- #1 Scarlet Hollow
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 5,206 reviews2021
Dev: Black Tabby Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 14.0 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 15%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Dating Sim 10.3%, 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 32,130 reviews2021
Dev: Team SalvatoPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 83.9 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 25.5%, Visual Novel 23.3%, Dating Sim 16%, Romance 12.8%, Story Rich 5.7%
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 10,015 reviews2021
Dev: NomnomNami
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.8%, Choices Matter 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Romance 12.1%, Story Rich 11.9%
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 Positive94% of 3,792 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 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Lore-Rich 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.7%
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 39,157 reviews2023
Dev: Kit9 Studio
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 13.0 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 19.8%, Psychological Horror 18.4%, Choices Matter 17.6%, Hand-drawn 13.4%, Dark Humor 9.5%
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 Cooking Companions
94% matchVery Positive94% of 1,207 reviews2021
Dev: Deer Dream StudiosPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 18.5%, Lore-Rich 16.8%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Dating Sim 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%
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.
- #7 Sucker for Love: First Date
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 3,007 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 15.1%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Romance 13.9%, Dating Sim 12.3%, Horror 9.3%
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.
- #8 YOU and ME and HER: A Love Story
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 6,981 reviews2020
Dev: NitroplusPub: JAST
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 133.7 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 31.9%, Psychological Horror 26.1%, Romance 14.7%, Dating Sim 6.7%, Horror 6.6%
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 10,913 reviews2017
Dev: KEMCO
Windows
Median: 24.0 hrsMean: 60.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
The feast has begun, can you escape the village alive?
Why similar: Visual Novel 46.6%, Psychological Horror 28.2%, Story Rich 11.9%, Horror 4.6%, Adventure 4.5%
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 Saint Maker - Horror Visual Novel
91% matchVery Positive86% of 264 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 21.1%, Psychological Horror 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Choices Matter 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: A short, oppressive VN focused on faith, obsession, and psychological collapse, with a similarly intimate and disturbing tone.
- #11 PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 7,183 reviews2023
Dev: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 8.8 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 27.4%, Hand-drawn 14.7%, Horror 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Point & Click 9.4%
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.
- #12 The House in Fata Morgana
90% matchVery Positive95% of 6,643 reviews2016
Dev: NOVECTPub: MangaGamer
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 27.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 25%, Psychological Horror 19%, Romance 16.9%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Horror 10.7%
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.
- #13 Sucker for Love: Date to Die For
89% matchVery Positive95% of 1,325 reviews2024
Dev: AkabakaPub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 19%, Dating Sim 15.7%, Hand-drawn 11.8%, Horror 10.5%, 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.
- #14 Little Goody Two Shoes
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,516 reviews2023
Dev: AstralShiftPub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 23.3%, Choices Matter 22%, Horror 19.2%, Romance 12.9%, RPG 8%
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 MiSide
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 141,735 reviews2024
Dev: AIHASTOPub: IndieArk
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 23.5 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 42%, Horror 19.2%, Story Rich 14.6%, First-Person 11%, Simulation 4.3%
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.
- #16 Mouthwashing
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 38,381 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 42.4%, Horror 20.3%, Story Rich 14.6%, Dark Humor 11.8%, First-Person 6.9%
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.
- #17 The Letter - Horror Visual Novel
87% matchVery Positive86% of 1,527 reviews2017
Dev: Yangyang MobilePub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
When seven people fall prey to a vicious curse, they will discover that horror rests not from the shadows lurking about, but within themselves. To what ends will one go in order to survive?
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.8%, Horror 18.2%, Choices Matter 18.1%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 6.7%
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 GNOSIA
85% matchVery Positive94% of 5,092 reviews2022
Dev: Petit DepottoPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 38.6%, Psychological Horror 29.1%, Story Rich 15.1%, Simulation 6.7%, 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.
- #19 Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 34,252 reviews2020
Dev: Nikita KryukovPub: Nikita Igorevich Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 8.3 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 35%, Psychological Horror 29.4%, Horror 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Story Rich 4.1%
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.
