60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Story Rich, Drama, Emotional.
A visual novel with elements of romance for both sexes, telling about children who escaped to the street from an orphanage. Will they be able to survive if they are needed by a secret organization as cannon fodder?
The Mermaid of Zennor
A short, dark visual novel set in the UK about a young autistic girl's destructive obsession with her older brother.
I WILL DO IT SOON MAYBE LATER TOMORROW
A short narrative visual novel about procrastination, family, and the inner dialogue of a creative person. A story about how delaying decisions slowly erodes a life.
A short, dark visual novel set in the UK about a young autistic girl's destructive obsession with her older brother.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.7%, Drama 14.4%, Emotional 13.2%, Text-Based 12.2%, Dark 11.9%
A short narrative visual novel about procrastination, family, and the inner dialogue of a creative person. A story about how delaying decisions slowly erodes a life.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.1%, Narration 16.1%, Emotional 15.3%, Drama 14.9%, Text-Based 9.9%
Interactive anime adventure in visual novel format!
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.4%, Drama 12.4%, Emotional 12.4%, Text-Based 12.1%, Narration 11.9%
I dreamed of a girl. From then on, I saw her every day in my dreams. I don't know why it happened. I can only keep telling myself that it is all false, all illusion. But on the other hand, I fell in love with it.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.2%, Drama 24.5%, Emotional 20.6%, Text-Based 20%, Story Rich 6.3%
Simple visual novel in which you play as a young upperclass woman preparing for her debut before the Queen and her royal relatives. All of your decisions lead to one of four very different endings. Who will you become? The jewel of the season or the outcast, never again mentioned by your family?
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.4%, Text-Based 12.5%, Narration 11.6%, Drama 10.8%, Emotional 10.1%
The vibe of a typical Russian train is conveyed through illustrations, sounds, and characters. So, hold your seat on the train!
Why similar: Text-Based 17.1%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Drama 15.3%, Emotional 12.1%, Idler 11.1%
At the heart of the action are a twelve-year-old Kenneth and his younger sister Esme, children of the Murphy family, who hit the trail of a mysterious monster following series of entangled events.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.4%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Narration 11.3%, Emotional 9.3%, Drama 8.6%
A visual novel about the mind, change, and being locked up.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.8%, Text-Based 15.5%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Drama 10.4%
One-room cyberpunk VN about doubt, guilt and memory. Talk to a girl who claims to be your girlfriend, question reality, and unlock multiple endings in a short, replayable psychological story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.2%, Drama 15.9%, Dark 15%, Emotional 14.1%, Atmospheric 9%
Isabella, your classmate, is someone you were never close to but someone you certainly noticed. One day however, you notice that Isabella stopped coming to class. You start to discover how important you were to her despite never even having a conversation with her before.
Why similar: Drama 19.6%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Dark 14.4%, Emotional 13.4%, Narration 8.4%
A group of university students is going to spend a week in the old hotel "Amnea". Within these seven days they have to find out what is hidden behind its facade and to unravel all the mysteries without losing their minds.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.5%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Drama 13.8%, Survival 11.3%, Dark 10.6%
After losing his parents and barely escaping his burning home, Zach wakes up in the hospital where he meets Aya, the ghost of a girl. Who is she, and why can only Zach see her? Together they try to investigate Aya's past, which quickly awakens new dangers.
Why similar: Drama 15.5%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Text-Based 13.6%, Emotional 11.2%, Narration 10%
Hello, Jake. Welcome to the game.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.2%, Drama 17%, Dark 15.2%, Emotional 11.6%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
Fear is real. Sometimes tragedy needs nothing more than that. 💀 A short visual novel based on the story of the same name — about the silence that lets something shuffling into your home. 👁️👁️
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.2%, Dark 14.9%, Emotional 14.1%, Text-Based 9.9%, Idler 9.4%
For 20 years, she lived with depression. Now, she's strong enough to name what happened: a social murder. This is a visual essay—not a game—with over 400 illustrations about grief, guilt, and survival in a collapsing meritocracy.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.3%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Emotional 17.2%, Dark 12.4%, Story Rich 9%
A strange incident turns the life of an ordinary young man upside down when, having fallen asleep on a regular train commute, he wakes up in another country... in a body of a Japanese student! An unforgettable summer adventure awaits, promising many fateful meetings and momentous occasions.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.7%, Drama 16.1%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Emotional 14.3%, Choices Matter 7.5%
Born with a birth defect that he hates, Kakeru struggles with severe anxiety and depression. Guide his timid decisions as he takes a brave step into a new world - joining his school's music club, making unexpected and inspiring new connections, and daring to dream again.
