60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Visual Novel, Horror, Dark.
While filming a documentary on analog horror, something goes horribly wrong. A cursed VHS tape. Lost cultists. Salvation. Are you brave enough to follow the tape’s sinister commands? Face analog nightmares and decide your fate in this horror visual novel with multiple endings.
Whisperstring
Whisperstring is an 80s inspired text adventure game that takes place inside a “chat room”. You’re connected to Adam, a "jock" with a severe fear of strings, who seems to have been the victim of a supernatural kidnapping. Will you be able to help him escape?
Echoes
Fears are not always just rustles in the dark. And death is not always a bad ending.
Whisperstring is an 80s inspired text adventure game that takes place inside a “chat room”. You’re connected to Adam, a "jock" with a severe fear of strings, who seems to have been the victim of a supernatural kidnapping. Will you be able to help him escape?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12%, Visual Novel 9.2%, Horror 8.4%, Text-Based 7.4%, Dark 7.3%
Fears are not always just rustles in the dark. And death is not always a bad ending.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Psychedelic 14.8%, Text-Based 7.8%, Dark 7.5%
In an AI-powered age where original authors have become largely redundant, play as a dejected writer on the brink of losing their creative drive forever.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Horror 12.7%, Psychedelic 11.8%, Psychological Horror 11.6%
The Darkest Emptiness will fill the lungs with leaden weight.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.3%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Horror 12.4%, Psychedelic 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%
Amy receives an invitation to a group chat set up by some of her former classmates. Its purpose is to reconnect after all these years. But soon more and more disturbing facts about Amy's classmates are revealed, and Amy begins to fear that the people she's texting with may not be what they seem.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Horror 13.9%, Text-Based 10.7%, Dark 10.1%
Fear is real. Sometimes tragedy needs nothing more than that. 💀 A short visual novel based on the story of the same name — about the silence that lets something shuffling into your home. 👁️👁️
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.1%, Horror 14.1%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Dark 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%
Wake up, watch tv, make a cup of cofffee and try to bear your own meaningless existence.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Visual Novel 14%, Dark 11.4%, Drama 9.4%, Text-Based 9%
The Evil Mouse is a short linear story psychological horror game about guilt and memory. You discover a strange program on your computer that pulls you into a haunted house. Inside waits Lucy, a girl asking for help, and the evil mouse, who will do anything to keep you out.
Why similar: Horror 17%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Dark 13.5%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Visual Novel 11.6%
At the heart of the action are a twelve-year-old Kenneth and his younger sister Esme, children of the Murphy family, who hit the trail of a mysterious monster following series of entangled events.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Horror 12.7%, Text-Based 10%, Psychological Horror 9.4%
Undesirable Me is a psychological horror game in the genre of visual novel and adventure game. Overcome your inner demon: solve challenges, make tough decisions and face the consequences of your choices. Who will win this inner confrontation and take possession of the body? It depends on you.
Why similar: Psychedelic 22.5%, Horror 14.7%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%
Discover the secrets held within the old House on 32, Dandelion Drift. In this classic Visual Novel you’ll find joy, hope, but also remorse and terror.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.9%, Horror 17.2%, Text-Based 10.2%, Dark 8.7%, Adventure 7.9%
Ellie, your new girlfriend, doesn't seem to get along well with your circle of friends. Find out what is going wrong after one of your best friends suddenly doesn't answer his phone anymore in this pixel-art, story-driven adventure.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.5%, Text-Based 12.5%, Drama 11.1%, Dark 10.4%, Horror 10%
A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Dark 10%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Emotional 9.5%
Fear of Mine - a visual novel in the genre of adventure and horror. An alien mushroom creature has brought you under his influence, and now it seems to take over the whole world. Can you escape its grasp? Can you survive? Can you at least save others from falling prey to the same fate as yours?
Why similar: Psychedelic 22.3%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Dark 13.4%, Narration 13.1%, Horror 11.8%
You must complete a lunar mission only with the other person on the radio. When you realize that you were not sufficiently informed about the place.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Psychedelic 16.3%, Horror 16.3%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Atmospheric 8.6%
You arrive home and notice that something very bad has happened to your wife.
Why similar: Psychedelic 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Horror 14.9%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Investigation 12%
A short, interactive visual novel set in the mid-19th Century, in which a poet fights against time as she's writing the most important work of her life. Poetry is the answer, but what is the question?
