60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Romance, Choices Matter, Otome.
Dive into the 1950s and explore an underwater world soaked in dark magic, Eldritch mysteries, and romance. Investigate the sudden disappearances plaguing Styx and uncover the truth behind the vicious power struggle between two ancient forces.
TOUCHSTARVED
TOUCHSTARVED is a dark romance visual novel where your choices determine whether the story ends with gothic romance or blood-curdling horror. Explore an enigmatic city and find a cure for your curse by entrusting your fate to 5 love interests, each uniquely monstrous in their own way.
Harlequinade
Harlequinade is a horror otome romance visual novel about a never-ending carnival and a very death-prone college student. With the aid of 2 clowns, can you escape this timeloop?
TOUCHSTARVED is a dark romance visual novel where your choices determine whether the story ends with gothic romance or blood-curdling horror. Explore an enigmatic city and find a cure for your curse by entrusting your fate to 5 love interests, each uniquely monstrous in their own way.
Why similar: Otome 21.8% ★, LGBTQ+ 15.1%, Lovecraftian 11.9%, Romance 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.5%
Harlequinade is a horror otome romance visual novel about a never-ending carnival and a very death-prone college student. With the aid of 2 clowns, can you escape this timeloop?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.2%, Otome 20.2% ★, Visual Novel 10.9%, Dark Humor 10.2%, Horror 9.3%
Solstice is a dystopian mystery visual novel about small personal disasters that turn into great catastrophes.
Why similar: Otome 18.7% ★, LGBTQ+ 16.5%, Romance 11.6%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Choices Matter 9.1%
When The Night Comes is a queer, narrative-driven, supernatural visual novel.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.6%, Dark Humor 14.3%, Romance 13.6%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Otome 10.3% ★
Travel through alternate timelines, solve the mystery and find love in a cursed kingdom!
Why similar: Otome 19.1% ★, Dark Humor 14.5%, LGBTQ+ 13.4%, Romance 10.6%, Visual Novel 8.8%
In a world where the fae-touched fall prey to a sinister killer, only a Faeologist can uncover the truth. A dark academia murder mystery visual novel with supernatural cases, interactive investigation, romanceable characters, and multiple endings, set in the roaring 1920s New York.
Why similar: Otome 15.5% ★, LGBTQ+ 12.8%, Romance 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Noir 10.5%
Face the nightmares of your childhood and unveil the truth behind your summoning to the realm of Limbo. Fight your way back home with the help of seven deities sworn to be your protectors. Will love be the key to your freedom, or the first chapter of your downfall?
Why similar: Otome 26.1% ★, LGBTQ+ 18.9%, Romance 14.7%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Dark Fantasy 8%
A horror mystery adventure game with ghost story elements. Anxiety plagues college student Lily, whose crush Sally has gone missing. As Lily explores the truth, Sally's boyfriend starts to look increasingly suspicious. Even worse, the story of the Cannibal Boy seems to be involved somehow...
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.2%, Lovecraftian 17.3%, Dark Humor 14.6%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
Congrats! You've landed a dream job as a paranormal scientist with the government! Downside? Outside contact is limited and monitored. You learn it is 'who' (not 'what') you are researching, and... you're the reason these supernatural beings are here? Ignore the lurking Guardians of Reality...
Why similar: Otome 24.6% ★, Dark Humor 13.3%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Horror 8.4%
A classic whodunit – but with a harem of himbos! Determine which of your hunky housemates is killing off the other handsome hardbodies before you’re left with not a handful of hotties, but just one murderous, monogamous man.
Why similar: Otome 19.5% ★, Dark Humor 19%, Romance 14.9%, LGBTQ+ 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
This world is woven of strings, of fate and of hate. What do you see, detective? A horror-mystery yuri visual novel peering into the maddening darkness of love and death.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.9%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Romance 11%, Detective 10.3%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
Become the noble of a country on the brink of war.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.2%, Otome 22.3% ★, Visual Novel 15.6%, Romance 13%, RPG 7.9%
Your scholarship is in danger, your friends aren't human, and something ancient is awakening in the dreamlands. As reality itself becomes uncertain, questions of identity and transformation become matters of survival. Just another finals week at Miskatonic University.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 19.1%, Otome 19% ★, LGBTQ+ 15.7%, Romance 12.5%, Visual Novel 10.1%
Hearts in Orbit is a fantasy romance visual novel that follows two stars who fell in love and have reincarnated as humans. Will they remember their origins? Will they fall in love again? That's for you to decide.
