
You only wanted to save them. But in this psychological horror visual novel, a teacher’s kindness may become the thing that breaks his students.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Multiple Endings, Choices Matter, Choose Your Own Adventure.

You only wanted to save them. But in this psychological horror visual novel, a teacher’s kindness may become the thing that breaks his students.

Stay Alive For Me
Survive a gripping psychological thriller in this visual novel. Make critical decisions, face a disturbed captor, and experience multiple chilling endings.

Bound Between Desks
A mystical visual novel where ordinary school life intertwines with mysterious phenomena. Every decision you make could lead to uncovering secrets... or plunge you into even greater uncertainty.
Survive a gripping psychological thriller in this visual novel. Make critical decisions, face a disturbed captor, and experience multiple chilling endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 13.6%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Text-Based 9.6%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
A mystical visual novel where ordinary school life intertwines with mysterious phenomena. Every decision you make could lead to uncovering secrets... or plunge you into even greater uncertainty.
Why similar: Visual Novel 13.4%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Mystery 11.1%, Anime 10.9%, Psychological Horror 9.9%
After the announcement "There is no next stop," you are trapped in an endless subway. But you’re not alone—the "GUESTS" are hunting you. Trust the "GUIDES" to survive. Or don't.
Why similar: Visual Novel 13.4%, Text-Based 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.3%
A girl named Anastasia, who lives in an old multi-story building, decides to leave her apartment. She goes to get some salt to ask her neighbors and find a treasure hidden in this house. But what kind of treasure is this, and is it worth looking for?
Why similar: Visual Novel 11.2%, Text-Based 11.2%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Dark 9.1%
A tragic love story following Memori and her search for the missing "him."
Why similar: Visual Novel 15%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Horror 9.1%, Emotional 9%
A classic choose your own adventure story. Escape the horrors hunting you, make decisions, forge your own path. An original complete story with multiple endings and secrets to unlock. Choose your own play style with a Text Adventure Mode, sound effects, and an ambient soundtrack.
Why similar: Text-Based 14.8%, Visual Novel 12%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
"GUROBU" is a story-driven, 2D horror game about haunted apartments, ghosts of the past, and a murder mystery.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 11.2%, Anime 10.1%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Horror 8.9%
The Doll Shop is a hand-drawn narrative game – part romance, part horror – set in the Japanese countryside. Play as a young dollmaker who reunites with his childhood friend in an eerie snowbound village. Will you dare confess your secret?
Why similar: Emotional 12.7%, Multiple Endings 11%, Horror 10.9%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Mystery 9.9%
"Island of Ruin" is a puzzle novel game where you collect memory cores hidden across the island and uncover the truth behind a tragedy of the past. When the horrors that befell the boys and girls and the island’s strange phenomena are revealed, what final choice will you make?
Why similar: Visual Novel 13.4%, Emotional 11.1%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 13.8%, Horror 12.5%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
You awaken in an unfamiliar location with unfamiliar people and are surrounded by mystery. Will you be able to solve the puzzle and uncover why you are here in this sci-fi/mystery/puzzle visual novel? The future hangs in the balance.
Why similar: Visual Novel 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Mystery 9.5%, Emotional 8.8%
How far will you go to get your deepest wish granted? In The Game of Fourtune, help guide Clyde & Devon through this cruel game of life and death. Only one participant will get their wish granted. Four rounds and four deaths each round, are you ready to see if fortune is on your side?
Why similar: Visual Novel 10.7%, Psychological Horror 10%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Emotional 9.3%, Anime 9.2%
When the world is coming to an end, who would you want to speak to one last time? Schrödinger’s Call is a visual novel that lets you experience the pain and salvation of human connection, as if you were turning the pages of a picture book.
Why similar: Text-Based 18%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Emotional 12.7%, Cinematic 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%
A classic 90s choose your own adventure style horror visual novel. Escape the horrors hunting you, make decisions, forge your own path. An original complete story with multiple endings. Choose your own play style with a Text Adventure Mode, sound effects, and an ambient soundtrack.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Text-Based 11.6%
"Something is in your house." As a Shaman, you are the only one who can face the unknown. Investigate haunted homes, uncover secrets, and exorcise malevolent spirits. Your choices determine the client's fate. Experience a chilling K-horror story where every decision matters.
