- #1 Rock Star Life Simulator
97% matchVery Positive86% of 540 reviews2025
Dev: HOGO Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Rock Star Life Simulator is an extensive fame simulation game. Start this adventure by playing the guitar on the street, form your own band. Protect the fame, money, and charisma you earned with the right decisions and become a world star!
Why similar: Rock Music 62.1% ★, Immersive Sim 10.4%, Choices Matter 8.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.5%, Story Rich 5.7%
- #2 SEX, SIN & ROCK'N'ROLL 🤘🎸
96% matchVery Positive86% of 112 reviews2026
Dev: Lewd Star
Windows
SEX, SIN & ROCK’N’ROLL is a 3D visual novel with side-scroller exploration where a cursed guitar offers fame for a price. Write songs, play rhythm concerts, face adult temptations, and choose between becoming a rock god or saving your soul. 🤘
Why similar: Rock Music 57.3% ★, Demons 15.7%, Dialogue Heavy 14.3%, Choices Matter 5.6%, Story Rich 4%
- #3 Cat Leather Jackets
96% matchVery Positive97% of 102 reviews2023
Dev: diogoh3xPub: Garoa Studios
Windows
A graphic novel styled music/rhythm game about a teenage punk rock and ska punk band.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 36.7%, Indie 24.6%, Story Rich 13.3%, Colorful 12.6%, 2D 9.8%
- #4 BAD END THEATER
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 10,071 reviews2021
Dev: NomnomNami
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.7%, Demons 20%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Story Rich 10.5%
- #5 UNBEATABLE
94% matchVery Positive92% of 7,794 reviews2025
Dev: D-CELL GAMESPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
UNBEATABLE is a rhythm adventure where music is illegal and you do crimes. Follow the story of Beat and her band on the run, in a narrative experience full of big emotions powered by arcade-flawless rhythm gameplay.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.9%, Hand-drawn 18.9%, Female Protagonist 17%, Story Rich 10.7%, Dialogue Heavy 6.9%
- #6 Purrgatory
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 5,046 reviews2021
Dev: Niv
Windows
A slice-of-death visual novel about making friends, cracking cat puns, and waiting for eternity to pass.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 35.9%, Hand-drawn 26.5%, Dialogue Heavy 17.2%, Story Rich 11.2%, Adventure 2.7%
- #7 I Write Games Not Tragedies
93% matchVery Positive100% of 63 reviews2025
Dev: Studio WifePub: Yotsuba Interactive
Windows
An emo-inspired narrative rhythm game exploring growing pains, addiction, romance and music. Scream with Ash as he makes the transition from baby bat to elder emo, guide him through his crash outs and help him navigate his (teenage) dirtbag life through music.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.1%, Hand-drawn 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Dark Humor 11.5%, Stylized 8%
- #8 Sister Ray
92% matchVery Positive96% of 451 reviews2026
Dev: The Growing Stones
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
2D RPG about the brutal daily life of Ray - an artist struggling with addiction, who takes care of her little sister. Look after your condition - no one should know about the addiction. Improve your skills, sell paintings, do everything to ease the withdrawal. Survive and look for a way out.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 40.8%, Female Protagonist 16.7%, Choices Matter 16.2%, Story Rich 11.9%, Colorful 6.5%
- #9 Wax Heads
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 604 reviews2026
Dev: Patattie GamesPub: Curve Games
Windows · Linux
Wax Heads is a cozy-punk narrative sim about working in a struggling record store. Chat to quirky customers with unique tastes, explore a handcrafted record collection, fall in love with bands (and their drama!), or just slack off with your colleagues - whatever gets everyone’s groove back!
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 40.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Stylized 12.4%, Exploration 8.3%, Story Rich 6.9%
- #10 We Are OFK
91% matchVery Positive92% of 304 reviews2022
Dev: OFK
Windows · Mac
Start a virtual indie band in this behind-the-music comedy. Date, dance, skate, and run for your life across 5 episodes and interactive music videos, in a heartfelt story of what you risk to chase your dreams. All episodes out now!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Dialogue Heavy 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Story Rich 9.7%
- #11 REPLAY BOYS
89% matchVery Positive94% of 134 reviews2023
Dev: Split Narrative Inc.
