Games Like The Ghost

Her ex-boyfriend became a shut-in. The girl goes to visit him... then things start to go wrong. They always do, right? Experience two stories about digital gods and loss. And remember - believe in the net.

Why similar: Experimental 41.1% ★, Visual Novel 30%, Dark 24.7%, Indie 4.2%

Difficulty is a short, experimental visual novel, about both the difficulty level of stories, and the difficulties of real life. The plot, themes, challenges, and morals all become greater and harder to understand and accept as the difficulty increases.

Why similar: Experimental 57.6% ★, Dark 20.8%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Indie 1.4%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Welcome to Jessica’s Choices – Series of Events. In this multiple-choice visual novel, you choose what happens. Out of the five possible starting points, she could be a student, looking for a new job, tangled up in a mess of revenge, a criminal defence attorney or going to the gym.

Why similar: Text-Based 38.3%, Visual Novel 33.2%, Dark 24.7%, Indie 2%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Do you like music? Do you like video games? Well, I don't really care, because either way you are going to like our soundtrack. It has over 30 minutes of original music on it, it features uninterrupted listening and 2 full songs that are exclusive only to the OST and cannot be found anywhere else.

Why similar: Experimental 70% ★, Text-Based 27.1%, Indie 1.7%, Singleplayer 1.3%

This dark act takes place from a single day of the Lighthouse Keeper. Listen to keeper carefully and help him to interrupt his twenty-years-old shift at the Lighthouse.

Why similar: Experimental 48.4% ★, Cinematic 22.6%, Text-Based 17.4%, Dark 10.8%, Singleplayer 0.4%

Escape rooms are fun! But Escape Knox Manor asks the question what if you were actually kidnapped? And what if you had to escape a mansion? Find out now!

Why similar: Experimental 72.6% ★, Dark 24.4%, Indie 1.7%, Singleplayer 1.4%

The Triennale Game Collection is a free virtual exhibition of video games created for the 21st International Exhibition of Triennale Milano by five of the world’s most renowned independent game designers, showcasing these artists’ experimental approach to interactivity.

Why similar: Experimental 92.7% ★, Indie 7.3%

As an Inkslinger at Brassknee's renowned Wordshop, it's your job to write letters for the citizens of Isle Shammer. But through the veil of work lies forgotten trauma. A voice begins to speak to you in recurring daydreams, telling you about your tragic past in Nomania.

Why similar: Experimental 42.1% ★, Text-Based 28.1%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Dark 12.5%, Singleplayer 0.3%

TOMORROW DON'T COME is a contextual puzzle game about depression and how it feels to be stuck.

Why similar: Experimental 39.2% ★, Text-Based 22.3%, Dark 19.1%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Indie 3.2%

“A ~10 minutes experimental interactive experience about guilt and war and dream”

Why similar: Experimental 50.2% ★, Cinematic 23%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Dark 11.3%, Indie 1%

A short narrative visual novel about procrastination, family, and the inner dialogue of a creative person. A story about how delaying decisions slowly erodes a life.

Why similar: Experimental 33.5% ★, Visual Novel 27.6%, Dark 19%, Text-Based 17.5%, Indie 1.4%

BAPTISM is a short kinetic novel about a madman, a child, and a lake.

Why similar: Visual Novel 46.7%, Dark 41.4%, Indie 11.9%

You've moved to a new house where the previous owner was murdered. They never found his head. But, it has found you.

Why similar: Experimental 42.5% ★, Text-Based 22%, Visual Novel 19%, Dark 13.6%, Singleplayer 1.6%

A short story about a parasitic sunflower and her loyal son. Eat everything you can. Enjoy the sunshine. Do whatever it takes to make her happy. This is a prequel to Siren's Call: Escape Velocity.

Why similar: Experimental 43.2% ★, Text-Based 21.3%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Dark 13.4%, Indie 1.1%

A visual novel written as a psychological horror RPG where your choices shape your life, leading to irreversible consequences and determining how your descent into darkness unfolds. The game can end in many different ways. Your choices determine how.

