60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Story Rich, Anime, Indie.
ALLBLACK Phase 1 is a visual novel adapted from light novel with the same title. Follow the journey of the amnesiac and seemingly abnormal "Theodore Quentin" as he uncovers his identity while escaping from the people who wants him at all cost...
Blake: The Visual Novel
Graphic Novel meets Visual Novel in this story-rich, choice-driven thriller. Experience Blake’s journey as he encounters a clandestine nemesis, sparking a series of events that force him to choose between losing his sanity or rising to the challenge. Make the right decisions and save New Stone.
Anamnesia - part 1: am i my body?
Sci-Fi Mystery Visual Novel. Nine people are trapped in an underground research facility, forced to play a game of life and death. Check your log to find the truth that connects those apparent strangers - if you even want to, that is.
Graphic Novel meets Visual Novel in this story-rich, choice-driven thriller. Experience Blake’s journey as he encounters a clandestine nemesis, sparking a series of events that force him to choose between losing his sanity or rising to the challenge. Make the right decisions and save New Stone.
Why similar: Noir 35.4%, Thriller 19.6%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Psychological 12.7%, Story Rich 7.2%
Sci-Fi Mystery Visual Novel. Nine people are trapped in an underground research facility, forced to play a game of life and death. Check your log to find the truth that connects those apparent strangers - if you even want to, that is.
Why similar: Psychological 30.7%, Visual Novel 21.7%, Sci-fi 16.2%, Anime 14.8%, Story Rich 9.9%
"Deep Lake: Prologue" visual novel In the neo-Gothic genre, with a psychological story. Our hero's name is Sali. Sali is a former forensic photographer for the crime department. The accident that happened to him reveals in him a mysterious gift that can lead him to a terrible death.
Why similar: Noir 39.9%, Visual Novel 22.7%, Anime 15.6%, Story Rich 7.6%, Adventure 5.2%
A murder-mystery visual novel following 12 strangers with mysterious pasts. Make arguments and identify the murderer, but don't lose sight of the ultimate goal of eliminating the Game Master.
Why similar: Psychological 28.3%, Visual Novel 28.2%, Anime 21.8%, Linear 8.5%, Text-Based 7%
CAUTION: Escape from this supervillain at your own risk...A short sci-fi visual novel packed with brain-teasing puzzles, gruesome deaths and heartbreaking secrets.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.5%, Anime 22.4%, Sci-fi 19.7%, Story Rich 12.7%, First-Person 11.3%
a side-scrolling, story-driven text adventure game in pixel art. The story is set in 2079, when a Replicant awakens in a lab facility amidst a life-or-death situation. The replicant aid agency tries to rescue him but fails. In the process they stumble on the real secret of the Replicant project...
Why similar: Text-Based 18.5%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Anime 17.5%, Sci-fi 15.5%, Story Rich 10.6%
Train of Afterlife is a mystery, psychological, horror Visual Novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 37.5%, Anime 17.9%, Psychological 16.2%, Casual 7.6%, Adventure 6.8%
An otome visual novel - play a powerless victim of a terrifying, unfair world. 200+ choices, 50+ endings, 20+ hours of play - and only one way to escape.
Why similar: Thriller 36.5%, Visual Novel 22.4%, Anime 16.6%, Story Rich 12.3%, Casual 5%
Your character has lost his memory and finds himself in a godforsaken place. An adventure with a nonlinear storyline, lots of choices, and a unique combat system. Could he get out alive?
Why similar: Visual Novel 47%, Adventure 19.5%, Action 18.5%, Indie 14.9%
Lucid9 is a visual novel focused on a web of intricate mysteries set in the fictional 2018 metropolis of Isamu. Lucid9: Inciting Incident is the first part of the story, focused on a string of disappearances that occur at a prestigious, uppity boarding academy.
Why similar: Visual Novel 41.9%, Anime 28.5%, Story Rich 12%, Violent 10%, Casual 5.4%
Unravel a mystery: A game you can read, a book you can play.
Why similar: Noir 30.6%, Thriller 22.1%, Text-Based 19.6%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Story Rich 7.3%
In the not so distant past, the Isle of Abbot underwent a mysterious evacuation event. Delve into the secrets of this unsettling place and elicit the girls' tragic fate. An interactive visual novel with psychological and lovecraftian undertones.
Why similar: Psychological 31.4%, Visual Novel 24.7%, Anime 20.7%, Story Rich 7.9%, First-Person 6.8%
You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.
