The 14 Best Games Like Corpse Party, Ranked

The Literature Club features cute girls. Will you write into their hearts? This game is not for kids or people who get easily bothered.

Misao is a freeware horror adventure. You explore and escape a high school trapped in another world using a malevolent curse.

This turn-based RPG is surreal horror. A child travels through weird, quirky, funny, mysterious, and scary places with friends. He seeks a missing person while facing his past and fears. Explore a strange world filled with colorful friends and enemies. Your choices shape your fate, and maybe others'.

Kikiyama, a Japanese solo designer, made Yume Nikki. It is a 32-Bit freeware game built with RPGMaker 2003. The game is seen as one of the most original RPGMaker 2003 uses, starting a new game genre. "Yume Nikki" means "Dream Diary" in Japanese. The game follows Madotsuki, a young girl, in her dreams. She must find and get all 24 'Effects'. The game has no plot; most of it remains open to thought.

This follows Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. Hajime Hinata, a new 'Ultimate' student at Hope's Peak Academy, starts his first day. Hajime and his classmates go on a field trip to the mysterious Jabberwock island with their rabbit teacher, Usami. Usami tells them to have fun and make friends to gather Hope Fragments. Usami's trip goes wrong when Monokuma appears and starts a Killing Game. Anyone leaving must commit a murder and escape.

The Witch's House fits the Japanese horror RPG style. It heavily uses puzzles and jump scares. Like Ib and Ao Oni, The Witch's House uses pixel art hiding real scares. The design sets traps almost everywhere. Sudden death is unpredictable; the game keeps players alert. Anything can happen instantly.

Kamaitachi no Yoru is a sound novel developed and published by Chunsoft. Chunsoft first released the game on November 25, 1994, for the Super Famicom. The Playstation and Gameboy Advance got ports. It appeared on the Virtual Console in February 2007 for 800 Wii Points. Takemaru Abiko wrote the story. Kazuya Asano and Koichi Nakamura directed production. Kamaitachi no Yoru was Chunsoft's second sound novel, and its success made other companies create similar games. "Sound novel" was an original trade term.

Kara no Shōjo is an adult visual novel by Innocent Grey for PC. Innocent Grey released it in Japan on July 4, 2008. English-speaking markets saw the release on June 29, 2011.

A girl gets lost in a land of lost souls, somewhere between light and dark.

999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors is a graphic adventure game/visual novel. Chunsoft made it for Nintendo DS. They released it in Japan on December 10, 2009, and in North America in 2010. iOS got it in 2013. Kotaro Uchikoshi directed it. This game precedes the 2012 game Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward. Junpei gets abducted and placed on an empty, sinking cruise liner with eight others. They must join the "Nonary Game," which means exploring the ship and solving escape-the-room puzzles.

Savior of the Abyss is an RPG Maker-style horror adventure game. Players solve riddles using clues from the surroundings. Stella, the main character, must guide herself to the surface of an underground facility. To avoid sudden death, players must always watch and suspect what is around them.

Silent Hill is the first Silent Hill series psychological survival horror game. Harry Mason, the main character, is an average man, not a combat expert. Gameplay includes fighting, exploring, and solving puzzles. Controller vibration shows Harry's heartbeat; it shakes when his health drops low. Players must check Harry's health, use items, and equip weapons by entering the inventory screen.

Zero Time Dilemma is the third and final Zero Escape game. This story is a mystery/thriller visual novel. It has multiple endings based on player choices and puzzle rooms.

This is original, adult psychological horror from the creator of Soul Brother and Soundless Mountain II. The masked protagonist must escape a city destroyed by disease, any way possible. Starving and tired, he starts doubting what he sees is real. This is a new adventure where you choose how to survive. Sneak past without shooting, or kill everyone in your way. Eat and sleep right, or use drugs to keep going. Search for survivors, or try to escape the city solo. Watch your mind, or go mad.