60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Choices Matter, Story Rich, 2D.
“Lone Bird in the Tree” is an adventure game with male and female versions of each of the four characters. The story alternates between the “future” of the main character, who is deeply traumatized by the grief of his/her best friend, and the “story leading up to the loss of his/her best friend”.
The Zoo
You've had the same dream all week: a school field trip to a zoo you can't leave, where the lions always find you in the end. Wander the zoo exhibits, make your choices, and search for the way out. A short, hand-painted interactive story about a recurring dream, and finally resolving it.
Beek: Familiar Spirit - Remastered
A call for help within a mysterious messaging app. Someone lost and wandering through a forest in a faraway place. And their destiny in your hands.
You've had the same dream all week: a school field trip to a zoo you can't leave, where the lions always find you in the end. Wander the zoo exhibits, make your choices, and search for the way out. A short, hand-painted interactive story about a recurring dream, and finally resolving it.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Hand-drawn 8.9%, Text-Based 8.3%
A call for help within a mysterious messaging app. Someone lost and wandering through a forest in a faraway place. And their destiny in your hands.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Text-Based 13.3%, Hand-drawn 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
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 13.9%, LGBTQ+ 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Psychological Horror 11%, Interactive Fiction 10%
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+ 29.8%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Text-Based 10.1%
Your job is to make humanity happy. Observe the people living in your assigned district and make the best choices to ensure everyone's happiness.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Text-Based 14.3%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 9.4%
Audiences connect to their favorite celebrities all the time. How does it affect these people when put into a game of life or death? Only time will tell.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, LGBTQ+ 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Psychological Horror 9.6%
Comet Angel is a sci-fi yuri narrative adventure with point and click puzzles. Join teenagers Izzy and Nat on an emotional journey of self-discovery and acceptance as they make humanity's first-ever alien contact.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Text-Based 10.9%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Hand-drawn 8.1%
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%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Visual Novel 9.4%, Hand-drawn 7.4%
VOICE is a game about the story of living in a dystopian world where speaking is forbidden.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Text-Based 13.1%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Hand-drawn 9%
Two engaging and sexy FNAF-inspired Visual Novels combined into one, each set across 14 nights in a night club where the animatronics are harboring deep secrets. Can you save everyone, or will they be fated to something perhaps worse than death?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Text-Based 9.3%
An autopsy of a queer relationship.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Exploration 11.9%, Hand-drawn 8.9%
You are an intergalactic bounty hunter leading a team of bickering misfits as you track down targets with your words and your weapons to find your missing mom. Make every choice count in this reactive, visual novel love letter to Cowboy Bebop.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Visual Novel 9.2%, Text-Based 8.4%
Experience a pastel-toned emotional journey in Yuika My Bestie, a short visual novel you can complete in under 15 minutes per playthrough. With 5 unique endings and heartfelt choices, it takes just 30–40 minutes to explore every path of this soft, late-night cry.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Visual Novel 10.2%
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+ 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Text-Based 12.8%, Visual Novel 11.6%
A psychological horror story, with a spiking sense of danger and gentle melancholy. An out of this world adventure, revolving around books, memories and mortality. Along the way, perhaps you shall pick up pieces of a long forgotten heart, or some unlikely companions that you never knew you needed.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Visual Novel 10%
Death by Begonia is a surreal LGBTQ+ Southern gothic murder mystery. Follow Riley's attempts to reconnect with old childhood friends in a town haunted by annual serial murders. Will you fall in love and unlock the mysteries hidden in your friends' hearts? Or will you die trying?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.1%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Hand-drawn 9.7%
A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Text-Based 10.7%, LGBTQ+ 9.4%
可愛い後輩と2人っきり……冷凍庫の中で。 低体温症、矛盾脱衣、幻覚などの苦痛を乗り越えた先にあるのは、「真相」と「死」のみ。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Dialogue Heavy 13.9%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Hand-drawn 10.8%
As an elf in a panicked flight from home, you discover a more dangerous secret: a human claiming to be a dragon.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Text-Based 13.2%, Hand-drawn 12.1%
Follow Sophie as she embarks on her latest adventure in making money, working alongside the enigmatic Rias as they put on a special yuri/lesbian camgirl show for their viewers.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Dialogue Heavy 8.5%
A fable from your childhood. Don't you remember it?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Text-Based 12.7%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.5%
An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.9%, Psychological Horror 19.1%, Visual Novel 14%, Hand-drawn 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.9%
“The hospital was empty. Quiet, and brighter than usual... like waking up on a snow day. But I didn't feel cold. I didn't feel much of anything.”
