Games Like The Rainman

In this point-and-click urban thriller, down-and-out private eye Kathy Rain will embark on her most dangerous case yet — the pursuit of the notorious serial killer known as the Soothsayer. Find clues, gather evidence, connect the dots, and confront the murderer before the hunter becomes the hunted…

Why similar: Mystery 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Horror 18.9%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, Detective 6.2%

On rainy nights, the serial murderer is on a killing spree. This scares everyone but one girl, the journalist who keeps digging for a promotion. Dauntless, she gets involved deep and wide, hoping to discover the real identify of the rainy night butcher.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.1%, Mystery 19.2%, Visual Novel 16.6%, 2D Platformer 14.1%, Adventure 9.1%

Set in the '90s, Kathy Rain tells the story of a strong-willed journalism major who has to come to terms with her troubled past as she investigates the mysterious death of her recently deceased grandfather.

Why similar: Mystery 34.2%, Female Protagonist 22.7%, Adventure 16.3%, Detective 8%, Choices Matter 6.7%

Discover secrets, solve puzzles and survive the serial-killer in this pixelated topdown. You are Akin, an exterminator, who bought a house in a rural area, but the past of this house will affect your present.

Why similar: Assassins 59.6% ★, Horror 13.3%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Interactive Fiction 8.1%, Casual 3.1%

Rose must escape the Cursed Mansion - a demonic space that preys and feeds on fear and despair. In this horror RPG you'll solve puzzles and learn the mansion’s history. Mystery, malignant spirits, and misery everywhere. Cursed Mansion brings an eerie atmosphere which leaves one with goosebumps.

Why similar: Horror 18.5%, Mystery 18.1%, Choices Matter 16.4%, Multiple Endings 14.9%, Female Protagonist 11%

Welcome to Happyhills, the town where you can indulge your deepest desires, make your wildest dreams come true, and slaughter anyone in your path. In this case, all three of these are the same. Welcome the citizens of Happyhills in your way!

Why similar: Assassins 37.3% ★, 1980s 18.9%, Horror 15.8%, Mystery 7.7%, Adventure 6.7%

“I’ll tell you a scary story. It’s so scary you might not be able to take it. It’s the story of the Sand Man...” This is the second title in the Strange Man series, developed by Uri Games. Unable to sleep and exhausted, Sophie wanders into a town where everything sleeps. That is where the terror begins...

Why similar: Horror 27.7%, Multiple Endings 20.1%, Female Protagonist 15.5%, Adventure 10.8%, Casual 9.6%

Investigate an infamous cold case in the eerie, abandoned town of Painscreek. Search for evidence, connect the dots and uncover who killed Vivian Roberts. Can you expose the truth behind this town’s dark secrets?

Why similar: Mystery 37.2%, Horror 24.7%, Exploration 9.7%, Detective 9.4%, Female Protagonist 8.3%

Join forces with the psychic Director of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center and solve a variety of cases involving cursed relics, rental properties with shady histories, and dimensional anomalies. Monstrous oddities and otherworldly planes abound in this occult mystery adventure game!

Why similar: Mystery 23.1%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Horror 15.8%, Adventure 7.4%, Exploration 6.6%

A wandering soul mistakenly enters a world of strange tales and odd rules. Beware! This place is fraught with danger. To complete reincarnation, you must toe the line. Any soul that dares to go against the system will face correction. Will you comply—or defy?

Why similar: Horror 25.4%, Mystery 24%, Female Protagonist 16.2%, Multiple Endings 14.9%, Adventure 8.4%

A story about a dead lamb walking.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Horror 16.7%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Visual Novel 14%, Female Protagonist 12.9%

Welcome to Midnight Special, a point-and-click survival horror game drenched in 16-bit pixel art and 1980s retro dread. On a thunderous night in 1987 in Maine, you awaken in a labyrinthine manor. You must click, explore, and solve puzzles to escape. Will you go gentle into that good night?

Why similar: 1980s 41.1%, Horror 20.3%, Female Protagonist 14%, Exploration 6.8%, Adventure 6.8%

The award-winning point-and-click adventure returns in the Director's Cut with an extended story, additional puzzles, and new areas to explore. Witness the rise of an iconic detective as you uncover a dark and sinister truth hiding behind the calm exterior of a small rural town.

