60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Story Rich, Choices Matter, Singleplayer.
Dear Agony Aunt is a nostalgic email simulator set in 2006. Offer the right advice to a diverse cast of characters to land a job as a professional agony aunt!
Terranova
A nostalgic interactive fiction game set in the early 2000's. Chat with your friends, update your LimeJournal, and discover yourself through a rich world of storytelling, love and friendship.
Emily is Away <3
Emily <3 is a brand new story set on an old-new social media. Customize your facenook profile, send some friend requests and determine the outcome of your senior year.
A nostalgic interactive fiction game set in the early 2000's. Chat with your friends, update your LimeJournal, and discover yourself through a rich world of storytelling, love and friendship.
Why similar: Nostalgia 23.6% ★, Text-Based 14.4%, Typing 13.8% ★, LGBTQ+ 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
Emily <3 is a brand new story set on an old-new social media. Customize your facenook profile, send some friend requests and determine the outcome of your senior year.
Why similar: Nostalgia 28.9% ★, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Typing 8.4% ★
Pine Hill is a quiet Midwestern college town. Quiet enough that nobody seemed to hear Ginny Nicholson die. Alone with the thoughts in your head, now you just want to know one thing: why?
Why similar: Nostalgia 23.1% ★, Text-Based 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Dialogue Heavy 14.1%, LGBTQ+ 12.4%
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 18.1%, Text-Based 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Multiple Endings 9%
Experience a pastel-toned emotional journey in Yuika My Bestie, a short visual novel you can complete in under 15 minutes per playthrough. With 5 unique endings and heartfelt choices, it takes just 30–40 minutes to explore every path of this soft, late-night cry.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18%, Dialogue Heavy 17.6%, Text-Based 11.4%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%
A call for help within a mysterious messaging app. Someone lost and wandering through a forest in a faraway place. And their destiny in your hands.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.2%, LGBTQ+ 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.6%
It's not what you say, it's how you say it. We should talk is a short-form narrative game that will make you think carefully about the words you choose. Can your relationship survive the night?
Why similar: Text-Based 19.5%, LGBTQ+ 19%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
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: Typing 15.3% ★, Text-Based 14.4%, Dialogue Heavy 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Choices Matter 10.3%
Travel to the world of the dead, whose stories encourage reflection on life. Chat with spirits, brew drinks to suit your mood, and bond with the people who run the afterlife cafes. In this urban sci-fi fantasy visual novel, your choices impact the living, the departed, and your own path forward.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 22.2%, LGBTQ+ 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.6%
Dust off your coffee machine and prepare your warmest smile to meet your customers again in the second episode of the much loved coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator; Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 34%, LGBTQ+ 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Choices Matter 8.9%, Simulation 6.2%
Retro virtual pet game with total fidelity to the 90s classics. A pixel art simulator with multiple characters, including rare pets, where your choices shape the evolution of your virtual pet.
Why similar: Nostalgia 58.5% ★, Retro 14.3%, Multiple Endings 8.4%, Simulation 5.3%, Relaxing 4.1%
Be a convenience-store clerk in a first-of-its-kind chat game—and kick out AI Karens. There are no preset choices. Say what you couldn’t in real life and enjoy how the AI responds differently each time. A stress-relief game where your what-ifs come to life!
Why similar: Text-Based 18.8%, Typing 18% ★, Choices Matter 13.7%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12%
Crown Delights Deli is a visual novel with multiple dialect/language choices. As the cashier at a Brooklyn bodega, choose to talk in English, AAVE, or Spanish to a diverse cast of characters as you try to maintain a five-star rating for your boss.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 22.3%, LGBTQ+ 20.4%, Text-Based 18.6%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Story Rich 8.2%
In this bizarre graphically-augmented text-adventure originally released in 1983 from the mind of Mel Croucher, Uncle Groucho is your guide in a wacky alternative Hollywood where cigars are currency and you are as likely to travel in a space shuttle as in a covered wagon.
Why similar: Nostalgia 48.4% ★, Text-Based 22.8%, Retro 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 7.9%, Funny 5.7%
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 26.3%, Text-Based 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choices Matter 12%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
Write letters with your typewriter on behalf of others in this cozy single-player game. Compose everything from simple hellos to theater scripts and love letters, express each client’s emotions, and find your own meaning to letter writing.
