- #1 The Average Everyday Adventures of Samantha Browne
97% matchVery Positive82% of 1,224 reviews2016
Dev: Lemonsucker Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 44.0 hrs≥1hr: 35%
An interactive story about a painfully introverted college student who must find a way to make some oatmeal in the communal kitchen of her dorm. One simple task, can you help her complete it?
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #2 Marie's Room
96% matchVery Positive93% of 6,612 reviews2018
Dev: Kenny Guillaume
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Marie's Room is a short story exploration game about an unconventional friendship between two classmates. You play as Kelsey, remembering Marie's room as it was twenty years ago. But something’s off. What happened to Marie?
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #3 First Snow
96% matchVery Positive95% of 668 reviews2020
Dev: Salty Salty StudiosPub: Studio Élan
Windows · Mac · Linux
Having moved away from her friends and family to attend community college, Allison Merlo is a fresh student struggling with the day to day challenges of life.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #4 Without Within
95% matchVery Positive88% of 2,027 reviews2015
Dev: InvertMouse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 19%
The (mis)adventures of Vinty, a nobody who thinks she's somebody!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #5 FRESHMAN
94% matchMostly Positive71% of 319 reviews2026
Dev: Sweet gamers group
Windows · Mac · Linux
FRESHMAN — an adult, choice-based visual novel that celebrates the best parts of life. Step into the shoes of a college freshman and experience all the pleasures of student life.
- #6 Invisible Apartment
94% matchMostly Positive70% of 412 reviews2015
Dev: Milan KazarkaPub: Vysoko Anime Production
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 78.5 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Cyberpunk Visual Novel about a girl hacker struggling in a modern World. The story revolves around surveillance, hacking, artificial intelligence, cybernetic implants and those who want to lead a normal life in a high-tech society.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #7 one night, hot springs
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,091 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: Indie 100%
- #8 From Head to Toe
92% matchMostly Positive79% of 105 reviews2019
Dev: Party for Introverts
Windows · Mac
"From Head to Toe" is a short interactive story about winter, existential guilt and your ex-classmates.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #9 Kimmy
91% matchVery Positive87% of 69 reviews2017
Dev: Star Maid GamesPub: N/A
Windows · Mac
Kimmy is a visual novel game about a young babysitter in 1968. Dana takes a lonely girl named Kimmy under her wing, worried that she's having trouble making friends. Let summer begin! Collect trinkets, play street games, and learn about Kimmy and her mysterious family as summer passes by.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #10 Drinks With Abbey
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 400 reviews2019
Dev: Ramify Games
Windows · Mac
Drinks with Abbey is a short, slice-of-life visual novel about a first date.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #11 Big Tiddy Goth GF Simulator
90% matchVery Positive82% of 342 reviews2020
Dev: WoweePub: Earthbound Books
Windows
Explore the college campus, and work your way up to telling the goth girl you have a crush on how you REALLY feel. Solve puzzles, buy food, and explore a eerily empty dorm.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #12 Fresh Story
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 248 reviews2023
Dev: WetMelonPlay
Windows · Mac · Linux
Fresh Story is a visual novel about one girl's difficult journey. She will face difficulties and hard decisions to achieve a peaceful life as she dreamed.Diana came from the suburbs to the big city to achieve success and a happy life with her boyfriend Vlad.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #13 FreshWomen - Season 1
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 18,471 reviews2022
Dev: Pantsu InteractivePub: OppaiMan Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
FreshWomen is a choice-driven adult Visual Novel focusing on the best parts of life. Become a freshman attending Minerva Bay College, romance girls and solve a mysterious incident. Your journey will be filled with comedy, drama, and lots of sex.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #14 Dysfunctional Systems: Orientation
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 54 reviews2017
Dev: Dischan Media
Windows · Mac · Linux
