Games Like Dissecting Love

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: Interactive Fiction 23.8%, LGBTQ+ 22%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Choices Matter 10%, Multiple Endings 8.2%

A small visual novel about the adventures of a guy named Leon, who wants to change his past. During his school years, a lot of interesting things happened, there were a lot of girls, and where is all this now… That's what Leon thought until he found an amulet that could send him back several years.

Why similar: Visual Novel 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Choices Matter 8.7%, Narration 8.3%

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+ 23.5%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Hand-drawn 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Choices Matter 9.6%

“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+ 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Exploration 12%, Hand-drawn 8.9%

Human belief has the power to change reality. For millennia, alien races have been visiting Earth, gaining supernatural abilities and fantastic wealth by exploiting this remarkable power. But humans are advancing, and many aliens now find themselves leaving Earth with nothing but debts and regrets.

Why similar: Visual Novel 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Narration 9.8%, Hand-drawn 8%

What does a SUPERVILLAIN do, when he is forbidden from doing anything evil for the day? WARNING: This is not the type of game where you can make meaningful choices.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 35.2%, Visual Novel 24%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Narration 9.5%, Story Rich 5.9%

A modern fantasy BL Visual Novel following a young mans journey into a hidden world of gods and magic to recover the past he's lost, and find his missing family. Alongside 3 attractive romance options, Myka Riley delves into the unknown.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.1%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Narration 13.1%, Multiple Endings 8%

Play 4 characters, live their unique stories and manage their daily lives to create their best day ever. In this narrative game, your decisions have consequences and change the outcome of the stories.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Narration 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.3%, LGBTQ+ 12.6%, Choices Matter 10.3%

You know the feeling of struggling to get out of bed? In A Heavy Morning, you will play as a young girl battling with her own mind. Your only objective? Get out of bed and get to work on time.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, LGBTQ+ 18.9%, Visual Novel 14%, Narration 11.4%, Choices Matter 8.3%

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 24.6%, LGBTQ+ 23.9%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Multiple Endings 9.3%, Emotional 7.4%

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: LGBTQ+ 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Choices Matter 8.9%

Guide Hamlet (now a Girl *and* a Werewolf) as she deals with a murder mystery, a usurped throne, and a cursed sledding competition. Her emotions are your stats, so.... emote wisely. Or impulsively. Or with shame. It’s her kingdom. Everyone else is just tolerated in it.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Visual Novel 19.7%, LGBTQ+ 18.2%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Multiple Endings 7.5%

Summer Vacation is an adult visual novel about self-discovery, first love, and the chaos... of figuring out who you really are. Join Mateo through this summer, and his first year at university. Every choice shapes the bonds you build, and the person you'll become.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.7%, Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Narration 12%, Emotional 8.3%

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: LGBTQ+ 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Choices Matter 8.4%, Multiple Endings 7.8%

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 23.5%, LGBTQ+ 22%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Choices Matter 8.7%, Multiple Endings 8.4%

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 27.5%, Visual Novel 22.2%, LGBTQ+ 15%, Narration 8%, Adventure 6.6%

A 'crunchy wholesome' game about making friends as an adult.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.2%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Choices Matter 8.7%, Emotional 7.7%

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+ 22.8%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Choices Matter 10.6%

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: Interactive Fiction 24.3%, LGBTQ+ 23.7%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Multiple Endings 10.5%

“The hospital was empty. Quiet, and brighter than usual... like waking up on a snow day. But I didn't feel cold. I didn't feel much of anything.”

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 29%, Visual Novel 22.3%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Emotional 10.2%, Hand-drawn 9.4%

Melancholy Love is a Yuri Visual Novel between an elite and a misfit in an All-Girls' High School. How will sparks flare between the two?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.2%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.2%

Sugarcreek is a story-based adventure game following Eddie the high-school goat and his closest friends as they try to find his missing step-sister before the week is over!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.1%, LGBTQ+ 17%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Hand-drawn 9.5%, Choices Matter 9.2%

"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: LGBTQ+ 26.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Narration 8.1%

A short, intense, dark visual narrative in 2 colors. You are stuck reliving a single day, over and over. Explore a tiny, giant world of a relationship between two people. Don't get arrested. Try to reach the person you love and escape the cursed time loop. Is it not too late?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Exploration 7.7%, Story Rich 6%

A queer Victorian romance visual novel in which a gentleman running from the past and a poet hiding from the future collide through a lonely hearts ad. Suddenly, their lives can blossom—if you choose to change them.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Narration 10.7%, Choices Matter 8.7%

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+ 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Choices Matter 8.1%, Emotional 7.8%

The fate of humanity is at stake. Use your gift of clairvoyance to see into the future and stop an apocalypse that threatens the balance between your world and the deities'.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, LGBTQ+ 17.4%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Narration 11.2%, Choices Matter 9.7%

A poet ponders queer life and love after his happily ever after.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Narration 9.7%, Emotional 7.4%

Stories Want to be Told is an adventure game. It is more like an interactive story telling game. This the first episode The Prohecy

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.2%, Visual Novel 22%, Exploration 14.8%, Emotional 7.7%, 2D 6.3%

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 24.5%, LGBTQ+ 24.2%, Visual Novel 18%, Multiple Endings 9.4%, Choices Matter 8.9%

An adult LGBTQ+ visual novel about love, drugs, murder and crime. We follow this intense thriller through the eyes of our main protagonist, Sasha, while he maneuvers through dangerous drug deals, formidable kingpins, and silent assassins.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.6%, Visual Novel 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Story Rich 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: LGBTQ+ 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Multiple Endings 9.3%

