60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Story Rich, Multiple Endings, Singleplayer.
While working at their dead-end job and dreaming of what could’ve been, Demian Zhao discovers a flesh-eating parasite who promises to help them finally live free. If you let them, they'll become the monster of your own making - after all, who needs a moral compass when you have a god in the gutter?
Everliving Town
In a town of exactly 245 residents, every breath is a subtraction. A narrative experience blending Gothic hand-drawn art and natural history puzzles. Waking into a world of "domestic bliss" as thick as a fungal bloom, will you submit to the morbid order, or shatter the balance?
Reclaim
Reclaim is a fantasy visual novel following a peculiar elf and a dying god trying to free the world and themselves. Choose wisely and help them study, create, and escape.
In a town of exactly 245 residents, every breath is a subtraction. A narrative experience blending Gothic hand-drawn art and natural history puzzles. Waking into a world of "domestic bliss" as thick as a fungal bloom, will you submit to the morbid order, or shatter the balance?
Why similar: Gothic 19.4% ★, LGBTQ+ 14.2%, Surreal 13.7%, Lore-Rich 11%, Psychological Horror 9.6%
Reclaim is a fantasy visual novel following a peculiar elf and a dying god trying to free the world and themselves. Choose wisely and help them study, create, and escape.
Why similar: Transhumanism 30.1% ★, LGBTQ+ 18%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Lore-Rich 12.8%, Choices Matter 5.5%
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 23.5% ★, LGBTQ+ 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Text-Based 9.3%
Surreal horror themed visual novel, with lots of branching paths, blood, tears and twisted pitch-black humour. You're playing as Ashia, who's forced to marry her slimy uncle, suffering from surreal nightmares at night. Then she meets Novalie. And then things gets REALLY strange.
Why similar: Surreal 18.1%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Dark Humor 15.8%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%
A surreal slice-of-life about a mysterious computer virus and its effects on the city you live in. Navigate day-to-day decisions, fall in love with your coworker, and alienate your customers by being rude in this dystopian desert ring-‘em-up — featuring graphics created with a Game Boy Camera!
Why similar: Transhumanism 27.8% ★, LGBTQ+ 14.8%, Surreal 12.2%, Dark Humor 11.7%, Visual Novel 9.9%
Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.4%, Horror 12.8%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Choices Matter 8.5%
An HTML-based, furry TF adventure inspired by CHANGED, made with Harlowe. You find yourself at the bottom of a vast, 200+ layer bunker, you find yourself in a world where everything wants your humanity. Will you escape the Romanya Deep Residence without transforming?
Why similar: Transhumanism 39.5% ★, LGBTQ+ 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Visual Novel 8.2%, Surreal 7.1%
A joyful, strange experience in which a middle-aged queer man toddles around a strange island attempting to re-furnish his empty house.
Why similar: Transhumanism 37.3% ★, LGBTQ+ 21.7%, Surreal 17.4%, Psychological Horror 6.6%, Atmospheric 5.2%
Audiences connect to their favorite celebrities all the time. How does it affect these people when put into a game of life or death? Only time will tell.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Lore-Rich 11.7%, Horror 9.6%
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Surreal 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Dark Humor 11.2%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.8%
The abyss awaits. Descend into a minimalist visual novel about a girl in the future, and guide her through branching conversations, microgames, and explorable locations. Make friends with criminals, drink too much at dinner, or relax in a spa. Whatever happens, it was your choice.
Why similar: Transhumanism 25% ★, Visual Novel 12.9%, Lore-Rich 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Choices Matter 7.9%
You only wanted to save them. But in this psychological horror visual novel, a teacher’s kindness may become the thing that breaks his students.
Why similar: Transhumanism 21.8% ★, Visual Novel 12.8%, Psychological Horror 12%, Surreal 10.2%, Horror 9.9%
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 33.3% ★, Visual Novel 16.2%, Lore-Rich 14.4%, Psychological Horror 8.6%, Horror 7.8%
The horror personality q̷̦̈́͊u̸̠͗i̴͈͈̊̈z̴͈͇̳͗͌
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.5%, Horror 11.7%, Surreal 11.6%, Text-Based 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
Enter the doomed town of Pareildas. Watch as the flames turn bone and stone to ash. Like joined wicks, we'll all burn together.
Why similar: Surreal 19.4%, LGBTQ+ 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Horror 10.6%, Visual Novel 9.4%
Tri City Monsters is a supernatural, monsterlovin' visual novel where you can romance and/or de-pants 3 demonic love interests. Navigate a dangerous urban jungle with their help and maybe you'll get a taste of what it means to be a monster.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 12.7%, Dark Humor 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Lore-Rich 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.8%
It's what happened that day.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.6%, Surreal 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.8%
A job gone wrong traps lawyer R. M. Renfield at Castle Dracula. Sacrifice—others, or your own humanity—to survive, or risk it all for love in this romantic horror visual novel. But Renfield isn’t the only one looking for a way out. Who, if anyone, can you trust?
