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A tale told with vivid colors and rich sound in a classic TYPE-MOON visual novel.

Why similar: Visual Novel 31.5%, Magic 17.9%, Anime 14.9%, Drama 11.3%, Emotional 7.9%

A fantasy visual novel set in a magic school where humans and mages mingle. Will their differences lead to conflict, or to friendship? Enjoy the story of growth in a world of unbridled fantasies! Character designs by Oyari Ashito, and proudly developed by Frontwing.

Why similar: Visual Novel 27.2%, Magic 20.7%, Anime 18.6%, Adventure 11.6%, Emotional 8.8%

“Perennial Dusk -Kinsenka-” is a kinetic novel about how the human heart endures relentless violence and limitless cruelty, telling the story of a group of exorcists-in-training as they gather the pieces needed to mend their wounded souls.

Why similar: Visual Novel 25.3%, Anime 18.5%, Drama 12.4%, Emotional 9.3%, Adventure 9%

正田崇とＧユウスケが送る"神座万象シリーズ"再始動作品・第一弾『黒白のアヴェスター』。 善と悪に分けられた二元論の世界で、殺戮の荒野を行く男の冥府魔道の物語！

Why similar: Visual Novel 28.3%, Magic 21.5%, Anime 18.2%, Adventure 15.8%, 2D 6.5%

「万般皆是命，半点不由人。」被决定的命运，无法战胜，也无法改变。比起抗拒，对命运一无所知或许才是幸福。超长篇文字游戏《终暮黎明》，在6篇不同的故事中经历她们的人生，迎接命运的到来。

Why similar: Adventure 20.6%, Magic 19.9%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Anime 15.4%, Drama 14.6%

"The Other Side of the Sky" is a short text adventure game with an alternate fantasy setting in a single-line ending narrative mode.

Why similar: Visual Novel 37.1%, Anime 25.3%, Adventure 13.4%, Drama 11.6%, Story Rich 11%

《维罗瓦年代记：绯红之狼》是一款文字冒险游戏，你将会跟随维罗瓦帝国学院的教师——朔尔的视点，以魔法学院为舞台，卷入这个牵扯到国家多个势力的政治旋涡以及私人恩怨。

Why similar: Magic 29.3%, Visual Novel 25.9%, Anime 23.7%, Fantasy 7.9%, Story Rich 6.7%

Sign is a visual novel series that blends fantasy, urban life, and adventure. The story follows Lyra, a high school girl who encounters Cygnus, a witch from another world. Together, they embark on a journey to reclaim the witch’s lost powers.

Why similar: Visual Novel 28.8%, Anime 18.4%, Magic 17%, Adventure 11%, Drama 10%

fault - StP - LIGHTKRAVTE is the latest entry in the fault series, which has shipped over 500,000 copies worldwide. LIGHTKRAVTE presents its story through the eyes of Khaji Oberg, an ordinary and unremarkable teenaged boy who finds himself reaching for a dream that slips ever further away from him.

Why similar: Visual Novel 32.5%, Anime 21.8%, Magic 16.3%, Adventure 10.2%, Story Rich 7.6%

In a mysterious school where day and night are two separate worlds, a mismatched trio work to resolve magic-related incidents. A world of magic, intrigue, mystery and the occult awaits you!

Why similar: Visual Novel 34.1%, Anime 33.6%, Magic 14.5%, Adventure 11.8%, Story Rich 5%

Every Hue of You follows the deeply personal and thoughtful journey of Twyla: A jeweller battling grief who awakens the power to enchant her creations with the energy of emotions.

Why similar: Philosophical 24.5%, Visual Novel 22.1%, Anime 15.1%, Drama 8.8%, Story Rich 7.3%

In this visual novel, experience the story of Ethan Syfran, who by an accident got him and his family caught in a whirlpool of crime in a catastrophe-swept world. How would he struggle to get out and save everything he cherished... or carry up all the sins he'd done and keep going?

Why similar: Visual Novel 32%, Anime 23.5%, Drama 21%, Adventure 11.7%, Story Rich 8.7%

My name is Jeremy. I can bring things to life.

Why similar: Visual Novel 25.5%, Anime 17.9%, Drama 15.9%, Emotional 10.9%, Horror 9.7%

A Visual Novel game about adventure, fantasy, magic and friendship. This is a continuation of Chapter 1. There are only a few choices that can be made, and some paths to chose from. The decisions do not have an impact on the ending, instead they provide slightly different content.

Why similar: Visual Novel 26.7%, Anime 19.5%, Magic 19.3%, Adventure 9.6%, Linear 7%

A fantasy Galgame. Play as Kashus, join former knight Candide to defeat the Demon King. Encounter the innocent Holiness in a coastal city. This journey weaves a tale of fantasy, fierce battles, and triumph—an experience that truly feels like playing an RPG!

