- #1 Midnight Ramen
97% matchVery Positive98% of 366 reviews2024
Dev: Cointinue Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Midnight Ramen, you play as the owner of a late-night ramen stand and his apprentice. You interact with your customers, listen to their troubles, and help them out whenever you can. But as the bowls of ramen are cooked and served, troubles are beginning to brew in your own life as well...
Why similar: Cooking 25.5%, Conversation 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Emotional 10.7%
- #2 Sips and Sonnets
96% matchVery Positive100% of 62 reviews2025
Dev: Blue Tango Street
Windows · Mac · Linux
Run a tea shop in the British countryside and enkindle your love for poetry in this heartfelt visual novel. Play as Ms Meadows, retired journalist and tea enthusiast, as she prepares for her best friend’s long-awaited visit. Listen to customers’ stories, brew tea, and craft wholehearted poems.
Why similar: Cooking 22.9%, Conversation 17.9%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Emotional 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.3%
- #3 Potion Tales
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NighttrainGames
Windows
Potion Tales is a potion brewing game, in which the potions you create decide the fate of your customers. Make yourself at home in a cozy potion kitchen and prepare different potions for the unique problems of your customers.
Why similar: Cooking 31.3%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Relaxing 9.5%
- #4 The Perfect Bowl
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pixel Emm
Windows · Mac
The Perfect Bowl is a cozy, heartfelt narrative Ramen arranger about dealing with grief, following Jim Wada, the new owner of his family’s ramen business. Journey with him as he copes with his father’s illness and helps his customers find comfort in ramen, aiming to heal himself along the way.
Why similar: Cooking 27.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Emotional 11.1%, Relaxing 10.7%
- #5 Birb Café
94% matchPositive88% of 24 reviews2022
Dev: Birbgames
Windows · Linux
Birb Café is a coffee-making visual novel about a cute bird helping adventurers on their quests. Your choices matter!
Why similar: Cooking 27.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Conversation 15.9%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Choices Matter 8.2%
- #6 The Archipelago
94% matchVery Positive90% of 110 reviews2022
Dev: Never Done Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Archipelago is a visual novel about brewing tea. The teas you choose determine who you encounter in the midst of a vibrant and changing world.
Why similar: Cooking 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Conversation 12%, Emotional 9.3%
- #7 Project Salon
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Safe Flight GamesPub: SIGONO INC.
Windows
You're a barber in a city full of beastfolk. Chat with your customers, style their look, help them see something new in the mirror... and in themselves.
Why similar: Conversation 32.1%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Relaxing 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%
- #8 This Warm Place
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wundev
Windows
Be the person you needed. Brew tea, listen well, and guide branching stories in a narrative slice-of-life about showing up when it matters. No perfect answers. Only your choices and what they set in motion.
Why similar: Conversation 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Emotional 14.4%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Choices Matter 11%
- #9 Bearly Baking
91% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Water Bears Interactive Arts
Windows · Mac
Bearly Baking is a cooking and relationship-building game where you play as a bear running an inn to feed animals for hibernation. You cook bread and muffins in small mini-games, and based on the quality, you build better relationships with your patrons and learn more about their stories.
Why similar: Cooking 31.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Emotional 7.6%, Relaxing 7.1%
- #10 Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,622 reviews2023
Dev: Toge Productions
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Dust off your coffee machine and prepare your warmest smile to meet your customers again in the second episode of the much loved coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator; Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly.
Why similar: Conversation 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Relaxing 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.3%
- #11 India 89
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bhaumik Patel
Windows
India ’89 is a story based cooking game, where you are a 10 year old from the UK experiencing a small village in India in 1989. You cook various dishes as a street food vendor in different locations. Explore the joy of village life, family and cooking.