Why similar: Otome 22.1% ★, Romance 19.7%, LGBTQ+ 18.3%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Choices Matter 7.6%
This is a dating sim with guys you will never be on the same page with! For some reason, you just can't communicate with the guy you like... An unusual yet extraordinary experience with a cute pixel art style, fully voiced in Japanese.
Why similar: Otome 21% ★, Dark Humor 20.1%, LGBTQ+ 17.9%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Romance 12.7%
Camp Palut is an otome-style mystery that can be completed in 2-4 hours. Play as Jess, a high school senior attending summer camp for the first time. Luckily there are cuties ready to get to know you! Choose between the four unique love interests or play them all to piece together the whole story.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.6%, Romance 15.7%, Otome 15.1% ★, Visual Novel 13.5%, Mystery 9.8%
A murder mystery visual novel with a romantic twist. The killer is randomly chosen at the start of each playthrough, and you may unknowingly fall in love with them. How will your story come to its end? Will you bring the killer to justice, fall in love with them, or die at their hands?
Why similar: Otome 20.5% ★, LGBTQ+ 20.2%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Romance 13.1%, Choices Matter 10.2%
Embrace or resist the demonic influence around you. Romance your companions in this RPG with an emphasis on conversation choices and character interactions.
Why similar: Otome 21.3% ★, LGBTQ+ 16.9%, Dark Humor 14.2%, Romance 11.5%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
A free horror Visual Novel about an ill-fated journey across Sinnlos, a lake where gruesome monsters lurk just beneath the surface. With times being so dire you'll need to decide what, and who, is going to be sacrificed. Anyone can be saved, but not everyone can be.
Why similar: Otome 24.2% ★, Visual Novel 19.9%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Romance 9.1%
Escape and maintain your humanity in this Horror/Dark Fantasy visual novel/Otome game.
Why similar: Otome 24.2% ★, Lovecraftian 17.4%, Romance 13.1%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Choices Matter 8.3%
Spell Candle is your grief coping mechanism in a 2D romance visual novel. Take on the role of a foreign correspondent turned investigator of magical crimes to uncover the culprit behind the mysterious disappearance of a sleeping God.
Why similar: Otome 25.6% ★, Romance 14.4%, Visual Novel 12.5%, LGBTQ+ 10.6%, Detective 7.9%
A dark fantasy tale where death is not the end but the path to the truth. Two magi trapped in a collapsing tower must unravel a deadly mystery. Each death reveals another piece of the puzzle that is their shared past and forbidden love. For fans of House in Fata Morgana and literary dark fantasy.
Why similar: Otome 21.4% ★, LGBTQ+ 15.2%, Romance 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
After immediately being caught in your mission to kill a corrupted king, you must earn the trust of the king's court and spare yourself from execution. However, the longer you stay, the clearer it becomes there is something much darker is lurking in the castle - and latching onto your own mind.
Why similar: Romance 19.1%, Visual Novel 16.8%, LGBTQ+ 12.1%, Horror 11.3%, Otome 10.3% ★
MAMIYA is a captivating, dark mystery visual novel in which a group of young men struggle against existential dread before the end of the world.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.3%, Noir 14.4%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Multiple Endings 8.8%, Choices Matter 8.3%
Your bestie seems to be hiding something. There's something about your world that seems odd as well, like it has...secrets. Dive into the Cthulhu Mythos universe of this horror game and witness a "friendship" that rewrites the world.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 20.2%, LGBTQ+ 19.1%, Dark Humor 14.2%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
A dark fantasy visual novel about a girl named Princess who, through a strange series of events, unlocks a new power that changes her life forever. Guide Princess to help her get her life together, manage her relationships, her addiction and, most importantly, prevent the end of the world!
Why similar: Dark Humor 17.5%, Otome 16.9% ★, LGBTQ+ 16.3%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Romance 10.7%
Madeleine Valois is a prince's companion. It is her responsibility to keep him out of trouble - not to let him walk blindly into a political minefield, not to let him get arrested for a crime he didn't commit, and definitely not to let him fall in love with her...
Why similar: Otome 29% ★, Visual Novel 16.8%, LGBTQ+ 15.8%, Romance 12.2%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
A city forgotten by everyone, two women trying to unravel its secrets, and a dismal silence of war. Is it possible to create without the hope of being heard? Is it possible to mourn for someone obliterated in memories? And what horrors are hidden in the shadows of forgotten town?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 20.2%, LGBTQ+ 18.3%, Noir 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Detective 8.6%
You wake up on a cold bathroom floor, only to discover that you somehow time travelled to a Halloween party in 1999! As you try to make sense of your situation and get closer to the other guests, will your clueless choices let the party take a deadly turn?
