- #1 Misohagi Crossing
97% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: sweet ampoule
Windows
On his first visit to his father's rural hometown in seven years, Hotaru reunites with his first love—only to learn that she died three years ago. Explore Yokomizo, uncover the truth behind a family tragedy, and escape supernatural otherworlds in this Japanese horror mystery adventure.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Psychological 14.7%, Dialogue Heavy 13.2%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Emotional 12.5%
- #2 KnitBone
96% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: aespipuPub: remarkablegames
Windows · Mac · Linux
⚠️ KnitBone is a story-driven psychological horror visual novel, where the therapist is more traumatized than the patient.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.6%, Dialogue Heavy 14.4%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Psychological 11%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
- #3 A Slit of Joy
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 14 reviews2022
Dev: GameMaker8YT
Windows · Mac
Finn was sad, so he killed himself. But he was greeted by Aoi a mysterious girl who granted him one wish before he gets reincarnated. Finn's wish, he wanted to see if anyone cared at all that he had committed suicide. Even though he knows no one ever cared about him.
Why similar: Emotional 15%, Psychological 13.7%, Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Dark 11.3%
- #4 To Be With You
95% matchPositive93% of 30 reviews2021
Dev: Illus Seed Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?
Why similar: Emotional 13.2%, Psychological 12.3%, Dialogue Heavy 11.8%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Psychological Horror 10.2%
- #5 氷点下30度の絶望
94% matchVery Positive98% of 389 reviews2025
Dev: Mitsudomoe Koubou
Windows
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: Dialogue Heavy 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
- #6 Glass Hearts
94% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2022
Dev: Aedian Glair
Windows · Mac · Linux
Gripping psychological thriller Yaoi game full of difficult choices. Can you trust your own mind?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Psychological 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, LGBTQ+ 10.4%
- #7 The Quiet After
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Grigsby's World Productions, LLC
Windows · Linux
Step into Greyholt as Ava, a would-be adventurer taking a chance to register with her father's guild. Will this bring the independence she craves, or something more dangerous? A psychological, choice-driven visual novel where every decision shapes the road ahead and the journey beneath her own skin.
Why similar: Psychological 15.9%, Emotional 14.2%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%
- #8 キズツケ kizutsuke
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 852話
Windows
To escape, you must hurt someone. KIZUTSUKE is a psychological suspense visual novel about four young men trapped together. Read their conversations, make difficult choices, and discover four endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Psychological 7.8%
- #9 Silverblood
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tidehead Studios
Windows
Years after leaving her family to join the Sisters of the Whiterock Coven, Edith is anxious to finally return home. But first she has to pass her Trial of Ascension, a harrowing task bestowed by her patron deity. Together, Edith and her bully must complete the trial, no matter the consequences.
Why similar: Visual Novel 12.3%, Emotional 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Psychological Horror 10%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
- #10 Talk About Something in the Nowhere
91% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Rhoddon-Byte
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, LGBTQ+ 15.5%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Emotional 9.7%
- #11 Thorner
89% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Snoring Dog Games
Windows
Thorner is a horror visual novel with multiple endings. You attempt to escape your past by fleeing to the wilderness, but spilled blood can never be forgiven. The land knows what you did. The land judges. Thorner awaits.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.6%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Dark 13.6%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%
- #12 DoppelTest
89% matchPositive100% of 23 reviews2026
Dev: ぬくもりロボット工房
Windows
Kagari, a withdrawn child, and Kagami, the robot living in society as their stand-in—Only one will be recognized as the real Kagari. Your role is to gently observe their choices and decisions. Your role is to gently observe their choices and decisions.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Visual Novel 16%, Emotional 12.4%, Psychological 10.6%, Dialogue Heavy 10%
- #13 Highschool J
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Umigame Studios
Windows
Yuki leads an ordinary life, weighed down by debt, surrounded by a few friends, and consumed by poems shared with no one. Until the arrival of a transfer student. Because some presences cannot be resisted. Only surrender is possible.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Emotional 10.5%, Psychological 9.8%, Visual Novel 8.1%
- #14 時折記 -Tokioriki-
86% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 綴路工房
Windows
Every person you choose leaves someone else behind. Spend your limited afternoons building relationships, exploring the town, and recording each day in Kanata’s diary—then face timed Shadow Choices as an old book begins to fracture his ordinary life.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.1%, Psychological 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Multiple Endings 12%, Emotional 11.7%
- #15 Venus: Improbable Dream
87% matchPositive100% of 20 reviews2021
Dev: Borealis
Windows · Mac
Born with a birth defect that he hates, Kakeru struggles with severe anxiety and depression. Guide his timid decisions as he takes a brave step into a new world - joining his school's music club, making unexpected and inspiring new connections, and daring to dream again.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Emotional 14.3%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Dialogue Heavy 10.8%, Psychological 9%
- #16 Night to Reticle +6
86% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: MareaVeil
Windows
Nozomu follows his wife to Kyushu and meets the enigmatic KANA. Accept or refuse his nightly "invitations"? Replay the six-day story to uncover the truth. A choice-driven BL psychological adventure with a seme (top) protagonist. The complete edition of the free game Night to Reticle.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Visual Novel 17%, Psychological 15.5%, LGBTQ+ 14.8%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
- #17 Ashen Reverie
84% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Tidalspire
Windows
You’ve ignored the hallucinations for years. But after visiting a shrine in search of answers, a stranger claims she sees them too. Ashen Reverie is a visual novel about the consequences of chasing a myth too far.
