60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Story Rich, Interactive Fiction, Emotional.
A fully immersive kinetic novel: boot a PC running Prisma OS and descend into the psyche of a broken protagonist as 2001 Argentina collapses in the background. Late-night chats, obsession, music and raw Y2K grit, until one decision changes everything.
Chronicles of Humanity
Chronicles of Humanity is an expanding anthology of historical visual novels. Explore six free demos from a shared world map and decide how orders are carried out, who is protected, and what truth survives. Install a full-story DLC to continue from the same location.
LifeSimOS
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.
Chronicles of Humanity is an expanding anthology of historical visual novels. Explore six free demos from a shared world map and decide how orders are carried out, who is protected, and what truth survives. Install a full-story DLC to continue from the same location.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.8%, Dialogue Heavy 18%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Text-Based 14.1%, Historical 11.3%
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 21.9%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Dialogue Heavy 20.2%, Text-Based 13.2%, Story Rich 8.4%
A dark conversation with a girl during a nightly car trip. A short multi-ending novel game where you try to understand this girl and her pain.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 24.3%, Visual Novel 21.4%, Text-Based 14%, Adventure 12.5%, Psychological 9.4%
You have exactly 5. Bread is 4, the bus fare to school is 3. What do you give up? In this short narrative experience, you play as 13-year-old Adam. Confront an interface that reacts to a painful reality, and discover that freedom of choice is sometimes nothing but a privilege.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Text-Based 16%, Psychological 12.5%, Adventure 11.5%
The Tenth Minute is a short narrative game told through chat and novel-style reading. Revisit a school-day memory shaped by unspoken feelings, misaligned memories, and belated understanding between three people. A youthful story with light psychological mystery, complete in around 2 hours.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Visual Novel 19%, Text-Based 16.5%, Psychological 12.1%, Story Rich 8.5%
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: Visual Novel 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Text-Based 17.3%, Psychological 15.5%, Story Rich 7.3%
It was a fake — that's exactly why I could love it. Fifteen days of Rei's summer vacation. A first-person "seeing" narrative adventure. Fully voiced (JP/EN/ZH). Playtime: 3+ hours.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.7%, Dialogue Heavy 19.3%, Psychological 17.6%, Text-Based 14%, Story Rich 8.7%
A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Emotional 15.1%, Psychological 13.1%, Story Rich 9.6%
A moral-descent thriller told through your phone, your feeds, and a trading terminal. Chase a California fortune one "just one more trade" at a time — through a crypto mania where every gain has a price. Your choices write the ledger. Six endings. How far will you go?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Visual Novel 18%, Dialogue Heavy 14.3%, Text-Based 13.5%, Psychological 8.7%
"The hardest part is not to speak up. It’s being heard." Part video game, part graphic novel, Wednesdays seeks to raise awareness about child sexual abuse through a surprisingly hope-filled story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Psychological 15.2%, Dialogue Heavy 14.4%, Text-Based 13.7%
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 18.5%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Psychological 12.6%, Text-Based 11.4%, Dialogue Heavy 11%
你将扮演一个被AI淘汰的程序员，回到那个停滞的小县城，与那个等了你十二年的女孩一起去寻找，从所有人记忆里消失的发小和尘封的往事，你们追查的不仅仅是真相，还是被AI一起困住的那个夏天、那座小城、那段永远不会结束的等待。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.2%, Visual Novel 23.5%, Adventure 15.8%, Emotional 13.4%, Mystery 7.1%
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 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Text-Based 13.4%, Story Rich 8.5%
A short emotional journey through memory, grief, and healing. Help Íris piece together her fragmented memories and uncover hidden truths. A portion of the sales is donated to AbleGamers Brazil. 🧡🖤
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Psychological 14.7%, Text-Based 13.6%, Emotional 12.9%
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 21%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Text-Based 14.5%, Dialogue Heavy 14%, Psychological 7.4%
A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Dialogue Heavy 15.4%, Psychological 12.7%, Emotional 10.2%
Embark on an immersive adventure alongside Roh as she tries to break free from her strange dream.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.6%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Adventure 13%, Text-Based 12.9%, 1990's 8%
A short story about a difficult day at work and a painful breakup that lingers; about depression, anxiety, and how they can lead to eating disorders. Do you know how many calories are in a muffin? Are you ready for what the answer implies?
