Cut to the Core
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A chilling, roughly four-hour kinetic visual novel that uses body horror and psychological dread to explore how much of a person can be cut away.

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A dark, macabre visual novel about a death-request website, with a linear plot, multiple endings, and a visceral emotional impact.
2022-05-31
- Thriller
- Horror

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Games like Cut to the Core

A chilling, roughly four-hour kinetic visual novel that uses body horror and psychological dread to explore how much of a person can be cut away.

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A dark, macabre visual novel about a death-request website, with a linear plot, multiple endings, and a visceral emotional impact.
2022-05-31
- Thriller
- Horror

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Visual Novel

Crimson Gray: Dusk and Dawn

A darkly humorous slice-of-life visual novel about a mentally unstable woman trying to fit into everyday life, with a ~3-hour story praised for its yandere romance and consistent characters.

2018-10-05

Indie
Simulator
Visual Novel

Gore Screaming Show

A slow-burn horror visual novel about a boy confronting the monster Gore Screaming Show in his hometown, with branching routes and a Steam version that reviewers advise patching.

2022-11-11

Action
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Text
Mystery
Drama
Romance
Visual Novel

Kimochii Classroom

A free-to-play visual novel that turns slice-of-life school interactions into an emotionally intense psychological horror with consequential choices.

2025-08-02

Horror
Indie
Simulator
Text
Romance
Visual Novel

Crimson Gray

A short dark psychological thriller-romance visual novel about a depressed man who finds hope through a special girl, with branching choices and multiple endings.

2017-07-14

Adventure
Indie
Simulator
Visual Novel

Nie No Hakoniwa - Dollhouse of Offerings

A roughly 10-hour Japanese supernatural visual novel about a cursed box, combining dark psychological horror and gore with themes of madness, love, and hate.

2024-02-15

Thriller
Adventure
Horror
Text
Mystery
Visual Novel

Cotard

A brief, choice-driven psychological horror spanning three parts with four endings and a tense, atmospheric feel.

2025-10-27

Action
First person
Adventure
Horror
Indie

Deadly Obsession

A short choice-driven psychological horror visual novel where a kidnapping victim decides between escape and an obsessive love, with multiple endings.

2026-06-26

Horror
Indie
Text
Mystery
Drama
Romance
Visual Novel

Pumpkin Eater

A disturbing, medically accurate visual novel about grief and human decomposition, with pumpkin-headed characters, playable in under an hour.

2021-11-17

Horror
Indie
Educational
Visual Novel

Banebush

A short, gory horror visual novel with a nonlinear Slavic fairy-tale story and branching choices, playable in about three and a half hours.

2024-12-25

Adventure
Indie
Visual Novel

The Horrorscope

A short, unsettling single-player questionnaire that reveals your fate through uncomfortable questions, with a dark, emotionally charged tone most players finish in under an hour.

2020-03-09

Adventure
Horror
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)
Visual Novel

Violent Horror Stories: anthology

A brief, dark anthology of four single-player horror vignettes, each an author's take on pursuit, that reviewers finish in about 90 minutes.

2024-08-06

Action
First person
Puzzle
Horror
Indie
Side view
Simulator

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