Games Like Whatnever

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: Surreal 17%, Psychological 16.7%, Point & Click 13.8%, Visual Novel 10%, Dark 9.1%

Who says an impending tsunami isn't a good case for a detective? The Siren Lord didn't think much of the humans, and now that one of them has made his daughter disappear... How will you solve this problem?

Why similar: Character Action Game 39.1% ★, Point & Click 24%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Dark 5.6%, Cute 4.3%

halfmoon is a short adventure game set in a reception office for the deceased, the final stop before the afterlife.

Why similar: Point & Click 22.2%, Visual Novel 21.7%, Psychological 20.3%, Surreal 18.7%, Atmospheric 7.9%

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: Surreal 22.6%, Psychological 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Point & Click 11.2%, Dark 9.4%

You are a creative entity trapped in a mysterious box. Try to transform this strange world and defy the ominous titans to find your freedom.

Why similar: Surreal 21.1%, Point & Click 17.1%, Psychological 16.2%, Exploration 9.2%, Cute 7.7%

The little boy Kiddo has spent most of his life in the hospital. Little does he know what a complicated and fascinating world lies concealed beyond the hospital walls. Today, on Kiddo's birthday, his mom wasn't around. Instead of her, the boy met Shadow, who inspired him to escape from a hospital.

Why similar: Point & Click 15.9%, Psychological 15.7%, Surreal 14.9%, Nonlinear 10.6%, Dark 9.3%

A Prologue to Almost My Floor, an upcoming horror-themed point'n'click adventure. Alex is a real fan of creepy stuff and horror movies, but he never expected to experience it himself just by taking the elevator back home! Can he avoid the madness and deal with the evil he's up against?

Why similar: Point & Click 19%, Psychological 18.3%, Comic Book 18.1%, Dark 11.9%, Atmospheric 7.4%

Evan faces a frustrating battle with his conscience. It's one he cannot afford to lose, or he'll spend the rest of his life behind bars. Under intense scrutiny and questioning from two savvy detectives, how will he fare? That, is entirely up to you.

Why similar: Surreal 22.4%, Psychological 21.9%, Point & Click 13.8%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Atmospheric 5.1%

A narrative-heavy, comic-infused survival visual novel & puzzle game where you are a licensed body collector navigating a dystopian world of moral dilemmas and resource management; where belief, rebellion, or control will prevail through your choices.

Why similar: Comic Book 16.3%, Psychological 14.9%, Point & Click 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Dark 8.3%

You have a part-time job taking photos of anomalies in the night in Shinjuku.

Why similar: Comic Book 19.7%, Psychological 16.9%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Surreal 15.8%, Dark 13.5%

Welcome in Bad Dream: Coma. A point & click game where unique minimalistic art style creates an unforgettable and atmospheric experience. Travel through the surreal and disturbing dreamland where everything depends on your actions. You can't die but you can suffer greatly...

Why similar: Point & Click 18.7%, Surreal 18%, Psychological 17.5%, Dark 9.6%, Multiple Endings 7.2%

🐾 Super Web Kittens is a short linear lighthearted story made with a ton of love and irony & styled as visual novel with battle shonen elements.

Why similar: Character Action Game 35.4% ★, Surreal 15.9%, Point & Click 12%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Nonlinear 6.7%

Uproot is an indie point-and-click adventure and puzzle game. Help Ygg the mandrake reclaim his special purple leaf stolen by the Rat King.

Why similar: Surreal 20.7%, Point & Click 20.6%, Soundtrack 15.3% ★, Cute 7.9%, Atmospheric 7.6%

You're the maintenance man for an apartment complex that has mysteriously been transported to the middle of the ocean. Woodrot is a surreal adventure game about getting to know your neighbors who all seem to blame themselves for their recent relocation.

Why similar: Surreal 23.6%, Psychological 23.2%, Point & Click 15.6%, Dark 8.2%, Exploration 7.9%

Take a mind-bending trip through a mysterious, haunting alternate reality. Use your newly discovered magic, wits, and curiosity to cleanse the world of glum and find a way back to your family. Experience the wonder of this 2009 AIGF Showcase winner and indie cult classic.

Why similar: Character Action Game 37.3% ★, Surreal 25.3%, Dark 12.9%, Exploration 9.2%, Atmospheric 8.2%

Enter the mysterious world of Skaramazuzu, and get ready to be tested. Meet strange beings and whimsical personalities, face challenges, and solve riddles in a hand-drawn, black and white 2D world.

