Games Like The Bottom of the Well

A short horror point & click game about a teenager trapped in a dream-like garden. Will Reven be able to escape? It's up to you!

Why similar: Visual Novel 87.3%, Horror 12.7%

A free horror Visual Novel about an ill-fated journey across Sinnlos, a lake where gruesome monsters lurk just beneath the surface. With times being so dire you'll need to decide what, and who, is going to be sacrificed. Anyone can be saved, but not everyone can be.

Why similar: Visual Novel 87.1%, Horror 12.9%

Alice Through the Fey Realm is an enchanting isometric narrative adventure that puts you into the shoes of Alice. A compelling adventure unfolds as you awaken in the mysterious Fey Realm and embark on a quest to discover the key to your journey home.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 45.9%, Interactive Fiction 33%, RPG 21%

After waking from a terrifying dream of your own untimely death, you attempt to make your way to the Finnigan Brothers' Fun Park for its last day then back home again. It's like playing Russian roulette with five chambers loaded, but more frustrating.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 50.6%, Visual Novel 36.2%, Horror 13.2%

The two girls who had a traffic accident, Libra and her girlfriend Amili, wander the supernatural world as Near-death experience.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 44.5%, Interactive Fiction 33.3%, RPG 22.2%

A redux version of a 2014 Ludum Dare RPG Maker Horror Game. A poor little marshmallow escapes death row into an underground subway system, where they're asked questions by a mysterious game show host. Updated in 2025 with new content.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 82.1%, Horror 17.9%

Gary is caught in a strange dream and now he must overcome the adversities on his path or perish in the attempt. In this adventure you will meet 3 children in dream-like scenarios, next to a mysterious girl who talks about a promise.

Why similar: Visual Novel 100%

"海子 UMIKO" is a psychological horror visual novel. Engage in conversations with Umiko, complete various mini-games, solve puzzles, and gradually piece together the dark truths she tries to hide about herself and her dimension from fragmented narratives. Preserve your fragile friendship for a week!

Why similar: Visual Novel 31.6%, Post-apocalyptic 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 23.6%, RPG 12.9%, Horror 7.2%

A short lesbian / yuri visual novel set in England. Our heroine, Toma Andrews, meets a ghost girl wearing an old-fashioned nightgown in a graveyard who calls herself Emmeline. Just who is she, and how did she die?

Why similar: Visual Novel 100%

This is a game in which you traverse the extremely dark world inside a dream.

Why similar: Horror 100%

You wake up at the bottom of the ocean, surrounded by your broken memories. Reclaim and compile your magic or drown in a sea of dreams.

Why similar: RPG 29%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.2%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Visual Novel 19.7%

Join Alicia as she tries to save her niece from a city warped and twisted by otherworldly beings in this eccentric RPG.

Why similar: RPG 74.3%, Horror 25.7%

What dreams are made of is the stuff of nightmares in this new point-and-click adventure. Delve deep into realms both fantastical and terrifying, and use the power of lucid dreaming to solve puzzles, explore, and contend with eerie adversaries in your search for the brother you thought had died.

Why similar: RPG 63.2%, Horror 36.8%

A fractured dream of a girl who tried to make something beautiful, and was silenced before she could finish it. Now, her voice resurfaces. A quiet story of memory, loss, and reclaimed authorship - told through fragmented exploration and stark, fragile spaces.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 55%, RPG 29.7%, Horror 15.2%

Follow three stories set in a world where the dead linger, and things far worse wait beyond the veil.

Why similar: Visual Novel 87.6%, Horror 12.4%

It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 77.6%, Horror 22.4%

A short visual novel about finding your name and a girl in the fog.

Why similar: Visual Novel 48.6%, Post-apocalyptic 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Horror 9.2%

Set over the course of roughly a week, you play as a young girl who has been living in a shelter all her life. The outside world is infected with a deadly disease. Society is in chaos. Fortunately, your papa is protecting you.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 53.3%, RPG 32.6%, Horror 14.2%

The demon summoned to embark the second apocalypse is only a child, and a woman who has lost it all resolves to save her. A half-hour long narrative game with survival gameplay elements and two endings.

