- #1 Head AS Code
97% matchVery Positive94% of 77 reviews2021
Dev: Miracle Moon
Windows
The first entry of the Abime Series. Eight captives must cooperate or compete to escape an underground subway under the manipulation of a dangerous psychopath. Can you really trust anyone? What about yourself? And what is the meaning of a good ending? Is reaching one even possible?
Why similar: Conspiracy 24.9% ★, Thriller 15.4%, Mystery 12%, Psychological 9.6%, Visual Novel 9.4%
- #2 Omnisight
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yahont Games
Windows
In "Omnisight" you decide what people will believe. Theories, relationships with colleagues, and secrets are just tools at your disposal. You change reality and transform yourself along with it. But are you ready to accept the consequences?
Why similar: Conspiracy 25.8% ★, Psychological 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Dystopian 11%, Choices Matter 9.3%
- #3 The VII Enigma
96% matchPositive100% of 17 reviews2022
Dev: Spire Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Every answer lies in a timeline that no longer exists. 『The VII Enigma』 is an intricate time-travel mystery visual novel for players drawn to stories that test the mind, stir the heart, and reward careful attention. Unravel a conspiracy written across time in search of a future beyond their control.
Why similar: Psychological 12.8%, Mystery 12.6%, Sci-fi 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Conspiracy 11.7% ★
- #4 Decide 4 God
95% matchVery Positive94% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Miracle Moon
Windows
The final entry of the Abime Series. Six intruders and six captives share a high-tech prison where their moral dilemmas may lead them to a fate worse than death. Can they overcome the wiles of Empathy Systems? What dark secrets lurk behind that institution? When does knowledge become a curse?
Why similar: Conspiracy 26.7% ★, Thriller 15.6%, Psychological 13.7%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Mystery 10.5%
- #5 Faultline.Exe
94% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: Jason BannPub: VibeAxis
Windows
The median lifespan of a new operative is 8 minutes. Try to beat the average. Hack a dying space station, outsmart a corrupted AI, and dodge rogue autodocs in cheesy FMV glory. Halcyon HR reminds you that dying on the clock instantly voids your pension. 12 brutal endings.
Why similar: Conspiracy 26% ★, Dystopian 13.5%, Mystery 11.2%, Sci-fi 10.8%, Choices Matter 7.4%
- #6 Ubel
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Regularjax
Windows
A visual novel where eight participants are forced to play a death game where they have to vote every two hours. Who will survive? Who will betray? Who are the masterminds behind it all?
Why similar: Thriller 20.1%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Mystery 17.7%, Sci-fi 14.5%, Psychological 9.5%
- #7 Pegasus: Broken Wings
93% matchMostly Positive75% of 16 reviews2021
Dev: Astronomic Games
Windows
Follow a new set of events involving Pegasus-5 crew with them being stuck in a city under curfew after a terrorist attack and getting entangled in a massive conspiracy. Stick close to your allies, build romantic relations, and make important choices.
Why similar: Conspiracy 26.7% ★, Dystopian 13.3%, Thriller 11.8%, Sci-fi 9.9%, Visual Novel 9.4%
- #8 Sophie: The Girl From The Zone
91% matchVery Positive88% of 563 reviews2026
Dev: DavyCroquetteGame
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Sophie: The Girl from the Zone is a choice-based adult Visual Novel. What if your world was nothing more than a hallucination? What if you were simply insane? In that case, how could you know what is real? And you, are you really who you think you are?
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, Dystopian 13.5%, Thriller 12.3%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Sci-fi 10.4%
- #9 Booth: A Dystopian Adventure
92% matchVery Positive89% of 399 reviews2020
Dev: Guanpeng Chen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The year is 2036. In this famine-riddled world, food-centric sovereignty has been established. Living alone inside a food-inspection booth, you are striving to find truth and peace beyond the borderline.