Why similar: Surreal 26.6%, Soundtrack 19.6% ★, Dark 11.7%, Atmospheric 8.2%, Hand-drawn 7.6%

A 2D action-adventure through a surreal, subconscious world. Explore moody dungeons, buildings, and atmospheric lands, evoked by dreamy music and visuals. Help the human Young awaken from their dream!

Why similar: Surreal 25.4%, Psychological 24.1%, Nonlinear 17.2%, Dark 11.3%, Exploration 9.7%

Endacopia is a Point-and-Click Puzzle Adventure that is visually reminiscent of early computer edutainment games... with underlying horrors.

Why similar: Surreal 23.9%, Point & Click 18.2%, Nonlinear 12.4%, Dark 11.2%, Exploration 8.4%

AN IOU is the debut visual novel by Davey Cadaver. The music, backgrounds, & characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. The user takes the POV of the protagonist to experience a memorable story with an incredible soundtrack and multiple endings.

Why similar: Soundtrack 19.2% ★, Visual Novel 15.3%, Psychological 14.9%, Dark 12.9%, Surreal 9.7%

Help a little soul go through a unique and wonderful world. Explore the area, solve puzzles, find scraps of memories to help the hero reunite with his family and find out why Death didn't come for him.

Why similar: Surreal 26.7%, Exploration 11.9%, Nonlinear 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10%, Cute 8.7%

A comic-like visual novel, expressing a new story based on the fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel”.

Why similar: Psychological 27.9%, Comic Book 17.7%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Dark 14.7%, Story Rich 7.3%

選んだ主人公によって物語が分岐する2Dボスアクション！ 独特の雰囲気の漫画で進行するストーリー

Why similar: Character Action Game 55.5% ★, Comic Book 19%, Cute 8.2%, Multiple Endings 5.7%, 2D 4.5%

You wake in a surreal carnival, where a woman cries out to you before leaping to her death. Can either of you be saved? The denizens and devices of Strangeland answer with riddles, puzzles, and warnings of a Dark Thing lurking at the park’s peak. A new adventure from the creators of Primordia.

Why similar: Surreal 25.3%, Point & Click 24.4%, Psychological 19.9%, Dark 7.1%, Story Rich 6.8%

Explore a hauntingly surreal landscape filled with unused characters from a cancelled project in Bad Dream: Purgatory. Will you give them purpose, or will they be doomed to suffer?

Why similar: Surreal 21%, Psychological 17.5%, Point & Click 17%, Dark 10%, Multiple Endings 7.6%

A space station nestled in the clouds of Jupiter. A bizarre bazaar where a young, worried woman crafts entire universes in the palm of her hand. A mysterious cultist who's stripped the flesh from his bones in order to reach enlightenment. Here, there's a universe for sale. You buying?

Why similar: Point & Click 22.4%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Comic Book 17.3%, Atmospheric 9.9%, Exploration 9.6%

Lady Luck has selected 15 'thieves' to compete in Thief's Roulette. A new world of puzzles and deception.

Why similar: Psychological 21.4%, Surreal 19.4%, Point & Click 16.5%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Exploration 8.1%

Play as an unnamed man who suspects his wife of something, and dive deep into his memories of the day when he was about to propose to her. Your choices can influence the story. Genre: thriller.

Why similar: Surreal 33.6%, Psychological 21.6%, Visual Novel 18%, Choices Matter 8.4%, Atmospheric 7.9%

Tyoma leads a double life... a life of crime and deception. His carefully crafted life is thrown into shambles when he creates an unexpected bond with a gas station customer.

Why similar: Psychological 24.5%, Point & Click 19%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Dark 13.1%, Exploration 8.2%

You’re going home for the holidays!

Why similar: Character Action Game 61.9% ★, Point & Click 20.4%, Atmospheric 5.9%, 2D 4.7%, Adventure 3.6%

You are a terrifying monster living beneath someone’s house. This is a dark, cruel, twisted interactive novel where you are the main abomination.

Why similar: Surreal 19.7%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Point & Click 15.9%, Dark 13.6%, Exploration 7%

Magnus Imago is an atmospheric journey through a mysterious world of characters, traces and symbols. The task of the player is to solve the puzzles, using proper combinations of objects, finding them in the environment around him.

