60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Interactive Fiction, Visual Novel, Emotional.
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.
Let Me Speak
An apprentice. A healer. A warrior. Breathe, pull, and choose your way through their stories in this dark yet comforting narrative game about healing the worlds inside us.
VIDEOVERSE
Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social network 'Videoverse' were still popular…
An apprentice. A healer. A warrior. Breathe, pull, and choose your way through their stories in this dark yet comforting narrative game about healing the worlds inside us.
Why similar: Narrative 19.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, LGBTQ+ 14.6%, Emotional 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.3%
Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social network 'Videoverse' were still popular…
Why similar: Narrative 22.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Visual Novel 10.6%, LGBTQ+ 10.3%, Narration 9.8%
A poet ponders queer life and love after his happily ever after.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Emotional 10.2%, Hand-drawn 8.6%
An autopsy of a queer relationship.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Narration 8.9%, Choices Matter 8.4%
memories is a sapphic visual novel dress-up game where clothes are linked to painful memories of a failed relationship.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.3%, Well-Written 17.7% ★, Narrative 14.3% ★, Emotional 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.3%
Travelling Light is a narrative game about four friends, Lars, Leah, Samson, and Ivy, caught in the turbulence of their early thirties. Inspired by real events, this experience lets you step into each perspective as love, friendship, and heartbreak collide.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.6%, LGBTQ+ 16.9%, Hand-drawn 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Point & Click 8.1%
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+ 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Narrative 13.4% ★, Visual Novel 11.8%, Magic 10.5%
From the first day of spring, to the last day of winter, wear seven shoes of seven characters and live their most intimate moments. Explore their thoughts, choose their steps and shape their paths in a mumblecore narrative game where the most extraordinary setting is ordinary life itself.
Why similar: Narrative 23% ★, LGBTQ+ 21%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choices Matter 7.7%, Hand-drawn 7.6%
In this hand-drawn RPG, you play as Joe, a young man attending a dinner party with his new girlfriend. What he doesn't know is that every decision he makes, no matter how small, will have its consequence...
Why similar: Well-Written 42.8% ★, Hand-drawn 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Choices Matter 8.9%, Emotional 6.9%
Alone in the forest glade he shared with his wife, a woodworker struggles to accept her passing. Help him hold on to cherished memories of their life together as he struggles to care for himself and his now empty home. Pine is a single-serving game focused on telling a beautiful, emotional tale.
Why similar: Emotional 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Narrative 15.3% ★, Hand-drawn 14.1%, Visual Novel 10.5%
"My Life with You" is a STORY DRIVEN experience that follows the journey of a young SINGLE MOM who must BALANCE life's challenges while raising her child. An emotional journey focused on the BOND BETWEEN MOTHER AND CHILD, marked by obstacles, growth, and love.
Why similar: Narrative 29.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Emotional 11.7%, Hand-drawn 9.3%, Point & Click 7.3%
Help Dawn, a young woman of faerie descent, with her first steps into loving and accepting who she is in a modern world where faeries and humans were supposed to live in harmony.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Narration 11.1%, Emotional 10.4%
The kind Blacksmith is a Visual Horror Novel set in ficticious medieval Italy. In a land ravaged by war and sickness, you take on the roll of the Blacksmith - a lonely man that happens to take in a sick Knight of the invading forces. The Knight's fate is in your hands. To be kind is your choice.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.7%, Hand-drawn 17.1%, Visual Novel 17%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Emotional 10.4%
You know the feeling of struggling to get out of bed? In A Heavy Morning, you will play as a young girl battling with her own mind. Your only objective? Get out of bed and get to work on time.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Narration 9.5%, Choices Matter 8.5%
A 'crunchy wholesome' game about making friends as an adult.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.1%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Emotional 12.1%, Hand-drawn 11%
Work as a body modification consultant in a dystopian future. Talk to clients, make recommendations, and decide how much to upsell them. Balance helping others with earning enough to save your sick rabbit. Make decisions and change lives.
