
A Philosophical Discussion of Worms is a Kinetic Visual Novel that explores two characters, Vynder and Ophiel, as they navigate cohabitation in a strange, unfamiliar house when they don't speak the same language.
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A Philosophical Discussion of Worms is a Kinetic Visual Novel that explores two characters, Vynder and Ophiel, as they navigate cohabitation in a strange, unfamiliar house when they don't speak the same language.

Beek: Familiar Spirit - Remastered
A call for help within a mysterious messaging app. Someone lost and wandering through a forest in a faraway place. And their destiny in your hands.

On Love, On Monsters
On Love, On Monsters is a Frankenstein-inspired story with an emphasis on love in its many forms. Play as three characters with alternating POVs; the Doctor, The Priest, and The Exile. Bond with allies and enemies, avoid raising suspicion in the town of Blackmoore, and learn what it means to love.
A call for help within a mysterious messaging app. Someone lost and wandering through a forest in a faraway place. And their destiny in your hands.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.6%, Text-Based 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Hand-drawn 10.3%
On Love, On Monsters is a Frankenstein-inspired story with an emphasis on love in its many forms. Play as three characters with alternating POVs; the Doctor, The Priest, and The Exile. Bond with allies and enemies, avoid raising suspicion in the town of Blackmoore, and learn what it means to love.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Gothic 21.7% ★, LGBTQ+ 15.9%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Text-Based 8.1%
What does a SUPERVILLAIN do, when he is forbidden from doing anything evil for the day? WARNING: This is not the type of game where you can make meaningful choices.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 34.5%, Visual Novel 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Linear 10.9%, Story Rich 7.9%
Discover magical creatures while exploring a fantasy world in this whimsical, art-filled visual novel!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.1%, LGBTQ+ 23.5%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Hand-drawn 11.2%, Linear 8.4%
The story-rich 18+ prequel to The Divine Speaker. Follow alongside Aemyl and Lucius in a two-sided story about the past and the future.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 29.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Fantasy 8.3%, Story Rich 7.5%
nothing is inviolate. and that which is sacrosanct gets fucked. fuck god, kill heaven, marry boyfriend. in that order.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.6%, Text-Based 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Hand-drawn 12%, Linear 8.5%
A reward tournament is planned in the town, and the young demoness needs money. But even more, she wants to win the heart of a cute fairy elf, who, it seems, is ready to reciprocate her!..
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Text-Based 14.8%, Hand-drawn 8.9%
MALCATRAS' MAIDEN is a toxic yuri visual novel for adults about trauma, bonds, family, and sisterhood.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Text-Based 15.3%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Hand-drawn 8.1%
Fears are not always just rustles in the dark. And death is not always a bad ending.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Text-Based 17.1%, Hand-drawn 11.9%, Casual 5.8%
A sci fi mystery on a ship drifting through space. Solve dialogue puzzles to help the ship's computer AILISH sift through possible timelines to find which one of them can prevent an impending disaster. What disaster? For some reason, AILISH won't actually tell you...
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Text-Based 14.9%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Hand-drawn 10.7%
An autopsy of a queer relationship.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.7%, LGBTQ+ 25.1%, Visual Novel 18%, Hand-drawn 8.4%, 2D 5.7%
Follow Joseph, Eric, and William (as well as a handful of other characters) as they awake from cryogenic stasis at the enigmatic facility known as Intermine Laboratories. But, deep within the abyss exists an ancient evil that is seeking to enact its own twisted machinations ...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Text-Based 20%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Linear 13%, Story Rich 7%
In this dark fantasy yuri visual novel, follow the events that lead up to the fateful meeting of two young women. Accompany Sofia, a human revolutionary, and Vlatka, the vampire princess, as they navigate political upheaval, forbidden romance, and the ugliness of war.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.8%, Gothic 18.4% ★, Text-Based 16.5%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Linear 9.1%
A scarred kingdom, a mourning god and an unfulfilled promise made with the past. Uzu and Zuhaar, two continents ravaged by a cosmic event are the setting of The Scorchfarer. The story follows Mikaela and Yukiharu, a Terramagi team tasked with healing their world and unraveling its secrets.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.4%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Linear 14.8%, Fantasy 8.3%
In a town of exactly 245 residents, every breath is a subtraction. A narrative experience blending Gothic hand-drawn art and natural history puzzles. Waking into a world of "domestic bliss" as thick as a fungal bloom, will you submit to the morbid order, or shatter the balance?
