Games Like The Victim: The Evidence

Frog Telephone (蛙电话 / 蛙電話) is a folklore mystery adventure game rooted in computer science concepts. You play as an amnesiac phone operator at a Tokyo travel agency, reconstructing shattered reality through the spin of a dial, exploring the terrifying truth hidden behind Gero City's mystery.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.8%, Visual Novel 24%, Text-Based 15.6%, Adventure 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%

The main character is looked down upon at her part-time job. Using a hypnotic object given to him by a college senior, we'll test the mother and daughter by making them do various naughty things.

Why similar: Visual Novel 24.9%, Text-Based 22.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Adventure 16.5%

夜の世界で「星のかけら」を集める少女アイの ゆるくてかわいい街ブラノベルゲーム！

Why similar: Text-Based 28.7%, Visual Novel 28.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Adventure 20.6%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Three students record future-self videos in a classroom room that shouldn’t exist... The next morning, one of them is gone, and only corrupted marks prove she was ever there. A short psychological horror VN about memory, proof, and erasure.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.2%, Visual Novel 31%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Adventure 16.3%, Singleplayer 1.2%

This is "heroines serving heroines" play, not SM & training type. In addition to the usual blow-job and titty-slapping, you can enjoy soap play and other forms of "obedience" play that can only be performed in a situation of absolute submission.

Why similar: Visual Novel 25.2%, Psychological Horror 23%, Text-Based 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Adventure 16.4%

オムニバス形式で送る四章構成の心霊ホラーノベルゲーム

Why similar: Visual Novel 29%, Psychological Horror 28.8%, Text-Based 19.2%, Adventure 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%

Izumi, the demon girl you accidentally captured. A novel adventure game where you gradually connect hearts as you spend your days together with Izumi.

Why similar: Visual Novel 30.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Text-Based 22.4%, Adventure 22.2%, Singleplayer 1.6%

"Sign White" is a text visual novel set in a fictionalized medieval era. Send letters from your pigeon house to communicate with people for a limited period of time. Make connections to save people, listen to their worries, and participate in important decisions to change the fate of the world.

Why similar: Text-Based 28.8%, Visual Novel 28.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Adventure 20.4%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Go about your normal every day life and meet new friends in this short visual novel!

Why similar: Visual Novel 32.9%, Psychological Horror 32.5%, Text-Based 26.7%, Adventure 6.5%, Singleplayer 1.4%

全15話で送る都市伝説がテーマのオムニバスストーリー

Why similar: Text-Based 24.7%, Visual Novel 24.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Adventure 16.9%, Psychological Horror 14.7%

Love remembers you. Even if you’ve forgotten.

Why similar: Text-Based 31.1%, Visual Novel 29.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Adventure 13.9%, Singleplayer 2.1%

When the past awakens, the future bleeds. A full length cinematic sci-fi mystery visual novel where augmented reality, history, AI technology and murder collide in the heart of Kyoto.

Why similar: Text-Based 39%, Visual Novel 38.5%, Adventure 20.1%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Medical clerk Manami Sorano discovers a medical record of a non-existent patient. The next day at a hot spring inn, a murder occurs—the victim’s name matches the record. Coincidence or fate? Using her skills and medical records, she unravels the truth in this mystery adventure!

Why similar: Text-Based 29.2%, Visual Novel 28.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.8%, Adventure 13.8%, Singleplayer 1.5%

The girls are deprived of their freedom by hypnosis and their hearts are about to be shattered. Is it possible to escape from this daily life that has turned into hell?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.9%, Visual Novel 23.1%, Adventure 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Text-Based 13.4%

サウンドノベル「かまいたちの夜」シリーズ30周年を記念して、『かまいたちの夜×3』がSteamに登場！ シリーズ3作目にして完結編となる本作には、『かまいたちの夜』『かまいたちの夜2』のメインストーリーも収録。 初めてシリーズを遊ぶ方でも登場人物たちの関係性や過去にあった事件を知ることができるので、安心してプレイできる。

Why similar: Text-Based 28.9%, Visual Novel 28.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Adventure 20.4%, Singleplayer 1.4%

