- #1 TASOKARE HOTEL Re:newal
97% matchVery Positive87% of 83 reviews2024
Dev: SEEC Inc.
Windows · Mac
一日中夕暮れに染まっている「黄昏ホテル」。そこは、生と死の狭間を彷徨う魂たちが羽を休めるために存在する場所。ある日、ホテルに迷い込んだ少女が、出会いと事件をきっかけに、自らの運命を大きく切り開くことに。生死の狭間で謎解きに挑む、世にも奇妙な異世界脱出アドベンチャーが登場!
Why similar: Emotional 13.8%, Retro 11.6%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Mystery 9.9%, Visual Novel 9.6%
- #2 Robot Hospice
96% matchVery Positive100% of 108 reviews2026
Dev: dokogames
Windows · Mac
"Robot Hospice" is a 2D pixel art adventure game where beloved robots spend their final days in a hospice. As a new staff member, you will gently yet painfully bid farewell to these cherished machines that once lived alongside humans.
Why similar: Emotional 23.6%, Robots 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Retro 9.9%, Story Rich 8.2%
- #3 My Dear Frankenstein -English Edition-
96% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2021
Dev: NUMBER7Pub: Moonchime Studios
Windows · Mac
Play as man-made boy, Adam, in this emotional adventure. Explore the city at night in search of the fragments of his heart!
Why similar: Emotional 26.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Mystery 14.8%, Point & Click 10.4%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
- #4 LOOP SYNDROME
95% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: TBCATGAMES
Windows
There are no second chances in medicine. A medical suspense visual novel where a young doctor gains the power to rewind time. Use the loop to change the fate of diagnoses, surgeries, and emergency treatments. Your choices shape the story, leading to multiple Bad, Good, and True Endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Multiple Endings 14.3%, Emotional 13.4%, Mystery 11.8%
- #5 The Wishing Stone
94% matchPositive100% of 17 reviews2021
Dev: Dream Nyght Studio
Windows · Mac
A visual novel and point-and-click puzzle adventure game with challenging puzzles, a touching story, and multiple endings. In a world that deviates from reality, it's up to you to discover the truth and Ailsa's forgotten memory. Her fate is in your hands!
Why similar: Emotional 19.3%, Mystery 13.8%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Female Protagonist 8.2%
- #6 Time For Changes
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wedared Game Studio
Windows
During exam prep, Semyon faces a family crisis that leads to failure and a transfer to a troubled class. There, he encounters not only hostility but also makes new friends and meets girls who change his outlook on life. He must make tough choices between friendship, dreams, and harsh reality.
Why similar: Mystery 18.3%, Emotional 18%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Story Rich 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%
- #7 Heart of mobius
93% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: gunsturn Inc.
Windows · Mac
Dive into a captivating standalone story in just an hour! Presenting the first installment of the "Handy Novel" series. Highly praised on smartphones, this acclaimed narrative is now ready for your enjoyment on Steam for PC/Mac!
Why similar: Emotional 24.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Adventure 12%, Multiple Endings 11%
- #8 神明之息
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 震鲸工作室(Zhenjing Studio)
Windows · Mac
一款融合中式风格与架空玄幻的无限流女性向视觉小说。作为一名刚毕业的大学生,因找工作面试碰壁而偶然许下愿望的你被卷入神明的游戏,与另外八名普通人一同坠入一个个诡异副本。你需要探索异境、查明缘由、了结未尽之愿,用每一次抉择打破僵局,通过副本里的重重考验。在神明的游戏里,你可以与四位可攻略角色进行深度交谈、结下因果,在恐惧与心动之间走出属于你们的不同结局……另外,顺利通关者也将获得实现任何愿望的权利!
