60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Gore, Violent, Horror, Psychological Horror.
A yuri denpa tale about the cursed pariah of a rural cult, Mercy, and her fateful meeting with the Holy Maiden Auma. Bloody, bold, and bone-chilling, this visual novel explores the complexities of the cycle of abuse and the violence in playing by the rules.
Don’t Make Her Open Her Eyes!
A black-white-red visual novel in the horror genre.
This Party Is Killer
On your one day off, you decide to take your partner Iris and their camera to a planning party for your friend Erik’s future thesis film. But the footage Erik wants to capture is more than you or Iris bargained for. Will you be able to protect your partner from what lies before you?
A black-white-red visual novel in the horror genre.
Why similar: Gore 25.7%, Violent 14.7%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Dark 11.3%, Horror 10.6%
On your one day off, you decide to take your partner Iris and their camera to a planning party for your friend Erik’s future thesis film. But the footage Erik wants to capture is more than you or Iris bargained for. Will you be able to protect your partner from what lies before you?
Why similar: Gore 19.7%, Violent 15.2%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Visual Novel 12%, LGBTQ+ 10%
From YOUR decisions, many people could get hurt. Can you save your friends or at least save yourself from the horror that awaits?
Why similar: Gore 23.2%, Violent 15%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Dark 9.1%
Nestled in the heart of Tokyo, the quaint little aquarium, Manten Aquarium. Numerous urban legends have arisen from here. On the night of the full moon the waters turn to blood and man faced fish lurk within.
Why similar: Gore 23.8%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Violent 15.7%, Horror 12.1%, Anime 9.9%
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Gore 11.4%, Horror 11.3%, Anime 8.8%
Get pulled into the nightmares of reality as you play as an abducted girl from the ger district of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Uncover a secret organization that deals in human trafficking and other horrendous activities. Try to escape from the scariest place on earth!
Why similar: Gore 33.3%, Violent 21%, Dark 9.6%, Psychological 8.7%, Psychological Horror 8.4%
The tragedy of Hinamizawa is over. Those held captive within its grip are free from the fate that bound them to June 1983. Yet the tale of Hinamizawa is not truly complete. There are many worlds not yet explored.
Why similar: Gore 20.3%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Psychological 17.7%, Violent 15.2%, Anime 11%
A golden dream, and a closed world. A spiral staircase into the garden of the mind. What lies beyond gilded wonderland?
Why similar: Gore 22%, Violent 18.5%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Anime 9.2%
Vengeful spirit Sachiko Shinozaki is having a birthday bash, and the lovable cast of damned souls from the Corpse Party series is invited! Join the revelers as they do their best to keep Sachiko happy and survive her twisted games in this midquel to Corpse Party and Corpse Party: Book of Shadows.
Why similar: Gore 38.2%, Violent 26.9%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Horror 9.5%, Anime 8.9%
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Why similar: Gore 20%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Violent 13%, Horror 11.6%
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: Violent 18.5%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Gore 16.1%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Anime 8.1%
Set two months after Corpse Party: Book of Shadows, Corpse Party: Blood Drive is the definitive conclusion to the long-running Heavenly Host story arc. Featuring dynamic lighting, 3D sound, detailed environments, and new gameplay systems, this is a Japanese horror experience not to be missed!
Why similar: Gore 39.2%, Violent 24.9%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Horror 12%, Anime 11.9%
Uncanny Tales is an episodic horror series where the real terror comes not from monsters or the supernatural, but from people. Each episode is a new unsettling story inspired by real fears and eerie situations from everyday life.
Why similar: Gore 20.5%, Violent 17.1%, Psychological Horror 16%, Psychological 15.2%, Dark 10.8%
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.2%, Gore 18.8%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Violent 12.8%, Horror 12.2%
Mugen Takebara doesn't remember much of his childhood. Returning to Inonaki wasn't his choice. Welcomed by his cousin, Sora, the two quickly reconnect… but something is wrong. With her. Or with you.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.2%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Gore 12%, Psychological 11.7%, Violent 9%
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 18.5%, Gore 15.8%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Dark 12.8%, Horror 11.9%
This game is not for everyone, do you have what it takes to unravel the secrets behind this... thing? Are you ready to face the truth and question your own existence? You've been warned...
