- #1 Everliving Town
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vivid Void Studio
Windows
In a town of exactly 245 residents, every breath is a subtraction. A narrative experience blending Gothic hand-drawn art and natural history puzzles. Waking into a world of "domestic bliss" as thick as a fungal bloom, will you submit to the morbid order, or shatter the balance?
Why similar: Gothic 18.5% ★, LGBTQ+ 16.4%, Lore-Rich 14.6%, Psychological 9.6%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
- #2 Ail
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: East Beasts' Games
Windows
Dive into a stealth-action adventure as a boy with telekinetic powers in the middle of a plague outbreak. Almost everything around is interactive! Use the environment to reach places that seem inaccessible, outsmart enemies, and fight battles that seem unwinnable.
Why similar: Stealth 14.6%, Lore-Rich 13.5%, Third Person 11.5%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Stylized 8.1%
- #3 Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered
96% matchVery Positive85% of 4,562 reviews2022
Dev: Deck NinePub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Life is Strange: Before the Storm returns with remastered visuals across characters & environments.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.3%, Female Protagonist 15.7%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Multiple Endings 12%, Third Person 10.3%
- #4 Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
95% matchVery Positive86% of 6,195 reviews2025
Dev: DON'T NOD
Windows
Median: 11.3 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Embark on a new narrative journey by the creators of Life is Strange. Film your summer of 1995 and create memories of a lifetime with your new friends. 27 years later, confront the dark secrets that made you all promise to never speak again after that fateful summer.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.9%, 1990's 11.4%, Female Protagonist 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
- #5 Freja
94% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Retroactive Fort
Windows
Ignorance Is bliss, or is it? Have you ever wondered if living in ignorance is better than to carry trauma? Freja is a first-person psychological thriller exploring this concept. Enter this dark and mysterious world and find out for yourself.
Why similar: Thriller 19.7%, LGBTQ+ 19%, Psychological 15.6%, Female Protagonist 10.5%, Dark 8.1%
- #6 Amelie
94% matchVery Positive92% of 457 reviews2021
Dev: Two and a Half Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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+ 24.4%, Psychological 15.3%, Thriller 14.4%, Female Protagonist 14.3%, Mystery 8.5%
- #7 Life is Strange Remastered
92% matchVery Positive92% of 10,401 reviews2022
Dev: Deck NinePub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.8%, Choices Matter 16.3%, Female Protagonist 14.8%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Story Rich 8.9%
- #8 Notch - The Innocent LunA: Eclipsed SinnerS
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,299 reviews2015
Dev: Angels Blue Digital EntertainmentPub: DigitalEZ
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 162.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
This is an isolated town, a town of memories that have been forgotten by its people. However, this small town has not been quiet and peaceful since the murders began... Time passes by, where are the sinful spirits going? Are my memories reality, or just a dream?
Why similar: Gothic 20.4% ★, Lore-Rich 15.4%, Thriller 13.1%, Psychological 11.7%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
- #9 BitterSweet: Detectives' Tea Party
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ConsteRia
Windows
A story-driven mystery visual novel about chasing the past of a phantom thief. As you investigate the old cases of a Phantom Thief - Raven, new murder incidents unfold one after another. With every case solved, the hidden truth behind the past slowly comes to light.
Why similar: Gothic 20.9% ★, LGBTQ+ 17.5%, Lore-Rich 13.2%, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Mystery 7.6%
- #10 Life is Strange: True Colors
91% matchVery Positive89% of 16,710 reviews2021
Dev: Deck NinePub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 25.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.8%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Female Protagonist 14.4%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Third Person 8.8%
- #11 Narin: The Orange Room
89% matchVery Positive81% of 97 reviews2026
Dev: RedSensationGamesPub: Urnique Studio
Windows
Narin: The Orange Room is a third-person adventure horror game. Play as Narin, a young girl whose sister mysteriously disappeared. Help her find her sister in the twilight dimension, solve the mystery, and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Stealth 15.4%, Thriller 15.3%, Female Protagonist 12.2%, Third Person 11.2%, Puzzle 8.2%
- #12 Phantom Lamb
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Grid Paper Studio
Windows
Play a story-driven third-person psychological thriller set in a sinister early-20th-century asylum where reality bends under the weight of forgotten horrors. Phantom Lamb blends tense stealth gameplay with an immersive narrative of haunting secrets and psychological dread.
