60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Story Rich, Multiple Endings, Interactive Fiction.
A boy living as a warrant for a political marriage falls in love with a maid despite his unrequited love. You become a black rose fairy who grants wishes and discover that you were once human. Enter the bodies of the people in the mansion and trace their memories to discover their true identities.
It Paints Me
Take the role of a painter struggling to finish his masterpiece in this short Gothic horror visual novel about art, pain and love.
The Last Winter Knight
Haunt a suit of armour. Explore an abandoned castle. Recover your memories... and bring the ghosts of the past to rest in this melancholy visual novel about love, family and regret.
Take the role of a painter struggling to finish his masterpiece in this short Gothic horror visual novel about art, pain and love.
Why similar: Gothic 25.6% ★, Romance 11.3%, Visual Novel 8.7%, Dark Fantasy 8.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%
Haunt a suit of armour. Explore an abandoned castle. Recover your memories... and bring the ghosts of the past to rest in this melancholy visual novel about love, family and regret.
Why similar: Gothic 26.6% ★, Romance 13.2%, Dark Fantasy 9.7%, Medieval 9.7%, Mystery 8.7%
A short psychological horror interactive story. Five years after vanishing without a trace, the woman you once called your lover writes from beyond the silence: "I will give birth to our creation.” In three acts, descend into a fractured mindscape where obsession, memory, and myth intertwine.
Why similar: Gothic 18.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Dark Fantasy 9.4%, Visual Novel 9%, Interactive Fiction 7.9%
You are a censor in a nameless war, blacking out the letters of two lovers who have never met. Their whole romance lives on paper — so every word you strike is struck from the love itself. Then the letters begin, impossibly, to answer your pen. A melancholy epistolary romance. Six endings.
Why similar: Romance 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Mystery 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%
A gothic short story set in the most Blighted city of the North Kingdom.
Why similar: Gothic 21.5% ★, Medieval 10.4%, Text-Based 10%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%, Dark Fantasy 8.4%
Dancing with Shadows: Prologue is a 2D dark fantasy visual novel with CYOA-influenced branching storylines. Guide three protagonists through an interlocked and inexorably connected storyline. There are no wrong answers, but your decisions have consequences.
Why similar: Gothic 17.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Romance 10.7%, Dark Fantasy 9.8%, Medieval 9.2%
Chess. Love. Destiny. All the same things, really.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Romance 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Hand-drawn 10.5%
Why similar: Romance 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Gothic 15% ★, Visual Novel 9.4%, Interactive Fiction 9%
A marriage between first person exploration and visual novel, blessed with a sprinkle of puzzle gameplay. Immerse yourself in a period drama that intertwines romance with murder mystery, as a young cleric who must resist or give in to the charms of a strikingly beautiful maid.
Why similar: Gothic 20.8% ★, Romance 16.2%, Dark Fantasy 13.8%, Mystery 10.1%, Emotional 8.2%
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: Noir 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Hand-drawn 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%
House of stolen devil bargains and indolent angelic aristocracy: Nowhere Manor is doomed to disappear. You can leave if you’ve got a soul … but that’s not an option for an artificially created servant such as Liber. Just how far are you willing to go escape?
Why similar: Gothic 24.5% ★, Dark Fantasy 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.1%, Multiple Endings 7.9%
Balance work, vampirism and socialising as you explore Kings Cross, Sydney during the last year of the millennium. Keep a lid on your darkest desires and be rewarded with a deeper understanding of what it means to live again. Or don’t — no one will stop you. You’re a vampire, after all.
Why similar: Gothic 21.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Romance 12.1%, Dark Fantasy 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.7%
A visual novel depicting a protagonist who desperately struggles to change their fate of despair.
Why similar: Romance 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Mystery 11.9%, Emotional 11.2%, Visual Novel 11.2%
Delve into a dark fantasy visual novel where evil isn't always as it seems. Make your choices and grow your skills to help determine who survives the Great Culling. Featuring the voice talents of Ralph Ineson, Simon Callow, Savannah Steyn, and more.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Text-Based 11.8%, Medieval 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%
Perform a forbidden ritual of ecstasy to resurrect your lost love in this supernatural mystery visual novel that blends Japanese folklore, cosmic horror and romance.
