60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Choices Matter, Interactive Fiction, Multiple Endings.
Come to My Party! is a coming-of-age visual novel where choices matter. Jimin sets out to win class president and have her first birthday party. What begins as a simple goal spirals into social pressure, fragile friendships, and choices that can’t be taken back, hitting closer than you’d like.
Do 11
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.
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.
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: Dark Comedy 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11.6%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Text-Based 9.2%
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: Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Visual Novel 13%, Dialogue Heavy 12.9%, Text-Based 10%, Choices Matter 8.7%
Being a bumbling supervillain's henchman is a thankless job. The spandex chafes, there's tons of late nights, and your boss rarely remembers your name. But in this narrative adventure you'll soon discover that - sometimes - even the choices of the lowliest henchman can change everything.
Why similar: Narrative 18.2% ★, Dark Comedy 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Dialogue Heavy 9.8%, Visual Novel 8.9%
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 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Text-Based 13%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Dialogue Heavy 10.9%
An image created by AI — is it yours? An AI art tool is placed before a nameless illustrator. To accept, or to refuse. A visual novel that tells the same story in different forms. Your choices shape the ending - there is no right answer.
Why similar: Narrative 24.4% ★, Visual Novel 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.3%
In this 2D, short narrative-based game, you assume the role of the Grim Reaper... on an office job. Your job is to decide which people are going to live or die. The consequences of your choices are yours to bear, while the mystery of your incarnation awaits revelation!
Why similar: Narrative 19.5% ★, Dark Comedy 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
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: Narrative 18.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 9.6%, Text-Based 9.2%, Emotional 8.9%, Dialogue Heavy 7.9%
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 19.4%, Hand-drawn 16%, Emotional 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
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: Dialogue Heavy 18.3%, Dark Comedy 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Visual Novel 9.3%, Comedy 9.2%
Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social network 'Videoverse' were still popular…
Why similar: Narrative 26.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Emotional 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%
In Afterparty, you are Milo and Lola, recently deceased best buds who suddenly find themselves staring down an eternity in Hell. But there's a loophole: outdrink Satan and he'll grant you re-entry to Earth.
Why similar: Narrative 21.5% ★, Dark Comedy 17.7%, Dialogue Heavy 12%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%, Comedy 7.6%
A strange incident turns the life of an ordinary young man upside down when, having fallen asleep on a regular train commute, he wakes up in another country... in a body of a Japanese student! An unforgettable summer adventure awaits, promising many fateful meetings and momentous occasions.
Why similar: Narrative 21.9% ★, Emotional 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Text-Based 11.1%, Visual Novel 9.9%
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: Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Text-Based 17.2%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.6%
The pioneering nakige that made a generation cry... Legendary '90s visual novel ONE. is back and better than ever with updated art, animations, and features!
Why similar: 1990's 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Emotional 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Hand-drawn 9.6%
An emotional narrative point-and-click about a daughter caring for her mother as dementia reshapes their bond. Explore heartfelt conversations, fragmented memories, and simple story-driven puzzles on a journey of caregiving and learning to let go.
Why similar: Narrative 30.6% ★, Emotional 15.3%, Hand-drawn 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Choices Matter 8.2%
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: Dialogue Heavy 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Emotional 11.7%, Text-Based 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.7%
Play through this loved-filled adventure. Find friends, lovers, or enemies at every turn. Some “friends” are not as they seem. Danger lurks here! Unravel the mystery and find love before time runs out in 8 Days of School.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Comedy 9.9%
A dark text-based RPG set in a world gripped by a restless race for survival against a merciless mushroom Forest. As a prophet’s apprentice, guide your clan along the knife-edge between life and oblivion. Decipher misty visions, make critical decisions, and do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Narrative 22.2% ★, Text-Based 12.4%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
A Week in Paradise is a narrative mystery where you find yourself in a bar called Paradise. Have a drink each night with its mysterious regular and discover how deeply your stories connect. Hunt down clues in your dreams to find out why you end up here every day, and what keeps you coming back.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Narrative 13.3% ★, Dialogue Heavy 12.5%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Emotional 9.5%
Coffee Talk Tokyo is the newest entry in the beloved series, set in a late-night café in Tokyo. Brew drinks, meet humans and yōkai, and experience heartfelt stories in a cozy, story-rich world.
