The Butterfly Collector
investigate the evidence left by a stalker and kidnapper and track the fate of a college girl.
87% of 969 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Visual novels like Pumpkin Eater
If Pumpkin Eater left you wanting something dark and story-driven, you have options. These visual novels offer a similar pull for your backlog.
Case 00: The Cannibal Boy
Case 00: The Cannibal Boy is a half-hour visual novel partly based on a true story, written by a writer with a background in psychology. It is a psychological horror story with an urban legend theme.
Dark, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
80% of 146 Steam reviews are positive$2.99Cut to the Core
How much of someone can you cut away before there's nothing left? Find out in this chilling kinetic visual novel - IF YOU DARE!
Dark, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
93% of 171 Steam reviews are positive$2.99Sunflower Pie
A short story about a parasitic sunflower and her loyal son. Eat everything you can. Enjoy the sunshine. Do whatever it takes to make her happy. This is a prequel to Siren's Call: Escape Velocity.
Dark, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
82% of 145 Steam reviews are positiveFreeCooking Companions
A cute cabin cooking setup in the Tatras Mountains turns into psychological horror. You cook meals, talk with your companions, and make choices that branch toward 11 endings, with talking vegetables, folklore, and a slow build of dread worth reading for in one evening.
Dark, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
93% of 1,095 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$14.99CORPSE FACTORY
Discard your sense of morality and enter the world of CORPSE FACTORY. An obscure website allows users to request a death. Victims supposedly receive a photograph of their own corpse before they are killed! With English voice acting by an all-star cast.
Dark, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
80% of 677 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99The Coffin of Andy and Leyley
A walk-and-talk story about Andrew and Ashley, siblings stuck in a toxic, codependent bond after a botched satanic ritual. You talk, wander, solve light puzzles, and make terrible decisions that branch into multiple endings. Worth playing for the sharp dialogue and dark comedy around two awful people you still want to understand.
Dark, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
96% of 37,338 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 181$11.99Sweetest Monster
A middle-aged man has an encounter with a cute catgirl in the dead of night - but all is not as it seems.
Dark, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
92% of 559 Steam reviews are positive$5.99Grotesque Beauty - A Horror Visual Novel
What will you do when your slumber party takes a nightmarish twist? Decide your fate in this horror narrative game inspired by the works of Junji Ito.
Dark, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
93% of 43 Steam reviews are positive$5.99It Paints Me
Take the role of a painter struggling to finish his masterpiece in this short Gothic horror visual novel about art, pain and love.
Dark, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
97% of 304 Steam reviews are positiveFreeFor Mother Matron
A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths. A free atmospheric horror visual novel where you navigate life-or-death situations. SEEK PARADISE OR DIE TRYING
Dark, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
92% of 176 Steam reviews are positiveFreeFive Stages of Pink
Psychological horror and mystery game about a boy who desperately wants a Normal life in the most abnormal city in the world. Help Timor understand his cruel life in this supernatural city and investigate murders while trying to escape Death. This is a visual novel and point and click game.
Dark, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
96% of 98 Steam reviews are positiveFreeDEAD LAMB WALKING
A story about a dead lamb walking.
Dark, Story-driven, Scary
96% of 209 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Cheaper than Pumpkin Eater
My Head On Your Body
You've moved to a new house where the previous owner was murdered. They never found his head. But, it has found you.
73% of 44 Steam reviews are positive$1.49
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.
96% of 32,184 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$1.49
Bread around bread around bread around bread
A short story about how grandpa went to the store for bread.
81% of 155 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
SOULS
One day, the boy meets a monster, with whom he builds a strange relationship that is neither friend, nor family, nor owner and pet.
88% of 124 Steam reviews are positive$1.19
We Are Counting
A short experimental visual novel about obsessive counting.
68% of 37 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
This Is Not Your House
Crush someone's skull, Suffer from Hypothermia, Transcend your Mortal Frame, Find all 10 Endings. GET YOUR HOUSE BACK.
85% of 281 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
The Winter Mind
This is a psychological horror in which we play as a girl who has psychological health problems, and her mother has sent her to the store.
