- #1 Backspace Backspace Backspace
97% matchVery Positive97% of 60 reviews2024
Dev: Blue Tango Street
Windows · Mac
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 20.4%, Text-Based 17.8%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Horror 14.3%, Story Rich 9%
- #2 Death Drive
96% matchVery Positive97% of 101 reviews2025
Dev: LunaticMoon
Windows
Death Drive is a road trip visual novel inspired by classic American Gothic fiction.
Why similar: Noir 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Lovecraftian 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Horror 8.7%
- #3 Omen Exitio: Plague
96% matchVery Positive85% of 631 reviews2018
Dev: Tiny Bull Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 52.1%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Story Rich 8%
- #4 Everything Ends In 0
95% matchVery Positive94% of 161 reviews2024
Dev: findaeden
Windows
The world ends in 1 hour. It can't be saved. Wanna chat?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 30%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Text-Based 11.3%, Horror 11.2%
- #5 Mycopsychosys: Remastered
94% matchVery Positive98% of 223 reviews2025
Dev: DeltaCat Studio Pub: DeltaCat Studio
Windows
🚨 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 14.6%, Noir 13.3%, Visual Novel 13%, Text-Based 12.6%, Horror 10.4%
- #6 Athanasy
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 536 reviews2022
Dev: WirionPub: ST Sinovar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 18.6%, Cyberpunk 12.7%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Text-Based 10.2%, Horror 7.8%
- #7 Glassy Stare
93% matchVery Positive91% of 98 reviews2026
Dev: ghost funeralPub: Nikita Kryukov
Windows
A story-driven psychological experience where memory fades, silence deepens, and something waits in the dark.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 35.1%, Visual Novel 28.1%, Psychedelic 17.2%, Story Rich 9.4%, Psychological Horror 6.8%
- #8 Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 12,275 reviews2021
Dev: Bit Golem
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 29%
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 43.7%, Horror 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Psychological Horror 8.3%, Text-Based 8.1%
- #9 Dread Weight
91% matchVery Positive87% of 179 reviews2024
Dev: Deer Dream Studios
Windows · Mac
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 20.4%, LGBTQ+ 17%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Horror 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.3%
- #10 The Passenger
91% matchVery Positive90% of 130 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 48.5%, Horror 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Text-Based 5.9%
- #11 Life Eater
90% matchVery Positive84% of 369 reviews2024
Dev: Strange Scaffold
Windows
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 28.3%, Alternate History 20.7%, 1990's 15.9%, Text-Based 12.1%, Horror 10.8%
- #12 Beso's Shawarma
89% matchVery Positive93% of 68 reviews2026
Dev: Mtatsminda Studio
Windows
Beso's Shawarma is a short, narrative-driven horror game. A late-night call lures you on a surreal journey through empty streets to a sketchy shawarma shop. Talk to a cast of strange characters, make a terrifying choice, and try to escape a disjointed, looping nightmare.