Why similar: Emotional 14.6%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Drama 13.3%, Text-Based 10.3%, Narration 9.7%
Sanctuaries. Secrets. Serious consequences. A solo-developed psychological horror/drama visual novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16%, Emotional 14.7%, Drama 12.7%, Dark 12%, Text-Based 10.7%
"KARA" is a visual novel following an ordinary high schooler whose life slowly spirals into a nightmare. Sleep deprivation, a tragic chain of events, and dark secrets will force you to question reality itself.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.8%, Drama 14.6%, Dark 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Choices Matter 10.8%
Guilt Free is a visual novel crossed with a point and click made to offer perspective on mental health and eating disorders. Navigate a couple's rocky relationship and encounter "flaws" or "quirks" that may actually be symptomatic behaviors.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.4%, Drama 14.8%, Narration 14.6%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Emotional 13.6%
Experience the heart-pounding suspense of a modern-day werewolf horror story as you step into the shoes of Cassie, a brave woman determined to put an end to a terrifying curse plaguing her small town.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.6%, Text-Based 16.7%, Drama 13.1%, Dark 11.5%, Emotional 10.9%
A short visual novel about dealing with loss. You explore a festival filled with old memories and regret. Where the voices of the dead never stay quite dead. Will you manage to change, before it's too late?
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.5%, Text-Based 14.6%, Drama 13%, Emotional 11.3%, Simulation 7%
Within this fully voice-acted Visual Novel, meet Elliot, and the vortex of conflicting truths he has become trapped in. Reach each ending to discover reality for yourself.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.6%, Drama 20.5%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Narration 12.6%, Dark 9.1%
Wake up, watch tv, make a cup of cofffee and try to bear your own meaningless existence.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.9%, Drama 15.6%, Text-Based 14.9%, Dark 13.9%, Emotional 13.2%
The threat is on the road ahead and deep beneath her skin. A psychological visual novel about memory, trauma, and the cost of every choice.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.2%, Emotional 15.9%, Text-Based 15.1%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Drama 9.4%
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: Visual Novel 15.4%, Text-Based 13.3%, Drama 11.2%, Narration 10.4%, Emotional 10.3%
Un visual novel d’horreur qui se déroule dans le noir complet, où les paroles des personnages sont mises en musique.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.6%, Text-Based 15.6%, Narration 14%, Drama 12.1%, Dark 9.9%
This is a story about Iris, a nobody who didn't have a Happy Ending and now suffers the consequences of their own (lack of) actions all alone in the most northern city in the world. A depressing story and a melancholic lesson teached in life's hard way awaits you.
Why similar: Drama 22.7%, Visual Novel 21.7%, Emotional 19.9%, Text-Based 10.4%, Psychological 7.7%
「30 Days」 will change someone's life, maybe your life.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.3%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Emotional 11.4%, Drama 11.4%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
My name is Jeremy. I can bring things to life.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.9%, Drama 20.9%, Dark 17.1%, Emotional 16.3%, Story Rich 10.1%
Originally released in 2012, Loving Life is a non-fictional auto-biographical visual novel about Zhenghua Yang (Z) and the near-fatal incident which led to the founding of Serenity Forge. This is where it all began.
Why similar: Drama 18%, Emotional 17.6%, Visual Novel 15%, Text-Based 14.3%, Dark 8.7%
Scribe is a scribe simulator in which you can secretly shape the destinies of the inhabitants of the estate: resolve disputes, influence the course of family intrigues, decide who lives and who does not. Choose what to write in letters and whether to change their recipients!
