- #1 Scarlet Hollow
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 5,335 reviews2021
Dev: Black Tabby Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 15.2%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Dating Sim 10.2%, Horror 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its hand-drawn art, deeply reactive choices, intimate character writing, and creeping supernatural horror make it the closest overall match.
- #2 BAD END THEATER
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 10,071 reviews2021
Dev: NomnomNami
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.8%, Choices Matter 24.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Romance 12.2%, Story Rich 12%
Why You'll Like It: This compact branching visual novel has you replay intertwined routes to uncover how different decisions reshape a dark fantasy tragedy.
- #3 Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 32,549 reviews2021
Dev: Team SalvatoPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 84.3 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 25.4%, Visual Novel 23.4%, Dating Sim 16%, Romance 13%, Story Rich 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: It begins as a romance visual novel before twisting player expectations through psychological horror and overt metafiction.
- #4 Sucker for Love: First Date
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 3,024 reviews2022
Dev: AkabakaPub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 14.2%, Romance 14.2%, Dating Sim 12.3%, Horror 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It combines flirtation with eldritch horror, presenting romance choices that become increasingly bizarre and dangerous.
- #5 Who's Lila?
94% matchVery Positive94% of 3,836 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 13%, Lore-Rich 11.5%, Choices Matter 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Its unnerving point-and-click conversations, ambiguous reality, and multiple paths create a similarly disorienting psychological-horror experience.
- #6 The Coffin of Andy and Leyley
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 39,585 reviews2023
Dev: Kit9 Studio
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Walk-n-talk adventure with light puzzling. Brother and sister practice cannibalism after witnessing a botched satanic ritual.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.9%, Psychological Horror 18.4%, Choices Matter 17.5%, Hand-drawn 13.3%, Dark Humor 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its disturbing sibling relationship, bleak humor, and consequential branching make it ideal for players seeking morally uncomfortable character horror.
- #7 Raging Loop
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 11,351 reviews2017
Dev: KEMCO
Windows
Median: 24.2 hrsMean: 60.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
The feast has begun, can you escape the village alive?
Why similar: Visual Novel 46.8%, Psychological Horror 27.8%, Story Rich 11.8%, Horror 4.5%, Adventure 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: A tense horror visual novel about repeated deadly loops, hidden roles, and route-based revelations that recontextualize the whole story.
- #8 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
92% matchVery Positive88% of 13,129 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Choices Matter 30.4%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Story Rich 10%
Why You'll Like It: This choice-heavy dark fantasy follows one life across many branching decisions, failures, and radically different endings.
- #9 PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 7,313 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 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Point & Click 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A stylish supernatural mystery with lethal curses, perspective shifts, and clever narrative choices that reward close attention.
- #10 Cooking Companions
91% matchVery Positive94% of 1,212 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 18.6%, Lore-Rich 16.5%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Dating Sim 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%
Why You'll Like It: Cute dating-sim presentation gives way to survival horror and branching bad endings in a deliberately deceptive visual novel.
- #11 Beacon Pines
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 4,519 reviews2022
Dev: Hiding SpotPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.6 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 30.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Horror 12.2%, Story Rich 11%, Hand-drawn 11%
Why You'll Like It: Its storybook horror format lets you slot key words into a narrative tree to explore alternate timelines and uncover the truth.
- #12 The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
89% matchVery Positive94% of 36,219 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%, Dark Humor 10.9%, First-Person 10.8%, Story Rich 9%
Why You'll Like It: Though more comic than frightening, its adversarial narrator, recursive routes, and constant questioning of player agency strongly echo Slay the Princess's meta design.
- #13 The Letter - Horror Visual Novel
90% matchVery Positive85% of 1,534 reviews2017
Dev: Yangyang MobilePub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 11.1 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 32%, Horror 18.2%, Choices Matter 18.1%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its haunted-house story follows several playable characters whose relationships and survival depend on your choices.