Why similar: Noir 13.1%, 1990's 12.3%, Dialogue Heavy 11.8%, Horror 11.7%, Psychological Horror 11.6%
- #13 Sub-Verge
88% matchMostly Positive71% of 58 reviews2025
Dev: Interactive Tragedy, LimitedPub: Pantaloon
Windows · Mac
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 39.9%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Sci-fi 11.6%, Dialogue Heavy 10%, Story Rich 9.4%
- #14 Static Dread: The Lighthouse
86% matchVery Positive91% of 1,410 reviews2025
Dev: solarsuit.gamesPub: Polden Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 33.1%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Horror 10.4%, Psychological Horror 9.9%
- #15 Welcome to the Karoshi Club
87% matchVery Positive91% of 169 reviews2023
Dev: Kamishibai Interactive
Windows
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 25.8%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Sci-fi 12.7%, Horror 9.5%
- #16 Transient: Extended Edition
89% matchMostly Positive70% of 341 reviews2020
Dev: Stormling StudiosPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 19.9%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, Sci-fi 9%
- #17 Fateweaver: The Alchemist's Quandary
86% matchVery Positive98% of 100 reviews2023
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
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 17.2%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Horror 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
- #18 Omen Exitio: Hunger
84% matchVery Positive95% of 122 reviews2026
Dev: Tiny Bull StudiosPub: 2P Games
Windows · Mac
A Lovecraftian investigative gamebook. New York, 1927. A case pulled from real history, wrapped in cosmic horror. His name was Billy Gaffney. The man who took him was real. But his purpose was from another plane of existence. You play a journalist. You make choices. The story remembers all of them.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 29.7%, Noir 11.8%, Visual Novel 11%, Text-Based 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
- #19 Minds Beneath Us
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,908 reviews2024
Dev: BearBoneStudio
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 22.3%, Visual Novel 15%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Psychological Horror 9.8%
- #20 There Swings a Skull: Grim Tidings
85% matchVery Positive97% of 75 reviews2022
Dev: Conor WalshPub: Poison The Inkwell
Windows
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 12.8%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Story Rich 12.2%
- #21 • Dread Chess ✣
83% matchMostly Positive80% of 98 reviews2025
Dev: • NullTalePub: • NullTale Scape
Windows
✣ 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 28.6%, Horror 20.3%, Multiple Endings 17.3%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Story Rich 14.4%
- #22 Loop//Error
82% matchVery Positive88% of 58 reviews2025
Dev: Koro Pixel StudioPub: Dark Product
Windows
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 13.6%, Dialogue Heavy 12.5%, Choices Matter 12%, Horror 11.7%
- #23 Pink Noise
81% matchVery Positive87% of 127 reviews2026
Dev: Somber GamesPub: Caspianborn Publishing
Windows
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 21.8%, Choices Matter 19.4%, Horror 16.6%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Multiple Endings 13.6%
- #24 Cthulhu Mythos ADV Lunatic Whispers
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 107 reviews2022
Dev: Gotcha Gotcha Games
Windows
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 39.3%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Horror 10.5%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
- #25 Mothmen 1966
80% matchVery Positive91% of 321 reviews2022
Dev: LCB Game StudioPub: Chorus Worldwide Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Mothmen 1966 is a 'Pixel Pulp' - a visual novel fusing exceptional writing and stunning illustration, inspired by mid-20th century pulp fiction and 80s home computer graphics - set amongst the strange occurrences of the Leonid meteor shower of 1966.
Why similar: Noir 15.7%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Dialogue Heavy 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Choices Matter 12.3%
- #26 Echoes
81% matchMostly Positive80% of 84 reviews2021
Dev: Baba Nura
Windows
Fears are not always just rustles in the dark. And death is not always a bad ending.
