60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Story Rich, Choices Matter, Romance.
Bright Oak is a heavily character-driven visual novel with elements of science fiction. Discover the tragic secrets behind Bright Oak’s preternatural dilemma; find friendship, or possibly love; save the town and make your way home--and if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again!
Dead Man's Rest
A Wild West BxB story of love, murder, and revenge. Play as Lee "Blackjack" McCarthy on his hunt for the elusive Wild Bill—until a mysterious killing shatters all his plans.
Our Wonderland
A horror-fantasy visual novel following the trials of a dysfunctional friend group thrust back into the wish-granting wonderland of their youth. Either they face the issues plaguing them or risk dying in horrific ways again… and again… and again.
A Wild West BxB story of love, murder, and revenge. Play as Lee "Blackjack" McCarthy on his hunt for the elusive Wild Bill—until a mysterious killing shatters all his plans.
Why similar: Western 26.2% ★, LGBTQ+ 17.6%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Romance 11.7%, America 11.4% ★
A horror-fantasy visual novel following the trials of a dysfunctional friend group thrust back into the wish-granting wonderland of their youth. Either they face the issues plaguing them or risk dying in horrific ways again… and again… and again.
Why similar: Time Travel 24.9% ★, LGBTQ+ 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Romance 11.7%, Visual Novel 10.9%
Dullpain is a side-scrolling, interaction, and storytelling game. Playing as Jingwen, a young boss of a long-established repair shop, you need to repair not only everyday items, also memories. You can enjoy dull-pain and breathtaking stories in different time and space and redefine the end of story.
Why similar: Time Travel 25.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Romance 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Emotional 10.8%
Talewarden is a weird west adventure visual novel. Restore time on a planet where the sun never sets as you explore locations, talk, romance, and bond with your companions. Find the source of the voice in your head and discover why you all fell here from different worlds.
Why similar: Western 21.3% ★, LGBTQ+ 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Romance 7.7%
Five days ago, Janet left her dorm to go on a date - and never came back. Was she kidnapped? Murdered? The truth may be even stranger. Solve puzzles to connect together pieces of the story in a science-fiction adventure with eleven possible endings!
Why similar: Time Travel 30.8% ★, Visual Novel 13.5%, Romance 11.6%, LGBTQ+ 9.1%, Otome 8.7% ★
A time-travel mystery visual novel about found-family, connections, and hope in dark times.
Why similar: Time Travel 35.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Romance 10.1%, Emotional 9.8%
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 19.2%, LGBTQ+ 18.5%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Romance 13.4%, Choices Matter 11.5%
a love story between time and space
Why similar: Time Travel 35.9% ★, LGBTQ+ 20.8%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Romance 14.1%, Multiple Endings 6.1%
Shape queer love and friendship at the end of the world in this choice-driven, emotional narrative game. Will you settle for pessimism, or open yourself to trust?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.6%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Romance 12.7%, Emotional 11.6%
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+ 18.4%, Romance 14.4%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Drama 12.2%, Emotional 9.8%
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: LGBTQ+ 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Romance 14.4%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Choices Matter 9%
Adrian Heart is a reclusive composer dragged into the world of the entertainment industry by his famous sister to become the new personal assistant to one of the elite talents who calls the agency home. He is none to happy about it.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.8%, Romance 18.8%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Drama 8.8%
An exciting adult Visual Novel with a unique intriguing story featuring Sci-Fi, Time Travel, Romance, Sex, Humor, Character Development and some fun references.
Why similar: Time Travel 33.3% ★, Visual Novel 12.7%, Romance 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Emotional 7.7%
A dark yuri visual novel about a quiet university student who discovers blood magic in the depths of her grief. Stepping into a world she little understands, Honoka finds unexpected love, and inadvertently sets in motion a deadly series of events.
Why similar: Time Travel 25.5% ★, LGBTQ+ 19.9%, Romance 15.2%, Visual Novel 14%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%
A choice-driven romance-mystery visual novel set in the Wild West. Choose your partner and investigate the town's secrets to uncover the Eldritchian horror that plagues Cortez Creek.
Why similar: Western 36.7% ★, Romance 15.9%, Visual Novel 15.8%, LGBTQ+ 9.1%, Choices Matter 8.8%
Is it okay to kill 6 billion people to avenge the deaths of 2 billion? In this epic sci-fi visual novel, make tough choices to solve "impossible" problems, unlock branching paths and achieve multiple endings.
Why similar: Time Travel 25.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Sci-fi 9.3%
A time travel project. A group of students. A cat that eats too much. Can you rewrite fate without losing what matters most?
