Games Like Emily is Away

Emily is Away Too is a brand new story featuring new characters and multiple different endings. Message your friends, surf the web and choose your path through this branching narrative.

Why similar: Choices Matter 21%, Dating Sim 13.7%, Story Rich 12.3%, Simulation 10.5%, Text-Based 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This direct sequel expands the AIM-style interface, early-internet nostalgia, and relationship-defining chat choices of the original.

Emily <3 is a brand new story set on an old-new social media. Customize your facenook profile, send some friend requests and determine the outcome of your senior year.

Why similar: Choices Matter 22.7%, Dating Sim 14.4%, Story Rich 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Simulation 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: The third entry retains the series' simulated social-media storytelling while adding more routes, characters, and consequences.

‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

Why similar: Choices Matter 30.6%, Visual Novel 21.6%, Romance 19.2%, Story Rich 11.6%, Simulation 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: This short, choice-driven visual novel uses private online conversations to tell a personal story about friendship, romance, and mental health.

A short talking sim with choices. Get to know Harper over a handful of voice-acted calls and text chats.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Dating Sim 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Romance 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its dialogue-heavy dating story is built around the feeling of getting to know someone through calls and messages.

It’s March of 2020; you were just sent home from college because of the coronavirus, you have a few small regrets, mainly not telling someone how you really feel.

Why similar: Choices Matter 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Romance 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Simulation 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This compact romance game directly captures the tension of texting, being ignored, and choosing how to respond.

Who did you kiss that night? Text Your Life is a mobile phone chat simulator that lets you put yourself in the shoes of our protagonist, a female university student with a group of eccentric friends and a love life that has suddenly turned somewhat... complicated.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Dating Sim 12.3%, Choices Matter 12%, Romance 11.8%, Story Rich 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: It centers on shaping a character's relationships and life through text-message conversations and everyday decisions.

Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.

Why similar: Dating Sim 27.9%, Romance 16.4%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This chat-based dating sim builds a surprisingly tender relationship through customizable messaging choices and multiple endings.

Drinks with Abbey is a short, slice-of-life visual novel about a first date.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Choices Matter 16.7%, Dating Sim 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Romance 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: A conversational dating game focused on reading a person's mood and choosing dialogue that affects an evolving connection.

A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

Why similar: Choices Matter 18.7%, Romance 17.8%, Dating Sim 15.6%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its warm, highly personalized coming-of-age romance lets your choices gradually define a long-term friendship and relationship.

Seize the day

Why similar: Visual Novel 43%, Dating Sim 24.9%, Indie 7.6%, Singleplayer 7.1%, Casual 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A short visual-novel date built around choosing responses and experiencing the awkward sweetness of a one-on-one conversation.

An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.

Why similar: Choices Matter 34.3%, Story Rich 23.9%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Simulation 13.4%, Singleplayer 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: This phone-interface thriller turns texts, video calls, and social apps into an immersive interactive narrative, albeit with a horror focus.

"What is love?" We try to answer that with this game. The game encourages people to have a warm, soft, and understanding heart.

Why similar: Choices Matter 20.9%, Romance 19.1%, Dating Sim 17.7%, Story Rich 14.4%, Visual Novel 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This collection of short interactive romances emphasizes selecting responses and discovering different outcomes for each relationship.

Cibele is a game about love, sex, and the internet. You play as a 19 year old girl who has become close with a young man she met in an online game. Her relationship with him heats up, becoming more and more intimate with each phone call and private chat.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Romance 17%, Story Rich 15.5%, Dating Sim 13%, Visual Novel 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: This autobiographical interactive story explores an intimate online relationship through a desktop interface, games, messages, and memories.

The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

Why similar: Visual Novel 26.1%, Dating Sim 25.6%, Story Rich 18.8%, Romance 17.8%, Singleplayer 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: It begins as a relationship-focused visual novel with dialogue choices before taking a much darker meta-fictional turn.

Border of her Heart is a VN about Border control.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Dating Sim 11.3%, Romance 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This romance-oriented interactive fiction offers direct dialogue choices and multiple possible paths through a developing relationship.

Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...

Why similar: Choices Matter 23.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Story Rich 16.4%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Simulation 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A brief, compassionate choice-based story where small conversational decisions shape a personal night out.

Arcade Spirits is a romantic visual novel that follows an alternative timeline where the 1983 video game crash never occurred. It's 20XX and you've just started a new job at the Funplex game arcade. Who will you meet along the way? Will you find the romance you're seeking?

Why similar: Choices Matter 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Dating Sim 13.2%, Story Rich 12.2%, Romance 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: A colorful visual novel about friendship, identity, and romance, with personality-based dialogue choices that affect relationships.

Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 43.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.3%, Visual Novel 9.5%, Indie 9.5%, Text-Based 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A text-driven interactive story that uses constrained choices to portray everyday relationships and the difficulty of living with depression.

Eliza is a visual novel about an AI counseling program, the people who develop it, and the people who use it. Follow Evelyn Ishino-Aubrey as she reconnects with people from her past, gets to know the people of Seattle who use Eliza for counseling, and decides the course of her future.

