60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, 2D, Multiple Endings, Text-Based.
The Remission of Sins is a fully-voiced, multi-ending short horror visual novel. Depending on the player’s choice, it branches to 12 different endings.
アパシー殺人クラブ
『部活動の時間です。さあ、人殺しをはじめてください』 一癖も二癖もある強者ぞろいの巨大コミュニティ、それが鳴神学園。 そこには、ありとあらゆる部活動が存在し、到底常識では考えられない特殊な闇の倶楽部がある。その一つが殺人クラブだ。
Meridian Archive
Meridian Archive is a neo-noir crime visual novel set in the sealed world of Notus in 2008. After the disaster known as Saltification, those immune to the disease begin losing their memories—and themselves. Follow a band of Nomads through a violent, surreal world to uncover what went wrong.
『部活動の時間です。さあ、人殺しをはじめてください』 一癖も二癖もある強者ぞろいの巨大コミュニティ、それが鳴神学園。 そこには、ありとあらゆる部活動が存在し、到底常識では考えられない特殊な闇の倶楽部がある。その一つが殺人クラブだ。
Why similar: Dark Comedy 22.6%, Dark Humor 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Text-Based 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10%
Meridian Archive is a neo-noir crime visual novel set in the sealed world of Notus in 2008. After the disaster known as Saltification, those immune to the disease begin losing their memories—and themselves. Follow a band of Nomads through a violent, surreal world to uncover what went wrong.
Why similar: Noir 23.4%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Crime 10.3%, Dark Humor 10.2%, Psychological Horror 9.3%
Step into the shoes of Frank Sockowski, private detective, and explore the gritty world of New Drawer, a wolly unsettling and corrupt city.
Why similar: Noir 19.4%, Dark Comedy 15.8%, Dark Humor 11.1%, Text-Based 9.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%
Death Drive is a road trip visual novel inspired by classic American Gothic fiction.
Why similar: Noir 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Dark Humor 15.3%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Horror 7.8%
PinYuAn Tales is a AVG with thematic elements of weirdness and sidekick adventures. After Bai Qiming is laid off from his company, he starts to conduct psychic live broadcasting activities, and during one of the broadcasts, he meets a strange young man, and the story of the two of them unfolds.
Why similar: Word Game 26.8%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Surreal 9.8%, Horror 8.9%, Psychological Horror 8.9%
Meet devils, diviners, bootleggers, and showstoppers in this 1920s whodunit adventure. Grim and macabre, yet darkly humorous. The Ravendree Oracle mixes 1920’s toon style art with a morbid murder mystery, all while exploring the eccentric characters that inhabit a supernatural speakeasy.
Why similar: Noir 21.1%, Dark Comedy 17.4%, Dark Humor 14.1%, Gothic 11.5% ★, Visual Novel 10.1%
Five Biggest Accomplishments is a short Visual Novel where you play as someone who has held the same job for 30 years: push a button every 8 hours or the world will end. Suddenly, you get an email asking you to list your five biggest accomplishments for the week, or risk being fired.
Why similar: Noir 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Text-Based 10.1%, Story Rich 7.6%
An unusual horror-themed Visual Novel about waking up in a carriage with a stranger… Whatever could go wrong?
Why similar: Dark Comedy 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Text-Based 12.5%, Dark Humor 12.3%, Visual Novel 10.1%
Slava is an ordinary guy living in a shabby socket. Well, like living, existing. He has lost all his dreams, and now he has one task - not to live until dawn. But before that you need to write a will...
Why similar: Word Game 24%, Dark Humor 14.3%, Text-Based 13%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Philosophical 9.5%
3 days, 3 dreams, and 3 worlds.