Why similar: Mystery 29.3%, Female Protagonist 19.3%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Detective 8.5%, Adventure 8.1%

Detective Rainy Night is a narrative adventure with elements of deduction. Violent crimes, mature stories, and a touch of psychological horror await you at the Motel Holiday. Grab a pencil and paper because solving this case won’t be easy.

Why similar: Assassins 44.5% ★, Mystery 19.5%, Horror 17%, Exploration 5.3%, Detective 5.2%

The 16-bit nightmare returns. Survive, hide, and avoid the deadly Scissorman in this legendary horror classic.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 24.7%, Multiple Endings 18.6%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Adventure 12.5%, Exploration 11.1%

Your job at the Cabin Factory is simple: inspect the cabins and decide on whether they’re haunted or not. If you do find any anomalies, get out…immediately.

Why similar: Horror 46.8%, Choices Matter 33.7%, Adventure 10.4%, Female Protagonist 4.9%, Singleplayer 2.5%

A horror channel browsing game where each channel holds a different nightmare to experience, explore them and find out the truth about what has happened in a small town where the inhabitants have disappeared.

Why similar: Horror 29.9%, Mystery 24%, Visual Novel 23.8%, Adventure 6.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%

Venture into the woods as you play Little Goody Two Shoes, a phantasmagorical horror narrative adventure where all your decisions matter!

Why similar: Horror 22.8%, Mystery 17.3%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Female Protagonist 11.3%

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: Horror 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Female Protagonist 14.4%, Choices Matter 12.7%

Rainswept takes you on an emotional adventure in a small town shaken by a double shooting. Join Detective Stone and unravel a tangled web of love, relationships, and unresolved trauma in this character-driven murder mystery game.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33%, Visual Novel 21.7%, Mystery 18.1%, Detective 9%, Exploration 6.6%

Killer Frequency is a first-person horror puzzle game set in 1987, that puts you in the role of a late-night radio talk show host in small town America whose callers are being stalked by a mysterious killer.

Why similar: 1980s 32.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Horror 15.8%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Multiple Endings 9.8%

PETSITTER WANTED. A horror point-and-click adventure game. Water the plants, feed the pets, and DON'T turn off the lights.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Horror 18.5%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Mystery 10.6%, Female Protagonist 10.2%

This is a point-and-click, command-selection style adventure game where the protagonist is a girl who has become a ghost. The objective is to fulfill her desires by speaking to her beloved "him" causing poltergeists, visiting in dreams, or even cursing.

Why similar: Horror 29.4%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Mystery 13.9%, Adventure 11.3%, 2D Platformer 8.7%

Delilah is an ordinary school girl who accidentally discovers an old mansion on a rainy night. As her exploration in the mansion continues, she finds many mysterious phenomena that can't be explained. In this mansion covered by ashes, what's the secret hidden deep underground?

Why similar: Horror 45.5%, Female Protagonist 23%, Adventure 15.6%, Casual 6.1%, Exploration 3.7%

Wickeina 'Wicke' Gestalt lives in a haunted house. Trying to balance the stresses of life with the horrors of her home, play through a point-and-click psychological horror and multiple scenarios, where success and failure both progress the narrative of her story.

Why similar: Horror 21.1%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Multiple Endings 14.4%, Female Protagonist 13.4%

Your girlfriend’s sleepwalking is getting worse each night. Find her and bring her back to bed safely.

Why similar: 1980s 28.2%, Horror 26.5%, Mystery 17.2%, Female Protagonist 8.2%, Adventure 6.9%

A portal inspired walking simulator horror game.

Why similar: Mystery 22.1%, Horror 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Female Protagonist 13.8%, Visual Novel 7.7%

A supernatural Halloween whodunnit. Solve a chilling locked-room mystery before the grim reaper reveals the answer!

Why similar: Horror 24.8%, Mystery 24.2%, Female Protagonist 16.5%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Detective 7.4%

Care is an atmospheric first person horror game with puzzle elements, where your choices have consequences. Be observant with your surroundings and unravel the horrific secrets that hide within these walls.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Mystery 18.1%, Horror 17.9%, Choices Matter 13%, Multiple Endings 10.3%

Get pulled into the nightmares of reality as you play as an abducted girl from the ger district of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Uncover a secret organization that deals in human trafficking and other horrendous activities. Try to escape from the scariest place on earth!