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.7%, Text-Based 19%, Dialogue Heavy 16.5%, Psychological 12.4%, Dark 10.5%
Play as Daniella as she moves across the country with only the help of her ex.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.4%, Visual Novel 21.3%, Dialogue Heavy 18.1%, Story Rich 13.8%, Adventure 11.4%
You lost your memory of nothing but a mundane day. But why do mysterious men keep jamming into your life, all of them pointing to the day you forgot? Find out a hypnotherapy clinic receptionist's memory of an insignificant day in this BL visual novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Dialogue Heavy 17.5%, Psychological 11.6%, Emotional 8.1%
An adventure visual novel with a pixel art style. About ghosts, past love, and a world of the unconscious.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.8%, Visual Novel 22%, Adventure 13.4%, Dialogue Heavy 11.8%, Emotional 8.2%
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 28.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Text-Based 14.8%, Emotional 9.6%
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: Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Dialogue Heavy 17.7%, Text-Based 16.2%, Nostalgia 12.9% ★
AN IOU is the debut visual novel by Davey Cadaver. The music, backgrounds, & characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. The user takes the POV of the protagonist to experience a memorable story with an incredible soundtrack and multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Dialogue Heavy 17.7%, Visual Novel 17%, Emotional 11.3%, Dark 10.1%
Your job is to make humanity happy. Observe the people living in your assigned district and make the best choices to ensure everyone's happiness.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Dialogue Heavy 18.3%, Text-Based 18.3%, Adventure 6.6%
A free, story-driven short visual novel with no choices. The narrative weaves between the present (202X) and the past (200X), depicting the suffocating chain of violence within a Korean school setting with stark realism.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24%, Dialogue Heavy 19.9%, Text-Based 19.6%, Dark 9.2%, Interactive Fiction 8.5%
Hitchhiker is a mystery game set along lost highways, where your goal is to solve the puzzle of your own backstory.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Psychological 10.4%, Story Rich 10%, Dark 9.7%
A quiet piano guides players through a Japanese-style mystery adventure centered on memories and the lingering regrets of Oda Nobunaga. Players explore a mysterious world, uncover hidden truths, and piece together a forgotten trust. ※English localization is currently in progress.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.8%, Visual Novel 21.8%, Dialogue Heavy 18.3%, Adventure 13.7%, Historical 9.6%
“A Lozenge” is a short interactive story about a mother-daughter road trip and motion sickness, dedicated to children of divorce.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Emotional 14.3%, Text-Based 13.2%, Psychological 11.5%
Wake up, watch tv, make a cup of cofffee and try to bear your own meaningless existence.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Text-Based 15.2%, Psychological 12.6%, Dark 10.7%
A short psychological horror interactive story. Five years after vanishing without a trace, the woman you once called your lover writes from beyond the silence: "I will give birth to our creation.” In three acts, descend into a fractured mindscape where obsession, memory, and myth intertwine.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Text-Based 13.1%, Psychological 12.9%, Gothic 9.3% ★
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: Interactive Fiction 28.3%, Visual Novel 25.8%, Text-Based 22.7%, Adventure 6.2%, Multiple Endings 5.4%
Mental pain will never disappear, it will forever torment the soul of the protagonist. Who is he? How did he end up here? Why do dead people appear before him? Who is this girl with bandaged eyes? Eternal Pain: Epiphany is the story of the insight of a person who finds himself in purgatory.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.8%, Visual Novel 25%, Dialogue Heavy 15%, Adventure 14%, Text-Based 11.9%
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 23.9%, Visual Novel 22.5%, Dialogue Heavy 14.5%, Text-Based 12.6%, Story Rich 6.4%
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 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Text-Based 14.6%, Emotional 11.7%, Psychological 10.7%
Live through the last ten minutes of Juan Fuentes, who has been given the chance to choose his very last words. Captured by Victoriano Huerta's army after the Ten Tragic Days during the Mexican Revolution, Juan will confront his life, death, family, relationships and existence.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Text-Based 17.9%, Dialogue Heavy 16.3%, Psychological 13.9%, Historical 10.9%
A conversation adventure where you spend the worst, best summer visiting your booze-loving senpai, making weird food, and sneaking out together at midnight.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Dialogue Heavy 23.6%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Psychological 8.1%, Story Rich 8%
For 20 years, she lived with depression. Now, she's strong enough to name what happened: a social murder. This is a visual essay—not a game—with over 400 illustrations about grief, guilt, and survival in a collapsing meritocracy.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.3%, Text-Based 19%, Psychological 15.5%, Emotional 12.6%, Story Rich 9.9%
Don't Let Me Fade is an interactive adventure about memory, identity, and loss. Piece together fragments of a life - even if a simple teddy bear is the last symbol of connection to oneself in a world without time.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.7%, Visual Novel 21.6%, Adventure 15%, Text-Based 11.4%, Emotional 9.9%
This game is based on the theme of love & light reasoning. Even if you choose the wrong option, it will not lead to game over. It is very suitable for casual players who like love reasoning but don't want to waste their brain cells.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.2%, Dialogue Heavy 23.7%, Visual Novel 23.2%, Text-Based 14.9%, Adventure 7.6%
