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A narrative supernatural horror set in the enigmatic Meridian Hotel. Players investigate through exploration, puzzles, and encounters with human and supernatural threats.

Why similar: Supernatural 14.1%, Lore-Rich 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Psychological 10%, Investigation 9.9%

A 20 minute story about a mysterious ghost and an even more mysterious journalist.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Supernatural 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Investigation 13.8%, Female Protagonist 9.4%

Don't Turn Back is a first-person, single-player psychological horror game. You play Bethany, A young woman who has just inherited her grandfather's mansion. Get immersed in the deeply emotional story of Bethany's family, and experience everything there is inside this home...good and evil.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Female Protagonist 10.2%, Investigation 8.9%, Emotional 7%

Explore the beginning of a new horrifying story in this mixture of a text-based and a 2D game. Emily's world is about to turn upside down, maybe in more ways than anyone is able to realize yet.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Supernatural 15.5%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Psychological 11.3%, Female Protagonist 8.6%

A horror mystery visual novel where a boy and a girl undergo a strange ritual in a remote mountain village. As eerie phenomena creep into their daily lives, they begin to uncover unsettling truths. Your choices shape how the story unfolds.

Why similar: Supernatural 17.3%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Lore-Rich 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%

Dive into the eerie realms of "The Silent Bells" a spine-chilling horror anthology video game. Unearth four haunting stories, each woven from the threads of internet horror and creepypastas. Brace yourself, for every silent bell tolls the arrival of a new nightmare.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Psychological 11.8%, Emotional 9.4%, Dark 8.4%

A summer night consumes the girls... Exploration type horror ADV game

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Faith 18% ★, Visual Novel 13.1%, Exploration 8.4%, Horror 7.9%

You’ve ignored the hallucinations for years. But after visiting a shrine in search of answers, a stranger claims she sees them too. Ashen Reverie is a visual novel about the consequences of chasing a myth too far.

Why similar: Supernatural 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Psychological 9.1%

It always rains, they call it The Haze. Ghosts haunt every alley, every gray corner of the city. Lady of Bones is a visual novel that explores the darkest depths of existence where Maya will discover the horrible secrets of her mother's legacy.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Supernatural 17.9%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Female Protagonist 10.1%

An ordinary commute becomes a moral crucible in Monar Station, a short psychological horror visual novel. Navigate an extreme situation, make value-defining choices... Discover what lingers after the train moves on...

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Horror 8.4%

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: Supernatural 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Lore-Rich 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Investigation 10.5%

In this detective horror visual novel, investigate a seabound anomaly. Explore areas of interest, uncover clues, and piece together evidence before time runs out — and before this mission becomes your last. Choose a side; don't look back.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Investigation 12.6%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Supernatural 9%

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: Supernatural 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Investigation 11.5%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Female Protagonist 8.7%

Stuck in a dead-end town with plans that go nowhere, Jackie feels as if her life is doomed to stagnancy forever. Getting by with her friends, she is resigned to her fate in a small town- until a chance encounter with a deadly life-form sets in motion a deadly chain of events

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Supernatural 12.4%, Visual Novel 11%, Investigation 9.4%

Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Adventure 8.3%, Dark 7.6%

A classic-style text adventure game spanning three chapters. Enter verb/noun commands via keyboard, mouse, or game controller to explore, collect items, and solve puzzles in a post-apocalyptic, Christian-themed story. Features an auto-drawing map and hint system.

Why similar: Faith 25.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, Retro 8.6%

Sacrificium is a dark psychological horror experience blending illustrated storytelling, branching choices, and sanity-driven gameplay. Trapped in a castle controlled by a satanic cult, you must escape before the nightmare consumes you.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Faith 18.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 18%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Psychological Horror 7.3%

A surreal narrative adventure set on the night Tamarack Narrows collapses into static, fire, and aurora. Follow Sarah, Bree, and the townsfolk as an unknown visitor arrives promising salvation. A lo-fi, analog-horror

Why similar: Faith 16.2% ★, Retro 12.5%, Supernatural 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Horror 9.7%

You who are unqualified to drink Meng Po's soup, you have been chosen for the game of life. A horror yuri visual novel following a series of death games in the afterlife.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Visual Novel 13%, Supernatural 9.8%, Psychological 9.7%

Everyone has secrets at Found Sheep Farm, but it’s so much easier to pretend no one does! Will you pull the wool over your eyes, or will your pursuit of the truth make you the black sheep in this thrilling horror visual novel?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Psychological 13%, Lore-Rich 8.5%

A ghost and a carnival clown plot revenge on the man who ruined their lives. An operatic tragedy set in 1920s Sicily.