Why similar: Horror 32.8%, Female Protagonist 18.9%, Adventure 16.4%, Gore 11.5%, Exploration 6%

If you were given another chance, would you take it? Or leave it in the hands of a little girl? Play as Roh, a young girl stuck in a bizarre nightmare of dark and eerie creatures.

Why similar: Horror 30.7%, Adventure 11.4%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Female Protagonist 10.5%, Casual 9.2%

Log.in is a mystery-horror game where you explore a PC screen, digging through images, videos and files. Hidden somewhere in the system is the location of a girl being held captive. Your actions on the desktop will dramatically change the story and her fate.

Why similar: Mystery 24.9%, Horror 19.6%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Visual Novel 9.1%

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is a folk horror narrative-driven adventure. Explore the isolated moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow. The answers lie in the soil...

Why similar: Horror 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Mystery 17.9%, Female Protagonist 16.6%, Adventure 8.9%

DREAM LOGIC is a story driven first-person atmospheric horror game which takes place in liminal spaces. Explore various nostalgic, dreamlike, uncanny environments. But don't feel too safe, there's a sneaky creature watching your every move.

Why similar: Mystery 27%, Horror 26.3%, 1980s 23%, Adventure 10%, Exploration 8.8%

A gruesome murder interrupts an evening party at a secluded mansion and you are the prime suspect! Explore the mansion, search for clues, and interrogate the other guests as you strive to unmask the killer in this open-ended mystery.

Why similar: Mystery 31.3%, Visual Novel 25.5%, Adventure 21.3%, Casual 17.1%, Singleplayer 4.8%

Trapped in a crumbling mansion, it’s up to you to outsmart and outlast an ancient witch hunting you down. Scavenge for items to set traps, solve puzzles and discover hidden secrets to avoid your demise. Don’t be scared: encounters with ghosts are rewarded in this horror visual novel.

Why similar: Horror 18%, Choices Matter 14%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%

All your coworkers are gone and the halls are quiet, except for the pitter-patter of rain on the window. Explore a desolate laboratory as a creature stalks you, always watching. Run and hide as you solve puzzles and learn more about what happened to the facility and its secrets.

Why similar: Mystery 29.8%, Horror 29.1%, Female Protagonist 15.1%, Casual 9.4%, Singleplayer 5.2%

Two city detectives are sent to a small idyllic town in North Carolina called ‘Silver Creek Falls” to investigate a strange series of events that the local sheriff can’t seem to get his mind around. What initially seems like an open-and-shut case unfolds into a truly terrifying mystery that will leave the detectives wondering what is...

Why similar: Horror 25.6%, Mystery 18.7%, Female Protagonist 15.2%, Exploration 7.4%, Casual 7%

Immerse yourself in the winter forest and help a lost soul to find a piece of itself. What is awaiting you there.. or who?

Why similar: Horror 20.9%, Multiple Endings 16.4%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Exploration 5.7%

Only You Can Be The Future Racer 2000

Why similar: 1980s 47.3%, Horror 17.5%, Mystery 17.2%, Female Protagonist 13.5%, Adventure 4.4%

A teenage girl and the vengeful ghost possessing her stumble onto horrors of cosmic proportions as the latter searches for a way to murder the former.

Why similar: Horror 26.6%, Mystery 26.2%, Female Protagonist 16%, Adventure 9.1%, Exploration 8.5%

Audrey is a young woman returning to her childhood home. Upon arriving, however, she begins to notice strange happenings around the house. Is this a dream or reality? Whatever it is, it seems so oddly… familiar. Explore with Audrey as she tries to work out the mysteries of her missing memories.

Why similar: Horror 43.2%, Female Protagonist 15.7%, Adventure 14.4%, Casual 9.3%, 2D 5.3%

Led by her new friend, Mr. Voice, Misfortune ventures into the woods, where mysteries are unraveled and a little bad luck unfolds.

Why similar: Choices Matter 26%, Horror 24.2%, Female Protagonist 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Adventure 9%

Children of Silentown is a dark adventure game that tells the story of Lucy, a girl growing up in a village deep in a forest inhabited by monsters. People disappearing is nothing uncommon here, but this time, Lucy is old enough to investigate on her own. Or so she thinks.

