Games like Nie no Hakoniwa
Looking for games like Nie no Hakoniwa? Here are top action recommendations with a horror, mystery and thriller focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Saya no Uta, Return to Shironagasu Island or Lucid9: Inciting Incident.
1 90%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgameplay, replayability90% User Score 2,978 reviewsA horror visual novel about Fuminori Sakisaka, a medicine student who suffers an accident that leaves his perception of the world distorted: everything and everyone is perceived as a twisted mass of intestines, flesh and blood. Everything, except Saya.
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91%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgameplay, grinding91% User Score 594 reviewsA mystery-adventure game set in the solitary "Shironagasu Island". Become detective “Sen Ikeda” and explore the secrets of “Shironagasu Island” with your assistant “Neneko Izumozaki”.
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91%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgameplay, grinding92% User Score 886 reviewsCritic Score 90%1 reviewsLucid9 is a visual novel focused on a web of intricate mysteries set in the fictional 2018 metropolis of Isamu. Lucid9: Inciting Incident is the first part of the story, focused on a string of disappearances that occur at a prestigious, uppity boarding academy.
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95%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, optimization95% User Score 2,570 reviewsDramatical Murder is set in the near future on the fictional island of Midorijima (碧島), Japan. At some point in the game's recent history, the island was privatized by the powerful Toue Konzern (東江コンツェルン, Tōe Kontserun) and turned into a resort called Platinum Jail (プラチナ・ジェイル, Purachina Jeiru), with the island's original residents being forced to live in the Old Residential District (旧住民区, Kyū-Jūm…
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93%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, optimization95% User Score 3,010 reviewsCritic Score 91%5 reviewsA gothic suspense tale set in a cursed mansion. The House in Fata Morgana is a full-length visual novel spanning nearly a millennium that deals in tragedy, human nature, and insanity.
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81%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgameplay, character development81% User Score 811 reviewsHer Lie I Tried To Believe is a short kinetic novel about the persisting hatred of a boy throughout his life, the destructive relationship that was born from it, and the consequences he had to face as a direct result.
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90%Game Brain Scorestory, humorgameplay, replayability93% User Score 712 reviewsCritic Score 40%2 reviewsThe Fruit of Grisaia is a Japanese adult visual novel, the first in a series of visual novels by Front Wing. The game is a romance visual novel in which the player assumes the role of Yuji Kazami. Much of its gameplay is spent on reading the story's narrative and dialogue.
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96%Game Brain Scorestory, emotionalatmosphere, grinding96% User Score 2,626 reviewsYou and Me and Her: A Love Story is the visual novel medium in its purest form. Will Shinichi choose Miyuki, the beautiful queen bee of the school, or the endearingly awkward misfit Aoi? With art by Tsuji Santa, these beautifully rendered romances will stay with you forever.
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87%Game Brain Scorestory, emotionalgameplay, atmosphere88% User Score 193 reviewsCritic Score 85%1 reviewsFollow Asuka Osachi; a ditzy girl training to become a nurse at "Teito Nursing School". Experience the story of her and her classmates, as they discover love, medicine, and adulthood.
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90%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgameplay, grinding90% User Score 1,536 reviewsWhat will you do when the last sky comes? The story follows a group of Tokyo high school students through a mystery revolving around a prophecy about the end of the world and they try to find their own "Wonderful Everyday". Wonderful Everyday: Down the Rabbit-Hole is a visual novel with multiple routes which develops a story based on a few concepts: "the sky and the world", "the beginning and the…
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