怖すぎるにも ほどがある。新聞部は、夏休み前の学校新聞で「学校の七不思議」を特集することになった。七人の学生を集めて、彼らから怖い話を聞き、それを特集としてまとめるのだ。新聞部三年生の日野から命を受け、新入部員の坂上修一はその集会の聞き役を担当することになった。集会当日、放課後の新聞部部室に日野によって集められた七人の語り部と聞き役の坂上修一は初めて顔を合わせる。しかし、七人集められたはずの語り部は、何故か六人しかいなかった。七人目が姿を見せぬまま始まる七不思議の集会。七人目は、現れるのか。そして、この集会の終わりに待っているのは……。

Why similar: Visual Novel 28.8%, Text-Based 28.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Adventure 20%, Singleplayer 1.6%

My second spring in high school. Surrounded by my dreamy upperclassman, that classmate I'm interested in, and my childhood friend who's a year younger than me. She's been in the search for a boyfriend who would look at her, and only her. The protagonist Chika decides to confess her feelings to……

Why similar: Visual Novel 31.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Text-Based 22.3%, Adventure 21.9%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Enjoy the process of the timid protagonist using hypnosis to manipulate and subjugate his abusive mother and daughter, training them to his liking.

Why similar: Visual Novel 27.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Psychological Horror 18.3%, Adventure 17.5%, Text-Based 17.3%

You're looking for a new apartment in Amsterdam. Your once-confident search is morphing into panic. Nothing is available. Anything will do. ANYTHING.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Minimalist 18.4%, Text-Based 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%

忘れられたモノが流れ着く異界の温泉宿を舞台にした温泉ホラーシミュレーション。昼はケガレを抱えた付喪神たちをもてなし、夜は宿に溢れたケガレが引き起こす怪奇から生き延びる。あなたの選択が、客の癒しと宿の運命を変えていく。

Why similar: Psychological Horror 31%, Visual Novel 28.6%, Text-Based 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Adventure 9.9%

Buried is a playable, interactive story told through stunning photos, a haunting soundscape, and gripping text. You play the role of Roger Hastings, a logger who awakens to find his friends missing, uncovering something that should have stayed hidden...

Why similar: Text-Based 36.6%, Visual Novel 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Adventure 20.3%

Spend a week at your uncle’s house in this short visual novel.From time to time, a special “Pursue” button will appear, guiding the story toward one of two endings.Approx. 30 minutes playtimeTwo possible endingsRated R12[Features]The “Pursue” button cannot be skipped.

Why similar: Visual Novel 31.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Text-Based 22.5%, Adventure 21.8%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Tune the two older women he lives with as humiliation gives way to a sweet, dangerous reversal.

Why similar: Visual Novel 30.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Text-Based 22.4%, Adventure 22.2%, Singleplayer 1.6%

A stranger arrives at a quiet and isolated town... PIGBLUE.

Why similar: Text-Based 28.8%, Visual Novel 27.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Adventure 8.4%

Enjoy the warm family trip.

Why similar: Visual Novel 30.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Text-Based 22.4%, Adventure 22.2%, Singleplayer 1.6%

【A ghost girl, is here.】Terau Mare is a shy girl moves to Tokyo to go to university, and her new house, Hakusan-so, is like an abandoned. As soon as she enters the room, Mare meets a ghost girl, Furuzaki Yuika. Yuika says, "I'm going to kick you out of here soon." But...

Why similar: Visual Novel 40.1%, Text-Based 34.9%, Adventure 22.6%, Singleplayer 2.4%

A classic choose your own adventure story. Escape the horrors hunting you, make decisions, forge your own path. An original complete story with multiple endings and secrets to unlock. Choose your own play style with a Text Adventure Mode, sound effects, and an ambient soundtrack.

Why similar: Text-Based 23.9%, Psychological Horror 20.8%, Visual Novel 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Minimalist 11.3%

Explore a sealed classroom and work together with a mysterious girl to escape. As the story unfolds, it gradually begins to seep into reality.

Why similar: Visual Novel 34.8%, Text-Based 30.8%, Adventure 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Singleplayer 1.4%

The first visual novel game of The Ancient Magus' Bride!

