Games Like Jeans on Toast

Dive into a captivating standalone story in just an hour! Presenting the first installment of the "Handy Novel" series. Highly praised on smartphones, this acclaimed narrative is now ready for your enjoyment on Steam for PC/Mac!

Why similar: Text-Based 26.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Visual Novel 21.3%, Adventure 12.2%, Multiple Endings 6.5%

DisplaceMen is an experimental narrative game where you survive as a broke painter through art commissions. Paint with weird-ass found objects to unravel residents' mysterious pasts, change the story’s direction with observations and visual choices, and bring the forgotten Mermaid back to reality!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Dark Comedy 21.9%, Visual Novel 18%, LGBTQ+ 11.6%, Surreal 6.4%

夜の世界で「星のかけら」を集める少女アイの ゆるくてかわいい街ブラノベルゲーム！

Why similar: Text-Based 30%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.9%, Visual Novel 24.6%, Adventure 14.5%, Fantasy 3.9%

女性キャラ多めで全体的にキャラクターのあくが強いです。 テンポのいいテキストを心がけております。 オカルト、歴史、泣き、コメディ、バトル、ミステリ、恋愛少々、と様々な要素があり。

Why similar: Text-Based 23.2%, Dark Comedy 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Adventure 10.1%

Electric Sleep is a pixel art interactive story. Explore a crumbling world through the perspective of different emotions.

Why similar: Text-Based 30.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.3%, Visual Novel 21.7%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Adventure 5.4%

Medical clerk Manami Sorano discovers a medical record of a non-existent patient. The next day at a hot spring inn, a murder occurs—the victim’s name matches the record. Coincidence or fate? Using her skills and medical records, she unravels the truth in this mystery adventure!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.1%, Text-Based 29.4%, Visual Novel 24%, Adventure 9.3%, 2D 5.1%

Izumi, the demon girl you accidentally captured. A novel adventure game where you gradually connect hearts as you spend your days together with Izumi.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.5%, Visual Novel 27%, Text-Based 23.5%, Adventure 15.8%, 2D 5.2%

An adventure exploring two distinct types of information: conversation and memory. A district two stations away from the city, a night district who exude a atmosphere of alluring “Just listen to their desires, then do whatever you like.” —Told ya?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28%, Text-Based 26.8%, Visual Novel 21.3%, Multiple Endings 8.3%, Adventure 6.8%

This is an adventure novel of suspense and horror in which the story diverges depending on the choices you make. An online drinking session with friends. A person with a knife is lurking in the background. What will you do to rescue your friend?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.9%, Visual Novel 25.3%, Text-Based 20.9%, Adventure 14.5%, Multiple Endings 6.4%

"Whe its dyed in the color of the sunset" is a novel game set on Earth in 2034, where humans and other races coexist, depicting the love story of the beastman protagonist, Herbert. While living his school life, he will take actions to interact with the nine romanceable characters.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32%, Visual Novel 23.9%, LGBTQ+ 19.8%, Adventure 9.3%, Multiple Endings 8.9%

サウンドノベル「かまいたちの夜」シリーズ30周年を記念して、『かまいたちの夜×3』がSteamに登場！ シリーズ3作目にして完結編となる本作には、『かまいたちの夜』『かまいたちの夜2』のメインストーリーも収録。 初めてシリーズを遊ぶ方でも登場人物たちの関係性や過去にあった事件を知ることができるので、安心してプレイできる。

Why similar: Text-Based 29.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.4%, Visual Novel 24%, Adventure 14%, Multiple Endings 7.1%

「これは何を手にするために、何かを失う物語」 季節は変わり冬になる。死神の条件のために主人公、長谷部涼平は菅野雪乃への恋心を自覚するが、彼女の親友に想いを寄せられてしまい、今度は三角関係の当事者になってしまった。自分の未来を掴むためにも菅野雪乃との両思いを目指すことになるが…。青春群像劇ビジュアルドラマ三部作の最終章が遂に開幕！

Why similar: Text-Based 25.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Visual Novel 21.9%, Adventure 12%, Funny 5.3%

"Sign White" is a text visual novel set in a fictionalized medieval era. Send letters from your pigeon house to communicate with people for a limited period of time. Make connections to save people, listen to their worries, and participate in important decisions to change the fate of the world.

Why similar: Text-Based 31.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27%, Visual Novel 25.6%, Adventure 14.9%, Indie 1.1%

Love remembers you. Even if you’ve forgotten.

Why similar: Text-Based 33.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.4%, Visual Novel 26.9%, Adventure 10.1%

The first visual novel game of The Ancient Magus' Bride!

