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Years after leaving her family to join the Sisters of the Whiterock Coven, Edith is anxious to finally return home. But first she has to pass her Trial of Ascension, a harrowing task bestowed by her patron deity. Together, Edith and her bully must complete the trial, no matter the consequences.

Why similar: Visual Novel 11.2%, Emotional 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%

Hello, Jake. Welcome to the game.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Dark 11.5%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Emotional 10.5%

A short-form psychological thriller. Confront the mysterious Finn through a monitor. No strategy or puzzles—just choices and their consequences. Simply answer his questions and witness the end.

Why similar: Visual Novel 16.7%, Multiple Endings 15.5%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Dark 12%, Psychological Horror 11.7%

No matter how much times passes... I remember that blue, blue summer. Summer Pockets, the midsummer story brought to you by Key, has been powered-up with even more to play, including new heroines and routes, in Summer Pockets REFLECTION BLUE, now available on Steam!

Why similar: Emotional 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Multiple Endings 14.4%, Choices Matter 9%

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Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Lore-Rich 11.7%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Multiple Endings 9.2%

A Gothic horror faerie tale.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Visual Novel 11%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Emotional 9.2%

A sci-fi drama about love, control, and the price of human emotion. Care for your wards, follow every order — or break the rules to discover who you truly are.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 15.5%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%

Kitari and Kimoshi is a story about two girls who meet for the very first time through unusual circumstances. Click through the manga pages, and make choices that affect the flow of the story.

Why similar: Visual Novel 16%, Dark 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Lore-Rich 11.8%

Scarlet Scarf is a visual novel inspired by the legend of Plague Maiden. Dive into the dark mysteries of a dying city with the fate of Sanator Richard Murdock in your hands. Perhaps it's not too late to stop the on-going calamity...

Why similar: Visual Novel 13.3%, Emotional 12%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Lore-Rich 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%

"Королевская ночь"– нелинейная визуальная новелла в жанре ужасов. Десятки лет одиночества заставят её мыслить иначе..

Why similar: Psychedelic 19.8%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Multiple Endings 11.4%

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

Why similar: Visual Novel 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Emotional 12.5%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.2%

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 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Emotional 9.5%

You play as Hicha — a shut-in girl whose only reason to live is her virtual avatar, Virai. Help her escape the depressive nightmare before it consumes her completely.

Why similar: Visual Novel 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Horror 9.3%, Psychological Horror 8.9%

Thorner is a horror visual novel with multiple endings. You attempt to escape your past by fleeing to the wilderness, but spilled blood can never be forgiven. The land knows what you did. The land judges. Thorner awaits.

Why similar: Visual Novel 18.6%, Multiple Endings 15.1%, Dark 14.5%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%

The threat is on the road ahead and deep beneath her skin. A psychological visual novel about memory, trauma, and the cost of every choice.

Why similar: Emotional 15.4%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%

A puzzle-based horror game where the player takes on the role of a building manager who manages a haunted building and its "patients". Through the player's different options will raise or lower the pollution value, thus triggering different endings.

Why similar: Emotional 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Dark 8.2%, Horror 8.1%

You awaken in an unfamiliar location with unfamiliar people and are surrounded by mystery. Will you be able to solve the puzzle and uncover why you are here in this sci-fi/mystery/puzzle visual novel? The future hangs in the balance.

Why similar: Visual Novel 12.2%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Emotional 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.6%

A non-linear, eerie visual novel inspired by Ukrainian folklore. Go caroling with Goat, Bear, and Granny to make choices that decide the villagers' fate, save dozens, or lead to disasters. Learn how powerful words and silence can be.

Why similar: Visual Novel 13.6%, Emotional 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%

You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.

Why similar: Psychedelic 19.8%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Psychological Horror 9.3%

A visual novel in the romance and adventure genre. Awaken in the Honeycombs, a camp where memory is erased and secrets hum in the night. Forge bonds, defy the Union, and uncover your past. Will you be a pawn or ignite freedom as war looms?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Emotional 15%, Lore-Rich 11.9%, Anime 9.6%

Bokuten is a dramatic, emotional visual novel where you must play cupid and decide if the relationships you witness are worth rekindling, or if letting them fall apart would result in greater happiness. The decisions you make will echo into the course of your own love life.