Why similar: Otome 12.6% ★, Visual Novel 11.4%, Romance 11.3%, Dark Humor 10.8%, LGBTQ+ 10.6%
Alice, Alice, the Red Queen is missing. The queen has been dismembered and Alice must find all her pieces. A horror-fantasy yuri visual novel filled with death, love, and forgotten memories.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.8%, Romance 17%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Horror 11%, Dark 9.9%
A yandere yuri visual novel with a fairytale theme. Can you escape from your mysterious pursuer?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.3%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Romance 13.1%, Dark Fantasy 9.8%, Horror 8.6%
Upon finding a mysterious social media account, Alex sets out to find the origins of the photos and meets three urban explorers, each of them unearthing something new and unfamiliar in her heart.
Why similar: Otome 27.5% ★, LGBTQ+ 19.9%, Romance 15.5%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Mystery 8.3%
Play as EVE, an immortal assassin cursed with the kiss of death, as she turns on her (literal) evil corporate overlords in an attempt to break free of her iron-clad contract in this LGBTQ+ dark comedy, supernatural visual novel.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 29.8%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Dark Humor 15.2%, Romance 12.7%, Choices Matter 7.8%
A marvellous romance with a hint of murder, where every playthrough is different! Seek love, friendship, or more... intimate encounters. Help a murdered man find justice. And watch out for the bats.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21%, Romance 15.6%, Lovecraftian 13.8%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Detective 10.4%
Bewitching Sinners is a dark comedy dating sim where your choices will either leave you with your true love or ruin a whole world and potentially killing millions of people within it, no pressure! Explore a fantasy world full of witches, hot priests, and the occasional dance with death.
Why similar: Otome 24.3% ★, LGBTQ+ 18.6%, Romance 12.4%, Visual Novel 12%, Dark Humor 10.9%
You are a troubled college student trying to live a normal life surrounded by some... complicated men. Although unaware, you are causing the destruction of reality. Will the Guardians kill you to protect the universe? Can you find your happily ever after... How many times will you die trying?
Why similar: Otome 27.8% ★, Dark Humor 13.2%, Visual Novel 12%, Romance 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.7%
Take the throne and save your Kingdom by reviving ancient magic that's been lost to your family for generations.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.5%, Romance 18.2%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Otome 15.7% ★, Multiple Endings 10.7%
Discover the secrets of the witches and demons in this dark fantasy romance game, featuring a female protagonist whose personality is completely up to the player thanks to extensive dialog choices.
Why similar: Otome 22.2% ★, LGBTQ+ 18.2%, Dark Humor 14.9%, Romance 11.8%, Visual Novel 10.5%
Nothing is as it seems.
Why similar: Otome 32.3% ★, Romance 17.1%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Mystery 10.2%, Choices Matter 7.8%
Fearbonding is a Yandere x Demon BL Horror Visual Novel. Play as Hinata, a demon, and try to tame the deranged Kosuke. Will you get to satisfy your hunger for fear through your new hunting dog or will you be the one to get devoured?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.4%, Romance 16.2%, Visual Novel 14%, Horror 10.2%, Multiple Endings 8%
An otome visual novel - play a powerless victim of a terrifying, unfair world. 200+ choices, 50+ endings, 20+ hours of play - and only one way to escape.
Why similar: Otome 28.4% ★, Romance 15.2%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Choices Matter 9.8%
Descend under a mountain to the marketplace below, where everything has a price. Meet the four men who can each give you what you need, but beware: they have their own hidden motives and uses for you. OBSCURA is a dark fantasy romance VN that asks how far you'll go to get what you need.
Why similar: Otome 26.6% ★, LGBTQ+ 17%, Romance 14.3%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
After dying, poisoned for unknown reasons, Isobel finds herself in the afterlife... and on a dangerous mission. Experience a truly unique visual novel full of character, mystery and heart as you point and click your way to unveiling the strange world of Purgatory's many secrets.
Why similar: Otome 25.4% ★, Romance 15.2%, LGBTQ+ 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
Killer Chat! Expanded Edition fleshes out our serial killer dating chatsim to make it bigger, better and bloodier than ever before! Play as a writer, pretend to be a serial killer, get inspiration for your book, and try not to call the cops as you fall in love with your murderous beau of choice.