Why similar: Well-Written 39.8% ★, LGBTQ+ 19.9%, Visual Novel 10%, Choices Matter 8.2%, Emotional 6.9%
A visual novel where your choices matter. Derek has a job, a beloved boyfriend, friends, and… “piranha thoughts.” Everything was perfect until his younger sister Rina returned to town.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Hand-drawn 10.2%
A GxG coming-of-age visual novel. Nina sucks at choosing. But when a mysterious incident happens at the arts academy, will she muster the courage to choose–or will she let someone else decide on her behalf?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Emotional 10.7%, Narration 8.2%
Sayonara Okaasan is an interactive abstract poem about saying goodbye to a mother and exploring life and death.
Why similar: Narrative 31.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Emotional 14.6%, Point & Click 9.6%, Hand-drawn 9.5%
No Longer Home is a game about letting go of the life you've built due to circumstances beyond your control. Immerse yourself in the lives of Bo and Ao and learn about their dreams, frustrations and fears. Welcome the magic of the everyday and somewhat extraordinary.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Emotional 12.1%, Visual Novel 9.3%, Stylized 8.7%
Rockin’ Racket is a narrative driven, fast paced, pop punk band management game with an undercurrent of teenage angst as you try to hold together a band of rowdy younger siblings, keep the crowd happy, and manage your frugal earnings while booking larger venues to rocket your band to stardom!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, LGBTQ+ 17.1%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Emotional 10.4%, Point & Click 10.1%
Three loves. One week. Merry Crisis is an intimate, character-driven romance visual novel about love, loss, and belonging—is home what you left behind, or where you’re headed?
Why similar: Narrative 21.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, LGBTQ+ 16%, Visual Novel 11%, Emotional 10.2%
Join Evelyn on her quest to save a mysterious island in a puzzle-based atmospheric adventure with a story that spans across 30,000 years of time. Interact with fantastic characters to learn past secrets and transform the Four Elements’ kingdoms, leading up to an epic finale with shocking reveals.
Why similar: Well-Written 40.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Emotional 11.8%, Hand-drawn 10.2%, Point & Click 7.5%
High Elo Girls is a Visual Novel set in the esports scene where you play as the latest recruit for a new all-girls team. Can you help your squad achieve their true potential, or will you only squander your own?
Why similar: Narrative 20.3% ★, LGBTQ+ 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Emotional 10.7%, Choices Matter 8.9%
A linear visual novel featuring five different Ontario (Canada) youths' stories. Each story has a different art style and subject matter, and we worked closely with the storytellers to ensure their voices come through authentically. Indigenous & LGBTQ2S+ are major themes.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 31.2%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Hand-drawn 15.2%, Stylized 9.6%, Emotional 9.4%
Coffee Talk Tokyo is the newest entry in the beloved series, set in a late-night café in Tokyo. Brew drinks, meet humans and yōkai, and experience heartfelt stories in a cozy, story-rich world.
Why similar: Narrative 22.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 17%, LGBTQ+ 14.7%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Emotional 9.6%
A short lesbian / yuri visual novel set in England. Our heroine, Toma Andrews, meets a ghost girl wearing an old-fashioned nightgown in a graveyard who calls herself Emmeline. Just who is she, and how did she die?