Why similar: Emotional 23.5%, Mystery 19.8%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Female Protagonist 11.5%, Adventure 8.8%
- #9 My Dearest Direst Disaster
91% matchPositive100% of 29 reviews2026
Dev: Water PhoenixPub: KEMCO
Windows
「透明人間」のクロと、「透明人間しか見えない・聞こえない」豹馬。平穏を望む2人に、世界は恐るべき牙を剥ける。何度でも。ただ、豹馬の望みが絶たれるまで。
Why similar: Emotional 28.9%, Mystery 17.3%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Adventure 9.5%
- #10 Artificial Nexus
91% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Too Many Teeth Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Susan has woken up in a strange, coffin-like device, with no memory of who or where she is. Uncover the answers in this visual novel as you solve puzzles to escape in a stunning sci-fi mystery investigation!
Why similar: Emotional 16%, Mystery 13.6%, Robots 11.2%, Visual Novel 9.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%
- #11 Pulse of Love
90% match9 user reviews40% of 10 reviews2023
Dev: SweetDreams
Windows
"Pulse of Love" is a captivating visual novel set in the vibrant world of the Korean K-pop scene drama. Experience the exhilarating journey of love, passion, and self-discovery as you navigate the highs and lows of fame.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 16.3%, Emotional 15.5%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Story Rich 10.7%
- #12 Riddle Me Bunny: Nonogram
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Midnight Cupcakes
Windows
A cozy nonogram puzzle adventure wrapped in a storybook world. Solve gentle picture-logic puzzles to reveal hand-crafted pixel art, and slowly bring color back to a village that has quietly faded away.
Why similar: Emotional 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Mystery 13.7%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Visual Novel 12.3%
- #13 Bound Between Desks
89% matchPositive86% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: AnyTale Game StudiosPub: ANYTALE LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
A mystical visual novel where ordinary school life intertwines with mysterious phenomena. Every decision you make could lead to uncovering secrets... or plunge you into even greater uncertainty.
Why similar: Mystery 17.9%, Emotional 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.8%
- #14 Summer Pockets REFLECTION BLUE
87% matchVery Positive91% of 1,387 reviews2025
Dev: VISUAL ARTS/KeyPub: VISUAL ARTS
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 126.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
No matter how much times passes... I remember that blue, blue summer. Summer Pockets, the midsummer story brought to you by Key, has been powered-up with even more to play, including new heroines and routes, in Summer Pockets REFLECTION BLUE, now available on Steam!
Why similar: Emotional 27.1%, Multiple Endings 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Story Rich 9.7%
- #15 Ending the Happy Route
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Water Phoenix
Windows
A visual novel depicting a protagonist who desperately struggles to change their fate of despair.
Why similar: Emotional 24.2%, Mystery 17.5%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%
- #16 BatteryNote
85% matchVery Positive99% of 223 reviews2025
Dev: 72studioPub: room6
Windows · Mac
BatteryNote is a multi-ending sci-fi adventure visual novel game. You can recharge three robots with limited lifespans, bringing them back to life. Interact with them through conversations or experiment by applying high voltage. How they spend their final moments is entirely up to you.
Why similar: Emotional 24.6%, Robots 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Visual Novel 9.2%
- #17 The Paracelsian Project
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2023
Dev: Sixkilla Gaming
Windows · Mac · Linux
You awaken in an unfamiliar location with unfamiliar people and are surrounded by mystery. Will you be able to solve the puzzle and uncover why you are here in this sci-fi/mystery/puzzle visual novel? The future hangs in the balance.
Why similar: Emotional 16.8%, Mystery 14.4%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
- #18 ストレイ・メモリア
86% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: ルピナスパレット
Windows
A contemporary juvenile mystery about young boys and girls who grow up confused and troubled, and adults who harbor secrets.
Why similar: Mystery 25.4%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Multiple Endings 19.6%, Story Rich 11.6%, Adventure 11.1%
- #19 Return to Ash
84% matchVery Positive99% of 149 reviews2025
Dev: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
“The hospital was empty. Quiet, and brighter than usual... like waking up on a snow day. But I didn't feel cold. I didn't feel much of anything.”
Why similar: Emotional 27%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Multiple Endings 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%, Mystery 8.9%
- #20 時折記 -Tokioriki-
84% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 綴路工房
Windows
Every person you choose leaves someone else behind. Spend your limited afternoons building relationships, exploring the town, and recording each day in Kanata’s diary—then face timed Shadow Choices as an old book begins to fracture his ordinary life.
