60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Emotional, Dialogue Heavy, Story Rich.
A short emotional journey through memory, grief, and healing. Help Íris piece together her fragmented memories and uncover hidden truths. A portion of the sales is donated to AbleGamers Brazil. 🧡🖤
Your Very Last Words
Live through the last ten minutes of Juan Fuentes, who has been given the chance to choose his very last words. Captured by Victoriano Huerta's army after the Ten Tragic Days during the Mexican Revolution, Juan will confront his life, death, family, relationships and existence.
The Wreck
In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.
Live through the last ten minutes of Juan Fuentes, who has been given the chance to choose his very last words. Captured by Victoriano Huerta's army after the Ten Tragic Days during the Mexican Revolution, Juan will confront his life, death, family, relationships and existence.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Psychological 14.4%, Text-Based 14.2%, Dialogue Heavy 14.2%, Historical 11.9%
In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 16.9%, Emotional 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Psychological 12.3%, Point & Click 9.7%
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: Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Text-Based 13%, Emotional 12.9%, Psychological 12.5%, Historical 12.1%
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 30.7%, Emotional 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Text-Based 14.6%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
This is a train to 21C, via 19C. Passengers will require a valid click to use this service. Passengers are advised that this train consists of 9 cars, divided by each era. Please mind the fire. This train is ready to depart, please stand clear of the fire.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Emotional 15.2%, Dialogue Heavy 15.2%, Psychological 14.5%, Point & Click 13.7%
A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.3%, Emotional 17%, Psychological 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Text-Based 9.5%
Play as a Duskweaver in this short "choices matter" story about self-sacrifice.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19%, Text-Based 17.7%, Emotional 15.6%, Psychological 14.4%, Multiple Endings 13.6%
A pixel art point-and-click adventure set in the heart of the modern-day high tech industry, which will test your logic and deductive reasoning skills as you investigate the murder mystery that's upturned your life.
Why similar: Psychological 18%, Dialogue Heavy 17.2%, Emotional 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Female Protagonist 8.5%
Shamrock Creations is proud to present Watashi Suzume. A story that explores the far reaching impacts that love, friendship, and understanding have on not only our own lives, but how we view life itself. All wrapped up in a supernatural murder mystery narrative that we think everyone will enjoy.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Dialogue Heavy 15.5%, Emotional 14.4%, Point & Click 11.5%
An urgent message from home, a choice with an impossible price tag. In a 20-minute high-stakes dialogue, you must dismantle a "perfect" engineer's facade. Faced with $100,000 and a family tragedy, will you help him preserve his costly "American Dream," or force him to face the half-packed suitcase?
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 26.5%, Text-Based 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Psychological 12%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
My name is left behind these white walls. In its place, I am left with dozens of questions. I wander aimlessly, though she seems to guide me. I do not feel safe. Twenty-four hours... and everything will fall into place.
Why similar: Psychological 18%, Dialogue Heavy 14.2%, Emotional 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Text-Based 12.7%
Misgiven is an emotional sci-fi adventure about the lump in your throat. Stranded in a city veiled in toxic fog, take on a stranger's mask to survive. Wrestle with your thoughts in a tangible dialogue system. Struggle to keep up the facade, or dare to drop it, to find allies as a harbinger of doom.
Why similar: Psychological 18.9%, Emotional 16%, Dialogue Heavy 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Point & Click 10.4%
A story-rich interactive fiction about two people who find comfort in each other, and the quiet things they never say out loud.
Why similar: Psychological 21.1%, Emotional 18.8%, Dialogue Heavy 13.3%, Point & Click 10.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
Graveyard Girls is a halloween-themed yuri visual novel about complicated grief and overcoming hardships. Collect Elle’s “scribbles” to learn about her struggles, befriend a mysterious girl, and have a conversation about death.
Why similar: Emotional 18.7%, Psychological 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Text-Based 12.3%
Anxiety Puppy is a 2D interactive narrative game that focuses on anxiety. In the game, anxiety is personified as a little puppy. Players will explore its story and try to coexist with it. Go find its traces and give it a hug.
Why similar: Psychological 20.3%, Text-Based 19.1%, Emotional 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Female Protagonist 8.6%
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: Dialogue Heavy 24.7%, Emotional 23%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Philosophical 8.6%
"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: Psychological 21.7%, Emotional 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Dialogue Heavy 17.1%, Text-Based 14.9%
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: Dialogue Heavy 26.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Text-Based 15.5%, Emotional 14%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
In Your Books is a short adventure game where you play the granddaughter of a bookseller. After her disappearance you'll have to take the place of your grandmother. Recommend books, learn to know the locals, solve secret mechanisms and discover where she left.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 27.1%, Emotional 18.8%, Text-Based 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Philosophical 8.5%
An isolated village during the war. Men leave one by one, along the winding forest path painted crimson by distant fires, and do not return. Young Nadia becomes a part-time postwoman filling in for her sick mother. She is now a messenger of hope and of trouble.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20.5%, Emotional 16%, Historical 14.5%, Point & Click 12.7%, Female Protagonist 8.7%
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 26.9%, Emotional 15.7%, Dialogue Heavy 13.8%, Text-Based 11.6%, Historical 11.3%
A short, sweet and charming puzzle game about a girl named Aurora, who is trapped in a dreamy room filled with everything she could possibly desire. Explore her wonderland to find a way out and discover the true nature of this fantastical room. All dreams, good or bad, must come to an end... right?
