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An Ace Attorney/Danganronpa style Murder Mystery-esque Visual Novel where an unlikely duo must find the vampiric killer stalking the halls of a stormy manor.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Visual Novel 10%, Supernatural 9%, Exploration 7.4%

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%, Lore-Rich 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Psychological 10%, Investigation 9.8%

You wake on the last train at an unfamiliar terminus. Only one app opens on your phone: Orange Wiki, a guide to this place, its entities, and your escape. Explore, compare clues with wiki entries, and find a way out in this first-person horror adventure.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Supernatural 8.5%, Investigation 8.4%, Lore-Rich 8.3%

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

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Supernatural 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Investigation 13.6%, Female Protagonist 9.6%

A serial killer named Karma has kidnapped 8 criminals and will force you to choose the order in which they are executed. Will you be able to decide who deserves salvation... and who deserves death?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Psychological 8.5%, Adventure 8.2%

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 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Female Protagonist 10.4%, Investigation 8.8%, 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 19.4%, Supernatural 15.3%, Visual Novel 12%, Psychological 11.2%, Female Protagonist 8.8%

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 17.1%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Lore-Rich 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, 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 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Psychological 11.7%, Emotional 9.4%, Dark 8.3%

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

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Faith 18.1% ★, Visual Novel 13.1%, Exploration 8.4%, Horror 7.9%

«Separator» is a short nonlinear visual novel in the psychological horror genre, inspired by modern occultism and beliefs surrounding mysticism.

Why similar: Faith 25.6% ★, Psychological 14.4%, Visual Novel 14%, Supernatural 13.6%, Psychological Horror 8.5%

A dice-driven Cthulhu Mythos investigation log where every roll can cost you your sanity, your team, or your life — and there is no undo.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Supernatural 13.4%, Investigation 10.4%, Psychological 9%

[Grill'd] is a dinner party detective game played from the first-person perspective of a royal investigator. Trapped in a mansion located in the estate of a fallen aristocrat, collect clues about the cases, connect them to one another, and interrogate the suspect to uncover the truth.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Lore-Rich 9.8%, Exploration 8.7%

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 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Psychological 9.1%

An ordinary commute becomes a moral crucible in Monari 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 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Horror 8.4%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Supernatural 17.6%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Female Protagonist 10.2%

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: Faith 19.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Supernatural 9.5%

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 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Lore-Rich 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Investigation 10.4%

A girl was murdered, and she is the only one still hunting for her killer. The day before her birthday, Han Xiaoxiao woke as a spirit with no memory, three days dead. Possess the living, gather clues, and uncover how you died. But some truths are harder to bear than death itself.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Female Protagonist 12.8%, Psychological 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%

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 14.7%, Investigation 12.6%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Supernatural 8.9%

乱世饥年，岭南盐沼中的丰浦仍有热饭与灯火。你是账房执笔者江砚：翻名册、核份额，把「添丰」与「归丰」一笔一笔记清楚。供期临近，潮路、闭门规矩与人们过分周全的好意，让熟悉的日常渐渐显出不对劲。

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Lore-Rich 9.1%, Adventure 8.2%

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 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Investigation 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Female Protagonist 8.9%

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 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Supernatural 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Investigation 9.3%

You return to your hometown after a decade of escapism, and no one from your past recognizes you. But that doesn’t matter, because you're not here for them. You are here for her. Midgårdsormen, singer and artist, pervert and goddess. She will help you reach true divinity. You refuse to remain human.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Supernatural 15.9%, Psychological 13%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Lore-Rich 9.1%

You are the winter caretaker of a seaside hotel nobody visits between October and March. The owner's rules are pinned above the desk: no guests, no exceptions. Then somebody knocks — off the last bus, in the rain, with cash and no booking. You decide who gets a key, and which room.