Why similar: Gore 37.8%, Violent 28.3%, Psychological Horror 24.5%, Horror 9.4%
Sanctuaries. Secrets. Serious consequences. A solo-developed psychological horror/drama visual novel.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.6%, Psychological 13.7%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Dark 9.7%, Horror 9.3%
A long-form, choice-driven psychological horror and depression game in which the protagonist’s ending changes based on the choices made by “you,” the voice he hears in his head.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.6%, Gore 17.1%, Dark 14.1%, Violent 12.8%, Horror 12.4%
'Veronica' is a first person psychological horror game based on the events that occur after your movie is interrupted by an alert due to sighting reports of a 7 year old girl, Veronica, who went missing 3 years ago. Why does it seem like you know more about it than you're sharing?
Why similar: Gore 28.9%, Violent 15.2%, Psychological 14.1%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Dark 12.1%
A horror/romance visual novel with numerous choices and over 20 endings. Set in Japan in the 1980s, our protagonist, Atcchan, must navigate his relationship between his two estranged childhood friends, one of whom might be a yandere. Will he live to see the end of his summer vacation?
Why similar: Gore 35%, Violent 25.2%, Visual Novel 25.1%, Anime 9.3%, Horror 5.4%
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.1%, Visual Novel 17%, Gore 16.7%, Horror 12.2%, Violent 11.5%
From the creators of the critically acclaimed STEINS;GATE comes a sensational new visual novel: CHAOS;CHILD. Set in Shibuya in 2015, a group of high school students who survived an earthquake six years ago find themselves at the center of a new series of bizarre murders in the city.
Why similar: Gore 21.7%, Visual Novel 21.2%, Violent 15.5%, Psychological Horror 13%, Anime 8.5%
Follow the story of a Fomorian bunny, a creature that gets banished to earth and has to adapt to earth and its lifestyle.
Why similar: Gore 43.4%, Violent 32.4%, Psychological Horror 9.1%, Psychological 8.9%, Horror 6.2%
A horror visual novel set in a steampunk universe. Young Lyset finds herself wandering through a mysterious world of sentient machines. In her desperate search for her long-lost brother, she must choose between death and immortality.
Why similar: Gore 22%, Visual Novel 21.2%, Violent 19.6%, Horror 12.4%, Anime 12.1%
GEMINI SYNDRXME is a strange story about two twin girls: Mei and Aoi. Despite external similarity, their characters are absolute opposites.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 15.6%, Visual Novel 14.2%, LGBTQ+ 12.7%, Psychological 9.8%, Dark 8.4%
CHAOS;HEAD NOAH is now available on Steam!
Why similar: Gore 30.5%, Visual Novel 24.1%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Violent 12%, Anime 9.4%
“Perennial Dusk -Kinsenka-” is a kinetic novel about how the human heart endures relentless violence and limitless cruelty, telling the story of a group of exorcists-in-training as they gather the pieces needed to mend their wounded souls.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.8%, Dark 12.2%, Violent 11.4%, Anime 10.8%, Drama 9.1%
Children's Fear is a turn-based RPG with horror elements where you will meet Zala, Luka, and Darko. After a series of events, they find themselves trapped in a journey where they must eliminate the darkness that stalks them in order to regain the life they had before arriving in the Paura Valley.
Why similar: Gore 33.2%, Psychological Horror 19.7%, Dark 12.6%, Horror 10.8%, Violent 9.3%
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: Gore 34.8%, Violent 26%, Visual Novel 21%, Horror 14%, Anime 4.1%
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.2%, Psychological 14.1%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Gore 10.6%, Violent 10.5%
If one’s imagined world of nightmare and the real world unite…. The hide-and-seek game of death in the world of nightmare begins. Discover hints and save yourself from the nightmare!
