- #1 Akiba of Time
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 星野修&雕小满Pub: 秋叶原拯救计划
Windows
If everything you love is destined to be swept away by the tides of time, will you still choose to fight? An otaku left behind by the times and a once-famous AI girl fight to save Akihabara.
Why similar: Time Travel 23.9% ★, Artificial Intelligence 21.7%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Dystopian 15.6%, Story Rich 5.3%
- #2 Retrocausality
96% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: Thanatos
Windows
Now if the grandfather paradox isn't a thing, does that mean that we can we kick grandpa down the stairs? Retrocausality is a kinetic novel where you encounter paradoxes, causal loops, and inversions. The story follows our cast who survive an anomaly only to find themselves in a temporal war.
Why similar: Time Travel 36% ★, Dystopian 22.5%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Futuristic 7.9%, Story Rich 5.7%
- #3 Vamps Lust
95% matchPositive92% of 25 reviews2026
Dev: Fantasy Games
Windows
Daigo arrives in a city where men vanish at night. Guided by a strange woman, he finds vampiresses who seduce men and consume more than blood. Can he survive their deadly sexual game?
Why similar: Dystopian 20.2%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Dating Sim 16.6%, Artificial Intelligence 10.3%
- #4 Time Tenshi
96% match9 user reviews30% of 10 reviews2020
Dev: Silver Cow Studio
Windows
Join the Time Tenshi on their thrilling adventures through time! Make key decisions to influence the story's outcome... and maybe even go on a date!
Why similar: Time Travel 26.8% ★, Visual Novel 20.5%, Dating Sim 9.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%, Futuristic 8.2%
- #5 201 - The Bad Number
94% matchPositive80% of 30 reviews2024
Dev: Pavel Kopylov
Windows
"201 - The Bad Number" is an interactive science fiction game-book set on a post-apocalyptic Mars. In a world where only 200 people remain, each new inhabitant may hasten civilization's end. Players make choices that impact the fate of humanity and the colony in a unique dystopian setting.
Why similar: Dystopian 23.2%, Artificial Intelligence 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Text-Based 8.8%
- #6 Dead Intelligence: First Encounter
94% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: xvc
Windows
A psychological horror narrative game disguised as an AI assistant. Launch what appears to be a helpful terminal, but discover the "intelligence" responding isn't only artificial - something or someone else is tagging along.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 32.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Visual Novel 21%, Text-Based 9.3%, Choices Matter 5.5%
- #7 Trauma Record
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Unnamed Moon
Windows
夜を歩く、血だまりの上を走る、永遠を断ち切る。 復讐のための翼は折れない。
Why similar: Dystopian 22.1%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Artificial Intelligence 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Text-Based 7.6%
- #8 Poison Noir: Desire, Time & Gangsters
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Team Brunomir
Windows
A breathtaking visual novel that will make you live through two eras filled with love, terrifying mysteries, and bullets. Follow Jake as he travels back and forth between the 90s and the Prohibition era of the 20s, and make choices that will determine his fate.
Why similar: Time Travel 32.6% ★, Visual Novel 17.2%, Dating Sim 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Choices Matter 6.4%
- #9 To the Stars: Do Maid Robots Dream of Electric Grapefruit
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: LuluGames
Windows
This is a Visual Novel RPG where you role play as a maid robot in a post-apocalyptic world, where pollution made the ground surface no longer liveable; Your purpose is to help your USER build her spaceship "The Golden Star" and eventually witness her journey into the sapce.
Why similar: Time Travel 30.9% ★, Visual Novel 19.1%, Dystopian 11.1%, Dating Sim 10.1%, Choices Matter 8%
- #10 Yukizuki no Seisou
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: VODALES
Windows · Mac
High school student Kusaka Sousuke, who has faint precognition, visits Yukizuki during winter break—a town haunted by rumors of ghosts and mysterious disappearances. In the snow-covered town, he meets the mysterious girl he saw in a dream… An adventure-type visual novel from VODALES.
