
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.

Malcatras' Maiden
MALCATRAS' MAIDEN is a toxic yuri visual novel for adults about trauma, bonds, family, and sisterhood.

Meat Girl
𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊 Meat Girl is a lesbian visual novel about a girl searching for her mentally ill roommate in cold mountains filled with meat 𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊
MALCATRAS' MAIDEN is a toxic yuri visual novel for adults about trauma, bonds, family, and sisterhood.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Text-Based 14.7%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Hand-drawn 8%
𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊 Meat Girl is a lesbian visual novel about a girl searching for her mentally ill roommate in cold mountains filled with meat 𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, LGBTQ+ 20.7%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Text-Based 12.3%, Linear 9.1%
这是一部暗黑童话百合视觉小说。世界陷入永恒黑夜,白发少女辛芙拉目睹潮水淹没故乡,无家可归的她踏上了寻找庇护所的旅途。途中,辛芙拉从树上救下了金发女仆玛丽。两人一同前往高塔避难,并逐渐揭开世界陷入永恒黑夜的真相。
Why similar: Gothic 26.6% ★, LGBTQ+ 17.5%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Text-Based 8.6%
Discover magical creatures while exploring a fantasy world in this whimsical, art-filled visual novel!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.8%, LGBTQ+ 23.8%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Hand-drawn 11.2%, Linear 8.4%
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+ 22.1%, Text-Based 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Visual Novel 11.2%, 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%, Gothic 21.4% ★, LGBTQ+ 16.2%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Text-Based 7.9%
Fall in love with your worst enemy in this gothic vampire romance BL visual novel about two men pushed to the edges of society learning to trust each other.
Why similar: Gothic 25.2% ★, LGBTQ+ 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Text-Based 9.8%
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+ 34.8%, Visual Novel 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Linear 10.8%, Story Rich 7.9%
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+ 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Text-Based 14.4%, Hand-drawn 8.9%
slime feet is a linear visual novel, a love story for everyone who has ever had to love through a keyboard. slime feet is about the body horror of an inevitable drawn out death, and the lesbian slime feet cybersex that comes with it.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Text-Based 17.1%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Linear 8.2%
nothing is inviolate. and that which is sacrosanct gets fucked. fuck god, kill heaven, marry boyfriend. in that order.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23%, Text-Based 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Hand-drawn 12%, Linear 8.6%
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+ 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Text-Based 15.4%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Hand-drawn 7.5%
Is one the villain and the other the hero? The truth is more complicated than that. Discover the story between two enemies in this dark fantasy visual novel!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.3%, Text-Based 18.5%, Gothic 14.7% ★, Visual Novel 13.4%, Linear 8.3%
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+ 29.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Fantasy 8.3%, Story Rich 7.5%
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+ 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Text-Based 14.5%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Hand-drawn 10.7%
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 19.6%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Linear 13.1%, 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+ 21.3%, Gothic 18.2% ★, Text-Based 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Linear 9.2%
Fears are not always just rustles in the dark. And death is not always a bad ending.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Text-Based 16.7%, Hand-drawn 11.9%, Adventure 6%
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 26.1% ★, LGBTQ+ 22.5%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Text-Based 10.6%, Linear 9.3%
EMBERBOUND is a furry visual novel about returning home, reuniting with old friends, and promises left unfinished. Back in his hometown to handle matters concerning his family’s old house, Yunxi faces the regrets and feelings that never truly faded.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Text-Based 11.9%, Casual 6.1%
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 22.6%, LGBTQ+ 20.6%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Hand-drawn 11.1%, Text-Based 9.9%
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+ 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Text-Based 18.4%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Linear 9.7%
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%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Linear 14.9%, Fantasy 8.4%
“Lone Bird in the Tree” is an adventure game 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 their best friend”.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Text-Based 15.9%, Hand-drawn 13.4%, Visual Novel 13.2%
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 23.2%, LGBTQ+ 21.1%, Text-Based 20.6%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Dark 7.3%
An autopsy of a queer relationship.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.4%, LGBTQ+ 25.5%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Hand-drawn 8.4%, 2D 5.5%
Simple visual novel in which you play as a young upperclass woman preparing for her debut before the Queen and her royal relatives. All of your decisions lead to one of four very different endings. Who will you become? The jewel of the season or the outcast, never again mentioned by your family?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Text-Based 17.1%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Hand-drawn 13.5%, Linear 9%
"co|incidence" is a FVN produced for Renpy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.8%, LGBTQ+ 24.8%, Text-Based 20.6%, Casual 8.5%, 2D 6.3%
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 25.4%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Linear 12.4%, 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+ 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Text-Based 14.2%, Hand-drawn 8.1%
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+ 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Text-Based 11.8%, Hand-drawn 8.3%
A gothic short story set in the most Blighted city of the North Kingdom.
