60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Emotional, Psychological Horror, Story Rich.
Achi ran away from the orphanage and he found himself surrounded by concrete, indifference, and violence. He was saved by a mysterious creature that came from within, and by a peculiar detective. He had no way of knowing that darker, more disturbing voices were about to reach him.
Alex's Hope & Alex's Solitude
A boy regains his hope and a girl finds herself in solitude. A kinetic novel that will take you through their darkest days and immerse you in their deepest emotions.
致，我亲爱的
A narrative-driven psychological horror visual novel. Player's choices lead to distinct emotional paths and story outcomes. "You" navigate a shifting consciousness, making choices within fragmented scenes that buried memories.
A boy regains his hope and a girl finds herself in solitude. A kinetic novel that will take you through their darkest days and immerse you in their deepest emotions.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.1%, Hand-drawn 18.5%, Emotional 16%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Story Rich 8%
A narrative-driven psychological horror visual novel. Player's choices lead to distinct emotional paths and story outcomes. "You" navigate a shifting consciousness, making choices within fragmented scenes that buried memories.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.2%, Emotional 21%, Psychological Horror 19.1%, Psychedelic 12.7%, Hand-drawn 7.8%
Accompany Nai in her normal Sunday routine of watching TV, eating ramen and ruminating on her past.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.1%, Hand-drawn 15.2%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Noir 13.1%, Emotional 12.2%
A prince who has lost his kingdom and everything else. His uncle and aide-de-camp, unable to leave him. In a cramped rented room abroad, click on objects and piece together a codependent relationship filled with brutality and endurance. Watch helplessness turn into violence, tenderness into torture.
Why similar: Noir 20.2%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Hand-drawn 11.1%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Psychedelic 8.7%
A text-driven psychological horror visual novel. You wake up in a strange living room. Two silent men stand beside you. On the wall, blood writes: “Confess your sins, and you shall be redeemed.” Every choice changes the ending. Over 80,000 words in the base game, plus 4 standalone character DLCs.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.8%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Noir 16.2%, Emotional 10.7%, Story Rich 9%
Two pairs of twins war for love, life, and limb beneath the curtain of a dark Tokyo night. From the artisans at CRAFTWORK comes a visual novel lush with art, action, and mystery; a story of GEMINISM—deformity and divinity.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.9%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Emotional 15.4%, Dark Fantasy 15.3%, Dark 10.6%
Sanctuaries. Secrets. Serious consequences. A solo-developed psychological horror/drama visual novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.6%, Emotional 16.8%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Dark 10.3%, Story Rich 9.1%
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: Noir 23%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Emotional 11.5%, Story Rich 9.3%
You stand before a pit at the city's heart, then your gaze drifts to a deeper void, one you fear even more. Wield your invention to unravel mysteries, reclaim lost memories, strengthen your skills, and battle nightmare-born horrors in this multi-ending RPG.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.5%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Emotional 14.1%, Psychedelic 13.8%, Story Rich 10.4%
Meridian Archive is a neo-noir crime visual novel set in the sealed world of Notus in 2008. After the disaster known as Saltification, those immune to the disease begin losing their memories—and themselves. Follow a band of Nomads through a violent, surreal world to uncover what went wrong.
Why similar: Noir 24.5%, Visual Novel 22.2%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Story Rich 10.2%, Dark 7.5%
The Darkest Emptiness will fill the lungs with leaden weight.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.1%, Psychological Horror 21%, Story Rich 11.7%, Psychedelic 10.9%, Hand-drawn 8.6%
Follow a recluse who is the only being left in the world as she struggles with little things in her everyday life. This game was made entirely out of scanned traditional watercolor art.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 28.8%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, Surreal 11.5%, Psychedelic 9.7%, Story Rich 8.9%
"Kiki & Ana - The Child" is a cute story experience. Focused on story, art, and music. Must avoid hazards which some people find difficult. Takes about an hour to complete. WARNING: flashing lights, light gore.