Why similar: Visual Novel 31.7%, Anime 20%, Drama 17.5%, Adventure 14.2%, Fantasy 5.4%

Several centuries have passed since the Blight Era ended. All the suffering of the time seems to be over. Enter the journey of Jules, a normal mercenary thrust into unusual circumstances. Follow her journey to find the truth about herself and her close friends….

Why similar: Visual Novel 30.1%, Philosophical 18.9%, Anime 17.3%, Adventure 9.3%, Emotional 9.2%

Co-developed with ebi-hime, this is a fairytale-inspired yuri visual novel full of magic. Follow Paige, a struggling writer, as she moves into a spacious home in the English countryside, where she meets the mysterious Faye.

Why similar: Visual Novel 30.5%, Anime 20.6%, Magic 15.7%, Emotional 11.2%, 2D 7.2%

The cinematic adventure novel series "Fault" has sold over 500,000 copies worldwide, and the latest title in the series is now available after six years!

Why similar: Visual Novel 39.1%, Anime 24.4%, Adventure 15.9%, Story Rich 10.3%, Fantasy 6.1%

In Tyrion Cuthbert: Attorney of the Arcane, you play as a defense attorney who practices law in a world of fantasy and wizards. You must defend clients accused of various crimes committed using magic and use the rules of magic to prove them innocent.

Why similar: Visual Novel 35.7%, Anime 24%, Magic 22%, Story Rich 8%, Fantasy 6.7%

The first game of Sorcerer’s Records Series Season 3 is here! Check out the story of Sorcerer's Records, which is more mature than ever! This game is a standard lower window novel game for men of all ages.

Why similar: Visual Novel 34.5%, Drama 21.4%, Adventure 20.2%, 2D 8.1%, Story Rich 6.7%

A fan visual novel where you join Nana at Japari Park as new caretaker. Fun and food await in adventures with an energetic serval cat and an always hungry fox!

Why similar: Visual Novel 34%, Anime 24.3%, Drama 13.2%, Adventure 12.9%, 2D 6.9%

Seek the root of the Fate franchise. Return to where it all began.

Why similar: Visual Novel 32.6%, Anime 19.1%, Magic 16.6%, Emotional 9.5%, Story Rich 7%

Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.

Why similar: Visual Novel 32.9%, Anime 16.1%, Adventure 11.7%, Emotional 9.4%, Magic 7.3%

We Carry the Fire is a fantasy-adventure visual novel about four people embarking on a dangerous quest to save a small village from an apocalyptic curse.

Why similar: Visual Novel 26.2%, Drama 16.4%, Magic 15.8%, Adventure 15.7%, Emotional 11.2%

This is a Yandere Yuri horror game where character sprites and still images move smoothly, created using Live2D and TyranoScript. If you enjoy Yandere Yuri horror filled with obsessive love, we highly recommend giving it a try.

Why similar: Visual Novel 30.6%, Anime 20.2%, Magic 16.4%, Adventure 15.3%, Horror 10.1%

After the assassination attempt on Countess Maria de Fernandez, it was decided to find the best guard in the entire Kingdom for the Countess, and the choice fell on Manuel Vermonad, a former knight who had renounced his lineage.

Why similar: Visual Novel 22.1%, Magic 19%, Anime 16.3%, Demons 15.1%, Adventure 8.8%

This is a story of disease and suffering; of medication and adverse effects; of thoracotomy scars and cellular poisons; of the living who cannot help but to die and of the dying who cannot help but to live; of a resting place other than "on 7F" or "at home".

Why similar: Visual Novel 54.1%, Anime 27.2%, Drama 5.8%, Story Rich 5.2%, Emotional 4.7%

The latest visual novel by Tomo Kataoka, the author of Narcissu 1st & 2nd, has arrived! An empty world with endless rain and only one person. Here there is no hunger, sickness or even death. Just what story does this world's one occupant have?

Why similar: Visual Novel 44.5%, Anime 34.5%, Emotional 7.1%, Story Rich 5.6%, Indie 3.3%

Spring has come, and our protagonist, Yukinari, returns home after 7 years. Between his second cousin Sakura, who meets him outside in a full maid outfit, Hotaru, a half-Japanese beauty with a sharp tongue, and the lazy scheming witch Alice - life just got way more interesting!

Why similar: Visual Novel 42.7%, Anime 35%, Adventure 22.2%

After the revolution, Kikoku is plunged into chaos. Takekosen joins the secret organization Hiseido, facing her final trial. She must abandon her name, wear the mask, and forge her path through fate. A fantasy visual novel set in an ancient Eastern world.

