- #1 局外人 L'Etranger
97% matchVery Positive82% of 416 reviews2019
Dev: Class-2
Windows · Mac
A unique visual novel about the high school experiences in alternate-history East Asia.
Why similar: Drama 41.5%, Alternate History 33.4%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Story Rich 7.2%, Indie 4.7%
- #2 First Crusader
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ferhat
Windows
Determine the fate of the Crusaders in this history-based visual novel game. Be the leader of the Christians or the leader of the Turks. Choose your own path in a story where every decision matters. You will change the history of this Crusade.
Why similar: Alternate History 26.3%, Historical 21.8%, Drama 20.5%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Choices Matter 9.1%
- #3 Until the Thaw
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Maciej Bugajski
Windows
A handcrafted narrative card game with branching outcomes, set in a 17th-century Polish village. Swipe through the winter. You are a stranger who arrived uniinvited to a snowbound village, the lord is dead, and witchcraft accusations don't care about innocence. Can you survive until the Thaw?
Why similar: Drama 28.6%, Historical 25.6%, Nonlinear 13.1%, Choices Matter 8.6%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
- #4 Tombeaux
95% matchMostly Positive79% of 34 reviews2018
Dev: Dave Beck
Windows · Mac
A short, interactive historical experience set in a historically accurate 3D environment. Explore the convergence between cultures and the environment across a few hundred years of American history.
Why similar: Drama 27%, Alternate History 23.7%, Historical 17.2%, Walking Simulator 7.8%, Atmospheric 6.2%
- #5 Sorrow's Serenade
93% matchMostly Positive79% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: Faynogames
Windows
A brief emotional experience lasting a few minutes, centered on the quiet weight of a kept promise. A narrative-driven tale with minimal mechanics.
Why similar: Drama 47.5%, Dark 14.8%, Story Rich 9.6%, Atmospheric 8.6%, Emotional 6.2%
- #6 Brain Sanguo
94% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: Brian Master (脑补大师)
Windows
Brain Sanguo is a strategy game with turn-based combat.You play as a seignior in a mythical world about Sanguo,develop your territory,employ warriors,build armies,prepare for the uprising of Huangjin.
Why similar: Drama 32.5%, Alternate History 26.9%, Historical 22.2%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Choices Matter 6.9%
- #7 My Living Things
92% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2021
Dev: L.S. Frei
Windows
My name is Jeremy. I can bring things to life.
Why similar: Drama 43.1%, Dark 20.1%, Emotional 10.4%, Story Rich 9%, Atmospheric 8%
- #8 Neighbors - A Visual Novel
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Amateur Studio
Windows
Know your neighbors. Find the truth. Betray them. Experience the nightmare of the Salem Witch Trials in this horror story based on true events.
Why similar: Drama 41%, Historical 30.4%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Story Rich 5.4%
- #9 Call of the Lake
91% match3 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: StarryFrame Games
Windows
Call of the Lake is an atmospheric visual novel in the psychological horror genre. Would you dare to look into your own past if it turns out to be more terrifying than any nightmare? 💀
Why similar: Drama 42.3%, Nonlinear 22.5%, Dark 11.3%, Atmospheric 7.6%, Violent 5.6%
- #10 r u n a w a y s
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nøreign
Windows
A survival horror RPG that follows a pair of runaways escaping a hostile nighttime suburbia.
Why similar: Drama 45.3%, Dark 22.9%, Walking Simulator 10.7%, Atmospheric 9.8%, Story Rich 5.4%
- #11 Devil Apartment
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: L.S. Frei
Windows
Hello, Jake. Welcome to the game.
Why similar: Drama 37.6%, Dark 19.2%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Story Rich 8.2%, Choices Matter 8.2%
- #12 The Mystery Mist
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WolfSmokeStudiosPub: 2P Games
Windows · Mac
In this world, deadly toxic mist is everywhere. The protagonist, Yaqing, becomes an apprentice to a physician skilled in using insects to save his sister, who has been poisoned by the mist. As the story progresses, he finds himself entangled in a tense racial conflict…
Why similar: Alternate History 34.3%, Historical 17.2%, Emotional 12.2%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Nonlinear 9.2%
- #13 Belonging to Eunoia
88% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Purestblue
Windows
Belonging to Eunoia is a narrative walking simulator about loneliness and depression. Explore the world, find letters written by real people, solve puzzles, find lost treasure and guide Xialia as she is unsure of ending her own life. Your choice is her path.