Why similar: Thriller 19.9%, Psychological 19.4%, Third Person 16.3%, Stealth 13.1%, Lore-Rich 7.2%
- #13 Deadly Shaft
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Heartchers
Windows
Deadly Shaft is a psychological survival-horror thriller. Imprisoned in a dark mansion and watched by the unpredictable Landlord, you fight for your freedom. Break through your mental blocks, remain unnoticed in the shadows, and uncover the truth about Veilshore Island.
Why similar: Gothic 26.4% ★, Stealth 15.4%, Female Protagonist 12%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Third Person 7.8%
- #14 The Ghost of Anna
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unisight Games
Windows
A young girl, suffering from sensory abnormalities, finds herself in a thrilling adventure fighting with her imagination.
Why similar: Stealth 14.8%, Third Person 13.5%, Puzzle 11%, Psychological 10.8%, Stylized 10.3%
- #15 Tale's Edge
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: R16 Interactive
Windows
Tale's Edge is a dark fairytale action-RPG set in a shared world of fables from the Brothers Grimm. You play as Red Riding Hood 8 years after her tale, searching for the Huntsman who raised her. Every choice shapes who you become, and the world learns from how you play.
Why similar: Gothic 18.5% ★, Stealth 14.1%, Third Person 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Female Protagonist 10.3%
- #16 Carmilla : Crimson Moon
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Fercaren Games
Windows · Mac
A dark yuri horror visual novel inspired by a classic gothic novella. When the enigmatic Carmilla arrives, Laura is swept into a fever dream of obsession. Is this stranger the cure for her loneliness or a herald of corruption? And what caused the mysterious deaths of two girls in the nearby village?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22%, Gothic 18.8% ★, Female Protagonist 12.9%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Choices Matter 9.6%
- #17 Life is Strange: Double Exposure
85% matchMixed69% of 10,165 reviews2024
Dev: Deck Nine GamesPub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
When Max Caulfield finds her friend Safi dead in the snow, she tears open the way to a parallel timeline. Here, Safi is still alive - and still in danger! With her new power to Shift between two timelines – can Max solve and prevent the same murder?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 30.4%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Female Protagonist 15.6%, Third Person 9.2%, Story Rich 7.7%
- #18 Stitched: Mother's Nightmare
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fluffex Studios
Windows
Stitched - Mother's Nightmare continues the story of Stitched, putting the player in control of a protagonist named Mia as she ventures in the mysterious doll factory. Why did she come there? What horror awaits her in the factory?
Why similar: Thriller 15.6%, Female Protagonist 14.5%, Psychological 13.2%, Multiple Endings 11%, Choices Matter 10.8%
- #19 trophies
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: gg8473
Windows · Mac
TROPHIES is a kinetic visual novel of a young girl trying to escape to normality. Experience an endless tomorrow in this psychological thriller.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.1%, Psychological 20.9%, Female Protagonist 18%, Thriller 16%, Stylized 6.8%
- #20 Scare: Fatal Picture - Remake
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Daniel Henriques
Windows
Scare: Fatal Picture - Remake is a third-person horror game in which you'll face a ghost tribe called Era, using a camera.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 22.2%, Female Protagonist 16.4%, Psychological 14.4%, Third Person 11.5%, Thriller 10.9%
- #21 We Are Not Alone
83% matchPositive98% of 41 reviews2024
Dev: Stasis Booth Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
We Are Not Alone is a new twist on horror that combines first person exploration and third person point and click adventure. As a member of a "safe" isolation experiment you'll explore an underground facility, solve puzzles and uncover the mystery of an unknown creature. Just don't make eye contact.