Why similar: Noir 26.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Surreal 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Psychological Horror 8.9%
You follow a troubled girl whose only friend is her talking tapeworm inside her belly. This one will help and advise her in order for her to get closer to the person she loves.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 16.3%, Gothic 12.9% ★, Text-Based 11.8%, Dark Humor 11.1%, Philosophical 10%
Shape the news. Sway the nation. A visual novel where your choices on-air shift the world.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Dark Humor 16.9%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Philosophical 11.7%, Dark Comedy 9.1%
Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Horror 12.7%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Visual Novel 11%, Dark Humor 9%
"Can I Buy You A Cheeseburger?" is a reality-bending puzzle game. Explore a fractured mindscape, solve subconscious riddles, and experience surreal storytelling through figurative expressionism. Uncover hidden truths and reconstruct your reality.
Why similar: Word Game 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Surreal 13.3%, Philosophical 12.3%, Noir 11.6%
A classic 90s choose your own adventure style horror visual novel. Escape the horrors hunting you, make decisions, forge your own path. An original complete story with multiple endings. Choose your own play style with a Text Adventure Mode, sound effects, and an ambient soundtrack.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Text-Based 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Noir 9.9%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
"Fire that rocket in your pants into her from behind." Nasty and silly, comedy visual novel. You are a young mobster and your mission is to find Lolita ― of a crime syndicate. Engage with women to investigate or to just accept the temptation.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 20.8%, Crime 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Noir 10.3%
You control three employees of a cleaning company, carrying out their jobs, but be careful, as engaging in activities outside of work may lead to undesirable outcomes.
Why similar: Word Game 26%, Noir 19.5%, Text-Based 15%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Horror 7.9%
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Why similar: Text-Based 20.3%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Horror 11.2%, Dark Comedy 9%, Surreal 8.8%
A classic choose your own adventure story. Escape the horrors hunting you, make decisions, forge your own path. An original complete story with multiple endings and secrets to unlock. Choose your own play style with a Text Adventure Mode, sound effects, and an ambient soundtrack.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Surreal 11.4%, Horror 10.2%
You find yourself in a singularity with Death itself. With few chances to speak with the living, Death proposes a little game. Do you dive deep within yourself to indulge this cosmic guide and find out when you will meet again on official business? The Ultimate Death Clock awaits!
Why similar: Philosophical 14.7%, Dark Humor 11.7%, Surreal 11.6%, Text-Based 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
Parallel-Weirdo is a Japanese manga-style visual novel set in DYL High School. It follows Wang Zhe, an ordinary and frail boy, who tries to win the hearts of girls and complete his experiments. He gets entangled in bizarre events, plunging into darkness. Each choice you make determines his fate.
Why similar: Noir 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Text-Based 12.5%, Dark Humor 11.4%, Visual Novel 9.7%
A suspense mystery set in a police station. Includes two visual novels. *Lost* features a multi-ending system based on player choices. *Secret A* is a short story with no choices. Both offer suspenseful storylines.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Crime 12.8%, Text-Based 12.5%, Psychological Horror 9.9%
Save people from terrible paranormal dangers as a support operator of a secret SCP-like organization! Ask questions, give advice and watch the consequences of your choices... multiple endings in each story ;-)
Why similar: Dark Humor 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Text-Based 15.6%, Crime 10.6%, Horror 8.3%
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Dark Humor 12.5%, Surreal 11.7%, Visual Novel 10%
Morta has summoned you to judge five souls trapped between salvation and oblivion. Enter their final memories, uncover what they hide, and decide their fate. In this gothic psychological trial, every verdict leaves a mark.
Why similar: Gothic 16.3% ★, Dark Humor 13.5%, Philosophical 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Visual Novel 9.7%
A short and surreal dark comedy-horror narrative game.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 23.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Dark Humor 13.7%, Surreal 12%, Horror 8.8%
A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.2%, Text-Based 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Visual Novel 11%, Horror 8.7%
Waking up at night, the main character realizes that he cannot move. A terrible sense of panic gradually overtakes his mind, and the imagination begins to paint frightening pictures.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 23.5%, Dark Humor 14.3%, Text-Based 11.3%, Surreal 11.1%, Visual Novel 11%
A short psychological horror interactive story. Five years after vanishing without a trace, the woman you once called your lover writes from beyond the silence: "I will give birth to our creation.” In three acts, descend into a fractured mindscape where obsession, memory, and myth intertwine.