Why similar: Surreal 21.7%, Point & Click 15.7%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Comic Book 13.5%, Dark 9.7%

Experience a brand new adventure game set amongst a world of weird and wonderful fish planets. Explore beautiful environments, solve intricate puzzles and discover the truth about a mysterious little girl and her mechanical alter-ego, Cubus.

Why similar: Surreal 22.9%, Point & Click 20.1%, Soundtrack 16.8% ★, Cute 8.9%, Relaxing 8.2%

Unburied and forgotten undead gather in the city center, while the citizens of Greenberg go about their day-to-day lives.

Why similar: Surreal 28.6%, Point & Click 22.4%, Psychological 20.9%, Atmospheric 9.4%, Hand-drawn 6.5%

There are things that often fail on nothing but themselves. Is there even a way out? Playing Kafka is a narrative adventure full of impenetrable schemes, insidious plot twists and conversations that slip out of hand. Based on Kafka’s life and his work, developed with Kafka experts.

Why similar: Surreal 29.9%, Point & Click 21.6%, Psychological 21.1%, Atmospheric 7.9%, Story Rich 7%

a psychological visual novel where you investigate the souls of the dead. spend time with them, analyze their past, file reports to decide their eternal fate.

Why similar: Psychological 21%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Nonlinear 13.7%, Dark 8.3%, Atmospheric 8%

Jeremiah: The Nightfall Our memories are what tell us who we are. But what if, suddenly, you had none? What if you had to emerge from the darkness on your own strength? Will you be ready to face your demons?

Why similar: Point & Click 22.2%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Psychological 11.5%, Exploration 10.4%, Dark 9.9%

The silence of space. The whisper of memories. The last 30 minutes before your mind fades away. A story about farewell, choice, and pain.

Why similar: Soundtrack 29.5% ★, Psychological 28.4%, Visual Novel 20.8%, Atmospheric 7.7%, Story Rich 4.8%

A new virus is turning people into brain eating machines, etc. You know the rest. A cure has been found and all the infected people are now normal humans again. What is the problem then? Their skin color is still green. Play as an Ex-Zombie.

Why similar: Surreal 18.4%, Soundtrack 18.2% ★, Point & Click 17.2%, Dark 10.2%, Exploration 7.5%

Strange Telephone is a 2D adventure game in which the player explores strange worlds created with merely 6 digits, and has multiple endings.

Why similar: Surreal 21.8%, Psychological 17.9%, Soundtrack 17.6% ★, Point & Click 13.3%, Exploration 6.7%

This is a short visual novel that immerses the player in the inner world of the main character, who suffers from social anxiety and is afraid even of a simple phone call. Experience with her the anxiety, procrastination, and constant struggle with herself.

Why similar: Psychological 29.8%, Visual Novel 21%, Atmospheric 10.1%, Exploration 9.5%, Cute 8.1%

Dreamscape Abyss is a game where you explore the ever-changing and surreal worlds inside of your dreams. Collect items to help you discover even more obscure areas as you delve deeper into your dream world.

Why similar: Surreal 24.6%, Psychological 15.6%, Dark 14.6%, Exploration 11.5%, Cute 9%

Leila is a heartfelt, hand-animated narrative game about the small yet significant struggles we all face. Solve story-driven puzzles, relive fragile memories, and discover a deeply personal journey that may feel more familiar than you expect.

Why similar: Psychological 20.7%, Soundtrack 18.1% ★, Point & Click 17.1%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Hand-drawn 6.7%

Are you ready to step into a dark and mysterious world with Aaron, who is afraid of his own shadow? A file that has been closed for years is opened again, the forgotten ones wake up from their sleep and the silence is broken by screams.

Why similar: Surreal 17%, Point & Click 15.4%, Psychological 14.7%, Dark 13.6%, Atmospheric 7.9%

Explore a lovingly crafted world with all its odd inhabitants as you experience the ethereal realm and deliver messages to the spirits. Make your mark in the wordless narrative - with a Tiny Echo.

Why similar: Point & Click 23.4%, Surreal 20.6%, Cute 10.6%, Relaxing 9.5%, Atmospheric 9.3%

Night Reverie is a Puzzle/Adventure game in which a child must solve the mystery behind the distortion of his house. Explore puzzle-filled environments and discover strange creatures living in the house as you reach the truth behind of what looks like a bizarre nightmare.

Why similar: Surreal 24.9%, Soundtrack 16.9% ★, Exploration 12.6%, Cute 9.4%, Relaxing 9.1%

A short, interactive visual novel set in the mid-19th Century, in which a poet fights against time as she's writing the most important work of her life. Poetry is the answer, but what is the question?