Why similar: Emotional 15.5%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Drama 10.3%, Multiple Endings 10%

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: Emotional 17.5%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Horror 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Choices Matter 10.1%

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: Visual Novel 13.1%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Choices Matter 12%, Emotional 10.7%, Dark 8.1%

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: Emotional 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10.5%

"Project Vostok" is a non-linear horror visual novel about a group of airplane crash survivors finding a mysterious Soviet-era bunker in Altai mountains. Uncover a story full of drama, horrors and decide the fate of diverse cast of characters in this visual novel.

Why similar: Emotional 15.4%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Dark 10.5%, Drama 9.4%

GOLOD is an atmospheric visual novel about survival in the pixel-art style, where you will have to fight not only with a lack of food, but also with panic, suffocating idleness, secrets of the past, betrayal and difficult moral choices in a confined space.

Why similar: Visual Novel 14.6%, Anime 11%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Horror 9.9%

The Creepy Syndrome is an anthology that offers several psychological horror stories, with different pixel art and retro 1 bit, 8 bit, gameboy, etc. styles. Stories of a disturbed mind that intertwine with each other while being analysed by a mysterious psychiatrist.

Why similar: Psychedelic 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Visual Novel 9.7%

Dive into what lies below in “Beneath the Cherry Blossom Tree” an immersive visual novel where every choice carves a path through a tapestry of mystery, romance, and intrigue. Unravel a story that intertwines destiny, personality, and local folklore

Why similar: Multiple Endings 14.8%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Emotional 12%, Drama 11.2%

When tragedy sparks the advancement of science, a sentient android is created. Now, in this heart-wrenching, romantic, and beautiful visual novel, you will explore whether or not it's possible for man and machine to truly love each other.

Why similar: Emotional 16.4%, Visual Novel 14%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Drama 10.3%, Choices Matter 10%

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 17.7%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Dark 9.1%

Project Subtrahend is a choose-your-own-adventure visual novel, where you have the chance to get to know the stories, lore, and personalities of nine unique characters. Choices matter in this game, and it's up to you who lives or dies as you explore what it means to be human.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Lore-Rich 14.8%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Emotional 12.7%

After the announcement "There is no next stop," you are trapped in an endless subway. But you’re not alone—the "GUESTS" are hunting you. Trust the "GUIDES" to survive. Or don't.

Why similar: Visual Novel 15.9%, Choices Matter 14%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Horror 9.1%

AquaDark is a first-person horror game with management elements set in the ‘80s. As an aquapark owner, players have to serve customers, sell wares, record everything, and solve the mystery behind strange events in the aquapark.

Why similar: Psychedelic 18.8%, Emotional 16%, Dark 13.3%, Horror 11.4%, Choices Matter 11.1%

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 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Emotional 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.7%

"Project Vostok" is a non-linear horror visual novel about a group of airplane crash survivors finding a mysterious Soviet-era bunker in Altai mountains. Uncover the story full of drama, horrors and decide the fate a of various cast of heroes in this free visual novel.

Why similar: Visual Novel 14.2%, Emotional 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Horror 10.3%, Dark 10.2%

An interactive visual novel in the mystical genre. Mikey is admitted to an unusual institution for treatment, where he encounters supernatural phenomena and begins to prepare for a metamorphosis that will lead him into another world.

Why similar: Visual Novel 22.4%, Choices Matter 18.1%, Multiple Endings 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Horror 12.4%

A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths. A free atmospheric horror visual novel where you navigate life-or-death situations. SEEK PARADISE OR DIE TRYING

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Horror 9.9%

Follow Sybil in her pursuit for survival, having to sacrifice everything - her culture, her identity, her values - to achieve a single objective: escape from a place that is constantly trying to kill her. A short game about persecution and identity.

Why similar: Emotional 20.3%, Multiple Endings 16.3%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Dark 13.7%, Story Rich 9.8%

A dark visual novel created by the team behind NEEDY GIRL OVERDOSE. Overly sensitive to other people's emotions, the protagonist—a light novel writer—develops the ability to read minds, only to be driven even deeper into isolation. His sole remaining comfort is his younger sister, gifted yet lonely.

Why similar: Visual Novel 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Dark 11.3%

Mirrorandum is not just a visual novel...it's a journey through a world of mirrors, where every reflection challenges your perception and every choice reveals the depths of your true self.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Emotional 19.8%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Multiple Endings 11.5%

Dive into an enchanting world where every decision matters—alliances, betrayals, romance, and power struggles shape a story as deep as it is unforgettable.