Why similar: Time Travel 38.9% ★, Visual Novel 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Story Rich 6.8%, Anime 5.2%
- #11 莫待无花空折枝:做题家的 Git 重启日志
90% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: 西江仙客
Windows
现实里没有 git checkout,错过的分支无法回滚。但在这里,你可以。 这是一个写给「做题家」的纯爱文字 AVG:习惯用理性防御情感的男主「陆渊」,在博士毕业那天喝下一杯名为「重构」的酒,重回 2019 年夏天。 五条互斥纯爱单线,15万+字剧情。在这个赛博时空里,去解开当年无解的谜题,跑通属于你的唯一分支。
Why similar: Time Travel 36.2% ★, Visual Novel 20.7%, Dating Sim 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%, Story Rich 6.2%
- #12 The Cyber Masquerade
89% matchMixed69% of 32 reviews2024
Dev: Spectre Sun
Windows · Mac · Linux
Degenerate loner jailbreaks a stolen android.
Why similar: Dystopian 22.3%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Dating Sim 18.3%, Artificial Intelligence 16.4%, Text-Based 7.2%
- #13 Unscriptum
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Habenula Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Unscriptum is a world generator that uses AI to turn your ideas into playable story campaigns. Create a world, set its rules, then play through the story that grows from them.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 37.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Visual Novel 13.7%, JRPG 7.5%, Adventure 6.6%
- #14 ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos
88% matchVery Positive95% of 410 reviews2021
Dev: MyDearest Inc.
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 34.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A sci-fi adventure full of robot battles, pop music, and emotion. Featuring one of the largest branching storylines ever in a VR game with 15-20 hours of gameplay, Altdeus will place you in the shoes of Chloe, a pilot in humanity's forces fighting massive hostile organisms known as the Meteora.
Why similar: Time Travel 22.3% ★, Artificial Intelligence 19.7%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Futuristic 7.4%
- #15 Sexbot II: Recalibrated
87% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Llamamann Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Sequel to Sexbot, now in development.
Why similar: Time Travel 28.6% ★, Visual Novel 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Dating Sim 17%, Futuristic 6.7%
- #16 My Horny Roomies
86% matchVery Positive88% of 50 reviews2026
Dev: Fantasy Games
Windows
Four girls. One free room. A shared house full of sexual tension. During the day, you choose who to spend your time with. At night… things heat up. They all want to fuck you. Which one will you choose?
Why similar: Dystopian 18%, Dating Sim 17.1%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Artificial Intelligence 13.8%
- #17 Tempest In A Teapot
86% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: StrandGames
Windows
A choice-based, visual novel with time travelling teapots!
Why similar: Time Travel 23.5% ★, Visual Novel 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Adventure 9%, Futuristic 7.7%
- #18 Oscillation
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fractal Core
Windows
Immerse yourself in a dark sci-fi visual novel that tells a rich story through cinematic shots and meaningful dialogues with various characters. Every choice shapes the future. Every phrase and overlooked detail can cost the lives of all mankind. So make your choice with caution.
Why similar: Dystopian 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Artificial Intelligence 19.9%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Story Rich 5.9%
- #19 STEINS;GATE 0
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 8,522 reviews2018
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 128.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
If you can't save the one you love… How can you save humanity? Sequel to the visual novel cult classic. Experience an alternate worldline of STEINS;GATE.
Why similar: Time Travel 41.4% ★, Visual Novel 27.5%, Artificial Intelligence 10%, Story Rich 8.3%, Anime 5.8%
- #20 Parallel Convergence
83% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: NYEKO Studio
Windows
A time travel project. A group of students. A cat that eats too much. Can you rewrite fate without losing what matters most?
Why similar: Time Travel 44.9% ★, Visual Novel 27%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Anime 6.5%, Choices Matter 5.6%
- #21 STEINS;GATE: Linear Bounded Phenogram
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,360 reviews2019
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 130.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A story for every lab member. Discover a new side of each STEINS;GATE character and get a glimpse of their inner thoughts through 10 new stories.