Why similar: Conspiracy 24.4% ★, Dystopian 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Mystery 11.1%, Visual Novel 7.9%
- #10 Burn-9
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 14 Hours ProductionsPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac · Linux
A spy thriller where you’re not the spy. Safe behind your screen, guide the last survivor of an elite black-ops team in a desperate attempt to salvage a mission gone horribly wrong. Caught between military command and your agent, information is your greatest weapon.
Why similar: Conspiracy 17.3% ★, Sci-fi 14.9%, Thriller 14%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Choices Matter 8.6%
- #11 Furry Android Hentai
90% matchMixed69% of 12 reviews2022
Dev: artoonu
Windows · Linux
Short Adult-Only Visual Novel featuring 3 different android girls in a few sex positions.
Why similar: Conspiracy 28.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 18.3%, Dystopian 14.2%, Sci-fi 12.4%, Mystery 11%
- #12 Take As Needed
89% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2021
Dev: Chromeleon Games
Windows · Mac
Assume a lead drug development role at Mazer- the foremost pharmaceutical company in the world! Create groundbreaking drugs for your customers, work hard to impress your bosses, and try not to ruffle too many feathers...
Why similar: Conspiracy 27.4% ★, Dystopian 19%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Multiple Endings 8%
- #13 Save The World
89% matchPositive100% of 20 reviews2023
Dev: Winter Wolves
Windows · Linux
Aliens ask a broke young woman what's wrong with Earth... then start making everything she says come true. Shape humanity's future in a darkly comic sci-fi visual novel with consequential choices, four endings, conspiracy, and romance.
Why similar: Conspiracy 26.5% ★, Dystopian 13.8%, Sci-fi 12.5%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Choices Matter 8.1%
- #14 Eternal ONE
88% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: HOONDAHL STUDIOS LTD
Windows
Eternal ONE is a visual novel game of futuristic fantasy genre, learning about secret of the city while resolving various request of Lucio City.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.4%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Dystopian 12.1%, Sci-fi 11.8%, Mystery 11.2%
- #15 The Things We Don't See: 10 Interactive Stories of Horror, Mystery, and the Unknown
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: VisualNovelGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Ten Storiees. Dozens of impossible choices. Every choice decides who survives, what they become, or what they never should have seen. A branching visual novel anthology of horror, conspiracy, and quiet dread — with dozens of endings.
Why similar: Conspiracy 47.1% ★, Thriller 18.7%, Multiple Endings 13%, Mystery 12%, Visual Novel 8.4%
- #16 ConOps21: Subversion Protocol
86% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: BoldHat®
Windows
Neo-London remembers nothing. The Dominion made certain of it. You are Cipher Reeve — the man their erasure failed to take - and the buried Signal you've touched carries the memory of everyone they erased. A psychological techno-thriller where truth is contraband and every choice is recorded.
Why similar: Conspiracy 32.5% ★, Psychological 14.8%, Thriller 14.4%, Dystopian 13%, Choices Matter 7.1%
- #17 Sokolov Test
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Holytoor
Windows
Sokolov Test is a psychological sci-fi visual novel in which a machine examiner evaluates your answers one by one. Face strange questions, visual tests, system anomalies, secrets and fragmented memories. The test is not asking whether you are good. It is asking whether you are a person.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18%, Post-apocalyptic 16.6%, Sci-fi 12.4%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
- #18 Direct Investigation
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Socopus Interactive
Windows
Seoul, 2035. A first-person noir text adventure. Step into the shoes of Park Eunkyul, an investigator who verifies what no one else wants verified. Read the scene, question the witness, follow erased traces — and watch every certainty you started with quietly fall apart.
Why similar: Thriller 19.5%, Sci-fi 16.1%, Conspiracy 15.7% ★, Visual Novel 15.3%, Mystery 14.7%
- #19 Sophie II: Paradox
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DavyCroquetteGame
Windows · Mac · Linux
To save humanity, your mind was sent back in time to rewrite history. But you did not wake up in your own body. Can we truly change the past? And what if something else is hiding behind all of this?