Why similar: Gothic 21.7% ★, Text-Based 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Hand-drawn 8.8%
A modern fantasy BL Visual Novel following a young mans journey into a hidden world of gods and magic to recover the past he's lost, and find his missing family. Alongside 3 attractive romance options, Myka Riley delves into the unknown.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Text-Based 11.7%, Story Rich 7.1%
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+ 25.5%, Gothic 18.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Fantasy 7.3%
A gritty, semi-kinetic visual novel about broken people and notorious gangsters, featuring six individualized routes with six different endings.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Text-Based 17.4%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Hand-drawn 9.9%
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+ 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Text-Based 15.7%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Dark 7.6%
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 22.5%, LGBTQ+ 18.5%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Linear 11.7%, Story Rich 6.4%
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 23.2% ★, LGBTQ+ 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Text-Based 9.1%
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 23.1%, Text-Based 19.6%, LGBTQ+ 17.7%, Visual Novel 16.4%, 2D 5.2%
An otome game that isn't quite otome — or simply, a visual novel. A modern gothic story of dreams, writing, and death. Multi-POV. You are the protagonist—a sleepwalker, a writer, and one bound by a promise to the dead. Please be sure to read the content guide and notes.
Why similar: Gothic 36.6% ★, Text-Based 22.8%, Visual Novel 21.1%, Dark 10.7%, Atmospheric 6.6%
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+ 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Text-Based 17.7%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Linear 9.4%
As a research android, learn what it is to be human by living a student life in this bittersweet slice of life visual novel. Record new experiences, revel in mundanity, and be a strange machine and a strange person.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 32.2%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Hand-drawn 15.4%, Linear 4.7%
A GxG coming-of-age visual novel. Nina sucks at choosing. But when a mysterious incident happens at the arts academy, will she muster the courage to choose–or will she let someone else decide on her behalf?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Text-Based 13.5%, Linear 8.3%
Some memories aren't meant to stay. We are our memories and our experiences. What happens if you delete some of them? If you change your past and, thus, your future?
Why similar: Text-Based 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, LGBTQ+ 15.3%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Story Rich 7.2%
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+ 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Text-Based 17.7%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Linear 8.6%
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 21.3%, LGBTQ+ 16.5%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Story Rich 9.5%
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 27.1%, LGBTQ+ 24.3%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Text-Based 16.5%, 2D 5.2%
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%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Text-Based 12.2%, Linear 12.1%, Hand-drawn 8%
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 21.5%, Hand-drawn 13.3%, Text-Based 12.4%, Casual 8.2%
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 26.3%, Visual Novel 21.9%, Text-Based 15.9%, LGBTQ+ 15.7%, Casual 5.5%
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+ 20.1%, Text-Based 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Visual Novel 13%, Linear 9.5%
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 17.5%, Text-Based 14.3%, Hand-drawn 12.7%, Linear 8.4%
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 29.9%, Visual Novel 22.3%, Hand-drawn 11%, Story Rich 9%, Linear 6.3%
Dark Lovers is a short pixel art teenage romantic mistery visual novel game about a highschool prom night in 1979 which contains multiple endings and secrets.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Text-Based 18.2%, LGBTQ+ 16.1%, Story Rich 8.5%
「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」キネティックノベルです。
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 35.5%, Visual Novel 24.5%, Text-Based 22.5%, Story Rich 8.6%, 2D 7%
This is a visual novel about the future, where every choice shapes the protagonist's character. Follow the path from youth to adulthood, play as a scoundrel or a champion of justice, fall in love, and create your own unique story.
Why similar: Text-Based 34.3%, Visual Novel 26.8%, Hand-drawn 16%, Story Rich 9.8%, Atmospheric 5.4%
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 28.8%, Visual Novel 23%, Linear 13.4%, LGBTQ+ 10.1%, Story Rich 7.8%
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 26.4%, LGBTQ+ 23.9%, Visual Novel 23.3%, Story Rich 8.2%, Text-Based 6.8%
A romantic, fantasy slice-of-life visual novel about Emile Mayer — the owner of A Slice of Comfort bakery in the Kingdom of Selias — when the Fae Kingdom's royal procession, and the interesting newcomer that comes with it, changes his life forever.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26%, Text-Based 17.9%, LGBTQ+ 17.6%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Casual 6.5%
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+ 22.8%, Text-Based 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Hand-drawn 11.8%