60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Atmospheric, Text-Based, Horror.
Whisperstring is an 80s inspired text adventure game that takes place inside a “chat room”. You’re connected to Adam, a "jock" with a severe fear of strings, who seems to have been the victim of a supernatural kidnapping. Will you be able to help him escape?
Spooltape
While filming a documentary on analog horror, something goes horribly wrong. A cursed VHS tape. Lost cultists. Salvation. Are you brave enough to follow the tape’s sinister commands? Face analog nightmares and decide your fate in this horror visual novel with multiple endings.
Class Reunion Chat Room
Amy receives an invitation to a group chat set up by some of her former classmates. Its purpose is to reconnect after all these years. But soon more and more disturbing facts about Amy's classmates are revealed, and Amy begins to fear that the people she's texting with may not be what they seem.
While filming a documentary on analog horror, something goes horribly wrong. A cursed VHS tape. Lost cultists. Salvation. Are you brave enough to follow the tape’s sinister commands? Face analog nightmares and decide your fate in this horror visual novel with multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Horror 9%, Dark 7.8%, Text-Based 7.8%
Amy receives an invitation to a group chat set up by some of her former classmates. Its purpose is to reconnect after all these years. But soon more and more disturbing facts about Amy's classmates are revealed, and Amy begins to fear that the people she's texting with may not be what they seem.
Why similar: Text-Based 17%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Horror 10.1%, Surreal 9.7%
YOU CONTROL THE FOUND FOOTAGE. Another tape has been leaked, this time a recording of a training protocol. By answering questions and resisting jumpscares, can you beat the Entity Exam?
Why similar: Text-Based 21.4%, 1980s 20.4%, Horror 14%, Linear 8.8%, Psychological Horror 7.3%
A psychological horror you never see — you read it. Blind and deaf, you sense an arctic station through a neural implant: text, smell, touch. Quarantine rules say only one person may leave their cabin at a time. You are out. Five bodies are found by morning.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.7%, Investigation 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Horror 9.3%
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: Emotional 11.4%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Mystery 9%
A visual novel about a girl who escaped from a psychiatric hospital. She is pursued by a strange being from another world — and it seems she’s not the only one who can see visitors from beyond.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Text-Based 13.7%, Dialogue Heavy 13.3%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Surreal 10.6%
A dark sci-fi psychological Visual Novel where your choices shape who you are. The world has ended and it's been dominated by mysterious aliens who roam the city. Despite that, you only think of what you've lost. Will you be able to rebuild your relationships? Or even... the world itself?
Why similar: Text-Based 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Psychological Horror 9.7%
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 13.7%, Text-Based 13.2%, Horror 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Dark 11.4%
A linear paranormal mystery visual novel driven by dynamic text presentation. As timid but earnest rookie Mao-Rabbit, explore a mall after closing, rescue a customer the night guard cannot see, and uncover the anomaly rules already at work. No branches or bad endings.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Text-Based 11.6%, Mystery 11.2%
Point-and-click mystery adventure on the virtual Social Media! Find secrets hidden by family, friends, companies, and idols.
Why similar: Investigation 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Text-Based 12.5%, Visual Novel 11%, Mystery 11%
Alone in the dead of night, you find yourself sent on a simple errand to check on a quiet gas station on the outskirts of town. But nothing here feels right. You can’t outrun this place. It wants you. And it will keep you.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 14.7%, Text-Based 14.6%, Surreal 11.3%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Visual Novel 10%
A horror point and click game where choices matter about trying to do your final marathon training run.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Text-Based 11.2%, Surreal 10.5%
Wake up, watch tv, make a cup of cofffee and try to bear your own meaningless existence.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Minimalist 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Dark 10.7%
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 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Mystery 11.3%, Emotional 11.1%
A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Emotional 10.4%
You went to the desert to rest. You crushed a worm. Now it talks to you in dreams.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Visual Novel 13%, Dialogue Heavy 13%, Investigation 12.5%, Text-Based 10.8%
My name is left behind these white walls. In its place, I am left with dozens of questions. I wander aimlessly, though she seems to guide me. I do not feel safe. Twenty-four hours... and everything will fall into place.
Why similar: Text-Based 13.3%, Investigation 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Dialogue Heavy 10.2%, Visual Novel 10.1%
Type your fate. Arm yourself with your keyboard and your wits, and try to escape from the abandoned house where you are. Unfortunately, you won't be alone...
Why similar: Text-Based 14.3%, 1980s 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Investigation 12.2%, Psychological Horror 9.8%
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: Interactive Fiction 18%, Visual Novel 16%, Text-Based 14.9%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Horror 12.1%
Of Moons and Mania is an interactive psychotic break, based on lived experience. It uses elements of its design to explain the struggles of psychosis, and tells a personal story about mental illness.
