusPub: JAST
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 131.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
YOU and ME and HER: A Love Story is the visual novel medium in its purest form. Will Shinichi choose Miyuki, the beautiful queen bee of the school, or the endearingly awkward misfit Aoi? With art by Tsuji Santa, these beautifully rendered romances will stay with you forever.
Why similar: Visual Novel 32.1%, Psychological Horror 26.2%, Romance 14.6%, Horror 6.7%, Dating Sim 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Another romance-tinged meta VN that escalates into obsession, player complicity, and disturbing shifts in reality.
- #9 Raging Loop
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,075 reviews2017
Dev: KEMCO
Windows
Median: 24.2 hrsMean: 59.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
The feast has begun, can you escape the village alive?
Why similar: Visual Novel 47%, Psychological Horror 27.8%, Story Rich 11.8%, Horror 4.8%, Adventure 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: This loop-heavy horror VN thrives on repeated plays, hidden information, and using knowledge from earlier runs to pry open new narrative branches.
- #10 Sucker for Love: Date to Die For
90% matchVery Positive95% of 1,287 reviews2024
Dev: AkabakaPub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Put the ‘love’ in 'Lovecraftian horror!' Avoid the fanatical cultists and survive dangerous rituals to escape the Black Woods with your life in this 90’s anime inspired visual novel!
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.8%, Dating Sim 15.8%, Hand-drawn 11.8%, Horror 10.4%, Psychological Horror 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: This sequel doubles down on creepy-cute courting, occult comedy, and the thrill of flirting with something that can absolutely ruin you.
- #11 Saint Maker - Horror Visual Novel
91% matchVery Positive86% of 253 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 20.9%, Psychological Horror 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Choices Matter 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: A short, oppressive VN focused on faith, obsession, and psychological collapse, with a similarly intimate and disturbing tone.
- #12 PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,838 reviews2023
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 10.2 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 27%, Hand-drawn 14.8%, Horror 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Point & Click 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A supernatural mystery where perspective shifts and carefully chosen actions unlock new routes and revelations, rewarding the same kind of attentive replaying.
- #13 The House in Fata Morgana
89% matchVery Positive95% of 6,235 reviews2016
Dev: NOVECTPub: MangaGamer
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 27.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A gothic suspense tale set in a cursed mansion. "The House in Fata Morgana" is a full-length visual novel spanning nearly a millennium that deals in tragedy, human nature, and insanity.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.8%, Psychological Horror 19%, Romance 16.7%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Horror 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Less interactive, but its gothic horror, tragic romance, and layered truth-versus-perception storytelling hit many of the same emotional notes.
- #14 Little Goody Two Shoes
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,377 reviews2023
Dev: AstralShiftPub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Venture into the woods as you play Little Goody Two Shoes, a phantasmagorical horror narrative adventure where all your decisions matter!
Why similar: Dating Sim 23.6%, Choices Matter 22.1%, Horror 18.9%, Romance 12.6%, RPG 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A fairy-tale horror RPG/VN hybrid with romance, secrets, and multiple endings that channels a similar dark storybook feel.
- #15 Mouthwashing
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 36,697 reviews2024
Dev: Wrong OrganPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 41.9%, Horror 20.3%, Story Rich 14.4%, Dark Humor 12.1%, First-Person 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Though more linear, it matches the seed game's oppressive psychological horror and fascination with unreliable people trapped in a nightmare of their own making.
- #16 MiSide
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 138,400 reviews2024
Dev: AIHASTOPub: IndieArk
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Let's imagine that you have a game in which you care for a character. But could you imagine one day getting into that game yourself?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 41.7%, Horror 19.2%, Story Rich 14.3%, First-Person 11.2%, Simulation 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: It similarly uses intimacy and player expectation as horror tools, turning a seemingly cute character-driven setup into an unnerving psychological trap.
- #17 The Letter - Horror Visual Novel
87% matchVery Positive86% of 1,515 reviews2017
Dev: Yangyang MobilePub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
When seven people fall prey to a vicious curse, they will discover that horror rests not from the shadows lurking about, but within themselves. To what ends will one go in order to survive?
