Notch - The Innocent LunA: Eclipsed SinnerS
Read through a dark island mystery where your choices split the story across branching routes and endings.
95% of 3,152 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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Hooked on the mysterious and story-driven side of Dark Auction? These games could fill that gap nicely.
Return to Shironagasu Island
A detective gets a dead millionaire's invitation to a lonely island, and the murders start. Read through a full-voiced mystery with Neneko, his assistant, follow the clues, make choices that steer the story toward different endings, and find a way off the island alive.
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93% of 4,176 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$4.99Notch - The Innocent LunA: Eclipsed SinnerS
A dark visual novel about an isolated island town where murders wake old, half-forgotten memories. Follow Yuhito through a mystery that blurs dream and reality, with branching routes, 14 endings, over 50 songs and hand-drawn art. A heavy, emotional story that asks what is real and what is sin.
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95% of 3,152 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Type-NOISE: Shonen Shojo
Type-NOISE: Shonen Shojo is a multi-ending mystery adventure game. A group of boys and girls who have lost their memories gather in a “Tokyo” that is both familiar and unfamiliar. They must trace their lost memories to escape the bizarre labyrinths. Are they prepared to confront their “true selves”?
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77% of 121 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Mandemon
Crumbling school buildings in Japan. A string of bizarre incidents. The eerie legend of Mandemon. Lies and truth intertwine. Love and hatred blur in the mist. What will you do? Who can you trust? Welcome to a cruel world of deceit and suffering—
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86% of 353 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$2.99AI: The Somnium Files
Detective Kaname Date hunts a serial killer through near-future Tokyo, and through other people's dreams. A murder mystery with sharp twists, a talking AI partner and dream puzzles on a six-minute clock. Dark, funny and stranger than it has any right to be.
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91% of 8,947 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 29$3.99Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary
A mystery visual novel about a ghost who keeps dying on purpose. Kugayama Shiori remembers nothing but her name, and you are the only living person who can talk to her. Follow her search for the cause of her death through urban legends, odd ghosts and choices that branch into multiple endings, where horror jokes around a surprisingly warm heart.
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94% of 1,120 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$24.99UNREAL LIFE
A girl wakes with no memories and one name: Miss Sakura. Her only guide is a talking AI traffic light, and her only tool is a strange gift: touch an object, see its memories. A quiet, blue-toned pixel adventure about following clues through a dreamlike night city, solving gentle puzzles and finding out what really happened.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
95% of 1,882 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE Plus
An amnesiac detective and the death god haunting him solve a rain-soaked city's impossible murders. Gather clues in Kanai Ward, then storm a surreal Mystery Labyrinth where the case itself attacks you. From the minds behind Danganronpa: dark, colorful, twisty detective action.
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80% of 2,310 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 73$14.99Red Chat Ritual – TSUMIMI TIME
“Intervene in Tsumimi’s stream” through comments and Mega Chats, then use your deductions to change their fate in this 15-day psychological horror adventure.
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61% of 408 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$17.99PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
A horror-adventure visual novel set in 1980s Tokyo. The Seven Mysteries of Honjo hide a Rite of Resurrection, and everyone who learns of it gains the power to curse. Investigate real Sumida streets in 360° panoramas, follow several points of view, and choose your moves carefully, because a wrong one can kill you.
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95% of 6,282 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28$19.99Absent in the Rain
A mysterious senpai. A serial murder case that has taken the world by storm. And a giant, shadowy fish swimming at my feet... What if all of them are connected and surround me like a circle? What should I do?
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94% of 938 Steam reviews are positiveFreeUrban Myth Dissolution Center
Join the Urban Myth Dissolution Center as Azami, a new hire who reads residual thoughts through her glasses. Cursed relics, creepy rental listings, dimensional anomalies: each case is a short occult mystery told in psychedelic pixel art, with social media digging, onsite legwork and a psychic boss who divines the truth from his desk.
Also in Visual novel · Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
87% of 6,121 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 49$12.59
Cheaper than Dark Auction
Return to Shironagasu Island
A detective gets a dead millionaire's invitation to a lonely island, and the murders start.
93% of 4,176 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$4.99
Type-NOISE: Shonen Shojo
Type-NOISE: Shonen Shojo is a multi-ending mystery adventure game.
77% of 121 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
AI: The Somnium Files
Interrogate suspects by day, then step into their dreams on a six-minute clock to crack a serial killer case in Tokyo.
91% of 8,947 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 29$3.99
Mandemon
Crumbling school buildings in Japan. A string of bizarre incidents. The eerie legend of Mandemon. Lies and truth intertwine.
86% of 353 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$2.99
Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary
Talk to a dead girl who remembers nothing, chase the truth of her death through urban legends and branching choices, and find one of many endings.
94% of 1,120 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$24.99
UNREAL LIFE
A lost girl and a talking traffic light search a strange city for the one name she remembers.
