Games Like The Rose of Cravenmor

On a rainy night, three ghost stories are told in an old-fashioned café. As a writer for an occult magazine, you listen to three people recount their experiences. A psychological horror visual novel that slowly builds a sense of dread—Kyofu Yawa: Second Night.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Text-Based 15.1%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Thriller 8.8%, Horror 8.2%

A horror lurks beneath the earth. Terror rises from the past.

Why similar: Gothic 19.4% ★, Text-Based 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Lovecraftian 11.8%, Dark Fantasy 7.5%

From killer dolls to lethal furniture, nothing wooden can be trusted!

Why similar: Gothic 19.5% ★, Text-Based 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Lovecraftian 11.6%, Dark Fantasy 7.7%

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 21.5% ★, Medieval 10.4%, Text-Based 10%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%, Dark Fantasy 8.4%

The Crawling Horror is dead, but its legacy of madness lives on!

Why similar: Gothic 20% ★, Text-Based 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Lovecraftian 11.1%, Dark Fantasy 8%

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 17.6% ★, Text-Based 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Multiple Endings 7.7%

Delve into a dark fantasy visual novel where evil isn't always as it seems. Make your choices and grow your skills to help determine who survives the Great Culling. Featuring the voice talents of Ralph Ineson, Simon Callow, Savannah Steyn, and more.

Why similar: Text-Based 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Medieval 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Dark Fantasy 9.9%

Revisit the case which made you a legend among your peers.

Why similar: Gothic 19.5% ★, Text-Based 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Lovecraftian 12.8%, Thriller 9.5%

A Philosophical Discussion of Worms is a Kinetic Visual Novel that explores two characters, Vynder and Ophiel, as they navigate cohabitation in a strange, unfamiliar house when they don't speak the same language.

Why similar: Gothic 21.8% ★, Text-Based 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Hand-drawn 8.7%

Saint Kotar is a psychological horror detective game set in a cursed valley in rural Croatia. Investigate the disappearance of your relative in the occult-ridden town of Sveti Kotar as you switch between conflicting realities through the eyes of two godly men.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 15.3%, Gothic 13.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Visual Novel 7.6%, Mystery 7.3%

Piece together your memories and reveal the truth in this minimalistic Lovecraftian tale of symbols and sentences.

Why similar: Gothic 18.2% ★, Lovecraftian 17.4%, Text-Based 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%, Multiple Endings 7%

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 17.7% ★, Text-Based 13.7%, Lovecraftian 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Visual Novel 8.1%

In a village slowly being consumed by a supernatural curse, you are a witch’s apprentice charged with breaking it. Explore the town, uncover forbidden ingredients, earn the trust of its troubled inhabitants, and complete the ritual before the thorns claim everything.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Text-Based 16.8%, Gothic 12.9% ★, Dark Fantasy 10.9%, Choices Matter 7.9%

Treis Zoes is a visual novel where not only choice is important, but also the motive of choice. Explore the world of living skeletons on the experience of past travelers and add your own to the encyclopedia of the dimension of Death.

Why similar: Gothic 27% ★, Text-Based 14.4%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Hand-drawn 8.7%, Dark Fantasy 8.5%

A claustrophobic psychological mystery visual novel. On their high school graduation day, an anonymous message draws five friends back to their empty middle school. The doors won't open, and their memories refuse to agree. A complete 1-2 hour story with three endings, built to be read twice.

Why similar: Text-Based 25.6%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Thriller 11.5%, Dark 9.2%, Mystery 9.1%

RUNT is a rural gothic visual novel mystery where you follow the story of Runt, the youngest of five brothers, surviving a monstrous post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Gothic 20.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Multiple Endings 8.8%, Dark 7.7%

Suhoshin is a 2D Visual Novel set in the medieval Joseon period of Korea. While investigating a series of mysterious murders, you will have to make choices that will lead you down different paths toward different endings.

Why similar: Text-Based 14.7%, Thriller 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Mystery 10%

A string of campus killings. A newly-turned vampire struggling to adjust. A monster hunter seeking answers. Worlds collide as Dante Jones and Nick Torres, both in danger of being accused of the crimes, team up to reveal the true culprit in this chilling supernatural horror visual novel.

Why similar: Thriller 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Text-Based 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Mystery 8.8%

It all began when you opened that letter. Penned by your late master, it details how you are now heir to his mysterious legacy. You set off for the island on which he'd spent his final years... and so a truly unsettling journey begins, a journey into the deepest secrets of magic and the occult.

Why similar: Gothic 16.7% ★, Medieval 15.6%, Text-Based 12.7%, Lovecraftian 11.7%, Dark 9.8%

A text-based RPG with a nonlinear story set in a free Slavic fantasy world. Shape the heroine's character through your choices and unlock multiple endings. Mystery, folklore, and relationships — your fate depends only on you.

Why similar: Text-Based 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Hand-drawn 10.4%, Medieval 8.4%

Assassin at Crimson Keep is a short, point and click visual novel set in a dark, quasi-fantasy world. After a botched assassination attempt, you pursue the King into his lair known as the Crimson Keep. Your small choices can have great consequences, either for good or for evil.

