60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Story Rich, Choices Matter, Multiple Endings.
Game Director Story is an unflinching and satirical look behind-the-scenes at how big-budget AAA games are made. Based on first-hand accounts by industry veterans, Players experience the emotional roller coaster of guiding a team through the agonizing decisions and compromises needed to ship a game.
Traveler Stories: Journeys of Real People
"Is this really the life you want?" A visual novel with simple life-sim elements, based on 80% true stories from world travelers. Step behind the bar in Tokyo, encounter extraordinary lives, and challenge your values. A simulation to rediscover yourself and open the door to a "new you."
Crown Delights Deli
Crown Delights Deli is a visual novel with multiple dialect/language choices. As the cashier at a Brooklyn bodega, choose to talk in English, AAVE, or Spanish to a diverse cast of characters as you try to maintain a five-star rating for your boss.
"Is this really the life you want?" A visual novel with simple life-sim elements, based on 80% true stories from world travelers. Step behind the bar in Tokyo, encounter extraordinary lives, and challenge your values. A simulation to rediscover yourself and open the door to a "new you."
Why similar: Game Development 27.3% ★, Visual Novel 10.5%, Dialogue Heavy 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
Crown Delights Deli is a visual novel with multiple dialect/language choices. As the cashier at a Brooklyn bodega, choose to talk in English, AAVE, or Spanish to a diverse cast of characters as you try to maintain a five-star rating for your boss.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.6%, LGBTQ+ 15.2%, Life Sim 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Choices Matter 9.5%
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: Dialogue Heavy 16.3%, LGBTQ+ 15.7%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
"Curtain Call" is a visual novel about (literally) breaking through social masks by forming meaningful connections with incredibly deep personalities. Whether you’re looking to make new friends or something more, there’s a whole cast of characters just dying to meet you!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15%, Time Management 13.5%, Dialogue Heavy 10.2%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
A lonely young man is guided by a silent Muse to solve the mystery behind his two Doppelganger Soulmates.
Why similar: Narrative 20.9% ★, Time Management 14.9%, LGBTQ+ 14.1%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
Raise a Zanmi egg at the "Academie des Zœufs". Care for it, choose its activities and training, and build relationships with the other students to shape its growth in this character-raising simulation. What kind of Zanmi will you raise?
Why similar: Time Management 17.2%, Life Sim 14.6%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11%, Visual Novel 9.9%
Socially awkward game developer Yaemori Nowa receives more than she bargains for when two characters she created for her indie smash hit eroge, Utter Obedience: Conquered by the Sadistic Princess, appear in her apartment. What's a hopeless lesbian to do?!
Why similar: Game Development 23.4% ★, Visual Novel 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, LGBTQ+ 11.7%, Text-Based 9.5%
After years abroad, Ryoutarou returns to his Japanese hometown to reconnect with old friends—and maybe find new love?! It's up to you to make this homecoming as sweet as can be in this rom-com visual novel from studio Hooksoft.
Why similar: Time Management 18.7%, Dialogue Heavy 13.8%, Life Sim 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
You're an NPC who gives quests to heroes. Play through 7 scenarios in this humorous narrative adventure with management sim gameplay and a real sassy manager. Now get to work!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.2%, Dialogue Heavy 15.1%, Narrative 11.8% ★, Choices Matter 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.7%
Gokai Awesome Simulator + is a premium version of Gokai Awesome Simulator (now known as Gokai Awesome Simulator Lite) with tons of new content than the original!
Why similar: Game Development 38.8% ★, Time Management 24.8%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Simulation 7.3%, Story Rich 5.3%
As the priest of Santa Cecilia, save a village’s souls or exploit their sins. Sinful Hearts is a dark fantasy RPG visual novel with point & click investigation, branching choices, and consequences that can redeem, corrupt, or destroy.