Why similar: Well-Written 32.5% ★, LGBTQ+ 21.4%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Emotional 10.3%, Stylized 5.2%
A short, hand-drawn narrative about memory, loss, and final conversations. Explore the quiet streets of the past and decide what you're ready to let go.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18%, Hand-drawn 17%, Emotional 16%, Narrative 10% ★, Point & Click 8.7%
Spellbound: The Magic Within is a branching narrative, multiple ending visual novel. Jump into a world of Magic, Witchcraft and Mystery as a magician in training. Interact with a host of unusual characters. Choose from multiple schools of magic, bond with your tutor, and maybe even save the world.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.1%, Narrative 17.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Magic 9.8%
Late Bird is a short interactive story about birds, movies, suicidal thoughts and not growing up in time.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Hand-drawn 13.3%, Narrative 12.7% ★, Point & Click 10.3%
Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers is the follow-up to 2019's Arcade Spirits, a visual novel of love and pixels, in which you seek friendship and romance while working in an arcade. Now the tables are turned, as you seek friendship and romance while PLAYING in an arcade!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Hand-drawn 11.9%, Emotional 9.9%
A dark boys love / boys hate visual novel set in a 1001 Nights inspired world full of political intrigue. Yuel, once the King of Indra, is deposed by his older cousin, Tavi, during a coup and imprisoned within the palace. An uneasy relationship between them grows, and then...
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Emotional 10.2%, Stylized 9.7%
Pink Noise is a nonlinear visual novel in the psychological horror genre, immersing you in the retro atmosphere of the '90s. It tells the tale of a group of teenagers who unknowingly set off a chain of terrifying events. What secrets lie within the mysterious VHS tape they should’ve never played?
Why similar: Well-Written 42.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Hand-drawn 9.4%
Brew potions and graduate with your best friend(?) in this small visual novel with drag and drop crafting elements!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Magic 10.3%, Choices Matter 8%
Summer Vacation is an adult visual novel about self-discovery, first love, and the chaos... of figuring out who you really are. Join Mateo through this summer, and his first year at university. Every choice shapes the bonds you build, and the person you'll become.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 30.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Emotional 13.9%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Narration 10.3%
Talewarden is a weird west adventure visual novel. Restore time on a planet where the sun never sets as you explore locations, talk, romance, and bond with your companions. Find the source of the voice in your head and discover why you all fell here from different worlds.
Why similar: Narrative 26% ★, LGBTQ+ 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Emotional 10.1%
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: Emotional 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Hand-drawn 13.1%, Drama 9.9%
What does a SUPERVILLAIN do, when he is forbidden from doing anything evil for the day? WARNING: This is not the type of game where you can make meaningful choices.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 38.7%, Visual Novel 21%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Narration 8.6%, Story Rich 8%
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 18.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Hand-drawn 12.5%, Emotional 11.3%, Stylized 11%
My dream is a Lost Memory is a short interactive story about having Déjà vu, realizing that this Déjà vu came to you because of a dream, and then wondering if that dream is actually a memory. It's a story about work, limitations and self-respect.
Why similar: Narrative 19.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Hand-drawn 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Point & Click 8.2%
Cozy visual novel about a lovely witch who’s able to talk to spirits in a fantasy setting. Using her powers, Julia helps her neighbors in their daily whereabouts. Craft potions, find the right time to use them and get to know both spirits and clients to find their peace.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.5%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Emotional 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Magic 10.2%
一日中夕暮れに染まっている「黄昏ホテル」。そこは、生と死の狭間を彷徨う魂たちが羽を休めるために存在する場所。ある日、ホテルに迷い込んだ少女が、出会いと事件をきっかけに、自らの運命を大きく切り開くことに。生死の狭間で謎解きに挑む、世にも奇妙な異世界脱出アドベンチャーが登場！
Why similar: Well-Written 47.3% ★, Visual Novel 10.6%, Emotional 8%, Choices Matter 7.8%, Point & Click 7.2%
The curse wove your fates together. Now their thoughts and feelings influence you and your actions determine their fates. Will you be able to break the curse? Or will their dark pasts drag you into an inescapable despair? And can a fresh start really erase the past?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Hand-drawn 11.8%, Emotional 9.1%
This is an interactive narrative inspired by real events. Experience the untold story of an ordinary woman in contemporary China, blending heartfelt storytelling and light puzzles to explore resilience and humanity throughout her life journey.
