Games Like Love in the Time of Spellphage

Spellbound: The Magic Within is a branching narrative, multiple ending visual novel. Jump into a world of Magic, Witchcraft and Mystery as a magician in training. Interact with a host of unusual characters. Choose from multiple schools of magic, bond with your tutor, and maybe even save the world.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Narrative 12.9% ★, Visual Novel 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 10%

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: Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, LGBTQ+ 16%, Lore-Rich 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.6%

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+ 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Romance 10.4%

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+ 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Choices Matter 11%, Romance 10%

Sole survivor of a terrible incident, you find yourself in the company of new friends and new conflict on the island of Illyria.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, LGBTQ+ 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Romance 11.7%

Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social network 'Videoverse' were still popular…

Why similar: Narrative 24.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Choices Matter 10.4%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, LGBTQ+ 13.2%, Romance 12.4%, Lore-Rich 10.8%

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 20%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, LGBTQ+ 15.5%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Lore-Rich 12.2%

You are the Monarch. Choose between diplomacy and tyranny. Romance allies or enemies. Your decisions define your rule and the fate of those closest to you in this character-driven interactive tale.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Romance 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Choices Matter 12.2%, LGBTQ+ 10.7%

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 18.2% ★, LGBTQ+ 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Visual Novel 10%

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

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Lore-Rich 11.8%, Romance 10.9%

Luna has been working too hard, fortunately as she finishes up each night she manages to find her way to a hidden out of the way cafe, one where the gals all dress up like different animals. It could be a place for dreams to come true, or just for Luna to blow off some steam and relax each night.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.2%, Romance 14.5%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.6%

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 18.2% ★, LGBTQ+ 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Romance 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.5%

Create your character and experience a fun story in which you will meet friends, enemies and partners as you try to carry out a vital project with your friends: to create an anime before you finish your studies.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Romance 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.7%

Three loves. One week. Merry Crisis is an intimate, character-driven romance visual novel about love, loss, and belonging—is home what you left behind, or where you're headed?

Why similar: Narrative 20.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, LGBTQ+ 13.5%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%

A gripping seaside adventure following the connection of two young souls, each unknowingly helping the other make sense of a world that seems senseless. Complemented by breathtaking artwork and an addictive soundtrack, this charming tale will definitely suck you in and leave a lasting impression!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Lore-Rich 12.5%, Romance 11.2%

​Meet-cute (n) - An amusing or charming first encounter that leads to the development of a romantic relationship

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Romance 13.8%, LGBTQ+ 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.9%

As a humble baker in a quiet medieval town, your life takes a dark turn when a stranger arrives equipped for battle. Thrust into a hidden world of supernatural beings—elves, demons, fae, and more—you must make choices that alter the fate of the world you thought you knew.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, LGBTQ+ 14.6%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Lore-Rich 11.4%

In an endless air ocean of an alien world, small lonesome plots of land float above the abyss. But sometimes approach each other, and lands which have never met before, reveal their secrets.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Choices Matter 17.5%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Multiple Endings 13.2%

Game developer Wén Xiàn has a second chance at love, but it’s not what he expects. Will he be able to stray off the beaten path and find true happiness? Play your cards right and find out in Pivot of Hearts, a non-monogamous visual novel!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.1%, Romance 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%

Join Carmen, a somewhat absent-minded middle-aged lady who has to endure bizarre situations in her space truck. And possibly mess things up like crazy. An interactive narrative experience about the most flamboyant beings in the universe.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 17%, LGBTQ+ 16.9%, Alternate History 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.9%

A yandere psychological horror visual novel. Choose a sweetheart to romance, but beware the petals of obsession.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, LGBTQ+ 16.3%, Lore-Rich 14%, Visual Novel 13.3%

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 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Visual Novel 13.8%, LGBTQ+ 13.7%, Romance 9.4%

A queer Victorian romance visual novel in which a gentleman running from the past and a poet hiding from the future collide through a lonely hearts ad. Suddenly, their lives can blossom—if you choose to change them.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Romance 13.6%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Alternate History 11.7%

They steal your crew and force your ship to crash-land on an alien planet where you must start fresh with nothing but a dilapidated base and a... talking cat?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, LGBTQ+ 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Lore-Rich 11.7%

Briana has been craving some time off all summer and finally with her shoot wrapped for hiatus she can relax at her summer cottage on the lake. To really enjoy herself she even drags her female co-stars along for the ride.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Romance 10.3%

Charlotte, has been dumped by her long term girlfriend Mikka. Fortunately her sexy friend Sophie insists on taking her out to try and cheer her up. But Sophie is quite a wildcat so who knows where such a date could lead in this yuri/lesbian themed visual novel with multiple routes and endings.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, LGBTQ+ 17%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Romance 11.7%

Fall in love with marbles and learn to believe in yourself again.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Romance 11.1%

The girls of the Lingerie shop are back and they are in for their toughest day of the year, a mega sale event! How will the girls handle things, you get to decide not only how the sale goes but who you will control in this adult yuri/lesbian themed multi-routed visual novel game.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Romance 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.9%

A story-driven visual novel about healing, heartbreak, and second chances. Build relationships, face your past, and shape your future in a town where every choice leaves a mark. Romance, drama, and emotional chaos await in Cascade Falls.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Romance 14.5%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Choices Matter 10.9%

The hapless, love-struck Ichika made a big mistake, and she might have ruined her friendship with Hana forever. With the help of her classmate Ayumi, can she work her own feelings out in time to show Hana how she really feels? A soft, comedic romance with big personalities and a tinge of melodrama.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Romance 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.4%

Immerse yourself in an enchanting narrative experience as Fortuna, a fortune-teller Witch condemned to exile on her asteroid home. Craft your own Tarot deck, regain your freedom, and shape the fate of the cosmic Witch society.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Narrative 13.6% ★, Choices Matter 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.7%

A lonely young man is guided by a silent Muse to solve the mystery behind his two Doppelganger Soulmates.