Why similar: Emotional 22.9%, Visual Novel 21.1%, Hand-drawn 20.6%, Story Rich 11.3%, Psychological Horror 9.9%
Fears are not always just rustles in the dark. And death is not always a bad ending.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.8%, Hand-drawn 18.1%, Psychedelic 14%, Emotional 9.7%, Detective 8.5%
Fear is real. Sometimes tragedy needs nothing more than that. 💀 A short visual novel based on the story of the same name — about the silence that lets something shuffling into your home. 👁️👁️
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.1%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Emotional 16%, Dark 12.7%, Hand-drawn 6.3%
The life of an ordinary freelance programmer Romero, whose existence is swallowed up by darkness. Not the fairy tail, but a dark part of humanity.
Why similar: Noir 19.6%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Hand-drawn 15.2%, Detective 14.4%, Psychedelic 12.5%
In Toronto's cold, dry, pitch-black polar night, a four-string bass roars in a freezing basement. Sink into punker Jack's drug‑induced, hallucinatory "trip"—face the overwhelming unease through twisted fluid colors and a torn, fractured vision.
Why similar: Noir 22.4%, Visual Novel 21%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Emotional 13.8%, Psychedelic 11.1%
A first-person psychological horror about a young woman whose quiet life collapses when she finds photographs of herself on a client’s film roll.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22%, Emotional 18.4%, Noir 17%, Dark 15.2%, Visual Novel 13.6%
Step into a world where dreams and reality mix. You find yourself in a dream-like world, and explore a different traumatic experience each day. Your choice determines if the boy accepts these moments and moves on, or stays in the past.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 19.8%, Emotional 16.5%, Dark 12.3%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Psychedelic 11.9%
My name is Jeremy. I can bring things to life.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25%, Hand-drawn 17.2%, Emotional 17.1%, Dark 13.5%, Story Rich 12.1%
From hit writer Ryukishi07, the creator of When They Cry, comes a story on the theme of “curses.” Strike down the dark riddle of dolls and soot in this supernatural horror visual novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.6%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Hand-drawn 16.2%, Emotional 13.9%, Anime 7.6%
warmth, bitterness, longing, compromise.
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.5%, Hand-drawn 27.4%, Emotional 24.7%, Story Rich 14%, Linear 2.4%
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 20.4%, Emotional 19.2%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Hand-drawn 13.9%, Dark 10.6%
Zlot rodzinny to dla Miłosza Dajskiego okazja, aby spotkać się z dawno niewidzianymi członkami rodziny. Przechadzając się po pałacu, w którym nie było go od lat napotyka człowieka, który zdaje się twierdzić, że jest jego kuzynem, ten jednak za nic nie potrafi go sobie przypomnieć.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.9%, Detective 16.9%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Hand-drawn 13.5%, Emotional 12.3%
Your end is my beginning. A short psychological visual novel with exploration and puzzle elements... it already lays shattered.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.3%, Psychological Horror 18.9%, Hand-drawn 18.1%, Psychedelic 13.5%, Story Rich 8.3%
USSR, 1952. A psychological thriller visual novel about the still-unsolved Case No. 17, inspired by real events. Search for the murderer inside a Soviet psychiatric hospital, make choices with irreversible consequences — and don’t trust the past. Don’t trust anyone. Not even yourself.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.5%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Detective 14.2%, Noir 12.4%, Emotional 10.3%
This is the remake project of REFLEXIA Prototype ver. that still starts from pantsu jokes and ends with depression.
Why similar: Psychedelic 18.8%, Visual Novel 18%, Psychological Horror 17.9%, Emotional 12.9%, Dark 11.8%
Join Finn on his adventure through the most beautiful periods of his adolescence! Finn, a 16 year old boy, lives in a cute town with his mother and friends. So, what will happen in his life? Put on your coats to find out, because Norway is cold! This game is not suitable for all audiences.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.7%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Hand-drawn 15.8%, Emotional 13.3%, Dark 12.5%
Tap into the mystery as a stranger in the city — a mild mystery visual novel. Kisen runs a tracing agency in a city far from his home. There, he is asked by a local university student to look for his brother missing from twelve years ago. Investigate what happened back then to uncover the truth.