64% of 77 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
The Bunker Notes - Horror/Drama Visual Novel
"The Bunker Notes" is a visual novel about a concrete trap where the past whispers through the cracks of rusted doors.
75% of 60 Steam reviews are positive$1.79
Hélène est dans mon Ventre.
You follow a troubled girl whose only friend is her talking tapeworm inside her belly.
100% of 22 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Creature Romances: For the Ladies
An original mystery horror love story! This work contains many disturbing, grotesque images and images of non-human creatures.
79% of 62 Steam reviews are positive$1.49
RGB GlitchGazer
A mad and romantic ADV. Unravel a strange world of science and philosophy with a mecha girl, zombie girl, or beastfolk.
93% of 54 Steam reviews are positive$1.70
Hidden gems like Pumpkin Eater
Dissolution of My Self
A prince who has lost his kingdom and everything else. His uncle and aide-de-camp, unable to leave him.
94% of 363 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$5.99
Kyofu Yawa: Scary Stories at Night
At soccer camp, a teacher tells two unsettling tales: a strange presence in the mountains and a body bundled in a sheet by the sea.
95% of 169 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
It Paints Me
Take the role of a painter struggling to finish his masterpiece in this short Gothic horror visual novel about art, pain and love.
97% of 304 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Banebush
Banebush is a short horror visual novel about Alexey, hiding from pursuit in the childhood village he remembers through scary grandmother tales and…
94% of 2,204 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$2.99
The Butterfly Collector
investigate the evidence left by a stalker and kidnapper and track the fate of a college girl.
87% of 969 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Bloody Painter Dating Sim
Captured by the Bloody Painter, you get seven days to talk your way toward survival. Every choice shifts how he treats you, across ten endings.
89% of 1,809 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6Free
我的美味丈夫 My Tasty Husband
Murders quietly upend May's life. A strange husband, a reckless courier, a dutiful officer—reality and hallucination blur together.
79% of 451 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$7.99
Pink Noise
Pink Noise is a nonlinear visual novel in the psychological horror genre, immersing you in the retro atmosphere of the '90s.
82% of 122 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
ghostpia Season One
"In my dreams, I can get out. In my dreams, I can fit in." 'ghostpia' mixes the adorable art style of an illustrated book with glitches-and-noise…
92% of 894 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
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 2,407 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6Free
For Mother Matron
A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths.
92% of 176 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Newest visual novels like Pumpkin Eater
Autumn's end (Part 1)
Navigate love, friendship, art, and mental horror to find meaning in a dying world. A visual novel.
97% of 61 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Dissolution of My Self
A prince who has lost his kingdom and everything else. His uncle and aide-de-camp, unable to leave him.
94% of 363 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$5.99
no fox season
One rainy day you come home from the store and find a wounded fox on the road.
70% of 175 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
我的美味丈夫 My Tasty Husband
Murders quietly upend May's life. A strange husband, a reckless courier, a dutiful officer—reality and hallucination blur together.
79% of 451 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$7.99
Deadly Obsession
A psychological horror visual novel where you’re kidnapped by an obsessed captor—your choices determine whether you escape or fall into his twisted…
88% of 34 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Kyofu Yawa: Scary Stories at Night
At soccer camp, a teacher tells two unsettling tales: a strange presence in the mountains and a body bundled in a sheet by the sea.
95% of 169 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Midnight Scenes: Among Graves
"When the graves stop whispering in your ear, it’s time for you to surrender to eternal silence". So says the Agreement, and so it must be fulfilled.
87% of 53 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Pink Noise
Pink Noise is a nonlinear visual novel in the psychological horror genre, immersing you in the retro atmosphere of the '90s.
82% of 122 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
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.
95% of 42 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Twincantation
Horror vs. Heartfelt: You decide, when you play a teen sneaking out to hold a seance for your lost twin sister on the anniversary of her death.
100% of 31 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Burial of Shortcake
"The Burial of Shortcake" is an unpredictable story. It is a new visual novel with characters which are created/designed by voice actor Nozomi…
85% of 33 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Veins Like Tapeworms
While working at their dead-end job and dreaming of what could’ve been, Demian Zhao discovers a flesh-eating parasite who promises to help them…
95% of 20 Steam reviews are positive$19.99