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Games Like Elysium

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Visual Novel, Sci-fi, Cyberpunk.

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In this cyberpunk-themed linear visual novel, you take on the role of Jill the bartender during a 14-day time loop. While crafting drinks for customers is part of your job, the true challenge lies in unraveling the dark secrets hidden beneath this neon-lit world.

Reviews: Very Positive — 90% — of 77 reviews
Released: 2025-03-01
Developer: YvelRevo
Genres: Adventure, Casual, Indie
Platforms: Windows

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    Dev: あみそ組
    Windows

    Complex Loop is a sci-fi themed visual novel. This is a story of time loops between past and future. Within a time limit of 20 minutes, your mission is to save a mysterious girl died from an explosion accident one year ago. Solve puzzles and reveal the truth behind the tragedy. An adventure awaits!

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  2. #2 INFINITY DEADLINE
    96% matchVery Positive96% of 55 reviews2026
    Dev: YvelRevo
    Windows

    Play as 25yo writer Jian Xun in a 5-min deadline loop. Your script is alive! In this thriller puzzle, use "keyframe sorting" to piece stories. Fight AI, break the 4th wall & escape the nightmare!

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    96% matchVery Positive86% of 164 reviews2021
    Dev: Sigyaad Team
    Windows

    Twilight Town: A Cyberpunk Day In Life is a chill, linear visual novel set in an ambient yet melancholic town in the distant future. Play as Ikuro and work with all kinds of shady figures to take care of your personal robot companion you're so hopelessly in love with.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 29%, Cyberpunk 27.8%, Futuristic 15.4%, Anime 9.5%, Casual 9.4%

  4. #4 VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
    95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 37,969 reviews2016
    Dev: Sukeban GamesPub: Ysbryd Games
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 31.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%

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    94% matchVery Positive93% of 184 reviews2025
    Dev: 深渊标记 Tag:hadal
    Windows

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  6. #6 No More Future
    93% matchVery Positive99% of 122 reviews2022
    Dev: Sedge
    Windows

    In the last days of their life, a dying person takes one final gamble... No More Future is a linear Sci-Fi Visual Novel, where you explore a futuristic world as an android trying to rebuild their old life. In this strange journey, they'll question the very foundations of their life and their world.

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    94% matchMixed53% of 222 reviews2016
    Dev: HarotobiraPub: Sometimes You
    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    92% matchVery Positive82% of 66 reviews2023
    Dev: Dream Harvest
    Windows

    You are Arc, a city management AI. Designed to manage a city-wide AR metaverse known as the NeuroNet. Meet its many users, build relationships and help or hinder their lives while trying to balance the wider needs of the city. Find your humanity in a world losing theirs to technology.

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    91% matchVery Positive97% of 68 reviews2024
    Dev: Lonestone Studio
    Windows

    Investigating a time-loop during the Cold War, light years away from Earth. Neoproxima is a text-based adventure game that combines exploration and simple RPG and survival mechanics. Plan your next loop carefully, and go as far as possible before time catches up with you.

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    91% matchVery Positive90% of 202 reviews2019
    Dev: Mojiken
    Windows · Mac

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  11. #11 The Red Strings Club
    89% matchVery Positive94% of 13,842 reviews2018
    Dev: DeconstructeamPub: Devolver Digital
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%

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    90% matchVery Positive81% of 95 reviews2019
    Dev: Contortionist Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    89% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,665 reviews2015
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%

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    Windows
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    Dev: Chance AgencyPub: Fellow Traveller
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%

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    Windows

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    Windows
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    Windows
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    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    76% matchVery Positive94% of 1,925 reviews2017
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    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 69%

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    Windows · Mac

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    75% matchVery Positive95% of 192 reviews2022
    Dev: Steamberry Studio
    Windows

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    74% matchMostly Positive71% of 122 reviews2024
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    Windows

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    77% matchMixed69% of 119 reviews2014
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 61%

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    78% matchMixed54% of 82 reviews2015
    Dev: Cylight Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 8,841 reviews2024
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    Windows
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    72% matchVery Positive97% of 294 reviews2023
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    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 68%

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    71% matchVery Positive88% of 102 reviews2026
    Dev: Moonlit Apple
    Windows

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    Windows
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    73% matchMixed70% of 76 reviews2023
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    67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,416 reviews2024
    Dev: BearBoneStudio
    Windows
    Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%

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    Windows
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%

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    69% matchVery Positive92% of 122 reviews2025
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    74% matchMostly Positive73% of 132 reviews2014
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    Windows
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    Windows
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    67% matchVery Positive94% of 94 reviews2024
    Dev: 火鸡头工作室Pub: 糕薯科技
    Windows

    This is a cyberpunk-themed pixelated psychological horror, romance, and adventure game. Amidst a chance encounter in the rain and a forced gathering, an unexpected journey unfolds—a humorous romance and adventure story between you, a robot, and your furry companions.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.3%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Alternate History 13.6%, RPG 13.1%, Futuristic 10.4%

  56. #56 大科学家
    65% matchVery Positive94% of 379 reviews2025
    Dev: 箱社
    Windows

    Antoine is a tavern owner who privately conducts her own secret research. Due to an accident, a little girl enters her life and her once-quiet existence is forever changed. Antoine is forced to take risks involuntarily, and bit by bit the truth of the world is revealed to her again.

    Why similar: JRPG 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Visual Novel 15.1%, 2D Platformer 12%, RPG 9.5%

  57. #57 Reverse: 1999
    63% matchVery Positive94% of 4,207 reviews2024
    Dev: BLUEPOCH GAMES CO., LIMITED
    Windows
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 48.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%

    Reverse: 1999 is a 20th Century Time-Travel Strategic RPG developed by Bluepoch. As the Timekeeper, the observer of eras, you will embark on a journey across time and space, from the Roaring '20s to the turn of the millennium, uncovering the truth about the "Storm" and the mystery of the year 1999.

    Why similar: Alternate History 21%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Time Travel 14.6%, RPG 13.6%, Anime 12.2%

  58. #58 PROTOTYPE原型
    67% matchVery Positive84% of 159 reviews2023
    Dev: Veronika OrfeevaPub: Nikita Kryukov
    Windows

    A cinematic techno-thriller about the fate of the intermediate links of progress.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Cyberpunk 16.9%, Futuristic 14.5%, Anime 12.6%

  59. #59 TEMPUS
    68% matchMostly Positive75% of 79 reviews2022
    Dev: k148 Game Studio
    Windows

    TEMPUS is a puzzle adventure game with time travel. Each time you advance, you will see the island where you live change over thousands of years. You can only travel forward so it is a one way trip, how far will you go?

    Why similar: Cyberpunk 66.3%, Casual 20%, Story Rich 11.8%, Indie 1.2%, Singleplayer 0.7%

  60. #60 云端之约
    66% matchVery Positive93% of 528 reviews2021
    Dev: White Star Studio
    Windows

    假如人工智能拥有了自我意识,你会怎样看待它们?或者说,他们。在信息技术高度发达的时代里,当人与人之间的交流只剩下屏幕的文字时,你的每一次选择,将带你揭开这个世界不一样的真相。科技与神话交织碰撞,邀你共赴一场云端之约。

    Why similar: Visual Novel 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Cyberpunk 19.8%, RPG 15.6%, Artificial Intelligence 12.1%

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