Why similar: Visual Novel 12.5%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Psychological 10.4%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Emotional 10.2%
- #18 Yuika My Bestie
85% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Feeling Potion
Windows · Mac
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: Dialogue Heavy 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Emotional 14.8%, Visual Novel 11.6%, LGBTQ+ 10.9%
- #19 Endless Summer Syndrome
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ampelos Studio
Windows · Linux
You ended the world. She, the one who holds every card, gave you an endless summer as your reward. Now your only way out is through sugar, jellyfish, sunlight, and blood — into the deepest reaches of her mind, or be dissolved along the way. Choose your path in this psycho-thriller visual novel.
Why similar: Psychological 17.6%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Multiple Endings 11%, Dark 9.1%
- #20 Bonjin ~ An Ordinary Man
83% matchPositive93% of 27 reviews2025
Dev: VNDI
Windows · Linux
When your beloved wants to abandon his personality and become an absolutely ordinary person, what do you do? Bonjin ~ An Ordinary Man is an young adult romantic story about transgender identity, exploration of masculinity, and mutual understanding.
Why similar: Emotional 14.7%, Visual Novel 12.6%, LGBTQ+ 11.9%, Psychological 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
- #21 Bound Between Desks
82% matchPositive86% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: AnyTale Game StudiosPub: ANYTALE LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
A mystical visual novel where ordinary school life intertwines with mysterious phenomena. Every decision you make could lead to uncovering secrets... or plunge you into even greater uncertainty.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Visual Novel 15%, Psychological Horror 11%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Emotional 10.5%
- #22 異界ノ宿帳
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Frontier Works Inc.
Windows
忘れられたモノが流れ着く異界の温泉宿を舞台にした温泉ホラーシミュレーション。昼はケガレを抱えた付喪神たちをもてなし、夜は宿に溢れたケガレが引き起こす怪奇から生き延びる。あなたの選択が、客の癒しと宿の運命を変えていく。
Why similar: Psychological 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Emotional 13.7%, Visual Novel 10.2%
- #23 Room No. 9
82% matchVery Positive90% of 617 reviews2020
Dev: paradePub: MangaGamer
Windows
It's up to you to decide how far you're willing to go in order to survive in this psychological thriller visual novel about two best friends trapped in an experiment. Can these two men survive their choices between physical and psychological harm long enough to earn freedom?
Why similar: Visual Novel 15%, LGBTQ+ 14.5%, Psychological 11.1%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Anime 9.5%
- #24 LOOP SYNDROME
80% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: TBCATGAMES
Windows
There are no second chances in medicine. A medical suspense visual novel where a young doctor gains the power to rewind time. Use the loop to change the fate of diagnoses, surgeries, and emergency treatments. Your choices shape the story, leading to multiple Bad, Good, and True Endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Psychological 14.3%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Emotional 10%
- #25 State of Presence
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Harmony Frontiers
Windows · Mac
Waking up in a stranger's apartment is a jarring experience, even worse is learning you're there because you died. Phase between memories, the liminal plane, and current day to uncover your demise. Both the dead and living can help you on this journey. Will you play it safe or take risks?
