- #1 Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 34,471 reviews2023
Dev: Black Tabby Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.9%, Psychological Horror 18.4%, Choices Matter 17.5%, Hand-drawn 13.3%, Dark Humor 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its intensely personal psychological horror, darkly funny dialogue, and radically branching choices make it the closest match for Andy and Leyley’s disturbing relationship-driven storytelling.
- #2 The NOexistenceN of you AND me
96% matchVery Positive93% of 22,293 reviews2024
Dev: 0x0Real StudioPub: Nino Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Why similar: Psychological 24.2%, Visual Novel 23.1%, Psychological Horror 19.1%, Multiple Endings 16.9%, Story Rich 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: This surreal visual novel similarly centers on an unhealthy, reality-warping bond between two people while pushing psychological horror through dialogue and repeated routes.
- #3 Cooking Companions
96% matchVery Positive94% of 1,212 reviews2021
Dev: Deer Dream StudiosPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Unravel the mystery in this cute psychological horror VN, set deep in the woods of the Tatras Mountains. Will you wind up on the chopping block?
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.4%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Female Protagonist 13.2%, Dark 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: A deceptively cute branching visual novel that turns survival, cannibalism, and relationship choices into increasingly grim dark comedy.
- #4 The Price Of Flesh
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,156 reviews2022
Dev: Gatobob
Windows · Mac · Linux
An immersive choose-your-own-adventure survival horror with optional adult content featuring hand drawn backgrounds, sprites, and over 150 pieces of full screen art- and 50 endings.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Multiple Endings 14.4%, Dark 14.1%, Hand-drawn 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: This choice-heavy horror visual novel directly explores survival, violence, cannibalism, and morally ugly decisions.
- #5 The Song of Saya
94% matchVery Positive89% of 10,280 reviews2019
Dev: NitroplusPub: JAST
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 64.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Bear witness to a love that will change the world, in this classic horror romance visual novel from acclaimed writer Urobuchi Gen.
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.6%, Psychological Horror 28.9%, Dark 11.2%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Horror 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A notorious psychological horror visual novel about warped perception, taboo intimacy, and grotesque body horror told through an unreliable protagonist.
- #6 Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 32,549 reviews2021
Dev: Team SalvatoPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 84.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Welcome to the club! Write poems for your crush and experience the terror of school romance in this critically-acclaimed psychological horror story.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 35.4%, Visual Novel 28.9%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Story Rich 11.1%, Dark Humor 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: It begins as an approachable visual novel before turning into a meta psychological horror story about manipulation, obsession, and player complicity.
- #7 Case 00: The Cannibal Boy
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 168 reviews2020
Dev: Sounding Stone / 老奉毊
Windows · Mac
Case 00: The Cannibal Boy is a half-hour visual novel partly based on a true story, written by a writer with a background in psychology. It is a psychological horror story with an urban legend theme.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 25.3%, Psychological 21.7%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Dark Humor 9.5%, Psychological Horror 9%
Why You'll Like It: This short visual novel is built around a disturbing cannibalistic mystery and uneasy character dynamics rather than simple jump-scare horror.
- #8 Who's Lila?
92% matchVery Positive94% of 3,836 reviews2022
Dev: Garage Heathen
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.3%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Multiple Endings 16%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Horror 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its unsettling mystery, distorted character interactions, and unusual face-controlled conversations create a similarly oppressive psychological-horror atmosphere.
- #9 The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty
91% matchVery Positive94% of 60,129 reviews2024
Dev: 零创游戏(ZerocreationGame)
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 25.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
He is a bandit who sells lives. She is a mute girl seeking revenge. In a famine-ravaged ancient China, a ruthless trafficker escorts four girls to a demon's feast. But when a deadly secret is revealed, a cold transaction turns into a journey of redemption. A dark visual novel about an unlikely bond.
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.8%, Multiple Endings 22.4%, Dark 16.6%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Story Rich 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: A grim historical visual novel whose branching story confronts famine, exploitation, trauma, and cannibalism with an unflinching tone.
