- #1 Saint Maker - Horror Visual Novel
97% matchVery Positive86% of 256 reviews2023
Dev: Yangyang MobilePub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac
A haunted convent. Statues that move on their own. A buried past. Welcome to Saint Idelora’s convent, where becoming a saint comes with a price.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Horror 11.1%, Female Protagonist 10%
- #2 Not It: Spookiest Edition
96% matchMostly Positive77% of 31 reviews2021
Dev: Snowhaven Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Not It: Spookiest Edition is a horror-filled visual novel full of suspense and mystery where you navigate Katie through a living nightmare. Her move-in day on Halloween throws her into a centuries-old curse. Can she make it through the night? Will her new neighbors perish? Decide their fate.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Visual Novel 11%, Text-Based 9.6%, Horror 9.4%
- #3 TOY BOX
96% matchPositive86% of 49 reviews2024
Dev: DEADline Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Point & Click 10.3%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Text-Based 9.1%
- #4 Guilt Free
95% matchVery Positive85% of 295 reviews2020
Dev: Lateral Games
Windows · Mac
Guilt Free is a visual novel crossed with a point and click made to offer perspective on mental health and eating disorders. Navigate a couple's rocky relationship and encounter "flaws" or "quirks" that may actually be symptomatic behaviors.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Emotional 14.4%, Dialogue Heavy 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Visual Novel 10.4%
- #5 Penrose
94% matchPositive88% of 33 reviews2023
Dev: doublespeak games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Emotional 14.4%, Text-Based 12%, Visual Novel 9.5%
- #6 MINDFUNK In 13 Days
94% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: VAINSANE
Windows · Mac · Linux
Help Nari and Sena make sense of a cringeworthy drink called MINDFUNK that predicts their death. Your choices in this psychological horror visual novel will determine how they deal with this MIND****.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Point & Click 11.6%, Psychological Horror 7.6%
- #7 Whispers From The Rift
93% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Interdimensional Games Inc
Windows
A choose-your-own-adventure novel. Enter the mind of a black-ops team leader heading an impossible mission in a parallel universe. Choices are remembered, story events reflect past decisions, and freely rewind time to try different paths.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Horror 11.7%, Text-Based 11.5%
- #8 呪霊が見せる夢 / Dreamscapes
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: アイエダゲームズ(Aieda Games)
Windows
Investigate six haunted properties and listen to the voices of spirits trapped in nightmares. Collect fragmented clues and discover the correct combination of names, locations, and vessels. A multi-ending horror adventure where the outcome changes depending on your choices during the ritual.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Horror 12.4%, Text-Based 9.9%
- #9 Mass of Consumption
91% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Wayward Woyrm Games
Windows
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Horror 15.1%, Visual Novel 13%, Text-Based 7.8%
- #10 To Be With You
91% matchPositive93% of 30 reviews2021
Dev: Illus Seed Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?
Why similar: Emotional 16%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Dialogue Heavy 7.8%
- #11 The Thief, the Witch, the Toad, and the Mushroom.
89% matchVery Positive100% of 205 reviews2024
Dev: Jack McNameePub: Ashtown Games
Windows
A fable from your childhood. Don't you remember it?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Text-Based 9.8%, Surreal 8.4%
- #12 Homunculus Hotel
90% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2022
Dev: Team SolEtude
Windows
Explore the dreams of the Homunculus Hotel's guests in order to understand yourself.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Point & Click 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Female Protagonist 8.8%
- #13 Cheerleaders
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lounatick Creations
Windows · Mac · Linux
Cheerleaders, sisterhood, sex, and competition. Follow the cheerleading team of an elite university for the rich and privileged as they aim for victory at the national championship, led by their ambitious captain, Elena.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Emotional 13.3%, Visual Novel 13%, Female Protagonist 10.5%
- #14 Miya Might Break
87% matchPositive94% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: VAINSANE
Windows · Mac · Linux
A psychological horror visual novel about Miya, a former prodigy trapped in a decaying home with her unstable stepfather, her talking plush Mopa, and the bystander who hears every step she takes...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Horror 11.2%, Psychological Horror 9.7%
- #15 Start Running
88% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: beepsoft industries
Windows · Linux
A horror point and click game where choices matter about trying to do your final marathon training run.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Point & Click 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Horror 10.2%, Surreal 8.8%
- #16 DreamNet
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Danik Studios
Windows
Rediscover the internet of the 2000s in DreamNet, a free to play Frutiger Aero exploration game. Dive into nostalgic worlds, uncover the story, and revisit the beauty of the old internet.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Emotional 13.1%, Psychological Horror 9.5%, Surreal 9.4%
- #17 Inhuman Resources: A Literary Machination
86% matchVery Positive92% of 72 reviews2025
Dev: Finnegan MotorsPub: Indie Asylum
Windows · Mac · Linux
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Text-Based 10.1%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Surreal 9.1%
- #18 BBirthday - Visual Novel