Why similar: Visual Novel 36.7%, Story Rich 25.6%, Choices Matter 22.7%, Indie 10.1%, Singleplayer 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: This reflective visual novel is largely about nuanced conversations, emotional connection, and navigating a modern tech-mediated life.

VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is a booze em' up about waifus, technology, and post-dystopia life.

Why similar: Choices Matter 25.9%, Story Rich 22.7%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Simulation 10.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Although centered on bartending, its appeal comes from intimate conversations and gradually learning people's lives through dialogue.

Your robots will change the world! Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army? A 300,000-word epic interactive sci-fi novel.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Choices Matter 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Text-Based 16.4%, Story Rich 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A substantial choice-based interactive fiction game where decisions across years shape both relationships and an evolving personal story.

Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

Why similar: Choices Matter 47.6%, Story Rich 41.7%, Singleplayer 5.2%, Indie 2.2%, Adventure 2%

Why You'll Like It: Its coming-of-age setting, emotionally fraught friendships, and consequential choices make it a larger-scale match for Emily is Away's themes.

Florence Yeoh feels a little... stuck. Her life is an endless routine of work, sleep, and spending too much time on social media. Then one day, she meets a cello player named Krish who changes everything about how she sees the world and herself.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Romance 19.2%, Story Rich 18.7%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Indie 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A short, intimate interactive story about falling in and out of love, with the same personal and bittersweet emotional pull.

A visual novel about emotional survival in an automated world. Play as Lina, the last human cab driver. It’s your first night driving the lonely streets of Los Ojos, and your best friend has just disappeared. Stay on the road. Stay on the search. Stay human.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.2%, Choices Matter 26.8%, Story Rich 19.6%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Singleplayer 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: This narrative road trip uses frequent dialogue choices and relationship meters to make every passenger interaction matter.

Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.

Why similar: Choices Matter 44.5%, Story Rich 39%, Indie 7.3%, Singleplayer 4.3%, Adventure 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: This atmospheric teen drama uses natural, timed conversation choices to shape friendships, romance, and the story's outcome.

A short and mysterious free point and click adventure game, inspired by the feeling of oddness in an everyday situation.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 42.4%, Story Rich 23.7%, Romance 22.9%, Singleplayer 4%, 2D 2.6%

Marie's Room is a short story exploration game about an unconventional friendship between two classmates. You play as Kelsey, remembering Marie's room as it was twenty years ago. But something’s off. What happened to Marie?

Why similar: Story Rich 64.6%, Indie 13.9%, Singleplayer 8.8%, Casual 8.2%, Adventure 4%

Trick & Treat is a Visual Novel that test your instincts by making choices that can get you out from the cursed forest or drive you to death… or maybe just maybe your choices can guide you to something more?

Why similar: Visual Novel 34.7%, Romance 17%, Dating Sim 11.6%, Story Rich 9.4%, Simulation 8.1%

Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!

Why similar: Simulation 51.3%, Casual 22.2%, Funny 17.3%, 2D 9.2%

A game about never-ending problem of loading screens. We've all experienced it while playing games, while downloading something, while installing an operating system ect. And now you can experience it once again in Loading Screen Simulator: Steam edition

Why similar: Simulation 39.8%, Indie 17.4%, Casual 14.1%, Singleplayer 13.8%, Funny 9.1%

A 15 minute heist game by Crows Crows Crows & Directed by William Pugh (The Stanley Parable). Slip into the soft-soled shoes of the mastermind responsible for the greatest heist- oh god I can’t do this any more, i’m joining the strike. good luck writing the steam description. -tina

Why similar: Story Rich 30.9%, Indie 25.3%, Singleplayer 17.9%, Funny 16.2%, Casual 6.7%

A fly ascends to the skies, pondering the pointlessness of its brief existence.

Why similar: Indie 39.8%, Simulation 25%, Casual 18%, Singleplayer 12.1%, Adventure 2.6%

An interactive story about a painfully introverted college student who must find a way to make some oatmeal in the communal kitchen of her dorm. One simple task, can you help her complete it?

Why similar: Visual Novel 30.9%, Choices Matter 25.6%, Indie 18.2%, Casual 12%, Simulation 7.9%

Lost in a weird city in the middle of the desert and surrounded by strange creatures that keep staring at you. This is a game about exploring the unknown and solving puzzles... lots of them! Don't be fooled by the looks, this isn't a point & click adventure.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 41.5%, Indie 25.8%, Casual 12.8%, Singleplayer 8.6%, Adventure 7.9%

Play as a farmer who struggles to manage a failing farm. You come to a point where there is no more hope, and you must do something.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Visual Novel 17%, Simulation 12.4%, Story Rich 10.8%

A machine ponders its loneliness. It scans the radio spectrum for an answer to its question.

Why similar: Indie 37.1%, Casual 30.5%, Singleplayer 19.5%, Adventure 7.5%, 2D 5.4%

This short Visual novel can be considered as a little introductory episode of the game Elisa the innkeeper. Enjoy our Art and Soundtrack as you begin to shape Elisa's destiny for the better or the worse!

