- #1 Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 31,772 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 18.2%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Choices Matter 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Hand-drawn 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features complex branching narratives and psychological horror where every choice drastically alters the outcome of the story.
- #2 The Letter - Horror Visual Novel
96% matchVery Positive86% of 1,515 reviews2017
Dev: Yangyang MobilePub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 22.4%, Horror 16.1%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Sexual Content 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A branching horror narrative with high production values and significant consequences for your decisions.
- #3 Saint Maker - Horror Visual Novel
96% matchVery Positive86% of 253 reviews2023
Dev: Yangyang MobilePub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac
A haunted convent. Statues that move on their own. A buried past. Welcome to Saint Idelora’s convent, where becoming a saint comes with a price.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.2%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Horror 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers a chilling, psychological horror experience with a strong focus on dark atmosphere and narrative depth.
- #4 Your Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority-
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 4,059 reviews2023
Dev: NankidaiPub: 0UP GAMES
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Your Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority- is a multi-ending horror adventure game. Sara Chidouin returns home from school late one night to discover that something's gone terribly wrong. When she comes to, she finds herself, her friend Joe, and 9 other people trapped in a mysterious place.
Why similar: Survival Horror 17.4%, Dark 16.4%, Multiple Endings 16.1%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%
Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes survival visual novel where player choices determine who lives and dies in a deadly game.
- #5 Zero Escape: The Nonary Games
94% matchVery Positive93% of 7,129 reviews2017
Dev: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Kidnapped and taken to an unfamiliar location, nine people find themselves forced to participate in a diabolical Nonary Game by an enigmatic mastermind called Zero. Why were they there? Why were they chosen to put their lives on the line? And more importantly, who can be trusted?
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.8%, Psychological Horror 19.1%, Multiple Endings 18.3%, Choices Matter 17.5%, Story Rich 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines intense survival-horror themes with complex puzzle-solving and a deep, multi-ending branching story.
- #6 Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 30,999 reviews2021
Dev: Team SalvatoPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 81.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 30.7%, Visual Novel 23.5%, Sexual Content 17.8%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in subverting visual novel tropes to deliver a deeply unsettling psychological horror experience.
- #7 Room No. 9
94% matchVery Positive90% of 535 reviews2020
Dev: paradePub: MangaGamer
Windows
It's up to you to decide how far you're willing to go in order to survive in this psychological thriller visual novel about two best friends trapped in an experiment. Can these two men survive their choices between physical and psychological harm long enough to earn freedom?
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.3%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Sexual Content 13.2%, Thriller 12%, Dark 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Blends dark psychological horror with mature themes and a tense, claustrophobic visual novel setting.
- #8 BAD END THEATER
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 9,656 reviews2021
Dev: NomnomNami
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.2%, Multiple Endings 23.9%, Choices Matter 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Story Rich 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the exploration of dark, tragic outcomes through a unique, choice-driven narrative structure.
- #9 The Song of Saya
91% matchVery Positive90% of 9,431 reviews2019
Dev: NitroplusPub: JAST
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 59.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Bear witness to a love that will change the world, in this classic horror romance visual novel from acclaimed writer Urobuchi Gen.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.7%, Visual Novel 24.4%, Sexual Content 19.2%, Dark 9.2%, Horror 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A classic, deeply disturbing visual novel that explores dark psychological themes and unconventional horror.
- #10 The Horrorscope
91% matchVery Positive94% of 1,100 reviews2020
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal your potential fate. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Horrorscope, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.3%, Survival Horror 10.1%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an atmospheric and psychological horror adventure that relies on player intuition and decision-making.
- #11 Corpse Party
90% matchVery Positive89% of 1,376 reviews2016
Dev: GrisGrisPub: XSEED Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.2 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 24.2%, Psychological Horror 19.1%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Survival Horror 9.7%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A quintessential survival-horror visual novel where exploration and choices lead to gruesome, varied endings.
- #12 The Test
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 20,135 reviews2020
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 23%
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Survival Horror 11.7%, Visual Novel 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A choose-your-own-adventure simulation that forces players to confront their own morality through multiple endings.