Why similar: Gothic 14% ★, Text-Based 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Psychological Horror 10.3%
A grim, choice-driven interactive gamebook. As the First Ranger of a fortified homestead, you must defend the last survivors from the infected, manage critical resources, and investigate a dangerous internal conspiracy. Every decision shapes the survival of the living.
Why similar: Noir 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Text-Based 12.6%, Choices Matter 7.8%
Scary pictures: Yavez - seven deadly sins in the novel-horror genre. The game will plunge you into the atmosphere of the classic and gloomy history of the Soviet times. You have to face many life choices that will have consequences and lead to one of eight endings.
Why similar: Word Game 26.1%, Text-Based 15.2%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Dark Humor 10.7%, Horror 10%
A text-driven psychological horror visual novel. You wake up in a strange living room. Two silent men stand beside you. On the wall, blood writes: “Confess your sins, and you shall be redeemed.” Every choice changes the ending. Over 80,000 words in the base game, plus 4 standalone character DLCs.
Why similar: Noir 18.4%, Visual Novel 16%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Philosophical 10.4%, Text-Based 7.6%
The Zodiac Trial has begun, and everybody's life is on the line! Will these 12 jurors be able to solve the mysteries and cooperate, or will they resort to betrayal, deception, and violence? Get out alive or die, die again!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 18.3%, Text-Based 13.5%, Dark Humor 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Visual Novel 9.7%
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: Dark Humor 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Text-Based 12.7%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Surreal 10.2%
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: Visual Novel 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Horror 12%, Choices Matter 10.1%
The printer is bleeding, the Wi-Fi is haunted, and Ticket #666 just came in. As the latest hire for a company run by cosmic horrors, your job is simple: Swipe to survive. Make binary decisions to survive the night shift in this dark comedy desktop simulator. I.T truly never ends.
Why similar: Noir 19.8%, Dark Comedy 19.7%, Dark Humor 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Multiple Endings 6.9%
Alone in the dead of night, you find yourself sent on a simple errand to check on a quiet gas station on the outskirts of town. But nothing here feels right. You can’t outrun this place. It wants you. And it will keep you.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.2%, Philosophical 13.1%, Surreal 12.8%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%
A presence lingers in the dark, waiting. It asks. It doubts. It knows. What happened? Why are you here? Do you deserve this? The answers are yours to decide. What you choose matters. Every path leads somewhere. But will you like where it takes you?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Text-Based 14.6%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Horror 9.7%
YUMEGIDO urges the termination of YUMEGIDO.
Why similar: Noir 23.4%, Dark Humor 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Surreal 11.7%, Horror 9.1%
'The Island: In To The Mist' is an adventure game. It includes basic features of adventure genre and add some new systems to interest you. You have been given a chance to experience a group of university students, who confined in the island. There is a terrific but interesting story you will see.
Why similar: Noir 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Text-Based 11.7%, Visual Novel 9.2%, Psychological Horror 8.4%
An entity traps you in a room in an endless loop; you must play a hand-gesture game just for a chance to survive or escape—and whatever you do, don't make her angry
Why similar: Dark Comedy 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Dark Humor 12.1%, Psychological Horror 8.8%
A detective horror about twin sisters and the mirrors between them. Search crime scenes by flashlight, gather evidence, interrogate suspects - and survive the nights. Accusations need proof. The truth needs more. 7 endings; your choices decide who the monster is.
Why similar: Noir 26.9%, Gothic 17.5% ★, Visual Novel 14.1%, Crime 10.8%, Horror 7.8%
You are a detective. You have been assigned a partner to investigate a horrid case. But things are not what it seems. Navigate the paths as you attempt to unravel the truth behind your lost memories and your new disturbing detective partner.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Text-Based 14.3%, Crime 14.2%, Surreal 11.2%, Visual Novel 11.1%
Your crush is missing. They texted you last night. And now you’re reliving the same day over and over. Welcome to Sunset High — where drama, dilemmas, and time loops collide in this narrative-driven, 2D adventure.
Why similar: Noir 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Dark Humor 14.7%, Text-Based 14.4%, Visual Novel 10.5%
The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.