Why similar: Narrative 21.8% ★, Dialogue Heavy 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Emotional 10.1%
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: Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Dialogue Heavy 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Text-Based 10%
The Lyra Signal is a story-driven visual novel about memory, mystery, and the echoes of the past. Follow Leo as he uncovers a strange recording left by his father and begins searching for the meaning behind a name that refuses to disappear: Lyra.
Why similar: Narrative 21.9% ★, Visual Novel 13.5%, Emotional 12.9%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Choices Matter 9.9%
In this pre-smartphone-era text adventure, use that good ol’ T9 phone to text your way through the highs and lows of school days. Choose replies piece by piece to shape your own story. Friendships grow; feelings get complicated; secrets flicker. Every reply matters—it all happens Between the Lines.
Why similar: Narrative 18.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 10.5%, Visual Novel 9.4%, Text-Based 9.2%
Mirrorandum is not just a visual novel...it's a journey through a world of mirrors, where every reflection challenges your perception and every choice reveals the depths of your true self.
Why similar: Emotional 17.2%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Text-Based 9.9%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
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 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%, Text-Based 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.6%
"Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines" - In this short story from the Endless Monday, Penny, a mild-mannered corporate grunt, spends a weekend at the office in an effort to finish her project on time while overcoming distractions from coworkers, space aliens, imaginary friends, and herself.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Hand-drawn 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
In stand-up, talent isn't always enough. In this point and click adventure you have to improvise, survive and fail with style until you craft the five minutes that could change everything.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 24.3%, Narrative 23.2% ★, Comedy 12.1%, Multiple Endings 9.4%, Choices Matter 8.5%
"Endless Monday: In Progress" - New job, new Penny. Our favorite former corporate grunt is back, and working hard to live the dream! But as she struggles to keep the dream alive, she'll need all the help she can get, from friends, angry ex-coworkers, the past, and beyond.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Choices Matter 12.1%
The Door Has Doubts is a very short and absurd narrative game about manipulation, dialogue, and the existential crisis of room furnitures. You are stuck in a room, there is a door. Your only way out: Convince the door to open. Choose your words carefully, as you try to escape the room.
Why similar: Narrative 22.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.3%
A once in a lifetime experience with Theo. Explore a world full for ripening with the one and only Theo. Theo is all that matters. Theo is love, Theo is life.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 19.6%, Emotional 12.5%, Text-Based 11.2%, Dialogue Heavy 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.1%
Conversations at the end of the world. You are the last human taxi driver in a desperate future where the last remains of civilization are propped up by surveillance, automation and human modification. The hours are long, and the pay is terrible – but hey, at least you have a job!
Why similar: Narrative 21.5% ★, Dark Comedy 20%, Dialogue Heavy 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Visual Novel 8.4%
Interactive anime adventure in visual novel format!
Why similar: Hand-drawn 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Emotional 12.8%, Text-Based 10.7%, Comedy 9.2%
Relaxing, emotional, and short, Sunset Drive is created for quiet gaming sessions. Embark on a narrative road trip where two companions share talks, silences, and choices under fading light. Piece together unspoken emotions via atmospheric detours leading to multiple endings and discover anew.
Why similar: Narrative 24.7% ★, Emotional 16.9%, Dialogue Heavy 16.1%, Visual Novel 9.2%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
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: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Text-Based 9.9%
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: Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Text-Based 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
Dive into a captivating standalone story in just an hour! Presenting the first installment of the "Handy Novel" series. Highly praised on smartphones, this acclaimed narrative is now ready for your enjoyment on Steam for PC/Mac!
Why similar: Text-Based 16.9%, Emotional 16.8%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Multiple Endings 10%
Be the person you needed. Brew tea, listen well, and guide branching stories in a narrative slice-of-life about showing up when it matters. No perfect answers. Only your choices and what they set in motion.
Why similar: Emotional 17.1%, Dialogue Heavy 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Choices Matter 10.4%
Love, betrayal, and coffee! Zipp's Café is a "noir & chill" little game about a café between the city of animals and the district of insects. Make unusual recipes, get involved in shady dealings, and try to start a new life while searching for love and revenge.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Dialogue Heavy 13.6%, Hand-drawn 13.5%, Text-Based 8.8%
A short, twisted tale about a smuggler and a late night encounter in the English Channel. Control the camera and make tough choices, will you escape with your life?
