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A fully voiced visual novel where your choices actually matter. Welcome to college: annoying frat boys, unhinged goth girls, weird roommates, and every flavor of chaos. Go to class, get wasted, find love, whatever. Just try not to die.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.9%, Psychological 12.1%, LGBTQ+ 11.8%, Dark Humor 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%

Customers... Don't let them find out... Rip-off! A thrilling rip-off adventure where if the customers find out, you'll explode!

Why similar: Modern 25.4%, Dark Comedy 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Dark Humor 11.5%

Welcome to St Fiacre’s College for Women of Unreliable Size. Your new home. If you can survive your first night… Featuring 40,000 words of text and over 500 images, this heart-pumping visual novel journey will thrill fans of shrinking and giants alike!

Why similar: Dark Comedy 17.3%, Dark Humor 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, LGBTQ+ 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%

Object Ward is a dark comedy visual novel about the various misadventures of a man who sees everyone with an inanimate object for a head. What is real, and what is a hallucination?

Why similar: Dark Comedy 22.4%, LGBTQ+ 16.1%, Psychological 13.9%, Dark Humor 12.3%, Drama 9.3%

A short visual novel about queer love and art. Follow Maya, a once-celebrated painter now paralyzed, as she struggles to accept her new reality and its effects on her relationship. Argue with your Prefrontal Cortex, insult an art critic, befriend the elderly.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.4%, Dark Humor 15.9%, Psychological 14.5%, Emotional 13.3%, Modern 9.3%

Can you survive a night in St Fiacre's at tiny size? This feature-length interactive visual novel returns to the world of Sensus Supra, with better visuals, dozens of animations, more complex puzzles and even more dangerous giantesses hunting for your blood. Every action has consequences...

Why similar: Dark Comedy 16.6%, Dark Humor 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, LGBTQ+ 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%

An emotional dark comedy about robots doing therapy. In Robotherapy, you're a robot therapist in a dystopian society that killed all the humans, but is still not happy. Treat patients, meet weird robots and enter their minds. If killing all humans doesn't bring happiness, then what does?

Why similar: Dark Humor 19.5%, Dark Comedy 16.7%, Psychological 14.8%, Emotional 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%

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: Dark Comedy 21.6%, LGBTQ+ 17.1%, Dark Humor 16.4%, Text-Based 10.2%, Emotional 9.6%

在漫画风格的视觉小说中扮演被幽灵附身的实习生，依靠自己的选择拼凑出不同的漫画分镜！ 以大学女生的视角观察并了解街道上的形形色色，之后放肆地对这一切做个鬼脸！

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Modern 15.1%, Dark Comedy 15%, Text-Based 12.9%, Dark Humor 10.5%

You're not a real psychologist. He's not a sane president. Welcome to the most unhinged therapy session ever held in office.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 19.9%, Dark Humor 16.4%, Psychological 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Drama 8.7%

Foul Play tells the story of a young, bright-eyed detective who is determined to succeed. Her world quickly turns upside down after she is tasked with catching a sexy, mercurial assassin. In the end, she'll need to determine how pure her conscience really is. After all, justice is subjective.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.8%, Dark Comedy 16.2%, Dark Humor 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%

An emotional story portraying the struggles of anxiety—the paralyzing thoughts and irrational fears. Join Lucy on her journey to find solace, alongside her supportive yet puzzled roommate. A heartfelt narrative delving into the complexities of anxiety and the challenges of empathy.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.5%, Psychological 17.9%, Emotional 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Drama 11.4%

Welcome to the most stressful job in politics making the President look sane online. Fix typos, fight trolls, and spin chaos into strategy. One wrong emoji could spark a crisis. A satirical management game where timing and damage control are your only lifelines.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 19.9%, Dark Humor 17.8%, Psychological 9.9%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%

Messy Hearts is a pixel-art visual novel about a complicated coworker friendship. Through journal-style narration, Florence unpacks romance, trauma, and some messy boundaries in a deeply personal story of mental health and heartbreak. No choices; this is a linear narrative.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Modern 15.3%, LGBTQ+ 15%, Emotional 10.8%, Psychological 10.5%

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 18.8%, Dark Comedy 17.4%, LGBTQ+ 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Modern 10.6%

Wander from room to room in this whimsical and dark visual novel as you follow five friends trapped during a freak storm. Listen while they have hard conversations and tough realizations as they confront the conflict in their lives. For what is a house but a box with windows?

Why similar: Dark Comedy 24.5%, LGBTQ+ 18.3%, Psychological 14.1%, Emotional 13.1%, Dark Humor 12.1%

Deliver Us From Evil: Masquerade is a short and sweet BL visual novel. Keldran and Ace are two centuries-long friends with benefits. What starts off as a fun haunted house trip soon turns sinister and If they cannot conquer their fears, they may find themselves wandering the halls forever.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 25.2%, LGBTQ+ 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Psychological 9.2%, Visual Novel 8.9%

LaughterLost takes you through a surreal journey of work and family life. Face psychological twists, narrative choices, puzzles, and unexpected unique confrontations! Will you break this dystopian cycle of everyday life?