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.5%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Hand-drawn 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
A realistic visual novel based on a true story. As a lawyer trying to save a rock singer from her toxic family, you uncover the suffocating truth of "Codependency." Will you leave, sink into the abyss, or g◼︎ai◻︎n the c#our%ag◼︎e to f◼︎ac◻︎e the p#ai%n? Your choices decide.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.2%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Hand-drawn 11.8%, Choices Matter 6.2%
A ~1 hour short narrative game about a friendship that spans two lifetimes. Serious, funny, weird, maybe heartbreaking.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 13.7%, LGBTQ+ 13.6%, Philosophical 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
Horror vs. Heartfelt: You decide, when you play a teen sneaking out to hold a seance for your lost twin sister on the anniversary of her death. Lovingly handmade, this atmospheric short visual novel can be meditative or delightfully chaotic depending on how you play.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Hand-drawn 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
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%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Text-Based 10.8%
Chat with a virtual friend from a cancelled mobile game! Ask questions, start arguments, and find the right responses to progress the story. Can you solve the horrific mystery hidden beneath the surface?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Text-Based 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.7%
A psychological horror story set in the town of Blackthorn; a place that lives in constant fear of a witch. The two main suspects? Levi’s mom and sister! His only lifelines to the outside world. Can they live a peaceful life? Or will they be dragged down by the dying town?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Hand-drawn 9.7%
You choose a favorite and walk beside them. But those you left behind — where do they go while you're gone? LUNADUN: LUNATIC DUNGEON is an emotional adventure where choices shape the fate of four characters. 'The ones you loved, the ones you ignored — you don't get to walk away from either of them.'
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, LGBTQ+ 13.9%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Dialogue Heavy 10.8%
Did I really save this pretty boy ten years ago...? A fresh summer youth BL visual novel about memory, promises, and mutual salvation. [clear cherry ice.] Get closer to Jiwon and Chaehyun, and see whether your bond becomes friendship—or something more.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.2%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Text-Based 12%, Dialogue Heavy 9.8%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
Chess. Love. Destiny. All the same things, really.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Hand-drawn 16.8%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Dialogue Heavy 7.7%
“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%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.2%
A 'crunchy wholesome' game about making friends as an adult.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.1%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Hand-drawn 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Philosophical 9.7%
A story-driven mystery visual novel set in a remote island village. Gather clues through conversations and exploration, and uncover hidden truths through branching routes and multiple endings amid the tense, claustrophobic atmosphere.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Text-Based 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Psychological Horror 8.1%
Am I Nima is a psychological-horror game where you must convince your mom that you really are her daughter. Combine words together in your brain and use them to talk. Get her to trust you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Hand-drawn 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%
Alcyone: The Last City is an interactive sci-fi novel where your choices can lead to the salvation or destruction of the last refuge of civilisation in the universe. Immerse yourself in a branching narrative of diverse characters, intrigue, and world-altering decisions.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Text-Based 11.8%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Dialogue Heavy 9.3%
The frontier does not want to be settled. A narrative highly replayable story game where your choices build a settlement, shape its story, and seal its fate. Every run ends. Every obituary tells a story only you lived.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Text-Based 11.5%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Psychological Horror 10%
Not It: Spookiest Edition is a horror-filled visual novel full of suspense and mystery where you navigate Katie through a living nightmare. Her move-in day on Halloween throws her into a centuries-old curse. Can she make it through the night? Will her new neighbors perish? Decide their fate.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Text-Based 13.4%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.7%
Tri City Monsters is a supernatural, monsterlovin' visual novel where you can romance and/or de-pants 3 demonic love interests. Navigate a dangerous urban jungle with their help and maybe you'll get a taste of what it means to be a monster.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Text-Based 10.7%, Hand-drawn 10.6%
Return to a hometown that hasn’t changed the way it should have. A psychological visual novel focused on atmosphere, relationships, and a reality that slowly refuses to stay still. Can you uncover the truth before it consumes you?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Dialogue Heavy 11.2%, Text-Based 11.1%
Your motel is busy for the first time in years. Antsy city-folk and dispossessed teens flood your rooms, and you can barely keep up. Now, after a week of all-nighters spent managing reservations, room service requests, and Yup! reviews, you begin to wonder… could you even fall asleep if you tried?
