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  1. #1 2064: Read Only Memories
    97% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,682 reviews2015
    Dev: MidBoss, LLC.Pub: Chorus Worldwide Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco. Team up with Turing, the world's first sapient machine, to unravel a conspiracy that threatens to shake an entire society

    Why similar: Noir 30.5%, Cyberpunk 26.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Stylized 7.2%

  2. #2 The Fernweh Saga: Book One
    96% matchVery Positive91% of 111 reviews2023
    Dev: Hosted Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Expose the dark secrets and mysteries of your seemingly idyllic hometown in this romantic thriller! Will you fall in love or fall victim to its horrors?

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Text-Based 16.9%, RPG 11.7%, Choices Matter 9.7%

  3. #3 Psy High
    96% matchMostly Positive79% of 148 reviews2014
    Dev: Choice of Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Interactive teen supernatural mystery! You and your friends have developed magical psychic powers. Solve the case, save your school, find a date for prom!

    Why similar: Text-Based 29.1%, Interactive Fiction 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.6%, RPG 20.2%, Indie 1.1%

  4. #4 Neon Hearts City
    95% matchVery Positive84% of 57 reviews2025
    Dev: Cosmic VoidPub: Dionous Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A private investigator, tracking a missing person, uncovers a conspiracy between humans and androids and a secret that could change everything. Neon Hearts City is a retro point-and-click adventure that thrusts you into a grungy cyberpunk city of the future.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.9%, Cyberpunk 29.2%, Crime 19.1%, Colorful 7.3%, Mystery 6%

  5. #5 DRAMAtical Murder
    94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,008 reviews2021
    Dev: Nitro+CHiRALPub: JAST
    Windows
    Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Aoba's vibrant cyberpunk world is one of contrasts: high-tech virtual reality battles versus street gang turf wars, ultra-exclusive luxury resorts and tiny junk shops. The choices you make will shape the path of Aoba's journey into the dark secrets lurking beneath the glossy sheen of the city.

    Why similar: Cyberpunk 38.6%, LGBTQ+ 30.9%, Choices Matter 22.1%, Visual Novel 5.5%, Singleplayer 1.3%

  6. #6 Love Alone Death
    94% 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: Choices Matter 50.9%, LGBTQ+ 24.3%, Dating Sim 16.8%, Singleplayer 4.3%, 2D 2.9%

  7. #7 HARDCODED
    93% matchVery Positive92% of 347 reviews2024
    Dev: Ghost Hug Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    HARDCODED - A non-linear delve through the lives and beds of the people of a cyberpunk city.

    Why similar: Cyberpunk 58.1%, LGBTQ+ 24.5%, Dating Sim 11%, Visual Novel 4.9%, 2D 1.4%

  8. #8 Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
    92% matchVery Positive92% of 2,977 reviews2021
    Dev: DigiTales InteractivePub: Assemble Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.

    Why similar: Noir 26.7%, Cyberpunk 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Crime 12.4%, Text-Based 10.5%

  9. #9 Andromeda Six
    91% matchVery Positive97% of 100 reviews2025
    Dev: Wanderlust Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Andromeda Six is a sci-fi inspired visual novel, with romance elements and an immersive, choice based story. Take on the role of a lost Traveler and uncover the truth of your past. Fight for a future for both yourself, and those you grow close to throughout your journey.

    Why similar: Cyberpunk 43.8%, Choices Matter 20.5%, Text-Based 18%, Colorful 5.3%, Visual Novel 4.3%

  10. #10 Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate
    90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,478 reviews2025
    Dev: Xso
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    Love Curse is a GL visual novel. You’ve fallen under a curse, and the only way to break it is to find your soulmate! The clock is ticking… Will you find true love? And what secrets will you uncover along the way?

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.8%, Choices Matter 16.8%, Text-Based 10.2%, Dating Sim 10.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%

  11. #11 Infinite Stars - The Visual Novel
    91% matchVery Positive89% of 96 reviews2022
    Dev: Wraiith303Pub: IF THEN ELSE Interactive Fiction
    Windows

    Infinite Stars is a visual novel filled with romance, mystery & roleplaying elements where you choose how the adventure unfolds. Establish your character & personality through the hundreds of choices presented in this interactive fiction inspired by stories like Dune, The Expanse & Mass Effect.

