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Games like Cupid

2015PC87 % positive

This visual novel tells a gothic romance set in 18th century France, centred on loss, revenge and the many faces of love. Its tone stays bleak and unsettling, and your decisions shape where the story ends.

  • Emotional impact
  • Historical setting
  • Dialogue and role-playing
  • Choices with consequences

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In short: Games like Cupid

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Cupid special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Kara no Shoujo

91 %Match

2008PC95 % positive

Brings what grabs you about Cupid: a historical setting, emotional impact and a strong story.

A dark detective visual novel set in 1956 Japan, where investigator Reiji probes gruesome murders tied to an all-girls academy and his wife's death. It is a disturbing, mature, strongly narrative-driven mystery.

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Saya no Uta

Accessible and relaxed

A short, disturbing horror visual novel from Nitroplus: after an accident a medical student sees the world as flesh and viscera, with only Saya appearing beautiful to him. It is a bleak, uncompromising blend of cosmic dread and tragic romance.

Lake of Voices

Choices with consequences

You travel across a lake where monsters lurk beneath the surface and must decide who gets sacrificed. Every choice determines who survives, and that weight of responsibility is what makes this visual novel so haunting.

Daemonologie

Historical setting

As a witchfinder during the Scottish witch trials, you interrogate villagers and separate truth from lies before a witch is hanged on the final morning. A grim folk horror adventure blending point-and-click and visual novel elements.

Scarlet Hollow

Choices with consequences

A story-driven horror visual novel set in a North Carolina mining town, where your choices and relationships with the locals decide who survives. Folk-horror dread, a creeping mystery and a hand-drawn look define the experience.

We Know the Devil

Emotional impact

A short, unsettling visual novel about three teens at a summer camp who must face the devil. It focuses on fraught friendship, exclusion and identity, presented in a bold blue-and-red art style.

The House in Fata Morgana

Accessible and relaxed

A gothic visual novel about a cursed mansion, spanning nearly a thousand years through interwoven chapters of tragedy, guilt, love and madness. Its strengths are its emotional storytelling, brooding atmosphere and strong soundtrack.

Slay the Princess

Strong, story-driven narrative

A psychological horror visual novel where you are sent to slay a princess in a cabin while a cast of voices in your head keeps commenting. Every choice sends the story spiraling into new branches, and the hand-penciled art and superb voice acting make each loop eerie and surprising.

A Little Lily Princess

Historical setting

A story-driven visual novel adaptation of the classic tale of Sara Crewe in Victorian England, where a girl who loves books and storytelling builds friendships and holds on to hope after losing everything.

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