Why similar: Cooking 31.6%, Conversation 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Emotional 6.5%
- #12 Waning Flowers of a World Eternal - The Rainbow Appears After Flowering Rain
89% matchVery Positive98% of 265 reviews2025
Dev: SWEET&TEAPub: Shiravune
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Is one life worth the price of another? A bittersweet visual novel about life and death, trust and bonds, and promises made. Brought to you by popular Japanese bishojo game developer SWEET&TEA. Winner of the Moe Game Awards 2016's "New Brand Award"!
Why similar: Conversation 23.1%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Emotional 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Cooking 11.4%
- #13 Spirit Talk - Cozy Visual Novel
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tortita Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Cozy visual novel about a lovely witch who’s able to talk to spirits in a fantasy setting. Using her powers, Julia helps her neighbors in their daily whereabouts. Craft potions, find the right time to use them and get to know both spirits and clients to find their peace.
Why similar: Conversation 24.7%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Emotional 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Relaxing 8.6%
- #14 Koko's Cafe
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: PluviiArt
Windows · Mac · Linux
Serve coffee and befriend customers as you learn their story in this coming-of-age visual novel.
Why similar: Conversation 25.6%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Relaxing 9.4%
- #15 The Afterlife Cafe
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Guava Pixel Studios
Windows · Linux
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: Conversation 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Story Rich 6.8%
- #16 The Last Connection
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Team Wiretap
Windows
You are a Switchboard Operator, and you're about to be replaced by a machine. Use your last week of work to connect townsfolk, overcome problems, and explore the history of a cast of engaging characters. Your choices matter, so use each day to leave lasting bonds.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.2%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Conversation 10.9%, Emotional 8.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.1%
- #17 Detours
86% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Mismatched GamesPub: Code Coven
Windows · Mac · Linux
Play as Daniella as she moves across the country with only the help of her ex.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27%, Conversation 18.9%, Visual Novel 18%, Story Rich 11.5%, Choices Matter 10.8%
- #18 Soup for Soul – Your cooking. Their stories.
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Peas & Quiet Games
Windows
Run a quaint Japanese ramen shop, craft every bowl your way, and shape your guests’ heartfelt stories with your cooking choices.
Why similar: Cooking 37.5%, Conversation 19.7%, Choices Matter 8.3%, Visual Novel 7.4%, Story Rich 6.6%
- #19 Halfway House
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Az
Windows · Mac · Linux
A character-driven, story-rich visual novel about rebuilding your life after juvenile detention. Forge friendships, find romance, and confront the scars of your troubled past.
Why similar: Conversation 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Emotional 14.2%, Choices Matter 9%
- #20 ODEN
84% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Lobstudio
Windows · Mac
ODEN: Divine Destiny in a Steaming Bowl - Serve Japanese soul food with mystical powers at your midnight oden cart. Choose the perfect ingredients to heal broken lives in this heartwarming journey.
Why similar: Cooking 30.3%, Conversation 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%
- #21 Bistro Brave
83% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: NRNR STUDIO
Windows
The hero's tale doesn't end with defeating the Daemon Lord—this time, the stage is the bistro you've opened! Former companions and even past adversaries now visit your establishment.
Why similar: Cooking 29.1%, Conversation 19.6%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Story Rich 5.3%
- #22 Tails Noir Preludes
82% matchVery Positive92% of 297 reviews2023
Dev: EggnutPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Tails Noir Preludes is a post-noir narrative adventure with branching choices. It is an intertwined series of vignettes about change, circumstance, and consequence. Guide four characters through formative moments in their lives in a dystopian Vancouver inhabited by anthropomorphic animals.
Why similar: Conversation 28%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Emotional 12.1%, Relaxing 8.9%
- #23 Venba
81% matchVery Positive93% of 3,365 reviews2023
Dev: Visai Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Venba is a short narrative cooking game, where you play as an Indian mom who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Cook various dishes and restore lost recipes, hold branching conversations, and explore South Indian food in this story about family, love, and loss.
