60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Adventure, Mystery, Singleplayer.
Complex Loop is a sci-fi themed visual novel. This is a story of time loops between past and future. Within a time limit of 20 minutes, your mission is to save a mysterious girl died from an explosion accident one year ago. Solve puzzles and reveal the truth behind the tragedy. An adventure awaits!
Kill The Clock
Kill the Clock is a narrative time-loop mystery adventure where you relive the same week to solve a murder that keeps changing. Customize your character, roll dice to influence story outcomes, and uncover the truth—before time resets again.
Elysium
In this cyberpunk-themed linear visual novel, you take on the role of Jill the bartender during a 14-day time loop. While crafting drinks for customers is part of your job, the true challenge lies in unraveling the dark secrets hidden beneath this neon-lit world.
Kill the Clock is a narrative time-loop mystery adventure where you relive the same week to solve a murder that keeps changing. Customize your character, roll dice to influence story outcomes, and uncover the truth—before time resets again.
Why similar: Time Travel 26.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Thriller 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%
In this cyberpunk-themed linear visual novel, you take on the role of Jill the bartender during a 14-day time loop. While crafting drinks for customers is part of your job, the true challenge lies in unraveling the dark secrets hidden beneath this neon-lit world.
Why similar: Time Travel 21.6% ★, Comic Book 14.7%, Steampunk 12.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Visual Novel 10.3%
"They mean everything to me. Please, make them whole again." An interactive visual novel puzzle game. By fixing the broken android, you may uncover the truth about your client's past.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Point & Click 16.2%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Cyberpunk 13.6%, Anime 9.9%
Immerse yourself in the first-person perspective, cross time and space, solve bizarre cases, save innocent victims, and catch a mysterious killer! You will solve murders, uphold justice, and also gain love. Are you ready? Play the "Game of Fate" that crosses time and space, life and death!
Why similar: Cinematic 35%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, RPG 6.7%, Simulation 5.9%
Tyler is a high schooler on a mission. He's going to use every minute of summer vacation to go on as many GPS-assisted scavenger hunts as possible. After running into some old friends during one of these hunts, strange things start happening: The day resets and today plays out exactly like yesterday
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Anime 18.6%, Simulation 14.8%, Adventure 13.5%
Shanghai Summer is an adventure game set in the millennium. Our protagonist, Baichuan, goes through a series of "anomalies" over the length of twelve days. In his pursuit of the truth, he found that his hopes and regrets from the past finally seem to converge. Will he be able to "fix" it for good?
Why similar: Time Travel 39.9% ★, Visual Novel 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Anime 12.3%, 2D Platformer 6.5%
Causal Loop is a narrative puzzler that blends mind-bending mechanics with a rich sci-fi story about time, consequence, and survival. Solve intricate puzzles by using the signature “echo” mechanic to record, replay, and interact with up to three versions of your past self. Can you break the loop?
Why similar: Sci-fi 50.2%, Exploration 29.5%, Adventure 20.3%
Rewind time to save your girlfriend in a twisted high school death game. A gripping yuri visual novel: Investigate brutal murders, unravel psychological horrors, and fight for a forbidden love that defies death itself.
Why similar: Thriller 26.6%, Visual Novel 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Anime 12.8%, Exploration 7.1%
It is an adventure game with multiple endings. An original script written by a well-known light novelist with a total of 400,000 words. With reasoning, suspense, love, and science fiction elements, it allows players to embark on a highly immersive journey of salvation on the submarine train.
Why similar: Time Travel 53.4% ★, Visual Novel 17.9%, Anime 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Adventure 4.5%
Investigating a time-loop during the Cold War, light years away from Earth. Neoproxima is a text-based adventure game that combines exploration and simple RPG and survival mechanics. Plan your next loop carefully, and go as far as possible before time catches up with you.
Why similar: Point & Click 34.2%, Sci-fi 25%, Exploration 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.9%, RPG 9.3%
Quirky, top-down puzzle adventure game. You’re trapped in a 12-minute time loop. Try to save yourself and a small town from destruction from a meteorite. Solve intuitive puzzles, interact with the people of the town, and discover the secrets of the town. Discover the 15 different endings!
Why similar: Time Travel 62.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Adventure 7.1%, RPG 6.4%, 2D 6.3%
Rue Valley is a narrative adventure about a man trapped in a time loop, surrounded by a colorful cast with complex emotional stories, each hiding unexpected secrets. Dealing with mental challenges, the main character must delve into the anomaly to uncover its enigmatic origins.
