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
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Mandemon
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—
Story-driven, Dark, Tense
86% of 353 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$2.99It gets so lonely here
A yandere yuri visual novel about a girl running through a dark forest from someone who loves her to death. You follow three routes, meet three girls, and die three ways while an amused narrator judges your choices. Short, strange, and sweet in a morbid way.
Story-driven, Dark, Tense
94% of 2,410 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7FreeGhost in the pool
A bizarre campus legend, take you into the traditional Japanese black-and-white comic horror story. Witness the familiar scenes and contemplate the terrifying moments.
Story-driven, Dark, Tense
77% of 301 Steam reviews are positive$3.99Syutyaku Gakuen
The only quality that can be measured is whether or not they possess the qualities of morbid love. As they spend their time at the school, what was once a peaceful life turns into a blood-soaked, corpse-riddled, blood-soaked day....
Story-driven, Dark, Tense
91% of 58 Steam reviews are positive$5.99Notch - The Innocent LunA: Eclipsed SinnerS
A gothic horror visual novel set in an isolated town where murders have woken old, forgotten memories. You read through illusion and reality, dreams of ruin and rebirth, and choose branching routes toward 14 endings across 10+ hours, backed by 50+ songs.
Story-driven, Dark, Tense
95% of 3,152 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Kugayama 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.
Story-driven, Dark, Tense
94% of 1,120 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$24.99Gore Screaming Show
A deeply unsettling visual novel following a boy who returns to his hometown expecting to find peace; however, it isn't long before his hopes are dashed by the monster known as Gore Screaming Show.
Story-driven, Dark, Tense
86% of 174 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$29.99Doki Doki Literature Club!
You join a school literature club full of cute, chatty members and pick words for poems to win their attention. It reads like a sweet dating sim at first, then turns strange and dark in ways best met unspoiled. Short, story-led, and hard to forget.
Story-driven, Dark, Tense
96% of 230,333 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 761FreeAbsent 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?
Story-driven, Dark, Emotional
94% of 939 Steam reviews are positiveFreeHydrangea
A yandere psychological horror visual novel. Choose a sweetheart to romance, but beware the petals of obsession.
Story-driven, Dark, Tense
91% of 147 Steam reviews are positiveFreeSound of Drop - fall into poison -
Nestled in the heart of Tokyo, the quaint little aquarium, Manten Aquarium. Numerous urban legends have arisen from here. On the night of the full moon the waters turn to blood and man faced fish lurk within.
Story-driven, Dark, Tense
85% of 371 Steam reviews are positive$12.99Kill or Love
Jack wakes in a hospital with no childhood memories, his girlfriend missing, and his nurse Anna both caring for him and responsible for putting him there. This short dark romance follows his plan to save her as the past comes back. Worth reading for the twists and its unhealthy obsession story.
Story-driven, Dark, Tense
89% of 2,186 Steam reviews are positiveFree
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Ghost in the pool
A bizarre campus legend, take you into the traditional Japanese black-and-white comic horror story.
77% of 301 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
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
Syutyaku Gakuen
The only quality that can be measured is whether or not they possess the qualities of morbid love.
91% of 58 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Sound of Drop - fall into poison -
Nestled in the heart of Tokyo, the quaint little aquarium, Manten Aquarium. Numerous urban legends have arisen from here.
85% of 371 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Sweetest Monster
A middle-aged man has an encounter with a cute catgirl in the dead of night - but all is not as it seems.
92% of 559 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
You join a school literature club, write poems to win over one of four members, and watch a sweet dating setup turn into psychological horror.
97% of 30,709 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 128$14.99
Suicide Countdown: 7 Days
Only 7 days remain until death embraces you -- the everyday life of a young boy begins to distort little by little, unfolding into a bizarre and…
79% of 992 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
The Chrono Jotter
Ran Ibuki wakes in a derelict forest school where classmates keep getting murdered, and her missing girlfriend Ann Sakura is the reason she has to…
94% of 1,979 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
CHAOS;HEAD NOAH
Takumi Nishijo wants to stay in his room with his figures and ignore real people.
87% of 2,105 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 49$12.49
The Way We All Go (2015)
A horror/romance visual novel with numerous choices and over 20 endings.
86% of 145 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Love Stories: When Pastel Meets Grotesque
Some Scary Love Stories is a visual novel game with option branches Players tap the screen to read the story and make their own choices, eventually…
87% of 259 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
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Money for Girls: Amortized
A girl detective has twelve weeks to save her mom from crippling debt in a horror-romance visual novel that is sweet, filthy and brutally funny.
98% of 1,372 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 44$15
暴杀残雨之夜
On a rainy night you play Yuexiang Lihua, a high school student staying with her uncle and working part-time to save for college.
98% of 1,098 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$6
The seven days i spent with you
You wake with no memory in a locked room, and Shiro, a pink-haired girl in white, calls you her most important person.
93% of 1,363 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$1.99
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
Lover's Enigma
In Lover's Enigma , you investigate your husband's mysterious death while balancing complex relationships and personal trauma.
88% of 103 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$11.99
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 1,813 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6Free
咒影 Curse of the Shadow
"Curse of the Shadow" is a BL-themed horror visual novel. Cursed by a "ghost", protagonist Xu finds eerie dark shadows in every photo he takes.Once…
81% of 295 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Hydrangea
A yandere psychological horror visual novel. Choose a sweetheart to romance, but beware the petals of obsession.
91% of 147 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Paradise
Paradise is a Boys Love visual novel and tells the story of a group of men who go on holiday on a deserted island.
90% of 572 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$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 2,410 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7Free
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...
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Saihate Station
Two coworkers wake up in Saihate Station after missing the last train, and the only way out is together.
94% of 10,869 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 48Free
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Money for Girls: Amortized
A girl detective has twelve weeks to save her mom from crippling debt in a horror-romance visual novel that is sweet, filthy and brutally funny.
98% of 1,372 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 44$15
The seven days i spent with you
You wake with no memory in a locked room, and Shiro, a pink-haired girl in white, calls you her most important person.
93% of 1,363 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$1.99
暴杀残雨之夜
On a rainy night you play Yuexiang Lihua, a high school student staying with her uncle and working part-time to save for college.
98% of 1,098 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$6
Lover's Enigma
In Lover's Enigma , you investigate your husband's mysterious death while balancing complex relationships and personal trauma.
88% of 103 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$11.99
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
咒影 Curse of the Shadow
"Curse of the Shadow" is a BL-themed horror visual novel. Cursed by a "ghost", protagonist Xu finds eerie dark shadows in every photo he takes.Once…
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Mojika - Truth Rears Its Ugly Head
Haunted by the ability to read minds, Suteru embarks on a journey of revenge against those who wronged him.
77% of 418 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Syutyaku Gakuen
The only quality that can be measured is whether or not they possess the qualities of morbid love.
91% of 58 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Saihate Station
Two coworkers wake up in Saihate Station after missing the last train, and the only way out is together.
94% of 10,869 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 48Free
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.
93% of 20,760 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 66$1.99
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.
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HAPPY SAIN† SHEOL
Two thousand years ago, the Pestis Disaster swept through the land, corrupting all living things and making it to difficult to live on the land.
83% of 246 Steam reviews are positive$10.99