Why similar: Cinematic 27.7%, Visual Novel 25.9%, Text-Based 25.2%, Dark 18.7%, Indie 1.6%

A short experimental visual novel about obsessive counting.

Why similar: Experimental 52.4% ★, Visual Novel 28.3%, Text-Based 16.8%, Indie 1.5%, Singleplayer 1%

Go about your normal every day life and meet new friends in this short visual novel!

Why similar: Visual Novel 38.3%, Text-Based 35.2%, Dark 22.2%, Indie 2.4%, Singleplayer 2%

When the past awakens, the future bleeds. A full length cinematic sci-fi mystery visual novel where augmented reality, history, AI technology and murder collide in the heart of Kyoto.

Why similar: Text-Based 51.7%, Visual Novel 45%, Singleplayer 3.3%

Memoir En Code: Reissue is an autobiographical game album. Designed to be experienced similarly to a music album, this short experimental game explores different bits of the author's life as a series of interactive tracks.

Why similar: Experimental 87% ★, Indie 13%

『꿈을 빼앗긴 남자 - 드림 인베이더』는 노벨 게임에 논리 퍼즐이 혼합된 게임입니다.

Why similar: Text-Based 43.3%, Visual Novel 27.5%, Dark 25.6%, Singleplayer 1.9%, Indie 1.8%

Crawl through the darkness in this psychological horror visual novel with multiple endings, where you will traverse a surreal nightmare as you choose your own path and explore strange spaces in an attempt to wake up, if you can...

Why similar: Experimental 39.7% ★, Dark 21.8%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Text-Based 17%, Indie 1.8%

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: Experimental 46.8% ★, Visual Novel 29.4%, Text-Based 22%, Indie 1%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Shunichi Sasaki, a young man who lost his past memories due to higher brain dysfunction, was criticized as a "murderer". Who was he really? Use memory notes to supplement his memories and explore his past.

Why similar: Experimental 32.1% ★, Dark 22.9%, Visual Novel 21.5%, Text-Based 21.4%, Indie 1.4%

A blind guy with a ghost in his brain tries to save a cursed girl. Naturally, it all goes to hell. A visual novel packed with dark humor, gritty mysticism, violence, and characters who know exactly who’s watching them.

Why similar: Experimental 51.5% ★, Text-Based 27.2%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Indie 1.5%, Singleplayer 0.6%

A man-eating monster wakes up, in a snowy night. He meets a mysterious girl willing to die. This omnibus novel game tells the story of the strange interaction between them.

Why similar: Text-Based 39.5%, Visual Novel 35.8%, Dark 20.7%, Indie 2.1%, Singleplayer 1.8%

“A meteorite will fall in three days. That's why I want to commit suicide proactively before then.” The girl who told me this upon our first meeting was someone I encountered on the school rooftop—a place that should have been off-limits.

Why similar: Text-Based 51.2%, Visual Novel 40.5%, Indie 4.5%, Singleplayer 3.8%

이 지옥 같은 현실을 바꿀 수만 있다면…몇십 번, 몇 백번이라도 기꺼이 죽어주마!

Why similar: Text-Based 42.3%, Visual Novel 27%, Dark 25.4%, Indie 3.9%, Singleplayer 1.3%

The Wake is a record of past wounds opened at a three-day funeral. The journal is encoded with a simple substitution cipher that the player must break in order to reveal the writer’s psyche and discover the contradictions that define him.

Why similar: Experimental 43.6% ★, Text-Based 29.8%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Dark 8.8%, Indie 2.9%

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

Why similar: Experimental 53% ★, Text-Based 24.9%, Visual Novel 21.5%, Indie 0.3%, Singleplayer 0.3%

Beacon 2010 is a short science fiction visual novel that, with the development of technology, humanity has embarked on an interstellar exploration. The story originates from a super jump project

Why similar: Text-Based 51.3%, Visual Novel 40.8%, Indie 4.1%, Singleplayer 3.9%

Under the cloud, pressure is crushing – only machines survive in the open. LAMINA BRUISE is a narrative-driven first-person adventure. Solve thoughtful puzzles and overcome revealing obstacles in a tense, hostile environment.

