60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Visual Novel, Story Rich, Singleplayer.
Black Dog Bar is a dialog-based bartender simulator. Each client has its own story. Communicate, mix cocktails, and... manipulate. It is only you who decides where the complicated story of each hero will turn and what will happen to them when they leave the bar.
Living on Plain Pasta
A conversation adventure where you spend the worst, best summer visiting your booze-loving senpai, making weird food, and sneaking out together at midnight.
Midnight Ramen
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...
A conversation adventure where you spend the worst, best summer visiting your booze-loving senpai, making weird food, and sneaking out together at midnight.
Why similar: Cooking 20.2%, Dialogue Heavy 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%
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 25.2%, Dialogue Heavy 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Emotional 10.6%
A Greek Myth-based, heartfelt narrative game where you're a demigod named Aelius trying to find your godly father and re-forge your family.
Why similar: Cooking 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Dialogue Heavy 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Choices Matter 7.7%
Run a tea shop in the British countryside in this heartfelt visual novel voiced by Bethan Dixon Bate (Baldur's Gate 3) and Lenval Brown (Disco Elysium). Play as Ms Meadows as she prepares for her best friend’s long-awaited visit. Brew tea, listen to customers’ stories, and craft poems.
Why similar: Cooking 22.5%, Dialogue Heavy 18.4%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Emotional 10.2%, Choices Matter 9%
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 31.2%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Relaxing 9.5%
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 27.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Emotional 11%, Relaxing 10.7%
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 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Emotional 9.2%
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: Dialogue Heavy 37%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Relaxing 8.5%, Choices Matter 7.7%
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: Dialogue Heavy 21%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Emotional 14.2%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choices Matter 10.8%
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: Dialogue Heavy 23.9%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Emotional 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Cooking 11.2%
Birb Café is a coffee-making visual novel about a cute bird helping adventurers on their quests. Your choices matter!
Why similar: Cooking 27.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Dialogue Heavy 16.5%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choices Matter 8%
A story-rich coming-of-age experience told through a 2004 desktop, where friendships, music, and late-night conversations shape who you become. Explore chats, drama, mini-games, and the early internet in a branching story about growing up, making mistakes, and finding your place.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Emotional 8.7%
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 31.1%, Dialogue Heavy 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Emotional 6.4%
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: Dialogue Heavy 25.5%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Emotional 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Relaxing 8.5%
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 31.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Emotional 7.5%, Relaxing 7.1%
Serve coffee and befriend customers as you learn their story in this coming-of-age visual novel.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 26.5%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choices Matter 10%, Relaxing 9.2%
Chihiro Himukai can't hold down a job... A sweet visual novel about two people finding each other after slipping apart.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 22.4%, Cooking 19.3%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Emotional 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12%
Confections & Conversations is a cozy bakery simulator about baking sweet treats, managing a small business, most importantly getting to know a cast of colorful customers, and helping guide them through heartfelt conversations all in a modern isekai fantasy world.
Why similar: Cooking 31.7%, Dialogue Heavy 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Visual Novel 9.1%, Choices Matter 7.7%
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: Dialogue Heavy 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Relaxing 9.6%, Emotional 9.5%
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: Dialogue Heavy 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Emotional 8.6%
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 14.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%, Emotional 8.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%
Guilt Free is a visual novel crossed with a point and click made to offer perspective on mental health and eating disorders. Navigate a couple's rocky relationship and encounter "flaws" or "quirks" that may actually be symptomatic behaviors.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 30.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Emotional 11.2%, Choices Matter 11%
Play as Daniella as she moves across the country with only the help of her ex.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.7%, Dialogue Heavy 19.6%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Story Rich 11.5%, Choices Matter 10.5%
A philosophical interactive visual novel about everyday interactions
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Dialogue Heavy 11.9%, Emotional 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
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: Dialogue Heavy 37.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Emotional 8.4%, Relaxing 8.3%
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: Dialogue Heavy 21%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Emotional 10%
One million dollars. Two sisters. Countless consequences. Experience everyday life in modern Vietnam while uncovering the truth behind a mysterious one-million-dollar debt.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23.9%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%
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: Dialogue Heavy 31%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Emotional 11.4%, Relaxing 8.4%
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 29.8%, Dialogue Heavy 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%
During the 2020 lockdown, Dorothy spends her days caring for jars of sourdough starters. By sharing them with others, she builds unexpected connections and discovers small acts of kindness that bring warmth in difficult times.
