Games Like VERISMO

While trying to plan a party that’s to die for, a high school queen bee finds she has an uninvited guest that is much scarier than your average teenage girl. A Visual Novel about Gossip, Grief and Ghosts.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 18.3%, Psychological Horror 13%, Visual Novel 11%, Lore-Rich 10.6%, Horror 9%

Doll is a visual novel of horror and exploration.With the Jeudille doll, you will be free to explore the city of Lorgna. Talk to the inhabitants, and compare their speeches to succeed in answering the questions raised by this experience.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.9%, Hand-drawn 14.3%, Horror 12.4%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Female Protagonist 10.8%

Panoptia is a narrative-driven atmospheric exploration game about a strange building called Panoptia that has mysteriously appeared in town. No one knows what secrets hides in its depths. Uncover these secrets if you hope to ever escape...

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.5%, Lore-Rich 12.8%, Female Protagonist 11.8%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Horror 9.7%

Steve Jackson, a 19-year-old guy, is looking after a friends house and encounters eerie events in a small town. Dive into the dark mystery of the events you unwittingly became a part of. Will you be able to uncover the truth?

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 21.6%, Walking Simulator 17.8%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Horror 11.8%, Thriller 8.4%

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: Dialogue Heavy 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Hand-drawn 13.1%, Horror 11.4%, Psychological Horror 9.7%

Twelve-year-old Leva, returning to the mining village after the hospital, learns about the mysterious disappearance of his friend, and the familiar rhythms of school life begin to unravel. Soon, his days turn into a terrifying nightmare, accompanied by the relentless stomping of hundreds of insects.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 19.2%, Walking Simulator 15.2%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Horror 10.1%, Linear 8.3%

THOHH is a first-person narrative game in which you play a food delivery guy. Through a series of vignettes, you cross paths with the residents of a beautiful house on Holland Hill road, where you make frequent deliveries. In the wake of tragedy, something ominous looms behind their front door.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.3%, Dialogue Heavy 16%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Hand-drawn 12.9%, Story Rich 8.9%

mygohome is a Lovecraftian psychological horror game. A remote town is being consumed by an unknown presence. You awaken in a strange room. Something is drawing near. Survive five nights. Your only companion is a rabbit doll. It knows everything. But can you trust it?

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.9%, Lore-Rich 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Female Protagonist 11.6%, Hand-drawn 9%

Memories swirl all around you...Or are these memories? Familiar faces and places you think you remember but somehow now seem so different. Why are you here? Where is here?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.8%, Walking Simulator 14.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11.3%, Dark 11%, Horror 9.5%

You wake up in an old watermill in the middle of the night ... and can't remember anything. Examine the surroundings in this thrilling point&click adventure and find out what happened.

Why similar: Visual Novel 13.9%, Hand-drawn 13.6%, Female Protagonist 11.8%, Dark 11.2%, Psychological Horror 10.9%

Chat with a virtual friend from a cancelled mobile game! Ask questions, start arguments, and find the right responses to progress the story. Can you solve the horrific mystery hidden beneath the surface?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.8%, Lore-Rich 16.2%, Dialogue Heavy 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%

The Other Side of the Screen Shows a Truly Disturbing Truth.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.9%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, Thriller 13.7%, Horror 13.2%, Hand-drawn 11.8%

CONQUER YOUR SELF and escape the pastel-colored nightmare in PSYCHExFUSE, a brand new RPG horror filled with mystery, challenges and terror. Unite worlds - and your past selves - in an interdimensional adventure into the deepest depths of your mind...

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.2%, Walking Simulator 12.4%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Horror 10.2%, Female Protagonist 8.7%

You play as Emma, who wakes up in an abandoned house without any prior memory of how she ended up there. Investigate your surroundings, uncover the mysteries of the house and connect memories from your past as you try to escape in this short, first person atmospheric horror game.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Horror 13.1%, Female Protagonist 12.3%, Thriller 10.2%

Award winning emotional visual novel about a little girl in a world of adults. How can you find a monster you can’t see?

