Popular brutal visual novels
Death is part of the reading in these popular brutal visual novels, where you follow dialogue and illustrated scenes and steer the story with hard choices. Tiny Bunny keeps you in a snowy town where children vanish, CHAOS;HEAD NOAH pulls you into a serial murder case in Shibuya, and The Song of Saya centers on a disturbing romance that warps everything around you. Expect blood, stark horror and branching endings throughout.
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Gore 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.
86% of 174 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$29.99クラブ・スーサイド
私は、自殺を考えている。クラブ・スーサイドへようこそ。自殺を考える少年達に寄り添う、奇妙な一週間。命を思考するノベルアドベンチャー。
97% of 183 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$11.99Tiny Bunny
A black-and-white horror visual novel about Anton, a boy who moves to a remote town edged by winter forest where children go missing. You read, choose, and branch toward 20 endings, with voices in the thicket and prints in the snow keeping every choice tense.
83% of 27,406 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 84$10.99The Shell Part II: Purgatorio
Detective Reiji Tokisaka is back to face down a mystery that spans decades, if not centuries. With the aftermath of his last case weighing on his soul and a long-silent cult resurgent, can he solve the crime—or will it become his curse?
94% of 607 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$24.99Nie No Hakoniwa - Dollhouse of Offerings
"Let us celebrate, the birth of this nightmare." A story about an urban legend surrounding a certain "Box", this is a Japanese-style, supernatural visual novel about madness, love and hate.
75% of 208 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$29.99The Shell Part I: Inferno
A dark detective visual novel set in Tokyo, 1956. As private detective Reiji Tokisaka you take three linked cases: gruesome murders, missing girls from Oba Girls' Academy, and a strange girl asking you to find her true self. A 10+ hour, multi-ending mystery worth reading for its bleak atmosphere and slow-building dread.
90% of 1,339 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$19.99CHAOS;HEAD NOAH
Takumi Nishijo wants to stay in his room with his figures and ignore real people. Then a predicted serial murder in Shibuya happens right in front of him, with the blood-soaked Rimi Sakihata standing over the body. You read through his paranoia and pick his delusions, steering a dark mystery about the NewGen killings.
87% of 2,096 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 33$24.99Geminism
Two pairs of twins war for love, life, and limb beneath the curtain of a dark Tokyo night. From the artisans at CRAFTWORK comes a visual novel lush with art, action, and mystery; a story of GEMINISM—deformity and divinity.
89% of 112 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$17.99CORPSE 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.
80% of 674 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99Muv-Luv Alternative
Takeru died losing Earth to the alien BETA, then wakes up three years in the past with a second chance to save it. Muv-Luv Alternative is the trilogy finale: a long, dark military sci-fi visual novel about changing history, flying mechs, and paying for every inch of hope.
95% of 3,501 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21$39.99Ignited in Cavern
A dark historical visual novel set in the Northern Wei Dynasty, where a Xianbei general and her Han captive chase a rumor of a blessing-granting stone statue to Dunhuang. Two routes, six endings, and about 2 to 5 hours of reading about murder, spirits, and tangled desire.
93% of 1,362 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$1.99Jiangshi x Daoshi
Prepare to be blown away! Jiangshi x Daoshi is an epic story of vampires, dao priests, assassins and immortals, told in a spectacularly animated visual novel format.
95% of 308 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free