- #20 Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 22,285 reviews2021
Dev: Nikita Kryukov
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.5 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 36.7%, Psychological Horror 35.9%, Story Rich 8.3%, 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 7,340 reviews2017
Dev: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 21.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 32.2%, Choices Matter 21.6%, Psychological Horror 18.6%, Story Rich 12.2%, Point & Click 7.2%
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 OMORI
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 88,316 reviews2020
Dev: OMOCAT, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 25.6 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 18.1%, Hand-drawn 15.8%, Horror 12.8%, RPG 6.8%
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.
- #23 The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
81% matchVery Positive94% of 36,001 reviews2022
Dev: Crows Crows Crows
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 34.5%, Psychological Horror 23%, First-Person 11%, Dark Humor 10.9%, Story Rich 9%
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 6,312 reviews2023
Dev: DeconstructeamPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 6.1 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 31.6%, Choices Matter 27.3%, Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Story Rich 11.3%, Adventure 3.6%
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 4,465 reviews2022
Dev: Hiding SpotPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 8.7 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 30.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Horror 12.2%, Hand-drawn 11%, Story Rich 10.9%
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 879 reviews2022
Dev: RIVER CROW STUDIO
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 6.7 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 30.7%, Psychological Horror 27.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Horror 11.9%, Story Rich 9.9%
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 3,259 reviews2022
Dev: Cloak and Dagger GamesPub: Wadjet Eye Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 35%, Horror 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Story Rich 10.2%, Adventure 6.2%
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 21,931 reviews2024
Dev: 0x0Real StudioPub: Nino Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 18.2 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 32.6%, Psychological Horror 24%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Dating Sim 9.2%, Story Rich 9%
- #29 Landmine Princess
77% matchVery Positive91% of 97 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 16.7%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Dating Sim 13.1%, Dark Humor 12.1%, Romance 10.7%
- #30 Cabernet
76% matchVery Positive95% of 2,300 reviews2025
Dev: Party for IntrovertsPub: Akupara Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 7.6 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 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Romance 8.9%
- #31 BURIED STARS
78% matchVery Positive84% of 2,248 reviews2021
Dev: LINE Games Corporation
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 9.1 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 26.3%, Choices Matter 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Story Rich 10.3%
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.
- #32 Spirit Hunter: NG
78% matchVery Positive90% of 290 reviews2019
Dev: EXPERIENCEPub: Aksys Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 20.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 56.7%, Horror 31.6%, Adventure 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar blend of occult horror, investigation, and route-sensitive choices, with an emphasis on escalating dread.
- #33 Spirit Hunter: Death Mark
79% matchVery Positive83% of 524 reviews2019
Dev: EXPERIENCEPub: Aksys Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 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 51%, Horror 31.6%, Adventure 9%, Point & Click 8.4%
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.
- #34 Doki Doki Literature Club!
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 226,656 reviews2017
Dev: Team Salvato
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 38.3 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 24.8%, Dating Sim 15.3%, Romance 11.2%, Horror 10.9%
- #35 Kill Ralph
75% matchVery Positive99% of 96 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 17.4%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Comic Book 10.4%
- #36 No, I'm not a Human
73% matchVery Positive93% of 30,435 reviews2025
Dev: TrioskazPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 28.7%, Choices Matter 26.9%, Horror 19.2%, Story Rich 11.2%, First-Person 7.6%
- #37 SAEKO: Giantess Dating Sim
74% matchVery Positive87% of 744 reviews2025
Dev: SAFE HAVN STUDIOPub: HYPER REAL
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.1 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: Visual Novel 14.9%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Dating Sim 11%
- #38 Cut to the Core
75% matchVery Positive93% of 180 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 19.7%, Comic Book 16.3%, Hand-drawn 12.8%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Horror 12.2%
- #39 Class of '09
74% matchVery Positive95% of 9,055 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 36.6%, Visual Novel 35.2%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, RPG 8.7%, Story Rich 7%
- #40 暴杀残雨之夜
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 786 reviews2026
Dev: 茶斩刀制作组Pub: 无
Windows · Mac
On a rainy night, it's all up to you whether to show love or be cruel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.5%, Dating Sim 14.2%, Lore-Rich 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, CRPG 11.3%