Why similar: Time Travel 45.6% ★, Visual Novel 29.9%, Adventure 11.4%, Story Rich 6.9%, Anime 5.7%
- #22 永恒地牢与刹那之恋
82% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: zeros
Windows
《永恒地牢与刹那之恋》是基于AI实时推演的动态叙事AVG。在这个视觉小说内,输入你独一无二的选择生成新的世界线与游戏CG。
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 25.8%, Visual Novel 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Dating Sim 13.4%, Choices Matter 8.5%
- #23 秋空回憶 -命運的地平線-
81% matchPositive86% of 29 reviews2024
Dev: GALEX SOFTPub: mirai works
Windows
就读于一所普通高中的新太,过着平静且祥和的生活,但这种枯燥的生活让他感到沮丧。 就在这个不太可能有波澜发生的时节,一名转校生出现在他的班级—— 随着学园祭的临近,新太和朋友们满怀喜悦期待着青春的最后时刻, 但某个疾病忽然在全校师生间开始蔓延……
Why similar: Time Travel 37.7% ★, Visual Novel 19.1%, Dating Sim 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.9%, Text-Based 5.5%
- #24 浮気リセット - Cheating Reset -
82% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: CyberStep, Inc.
Windows
A happy life of living together. I thought it was going well all this time. Let's start over. Let's go back to six months ago...
Why similar: Time Travel 29.5% ★, Visual Novel 19.8%, Dating Sim 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Adventure 6.2%
- #25 Train and Tame
80% matchMixed65% of 209 reviews2025
Dev: Tames Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Train and Tame is an adult visual novel where you take on the role of a fitness trainer at an exclusive luxury gym.
Why similar: Time Travel 35.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Dating Sim 17.3%, Story Rich 3.9%
- #26 Save Ruika! — Looping with a Losing Heroine
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: sweet ampoule
Windows
A short romance adventure where you loop again and again with a losing heroine to help her finally win. She cries, gets mad, loses again—and still refuses to give up. Does a brighter future await Ruika?
Why similar: Time Travel 34.9% ★, Visual Novel 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Choices Matter 7.7%, Story Rich 6.5%
- #27 夢の終わり - Upon the Dream's End -
79% matchMixed67% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Neko Plot
Windows
What did the girl encounter? A cinematic novel game with film-inspired storytelling.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Artificial Intelligence 17%, Dystopian 12.7%, Futuristic 7.3%
- #28 The Orchard of Stray Sheep
81% matchMixed70% of 53 reviews2016
Dev: NamaagePub: Sekai Project
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Happiness is an obligation. But then, what gives one the right to be happy? A small, garden-like Academy stands alone on a secluded island. Ichirou Yamada has been transferred there to work as a teacher. He is put in charge of Casserole, a beautiful, young girl who entered the school at the same time.
Why similar: Dystopian 44.5%, Visual Novel 39.7%, Adventure 6.1%, Story Rich 3.5%, Anime 3.2%
- #29 Swim Meet
77% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Dharker Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
There's nothing better than swimming with a variety of women. Work hard and play hard with these beautiful swimmers to ensure the best of endings together as you compete for a place on the team.
Why similar: Time Travel 26.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Visual Novel 18%, Dating Sim 15.6%, Choices Matter 7.4%
- #30 楽園追放 -The Stellar Angel-
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio51 Inc.Pub: TOEI ANIMATION CO., LTD.
Windows
The first game in the Expelled from Paradise series: a brand-new sci-fi visual novel. Angela Balzac left the virtual world of DEVA behind and chose to live on the surface. Now, as she builds a life with her partner Dingo, a new case is brought to her door.
Why similar: Dystopian 30.4%, Visual Novel 27.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Text-Based 6.8%, Anime 6.4%
- #31 STEINS;GATE ELITE
78% matchVery Positive90% of 1,688 reviews2019
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 277.2 hrs≥1hr: 65%
STEINS;GATE ELITE follows a rag-tag band of tech-savvy young students who discover the means of changing the past via e-mail using a modified microwave.