Why similar: Text-Based 17%, Drama 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Dark 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.1%
Aki is haunted by a curse. In search of salvation, she travels into the memories of a dead classmate, where she must witness three eerie mystical stories and figure out how to break the shackles of misfortune.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.2%, Dark 13.9%, Text-Based 13.9%, Drama 12.6%, Story Rich 8%
A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?
Why similar: Emotional 14.9%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Drama 14%, Dark 12.1%, Text-Based 10.2%
A short atmospheric pixel-art story about the moment when a father, late at night, realizes his mistakes and remembers what truly matters. Inspired by a classic. Perfect for parents, sons, daughters, and anyone who knows the feeling of “what if…”.
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.6%, Text-Based 26.6%, Drama 18%, Emotional 15.7%, Atmospheric 10.7%
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: Text-Based 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Emotional 11.8%, Narration 10.8%, Drama 10.5%
Transparent is a narrative game where every choice shapes Clara’s existence. On the eve of her 30th birthday, she revisits key moments of her life. Will her decisions anchor her to reality or make her fade away? Explore memories, face dilemmas, and discover multiple endings
Why similar: Text-Based 19.6%, Narration 18.1%, Emotional 17.2%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Choices Matter 8.7%
A fantasy visual novel featuring intense action at every turn, following the struggles of a bear trapped in the body of a man. Part II of The Enonoia Saga, and the definitive conclusion to Ovine Replica.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.1%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Drama 14.2%, Survival 13.3%, Emotional 12.7%
A short, emotional visual novel following a grieving man who relives memories of days long gone. An exploration of loss presented honestly and kinetically.
Why similar: Drama 20.8%, Emotional 20.1%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Narration 9.9%, Story Rich 8.7%
'I', an ordinary high school student, turns into a monster every night after a certain incident. The protagonist struggles to find out why he became a monster and at the same time avoid being restrained. Please join this girl on her journey toward truth.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.6%, Drama 17.2%, Dark 16.6%, Emotional 14.9%, Simulation 14.7%
Samael suffers from delusions. He feels lost until he encounters a priest one day. The priest is the only person in the world who makes him feel at peace. This, however, slowly turns into an obsession. Will Samael learn how to love properly or will he fall into a path of darkness? You decide.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.2%, Text-Based 17.1%, Drama 15.4%, Emotional 13.6%, Dark 12.9%
Missing Stars is a visual novel that aims to depict mental disorders and the people who live with them in a realistic, but sensitive and respectful light.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.6%, Text-Based 17.6%, Emotional 15.9%, Drama 15.1%, Story Rich 10.1%
Runaways is a top-down visual novel about two lost teens on the run, escaping abuse and searching for a new beginning in the quiet depths of the unforgiving city night.
Why similar: Drama 22.8%, Dark 20.1%, Visual Novel 17%, Narration 13%, Atmospheric 9.5%
Spend 100 days living with two “Egg Girls” in a gentle, bittersweet romance visual novel where four emotions—Affection, Empathy, Comfort, and Tension—gradually shape dialogue, distance, events, and endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.5%, Text-Based 15.2%, Emotional 13.8%, Drama 13.8%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
Shine of Fullmoon is a novel game where you interact with your friends in a peaceful Full Moon Village and continue your story by taking adventures thereafter. Let's choose what kind of stories you will continue with our unique friends and what kind of adventures you will take with them.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.3%, Drama 23.2%, Emotional 17.6%, Text-Based 14.3%, Choices Matter 13.8%
"Project Vostok" is a non-linear horror visual novel about a group of airplane crash survivors finding a mysterious Soviet-era bunker in Altai mountains. Uncover a story full of drama, horrors and decide the fate of diverse cast of characters in this visual novel.
