7 Years From Now
A slice of life story-driven adventure game with a distinctive 3D pixel art.
97% of 290 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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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. Spending quiet, nostalgic days with his sister and the villagers, he begins to believe this peaceful summer might last… until an encounter in the mountains changes everything.
Emotional, Atmospheric, Mysterious
94% of 67 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$14.39natsuno-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 girls traveling in apocalypse. Through talking to the girls, we get to know them and approach the mysteries of the world ──
Emotional, Atmospheric, Mysterious
94% of 907 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free7 Years From Now
A slice of life story-driven adventure game with a distinctive 3D pixel art. Embark on a journey and accompany Haruto Soraki, a high schooler, in his quest to find the memory he lost in an accident seven years ago.
Emotional, Atmospheric, Mysterious
97% of 290 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Tales 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.
Emotional, Atmospheric, Mysterious
97% of 14,942 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$3.99Return 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.
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93% of 4,177 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$4.99Mandemon
Crumbling school buildings in Japan. A string of bizarre incidents. The eerie legend of Mandemon. Lies and truth intertwine. Love and hatred blur in the mist. What will you do? Who can you trust? Welcome to a cruel world of deceit and suffering—
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86% of 353 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$2.99Tales from Toyotoki: Arrival of the Witch (The witch of the Ihanashi)
The English version of the heartwarming story that was highly acclaimed in Japan. Enjoy the meticulously crafted narrative. Set in Okinawa, Japan, it is also a story that unravels the mysteries hidden within its history and fantasy.
Emotional, Mysterious, Story-driven
95% of 888 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$24.98Absent 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... What if all of them are connected and surround me like a circle? What should I do?
Emotional, Atmospheric, Mysterious
94% of 939 Steam reviews are positiveFreePARANORMASIGHT: 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.
Emotional, Atmospheric, Mysterious
95% of 6,281 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$19.99Yotsume 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.
Emotional, Atmospheric, Mysterious
96% of 393 Steam reviews are positive$20.09Kugayama 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.
Emotional, Atmospheric, Mysterious
94% of 1,120 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$24.99Before Arriving at the Terminal
A horror visual novel set in a suburban city.
Emotional, Atmospheric, Mysterious
89% of 88 Steam reviews are positiveFree
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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
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 4,177 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$4.99
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
Natsuno-Kanata: Beyond Summer
──終わってしまった世界の夏、少女はあてのない旅をする。通話を介して終わってしまった世界を共に生きるアドベンチャーゲーム。
91% of 129 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
Notch - The Innocent LunA: Eclipsed SinnerS
A gothic horror visual novel set in an isolated town where murders have woken old, forgotten memories.
95% of 3,152 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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
迷雾之村Misty Village
An adventure suspense, love simulation visual novel game. The player plays the role of a boy who runs away from home and enters a strange village in…
79% of 29 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
√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$19.99
Type-NOISE: Shonen Shojo
Type-NOISE: Shonen Shojo is a multi-ending mystery adventure game.
78% of 123 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Sumire
One Day, One Life. Sumire is a magical narrative adventure about choices made, and dreams lost and found.
95% of 892 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Tidal Therapy
Tidal Therapy is a travel novel game for tired adults. A tired office worker heads to the sea.
93% of 135 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
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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
Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved
A woman vanishes without a trace on a cross-country train. The catch?
93% of 448 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
GIRLS MADE PUDDING
"When there's nobody there to see you, you disappear." In Girls Made Pudding, two girls tour a series of towns that people have disappeared from.
95% of 920 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99
AKIBA LOST
A live-action mystery set in Akihabara, where a washed-up game creator turns his sister's disappearance into a game and the disappearances start…
84% of 317 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$24.99
Midnight Syndrome
A summer night consumes the girls... Exploration type horror ADV game
99% of 110 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Tidal Therapy
Tidal Therapy is a travel novel game for tired adults. A tired office worker heads to the sea.
93% of 135 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Natsuno-Kanata: Beyond Summer
──終わってしまった世界の夏、少女はあてのない旅をする。通話を介して終わってしまった世界を共に生きるアドベンチャーゲーム。
91% of 129 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
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
Shanghai Summer
Shanghai Summer is an adventure game set in the millennium. Our protagonist, Baichuan, goes through a series of "anomalies" over the length of…
89% of 394 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Ever 17 - The Out of Infinity
To the promise we once made and the place we must return
83% of 190 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$20.99
It gets so lonely here
A yandere yuri visual novel about a girl running through a dark forest from someone who loves her to death.
94% of 2,410 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7Free
SEASON: A letter to the future
Leave home on a bicycle to record a world before a cataclysm ends the season.
93% of 1,850 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$24.99
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Red 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…
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AKIBA LOST
A live-action mystery set in Akihabara, where a washed-up game creator turns his sister's disappearance into a game and the disappearances start…
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Be Missed and Remembered: The Letter from Mayoiga
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Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary
A ghost with no memory keeps dying in front of you, and treats it like a joke.
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A mysterious tale shared with Sujin, the girl only I can see.
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Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved
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Type-NOISE: Shonen Shojo
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HARMONIC REFLECTIONS
A boy who can no longer hear the piano, living in the shadow of his gifted younger brother; a karate girl who is more than a friend but not yet a…
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呪いの穢れ唄 鳴海龍也の回奇録
You have lost your memory and wake up in an unpopular Japanese house. Strange phenomena occur. Eerie singing voices coming from inside the house.
96% of 46 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
GIRLS MADE PUDDING
"When there's nobody there to see you, you disappear." In Girls Made Pudding, two girls tour a series of towns that people have disappeared from.
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