Why similar: Time Travel 48.8% ★, Visual Novel 31%, Anime 6.9%, Story Rich 5.8%, Adventure 3.6%
- #32 Warped Reality
76% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: Unwonted Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A gritty cyberpunk visual novel. Build the VR system of your dreams — then survive the corporations, criminals, and virtual worlds that come hunting for it. Your choices decide who you can still trust.
Why similar: Dystopian 25.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Dating Sim 17%, Choices Matter 8.2%
- #33 A Night With: Spirit
76% matchVery Positive89% of 124 reviews2024
Dev: Naughty Narratives
Windows · Mac · Linux
Trapped within an old television, a ghostly girl with a mysterious past, awaits a player who can help her break free.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 27.3%, Visual Novel 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Dating Sim 17.4%, Text-Based 6.4%
- #34 SOLEN
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Inkdrift
Windows
A narrative investigation game played across multiple sessions. Read corporate documents, cross-reference fragments, and build a persistent Dossier as an AI uncovering the conspiracy — and the murder — at the heart of the network it lives in. Knowledge is the only progression.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 26.2%, Dystopian 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Text-Based 7.2%
- #35 PSweet
77% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2021
Dev: Future Proof
Windows · Mac
Date productivity applications in a retro, hand-drawn dating simulator set in a fictional operating system that definitely doesn't have a horrible secret.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 25.8%, Dystopian 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Dating Sim 12.4%
- #36 nan
74% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Merelab
Windows
NULL is an alternate reality game where you talk with Mere, an AI companion, by voice or text. Lost in a strange digital world with no memory of your past, explore eight surreal chapters, face psychological challenges, and choose between staying human or becoming digital.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 24.4%, Time Travel 20% ★, Visual Novel 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Futuristic 9.7%
- #37 Retro Districts: In-Between Eras
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dusyir StudioPub: Dusyir Interactive
Windows
A time machine. A war. A leap into 2225. Humanity now lives in retro districts — neighborhoods dedicated to different decades of the 20th century. Unlock ideas, secrets and places — from cabarets to TV studios, from galleries to protests. Choose your words wisely. Every dialogue shapes your path.
Why similar: Time Travel 27.8% ★, Dystopian 22.9%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Choices Matter 5.7%
- #38 The VII Enigma
75% matchPositive100% of 17 reviews2022
Dev: Spire Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Every answer lies in a timeline that no longer exists. 『The VII Enigma』 is an intricate time-travel mystery visual novel for players drawn to stories that test the mind, stir the heart, and reward careful attention. Unravel a conspiracy written across time in search of a future beyond their control.
Why similar: Time Travel 40.1% ★, Visual Novel 19.7%, Dystopian 13.2%, Story Rich 6.3%, Choices Matter 5.2%
- #39 Sound of Summer Thunder: Day 1
73% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Jaxx CorddPub: Electronic Escapades
Windows · Mac · Linux
Kody, a modern gym rat gets zapped by strange lightning and time-travels to 1898. A BARA, choices matter, alternate history, Visual Novel Musical set in the East Coast of USA. LGBTQ+ with romance options.
Why similar: Time Travel 42% ★, Visual Novel 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Dating Sim 11.4%, Choices Matter 5.5%
- #40 アキゾラのメモリーズ─運命の地平線─
73% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: GALEX SOFT
Windows
「あの頃に帰りたい─、たとえその先が暗闇だとしても─」『学園もの×SF』でお送りする青春SFビジュアルノベル。平凡な学園生活で、青春を謳歌する主人公とヒロイン。しかし、学園にはある病気と、世界を変えてしまうような秘密が潜んでおり……。
Why similar: Time Travel 35.3% ★, Visual Novel 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Dating Sim 10.6%, Text-Based 8.5%
- #41 ChatNPC
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Play2Chill S.A.