    Why similar: Cyberpunk 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Choices Matter 11.9%, RPG 8.3%

  12. #12 Tri City Monsters
    89% matchVery Positive96% of 85 reviews2026
    Dev: Studio Peaches
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    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: Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Text-Based 18.5%, Choices Matter 14.3%, LGBTQ+ 8.7%

  13. #13 Dreambound
    89% matchVery Positive95% of 98 reviews2024
    Dev: Two and a Half Studios
    Windows · Mac

    Mysterious deaths. Dreams that are reality, and reality that is a dream. Will Noah be able to move forward and solve the mystery⁠—or will he give in to the demons of his past? A story-rich BL mystery visual novel.

    Why similar: Choices Matter 25.2%, LGBTQ+ 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Mystery 17.3%, Dating Sim 7.6%

  14. #14 Drops of Death
    88% matchVery Positive92% of 102 reviews2025
    Dev: Snowhaven Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A murder mystery visual novel with a romantic twist. The killer is randomly chosen at the start of each playthrough, and you may unknowingly fall in love with them. How will your story come to its end? Will you bring the killer to justice, fall in love with them, or die at their hands?

    Why similar: Choices Matter 25.6%, LGBTQ+ 15%, Text-Based 13.3%, Mystery 11.7%, Thriller 10.3%

  15. #15 LA: Streets of Sorcery
    86% matchVery Positive90% of 70 reviews2026
    Dev: Bear in the Night
    Windows · Mac

    A detective visual novel where magic, sex, and comedy collide: solve cases, duel wizards, and flirt with danger.

    Why similar: Choices Matter 32.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 32.3%, LGBTQ+ 13.6%, Dating Sim 12.8%, Visual Novel 5.8%

  16. #16 NIGHT/SHADE: You're The Drug
    87% matchVery Positive95% of 96 reviews2022
    Dev: Thrill Switch Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    An adult LGBTQ+ visual novel about love, drugs, murder and crime. We follow this intense thriller through the eyes of our main protagonist, Sasha, while he maneuvers through dangerous drug deals, formidable kingpins, and silent assassins.

    Why similar: Choices Matter 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Cyberpunk 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, LGBTQ+ 15.1%

  17. #17 UNMEMORY
    86% matchVery Positive84% of 103 reviews2020
    Dev: PATRONES & ESCONDITES
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Unravel a mystery: A game you can read, a book you can play.

    Why similar: Noir 36.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Text-Based 16.6%, Mystery 9.7%, LGBTQ+ 7.5%

  18. #18 Choice of Robots
    85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,000 reviews2014
    Dev: Choice of Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%

    Your robots will change the world! Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army? A 300,000-word epic interactive sci-fi novel.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, Text-Based 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Choices Matter 18.6%, RPG 7%

  19. #19 Haven
    84% matchVery Positive88% of 6,113 reviews2020
    Dev: The Game Bakers
    Windows
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    Two lovers gave up everything and escaped to a lost planet to be together. Glide through a mysterious landscape, explore a fragmented world and fight against what’s trying to tear them apart in this RPG adventure about love, rebellion, and freedom.

    Why similar: Cyberpunk 36.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Choices Matter 16.4%, RPG 12.1%, LGBTQ+ 11.6%

  20. #20 S4U: CITYPUNK 2011 AND LOVE PUNCH
    81% matchVery Positive91% of 2,652 reviews2025
    Dev: U0U GamesPub: GCORES PUBLISHING
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    This is a modern adventure of young adults seeking love and meaning. Return to 2011's Castor Yard, tap on your keyboard, and make those letters dance: Use your online persona to make meaningful decisions for your clients and yourself.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 47.2%, Choices Matter 38.2%, Visual Novel 8.2%, Singleplayer 3%, 2D 2.1%

  21. #21 Choice of the Deathless
    84% matchVery Positive91% of 324 reviews2014
    Dev: Choice of Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 65%

    Battle demons and undead attorneys, and win souls to pay back your student loans! At the elite demonic-law firm of Varkath Nebuchadnezzar Stone, you'll depose a fallen god, find romance, and maybe even make partner, if you don't lose your own soul first.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 35.2%, Text-Based 29%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, RPG 15.2%, Indie 0.8%

  22. #22 Arcadie: Second-Born
    82% matchVery Positive95% of 400 reviews2022
    Dev: Arcadie & Utopie
    Windows · Mac

