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A narrative-driven psychological visual novel where every floor of an elevator reveals a key moment from your past. Face your regrets, uncover forgotten memories, and make choices that shape your future. Will you find closure, or remain trapped in your own mind?

Why similar: Text-Based 25%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Visual Novel 20%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Multiple Endings 11.3%

A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Text-Based 14.7%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Psychological Horror 12%

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 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Visual Novel 14.5%, LGBTQ+ 14.4%, Choices Matter 11.1%

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: Interactive Fiction 20%, Text-Based 19.4%, Visual Novel 16.5%, LGBTQ+ 13.8%, Emotional 10.5%

You wake in a monster’s cage with no memory and 30 days to act. Choose to escape, obey, or become its favorite.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18%, Text-Based 17.9%, Visual Novel 14.1%, 2D Platformer 12.5%, Psychological Horror 8.8%

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 19.3%, Text-Based 18.3%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Choices Matter 9.9%

EMBERBOUND is a furry visual novel about returning home, reuniting with old friends, and promises left unfinished. Back in his hometown to handle matters concerning his family’s old house, Yunxi faces the regrets and feelings that never truly faded.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Visual Novel 18.8%, LGBTQ+ 18.2%, Text-Based 12.1%, Emotional 9.1%

Late at night, a teacher shares two bizarre tales: a corpse stuffed in a sheet, and an abnormal presence in the mountains. It was just a ghost story, but a creepy "sense of unease" lurks within. A short psychological horror visual novel offering a dense, terrifying experience in about an hour.

Why similar: Text-Based 25.8%, Visual Novel 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Choices Matter 14.9%

Some memories aren't meant to stay. We are our memories and our experiences. What happens if you delete some of them? If you change your past and, thus, your future?

Why similar: Text-Based 23%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, LGBTQ+ 10.3%, Psychological Horror 10.3%

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: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Text-Based 16%, LGBTQ+ 15.9%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Emotional 11.6%

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: Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Visual Novel 21.1%, Text-Based 19.2%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Emotional 9.6%

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 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Visual Novel 17.3%, LGBTQ+ 15.2%, Choices Matter 13.2%

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: Visual Novel 19.3%, LGBTQ+ 16.6%, Emotional 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Choices Matter 12.7%

50+ endings! A purely fictional fantasy world! Comedy script, dark plot — and the endings? Pitch-black. Swept into a storm, you need a boss. The revolutionary, the merchant, or the cult leader? Your pick unlocks different paths. You're a cheater with buffs — you'll survive. Go!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.7%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Text-Based 12.2%, Multiple Endings 12%, Psychological Horror 9.4%

On a rainy night, three ghost stories are told in an old-fashioned café. As a writer for an occult magazine, you listen to three people recount their experiences. A psychological horror visual novel that slowly builds a sense of dread—Kyofu Yawa: Second Night.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Visual Novel 21.9%, Text-Based 18.2%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Choices Matter 12.1%

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Why similar: Text-Based 26.5%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choices Matter 14%, Visual Novel 11.3%

is a story-driven hospital receptionist simulator with multiple endings. Become a hospital receptionist in a pandemic apocalypse and manage the order in which patients receive treatment.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Visual Novel 19.1%, 2D Platformer 15.4%, Emotional 12.9%, Text-Based 8.5%

A sci fi mystery on a ship drifting through space. Solve dialogue puzzles to help the ship's computer AILISH sift through possible timelines to find which one of them can prevent an impending disaster. What disaster? For some reason, AILISH won't actually tell you...

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, LGBTQ+ 18.5%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Text-Based 15.8%, Choices Matter 10.4%

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 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, LGBTQ+ 17.2%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Choices Matter 13%

At the heart of the action are a twelve-year-old Kenneth and his younger sister Esme, children of the Murphy family, who hit the trail of a mysterious monster following series of entangled events.

Why similar: Text-Based 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Psychological Horror 11%

这是一部包含百合要素的视觉小说，讲述了在封闭的都市中，少女展开冒险的故事。

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.3%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 17%, 2D Platformer 13.9%, Choices Matter 13.6%

In an AI-powered age where original authors have become largely redundant, play as a dejected writer on the brink of losing their creative drive forever.

