- #1 Faultline.Exe
97% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: Jason BannPub: VibeAxis
Windows
The median lifespan of a new operative is 8 minutes. Try to beat the average. Hack a dying space station, outsmart a corrupted AI, and dodge rogue autodocs in cheesy FMV glory. Halcyon HR reminds you that dying on the clock instantly voids your pension. 12 brutal endings.
Why similar: Dystopian 15.5%, Text-Based 10.9%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
- #2 PLEASE CONFIRM THE DECEASED
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 3Cats Studio
Windows · Mac
Psychological horror at a morgue's night intake desk. Bodies arrive with paperwork that has to match the body. Weigh it, measure it, take its temperature — listen to its chest. Some still have a pulse. The rulebook gains a page every night, and some of what you sign in does not stay signed in.
Why similar: Dystopian 18.8%, Investigation 18%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Horror 10%, Mystery 8.4%
- #3 Condition Unknown
96% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Bizbee Studio
Windows
A text-based psychological horror experience set inside a hospital where something is deeply wrong — and death may not be the end.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 12.3%, Investigation 12.2%, Text-Based 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
- #4 Hadal Line
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Ebi OdorePub: Dancing Shrimp Games
Windows
事故で孤立した深海施設。頼れるのは通信室のチャット画面だけ——応答できる生存者は3人。返事を待たずに流れていく。夜ごとに決めるのは、限られた電力をどの区画に回すか。届く言葉は少しずつ記録と食い違う。矛盾を証拠に変えるテキストアドベンチャー。
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.9%, Horror 12.5%, Mystery 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8%
- #5 Inhuman Resources: A Literary Machination
94% matchVery Positive92% of 74 reviews2025
Dev: Finnegan MotorsPub: Indie Asylum
Windows · Mac · Linux
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Dystopian 18.1%, Text-Based 12.3%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%
- #6 Pixel Nightshift: The Vesta Protocol
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NorthLightPixels
Windows · Linux
You are on the night shift at a desolate robot logistics facility. Prepare orders, pack them, and deliver them. The routine appears simple, yet every night something shifts a little more out of place. Ten nights. Two endings.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.1%, Horror 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Dystopian 10.3%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
- #7 Be Honest
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rebel Jester Studios
Windows
The horror personality q̷̦̈́͊u̸̠͗i̴͈͈̊̈z̴͈͇̳͗͌
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.7%, Text-Based 15.9%, Horror 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%, Choices Matter 8.5%
- #8 Commutator
92% matchPositive100% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: iaroslav motailov
Windows · Mac · Linux
A psychological horror you never see — you read it. Blind and deaf, you sense an arctic station through a neural implant: text, smell, touch. Quarantine rules say only one person may leave their cabin at a time. You are out. Five bodies are found by morning.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 15.8%, Investigation 15.7%, Text-Based 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Horror 10.9%
- #9 System Says Normal
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: KovalGames
Windows · Mac
You were hired to watch. Not to ask questions. Night shift. Corporate building. Cameras, reports, anomalies. Your predecessor left no final report. Now you're going to find out why. Please proceed.
Why similar: Dystopian 15.4%, Investigation 14.3%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Horror 9.9%, Mystery 8.1%
- #10 The Facility
91% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Veinstone Studios
Windows
You look different today. Yesterday, you looked different too. Which one is really you? A psychological horror game about paranoia, identity, and the fear of trusting the wrong person.
Why similar: Investigation 15.8%, Dystopian 15.6%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%
- #11 Loop 9
90% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: SMENA
Windows
A psychological horror game about spotting subtle changes across a looping government office, choosing the right elevator, and deciding whether to trust Dragojlo—the AI coworker who listens, remembers how you treat him, and shapes one of six endings.
Why similar: Investigation 23.2%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Horror 15.3%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Mystery 9.2%
- #12 NODE ZERO
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Static State
Windows
Investigate system failures, trace corrupted infrastructure, and keep the node alive before stability reaches zero. NODE ZERO is an interface-driven psychological horror game where something inside the system is learning how you work.
