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University of Progress very choice-driven. Like actually choice-driven. Not random dialogue that has minimal impact on the story beyond making the PNG blush. You can accidentally cause the entire school to burn down.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.6%, Psychological 12.8%, LGBTQ+ 12.8%, Dark Humor 11.1%, Modern 10.9%

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 25.5%, Dark Comedy 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Dark Humor 11.5%

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+ 21%, Dark Humor 16.1%, Psychological 14.5%, Emotional 13.3%, Modern 9.5%

Wei Shi becomes your reflection in your senior year. Drifting without a fixed self, they set out into oblivion—or piece together fragments of an unfamiliar youth. With your friends, they tend each other's restless hearts and share what it takes to find happiness.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22%, Psychological 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Modern 12.7%, Visual Novel 9.6%

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 18.7%, Dark Humor 16.9%, LGBTQ+ 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%

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 24.7%, LGBTQ+ 18%, Psychological 15.2%, Dark Humor 13.6%, Visual Novel 8%

You have exactly 5. Bread is 4, the bus fare to school is 3. What do you give up? In this short narrative experience, you play as 13-year-old Adam. Confront an interface that reacts to a painful reality, and discover that freedom of choice is sometimes nothing but a privilege.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Psychological 14.7%, Text-Based 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Modern 12.3%

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 21.9%, Dark Humor 18%, Psychological 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Visual Novel 8.2%

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 20.7%, Dark Comedy 17.8%, Psychological 15.6%, Emotional 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%

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 23.1%, LGBTQ+ 18.7%, Dark Humor 17.5%, Text-Based 10.8%, Emotional 10.2%

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 17.9%, Dark Humor 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, LGBTQ+ 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%

The Untitled Show is a first person narrative driven game set in the 1980's about a man named Martin in a warehouse late at night and a story that stays on script or not, whether you choose to or not.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 22.4%, Dark Humor 16.9%, LGBTQ+ 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Psychological 9.7%

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 22.5%, Dark Comedy 20%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Psychological 14.6%, Text-Based 9.7%

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

Why similar: Dark Comedy 22.5%, Dark Humor 14.9%, LGBTQ+ 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%

✦Quest for Choices: Ivan's Tale is a choice-driven visual novel. The story mainly follows a Slavic white mouse named "Ivan Viktorovich Belyaev" and its VR memory recordings in the United States.

Why similar: Modern 24.1%, Dark Humor 18%, LGBTQ+ 16.6%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Interactive Fiction 7.6%

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+ 18.1%, Psychological 13.7%, Emotional 13%, Dark Humor 12.3%

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+ 18.6%, Modern 17.4%, Dark Humor 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%

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+ 21.6%, Dark Comedy 17.4%, Dark Humor 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%

Asylum simulator. An interactive fiction about schizophrenia and finding meaning after near-death, with Disco Elysium-style mechanics.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Dark Comedy 18.7%, Text-Based 14.9%, Dark Humor 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%

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.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, LGBTQ+ 17.3%, Modern 16.9%, Emotional 11.8%, Psychological 11.5%

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 24.3%, LGBTQ+ 23.2%, Dark Humor 17.7%, Modern 12.2%, Visual Novel 8.3%

Fall in love with tall, hot vampires!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.7%, Dark Comedy 22.2%, Dark Humor 16.3%, Text-Based 10.8%, Visual Novel 9.4%

Jimin dreams of finally having her first birthday party, but what begins as a childhood wish unravels into social pressure, fragile friendships, family expectations, and consequences that hit closer than you’d like. Join Jimin in this coming-of-age story where every choice carries weight.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 27%, Emotional 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Dark Humor 10.7%, Choices Matter 9.1%

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 20.1%, Dark Comedy 19.3%, LGBTQ+ 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Modern 11.4%

Only 5 days until you quit. Plan your daily schedule, chat with coworkers, and make choices as you prepare to resign. Will you hand over your duties perfectly, or slack off in the breakroom and cause chaos? Experience a hyper-realistic K-office drama shaped by your choices!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22%, Dark Humor 16%, Psychological 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%

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 21.6%, Dark Humor 19.4%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Psychological 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%

A cute coming-of-age boys' love (BL/yaoi) visual novel set in 2012 about a group of high school students who start a club to prepare for the end of the world.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, LGBTQ+ 17.3%, Modern 15.3%, Text-Based 12.2%, Emotional 10.9%

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+ 18.6%, Psychological 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Emotional 11.7%

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 13.9%, Emotional 13.5%, Psychological 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.2%

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 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Dark Humor 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Text-Based 10.7%

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 27%, LGBTQ+ 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Psychological 9.7%, Visual Novel 9.7%