Why similar: Dark Humor 22.4%, Dark Comedy 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Psychological 14.8%, Text-Based 9.8%

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+ 17.3%, Psychological 17%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Emotional 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%

Find a way out of the Do 11 app by doing missions that come from the mysterious Do 11 app. A choice awaits you to solve puzzles and change the fate of the protagonist. Escape the main character from the Do 11 app while savoring a profound worldview and intriguing story. An incredible twist awaits.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Dark Humor 11.4%, Text-Based 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%

Negative Nancy is a choose your “no” adventure for people who have had enough. An interactive sitcom where you can only say “no” (or nothing at all). Your choices control the story.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 27.6%, Dark Humor 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Drama 9.4%, Visual Novel 8%

Samael suffers from delusions. He feels lost until he encounters a priest one day. The priest is the only person in the world who makes him feel at peace. This, however, slowly turns into an obsession. Will Samael learn how to love properly or will he fall into a path of darkness? You decide.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Text-Based 11.7%, Emotional 11.7%, Psychological 11.3%

10 participants. A death game that unfolds over 31 days. If you kill another participant, you can take their prize money. An interactive fiction game where the story changes based on your choices. In this dangerous game, choose who to trust and who to betray.

Why similar: Modern 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Text-Based 12.8%, Choices Matter 7.1%

✦Quest for Choices: Ivan's Tale is a choice-driven visual novel. Ch.0: Ivan (now in the US) has a "pleasant" vote with colleagues.Ch.1: Using VR & AI, Ivan revisits his childhood—little Vanya in a Khrushchyovka after USSR's collapse. Ivan can change the past, perhaps guiding Vanya toward a new life.

Why similar: Modern 24.1%, Dark Humor 18.1%, LGBTQ+ 16.2%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Interactive Fiction 7.7%

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

Why similar: Dark Comedy 22.6%, Dark Humor 15%, LGBTQ+ 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Text-Based 8.9%

6-episode visual novel. One day, Finn Flynn wakes up in the body of a housefly. Without the use of his voice, he'll have to enlist his prankster ex-boyfriend, and his dads, an insectophobic mad scientist and a punk rocker, to solve the mystery of his transformation, and maybe get his life back?

Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.1%, LGBTQ+ 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Emotional 11.3%, Visual Novel 9.1%

What defines one’s nature when the inner self is lost? A surreal, turn-based RPG where tactics meet absurdity. Customize your character, battle strange enemies, and navigate worlds where dark humor masks something deeper.

Why similar: Modern 23.3%, Dark Comedy 18.4%, Dark Humor 16.2%, Psychological 13.6%, Emotional 10.7%

This is a story about Iris, a nobody who didn't have a Happy Ending and now suffers the consequences of their own (lack of) actions all alone in the most northern city in the world. A depressing story and a melancholic lesson teached in life's hard way awaits you.

Why similar: Psychological 20.3%, LGBTQ+ 19.3%, Emotional 18%, Drama 17%, Visual Novel 13.1%

Fall in love with tall, hot vampires!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.4%, Dark Comedy 22.2%, Dark Humor 16.3%, Text-Based 11%, Visual Novel 9.3%

The world is becoming more and more modern, but mental problems remain with humanity. Immerse yourself in this world with the main characters and find out what fate will befall them. Is this really the city of dreams?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.8%, Modern 15.1%, Psychological 14.6%, Drama 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%

A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.

Why similar: Emotional 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Psychological 15.5%, Drama 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.8%

An overworked office lady discovers a sludge girl abandoned in a box in an alleyway and takes her home. A poisonous and fluffy romance begins. Experience the most toxic love story the world has ever seen.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 24.7%, LGBTQ+ 18.8%, Modern 17.1%, Dark Humor 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%

Hear sins. Judge souls. Upgrade your booth. Play as a priest hearing increasingly absurd confessions in this darkly comedic simulator. Will you guide your flock to salvation... or squeeze them for donations to install a hot tub in your confessional?

Why similar: Dark Comedy 29%, Dark Humor 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Choices Matter 5.6%

Alice is stuck somewhere and she's very confused. Will you talk to her? Will you help her? Will you rescue her? A choices matter visual novel.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 27.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Emotional 13.7%, Psychological 12%, Visual Novel 11%

“Flowers for You” is a gentle adventure game where you create custom bouquets based on each customer’s story as a florist. Set in modern Japan, listen to faded memories and craft floral arrangements that bring color back into their lives.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Modern 13.9%, Emotional 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%

Follow the story of "Frei K", an artist who is searching for answers about his eventful past, yet he is someone that is starved for love, putting others ahead of himself first. Experience unique multiple areas, side-stories, collectables, mini-games, and different endings.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 19.3%, Dark Humor 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, LGBTQ+ 14.7%, Drama 9.5%

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 20.3%, LGBTQ+ 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Psychological 11%, Visual Novel 10.3%

Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Drama 14.6%, Text-Based 14.5%, Psychological 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%

Trapped in a snowbound medical camp, battlefield nurse May clings to a mysterious letter—a final hope. Uncover hidden truths, test fragile bonds, and navigate a path toward a distant sanatorium. Will you find salvation, or something far darker?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Dark Humor 23.5%, LGBTQ+ 20.7%, Text-Based 16%, Emotional 8.2%

Naked Butlers is a hardcore yaoi visual novel rife with dark comedy. Unleash your inner sadist and bully these hot butlers good in this solo project from a developer who absolutely loves butlers!