Why similar: Psychological 23.5%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Surreal 16.1%, Point & Click 15%, Dark 11.6%

Call of the Lake is an atmospheric visual novel in the psychological horror genre. Would you dare to look into your own past if it turns out to be more terrifying than any nightmare? 💀

Why similar: Visual Novel 21.6%, Nonlinear 20.5%, Point & Click 15.4%, Psychological 9.3%, Dark 9.1%

Russia in the ‘90s. A provincial town at the edge of the crumbling Soviet Empire. A group of kids faces the disturbing horror they are unable to comprehend – the DØM RUSALOK. This is a place where the worst nightmares come true.

Why similar: Character Action Game 43.6% ★, Point & Click 18.2%, Dark 9.6%, Exploration 8.6%, Atmospheric 8.4%

A short psychological adventure about a stressed girl who wants to explore her ceiling.

Why similar: Psychological 30%, Point & Click 21.4%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Multiple Endings 8.9%, Atmospheric 8.1%

Help Karambola on his quest to rescue his emotional fruit people friends from the power of dark thoughts in this short hand-drawn point-and-click puzzle adventure.

Why similar: Surreal 25.9%, Point & Click 19.8%, Comic Book 17.4%, Psychological 11.3%, Relaxing 8.1%

A flying saucer crash-lands in a distant Russian village, turning a rundown kolkhoz into the first, thin bridge between civilizations. As the first point of contact, you must dictate how this encounter unfolds and ultimately determine history’s outcome.

Why similar: Character Action Game 50.7% ★, Visual Novel 15.5%, Exploration 9.5%, Cute 6.9%, Atmospheric 5.7%

Your end is my beginning. A short psychological visual novel with exploration and puzzle elements... it already lays shattered.

Why similar: Point & Click 22.1%, Visual Novel 20%, Psychological 17.1%, Exploration 11.1%, Dark 6.7%

Find healing from a mundane life by decorating the old house, all while playing personal babysitter for the 'little imp' in the mirror, helping him pass his boring days. In a sliver of frozen, misplaced time, you must find your own happiness.

Why similar: Comic Book 18.3%, Point & Click 16.8%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Exploration 11%, Relaxing 8.8%

A short hidden object adventure about doing things later. Search, find, and don't lose yourself.

Why similar: Surreal 25.5%, Point & Click 25.4%, Psychological 24.5%, Atmospheric 6.7%, Hand-drawn 5.9%

Pera Coda is a narrative mystery adventure about a man trapped between life and death. To escape, he must face his past, confront buried traumas, and stand trial for the life he lived. Set in Istanbul, it blends psychological drama, branching dialogue, and puzzles in a journey of self-discovery.

Why similar: Surreal 28.4%, Point & Click 23.6%, Exploration 15.1%, Psychological 14%, Choices Matter 6.1%

You’re a grade-schooler at a religious institution where something feels off in this surreal, first-person adventure game. Do your genes make a difference in the outcome of your suffering? Will your faith be enough to shroud your fears? Perhaps you already know the answer.

Why similar: Psychological 32.3%, Surreal 31.3%, Atmospheric 12.1%, Dark 10.1%, Exploration 8.5%

Accompany Nai in her normal Sunday routine of watching TV, eating ramen and ruminating on her past.

Why similar: Psychological 32.2%, Point & Click 20.9%, Visual Novel 19%, Dark 10.3%, Story Rich 6.6%

A dark, whimsical, and absurd interactive comic by artist Ida Hartmann, exploring the despair and loneliness of a young woman living alone through a long summer in Copenhagen.

Why similar: Point & Click 19.8%, Comic Book 14.5%, Surreal 14.1%, Psychological 13.6%, Visual Novel 11.3%

Tiara is an exploration-focused narrative game where you play through a number of days (and dream through a number of nights) to uncover the story of Tiara's life.

Why similar: Surreal 33.7%, Psychological 22.2%, Nonlinear 13.5%, Atmospheric 12%, Exploration 11.9%

Jamie's Dream is a short, emotional, experimental, psychological horror narrative experience. Walk through nightmares, facing fears and memories as they are revealed going deeper and deeper into the abyss of Jamie's mind.

Why similar: Psychological 24.5%, Surreal 23.8%, Point & Click 18.7%, Dark 15.1%, Atmospheric 7.5%