60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, 2D, Gothic, Hand-drawn.
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 15.4%, Dark Humor 14.1%, Lore-Rich 10.3%, 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 33.2% ★, Mystery 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%, Lore-Rich 9.5%, Hand-drawn 8.6%
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 12.4%, Lore-Rich 11.1%, 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 12.8%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%, 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 36.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Hand-drawn 13.2%, Mystery 13.1%, Choices Matter 8%
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 38.6% ★, Hand-drawn 15.9%, Mystery 15.4%, Puzzle 10.1%, Lore-Rich 7.3%
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 10.7%, Mystery 10.1%, Puzzle 7.6%
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 32.1% ★, Dark Humor 13.6%, Alternate History 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Choices Matter 7.9%
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 13.5%, Mystery 11.9%, Horror 10.5%
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 34.9% ★, Alternate History 21.3%, Mystery 12.4%, Hand-drawn 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
Tormentum II is a dark, surreal Point & Click adventure where nightmare worlds, grotesque creatures, and uneasy choices await. Inspired by H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński, it’s the long-awaited return to Tormentum.
Why similar: Gothic 31.8% ★, Lore-Rich 11.6%, Hand-drawn 11.1%, Dark Fantasy 10.6%, Horror 10.4%
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 21.5%, PvE 12.3%, Horror 10.5%, First-Person 7.3%
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 27.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Lore-Rich 12.3%, Dialogue Heavy 12%, Mystery 9.2%
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 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Lore-Rich 12.5%, Horror 12.1%, 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 11.9%, Dark Fantasy 9.9%, Horror 8.3%
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 22.5%, Horror 14%, 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 15.6%, Horror 14.4%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Dark Humor 9.9%
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 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Dark Humor 13.7%, Lore-Rich 10.8%
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%
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%
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 10.4%, Dark Fantasy 8.6%, Horror 7.9%
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 18.5%, Lore-Rich 13.1%, Dark Humor 12.7%, Mystery 7.8%
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 21.4%, Lore-Rich 11.6%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Puzzle 8.6%
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 17.7%, Dark Humor 15.7%, Horror 9.3%, Dark Fantasy 8.9%
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 24.1%, Horror 20.5%, Lore-Rich 11.8%, Puzzle 10.5%, Mystery 8.5%
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 26.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Horror 12.7%, Hand-drawn 11.7%, Choices Matter 8.1%
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 18.5%, Horror 14.9%, Puzzle 13%, 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 22.2%, Horror 18%, Lore-Rich 14.6%, Mystery 12.6%, Puzzle 11.3%
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 9.2%, Mystery 9.1%
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%, Dialogue Heavy 14.7%, Horror 13.2%, Lore-Rich 12.1%, Dark Fantasy 9.9%
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 27.1% ★, Hand-drawn 17.1%, Dark Humor 15.2%, Puzzle 9.7%, Dark Fantasy 9.6%
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 18.3%, Lore-Rich 11.4%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Hand-drawn 8.9%
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 20.9%, Hand-drawn 17.3%, Horror 15.4%, Story Rich 13.2%, Puzzle 10.8%
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 27.5% ★, Hand-drawn 25.2%, Mystery 10.3%, Story Rich 9.5%, Dialogue Heavy 9.1%
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 13.5%, Mystery 11.8%, Story Rich 8.8%
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 23.2%, Horror 15.6%, Mystery 14.1%, Story Rich 13.6%, 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 16.9%, Lore-Rich 15.6%, Dialogue Heavy 14.7%, Mystery 13%, Horror 11.6%
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 10.4%
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 22.8%, Alternate History 20.1%, Lore-Rich 15%, Horror 9.3%, Mystery 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 36.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Mystery 11.6%, Hand-drawn 11.4%, Dark Fantasy 10.3%
A dark fantasy story adventure to face the long-forgotten 「memories」!
Why similar: Gothic 39.6% ★, Mystery 12.1%, Dark Fantasy 11.8%, Story Rich 9.7%, Puzzle 8.4%
Catch, throw, and 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%, Procedural Generation 14.4%, Horror 9.9%, Lore-Rich 7.3%
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 60.9% ★, Horror 15.8%, Dark Fantasy 9.6%, Mystery 8.1%, First-Person 5.6%
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 27.8% ★, Hand-drawn 17.7%, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%, Mystery 10.9%, Dark Fantasy 10.3%
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: Alternate History 28.2%, Lore-Rich 18.6%, Hand-drawn 15.3%, Story Rich 10.7%, Puzzle 10%
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 14.8%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Hand-drawn 9.1%
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 19.7%, Dialogue Heavy 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Story Rich 11.3%, Lore-Rich 11.1%
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 11.5%, 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 22.5%, Dark Humor 21.5%, Hand-drawn 14.8%, Lore-Rich 10.9%, Story Rich 10.3%
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 33.5% ★, Dialogue Heavy 19.9%, Horror 17.2%, Puzzle 10.9%, Story Rich 10.5%
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 14.6%, Puzzle 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.1%
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 30.3% ★, Alternate History 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Horror 10.7%, Hand-drawn 10.2%
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 24.6%, Hand-drawn 23%, Lore-Rich 19.4%, Dialogue Heavy 16.8%, Choices Matter 13.4%
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 32.4%, Dialogue Heavy 21.7%, Hand-drawn 18.6%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Story Rich 10.2%
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 16.3%, Dark Fantasy 13.9%, Story Rich 9.2%, Fantasy 4.4%
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 19%, Dark Humor 16.4%, Lore-Rich 14.1%, Puzzle 7.9%
A post-apocalyptic alternate-history guard simulator. A mysterious infection is ravaging the German-occupied UK. Interrogate arrivals, scan for symptoms, and make moral calls as a guard. Randomized traits, scarce tools, an authoritarian regime, multiple endings and over 80 unique characters!
Why similar: Alternate History 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Dark Humor 13.6%, Lore-Rich 11.5%, Dialogue Heavy 10.6%
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 29.8% ★, Hand-drawn 16.6%, Mystery 14.3%, Puzzle 11.9%, First-Person 10.7%
TORMENTUM is a dark Point & Click adventure game.The dreamlike, nightmarish atmosphere of the game was inspired by works of painters H.R. Giger and Zdzislaw Beksinski. The game's final look and feel was also strongly influenced by the universes of games such as Demon's Souls or Dark Seed.
Why similar: Gothic 32.8% ★, Dark Fantasy 12.3%, Lore-Rich 12%, Horror 11.8%, Puzzle 8.4%
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 64.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Horror 16.1%