    In this interactive tale of love and war, be the force of reason that your kingdom needs, or perpetuate its reputation as a force of destruction. Find love and weave friendships, or cast it all away for the sake of retribution.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25%, Choices Matter 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Text-Based 16.6%, RPG 8.7%

  23. #23 Gamedec - Definitive Edition
    82% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,755 reviews2021
    Dev: Anshar StudiosPub: Anshar Publishing
    Windows
    Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Gamedec is a single-player cyberpunk isometric RPG. You are a game detective, who solves crimes inside virtual worlds. Use your wits to gather info from your witnesses and suspects, getting to the bottom of deceptive schemes. The game continually adapts to your decisions and never judges.

    Why similar: Noir 29.1%, Cyberpunk 28.7%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Text-Based 11%, RPG 8.6%

  24. #24 Dry Drowning
    83% matchVery Positive81% of 518 reviews2019
    Dev: Studio VPub: Leonardo Interactive
    Windows
    Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%

    Dry Drowning is a psychological investigative visual novel set in a futuristic dystopian city. Follow the story of Mordred Foley, unscrupulous private detective haunted by his dark past, and look into a series of macabre serial killings inspired by Greek mythology.

    Why similar: Noir 30.2%, Cyberpunk 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Choices Matter 8.2%

  25. #25 Fields of Asphodel
    80% matchVery Positive86% of 80 reviews2024
    Dev: Hosted Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Befriend misfit deities and make a life for yourself in the Underworld! Can you escape your arranged marriage to the King? Do you want to?

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Choices Matter 18.6%, Text-Based 16.6%, RPG 12%

  26. #26 Synergia
    81% matchVery Positive87% of 824 reviews2020
    Dev: Radi ArtPub: Top Hat Studios, Inc.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Synergia is a yuri thriller visual novel that takes place in a cyberpunk future, wrapped up in a beautifully unique, vibrant neon aesthetic. At the end of the world, sometimes love is the ultimate crime.

    Why similar: Cyberpunk 50.7%, Choices Matter 14.5%, LGBTQ+ 10.6%, RPG 8.9%, Thriller 8.8%

  27. #27 Au Revoir
    79% matchVery Positive95% of 130 reviews2025
    Dev: Invisible StudioPub: Nuntius Games
    Windows

    Play as Tristan and solve puzzles to recover human consciousnesses in the year 2071. Investigate environments, uncover secrets, and make choices that affect the ending. Explore a neon-noir world with a low poly aesthetic inspired by the 90s.

    Why similar: Noir 32.9%, Cyberpunk 26.8%, Cinematic 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Text-Based 11.3%

  28. #28 RGB GlitchGazer
    78% matchVery Positive96% of 97 reviews2026
    Dev: 群星闪耀时Pub: 群星闪耀时
    Windows

    A mad and romantic ADV. Unravel a strange world of science and philosophy with a mecha girl, zombie girl, or beastfolk. Some paths may disturb you... or thrill you.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 39.6%, Mystery 18.7%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Stylized 12.7%, Visual Novel 6.7%

  29. #29 Heatwave: Sam's Stay
    76% matchVery Positive95% of 660 reviews2026
    Dev: CodyFord
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Step into Sam’s shoes and guide him through a summer of self-discovery, complicated relationships, and unexpected desires that will change everything.

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.9%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Cinematic 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%

  30. #30 The Night Market
    79% matchVery Positive84% of 73 reviews2023
    Dev: Zinnia DemitassePub: Lamplight Inc.
    Windows · Mac

    Welcome to the Night Market. Survive your journey while navigating a foreign land, rife with political intrigue, arbitrary rules and secrets designed to keep you distracted. Fall in love, explore a world with rich characters, and try to save the realm.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.2%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Text-Based 15.6%, RPG 14.1%, LGBTQ+ 11.7%

  31. #31 Nivalis Nights
    77% matchMixed61% of 292 reviews2026
    Dev: ION LANDSPub: 505 Games
    Windows

    Grow your business, manage restaurants and nightclubs, make friends and enemies, buy and decorate apartments, go fishing and maybe even find love in a cyberpunk city that stretches from the ocean to the clouds.

