- #1 Beneath the Shadow
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: The White Room Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Beneath the Shadow is a 3-hour psychological horror kinetic novel set in an alternate Tokyo lost to endless darkness. Adapted from the creator's original novel, it follows Kazusa, an 18-year-old whose ordinary days unravel into madness. Linear and story-driven, with save/reload anytime.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.6%, Psychological 17.8%, Anime 14.2%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Dark 10.6%
- #2 The Butterfly Dreams
96% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Ave Q Production
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short mystery and psychological visual novel. Hook in to a state-of-the-art gaming machine capable of creating whole virtual experiences based on your imagination. But be careful, the other testers might be there with a different plan in mind.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.1%, Adventure 14.3%, Psychological 14.3%, Anime 12.9%, Dark 10.3%
- #3 Valkyrie Tune: Synthesis of Souls
96% matchPositive88% of 24 reviews2026
Dev: FrontwingPub: GOOD SMILE COMPANY
Windows
A visual novel that brings the "Valkyrie Tune" plastic model series by Good Smile Company to life. Experience the resonant story of an amnesiac protagonist and six stunning heroines, whose intertwining serenade of love, sorrow, and fateful encounters calls forth a reboot for the future.
Why similar: Visual Novel 33.2%, Adventure 29%, Anime 19.6%, Cute 16.5%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #4 Sister Other Paranoia
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: HazeDenkiPub: Serenity Forge
Windows
A dark visual novel by acclaimed creator nyalra. Overly sensitive to other people's emotions, the protagonist—a light novel writer—develops the ability to read minds, only to be driven even deeper into isolation. His sole remaining comfort is his younger sister, gifted yet lonely.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.8%, Anime 14.1%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Cute 13%, Dark 10.4%
- #5 Before the screen goes black
94% matchNo user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Sayo-nara22
Windows · Mac · Linux
You only have one week to befriend the one who lives on the other side of the screen. He’s waiting for you, remembers all your visits, and even notices how long you’re gone. Play mini-games, listen to his thoughts, and simply watch how the world around you changes.
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.8%, Adventure 26.4%, Dark 17.1%, Multiple Endings 12%, 2D 9.5%
- #6 Khitarii and Khimoshi
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: XeroStryker
Windows
Kitari and Kimoshi is a story about two girls who meet for the very first time through unusual circumstances. Click through the manga pages, and make choices that affect the flow of the story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.7%, Anime 14.8%, Dark 12.7%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Cute 11.3%
- #7 苏菲·404恋人
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PygmaGame
Windows · Mac · Linux
As summer vacation draws to a close, you, Sophie’s childhood friend, have only one week left before parting ways. How will you spend that time together, express your love, and make a promise for the future?
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.4%, Cute 14.2%, Psychological Horror 14%, Adventure 13.1%, Anime 11.8%
- #8 Kyoto Colorful Days
92% matchVery Positive85% of 175 reviews2016
Dev: InterOne Inc.Pub: Dogenzaka Lab
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
"Kyoto Colorful Days" is a Visual Novel, set in the sightseeing hotspot of Kyoto.This visual novel is populated by various different characters and the story can be enjoyed like a TV drama. Fully voiced in Japanese (the Kyoto dialect)
Why similar: Visual Novel 43.6%, Anime 22.3%, Adventure 21.8%, Cute 12.3%
- #9 Higurashi When They Cry Hou+
91% matchVery Positive86% of 193 reviews2023
Dev: 07th ExpansionPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
The tragedy of Hinamizawa is over. Those held captive within its grip are free from the fate that bound them to June 1983. Yet the tale of Hinamizawa is not truly complete. There are many worlds not yet explored.
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.4%, Psychological 21.8%, Anime 17.5%, Adventure 14.9%, Psychological Horror 4.5%
- #10 XBlaze Lost: Memories
91% matchVery Positive81% of 53 reviews2016
Dev: Arc System WorksPub: Aksys Games
Windows
XBlaze Lost: Memories is a visual-novel game based in the BlazBlue universe and the sequel to XBlaze Code: Embryo!
Why similar: Anime 30.5%, Visual Novel 25%, Adventure 23.1%, Cute 13.6%, Story Rich 6.2%
- #11 Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club TOKIMEKI Roadmap to Future
89% matchVery Positive83% of 127 reviews2025
Dev: HUNEX CO.,LTD.Pub: Bushiroad Inc.
