60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Gothic, Choose Your Own Adventure, 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 15.3%, Dark Humor 14.1%, Lore-Rich 10.4%, Hand-drawn 9.4%
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 34.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Mystery 11.4%, Lore-Rich 10.4%, Dark Fantasy 7.6%
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 13.2%, Hand-drawn 12.3%, Lore-Rich 11.2%, Mystery 8.4%
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 23.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Conversation 11.8%, Horror 11.2%, Hand-drawn 10.3%
A surreal point-and-click adventure about time loops, perception, and a dinner you can never leave.
Why similar: Gothic 31.1% ★, Hand-drawn 13.4%, Dark Humor 12.5%, Mystery 9.8%, Dark Fantasy 9.3%
A short ride into a cursed town — a hand-drawn puzzle adventure where ghouls and monsters haunt every corner, and gentle, relaxing puzzles slowly bring life back to the world and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Gothic 38.7% ★, Hand-drawn 15.9%, Mystery 15.4%, Puzzle 10%, Lore-Rich 7.4%
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 21.4% ★, Alternate History 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Dark Humor 12.7%, Lore-Rich 10.8%
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 32.2% ★, Hand-drawn 11.7%, Horror 10.6%, Mystery 10.1%, Choices Matter 7.6%
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 37% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Hand-drawn 13.5%, Mystery 13.3%, Choices Matter 8.2%
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 13.9%, Lore-Rich 13.6%, Mystery 11.9%, Horror 10.4%
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 35% ★, Alternate History 21.1%, Mystery 12.4%, Hand-drawn 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
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 33.1% ★, Alternate History 21.3%, PvE 12.4%, Horror 10.4%, First-Person 7.3%
A gothic psychological visual novel where you decide who deserves forgiveness… and who deserves condemnation. Explore the lives of five souls, confront unsettling truths, and make choices that will shape your ultimate fate. Every choice is a reflection. Every judgment carries a sentence.
Why similar: Gothic 32.8% ★, Dark Humor 13.9%, Alternate History 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Choices Matter 8.1%
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 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Lore-Rich 12.6%, Horror 12%, Dark Fantasy 11.7%
"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 31% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Lore-Rich 12%, Dark Fantasy 10%, Horror 8.3%
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 27.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Lore-Rich 12.5%, Conversation 11.4%, Mystery 9.2%
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 22.4%, Horror 13.9%, Dark Fantasy 13%, Mystery 12.4%, Story Rich 11.1%
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 23.4%, Hand-drawn 15.5%, Horror 14.4%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Dark Humor 9.9%
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 36.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Hand-drawn 14.7%, Mystery 11.1%, Choices Matter 5.1%
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 28.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Lore-Rich 10.5%, Dark Fantasy 8.6%, Horror 7.8%
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 18.4%, Lore-Rich 13.2%, Dark Humor 12.7%, Mystery 7.8%
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 41.5% ★, Hand-drawn 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Horror 11.6%, Story Rich 9.3%
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%, Horror 20.4%, Lore-Rich 11.9%, Puzzle 10.4%, Mystery 8.5%
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 29.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Lore-Rich 11.7%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Puzzle 8.5%
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 22.2%, Horror 17.9%, Lore-Rich 14.8%, Mystery 12.6%, Puzzle 11.2%
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 38.2%, PvE 18.7%, Horror 14.9%, Puzzle 12.8%, First-Person 10.8%
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 24.6%, Hand-drawn 12.2%, Story Rich 11.2%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Mystery 9.1%
Join Nora in this mysterious and macabre point and click adventure game. Find and collect items to solve puzzles. Talk to peculiar people and monsters alike. Explore Gruesome Grove and beyond to uncover forgotten truths and save the people of her town!
Why similar: Dark Humor 21%, Hand-drawn 17.3%, Horror 15.3%, Story Rich 13.2%, Puzzle 10.7%
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 20.1%, Conversation 14.1%, Horror 13.3%, Lore-Rich 12.4%, Dark Fantasy 10%
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 40.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Horror 13.4%, Mystery 11.8%, Story Rich 8.8%
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 27.7% ★, Hand-drawn 25.3%, Mystery 10.3%, Story Rich 9.5%, Conversation 8.7%
The Source is a unique modern take on the Text Adventure genre. An outsider to a foreign world, you must choose a kingdom to help gain an ancient power locked deep beneath a mysterious Well. Explore each kingdom, solve puzzles, and uncover the mystery surrounding this shattered world.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Hand-drawn 21.2%, Mystery 18.3%, Story Rich 11.6%, Puzzle 10.3%
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 36.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Mystery 11.6%, Hand-drawn 11.4%, Dark Fantasy 10.3%
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 23.3%, Horror 15.6%, Mystery 14.1%, Story Rich 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%
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%, Lore-Rich 15.8%, Conversation 14%, Mystery 13.1%, Horror 11.6%
A dark fantasy story adventure to face the long-forgotten 「memories」!