Why similar: Gore 32.7%, Visual Novel 21.4%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Horror 15%, Anime 13.1%
"All ended well.There was nothing to grieve about." A farewell, and a greeting.
Why similar: Gore 25.3%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, Violent 15.9%, Psychological 9.3%, Visual Novel 8.9%
You wake up at the psychiatric institution Hillstone Asylum and find that you have been given a potent hallucinogen. As you cross the corridors of Hillstone Asylum, you notice that there's something wrong with you: The hallucinogen shows its effects and literally puts you in hell on earth.
Why similar: Gore 33.1%, Violent 24.7%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Psychological 11.5%, Horror 10.3%
-"Do you believe the actuality now?" When the SCP Foundation moves, you will be a witness of {Project MA-13}.
Why similar: Gore 36.4%, Violent 26.3%, Visual Novel 17%, Anime 10.8%, Horror 9.6%
A dark lesbian horror/romance story so toxic it's emitting spores. Ethel, a shy university student, ventures into the wintry woods late at night, where she meets an enchanting femme fatale — but all is not as it seems.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.8%, LGBTQ+ 11.7%, Dark 10.9%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Anime 8.7%
A short horror visual novel where you get to know your brand new self-aware in-game boyfriend and explore your relationship through Talking About Something in the Nowhere.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.6%, LGBTQ+ 17.4%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Dark 8.4%, Psychological 7.4%
IMMURE is a story driven, psychological horror game. Will, the protagonist, has found himself trapped inside a foreboding Mansion with no exit. To escape, he must travel through strange doors which lead into other dimensions, filled with tormented souls.
Why similar: Gore 38.9%, Violent 30%, Psychological Horror 19.7%, Horror 11.3%
Sickness is a visual novel centering around Suoh Tesla, an amoral high school student whose life is rapidly deteriorating. Following the deaths of his parents, a brief stay in the hospital, and the emergence of his “Sickness”, his daily life quickly devolves from carefree school days to a life of crime.
Why similar: Violent 21.4%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Dark 12%, Psychological 10.7%, Psychological Horror 10%
A romantic getaway takes a turn for the worst for John and Sarah as their dream vacation at The Cecil Hotel turns into a nightmare. John wakes up in a dark cell, realizing Sarah is missing. Now, he must find and save her from the horrors that haunt the hotel before it’s too late.
Why similar: Violent 33.4%, Gore 31.7%, Psychological Horror 9.4%, Narrative 9.1% ★, Dark 7.3%
Horror thriller visual novel written by cult director Ruggero Deodato. A cannibal story in three episodes. Embark on a challenging journey, where every choice has a price and consequences. Will you be able to reach the end without getting your soul devoured? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Gore 19.1%, Visual Novel 16%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Violent 13.8%, Horror 11%
GEMINI DISORDER is a strange story about two twin girls: Mei and Aoi. Despite external similarity, their characters are absolute opposites.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.9%, LGBTQ+ 15.7%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Anime 10%, Horror 9.5%
Entwined is a visual novel horror game set in a hospital. A lockdown has occurred and no one can escape. Team up with either a nurse or a patient in order to escape the hospital. Make your choice for the path ahead…
Why similar: Gore 37%, Violent 27.6%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Horror 7.8%
This is a horror game that asks a friend to find out what happened in an abandoned hospital.
Why similar: Gore 33.7%, Psychological Horror 19.6%, Horror 14.7%, Dark 14.6%, Violent 11%
Thorner is a horror visual novel with multiple endings. You attempt to escape your past by fleeing to the wilderness, but spilled blood can never be forgiven. The land knows what you did. The land judges. Thorner awaits.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.4%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Dark 15.1%, Gore 10.8%, Psychological 8.6%
"Fire in the Dark" is a psychological meta-horror where the eerie game on the heroine’s computer and her room merge into one world, revealing each trauma through your actions.
