Visual novels like Abashed

If Abashed left you wanting something story-driven and surreal, you have options. These visual novels could fill that gap nicely.

Hazy Mind
You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.
Story-driven, Surreal, Mysterious
85% of 323 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
Double
Double is an action-quest game telling about a fight with a mental disorder by immersing in dreams. Choose your way and find out how this mystical story ends.
Story-driven, Surreal, Mysterious
83% of 184 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Night Loops
Journey through the psyche… Welcome to the Seaside Hotel, where the final hour of your night shift awaits. Tend to guests, explore their dreams, and lose your sense of Self – time and again. In this dark, labyrinthine adventure, unravel the path to the truth below.
Story-driven, Surreal, Mysterious
90% of 147 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
A short sequel that picks up where the first game ends. You talk with a frightened girl, choose what to say back, and try to help her feel a little happier. Distorted pixel art, strange looping dialogue, and an oppressive soundtrack carry a dark, surreal hour about living inside a mind that will not sit still.
Story-driven, Surreal, Mysterious
96% of 21,005 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$8.99
Buried Shards
Get Inmersed in the intriguing narrative adventure of BURIED SHARDS, progressing through the story chapters while alternating between day and night. Guide your sleepwalking self with house lights during the night and confront the traumas of your past in this unique blend of storytelling and puzzles.
Story-driven, Surreal, Mysterious
73% of 37 Steam reviews are positiveFree
"LIFE" not found;
This small Narrative Point & Click (Puzzle) game is about the mental health struggles of a adolescent high school dropout who's lost at life. Find out what they're struggling with, you might even recognize some things from your own life.
Story-driven, Surreal, Mysterious
93% of 339 Steam reviews are positiveFree
STAY
Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time. While you sleep, he is alone. When you return to your PC he has hope. Your encouragement and advice will be the difference between his salvation or despair.
Story-driven, Surreal, Mysterious
67% of 471 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling
A short psychological story about a stressed student buried in books and study, who becomes fixed on exploring her ceiling. You click through hand-drawn rooms, read her thoughts, and steer toward one of 3 endings, plus an unlockable mode that fills in the lore. Worth playing for its tender, uneasy take on burnout.
Story-driven, Surreal, Mysterious
87% of 3,442 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$1.99
Centum
Every why has a wherefore. You are trapped, and you must escape. But is that really the goal? Centum is an unreliable narrative-driven adventure where everything may be a lie.
Story-driven, Surreal, Mysterious
78% of 167 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.74
The Shadow You
The Shadow You is a compelling horror adventure game set in two different realities. Solve puzzles, reveal secrets and let the chills go down your spine in this immersive story.
Story-driven, Surreal, Mysterious
80% of 35 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Provoron
When demons leave your head and fill the whole world, all you can do is close your eyes and go forward. Immerse yourself in the atmospheric and moving adventure of white crow Ankou — one of pain, loneliness, and salvation that no one asked for.
Story-driven, Surreal, Mysterious
87% of 102 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Until Then
A slow, tender visual novel that turns strange: you follow Mark, a Filipino high-schooler, through school days, chats with friends, and small routines, until people vanish and memories stop adding up. Read on, keep going past the first ending, and piece together what is really happening.
Story-driven, Surreal, Mysterious
96% of 16,233 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 149$19.99

Cheaper than Abashed

Double

Double is an action-quest game telling about a fight with a mental disorder by immersing in dreams.

$5.99

Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling

A short psychological story about a stressed student buried in books and study, who becomes fixed on exploring her ceiling.

$1.99

Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game

Hitchhiker is a mystery game set along lost highways, where your goal is to solve the puzzle of your own backstory.

$2.99

Jishogi

A dark, story-heavy puzzle game. Enter the mind of Mayu, as her soul is invaded and dug through by a seemingly evil witch. Can you stop her?

$4.99

The Test

The Test asks you a run of blunt Yes or No questions, reads what your answers say about you, then hands you a single secret word like Chaos or…

$1.99

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

A girl needs to buy milk. That is the whole errand, and it is also the whole problem.

$1.49

The Testing Chamber

For every action, there is a reaction... For every choice, a result...

$4.99

Our Ordinary Home

A psychological thriller where you assemble fragmented memories and hidden clues to uncover the truth behind a disturbing incident.

$4.99

Blind Memory

Dive into a haunting mystery where you wake up half-blind and amnesiac, trapped in a time-looping nightmare.

$3.50

Loop//Error

Alone in the dead of night, you find yourself sent on a simple errand to check on a quiet gas station on the outskirts of town.

$2.99

GESTALT: The Fifth Day

Wickeina 'Wicke' Gestalt lives in a haunted house. Trying to balance the stresses of life with the horrors of her home, play through a…

$5.99

Disturbed: Beyond Aramor

A 'Choose Your Own Adventure' themed sequel to the free-to-play 'Disturbed'.

$4.99

Hidden gems like Abashed

lily's world XD

You find Lily's laptop from 2004 and start reading. Her diary, her blog, her messages to childhood friends — each file pulls you closer to why she…

$11.99

Lost in the Woods

'One last try' Violet is determined to save her broken marriage - at any cost!

Free

The Test: Reality Check

The Test: Reality Check is one of multiple installments in an ongoing social experiment that can be classified as an atmospheric…

$4.99

Without a Dawn

Without a Dawn is a dark, psychological, and philosophical visual horror novel featuring hauntingly beautiful pseudo-ASCII art.

$7.99

Disillusion ST

A strange journey throughout an elaborate labyrinth awaits, featuring hundreds of characters and happenings as you try to gather items that once…

$10.99

Alice's World

Alice's World is a story-driven 2D adventure puzzle game. Amidst desolate ruins and deserted cities in a world filled with death, the young girl…

$13.99

Provoron

When demons leave your head and fill the whole world, all you can do is close your eyes and go forward.

$9.99

YAMIKKO TROUBLEMAKER

A long-form, choice-driven psychological horror and depression game in which the protagonist’s ending changes based on the choices made by “you,”…

Free

The Apocalypse Sacrifice

As an adventurer, you have unintentionally uncovered a horrifying secret hidden in the town for years.

$9.99

GESTALT: The Fifth Day

Wickeina 'Wicke' Gestalt lives in a haunted house. Trying to balance the stresses of life with the horrors of her home, play through a…

$5.99

Illusion Carnival

A lost soul turned into a tiny paper boat wanders Confettia, a bright amusement park gone wrong.

Free

Night Loops

Journey through the psyche… Welcome to the Seaside Hotel, where the final hour of your night shift awaits.

$9.99

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