- #1 Citizen Sleeper
97% matchVery Positive92% of 10,196 reviews2022
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Futuristic 19.1%, Multiple Endings 15.4%, Sci-fi 15.4%, Story Rich 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: Features a deep sci-fi narrative where your choices and dice-based skill checks determine your survival in a precarious colony.
- #2 Growing Up
96% matchVery Positive88% of 3,644 reviews2021
Dev: Vile Monarch
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 18.4%, LGBTQ+ 12.8%, Dating Sim 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the essence of navigating teenage life through a series of choices and skill-building activities that define your adult path.
- #3 Volcano Princess
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 48,144 reviews2023
Dev: 养蛋人 Egg Hatcher
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 20.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Prepare the next monarch by finding her hobbies, training her for battle, and befriending the citizens she'll one day protect. Dive into an all-new parenting-simulator-RPG adventure, where every decision you make will not only affect the future of your daughter but that of an entire empire!
Why similar: Life Sim 28.1%, Dating Sim 16.8%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Visual Novel 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A life-sim that focuses on raising a child through various activities and skill checks, mirroring the growing-up mechanics of the seed game.
- #4 The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
94% matchVery Positive93% of 6,065 reviews2023
Dev: DeconstructeamPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Immerse yourself in an enchanting narrative experience as Fortuna, a fortune-teller Witch condemned to exile on her asteroid home. Craft your own Tarot deck, regain your freedom, and shape the fate of the cosmic Witch society.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 31.7%, Interactive Fiction 24%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Choices Matter 16.2%, Story Rich 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Combines a unique tarot-based deckbuilding mechanic with a branching narrative where your choices reshape the fate of the protagonist.
- #5 Signs of the Sojourner
95% matchVery Positive87% of 255 reviews2020
Dev: Echodog Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
In this narrative card game about relationships and communication, navigate conversations in a colorful world reminiscent of our own. Learn and grow through the cards you choose to play. Who will you become? What will you leave behind?
Why similar: Deckbuilding 18.8%, Card Game 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Choices Matter 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique card-based conversation system where your deck represents your personality and how you connect with others.
- #6 I Wani Hug that Gator!
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 5,620 reviews2024
Dev: Cavemanon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 20.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
I Wani Hug that Gator! Is a choice-driven narrative about teenagers struggling to find their way. Help Inco, loser highschooler extraordinaire, navigate his budding friendships (and romance!) while surviving being the only human in a dinosaur-filled school.
Why similar: Dating Sim 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choices Matter 12.9%
Why You'll Like It: An emotionally resonant visual novel that emphasizes character-driven storytelling and meaningful choices in a high school setting.
- #7 BAD END THEATER
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 9,730 reviews2021
Dev: NomnomNami
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 71%
select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.1%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Multiple Endings 15.5%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%
Why You'll Like It: Uses a meta-narrative structure where exploring various branching paths and endings is central to the experience.
- #8 Our Life: Beginnings & Always
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 13,560 reviews2020
Dev: GB Patch Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 25.5 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.4%, Dating Sim 19.8%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: A deeply customizable life-sim that allows you to grow up alongside characters over several years of their lives.
- #9 Potionomics
91% matchVery Positive90% of 7,292 reviews2022
Dev: Voracious GamesPub: XSEED Games
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
You’ve inherited your uncle’s potion shop—and a huge debt. Better get brewing! Customize your store, hire heroes to gather ingredients, befriend (or romance) fellow vendors to learn new haggling strategies, and go head-to-head with competitors in this narrative-driven, deck-building shop simulator.
Why similar: Deckbuilding 25.9%, Dating Sim 21.8%, Card Game 13.1%, LGBTQ+ 11.1%, Life Sim 11%
Why You'll Like It: Blends deckbuilding and resource management with social simulation, requiring you to balance business and relationships.
