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  1. #1 One's Own Exile
    97% matchVery Positive100% of 394 reviews2025
    Dev: Updog Software
    Windows

    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: Visual Novel 18.6%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Story Rich 12.9%, Dystopian 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%

  2. #2 Shardlight
    96% matchVery Positive90% of 786 reviews2016
    Dev: Wadjet Eye Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    A post-apocalyptic adventure game from the publisher that brought you Primordia, Gemini Rue and Technobabylon! A young woman stricken with a deadly plague searches for a cure in a hostile world.

    Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 33.4%, Female Protagonist 26%, Adventure 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%, Story Rich 8.9%

  3. #3 OPUS: Rocket of Whispers
    96% matchVery Positive92% of 1,649 reviews2018
    Dev: SIGONO INC.
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Rocket of Whispers is an award-winning post-apocalyptic adventure that follows two survivors on a journey to launch a space burial for the lost souls of their desolate world. Help them search the snowy wasteland for supplies and the courage to say goodbye.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Post-apocalyptic 16.8%, Female Protagonist 15.5%, Story Rich 11.9%

  4. #4 Fiendish Quest
    95% matchVery Positive88% of 52 reviews2025
    Dev: オニチク屋!Pub: BokiBoki Games
    Windows

    To save her petrified mother, the heroine embarks on a journey to find the legendary orbs that can grant any wish.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 46.9%, Visual Novel 28.9%, Adventure 8.5%, 2D 5.7%, Female Protagonist 5.1%

  5. #5 Some Distant Memory
    94% matchVery Positive94% of 303 reviews2019
    Dev: Galvanic GamesPub: Way Down Deep
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%

    A hand-drawn story exploration game set 300 years after the apocalypse. You play an archaeologist named Professor Zay, joined by her companion, ARORA, a centuries-old AI capable of recreating human memories from scanned relics.

    Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 42.9%, Female Protagonist 19%, Story Rich 16.7%, Adventure 14.5%, Indie 5.1%

  6. #6 You know my name?
    94% matchMostly Positive71% of 213 reviews2024
    Dev: Mystael studio
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A short visual novel about finding your name and a girl in the fog.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 27.8%, Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Story Rich 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%

  7. #7 Scarlet Hood and the Wicked Wood
    93% matchVery Positive85% of 271 reviews2021
    Dev: Devespresso GamesPub: Headup
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 61%

    Scarlet Hood must lead a hapless Munchkin troupe through the Wicked Wood. Too bad the Black Witch, LeFaba, doesn't take too kindly to strangers gallivanting in her domain. Our fledgling witch soon realizes she's reliving the same day. Can she overcome the disaster that awaits at every turn?

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.2%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Adventure 9.4%, Female Protagonist 7%, Side Scroller 6.9%

  8. #8 End of Lines
    91% matchVery Positive94% of 64 reviews2023
    Dev: Nova-box
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Travel across landscapes devastated by a catastrophic climate meltdown, following a small family in search of somewhere habitable. With limited supplies and facing potential death at every turn, your choices will decide their fate. Will they manage to settle down?

    Why similar: Visual Novel 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Dystopian 15.8%, Story Rich 11.9%, Multiple Endings 10.5%

  9. #9 q.u.q.
    90% matchVery Positive95% of 1,812 reviews2023
    Dev: motijanPub: Nikita Kryukov
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    q.u.q. is a surreal visual novel about a somewhat crude girl that wanders a desert.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 24.6%, Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, Female Protagonist 15.5%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Story Rich 10%

  10. #10 Z-End
    92% matchMixed57% of 53 reviews2017
    Dev: Smart Tale GamesPub: Plug In Digital
    Windows

    Z-End is a multiple choice narrative game. During the zombie apocalypse, you'll encounter the mysterious Faye while searching for new members.What secrets is she hiding? Will she join you? Will you be able to overcome the danger of this world?

    Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 68.4%, Adventure 22.7%, Indie 9%

  11. #11 Endling - Extinction is Forever
    89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,246 reviews2022
    Dev: Herobeat StudiosPub: HandyGames
    Windows
    Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%

    As the last mother fox on Earth, your cubs need all your care to survive in a merciless world that slowly destroys itself. You have to help them, teach them and save them. And you should never forget that extinction is forever – in the real world and in this 2023 BAFTA award winning experience.