- #41 SIGNALIS
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 34,140 reviews2022
Dev: rose-enginePub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 9.2 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 87.8%, Adventure 6.5%, Singleplayer 5.7%
- #42 Sultan's Game
71% matchVery Positive94% of 34,938 reviews2025
Dev: Double CrossPub: 2P Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 24.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 16.5%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Dark Humor 14.5%
- #43 ghostpia Season One
73% matchVery Positive93% of 984 reviews2023
Dev: ChosuidoPub: room6
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
"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 10.1%, Psychological Horror 9.3%, CRPG 8.7%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.4%
- #44 Look Outside
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 14,361 reviews2025
Dev: Francis CoulombePub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 15.4 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 53.9%, RPG 33.9%, Adventure 8.7%, Singleplayer 3.5%
- #45 Tiny Bunny
71% matchVery Positive83% of 30,504 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 26.6%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Horror 13.8%, Story Rich 9.8%
- #46 The Test
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 20,140 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 19.9%, Psychological Horror 17.9%, Visual Novel 17%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Horror 9.8%
- #47 Folie Fatale
72% matchVery Positive86% of 2,679 reviews2024
Dev: Kanmidoko (神海処)Pub: 346lab Localization
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 22.5%, Psychological Horror 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Dating Sim 14.9%, Choices Matter 13.5%
- #48 5omeday
70% matchVery Positive89% of 323 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 26.8%, Psychological Horror 22.4%, Choices Matter 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Story Rich 9%
- #49 Bloody Painter Dating Sim
69% matchVery Positive90% of 1,752 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 26.9%, Visual Novel 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Horror 12.2%, Romance 12.2%
- #50 Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim™
69% matchVery Positive90% of 6,790 reviews2022
Dev: PsyopPub: Behaviour Interactive Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Welcome to Murderer’s Island. Your companions: four dead-sexy Killers who, underneath their murderous exteriors, just want a little romance. Flirt your way into their hearts, uncovering dark twists along the way. Will you find true love, forge friendships… or get hacked to death?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.1%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Dating Sim 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Romance 13.1%
- #51 Until Then
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 18,965 reviews2024
Dev: Polychroma GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 20.7%, Romance 16.4%, Story Rich 14.7%, Psychological Horror 4.3%
- #52 Enelia: Dawn of Madness
68% 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 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Psychological Horror 9.3%, Interactive Fiction 9%
- #53 Coffee Talk
69% matchVery Positive95% of 12,534 reviews2020
Dev: Toge Productions
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.
Why similar: Visual Novel 35.3%, Choices Matter 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Story Rich 13.1%, Simulation 6.3%
- #54 WORLD OF HORROR
68% matchVery Positive90% of 9,835 reviews2023
Dev: panstaszPub: Ysbryd Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.8 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: Psychological Horror 34.7%, Horror 29.2%, Point & Click 23.9%, RPG 7.5%, Adventure 3%
- #55 Dispatch
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 182,678 reviews2025
Dev: AdHoc Studio
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 12.3 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 32.6%, Romance 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Story Rich 12.8%, Visual Novel 8.8%
- #56 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: Visual Novel 20.3%, Choices Matter 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Dating Sim 9.2%
- #57 In Stars And Time
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,764 reviews2023
Dev: insertdisc5Pub: Armor Games Studios
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Live with the ever-present burden of being trapped in a time loop only you can know about in this turn-based RPG. Create a better future for you and your friends. Find hope where there is none left. Pray to the stars and free yourself from time.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.7%, Lore-Rich 22.5%, Story Rich 16%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Hand-drawn 12.6%
- #58 Королевская ночь
67% 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 22.5%, Choices Matter 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Horror 12.1%, Romance 12.1%
- #59 Tri City Monsters
64% matchVery Positive96% of 84 reviews2026
Dev: Studio Peaches
Windows · Mac · Linux
Tri City Monsters is a supernatural, monsterlovin' visual novel where you can romance and/or de-pants 3 demonic love interests. Navigate a dangerous urban jungle with their help and maybe you'll get a taste of what it means to be a monster.
Why similar: Visual Novel 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Romance 9.2%, Lore-Rich 9%, Dating Sim 8.4%
- #60 Yet Another Killing Game
65% matchVery Positive97% of 251 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 22.7%, Psychological Horror 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Hand-drawn 13.1%, Point & Click 11.7%
