
A presence lingers in the dark, waiting. It asks. It doubts. It knows. What happened? Why are you here? Do you deserve this? The answers are yours to decide. What you choose matters. Every path leads somewhere. But will you like where it takes you?
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Psychological Horror, Choices Matter, Text-Based.

A presence lingers in the dark, waiting. It asks. It doubts. It knows. What happened? Why are you here? Do you deserve this? The answers are yours to decide. What you choose matters. Every path leads somewhere. But will you like where it takes you?

Not It: Spookiest Edition
Not It: Spookiest Edition is a horror-filled visual novel full of suspense and mystery where you navigate Katie through a living nightmare. Her move-in day on Halloween throws her into a centuries-old curse. Can she make it through the night? Will her new neighbors perish? Decide their fate.

Thorner
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.
Not It: Spookiest Edition is a horror-filled visual novel full of suspense and mystery where you navigate Katie through a living nightmare. Her move-in day on Halloween throws her into a centuries-old curse. Can she make it through the night? Will her new neighbors perish? Decide their fate.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Text-Based 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Psychological Horror 9.5%
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 15.1%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.4%, Interactive Fiction 8.1%
A text-based psychological horror experience set inside a hospital where something is deeply wrong — and death may not be the end.
Why similar: Psychological 11%, Text-Based 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Psychological Horror 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Horror 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Visual Novel 10.2%
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 14.6%, Psychological 14.5%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%
"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested." Story about life, choices and a Man vs the System. This unique interactive literature adaptation. A game, brought to You in early visual novel, text-adventure style.
Why similar: Text-Based 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Choices Matter 10.1%
A story-driven mystery visual novel set in a remote island village. Gather clues through conversations and exploration, and uncover hidden truths through branching routes and multiple endings amid the tense, claustrophobic atmosphere.
Why similar: Text-Based 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Psychological 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.6%
A suspense mystery set in a police station. Includes two visual novels. *Lost* features a multi-ending system based on player choices. *Secret A* is a short story with no choices. Both offer suspenseful storylines.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Psychological 10.9%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Mystery 9.9%
Something is growing on your hand. You see the Doctor. Things get weird.
Why similar: Psychological 13%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.3%
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Horror 13.3%, Visual Novel 13%, Text-Based 10.1%
The Darkest Emptiness will fill the lungs with leaden weight.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 15%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Text-Based 13.3%, Psychological 11.3%, Horror 9.1%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Horror 8.4%, Psychological Horror 8.4%
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 16.9%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Choices Matter 12.5%
This is a simple story about young people, about the aroma of youth and the smells of life, which can so easily be cut short by a fatal accident.Or maybe at the behest of a heartless fate.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.4%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Choices Matter 10%, Horror 9.5%
The horror personality q̷̦̈́͊u̸̠͗i̴͈͈̊̈z̴͈͇̳͗͌
Why similar: Text-Based 16.7%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Horror 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%
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 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Horror 10.4%
It is said that the last frontier is space, but the crew of the Soviet Frigate, The Peresmeshnik, is about to discover that the sea still hides a terrifying secret. Waiting to be found.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Psychological Horror 9.4%, Horror 7.9%
A classic 90s choose your own adventure style horror visual novel. Escape the horrors hunting you, make decisions, forge your own path. An original complete story with multiple endings. Choose your own play style with a Text Adventure Mode, sound effects, and an ambient soundtrack.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Text-Based 11.1%
Stranded after a plane crash in a freezing wilderness, you must manage body temperature, injury, and sanity as every decision shapes your survival.
Why similar: Visual Novel 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%
Survive a gripping psychological thriller in this visual novel. Make critical decisions, face a disturbed captor, and experience multiple chilling endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Text-Based 10.3%
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: Psychological 15.6%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%
Trapped in a cursed office overnight, you must uncover a hidden password before morning... while reality distorts, blood seeps through the walls, and something watches you. Explore branching paths, face strange encounters, and survive this psychological horror visual novel.
Why similar: Psychological 15.7%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Psychological Horror 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Horror 8.5%
Evil Spirits is a nonlinear psychological horror visual novel inspired by Slavic folklore. Uncover the secrets of a forgotten village, trust no one, and remember: true evil sometimes hides not in the shadows of a hut, but in the darkness of the human soul.
Why similar: Visual Novel 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Horror 9.1%
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: Psychological 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Text-Based 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
When the villagers of Derevnya begin turning up maimed, suspicion falls on you. Track down the beast to clear your name and save the village—but to unravel the mystery, you will need to confront your own past. A survival-horror choose your own adventure set in Kievan Rus'.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Psychological Horror 9.6%
Confinio is an intriguing visual novel that delves into your sensations as you embody the protagonist who has just awakened in a prison with no memory. Make decisions, solve puzzles, interact with the environment, use objects, interrogate people, all to yourself and uncover the enigmatic reality.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Psychological 12.8%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%
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 18.3%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Horror 11.4%, Mystery 11.2%
A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths. A free atmospheric horror visual novel where you navigate life-or-death situations. SEEK PARADISE OR DIE TRYING
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Horror 7.7%