Why similar: Mystery 23.7%, Horror 22%, Female Protagonist 15.2%, Multiple Endings 14.9%, Adventure 7.9%

A mystery visual novel where horror meets occult comedy. Follow Kugayama Shiori, a ghost who casually dies over and over as she searches for her cause of death and the regrets that bind her to this world. Her investigation will eventually lead to a single incident—and the truth behind her demise.

Why similar: Visual Novel 19.4%, 2D Platformer 14%, Adventure 13.6%, Mystery 13.4%, Horror 13.1%

Devil's Hideout is a horror point and click adventure. Lauren learns from a mystic that her young sister is still alive, with cultists staging her death. Traveling to the hospital where her sister received care, Lauren plunges headfirst into a nightmare.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.2%, Horror 26.3%, Female Protagonist 16.5%, Adventure 9.3%, Singleplayer 4.6%

A 2D exploration adventure game set in a creepy, mysterious art gallery.

Why similar: Horror 26.2%, Choices Matter 18.9%, Multiple Endings 17.8%, Female Protagonist 15.3%, Exploration 7.8%

Find love, solve a murder, and prevent more death in this murder-mystery horror otome | visual novel.

Why similar: Horror 18.1%, Choices Matter 17.4%, Mystery 17.4%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Female Protagonist 13.2%

Sanctuaries. Secrets. Serious consequences. A solo-developed psychological horror/drama visual novel.

Why similar: Horror 38%, Visual Novel 28.7%, Female Protagonist 17.1%, Dark 4.9%, Cartoony 4.1%

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: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Horror 16%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Mystery 15%, Multiple Endings 12.3%

The Haunting of Joni Evers is a dark supernatural mystery about a broken family from small-town Oklahoma. Haunted by a specter that's hunted her family for generations, Joni must uncover the mysteries of the Cunningham House, dig through lost memories, and face the past to break the curse.

Why similar: Mystery 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Female Protagonist 15.5%, Visual Novel 15%, Adventure 7.5%

Paranormal Night Shift is an observation and spot the anomaly game set in a haunted house in the 1980s.

Why similar: 1980s 43.3%, Mystery 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Horror 10%, Adventure 3.6%

Lead the Police investigation in the afterlife!

Why similar: Mystery 22.4%, Adventure 22.2%, Casual 17.4%, Horror 17.4%, Female Protagonist 13.8%

An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.

Why similar: Horror 22.4%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Mystery 16.6%, Multiple Endings 14.9%, Visual Novel 14.6%

Witching Hour is a horror story that takes you out of your family home and across the quiet town of Hollow Hills. Your fate depends on making difficult choices, your relationship with your family, and confrontations with the matriarch of the town’s affliction with witchcraft, Lucilia.

Why similar: Horror 31.9%, Mystery 30.6%, Female Protagonist 17.9%, Exploration 9.4%, Singleplayer 6.3%

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

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Horror 22.6%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Adventure 7.9%

Welcome to Red Hives, a lovely Midwestern town infested with demons. You're a little spirit stuck in a time loop, your only way to interact with the world is by possessing people and whispering into their ears. Explore timelines, solve mysteries, and please, try to keep your hosts alive...

Why similar: Choices Matter 24.9%, Horror 20.4%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Multiple Endings 16.3%, Female Protagonist 14.7%

She was created for one purpose: to make sure everyone in the world enjoys Halloween. At all costs. A short, fully-voiced horror visual novel exploring instrumental convergence.

Why similar: Horror 32%, Visual Novel 29.3%, Female Protagonist 21.5%, Casual 10.6%, 2D 4.5%

The stage is set. Imagine an old baroque manor, perhaps a hotel or a museum, somewhere in central Europe. A woman wanders in search of answers.

Why similar: Mystery 30.5%, Horror 27.8%, Adventure 15.7%, Female Protagonist 12.4%, Exploration 10%

In this paranormal point-and-click adventure, a traveling salesman races to stop a string of horrific deaths in a quiet seaside town—before he’s next.

Why similar: Horror 35.4%, Adventure 27.5%, Mystery 15.3%, Gore 8.2%, Singleplayer 6.8%