Why similar: Cooking 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Relaxing 9.2%, Choices Matter 9.1%
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: Dialogue Heavy 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Emotional 11.7%, Choices Matter 9.8%
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 29.1%, Dialogue Heavy 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Emotional 10.4%, Visual Novel 10.1%
A choice-based, visual novel with time travelling teapots!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Dialogue Heavy 20.5%, Visual Novel 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Choices Matter 8.8%
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: Dialogue Heavy 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Choices Matter 14%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Emotional 11%
Wandering Wyrm is a high-fantasy visual novel with a focus on cooking. Run a tavern on the back of a dragon and serve a variety of unique adventurers. Influence the story with the food you serve!
Why similar: Cooking 27.2%, Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Casual 7.5%
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: Dialogue Heavy 20.3%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Emotional 13.2%, Choices Matter 12.4%
Brew concoctions, befriend Ravensport's many fantasy inhabitants, and unravel the mystery of the Evernight as the newest apprentice of the Moonlight Apothecary.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 22.3%, Cooking 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Relaxing 7.8%
The president trusts you. Exercise your Shamanic capabilities (or lack thereof). But don't get caught!
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 27%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Relaxing 5.5%
🔞 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 22.7%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Dialogue Heavy 14.4%, Emotional 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
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 29.2%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Dialogue Heavy 8.1%
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 29.8%, Dialogue Heavy 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Choices Matter 7.5%, Story Rich 7.3%
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: Dialogue Heavy 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Emotional 13.1%, Choices Matter 8.9%
Become the host of an afterlife teahouse. For 49 days, serve the final cup to the departed. Experience a deep brewing system based on authentic traditions. Listen to the secrets of unique spirits, change their fates, and face the truth of your forgotten past.
Why similar: Cooking 27.8%, Dialogue Heavy 23%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Emotional 10.2%
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 24.6%, Dialogue Heavy 21%, Visual Novel 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Choices Matter 8.3%
A visual novel where your choices determine the future of your relationship and the success of your colony. Choose how to treat your husband and how to spend your free time in this frontier sci-fi story.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Emotional 10.4%, Choices Matter 10.4%
A serial killer named Karma has kidnapped 8 criminals and will force you to choose the order in which they are executed. Will you be able to decide who deserves salvation... and who deserves death?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.2%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Emotional 12.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
Annoy this guys time in this comedic piece of interactive fiction.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.1%, Dialogue Heavy 22%, Visual Novel 20%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Story Rich 7.9%
A choice-driven visual novel centered on addiction, happiness, and the search for meaning. As a bartender in a rapidly decaying world, serve drinks and substances that shape your customers' fates. Experience their stories through minimalist 1-bit pixel art and an atmospheric liquid DnB soundtrack.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 41.5%, Visual Novel 29%, Choices Matter 17.5%, Story Rich 8.8%, Indie 1.7%
Reconnect with an old friend. Discuss your daily lives, past loves, and talking snakes. Get up and do things in real life because she asks you to. Become closer and stay until the very end.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 26.4%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Emotional 11.6%, Relaxing 9.2%
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: Dialogue Heavy 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%
She died, but no one ever asked her what really happened. Now she speaks—and you're the only one listening. What you say will decide whether she finally moves on… or disappears forever.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 24.1%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Emotional 12.8%, Choices Matter 12.7%
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: Dialogue Heavy 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Emotional 11.1%, Choices Matter 9.5%
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 23.1%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Dialogue Heavy 16.7%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%
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: Dialogue Heavy 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Emotional 10.4%, Choices Matter 10.2%
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: Dialogue Heavy 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Visual Novel 15%, Emotional 14%, Choices Matter 10.6%
Tearoom of Terror is a cozy-gothic narrative cooking mystery where you investigate the mysterious death of your estranged aunt in a tearoom filled with sinister patrons, unsettling secrets, and morally questionable requests.
Why similar: Cooking 29.3%, Dialogue Heavy 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Choices Matter 9.3%
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: Dialogue Heavy 30.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.1%
“Flowers for You” is a gentle adventure game where you create custom bouquets based on each customer’s story as a florist. Set in modern Japan, listen to faded memories and craft floral arrangements that bring color back into their lives.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Emotional 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Dialogue Heavy 16.4%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Relaxing 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.5%
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 33.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Relaxing 9.2%, Story Rich 6%