Why similar: Cooking 29.2%, Conversation 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Emotional 10.5%, Visual Novel 10.1%
- #24 Tempest In A Teapot
82% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: StrandGames
Windows
A choice-based, visual novel with time travelling teapots!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Conversation 19.9%, Visual Novel 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.1%
- #25 Coffee Talk Tokyo
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Chorus Worldwide Games
Windows
Coffee Talk Tokyo is the newest entry in the beloved series, set in a late-night café in Tokyo. Brew drinks, meet humans and yōkai, and experience heartfelt stories in a cozy, story-rich world.
Why similar: Conversation 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Emotional 9.9%
- #26 Animaloid Girl
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PANDRI-DON
Windows
The story of a girl who is changing from a human to a "KEMONO" and watching her coming of age. This is a multi-ending "adventure game about training an Animalized girl" set in a KEMOMIMI x Hong Kong x cyberpunk world.
Why similar: Conversation 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Emotional 11.9%, Choices Matter 10%
- #27 Hentai Novel: Lily is stripping
79% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Sexy Baguette Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
🔞 Step into an erotic journey with Hentai Novel: Lily is stripping! 📸 Follow Lily, a mysterious muse, in a slow-burn visual novel where sensual tension builds frame by frame. Enjoy explicit scenes, seductive animations, and steamy voice acting as you blur the line between art and desire!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Conversation 13.9%, Emotional 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
- #28 Tea for Sana
78% matchPositive100% of 25 reviews2025
Dev: Pillow Soup
Windows
Tea for Sana is a story-driven exploration game set in a Slavic-inspired fantasy world. You play as Vesna, a spirit healer who is losing her memory. Discover recipes, find new ingredients, and cook traditional dishes to restore the balance between the mountain spirits and the villagers.
Why similar: Cooking 30.1%, Conversation 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choices Matter 7.7%, Story Rich 7.3%
- #29 Coffee Talk
79% matchVery Positive95% of 12,156 reviews2020
Dev: Toge Productions
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.
Why similar: Conversation 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Emotional 10.1%, Relaxing 10%
- #30 Reigns: The Witcher
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 140 reviews2026
Dev: NerialPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Adventure as Geralt through the ballads of Dandelion. Swipe right, swipe left, seek glory, find death! Will you hunt monsters, upset the locals, or run a hot bath? Compose an inspiring epic to claim immortality.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.7%, Visual Novel 17%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Conversation 7.9%
- #31 Moonlight Apothecary
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: tinymuse studio
Windows
Moonlight Apothecary is a visual novel and potion brewing simulator set in the witchy world of Ravensport. Meet, talk to, and help customers in search of fantasy-themed concoctions and a listening ear.
Why similar: Cooking 22.2%, Conversation 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Relaxing 7.9%
- #32 Annoy This Guy
77% matchVery Positive94% of 65 reviews2024
Dev: Samuel Leigh
Windows
Annoy this guys time in this comedic piece of interactive fiction.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.5%, Conversation 21.3%, Visual Novel 20%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Story Rich 8%
- #33 Kamilia
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RQ play
Windows · Mac
Kamilia is a story-driven, choices-matter detective mystery. Follow a talented painter who finds himself wrapped up in an unsolved case, as he tries to unveil a hidden truth that has been buried for years.
Why similar: Conversation 18.8%, Visual Novel 17%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Emotional 13.7%, Choices Matter 13%
- #34 All (Too) Good Things
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: YOWPY games
Windows
Your job is to make humanity happy. Observe the people living in your assigned district and make the best choices to ensure everyone's happiness.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Conversation 20.4%, Visual Novel 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Choices Matter 8.6%
- #35 The Wreck
75% matchVery Positive89% of 273 reviews2023
Dev: The Pixel Hunt
Windows · Mac
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: Conversation 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Emotional 11.2%
- #36 Spirit Whisperer Conversation With Akari
75% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Feeling Potion
Windows · Mac
Akari was a beloved streamer—until she died live on camera. Now, as a spirit, she’s still performing. You’ve been hired to speak with her, and uncover the truth behind the smile she never took off.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Conversation 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Choices Matter 8.5%
- #37 Tequila Moonrise
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Black Swan Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Take over a struggling bar on the politically tense Moon Village. Prepare and serve drinks, befriend and help your customers, find your purpose, and maybe even love... all while keeping the bar's lights on in this narrative driven bartending simulator set on the moon.