Why similar: Gothic 39.7% ★, Mystery 12.1%, Dark Fantasy 11.9%, Story Rich 9.7%, Puzzle 8.3%
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 61% ★, Horror 15.7%, Dark Fantasy 9.7%, Mystery 8.1%, First-Person 5.6%
A reaction-based roguelike. Catch, throw, and parry your way through Death's Domain to slay the Grim Reaper and spite your father.
Why similar: Gothic 43.5% ★, Hand-drawn 17%, Procedural Generation 14.4%, Horror 9.8%, Lore-Rich 7.4%
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 26.2%, Mystery 18.8%, Horror 17.3%, Puzzle 11.4%, Lore-Rich 11.4%
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 21.5%, Lore-Rich 14.9%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Hand-drawn 9%
Oakhaven is a story-driven point-and-click adventure game. Cousins Daphne and Dominic are summoned by their Grand-mère to the family's historic southern manor house. Play as both characters as you explore the house and grounds, solve puzzles, complete tasks, and uncover long-buried family secrets.
Why similar: Gothic 29.9% ★, Hand-drawn 16.6%, Mystery 14.3%, Puzzle 11.7%, First-Person 10.7%
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%, Conversation 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Story Rich 11.3%, Lore-Rich 11.3%
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 22.4%, Dark Humor 21.5%, Hand-drawn 14.8%, Lore-Rich 11%, Story Rich 10.3%
Louisiana, 1933. Thirty years ago an entire wedding suddenly & mysteriously vanished on the island of Devil's Rock, and with it went the location of the lost treasure of Bellemore Manor. To find it, you might need to die too. A cozy, story-driven, point & click adventure game of the merry & macabre.
Why similar: Gothic 28% ★, Hand-drawn 17.8%, Conversation 12.2%, Mystery 11%, Dark Fantasy 10.4%
A projective test disguised as a videogame.Confine yourself for 10 days, explore 12 different paths, make imperfect choices, and face over 100 endings.quarantine ME is not for those seeking entertainment — it’s for those willing to confront themselves.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Hand-drawn 23.1%, Lore-Rich 19.7%, Conversation 16%, Choices Matter 13.6%
What if you woke up with half of your brain trapped in a lantern? Would you escape your towering property made of countless puzzles?
Why similar: Gothic 27.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Dark Humor 16.4%, Lore-Rich 14.2%, Puzzle 7.8%
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 21.8%, Alternate History 15.4%, Lore-Rich 14.8%, Puzzle 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.2%
This is the story of a family living in a haunted house in New Hampshire. And you're the one haunting them.
Why similar: Gothic 64.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Horror 16%
A witch soars into the night to save her beloved cat… but dark magic always comes with a price.
Why similar: Gothic 49.7% ★, Horror 16.2%, Dark Fantasy 13.9%, Story Rich 9.2%, Fantasy 4.4%
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%, Conversation 20.7%, Hand-drawn 18.8%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Story Rich 10.3%
VOICE is a game about the story of living in a dystopian world where speaking is forbidden.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Lore-Rich 17.5%, Conversation 13.1%, Hand-drawn 12.8%, Puzzle 9.3%
RUNT is a rural gothic visual novel mystery where you play as Runt, the youngest of five brothers, surviving a monstrous post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Gothic 35.1% ★, Hand-drawn 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Horror 11.6%, Choices Matter 10.7%
TSIOQUE (pronounced: "chiock") is a dark but playful Point & Click adventure, hand-animated in meticulous, frame-by-frame 2D. Escape the clutches of an Evil Wizard and discover the secrets hidden within the spellbound castle of your ancestors.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 17.7%, Lore-Rich 15.6%, Mystery 12.4%, Horror 11.7%, Dark Fantasy 11.3%
In pursuit of coin, hired dagger Arthur finds himself embroiled in conspiracy involving the daughter of a noble House. Who is really pulling the strings behind the scenes?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Hand-drawn 20.5%, Mystery 18.7%, Story Rich 13%, Choices Matter 12.3%
A short interactive dark fantasy story in which you meet an egomaniacal empress and must try to survive the encounter through the choices you make.
Why similar: Gothic 39.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.3%, Dark Fantasy 12.6%, Choices Matter 6%, Casual 5.6%
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 33.4% ★, Alternate History 19.8%, Lore-Rich 13.2%, Mystery 12.2%, Story Rich 7.8%
Visiting your girlfriend’s happy family for the first time. Enjoy completely normal activities together. Sure, things might feel a bit off, but hey, it’s just your imagination! As a wise man once said: "Blah, blah blah blah!" That probably means "trust the weird random family!"
Why similar: Mystery 20.4%, Horror 19%, Hand-drawn 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Conversation 9%
Face your fears, Alice. This time, you're not alone. This is the last chapter in the horror visual novel trilogy.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.6%, Hand-drawn 22%, Conversation 12.1%, Dark Fantasy 11.1%, Horror 10.5%
Balance sleuthing and romance to solve the murder of a Duke who... pretty much deserved it. Both the Empire and your love are at stake!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Hand-drawn 20.7%, Mystery 19.2%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Conversation 14.2%
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Hand-drawn 14.5%, Lore-Rich 14.3%, Dark Humor 13%, Choices Matter 12.9%
