Return to Shironagasu Island
A New York detective and his assistant travel to solitary Shironagasu Island on a dead millionaire's invitation, then murders start.
93% of 4,176 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$4.99
Visual novels like 呪いの穢れ唄 鳴海龍也の回奇録
Did 呪いの穢れ唄 鳴海龍也の回奇録 leave you in a mysterious and story-driven frame of mind? You might settle into these visual novels easily.
Return to Shironagasu Island
A New York detective and his assistant travel to solitary Shironagasu Island on a dead millionaire's invitation, then murders start. You read, question suspects and pick choices that decide who lives. A compact mystery visual novel worth playing for its tight island case and sharp turn into horror and sci-fi.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
93% of 4,176 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$4.99PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
A horror visual novel about seven cursed ghost stories in late-20th-century Tokyo, and the people willing to kill to bring someone back. You read, investigate, pick dialogue, and time deadly curses across several intertwined lives. Sharp, eerie, and clever with its twists.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
95% of 6,282 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 28$19.99Midnight Syndrome
A summer night consumes the girls... Exploration type horror ADV game
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
99% of 110 Steam reviews are positiveFreeSpirit Hunter: Death Mark
Marked for death with no memory, you hole up in a Tokyo mansion with other marked souls and work through one cursed spirit at a time. Read, search crime-like scenes for clues, then face each ghost and get the ritual exactly right, or survive in a way you will regret.
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86% of 352 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99Red Chat Ritual – TSUMIMI TIME
“Intervene in Tsumimi’s stream” through comments and Mega Chats, then use your deductions to change their fate in this 15-day psychological horror adventure.
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61% of 408 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$17.99Yotsume God -Reunion-
In September of my third year in junior high school, I went with my father to my grandparents' house in the mountains. The place we arrived at was Yotsu Village. It was a small village that had long believed in "Yotsume God". There I meet a mysterious boy.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
96% of 393 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$20.09怪異番号~20✕✕(ニーマルバツバツ)~
A mysterious phone number on a park restroom wall leads to an unknown “voice,” quietly awakening the town’s hidden apparitions. This is a horror text adventure with no jump scares—no loud noises or grotesque surprises—designed for a safe and tension-focused experience.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
95% of 98 Steam reviews are positive$2.99KOEWOTAYORINI SP / 声之寄托SP
Escape by means of "Voice"! The second installment of the new feeling puzzle and escape game! You are being held in a room that you haven't been to before. The only thing you can do is using telephone to ask for hint from a cooperator.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
94% of 196 Steam reviews are positive$1.99マーダーミステリーパラドクス このひと夏の十五年
"Murder Mystery Paradox: Fifteen Years of Summer" is a text-based adventure game. Enter the remote and sparsely populated island of Shikinejima and attempt to solve the strangely recurring mystery found there.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
85% of 260 Steam reviews are positive$8.99Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary
A ghost with no memory keeps dying in front of you, and treats it like a joke. You are the only living person who can talk to Kugayama Shiori, so you help her chase her lost memories, question other ghosts, and fill an Urban Legend Encyclopedia until one incident explains everything. Funny, bloody, and sad in that order.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
94% of 1,120 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$24.99Urban Myth Dissolution Center
Join the Urban Myth Dissolution Center as Azami Fukurai, new hire with glasses that show leftover thoughts, working under a wheelchair-using psychic director. You gather social posts and onsite clues across episodic urban-myth cases, then match them up to dissolve each oddity. Psychedelic pixel art included.
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
87% of 6,121 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 49$12.59Type-NOISE: Shonen Shojo
Type-NOISE: Shonen Shojo is a multi-ending mystery adventure game. A group of boys and girls who have lost their memories gather in a “Tokyo” that is both familiar and unfamiliar. They must trace their lost memories to escape the bizarre labyrinths. Are they prepared to confront their “true selves”?
Also in Detective · Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
77% of 121 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Cheaper than 呪いの穢れ唄 鳴海龍也の回奇録
怪異番号~20✕✕(ニーマルバツバツ)~
A mysterious phone number on a park restroom wall leads to an unknown “voice,” quietly awakening the town’s hidden apparitions.
95% of 98 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
KOEWOTAYORINI SP / 声之寄托SP
Escape by means of "Voice"! The second installment of the new feeling puzzle and escape game!
94% of 196 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Tales of the Black Forest
Trapped in the town of Kuromori-cho, schoolgirl Kihara Kashin must travel into the past with Kiritani Yuki to find a way out.
97% of 14,942 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$3.99
AI: The Somnium Files
You are Kaname Date, a detective in near-future Tokyo hunting a serial killer who takes left eyes.
91% of 8,947 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 29$3.99
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
Spiritual Bond ～Breaking the curse, Intertwining fates～
“Person of Serendipity… please help us——” A text-based adventure puzzle game set in ancient villages, where shrine maidens and the Kami guide you to…
82% of 98 Steam reviews are positive$4.49
Endless Jade Sea -Midori no Umi-
A suspense with a twist, this game is made by Cabbit, sister brand of SkyFish.
