60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Dark, Dark Fantasy, Adventure.
Treis Zoes is a visual novel where not only choice is important, but also the motive of choice. Explore the world of living skeletons on the experience of past travelers and add your own to the encyclopedia of the dimension of Death.
Cursed paths, dead ruins, and whispers in the dark. Every click leads you deeper, opens new paths, and leaves a mark on you.
Why similar: Gothic 25.5% ★, Dark Fantasy 13.9%, Text-Based 11%, Visual Novel 9.3%, Dark 8.4%
A gothic short story set in the most Blighted city of the North Kingdom.
Why similar: Gothic 27% ★, Text-Based 14.5%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Hand-drawn 8.7%, Dark Fantasy 8.5%
From Beyond is a game about a man being transported into a different world after being stabbed. Will he find happiness and hope in a world filled with despair? Will he piece the puzzle pieces together and uncover the mystery of his newfound colorblindness? That's up to you... Or is it?
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 17.9%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Narration 13.5%, Text-Based 11.1%, Hand-drawn 10%
A story-oriented visual novel set in historical France. Play as Emile, a lonesome boy whose past has caught up with him. Witness as the choices he makes continue on a downward spiral…
Why similar: Gothic 32.4% ★, Narration 15.5%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Hand-drawn 12.7%, Dark 11.1%
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: Gothic 25.8% ★, Visual Novel 14%, Text-Based 12.6%, Dark Fantasy 10.7%, Choices Matter 9.8%
A Gothic fantasy tale of loneliness, dark secrets, and the search for a cure.
Why similar: Gothic 45.9% ★, Visual Novel 17.7%, Dark Fantasy 17%, Dark 10.8%, Fantasy 5.4%
Argumentum ad culpam is a gothic visual novel about the world of eternal agony. A capricious dance of principles and death. Take part in twisted battles of wits, where morality is only a tool for survival, and decide what future that world will have.
Why similar: Gothic 35% ★, Dark Fantasy 13.9%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Magic 7.5%
You killed him once before. Don't make the same mistake twice. A melancholic boys love visual novel about killing cults and your past confronting you.
Why similar: Gothic 37.4% ★, Dark Fantasy 14.5%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Dark 8.8%, Magic 8.5%
A dark text-based RPG set in a world gripped by a restless race for survival against a merciless mushroom Forest. As a prophet’s apprentice, guide your clan along the knife-edge between life and oblivion. Decipher misty visions, make critical decisions, and do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Text-Based 16%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Dark Fantasy 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Dark 9.7%
A Philosophical Discussion of Worms is a Kinetic Visual Novel that explores two characters, Vynder and Ophiel, as they navigate cohabitation in a strange, unfamiliar house when they don't speak the same language.
Why similar: Gothic 32.8% ★, Text-Based 17.9%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Hand-drawn 12.4%, Dark 6.8%
Non-linear graphic novel in the genre of magical realism. Will the hero be able to uncover secrets, find himself and escape from danger? Or will he be lost in the streets of the City forever?
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.5%, Narration 19.1%, Text-Based 13.1%, Dark 12.9%, Choices Matter 10.2%
Haunt a suit of armour. Explore an abandoned castle. Recover your memories... and bring the ghosts of the past to rest in this melancholy visual novel about love, family and regret.
Why similar: Gothic 40.2% ★, Visual Novel 14.5%, Dark Fantasy 12%, Hand-drawn 8.8%, Medieval 8.2%
Help Selene escape from a mysterious dark forest and defeat her fears in an exciting and powerful point and click adventure that will test your wits with difficult but logical puzzles seamlessly integrated into the story.
Why similar: Gothic 35.9% ★, Narration 22.6%, Dark Fantasy 13.7%, Dark 8.7%, Adventure 8.5%
A boy living as a warrant for a political marriage falls in love with a maid despite his unrequited love. You become a black rose fairy who grants wishes and discover that you were once human. Enter the bodies of the people in the mansion and trace their memories to discover their true identities.
Why similar: Gothic 33.9% ★, Dark Fantasy 14.2%, Visual Novel 10%, Text-Based 9.3%, Hand-drawn 8.8%
To get to heaven, you must climb the Nine Circles of Hell. But you might never make it to the depths.
Why similar: Narration 19.7%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Text-Based 18.8%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Dark Fantasy 10.5%
Will you be able to uncover your raison d'être and solve the mysteries that await in this suspenseful thriller?