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Horror 11.6%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Emotional 10.9%
Your mom left you alone at the checkout. With a full cart. It's your turn. What do you do? A short psychological game about everyday anxiety.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Horror 14.6%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Text-Based 8.8%
Runaways is a top-down visual novel about two lost teens on the run, escaping abuse and searching for a new beginning in the quiet depths of the unforgiving city night.
Why similar: Dark 17%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Drama 14%, Narration 8.7%
A multiplayer adventure game where you and your friends work together to investigate mysterious incidents. Explore freely through a stage where the story unfolds in real time, connect clues with your teammates, and take on the challenge of solving the case.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.5%, Investigation 14.1%, Horror 12.6%, Drama 9.3%, Logic 7.6%
Samael suffers from delusions. He feels lost until he encounters a priest one day. The priest is the only person in the world who makes him feel at peace. This, however, slowly turns into an obsession. Will Samael learn how to love properly or will he fall into a path of darkness? You decide.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Dark 11%, Text-Based 10.7%, Drama 9.6%
After a brief wander, at the end of a corridor, you encounter a girl curled up by a door, you can tell that her style is far from ordinary. Perhaps she knows more than you do… Or maybe she’s the reason you’re here. Will she help you? Or maybe you will help her?
Why similar: Visual Novel 19%, Psychedelic 14.5%, Horror 12.4%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Dark 9.8%
A dark sci-fi psychological Visual Novel where your choices shape who you are. The world has ended and it's been dominated by mysterious aliens who roam the city. Despite that, you only think of what you've lost. Will you be able to rebuild your relationships? Or even... the world itself?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Text-Based 12%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Conversation 8.6%
A short psychological audio horror call where every number routes you deeper into a faceless bureau that measures and files you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Horror 17.2%, Psychological Horror 16%, Dark 10.6%, Atmospheric 8.7%
Go about your normal every day life and meet new friends in this short visual novel!
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.1%, Horror 17.7%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Text-Based 14.2%, Dark 11.1%
Crazy and strange town. Mysterious events. A hero with multiple personality disorder. Laughter, tears and madness!
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Horror 12.4%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Narration 10.7%
Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Horror 11.2%, Dark 10.6%, Psychological Horror 10.4%
Late at night, a teacher shares two bizarre tales: a corpse stuffed in a sheet, and an abnormal presence in the mountains. It was just a ghost story, but a creepy "sense of unease" lurks within. A short psychological horror visual novel offering a dense, terrifying experience in about an hour.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Horror 17.5%, Psychological Horror 16%, Text-Based 14%
A patchwork quilt of meanings, ideas, references, and madness. A crack in the sink of your understanding. And also the story of one unfortunate girl.
Why similar: Psychedelic 20.6%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Horror 15.2%, Text-Based 12.7%
This short psychedelic visual novel takes place in a strange world inhabited by harrowing creatures shunned by the light. You’ll meet someone who has made this world their own, and in doing so, learn the reason why you shouldn't be there.
Why similar: Psychedelic 18.7%, Visual Novel 15%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Text-Based 10.9%, Horror 10.9%
Totally Normal Boyfriend is a visual novel/dating simulator about your loving and caring boyfriend that would do anything for you.
Why similar: Psychedelic 24.4%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Horror 12.6%, Text-Based 7.7%
The Rite is a first-person psychological horror experience where you must navigate a corrupted house, solving puzzles and shifting between reality and memories to uncover the truth behind a tragic death.
Why similar: Psychedelic 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Horror 13.6%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Drama 11.6%
Scary pictures: Yavez - seven deadly sins in the novel-horror genre. The game will plunge you into the atmosphere of the classic and gloomy history of the Soviet times. You have to face many life choices that will have consequences and lead to one of eight endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Horror 13%, Text-Based 9.9%, Psychological Horror 9.6%
Un visual novel d’horreur qui se déroule dans le noir complet, où les paroles des personnages sont mises en musique.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16%, Horror 13.3%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Text-Based 10.2%, Narration 10%
It's a winter night. You are coming home by train. You have to change trains at a small train station in the middle of the forest.It's not the first time you've traveled this route. But now you feel like something is different.As if something was watching you.
Why similar: Psychedelic 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Horror 9.6%
Glitch is an intense and surreal narrative experience, drawn entirely by hand, that will make you question reality with every choice and each of the 26 endings that unlock the special and definitive conclusion!
Why similar: Visual Novel 20%, Horror 16.7%, Psychedelic 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Psychological Horror 13.9%
An ordinary commute becomes a moral crucible in Monar Station, a short psychological horror visual novel. Navigate an extreme situation, make value-defining choices... Discover what lingers after the train moves on...