Why similar: Thriller 14.3%, Female Protagonist 12%, Third Person 11.4%, Dark 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
- #22 AMEN: The Quiet Exodus
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: AMENTEAM
Windows · Mac · Linux
Cursed the womb that bears emptiness beneath its heart. For the child enters the world with the veil upon its face, yet its soul wanders lone in the heavens where God is not. Why then does she not hasten to the place that was prepared for her? Seek the truth in our visual novel.
Why similar: Gothic 33% ★, Lore-Rich 19.8%, Thriller 9.9%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Dark 9.7%
- #23 TAMBOURINE
82% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Parry Mechanics
Windows
A priestess is hired to exorcize an apartment building with a TAMBOURINE. Parry and torment ghosts in this first-person survival horror as you make your way up the building. Find the mementos that will allow you to complete the exorcism.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.5%, Lore-Rich 23.2%, Female Protagonist 14.3%, Story Rich 8.2%, Puzzle 7.9%
- #24 Dreambound
81% matchVery Positive95% of 94 reviews2024
Dev: Two and a Half Studios
Windows · Mac
Mysterious deaths. Dreams that are reality, and reality that is a dream. Will Noah be able to move forward and solve the mystery—or will he give in to the demons of his past? A story-rich BL mystery visual novel.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.9%, Lore-Rich 13.6%, Psychological 13%, Mystery 10.1%, Choices Matter 8.1%
- #25 Hope - The Game
81% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: sin3rgystudios
Windows
Hope is a third-person adventure game focused on stealth, puzzle solving and exploration, in which players must make ethical decisions while traversing a virus-infected post-apocalyptic world.
Why similar: Stealth 25.8%, Third Person 16%, Puzzle 14.5%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Choices Matter 9.8%
- #26 Solace Creek
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Starlit StudioPub: Monster Theater
Windows · Mac · Linux
A PSX-stylized horror mystery set in the lonely Teraset Station. Haunted by a monstrous presence, with six mysterious red coins, you embark on a tense and deliberate journey. Solace Creek is a retro-inspired horror title with a focus on exploration, atmosphere & puzzle solving.
Why similar: Stealth 18%, Thriller 16.2%, Third Person 12.8%, Female Protagonist 11.7%, Mystery 9.7%
- #27 Blood Orange: Definitive Edition
79% matchVery Positive95% of 245 reviews2023
Dev: Decent TreatmentPub: Semicolon
Windows
Underwater psychological horror with a shocking, character-driven narrative. Explore ruins beneath the amazon river basin, and converse with their dolphin inhabitants. Skillfully capture and develop photographs with your underwater camera.
Why similar: Thriller 18.6%, LGBTQ+ 17.8%, Stealth 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Choices Matter 11.5%
- #28 Galvanic Bride
79% matchMixed50% of 10 reviews2023
Dev: IA GAMES
Windows
Feel the intenseness of stealth in the eerie great mansion of Frankenstein. Play Bride, Frankenstein’s creation, Perfect yet incomplete. Use electric interactions and skills to overcome challenges in your style. Think and struggle through the intertwining conspiracy, and resolve in your own ending.
Why similar: Gothic 21.2% ★, Stealth 19%, Lore-Rich 13.5%, Female Protagonist 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.3%
- #29 Cage of Roses
78% matchVery Positive89% of 203 reviews2025
Dev: ebi-himePub: Two and a Half Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A haunting gothic romance set in the 19th century. Follow Meike, a young woman from an impoverished noble family, as she’s swept off her feet by the mysterious Magdalena: a vampire who possesses a dark secret.
Why similar: Gothic 22.4% ★, LGBTQ+ 18.6%, Thriller 11.7%, Psychological 11.1%, Female Protagonist 8.9%
- #30 Tormentum II
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: OhNoo Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Tormentum II is a dark, surreal Point & Click adventure, hand-drawn and crafted over 8 years by a true indie team. Explore nightmare worlds, grotesque creatures, and unsettling choices, in a haunting vision inspired by H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński. Return to Tormentum.
Why similar: Gothic 23.8% ★, Lore-Rich 14%, Psychological 13%, Thriller 10.7%, Dark 8.9%
- #31 I AM RIPPER
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: White Paper Games
Windows
I AM RIPPER is a British Thriller set in the brutality and economic decline of the 1980's. You are a forensic investigator called on to solve one of the UK's most prolific crimes.