Why similar: Time Management 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, LGBTQ+ 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Dialogue Heavy 12%
Did I really save this pretty boy ten years ago...? A fresh summer youth BL visual novel about memory, promises, and mutual salvation. [clear cherry ice.] Get closer to Jiwon and Chaehyun, and see whether your bond becomes friendship—or something more.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.1%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Dialogue Heavy 15.4%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Text-Based 10%
This is the story of your life. Experience the entire journey from toddler to adulthood. Go to schools, learn new things, meet new friends, and have wild adventures! Every choice you make will influence your future career, and decide who your romantic partner will be. Who will you become?
Why similar: Life Sim 14.6%, LGBTQ+ 14.2%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Management 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
You are the new postal worker! Serve customers by sending and receiving packages and letters. Check the contents of boxes for prohibited items. Every decision you make has consequences. Decide whose side you're on.
Why similar: Time Management 20.3%, Management 14.2%, Dialogue Heavy 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Life Sim 12.1%
A story-rich coming-of-age experience told through a 2004 desktop, where friendships, music, and late-night conversations shape who you become. Explore chats, drama, mini-games, and the early internet in a branching story about growing up, making mistakes, and finding your place.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 19.8%, Visual Novel 17%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Text-Based 10.5%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.6%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Multiple Endings 15.4%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%
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+ 18.9%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
Bulk Up in this Narrative-Driven Prison Bodybuilding Sim. Grow your Muscles and Aura to face off against inmates and build alliances to survive inside.
Why similar: Time Management 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Narrative 13.2% ★, Visual Novel 12.3%, Life Sim 12.3%
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+ 22.7%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Dialogue Heavy 13.9%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
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+ 17.6%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Choices Matter 12.1%
Leo Pujols is just a wholesome man with a simple calling: open up a butt tattoo parlor. The historic town of Las Nalgas will never be the same. In this visual novel, your choices decide the fate of Leo and Las Nalgas. Also, you draw tattoos on butt cheeks.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.6%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Dialogue Heavy 10.2%, Story Rich 9.5%
Every swipe is a decision, every decision a potential path to glory or downfall. How will you lead?
Why similar: Game Development 34.1% ★, Management 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Choices Matter 11%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
"Your choices have always mattered, please don't forget that." - A creepy-cute otome visual novel where you follow a loyal group of friends' descent into anomalies, magical girls and more! ♡
Why similar: Time Management 17.8%, LGBTQ+ 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12%, Visual Novel 11.1%
Coffee Talk Tokyo is the newest entry in the beloved series, set in a late-night café in Tokyo. Brew drinks, meet humans and yōkai, and experience heartfelt stories in a cozy, story-rich world.
Why similar: Narrative 22.5% ★, Dialogue Heavy 17.2%, LGBTQ+ 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Choices Matter 10.4%
A metafictional dating-sim visual novel set during the social distancing era, driven by a community-centric messenger system.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 16.8%, Visual Novel 14.1%, LGBTQ+ 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Text-Based 11.6%
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 13.9%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.5%, LGBTQ+ 11.8%
A visual novel written as a psychological horror RPG where your choices shape your life, leading to irreversible consequences and determining how your descent into darkness unfolds. The game can end in many different ways. Your choices determine how.
Why similar: Narrative 24.1% ★, Visual Novel 16.5%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%
"I promise, I will get you to Heaven!" Earn your afterlife ticket with angel Ariel! Manage schedules and master 3 mini-games: Dog Walking (Action), Playtime (Survivor-like), and Cleaning (Tower Defense). A heartwarming multi-ending visual novel featuring a Monk, Nun, and Pastor helper trio.
Why similar: Narrative 23.8% ★, Time Management 17.8%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%
A candy alchemist finds a candy golem in her basement workshop...
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Choices Matter 7.6%
Join us in celebrating twenty five years of GameMaker with GameMaker 25th Anniversary! A fun look at the process behind creating the world's greatest 2D Game Engine! Manage your development house, keep your employees happy, and squash bugs as they come up!