- #10 Long Live The Queen
91% matchVery Positive95% of 7,131 reviews2013
Dev: Hanako Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Rule the world or die trying!Being a Princess is not an easy job. Being a Queen is even harder. Especially when you're only fourteen years old, and the reason you've inherited the throne is that your royal mother has just met an untimely end.Now power is up for grabs.
Why similar: Visual Novel 38.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Simulation 10.4%, RPG 9%
Why You'll Like It: A challenging life-sim that requires careful stat management and decision-making to survive a dangerous political environment.
- #11 Wildermyth
89% matchVery Positive95% of 18,174 reviews2021
Dev: Worldwalker Games LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Wildermyth follows heroes over their whole careers, from their pitchfork days to their powerful primes, and on into old age and memory. It’s a party-based procedural storytelling RPG where tactical combat and story decisions will alter your world and reshape your cast of characters.
Why similar: Choices Matter 41.6%, Story Rich 23.6%, RPG 13.7%, Turn-Based 9.8%, Hand-drawn 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Offers procedural storytelling where characters grow, age, and develop relationships through tactical RPG combat and narrative events.
- #12 Arcade Spirits
90% matchVery Positive91% of 629 reviews2019
Dev: Fiction Factory GamesPub: PQube
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Arcade Spirits is a romantic visual novel that follows an alternative timeline where the 1983 video game crash never occurred. It's 20XX and you've just started a new job at the Funplex game arcade. Who will you meet along the way? Will you find the romance you're seeking?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.4%, Dating Sim 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Futuristic 12%, Visual Novel 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: A visual novel that focuses on building relationships and defining your personality through dialogue choices in a vibrant setting.
- #13 Goodbye Volcano High
89% matchVery Positive89% of 1,827 reviews2023
Dev: KO_OP
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Goodbye Volcano High is a cinematic narrative adventure about love, change, and the end of the world. Guide Fang through their final year of high school as they try to make things right before time is up.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Choices Matter 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy game about teenage life and emotional growth that deals with the pressures of an impending existential threat.
- #14 Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 32,257 reviews2023
Dev: Black Tabby Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.2%, Choices Matter 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Dating Sim 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: A branching narrative game that uses a meta-loop structure to explore the consequences of your choices in a dark, surreal setting.
- #15 Tender: Creature Comforts
88% matchVery Positive90% of 107 reviews2021
Dev: Kenny Sun
Windows · Mac
Tender is a narrative game that explores connection and rejection in the era of swipe culture. It’s a story told by and through the modern interface for finding love.
Why similar: Dating Sim 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, LGBTQ+ 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Futuristic 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A unique dating-sim that uses a mobile-app interface to explore themes of connection and loneliness.
- #16 Arcadia Fallen
86% matchVery Positive95% of 561 reviews2021
Dev: Galdra Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Play the role of a young alchemist apprentice who is unwillingly bound to an illegal spirit. Suddenly drawn into a war between humanity and magic, they must join a group of unlikely heroes to escape their own doom, hopefully saving the world along the way.
Why similar: Dating Sim 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, LGBTQ+ 18.4%, Visual Novel 16%, Choices Matter 9%
Why You'll Like It: A fantasy visual novel that allows for significant character customization and branching relationship paths.
- #17 Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
85% matchVery Positive93% of 127,841 reviews2019
Dev: ZA/UM
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.
Why similar: Choices Matter 35.3%, Story Rich 22.5%, RPG 22.2%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Singleplayer 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an unparalleled RPG experience where internal dialogue and skill checks drive the narrative and character development.
- #18 GNOSIA
84% matchVery Positive94% of 4,921 reviews2022
Dev: Petit DepottoPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
The Gnosia lie. Pretending to be human, they’ll get in close, trick and deceive, and then eliminate one victim at a time...
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.9%, Visual Novel 24.1%, Sci-fi 17.7%, Story Rich 13.2%, Simulation 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A loop-based social deduction game that rewards repeated playthroughs and deep character interaction to uncover the truth.
- #19 Pentiment
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 9,423 reviews2022
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Multiple Endings 17.3%, Story Rich 13.6%, Choices Matter 13%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven game where your choices have long-lasting consequences on the lives of villagers over several decades.