Why similar: Text-Based 24.9%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Emotional 7.2%

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: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Visual Novel 18.4%, LGBTQ+ 15%, Text-Based 12.1%, Psychological Horror 9.3%

Soulcake: A fantasy‑romance AVG with yuri (LGBTQ+) & female-dominant dynamics. As the female lead, you can travel into others’ minds, gather ingredients to bake desserts filled with emotions. People come to you with their secrets. Forge bonds with them and…uncover the truth behind your ability.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.5%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Text-Based 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Psychological Horror 11.7%

A dark noir visual novel following Alex, a former police officer drawn into the mafia’s world. In a city where trust can get you killed and everyone has something to hide, Alex and a mafia leader with buried secrets are pulled into revenge, power, and slow-burn romance shaped by your choices.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Visual Novel 22.8%, LGBTQ+ 20.1%, Choices Matter 16.7%, Multiple Endings 7.7%

Death Mountain is a story-driven game with psychological horror, exploration, puzzles, and three main characters. A medical team gets trapped in the mountains on their way to a sanatorium. Explore the “Mind Maze,” face their struggles, and uncover the truth of the world.

Why similar: Text-Based 27.5%, Interactive Fiction 26.8%, LGBTQ+ 15.8%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Emotional 7.7%

一款以自我定义，记忆与选择为核心的多结局视觉小说。游戏以主角瑞克洛温（Racloven）的第一视角展开，在探索世界的同时，从他人彼此矛盾的叙述中剥离出过去的“自己”。旅途中与形形色色的角色相遇，建立关系，获得线索，并在一次次选择中走向不同的结局——当每个人记忆中的你都不尽相同，你又会选择成为谁？

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, LGBTQ+ 17.9%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.4%

A visual novel about cute melancholic girls!

Why similar: Visual Novel 26.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Multiple Endings 15.3%, Choices Matter 10%, Psychological Horror 8.6%

일레븐지스는 미스터리·로맨스 장르를 표방하는 비주얼 노벨 게임입니다. 악마 '메피'는 화자인 '이지원'을 위해 여러 가지 시련을 준비했습니다. 악마를 이기기 위해선 잔머리가 아닌 굳센 의지와 날카로운 직감이 필요합니다. 위대한 대적자, '메피'와 그녀가 준비한 장기말들을 직접 목도하세요.

Why similar: Text-Based 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.8%

Relive the same day without remembering it. Your choices feed four inner alter egos (Shadow, Mad, Alex, and Bully) — shaping reality, glitches, and one of 16 possible endings. The day repeats. Your mind doesn’t. Or does it?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Visual Novel 21.4%, Text-Based 16.9%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Multiple Endings 11%

“Lone Bird in the Tree” is an adventure game 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 their best friend”.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Text-Based 17.3%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Psychological Horror 13.3%

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+ 16.4%, Visual Novel 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Emotional 14%, Text-Based 13.5%

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: Text-Based 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Visual Novel 14.7%, LGBTQ+ 14.3%, Choices Matter 9.3%

"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested." Story about life, choices and a Man vs the System. This unique interactive literature adaptation. A game, brought to You in early visual novel, text-adventure style.

Why similar: Text-Based 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Psychological Horror 11.5%

A real-life VTuber in a game! A multi-ending romance simulation game developed by a group of individual Vtubers.

Why similar: Visual Novel 31.5%, Text-Based 28.8%, 2D Platformer 20.9%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Simulation 4.2%

A strange incident turns the life of an ordinary young man upside down when, having fallen asleep on a regular train commute, he wakes up in another country... in a body of a Japanese student! An unforgettable summer adventure awaits, promising many fateful meetings and momentous occasions.

Why similar: Text-Based 23.4%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Emotional 13.7%, Choices Matter 10.9%

Not It: Spookiest Edition is a horror-filled visual novel full of suspense and mystery where you navigate Katie through a living nightmare. Her move-in day on Halloween throws her into a centuries-old curse. Can she make it through the night? Will her new neighbors perish? Decide their fate.

Why similar: Text-Based 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Choices Matter 11.6%

A story about the self—and about others. A toy factory, several cursed dolls, and a horror novel… This quiet seaside town throws Noele's love life into chaos and dredges up the old wounds she has tried for years to forget.

Why similar: Text-Based 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, LGBTQ+ 14.8%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Choices Matter 9.3%

To escape, you must hurt someone. KIZUTSUKE is a psychological suspense visual novel about four young men trapped together. Read their conversations, make difficult choices, and discover four endings.

Why similar: Text-Based 24%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Choices Matter 11.2%

这是一篇关于爱与选择的短篇小说

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.4%, Visual Novel 24.2%, Text-Based 19.6%, 2D Platformer 15.2%, Emotional 10.8%

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: Text-Based 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Emotional 12.3%, Psychological Horror 8%

Tayke Me With You is a visual novel about high school seniors and their struggles with each other and the world around them. You play as Gene, a sheltered, socially naive human from the city as he acclimates to living in a rural town filled with dinosaurs, finding friends (and love) along the way.