Why similar: Thriller 18.7%, Stealth 16.1%, Female Protagonist 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
- #32 Scarlet Hunt
76% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Soft Poison Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Dive into a world of fleeting hope in this thrilling dark romance visual novel! Feel the fear, survive the hunt and navigate through danger on a daunting quest for freedom.
Why similar: Psychological 14.5%, LGBTQ+ 14.4%, Gothic 12.8% ★, Female Protagonist 12%, Thriller 9.7%
- #33 Saint Kotar
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 284 reviews2021
Dev: The-Mark EntertainmentPub: SOEDESCO
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Saint Kotar is a psychological horror detective game set in a cursed valley in rural Croatia. Investigate the disappearance of your relative in the occult-ridden town of Sveti Kotar as you switch between conflicting realities through the eyes of two godly men.
Why similar: Gothic 16% ★, Psychological 12.4%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Lore-Rich 10.2%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
- #34 Retrace
77% matchPositive93% of 42 reviews2020
Dev: Spider Lily Studios LLC
Windows
THIS WORLD DESIRES YOUR DEATH. A ghost tour gone wrong leads Freya to a parallel dimension, almost designed for her. Can you beat death, and escape? A game of mystery, adventure and queer love stories for PC.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25%, Psychological 18.3%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, Puzzle 9.7%, Choices Matter 8.1%
- #35 Screamboat Willie
75% matchMixed68% of 44 reviews2024
Dev: Platte ClarkPub: Neumont Game Studios
Windows
Do you LOVE Steamboat Willie? Great! He's in this game! Do you HATE Steamboat Willie? great! He's gross and scary and you are trying to dodge him and ultimately get away from him! So basically no matter what this game is for you!
Why similar: Stealth 22.1%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Dark 11.3%, Mystery 10.5%, Puzzle 9%
- #36 Life is Strange: Reunion
72% matchVery Positive90% of 5,160 reviews2026
Dev: Deck Nine GamesPub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The saga of Max and Chloe, and the fate of Caledon, is yours to decide! Play as both Max and Chloe as an all-new story builds towards an epic climax. The fire will force Max and Chloe to make devastating decisions. Can they find a future together… Before everything burns?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 32.4%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Female Protagonist 12.9%, Third Person 9.6%, Multiple Endings 6.5%
- #37 Milkman
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: StormishStudios
Windows
A normal visit to your family hotel becomes a night you will never forget.
Why similar: Stealth 14.3%, Female Protagonist 14%, Thriller 14%, Psychological 11.6%, Stylized 10.5%
- #38 Knock On The Window
73% matchVery Positive91% of 183 reviews2025
Dev: Tropical Games
Windows
Martin has been given an urgent assignment at work. However, for this he had to go to the house of his Boss. And so Martin found himself alone at home, in the middle of a vast field of sunflowers. Everything was going well until there was a knock on the window.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 16.1%, Thriller 14.4%, Psychological 12.3%, 1990's 11.8%, Dark 8.5%
- #39 The Waning Of ShadyVale
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DeeperMinds
Windows
Choose your path: play as Detective Mick, determined to uncover the town’s buried secrets, or survive as Alex, focused only on escaping the horror with their life intact. Make Items, solve puzzles, choose to save or abandon the people of this town. Whatever it takes to see the end of this nightmare.
Why similar: Stealth 20.8%, Third Person 17.4%, Puzzle 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Psychological 11.3%
- #40 Whitewasher
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: IronGem Games
Windows
You don't ask where the evidence comes from. You just decide what disappears. Inspect packages, destroy bloody materials with machines, or return clean ones. A dark management game in a corrupt pharmaceutical giant's basement, until the wrong package makes you question everything.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 21.3%, Thriller 15.6%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Psychological 10.6%
- #41 The Apocalypse Sacrifice
72% matchVery Positive95% of 248 reviews2024
Dev: FOG GAMESPub: INDIECN
Windows
As an adventurer, you have unintentionally uncovered a horrifying secret hidden in the town for years. Every choice you make will shape the story and become part of your personality test. Will you be the hero who saves the villagers, or will you sacrifice them to create your own legend?