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.5%, Choices Matter 18.3%, Horror 18.2%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A branching horror VN with a large choice web and many endings, ideal if you want another narrative where small decisions snowball into catastrophe.
- #18 OMORI
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 86,619 reviews2020
Dev: OMOCAT, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 24.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 46.4%, Story Rich 17.7%, Hand-drawn 16%, Horror 12.9%, RPG 7%
Why You'll Like It: It is mechanically different, but its blend of emotional horror, hidden truths, and gradually unraveling inner reality will resonate with players who liked the seed's darker revelations.
- #19 GNOSIA
84% matchVery Positive94% of 4,865 reviews2022
Dev: Petit DepottoPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
The Gnosia lie. Pretending to be human, they’ll get in close, trick and deceive, and then eliminate one victim at a time...
Why similar: Visual Novel 38.3%, Psychological Horror 29%, Story Rich 14.9%, Simulation 7.1%, Adventure 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: This time-loop social-deduction VN offers the same appeal of replaying, learning hidden rules, and using knowledge to navigate increasingly uncanny encounters.
- #20 Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 21,578 reviews2021
Dev: Nikita Kryukov
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A sequel to Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk. Dive into demented and bizarre world once again and help the girl become a little happier.
Why similar: Visual Novel 36.3%, Psychological Horror 36.2%, Story Rich 8.1%, Horror 6.9%, Choices Matter 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its surreal conversations, fractured perception, and focus on unstable reality make it a great fit if you liked the seed game's more disorienting side.
- #21 Zero Escape: The Nonary Games
84% matchVery Positive93% of 7,129 reviews2017
Dev: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Kidnapped and taken to an unfamiliar location, nine people find themselves forced to participate in a diabolical Nonary Game by an enigmatic mastermind called Zero. Why were they there? Why were they chosen to put their lives on the line? And more importantly, who can be trusted?
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.9%, Choices Matter 21.9%, Psychological Horror 18.5%, Story Rich 12%, Point & Click 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: If you loved untangling routes and revisiting scenes with new context, this puzzle-VN classic delivers that same revelation-driven structure.
- #22 Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 33,269 reviews2020
Dev: Nikita KryukovPub: Nikita Igorevich Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 11%
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Why similar: Visual Novel 34.5%, Psychological Horror 29.3%, Horror 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Story Rich 4%
Why You'll Like It: A shorter, denser psychological VN that similarly puts you inside a disturbed mental space where every line feels loaded and off-kilter.
- #23 The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
81% matchVery Positive94% of 34,796 reviews2022
Dev: Crows Crows Crows
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an expanded re-imagining of 2013's The Stanley Parable. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will make a choice, and you will become powerless. You are not here to win. The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you.
Why similar: Choices Matter 34.8%, Psychological Horror 22.7%, First-Person 11.2%, Dark Humor 10.8%, Story Rich 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Not a horror game, but few titles capture the pleasure of defying a domineering narrator and exploring what choice really means quite this well.
- #24 The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
81% matchVery Positive93% of 5,966 reviews2023
Dev: DeconstructeamPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Immerse yourself in an enchanting narrative experience as Fortuna, a fortune-teller Witch condemned to exile on her asteroid home. Craft your own Tarot deck, regain your freedom, and shape the fate of the cosmic Witch society.
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.2%, Choices Matter 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Story Rich 10.8%, Adventure 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: It is less horrific, but its fate-shaping choices, intimate conversations, and focus on how words create futures make it a strong thematic cousin.
- #25 Beacon Pines
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 4,313 reviews2022
Dev: Hiding SpotPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Beacon Pines is a cute and creepy adventure set within a mysterious book. Sneak out late, make new friends, uncover hidden truths, and collect words that will change the course of fate!
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.9%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Horror 12.1%, Hand-drawn 11%, Story Rich 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its branching storybook structure and cute-yet-sinister tone make it a softer but still fitting follow-up for players who want more replayable narrative mystery.