- #20 Verdant Skies
86% matchMostly Positive80% of 421 reviews2018
Dev: Howling Moon Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Verdant Skies is a life simulation game born from a love for games like Harvest Moon and a desire to create something unique with modern gameplay and deep storytelling. Ensure the success of the colony as you make friends and pursue romance with a diverse cast of characters.
Why similar: Dating Sim 23.9%, LGBTQ+ 22.5%, Story Rich 17.9%, RPG 16.8%, Simulation 14.9%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-building sim that places a heavy emphasis on social interactions and building a life on a new planet.
- #21 Choice of Robots
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,000 reviews2014
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Your robots will change the world! Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army? A 300,000-word epic interactive sci-fi novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choices Matter 19.7%, Sci-fi 8.8%, LGBTQ+ 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A text-based interactive fiction game where your choices over a lifetime determine the evolution of artificial intelligence.
- #22 Roadwarden
82% matchVery Positive94% of 5,039 reviews2022
Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, RPG 15.8%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Visual Novel 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A text-based RPG that emphasizes survival, exploration, and the impact of your choices on a hostile, evolving world.
- #23 A Long Journey to an Uncertain End
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 57 reviews2023
Dev: Crispy Creative
Windows
Explore the known and unknown galaxy with a ragtag crew of eclectic new friends in this narrative management space opera. You are a sentient spaceship, an outlawed commodity, and there's an entire galaxy between you and freedom…not to mention your abusive ex on your tail.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative RPG that combines resource management with a branching story about escaping your past.
- #24 Friendsim 2
81% matchVery Positive89% of 104 reviews2022
Dev: Studio June
Windows · Mac
In this episodic visual novel, follow the adventures of MSPA Reader as they return to Alternia once more to save their friends... and realize that nothing is as it seems.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Multiple Endings 12%
Why You'll Like It: A visual novel that focuses on meeting and interacting with a variety of characters through branching dialogue choices.
- #25 Lakeburg Legacies
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 1,384 reviews2023
Dev: Ishtar Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Take fate into your own hands in Lakeburg Legacies, a social-based village management sim where love is your favourite resource. Play matchmaker to create the most effective, and most loved up, couples and help your kingdom thrive. How long will it take you to crown a sovereign?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.7%, Dating Sim 27.4%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Life Sim 12.7%, RPG 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A social management game where you pair up villagers to build a community and influence their family lines.
- #26 Doomsday Paradise
79% matchVery Positive91% of 248 reviews2023
Dev: Lemonade Flashbang
Windows
Can you get a date before the end of the world? Doomsday Paradise is a goofy, multiplayer dating sim about finding love before the apocalypse. With over 130 different endings and 12 different singles to woo- no two games will ever be the same.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24%, Dating Sim 21%, Card Game 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%, Visual Novel 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A dating-sim that uses dark humor and branching paths to explore relationships at the end of the world.
- #27 Suzerain
79% matchVery Positive92% of 11,461 reviews2020
Dev: Torpor Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make the decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Multiple Endings 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: A political simulation that forces you to make difficult choices that shape the future of a nation and its people.
- #28 Life is Strange - Episode 1
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 173,857 reviews2015
Dev: DONTNOD EntertainmentPub: Square Enix
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Why similar: Choices Matter 40.8%, Story Rich 28.9%, Multiple Endings 18.2%, LGBTQ+ 7.5%, Singleplayer 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: A choice-driven narrative game that focuses on the emotional struggles and relationships of teenagers in a small town.
- #29 Magical Diary: Wolf Hall
80% matchVery Positive91% of 215 reviews2020
Dev: Hanako Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Design your own wizard to attend a magical school. Learn spells, explore dungeons, make friends, and find a date for the May Day Ball. But be careful, everyone has secrets - including you!