Dysfunctional Systems: Orientation is a kinetic novel and a prequel to Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos. It uses text, sound, and illustrations to tell a story and follows Winter Harrison during her first week at mediator school.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #15 Frosty Kiss
88% matchVery Positive90% of 1,556 reviews2016
Dev: 2Chance Projects
Windows · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 108.9 hrs≥1hr: 30%
It's been a year since Semyon returned from "Sovyonok" and met the girls from the camp in the real world. But it's New Year at hand! And it needs to be celebrated!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #16 Something Strange
86% matchPositive91% of 66 reviews2022
Dev: Ethan ZimmerlePub: Mr. Hand
Windows
Go about your normal every day life and meet new friends in this short visual novel!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #17 Let`s not stay friends
86% matchMostly Positive80% of 309 reviews2017
Dev: Violet FeaturePub: Vorobushek
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Friendship is a wonderful thing… unless you are friends with a girl who has no idea you have feelings for her! Inske, a student of magical arts, is troubled by the upcoming outdoors exam, and can't even imagine that someone might want to use the test as an opportunity to get close to her.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #18 Beth the Exhibitionist
85% matchVery Positive81% of 68 reviews2021
Dev: ENF Stuff
Windows
Beth is locked out of her hotel room...naked. Your job is to help her make the right choices that'll lead her to clothes without getting arrested or being seen by too many people in a short Choose-Your-Own-Adventure game with 3D Images. Includes Miku's Strip Trivia Night.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #19 memories
82% matchVery Positive94% of 1,515 reviews2023
Dev: guiyyuPub: Spookulele Games
Windows · Mac
memories is a sapphic visual novel dress-up game where clothes are linked to painful memories of a failed relationship.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #20 how do you Do It?
84% matchVery Positive85% of 2,531 reviews2015
Dev: Nina FreemanPub: none
Windows · Mac
Median: 12 minMean: 155.6 hrs≥1hr: 21%
"how do you Do It?" puts players in the role of an 11-year-old girl whose mother has just stepped out for an errand. The girl immediately grabs her dolls and furtively attempts to figure out how sex works using these plastic surrogates.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #21 Robin
83% matchVery Positive89% of 705 reviews2018
Dev: Isabelle Dela TorrePub: Group Pug
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 8%
Robin is a short slice of life game that was made to give some visibility to an invisible illness - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #22 Take a Hint
79% matchVery Positive98% of 92 reviews2026
Dev: FloramisuPub: Skull Queens Games
Windows
Take a Hint! is a comic-style visual novel where you control Delfina and must convince your best friend Ailén that her boyfriend is not good for her. It won't be easy, and no one will leave until the truth comes out.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #23 Wheel of Innocence
81% matchVery Positive90% of 94 reviews2022
Dev: MKShadowZX
Windows · Mac · Linux
Wheel of Innocence is a lesbian visual novel where you peer into the life of a disabled high schooler named Reina.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #24 Fujiwara Bittersweet
81% matchVery Positive87% of 412 reviews2021
Dev: MagicBenchVN
Windows · Mac · Linux
Girl protag heartwarming slice of life with bittersweet twists!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #25 Loser Named Hana
77% matchVery Positive95% of 136 reviews2025
Dev: Repurpose Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Loser Named Hana is a friendship-building visual novel. You respond to an ad advertising $100 a week to be the lonely college student, Hana, friend.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #26 Alexa's Wild Night
82% matchVery Positive82% of 51 reviews2017
Dev: Dharker Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 42%
A fully uncensored adult visual novel following Alexa as she goes out on the town, with choices that alter the course of her night and how her future will play out.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #27 College Kings - The Complete Season
77% matchVery Positive91% of 9,265 reviews2021
Dev: Undergrad Steve
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 68%
College Kings - The Complete Season (Acts I-III Combined): Sex, girls, parties, and power. As a freshman at San Vallejo College, you have the whole world in front of you. Will you let the next four years pass you by, or will you lead your fraternity to the crown and become campus royalty?