    Why similar: Cyberpunk 82.1%, RPG 17.9%

  32. #32 A Date with Death
    74% 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: LGBTQ+ 19.6%, Dating Sim 17.9%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%

  33. #33 Seraphim Slum
    76% matchVery Positive96% of 179 reviews2024
    Dev: rosesrotPub: angelrot games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    An eerie liminal game that explores just how far an angel can fall. Play as sapphic Lucifer and corrupt angels into falling... in love with you.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.9%, Choices Matter 26.3%, LGBTQ+ 16.4%, Text-Based 12.2%, Dating Sim 8.5%

  34. #34 ValiDate: Struggling Singles in your Area
    78% matchMixed64% of 143 reviews2022
    Dev: Veritable Joy StudiosPub: Veritable Joy Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    ValiDate is a romantic visual novel about 13 adults in Jercy City navigating new relationships and the harsh realities that come alongside them.

    Why similar: Cinematic 28.8%, Text-Based 23.1%, LGBTQ+ 18.7%, Dating Sim 10.8%, Colorful 9.5%

  35. #35 Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical
    74% matchVery Positive91% of 3,950 reviews2023
    Dev: Summerfall StudiosPub: Balor Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 68%

    Gods. Romance. Murder. Musical Numbers?! Play as Grace in a world where Greek Gods live in hiding among us. Change your fate as you draw friends, foes & lovers into song using your powers of musical persuasion to unravel the mystery of the Last Muse's death.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Choices Matter 18.2%, Cinematic 18.2%, Stylized 10.1%

  36. #36 Refate: Echoes of Desire
    73% matchVery Positive89% of 673 reviews2025
    Dev: Terraflame EntertainmentPub: Mountain and Sea Studio
    Windows

    Wake up with amnesia in Tokyo, caught between the Yakuza and police. Romance 8 unique beauties: cop, ninja, boss, izakaya owner, heiress, college girl, teacher, model. Uncover your true identity—host, agent, assassin, or crime lord? Shape your destiny and find true love.

    Why similar: Cinematic 24.1%, RPG 19.8%, Crime 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Dating Sim 9.3%

  37. #37 Love at The Milky Way Diner
    73% matchVery Positive96% of 50 reviews2025
    Dev: Lucky KimPub: Clumsy Cat Studio
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    An inclusive, cozy, sci-fi cooking/dating sim about making friends, finding love, and running a diner in deep space.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.2%, Choices Matter 14.5%, RPG 12.2%, LGBTQ+ 9.6%

  38. #38 Mask of the Rose
    75% matchMostly Positive76% of 404 reviews2023
    Dev: Failbetter Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A marvellous romance with a hint of murder, where every playthrough is different! Seek love, friendship, or more... intimate encounters. Help a murdered man find justice. And watch out for the bats.

    Why similar: Choices Matter 34.8%, LGBTQ+ 23.8%, RPG 18%, Dating Sim 15.2%, Visual Novel 6.8%

  39. #39 Mars Vice
    73% matchVery Positive97% of 78 reviews2025
    Dev: Rho Labyrinths GmbH
    Windows

    Mars Vice is a narrative adventure game set on a distant and futuristic Mars. Follow two civil investigators, Dax and Anaya, as they root out deep-seated corruption in the Martian city of Pavonis in this biopunk-infused story.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.7%, Cyberpunk 34.2%, LGBTQ+ 17.6%, Colorful 7.6%, Visual Novel 2.2%

  40. #40 Cyber City 2157: The Visual Novel
    77% matchMixed53% of 222 reviews2016
    Dev: HarotobiraPub: Sometimes You
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 98%

    Feel the mysterious world of Molds and the City where the sun never sets. Look for clues, make decisions and follow your own path in the Cyber ​​City 2157.

    Why similar: Cyberpunk 70%, Stylized 17.8%, Visual Novel 6.1%, Singleplayer 2.9%, 2D 1.9%

  41. #41 Champion of the Gods
    75% matchVery Positive86% of 174 reviews2015
    Dev: Choice of Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Will you serve the gods or overthrow them? Battle ancient evils and destiny itself in this epic interactive novel inspired by Greek myth.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Text-Based 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choices Matter 14.1%, RPG 14%

  42. #42 Millennium Whisper
    72% matchMixed65% of 89 reviews2025
    Dev: Parable Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Millennium Whisper is a next-gen dating-sim set in 1999 at the fictional Escafeld College with an AI trained by real actors portraying the cast! Who will you confess your feelings to at the end of the millennium?

