60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Singleplayer, Casual, 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.
The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
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.
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 20.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, LGBTQ+ 15.5%, Emotional 14.2%, Stylized 8.5%
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+ 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Magic 13.9%, Narrative 13.7% ★, Visual Novel 9.1%
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 26.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, LGBTQ+ 12.7%, Emotional 12.6%, Visual Novel 9.6%
Welcome to the Ace & Aro Meetup! Everyone is accepted here – whether you’re a-spec yourself or just curious to learn more. Meet the members, try a cocktail (or two) and unwind with some arcade games. Let’s have a heart-to-heart!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 32%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Visual Novel 11%, Stylized 8.5%, Emotional 7.8%
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 24.8% ★, LGBTQ+ 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Emotional 9.1%, Choices Matter 7%
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 23.1% ★, LGBTQ+ 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Emotional 12.2%, Visual Novel 8.8%
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 27% ★, LGBTQ+ 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Emotional 10.5%, Visual Novel 7.9%
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+ 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Emotional 14.8%, Minimalist 12.8%, Stylized 8.9%
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 22.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, LGBTQ+ 15.2%, Emotional 12%, Visual Novel 9%
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+ 23.2%, Narrative 17.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Magic 12.9%, Visual Novel 10.1%
Sayonara Okaasan is an interactive abstract poem about saying goodbye to a mother and exploring life and death.
Why similar: Narrative 32.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Emotional 18%, Minimalist 9.8%, Hand-drawn 6.7%
A 'crunchy wholesome' game about making friends as an adult.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.5%, Emotional 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Stylized 8.5%
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 21%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Narrative 16.6% ★, Hand-drawn 10.4%, Visual Novel 8.6%
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+ 18.6%, Emotional 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Magic 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.3%
An autopsy of a queer relationship.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Emotional 9%, Choices Matter 8.3%
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 21.6% ★, LGBTQ+ 20.7%, Emotional 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Choices Matter 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 18.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Emotional 13.7%, Stylized 11.1%, Magic 10.1%
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+ 28.4%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Emotional 13.1%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Stylized 10.3%
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+ 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Emotional 14.3%, Magic 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.9%
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 25%, Narrative 15% ★, Visual Novel 13.6%, Emotional 12.9%, Story Rich 11%
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+ 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Stylized 8%
A poet ponders queer life and love after his happily ever after.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Emotional 14.5%, Visual Novel 9.5%, Stylized 7.5%
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+ 28.5%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Emotional 13.7%, Hand-drawn 12.9%, Choices Matter 10%
memories is a sapphic visual novel dress-up game where clothes are linked to painful memories of a failed relationship.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.6%, Emotional 18.4%, Narrative 17.5% ★, Visual Novel 11.4%, Choices Matter 10.4%
A visual novel set in 1920s Paris. As summer draws near, young students are revising their end-of-year exams. Olivier is one of them.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Emotional 15.1%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Choices Matter 7.4%
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 22.5%, LGBTQ+ 19.8%, Emotional 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Hand-drawn 10%
Embark on an emotional first-person narrative adventure where you control the story—and affect its outcomes—with your real-life blinks. With this innovative technique you will fully immerse yourself in a world of memories, both joyous and heartbreaking, as your whole life flashes before your eyes.
Why similar: Narrative 39.2% ★, Emotional 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Story Rich 8.3%, Hand-drawn 4.7%
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 24.5%, LGBTQ+ 18.7%, Emotional 13.5%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Stylized 9.9%
A romance-suspense visual novel set in Taishō Japan. Amnesiac actor Kotori Sakuma grapples with a dear friend's bizarre death, the awakening of his magic, and the blood ties that haunt him. As the truth unravels, shape Kotori's final choice: return to his bloodline's embrace, or pursue true freedom?
Why similar: Narrative 24.8% ★, LGBTQ+ 19.6%, Emotional 12.9%, Magic 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 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+ 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Narrative 11.7% ★, Visual Novel 9.9%, Emotional 8.3%
As a research android, learn what it is to be human by living a student life in this bittersweet slice of life visual novel. Record new experiences, revel in mundanity, and be a strange machine and a strange person.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 34.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Emotional 14.1%, Hand-drawn 12%
An image created by AI — is it yours? An AI art tool is placed before a nameless illustrator. To accept, or to refuse. A visual novel that tells the same story in different forms. Your choices shape the ending - there is no right answer.
Why similar: Narrative 29.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Emotional 12.3%, Choices Matter 10.6%
If Found... is a game about going home, coming out and erasing everything.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 40.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Emotional 10.6%, Stylized 8.5%
"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 34.1% ★, Emotional 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Casual 7.4%, Hand-drawn 7.2%
With just 15 days of summer left, will Tomai pursue romance or responsibility?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 29.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Emotional 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Hand-drawn 8.6%
A Greek Myth-based, heartfelt narrative game where you're a demigod named Aelius trying to find your godly father and re-forge your family.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.2%, LGBTQ+ 22.8%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Choices Matter 8.3%, Emotional 7.9%
Brew potions and graduate with your best friend(?) in this small visual novel with drag and drop crafting elements!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Magic 15%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Choices Matter 7.5%
A ~1 hour short narrative game about a friendship that spans two lifetimes. Serious, funny, weird, maybe heartbreaking.
