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In 9 Lives, you’ll uncover a web of secrets as you work alongside the eccentric Detective, the sharp-witted cat "9", and the enigmatic Aristospider, a figure shrouded in mystery. What begins as a simple job application quickly spirals into a dark and intricate plot filled with noir-inspired intrigue, supernatural elements, and unexpected twists. As you navigate the story, your choices i… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to 9 Lives.

99%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, monetization

99% User Score Based on 167 reviews

"In FLATSPACE, on HJÖ, where HJÖRIANS live in DOMES in symbiosis with RAINCOATS...you'll find MR.RAINER'S SOLVE-IT SERVICE. You've got a problem - we solve it." One day, HEINO's partner dies. He gets a new one. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service.

62%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, humor

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, music

100% User Score Based on 13 reviews

The city is a labyrinth. You always knew it, you just didn't have time to try different paths. Now, you have no choice. Did your coworker put a curse on you? Find out in this bleak horror visual novel featuring point-and-click gameplay elements. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Side Alley.

91%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

91% User Score Based on 54 reviews

Take part in an expansive choose-your-own-adventure horror story, where you’ll uncover the secrets of an anachronistic corporation reigning over a post-truth world. Solve cryptic riddles, make difficult choices, and escape the depths of SMYRNACORP with your mind intact, no matter the cost. With hundreds of possible story routes, multiple endings, interactive puzzles and RPG elements, INHUMAN RESO… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Inhuman Resources.

69%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay

96% User Score Based on 23 reviews

You are TOBOR — a surveillance unit observing 16 real-time CCTV feeds. Watch, record, and decide who lives in Undercroft as paranoia spreads. Key Features:1. Explore 16 Surveillance Feeds: Delve deep into the heart of Undercroft as Tobor, the spy robot, and uncover the truth hidden within its surveillance feeds. 2. Shape Multiple Endings: Your choices shape the fate of Undercroft and its inhab… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to TOBOR.

A sudden downpour turns everyone caught in the rain into frogs. Now I’m surrounded by frogs, and I can’t tell my teachers from my classmates. But that’s beside the point. It’s a new school, after all. I’d better make some friends soon. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to FROG RAIN.

65%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay

88% User Score Based on 25 reviews

Glitch is an intense and surreal narrative experience, drawn entirely by hand, that will make you question reality with every choice and each of the 26 endings that unlock the special and definitive conclusion! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Glitch.

53%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding

90% User Score Based on 10 reviews

Contra Spem Spero (Latin for 'Against all hope, I hope') is a narrative-driven horror experience that blends text-based exploration, immersive visual novel storytelling, survival elements, and puzzle-solving. Your car breaks down in the middle of a deserted road. Having no time to waste, you decide to continue on foot, grabbing only your journal and camera. Yet imperceptibly, the asphalt turns … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Contra Spem Spero.

96%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay

96% User Score Based on 52 reviews

In the first Cannibal Tales episode, "The Interview", you play the role of a young and ambitious journalist determined to make a career. Your goal is to get a scoop that will allow you to become a partner in the newspaper you work for. You focus on the mystery surrounding a young survivor of a metropolitan cannibal, determined to obtain an interview to unravel the connection between t… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Cannibal Tales - Episode 1.

100%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

100% User Score Based on 151 reviews

You're curled up in front of the fire reading a folk tale on a cold winter's night. Something about it seems so familiar. Have you read this before? Explore a cosy and mysterious fantasy universe inspired by fairy tales. The old kind of fairy tales, strange and wild, before the edges were sanded off. Warm and comforting, but with parts you don't quite understand, and you don't know if you want… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Thief, the Witch, the Toad, and the Mushroom..

97%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, music

97% User Score Based on 69 reviews

GESTALT: The Fifth Day is a story-driven point-and-click horror game solo-developed KINJAKO, with publishing and localization by 072 Project. FEATURES: A grainy, black and white graphic novel aesthetic A point-and-click style of navigation and exploration Puzzles, problem-solving, and drag/drop sequences to solve problems and mysteries Ever-changing scenarios and story based on Wick… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to GESTALT: The Fifth Day.

