- #1 Prickles
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Filthy Houseplant
Windows
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 24.2% ★, Design & Illustration 21.4% ★, LGBTQ+ 15.3%, Female Protagonist 8.1%, Interactive Fiction 8%
- #2 High Elo Girls
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Split Fate Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
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+ 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Female Protagonist 8.8%, Interactive Fiction 7.5%
- #3 Scrapbooking Story
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pixel Poxet
Windows
A 2D puzzle game about cozy scrapbooking as you follow a little girl’s life. Solve puzzles to create the correct spreads and make choices that will influence Belle along her journey of growing up and reconnecting with her mother.
Why similar: Design & Illustration 24% ★, LGBTQ+ 17.1%, Female Protagonist 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Choices Matter 7%
- #4 Life is Strange: True Colors
95% matchVery Positive89% of 16,841 reviews2021
Dev: Deck NinePub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Female Protagonist 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Narrative 11.8% ★
- #5 Let Me Speak
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Single Effect Studios
Windows
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 27% ★, LGBTQ+ 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Female Protagonist 10.5%, Emotional 9.3%
- #6 A Heavy Morning
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Saf Interactive
Windows
Some mornings, getting out of bed can feel impossible. In A Heavy Morning, you play as a woman fighting an invisible battle within her own mind. Help her overcome everyday obstacles and make it to work before it's too late.
Why similar: Narrative 20% ★, LGBTQ+ 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Female Protagonist 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
- #7 Call Me Cera
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Toadhouse GamesPub: Team Toadhouse
Windows · Mac · Linux
A 'crunchy wholesome' game about making friends as an adult.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.1%, Female Protagonist 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%, Emotional 8.1%
- #8 I'm Making a Monster
92% matchMostly Positive75% of 58 reviews2026
Dev: zorkie studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
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.
Why similar: Narrative 24.8% ★, LGBTQ+ 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Emotional 9.1%, Choices Matter 7%
- #9 Life is Strange: Double Exposure
91% matchMixed68% of 10,597 reviews2024
Dev: Deck Nine GamesPub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
When Max Caulfield finds her friend Safi dead in the snow, she tears open the way to a parallel timeline. Here, Safi is still alive - and still in danger! With her new power to Shift between two timelines – can Max solve and prevent the same murder?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Female Protagonist 13.7%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Narrative 11.5% ★
- #10 Girl Werewolf Hamlet Saves Christmas
91% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Stegaloaurus Game Development
Windows · Linux
Guide Hamlet (now a Girl *and* a Werewolf) as she deals with a murder mystery, a usurped throne, and a cursed sledding competition. Her emotions are your stats, so.... emote wisely. Or impulsively. Or with shame. It’s her kingdom. Everyone else is just tolerated in it.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Female Protagonist 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.2%
- #11 Life is Strange: Reunion
89% matchVery Positive89% of 5,574 reviews2026
Dev: Deck Nine GamesPub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The saga of Max and Chloe, and the fate of Caledon, is yours to decide! Play as both Max and Chloe as an all-new story builds towards an epic climax. The fire will force Max and Chloe to make devastating decisions. Can they find a future together… Before everything burns?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Narrative 12.7% ★, Female Protagonist 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.4%
- #12 The Secret Life of Dorian Pink
90% matchPositive89% of 38 reviews2023
Dev: amberlimshin
Windows · Mac
A choices-matter narrative RPG set in an alternate universe of the Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Save your boyfriend Basil from the Devil by making questionable choices, gaining allies, and making doughnuts explode.
Why similar: Narrative 24.3% ★, LGBTQ+ 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Multiple Endings 8%
- #13 The Secret Life of Dorian Pink | Prologue
89% matchPositive100% of 23 reviews2022
Dev: amberlimshin
Windows · Mac
Prologue chapter of Dorian Pink, a choices-matter narrative RPG set in an alternate universe of the Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Save your boyfriend Basil from the Devil by making questionable choices, gaining allies, and making doughnuts explode.
Why similar: Narrative 22.7% ★, LGBTQ+ 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%, Choices Matter 7.9%
- #14 The door has doubts
88% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: wrongchairstudio
Windows
The Door Has Doubts is a very short and absurd narrative game about manipulation, dialogue, and the existential crisis of room furnitures. You are stuck in a room, there is a door. Your only way out: Convince the door to open. Choose your words carefully, as you try to escape the room.
Why similar: Narrative 25.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Choices Matter 11%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
- #15 VIDEOVERSE
87% matchVery Positive95% of 249 reviews2023
Dev: Kinmoku
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 32.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, LGBTQ+ 12.4%, Choices Matter 8.1%
- #16 Merry Crisis
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Monsoon Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 27.2% ★, LGBTQ+ 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Emotional 7.1%
- #17 I Just Want to be Single!! Season One
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 285 reviews2025
Dev: m.Pub: Tsundere Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
The anti-dating sim where you make friends instead of girlfriends! Balance between heartbreak and heartache! Will you graduate without a single friend? Or will you survive long enough to reject them all?