    Why similar: Female Protagonist 27.2%, Dystopian 25.2%, Story Rich 15.7%, Side Scroller 13.8%, Adventure 11.6%

  12. #12 the World According to Girl
    91% matchMostly Positive73% of 161 reviews2022
    Dev: yondray
    Windows

    A deck-building roguelike caring game In a collapsed world, a plan to raise a young girl into a savior begins in order to find the only salvation. You become an "administrator" to raise a girl to become a savior, and raise her by selecting "human resources (cards)" with various effects.

    Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 45.6%, Visual Novel 23.8%, Dystopian 9.9%, Adventure 7.6%, 2D 5.5%

  13. #13 The Mildew Children: Chapter 1
    87% matchVery Positive86% of 324 reviews2023
    Dev: The Growing StonesPub: Valkyrie Initiative
    Windows
    Median: 36 minMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 31%

    Featuring a blend of 2D adventure and visual novel. Chapter 1 is the very beginning of the grim tale about a village inhabited only by children who follow savage pagan traditions. A young witch Kyrphel, along with her sisters, are bound to perform a macabre Ritual in order to save their village.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 31.3%, Female Protagonist 23.9%, Story Rich 19.9%, Side Scroller 9.4%, Adventure 9.1%

  14. #14 Helpless
    86% matchVery Positive89% of 252 reviews2023
    Dev: Bonne Journée StudioPub: UQAT - Création et nouveaux médias
    Windows

    In the heat of deserted lands, a child and their mother weakened by sickness try to survive a harsh world. Through a kid’s perspective, take action and explore the remains of a lost past. Protect yourself from the sun’s deadly intensity and help your family get back on the road.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 45.7%, Post-apocalyptic 28.5%, Dystopian 10.8%, Stylized 7.3%, Adventure 5.7%

  15. #15 This Child Of Mine
    88% matchMixed62% of 105 reviews2018
    Dev: BeetleFish Studios
    Windows
    Median: 24 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 18%

    A short 2.5D adventure platformer developed over the course of 3 months by a 3 person team. Travel along with a woman and her child surviving during an alien invasion. Inspired by classic sci-fi, this quiet, melancholy journey will show the depths a mother will go to protect her child, if she can survive...

    Why similar: Adventure 66.9%, Indie 33.1%

  16. #16 The Mildew Children
    84% matchVery Positive93% of 451 reviews2024
    Dev: The Growing StonesPub: Valkyrie Initiative
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    Featuring a blend of 2D adventure and visual novel, The Mildew Children is a grim tale about a village inhabited only by children who follow savage pagan traditions. A young witch named Kyrphel, along with her sisters, are bound to perform a macabre Ritual in order to save their village.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 29.6%, Female Protagonist 24.8%, Story Rich 19.4%, Side Scroller 10.9%, Adventure 8.8%

  17. #17 Harmony: The Fall of Reverie
    86% matchMostly Positive73% of 269 reviews2023
    Dev: DON'T NOD
    Windows

    The fate of humanity is at stake. Use your gift of clairvoyance to see into the future and stop an apocalypse that threatens the balance between your world and the deities'.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.8%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Female Protagonist 16.5%, Story Rich 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10%

  18. #18 Postmortem: One Must Die (Extended Cut)
    89% matchMostly Negative40% of 187 reviews2013
    Dev: Unbound Creations
    Windows
    Median: 12 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 20%

    Narrative-adventure playing an Agent of Death who must take ONE life that could change the fate of a conflict-torn Nation

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Adventure 15.2%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Female Protagonist 14%, Story Rich 11.9%

  19. #19 The Bottom of the Well
    85% matchVery Positive85% of 584 reviews2016
    Dev: Red Nettle Studio
    Windows
    Median: 42 minMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 36%

    Play as Alice who has just had an unsettingly life-like dream about the end of the world, and is retelling it to her friend. A single play-through might take as little as 20 minutes, but experiencing all the possible paths Alice can take through the ruins of her city will take you many hours.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 37.6%, Interactive Fiction 32.2%, Post-apocalyptic 30.2%

  20. #20 Diving Disorder-下潜症
    84% matchVery Positive93% of 143 reviews2021
    Dev: Lingtan Studio
    Windows