Windows
The first visual novel game of Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club!
Why similar: Visual Novel 33.7%, Cute 19.6%, Adventure 17.4%, Anime 17.3%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
- #12 XBlaze Code: Embryo
90% matchMostly Positive75% of 119 reviews2016
Dev: Arc System WorksPub: Aksys Games
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 19.8 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Set 150 years before the events of BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, XBlaze Code: Embryo is a visual novel that follows Touya Kagari, a high school student whose world is turned upside down when he is attacked by a seemingly otherworldly being and saved by a mysterious girl named Es.
Why similar: Visual Novel 33.9%, Anime 29.4%, Adventure 19.2%, Cute 9.6%, Story Rich 6.3%
- #13 The NOexistenceN of you AND me
88% matchVery Positive93% of 21,633 reviews2024
Dev: 0x0Real StudioPub: Nino Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.9%, Psychological 14.2%, Anime 13.1%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
- #14 Supipara - Chapter 2 Spring Has Come!
89% matchVery Positive99% of 133 reviews2018
Dev: minoriPub: MangaGamer
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 617.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
After seven years, Yukinari Sanada has returned to his hometown in Kanagawa Prefecture, Kamakura City, but something feels... different. Both he and his younger sister, Rikka, transfer into Oumi Academy and hope for a fresh start.
Why similar: Visual Novel 35.5%, Adventure 28.4%, Anime 24.5%, Cute 11.6%
- #15 Snowy Heaven
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Reinfree
Windows
Angels greet you with smiles! Welcome to Heaven, where happiness awaits!
Why similar: Visual Novel 27%, Adventure 20%, Psychological 18.1%, Cute 12.8%, Anime 10.9%
- #16 Malus Code
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 104 reviews2016
Dev: M2 Co.,LTDPub: Dogenzaka Lab
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Malus Code is the story of a graduate student studying abroad at a Japanese university, and the three people he meets in the laboratory there. In this unfamiliar environment, can you earn their friendship? For those who don't want a lonely, sad life.
Why similar: Visual Novel 40.8%, Anime 29.1%, Adventure 21.9%, Cute 8.2%
- #17 Gretel's Honesty
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Callen Dulla
Windows
A comic-like visual novel, expressing a new story based on the fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel”.
Why similar: Psychological 20.9%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Dark 13.1%, Anime 10.4%, Adventure 10%
- #18 Information conveyed Information received
84% match6 user reviews71% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: ほんわかふわふわ
Windows
You are an AD intern at a TV studio aiming to secure a job offer. During a live talk show, you must give directions using cue cards. Convey information based on the situation to keep things running smoothly, boost audience favorability toward the guest, and earn your offer through your performance.
Why similar: Visual Novel 29%, Adventure 24%, Anime 12.5%, Cute 12.2%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
- #19 Hoshizora no Memoria -Wish upon a Shooting Star- HD
85% matchVery Positive93% of 392 reviews2017
Dev: FavoritePub: Sekai Project
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 22.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A Japanese love adventure game, as you follow the story of Kogasaka You, his hometown and a promise he made.
Why similar: Visual Novel 43.9%, Adventure 17.7%, Anime 17.7%, Cute 13.3%, Story Rich 6.6%
- #20 One Last Crane
84% match8 user reviews63% of 8 reviews2022
Dev: Blissful Work'sPub: Sekai Project
Windows · Mac · Linux
One Last Crane is a visual novel centered on Yuuki Murakami, a boy who has a brain tumor. After a long year of treatment without any positive results, Yuuki asks for his final wish: to return to his hometown and fulfill his promise to meet again with his childhood friend, Saki Nishimura...