Why similar: Emotional 17.7%, Mystery 16%, Multiple Endings 15.6%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Story Rich 10.8%
- #21 DoppelTest
82% matchPositive100% of 23 reviews2026
Dev: ぬくもりロボット工房
Windows
Kagari, a withdrawn child, and Kagami, the robot living in society as their stand-in—Only one will be recognized as the real Kagari. Your role is to gently observe their choices and decisions. Your role is to gently observe their choices and decisions.
Why similar: Emotional 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Robots 15.1%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Adventure 11.2%
- #22 The Wreck
83% matchVery Positive89% of 287 reviews2023
Dev: The Pixel Hunt
Windows · Mac
In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.
Why similar: Emotional 18.1%, Mystery 13.6%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Visual Novel 9.7%
- #23 Tale of android after the Apocalypse
82% matchPositive81% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: Team Moko App.
Windows
Niluas, an android who suddenly activated 276 years after the extinction of humanity. With her AI, Naive, she seeks lost memories, her activation's mystery, and humanity's extinction's cause. Facing enigmatic foes and hostile androids, she quests for truth about her existence and the desolate world.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Multiple Endings 12%, Robots 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Mystery 10.4%
- #24 春はあけぼの、我はバケモノ。 - Spring at Dawn, I Am a Monster.
81% matchMixed66% of 87 reviews2026
Dev: CHARON
Windows
“You were only trying to do the right thing—so why is everything falling apart?” A Japanese language teacher’s choices to save three girls who have stopped attending school will change their fates. A psychological horror visual novel with 16 endings.
Why similar: Emotional 17.9%, Mystery 13.6%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Visual Novel 11%, Story Rich 7.9%
- #25 The Lyra Signal
81% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: ESTREA
Windows
The Lyra Signal is a story-driven visual novel about memory, mystery, and the echoes of the past. Follow Leo as he uncovers a strange recording left by his father and begins searching for the meaning behind a name that refuses to disappear: Lyra.
Why similar: Mystery 23.2%, Emotional 21.2%, Multiple Endings 15.1%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Story Rich 11.2%
- #26 Island of Ruin
80% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: cretia studio
Windows
"Island of Ruin" is a puzzle novel game where you collect memory cores hidden across the island and uncover the truth behind a tragedy of the past. When the horrors that befell the boys and girls and the island’s strange phenomena are revealed, what final choice will you make?
Why similar: Emotional 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Mystery 13%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.5%
- #27 Awaken Infinity
79% matchPositive98% of 40 reviews2025
Dev: Launch Solutions
Windows
Welcome to Awaken Infinity! Immerse yourself in a unique top-down RPG with visual novel elements. Wake up in a futuristic room with no memory, and unravel the mysteries of your past. Experience deep storytelling, meet intriguing characters, and uncover hidden secrets.
Why similar: Emotional 27.6%, Mystery 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Story Rich 11%, Text-Based 9.7%
- #28 偽人鳥ゲーム -ニセペンギンゲーム-
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 灰田おゆ
Windows
A certain streamer's fan meeting. Ten men and women are trapped on a luxury cruise ship. And the nightmare 'death game' begins—Collect notes through investigation, use deduction and voting to 'catch the shark'! A mid-length mystery ADV where bad endings are unavoidable.
Why similar: Mystery 24.7%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Multiple Endings 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Adventure 8.6%
- #29 Moonless Moon
78% matchVery Positive90% of 342 reviews2024
Dev: Kazuhide OkaPub: KAMITSUBAKI STUDIO
Windows · Mac
When night falls, she wanders into another world... Moonless Moon is a text-based adventure game following a girl as she travels through a variety of different worlds.
Why similar: Emotional 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Text-Based 10.6%, Story Rich 9.7%
- #30 Frame of Mind - A game of thoughts.