84% of 416 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Kanna Maze
In an isolated lab beneath the earth, a childhood friend is resurrected. Amidst sealed walls, a spree of killings unfolds.
88% of 372 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Other Side Of Mist And Mountain
In 2005, a sophomore student named Maha Igarashi boarded a private train to Soukyo City.
59% of 46 Steam reviews are positive$3.29
Demonfo
A girl at the bottom of the ladder with bad luck finds a cleaning job, but she mistakenly enters a cleaning company that is in the business of…
95% of 83 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
√Letter - Root Letter -
When a letter is delivered 15 years late - you discover an old pen-friend was involved in a murder, before she disappeared.
78% of 556 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Hidden gems like 呪いの穢れ唄 鳴海龍也の回奇録
Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary
A ghost with no memory keeps dying in front of you, and treats it like a joke.
94% of 1,120 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$24.99
PARANORMASIGHT: The Mermaid's Curse
A supernatural mystery visual novel set on Kameshima island in Ise-Shima, where pearl diver Yuza Minakuchi meets another version of himself on the…
95% of 2,283 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 31$24.99
Gensokyo：Presumption of Guilt~Pansies Before Dawn
Explore the intertwined fates of humans and youkai in this interactive fiction.
92% of 254 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
Yet Another Killing Game
You wake up in a house, alone with two beautiful girls... But no one is allowed to leave until one of you DIES. Why is this happening?
96% of 253 Steam reviews are positive$16.99
Midnight Syndrome
A summer night consumes the girls... Exploration type horror ADV game
99% of 110 Steam reviews are positiveFree
星影の館殺人事件
1935年の洋館を舞台に織り成す、レトロな雰囲気の怪異ホラーミステリーアドベンチャー
95% of 144 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free
Kanna Maze
In an isolated lab beneath the earth, a childhood friend is resurrected. Amidst sealed walls, a spree of killings unfolds.
88% of 372 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
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...
94% of 938 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Yokai Landlord: Monster Mystery!
A Werewolf game-style social deduction adventure where you play as the landlord of an apartment and try to uncover the Yokai hiding among your…
82% of 127 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
natsuno-kanata - beyond the summer
── In the summer of the world that has ended, the girl travels aimlessly. "natsuno-kanata - beyond the summer" is a text adventure game that depicts…
94% of 908 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free
Urban Myth Dissolution Center
Join the Urban Myth Dissolution Center as Azami Fukurai, new hire with glasses that show leftover thoughts, working under a wheelchair-using psychic…
87% of 6,121 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 49$12.59
奇天烈相談ダイヤル
矛盾を見つけ、相談者の悩みを解決する怪異判定アドベンチャー
83% of 354 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4Free
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糺糺縁糸（きゅうきゅうえんし）
A story-driven exploration horror adventure set in a fictional modern-day Japan.
98% of 52 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Be Missed and Remembered: The Letter from Mayoiga
Set in 1972 (Showa 47), this story follows a high school student on his yearly summer visit to his grandparents’ rural home.
94% of 67 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$14.39
Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary
A ghost with no memory keeps dying in front of you, and treats it like a joke.
94% of 1,120 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$24.99
怪異番号~20✕✕(ニーマルバツバツ)~
A mysterious phone number on a park restroom wall leads to an unknown “voice,” quietly awakening the town’s hidden apparitions.
95% of 98 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Gensokyo：Presumption of Guilt~Pansies Before Dawn
Explore the intertwined fates of humans and youkai in this interactive fiction.
92% of 254 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
PARANORMASIGHT: The Mermaid's Curse
A supernatural mystery visual novel set on Kameshima island in Ise-Shima, where pearl diver Yuza Minakuchi meets another version of himself on the…
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トガネヨビ
Toganeyobi, a horror escape puzzle game by Jamsanpoid (From Madness with Love).
100% of 14 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
Spiritual Bond ～Breaking the curse, Intertwining fates～
“Person of Serendipity… please help us——” A text-based adventure puzzle game set in ancient villages, where shrine maidens and the Kami guide you to…
82% of 98 Steam reviews are positive$4.49
Log.in
Log.in is a mystery-horror game where you explore a PC screen, digging through images, videos and files.
75% of 95 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Type-NOISE: Shonen Shojo
Type-NOISE: Shonen Shojo is a multi-ending mystery adventure game.
77% of 121 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
春琉ト怪夜
An adventure game where you aim to escape a storied mansion with a mysterious girl named "Haru" who you meet there.
98% of 40 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Dear Mirror Flower
I am here, in this world... A Japanese-style fantasy adventure by Kogado Studio. In this town, strange incidents never cease.
84% of 45 Steam reviews are positive$24.99