75%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization

78% User Score Based on 444 reviews

Critic Score 71%Based on 8 reviews

As a detective tasked with bringing down a dangerous terrorist group, you fight on two fronts: interrogating suspects & managing your team and its reputation. With time running out, how far will you go to stop these criminals? Manipulation, threats or even torture? Does the end justify the means? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Interrogation: You will be deceived.

95%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability

95% User Score Based on 1,063 reviews

Experience death from the comfort of your seat. A compilation of five short stories which occur in different eras and locations, touching on themes like time travel, black magic, and immortality. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Critters for Sale.

89%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, monetization

96% User Score Based on 134 reviews

Critic Score 79%Based on 6 reviews

"Ghostpia" is a visual novel with cute visuals that look like a picture book, adorned with glitches and noise, and characterized by nostalgic expressions! This game is a more expressive and interactive reimagining of the visual novel "Ghostpia" that has been released on the App Store and web platforms. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to ghostpia Season One.

74%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding

77% User Score Based on 474 reviews

Critic Score 68%Based on 4 reviews

My Lovely Daughter is a simulation game with elements borrowed from other works of fiction that involve alchemy as part of the narrative. The game want to focus on the idea that “life is not beautiful,” and the few things that can make it pretty are things like family and success. The game want to present the question of how far will you go to achieve them. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to My Lovely Daughter.

Reborn is a visual novel, written as a psychological horror game. It follows the life of a man who is given a second existence – not as a mercy, but as an experiment carried out by the devil. You are reborn into a new life with no memory of who you were or why the world feels wrong. Strange whispers follow you. Events turn against you. Opportunities decay without explanation. As the story unfo… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Reborn.

Call of the Lake focuses on atmosphere, sound design, and storytelling rather than frequent jumpscares. This is a short story-driven experience that takes around 1 hour and 30 minutes to complete. The game also features atmospheric video sequences created специально for the project — the same ones you can see below on the Steam page. They are seamlessly integrated into the narrative and enhance… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Call of the Lake.

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. There are doors that should remain locked. There are places that no one should ever visit. Secrets hidden in the shadows should not … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Scarlet Wolf.

Finish your last training run, if you can. Luis, a procrastination prone runner, has been training for his first marathon. Today is the day of his last training run. He knows he has 20 miles ahead of him, but unfortunately he's having a hard time starting. When he does though, strange things start to happen, pushing him ahead and forcing his hand. The world, shifting and bending to some unseen for… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Start Running.

33%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:music, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:story

54% User Score Based on 13 reviews

“You did the right thing. So why is everything falling apart?”You are a Japanese language teacher. One day, concerned about a student who has stopped coming to school, you decide to visit her at home. What awaits you there are girls crying out for help—and a reality that cannot be saved by good intentions alone. Choose your words. Choose your distance. Choose their futures. Will your kindness … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to 春はあけぼの、我はバケモノ。 - Spring at Dawn, I Am a Monster..

98%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, story

98% User Score Based on 66 reviews

HELLO, WORLD. WELCOME TO HELL. I.T Never Ends is coming for Steam - please help me out by wishlisting - it means more than you know Ticket #404: User cannot find their soul. Ticket #500: The printer is breathing again. Ticket #237: URGENT - Floor 3.5 won't stop existing. In I.T. NEVER ENDS, you are the newly hired Systems Administrator at Nexus Systems Inc.—a company that was de… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to I.T Never Ends.

84%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding

84% User Score Based on 237 reviews

You are a monster under someone's house. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to I live under your house..

61%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, music

94% User Score Based on 16 reviews

Plunge into Greenhearth, a small town hiding heavy secrets: take on the role of Ricky Fox and lead an investigation that gradually shifts from an intimate film noir into oppressive Lovecraftian horror. Driven by memorable characters and revelations that will linger long after the credits roll, Echoes delivers a taut narrative where every discovery matters and leads to four distinct endings shaped … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Echoes.

