- #1 Hopepunk City
97% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Date Ariane Games
Windows
The Revolution Came and Went, How do you Deal with the Aftermath? This life simulation / romance visual novel is set in a near futuristic city-state constantly threatened by invasion. Can you and your roommates carve a better future?
Why similar: Alternate History 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, LGBTQ+ 13.1%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Point & Click 9.8%
- #2 Echoes of the Court
96% matchPositive93% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: Affordance StudioPub: uOttawa
Windows
Step into the Supreme Court of Canada in a touching narrative adventure. Explore hidden rooms, hear untold stories that shaped the nation, and craft your own novel inspired by the people whose lives changed here.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.6%, Emotional 14.1%, Realistic 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, First-Person 9.5%
- #3 one night, hot springs
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,178 reviews2018
Dev: npckc
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: LGBTQ+ 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Female Protagonist 11.3%, Emotional 9.7%
- #4 Life is Strange: True Colors
95% matchVery Positive89% of 16,841 reviews2021
Dev: Deck NinePub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Choices Matter 13%, Female Protagonist 10.9%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
- #5 Ravens Imaginary Friends
94% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Wacol Studios
Windows · Linux
A Yuri Visual Novel about a girl named Raven who wakes up after an accident to a life changing surprise. Her imaginary friends from when she was little have appeared in the real world and are deeply in love with her! Now she has to make a tough choice to fix this complicated love triangle.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, LGBTQ+ 16.4%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Point & Click 12.2%, Female Protagonist 11%
- #6 Lost Connections
94% matchVery Positive96% of 78 reviews2023
Dev: Amber Pearl
Windows
If she leaves now you will never see her again. Would you have enough courage to take a step, or would you stay quiet and regret it? Experience this story about love and loss.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.7%, Emotional 13.5%, Visual Novel 13%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
- #7 Life is Strange: Reunion
92% matchVery Positive89% of 5,574 reviews2026
Dev: Deck Nine GamesPub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The saga of Max and Chloe, and the fate of Caledon, is yours to decide! Play as both Max and Chloe as an all-new story builds towards an epic climax. The fire will force Max and Chloe to make devastating decisions. Can they find a future together… Before everything burns?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.3%, Cinematic 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Emotional 9.6%
- #8 Last Broadcast
93% matchMostly Positive80% of 98 reviews2023
Dev: The Disc JockeysPub: USC Games
Windows
An experimental narrative game set at a radio station at the end of the world. Host your last show as the sun turns red and the world burns down.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Multiple Endings 11%, Walking Simulator 10.2%, Choices Matter 10.1%
- #9 Hotwife Ashley
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: respirit
Windows · Mac · Linux
Enter a seductive visual novel where love meets temptation. Explore hotwife, cuckolding, corruption, NTS and optional NTR paths.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Visual Novel 12%, Cinematic 9.4%, Emotional 8.7%
- #10 Harmony Haven
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: respiritPub: Satyr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Move to Harmony Haven and shape a couple’s new life through romance, temptation, sharing, and optional NTR paths in a choice-driven adult visual novel.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Emotional 9.5%, Cinematic 9.5%
- #11 The Wreck
90% matchVery Positive88% of 283 reviews2023
Dev: The Pixel Hunt
Windows · Mac
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 11.8%, Cinematic 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Emotional 9.8%
- #12 Return to Ash
89% matchVery Positive99% of 143 reviews2025
Dev: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
“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: LGBTQ+ 24.2%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Emotional 14.7%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%
- #13 Project Vesperi
89% matchMixed46% of 35 reviews2026
Dev: Last Praetorian Interactive LLC
Windows
Project Vesperi is a branching narrative sci-fi game where you play as Doctor Evelyn Roth, sent to investigate a potential sign of life on Venus. When an intruder threatens the only habitable station on the planet, your choices will shape the fate of those around you—and humanity itself.
