- #1 Critter Cosmos
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Amelore
Windows
A cozy 3D adventure where you play as a Capybara Astronaut, hopping from planet to planet, befriending cute animal pals, saving communities, and building a new home together.
Why similar: Fishing 27.8% ★, LGBTQ+ 15.7%, Collectathon 14.4%, 3D Platformer 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%
- #2 Underfishing
96% matchVery Positive82% of 77 reviews2025
Dev: Petros Anastasiadis
Windows
You just arrived in hell. Nothing left to to do but contemplate the life you lived, and fish. Fish out ancient treasures, upgrade your fishing abilities, and face your biggest regrets in this narrative fishing game! Will you manage to fish out Lucifer's crown and earn another chance at life?
Why similar: Fishing 32.4% ★, Narrative 27% ★, Dark Comedy 19%, Linear 8.7%, Cinematic 5.5%
- #3 An Island Away
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cold Sector
Windows
Set off on a relaxed adventure to explore Dewdrop Island! Climb, glide, and backflip your way around paradise to find the reclusive Island Elder.. but what's the big rush, when there's so many fun locals to meet along the way and fishies to catch?
Why similar: Fishing 31.8% ★, Collectathon 15.6%, 3D Platformer 14%, Open World 8.4%, Platformer 8.1%
- #4 Solo
95% matchMixed69% of 131 reviews2018
Dev: Team Gotham
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Solo is an introspective puzzler set on a gorgeous and surreal archipelago. Reflect on your loving relationships by exploring contemplative, dream-like islands.
Why similar: Narrative 33.8% ★, LGBTQ+ 21.5%, Romance 15.1%, Emotional 8.9%, Exploration 8.1%
- #5 Talewarden: Riders of the New Day
94% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Bucket Hat Cat
Windows · Mac
In this adventure visual novel, you travel across an alien planet stuck in an endless sunset. Shape the fates of 7 companions from different worlds. Uncover the truth about anomalous locations, hidden corridors, and a child who aged in a day. See what remains of a world abandoned by its creators.
Why similar: Narrative 31.8% ★, LGBTQ+ 21%, Dialogue Heavy 14%, Emotional 10.9%, Romance 9.5%
- #6 Lost in Love: Berlin
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lake System
Windows · Mac
Swipe, date & survive Berlin’s wild winter nights in this story-rich horror dating sim. Help Nora find herself — balance Energy, Cash & rising Pain while sex clubs, techno raves, and a messy ex tear your heart apart. Merry Christmas! Your choices decide who you wake up as.
Why similar: Narrative 25.2% ★, Dating Sim 18.3%, LGBTQ+ 15.9%, Emotional 15.1%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%
- #7 Last Time I Saw You
93% matchVery Positive97% of 343 reviews2024
Dev: Maboroshi ArtworksPub: Chorus Worldwide Games
Windows
First loves. Family issues. Yokai. 'Last Time I Saw You' is a coming-of-age adventure set in 1980s Japan. Explore a haunted forest hiding a terrible secret, and interact with a vast cast of friendly and deceitful characters in this beautifully hand-drawn story with some light action elements.
Why similar: Narrative 32.3% ★, Emotional 16.2%, Romance 14.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.3%, Exploration 6.9%
- #8 Winter Heat
92% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: Yuri Kissaten
Windows · Mac · Linux
Javi lives in Santiago, and Shio lives in Kyoto. They're best friends over the internet, until one fateful December changes their lives forever. A narrative game about long-distance love that takes place over chats, video calls, and social media apps.
Why similar: Narrative 25.3% ★, LGBTQ+ 20.1%, Romance 15.3%, Emotional 13.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%
- #9 The Forgotten Ones
91% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Blazing Soft
Windows
Leidy dreamed of the city, she never imagined violence would force her there. In this 90s narrative adventure, explore streets and interiors, inspect traces people left behind, hear conflicting family memories, and reconstruct meaningful objects by hand while restoring what violence left unfinished.