Why similar: Psychological 30.1%, Visual Novel 22.1%, Anime 14%, Text-Based 11.2%, Story Rich 10.5%
The first entry of the Abime Series. Eight captives must cooperate or compete to escape an underground subway under the manipulation of a dangerous psychopath. Can you really trust anyone? What about yourself? And what is the meaning of a good ending? Is reaching one even possible?
Why similar: Thriller 27.2%, Psychological 18.3%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Anime 12.1%, Sci-fi 9.5%
Type-NOISE: Shonen Shojo is a multi-ending mystery adventure game. A group of boys and girls who have lost their memories gather in a “Tokyo” that is both familiar and unfamiliar. They must trace their lost memories to escape the bizarre labyrinths. Are they prepared to confront their “true selves”?
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.3%, Anime 21.1%, Sci-fi 19.5%, Story Rich 11.8%, Adventure 6.5%
Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office. You are about to figure out the stories of a few visitors without having a single memory of yourself.
Why similar: Psychological 29.5%, Visual Novel 23.1%, Anime 20.1%, Text-Based 11.7%, Violent 9.3%
An intricate mystery visual novel. Search text, piece together clues, and jump around the story to unravel the tangled events within the sealed tower.
Why similar: Psychological 22.4%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Text-Based 14.9%, Anime 13.7%, Sci-fi 13.4%
"Hello my World! Lily." is a visual novel about a programmer who finds an unusual way to cope with loneliness and routine. But after a while, his imagination and actions go too far, and the line between reality and fantasy begins to melt rapidly.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.1%, Thriller 24.3%, Anime 17.8%, Text-Based 8.4%, Adventure 7.6%
Delve into a troubled student's mind as his grip on reality unravels . . .
Sanctuaries. Secrets. Serious consequences. A solo-developed psychological horror/drama visual novel.
Why similar: Psychological 24%, Thriller 20.2%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Anime 13.8%, Text-Based 12.8%
A visual novel about obsession, loneliness, and, based on your choices, varying amounts of murder.
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.5%, Anime 25.6%, Thriller 20.5%, Violent 6.8%, Psychological 5.7%
Change the minds of evildoers…for good! MINDHACK is a text adventure game where you meet unique evildoers, hack their minds, and rewrite them into happy people!
Why similar: Psychological 22.8%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Text-Based 13.6%, Sci-fi 11.9%, Story Rich 9.9%
Sickness is a visual novel centering around Suoh Tesla, an amoral high school student whose life is rapidly deteriorating. Following the deaths of his parents, a brief stay in the hospital, and the emergence of his “Sickness”, his daily life quickly devolves from carefree school days to a life of crime.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.8%, Violent 18.8%, Psychological 17.1%, Thriller 14.2%, Anime 13.1%
Blankspace is an escape room visual novel with point-and-click elements. Investigate your surroundings, solve puzzles, make meaningful choices, and figure out the the mystery behind Chris and Beryl's predicament.
Why similar: Casual 26.7%, Adventure 24.3%, Indie 19.5%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Story Rich 8.8%
An FPS with ZERO graphics!? Yes, you heard right ! Run • Blast • Escape • Survive, through sound alone, as you challenge your makers and unravel the mysteries of your existence. You may be blind, but you're far from helpless !
Why similar: Thriller 46.7%, Sci-fi 24.8%, Story Rich 16.5%, Adventure 3.7%, Action 3.7%
A short 10 minute visual novel about being a fragment in the universe and trying to find a way out of the ****.
Why similar: Psychological 61.7%, Text-Based 23.7%, Story Rich 10.9%, Adventure 2.2%, Singleplayer 0.8%
"Before we knew it, what we once knew as 'freedom' became nothing more but a faint and distant memory." Venture forth and discover the truth behind the seemingly perfect OmniCare society in Sinless: a unique point and click and visual novel hybrid, set in an original cyberpunk reality.
Why similar: Visual Novel 39.8%, Violent 37.6%, Adventure 14.3%, Indie 8.3%
"Project Vostok" is a non-linear horror visual novel about a group of airplane crash survivors finding a mysterious Soviet-era bunker in Altai mountains. Uncover the story full of drama, horrors and decide the fate a of various cast of heroes in this free visual novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 38%, Anime 29.3%, Story Rich 12.7%, 2D 7.1%, Indie 5.8%
"Hira Hira Hihiru" is a visual novel set in a fictional Taishō Era. It tells the story of its two protagonists' struggle against Aerodema, a terrifying disease which brings the dead back to life.