Why similar: Otome 20.6% ★, Dark Humor 15.8%, LGBTQ+ 15.6%, Romance 12.8%, Visual Novel 10%
In a dystopian world ruled by vampire lords, an opportunity arises. Participate in a deadly hunt for a chance at freedom... *if* you can outrun your hunters. Will you finally break your chains - or be dragged into the abyss?
Why similar: Otome 24.4% ★, LGBTQ+ 14.8%, Romance 14.6%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Multiple Endings 6.9%
You wake up as a jester next to the king's lifeless body. You are trapped in a cursed kingdom with three love interests. Will you seek the truth, help the others, or try to escape?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.7%, Dark Humor 15.6%, Romance 12.6%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
Hotel Tutwin is a visual novel designed for horror / romance lovers, but can also be quirky and cute. Each story line is quick and to-the-point, but there are many to discover. Prepare for inevitable deaths.
Why similar: Otome 21.8% ★, Dark Humor 16.5%, LGBTQ+ 13.3%, Romance 12.9%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
Death Drive is a road trip visual novel inspired by classic American Gothic fiction.
Why similar: Dark Humor 21.4%, Noir 16.1%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Lovecraftian 10.2%, Horror 9.2%
Astrid wakes up in Purgatory and has to make peace with her death. Only problem is... she doesn't remember anything! Point and click your way through adventure-based gameplay mixed with visual novel storytelling, and solve the mystery of our heroine's untimely demise.
Why similar: Otome 25% ★, Romance 15%, LGBTQ+ 14.3%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
As the summer heat fades, Suoh Shirahane is just one step away from unraveling the mystery of why her beloved Amitie partner left in the spring.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 31.1%, Visual Novel 20.8%, Romance 20.6%, Mystery 9.9%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
A job gone wrong traps lawyer R. M. Renfield at Castle Dracula. Sacrifice—others, or your own humanity—to survive, or risk it all for love in this romantic horror visual novel. But Renfield isn’t the only one looking for a way out. Who, if anyone, can you trust?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.5%, Romance 14.9%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Horror 10.2%, Dark Fantasy 8.2%
A psychological/drama/romance visual novel about a sweet marriage that slowly rots into a nightmare. Over the course of seven days, try to navigate a rocky relationship with your husband and unravel the mysteries surrounding this man... who might not be the man you married.
Why similar: Otome 27.8% ★, LGBTQ+ 20.3%, Lovecraftian 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Romance 10.4%
Symbiotic Love is a coming-of-age Yuri Visual Novel set in an All Girls' High School. What has fate in store for love so perfect, so symbiotic, that they could only live, and perish together?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.4%, Romance 20.5%, Visual Novel 18%, Multiple Endings 11%, Choices Matter 8.7%
A visual novel about first love, decisions, and the sweetness of a town where everyone knows each other. Join Haruto on his journey to discover what it truly means to love.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 29%, Romance 19.9%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Choices Matter 9%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
One day in midsummer, Iona got visited by her little sisters. The reunion is not an emotional one: the eldest brother, Riku, has stabbed their father. As she confronts her sisters, she realise that they remind her of Riku. This time, let's start a moral love.
Why similar: Otome 22% ★, Dark Humor 21.5%, Romance 17.1%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
When an alien boy named Enoch lands on your balcony one fateful Sunday evening, your life is changed forever. Can you keep your alien roommate a secret from the world?
Why similar: Otome 23.1% ★, LGBTQ+ 19.7%, Romance 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
A delightful, delicious, devilish erotic visual novel.
Why similar: Otome 38.4% ★, Romance 15.7%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, LGBTQ+ 6.9%
As a future seer, you know exactly who you're going to spend the rest of your life with. Unfortunately, it seems convincing them on that matter might not be so simple. Come to enjoy the journey in this amusing, exciting, and touching Visual Novel.
Why similar: Romance 19.6%, Otome 19.3% ★, Visual Novel 18.3%, LGBTQ+ 13.8%, Multiple Endings 9%
An otome game and romance visual novel. Step into the shoes of the necromancer, Raenelle. Meet a colorful cast of characters, fail to summon the spirits of the dead, unravel mysteries, and maybe — just maybe — fall in love.
Why similar: Otome 27.5% ★, LGBTQ+ 18.8%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Romance 11.5%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
A dark fairy tale about the woods outside a small village and the monster that roams within them. Become Sage and play through to uncover the mystery when they're tossed away from everything they've ever known.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.9%, Visual Novel 14%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Dark Fantasy 11%, Horror 10.4%