- #13 7Days Origins
89% matchVery Positive86% of 348 reviews2021
Dev: Buff Studio
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
7Days Origins is a single-player story game where the storyline changes based on the player's choices. For 7 days, you will meet various characters in the world of the dead. You may become allies and embark on adventures together or become enemies and fight.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused visual novel where your choices directly dictate the path of the story and the protagonist's survival.
- #14 Cannibal Tales - Episode 1
87% 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 16.3%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Horror 11.4%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Thriller 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A dark, indie visual novel that leans into visceral horror themes and unsettling narrative choices.
- #15 Cut to the Core
86% matchVery Positive93% of 170 reviews2022
Dev: Plasma PressPub: AAD Productions
Windows · Mac · Linux
How much of someone can you cut away before there's nothing left? Find out in this chilling kinetic visual novel - IF YOU DARE!
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.7%, Hand-drawn 13.7%, Horror 13%, Dark 12.5%, Psychological Horror 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: A hand-drawn horror visual novel that focuses on a dark, linear narrative with strong atmospheric tension.
- #16 The Summoning
88% matchMostly Positive71% of 77 reviews2019
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
This experience can be classified as a psychological and atmospheric horror game. However... This isn't a game... Remember all of the urban legends from your childhood? Imagine if it was all real, but we just weren't performing the right rituals to summon these beings from another realm... Well, now you can...
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.2%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Survival Horror 13%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Horror 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror visual novel that emphasizes the impact of player choices on the unfolding supernatural events.
- #17 Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 33,269 reviews2020
Dev: Nikita KryukovPub: Nikita Igorevich Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 7.7 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 Horror 32.5%, Visual Novel 32.5%, Horror 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Story Rich 2.7%
Why You'll Like It: An intense, short-form psychological horror experience that captures a unique and unsettling atmosphere.
- #18 Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 21,578 reviews2021
Dev: Nikita Kryukov
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.6 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 36.8%, Visual Novel 31.2%, Multiple Endings 12%, Horror 7.4%, Story Rich 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: Continues the surreal and deeply psychological journey of its predecessor with even more narrative complexity.
- #19 SIMULACRA
85% matchVery Positive90% of 4,633 reviews2017
Dev: Kaigan Games OÜ
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Thriller 12.3%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Horror 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: An immersive horror experience that uses a simulated phone interface to force players into difficult, life-altering choices.
- #20 Legends of Savvarah: Time of Pariah
83% matchVery Positive97% of 142 reviews2024
Dev: ST Sinovar
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are Hidu, a beastman mercenary in a port city. You must survive one very bad day. How? That’s entirely up to you. There are countless ways for events to unfold — and 25 endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Nonlinear 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: An interactive fiction title that offers a nonlinear, story-rich experience with significant narrative depth.
- #21 Choose Wisely
86% matchMostly Positive70% of 132 reviews2018
Dev: ID Card
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
This interactive adventure features no specific hero. YOU are the one who decides who makes it out alive - or not. Your actions determine the outcome of the story. In total there are 9 playable heroes and more than 50 different paths all featuring intense dialogues and thrilling events.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Sexual Content 10.7%, Survival Horror 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A story-rich adventure that centers on the weight of player decisions and the resulting branching paths.
- #22 WORLD OF HORROR
82% matchVery Positive90% of 9,764 reviews2023
Dev: panstaszPub: Ysbryd Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Experience the quiet terror of this 1-bit love letter to Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft. Navigate a hellish roguelite reality with turn-based combat and unforgiving choices. Experiment with your deck of event cards to discover new forms of cosmic horror in every playthrough. The inevitable awaits...
Why similar: Survival Horror 31.8%, Psychological Horror 26.8%, Horror 24%, RPG 7.3%, Atmospheric 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: A cosmic horror game that uses a unique aesthetic and multiple endings to create a tense, survival-focused experience.
- #23 Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,381 reviews2015
Dev: 07th ExpansionPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 21.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 54.5%, Dark 25.6%, Story Rich 10.1%, Atmospheric 8%, 2D 1.7%
Why You'll Like It: A legendary psychological horror visual novel that excels at building dread and mystery through its branching narrative.
- #24 DEAD LAMB WALKING
80% matchVery Positive97% of 195 reviews2024
Dev: Lyn Mametchi
Windows
A story about a dead lamb walking.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.5%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: An interactive fiction visual novel that uses a dark, 2D aesthetic to tell a compelling and unsettling story.
