60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Choices Matter, Multiple Endings, Visual Novel.
Chronicles of Humanity is an expanding anthology of historical visual novels. Enter different eras, weigh conflicting testimony under political and personal pressure, and shape who is protected, what is recorded, and how each life is remembered. Complete stories are released as separate DLC.
LifeSimOS
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.
Brageskålen
Travel to Veøya in the Viking Age and solve a dangerous mystery with cunning and song!
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: Visual Novel 17.7%, Dialogue Heavy 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Text-Based 13%, Choices Matter 11.1%
Travel to Veøya in the Viking Age and solve a dangerous mystery with cunning and song!
Why similar: Historical 25.7%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choices Matter 12%, Multiple Endings 7.1%
A narrative-driven psychological visual novel where every floor of an elevator reveals a key moment from your past. Face your regrets, uncover forgotten memories, and make choices that shape your future. Will you find closure, or remain trapped in your own mind?
Why similar: Text-Based 20.2%, Visual Novel 20%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Multiple Endings 13.4%
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 16.8%, Text-Based 16.7%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Dialogue Heavy 13.7%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
Constantinople, 1453. Four witnesses — a janissary, a baker's daughter, an engineer, a noble — live the same 53 days of the siege. Choices cross between their stories, and the city remembers. An illustrated, choice-driven historical novel where every ending is someone's truth.
Why similar: Historical 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Text-Based 15.2%, Choices Matter 8.4%
In an engrossing interactive novel, live as the assistant to a remarkable historical figure: George Mueller, a man who witnessed orphans dying young in the streets of 1830's England and decided he would care for them, no matter the cost.
Why similar: Historical 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Text-Based 12.7%, Choices Matter 8.3%
Walk through a broken game with Yoka in this psychological horror visual novel. Move dialogue windows, peer through fragmented images, and read records no one answers. What you touch, preserve, or leave behind shapes your conversations and leads to six endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.2%, Text-Based 12.7%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
Embark on a journey of this text anime quest with RPG elements! Walk through beautiful locations, overcome challenges and make Peter’s dreams come true. Every step you take matters. And don’t forget to take the diary - you’ll need it!
Why similar: Historical 20.1%, Text-Based 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
Find a way out of the Do 11 app by doing missions that come from the mysterious Do 11 app. A choice awaits you to solve puzzles and change the fate of the protagonist. Escape the main character from the Do 11 app while savoring a profound worldview and intriguing story. An incredible twist awaits.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Text-Based 13.3%, Multiple Endings 12.2%
To escape, you must hurt someone. KIZUTSUKE is a psychological suspense visual novel about four young men trapped together. Read their conversations, make difficult choices, and discover four endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.1%, Text-Based 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Dialogue Heavy 12%, Choices Matter 9.7%
Experience the triumphs and tribulations of two Caribbean immigrants in post-war Britain, in the world’s first Windrush video game, from the creators of the BAFTA nominated Before I Forget. How will you shape your story in this branching narrative interactive photo album?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Historical 15.9%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Text-Based 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
Ukraine War Stories is a set of visual novels about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Set in the early months of the war, it tells the stories of civilians trapped on Russian-occupied territory. All stories are based on real events and eyewitness accounts.
Why similar: Historical 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Text-Based 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Choices Matter 9.3%
Echoes of Chang'an is a Tang-dynasty mystery visual novel from NSTUDIO. You play the adopted son of general Duan Xiushi (fictional), pulled off a simple errand into a death trap that decides an empire's fate. Observe, reason, choose — break the plot, get out alive, earn your own ending.
Why similar: Historical 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
Travel to Poland in 1772, experience life as a servant, and solve a mystery at court!
Why similar: Historical 37.3%, Visual Novel 20.9%, Choices Matter 14%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.9%
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: Visual Novel 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Text-Based 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Dialogue Heavy 11.5%
Simple visual novel in which you play as a young upperclass woman preparing for her debut before the Queen and her royal relatives. All of your decisions lead to one of four very different endings. Who will you become? The jewel of the season or the outcast, never again mentioned by your family?
Why similar: Historical 18.9%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Text-Based 13.2%, Choices Matter 12.1%
Investigate six haunted properties and listen to the voices of spirits trapped in nightmares. Collect fragmented clues and discover the correct combination of names, locations, and vessels. A multi-ending horror adventure where the outcome changes depending on your choices during the ritual.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Text-Based 15.6%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.3%
Play as Daniella as she moves across the country with only the help of her ex.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Dialogue Heavy 14.9%, Story Rich 14.2%, Choices Matter 11%
The president trusts you. Exercise your Shamanic capabilities (or lack thereof). But don't get caught!