Why similar: Hand-drawn 15.2%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
Help Elliot recover his memories and unlock the truth of what happened before it's too late. A Mexican-American gothic, boys' love visual novel, featuring interactive spell crafting and point-and-click exploration.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.5%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
Pine Hill is a quiet Midwestern college town. Quiet enough that nobody seemed to hear Ginny Nicholson die. Alone with the thoughts in your head, now you just want to know one thing: why?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Text-Based 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.2%
Awaken in a world plunged into uncertainty. You must navigate hidden truths and make crucial choices. Will you uncover the secrets of your existence? Your path will determine your fate in this journey.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Hand-drawn 9.3%
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: LGBTQ+ 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Hand-drawn 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Psychological Horror 8.5%
Relive the same day without remembering it. Your choices feed four inner alter egos (Shadow, Mad, Alex, and Bully) — shaping reality, glitches, and one of 16 possible endings. The day repeats. Your mind doesn’t. Or does it?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Text-Based 10.7%, Dialogue Heavy 8.1%
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Text-Based 10.8%, Hand-drawn 9%
It's the night of the big ball, and things are going...well...they're going. When so many people of so many different species are gathered together in one place, you're sure to have an interesting time. But what if something a little more malicious is happening under the surface?
Why similar: Philosophical 14.3%, Hand-drawn 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Text-Based 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.9%
Blending fairy tale fright with psychological horror, this narrative game challenges you to survive a weird journey through the woods while being hunted by the witch you were tasked with imprisoning. Sometimes charming, sometimes frightening, she’ll force you to make hard choices.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Hand-drawn 12.9%, Choices Matter 10.2%
Five Biggest Accomplishments is a short Visual Novel where you play as someone who has held the same job for 30 years: push a button every 8 hours or the world will end. Suddenly, you get an email asking you to list your five biggest accomplishments for the week, or risk being fired.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.3%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Story Rich 11.4%, Psychological Horror 11%, Text-Based 9%
A sci fi mystery on a ship drifting through space. Solve dialogue puzzles to help the ship's computer AILISH sift through possible timelines to find which one of them can prevent an impending disaster. What disaster? For some reason, AILISH won't actually tell you...
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Hand-drawn 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Text-Based 10.3%
Columbus》 is a dark fantasy visual novel with dual male leads. Play as Weaponzzie, a nameless weapon trapped in a wealthy estate. Dialogue choices drive a branching story to 10 endings—tenderness, ruin, freedom, or downfall. Your bond with the young master is defined by you.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.9%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11.9%, Choices Matter 8.7%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
A cozy visual novel about running a tavern in a D&D-inspired fantasy! Gather rumors, serve magical drinks, and meet adventurers on a life-changing quest.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Hand-drawn 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.4%
Soulcake: A fantasy‑romance AVG with yuri (LGBTQ+) & female-dominant dynamics. As the female lead, you can travel into others’ minds, gather ingredients to bake desserts filled with emotions. People come to you with their secrets. Forge bonds with them and…uncover the truth behind your ability.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.8%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Dialogue Heavy 9.4%, Text-Based 8.6%
Which is worse: a toxic friend or a literal demon?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 33.2%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Story Rich 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Visual Novel 10.7%
Stranded after a plane crash in a freezing wilderness, you must manage body temperature, injury, and sanity as every decision shapes your survival.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Hand-drawn 12%, Visual Novel 11.6%
The supernatural mystery visual novel, "CAFE 0 ~The Sleeping Beast~" returns as a remastered version. Will the maid, Corliss, find out why she died within the 7 days time limit?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Hand-drawn 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Psychological Horror 12.2%
Where Control Ends is a psychological visual novel about Astra, a young girl trying to hold herself together after a night she cannot fully remember.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Text-Based 13.2%, Hand-drawn 8.9%
Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Story Rich 10.7%
