Games Like Limerence

You know the feeling of struggling to get out of bed? In A Heavy Morning, you will play as a young girl battling with her own mind. Your only objective? Get out of bed and get to work on time.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Narrative 11.3% ★, Immersive Sim 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%

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 30.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Artificial Intelligence 11.7%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Drama 11.5%

From the first day of spring, to the last day of winter, wear seven shoes of seven characters and live their most intimate moments. Explore their thoughts, choose their steps and shape their paths in a mumblecore narrative game where the most extraordinary setting is ordinary life itself.

Why similar: Narrative 29.7% ★, LGBTQ+ 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Female Protagonist 9.3%

Wake up in a cabin. Your friend says you’ll be moving out soon—only fifteen days before the lease ends. Improve yourself, or just enjoy life.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, LGBTQ+ 17.1%, Drama 13%, Point & Click 12.9%, Female Protagonist 10.6%

"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 37.2% ★, Drama 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Female Protagonist 11%, Point & Click 9.9%

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+ 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Drama 13.6%, Female Protagonist 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%

《昭阳传》是一款以玩家扮演昭阳国皇帝，在游戏内与AI角色互动，以此改变对应角色、国家、世界走向的人工智能ADV。

Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 33.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Drama 12.9%, Text-Based 12.5%, Immersive Sim 9.5%

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 31.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, LGBTQ+ 17%, Drama 10.6%, Female Protagonist 9%

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 28.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Text-Based 10.1%

世纪交接的十年，港岛。一笔意外的投资让初出茅庐的剧作家姜韶平得以将首作搬上剧院舞台。这看似天降的机遇，却早已在暗中标好了筹码——渐行渐远的旧友、少时仰望的偶像、意外相识的神秘乐手、避而不见的至亲……谁能成为你的缪斯？谁又会将你推向深渊？亦或是，当掌声渐息，帷幕落下，还留在舞台上的，只有自己……

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23%, Drama 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Female Protagonist 11.3%, Multiple Endings 10.2%

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 28.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Multiple Endings 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Psychological 10.2%

Spark romance amid secrets in a crumbling mansion! What will you sacrifice for love? Can you trust your own heart?

Why similar: Conspiracy 22.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Drama 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Text-Based 9.9%

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 27.2% ★, LGBTQ+ 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Text-Based 9.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%

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+ 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Text-Based 12.7%

A story about the Noctarian, a race whose nightmares become reality. Small choices made by Neml, a girl staying home alone, shape the fate of the world. The player does only one thing: rewrite the letter sent to Neml. An AI interprets the letter, changing Neml’s actions and the story’s outcome.

Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 29%, LGBTQ+ 26.3%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Text-Based 13.4%, Female Protagonist 6.8%

Spend your time well: in 30 days a powerful Magician arrives, and everything changes! Explore the wilds around your remote village, learn from mistakes, recover magical artifacts, and turn setbacks into advantages in this text-based open world roguelike adventure. Time's up: Upheaval is here again!

Why similar: Narrative 29.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Text-Based 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%

DOT’S HOME is a single-player, 2D, narrative-driven video game that follows a young Black woman in Detroit living in her grandmother’s beloved home, as she travels through time to relive key moments in her family’s history where race, place, and home collide in difficult choices.

Why similar: Narrative 44.4% ★, Point & Click 14.2%, Female Protagonist 13.2%, Text-Based 9.7%, Multiple Endings 6.9%

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+ 30.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Female Protagonist 10.9%, Immersive Sim 8.6%

A free drama-mystery visual novel with a modern fantasy setting. Reach out to the fourteen people trapped inside to find the truth through eighteen endings, influenced by but not exclusively bound to your own system time.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, LGBTQ+ 21.6%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Drama 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%

You are a player who has just logged out of the VR MMORPG “NEW World.” Suddenly, your mind is downloaded into a stranger named 周雲成. Luckily, he may help you reclaim your body—but you never expected to be drawn into the first clash of an unprecedented AI security war.

