Games like Mesel

Want something that feels mysterious and story-driven the way Mesel does? These games are worth a look next.

Mesmalie
An occult visual novel about losing control. Your Magick sets your room on fire, so you answer a newspaper ad and end up at a witches' coven in the middle of nowhere, where Mesmer takes you in. Point and click your way through training, branching dialogue and plenty of secrets, in a story that starts silly and turns bittersweet.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Emotional
99% of 1,514 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$8.99
Storyteller
A puzzle game where the pieces are people. Drag characters and settings into comic panels until the story matches its title: love, betrayal, dragons, murder. You know how these tales go, but this time you are the author, and there is more than one way to write each one.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Emotional
88% of 8,279 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 46$14.99
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.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
94% of 2,402 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6Free
The Mansion
The Mansion, a grim yet fascinating building you’re facing, doesn’t exist.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
65% of 153 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Lightless
Lightless: The 21st Sacrifice is the first episode of an atmospheric horror game series set in 2018 Iran, Saqqez that tells the story of Navid, a writer who finally comes home, only to find himself strangled by a dark past that will not let go.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
82% of 176 Steam reviews are positiveFree
The Novelist
The Novelist asks one central question: can you achieve your dreams without pushing away the people you love? The game focuses on Dan Kaplan, a novelist struggling to write the most important book of his career while trying to be the best husband and father he can be.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
78% of 554 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Beside Myself
You have to play as the historian-journalist Michael, plunge into the atmosphere of darkness of an abandoned hospital, where you will need to unravel the secrets of the past and try to get out in order to tell the whole world about those terrible events.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
66% of 318 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Mists of Aiden
Mists of Aiden is a first-person story driven horror game. You play as a thief trapped in an eerie mansion. Each choice can open a new mystery of the house and lead to a unique walkthrough and ending. Uncover final secret of the house. Uncover your own secrets.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
90% of 982 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
No70: Eye of Basir
''No70: Eye of Basir'' is a story based first person perspective adventure game which focused on investigation. Players will help Aras and Erhan to solve the mystery about Basir and the No70 house.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
57% of 447 Steam reviews are positiveFree
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.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
86% of 783 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free
Five Stages of Pink
Psychological horror and mystery game about a boy who desperately wants a Normal life in the most abnormal city in the world. Help Timor understand his cruel life in this supernatural city and investigate murders while trying to escape Death. This is a visual novel and point and click game.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
96% of 98 Steam reviews are positiveFree
outside the door
Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office. You are about to figure out the stories of a few visitors without having a single memory of yourself.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
93% of 764 Steam reviews are positive$1.99

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outside the door

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

$1.99

Magdalena

The mind dissolves in the surrounding darkness like pain dissolves in wine. Remains of memories crumble and rapidly leak like sand through fingers.

$3.99

The Almost Gone

Rotate miniature worlds, uncover clues and piece together the story of how you ended up here.

$1.99

Himantolo

The girl with a head injury has to find her friend who vanished from the hospital.

$2.99

Meridian 157: Chapter 1

While searching for the anomaly, you find yourself trapped inside a facility on a remote sub-Arctic island. What is this place? Who built it?

$3.99

Play With Me: Escape Room

See how a game created by the very Jigsaw would look like! Use the available objects, outwit tricky illusions and optical puzzles and above all…

$2.99

Love Stories: When Pastel Meets Grotesque

Some Scary Love Stories is a visual novel game with option branches Players tap the screen to read the story and make their own choices, eventually…

$0.79

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

and yet, we dream

a psychological visual novel where you investigate the souls of the dead. spend time with them, analyze their past, file reports to decide their…

$3.99

Just Ignore Them

Monsters live in Mark's house, and his mother says to just ignore them. Then one night goes very wrong.

$3.99

Mandemon

Crumbling school buildings in Japan. A string of bizarre incidents. The eerie legend of Mandemon. Lies and truth intertwine.

$2.69

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

Hidden gems like Mesel

Mesmalie

Train your Magick at a witches' coven, pick your words carefully and steer a story that shifts from silly to bittersweet toward multiple endings.

$8.99

My Beautiful Faraway, Please Don't Be Cruel To Me

A slow first-person walk through a dreamlike nowhere where lost inhabitants trade regrets and half-finished sentences.

$10.99

outside the door

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

$1.99

No Players Online

you find an abandoned fps game on an old computer. you decide to play it.

$10.49

CLeM

CLeM is a narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with a dark twist.

$6.39

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

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?

Free

This Bed We Made

A 1950s hotel noir where a chambermaid's snooping turns tidy rooms into a murder case.

$24.99

Mandemon

Crumbling school buildings in Japan. A string of bizarre incidents. The eerie legend of Mandemon. Lies and truth intertwine.

$2.69

For Mother Matron

A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths.

Free

Havsala: Into the Soul Palace

Havsala is an investigative puzzle game with rich storytelling full of historical references and mysticism.

$11.99

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

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