60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Story Rich, Singleplayer, Atmospheric.
Piece by piece, you pour your soul into the monster. This is your burden and you bear it willingly. Your friends think that this is unhealthy.
Birth
You are alone. You will build a creature, a partner, a wet warm heart, a collection of bones.
you're just imagining it
A chronic illness simulator. You think you have a chronic illness, but you don't know what. All you know is you are always in some state of pain. You've been to too many doctors to count... but you still have to live your life.
You are alone. You will build a creature, a partner, a wet warm heart, a collection of bones.
Why similar: Stylized 24.5%, Hand-drawn 23%, Magic 13.8%, Point & Click 13%, Story Rich 9.9%
A chronic illness simulator. You think you have a chronic illness, but you don't know what. All you know is you are always in some state of pain. You've been to too many doctors to count... but you still have to live your life.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.5%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Emotional 14.5%, Minimalist 14.3%, Story Rich 8.1%
Live the life of a Monster, from birth to elderhood and beyond, making decisions that affect the world of Monsters and Humans. Solve problems. Meet animals and interesting people. Get to know them. Eat them. Make your own story!
Why similar: Choices Matter 30.5%, Casual 17.2%, Story Rich 13.2%, Simulation 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.7%
You are The Fateweaver; an ancient beast of legendary status. It is your job to determine which way Fate will unravel as you dig deep into the psyche of those who beckon. Decide whether to help those who beg for your mercy, or invoke the wrath of the Gods upon those you deem unworthy of existence...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, LGBTQ+ 21.5%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Choices Matter 18.5%, Story Rich 10.8%
A quiet bookshop. A magical past. A murder and Tarot cards that can twist fate itself. Craft beautiful covers, read between the lines of your customers’ lives, and decide which secrets deserve to stay hidden… including your own.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.9%, Emotional 20.1%, Magic 20%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Story Rich 8.7%
Experience the Myth of Frankenstein through the innocent eyes of his creature. Make decisions and change people's view that you will meet on your way. Now, the myth is in your hands, so how are you going to end it?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Emotional 14.5%, Hand-drawn 11.6%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.5%
"non-binary" is a video game that mixes text choices and bullet hell to tell the story of two non-binary people's journey of self-discovery. Make your choices. Dodge words. Go through things that hurt without breaking down. If you can.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 31.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Emotional 16.9%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Minimalist 5.6%
There is a monster living in your apartment.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 43.7%, Visual Novel 23.2%, Stylized 20%, Point & Click 9.9%, Atmospheric 3.1%
A cozy visual novel about running a tavern in a D&D-inspired fantasy! Gather rumors, serve magical drinks, and meet adventurers on a life-changing quest.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Emotional 14.9%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Choices Matter 8.4%
Face your friend's twisted mind and do your best. You should stay sane until the end.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 38.3%, Visual Novel 27.3%, Emotional 21.2%, 2D 5.5%, Casual 3.4%
A collection of surreal tales, each connected to a stored-away object from childhood. Pick one to follow the moon, feed a hungry lizard or build a peculiar cabinet.
Why similar: Narrative 18.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Emotional 13.8%, Stylized 11%, Magic 10.1%
Set out on a cross-country journey to win back the love of your life and endure the hardship of making story-defining choices that affect your life and the lives of those around you.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 45.3%, Story Rich 18.2%, Choices Matter 17.9%, Indie 8.7%, Casual 4.8%
A short meta story about the struggles of procrastination, and never finishing the things you start. Help motivate me, and give me the confidence I need to finish something.