Why similar: Dating Sim 23.3%, LGBTQ+ 22.5%, Visual Novel 16.8%, RPG 13%, Choices Matter 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: A life-sim set in a magical school that balances stat-building with social choices and narrative progression.
- #30 Dead in Antares
77% matchMostly Positive80% of 189 reviews2026
Dev: Ishtar GamesPub: Nacon
Windows
Dead in Antares is a turn-based survival management game with RPG elements, set on an alien planet. Lead a crew of survivors sent on a mission to save humanity. Manage their needs, strengthen their teamwork, and explore this mysterious world to find a way back home.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.9%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Futuristic 12.6%, RPG 8.7%
- #31 Coffee Talk
78% matchVery Positive95% of 12,375 reviews2020
Dev: Toge Productions
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric game that focuses on listening to the stories of others and influencing their lives through simple, meaningful interactions.
- #32 Heatwave: Sam's Stay
74% matchVery Positive94% of 451 reviews2026
Dev: CodyFord
Windows · Mac · Linux
Step into Sam’s shoes and guide him through a summer of self-discovery, complicated relationships, and unexpected desires that will change everything.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 32.8%, Dating Sim 15.1%, Visual Novel 9.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%, Choices Matter 8.6%
- #33 Choice of Life: Samosbor
74% matchVery Positive88% of 227 reviews2025
Dev: Blazing Planet Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
You're just a simple inhabitant of the endless Gigastructure. The best you'll get is seven shifts at a machine and a bowl of feed concentrate, and that for good service to the party.... Is that it? Or do you have a choice?
Why similar: Life Sim 18%, Card Game 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.5%
- #34 One Lonely Outpost
76% matchMixed58% of 646 reviews2025
Dev: indie.io
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
An alien world sometimes needs a farmer’s touch to bring it to life. In this sci-fi, colonization-life sim, terraform a barren world: turn wastelands into verdant landscapes while exploring, farming, building, and unlocking all the mysteries of this strange new planet.
Why similar: Life Sim 40.4%, Dating Sim 23.3%, Sci-fi 12.1%, RPG 11.4%, Simulation 7.2%
- #35 Arcadie: Second-Born
75% matchVery Positive95% of 394 reviews2022
Dev: Arcadie & Utopie
Windows · Mac
In this interactive tale of love and war, be the force of reason that your kingdom needs, or perpetuate its reputation as a force of destruction. Find love and weave friendships, or cast it all away for the sake of retribution.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Dating Sim 16.8%, LGBTQ+ 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Choices Matter 12.9%
- #36 Magical Princess
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 6,720 reviews2026
Dev: Neotro Inc.Pub: MAGI Inc.
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Raise your daughter while she attends a magical academy. Choose which classes she attends, jobs she does, training she undergoes, and more in a character raising sim packed full of story and over 50 endings to reach. How she grows up to be the world's cutest princess depends on you!
Why similar: Life Sim 23.1%, Dating Sim 17.5%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Multiple Endings 13%, Visual Novel 10.1%
- #37 Arcadie II: Cold Lands
73% matchVery Positive87% of 62 reviews2026
Dev: Arcadie & Utopie
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are the Monarch. Choose between diplomacy and tyranny. Romance allies or enemies. Your decisions define your rule and the fate of those closest to you in this character-driven interactive tale.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Dating Sim 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, LGBTQ+ 14.1%, Choices Matter 10.2%
- #38 Office Life
70% matchVery Positive89% of 2,073 reviews2024
Dev: LeiYun GamesPub: 2P Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 12.7 hrsMean: 47.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Dive into a massive 2-million-word immersive life sim. Use card-based strategies to survive office politics, rise from a rookie intern to a business tycoon, and find true love. Career, Romance, Wealth—why choose when you can have it all?
Why similar: Life Sim 23.7%, Dating Sim 21.7%, Deckbuilding 17.7%, Choices Matter 10%, Story Rich 8.6%
- #39 Takara Cards
71% matchVery Positive82% of 142 reviews2025
Dev: Post Mortem PixelsPub: GrabTheGames
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Takara Cards is a unique tactical deck-builder RPG about chasing space dragons in a sci-fi fantasy universe. Create your deck as you explore sectors, fighting your way in deep puzzly combat. Every decision you make affects your Ship and Character: Each new adventure offers new surprises!