Why similar: Drama 16.5%, Emotional 16.3%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Dark 13.4%, Survival 9.7%
Follow Sybil in her pursuit for survival, having to sacrifice everything - her culture, her identity, her values - to achieve a single objective: escape from a place that is constantly trying to kill her. A short game about persecution and identity.
Why similar: Emotional 21.2%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Dark 17.2%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Story Rich 10.4%
A choice-based visual novel game about science, division, and the false ideology of knowledge. Each and every one of your choices will determine whether the disciplines will end in unity or complete division. The key to eternal knowledge is in your hands.
Why similar: Science 23.4% ★, Emotional 14%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Narration 10.7%, Dark 10.1%
Non-linear graphic novel in the genre of magical realism. Will the hero be able to uncover secrets, find himself and escape from danger? Or will he be lost in the streets of the City forever?
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.4%, Dark 17.2%, Text-Based 14.4%, Narration 11.4%, Story Rich 10.1%
Find your resolve, despite the challenges of the future. 30 Days: A Sobriety Simulator is an emotionally compelling cyberpunk visual novel grappling with themes of addiction, control, resilience, recovery, and community. The first thirty days are the hardest; how will you walk towards sobriety?
Why similar: Emotional 15.7%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Drama 12.3%, Survival 9.2%, Dark 9.2%
A short visual novel about isolation. You try to search for comfort in the lonesome people around you. Keeping the darkness at bay with small embers of light. Will you let the fear change you?
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.5%, Drama 14.6%, Emotional 13%, Dark 10.1%, Simulation 7.4%
The Tiny World is a drama visual novel. A New Year's story about a long separation from home, family, friends, and tears freezing in the cold.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.5%, Drama 20.9%, Emotional 11.3%, Text-Based 11.1%, Atmospheric 7.5%
Robot’s Fate: Alice is a text-based RPG set in the future where robots with neural network AI are integral to human life. You’re Alice - a robot who becomes self-aware, while everyone around fears rogue AI. Can you survive and reconcile humanity with robots? Your choices do matter.
Why similar: Science 18.7% ★, Text-Based 15.6%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Narration 11%, Drama 9.8%
Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.3%, Drama 19.6%, Emotional 13.6%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Atmospheric 8.5%
In the Spring Festival of 2005, the blizzard in Xuefeng mountain trapped the drama troupe performing in the village. At the same time, there was a homicide during the performance. Unlike the nervous members of the drama troupe, the villagers were afraid of a more terrible existence than the homicide
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.5%, Drama 19.1%, Text-Based 12.3%, Emotional 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11.7%
What starts with a conversation between two long lost friends spills out into a captivating visual novel about four youths struggling to pursue their dreams and find their place in the world as love complicates everything.
Why similar: Drama 20.2%, Emotional 19.3%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Text-Based 9.6%, Story Rich 8%
A narrative-driven psychological visual novel where every floor of an elevator reveals a key moment from your past. Face your regrets, uncover forgotten memories, and make choices that shape your future. Will you find closure, or remain trapped in your own mind?
Why similar: Text-Based 25.3%, Visual Novel 23.9%, Choices Matter 13%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Drama 8.8%
You, With Me is set mainly in Singapore of an expat couple who had the perfect plan, a perfect getaway for the holidays. However, everything is turned into dust as news come out of the main character's illness. Truly, will pretending that everything is normal give you a sense of normalcy?
Why similar: Text-Based 24.6%, Emotional 22%, Visual Novel 21.9%, Dark 11%, Story Rich 8.3%
『NOAH: 2050』 is a 2D visual novel game that blends an adventure format where you can explore a school.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.8%, Text-Based 20.7%, Drama 13.7%, Multiple Endings 12%, Choices Matter 10.3%
"Date" one of four girls on the path to enlightenment. Prom awaits. Will you be led astray by an old crush? The realistic dating-sim that "teaches" through its gameplay. Follow Rayen, a young disillusioned teen who desires a girlfriend by year's end. Is there hope in his future or endless despair?
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.1%, Emotional 17.3%, Drama 13.3%, Text-Based 12.4%, Choices Matter 9.5%
