60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Horror, Visual Novel, Psychological Horror, Story Rich.
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 20.6%, Text-Based 17.6%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Horror 14.4%, Story Rich 9%
Death Drive is a road trip visual novel inspired by classic American Gothic fiction.
Why similar: Noir 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Lovecraftian 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, 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 52.3%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choices Matter 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%, Story Rich 8%
The world ends in 1 hour. It can't be saved. Wanna chat?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 30.3%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Horror 11.2%, Text-Based 11.1%
🚨 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 14.5%, Noir 13.3%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Text-Based 12.5%, Horror 10.4%
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 18.8%, Cyberpunk 12.7%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Text-Based 10.1%, Horror 7.8%
A story-driven psychological experience where memory fades, silence deepens, and something waits in the dark.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 35.7%, Visual Novel 28%, Psychedelic 17.3%, Story Rich 9.1%, Psychological Horror 6.6%
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 43.9%, Horror 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Psychological Horror 8.2%, Text-Based 7.9%
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 48.8%, Horror 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Text-Based 5.8%
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%, Horror 11.8%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11.7%
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 28.5%, Alternate History 20.8%, 1990's 15.7%, Text-Based 11.9%, Horror 10.8%
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: Visual Novel 18.3%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Text-Based 13.3%, Horror 13%, Choices Matter 12%
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%, Visual Novel 26%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Sci-fi 12.7%, Horror 9.6%
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 33.5%, Choices Matter 11%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Horror 10.4%, Psychological Horror 9.9%
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 40.2%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Sci-fi 11.6%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%, Story Rich 9.4%
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 36.6%, Cyberpunk 19.9%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, Dialogue Heavy 9.7%, Sci-fi 9%
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 22.4%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Psychological Horror 9.7%
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 30%, Noir 11.8%, Visual Novel 11%, Text-Based 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
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 17.3%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Horror 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Multiple Endings 11.4%
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+ 18.8%, Lovecraftian 13%, Horror 12.9%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Story Rich 12.2%
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 22%, Choices Matter 19.1%, Horror 16.6%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Multiple Endings 13.6%
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 39.4%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Horror 10.5%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
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 14.6%, Text-Based 13.4%, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Horror 11.8%
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 32.8%, LGBTQ+ 18.3%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Horror 8.9%
Fears are not always just rustles in the dark. And death is not always a bad ending.
Why similar: Visual Novel 34%, Text-Based 21.2%, Psychedelic 17.6%, Horror 12.7%, Psychological Horror 10.2%
You must stay in your apartment as the city around you falls to an Eldritch horror.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 46.1%, Visual Novel 17%, Psychological Horror 12%, Horror 10.5%, Story Rich 9.3%
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 17%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Psychedelic 12.9%, Choices Matter 11%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
A girl detective faces her darkest mystery yet, in this horror-romance visual novel with stickers, fashion, and bad ends.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.3%, Visual Novel 19.7%, Horror 14%, Text-Based 9.3%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
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 15.8%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Choices Matter 12.2%
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 31.2%, Psychological Horror 23%, Horror 21.6%, Dialogue Heavy 14.2%, Story Rich 10%
A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.7%, Text-Based 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Horror 11.2%, Psychological Horror 10.6%
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 37.1%, Choices Matter 19.7%, Horror 16.3%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Psychological Horror 10.9%
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 12.6%, Text-Based 11.2%, Horror 10.8%, Dialogue Heavy 8.8%
Your Grandpa descends into madness in a family cosmic horror. Dig cursed relics, meet eldritch beings, and awaken a forgotten God.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 37.7%, Dialogue Heavy 13.9%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Horror 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.7%
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 26.4%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Text-Based 16%, Horror 12.7%, Story Rich 11.7%
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 42.6%, Psychological Horror 34.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Casual 3.1%
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 64.1%, Horror 22%, Psychological Horror 13.9%
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 25.5%, Story Rich 18.6%
An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.4%, Horror 17.1%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Multiple Endings 12%
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 31.5%, LGBTQ+ 22.9%, Psychedelic 15.6%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Story Rich 11.4%
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 20.6%, Noir 19.6%, Horror 16.4%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Psychedelic 12.7%
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 18.7%, Noir 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.4%, LGBTQ+ 12%, Dialogue Heavy 9.7%
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 23.4%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Horror 16.1%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Story Rich 10.3%
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+ 36.8%, Text-Based 28.4%, Choices Matter 19.2%, Story Rich 15.6%
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 27.7%, Horror 18.3%, 1990's 16.5%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Story Rich 12.1%
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+ 26.2%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Story Rich 10%
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+ 25.4%, Visual Novel 19.7%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Horror 14.3%, Multiple Endings 11.4%
Rummage through the abandoned profiles of an old PC to unravel an inherited mystery. What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software? Who was using this computer? And what happened to them?
Why similar: 1990's 30.9%, Text-Based 22.9%, Psychological Horror 21%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Pixel Graphics 4.5%
a psychological visual novel where you investigate the souls of the dead. spend time with them, analyze their past, file reports to decide their eternal fate.
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.4%, Choices Matter 23.7%, Multiple Endings 18.1%, Dialogue Heavy 16.1%, Story Rich 11.7%
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 22.6%, Alternate History 20.2%, 1990's 19.2%, Text-Based 12.6%, Horror 12.3%
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 27%, Horror 21.8%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Story Rich 14%
Some memories aren't meant to stay. We are our memories and our experiences. What happens if you delete some of them? If you change your past and, thus, your future?
Why similar: Text-Based 17%, Visual Novel 15.6%, LGBTQ+ 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Psychological Horror 10.9%
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 27.2%, Visual Novel 26.2%, Story Rich 14.5%, Horror 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%
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+ 17.7%, Visual Novel 13%, Choices Matter 11%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%
Love is deception, germinated in desperation. Fill the role of one of the nation's top researchers. You will have 10 days to study the rapidly spreading and mysterious new species to decide: friend or foe? The coming Telluricene rests in your hands.
Why similar: Alternate History 28.1%, Visual Novel 16.5%, LGBTQ+ 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Text-Based 12.2%
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 20.8%, Text-Based 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Horror 13.8%, Choices Matter 12.9%
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 29.8%, Horror 22.9%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.5%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Horror 12%
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 16.5%, Sci-fi 12.6%, Horror 12.3%
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 26.9%, Horror 20.1%, Multiple Endings 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Story Rich 13.2%