Why similar: Visual Novel 37.7%, Interactive Fiction 31.9%, Post-apocalyptic 30.4%

Marie's Room is a short story exploration game about an unconventional friendship between two classmates. You play as Kelsey, remembering Marie's room as it was twenty years ago. But something’s off. What happened to Marie?

Why similar: Horror 100%

Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 40.4%, Interactive Fiction 36.8%, Visual Novel 22.9%

Alice's World is a story-driven 2D adventure puzzle game. Amidst desolate ruins and deserted cities in a world filled with death, the young girl Alice hears "your" voice from in front of the screen. You must guide her forward, solve the mysteries, and reach the top of the tower.

Why similar: Visual Novel 71.4%, Horror 28.6%

Play as a farmer who struggles to manage a failing farm. You come to a point where there is no more hope, and you must do something.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.3%, Visual Novel 35.1%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Horror 9.7%

An interactive story about a painfully introverted college student who must find a way to make some oatmeal in the communal kitchen of her dorm. One simple task, can you help her complete it?

Why similar: Visual Novel 100%

Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.5%, Interactive Fiction 33.5%, Visual Novel 29%, Horror 1%

Lovely Lady RPG is a visual novel about wandering around and just sort of seeing what life has in store for you. After waking up with a hole in her ceiling, a cosmic space Orb embedded in her chest and no recollection of basically anything, Ghost sets out to continue her life as best she can.

Why similar: Visual Novel 69.6%, RPG 30.4%

A visual novel about a girl who loves the cemetery. When her parents go missing, she receives a mysterious text that has the potential to completely ruin her life...or fix it?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 42.9%, Visual Novel 40.9%, RPG 16.2%

A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths. A free atmospheric horror visual novel where you navigate life-or-death situations. SEEK PARADISE OR DIE TRYING

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.8%, Visual Novel 34.3%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Horror 7.5%

The world ends in 1 hour. It can't be saved. Wanna chat?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.5%, Visual Novel 33.4%, Interactive Fiction 25.2%, Horror 6.9%

You who are unqualified to drink Meng Po's soup, you have been chosen for the game of life. A horror yuri visual novel following a series of death games in the afterlife.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 35.5%, Visual Novel 33.3%, Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Horror 6.6%

Your end is my beginning. A short psychological visual novel with exploration and puzzle elements... it already lays shattered.

Why similar: Visual Novel 68.2%, RPG 31.8%

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: Visual Novel 79.4%, Horror 20.6%

A daylight, psychological horror experience. Stranded in the desert, every choice meant to save you brings something closer.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 52.1%, Interactive Fiction 38.9%, Horror 9%

Down the Rabbit Hole is an adventure set in Wonderland prior to Alice's arrival. You will guide a girl who is looking for her lost pet by solving puzzles, uncovering secrets and making choices about the story along the way.

Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.

Why similar: RPG 66.4%, Horror 33.6%

A story about dreams. Explore a weird house and find the truth. A short game with mild puzzles and some psychological horror elements.

Why similar: RPG 92.2%, Horror 7.8%

Your choices affect the destiny of Alice, drastically changing her reality and allowing her to explore alternative destinies by modifying her past. Travel across European cities, meet colourful characters and solve the mystery.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 37.1%, Visual Novel 37.1%, Interactive Fiction 25.8%

── In the summer of the world that has ended, the girl travels aimlessly. "natsuno-kanata - beyond the summer" is a text adventure game that depicts girls traveling in apocalypse. Through talking to the girls, we get to know them and approach the mysteries of the world ──

Why similar: Visual Novel 60.1%, Post-apocalyptic 39.9%

Wienne is unique - you can change the flow of the story at any moment in time. Repeatedly. In this short story and lore-driven RPG you will have to save Wienne and Zack from a nearly inevitable demise. Can you find the path?

Why similar: RPG 100%

Experience a sneak peek of YIIK I.V! Step beyond Alex Eggleston's story and become the Nameless Child, a young girl pushed from a mysterious tower. Guide her through a surreal dimension where she must find a way to save both the Good Brother and the Bad Brother.