Why similar: Experimental 64.8% ★, Dark 26%, Cinematic 4.6%, Indie 3.5%, Singleplayer 1%

An interactive psychological horror drama.

Why similar: Experimental 46.8% ★, Dark 18.4%, Visual Novel 17%, Cinematic 15.3%, Indie 2.6%

A short visual novel inspired from the works by the masters of Japanese cinema: Masaki Kobayashi, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Gosha.

Why similar: Cinematic 34.8%, Visual Novel 31.7%, Text-Based 30.3%, Indie 1.7%, Singleplayer 1.5%

"AQK" is a job interview simulation game where you, a job seeker, face off against a series of eccentric interviewers in pursuit of that coveted job offer.

Why similar: Text-Based 50.9%, Visual Novel 43.1%, Singleplayer 3.2%, Indie 2.8%

I arrived in the land of Mongolia to capture the Mongolian Death Worm. To capture my beloved Mongolian Death Worm and save our Mongolian Death Worm Capture Department from extinction. ◆Game Introduction This is a visual novel style visual novel game. The estimated playing time is about 1 hour.

Why similar: Text-Based 29.2%, Visual Novel 25.6%, Cinematic 25.2%, Dark 19%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Julian Luxemburg has prepared a dinner for two at his place – but things go awry when the date does not show up and he is left waiting at his dinner table, the clock’s ticking growing unbearably loud. „Dinner Date” is the character portrait of Julian: by becoming his subconsciousness you gain a clear vantage point on the worries which...

Why similar: Experimental 88.7% ★, Indie 8.3%, Singleplayer 2.9%

The Space Between is a surreal short narrative experience in three acts about the walls we build for us.

Why similar: Experimental 53.7% ★, Dark 22.8%, Visual Novel 22.4%, Indie 0.6%, Singleplayer 0.5%

Late Bird is a short interactive story about birds, movies, suicidal thoughts and not growing up in time.

Why similar: Experimental 28.9% ★, Visual Novel 26.5%, Dark 21.1%, Text-Based 20.1%, Indie 1.9%

A free, story-driven short visual novel with no choices. The narrative weaves between the present (202X) and the past (200X), depicting the suffocating chain of violence within a Korean school setting with stark realism.

Why similar: Text-Based 37%, Visual Novel 32.8%, Dark 23.8%, Indie 3.8%, Singleplayer 2.7%

Adventures in the Light & Dark is a short novel that you read in VR, surrounded by atmospheric sound and scenery.

Why similar: Experimental 46.9% ★, Visual Novel 19.8%, Text-Based 16.1%, Dark 14.6%, Indie 2.6%

幽霊のために、何ができるの

Why similar: Text-Based 51.2%, Visual Novel 43.2%, Singleplayer 5.6%

“A Lozenge” is a short interactive story about a mother-daughter road trip and motion sickness, dedicated to children of divorce.

Why similar: Experimental 48% ★, Text-Based 24.5%, Visual Novel 23.9%, Indie 2.2%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Non-Linear Text Quests is a bundle of text games of various genres. Here you can find interactive stories with branching plots and text-only versions of classic Point & Click quests, where you can communicate with different characters, use your inventory and combine items in various locations.

Why similar: Experimental 38.4% ★, Text-Based 33.5%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Indie 5.3%, Singleplayer 2.7%

"My mother, my daughter, and me—three sixteen-year-olds on an extraordinary adventure."After traveling through time to meet their sixteen-year-old counterparts, three generations of women set off on an adventure through the Land of the Gods. What could await them at the end of their journey?

Why similar: Text-Based 35.7%, Visual Novel 32.8%, Cinematic 29.6%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Wiggly Boy is a sobering look at the power of your computer.

Why similar: Experimental 74% ★, Dark 24.1%, Singleplayer 2%

A collection of 5 experimental games from different indie devs that takes you on a journey through time!

Why similar: Experimental 73% ★, Visual Novel 20.3%, Indie 5.8%, Singleplayer 1%

A visual novel about a man experiencing his family relationships through a state of compressed time. Choose what happened in his past and then watch it play out as you explore family dynamics and the effects that a person's life events can have on the way they interact with others.

