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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.

  • Historical setting
  • Choices with consequences
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Dark, serious atmosphere

The closest matches for Cupid are Saya no Uta, Kara no Shoujo and The House in Fata Morgana. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Cupid special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Saya no Uta

92 %Match

2003PC91 % positive

Brings what grabs you about Cupid: a relaxed difficulty, a strong story and a dark 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.

Kara no Shoujo

Historical setting

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.

The House in Fata Morgana

Dark, serious atmosphere

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.

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.

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.

Mothmen 1966

Dark, serious atmosphere

A visual novel in a 1960s pulp style with pixel art reminiscent of old home computers. Set during the 1966 Leonid meteor shower, it tells an eerie, atmospheric tale of strange occurrences and moth-like beings.

We Know the Devil

Choices with consequences

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.

Doki Doki Literature Club!

Dark, serious atmosphere

What starts as a sugary anime dating sim about a school poetry club gradually turns into unsettling psychological horror that breaks the fourth wall and even toys with the game's own files.

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.

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