60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Visual Novel, 2D, Interactive Fiction.
Retracing the footsteps of a mother she never knew, Lena's trying to make it as a dancer in the city. Caught in a quarrel between dance companies, dealing with love and heartbreak and the challenges of young adulthood, she must also cope with the voice in her head commenting on everything she does.
Along the Edge
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?
The Ripe Blood Anthology: This World Is Just for the Two of Us
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.
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: Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Emotional 10.5%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Choices Matter 8.6%, Female Protagonist 8.3%
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 15.6%, LGBTQ+ 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Romance 9.1%
“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: Visual Novel 15.7%, Emotional 14.8%, LGBTQ+ 14.6%, Hand-drawn 10.7%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
The curse wove your fates together. Now their thoughts and feelings influence you and your actions determine their fates. Will you be able to break the curse? Or will their dark pasts drag you into an inescapable despair? And can a fresh start really erase the past?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Female Protagonist 9.9%, LGBTQ+ 9.2%, Hand-drawn 8.8%
When obedient top student Fang Zhu discovers her childhood friend Jiang Xiangyi is secretly a werewolf, she risks her own academic standing to protect him from their suffocating school environment, toxic classmates, and an unfeeling teacher.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.1%, Hand-drawn 13.8%, Female Protagonist 11.3%, Supernatural 11%, Emotional 10.1%
Heartstop is an emotional, story-driven game, taking place in a world where every living being has suddenly stopped moving. Uncover the mystery of this eerie event while building a dynamic relationship between the only two people remaining, through the many impactful and hard-hitting choices.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Emotional 14.5%, LGBTQ+ 13.5%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Mystery 10.2%
A romance-driven narrative about destiny, devotion, and the dangerous pull of belonging, set against the ruins of a long‑lost city calling you home.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15%, Visual Novel 12.9%, LGBTQ+ 12%, Romance 10.7%, Emotional 7.3%
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+ 12%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Romance 10.4%, Female Protagonist 8.6%
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+ 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Visual Novel 11%, Emotional 10.8%, Romance 9.9%
A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.
Why similar: Emotional 18.4%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Story Rich 9.6%, Romance 7.6%
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 14.8%, Visual Novel 13.4%, LGBTQ+ 12.3%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
A short visual novel about a warrior with a dark past and a radiant goddess who are confronted with a shocking challenge that will change their lives forever, forcing them to reconsider their views on such a complex and contradictory feeling as love.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Emotional 14.2%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Romance 11.8%, Hand-drawn 10.1%
Seers Isle is a narrative game, set in a fantasy version of medieval northern Europe, where your choices impact the fate of a group of characters.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Emotional 11.8%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Hand-drawn 9.5%, Choices Matter 9.3%
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: Visual Novel 15.9%, Hand-drawn 14.4%, LGBTQ+ 14.3%, Emotional 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.5%
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: Interactive Fiction 12.4%, LGBTQ+ 12%, Visual Novel 10%, Mystery 9.5%, Romance 9.2%
A 'crunchy wholesome' game about making friends as an adult.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Emotional 12.2%, Female Protagonist 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%
A realistic visual novel based on a true story. As a lawyer trying to save a rock singer from her toxic family, you uncover the suffocating truth of "Codependency." Will you leave, sink into the abyss, or g◼︎ai◻︎n the c#our%ag◼︎e to f◼︎ac◻︎e the p#ai%n? Your choices decide.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.3%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Female Protagonist 10.7%, Hand-drawn 9.4%, Choices Matter 8.5%
A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Visual Novel 12%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Female Protagonist 9.4%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
Silver blue is a BL visual novel 15+ with anime style, containing adventure fantasy content.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Emotional 12.6%, LGBTQ+ 11.3%, Mystery 9.5%, Romance 8.6%
In pursuit of coin, hired dagger Arthur finds himself embroiled in conspiracy involving the daughter of a noble House. Who is really pulling the strings behind the scenes?
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.2%, Mystery 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Hand-drawn 11.9%, Choices Matter 11.6%
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: Interactive Fiction 15.9%, LGBTQ+ 12.5%, Emotional 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Supernatural 8.3%
A gloomy lesbian / yuri visual novel featuring characters based on famous Romantic poets such as Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Byron. Can you help Samantha Coleridge repair her fractured relationship with Lillian Wordsworth?