Why similar: Card Game 19.7%, Deckbuilding 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Multiple Endings 12.4%
- #40 Choice of Life: Middle Ages
72% matchVery Positive89% of 1,812 reviews2020
Dev: Blazing Planet Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A card game in a Medieval setting where you make decisions on which not only your life will depend, but also the future of the kingdom!
Why similar: Card Game 22.2%, Life Sim 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
- #41 ARISEN - Chronicles of Var'Nagal
73% matchVery Positive83% of 86 reviews2021
Dev: Maratus
Windows
ARISEN is a narrative card game where you use your emotions to create your own story in a dark fantasy universe.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Dating Sim 12.9%, Card Game 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%
- #42 Beyond Eden: Dear Edward
73% matchVery Positive98% of 55 reviews2020
Dev: Studio Pieplus
Windows · Mac
Spun off from 'Beyond Eden', 'Beyond Eden: Dear Edward' is a Boys’ Love Life simulation game starring Edward, a naïve young aristocrat. Hone his skills as detective, psychic, or gambler, seek fortune and adventure in the streets and salons of 1890s London, and romance two desirable young men!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.4%, Dating Sim 24.5%, Life Sim 23.9%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Simulation 5%
- #43 Andromeda Six
70% matchVery Positive97% of 76 reviews2025
Dev: Wanderlust Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Andromeda Six is a sci-fi inspired visual novel, with romance elements and an immersive, choice based story. Take on the role of a lost Traveler and uncover the truth of your past. Fight for a future for both yourself, and those you grow close to throughout your journey.
Why similar: Visual Novel 32.1%, Choices Matter 24%, Multiple Endings 19.9%, Story Rich 12.1%, LGBTQ+ 11.9%
- #44 Planet Stronghold
76% matchMixed59% of 117 reviews2014
Dev: Winter Wolves
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Planet Stronghold is a sci-fi role-playing game with a turn-based combat system. You take the role of a young, new recruit that somehow gets assigned to the most well-known, and well-defended, human outpost in the whole galaxy: Planet Stronghold.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20%, Dating Sim 15.8%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Futuristic 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
- #45 Kamifuda
72% matchVery Positive88% of 138 reviews2022
Dev: Realm Archive
Windows
Master the eldritch art of Kamifuda—channeling long dead powers within arcane cards—in this visual novel and deck builder game.
Why similar: Deckbuilding 19.9%, Card Game 17.5%, Dating Sim 15%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Choices Matter 9.5%
- #46 Emily is Away <3
70% matchVery Positive91% of 6,686 reviews2021
Dev: Kyle Seeley
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Emily <3 is a brand new story set on an old-new social media. Customize your facenook profile, send some friend requests and determine the outcome of your senior year.
Why similar: Dating Sim 22.6%, Choices Matter 16.8%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.3%
- #47 Cattails: Wildwood Story
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,879 reviews2023
Dev: Falcon Development
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Become a cat! In this cozy life sim RPG, you'll lead your colony into the mysterious Wildwood. Hunt prey, harvest herbs, collect magical treasures, & defend your new home from intruders. Build a thriving town to recruit new cats. Get to know the residents, fall in love, & raise a litter of kittens!