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Horror 15.1%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Atmospheric 7.6%
What do you play? I play nothing!
Why similar: Psychedelic 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Visual Novel 16%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Minimalist 8.8%
The depressing pictures of a dying village and its inhabitants to the dark ambient music of the underground performers make those who are still trying to survive in places where everything has long died, to plunge even deeper into the world of mystical horror and deep despair
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Horror 11%, Psychedelic 10.7%, Text-Based 10.2%
일레븐지스: 플라스크는 미스터리·로맨스 장르를 표방하는 비주얼 노벨 게임입니다. 한 치 앞을 예상할 수 없는 전개와 끝없이 펼쳐지는 반전, 영원히 끝나지 않는 11시의 티타임에 여러분을 초대합니다.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Drama 9.5%, Emotional 9.3%
Your Forever Friend™ is the solution to never feeling alone again! Play video games, listen to music together, reminisce about buried memories... And there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. NOTHING ! <3
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Horror 11.9%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Investigation 9.9%
A short experimental visual novel about obsessive counting.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.3%, Horror 15.8%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Psychedelic 11.9%
Sanctuaries. Secrets. Serious consequences. A solo-developed psychological horror/drama visual novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.1%, Horror 14.3%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Dark 11.3%, Emotional 10.7%
A story about a woman who lives alone near the forest.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Psychedelic 15.1%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Horror 13.3%, Psychological Horror 11.4%
A short psychological horror interactive story. Five years after vanishing without a trace, the woman you once called your lover writes from beyond the silence: "I will give birth to our creation.” In three acts, descend into a fractured mindscape where obsession, memory, and myth intertwine.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Horror 12.8%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Text-Based 9%
"Project Vostok" is a non-linear horror visual novel about a group of airplane crash survivors finding a mysterious Soviet-era bunker in Altai mountains. Uncover a story full of drama, horrors and decide the fate of diverse cast of characters in this visual novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.4%, Horror 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Dark 11.9%, Psychological Horror 11.3%
Wanna join our nightmarish dream?
Why similar: Psychedelic 16.1%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Horror 12.8%, Dark 11.8%, Emotional 11.4%
Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Text-Based 13.3%, Drama 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Emotional 9.3%
A short novel about travelling by train. Become the one who (not)helps three girls to get to the final destination at the sea.
Why similar: Psychedelic 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Dark 8.6%
A short, emotional visual novel following a grieving man who relives memories of days long gone. An exploration of loss presented honestly and kinetically.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Emotional 14.1%, Drama 13.8%, Narration 7.1%
Cast Into A Boundless White Void. Paintings Hunger For Your Story. What Will You Answer?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Horror 13.5%, Dark 13.2%, Psychological Horror 9.2%
A psychological horror interactive fiction focused on atmosphere, investigation, and player choices. Explore an unsettling environment where every decision shapes the story and the truth behind a disturbing presence.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Psychological Horror 22.6%, Horror 22.3%, Investigation 11.7%, Atmospheric 11.1%
Horror mystery about a boy who desperately wants a Normal life in the most abnormal city in the world. Help Timor understand his cruel life in this supernatural city while trying to survive one more day. In a universe where Sleep is an illness. This is a visual novel with point and click features.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Horror 14.9%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Emotional 9.4%
A narrative supernatural horror set in the enigmatic Meridian Hotel. Players investigate through exploration, puzzles, and encounters with human and supernatural threats.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Horror 11%, Dark 10.8%, Emotional 9.7%, Investigation 9.3%
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 22.6%, Horror 18.9%, Dark 15.2%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%
A mysterious woman is sitting in front of you. Who is she? And who are you? And why are you both there? Case #1472 is mystery information digging interrogation thriller game where there are more things going on than what meets the eye, but are you able to unravel what has happened?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Horror 9.9%, Dark 9.7%, Drama 8.6%
"Project Vostok" is a non-linear horror visual novel about a group of airplane crash survivors finding a mysterious Soviet-era bunker in Altai mountains. Uncover the story full of drama, horrors and decide the fate a of various cast of heroes in this free visual novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Horror 14.7%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Dark 11.6%
A blind guy with a ghost in his brain tries to save a cursed girl. Naturally, it all goes to hell. A visual novel packed with dark humor, gritty mysticism, violence, and characters who know exactly who’s watching them.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Psychedelic 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Text-Based 11.4%
An enthralling RPG Maker horror game that explores a dark and twisted rendition of the classic fairy tale, Red Riding Hood.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Horror 21.4%, Psychological Horror 14%, Narration 10.2%, Emotional 9.6%
