Side Alley
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A bleak single-player horror visual novel with point-and-click gameplay, praised for its atmosphere and weird narrative tone, playable in about four hours.

Slender Threads
A moody, short point-and-click mystery about a salesman investigating paranormal deaths in a seaside town.
2025-02-07
- Thriller
- Adventure

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Games like Side Alley

A bleak single-player horror visual novel with point-and-click gameplay, praised for its atmosphere and weird narrative tone, playable in about four hours.

Slender Threads
A moody, short point-and-click mystery about a salesman investigating paranormal deaths in a seaside town.
2025-02-07
- Thriller
- Adventure

Horror

Indie

Side view

Mystery

Point-and-click

Midnight Scenes: From the Woods

A compact point-and-click horror adventure in a mental health center where a new patient triggers disturbing events, praised for its art and story.

2023-02-09

Adventure
Horror
Indie
Point-and-click

Midnight Scenes: A Safe Place

A compact single-player psychological horror adventure with mouse-driven puzzles, where nightmares haunt a room-bound protagonist.

2024-03-19

Adventure
Horror
Indie
Side view
Mystery
Point-and-click
Visual Novel

Everyday Devil

A ~2-hour linear interactive fiction about a demon's everyday life, blending cute, cat-filled stylization with psychological horror.

2026-01-08

Action
First person
Adventure
Horror
Fantasy
Third person
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Text
Visual Novel

Mesmalie

A charmingly cute occult visual novel with point-and-click exploration in a witches' coven, where a 4-6 hour playthrough hides a true ending that rewards replaying.

2026-07-09

First person
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Text
Point-and-click
Visual Novel

Inhuman Resources: A Literary Machination

A darkly satirical interactive fiction RPG about corporate conspiracies and horrors, with a tight ~4-hour narrative shaped by reader choices.

2025-04-16

Puzzle
Thriller
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Text
Role-playing (RPG)
Mystery
Visual Novel

Five Stages of Pink

A short, atmospheric horror-mystery visual novel about a boy surviving a supernatural city where sleep is a disease.

2022-04-28

Indie

The Shadow Over Cyberspace

A compact modempunk horror visual novel about bartering with gods as Y2K brings the Old Ones into a crumbling reality.

2025-01-10

Indie

DEAD LETTER DEPT.

A short (~3–4 hour) atmospheric horror game about transcribing lost mail, where typing busywork gives way to creeping oddities and a Silent Hill–inspired mystery.

2025-01-30

First person
Horror
Indie
Simulator
Text

PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo

An eerie horror-adventure visual novel set in historical Japan, featuring branching investigations, a story chart, and meta narrative twists, lasting about 14 hours.

2023-03-08

Thriller
Adventure
Horror
Simulator
Text
Mystery
Point-and-click
Visual Novel

Office After Hours

A ~3-hour single-player adventure where you spot anomalies and uncover clues to escape a strange office, blending psychological horror with humor.

2025-06-02

First person
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Simulator
Business

Midnight Scenes: Among Graves

A brief, single-player horror adventure centered on long conversations and an eerie pact of eternal silence, with a visual-novel feel.

2026-03-17

Thriller
Adventure
Horror
Fantasy
Indie
Side view
Mystery
Point-and-click
Drama
Visual Novel

Slender Threads