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 18.5%, Dystopian 16.2%, Psychological 13.9%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Mystery 12.5%
- #20 I Would Love to Wish You Good Morning
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silhouette Games
Windows
I Would Love to Wish You Good Morning is a choice-driven dystopian psychological horror visual novel about isolation, obedience, and the price of fitting in. Will you navigate the uncanny social dynamics of the future... or die trying?
Why similar: Thriller 18.2%, Mystery 17.8%, Sci-fi 16.8%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Choices Matter 9.9%
- #21 The Disclosure Loop
82% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: IonianCore
Windows
The city is in chaos. The building won't let you leave. Spot the anomalies, tune the alien frequencies, and survive the loop in this brutal first-person psychological horror experience built on pure paranoia. Available Now.
Why similar: Conspiracy 29.1% ★, Thriller 14.7%, Mystery 12%, Psychological 11.9%, Sci-fi 11.2%
- #22 Across Kiloparsecs
83% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Dragon Dropper
Windows · Linux
A short science-fiction visual novel where you investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of a close friend.
Why similar: Conspiracy 26.1% ★, Sci-fi 13%, Mystery 12%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Choices Matter 7.6%
- #23 CHILDREN OF HELL
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stanwixbuster
Windows
Team Z.A.C.K. are immortal, and the government tells them to kill demons. A visual novel where everything hinges on when, or even if, you make a choice.
Why similar: Conspiracy 27.9% ★, Thriller 15.8%, Psychological 14.9%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Choices Matter 7.9%
- #24 BURIED STARS
81% matchVery Positive84% of 2,268 reviews2021
Dev: LINE Games Corporation
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A mystery adventure set at the collapse site of a live survival audition show. Trapped contestants communicate with each other—and the outside world through social media—as they wait for rescue. But as unexpected events unfold, trust begins to crack, and survival becomes far more complicated.
Why similar: Conspiracy 24.9% ★, Thriller 14.7%, Psychological 12.2%, Mystery 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.3%
- #25 The Devil's Whisper
81% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Madness Way GamesPub: Mangotronics
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Devil's Whisper is a psychological horror Visual Novel with a full voice cast. Immerse yourself in a haunting mystery filled with dark drama and a touch of romance. Multiple thrilling alternate endings to play through! Choose who lives and who dies!
Why similar: Conspiracy 30.5% ★, Mystery 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Romance 7.8%, Dialogue Heavy 7%
- #26 Kindred [Subject 6244]
80% matchPositive95% of 42 reviews2024
Dev: Victoria RafaelianPub: Captain Edge Studios
Windows
In this eerie, horror visual novel, you are confined in a room with a monster. How will you fare against petrifying odds? Will you be able to work your way into the mind of an indecipherable beast, or will you be added to the casualty count? A word of advice: Choose a side; don't look back.
Why similar: Dystopian 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Sci-fi 12.3%, Psychological 11.9%, Mystery 10.4%
- #27 A Totally Normal Love Story
79% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Something Hippo
Windows · Mac
Made for people who love Hallmark movies — and people who love to hate them. A totally normal love story in a perfectly ordinary small town, where nothing weird ever happens…or so you’re told.
Why similar: Thriller 23%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Mystery 16.8%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Romance 12.1%
- #28 CENSOR
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quack Duck Games
Windows · Mac
A sci-fi interrogation game. No more than ten people in the galaxy can do your job. The person across the table is already convicted. Find out why they did it, then decide what the truth will cost them.
Why similar: Conspiracy 23.6% ★, Dystopian 14.1%, Psychological 13.8%, Mystery 13.1%, Sci-fi 10.3%
- #29 SYNESTHESIA
78% matchPositive100% of 45 reviews2023
Dev: Spire Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
🌀 Is there an escape to the endless spiral?🌀 『SYNESTHESIA』 is an emotive, character driven sci-fi mystery visual novel. Join a group of college students with strange cognitive powers, who soon discover something is amiss at the institute sworn to help them...
