60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Story Rich, Multiple Endings, Choose Your Own Adventure.
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 25.5% ★, Romance 11.3%, Visual Novel 8.6%, Dark Fantasy 8.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.3%
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 26.7% ★, Romance 13.2%, Dark Fantasy 9.8%, Medieval 9.7%, Mystery 8.8%
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 18.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Dark Fantasy 9.4%, Visual Novel 8.9%, Interactive Fiction 7.9%
A gothic short story set in the most Blighted city of the North Kingdom.
Why similar: Gothic 21.5% ★, Medieval 10.3%, Text-Based 10.1%, 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 17.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Romance 10.6%, Dark Fantasy 9.9%, Medieval 9.1%
Why similar: Romance 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Gothic 15.1% ★, Visual Novel 9.4%, Interactive Fiction 9%
Chess. Love. Destiny. All the same things, really.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Romance 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Hand-drawn 10.5%
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 10.8%, Hand-drawn 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%
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 20.9% ★, Romance 16%, Dark Fantasy 14%, Mystery 10.2%, Emotional 8.3%
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 11.7%, 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 21.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Romance 12%, 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 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Mystery 11.9%, Emotional 11.3%, 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 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Text-Based 11.9%, Medieval 10.5%, 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 25.8% ★, Noir 15.5%, Romance 13.9%, Mystery 9.4%, Visual Novel 8.9%
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 14.1%, Dark Fantasy 11.9%, Visual Novel 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8%
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%, Dark Fantasy 11.6%, Romance 11.6%, 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 27.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Noir 13%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Text-Based 8.4%
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 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Text-Based 12.2%, Visual Novel 10.7%, 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 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Mystery 11.4%, Dark 9.7%, Hand-drawn 8.9%
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 20.5% ★, Dark Fantasy 19%, Romance 18.6%, Visual Novel 13%, 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%, Dark Fantasy 16.3%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, 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 14.9%, Mystery 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Emotional 10.1%
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 28.3% ★, Medieval 13.3%, Dark Fantasy 11.6%, Mystery 10.3%, Visual Novel 10%
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 13.8%, Dark Fantasy 12.7%, Romance 11.7%, Text-Based 9.2%, Mystery 9%
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 21% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Romance 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Dark Fantasy 9.8%
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 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Medieval 12.9%, Visual Novel 10.3%
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 16.6%, Romance 15.5%, Gothic 13.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Text-Based 9.6%
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%
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 25.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Visual Novel 11.7%, 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 20.1%, Noir 16.9%, Romance 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Text-Based 10.7%
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 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Emotional 9.9%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
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 15.5%, Medieval 12.8%, Text-Based 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%
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 before college. Make choices to maintain a normal facade at work, romance an enigmatic new girl, and stop the occult plot to take Margo's life.
Why similar: Gothic 21.8% ★, Romance 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%, Visual Novel 8.3%
A gothic psychological visual novel where you decide who deserves forgiveness… and who deserves condemnation. Explore the lives of five souls, confront unsettling truths, and make choices that will shape your ultimate fate. Every choice is a reflection. Every judgment carries a sentence.
Why similar: Gothic 26.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Visual Novel 8.9%, Dark Fantasy 7.8%
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 13.3%, Gothic 13.3% ★, Dark Fantasy 11.1%, Visual Novel 9.3%, Dark 8.6%
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 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.3%
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 16.7%, Medieval 15.9%, Mystery 12.5%, Visual Novel 11.9%
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 10.9%, Text-Based 10.4%
A short and (bitter)sweet fairy tale visual novel about first love and longing.
Why similar: Romance 23%, Dark Fantasy 16.4%, Medieval 16.2%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%
A Gothic fantasy tale of loneliness, dark secrets, and the search for a cure.
