60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Horror, Story Rich, Choices Matter.
Dread whispers echo across the Information Superhighway. Y2K is coming, heralding the rise of the Old Ones. With your meatspace mind unraveling, time is running out -- barter with gods, embrace the deathless aeons, or go offline permanently in this modempunk horror story.
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In an AI-powered age where original authors have become largely redundant, play as a dejected writer on the brink of losing their creative drive forever.
Death Drive
Death Drive is a road trip visual novel inspired by classic American Gothic fiction.
In an AI-powered age where original authors have become largely redundant, play as a dejected writer on the brink of losing their creative drive forever.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.2%, Text-Based 18%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Horror 14.2%, Story Rich 8.9%
Death Drive is a road trip visual novel inspired by classic American Gothic fiction.
Why similar: Noir 14.4%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Lovecraftian 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Horror 8.7%
Investigate a paranormal disease that threatens to eradicate humanity in this unsettling Lovecraftian adventure, inspired by the choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks of the 80s and 90s. Your choices will determine the story, your character’s destiny… and the future of humanity.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 51.8%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Story Rich 8%
The world ends in 1 hour. It can't be saved. Wanna chat?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 31.9%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Text-Based 12.2%, Horror 11.9%
Your eldritch existence is threatened when another abomination tries to feast on you. You flee, trapping yourself in human flesh, but will that be enough?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 48.3%, Horror 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Text-Based 6%
If you don't sacrifice your neighbors, the world ends. Life Eater is a horror fantasy kidnapping simulator where you must become intimately familiar with your targets' lives one intrusive action at a time... and hope that the dark god you serve is even real.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.2%, Alternate History 20.6%, 1990's 15.9%, Text-Based 12.2%, Horror 10.8%
A story-driven psychological experience where memory fades, silence deepens, and something waits in the dark.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 35%, Visual Novel 28.1%, Psychedelic 17.1%, Story Rich 9.4%, Psychological Horror 6.8%
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 43.6%, Horror 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Psychological Horror 8.4%, Text-Based 8.3%
🚨 Emergency Alert 🚨 New security protocols have been activated. Remain indoors. Do not open your doors under any circumstance. Isolation is safety. Isolation is truth. Or is it?
Why similar: 1990's 15.8%, Noir 14.4%, Visual Novel 14%, Text-Based 13.9%, Horror 11.2%
Deep beneath the surface of the dead Earth, the City, the last refuge of humanity, hides. Engineering genius and efforts of all mankind; a giant structure of steel, concrete, and biopolymers. It keeps the remnants of civilization one step away from total extinction.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 18.5%, Cyberpunk 12.8%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Text-Based 10.4%, Horror 7.7%
You are The Fateweaver; an ancient beast of legendary status. It is your job to determine which way Fate will unravel as you dig deep into the psyche of those who beckon. Decide whether to help those who beg for your mercy, or invoke the wrath of the Gods upon those you deem unworthy of existence...
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.1%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Horror 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 22.2%, Visual Novel 15%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Psychological Horror 9.9%
Enter the doomed town of Pareildas. Watch as the flames turn bone and stone to ash. Like joined wicks, we'll all burn together.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.6%, Horror 12.9%, Lovecraftian 12.7%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Story Rich 12.2%
Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 32.6%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Horror 10.4%, Psychological Horror 10.1%
Conversation is a dangerous game. Manipulate a fractured band of renegade divers to reach the depths of this short narrative puzzle. Uncover alliances and expose betrayals — before something horrific from the dark abyss silences you all. Don’t let the conversation get too deep.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 39.7%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Sci-fi 11.6%, Conversation 9.7%, Story Rich 9.5%
✣ Dread Chess is an original and strange narrative story-puzzle game with sandbox elements. Uncover mysteries by speaking with gods in Latin. Immerse yourself in an atmosphere of madness, and reach one of many endings in an unfair game against Death that can be played ONLY ONCE...
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.4%, Horror 20.1%, Multiple Endings 17.5%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Story Rich 14.4%
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: Alternate History 21.3%, LGBTQ+ 18%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Horror 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.1%
If you're nervous about job searching and interviews, face your fears head-on in "Welcome to the Karoshi Club" a Japanese horror business punk visual novel.