Why similar: Conspiracy 16.4% ★, Psychological 14.2%, Mystery 13.6%, Sci-fi 13.6%, Visual Novel 13.1%
- #30 Containment Manifest
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: K.A.I Rose
Windows
Work the night shift at a sealed sorting facility. Inspect unknown objects, compare instrument readings, and decide: ACCEPT, REJECT, or CONTAIN. Just don't assume the equipment — or the protocol — is telling you the truth
Why similar: Conspiracy 32.4% ★, Sci-fi 14.5%, Mystery 14.1%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Futuristic 8.7%
- #31 Mothmen 1966
77% matchVery Positive91% of 329 reviews2022
Dev: LCB Game StudioPub: Chorus Worldwide Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Mothmen 1966 is a 'Pixel Pulp' - a visual novel fusing exceptional writing and stunning illustration, inspired by mid-20th century pulp fiction and 80s home computer graphics - set amongst the strange occurrences of the Leonid meteor shower of 1966.
Why similar: Conspiracy 25.3% ★, Thriller 13.9%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Mystery 10.7%, Choices Matter 7.5%
- #32 Synapse
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SB Games
Windows · Mac
A cyberpunk point-and-click thriller where your emotional score determines everything. Explore a city under constant surveillance, hack its systems, build dangerous connections, and make choices that decide your access - and whether you survive the night.
Why similar: Dystopian 17.1%, Thriller 14.7%, Psychological 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Sci-fi 8.6%
- #33 PROTOCOL: NOAH
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SINEN STUDIO Inc.
Windows · Mac
SINEN STUDIO presents PROTOCOL: NOAH, its first despair-filled fantasy. As a “Tuner,” command girls in battle and tend to their bodies and minds. A story-driven adventure set around Academy City Ark, where girls fight Phantoms. “Beyond the cycle of death lies hope—but for whom?”
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 18.3%, Visual Novel 17%, Mystery 14%, Sci-fi 12.3%, Choices Matter 10.6%
- #34 The Bunker Notes - Horror/Drama Visual Novel
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 66 reviews2026
Dev: Synthetic Domain
Windows
"The Bunker Notes" is a visual novel about a concrete trap where the past whispers through the cracks of rusted doors. In this world, survival is everything; meeting another person might be your last mistake.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 17.6%, Dystopian 15.4%, Psychological 13.7%, Thriller 13.3%, Visual Novel 11%
- #35 Dance of the Butterflies
76% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Parupuro Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your twin sister is missing. Under her name, you uncover a deadly system where 50 people compete for a Wish powerful enough to change anything. The price of entry is a piece of yourself, signed away in a contract. Survive. Find her. And try not to lose yourself to the people you meet along the way.
Why similar: Psychological 20.8%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Dystopian 14.7%, Mystery 12.5%, Romance 8.9%
- #36 Awakening: Into the Stars
75% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: mc2visuals
Windows
Become the one and only Captain of the Colony Ship Oberon as it cruises towards the Planet Zaenus with a single goal in mind: to colonise it and make it into a brand-new home for humanity. Such a huge task might seem daunting, but don’t worry, for you are not alone on your journey...
Why similar: Conspiracy 25.6% ★, Psychological 14.8%, Sci-fi 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Mystery 9%
- #37 Sunset Inferno
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Treasured Trash
Windows
Sunset Inferno is a choice-driven narrative adventure where you are a Recycler: a machine built to hunt war deserters. But when a bomb destroys your transport, it also cracks your programming. Uncover who attacked you before your makers decide you've changed too much.
Why similar: Dystopian 18.7%, Mystery 17.8%, Psychological 13.2%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Sci-fi 10.6%
- #38 DRINK HUMAN BEANS
73% matchPositive100% of 22 reviews2025
Dev: Last Dissent
Windows
You will created to be tortured by a sentient job application. You will learn to live, laugh, love until the walls bleed. You will become a succulent beverage.
Why similar: Conspiracy 24.8% ★, Dystopian 16.6%, Thriller 11.7%, Mystery 11.2%, Sci-fi 10.5%
- #39 Interim Crossroads
74% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2024
Dev: Astronomic Games
Windows
A visual novel with choices and consequences, set in a purgatory dimension where we must complete certain tasks before we are deemed worthy to move on. Build trust and romance, confront the past, and choose the future.