- #10 Cannibal Tales - Episode 1
91% matchVery Positive89% of 64 reviews2024
Dev: Fantastico Studio
Windows · Mac
Horror thriller visual novel written by cult director Ruggero Deodato. A cannibal story in three episodes. Embark on a challenging journey, where every choice has a price and consequences. Will you be able to reach the end without getting your soul devoured? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.2%, Psychological Horror 16%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Female Protagonist 12%, Horror 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Its dialogue-driven horror adventure focuses on disturbing moral choices, cannibalism, and a bleak, intimate atmosphere.
- #11 MiSide
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 142,774 reviews2024
Dev: AIHASTOPub: IndieArk
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Let's imagine that you have a game in which you care for a character. But could you imagine one day getting into that game yourself?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 44.8%, Story Rich 21.6%, Horror 19.4%, Puzzle 5.7%, Singleplayer 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: This cute-looking psychological horror game gradually reveals an unnerving character obsession, shifting realities, and multiple story paths.
- #12 NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
90% matchVery Positive94% of 58,305 reviews2022
Dev: WSS playground
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD is a “multi-ending ADV” depicting daily life with “OMGkawaiiAngel”, a young girl with a rather extreme need for approval attempting to become the #1 “Internet Angel” (streamer).
Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.7%, Psychological 21.1%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Dark Humor 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its darkly comic management structure chronicles a codependent and increasingly destructive relationship through many bleak possible outcomes.
- #13 Scarlet Hollow
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 5,335 reviews2021
Dev: Black Tabby Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.3%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, Choices Matter 16.6%, Multiple Endings 14.7%, Story Rich 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its hand-drawn presentation, highly reactive dialogue, relationship-focused choices, and escalating small-town horror make it an excellent narrative alternative.
- #14 Mouthwashing
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 38,851 reviews2024
Dev: Wrong OrganPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.
Why similar: Psychological 27.4%, Psychological Horror 23.9%, Dark 11.7%, Story Rich 11.5%, Horror 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Though played in first person rather than VN form, it delivers similarly claustrophobic psychological horror through a deeply dysfunctional group and grim dark humor.
- #15 Wonderful Everyday Down the Rabbit-Hole
88% matchVery Positive93% of 2,765 reviews2017
Dev: KeroQPub: Frontwing USA
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 175.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Wonderful Everyday is a visual novel with multiple routes which develops a story based on a few concepts: "the sky and the world", "the beginning and the end", "literature and science", "savior and hero", "brother and sister".
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.6%, Psychological 21.3%, Psychological Horror 20.6%, Story Rich 10.3%, Female Protagonist 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A lengthy, extremely dark visual novel that uses shifting perspectives and surreal horror to explore trauma, cruelty, and broken realities.
- #16 Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 22,405 reviews2021
Dev: Nikita Kryukov
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A sequel to Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk. Dive into demented and bizarre world once again and help the girl become a little happier.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25%, Visual Novel 22.7%, Psychological 19%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Story Rich 8%
Why You'll Like It: This experimental follow-up uses intimate, unsettling narration and surreal presentation to portray a protagonist’s fractured mental state.
- #17 YOU and ME and HER: A Love Story
86% matchVery Positive95% of 7,095 reviews2020
Dev: NitroplusPub: JAST
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 133.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
YOU and ME and HER: A Love Story is the visual novel medium in its purest form. Will Shinichi choose Miyuki, the beautiful queen bee of the school, or the endearingly awkward misfit Aoi? With art by Tsuji Santa, these beautifully rendered romances will stay with you forever.
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.4%, Psychological Horror 25.1%, Psychological 10.7%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Story Rich 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: This meta visual novel weaponizes romance-game conventions into a disturbing story of fixation, jealousy, and player-driven emotional harm.
