- #1 Last Broadcast
97% 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+ 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Walking Simulator 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.6%
- #2 Lost Connections
96% matchVery Positive96% of 77 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+ 17%, Emotional 13.4%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
- #3 Dumpster Baby
96% match1 user reviews100% of 1 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+ 21.7%, Walking Simulator 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Story Rich 8.1%
- #4 Life is Strange: True Colors
95% matchVery Positive89% of 16,617 reviews2021
Dev: Deck NinePub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 25.0 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+ 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Female Protagonist 10.3%, Emotional 9.8%
- #5 Project Vesperi
94% 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 15.7%, Emotional 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Multiple Endings 11.4%
- #6 one night, hot springs
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,130 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+ 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Female Protagonist 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Emotional 10.3%
- #7 Harmony: The Fall of Reverie
93% matchMostly Positive73% of 274 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+ 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Emotional 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.3%
- #8 The Wreck
92% matchVery Positive89% of 279 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 11.9%, Cinematic 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Emotional 10.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%
- #9 Life is Strange: Reunion
91% matchVery Positive90% of 4,784 reviews2026
Dev: Deck Nine GamesPub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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+ 23.8%, Cinematic 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Emotional 10.4%
- #10 Meet Her There
91% matchPositive92% of 37 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+ 19.7%, Walking Simulator 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Female Protagonist 9.5%
- #11 Echoes of the Court
90% 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 20.2%, Emotional 15.4%, Realistic 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, First-Person 10.4%
- #12 A YEAR OF SPRINGS
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 952 reviews2021
Dev: npckc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.3 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+ 20.8%, Emotional 12%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%
- #13 Return to Ash
88% matchVery Positive98% of 130 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%, Emotional 16.1%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%
- #14 I hope she's ok
89% matchPositive85% of 47 reviews2020
Dev: inkakamu
Windows
“I hope she’s ok” is a single-player first-person atmospheric mystery inspired by Nordic folklore. Set around a beautiful lakeside cabin in the heart of Finland during the midsummer solstice, the idyllic scene takes a turn for the worse when you discover that your friend is missing.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Female Protagonist 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
- #15 Life is Strange: Double Exposure
86% matchMixed69% of 9,703 reviews2024
Dev: Deck Nine GamesPub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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+ 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Female Protagonist 11.6%, Emotional 9.2%
- #16 Deadset Darling
87% 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 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Emotional 11.1%, Visual Novel 11%, Choices Matter 10.8%
- #17 Call Me Cera
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Toadhouse GamesPub: Team Toadhouse
Windows · Mac · Linux
A 'crunchy wholesome' game about making friends as an adult.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.6%, Emotional 12.3%, Visual Novel 11%, Female Protagonist 10.6%, Choices Matter 8.7%
- #18 Cheerleaders
85% 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 14.4%, Female Protagonist 11.7%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%
- #19 Lost & Found: A This Bed We Made Story
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lowbirth Games
Windows
Lost & Found is a standalone, short story game taking place aboard a 1960s transatlantic ship. Play as Sophie Roy in her new job as a stewardess, and help solve a curious series of thefts in this narrative-driven mystery set after the events of This Bed We Made.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 14.2%, Cinematic 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Emotional 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%
- #20 Road 96: Mile 0
84% matchMixed68% of 2,048 reviews2023
Dev: Digixart
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 68%
The prequel to Road 96. Play Zoe and Kaito where it all started. Change their destinies!
Why similar: Walking Simulator 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Emotional 9%, Visual Novel 8.9%
- #21 The Company
82% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Crawler Games
Windows
The Company wants you productive. The Company wants you calm. The Company wants you compliant.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Exploration 8.3%
- #22 少女的幻想乐园
83% 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+ 25.9%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Emotional 14.4%, Female Protagonist 13.9%, Multiple Endings 12%
- #23 The Better Deal - Part I
81% matchMixed67% of 70 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+ 17.8%, Emotional 11.1%, Female Protagonist 10.5%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.9%
- #24 Grotto
82% matchVery Positive90% of 342 reviews2021
Dev: Brainwash GangPub: Digerati
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Grotto is a mystical, narrative-focused experience. You are the Soothsayer. The one capable of talking with the stars and unveiling their messages. In a time of turmoil, the tribe of the valley turn to your powers of divination and come to you for guidance.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11.4%
- #25 Undercover Love - Where Shadows Meet
81% 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 world where trust can get you killed and everyone has something to hide, two women with buried secrets are pulled into a story of revenge, power, and slow-burn romance shaped by your choices.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.2%, Cinematic 16.5%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Choices Matter 11%, Emotional 9.7%
- #26 Dissecting Love
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Disco:very StudioPub: TBD
Windows · Mac
An autopsy of a queer relationship.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Exploration 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.3%
- #27 Milf Dream
79% match8 user reviews25% of 8 reviews2023
Dev: Byaka Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Do you want to hook up the hottest moms? We got you covered, milf lovers!