Why similar: Cinematic 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Emotional 14.1%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Multiple Endings 11.8%
- #14 Ariane in Paradise
88% match7 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2024
Dev: Date Ariane Games
Windows · Linux
Ariane in Paradise is the third in the Date Ariane series, but it is fully stand alone. Play as either a male or female, and explore a beautiful tropical Isle with Ariane.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Female Protagonist 10.6%, Point & Click 9.8%
- #15 The Better Deal - Part I
87% matchMixed68% of 74 reviews2024
Dev: zegamez
Windows · Mac · Linux
A visual novel with a captivating story, ultrarealistic images, top-quality animations, and multiple love interests. Dramatic, emotional journey filled with adult content and meaningful player choices that shape unique endings. Straight or lesbian romances await. Dive in and start your adventure!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.1%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Female Protagonist 10.9%, Emotional 10.3%, Realistic 9.9%
- #16 Life is Strange: Double Exposure
86% matchMixed68% of 10,597 reviews2024
Dev: Deck Nine GamesPub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
When Max Caulfield finds her friend Safi dead in the snow, she tears open the way to a parallel timeline. Here, Safi is still alive - and still in danger! With her new power to Shift between two timelines – can Max solve and prevent the same murder?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Female Protagonist 12.3%, Emotional 8.7%
- #17 Space Diva
86% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: Rave Team
Windows
Join Carmen, a somewhat absent-minded middle-aged lady who has to endure bizarre situations in her space truck. And possibly mess things up like crazy. An interactive narrative experience about the most flamboyant beings in the universe.
Why similar: Alternate History 21.6%, LGBTQ+ 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Female Protagonist 10.6%
- #18 少女的幻想乐园
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 残雨子
Windows
This is a visual novel about loneliness and fantasy. You will play a student in a closed boarding school for girls, feeling lonely and alienated, communicating with an imaginary friend every day.Your choices will lead to an ending of either redemption or downfall.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.8%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Female Protagonist 14.7%, Emotional 13.6%, Multiple Endings 11.7%
- #19 Cheerleaders
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lounatick Creations
Windows · Mac · Linux
Cheerleaders, sisterhood, sex, and competition. Follow the cheerleading team of an elite university for the rich and privileged as they aim for victory at the national championship, led by their ambitious captain, Elena.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Female Protagonist 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11%
- #20 Cooking Companions 2: Dread Weight
84% matchVery Positive87% of 182 reviews2024
Dev: Deer Dream Studios
Windows · Mac
Trapped in a crumbling mansion, it’s up to you to outsmart and outlast an ancient witch hunting you down. Scavenge for items to set traps, solve puzzles and discover hidden secrets to avoid your demise. Don’t be scared: encounters with ghosts are rewarded in this horror visual novel.
Why similar: Alternate History 19.8%, LGBTQ+ 19.5%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Female Protagonist 9.5%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
- #21 Undercover Love - Where Shadows Meet
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MIKATRON-GAMES
Windows
A dark noir visual novel following Alex, a former police officer drawn into the mafia’s world. In a city where trust can get you killed and everyone has something to hide, Alex and a mafia leader with buried secrets are pulled into revenge, power, and slow-burn romance shaped by your choices.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.2%, Cinematic 16.5%, Choices Matter 14.3%, LGBTQ+ 11%, Story Rich 10.1%
- #22 tomorrow is my birthday
82% matchVery Positive99% of 95 reviews2024
Dev: rileylessthan9Pub: Lemon+Blood
Windows
"we don't have to do this. why don't we just leave?" asks you your bestfriend while you try to escape your hometown. and you start hating them. and you start hating yourself. can you pull through or will you choose to go home again? both decisions feel wrong but this time it's you who has to choose.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 18%, Point & Click 18%, Visual Novel 15.1%, LGBTQ+ 14.3%, Exploration 8.9%
- #23 Good Morning My Darling
82% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: Kova
Windows · Mac · Linux
Mailey wakes up and goes to make her morning tea. However, something strange is going on inside her house, and her housemate Derthan is nowhere to be seen. Perhaps, the answer lies somewhere in her memories?
Why similar: Point & Click 15.3%, Emotional 14.2%, Visual Novel 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, LGBTQ+ 9.9%
- #24 Bedtime Stories 4
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: CodeRenderX
Windows · Linux
Dive deeper into Cindy's youthful adventures at SOFI in this immersive adult visual novel. Navigate rivalries, friendships, and thrilling new encounters with free exploration, interactive chats, and branching paths full of passion and choice.