Why similar: Visual Novel 30%, Text-Based 28.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Adventure 13.2%, Story Rich 7%

Buried is a playable, interactive story told through stunning photos, a haunting soundscape, and gripping text. You play the role of Roger Hastings, a logger who awakens to find his friends missing, uncovering something that should have stayed hidden...

Why similar: Text-Based 37.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Adventure 14.1%, Indie 3.5%

-Change the past, create the future - A novel game about changing the past. What would the present be like if you could remove the regrets of that time? Rewrite the book that contains your past and create the future that you could not get. A new sensation ADV is now available from HaraPeko club.

Why similar: Text-Based 24.1%, Visual Novel 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Adventure 9.4%

A man awoke by the lake with no memory. Guided by a pilgrim, he discovers he was once the sorcerer Merlin—and learns the truth about the "Saint" who sealed him away. A dark fantasy visual novel about unrequited love. Three endings await.

Why similar: Text-Based 27.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.4%, Visual Novel 23.8%, Adventure 13.2%, Multiple Endings 5.9%

Coffee Buns is a transformation visual novel set in the world of Mice Tea. Leonardo Bianco is a barista getting used to living in a world where a magical tea can turn you into a furry, and when he gets his own chance to try it he's thrust into an erotic, gender-bending journey of self-discovery.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Text-Based 19.7%, LGBTQ+ 19.3%, Adventure 7.8%

It is a Japanese visual novel game. It is a game to read texts. Enjoy the story of anguish, conflict, dreams and hope. There is no branching depending on the choices, but you can have a rich story experience like a movie.

Why similar: Text-Based 32.9%, Visual Novel 28.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Adventure 6.6%, Emotional 5.3%

My second spring in high school. Surrounded by my dreamy upperclassman, that classmate I'm interested in, and my childhood friend who's a year younger than me. She's been in the search for a boyfriend who would look at her, and only her. The protagonist Chika decides to confess her feelings to……

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.8%, Visual Novel 27.2%, Text-Based 23.4%, Adventure 15.5%, 2D 5.1%

"Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp" brings you more of the world's best (and maybe only?) multiplayer dating sim; but in a way you've never expected!

Why similar: Dark Comedy 18.3%, Text-Based 17.4%, LGBTQ+ 16.2%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%

Face your friend's twisted mind and do your best. You should stay sane until the end.

Why similar: Visual Novel 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Text-Based 13.2%, LGBTQ+ 12.5%, Adventure 10.5%

A man-eating monster wakes up, in a snowy night. He meets a mysterious girl willing to die. This omnibus novel game tells the story of the strange interaction between them.

Why similar: Text-Based 32.5%, Visual Novel 27.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Adventure 10.6%

A mystery visual novel where horror meets occult comedy. Follow Kugayama Shiori, a ghost who casually dies over and over as she searches for her cause of death and the regrets that bind her to this world. Her investigation will eventually lead to a single incident—and the truth behind her demise.

Why similar: Visual Novel 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Text-Based 20.4%, Dark Comedy 17.9%, Adventure 11.8%

少女達の「最期の一日」を辿り、真相を紐解いていく

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.3%, Visual Novel 25.8%, Text-Based 22.9%, Adventure 13.8%, Emotional 5.3%

「その選択肢、正気か？」シンプルなノベルゲームのはずなのに、とにかく“選択肢”がおかしい！？ 予想を超える展開が待ち受ける、奇想天外なテキストアドベンチャーゲーム！

Why similar: Text-Based 26.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.8%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Funny 8.3%, Multiple Endings 6.9%

Spend a week at your uncle’s house in this short visual novel.From time to time, a special “Pursue” button will appear, guiding the story toward one of two endings.Approx. 30 minutes playtimeTwo possible endingsRated R12[Features]The “Pursue” button cannot be skipped.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.9%, Visual Novel 27.1%, Text-Based 23.4%, Adventure 15.2%, 2D 5.3%

一通の手紙をきっかけに故郷の地、函館へと戻る主人公。 少年時代を一緒に過ごした幼馴染の女性と故郷を巡り、かつての記憶を少しずつ取り戻していく主人公。 そして旅の終着点で主人公を待っていたものとは…… ストリートビューで函館の街を巡る、新しい形のトラベルコミュニケーションゲームです。

Why similar: Text-Based 33.8%, Visual Novel 27.3%, Adventure 15.3%, Surreal 12.8%, Exploration 10.8%

Kiss the Demiurge is a yuri visual novel about love, delusions, and magic. Follow Minori, a mage tasked with keeping magic a secret, as she investigates a group of delusional girls who mistakenly believe themselves to have magic of their own. Will Minori destroy their magic club, or fall in love?