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.6%, Hand-drawn 22.4%, Detective 21.1%, Story Rich 13.1%, Atmospheric 7.4%
Totally Normal Boyfriend is a visual novel/dating simulator about your loving and caring boyfriend that would do anything for you.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26%, Psychedelic 19.5%, Psychological Horror 19.4%, Story Rich 8.7%, Anime 7%
The Heflitian Girl's past is about to be revealed! This is a Drama and Action Adventure with a deep story and mysteries originating from an ancient planet... Planet Earth, which was destroyed and forgotten...
Why similar: Noir 18.6%, Hand-drawn 14.5%, Emotional 13.4%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Psychedelic 12.8%
A dark fantasy tale where death is not the end but the path to the truth. Two magi trapped in a collapsing tower must unravel a deadly mystery. Each death reveals another piece of the puzzle that is their shared past and forbidden love. For fans of House in Fata Morgana and literary dark fantasy.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.1%, Hand-drawn 20.5%, Emotional 13.2%, Dark Fantasy 9.8%, Story Rich 8.7%
Death, redemption, distortion, love, and... you are the reason.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.4%, Emotional 19.4%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Dark 13.3%, Story Rich 12.4%
The depressing pictures of a dying village and its inhabitants to the dark ambient music of the underground performers make those who are still trying to survive in places where everything has long died, to plunge even deeper into the world of mystical horror and deep despair
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.7%, Hand-drawn 14.7%, Detective 14.2%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Psychedelic 8.9%
Set in Ueno, Tokyo, where the wounds of the Pacific War have not yet healed, detective Takashiro Shugo becomes involved in a series of gruesome murders. A visual novel of love and hatred leading to obsession and madness…
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.7%, Detective 20.4%, Emotional 15%, Dark 10.9%, Psychological Horror 9.4%
He must reclaim it. A boy who has lost everything grabs a small knife and chases after his dog's kidnapper. Finding Sparky is a 2D side-scrolling game with an unpredictable dark story, puzzles, and action.
Why similar: Emotional 14.9%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Noir 12%, Dark Fantasy 11.4%
Face your fears, Alice. This time, you're not alone. This is the last chapter in the horror visual novel trilogy.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.9%, Hand-drawn 15.3%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Emotional 11.6%, Dark Fantasy 9.7%
All girls can transform with candy. A short branching visual novel about a mysterious candy shop and the girls who go there. What candy will you choose?
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.3%, Psychological Horror 22.6%, Psychedelic 14.4%, Hand-drawn 13.4%, Dark 13.2%
Scarlet Scarf is a visual novel inspired by the legend of Plague Maiden. Dive into the dark mysteries of a dying city with the fate of Sanator Richard Murdock in your hands. Perhaps it's not too late to stop the on-going calamity...
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.3%, Hand-drawn 18.7%, Emotional 14.6%, Dark Fantasy 13.9%, Story Rich 10.2%
Magnus Imago is an atmospheric journey through a mysterious world of characters, traces and symbols. The task of the player is to solve the puzzles, using proper combinations of objects, finding them in the environment around him.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.2%, Hand-drawn 14.3%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Psychedelic 11.7%, Emotional 9.8%
Aki is haunted by a curse. In search of salvation, she travels into the memories of a dead classmate, where she must witness three eerie mystical stories and figure out how to break the shackles of misfortune.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.2%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Detective 15.4%, Hand-drawn 15.4%, Dark 11.7%
MOOD is a short visual novel combining horror, dark humor, and dialogues on a wide variety of topics, from old movies to ancient wars. You were the one who summoned your new companion, there is no backing out now!
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.2%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Dark 12.6%, Hand-drawn 11.1%, Story Rich 9.8%
Can you survive the horror of being yourself? A cute and disturbing psychological horror about identity, isolation, and the terrifying reality of being different.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.9%, Hand-drawn 14.4%, Dark Fantasy 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Surreal 10.4%
On your way to writing the perfect supernatural novel, be prepared to face danger. Are you ready for such desperate measures?
Why similar: Noir 20.7%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Hand-drawn 13.4%, Detective 12.6%, Psychological Horror 12%
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: Visual Novel 21.1%, Hand-drawn 20.3%, Dark 13.3%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Noir 10.9%
Mugen Takebara doesn't remember much of his childhood. Returning to Inonaki wasn't his choice. Welcomed by his cousin, Sora, the two quickly reconnect… but something is wrong. With her. Or with you.