Why similar: Emotional 18.5%, LGBTQ+ 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Visual Novel 11%, Hand-drawn 10.2%
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+ 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Emotional 12%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Hand-drawn 8.9%
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 20.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Emotional 14.1%, Hand-drawn 8.7%, Choices Matter 8.4%
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+ 26.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Emotional 13.1%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Hand-drawn 9.1%
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+ 29.3%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Emotional 15%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Stylized 8.8%
Carry Onward is a narrative gameplay short that follows a grieving man as he packs up his home. Immerse yourself in his thoughts and emotions by interacting with items, which shape his internal state. Experience the transformative power of memories and the hope that arises from embracing change.
Why similar: Narrative 30.8% ★, Emotional 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Stylized 8.4%, Visual Novel 8.2%
In this interactive narrative, you (a goblin custodian) fix up the neighborhood, help solve eccentric neighbors' problems, and uncover a dark and dangerous mystery, all while untangling the occasional drag & drop image puzzle!
Why similar: Narrative 28.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Stylized 9%, Visual Novel 8.7%, Story Rich 7.4%
Follow Addison as they help their recently-deceased mother move on to the Spirit World. In this 2D visual narrative and platformer, Addison must explore and find special objects while being confronted with a journey of grief.
Why similar: Narrative 40.4% ★, Emotional 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Story Rich 6.3%, Indie 4.5%
Retracing the footsteps of a mother she never knew, Lena's trying to make it as a dancer in the city. Caught in a quarrel between dance companies, dealing with love and heartbreak and the challenges of young adulthood, she must also cope with the voice in her head commenting on everything she does.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20%, Emotional 17.3%, LGBTQ+ 17.1%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Choices Matter 10%
Experience the stories of Haru, Erika, and Manami, a trio of friends navigating their feelings of love, connection, and just wanting to belong.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 29.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Emotional 16.9%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Choices Matter 7.8%
An emotional narrative point-and-click about a daughter caring for her mother as dementia reshapes their bond. Explore heartfelt conversations, fragmented memories, and story-driven puzzles on a journey of caregiving and learning to let go.
Why similar: Narrative 23.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Emotional 16%, LGBTQ+ 8.9%, Visual Novel 8.3%
Train to become royalty, or royalty-adjacent, while also just trying to get out of this crazy, weird academy alive. Will you date any cat girls or cat boys along the way? Highly probable.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Emotional 14%, Visual Novel 11%, Minimalist 9%
If she leaves now you will never see her again. Would you have enough courage to take a step, or would you stay quiet and regret it? Experience this story about love and loss.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.6%, Emotional 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Visual Novel 13%, Choices Matter 10.5%
A narrative drawing game about an anxious cactus artist named Prickles. Explore Prickles' apartment building to find interesting subjects to draw and acquire new drawing tools and color palettes. Help your neighbors and discover secrets by gifting drawings and making new friendships along the way.
Why similar: Narrative 30.4% ★, LGBTQ+ 23.8%, Emotional 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Story Rich 5.3%
What if Martin looked into the mirror at night? A poetic visual novel, unfolding as a quiet journey through fragmented days. In the final year of high school, Wei Shi becomes you. Each morning begins without a name, and each night leads them through unfamiliar youth and the fragile art of happiness.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 29.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Emotional 12.1%, Stylized 9.3%
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+ 35.5%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Emotional 12.7%, Hand-drawn 11.8%, Stylized 10.7%
Embark on a heartwarming journey as a home cleaning specialist.
Why similar: Narrative 40.3% ★, Emotional 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Visual Novel 7.6%, Stylized 5%
It's not what you say, it's how you say it. We should talk is a short-form narrative game that will make you think carefully about the words you choose. Can your relationship survive the night?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Emotional 16.3%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.3%
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 22.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Minimalist 14.1%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Hand-drawn 9.8%
"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+ 31.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Emotional 17%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Minimalist 5.6%
Swipe, date & survive Berlin’s wild winter nights in this story-rich horror dating sim. Help Nora find herself — balance Energy, Cash & rising Pain while sex clubs, techno raves, and a messy ex tear your heart apart. Merry Christmas! Your choices decide who you wake up as.
Why similar: Narrative 24.7% ★, LGBTQ+ 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Emotional 16.7%, Choices Matter 9.4%
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+ 30.6%, Interactive Fiction 24%, Emotional 16.2%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Story Rich 7%
A story-driven adventure about a family uprooted by violence and slowly drifting away from their heritage. Walk through memories and fading traditions to discover a tender journey about identity, resilience, and the quiet beauty of the things we forget, yet still define us.
Why similar: Narrative 45.5% ★, Emotional 23.1%, Hand-drawn 12.5%, Stylized 7.8%, Story Rich 6.3%
