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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 26.9% ★, Visual Novel 16.1%, Horror 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Point & Click 6.9%

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 28.5%, Choices Matter 22.4%, Horror 17.7%, Story Rich 13.1%, Mystery 6.6%

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 19.7%, Choices Matter 17.9%, Outbreak Sim 10.8% ★, Story Rich 9.1%, Psychological 7.3%

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 16.2%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Outbreak Sim 13.9% ★, Psychological 10.8%, Story Rich 8.7%

"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 29.6%, Horror 20.4%, Story Rich 12.9%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Dark 8.3%

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 20.8%, Horror 15.2%, Psychological 13.2%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Thriller 8.9%

Evil Spirits is a nonlinear horror visual novel based on Slavic folklore. Explore a god-forgotten village and a forest hiding ancient evil. Trust no one. Remember: real evil often lurks not in house corners, but in the human soul's darkness.

Why similar: Visual Novel 22.3%, Choices Matter 17.5%, Horror 16.5%, Story Rich 9.6%, Dark 7.1%

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

Why similar: Visual Novel 22.5%, Horror 13.8%, Psychological 11.7%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Dark 6.6%

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 27.4%, Horror 19.1%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Story Rich 12.4%, Dark 7.5%

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 37.4%, Horror 32.4%, Indie 6.6%, Point & Click 6.5%, Story Rich 4.4%

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 24.2%, Horror 15.9%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Psychological 15.3%, Psychological Horror 7%

A horror visual novel with light adventure elements, about a group of office workers grinding through an intense all-nighter. Just do your job and.... don’t ask about Ito… nothing happened to him... everything is fine.

Why similar: Visual Novel 25.8%, Psychological 15.4%, Horror 14%, Story Rich 12.5%, Point & Click 10.2%

A short-form psychological thriller. Confront the mysterious Finn through a monitor. No strategy or puzzles—just choices and their consequences. Simply answer his questions and witness the end.

Why similar: Visual Novel 26.9%, Choices Matter 19.7%, Horror 13.5%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Story Rich 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 28.3%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Horror 11.3%, Story Rich 9.2%, Psychological 8.7%

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%, Horror 18%, Choices Matter 11%, Mystery 9.1%, Story Rich 7.2%

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 28.1%, Horror 17.6%, Choices Matter 16.5%, Story Rich 13.5%, Point & Click 9.1%

우리 아빠는 유명한 과학자입니다.

Why similar: Visual Novel 21.9%, Choices Matter 17.3%, Psychological 13%, Horror 11.9%, Story Rich 11.2%

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%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Psychological Horror 9.2%, Thriller 9%, Story Rich 7.8%

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 30.1%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Horror 11.6%, Thriller 10.9%, Psychological 9.1%

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 32.7%, Horror 25.1%, Choices Matter 17.6%, Story Rich 8.2%, Psychological Horror 4.9%

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 24.9% ★, Choices Matter 16.4%, Horror 15.7%, Psychological 14.2%, Visual Novel 13.2%

A psychological horror game about Rock Paper Scissors.

Why similar: Visual Novel 27.5%, Choices Matter 18.3%, Horror 12.3%, Point & Click 11.2%, Psychological Horror 7.4%

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 38.1%, Horror 26.3%, Story Rich 14.4%, Psychological Horror 9.6%, Atmospheric 3.6%

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 26.6%, Horror 12.9%, Psychological 11.3%, Choices Matter 9%, Story Rich 8.4%

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 28.2%, Horror 18.4%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Psychological Horror 8.1%, Point & Click 7.9%

만약 당신의 집 안에 당신의 생명을 노리는 괴한이 들어온다면?

Why similar: Visual Novel 21.1%, Choices Matter 17.4%, Horror 16.5%, Psychological 10.7%, Thriller 8.2%

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 28.7%, Choices Matter 19.1%, Story Rich 13.5%, Horror 10%, Psychological Horror 8%

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

Why similar: Visual Novel 39.4%, Horror 26.5%, Story Rich 16.6%, Simulation 8%, Indie 2.9%

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 26.2%, Choices Matter 23.9%, Story Rich 17.3%, Horror 9%, 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 49.1%, Choices Matter 24.1%, Point & Click 6.2%, Indie 5.3%, Story Rich 5.2%

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 26.7%, Choices Matter 18.7%, Story Rich 13%, Thriller 9.4%, Mystery 8%

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 26.1%, Choices Matter 17.4%, Story Rich 11.2%, Horror 10.5%, Thriller 8.4%

“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%, Horror 16.8%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Psychological 11.2%, 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 31.2%, Horror 20.9%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Point & Click 9.7%, Psychological Horror 8.3%

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

Why similar: Visual Novel 17.2%, Horror 14.8%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Psychological 8.9%, Point & Click 8.1%

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%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Horror 16.2%, Psychological 10.8%, Story Rich 9.6%

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 25.4%, Choices Matter 20.1%, Horror 14.7%, Story Rich 11.3%, Thriller 7.7%

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 18.4%, Horror 17.4%, Psychological 13.8%, Story Rich 10.4%, Thriller 7.5%

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 19.5%, Horror 14.5%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Psychological 12.3%, Story Rich 11.3%

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%, Horror 20.7%, Story Rich 10.4%, Psychological 9.2%, Mystery 7.8%

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 15.8%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Horror 13.1%, Psychological 11.4%, Story Rich 8.6%

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 27.2%, Story Rich 17%, Psychological 10.7%, Dark 10.2%, Psychological Horror 7.8%

When demons leave your head and fill the whole world, all you can do is close your eyes and go forward. Immerse yourself in the atmospheric and moving adventure of white crow Ankou — one of pain, loneliness, and salvation that no one asked for.