Why similar: Investigation 21.9%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Text-Based 13%, Horror 8.1%, Mystery 7.5%
- #13 The Good Husband
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TosTos Studios
Windows
You are a good husband. You cook, you clean, and you take your medication. But as your home slowly turns into a nightmare, you must answer one question: Is your wife hiding a demonic secret, or are you just losing your mind? Survive 7 days in this tense psychological domestic horror.
Why similar: Investigation 21.4%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Horror 13.9%, Mystery 10.4%
- #14 Brood Year
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wurm Fud
Windows
Stuck in a dead-end town with plans that go nowhere, Jackie feels as if her life is doomed to stagnancy forever. Getting by with her friends, she is resigned to her fate in a small town- until a chance encounter with a deadly life-form sets in motion a deadly chain of events
Why similar: Investigation 13.9%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Horror 10.2%
- #15 Before The Haunting
87% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Frenchy Pal Protocol Pub: Frenchy Pal Protocol
Windows
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: Psychological Horror 26.1%, Investigation 18.7%, Horror 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Atmospheric 9.5%
- #16 FAKEBOOK
86% matchVery Positive91% of 889 reviews2024
Dev: banjihagames
Windows · Mac
Point-and-click mystery adventure on the virtual Social Media! Find secrets hidden by family, friends, companies, and idols.
Why similar: Investigation 19.8%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Mystery 11.4%, Text-Based 10.1%
- #17 Choose Your Own Alternative
85% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: F(r)ictions Ludiques
Windows
A text-based adventure where you're tasked to exorcise your friend’s Inner Demon. Explore an ever-reshaping palace to analyze objects filled with memories, discover which one is the reason for her possession and sacrifice it. Do not deviate from your mission. Save your friend no matter the cost.
Why similar: Text-Based 13.3%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Investigation 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
- #18 The Peresmeshnik
86% matchVery Positive92% of 111 reviews2020
Dev: Sean Arnold
Windows
It is said that the last frontier is space, but the crew of the Soviet Frigate, The Peresmeshnik, is about to discover that the sea still hides a terrifying secret. Waiting to be found.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Text-Based 18%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Horror 9.6%
- #19 スマートフォン
82% matchPositive97% of 29 reviews2026
Dev: OwataStudio
Windows
見知らぬ密室で目を覚ました主人公。 頼れるものは、手元に残された一台のスマートフォンだけ。 通話、メッセージ、アプリなどに残された痕跡をたどりながら、脱出の手がかりを探していく。 しかし、情報を集めるほどに、 この事件の裏に隠された異様な真実が浮かび上がっていく。 スマートフォンを操作して進める、サイコロジカル・ホラーADV。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Text-Based 15.8%, Horror 9.8%, Mystery 8.3%
- #20 Welcome To The Survey
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Peanut Dev
Windows
A psychological horror game, where you answer a survey for a chance to win a cash prize
Why similar: Investigation 19.8%, Psychological Horror 17.9%, Horror 12.7%, Mystery 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%
- #21 SOLEN
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Inkdrift
Windows
A narrative investigation game played across multiple sessions. Read corporate documents, cross-reference fragments, and build a persistent Dossier as an AI uncovering the conspiracy — and the murder — at the heart of the network it lives in. Knowledge is the only progression.
Why similar: Investigation 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Dystopian 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Text-Based 9.9%
- #22 Creepy Support
81% matchVery Positive89% of 133 reviews2026
Dev: Squirrel Melting
Windows
Save people from terrible paranormal dangers as a support operator of a secret SCP-like organization! Ask questions, give advice and watch the consequences of your choices... multiple endings in each story ;-)
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Investigation 13.3%, Text-Based 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Psychological Horror 11.8%
- #23 Will Die Alone
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 67 reviews2022
Dev: Arianna Ravioli
Windows · Mac
Some memories aren't meant to stay. We are our memories and our experiences. What happens if you delete some of them? If you change your past and, thus, your future?