Why similar: Gothic 49.1% ★, Visual Novel 21.9%, Adventure 11%, Violent 10.9%, Multiple Endings 3.3%
House of stolen devil bargains and indolent angelic aristocracy: Nowhere Manor is doomed to disappear. You can leave if you’ve got a soul … but that’s not an option for an artificially created servant such as Liber. Just how far are you willing to go escape?
Why similar: Gothic 34% ★, Dark Fantasy 14.3%, Hand-drawn 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Choices Matter 9.3%
Cursed the womb that bears emptiness beneath its heart. For the child enters the world with the veil upon its face, yet its soul wanders lone in the heavens where God is not. Why then does she not hasten to the place that was prepared for her? Seek the truth in our visual novel.
Why similar: Gothic 45.6% ★, Visual Novel 18.6%, Dark 11.8%, Choices Matter 7.6%, Multiple Endings 6.8%
音楽アルバムを楽しむように7つのゲームを体験しよう。「死と生」をテーマとするダークで神秘的な世界観と、ミュージックプレイヤーをモチーフにした独特なゲームシステムが特徴のオムニバス作品。
Why similar: Gothic 34.9% ★, Visual Novel 16.2%, Hand-drawn 15.5%, Dark 13.5%, Dark Fantasy 10.5%
Delve into a dark fantasy visual novel where evil isn't always as it seems. Make your choices and grow your skills to help determine who survives the Great Culling. Featuring the voice talents of Ralph Ineson, Simon Callow, Savannah Steyn, and more.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.9%, Dark Fantasy 16.9%, Visual Novel 13%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Hand-drawn 9.5%
After you are unable to find a patron to provide you with a magic bond, you stumble into the abandoned temple of the Passion goddess - with four patrons waiting for you. Yet, as you grow closer to gaining magic, something else is drawn to this power...
Why similar: Gothic 27.6% ★, Dark Fantasy 20.7%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Fantasy 8.5%, Choices Matter 6.6%
Frosten: Two Realms — An immersive story about a young man named Ivan, who possesses the extraordinary ability to freeze objects. His life takes a dramatic turn when he finds himself in a mysterious world brimming with magic and peril.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.1%, Hand-drawn 18.9%, Magic 14.9%, Fantasy 11.6%, Narration 11.1%
Of Ash and Steel is an immersive third-person open-world RPG created by a passionate team that values the essence of classic old-school RPGs and modern design. Explore the lands of a once-prosperous island, hone your combat skills, and survive in the unforgiving realm of the Kingdom of the Seven.
Why similar: Gothic 50% ★, Medieval 12.6%, Dark Fantasy 10.8%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Adventure 4.8%
You are a depressed Bake-Neko that everyone mistakes for an adorable cat. Your one and only goal: to end it all. A visual novel with multiple choices, featuring diverse, deep, magical and deeply endearing characters. Every decision will shape your relationships and your fate.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.2%, Narration 15.2%, Text-Based 12.7%, Hand-drawn 12.4%, Fantasy 9.7%
Sixth extinction is a dark, narrative-driven experience about extinction and discovering the true nature of yourself. Can you outwit the obstacles in your way, uncover the truth and begin a change?
Why similar: Narration 40.6%, Hand-drawn 14.8%, Dark Fantasy 9.5%, Violent 6.6%, Adventure 6.5%
Take the role of a painter struggling to finish his masterpiece in this short Gothic horror visual novel about art, pain and love.
Why similar: Gothic 42% ★, Visual Novel 15.8%, Hand-drawn 12%, Dark Fantasy 11.4%, Dark 9.7%
A dark, dramatic medieval visual novel. On a stage at the boundary between life and death, an actress struggles through her hardest performance—directed by a jester, she relives her past for the the prize of resurrection...
Why similar: Gothic 38.1% ★, Visual Novel 15.1%, Dark Fantasy 12.6%, Medieval 10.1%, Dark 9%
Guide the misanthropic witch Morrigan as she creates a homemade friend of her very own in this short and sweet sapphic visual novel!
Why similar: Gothic 24.8% ★, Dark Fantasy 17.7%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Hand-drawn 10.8%, Magic 8.2%
Get implicated in Saint Ambrose. A linear visual novel experience told in three parts: The shadow of my mother is my mother, too. My little cellmate casts a spell. The world is like a dancer: the ritual of everyday. We're all doing magic, of course.
Why similar: Gothic 30.2% ★, Visual Novel 20.3%, Dark Fantasy 18.4%, Magic 8.8%, Text-Based 7.9%
A 3rd-person action-adventure inspired by cult classics. Explore a unique, solo-developed world and vanquish foes in intense battles. Level up your hero and reveal the secrets of a civilization that crumbled into dust five centuries ago.