Why similar: Visual Novel 17.9%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Multiple Endings 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Lore-Rich 9.3%

"Island of Ruin" is a puzzle novel game where you collect memory cores hidden across the island and uncover the truth behind a tragedy of the past. When the horrors that befell the boys and girls and the island’s strange phenomena are revealed, what final choice will you make?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Emotional 15.3%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Drama 8.8%

Undesirable Me is a psychological horror game in the genre of visual novel and adventure game. Overcome your inner demon: solve challenges, make tough decisions and face the consequences of your choices. Who will win this inner confrontation and take possession of the body? It depends on you.

Why similar: Psychedelic 21.2%, Visual Novel 14%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Horror 11.7%

Dive into five mysterious stories, each marked by a strange whisper from far, far away. This faint sound crosses the boundaries of sky, time, and space. Barely audible, it seems to rise from a forgotten past, disturbing every being who hears it.

Why similar: Visual Novel 17.5%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Multiple Endings 12%, Emotional 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%

My name is Jeremy. I can bring things to life.

Why similar: Visual Novel 17.9%, Emotional 16.2%, Dark 14.2%, Drama 12.5%, Anime 11.1%

Step into the world of Banishing You, a visual novel where choices shape your journey. Accept a mysterious invitation to a dream realm full of enigmatic characters and challenges. Navigate passive-aggressive comments, flirtatious strangers, and unravel a quest that could save or doom both worlds.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Emotional 12.8%, Dark 10.8%, Anime 9.2%

Confinio is an intriguing visual novel that delves into your sensations as you embody the protagonist who has just awakened in a prison with no memory. Make decisions, solve puzzles, interact with the environment, use objects, interrogate people, all to yourself and uncover the enigmatic reality.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Dark 10.3%

"Riddle Me Bunny: Nonogram" is a charming Nonogram puzzle-adventure game . When Nono, a watchmaker's daughter, finds a mysterious headband called "Riddle Me Bunny," she meets Gram, a magical blue rabbit. Together they solve picture-logic puzzles to restore their village's vanishing scenery!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Emotional 15.3%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Choices Matter 10.2%

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: Visual Novel 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Emotional 10.4%, Choices Matter 10.3%

A mad and romantic ADV. Unravel a strange world of science and philosophy with a mecha girl, zombie girl, or beastfolk. Some paths may disturb you... or thrill you.

Why similar: Emotional 15%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Psychedelic 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Drama 11.1%

You stand before a pit at the city's heart, then your gaze drifts to a deeper void, one you fear even more. Wield your invention to unravel mysteries, reclaim lost memories, strengthen your skills, and battle nightmare-born horrors in this multi-ending RPG.

Why similar: Emotional 18.3%, Multiple Endings 15.6%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Story Rich 9.8%

Grab your crayons and delve into the world of Crayontopia in this murder mystery visual novel. Become an adept or inept detective as you gather evidence, get to know your fellow crayon-lovers, and seek to uncover the colorful secrets behind the murders that plague this seemingly perfect world.

Why similar: Emotional 15.3%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.7%

The Darkest Emptiness will fill the lungs with leaden weight.

Why similar: Visual Novel 17.2%, Psychedelic 12.4%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Horror 10.8%

The abyss awaits. Descend into a minimalist visual novel about a girl in the future, and guide her through branching conversations, microgames, and explorable locations. Make friends with criminals, drink too much at dinner, or relax in a spa. Whatever happens, it was your choice.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Lore-Rich 12.5%, Choices Matter 12.1%

Labyrinth of Crystal Princess is a “escape the labyrinth by detecting the unseen” horror adventure.

Why similar: Emotional 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Horror 9.4%

Explore the haunted halls of Heavenly Host Elementary in Corpse Party (2021), the horror cult classic now updated for the next generation.

Why similar: Horror 15.2%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Dark 12.6%, Psychological Horror 10.3%

HEDERA is a story-driven 2D horror game about dealing with trauma through dreams and videogames.

Why similar: Emotional 14.6%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Dark 10%, Horror 9.8%

The Cost of Salvation is a story-rich adventure about a being created to preserve the world’s balance. Awaken across centuries, form fragile bonds, and face the weight of sacrifice in a journey through time, memory, and the meaning of life itself.

Why similar: Emotional 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Lore-Rich 13.2%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Multiple Endings 9%

A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?

Why similar: Emotional 14.8%, Visual Novel 12%, Dark 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%, Drama 8.4%