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Horror visual novels on Switch

17 horror visual novels on Switch, each with a page on what frightens and a link to where it is sold. The story is told mainly through text over character art and backgrounds, as a visual novel or sound novel, with reading and choices as the main way to play. A horror game with some dialogue scenes between exploration, puzzles or fights is not one.

17 games

All horror visual novels on switch

CHAOS;CHILD key art: the main cast in school uniforms against a spray of black and brown shards

CHAOS;CHILD

Shibuya, 2015: the murders that terrified the city six years ago have started again.

PC / PlayStation / Switch

CHAOS;HEAD NOAH key art: Rimi, a pink-haired schoolgirl holding a large glowing sword, beside Takumi on a cracked grey pavement

CHAOS;HEAD NOAH

Shibuya's serial killings, predicted by an image no one should have sent.

PC / Switch

Doki Doki Literature Club Plus art: Sayori waving, Yuri with a book, Natsuki with folded arms and Monika with a sheet of paper on a pink background

Doki Doki Literature Club!

Join a cute school poetry club in a dating sim that is not what it seems.

PC / Mac / iPhone / PlayStation / Switch / Xbox

Emio – The Smiling Man key art: a figure in a paper bag with a drawn grin looms behind three shocked detectives under a purple sky

Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club

A boy found dead under a smiling paper bag, like the victims of an urban legend.

Switch

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk key art: a close-up of the girl's wide eyes in purple and dark red pixels

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

Help a girl buy milk, as the voice inside her troubled head.

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch

Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk screenshot: the red-eyed girl in a black sweater looks worried in her dark apartment, with red windows behind her

Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk

The girl got her milk. Now help her get through the night.

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch

Mothmen 1966 key art: a pulp book cover on a table with playing cards and coffee, showing four characters beneath a red-eyed winged creature

Mothmen 1966

A roadside gas station, a meteor shower and something with wings on the roof.

PC / Mac / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Two women at an old phone booth, one holding the receiver as a voice warns that the island will become a bloodbath unless she takes the last ferry alone

PARANORMASIGHT: The Mermaid's Curse

A summer island, a mermaid legend and seven curses to survive.

PC / Switch / iPhone / Android

PARANORMASIGHT key art: the cast of cursed characters crowded under a pale-faced ghost with long dark hair

PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo

Cursed strangers hunt each other through Showa-era Tokyo to raise the dead.

PC / Switch / iPhone / Android

Slay the Princess key art: a pencil-drawn princess kneels in chains on the floor of a dim stone basement under a barred window

Slay the Princess: The Pristine Cut

A voice tells you to slay the princess. She says otherwise. Choose who to believe.

PC / Mac / Linux / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch

Spirit Hunter: Death Mark art: a man in a suit with a face overgrown by red flowers lunges out of the dark

Spirit Hunter: Death Mark

Bear the Mark, hunt the spirit that cursed you, or die within days.

PC / PlayStation / Switch

Spirit Hunter: Death Mark II art: a spirit with many eyes and insects crawling over its face grabs at a man in a coat in a dark brick corridor

Spirit Hunter: Death Mark II

Go undercover at a cursed academy where death notices come true.

PC / PlayStation / Switch

Spirit Hunter: NG key art: a young man in a dark jacket and a girl with a bow on a deserted night street by a station

Spirit Hunter: NG

The urban legends are real, and they have followed you home.

PC / PlayStation / Switch

Sucker for Love: First Date key art: Ln'eta, a green Cthulhu-like girl with pink hair and bat wings, beside the masked Estir in a yellow dress under cherry blossoms

Multiple endings

Sucker for Love: First Date

Put the love in Lovecraft, one ritual at a time.

PC / Switch

The House in Fata Morgana key art: the dark-haired Maid holds a pale white-haired girl close while a red, ghostly hand reaches over her head

The House in Fata Morgana

A cursed mansion, a Maid with jade eyes, and a thousand years of tragedy behind its doors.

PC / PlayStation / Switch / iPhone / Android

The Letter screenshot: a sheet of paper covered in the words Help Me written in blood, with a frightened Isabella below

Multiple endings

The Letter - Horror Visual Novel

Seven people, one letter, and a curse that has waited centuries.

PC / Mac / Linux / Switch / PlayStation / Xbox / iPhone / Android

Without a Dawn key art: a dim sun setting over dark water, drawn in tiny brown text characters

Without a Dawn

A remote cabin, a sleepless night, and a silence that takes shape.

PC / PlayStation / Xbox / Switch