- #1 Invisible Wings: Chapter One
97% matchPositive83% of 29 reviews2021
Dev: Audune
Windows
Help Dawn, a young woman of faerie descent, with her first steps into loving and accepting who she is in a modern world where faeries and humans were supposed to live in harmony.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.3%, Psychological 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Fantasy 8.7%
- #2 Open Spaces SE
96% 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: Psychological 18.9%, LGBTQ+ 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%
- #3 Travelling Light
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio IDUNPub: Yotsuba Interactive
Windows · Mac
Travelling Light is a narrative game about four friends, Lars, Leah, Samson, and Ivy, caught in the turbulence of their early thirties. Inspired by real events, this experience lets you step into each perspective as love, friendship, and heartbreak collide.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, LGBTQ+ 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Psychological 11.3%
- #4 Return to Ash
95% matchVery Positive99% of 134 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+ 27.2%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Psychological 12.8%, Emotional 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
- #5 Everlasting Snooze
94% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2024
Dev: Cyampire
Windows · Mac · Linux
You lost your memory of nothing but a mundane day. But why do mysterious men keep jamming into your life, all of them pointing to the day you forgot? Find out a hypnotherapy clinic receptionist's memory of an insignificant day in this BL visual novel.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.8%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Psychological 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Emotional 7%
- #6 Meet Her There
94% 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+ 23.7%, Psychological 19%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Story Rich 7.5%
- #7 Frame of Mind - A game of thoughts.
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: made by betalarsPub: Polynormal Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Frame of Mind - A game of thoughts is a brief and cozy narrative game that lets you explore a character via thoughts and momentos you find in stages of their life. Its an introspective game, meant to share some experiences a peer-group of neurodivergent queers, including the dev, had growing up.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Cinematic 12.1%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%
- #8 The Wreck
92% matchVery Positive88% of 282 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: Psychological 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Cinematic 9.7%
- #9 Harmony: The Fall of Reverie
91% matchMostly Positive73% of 280 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+ 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Emotional 8.2%
- #10 Mira's Mirage Mirror
91% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Amethyst Atelier
Windows
#mir3.exec is a subprocess in {mir3 nervOuS}_{which simulates a reincarnating world}. #a fit model is expected through an iterative method. #version 230527, created/modified by mira.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Word Game 11.3%, Fantasy 9.4%
- #11 Bonjin ~ An Ordinary Man
90% 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+ 23.1%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Psychological 13.8%, Emotional 9.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%
- #12 LUNADUN: LUNATIC DUNGEON
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Team BONA
Windows
You choose a favorite and walk beside them. But those you left behind — where do they go while you're gone? LUNADUN: LUNATIC DUNGEON is an emotional adventure where choices shape the fate of four characters. 'The ones you loved, the ones you ignored — you don't get to walk away from either of them.'
Why similar: Psychological 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Visual Novel 14.8%, LGBTQ+ 13.4%, Emotional 10.7%
- #13 LATEX, LEATHER, LIPSTICK, LOVE, LUST
89% matchPositive92% of 26 reviews2025
Dev: Stanwixbuster
Windows
A self-described "chronically online" trans guy goes to a kink club thinking it will fix him. It doesn't.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.8%, Psychological 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Modern 12.7%, Visual Novel 9.6%
- #14 Artificial Instincts
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cyampire
Windows · Mac · Linux
You came here with a motive, so as everyone, except that you are able to change theirs. Ride with Lucas to turn down all the love interests or end their trouble in this (obviously artificial intelligence-themed) sci-fi BL visual novel. Enjoy the long-waited grand finale in this trilogy!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.2%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Psychological 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Story Rich 6.1%
- #15 The Laws of Probability
86% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: Unspoken
Windows
You have exactly 5. Bread is 4, the bus fare to school is 3. What do you give up? In this short narrative experience, you play as 13-year-old Adam. Confront an interface that reacts to a painful reality, and discover that freedom of choice is sometimes nothing but a privilege.