Why similar: Gothic 23.4% ★, LGBTQ+ 17.7%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Horror 9.9%
A story about a woman who lives alone near the forest.
Why similar: Surreal 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Visual Novel 12%, Horror 10.1%
It's Sara's first day of work. However, when she takes the elevator to go to the office, she suddenly finds herself on a mysterious floor. What truth lies behind these weird rooms? Will you be able to move on? Or rather... will you want to move on?
Why similar: Surreal 17.4%, Psychological Horror 17%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Choices Matter 6.9%
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 30.7% ★, LGBTQ+ 19.3%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.7%
My Lovely Daughter is an alchemist simulator that explores the depth of a father’s grief and how far he will go to resurrect his daughter. Contains dark and disturbing subject matters, might not be suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Why similar: Gothic 17% ★, Surreal 12.9%, Dark Humor 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Visual Novel 11%
A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Choices Matter 9.8%, LGBTQ+ 8.5%
Can your Pet Sitter teach an old dog new tricks? Are you willing to play nice? Good boy!
Why similar: Transhumanism 40.1% ★, LGBTQ+ 20.5%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Linear 6.3%
A horror point and click game where choices matter about trying to do your final marathon training run.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Surreal 15.6%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Psychological Horror 12%, Horror 11.2%
Not thrilled that fate has led him into the confines of a sinister place, Varlu is left with no choice but to come face to face with many types of demons, including his very own.
Why similar: Gothic 21.2% ★, Surreal 13.5%, Lore-Rich 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Visual Novel 9.5%
This is an isolated town, a town of memories that have been forgotten by its people. However, this small town has not been quiet and peaceful since the murders began... Time passes by, where are the sinful spirits going? Are my memories reality, or just a dream?
Why similar: Gothic 23% ★, Surreal 14.7%, Lore-Rich 12.5%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Visual Novel 9.3%
"Disease" is a nonlinear visual novel in the psychological horror genre. The Yellow Man pierces the night in search of a new victim. Can you stop him before it's too late?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.3%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Dark Humor 12%, Lore-Rich 11.7%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
Ein, a simple-hearted member of an expedition sent by mankind to distant planets, tries to get romantic with a pretty but cold co-worker girl. Unfortunately, he is not the only one trying to make contact as from the abandoned and desolate alien ruins, the girl receives a message in human language.
Why similar: Transhumanism 40.2% ★, Lore-Rich 14.5%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Text-Based 8.5%, Interactive Fiction 7.3%
An explorative horror point-and-click adventure game where your decisions seal the fates of your companions. Explore the world to uncover what happened at Dawnhall village. Listen to the messages in Avan's dreams to determine your choices. Become what you were born to be.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17%, Dark Humor 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.9%
A gothic suspense tale set in a cursed mansion. "The House in Fata Morgana" is a full-length visual novel spanning nearly a millennium that deals in tragedy, human nature, and insanity.
Why similar: Gothic 28.6% ★, LGBTQ+ 15.4%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Horror 8.1%
"A Night With Neil" is the first in, hopefully, a series of choose-your-own-adventure text games focusing on my various characters. Hang out with Neil! Get banged by Neil! Get ate by Neil!
Why similar: Transhumanism 29.5% ★, LGBTQ+ 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Visual Novel 14%, Choices Matter 7.5%
Deep Copy is a top down point-and-click literary adventure set in a hand-painted science fiction world. Awakened with no memory, you must solve puzzles and navigate a branching story to piece together the dense, interconnected mystery at the heart of the lab.
Why similar: Transhumanism 26.4% ★, Visual Novel 13.9%, Horror 11.8%, Lore-Rich 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
Yuri Dating Agency - a speed dating simulator for WLW. You're a girl who likes girls, walking into this Yuri dating agency to find yourself a date. Here, you will be able to get to know lots of girls. Will you be able to win their hearts?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.7%, Dark Humor 16.5%, Lore-Rich 13.5%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Visual Novel 10.8%
A Gothic horror faerie tale.
Why similar: Gothic 18.2% ★, Visual Novel 12.6%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Horror 9.7%
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 20.4%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Horror 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%
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 25.4% ★, Visual Novel 14%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Psychological Horror 12%, Horror 9.4%
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 22.4% ★, Visual Novel 14.5%, Psychological Horror 14%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Horror 10.5%
Two silly visual novels involving bisexuals and lesbians, bizarre situations, and even weirder object heads. Therapy not included.
Why similar: Transhumanism 33% ★, LGBTQ+ 19%, Surreal 16.1%, Dark Humor 14.3%, Visual Novel 12.5%
It's June 2023 in Columbus, Ohio -- 10 years since Neal and Jack graduated, and 8 years since they last spoke. Follow two once-best friends' reluctant descent through classrooms and memories in Our Dirge, a game about growing up in a certain place & time, and making up for the time we lost.