    Diving Disorder is an AVG on wasteland theme. Players will play the role of a refugee who are struggling to survive after a global disaster, together with a white-haired girl suffering from narcolepsy, exploring the truth of the doomsday and the old world in memory.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 44.9%, Post-apocalyptic 31.5%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Adventure 6.1%, 2D 6%

  21. #21 natsuno-kanata - beyond the summer
    82% matchVery Positive95% of 893 reviews2022
    Dev: Kazuhide Oka
    Windows · Mac

    ── In the summer of the world that has ended, the girl travels aimlessly. "natsuno-kanata - beyond the summer" is a text adventure game that depicts girls traveling in apocalypse. Through talking to the girls, we get to know them and approach the mysteries of the world ──

    Why similar: Visual Novel 30.2%, Post-apocalyptic 27.5%, Female Protagonist 16.5%, Story Rich 10.6%, Adventure 6.7%

  22. #22 The Robot Girl Meets The Human!
    82% matchVery Positive99% of 67 reviews2022
    Dev: Usui Sio
    Windows · Mac

    This is an adventure game that takes you on a journey through a world after humans have disappeared. Lead the robot girl "Scarlet" to find the surviving humans.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.6%, Post-apocalyptic 20.2%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Story Rich 11.7%, Multiple Endings 10.5%

  23. #23 Natsuno-Kanata: Beyond Summer
    81% matchVery Positive92% of 118 reviews2024
    Dev: Kazuhide OkaPub: Waku Waku Games
    Windows · Mac

    ──終わってしまった世界の夏、少女はあてのない旅をする。通話を介して終わってしまった世界を共に生きるアドベンチャーゲーム。

    Why similar: Visual Novel 29.8%, Post-apocalyptic 25.6%, Female Protagonist 12.7%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Adventure 7.8%

  24. #24 Noctuary
    78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,534 reviews2023
    Dev: GratescaPub: Serenity Forge
    Windows
    Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 19.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Two young illuminators, Fancia and Alina, start their adventure in the bright and fascinating Inlixaland... ...in pursuit of becoming trustworthy "The Arborangers."

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.6%, Post-apocalyptic 17.2%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Female Protagonist 12.9%, Multiple Endings 10.5%

  25. #25 my eyes deceive
    79% matchMostly Positive79% of 830 reviews2024
    Dev: nouhidev
    Windows

    Set over the course of roughly a week, you play as a young girl who has been living in a shelter all her life. The outside world is infected with a deadly disease. Society is in chaos. Fortunately, your papa is protecting you.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 58.4%, Stylized 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 13%, Story Rich 7.6%, Multiple Endings 5.4%

  26. #26 Fallow
    80% matchVery Positive97% of 138 reviews2021
    Dev: Ada Rook
    Windows

    Clinging to the memory of her vanished sisters, an isolated woman wanders a dying reality.

    Why similar: Female Protagonist 40%, Story Rich 29%, Pixel Graphics 18.7%, Adventure 9.5%, 2D 1.9%

  27. #27 Solstice
    81% matchMostly Positive76% of 190 reviews2016
    Dev: MoaCube
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    Solstice is a dystopian mystery visual novel about small personal disasters that turn into great catastrophes.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Female Protagonist 16%, Dystopian 15.1%, Multiple Endings 13.3%

  28. #28 The Day Before You Gone
    78% matchMostly Positive78% of 59 reviews2024
    Dev: Aequalis Studio
    Windows

    An adventure shattering stereotypes, a psychological experiment forcing a struggle within oneself. The tale of a girl with magical abilities who loses her beloved. Will she have a chance to turn back time? It's up to you!