Why similar: Alternate History 28.9%, Drama 28.6%, Walking Simulator 13.6%, Nonlinear 8.9%, Emotional 7.7%
- #14 I am OK
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cubidoo EntertainmentPub: tba
Windows
Join the talented photography student Neera on a captivating journey through her memories. Haunted by recurring nightmares, her life spirals into chaos, questioning everything. Involuntarily, she returns to a place she once left behind: her childhood home.
Why similar: Drama 46.4%, Emotional 12.4%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Choices Matter 8.7%, Atmospheric 8.7%
- #15 Famine Way
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: STELLARIUM.gaming
Windows
Famine Way is a 2D adventure game in the author's hand-drawn style, which unfolds Holodomor in 1932-1933. Go on a journey, experiencing all the tragedy through the eyes of little Olena and her companion - a wounded stork!
Why similar: Drama 38.9%, Historical 25.5%, Atmospheric 10.3%, Emotional 8.8%, Story Rich 8.6%
- #16 大明·戚继光传
86% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: 亦初
Windows
中国风的回合制战棋游戏。剧情上量大管饱,人物形象立体;战斗系统高度还原鸳鸯阵,以十敌千! 你将扮演大明战神戚继光,率领16世纪东亚最强军队—戚家军,救万民于水火,以雷霆击碎黑暗! 封侯非我意,但愿海波平!
Why similar: Drama 38.9%, Alternate History 27.6%, Historical 23.9%, Multiple Endings 8.5%, Indie 0.8%
- #17 Deprivation
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nocture DDN
Windows
A tragic story in the genre of domestic horror about loss, and life after loss. A walking, cooking, and driving simulator. There is a place where she will always be near.
Why similar: Drama 51.3%, Dark 19.2%, Walking Simulator 8.1%, Story Rich 7%, Multiple Endings 5.2%
- #18 荧惑焚心录Yinghuo
84% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: DongmianYueqiu
Windows
明末题材文字冒险游戏。背景为崇祯死后第二年(1645),你将扮演一名火器学者,无意中捡到了前朝公主,一场涉及复仇与真相、战乱与选择的旅途就此展开。约17万字剧情,有4个不同走向的结局和多个死亡结局。
Why similar: Drama 36.7%, Historical 27.4%, Dark 15.8%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, First-Person 4%
- #19 Displacement
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Obelisk Studio
Windows
Displacement is a gripping action-horror with elements of immersive storytelling. You play as a psychologist who finds themselves at a polar station where the staff have fallen victim to a mysterious madness. Keep your sanity — or lose your mind. The choice is yours.
Why similar: Alternate History 41.7%, Dark 18.8%, Atmospheric 10.4%, First-Person 8.6%, Violent 7.2%
- #20 Porcelana
82% matchPositive91% of 32 reviews2022
Dev: Pandita Studio
Windows · Linux
Isabella, your classmate, is someone you were never close to but someone you certainly noticed. One day however, you notice that Isabella stopped coming to class. You start to discover how important you were to her despite never even having a conversation with her before.
Why similar: Drama 45.1%, Dark 18.8%, Emotional 9.5%, Multiple Endings 7%, Choices Matter 6.2%
- #21 Lost Brothers
83% matchMostly Negative38% of 63 reviews2021
Dev: BitLight
Windows
Lost Brothers is a single-player first-person adventure, taking place in an abandoned mine. All you have is a walkie-talkie and a map. Explore a mysterious forest and a labyrinth of underground passages to rescue a mysterious lady.
Why similar: Drama 42.4%, Walking Simulator 13.8%, Emotional 12.7%, Atmospheric 10.3%, First-Person 7.2%
- #22 One Step After Fall
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 40 reviews2022
Dev: TBGS Indie StudioPub: The Bergson's Games Studios
Windows
Immerse yourself in the depressing thoughts of Steve Robinson, learn his story and face your fate in this incredible narrative experience.
Why similar: Drama 52.2%, Walking Simulator 16.2%, Story Rich 7%, Choices Matter 6.9%, First-Person 6.4%
- #23 Insects Awaken
79% matchVery Positive90% of 458 reviews2025
Dev: HelloMeow
Windows · Mac
Insects Awaken is a puzzle visual novel set in the 1940s. It follows the story of Chen Shan, a young man entangled in espionage while defending his family and homeland. He embarks on a journey between the isolated cities of Chongqing and Shanghai, braving the chaos of war with his passion and youth.
Why similar: Drama 37.9%, Historical 23.4%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Story Rich 9.2%
- #24 Obscure Chronicle of Dynasty
81% matchVery Positive95% of 78 reviews2023
Dev: IsaacZhang
Windows
This is a "fictional, but plausible" strategy role-playing game with a plot which can be regarded as a history of the Three Kingdoms in a different realm. Thus, those who have received little or no attention in the original history may blossom in this very different time and space.