Why similar: Cinematic 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Visual Novel 15.3%, LGBTQ+ 14.2%, Emotional 9.5%
- #25 Syrup and the Ultimate Sweet
79% matchVery Positive98% of 82 reviews2025
Dev: NomnomNami
Windows · Mac · Linux
A candy alchemist finds a candy golem in her basement workshop...
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Female Protagonist 12.8%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
- #26 Tell Me Why
80% matchVery Positive82% of 16,033 reviews2020
Dev: DONTNOD EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Tell Me Why is the multi-award winning episodic adventure game from Dontnod Entertainment in which twins use their supernatural bond to discover the truth of their troubled past.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.1%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Cinematic 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Walking Simulator 10.5%
- #27 Symbiotic Love - Yuri Visual Novel
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 21 reviews2021
Dev: White Dew GamesPub: Kikai Digital
Windows · Mac
Symbiotic Love is a coming-of-age Yuri Visual Novel set in an All Girls' High School. What has fate in store for love so perfect, so symbiotic, that they could only live, and perish together?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.6%, Visual Novel 16%, Female Protagonist 14.4%, Multiple Endings 10%, Emotional 9.1%
- #28 South Fork
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lark Worlds
Windows
A summer vacation mystery set at the start of adulthood and on the end of Long Island. Spend time with family, reconnect with lost friends, pursue your music career, and solve the mystery of Montauk's missing kids.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.3%, Emotional 12%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Story Rich 11.5%, Exploration 9.5%
- #29 Dumpster Baby
78% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Josef Arnold
Windows
Dumpster Baby is a game about being queer and homeless, and the importance of community and friendship in hard times. You play as Bandit, an optimistic racoon meeting new friends as he tries to find people to be roommates with. A narrative focused single player experience.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Walking Simulator 16.4%, Story Rich 8.8%, Choices Matter 8.4%
- #30 Life is Strange Remastered
77% matchVery Positive92% of 10,972 reviews2022
Dev: Deck NinePub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.2%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Female Protagonist 13%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Emotional 11.8%
- #31 Lies as a Starting Point
78% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Mamekujira
Windows
The story revolves around a conversation between the main character Kanata and the main heroine Nozomi on a train. The story branches into three different routes (junior high school, high school and university) by following Nozomi's past. The heroine and protagonist differ depending on the chapter.
Why similar: Cinematic 22.1%, Emotional 20.2%, Female Protagonist 12.6%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Story Rich 9.2%
- #32 Deadset Darling
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ivory Shade
Windows
Deadset Darling is a mature, choice-driven adult visual novel about betrayal, desire, and starting over in a city that never forgives weakness.
Why similar: Cinematic 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Choices Matter 12%, Emotional 11.9%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
- #33 The Quiet Things
75% matchPositive81% of 37 reviews2026
Dev: Silver Script Games
Windows
Step into a fractured 00s childhood in the South of England. Inspired by the developer’s real diaries, this autobiographical narrative adventure invites you to uncover Alice’s story by piecing together evocative memories, and following in the footsteps of a young girl’s journey through adolescence.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.2%, LGBTQ+ 15.6%, Emotional 13.3%, Female Protagonist 9.8%, Story Rich 7.8%
- #34 A YEAR OF SPRINGS
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 989 reviews2021
Dev: npckc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Experience the stories of Haru, Erika, and Manami, a trio of friends navigating their feelings of love, connection, and just wanting to belong.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.6%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Emotional 12.5%, Female Protagonist 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
- #35 Harmony: The Fall of Reverie
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 287 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: LGBTQ+ 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Emotional 11.2%, Female Protagonist 10.7%
- #36 Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered
75% matchVery Positive85% of 4,841 reviews2022
Dev: Deck NinePub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 24.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Life is Strange: Before the Storm returns with remastered visuals across characters & environments.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.2%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Female Protagonist 14.6%, Multiple Endings 12%, Emotional 11.1%
- #37 Good Bones
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 41 reviews2023
Dev: RETCON Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your new house has old secrets in this haunting point-and-click mystery, where you'll search for clues about a mysterious death, solve narrative puzzles, and make heartbreaking choices to navigate amnesia, grief, and revenge.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, LGBTQ+ 12.3%, Point & Click 11.7%, Female Protagonist 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.6%
- #38 My Bimbo Dream: Kingpin
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MBDPub: Satyr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
How far are you willing to go to chase your perfect fantasy and the life you think you deserve?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.7%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Emotional 9.9%
- #39 Call Me Cera
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Toadhouse GamesPub: Team Toadhouse
Windows · Mac · Linux
A 'crunchy wholesome' game about making friends as an adult.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.3%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Emotional 12.8%, Female Protagonist 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
- #40 Behind Closed Doors
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MidnightVice GamesPub: Satyr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Behind Closed Doors is a story-driven visual novel where every choice shapes a forbidden relationship. Explore branching paths, hidden scenes, and multiple endings as tension and desire continue to build.
