60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, LGBTQ+, Casual, Interactive Fiction.
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Mainframe Men
Learn about the ancestors of your PC with this visual novel! ENIAC...UNIVAC... Wait, why are these machines so handsome?!
I'm Making a Monster
Piece by piece, you pour your soul into the monster. This is your burden and you bear it willingly. Your friends think that this is unhealthy.
Learn about the ancestors of your PC with this visual novel! ENIAC...UNIVAC... Wait, why are these machines so handsome?!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.1%, Education 24.1%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Casual 7.3%
Piece by piece, you pour your soul into the monster. This is your burden and you bear it willingly. Your friends think that this is unhealthy.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 29.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Visual Novel 14%, Stylized 8.1%, Hand-drawn 8%
An autopsy of a queer relationship.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 30.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Hand-drawn 6%, Choices Matter 5.2%
Skylar is an student with anxiety. Walter is a farmer with social anxiety and PTSD. Jessica is a programmer with anxiety and agoraphobia. Li Wei is an technologist with intense anxiety. Navigate their stories, learn how they move through the world, and about methods of treatment and recovery.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.9%, Education 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Emotional 5.8%
With just 15 days of summer left, will Tomai pursue romance or responsibility?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 31.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Hand-drawn 7.8%, Casual 6%
A dark boys love / boys hate visual novel set in a 1001 Nights inspired world full of political intrigue. Yuel, once the King of Indra, is deposed by his older cousin, Tavi, during a coup and imprisoned within the palace. An uneasy relationship between them grows, and then...
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 32.6%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Stylized 7.7%, Casual 7.2%
Master your personal resources to achieve startup business success in this pro bono entrepreneurial life simulator game.
Why similar: Education 24.7%, LGBTQ+ 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 14%, Casual 7.4%
Follow Sophie as she embarks on her latest adventure in making money, working alongside the enigmatic Rias as they put on a special yuri/lesbian camgirl show for their viewers.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 33.8%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Casual 6.7%, Relaxing 5.8%
A 'crunchy wholesome' game about making friends as an adult.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 29%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Hand-drawn 7.8%, Emotional 6.9%
Guide Hamlet (now a Girl *and* a Werewolf) as she deals with a murder mystery, a usurped throne, and a cursed sledding competition. Her emotions are your stats, so.... emote wisely. Or impulsively. Or with shame. It’s her kingdom. Everyone else is just tolerated in it.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.6%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Choices Matter 7%, Casual 5.5%
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: LGBTQ+ 31.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Hand-drawn 7.4%, Choices Matter 6.7%
Experience the stories of Haru, Erika, and Manami, a trio of friends navigating their feelings of love, connection, and just wanting to belong.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 32.3%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Emotional 7.2%, Relaxing 6.8%
A linear visual novel featuring five different Ontario (Canada) youths' stories. Each story has a different art style and subject matter, and we worked closely with the storytellers to ensure their voices come through authentically. Indigenous & LGBTQ2S+ are major themes.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 38.6%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Casual 12.3%, Hand-drawn 10.6%, Stylized 7.6%
A visual novel about love, full of odd humor, dark humor, meta humor and hopefully, heart. Join Nastya Byool as she goes on a dark, surreal adventure that will change her life forever. This kinetic novel will take you about 40 minutes, making it a good way to pass the time if you're short on it.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 45.8%, Visual Novel 32.2%, Casual 13.7%, 2D 5.8%, Singleplayer 2.5%
If Found... is a game about going home, coming out and erasing everything.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 46.8%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Casual 8.1%, Stylized 6.4%
Enter the world of Teo, a young girl who returns to her neighborhood to help her grandmother Julia prepare for the traditional courtyard contest. What seemed like a quiet job of watering and decorating soon becomes complicated with mysterious real estate plots and neighbors with a lot to tell.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.8%, Education 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Hand-drawn 5.3%
A bite-sized visual novel about going on dates with some absolutely disastrous goblins.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 33.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Casual 6.3%, Emotional 5.6%
“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: LGBTQ+ 38%, Visual Novel 22.3%, Hand-drawn 10.3%, Emotional 9.6%, Multiple Endings 6%
The imperial family's advisor is a witch, a hag, the devil in disguise. A historical drama yuri visual novel set during a time of political tumult wherein an immortal finds both love and suffering.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 34.8%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Casual 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 3.8%
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+ 48.1%, Visual Novel 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Casual 4%, Anime 3.2%
Play as Luna, a girl caught in a fight between armed insurgents and spies. Help her navigate her way to saving her friend. Explore a laboratory dedicated to the production of new materials. Enjoy a lighthearted and chaotic story of a girl out of her depth in an espionage mission.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 31.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.4%, Choices Matter 5.9%