Why similar: Supernatural 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Investigation 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Psychological 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 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Adventure 8.5%, 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 25.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, Retro 8.6%

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 16.3% ★, Retro 12.5%, Supernatural 11.7%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Horror 9.7%

Step into a dramatic K-drama mystery where nothing is quite what it seems. Investigate suspicious behavior, uncover hidden evidence, compare contradictions, and piece together the lies that reveal what really happened.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Exploration 10.3%, Female Protagonist 8.1%

Story-driven ADV × Puzzles × Multiple Endings. Trapped in a cursed school, survive deadly trials to escape. Find clues, break secret rules, and expose its horrifying truth. Lies and mortal danger test your humanity; each choice changes allies’ bonds and picks the survivor.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Visual Novel 13%, Lore-Rich 11.4%, Supernatural 11.2%

Nocturne Hollow is a gothic mystery visual novel currently containing the complete opening and Episode One. Explore the available areas of Hollow Veil, uncover supernatural clues and memories, and begin the introductory paths for Lucian, Evelyn, and Damien.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Lore-Rich 10.9%, Psychological 8.7%

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 18.6%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Supernatural 9.7%, Psychological 9.6%

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 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Visual Novel 14%, Psychological 12.8%, Lore-Rich 8.2%

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 27.6%, Exploration 10.1%, Investigation 9.3%, Lore-Rich 9.2%, Adventure 9.1%

At 3am, an app called tally installs itself on your phone and starts granting wishes. All of them. A psychological horror story told entirely through a phone screen. 5 nights, 3 routes, 18 endings, some you can only reach by losing on purpose. Every wish is granted. Every wish is owed.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Lore-Rich 9.3%, Adventure 8.6%, Supernatural 7.9%

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 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Investigation 13.9%, Emotional 13.4%

Descend into the fever dreams of a traumatized young man in a first-person psychological horror game about grief, trauma, and fractured memories. Confront the horrors of your past and find a way back home from Hell. KNOCK, AND THEY WILL ANSWER.

Why similar: Supernatural 18.5%, Psychological 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Investigation 9.5%, Psychological Horror 9.5%

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 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Supernatural 13.2%, Investigation 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.2%

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 22.2%, Supernatural 10%, Exploration 9.4%, 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 21%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Faith 15.8% ★, Visual Novel 12.9%, Psychological 11.1%

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 18.7%, Investigation 11.6%, Lore-Rich 11.6%, Exploration 11.5%, Adventure 10%

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 11.9%, Horror 9.4%, Psychological Horror 9%

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 19.5%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, Female Protagonist 9%

Clara is doing everything she can to stay emotionally stable. But something is hunting her, and every place seems to know what she still refuses to understand. Explore places filled with whispers, gather the fragments and roll your d20s to help Clara find a way out.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.6%, Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Psychological 10.8%, Adventure 10%, Emotional 7.2%

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 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Exploration 8.5%, Investigation 8.2%

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%, Horror 9.1%, Supernatural 8.7%, Exploration 8.5%

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: Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Investigation 10.3%

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 17.6%, Visual Novel 17%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Psychological 15.3%, Psychological Horror 9.9%

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 14.9%, Investigation 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Dark 9.1%, Female Protagonist 8.3%

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 16.8%, Psychological 12.2%, Investigation 11.8%, Horror 9.4%

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 16.4%, Psychological 12%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Supernatural 11.2%

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 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15.9%, Horror 4.9%

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

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%, Retro 9.9%

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 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Visual Novel 12%, Supernatural 11.8%, Psychological 10.1%

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 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Lore-Rich 9.7%

A psychological horror visual novel about healing, where saving your brother means facing your own demons. Elham’s search pulls her through visions and entities rooted in Arabian folklore, and family secrets that should have stayed buried.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Supernatural 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Lore-Rich 9.8%

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 34.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Psychological 10.2%, Emotional 4.3%

You have exactly 5. Bread is 4, the bus fare to school is 3. What do you give up? In this short narrative experience, you play as 13-year-old Adam. Confront an interface that reacts to a painful reality, and discover that freedom of choice is sometimes nothing but a privilege.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 24%, Visual Novel 16%, Psychological 13%, Adventure 9.1%

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

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Visual Novel 15%, Lore-Rich 13.3%, Psychological 11.8%

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 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Supernatural 11.3%, Investigation 10.1%, Lore-Rich 9.3%