Why similar: Visual Novel 32.3%, Anime 27.1%, Adventure 17.7%, Cute 6.6%, Multiple Endings 6%
- #21 午前五時にピアノを弾く ENCORE
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Kazuhide OkaPub: Waku Waku Games
Windows
朝の早い時間、午前五時くらいになると、この町にはときどき濃い霧が出る──。
Why similar: Visual Novel 32.7%, Adventure 26.1%, Anime 17.2%, 2D 8.8%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
- #22 Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,665 reviews2015
Dev: 07th ExpansionPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 33.6%, Psychological 20.7%, Anime 16.4%, Dark 10.5%, Story Rich 5.5%
- #23 UR CHIMERIC SAI
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: StarGazer
Windows
A taboo romance of obsessive love with a non-human student. A young man with shattered dreams becomes the tutor to a "Chimera"—an artificially created girl. Upon uncovering a shocking truth about her at the "Center," he is forced to make a life-altering decision.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.5%, Dark 12.3%, Cute 11.5%, Adventure 11.4%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
- #24 Adolescent Santa Claus
81% matchVery Positive85% of 1,325 reviews2018
Dev: TALESSHOP Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 25%
This visual novel game tells the tale of a cute little Santa Clause appearing
Why similar: Visual Novel 43.7%, Anime 25.7%, Cute 16.4%, Adventure 9.2%, Indie 2.6%
- #25 Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.3 Tatarigoroshi
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,357 reviews2016
Dev: 07th ExpansionPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 21.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 27%, Psychological 18.6%, Anime 14.8%, Dark 10.5%, Psychological Horror 8%
- #26 Endless Summer Syndrome
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ampelos Studio
Windows · Linux
You ended the world. She, the one who holds every card, gave you an endless summer as your reward. Now your only way out is through sugar, jellyfish, sunlight, and blood — into the deepest reaches of her mind, or be dissolved along the way. Choose your path in this psycho-thriller visual novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.6%, Psychological 20.5%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Dark 9.9%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
- #27 Mado Marks
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: VAINSANE
Windows · Mac · Linux
Three students record future-self videos in a classroom room that shouldn’t exist... The next morning, one of them is gone, and only corrupted marks prove she was ever there. A short psychological horror VN about memory, proof, and erasure.
Why similar: Visual Novel 33.4%, Adventure 20.8%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Anime 12.3%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
- #28 BRXKEN INSIDE
77% matchVery Positive82% of 97 reviews2025
Dev: SHAWAVERSEPub: BRXKENVN
Windows · Linux
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: Visual Novel 21.2%, Psychological 15.4%, Anime 13.6%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Cute 10.4%
- #29 Supipara - Chapter 1 Spring Has Come!
78% matchVery Positive99% of 317 reviews2016
Dev: minoriPub: MangaGamer
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 162.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Spring has come, and our protagonist, Yukinari, returns home after 7 years. Between his second cousin Sakura, who meets him outside in a full maid outfit, Hotaru, a half-Japanese beauty with a sharp tongue, and the lazy scheming witch Alice - life just got way more interesting!
Why similar: Visual Novel 39.4%, Anime 30.4%, Adventure 30.2%
- #30 KEPT
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Silk Dagger
Windows
You wake into a perfect life you don't remember choosing — warm, loving, and sealed shut. She knows everything about you. The one door has never opened. KEPT is a short psychological romance-horror visual novel with six endings, gated by how much of the truth you can bear to know.
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.2%, Adventure 14.8%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Psychological 11.4%, Anime 10.5%
- #31 Train of Afterlife
78% matchMixed51% of 183 reviews2015
Dev: Zeiva Inc
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Train of Afterlife is a mystery, psychological, horror Visual Novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 37.2%, Adventure 15.9%, Anime 14.4%, Psychological 10%, Dark 5.4%
- #32 孤岛的动物园
75% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: HO Lab+StudioPub: HFOTA
Windows · Mac · Linux
A remote island worships light energy as the source of all life. When that faith begins to fail, three protagonists must confront a changing world in this story-driven visual novel featuring alternative rock style original soundtracks.
Why similar: Visual Novel 40.3%, Anime 19.5%, Adventure 19.3%, 2D 11.2%, Story Rich 8.4%
- #33 Paradise Sea
75% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: mokosoft
Windows
Where are we? But the destination is clear. In this sea of trees, my final home, there must be a paradise. Who am I? But my purpose is clear. The noise that wanders in the deep consciousness, seeking the peace that lies beyond.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.9%, Anime 14%, Psychological 14%, Adventure 13.8%, Cute 11.9%
- #34 After the Stream Went Dark
74% matchPositive91% of 22 reviews2026
Dev: Joe Kerman
Windows · Mac · Linux
Step into the world of Nyx, a VTuber whose online persona begins to blur with something far more unsettling. After the Stream Went Dark is a short psychological horror visual novel exploring identity, self-perception, and the fragile boundary between performance and reality.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.5%, Adventure 19.4%, Anime 15%, Psychological 13.7%, 2D 7.5%
- #35 Getsuei Gakuen -kou-
76% matchPositive89% of 28 reviews2015
Dev: Arc System Works
Windows
Miracle collaboration work by Tomokazu Sugita, multi-talent voice-cast, and Toshimichi Mori, BLAZBLUE series producer! Please note that this game is only available in Japanese.