Why similar: Visual Novel 35.8%, Text-Based 28.4%, Adventure 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Singleplayer 1.5%

Late at night, a teacher shares two bizarre tales: a corpse stuffed in a sheet, and an abnormal presence in the mountains. It was just a ghost story, but a creepy "sense of unease" lurks within. A short psychological horror visual novel offering a dense, terrifying experience in about an hour.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.3%, Visual Novel 29.3%, Text-Based 28.6%, Adventure 7.8%, Singleplayer 1%

A suspense mystery set in a police station. Includes two visual novels. *Lost* features a multi-ending system based on player choices. *Secret A* is a short story with no choices. Both offer suspenseful storylines.

Why similar: Visual Novel 26.8%, Psychological Horror 23.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Text-Based 16.9%, Adventure 14.4%

As the student council president of Asanagi High School, you must decide how to respond to opinion forms submitted to the suggestion box in this school-themed choice-based adventure game. Your choices change how events unfold and lead to multiple endings.

Why similar: Visual Novel 30.8%, Text-Based 23.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Adventure 21.7%, Singleplayer 1.5%

Dive into a captivating standalone story in just an hour! Presenting the first installment of the "Handy Novel" series. Highly praised on smartphones, this acclaimed narrative is now ready for your enjoyment on Steam for PC/Mac!

Why similar: Text-Based 29.2%, Visual Novel 28.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Adventure 20%, Singleplayer 1.2%

A claustrophobic psychological mystery visual novel. On their high school graduation day, an anonymous message draws five friends back to their empty middle school. The doors won't open, and their memories refuse to agree. A complete 1-2 hour story with three endings, built to be read twice.

Why similar: Text-Based 30.4%, Visual Novel 29%, Psychological Horror 20%, Adventure 19.7%, Singleplayer 0.9%

This short psychedelic visual novel takes place in a strange world inhabited by harrowing creatures shunned by the light. You’ll meet someone who has made this world their own, and in doing so, learn the reason why you shouldn't be there.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.2%, Text-Based 22.1%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Minimalist 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%

In this visual novel the main character, Lorenzo Righi, an Italian Professor, is invited to a meeting of History Scholars held in Boston. Excited and flattered by the invitation, he discovers that something else, hidden and mysterious, awaits for him.

Why similar: Text-Based 25%, Psychological Horror 23.7%, Visual Novel 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Adventure 8.3%

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: Text-Based 24.9%, Visual Novel 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Adventure 16.8%, Minimalist 16.2%

「彼は本当に精神疾患なのか？それとも……」 精神科医である道島（主人公）は、ある入院患者の担当を任される。母親を刺したというその少年は、 奇妙な幻聴の症状を抱えており……。貴方は神話生物の魔の手から逃れ、生き延びる事が出来るのか…！？

Why similar: Visual Novel 36.3%, Text-Based 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Adventure 18.7%, Singleplayer 1.6%

This is an adventure novel of suspense and horror in which the story diverges depending on the choices you make. An online drinking session with friends. A person with a knife is lurking in the background. What will you do to rescue your friend?

Why similar: Visual Novel 31.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Adventure 22.2%, Text-Based 21.6%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Enjoy your new life living with your brother's wife, who suddenly appeared.

Why similar: Visual Novel 30.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Text-Based 22.4%, Adventure 22.2%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Glitch is an intense and surreal narrative experience, drawn entirely by hand, that will make you question reality with every choice and each of the 26 endings that unlock the special and definitive conclusion!

Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.4%, Visual Novel 26.8%, Text-Based 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Adventure 6.5%

A visual novel written as a psychological horror RPG where your choices shape your life, leading to irreversible consequences and determining how your descent into darkness unfolds. The game can end in many different ways. Your choices determine how.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 29.4%, Visual Novel 25.5%, Text-Based 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Adventure 8%

Ellie, your new girlfriend, doesn't seem to get along well with your circle of friends. Find out what is going wrong after one of your best friends suddenly doesn't answer his phone anymore in this pixel-art, story-driven adventure.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 31.5%, Text-Based 26.4%, Minimalist 19.8%, Adventure 12.4%, Visual Novel 8.6%

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: Psychological Horror 22.1%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Text-Based 19.5%, Minimalist 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%

A man awoke by the lake with no memory. Guided by a pilgrim, he discovers he was once the sorcerer Merlin—and learns the truth about the "Saint" who sealed him away. A dark fantasy visual novel about unrequited love. Three endings await.

