Games Like Death by Begonia

A wedding where one of the guests arrives dead. A strange black hole eclipsing the Florida sun. And your best friend? Gone. Is all this a butterfly dream or is reality breaking? Is their story romance or mystery? Your choices will determine the genre of his soul. Welcome to the town of Siren's Call.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 11.2%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Mystery 9.1%, Visual Novel 8.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%

Gripping psychological thriller Yaoi game full of difficult choices. Can you trust your own mind?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.7%, Romance 10.8%, Psychological Horror 9.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%, Visual Novel 8.5%

Help Elliot recover his memories and unlock the truth of what happened before it's too late. A Mexican-American gothic, boys' love visual novel, featuring interactive spell crafting and point-and-click exploration.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.8%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Romance 9.5%, Interactive Fiction 8.4%

Fearbonding is a Yandere x Demon BL Horror Visual Novel. Play as Hinata, a demon, and try to tame the deranged Kosuke. Will you get to satisfy your hunger for fear through your new hunting dog or will you be the one to get devoured?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.4%, Romance 11.6%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 7.1%

A psychological horror story, with a spiking sense of danger and gentle melancholy. An out of this world adventure, revolving around books, memories and mortality. Along the way, perhaps you shall pick up pieces of a long forgotten heart, or some unlikely companions that you never knew you needed.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Romance 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Visual Novel 8.8%

Shape queer love and friendship at the end of the world in this choice-driven, emotional narrative game. Will you settle for pessimism, or open yourself to trust?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.7%, Romance 11%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%

A mystical visual novel where ordinary school life intertwines with mysterious phenomena. Every decision you make could lead to uncovering secrets... or plunge you into even greater uncertainty.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Mystery 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Romance 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9.8%

A visual novel where your choices matter. Derek has a job, a beloved boyfriend, friends, and… “piranha thoughts.” Everything was perfect until his younger sister Rina returned to town.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Romance 11.8%, Visual Novel 11%, Choices Matter 8.9%

Roadtrip across the country. Confront a tyrant. The revolution will be messy—but the relationships will be messier.

Why similar: Romance 13.9%, LGBTQ+ 11.9%, Mystery 10.8%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Hand-drawn 7.9%

After three carriage rides, you have finally made it to the quiet town of Palena to start your new life. Things seem to be going well with your new arcane workshop here, but it seems your past hasn't entirely escaped you.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Romance 9.3%

A tragic love story following Memori and her search for the missing "him."

Why similar: Visual Novel 13%, Romance 12%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Multiple Endings 8.7%

Audiences connect to their favorite celebrities all the time. How does it affect these people when put into a game of life or death? Only time will tell.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Visual Novel 11%, Psychological Horror 8%

How far will you go to get your deepest wish granted? In The Game of Fourtune, help guide Clyde & Devon through this cruel game of life and death. Only one participant will get their wish granted. Four rounds and four deaths each round, are you ready to see if fortune is on your side?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 10%, Psychological Horror 9%, Visual Novel 8.9%, Mystery 8.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%

A psychological horror story set in the town of Blackthorn; a place that lives in constant fear of a witch. The two main suspects? Levi’s mom and sister! His only lifelines to the outside world. Can they live a peaceful life? Or will they be dragged down by the dying town?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Multiple Endings 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%

Survive a gripping psychological thriller in this visual novel. Make critical decisions, face a disturbed captor, and experience multiple chilling endings.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Multiple Endings 8.7%, Choices Matter 8.6%

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: LGBTQ+ 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%, Romance 9.1%, Psychological Horror 9%

Your average student life quickly descents into horror as a mysterious witch takes over the college... Can you save the girl you love? Or even make it out alive?

Why similar: Romance 11.3%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Multiple Endings 8.2%

You’ve ignored the hallucinations for years. But after visiting a shrine in search of answers, a stranger claims she sees them too. Ashen Reverie is a visual novel about the consequences of chasing a myth too far.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Mystery 8.9%

A dark fantasy tale where death is not the end but the path to the truth. Two magi trapped in a collapsing tower must unravel a deadly mystery. Each death reveals another piece of the puzzle that is their shared past and forbidden love. For fans of House in Fata Morgana and literary dark fantasy.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%, Psychological Horror 9%, Romance 8.9%, Visual Novel 8.5%

Create your character and experience a fun story in which you will meet friends, enemies and partners as you try to carry out a vital project with your friends: to create an anime before you finish your studies.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18%, Romance 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Visual Novel 9.6%

DEVIL'S LIMINAL is a branching slow-burn horror and yuri romance visual novel. In a life of poverty and violence, Margo Silva has one last summer in Arizona till college. Make choices to maintain a normal facade with friends, date an enigmatic new girl, and stop a demonic plot to take Margo's life.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.1%, Romance 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%, Visual Novel 8.2%, Psychological Horror 8.2%

A supernatural mystery visual novel. What kind of fate will the heroine face after she relives the last seven days before her death?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14%, Romance 13.3%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Mystery 7.7%

Heartbeat House: Hong Kong is a dating reality visual novel. Live with eight participants in a shared villa and make romantic choices. Your decisions are remembered, and relationships will change. If the screen flickers or something feels off—please relax and keep dating. The show is still ongoing.

