- #1 Emily is Away
97% matchVery Positive89% of 32,336 reviews2015
Dev: Kyle Seeley
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 19.8 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
Why similar: Choices Matter 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Romance 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Simulation 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Recreates the nostalgia of chatting on classic instant messaging clients while navigating high-stakes social choices.
- #2 Emily is Away Too
96% matchVery Positive93% of 6,246 reviews2017
Dev: Kyle Seeley
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Emily is Away Too is a brand new story featuring new characters and multiple different endings. Message your friends, surf the web and choose your path through this branching narrative.
Why similar: Choices Matter 25.2%, Simulation 16%, Memes 11.5%, Romance 8.9%, Story Rich 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Expands on the chat-client simulation format with deeper branching paths and interpersonal drama.
- #3 Emily is Away <3
96% matchVery Positive91% of 6,804 reviews2021
Dev: Kyle Seeley
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Emily <3 is a brand new story set on an old-new social media. Customize your facenook profile, send some friend requests and determine the outcome of your senior year.
Why similar: Choices Matter 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Romance 16%, Emotional 13.4%, Simulation 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Brings the nostalgic messenger aesthetic into a modern era with high school romance and difficult choices.
- #4 missed messages.
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,554 reviews2019
Dev: Angela He
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 18%
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Why similar: Romance 28.3%, Choices Matter 19.2%, Emotional 15.2%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Memes 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Explores heavy emotional themes, isolation, and queer romance within a short, poignant visual novel.
- #5 last seen online
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,361 reviews2024
Dev: Sochin Studio
Windows · Mac
Look through someone else’s computer. Inspired by early “escape room” flash games.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 28.8%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Story Rich 13.8%, Horror 13.8%, Casual 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Blends psychological horror and narrative investigation through an immersive digital interface.
- #6 We should talk.
94% matchMixed56% of 171 reviews2020
Dev: Insatiable CyclePub: Whitethorn Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 46%
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: Romance 26.5%, Choices Matter 17.7%, Emotional 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Story Rich 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features a unique text-based mechanic where crafting your exact responses deeply impacts conversational outcomes and romance.
- #7 Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 34,372 reviews2020
Dev: Nikita KryukovPub: Nikita Igorevich Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 11%
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 33.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Emotional 15.6%, Horror 14%, Adventure 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: Dives deep into psychological unease and stream-of-consciousness text formatting.
- #8 Analogue: A Hate Story
93% matchVery Positive93% of 2,302 reviews2012
Dev: Love Conquers All Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 57%
A dark visual mystery novel featuring transhumanism, traditional marriage, loneliness, and cosplay. Two pursuable characters. Five endings. Welcome to the future.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.6%, Indie 20.6%, Romance 20.1%, Story Rich 19.5%, Singleplayer 3.5%
Why You'll Like It: Uses a simulated terminal interface to uncover dark historical secrets and forge digital relationships.
- #9 Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 22,405 reviews2021
Dev: Nikita Kryukov
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A sequel to Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk. Dive into demented and bizarre world once again and help the girl become a little happier.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 52.8%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Story Rich 12.9%, Horror 8.5%, Indie 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: Continues the deeply psychological, anxious narrative journey through minimalist text adventures.
- #10 A Date with Death
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 14,957 reviews2023
Dev: Two and a Half Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Why similar: Romance 53.7%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Interactive Fiction 7.7%, Story Rich 4%
Why You'll Like It: Combines modern texting mechanics and casual dating simulation with supernatural psychological twists.
- #11 Doki Doki Literature Club!
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 228,468 reviews2017
Dev: Team Salvato
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 38.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Why similar: Romance 33.2%, Psychological Horror 32.5%, Horror 10.6%, Memes 9%, Story Rich 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: Presents a seemingly sweet dating simulator that deconstructs into psychological horror.
- #12 Scarlet Hollow
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 5,335 reviews2021
Dev: Black Tabby Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
Why similar: Choices Matter 26.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Horror 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers deep character-driven romance and terrifying supernatural dread through choice-heavy storytelling.
- #13 Lost Connections
89% matchVery Positive96% of 79 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: Emotional 20.5%, Choices Matter 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Romance 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers an emotional, narrative-rich experience focused on human connection and multiple endings.