Why similar: Gothic 21.4% ★, LGBTQ+ 19.8%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Hand-drawn 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%
A short visual novel where a private investigator gets reeled into a murky mystery, entangled in lies, secrets, and a family curse.
Why similar: Text-Based 23%, Visual Novel 18.2%, LGBTQ+ 18.1%, Linear 11.6%, Story Rich 6.3%
“Lone Bird in the Tree” is an ADV with male and female versions of each of the four characters. The story alternates between the “future” of the main character, who is deeply traumatized by the grief of his/her best friend, and the “story leading up to the loss of his/her best friend”.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Text-Based 16.4%, Hand-drawn 13.4%, Visual Novel 13.1%
This is the first linear chapter of a longer visual novel game about adventure, fantasy, magic and friendship. There are only a few choices that can be made, and some paths to chose from. The decisions do not have an impact on the ending, instead they provide slightly different content.
Why similar: Text-Based 26%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Linear 12.3%, Hand-drawn 9.3%
A vampire romance visual novel about offering blood up to get closer to the person you are. The story of a boy, or a girl, or a person who meets with a woman, or a vampire, or... This person gets whisked away as a girl. Which is what she always wanted. Or they always wanted to try. Or...
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Text-Based 14.7%, Hand-drawn 8.2%
"co|incidence" is a FVN produced for Renpy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.8%, LGBTQ+ 24.2%, Text-Based 21%, Casual 8.5%, 2D 6.5%
A difficult journey to the East awaits Helena, an orphan, and Aya, a former brothel worker. At the same time, a certain Monster attacks the villages, and Helena sees strange dreams. Will Helena respond to the call of her dreams, or will she find happiness in big love?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Text-Based 12.1%, Hand-drawn 8.3%
A gritty, semi-kinetic visual novel about broken people and notorious gangsters, featuring six individualized routes with six different endings.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Text-Based 17.8%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Hand-drawn 9.9%
Late Bird is a short interactive story about birds, movies, suicidal thoughts and not growing up in time.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.4%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Text-Based 14.6%, Hand-drawn 12.6%, Linear 8.3%
A dark fairy tale about the woods outside a small village and the monster that roams within them. Become Sage and play through to uncover the mystery when they're tossed away from everything they've ever known.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Text-Based 16.1%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Dark 7.7%
A dark lesbian / yuri gothic romance tale set in Victorian England, in which an anxious governess is aggressively pursued by her unruly, tempestuous pupil.
Why similar: Gothic 26.3% ★, LGBTQ+ 22.1%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Text-Based 10.9%, Linear 9.3%
A visual novel set in 1920s Paris. As summer draws near, young students are revising their end-of-year exams. Olivier is one of them.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Text-Based 13.3%, Story Rich 7.3%
The Artisan, one of Awyr’s most infamous killers, is said to walk the cloudy streets looking for his next masterpiece. Pursue the Artisan, save your sister, and uncover the past, but remember what the stories say…Meet his face, and never wake again.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22%, Text-Based 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Linear 9.4%
When The Devil himself approaches you with an opportunity you cannot refuse a journey into your most perverse fetishes starts! A collection of interactive erotic stories!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.5%, Visual Novel 21.6%, Text-Based 16.3%, LGBTQ+ 15.4%, Casual 5.5%
While working at their dead-end job and dreaming of what could’ve been, Demian Zhao discovers a flesh-eating parasite who promises to help them finally live free. If you let them, they'll become the monster of your own making - after all, who needs a moral compass when you have a god in the gutter?