He wanders into the village and comes face to face with the village customs and the mystery of the sacred tree. However, he is also a freak who wants to desecrate the mystery. The battle for the salvation of mankind by the cursed village begins.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Psychological 10.4%, Horror 10%
The threat is on the road ahead and deep beneath her skin. A psychological visual novel about memory, trauma, and the cost of every choice.
Why similar: Psychological 16.2%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Text-Based 12.4%, Choices Matter 10.7%
A black-white-red visual novel in the horror genre.
Why similar: Gore 16.7%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Horror 12.6%, Text-Based 9.4%, Visual Novel 8.9%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Psychological 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%, Horror 8.4%
A game about the path you're on, and what you're really doing with your life.
Why similar: Psychological 15.4%, Visual Novel 13%, Text-Based 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Psychological Horror 11%
A choose-your-own-adventure novel. Enter the mind of a black-ops team leader heading an impossible mission in a parallel universe. Choices are remembered, story events reflect past decisions, and freely rewind time to try different paths.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Text-Based 16.5%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Horror 11.3%
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 20.1%, Horror 15.5%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Gore 9.8%, Psychological Horror 9.4%
If you're ready to run and play a deadly game of hide-and-seek, then come on in and make yourself at home. Behind the door, endless oppressive corridors, filthy walls, deadly traps, and a ravenous creature eagerly waiting to get up close and personal with you await.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.3%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Horror 11.5%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10%
A psychological horror story set in the town of Blackthorn; a place that lives in constant fear of a witch. The two main suspects? Levi’s mom and sister! His only lifelines to the outside world. Can they live a peaceful life? Or will they be dragged down by the dying town?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Choices Matter 10.4%
John is a young man suffering from severe depression. As he loses his sense of purpose in life, he begins to see the world in unfocused gray. Just when he begins to lose all hope, John meets a girl... a very special girl.
Why similar: Psychological 12.5%, Visual Novel 12%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
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 14.2%, Text-Based 13.7%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
Cast Into A Boundless White Void. Paintings Hunger For Your Story. What Will You Answer?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Psychological 12.5%, Mystery 9.1%, Psychological Horror 8.9%
A mystical visual novel where ordinary school life intertwines with mysterious phenomena. Every decision you make could lead to uncovering secrets... or plunge you into even greater uncertainty.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Mystery 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Psychological Horror 10.9%
Return to a town that never changed… and a friend who's supposed to be dead. A psychological horror visual novel about memory and the cost of refusing to move forward.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Choices Matter 8.9%
This is a text-based horror game in which you investigate mysterious urban legends. Along the way, the player takes on the role of a character who gets “lost” and encounters a series of random events.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Text-Based 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Horror 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 10%
Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Horror 10.3%
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 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Horror 10.6%
Embark on a nocturnal road movie full of mysteries, paranormal phenomena, and an unexpected destination. Choose your answers carefully... and you might just find a happy ending.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Mystery 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 12%
An idol livestreamer is searching for her missing partner. You are not just watching her stream. Interfere with her broadcast, investigate clues on and off stream, and uncover the truth behind her partner’s disappearance.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Mystery 12.4%, Horror 12%, Text-Based 10.4%
Participate in the Death Game "Rising Odds", a psychological horror visual novel, with dark and gore themes. Your choices will decide how this story ends!
Why similar: Gore 12.1%, Psychological Horror 11%, Psychological 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%
A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Psychological Horror 14%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Text-Based 11.7%
Vacation Terminal is a short 2D Psychological thriller, horror and survival based visual novel with evading based puzzle elements. Following the story of two strangers.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Psychological Horror 7.5%, Gore 7.5%
A narrative-driven psychological visual novel where every floor of an elevator reveals a key moment from your past. Face your regrets, uncover forgotten memories, and make choices that shape your future. Will you find closure, or remain trapped in your own mind?
Why similar: Text-Based 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Multiple Endings 12.3%
Experience the hunt for the Monster living in your room in this Visual Novel experience. Your choices will determine the fate of both you and the Monster. Will you figure out what the Monster really is?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Text-Based 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Horror 9.7%
A short psychological thriller visual novel where you guide Sora through twisted interrogations, moral dilemmas, and unraveling memories...
Why similar: Psychological 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%
Welcome to Sprunki Town, where everyone is happy!
Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.2%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Psychological 11.6%, Text-Based 10.2%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
You went to the desert to rest. You crushed a worm. Now it talks to you in dreams.
Why similar: Visual Novel 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Horror 9.6%
A sound, a flash, a portal… A pirate emerges, bringing a deadly threat. Five friends stand before him, and one of them is the target. But which one? Even they don't know.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Psychological 12.1%, Mystery 10.3%
Immerse yourself in the enigmatic world of Nauris, where enchanting landscapes hide terrifying secrets: the strange behavior of elders, sinister rituals of priests, and the disappearance of citizens. Madness lurks everywhere – will you master it or become its victim? The choice is yours.
Why similar: Visual Novel 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Horror 10%, Choices Matter 9.7%
A classic choose your own adventure story. Escape the horrors hunting you, make decisions, forge your own path. An original complete story with multiple endings and secrets to unlock. Choose your own play style with a Text Adventure Mode, sound effects, and an ambient soundtrack.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Text-Based 15.7%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Choices Matter 10.4%
“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 12.4%, Psychological 11.2%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Horror 10%, Multiple Endings 9.9%