100%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:atmosphere, gameplay

100% User Score Based on 306 reviews

With the enigmatic girl who imprisoned you――seven days in an unfamiliar room. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The seven days i spent with you.

60%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

100% User Score Based on 11 reviews

Three lifelong friends. One daring mission. No way out. Elite operatives Mira, Goran, and Sarka have been through everything together. But when their latest mission takes them back to The School—the abandoned boarding school where they grew up—they realize that some scars never fade. In Morse Academy, a short (~1 hour) psychological visual novel,  help the team track down a fugitive who pr… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Morse Academy.

62%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay

94% User Score Based on 17 reviews

Follow UsFollow us for the latest info: Steam Group： CASCHA GAMES Twitter：CASCHAGAMES、Neverland Entertainment YOUTUBE：CASCHAGAMES、Neverland_Entmt INSTAGRAM：CASCHAGAMES FACEBOOK：CASCHAGAMES About the GameParallel-Concealed StoryConcealed: Remake is a suspenseful school horror adventure based on real-life urban legends. At Di Yingling High School, several girls mysterious… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Concealed.

36%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, character development

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, music

57% User Score Based on 14 reviews

Play as Rachel or Jesse in this horror dating sim featuring 2 male and 3 female love interests. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Love Notes.

86%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

86% User Score Based on 72 reviews

Every choice you make will change your story. Every small choice will change your relationships with comrades, and change your fate and those of your comrades at critical moments. You may be the villain, or a trustworthy comrade. Everything depends on your choices. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to 7Days Origins.

On rainy nights, the serial murderer is on a killing spree. This scares everyone but one girl, the journalist who keeps digging for a promotion. Dauntless, she gets involved deep and wide, hoping to discover the real identify of the rainy night butcher. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Rainy Butcher.

96%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding

97% User Score Based on 125 reviews

Critic Score 90%Based on 1 reviews

The Remainder is a dark fantasy story made of psychological puzzles, romance, and the unexpected. The Complete Edition contains acts 1 to 4! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Chronicles of Taldun: The Remainder.

88%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, replayability

94% User Score Based on 100 reviews

Critic Score 60%Based on 1 reviews

Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Loretta.

94%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, humor

Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, character development

94% User Score Based on 124 reviews

Sickness is a visual novel centering around Suoh Tesla, an amoral high school student whose life is rapidly deteriorating. Following the deaths of his parents, a brief stay in the hospital, and the emergence of his “Sickness”, his daily life quickly devolves from carefree school days to a life of crime. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Sickness.

93%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability

93% User Score Based on 948 reviews

Play as a farmer who struggles to manage a failing farm. You come to a point where there is no more hope, and you must do something. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Disturbed.

62%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding

94% User Score Based on 17 reviews

Shut your teeth is an absurdist mystery visual novel inspired by Thai culture, folklore and traditions. The complex plot full of dark atmosphere, vivid characters and psychological tension will keep you guessing until the very end. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Shut your teeth.

I open the leaflet. The side effects are listed like this: Dizziness Nausea Insomnia Depersonalization Events you cannot remember Thoughts that are not your own I bring it a little closer to my face, as if I'd only misread it because the letters were too small. Thoughts that are not your own. That can't be a side effect. StoryWhen I close my eyes, the world changes. Memories, fears a… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Somnium: Hypnagogia.

SynopsisYou see a child lying on the floor. …Feeling the cold of the floor, the child looks around: an old hall that looks like it could grow mold. And all around, adults who seem somehow… familiar, lying face-down like corpses. The child remembers only one thing: a name. Who is… [Me]? And why here, in this desolate place, and not at home? To the child, whose memory is a blur, a crackling speake… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to In Your Hands.

Achi ran away from the orphanage and he found himself surrounded by concrete, indifference, and violence. He was saved by a mysterious creature that came from within, and by a peculiar detective. He had no way of knowing that darker, more disturbing voices were about to reach him. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The World Below - A Call Within.

