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Horror

Featuring tense atmospheres, unsettling themes, and often supernatural elements designed to frighten or disturb players. Games in this category may include jump scares, psychological terror, or survival elements set in eerie environments.

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Kinetic Novel

An alternate spin on the visual novel medium, usually with the same style of presentation but a more linear story that involves less decision-making or influence by the player.

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LIMERENCE
a conversation over dinner.
catsket
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(102 total ratings)
Visual Novel
#influenced
#hustle for #lyfe
pilot_star
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(161 total ratings)
Visual Novel
THE PROTOTYPE
He is unlike any other companion.
rainslices
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(143 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
Melancholic Star (Act I)
The beginning of a Journey of self; discovery, acceptance and love
Taumi Licorice Jellyfish
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Visual Novel
venial sin
when a burden becomes too much
nadia nova
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Reflection
After purchasing an antique mirror, Ivy finds herself playing a strange game.
Delphinium Interactive
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(129 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Historia Chapter 1 - Doug
A kinetic horror novel from Lucid Akumu
Lucid A96
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(45 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Summer Horrordays
​Relive the Summer holidays and go on a journey through 6 short stories spanning a single day.
PunderBashGames
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Direct Line
It's 3AM when you're awoken by a telephone ringing, but the person on the other end claims you called them.
Inky Cosmos
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Stares Back
The signs brought you here.
StephenW313
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play Dead! #2 - Spiderpus & The Screeching Weasels
A story about a band, and their strange life on the road accompanied by a surprisingly lively dead dog.
Hazu @ Skelebun Studios
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
Come Towards Me.
A village, a forest, and its fabled Beast.
snixiy
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
KORI: Your Death Angel & Ex-Girlfriend
She's here to decide what plane beyond existance you belong to.
Frogcake
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GIF
Marigold's Mannequin
Mari's mannequin comes to life and now her perfect life is no longer a fantasy.
cygni
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Visual Novel
A Trick and a Treat: Dead Letters (and one other)
A creepy Trick, a silly Treat, one eerie, one sweet. A man finds letters best unread, a girl means to summon undead…
Air Gong
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Visual Novel
The Sixth Prison
An alien's involuntary journey from one prison to another.
Cryoslight
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Visual Novel
L.S.D.s --- AKA: Love-Sucking Demons
A Vengeful FBI Agent Hunts Aliens during the Stonewall Riots
Vimi
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Vampire Maid
A man in search of inspiration meets a mysterious girl in the cottage on the moor. Has he met his muse... or his doom?
Ebbasuke
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
AFTERLIFE
YOUR AFTERLIFE WILL BE OF YOUR OWN CREATION
Chris
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
A Skull
A surreal visual novel built on old bones and entropy
Alpha Chrome Yayo
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Sylvan Disappearance
An epistolary fairy-tale mystery
Rastagong
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
FRONTIER EROTICA (FUNDAMENTALS)
It's time for some professional development
MindApe
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Halloween Galaxy (Spooktober gamejam)
With a monster at its heels, a soul floats through a strange Halloween themed galaxy, encountering three short tales.
Actawesome
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Afterward
The sequel to Her Lullaby.
Far Away Times
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Visual Novel
YOUR PARTY IS DEAD
Unfortunately, death is not the end.
Norbez Jones (call me Bez)
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Led Along a Torchlit Road
What happens when the evil demon kid meets an opponent they can't beat?
reteryisk
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Pedestrian Passing
usagisoftdrinkware
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Distant Leaps to Circinus | Demo
A dark fantasy story about children growing up in a rebuilt world.
Studio Unlighted
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Lazy Jiangshi [NaNoRenO 2023]
hatereallys
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Upon A Darkening Flood
A horror tale of the Revolution on culture, heritage, and the anxieties elicited by a strange library.
Rastagong
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GorgoN ChambeR
It begins where it begins.
Studio LZRain
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Visual Novel
The Outbreak: First Light
Released July 1, 2014
Moon Colony
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Oniguisama
A short horror-themed kinetic novel with a runtime of roughly 7 minutes.
Chubby Cat Games
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Visual Novel
The Librarian
Fairytales were never as happy as they seem.
TheChosenGiraffe
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Soul//Defragment: The First Memory
Would you protect a stranger that you just met?
Lunatic Wolf Games
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
The Wishing Well
A kinetic novel about high society, technology and maybe a ghost or two.
DrunkBirdMedia
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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