Why similar: Adventure 42.6%, Anime 26.6%, Visual Novel 25.1%, Story Rich 5.7%
- #36 The Rainy Port Keelung 雨港基隆
76% matchVery Positive86% of 426 reviews2015
Dev: Erotes Studio
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 35.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The story will develop into the year of 1947, where the players would face one of the most traumatic historical events in the history of Taiwan.Sorry,now there are only English interface, English subtitles are still being processed,we hope to complete as soon as possible.
Why similar: Visual Novel 46.5%, Adventure 25.2%, Anime 23.1%, Indie 5.2%
- #37 神明的一天世界(God's One Day World)
74% matchVery Positive85% of 728 reviews2016
Dev: 灰烬天国
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
an Visual Novel & Puzzle Game
Why similar: Visual Novel 40%, Adventure 37.2%, Anime 20.7%, Indie 2.2%
- #38 DoppelTest
72% matchPositive100% of 23 reviews2026
Dev: ぬくもりロボット工房
Windows
Kagari, a withdrawn child, and Kagami, the robot living in society as their stand-in—Only one will be recognized as the real Kagari. Your role is to gently observe their choices and decisions. Your role is to gently observe their choices and decisions.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.5%, Adventure 19.8%, Psychological 12.9%, Anime 12.3%, Cute 11.5%
- #39 Necrophobia
73% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Sapphire Comics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Start your life anew at Heaven's Gates Academy. Learn new subjects, make new friends, experience what you've never before deemed possible. Change your fate, and the fate of those around you- your decisions matter greatly.
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.3%, Psychological 22.9%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Anime 11.2%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
- #40 ぼくの葬式にようこそ -happy rebirthday-
73% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: ひとりサークル「匙投げ部」Pub: Waku Waku Games
Windows
死後、白黒の世界に迷い込んだ「ぼく」は生前の記憶を取り戻す"旅"に出る。主人公の葬式から始まる、切なくて温かい成長譚。
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.9%, Adventure 22.6%, Anime 12.4%, Cute 11.9%, Dark 9.7%
- #41 Blooming Canvas
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Pygma山鬼工坊
Windows
This is a visual novel game themed around 'painting.' The story begins with a commission to restore a damaged painting, and as the art exhibition draws near, the secrets hidden beneath the canvas will gradually be revealed.
Why similar: Visual Novel 37.9%, Adventure 22.5%, Cute 16.3%, Anime 13.4%, Story Rich 8.8%
- #42 Kemono Friends Opening Day
71% matchVery Positive99% of 100 reviews2023
Dev: snow in the library
Windows · Mac · Linux
A fan visual novel where you join Nana at Japari Park as new caretaker. Fun and food await in adventures with an energetic serval cat and an always hungry fox!
Why similar: Visual Novel 32%, Anime 20.3%, Adventure 17.6%, Cute 10.2%, 2D 8.3%
- #43 Everything Will Be Fine!
69% matchVery Positive84% of 134 reviews2026
Dev: nanohanaPub: room6
Windows
A dark conversation with a girl during a nightly car trip. A short multi-ending novel game where you try to understand this girl and her pain.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.4%, Adventure 21.1%, Psychological 12.5%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Dark 9.6%
- #44 Vision of Aurora Borealis
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 40 reviews2016
Dev: Purin Productions
Windows · Mac · Linux
A scenic visual novel about a young photographer who comes across a mysterious girl who changes his outlook on life and aspirations.
