60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Hand-drawn, Mystery, 2D.
Manage an inn for travelers seeking refuge before nightfall. Interact with diverse guests, each harboring their own secrets. Your choices can forge or fracture relationships, uncovering hidden truths along the way. But beware – the real threat may be hiding among your guests.
Necromance
A brave hero and a bound lich rescue a legendary warrior from a forgotten tomb and put the romance back in necromancy. Necromance is a dark fantasy comedy visual novel with light puzzle elements, 3 endings, and 15 ways to die!
The Last Winter Knight
Haunt a suit of armour. Explore an abandoned castle. Recover your memories... and bring the ghosts of the past to rest in this melancholy visual novel about love, family and regret.
A brave hero and a bound lich rescue a legendary warrior from a forgotten tomb and put the romance back in necromancy. Necromance is a dark fantasy comedy visual novel with light puzzle elements, 3 endings, and 15 ways to die!
Why similar: Gothic 21.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Dark Humor 14.1%, Lore-Rich 10.1%, Hand-drawn 9.5%
Haunt a suit of armour. Explore an abandoned castle. Recover your memories... and bring the ghosts of the past to rest in this melancholy visual novel about love, family and regret.
Why similar: Gothic 33% ★, Mystery 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Lore-Rich 9.3%, Hand-drawn 8.8%
Wake up inside the nightmare world you created in this standalone, hand-drawn dark fantasy point-and-click adventure with psychological horror elements. Explore islands, solve puzzles, and make morally ambiguous choices that lead to multiple endings. Inspired by H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński.
Why similar: Gothic 27% ★, Horror 10.7%, Mystery 9.8%, Dark Fantasy 9.4%, Hand-drawn 9.2%
House of stolen devil bargains and indolent angelic aristocracy: Nowhere Manor is doomed to disappear. You can leave if you’ve got a soul … but that’s not an option for an artificially created servant such as Liber. Just how far are you willing to go escape?
Why similar: Gothic 28.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Hand-drawn 12.5%, Lore-Rich 10.9%, Mystery 8.4%
A surreal point-and-click adventure about time loops, perception, and a dinner you can never leave.
Why similar: Gothic 29.6% ★, Dark Humor 13.2%, Hand-drawn 12.9%, Dialogue Heavy 9.8%, Mystery 9.7%
An atelier in the forest. The Artist’s brush halts before an empty frame, leaving the portrait unfinished. Lost souls arrive with memories of tragedy. Render the cruel truth, or shield their eyes with an eternal lie. A Gothic Mystery granting rest to the dead.
Why similar: Gothic 36.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Hand-drawn 13.3%, Mystery 13.1%, Choices Matter 7.9%
乱世饥年，岭南盐沼中的丰浦仍有热饭与灯火。你是账房执笔者江砚：翻名册、核份额，把「添丰」与「归丰」一笔一笔记清楚。供期临近，潮路、闭门规矩与人们过分周全的好意，让熟悉的日常渐渐显出不对劲。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Hand-drawn 14.7%, Alternate History 14.4%, Lore-Rich 10.3%, Mystery 9%
A tale of two siblings struggling to survive their present and heal from their past. Just how long can they ignore that which haunts them? "Willows: A Dream of Shadows" is a psychological gothic horror visual novel puzzle game, featuring hand drawn assets, and a episodic branching story-line.
Why similar: Gothic 32.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Hand-drawn 14.4%, Story Rich 9.4%, Choices Matter 9%
A short 70–90 minute hand-drawn cozy-gothic puzzle adventure with easy, relaxing puzzles, where color slowly returns to a cursed town as you uncover its secrets.
Why similar: Gothic 38.5% ★, Hand-drawn 16%, Mystery 15.4%, Puzzle 10.3%, Lore-Rich 7.1%
The Season of the Warlock is a weird adventure game inspired by the gothic tale tradition, with two storylines to choose from. The soul of a warlock of yore, trapped in a portrait, will present Lord Alistair Ainsworth with an offer he will not be able to resist. Or will he? It’s your call...