Why similar: Time Travel 33.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Point & Click 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Visual Novel 12.1%
Escape a time loop as an overworked office employee by solving cryptic puzzles with alternate reality game elements.
Why similar: Time Travel 52.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Anime 18.2%, 2D 8.8%
Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.
Why similar: Thriller 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Adventure 16.5%, Sci-fi 15.5%
In "Time Rebuild", human civilization stands on the brink of destruction. You will become a time-traveling hero, embarking on a journey to save the world while encountering and bonding with women of vastly different appearances and personalities.
Why similar: Time Travel 40.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 13%, RPG 5.8%
This is a visual novel game where players play a protagonist trapped in a time loop and break the loop to save the heroine. The game contains suspense, love, and funny storylines. Players need to make the right choices, and there are multiple endings to explore in the game.
Why similar: Anime 30.6%, Interactive Fiction 30.5%, Visual Novel 26.6%, RPG 12.2%
In Chronoquartz, every move matters! You have 10 turns per loop: explore, solve puzzles, and use your past knowledge to progress. Strategy, critical thinking, and time management will be your allies in this unique temporal adventure. Will you succeed in saving time?
Why similar: Time Travel 58.3% ★, Sci-fi 15.2%, Exploration 12.9%, 2D 8.2%, Adventure 5.4%
Play as 25yo writer Jian Xun in a 5-min deadline loop. Your script is alive! In this thriller puzzle, use "keyframe sorting" to piece stories. Fight AI, break the 4th wall & escape the nightmare!
Why similar: Comic Book 19.2%, Cyberpunk 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Visual Novel 13.8%, 2D Platformer 10.5%
Five days ago, Janet left her dorm to go on a date - and never came back. Was she kidnapped? Murdered? The truth may be even stranger. Solve puzzles to connect together pieces of the story in a science-fiction adventure with eleven possible endings!
Why similar: Time Travel 49.9% ★, Visual Novel 19.4%, Sci-fi 13.5%, Anime 11.7%, 2D 2.9%
Dragon Loop is a metroidvania combining time travel and branching map design. Explore the large open world in a five day loop, opening up new worldlines. Explore a 2D, hand-drawn world, engage in fast-paced battles, and retrieve memories to shape the future.
Why similar: Time Travel 76.6% ★, RPG 8.3%, 2D 5.5%, Adventure 5.4%, Anime 4.3%
Answer the summons to the parallel world of "Kamitsubaki City" and meet a cast of colorful characters as you set out on a quest to save this city from the brink of destruction in this dark-fantasy sci-fi visual novel!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 40.7%, Visual Novel 30.1%, Anime 12.5%, Adventure 10.3%, 2D 6.4%
Mysterious phenomena from space. A researcher's fatal accident. Cryptic codes engraved on an unknown material. Together with your brilliant sister-in-law, you must unravel a mystery that could determine the fate of Earth. A sci-fi mystery visual novel of discovery and suspense.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.5%, Visual Novel 19.9%, 2D Platformer 15.2%, Anime 13.4%, Sci-fi 13.2%
An eternally snowbound town. An inescapable time loop. A group of travelers trapped between memory and truth…You will embody Mo Shi, the amnesiac protagonist, stepping into this enigmatic town known as the "Singularity" , partner with the protagonist to solve murder cases and expose the killer.
Why similar: Comic Book 33.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Exploration 9.1%, RPG 8.3%
The feast has begun, can you escape the village alive?
Why similar: Visual Novel 57.3%, Time Travel 17.5% ★, Anime 12.7%, Adventure 12.4%
You can't save him... but what if you could meet him again? Unquiet Grey is a heartbreaking timeloop visual novel about a troubled young woman and the kind-hearted musician she loves through countless lifetimes.
Why similar: Time Travel 40.7% ★, Visual Novel 24.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Anime 11.5%, Adventure 5.6%
Dragon Maiden is a 2D pixel-art mystery adventure. As Wang Xie, you’re trapped in a time loop on the day of the Mountain God Ceremony. Relive the 22 hours before midnight, uncover the truth behind the village’s destruction, and break free from the cycle.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 50.6%, Adventure 26.4%, Point & Click 11.6%, 2D 11.4%
From SCRAP, the masterminds behind the "Real Escape Game" phenomena with over 17 million attendees, comes a time-loop mystery adventure on Steam!