Why similar: Visual Novel 31.6%, Anime 16.9%, Drama 11.2%, Emotional 10.1%, Adventure 9.4%

At last, an all-out war is at hand. The battle against the religious organization, The Fatal Answer (TFA), has entered its final phase, with CIRS and SORD preparing to send all of their troops into TFA's stronghold.

Why similar: Visual Novel 31%, Anime 21.5%, Adventure 12.7%, Drama 11.8%, Emotional 8.8%

Ruby Heart is a "Visual Novel / Otome game" of fantasy adventure with a strong focus in drama and romance. The protagonist, Celty Loweell, travels to a magical underground kingdom in search for a very important person.

Why similar: Visual Novel 44.6%, Anime 22.5%, Adventure 14%, Story Rich 10%, Fantasy 6.3%

Read through this visual novel that will soothe the loneliest of hearts.

Why similar: Visual Novel 33.4%, Anime 21.5%, Magic 18.8%, Drama 18.6%, Story Rich 5.5%

In this adventure game, play as a young boy, Boku, who accidentally releases vengeful spirits from a local shrine. To fix his mistake, he must collect the ancient treasures to repair the seal. But the freed Youkai have their own plans for him and won’t make it easy. Can he resist their deadly lure?

Why similar: Anime 23.2%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Horror 13.4%, Demons 9.1%, Adventure 8.4%

Step into the world of Nyx, a VTuber whose online persona begins to blur with something far more unsettling. After the Stream Went Dark is a short psychological horror visual novel exploring identity, self-perception, and the fragile boundary between performance and reality.

Why similar: Visual Novel 28.3%, Anime 18.8%, Adventure 14.9%, Drama 13.9%, Emotional 10.8%

Iris Odyssey is a text-based adventure game. In the heart of Shibuya, an orphaned girl searching for her family and a magical crime investigator are brought together by fate. Their journey will challenge them and spark a battle against unimaginable forces. A modern fantasy adventure begins.

Why similar: Visual Novel 23.4%, Anime 15.8%, Drama 13.6%, Magic 12%, Emotional 10.5%

Deep inside a forest, a voice calls out to the hero. It is there that he crosses paths with Omaylas, the Dark Magic Queen. Imprisoned in the forest, she offers to swear an oath to the hero in exchange for her freedom, but is there a secret agenda to her actions?

Why similar: Visual Novel 35.2%, Magic 23.4%, Anime 21.9%, Adventure 10.5%, Fantasy 6.9%

Aurans is a kinetic visual novel about coming of age, learning to believe in yourself, and finding out what really matters to you. Everything is fully hand drawn, and is the first visual novel project of Pixelsplosion Studios.

Why similar: Visual Novel 31.5%, Adventure 12%, Philosophical 11.4%, Drama 10.9%, Linear 9.1%

A story about a guy, a girl he met, and their adventure. Freelance IT specialist Semyon meet a girl from Dagestan on the Internet. However, their relationship quickly grow over the regular chatting - he decides to help her run away from home. That is how their amazing adventure begins.

Why similar: Visual Novel 37.7%, Anime 18%, Adventure 13.3%, Drama 13.1%, 2D 6.6%

Set 150 years before the events of BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, XBlaze Code: Embryo is a visual novel that follows Touya Kagari, a high school student whose world is turned upside down when he is attacked by a seemingly otherworldly being and saved by a mysterious girl named Es.

Why similar: Visual Novel 38.1%, Anime 37.3%, Adventure 14.9%, Story Rich 8.5%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Broken Hearts Island, a visual novel in the fantasy genre, tells the story of the adventures of a young oceanologist on a mysterious island.

Why similar: Visual Novel 19.4%, Magic 16.5%, Anime 14.8%, Drama 11.6%, Demons 11.5%

Jaksaljabi is a kinetic novel that you can experience unique set-up and story.

Why similar: Visual Novel 34.1%, Anime 23.1%, Magic 19%, Adventure 14.6%, Story Rich 4.6%

Follow the story of a young boy, Cantus as he meets Maris, the mysterious girl by the sea - an experience that will change his life forever.

Why similar: Visual Novel 48.4%, Anime 35.3%, Adventure 7.7%, Indie 1.9%, Linear 1.8%

Last Stanza is a slice of life, dramatic visual novel that deals with the consequences of a tragic event from different perspectives.

Why similar: Visual Novel 44.3%, Anime 28.7%, Drama 17.7%, Story Rich 5.9%, Indie 3.5%

The story will develop into the year of 1947, where the players would face one of the most traumatic historical events in the history of Taiwan.Sorry,now there are only English interface, English subtitles are still being processed,we hope to complete as soon as possible.