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 24.7%, Point & Click 12.3%, Text-Based 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11%, Emotional 10.9%
Serve coffee and befriend customers as you learn their story in this coming-of-age visual novel.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 29.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Female Protagonist 11.1%, Psychological 9.7%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
Weep for the dead! In this short psychological horror story, play as a professional mourner travelling between funerals. Ride a nightmarish bus whose destination depends on how you choose to face your traumas.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20.6%, Emotional 16.9%, Psychological 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
Lenin – The Lion is a Puzzle RPG game about overcoming fears. Walk into chaos and find the claws of loneliness or carefully build your path and find the benefits of understanding and acceptance.
Why similar: Psychological 24.5%, Emotional 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Text-Based 10.5%
Short interactive story-telling 3D platform adventure game. The gameplay is about 45~60 mins.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 25.4%, Psychological 22%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Philosophical 11.4%, Atmospheric 7.5%
A GxG coming-of-age visual novel. Nina sucks at choosing. But when a mysterious incident happens at the arts academy, will she muster the courage to choose–or will she let someone else decide on her behalf?
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Emotional 16.6%, Psychological 11.6%, Text-Based 11.1%
Fishbowl is a slow and tender narrative game about dreams, grief, and hope. Rediscover your memories and find your way into the present in this intimate experience where slice-of-life meets surreal.
Why similar: Emotional 21.7%, Dialogue Heavy 20.9%, Psychological 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
A boy and an old man stand in front a pond, waiting for a swan's song. Meanwhile, they talk about life, death, and the passage of time.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 27.9%, Emotional 23.6%, Text-Based 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Philosophical 13.3%
A visual interactive story about Blue, who is expected to be successful at work, be a good boyfriend, and at the same time... be happy.
Why similar: Emotional 21.3%, Dialogue Heavy 19.3%, Psychological 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Point & Click 8.5%
Michael struggles with dreams of dark waters and an unknown ancient evil resting beneath the cold waves. Are these simply dreams or are they a premonition of things to come?
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 36.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Emotional 15.5%, Point & Click 10.7%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
A short, dark visual novel set in the UK about a young autistic girl's destructive obsession with her older brother.
Why similar: Emotional 20.5%, Text-Based 15.6%, Psychological 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Female Protagonist 11.5%
A short story visual novel-like game with a gently interactive narrative and some puzzling mysteries to unlock. Discover how your father got tarred and feathered. Get lost in the memory with ever-corrupting visuals and an immersive soundscape as you make your way to the emu farm.
Why similar: Emotional 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Psychological 13.6%, Text-Based 12.3%, Point & Click 10.4%
The Tenth Minute is a short narrative game told through chat and novel-style reading. Revisit a school-day memory shaped by unspoken feelings, misaligned memories, and belated understanding between three people. A youthful story with light psychological mystery, complete in around 2 hours.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.2%, Text-Based 19.7%, Psychological 18.8%, Emotional 15.5%, Female Protagonist 6.2%
Through a narrative based on Red Ribbon’s new album “Planet X”, experience a broken-heart girl’s journey through thoughts, daydreams and music.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Emotional 16.7%, Point & Click 13.3%, Psychological 13%
She was made to serve. Never to feel. A narrative adventure about a being created to preserve the world's balance — who begins, for the first time, to question everything she was made for. Form bonds, make choices, and discover the price of becoming something you were never meant to be.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23.1%, Emotional 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Philosophical 9.8%
Classic Zork meets Existential Crisis. A modern text adventure that explores themes of control, isolation and mental health while levelling up the genre with beautiful pixel art.
Why similar: Psychological 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Dialogue Heavy 20.9%, Text-Based 13.1%, Atmospheric 9.5%
“Thing-in-Itself” is a short interactive story about the struggles of understanding another human being. Using Immanuel Kant’s concept as a framework, it leads the player through stages of a relationship, exploring how perceptions may clash and surroundings can alter.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20%, Psychological 19.7%, Emotional 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Philosophical 11.1%
Of Moons and Mania is an interactive psychotic break, based on lived experience. It uses elements of its design to explain the struggles of psychosis, and tells a personal story about mental illness.
Why similar: Emotional 36.5%, Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Text-Based 17%, Atmospheric 11.5%, Story Rich 4.9%
Hanako’s Flower Shop is a heartfelt visual novel where you run a flower shop, crafting bouquets using the language of flowers. Listen to customers’ stories, shape Hanako’s journey through choices, and navigate her struggle to honor her grandpa’s legacy while discovering her own path.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23.5%, Emotional 18.7%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Text-Based 10.4%, Female Protagonist 10.1%
This narrative adventure tells stories of children from Sarajevo and Ukraine based on local’s testimonies. See contemporary war from an overlooked perspective, highlighting resilience and imagination of kids whose future was taken from them.