- #28 Backstage Pass
79% matchVery Positive86% of 278 reviews2016
Dev: sakevisual
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 97%
A visual novel/sim game about life, love, and working in the entertainment industry. Play as makeup artist Sian Goodin as she navigates the world of showbiz. Make friends, forge business relationships, and maybe even find romance!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #29 Koncolos: Prologue
78% matchVery Positive81% of 63 reviews2022
Dev: Umigame Studios
Windows
In a small pub with regulars, a woman makes a scene every night. Explore the compelling and mysterious story behind her bizarre behavior in the first chapter of this visual novel.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #30 Last Days of Spring 2
80% matchMostly Positive75% of 60 reviews2016
Dev: Sapphire Dragon Productions
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
It’s been five years since the Hayabusa Academy gang graduated from high school, Yuka has just graduated from University and moved to a new city when she receives an invitation from Aya, her best friend, for a class reunion in her country lodge in Cannon Beach, Oregon.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #31 Gender Dysphoria
75% matchVery Positive91% of 70 reviews2023
Dev: exodrifter
Windows · Linux
A short non-linear narrative game about negative experiences after coming out as transgender.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #32 FreshWomen - Season 2
71% matchVery Positive82% of 2,211 reviews2025
Dev: Pantsu InteractivePub: OppaiMan Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
FreshWomen is a choice-driven adult Visual Novel focusing on the best parts of life. Become a freshman attending Minerva Bay College, romance girls and solve a mysterious incident. Your journey will be filled with comedy, drama, and lots of sex.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #33 Yearning: A Gay Story
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 86 reviews2021
Dev: bobcgamesPub: Project Ensō
Windows · Mac · Linux
Yearning: A Gay Story (YAGS) is a realistic coming-out-focused character-driven slice-of-life visual novel where you play as a gay man starting his freshman year of college at a generic university somewhere in the midwestern United States.
- #34 Nicole
78% matchMixed68% of 125 reviews2014
Dev: Winter Wolves
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Excited to join her first choice school, Nicole discovers a disturbing series of disappearances on campus upon moving into the university dorms. Three girls have vanished, and she might be next, deviating from her ideal college experience.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #35 Blooming Nightshade
75% matchVery Positive83% of 224 reviews2019
Dev: Nightshade
Windows · Mac · Linux
After hearing about a number of student couples forming at her school, Himeka Uchida decides to look for a girlfriend of her own. As she gets wrapped up in the daily lives of her friends and classmates at Solana Academy, will she find the romance she seeks?
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #36 Class Reunion Chat Room
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 186 reviews2023
Dev: RocRac
Windows
Amy receives an invitation to a group chat set up by some of her former classmates. Its purpose is to reconnect after all these years. But soon more and more disturbing facts about Amy's classmates are revealed, and Amy begins to fear that the people she's texting with may not be what they seem.
- #37 Journal
76% 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: Indie 100%
- #38 College Craze
73% matchVery Positive86% of 145 reviews2022
Dev: Pretty Ink
Windows · Mac · Linux
College Craze is a female gaze adult dating and life simulation game. Find endless sexy possibilities for your own college experience at Sugardale U with your custom female MC, the branching story structure, and +25 love interests. No fade-to-black scenes here, so enroll today!
- #39 Fresh Story 2
71% matchVery Positive85% of 185 reviews2024
Dev: WetMelonPlay
Windows · Mac · Linux
Continuation of the exciting visual novel about a girl who decides to start a new life in the big city. In the role of a waitress in a Made cafe or an assistant in an office, she tries to stay afloat, finds friends and enemies, faces intrigues and unexpected romances.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #40 Carpe Diem
73% matchVery Positive89% of 8,560 reviews2015
Dev: Moonlit Works
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12 minMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 13%
Seize the day
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #41 A Hint of Purple
72% matchVery Positive95% of 116 reviews2023
Dev: Empty Exhibit
Windows
A short visual novel about queer love and art. Follow Maya, a once-celebrated painter now paralyzed, as she struggles to accept her new reality and its effects on her relationship. Argue with your Prefrontal Cortex, insult an art critic, befriend the elderly.
- #42 The Winter Tower
73% matchVery Positive89% of 74 reviews2022
Dev: EVERIUM
Windows · Mac
Will Ekaterina be able to safely complete her coming-of-age ceremony and emerge as the rightful successor to the House?