- #26 CORPSE FACTORY
82% matchVery Positive80% of 866 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 30.5%, Psychological Horror 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Horror 11.9%, Story Rich 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A modern horror VN about cruelty, obsession, and escalating dread that pays off through multiple routes and ugly moral choices.
- #27 The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
79% matchVery Positive92% of 3,087 reviews2022
Dev: Cloak and Dagger GamesPub: Wadjet Eye Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a folk horror narrative-driven adventure. Explore the isolated moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow. The answers lie in the soil...
Why similar: Point & Click 34.9%, Horror 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Story Rich 9.7%, Adventure 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: This folk-horror point-and-click shares the seed game's oppressive atmosphere, hand-crafted art, and sense of walking willingly into something awful.
- #28 The NOexistenceN of you AND me
77% matchVery Positive93% of 20,460 reviews2024
Dev: 0x0Real StudioPub: Nino Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 16.7 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 31.9%, Psychological Horror 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Dating Sim 9.6%, Story Rich 8.8%
- #29 Landmine Princess
77% matchVery Positive95% of 83 reviews2025
Dev: Jeistar
Windows
Meet Mina! She's a landmine girl! That means she's cute on the outside, but dangerous on the inside! But maybe she's the kind of danger you've always been looking for. This is a rogue fast-love dating sim. And the only sim that teaches you to be nice to girls. Or else.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.5%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Dating Sim 13.2%, Dark Humor 12.1%, Romance 10.6%
- #30 I Hate My Waifu Streamer
76% matchVery Positive93% of 863 reviews2025
Dev: Nozori Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Get the streamer's attention at any cost before someone else does. Write comments, chat, and make donations to your waifu, but do not dare to hate her!
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.2%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Romance 11.5%, Dating Sim 10%
- #31 No, I'm not a Human
74% matchVery Positive93% of 28,177 reviews2025
Dev: TrioskazPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 5.8 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 28.1%, Choices Matter 27%, Horror 19.3%, Story Rich 11%, First-Person 7.9%
- #32 Kill Ralph
75% matchVery Positive100% of 78 reviews2025
Dev: Andrii Tuzenko
Windows · Mac · Linux
"Lies, treachery, and a bounty worth dying for. You’re no warrior, just a cunning hunter—will your wits be enough to catch Ralph Devour?"
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.1%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Comic Book 10.6%
- #33 BURIED STARS
78% matchVery Positive84% of 2,174 reviews2021
Dev: LINE Games Corporation
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A mystery adventure set at the collapse site of a live survival audition show. Trapped contestants communicate with each other—and the outside world through social media—as they wait for rescue. But as unexpected events unfold, trust begins to crack, and survival becomes far more complicated.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26%, Choices Matter 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Story Rich 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its claustrophobic cast dynamics, suspicion, and multiple narrative outcomes appeal if your favorite part of Slay the Princess was the psychological pressure between characters.
- #34 Spirit Hunter: NG
78% matchVery Positive90% of 282 reviews2019
Dev: EXPERIENCEPub: Aksys Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 20.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Beware the Creeping Horror... Face nightmares you thought were merely urban legends. Uncover a dark mystery, making deadly decisions just to survive. Play this chilling companion story to the award-winning Spirit Hunter: Death Mark game and bring the terror home.
Why similar: Visual Novel 57%, Horror 31.1%, Adventure 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar blend of occult horror, investigation, and route-sensitive choices, with an emphasis on escalating dread.
- #35 Spirit Hunter: Death Mark
79% matchVery Positive82% of 512 reviews2019
Dev: EXPERIENCEPub: Aksys Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A strange rumor is spreading through the shadows of Tokyo's H City: a mysterious disfigurement has been appearing on the bodies of certain individuals. Anyone who receives the Mark will rapidly die of unknown, horrifying causes. The countdown to death has already begun...
Why similar: Visual Novel 50.7%, Horror 31.7%, Adventure 9%, Point & Click 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A horror adventure/VN with gruesome set pieces and life-or-death choices, good for players who want another text-heavy supernatural nightmare.