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: made by betalarsPub: Polynormal Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Frame of Mind - A game of thoughts is a brief and cozy narrative game that lets you explore a character via thoughts and momentos you find in stages of their life. Its an introspective game, meant to share some experiences a peer-group of neurodivergent queers, including the dev, had growing up.
Why similar: Emotional 20.9%, Mystery 13.6%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Visual Novel 9.7%
- #31 Memory Girl +
76% matchVery Positive97% of 72 reviews2025
Dev: cream△Pub: Champloo Games
Windows
A tragic love story following Memori and her search for the missing "him."
Why similar: Emotional 19.1%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Mystery 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Multiple Endings 12.4%
- #32 Gothic Murder: Adventure That Changes Destiny
78% matchVery Positive96% of 69 reviews2020
Dev: orange
Windows · Mac
A housemaid takes on a terrifying murder plan in order to protect her lord, whose life is in danger! A romantic mystery that takes place at an earl's manor in 20th-century England. Depending on the selection, the story will branch into different endings.
Why similar: Mystery 25.9%, Multiple Endings 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Visual Novel 16%, Adventure 14%
- #33 イマジナリーバッドフレンド
76% matchPositive100% of 28 reviews2025
Dev: しのぎや
Windows
A short visual novel game in which a boy named Shiomi suddenly appears one day, and the protagonist, who recognizes him as an imaginary friend, converses with him to find out what happened between them.
Why similar: Emotional 35.4%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Story Rich 14.1%, Adventure 11.3%
- #34 The Future Radio and the Artificial Pigeons
77% matchVery Positive89% of 319 reviews2023
Dev: LaplacianPub: NekoNyan Ltd.
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 32.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
2061, Japan. Mankind has lost the sky, and with it, its connections. All of it was taken away by birds... ...By countless artificial pigeons flying through the sky.
Why similar: Mystery 21.4%, Emotional 21.4%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Story Rich 10.1%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
- #35 Save My Scrap
75% matchVery Positive100% of 58 reviews2026
Dev: Unio AnouPub: AMATA Games
Windows
"They mean everything to me. Please, make them whole again." An interactive visual novel puzzle game. By fixing the broken android, you may uncover the truth about your client's past.
Why similar: Emotional 14.6%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Adventure 12%, Mystery 10.7%
- #36 The Girl Who Wasn't There
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 1564 Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Ranko and her friend Astrid must investigate the vanishing of a girl from their school. Learn about the secrets of St. Joachim to find her, but be cautious! A bad step may lead you towards an ugly end...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Mystery 14.1%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Female Protagonist 9.9%
- #37 GIFT from GOD
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Galaxy★Bear
Windows
GIFT from GOD is a visual novel told through the eyes of Ryosuke Nikaido and Akane Yamamoto. As they face three missions from God, their hearts, pasts, and choices begin to intertwine, leading them toward the true meaning of God’s “gift.”
Why similar: Emotional 28.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Adventure 12.5%
- #38 SPRKLS.exe
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: PesiiDom
Windows
˚ ̴̡̢̛̼̬̠̰̀͟҉̢C͊͊ ༘⋆ ⟡̷͛ SPRKLS.exe is a cute, melancholic story-driven puzzle-platformer visual novel about friendship and apocalypse that unfolds entirely on YOUR desktop 𓂃˗ˏˋ⟢ 𓂅 ⋆. ˖𓏲ּ𝄢 ⟡̵̂ ִֶָ 𓂃⊹
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Retro 10.9%, Emotional 9.8%
- #39 Kairos: Until the Dawn Breaks
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mokomuku
Windows
A melancholic fantasy visual novel. Kairos, the last twilight hunter of a clan abandoned by its god, walks to the Temple of Dawn chasing the truth of a silent goddess — and what he lost along the way. They were taught to fear the night. It was the light that burned them.
Why similar: Emotional 16.7%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Mystery 12.3%
- #40 Good Morning My Darling
71% matchPositive100% of 17 reviews2025
Dev: Kova
Windows · Mac · Linux
Mailey wakes up and goes to make her morning tea. However, something strange is going on inside her house, and her housemate Derthan is nowhere to be seen. Perhaps, the answer lies somewhere in her memories?