Why similar: Emotional 33.6%, Visual Novel 28.2%, Casual 14.4%, Choices Matter 11.8%, 2D 6%
CraftCraft is a narrative-heavy RPG sim with hands on forging and jewelry making! Create a pretty tiara for a mermaid or a sword made of dragon blood! Be a Moth or a Cat and express your creativity in your cozy crafting studio and change the lives of locals in the mysterious port town of Windspell.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 30.9%, Stylized 16.2%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Choices Matter 12%, Story Rich 7.6%
Everyone's heard of Mothman– the moth creature that haunts the outskirts of Point Pleasant, West Virginia– but no one's heard of it like this! In some random idyllic Midwestern town, you meet Artemis (aka Mothman) at your favorite coffee shop and begin an agonizingly slow burn romance with them.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 31.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Choices Matter 7.9%, Hand-drawn 7.3%
A fantasy tea-brewing adventure. Listen to your customers' worries and brew them the tea that they didn't know they needed.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Magic 12.5%, Emotional 11.7%, Visual Novel 10.1%
a hand-drawn mental-health-focused game!
Why similar: Emotional 69.7%, Casual 14.4%, 2D 10.5%, Indie 4.5%, Singleplayer 0.9%
You are The Fateweaver; an ancient beast of legendary status. It is your job to determine which way Fate will unravel as you dig deep into the psyche of those who beckon. Decide whether to help those who beg for your mercy, or invoke the wrath of the Gods upon those you deem unworthy of existence...
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Emotional 21.1%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Choices Matter 13.8%
"I" make a deal with the witch to give up my heart, in exchange for love— from everyone. ——————————————————————————Is it worth it if losing my heart means gaining *his*? In this short visual novel, make choices and answer the question: is love a zero-sum game?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.2%, Emotional 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Magic 11.7%, Choices Matter 9.6%
A short non-linear narrative game about negative experiences after coming out as transgender.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 33.4%, Narrative 24.4% ★, Emotional 18.1%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Story Rich 6.1%
Monster Lab Simulator is a creature collector where you create, raise, and battle monsters in your own lab. Synthesize essences, hatch eggs, expand your collection, and build the ultimate team!
Why similar: Simulation 51.1%, Casual 40.6%, Indie 8.3%
A cute and cozy Visual Novel experience with plenty of choices to make! Come find the Familiar truly meant for you by feeding The Conjuring Cauldron with a multitude of choices, all to a relaxing Original Soundtrack!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 42.8%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Choices Matter 20%, Simulation 7.2%, Point & Click 5.4%
You are a monster under someone's house.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 40.4%, Visual Novel 22%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Point & Click 9.2%, Story Rich 8.4%
The Witch's Cauldron is a narrative roguelike game about being a medieval witch. Grab your cauldron and get brewing. Love, curses, laughter, wisdom for sale! Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. At least before the inquisitors come around.
Why similar: Choices Matter 26.8%, Stylized 25.4%, Story Rich 17.7%, Simulation 8.8%, Casual 8.1%
Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 57.5%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Emotional 11.3%, LGBTQ+ 7.9%, Indie 6.3%
Musings on grief, moving on, and a life made and lived in the rural Midwest. Features a collection of lovingly hand-drawn panels and pixel art.
Why similar: Emotional 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Visual Novel 16.8%, LGBTQ+ 10.6%, Hand-drawn 9.9%
Horror/thriller visual novel with RPG elements about two friends that explores guilt, co-dependency, and personal limits being pushed.
Why similar: Visual Novel 42.4%, Choices Matter 19.4%, Simulation 14.9%, Story Rich 12.6%, 2D 6.4%
"we don't have to do this. why don't we just leave?" asks you your bestfriend while you try to escape your hometown. and you start hating them. and you start hating yourself. can you pull through or will you choose to go home again? both decisions feel wrong but this time it's you who has to choose.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 29.9%, Visual Novel 22.6%, Emotional 16.9%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Point & Click 11.3%
In Midnight Ramen, you play as the owner of a late-night ramen stand and his apprentice. You interact with your customers, listen to their troubles, and help them out whenever you can. But as the bowls of ramen are cooked and served, troubles are beginning to brew in your own life as well...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.6%, Emotional 27.4%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Story Rich 11.1%, Casual 4.5%
A mute little thing with borrowed magic. A house that murmurs back. Ask wrong, and you might wake something that remembers your name.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 37%, Interactive Fiction 30%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Story Rich 11.6%, Atmospheric 3%
Join a cross-country bus tour as a newlywed author, and combat vicious rumors that you're a plagiarist. Truth isn't important, when you control the narrative.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 29.2%, Choices Matter 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Indie 18%, Story Rich 9.3%
An experimental, horror visual novel about raising a virtual pet. Help a tamagotchi-like creature navigate his angst. We love Momo!