Why similar: Lore-Rich 20.2%, Thriller 16.4%, 1990's 15%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.7%
- #42 P R I S M - A Visual Novel
75% matchNo user reviews2022
Dev: GoldieClaws
Windows · Mac · Linux
On her way to the city of opportunity, a young Freyja is trapped when a sudden fog descends upon the town known as Avon-On-Reach. Soon, she starts to wonder if there's more to the fog than meets the eye, and if it has a connection to the strange monstrous happenings around the town.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 39%, Multiple Endings 17.2%, Female Protagonist 16.4%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Story Rich 9.4%
- #43 Time Crack
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: MelTheMelPub: Nightfall Narratives
Windows
A thriller and mystery visual novel about broken trust and the search for truth, when a high-school student is accused of his parents’ brutal murder. Every choice might bring you closer to the truth... or end in tragedy.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 24.3%, Thriller 15.7%, Psychological 13.6%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11.8%
- #44 The House in Fata Morgana
73% matchVery Positive95% of 6,401 reviews2016
Dev: NOVECTPub: MangaGamer
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 26.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Gothic 27.9% ★, LGBTQ+ 18.2%, Mystery 9.1%, Female Protagonist 8.8%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
- #45 Rattle Spring
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: oddginger
Windows
Rattle Spring is a surreal, eerie puzzle adventure inspired by Rusty Lake. When your cousin vanishes from her family’s desert health resort, you must adventure into unsettling spaces, cryptic characters, and generational trauma to solve the interconnected puzzles and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 26.4%, Psychological 22.8%, Puzzle 14.9%, Mystery 9.3%, Atmospheric 8.2%
- #46 Captive: You Are My Idol
71% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: TheOdiePub: NightmarePugStudios
Windows
Aylen is a horror let's player who gets kidnapped. One moment, she was shooting the intro for her next video, and the next, she was waking up her biggest fan's basement. There are only two means for escape: examine & plot in secrecy, or use your words to deceive him. Or willingly accept him. (Don't)
Why similar: Thriller 20.3%, Female Protagonist 15.1%, Stealth 13.3%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Choices Matter 10.6%
- #47 Wretch
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 51kness
Windows
Find the violent stalker hiding inside an abandoned school. Piece together broken lore and solve a long lost mystery. What happened here and who's to blame?
Why similar: Thriller 16.1%, Psychological 15.5%, 1990's 11.2%, Puzzle 10.7%, Mystery 8.8%
- #48 Out of Sight
68% matchVery Positive95% of 927 reviews2025
Dev: The Gang Studio
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
You’re Sophie, a young blind girl who sees through her teddy bear’s eyes. Escape your captors and uncover the evil history of the dark mansion you desperately seek to escape in this unique, atmospheric horror puzzle/adventure game.
Why similar: Stealth 19.5%, Female Protagonist 14.8%, Third Person 11.9%, Puzzle 11.8%, Dark 11.3%
- #49 A Night at Ashmere Manor
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bandaloop Games GmbH
Windows
When your father goes missing with little more than a letter to clue you in, it's up to you to find him. His last known whereabouts? Ashmere Manor. Will you succeed in solving the mystery at the heart of the house and find your father, or will you succumb to its phantom call?
Why similar: Psychological 17.7%, Third Person 12.6%, Female Protagonist 12.5%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Mystery 9.1%
- #50 LOVESICK
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rose City Games
Windows
PUZZLE // PUNK // ESCAPE // TOUR // After a grueling tour that has left them drained and flat broke, a struggling post-punk band returns home. The group is already on the brink of collapse when a supernatural event dubbed “the Feedback” plunges them all into a twisted alternate reality.
