Games like Under the River

Hooked on the hand-drawn and romantic side of Under the River? These games line up well for what comes next.

Ghost Road Awakening
“Ghost Road” is the first installment in the Ghost Road series of games, and is a visual novel game about the myth of ghosts and monsters in the Chinese underworld. The player plays the role of the Ghost Detainer in the underworld to investigate the past deeds of the three female leaders.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Romantic, Story-driven
82% of 34 Steam reviews are positive$2.59
女儿国的诅咒 The Curse of Womanland
A romance-adventure text-based game themed around the Land of Women. You will travel to the Land of Women, meet the mysterious young lady Jian Ling, and gradually uncover the bloody and dark secrets behind this realm. Death, resistance, or degeneration? Everything depends on your choices.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Romantic, Story-driven
95% of 549 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99
Soulslayer～灭魂·误佳期～
An exciting adventure in a story of ancient Chinese setting.Visual Novel with multiple endings to explore.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Romantic, Story-driven
95% of 661 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
第五件遗留物
With some special reasons, Tang Sheng, a human being, fell into a world of monsters between the underworld and the human world. At the same time, he found that he had lost his memory. He learned that he had to find all the " belongings " when he fell down to return to the world.
Hand-drawn, Romantic, Story-driven
88% of 381 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
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 escaping reality, he’s forced by fate to face fears again.To uncover the curse’s truth, he and two friends embark on a terrifying, unknown journey.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Romantic, Story-driven
81% of 295 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Ignited in Cavern
A dark fantasy visual novel set in the last years of Northern Wei. A general and her captive chase a rumor about a wish-granting stone statue to Dunhuang, and find a murder instead. Two storylines, six endings, and desires that ruin everyone who acts on them.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Romantic, Story-driven
93% of 1,363 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$1.99
Bai Qu: Hundreds of Melodies
A melody of life and death surrounding a sickly girl and her friends.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Romantic, Story-driven
95% of 595 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Lay a Beauty to Rest: The Darkness Peach Blossom Spring
A dark retelling of the Peach Blossom Spring legend: a lost traveler finds a paradise that hides a thousand-year secret. Romance the goddess of the village by day, face her other self by night, and dig for the truth behind nine hundred souls who cannot leave. Twenty endings, full voice acting, and a story that lingers.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Romantic, Story-driven
95% of 6,342 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
Mirages
Mirages is a 3D narrative and horror game with folk stories. One night, seven brides headed to the Captain Mansion but strayed into a place full of ghosts - Regret City. Horror haunts the small town. Due to destiny, actors, warlords, and offspring of the town are drawn in. They are closer to truth.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
77% of 253 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Prisoner of the Ephemeral Kingdom
Fourteen from across the world are abruptly abducted to an isolated structure dubbed "Ephemera Manor". They are strangers, but now forced to partake in an ancient and eerie ritual—"the Feather-Burning Rite". A bloodstained drama spanning millennia has silently unfolded...
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Mysterious
76% of 494 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99
The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty
A bandit escorts four girls across famine-struck Ming China, believing he is selling them to a buyer. One of them, a mute girl named Sui, tells him the buyer is a demon that eats children, and asks him to help kill it. A dark visual novel about an unlikely bond, with nine endings.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Romantic, Story-driven
94% of 50,043 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 63$9.99
品玉庵异谈 PinYuAn Tales
PinYuAn Tales is a AVG with thematic elements of weirdness and sidekick adventures. After Bai Qiming is laid off from his company, he starts to conduct psychic live broadcasting activities, and during one of the broadcasts, he meets a strange young man, and the story of the two of them unfolds.
Also in Visual novel · Hand-drawn, Romantic, Story-driven
93% of 101 Steam reviews are positive$3.99

Cheaper than Under the River

Ghost Road Awakening

“Ghost Road” is the first installment in the Ghost Road series of games, and is a visual novel game about the myth of ghosts and monsters in the…

$2.59

Soulslayer～灭魂·误佳期～

An exciting adventure in a story of ancient Chinese setting.Visual Novel with multiple endings to explore.

$4.99

第五件遗留物

With some special reasons, Tang Sheng, a human being, fell into a world of monsters between the underworld and the human world.

$4.99

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…

$3.99

Ignited in Cavern

A general and her captive follow a rumor of a wish-granting statue to Dunhuang, and find a murder, a thief and a god instead.

$1.99

品玉庵异谈 PinYuAn Tales

PinYuAn Tales is a AVG with thematic elements of weirdness and sidekick adventures.

$3.99

山：临界幸存者

偏远的山村中，正举行着古老的祭祀『仙姑宴』。少女吟诵着，舞动着，一场漫长而恐怖的杀戮剧正在悄然上演……

$4.99

Peculiar Tales of Mid-Lake Pavilion

On a sultry night in late August, I ran into a man carrying a peony lantern at the Mid-Lake Pavilion.

$3.99

剑与桃花 the sword and peachblossom

This is a country strange theme of short visual novel. The game has part of the text of classical Chinese.

$3.99

Fable of the Sword

This is a galgame with a story of ancient. It takes the developing group 蔷薇千墨 6 years to finish.

$1.99

Tales of the Black Forest

Trapped in the town of Kuromori-chō, a schoolgirl travels into the past to find her way out, meeting humans and yōkai along the way.

$3.99

Tide—1927—

In the 16th year of the Republic of China, Shanghai. Bai Youfu, a young girl who was dissatisfied with the arranged marriage, saw the news of her…

$2.99

Hidden gems like Under the River

暴杀残雨之夜

Guide a high school girl through one rainy night, where each choice shapes her relationships and an infamy value quietly remembers her worst impulses.

女儿国的诅咒 The Curse of Womanland

A romance-adventure text-based game themed around the Land of Women.

$9.99

Soul Touch

You play a supervisor in a modern city, choosing your way through a filmed romance with three women, where some choices change everything.

$9.99

Gensokyo：Presumption of Guilt~Pansies Before Dawn

Explore the intertwined fates of humans and youkai in this interactive fiction.

$14.99

Guardian of the Sacred Seal

"Guardian of the Sacred Seal" is a story-driven adventure game centered on the concept: “To be unconditionally loved by a yandere young man.”

$19.99

欺神弄鬼

Tricks of Gods and Ghosts is a female-oriented pixel rpg game set in a hollow female background.

$9.99

The Dawning Letters -Sunrise-

In 1927, Lu Yanhe, a daughter of a royal family of the Qing dynasty decided, to run away from home.

$6.99

我的恋爱逃生攻略 Love to Live

Trapped in a game of dreams, where the price of failing to escape is eternal slumber. Across shifting worlds, you meet 'him.'

$9.99

Ignited in Cavern

A general and her captive follow a rumor of a wish-granting statue to Dunhuang, and find a murder, a thief and a god instead.

$1.99

月华辉映之刻

Run a tavern, marry into a powerful family, and follow five branching romances through a city full of unanswered questions.

$11.99

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…

$3.99

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…

$11.99

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