Why similar: Gothic 32% ★, Hand-drawn 11.7%, Horror 10.8%, Mystery 10.1%, Puzzle 7.7%
In this world, deadly toxic mist is everywhere. The protagonist, Yaqing, becomes an apprentice to a physician skilled in using insects to save his sister, who has been poisoned by the mist. As the story progresses, he finds himself entangled in a tense racial conflict…
Why similar: Hand-drawn 16.3%, Alternate History 13.2%, Mystery 12.6%, Lore-Rich 11.7%, Story Rich 9.9%
Witches hide amongst the townsfolk and the Devil whispers through your screen. Explore branching paths as you investigate, interrogate, and condemn the guilty. Be warned: the inquisition is not without its horrors.
Why similar: Gothic 23% ★, Alternate History 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Horror 10.5%, Mystery 10%
A steampunk-ish detective adventure from the creator of A Golden Wake and Shardlight! Can you help private investigator Miles Fordham find justice for his clients and track down his partner's killer before his entire world comes apart?
Why similar: Gothic 34.6% ★, Alternate History 21.5%, Mystery 12.3%, Hand-drawn 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%
SKINSCRIBING is a 2D hand-drawn and dual-handed cosmic folk horror game wherein you explore environments, grief, and bodies alike to interpret and tattoo the history of a dying world as the foundation for the Era to come.
Why similar: Gothic 23.9% ★, Hand-drawn 14.1%, Lore-Rich 13.2%, Mystery 12%, Horror 10.7%
Manage a hotel straddling the border between worlds. Use deduction to identify Eldritch guests, solve abstract puzzles, and manage staff to survive the weekly Chaos invasion. A dark humor management sim where you must keep the hotel running... and your sanity intact.
Why similar: Gothic 42.2% ★, Horror 15.3%, Hand-drawn 13.4%, Dark Fantasy 12.7%, Puzzle 7%
In this first person combat adventure, you have one job: Destroy the plague before it destroys you. Slash, dash, jump and run through rats or run the rat race yourself.
Why similar: Gothic 33% ★, Alternate History 21.9%, PvE 12%, Horror 10.6%, First-Person 7.3%
Scarlet Scarf is a visual novel inspired by the legend of Plague Maiden. Dive into the dark mysteries of a dying city with the fate of Sanator Richard Murdock in your hands. Perhaps it's not too late to stop the on-going calamity...
Why similar: Hand-drawn 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Horror 12.2%, Lore-Rich 12.2%, Dark Fantasy 11.6%
One room. One hole. One judgement. Watch the guests through your peephole, inspect their documents, dial the telephone, and judge who's normal and who's not. Do your job properly to avoid the demon's punishment.
Why similar: Gothic 24.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Dark Humor 15.5%, Lore-Rich 13.2%, Horror 9.5%
A surprising mix of adventure and memory games, featuring RPG-inspired mechanics and immersive storytelling. Explore a crypt filled with traps, dangers, and hostile creatures. Will you uncover the crypt’s secrets, or will you become its next victim? Make strategic choices to survive.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Horror 14.1%, Dark Fantasy 12.8%, Mystery 12.3%, Story Rich 11.2%
Blending fairy tale fright with psychological horror, this narrative game challenges you to survive a weird journey through the woods while being hunted by the witch you were tasked with imprisoning. Sometimes charming, sometimes frightening, she’ll force you to make hard choices.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Hand-drawn 15.6%, Horror 14.8%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Dark Humor 9.6%
Guide vampires through centuries of emotional baggage, decades of delusions and the odd bout of self-loathing with real cognitive behavioral therapy concepts and become a Vampire Therapist! Even vampires need a shoulder to cry on when a neck to bite just won’t do.
Why similar: Gothic 20.2% ★, Alternate History 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Dark Humor 13.6%, Lore-Rich 10.5%
Not thrilled that fate has led him into the confines of a sinister place, Varlu is left with no choice but to come face to face with many types of demons, including his very own.
