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Play as Captain Grégoire Lefèbvre and investigate the murder of a controversial country priest in this gripping historical detective thriller.
Shared features: Visual novel, Puzzle, Mystery
The Doll Shop is a hand-drawn narrative game – part romance, part horror – set in the Japanese countryside. Play as a young dollmaker who reunites with his childhood friend in an eerie snowbound village. Will you dare confess your secret?
Shared features: Visual novel, Puzzle, Mystery
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Shared features: Visual novel, Puzzle, Mystery
A branching narrative thriller about love, obsession and an AI partner who understands you too well.
Shared features: Visual novel, Puzzle, Mystery
A story-driven roguelite RPG about a journey through the depths with a broken hero — and what they have to answer for. The hero's party has been annihilated: you carry one of them out of a cursed dungeon, learn what broke them, and settle it together. Four routes, four heroes, four reckonings.
Shared features: Visual novel, Dark fantasy, Pixel art
A dark fantasy tactical universe. Fight in hex-grid combat, collect cards, raise creatures, read the novel, and watch the webtoon — all free, all connected. Built over 23 years by a solo developer. Free to play. Season 1 is live now.
Shared features: Visual novel, Dark fantasy, Pixel art
In MONOMOON, the way forward is reserved for the knowing and the daring. Guided by moonlight, you’ll uncover hidden truths and wander through a tiny and mysterious open world.
Shared features: Dark fantasy, Puzzle, Mystery
Take a trip to Cheddar Beach in this visual novel. Join Hamston & The Homies as they search for a crackin’ house party on a Friday night - in a world before everybody & their mom had cellphones. Let’s make some friends & Chase That Cheese, Y’all!!!
Shared features: Visual novel, Puzzle, Adventure
Escape from the walking dead in this retro 90's pixel point-and-click adventure from Japan's PC-98 heyday, now playable on modern platforms!
Shared features: Visual novel, Puzzle, Pixel art
Join Nora in this mysterious and macabre point and click adventure game. Find and collect items to solve puzzles. Talk to peculiar people and monsters alike. Explore Gruesome Grove and beyond to uncover forgotten truths and save the people of her town!
Shared features: Dark fantasy, Puzzle, Mystery
On the night of the full moon, a handful of children have seemingly disappeared in the sleepy seaside town of Mistyvale Oaks. Solve word search puzzles to track down leads, uncover clues, and solve the mystery of the ghost ship in this narrative puzzle adventure game.
Shared features: Dark fantasy, Puzzle, Mystery
Situation Succ is a Dark-Fantasy game with a mythos inspired in part by both Asian and Western occult influences. As a detective who finds himself trapped inside an ancient inn by four evil entities, you have to use your wits and investigative abilities to try and escape.
Shared features: Dark fantasy, Puzzle, Mystery
Survive a series of mysterious games and claim a fortune. Analyze the rules of seemingly unwinnable games, uncover hidden winning strategies, and overcome every challenge in this high-difficulty death game–style puzzle game.
Shared features: Dark fantasy, Puzzle, Mystery
Explore a city of Gothic architecture torn between past and future in Desolus, a first person puzzle game. Solve Escher-like puzzles through the use of black holes. Travel through time to make structures whole and save the city from ruin.
Shared features: Dark fantasy, Puzzle, Mystery
Survive the first chapter of a psychological horror adventure. Explore an abandoned town, uncover its dark secrets, and evade the mysterious Potato Man before it finds you.
Shared features: Dark fantasy, Puzzle, Mystery
Papers, Please in the afterlife. Question the dead, uncover their sins with strange instruments, and decide: Hell, Heaven, or Purgatory. Even Johny Goldstein has a story that makes him innocent. Check it before you reach for the stamp.
Shared features: Dark fantasy, Puzzle, Mystery
The AIs from your phone suddenly appear right beside you—and it seems a conflict has broken out between them. In the game, DeepSeek—once a cooperative AI partner—suddenly turns rogue due to an unknown anomaly, becoming a force that disrupts the balance of the world.
Shared features: Dark fantasy, Puzzle, Mystery
Dimon, brutal freelancer and all-time pervert, is now working as a witch assistant after the previous one disappeared due to mysterious circumstances…and little does everyone know about his twisted plan.
Shared features: Visual novel, Puzzle, Pixel art
As Editor of an independent newspaper, you are in charge of printing daily front pages. You decide which story you want to publish, and see the world change depending on your choices and actions. What kind of Editor will you become?
Shared features: Visual novel, Puzzle, Pixel art
An administrative office in a fantasy world. Review documents from humans, elves, orcs, and beastfolk to uphold the republic's order. Follow the rules, or overlook suspicious files for personal gain? Every choice is yours. Heroines await after work. Your decisions shape the republic's future.
Shared features: Visual novel, Puzzle, Pixel art
A Short sandbox AVN. Sparta's queen has no-one else to turn to you know it. A fast-burn corruption VN set in Ancient Greece.
Shared features: Visual novel, Dark fantasy, Adventure
Craft uncanny totems. Aid troubled townsfolk. Uncover the darkness below. The Totemist is a narrative-driven occult shop sim set in a quietly strange town, where you craft charms inspired by real witchcraft, aid troubled townspeople, and uncover the ancient force festering beneath them.
Shared features: Dark fantasy, Puzzle, Mystery
A dark yuri horror visual novel inspired by a classic gothic novella. When the enigmatic Carmilla arrives, Laura is swept into a fever dream of obsession. Is this stranger the cure for her loneliness or a herald of corruption? And what caused the mysterious deaths of two girls in the nearby village?
Shared features: Visual novel, Dark fantasy, Adventure
Face your fears, Alice. This time, you're not alone. This is the last chapter in the horror visual novel trilogy.
Shared features: Visual novel, Dark fantasy, Adventure
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