Scary visual novels to read

If you want stories that unsettle, these visual novels branch around forests, haunted towers, bunkers and troubled minds where your choices shape the ending.

暴杀残雨之夜

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 1,084 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$6
Sister Other Paranoia

Sister Other Paranoia

A dark visual novel by acclaimed creator nyalra. Overly sensitive to other people's emotions, the protagonist—a light novel writer—develops the…

73% of 667 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$9.99
Sweet Home

Sweet Home

Sweet Home is a visual novel about Zhao Ying, a high school girl skipping class through a cold 2018 winter break in small-town China.

94% of 10,532 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 133$7.99
Our Wonderland

Our Wonderland

A horror-romance visual novel following the trials of a dysfunctional friend group thrust back into the wish-granting wonderland of their youth.

99% of 145 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4Free
Folie Fatale

Folie Fatale

A schoolgirl opens her shoe locker to an avalanche of letters, and every boy circling her is unstable in his own special way.

85% of 2,674 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$5.99
The seven days i spent with you

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 1,323 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$1.59
Love Nest ~V0.098~

Love Nest ~V0.098~

A retro-styled psychological horror visual novel where you read, choose, and fall for someone who already knows you.

98% of 921 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 33Free
Paradise

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: 4$19.99
迷鹿:Terreno di caccia

迷鹿:Terreno di caccia

独居在求学之地、平平无奇的草食妖怪少女——小璐茸的生活在新学期开头便陷入了异常…… 安谧而愉快的平凡日常被打破,而通过选择指引到的未来能否让她摆脱不安的阴影? 红线那一端所牵引的人,是未来的幸福,还是蓄势的猎手?

88% of 398 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3Free
我的美味丈夫 My Tasty Husband

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 444 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$7.99
Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary

Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary

A ghost with no memory keeps dying in front of you, and treats it like a joke.

94% of 1,112 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$24.99
Money for Girls: Amortized

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 1,320 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 42$15
Killer Chat! - Original Edition

Killer Chat! - Original Edition

You asked too many murder questions for your book and landed in a serial killer chatroom.

93% of 1,780 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 41Free
Stiff Neck

Stiff Neck

A small-town cop with chronic neck pain, a toy factory strike, cursed dolls in an abandoned tower, and an ex who will not stay an ex.

80% of 1,004 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$6.99
WITCH ON THE HOLY NIGHT

WITCH ON THE HOLY NIGHT

A linear visual novel set in a snowy town in the late 1980s, where an ordinary boy ends up living in a hilltop mansion with two young witches.

98% of 7,504 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 77$39.99
REFLEXIA Prototype ver.

REFLEXIA Prototype ver.

A shut-in eroge fan gets teleported into a visual novel and has to date Yandere-chan and Dandere-chan, with over 200 choices and three endings.

96% of 7,615 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3Free
When The Night Comes

When The Night Comes

When The Night Comes is a queer, narrative-driven, supernatural visual novel.

92% of 290 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$12.99
Gore Screaming Show

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…

87% of 173 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$29.99
クラブ・スーサイド

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$11.99
It gets so lonely here

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 2,402 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7Free
Dark Nights

Dark Nights

Nothing is as it seems.

91% of 444 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4Free
Bloody Painter Dating Sim

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 1,808 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6Free
Higurashi When They Cry Hou+

Higurashi When They Cry Hou+

The tragedy of Hinamizawa is over. Those held captive within its grip are free from the fate that bound them to June 1983.

85% of 179 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$7.99

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