Why similar: Gothic 45.6% ★, Dark Fantasy 17.9%, Medieval 10.1%, Violent 7.6%, Magic 6.5%
A Boys Love visual novel with branching plotlines and two love interests. Features beautiful CGs and sprites, and top-notch voice acting throughout the game.
Why similar: Gothic 27% ★, Dark Fantasy 16.8%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Fantasy 8.2%, Dark 8.2%
A loop-based text adventure where turn-based combat, exploration, and branching choices drive a haunting journey through death and memory.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.9%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Dark Fantasy 17.5%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Multiple Endings 10%
Being in debt to an influential merchant, a young veteran Alexander agrees to a strange deal: to take an orphan girl to an abandoned forest station and thus redeem the debt. The task turns into a real adventure, because the nights in the Black Earth region are dark and cold.
Why similar: Narration 24.6%, Visual Novel 22.9%, Text-Based 12.8%, Choices Matter 11%, Fantasy 9.9%
Lose your heart in this dark fairy-tale romance! Once upon a winter night, you enter the woods in search of a beast. But the hunter you find is so charming and sweet–is he truly the monster you seek?
Why similar: Gothic 40.3% ★, Visual Novel 14.8%, Dark Fantasy 11.8%, Dark 9.2%, Hand-drawn 8.1%
Autumn 1881 - deep in the Thuringian forests lies the village of Rabenfels. From here a new epidemic spread over the whole country. You are a young doctor sent by the Imperial Office of Disease to investigate the origin of this mysterious disease.
Why similar: Gothic 54.6% ★, Narration 39.8%, Adventure 3.6%, Singleplayer 1.9%
A witch soars into the night to save her beloved cat… but dark magic always comes with a price.
Why similar: Gothic 49% ★, Dark Fantasy 20.6%, Dark 9.7%, Medieval 8.2%, Fantasy 7.9%
This is the first linear chapter of a longer visual novel game about adventure, fantasy, magic and friendship. There are only a few choices that can be made, and some paths to chose from. The decisions do not have an impact on the ending, instead they provide slightly different content.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.4%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Magic 12.4%, Hand-drawn 11.3%
A medium-length visual novel set in a fantasy world where magic exists. The encounter between a boy living in a rural farming village and a girl who is a dark wizard leads to the revelation of truths that were never meant to be revealed.
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.7%, Magic 14.9%, Text-Based 12.9%, Fantasy 12.1%, Adventure 10.4%
実在の近世ヨーロッパ王家をモチーフにした、オカルティックノベルゲーム。 絵画のようなクラシカルなビジュアルと、断絶した一族の謎が織りなす ダークファンタジー。
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.1%, Dark Fantasy 18.6%, Medieval 14%, Hand-drawn 11.3%, Dark 10.3%
Fairy Deer is a kinetic thriller visual novel. Make your way deep into the terrifying Forest in search of the sole pathway to happiness—the mythical Fairy Deer.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.8%, Visual Novel 22.9%, Narration 13.5%, Hand-drawn 13.1%, Dark 8.7%
Balance work, vampirism and socialising as you explore Kings Cross, Sydney during the last year of the millennium. Keep a lid on your darkest desires and be rewarded with a deeper understanding of what it means to live again. Or don’t — no one will stop you. You’re a vampire, after all.
Why similar: Gothic 31.9% ★, Visual Novel 13.7%, Dark Fantasy 13.1%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Dark 9.6%
Doctor Arcana's second adventure takes you to a legendary castle on a mysterious island where new puzzling challenges await and dark secrets are guarded by deadly traps. Can you complete the Trials of the Elders?
Why similar: Gothic 39.7% ★, Dark Fantasy 13.8%, Hand-drawn 12.4%, Magic 8.4%, Fantasy 8.1%
Reformatted to 200 custom handmade pages, this Harlem Renaissance story employs the reader's mind exploring personas of race, gender, and capitalism. When Angela is prompted by society, this story explores her choices.
Why similar: Narration 36.7%, Text-Based 25.5%, Visual Novel 23.8%, Adventure 7.9%, Casual 2.5%
Welcome to Asterfel, an island shaped by ambition, conflict, and something far older stirring beneath the surface. Encounter three factions, discover forgotten history, and shape the island’s future. Will you thrive, survive, or witness the end of an era?
