Games like Locked Up

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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.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Atmospheric
94% of 2,402 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7Free
Banebush
A short, very red horror visual novel. Alexey hides from his pursuers in the village where he grew up, and the forest around it turns out to hold something his grandmother's tales never quite invented. Six endings, hand-drawn black-and-red art and a dark ambient soundtrack make it a tense evening well spent.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Atmospheric
94% of 2,193 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$2.99
Trick and Treat - Visual Novel
A short Halloween visual novel set in a cursed forest. You go in with friends to check an old legend, something attacks, and you wake up alone with two strange girls, Ashley and Lilian. Read, choose carefully, and chase seven endings across about three hours of mystery with a little romance.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Atmospheric
89% of 3,627 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Locked
Maks is looking for a waitress he hasn’t seen for over a month. Intuition brings him to an abandoned mansion enshrouded in mystery and secrets. Will Maks find and save the girl?
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Atmospheric
76% of 38 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Fairy Deer
Fairy Deer is a kinetic thriller visual novel. Make your way deep into the terrifying Forest in search of the sole pathway to happiness—the mythical Fairy Deer.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Atmospheric
90% of 40 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Autumn Spirit
Hunted by anxiety, you exiled yourself to a lonely mountain inhabited by a ghost and his regrets.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Atmospheric
95% of 95 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Lost girl`s [diary]
A kinetic visual novel about a Christmas night gone sideways. A group of girls on vacation in a snowed-in hotel plan some fortune-telling, then their boyfriends show up uninvited and it turns into a scary story contest. No choices, about an hour, just snow, chatter, and tales that would only scare children.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Dark
82% of 1,124 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Kindred [SnowBound]
In this dark romance, horror visual novel, a brutal attack on your village leaves you stranded and vulnerable. Making matters worse is your run-in with the beast of the nearby woods. Will you find a way to escape your demented captor, or will you earn his trust? Choose a side; Don't look back.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Atmospheric
100% of 28 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
The Silent Huntress
"The Silent Huntress" is a visual novel in the genre of a dark fairy tale with choices and different endings. Not only the development of events will depend on your choices, but also the conclusions that the main character makes about her life and the world around her.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Atmospheric
97% of 31 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Once Upon an All Hallow's Eve
What happens when a girl gets lost all alone in the woods and can only find the occupants of one mysterious mansion to help her?
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Atmospheric
83% of 203 Steam reviews are positiveFree
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.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Atmospheric
93% of 1,095 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$14.99
1997
Detective visual novel about mysteries of rural Russian town in 90-s, anime style.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Atmospheric
92% of 235 Steam reviews are positive$9.99

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Locked

Maks is looking for a waitress he hasn’t seen for over a month. Intuition brings him to an abandoned mansion enshrouded in mystery and secrets.

$1.99

Fairy Deer

Fairy Deer is a kinetic thriller visual novel. Make your way deep into the terrifying Forest in search of the sole pathway to happiness—the mythical…

$1.99

Deep Under

DEEP UNDER is a grim visual novel about how an ordinary camping trip with friends can turn into a real nightmare.

$1.99

outside the door

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

$1.99

q.u.q.

A crude girl drags a giant gun across a red-skied desert until she collapses, and then things get stranger.

$1.99

Up All Night

Unearth secrets hidden between the trees. Solve a murder. Confront what awaits in the darkness.

$2.16

Scar of the Doll

Scar of the Doll is a beloved '90s visual novel remastered for Steam.

$0.99

Wire Lips

Leta’s life changed in one moment. She and her friend Lina found an old music box in the mountains... and soon Lina disappeared, leaving behind only…

$0.89

Everdine - A Lost Girl's Tale

Everdine finds herself lost in a forest of eternal twilight.

$1.49

Love at First Sight

You are the new kid who falls for Sachi Usui, a shy, lonely classmate with one eye, and you stick around to know her properly.

$2.49

The Wolf of Derevnya

When the villagers of Derevnya begin turning up maimed, suspicion falls on you.

$1.49

At Home Alone II

A recreational healing Mini-plot game explored at home. Players will play and wander around the house from the perspective of a little girl.

$1.99

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Set Yourself on Fire

A quiet town awaits death. Two young women fall in love.

Free

This Winter of Ours

Alone as two, together as one - A fantasy/yuri visual novel telling the story of two girls traversing a snow covered forest and growing closer.

Free

Banebush

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

$2.99

outside the door

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

$1.99

MOOD

MOOD is a short visual novel combining horror, dark humor, and dialogues on a wide variety of topics, from old movies to ancient wars.

$5.99

Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It

Ask the questions a closed Soviet town wants left alone, in a strange, tender visual novel about a missing girl and the quiet outcast who won't stop…

Free

Pink Noise

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

$10.99

q.u.q.

A crude girl drags a giant gun across a red-skied desert until she collapses, and then things get stranger.

$1.99

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.

Free

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...

Free

Sisters: Last Day of Summer

A fully-animated visual novel about a boy who wakes up in an unknown house with two beautiful sisters, their mother, and an unspoken truth.

$24.99

1997

Detective visual novel about mysteries of rural Russian town in 90-s, anime style.

$9.99

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