Why similar: Emotional 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Text-Based 16.6%, Dark 12.3%, Linear 9.5%
This game is based on the theme of love & light reasoning. Even if you choose the wrong option, it will not lead to game over. It is very suitable for casual players who like love reasoning but don't want to waste their brain cells.
Why similar: Investigation 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Dialogue Heavy 18.8%, Text-Based 15.6%, Visual Novel 15.3%
A short story about a difficult day at work and a painful breakup that lingers; about depression, anxiety, and how they can lead to eating disorders. Do you know how many calories are in a muffin? Are you ready for what the answer implies?
Why similar: Text-Based 20.9%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Dialogue Heavy 13.7%, Dark 11.3%, Minimalist 10.7%
Your Turn to Disembark is an episodic narrative game about a weird train and the passengers that are trapped inside of it. Will you make it out of the train or will you be trapped onto it's route for the rest of days?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24%, Dialogue Heavy 21.4%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Linear 10.7%, Emotional 8.1%
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: Text-Based 22.2%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Horror 12.7%
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: Text-Based 20%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Horror 10.8%
A point-and-click horror/tragedy visual novel about melding your perception of the world around you. Walk around, drive people to their death, and shape Perdita's existence. Remember: The flesh-sin is nothing. Before she can become everything, you must make her into something.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16%, Emotional 13.9%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Text-Based 10.4%, Dialogue Heavy 9.5%
is a short, interactive experience about those endless, looping fever dreams you get when you're sick.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 12%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Surreal 11.3%
Weep for the dead! In this short psychological horror story, play as a professional mourner travelling between funerals. Ride a nightmarish bus whose destination depends on how you choose to face your traumas.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 14.5%, Surreal 12%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.2%
A text-based psychological horror experience set inside a hospital where something is deeply wrong — and death may not be the end.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Investigation 12.5%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Mystery 8.4%
Learn an artificial language to chat with a cute AI. Manage a list of words and connect them in novel ways to build any sentence. The AI will remember all your interactions, forever.
Why similar: 1980s 19.4%, Text-Based 15.3%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%
NEXUS CORP, sub-basement 7-A. Stamp the forms. Ask nothing. Since 1952, forty-six clerks have vanished at this desk - you are the forty-seventh. Cross-check every claim on your terminal, rule APPROVED or REJECTED, and try not to wonder what the paperwork is really sealing.
Why similar: Investigation 18.2%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Text-Based 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Horror 10.3%
Shamrock Creations is proud to present Watashi Suzume. A story that explores the far reaching impacts that love, friendship, and understanding have on not only our own lives, but how we view life itself. All wrapped up in a supernatural murder mystery narrative that we think everyone will enjoy.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.3%, Investigation 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11.6%
The Darkest Emptiness will fill the lungs with leaden weight.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.9%, Psychological Horror 16.8%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Horror 10.5%
Tails Noir Preludes is a post-noir narrative adventure with branching choices. It is an intertwined series of vignettes about change, circumstance, and consequence. Guide four characters through formative moments in their lives in a dystopian Vancouver inhabited by anthropomorphic animals.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23.6%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Emotional 10.2%, Surreal 6.7%
"Shaqing" is a Chinese horror puzzle game set in "Wuzhan Town". Players must help the protagonist escape an evil scene where dreams and reality blur, and save his beloved. The objective is to help the protagonist escape and save his beloved.
Why similar: Text-Based 14.4%, Surreal 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Mystery 10.5%
Ellie, your new girlfriend, doesn't seem to get along well with your circle of friends. Find out what is going wrong after one of your best friends suddenly doesn't answer his phone anymore in this pixel-art, story-driven adventure.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.4%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Minimalist 11.7%, Dark 9.2%, Interactive Fiction 8.7%
《下九泉》是一款国产剧情向解谜游戏。主角孟存真死后魂归地府，成为行走于九泉的实习判官。孟存真从一个因受诅咒而不能入轮回的亡魂展开调查，追寻亡者被诅咒的真相。游戏围绕人性中“贪、嗔、痴、慢、疑”展开5个截然不同的单元故事。不到最后一刻，你永远想不到事件背后令人细思极恐的真相…
Why similar: Investigation 13.7%, Surreal 13.2%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Mystery 12.6%, Text-Based 10.2%
The Faceless Killer is a first-person survival horror game with retro PS1-style graphics, consisting of 2 chapters. Solve logic puzzles, fight against your enemies, or hide when there's no other option. Unravel this mystery surrounding the Faceless Killer. Who is he, and what are his motivations?