Why similar: Narrative 36.6% ★, Emotional 14.1%, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%, Cinematic 9.9%, Exploration 7.8%
- #10 Panicked and Surrounded by Hot Vampires
91% matchPositive96% of 23 reviews2022
Dev: Kristi Jimenez
Windows · Mac · Linux
Fall in love with tall, hot vampires!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24%, Dark Comedy 17.8%, Dating Sim 17.6%, Romance 17.2%, Dark Humor 12.3%
- #11 Blood & Play
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: tofurocksPub: Project Ensō
Windows · Mac · Linux
Hot single vampires in your area wanna give you the SUCC?! Blood & Play is a gay T4T visual novel about a guy who just lost his job in the tech industry and the centuries-old vampire who's willing to buy his blood. A deal this good can't actually be real, right...?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19%, Romance 14.5%, Dark Comedy 13.5%, Emotional 13%, Dark Humor 12.6%
- #12 Perfect Tides: Station to Station
89% matchVery Positive98% of 273 reviews2026
Dev: Three Bees
Windows · Mac
A narrative adventure about the momentum and whiplash of young adulthood. Explore the big city through 18-year-old Mara's eyes. Collect items, nurture ideas, and experience complex relationships while attempting to find your place in the world.
Why similar: Narrative 24.4% ★, Romance 14%, Emotional 13.4%, Dating Sim 12.6%, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%
- #13 Here Comes Niko!
89% matchVery Positive92% of 1,497 reviews2021
Dev: Frog VibesPub: Gears for Breakfast
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Here Comes Niko! is the cozy 3D platformer for tired people! You play as Niko traveling across scenic islands. Make new friends, catch fish, solve puzzles, snag bugs, and more! Oh, Did I mention your boss is a frog?
Why similar: 3D Platformer 22.1%, LGBTQ+ 20.4%, Fishing 17.9% ★, Collectathon 17.5%, Exploration 8.3%
- #14 Apples Busy Day
88% matchPositive100% of 21 reviews2024
Dev: Zertuk
Windows
Apples Busy Day is a short and cozy game about exploring and helping your silly neighbors. Come check out all Apple has to do on the island of fruit!
Why similar: Fishing 37.2% ★, Collectathon 19.5%, Dialogue Heavy 16.2%, LGBTQ+ 14%, Exploration 8.6%
- #15 Succubus Busy Line
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 抓不住鬼影Pub: 无
Windows
#Urban Fantasy Visual Novel Game#1v2 Demon Romance (BL)# You're a low-ranking succubus who just came of age in Demon City. All you want is to work hard and live a peaceful life, but two extraordinary demons keep stirring up trouble in your world...
Why similar: Dating Sim 27.7%, LGBTQ+ 27.1%, Dark Comedy 19.2%, Romance 18.6%, Adventure 4.5%
- #16 Alpha Omega
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EzyGames
Windows · Linux
A high quality and unique hand-crafted VISUAL NOVEL in the spirit of the "Choose Your Own Adventures" of old, which focusses on character and choices that alter the story. An unusual story about MMA, friendship, love, and hardship, where your choices drive everyone's fate.
Why similar: Narrative 26.5% ★, Dialogue Heavy 16.1%, Dating Sim 14.6%, Romance 14.2%, Emotional 11.3%
- #17 Love is Everywhere
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Xlyph Bara Games
Windows · Mac
This is a story about a guy named Santiago, early morning, he wakes up to an earthquake! and then after it happens he decides to help others becoming a rescue team member, in this story you'll save Simón a his dog Jovita out of the disaster, let's see how love will make it's way here.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 29.8%, Romance 20.9%, Dating Sim 19.5%, Emotional 13.8%, Linear 7.2%
- #18 Abanto
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Eixerits Estudio
Windows
ABANTO is a magical realist narrative experience where you explore the ego of a torero, making decisions within his memories that shape his past and reveal the reason behind his death.
Why similar: Narrative 27.3% ★, Emotional 22.3%, Story Rich 9.8%, Dark Humor 9.8%, Cinematic 9%
- #19 Christine's Care
84% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Winter Wolves
Windows · Linux
Start over in early-2000s Canada in a choice-driven adult yuri visual novel. As nurse Christine, grow close to Hannah, explore an unconventional relationship with Marlon and Liz, and shape romance, boundaries, and multiple endings through your choices.
