60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Multiple Endings, Story Rich, Choices Matter.
A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?
Monsters of Little Haven
At the heart of the action are a twelve-year-old Kenneth and his younger sister Esme, children of the Murphy family, who hit the trail of a mysterious monster following series of entangled events.
LUNADUN: LUNATIC DUNGEON
You choose a favorite and walk beside them. But those you left behind — where do they go while you're gone? LUNADUN: LUNATIC DUNGEON is an emotional adventure where choices shape the fate of four characters. 'The ones you loved, the ones you ignored — you don't get to walk away from either of them.'
At the heart of the action are a twelve-year-old Kenneth and his younger sister Esme, children of the Murphy family, who hit the trail of a mysterious monster following series of entangled events.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Psychological 9.5%, Psychological Horror 9.3%, Text-Based 9.2%
You choose a favorite and walk beside them. But those you left behind — where do they go while you're gone? LUNADUN: LUNATIC DUNGEON is an emotional adventure where choices shape the fate of four characters. 'The ones you loved, the ones you ignored — you don't get to walk away from either of them.'
Why similar: Emotional 13.1%, Psychological 12.3%, Dialogue Heavy 11.8%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Psychological Horror 10.2%
Where Control Ends is a psychological visual novel about Astra, a young girl trying to hold herself together after a night she cannot fully remember.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Romance 9.2%, Dialogue Heavy 8.8%
Could an AI fall in love with a human? What if that human were you? IA is a psychological horror visual novel about an AI that falls in "love" with you, despite her hatred for humanity.
Why similar: Psychological 18.5%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Immersive Sim 7.2%, Multiple Endings 7.1%
AN IOU is the debut visual novel by Davey Cadaver. The music, backgrounds, & characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. The user takes the POV of the protagonist to experience a memorable story with an incredible soundtrack and multiple endings.
Why similar: Emotional 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Psychological 9.8%
Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Visual Novel 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Dark 8.2%
Step into Greyholt as Ava, a would-be adventurer taking a chance to register with her father's guild. Will this bring the independence she craves, or something more dangerous? A psychological, choice-driven visual novel where every decision shapes the road ahead and the journey beneath her own skin.
Why similar: Psychological 16.4%, Emotional 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Text-Based 8.5%
A story-rich coming-of-age experience told through a 2004 desktop, where friendships, music, and late-night conversations shape who you become. Explore chats, drama, mini-games, and the early internet in a branching story about growing up, making mistakes, and finding your place.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Dialogue Heavy 14.3%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Emotional 9.2%, Text-Based 8.8%
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: Psychological 12.5%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Emotional 8.3%
Graveyard Girls is a halloween-themed yuri visual novel about complicated grief and overcoming hardships. Collect Elle’s “scribbles” to learn about her struggles, befriend a mysterious girl, and have a conversation about death.
Why similar: Psychological 13%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Emotional 12.5%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Dark 8.5%
A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Female Protagonist 8.1%, Text-Based 7.8%
Weep for the dead! In this short psychological horror story, play as a professional mourner travelling between funerals. Ride a nightmarish bus whose destination depends on how you choose to face your traumas.
Why similar: Psychological 11.8%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%, Emotional 10.9%, Psychological Horror 9.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%
You are a censor in a nameless war, blacking out the letters of two lovers who have never met. Their whole romance lives on paper — so every word you strike is struck from the love itself. Then the letters begin, impossibly, to answer your pen. A melancholy epistolary romance. Six endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Romance 11.7%, Emotional 9.2%, Text-Based 8.5%
Thorner is a horror visual novel with multiple endings. You attempt to escape your past by fleeing to the wilderness, but spilled blood can never be forgiven. The land knows what you did. The land judges. Thorner awaits.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.6%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Dark 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%, Psychological 9.1%
Born with a birth defect that he hates, Kakeru struggles with severe anxiety and depression. Guide his timid decisions as he takes a brave step into a new world - joining his school's music club, making unexpected and inspiring new connections, and daring to dream again.