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.6%, Dialogue Heavy 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Text-Based 12.7%
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 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Text-Based 12.8%, Choices Matter 10.8%
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: Text-Based 16.2%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Dialogue Heavy 13%, Choices Matter 12.8%
Embark on a touching and poetic adventure through the hills of Provence in “Marcel and the Secret Spring.” Inspired by the childhood stories of legendary French author and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol, this narrative-driven game lets you experience a world filled with nature, mystery, and nostalgia.
Why similar: Historical 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Text-Based 9.1%
Run a newspaper under censorship. Report, choose your articles, strike out words, lay out the page. Sharp reporting draws the censors; a compliant paper loses its readers. 1920s Gyeongseong — a newspaper management simulation adventure where you complete a single page, every single day.
Why similar: Historical 19.3%, Dialogue Heavy 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.5%
A young man disappeared in a Slavic village. You show up with three companions and a few days to find out what really happened, before the water decides to answer for itself. Based on Adam Wołoszczuk's award-winning scenario "A kto dziewczyna?", with 11 different ways it can end.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.2%, Dialogue Heavy 13.9%, Text-Based 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
Please note: This game does not support English at current stage. 《小厨杂记》是一款融合了烹饪元素的视觉小说，通过为食客端上不同的菜肴与食客对话，并最终达成不同的结局。
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.2%, Text-Based 22.2%, Historical 20.5%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
Chekhov's quiet masterpiece becomes a cinematic visual novel about longing, choice, and the impossible shape of an honest life.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.1%, Historical 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.3%, Choices Matter 8.4%
Become Odysseus, the king who brought down Troy, and survive the cursed voyage home. Every choice is remembered, and every death becomes a clue for your next attempt. A narrative survival adventure with no hidden dice — where even your first instincts are woven into the song.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Choices Matter 16.4%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Text-Based 11%
You are subordinate to the deranged dictator and must plan his doomed invasion in this text-based RPG / Visual Novel. Navigate the shark-filled waters of the Great Leader's presidential cabinet, try to save your family, and survive the purges in a world of power-hungry leaders and nuclear warfare.
Why similar: Historical 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Visual Novel 14%, Text-Based 13.8%, Choices Matter 8.8%
In the winter of 210 AD, the renowned genius strategist Zhōu Yú died of illness. Qiáo Qīng, his widowed concubine, reminisces on their bittersweet relationship while going through the belongs in their bedroom. The player's choices affect her sentiment, which in turn affects how the game ends.
Why similar: Historical 32.7%, Visual Novel 24%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%
Insects Awaken is a puzzle visual novel set in the 1940s. It follows the story of Chen Shan, a young man entangled in espionage while defending his family and homeland. He embarks on a journey between the isolated cities of Chongqing and Shanghai, braving the chaos of war with his passion and youth.
Why similar: Historical 20.8%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Multiple Endings 12.4%
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 21.7%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Text-Based 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choices Matter 8.4%
Decide the fate of the son of a tailor and a witch doctor infected with an incurable disease in an interactive story with multiple endings depending on your actions.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.4%, Multiple Endings 14.5%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Text-Based 13.1%
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: Historical 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Text-Based 12.8%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
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: Visual Novel 20.8%, Dialogue Heavy 18.6%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Story Rich 10.5%
A detective game where you fiddle information to your advantage. As an owner of a small bar, listen to visitors of your establishment, overhear their gossiping, collect information and then use to manipulate their thoughts and actions.
Why similar: Historical 16.7%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Text-Based 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%
When you start the game, the narrator will instruct you to “close your eyes.” At that moment, whether you actually close them or keep them open will change the course of the story. Listen carefully to the voice as you proceed, and find your way to the truth.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Text-Based 13.4%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Dialogue Heavy 12.9%
A dark conversation with a girl during a nightly car trip. A short multi-ending novel game where you try to understand this girl and her pain.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23%, Visual Novel 21.4%, Multiple Endings 16.8%, Text-Based 16.1%, Adventure 6.6%
A humorous sci-fi text-driven adventure where you play a support engineer sent to fix system failures in a secret research complex. Explore strange labs, investigate bizarre incidents, solve absurd problems, talk to depressed robots, and make choices that lead to multiple endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.2%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Dialogue Heavy 12.3%
"Durka Simulator" is a visual novel with humorous elements that takes place in an alternative reality in the Russian Federation.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23.7%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Text-Based 13.5%, Historical 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 10%
This is a visual novel about weaving stories in a bookshop that chronicles the unofficial history of the stars. What, in the end, did your choices signify?
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.1%, Text-Based 20.2%, Story Rich 11.6%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Choices Matter 8.8%
Astrologaster is a comedy game set in Shakespeare’s London. Play as 'Doctor' Simon Forman and treat his patients using astrology. A story-driven adventure based on a truly ridiculous story.