Why similar: Drama 40.2%, Alternate History 30.8%, Historical 26.6%, Indie 1.1%, Story Rich 0.7%
- #25 The Method of Hiding a Body
80% matchVery Positive92% of 85 reviews2024
Dev: Sea of Ghosts
Windows
A story-driven horror puzzle game where the player takes on the role of a resentful ghost, possessing others in order to search for her own corpse.
Why similar: Drama 50.5%, Multiple Endings 17%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Story Rich 12%, Violent 4.3%
- #26 Herald: An Interactive Period Drama - Book I & II
81% matchVery Positive90% of 152 reviews2017
Dev: Wispfire
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Herald is a choice-driven adventure set on colonial tides. Board the HLV Herald and uncover its dark secrets in an intriguing tale about tyranny and servitude.
Why similar: Alternate History 49.4%, Drama 32.7%, Story Rich 10.3%, Indie 3.2%, Adventure 3.1%
- #27 Portrait of a Torn
78% matchVery Positive85% of 61 reviews2024
Dev: Indigo Studios - Interactive StoriesPub: Firenut Games
Windows
As a young soldier returning to an eerily deserted home, you'll explore enigmatic rooms and uncover a haunting, tragic story. Experience an atmospheric journey filled with suspense, mysterious encounters, and a deep narrative.
Why similar: Drama 33%, Dark 14.2%, Walking Simulator 12.4%, Atmospheric 10.1%, Story Rich 8.7%
- #28 Cocktail Magic
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Seiransoft GamesPub: MediBang Games
Windows
A human drama novel game set in a bar with the theme of "companion". Enjoy the "Speak Easy" atmosphere that mixes the liveliness of a bar with the stylishness of a bar.
Why similar: Drama 40.5%, Historical 24.3%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Emotional 12.1%, Story Rich 8.1%
- #29 THE GUTTER
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: DracoXia Studio
Windows
Descend into 1801 China as an opium-addicted father who sold his daughter, now prowling a burned-out floating brothel for treasures. As you touch relics of the dead, violent memories reveal a sickening truth: the greatest monster in this tale has always been you.
Why similar: Drama 46.3%, Historical 27.4%, Dark 8.2%, Atmospheric 4.7%, Multiple Endings 4%
- #30 TORAWASE: The Girl in the Mirror
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dark One!Pub: Shiravune
Windows
After his fiancée returns to Japan for work in this visual novel by Dark One!, our protagonist begins dreaming of being a woman in the Middle Ages. The more he has these dreams, the more he becomes a woman in real life. Can he reverse his transformation, or will his life take a different turn?
Why similar: Drama 50.4%, Dark 13.6%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Emotional 10.2%, Choices Matter 7.8%
- #31 Error: Girlfriend Not Found
76% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2025
Dev: Byte Me Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
One-room cyberpunk VN about doubt, guilt and memory. Talk to a girl who claims to be your girlfriend, question reality, and unlock multiple endings in a short, replayable psychological story.
Why similar: Drama 39%, Dark 20.9%, Atmospheric 11.5%, Emotional 10.6%, Multiple Endings 6.5%
- #32 1-A
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Asobrect
Windows
Solve five mysteries in 15 minutes and aim for Class 1-A. Be especially careful around the students you encounter along the way.
Why similar: Drama 57.5%, Walking Simulator 17.9%, Story Rich 9.9%, First-Person 6%, Simulation 4.5%
- #33 土界鎮 Tujie Town
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Orizen Games
Windows
A suspenseful 2.5D adventure game where you return to your hometown, use the “Sight” ability to read memories from old objects, investigate clues, evade monsters, and uncover the hidden truth.
Why similar: Drama 68.9%, Atmospheric 13.5%, Story Rich 9.5%, Exploration 3.7%, Adventure 2.7%
- #34 Time travel light novels are full of beautiful girls
75% matchPositive93% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: CHEN JIE
Windows
A visual novel that combines 10 categories of online novels (Ancient Xuan Realm,Celestial Scheming,Xianxia Cultivation,Immortals Chronicle,Dharma Body Rebirth,Spirit Pact Novel,Immortal Heroines Saga,Mortal Bonds Record,Dao Origin System,Mystic Realm Odyssey).
Why similar: Drama 51%, Alternate History 41.6%, Story Rich 4.5%, Exploration 1.1%, Indie 1%
- #35 How Deep Is the Dark Water?
74% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Rhett TsaiPub: Allfather Productions
Windows
"How Deep Is the Dark Water?" is a literary computer game. The player, guided by a fleeing man, slowly wanders through memories and visions constructed by the context of the war and individual experiences.
Why similar: Alternate History 37.8%, Dark 16.4%, Walking Simulator 15.4%, Historical 13%, Story Rich 5.1%
- #36 Titanic Rescue
74% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Ledgerdary
Windows
Command the RMS Carpathia in 1912! Rescue Titanic survivors from icy waters, navigate treacherous icebergs, and deliver them to New York. Prepare for a challenging voyage through four distinct levels, each testing your navigation skills and resolve.
Why similar: Historical 37.4%, Drama 24.4%, Alternate History 23.3%, Emotional 6.4%, Adventure 3.1%
- #37 Little Green Girl
73% matchVery Positive95% of 385 reviews2023
Dev: Ufo-teamPub: Moonworks
Windows · Mac · Linux
One day the protagonist meets an alien girl and the story turns...
Why similar: Drama 58.4%, Emotional 16%, Multiple Endings 15.4%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Indie 0.4%
- #38 Never Ending Nightmare
73% matchPositive90% of 48 reviews2023
Dev: Korvinrular
Windows
Life has been tough for you after the tragic incident with your parents. Your way of coping has been through reliving all the good memories with them, but all the memories had a dark turn this time... will you be able to figure out why?
Why similar: Drama 36.6%, Dark 20.1%, Walking Simulator 11.1%, Atmospheric 9.9%, Story Rich 7.8%
- #39 EMPTY₁ / пустышка
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: dipgames
Windows
EMPTY₁ / пустышка is a first-person action adventure game set in the 1950s. Outstanding scientists and great minds of the Soviet Union united in the revolutionary development of a colossally new historical community.
Why similar: Alternate History 35.2%, Drama 34.8%, Atmospheric 10.8%, First-Person 7.5%, Story Rich 7%
- #40 Get In Timelessness
70% matchPositive93% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: FANTOM INK
Windows
A psychological horror about a man who, by the will of fate — or a joke of chance — had to face the unthinkable. Sometimes a person looks into the abyss. Sometimes the abyss looks at you. And sometimes... She turns out to be Hungry.
Why similar: Alternate History 43.5%, Dark 24.8%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Story Rich 9.7%, Violent 2.7%
- #41 San Camillo II
73% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: LUZSTARDOM
Windows
Welcome to our lovely home, San Camillo II. Please, come inside and see for yourself the advances the institution gives to the children. Feel free to check every corner of the house. This guy? Don't worry about him, Vlad will only accompany you so you don't get lost. Just one more thing, be sure to arrive at dinner time.
Why similar: Alternate History 49.2%, Historical 35.8%, Story Rich 10.6%, Indie 4.4%
- #42 Take Care (of me)
70% matchMostly Negative30% of 30 reviews2025
Dev: BlueDeadSoft
Windows
My name is Lorena. I don’t know where I am or how I got here. I just woke up in a bathroom, locked in, but I will escape this place and figure out what’s happening.
Why similar: Drama 38.2%, Walking Simulator 15%, Dark 14.4%, Emotional 10.3%, First-Person 6.6%
- #43 长征1934-1936
70% matchPositive93% of 28 reviews2023
Dev: 黎治豪
Windows
his is a role-playing turn-based game based on the history of the Red Army's Long March. You will play a mass,soldier or cadre and follow different Red Army units to experience the Long March!
Why similar: Drama 48.1%, Historical 38.9%, Story Rich 7.6%, Simulation 3.2%, Indie 1.6%
- #44 IRENE.HOUSE
71% match9 user reviews44% of 9 reviews2021
Dev: augury.house
Windows
IRENE.HOUSE is a creative exhibition featuring the sculptor, Irene June.
Why similar: Drama 35.3%, Nonlinear 26.7%, Walking Simulator 18%, First-Person 8.9%, Atmospheric 8.8%
- #45 Black Lilies - Eternal Summer
71% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2020
Dev: Lab Rabbit Games ltd
Windows
Black Lilies - Eternal Summer is a yuri English Visual Novel made by one lone dev. Alice and her friends must try to find they way out of an endless time loop, or lose their minds trying. Drama, mystery, murder, and suffering awaits them... As does romance, if they can survive.
Why similar: Drama 45.6%, Dark 22.7%, Emotional 10.1%, Multiple Endings 7.4%, Choices Matter 6.6%
- #46 A Deep Rest
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: David Wilkie
Windows
A Deep Rest is a collection of short stories about men and their relationship with mental health and depression. Taking control of a different character in each story, you will experience life from their perspective. See the problems and issues they face and help them find ways to be alright again.