- #14 Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 34,471 reviews2023
Dev: Black Tabby Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
Why similar: Romance 20.4%, Choices Matter 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Explores complex psychological themes and shifting relationship dynamics through interactive dialogue.
- #15 Pandemic Love
88% matchVery Positive93% of 233 reviews2021
Dev: Red Skald
Windows
A short visual novel about isolation. You try to search for comfort in the lonesome people around you. Keeping the darkness at bay with small embers of light. Will you let the fear change you?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 35.4%, Romance 22.6%, Emotional 17.7%, Simulation 16.4%, Choices Matter 4%
Why You'll Like It: Explores dating and connection against the backdrop of pandemic isolation.
- #16 The Coffin of Andy and Leyley
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 39,585 reviews2023
Dev: Kit9 Studio
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Walk-n-talk adventure with light puzzling. Brother and sister practice cannibalism after witnessing a botched satanic ritual.
Why similar: Choices Matter 36.6%, Psychological Horror 27.2%, Story Rich 14.5%, Horror 10.5%, Adventure 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features dark, taboo relationship dynamics and psychological horror within a narrative-focused framework.
- #17 The Letter - Horror Visual Novel
86% matchVery Positive85% of 1,534 reviews2017
Dev: Yangyang MobilePub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
When seven people fall prey to a vicious curse, they will discover that horror rests not from the shadows lurking about, but within themselves. To what ends will one go in order to survive?
Why similar: Choices Matter 30.3%, Horror 18.2%, Psychological Horror 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Story Rich 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Weaves an intense supernatural horror narrative heavily influenced by player choices and relationship dynamics.
- #18 If Found...
85% matchVery Positive90% of 2,364 reviews2020
Dev: DREAMFEELPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
If Found... is a game about going home, coming out and erasing everything.
Why similar: Emotional 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Casual 17.4%, Indie 14.2%, Story Rich 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: Tells an emotional coming-of-age story centered around erasing memories and navigating personal connections.
- #19 Over The Phone
86% matchVery Positive84% of 101 reviews2021
Dev: Ramify Games
Windows · Mac
A short talking sim with choices. Get to know Harper over a handful of voice-acted calls and text chats.
Why similar: Romance 32.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.3%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Simulation 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Explores intimate relationship dynamics through dialogue-heavy, phone-based interactions.
- #20 Before Your Eyes
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 24,001 reviews2021
Dev: GoodbyeWorld GamesPub: Skybound Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Emotional 44.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Story Rich 14.8%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Indie 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Uses unique interactive mechanics to tell a deeply emotional, fleeting story about life and memory.
- #21 Text Your Life
83% matchVery Positive94% of 65 reviews2024
Dev: Pizza Writers
Windows
Who did you kiss that night? Text Your Life is a mobile phone chat simulator that lets you put yourself in the shoes of our protagonist, a female university student with a group of eccentric friends and a love life that has suddenly turned somewhat... complicated.
Why similar: Romance 29.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Simulation 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: Simulates modern text-based communication and relationship building through interactive fiction.
- #22 Last Message
84% matchVery Positive89% of 178 reviews2021
Dev: JamesGamesNZ
Windows
Use an in-game computer to chat with friends to stay connected and help each other. Explore your 'empty' apartment building for items to assist them and uncover lost messages.
Why similar: Emotional 30.2%, Simulation 22.3%, Story Rich 12.2%, Horror 11.9%, Casual 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on emotional text-based interactions and narrative choices dealing with isolation and personal regret.
- #23 Her Story
81% matchVery Positive89% of 10,424 reviews2015
Dev: Sam Barlow
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A woman is interviewed seven times by the police. Search the video database and explore hundreds of authentic clips to discover her story in this groundbreaking and award winning narrative game.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Simulation 11.3%, Story Rich 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Unravels a mystery through interactive video clips mimicking a police database of personal interviews.
- #24 Your Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority-
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 4,472 reviews2023
Dev: NankidaiPub: 0UP GAMES
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Your Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority- is a multi-ending horror adventure game. Sara Chidouin returns home from school late one night to discover that something's gone terribly wrong. When she comes to, she finds herself, her friend Joe, and 9 other people trapped in a mysterious place.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 40.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Psychological Horror 19.7%, Story Rich 8.3%, Adventure 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Presents high-stakes choices and psychological tension among a cast of trapped characters.
