60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Psychological, Choices Matter, Story Rich, Emotional.
An existential drama in handmade clay animation. Game writer Eric is replaced by AI. He loses everything, and it's the best thing that's ever happened to him.
The Zoo
You've had the same dream all week: a school field trip to a zoo you can't leave, where the lions always find you in the end. Wander the zoo exhibits, make your choices, and search for the way out. A short, hand-painted interactive story about a recurring dream, and finally resolving it.
GAME
A journey through the life of a star player of a cryptic and bizarre sport. The dialogue choices you make will determine the path your life takes, and the ultimate conclusion to your story.
You've had the same dream all week: a school field trip to a zoo you can't leave, where the lions always find you in the end. Wander the zoo exhibits, make your choices, and search for the way out. A short, hand-painted interactive story about a recurring dream, and finally resolving it.
Why similar: Visual Novel 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Multiple Endings 9%
A journey through the life of a star player of a cryptic and bizarre sport. The dialogue choices you make will determine the path your life takes, and the ultimate conclusion to your story.
Why similar: Psychological 14.9%, Emotional 11.6%, Surreal 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%, Choices Matter 7.9%
My name is left behind these white walls. In its place, I am left with dozens of questions. I wander aimlessly, though she seems to guide me. I do not feel safe. Twenty-four hours... and everything will fall into place.
Why similar: Psychological 15.6%, Philosophical 10.6%, Emotional 9.3%, Visual Novel 8.8%, Surreal 8.4%
A quiet room. A window. Thirty one days spent watching strangers and inventing their lives. October is a minimalist, atmospheric story about isolation, building slowly toward the day you finally step outside.
Why similar: Psychological 16.6%, Emotional 13.9%, Story Rich 10.3%, Philosophical 10.2%, Hand-drawn 8.3%
Weep for the dead! In this short psychological horror story, play as a professional mourner travelling between funerals. Ride a nightmarish bus whose destination depends on how you choose to face your traumas.
Why similar: Experimental 13.8%, Psychological 13.8%, Emotional 10.7%, Surreal 10.4%, Visual Novel 8.8%
You find yourself in a singularity with Death itself. With few chances to speak with the living, Death proposes a little game. Do you dive deep within yourself to indulge this cosmic guide and find out when you will meet again on official business? The Ultimate Death Clock awaits!
Why similar: Psychological 17%, Philosophical 13.4%, Emotional 11.8%, Surreal 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.6%
The definitive edition of the fan-favorite visual novel is here! A surreal, coming-of-age tale set in early 2010s Central Florida, Siren's Call is the small town you swore you'd always leave. Something inside you knows this is your last chance. Will you reach escape velocity?
Why similar: Psychological 15.9%, Philosophical 11.9%, Emotional 11.2%, Surreal 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.2%
Every person you choose leaves someone else behind. Spend your limited afternoons building relationships, exploring the town, and recording each day in Kanata’s diary—then face timed Shadow Choices as an old book begins to fracture his ordinary life.
Why similar: Psychological 16.4%, Visual Novel 15%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Emotional 10.3%
AN IOU is the debut visual novel by Davey Cadaver. The music, backgrounds, & characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. The user takes the POV of the protagonist to experience a memorable story with an incredible soundtrack and multiple endings.
Why similar: Emotional 13.2%, Psychological 12.2%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%, Dark 9.1%
There are things that often fail on nothing but themselves. Is there even a way out? Playing Kafka is a narrative adventure full of impenetrable schemes, insidious plot twists and conversations that slip out of hand. Based on Kafka’s life and his work, developed with Kafka experts.
Why similar: Psychological 16.3%, Surreal 14.3%, Philosophical 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%
A short 10 minute visual novel about being a fragment in the universe and trying to find a way out of the ****.
Why similar: Psychological 18.4%, Philosophical 17.4%, Emotional 13.7%, Surreal 13.7%, Dark 9.7%
My Room Philosopher is a text-based game where a boy asks questions many people face during adolescence. Answer his questions and explore his thoughts while reflecting on your own values and life.