- #43 Honey Rose: Underdog Fighter Extraordinaire
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 55 reviews2016
Dev: PehessePub: Self
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 57%
One student, two lives and six months to go. This year, Red must meet her idol Big Blue in the ring and make it to the top of the masked fighting tournament. Her dream will come true... as long as she also graduates!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #44 DUET
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 594 reviews2025
Dev: Dolos Studio
Windows
DUET illustrates the Hifuu Club's first encounter. It is a wordless, narrative-driven experience about connection and small moments in life. Step into the subtle yet fateful daily interactions that intertwine Renko and Merry's lives.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #45 Grandma's House: College Days
70% matchVery Positive83% of 84 reviews2023
Dev: Moonbox Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
MC goes back to college and has some sex. Your standard cookie-cutter college game with all the staples you've come to expect like walking down a hallway, sleeping in a dorm room and the classic "banging your bully's girlfriend" scene. A prequel short story to Grandma's House
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #46 Double Cheeseburger, Medium Fries
69% matchVery Positive97% of 310 reviews2023
Dev: Lunaris Aeterna
Windows
Work as Penelope on her day off! Complete mini-games to prepare the food for a wide variety of customers!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #47 University Days - Season 1
69% matchMixed60% of 58 reviews2025
Dev: Greebo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Step into the shoes of a Student at an all-but-ordinary University, where there seems to never be a dull day with hot women around every corner. Just so happens that you could just be the most wanted guy at this University... Who will you fall for?.. And who will fall for you?
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #48 Until Oblivion
67% 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.
- #49 Garden of Oblivion
71% matchVery Positive87% of 200 reviews2018
Dev: Träumendes Mädchen
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 21%
A short horror point & click game about a teenager trapped in a dream-like garden. Will Reven be able to escape? It's up to you!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #50 You're Not Family
68% matchVery Positive92% of 64 reviews2023
Dev: Atiya
Windows
A (really short) free narrative rhythm game by Atiya Nova. Attend family dinners and time your key presses to the flow of conversation. Features lots of familial tension with a dash of misery. And cute bunnies!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #51 Ignis Universia: Eternal Sisters Saga DX
68% matchVery Positive92% of 247 reviews2020
Dev: Random Potion Oy
Windows · Mac
A short game with a long name. Mashes up JRPG battles with Visual Novel storytelling. Not entirely serious.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #52 Last Days of Spring Visual Novel
72% matchMixed58% of 134 reviews2015
Dev: Sapphire Dragon Productions
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Last Days of Spring is a YA (Young Adult) Otome Visual Novel following a group of high school seniors in their last week of school as they come to terms with questions about love, life and destiny. Follow the steps of Yuka Kishimoto as she navigates across her final week as a high school student and sees her life come to a complete...
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #53 Dating Life: Miley X Emily
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 58 reviews2019
Dev: Dharker Studios
Windows
Play as Miley as she goes on her first date in years, but her partner might not be who she expected in this Yuri/Lesbian Visual Novel story.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #54 The Raintime
70% matchMostly Positive70% of 54 reviews2020
Dev: socah developmentPub: socah
Windows · Mac · Linux
Delve into a troubled student's mind as his grip on reality unravels . . .
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #55 Ann
65% matchVery Positive94% of 2,703 reviews2021
Dev: Rong Rong
Windows
Ann, an art student finds herself trapped in the school when she accidentally broke one of the school's rules. With the help of the school's security guard, help Ann navigate her way out and uncover the secrets of the school before she becomes a permanent resident of the school.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #56 Once on a windswept night
69% matchVery Positive87% of 195 reviews2017
Dev: ebi-hime
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
A metafictional yuri visual novel about a traveller who runs across two cute nuns in an abandoned church.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #57 I Just Want to be Single!! Season One
64% matchVery Positive83% of 275 reviews2025
Dev: m.Pub: Tsundere Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
The anti-dating sim where you make friends instead of girlfriends! Balance between heartbreak and heartache! Will you graduate without a single friend? Or will you survive long enough to reject them all?
- #58 Lynne
68% matchVery Positive80% of 1,113 reviews2018
Dev: ebi-hime
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Lynne is a short story about the scariest thing in the world: being a teenager.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #59 Dissolving
67% matchVery Positive87% of 410 reviews2019
Dev: Flying Whale
Windows
Her ex-boyfriend became a shut-in. The girl goes to visit him... then things start to go wrong. They always do, right? Experience two stories about digital gods and loss. And remember - believe in the net.
Why similar: Indie 100%