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

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.7%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Choices Matter 12%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, LGBTQ+ 9.6%

Play as Luna, a girl caught in a fight between armed insurgents and spies. Help her navigate her way to saving her friend. Explore a laboratory dedicated to the production of new materials. Enjoy a lighthearted and chaotic story of a girl out of her depth in an espionage mission.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 30.1%, Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Visual Novel 23.8%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Adventure 4.5%

Trapped in a crumbling mansion, it’s up to you to outsmart and outlast an ancient witch hunting you down. Scavenge for items to set traps, solve puzzles and discover hidden secrets to avoid your demise. Don’t be scared: encounters with ghosts are rewarded in this horror visual novel.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.4%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Narration 11.3%, Multiple Endings 9.4%

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: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, LGBTQ+ 19.9%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Choices Matter 10%, Multiple Endings 9.6%

Games can really show someone's personality, don't you think? By way of a simple exploration-based adventure, this data-science game analyzes your actions to estimate your personality.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.3%, LGBTQ+ 18.7%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Emotional 7.6%

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+ 28.1%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Choices Matter 7.7%

Piece by piece, you pour your soul into the monster. This is your burden and you bear it willingly. Your friends think that this is unhealthy.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Narration 8.9%, Choices Matter 8.4%

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: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Visual Novel 15.1%, LGBTQ+ 14.8%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Multiple Endings 8.6%

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+ 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Narration 10.4%, Choices Matter 7.5%

A colourful narrative adventure game. You're one of the first sheep to attend university. Roam the campus, attend lectures by day and enjoy friend-time at night. Discover campus truths, and sniff out secrets. Live the life of a campus sheep, but beware: not everybody wants to see a sheep graduate!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Exploration 10.3%, Emotional 7.4%

Idol Talent Show Simulation Game-Train from zero to idol debut! Rank high to stay in! Explore the map, manage your schedule and play mini-games.Face tough evaluations,compete with fellow trainees, and forge meaningful bonds. Your choices will unlock 10+ unique endings. Can you shine?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35%, Visual Novel 21.8%, Choices Matter 17.4%, Multiple Endings 15.6%, Story Rich 9.6%

A Boys Love visual novel set around a pulse-pounding hostage situation. Can Numata make it out of things unscathed? Every choice matters! Fully translated into English with the original Japanese voice acting intact.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Choices Matter 7.3%

Haunt your murderer /slash/ ex-boyfriend and discover the truth behind his actions in a visual novel about finding peace when all you want is vengeance.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.2%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Narration 12.9%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Multiple Endings 8.9%

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+ 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Multiple Endings 12%, Emotional 9.8%

A fully voice-acted cinematic adventure set in a hand-drawn world of living forgotten objects. Lead Fig and the crew of the Volare through a story of identity, unity, and survival—where diplomacy, difficult choices, and moments of action shape the fate of five divided tribes.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Exploration 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Multiple Endings 9.8%

Death by Begonia is a surreal LGBTQ+ Southern gothic murder mystery. Follow Riley's attempts to reconnect with old childhood friends in a town haunted by annual serial murders. Will you fall in love and unlock the mysteries hidden in your friends' hearts? Or will you die trying?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Multiple Endings 9.4%, Choices Matter 8.9%

A short visual novel about a girl who experiences a clinical death.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.7%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Narration 14.3%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.1%

Transparent is a narrative game where every choice shapes Clara’s existence. On the eve of her 30th birthday, she revisits key moments of her life. Will her decisions anchor her to reality or make her fade away? Explore memories, face dilemmas, and discover multiple endings

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Narration 19.4%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Multiple Endings 9.3%

A yuri martial arts story set in a fictional setting. Players take on the role of a knight roaming the martial arts world, where you'll encounter exciting duels and encounters with diverse characters, all waiting for your exploration.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 32.8%, Visual Novel 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Multiple Endings 7.5%, Adventure 7.2%

Explore an alien planet, snap pictures of wildlife and build relationships with your crewmates in this cozy sci-fi Point & Click - Visual Novel.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.1%, LGBTQ+ 20.8%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Exploration 15.7%, Multiple Endings 7%

A short story that turns everyday tasks into journeys. Can you be the voice that doesn’t let her down?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, LGBTQ+ 18.2%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Narration 11.9%, Multiple Endings 9.3%

“Neighboring Islands” – is an exciting graphic novel, key feature of which is an opportunity to take part in its events, directly influencing the development of the plot. Every decision of the player-reader can change the course of the narrative in one direction or another.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 40.5%, Visual Novel 23.6%, Choices Matter 17.6%, Adventure 11%, Indie 3.9%

In pursuit of coin, hired dagger Arthur finds himself embroiled in conspiracy involving the daughter of a noble House. Who is really pulling the strings behind the scenes?

Why similar: Visual Novel 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Hand-drawn 10.1%

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: Interactive Fiction 28.9%, Visual Novel 24.9%, LGBTQ+ 24%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Story Rich 6.1%

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+ 27.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Multiple Endings 10.6%

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 32.5%, Visual Novel 24.3%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Adventure 4.1%

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 26.5%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Exploration 9.8%

Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers is the follow-up to 2019's Arcade Spirits, a visual novel of love and pixels, in which you seek friendship and romance while working in an arcade. Now the tables are turned, as you seek friendship and romance while PLAYING in an arcade!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Hand-drawn 8.3%, Choices Matter 8.1%