Why similar: Cinematic 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Emotional 11%, Choices Matter 9.2%
- #41 We Are OFK
73% matchVery Positive92% of 301 reviews2022
Dev: OFK
Windows · Mac
Start a virtual indie band in this behind-the-music comedy. Date, dance, skate, and run for your life across 5 episodes and interactive music videos, in a heartfelt story of what you risk to chase your dreams. All episodes out now!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.9%, Cinematic 18.5%, Emotional 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.4%
- #42 Letters of longing
71% matchPositive97% of 34 reviews2025
Dev: Happy Break Bones
Windows
Unravel an epistolary romance between two men called up for military service, as you explore the ruins of an old town hall during the Spanish Civil War.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.4%, Cinematic 17.4%, Walking Simulator 16.9%, Emotional 14.1%, Exploration 7.1%
- #43 Silent Trip: Until We Meet
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LOGIC - Bawang Studio
Windows
A story-rich interactive fiction about two people who find comfort in each other, and the quiet things they never say out loud.
Why similar: Cinematic 14%, Emotional 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Point & Click 10.3%
- #44 Meet Her There
72% matchPositive92% of 39 reviews2023
Dev: Sinisthesis
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short, intense, dark visual narrative in 2 colors. You are stuck reliving a single day, over and over. Explore a tiny, giant world of a relationship between two people. Don't get arrested. Try to reach the person you love and escape the cursed time loop. Is it not too late?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.2%, Walking Simulator 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Female Protagonist 11.5%, Story Rich 8.4%
- #45 Short Short Fictions
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: room6
Windows
A short short mix tape of one story that connects three shorter stories. On the NewWave, a magical game console that is retro but new, enjoy DON'T SAY YES, TO:NORTH, and a secret tale nobody yet knows. Welcome to a slightly fantastical and nostalgic world of painful, toilful, and beautiful stories!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.8%, Emotional 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Female Protagonist 11.2%
- #46 Inside Utopia
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nova Libraria
Windows · Mac · Linux
Inside Utopia is a Visual Novel in which you play as Didi, a brave young girl who is forced to infiltrate Utopia and steal the legendary Gold Stone back into her home land, or else the Queen will execute her mother.