- #18 Sally Face - Episode One
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 29,849 reviews2016
Dev: Portable Moose
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
An unsettling adventure following a boy with a prosthetic face. After a string of mysterious murders, Sal and his three friends discover something truly sinister casting shadows over their small town.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19%, Demons 16.1%, Dark 13.4%, Story Rich 12.5%, Hand-drawn 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: A hand-drawn adventure with puzzle solving, black comedy, disturbing family material, and a mystery that grows increasingly grotesque.
- #19 Mad Father
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 6,818 reviews2016
Dev: senPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Witness the tale of a most foolish family. A remake of the classic horror exploration game makes its way to Steam.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 26%, Horror 17.2%, Dark 11.5%, Female Protagonist 11.3%, Story Rich 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A classic horror adventure featuring exploration, light puzzles, multiple endings, family dysfunction, and increasingly disturbing revelations.
- #20 CORPSE FACTORY
84% matchVery Positive80% of 885 reviews2022
Dev: RIVER CROW STUDIO
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Discard your sense of morality and enter the world of CORPSE FACTORY. An obscure website allows users to request a death. Victims supposedly receive a photograph of their own corpse before they are killed! With English voice acting by an all-star cast.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.1%, Psychological Horror 20.1%, Female Protagonist 10.2%, Story Rich 10.2%, Psychological 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A grim kinetic horror novel about online cruelty and murder that shares the seed game’s interest in morally compromised, psychologically unstable characters.
- #21 Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 34,372 reviews2020
Dev: Nikita KryukovPub: Nikita Igorevich Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 11%
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Why similar: Psychological 31.2%, Visual Novel 25.3%, Psychological Horror 23.9%, Horror 11.1%, Story Rich 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: A brief but highly effective psychological-horror visual novel built around unreliable perception and uncomfortable closeness with its narrator.
- #22 The Letter - Horror Visual Novel
83% matchVery Positive85% of 1,534 reviews2017
Dev: Yangyang MobilePub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
When seven people fall prey to a vicious curse, they will discover that horror rests not from the shadows lurking about, but within themselves. To what ends will one go in order to survive?
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.6%, Horror 15.4%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11%
Why You'll Like It: A branching horror visual novel where choices determine who survives, emphasizing cursed-object dread and interconnected character perspectives.
- #23 Paper Lily - Chapter 1
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 8,923 reviews2024
Dev: Leef 6010
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Psychological Horror 21.4%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Story Rich 12%, Female Protagonist 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its RPG-style exploration, puzzle solving, unsettling school setting, and choice-sensitive scenes suit players wanting a more playable psychological horror story.
- #24 Corpse Party
82% matchVery Positive89% of 1,404 reviews2016
Dev: GrisGrisPub: XSEED Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A group of friends unknowingly perform an occult ritual that traps them in an otherworldly elementary school. Here, the vengeful spirits of young children threaten their lives and their sanity, and the only hope of survival is to uncover the chilling details behind the murders of those trapped before them...
Why similar: Horror 22.9%, Psychological Horror 20.6%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Story Rich 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its exploration-and-puzzle structure, gruesome deaths, multiple bad endings, and trapped cast provide a more traditional but similarly bleak horror adventure.
- #25 OMORI
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 88,824 reviews2020
Dev: OMOCAT, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.4 hrsMean: 25.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 32.5%, Story Rich 17.7%, Multiple Endings 17.6%, Hand-drawn 15.5%, Horror 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its cute surface conceals a long-form psychological horror story about repression, guilt, dysfunctional relationships, and route-dependent revelations.
- #26 Fran Bow
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 23,083 reviews2015
Dev: Killmonday Games AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.8%, Psychological 18.5%, Story Rich 12%, Dark 11.2%, Horror 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: This point-and-click psychological horror game balances childlike visuals, surreal gore, puzzles, and an unstable protagonist’s perception of reality.
- #27 Raging Loop
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 11,351 reviews2017
Dev: KEMCO
Windows
Median: 24.2 hrsMean: 60.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
The feast has begun, can you escape the village alive?