Why similar: Visual Novel 27%, Psychological Horror 20%, Hand-drawn 15.4%, Story Rich 10.8%, Anime 6.9%
"When the graves stop whispering in your ear, it’s time for you to surrender to eternal silence". So says the Agreement, and so it must be fulfilled. Welcome to a new dimension of horror. Welcome to Midnight Scenes.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.4%, Emotional 17.6%, Hand-drawn 17.5%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Dark 11.9%
Interrogate your past. In this demo, you embody Detective Juno facing off against the White Rabbit in the corrupt city of WoodHale. Detect his lies, confront contradictions, and manage your trauma before time runs out. Will you be the one to break him, or will you be the one who breaks?
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.3%, Psychological Horror 20.2%, Detective 19.7%, Story Rich 14.9%, Hand-drawn 7%
The Doll Shop is a hand-drawn narrative game – part romance, part horror – set in the Japanese countryside. Play as a young dollmaker who reunites with his childhood friend in an eerie snowbound village. Will you dare confess your secret?
Why similar: Hand-drawn 23.2%, Emotional 20.8%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Story Rich 11.2%
An existential horror visual novel where you explore how immortality affects your relationships through a variety of dialogue options and paths.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.1%, Emotional 22.6%, Visual Novel 21.4%, Hand-drawn 15.1%, Dark Humor 10.5%
This game is a deduction game where you collect evidence from a murder scene to find the murderer. Eight boys and girls are admitted to the school. At the school, there is a crazy ghost named "Milla" who haunts and kills people.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.4%, Emotional 18.8%, Detective 18.3%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Story Rich 11.3%
A classical guitarist slowly losing his senses. Drifting between dream and reality, he meets three people — each carrying their own silence. A 2D visual novel about what remains when everything fades away.
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.4%, Emotional 22.9%, Story Rich 16.3%, Atmospheric 8.5%, Dark 8.1%
Watching my attractive colleague from work, I didn't even notice how I woke up at her house. Only the duct tape over my mouth and the heaviness in my legs bother me a little. I hope this is just a joke and she won't do A N Y T H I N G to me…
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.7%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Hand-drawn 16.4%, Detective 15.8%, Psychedelic 9.7%
Wanna join our nightmarish dream?
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.6%, Emotional 19%, Psychedelic 13.3%, Dark 11.4%, Story Rich 10.1%
Blackwood knows how to keep secrets: beneath the neon, behind polite smiles, in offices with no nameplates. Stella is searching for a missing friend and realizes too late that she was let in for a reason.
Why similar: Noir 33.1%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Dark 13.2%, Emotional 11.9%, Detective 7%
— Each of us fell into a puddle. And everyone knows that you can find yourself after that... in a strange place from which there is no escape. Didn't it happen?.. Well, it's nothing — it's going to happen soon! You will have to explore your new home... and become a part of it. ^-^
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.9%, Hand-drawn 17.8%, Psychedelic 16.1%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Dark 9.6%
This is a visual novel about the future, where every choice shapes the protagonist's character. Follow the path from youth to adulthood, play as a scoundrel or a champion of justice, fall in love, and create your own unique story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 35.6%, Hand-drawn 24.5%, Story Rich 13.3%, Anime 10%, Text-Based 8.9%
A sequel to Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk. Dive into demented and bizarre world once again and help the girl become a little happier.
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.1%, Psychological Horror 27%, Psychedelic 20.4%, Story Rich 8.4%, Surreal 5.6%
Crazy and strange town. Mysterious events. A hero with multiple personality disorder. Laughter, tears and madness!
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.4%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Hand-drawn 14.7%, Story Rich 11.9%, Emotional 10.2%
A mansion drenched in heavy rain. Heirs gathered, each eyeing the family fortune. And you—who committed a murder in their midst. As a chain of killings begins, YORAM follows Irene Lindbergh, a murderer hiding her crime, as she searches for the truth buried deep within the estate.
Why similar: Noir 29.6%, Visual Novel 25%, Hand-drawn 24.2%, Detective 17.4%, Linear 2.6%