Why similar: Gothic 23.5% ★, LGBTQ+ 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Text-Based 9.4%
Alone as two, together as one - A fantasy/yuri visual novel telling the story of two girls traversing a snow covered forest and growing closer.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Text-Based 20.1%, LGBTQ+ 17.2%, Visual Novel 16.2%, 2D 5.4%
A kinetic novel about two magi learning how to live with the burden they each carry. Explore Taldun— a world of dark magick and primordial beings with unfathomable power. Follow a mysterious phenomenon as it turns the world upside down in a way not even magi would be prepared for.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Text-Based 18.1%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Linear 8.5%
Uncover a web of evil as a superspy! Break rules, break hearts–don't break cover.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 23%, LGBTQ+ 21.9%, Story Rich 6.3%, Visual Novel 5.9%
Fairy Deer is a kinetic thriller visual novel. Make your way deep into the terrifying Forest in search of the sole pathway to happiness—the mythical Fairy Deer.
Why similar: Text-Based 30.4%, Visual Novel 21.8%, Hand-drawn 10.9%, Story Rich 8.9%, Linear 6.2%
Alice and Sophie finally have the time to go on an onsen retreat. However, their trip gets inturrupted by mysterious magic. The last straw: "MY FOOD!!!" Will the couple be able to find the culprit and finally enjoy their vacation?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.2%, LGBTQ+ 23.8%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Text-Based 17%, 2D 5.3%
The Tiny World is a drama visual novel. A New Year's story about a long separation from home, family, friends, and tears freezing in the cold.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Text-Based 13.2%, Hand-drawn 10.7%, Casual 6.9%
Pine Hill is a quiet Midwestern college town. Quiet enough that nobody seemed to hear Ginny Nicholson die. Alone with the thoughts in your head, now you just want to know one thing: why?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Text-Based 21.8%, LGBTQ+ 16.1%, Visual Novel 16%, Story Rich 9.5%
Tomorrow Will Be Dying is an atmospheric, story-driven slice-of-life visual novel with light sim elements about finding yourself through your connections with others.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.8%, Visual Novel 21.1%, Hand-drawn 13.2%, Text-Based 12.7%, Casual 8.2%
Samael suffers from delusions. He feels lost until he encounters a priest one day. The priest is the only person in the world who makes him feel at peace. This, however, slowly turns into an obsession. Will Samael learn how to love properly or will he fall into a path of darkness? You decide.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Text-Based 21.1%, LGBTQ+ 20.6%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Dark 7.4%
A short story point-and-click visual novel about the afterlife.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.7%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Linear 12.6%, Hand-drawn 11.2%, Adventure 6.5%
「春の音はまるで君に似てて」は暗い夜、道に迷ったような時期に悩んでいた主人公、相原愛理が偶然蒼の歌声を聞くようになり、二人の物語が始まります。日本の女学校を背景とし、少女と少女が出会い、お互いを通して自分が進みたい道を見つけ、一歩、また一歩踏み出していく、成長と恋の過程を込めた「ゆり」キネティックノーベルです。
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 34.9%, Visual Novel 24.2%, Text-Based 23.1%, Story Rich 8.5%, 2D 7.2%
Dream Spectra is a visual novel about trying to hang out with your crush and escape your migraines, styled with surreal 90s 3D rendered environments.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Text-Based 20%, LGBTQ+ 17.7%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Linear 8.7%
In this interactive narrative, you (a goblin custodian) fix up the neighborhood, help solve eccentric neighbors' problems, and uncover a dark and dangerous mystery, all while untangling the occasional drag & drop image puzzle!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Text-Based 12.5%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Linear 12%, Hand-drawn 7.9%
A visual novel exploring a near-apocalyptic vision of North Texas, told through the poetic words of a young woman going home.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.7%, Text-Based 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Linear 9.4%
Weird gay sex, utter confusion, heart wrenching panic and life altering trauma. A kinetic visual novel about a bunch of tgirls on a week-long journey on a world famous transcontinental train.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Text-Based 19.1%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Linear 9.7%
A gothic short story set in the most Blighted city of the North Kingdom.