Why similar: Minimalist 27.3%, Visual Novel 23.3%, Stylized 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Story Rich 10.6%
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: LGBTQ+ 24.7%, Emotional 21.4%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Hand-drawn 8.9%
A creepy-cozy cooking simulator where you befriend local wildlife and feed them their favorite snacks! With a strange house to search and forest to explore, the witching hour has only begun.
Why similar: Stylized 47.5%, Casual 17.5%, Simulation 13.5%, Atmospheric 10%, Indie 8.9%
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+ 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Emotional 15.2%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Choices Matter 8.8%
Raise a garden... from the dead! Greenhearth Necromancer is a cozy, witchy, semi-idle game about caring for living and undead plants alike. Grow cute plants in your balcony garden, cast spells, and brew potions, enjoying the chill idle gameplay and ambience throughout your day.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 40.7%, Magic 19.9%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Story Rich 10.4%, Casual 5.2%
Take a personality test with a definitely-not-clingy demon girl.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37%, Visual Novel 20.5%, Emotional 16.1%, Story Rich 9.9%, 2D 5.2%
Write letters with your typewriter on behalf of others in this cozy single-player game. Compose everything from simple hellos to theater scripts and love letters, express each client’s emotions, and find your own meaning to letter writing.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.4%, Emotional 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Hand-drawn 9.1%
Blend tea and friendship in the flavourful world of Pekoe, a cozy cat-filled tea-making simulator about taking the time for self-care and connecting with what makes you happy. Build relationships, upgrade your teahouse, and discover new recipes as you work towards creating a place you can call home.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 43.2%, Interactive Fiction 37%, Story Rich 9.4%, Casual 4.3%, Simulation 4.1%
Manage a care center for adorable monsters in Monster Care Simulator! Treat clients' creatures, hatch eggs, raise your own companions, and keep them happy with fun activities. Hire staff, expand your facilities, and customize your space to build the ultimate monster sanctuary!
Why similar: Simulation 37.1%, Stylized 32.3%, Casual 20.9%, Atmospheric 5.4%, Singleplayer 4.4%
Race against the clock to defeat the angry mobs that want to burn you out. Grab virtually anything -- sand dunes, animals, buildings, mountaintops. Then throw everything in your cauldron and turn it into unstoppable engines of pixellated 16-bit terror!
Why similar: Visual Novel 49.5%, Casual 33%, Indie 17.5%
Ritual of Raven is a story-based farming sim - but you don’t do the farming yourself! Enchant Arcana Constructs to grow a magical herb garden, befriend a cute bunch of weirdos and use your witchy skills to perform powerful rituals to stabilize the portals that are causing trouble for the village.
Why similar: Narrative 35.8% ★, LGBTQ+ 33.6%, Magic 17.1%, Simulation 4.7%, Character Customization 4.2%
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: Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Emotional 20.1%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Minimalist 10.1%
Take control of the Underworld’s grumpiest ghoul to help a lost little girl find her way home in this creepy-cute indie adventure. Just be warned: if she cries, the whole world dies.
Why similar: Emotional 41.1%, Interactive Fiction 33.9%, Story Rich 12%, 2D 6.8%, Indie 5%
Embrace the monster within to free yourself from a curse in this dark fantasy visual novel, a standalone introduction to the characters and setting of Sigh of the Abyss.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.9%, Emotional 15.3%, Magic 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Hand-drawn 10.4%
Ready to become a mad scientist? Synthesize, evolve, and command an army of unique creatures in your own lab. Manage your laboratory, master genetic essences, and dominate the battle arena in this deep creature collection simulator!