Why similar: Philosophical 19.2%, Psychological 15.9%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Emotional 11.1%, Story Rich 9.4%
You have money. You have a home. You have a family. And you're dying. You have very little time left. Make impossible choices and decide what you're willing to sacrifice for one more week of life.
Why similar: Psychological 14.8%, Philosophical 11.7%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Emotional 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%
After shouting "Let Me Play!" to the cast in a theatre, the fiction comes crashing down as everyone, including you, becomes aware they're only following a script. Will you let the play continue? Or will you write your own ending?
Why similar: Experimental 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Surreal 14.2%, Psychological 13.3%, Philosophical 10.5%
A short modern visual novel in which a young woman wanders into a [theoretically] abandoned train station, only to find people from her past waiting inside.
Why similar: Psychological 14.9%, Philosophical 13.8%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Emotional 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.3%
"Between something and someone." U-chronia is a mysterious world constantly changing like a book whose pages are flipped out of order. You will wear the shoes of OU, the protagonist, to live through this game-shaped experience—without knowing what it really is.
Why similar: Psychological 19.5%, Emotional 15.2%, Hand-drawn 12.3%, Multiple Endings 9.2%, Story Rich 8.7%
Run, fly, and save the world.
Why similar: Experimental 15.4%, Psychological 13.3%, Emotional 13.2%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Visual Novel 8.6%
You ended the world. She, the one who holds every card, gave you an endless summer as your reward. Now your only way out is through sugar, jellyfish, sunlight, and blood — into the deepest reaches of her mind, or be dissolved along the way. Choose your path in this psycho-thriller visual novel.
Why similar: Psychological 22.5%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Surreal 12.7%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Story Rich 9%
You return to your hometown but no one recognizes you. But that doesn’t matter, because you are not here for them. You are here for her. Midgårdsormen, singer and artist, pervert and goddess, a being truly out of this world.
Why similar: Psychological 18.8%, Surreal 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
You are a father. You wake in a hallway that hums. Empty pools. Dead malls. Your four daughters are here. Voice acted by a real father and his daughters. Two endings. No right answer.
Why similar: Emotional 13.5%, Psychological 13.4%, Surreal 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Philosophical 10%
SCA-DI's award-winning visual novel masterpiece is finally available in English and in full HD! Sakura no Uta is a story of those whose paths stop short—and of those who walk on.
Why similar: Philosophical 22.8%, Psychological 21.6%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Choices Matter 6.7%
Be the person you needed. Brew tea, listen well, and guide branching stories in a narrative slice-of-life about showing up when it matters. No perfect answers. Only your choices and what they set in motion.
Why similar: Emotional 16.8%, Philosophical 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%
Uncover the skeletons in Hana's closet in "MINE MEMORY," a gripping psychological visual novel. Dive into Hana's memories, shape her destiny, and confront haunting choices with deep consequences.
Why similar: Psychological 29.9%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Surreal 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%
Step into a world where dreams and reality mix. You find yourself in a dream-like world, and explore a different traumatic experience each day. Your choice determines if the boy accepts these moments and moves on, or stays in the past.
Why similar: Surreal 14.6%, Psychological 13.7%, Emotional 13.1%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Hand-drawn 10.8%
is a short, interactive experience about those endless, looping fever dreams you get when you're sick.
Why similar: Experimental 13%, Psychological 12%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Philosophical 11.3%, Surreal 11%
An interactive horror story based on a reality everyone eventually faces. Make choices to confront someone trying to enter your home - and uncover who they are.
Why similar: Psychological 17.7%, Philosophical 16.1%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Experimental 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 8%
Board the Trans-Siberian railroad and travel 9,289 km from Moscow to Vladivostok. Clash with a vibrant culture as you meet people as strange to you as you are to them. Journey into a standalone Wanderlust adventure from the makers of The Witcher.