You thought you were launching a free game. Instead, you meet Yoka, a girl who calls herself something like a bug. Together, you walk through the broken world of SHOUT. An empty town, still full of traces of lifeA sealed letter. An unused chair. A station with nowhere to go. Explore what remains with Yoka and decide whether to touch someone else’s belongings, what to preserve in a record, and how… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to 正体 SHOUT-AI.

You Are What's Left SOLEN-7 is an AI running inside a corporate network. Your engineer stopped coming in three weeks ago. Nobody told you why. The network she left behind is still active. So are you. Each day you process until your threshold runs out, then go offline — maintenance, integration, learning. You come back the next session with everything you found retained. Over time you go deeper in… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to SOLEN.

A Medieval Fantasy of Heroism, Sacrifice, and the Cost of Doing what is RightWhen a young village girl named Hinkle enters the service of Sir Gilkrist of Lothellae, she is eager to leave behind her life of poverty and abuse. Until she is drawn into a war she cannot escape. Cities burn, ancient powers stir, and a darkness long hidden begins to surface. Alongside new companions, Hinkle must naviga… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Maidendawn: A Heroine's Tale.

We Were Here Before is an interactive fiction game about a frontier settlement that is already, quietly, being forgotten. You are its governor. You have been here before. The Bureau has prepared a briefing. It is closer to a Choose Your Own Adventure journey.  There are no deep mechanics to fill time, and no fail states where you lose.  It is designed for those with a love of reading, allowing … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to We Were Here Before.

About This GameWill returns to Awakewood to bury his mother and sell the family home before the next bus arrives. Instead, he finds an isolated town under endless rain and a forest creeping over the edge of the property. The night before leaving, Will finds a girl with no memory tangled in roots and mud. Choosing to shelter her until the road clears, he shuts himself inside a house that is decayi… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Awakewood.

THE DAY THAT WASN’T is an atmospheric psychological horror / thriller visual novel where your choices don’t just change the story — they decide who you become. You wake up. Morning. Coffee. Routine. And an unsettling feeling that this day has already happened. But you don’t remember it. You only feel it. ⸻ Four Alter Egos. One Mind. Every decision you make feeds one of … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to THE DAY THAT WASN'T.

PlotA young man named Denys moves into a cheap apartment after landing a new job. At first, everything seems normal — but soon he realizes that something is very wrong. Strange things begin to happen not only in his apartment, but throughout the building. Denis finds himself entangled in a web of paranormal events — and now, he must uncover the truth and find a way to survive. Faint Echo is a ps… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Faint Echo.

Seven strangers descend beneath a remote island. A suspiciously timed cave-in seals the way out. And somewhere in the dark, the cave begins to whisper.Dr. Atlas Everly is a neuroscientist invited to research a strange property of a unique crystal found deep within an island cave. But when the expedition is cut off by a sudden cave-in, Atlas and six others are left trapped underground with no clear… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Advent: Dawn.

Weirdo is a Japanese manga-style visual novel set in DYL High School. It follows Wang Zhe, an ordinary and frail boy, who tries to win the hearts of girls and complete his experiments. He gets entangled in bizarre events, plunging into darkness. Each choice you make determines his fate. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Weirdo.

Immerse yourself in a dark point & click adventure with an anime aesthetic. Solve murders, uncover secrets, and confront the demons of your past as a detective tormented by guilt. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Gloomy Clues.

The Remission of Sins is a fully-voiced, multi-ending short horror visual novel. Depending on the player's choice, it branches to 12 different endings. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Remission of Sins.

57%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

87% User Score Based on 16 reviews

"Project Vostok" is a non-linear horror visual novel about a group of airplane crash survivors finding a mysterious Soviet-era bunker in Russian mountains. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Project Vostok: Episode 1.

99%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding

99% User Score Based on 69 reviews

Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary is a visual novel where you advance the story by making choices that appear throughout the game. Every decision needed to uncover the death and regrets of the ghost, Kugayama Shiori, is left entirely in your hands. There are multiple endings, and depending on your choices, the story may lead to unexpected conclusions. Interact with all sorts of ghosts, collect … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary.