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You inherit your father’s tavern in a small, isolated region.By day, life seems ordinaryBut when night falls, someone always knocks on your door.

Why similar: Outbreak Sim 27.6% ★, Visual Novel 16.2%, Horror 10%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Point & Click 6.9%

You work the night shift inside a small aid booth. People arrive at your window asking for help. Food. Water. Medicine. Sometimes… things that don’t belong in a donation box. Every box you prepare makes the night worse.

Why similar: Outbreak Sim 34.1% ★, Choices Matter 15.7%, Horror 12.9%, Story Rich 6.4%, Psychological 5.5%

Horrors of Helmsfirth is a horror/adventure visual novella where you investigate the mystery causing townsfolk to disappear at night. Build trust with allies who can help save your town from monsters. Explore 9 different character plot lines and defeat the forces of evil… or join them?

Why similar: Visual Novel 28.9%, Choices Matter 22%, Horror 18%, Story Rich 13%, Mystery 6.5%

In this GeoGuessr-like game, work at Mili Co. using GeoFinder to track missing persons. Stay safe inside the office, cooperate with coworkers, and survive in a world where only the workplace offers security.

Why similar: Horror 20.1%, Choices Matter 17.7%, Outbreak Sim 11.2% ★, Story Rich 9%, Psychological Horror 7.3%

"Styxton" is a nonlinear horror visual novel. Sometimes, salvation is the worst curse. You are alive. Now find out who needed it.

Why similar: Visual Novel 30%, Horror 20.7%, Story Rich 12.9%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Dark 8.2%

WARNING. Stay inside. Lock your doors. Close the blinds. Only let humans in. Eliminate all Visitors. An anxiety horror about paranoia in the End of Times.

Why similar: Horror 16.6%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Outbreak Sim 14.3% ★, Psychological 10.4%, Story Rich 8.6%

Tiny Bunny is a non-linear horror visual novel. Those, who have heard the voice of the forest, are beyond help.

Why similar: Visual Novel 27.9%, Horror 19.4%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Story Rich 12.3%, Dark 7.4%

When seven people fall prey to a vicious curse, they will discover that horror rests not from the shadows lurking about, but within themselves. To what ends will one go in order to survive?

Why similar: Visual Novel 32.4%, Horror 24.9%, Choices Matter 16.8%, Story Rich 8%, Psychological Horror 4.7%

Tiny Bunny: Prologue is a non-linear horror visual novel. Those, who have heard the voice of the forest, are beyond help.

Why similar: Visual Novel 37.6%, Horror 32.7%, Indie 6.4%, Point & Click 6.4%, Story Rich 4.4%

Cast Into A Boundless White Void. Paintings Hunger For Your Story. What Will You Answer?

Why similar: Visual Novel 22.9%, Horror 14.1%, Psychological 11.5%, Choices Matter 8.7%, Dark 6.6%

Guide Mina and Rex through a dark and intense psychological visual novel of trauma, love, and insecurity... Traverse Section 56’s dangers, confront the past, and shape their fate.

Why similar: Visual Novel 24.6%, Horror 16.2%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Psychological 14.9%, Psychological Horror 6.9%

Three operatives return to their abandoned boarding school to hunt a sinister fugitive. As old traumas awaken and paranoia takes hold, will they survive their own fears?

Why similar: Visual Novel 21.2%, Horror 15.5%, Psychological 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Thriller 8.8%

Trapped in a cursed office overnight, you must uncover a hidden password before morning... while reality distorts, blood seeps through the walls, and something watches you. Explore branching paths, face strange encounters, and survive this psychological horror visual novel.

Why similar: Visual Novel 26.2%, Psychological 15.1%, Horror 14.2%, Story Rich 12.5%, Point & Click 10.2%

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 28.7%, Choices Matter 13%, Horror 11.5%, Story Rich 9.2%, Dark 8.6%

On a rainy night, three ghost stories are told in an old-fashioned café. As a writer for an occult magazine, you listen to three people recount their experiences. A psychological horror visual novel that slowly builds a sense of dread—Kyofu Yawa: Second Night.