Why similar: Psychological 18%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Modern 7.6%
- #16 GOBLR: Goblin Date Night Simulator
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SunS3b
Windows
A bite-sized visual novel about going on dates with some absolutely disastrous goblins.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.9%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Emotional 7.2%
- #17 We Are OFK
85% 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+ 24.5%, Cinematic 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Emotional 10.4%
- #18 Greed and Fear and the Rest
84% matchPositive95% of 22 reviews2024
Dev: Cyampire
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are ready to say goodbye to life, but are you prepared to face your life's truth? Navigate a grad student's life between greed and fear in his final 6 hours (and beyond) in this BL visual novel.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.6%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Psychological 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Story Rich 6.3%
- #19 one night, hot springs
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,149 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+ 28.9%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Emotional 8.5%, Story Rich 6.4%
- #20 Until Then
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 17,815 reviews2024
Dev: Polychroma GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.3%, Psychological 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Emotional 14.7%, LGBTQ+ 13.6%
- #21 When its dyed in the color of the sunset
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: voltgear
Windows
"Whe its dyed in the color of the sunset" is a novel game set on Earth in 2034, where humans and other races coexist, depicting the love story of the beastman protagonist, Herbert. While living his school life, he will take actions to interact with the nine romanceable characters.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 30.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.3%, Visual Novel 21.8%, Multiple Endings 6.9%, Adventure 4%
- #22 Lost Connections
82% 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+ 23.9%, Visual Novel 18%, Emotional 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%
- #23 A Heavy Morning
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Saf Interactive
Windows
You know the feeling of struggling to get out of bed? In A Heavy Morning, you will play as a young girl battling with her own mind. Your only objective? Get out of bed and get to work on time.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Psychological 11.3%
- #24 Project Aphotic
81% match4 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: MuYou
Windows
Players assume Lucien's perspective, unraveling the truth behind his coma and amnesia, while cultivating a relationship with Hugh. Throughout the game, choices shape the narrative, leading to diverse storylines and multiple endings.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.5%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Psychological 14%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Word Game 10.7%
- #25 A YEAR OF SPRINGS
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 965 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+ 26.6%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Emotional 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
- #26 I Can Never Love Another
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Love Every Soul Studio
Windows · Mac
A realistic visual novel based on a true story. As a lawyer trying to save a rock singer from her toxic family, you uncover the suffocating truth of "Codependency." Will you leave, sink into the abyss, or g◼︎ai◻︎n the c#our%ag◼︎e to f◼︎ac◻︎e the p#ai%n? Your choices decide.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 29.5%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Psychological 11.3%, Word Game 8.6%, Choices Matter 5%
- #27 EmyLiveShow: How To Write A Bestseller
78% matchPositive83% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: Team Emily
Windows · Mac
Become the co-author of an amazing book! All you have to do is choose which of the four lovely heroines will inspire you!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.7%, Psychological 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%
- #28 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 16.4%, LGBTQ+ 14.7%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Emotional 8%
- #29 CamGirls: Sophie X Rias
78% matchPositive88% of 24 reviews2021
Dev: Dharker Studios
Windows
Follow Sophie as she embarks on her latest adventure in making money, working alongside the enigmatic Rias as they put on a special yuri/lesbian camgirl show for their viewers.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Multiple Endings 5.8%
- #30 The Final Fragment
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: mahousparkle
Windows