Why similar: Narrative 24.7% ★, LGBTQ+ 22.7%, Romance 17.5%, Emotional 14.4%, Dating Sim 13.3%
- #20 Tsuchinoko Fishing
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 中尉(野良)Pub: ALLDICE
Windows
"Tsuchinoko Fishing" is a fishing romance adventure game. In this game, you'll fish in various locations, solve problems, and deepen your relationship with the heroine!
Why similar: Fishing 47.6% ★, Dating Sim 19.9%, Collectathon 14.5%, Emotional 11.5%, Adventure 6.5%
- #21 Hunky City
83% matchVery Positive81% of 178 reviews2024
Dev: Team R.P
Windows
You move to a new city to live with your "former" stepfather. Work, make friends, and explore the thrilling world of romance in this captivating game. Are you ready for the excitement? Let the journey begin!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 44.4%, Dating Sim 17%, Romance 10.7%, Open World 10.5%, Emotional 6.4%
- #22 Yours Truly
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Arnmazing Studios
Windows
Yours Truly is a platforming adventure about Liam, a discontented company man, astral projects into a dream world Along the way, players will encounter challenges such as climbing obstacles, solving puzzles, collecting shiny objects, and confronting negative emotions in the form of bosses.
Why similar: Narrative 25.8% ★, Emotional 17.8%, 3D Platformer 17.1%, Open World 12.7%, Exploration 7.6%
- #23 Little Nomads
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mathias AsamoahPub: Unchained Universe
Windows
This 2026, grab your backpack and step into nature 🌄 From Africa’s storytellers to the world, Little Nomads will take you on a cozy adventure that teaches, inspires, and reminds us how magical our planet truly is. 🌿
Why similar: Fishing 28.1% ★, Collectathon 14.7%, Dialogue Heavy 13.4%, 3D Platformer 12.6%, Open World 8.8%
- #24 The Office Type
81% matchMostly Negative39% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: Heavy Thought Studios
Windows · Mac
Add love to your resume! Date, befriend, or explore deeper moments with a wide variety of characters at once, and explore dozens of narratives in this office-themed comedy dating sim.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.8%, Dating Sim 20.7%, Romance 18.5%, Emotional 16%, Dialogue Heavy 11.5%
- #25 Lover's Trophy
81% matchVery Positive92% of 51 reviews2023
Dev: Mrfishess
Windows · Mac · Linux
A Horror Dating Sim, Lover's trophy throws you into the arena with two love interests using you for their own personal amusement. With a completely customizable main character, go on a terrifying journey into the psyce of these two very dangerous men, and have the ride of a life time.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 20%, Collectathon 19.5%, Dating Sim 19.4%, LGBTQ+ 16.6%, Dark Humor 13.8%
- #26 The Spirit and the Mouse
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,082 reviews2022
Dev: AlblunePub: Armor Games Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Bring kindness and light to the people of Sainte-et-Claire as Lila—a tiny mouse with a big heart! Explore a quaint French village, make electrifying new friends, and do good deeds for those in need in this lush narrative adventure game.
Why similar: Narrative 26.9% ★, Collectathon 14.6%, Emotional 12.3%, 3D Platformer 11.3%, Platformer 9.7%
- #27 Good Lord! Everyone at the Reunion For My Religious All-Girls School Is a Trans Man... And They're Hot?!
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 67 reviews2025
Dev: tofurocksPub: Project Ensō
Windows · Mac · Linux
Are you really the only woman at the ten year reunion for your religious all-girls high school?! Catch up with your old graduating class and maybe learn a thing or two about yourself in a hilarious weekend romp at a posh vineyard. What could possibly go wrong?
Why similar: Narrative 27.5% ★, LGBTQ+ 20.7%, Dialogue Heavy 16.5%, Romance 13.3%, Dating Sim 13.1%
- #28 Prickles
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Filthy Houseplant
Windows
A narrative drawing game about an anxious cactus artist named Prickles. Explore Prickles' apartment building to find interesting subjects to draw and acquire new drawing tools and color palettes. Help your neighbors and discover secrets by gifting drawings and making new friendships along the way.