- #25 Monster Prom
79% matchVery Positive93% of 14,340 reviews2018
Dev: Beautiful GlitchPub: Xelu
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You have 3 weeks to get a date for Monster Prom! Go through absurd and funny situations, raise your stats and seduce one of your classmates. Beautiful art, bold, unapologetic dialogue and hard choices make up this Multiplayer (1-4 players) Dating Sim. Be your worst self.
Why similar: Choices Matter 53.8%, Simulation 17.8%, Funny 13%, Indie 8.4%, Story Rich 7%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a frantic, multiplayer-friendly dating sim filled with humor, choices, and supernatural flair.
- #26 Hatoful Boyfriend
80% matchVery Positive94% of 7,583 reviews2014
Dev: MediatonicPub: Epic Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Congratulations! You’ve been accepted as the only human student at the prestigious St. PigeoNation’s Institute, a school for talented birds! Roam the halls and find love in between classes as a sophomore student at the world’s greatest pigeon high school.
Why similar: Romance 49.2%, Story Rich 13.4%, Memes 11%, Simulation 10.1%, Funny 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: Presents a bizarrely comedic dating simulator that hides darker, psychological narrative layers.
- #27 Telling Lies
82% matchMixed63% of 1,325 reviews2019
Dev: Sam BarlowPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.
Why similar: Choices Matter 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Simulation 17.9%, Story Rich 12.8%, Adventure 10%
Why You'll Like It: Presents an investigative narrative driven entirely by sifting through private video conversations and messages.
- #28 Indecision.
81% matchVery Positive85% of 645 reviews2018
Dev: bilge
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 37%
A haiku platformer. It's short and vague.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, Emotional 20.9%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Story Rich 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: Captures experimental psychological surrealism and choice-driven exploration.
- #29 Print I Love U
77% matchVery Positive88% of 199 reviews2026
Dev: UnknownPub: Claudio Moltedo
Windows
Upon buying a used computer online, I found a short romance game called “Print I Love You”. I played it once, and it’s lingered ever since. I don’t know who made it - only that it was dedicated to someone. Maybe you…
Why similar: Romance 31.5%, Psychological Horror 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Emotional 12.1%
- #30 Long Live The Queen
79% matchVery Positive95% of 7,170 reviews2013
Dev: Hanako Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Rule the world or die trying!Being a Princess is not an easy job. Being a Queen is even harder. Especially when you're only fourteen years old, and the reason you've inherited the throne is that your royal mother has just met an untimely end.Now power is up for grabs.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.7%, Simulation 24.9%, Choices Matter 17%, RPG 10.4%, Indie 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Challenges the player with heavy simulation choices and stat management to survive a perilous royal coming-of-age.
- #31 memories
77% matchVery Positive93% of 1,565 reviews2023
Dev: guiyyuPub: Spookulele Games
Windows · Mac
memories is a sapphic visual novel dress-up game where clothes are linked to painful memories of a failed relationship.
Why similar: Romance 33.5%, Choices Matter 20.1%, Emotional 18.1%, Story Rich 5.8%, Casual 4.8%
- #32 My Therapy
76% matchVery Positive96% of 335 reviews2022
Dev: Suvorov Mikhail
Windows · Linux
A visual novel about cute melancholic girls!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Romance 16.5%, Simulation 14.3%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
- #33 Big Tiddy Goth GF Simulator
78% matchVery Positive81% of 343 reviews2020
Dev: WoweePub: Earthbound Books
Windows
Explore the college campus, and work your way up to telling the goth girl you have a crush on how you REALLY feel. Solve puzzles, buy food, and explore a eerily empty dorm.
Why similar: Memes 34.1%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Simulation 12.9%, Casual 11.4%, Indie 8%
- #34 DateBoy
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 536 reviews2025
Dev: Anton PätsiPub: Silakka Entertainment
Windows
Secretly playing your Generic-90s-Handheld-Video-Game-Console during a first date? Shame on you!
Why similar: Choices Matter 25.2%, Simulation 19.4%, Romance 18.3%, Funny 10.6%, Story Rich 8.9%
- #35 Something Strange
76% matchVery Positive91% of 66 reviews2022
Dev: Ethan ZimmerlePub: Mr. Hand
Windows
Go about your normal every day life and meet new friends in this short visual novel!