A GxG coming-of-age visual novel. Nina sucks at choosing. But when a mysterious incident happens at the arts academy, will she muster the courage to choose–or will she let someone else decide on her behalf?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.2%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Psychological 11.5%, Emotional 8.9%
- #31 時折記 -Tokioriki-
76% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 綴路工房
Windows
Every person you choose leaves someone else behind. Spend your limited afternoons building relationships, exploring the town, and recording each day in Kanata’s diary—then face timed Shadow Choices as an old book begins to fracture his ordinary life.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.2%, Psychological 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%, Story Rich 9.2%
- #32 Call Me Cera
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Toadhouse GamesPub: Team Toadhouse
Windows · Mac · Linux
A 'crunchy wholesome' game about making friends as an adult.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.9%, Visual Novel 17%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Emotional 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%
- #33 The Lattice Grimoire
77% 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+ 19.4%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Story Rich 7.4%
- #34 Doce Fim ~sweetend placebo~
75% 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+ 26.4%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Emotional 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%
- #35 The Inn Between
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cats on a Lilypad StudiosPub: Two and a Half Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A modern fantasy BL Visual Novel following a young mans journey into a hidden world of gods and magic to recover the past he's lost, and find his missing family. Alongside 3 attractive romance options, Myka Riley delves into the unknown.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 29.8%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Fantasy 9.2%, Story Rich 7.6%
- #36 Tavern Talk - A Cozy Visual Novel
73% matchVery Positive89% of 1,742 reviews2024
Dev: Gentle Troll Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 69%
A cozy visual novel about running a tavern in a D&D-inspired fantasy! Gather rumors, serve magical drinks, and meet adventurers on a life-changing quest.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.7%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Emotional 8.3%
- #37 Hotwife Ashley
74% 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+ 21%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Cinematic 8.8%
- #38 BAD END THEATER
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 9,804 reviews2021
Dev: NomnomNami
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 30.6%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Story Rich 8.8%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
- #39 Metahorror Therapy Session
72% matchPositive97% of 37 reviews2025
Dev: Meiri GamesPub: ZNT Productions
Windows · Mac
Take control of a therapist in a mysterious, never-ending therapy session. Can you unravel the truth behind your patient's lies, and live to tell the tale? A psychological mystery developed by a psychologist.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.9%, Psychological 18.9%, Visual Novel 14%, Emotional 7.4%, Cinematic 7.1%
- #40 Depression Quest
75% matchMixed61% of 3,934 reviews2014
Dev: The Quinnspiracy
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 77.9 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Psychological 15.5%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Indie 8.3%
- #41 trophies
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: gg8473
Windows · Mac
TROPHIES is a kinetic visual novel of a young girl trying to escape to normality. Experience an endless tomorrow in this psychological thriller.
Why similar: Psychological 27.5%, LGBTQ+ 27.4%, Visual Novel 22.9%, Stylized 6.3%, Story Rich 5.9%
- #42 あなたに花束を
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: abyss good gamesPub: Chorus Worldwide Games
Windows
“Flowers for You” is a gentle adventure game where you create custom bouquets based on each customer’s story as a florist. Set in modern Japan, listen to faded memories and craft floral arrangements that bring color back into their lives.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Emotional 9.6%
- #43 Hydrangea
70% matchVery Positive93% of 136 reviews2024
Dev: Meiri Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A yandere psychological horror visual novel. Choose a sweetheart to romance, but beware the petals of obsession.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22%, Psychological 17.8%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%
- #44 OU
71% matchVery Positive91% of 87 reviews2023
Dev: room6Pub: G-MODE
Windows
"Between something and someone." U-chronia is a mysterious world constantly changing like a book whose pages are flipped out of order. You will wear the shoes of OU, the protagonist, to live through this game-shaped experience—without knowing what it really is.