Why similar: Gothic 25.7% ★, Noir 15.6%, Romance 14%, Mystery 9.4%, Visual Novel 9%
Bleedings Moons is an interactive story revolving around the themes of fate, duty and free will. Your actions and decisions will shape the story of the game, so that Ian's story will be your story, with the logical consequences of your choices.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Romance 13.3%, Dark Fantasy 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Text-Based 9.4%
A tale of two siblings struggling to survive their present and heal from their past. Just how long can they ignore that which haunts them? "Willows: A Dream of Shadows" is a psychological gothic horror visual novel puzzle game, featuring hand drawn assets, and a episodic branching story-line.
Why similar: Gothic 25.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 9%
A job gone wrong traps lawyer R. M. Renfield at Castle Dracula. Sacrifice—others, or your own humanity—to survive, or risk it all for love in this romantic horror visual novel. But Renfield isn’t the only one looking for a way out. Who, if anyone, can you trust?
Why similar: Gothic 23% ★, Romance 14.2%, Dark Fantasy 11.8%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.9%
A daemonic, handcrafted visual novel where your choices shape erotic dreams, secrets, and ritual desires.
Why similar: Noir 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Romance 11.6%, Dark Fantasy 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%
A dark atmospheric test that asks you to see things in new ways, including the experience of playing itself. In this love letter to flash horror, explore 60 ending permutations and reactivity to your answers, as the game not only allows but implores you to play and break it how you see fit.
Why similar: Gothic 27% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Noir 13%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Text-Based 8.3%
A text-based RPG with a nonlinear story set in a free Slavic fantasy world. Shape the heroine's character through your choices and unlock multiple endings. Mystery, folklore, and relationships — your fate depends only on you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Text-Based 12.1%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Hand-drawn 9.3%
Roadtrip across the country. Confront a tyrant. The revolution will be messy—but the relationships will be messier.
Why similar: Romance 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Mystery 11.4%, Dark 9.6%, Hand-drawn 8.9%
Morta has summoned you to judge five souls trapped between salvation and oblivion. Enter their final memories, uncover what they hide, and decide their fate. In this gothic psychological trial, every verdict leaves a mark.
Why similar: Gothic 24.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Dark Fantasy 10.9%, Multiple Endings 8.3%, Visual Novel 8.2%
After you are unable to find a patron to provide you with a magic bond, you stumble into the abandoned temple of the Passion goddess - with four patrons waiting for you. Yet, as you grow closer to gaining magic, something else is drawn to this power...
Why similar: Gothic 20.4% ★, Dark Fantasy 18.9%, Romance 18.7%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.7%
A dark fairy tale about the woods outside a small village and the monster that roams within them. Become Sage and play through to uncover the mystery when they're tossed away from everything they've ever known.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Dark Fantasy 16.2%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%
Take control of Morgan's destiny as his world is turned upside down. Explore the world of Dreams, where mythological creatures and Nightmares are real. A story-heavy adventure game with multiple endings, romance options and a symphonic music! Inspired by Neil Gaiman and Inception.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Mystery 11.5%, Visual Novel 11%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Emotional 10.1%
A boy who hates the night meets a vampire girl who loves it. As they steal blood packs and help those in need under the cover of darkness, the two gradually fall in love. A multi-ending visual novel that gently illuminates the lives of those lost in the night and offers comfort to the lonely.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Romance 14.3%, Text-Based 12.7%, Emotional 11%, Visual Novel 10.9%
Help Elliot recover his memories and unlock the truth of what happened before it's too late. A Mexican-American gothic, boys' love visual novel, featuring interactive spell crafting and point-and-click exploration.
Why similar: Romance 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Emotional 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.5%
A dark, dramatic medieval visual novel. On a stage at the boundary between life and death, an actress struggles through her hardest performance—directed by a jester, she relives her past for the the prize of resurrection...