Why similar: Visual Novel 26.6%, Horror 18.9%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Story Rich 10.8%, Psychological Horror 7.3%

You wake into a perfect life you don't remember choosing — warm, loving, and sealed shut. She knows everything about you. The one door has never opened. KEPT is a short psychological romance-horror visual novel with six endings, gated by how much of the truth you can bear to know.

Why similar: Visual Novel 28.4%, Horror 18.5%, Psychological 9.1%, Choices Matter 8.2%, Psychological Horror 7.9%

You’re a snarky sentient tentacle in a chaotic hospital. Possess humans and creatures, befriend the right weirdos, and decide humanity’s fate in this dark humor visual novel where every character is a potential pawn… or pal.

Why similar: Visual Novel 28.4%, Horror 17.8%, Choices Matter 16.2%, Story Rich 13.4%, Point & Click 9.1%

A wedding where one of the guests arrives dead. A strange black hole eclipsing the Florida sun. And your best friend? Gone. Is all this a butterfly dream or is reality breaking? Is their story romance or mystery? Your choices will determine the genre of his soul. Welcome to the town of Siren's Call.

Why similar: Visual Novel 19.4%, Horror 14.5%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Psychological 9.6%, Thriller 8%

A mystery adventure game and visual novel set on solitary Shironagasu Island. Discover its secrets, solve its mysteries, and escape from the ominous island!

Why similar: Visual Novel 33.2%, Horror 18.2%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Mystery 8.9%, Story Rich 7.1%

Evil Spirits is a nonlinear psychological horror visual novel inspired by Slavic folklore. Uncover the secrets of a forgotten village, trust no one, and remember: true evil sometimes hides not in the shadows of a hut, but in the darkness of the human soul.

Why similar: Visual Novel 22.5%, Choices Matter 16.2%, Horror 15.7%, Story Rich 10.7%, Point & Click 8.4%

A visual novel where eight participants are forced to play a death game where they have to vote every two hours. Who will survive? Who will betray? Who are the masterminds behind it all?

Why similar: Visual Novel 30.6%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Horror 11.8%, Thriller 10.7%, Psychological 8.9%

우리 아빠는 유명한 과학자입니다.

Why similar: Visual Novel 22.3%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Psychological 12.7%, Horror 12.1%, Story Rich 11.2%

A short-form psychological thriller. Confront the mysterious Finn through a monitor. No strategy or puzzles—and you are given almost no freedom of choice. Simply face the absurd situation and witness the end.

Why similar: Visual Novel 31.3%, Story Rich 13.3%, Psychological 11.1%, Horror 10.8%, Dark 9.6%

Live the memories of a robot killer head. Make gut wrenching choices. Let the story splinter into every fiber of your being.

Why similar: Outbreak Sim 25.7% ★, Choices Matter 16.1%, Horror 15.9%, Psychological 13.7%, Visual Novel 13.3%

A psychological horror game about Rock Paper Scissors.

Why similar: Visual Novel 27.9%, Choices Matter 18%, Horror 12.5%, Point & Click 11.1%, Psychological Horror 7.3%

Banebush is a nonlinear and very red visual novel in the horror genre. Do you dare to step into a fairy tale if it turns out to be reality? 💀

Why similar: Visual Novel 38.4%, Horror 26.6%, Story Rich 14.3%, Psychological Horror 9.5%, Atmospheric 3.5%

A stranger calls at 3:33 AM. They know your name. Choose your words carefully in this fully voiced psychological horror game.

Why similar: Horror 25.6%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Psychological Horror 9.2%, Thriller 8.9%, Story Rich 7.8%

Uncover the truth behind a broken ritual in Make Moku Proud... a psychological visual novel where guilt and obedience, and what it means to make Moku proud, shape the fate of a witness watching his companions disappear.

Why similar: Visual Novel 28.6%, Horror 18.7%, Choices Matter 11%, Psychological Horror 8%, Point & Click 7.7%

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

Why similar: Visual Novel 17.3%, Horror 15%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Psychological 8.6%, Point & Click 8%

Nine participants awaken, trapped in an underground facility. To escape, they must play a game with deadly consequences. Who will live, and who will die? The choice is yours. Let the Decision Game begin…

Why similar: Visual Novel 29.1%, Choices Matter 18.6%, Story Rich 13.4%, Horror 10.1%, Mystery 8%

Sickness is a visual novel centering around Suoh Tesla, an amoral high school student whose life is rapidly deteriorating. Following the deaths of his parents, a brief stay in the hospital, and the emergence of his “Sickness”, his daily life quickly devolves from carefree school days to a life of crime.