Why similar: Noir 23.3%, Word Game 18.9%, Text-Based 16.4%, Crime 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.5%
Normal Person is a single player horror, first person Visual Novel where your choices matter! Will you be able to escape or will you be stuck in a limbo with the man who claims to be a "Normal person"
Why similar: Dark Comedy 31.5%, Visual Novel 19%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Horror 11%
This year's Desire Hierarchy has begun. The stakes are now deadly. Hop into The Specter's Desire, a Visual Novel in which you play against the city's top talents to save your parents. Includes puzzling gameplay that has you tearing down arguments, hatching schemes, and revealing the truth!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Text-Based 15.5%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Horror 8.5%
ERROR FOUND is a genre-redefining psychological horror game that takes place in a seemingly normal clicker game. When a previously normal game gets hijacked by a character, players are forced to find the truth within the game and make decisions that will forever impact their gameplay.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Dark Humor 12.3%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
An interactive card game that stirs memories and emotions. In silence, the cards speak, touching the depths of the heart. Philosophical space and tension quietly envelop the players.
Why similar: Text-Based 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Philosophical 12.3%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
Intellica thanks you for volunteering in this short text-based Research Study. Pay attention to the participants answers, and classify them as either Human or Artificial. Join us in shaping the future of technology. Remember, think happy!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 16.6%, Philosophical 14.1%, Text-Based 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Dark Humor 11.2%
Jeans on Toast is a text-based, choose your own adventure game summoned forth from the darkest depths of one girl's unhinged imagination.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.6%, Text-Based 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Surreal 7.8%
This is a text-based horror game in which you investigate mysterious urban legends. Along the way, the player takes on the role of a character who gets “lost” and encounters a series of random events.
Why similar: Word Game 20.2%, Text-Based 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Horror 11.9%, Visual Novel 9%
Ultra-short and dramatic satirical visual novel about the hardships and challenges of farming life
Why similar: Noir 22.2%, Dark Comedy 15.6%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Dark Humor 10%, Surreal 9.3%
A short interactive novel. There is no "truth" in this game. This is not an armchair detective story—it is simply about a girl in a stall. You will advise the protagonist, determine how she perceives everything around her, and witness her ending.
Why similar: Word Game 30.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Visual Novel 12%, Text-Based 11.8%, Psychological Horror 8.6%
A dark visual novel blending psychological horror, surreal storytelling, and chatroom-inspired UI. Navigate intrusive thoughts, branching choices, and dissect a fractured mind in a twisted search for connection and meaning.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 21%, Dark Humor 14.7%, Philosophical 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Text-Based 9.7%
You're now the lead writer for Juno's World, a perfectly normal sitcom in which nothing strange or horrible happens, ever! Choose your scripts, decide what characters to build relationships with, and keep those audience ratings high -- or get cancelled in more ways than one! Welcome to Must See TV.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 24.1%, Noir 16.3%, Text-Based 12.6%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Psychological Horror 9.1%
Have a human MEATGRINDER with Obi the freelance hitman! Fulfill contracts all over the planet, open a beer, turn off your brain: it's time to kill and solve the financial problems of Obi and her peculiar family!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 22.4%, Dark Humor 14.5%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Surreal 12.6%, Text-Based 11.7%
What starts as a simple, highly-paid night shoot in an abandoned marble quarry descends into a psychological nightmare. You are Stefano Caldara, a photographer caught in a web of dark rituals and dangerous secrets. Every choice shapes your morality, your sanity, and your survival...
Why similar: Noir 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Text-Based 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Choices Matter 7.9%
Don't fear to speak elusive words. The only certainty is that all things present shall fade away in time. Friends from overseas have recommended consulting relevant reference books during your playthrough of the work.
Why similar: Word Game 33.4%, Philosophical 18.7%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Text-Based 10.8%
Asylum simulator. An interactive fiction about schizophrenia and finding meaning after near-death, with Disco Elysium-style mechanics.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.7%, Dark Comedy 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Dark Humor 12%, Psychological Horror 11.9%