Why similar: Visual Novel 49.4%, Anime 27.6%, Adventure 18.5%, Indie 4.5%

The Days Without Gods is a text-based DND fantasy ADV in which the player takes on the role of Mori Granson, an apprentice and subordinate of Hysso, the president of the Magic Association, and meets Coccinea, a young girl he rescued years ago, and other characters in the mage capital of Tylin.

Why similar: Visual Novel 33%, Magic 23.2%, Drama 13.8%, Adventure 8.4%, Fantasy 6%

Solve puzzles and trick demons while looking for a way out of this absurd situation involving the release of the Devil.

Why similar: Philosophical 21.8%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Drama 12.6%, Demons 11.6%, Emotional 9.7%

Ford Gillia Kingdom, where the ancient magicians' legend still remains. On a certain day Adelite, belonging to the kingdom's chivalric order was cast a death-promising curse by a man who identifies himself as a "magician". The feud between knights and magicians is beyond epochs...

Why similar: Visual Novel 26.3%, Anime 17.7%, Adventure 14.5%, Drama 12.8%, Magic 12.6%

And so begins a grand epic of intertwining destinies; a tale of God, of angels, demons and humans living amongst the walls of the floating purgatory, Tokyo Babel -- a soaring bastion erected in the image of Tokyo, one of the largest cities of a world succumbed to the apocalypse.

Why similar: Visual Novel 47.1%, Anime 35.1%, Adventure 16.3%, Singleplayer 1.5%

A closed-circle mystery visual novel where twelve people wake up inside a bizarre, impossible mansion—and a string of murders begins. Read from Remi’s point of view as you piece together the truth through his thoughts and conversations. Linear, text-focused, Japanese/English supported.

Why similar: Visual Novel 30.5%, Anime 22.1%, Adventure 16.7%, Drama 12.6%, Horror 7.8%

JUSFASLEX is a short kinetic visual novel about a dreamy boy who strives to create a society in a different dimension while struggling to connect to others.

Why similar: Philosophical 27.2%, Visual Novel 26.6%, Anime 15.5%, Drama 10.9%, Adventure 5.9%

planetarian HD is an engaging and emotional visual novel from legendary game studio, Key. A sub-brand of VISUAL ARTS, Key are also famed for creating Kanon, AIR, CLANNAD, Little Busters!, Rewrite, Angel Beats!, and Summer Pockets.

Why similar: Visual Novel 40.5%, Anime 28.4%, Drama 12.4%, Adventure 7.4%, Emotional 6.2%

A horror visual novel set in a steampunk universe. Young Lyset finds herself wandering through a mysterious world of sentient machines. In her desperate search for her long-lost brother, she must choose between death and immortality.

Why similar: Visual Novel 34%, Anime 24.6%, Horror 13.9%, Adventure 10.1%, Story Rich 9.7%

Japan, 2030 A.D. Memories can now be digitized and archived, allowing people to communicate with the deceased. With only one week left before his best friend’s memories are deleted, can Hiroki uncover the truth behind Sorano’s death?

Why similar: Visual Novel 48.9%, Anime 32%, Adventure 9.8%, Story Rich 4.5%, Choices Matter 2.4%

In this visual novel with E-mote animated sprites by veteran studio ANIM, after trying and failing to have children, the Kajiuras decided to attend a relationship seminar to fix the problem. There they meet the Sonadas and as the sessions continue, their lives begin to entwine more and more...

Why similar: Visual Novel 39.7%, Anime 28.1%, Drama 21.3%, Choices Matter 5.4%, 2D 4.6%

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: Philosophical 20.4%, Visual Novel 20%, Drama 11.2%, Anime 9.8%, Emotional 8.9%

"Return to that summer with you..." Ryusei returns to the small island of his younger years, where time flows by gently, to spend a fairy-tale summer vacation with his childhood friend who was spirited away.

Why similar: Visual Novel 29.8%, Anime 18.3%, Emotional 13.5%, Drama 12%, Adventure 7.2%

Malus Code is the story of a graduate student studying abroad at a Japanese university, and the three people he meets in the laboratory there. In this unfamiliar environment, can you earn their friendship? For those who don't want a lonely, sad life.

Why similar: Visual Novel 45.9%, Anime 37%, Adventure 17.1%

偏远的山村中，正举行着古老的祭祀『仙姑宴』。少女吟诵着，舞动着，一场漫长而恐怖的杀戮剧正在悄然上演……

Why similar: Visual Novel 43.9%, Anime 26.3%, Adventure 15.5%, Story Rich 11.4%, Indie 1.7%

A story about forced smiles, coming to terms with the past, and love—but most of all, redemption.

Why similar: Visual Novel 46.9%, Anime 28.2%, Adventure 19.2%, Indie 5.7%