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.8%, Psychological 22.5%, Psychological Horror 20.6%, Story Rich 12.1%, Multiple Endings 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: This paranoia-filled horror visual novel combines repeated death-game routes, social manipulation, occult mystery, and meaningful branching decisions.
- #28 MOOD
78% matchVery Positive86% of 487 reviews2025
Dev: MAT Affect
Windows
MOOD is a short visual novel combining horror, dark humor, and dialogues on a wide variety of topics, from old movies to ancient wars. You were the one who summoned your new companion, there is no backing out now!
Why similar: Visual Novel 12.7%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Dark 11.6%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Choices Matter 9.9%
- #29 The Old Flesh of Nuraga
76% matchVery Positive96% of 144 reviews2026
Dev: Studio Ortica
Windows
Your Grandpa descends into madness in a family cosmic horror. Dig cursed relics, meet eldritch beings, and awaken a forgotten God.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.9%, Dark Humor 18.4%, Multiple Endings 17%, Choices Matter 13%, Horror 10.4%
- #30 Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling
77% matchVery Positive88% of 3,595 reviews2023
Dev: silver978Pub: IndieArk
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 58%
A short psychological adventure about a stressed girl who wants to explore her ceiling.
Why similar: Psychological 27.9%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Psychological Horror 11%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Female Protagonist 9.5%
- #31 and yet, we dream
76% matchVery Positive92% of 52 reviews2026
Dev: arda bolat
Windows · Mac · Linux
a psychological visual novel where you investigate the souls of the dead. spend time with them, analyze their past, file reports to decide their eternal fate.
Why similar: Psychological 20.2%, Dark Comedy 18.7%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.2%
- #32 Agatha Knife
79% matchVery Positive93% of 662 reviews2017
Dev: Mango Protocol
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Embark on a whimsically twisted adventure with Agatha, a child torn between her love for eating meat and her friendships with animals. Join her as she discovers religion and creates her own, Carnivorism, to convince animals that the sacrifice of their flesh is the secret to their eternal happiness.
Why similar: Dark Humor 37.6%, Female Protagonist 34.9%, Adventure 22.8%, Singleplayer 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: This macabre point-and-click comedy follows a young girl in a butcher family trying to reconcile animal slaughter and religion through bizarre cult-building.
- #33 Saihate Station
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 10,470 reviews2025
Dev: びぶ/viv
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 67%
An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.4%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Hand-drawn 13.3%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Horror 9.2%
- #34 The Cat Lady
78% matchVery Positive94% of 6,305 reviews2013
Dev: Harvester GamesPub: Screen 7
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Cat Lady follows Susan Ashworth, a lonely 40-year old on the verge of suicide. She has no family, no friends and no hope for a better future. One day she discovers that five strangers will come along and change everything...
Why similar: Psychological 19.8%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Female Protagonist 12.8%, Horror 11.7%, Story Rich 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: A bleak hand-drawn point-and-click adventure about trauma, death, and grotesque encounters, with the same willingness to make its protagonist uncomfortable to follow.
- #35 Little Misfortune
77% matchVery Positive92% of 14,190 reviews2019
Dev: Killmonday Games AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Led by her new friend, Mr. Voice, Misfortune ventures into the woods, where mysteries are unraveled and a little bad luck unfolds.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.7%, Choices Matter 16%, Dark Humor 12.8%, Story Rich 12.5%, Female Protagonist 11.9%
- #36 Sister Other Paranoia
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 677 reviews2026
Dev: HazeDenkiPub: Serenity Forge
Windows
A dark visual novel by acclaimed creator nyalra. 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 23.8%, Visual Novel 22.5%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Dark 14.1%, Story Rich 11.6%
- #37 DEAD LAMB WALKING
73% matchVery Positive96% of 204 reviews2024
Dev: Lyn Mametchi
Windows
A story about a dead lamb walking.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.9%, Psychological Horror 15%, Female Protagonist 14.5%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.2%
- #38 Psychopomp GOLD
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 5,426 reviews2024
Dev: Fading Club
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Psychopomp is BACK. The catacombs stretch down farther than ever before. Your entire life has been a lie. Delve into the depths, and discover the horrors that lie below. More realms, more modes, more secrets. An ancient voice calls to you from the center of the earth. Will you answer it?