Why similar: Gothic 28.2% ★, Medieval 13.4%, Dark Fantasy 11.5%, Mystery 10.3%, Visual Novel 10.1%
You've had the same dream all week: a school field trip to a zoo you can't leave, where the lions always find you in the end. Wander the zoo exhibits, make your choices, and search for the way out. A short, hand-painted interactive story about a recurring dream, and finally resolving it.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Text-Based 7.7%
There are no second chances in medicine. A medical suspense visual novel where a young doctor gains the power to rewind time. Use the loop to change the fate of diagnoses, surgeries, and emergency treatments. Your choices shape the story, leading to multiple Bad, Good, and True Endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Story Rich 9.9%, Text-Based 9.1%
Set off on an exciting swashbuckling quest in this classic Fantasy Choose Your Own Adventure! Meet charming characters, fight dangerous foes, and uncover a nefarious intrigue. Experience seamless and reactive storytelling. Prove your innocence, find your destiny, relish the journey!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Romance 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Medieval 12.9%, Visual Novel 10.3%
A brave hero and a bound lich rescue a legendary warrior from a forgotten tomb and put the romance back in necromancy. Necromance is a dark fantasy comedy visual novel with light puzzle elements, 3 endings, and 15 ways to die!
Why similar: Gothic 20.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Romance 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Dark Fantasy 9.7%
A short visual novel about a warrior with a dark past and a radiant goddess who are confronted with a shocking challenge that will change their lives forever, forcing them to reconsider their views on such a complex and contradictory feeling as love.
Why similar: Romance 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Emotional 11.7%, Cinematic 10.1%
Customize your fate in a fallen world: forge bonds and uncover secrets in a tale of power, love, and the weight of grief. Your choices define your path: how will you rise in the hierarchy of the damned?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Romance 15.6%, Gothic 13.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Text-Based 9.5%
A dark fantasy tale where death is not the end but the path to the truth. Two magi trapped in a collapsing tower must unravel a deadly mystery. Each death reveals another piece of the puzzle that is their shared past and forbidden love. For fans of House in Fata Morgana and literary dark fantasy.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Dark Fantasy 12.6%, Romance 11.8%, Text-Based 9.2%, Mystery 9%
A short and (bitter)sweet fairy tale visual novel about first love and longing.
Why similar: Romance 22.4%, Medieval 16.2%, Dark Fantasy 15.9%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%
On Love, On Monsters is a Frankenstein-inspired story with an emphasis on love in its many forms. Play as three characters with alternating POVs; the Doctor, The Priest, and The Exile. Bond with allies and enemies, avoid raising suspicion in the town of Blackmoore, and learn what it means to love.
Why similar: Gothic 25.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Romance 11.4%
Coalescence is a visual novel that takes you deep within Moniker Labs to explore its secrets. Play as one of three characters, each with their own storyline and dialogue options. Form relationships with the companions you encounter and try to make it out alive!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Noir 16.9%, Romance 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Text-Based 10.6%
Embark on a journey of this text anime quest with RPG elements! Walk through beautiful locations, overcome challenges and make Peter’s dreams come true. Every step you take matters. And don’t forget to take the diary - you’ll need it!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Romance 15.6%, Medieval 12.9%, Text-Based 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%
Nanma: A Tecelã das Sombras is a Brazilian dark high-fantasy visual novel where the loom of fate is in your hands. Take on the role of Nanma and discover whether your powers are a gift or a curse.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Dark Fantasy 19.9%, Visual Novel 15%, Multiple Endings 9.3%, Text-Based 9.1%
DEVIL'S LIMINAL is a branching slow-burn horror and yuri romance visual novel. In a life of poverty and violence, Margo Silva has one last summer in Arizona till college. Make choices to maintain a normal facade with friends, date an enigmatic new girl, and stop a demonic plot to take Margo's life.
Why similar: Gothic 21.6% ★, Romance 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%, Visual Novel 8.3%
In a village slowly being consumed by a supernatural curse, you are a witch’s apprentice charged with breaking it. Explore the town, uncover forbidden ingredients, earn the trust of its troubled inhabitants, and complete the ritual before the thorns claim everything.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Gothic 15.5% ★, Text-Based 10.3%, Story Rich 9.3%
Dive into a world of fleeting hope in this thrilling dark romance visual novel! Feel the fear, survive the hunt and navigate through danger on a daunting quest for freedom.