Why similar: Game Development 39.1% ★, Time Management 15.8%, Management 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%, Simulation 6.5%
VOICE is a game about the story of living in a dystopian world where speaking is forbidden.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.4%, Dialogue Heavy 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Text-Based 11.9%
1 broken down car, 2 weeks in a hidden seaside town, and 7 men waiting to sweep you off your feet. Will you follow the threads of destiny in Brine Bay?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.4%, Dialogue Heavy 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Life Sim 9.7%
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+ 24.4%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.2%
Mirror Drama is a story-focused RPG where everyday conversations become turn-based battles. Follow Shunta as he navigates his daily life, friendships, and the mysterious reflection that haunts his past.
Why similar: Time Management 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Life Sim 13.3%, Text-Based 8.9%
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?
Why similar: Narrative 21.6% ★, LGBTQ+ 18.3%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Text-Based 8.9%
You didn't want to spend your summer at the beach, but after being dragged there by your friend, you decide to make the most of it! Meet four unique girls and spend time with them to unlock and uncover their hidden stories, and maybe even fall in love in this heart-throbbing, rom-com visual novel!
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.4%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Simulation 11.5%, Life Sim 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.8%
何気なく頼んだ「アイスコーヒー」の注文が、奥の部屋への「合言葉」になっちゃってる喫茶店。 1周5分の、ちょっとおかしくて怪しいマルチエンドADV。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Dialogue Heavy 15.6%, Text-Based 10.2%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
Comet Angel is a sci-fi yuri narrative adventure with point and click puzzles. Join teenagers Izzy and Nat on an emotional journey of self-discovery and acceptance as they make humanity's first-ever alien contact.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.8%, Dialogue Heavy 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Text-Based 10.3%
BlackberryNOVA: A yuri visual novel about a girl whom graduated from high school and is now preparing herself as she enters college.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.9%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.9%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Choices Matter 9.4%
Play as an official’s daughter entering the imperial palace as a consort. Build relationships, shape your family’s fate, speak freely with memory-driven AI characters, navigate favor and political intrigue, or overturn the order of the court and pursue an entirely different ending.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 14.2%, Life Sim 11.6%, Management 11.1%, Text-Based 9.9%, Visual Novel 9.5%
Are you really the only woman at the ten year reunion for your religious all-girls high school?! Catch up with your old graduating class and maybe learn a thing or two about yourself in a hilarious weekend romp at a posh vineyard. What could possibly go wrong?
Why similar: Narrative 22.7% ★, LGBTQ+ 17.2%, Dialogue Heavy 17.1%, Visual Novel 10%, Choices Matter 8.1%
Live out your school days as you navigate the rocky world of game development! Can you make an amazing game, or will something get in the way?
Why similar: Game Development 33.5% ★, Time Management 19.4%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Life Sim 13%, Story Rich 6%
Tayke Me With You is a visual novel about high school seniors and their struggles with each other and the world around them. You play as Gene, a sheltered, socially naive human from the city as he acclimates to living in a rural town filled with dinosaurs, finding friends (and love) along the way.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.2%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Multiple Endings 15.1%, Text-Based 11.5%
A fantasy visual novel featuring action, horror, and multiple endings to a tale of suspense, intrigue, desperation, and desire. Part I of The Enonoia Saga.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 13.6%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Text-Based 11.8%
Did you ever have a virtual pet? Was your virtual pet responsible for solving mysteries in the cruel streets of Victorian London? Did your virtual pet forget to eat? Did he stay up to 3AM doing chemistry experiments? Your virtual pet is named Sherlock Holmes. Try to keep him alive.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 18.2%, LGBTQ+ 16.3%, Life Sim 13%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Choices Matter 10.2%
Take care of a demon lord trapped in a plush toy. Feed, bathe, and play with him for over 30 days. He might fall for you, but will his love be soft… or twisted? Explore every path in this pet-care sim with multiple endings.