Why similar: Visual Novel 33.8%, Text-Based 21.5%, Psychedelic 17.5%, Horror 12.7%, Psychological Horror 10.3%
- #27 Blood Lily Loop
79% matchVery Positive84% of 69 reviews2024
Dev: Sounding Stone / 老奉毊
Windows
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 32.7%, LGBTQ+ 18.1%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Horror 8.9%
- #28 Hazy Mind
79% matchVery Positive86% of 333 reviews2024
Dev: betetiro
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 13.6%, Psychedelic 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
- #29 Inversed
78% matchVery Positive91% of 82 reviews2024
Dev: Tymedust Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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%, Psychological Horror 23.1%, Horror 21.6%, Dialogue Heavy 14.4%, Story Rich 10%
- #30 SIMULACRA 2
78% matchVery Positive87% of 1,679 reviews2020
Dev: Kaigan GamesPub: Soft Source
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 26.4% ★, Visual Novel 12.4%, Text-Based 11.3%, Horror 10.6%, Dialogue Heavy 8.9%
- #31 Lake of Voices
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 635 reviews2018
Dev: GB Patch Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 35%
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 36.8%, Choices Matter 20%, Horror 16.2%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Psychological Horror 10.9%
- #32 Urban Myth Dissolution Center
73% matchVery Positive88% of 6,076 reviews2025
Dev: HakababunkoPub: SHUEISHA GAMES
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 26%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Text-Based 16.3%, Horror 12.6%, Story Rich 11.6%
- #33 The Shadow Over Route 80
76% matchVery Positive94% of 53 reviews2022
Dev: the ito project
Windows
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 63.9%, Horror 22.1%, Psychological Horror 14%
- #34 Reminiscence
75% matchVery Positive85% of 1,516 reviews2021
Dev: Reminiscence Project
Windows
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 42.5%, Psychological Horror 34.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Casual 3.1%
- #35 First Session
77% matchVery Positive81% of 90 reviews2021
Dev: Lappi Soft
Windows
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 30%, Psychological Horror 26%, Horror 25.4%, Story Rich 18.6%
- #36 The Haunted Building
74% matchVery Positive87% of 391 reviews2024
Dev: Genuine Studio
Windows
A 90s Hong Kong public housing block hides twisted tenants, buried truths, and ghosts. As security guard Lee Shing, your choices shape the story and unlock multiple endings. A mystery full of foreshadowing—some truths can only be uncovered through repeated playthroughs.
Why similar: 1990's 23.5%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Horror 16%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Story Rich 10.2%
- #37 Lachesis or Atropos
75% matchVery Positive88% of 72 reviews2023
Dev: 4nokiPub: Quill Yuri
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 19.7%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Horror 14.3%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
- #38 You Will (Not) Remain
73% matchVery Positive92% of 2,547 reviews2022
Dev: Bedtime PhobiasPub: No way, we're indie baby of course we don't have a publisher
Windows
You must stay in your apartment as the city around you falls to an Eldritch horror.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 46.3%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Horror 10.6%, Story Rich 9.4%
- #39 2064: Read Only Memories
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,673 reviews2015
Dev: MidBoss, LLC.Pub: Chorus Worldwide Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Dialogue Heavy 17.5%, Cyberpunk 17.1%, Noir 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.3%, LGBTQ+ 10.8%
- #40 Dingir OS
72% matchVery Positive83% of 60 reviews2025
Dev: SpoocleMacBoogle
Windows
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 20.5%, Noir 19.7%, Horror 16.4%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Psychedelic 12.6%
- #41 The Letter - Horror Visual Novel
74% matchVery Positive86% of 1,522 reviews2017
Dev: Yangyang MobilePub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
When seven people fall prey to a vicious curse, they will discover that horror rests not from the shadows lurking about, but within themselves. To what ends will one go in order to survive?
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.4%, Horror 22.9%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
- #42 Psychroma
72% matchVery Positive90% of 195 reviews2024
Dev: Rocket AdriftPub: Gamma Space Collaborative Studio
Windows · Linux
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 15.6%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Story Rich 11.5%
- #43 Inhuman Resources: A Literary Machination
71% matchVery Positive92% of 72 reviews2025
Dev: Finnegan MotorsPub: Indie Asylum
Windows · Mac · Linux
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.7%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Horror 11.9%
- #44 Office Hours
71% matchVery Positive80% of 55 reviews2026