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.1%, Text-Based 19.7%, Violent 13.2%, Anime 8.4%, Casual 8%
Tyrania is a kinetic visual novel, meaning a text-based game with a one ending linear story. The story is focused on the opposition of two different ideas of Justice when dealing with crime and terrorism.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.7%, Anime 18.4%, Psychological 13.3%, Indie 11.5%, Text-Based 11.3%
"Black & White•plot exclusive version" is a dystopian visual novel game: black and white, sensibility and reason, freedom and order: follow your beliefs and join your camp.
Why similar: Visual Novel 39.8%, Anime 28.1%, Adventure 14.4%, Story Rich 10.1%, Indie 5.5%
In this visual novel, experience the story of Ethan Syfran, who by an accident got him and his family caught in a whirlpool of crime in a catastrophe-swept world. How would he struggle to get out and save everything he cherished... or carry up all the sins he'd done and keep going?
Why similar: Visual Novel 37.2%, Anime 30%, Story Rich 16.5%, Adventure 8.3%, Indie 4.2%
A psychological interactive novel about a floppy disk with a mysterious program. Help Elliot cope with his mental issues and uncover the secret of the floppy disk.
Why similar: Psychological 30.6%, Text-Based 25.3%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Linear 11.4%, Story Rich 7.7%
A mystery visual novel about six students forced to play a 12-hour long killing game.
Why similar: Visual Novel 46.2%, Anime 21.2%, Violent 16%, Adventure 7.9%, 2D 4.5%
"Dichotomy Illusion" is a Shin Honkaku mystery visual novel that combines real-world entertainment elements with physical locations, utilizing ACGN (Anime, Comics, Games, Novels) subculture knowledge to solve criminal cases and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Visual Novel 50.1%, Psychological 21.6%, Story Rich 12%, 2D 8.7%, Indie 4.7%
A mad and romantic ADV. Unravel a strange world of science and philosophy with a mecha girl, zombie girl, or beastfolk. Some paths may disturb you... or thrill you.
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.3%, Anime 24.3%, Sci-fi 18.9%, 2D 7.2%, Adventure 6.4%
Something has been taken. Enter a new Grid and forge alliances via visual novel gameplay, uncovering truths through Identity Disc puzzles. Make critical decisions and plot your own course in a world without a creator.
Why similar: Noir 35.9%, Visual Novel 25%, Sci-fi 15.7%, Story Rich 9.4%, Adventure 5.3%
A short sci-fi visual novel about four scientists trapped in an underground lab. Explore their chat records to uncover the mysteries of Inturg Technologies. How can they escape their doom?
Why similar: Visual Novel 32.3%, Sci-fi 22.9%, Text-Based 17.8%, Story Rich 9.4%, Casual 5.1%
FORECLOSED is a narrative-driven action-adventure set in a Cyberpunk world filled with action, suspense, and experimental augmentations. Follow the story of Evan Kapnos in this sleek comic book styled game as he unravels the conspiracy behind his identity foreclosure. Who is responsible and why?
Why similar: Noir 35.9%, Violent 17.9%, Sci-fi 16.7%, Story Rich 10.5%, Visual Novel 8.9%
《The Bright Star Of Seraph-Katis-》is a short text adventure game. This game combines a visual novel and an "adventure mode".
Why similar: Visual Novel 33.4%, Anime 22.9%, Sci-fi 14.5%, Adventure 9.2%, Casual 7.3%
A narrative detective game blended with supernatural elements. Play as a rookie investigator, discover vital clues in every case, dive into unscripted interrogations and uncover truths that break minds. But with each revelation, the world feels... less human.
Why similar: Visual Novel 35.5%, Anime 27.8%, Story Rich 19.6%, Adventure 5.6%, 2D 5.3%
Play through three VHS tapes, uncovering the mystery of a decrepit facility, eluding tormented beasts, and discovering the truth of the chosen one.
Why similar: Thriller 23.3%, Psychological 22.4%, First-Person 13.2%, Linear 12.6%, Sci-fi 11.6%
Interrogate suspects, search for clues, & uncover a dastardly plot, as you solve a string of mystifying murders to help reluctant detective Ilmarinen escape the foreboding Fafnir Hotel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.9%, Thriller 19.2%, Anime 18%, Text-Based 17.7%, Story Rich 11.3%
An escape-room styled series of puzzles await in the car that seems to contain neither rhyme nor reason. See if you can solve the mysteries of the photographs, and figure out what it means to be the ONE IN THE BACK.
