Games Like Desideratum

As a humble baker in a quiet medieval town, your life takes a dark turn when a stranger arrives equipped for battle. Thrust into a hidden world of supernatural beings—elves, demons, fae, and more—you must make choices that alter the fate of the world you thought you knew.

Why similar: Vampires 22.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Visual Novel 9.9%, LGBTQ+ 9.3%

A vampire romance visual novel about offering blood up to get closer to the person you are. The story of a boy, or a girl, or a person who meets with a woman, or a vampire, or... This person gets whisked away as a girl. Which is what she always wanted. Or they always wanted to try. Or...

Why similar: Vampires 46% ★, LGBTQ+ 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Visual Novel 10%

Desideratum: Blood Bonds is essentially an adults-only sexual canonical Anaxverse Visual Novel in Story Mode with RPG elements if playing in Game Mode. It tells the story from both the perspective of a nosferatu and a female monster hunter and features corruption and transformation fetish fantasy.

Why similar: Vampires 35.9% ★, Lore-Rich 9.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 7.7%, Visual Novel 5.5%

Topple the vampires from the streets below! Will you unite the homeless, the gangs, and the secret hunter societies to defy vampiric rule? An interactive novel set in the World of Darkness extended universe.

Why similar: Vampires 23.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, RPG 12.3%, LGBTQ+ 9.3%

Skin Tailor is a medieval horror dress up game and visual novel hybrid. Skin your supernatural enemies, create disguises and infiltrate vampire owned blood farms to rescue your comrades.

Why similar: Vampires 37.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Visual Novel 9.5%, LGBTQ+ 9.1%

A supernatural horror visual novel where vampires compete to save their eternal unlives in a high-stakes reality show.

Why similar: Vampires 42.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, LGBTQ+ 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.7%

The elders have entrusted you, an elite vampire courier, to deliver their secrets. Can you outrun the hunters, the other drivers, and the rising sun?

Why similar: Vampires 45.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, RPG 6.6%, Horror 5.2%

Fall in love with your worst enemy in this gothic vampire romance BL visual novel about two men pushed to the edges of society learning to trust each other.

Why similar: Vampires 48.5% ★, LGBTQ+ 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Visual Novel 9.2%

Balance work, vampirism and socialising as you explore Kings Cross, Sydney during the last year of the millennium. Keep a lid on your darkest desires and be rewarded with a deeper understanding of what it means to live again. Or don’t — no one will stop you. You’re a vampire, after all.

Why similar: Vampires 35.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Visual Novel 10.2%, LGBTQ+ 9.4%

"Spellbound Hearts" is a visual novel where Lycos, a trapped vampire, meets Zephyros, a wizard seeking his blood to save a village. Together, they journey through trust, redemption, and love.

Why similar: Vampires 43.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Visual Novel 10.9%, LGBTQ+ 10.3%

1996—Los Angeles, CA. A young newcomer is turned into a vampire and thrust into the dark underworld of society, forced to sink or swim. You are that newcomer.

Why similar: Vampires 59.4% ★, Visual Novel 17.3%, LGBTQ+ 17.1%, Casual 3.3%, Indie 1.5%

Two vampires — an ambitious Kindred and a wretched Thinblood. Their fates clash in this Visual Novel set in the World of Darkness, where your arsenal extends beyond just words — from political machinations to forbidden Alchemy. Claw your way to power and leave your bitemarks on Berlin's underworld.

Why similar: Vampires 36.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Lore-Rich 9.7%, Visual Novel 9.2%

Cabernet is a 2D narrative RPG set in a 19th century Eastern European inspired world, with a modern twist. Guide Liza, a young vampire in her new unlife among the unsuspecting townsfolk. Will you retain your humanity or descend further into the horror you have become?

Why similar: Vampires 46.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Visual Novel 8.9%, Horror 5.5%

This school for supernaturals isn't hell, but it is a hellmouth! Can you make peace between the vampires and werewolves, and close the portal to hell?