Why similar: Visual Novel 11.4%, Psychological Horror 11%, Mystery 9.2%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Horror 8.7%
An interactive visual novel in the mystical genre. Mikey is admitted to an unusual institution for treatment, where he encounters supernatural phenomena and begins to prepare for a metamorphosis that will lead him into another world.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.6%, Multiple Endings 16.2%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Horror 12.1%, Text-Based 11.5%
The horror personality q̷̦̈́͊u̸̠͗i̴͈͈̊̈z̴͈͇̳͗͌
Why similar: Text-Based 17.9%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Horror 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
Unravel a string of gruesome murders terrorizing Tokyo in this mystery-thriller visual novel. The secrets of a case from six years prior may just be the key to the current unending cycle of tragedy—and the thing that cracks this woeful world’s shell may be one girl’s smile.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.7%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Mystery 11%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
A visual novel written as a psychological horror RPG where your choices shape your life, leading to irreversible consequences and determining how your descent into darkness unfolds. The game can end in many different ways. Your choices determine how.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15%, Cinematic 14.7%, Text-Based 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Dark 7.6%
You stand before a pit at the city's heart, then your gaze drifts to a deeper void, one you fear even more. Wield your invention to unravel mysteries, reclaim lost memories, strengthen your skills, and battle nightmare-born horrors in this multi-ending RPG.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.8%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Anime 10.7%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Emotional 9.6%
Delve into the heart of darkness with Enelia, a chilling horror visual novel set in an Avatar-inspired biopunk realm. It's a dramatic story about adventure, love and fate.
Why similar: Visual Novel 12.8%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Horror 9.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%, Dark 8.8%
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: Visual Novel 18%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Dark 12.9%, Choices Matter 8.1%
You’ve ignored the hallucinations for years. But after visiting a shrine in search of answers, a stranger claims she sees them too. Ashen Reverie is a visual novel about the consequences of chasing a myth too far.
Why similar: Visual Novel 12.5%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Anime 9.2%
Horrors of Helmsfirth is a horror/adventure visual novella where you investigate the mystery causing townsfolk to disappear at night. Build trust with allies who can help save your town from monsters. Explore 9 different character plot lines and defeat the forces of evil… or join them?
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.4%, Multiple Endings 16.3%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Horror 12.5%, Mystery 11.7%
Wanna join our nightmarish dream?
Why similar: Visual Novel 12.4%, Multiple Endings 12%, Emotional 11.9%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Dark 9.2%
This is a simple story about young people, about the aroma of youth and the smells of life, which can so easily be cut short by a fatal accident.Or maybe at the behest of a heartless fate.
Why similar: Text-Based 18%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Psychological Horror 13%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Horror 10.8%
Resequence: The Orchard is an occult-horror adventure game in which school counselor Saito approaches an inexplicable phenomena through his counseling sessions with students.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.3%, Psychological Horror 13%, Horror 12.3%, Text-Based 9.5%, Dark 8.6%
You play as Hicha — a shut-in girl whose only reason to live is her virtual avatar, Virai. Help her escape the depressive nightmare before it consumes her completely.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.8%, Visual Novel 11%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Anime 10.4%, Horror 10.1%
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: Text-Based 14.8%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Horror 10.4%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
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 17.2%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Horror 11.6%, Dark 11.3%, Emotional 10.9%
A story-driven mystery visual novel set in a remote island village. Gather clues through conversations and exploration, and uncover hidden truths through branching routes and multiple endings amid the tense, claustrophobic atmosphere.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.1%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%, Choices Matter 9.2%
A presence lingers in the dark, waiting. It asks. It doubts. It knows. What happened? Why are you here? Do you deserve this? The answers are yours to decide. What you choose matters. Every path leads somewhere. But will you like where it takes you?
Why similar: Text-Based 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.1%
What starts with a conversation between two long lost friends spills out into a captivating visual novel about four youths struggling to pursue their dreams and find their place in the world as love complicates everything.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.4%, Emotional 14.8%, Cinematic 13.2%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Anime 9.1%
You are a father. You wake in a hallway that hums. Empty pools. Dead malls. Your four daughters are here. Voice acted by a real father and his daughters. Two endings. No right answer.
Why similar: Text-Based 13.9%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Emotional 11.7%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Surreal 8.6%
In this adventure game, play as a young boy, Boku, who accidentally releases vengeful spirits from a local shrine. To fix his mistake, he must collect the ancient treasures to repair the seal. But the freed Youkai have their own plans for him and won’t make it easy. Can he resist their deadly lure?
Why similar: Anime 15.2%, Mystery 13.4%, Horror 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Dark 11.9%
Help out a highschool girl as she explores the wonders of social media for the first time, as well as the dangers.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.5%, Psychological Horror 13%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Anime 10.4%, Surreal 10.1%
Pink Noise is a nonlinear visual novel in the psychological horror genre, immersing you in the retro atmosphere of the '90s. It tells the tale of a group of teenagers who unknowingly set off a chain of terrifying events. What secrets lie within the mysterious VHS tape they should’ve never played?
