Games like An Outcry

If the dark and story-driven rhythm of An Outcry stuck with you, this helps. These games make natural next picks for you.

Close Your Eyes [Old Version]
A redux version of a 2014 Ludum Dare RPG Maker Horror Game. A poor little marshmallow escapes death row into an underground subway system, where they're asked questions by a mysterious game show host. Updated in 2025 with new content.
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
86% of 783 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Ann
An art student breaks one rule after 9 PM and her school turns into a maze of corridors, traps and things that chase her.
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
93% of 2,803 Steam reviews are positiveFree
It gets so lonely here
A dark fairytale visual novel about a girl running through a night forest, and the three lonely strangers waiting at the end of each path. A yandere yuri story told in second person, where love and danger wear the same face and every ending arrives exactly on time.
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
94% of 2,410 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7Free
Provoron
When demons leave your head and fill the whole world, all you can do is close your eyes and go forward. Immerse yourself in the atmospheric and moving adventure of white crow Ankou — one of pain, loneliness, and salvation that no one asked for.
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
87% of 104 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
At Home Alone Final
A little girl is home alone while her mom works, and a day of hide-and-seek, kittens and snacks slowly turns into something else. This pixel adventure hides a looping, twisting mystery behind its cute face, with multiple endings and a story that rewards a second look. Sweet on the surface, quietly unsettling underneath.
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
96% of 8,265 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3Free
You Will (Not) Remain
Stay inside. Stay safe. Don't let anyone in. A short, quiet story about isolation in an apartment at the edge of an eldritch apocalypse, where your only company is a very strange dog and the whispers in the walls. Under an hour, and it stays with you longer than that.
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
92% of 2,553 Steam reviews are positiveFree
OMORI
A story-rich RPG about a boy, a dream world full of colorful friends, and a forgotten past that will not stay forgotten. It looks like a cheerful pixel adventure, then quietly becomes one of the most affecting stories about grief and guilt you can play. Multiple endings, a great soundtrack, and real horror hiding under the pastel.
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
97% of 80,516 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 446$19.99
PROXIMATE
Congratulations, contractor! You've been approved to trial our cutting-edge AI visor. Use it to explore the Neuras lab and recover the staff's research. Your visor is safe, reliable, and up to 99% accurate. Just don't ask why the "ketchup" in the corner makes such a horrible crunching sound.
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
93% of 986 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Scarlet Hollow
Your aunt's funeral pulls you to Scarlet Hollow, a small mountain town where the mine is sealed, livestock is going missing and something is very wrong. A horror-mystery visual novel with hand-drawn art, traits that change your dialogue, and branching so dense one playthrough shows less than a fifth of it. You have a week. Good luck.
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
97% of 4,987 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 85$29.99
Cooking Companions
A cute cooking game in a cabin deep in the Tatras Mountains, until the flood rises and the food runs out. Cooking Companions is a psychological horror visual novel dressed as a dating sim: keep your four companions fed and happy, and try not to end up on the chopping block. Eleven endings, and more going on under the surface than you think.
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
93% of 1,094 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$14.99
For Mother Matron
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
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
92% of 176 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Traum
Traum is a short, story-driven adventure about a man with a dream. Can even the best of plans be shattered by unexpected news?
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
92% of 386 Steam reviews are positiveFree

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PROXIMATE

Congratulations, contractor! You've been approved to trial our cutting-edge AI visor.

$5.99

[Bober Bros] No Means Nothing

PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR // ANTI-DATING SIM about learning to say NO.

$4.99

My Sweet! Housemate

Faced with the cruel and harsh reality of homelessness, you seek out affordable housing in your area.

$4.99

Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk

Sit beside a girl whose mind distorts everything, and try to make her a little happier before the hour is up.

$8.99

The NOexistenceN of you AND me

A short visual novel about affection and reality, where hundreds of choices twist the story toward very different endings.

$1.99

Red Haze

You know, my dear, it isn't safe... To wander and creep while oh so weak. In the abandoned, the rotten, the decayed.

$5.99

Silenced: The House

Any plans for the weekend? There is a great place to escape from the hustle and bustle of the city and daily routine!

$3.99

Mists of Aiden

Mists of Aiden is a first-person story driven horror game. You play as a thief trapped in an eerie mansion.

$6.99

Pyromaniac

Fight through a fogged Czech winter with no memory, and let four possible endings tell you what the voices really mean.

$4.99

There Swings a Skull: Grim Tidings

Enter the doomed town of Pareildas. Watch as the flames turn bone and stone to ash. Like joined wicks, we'll all burn together.

$6.98

The Crooked Man

Follow the trail of a vanished tenant through dread and strange rooms, and uncover what David Hoover is really carrying.

$2.99

outside the door

Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office.

$1.99

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Money for Girls: Amortized

Play a girl detective scraping together cash on a beautiful island, where every choice pushes you toward romance, ruin or one of many endings.

$15

Lovely Lady RPG

Lovely Lady RPG is a visual novel about wandering around and just sort of seeing what life has in store for you.

$15.99

Pyromaniac

Fight through a fogged Czech winter with no memory, and let four possible endings tell you what the voices really mean.

$4.99

Birds Watching

Singleplayer psychological horror game about bird watching. Explore the mountains, find and observe all the birds. Seek their help. Be honest.

$4.99

My Sweet! Housemate

Faced with the cruel and harsh reality of homelessness, you seek out affordable housing in your area.

$4.99

Provoron

When demons leave your head and fill the whole world, all you can do is close your eyes and go forward.

$9.99

YAMIKKO TROUBLEMAKER

A long-form, choice-driven psychological horror and depression game in which the protagonist’s ending changes based on the choices made by “you,”…

Free

PROXIMATE

Congratulations, contractor! You've been approved to trial our cutting-edge AI visor.

$5.99

Project Songbird

Project Songbird is a cinematic first-person narrative horror game set in the Appalachian forest.

$14.99

outside the door

Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office.

$1.99

SWOLLEN TO BURSTING UNTIL I AM DISAPPEARING ON PURPOSE

SWOLLEN TO BURSTING is a weirdo RPG in which something is very wrong.

Free

THRESHOLD

Keep a lonely mountain border post running by blowing the whistle on schedule, while the thin air drains you and something strange takes hold.

$9.99

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