Why similar: Simulation 49%, Casual 45.6%, Singleplayer 5.4%
Under the River: The Borrowed Skin-She saved you—but turned you into a monster. You live on, wearing her skin as your body rots. To survive, you must devour her. One begs you to eat her. One begs you to stay human. What will you choose?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 45.9%, Visual Novel 26.6%, Choices Matter 12%, Hand-drawn 9.8%, 2D 5%
A haunted convent. Statues that move on their own. A buried past. Welcome to Saint Idelora’s convent, where becoming a saint comes with a price.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 39%, Visual Novel 26%, Story Rich 14.5%, Choices Matter 14.5%, 2D 5.1%
"Let’s make dumplings" carries that same unsettling vibe as Spring Festival Gala skits with intentionally happy endings?— it's about how family norms discipline the individual. It uses dumplings to explore love and pressure in families. In this scripted, collective narrative... what will you choose?
Why similar: Emotional 25%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Stylized 11.7%, Hand-drawn 9.2%
Become a mad scientist! Conduct crazy experiments, mix mutagens, breed abominable creatures, and attach monstrous body parts to them. Manage your inventory, expand your lab, and make sure your hideout is safe. Send your creations into the city to obtain salvage and test subjects!
Why similar: Character Customization 35.1%, Simulation 31%, Indie 16.6%, Atmospheric 14.6%, Singleplayer 2.7%
Guide vampires through centuries of emotional baggage, decades of delusions and the odd bout of self-loathing with real cognitive behavioral therapy concepts and become a Vampire Therapist! Even vampires need a shoulder to cry on when a neck to bite just won’t do.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 50.4%, Visual Novel 20.8%, Story Rich 11.6%, Casual 5.3%, 2D 4.9%
HELLO i made weird game visual novel thingy Your character develops different personality types depending on your choices, so they respond uniquely to different situations. With around three different choices to make and three unique lines of dialogue for each of them there's around nine different texts you can see and six endings.
Why similar: Casual 41%, Simulation 34.5%, Indie 24.5%
Closer the Distance is a slice-of-life sim that tells a deeply emotional story about the connections between family and friends in the face of tragedy. Unearth long kept secrets, repair strained relationships, and help your loved ones move on.
Why similar: Narrative 41.9% ★, Emotional 19.8%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Story Rich 8.5%, Stylized 7.9%
A visual novel about raising a cute robot child, which may or may not go horribly wrong. Your choices decide the outcome.
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.5%, LGBTQ+ 20.7%, Emotional 17.4%, Choices Matter 16.6%, Story Rich 10.8%
Graveyard Girls is a halloween-themed yuri visual novel about complicated grief and overcoming hardships. Collect Elle’s “scribbles” to learn about her struggles, befriend a mysterious girl, and have a conversation about death.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Emotional 20.5%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Choices Matter 7.6%
When your loved one hurts you, what do you do? A classic love story about letting go.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 48.4%, Emotional 22.3%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Choices Matter 7.1%, Indie 4%
Loser Named Hana is a friendship-building visual novel. You respond to an ad advertising $100 a week to be the lonely college student, Hana, friend.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.3%, LGBTQ+ 27.3%, Emotional 15.6%, Casual 9.7%, Choices Matter 5.9%
A story about the self—and about others. A toy factory, several cursed dolls, and a horror novel… This quiet seaside town throws Noele's love life into chaos and dredges up the old wounds she has tried for years to forget.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Emotional 13.5%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Stylized 9.3%
Potion Craft is an alchemist simulator where you physically interact with your tools and ingredients to brew potions. You're in full control of the whole shop: invent new recipes, attract customers and experiment to your heart's content. Just remember: the whole town is counting on you.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 27.2%, Choices Matter 23.1%, Simulation 13.4%, Point & Click 10.4%, Casual 9.4%
One day, the boy meets a monster, with whom he builds a strange relationship that is neither friend, nor family, nor owner and pet. How will the boy's future change?
Why similar: Visual Novel 55.7%, Story Rich 35.1%, Indie 6%, Singleplayer 1.9%, Atmospheric 1.3%