Why similar: Dark Comedy 24.7%, LGBTQ+ 23.1%, Dark Humor 18%, Modern 12.4%, Visual Novel 8.3%

Play through this loved-filled adventure. Find friends, lovers, or enemies at every turn. Some “friends” are not as they seem. Danger lurks here! Unravel the mystery and find love before time runs out in 8 Days of School.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, LGBTQ+ 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Emotional 8.7%

Jeans on Toast is a text-based, choose your own adventure game summoned forth from the darkest depths of one girl's unhinged imagination.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 24.2%, LGBTQ+ 16.8%, Text-Based 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.4%

Welcome to Ostera: The curse of... Join the Adventure! Shape Your Destiny, Kiss Rats, and Slap Kids!

Why similar: Dark Comedy 22.3%, Dark Humor 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Text-Based 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%

Play as Emily as she goes on her second date with Miley, after they unexpectedly hit it off from a strange and wonderful night before. Is love in the air or just a bit of lust between the two. Can Emily find something special or is this just another night of fun among many.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Modern 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Visual Novel 9.6%

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+ 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Emotional 11.4%, Drama 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.4%

Weird things are happening in the Elephant Hotel. It's getting late, you're getting drunk, and moments in the lives of strangers are scattered around you like spilled puzzle pieces. Can you put it all together?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.6%, Emotional 16.7%, Psychological 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Drama 11.6%

In this festive standalone addition to the satirical dating chatsim Killer Chat! series, journey through the serial killer server’s past, present & future to learn more about the gang and find the true meaning of Christmas. What's the worst that could happen?

Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Modern 14.1%, LGBTQ+ 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%

僕たちは──すべての計画に、失敗する。 🎋落ちこぼれ天文部達の青春群像劇を描くドラマチックノベル！ 🎬文庫三冊分に及ぶ青春ドラマ 🍎ゼロ年代懐古的雰囲気 🍏暴走オマージュ破滅！

Why similar: Modern 22.3%, Emotional 15.5%, Psychological 13.1%, Text-Based 11.4%, Drama 11.2%

A dark visual novel blending psychological horror, surreal storytelling, and chatroom-inspired UI. Navigate intrusive thoughts, branching choices, and dissect a fractured mind in a twisted search for connection and meaning.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 23.2%, Dark Humor 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Psychological 11.3%, Drama 9%

『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 30%, Dark Humor 27%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Text-Based 9.9%, Visual Novel 9%

Wake up, watch tv, make a cup of cofffee and try to bear your own meaningless existence.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Psychological 14.6%, Emotional 12.8%, Drama 12.6%, Text-Based 11.6%

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+ 31.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Text-Based 10.6%, Emotional 10.2%

You lost your memory of nothing but a mundane day. But why do mysterious men keep jamming into your life, all of them pointing to the day you forgot? Find out a hypnotherapy clinic receptionist's memory of an insignificant day in this BL visual novel.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Psychological 14.3%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Emotional 11%

"Are We in Love?" is a dark, choice-driven visual novel that questions love and family. There are no butterflies in your stomach, only the harsh reality of a chemical sting in your nostrils and the acrid aftertaste of vodka. No common route. Fully branched story.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 22%, Psychological 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Drama 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%

Better than a birthday card. Use the Steam gift system to deliver this birthday present to your friends. The amazing Sergio Spellbound will ensure they have the magical birthday adventure of a lifetime. They will Point&Click their way to BIRTHDAY GLORY. If they’re lucky, they may even survive …

Why similar: Dark Comedy 19.9%, Dark Humor 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Text-Based 8.2%, Visual Novel 6.7%

A surreal dark comedy visual novel about monster camp politics, childhood trauma, and a bribe-prone Bigfoot. Battle rival camp Wonderfang during what could be the last summer at Camp Apocalypse Blood!

Why similar: Dark Comedy 30%, LGBTQ+ 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%

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+ 25.4%, Modern 18%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Visual Novel 9.4%

Fall in love with marbles and learn to believe in yourself again.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Drama 8.7%

‘We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe’ is a socially engaged, text-based RPG about a journalist looking for his big break by uncovering the plights of refugees travelling from Africa to Europe. It is a story inspired by true events.

Why similar: Modern 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Dark Humor 14.9%, Emotional 12.5%, Text-Based 11%

A dark comedy/drama slice-of-life kinetic visual novel that follows the life and times of a girl starting the next chapter of her life.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 23.3%, Dark Humor 16.9%, Modern 16.4%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Text-Based 8.7%