Why similar: Supernatural 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Lore-Rich 12.5%, Psychological 11.8%, Visual Novel 9%

A visual novel about grief, memory and acceptance. Nayara is a painter of memories: she digs into her clients’ minds to change or even erase their memories. One day she realizes she has altered her own memory. What was so painful or unbearable that she wanted to forget it for good?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Investigation 14.1%, Emotional 13.5%

Backrooms Game Creator lets you build and explore your own liminal horror worlds. Design levels, customize enemies, lighting, and items, and create unique experiences—from quiet, eerie spaces to intense survival scenarios.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.5%, Exploration 10.1%, Lore-Rich 9.5%, Investigation 9.4%, Adventure 8.8%

Survive inside the corporate machine known as the "workplace". Eat fast food. Drink more espressos. Experience microaggressions. Pray they don't fire you. Can you power through a day at BIRA Corp. and Clock Out at 2, or are you doomed to repeat your past mistakes in this roguelite visual novel?!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Supernatural 12.1%, Female Protagonist 8%

You return to your hometown but no one recognizes you. But that doesn’t matter, because you are not here for them. You are here for her. Midgårdsormen, singer and artist, pervert and goddess, a being truly out of this world.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Psychological 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Supernatural 9.6%

Go home, Alice. The past awaits you. This is the second chapter in the horror visual novel trilogy.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Horror 9.3%, Psychological Horror 9.1%

Your new house has old secrets in this haunting point-and-click mystery, where you'll search for clues about a mysterious death, solve narrative puzzles, and make heartbreaking choices to navigate amnesia, grief, and revenge.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Supernatural 13.3%, Investigation 11.7%, Visual Novel 10.1%

In the thrilling conclusion of the Amanda the Adventurer trilogy, follow Riley as they uncover the ultimate secrets behind Amanda, Hameln, and mysteries that have plagued Kensdale for decades.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Supernatural 10.2%, Exploration 9.4%, Horror 8.7%

Survive in a haunted colonial mansion in Bengal. Complete daily chores to keep order by day, then face supernatural anomalies at night. Explore, uncover secrets, and fight for your sanity in this first-person survival horror experience.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Investigation 12.3%, Supernatural 12%, Horror 9.3%, Psychological Horror 8.9%

A story-driven mystery visual novel set in a remote island village. Gather clues through conversations and exploration, and uncover hidden truths through branching routes and multiple endings amid the tense, claustrophobic atmosphere.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Faith 15.7% ★, Visual Novel 12.8%, Psychological 11.2%

Shape Delvin’s fate by navigating fragile relationships, uncover hidden motives, and peel back the layers of a world that grows stranger the deeper you go. Meet unforgettable characters, make impossible choices, and discover just how far you’re willing to go to protect yourself or your loved ones.

Why similar: Visual Novel 18.5%, Lore-Rich 11.9%, Investigation 11.8%, Exploration 11.5%, Emotional 9.7%

A horror and exploration adventure that tells the story of Blanche, who was found alone in the gardens of Launderley, in front of a pile of twenty-nine corpses.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 15.2%, Investigation 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Dark 9.1%, Female Protagonist 8.2%

Niluas, an android who suddenly activated 276 years after the extinction of humanity. With her AI, Naive, she seeks lost memories, her activation's mystery, and humanity's extinction's cause. Facing enigmatic foes and hostile androids, she quests for truth about her existence and the desolate world.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, Female Protagonist 8.9%

Play as Alice who has just had an unsettingly life-like dream about the end of the world, and is retelling it to her friend. A single play-through might take as little as 20 minutes, but experiencing all the possible paths Alice can take through the ruins of her city will take you many hours.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.4%, Visual Novel 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15.9%, Horror 4.9%

The Apartment Lies is a first person anomaly horror game where you must spot altered objects in a seemingly normal apartment. Observe carefully, choose the correct door, and survive psychological tension, sudden jumpscares, and brutal horror.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Supernatural 17%, Psychological 12.3%, Investigation 11.9%, Horror 9.2%

Awaken in a ruined world with no memory. A second chance to redeem yourself, but survival is a daily challenge. Aid survivors, manage madness with a black cat's help, and uncover your true purpose.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Exploration 8.5%, Investigation 8.4%

In Amanda the Adventurer 2, the story continues as Riley encounters a mysterious masked figure after destroying the TV in the attic. Travel to the Kensdale Public Library and dig deeper into the mystery of Amanda the Adventurer.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Horror 8.9%, Supernatural 8.8%, Exploration 8.5%

Confront the moral dilemma, and then become the hero that saves the world.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Visual Novel 19.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%, Retro 9.8%

Guide Mina and Rex through a dark and intense psychological visual novel of trauma, love, and insecurity... Traverse Section 56’s dangers, confront the past, and shape their fate.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Psychological 15.5%, Psychological Horror 9.9%