Why similar: Romance 13.4%, Gothic 13.2% ★, Dark Fantasy 11%, Visual Novel 9.4%, Dark 8.6%
RUNT is a rural gothic visual novel mystery where you follow the story of Runt, the youngest of five brothers, surviving a monstrous post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Gothic 25.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%
Pasajeros is developed through a collection of urban and surreal stories collected in a taxi in Bogotá . It’s a four-night adventure packed with micro-stories of vampires, mariachis, and thugs. In addition to the opportunity to find love or madness in the night magic of a city.
Why similar: Noir 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Romance 11%, Visual Novel 10.3%
Fall in love with your worst enemy in this gothic vampire romance BL visual novel about two men pushed to the edges of society learning to trust each other.
Why similar: Gothic 30.2% ★, Romance 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Visual Novel 8.7%, Interactive Fiction 7.8%
My parents sacrificed an orphan to the red egg. She came back home that night. How will the two of us survive the hunger? Good Children Say Grace.
Why similar: Romance 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Emotional 9.9%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
Blackwood knows how to keep secrets: beneath the neon, behind polite smiles, in offices with no nameplates. Stella is searching for a missing friend and realizes too late that she was let in for a reason.
Why similar: Noir 24.8%, Romance 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Dark 10.4%, Visual Novel 10.4%
Misericorde: Volume One is the first part of a series of mystery visual novels set in a convent in 1482.
Why similar: Gothic 24.9% ★, Noir 16.6%, Medieval 16.1%, Mystery 12.5%, Visual Novel 12%
A cozy nonogram puzzle adventure wrapped in a storybook world. Solve gentle picture-logic puzzles to reveal hand-crafted pixel art, and slowly bring color back to a village that has quietly faded away.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Romance 18.1%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Text-Based 10.3%
When the world is coming to an end, who would you want to speak to one last time? Schrödinger’s Call is a visual novel that lets you experience the pain and salvation of human connection, as if you were turning the pages of a picture book.
Why similar: Gothic 25.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Visual Novel 9.1%, Emotional 9%, Cinematic 8.8%
A melancholic fantasy visual novel. Kairos, the last twilight hunter of a clan abandoned by its god, walks to the Temple of Dawn chasing the truth of a silent goddess — and what he lost along the way. They were taught to fear the night. It was the light that burned them.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Dark Fantasy 15%, Romance 14.5%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Multiple Endings 11.6%
Loop is a visual novel set in a dark Irish Forest. Deirdre is set to find her husband who was sworn to become the Forest King. But it’s not easy for a human to walk in the magical realm. What will Deirdre learn about this other world? What will she find out about herself?
Why similar: Gothic 15.5% ★, Dark Fantasy 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Emotional 11.2%, Mystery 10.6%
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Gothic 18% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Medieval 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Dark Fantasy 9.7%
Lose your heart in this dark fairy-tale romance! Once upon a winter night, you enter the woods in search of a beast. But the hunter you find is so charming and sweet–is he truly the monster you seek?
Why similar: Gothic 30.5% ★, Romance 15%, Dark Fantasy 11%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
A Boys Love visual novel with branching plotlines and two love interests. Features beautiful CGs and sprites, and top-notch voice acting throughout the game.
Why similar: Gothic 20.7% ★, Dark Fantasy 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%
A grim, choice-driven interactive gamebook. As the First Ranger of a fortified homestead, you must defend the last survivors from the infected, manage critical resources, and investigate a dangerous internal conspiracy. Every decision shapes the survival of the living.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Noir 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Text-Based 8.9%
A Gothic fantasy tale of loneliness, dark secrets, and the search for a cure.
Why similar: Gothic 38.8% ★, Dark Fantasy 17.7%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Dark 9.7%, Emotional 8.8%
A war veteran and newly minted starship captain faces ancient cosmic horrors as his dreams become reality. Navigate romance, mystery, and sacrifice in this sci-fi adult visual novel where every choice echoes beyond the stars. Optional graphic adult content via free DLC.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Romance 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Cinematic 9%