Why similar: Thriller 18.4%, Psychological 15.1%, Mystery 11.6%, Puzzle 10.8%, 1990's 10.3%
- #51 Sole Mistake
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Calmpkin
Windows · Linux
Psychological horror puzzle. Control 16 unique camera feeds to spot escapees, open doors, and trigger sounds, guiding a person through a lab breach where a mistake is not permitted.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 32.2%, Stylized 11.8%, Puzzle 10.2%, Mystery 9.8%, Stealth 9.5%
- #52 Cut the Strings
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: OKOWA_T
Windows
It's a battle to become a sacrifice. A TPS where the bride girl shoots down abandoned synthetic soldiers on the battlefield. A fictional post-war world, a corrupt city, unreasonable fate and choices. Explore vast fields, enhance your body and weapons, and carve out her path.
Why similar: Gothic 23.4% ★, Stealth 13.8%, Thriller 13.7%, Psychological 12.2%, Third Person 10%
- #53 Eclipse : Special Forces
68% matchVery Positive95% of 63 reviews2025
Dev: MoonSun
Windows · Mac
MEN ARE EXTINCT. ONLY WOMEN REMAIN. Welcome to Eclipse—a choice-driven Yuri VN where God, Kings, Soldiers, and even Villains are all women. As Haesu, an elite agent, your choices will forge her destiny and the very future of the world. Amidst love, desire, and bloodshed—can you handle the truth?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25%, Lore-Rich 17.7%, Female Protagonist 11%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.5%
- #54 Uh Oh!
67% matchVery Positive86% of 100 reviews2025
Dev: Wumbo Workshop LLC
Windows · Mac
Play through three VHS tapes, uncovering the mystery of a decrepit facility, eluding tormented beasts, and discovering the truth of the chosen one.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 14.5%, Stealth 13.5%, Thriller 11.9%, Puzzle 10.8%, Psychological 10.5%
- #55 Neve
66% matchVery Positive98% of 64 reviews2026
Dev: Michelle SantosPub: Ritus Studio
Windows
Neve is a non-linear interactive fiction in which your decisions can completely change the course of story. Manage your team, race against time and unravel the mysteries surrounding your ship's crash in this suffocating retrofuturistic thriller that will have you hooked from the first second.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20%, Thriller 16.2%, Psychological 13.5%, Female Protagonist 11.7%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
- #56 Protocol Non-Human
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: DreadGear Games
Windows
A realistic first-person horror deduction game. Identify NON-HUMAN entities and navigate critical decisions within the Zone. Earn your survival, upgrade your booth, and-above all-don't let the NON-HUMANS in.
Why similar: Psychological 15.5%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Thriller 9.9%, Dark 9.8%
- #57 The Forgotten Past
67% matchPositive93% of 29 reviews2025
Dev: The Midnight Crow Pub: Midnight Crow Studio
Windows
While investigating a forgotten factory, you uncover dark secrets, haunted machines, and a past that was never meant to be found. Strange visions, buried truths… and something watching from the shadows. Be careful, this place isn’t abandoned.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 21.9%, 1990's 16.8%, Puzzle 12.3%, Stylized 10.9%, Dark 10.7%
- #58 Project B-FER: Prime Cut
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Streamcope
Windows · Mac · Linux
You and 4 other people are trapped underground on a moving subway train. What are you willing to do to get out? Will you play by the rules, or break them?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.8%, Female Protagonist 19.2%, Puzzle 15.7%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
- #59 Pages of Tomorrow
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Doksa
Windows · Linux
Challenge fate in this psychological visual novel about a juvenile psych ward patient who discovers a book that can predict the future.
Why similar: Psychological 19.1%, LGBTQ+ 17.6%, Female Protagonist 12.7%, Mystery 11.3%, Thriller 10.5%
- #60 Sorry We're Closed
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,954 reviews2024
Dev: à la mode gamesPub: Akupara Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Sorry We're Closed is an eccentric story-driven survival horror game about demons, angels and what happens when both sides collide. A mix of classic fixed-camera exploration and arcade-style shooting where Michelle must use her Third Eye to see between worlds, uncover secrets and solve puzzles.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 29.8%, Female Protagonist 15.4%, Dark 9.1%, Third Person 8.8%, Puzzle 8.4%