Why similar: Historical 24.1%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Dialogue Heavy 14.2%, Choices Matter 9.2%
Mistbound is a surreal narrative adventure about overcoming trauma, where the line between reality and dreams is blurred. Loneliness can be too loud. And salvation can be too quiet!
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.8%, Multiple Endings 15.6%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Text-Based 11.5%
――My curfew is 8 PM. Having a helicopter mom is annoying, but it's not a big deal.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.2%, Multiple Endings 17.6%, Text-Based 15.4%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Story Rich 11.4%
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: Dialogue Heavy 20%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%
You've had the same dream all week: a school field trip to a zoo you can't leave, where the lions always find you in the end. Wander the zoo exhibits, make your choices, and search for the way out. A short, hand-painted interactive story about a recurring dream, and finally resolving it.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Text-Based 11.4%
A Pentiment-like set in 19th-century Malaysia, featuring pirates, East Indiamen, headhunters, a locked-room murder mystery, a blade of meteoric ore, a tarot deck, a mountain of light, and a tiger. It’s time to put your thinking cap on; as for those voices in your head – probably best to ignore them.
Why similar: Historical 23%, Dialogue Heavy 17.3%, Text-Based 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Story Rich 8.3%
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 17.8%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Choices Matter 10.4%
Modern-day Muscovite Anna awakens in the body of Countess Elizaveta Orlova. Explore the Northern Crown Academy, uncover the secrets of its mirrors, choose your allies, and decide Anna's fate in a visual novel about magic, trust, and two worlds.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.7%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Historical 15.1%, Multiple Endings 15%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%
A total-immersion kinetic novel: boot up a PC running Prisma OS and descend into the psyche of a broken protagonist as 2001 Argentina collapses in the background. Late-night chats, obsession, music, and raw Y2K bleakness — all the way to a point of no return.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.7%, Dialogue Heavy 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Text-Based 14.6%, Historical 11.7%
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Text-Based 13.1%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
Tayke Me With You is a visual novel about high school seniors and their struggles with each other and the world around them. You play as Gene, a sheltered, socially naive human from the city as he acclimates to living in a rural town filled with dinosaurs, finding friends (and love) along the way.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.6%, Choices Matter 16%, Text-Based 15.8%, Multiple Endings 15.6%, Story Rich 9.2%
You will play a detective and go back to winter Peking more than seventy years ago. On the eve of the peaceful liberation of Peking, you will feel the cold, nothingness, exploration, pursuit, drama and gunshots in the process of searching for missing persons.
Why similar: Historical 19.2%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Text-Based 11.8%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.4%
Chief Emoji Officer is a text adventure that recreates the absurdities of the tech world by letting you become CEO using only emojis. Climb your way through corporate America by getting promoted, making allies, avoiding layoffs, and turning Redify into the most successful company in the world.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.2%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%
A war of unseen ferocity is ravaging the continent. You, ringmaster dilettante, must keep the circus afloat. Travel, entertain, and keep the troupe’s spirits up while trying to find a mythical safe haven to last out the storm in this beautifully illustrated, text-based narrative adventure.
Why similar: Historical 14.4%, Text-Based 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Dialogue Heavy 11.3%
This is an AVG trying to tell a story about a city under British governance. In 1970s, newspapers were rife with exaggerated title and drama plots. Xu Dan, a fresh journalist accidentally ran into a collaboration of cops and mafia.
Why similar: Historical 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Text-Based 15.1%, Story Rich 10.3%
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Choices Matter 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Text-Based 15.2%, Story Rich 11.7%
A visual novel about an environmental disaster. Coordinate volunteers, make difficult decisions, and try to survive as you try to save a coastal town dying from an oil spill.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.5%, Text-Based 16%, Multiple Endings 15.2%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Story Rich 12.2%
A pixelated homage to 16-bit RPGs, this former print-and-play card game has come full circle as a digital experience! Choose your champion, enter the tower, and make wise decisions on your ascent to face the Ice Lich at the top.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Choices Matter 11.5%
Alcyone: The Last City is an interactive sci-fi novel where your choices can lead to the salvation or destruction of the last refuge of civilisation in the universe. Immerse yourself in a branching narrative of diverse characters, intrigue, and world-altering decisions.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Visual Novel 15%, Text-Based 14.8%, Dialogue Heavy 14.7%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
Parallels: Year One is a visual novel that will take you on a journey through one relationship in five parallel worlds. Join Ron and Jessica on a journey to see each other from a new perspective.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Visual Novel 22.2%, Text-Based 13.3%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
