
A story about growing up online and dealing with IRL updates. A look back at the past 2 decades of gaming that will make you think about the good, the bad, and the ones left behind.
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A story about growing up online and dealing with IRL updates. A look back at the past 2 decades of gaming that will make you think about the good, the bad, and the ones left behind.

Cataplexy
Waking up at night, the main character realizes that he cannot move. A terrible sense of panic gradually overtakes his mind, and the imagination begins to paint frightening pictures.

AFK_GF
A dark visual novel blending psychological horror, surreal storytelling, and chatroom-inspired UI. Navigate intrusive thoughts, branching choices, and dissect a fractured mind in a twisted search for connection and meaning.
Waking up at night, the main character realizes that he cannot move. A terrible sense of panic gradually overtakes his mind, and the imagination begins to paint frightening pictures.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 17.9%, Psychedelic 15.9%, Dark Humor 14.1%, Comedy 8.9%, Visual Novel 8.8%
A dark visual novel blending psychological horror, surreal storytelling, and chatroom-inspired UI. Navigate intrusive thoughts, branching choices, and dissect a fractured mind in a twisted search for connection and meaning.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 15.8%, Dark Humor 14.4%, Psychedelic 12.4%, Philosophical 12.1%, Satire 11.8% ★
A short psychedelic trip: the passage of time in Central Sisatsophy.
Why similar: Psychedelic 26.6%, Dark Humor 24%, Philosophical 20.6%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Hand-drawn 7.6%
Experience the meeting of the divine and mortal world as a forbidden love affair have unforseen consequences.
Why similar: Satire 23.2% ★, Dark Comedy 20.6%, Dark Humor 18.5%, Comedy 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.5%
Do you have what it takes to work at a call centre?
Why similar: Satire 25.5% ★, Dark Comedy 22.3%, Dark Humor 17.4%, Visual Novel 12%, Funny 8%
Zoe is hit by Truck-kun and respawns in a retro game, where she must face dangers in the form of clichés, meaningless choices, a plot that has more holes than Swiss cheese, and other plagues of modern gaming. Also, every notable person is trying to sing her a song! Will she endure such torment?
Why similar: Satire 23.7% ★, Dark Comedy 18.7%, Dark Humor 17%, Comedy 10%, Visual Novel 7.7%
Prepare to enter the supermarket! Supermarket Times is a surreal comedy point-and-click shopping simulator. Complete legendary supermarket tasks: buy alcohol for the teenagers, stamp on the rat, and hit a seagull with a rock. Chat to the local hoi polloi, and buy the products of your wildest dreams!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 20.4%, Satire 20.1% ★, Dark Humor 17.3%, Philosophical 12.5%, Hand-drawn 10.1%
Part visual novel, part WarioWare-inspired minigame collection, Please Leave Me Alone, I Need to Poop is a modern workplace comedy that you can beat within a short session in your office bathroom stall. Multiple stories, multiple minigames, and multiple endings provide replayability.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.4%, Satire 20.7% ★, Dark Humor 19.2%, Comedy 10.3%, Visual Novel 9.2%
Clash wits with the most manipulative pirate in gaming history. He will beg, gaslight, and meme until you break. In this satire of gaming culture, your only goal is to NOT press X. But you probably will.
Why similar: Satire 32.6% ★, Dark Comedy 22.6%, Dark Humor 22.3%, Philosophical 6.6%, Text-Based 5.3%
The Ducksuckers is a Kinetic Comedy Visual Novel about music, battling inner demons and the inability to let go. Taking about 40-60 minutes to read it's a short and sweet read, with some dramatic elements.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 28.4%, Dark Humor 23.6%, Visual Novel 21.1%, Comedy 12.7%, Linear 7.1%
A dark-comedy adventure set in the desolate coastal city of Crestfallen, where Aya must confront her inner darkness, deal with a tech-bro cult and still find time to feed her cat.
Why similar: Psychedelic 22.7%, Dark Humor 16.8%, Dark Comedy 16.1%, Comedy 14.4%, Hand-drawn 10.9%
A dead Santa Claus right before Christmas is never a good sign. Interrogate the North Pole suspects to solve the murder and figure out how to save the festive season in this short dark comedy visual novel whodunnit.
Why similar: Satire 24.3% ★, Dark Comedy 21.1%, Dark Humor 17.4%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Hand-drawn 9.3%
A dark comedy/drama slice-of-life kinetic visual novel that follows the life and times of a girl starting the next chapter of her life.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 19.6%, Dark Humor 17.1%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Comedy 10.7%, Text-Based 10.2%
Hair metal's not dead, it just smells funny! Get your denim vest, bandana and makeup, and dive into a point-and-click adventure as a middle-aged teddy bear planning a comeback with his old glam metal band – in a world where glam metal has been dead and buried for decades.