A yandere psychological horror visual novel. Choose a sweetheart to romance, but beware the petals of obsession.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Lore-Rich 13.7%, Psychological 11.9%

RAIN;CHECK tells a short story set in a small, remote town about a girl just trying to get by in the middle of a rainy, tumultuous night. On this special occasion, an unexpected storm of events brews ever closer.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Psychological 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Supernatural 11.4%

The Sleeping Sickness is an interactive short story that allows the player to guide the main character's actions. The player’s choices will lock and unlock future locations, change dialogue, and alter the story. Choices matter in The Sleeping Sickness. It is an excellent choice for horror fans.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Supernatural 11.4%, Investigation 10.2%, Lore-Rich 9.6%

WHEN THE CROW SINGS is an adventure mystery game with a focus on exploration, characters, and world building, featuring a cast of diverse survivors trying to keep the status quo as their compound life grows more complicated and dangerous.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Lore-Rich 10%

Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.9%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Psychological 10.3%, Emotional 4.3%

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

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Investigation 10.5%

Haunted by the ability to read minds, Suteru embarks on a journey of revenge against those who wronged him. Uncovering the secrets of his tormentors, he must confront his demons in a story that explores the depths and darkness of the human mind.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Supernatural 13.8%, Psychological 11.5%, Visual Novel 10.9%

Peak or Die is a narrative-driven survival game about leading a team of adventurers up a deadly mountain, where every decision has lasting consequences. Manage oxygen, food, and team morale while facing moral dilemmas, random events, and an unforgiving environment. Reach the summit — or fail trying.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Supernatural 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Psychological 11.5%

A PSX-style psychological horror game where rapid-fire microgames become a system of obedience. Read the Panel’s commands, react before time runs out, and survive each room — or face the Executioner.

Why similar: Psychological 17.9%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Retro 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%

A war veteran and newly minted starship captain faces ancient cosmic horrors as his dreams become reality. Navigate romance, mystery, and sacrifice in this sci-fi adult visual novel where every choice echoes beyond the stars. Optional graphic adult content via free DLC.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Supernatural 11.9%, Psychological 10.1%

Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Psychological 10.5%, Emotional 9%

"All Songs are from the King," a haunting psychological horror experience that transcends traditional gaming boundaries.

Why similar: Faith 20.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Psychological 12.8%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Emotional 8.4%

UN:Me is an adventure game where you guide a girl harboring multiple souls within her body through an unsettling mental labyrinth, engaging in dialogue with each soul while making the harrowing choice of which to keep and which to erase in your escape attempt.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Psychological 17.1%, Investigation 12.9%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Female Protagonist 9.3%

Confinio is an intriguing visual novel that delves into your sensations as you embody the protagonist who has just awakened in a prison with no memory. Make decisions, solve puzzles, interact with the environment, use objects, interrogate people, all to yourself and uncover the enigmatic reality.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Psychological 12.8%, Psychological Horror 9.1%

A story-driven visual novel set within the dark corridors of the mind. Uncover your past through choices, shape your fate with dice. Unseen blends psychological horror and eldritch atmosphere into a haunting narrative full of forgotten memories and buried fears.

Why similar: Psychological 19.1%, Supernatural 16.3%, Faith 14.1% ★, Mystery 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%

Use your wits and iconic ghost hunting equipment to uncover the mystery of what happened to the residents of an abandoned apartment complex in this narrative-driven horror experience.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Supernatural 19.7%, Investigation 10.1%, Horror 9.1%, Emotional 8.9%

The world ends in 1 hour. It can't be saved. Wanna chat?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Lore-Rich 12.8%, Supernatural 11.2%, Visual Novel 9.6%

A short-form psychological thriller. Confront the mysterious Finn through a monitor. No strategy or puzzles—and you are given almost no freedom of choice. Simply face the absurd situation and witness the end.

Why similar: Visual Novel 20.7%, Dark 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Female Protagonist 12.6%, Psychological 11%

In April, when cherry blossoms flutter through the air, a gruesome discovery is made—a blood-soaked corpse in a quiet town.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Lore-Rich 13.1%, Emotional 10.5%, Female Protagonist 8.9%

Memories of Zattera is a visual novel that merges fantasy and science fiction. Explore moral and political dilemmas from multiple viewpoints as tradition, progress and freedom collide. Will you see the world the same once all truths are revealed?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Lore-Rich 11%, Exploration 9.8%

Mayuhara City, Tokyo. The wounds of the mass suicide event of Mayuhara Academy from eight years ago have finally begun to heal. The rumors of the “Mayuhara Curse” are still whispered amongst the students.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.6%, Visual Novel 15%, Mystery 10.4%, Psychological 10.3%, Horror 9.9%