Why similar: Vampires 27.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, RPG 14.7%, Lore-Rich 8.6%

Become the co-author of an amazing book! All you have to do is choose which of the four lovely heroines will inspire you!

Why similar: Vampires 37.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, LGBTQ+ 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.6%

He’s been searching for his missing friend for days. She’s been searching for her long-lost clan member for decades. Now their paths cross.

Why similar: Vampires 45.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Visual Novel 9.4%, Lore-Rich 9.3%

In this classic graphical text adventure, originally released in 1985 for the Commodore 64 by the same studio that brought you The Hobbit, explore an adventure in the world of Count Dracula.

Why similar: Vampires 45.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, RPG 8.1%, Horror 5.3%

Nick just can't let go of the people he's killed.

Why similar: Vampires 40.5% ★, LGBTQ+ 11.6%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%

Dominate undead politics through cunning and violence! Will a missing Prince give you the opening to betray your sire and seize power?

Why similar: Vampires 40.1% ★, RPG 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Casual 6.2%

An Adult Vampire Hunter RPG! Will you take down the creatures of the night, or will you turn into one yourself...?

Why similar: Vampires 43.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, LGBTQ+ 12.4%, RPG 7.7%, Turn-Based Combat 6%

Your old life is dead and buried. You have no afterlife to look forward to, and your vampiric unlife is about to fall apart unless you solve an unsolvable crime. Welcome to New York City... and welcome to the Lasombra clan, where failure is not an option.

Why similar: Vampires 61.7% ★, Visual Novel 21.9%, LGBTQ+ 10.1%, Story Rich 4.9%, Indie 1.5%

A job gone wrong traps lawyer R. M. Renfield at Castle Dracula. Sacrifice—others, or your own humanity—to survive, or risk it all for love in this romantic horror visual novel. But Renfield isn’t the only one looking for a way out. Who, if anyone, can you trust?

Why similar: Vampires 33.4% ★, LGBTQ+ 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%

Gather your allies to hunt the vampires that terrorize your town! Study their ways and exploit their rivalries, or you'll become a vampire yourself.

Why similar: Vampires 45.3% ★, RPG 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Casual 6.5%

Dracula has been resurrected in modern nights Los Angeles. Separated from his home by oceans and time itself, he must come to grips with a new world while his survival hangs in the balance.

Why similar: Vampires 42.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Lore-Rich 8.2%, RPG 6%

They steal your crew and force your ship to crash-land on an alien planet where you must start fresh with nothing but a dilapidated base and a... talking cat?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Visual Novel 13.5%, RPG 12.5%, LGBTQ+ 12%

Survive as a young, lost vampire in 1950s Kowloon and navigate its dark depths, but beware; you're not the only thing that lurks within them. Grow as a vampire, using skills and vampiric abilities to overcome challenges, gain allies and manage your overwhelming thirst.

Why similar: Vampires 47.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.9%, RPG 9.7%, LGBTQ+ 6.4%

You are the Nomad — an elder vampire awakening from a century-long slumber, new to the modern nights. Trapped in your Blood is a stranger’s voice. This entity, a vampire detective known as Fabien, will be your guide to 21st-century Seattle.

Why similar: Vampires 73.1% ★, LGBTQ+ 9%, RPG 7%, Horror 3.6%, Dark Fantasy 3.2%

Vampire®: The Masquerade-Bloodlines™ delivers a new type of RPG experience-one that blends all the core elements of a traditional RPG with the graphical richness, immediacy and brutal combat of a first-person action game. The game plunges players into the dark and gritty vampire underworld of modern-day L.A. as a creature of the night.

Why similar: Vampires 73.5% ★, RPG 13.7%, Horror 4.4%, Supernatural 3.7%, Story Rich 2.5%

DARKNESS WILL FALL is a queer romance visual novel set in the modern world of vampires. After a fateful encounter you are tasked with revealing the identity of a reaver - a monsterous vampire eating vampire - in the city or your human life is forfeit. It should be easy enough, right?