Why similar: Emotional 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Dialogue Heavy 13.4%, Psychological 13%, Visual Novel 12.1%
- #26 5omeday
78% matchVery Positive88% of 326 reviews2026
Dev: Indigo IngotsPub: Waku Waku Games
Windows
You have been assigned to guard a dragon girl set to be executed at the end of 5 days and have the ability to kill her instantly at any time with the push of a button in this multi-ending visual novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Dialogue Heavy 12.5%, Psychological 9.9%
- #27 The Sin Of Fabien
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Darkvein Studio
Windows
Maybe you didn’t do it… but you watched. The Sin of Fabien is a psychological horror experience woven around guilt, denial, and silence, where every choice reshapes the world and the story. Each decision brings you closer to the truth… or pulls you further away from it forever.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Dark 12.4%, Emotional 11.1%, Dialogue Heavy 9.7%
- #28 GEMINI SYNDRXME
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: hatereallysPub: BRXKENVN
Windows · Linux
GEMINI SYNDRXME is a strange story about two twin girls: Mei and Aoi. Despite external similarity, their characters are absolute opposites.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Dialogue Heavy 12.1%, LGBTQ+ 12%, Psychological 11.1%
- #29 Return to Ash
77% matchVery Positive99% of 149 reviews2025
Dev: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
“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: Visual Novel 18.8%, Emotional 18.5%, LGBTQ+ 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Multiple Endings 11.4%
- #30 Hazy Mind
77% matchVery Positive87% of 355 reviews2024
Dev: betetiro
Windows · Mac · Linux
You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.
Why similar: Psychological 15.5%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Visual Novel 14%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Dialogue Heavy 9.6%
- #31 Dream of a Nightmarish Runaway
78% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: ONImations
Windows · Mac · Linux
Wanna join our nightmarish dream?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Emotional 15.4%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Dark 10.1%
- #32 Columbus
75% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: ZHANG CHUNNING
Windows
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: Dialogue Heavy 16.9%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Emotional 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Psychological 10.9%
- #33 Confinio: Reality Prison
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Enthariel Games
Windows
Confinio is an intriguing visual novel that delves into your sensations as you embody the protagonist who has just awakened in a prison with no memory. Make decisions, solve puzzles, interact with the environment, use objects, interrogate people, all to yourself and uncover the enigmatic reality.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Psychological 13.6%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Dark 10%
- #34 The Test: Reimagined
74% matchVery Positive81% of 134 reviews2026
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
The Test: Reimagined is a masterful mix of Personality Test Psychology and Dark Tarot. Answer a series of fully-narrated questions to receive a personalized, unique ending based on your choices. Dive deep into your own psyche and join millions in a social experiment that you will NOT want to miss!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Dialogue Heavy 14%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Emotional 10.6%
- #35 AN IOU
76% matchPositive100% of 27 reviews2022
Dev: Red Room Games
Windows · Mac
AN IOU is the debut visual novel by Davey Cadaver. The music, backgrounds, & characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. The user takes the POV of the protagonist to experience a memorable story with an incredible soundtrack and multiple endings.
Why similar: Emotional 15.6%, Dialogue Heavy 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Dark 11.4%
- #36 Darkly Glass
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BioSignosis
Windows · Linux
Trade your soul for digital fame in this psychological visual novel. As fallen tech mogul Doran White, navigate a treacherous social media landscape. Your choices shape his fate in this hand-drawn, neuroscience-inspired reimagining of Oscar Wilde's classic.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Dialogue Heavy 20.6%, Visual Novel 16%, Psychological 14.5%, Choices Matter 8.5%
- #37 Snowy Heaven
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Reinfree
Windows
Angels greet you with smiles! Welcome to Heaven, where happiness awaits!
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.1%, Dialogue Heavy 17.6%, Psychological 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Atmospheric 7.7%
- #38 Summer Pockets REFLECTION BLUE
73% matchVery Positive91% of 1,387 reviews2025
Dev: VISUAL ARTS/KeyPub: VISUAL ARTS
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 126.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
No matter how much times passes... I remember that blue, blue summer. Summer Pockets, the midsummer story brought to you by Key, has been powered-up with even more to play, including new heroines and routes, in Summer Pockets REFLECTION BLUE, now available on Steam!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Emotional 19.3%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Multiple Endings 13%, Anime 8.2%
- #39 Do you have SALT?
