Visual novels like Holy Shift

Hooked on the story-driven and hand-drawn side of Holy Shift? These visual novels line up well for what comes next.

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 Fairness. Short, strange and oddly personal, it is worth playing to see what it makes of you.
Story-driven, Surreal, Dark
96% of 19,593 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
The Testing Chamber
For every action, there is a reaction... For every choice, a result... Dive deep into your subconscious as you wander the halls of The Testing Chamber & join hundreds of thousands of other players in one of the biggest & most successful social experiments ever performed.
Story-driven, Surreal, Dark
96% of 696 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
A short surreal visual novel where a mysterious girl appears in your room and your only real job is to say hello. You pick through hundreds of choices about whether she exists, bake strawberry cake, play king, stop a time-machine plot, and date at the world's end. Tender, strange, and short enough to finish in an evening.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Surreal
93% of 20,760 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 66$1.99
Purrgatory
You wake up in Purrgatory with no memory and a cat for company. To pass eternity you wander a hand-drawn afterlife, talk through big feelings with seven downtrodden souls, run small errands, and trade an endless stream of cat puns on the way to multiple endings.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Surreal
98% of 5,071 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3Free
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? Or even make it out alive?
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Surreal
92% of 373 Steam reviews are positiveFree
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, Hand-drawn, Surreal
85% of 327 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
I Hate My Waifu Streamer
A visual novel where you are a viewer in Mio's chat, typing comments, sending donations and gifts to win her attention. Be sweet and she might fall for you. Be cruel and you can turn the chat against her. Sweet, dark and uncomfortable by turns.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Surreal
92% of 916 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$9.99
MindMindMind
A dark, psychological romance VN about a British ghost who has haunted you since childhood. When you get close to a new boy at college, he starts to get possessive, and the mind games begin!
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Surreal
96% of 92 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Lilith Wants to Buy Your Soul
Take a personality test with a definitely-not-clingy demon girl.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Surreal
96% of 801 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Trapped with Jester
You wake with no memory in a shaking carriage, watched by a loud stranger who calls himself Jester. This short, fully voiced horror visual novel trades on that one awkward ride: dark jokes, sharp choices, and six endings you can see in about half an hour.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Surreal
93% of 1,626 Steam reviews are positiveFree
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, Hand-drawn, Surreal
87% of 3,445 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$1.99
NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
You are P-chan, manager and chatter for Ame, a needy girl trying to become the number one internet angel as OMGkawaiiAngel. Plan her days, feed her streams with topics, answer her messages, and watch followers, stress, and darkness rise and fall toward many different endings.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Surreal
94% of 55,182 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 322$15.99

Cheaper than Holy Shift

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

Surrogate

Visit a surreal world and help a blue girl navigate the perils of paranoia and the intrusion of mysterious beings in her life...

$0.99

Nothing!

What do you play? I play nothing!

$0.99

One Night Stand

After a night of fun, passion, and one too many drinks, you wake up the next morning to find a complete stranger lying naked beside you in bed.

$0.74

This Is Not Your House

Crush someone's skull, Suffer from Hypothermia, Transcend your Mortal Frame, Find all 10 Endings. GET YOUR HOUSE BACK.

$0.99

Emily is Away Too

You are back in senior year with a buzzing messenger window and two separate threads to keep straight.

$0.99

Sakuya Izayoi Gives You Advice And Dabs

Sakuya Izayoi has been told she is too cold to humans, so now she is in your head, on a beach, ready to be nice.

$0.99

The Ultimate Death Clock

You find yourself in a singularity with Death itself. With few chances to speak with the living, Death proposes a little game.

$0.99

Emily is Away <3

It is 2008, AIM is dead, and everyone is on Facenook. You build a profile, add friends, poke, post, and type every word of senior year yourself as…

$0.99

Visual Novel: EVENING BROADCAST

Late evening in 1989. A student receives an old Soviet television with one warning: "Don't watch it in the evening.

$0.99

Invisible Wall

An interactive horror story based on a reality everyone eventually faces.

$1.49

The Wanderer: Frankenstein’s Creature

Experience the Myth of Frankenstein through the innocent eyes of his creature. Make decisions and change people's view that you will meet on your way.

$1.59