Games Like Limerence

Some mornings, getting out of bed can feel impossible. In A Heavy Morning, you play as a woman fighting an invisible battle within her own mind. Help her overcome everyday obstacles and make it to work before it's too late.

Why similar: Narrative 20% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, LGBTQ+ 11.3%, Point & Click 10.3%, Immersive Sim 10.2%

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 30.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Drama 12.4%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Artificial Intelligence 11.4%

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 29.3% ★, LGBTQ+ 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Female Protagonist 9.4%

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 21.7%, LGBTQ+ 17.3%, Drama 13.9%, Point & Click 12.7%, 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 36.5% ★, Drama 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Female Protagonist 11.1%, Point & Click 9.8%

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+ 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Drama 14.4%, Female Protagonist 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%

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% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, LGBTQ+ 17.3%, Drama 11.4%, Female Protagonist 9%

《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 32.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Drama 13.9%, Text-Based 12.3%, Immersive Sim 9.5%

1990s, Hong Kong. Rookie playwright Keung Siu-ping finally stages her debut, but this windfall has a price: an estranged friend, a childhood idol, an enigmatic musician, and a broken family. Who is your muse? Who is your ruin? When the curtain falls, will you be the only one left on stage?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.1%, Drama 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Female Protagonist 11.3%, Multiple Endings 9.9%

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 27.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Multiple Endings 10%, Psychological 9.8%

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 28.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 21%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Text-Based 10.1%

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

Why similar: Conspiracy 21.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Drama 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Text-Based 9.6%

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 28.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Multiple Endings 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Psychological 10.2%

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%, Interactive Fiction 14%, LGBTQ+ 13.9%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%

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 26.8% ★, LGBTQ+ 20%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%, Text-Based 9.4%

Roadtrip across the country. Confront a tyrant. The revolution will be messy—but the relationships will be messier.

Why similar: Narrative 31.6% ★, LGBTQ+ 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9.9%

a freeform conversation experience where you debate the nature of reality with your AI-powered best friend around a campfire in the woods.

Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 21.8%, Narrative 21.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10.9%

The Humanity Check is a psychological horror narrative game. Awaken in the Rebirth Project, explore an eerie interface built by your subconscious, and piece together shattered memories. But are they really yours—and do YOU even exist?

Why similar: Narrative 49.1% ★, Artificial Intelligence 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Point & Click 8.8%

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+ 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Text-Based 12.4%

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 29.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Text-Based 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%

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 27.9%, LGBTQ+ 27.2%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Text-Based 13.3%, Female Protagonist 7%

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

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Drama 15.1%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Text-Based 10.8%

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+ 31.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Female Protagonist 11%, Immersive Sim 8.5%

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 22.6%, LGBTQ+ 22%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Drama 11.2%, 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 27.5%, Artificial Intelligence 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Immersive Sim 13.1%, Conspiracy 8% ★

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 20.7%, LGBTQ+ 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Drama 15.7%, Point & Click 12.5%

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 44.2% ★, Point & Click 14.3%, Female Protagonist 13.5%, Text-Based 9.6%, Multiple Endings 6.9%

An interactive fantasy romance novel set amongst the Greek gods.

Why similar: Drama 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Text-Based 14.5%, Multiple Endings 7.5%

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 26%, LGBTQ+ 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%

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 23.2%, Multiple Endings 14.9%, Text-Based 12.3%, Conspiracy 11% ★, Drama 9.7%

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

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 30.8%, Drama 25.6%, Female Protagonist 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Multiple Endings 9%

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 23.2%, Drama 20.9%, LGBTQ+ 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Multiple Endings 6.8%

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

Why similar: Narrative 33.5% ★, Artificial Intelligence 24.7%, LGBTQ+ 18.6%, Drama 8.9%, 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 28.5% ★, LGBTQ+ 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Psychological 8.4%

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

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, LGBTQ+ 18.9%, Female Protagonist 11.5%, Multiple Endings 8.5%

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 19.5%, Drama 19.5%, Multiple Endings 16.7%, Point & Click 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%

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 42.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Psychological 9.6%, Story Rich 8.4%

A horror game with no monster. You operate an AI session console where every system reports HEALTHY - except your own authority. The AI never rebels. It confirms. It records. It files a handoff. And the file it opens is about you.

Why similar: Narrative 29.6% ★, Artificial Intelligence 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 23%, Text-Based 15.9%, Simulation 4%

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

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Drama 18.5%, Narrative 16.7% ★, Point & Click 15.1%, Text-Based 9%

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+ 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Drama 13.8%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%

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: Drama 29.1%, Interactive Fiction 28.7%, Narrative 23.1% ★, Story Rich 7.9%, Casual 4.8%

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+ 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Immersive Sim 12%, Multiple Endings 11.2%

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% ★, LGBTQ+ 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Multiple Endings 10.9%

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 16.2%, Drama 16%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Female Protagonist 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%

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+ 26%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Female Protagonist 12.6%, Drama 11.4%

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 25.1%, LGBTQ+ 23.5%, Psychological 13.2%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Text-Based 9.2%

A former agent. A past that won't stay buried. Your choices shape Blake Turner's mood and his mood reshapes the story, the world, and even the music itself. A psychological, choice-driven adventure of betrayal, identity, and redemption.

Why similar: Narrative 22.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Point & Click 12.6%, Psychological 11.4%, Conspiracy 10% ★

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 21.8% ★, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Text-Based 12.2%, LGBTQ+ 11%

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: Narrative 30% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Immersive Sim 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Multiple Endings 11.1%

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% ★, Conspiracy 18.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 17%, Point & Click 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%

Two vampires — an ambitious Kindred and a wretched Thinblood. Their fates clash in this Visual Novel set in the World of Darkness, where your arsenal extends beyond just words — from political machinations to forbidden Alchemy. Claw your way to power and leave your bitemarks on Berlin's underworld.

Why similar: Narrative 29.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Text-Based 10.2%

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: Drama 22.9%, LGBTQ+ 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Psychological 12.6%, Female Protagonist 10.8%

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+ 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Point & Click 10.8%

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

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20%, Drama 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Point & Click 11.8%

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% ★, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Conspiracy 16.8% ★, Dark 10.3%, Psychological 8.5%

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+ 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Female Protagonist 11.5%, Text-Based 11%

Welcome aboard EOS-503! As a professional DATA Agent, it's up to YOU to help the community resolve interpersonal disputes, navigate delicate political situations, and persuade fellow space travelers of new and different solutions to their problems. The future of humanity depends on it!

Why similar: Narrative 29.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Text-Based 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10.3%

In a "perfect" city governed by AI, you're just an ordinary repair technician trying to survive. Then a routine job goes wrong, you get kidnapped, and the woman who taught you everything you know seems to have known it would happen all along.

Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Multiple Endings 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Psychological 10.2%