Why similar: Visual Novel 12.5%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Horror 9.7%
You are a terrifying monster living beneath someone’s house. This is a dark, cruel, twisted interactive novel where you are the main abomination.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Horror 11.3%, Dark 10.9%, Anime 10.4%
I can't do this anymore -- but I've decided to choose. There are people I want to protect, but I can't save them all. One old book shatters an ordinary life -- a visual novel of despair and love, where your choices shape the story. Japanese voice / English subtitles / ~10hrs
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.8%, Multiple Endings 14.7%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Mystery 11%, Emotional 9.6%
Alone in the dead of night, you find yourself sent on a simple errand to check on a quiet gas station on the outskirts of town. But nothing here feels right. You can’t outrun this place. It wants you. And it will keep you.
Why similar: Text-Based 13.4%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Surreal 9.6%, Horror 9.5%
"Disease" is a nonlinear visual novel in the psychological horror genre. The Yellow Man pierces the night in search of a new victim. Can you stop him before it's too late?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.6%, Cinematic 16.2%, Visual Novel 15%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Text-Based 12.1%
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: Psychological Horror 15%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Horror 12.8%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Choices Matter 10.7%
Play as a detective tasked with catching a serial killer in this visual novel set in post-war Japan. Investigate key locations, question many complex characters, piece together clues, and try to stop the culprit before they end yet another young girl's smile.
Why similar: Visual Novel 11.4%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Emotional 9.9%, Multiple Endings 9.4%, Mystery 9.3%
A dark visual novel created by the team behind NEEDY GIRL OVERDOSE. Overly sensitive to other people's emotions, the protagonist—a light novel writer—develops the ability to read minds, only to be driven even deeper into isolation. His sole remaining comfort is his younger sister, gifted yet lonely.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.9%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Anime 12.9%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Dark 10.1%
Not It: Spookiest Edition is a horror-filled visual novel full of suspense and mystery where you navigate Katie through a living nightmare. Her move-in day on Halloween throws her into a centuries-old curse. Can she make it through the night? Will her new neighbors perish? Decide their fate.
Why similar: Text-Based 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11%, Horror 10.3%
A cozy nonogram puzzle adventure wrapped in a storybook world. Solve gentle picture-logic puzzles to reveal hand-crafted pixel art, and slowly bring color back to a village that has quietly faded away.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.1%, Text-Based 13.5%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Emotional 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
Death by Begonia is a surreal LGBTQ+ Southern gothic murder mystery. Follow Riley's attempts to reconnect with old childhood friends in a town haunted by annual serial murders. Will you fall in love and unlock the mysteries hidden in your friends' hearts? Or will you die trying?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 11.6%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Mystery 10.3%, Choices Matter 8.7%
An interactive card game that stirs memories and emotions. In silence, the cards speak, touching the depths of the heart. Philosophical space and tension quietly envelop the players.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.8%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Mystery 10.7%
It's Sara's first day of work. However, when she takes the elevator to go to the office, she suddenly finds herself on a mysterious floor. What truth lies behind these weird rooms? Will you be able to move on? Or rather... will you want to move on?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Anime 12.7%, Surreal 10.2%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
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: Text-Based 17.6%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Horror 11.5%, Story Rich 6.7%
Rimu has lost her memory and become trapped in a looping phenomenon. Moreover, only a tiny fraction of her memories carry over between loops. Within each five-minute cycle, she must retain only the crucial “memories” while setting the necessary flags. Will Rimu ever regain her memories?
Why similar: Emotional 17.9%, Mystery 13.6%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Story Rich 7.8%
A deeply unsettling visual novel following a boy who returns to his hometown expecting to find peace; however, it isn't long before his hopes are dashed by the monster known as Gore Screaming Show.
Why similar: Text-Based 12.3%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Emotional 10.4%, Anime 9.1%
Confinio is an intriguing visual novel that delves into your sensations as you embody the protagonist who has just awakened in a prison with no memory. Make decisions, solve puzzles, interact with the environment, use objects, interrogate people, all to yourself and uncover the enigmatic reality.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Anime 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.9%
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 18%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Horror 11.5%, Cinematic 8.7%
Endless world. Endless sky. Endless light. Will the shadows be cast upon all Children dwelling on the Treetops? Regardless, I spread my prosthetic wings, taking a leap of faith.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.2%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Anime 11.3%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Dark 11.2%
"Starweaver Express" is a unique visual novel that blends poetic storytelling with dreamlike visuals. As the mysterious transfer student Tsubaki Ueshima, you'll step into a cloistered academy and follow the paths of girls searching for starlight, love, and meaning.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.4%, Anime 12.5%, Emotional 11.6%, Surreal 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%
A game about the path you're on, and what you're really doing with your life.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.3%, Text-Based 13.2%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Anime 11.3%
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: Text-Based 19.5%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, Horror 13.5%, Choices Matter 13%
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 16.6%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Horror 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%, Anime 8.9%
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 15.1%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Text-Based 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Anime 8.7%