Why similar: Typing 20.9% ★, LGBTQ+ 20%, Text-Based 13.2%, Emotional 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%
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: Dialogue Heavy 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, LGBTQ+ 12.4%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Text-Based 10.8%
You're an NPC who gives quests to heroes. Play through 7 scenarios in this humorous narrative adventure with management sim gameplay and a real sassy manager. Now get to work!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21%, Wholesome 21% ★, Dialogue Heavy 16.5%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 32%, LGBTQ+ 15%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Choices Matter 7.9%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
A story about love, death, and the universe, told through tarot cards.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, LGBTQ+ 16.5%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
Cozy visual novel about a lovely witch who’s able to talk to spirits in a fantasy setting. Using her powers, Julia helps her neighbors in their daily whereabouts. Craft potions, find the right time to use them and get to know both spirits and clients to find their peace.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23.1%, LGBTQ+ 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Emotional 10.8%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
If she leaves now you will never see her again. Would you have enough courage to take a step, or would you stay quiet and regret it? Experience this story about love and loss.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.3%, Multiple Endings 14.3%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Emotional 11.6%, Text-Based 10.4%
Where are you, Cinderella? is a visual novel about Vietnamese culture and the world of entertainment. Will you be able to find the lost shoe’s owner? Or, will you find your shoe?
Why similar: Text-Based 20.4%, LGBTQ+ 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Choices Matter 13%
A summer memory in the countryside. Get a taste of nostalgia and let the pixel art warm your soul in this country life simulation. Do all the things you remember, and all the things you wish you had.
Why similar: Nostalgia 56.5% ★, Dialogue Heavy 12.7%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Retro 10.9%, Relaxing 5.3%
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: Nostalgia 41.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Retro 9.3%
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: Dialogue Heavy 17.9%, LGBTQ+ 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choices Matter 11%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
A spooky choices-matter mystery set in 2004 Switzerland. Many students have disappeared in Noirmont High over the past century. You're Lou, you just transferred here, and weird stuff immediately starts happening... will you be the next dropout?
Why similar: Nostalgia 46.9% ★, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, LGBTQ+ 9.5%
A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Text-Based 17.2%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Simulation 9.2%
Randall is your typical nerdy kid living a normal, unexciting life in the 80s. Secretly in love with the most popular girl in school and bullied by the soccer team gang. Until one day, he meets you — a divine entity who can change everything!
Why similar: Nostalgia 51.9% ★, Retro 11.6%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Story Rich 9.5%
Nostalgici Anonimi is a short visual novel set in a dystopian program to heal from feeling emotions. Choose your path, interact with the android therapist and the teenagers recovering from the nostalgia disease. Discover a card game to unveil your emotions and find hidden clues to find the truth.
Why similar: Nostalgia 41.7% ★, Text-Based 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
An AI has isolated the mind of a philosophy professor to evaluate human morality. As the terminal operator, you access files, run programs, and take his consciousness through ethical dilemmas. Your decisions will train the AI's final algorithm.
Why similar: Typing 19.5% ★, Text-Based 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Retro 10%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
Commander Keen is back. In the modernised Definitive Edition of the lost episode "Keen Dream". The game structure has been reworked to make the game a more modern experience without sacrificing any of the original charm!
Why similar: Nostalgia 68.8% ★, Retro 18%, Casual 7.5%, 2D 4.7%, Indie 1%
A 5 minutes game about love and hesitation. Use Backspace to play. Hope you will never experience this hesitation.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.6%, Text-Based 18.9%, Dialogue Heavy 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Typing 10.7% ★
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 23.1%, Text-Based 14.6%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Dialogue Heavy 11.5%
“Lone Bird in the Tree” is an ADV with male and female versions of each of the four characters. The story alternates between the “future” of the main character, who is deeply traumatized by the grief of his/her best friend, and the “story leading up to the loss of his/her best friend”.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.9%, Text-Based 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%, Story Rich 9.9%
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 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Emotional 12.6%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
A Brown Rabbit's Story is an interactive storybook, a text-driven adventure where your choices lead to branching paths and multiple endings. In a quiet orphanage, a boy wishes his toy rabbit to life… and together, they must face the world’s cruelties and find hope.
Why similar: Text-Based 29.6%, Interactive Fiction 23%, Emotional 13.3%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Story Rich 9.9%
The president trusts you. Exercise your Shamanic capabilities (or lack thereof). But don't get caught!