Why similar: 1990's 27.1%, Visual Novel 25.6%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Sci-fi 12.6%, Horror 9.5%
Your bestie seems to be hiding something. There's something about your world that seems odd as well, like it has...secrets. Dive into the Cthulhu Mythos universe of this horror game and witness a "friendship" that rewrites the world.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 32.5%, LGBTQ+ 18.2%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Choices Matter 11%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
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: Visual Novel 21.6%, Choices Matter 19.7%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Horror 16.4%, Multiple Endings 13.7%
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: Visual Novel 25.7%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Text-Based 16.4%, Horror 12.5%, Story Rich 11.5%
H.P. Lovecraft meets Cyberpunk. Delve deep into a dystopian world and investigate what is happening to you and your friends in a domed city. Solve puzzles, hack systems and plug in to explore other dimensions. Discover a truth that might tear apart your sanity and question your very existence.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 36.4%, Cyberpunk 20%, Psychological Horror 10%, Conversation 9.5%, Sci-fi 9.1%
You must stay in your apartment as the city around you falls to an Eldritch horror.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 45.8%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Horror 10.5%, Story Rich 9.4%
Immerse yourself in the captivating world of the Cthulhu Mythos with this 2D visual novel game featuring a thrilling TRPG-based experience! Roll the dice and use your skills and luck to escape the abandoned hospital, while experiencing the cosmic terror.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 39.1%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Horror 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
Fears are not always just rustles in the dark. And death is not always a bad ending.
Why similar: Visual Novel 34%, Text-Based 22%, Psychedelic 17.5%, Horror 12.2%, Psychological Horror 9.9%
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: Visual Novel 14.4%, Text-Based 13.8%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Conversation 12%, Horror 11.7%
You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.8%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Psychedelic 12.6%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
A free horror Visual Novel about an ill-fated journey across Sinnlos, a lake where gruesome monsters lurk just beneath the surface. With times being so dire you'll need to decide what, and who, is going to be sacrificed. Anyone can be saved, but not everyone can be.
Why similar: Visual Novel 36.6%, Choices Matter 20.1%, Horror 16%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Psychological Horror 10.7%
This world is woven of strings, of fate and of hate. What do you see, detective? A horror-mystery yuri visual novel peering into the maddening darkness of love and death.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Horror 14.2%, Multiple Endings 11.6%
You've only precious moments before time collapses onto itself to save your family. Warp, jump and rewind through time and space - and pray that whatever lives between it doesn't notice you.
Why similar: Horror 42.2%, Psychological Horror 34.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Casual 3.1%
A dead influencer. An obsessed detective. Three suspects. Piece the truth together by going through the victim’s phone messages, videos, and social media in the follow up to the critically acclaimed SIMULACRA.
Why similar: Hacking 26.5% ★, Visual Novel 12.4%, Text-Based 11.5%, Horror 10.5%, Choices Matter 9%
Hearing noises? Seeing things? Call Home Safety Hotline! Our operators are standing by, waiting to give you the answers you need to protect your home from all manner of pests and household hazards.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 22.2%, Alternate History 20.1%, 1990's 19.2%, Text-Based 13%, Horror 12.2%
Congratulations, you've found Dingir OS — an operating system that lets you glimpse into the darkest corners of the internet. Browse forbidden websites, investigate lethal files, and immerse yourself in the world of digital legends. (We are not responsible for anything that may happen to you.)
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.4%, Noir 19.7%, Horror 16.4%, Psychological Horror 16%, Psychedelic 12.5%
Step into the fog to confront your terror: the evil that hides within. Unravel the fog's mysteries before you become its next victim. Or join us, instead.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 36%, Text-Based 29%, Choices Matter 19.7%, Story Rich 15.4%
Alone at night, working at a petrol station deep in the American wheat belt. Something feels off... are you sure you're alone? A short 10-15 minute horror game with multiple endings.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 63.8%, Horror 22.1%, Psychological Horror 14.2%
A short, interactive visual novel set in the mid-19th Century, in which a poet fights against time as she's writing the most important work of her life. Poetry is the answer, but what is the question?
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.1%, Psychological Horror 23.4%, Horror 21.7%, Conversation 13.7%, Story Rich 10.1%
First Person Psychological Horror. Addicted to virtual ecstasy, trapped in digital hell. Navigate glitchy dreamscapes and a city that never sleeps. Every mission brings you closer to your next dose, but will you follow your protective AI, or the man behind a liberating new drug?
Why similar: Cyberpunk 29.9%, Psychological Horror 26.2%, Horror 25.3%, Story Rich 18.6%
This experience can be classified as a psychological and atmospheric horror game. However... This isn't a game... Remember all of the urban legends from your childhood? Imagine if it was all real, but we just weren't performing the right rituals to summon these beings from another realm... Well, now you can...
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.1%, Choices Matter 20.6%, Psychological Horror 19.1%, Horror 18.7%, Story Rich 12.8%
Psychroma is a psychological horror side-scroller set in a haunted cyberpunk house. Collect cards and explore the memories stored on them to piece together your past. But the deeper you go, the more you expose yourself to the brightest heat, the warmest color...