Why similar: Romance 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Psychological Horror 9.3%, Multiple Endings 9.1%

The Doll Shop is a hand-drawn narrative game – part romance, part horror – set in the Japanese countryside. Play as a young dollmaker who reunites with his childhood friend in an eerie snowbound village. Will you dare confess your secret?

Why similar: Mystery 10.4%, Hand-drawn 10%, Emotional 9.9%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Multiple Endings 9.4%

A dark boys love / boys hate visual novel set in a 1001 Nights inspired world full of political intrigue. Yuel, once the King of Indra, is deposed by his older cousin, Tavi, during a coup and imprisoned within the palace. An uneasy relationship between them grows, and then...

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Romance 9.6%, Anime 7.6%

Immerse yourself in the enigmatic world of Nauris, where enchanting landscapes hide terrifying secrets: the strange behavior of elders, sinister rituals of priests, and the disappearance of citizens. Madness lurks everywhere – will you master it or become its victim? The choice is yours.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Romance 9.4%, Psychological Horror 8.5%

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+ 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Romance 10.5%

Retracing the footsteps of a mother she never knew, Lena's trying to make it as a dancer in the city. Caught in a quarrel between dance companies, dealing with love and heartbreak and the challenges of young adulthood, she must also cope with the voice in her head commenting on everything she does.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.4%, LGBTQ+ 12%, Visual Novel 10%, Mystery 9.5%, Romance 9.2%

A short horror visual novel where you get to know your brand new self-aware in-game boyfriend and explore your relationship through Talking About Something in the Nowhere.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.8%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Emotional 6%

Laki is an outcast: many beastmen have disappeared because of him. To break this curse, Laki travels to the Dead Forest, a place from which almost no one has ever returned. But what will be the key to the secrets of his fate and the mysteries of the forest?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.7%, Romance 13.4%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Mystery 9.2%, Dark 7.2%

Luna has been working too hard, fortunately as she finishes up each night she manages to find her way to a hidden out of the way cafe, one where the gals all dress up like different animals. It could be a place for dreams to come true, or just for Luna to blow off some steam and relax each night.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.1%, Romance 14.2%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Multiple Endings 10%

Where Control Ends is a psychological visual novel about Astra, a young girl trying to hold herself together after a night she cannot fully remember.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Romance 12.1%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Multiple Endings 8.1%

A string of campus killings. A newly-turned vampire struggling to adjust. A monster hunter seeking answers. Worlds collide as Dante Jones and Nick Torres, both in danger of being accused of the crimes, team up to reveal the true culprit in this chilling supernatural horror visual novel.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Psychological Horror 9.3%, Mystery 9.1%, Visual Novel 9%

You wake into a perfect life you don't remember choosing — warm, loving, and sealed shut. She knows everything about you. The one door has never opened. KEPT is a short psychological romance-horror visual novel with six endings, gated by how much of the truth you can bear to know.

Why similar: Romance 15.5%, Visual Novel 15%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Mystery 7.2%, Horror 6.4%

A free drama-mystery visual novel with a modern fantasy setting. Reach out to the fourteen people trapped inside to find the truth through eighteen endings, influenced by but not exclusively bound to your own system time.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Mystery 13%, Multiple Endings 9.9%

The curse wove your fates together. Now their thoughts and feelings influence you and your actions determine their fates. Will you be able to break the curse? Or will their dark pasts drag you into an inescapable despair? And can a fresh start really erase the past?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Mystery 8.1%

This world is woven of strings, of fate and of hate. What do you see, detective? A horror-mystery yuri visual novel peering into the maddening darkness of love and death.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.5%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Mystery 9.7%, Romance 9.6%, Multiple Endings 9.3%

You are a censor in a nameless war, blacking out the letters of two lovers who have never met. Their whole romance lives on paper — so every word you strike is struck from the love itself. Then the letters begin, impossibly, to answer your pen. A melancholy epistolary romance. Six endings.