The kind Blacksmith is a Visual Horror Novel set in ficticious medieval Italy. In a land ravaged by war and sickness, you take on the roll of the Blacksmith - a lonely man that happens to take in a sick Knight of the invading forces. The Knight's fate is in your hands. To be kind is your choice.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 34.7%, Visual Novel 22.1%, Hand-drawn 13%, Interactive Fiction 8.5%, Choices Matter 6.7%
A narrative-driven adult feminization life simulation game where you navigate a web of false accusations, manage personal stats, make branching choices, and explore a city map to rebuild your life through creative survival strategies.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 31.3%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Character Customization 7.5%, Hand-drawn 6.5%
A metafictional yuri visual novel about a traveller who runs across two cute nuns in an abandoned church.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 45.1%, Visual Novel 29.8%, Casual 14.9%, Anime 6.7%, Indie 3.5%
Everyone's heard of Mothman– the moth creature that haunts the outskirts of Point Pleasant, West Virginia– but no one's heard of it like this! In some random idyllic Midwestern town, you meet Artemis (aka Mothman) at your favorite coffee shop and begin an agonizingly slow burn romance with them.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 35.4%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Hand-drawn 6.9%, Casual 6.5%
A visual novel that takes you on a journey through a college campus to explore challenging scenarios around identity markers such as race, gender, sexuality, ableism, and more.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 29.1%, Education 28.5%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Choices Matter 4.7%, Stylized 4.5%
Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers is the follow-up to 2019's Arcade Spirits, a visual novel of love and pixels, in which you seek friendship and romance while working in an arcade. Now the tables are turned, as you seek friendship and romance while PLAYING in an arcade!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 31.7%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Hand-drawn 8.8%, Character Customization 6.6%
A cute little romantic story about rescue and love. Once upon a cat named Simon, decided to skip classes to wander. Before he knew it, he got lost in the deep forest – chased by an unknown predator. Will he be able to get out by his own means?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 42.4%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Relaxing 6.7%, Hand-drawn 6.6%, Choices Matter 5.7%
Create your character and experience a fun story in which you will meet friends, enemies and partners as you try to carry out a vital project with your friends: to create an anime before you finish your studies.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 30.5%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choices Matter 6.2%, Relaxing 6.2%
Sugarcreek is a story-based adventure game following Eddie the high-school goat and his closest friends as they try to find his missing step-sister before the week is over!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Hand-drawn 10.8%, Stylized 9%
Adrian Heart is a reclusive composer dragged into the world of the entertainment industry by his famous sister to become the new personal assistant to one of the elite talents who calls the agency home. He is none to happy about it.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 41.8%, Visual Novel 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Casual 9.9%, Choices Matter 3.5%
Travelling Light is a narrative game about four friends, Lars, Leah, Samson, and Ivy, caught in the turbulence of their early thirties. Inspired by real events, this experience lets you step into each perspective as love, friendship, and heartbreak collide.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Hand-drawn 10.2%, Stylized 6.3%
Tentacle BL x training simulation. After being toyed with by mysterious tentacles, the main character ends up in a nursery or a bride.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 52.1%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Adventure 6.7%, Multiple Endings 6.5%, Choices Matter 5.4%
Deciding to break protocol to lend a helping wing, Rain, a flighty little courier takes a skittish girl by the name of Mila on an adventure through the inner workings of a mysterious post office. Together, they search for a letter containing the last words of someone who seemingly never existed.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 35.7%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Casual 7.1%, Hand-drawn 6.8%
A Greek Myth-based, hearthfelt narrative game where you're a demigod named Aelius trying to find your godly father and re-forge your family.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Hand-drawn 6.2%, Casual 6.2%
A Boys Love visual novel set around a pulse-pounding hostage situation. Can Numata make it out of things unscathed? Every choice matters! Fully translated into English with the original Japanese voice acting intact.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 33.6%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Casual 5.7%, Multiple Endings 5%
Femboy. Office boredom. Unexpected desire. Escape the corporate grind with Luna, a mysterious and alluring femboy who’s about to turn your world upside down. A steamy, humorous, and high-heat 30-minute visual novel.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 32.4%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Hand-drawn 8.2%, Casual 7.4%
Follow along with the adventures of Dulce as she finds new friends, new fun, and maybe even romance in the world of Dragon Connection, a hot new augmented reality mobile game.A, short, sweet free all-ages GxG visual novel featuring cute girls, friendship, and romance!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 53.2%, Visual Novel 28.4%, Casual 11.9%, Anime 3.8%, Indie 2.7%
Lock and Key: A Magical Girl Mystery is a romantic thriller visual novel starring a married couple of former Magical Girls. Along with and old friend and a new protégé, they'll undertake one last journey to free Chicago from the terrifying grip of a mysterious serial killer.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 48.7%, Visual Novel 25.2%, Casual 14.9%, 2D 5.2%, Multiple Endings 4.9%