POV: You are Hitler’s psychologist in 1925. Diagnose his complexes by using both Jungian and Freudian psychotherapy and attempt to heal him. Resolve Hitler's trauma and prevent catastrophe via therapy and psychology. Succeed and avoid the war and holocaust.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.6%, Text-Based 21%, Dialogue Heavy 18.3%, Psychological 15.1%, Adventure 8.9%
You came here with a motive, so as everyone, except that you are able to change theirs. Ride with Lucas to turn down all the love interests or end their trouble in this (obviously artificial intelligence-themed) sci-fi BL visual novel. Enjoy the long-waited grand finale in this trilogy!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Dialogue Heavy 19.4%, Psychological 12.8%, Story Rich 7.5%
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 29.1%, Visual Novel 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Emotional 9.8%, Story Rich 6.9%
主人公の前に突然現れた人工生命「レプリス」の少女・レゥ。人と変わらない感情を持つ彼女と過ごす中で、「心とは何か」「人間とは何か」という問いに向き合っていくSF恋愛アドベンチャー
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.6%, Visual Novel 23.5%, Adventure 14.1%, Text-Based 13.6%, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%
My name is left behind these white walls. In its place, I am left with dozens of questions. I wander aimlessly, though she seems to guide me. I do not feel safe. Twenty-four hours... and everything will fall into place.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Psychological 14.2%, Dialogue Heavy 13.3%, Text-Based 13.1%
The president trusts you. Exercise your Shamanic capabilities (or lack thereof). But don't get caught!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Dialogue Heavy 24.6%, Visual Novel 23.6%, Text-Based 13.4%, Adventure 4.6%
Every person you choose leaves someone else behind. Spend your limited afternoons building relationships, exploring the town, and recording each day in Kanata’s diary—then face timed Shadow Choices as an old book begins to fracture his ordinary life.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.3%, Psychological 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Story Rich 10.7%, Emotional 9.2%
His World is a short visual novel game where you play as a young shy introvert boy and witness his life with his family and get to see his internal world and struggles. You also make a few decisions throughout the game that will decide on one of game's multiple endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.7%, Dialogue Heavy 19.2%, Emotional 13.6%, Text-Based 12.8%, Psychological 12.7%
Simple visual novel in which you play as a young upperclass woman preparing for her debut before the Queen and her royal relatives. All of your decisions lead to one of four very different endings. Who will you become? The jewel of the season or the outcast, never again mentioned by your family?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Text-Based 13.9%, Psychological 10.2%, Historical 9.4%
Ukraine War Stories is a set of visual novels about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Set in the early months of the war, it tells the stories of civilians trapped on Russian-occupied territory. All stories are based on real events and eyewitness accounts.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Text-Based 15.1%, Historical 9.5%, Psychological 9.2%
While filming a documentary on analog horror, something goes horribly wrong. A cursed VHS tape. Lost cultists. Salvation. Are you brave enough to follow the tape’s sinister commands? Face analog nightmares and decide your fate in this horror visual novel with multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Visual Novel 20.9%, Dark 10.5%, Dialogue Heavy 10.5%, Text-Based 10.3%
This is an AVG trying to tell a story about a city under British governance. In 1970s, newspapers were rife with exaggerated title and drama plots. Xu Dan, a fresh journalist accidentally ran into a collaboration of cops and mafia.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.7%, Visual Novel 22.7%, Text-Based 14.9%, Historical 12.2%, Story Rich 9.9%
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: Visual Novel 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Text-Based 14.9%, Story Rich 10%, Emotional 8.4%
You are ready to say goodbye to life, but are you prepared to face your life's truth? Navigate a grad student's life between greed and fear in his final 6 hours (and beyond) in this BL visual novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Visual Novel 20.9%, Dialogue Heavy 20%, Psychological 12%, Story Rich 7.7%
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!
Why similar: Nostalgia 27.2% ★, Dialogue Heavy 17.1%, Text-Based 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Story Rich 7.6%
Tired of a suffocating college routine? Yearning for something more? Join the Qiqu Club! We promise unforgettable experiences beyond your wildest dreams. But beware, our club is extremely exclusive. Only those daring enough to seek adventure will be admitted...
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 19%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Psychological 12.7%, Emotional 11%
A visual interactive story about Blue, who is expected to be successful at work, be a good boyfriend, and at the same time... be happy.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Dialogue Heavy 17.3%, Psychological 13.9%, Emotional 12.7%
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: Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Text-Based 20.6%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Psychological 11.6%, Emotional 10.2%
A story-driven psychological horror that chases the truth behind Rachel's death. As you follow scattered memories, you slowly come face to face with the reality of the tragedy. Blaming someone is easy. But answering what truly killed her is not.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Dialogue Heavy 17.9%, Psychological 13.5%, Story Rich 10.9%
A sound, a flash, a portal… A pirate emerges, bringing a deadly threat. Five friends stand before him, and one of them is the target. But which one? Even they don't know.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.7%, Text-Based 21.5%, Psychological 12.7%, Dialogue Heavy 10.4%, Story Rich 7.4%