Why similar: Drama 25.8%, Artificial Intelligence 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Immersive Sim 13.3%, Conspiracy 8.2% ★

A gritty, semi-kinetic visual novel about broken people and notorious gangsters, featuring six individualized routes with six different endings.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Drama 14.2%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Text-Based 11.1%

An interactive fantasy romance novel set amongst the Greek gods.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Drama 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Text-Based 15%, Multiple Endings 7.7%

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 21.1%, LGBTQ+ 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Drama 14.8%, Point & Click 12.6%

A visual novel strategy game where your floral fragrances determine the fate of your mysterious shop and its patrons. Make choices, talk to customers, and shape the story. Get ready for a journey of heartfelt connections and strategic decision-making.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Multiple Endings 15.1%, Text-Based 12.6%, Conspiracy 11.1% ★, Drama 9%

A Boys Love visual novel set around a pulse-pounding hostage situation. Can Numata make it out of things unscathed? Every choice matters! Fully translated into English with the original Japanese voice acting intact.

Why similar: Drama 24.6%, LGBTQ+ 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%

Dysfunct is a linear adult Kinetic Novel. Experience an intriguing narrative of betrayals, romances, drama and sex...

Why similar: Narrative 33.9% ★, Artificial Intelligence 25.3%, LGBTQ+ 18.2%, Drama 8.3%, Story Rich 4.7%

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 28.8% ★, LGBTQ+ 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Psychological 8.5%

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 42.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Psychological 9.6%, Story Rich 8.3%

A flesh-eating dust leaves you to survive alone against hordes of Listless.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, LGBTQ+ 18.6%, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Multiple Endings 8.5%

On Love, On Monsters is a Frankenstein-inspired story with an emphasis on love in its many forms. Play as three characters with alternating POVs; the Doctor, The Priest, and The Exile. Bond with allies and enemies, avoid raising suspicion in the town of Blackmoore, and learn what it means to love.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Drama 19.8%, LGBTQ+ 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Multiple Endings 7%

Which is worse: a toxic friend or a literal demon?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 30.9%, Drama 24.4%, Female Protagonist 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Multiple Endings 9.3%

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 28.4% ★, LGBTQ+ 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Multiple Endings 11%

Late Bird is a short interactive story about birds, movies, suicidal thoughts and not growing up in time.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Drama 17.3%, Narrative 17% ★, Point & Click 15.2%, Text-Based 9.2%

Welcome to MONSTER LUV RADIO, where you play a radio DJ giving dating advice to a host of supernatural creatures! Keep your ratings up by giving sound advice and following the rhythm of your DJ mix board, and make sure your boss doesn't shut down your show!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Immersive Sim 12%, Multiple Endings 11.3%

Morin is a barkeeper with an unusual curse. All people look like shadows to him, except for one mysterious stranger... Solve the mystery of the curse, fight true darkness and mix the most unusual cocktails in the atmospheric visual novel — Into the Waves!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Drama 18.3%, Multiple Endings 17%, Point & Click 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%

A branching-path narrative horror RPG set in Vienna, Austria. Guide the Unnamed through the worst night of their life: Harass your neighbours. Debate with birds. Smoke to survive.

Why similar: Narrative 22% ★, Multiple Endings 13%, Text-Based 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, LGBTQ+ 10.7%

Your story continues right where Origins left off. Whether Jessica finds herself wandering the streets alone, caught in George’s web of deceit, or trapped in the unsettling confines of Margaret Thatuals under Professor Trounch’s watchful gaze and the orderlies, every choice matters.

Why similar: Multiple Endings 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Drama 15%, Female Protagonist 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%

GILLES shows the Journey of a Theater Director's 10 years exile to create his Great Work, his Theater Play named The Klown. On this first episode, join him and SamPath on their Journey to show the Great Premiere. GILLES is a story exploration game from Infiniti Studio.