Why similar: Vampires 52.8% ★, Visual Novel 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, LGBTQ+ 11.5%, Horror 5%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Visual Novel 14.1%, LGBTQ+ 13.4%, Lore-Rich 10.3%

These monsters aren’t just in the movies! Will you hunt the vampires, werewolves and others stalking Hollywood, or will you become a monster instead? An interactive, text-based game set in the World of Darkness shared story universe.

Why similar: Vampires 20.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, RPG 13.6%, Lore-Rich 7.2%

Solve crimes and steal hearts in this supernatural neon-noir romance visual novel. Featuring six different romance options, some more monstrous than others.

Why similar: Vampires 47.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, LGBTQ+ 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Supernatural 5.4%

A Spacetastically-Vampiric Dating Sim RPG where you Farm, Fight, and Flirt your way through the Milky Wow space-fantasy universe full of vampires, furries, elves, demons, and other questionable sentient beings.

Why similar: Vampires 45.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Lore-Rich 9.9%, RPG 8.2%

Bloodlust is a dungeon crawling / action RPG experience that will allow players to explore the dark underworld of a forgotten society of Vampires and their disciplines, all while trying to battle for hierarchy among the clans in search of their sire.

Why similar: Vampires 81.8% ★, RPG 16.6%, Indie 1.7%

Unleash Bloodthirst skills in an epic vampire RPG! Will nightfall or twilight triumph in a vampire war? Seize victory by claiming all nine temples and unravel the mysteries and battle the monsters within to conquer them!

Why similar: Vampires 61.2% ★, RPG 16.4%, Dark Fantasy 6.9%, Turn-Based Combat 6.2%, Visual Novel 6.2%

"Sanguis: Veil of the Forgotten" is a slow-burn mystery-horror visual novel. For centuries, they prepared the ritual that would bring their ancestor back. It worked, but he woke up in the wrong body. Yours. He is the only reason you're still breathing, and he has never once told you why.

Why similar: Vampires 43.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Horror 7%, Dark Fantasy 6.5%

In this Boys' Love visual novel about dating monsters, you play as Christopher Wells, a young office worker who moves to a town full of supernatural creatures in hopes of getting to make a real difference.

Why similar: Vampires 42.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, LGBTQ+ 15.2%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Supernatural 3.7%

A flesh-eating dust leaves you to survive alone against hordes of Listless.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Visual Novel 15.2%, RPG 14.4%, LGBTQ+ 13.3%

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

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Visual Novel 15.1%, LGBTQ+ 14.5%, Lore-Rich 12%

If you crossed a vampire, would you protect humanity or embrace the blood? Guide Mark Delaware's choices in this visual novel as he navigates this dangerous world.

Why similar: Vampires 51.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Lore-Rich 8.2%, Dark Fantasy 5.6%

Rose Bullet is a Retro, Comic Style, Horror RPG! Play as a vampire hunter on his way to kill the count and avenge his lost lover.

Why similar: Vampires 26.2% ★, LGBTQ+ 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Visual Novel 9.3%, RPG 9.1%

Welcome to the MONSTER GIRL MANOR! Tour around to find your way to meet the characters created by Dream Audio VA, Lacey Audayo, Method Switch, Startlit Audios and Xena Alexander. Find out which girls are your vibe and find out more of their lore!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.2%, Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Lore-Rich 15.1%, RPG 6.5%

Parasite Black is a mature, dark fantasy RPG set in the world of Mirnos, where a deadly race known as the Demorai threatens everything. With your newfound "gift," you may hold the key to turning the tide of war and saving the realm from destruction.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, LGBTQ+ 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Lore-Rich 10.2%

Rule over a secret society of vampires in a game full of political intrigue, occult powers, and conflicting loyalties. Will you play or be played?

Why similar: Vampires 50.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, RPG 13.9%, Dark Fantasy 4.1%, Casual 3.4%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 20%, LGBTQ+ 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Lore-Rich 11.6%

Unleash your lust and your thirst in a battle for the soul of London! Will passion lead you back to humanity, or will you embrace the night as a vampire?

