Games Like The Thief, the Witch, the Toad, and the Mushroom.

A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Text-Based 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Dialogue Heavy 9.5%

An unusual horror-themed Visual Novel about waking up in a carriage with a stranger… Whatever could go wrong?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Text-Based 15%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Psychological Horror 10.7%

Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".

Why similar: Visual Novel 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Dating Sim 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10.6%

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: Text-Based 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Psychological Horror 11.4%

Raise a mushroom from a spore into a fine young woman, then discover the twists and turns her life may take in this creepy-cute fairytale life simulation game.

Why similar: Text-Based 34.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Multiple Endings 14.4%, Fantasy 8.2%

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 24.8%, Psychological Horror 23%, Horror 18.1%, Choices Matter 18%, Story Rich 9.1%

MESMALIE is an occult adventure game. A magickal incident in your personal life brings you to a small witches' coven in the middle of nowhere. Here, you'll learn to tame your ability... though, not without some bumps along the way.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Dialogue Heavy 16.8%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Multiple Endings 10.6%

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: Dating Sim 17%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%

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 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Psychological Horror 10.2%

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 15.6%, Psychological Horror 15%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%, Multiple Endings 9.4%, Choices Matter 9%

Make Cute Animal Friends in this 8-bit Gameboy-inspired adventure! But there's something lurking in the woods, with DARK SECRETS you'll need to uncover!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Horror 12.6%, Visual Novel 10.8%

A short visual novel about finding your name and a girl in the fog.

Why similar: Text-Based 25.1%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Horror 10.6%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Psychological Horror 10.6%

Featuring a blend of 2D adventure and visual novel, The Mildew Children is a grim tale about a village inhabited only by children who follow savage pagan traditions. A young witch named Kyrphel, along with her sisters, are bound to perform a macabre Ritual in order to save their village.

Why similar: Surreal 22.4%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Horror 8.1%

Inspired by JCS videos and similar Interrogation analysis. Match evidence with statements. Play good cop/bad cop. Make choices. Learn what makes people tick. Unravel the mystery.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Text-Based 15.4%, Dialogue Heavy 14.5%, Visual Novel 13.3%

A short, interactive visual novel about waking up in a strange room with a mysterious man. But why are you here? Let Him be your Guide to the truth.

Why similar: Text-Based 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Dialogue Heavy 15.9%, Surreal 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.1%

Venture into the woods as you play Little Goody Two Shoes, a phantasmagorical horror narrative adventure where all your decisions matter!

Why similar: Dating Sim 33.7%, Horror 19.3%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, 2D 6.5%

Experience the Myth of Frankenstein through the innocent eyes of his creature. Make decisions and change people's view that you will meet on your way. Now, the myth is in your hands, so how are you going to end it?

Why similar: Text-Based 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Choices Matter 9.3%

A short horror- I mean, cute game :) Help a normal, innocent frog get back to his super awesome wizard self!! :O

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.2%, Horror 21.6%, Multiple Endings 20.1%, Choices Matter 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%

The Test: Reality Check is one of multiple installments in an ongoing social experiment that can be classified as an atmospheric, psychological-simulation with horror elements. Dive deep into your own psyche to find answers to questions you've kept locked away, hidden from yourself for far too long.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Text-Based 14.7%, Surreal 12.4%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Psychological Horror 10.9%

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 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Psychological Horror 9.6%, Horror 9.1%

A Wizard has trapped you in a dark storybook, transporting you to the magical town of Brookhaven. With spells, swords, and the power of friendship, begin your new life in this strange land. But remember, escape may yet be possible for those who unravel this world’s mysteries...

Why similar: Dating Sim 37.2%, Mythology 20.1%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Magic 12.8%, 2D 6.9%

A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Surreal 14.1%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Psychological Horror 11.7%

A mute little thing with borrowed magic. A house that murmurs back. Ask wrong, and you might wake something that remembers your name.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.6%, Surreal 24.1%, Horror 16%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Story Rich 9.3%

Choose a path to adventure! Will you sneak into the dragon's lair, or challenge the beast openly? Will you fight for vengeance or for glory? Will you be tempted by elven romance? Will you be buried underground forever? Relive classic 1980s fantasy in this remastered gamebook.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.5%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Multiple Endings 14.5%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Magic 9.1%

Forge your own path and embark on a perilous journey on board a ship of Thorwal raiders in this epic tale set in the award-winning world of The Dark Eye RPG.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Multiple Endings 9.4%

My name is Luzia and this story is about my big sister, Sombria. Are you ready to hear it?