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20.2%, Walking Simulator 16.2%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Hand-drawn 12%, Female Protagonist 10%

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: Dialogue Heavy 22.9%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Hand-drawn 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Female Protagonist 9.1%

A haunted convent. Statues that move on their own. A buried past. Welcome to Saint Idelora’s convent, where becoming a saint comes with a price.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Horror 12.9%, Female Protagonist 12.8%, Story Rich 8.7%

Abashed lets you step into the troubled mind of Issac, as the fragments of his past flash before his eyes. Solve puzzles, meet mysterious characters, and alter reality as he faces his worst fears to uncover the truth behind his missing partner, or so he thought.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.6%, Dialogue Heavy 13.9%, Walking Simulator 13.8%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Thriller 9.9%

Take on night shifts at a remote motel, handle unsettling guests, and navigate eerie events. Experience Emma’s unnerving apartment life, feel the unease of being watched, and question what’s real as the line between reality and nightmare blurs.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 21.3%, Walking Simulator 18.6%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Thriller 11.1%, Horror 10.9%

A 2D top-down, narrative focused horror game. Play as an orphan in a calm but bleak orphanage. Use puzzle-like gameplay to avoid the dangers creeping around. Learn about the orphanage’s past and what lies beneath. Maybe you will make some new friends.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.3%, Horror 15.2%, Story Rich 10.1%, Psychological Horror 8.5%, Top-Down 7.9%

A cinematic, story-driven psychological horror game where you play as Naina, a young woman living alone in India, stalked by an unknown stalker while her fiancé is overseas. Fear comes from atmosphere, suspense, and storytelling rather than frequent jump scares.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.7%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Horror 10.4%, Lore-Rich 9.5%, Story Rich 8.3%

At Di Yingling High, rumors of missing girls run rampant. Exchange student Meng Jiangnan uncovers the school’s hidden darkness. The Remake heightens the suspense with black-and-white comic visuals and upgraded systems. Will you face the truth?

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 14.7%, Hand-drawn 11.9%, Lore-Rich 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Psychological Horror 10.1%

Meet Nemesis; Ascendent being and terminally bored. Until the shimmer at the end of Creation, known as the Void, becomes her fixation - and her undoing. A short linear visual novel with gorgeous hand-painted illustrations; a mythic tale of curiosity and consequences.

Why similar: Visual Novel 19.6%, Lore-Rich 13.5%, Linear 13%, RPG 10.7%, Hand-drawn 10.6%

A STRAY LINE is a Puzzle Adventure Game about art and found family. Explore a strange world, draw to cast spells, and discover what becomes of a lonely little family in the woods.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 19%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Lore-Rich 13.2%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Hand-drawn 10.9%

Face of Fear: The Forester is a psychological horror where you become a new forest ranger. A couple of months of silence, a house in the middle of a dense forest and not a soul around, what could go wrong?

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 19.7%, Walking Simulator 15.3%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Horror 11.2%, Thriller 11%

October: Survivor's Guilt is an first-person psychological horror game where you explore an unsettling house, interact with objects, and try to survive a terrifying night after a simple favor goes wrong.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.8%, Psychological Horror 19.2%, Horror 15.7%, Dark 9.7%, Linear 8.6%

A story-rich, psychological-horror adventure game. Play as an urban witch with psychic abilities and delve into the mysteries of a world inspired by the work of Neil Gaiman and Stephen King.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 16.5%, Lore-Rich 15.1%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Dark 9.8%, Hand-drawn 9%

一部以女性成长为主线、以女性命运为切口展开的民国群像视觉小说。民国十三年，顾念之为摆脱包办婚姻孤身南下。她以为逃离牢笼便能获得自由，可等待她的，是码头的骗局、工厂女工的血泪、军阀混战的硝烟，以及三个截然不同的男人……可在这山河破碎的年代，当一个女人想要主宰自己的命运时，她要付出什么样的代价？

Why similar: Lore-Rich 19.9%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Hand-drawn 17.2%, Female Protagonist 15.4%, Story Rich 9.2%

Your motel is busy for the first time in years. Antsy city-folk and dispossessed teens flood your rooms, and you can barely keep up. Now, after a week of all-nighters spent managing reservations, room service requests, and Yup! reviews, you begin to wonder… could you even fall asleep if you tried?