Why similar: Surreal 18.1%, Dark Humor 15.8%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Horror 11.8%
My Lovely Wife delves into the depths of a man’s grief after the sudden death of his beloved wife. Explore the notions of one’s willingness to do anything for love and the importance of letting go in this mix of dating, management, and alchemy simulators.
Why similar: Gothic 32.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Horror 8.3%
A shut-in tries to recover, facing a horrific, overstimulating, judgmental world. Confronted with their past scars and mistakes, taunted with what they've lost by a strange shadow that always follows, can they learn once again to be okay, or will they be swept away by the vibrant pulsating horror?
Why similar: Gothic 22.8% ★, LGBTQ+ 17.7%, Surreal 17.2%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Horror 10.6%
An eerie liminal game that explores just how far an angel can fall. Play as sapphic Lucifer and corrupt angels into falling... in love with you.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.5%, Surreal 15.8%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%
Code.Breaker() is a cyberpunk visual novel about technology, cybercrime, and trying to survive in a world ruled by corporations. Hack your way out of your worst day at a job you´re not supposed to have.
Why similar: Transhumanism 34.8% ★, LGBTQ+ 14.6%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Text-Based 6.8%
A gothic psychological visual novel where you decide who deserves forgiveness… and who deserves condemnation. Explore the lives of five souls, confront unsettling truths, and make choices that will shape your ultimate fate. Every choice is a reflection. Every judgment carries a sentence.
Why similar: Gothic 27.5% ★, Dark Humor 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Why similar: Surreal 15.9%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Lore-Rich 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.7%
When Marisol starts a new life as a telecom technician, she finds herself out of her depth in a mutating city. Connect with strangers, confront grotesque creatures, and unravel a conspiracy at the heart of the metamorphosis.
Why similar: Transhumanism 30.3% ★, LGBTQ+ 17.1%, Surreal 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Psychological Horror 9%
A girl suffering from hallucinations tries her best to live a normal life in the megapolis. She sees an advertisement for a certain doctor presenting a revolutionary technology for diagnosing and treating the psyche, "G.L.A.Z.A".
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.3%, Surreal 16.9%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Horror 9.7%
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: LGBTQ+ 18.7%, Surreal 17.2%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%
We were only supposed to go see the Ferris wheel together. One last adventure before all of us grow up to become a productive part of The Community. But we learned the hard way why The Zone is strictly forbidden. I don't know if we can make it back home.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, LGBTQ+ 16.6%, Dark Humor 14.8%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Horror 10%
A visual novel exploring a near-apocalyptic vision of North Texas, told through the poetic words of a young woman going home.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18%, Surreal 16.1%, Lore-Rich 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.1%
Am I Nima is a psychological-horror game where you must convince your mom that you really are her daughter. Combine words together in your brain and use them to talk. Get her to trust you.
Why similar: Transhumanism 30.9% ★, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Horror 8.2%
DEVIL'S LIMINAL is a branching slow-burn horror and yuri romance visual novel. In a life of poverty and violence, Margo Silva has one last summer in Arizona before college. Make choices to maintain a normal facade at work, romance an enigmatic new girl, and stop the occult plot to take Margo's life.
Why similar: Gothic 22.7% ★, LGBTQ+ 17.9%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Psychological Horror 10.7%
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: LGBTQ+ 19.7%, Lore-Rich 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Psychological Horror 10.9%
Late at night, a teacher shares two bizarre tales: a corpse stuffed in a sheet, and an abnormal presence in the mountains. It was just a ghost story, but a creepy "sense of unease" lurks within. A short psychological horror visual novel offering a dense, terrifying experience in about an hour.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.3%, Psychological Horror 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Horror 15%, Text-Based 13%
Dream Spectra is a visual novel about trying to hang out with your crush and escape your migraines, styled with surreal 90s 3D rendered environments.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Surreal 15.4%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Horror 9.5%
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 22.3% ★, Dark Humor 16.8%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Lore-Rich 12.6%
Sometimes you need to be strong to the core to stand out from the rotten apples in society. Being an outcast is not easy, but is it worth indulging in a comfort that may bite? Play as Appril the apple snail through her everyday life in this RPG styled Psychological horror where your choices matter.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 32.1%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Horror 13.6%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Visual Novel 9.4%
A horror visual novel about coming back to your childhood home.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.4%, Lore-Rich 16.3%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Surreal 10.8%
What's this? A Point and Click, "Who Done It?", Murder Mystery Visual Novel, set in a Gothic Hotel on top of a lonely hill, during the Night of Halloween?
Why similar: Gothic 26.3% ★, LGBTQ+ 18%, Surreal 13%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Horror 7.5%