Why similar: Cinematic 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Realistic 8.6%
- #28 BURN
78% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2024
Dev: Convict Games
Windows
𝕭𝖀𝕽𝕹 is a short and replayable visual novel, where you play Nina BURN, the biggest pop star in the world at the turning point of her career. Will you change pop music? Will you become a monster? 𝖄𝖔𝖚 𝖜𝖎𝖑𝖑 𝕭𝖀𝕽𝕹.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Cinematic 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.8%
- #29 Yuika My Bestie
78% 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+ 18.2%, Emotional 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Visual Novel 9.4%
- #30 Best Day Ever
79% matchPositive83% of 23 reviews2021
Dev: ReRolled Studio
Windows
Play 4 characters, live their unique stories and manage their daily lives to create their best day ever. In this narrative game, your decisions have consequences and change the outcome of the stories.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, LGBTQ+ 11.9%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%
- #31 A Doctor's Term
76% matchPositive88% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: Council of Pure Sanity
Windows · Linux
A Doctor's Term is a first person, narrative experience with pivotal choices set in an ominous sci-fi government facility: The Ministry of Health — Enter a story of treating menacing medical cases where daily work often defies expectations...
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Cinematic 15.6%, Realistic 7.8%, Exploration 7.6%
- #32 Harmony Haven
77% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Cinematic 11.5%, Emotional 11.3%, LGBTQ+ 10.7%, Choices Matter 9.9%
- #33 Refind Self: The Personality Test Game
75% matchVery Positive88% of 3,694 reviews2023
Dev: LizardryPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Games can really show someone's personality, don't you think? By way of a simple exploration-based adventure, this data-science game analyzes your actions to estimate your personality.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Emotional 12%, Female Protagonist 11.4%
- #34 Melancholy Love
77% matchVery Positive95% of 75 reviews2021
Dev: White Dew GamesPub: Kikai Digital
Windows · Mac
Melancholy Love is a Yuri Visual Novel between an elite and a misfit in an All-Girls' High School. How will sparks flare between the two?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21%, Emotional 12.8%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Female Protagonist 10.4%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
- #35 Forgotlings
74% matchVery Positive86% of 58 reviews2026
Dev: Throughline GamesPub: Hitcents
Windows
Award-winning cinematic narrative adventure set in a hand-drawn world of living forgotten objects. Lead Fig and the crew of the Volare through a story of identity, unity, and survival—where diplomacy, difficult choices, and moments of action shape the fate of five divided tribes.
Why similar: Cinematic 18.3%, Emotional 14.7%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
- #36 Tell Me Why
76% matchVery Positive82% of 15,432 reviews2020
Dev: DONTNOD EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 16.1 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+ 17.6%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Cinematic 11.5%, Walking Simulator 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
- #37 Cascade Falls
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stray Paranormal
Windows · Mac · Linux
A story-driven visual novel about healing, heartbreak, and second chances. Build relationships, face your past, and shape your future in a town where every choice leaves a mark. Romance, drama, and emotional chaos await in Cascade Falls.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
- #38 Bonjin ~ An Ordinary Man
72% 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+ 20.7%, Emotional 13.7%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Female Protagonist 8.8%
- #39 Lies as a Starting Point
74% 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 21.4%, Emotional 21%, Female Protagonist 11.7%, Story Rich 9.6%, Visual Novel 9%
- #40 The Quiet Things
73% matchNo user 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 17.4%, LGBTQ+ 14.8%, Emotional 13.7%, Female Protagonist 9.1%, Story Rich 8%
- #41 The Lattice Grimoire
75% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2019
Dev: Sat-Yuga Studios
Windows · Mac
The curse wove your fates together. Now their thoughts and feelings influence you and your actions determine their fates. Will you be able to break the curse? Or will their dark pasts drag you into an inescapable despair? And can a fresh start really erase the past?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Female Protagonist 11.3%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%
- #42 Life is Strange Remastered
72% matchVery Positive91% of 9,689 reviews2022
Dev: Deck NinePub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 14.1 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+ 23.1%, Choices Matter 16%, Emotional 12.4%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Female Protagonist 12.3%
- #43 Symbiotic Love - Yuri Visual Novel
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 20 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+ 25.9%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Female Protagonist 13.7%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Emotional 9.6%
- #44 Doce Fim ~sweetend placebo~
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Meiri Games
Windows · Mac
Shape queer love and friendship at the end of the world in this choice-driven, emotional narrative game. Will you settle for pessimism, or open yourself to trust?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22%, Emotional 15.7%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.4%
- #45 Where are you, Cinderella?