Why similar: Thriller 16.9%, Dystopian 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Sci-fi 11.9%, Choices Matter 8.8%
- #40 Alcyone: The Last City
73% matchPositive81% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: Strange Artifice
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Post-apocalyptic 20.1%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Dystopian 12.5%, Sci-fi 9.7%, Interactive Fiction 8.2%
- #41 Deathwish Bloom
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sharp Glass Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
In this hand-drawn romance-mystery visual novel, play as Sky, a love-struck impostor scientist born into a quake-ridden world. Survive your own secrets in a last-ditch attempt to recreate a cure only you remember existed. Let in characters whose obsessions can both aid and destroy you.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 19%, Psychological 15%, Mystery 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Dystopian 8.9%
- #42 Cold Verdict 3
72% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Astronomic Games
Windows
The third and final part of the 'Cold Verdict' trilogy. Claire has spent two years tracking down the elusive masked man who puts people through psychological games. Now she has to get through another of his ordeals if she wants to bring him to justice. Make choices and decide the final outcome!
Why similar: Thriller 22.8%, Psychological 19.8%, Visual Novel 17%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
- #43 The Facility
72% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Veinstone Studios
Windows
You look different today. Yesterday, you looked different too. Which one is really you? A psychological horror game about paranoia, identity, and the fear of trusting the wrong person.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, Thriller 14.6%, Psychological 14.1%, Dystopian 14.1%, Mystery 12.8%
- #44 Advent: Dawn
70% matchPositive86% of 21 reviews2026
Dev: Spire Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Seven strangers. One collapsed cave. No escape. A sci-fi mystery visual novel where every route to survival pulls you closer to a different companion—and a different lie. Will you unravel the mystery before the cave unravels you?
Why similar: Thriller 14.5%, Psychological 14.5%, Mystery 14.3%, Sci-fi 13.8%, Visual Novel 13%
- #45 Rouge Patrol
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Grimlark
Windows
A war that outlived the soldiers who fought it. Enemies inherited by a generation not grown. You will lead your precocious unit into this unending conflict and find out if the bonds of friendship can withstand the tides of war. Overflowing with black humour, you'll laugh till you cry...
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 19.9%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Dystopian 11%, Choices Matter 11%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
- #46 Univocity
71% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Novaerc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Univocity is a short cyberpunk visual novel wrapped in neon aesthetics with a lush atmospheric soundtrack, featuring a deep and emotional conversation between two people about taking down a global tech monopoly.
Why similar: Dystopian 23.1%, Thriller 19.5%, Sci-fi 16.6%, Visual Novel 16%, Choices Matter 7.2%
- #47 Total Alarm
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pixel CrowPub: Feel Good Games
Windows
A disgraced engineer unravels a terrifying deception in a retro-futuristic dystopia spanning the stars, fusing resource management, strategic card duels, and morally complex social dynamics against the clockwork cruelty of an authoritarian state clinging to power.
Why similar: Conspiracy 28.2% ★, Dystopian 21.9%, Sci-fi 15.2%, Mystery 11.2%, Choices Matter 6.5%
- #48 The Sky Left Us
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ratworm Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A sci-fi visual novel about climate, class, and the relationships that shape our worldview.
Why similar: Conspiracy 35.9% ★, Sci-fi 15.7%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Romance 8%, Futuristic 8%
- #49 Timeseeker: Hands of Fate
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Quantum Cat
Windows · Linux
You have the cursed power of seeing when everyone around you will die. In a crumbling post-Soviet town full of secrets, every choice to save someone costs you something. A dark pixel art RPG where a simple act of compassion may have a price - how much are you willing to pay?
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 25.9%, Mystery 18.3%, Psychological 17%, Dystopian 11.2%, Sci-fi 8%
- #50 POPULARITY CONTEST
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ScrythaDev
Windows · Mac
Elena and 7 familiar faces are trapped in a room, and the only way out is to choose one person to die. Navigate social relationships and gain trust to steer the spotlight away from you, or else they just might decide you should be the one on the chopping block.