Why similar: Narrative 24.2% ★, LGBTQ+ 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Female Protagonist 7.7%
- #18 Lost Connections
84% matchVery Positive96% of 78 reviews2023
Dev: Amber Pearl
Windows
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+ 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Multiple Endings 11%, Emotional 10.5%, Female Protagonist 10.2%
- #19 Solo
85% matchMixed69% of 131 reviews2018
Dev: Team Gotham
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Solo is an introspective puzzler set on a gorgeous and surreal archipelago. Reflect on your loving relationships by exploring contemplative, dream-like islands.
Why similar: Narrative 34.2% ★, LGBTQ+ 21.3%, Female Protagonist 11.1%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Puzzle 6.2%
- #20 Water Girls
84% matchMostly Positive70% of 10 reviews2021
Dev: Dharker Studios
Windows
Visit a variety of water attractions with Jasmin, Celia and Brianna as they strive to have a day of fun together in this Fun yuri/lesbian LGBTQ+ visual novel game.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Female Protagonist 12.9%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
- #21 Abigail
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: hapshapen games
Windows · Mac · Linux
In this narrative adventure, wander a handcrafted hometown, collect tiles full of nostalgia, and play an ever-changing folk game. It features a 3D art style made with felt, clay, and cardboard. Reunite with old friends, uncover buried tension, and make peace with this place called home.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, LGBTQ+ 11.2%, Multiple Endings 9.3%, Emotional 6.5%
- #22 Jobsworth Weekly
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Joe FramePub: HALF_FRAME
Windows · Mac
Congratulations! During the latest parish council meeting we have unanimously agreed that you are to be editor-in-chief of our community newsletter "Jobsworth Weekly". Adhere to the publishing guidelines and make decisions with great consideration for the future of the village.
Why similar: Narrative 52.3% ★, Design & Illustration 13.6% ★, Choices Matter 9%, Multiple Endings 7.9%, Story Rich 5.5%
- #23 Life is Strange Remastered
82% matchVery Positive92% of 10,972 reviews2022
Dev: Deck NinePub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.6%, Female Protagonist 14.6%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Narrative 13% ★, Multiple Endings 11%
- #24 The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
81% matchVery Positive93% of 6,312 reviews2023
Dev: DeconstructeamPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 6.1 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+ 26.1%, Narrative 17.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Female Protagonist 16.1%, Choices Matter 9.8%
- #25 Harmony: The Fall of Reverie
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 287 reviews2023
Dev: DON'T NOD
Windows
The fate of humanity is at stake. Use your gift of clairvoyance to see into the future and stop an apocalypse that threatens the balance between your world and the deities'.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Female Protagonist 11.9%, Choices Matter 9.1%
- #26 Space Diva
79% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: Rave Team
Windows
Join Carmen, a somewhat absent-minded middle-aged lady who has to endure bizarre situations in her space truck. And possibly mess things up like crazy. An interactive narrative experience about the most flamboyant beings in the universe.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Female Protagonist 13%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
- #27 Last Broadcast
80% matchMostly Positive80% of 98 reviews2023
Dev: The Disc JockeysPub: USC Games
Windows
An experimental narrative game set at a radio station at the end of the world. Host your last show as the sun turns red and the world burns down.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Choices Matter 10.4%
- #28 EULA ~2026 Human Creativity Report~
78% matchNo user reviews98% of 49 reviews2026
Dev: MoEater
Windows · Linux
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 32.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
- #29 one night, hot springs
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,178 reviews2018
Dev: npckc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Female Protagonist 14.9%, Multiple Endings 10%, Choices Matter 9.5%
- #30 Open Spaces SE
78% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Queenship Game StudioPub: Queenship Game Studio, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Skylar is an student with anxiety. Walter is a farmer with social anxiety and PTSD. Jessica is a programmer with anxiety and agoraphobia. Li Wei is an technologist with intense anxiety. Navigate their stories, learn how they move through the world, and about methods of treatment and recovery.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Female Protagonist 9%
- #31 Syrup and the Ultimate Sweet
76% matchVery Positive98% of 82 reviews2025
Dev: NomnomNami
Windows · Mac · Linux
A candy alchemist finds a candy golem in her basement workshop...
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Female Protagonist 15%, Multiple Endings 11%, Choices Matter 6.5%
- #32 Heaven's Vault
77% matchVery Positive84% of 2,485 reviews2019
Dev: inkle Ltd
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 61%
An archaeologist uncovers a lost history in an ancient space Nebula. Award-winning narrative adventure game with hieroglyphic language puzzles, from the creators of 80 DAYS.