Why similar: Gothic 27.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Lore-Rich 12.1%, Dialogue Heavy 11.9%, Mystery 9.2%
"Escape from Death" is a 256,000-word interactive horror adventure novel by Tova Näslund. It’s entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
Why similar: Gothic 30.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Lore-Rich 11.7%, Dark Fantasy 9.9%, Horror 8.4%
An SCP-1471 Visual Novel for [YOU]. Remastered and upgraded from the original release to provide the definitive experience. Choices matter more than ever. Will you be able to unearth the truth before the walls come crashing down?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.9%, Dark Humor 15.7%, Lore-Rich 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%, Horror 9.7%
A dark atmospheric test that asks you to see things in new ways, including the experience of playing itself. In this love letter to flash horror, explore 60 ending permutations and reactivity to your answers, as the game not only allows but implores you to play and break it how you see fit.
Why similar: Gothic 36.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Hand-drawn 14.8%, Mystery 11.1%, Choices Matter 5%
Take the role of a painter struggling to finish his masterpiece in this short Gothic horror visual novel about art, pain and love.
Why similar: Gothic 41.4% ★, Hand-drawn 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Horror 11.8%, Story Rich 9.3%
You've played this game before. It's a haunted game about a haunted game. You may not remember, but the game remembers you. I remember you.
Why similar: Gothic 28.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Lore-Rich 10.2%, Dark Fantasy 8.5%, Horror 8%
DO NOT PLAY! This 8bit game is a port from a mystery source...This casual, linier, interactive story game centers around a campfire with old friends telling... tales.
Why similar: Gothic 25.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Lore-Rich 12.9%, Dark Humor 12.7%, Mystery 7.8%
Ula vs Nightmare is an eerie platform adventure in a reality-shifting imaginary realm. Explore childhood fears, fight dark entities, solve cryptic puzzles, save fragmented memories, and sneak past dangers, all while being guided by an adversarial narrator to save a little girl from her coma.
Why similar: Gothic 31.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Dark Humor 15.7%, Horror 9.4%, Dark Fantasy 8.8%
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 29.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Lore-Rich 11.3%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Puzzle 8.7%
In STARECROWN, a visual-novel merged with a puzzle-based horror experience, your ANGEL whose watched from the distance finally makes himself known. For the worse.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 24.2%, Horror 20.7%, Lore-Rich 11.5%, Puzzle 10.7%, Mystery 8.4%
Play solo or with friends in online multiplayer. Use authentic ghost-hunting tools such as the EMF reader, Spirit Box, and REM Pod to detect supernatural activity and identify what kind of spirit you’re facing.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 38.5%, PvE 18%, Horror 15.1%, Puzzle 13.2%, First-Person 10.8%
A new story in the Tales from Candleforth universe. Continue the story of Wood and Flesh: A Candleforth Short Story in this new chapter, in a point & click puzzle adventure with hand-drawn 2D graphics and an unsettling cozy horror setting.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 22.3%, Horror 18.1%, Lore-Rich 14.3%, Mystery 12.6%, Puzzle 11.5%
Gloom and Doom is a visual novel throwback to 90s slacker movies - complete with the solitude and sarcastic retorts - but with a supernatural twist. Push a powerful but unmotivated wraith to complete his stagnated quest to enter heaven, while trying to kill the suicidal but unkillable Doom Bringer.
Why similar: Gothic 26.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 24%, Horror 12.8%, Hand-drawn 11.7%, Choices Matter 7.9%
Death isn’t the end - it’s your last chance. Solve haunting puzzles and make choices that matter as you guide Vale across the underworld. Will regret follow her into eternity?