Why similar: Text-Based 21.1%, Dark Comedy 21.1%, Visual Novel 16.9%, LGBTQ+ 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%

【A ghost girl, is here.】Terau Mare is a shy girl moves to Tokyo to go to university, and her new house, Hakusan-so, is like an abandoned. As soon as she enters the room, Mare meets a ghost girl, Furuzaki Yuika. Yuika says, "I'm going to kick you out of here soon." But...

Why similar: Text-Based 36%, Visual Novel 34.5%, Adventure 15.7%, Story Rich 8.6%, 2D 4%

A Visual Novel game filled with romance, action, and intrigue. Create your Dragon Commander, befriend or romance the future King, and find the courage to save the Kingdom.

Why similar: Text-Based 27.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Visual Novel 21.6%, LGBTQ+ 18.9%, Emotional 3.5%

The main character is looked down upon at her part-time job. Using a hypnotic object given to him by a college senior, we'll test the mother and daughter by making them do various naughty things.

Why similar: Text-Based 26.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Visual Novel 24.4%, Adventure 13.2%, Multiple Endings 6.6%

An illustrated choice-driven roleplaying adventure where coffee machines find love and teenage girls steal eyeballs!? Explore a vibrant world with absurd stories and characters.

Why similar: Text-Based 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Dark Comedy 17.8%, Funny 6.8%, Multiple Endings 6.6%

When night falls, she wanders into another world... Moonless Moon is a text-based adventure game following a girl as she travels through a variety of different worlds.

Why similar: Text-Based 28.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Visual Novel 20.5%, Adventure 8.1%, Story Rich 5.9%

「彼は本当に精神疾患なのか？それとも……」 精神科医である道島（主人公）は、ある入院患者の担当を任される。母親を刺したというその少年は、 奇妙な幻聴の症状を抱えており……。貴方は神話生物の魔の手から逃れ、生き延びる事が出来るのか…！？

Why similar: Visual Novel 30.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, Text-Based 23%, Adventure 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%

『部活動の時間です。さあ、人殺しをはじめてください』 一癖も二癖もある強者ぞろいの巨大コミュニティ、それが鳴神学園。 そこには、ありとあらゆる部活動が存在し、到底常識では考えられない特殊な闇の倶楽部がある。その一つが殺人クラブだ。

Why similar: Dark Comedy 25.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Text-Based 17.5%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Multiple Endings 11%

人気コンカフェ「troisième(トロワジエム)」で。 嬢を送迎する「送りドライバー」として働く主人公はある日、店長から依頼を受ける。 「最近、どうにもウチの子たちの様子がヘンなの。どこか仕事に身が入っていないというか……」 「そこでアンタ、送りの時にそれとなく事情を聞き出してもらえないかしら？」 嬢たちの事情を暴き、 依頼を遂行するか？それとも禁断の愛を育むか……？ 決断は、アナタの手に委ねられています……。

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.7%, Text-Based 26.9%, Visual Novel 23.9%, Multiple Endings 7.3%, 2D 5.1%

Romance, seduce, and even marry your own drawings! Forget about finding true love; In Doodle Date, you create it!

Why similar: Dark Comedy 20.6%, Text-Based 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Visual Novel 12.6%, LGBTQ+ 11.1%

When the past awakens, the future bleeds. A full length cinematic sci-fi mystery visual novel where augmented reality, history, AI technology and murder collide in the heart of Kyoto.

Why similar: Text-Based 43.5%, Visual Novel 35.7%, Adventure 15.1%, 2D 5.7%

A desert fantasy murder-mystery following young involuntary shut-in Vishara Vakricustos as she attempts to solve a murder plot to prove herself to her overprotective mother.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Text-Based 21.7%, Visual Novel 20.5%, Adventure 12.3%, LGBTQ+ 11.7%

Enjoy the warm family trip.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.5%, Visual Novel 27%, Text-Based 23.5%, Adventure 15.8%, 2D 5.2%

To get to heaven, you must climb the Nine Circles of Hell. But you might never make it to the depths.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28%, Text-Based 26.2%, Visual Novel 22.5%, Surreal 10.7%, Multiple Endings 7.3%

Explore a deserted elementary school and escape from an alternate reality in this short adventure. Collect clues and experience changing endings.

Why similar: Text-Based 34.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Adventure 15.5%, Multiple Endings 9.3%

A pixelated homage to 16-bit RPGs, this former print-and-play card game has come full circle as a digital experience! Choose your champion, enter the tower, and make wise decisions on your ascent to face the Ice Lich at the top.