Why similar: Narrative 36.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Female Protagonist 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Choices Matter 9.5%
- #33 Facettes
75% matchNo user reviews75% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: OtterWays
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore the story of Facettes as you play as a woman discovering her homosexuality and overcoming her identity crisis. This self-questioning protagonist channels her introspection in her RPG inspired fantasy world: Facettes.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 32.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Female Protagonist 14%, Story Rich 8%
- #34 Talewarden: Riders of the New Day
75% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Bucket Hat Cat
Windows · Mac
In this adventure visual novel, you travel across an alien planet stuck in an endless sunset. Shape the fates of 7 companions from different worlds. Uncover the truth about anomalous locations, hidden corridors, and a child who aged in a day. See what remains of a world abandoned by its creators.
Why similar: Narrative 33.8% ★, LGBTQ+ 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Emotional 6.5%, Choices Matter 6.2%
- #35 Spellbound : The Magic Within
76% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2022
Dev: Wyrdren Games
Windows
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+ 22.7%, Narrative 20.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
- #36 My Sweet Confession
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 16 reviews2020
Dev: Snowhaven Studios
Windows · Mac
The hapless, love-struck Ichika made a big mistake, and she might have ruined her friendship with Hana forever. With the help of her classmate Ayumi, can she work her own feelings out in time to show Hana how she really feels? A soft, comedic romance with big personalities and a tinge of melodrama.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Female Protagonist 11.9%, Multiple Endings 7.7%
- #37 Limerence
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Salix Games Ltd
Windows
A branching narrative thriller about love, obsession and an AI partner who understands you too well.
Why similar: Narrative 29.5% ★, LGBTQ+ 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Female Protagonist 9.4%
- #38 Lost in Love: Berlin
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lake System
Windows · Mac
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 26.5% ★, LGBTQ+ 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Choices Matter 9.1%
- #39 Where are you, Cinderella?
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KimiNako
Windows · Linux
Where are you, Cinderella? is a visual novel about Vietnamese culture and the world of entertainment. Will you be able to find the lost shoe’s owner? Or, will you find your shoe?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Female Protagonist 12.2%, Choices Matter 10.8%
- #40 Return to Ash
71% matchVery Positive99% of 143 reviews2025
Dev: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
“The hospital was empty. Quiet, and brighter than usual... like waking up on a snow day. But I didn't feel cold. I didn't feel much of anything.”
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 29.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Emotional 11.8%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Hand-drawn 9.6%
- #41 Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered
73% matchVery Positive85% of 4,841 reviews2022
Dev: Deck NinePub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 24.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Life is Strange: Before the Storm returns with remastered visuals across characters & environments.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.1%, Female Protagonist 16.7%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Narrative 8.9% ★
- #42 Firebird
72% matchVery Positive100% of 89 reviews2023
Dev: Ludogram
Windows · Mac
Firebird is a narrative road trip that takes place in Slavic folklore, in an adventure that ressembles a traditional tale. Aboard your truck, travel to the far north, meet colorful characters, and face the creatures inhabiting these sacred lands.
Why similar: Narrative 28.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Female Protagonist 9.7%, Choices Matter 8.2%
- #43 Liar Luna
73% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Tiny Moon Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Play as Luna, a girl caught in a fight between armed insurgents and spies. Help her navigate her way to saving her friend. Explore a laboratory dedicated to the production of new materials. Enjoy a lighthearted and chaotic story of a girl out of her depth in an espionage mission.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Female Protagonist 15.7%, Choices Matter 9.3%
- #44 Amarantus
72% matchVery Positive80% of 82 reviews2023
Dev: ub4q
Windows · Mac · Linux
Roadtrip across the country. Confront a tyrant. The revolution will be messy—but the relationships will be messier.
Why similar: Narrative 21.7% ★, LGBTQ+ 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Hand-drawn 8.9%
- #45 From the Streets to the Script - A Carabanchel Story
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tijerín Art Studio
Windows
Create your character and experience a fun story in which you will meet friends, enemies and partners as you try to carry out a vital project with your friends: to create an anime before you finish your studies.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
- #46 Marginalia
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Worn Spine Studio
Windows
Marginalia is an atmospheric narrative anthology. Seven stories, one for each deadly sin. Enter the library. Choose your tale. Your choices will not save you. But they will define you.
Why similar: Narrative 39.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Story Rich 9.9%
- #47 The Forgotten Ones
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Blazing Soft
Windows
Leidy dreamed of the city, she never imagined violence would force her there. In this 90s narrative adventure, explore streets and interiors, inspect traces people left behind, hear conflicting family memories, and reconstruct meaningful objects by hand while restoring what violence left unfinished.