Why similar: Assassins 20.5% ★, Text-Based 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Lovecraftian 12.7%, Visual Novel 9.4%

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 27.7% ★, Visual Novel 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Hand-drawn 8.4%, Dark 8%

After losing his parents and barely escaping his burning home, Zach wakes up in the hospital where he meets Aya, the ghost of a girl. Who is she, and why can only Zach see her? Together they try to investigate Aya's past, which quickly awakens new dangers.

Why similar: Text-Based 17.2%, Thriller 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Mystery 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 24.8% ★, Text-Based 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Minimalist 8.8%, Hand-drawn 8.8%

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: Text-Based 18%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Mystery 11.3%, Hand-drawn 10.5%, Lovecraftian 9.3%

For five years, Licht lived as a mid-tier mercenary. Now he must not only escape from a dungeon teeming with giant insects and ancient secrets, but also decide whether to accept his ancestors' legacy or reject it once and for all.

Why similar: Visual Novel 18%, Text-Based 16.2%, Dark 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Multiple Endings 10.4%

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 23.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Visual Novel 9.5%, Dark Fantasy 9%, Hand-drawn 8.9%

Red Experience is a multi-ending 2D Adventure Death Game where choices dictate fate. Amnesiac 'Sooyeon Hong' must participate in a brutal game. Uncover the mystery behind the death game to find the truth. Only your decisions can save her and reveal the full reality. Choose wisely!

Why similar: Visual Novel 17.7%, Text-Based 13.9%, Hand-drawn 13.9%, Thriller 13.6%, Mystery 9.8%

You are a censor in a nameless war, blacking out the letters of two lovers who have never met. Their whole romance lives on paper — so every word you strike is struck from the love itself. Then the letters begin, impossibly, to answer your pen. A melancholy epistolary romance. Six endings.

Why similar: Text-Based 17.5%, Visual Novel 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Mystery 10.7%, Minimalist 8.3%

Survive a gripping psychological thriller in this visual novel. Make critical decisions, face a disturbed captor, and experience multiple chilling endings.

Why similar: Visual Novel 15.8%, Text-Based 15%, Thriller 13.7%, Multiple Endings 8.9%, Mystery 8.8%

A narrative-driven psychological visual novel where every floor of an elevator reveals a key moment from your past. Face your regrets, uncover forgotten memories, and make choices that shape your future. Will you find closure, or remain trapped in your own mind?

Why similar: Text-Based 27.9%, Interactive Fiction 23%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Multiple Endings 12%, Choices Matter 9.4%

A hardcore narrative RPG about an inquisitor who defied the Gods and returned from the Afterlife against Their Will. In a world where faith is fracturing, power is waning, and blood is spilled ever more often, your choices will decide what remains of the Empire. Complete the story of Sir El Brante!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Text-Based 12.3%, Medieval 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.3%

A Gothic horror faerie tale.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 17.4%, Gothic 15.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Dark Fantasy 9.9%

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 29.1% ★, Visual Novel 12.8%, Medieval 12.1%, Mystery 10.4%, Dark Fantasy 8%

Choose, explore, interact, fight, solve, gather, trade! Rise to rebel in this immersive text-based fantasy story that seamlessly merges the best elements of RPGs, choose-your-own-adventure stories, visual novels, and interactive fiction.

Why similar: Text-Based 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Medieval 12.5%, Mystery 8%

A dark, dramatic medieval visual novel. On a stage at the boundary between life and death, an actress struggles through her hardest performance—directed by a jester, she relives her past for the the prize of resurrection...

Why similar: Gothic 25.8% ★, Medieval 14%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Mystery 10.3%, Dark Fantasy 8%

A visual novel passed through an image compressor Play as a murderer unsure of their entire life, down to their name. But you have a mission. One you NEED to undertake.

Why similar: Assassins 22.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Text-Based 10.5%, Thriller 10.5%

Earth's Center of Gravity is a mystic horror visual novel with multiple endings. The story revolves around Tower Antiques. "No one remembers how long Tower Antiques was there. But it remembers everyone. Even the ones who did not visit it yet." Tower Antiques is waiting for you to write your story.

Why similar: Thriller 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Lovecraftian 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Mystery 10.4%

A science fiction visual novel. Deep beneath the surface of Mars lies a secret that will change everything. Six researchers. One rift. No one will return the same.

Why similar: Text-Based 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Multiple Endings 9%, Hand-drawn 8.6%

Tomorrow, you burn at the stake as a "Werewolf". To save your family, you gladly accept a false execution. But after death, you witness them being ravaged in a living hell. Through a time loop triggered by your absolute despair, you must weave the world's kindest lie.

Why similar: Visual Novel 16.9%, Thriller 15.9%, Dark Fantasy 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Multiple Endings 11.4%

Where Control Ends is a psychological visual novel about Astra, a young girl trying to hold herself together after a night she cannot fully remember.