Windows · Mac
Band emergency! This was supposed to be Hannah’s day off, but now she’s been roped into managing The Replay Boys, an up-and-coming boy band. Make choices to stoke multi-timeline romances, keep the band from killing each other, and fight a resurrected ’80s pop star ghost. Can you manage?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.6%, Female Protagonist 21.1%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Stylized 10.5%, Story Rich 10.3%
- #12 Deathbulge: Battle of the Bands
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 740 reviews2023
Dev: Deathbulge
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The party-based RPG where you kick down doors and fight with music as a 3-piece band of idiots.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 36.2%, Female Protagonist 22.6%, Story Rich 16.4%, 2D 9.1%, Colorful 9.1%
- #13 GlitchPets
90% matchVery Positive87% of 55 reviews2018
Dev: Cool and Normal Entertainment
Windows · Linux
This game is still in development: kind of a puzzle-platform-climb-story-adventure where your cartridge 'pets' glitches out from pet pee. You control a "debug" npc
Why similar: Female Protagonist 48.7%, Exploration 21.6%, Indie 15.2%, Adventure 14.5%
- #14 The Crush House
88% matchMostly Positive75% of 546 reviews2024
Dev: NerialPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Film and produce 1999's hottest reality TV show: The Crush House! Select a crush-worthy cast, satisfy voracious audiences and keep the show on air to uncover the sinister secrets behind this darkly comic thirst-person shooter.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 28%, LGBTQ+ 21%, Immersive Sim 15.2%, Female Protagonist 12.8%, Choices Matter 10.6%
- #15 The Unlife of Gorlak
87% matchVery Positive100% of 55 reviews2025
Dev: LandsharkRAWR
Windows
Play as a Gorlak, a recently resurrected dragon in this raising sim JRPG adventure! Featuring deep combat and multiple endings. Become the dragon you want to be!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 52.4%, Hand-drawn 36.6%, 2D 8.2%, Singleplayer 2.7%
- #16 Night in the Woods
86% matchVery Positive95% of 20,322 reviews2017
Dev: Infinite FallPub: Finji
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23.9%, Dark Humor 17.8%, Hand-drawn 16%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Story Rich 8.8%
- #17 Cats and the Other Lives
86% matchVery Positive91% of 1,541 reviews2022
Dev: Cultic Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Part interactive fiction, part Felis domesticus adventure, “Cats and the Other Lives” explores the reunion of a broken family from the perspective of their house cat, Aspen.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.2%, Dark Humor 23.9%, Story Rich 18.3%, Adventure 8.9%, 2D 8.6%
- #18 a pet shop after dark
83% matchVery Positive89% of 407 reviews2022
Dev: npckc
Windows · Mac · Linux
PETSITTER WANTED. A horror point-and-click adventure game. Water the plants, feed the pets, and DON'T turn off the lights.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 52.7%, Female Protagonist 28.7%, 2D 9.9%, Adventure 5.8%, Singleplayer 2.9%
- #19 Born Punk
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 161 reviews2022
Dev: Insert Disk 22
Windows · Mac · Linux
A former combat hacker, a corporate CEO and a malfunctioning android get possessed by mysterious, otherworldly entities and must band together to save themselves and uncover the entities' origins. Talk, puzzle and explore your way through this (often humorous) cyberpunk thriller.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 22.1%, Female Protagonist 21%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Story Rich 12.6%, Colorful 9.7%
- #20 Depression Quest
84% matchMixed62% of 3,940 reviews2014
Dev: The Quinnspiracy
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 78.0 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 46%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.5%, Indie 13%, LGBTQ+ 5.9%, Singleplayer 4.4%
- #21 Tails Noir Preludes
81% matchVery Positive91% of 309 reviews2023
Dev: EggnutPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Tails Noir Preludes is a post-noir narrative adventure with branching choices. It is an intertwined series of vignettes about change, circumstance, and consequence. Guide four characters through formative moments in their lives in a dystopian Vancouver inhabited by anthropomorphic animals.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 43.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Female Protagonist 11.6%, Story Rich 8.6%, Exploration 6.7%
- #22 Postmortem: One Must Die (Extended Cut)
85% matchMostly Negative40% of 187 reviews2013
Dev: Unbound Creations
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 20%
Narrative-adventure playing an Agent of Death who must take ONE life that could change the fate of a conflict-torn Nation
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 22.5%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Adventure 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Indie 11.4%
- #23 A Mortician's Tale
82% matchMostly Positive72% of 1,434 reviews2017
Dev: Laundry Bear Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A Mortician's Tale is a short, story-driven game about a mortician tasked with running a funeral home.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.2%, Female Protagonist 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Story Rich 10.1%, Indie 9.9%
- #24 GESTALT: The Fifth Day
80% matchVery Positive94% of 147 reviews2024
Dev: KINJAKOPub: 072 Project
Windows
Wickeina 'Wicke' Gestalt lives in a haunted house. Trying to balance the stresses of life with the horrors of her home, play through a point-and-click psychological horror and multiple scenarios, where success and failure both progress the narrative of her story.