Why similar: Experimental 52.6% ★, Visual Novel 22.7%, Text-Based 19.3%, Cinematic 4.7%, Singleplayer 0.4%

I wish this moment could be forever. Yuto Habu, the hero with nothing to show for it, met the camera-toting heroine He meets the heroine, Nazuna Fukamachi, who has a camera, on a bridge with a beautiful view by chance.

Why similar: Cinematic 49%, Visual Novel 44.8%, Singleplayer 3.4%, Indie 2.9%

A mysterious phone number on a park restroom wall leads to an unknown “voice,” quietly awakening the town’s hidden apparitions. This is a horror text adventure with no jump scares—no loud noises or grotesque surprises—designed for a safe and tension-focused experience.

Why similar: Text-Based 44.7%, Dark 36.6%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Indie 3.1%, Singleplayer 2.9%

【A ghost girl, is here.】Terau Mare is a shy girl moves to Tokyo to go to university, and her new house, Hakusan-so, is like an abandoned. As soon as she enters the room, Mare meets a ghost girl, Furuzaki Yuika. Yuika says, "I'm going to kick you out of here soon." But...

Why similar: Visual Novel 47.2%, Text-Based 46.4%, Singleplayer 3.5%, Indie 2.9%

A short visual novel about the day to day life of a grieving women. Join her story and make the right decisions so she can get out of a cycle that seems to have no end.

Why similar: Experimental 40.3% ★, Text-Based 22.2%, Dark 18.9%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Singleplayer 1.8%

❗ EARLY ACCESS ❗ This game is an anthology of visual novels, which includes the “Deep Russian Depression” (pilot chapter) and custom stories from the game community. You can create your own stories as mods for the game and publish them in the Steam Workshop.

Why similar: Experimental 50.5% ★, Text-Based 24.4%, Visual Novel 22.7%, Singleplayer 1.2%, Indie 1.2%

Part travel journal, part visual novel with a hint of psychological horror, Melbourne: Route 96 is an experimental game about catching a tram in the wrong direction - and a polaroid camera.

Why similar: Experimental 54.4% ★, Visual Novel 23.5%, Dark 21.8%, Singleplayer 0.3%

A man wakes up in Heaven.

Why similar: Experimental 57.3% ★, Text-Based 39.9%, Indie 1.7%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Fairy Deer is a kinetic thriller visual novel. Make your way deep into the terrifying Forest in search of the sole pathway to happiness—the mythical Fairy Deer.

Why similar: Text-Based 43.2%, Visual Novel 34.6%, Dark 19.3%, Indie 1.8%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Embark on a psychedelic 30 minute VR journey into a mysterious universe of alien architecture, populated by humanoid clones and cryptic symbols.

Why similar: Experimental 50.6% ★, Visual Novel 17.6%, Dark 16.1%, Cinematic 14.4%, Singleplayer 1.2%

You, With Me is set mainly in Singapore of an expat couple who had the perfect plan, a perfect getaway for the holidays. However, everything is turned into dust as news come out of the main character's illness. Truly, will pretending that everything is normal give you a sense of normalcy?

Why similar: Text-Based 41.7%, Visual Novel 32.1%, Dark 20.5%, Indie 3.2%, Singleplayer 2.5%

Control Over is a story that begins when a player who loses his memory and falls down in a basement wakes up. And you have to control the player and decide how to solve this story.

Why similar: Text-Based 41.4%, Visual Novel 28.5%, Dark 22.2%, Indie 6.3%, Singleplayer 1.6%

RICERCA, which in Italian means “search,” is an animated installation experience. In it, we follow the life of a man on a search who travels through different memories and worlds to find something he has lost.

Why similar: Experimental 60.6% ★, Cinematic 31.3%, Indie 8.1%

A game about boredom and self-pity. It's about myself mostly. You walk around and press the 'interact' button. Sorry for making this.

Why similar: Experimental 63.1% ★, Dark 32.1%, Indie 4.9%