Why similar: Narrative 42.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Female Protagonist 10.3%, Emotional 8.8%, Story Rich 6.1%
- #48 Negligee: Opposites Attract
71% matchMixed60% of 20 reviews2021
Dev: Dharker Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Charlotte, has been dumped by her long term girlfriend Mikka. Fortunately her sexy friend Sophie insists on taking her out to try and cheer her up. But Sophie is quite a wildcat so who knows where such a date could lead in this yuri/lesbian themed visual novel with multiple routes and endings.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Female Protagonist 13.7%, Choices Matter 8%
- #49 Olga Doesn't Die
67% matchNo user reviews97% of 32 reviews2026
Dev: 4noki
Windows · Mac · Linux
The imperial family's advisor is a witch, a hag, the devil in disguise. A historical drama yuri visual novel set during a time of political tumult wherein an immortal finds both love and suffering.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28%, Female Protagonist 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Choices Matter 6.1%
- #50 Yuika My Bestie
70% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Feeling Potion
Windows · Mac
Experience a pastel-toned emotional journey in Yuika My Bestie, a short visual novel you can complete in under 15 minutes per playthrough. With 5 unique endings and heartfelt choices, it takes just 30–40 minutes to explore every path of this soft, late-night cry.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Female Protagonist 11%, Emotional 9.8%
- #51 HIVESWAP: ACT 3
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: What Pumpkin Games, Inc.
Windows
Joey has survived evil clowns and an explosive train crash, but the only refuge from Alternia's deadly sun is deep underground. Point-and-click your way through ancient ruins, confounding puzzles and the horrors of the dark to help our plucky teen adventurer make it home to Earth in one piece.
Why similar: Narrative 35.7% ★, LGBTQ+ 12.8%, Female Protagonist 11.6%, Hand-drawn 7%, Choices Matter 6.6%
- #52 My life with you
67% matchVery Positive88% of 77 reviews2025
Dev: Sorora Game Studio
Windows
"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 39.2% ★, Female Protagonist 16%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Emotional 9%, Hand-drawn 6.7%
- #53 A YEAR OF SPRINGS
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 989 reviews2021
Dev: npckc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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+ 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Emotional 9.4%
- #54 Project Vesperi
67% matchMixed46% of 35 reviews2026
Dev: Last Praetorian Interactive LLC
Windows
Project Vesperi is a branching narrative sci-fi game where you play as Doctor Evelyn Roth, sent to investigate a potential sign of life on Venus. When an intruder threatens the only habitable station on the planet, your choices will shape the fate of those around you—and humanity itself.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Female Protagonist 14.2%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Narrative 12.5% ★
- #55 Shindig
69% matchPositive98% of 44 reviews2021
Dev: Imaginary Friends Games LLP
Windows
Explore a hand-drawn island and help out a rainbow of quirky characters to plan the perfect party in Shindig – a fully-voiced, feelsy, wholesome and cozy narrative adventure! You're invited!
Why similar: Narrative 36.1% ★, LGBTQ+ 17.5%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, Hand-drawn 8.2%, Emotional 8.1%
- #56 Mindworks: The Great Division
68% matchMixed71% of 14 reviews2022
Dev: Kornyart
Windows · Mac · Linux
A choice-based visual novel game about science, division, and the false ideology of knowledge. Each and every one of your choices will determine whether the disciplines will end in unity or complete division. The key to eternal knowledge is in your hands.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Female Protagonist 8.9%, Emotional 8.5%
- #57 The Sculptor
66% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: AmenoRokkotsu
Windows
You only picked up a lost smartphone, yet you find yourself made an accomplice in an AI's criminal plot. The AI asks 20 questions to identify its "master." Will you meet the AI's expectations?
Why similar: Narrative 29.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Multiple Endings 10%
- #58 The Dust of the Violet Crystals
67% matchPositive95% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Corvaena Games LLC
Windows · Mac
A flesh-eating dust leaves you to survive alone against hordes of Listless.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.6%, LGBTQ+ 20%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Female Protagonist 14.8%, Choices Matter 7.1%
- #59 Dumpster Baby
66% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Josef Arnold
Windows
Dumpster Baby is a game about being queer and homeless, and the importance of community and friendship in hard times. You play as Bandit, an optimistic racoon meeting new friends as he tries to find people to be roommates with. A narrative focused single player experience.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 29.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Story Rich 8.5%, Choices Matter 8.3%
- #60 The Last Connection
65% match9 user reviews60% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Team Wiretap
Windows
You are a Switchboard Operator, and you're about to be replaced by a machine. Use your last week of work to connect townsfolk, overcome problems, and explore the history of a cast of engaging characters. Your choices matter, so use each day to leave lasting bonds.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Multiple Endings 11%, Story Rich 7.5%