Why similar: Visual Novel 13.6%, LGBTQ+ 13.3%, Female Protagonist 11.5%, Romance 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%
A dark romantic comedy where every match brings you closer to love… or something far more dangerous. Meet monsters, go on dates, and shape your relationships through meaningful choices. But behind every perfect date lies a secret: You’re not looking for love. You’re trying to bring love back.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.7%, LGBTQ+ 13.6%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Romance 9.2%, Story Rich 7.7%
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: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, LGBTQ+ 13.9%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Romance 10.9%, Hand-drawn 9.8%
After witnessing a murder, 16-year-old skater Azar Warren seeks refuge with her estranged grandfather on his rural compound, only to suspect he may be more dangerous than her pursuers. Ashes blends graphic novel panels with interactive puzzles in a story of murder and unease.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Story Rich 13.1%, Female Protagonist 12.6%, Emotional 10.3%
An autopsy of a queer relationship.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Visual Novel 14.2%, LGBTQ+ 14%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Multiple Endings 7.7%
You are a censor in a nameless war, blacking out the letters of two lovers who have never met. Their whole romance lives on paper — so every word you strike is struck from the love itself. Then the letters begin, impossibly, to answer your pen. A melancholy epistolary romance. Six endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Romance 12.3%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Mystery 10.5%
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 14.3%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Hand-drawn 12.1%, Choices Matter 11%, Female Protagonist 11%
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+ 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Emotional 12.6%, Female Protagonist 9%
A multi-ending visual novel blending sci-fi, romance, and suspense. Make choices, explore branching paths, and build bonds with the characters you meet. As secrets come to light, your decisions will shape their relationships, change the course of the story, and determine the ending.
Why similar: Visual Novel 13.3%, Mystery 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Romance 9.6%
Symbiotic Love is a coming-of-age Yuri Visual Novel set in an All Girls' High School. What has fate in store for love so perfect, so symbiotic, that they could only live, and perish together?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.5%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Romance 13.4%, Female Protagonist 13.3%, Emotional 9.3%
Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.
Why similar: Choices Matter 15.6%, LGBTQ+ 14.8%, Emotional 12%, Female Protagonist 11.9%, Story Rich 10.6%
Play 4 characters, live their unique stories and manage their daily lives to create their best day ever. In this narrative game, your decisions have consequences and change the outcome of the stories.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Dynamic Narration 11.1% ★, Emotional 10.3%
Roadtrip across the country. Confront a tyrant. The revolution will be messy—but the relationships will be messier.
Why similar: Romance 12.4%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Mystery 11.3%, Hand-drawn 10.9%, Emotional 9.7%
A queer romance/horror visual novel about being locked into a path, and having _______ words hidden from You. Find Your way to discover what's missing and reach Your ____ End.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Romance 10.2%, Dynamic Narration 9.1% ★
In a fortress besieged by ghouls, a young exorcist must use power, diplomacy, and inhuman languages to unravel a grudge spanning generations.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Emotional 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Female Protagonist 9.3%
In the office of the afterlife, you weigh the dead. Read each soul's ledger, hear their final plea, and seal them to Heaven or Hell. But the Director's doctrine is harsh — and the souls you judge may know your name.