    Why similar: Visual Novel 33.3%, Female Protagonist 16%, Multiple Endings 15.2%, Story Rich 12.4%, Stylized 11.6%

  29. #29 Dark Light
    76% matchVery Positive94% of 53 reviews2024
    Dev: UsagygyPub: ZNT Productions
    Windows

    Mio is a young girl surrounded by death, and after an unexpected accident, she finds out where people go after they die. Maybe Heaven, or Hell...or an Underworld full of demons and mysteries.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Demons 16.5%, Female Protagonist 12.7%, Story Rich 9.5%

  30. #30 Demonpact: Clarice
    77% matchVery Positive96% of 96 reviews2021
    Dev: Goiaba Megas Xellox
    Windows

    Two furry losers summon a demon girl, and now they have to find someone to die as her demonic sacrifice.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 34.3%, Demons 25.8%, Pixel Graphics 11.2%, Multiple Endings 10%, Adventure 9.6%

  31. #31 Pale Echoes
    79% matchVery Positive82% of 72 reviews2015
    Dev: Wyrmling ProductionsPub: KOMODO
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%

    An RPG of exploration, collection, and critical thinking. The end of the world has come and gone, leaving only phantoms where once there was life. Now Schorl, the last surviving human, and Spinel, the last of the magical saerii, search through the memories of a bygone era, hoping to find a future.

    Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 36.5%, Female Protagonist 25.8%, Story Rich 14.9%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%, 2D 7%

  32. #32 DEAD LAMB WALKING
    74% matchVery Positive97% of 187 reviews2024
    Dev: Lyn Mametchi
    Windows

    A story about a dead lamb walking.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33%, Visual Novel 20.9%, Female Protagonist 17.3%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Story Rich 7.7%

  33. #33 BAD END THEATER
    73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 9,533 reviews2021
    Dev: NomnomNami
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%

    select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!

    Why similar: Visual Novel 28.7%, Multiple Endings 19.9%, Story Rich 16.5%, Demons 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.7%

  34. #34 Shieldmaiden: Remix Edition
    76% matchVery Positive91% of 236 reviews2020
    Dev: Dumativa
    Windows

    The end of the world just started and everyone is gone. The machines took over and your only goal is to look for your missing sister in a retro wave atmosphere. Fight and find your way into the danger with your shield in this vibrant pixel art world.

    Why similar: Dystopian 23%, Post-apocalyptic 22%, Female Protagonist 19.1%, Side Scroller 8.8%, Story Rich 8.8%

  35. #35 Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
    72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 32,921 reviews2020
    Dev: Nikita KryukovPub: Nikita Igorevich Studio
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 24 minMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 11%

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 43.2%, Interactive Fiction 37%, Story Rich 7%, Adventure 5.8%, Pixel Graphics 5%

  36. #36 KANADE
    73% matchVery Positive84% of 343 reviews2025
    Dev: FrontwingPub: Frontwing USA
    Windows

    A visual novel about becoming lovers with Kanade—a half-human, half-alien girl. Enjoy a tender relationship with Kanade and witness how love blossoms into a song that saves the world.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 29.8%, Post-apocalyptic 22.2%, Dystopian 19.5%, Female Protagonist 13.4%, Adventure 7.9%

  37. #37 A Void Hope
    73% matchVery Positive94% of 63 reviews2024
    Dev: Elden Pixels
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A Void Hope takes you on an atmospheric narrative adventure to find a cure for a collapsed city. Follow the story of a tormented couple as they try to decipher reality from nightmares and evade the shadowy threats lurking in the dark.

    Why similar: Dystopian 48.9%, Female Protagonist 19.4%, Adventure 13.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%, 2D 5%

  38. #38 1998: The Toll Keeper Story
    71% matchVery Positive91% of 316 reviews2025
    Dev: GameChanger Studio
    Windows

    A narrative simulation game where you play as a mother-to-be working as a toll keeper in the fictional country of Janapa, a nation on the brink of chaos. Navigate daily challenges and make difficult moral choices to survive—all for the sake of your unborn child.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 61.8%, Stylized 13.8%, Multiple Endings 9%, 2D 8.3%, Story Rich 6.1%

  39. #39 Until Oblivion
    72% matchVery Positive98% of 111 reviews2024
    Dev: ixavon
    Windows

    Until Oblivion is an atmospheric narrative game that follows 17 year old nobody Emma Wilson as she tries to rekindle a dying relationship in a dying world. Join her in an increasingly nightmarish Halloween party and find out if anything (or anyone) is worth anything at all.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.9%, Visual Novel 21.4%, Story Rich 18%, Stylized 10.9%, Side Scroller 8.8%

  40. #40 Smoke and Sacrifice
    75% matchMostly Positive76% of 502 reviews2018
    Dev: Solar Sail Games LtdPub: Curve Games
    Windows
    Median: 48 minMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 45%

    Smoke and Sacrifice sees Sachi, a mother forced to give up her son, adventure into a grotesque underworld on a quest that will lead her to a darker truth.