Why similar: Vampires 37.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 26.2%, RPG 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Dark Fantasy 6%

This is a female oriented interactive visual novel game. The story takes place in a fictional world in the 1930s. You will play the role of a college student (female lead) and follow a folk research team led by professors from our school to conduct research on the remote island of Kimmel.

Why similar: Vampires 41.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Visual Novel 13.1%, RPG 10.7%, Lore-Rich 7%

You've been tasked with collecting data on an alien planet. Choose between exploring the jungle tropics or navigating deep into the bioluminescent sea.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, LGBTQ+ 15.5%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Lore-Rich 11.9%

Guide vampires through centuries of emotional baggage, decades of delusions and the odd bout of self-loathing with real cognitive behavioral therapy concepts and become a Vampire Therapist! Even vampires need a shoulder to cry on when a neck to bite just won’t do.

Why similar: Vampires 38.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, LGBTQ+ 12.6%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Lore-Rich 8.3%

There's love in deathーdeath in eternity. Rosebound is a fully voiced visual novel set in a world of vampires, high-tech mercenaries, magical priests, and man-made horrors.

Why similar: Vampires 58.6% ★, Visual Novel 15.7%, Lore-Rich 6.9%, Dark Fantasy 6.1%, LGBTQ+ 5.8%

The rave is live. The vampires are real. Survive the night… if you can.

Why similar: Vampires 75.3% ★, Horror 10.3%, RPG 10.2%, Dark 2.5%, Indie 1.7%

A choose-your-own-adventure novel. ​Enter the mind of a black-ops team leader heading an impossible mission in a parallel universe. Choices are remembered, story events reflect past decisions, and freely rewind time to try different paths.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.6%, Interactive Fiction 25%, Visual Novel 16.7%, RPG 11.3%, Horror 10.1%

Galidon is a vampire kingdom. You’re a lawful heir. The power struggle and an intriguing plot are in place. 21 levels contain quests and crafting. The gameplay is rapid, bloodthirsty and intransigent and doesn't forgive a single mistake. Devoid of Shadows is a heat in the chill dungeons of the Labyrinth!

Why similar: Vampires 66.2% ★, RPG 16.2%, Dark Fantasy 5.6%, Horror 4.8%, Story Rich 2.8%

London, 1918. You are newly-turned Vampyr Dr. Jonathan Reid. As a doctor, you must find a cure to save the city’s flu-ravaged citizens. As a Vampyr, you are cursed to feed on those you vowed to heal.

Why similar: Vampires 72.6% ★, RPG 10.8%, Horror 4.9%, Dark Fantasy 4.9%, Story Rich 4.6%

A yuri visual novel about a vampiress and a monster hunter falling in love in Victorian England.

Why similar: Vampires 50.9% ★, LGBTQ+ 21.9%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Casual 3.8%, Story Rich 3.3%

A Gothic-Punk yuri visual novel about a magician on the run and her mysterious vampiric guardian. Journey by airship across a war-torn Europe and search for a legendary flower with the power to destroy nations.

Why similar: Vampires 51.6% ★, LGBTQ+ 17.4%, Visual Novel 8.6%, Interactive Fiction 7.7%, Lore-Rich 6.1%

Few Nights More is a roguelike turn-based RPG based in a world where Vampire Lords seek to conquer lost territories and their place in the world. Design and defend your stronghold, slay your enemies with traps, fulfill your Lord’s true potential, slowly conquering what is rightfully yours.

Why similar: Vampires 55.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 17.1%, RPG 12.9%, Turn-Based Combat 5%, Dark Fantasy 4.1%

A dark fairy tale about the woods outside a small village and the monster that roams within them. Become Sage and play through to uncover the mystery when they're tossed away from everything they've ever known.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, LGBTQ+ 14.8%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Dark Fantasy 8.2%

Hunt your prey as a vampire on windswept Victorian moors—but who will capture your unbeating heart?

Why similar: Vampires 35.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 29%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, RPG 16.5%, Indie 0.9%