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Text-Based 17.3%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Multiple Endings 13.1%
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: LGBTQ+ 24.8%, Dialogue Heavy 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Text-Based 13.9%, Choices Matter 9.1%
You're a barber in a city full of beastfolk. Chat with your customers, style their look, help them see something new in the mirror... and in themselves.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 33.2%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Multiple Endings 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Relaxing 7.9%
Play as a Duskweaver in this short "choices matter" story about self-sacrifice.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Choices Matter 17.7%, Multiple Endings 16.3%, Emotional 9.1%
Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
Why similar: Choices Matter 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Story Rich 14.9%, Retro 13.8%, Text-Based 13.1%
A cozy visual novel about running a tavern in a D&D-inspired fantasy! Gather rumors, serve magical drinks, and meet adventurers on a life-changing quest.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.7%, Dialogue Heavy 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Choices Matter 10%
A romance about falling in love for the first time, while suffering from social anxiety disorder.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20%, Typing 18.6% ★, Text-Based 16.1%, Dialogue Heavy 13.6%, Retro 8.3%
A darkly comedic legal sim where your goal is to get disbarred—spectacularly. Play as a defense attorney or prosecutor in ethically disastrous cases full of bad decisions, weird clients, and Kafkaesque courtroom chaos. Succeed, and you lose.
Why similar: Text-Based 29.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Story Rich 9%
Get yourself into and out of another fine mess! Win glory, renown, and much-needed money through cunning schemes that will seem like good ideas at the time.
Why similar: Text-Based 30.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Dialogue Heavy 13.4%, Story Rich 9.2%
Leif, the little boy, is feeling a bit sad since that happened. Take on the role of Midnight, the mischievous cat, and help your human friend through a rough time in his life.
Why similar: Nostalgia 26.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Wholesome 12% ★, Retro 9.6%, Story Rich 9.3%
Your only goal is to find a door and advance to the next level. Sounds simple enough, right? But in these endless, unsettling liminal spaces, nothing is as it seems. What could possibly go wrong?
Why similar: Nostalgia 80.8% ★, Simulation 12.6%, Emotional 5.7%, Singleplayer 0.5%, Indie 0.3%
It's 1999 and your friend sends you a floppy disk, titled "RemBo". It turns out to be the installer for an old BBS service, filled with both strangers and a familiar face. How are you going to use it?
Why similar: Text-Based 23%, Typing 21.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, LGBTQ+ 14.2%, Choices Matter 9.5%
Samael suffers from delusions. He feels lost until he encounters a priest one day. The priest is the only person in the world who makes him feel at peace. This, however, slowly turns into an obsession. Will Samael learn how to love properly or will he fall into a path of darkness? You decide.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.3%, LGBTQ+ 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Simulation 11%, Emotional 9.2%
A visual novel set in 1920s Paris. As summer draws near, young students are revising their end-of-year exams. Olivier is one of them.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Text-Based 13.8%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Emotional 9.9%
Seduce and surveil as a sexy spy! Gather intel, or gamble on love in Versailles! Who will catch your eye: a spymistress, a poet, or a traitor to the king?
Why similar: Text-Based 25.8%, LGBTQ+ 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Choices Matter 9%, Multiple Endings 8%
Winter 1999. Kicked out of your house after being outed by your closest friend, you plan to leave your hometown. Your girlfriend, Mika, wants to see you one more time. Decide whether or not you'll stay together.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.1%, Dialogue Heavy 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Choices Matter 10.9%
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: LGBTQ+ 17.9%, Text-Based 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Dialogue Heavy 11.3%, Emotional 10.5%
一个生活跌入谷底的男人，阴差阳错的穿越回90年代，重新遇到自己的亲人与朋友。 改变吧！用这仅有一次的机会！你的每一次选择都只有一次，且无比重要！
Why similar: Nostalgia 53.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Emotional 7.2%, Choices Matter 6.4%
A comfy yuri VN about the foxgirl Miho and her quest to find the person who's most important to her. This emotional visual novel features two different heroines to choose from, and a story that will make you both laugh and cry!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24%, Wholesome 21% ★, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Emotional 9.4%
Time Loader is a story-driven puzzle-platformer with tiny robots, alternate realities, nostalgic music, and primitive tech from the 90s!
Why similar: Nostalgia 44.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Emotional 8.1%
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: Dialogue Heavy 20.6%, Text-Based 19%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Choices Matter 13.3%
Follow Sophie as she embarks on her latest adventure in making money, working alongside the enigmatic Rias as they put on a special yuri/lesbian camgirl show for their viewers.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Dialogue Heavy 15.8%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Choices Matter 9.4%