Why similar: Cyberpunk 31.7%, LGBTQ+ 22.5%, Psychedelic 15.4%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Story Rich 11.5%
A long-form, choice-driven psychological horror and depression game in which the protagonist’s ending changes based on the choices made by “you,” the voice he hears in his head.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.8%, Horror 22%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Story Rich 14.2%
Aoba's vibrant cyberpunk world is one of contrasts: high-tech virtual reality battles versus street gang turf wars, ultra-exclusive luxury resorts and tiny junk shops. The choices you make will shape the path of Aoba's journey into the dark secrets lurking beneath the glossy sheen of the city.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 38.3%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Cyberpunk 15.5%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.1%, Horror 16.8%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Multiple Endings 12.1%
The shadow of Frank Stone looms over Cedar Hills, a town forever altered by his violent past. As a group of young friends are about to discover, Stone’s blood-soaked legacy cuts deep, leaving scars across families, generations, and the very fabric of reality itself.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 26.9%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Horror 13.2%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Psychological Horror 10.8%
2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco. Team up with Turing, the world's first sapient machine, to unravel a conspiracy that threatens to shake an entire society
Why similar: Cyberpunk 18.8%, Noir 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.3%, LGBTQ+ 11.8%, Choices Matter 9.9%
Your average student life quickly descents into horror as a mysterious witch takes over the college... Can you save the girl you love? Or even make it out alive?
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.4%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Horror 13.6%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Story Rich 11%
"Curse of the Shadow" is a BL-themed horror visual novel. Cursed by a "ghost", protagonist Xu finds eerie dark shadows in every photo he takes.Once escaping reality, he’s forced by fate to face fears again.To uncover the curse’s truth, he and two friends embark on a terrifying, unknown journey.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28%, Visual Novel 21.2%, Horror 16.2%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11.8%
An eerie liminal game that explores just how far an angel can fall. Play as sapphic Lucifer and corrupt angels into falling... in love with you.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.5%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Story Rich 10%
It's rumored that those who play 'BAD END'- a Visual Novel will die in REAL LIFE if they make the wrong decision in the game itself.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.6%, Horror 20%, Multiple Endings 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Story Rich 13.2%
Step into a dark world where cyberdemons haunt humankind. When mutilated bodies start appearing all over this sleepy town in the Mississippi inaka, Sawyer, ex-AGENCY operative; now unemployed shut-in, must exorcise the demon perpetrator in this story-rich, PC-98 style adventure game.
Why similar: 1990's 27.5%, Visual Novel 25.8%, Story Rich 14.5%, Horror 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%
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: Visual Novel 20.4%, Text-Based 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Horror 13.6%, Choices Matter 13.3%
Dry Drowning is a psychological investigative visual novel set in a futuristic dystopian city. Follow the story of Mordred Foley, unscrupulous private detective haunted by his dark past, and look into a series of macabre serial killings inspired by Greek mythology.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 20.7%, Noir 18.2%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Sci-fi 12.5%, Horror 12.2%
Experience the quiet terror of this 1-bit love letter to Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft. Navigate a hellish roguelite reality with turn-based combat and unforgiving choices. Experiment with your deck of event cards to discover new forms of cosmic horror in every playthrough. The inevitable awaits...
Why similar: Lovecraftian 55.8%, Horror 23%, Psychological Horror 16.7%, Pixel Graphics 4.5%
399 days ago, the world ended. Epimutation is a horror visual novel that follows seven survivors as they attempt to navigate life in the apocalypse. Make life or death decisions, form bonds with your fellow survivors, and attempt to unravel the mystery behind the outbreak.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.6%, Choices Matter 17.6%, Horror 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Psychological Horror 13.3%
You are The Fateweaver; an ancient beast of legendary status. It is your job to determine which way Fate will unravel as you dig deep into the psyche of those who beckon. Decide whether to help those who beg for your mercy, or invoke the wrath of the Gods upon those you deem unworthy of existence...
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.7%, LGBTQ+ 18.5%, Choices Matter 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Horror 14.5%
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.9%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Horror 11.8%
KinitoPET is a psychological horror experience that takes place through Kinito, an early 2000s virtual assistant. Kinito is able to walk, talk, browse, adapt, and play games as Kinito is like no other with its adaptive technology!
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.5%, 1990's 18%, Horror 17.8%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Multiple Endings 10%
MAMIYA is a captivating, dark mystery visual novel in which a group of young men struggle against existential dread before the end of the world.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.7%, Visual Novel 16%, Noir 15.5%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Choices Matter 9.9%
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.9%, Visual Novel 25.8%, Choices Matter 18.1%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Horror 6.7%
Play as 25yo writer Jian Xun in a 5-min deadline loop. Your script is alive! In this thriller puzzle, use "keyframe sorting" to piece stories. Fight AI, break the 4th wall & escape the nightmare!
Why similar: Cyberpunk 37%, Visual Novel 24.5%, Psychological Horror 19.9%, Multiple Endings 16.9%, Casual 1.7%
Explore a surreal world inspired by Kowloon Walled city in this turn-based RPG inspired by Japanese dungeon crawlers from the late 1990s.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 29.4%, Visual Novel 24.7%, Horror 13.6%, Alternate History 13.5%, Multiple Endings 11.6%