Why similar: Emotional 25.6%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Multiple Endings 11%, Point & Click 10.4%
- #41 Art of Ism
71% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Tar Rat Art
Windows · Mac · Linux
A new girl in town, Ashley, tries to befriend her lonely classmates. But can an unlikely group of friends of such different personalities be formed and survive? Meanwhile, the new headmaster investigates the mysteries of the school.
Why similar: Emotional 23.2%, Mystery 18.1%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Story Rich 11.4%, Female Protagonist 10.8%
- #42 右手にペンを、左手に過去を。
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HaraPeko部
Windows
-Change the past, create the future - A novel game about changing the past. What would the present be like if you could remove the regrets of that time? Rewrite the book that contains your past and create the future that you could not get. A new sensation ADV is now available from HaraPeko club.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 17.4%, Emotional 16.2%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Adventure 9.3%
- #43 Reminiscence in the Rain
73% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: 『縋想』プロジェクト
Windows · Mac
The world's most "sentimental" tale. "Let's go away together." Those were Yuika Aoi's last words. It was the winter of my first year of college. She disappeared, without a trace. Where had she gone? - only the flower knows.
Why similar: Emotional 25.6%, Visual Novel 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Adventure 14.2%, Multiple Endings 13.1%
- #44 Kamilia
71% match7 user reviews88% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: RQ play
Windows · Mac
Kamilia is a story-driven, choices-matter detective mystery. Follow a talented painter who finds himself wrapped up in an unsolved case, as he tries to unveil a hidden truth that has been buried for years.
Why similar: Emotional 22.5%, Mystery 18.6%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Story Rich 10.6%
- #45 Kokoro Space Opera
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PonzuSoft
Windows · Linux
In KOKORO SPACE OPERA join an all-girl squad of galactic fighter pilots as they try to save the Earth from assured destruction. Will this wacky space adventure get a happy ending? Or is this sci-fi story secretly a tragedy? Your choices decide their fate!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Retro 15.1%, Emotional 12.8%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
- #46 Along the Edge
74% matchVery Positive82% of 1,090 reviews2016
Dev: Nova-box
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Following the loss of a baby, a breakup, and a surprise heritage, Daphné decides to leave everything behind to start a new life in the French countryside. There, she discovers she's the last descendant of a line of witches. Will she embrace the family tradition?
Why similar: Emotional 21.6%, Mystery 14%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Female Protagonist 9.8%, Story Rich 9.7%
- #47 RGB GlitchGazer
70% matchVery Positive96% of 97 reviews2026
Dev: 群星闪耀时Pub: 群星闪耀时
Windows
A mad and romantic ADV. Unravel a strange world of science and philosophy with a mecha girl, zombie girl, or beastfolk. Some paths may disturb you... or thrill you.
Why similar: Emotional 22.9%, Mystery 15.9%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
- #48 There Is No Next Stop
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HANPAGE
Windows
After the announcement "There is no next stop," you are trapped in an endless subway. But you’re not alone—the "GUESTS" are hunting you. Trust the "GUIDES" to survive. Or don't.
Why similar: Emotional 19%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Mystery 13.1%, Story Rich 9.5%
- #49 Project Vesperi
69% matchMixed46% of 35 reviews2026
Dev: Last Praetorian Interactive LLC
Windows
Project Vesperi is a branching narrative sci-fi game where you play as Doctor Evelyn Roth, sent to investigate a potential sign of life on Venus. When an intruder threatens the only habitable station on the planet, your choices will shape the fate of those around you—and humanity itself.
Why similar: Emotional 27%, Multiple Endings 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Story Rich 11%, Female Protagonist 10.6%
- #50 AENIGMA
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NEUROMANCE
Windows
Set in the year 4XXX, humanity lives disconnected inside underground megastructures to escape the threat of the ever-expanding silicon-based lifeforms.