85% matchPositive91% of 35 reviews2023
Dev: Yun Seven
Windows
Help Bianca to relive the 15 years of her life, but from another perspective 👁️. Enjoy this dreamcore style visual novel with escape room elements and hints of horror. Unlock different endings. ✨
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Visual Novel 13%, Text-Based 12.1%, Point & Click 9.5%, Psychological Horror 8.6%
- #19 Monologin
84% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: VAINSANE
Windows · Mac · Linux
A directionless night-shift worker clings to a dying MMORPG, a legendary White Unicorn mount, and the belief that old games are more "real" in this short psychological horror visual novel about escapism and being left behind.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Point & Click 11.7%, Psychological Horror 9.2%
- #20 The Accuser and The Abyss
84% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Spectre Sun Works
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are a detective. You have been assigned a partner to investigate a horrid case. But things are not what it seems. Navigate the paths as you attempt to unravel the truth behind your lost memories and your new disturbing detective partner.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Point & Click 9.8%, Horror 9.4%, Text-Based 8.7%
- #21 LifeSimOS
82% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Clayton Davis
Windows
A story-rich coming-of-age experience told through a 2004 desktop, where friendships, music, and late-night conversations shape who you become. Explore chats, drama, mini-games, and the early internet in a branching story about growing up, making mistakes, and finding your place.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Emotional 12.8%, Dialogue Heavy 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%
- #22 Am I Nima
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: HO! Games
Windows · Mac
Am I Nima is a psychological-horror game where you must convince your mom that you really are her daughter. Combine words together in your brain and use them to talk. Get her to trust you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Dialogue Heavy 11%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Point & Click 9.8%
- #23 For Mother Matron
82% matchVery Positive92% of 168 reviews2022
Dev: Velvetique GamesPub: Neoclassic Games
Windows · Mac
A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths. A free atmospheric horror visual novel where you navigate life-or-death situations. SEEK PARADISE OR DIE TRYING
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Horror 10%, Psychological Horror 9.6%
- #24 Glitch
80% matchPositive91% of 35 reviews2025
Dev: Bulbo Games
Windows
Glitch is an intense and surreal narrative experience, drawn entirely by hand, that will make you question reality with every choice and each of the 26 endings that unlock the special and definitive conclusion!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Point & Click 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Horror 12.1%
- #25 Yuika My Bestie
81% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Feeling Potion
Windows · Mac
Experience a pastel-toned emotional journey in Yuika My Bestie, a short visual novel you can complete in under 15 minutes per playthrough. With 5 unique endings and heartfelt choices, it takes just 30–40 minutes to explore every path of this soft, late-night cry.
Why similar: Emotional 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Dialogue Heavy 10.7%
- #26 The Company
79% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: Crawler Games
Windows
The Company wants you productive. The Company wants you calm. The Company wants you compliant.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Walking Simulator 15.7%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Surreal 7.7%
- #27 Loop//Error
79% matchVery Positive88% of 58 reviews2025
Dev: Koro Pixel StudioPub: Dark Product
Windows
Alone in the dead of night, you find yourself sent on a simple errand to check on a quiet gas station on the outskirts of town. But nothing here feels right. You can’t outrun this place. It wants you. And it will keep you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Surreal 9.9%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%
- #28 KaRu
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 39 reviews2022
Dev: Mirror Studio
Windows · Linux
- Search for clues to progress the story. - Make choices to help your partner. - Collect bits and pieces to reveal secrets and lore bits. - Use your visions to see what he is feeling at the moment. - Don't drown in your own regrets.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Point & Click 13.2%, Emotional 10.8%, Horror 8.2%
- #29 Flora Parasocial
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Laments_VN
Windows
Audiences connect to their favorite celebrities all the time. How does it affect these people when put into a game of life or death? Only time will tell.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Horror 9.9%, Psychological Horror 6.3%
- #30 All (Too) Good Things
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: YOWPY games
Windows
Your job is to make humanity happy. Observe the people living in your assigned district and make the best choices to ensure everyone's happiness.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Text-Based 12.3%, Dialogue Heavy 9.6%
- #31 The Wreck
76% matchVery Positive88% of 282 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 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Point & Click 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.3%
- #32 阴桃花 (The Flowers of Yin)
76% matchPositive93% of 46 reviews2022
Dev: SnowyYANGPub: 逐夏
Windows
幻想若非幻想 自然可超自然 伴我梦中桃花 懒识人间滋味
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Emotional 16.6%, Text-Based 12.9%, Surreal 11.6%
- #33 Lost Connections
75% matchVery Positive96% of 78 reviews2023
Dev: Amber Pearl
Windows
If she leaves now you will never see her again. Would you have enough courage to take a step, or would you stay quiet and regret it? Experience this story about love and loss.