Why similar: Time Travel 47.8% ★, Visual Novel 18.5%, Point & Click 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.7%, Adventure 6.5%
Journey through the psyche… Welcome to the Seaside Hotel, where the final hour of your night shift awaits. Tend to guests, explore their dreams, and lose your sense of Self – time and again. In this dark, labyrinthine adventure, unravel the path to the truth below.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.3%, Dark 23.5%, Anime 20.6%, RPG 9.8%, Exploration 8.6%
Trials of Innocence is an indie courtroom detective game. Step into the shoes of the main character, rookie lawyer Luna Ray, and navigate her journey through the legal world. Unravel a shocking conspiracy that changes the fate of many, including herself, and confront her inner choices.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Visual Novel 22.6%, Point & Click 18.1%, Anime 16.2%, Adventure 5.6%
The player connects to a girl in distress in space thousands of years later? How will they resolve the crisis and discover the truth? Through the mechanism of real-time synchronization, the game breaks through the dimensional wall and creates an immersive dialogue across time and space.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.2%, Visual Novel 29.3%, Sci-fi 18.5%, RPG 12.7%, 2D 5.4%
Type-NOISE: Shonen Shojo is a multi-ending mystery adventure game. A group of boys and girls who have lost their memories gather in a “Tokyo” that is both familiar and unfamiliar. They must trace their lost memories to escape the bizarre labyrinths. Are they prepared to confront their “true selves”?
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Anime 15.9%, Point & Click 15%, Sci-fi 14.9%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Thriller 16%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Point & Click 13.7%, Visual Novel 11.5%
Make up for lost time with Once Again, If you could travel through time, who’s the first person you’d meet? An interactive story about a boy who spends his summers wandering between past and present... After meeting her, summer will never be the same again...Who is she, and what journey awaits you?
Why similar: Time Travel 47.7% ★, Visual Novel 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Adventure 8.7%, 2D Platformer 6.2%
In the not so distant past, the Isle of Abbot underwent a mysterious evacuation event. Delve into the secrets of this unsettling place and elicit the girls' tragic fate. An interactive visual novel with psychological and lovecraftian undertones.
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.1%, Anime 25.4%, Simulation 9%, 2D 5.9%
Unravel a string of gruesome murders terrorizing Tokyo in this mystery-thriller visual novel. The secrets of a case from six years prior may just be the key to the current unending cycle of tragedy—and the thing that cracks this woeful world’s shell may be one girl’s smile.
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.5%, Cinematic 19.6%, Dark 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Anime 11%
If you can't save the one you love… How can you save humanity? Sequel to the visual novel cult classic. Experience an alternate worldline of STEINS;GATE.
Why similar: Time Travel 47.8% ★, Visual Novel 22.9%, Anime 14.6%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Adventure 3.3%
A mad and romantic ADV. Unravel a strange world of science and philosophy with a mecha girl, zombie girl, or beastfolk. Some paths may disturb you... or thrill you.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Anime 19.6%, Sci-fi 15.4%, 2D 7.8%
An intricate mystery visual novel. Search text, piece together clues, and jump around the story to unravel the tangled events within the sealed tower.
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.3%, Anime 22.4%, Sci-fi 22.2%, Dark 12.2%, Adventure 6.9%
Play as Tristan and solve puzzles to recover human consciousnesses in the year 2071. Investigate environments, uncover secrets, and make choices that affect the ending. Explore a neon-noir world with a low poly aesthetic inspired by the 90s.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 22.2%, Cinematic 20.7%, Point & Click 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Sci-fi 12%
Break the Loop is a turn-based Rogue-like RPG. Compose your team and create a timeline by selecting the events you'll go through. Each decision will bring you one step closer to the ultimate threat, but will you have accumulated enough power to stop the apocalypse?
Why similar: Time Travel 63% ★, RPG 18.9%, 2D 13.7%, Adventure 4.4%
Orten Was The Case - A free movement puzzle/adventure game where you play as a youngster stuck in a time loop with the simple task of saving the world from literal destruction.
Why similar: Exploration 57.7%, Adventure 42.3%
To the promise we once made and the place we must return
Why similar: Visual Novel 35.6%, Anime 22.8%, Sci-fi 17.1%, Adventure 15%, 2D 9.5%
MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.