Why similar: Emotional 24.5%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Female Protagonist 10.6%, Story Rich 10.2%
- #51 Mirrorandum
69% matchPositive96% of 26 reviews2025
Dev: AinkOink
Windows
Mirrorandum is not just a visual novel...it's a journey through a world of mirrors, where every reflection challenges your perception and every choice reveals the depths of your true self.
Why similar: Emotional 29.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Story Rich 7.4%
- #52 Type-NOISE: Shonen Shojo
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 140 reviews2025
Dev: DankHeartsPub: WhisperGames
Windows
Type-NOISE: Shonen Shojo is a multi-ending mystery adventure game. A group of boys and girls who have lost their memories gather in a “Tokyo” that is both familiar and unfamiliar. They must trace their lost memories to escape the bizarre labyrinths. Are they prepared to confront their “true selves”?
Why similar: Emotional 15.2%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Mystery 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
- #53 Void Funk
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Off Chain Games
Windows
a pixel-art adventure coming soon
Why similar: Emotional 19.6%, Robots 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Mystery 12.7%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
- #54 The Countess from Moscow
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: RODRIK LTD
Windows
Modern-day Muscovite Anna awakens in the body of Countess Elizaveta Orlova. Explore the Northern Crown Academy, uncover the secrets of its mirrors, choose your allies, and decide Anna's fate in a visual novel about magic, trust, and two worlds.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 16.5%, Visual Novel 16%, Mystery 12.1%, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%
- #55 Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow
66% matchPositive90% of 21 reviews2026
Dev: Spicy Bread Productions LLC
Windows · Mac
Interrogate your own player characters in this six-chapter murder mystery! Your decisions determine how many clues are uncovered for the final player character, the detective. Explore each stage of grief: Chapter 1 stars Orven as he navigates the shocking deaths of his dream and his hero.
Why similar: Emotional 17.2%, Multiple Endings 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Mystery 10.4%, Visual Novel 10.2%
- #56 The Doll Shop
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Atelier Sentô
Windows
The Doll Shop is a hand-drawn narrative game – part romance, part horror – set in the Japanese countryside. Play as a young dollmaker who reunites with his childhood friend in an eerie snowbound village. Will you dare confess your secret?
Why similar: Emotional 26.7%, Mystery 16.5%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Story Rich 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
- #57 Starweaver Express ~Per aspera ad astra~
65% matchVery Positive92% of 153 reviews2026
Dev: Atelier Ueshima Erika
Windows · Mac · Linux
"Starweaver Express" is a unique visual novel that blends poetic storytelling with dreamlike visuals. As the mysterious transfer student Tsubaki Ueshima, you'll step into a cloistered academy and follow the paths of girls searching for starlight, love, and meaning.
Why similar: Emotional 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Retro 13.6%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
- #58 Lost Museum -Echoes of the Chromageists-
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Happinet
Windows
Forgotten masterpieces with stories still left to be told... Lost Museum -Echoes of the Chromageists- is an adventure game that tells the story of Chromageists, beings with strange faces born of paintings. Through their memories, unravel the meaning each piece of art holds.
Why similar: Emotional 22.6%, Retro 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Point & Click 10.9%, Story Rich 10.8%
- #59 Reconnect
69% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2021
Dev: HFOTA
Windows
在21世纪30年代的世界,任何新鲜事物都不足为奇,城市里每天都喧闹非凡。“我”和妹妹则是离开了那热闹的中心,搬到了这偏僻的乡下地带,和在这里认识的朋友们每天生活在愉快的日常里。不过这平静的日常又能持续多久呢?
Why similar: Emotional 25.8%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Adventure 14.7%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Story Rich 7.3%
- #60 Monolith
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 360 reviews2023
Dev: Animation Arts
Windows · Linux
A classical science fiction point and click adventure which takes you into a deep story and murky atmosphere, while solving logical puzzles. Accompany Tessa Carter and her talking robot as she finds out about herself and searches for a way to survive.
Why similar: Emotional 22.2%, Mystery 14.3%, Female Protagonist 12.5%, Robots 11.5%, Point & Click 10.9%