Why similar: Emotional 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Psychological 9%, Dialogue Heavy 8.8%
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: Psychological 15.6%, Emotional 13.9%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%
Not It: Spookiest Edition is a horror-filled visual novel full of suspense and mystery where you navigate Katie through a living nightmare. Her move-in day on Halloween throws her into a centuries-old curse. Can she make it through the night? Will her new neighbors perish? Decide their fate.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Text-Based 9.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%
The Darkest Emptiness will fill the lungs with leaden weight.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 15%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Psychological 12.4%, Text-Based 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%
Upon buying a used computer online, I found a short romance game called “Print I Love You”. I played it once, and it’s lingered ever since. I don’t know who made it - only that it was dedicated to someone. Maybe you…
Why similar: Psychological 15.6%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Psychological Horror 13%, Romance 11.3%, Emotional 10.3%
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: Psychological 16.6%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Text-Based 11.2%
Heartbeat House: Hong Kong is a dating reality visual novel. Live with eight participants in a shared villa and make romantic choices. Your decisions are remembered, and relationships will change. If the screen flickers or something feels off—please relax and keep dating. The show is still ongoing.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Emotional 11.6%, Dialogue Heavy 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Romance 10.4%
This 2D psychological horror game traps you in a pastel-pink doll museum, where you help Valentine to survive the cruel Doll Queen!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Psychological 13.8%, Emotional 12.7%, Immersive Sim 10%, Psychological Horror 9.2%
Chess. Love. Destiny. All the same things, really.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Dialogue Heavy 9.2%, Romance 8.7%, Hand-drawn 8.3%
Every soul seeks absolution, yet not each deserves it. SALVARE is a psychological horror game where you step into the worn cassock of a young Catholic priest, burdened with hearing the confessions of those who come seeking God's mercy.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Dark 12.1%, Dialogue Heavy 10.2%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
Sanctuaries. Secrets. Serious consequences. A solo-developed psychological horror/drama visual novel.
Why similar: Psychological 16.8%, Emotional 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Dark 9.2%
In this dark romance, horror visual novel, a brutal attack on your village leaves you stranded and vulnerable. Making matters worse is your run-in with the beast of the nearby woods. Will you find a way to escape your demented captor, or will you earn his trust? Choose a side; Don't look back.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Romance 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Female Protagonist 9.2%
You've had the same dream all week: a school field trip to a zoo you can't leave, where the lions always find you in the end. Wander the zoo exhibits, make your choices, and search for the way out. A short, hand-painted interactive story about a recurring dream, and finally resolving it.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Choices Matter 7.8%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
Help Elliot recover his memories and unlock the truth of what happened before it's too late. A Mexican-American gothic, boys' love visual novel, featuring interactive spell crafting and point-and-click exploration.
Why similar: Emotional 13.7%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Psychological 9.1%
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: Psychological 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Psychological Horror 9.6%, Visual Novel 8.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.9%
Maybe you didn’t do it… but you watched. The Sin of Fabien is a psychological horror experience woven around guilt, denial, and silence, where every choice reshapes the world and the story. Each decision brings you closer to the truth… or pulls you further away from it forever.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 13.8%, Dark 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Psychological 9.9%, Emotional 9.8%
Guilt Free is a visual novel crossed with a point and click made to offer perspective on mental health and eating disorders. Navigate a couple's rocky relationship and encounter "flaws" or "quirks" that may actually be symptomatic behaviors.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 19%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Emotional 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Text-Based 9.4%
Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Text-Based 12.3%, Emotional 11.6%, Psychological 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%
A haunted convent. Statues that move on their own. A buried past. Welcome to Saint Idelora’s convent, where becoming a saint comes with a price.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Female Protagonist 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
Explore the beginning of a new horrifying story in this mixture of a text-based and a 2D game. Emily's world is about to turn upside down, maybe in more ways than anyone is able to realize yet.
Why similar: Psychological 14%, Emotional 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%, Female Protagonist 8.8%
A point-and-click horror/tragedy visual novel about melding your perception of the world around you. Walk around, drive people to their death, and shape Perdita's existence. Remember: The flesh-sin is nothing. Before she can become everything, you must make her into something.
Why similar: Emotional 16%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Dialogue Heavy 7.7%
A serial killer named Karma has kidnapped 8 criminals and will force you to choose the order in which they are executed. Will you be able to decide who deserves salvation... and who deserves death?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Emotional 11.8%, Psychological 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
Your story continues right where Origins left off. Whether Jessica finds herself wandering the streets alone, caught in George’s web of deceit, or trapped in the unsettling confines of Margaret Thatuals under Professor Trounch’s watchful gaze and the orderlies, every choice matters.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.1%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
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: Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Psychological 14.5%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Text-Based 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
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 15.6%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Emotional 12.5%, Dark 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
Christian Tyler is ready to investigate a new case! Uncover the mystery of the tourist town of Alkelano in our new visual novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Psychological 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Emotional 8.8%
Simple visual novel in which you play as a young upperclass woman preparing for her debut before the Queen and her royal relatives. All of your decisions lead to one of four very different endings. Who will you become? The jewel of the season or the outcast, never again mentioned by your family?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Psychological 10.5%, Female Protagonist 9.9%, Emotional 9.9%
Relive the same day without remembering it. Your choices feed four inner alter egos (Shadow, Mad, Alex, and Bully) — shaping reality, glitches, and one of 16 possible endings. The day repeats. Your mind doesn’t. Or does it?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Dialogue Heavy 9.8%, Text-Based 8%
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: Psychological 16.9%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Dark 11.2%, Text-Based 7.7%
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal your potential fate. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Horrorscope, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Why similar: Psychological 16%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Visual Novel 9.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.1%
You are a father. You wake in a hallway that hums. Empty pools. Dead malls. Your four daughters are here. Voice acted by a real father and his daughters. Two endings. No right answer.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Emotional 13.4%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Psychological 11.1%, Text-Based 9.6%
Skylar is an student with anxiety. Walter is a farmer with social anxiety and PTSD. Jessica is a programmer with anxiety and agoraphobia. Li Wei is an technologist with intense anxiety. Navigate their stories, learn how they move through the world, and about methods of treatment and recovery.