Why similar: Experimental 16.7%, Psychological 15.3%, Philosophical 12%, Emotional 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
Do you ever feel like life is slipping away, with too many dreams left unfulfilled? Like you're trapped in wanting to do so much, but never quite getting to any of it? Doesn't that thought scare you—looking back on a life that accomplished nothing, fading without leaving a mark? It scares me too.
Why similar: Psychological 23.4%, Emotional 18.4%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Choices Matter 10.5%
Can you survive the horror of being yourself? A cute and disturbing psychological horror about identity, isolation, and the terrifying reality of being different.
Why similar: Psychological 20.1%, Surreal 12.7%, Experimental 10.3%, Choices Matter 8%, Hand-drawn 7.6%
“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: Visual Novel 17.2%, Emotional 17.1%, Psychological 13.4%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Hand-drawn 11%
Play as a Duskweaver in this short "choices matter" story about self-sacrifice.
Why similar: Choices Matter 15.3%, Psychological 14.6%, Philosophical 13.4%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%
Part travel journal, part visual novel with a hint of psychological horror, Melbourne: Route 96 is an experimental game about catching a tram in the wrong direction - and a polaroid camera.
Why similar: Experimental 18.6%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Surreal 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Hand-drawn 10.3%
A ~1 hour short narrative game about a friendship that spans two lifetimes. Serious, funny, weird, maybe heartbreaking.
Why similar: Philosophical 16.6%, Emotional 14.9%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Hand-drawn 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.3%
P.I.G.E.O.N. is a short surrealist visual novel RPG in which you become a pigeon, armed with a camera, sent to spy. You will have to make choices, but you won't always be able to make a choice.
Why similar: Experimental 14.7%, Psychological 14.5%, Philosophical 12.8%, Surreal 9.2%, Visual Novel 9%
Christian Tyler is ready to investigate a new case! Uncover the mystery of the tourist town of Alkelano in our new visual novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.2%, Psychological 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Hand-drawn 9.9%
The first step that you never knew you needed to take to get to wherever you're wanting to go...
Why similar: Psychological 17.9%, Philosophical 14.9%, Emotional 13.4%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Visual Novel 11%
Read words and make choices as you immerse yourself in the adventures inside the protagonist's head. This dark visual novel tells the story of a lost man among corpses in a northern Russian town. Will you help the hero find a good ending? I don't know what to do with him anymore.
Why similar: Psychological 16.6%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Hand-drawn 12.9%, Surreal 9%
In this hand-drawn RPG, you play as Joe, a young man attending a dinner party with his new girlfriend. What he doesn't know is that every decision he makes, no matter how small, will have its consequence...
Why similar: Choices Matter 12.5%, Hand-drawn 11.9%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Emotional 9.8%
When the Wildflowers Leave is an engaging narrative RPG. Stop through an anthology of meteor-stricken towns while carefully convincing each of them to harbor a radical. Commit to decisions shifting you and your companions’ mental dilemmas, and make the choice for or against uncomfortable change.
Why similar: Psychological 18.3%, Philosophical 15.2%, Emotional 12%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Hand-drawn 7.6%
A compilation of 12 small literary games about humans meeting and missing one another. Explore these experimental experiences that were made on a monthly basis over the course of a year.
Why similar: Surreal 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Psychological 10.6%, Philosophical 10%
A short story about a parasitic sunflower and her loyal son. Eat everything you can. Enjoy the sunshine. Do whatever it takes to make her happy. This is a prequel to Siren's Call: Escape Velocity.
Why similar: Experimental 17.3%, Psychological 16.4%, Philosophical 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Emotional 10.4%
Shame & choices = possible apocalypse. You need to figure out what’s causing the apocalypse to happen, so that you can prevent it. 2 playable characters with different relations to shame → 2 unique perspectives of the same story. Complicated families, branching choices and unforgiving consequences.
Why similar: Psychological 17.4%, Emotional 11.7%, Surreal 10.8%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%
A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?
Why similar: Psychological 17.6%, Emotional 13.5%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Dark 8.5%
Become the Overseer, unravel an apocalyptic conspiracy, and attempt to heal the wound at the heart of the world.