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 22.3%, Hand-drawn 15.1%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Lore-Rich 9.4%

Face your fears, Alice. This time, you're not alone. This is the last chapter in the horror visual novel trilogy.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20.4%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Psychological Horror 13%, Hand-drawn 11.1%, Female Protagonist 10.8%

ALL THE PROMISED BURN is a hand-drawn Knowledge-based RPG about what an assassin does after the War ends. Can you learn new ways to be, when the past is still burned into you?

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 18.5%, Lore-Rich 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Female Protagonist 9.4%, Hand-drawn 9.2%

Blind Sound is a Game about, Exploration and Puzzle-solving. This is a Linear Story Based horror game which sets in a science facility. You will discover tons of thing and find about the Creepy history of this facility with Full of Creatures That extremely Dangerous.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.1%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Horror 13.4%, Dark 12.8%, Thriller 12%

One of the most terrifying J-horror games of all time is coming to Steam at long last. What's more, all you have to do is make the player walk to the left!? This collection includes the seven initial works of the popular Tsugunohi series, as well as an entirely new episode.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.1%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Horror 12.8%, Thriller 11%, Dark 10.1%

Journey through the psyche… Welcome to the Seaside Hotel, where the final hour of your night shift awaits. Tend to guests, explore their dreams, and lose your sense of Self – time and again. In this dark, labyrinthine adventure, unravel the path to the truth below.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 15.7%, Hand-drawn 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Female Protagonist 10.7%, Horror 10.7%

In 'Year of the Ladybug: Season 1,' characters traverse a nightmarish realm filled with fear and despair, revealing sinister secrets while evading the relentless terrors that pursue them at every turn.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 24.8%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Horror 15.8%, Hand-drawn 10%

The Lightkeeper Is Gone is a retro-styled horror adventure set in the 1930's on a lone island. Take on the job of keeping the lighthouse while discovering the story of those that came before.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 19%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Walking Simulator 15.6%, Horror 12.5%, Thriller 10.2%

From YOUR decisions, many people could get hurt. Can you save your friends or at least save yourself from the horror that awaits?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.6%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Horror 11.8%, Hand-drawn 11.5%, Dark 9.9%

《残秽的我们》是一款本土手绘写实风格的恐怖冒险游戏，以真实事件为蓝本改编。在游戏中，玩家将跟随女主“无者”的脚步，深入由亡者怨念而产生的“怨秽地”，利用“刻印”的力量，探究隐藏其中的一段真实往事。

Why similar: Hand-drawn 15.2%, Horror 12.5%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Dark 10.3%, Thriller 10.3%

You play as Nick during an ordinary night in West Virginia. After closing the ice cream shop where he works, he follows a set of coordinates deeper into the Appalachians, where he discovers an abandoned government bunker. The world below exists only where sound reaches.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 24.5%, Walking Simulator 16.3%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Lore-Rich 12.6%, Horror 9.5%

Shion's calm and measured life comes to an end when she meets Akiko. This encounter has the chance to change her life or plunge it further into the abyss of depression and hopelessness.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Visual Novel 16%, Dark 9.5%, Thriller 8.4%

“Signed Mary”, a psychological horror visual novel, in which not your choices of action will determine the story’s end, but the choices of how to perceive your reality.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 14.1%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Female Protagonist 10.5%, Thriller 9.7%

In STARECROWN, a visual-novel merged with a puzzle-based horror experience, your ANGEL whose watched from the distance finally makes himself known. For the worse.

Why similar: Visual Novel 20%, Hand-drawn 19.5%, Horror 17.9%, Lore-Rich 10.6%, Dark 8.4%

Explore your new Vert-X 64 in this four-part horror puzzle adventure. Play games, connect to a local BBS, and solve your cutting-edge computer's technical problems with the help of strangers. And maybe help some folks along the way. Just don't get lost in this strange new world of technology.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 14.1%, Lore-Rich 13%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Walking Simulator 12.1%, Horror 11%

Vaxomon is an horror psychological based on pokemon mystery dungeon: explorers of darkness and have many fixed dungeons during gameplay how to play: wasd or arrow keys map generation: fixed dungeons

Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.4%, Horror 15.6%, Top-Down 13.9%, Female Protagonist 13.5%, Dark 12.6%

