Games like Ghost in the pool

If Ghost in the pool left you wanting something hand-drawn and story-driven, you have options. These games are a good place to start.

Cheaper than Ghost in the pool

Mandemon

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
Kyofu Yawa: Scary Stories at Night

Kyofu Yawa: Scary Stories at Night

At soccer camp, a teacher tells two unsettling tales: a strange presence in the mountains and a body bundled in a sheet by the sea.

95% of 169 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
告死天使之言 Death angel

告死天使之言 Death angel

This is a 2-hour horror puzzle game. Please avoid the players who are uncomfortable with bloody and horrible content.

81% of 443 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$0.99
Banebush

Banebush

Hide in your childhood village, listen to the old tales, and find out which of six endings is yours.

94% of 2,204 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$2.99
Gurobu

Gurobu

"GUROBU" is a story-driven, 2D horror game about haunted apartments, ghosts of the past, and a murder mystery.

86% of 29 Steam reviews are positive$2.55
Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling

Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling

Explore a student's shrunken world, follow her thoughts as they turn strange, and choose between three endings.

87% of 3,445 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$1.99
SOULS

SOULS

One day, the boy meets a monster, with whom he builds a strange relationship that is neither friend, nor family, nor owner and pet.

88% of 124 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Eve of Souls: Static Pod

Eve of Souls: Static Pod

[The pod will break soon. Will she survive the nightmare or find the truth?]

95% of 468 Steam reviews are positive$2.99

Hidden gems like Ghost in the pool

Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary

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
PARANORMASIGHT: The Mermaid's Curse

PARANORMASIGHT: The Mermaid's Curse

Follow several lives through a supernatural curse in 1980s Ise-Shima, where every choice pulls the story toward a different ending.

95% of 2,289 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 31$24.99
Kyofu Yawa: Scary Stories at Night

Kyofu Yawa: Scary Stories at Night

At soccer camp, a teacher tells two unsettling tales: a strange presence in the mountains and a body bundled in a sheet by the sea.

95% of 169 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Land of Ghosts

Land of Ghosts

A literary horror adventure made in RPG Maker MV, where you explore a land of endless rain and continue a lonely journey through fleeting encounters…

95% of 127 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$4.50
Decollate Decoration

Decollate Decoration

This is a point-and-click, command-selection style adventure game where the protagonist is a girl who has become a ghost.

93% of 513 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Midnight Syndrome

Midnight Syndrome

A summer night consumes the girls... Exploration type horror ADV game

99% of 110 Steam reviews are positiveFree
咒影  Curse of the Shadow

咒影 Curse of the Shadow

"Curse of the Shadow" is a BL-themed horror visual novel. Cursed by a "ghost", protagonist Xu finds eerie dark shadows in every photo he takes.Once…

81% of 295 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Pink Noise

Pink Noise

Pink Noise is a nonlinear visual novel in the psychological horror genre, immersing you in the retro atmosphere of the '90s.

82% of 122 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
ghostpia Season One

ghostpia Season One

"In my dreams, I can get out. In my dreams, I can fit in." 'ghostpia' mixes the adorable art style of an illustrated book with glitches-and-noise…

92% of 894 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
It gets so lonely here

It gets so lonely here

Run through a night forest, choose your path, and meet the three strangers waiting at the end of each one.

94% of 2,410 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7Free
Midnight Witch

Midnight Witch

Your average student life quickly descents into horror as a mysterious witch takes over the college... Can you save the girl you love?

92% of 373 Steam reviews are positiveFree

Newest games like Ghost in the pool

恐怖夜話 第二夜

恐怖夜話 第二夜

Three ghost stories, told in an old café on a rainy night. As a writer for an occult magazine, you listen to three people recount their experiences.

98% of 43 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$3.99
Land of Ghosts

Land of Ghosts

A literary horror adventure made in RPG Maker MV, where you explore a land of endless rain and continue a lonely journey through fleeting encounters…

95% of 127 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$4.50
Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary

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
NO MORE WORK FOR ITO

NO MORE WORK FOR ITO

Trapped in a cursed office overnight, you must uncover a hidden password before morning... while reality distorts, blood seeps through the walls…

95% of 38 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Kyofu Yawa: Scary Stories at Night

Kyofu Yawa: Scary Stories at Night

At soccer camp, a teacher tells two unsettling tales: a strange presence in the mountains and a body bundled in a sheet by the sea.

95% of 169 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
咒影  Curse of the Shadow

咒影 Curse of the Shadow

"Curse of the Shadow" is a BL-themed horror visual novel. Cursed by a "ghost", protagonist Xu finds eerie dark shadows in every photo he takes.Once…

81% of 295 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Pink Noise

Pink Noise

Pink Noise is a nonlinear visual novel in the psychological horror genre, immersing you in the retro atmosphere of the '90s.

82% of 122 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
PARANORMASIGHT: The Mermaid's Curse

PARANORMASIGHT: The Mermaid's Curse

Follow several lives through a supernatural curse in 1980s Ise-Shima, where every choice pulls the story toward a different ending.

95% of 2,289 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 31$24.99
Decollate Decoration

Decollate Decoration

This is a point-and-click, command-selection style adventure game where the protagonist is a girl who has become a ghost.

93% of 513 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Unsought

Unsought

Unsought is a 360-degree first-person, panoramic horror-adventure game set in a regional town of Japan in the 90s.

90% of 41 Steam reviews are positive$7.99