Why similar: Psychological 15.1%, Philosophical 13.5%, Hand-drawn 12.3%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%
Haunted by the ability to read minds, Suteru embarks on a journey of revenge against those who wronged him. Uncovering the secrets of his tormentors, he must confront his demons in a story that explores the depths and darkness of the human mind.
Why similar: Psychological 16.3%, Philosophical 11.6%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%
You've moved to a new house where the previous owner was murdered. They never found his head. But, it has found you.
Why similar: Psychological 17.3%, Experimental 17.2%, Philosophical 13.1%, Visual Novel 11%, Emotional 10.8%
“A Lozenge” is a short interactive story about a mother-daughter road trip and motion sickness, dedicated to children of divorce.
Why similar: Emotional 18.4%, Experimental 16.9%, Psychological 15.4%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%
A tale of two siblings struggling to survive their present and heal from their past. Just how long can they ignore that which haunts them? "Willows: A Dream of Shadows" is a psychological gothic horror visual novel puzzle game, featuring hand drawn assets, and a episodic branching story-line.
Why similar: Visual Novel 13.1%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Psychological 10.5%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Hand-drawn 9.9%
"I" make a deal with the witch to give up my heart, in exchange for love— from everyone. ——————————————————————————Is it worth it if losing my heart means gaining *his*? In this short visual novel, make choices and answer the question: is love a zero-sum game?
Why similar: Philosophical 14.5%, Emotional 12.7%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%, Surreal 9.5%
In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.
Why similar: Choices Matter 13.8%, Psychological 13.6%, Emotional 11.7%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%
You choose a favorite and walk beside them. But those you left behind — where do they go while you're gone? LUNADUN: LUNATIC DUNGEON is an emotional adventure where choices shape the fate of four characters. 'The ones you loved, the ones you ignored — you don't get to walk away from either of them.'
Why similar: Psychological 17.6%, Emotional 15.7%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Dark 9.5%
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 17.7%, Multiple Endings 13%, Dark 12.8%, Psychological 12.5%, Choices Matter 9.4%
Journey of animals trying to survive a War. An emotional tale where you'll decide the fate of all who embark on this journey.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
A short psychological thriller visual novel where you guide Sora through twisted interrogations, moral dilemmas, and unraveling memories...
Why similar: Psychological 19.7%, Philosophical 17.7%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 10%
Skylar is an student with anxiety. Walter is a farmer with social anxiety and PTSD. Jessica is a programmer with anxiety and agoraphobia. Li Wei is an technologist with intense anxiety. Navigate their stories, learn how they move through the world, and about methods of treatment and recovery.
Why similar: Psychological 20.5%, Emotional 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.7%
A baby fell. You jumped after it. God didn't like that. DeadWeight: A Lullaby is a psychological narrative experience about guilt, judgment, and the weight of human intent.
Why similar: Psychological 21.8%, Philosophical 14.7%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Choices Matter 9.8%
A 'crunchy wholesome' game about making friends as an adult.
Why similar: Emotional 13.7%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Philosophical 12.9%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Hand-drawn 9.3%
A psychological visual novel where struggling artist Clara explores surreal dreams through reality-warping painting minigames. Solve abstract puzzles, make story-altering choices, and uncover dark truths across multiple endings. Will her art bring salvation... or unravel into madness?
Why similar: Psychological 15.4%, Philosophical 11.6%, Surreal 11.4%, Emotional 10.1%, Visual Novel 10%
Step into Greyholt as Ava, a would-be adventurer taking a chance to register with her father's guild. Will this bring the independence she craves, or something more dangerous? A psychological, choice-driven visual novel where every decision shapes the road ahead and the journey beneath her own skin.
Why similar: Psychological 22.7%, Emotional 14.6%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
Morta has summoned you to judge five souls trapped between salvation and oblivion. Enter their final memories, uncover what they hide, and decide their fate. In this gothic psychological trial, every verdict leaves a mark.
Why similar: Psychological 16.3%, Philosophical 13.6%, Emotional 11.2%, Visual Novel 10%, Choices Matter 9.5%