Why similar: Text-Based 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Surreal 16.6%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Horror 13.5%

本游戏以视觉小说的形式，收录了十四个奇幻恐怖的短篇故事。从网站专栏的投稿、社团的恐怖故事分享会、到某座设施中的秘密实验……你将以不同的视角，探索发生在鸶门市周边的种种奇妙传闻。

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 39.2%, Visual Novel 33.3%, Mystery 8%, Text-Based 5.4%, Surreal 4.5%

This visual novel is a collection of alternative realities. How events would turn out and how they end will depend on your choices. Visit wolf's den and solve his secret, or try to tame the wild beast. Eat a pasty with mushrooms and experience something new, or feed it to the old lady, because it's her favorite filling.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Surreal 17.2%, Choices Matter 11.2%

Unravel the mystery in this cute psychological horror VN, set deep in the woods of the Tatras Mountains. Will you wind up on the chopping block?

Why similar: Dating Sim 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Visual Novel 14%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Mythology 11.1%

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 21.6%, Text-Based 19.7%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Horror 9.8%

Train of Afterlife is a mystery, psychological, horror Visual Novel.

Why similar: Visual Novel 40.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Surreal 11.4%, Psychological Horror 9.2%, Choices Matter 7.5%

You’re shipwrecked on a mysterious island of talking animals! You’ll need to make friends with the local critters if you hope to return home. This adventure includes branching conversations, memorable endings, and dark secrets...

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.4%, Visual Novel 21.2%, Dialogue Heavy 15.9%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Choices Matter 10.4%

A fantasy pixel-style Metroidvania roguelike game. The amnesiac witch picks up her reliable broom and embarks on a journey with Elf companions to defeat the Villain and regain their homeland, unveil the conspiracy. Through the magic mirror, break the 4th wall and find the truth!

Why similar: Surreal 43.1%, Multiple Endings 22.2%, 2D 14.8%, Story Rich 13.3%, Mystery 4.8%

Memories swirl all around you...Or are these memories? Familiar faces and places you think you remember but somehow now seem so different. Why are you here? Where is here?

Why similar: Surreal 18%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Horror 11%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Multiple Endings 13.1%

Have you ever wondered WTF Is Wrong With You? Well, so have we... Let's find out together, shall we?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Choices Matter 12.8%

Hand-drawn 2D point and click Horror x Dating sim Meet the 'Flowers' imprisoned in hell. They long for an escape to purgatory. Your job here is simple. Listen to their stories, and break out together. Easy, right? ...But, doesn't it seem strange? These people... seem to be out of their mind, a bit.

Why similar: Dating Sim 32.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26%, Hand-drawn 15.9%, Horror 13.2%, 2D 6.8%

Save people from terrible paranormal dangers as a support operator of a secret SCP-like organization! Ask questions, give advice and watch the consequences of your choices... multiple endings in each story ;-)

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Text-Based 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Multiple Endings 9.4%

You wake up as a jester next to the king's lifeless body. You are trapped in a cursed kingdom with three love interests. Will you seek the truth, help the others, or try to escape?

Why similar: Dating Sim 17.3%, Dialogue Heavy 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Visual Novel 12.7%

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: Interactive Fiction 19%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Horror 13.1%, Multiple Endings 11.6%

Featuring a blend of 2D adventure and visual novel. Chapter 1 is the very beginning of the grim tale about a village inhabited only by children who follow savage pagan traditions. A young witch Kyrphel, along with her sisters, are bound to perform a macabre Ritual in order to save their village.

Why similar: Surreal 24.3%, Visual Novel 21.1%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Story Rich 9.3%

Tales from Candleforth is a folk horror 2D point and click game with puzzles and escape room mechanics, that narrates the fairy tales from the village. The text contained in this ancient and evil book is now bleeding out, mixing the world of nightmares with the real one through handmade 2D graphics.