Why similar: Dark Comedy 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Dialogue Heavy 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Visual Novel 9.2%
A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Text-Based 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.9%
The prequel to Road 96. Play Zoe and Kaito where it all started. Change their destinies!
Why similar: Narrative 15.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.6%
A love comedy set in the voice acting industry, from the point of view of voice actresses, managers, and sound engineers... and it's, like, 78% accurate! Play it, and you might find out what this industry is all about!
Why similar: Emotional 13.1%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Dialogue Heavy 11.6%
Trapped: Forced to Kill is a psychological horror with multiple endings. Ciara Mori awakens in a strange Retreat under a cruel, cunning kidnapper’s control. To survive his deadly games, she must make difficult choices and face the unnerving tension that draws her closer to danger…and him.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 27.3%, Emotional 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
『部活動の時間です。さあ、人殺しをはじめてください』 一癖も二癖もある強者ぞろいの巨大コミュニティ、それが鳴神学園。 そこには、ありとあらゆる部活動が存在し、到底常識では考えられない特殊な闇の倶楽部がある。その一つが殺人クラブだ。
Why similar: Dark Comedy 25.7%, Multiple Endings 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Text-Based 9.9%
Butter Side Down is a bizarro choose-your-own-choice game. Starring Basil Bonser, Adam Spargo, Grey Michael, Beatrice, Jeep Johnson, and Rotten Ruggerio. Answer questions, take calls, play card games, and solve one hell of a mystery.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Text-Based 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
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: Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Text-Based 10.6%, Dialogue Heavy 10.4%
GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.1%, Hand-drawn 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
Kamilia is a story-driven, choices-matter detective mystery. Follow a talented painter who finds himself wrapped up in an unsolved case, as he tries to unveil a hidden truth that has been buried for years.
Why similar: Emotional 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.4%
How far will you go to keep your crown? A branching court politics drama, where every choice matters. Navigate treacherous lords, scheming family members, and angry peasants- all while trying to secure your kingdom’s future.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11.3%, Narrative 11.1% ★, Visual Novel 10.5%
Your diner is the final stop before the infamous afterlife gate. Let customers drown their sorrows for profit, or attempt to show them a better way? You decide in this morally confronting choice-based game.
Why similar: Narrative 21% ★, Dark Comedy 17.4%, Dialogue Heavy 11.5%, Emotional 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%
Take an atmospheric journey in a fresh, critically acclaimed format of a hand-drawn point-and-click comic-book. When a freeloading owner of a blue Mustang drives through without paying for the ticket, Harry Hunter, freelance parking attendant, ventures inside The Lot to Make. Him. Pay. (tm).
Why similar: Narrative 22.3% ★, Dark Comedy 21.2%, 1990's 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Multiple Endings 6.5%
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: Narrative 26.9% ★, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%, Emotional 11%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 9%
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Text-Based 10.3%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
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: Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Dialogue Heavy 14.4%, Visual Novel 12%, Emotional 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
Take over a struggling bar on the politically tense Moon Village. Prepare and serve drinks, befriend and help your customers, find your purpose, and maybe even love... all while keeping the bar's lights on in this narrative driven bartending simulator set on the moon.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Choices Matter 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
"The hardest part is not to speak up. It’s being heard." Part video game, part graphic novel, Wednesdays seeks to raise awareness about child sexual abuse through a surprisingly hope-filled story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Emotional 14.7%, Hand-drawn 14.1%, Visual Novel 13%, Text-Based 11.9%
Roadtrip across the country. Confront a tyrant. The revolution will be messy—but the relationships will be messier.
Why similar: Narrative 18.2% ★, Hand-drawn 12.6%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Emotional 10.5%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
Alice is stuck somewhere and she's very confused. Will you talk to her? Will you help her? Will you rescue her? A choices matter visual novel.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 24.9%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Emotional 13.5%, Comedy 11.4%
The final chapter of the Class of '09 VN series... this time from a different perspective! Join Nicole's best friend Jecka as you help her navigate the pitfalls of post-grad life! See what 2009 was truly like in this fully voiced interactive sitcom!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 27.8%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Comedy 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
Where Control Ends is a psychological visual novel about Astra, a young girl trying to hold herself together after a night she cannot fully remember.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Text-Based 12.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11.2%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