Why similar: Text-Based 27.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Dark Comedy 9.4%, Multiple Endings 7.4%

HULOTTE’s classic visual novel is now on Steam! After an injury ends his track dream, Sakuma Tsumugi meets a clumsy Love Angel and begins a sweet search for his destined special someone.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.3%, Visual Novel 24.8%, Text-Based 23.3%, Adventure 14.8%, Funny 6.4%

Marisa rounds up a most unlikely crew, in search of adventure, and of course, treasure! Interpersonal conflict ensues among the crew, but in the end, their stark differences bring clarity to their personal lives. The real treasure is the one you find within yourself!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.2%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Text-Based 19.8%, LGBTQ+ 18.4%, Multiple Endings 7.9%

Accuse and execute the owner of the werewolf card. It's a 5-minute round of a repeated death game in the werewolf genre.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33%, Text-Based 28%, Visual Novel 24.9%, Adventure 8.8%, 2D 5.3%

"retrospect" is a linear, full-length visual novel. Trace the memories of the ghosts and learn about them. That is the only mourning you can do.

Why similar: Text-Based 29.7%, Visual Novel 25.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Adventure 14.3%, Pixel Graphics 6.4%

A short horror visual novel where you get to know your brand new self-aware in-game boyfriend and explore your relationship through Talking About Something in the Nowhere.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Text-Based 19.3%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Exploration 8%

[Using Live2D, almost full voice] (Voice is only in Japanese)A mystery that begins with a single invitation received from your uncle.A ``mystery'' that happens to someone who was supposed to be an invited guest. Please try to solve it by yourself.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29%, Visual Novel 27.3%, Adventure 15.6%, Exploration 10.2%, Multiple Endings 7.6%

矛盾を見つけ、相談者の悩みを解決する怪異判定アドベンチャー

Why similar: Text-Based 28.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.4%, Visual Novel 23.3%, Adventure 14.1%, Pixel Graphics 4.6%

何気なく頼んだ「アイスコーヒー」の注文が、奥の部屋への「合言葉」になっちゃってる喫茶店。 1周5分の、ちょっとおかしくて怪しいマルチエンドADV。

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.1%, Visual Novel 21.7%, Text-Based 20.2%, Funny 7%, Multiple Endings 6.4%

The world's most "sentimental" tale. "Let's go away together." Those were Yuika Aoi's last words. It was the winter of my first year of college. She disappeared, without a trace. Where had she gone? - only the flower knows.

Why similar: Visual Novel 36.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.5%, Adventure 15.2%, Multiple Endings 8.1%, 2D 7%

怖すぎるにも ほどがある。新聞部は、夏休み前の学校新聞で「学校の七不思議」を特集することになった。七人の学生を集めて、彼らから怖い話を聞き、それを特集としてまとめるのだ。新聞部三年生の日野から命を受け、新入部員の坂上修一はその集会の聞き役を担当することになった。集会当日、放課後の新聞部部室に日野によって集められた七人の語り部と聞き役の坂上修一は初めて顔を合わせる。しかし、七人集められたはずの語り部は、何故か六人しかいなかった。七人目が姿を見せぬまま始まる七不思議の集会。七人目は、現れるのか。そして、この集会の終わりに待っているのは……。

Why similar: Text-Based 31.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.2%, Visual Novel 26.4%, Adventure 14.8%

“Lone Bird in the Tree” is an ADV with male and female versions of each of the four characters. The story alternates between the “future” of the main character, who is deeply traumatized by the grief of his/her best friend, and the “story leading up to the loss of his/her best friend”.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Text-Based 18.9%, LGBTQ+ 18.8%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Exploration 8.9%

You wake up with no memories inside the House, a place where reality bends... lies linger... and someone watching your every move.

Why similar: Visual Novel 21.7%, Text-Based 20.7%, LGBTQ+ 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Multiple Endings 8.6%

A clumsy, heartwarming visual novel featuring the slightly airheaded heroine Ryoko and her childhood friend Manabu.When Ryoko's well-meaning blunders go too far, even Manabu's most embarrassing secrets end up exposed to the whole class! It’s just another day of chaos and comedy at their high school.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.7%, Text-Based 28.7%, Visual Novel 22.7%, Funny 8.6%, Adventure 6.2%

Watercolors Sink Beneath the Surface is a nostalgic pixel-art point-and-click adventure set on Narumi Island, where only an abandoned high school stands. Years later, two girls return to complete a watercolor inspired by their school memories, gathering ideas from the remnants of the past.

Why similar: Visual Novel 24.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.6%, Text-Based 19%, Adventure 13.5%, Multiple Endings 5.8%

Enjoy your new life living with your brother's wife, who suddenly appeared.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.5%, Visual Novel 27%, Text-Based 23.5%, Adventure 15.8%, 2D 5.2%