Why similar: 1980s 19.1%, Investigation 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Horror 9.9%
You arrive in a small village as a fortune-teller who reads the future in tea leaves. But an apocalyptic vision leads you to question its tranquillity. What if you had a part to play in this? Ready your cups and tea leaves, as the future of this village will be shaped by four unusual visitors.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Text-Based 14%, Investigation 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.7%
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: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Text-Based 14.4%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Dialogue Heavy 10.9%
Fear is real. Sometimes tragedy needs nothing more than that. 💀 A short visual novel based on the story of the same name — about the silence that lets something shuffling into your home. 👁️👁️
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.8%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Dark 12.1%, Horror 11.6%, Emotional 11.1%
A story-rich coming-of-age experience told through a 2004 desktop, where friendships, music, and late-night conversations shape who you become. Explore chats, drama, mini-games, and the early internet in a branching story about growing up, making mistakes, and finding your place.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Dialogue Heavy 19.3%, Text-Based 16.7%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Emotional 8.8%
A fable from your childhood. Don't you remember it?
Why similar: Text-Based 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Dialogue Heavy 14%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Surreal 11.1%
You can't sleep, cause of strange noise from somewhere above. Go check it out.
Why similar: 1980s 13.6%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Surreal 11.5%, Text-Based 10.6%, Dark 10%
A short psychological audio horror call where every number routes you deeper into a faceless bureau that measures and files you.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Horror 12.7%, Surreal 10.9%, Story Rich 10.3%
Find a way out of the Do 11 app by doing missions that come from the mysterious Do 11 app. A choice awaits you to solve puzzles and change the fate of the protagonist. Escape the main character from the Do 11 app while savoring a profound worldview and intriguing story. An incredible twist awaits.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Text-Based 15.6%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Mystery 9.5%
A story about a beautiful river that hides deadly secrets beneath its calm surface.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.5%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Horror 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Dark 9.6%
The horror personality q̷̦̈́͊u̸̠͗i̴͈͈̊̈z̴͈͇̳͗͌
Why similar: Text-Based 22.9%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Horror 11.5%, Surreal 9.1%
Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Visual Novel 11%, Surreal 10.8%, Emotional 10.6%
Static Hour is a 1980s newsroom thriller where you decide what goes on air during a mysterious lockdown. Uncover a story you can’t see but only hear, and choose which voices make it to air. Every broadcast pushes the town closer to the truth or deeper into panic.
Why similar: Investigation 21%, 1980s 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Horror 11.7%
Follow Joseph, Eric, and William (as well as a handful of other characters) as they awake from cryogenic stasis at the enigmatic facility known as Intermine Laboratories. But, deep within the abyss exists an ancient evil that is seeking to enact its own twisted machinations ...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Text-Based 18.2%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Linear 12%, Horror 11.8%
Kamilia is a story-driven, choices-matter detective mystery. Follow a talented painter who finds himself wrapped up in an unsolved case, as he tries to unveil a hidden truth that has been buried for years.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 15.6%, Investigation 15.2%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Mystery 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%
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: Dialogue Heavy 18.1%, Investigation 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Surreal 13.5%, Visual Novel 11.2%
This is a psychological horror in which we play as a girl who has psychological health problems, and her mother has sent her to the store. Our task is to help her buy groceries.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Minimalist 14.3%, Surreal 11.6%
“You were only trying to do the right thing—so why is everything falling apart?” A Japanese language teacher’s choices to save three girls who have stopped attending school will change their fates. A psychological horror visual novel with 16 endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.5%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Horror 10%, Emotional 9.9%
You are a father. You wake in a hallway that hums. Empty pools. Dead malls. Your four daughters are here. Voice acted by a real father and his daughters. Two endings. No right answer.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Psychological Horror 13%, Emotional 12%, Surreal 11.6%
An experimental, horror visual novel about raising a virtual pet. Help a tamagotchi-like creature navigate his angst. We love Momo!
Why similar: Text-Based 18.6%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Dark 12.3%, Minimalist 12.2%, Linear 10.6%
Go about your normal every day life and meet new friends in this short visual novel!
Why similar: Text-Based 23.8%, Visual Novel 22.6%, Psychological Horror 18.7%, Horror 13.6%, Dark 10.1%
Investigate system failures, trace corrupted infrastructure, and keep the node alive before stability reaches zero. NODE ZERO is an interface-driven psychological horror game where something inside the system is learning how you work.
Why similar: Investigation 22.1%, Text-Based 18.5%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%, Mystery 8.4%
You're looking for a new apartment in Amsterdam. Your once-confident search is morphing into panic. Nothing is available. Anything will do. ANYTHING.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Text-Based 14.7%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Minimalist 12%, Surreal 11.4%