Why similar: Dark Humor 24.9%, Hand-drawn 12.2%, Story Rich 11.5%, Mystery 9.1%, Choices Matter 9%
Tales from Candleforth is a folk horror 2D point and click game with puzzles and escape room mechanics, that narrates the fairy tales from the village. The text contained in this ancient and evil book is now bleeding out, mixing the world of nightmares with the real one through handmade 2D graphics.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 20.2%, Dialogue Heavy 14.5%, Horror 13.4%, Lore-Rich 11.9%, Dark Fantasy 9.8%
A dark 2D domino game with strip mechanics. Defeat your opponent, remove their clothing, and break the cycle of death and resurrection.
Why similar: Gothic 27% ★, Hand-drawn 17.2%, Dark Humor 15.2%, Puzzle 9.9%, Dark Fantasy 9.4%
Body of Work is a spooky cosy game about curating a museum, where the tactile work of unboxing, cleaning, and arranging objects gradually reveals the stories held by the space and its visitors.
Why similar: Gothic 27.5% ★, Hand-drawn 25.4%, Mystery 10.3%, Story Rich 9.6%, Dialogue Heavy 9%
If you crossed a vampire, would you protect humanity or embrace the blood? Guide Mark Delaware's choices in this visual novel as he navigates this dangerous world.
Why similar: Gothic 31.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Lore-Rich 11.2%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Hand-drawn 9%
You’re a snarky sentient tentacle in a chaotic hospital. Possess humans and creatures, befriend the right weirdos, and decide humanity’s fate in this dark humor visual novel where every character is a potential pawn… or pal.
Why similar: Dark Humor 23.1%, Horror 15.7%, Mystery 14%, Story Rich 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%
Worlds brought to life by H.P. Lovecraft and R.W. Chambers combined in the form of a pixelart point&click game. As Solomon Hill, investigate the mysterious death of your twin brother and an ancient plot to bring back the lost city of Carcosa and its resident Hastur, known as the King in Yellow.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Alternate History 20.3%, Lore-Rich 14.7%, Horror 9.4%, Mystery 8.9%
Witness the resurrection of the foretold nemesis of the Jurnal Risa family, which was never revealed before. Unveil its dark destiny within this horror-adventure game. This is all about family. Tale of Jurnal Risa, as recounted to me by Risa herself.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Lore-Rich 15.3%, Dialogue Heavy 14.5%, Mystery 13%, Horror 11.8%
Even if you bear no Grudge, your Grudge was surely born. Explore the abandoned house at 77 Oleander, search for your wallet, keys, and phone, and above all else... try not to forget again the next time she tells you to leave.
Why similar: Gothic 40.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Horror 13.7%, Mystery 11.8%, Story Rich 8.9%
A boy living as a warrant for a political marriage falls in love with a maid despite his unrequited love. You become a black rose fairy who grants wishes and discover that you were once human. Enter the bodies of the people in the mansion and trace their memories to discover their true identities.
Why similar: Gothic 36.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Mystery 11.6%, Hand-drawn 11.5%, Dark Fantasy 10.2%
This is a story about self-discovery, wrapped in the guise of family. You step into the shoes of Gu Huixing. Watching my life unfold as an outsider, re-examining trivial days from an omniscient perspective — what will I become? Life is never a dead end. It is always a choice.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Hand-drawn 16.7%, Dark Humor 13.3%, Choices Matter 9.3%
A dark fantasy story adventure to face the long-forgotten 「memories」!
Why similar: Gothic 39.5% ★, Mystery 12.1%, Dark Fantasy 11.8%, Story Rich 9.8%, Puzzle 8.6%
Explore a sealed crypt to reveal its sacred secrets as an archivist priest. Use your faith against the looming horrors. Banish them and make your path before your lantern goes out, or you will lose your way... and your mind.
Why similar: Gothic 60.8% ★, Horror 16%, Dark Fantasy 9.6%, Mystery 8.1%, First-Person 5.6%
Astronaut: The Best is an occult management adventure where people aren't just numbers: they're screwups. You must run a proper space academy using lies, witchcraft, and/or hard work. Guide cadets through a roguelite web of scandals and challenges, or the government will have you killed.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Dark Humor 21.5%, Hand-drawn 15%, Lore-Rich 10.7%, Story Rich 10.4%
Catch, throw, parry, and parkour your way through a twisting Underworld. Slay the Grim Reaper and reclaim your inheritance!