95% of 1,882 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99
Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE Plus
Investigate a rain-drenched city, then take the case into a labyrinth where the truth itself turns hostile.
80% of 2,310 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 73$14.99
Red Chat Ritual – TSUMIMI TIME
“Intervene in Tsumimi’s stream” through comments and Mega Chats, then use your deductions to change their fate in this 15-day psychological horror…
61% of 408 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$17.99
PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
Follow several points of view through 1980s Tokyo, uncover the truth behind the Seven Mysteries of Honjo, and try to survive a story where one wrong…
95% of 6,282 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28$19.99
Urban Myth Dissolution Center
Investigate cursed relics and impossible anomalies as a rookie psychic detective, one strange urban myth at a time.
87% of 6,121 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 49$12.59
Dreambound
Mysterious deaths. Dreams that are reality, and reality that is a dream.
95% of 86 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Hidden gems like Dark Auction
Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary
Talk to a dead girl who remembers nothing, chase the truth of her death through urban legends and branching choices, and find one of many endings.
94% of 1,120 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$24.99
Elton Manor: Requiem of the Cursed Roses
At the beginning of the 20th century, you awaken in a quiet manor where everyone calls you “Anna”, a maid.
94% of 137 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Yet Another Killing Game
You wake up in a house, alone with two beautiful girls... But no one is allowed to leave until one of you DIES. Why is this happening?
96% of 253 Steam reviews are positive$16.99
AKIBA LOST
A live-action suspense story set in Akihabara: thirteen years after six girls vanished, a game creator casts six women to relive the case, and then…
85% of 313 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$24.99
Inverted Angel
A girl visited your home, who you don't know but she identified herself as your girlfriend.
90% of 571 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$6.99
Raining City: Millions Recollections
One night, Lyu Xuan woke up soaked in blood, a mysterious black hole in the palm of her hand, and millions pouring out of that hole, like an…
84% of 259 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$11.99
SHUTEN ORDER
Hunt your own killer across five suspects and five very different routes before time runs out.
79% of 761 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$24.99
No Sleep For Kaname Date - From AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES
Iris has been abducted by aliens?! Finding herself on board a mysterious UFO and tasked with completing a bizarre escape game, Iris knows there's…
79% of 854 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$15.99
Sofia in Exchange for Lies
Peek into the sins and memories of five personalities through surveillance cameras──This is an immersive, mystery adventure game that unravels the…
82% of 169 Steam reviews are positive$25.99
Absent in the Rain
A mysterious senpai. A serial murder case that has taken the world by storm. And a giant, shadowy fish swimming at my feet...
94% of 938 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Urban Myth Dissolution Center
Investigate cursed relics and impossible anomalies as a rookie psychic detective, one strange urban myth at a time.
87% of 6,121 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 49$12.59
Newest games like Dark Auction
AKIBA LOST
A live-action suspense story set in Akihabara: thirteen years after six girls vanished, a game creator casts six women to relive the case, and then…
85% of 313 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$24.99
Dissolution of My Self
A prince who has lost his kingdom and everything else. His uncle and aide-de-camp, unable to leave him.
94% of 363 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$5.99
Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary
Talk to a dead girl who remembers nothing, chase the truth of her death through urban legends and branching choices, and find one of many endings.
94% of 1,120 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$24.99
Elton Manor: Requiem of the Cursed Roses
At the beginning of the 20th century, you awaken in a quiet manor where everyone calls you “Anna”, a maid.
94% of 137 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Type-NOISE: Shonen Shojo
Type-NOISE: Shonen Shojo is a multi-ending mystery adventure game.
77% of 121 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
SHUTEN ORDER
Hunt your own killer across five suspects and five very different routes before time runs out.
79% of 761 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$24.99
Raining City: Millions Recollections
One night, Lyu Xuan woke up soaked in blood, a mysterious black hole in the palm of her hand, and millions pouring out of that hole, like an…
84% of 259 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$11.99
No Sleep For Kaname Date - From AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES
Iris has been abducted by aliens?! Finding herself on board a mysterious UFO and tasked with completing a bizarre escape game, Iris knows there's…
79% of 854 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$15.99
Sofia in Exchange for Lies
Peek into the sins and memories of five personalities through surveillance cameras──This is an immersive, mystery adventure game that unravels the…
82% of 169 Steam reviews are positive$25.99
Urban Myth Dissolution Center
Investigate cursed relics and impossible anomalies as a rookie psychic detective, one strange urban myth at a time.
87% of 6,121 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 49$12.59
Yet Another Killing Game
You wake up in a house, alone with two beautiful girls... But no one is allowed to leave until one of you DIES. Why is this happening?
96% of 253 Steam reviews are positive$16.99
Malleus Cocconum: The Heiress
You are Arenda Finch—fifteen years old, wealthy beyond measure, and newly exiled from your former school.
94% of 163 Steam reviews are positive$21.99