Why similar: Visual Novel 29.2%, Text-Based 27.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Adventure 20%, Singleplayer 1.1%

幽霊のために、何ができるの

Why similar: Text-Based 40.7%, Visual Novel 38.8%, Adventure 16.4%, Singleplayer 4.1%

お騒がせ少女たちが東南アジアで難民に！？「さぁたん」たちの地元・日本列島が沈没しちゃった。あれやこれやで「かがみ」がトゥクトゥク化！謎の小包を運ばされる一行に忍び寄る影とはいったい…？──「ORIGINAL VIDEOGAME of ASIA」略して「OVA」！もうネオ昭和とか関係ないけど腹をくくれ！

Why similar: Visual Novel 33.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.6%, Text-Based 24.4%, Adventure 16.2%, Singleplayer 1.7%

Accuse and execute the owner of the werewolf card. It's a 5-minute round of a repeated death game in the werewolf genre.

Why similar: Visual Novel 29.9%, Text-Based 28%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.8%, Adventure 13%, Singleplayer 1.3%

It is a Japanese visual novel game. It is a game to read texts. Enjoy the story of anguish, conflict, dreams and hope. There is no branching depending on the choices, but you can have a rich story experience like a movie.

Why similar: Visual Novel 34.7%, Text-Based 33.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Adventure 10.1%, Singleplayer 2.8%

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: Psychological Horror 30.1%, Visual Novel 28.4%, Text-Based 21.3%, Adventure 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.9%

In "Fragment's Note+ AfterStory," you can enjoy the story following the previous title's events, "Fragment's Note+." Join them to see what kind of future Yukiha's choices will create!

Why similar: Visual Novel 29.8%, Text-Based 24.5%, Adventure 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Resequence: The Orchard is an occult-horror adventure game in which school counselor Saito approaches an inexplicable phenomena through his counseling sessions with students.

Why similar: Visual Novel 27.2%, Psychological Horror 27.1%, Adventure 18%, Text-Based 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%

少女達の「最期の一日」を辿り、真相を紐解いていく

Why similar: Visual Novel 31.8%, Text-Based 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Adventure 21%, Singleplayer 1.1%

The three-way romance VN "Triple Pairing" now available on Steam! You are caught between an elite lady, a complicated childhood friend, and a motherly poster girl. Who will you choose? Navigate sweet moments and chaotic showdowns. Use the Love Triangle and Radar Chart systems to find your true love!

Why similar: Visual Novel 31%, Text-Based 23.4%, Adventure 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Singleplayer 1.4%

──じゃあ、私のお願い……聞いてくれない？

Why similar: Text-Based 35.8%, Visual Novel 35.5%, Adventure 26.2%, Singleplayer 2.5%

矛盾を見つけ、相談者の悩みを解決する怪異判定アドベンチャー

Why similar: Text-Based 28.7%, Visual Novel 28%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Adventure 20.6%, Singleplayer 1.2%

とびきりファンシーな怪異調査ノベルゲーム短編集！ メカクレ青年ハマメが、夢のような不思議な世界へ！

Why similar: Visual Novel 30.8%, Adventure 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Psychological Horror 22%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Authentic Mystery ADV Alice49 Episode 0 Diamonds and Cream Puffs An adventure game to solve a mystery hidden in a mystery novel.

Why similar: Text-Based 28.6%, Visual Novel 26%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Adventure 18.8%, Singleplayer 1.8%

A man-eating monster wakes up, in a snowy night. He meets a mysterious girl willing to die. This omnibus novel game tells the story of the strange interaction between them.

Why similar: Visual Novel 34.5%, Text-Based 33.6%, Adventure 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Singleplayer 1.4%

HULOTTE’s classic visual novel is now on Steam! After an injury ends his track dream, Sakuma Tsumugi meets a clumsy Love Angel and begins a sweet search for his destined special someone.

Why similar: Visual Novel 30.3%, Text-Based 24%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Adventure 22.1%, Singleplayer 1.1%