Why similar: Visual Novel 48.2%, Adventure 24.1%, Anime 22.2%, Indie 5.5%
- #45 Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.8 Matsuribayashi
69% matchVery Positive95% of 853 reviews2020
Dev: 07th ExpansionPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 19.3 hrsMean: 72.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 34.7%, Adventure 19.2%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, Anime 12%, 2D 8.1%
- #46 Thorner
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Snoring Dog Games
Windows
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 28.3%, Dark 15.5%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Psychological 11%
- #47 Flamel's miracle(弗拉梅尔的奇迹)
71% matchMixed68% of 155 reviews2017
Dev: Weixi Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 36.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Assistant and I headed to a newly discovered Plane world for new resouces. Unfortunately, we ran into worm hole, due to which our spacecraft were forced to make emergency landing onto an unknown world. In order to fix the spacecraft, we started our adventure and got involved into various accidents and incidents, voluntarily or not...
Why similar: Visual Novel 41%, Adventure 32.2%, Anime 20.2%, Indie 6.7%
- #48 氷華の雪化粧/Snow Veil
70% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: JlooPub: Sub:06
Windows
A visual novel depicting the daily life of a high school boy continuously tormented by guilt on a winter's day. It features layered music played on string instruments and piano, characterized by serious, deep psychological portrayals.
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.3%, Psychological 25.5%, Adventure 17.1%, Anime 10.5%, Dark 9%
- #49 ORBIT 5
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CALIPSO
Windows
You and the luckiest man in the world! How'd you end up on a strange ship with an even stranger Russian astronaut? Who knows!? A horror/romance visual novel about to finding a lonely captain someone to talk to.
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.7%, Adventure 21.4%, Anime 15.5%, Cute 9.7%, Psychological Horror 8.9%
- #50 Peace of Evil
70% matchMostly Negative36% of 25 reviews2019
Dev: Tamaya KagiyaPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Bishoujo romance packed with beautiful CGs, music, and Fox girls! Meet and build a relationship with different Kemonomimi characters!
Why similar: Adventure 37.8%, Visual Novel 25.2%, Anime 17.3%, Cute 9.8%, Indie 8.4%
- #51 Your Smile Beyond Twilight:黄昏下的月台上
68% matchVery Positive94% of 601 reviews2017
Dev: Lingtan Studio
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 33.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A story about forced smiles, coming to terms with the past, and love—but most of all, redemption.
Why similar: Visual Novel 43.9%, Adventure 26%, Anime 23.4%, Indie 6.7%
- #52 Abandoned Village Walking Group
67% matchMixed64% of 28 reviews2024
Dev: mokosoft
Windows
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: Visual Novel 22.8%, Psychological 12.9%, Anime 11.2%, Cute 10.5%, Psychological Horror 9.9%
- #53 the 9th day:第九日
68% matchVery Positive92% of 317 reviews2017
Dev: Lingtan Studio
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
The story of The 9th Day, that started with the autumn fire incident, begins here…
Why similar: Visual Novel 37.9%, Adventure 29.1%, Anime 26.1%, Indie 6.9%
- #54 Grow a Girlfriend
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: True Blue Basin
Windows · Mac · Linux
You accidentally grew a mushroom girl! Overcome your social anxiety to help her live her brief life to the fullest! Or don't.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.6%, Anime 14.7%, Psychological 13.1%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Cute 10.4%
- #55 Turn Illness into a Weapon
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: enderverse
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a high school hidden within a centuries-old castle, terror strikes as a sinister force begins hunting the students. You must use your skills and wits to survive, evade the relentless villain, and find a way to escape.
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.3%, Anime 25.2%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Adventure 9%
- #56 Putrika 1st.cut:The Reason She Must Perish
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 574 reviews2024
Dev: トトメトリ
Windows
"Even though I knew this love was forbidden..." While the tragedy is being told, the girl's true love is revealed! Enjoy this crazy pure love drama with beautiful visuals and cute characters!
Why similar: Visual Novel 38.5%, Anime 17.4%, Adventure 17.3%, Cute 15.3%, Story Rich 4.8%
- #57 Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.2 Watanagashi
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,928 reviews2015
Dev: 07th ExpansionPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 32.8%, Anime 16.1%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Psychological 10.9%, Dark 9.7%
- #58 Voices from the Sea
67% matchVery Positive93% of 1,262 reviews2015
Dev: Zeiva Inc
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 419.1 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Follow the story of a young boy, Cantus as he meets Maris, the mysterious girl by the sea - an experience that will change his life forever.
Why similar: Visual Novel 46.4%, Anime 30%, Adventure 10.7%, Cute 8.2%, Indie 2.3%