Why similar: Psychological Horror 40.6%, Casual 20.6%, Horror 19.5%, Adventure 9.4%, Indie 7%
- #36 Parasite in Love
74% matchVery Positive94% of 62 reviews2025
Dev: Night Asobu
Windows
Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Romance 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.9%
- #37 Loneliness
75% matchVery Positive87% of 149 reviews2021
Dev: Jordan Magnuson
Windows
An experimental, minimalistic microgame about loneliness. Originally released as a Flash game in 2010 that was featured by Extra Credits.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.9%, Emotional 28.6%, Choices Matter 25.2%, Casual 9.4%
- #38 Midnight Witch
73% matchVery Positive93% of 366 reviews2023
Dev: Crimson Moon Studio
Windows
Your average student life quickly descents into horror as a mysterious witch takes over the college... Can you save the girl you love? Or even make it out alive?
Why similar: Romance 29.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Psychological Horror 15%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Choices Matter 9.7%
- #39 Loser Named Hana
72% matchVery Positive94% of 163 reviews2025
Dev: Repurpose Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 37.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Casual 13.9%, Emotional 13.3%, Choices Matter 10%
- #40 School For The Friendless
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 190 reviews2021
Dev: Conor Hehr
Windows · Mac · Linux
Harold is sent to a school for people with no friends. The teachers observe and then pair them up, making them roommates. What will happen when Harold ends up sharing a room with a girl?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.8%, Romance 23.9%, Choices Matter 13%, Simulation 8.8%, Memes 6.7%
- #41 By Moonlight
74% matchVery Positive89% of 121 reviews2019
Dev: SugarHyped
Windows · Mac
~ ~ A Comedic Mystery Visual Novel with Relationship Building ~ ~ Play as a paranormal investigator hired by the paranormal to investigate! Search for a headless horseman's missing head before the night is over.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.6%, Choices Matter 16.7%, Memes 15%, Simulation 10.3%, Casual 8%
- #42 Sisyphe's Backspace
71% matchVery Positive97% of 157 reviews2025
Dev: Koway
Windows · Mac
A 5 minutes game about love and hesitation. Use Backspace to play. Hope you will never experience this hesitation.
Why similar: Romance 49.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Emotional 16.8%, Story Rich 7.7%, Simulation 3.8%
- #43 *NEW* SCUFFED EPIC VISUAL NOVEL
73% matchVery Positive87% of 69 reviews2021
Dev: Chris ShanazPub: shanaz game studios
Windows · Mac
This is *NEW* SCUFFED EPIC VISUAL NOVEL, which is a story set in the world of *NEW* SCUFFED EPIC BHOP SIMULATOR (#4 Best Selling free game of Steam November 2020), play as a character of your choice, as you run into some new, and familiar faces along the way.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.5%, Memes 30.3%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Casual 8.8%, Story Rich 7.1%
- #44 Paper Kite: Threads of Longing
69% matchVery Positive95% of 232 reviews2025
Dev: 依露琳（武汉）品牌管理有限公司Pub: 北京黎羽科技有限公司
Windows
After the grueling college entrance exams in June, Shen Luoying and Chen Yanqing—newly confessed lovers—are forced to attend universities in separate cities (Beijing and Jiangcheng) due to parental expectations and academic score......
Why similar: Romance 33.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Emotional 13.4%, 2D Platformer 11.4%, RPG 7.4%
- #45 While We Wait Here
68% matchVery Positive89% of 2,471 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Vices Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.4%, Choices Matter 17.8%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.7%, Horror 7.4%
- #46 i love me, i love me not
71% matchVery Positive95% of 85 reviews2022
Dev: MALGOW
Windows · Mac
a hand-drawn mental-health-focused game!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 35.3%, Emotional 30%, Adventure 10.5%, Casual 10.4%, Psychological Horror 8.3%
- #47 Introvert: A Teenager Simulator
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 869 reviews2021
Dev: Euphoric Bros
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 45%
One of the new guys in school tells you he’s going to shoot up the school if he doesn’t make friends in 5 days. Discover the decisions, people, situations you will encounter while playing and trying to make friends of your own and living your own life.