Why similar: Choices Matter 26.7%, Romance 18.2%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Dating Sim 11.3%, Story Rich 10.7%

Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.

Why similar: Indie 22.1%, Simulation 22.1%, Casual 19.4%, Funny 14.8%, Singleplayer 9.3%

“A story about cat girls … with bite.” Nekos have evolved in the shadows of human society. Beautiful. Mysterious. Chaotic. And now, three of them live with you. Will you be able to get past the stigma and grow closer to them? OmOneko is a tale of cat and mouse... and rats.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Romance 10.9%, Dating Sim 10.8%

Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social network 'Videoverse' were still popular…

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Story Rich 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Visual Novel 9.7%

404Sight is a free game made in support of net neutrality. It’s a 3D playground runner influenced by parkour running with the addition of a special ping ability that reveals areas that can speed the player up or slow them down.

Why similar: Indie 81.2%, Singleplayer 18.8%

With your final build missing, and only till the end of the night to publish his game, Warren must take up the difficult adventure to make a new build before the end of the night through whatever means necessary. Join Warren's quest to publish his title before the end of the night and become an indie dev.

Why similar: Indie 46.2%, Funny 16.5%, Singleplayer 14.7%, Adventure 14%, Casual 8.6%

You Have to Win the Game is a free exploration platformer with a retro 1980s PC aesthetic.

Why similar: Retro 55.7%, Indie 15.4%, Pixel Graphics 14.6%, Singleplayer 8%, 2D 4.1%

A visual novel about a memory that a boy named Mark tries very hard to forget, and a girl named Myra who unearths it.

Why similar: Romance 19.2%, Dating Sim 18%, Story Rich 17.7%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Text-Based 15.5%

Only If is a surreal first person adventure-puzzle game. It takes idiom into reality.

Why similar: Indie 29.5%, Singleplayer 21.1%, Simulation 15.9%, Adventure 15.5%, Horror 9.2%

A chat dating sim game inspired by Mystic Messenger, VTuber communities, and internet spam

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Romance 11.1%, Story Rich 10.3%

A short lesbian / yuri visual novel set in England. Our heroine, Toma Andrews, meets a ghost girl wearing an old-fashioned nightgown in a graveyard who calls herself Emmeline. Just who is she, and how did she die?

Why similar: Visual Novel 27.9%, Romance 20.1%, Story Rich 18.6%, Text-Based 9.8%, Indie 7.9%

Immerse yourself in romantic visual stories where you control what happens!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Choices Matter 19.7%, Romance 19.4%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Simulation 11.4%

Explore Mandagon, a world inspired by Tibetan theology and philosophy. With a focus on life and death, discover what it means to make a true sacrifice . . .

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 27.8%, Story Rich 25.6%, Indie 19.5%, Adventure 7.2%, Singleplayer 7.1%

A dark/sad/weird/funny first person exploration game. You play a man on his last night alive as he obsesses over a mysterious painting. More of a story game in that it emphasizes mood and character over gameplay. Takes ten minutes to play and has "next-gen" features like a shrimp tank.

Why similar: Indie 51.8%, Singleplayer 21.7%, Horror 14%, Adventure 12.5%

An immersive MMORPG-simulation chatroom based romance / otome visual novel. You are the leader of a raiding guild in the world's hottest MMORPG, Emberfate. Will you lead your guild to success in the newest raid — and perhaps find love along the way among your guildmates?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Dating Sim 12.4%, Visual Novel 9.3%

Upon answering a mysterious phone call, you awaken in an unfamiliar place filled with new faces… Through intricate relationships and thoughtful introspection, will you be able to unravel the reason you are here?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Dating Sim 13.3%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Romance 11.9%

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: Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Choices Matter 18.7%, Story Rich 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Text-Based 10.6%

Discover 'Departed Away,' a captivating visual novel where friendship intertwines with mystery. Uncover secrets, engage in verbal duels, and make choices that shape your story. Delve into emotional depth and intricate connections in this unique story.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Dating Sim 14.9%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Story Rich 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.7%

A film noir style audio-visual novella. A mysterious woman... a string of murders... and a man with a hidden past.

Why similar: Story Rich 30.5%, Visual Novel 27.2%, Text-Based 25.8%, Casual 8.2%, Singleplayer 5.7%

Your Pocket-Sized Dating Simulator! Every launch brings a new date with unique dialogues! Spend endless hours with your adorable, love-struck virtual girlfriend.

Why similar: Dating Sim 26.5%, Visual Novel 21.8%, Romance 18.9%, Simulation 10.9%, Retro 6.2%

The story takes place after school, when Willie decides to confess his love to the girl of his dreams, Liza. Afraid of being refused, he hesitated for a while. Should he summon up his courage and confess his love to her?

Why similar: Romance 29.8%, Story Rich 20.2%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%, Indie 10.2%

The Way of Life makes the player relive the same life's experiences from the point of view of three characters of different ages: an adult, an old man and a child.

Why similar: Simulation 27.5%, Story Rich 26.4%, Indie 21.5%, Singleplayer 16.3%, Adventure 6%