Games Like TOY BOX

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 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Text-Based 12.9%, Point & Click 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.3%

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

Why similar: Dark Comedy 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Text-Based 12.6%, Visual Novel 10.5%

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

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Point & Click 12.6%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.5%

A psychological horror game about testing dolls and determining if they are Good or Dangerous. Play in a strange location with dolls potentially filled with bloodlust. Uncover secrets about who you are, where you are, and just WHAT is happening.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19%, Point & Click 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Horror 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 14%

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 28.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Horror 18.4%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Story Rich 10.5%

Wander from room to room in this whimsical and dark visual novel as you follow five friends trapped during a freak storm. Listen while they have hard conversations and tough realizations as they confront the conflict in their lives. For what is a house but a box with windows?

Why similar: Dark Comedy 35.9%, Dialogue Heavy 20.4%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Psychological Horror 9.3%, Story Rich 7.5%

A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.

Why similar: Text-Based 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Psychological Horror 9.3%

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 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Point & Click 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.9%

A fable from your childhood. Don't you remember it?

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

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

Why similar: Visual Novel 45.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Multiple Endings 8.5%, Choices Matter 8.3%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Dialogue Heavy 15.6%, Point & Click 13%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Psychological Horror 12.5%

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 24.1%, Text-Based 19.3%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Horror 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%

"Choose your own adventure" style nightmares

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Text-Based 16.7%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.7%

Bite-sized surreal horror with multiple choices. Make your own way through the claymation madness!

Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.9%, Point & Click 24.4%, Horror 16.8%, Story Rich 9.6%, Puzzle 7.3%

Care is an atmospheric first person horror game with puzzle elements, where your choices have consequences. Be observant with your surroundings and unravel the horrific secrets that hide within these walls.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Dialogue Heavy 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Horror 13%, Visual Novel 12.5%

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: Dark Comedy 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Text-Based 13.3%, Visual Novel 10.3%

A horror channel browsing game where each channel holds a different nightmare to experience, explore them and find out the truth about what has happened in a small town where the inhabitants have disappeared.

Why similar: Visual Novel 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Horror 13.8%, Point & Click 13.7%, Psychological Horror 13.4%

Free Will is a 2D psychological puzzle RPG where the puzzles happen outside of the game. Dig deep into the system code to fix the corruption, and uncover information that might be better off hidden.

Why similar: Story Rich 23.4%, Choices Matter 19.6%, Horror 18.7%, Multiple Endings 14.7%, Puzzle 14.7%

A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.

Why similar: Text-Based 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Point & Click 12.6%, Thriller 11.8%

An interactive psychological horror drama.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Dialogue Heavy 12.1%, Psychological Horror 11%, Visual Novel 10.6%

✣ Dread Chess is an original and strange narrative story-puzzle game with sandbox elements. Uncover mysteries by speaking with gods in Latin. Immerse yourself in an atmosphere of madness, and reach one of many endings in an unfair game against Death that can be played ONLY ONCE...

Why similar: Visual Novel 26.3%, Horror 18.2%, Multiple Endings 17.5%, Story Rich 11.5%, Choices Matter 11.5%

It's not a game, it's a toy. Explore all cycles and prepare yourself to accept the inevitable effects of Mitoza.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.2%, Point & Click 21.7%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Choices Matter 15%, Multiple Endings 12.7%

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

Why similar: Visual Novel 26.8%, Text-Based 26.3%, Psychological Horror 20.1%, Horror 15%, 2D 7.5%

A visual novel about raising a cute robot child, which may or may not go horribly wrong. Your choices decide the outcome.

Why similar: Visual Novel 31.7%, Horror 23.6%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Story Rich 9.5%

"海子 UMIKO" is a psychological horror visual novel. Engage in conversations with Umiko, complete various mini-games, solve puzzles, and gradually piece together the dark truths she tries to hide about herself and her dimension from fragmented narratives. Preserve your fragile friendship for a week!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12%, Horror 9.9%

Horror/thriller visual novel with RPG elements about two friends that explores guilt, co-dependency, and personal limits being pushed.

Why similar: Visual Novel 33.3%, Horror 22.2%, Multiple Endings 18.1%, Choices Matter 12%, Story Rich 7.5%

Endacopia is a Point-and-Click Puzzle Adventure that is visually reminiscent of early computer edutainment games... with underlying horrors.

Why similar: Point & Click 23.1%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, Horror 14.7%, Dialogue Heavy 13.6%, Multiple Endings 11.5%

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 16.8%, Text-Based 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Visual Novel 11.2%

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 14.6%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Psychological Horror 12.3%

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

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Point & Click 18.1%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Horror 12.5%, Psychological Horror 9.9%

A psychological horror experience told through environmental storytelling. Explore a house inhabited by trauma, denial, and fractured memories. Three endings. Multiple interpretations. This is the house that lives inside me.

Why similar: Visual Novel 34%, Psychological Horror 27.8%, Multiple Endings 20.6%, Stylized 9.5%, 2D 8.1%

TOMORROW DON'T COME is a contextual puzzle game about depression and how it feels to be stuck.