Why similar: Time Travel 41.1% ★, Visual Novel 20%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Sci-fi 9.8%, Choices Matter 7.5%
Who do you think of when you're about to win it all? Slipstream Daydreams is a y2k inspired retrofuturistic visual novel about antigravity racing and messy queer romance. Play as Orion, cheeky rising star driver, and make split second race choices that affect which of your romances you reminisce on.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.8%, Romance 14.8%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Emotional 9.3%
Chronotopia: Second Skin is a unique rewriting of the Donkeyskin fairytale, a darker variation of Cinderella. Follow Kionna into a painful but ultimately rewarding search for her true self.
Why similar: Time Travel 31.4% ★, LGBTQ+ 14.3%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Otome 9.1% ★, Romance 7.9%
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+ 18.3%, Romance 15.3%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choices Matter 9.7%
You are an intergalactic bounty hunter leading a team of bickering misfits as you track down targets with your words and your weapons to find your missing mom. Make every choice count in this reactive, visual novel love letter to Cowboy Bebop.
Why similar: Western 24.6% ★, LGBTQ+ 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Choices Matter 9.3%
A poet ponders queer life and love after his happily ever after.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Romance 14.4%, Visual Novel 13%, Drama 10.3%
Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers is the follow-up to 2019's Arcade Spirits, a visual novel of love and pixels, in which you seek friendship and romance while working in an arcade. Now the tables are turned, as you seek friendship and romance while PLAYING in an arcade!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Romance 13.7%, Choices Matter 8.4%
Take control of a therapist in a mysterious, never-ending therapy session. Can you unravel the truth behind your patient's lies, and live to tell the tale? A psychological mystery developed by a psychologist.
Why similar: Time Travel 31.1% ★, LGBTQ+ 17.4%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Choices Matter 9%, Emotional 7.6%
This game is a bishoujo game developed and published by Kawayi Play.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.9%, Choices Matter 15%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Emotional 13.7%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
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.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Visual Novel 13.5%, LGBTQ+ 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Romance 10.7%
It's not what you say, it's how you say it. We should talk is a short-form narrative game that will make you think carefully about the words you choose. Can your relationship survive the night?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 14%, Romance 13.7%, Choices Matter 11.6%
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+ 24.2%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Romance 13%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Emotional 7.7%
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: LGBTQ+ 18.8%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Emotional 12.8%, Choices Matter 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%
Overcome your past and become someone new in Truer than You. A choice-driven narrative adventure about love, loss and being lost in life. You're hired as a gig-working actor to play roles in real-life situations. Have conversations, get a good rating and follow the rules. All good?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.1%, Visual Novel 13%, Romance 12.6%, Drama 12.3%, Choices Matter 12.1%
Sanzenkai Setsuna awakens on the shore of isolated island Urashima with no memories of his past. Befriending three local girls, Rinne, Karen, and Sara, Setsuna's quest to discover the secrets of Urashima and how they tie into his own past - and future - begins.
Why similar: Time Travel 31.9% ★, Visual Novel 21.1%, Romance 9.8%, Story Rich 8.9%, Drama 8.8%
Kody, a modern gym rat gets zapped by strange lightning and time-travels to 1898. A BARA, choices matter, alternate history, Visual Novel Musical set in the East Coast of USA. LGBTQ+ with romance options.
Why similar: Time Travel 38.5% ★, LGBTQ+ 24%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Choices Matter 7.4%, Romance 6.1%
Developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus, STEINS;GATE was awarded Famitsu magazine's coveted annual Game of Excellence award and was voted one of the most emotionally charged “tear-inducing games” ever made, in a Famitsu poll. It is a gripping and moving Visual Novel, which has already spawned manga and anime adaptations.
Why similar: Time Travel 41.5% ★, Visual Novel 21.4%, Story Rich 9.7%, Sci-fi 8%, Choices Matter 6.8%
A queer Victorian romance visual novel in which a gentleman running from the past and a poet hiding from the future collide through a lonely hearts ad. Suddenly, their lives can blossom—if you choose to change them.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Romance 15.3%, Visual Novel 14%, Choices Matter 10.2%
STEINS;GATE ELITE follows a rag-tag band of tech-savvy young students who discover the means of changing the past via e-mail using a modified microwave.