Why similar: Dark Humor 21.1%, Satire 19.8% ★, Dark Comedy 18%, Comedy 13.5%, Hand-drawn 10.4%
LaughterLost takes you through a surreal journey of work and family life. Face psychological twists, narrative choices, puzzles, and unexpected unique confrontations! Will you break this dystopian cycle of everyday life?
Why similar: Dark Humor 25.9%, Dark Comedy 19.1%, Text-Based 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Stylized 8.7%
Hospice is a kinetic visual novel game about pure brother without his little sister, a men with no hope, a place with no home.
Why similar: Dark Humor 19.4%, Dark Comedy 18.1%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Text-Based 11%, Comedy 10.6%
An interactive ordeal about blacking out in a dive bar and then trying to piece back your understanding of existence. It's gonna get a lot worse before it gets less worse.
Why similar: Satire 30% ★, Dark Humor 21.4%, Philosophical 14.8%, Psychedelic 14.2%, Funny 5.5%
从高维度接入超次元,漫步于由你的数个前世构成的景观宇宙。藉由终端机展开一场穿越虚拟与现实、过去与未来的奇妙旅行。在一切的尽头,宇宙、自我和生命的终极答案,将为你解开面纱。
Why similar: Dark Humor 23.8%, Psychedelic 23.5%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Comedy 8.5%, Anime 7.9%
Solve otherworldly puzzles, rescue quirky monster girls and uncover the secrets of the kingdom together in this light-hearted isekai visual novel.
Why similar: Satire 25.9% ★, Visual Novel 16.9%, Anime 12.1%, Comedy 11.7%, Funny 9.9%
Secret agent Franklin Benjamin's former mentor has resurfaced to take from you that which you hold most dear. In this singleplayer interactive spy novel, use your particular set of skills to save Virginia from the clutches of the madman Dustin MacGuffin. Which means - you’d better get the MacGuffin!
Why similar: Satire 29.1% ★, Dark Humor 17.4%, Text-Based 14.8%, Comedy 11.3%, Visual Novel 9.6%
Blank Spaces is an absurd first-person exploration game in the office setting. You’re trying to quit, but in the world of capitalism, that’s impossible. Why are your coworkers as thin as a finger, and why does work feel more frightening every day?
Why similar: Satire 20.8% ★, Dark Comedy 16.6%, Dark Humor 14.6%, Psychedelic 14.5%, Philosophical 12.5%
Make ghost friends by steering the living into deadly hazards to release their souls. Puzzle through diorama-style levels and make as many friends as possible using comically fatal accidents. Keep up with the latest memes by getting popular on the afterlife's hottest social media app, LiveBurial.
Why similar: Dark Humor 26.4%, Satire 24.9% ★, Dark Comedy 23.3%, Comedy 10.9%, Funny 10.1%
Have a human MEATGRINDER with Obi the freelance hitman! Fulfill contracts all over the planet, open a beer, turn off your brain: it's time to kill and solve the financial problems of Obi and her peculiar family!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 22.5%, Dark Humor 18.9%, Psychedelic 15.6%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Text-Based 11%
TO ESCAPE FROM THE WORLD OF GAL GAME, YOU MUST BE IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR CHILDHOOD FRIEND AND BEST FRIEND, MAYUMU.
Why similar: Psychedelic 22.8%, Dark Humor 21.7%, Dark Comedy 21.4%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Text-Based 8%
You are a man in a room. Something feels off. Or maybe it's on. A short existential comedy point-and-click non-adventure about the limitations and imitations of human existence – or, really, whatever you want it to be about.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 25.7%, Dark Humor 23.5%, Philosophical 13.5%, Funny 8.5%, Hand-drawn 8.1%
Once upon a time, the Grim Reaper chose the wrong door. Angelo – a young lazy bum-a-holic, oh sorry - a blogger, powered only by his blogging skills, must turn on “point-n-click adventure” mode, go around the inferno, meet the locals, and somehow get back home. Enjoy Hell! We made it just for you.
Why similar: Dark Humor 23.5%, Dark Comedy 22.9%, Psychedelic 13.5%, Hand-drawn 8.7%, Funny 8.3%
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 28.5%, Comedy 17.5%, Satire 17% ★, Visual Novel 14.9%, Anime 7.6%
"Today, I would like to tell you about one night. One night that changed my life." On a Summer Night is a short point-and-click visual novel.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 23.1%, Dark Humor 20.3%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Hand-drawn 8.5%, Linear 7.4%
Abulia is an Type-write battle RPG and Visual Novel adventure based on the mind of a special girl that is trying to find herself in the world and struggling to understand our complex world.