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, RPG 22.9%, Text-Based 12.3%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Dating Sim 10.9%

  43. #43 Rainswept
    72% matchVery Positive87% of 310 reviews2019
    Dev: Frostwood Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Rainswept takes you on an emotional adventure in a small town shaken by a double shooting. Join Detective Stone and unravel a tangled web of love, relationships, and unresolved trauma in this character-driven murder mystery game.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.5%, Crime 28.7%, Cinematic 13%, Thriller 8.8%, Colorful 7.9%

  44. #44 Love Love Mystery Club
    66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 625 reviews2026
    Dev: LuminDrivePub: NANA Stories
    Windows · Mac

    In Love Love Mystery Club, you’re the newest member of the Detective Club at a seemingly ordinary high school. Through Full Motion Video (FMV) storytelling, your choices steer the narrative—will your heart find tenderness… or will hidden horrors emerge from the darkness?

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 43.1%, Choices Matter 19.1%, Dating Sim 13.9%, RPG 9.8%, Mystery 7.6%

  45. #45 Lacuna: Prologue
    71% matchVery Positive91% of 174 reviews2021
    Dev: DigiTales InteractivePub: Assemble Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 50%

    Lacuna: Prologue tasks you – CDI agent Neil Conrad – with investigating the murder of a high-profile victim whose death could plunge the solar system into war. Solve the first in a series of cases that lead you ever deeper into the conspiracy at the core of this captivating 2D sci-fi noir adventure.

    Why similar: Noir 25.9%, Cyberpunk 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Crime 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%

  46. #46 The Pirate's Fate
    71% matchVery Positive89% of 332 reviews2018
    Dev: T.F. WrightPub: FoxWright Productions
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Embark on a swashbuckling adventure in The Pirate's Fate, a visual novel experience with a unique twist: the story, the crew, and who you are transform based on your choices. Seek treasure, find love, and choose your fate.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 50.5%, RPG 17.9%, LGBTQ+ 15.9%, Choices Matter 8.3%, Visual Novel 6%

  47. #47 Arcade Spirits
    70% matchVery Positive91% of 636 reviews2019
    Dev: Fiction Factory GamesPub: PQube
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    Arcade Spirits is a romantic visual novel that follows an alternative timeline where the 1983 video game crash never occurred. It's 20XX and you've just started a new job at the Funplex game arcade. Who will you meet along the way? Will you find the romance you're seeking?

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.9%, Choices Matter 26.2%, LGBTQ+ 17.3%, Dating Sim 10.9%, Colorful 7.8%

  48. #48 Lady in Mystery
    70% matchVery Positive94% of 168 reviews2021
    Dev: nolsoft
    Windows

    Welcome to a small detective agency in old Seoul. Lady in Mystery is a Yuri mystery visual novel set in 18th-century Joseon. Choose one of four women to grow closest to Heesoo, the disguised detective. Your choices may lead to love, revenge, or darker paths than you imagined.

    Why similar: Text-Based 24.7%, Crime 21%, Choices Matter 18.3%, LGBTQ+ 16.9%, Mystery 12.4%

  49. #49 Song of Farca
    69% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,693 reviews2021
    Dev: Wooden MonkeysPub: Alawar
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    Hack into crime scenes, look for evidence, analyze data, interrogate criminals, track suspects and deal with the consequences of your decisions. This is a dark and brutal detective story with a Black Mirror-esque atmosphere of digital dominance and the narrative structure of a US crime procedural.

    Why similar: Cyberpunk 49%, Choices Matter 29.3%, Stylized 13.2%, Visual Novel 3.8%, Singleplayer 2.6%

  50. #50 The Red Strings Club
    68% matchVery Positive93% of 14,320 reviews2018
    Dev: DeconstructeamPub: Devolver Digital
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy.