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 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Text-Based 13.3%, Choices Matter 7.3%

Death Mountain is a story-driven game with psychological horror, exploration, puzzles, and three main characters. A medical team gets trapped in the mountains on their way to a sanatorium. Explore the “Mind Maze,” face their struggles, and uncover the truth of the world.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Dark Humor 23.5%, LGBTQ+ 21%, Text-Based 15.8%, Emotional 8.1%

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 20%, Modern 16.8%, Dark Comedy 16.6%, Text-Based 14%, Dark Humor 11.6%

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 24.1%, LGBTQ+ 17%, Text-Based 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Visual Novel 12.5%

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 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%

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 30.4%, Dark Humor 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Visual Novel 8.9%, Choices Matter 7.8%

『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 26.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Text-Based 9.7%, Visual Novel 9.1%

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+ 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Text-Based 13%, Emotional 12.9%, Psychological 12.5%

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 22.7%, LGBTQ+ 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Emotional 12.1%, Visual Novel 9.9%

A short, dark visual novel set in the UK about a young autistic girl's destructive obsession with her older brother.

Why similar: Emotional 15.7%, Dark Humor 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Psychological 13%, Visual Novel 12.9%

𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊 Meat Girl is a lesbian visual novel about a girl searching for her mentally ill roommate in cold mountains filled with meat 𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, LGBTQ+ 24%, Psychological 20.7%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Text-Based 8.9%

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+ 25.6%, Modern 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Visual Novel 9.4%

Shame & choices = possible apocalypse. You need to figure out what’s causing the apocalypse to happen, so that you can prevent it. 2 playable characters with different relations to shame → 2 unique perspectives of the same story. Complicated families, branching choices and unforgiving consequences.

Why similar: Psychological 16.1%, LGBTQ+ 15.5%, Modern 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Emotional 12.5%

A short story visual novel-like game with a gently interactive narrative and some puzzling mysteries to unlock. Discover how your father got tarred and feathered. Get lost in the memory with ever-corrupting visuals and an immersive soundscape as you make your way to the emu farm.

Why similar: Emotional 17.3%, Dark Humor 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Psychological 11.8%

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 19.8%, Dark Humor 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Text-Based 8.1%, Visual Novel 6.8%

Case 00: The Cannibal Boy is a half-hour visual novel partly based on a true story, written by a writer with a background in psychology. It is a psychological horror story with an urban legend theme.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 25%, LGBTQ+ 24.1%, Dark Humor 19.7%, Psychological 18.4%, Visual Novel 10.4%

A narrative adventure game about being trapped at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. For fans of To the Moon, Gone Home, and Night in the Woods.

Why similar: Modern 22.1%, Dark Comedy 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Psychological 15.6%, Visual Novel 9.7%

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 29.8%, LGBTQ+ 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%

You follow a troubled girl whose only friend is her talking tapeworm inside her belly. This one will help and advise her in order for her to get closer to the person she loves.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 20.7%, Dark Humor 15.1%, LGBTQ+ 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Psychological 10.9%

‘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 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Dark Humor 16.2%, Emotional 13.4%, Text-Based 11.7%

Distant Oceanic Getaway— A visual novel for sapphics! Will you be able to find true love while sailing the seven seas?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.1%, Dark Humor 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Visual Novel 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+ 24.2%, Emotional 17.9%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%

Become the co-author of an amazing book! All you have to do is choose which of the four lovely heroines will inspire you!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Modern 15.7%, Psychological 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%

Play as EVE, an immortal assassin cursed with the kiss of death, as she turns on her (literal) evil corporate overlords in an attempt to break free of her iron-clad contract in this LGBTQ+ dark comedy, supernatural visual novel.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 34.2%, Dark Comedy 29.4%, Dark Humor 16.1%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Choices Matter 5.9%

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+ 23.5%, Psychological 20%, Emotional 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Visual Novel 10.7%

“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+ 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Modern 15.4%, Emotional 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%

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 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Psychological 17.7%, Visual Novel 15%, LGBTQ+ 14.5%

A short yaoi visual novel set in Australia. Go on a date with a stranger, become friends, or maybe something more... or nothing at all.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.9%, Modern 21.7%, Emotional 13.8%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 8.1%

配信中に次々と飛んでくるバカコメントへ、三つの選択肢でツッコミを返しながら炎上を回避していく配信者シミュレーション。返し方ひとつで空気も流れも激変。ときどき発生するボーナスステージでは、リズムゲーム要素のあるミニゲームにも挑戦できます。

Why similar: Dark Comedy 32.1%, Dark Humor 29.9%, Text-Based 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Comedy 5.8%