Dev: PipoteamPub: IIM Digital School
Windows
Sort forms, get to know your mysterious new collegues & unravel mysteries they're trying to cover up as you step in to replace the previous RH at this mysterious pharmaceutical company.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.8%, Horror 17.8%, 1990's 16.6%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Story Rich 12.1%
- #45 Home Safety Hotline
70% matchVery Positive91% of 2,863 reviews2024
Dev: Night Signal Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 22.4%, Alternate History 20.2%, 1990's 19.3%, Text-Based 12.8%, Horror 12.3%
- #46 Seraphim Slum
71% matchVery Positive96% of 158 reviews2024
Dev: rosesrotPub: angelrot games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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+ 25.7%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Story Rich 10%
- #47 Neve
69% matchVery Positive98% of 64 reviews2026
Dev: Michelle SantosPub: Ritus Studio
Windows
Neve is a non-linear interactive fiction in which your decisions can completely change the course of story. Manage your team, race against time and unravel the mysteries surrounding your ship's crash in this suffocating retrofuturistic thriller that will have you hooked from the first second.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.4%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%
- #48 The Fog Knows Your Name
73% matchVery Positive86% of 81 reviews2019
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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+ 36.2%, Text-Based 28.8%, Choices Matter 19.5%, Story Rich 15.5%
- #49 SIMULACRA
70% matchVery Positive90% of 4,658 reviews2017
Dev: Kaigan Games OÜ
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.2%, Horror 17%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Multiple Endings 12%
- #50 YAMIKKO TROUBLEMAKER
68% matchVery Positive97% of 104 reviews2025
Dev: お湯めのPub: 半角全角感嘆符
Windows
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 26.5%, Horror 21.6%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Story Rich 14.2%
- #51 DIGITAL EXORCIST case_(0);
68% matchVery Positive94% of 166 reviews2023
Dev: COOL BEANS PRODUCTIONSPub: HYPER REAL
Windows
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 27.4%, Visual Novel 25.9%, Story Rich 14.5%, Horror 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%
- #52 The Specter's Desire
68% matchVery Positive98% of 55 reviews2024
Dev: Themisian
Windows · Mac
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 20.6%, Text-Based 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Horror 13.7%, Choices Matter 13.1%
- #53 The Casting of Frank Stone™
67% matchMixed62% of 5,819 reviews2024
Dev: Supermassive GamesPub: Behaviour Interactive Inc.
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 26.8%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Horror 13.3%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
- #54 INFINITY DEADLINE
66% matchVery Positive95% of 59 reviews2026
Dev: YvelRevo
Windows
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 24.7%, Psychological Horror 19.8%, Multiple Endings 16.7%, Casual 1.7%
- #55 咒影 Curse of the Shadow
66% matchVery Positive81% of 275 reviews2026
Dev: 小青蛙妙妙制作组
Windows
"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+ 28.4%, Visual Novel 21.3%, Horror 16.2%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11.6%
- #56 Dry Drowning
69% matchVery Positive81% of 512 reviews2019
Dev: Studio VPub: Leonardo Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 18.1%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Sci-fi 12.6%, Horror 12.3%
- #57 BAD END
70% matchVery Positive83% of 398 reviews2015
Dev: Arai Koh Create OfficePub: YOX-Project
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 26.8%, Horror 20.1%, Multiple Endings 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Story Rich 13.2%
- #58 Curse or Love
65% matchVery Positive96% of 73 reviews2026
Dev: 小橘子糖_official
Windows
A Denpa Bishoujo Psychological Horror Curio: A Visual Novel ❦ Mild Horror, Mild Suspense, and a Hint of Whimsical Madness ❦ We Hope You Find Your Own "Happy Ending" Among Multiple Conclusions ❦ A Major Plot Twist, Perhaps? ❦ Glimpse a sliver of truth in the liminal space between life and death.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 31.6%, Visual Novel 24.7%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Dialogue Heavy 11.5%
- #59 MAMIYA
67% matchVery Positive91% of 496 reviews2021
Dev: Kenkou LandPub: Fruitbat Factory
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 16.1%, Noir 15.5%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Choices Matter 9.8%
- #60 Heaven Does Not Respond
63% matchVery Positive90% of 492 reviews2026
Dev: Rise Studios
Windows
Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline. Play as an intelligence agent, exploring a retro computer interface to decipher secret files, watch mysterious videos, and uncover the dark secrets behind a young man's death.
Why similar: Horror 22.1%, Choices Matter 21.9%, Psychological Horror 21%, Dialogue Heavy 20.2%, Story Rich 14.7%