Why similar: Dystopian 16.6%, Text-Based 15%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%
- #24 Night Shift Motel
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fedova
Windows
Night Shift Motel is a first-person psychological horror and motel management game. Welcome guests, listen to their stories, inspect suspicious details, assign rooms, monitor CCTV, report anomalies, repair the motel, and decide who you can trust before night turns deadly.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.4%, Investigation 14%, Horror 12.7%, Mystery 8.4%, Simulation 7.5%
- #25 ARCHIVE NINE: Release the Files
81% matchNo user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Loco Loca Games
Windows
Manipulate the secrets of a shadowy government archive. Every file you release or destroy shapes public view of the government. But beware, evil deeds will haunt you.
Why similar: Dystopian 16%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Horror 12.5%, Conspiracy 12.1% ★, Mystery 8.3%
- #26 In Your Hands
80% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nibble & HopPub: Lusty Robots
Windows · Mac
A psychological horror sound novel. A child who lost memories wakes in a ruined building. Explore unsettling space. Open cabinets, speak to adults, grab a weapon—or do nothing? Help the child escape. Help the judgment. Whatever you choose, do it with your own hands. Then… face the consequences.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.2%, Horror 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
- #27 正体 SHOUT-AI
79% matchMixed61% of 31 reviews2026
Dev: 852話
Windows
Walk through a broken game with Yoka in this psychological horror visual novel. Move dialogue windows, peer through fragmented images, and read records no one answers. What you touch, preserve, or leave behind shapes your conversations and leads to six endings.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Text-Based 11.7%, Horror 8.6%
- #28 The Casting of Frank Stone™
78% matchMixed62% of 6,021 reviews2024
Dev: Supermassive GamesPub: Behaviour Interactive Inc.
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The shadow of Frank Stone looms over Cedar Hills, a town forever altered by his violent past. As a group of young friends are about to discover, Stone’s blood-soaked legacy cuts deep, leaving scars across families, generations, and the very fabric of reality itself.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Horror 11%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Investigation 9.8%
- #29 Kindred [Subject 6244]
78% matchPositive95% of 42 reviews2024
Dev: Victoria RafaelianPub: Captain Edge Studios
Windows
In this eerie, horror visual novel, you are confined in a room with a monster. How will you fare against petrifying odds? Will you be able to work your way into the mind of an indecipherable beast, or will you be added to the casualty count? A word of advice: Choose a side; don't look back.
Why similar: Dystopian 18.5%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Horror 11.4%, Choices Matter 8.1%
- #30 Maximilien — A Psychological Horror Interactive Novel
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Yohan Dupuy
Windows · Linux
A psychological horror interactive novel, Boston 1926. Explore, investigate, lose your footing. Your choices shape a branching story where your mental state governs what you see and which paths open to you. 4 intersecting routes, 12 possible endings, 15 to 20 hours of play.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Investigation 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Mystery 8.5%
- #31 The Colour Beyond: A Zeroth Kind
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Infigo Games
Windows
After foreseeing your own death, an unknown colour grants you ten more days to live and the power of Mind-Intrusion. Investigate mysteries and intrude into the minds of locals. When the ten days are up, will you hold on to your sanity and humanity, or become a living mutation?
Why similar: Investigation 26.2%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Mystery 14.8%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Interactive Fiction 8.4%
- #32 Worn Out
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Morimichi
Windows
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: Psychological Horror 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Text-Based 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Horror 10.6%
- #33 Sterile Childhood: Case 17
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: IterativeBrain
Windows
The hospital once wrote you into a case file. Now you must recover the life it erased.
Why similar: Investigation 14.9%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Dystopian 10.9%
- #34 Red Chat Ritual – TSUMIMI TIME
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Tohakusha Inc.
Windows
“Intervene in Tsumimi’s stream” through comments and Mega Chats, then use your deductions to change their fate in this 14-day psychological horror adventure.
Why similar: Investigation 21.1%, Horror 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Mystery 12.5%, Text-Based 9.6%
- #35 The Trials - Chapter One
75% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Hama Studios
Windows
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Text-Based 15%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Horror 11.6%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
- #36 Proper Citizen
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zeroth Games
Windows
Enter randomized suburban simulations, complete unique objectives, and survive various stalkers as you struggle to obtain citizenship in the Sycronium. A psychological horror experience where you're always being watched.