    Why similar: Cyberpunk 65.6%, Choices Matter 22.6%, LGBTQ+ 8%, Visual Novel 1.6%, Singleplayer 1.2%

  51. #51 ERROR143
    67% matchVery Positive92% of 5,376 reviews2022
    Dev: Jenny Vi Pham
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 55%

    A bickering and bantering rivals-to-lovers visual novel where you fall in love after first hack.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Choices Matter 21.3%, LGBTQ+ 14.1%, Dating Sim 10.1%

  52. #52 BEAST CRIMES
    71% matchMixed62% of 67 reviews2022
    Dev: LINK
    Windows

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

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.1%, Choices Matter 17.9%, LGBTQ+ 11.6%, Mystery 7.5%

  53. #53 non-binary
    68% matchVery Positive94% of 301 reviews2022
    Dev: owof games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    "non-binary" is a video game that mixes text choices and bullet hell to tell the story of two non-binary people's journey of self-discovery. Make your choices. Dodge words. Go through things that hurt without breaking down. If you can.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 43.5%, LGBTQ+ 21.9%, Text-Based 21.7%, RPG 5.4%, Visual Novel 5.3%

  54. #54 Stiff Neck
    65% matchVery Positive82% of 1,167 reviews2026
    Dev: 伤官制作组 Team UranianPub: Tailtone Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    A story about the self—and about others. A toy factory, several cursed dolls, and a horror novel… This quiet seaside town throws Noele's love life into chaos and dredges up the old wounds she has tried for years to forget.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Text-Based 15%, Crime 13.2%, Choices Matter 13%, RPG 9.8%

  55. #55 AI: The Somnium Files
    67% matchVery Positive91% of 9,439 reviews2019
    Dev: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
    Windows
    Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Play as detective Kaname Date on the case of an elusive serial killer in this thrilling, sci-fi murder mystery.

    Why similar: Choices Matter 37.6%, Mystery 36.9%, Visual Novel 13.7%, LGBTQ+ 7.7%, Singleplayer 4%

  56. #56 Paradise Killer
    67% matchVery Positive93% of 4,539 reviews2020
    Dev: Kaizen Game WorksPub: Fellow Traveller
    Windows
    Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Paradise Island, a world outside reality. There’s been a murder that only "investigation freak" Lady Love Dies can solve. Gather evidence and interrogate suspects in this open world adventure. You can accuse anyone, but you’ll have to prove your case in trial. It’s up to you to decide who’s guilty.

    Why similar: Crime 30.6%, Choices Matter 24.5%, Stylized 17.4%, RPG 15.4%, Mystery 11.8%

  57. #57 Third Crisis: Neon Nights
    64% matchVery Positive92% of 1,183 reviews2026
    Dev: Anduo Games
    Windows
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 51.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%

    A lewd 2D narrative RPG set in a neon-drenched megacity of corruption and desire. Make story-defining choices, engage in interactive challenges, and uncover secrets across its seedy districts. Give in to temptation, or fight to stay pure. Will you thrive in the Neon Nights?

    Why similar: Cyberpunk 45.1%, Choices Matter 21.5%, RPG 13.4%, LGBTQ+ 13.2%, Visual Novel 3.2%

  58. #58 NeuroNet: Mendax Proxy
    69% matchVery Positive81% of 67 reviews2023
    Dev: Dream Harvest
    Windows

    You are Arc, a city management AI. Designed to manage a city-wide AR metaverse known as the NeuroNet. Meet its many users, build relationships and help or hinder their lives while trying to balance the wider needs of the city. Find your humanity in a world losing theirs to technology.

    Why similar: Cyberpunk 29.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Text-Based 13.8%, Choices Matter 13.6%

  59. #59 Always Sometimes Monsters
    70% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,447 reviews2014
    Dev: Vagabond Dog
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Set out on a cross-country journey to win back the love of your life and endure the hardship of making story-defining choices that affect your life and the lives of those around you.

    Why similar: RPG 46.4%, Choices Matter 30.7%, LGBTQ+ 16.9%, Indie 2.5%, Singleplayer 2.3%

  60. #60 The Shell Part I: Inferno
    66% matchVery Positive90% of 1,505 reviews2023
    Dev: Innocent GreyPub: Shiravune
    Windows
    Median: 10.8 hrsMean: 116.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%

    Unravel a string of gruesome murders terrorizing Tokyo in this mystery-thriller visual novel. The secrets of a case from six years prior may just be the key to the current unending cycle of tragedy—and the thing that cracks this woeful world’s shell may be one girl’s smile.

    Why similar: Choices Matter 25.6%, Cinematic 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Text-Based 14.3%, Mystery 13.7%

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