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KimiNako
Windows · Linux
Where are you, Cinderella? is a visual novel about Vietnamese culture and the world of entertainment. Will you be able to find the lost shoe’s owner? Or, will you find your shoe?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11.4%
- #46 Wordless Forest
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dogus Cagrici
Windows
You are alone in the forest. You remember nothing. In this live-action interactive survival thriller, the story is written not by dialogue, but by your choices.
Why similar: Cinematic 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Emotional 7.8%
- #47 Short Short Fictions
70% 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+ 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Emotional 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Female Protagonist 10.2%
- #48 Syrup and the Ultimate Sweet
68% matchVery Positive97% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: NomnomNami
Windows · Mac · Linux
A candy alchemist finds a candy golem in her basement workshop...
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Female Protagonist 12.3%, Multiple Endings 12%
- #49 Fork in the Road
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pigeon in the Booth
Windows · Mac
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Cinematic 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
- #50 Mindworks: The Great Division
70% matchMixed71% of 14 reviews2022
Dev: Kornyart
Windows · Mac · Linux
A choice-based visual novel game about science, division, and the false ideology of knowledge. Each and every one of your choices will determine whether the disciplines will end in unity or complete division. The key to eternal knowledge is in your hands.
Why similar: Cinematic 14.3%, LGBTQ+ 13%, Emotional 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
- #51 We Are OFK
69% matchVery Positive92% of 300 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+ 21.5%, Cinematic 17.7%, Emotional 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
- #52 Mia and the Dragon Princess
69% matchMixed67% of 284 reviews2023
Dev: Wales Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 72%
A live-action, interactive action movie following Mia, a plucky barmaid whose life is thrown into chaos when a mysterious woman turns up at her workplace, on the run from a group of violent thugs and unable to speak English.
Why similar: Cinematic 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Emotional 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Choices Matter 8.6%
- #53 Disillusion
67% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Disillusion Team
Windows
After an exploratory mission gone wrong, you find yourself crashed on an unknown alien planet, separated from your crew and running out of oxygen. In Disillusion, you explore alien caves in search for your missing crewmates in an attempt to send one final message home.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.2%, Emotional 14.6%, Story Rich 14.5%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Atmospheric 11.2%
- #54 Bedtime Stories 4
68% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Cinematic 18.7%, LGBTQ+ 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Emotional 10.3%
- #55 Before Closure
65% matchMostly Positive70% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Twentysix InteractivePub: Dopoco Games
Windows · Mac
An experimental narrative game that tells its story through sound and memory. Sort through a box of personal mementos and relive memories from a relationship by closing your eyes in real life.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Female Protagonist 9.5%, Emotional 8.7%
- #56 Girl Werewolf Hamlet Saves Christmas
67% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Stegaloaurus Game Development
Windows · Linux
Guide Hamlet (now a Girl *and* a Werewolf) as she deals with a murder mystery, a usurped throne, and a cursed sledding competition. Her emotions are your stats, so.... emote wisely. Or impulsively. Or with shame. It’s her kingdom. Everyone else is just tolerated in it.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Female Protagonist 11.5%
- #57 Open Spaces SE
68% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Queenship Game StudioPub: Queenship Game Studio, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: LGBTQ+ 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Emotional 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.4%
- #58 Fragments of Him
70% matchVery Positive84% of 147 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+ 21.8%, Walking Simulator 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Emotional 10.3%
- #59 Letters of longing
65% matchPositive97% of 33 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+ 21.3%, Walking Simulator 17.4%, Cinematic 16.8%, Emotional 14.6%, First-Person 7.2%
- #60 Liar Luna
67% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Moon Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Play as Luna, a girl caught in a fight between armed insurgents and spies. Help her navigate her way to saving her friend. Explore a laboratory dedicated to the production of new materials. Enjoy a lighthearted and chaotic story of a girl out of her depth in an espionage mission.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Female Protagonist 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.7%