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Games Like Hira Hira Hihiru

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Anime, Story Rich, Adventure.

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"Hira Hira Hihiru" is a visual novel set in a fictional Taishō Era. It tells the story of its two protagonists' struggle against Aerodema, a terrifying disease which brings the dead back to life.

Reviews: Overwhelmingly Positive — 99% — of 860 reviews
Released: 2023-11-16
Developer: BA-KU
Publisher: ANIPLEX.EXE
Genres: Adventure, Casual
Platforms: Windows
Median playtime: 5.2 hrs
Mean playtime: 10.7 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 69%

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    Why similar: Visual Novel 44.4%, Adventure 21.2%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Drama 7.1%, Anime 6.8%

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    Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 43.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%

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    Why similar: Visual Novel 37.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Anime 9.2%, Casual 9.1%

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    95% matchVery Positive93% of 2,444 reviews2017
    Dev: KeroQPub: Frontwing USA
    Windows
    Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 168.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%

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    Why similar: Visual Novel 45.6%, Violent 14.6%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Anime 7.2%, Adventure 6.1%

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    94% matchVery Positive91% of 1,325 reviews2023
    Dev: Innocent GreyPub: Shiravune
    Windows
    Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 110.2 hrs≥1hr: 70%

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    Why similar: Visual Novel 31.6%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Drama 9.7%, Text-Based 8.5%

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    94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,033 reviews2020
    Dev: Liar-softPub: ANIPLEX.EXE
    Windows
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    Windows
    Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%

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    93% matchVery Positive94% of 96 reviews2019
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    91% matchVery Positive95% of 6,041 reviews2016
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    Windows
    Median: 23.9 hrsMean: 58.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%

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    89% matchVery Positive93% of 444 reviews2021
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    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    MAMIYA is a captivating, dark mystery visual novel in which a group of young men struggle against existential dread before the end of the world.

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    Windows

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    Windows
    Median: 22.0 hrsMean: 37.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%

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    Windows
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    Windows

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    Windows
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    Windows

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    Windows
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    Dev: EXPERIENCEPub: Aksys Games
    Windows
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    76% matchVery Positive85% of 221 reviews2024
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    73% matchVery Positive88% of 5,751 reviews2025
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    Windows
    Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%

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    75% matchVery Positive97% of 197 reviews2022
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    Windows

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    72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 9,533 reviews2021
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    73% matchMixed70% of 76 reviews2024
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    70% matchVery Positive90% of 115 reviews2025
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    70% matchMostly Positive77% of 461 reviews2025
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    67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,631 reviews2023
    Dev: 八名木GamesPub: Gamera Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 36 minMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 34%

    Homicipher is a female-targeted language deciphering and exploration ADV based on the concept of "romance with horror men." The protagonist, who has wandered into another world, interacts with non-human beings to decipher their language while striving to escape.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.3%, Text-Based 23.6%, Choices Matter 16.8%, Adventure 10.4%, Casual 7.3%

  56. #56 LOOPERS
    68% matchVery Positive87% of 1,020 reviews2023
    Dev: VisualArts/KeyPub: VisualArts
    Windows
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 71%

    Tyler is a high schooler on a mission. He's going to use every minute of summer vacation to go on as many GPS-assisted scavenger hunts as possible. After running into some old friends during one of these hunts, strange things start happening: The day resets and today plays out exactly like yesterday

    Why similar: Visual Novel 32.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Adventure 16.2%, Casual 13.8%, Drama 10.4%

  57. #57 UuultraC
    68% matchVery Positive98% of 218 reviews2022
    Dev: ADELTAPub: MangaGamer
    Windows

    An 18+ BL visual novel set in 1970's Soshigaya. Kaiju straight out of a black-and-white TV terrorize a Japan without a world's fair. Tokyo's safety is in the hands of Sun Mask Icarus in this slapstick-yet-heavy 70's pro-wrestling kaiju drama!

    Why similar: Visual Novel 40.8%, Drama 13.5%, Casual 12.2%, Adventure 11.2%, Violent 8%

  58. #58 A Light in the Dark
    69% matchVery Positive93% of 1,722 reviews2018
    Dev: CreSpiritPub: Sekai Project
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    ──We cannot choose in this unfair world.The rich boy stuck in his never changing daily life...The fierce girl struggling for survival...Two people in totally opposite positions in life.In the face of confusion and the choices before them, what will they find...?

    Why similar: Visual Novel 46.1%, Violent 17.5%, Casual 14.2%, Anime 7.7%, Choices Matter 6.7%

  59. #59 Epimutation
    66% matchVery Positive95% of 63 reviews2025
    Dev: Barbieronpa
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    399 days ago, the world ended. Epimutation is a horror visual novel that follows seven survivors as they attempt to navigate life in the apocalypse. Make life or death decisions, form bonds with your fellow survivors, and attempt to unravel the mystery behind the outbreak.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 28.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Choices Matter 17%, Drama 13.2%, Adventure 5.2%

  60. #60 Salthe
    69% matchVery Positive86% of 211 reviews2020
    Dev: SoireePub: Shiravune
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    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: Visual Novel 46.3%, Drama 25.7%, Anime 13.6%, Adventure 5.2%, Story Rich 3.7%

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