Why similar: Life Sim 39.3%, LGBTQ+ 36.6%, RPG 13.4%, Simulation 10.8%
- #48 School Days
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 7,643 reviews2026
Dev: 白雨工作室
Windows
Median: 14.0 hrsMean: 27.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
《学生时代》是一款可自由构筑的校园人生模拟器。你将在高度还原的中国校园中，从入学一路走到高考，与多个性格鲜明的同学一起成长，互相陪伴。你的养成和选择，不但会决定你的人生，也会影响到朋友们的未来。
Why similar: Life Sim 16.8%, Dating Sim 16.1%, Card Game 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%
- #49 Spirited Heart Deluxe
75% matchMixed46% of 90 reviews2014
Dev: Winter Wolves
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Spirited Heart is a fantasy life simulation game. Create your fantasy alter ego choosing between an apparently normal human, a cute elf and a wicked demoness. Run your life in a virtual fantasy world: choose a job from the 20 different ones available, raise your stats, and maybe even find romance!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18%, Life Sim 15.9%, Dating Sim 15.5%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
- #50 Emily is Away
69% matchVery Positive89% of 32,278 reviews2015
Dev: Kyle Seeley
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Choices Matter 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Dating Sim 12.7%, Story Rich 12.4%
- #51 Hunky City
68% matchVery Positive82% of 174 reviews2024
Dev: Team R.P
Windows
You move to a new city to live with your "former" stepfather. Work, make friends, and explore the thrilling world of romance in this captivating game. Are you ready for the excitement? Let the journey begin!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 40.8%, Dating Sim 19.2%, Life Sim 13.5%, Choices Matter 9.8%, RPG 6.8%
- #52 In Stars And Time
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,458 reviews2023
Dev: insertdisc5Pub: Armor Games Studios
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Live with the ever-present burden of being trapped in a time loop only you can know about in this turn-based RPG. Create a better future for you and your friends. Find hope where there is none left. Pray to the stars and free yourself from time.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 45%, Story Rich 18.2%, RPG 16.2%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Hand-drawn 4.3%
- #53 Winds of Change
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 592 reviews2019
Dev: Klace
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Lead The Rebellion, build your army, and shape the world with your choices. A story-heavy adventure game with multiple endings, romance options, and non-linear storytelling. A vast fantasy world waiting to be explored. Inspired by Dragon Age, and Mass Effect. Fully voice acted by a stellar cast!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.2%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Dating Sim 14.4%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%
- #54 Griftlands
65% matchVery Positive94% of 14,390 reviews2021
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Griftlands is a deck-building roguelite where you negotiate, fight, steal or otherwise persuade others to get your way. Every decision is important, be it the jobs you take, the friends you make, or the cards you collect.
Why similar: Deckbuilding 23.6%, Card Game 16.6%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
- #55 Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
63% matchVery Positive92% of 2,416 reviews2025
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A dice-driven RPG, in a human and heartfelt sci-fi world. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head and no memory of your past. Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Futuristic 17.1%, Sci-fi 16.3%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, RPG 12.3%
- #56 NeuroNet: Mendax Proxy
67% matchVery Positive82% of 66 reviews2023
Dev: Dream Harvest
Windows
You are Arc, a city management AI. Designed to manage a city-wide AR metaverse known as the NeuroNet. Meet its many users, build relationships and help or hinder their lives while trying to balance the wider needs of the city. Find your humanity in a world losing theirs to technology.
Why similar: Life Sim 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Futuristic 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%
- #57 Clonizer
65% matchVery Positive87% of 181 reviews2025
Dev: Juicy PlumePub: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Clonizer combines Hex-based tactics and roguelike deckbuilding! Play cards, manage clones, explore unique charming planets and outsmart aliens. Craft a powerful deck through your expedition and Clonize the universe to become employee of the month of CLONPO!
Why similar: Deckbuilding 45.2%, Card Game 34.4%, Simulation 10.6%, Turn-Based 9.8%
- #58 BOOK OF HOURS
64% matchVery Positive89% of 4,309 reviews2023
Dev: Weather Factory
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Restore a crumbling occult library by a winter sea. Build the world’s foremost collection of grimoires and arcana. Master the invisible arts. BOOK OF HOURS is a narrative crafting RPG set in a 1930s world of hidden gods and secret histories. What sort of Librarian will you choose to be?
Why similar: Deckbuilding 23.1%, Card Game 21.2%, Life Sim 19%, Choices Matter 12.4%, RPG 8.4%
