Visual novels like Dark Notes

Remember how mysterious and story-driven Dark Notes felt at its best? Browse these visual novels for your next favorite.

Red Line
Moving into a shabby apartment, a saturnine girl with hidden secrets finds a notebook that allows her to communicate with another world. A thrilling adventure taking place across multiple timelines ensues.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Tense
97% of 155 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
a pet shop after dark
PETSITTER WANTED. A horror point-and-click adventure game. Water the plants, feed the pets, and DON'T turn off the lights.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Tense
89% of 367 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
The Diary
Several diaries gradually reveal the thrilling story of a missing case; after multiple deductions, are the answers in the past or present? With frequent plot twists, you never know which is the truth and which is the unexpected; in a dense fog, time buries the past, but the marks remain.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
65% of 146 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
The Bad Kids
As an adaptation of the popular suspecse TV series, Cat's Cradle, this game combines investigation, solving puzzles and reasoning with original stories, which can build a more Immersive experience. Game will build new stories based on original setting and focus on the inner world of the character.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Tense
74% of 587 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Mercury Abbey
In a mansion surrounded by mist, as the curse made by the Alchemist and Fairy reappears, the danger is quietly lurking in the darkness, awaiting its visitors.Follow Harrod and Willie to unravel an incredible story in Mercury Abbey, and go on an adventure that you would only find in mystery novels.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Tense
92% of 800 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
Paper Bride 2 Zangling Village
A horror mystery set in Zangling Village, rooted in Chinese folklore. You explore a haunted village, question its occult customs, and untangle a tragic romance across time. Sharp dialogue, hand-drawn scenes, and voiced lines carry the story, with tricky folk puzzles between plot beats.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Tense
91% of 1,021 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Tense
80% of 35 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Tangle Tower
A murder at the top of a strange tower, and the only suspect is a painting holding a knife. You question its odd residents, turn up clues, and piece together what happened. Fully voiced, hand-painted, and funny, it is worth playing for the interrogations and the slow unravelling of the house itself.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Atmospheric
94% of 6,685 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 32$19.99
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.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Tense
90% of 147 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Firework
Firework is a story-heavy horror puzzle game about rookie policeman Lin Lixun re-investigating a massacre in a remote mountain village. You read through long stretches of dialogue, diaries and memories to piece together what happened to the victims. Sad, slow and human, with fair puzzles between story beats.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Tense
97% of 41,335 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$9.99
回门 Way Back Home
"Way back home" is a 2D horizontal board horror puzzle game. It takes the Republic of China period from 1905 to 1926 as the background of the times. With a large number of exquisite original paintings, rich playing methods, excellent music and dubbing, delicate script and narrative game style, it creates a strong historical...
Mysterious, Story-driven, Tense
70% of 454 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$6.99
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. What follows is three linked chapters of yokai tales, tied to real history, told through dialogue, exploration and light puzzles in pixel anime style. Sad, warm and strange, with lots of cats along the way.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Tense
97% of 14,930 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$3.99

Cheaper than Dark Notes

回门 Way Back Home

"Way back home" is a 2D horizontal board horror puzzle game. It takes the Republic of China period from 1905 to 1926 as the background of the times.

$6.99

Kanna Maze

In an isolated lab beneath the earth, a childhood friend is resurrected. Amidst sealed walls, a spree of killings unfolds.

$3.99

UNMEMORY

Unravel a mystery: A game you can read, a book you can play.

$6.99

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.

$3.99

杀青

"Shaqing" is a Chinese horror puzzle game set in "Wuzhan Town".

$6.99

Raisond'etre

Will you be able to uncover your raison d'être and solve the mysteries that await in this suspenseful thriller?

$5.99

KOEWOTAYORINI SP / 声之寄托SP

Escape by means of "Voice"! The second installment of the new feeling puzzle and escape game!

$1.99

Rainy Butcher

On rainy nights, the serial murderer is on a killing spree. This scares everyone but one girl, the journalist who keeps digging for a promotion.

$5.99

Mandemon

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

$2.99

start;again

A BL/yaoi mystery visual novel that follows a man named Sebastian as he’s forced into a game of life-or-death, alongside three strangers.

$5.99

Demons Never Lie

Demons Never Lie is a creepy graphic adventure made with voxel and low-poly where even your soul is at stake!

$3.99

Zero Escape: The Nonary Games

Nine strangers wake up trapped in Zero's life-or-death Nonary Game, and only you can talk, snoop, and puzzle your way out.

$5.99

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The Incident at Galley House

In 1936, locals walked into empty Galley House and found something bloody.

$19.99

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?

$16.99

Mercury Abbey

In a mansion surrounded by mist, as the curse made by the Alchemist and Fairy reappears, the danger is quietly lurking in the darkness, awaiting its…

$17.99

Reviver

A narrative puzzle game with themes of love, fate and time. Follow the life stories of the two main characters and influence their destinies through…

$8.99

LumineNight

LumineNight is a story-driven detective adventure set in 1950s Summerset, where Detective Kelvin Foster and his daughter Selen chase a decade of…

$24.99

Red Line

Moving into a shabby apartment, a saturnine girl with hidden secrets finds a notebook that allows her to communicate with another world.

$9.99

Kanna Maze

In an isolated lab beneath the earth, a childhood friend is resurrected. Amidst sealed walls, a spree of killings unfolds.

$3.99

Paper Bride 6 Nightmare

“Paper Bride 6 Nightmare” is the sixth work to the Paper Bride series.

$9.99

Night Loops

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

$9.99

Paper Bride 3 Unresolved Love

Paper Bride 3 is a Chinese horror mystery puzzle game This is the third horror puzzle game from our team.

$9.99

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…

$12.59

The Monstrous Horror Show

Four girls find their way into an abandoned hospital, each for her own reasons.

$14.99

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