Why similar: Gothic 47% ★, Dark Fantasy 17%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Medieval 11.5%, Adventure 4.2%
A brave hero and a bound lich rescue a legendary warrior from a forgotten tomb and put the romance back in necromancy. Necromance is a dark fantasy comedy visual novel with light puzzle elements, 3 endings, and 15 ways to die!
Why similar: Gothic 29.8% ★, Visual Novel 15%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Dark Fantasy 11.3%, Hand-drawn 11.2%
Demons already know about your presence, arm yourself with magic and embark on a dangerous journey!
Why similar: Gothic 54.9% ★, Fantasy 11.2%, Dark 9.2%, Hand-drawn 8.6%, Casual 6.8%
A dark fantasy story adventure to face the long-forgotten 「memories」!
Why similar: Gothic 40.8% ★, Dark Fantasy 18.4%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Dark 11%, Choices Matter 10.5%
You wake up with no memories inside the House, a place where reality bends... lies linger... and someone watching your every move.
Why similar: Narration 23.8%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Text-Based 16.1%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
RUNT is a rural gothic visual novel mystery where you play as Runt, the youngest of five brothers, surviving a monstrous post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Gothic 34.8% ★, Visual Novel 16%, Choices Matter 14%, Dark 10.3%, Hand-drawn 10.3%
Human belief has the power to change reality. For millennia, alien races have been visiting Earth, gaining supernatural abilities and fantastic wealth by exploiting this remarkable power. But humans are advancing, and many aliens now find themselves leaving Earth with nothing but debts and regrets.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.4%, Narration 20.6%, Hand-drawn 15.5%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.2%
A dark fantasy adventure in Cinderella Chronicles. Use magic and wield a bloodthirsty shoe sword to battle corrupted enemies, transcend into badass mode, and solve puzzles with sidekicks. Unravel the truth behind a mysterious curse and embark on an epic journey to save the tales from darkness !
Why similar: Gothic 33.8% ★, Narration 22.7%, Dark Fantasy 13.7%, Adventure 9.7%, Magic 8.5%
Aristocrat Evan Alford receives a mysterious invitation to the fair and comes to a small village on the outskirts of the country. The village seems strange and painfully familiar, but Evan has never been here. In addition, other guests of the fair are not as simple as it seems.
Why similar: Gothic 33.2% ★, Visual Novel 15.4%, Violent 12%, Dark 11.8%, Choices Matter 9%
Tormentum II is a dark, surreal Point & Click adventure where nightmare worlds, grotesque creatures, and uneasy choices await. Inspired by H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński, it’s the long-awaited return to Tormentum.
Why similar: Gothic 35.6% ★, Dark Fantasy 17.8%, Dark 11.8%, Hand-drawn 10.5%, Choices Matter 10.4%
Transparent is a narrative game where every choice shapes Clara’s existence. On the eve of her 30th birthday, she revisits key moments of her life. Will her decisions anchor her to reality or make her fade away? Explore memories, face dilemmas, and discover multiple endings
Why similar: Narration 34.6%, Text-Based 20.3%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
Summona Realm is a simple visual novel that uses a map-based system to navigate the story. The game gives the feel of black and white Japanese manga.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.5%, Hand-drawn 18%, Magic 11.8%, Medieval 11.3%, Fantasy 9.3%
Matchmaking for Ghosts is an atmospheric visual novel with horror elements and themes of love and loss, built around a unique multi-protagonist system that lets players experience the afterlife through the eyes of every ghost. Match ghosts together for love, or for chaos. The choice is yours.
Why similar: Gothic 48% ★, Visual Novel 17.4%, Dark 9%, Hand-drawn 8.9%, Choices Matter 8.3%
A short interactive dark fantasy story in which you meet an egomaniacal empress and must try to survive the encounter through the choices you make.
Why similar: Gothic 39.1% ★, Visual Novel 20.1%, Dark Fantasy 18.8%, Choices Matter 7.9%, Casual 6.3%
Bleedings Moons is an interactive story revolving around the themes of fate, duty and free will. Your actions and decisions will shape the story of the game, so that Ian's story will be your story, with the logical consequences of your choices.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.8%, Dark Fantasy 14.5%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Hand-drawn 11.8%
Experience Alice's long-awaited vacation turn into a tumultuous journey in this gripping visual novel. As her plans unravel, she faces unforeseen challenges, testing her resilience. Will she emerge stronger or succumb to the unexpected twists of fate?
Why similar: Narration 27.4%, Visual Novel 24.4%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Adventure 11.9%, Fantasy 11.5%