Why similar: Narrative 35.3% ★, Conspiracy 18.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 17%, Point & Click 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%

A queer romance/horror visual novel about being locked into a path, and having _______ words hidden from You. Find Your way to discover what's missing and reach Your ____ End.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Drama 13%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%

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: LGBTQ+ 25.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Female Protagonist 12.6%, Text-Based 11.6%

The memory of a medical emergency crafted into an Interactive Fiction. How will you act when someone you love is in the middle of a medical emergency and all you can do is wait?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.3%, Drama 27.4%, Narrative 23.7% ★, Story Rich 8%, 2D 5%

Jon’s dreams were filled with music and a love life he once had. Now they’ve curdled into nightmares, weaving between memories and unknown realms. Set in the '90s, this immersive first-person psychological walking simulator follows Jon as he realizes… something is stalking him.

Why similar: Narrative 29.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Conspiracy 16.8% ★, Dark 10.3%, Psychological 8.5%

A dark text-based RPG set in a world gripped by a restless race for survival against a merciless mushroom Forest. As a prophet’s apprentice, guide your clan along the knife-edge between life and oblivion. Decipher misty visions, make critical decisions, and do whatever it takes to survive.

Why similar: Narrative 31.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Text-Based 13.9%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%

In a city ruled by AI, a carefully staged abduction gives you a long-awaited chance for revenge. Every choice comes with a cost—what will you sacrifice?

Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Multiple Endings 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Psychological 10.2%

If an AI were sentient, how would you know if they were malfunctioning, or experiencing a mental health problem? A story-rich game that explores mental health and AI ethics in the form of therapy sessions with a sentient AI.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Artificial Intelligence 13.9%, LGBTQ+ 13.6%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Psychological 10.2%

An emotional narrative point-and-click about a daughter caring for her mother as dementia reshapes their bond. Explore heartfelt conversations, fragmented memories, and simple story-driven puzzles on a journey of caregiving and learning to let go.

Why similar: Narrative 44.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Psychological 12%, Female Protagonist 8.8%, Story Rich 6.9%

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: Text-Based 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, LGBTQ+ 13.5%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%

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 37.3% ★, LGBTQ+ 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Female Protagonist 9.1%

In this 2D, short narrative-based game, you assume the role of the Grim Reaper... on an office job. Your job is to decide which people are going to live or die. The consequences of your choices are yours to bear, while the mystery of your incarnation awaits revelation!

Why similar: Narrative 30.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Point & Click 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%

Neve is a non-linear interactive fiction in which your decisions can completely change the course of story. Manage your team, race against time and unravel the mysteries surrounding your ship's crash in this suffocating retrofuturistic thriller that will have you hooked from the first second.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Point & Click 10.8%

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+ 22.6%, Drama 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Psychological 13%, Female Protagonist 10.8%

You are a father. You wake in a hallway that hums. Empty pools. Dead malls. Your four daughters are here. Voice acted by a real father and his daughters. Two endings. No right answer.

Why similar: Narrative 27.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 19%, Text-Based 13%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%

You've been tasked with collecting data on an alien planet. Choose between exploring the jungle tropics or navigating deep into the bioluminescent sea.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Text-Based 11.3%

Sayonara Okaasan is an interactive abstract poem about saying goodbye to a mother and exploring life and death.

Why similar: Narrative 45.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Point & Click 15%, Drama 7%, Dark 3.5%

Qin Nian, who had just graduated when the financial crisis hit and found himself unemployed at home, accidentally obtained a secret manual from an old beggar. Little did he realize that this manual would not only alter the course of his life but also lift a veil on the reality of the world.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.7%, Drama 27.8%, Immersive Sim 19.4%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, RPG 6.9%

An abstract visual novel about a girl dealing with the challenges of having ADHD while trying to complete a school assignment before the deadline.

Why similar: Narrative 37.2% ★, LGBTQ+ 16.4%, Multiple Endings 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%, Text-Based 9.1%

Crimes across the times. Are you able to solve them all?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Drama 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Point & Click 12%

A narrative investigation game played across multiple sessions. Read corporate documents, cross-reference fragments, and build a persistent Dossier as an AI uncovering the conspiracy — and the murder — at the heart of the network it lives in. Knowledge is the only progression.

Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Text-Based 10.3%, Point & Click 9.7%