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You Shouldn't Be Here

This short psychedelic visual novel takes place in a strange world inhabited by harrowing creatures shunned by the light. You’ll meet someone who has made this world their own, and in doing so, learn the reason why you shouldn't be there.

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★ MILK OUTSIDE A BAG OF MILK OUTSIDE A BAG OF MILK ★ HER LOVE, LIKE POISON ★ HOPE LEFT ME ★ HAZY MIND ★ TELEFORUM ★ SAIHATE STATION ★ THE BUTTERFLY COLLECTOR ★ URBAN MYTH DISSOLUTION CENTER ★ WONDERFUL EVERYDAY DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE ★ THE SHELL PART I: INFERNO ★ RAGING LOOP ★ Z.A.T.O. // I LOVE THE WORLD AND EVERYTHING IN IT ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk

97% 👍 OF 22K
About This Game

A sequel to Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk. Dive into demented and bizarre world once again and help the girl become a little happier.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …sprint through your own house as hallways stretch impossibly long and something reaches cold fingers toward your arm.
  • …act as a voice in her head, trying to get her to take pills and sleep while her thoughts keep slipping away.
  • …trigger sudden flashbacks and even deaths just by choosing the wrong line in a conversation.
Psychological Horror Visual Novel Psychedelic Pixel Graphics Story Rich
REL Dec 16, 2021 ★ $8.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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Her Love, Like Poison

96% 👍 OF 307
About This Game

A dark lesbian horror/romance story so toxic it's emitting spores. Ethel, a shy university student, ventures into the wintry woods late at night, where she meets an enchanting femme fatale — but all is not as it seems.

Casual Visual Novel Anime Stylized Text-Based
REL Jul 28, 2025 ★ $6.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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HOPE LEFT ME

96% 👍 OF 933
About This Game

You wake up in a mysterious place, alone and freezing to death, the only person around seems to be a weird girl with a long sleeve soviet jersey.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Choose Your Album Cut
  • …Adjust the VHS Filter
  • …Shape Multiple Endings
Visual Novel Atmospheric Casual Noir Philosophical
REL Mar 10, 2023 ★ $1.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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TELEFORUM

92% 👍 OF 3.5K
About This Game

TELEFORUM is a found-footage-styled horror game exploring the unknown side of media. You’re visiting a widow’s apartment to conduct an interview about her husband's death. But that’s not the main reason why you’re here. It’s all about the tape, isn’t it?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …replay the same short story in loops where items change each act and the next cycle unlocks new routes and endings.
  • …get tested on what you noticed earlier when the game asks you to remember details from a previous run.
  • …enter an elevator button code like T 1 2 4 to trigger a secret ending.
Free to Play Horror Psychological Horror Visual Novel Story Rich
REL Oct 19, 2023 FREE ON STEAM See This Game →
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Saihate Station

95% 👍 OF 10K
About This Game

An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …push Haru's dependency up or down with your choices and branch the story into different endings.
  • …revisit earlier locations after big plot beats and keep interacting with objects to reveal hidden layers that reframe past scenes.
  • …get warned before a chase, get told where to run, and still have to make it out of the pursuit.
Psychological Horror Visual Novel LGBTQ Horror 2D
REL Mar 7, 2025 FREE ON STEAM See This Game →
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The Butterfly Collector

88% 👍 OF 957
About This Game

investigate the evidence left by a stalker and kidnapper and track the fate of a college girl. The player advances and watches the plot by clicking to make choices for the heroine at key moments, with different choices leading to different endings.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Inspect Security Footage
  • …Hear the Captor’s Recordings
  • …Choose the Heroine’s Response
Visual Novel Word Game Adventure Horror Psychological Horror
REL Feb 9, 2025 ★ $0.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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Urban Myth Dissolution Center

88% 👍 OF 6.4K
About This Game

Join forces with the psychic Director of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center and solve a variety of cases involving cursed relics, rental properties with shady histories, and dimensional anomalies. Monstrous oddities and otherworldly planes abound in this occult mystery adventure game!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Trace Past Impressions
  • …Search Social Feeds
  • …Inspect Case Locations
Visual Novel Psychological Horror Adventure Pixel Graphics Mystery
REL Feb 12, 2025 ★ $17.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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Wonderful Everyday Down the Rabbit-Hole

93% 👍 OF 2.7K
About This Game

Wonderful Everyday is a visual novel with multiple routes which develops a story based on a few concepts: "the sky and the world", "the beginning and the end", "literature and science", "savior and hero", "brother and sister".

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Follow the Falling Toy
  • …Read Shifting Perspectives
  • …Unravel Linked Mysteries
Visual Novel Psychological Horror Philosophical Story Rich Sexual Content
REL Aug 30, 2017 $29.99 -35% $19.49 See This Game →
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The Shell Part I: Inferno

90% 👍 OF 1.5K
About This Game

Unravel a string of gruesome murders terrorizing Tokyo in this mystery-thriller visual novel. The secrets of a case from six years prior may just be the key to the current unending cycle of tragedy—and the thing that cracks this woeful world’s shell may be one girl’s smile.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …click the same object again later to squeeze out new evidence.
  • …piece together murders using 1950s forensics like fingerprints, dental records, and blood types.
  • …follow a single investigation mistake into a completely different ending that still reveals new case information.
Visual Novel Detective Mystery Psychological Horror Choices Matter
REL Jul 27, 2023 ★ $19.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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Raging Loop

96% 👍 OF 10K
About This Game

The feast has begun, can you escape the village alive?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …use a creative method to kill God, then follow it with intimate conversations that reframe everything you survived.
  • …get trapped in a village where every night someone dies and every day everyone votes to hang a suspect.
  • …unlock a mode that lets you read every character's inner thoughts and replay scenes from other perspectives to see the hidden motives.
Visual Novel Mystery Adventure Indie Psychological Horror
REL Aug 23, 2017 ★ $29.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It

98% 👍 OF 13K
About This Game

USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …watch the missing-person mystery get "solved," then find out the world is going to explode
  • …hit a point where souls are connected to code, and reality can overcorrect and reset back to null
  • …watch a merge spread across everything as memories get swallowed and the world turns into warped, terrible versions of itself
Visual Novel Philosophical Mystery Psychological Horror Female Protagonist
REL Nov 10, 2025 FREE ON STEAM See This Game →
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