Why similar: Emotional 20.9%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Female Protagonist 7.8%
- #34 THE DAY THAT WASN'T
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: MAD Tribe Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Relive the same day without remembering it. Your choices feed four inner alter egos (Shadow, Mad, Alex, and Bully) — shaping reality, glitches, and one of 16 possible endings. The day repeats. Your mind doesn’t. Or does it?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Visual Novel 15%, Emotional 8.7%, Text-Based 8.3%
- #35 Unrest
77% matchMixed68% of 195 reviews2014
Dev: Pyrodactyl
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Unrest is a role playing adventure game set in a fantasy interpretation of ancient India that adapts to death, failure, and the choices you make. Play as ordinary people in a struggle for safety, freedom, and a chance at peace. Use conversation, manipulation (and rarely, violence) to achieve your goals.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Walking Simulator 10.6%, Point & Click 9.7%, Visual Novel 9.5%
- #36 AUTOPHOBIA
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Violessence
Windows
A cinematic point-and-click experience following a girl's struggles with schizophrenia. Your choices dynamically affect not only the way others perceive her, but the way she perceives the world as well. Maintain her trauma and psychosis, or don't and suffer from progressively violent hallucinations.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Point & Click 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Emotional 11.2%, Visual Novel 10%
- #37 Margaret's Little Shop of Wonders
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Possum 5Pub: Abiding Bridge
Windows
Gardening and magic are meeting in Margaret’s Little Shop of Wonders. Play as Margaret, a young witch who just opened her own flower shop, and fulfill the peculiar requests of her strange customers!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Emotional 15%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Point & Click 12.8%, Female Protagonist 10.3%
- #38 Fatal Falls
73% matchPositive89% of 19 reviews2024
Dev: Tripolar Studio
Windows
In Fatal Falls you explore the dark secrets of "The Grand Elysium", a posh luxury hotel in the middle of nowhere. Interact with its guests, drink a cocktail at the bar, peruse the noble premises – the choice is yours! Just make sure you don't get entangled in the hotel's dark deeds...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Walking Simulator 11.2%, Point & Click 10%, Horror 8.6%
- #39 derealization
72% matchPositive94% of 17 reviews2026
Dev: Sempiternal Rain
Windows
A visual novel about a girl who escaped from a psychiatric hospital. She is pursued by a strange being from another world — and it seems she’s not the only one who can see visitors from beyond.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Surreal 9.7%, Dialogue Heavy 9.3%, Text-Based 9.3%
- #40 Contra Spem Spero
73% matchPositive92% of 25 reviews2025
Dev: DADZINGO
Windows · Linux
Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Horror 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Psychological Horror 10%
- #41 The Dust of the Violet Crystals
73% matchPositive95% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Corvaena Games LLC
Windows · Mac
A flesh-eating dust leaves you to survive alone against hordes of Listless.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Female Protagonist 10.3%, RPG 10.1%
- #42 Alcyone: The Last City
72% matchPositive80% of 20 reviews2025
Dev: Strange Artifice
Windows · Mac · Linux
Alcyone: The Last City is an interactive sci-fi novel where your choices can lead to the salvation or destruction of the last refuge of civilisation in the universe. Immerse yourself in a branching narrative of diverse characters, intrigue, and world-altering decisions.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Emotional 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Text-Based 9.4%
- #43 Parasite in Love
71% matchVery Positive95% of 57 reviews2025
Dev: Night Asobu
Windows
Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Horror 8.8%, Psychological Horror 7.7%
- #44 Witchlight Woods
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Delphin Casado
Windows
Blending fairy tale fright with psychological horror, this narrative game challenges you to survive a weird journey through the woods while being hunted by the witch you were tasked with imprisoning. Sometimes charming, sometimes frightening, she’ll force you to make hard choices.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Horror 12.2%, Psychological Horror 10.4%
- #45 The Farm of the Living
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PlayBook
Windows
A grim, choice-driven interactive gamebook. As the First Ranger of a fortified homestead, you must defend the last survivors from the infected, manage critical resources, and investigate a dangerous internal conspiracy. Every decision shapes the survival of the living.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Visual Novel 12.8%, RPG 9.4%, Text-Based 8.3%
- #46 Momo Don't Leave
69% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2026
Dev: VAINSANE
Windows · Mac · Linux
Return to a town that never changed… and a friend who's supposed to be dead. A psychological horror visual novel about memory and the cost of refusing to move forward.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Point & Click 14%, Psychological Horror 10.3%
- #47 What Is Sleeping In My Room?