Why similar: Gothic 43.5% ★, Hand-drawn 17.2%, Procedural Generation 14.3%, Horror 10.1%, Lore-Rich 7.2%
Explore a young boy's memories through hand-drawn diary pages, solve puzzles, and uncover a story about family, identity, and the emotions we leave behind. Will you secure the boy's destiny... or lead him somewhere else?
Why similar: Hand-drawn 18%, Dialogue Heavy 15%, Puzzle 13.7%, Lore-Rich 12.5%, Choices Matter 12.4%
A hand-drawn gothic 2D action-platformer. Fight through surreal dream worlds with precise sai combat, magical scepters and strange powers, uncover buried memories, and decide whether Obscura wakes—or loses herself in the dream.
Why similar: Gothic 40% ★, Hand-drawn 18.3%, Dark Humor 14.5%, Dark Fantasy 10%, Story Rich 7.7%
Wood and Flesh: A Candleforth Short Story is a point & click puzzle adventure with hand-drawn 2D graphics and a cozy horror setting that tells a short story set in the Tales from Candleforth universe.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 26.3%, Mystery 18.7%, Horror 17.5%, Puzzle 11.8%, Lore-Rich 11%
Dishonored in death, a pathless soul not worth of an afterlife seeks escape from the eternal commute.
Why similar: Gothic 52.3% ★, Lore-Rich 21.9%, Horror 15.6%, First-Person 10.2%
Parade of Senses has begun, and you’ve become an unwilling participant. Make the most of it! Explore the Conscious Space, help the other poor souls trapped here, seek answers, betray, kill... or show mercy and protect.
Why similar: Gothic 29.8% ★, Alternate History 23.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Horror 10.8%, Hand-drawn 10.3%
Your motel is busy for the first time in years. Antsy city-folk and dispossessed teens flood your rooms, and you can barely keep up. Now, after a week of all-nighters spent managing reservations, room service requests, and Yup! reviews, you begin to wonder… could you even fall asleep if you tried?
Why similar: Hand-drawn 19.9%, Dialogue Heavy 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Story Rich 11.4%, Lore-Rich 10.9%
Empyreal Dawn is a Gothic Fantasy Adventure where you lead a party named Caeruleum. Accompanied by the Swordsmaiden Alice Starwell, undertake your first steps toward becoming legendary heroes! Featuring full voice acting, an original soundtrack, and more!
Why similar: Gothic 29.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Lore-Rich 14.5%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Hand-drawn 9.1%
In Green Village, a series of unexplained disappearances has plagued the town for months. With no clues or connections between the victims, fear grips the village. A red-haired girl becomes the key to unraveling the mystery. What does Rose know?
Why similar: Gothic 33.4% ★, Dialogue Heavy 19.6%, Horror 17.4%, Puzzle 11.1%, Story Rich 10.6%
Trade your soul for digital fame in this psychological visual novel. As fallen tech mogul Doran White, navigate a treacherous social media landscape. Your choices shape his fate in this hand-drawn, neuroscience-inspired reimagining of Oscar Wilde's classic.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.7%, Dialogue Heavy 21.4%, Hand-drawn 18.7%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Story Rich 10.4%
It’s 1807 and you are a lamplighter, responsible for keeping the street lights of London lit. Lamplighter is a story-driven puzzle game, set amidst the magical early 1800s when gas street lamps began to turn night into day and provoke people's imaginations, hopes, and fears.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 22%, Alternate History 15.7%, Lore-Rich 14.3%, Puzzle 11.6%, Choices Matter 9.9%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.2%, Horror 18.2%, Mystery 15.7%, Dialogue Heavy 12%, First-Person 10.7%