Why similar: Narrative 25.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Emotional 16.9%, Stylized 10.8%, Point & Click 6.7%
Deciding to break protocol to lend a helping wing, Rain, a flighty little courier takes a skittish girl by the name of Mila on an adventure through the inner workings of a mysterious post office. Together, they search for a letter containing the last words of someone who seemingly never existed.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Hand-drawn 9.4%, Point & Click 7.9%
Roadtrip across the country. Confront a tyrant. The revolution will be messy—but the relationships will be messier.
Why similar: Narrative 17.7% ★, LGBTQ+ 15.9%, Hand-drawn 13%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Emotional 9.7%
A queer Victorian romance visual novel in which a gentleman running from the past and a poet hiding from the future collide through a lonely hearts ad. Suddenly, their lives can blossom—if you choose to change them.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Narration 9.2%
The first console game of the stage-themed multi-media franchise "Revue Starlight" is on its way!
Why similar: Well-Written 29.1% ★, LGBTQ+ 28.1%, Visual Novel 22.4%, Emotional 8%, Drama 8%
We Grew Up in War is a powerful testimony based on real stories of children who lived through wars in Ukraine and Bosnia. Experience their world shaped by fear and imagination and witness their memories in all their raw, haunting truth.
Why similar: Narrative 21.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Emotional 14.3%, Stylized 8.7%, Point & Click 7.8%
A ~1 hour short narrative game about a friendship that spans two lifetimes. Serious, funny, weird, maybe heartbreaking.
Why similar: Emotional 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, LGBTQ+ 13.9%, Hand-drawn 13.6%, Visual Novel 13.2%
After witnessing a murder, 16-year-old skater Azar Warren seeks refuge with her estranged grandfather on his rural compound, only to suspect he may be more dangerous than her pursuers. Ashes blends graphic novel panels with interactive puzzles in a story of murder and unease.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Narrative 14.5% ★, Story Rich 11.1%, Emotional 10.5%
The Spirit Weaver is a narrative-driven visual novel where you use the power of Tarot to guide lost spirits through their grief, and maybe figure out your own. Explore a mystical spirit realm, help its denizens, and restore balance in a bittersweet story of love, loss, and empathy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23%, Narrative 17.9% ★, Visual Novel 13.5%, Hand-drawn 10.6%, Point & Click 9.7%
A game about loneliness in adulthood. Withdrawn is a hand-drawn point-and-click interactive fiction where you're following the main character's routine, thoughts, memories and his constant fear of living.
Why similar: Narrative 19.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Hand-drawn 11.8%, Emotional 11%, Visual Novel 10.3%
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
Why similar: Well-Written 39.7% ★, Narrative 16.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Choices Matter 10.1%
With just 15 days of summer left, will Tomai pursue romance or responsibility?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Hand-drawn 12.1%, Emotional 9.1%
Mind Scraper is a story-driven graphic adventure. Play as Robert and dive into dying minds—built from unresolved regrets—to explore memories and learn why those choices were made.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Hand-drawn 17%, Visual Novel 16%, Point & Click 12.1%, Narration 12%
Be the person you needed. Brew tea, listen well, and guide branching stories in a narrative slice-of-life about showing up when it matters. No perfect answers. Only your choices and what they set in motion.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Emotional 16.8%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Choices Matter 12%, Hand-drawn 11.3%
Melancholy Love is a Yuri Visual Novel between an elite and a misfit in an All-Girls' High School. How will sparks flare between the two?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Emotional 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Choices Matter 10%
A colourful narrative adventure game. You're one of the first sheep to attend university. Roam the campus, attend lectures by day and enjoy friend-time at night. Discover campus truths, and sniff out secrets. Live the life of a campus sheep, but beware: not everybody wants to see a sheep graduate!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Emotional 12.2%, Story Rich 6.6%
DUET illustrates the Hifuu Club's first encounter. It is a wordless, narrative-driven experience about connection and small moments in life. Step into the subtle yet fateful daily interactions that intertwine Renko and Merry's lives.
Why similar: Narrative 24% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Hand-drawn 13.9%, Stylized 11.2%, Emotional 9.6%