- #25 It Paints Me
79% matchVery Positive97% of 245 reviews2024
Dev: ENDYSIS
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Visual Novel 16.7%, Dark 12.4%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Hand-drawn 10.8%, Horror 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A gothic, story-rich horror visual novel that focuses on building a haunting and immersive atmosphere.
- #26 Kara no Shojo
81% matchVery Positive92% of 449 reviews2018
Dev: Innocent GreyPub: MangaGamer
Windows
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 161.1 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Play as a detective tasked with catching a serial killer in this visual novel set in post-war Japan. Investigate key locations, question many complex characters, piece together clues, and try to stop the culprit before they end yet another young girl's smile.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Dark 11%, Sexual Content 10.3%, Thriller 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A dark, mature mystery visual novel that features gritty themes and high-stakes investigation.
- #27 Neve
78% matchVery Positive100% of 55 reviews2026
Dev: Michelle SantosPub: Ritus Studio
Windows
Neve is a non-linear interactive fiction in which your decisions can completely change the course of story. Manage your team, race against time and unravel the mysteries surrounding your ship's crash in this suffocating retrofuturistic thriller that will have you hooked from the first second.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 12.5%, Thriller 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Dark 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror adventure that utilizes interactive fiction elements to create a tense, choice-driven experience.
- #28 YKMET: Strade
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 1,345 reviews2025
Dev: Gatobob
Windows · Mac · Linux
This is a 'get kidnapped and murdered' simulator with explicit sexual content. It is an entirely non consensual fantasy where the player is the victim and the perpetrator is a man. Please be aware of the warnings. NOT FOR MINORS. 18+ ONLY.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.5%, Sexual Content 15.9%, Dark 13.4%, Horror 9.8%, Choices Matter 8.7%
- #29 Fateweaver: The Alchemist's Quandary
79% matchVery Positive98% of 99 reviews2023
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
You are The Fateweaver; an ancient beast of legendary status. It is your job to determine which way Fate will unravel as you dig deep into the psyche of those who beckon. Decide whether to help those who beg for your mercy, or invoke the wrath of the Gods upon those you deem unworthy of existence...
Why similar: Visual Novel 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Multiple Endings 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: A simulation-heavy visual novel where choices and multiple endings drive the horror-tinged narrative.
- #30 SAEKO: Giantess Dating Sim
76% matchVery Positive87% of 699 reviews2025
Dev: SAFE HAVN STUDIOPub: HYPER REAL
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
You opened your eyes to find a giant girl looking down at you. Experience the fate of Saeko and the little people in this cruel yet captivating story with avant-garde art.
Why similar: Survival Horror 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Dark 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%
- #31 The Test: Reality Check
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 640 reviews2025
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
The Test: Reality Check is one of multiple installments in an ongoing social experiment that can be classified as an atmospheric, psychological-simulation with horror elements. Dive deep into your own psyche to find answers to questions you've kept locked away, hidden from yourself for far too long.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 15.2%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Choices Matter 11.8%
- #32 Lust from Beyond
78% matchVery Positive81% of 4,382 reviews2021
Dev: Movie Games LunariumPub: Movie Games S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A Victorian mansion. A cult worshipping an otherworldly erotic deity. Among all that - you. Explore a world inspired by the works of Lovecraft, Giger, and Beksiński. See for yourself that there are no limits to dark ecstasy.
Why similar: Sexual Content 58.5%, Horror 19.1%, Psychological Horror 11%, Survival Horror 9.2%, Atmospheric 2.2%
Why You'll Like It: Features intense, mature horror themes and a dark narrative that aligns with the adult-oriented content of the seed game.
- #33 Train of Afterlife
81% matchMixed51% of 183 reviews2015
Dev: Zeiva Inc
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Train of Afterlife is a mystery, psychological, horror Visual Novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 35.7%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%, Nonlinear 8.2%, Multiple Endings 8%
Why You'll Like It: An indie visual novel that explores dark, supernatural themes within a unique and atmospheric setting.