Why similar: Choices Matter 39.6%, RPG 13.8%, Casual 13%, Adventure 12.8%, Horror 12.7%
- #48 Love in the distance
72% matchMixed65% of 335 reviews2021
Dev: Level-Buster Studio
Windows
A word adventure game based on a long-distance relationship. On high school and college campuses, pick up memories that belong only to that time. Ideal and reality, if we can chose it again, can we not have regrets?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.3%, Indie 21.7%, Story Rich 20.7%, Casual 9.9%, Adventure 9.5%
- #49 lovebyte.exe
66% matchVery Positive96% of 323 reviews2026
Dev: Nochi Studios
Windows · Mac
A chat dating sim game inspired by Mystic Messenger, VTuber communities, and internet spam
Why similar: Romance 28.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Choices Matter 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Simulation 7.5%
- #50 oct 14
70% matchVery Positive81% of 84 reviews2024
Dev: niomiautemn
Windows
It's what happened that day.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Psychological Horror 26%, Emotional 16.3%, RPG 10.7%, Story Rich 8.5%
- #51 you're just imagining it
67% matchVery Positive96% of 471 reviews2024
Dev: npckc
Windows · Mac · Linux
A chronic illness simulator. You think you have a chronic illness, but you don't know what. All you know is you are always in some state of pain. You've been to too many doctors to count... but you still have to live your life.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33%, Simulation 23.7%, Emotional 18.2%, Story Rich 10.2%, Adventure 9.3%
- #52 Until Then
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 19,464 reviews2024
Dev: Polychroma GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 30%, Romance 28.2%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Story Rich 10.4%, Adventure 4.7%
- #53 Roommates
69% matchVery Positive86% of 201 reviews2024
Dev: Octaday
Windows · Linux
You have just entered the society, and since you have not found a satisfactory job for several months, you have to share an apartment with others. Your roommates is three lovely beauties, and then you will have a wonderful journey with three roommates and the people around you
Why similar: Romance 20.5%, Simulation 19.3%, Casual 11.6%, Emotional 11.5%, RPG 11.2%
- #54 Memory Girl +
68% matchVery Positive97% of 72 reviews2025
Dev: cream△Pub: Champloo Games
Windows
A tragic love story following Memori and her search for the missing "him."
Why similar: Romance 24.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Emotional 11.5%
- #55 Guilt Free
70% matchVery Positive85% of 296 reviews2020
Dev: Lateral Games
Windows · Mac
Guilt Free is a visual novel crossed with a point and click made to offer perspective on mental health and eating disorders. Navigate a couple's rocky relationship and encounter "flaws" or "quirks" that may actually be symptomatic behaviors.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Choices Matter 21.2%, Emotional 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Romance 12.9%
- #56 Love Alone Death
67% matchVery Positive98% of 450 reviews2023
Dev: vivid selfish
Windows · Mac
Build relationship with the characters. Your choices might earn you favor from one character, but disdain from another. Use items to solve problems. Confront various endings. Choose one person and face the end with them.
Why similar: Romance 26.6%, Choices Matter 18.2%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Emotional 13%, 2D Platformer 8.7%
- #57 Will Die Alone
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 67 reviews2022
Dev: Arianna Ravioli
Windows · Mac
Some memories aren't meant to stay. We are our memories and our experiences. What happens if you delete some of them? If you change your past and, thus, your future?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.9%, Choices Matter 16.9%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Simulation 12.1%
- #58 The End of You
68% matchVery Positive84% of 88 reviews2024
Dev: Memory of God
Windows
The End of You is a short, emotional narrative game about love lost, the ghosts of the past, and the painful crawl towards closure.
Why similar: Romance 32.5%, Emotional 28.4%, Choices Matter 25%, Story Rich 10%, Horror 4.2%
- #59 El 39
66% matchVery Positive81% of 416 reviews2025
Dev: Bohemian Productions
Windows · Mac · Linux
Constitución, CABA. 3 AM. You leave a party, feeling defeated because the girl you liked didn't even look at you. You go to wait for the last "39" bus of that night. You try to stop it, but it goes straight away. Tomorrow you have the exam that defines whether you graduate or not. Good luck.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 32.4%, Horror 18.9%, Adventure 14.4%, Story Rich 14.3%, Casual 9.8%
- #60 Psycho地雷InLove : 싸이코지라이 인 러브
67% matchVery Positive96% of 286 reviews2022
Dev: 유진게임즈
Windows
A simulation of an outcast romance!
Why similar: Romance 32.1%, Emotional 18.1%, Simulation 16.2%, 2D Platformer 11.2%, Casual 10%