Why similar: Conversation 29.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Story Rich 7.9%
- #38 Vida
73% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: YEON 연
Windows · Linux
In a future where memories are the last connection to a lost humanity, you are an advanced AI exploring fragments of past lives. Understand emotions, traumas, and choices in a journey to uncover what it means to be alive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.3%, Conversation 19.8%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Choices Matter 9%, Story Rich 7.4%
- #39 Pasajeros
74% matchPositive86% of 21 reviews2022
Dev: GameLoop
Windows
Pasajeros is developed through a collection of urban and surreal stories collected in a taxi in Bogotá . It’s a four-night adventure packed with micro-stories of vampires, mariachis, and thugs. In addition to the opportunity to find love or madness in the night magic of a city.
Why similar: Conversation 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Emotional 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.5%
- #40 Presidential Shaman
72% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: BRB Drama
Windows · Mac
The president trusts you. Exercise your Shamanic capabilities (or lack thereof). But don't get caught!
Why similar: Conversation 26.1%, Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Relaxing 5.6%
- #41 A Week in Paradise
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EtrikiaPub: Soft Serve Games
Windows
A Week in Paradise is an interactive narrative mystery. Discover the unusual circumstances of your arrival to a bar called Paradise, and drink through the night with the bar's charismatic regular. Each night, unravel the threads holding back memories in your dreams.
Why similar: Conversation 26.6%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Emotional 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.9%
- #42 Cook For Love
71% matchMixed66% of 38 reviews2024
Dev: RedDeer.Games
Windows
Win the hearts of Parisians with your cooking, discover delicious recipes, and become a chef worthy of working onboard the Orient Express.
Why similar: Cooking 36.3%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Relaxing 12.2%, Story Rich 6.1%
- #43 Sarawak
73% matchPositive86% of 22 reviews2021
Dev: Cowleyfornia StudiosPub: Cowleyfornia Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Conversation 15.8%, Visual Novel 13%, Relaxing 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.4%
- #44 CamGirls: Sophie X Rias
73% matchPositive88% of 24 reviews2021
Dev: Dharker Studios
Windows
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: Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Conversation 17.9%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Relaxing 9.1%
- #45 Whispering Memories
69% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Stellar Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
Return to a hometown that hasn’t changed the way it should have. A psychological visual novel focused on atmosphere, relationships, and a reality that slowly refuses to stay still. Can you uncover the truth before it consumes you?
Why similar: Conversation 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Visual Novel 16%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%
- #46 Summer Daze: Tilly's Tale
71% matchMixed60% of 20 reviews2023
Dev: Transolar Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A fantasy adventure visual novel with humor and heart, by acclaimed adventure game writer Lori Ann Cole. Starring the voice of Zehra Fazal as Tilly, a mischief-making rogue at Hero-U, the school for heroes.
Why similar: Conversation 29.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.1%
- #47 Dungeon Hotpot
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Renala Games
Windows
Dungeon Hotpot is a cozy narrative game set in a torchlit dungeon, where you comfort weary adventurers with warm, delicious bowls of monster hotpot.
Why similar: Cooking 33.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Relaxing 9.3%, Story Rich 6%
- #48 Chihiro Himukai Always Walks Away
71% matchVery Positive96% of 319 reviews2021
Dev: SMILEPub: Shiravune
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Chihiro Himukai can't hold down a job... A sweet visual novel about two people finding each other after slipping apart.
Why similar: Conversation 21.6%, Cooking 19.6%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Emotional 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%
- #49 Come to my party!