Why similar: Alternate History 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Female Protagonist 11.3%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
- #47 魏识的夜晚
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: GOOD NEWS Editorial Department
Windows · Mac
Wei Shi becomes your reflection in your senior year. Drifting without a fixed self, they set out into oblivion—or piece together fragments of an unfamiliar youth. With your friends, they tend each other's restless hearts and share what it takes to find happiness.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.8%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Cinematic 13.9%, Emotional 9.1%
- #48 Bonjin ~ An Ordinary Man
69% matchPositive93% of 27 reviews2025
Dev: VNDI
Windows · Linux
When your beloved wants to abandon his personality and become an absolutely ordinary person, what do you do? Bonjin ~ An Ordinary Man is an young adult romantic story about transgender identity, exploration of masculinity, and mutual understanding.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.6%, Emotional 13.6%, Visual Novel 13%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Female Protagonist 9.7%
- #49 Yuika My Bestie
70% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Feeling Potion
Windows · Mac
Experience a pastel-toned emotional journey in Yuika My Bestie, a short visual novel you can complete in under 15 minutes per playthrough. With 5 unique endings and heartfelt choices, it takes just 30–40 minutes to explore every path of this soft, late-night cry.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Emotional 13.6%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
- #50 SUMMER WITH MY WIFE
68% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Lust Zone Studio
Windows
SUMMER WITH MY WIFE - A visual novel with open-world elements where you spend a hot summer with your wife: explore, become a cuckold, and watch your relationship evolve.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Point & Click 15.8%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Emotional 6.9%
- #51 The Mask Game
69% matchPositive94% of 33 reviews2024
Dev: Ghost Clown
Windows · Linux
Which is worse: a toxic friend or a literal demon?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 30%, Female Protagonist 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Story Rich 11.1%
- #52 Finding Buddies
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DixMano
Windows
Finding Buddies is a romance visual novel where your dialogue choices shape Daniel’s story and relationships. Explore different scenes, meet new characters, and experience a narrative with interactive gameplay moments.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 31.6%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Multiple Endings 8.5%, Cinematic 7.2%
- #53 The Mystery of William Moore
69% match4 user reviews25% of 4 reviews2022
Dev: Atlantean Games
Windows
Put on your detective hat, and get ready for the mystery of a lifetime. Embark on a plot-driven, walking simulator-puzzle video game with an amazing plot and surprise ending.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.4%, Cinematic 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%, Realistic 9.5%, Visual Novel 9.3%
- #54 Ad Nauseam - The Wrong Side
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: throwpup
Windows · Mac · Linux
Ad Nauseam is a choice-heavy psychological horror game about trauma, identity, romance, and vomit. It combines many staples of VN, P&C, and RPG games to create something entirely unique. Solve mysteries, form strong bonds, blur the line between mind and body, and witness grotesque abilities.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20%, Cinematic 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Emotional 10.9%, Female Protagonist 10.4%
- #55 Fragments of Him
70% matchVery Positive84% of 148 reviews2016
Dev: Sassybot
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
An emotional and immersive game about a man named Will and the people close to him. Experience his life through a story about love, memories and hope.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.3%, Walking Simulator 17.7%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Point & Click 10.8%, Emotional 10.1%
- #56 Sincerely, Stampy
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 3 Halves Games
Windows
Abducted... by aliens? No! By Astral Entities!! Welcome to the Astral Plane. You and four other Humans have been selected. In the next two weeks, please explore the facility, collect stamps, make friends, and uncover multiple endings. We'll be watching your progress. Best of luck, Human.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, LGBTQ+ 16.1%, Emotional 11.2%, Exploration 7.8%
- #57 FOOL'S PARADISE
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DEADline Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Invited by a stranger to join FOOL'S PARADISE, you'll seek a sense of community without conformity as you make choices that determine to the fate of the commune and all those within it. So, when confronted by division and derision, will you change the status quo or are you content to let it crumble?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.9%, Alternate History 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Point & Click 11.3%
- #58 Sisterly Bliss ~Don't Let Mom Find Out~
65% matchVery Positive95% of 96 reviews2025
Dev: eyephonPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
A light admonishment from Mom sparks the realization that these twin sisters care for each other in more than a familial sense. In this dramatic & romantic yuri Visual Novel, it's up to you to navigate the forbidden tension between the sisters so their love can flourish without growing one-sided.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.7%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Female Protagonist 15%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Emotional 9.7%
- #59 Ghost on the Shore
67% matchVery Positive84% of 221 reviews2022
Dev: like CharliePub: Application Systems Heidelberg
Windows · Mac
An exploration game about emotional ties that transcend even death. Riley is faced with a headstrong ghost, urging her on an adventure across atmospheric shores, uncovering the island's tragic secret. Choices in dialogue shape the bond between the two, ultimately deciding Riley's fate.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.6%, Emotional 13.4%, Female Protagonist 10.4%, Story Rich 9.5%, Atmospheric 9.2%
- #60 Come in
65% matchMostly Positive73% of 78 reviews2026
Dev: TEStudio
Windows
After months of chatting online, she invites you over. A quiet house in the middle of the woods seems like the perfect place for a romantic encounter. But the longer you stay inside, the more you realize something is wrong with this place.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Realistic 12.6%, Exploration 9.2%, Multiple Endings 8.8%