- #34 YAMIKKO TROUBLEMAKER
75% matchVery Positive98% of 96 reviews2025
Dev: お湯めのPub: 半角全角感嘆符
Windows
A long-form, choice-driven psychological horror and depression game in which the protagonist’s ending changes based on the choices made by “you,” the voice he hears in his head.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.4%, Dark 18.4%, Horror 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Visual Novel 11.9%
- #35 The Horrorscope: Fatal Awakening
77% matchVery Positive93% of 417 reviews2020
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal your potential fate. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Horrorscope, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 12.7%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Survival Horror 11.6%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Visual Novel 9.5%
- #36 Pink Noise
74% matchVery Positive90% of 117 reviews2026
Dev: Somber GamesPub: Caspianborn Publishing
Windows
Pink Noise is a nonlinear visual novel in the psychological horror genre, immersing you in the retro atmosphere of the '90s. It tells the tale of a group of teenagers who unknowingly set off a chain of terrifying events. What secrets lie within the mysterious VHS tape they should’ve never played?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
- #37 Epimutation
75% matchVery Positive95% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Barbieronpa
Windows · Mac · Linux
399 days ago, the world ended. Epimutation is a horror visual novel that follows seven survivors as they attempt to navigate life in the apocalypse. Make life or death decisions, form bonds with your fellow survivors, and attempt to unravel the mystery behind the outbreak.
Why similar: Survival Horror 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
- #38 The Testing Chamber
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 699 reviews2022
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
For every action, there is a reaction... For every choice, a result... Dive deep into your subconscious as you wander the halls of The Testing Chamber & join hundreds of thousands of other players in one of the biggest & most successful social experiments ever performed.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.3%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Choices Matter 13.4%
- #39 The Test: Hypothesis Rising
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 5,928 reviews2020
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 1.5 hrs≥1hr: 41%
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Choices Matter 12%
- #40 MY ADAPTATION IN(TO) HUMAN
74% matchMixed65% of 57 reviews2024
Dev: SpoocleMacBoogle
Windows
You are a body snatching creature. Capture the body, explore the environment, reproduce.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.7%, Horror 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Thriller 11.9%
- #41 Inhuman Resources: A Literary Machination
72% matchVery Positive93% of 68 reviews2025
Dev: Finnegan MotorsPub: Indie Asylum
Windows · Mac · Linux
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.5%
- #42 The Flayed Man
70% matchVery Positive92% of 369 reviews2025
Dev: Snoring Dog Games
Windows
The Flayed Man is a short narrative-driven point and click horror game. Awaking without memories (or skin), you must uncover the sins of the past, pass judgement, and decide your fate in this macabre adventure.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.5%, Dark 20.6%, Multiple Endings 18%, Horror 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.3%
- #43 Enelia: Dawn of Madness
71% matchVery Positive95% of 129 reviews2024
Dev: Indra Studio
Windows
Immerse yourself in the enigmatic world of Nauris, where enchanting landscapes hide terrifying secrets: the strange behavior of elders, sinister rituals of priests, and the disappearance of citizens. Madness lurks everywhere – will you master it or become its victim? The choice is yours.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Horror 10.1%
- #44 Sensual Haunting
73% matchMixed63% of 65 reviews2022
Dev: Lesson of Passion
Windows
Play as a ghost and influence women in the house in order to get sexual pleasures from them and achieve your goals by manipulating both the environment as well as their mind.
Why similar: Sexual Content 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Nonlinear 11.2%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%
- #45 The Test: Reimagined
70% matchVery Positive83% of 120 reviews2026
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
The Test: Reimagined is a masterful mix of Personality Test Psychology and Dark Tarot. Answer a series of fully-narrated questions to receive a personalized, unique ending based on your choices. Dive deep into your own psyche and join millions in a social experiment that you will NOT want to miss!
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.3%, Choices Matter 16.4%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%
- #46 Take Care Of It.