A medieval fantasy text-based visual novel where you guide Santi’s choices, unlock secret routes, and discover hidden CGs through interactive scenes.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 30%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Casual 12.9%, Hand-drawn 10.8%, Stylized 7.6%
A visual novel about figuring out life with the help of an AI. //TODO: today is a pastel colored slice-of-life story that let's you freely choose your pronouns and romantic preferences!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 52%, Visual Novel 24.3%, Casual 9.2%, Multiple Endings 5.5%, Adventure 4.6%
An educational visua training simulation that follows transgender and gender-diverse patients at a primary care clinic. Step into the role of a new provider as you prescribe and optimize hormone therapy, counsel patients around surgical affirmation, navigate care considerations for adolescents
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 31.9%, Education 21%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Casual 10.3%, Simulation 5.6%
An apprentice. A healer. A warrior. Breathe, pull, and choose your way through their stories in this dark yet comforting narrative game about healing the worlds inside us.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Stylized 9.2%, Emotional 9.1%
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: LGBTQ+ 28.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Casual 8.3%, Emotional 7.1%
The Club is a fetish visual novel with a number of puzzles. You can play the game as either a trainee mistress or a trainee maid, each of whom visit The Club and become immersed in the wonderful world of fetishism that they find there. All characters are dressed in latex, PVC or leather.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 46.4%, Visual Novel 19%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Casual 8.1%, Multiple Endings 3.1%
Apprehend;Girlfriend is a Yuri Visual Novel about two young women living together under the same roof.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 48.6%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Casual 13.8%, Adventure 7.1%, Anime 4.4%
《千面》是一款百合向视觉小说游戏，讲述了在前作时间线十年之后，聆花女子学院中的“优等生”与“不良少女”间的甜蜜纠葛。
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 51.5%, Visual Novel 23.6%, Casual 9.6%, Simulation 5%, Adventure 4.7%
Set in 1920s Prohibition-era America, this romantic comedy follows Detective Richter and his adventures as he attempts to unravel Cleveland's liquor industry.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 66.5%, Visual Novel 22.3%, Casual 6.4%, Anime 3%, Indie 1.5%
A boys love / yaoi visual novel based loosely on Little Red Riding Hood. Follow Rain as he meets a mysterious werewolf, Zero, deep in the woods, and shape his fate with your choices. Will Rain be able to tame the werewolf, or will he meet a grisly end?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 33.7%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Stylized 7.8%, Casual 6.7%
A cozy visual novel about running a tavern in a D&D-inspired fantasy! Gather rumors, serve magical drinks, and meet adventurers on a life-changing quest.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 29.2%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Hand-drawn 7.8%, Emotional 6.4%
A vibrant fantasy visual novel with multiple endings and choices.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, LGBTQ+ 21.1%, Visual Novel 20.8%, Casual 9.1%, Hand-drawn 8%
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 39.2%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Emotional 6.9%, Choices Matter 6.4%, Multiple Endings 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+ 34.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Hand-drawn 9%, Choices Matter 5.5%
A poet ponders queer life and love after his happily ever after.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 32.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Hand-drawn 7.4%, Emotional 7.1%
Work at your aunt's inn and help your guests with their problems. Can your decisions save your aunt's livelihood or will all the labour be in vain?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 33.9%, Visual Novel 24.4%, Casual 18.4%, Choices Matter 7%, Indie 4.4%
Travel to the world of the dead, whose stories encourage reflection on life. Chat with spirits, brew drinks to suit your mood, and bond with the people who run the afterlife cafes. In this urban sci-fi fantasy visual novel, your choices impact the living, the departed, and your own path forward.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.3%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Casual 6.8%, Choices Matter 6.2%
An otome visual novel where you choose your romance with an attractive boy in culinary school. A perfectly delectable romance for foodies.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 35.8%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Education 10.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Relaxing 6.6%
Death by Begonia is a surreal LGBTQ+ Southern gothic murder mystery. Follow Riley's attempts to reconnect with old childhood friends in a town haunted by annual serial murders. Will you fall in love and unlock the mysteries hidden in your friends' hearts? Or will you die trying?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 30.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Hand-drawn 7.4%, Choices Matter 5.7%
A light admonishment from Mom sparks the realization that these twin sisters care for each other in more than a familial sense. In this dramatic & romantic yuri Visual Novel, it's up to you to navigate the forbidden tension between the sisters so their love can flourish without growing one-sided.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 41.4%, Visual Novel 23%, Choices Matter 6.6%, Interactive Fiction 5.9%, Emotional 5.8%
Winter 1999. Kicked out of your house after being outed by your closest friend, you plan to leave your hometown. Your girlfriend, Mika, wants to see you one more time. Decide whether or not you'll stay together.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 31.2%, Visual Novel 17%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Hand-drawn 7.3%, Choices Matter 5.7%