Why similar: Gore 20.6%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Psychological 13.5%, Dark 10.1%, Horror 9.1%
Immerse yourself in the terrifying world of Circus of Pain, where you become the main participant in a deadly circus show. Solve dangerous puzzles to survive.
Why similar: Gore 27.3%, Psychological Horror 25%, Violent 16.8%, Dark 16.3%, Horror 14.5%
A psychological mystery yuri visual novel about a girl named Amelie. Forbidden from leaving the house, Amelie awaits the arrival of her long time penpal, Sofia, to her dear friend Lilika’s dismay. What secrets will Sofia unravel that were best kept buried?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 14.4%, Psychological 14.4%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Female Protagonist 9%
Shadows in the Silence is a short first-person psychological horror game with jumpscare mechanics. You will have to explore an abandoned mansion and investigate the horrors committed by a cult devoted to Astaroth,there are scenes of violence and explicit images, the use of headphones is recommended.
Why similar: Gore 45.5%, Psychological Horror 23.8%, Violent 12.5%, Horror 11%, Atmospheric 3.9%
In this chaotic world, you must adapt - either to forgive or survive. A thriller-romance indie visual novel/dating simulator.
Why similar: Gore 30.5%, Violent 25%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, LGBTQ+ 6.8%
Pulang: Insanity is a psychological horror game set in a mythical culture of Indonesia. the games tell a story about Rudy, a man who once became poor and heavily indebted, he passed his poverty and became prosperous via the “Pesugihan” ritual, yet the happiness didn’t last long.
Why similar: Gore 24.5%, Violent 17.8%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Psychological 12.5%, Dark 11%
In this Easter Horror Game compete in the mini games, solve puzzles, and escape the Easter Bunny. PS1 style survival horror!
Why similar: Gore 25.8%, Psychological Horror 18.3%, Psychological 15.3%, Dark 11.2%, Horror 10.9%
TRTH(The road to hades) is a horror adventure game full of Asian myths and art. Guide the girl safely in the world of the dead. Welcome to a new game you have not experienced.
Why similar: Gore 43.7%, Violent 31.2%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Horror 9.6%
“喂喂，求求你啦！救救我！” ——你接到这样一个电话 发出这样的求救，给你打电话的人，是一名被监禁的少女
Why similar: Gore 17.6%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Violent 11.2%, Psychological 10.6%
If you're ready to run and play a deadly game of hide-and-seek, then come on in and make yourself at home. Behind the door, endless oppressive corridors, filthy walls, deadly traps, and a ravenous creature eagerly waiting to get up close and personal with you await.
Why similar: Violent 20.3%, Psychological Horror 18.8%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Horror 12.2%, Gore 12%
Timore 6 is an indie horror game about facing your inner demons in order to save your child.
Why similar: Gore 49.1%, Violent 26.4%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Horror 8.7%, Atmospheric 3.9%
As madness and horror devour his world, can Youji find hope amid the nightmare? Experience a bond deeper and darker than love in this unforgettable visual novel.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.7%, Gore 23.6%, Visual Novel 20.9%, Violent 14.1%, Psychological Horror 5.9%
"Let us celebrate, the birth of this nightmare." A story about an urban legend surrounding a certain "Box", this is a Japanese-style, supernatural visual novel about madness, love and hate.
Why similar: Gore 28.5%, Visual Novel 21.1%, Violent 14.7%, Horror 11.3%, Anime 10.7%
Near Death Experience is a defensless horror game that puts you in the mind of a car crash victim that lost his memory and finds himself in a threatening and unknown area. The player has to solve riddles to try to regain his memory while running from dark forces.
Why similar: Gore 40.1%, Violent 31.3%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, Horror 10.5%
You're invited to the elite academy for magical girls! Will you take the opportunity to make new friends? Learn magic? Or... Will you try to date a cute magical girl?
Why similar: Violent 20.3%, Psychological Horror 18.4%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Gore 13.1%, Anime 10.5%