Why similar: Dark Humor 20.4%, Immersive Sim 14.7%, Hand-drawn 14.1%, Female Protagonist 13%, Choices Matter 10.4%
- #25 Corinne Cross's Dead & Breakfast
82% matchVery Positive99% of 142 reviews2016
Dev: bad chalk
Windows · Mac
A story-driven adventure game about a haunted bed & breakfast. A dead & breakfast!
Why similar: Female Protagonist 28.7%, Choices Matter 19.6%, Indie 16.4%, Adventure 14.6%, Story Rich 14.5%
- #26 Techno Banter
79% matchVery Positive92% of 134 reviews2025
Dev: Dexai ArtsPub: Crunching Koalas
Windows
You're the bouncer of the Green Door club, where every decision matters. Reject the unworthy of partying with clever retorts, explore a neon-lit city, and immerse yourself in the Berlin-like city's underground techno scene. The beat is pumping—are you in?
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 39.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Choices Matter 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Story Rich 8.1%
- #27 Love Alone Death
79% matchVery Positive98% of 450 reviews2023
Dev: vivid selfish
Windows · Mac
Build relationship with the characters. Your choices might earn you favor from one character, but disdain from another. Use items to solve problems. Confront various endings. Choose one person and face the end with them.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.4%, Female Protagonist 23%, Choices Matter 18.7%, Story Rich 11.6%, Adventure 7.2%
- #28 Super Lesbian Animal RPG
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 1,955 reviews2022
Dev: ponett
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Melody has decided to become a healer in this classic-inspired turn-based RPG about love, anxiety, and fighting funny-looking monsters in dungeons.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 38.5%, Female Protagonist 18.7%, Story Rich 12%, Colorful 8.3%, Indie 5.9%
- #29 Kemono Teatime
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,729 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Lalala
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Relax in the world of Kemono Teatime, where animal ears are a normal part of everyday life. Here in Melodius, you can whip up whatever blends of tea you desire in your favorite cafe as you play through an adorable story. Come now and live out your bestest and cutest life—down to the last drop.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 32.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.3%, Immersive Sim 18.4%, Female Protagonist 18.3%, Adventure 7.6%
- #30 Choice of the Deathless
81% matchVery Positive91% of 324 reviews2014
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Battle demons and undead attorneys, and win souls to pay back your student loans! At the elite demonic-law firm of Varkath Nebuchadnezzar Stone, you'll depose a fallen god, find romance, and maybe even make partner, if you don't lose your own soul first.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 54.3%, Interactive Fiction 33.1%, Indie 12.6%
- #31 The Demons Told Me to Make This Game
77% matchVery Positive98% of 112 reviews2025
Dev: Haunted Dude
Windows · Mac
Welcome to Red Hives, a lovely Midwestern town infested with demons. You're a little spirit stuck in a time loop, your only way to interact with the world is by possessing people and whispering into their ears. Explore timelines, solve mysteries, and please, try to keep your hosts alive...
Why similar: Demons 31.6%, Dark Humor 16.1%, Hand-drawn 13.6%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Female Protagonist 10.6%
- #32 Band Camp Boyfriend
78% matchVery Positive97% of 123 reviews2023
Dev: Lovebird Game Studios
Windows
Will you lead your marching band to victory as drum major? Explore band camp and attend rehearsal alongside an unforgettable cast of characters, where every choice matters. Find love or face tragedy in 7 routes with 35+ different endings in this colorful, musically-rich otome visual novel.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Choices Matter 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Story Rich 11.9%
- #33 Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical
74% matchVery Positive91% of 3,950 reviews2023
Dev: Summerfall StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Gods. Romance. Murder. Musical Numbers?! Play as Grace in a world where Greek Gods live in hiding among us. Change your fate as you draw friends, foes & lovers into song using your powers of musical persuasion to unravel the mystery of the Last Muse's death.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Hand-drawn 14.4%, LGBTQ+ 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Female Protagonist 11.5%
- #34 Mayor May Knott
73% matchVery Positive99% of 235 reviews2026
Dev: Ravenous Images
Windows · Mac
A creepy-cozy 3D adventure game about solving puzzles, rebuilding a haunted ghost town, meeting weird creatures, and listening to ridiculous music!
Why similar: Female Protagonist 31.7%, Stylized 19.3%, Exploration 18.9%, Story Rich 16.9%, Adventure 6.5%
- #35 To Hell With It
77% matchVery Positive87% of 205 reviews2021
Dev: Wimpy Imp Games
Windows
Hack ‘n’ Slash your way up Hell's corporate ladder in this “down the rabbit hole” adventure to retrieve your stolen cat from the Underworld!