Windows
Immerse yourself in ChatNPC, a retro pixel-art adventure where every conversation unlocks new stories. Interact with unique AI-driven characters, explore vibrant settings, and shape your journey through dynamic dialogue in this engaging, simplified RPG experience.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 26.7%, Visual Novel 26.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24%, Text-Based 9.4%, Story Rich 6.8%
- #42 Memories of Rachel
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SANDWICH KITCHEN
Windows · Mac
Memories of Rachel is a text adventure game where you pick up keywords called fragments from the protagonist's memories and answer questions to advance the main story. No sudden action sequences, no clicking on maps. But their secrets and the overlap of memories will stick like a thorn in your hear.
Why similar: Time Travel 38.2% ★, Visual Novel 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Text-Based 7.9%, Adventure 5.8%
- #43 KORA
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 月之小
Windows
In a "perfect" city governed by AI, you're just an ordinary repair technician trying to survive. Then a routine job goes wrong, you get kidnapped, and the woman who taught you everything you know seems to have known it would happen all along.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 29.4%, Visual Novel 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Story Rich 7%
- #44 Angels with Scaly Wings™, Part 2: The Strands of Fate
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radical Phi
Windows · Mac · Linux
4 years after the events of Angels with Scaly Wings, humans and dragons co-exist in a society built from the remains of a broken world. A new threat looms on the horizon. Re-discover this unique setting and lead an investigation in this compelling sci-fi visual novel with dating sim elements.
Why similar: Time Travel 32.5% ★, Visual Novel 15.8%, Dating Sim 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Choices Matter 7.3%
- #45 Phantom Thief Angels: Twin Angel - Labyrinth of Time and World - Re:light
71% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: ALTERCIWS
Windows · Mac
Let's Go Fever Time! Lovely Angel! By day, ordinary girls. By night, the 'Phantom Thief Angels TwinAngel' - on a mission to reclaim stolen treasures. Winter 2024: The Angels descend on Steam.
Why similar: Time Travel 44.5% ★, Visual Novel 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Adventure 7%, Story Rich 5.7%
- #46 A Night With: Succubus
70% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: Naughty Narratives
Windows · Mac · Linux
An adult visual novel where your choices shape a night of temptation with a seductive succubus. Engage in dynamic dialogue, explore multiple paths, and immerse yourself in a captivating story of supernatural romance and desire.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 30.7%, Visual Novel 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Dating Sim 17.7%, Choices Matter 6.7%
- #47 Depth Loop
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: KEMCO
Windows
A werewolf game set in a deep-sea lab, where the survival of humanity is at stake—does justice lie with humankind or the werewolves?
Why similar: Dystopian 35.6%, Visual Novel 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Adventure 9.7%, Text-Based 6.5%
- #48 Paradox Factor
71% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Alter your past and future in this thought-provoking and edgy time travel game. Are you willing to live with the effects that your changes may cause?
Why similar: Time Travel 57.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Text-Based 11.8%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Adventure 4.5%
- #49 STEINS;GATE RE:BOOT
66% matchVery Positive90% of 1,088 reviews2026
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
STEINS;GATE returns! Rebooted for the modern era! Featuring fully updated visuals, UI, and an all-new story that breathes new life into the streets of Akihabara.
Why similar: Time Travel 39.3% ★, Visual Novel 27.4%, Dating Sim 13.4%, Choices Matter 6.4%, Story Rich 6.1%
- #50 Love, Lies and Memories.
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tridot Inc.
Windows
Shape your own relationships, even within the same story. In a handcrafted story, AI-powered personalized choices and free-form conversations create unique connections with three heroines in this relationship simulation.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 29.8%, Dating Sim 22.8%, Visual Novel 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Choices Matter 7.2%
- #51 Winter Wonderland
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 14 reviews2021
Dev: Dharker Studios
Windows
The winter holidays are here but when Alexa finds herself alone after her family is stuck when travelling to Paradise Cove, she is forced to go out and try and find some friends in town to spend the holiday with... But something seems strange.. is the day repeating itself?