    Why similar: Female Protagonist 65.9%, Adventure 20.9%, Indie 6.7%, 2D 4.9%, Singleplayer 1.6%

  41. #41 Journal
    75% matchMostly Positive78% of 351 reviews2014
    Dev: Locked Door PuzzlePub: Lupus Studios Limited
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%

    Enter the pages of the hand painted world of Journal. A journey through the life of a young and troubled girl as she tries to face up to the choices and responsibilities that come with childhood. An experience that questions the reliability of how we choose to remember events and explores the truths hidden within our dreams.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.9%, Female Protagonist 28.8%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Adventure 13.2%, Indie 6.1%

  42. #42 Offspring Fling!
    74% matchVery Positive82% of 594 reviews2012
    Dev: Kyle Pulver
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Offspring Fling is a game about a poor forest creature that has misplaced all of her children.

    Why similar: Female Protagonist 26.6%, Adventure 20.8%, Indie 19.3%, 2D 16.7%, Pixel Graphics 12.8%

  43. #43 Welcome to Planet E1d0r4d0!
    70% matchMostly Positive76% of 176 reviews2025
    Dev: LuluGamesPub: 2P Games
    Windows

    Welcome to Planet E1d0r4d0 is a narrative-driven management sim and side-scrolling hunting adventure about a young girl searching for the meaning of existence at the edge of the cosmos. In this chaotic, lawless universe, even immortality feels devastatingly fragile.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 22.1%, Female Protagonist 19.2%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Story Rich 13.6%, Side Scroller 10%

  44. #44 HorrorVale
    68% matchVery Positive99% of 407 reviews2024
    Dev: BatWorks Software
    Windows

    HorrorVale: A grand Spooktacular adventure about a girl, her dog, and her long journey to save him in a strange and horrifying Underworld.

    Why similar: Adventure 69.9%, Indie 30.1%

  45. #45 Tails Noir Preludes
    70% matchVery Positive92% of 297 reviews2023
    Dev: EggnutPub: Raw Fury
    Windows

    Tails Noir Preludes is a post-noir narrative adventure with branching choices. It is an intertwined series of vignettes about change, circumstance, and consequence. Guide four characters through formative moments in their lives in a dystopian Vancouver inhabited by anthropomorphic animals.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.3%, Visual Novel 28%, Female Protagonist 14%, Story Rich 10.9%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%

  46. #46 Shambles: Sons of Apocalypse
    69% matchVery Positive82% of 338 reviews2025
    Dev: EXLIXPub: GRAVITY
    Windows

    “The world you knew is already collapsed.”As an explorer in a bunker, explore a new world 500 years in the future and decide its fate. You can lead the world back to doom or bring it to peace. It all depends on your choices.

    Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 26.8%, Visual Novel 22.8%, Dystopian 15.6%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Story Rich 11.7%

  47. #47 PRODUCER 2021
    69% matchVery Positive100% of 173 reviews2022
    Dev: Stuffed Wombat
    Windows

    a ~2 hour long graphic adventure novella. Tasked with disrupting the end of the world, you explore, investigate and produce your way through a strangely familiar world.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 45.5%, Visual Novel 28.4%, Stylized 11.3%, Adventure 8.3%, 2D 6.6%

  48. #48 Lotus Reverie: First Nexus
    71% matchVery Positive86% of 58 reviews2021
    Dev: Keinart Lobre
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Do you like adventure and strategy games? A visual novel at the end of the world with a focus on time management. Experience battles in original parallel turn-based strategy minigames or classic novel mode. Half of the survivors are not human, and only one pair will survive.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 32.9%, Female Protagonist 25.3%, Story Rich 18.7%, Adventure 8.5%, 2D 7.7%

  49. #49 Kunado Chronicles
    70% matchMostly Positive78% of 173 reviews2023
    Dev: Purple SoftwarePub: Shiravune
    Windows
    Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 24.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    The dragon is already dead. Help what's left of humanity learn how to live in this post-apocalyptic fantasy visual novel.

    Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 32.2%, Visual Novel 24.9%, Multiple Endings 15.4%, Story Rich 14%, Adventure 7%

  50. #50 Epimutation
    68% matchVery Positive95% of 63 reviews2025
    Dev: Barbieronpa
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    399 days ago, the world ended. Epimutation is a horror visual novel that follows seven survivors as they attempt to navigate life in the apocalypse. Make life or death decisions, form bonds with your fellow survivors, and attempt to unravel the mystery behind the outbreak.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.5%, Post-apocalyptic 21.2%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Multiple Endings 10%, Story Rich 8.1%

  51. #51 Arcadia Fallen
    68% matchVery Positive94% of 508 reviews2021
    Dev: Galdra Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Play the role of a young alchemist apprentice who is unwillingly bound to an illegal spirit. Suddenly drawn into a war between humanity and magic, they must join a group of unlikely heroes to escape their own doom, hopefully saving the world along the way.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 45.4%, Female Protagonist 31.6%, Story Rich 15.1%, 2D 7.9%

  52. #52 Ten Trials of Babel: The Doppelganger Maze
    66% matchVery Positive93% of 4,340 reviews2022
    Dev: 红渊Pub: NVLMaker
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    Otome × Death Game × Mild Horror Multiple Endings Puzzle RPG

    Why similar: Female Protagonist 36.2%, Multiple Endings 21.4%, Story Rich 17.3%, Pixel Graphics 12.3%, Adventure 5.3%

  53. #53 Zombie Apocalypse Survival Simulator
    67% matchVery Positive99% of 119 reviews2022
    Dev: Randumb Studios
    Windows

    From the creators that brought you The Test Trilogy & many other experiences, comes Zombie Apocalypse Survival Simulator. Will you survive in the new world? Or will you become just another victim to looters, bandits, or worst of all... The Voracious Dead. There's only one way to find out...

    Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 38.4%, Visual Novel 30.4%, Multiple Endings 20.1%, Female Protagonist 8.7%, Adventure 2.4%

  54. #54 UNDYING - "KINGDOM"
    66% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,853 reviews2023
    Dev: VanimalsPub: Skystone Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 53%

    As Anling’s zombie infection sets in, her days are numbered. The struggle to survive is made ever more paramount as she must ensure her son Cody stays alive. She must teach him how to survive in this new world at any cost…

    Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 31.6%, Female Protagonist 20.8%, Multiple Endings 20.6%, Story Rich 18.7%, Adventure 7.1%

  55. #55 What Comes After
    67% matchVery Positive90% of 1,011 reviews2020
    Dev: PikselnesiaPub: Rolling Glory Jam
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    What Comes After is a side-scrolling adventure and a short heartwarming story about learning how to love yourself. Help Vivi in her journey on the train to the afterlife and back.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 56.8%, Female Protagonist 16.8%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Story Rich 7.8%, Adventure 4.9%

  56. #56 The Uncertain: Light At The End
    69% matchMixed64% of 1,182 reviews2020
    Dev: ComonGamesPub: META Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    The Uncertain is a story-driven adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Humanity disappeared from the face of the Earth and has been replaced by robots. Together with Emily, one of the survivors, you will have to witness how people try to live in a world ruled by robots.

    Why similar: Female Protagonist 30.6%, Multiple Endings 27.9%, Story Rich 25.4%, Adventure 10%, Indie 3.4%

  57. #57 Eastward
    65% matchVery Positive84% of 16,351 reviews2021
    Dev: PixpilPub: Chucklefish
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    Welcome to the charming world of Eastward - population declining! Journey through a society on the brink of collapse. Discover delightful towns, strange creatures and even stranger people! Wield a trusty frying pan and mystic powers on an adventure into the unknown…

    Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 33.3%, Female Protagonist 18.8%, Story Rich 17.7%, Pixel Graphics 13.5%, Adventure 7.2%

  58. #58 Anxiety Puppy
    63% matchVery Positive97% of 222 reviews2025
    Dev: 小狗工作室Pub: Erabit
    Windows

    Anxiety Puppy is a 2D interactive narrative game that focuses on anxiety. In the game, anxiety is personified as a little puppy. Players will explore its story and try to coexist with it. Go find its traces and give it a hug.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 39%, Visual Novel 26.4%, Female Protagonist 20.1%, Adventure 8.8%, 2D 2.8%

Based on tag similarity + player behavior
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