Why similar: Text-Based 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Multiple Endings 11.1%

Death Drive is a road trip visual novel inspired by classic American Gothic fiction.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Dialogue Heavy 12.7%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Horror 10.1%

A short 10 minute visual novel about being a fragment in the universe and trying to find a way out of the ****.

Why similar: Text-Based 28%, Choices Matter 22.1%, Multiple Endings 19.7%, Stylized 18%, Story Rich 11.6%

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 17.6%, Text-Based 16.2%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Choices Matter 10%

Wood and Flesh: A Candleforth Short Story is a point & click puzzle adventure with hand-drawn 2D graphics and a cozy horror setting that tells a short story set in the Tales from Candleforth universe.

Why similar: Point & Click 28.7%, Horror 20.9%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, First-Person 9.1%, Puzzle 8.2%

Wound Man is a macabre jigsaw puzzle adventure where you reconstruct a tortured figure from centuries-old anatomical art. Uncover hidden secrets and collect strange curiosities with every piece.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 28.1%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Multiple Endings 15%, Horror 13.8%, Story Rich 10.7%

Where children's games take a captivating turn. A point and click adventure game where you play hide and seek with your friend Noah!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.2%, Point & Click 25.3%, Horror 17.5%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, 2D 6.7%

Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Choices Matter 16.3%, Story Rich 12.3%, Text-Based 12.2%

A short, linear story game of a random demon guy's life.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Text-Based 20.7%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Visual Novel 16%, Horror 8.8%

A story about a dead lamb walking.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Horror 11.1%, Choices Matter 9.8%

How much of someone can you cut away before there's nothing left? Find out in this chilling kinetic visual novel - IF YOU DARE!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Visual Novel 16%, Horror 13.1%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%, Linear 10.6%

A bite-sized psychological horror game about a wayward soul who seeks transformation through a sinister ritual.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.1%, Horror 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, First-Person 13%, Choices Matter 10.7%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Dialogue Heavy 12.9%, Visual Novel 12%, Horror 8.6%

DOLL EYE: CHAPTER ONE is the first part of a dialogue-based, story-driven psychological horror game made in RPG Maker MZ.

Why similar: Visual Novel 30.9%, Psychological Horror 28.6%, Story Rich 14.9%, Stylized 13.5%, 2D 9.8%

An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.

Why similar: Point & Click 17.5%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Horror 12.8%, Choices Matter 10.2%

An escape-room styled series of puzzles await in the car that seems to contain neither rhyme nor reason. See if you can solve the mysteries of the photographs, and figure out what it means to be the ONE IN THE BACK.

Why similar: Point & Click 31.7%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Horror 13.7%, Story Rich 13.1%, Puzzle 9.2%

A dark, witty, psychological thriller in the horror genre, A Work of Art presents a 1-2 hour story-driven experience with Visual Novel features and RPG elements. Follow a colorful cast of quirky characters through a twisted tale of beauty and darkness; All to the sound of a Dark Original soundtrack.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 26.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Horror 8.8%

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%, Text-Based 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Multiple Endings 9.8%

Dark Memories is an episodic psychological horror game based on road thriller, slasher, and survival thriller genres. You are currently viewing the prologue episode of the Dark Memories anthology.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.1%, Horror 14.1%, First-Person 14.1%, Thriller 13.7%, Multiple Endings 12.3%

You've moved to a new house where the previous owner was murdered. They never found his head. But, it has found you.

Why similar: Text-Based 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Horror 12.4%

A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths. A free atmospheric horror visual novel where you navigate life-or-death situations. SEEK PARADISE OR DIE TRYING

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Multiple Endings 8.8%

A mystery visual novel where horror meets occult comedy. Follow Kugayama Shiori, a ghost who casually dies over and over as she searches for her cause of death and the regrets that bind her to this world. Her investigation will eventually lead to a single incident—and the truth behind her demise.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Text-Based 16.7%, Horror 7.6%

Play through three VHS tapes, uncovering the mystery of a decrepit facility, eluding tormented beasts, and discovering the truth of the chosen one.

Why similar: Horror 21.2%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, First-Person 14%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Thriller 10.2%

A yandere psychological horror visual novel. Choose a sweetheart to romance, but beware the petals of obsession.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.3%, Visual Novel 18%, Psychological Horror 9.6%, Horror 8.7%

This occult item will guide you through a bizarre in-between world and help you to confront past demons as well as piece together former memories that may lead to closure. Seek a better understanding of who you were, who you’ve loved and how much you’ve lost in this 3rd person horror adventure game.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 42.2%, Horror 19.1%, First-Person 17.8%, Psychological Horror 7.5%, Linear 7.5%

The House of E. is a story-driven puzzle game with horror elements and a creepy atmosphere.

Why similar: Horror 31.5%, First-Person 20%, Multiple Endings 18.3%, Linear 15.5%, Puzzle 11.7%

You buy a laptop with your hands. You find an interactive collection of short stories on your laptop and something else. Or someone? What will all this lead to?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Text-Based 19%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Horror 7.9%, Interactive Fiction 6.2%

be you 2 is an interactive visual novel. In this sequel to "be you", you must raise a child by making story choices. There are multiple routes and endings based on your offspring's personality.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Text-Based 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Visual Novel 10.2%