Why similar: Anime 38.5%, Story Rich 31.4%, 2D 14.1%, Casual 11.6%, Indie 4.4%
Eight peculiar students, a pair of highly-trained assassins, extraterrestrials plotting a full-scale invasion of Earth, a secret society on the verge of toppling the US presidency and a Doomsday cult gearing to wipe California off the map.
Why similar: Thriller 21.4%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Text-Based 16.3%, Anime 14.8%, Linear 10.5%
Go about your normal every day life and meet new friends in this short visual novel!
Why similar: Visual Novel 38.6%, Text-Based 35.1%, Casual 8.8%, 2D 8.3%, Adventure 3.8%
Detective Game. Murder Investigation. Interrogate witnesses. Rebut with evidence.
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.8%, Anime 26.2%, Text-Based 24.7%, Story Rich 8.9%, Adventure 5.4%
A short-form psychological thriller. Confront the mysterious Finn through a monitor. No strategy or puzzles—and you are given almost no freedom of choice. Simply face the absurd situation and witness the end.
Why similar: Visual Novel 36.3%, Psychological 26.8%, Story Rich 16%, First-Person 5.7%, Adventure 4.5%
A short visual novel about finding your name and a girl in the fog.
Why similar: Text-Based 33.2%, Visual Novel 29%, Psychological 17.4%, Story Rich 11.8%, 2D 4.4%
An algorithm decided to show you this. What now?
Why similar: Visual Novel 32.6%, Anime 26%, Linear 21.4%, Casual 5.7%, 2D 5.7%
An anime-inspired supernatural detective game. Uncover the identities and powers of your adversaries using a conspiracy board full of evidence.
Why similar: Visual Novel 35.7%, Anime 31.9%, Story Rich 20%, Casual 7.1%, Adventure 5.2%
"non-binary" is a video game that mixes text choices and bullet hell to tell the story of two non-binary people's journey of self-discovery. Make your choices. Dodge words. Go through things that hurt without breaking down. If you can.
Why similar: Visual Novel 42.9%, Text-Based 33%, Story Rich 15.5%, 2D 6.9%, Singleplayer 0.9%
Uncover the skeletons in Hana's closet in "MINE MEMORY," a gripping psychological visual novel. Dive into Hana's memories, shape her destiny, and confront haunting choices with deep consequences.
Why similar: Psychological 58.5%, Story Rich 10.9%, Visual Novel 8.8%, Anime 6.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 4.4%
This is *NEW* SCUFFED EPIC VISUAL NOVEL, which is a story set in the world of *NEW* SCUFFED EPIC BHOP SIMULATOR (#4 Best Selling free game of Steam November 2020), play as a character of your choice, as you run into some new, and familiar faces along the way.
Why similar: Text-Based 29.8%, Visual Novel 26.8%, Story Rich 13.2%, Casual 8.5%, 2D 8.1%
A stranger arrives at a quiet and isolated town... PIGBLUE.
Why similar: Text-Based 32%, Visual Novel 27.1%, Noir 25.7%, Story Rich 4.3%, Adventure 4.2%
A 2D action-adventure where the story unfolds by tuning the stage with music. A play by Aleph and Liora, who have lost their memories. A beautiful yet eerie stage, and the secret of the forgotten theater await. Your choices will determine the play's ending — and their fates.
Why similar: Visual Novel 32.1%, Anime 28.5%, Story Rich 18.4%, 2D 8.1%, Adventure 6.7%
Ethani lost her way and ended up at the Lighthouse. Where did she come from and where should she go? Explore this fantasy Visual Novel to reveal her past and set sail once more...
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.7%, Violent 19.9%, Thriller 18.9%, Anime 14.6%, Story Rich 8.5%
In this game, you can watch as 7 protagonists come to a crossroad, facing their own destiny. You will witness their own choices and the blood-splattering consequence they have on one another. There is no way out except to plunge them into the abyss...
Why similar: Text-Based 25%, Visual Novel 23.3%, Noir 21.8%, Story Rich 11.7%, Anime 9.3%
A short, linear story game of a random demon guy's life.
Why similar: Text-Based 28%, Psychological 25%, Visual Novel 23.4%, Anime 8.8%, Story Rich 6.4%
Unroaded is a short free visual novel about the living dead man who instead of inaction has chosen the road.
Why similar: Violent 39.5%, Visual Novel 37%, Casual 8.6%, Adventure 8.1%, Indie 6.7%