Why similar: Visual Novel 24.2%, Text-Based 20.9%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Emotional 11.8%

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 19.6%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Text-Based 16.5%, Emotional 14%, LGBTQ+ 13.9%

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: Text-Based 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Emotional 13.6%

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 31.1%, Interactive Fiction 31%, Emotional 18.4%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Multiple Endings 6.2%

Every night at exactly 3 AM, a mysterious customer visits your convenience store. Seven quiet nights of conversation — and your choices — will uncover her secret and decide which of 6 endings you reach. A short, heartfelt visual novel set in the stillness of dawn.

Why similar: Visual Novel 26.8%, Text-Based 25.7%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Emotional 10.2%

建安十二年，日渐衰落的东汉王朝在长期的军阀混战下早已名存实亡。为了攫取更多的权力，将天下纳入自己的囊中，诸多姓氏的野心家们开始了无休止的争斗，纷争无休的乱世就此展开。 这一年，怀着同样对争夺天下的渴望，长期处在四处奔逃的困境中的军阀刘备决意前往隆中拜访名士诸葛亮。同年，刘备之妾甘氏为其诞下一子。故事就此这里开始……

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.7%, Visual Novel 20.4%, 2D Platformer 16%, Emotional 10.8%, Multiple Endings 7.1%

Investigate six haunted properties and listen to the voices of spirits trapped in nightmares. Collect fragmented clues and discover the correct combination of names, locations, and vessels. A multi-ending horror adventure where the outcome changes depending on your choices during the ritual.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Visual Novel 23.7%, Text-Based 22.3%, Choices Matter 13%, Multiple Endings 12.5%

"non-binary" is a video game that mixes text choices and bullet hell to tell the story of two non-binary people's journey of self-discovery. Make your choices. Dodge words. Go through things that hurt without breaking down. If you can.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, LGBTQ+ 20.7%, Visual Novel 18%, Text-Based 14.3%, Emotional 13.4%

In a future where memories are the last connection to a lost humanity, you are an advanced AI exploring fragments of past lives. Understand emotions, traumas, and choices in a journey to uncover what it means to be alive.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28%, Text-Based 26.5%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Multiple Endings 7.6%

A realistic visual novel based on a true story. As a lawyer trying to save a rock singer from her toxic family, you uncover the suffocating truth of "Codependency." Will you leave, sink into the abyss, or g◼︎ai◻︎n the c#our%ag◼︎e to f◼︎ac◻︎e the p#ai%n? Your choices decide.

Why similar: Visual Novel 21.9%, LGBTQ+ 21.7%, Psychological Horror 14%, Choices Matter 11%, Text-Based 9.1%

When you start the game, the narrator will instruct you to “close your eyes.” At that moment, whether you actually close them or keep them open will change the course of the story. Listen carefully to the voice as you proceed, and find your way to the truth.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Text-Based 18.3%, 2D Platformer 17.7%, Multiple Endings 12.3%

An autopsy of a queer relationship.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.9%, Visual Novel 21.2%, LGBTQ+ 19.6%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Multiple Endings 9.7%

You've had the same dream all week: a school field trip to a zoo you can't leave, where the lions always find you in the end. Wander the zoo exhibits, make your choices, and search for the way out. A short, hand-painted interactive story about a recurring dream, and finally resolving it.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Visual Novel 23.1%, Text-Based 15.5%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Multiple Endings 12.3%

A short, dark visual novel set in the UK about a young autistic girl's destructive obsession with her older brother.

Why similar: Visual Novel 22.1%, Text-Based 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Emotional 14.9%, Multiple Endings 9.8%

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: Text-Based 20%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Visual Novel 17.2%, LGBTQ+ 12.2%, Emotional 11.2%

Qiudu loses all memories of the day whenever he wakes up. After answering a victim’s call, the night-shift emergency hotline operator becomes entangled in a serial murder case. Gather clues from late-night calls, uncover the truth, and confront the memories he can never keep.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.8%, LGBTQ+ 21.1%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Emotional 5.7%

Your mom left you alone at the checkout. With a full cart. It's your turn. What do you do? A short psychological game about everyday anxiety.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Text-Based 17.6%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Choices Matter 12%

When The Devil himself approaches you with an opportunity you cannot refuse a journey into your most perverse fetishes starts! A collection of interactive erotic stories!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26%, Visual Novel 24.8%, Text-Based 17.1%, LGBTQ+ 11.7%, Simulation 7.6%

A psychological horror visual novel. Tonight, shadows come to visit you while you lie paralyzed in the dark. One by one, they make you face what you are. All you have to do is be honest. Doesn't sound hard, does it?

Why similar: Text-Based 25.9%, Visual Novel 23.9%, Psychological Horror 16%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.2%