Why similar: Narrative 33.4% ★, LGBTQ+ 21.6%, Emotional 16.8%, Romance 12.8%, Exploration 6.4%
- #29 Finding Buddies
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DixMano
Windows
Finding Buddies is a romance visual novel where your dialogue choices shape Daniel’s story and relationships. Explore different scenes, meet new characters, and experience a narrative with interactive gameplay moments.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 37%, Romance 17.4%, Collectathon 12.5%, Dating Sim 10.1%, Emotional 6.6%
- #30 Shindig
78% matchPositive98% of 44 reviews2021
Dev: Imaginary Friends Games LLP
Windows
Explore a hand-drawn island and help out a rainbow of quirky characters to plan the perfect party in Shindig – a fully-voiced, feelsy, wholesome and cozy narrative adventure! You're invited!
Why similar: Narrative 35.7% ★, LGBTQ+ 17.7%, Emotional 14.3%, Linear 9%, Exploration 8.6%
- #31 We Are OFK
77% matchVery Positive92% of 304 reviews2022
Dev: OFK
Windows · Mac
Start a virtual indie band in this behind-the-music comedy. Date, dance, skate, and run for your life across 5 episodes and interactive music videos, in a heartfelt story of what you risk to chase your dreams. All episodes out now!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.7%, Romance 18.7%, Emotional 18.2%, Cinematic 14.3%, Dialogue Heavy 9.2%
- #32 OUROBOROS SAIAKU.exe: CRAZY FOR YOU
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OF E627 LAB
Windows
TO ESCAPE FROM THE WORLD OF GAL GAME, YOU MUST BE IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR CHILDHOOD FRIEND AND BEST FRIEND, MAYUMU.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.5%, Dark Comedy 18.9%, Romance 15.3%, Dark Humor 14.9%, Dating Sim 14.2%
- #33 Out On The Water
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Night Pond Games
Windows
Out On The Water is a short, meditative journey through memory and grief that tells the story of an inattentive father and his last chance to connect with his children. Set adrift in quiet waters that represent each child, catch strange memory fish to uncover the past and face regrets.
Why similar: Narrative 34.2% ★, Fishing 30.6% ★, Emotional 16.6%, Linear 6.9%, Story Rich 6.7%
- #34 Hotwife Ashley
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: respirit
Windows · Mac · Linux
Enter a seductive visual novel where love meets temptation. Explore hotwife, cuckolding, corruption, NTS and optional NTR paths.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21%, Romance 20.1%, Dating Sim 18.3%, Emotional 12.9%, Dialogue Heavy 12.1%
- #35 Amelia
75% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Grey Interval
Windows · Linux
In this first-person narrative experience, you step into the shoes of a young girl. Explore a rural farmhouse and witness everyday family life through her eyes. Across 13 consecutive days, you'll realize that your family is not what it seems. Will you notice what everyone else leaves unsaid?
Why similar: Narrative 31.1% ★, Emotional 21.2%, Dialogue Heavy 16.4%, Exploration 10.3%, Story Rich 7.6%
- #36 Three Days to Chicago
75% matchPositive100% of 35 reviews2023
Dev: Chris SchroyerPub: Austin Ivansmith Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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+ 36.5%, Romance 23.6%, Dialogue Heavy 20.1%, Dating Sim 14.9%, Story Rich 4.9%
- #37 Merry Crisis
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Monsoon Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Narrative 30.3% ★, LGBTQ+ 19.4%, Dating Sim 15%, Romance 14.6%, Emotional 14.1%
- #38 INKURSION
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Leo Fernandez-AriasPub: 19Hz Studios
Windows
A newly super-sentient octopus escapes the god who created it. Grapple, swing and fight through the broken game worlds he abandoned, in a 3D platformer where the NPCs know they're in a game.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 22.1%, Narrative 19% ★, 3D Platformer 17.5%, Dialogue Heavy 13.7%, Emotional 11.1%
- #39 High Elo Girls
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Split Fate Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
High Elo Girls is a Visual Novel set in the esports scene where you play as the latest recruit for a new all-girls team. Can you help your squad achieve their true potential, or will you only squander your own?