After escaping her abusive brother, Sophie seeks a fresh start in a remote house in Hawthorn's forest. But strange events unfold, and her unsettling housemate, Elise, may be hiding something. Is it just her anxiety, or is there something more sinister lurking in the shadows?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.8%, Thriller 14.1%, Horror 13.7%, Female Protagonist 11.6%, Dark 10.7%

Step into a vanishing world. Make it whole again. Cyrurgia is a surreal first person narrative game centered around a tragedy, and what it takes to fix it, if that is even possible.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.3%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, Horror 8.9%

Awoken by a lightning strike, your eyes adjust to the dark in the basement of a strange man's house. Find items, solve puzzles, evade your pursuer, and discover the truth of this house in this survival-horror RPG.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 13.2%, Female Protagonist 11.7%, Horror 10.1%, Thriller 9.7%, Linear 8.8%

Lying Souls is an atmospheric, mysterious single player story horror game. You'll dive into a story in which nothing is as it seems. Find out the reasons behind what happened to your family back then. Your decisions will guide the course of the story.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.2%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Horror 12.6%, Linear 10.3%, Dark 9.2%

A psychiatric hospital. 1986. The staff are dead. The doors are open. You have no memory of how you got here or why your name is on a patient file. No monsters. No combat. Only the silence of empty corridors, and the slow realization of what was done to you.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.6%, Walking Simulator 18.9%, Lore-Rich 14%, Horror 12.9%, Dark 10.8%

Wake as Mike in a small apartment where Jerry, your impossibly helpful roommate, cooks, jokes, and guides every choice. A short first-person PC VR psychological horror game about comfort turning into control.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 22.1%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Walking Simulator 16%, Horror 10.1%, Story Rich 8.3%

A story about a beautiful river that hides deadly secrets beneath its calm surface.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.3%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Horror 12.3%, Female Protagonist 10.7%, Dark 9.6%

Rent an apartment to finish your work and survive a night that grows increasingly strange. A first-person psychological horror game where routine, silence, and paranoia turn an ordinary place into somewhere impossible to leave.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.2%, Psychological Horror 19.6%, Horror 13.4%, Thriller 12.1%, Linear 9%

"The Stalked 2" is a standalone horror sequel to "The Stalked", where you play as Rachel, an avid hiker. What begins as a relaxing hike to a cabin turns into a nightmare filled with eerie interactions and unsettling events. Will you survive?

Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.4%, Walking Simulator 16.2%, Horror 14.7%, Thriller 14.6%, Dark 12.2%

Your father needs a beer, and it's your job to get it. He doesn't care what it takes, so do what you must. Be quick though - it's not so safe in the dark.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.3%, Horror 18.1%, Dark 13.6%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Linear 9.9%

The Evil Mouse is a short linear story psychological horror game about guilt and memory. You discover a strange program on your computer that pulls you into a haunted house. Inside waits Lucy, a girl asking for help, and the evil mouse, who will do anything to keep you out.

Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.8%, Dialogue Heavy 15.6%, Horror 15.4%, Dark 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.2%

A story-rich psychological horror inspired by real-life experiences. Follow Emily, 23, as she moves to Brooklyn for a fresh start, but finds herself drawn into a slow spiral of obsession and control. Featuring voice acting, this atmospheric and grounded experience is deeply unsettling.

Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.5%, Psychological Horror 18.9%, Horror 13.4%, Dark 10.6%, Dialogue Heavy 9.3%

A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.7%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Dark 9.7%, Female Protagonist 9.4%

In this not so ordinary psychological horror your soul is bound from birth to fufil a singular purpose. Suffering a loss that has kicked in motion the bindings of your destiny, enter Ordinary Day.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Hand-drawn 12%, Horror 11.2%, Linear 9.4%

You wake up in an empty forest in Ohio. A voice calls you. Says you're friends. Says you need to get out. But the signal keeps breaking, and so does your memory. Your friend will guide you from a distance, but he can't save you. Escape the creatures in the dark and find your friend.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 28.8%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Dark 9.9%, Horror 9.7%, Interactive Fiction 7.1%

An isolated village during the war. Men leave one by one, along the winding forest path painted crimson by distant fires, and do not return. Young Nadia becomes a part-time postwoman filling in for her sick mother. She is now a messenger of hope and of trouble.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Hand-drawn 14.3%, Female Protagonist 10.7%, Historical 9.2%