Why similar: Psychological 36.4%, Psychological Horror 28.7%, Female Protagonist 21.3%, Horror 8.1%, Adventure 4.2%
- #39 Helltaker
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 128,246 reviews2020
Dev: vanripper
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.
Why similar: Demons 68.8%, Puzzle 13%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Singleplayer 4.7%, Adventure 3.6%
- #40 Ib
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 5,340 reviews2022
Dev: kouriPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A 2D exploration adventure game set in a creepy, mysterious art gallery.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.6%, Multiple Endings 16.1%, Female Protagonist 13.9%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Story Rich 13%
- #41 GAG
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 60 reviews2020
Dev: Joshua Roland
Windows
An interactive psychological horror drama.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 24%, Psychological 13.1%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
- #42 Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition
72% matchVery Positive95% of 9,560 reviews2019
Dev: Baroque DecayPub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Join Brian Pasternack on his first working day at Sintracorp. Uncertain, unprepared, and massively unqualified, will Pasternack have what it takes to shine in Sintracorp’s hierarchy? It all depends on how he performs on his first assignment… and whether he survives it.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.1%, Multiple Endings 15.4%, Dark Humor 14.4%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Story Rich 10.4%
- #43 I'll Do It Tomorrow
71% matchVery Positive97% of 87 reviews2024
Dev: Luca Morotti
Windows
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 16.4%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Female Protagonist 11.3%, Psychological 10.4%, Story Rich 9.6%
- #44 Class of '09
71% matchVery Positive95% of 9,128 reviews2021
Dev: SBN3
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
This is the anti-visual novel. Instead of playing as some guy magically able to score with beautiful anime girls, YOU play the anime girl and create mass chaos in the lives of your potential "suitors". Earnest comedy, social accuracy, and late 2000's aesthetic await you in Class of '09!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 30.9%, Visual Novel 20.5%, Female Protagonist 17.8%, Multiple Endings 16.8%, Story Rich 6.4%
- #45 The Mildew Children
70% matchVery Positive93% of 525 reviews2024
Dev: The Growing StonesPub: Valkyrie Initiative
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Featuring a blend of 2D adventure and visual novel, The Mildew Children is a grim tale about a village inhabited only by children who follow savage pagan traditions. A young witch named Kyrphel, along with her sisters, are bound to perform a macabre Ritual in order to save their village.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.6%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Female Protagonist 14.3%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Story Rich 12.2%
- #46 The Window Box
74% matchVery Positive81% of 83 reviews2019
Dev: Sundew Studios
Windows · Mac
Wander from room to room in this whimsical and dark visual novel as you follow five friends trapped during a freak storm. Listen while they have hard conversations and tough realizations as they confront the conflict in their lives. For what is a house but a box with windows?
Why similar: Dark Comedy 28.9%, Psychological 18.7%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Female Protagonist 7.6%, Dark 7%
- #47 The Mildew Children: Chapter 1
71% matchVery Positive86% of 326 reviews2023
Dev: The Growing StonesPub: Valkyrie Initiative
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 30%
Featuring a blend of 2D adventure and visual novel. Chapter 1 is the very beginning of the grim tale about a village inhabited only by children who follow savage pagan traditions. A young witch Kyrphel, along with her sisters, are bound to perform a macabre Ritual in order to save their village.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.3%, Female Protagonist 15.3%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Story Rich 13.9%
- #48 Class of '09: The Re-Up
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 4,787 reviews2023
Dev: SBN3
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The REJECTION SIM returns! Explore a slice of chaotic life in late 2000's American high school as you assume the role of Nicole once again. A 100% fully voiced VN presenting as the most culturally accurate period piece in the history of gaming.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.8%, Dark Humor 19.9%, Female Protagonist 17.1%, Multiple Endings 16.8%, Hand-drawn 12.8%
- #49 An alt girl for skoof
69% matchVery Positive83% of 10,577 reviews2024
Dev: Terletski Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
There is a rumor that any skuf can legally receive a fee alt girl from the state; to do this, you just need to log in to a special service and enter your personal data.