- #14 Little Goody Two Shoes
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,553 reviews2023
Dev: AstralShiftPub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.1 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 23.2%, Choices Matter 21.9%, Horror 19.2%, Romance 13.1%, RPG 8%
Why You'll Like It: A folk-horror fairy tale that blends relationship-building, survival mechanics, and ominous branching secrets beneath its charming exterior.
- #15 The NOexistenceN of you AND me
86% matchVery Positive93% of 22,293 reviews2024
Dev: 0x0Real StudioPub: Nino Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 18.7 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 32.8%, Psychological Horror 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Dating Sim 9.2%, Story Rich 9%
Why You'll Like It: Its fragmented psychological horror, multiple endings, and unstable relationship dynamics suit players looking for reality-warping visual novels.
- #16 Cabernet
86% matchVery Positive95% of 2,376 reviews2025
Dev: Party for IntrovertsPub: Akupara Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Psychological Horror 9.6%, Romance 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A dark vampire narrative RPG built around relationships, moral compromises, and choices that determine who you become.
- #17 The House in Fata Morgana
87% matchVery Positive95% of 6,743 reviews2016
Dev: NOVECTPub: MangaGamer
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 27.9 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 25%, Psychological Horror 18.9%, Romance 17.2%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Horror 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: This gothic visual novel delivers tragic romance, shifting identities, and devastating revelations across an atmospheric historical horror tale.
- #18 GNOSIA
85% matchVery Positive94% of 5,158 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 38.7%, Psychological Horror 29.1%, Story Rich 15.2%, Simulation 6.5%, Adventure 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: Repeated social-deduction loops let you learn characters' secrets and manipulate outcomes while trapped in a paranoid sci-fi mystery.
- #19 Saint Maker - Horror Visual Novel
84% matchVery Positive86% of 267 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 21.2%, Psychological Horror 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Horror 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: A religious boarding-school horror story with a female protagonist, unsettling secrets, and visual-novel choices.
- #20 Folie Fatale
82% matchVery Positive86% of 2,697 reviews2024
Dev: Kanmidoko (神海処)Pub: 346lab Localization
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 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 22.6%, Psychological Horror 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Dating Sim 15.1%, Choices Matter 13.5%
Why You'll Like It: This psychological-horror otome visual novel pairs romance routes with unreliable perceptions and multiple possible outcomes.
- #21 Spirit Hunter: Death Mark
84% matchVery Positive83% of 533 reviews2019
Dev: EXPERIENCEPub: Aksys Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 51.1%, Horror 31.6%, Adventure 9%, Point & Click 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Investigate grisly supernatural mysteries while making dangerous decisions in a bleak, character-driven Japanese horror adventure.
- #22 Zero Escape: The Nonary Games
83% matchVery Positive93% of 7,427 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 21.7%, Psychological Horror 18.5%, Story Rich 12.3%, Point & Click 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its escape-room puzzles, multiple endings, and reality-bending twists make each replay reveal new layers of a deadly narrative.
- #23 Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 34,372 reviews2020
Dev: Nikita KryukovPub: Nikita Igorevich Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 8.4 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 35.1%, Psychological Horror 29.3%, Horror 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Story Rich 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: A short experimental visual novel that uses sparse interactions and an unreliable inner monologue to portray deeply uncomfortable psychological horror.
- #24 I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,851 reviews2022
Dev: Northway GamesPub: Finji
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 15.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.5%, Choices Matter 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Dating Sim 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its huge choice web, recurring-life structure, relationship routes, and memory-based replays make decisions feel unusually meaningful.
- #25 The Cat Lady
81% matchVery Positive94% of 6,305 reviews2013
Dev: Harvester GamesPub: Screen 7
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Cat Lady follows Susan Ashworth, a lonely 40-year old on the verge of suicide. She has no family, no friends and no hope for a better future. One day she discovers that five strangers will come along and change everything...
Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.9%, Horror 24.6%, Point & Click 20.9%, Story Rich 16.5%, Adventure 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: A grim hand-drawn psychological horror adventure centered on trauma, death, and morally difficult encounters.
- #26 OMORI
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 88,824 reviews2020
Dev: OMOCAT, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 25.8 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 46.3%, Story Rich 18.2%, Hand-drawn 15.8%, Horror 12.8%, RPG 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A story-rich psychological horror RPG about repression, grief, and surreal alternate realities, with choices that can lead to markedly different conclusions.
- #27 The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker
82% matchVery Positive82% of 620 reviews2017
Dev: D'Avekki Studios Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Type a question - patients reply in full screen video and have questions for you too but be careful what you say. Your words determine their eventual fates, and your own!
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.9%, Choices Matter 13%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Horror 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: This Lovecraftian murder mystery uses free-form questioning and player-led diagnoses to create a highly personal, unsettling investigation.
- #28 Oxenfree
80% matchVery Positive91% of 12,124 reviews2016
Dev: Night School Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.
Why similar: Choices Matter 39%, Story Rich 22.6%, Horror 16.2%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Adventure 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its naturalistic dialogue choices, supernatural time-loop premise, and troubled teen relationships provide a more adventure-focused take on recursive horror.
- #29 The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
78% matchVery Positive92% of 3,334 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 34.8%, Horror 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Story Rich 10.3%, Adventure 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: A richly written folk-horror point-and-click adventure with an increasingly oppressive atmosphere and a haunting central mystery.
- #30 I Hate My Waifu Streamer
77% matchVery Positive93% of 969 reviews2025
Dev: Nozori Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 15.4%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Romance 11.9%, Dating Sim 9.9%
- #31 The Forgotten City
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 13,737 reviews2021
Dev: Modern StorytellerPub: Dear Villagers
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The Forgotten City is a narrative-driven time loop adventure in ancient Rome. Discover the ruins of an ancient underground city, travel 2000 years into the past, and unravel the mystery of who destroyed it by cleverly exploiting the power to wind back time. The fate of the city is in your hands.
Why similar: Choices Matter 45.1%, Story Rich 20.5%, First-Person 15.5%, RPG 10.7%, Adventure 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its time-loop mystery encourages repeated runs, ethical decisions, and careful questioning as you search for a way to break a deadly cycle.
- #32 No, I'm not a Human
75% matchVery Positive93% of 31,055 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 19.3%, Story Rich 11.3%, First-Person 7.5%
- #33 Landmine Princess
77% matchVery Positive91% of 101 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 16.6%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Dating Sim 13.1%, Dark Humor 12%, Romance 10.9%
- #34 Sucker for Love: Date to Die For
76% matchVery Positive95% of 1,353 reviews2024
Dev: AkabakaPub: DreadXP
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 11.7%, Horror 10.6%, Psychological Horror 9.1%
- #35 Mouthwashing
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 38,851 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 42.3%, Horror 20.4%, Story Rich 14.8%, Dark Humor 11.7%, First-Person 6.8%
- #36 Doki Doki Literature Club!