Why similar: Narrative 26.8% ★, LGBTQ+ 21.3%, Romance 15.1%, Emotional 14.9%, Dating Sim 13.3%
- #40 memories
73% matchVery Positive93% of 1,565 reviews2023
Dev: guiyyuPub: Spookulele Games
Windows · Mac
memories is a sapphic visual novel dress-up game where clothes are linked to painful memories of a failed relationship.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.9%, Narrative 21.3% ★, Romance 20.7%, Emotional 19.9%, Story Rich 6.5%
- #41 Speed Dating for Ghosts
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 546 reviews2018
Dev: Copychaser Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Branching dialogue! Hard choices! A cemetery's worth of phantoms, wraiths, and poltergeists lookin' for love in all the blight places.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.6%, Dating Sim 16.8%, Dialogue Heavy 16.3%, Emotional 15.2%, Dark Humor 12.2%
- #42 Plenty of Fish in the Sea
72% matchVery Positive94% of 94 reviews2025
Dev: Nullblade Studios
Windows
Plenty of Fish in the Sea is a cozy narrative-driven dating sim where you engage in heartfelt conversations with charming salmon and take them on delightful underwater dates.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.4%, Dating Sim 21.2%, Emotional 18.5%, Romance 17.6%, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%
- #43 Moorage
71% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Daedalus Studios
Windows · Mac
Moorage is a fishing roguelite where you must travel the ocean to find a way off a desolate island. Meet people stranded like you, level up each time you fail, and catch a bunch of fish!
Why similar: Fishing 36.3% ★, LGBTQ+ 18.2%, Dialogue Heavy 17.3%, Romance 12.7%, Dating Sim 11.1%
- #44 A Hint of Purple
72% matchVery Positive94% of 127 reviews2023
Dev: Empty Exhibit
Windows
A short visual novel about queer love and art. Follow Maya, a once-celebrated painter now paralyzed, as she struggles to accept her new reality and its effects on her relationship. Argue with your Prefrontal Cortex, insult an art critic, befriend the elderly.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.6%, Emotional 19.2%, Romance 18%, Dark Humor 14.6%, Linear 10%
- #45 HIVESWAP: ACT 3
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: What Pumpkin Games, Inc.
Windows
Joey has survived evil clowns and an explosive train crash, but the only refuge from Alternia's deadly sun is deep underground. Point-and-click your way through ancient ruins, confounding puzzles and the horrors of the dark to help our plucky teen adventurer make it home to Earth in one piece.
Why similar: Narrative 37% ★, Dark Humor 17.6%, LGBTQ+ 13.5%, Emotional 11.8%, Exploration 7.8%
- #46 The End of You
70% matchVery Positive84% of 88 reviews2024
Dev: Memory of God
Windows
The End of You is a short, emotional narrative game about love lost, the ghosts of the past, and the painful crawl towards closure.
Why similar: Narrative 28.4% ★, Emotional 18.6%, Dialogue Heavy 17.3%, Romance 12%, Dating Sim 9.1%
- #47 Cabin Fever
71% matchVery Positive96% of 492 reviews2021
Dev: Steamy Buns GamesPub: Sad Panda Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
An off-grid cabin. A tech-savvy loner. One ray of sunshine in a bleak, ruined world. Cabin Fever is a slice-of-life visual novel with meaningful player choices, multiple endings to explore, and a story that will touch your heart.
Why similar: Narrative 34.5% ★, Dating Sim 22.2%, Romance 21.9%, Story Rich 7.8%, Linear 7.7%
- #48 Sisyphe's Backspace
69% matchVery Positive97% of 157 reviews2025
Dev: Koway
Windows · Mac
A 5 minutes game about love and hesitation. Use Backspace to play. Hope you will never experience this hesitation.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.2%, Romance 20.8%, Dating Sim 18.2%, Dialogue Heavy 15.9%, Emotional 12.5%
- #49 Vividly Blank
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Hi-Elo
Windows
As a mind reader with Aphantasia, Lesly can see into the volatile, extraordinary minds of others—but never her own. Dive into a rich 3D fantasy GL narrative, navigate complex romances, and uncover the truth behind a curse that is both a gift and a blank canvas.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 38.5%, Romance 21.7%, Dating Sim 20%, Cinematic 10.8%, Story Rich 9.1%
- #50 ValiDate: Struggling Singles in your Area
70% matchMixed64% of 143 reviews2022
Dev: Veritable Joy StudiosPub: Veritable Joy Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
ValiDate is a romantic visual novel about 13 adults in Jercy City navigating new relationships and the harsh realities that come alongside them.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.8%, Fishing 24.3% ★, Romance 18%, Dating Sim 17.5%, Cinematic 10%
- #51 Funi Raccoon Game
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 1,886 reviews2026
Dev: CrayonPub: The Crayon Eating Company
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Explore a series of whimsical, interconnected worlds to steal everything not nailed down. Make a garbage bin a garbage home :)
Why similar: Collectathon 24.5%, 3D Platformer 21.9%, Dark Comedy 12.6%, Platformer 12.3%, Exploration 9%
- #52 pipedog
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dreamware Media
Windows
You are a dog, lost in an infinite pipe world. Find your pack, meet strange creatures, and navigate a bizarre world as an outsider searching for a home.