Why similar: Visual Novel 32.4%, Psychological Horror 28.4%, Multiple Endings 25%, Horror 6.2%, Story Rich 5.3%
- #50 Corpse Party (2021)
70% matchVery Positive91% of 1,543 reviews2021
Dev: MAGES.Pub: XSEED Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Explore the haunted halls of Heavenly Host Elementary in Corpse Party (2021), the horror cult classic now updated for the next generation.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.5%, Multiple Endings 15%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Dark 13.5%, Horror 12.7%
- #51 Malleus Cocconum: The Heiress
68% matchVery Positive95% of 164 reviews2025
Dev: Domus Aurea
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are Arenda Finch—fifteen years old, wealthy beyond measure, and newly exiled from your former school. Dunkenwood House takes you in, but its halls hide the darker side of privilege. Humanity or demonic nature. Love or desire. Every choice shapes the person you become.
Why similar: Dark 22.3%, Psychological Horror 20.8%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Multiple Endings 13%, Female Protagonist 13%
- #52 Hello Charlotte EP2: Requiem Aeternam Deo
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,449 reviews2016
Dev: etherane
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 67%
A eulogy for happiness, and a lament for connection that never was.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.2%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Dark Humor 11.8%, Female Protagonist 10.7%, Dark 10.2%
- #53 Contraindication
67% matchVery Positive98% of 83 reviews2025
Dev: Static Remains
Windows
Your end is my beginning. A short psychological visual novel with exploration and puzzle elements... it already lays shattered.
Why similar: Psychological 19.1%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Hand-drawn 14.1%, Exploration 8.4%
- #54 My Big Sister
69% matchVery Positive93% of 686 reviews2018
Dev: Stranga GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
My name is Luzia...and this story isn't about me, it’s about my sister. Do you still wish to hear it?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.9%, Dark 21.6%, Story Rich 17.9%, Horror 16.3%, Exploration 7.3%
- #55 Endacopia
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 7,578 reviews2026
Dev: Andyland
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Endacopia is a Point-and-Click Puzzle Adventure that is visually reminiscent of early computer edutainment games... with underlying horrors.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.4%, Multiple Endings 16.7%, Dark 16.3%, Horror 12.4%, Choices Matter 12.2%
- #56 Doki Doki Literature Club!
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 228,468 reviews2017
Dev: Team Salvato
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 38.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.5%, Visual Novel 26.2%, Dark 15.3%, Horror 12.1%, Story Rich 9.9%
- #57 BAD END THEATER
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 10,071 reviews2021
Dev: NomnomNami
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!
Why similar: Multiple Endings 22.7%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Choices Matter 17.2%, Demons 17.2%, Story Rich 13.3%
- #58 The Demons Told Me to Make This Game
66% matchVery Positive98% of 112 reviews2025
Dev: Haunted Dude
Windows · Mac
Welcome to Red Hives, a lovely Midwestern town infested with demons. You're a little spirit stuck in a time loop, your only way to interact with the world is by possessing people and whispering into their ears. Explore timelines, solve mysteries, and please, try to keep your hosts alive...
Why similar: Dark Comedy 19.2%, Demons 17.1%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Visual Novel 9.5%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
- #59 Awaria
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 19,882 reviews2024
Dev: vanripper
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 60.2%, Psychological Horror 19.9%, Horror 10.3%, Singleplayer 9.6%
- #60 The Mermaid of Zennor
68% matchVery Positive99% of 77 reviews2021
Dev: ebi-hime
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short, dark visual novel set in the UK about a young autistic girl's destructive obsession with her older brother.
Why similar: Psychological 18.4%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Female Protagonist 14.4%, Dark 13.7%, Multiple Endings 11.8%