Why similar: RPG 100%

Until Oblivion is an atmospheric narrative game that follows 17 year old nobody Emma Wilson as she tries to rekindle a dying relationship in a dying world. Join her in an increasingly nightmarish Halloween party and find out if anything (or anyone) is worth anything at all.

Why similar: Visual Novel 56.7%, Interactive Fiction 43.3%

This is your last day as a worker for a pet feeding service, and depending on how the day goes, your life. Prepare the final meal for a client's odd pet that lives in an abandoned pool all while trying to make it out safely and avoid mistakes.

Why similar: RPG 57.7%, Horror 42.3%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 35%, Visual Novel 33.6%, Post-apocalyptic 31.3%

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 56.3%, Interactive Fiction 30.5%, Horror 13.2%

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 34.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, RPG 8.7%, Horror 8.5%

The World Well: Blood of Caro is a cinematic dark fantasy visual novel where every choice reveals another piece of the truth. Join 4 and Noma as they journey through a vampire-ruled world filled with unforgettable characters, hidden secrets, and difficult decisions.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 39.1%, Visual Novel 35.2%, Interactive Fiction 25.7%

Nothing is as it seems.

Why similar: Visual Novel 73.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Horror 12.8%

Escape from the Cursed Convent is a narrative-driven adventure game set in a medieval girls' convent, offering a rich storytelling experience, and several gameplay styles including QTE, hunting, cooking, and puzzle-solving.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 40.7%, Visual Novel 36%, RPG 14.4%, Horror 8.9%

A free drama-mystery visual novel with a modern fantasy setting. Reach out to the fourteen people trapped inside to find the truth through eighteen endings, influenced by but not exclusively bound to your own system time.

Why similar: Visual Novel 48.1%, Interactive Fiction 28.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%

The hero Ivry wakes up from a nightmare and finds himself in a weird room. To escape from fear and darkness, he has to search and explore on his own until he discovers the truth and finds his sister Iva.A puzzle game 《PRICE》

Why similar: Visual Novel 64%, Horror 36%

An eerie liminal game that explores just how far an angel can fall. Play as sapphic Lucifer and corrupt angels into falling... in love with you.

Why similar: Visual Novel 60.8%, Interactive Fiction 39.2%

Inspired by SCP-261, you play as a homeless girl struggling to survive in a distorted city using a vending machine that should not exist. Every coin dispenses impossible food that defies biology and logic, and every meal reshapes your fate. How long can you survive before you stop being human?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 74.8%, Horror 25.2%

This interactive adventure features no specific hero. YOU are the one who decides who makes it out alive - or not. Your actions determine the outcome of the story. In total there are 9 playable heroes and more than 50 different paths all featuring intense dialogues and thrilling events.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 69.7%, RPG 20.8%, Horror 9.5%

Labyrinthine Dreams is a short puzzle game about overcoming the scars of the past and following the right path, even in the face of overwhelming challenges.

A choice-driven RPG thriller set in the World of Darkness universe. Step into the shoes of Samira, a young werewolf refugee in Poland, as she battles dark forces and loneliness, caught between rage and despair. How will your story unfold?

Why similar: Visual Novel 29.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, RPG 13.2%, Horror 6%

Experience the not-so-ordinary life of a young institutionalized woman in the 1950’s. Amidst the daily struggles and overbearing loneliness, she often sees things that others do not. However, as the imaginary begins to seep into reality, she realizes she may not be as crazy as she once thought.

Why similar: RPG 59%, Horror 41%

Mio is a young girl surrounded by death, and after an unexpected accident, she finds out where people go after they die. Maybe Heaven, or Hell...or an Underworld full of demons and mysteries.

Why similar: Visual Novel 69.1%, Interactive Fiction 30.9%

Cabernet is a 2D narrative RPG set in a 19th century Eastern European inspired world, with a modern twist. Guide Liza, a young vampire in her new unlife among the unsuspecting townsfolk. Will you retain your humanity or descend further into the horror you have become?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.9%, Visual Novel 30.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, RPG 10.2%, Horror 8.4%

A metafictional yuri visual novel about a traveller who runs across two cute nuns in an abandoned church.

Why similar: Visual Novel 100%

You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.

Why similar: Visual Novel 62.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.5%, Horror 10.2%