Why similar: Drama 38.5%, Walking Simulator 15.1%, Atmospheric 12.4%, Story Rich 10.4%, First-Person 7.9%
- #47 业火 Hellfire
68% matchVery Positive99% of 247 reviews2024
Dev: Aki
Windows
“阿难,是等皆以业火乾枯,酬其宿债,傍为畜生。” 《业火Hellfire》是一款中国本土题材的剧情悬疑解谜游戏。 故事发生在一个夏秋之交,年轻的摄影师回乡探寻故人。但随着探查深入,深埋已久的回忆被悄然激起…… 题材取自铁链女和乌衣事件,部分剧情改编来自白茕《周娘娘》。
Why similar: Drama 79.8%, Atmospheric 16.8%, Indie 2.6%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #48 Paradise Lost
69% matchMixed64% of 2,489 reviews2021
Dev: PolyAmorousPub: Walkabout
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 68%
It's winter, 1980. Szymon, a boy raised in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, finds an abandoned Nazi bunker. Will he find what he’s looking for? Play Paradise Lost and explore an underground world, where Slavic mythology mixes with retrofuturistic technology. Discover the last story on Earth.
Why similar: Alternate History 28.6%, Nonlinear 12.7%, Walking Simulator 9.7%, Multiple Endings 8.8%, Emotional 8.3%
- #49 Return(溯)
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YukiCat
Windows
Return(溯) is a pixel-style role-playing game with a rich storyline, special partner mechanics, and multiple branching paths.
Why similar: Drama 39%, Alternate History 37.9%, Story Rich 7.9%, Emotional 6.5%, Multiple Endings 4.5%
- #50 Condominium
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MatteoLippera
Windows · Mac · Linux
Atmospheric and calm horror, set in an disturbing Italian condominium. A story-driven adventure into the past traumas of Cesare. No hiding or running from monsters! Follow the dreamy shadows of your childhood trough the liminal spaces of your grandma's apartment.
Why similar: Drama 33.1%, Dark 15.2%, Walking Simulator 12%, Multiple Endings 8.7%, Story Rich 8.6%
- #51 Till Checkout Do Us Part
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ZealPub: Cardiora Studio
Windows
A young couple stops for the night at a quiet, roadside motel. It's run by a soft-spoken man, Harold, and his wife, Margaret. As a famous saying goes, some guests can check out anytime they want, but can never leave.
Why similar: Drama 38%, Walking Simulator 14.8%, Dark 10.2%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Atmospheric 8.4%
- #52 STIGMA: The Salem Legacy
65% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: AKNA
Windows
STIGMA is a truly small indie game. It is a psychological detective horror focused on atmosphere and mystery. Uncover the haunting narrative of an old house and its forgotten past.
Why similar: Drama 20.5%, Walking Simulator 14.6%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Emotional 11%
- #53 Purpose 1951
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 51 reviews2024
Dev: Tonguç Bodur
Windows
"Purpose 1951" is an almost pure walking simulator set in the United States of 1951. You play as a retired doctor whose life falls apart.
Why similar: Drama 51.4%, Walking Simulator 15.8%, Atmospheric 9.3%, Emotional 8.2%, Story Rich 5.5%
- #54 Loose Life
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: After Game
Windows
Find yourself in the middle of the humanitarian horror of war. You have no weapons, and you are not a soldier. You only have a life and the way you want to survive. Write your story. Maybe you will lose life. Maybe you'll live loose. It all depends on your decisions, which always have consequences.
Why similar: Drama 31.3%, Walking Simulator 19.6%, Atmospheric 16.3%, Story Rich 14.4%, Multiple Endings 6.4%
- #55 自在逍遥:风起 Tales of TianYuan Dynasty
67% matchMixed69% of 58 reviews2022
Dev: Uniiao Game
Windows
《Tales of TianYuan Dynasty》It is a martial arts fantasy RPG game.The world is so wide, you will choose to continue to raise the sword of chivalry on the journey, or stay away from the chaos and be alone. After the wind blows, how do you choose?
Why similar: Drama 50.4%, Alternate History 17.8%, Multiple Endings 16.9%, Story Rich 11.2%, Adventure 1.7%
- #56 It's You: A Breakup Story
69% matchVery Positive87% of 53 reviews2018
Dev: Brwarner Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
It's You: A Breakup Story is a narrative-driven breakup game where it is them, not you, even when it doesn't feel that way. The game only has one ending; you decide how to get there.
Why similar: Drama 66.1%, Choices Matter 17.4%, Story Rich 12.4%, Indie 4.1%