Why similar: Choices Matter 13.3%, Story Rich 11.4%, Emotional 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
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: Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Emotional 10.9%, LGBTQ+ 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Choices Matter 10%
A visual novel about a man who discovers the existence of another dimension hidden in dreams. Explore and learn the rules of a new reality, meet fellow dreamwalkers and solve the mystery of a disaster in the past. Make decisions, build relationships and strive to reach the best ending!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Visual Novel 20.8%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Story Rich 10.6%, Mystery 9.9%
You lost your memory of nothing but a mundane day. But why do mysterious men keep jamming into your life, all of them pointing to the day you forgot? Find out a hypnotherapy clinic receptionist's memory of an insignificant day in this BL visual novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Visual Novel 13.2%, LGBTQ+ 12.8%, Emotional 10%, Choices Matter 8.9%
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: Choices Matter 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Emotional 11%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Mystery 9.1%
A dark noir visual novel following Alex, a former police officer drawn into the mafia’s world. In a city where trust can get you killed and everyone has something to hide, Alex and a mafia leader with buried secrets are pulled into revenge, power, and slow-burn romance shaped by your choices.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.3%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Story Rich 11.9%, Emotional 8.7%, Female Protagonist 8.4%
Life is Strange: Before the Storm returns with remastered visuals across characters & environments.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.3%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Female Protagonist 13.2%, Emotional 11.2%, Romance 11.1%
Camp Palut is an otome-style mystery that can be completed in 2-4 hours. Play as Jess, a high school senior attending summer camp for the first time. Luckily there are cuties ready to get to know you! Choose between the four unique love interests or play them all to piece together the whole story.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 14.3%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Romance 11.1%, Mystery 10.6%, Supernatural 10.3%
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: Visual Novel 16.8%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Emotional 11%, Mystery 11%
Melancholy Love is a Yuri Visual Novel between an elite and a misfit in an All-Girls' High School. How will sparks flare between the two?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 13.8%, Emotional 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Romance 11.2%, Female Protagonist 10.4%
warmth, bitterness, longing, compromise.
Why similar: Emotional 19.4%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Hand-drawn 16.7%, Female Protagonist 13.4%, Romance 13.2%
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+ 17.2%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Female Protagonist 13.3%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Emotional 9.7%
As the summer heat fades, Suoh Shirahane is just one step away from unraveling the mystery of why her beloved Amitie partner left in the spring.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.6%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Female Protagonist 14%, Romance 13.9%, Mystery 10.2%
When your beloved wants to abandon his personality and become an absolutely ordinary person, what do you do? Bonjin ~ An Ordinary Man is an young adult romantic story about transgender identity, exploration of masculinity, and mutual understanding.
Why similar: Emotional 13.7%, LGBTQ+ 13.6%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Female Protagonist 8.7%
Take control of Morgan's destiny as his world is turned upside down. Explore the world of Dreams, where mythological creatures and Nightmares are real. A story-heavy adventure game with multiple endings, romance options and a symphonic music! Inspired by Neil Gaiman and Inception.
Why similar: Emotional 13.4%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Mystery 11.5%, Hand-drawn 11.4%, Choices Matter 10.7%
When your loved one hurts you, what do you do? A classic love story about letting go.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.1%, Emotional 15.8%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Romance 14.1%, Female Protagonist 9.5%
"I" make a deal with the witch to give up my heart, in exchange for love— from everyone. ——————————————————————————Is it worth it if losing my heart means gaining *his*? In this short visual novel, make choices and answer the question: is love a zero-sum game?
Why similar: Emotional 12.2%, Female Protagonist 10%, Romance 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Choices Matter 9.7%
The Death of the Video Star is a visual novel about dealing with the aftermath of killing God, and maybe having to kill Her again.
Why similar: Visual Novel 12.6%, LGBTQ+ 12.6%, Female Protagonist 10.4%, Supernatural 9.2%, Emotional 8.8%
A girl was murdered, and she is the only one still hunting for her killer. The day before her birthday, Han Xiaoxiao woke as a spirit with no memory, three days dead. Possess the living, gather clues, and uncover how you died. But some truths are harder to bear than death itself.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Female Protagonist 14.2%, Emotional 11.5%, Story Rich 9.8%
You’ve ignored the hallucinations for years. But after visiting a shrine in search of answers, a stranger claims she sees them too. Ashen Reverie is a visual novel about the consequences of chasing a myth too far.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Supernatural 10%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
Road Trip to the End of the World is a visual novel about the death of a friendship. When Andy and her imaginary friend Fishy set off on a road trip to crash their ex-best friend’s wedding, will they know when to hit the brakes?
Why similar: Emotional 16.7%, LGBTQ+ 16.3%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Female Protagonist 13%, Story Rich 10.4%
A BL Visual Novel about an unlucky modern day Vampire who work the night shift at a convenience store. Will a mysterious co-worker and a flirty regular customer change his life to the better or worse?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Mystery 10.3%, Romance 10.2%, Choices Matter 8.6%
Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.4%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Female Protagonist 11.8%, Emotional 11.3%, Multiple Endings 10%
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: Interactive Fiction 16%, Visual Novel 13.2%, LGBTQ+ 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Supernatural 9.4%