Why similar: Visual Novel 27.1%, Horror 13.2%, Psychological 11%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Story Rich 8.4%

A hitchhiking journey through empty roads where every car could be your salvation… or your end. Walk through desolate places and encounter bizarre strangers along the way. Talk, decide, and survive unpredictable encounters as rumors of a roadside killer spread. While travelling towards the unknown.

Why similar: Horror 22.7%, Choices Matter 20.4%, Psychological 10.1%, Story Rich 8.4%, Psychological Horror 8.2%

A horror visual novel told through the eyes of a sentient FPV drone on its final mission.

Why similar: Visual Novel 39.7%, Horror 26.8%, Story Rich 16.4%, Simulation 7.8%, Singleplayer 2.8%

만약 당신의 집 안에 당신의 생명을 노리는 괴한이 들어온다면?

Why similar: Visual Novel 21.5%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Horror 16.8%, Psychological 10.5%, Thriller 8.1%

This experience can be classified as a psychological and atmospheric horror game. However... This isn't a game... Remember all of the urban legends from your childhood? Imagine if it was all real, but we just weren't performing the right rituals to summon these beings from another realm... Well, now you can...

Why similar: Visual Novel 21.1%, Choices Matter 17%, Horror 16.1%, Psychological 12.3%, Story Rich 9.7%

It is the newest village of tradition. In the year 2200, Oculus, an employee at a cybernetic body manufacturing company, hears a rumor that a colleague has gone missing while on the job.

Why similar: Visual Novel 22.6%, Horror 16.9%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Psychological 11.2%, Story Rich 6.6%

After an awful time at a Halloween party, the night welcomes you with a deep cold breeze. With your car busted and unusable thanks to your drunk tennant, a single pavement awaits for your determined fate....

Why similar: Visual Novel 26.6%, Choices Matter 23.5%, Story Rich 17.2%, Horror 9.2%, Psychological Horror 6.7%

Soul Gambler puts YOU in the role of Faust, an ordinary young man living in the present day whose DESTINY is about to be change forever.

Why similar: Visual Novel 49.7%, Choices Matter 23.7%, Point & Click 6.2%, Indie 5.3%, Story Rich 5.1%

Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.

Why similar: Visual Novel 34.8%, Horror 21%, Story Rich 10.3%, Psychological 8.8%, Mystery 7.6%

Survive a gripping psychological thriller in this visual novel. Make critical decisions, face a disturbed captor, and experience multiple chilling endings.

Why similar: Visual Novel 26.5%, Choices Matter 17.2%, Story Rich 11.2%, Horror 10.7%, Thriller 8.3%

I Would Love to Wish You Good Morning is a choice-driven dystopian psychological horror visual novel about isolation, obedience, and the price of fitting in. Will you navigate the uncanny social dynamics of the future... or die trying?

Why similar: Visual Novel 27.2%, Choices Matter 18.5%, Story Rich 13%, Thriller 9.3%, Mystery 7.9%

Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time. While you sleep, he is alone. When you return to your PC he has hope. Your encouragement and advice will be the difference between his salvation or despair.

Why similar: Choices Matter 19.3%, Horror 14.8%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Psychological 12.1%, Story Rich 11.3%

A first-person escape horror game, 'School Bathroom'.You've found yourself penned in an eerie stall.What is the source of the fear you feel in this inescapable space...

Why similar: Visual Novel 24.4%, Choices Matter 18.3%, Horror 18.1%, Point & Click 7.2%, Psychological Horror 7.1%

“喂喂，求求你啦！救救我！” ——你接到这样一个电话 发出这样的求救，给你打电话的人，是一名被监禁的少女

Why similar: Visual Novel 21.3%, Horror 17.1%, Choices Matter 12%, Psychological 11%, Story Rich 10.5%

Kirin plays the elevator game and disappears. Will her girlfriend, Asahi, be able to find her? The Elevator Game with Catgirls is a horror visual novel with point-and-click elements, inspired by the Korean urban legend, Elevator to Another World.