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SIMSANG YOON
Windows
Set in a South Korean elementary school in 1999, 『Come to my party!』 follows 10-year-old Jimin's quest for her first-ever birthday party. Through multiple endings filled with laughs and heart, step into a story that might remind you of your own childhood.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Conversation 16.3%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Emotional 14.5%, Choices Matter 8.6%
- #50 Best Served Cold
68% matchVery Positive89% of 596 reviews2025
Dev: Rogueside
Windows · Mac
Can you mix a cocktail while eye-to-eye with a criminal? Find out in Best Served Cold, a murder mystery set in a bustling speakeasy where you serve customers, make friends and enemies, and solve crimes. At the Nightcap bar, prohibition is a killer… and so are some of your customers!
Why similar: Conversation 24%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Story Rich 7.5%
- #51 AN IOU
70% matchPositive100% of 27 reviews2022
Dev: Red Room Games
Windows · Mac
AN IOU is the debut visual novel by Davey Cadaver. The music, backgrounds, & characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. The user takes the POV of the protagonist to experience a memorable story with an incredible soundtrack and multiple endings.
Why similar: Conversation 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Emotional 14.8%, Choices Matter 11%
- #52 Road 96: Mile 0
69% matchMixed68% of 1,995 reviews2023
Dev: Digixart
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
The prequel to Road 96. Play Zoe and Kaito where it all started. Change their destinies!
Why similar: Conversation 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Emotional 10%
- #53 你的所屬之花
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AliceJi
Windows
In the game, players will be given a series of questions to test them. They will continuously interact with the examiner and make decisions, ultimately discovering the flower that represents them.Welcome to play.
Why similar: Conversation 40.8%, Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Visual Novel 21.1%, Simulation 6.2%, Casual 3.1%
- #54 Mikiwam: Solarpunk Herbalism
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Ekosi
Windows · Mac
A cozy tea-making game set in a post-colonial fantasy world. As a herbalist’s apprentice, serve magic elemental teas to influence a colourful cast of characters. Connect with your estranged home, discover your gifts, and find your place in a fractured, healing world.
Why similar: Cooking 22.6%, Conversation 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Choices Matter 11.2%
- #55 Цветок
66% matchPositive89% of 47 reviews2026
Dev: Aventy's team
Windows
An interactive story about a researcher who was spoken to by his experimental plant. Interact with the story and get one of three ending options.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Relaxing 11%
- #56 B-PROJECT RYUSEI*FANTASIA
67% matchPositive100% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: PQube
Windows
Become the A&R of the famous B-Project in this unforgettable idol Visual Novel. Support a group of 14 idols from their humble beginnings through to fame. Befriend them, influence their music and help them through turbulent times as they follow their dreams
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Conversation 14.9%, Emotional 11.8%, Casual 8.1%
- #57 THE DAY THAT WASN'T
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: MAD Tribe Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Relive the same day without remembering it. Your choices feed four inner alter egos (Shadow, Mad, Alex, and Bully) — shaping reality, glitches, and one of 16 possible endings. The day repeats. Your mind doesn’t. Or does it?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Conversation 16.1%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%
- #58 Yuika My Bestie
67% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Feeling Potion
Windows · Mac
Experience a pastel-toned emotional journey in Yuika My Bestie, a short visual novel you can complete in under 15 minutes per playthrough. With 5 unique endings and heartfelt choices, it takes just 30–40 minutes to explore every path of this soft, late-night cry.
Why similar: Conversation 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Visual Novel 15%, Emotional 14.3%, Choices Matter 10.9%
- #59 Chick'n Mushroom Soup
65% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: Team Sermath
Windows · Mac
Chick’n Mushroom Soup is an anime styled Visual Novel which you've been accepted into a culinary academy with sweet girls. Although you were a total asocial in the past, you now have an opportunity to change this.
Why similar: Cooking 30%, Conversation 18.9%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choices Matter 10%
- #60 Atonement
66% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Nexus Media
Windows
Atonement is an interactive graphic novel set in the Wild West. At various points in the story, you will be asked to make a choice, these choices will take you down different paths in the story. There are 3 storylines featuring a manhunt, a bank job, and a train robbery.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.1%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Conversation 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Choices Matter 9.1%