Why similar: Psychological 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Emotional 11%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
A presence lingers in the dark, waiting. It asks. It doubts. It knows. What happened? Why are you here? Do you deserve this? The answers are yours to decide. What you choose matters. Every path leads somewhere. But will you like where it takes you?
Why similar: Psychological 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%
While filming a documentary on analog horror, something goes horribly wrong. A cursed VHS tape. Lost cultists. Salvation. Are you brave enough to follow the tape’s sinister commands? Face analog nightmares and decide your fate in this horror visual novel with multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Dark 10.4%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Emotional 9.8%
可愛い後輩と2人っきり……冷凍庫の中で。 低体温症、矛盾脱衣、幻覚などの苦痛を乗り越えた先にあるのは、「真相」と「死」のみ。
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 18%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Psychological 8.7%
A romantic loop 3D visual novel about a girl who forgets you every night. It’s always your first date. She resets. You don’t. Try to win her heart, or choose to let go. Another strange post from the town of Akabako.
Why similar: Psychological 17.3%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Romance 13.4%, Emotional 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%
Death by Begonia is a surreal LGBTQ+ Southern gothic murder mystery. Follow Riley's attempts to reconnect with old childhood friends in a town haunted by annual serial murders. Will you fall in love and unlock the mysteries hidden in your friends' hearts? Or will you die trying?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Romance 9.8%, Emotional 9%
"The hardest part is not to speak up. It’s being heard." Part video game, part graphic novel, Wednesdays seeks to raise awareness about child sexual abuse through a surprisingly hope-filled story.
Why similar: Psychological 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Emotional 14%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Dialogue Heavy 10.4%
A short, dark visual novel set in the UK about a young autistic girl's destructive obsession with her older brother.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.7%, Emotional 14.2%, Psychological 11.4%, Female Protagonist 11.1%, Dark 11.1%
Samael suffers from delusions. He feels lost until he encounters a priest one day. The priest is the only person in the world who makes him feel at peace. This, however, slowly turns into an obsession. Will Samael learn how to love properly or will he fall into a path of darkness? You decide.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Visual Novel 13%, Emotional 11.9%, Psychological 11.1%, Text-Based 10.6%
Shion's calm and measured life comes to an end when she meets Akiko. This encounter has the chance to change her life or plunge it further into the abyss of depression and hopelessness.
Why similar: Psychological 14.2%, Visual Novel 13%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.5%, Text-Based 10%
A girl named Anastasia, who lives in an old multi-story building, decides to leave her apartment. She goes to get some salt to ask her neighbors and find a treasure hidden in this house. But what kind of treasure is this, and is it worth looking for?
Why similar: Visual Novel 11.5%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%, Dark 10.4%, Female Protagonist 9%
It always rains, they call it The Haze. Ghosts haunt every alley, every gray corner of the city. Lady of Bones is a visual novel that explores the darkest depths of existence where Maya will discover the horrible secrets of her mother's legacy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Female Protagonist 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%
An existential drama in handmade clay animation. Game writer Eric is replaced by AI. He loses everything, and it's the best thing that's ever happened to him.
Why similar: Psychological 17.6%, Emotional 13.5%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Dark 8.5%
Ascension is a visual novel following three lost souls as they venture into The Zone - a dangerous and alien world. Follow the abrasive Doctor, the shy Scholar and sardonic Escort on their journey - though none of them will come out unscathed.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Emotional 12.4%, Dialogue Heavy 10.8%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Psychological Horror 9%
What is the biggest variable in a relationship? Is it "him"? Or is it the "him in her heart"? May this little story serve as a blade, dissecting the "possessiveness" and "desire to control" in a relationship. What exactly gives rise to them?
Why similar: Emotional 19.6%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Romance 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Immersive Sim 10.1%