Why similar: Demons 39.3%, Female Protagonist 22.5%, Exploration 15.2%, Adventure 7.6%, Colorful 7.4%
- #36 A Chamber of Stars
73% matchVery Positive99% of 166 reviews2025
Dev: Erik Sheader-Smith
Windows · Mac
The rise and fall of a rock n' roll star.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 33.4%, Stylized 17%, Story Rich 16.5%, Exploration 12.5%, Colorful 12%
- #37 Dustborn
75% matchMixed66% of 784 reviews2024
Dev: Red Thread GamesPub: Spotlight by Quantic Dream
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Ragtag crew? Check. Musical gear? Check. Tour bus and robot driver? Check. Stolen package? Check! Embark on a perilous road-trip across a Divided States of America. Use the power of words to shape relationships with your crew, get out of trouble and reach your final destination.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.8%, Female Protagonist 16%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Story Rich 10.6%, Exploration 8%
- #38 Demonheart: The Ice Demon
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 128 reviews2022
Dev: Rolling Crown
Windows · Mac
Play as the young witch Shar, as she moves in with a famous witch who keeps demonic prisoners in her basement. Will you find romance or doom?
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 21.3%, Demons 18.1%, LGBTQ+ 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Female Protagonist 9.9%
- #39 Mushroom Musume
72% matchVery Positive96% of 231 reviews2025
Dev: Mortally Moonstruck Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Raise a mushroom from a spore into a fine young woman, then discover the twists and turns her life may take in this creepy-cute fairytale life simulation game.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.3%, Dark Humor 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Choices Matter 14%, Female Protagonist 12.3%
- #40 LOUD: My Road to Fame
74% matchVery Positive93% of 193 reviews2023
Dev: HyperstrangePub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 57%
A wholesome, music-filled arcade rhythm game in which a young, reclusive rocker goes on a journey of self-discovery. Once she begins to follow her dreams and finds her inner voice, she discovers that it is LOUD!
Why similar: Female Protagonist 45.9%, Hand-drawn 38.8%, Colorful 14.3%, Singleplayer 1%
- #41 Dystopian Pet Simulator
72% matchVery Positive97% of 95 reviews2026
Dev: dinca.team
Windows
A grim exploration-driven pet simulator set in a broken world. Master platforming, optimize pet modifiers, upgrade your body, and advance through a dystopia where survival comes at a cost.
Why similar: Exploration 56.7%, Adventure 25.8%, Singleplayer 17.6%
- #42 Anxiety Puppy
70% matchVery Positive96% of 265 reviews2025
Dev: 小狗工作室Pub: Erabit
Windows
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: Interactive Fiction 32.6%, Female Protagonist 22%, Hand-drawn 17.8%, Adventure 10.5%, Indie 6.6%
- #43 DJ Bunny
71% matchVery Positive98% of 58 reviews2026
Dev: Alison Loke Mern Nyee
Windows
DJ Bunny is a 2D music-puzzle adventure where you craft songs by solving grid-based challenges. Take requests from quirky townsfolk, build beats, and help DJ Bunny chase her dream of performing at the legendary Hippity Hop Music Festival!
Why similar: Female Protagonist 39%, Story Rich 22.3%, 2D 21.5%, Indie 11.7%, Singleplayer 5.5%
- #44 Ghost on the Shore
73% matchVery Positive83% of 224 reviews2022
Dev: like CharliePub: Application Systems Heidelberg
Windows · Mac
An exploration game about emotional ties that transcend even death. Riley is faced with a headstrong ghost, urging her on an adventure across atmospheric shores, uncovering the island's tragic secret. Choices in dialogue shape the bond between the two, ultimately deciding Riley's fate.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 20.8%, Story Rich 19.4%, Exploration 16.3%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Adventure 10.9%
- #45 赛博拼好团!
70% matchVery Positive87% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: 普雷丽亚工作室
Windows
A cyberpunk-themed band management simulation game where you recruit musicians, plan tours, release albums, and lead your band to the top of Music City's entertainment industry.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 40.8%, Stylized 15.5%, Adventure 11.9%, Female Protagonist 10%, 2D 9.5%
- #46 ペンギンウォーズ
68% matchVery Positive98% of 107 reviews2026
Dev: しゃちクマず
Windows
This is an adventure novel game. Movement and object selection are possible using only keyboard input and mouse clicks on a PC. Experience the story of a girl strolling through the night town, enhanced by captivating movies and music.