Why similar: Psychological 21.8%, Emotional 12%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Fantasy 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%
- #45 Water Girls
72% matchMostly Positive70% of 10 reviews2021
Dev: Dharker Studios
Windows
Visit a variety of water attractions with Jasmin, Celia and Brianna as they strive to have a day of fun together in this Fun yuri/lesbian LGBTQ+ visual novel game.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Modern 10.5%
- #46 Glass Hearts
71% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2022
Dev: Aedian Glair
Windows · Mac · Linux
Gripping psychological thriller Yaoi game full of difficult choices. Can you trust your own mind?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.3%, Psychological 17.9%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Emotional 6.8%
- #47 Ace & Aro: Heart-to-Heart
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kinmoku
Windows · Mac · Linux
Welcome to the Ace & Aro Meetup! Everyone is accepted here – whether you’re a-spec yourself or just curious to learn more. Meet the members, try a cocktail (or two) and unwind with some arcade games. Let’s have a heart-to-heart!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 34.9%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Stylized 7.1%, Emotional 5.5%
- #48 Girl Werewolf Hamlet Saves Christmas
70% 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: Visual Novel 20.1%, LGBTQ+ 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Story Rich 7.4%
- #49 The Afterlife Cafe
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Guava Pixel Studios
Windows · Linux
Travel to the world of the dead, whose stories encourage reflection on life. Chat with spirits, brew drinks to suit your mood, and bond with the people who run the afterlife cafes. In this urban sci-fi fantasy visual novel, your choices impact the living, the departed, and your own path forward.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.4%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Story Rich 7.5%, Emotional 7.2%
- #50 Our Wonderland
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: CarrotPub: Project Ensō
Windows · Mac · Linux
A horror-fantasy visual novel following the trials of a dysfunctional friend group thrust back into the wish-granting wonderland of their youth. Either they face the issues plaguing them or risk dying in horrific ways again… and again… and again.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.7%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%, Emotional 9.5%
- #51 Flora Parasocial
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Laments_VN
Windows
Audiences connect to their favorite celebrities all the time. How does it affect these people when put into a game of life or death? Only time will tell.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Choices Matter 4.5%
- #52 Dance of the Butterflies
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Parupuro Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your twin sister is missing. Under her name, you uncover a deadly system where 50 people compete for a Wish powerful enough to change anything. The price of entry is a piece of yourself, signed away in a contract. Survive. Find her. And try not to lose yourself to the people you meet along the way.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.1%, Psychological 25.6%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%, Cinematic 4.7%
- #53 He Fucked The Girl Out of Me
67% matchVery Positive93% of 515 reviews2023
Dev: Taylor McCue
Windows
He Fucked The Girl Out Of Me is a semi-autobiographical narrative visual novel about trauma and sex work made for the gameboy. The author explains how sex work impacted her life and changed her perception of the world. The game takes approximately 40 minutes to play from start to finish.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 35.5%, Psychological 18.8%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Emotional 13.1%, Story Rich 7.4%
- #54 After the Wane
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nova-box
Windows · Mac · Linux
Retracing the footsteps of a mother she never knew, Lena's trying to make it as a dancer in the city. Caught in a quarrel between dance companies, dealing with love and heartbreak and the challenges of young adulthood, she must also cope with the voice in her head commenting on everything she does.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.1%, Visual Novel 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Emotional 10.3%, Psychological 9.4%
- #55 Spellbound : The Magic Within
69% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2022
Dev: Wyrdren Games
Windows
Spellbound: The Magic Within is a branching narrative, multiple ending visual novel. Jump into a world of Magic, Witchcraft and Mystery as a magician in training. Interact with a host of unusual characters. Choose from multiple schools of magic, bond with your tutor, and maybe even save the world.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.5%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Fantasy 9.2%
- #56 Dissecting Love
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Disco:very StudioPub: TBD
Windows · Mac
An autopsy of a queer relationship.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.4%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Emotional 5.9%, Choices Matter 5.7%
- #57 Fling with a Tiefling
66% matchVery Positive92% of 87 reviews2024
Dev: Kristi Jimenez
Windows · Mac · Linux
Fling with a Tiefling is a short fantasy romance visual novel that follows you, an adventurer whose journey is about to come to an end. With tonight potentially being the last night with your treasured Tiefling companion Karrus, how will you spend it with him?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.4%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Emotional 9.7%
- #58 Entropic Float: This World Will Decay And Disappear
67% matchPositive92% of 50 reviews2022
Dev: Nico HPub: Starfield Gaming
Windows · Mac
A free drama-mystery visual novel with a modern fantasy setting. Reach out to the fourteen people trapped inside to find the truth through eighteen endings, influenced by but not exclusively bound to your own system time.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.6%, Visual Novel 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Story Rich 8.1%
- #59 Lone Bird in the Tree
65% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2026
Dev: Aosolagame
Windows · Mac
“Lone Bird in the Tree” is an ADV with male and female versions of each of the four characters. The story alternates between the “future” of the main character, who is deeply traumatized by the grief of his/her best friend, and the “story leading up to the loss of his/her best friend”.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Psychological 8.6%