Visual novels like The Test

Miss the mysterious and story-driven pull of The Test? These visual novels could fill that gap nicely.

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.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
96% of 696 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
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Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
92% of 432 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Holy Shift
This game is a psychological test in which you will face dilemmas that reveal your personality. At the end of it, you will know your psychotype.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
71% of 21 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
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.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
93% of 20,760 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 66$1.99
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.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
87% of 3,445 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$1.99
Refind Self: The Personality Test Game
You are an android visiting the grave of the Doctor who made you, then wandering a town of robots to recover memories of him. Every small choice feeds a personality analysis, revealed when it hits 100%. A short, tender story about feeling machines that visual novel readers can finish in about an hour, then replay to see the rest.
Mysterious, Story-driven
87% of 3,632 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$7.99
lily's world XD
You find Lily's laptop from 2004 and start reading. Her diary, her blog, her messages to childhood friends — each file pulls you closer to why she vanished, while something else on the computer watches you back. A sad, scary desktop mystery with real teenage photos and voice work from LilyPichu.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
96% of 1,808 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$11.99
Foole's World
An absurd personality testing experience with a whole lot of questions for you.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Surreal
99% of 318 Steam reviews are positiveFree
The Apocalypse Sacrifice
As an adventurer, you have unintentionally uncovered a horrifying secret hidden in the town for years. Every choice you make will shape the story and become part of your personality test. Will you be the hero who saves the villagers, or will you sacrifice them to create your own legend?
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
94% of 222 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
Interrogation Simulator
Inspired by JCS videos and similar Interrogation analysis. Match evidence with statements. Play good cop/bad cop. Make choices. Learn what makes people tick. Unravel the mystery.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
95% of 61 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
A short sequel that picks up where the first game ends. You talk with a frightened girl, choose what to say back, and try to help her feel a little happier. Distorted pixel art, strange looping dialogue, and an oppressive soundtrack carry a dark, surreal hour about living inside a mind that will not sit still.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
96% of 21,017 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21$8.99
TELEFORUM
TELEFORUM is a short found-footage horror story about a journalist who died on air. You visit his widow to interview her about the broadcast, but you are really after a tape. Ask carefully, search her apartment, and piece together what happened across multiple endings.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
92% of 3,629 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5Free

Cheaper than The Test

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

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

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

Retention

This game is about a person who kept running through his life, never looking back at the past. Once during a trip, he gets into trouble.

$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.

$0.99

Nothing!

What do you play? I play nothing!

$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

Majotori

A witch named Lariat offers to grant people's wishes if they win her trivia game, and ruins lives if they lose. You answer for them.

$1.79

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

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

Please close the doors

"Please close the doors" is a quest with elements of the detective and thriller in which the player should find out who of seven people, which got…

$0.99

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

Hidden gems like The Test

Foole's World

An absurd personality testing experience with a whole lot of questions for you.

Free

lily's world XD

You find Lily's laptop from 2004 and start reading. Her diary, her blog, her messages to childhood friends — each file pulls you closer to why she…

$11.99

The Test: Reality Check

The Test: Reality Check is one of multiple installments in an ongoing social experiment that can be classified as an atmospheric…

$4.99

Provoron

When demons leave your head and fill the whole world, all you can do is close your eyes and go forward.

$9.99

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Intellica thanks you for volunteering in this short text-based Research Study.

Free

YAMIKKO TROUBLEMAKER

A long-form, choice-driven psychological horror and depression game in which the protagonist’s ending changes based on the choices made by “you,”…

Free

A Work of Art

A dark, witty, psychological thriller in the horror genre, A Work of Art presents a 1-2 hour story-driven experience with Visual Novel features and…

Free

The Apocalypse Sacrifice

As an adventurer, you have unintentionally uncovered a horrifying secret hidden in the town for years.

$9.99

The Test: Secrets of the Soul 2

You will answer questions that will reveal things deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice.

Free

The Test: Secrets of the Soul

A short psychological quiz in visual novel form: you sit back and answer a run of personal, sometimes uncomfortable questions, and the game reads…

Free

The Test: Reimagined

The Test: Reimagined is a masterful mix of Personality Test Psychology and Dark Tarot.

$9.99

Night Loops

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

$9.99

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