- #36 Cabernet
74% matchVery Positive95% of 2,024 reviews2025
Dev: Party for IntrovertsPub: Akupara Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Cabernet is a 2D narrative RPG set in a 19th century Eastern European inspired world, with a modern twist. Guide Liza, a young vampire in her new unlife among the unsuspecting townsfolk. Will you retain your humanity or descend further into the horror you have become?
Why similar: Choices Matter 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%, Romance 8.8%
- #37 Sultan's Game
73% matchVery Positive94% of 33,952 reviews2025
Dev: Double CrossPub: 2P Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 24.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Survive a mad Sultan's reign in this brutal resource management RPG. Draw a card every seven days and complete its challenge. Make dreadful choices to stay alive: will you die a loyal servant, become a kingslayer, or call down the gods' judgement?
Why similar: Lore-Rich 16.8%, Psychological Horror 16%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Dark Humor 14.5%
- #38 Cut to the Core
76% matchVery Positive93% of 170 reviews2022
Dev: Plasma PressPub: AAD Productions
Windows · Mac · Linux
How much of someone can you cut away before there's nothing left? Find out in this chilling kinetic visual novel - IF YOU DARE!
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.5%, Comic Book 16.7%, Hand-drawn 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Psychological Horror 12.2%
- #39 Doki Doki Literature Club!
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 221,125 reviews2017
Dev: Team Salvato
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 38.4 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 28.2%, Visual Novel 24.7%, Dating Sim 15.5%, Romance 11.1%, Horror 10.9%
- #40 SAEKO: Giantess Dating Sim
73% matchVery Positive87% of 699 reviews2025
Dev: SAFE HAVN STUDIOPub: HYPER REAL
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 14.9%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Choices Matter 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Dating Sim 11.2%
- #41 Slay the Alice
72% matchVery Positive98% of 221 reviews2025
Dev: SUZUMIHARAPub: BARON DU JUVÉNILE
Windows
A short visual novel presented with pixel art and cute animations. Chasing after a rabbit, Alice found herself in a land of talking plants. Now, it's time to go on a tiny little adventure.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Point & Click 14.1%, Dark Humor 12.3%, Horror 11.5%
- #42 Class of '09
73% matchVery Positive95% of 8,578 reviews2021
Dev: SBN3
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
This is the anti-visual novel. Instead of playing as some guy magically able to score with beautiful anime girls, YOU play the anime girl and create mass chaos in the lives of your potential "suitors". Earnest comedy, social accuracy, and late 2000's aesthetic await you in Class of '09!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.9%, Visual Novel 34.5%, Psychological Horror 9.5%, RPG 9.3%, Story Rich 6.9%
- #43 SIGNALIS
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 32,665 reviews2022
Dev: rose-enginePub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 87.6%, Adventure 6.7%, Singleplayer 5.8%
- #44 ghostpia Season One
72% matchVery Positive94% of 946 reviews2023
Dev: ChosuidoPub: room6
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
"In my dreams, I can get out. In my dreams, I can fit in." 'ghostpia' mixes the adorable art style of an illustrated book with glitches-and-noise effects. There are no choices to be made. There's only a lonely girl in a ghost town and her story full of mystery, friendhood...and a bit of violence.
Why similar: Visual Novel 9.9%, CRPG 9.1%, Psychological Horror 9.1%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.3%
- #45 Tiny Bunny
70% matchVery Positive83% of 30,195 reviews2025
Dev: Saikono
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.5 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 26.3%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Horror 13.7%, Story Rich 9.6%
- #46 Folie Fatale
71% matchVery Positive86% of 2,531 reviews2024
Dev: Kanmidoko (神海処)Pub: 346lab Localization
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
All capture targets are mentally "Jirai"(landmine)!? Meet these eccentric boys, reveal the truth beneath in this Psycho-love-horror VN!