Why similar: Mystery 21.9%, Thriller 18.3%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Choices Matter 15%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
- #51 Neve
67% matchVery Positive99% of 72 reviews2026
Dev: Michelle SantosPub: Ritus Studio
Windows
Neve is a non-linear interactive fiction in which your decisions can completely change the course of story. Manage your team, race against time and unravel the mysteries surrounding your ship's crash in this suffocating retrofuturistic thriller that will have you hooked from the first second.
Why similar: Thriller 16.8%, Psychological 14.1%, Sci-fi 12.9%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Choices Matter 7.9%
- #52 Ghost of Ice Valley
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ProjeKt VAnguard
Windows
Ghost of Ice valley is a Visual Novel where you follow multiple different storylines and make choices according to what you believe the characters may do in that situation. Interact in the Interview system to find out more about the characters and about yourself as you go along.
Why similar: Thriller 18.8%, Dystopian 15.4%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
- #53 The Last Rose
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RJ FernPub: Two and a Half Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Kuri Rose was dead, until she wasn't. Now she stands in defiance to a world that is slowly disappearing in this apocalypse adventure visual novel.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.5%, Psychological 14.1%, Dystopian 13.9%, Visual Novel 12%, Mystery 10.3%
- #54 Living in Spring
69% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Snow GroundPub: テラサレ (Terrace and Ray Ltd.)
Windows
“An ADV of eternity and changeless” A world dominated by “Cruel Spring” - a phenomenon that human will become “Sacrifice” if not keep moving. Only the boy and the girl, they have “Eternal Body”, go on a journey. The endless steps seem to be a happy changeless, but can't be the same forever...
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 29.4%, Sci-fi 18.3%, Psychological 18.2%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Futuristic 10.6%
- #55 1000xRESIST
66% matchVery Positive94% of 7,061 reviews2024
Dev: sunset visitor 斜陽過客Pub: Fellow Traveller
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
1000xRESIST is a thrilling sci-fi adventure. The year is unknown, and a disease spread by an alien invasion keeps you underground. You are Watcher. You dutifully fulfil your purpose in serving the ALLMOTHER, until the day you discover a shocking secret that changes everything.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 21.6%, Thriller 18.6%, Sci-fi 11.6%, Futuristic 10.2%, Mystery 10%
- #56 Elara
68% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: LoveOtheRing
Windows · Mac
Elara is a dark, narrative-driven visual novel where players investigate a corporate death, navigate manipulation and power dynamics, and make choices that lead to multiple endings.
Why similar: Conspiracy 30.5% ★, Psychological 16.5%, Mystery 14.5%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Thriller 10.5%
- #57 My True North
67% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Never Surrender
Windows
My True North - a nonlinear visual novel about Personal Choice of a Human, Love, and the Journey to Yourself in a world of the living dead. Watch. Love. And don't go under the ice. Especially in the height of summer.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 25.9%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Psychological 11.5%, Mystery 10%, Choices Matter 9.8%
- #58 Pentimento
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fool Bloom Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Cast Into A Boundless White Void. Paintings Hunger For Your Story. What Will You Answer?
Why similar: Visual Novel 17%, Psychological 15.5%, Mystery 14.8%, Thriller 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%
- #59 The Paracelsian Project
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2023
Dev: Sixkilla Gaming
Windows · Mac · Linux
You awaken in an unfamiliar location with unfamiliar people and are surrounded by mystery. Will you be able to solve the puzzle and uncover why you are here in this sci-fi/mystery/puzzle visual novel? The future hangs in the balance.
Why similar: Mystery 15.5%, Sci-fi 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Thriller 13%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
- #60 The Honeypot Murders
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Supernormal Games
Windows
Arthur thinks he’s a smart guy. He isn’t. Help him solve puzzles, investigate the town, and uncover the mystery of his friends disappearance in this quirky adventure game inspired by classic cartoons.
Why similar: Conspiracy 36% ★, Thriller 16.6%, Mystery 16.3%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Dialogue Heavy 6.6%