Why similar: Gothic 22.2% ★, Text-Based 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Hand-drawn 8.8%
A free drama-mystery visual novel with a modern fantasy setting. Reach out to the fourteen people trapped inside to find the truth through eighteen endings, influenced by but not exclusively bound to your own system time.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.6%, LGBTQ+ 23.5%, Visual Novel 23%, Story Rich 8.2%, Text-Based 7%
SILICON WASTELAND is a kinetic visual novel set during the twilight years of humanity, and follows the wandering android Silica, as she explores the beautiful and sometimes frightening wonders of the world in a small quest to discover her purpose.
Why similar: Text-Based 29.2%, Visual Novel 22.6%, Linear 13.3%, LGBTQ+ 9.9%, Story Rich 7.8%
Bind spirits. Weigh their pain. Each client arrives by appointment haunted, broken, or dangerous. In this gothic occult visual novel, you use protective accessories, read signs, and choose bindings that alter fate. Some seek redemption. Others hide darker truths. Your rituals may awaken the dead.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Gothic 24.1% ★, Visual Novel 16.9%, Dark 6.9%, Casual 6.3%
A visual novel where your choices matter. Derek has a job, a beloved boyfriend, friends, and… “piranha thoughts.” Everything was perfect until his younger sister Rina returned to town.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.3%, LGBTQ+ 25.9%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Hand-drawn 10.3%, Story Rich 8.5%
An interactive text narrative where charm, charisma, and seduction will be your key tools. Angel is an alluring and confident twink- each word, each glance, has deeper meanings as the two of you spend a fleeting night's tryst with eachother.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 31.5%, Text-Based 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Casual 4.1%
As an elf in a panicked flight from home, you discover a more dangerous secret: a human claiming to be a dragon.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.4%, Text-Based 22%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Visual Novel 12%, Hand-drawn 11.8%
Balance work, vampirism and socialising as you explore Kings Cross, Sydney during the last year of the millennium. Keep a lid on your darkest desires and be rewarded with a deeper understanding of what it means to live again. Or don’t — no one will stop you. You’re a vampire, after all.
Why similar: Gothic 22.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, LGBTQ+ 16.2%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Hand-drawn 7.2%
A poet ponders queer life and love after his happily ever after.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Hand-drawn 9.8%, Linear 9.7%
Customize your fate in a fallen world: forge bonds and uncover secrets in a tale of power, love, and the weight of grief. Your choices define your path: how will you rise in the hierarchy of the damned?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, LGBTQ+ 20.4%, Text-Based 18.4%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Gothic 12.6% ★
It's not what you say, it's how you say it. We should talk is a short-form narrative game that will make you think carefully about the words you choose. Can your relationship survive the night?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.2%, Text-Based 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Story Rich 7.6%
A Boys Love visual novel with branching plotlines and two love interests. Features beautiful CGs and sprites, and top-notch voice acting throughout the game.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.7%, Gothic 19% ★, Interactive Fiction 18%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Fantasy 7.5%
You've been at the new school for a while now, but you still don't seem to have fully adapted. At least your test scores haven't improved, and to make matters worse, a popular classmate seems to be targeting you for some reason...
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Hand-drawn 14.3%, Text-Based 10.1%
音楽アルバムを楽しむように7つのゲームを体験しよう。「死と生」をテーマとするダークで神秘的な世界観と、ミュージックプレイヤーをモチーフにした独特なゲームシステムが特徴のオムニバス作品。
Why similar: Gothic 25.9% ★, Visual Novel 16.9%, Hand-drawn 14.2%, Dark 9.8%, Story Rich 6.8%
Anthology of anti-war stories by award-winning authors from Russia
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27%, Text-Based 23.1%, Visual Novel 21.3%, Hand-drawn 14.9%, Dark 6.1%
Of Moons and Mania is an interactive psychotic break, based on lived experience. It uses elements of its design to explain the struggles of psychosis, and tells a personal story about mental illness.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.7%, Text-Based 21.4%, Linear 12.1%, Story Rich 10.6%, Dark 9.9%