69% matchVery Positive98% of 62 reviews2026
Dev: Zealli
Windows
Horror/thriller visual novel with RPG elements about two friends that explores guilt, co-dependency, and personal limits being pushed.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.7%, Multiple Endings 17.4%, Horror 16.9%, RPG 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.1%
- #47 CORPSE FACTORY
71% matchVery Positive80% of 866 reviews2022
Dev: RIVER CROW STUDIO
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 6.6 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: Psychological Horror 20%, Thriller 19.6%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Horror 9.3%
- #48 The Test: Final Revelation
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 5,373 reviews2020
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 1.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
Why similar: Survival Horror 12.1%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Visual Novel 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Multiple Endings 10%
- #49 The NOexistenceN of you AND me
67% matchVery Positive93% of 20,460 reviews2024
Dev: 0x0Real StudioPub: Nino Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 16.7 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: Visual Novel 27.6%, Psychological Horror 24.2%, Multiple Endings 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.5%
- #50 Cucked by My Wife
69% matchMixed67% of 239 reviews2026
Dev: 妻に浮気されて
Windows · Mac · Linux
A narrative-driven visual novel that delves into the complex psychological phenomenon of cuckolding.
Why similar: Sexual Content 39.6%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Multiple Endings 7.8%, RPG 7.5%, Choices Matter 7%
- #51 A Work of Art
67% matchVery Positive95% of 346 reviews2024
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
A dark, witty, psychological thriller in the horror genre, A Work of Art presents a 1-2 hour story-driven experience with Visual Novel features and RPG elements. Follow a colorful cast of quirky characters through a twisted tale of beauty and darkness; All to the sound of a Dark Original soundtrack.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.2%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Multiple Endings 11%
- #52 Fleshcult
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 193 reviews2020
Dev: Oneirolith
Windows
Take the role of an incubus or succubus. Seduce mortals into perverse servitude. Subject them to monstrous transformations.
Why similar: Sexual Content 30.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Horror 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Hand-drawn 10%
- #53 Cabernet
66% matchVery Positive95% of 2,024 reviews2025
Dev: Party for IntrovertsPub: Akupara Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Cabernet is a 2D narrative RPG set in a 19th century Eastern European inspired world, with a modern twist. Guide Liza, a young vampire in her new unlife among the unsuspecting townsfolk. Will you retain your humanity or descend further into the horror you have become?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 12.4%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Multiple Endings 11%
- #54 Wood and Flesh: A Candleforth Short Story
68% matchVery Positive87% of 121 reviews2025
Dev: Under The Bed Games
Windows
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 31.1%, Psychological Horror 27.8%, Horror 24.2%, Dark 12%, 2D 4.9%
- #55 The Allure Of Wanton Cove
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 119 reviews2024
Dev: Ktulhu Solutions
Windows · Mac · Linux
An adult tale of lust and horror in the vein of HP Lovecraft. Take on the part of a former detective who could never let go of the last terrible case he worked. One day his old partner comes knocking, begging for help.
Why similar: Sexual Content 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Hand-drawn 10.8%
- #56 Sacrifice
66% matchVery Positive94% of 68 reviews2026
Dev: Basue no okiyaPub: HENTAI Plan
Windows
By clicking icons at the bottom of the screen, you interfere with a shrine maiden who has been offered as a sacrifice to a grotesque creature. Whether you help the shrine maiden or plunge her further into despair is entirely up to you.
Why similar: Sexual Content 36.1%, Psychological Horror 21.2%, Horror 16.6%, RPG 8.2%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
- #57 Cooking Companions
67% matchVery Positive94% of 1,193 reviews2021
Dev: Deer Dream StudiosPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Psychological Horror 18.2%, Visual Novel 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Dark 12.8%, Horror 12.8%
- #58 Mirror Forge
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 183 reviews2022
Dev: MystiveDevPub: DreadXP
Windows
Mirror Forge is a first-person psychological survival horror game. Roam between realities of fear, madness & machinery. Solve puzzles, explore an atmospheric world, survive horrifying entities.
Why similar: Survival Horror 19.4%, Psychological Horror 18.3%, Dark 13.3%, Horror 11.3%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
- #59 Fear & Hunger
66% matchVery Positive94% of 21,597 reviews2019
Dev: Miro HaverinenPub: Happy Paintings
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Fear & Hunger is a horror dungeon crawler set in the dark and hopeless dungeons of fear and hunger. The game is a hybrid of survival horror and dungeon crawler genres with its influences ranging from Silent Hill to Nethack. There are roguelike elements to the game as well as a heavy foundation of a j-RPG.
Why similar: Sexual Content 26.3%, Psychological Horror 22.1%, Horror 17.3%, Dark 14.3%, RPG 9.2%