Why similar: Visual Novel 15.6%, Horror 14.6%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Psychological 13.4%, Story Rich 9.7%

The game takes place in a world on the brink of destruction. You experience all the horrors of the apocalypse in your own cozy house on the outskirts of a small town. People may knock on your door in need of your help. Will you be able to save them?

Why similar: Horror 21.7%, Choices Matter 19.4%, Outbreak Sim 14.3% ★, Story Rich 10.3%, Psychological Horror 7.8%

Lucid9 is a visual novel focused on a web of intricate mysteries set in the fictional 2018 metropolis of Isamu. Lucid9: Inciting Incident is the first part of the story, focused on a string of disappearances that occur at a prestigious, uppity boarding academy.

Why similar: Visual Novel 42.9%, Horror 14.6%, Story Rich 12.3%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Mystery 9.5%

The first entry of the Abime Series. Eight captives must cooperate or compete to escape an underground subway under the manipulation of a dangerous psychopath. Can you really trust anyone? What about yourself? And what is the meaning of a good ending? Is reaching one even possible?

Why similar: Visual Novel 18.5%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Horror 13.6%, Psychological 10.8%, Story Rich 10.1%

"Leviathan: The Last Day of the Decade" is a detective story told by a dweller of a cruel dark fantasy world affected by the pandemic. The world ruled by a five noble-born kins under the suzerainty of the undead Plague King.

Why similar: Visual Novel 42.1%, Story Rich 17%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Point & Click 12.2%, Indie 5.1%

A psychological horror visual novel about healing and destiny. When her brother disappears, Elham's desperate search plunges her into a world of haunting visions, buried truths, and battles against dark forces. Will she find her true calling and embrace the light? or will she succumb to darkness

Why similar: Visual Novel 25.3%, Choices Matter 19.6%, Horror 16.5%, Story Rich 12.3%, Psychological 10.7%

After a brief wander, at the end of a corridor, you encounter a girl curled up by a door, you can tell that her style is far from ordinary. Perhaps she knows more than you do… Or maybe she’s the reason you’re here. Will she help you? Or maybe you will help her?

Why similar: Visual Novel 28%, Horror 15.3%, Point & Click 12%, Psychological 10.4%, Psychological Horror 6%

"KARA" is a visual novel following an ordinary high schooler whose life slowly spirals into a nightmare. Sleep deprivation, a tragic chain of events, and dark secrets will force you to question reality itself.

Why similar: Visual Novel 30.6%, Choices Matter 20.2%, Story Rich 11.4%, Psychological Horror 8.7%, Thriller 7.2%

A highly engaging visual novel, with memorable characters and multiple endings. Traverse worlds, solve a murder mystery -- and partake in political revolution. Inspired by greats such as Steins;Gate, Tales of Symphonia, Persona 4 and Future Diary. An unforgettable science-fiction/fantasy adventure!

Why similar: Visual Novel 52.6%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Story Rich 14.4%, Indie 5.5%, Simulation 3.4%

This is you, and this – is You. Both of you have something in common – exceptionality in a monotonous moment of time, when meaningless decisions have to be made. Or meaningful, to such an extent, that there is nothing left once they are made.

Why similar: Visual Novel 32.4%, Choices Matter 31.4%, Psychological 25.6%, Indie 7.1%, Atmospheric 3.5%

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: Visual Novel 21.2%, Choices Matter 17.5%, Horror 13.8%, Story Rich 10.5%, Psychological 7.5%

A closed-circle mystery visual novel where twelve people wake up inside a bizarre, impossible mansion—and a string of murders begins. Read from Remi’s point of view as you piece together the truth through his thoughts and conversations. Linear, text-focused, Japanese/English supported.

Why similar: Visual Novel 33.3%, Psychological 19%, Horror 15.7%, Story Rich 15.2%, Mystery 10.1%

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

Why similar: Visual Novel 34.9%, Horror 23.5%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Simulation 8.6%, Story Rich 8.1%

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 31.2%, Choices Matter 23.7%, Horror 18.8%, Story Rich 10%, Psychological Horror 8.4%

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 26.2%, Horror 18.1%, Psychological 17%, Story Rich 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.9%

The feast has begun, can you escape the village alive?

Why similar: Visual Novel 40.7%, Story Rich 12.7%, Psychological 12.1%, Mystery 9.3%, Psychological Horror 8.3%

The protagonist, a member of a university occult club, obtains a mysterious notebook about a high school’s “Seven Mysteries” The story branches based on your choices — will you uncover the truth, or meet an ending best left hidden? A suspense-driven horror visual novel exploring the Seven Mysteries.

Why similar: Visual Novel 36.8%, Horror 23.9%, Choices Matter 19%, Story Rich 14.6%, Adventure 3.1%

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 21.5%, Choices Matter 17.8%, Horror 16.4%, Psychological 13%, Story Rich 10.1%