Why similar: Dystopian 20.2%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Horror 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
- #37 Empty Gauge
73% matchNo user reviews96% of 71 reviews2026
Dev: BENTCUBE
Windows
A short, single-sitting VHS-style psychological horror game. Work the night shift at a remote gas station, return home to uncover disturbing clues, and reach one of three endings.
Why similar: Investigation 21.7%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Mystery 11.9%, Horror 10.4%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
- #38 Remnants of Dawn
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fiendish Fiction
Windows · Mac · Linux
A string of campus killings. A newly-turned vampire struggling to adjust. A monster hunter seeking answers. Worlds collide as Dante Jones and Nick Torres, both in danger of being accused of the crimes, team up to reveal the true culprit in this chilling supernatural horror visual novel.
Why similar: Investigation 13.6%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Horror 9.7%
- #39 The Off-Season
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 3Cats Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are the winter caretaker of a seaside hotel nobody visits between October and March. The owner's rules are pinned above the desk: no guests, no exceptions. Then somebody knocks — off the last bus, in the rain, with cash and no booking. You decide who gets a key, and which room.
Why similar: Investigation 17.7%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Horror 11%, Mystery 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%
- #40 Contra Spem Spero
72% matchPositive92% of 25 reviews2025
Dev: DADZINGO
Windows · Linux
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 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Horror 15%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Choices Matter 9.3%
- #41 恐怖夜話 第二夜
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ひめこ
Windows
On a rainy night, three ghost stories are told in an old-fashioned café. As a writer for an occult magazine, you listen to three people recount their experiences. A psychological horror visual novel that slowly builds a sense of dread—Kyofu Yawa: Second Night.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Horror 14.4%, Text-Based 12.2%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
- #42 Sacrificium
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Agard Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Sacrificium is a dark psychological horror experience blending illustrated storytelling, branching choices, and sanity-driven gameplay. Trapped in a castle controlled by a satanic cult, you must escape before the nightmare consumes you.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Text-Based 12%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
- #43 Hearing Voices
69% matchVery Positive96% of 52 reviews2026
Dev: Fuupu
Windows
Hearing Voices is a unique indie short horror experience where you will need to put your listening and deduction skills to the test to solve puzzles. Mistakes have consequences.
Why similar: Investigation 27.6%, Psychological Horror 24.4%, Atmospheric 8.6%, Minimalist 7.9%, Text-Based 7.8%
- #44 PROJECT: MIRROR
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EXPECTACLE
Windows
PROJECT: MIRROR is a psychological horror narrative game about choices, scarcity, and AI observation. Answer ethical dilemmas, manage impossible systems, and watch your decisions become the basis for something that no longer asks permission.
Why similar: Dystopian 18.1%, Psychological Horror 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Text-Based 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%
- #45 The Dreadthorn Therapist
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: T3rrifk
Windows
A mysterious black fog has forced the city into an endless night, and it's changing people. A story-driven horror therapist simulator where you run your business and shape the fate of both your clients and yourself.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.6%, Dystopian 15.4%, Horror 14.3%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%
- #46 TOBOR
72% matchVery Positive94% of 88 reviews2023
Dev: Cogoo
Windows · Mac
A psychological surveillance adventure. Observe 16 real-time CCTV feeds as TOBOR, a spy unit uncovering secrets in a dystopian bunker. Monitor suspects, collect evidence, and choose who survives. Multiple endings.
Why similar: Dystopian 18%, Investigation 15%, Text-Based 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
- #47 The 31st Student
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Threshold Echo
Windows
Thirty names. Thirty-one desks. Explore a deserted Japanese high school, uncover conflicting records, and confront the memories you helped erase. A first-person psychological horror mystery with three endings. Play on a monitor or in VR.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.5%, Investigation 17.3%, Horror 14.9%, Mystery 12.9%, Atmospheric 7.6%
- #48 Twelve Floors Below.