Why similar: Visual Novel 31.5%, Horror 21.2%, Choices Matter 15%, Point & Click 9.6%, Psychological Horror 8.2%

In this eerie, horror visual novel, you are confined in a room with a monster. How will you fare against petrifying odds? Will you be able to work your way into the mind of an indecipherable beast, or will you be added to the casualty count? A word of advice: Choose a side; don't look back.

Why similar: Visual Novel 22.4%, Choices Matter 16.8%, Horror 16.6%, Psychological 10.5%, Story Rich 9.6%

"Something is in your house." As a Shaman, you are the only one who can face the unknown. Investigate haunted homes, uncover secrets, and exorcise malevolent spirits. Your choices determine the client's fate. Experience a chilling K-horror story where every decision matters.

Why similar: Visual Novel 20%, Horror 14.8%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Psychological 11.1%, Story Rich 7.9%

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: Visual Novel 26.4%, Horror 18.2%, Psychological 16.4%, Story Rich 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.6%

The world ended long ago. Humanity didn’t. What remains is a fragile society sustained by fear and distrust. Faro is a psychological horror visual novel set on a sunless planet, where you guide four survivors as cosmic horrors linger and every decision erodes the trust holding them together.

Why similar: Visual Novel 27.7%, Story Rich 17%, Psychological 10.5%, Dark 10.1%, Psychological Horror 7.8%

To escape from a hospital whose roof is underground, you must descend to the deepest level. At every step, you need to endure witnessing the results of horrific experiments. And rest assured, you will never predict the end of the story.

Why similar: Choices Matter 18.3%, Horror 17.8%, Psychological 13.6%, Story Rich 10.4%, Thriller 7.5%

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 28.4%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Story Rich 10.7%, Horror 8.5%, Psychological Horror 7.9%

After the announcement "There is no next stop," you are trapped in an endless subway. But you’re not alone—the "GUESTS" are hunting you. Trust the "GUIDES" to survive. Or don't.

Why similar: Visual Novel 25.3%, Choices Matter 19.6%, Horror 15.1%, Story Rich 11.3%, Psychological Horror 7.1%

Saint Kotar is a psychological horror detective game set in a cursed valley in rural Croatia. Investigate the disappearance of your relative in the occult-ridden town of Sveti Kotar as you switch between conflicting realities through the eyes of two godly men.

Why similar: Choices Matter 15.6%, Visual Novel 14%, Horror 13.4%, Psychological 11.2%, Story Rich 8.6%

A game about the path you're on, and what you're really doing with your life.

Why similar: Visual Novel 23.5%, Choices Matter 18.9%, Psychological 15.9%, Horror 15.2%, Story Rich 12.7%

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: Visual Novel 21.5%, Choices Matter 17.2%, Horror 15.5%, Psychological 12.7%, Story Rich 9.6%

Every person you choose leaves someone else behind. Spend your limited afternoons building relationships, exploring the town, and recording each day in Kanata’s diary—then face timed Shadow Choices as an old book begins to fracture his ordinary life.

Why similar: Visual Novel 29.9%, Choices Matter 19.1%, Psychological 13.7%, Story Rich 13.6%, Mystery 6.9%

Blending fairy tale fright with psychological horror, this narrative game challenges you to survive a weird journey through the woods while being hunted by the witch you were tasked with imprisoning. Sometimes charming, sometimes frightening, she’ll force you to make hard choices.

Why similar: Visual Novel 31.6%, Choices Matter 22.9%, Horror 19.3%, Story Rich 9.9%, Psychological Horror 8.1%

Return to a town that never changed… and a friend who's supposed to be dead. A psychological horror visual novel about memory and the cost of refusing to move forward.

Why similar: Visual Novel 28.5%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Horror 11.4%, Point & Click 10.8%, Psychological Horror 8%

Start your life anew at Heaven's Gates Academy. Learn new subjects, make new friends, experience what you've never before deemed possible. Change your fate, and the fate of those around you- your decisions matter greatly.

Why similar: Visual Novel 31.8%, Psychological 19.7%, Horror 18.6%, Psychological Horror 8.7%, Story Rich 8%

A horror visual novel exploring the dark sides of friendship and the dangerous paths taken to save it.

Why similar: Visual Novel 18.9%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Psychological 12.9%, Horror 12.9%, Story Rich 9.4%