Why similar: Text-Based 19%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Visual Novel 15%, Thriller 9.1%, Multiple Endings 8.1%

Immerse yourself in this grotesque visual novel. Unspeakable secrets, sinister crimes, and a macabre obsession weave this tale, where sanity crumbles beneath the tide of perversion and human cruelty. The first chapter in a new independent anthology of visual novels.

Why similar: Assassins 23.9% ★, Visual Novel 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Thriller 10.3%, Text-Based 10%

Amy receives an invitation to a group chat set up by some of her former classmates. Its purpose is to reconnect after all these years. But soon more and more disturbing facts about Amy's classmates are revealed, and Amy begins to fear that the people she's texting with may not be what they seem.

Why similar: Text-Based 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Dark 9.8%, Mystery 9.8%

Misericorde: Volume One is the first part of a series of mystery visual novels set in a convent in 1482.

Why similar: Gothic 22.2% ★, Medieval 16.4%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Mystery 12.2%, Text-Based 10%

Investigate six haunted properties and listen to the voices of spirits trapped in nightmares. Collect fragmented clues and discover the correct combination of names, locations, and vessels. A multi-ending horror adventure where the outcome changes depending on your choices during the ritual.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Text-Based 20.2%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Horror 9.9%

見知らぬ密室で目を覚ました主人公。 頼れるものは、手元に残された一台のスマートフォンだけ。 通話、メッセージ、アプリなどに残された痕跡をたどりながら、脱出の手がかりを探していく。 しかし、情報を集めるほどに、 この事件の裏に隠された異様な真実が浮かび上がっていく。 スマートフォンを操作して進める、サイコロジカル・ホラーADV。

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Text-Based 24.3%, Dark 9.6%, Mystery 8.7%, Adventure 8.6%

At the heart of the action are a twelve-year-old Kenneth and his younger sister Esme, children of the Murphy family, who hit the trail of a mysterious monster following series of entangled events.

Why similar: Text-Based 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Multiple Endings 8.6%, Hand-drawn 8.3%

You've had the same dream all week: a school field trip to a zoo you can't leave, where the lions always find you in the end. Wander the zoo exhibits, make your choices, and search for the way out. A short, hand-painted interactive story about a recurring dream, and finally resolving it.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Visual Novel 17%, Text-Based 13.9%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Choices Matter 8.4%

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 15.4%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Dark Fantasy 9.8%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Mystery 9.1%

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: Visual Novel 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Mystery 13.1%, Hand-drawn 11.8%, Multiple Endings 11.2%

Follow Joseph, Eric, and William (as well as a handful of other characters) as they awake from cryogenic stasis at the enigmatic facility known as Intermine Laboratories. But, deep within the abyss exists an ancient evil that is seeking to enact its own twisted machinations ...

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22%, Text-Based 20.5%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Dark Fantasy 9.3%

Embark on a thrilling journey in this text-based RPG, where every decision shapes your fate. Dive into a richly woven narrative filled with mystery and intrigue, where each step forward brings you closer to uncovering the truth.

Why similar: Gothic 21.5% ★, Text-Based 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Thriller 10.5%, Dark Fantasy 9.6%

It is said that the last frontier is space, but the crew of the Soviet Frigate, The Peresmeshnik, is about to discover that the sea still hides a terrifying secret. Waiting to be found.

Why similar: Text-Based 28.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Thriller 9.3%, Dark 7.6%, Horror 7%

A text-based psychological horror experience set inside a hospital where something is deeply wrong — and death may not be the end.

Why similar: Text-Based 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Thriller 12.4%, Multiple Endings 8.7%, Mystery 8.6%

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: Visual Novel 17.3%, Mystery 12.8%, Thriller 12.7%, Text-Based 9.4%, Multiple Endings 8.4%

Investigate the murder of Evie Roots. Save the town from disaster. Learn the history of the Great Houses. Immerse yourself in the centuries-old history of Pineford.

Why similar: Gothic 20.8% ★, Text-Based 17.9%, Lovecraftian 13.6%, Visual Novel 12%, Hand-drawn 8.3%

A choice-driven RPG thriller set in the World of Darkness universe. Step into the shoes of Samira, a young werewolf refugee in Poland, as she battles dark forces and loneliness, caught between rage and despair. How will your story unfold?

Why similar: Text-Based 15.7%, Thriller 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Multiple Endings 7.9%

Late at night, a teacher shares two bizarre tales: a corpse stuffed in a sheet, and an abnormal presence in the mountains. It was just a ghost story, but a creepy "sense of unease" lurks within. A short psychological horror visual novel offering a dense, terrifying experience in about an hour.

Why similar: Text-Based 26.7%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Mystery 12%, Horror 10.2%

Wake up, watch tv, make a cup of cofffee and try to bear your own meaningless existence.

Why similar: Text-Based 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Minimalist 13.1%, Mystery 11.3%

A dark fairy tale about the woods outside a small village and the monster that roams within them. Become Sage and play through to uncover the mystery when they're tossed away from everything they've ever known.

Why similar: Text-Based 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Dark Fantasy 11.7%, Multiple Endings 10.3%