Why similar: Time Management 18.3%, Life Sim 13.6%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Choices Matter 11.2%
In this adventure visual novel, you travel across an alien planet stuck in an endless sunset. Shape the fates of 7 companions from different worlds. Uncover the truth about anomalous locations, hidden corridors, and a child who aged in a day. See what remains of a world abandoned by its creators.
Why similar: Narrative 28.7% ★, LGBTQ+ 19.1%, Dialogue Heavy 15.9%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
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+ 20%, Narrative 17.8% ★, Visual Novel 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
A cozy tea-making game set in a post-colonial fantasy world. As a herbalist’s apprentice, serve magic elemental teas to influence a colourful cast of characters. Connect with your estranged home, discover your gifts, and find your place in a fractured, healing world.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.8%, Dialogue Heavy 16.9%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.1%
Live the day-to-day of a magic school student! Whimel Academy is a cozy magic school simulation game. Manage your time and balance between studying magic, part-time jobs, and befriending (or romance) classmates in this wholesome and enchanting world!
Why similar: Time Management 20.1%, Life Sim 14.5%, LGBTQ+ 14.2%, Management 12.1%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
The world has burnt to ash. Wander the wasteland, scavenge and trade for vital supplies, hook up with over a dozen hot guys, develop relationships—however fleeting—and decide how you want to live in this new world.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.5%, Dialogue Heavy 16.6%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.9%
Return to a hometown that hasn’t changed the way it should have. A psychological visual novel focused on atmosphere, relationships, and a reality that slowly refuses to stay still. Can you uncover the truth before it consumes you?
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Visual Novel 14%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
Two engaging and sexy FNAF-inspired Visual Novels combined into one, each set across 14 nights in a night club where the animatronics are harboring deep secrets. Can you save everyone, or will they be fated to something perhaps worse than death?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.3%, Dialogue Heavy 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Visual Novel 13%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
From nobody to famous game producer in 3 years: that’s the journey you will live! Experience the trials and tribulations of game development in this life simulation game: live through the process of founding a small team and learning how to work together to develop a successful game.
Why similar: Game Development 21.6% ★, Time Management 17.4%, Management 12.8%, Life Sim 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.1%
A simulation and RPG game with multiple endings, set in a Chinese restaurant. Play as the owner, and manage the restaurant, form bonds with characters, and explore the lively town. Uncover the secrets behind the restaurant’s mysterious downfall.
Why similar: Time Management 18.3%, Life Sim 14.2%, Visual Novel 13%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Management 11.7%
「その選択肢、正気か？」シンプルなノベルゲームのはずなのに、とにかく“選択肢”がおかしい！？ 予想を超える展開が待ち受ける、奇想天外なテキストアドベンチャーゲーム！
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Text-Based 14.3%, Choices Matter 10.8%
After inheriting your grandmother's old shop, you must learn the subtle art of potion-making. Balance the effects of your brew using a variety of ingredients and tools and discover the intricacies that the magic of science has to offer!
Why similar: Time Management 21.4%, Management 17.9%, Dialogue Heavy 15.3%, Choices Matter 11%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
"Cold Bed on Route" is an equation-like adventure game. Work with to find and dump unwanted items. Then, let's make up for the excess weight caused by having her on board. And let's prove that the universe is not yet completely cold and frigid. Now, pilot, it's your turn.
Why similar: Time Management 24%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Text-Based 11.6%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
A visual novel about first love, decisions, and the sweetness of a town where everyone knows each other. Join Haruto on his journey to discover what it truly means to love.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.9%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
In this pre-smartphone-era text adventure, use that good ol’ T9 phone to text your way through the highs and lows of school days. Choose replies piece by piece to shape your own story. Friendships grow; feelings get complicated; secrets flicker. Every reply matters—it all happens Between the Lines.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 18.6%, Narrative 17.5% ★, Text-Based 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Choices Matter 11.3%