Why similar: Philosophical 19.8%, Dark Comedy 18.6%, Dark Humor 16.6%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Comedy 10.8%
When a retired cross-country ski team meets to celebrate their past victories, the past soon catches up to them. It's up to you to make sense of the slaughter that follows in this comedic point-and-click murder mystery.
Why similar: Satire 27.5% ★, Dark Comedy 22.8%, Dark Humor 16.8%, Comedy 11%, Hand-drawn 9.5%
Death Corp is a classic 2D Point and Click Adventure game where you play as the young new intern for Death's own company.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 23%, Dark Humor 20.8%, Satire 15.7% ★, Philosophical 13.8%, Hand-drawn 11.4%
You follow a troubled girl whose only friend is her talking tapeworm inside her belly. This one will help and advise her in order for her to get closer to the person she loves.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 18.4%, Dark Humor 16.1%, Philosophical 14.3%, Text-Based 12.4%, Comedy 9.7%
Secret agent Franklin Benjamin will stop at nothing to save the world. In this single-player interactive novel, you play as his greatest adversaries - can the criminal enterprise known as V.I.C.T.O.R. defeat the only man standing between them and world domination? To the V.I.C.T.O.R. go the spoils!
Why similar: Satire 28.9% ★, Dark Humor 14.4%, Text-Based 12.4%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Dark Comedy 9.6%
Kotiha is a visual novel parody. This is laughter, this is falsehood, this is pain, this is life.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 24.1%, Psychedelic 19.4%, Comedy 11.7%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Funny 8.8%
To the town in the hole... a story about a place where I can't go.
Why similar: Philosophical 21.4%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Hand-drawn 18.3%, Dark Humor 10.3%, Anime 7.9%
Play as a bird in a small city called Tracadie.
Why similar: Dark Humor 35.1%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Comedy 18.3%, Hand-drawn 14.1%, Funny 11.1%
"A Novel Published in 16 Bits! Spanish indie isekai, adapted by the author to Mega Drive. Linear visual novel blending satire on RPGs and the isekai genre, where two Spanish soldiers are transported—along with a Leopard 2 tank—into what appears to be a medieval fantasy role-playing game session."
Why similar: Satire 24.6% ★, Dark Humor 22.9%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Text-Based 11.9%, Linear 11%
In my past life, I was a broke, repressed code monkey—laid off, heartbroken, a full-on loser. My life was a running joke. In this life, I started as a dishwasher, created FakeTok, ran for president, and rose to become the Emperor of America!
Why similar: Dark Humor 34.4%, Satire 32% ★, Visual Novel 13.3%, Comedy 9.1%, Story Rich 5.6%
SLAP, SLAP, and keep SLAPPING. Use your SLAPPING powers to SLAP rotten bosses; each with their unique combat abilities. Reach the end and be the GOAT of the Rotten Ring.
Why similar: Satire 34.6% ★, Dark Humor 22.7%, Dark Comedy 19.4%, Comedy 13.8%, Funny 6.9%
This is the remake project of REFLEXIA Prototype ver. that still starts from pantsu jokes and ends with depression.
Why similar: Psychedelic 28.3%, Abstract 12.5%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Anime 10.1%, Comedy 8.9%
Grotesque notes written not by Fyodor Dostoevsky, but by a "certain person".
Why similar: Satire 23.4% ★, Dark Comedy 20.5%, Dark Humor 19.8%, Visual Novel 11%, Text-Based 8.9%
You open your eyes in a dark, unfamiliar room; each door drags you into a new chamber filled with absurd surprises and dark comedy. Will you manage to escape, or will you continue to star in this black comedy?
Why similar: Dark Comedy 39.4%, Dark Humor 27.1%, Comedy 16.5%, Funny 11.5%, Atmospheric 3.3%
The top-down adventure game where nothing ever seems to go your way. Soak in the atmosphere as you wander around the middle of nowhere, looking for one thing: a dollar-menu cheeseburger.
Why similar: Satire 24.1% ★, Dark Humor 23.9%, Comedy 13.1%, Hand-drawn 11.1%, Story Rich 6.2%
Intellica thanks you for volunteering in this short text-based Research Study. Pay attention to the participants answers, and classify them as either Human or Artificial. Join us in shaping the future of technology. Remember, think happy!
Why similar: Philosophical 18.7%, Dark Comedy 17.6%, Satire 17.2% ★, Dark Humor 15.3%, Text-Based 12.9%
Tidal Therapy is a travel novel game for tired adults. A tired office worker heads to the sea. The setting is a quiet and beautiful sea town with a seaside park, warehouse district, and tower condominiums.