Why similar: Emotional 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Point & Click 12.1%, Historical 12%, Psychological 11.1%
What do mirror reflections do once they have no one to repeat after anymore? Play as Iris, quite a sarcastic reflection torn between the urge to unravel the mystery of death of her “prototype” and the need to find her place in a mirrored world.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Text-Based 15%, Emotional 13.3%, Psychological 12.1%
Board the Trans-Siberian railroad and travel 9,289 km from Moscow to Vladivostok. Clash with a vibrant culture as you meet people as strange to you as you are to them. Journey into a standalone Wanderlust adventure from the makers of The Witcher.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 18%, Psychological 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Emotional 15.2%, Text-Based 14.1%
Evan faces a frustrating battle with his conscience. It's one he cannot afford to lose, or he'll spend the rest of his life behind bars. Under intense scrutiny and questioning from two savvy detectives, how will he fare? That, is entirely up to you.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 25.7%, Psychological 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Point & Click 10.6%, Investigation 6.9%
An interactive horror story based on a reality everyone eventually faces. Make choices to confront someone trying to enter your home - and uncover who they are.
Why similar: Psychological 19.9%, Dialogue Heavy 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Philosophical 11.6%, Text-Based 10.5%
Can you fall in love with quilts?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Emotional 24%, Text-Based 15.1%, Female Protagonist 13%, Historical 8.3%
Tired of a suffocating college routine? Yearning for something more? Join the Qiqu Club! We promise unforgettable experiences beyond your wildest dreams. But beware, our club is extremely exclusive. Only those daring enough to seek adventure will be admitted...
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 22.1%, Emotional 19.2%, Psychological 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
You have five days to save your husband, who has just been arrested by the Gestapo. Investigate, explore and form allegiances in this story-rich RPG-lite. Who will you trust?
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 22.1%, Emotional 16.9%, Historical 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
Born with a birth defect that he hates, Kakeru struggles with severe anxiety and depression. Guide his timid decisions as he takes a brave step into a new world - joining his school's music club, making unexpected and inspiring new connections, and daring to dream again.
Why similar: Emotional 19.8%, Dialogue Heavy 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Psychological 13.2%, Text-Based 11.4%
Hitchhiker is a mystery game set along lost highways, where your goal is to solve the puzzle of your own backstory.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 29.8%, Psychological 15.1%, Emotional 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Philosophical 10.7%
Blueberry is a story-driven puzzle platformer that takes you deep into a woman’s mind as she faces her trauma. Ascend her Tower of Life, relive her key memories, and collect pieces of her fragmented self to unlock the mysteries of her past.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20%, Emotional 19.7%, Psychological 19%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Philosophical 8.9%
A point-and-click horror/tragedy visual novel about melding your perception of the world around you. Walk around, drive people to their death, and shape Perdita's existence. Remember: The flesh-sin is nothing. Before she can become everything, you must make her into something.
Why similar: Emotional 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Dialogue Heavy 14.2%, Point & Click 10.9%, Text-Based 10.7%
"How about a drink?" In this heartwarming, conversation-driven visual novel, you step into the role of the leader of a hot spring drinking club. You'll help its colorful members navigate personal troubles, sometimes with the aid of a drink or two, and see their challenges through to resolution.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 30.1%, Text-Based 21.5%, Psychological 13.6%, Emotional 10.9%, Atmospheric 7.8%
Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Text-Based 21.9%, Emotional 17.9%, Psychological 16.2%, Atmospheric 8.9%
At first glance, your everyday life with your younger sister seems uneventful—going to school together, chatting, living side by side. But within that endless cycle of calm routines, could those seemingly insignificant actions be quietly changing your fate?
Why similar: Psychological 26.3%, Emotional 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Female Protagonist 8.3%
Awakening in a frigid room with an empty pill bottle, she’s forgotten something vital. Trapped between a monochrome bedroom and distorted dreams, she must face anxiety and depression... Break mental shackles and find the light in this psychological puzzle adventure！
Why similar: Psychological 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Emotional 18.5%, Text-Based 13.9%, Point & Click 12.9%
An immersive visual novel experience that brings you on a journey through memory, nostalgia, and guilt.
Why similar: Psychological 19.5%, Dialogue Heavy 16.8%, Emotional 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Text-Based 11.3%
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: Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Text-Based 16.4%, Historical 14.3%, Psychological 13%, Emotional 12.7%
Flavor Favor is a soft sci-fi visual novel where you take on the role of a captive fumer, a form of advanced AI humanoid, on the remote island of Tuinu. Your captors insist on having liberated you, but as you gradually recover your memories, a more complex story starts to unfold.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Emotional 17.7%, Dialogue Heavy 16.5%, Psychological 15.6%, Point & Click 11.9%
Work. Sleep. Repeat. Days blur together, and colors fade... until everything is blank. In this point-and-click story, escape monotony and repaint your canvas with new colors.
Why similar: Emotional 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Psychological 18.3%, Point & Click 15.6%, Atmospheric 7.9%