Why similar: Time Travel 46.2% ★, Visual Novel 23.8%, Sci-fi 8.6%, Story Rich 7.6%, Romance 5.6%
Fall in love with marbles and learn to believe in yourself again.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Romance 12.4%, Choices Matter 9.7%
Everyone's heard of Mothman– the moth creature that haunts the outskirts of Point Pleasant, West Virginia– but no one's heard of it like this! In some random idyllic Midwestern town, you meet Artemis (aka Mothman) at your favorite coffee shop and begin an agonizingly slow burn romance with them.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.2%, Romance 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Choices Matter 9%
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 19.6%, LGBTQ+ 19%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Emotional 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.2%
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: LGBTQ+ 19.7%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Romance 11.5%, Emotional 11.3%
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: LGBTQ+ 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Romance 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Choices Matter 10.1%
One of them is visiting a friend in Chicago. The other wants to shake things up in New York City. It starts in San Francisco, but where this relationship goes is all up to you.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.6%, Romance 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Choices Matter 8.7%
Jackie Shields wakes up to find everything in her world a little different than she remembers it. Trapped between her own dimension and a parallel one, she soon realizes that nothing can remain unchanged in her life. Especially not herself...because the other dimension has a Jackie of its own!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.6%, Visual Novel 20%, Romance 14.9%, Choices Matter 12%, Sci-fi 11.3%
A modern fantasy BL Visual Novel following a young mans journey into a hidden world of gods and magic to recover the past he's lost, and find his missing family. Alongside 3 attractive romance options, Myka Riley delves into the unknown.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.7%, Romance 17.7%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Choices Matter 9%
A breathtaking visual novel that will make you live through two eras filled with love, terrifying mysteries, and bullets. Follow Jake as he travels back and forth between the 90s and the Prohibition era of the 20s, and make choices that will determine his fate.
Why similar: Time Travel 34.3% ★, Romance 14.7%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%
Three loves. One week. Merry Crisis is an intimate, character-driven romance visual novel about love, loss, and belonging—is home what you left behind, or where you're headed?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, LGBTQ+ 15%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Romance 12.2%, Emotional 9%
An autopsy of a queer relationship.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.3%, LGBTQ+ 21.4%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Multiple Endings 6.7%
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+ 19.8%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Romance 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Drama 9%
Puppetmaster - Movie Viewer lets you complete your Puppetmaster collection with previous Episodes!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.9%, Drama 18.9%, Romance 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Visual Novel 11.7%
A political intrigue visual novel with romanceable elements. Player decisions weigh heavy as consequences can easily lead to hurt and trouble.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.8%, Romance 13%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Otome 11.1% ★, Visual Novel 11%
When your loved one hurts you, what do you do? A classic love story about letting go.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 32.7%, Romance 20.1%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Emotional 13.2%, Choices Matter 7.9%
Love, Elections, and Chocolate is a romantic visual novel developed by the Japanese game studio Sprite. Upon its release in Japan, it garnered numerous awards for its exceptional art, captivating music, and well-crafted characters.
Why similar: Romance 22.6%, Visual Novel 21.8%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Emotional 12.2%, Story Rich 10.2%
실존 코스튬 플레이어 5인이 직접 등장하는, 실사 비주얼 기반 연애 시뮬레이션. 옛날부터 알고 지내던 누나의 부탁으로 작은 메이드 카페 「코스텔라」의 임시 매니저가 된 당신. 라강, 아희, 보미, 아소, 린땅 — 다섯 명의 메이드와 함께하는 예상치 못한 일상 속에서, 다섯 가지 마음의 이야기가 시작됩니다.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Visual Novel 23.3%, Romance 21.3%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
In the blink of an eye, she gets there... but has no idea why. Hibridya is an episodic fantasy, romance and slice-of-life visual novel where you will follow a narrative full of emotions, discoveries, and plot twists, customizing the main character’s story in some ways!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Romance 15.6%, Otome 12.4% ★, Choices Matter 12.3%
A Field of Flowers and Stars is a simple mouse or keyboard-based visual novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Romance 19.7%, LGBTQ+ 16.1%, Hand-drawn 6.6%
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+ 21.9%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Emotional 10.9%, Romance 9.5%
STEINS;GATE returns! Rebooted for the modern era! Featuring fully updated visuals, UI, and an all-new story that breathes new life into the streets of Akihabara.
Why similar: Time Travel 33.5% ★, Visual Novel 20.4%, Romance 12.7%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
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: Time Travel 23.6% ★, Visual Novel 20.8%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Story Rich 10.5%
Join the Time Tenshi on their thrilling adventures through time! Make key decisions to influence the story's outcome... and maybe even go on a date!
Why similar: Time Travel 29.5% ★, Visual Novel 18.3%, Romance 14.7%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Story Rich 9.1%
Under Heaven Or Hell is a Dark Romance Visual Novel where love, danger, and temptation intertwine. Step into Hell and navigate a world of deadly intrigues, alluring devils and a mysterious angel. Each decision carries weight, shaping your fate, desire and the hearts bound to it.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Romance 14%, Otome 12.2% ★, LGBTQ+ 10.7%