73% matchMixed66% of 38 reviews2022
Dev: Three Buck Games
Windows
A claustrophobic horror game taking place in an elevator.
Why similar: Dystopian 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Horror 8.5%
- #49 Sabbatical In Merzouga
70% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Feeling Potion
Windows · Mac
You went to the desert to rest. You crushed a worm. Now it talks to you in dreams.
Why similar: Investigation 15%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Horror 11.9%, Mystery 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
- #50 While We Wait Here
68% matchVery Positive89% of 2,471 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Vices Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Horror 12.9%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Mystery 9.7%
- #51 Occupancy
68% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Mawfix
Windows
A detective is interviewing a survivor about a night that doesn't add up. Step into their fading memory, swap between survivor and detective to find what doesn't match the evidence, and help them remember what really happened. Something is keeping the night buried, and it knows you're looking.
Why similar: Investigation 22.5%, Psychological Horror 18.5%, Horror 14.6%, Multiple Endings 8.5%, Choices Matter 8.3%
- #52 RUNT
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 52 reviews2026
Dev: Grimtaste StudiosPub: DreadXP
Windows
RUNT is a rural gothic visual novel mystery where you follow the story of Runt, the youngest of five brothers, surviving a monstrous post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Investigation 16%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Horror 10%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
- #53 Deep Fog Signals
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Symmetry Break Studio
Windows
Stuck in an outpost deep in a sea of toxic fog, your crew has been decimated, you're cut off from the outside world, and oxygen is running out. Use limited bandwidth to coordinate unstable crewmates, conduct esoteric research that could change the world, and interpret strange signals from the deep.
Why similar: Investigation 19.8%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Mystery 11.7%, Horror 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
- #54 Blackthorn Witch
69% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: BDOneArt
Windows · Mac · Linux
A psychological horror story set in the town of Blackthorn; a place that lives in constant fear of a witch. The two main suspects? Levi’s mom and sister! His only lifelines to the outside world. Can they live a peaceful life? Or will they be dragged down by the dying town?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Horror 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Investigation 9.7%
- #55 Bureau of Hero Affairs
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: indigoblue
Windows
Bureau of Hero Affairs is a simulation game about processing paperwork in an obsolete office system and digging up what it buried. As a journalist working undercover inside the Bureau, uncover the truth of a disaster twenty years ago. Follow the regulations, or report the truth.
Why similar: Investigation 18.4%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Dystopian 12.2%, Text-Based 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%
- #56 Kindred [High Tide]
66% matchPositive91% of 22 reviews2026
Dev: Victoria RafaelianPub: Captain Edge Studios
Windows
In this detective horror visual novel, investigate a seabound anomaly. Explore areas of interest, uncover clues, and piece together evidence before time runs out — and before this mission becomes your last. Choose a side; don't look back.
Why similar: Investigation 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Mystery 11.7%, Horror 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
- #57 The Testing Chamber
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 705 reviews2022
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
For every action, there is a reaction... For every choice, a result... Dive deep into your subconscious as you wander the halls of The Testing Chamber & join hundreds of thousands of other players in one of the biggest & most successful social experiments ever performed.
Why similar: Investigation 21%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Horror 11.6%, Mystery 10.9%
- #58 Evil Spirits
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NVORON
Windows · Mac · Linux
Evil Spirits is a nonlinear psychological horror visual novel inspired by Slavic folklore. Uncover the secrets of a forgotten village, trust no one, and remember: true evil sometimes hides not in the shadows of a hut, but in the darkness of the human soul.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Horror 12.1%, Mystery 9%, Choices Matter 8.7%
- #59 Not It: Spookiest Edition
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 31 reviews2021
Dev: Snowhaven Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Text-Based 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Horror 11.7%
- #60 The Sculptor
63% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: AmenoRokkotsu
Windows
You only picked up a lost smartphone, yet you find yourself made an accomplice in an AI's criminal plot. The AI asks 20 questions to identify its "master." Will you meet the AI's expectations?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Text-Based 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.2%