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 228,468 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 28.1%, Visual Novel 24.8%, Dating Sim 15.2%, Romance 11.4%, Horror 10.9%
- #37 Kill Ralph
74% matchVery Positive99% of 102 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 17.5%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Comic Book 10.3%
- #38 MiSide
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 142,774 reviews2024
Dev: AIHASTOPub: IndieArk
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 24.0 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 41.9%, Horror 19.4%, Story Rich 14.7%, First-Person 10.8%, Simulation 4.2%
- #39 Sultan's Game
73% matchVery Positive94% of 35,266 reviews2025
Dev: Double CrossPub: 2P Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12.3 hrsMean: 24.7 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 16.3%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Dark Humor 14.5%
- #40 SAEKO: Giantess Dating Sim
73% matchVery Positive88% of 761 reviews2025
Dev: SAFE HAVN STUDIOPub: HYPER REAL
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.1 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: Visual Novel 15%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Dating Sim 11.1%
- #41 Cut to the Core
75% matchVery Positive94% of 186 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 19.8%, Comic Book 16.2%, Hand-drawn 12.8%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Horror 12.3%
- #42 暴杀残雨之夜
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 925 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 18.6%, Dating Sim 14.2%, Lore-Rich 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, CRPG 11.2%
- #43 SIGNALIS
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 34,748 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%
- #44 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 20%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Visual Novel 17%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Horror 9.8%
- #45 ghostpia Season One
72% matchVery Positive93% of 987 reviews2023
Dev: ChosuidoPub: room6
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 8.1 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 10.2%, Psychological Horror 9.2%, CRPG 8.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.4%, Choices Matter 8.4%
- #46 NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
71% matchVery Positive94% of 58,305 reviews2022
Dev: WSS playground
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.6 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 34.5%, Visual Novel 28.4%, Dark Humor 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Point & Click 7.7%
- #47 Look Outside
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 14,918 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 54.3%, RPG 33.6%, Adventure 8.5%, Singleplayer 3.5%
- #48 Dispatch
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 184,614 reviews2025
Dev: AdHoc Studio
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 12.4 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 32.4%, Romance 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Story Rich 12.8%, Visual Novel 8.9%
- #49 5omeday
70% matchVery Positive88% of 326 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 26.9%, Psychological Horror 22.4%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Story Rich 9.1%
- #50 Class of '09
70% matchVery Positive95% of 9,128 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 36.3%, Visual Novel 35.6%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, RPG 8.6%, Story Rich 7.1%
- #51 Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 22,405 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 36.8%, Psychological Horror 35.9%, Story Rich 8.4%, Horror 6.9%, Choices Matter 6.3%
- #52 Bloody Painter Dating Sim
68% matchVery Positive90% of 1,778 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 12.7%, Romance 12.5%, Horror 12.3%
- #53 Money for Girls: Amortized
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 982 reviews2026
Dev: PorpentinePub: INNOCENT Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
A girl detective faces her darkest mystery yet, in this horror-romance visual novel with stickers, fashion, and bad ends.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.2%, Romance 16.3%, Dating Sim 14.4%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Horror 12.1%
- #54 Until Then
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 19,464 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 40.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Romance 16.6%, Story Rich 14.7%, Psychological Horror 4.6%
- #55 Yet Another Killing Game
66% matchVery Positive97% of 258 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 22.8%, Psychological Horror 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Hand-drawn 13.1%, Point & Click 11.6%
- #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 20.4%, Choices Matter 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Dating Sim 9.2%
- #57 Fear & Hunger
68% matchVery Positive94% of 22,918 reviews2019
Dev: Miro HaverinenPub: Happy Paintings
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Fear & Hunger is a horror dungeon crawler set in the dark and hopeless dungeons of fear and hunger. The game is a hybrid of survival horror and dungeon crawler genres with its influences ranging from Silent Hill to Nethack. There are roguelike elements to the game as well as a heavy foundation of a j-RPG.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 47%, Horror 34.6%, RPG 15.1%, Adventure 3.3%
- #58 Enelia: Dawn of Madness
67% 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 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Psychological Horror 9.2%, Interactive Fiction 9%
- #59 Siren's Call: Escape Velocity
66% matchVery Positive98% of 146 reviews2025
Dev: ThePenSword
Windows
The definitive edition of the fan-favorite visual novel is here! A surreal, coming-of-age tale set in early 2010s Central Florida, Siren's Call is the small town you swore you'd always leave. Something inside you knows this is your last chance. Will you reach escape velocity?
Why similar: Visual Novel 13%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%, Lore-Rich 9.6%
- #60 SCP: Doki Doki Anomaly
68% 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 19.6%, Visual Novel 16%, Dating Sim 15.6%, Romance 14.4%, Choices Matter 12.6%