Why similar: Romance 15%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Mystery 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%

Let's MEAT Adam is a Bara, BxB visual novel set in a neon NIGHTMARE of an escape-room-turned-death-game. Muscles, Blood, Escape, Trust, Betray, MEAT.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.9%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Thriller 10%

Experience the stories of Haru, Erika, and Manami, a trio of friends navigating their feelings of love, connection, and just wanting to belong.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Emotional 8.5%, Romance 7.9%

Ascension is a visual novel following three lost souls as they venture into The Zone - a dangerous and alien world. Follow the abrasive Doctor, the shy Scholar and sardonic Escort on their journey - though none of them will come out unscathed.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Romance 10.2%, Visual Novel 8.9%, Psychological Horror 8.6%

Alice, Alice, the Red Queen is missing. The queen has been dismembered and Alice must find all her pieces. A horror-fantasy yuri visual novel filled with death, love, and forgotten memories.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.8%, Romance 14%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Psychological Horror 9.6%, Dark 8.5%

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+ 18.9%, Romance 13.5%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Multiple Endings 8.7%

A Chistmas themed afterstory to The Divine Speaker featuring Leos and Raen! Search for the elusive Mister Bells, spend the Winter Solstice together, and win at rock-paper-scissors against your favorite ex-assassin turned bounty hunter!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.6%, Romance 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Mystery 7.1%

A horror-romance visual novel following the trials of a dysfunctional friend group thrust back into the wish-granting wonderland of their youth. Either they face the issues plaguing them or risk dying in horrific ways again… and again… and again.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.7%, Romance 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Psychological Horror 8.1%

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+ 19%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Emotional 10.5%, Choices Matter 9.1%

The kind Blacksmith is a Visual Horror Novel set in ficticious medieval Italy. In a land ravaged by war and sickness, you take on the roll of the Blacksmith - a lonely man that happens to take in a sick Knight of the invading forces. The Knight's fate is in your hands. To be kind is your choice.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.8%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Hand-drawn 11.8%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Multiple Endings 8.4%

Welcome to Trauma, a free-to-play short visual novel full of mysteries. Will you ever be able to smile again?

Why similar: Romance 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Mystery 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Psychological Horror 10.8%

The prologue arc to the "Garden of Roses" story. A visual novel set in a world where monster girls walk among us. Take the role of Will Getz, a young man with a score to settle after 15 long years of being away from home.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Romance 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%, Visual Novel 8.7%, Mystery 8.4%

Hello, Jake. Welcome to the game.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Multiple Endings 9.4%, Thriller 8.2%, Choices Matter 7.8%

After losing his parents and barely escaping his burning home, Zach wakes up in the hospital where he meets Aya, the ghost of a girl. Who is she, and why can only Zach see her? Together they try to investigate Aya's past, which quickly awakens new dangers.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 13%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Mystery 10.3%, Thriller 9.7%

Mysterious deaths. Dreams that are reality, and reality that is a dream. Will Noah be able to move forward and solve the mystery⁠—or will he give in to the demons of his past? A story-rich BL mystery visual novel.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.5%, Romance 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Mystery 10.7%, Emotional 8.7%

A romance-driven narrative about destiny, devotion, and the dangerous pull of belonging, set against the ruins of a long‑lost city calling you home.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Romance 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Psychological Horror 9%

Paradise is a Boys Love visual novel and tells the story of a group of men who go on holiday on a deserted island. When things begin to go wrong, they realize to their horror that they are stranded. Turns out that’s only the start of their problems.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.4%, Romance 12.3%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Mystery 10.5%

A dark yuri horror visual novel inspired by a classic gothic novella. When the enigmatic Carmilla arrives, Laura is swept into a fever dream of obsession. Is this stranger the cure for her loneliness or a herald of corruption? And what caused the mysterious deaths of two girls in the nearby village?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.5%, Romance 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Multiple Endings 8.4%

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: LGBTQ+ 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Emotional 8%, Anime 7.5%

"Love You To Pieces" is a Horror/Slasher Visual Novel thematically centered around Valentine's Day. Featuring elements of grind-house, choose-your-own-adventure and mystery. Can you or any of your friends survive this bloody love fest?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Psychological Horror 11%, Multiple Endings 7.5%

A yandere psychological horror visual novel. Choose a sweetheart to romance, but beware the petals of obsession.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Visual Novel 12%, Romance 10.3%

A medieval fantasy BL Visual Novel in English and Spanish, Demo available

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.2%, Romance 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Multiple Endings 8.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.9%