Why similar: Narrative 21.1% ★, LGBTQ+ 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Romance 11.3%, Visual Novel 9.9%

Heartbeats is a visual novel about music, love, relationships, mental health, and more! Features: 4 love interests, choices that affect the story, original music, beautiful art, and multiple endings.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.9%, Romance 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Lore-Rich 11.4%

Play the role of an apprentice alchemist on the road in a merchant caravan. During the journey you will discover many things, including love? A gay medieval fantasy visual novel.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Romance 12.4%, Magic 8.6%

Discover secrets long forgotten, and nurture relationships waiting to bloom. In a game inspired by the lore of Dragon and Fae, make choices that can shape your story, relationships, and even personality. Will you be brave, kind, wise, charismatic? Only you know the answer to your fate.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Romance 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Lore-Rich 10.5%

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+ 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Visual Novel 13.2%

There are rumours of homosexuals in the Navy, and it’s your mission to date them! Sailors of Newport is a point-and-click puzzle game set in 1920s Rhode Island. Infiltrate the gay community, choose who to seduce and who to report, solve puzzles, and grapple with your own burgeoning desires.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Romance 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.9%, LGBTQ+ 12.4%

Play as a prince as he attempts to give his story a happy ending by finding love and claiming his place as the rightful heir of the throne in this fantasy Boys' Love visual novel.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.6%, Romance 17%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Visual Novel 9.7%

Raven has challenged you to various games to decide which of you will have to complete humiliating dares. A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure ENF-Themed game with over 1,700 3D Images and voice acting. Also includes 'Raven's Daring Trivia Night' and 'Alice'

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, LGBTQ+ 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Romance 12%

"In the Phoenix Kingdom, there is a man known as the Corpse Killer." Thwart a necromancer's scheme in this dark fantasy visual novel.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, LGBTQ+ 14.6%, Lore-Rich 13.9%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Romance 8.6%

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

Why similar: Narrative 16.2% ★, Romance 16.1%, Choices Matter 15.2%, LGBTQ+ 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%

Play as Luna, a girl caught in a fight between armed insurgents and spies. Help her navigate her way to saving her friend. Explore a laboratory dedicated to the production of new materials. Enjoy a lighthearted and chaotic story of a girl out of her depth in an espionage mission.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, LGBTQ+ 19.6%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Choices Matter 12%

Welcome to the MONSTER GIRL MANOR! Tour around to find your way to meet the characters created by Dream Audio VA, Lacey Audayo, Method Switch, Startlit Audios and Xena Alexander. Find out which girls are your vibe and find out more of their lore!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 22%, Lore-Rich 18.2%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Romance 14.7%

A visual novel where your choices matter. Derek has a job, a beloved boyfriend, friends, and… “piranha thoughts.” Everything was perfect until his younger sister Rina returned to town.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Romance 13.8%

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 25% ★, Visual Novel 16.2%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%

From renowned Japanese visual novel brand SMEE, LOVEPICAL-POPPY!, the ultimate moege, arrives on Steam! Made for SMEE’s 15th anniversary and celebrating 150k+ sales, it keeps the brand’s signature sweetness while adding life-sim gameplay and a unique story progression system.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Visual Novel 20%, Romance 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choices Matter 9.2%

Play as Erwin, a witch hunter navigating a fantasy world of magic and suspicion. Your decisions in this visual novel affect friendships, trust, and multiple story outcomes. Choose wisely—the fate of your journey rests with you.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 23%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Choices Matter 11.9%

Tentacle BL x training simulation. After being toyed with by mysterious tentacles, the main character ends up in a nursery or a bride.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 32%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Choices Matter 10.7%

A candy alchemist finds a candy golem in her basement workshop...

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Choices Matter 8.7%

"A Night With Neil" is the first in, hopefully, a series of choose-your-own-adventure text games focusing on my various characters. Hang out with Neil! Get banged by Neil! Get ate by Neil!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Romance 11.6%

Heart Rates: Plus is a short college romance Adult Visual Novel with meaningful choices and a realistic-but-simple sex simulation.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Romance 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, LGBTQ+ 11.7%

ARISEN is a narrative card game where you use your emotions to create your own story in a dark fantasy universe.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Lore-Rich 12%, Romance 11.5%

The girls of the Lingerie shop are back and they are in for their toughest day of the year, a mega sale event! Prelude is a free to play version of the LGBTQ+ Yuri visual novel game: Negligee: Spring Clean. Check it out now to see what you could be enjoying.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Romance 12.4%, Visual Novel 10.6%

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+ 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Romance 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.2%

A brave hero and a bound lich rescue a legendary warrior from a forgotten tomb and put the romance back in necromancy. Necromance is a dark fantasy comedy visual novel with light puzzle elements, 3 endings, and 15 ways to die!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Lore-Rich 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Choices Matter 11%

Discover the mysteries of Gensokyo through the lens of Shin, a photographer from the outside world. In this immersive visual novel, join forces with the shrine maiden Reimu Hakurei to unravel the truth behind this incident and stop the enigmatic Kurohana.

Why similar: Visual Novel 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Romance 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%

Win fame as a playwright before dark forces bring the curtain down for good! In a city stalked by a deadly curse, how will the power of your pen change the world?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Alternate History 12.4%, Romance 12.3%

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 21.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Visual Novel 12.3%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, LGBTQ+ 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.3%