Why similar: 3D Platformer 24.6%, Open World 20.8%, Collectathon 19.5%, Exploration 11.3%, Platformer 9.6%
- #53 Seven Deadly Dates
69% matchPositive85% of 40 reviews2022
Dev: MythiKiwi
Windows
You've studied latin for a few months and you accidentally read a passage from your textbook which lands you in a demon speed dating bar. Unsure of how to get home, you decide to ride it out and see how things go. Maybe you'll even find a date! Or maybe you'll find death? Who knows...
Why similar: Dark Comedy 20.9%, Collectathon 20.9%, Romance 19.4%, Dating Sim 18.4%, Dark Humor 14.5%
- #54 The Cost of Recovery
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Off The Beaten Track
Windows
What would you do if someone close to you suddenly went through major trauma? What sacrifices would you be willing to make to keep your family together? Experience the different perspectives and emotional journeys of four protagonists when their worlds are suddenly turned upside-down.
Why similar: Narrative 34.1% ★, Emotional 18.7%, Dialogue Heavy 16.6%, Linear 10%, Story Rich 7.6%
- #55 Personality Dating Sim
69% matchMixed61% of 36 reviews2020
Dev: Fickle Sickle
Windows
A dating simulator based on personality rather than gender or appearance.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.5%, Dating Sim 23.2%, Dark Comedy 22.2%, Romance 20.9%, Emotional 5%
- #56 Halfway House
65% matchVery Positive81% of 57 reviews2026
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: Dating Sim 18.9%, Emotional 17.9%, Romance 17.6%, Dialogue Heavy 17%, Cinematic 9.3%
- #57 Life is Strange: Reunion
64% matchVery Positive89% of 5,734 reviews2026
Dev: Deck Nine GamesPub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The saga of Max and Chloe, and the fate of Caledon, is yours to decide! Play as both Max and Chloe as an all-new story builds towards an epic climax. The fire will force Max and Chloe to make devastating decisions. Can they find a future together… Before everything burns?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 33.7%, Emotional 15.6%, Narrative 15% ★, Cinematic 14.4%, Romance 11.1%
- #58 Transit
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fable Systems
Windows · Mac
Transit is a dark narrative adventure starring a sarcastic sock puppet in a world looping itself to death. Ride midnight trains through collapsing timelines, free traumatised souls, and search for your sister lost inside the loop.
Why similar: Narrative 34.7% ★, Dark Comedy 17.6%, Cinematic 12.7%, Emotional 11.3%, Exploration 10.1%
- #59 Foul Play - Yuri Visual Novel
68% matchPositive95% of 37 reviews2021
Dev: Bandit Visual Games
Windows
Foul Play tells the story of a young, bright-eyed detective who is determined to succeed. Her world quickly turns upside down after she is tasked with catching a sexy, mercurial assassin. In the end, she'll need to determine how pure her conscience really is. After all, justice is subjective.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.8%, Dating Sim 16.2%, Dark Comedy 15.8%, Romance 13.3%, Dark Humor 11.4%
- #60 Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan
67% matchVery Positive92% of 242 reviews2021
Dev: ManaVoid EntertainmentPub: Indie Asylum
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan is a wholesome, creature capture, 2.5D Adventure-Puzzle-Platformer with over 30 hours of gameplay!
Why similar: Fishing 29.7% ★, LGBTQ+ 19.1%, Emotional 16.1%, Dating Sim 13.2%, Collectathon 12.6%