Why similar: Rock Music 80.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 5.5%, Story Rich 3.7%, Adventure 2.8%, Exploration 2.3%
- #47 Therapy Simulator
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 76 reviews2025
Dev: Jemboy
Windows
Step into the chair of a therapist in Therapy Simulator! Guide your patients through emotional journeys with branching dialogue choices. Balance humor, humanity, and the chaos of therapy!
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 38.2%, Immersive Sim 23.3%, Choices Matter 18.9%, Story Rich 13.6%, Indie 3.4%
- #48 Afterparty
71% matchMixed68% of 967 reviews2020
Dev: Night School Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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: Dark Humor 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Story Rich 9.4%
- #49 RESTLESS SOUL
69% matchVery Positive91% of 323 reviews2022
Dev: Fuz GamesPub: Graffiti Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Laugh in the face of death in this hauntingly humorous comedy adventure about a wayward soul trying to make it back to the land of the living. Engage in bullet-hell lite battles, solve puzzles, and communicate with the dead as you navigate this “colorful” world. Death is just the beginning.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 44%, Adventure 13.5%, Exploration 12.1%, Story Rich 12%, 2D 11%
- #50 Closer the Distance
68% matchVery Positive90% of 297 reviews2024
Dev: Osmotic StudiosPub: Skybound Games
Windows
Closer the Distance is a slice-of-life sim that tells a deeply emotional story about the connections between family and friends in the face of tragedy. Unearth long kept secrets, repair strained relationships, and help your loved ones move on.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 32.3%, Choices Matter 26.4%, Story Rich 22.3%, Stylized 14.9%, Indie 2.2%
- #51 Death and Taxes
69% matchVery Positive86% of 8,579 reviews2020
Dev: Placeholder Gameworks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Dialogue Heavy 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Choices Matter 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Story Rich 10.9%
- #52 Riley & Rochelle
70% matchPositive92% of 52 reviews2022
Dev: Owlskip Games
Windows
Uncover the lives, losses, and stories of two musicians from opposite sides of the tracks as they become superstars, fall in love and fall apart in this 90s narrative puzzle game.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 22.6%, Choices Matter 19.3%, Stylized 13.5%, Exploration 13.3%, Story Rich 13.1%
- #53 Cruel Bands Career
71% matchVery Positive90% of 51 reviews2020
Dev: heran&99Pub: indienova
Windows · Mac
The Glass Heart Band face challenges brought on by a cruel world! They are on a secret mission and must face varied audiences and bosses to complete their quest.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 59.4%, Indie 18.4%, Adventure 10.8%, 2D 9.3%, Singleplayer 2.2%
- #54 Little Misfortune
67% matchVery Positive92% of 14,190 reviews2019
Dev: Killmonday Games AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Led by her new friend, Mr. Voice, Misfortune ventures into the woods, where mysteries are unraveled and a little bad luck unfolds.
Why similar: Dark Humor 23.3%, Choices Matter 18.3%, Female Protagonist 15%, Story Rich 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 11%
- #55 Party on Hallow Grove
67% matchVery Positive100% of 58 reviews2024
Dev: vaaasm
Windows
Talk to kooky guests, trade party items, and explore Death’s mansion as you throw him the spookiest birthday party EVER!
Why similar: Dark Humor 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, LGBTQ+ 16.6%, Story Rich 13.7%, Exploration 10.2%
- #56 Familiar Friends: What's Your Familiar?
66% matchVery Positive91% of 192 reviews2024
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
A cute and cozy Visual Novel experience with plenty of choices to make! Come find the Familiar truly meant for you by feeding The Conjuring Cauldron with a multitude of choices, all to a relaxing Original Soundtrack!
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 24.9%, LGBTQ+ 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Immersive Sim 12.9%
- #57 Tiny Life
67% matchVery Positive86% of 433 reviews2023
Dev: Ellpeck GamesPub: Top Hat Studios, Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 58%
In Tiny Life, you control a set of people that live together in a household. You take care of their daily needs, build their skills, forge new relationships... or just mess up their entire life in whatever way you can think of!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 37.4%, Dialogue Heavy 37.4%, Colorful 9.9%, 2D 9.4%, Singleplayer 6%
- #58 VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 38,763 reviews2016
Dev: Sukeban GamesPub: Ysbryd Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 31.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is a booze em' up about waifus, technology, and post-dystopia life.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 34.2%, Female Protagonist 22%, Choices Matter 17.6%, Story Rich 15.1%, 2D 5.9%
- #59 Graveyard Girls
67% matchVery Positive98% of 168 reviews2022
Dev: Delphinium Interactive
Windows
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: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, LGBTQ+ 21.1%, Dialogue Heavy 19.4%, Female Protagonist 12.6%, Choices Matter 9.7%