Why similar: Gothic 38.9% ★, Dark Fantasy 17.8%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Dark 9.7%, Emotional 8.8%
RUNT is a rural gothic visual novel mystery where you play as Runt, the youngest of five brothers, surviving a monstrous post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Gothic 25.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%
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 12.3%, Emotional 11.2%, Mystery 10.6%
A dark text-based RPG set in a world gripped by a restless race for survival against a merciless mushroom Forest. As a prophet’s apprentice, guide your clan along the knife-edge between life and oblivion. Decipher misty visions, make critical decisions, and do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Dark Fantasy 13.4%, Text-Based 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Multiple Endings 10%
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 20.8% ★, Dark Fantasy 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%
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 30.6% ★, Romance 14.9%, Dark Fantasy 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
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 18.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Medieval 11.6%, Dark Fantasy 9.8%
Aristocrat Evan Alford receives a mysterious invitation to the fair and comes to a small village on the outskirts of the country. The village seems strange and painfully familiar, but Evan has never been here. In addition, other guests of the fair are not as simple as it seems.
Why similar: Gothic 24.4% ★, Romance 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Dark 9.3%
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 19%, Romance 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Visual Novel 9.5%, Cinematic 9.1%
Under Heaven Or Hell is a Dark Romance Visual Novel where love, danger, and temptation intertwine. Step into Hell and navigate a world of deadly intrigues, alluring devils and a mysterious angel. Each decision carries weight, shaping your fate, desire and the hearts bound to it.
Why similar: Romance 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Visual Novel 11%, Dark Fantasy 10.9%
Cursed paths, dead ruins, and whispers in the dark. Every click leads you deeper, opens new paths, and leaves a mark on you.
Why similar: Gothic 24.2% ★, Dark Fantasy 16.3%, Medieval 9.5%, Multiple Endings 9.3%, Text-Based 9.1%
Not thrilled that fate has led him into the confines of a sinister place, Varlu is left with no choice but to come face to face with many types of demons, including his very own.
Why similar: Gothic 22.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Dark Fantasy 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%, Text-Based 8.9%
In pursuit of coin, hired dagger Arthur finds himself embroiled in conspiracy involving the daughter of a noble House. Who is really pulling the strings behind the scenes?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Mystery 13.8%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Hand-drawn 10.9%
*A remastered version of this game with enhanced graphics has been released. * "Red Spider" is a Hong Kong Noir-themed Visual Novel. There are 6 story routes with the different characters(approximately 105,000 words in total).
Why similar: Noir 21.8%, Romance 15.5%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Multiple Endings 11%
Treis Zoes is a visual novel where not only choice is important, but also the motive of choice. Explore the world of living skeletons on the experience of past travelers and add your own to the encyclopedia of the dimension of Death.
Why similar: Gothic 33.9% ★, Dark Fantasy 14.2%, Visual Novel 10%, Text-Based 9.3%, Hand-drawn 8.8%
An accident at birth gave the protagonist the ability to see the soul. He always thought it was a useless ability when he was growing up. After helping his childhood sweetheart who is a policewomen solve a case, he discovered the correct way to use this ability.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Romance 13.3%, Hand-drawn 12.8%
The Crawling Horror is dead, but its legacy of madness lives on!
Why similar: Gothic 26.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Dark Fantasy 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Text-Based 11.9%
Relive Thomas’s memories in this mystery-filled visual novel. What really happened to Emily? Make choices, explore different versions of events, and uncover two complementary endings that reveal the full truth.
Why similar: Romance 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Text-Based 14.3%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Mystery 12.4%
"The fire remembers what you forgot." Reclaim your name in this Taisho Gothic abyss, featuring an EDM Requiem crafted from the developer's raw voice. A psychological horror where emotion meets AI. Let the author's voice pull you into the depths. What is the truth at the end?
Why similar: Gothic 25.4% ★, Noir 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Visual Novel 9.5%, Cinematic 8.6%
If you crossed a vampire, would you protect humanity or embrace the blood? Guide Mark Delaware's choices in this visual novel as he navigates this dangerous world.
Why similar: Gothic 24.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Dark Fantasy 12.4%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
Relive the same day without remembering it. Your choices feed four inner alter egos (Shadow, Mad, Alex, and Bully) — shaping reality, glitches, and one of 16 possible endings. The day repeats. Your mind doesn’t. Or does it?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Noir 12.8%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