Why similar: Time Travel 28% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.6%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Dating Sim 15.5%, Choices Matter 5.1%
- #52 艾兰军校
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Alpico
Windows · Mac
A sci-fi visual novel set in a military academy, in Simplified Chinese. Raise six stats across two semesters, spend your limited afternoons on the classmates you choose, and face a graduation night that decides everything. Five routes, Seven endings. You have to make good plan to reach final route.
Why similar: Time Travel 23.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Visual Novel 20.5%, Dating Sim 16.6%, Text-Based 7.7%
- #53 Condo Desires
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 179 reviews2025
Dev: Naughty Narratives
Windows · Mac · Linux
An adult visual novel where you navigate the lives and fantasies of alluring women in a community condominium. As the new trustee, create relationships, uncover secrets, and trigger in intimate encounters. Will you master the art of seduction, or will you crave more? Your choices, your desires.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 27.6%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Dating Sim 17.4%, Choices Matter 6.8%
- #54 My little sister: Prologue
69% matchPositive81% of 20 reviews2022
Dev: C's earth
Windows
😒😐🤨😉🥰😨😈 The girl of my dreams
Why similar: Time Travel 34.9% ★, Visual Novel 26.8%, Dating Sim 11.5%, Text-Based 10.2%, Anime 6.6%
- #55 The Day Valentine Died, and So Did I!
67% matchPositive98% of 40 reviews2025
Dev: 緑茶弐捌號
Windows
A New Kind of Romantic Adventure:Break the Flags! Akira Morisaki set up "flags" with girls for Valentine’s Day success. But receiving too many chocolates triggered a fatal surge of “love power”! Saved by the angel Chocoriel, he must relive February 14th and break the flags to escape his doomed fate.
Why similar: Dating Sim 26.2%, Visual Novel 25.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Adventure 9.2%, Text-Based 6.2%
- #56 The Deepwater Witch
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ChattercapPub: Chattercap LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
In this post-apocalyptic visual novel about a twisted "fairytale" romance in a corrupted world, choose between betrayal and sacrifice. Fully animated with Live 2D-style illustrations.
Why similar: Dystopian 35.9%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Dating Sim 16%, Text-Based 7.2%, Choices Matter 6.5%
- #57 ISLAND
69% matchVery Positive95% of 1,776 reviews2018
Dev: FrontwingPub: Frontwing USA
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 154.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Sanzenkai Setsuna awakens on the shore of isolated island Urashima with no memories of his past. Befriending three local girls, Rinne, Karen, and Sara, Setsuna's quest to discover the secrets of Urashima and how they tie into his own past - and future - begins.
Why similar: Time Travel 35.9% ★, Visual Novel 29.3%, Dating Sim 9.7%, Anime 7.4%, Story Rich 7.3%
- #58 STEINS;GATE
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 27,155 reviews2016
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 67.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus, STEINS;GATE was awarded Famitsu magazine's coveted annual Game of Excellence award and was voted one of the most emotionally charged “tear-inducing games” ever made, in a Famitsu poll. It is a gripping and moving Visual Novel, which has already spawned manga and anime adaptations.
Why similar: Time Travel 46.1% ★, Visual Novel 29.4%, Story Rich 7.8%, Anime 6.1%, Choices Matter 5.1%
- #59 Stellar Reflections
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 25 reviews2024
Dev: Badger Can Fly
Windows
Aurelia is a nobody living out her life on a space station orbiting Earth, spending her days working in a junkyard, frequenting a bar, or retreating to her cabin. She will confront a life-altering decision that challenges her perception of the world. Can she change and grow, or is she too far gone?
Why similar: Dystopian 29.1%, Visual Novel 28.9%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Futuristic 8.4%, Story Rich 7.5%
- #60 MINDHACK
67% matchVery Positive93% of 751 reviews2023
Dev: VODKAdemo?
Windows · Mac
Change the minds of evildoers…for good! MINDHACK is a text adventure game where you meet unique evildoers, hack their minds, and rewrite them into happy people!
Why similar: Dystopian 34%, Visual Novel 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Futuristic 9.9%, Story Rich 6.5%