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.4%, Psychological Horror 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Dating Sim 15%, Choices Matter 13.7%
- #47 NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
70% matchVery Positive94% of 55,246 reviews2022
Dev: WSS playground
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 34.3%, Visual Novel 28.1%, Dark Humor 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Point & Click 8%
- #48 The Test
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 20,135 reviews2020
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 23%
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Horror 9.8%
- #49 Look Outside
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 12,602 reviews2025
Dev: Francis CoulombePub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 15.1 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: Horror 54.3%, RPG 33.1%, Adventure 9.2%, Singleplayer 3.5%
- #50 5omeday
68% matchVery Positive91% of 257 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: Visual Novel 26.6%, Psychological Horror 22.4%, Choices Matter 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Story Rich 9%
- #51 Enelia: Dawn of Madness
69% matchVery Positive95% of 129 reviews2024
Dev: Indra Studio
Windows
Immerse yourself in the enigmatic world of Nauris, where enchanting landscapes hide terrifying secrets: the strange behavior of elders, sinister rituals of priests, and the disappearance of citizens. Madness lurks everywhere – will you master it or become its victim? The choice is yours.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%, Psychological Horror 9.2%
- #52 Her Last Piece
68% matchVery Positive98% of 127 reviews2024
Dev: SpiceMerchantsPub: SpiceMerchantsGames
Windows
A choice-based dark gothic romance Visual Novel... Trapped alone in her castle, can you survive a dark yandere queen's schemes? Or will you fall for her charms? Remember... She lies.
Why similar: Visual Novel 45.5%, Story Rich 12.3%, Hand-drawn 12.2%, Horror 11.2%, Romance 9.5%
- #53 Dispatch
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 174,629 reviews2025
Dev: AdHoc Studio
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero. All episodes out now!
Why similar: Choices Matter 33.2%, Romance 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Story Rich 12.5%, Visual Novel 8.2%
- #54 Bloody Painter Dating Sim
67% matchVery Positive90% of 1,652 reviews2024
Dev: DeluCat Productions
Windows
You have unfortunately been captured by a serial killer, and you must increase your chances of survival within seven days. Your choices will determine how he treats you and the outcome of your relationship. What will your final relationship with him be...?
Why similar: Dating Sim 26.8%, Visual Novel 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Romance 12.2%, Horror 12.1%
- #55 Королевская ночь
69% matchVery Positive88% of 147 reviews2023
Dev: SNch
Windows
"Королевская ночь"– нелинейная визуальная новелла в жанре ужасов. Десятки лет одиночества заставят её мыслить иначе..
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.4%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Horror 12.2%, Romance 12%
- #56 Inscryption
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 144,872 reviews2021
Dev: Daniel Mullins GamesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Why similar: Horror 37.4%, Story Rich 28.3%, Point & Click 20.5%, First-Person 11%, Adventure 2.8%
- #57 Yet Another Killing Game
66% matchVery Positive98% of 229 reviews2025
Dev: Soulseer Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
You wake up in a house, alone with two beautiful girls... But no one is allowed to leave until one of you DIES. Why is this happening? What is the purpose of this “killing game”? But most importantly...WHO SHOULD DIE?!
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.6%, Psychological Horror 20.6%, Hand-drawn 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Point & Click 11.8%
- #58 Until Then
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 16,524 reviews2024
Dev: Polychroma GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows · Linux
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.
Why similar: Visual Novel 40.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Romance 15.7%, Story Rich 14.5%, Psychological Horror 3.5%
- #59 Crimson Gray: Dusk and Dawn
70% matchVery Positive94% of 124 reviews2018
Dev: Sierra Lee
Windows · Mac · Linux
A slice of life visual novel with the emphasis on the slicing. Play as a mentally unstable young woman with blood on her hands trying to adapt to a normal life.
Why similar: Choices Matter 20.2%, Visual Novel 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Dating Sim 9.3%
- #60 1000xRESIST
65% matchVery Positive95% of 6,526 reviews2024
Dev: sunset visitor 斜陽過客Pub: Fellow Traveller
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 67%
1000xRESIST is a thrilling sci-fi adventure. The year is unknown, and a disease spread by an alien invasion keeps you underground. You are Watcher. You dutifully fulfil your purpose in serving the ALLMOTHER, until the day you discover a shocking secret that changes everything.
Why similar: Visual Novel 42.3%, Psychological Horror 38.5%, Story Rich 19.2%