71% match7 user reviews88% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: CousinCatnip
Windows
Experience the hunt for the Monster living in your room in this Visual Novel experience. Your choices will determine the fate of both you and the Monster. Will you figure out what the Monster really is?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Text-Based 13.1%, Surreal 11.3%, Horror 10.9%
- #48 Enelia: Dawn of Madness
69% matchVery Positive95% of 129 reviews2024
Dev: Indra Studio
Windows
Immerse yourself in the enigmatic world of Nauris, where enchanting landscapes hide terrifying secrets: the strange behavior of elders, sinister rituals of priests, and the disappearance of citizens. Madness lurks everywhere – will you master it or become its victim? The choice is yours.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Horror 11.1%, Point & Click 9.7%
- #49 Nanma, A Tecelã das Sombras
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Luísa Destro
Windows
Nanma: A Tecelã das Sombras is a Brazilian dark high-fantasy visual novel where the loom of fate is in your hands. Take on the role of Nanma and discover whether your powers are a gift or a curse.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.8%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Emotional 12.4%, Female Protagonist 10.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
- #50 Chromatic Memories
70% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Perla Oculta
Windows · Mac · Linux
A visual novel about grief, memory and acceptance. Nayara is a painter of memories: she digs into her clients’ minds to change or even erase their memories. One day she realizes she has altered her own memory. What was so painful or unbearable that she wanted to forget it for good?
Why similar: Emotional 25%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Visual Novel 17%, Female Protagonist 7.3%
- #51 Make Moku Proud
67% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: VAINSANE
Windows · Mac · Linux
Uncover the truth behind a broken ritual in Make Moku Proud... a psychological visual novel where guilt and obedience, and what it means to make Moku proud, shape the fate of a witness watching his companions disappear.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Horror 12.5%, Psychological Horror 10.9%
- #52 Kuroi Tsubasa
69% matchPositive93% of 41 reviews2022
Dev: Blackwing Gaming
Windows · Linux
Meet Kureha Kurono and her friends in this charming visual novel! With the help of the devil Blackwing-chan they'll be able to defeat the evil shadow, right? What was that? It was Blackwing himself who caused this mess? Oh dear.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Emotional 19%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Female Protagonist 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 8%
- #53 Star Crystal Warriors Go!
67% matchPositive100% of 17 reviews2025
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
When nightmare monsters invade your city, can you and your friends defeat them with your dream magic and still make it to school on time? A text-based interactive magical girl anime novel, 250,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Emotional 16.3%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Text-Based 10.5%
- #54 Pet
68% matchPositive95% of 21 reviews2023
Dev: beepsoft industries
Windows
A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Psychological Horror 10%, Female Protagonist 9.2%, Text-Based 9%
- #55 Into the Waves
68% matchVery Positive92% of 91 reviews2021
Dev: Flying Whale
Windows · Mac · Linux
Morin is a barkeeper with an unusual curse. All people look like shadows to him, except for one mysterious stranger... Solve the mystery of the curse, fight true darkness and mix the most unusual cocktails in the atmospheric visual novel — Into the Waves!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Point & Click 12.2%, Text-Based 7.9%
- #56 Yonder World: Interview with the Void
68% matchPositive93% of 14 reviews2022
Dev: Fluttering Abyss
Windows · Mac · Linux
A psychological horror story, with a spiking sense of danger and gentle melancholy. An out of this world adventure, revolving around books, memories and mortality. Along the way, perhaps you shall pick up pieces of a long forgotten heart, or some unlikely companions that you never knew you needed.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 11%, Emotional 9.3%, Female Protagonist 8.9%
- #57 Hentai Novel: Lily is stripping
66% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Sexy Baguette Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
🔞 Step into an erotic journey with Hentai Novel: Lily is stripping! 📸 Follow Lily, a mysterious muse, in a slow-burn visual novel where sensual tension builds frame by frame. Enjoy explicit scenes, seductive animations, and steamy voice acting as you blur the line between art and desire!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Emotional 13.7%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Text-Based 7.7%
- #58 Who's Lila?
66% matchVery Positive94% of 3,686 reviews2022
Dev: Garage Heathen
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Point & Click 10.9%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Horror 9.6%
- #59 Matsuro Palette
67% matchVery Positive99% of 377 reviews2020
Dev: SleepingMuseumPub: KEMCO
Windows
Survive seven days with a cursed painting. Rely on notes from past victims and manage to successfully paint her portrait. But be careful not to upset her, or you'll quickly find yourself dead! An assortment of terminal tableaus awaits you. Will you be the one to finally finish her?
Why similar: Emotional 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Point & Click 12.2%, Visual Novel 10.4%