Why similar: Surreal 22.7%, Dialogue Heavy 20.9%, Horror 14.6%, Hand-drawn 14.5%, Psychological Horror 13.1%

You are a body snatching creature. Capture the body, explore the environment, reproduce.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Horror 15.7%, Surreal 15%, Psychological Horror 12.5%

A fantasy interactive story (visual novel) where the mysteries of ancient gods, enigmas of bygone eras, magic, and the complex relationships between various beings are intricately woven together.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Hand-drawn 7.4%

Crush someone's skull, Suffer from Hypothermia, Transcend your Mortal Frame, Find all 10 Endings. GET YOUR HOUSE BACK.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Surreal 14.7%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Psychological Horror 10.9%

Otome × Death Game × Mild Horror Multiple Endings Puzzle RPG

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.3%, Multiple Endings 20.3%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Story Rich 10.1%, Dating Sim 8.7%

Banebush is a nonlinear and very red visual novel in the horror genre. Do you dare to step into a fairy tale if it turns out to be reality? 💀

Why similar: Visual Novel 36.8%, Psychological Horror 26.5%, Horror 24.3%, Story Rich 10.9%, Adventure 1.5%

You wake up in an old watermill in the middle of the night ... and can't remember anything. Examine the surroundings in this thrilling point&click adventure and find out what happened.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.5%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Hand-drawn 13.1%, Horror 11.6%

Adventure game full of magic, puzzles and cute characters, featuring a young witch-in-training and a talking ghost-squirrel!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.4%, Magic 23.5%, Hand-drawn 15.9%, 2D 12.4%, Fantasy 7.3%

Murders quietly upend May's life. A strange husband, a reckless courier, a dutiful officer—reality and hallucination blur together. In this narrative adventure of food, intimacy, and death, make choices as May and reach her ending. If she can still tell what she's eaten from what she's loved...

Why similar: Visual Novel 19.1%, Dating Sim 17.4%, Psychological Horror 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Surreal 10.7%

You awaken in the Forest of Silver Shallots, setting out to uncover the secret of the Morphean Paradox. Above, factions weave their schemes; below, the black mist hides a swelling undercurrent. Time never stands still, and truth wears many faces. Not everyone can return to their fate…

Why similar: Visual Novel 29.2%, Multiple Endings 20.3%, Choices Matter 18.6%, Story Rich 11.6%, Fantasy 7.8%

UNFORGOTTEN – a story-driven, non-linear visual novel, where you can immerse in the ethnic ambience of Northern myths and horrors. Can you solve the riddles of the past - without ever losing yourself in the present? Your fate is in your hands!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Dialogue Heavy 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Horror 9.9%

Embark on a swashbuckling adventure in The Pirate's Fate, a visual novel experience with a unique twist: the story, the crew, and who you are transform based on your choices. Seek treasure, find love, and choose your fate.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 52.5%, Visual Novel 35.1%, Choices Matter 5.6%, Story Rich 4%, Adventure 2.9%

Step into the shoes of an aspiring author during the Taisho era in this psychedelic BL murder-mystery visual novel. Travel back in time to try and save your friends while confronting your own character flaws. Will you retreat into your fantasies, or can you keep it together enough to rescue them?

Why similar: Visual Novel 21.6%, Surreal 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Multiple Endings 10%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Text-Based 16%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Horror 8.7%

Explore an alternative medieval Europe in this low-fantasy epic adventure! How far are you willing to go to take back your stolen treasure?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.7%, Interactive Fiction 27.1%, Text-Based 25.9%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Fantasy 4.9%

Unravel a mystery: A game you can read, a book you can play.

Why similar: Text-Based 33.6%, Interactive Fiction 28%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Story Rich 9%, Mystery 7.8%

A collection of surreal tales, each connected to a stored-away object from childhood. Pick one to follow the moon, feed a hungry lizard or build a peculiar cabinet.

Why similar: Surreal 28.7%, Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Hand-drawn 13.7%, Story Rich 9.7%, Magic 9.4%