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Games like Yanderella

2013PC

You step into the shoes of Yatarou, a handsome hikikomori whose reunion with two old friends slowly turns into an unsettling love triangle. The game lives from its choices and an unnerving atmosphere hidden behind its cheerful surface.

  • Dialogue and role-playing
  • Dread and tension
  • Choices with consequences
  • Pixel art

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In short: Games like Yanderella

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

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Needy Streamer Overload

92 %Match

2022PEGI 12PC, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck playable94 % positive13.29 €

Brings what grabs you about Yanderella: choices with consequences, emotional impact and pixel art.

You manage the daily life of streamer Ame, scheduling streams and time slots while trying to keep her fragile mental state in check. Behind the colorful internet-culture look lies a dark story about dependency, with many different endings.

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Saya no Uta

Dark, serious atmosphere

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.

Scarlet Hollow

Dialogue and role-playing

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.

Bahnsen Knights

Dialogue and role-playing

A story-driven horror mystery in visual novel style: in 1986 Tornado Alley you go undercover in a religious cult to find a missing friend and fellow agent.

Tokyo Dark

Choices with consequences

A dark anime-styled point-and-click horror adventure where you play Detective Itou investigating her partner's disappearance in Tokyo. Your choices and mental state shape available options and lead to multiple endings.

We Know the Devil

Dialogue and role-playing

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.

Loop//Error

Pixel art

A short psychological horror visual novel whose constantly shifting story delves into the protagonist's mind and makes you doubt what is real. A retro soundtrack reinforces the unsettling mood.

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