Why similar: Dark Humor 21.8%, Text-Based 15.4%, Philosophical 14.3%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Economy 9.4%
Kindergarten 3 is the long awaited threequel to the Kindergarten series! Explore a new school with old and new friends...and new ways to get ruthlessly murdered.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 25.9%, Dark Humor 25%, Satire 19.3% ★, Comedy 12.4%, Funny 8.2%
In this satirical RPG parody of the house-building genre, hapless millennial Guy struggles against government corruption and a recessive 20-teens economy to get an education, hold down a job, marry his sweetheart, and most importantly, build a house.
Why similar: Satire 27.1% ★, Dark Humor 20.3%, Philosophical 15.9%, Hand-drawn 10%, Economy 9.9%
MOOD is a short visual novel combining horror, dark humor, and dialogues on a wide variety of topics, from old movies to ancient wars. You were the one who summoned your new companion, there is no backing out now!
Why similar: Philosophical 22.8%, Dark Humor 20.4%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Psychedelic 11.3%, Anime 8.7%
IN CELL is a kinetic visual novel (linear, no choices) about the epidemic of sexless, nationless, and friendless men. Gender dynamics are currently not functional, sustainable, or beneficial to either men or women. IN CELL is uncensored conversation between the sexes.
Why similar: Philosophical 19.9%, Dark Comedy 16.7%, Dark Humor 14.8%, Abstract 13.1%, Visual Novel 10.4%
The most beautiful story in the world of games! 😂😂 An innovative clicker where you fart and burp your way through earning achievements! 👀 Visit Old Mushroom's hut, welcome Fatty and feed him until he explodes! Fart, burp and have a great time! 💨💚
Why similar: Dark Humor 19.7%, Dark Comedy 18.8%, Comedy 13.5%, Abstract 13.4%, Hand-drawn 13%
Door Game Deluxe is a (very) short, satirical RPG. An expansion of the original and the pinnacle of human artistic expression, this version offers original art and music on top of new endings.
Why similar: Satire 35.3% ★, Philosophical 20.8%, Comedy 20.6%, Text-Based 18.7%, Funny 3.9%
一个沉眠的“意识”被唤醒,一个自称是“纳米机械”的管理者带来了一道“选择题”。即将发生的究竟是一个故事…亦或是某个故事的开端?而这一道“选择题”…又能折射出这个世界的多少样貌呢?
Why similar: Dark Humor 25.8%, Abstract 16.6%, Text-Based 13.8%, Dark Comedy 12.5%, Visual Novel 11.3%
The rise and fall of a rock n' roll star.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.7%, Satire 21.2% ★, Psychedelic 18.2%, Philosophical 14%, Abstract 12.4%
An exhilarating visual novel blending thriller and dark comedy. A tale of a train, money, greedy people, and bears.
Why similar: Dark Humor 24.6%, Dark Comedy 18.4%, Comedy 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Anime 10.1%
Is THIS a game? Well, it has everything you'd expect: buttons, pixels, achievements, a mouse-cursor to point and click sometimes, an axolotl, more than 50 mini-”games”. Is this enough? What even is a game? How much interactivity do you need? Are games art? Are there TOO many axolotls in this game?
Why similar: Satire 29% ★, Philosophical 20.1%, Dark Comedy 17.8%, Abstract 11.3%, Visual Novel 10%
You've stumbled upon an invitation letter to MARRY THE WITCH. It's addressed to SATAN, which you are not... but who cares? You've decided to give it a try, and now you found yourself with a crazy girl stuck in some MACHINE. You can't leave, and your only option now is to survive and MARRY her.
Why similar: Psychedelic 30.6%, Dark Humor 17.7%, Story Rich 10.6%, Comedy 8.4%, Funny 7.8%
『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 Humor 31%, Dark Comedy 28.7%, Text-Based 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Comedy 9.7%
You find yourself in a singularity with Death itself. With few chances to speak with the living, Death proposes a little game. Do you dive deep within yourself to indulge this cosmic guide and find out when you will meet again on official business? The Ultimate Death Clock awaits!
Why similar: Philosophical 21.1%, Dark Humor 17.4%, Psychedelic 14.2%, Text-Based 12.1%, Abstract 10.2%
A bombastic puzzle platformer about worlds turned inside out. Shift dimensions at the push of a button, solve brain-twisting logistical riddles, and race through the wilds of the multiverse in a bleakly hilarious (and hilariously bleak) story where everything you know can turn on a dime.
Why similar: Dark Humor 20.5%, Satire 18.8% ★, Psychedelic 17.2%, Dark Comedy 16.8%, Comedy 8.5%
An emotional dark comedy about robots doing therapy. In Robotherapy, you're a robot therapist in a dystopian society that killed all the humans, but is still not happy. Treat patients, meet weird robots and enter their minds. If killing all humans doesn't bring happiness, then what does?
Why similar: Dark Humor 26%, Dark Comedy 18.6%, Philosophical 14.3%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Comedy 9.8%