Why similar: Cinematic 19.6%, Cyberpunk 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Point & Click 11.5%
The heroine who lost her memory was trapped in a five-day loop. Connect with your partners to travel through a world with strange time changes, continue to become stronger, retrieve memories, and understand the truth. The game is a time loop Metroidvania.
Why similar: Time Travel 75.5% ★, 2D Platformer 13%, RPG 4.8%, Adventure 3.8%, 2D 3%
Omnimus. Welcome to the future! A visual novel about a daring experiment.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Visual Novel 23.6%, Adventure 19.4%, Anime 16.8%, Sci-fi 16%
Hack Into God
Why similar: Visual Novel 46.4%, Anime 32.9%, Adventure 20.7%
Dullpain is a side-scrolling, interaction, and storytelling game. Playing as Jingwen, a young boss of a long-established repair shop, you need to repair not only everyday items, also memories. You can enjoy dull-pain and breathtaking stories in different time and space and redefine the end of story.
Why similar: Time Travel 36.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Anime 11.2%, RPG 5.6%
Explore a magical hand-drawn comic book, travel through time, manipulate characters’ ideas, and solve visual puzzles in this innovative point-and-click adventure to uncover Kai’s fate.
Why similar: Comic Book 36.6%, Point & Click 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.1%, Visual Novel 5.3%
A non-linear first-person action adventure in a pirate setting. A single player time travel simulation game. Unusual gaming experience.Moving in space and time, the player must understand what is happening on the island and how the main character can move away from there.
Why similar: Cinematic 35.3%, Sci-fi 22.8%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Exploration 12.4%, Adventure 9.5%
Mars Underground is an apocalyptic adventure where you relive the same day over and over. With each cycle new items can be picked up and topics unlocked. Explore the possibilities of this timeloop and uncover multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 45.1%, Adventure 38.1%, 2D 16.8%
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
Why similar: Time Travel 41.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Thriller 14.8%, Exploration 5.1%
A narrative puzzle game with themes of love, fate and time. Follow the life stories of the two main characters and influence their destinies through interactions and choices. The game combines hand-drawn style and an immersive interactive experience to explore a profound journey of love and choice.
Why similar: Comic Book 52.4%, Visual Novel 33.1%, Adventure 8.1%, 2D 6.3%
A mystery visual novel where horror meets occult comedy. Follow Kugayama Shiori, a ghost who casually dies over and over as she searches for her cause of death and the regrets that bind her to this world. Her investigation will eventually lead to a single incident—and the truth behind her demise.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25%, Cinematic 19.3%, 2D Platformer 14.6%, Adventure 11%
In Lover's Enigma , you investigate your husband's mysterious death while balancing complex relationships and personal trauma. Navigate a web of secrets involving a hidden cult and key characters. Your choices shape the story and lead to multiple endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Anime 16.1%, Simulation 7.5%
Play as a witch living in secret among villagers in this hand-drawn narrative puzzle adventure. An attempt to change fate traps her in a time loop. Help the witch and her cat escape without getting caught by the inquisition. Your choices shape the outcome.
Why similar: Time Travel 35.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Point & Click 23.2%, Exploration 6.4%, Adventure 5.8%
Revisit and repeat the final moments of China's turn of the century in this narrative puzzle adventure. Play a 6th-grade student and greet classmates, explore secrets, play mini-4WD, or just wander around town. Make your choices to create a perfect day for everyone!
Why similar: Time Travel 60.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Exploration 9.5%, Adventure 7.4%
When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.2%, Cinematic 20.3%, Cyberpunk 18.9%, Point & Click 16.9%, Sci-fi 15.5%
Just as you begin to settle in for a fun day at your best friend's house, something changes in her and she kills you. And not just once—she ends your life time and time and time again.Your goal is to escape from this endless loop of despair.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Visual Novel 21.3%, 2D Platformer 16.1%, Anime 13.7%, Dark 10.4%
Your choices shape the world in this coming-of-age RPG. As a new arrival in a 1980s rural Japanese town with a mysterious ability to loop time, your every decision and relationship will affect the outcome of battles against the invading Kegai.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.3%, Visual Novel 24.8%, Anime 23.3%, RPG 11.6%, Dark 11%
a side-scrolling, story-driven text adventure game in pixel art. The story is set in 2079, when a Replicant awakens in a lab facility amidst a life-or-death situation. The replicant aid agency tries to rescue him but fails. In the process they stumble on the real secret of the Replicant project...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Anime 18.4%, Sci-fi 16.5%, Exploration 8.8%