73% matchPositive91% of 45 reviews2024
Dev: Sin and SunPub: BRXKENVN
Windows
A girl named Anastasia, who lives in an old multi-story building, decides to leave her apartment. She goes to get some salt to ask her neighbors and find a treasure hidden in this house. But what kind of treasure is this, and is it worth looking for?
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Dark 11.1%
- #40 Everything Will Be Fine!
71% matchVery Positive85% of 144 reviews2026
Dev: nanohanaPub: room6
Windows
A dark conversation with a girl during a nightly car trip. A short multi-ending novel game where you try to understand this girl and her pain.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 22.1%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Psychological 10.9%, Dark 8.9%
- #41 Living on Plain Pasta
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 76 reviews2026
Dev: Granité Works
Windows
A conversation adventure where you spend the worst, best summer visiting your booze-loving senpai, making weird food, and sneaking out together at midnight.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Dialogue Heavy 19%, Visual Novel 14%, Emotional 9.1%, Psychological 8.3%
- #42 Hallucination
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Proyama Games
Windows
Takumi, a high school student, gains the power to make others experience hallucinations indistinguishable from reality. What begins as a tool for revenge soon changes his fate forever. A psychological suspense visual novel where your choices shape the ending.
Why similar: Psychological 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Multiple Endings 10%
- #43 Open Spaces SE
73% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Queenship Game StudioPub: Queenship Game Studio, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Psychological 15.6%, Emotional 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.4%, LGBTQ+ 9.9%
- #44 Stay Alive For Me
70% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: OneRoomFilms
Windows
Survive a gripping psychological thriller in this visual novel. Make critical decisions, face a disturbed captor, and experience multiple chilling endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Psychological Horror 14%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Dark 8.9%
- #45 Graveyard Girls
72% matchVery Positive98% of 168 reviews2022
Dev: Delphinium Interactive
Windows
Graveyard Girls is a halloween-themed yuri visual novel about complicated grief and overcoming hardships. Collect Elle’s “scribbles” to learn about her struggles, befriend a mysterious girl, and have a conversation about death.
Why similar: Emotional 15.3%, Psychological 13.6%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Dark 10%, LGBTQ+ 9.5%
- #46 Sister Other Paranoia
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 677 reviews2026
Dev: HazeDenkiPub: Serenity Forge
Windows
A dark visual novel by acclaimed creator nyalra. Overly sensitive to other people's emotions, the protagonist—a light novel writer—develops the ability to read minds, only to be driven even deeper into isolation. His sole remaining comfort is his younger sister, gifted yet lonely.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.1%, Psychological Horror 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Dark 10.8%, Anime 10.4%
- #47 春はあけぼの、我はバケモノ。 - Spring at Dawn, I Am a Monster.
69% matchMixed66% of 87 reviews2026
Dev: CHARON
Windows
“You were only trying to do the right thing—so why is everything falling apart?” A Japanese language teacher’s choices to save three girls who have stopped attending school will change their fates. A psychological horror visual novel with 16 endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 12.9%, Emotional 12.6%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
- #48 Regrets
71% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: T.E.R. Yarally
Windows
Do you ever feel like life is slipping away, with too many dreams left unfulfilled? Like you're trapped in wanting to do so much, but never quite getting to any of it? Doesn't that thought scare you—looking back on a life that accomplished nothing, fading without leaving a mark? It scares me too.
Why similar: Emotional 20.5%, Psychological 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Multiple Endings 12.6%
- #49 A Week to Remember
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Letterflux Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Emotional 16.2%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, LGBTQ+ 11.6%
- #50 Livber: Smoke and Mirrors
68% matchVery Positive90% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: InEv Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short psychological horror interactive story. Five years after vanishing without a trace, the woman you once called your lover writes from beyond the silence: "I will give birth to our creation.” In three acts, descend into a fractured mindscape where obsession, memory, and myth intertwine.
Why similar: Visual Novel 13.3%, Psychological 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Emotional 10.4%
- #51 Banishing You
69% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: lapys games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Step into the world of Banishing You, a visual novel where choices shape your journey. Accept a mysterious invitation to a dream realm full of enigmatic characters and challenges. Navigate passive-aggressive comments, flirtatious strangers, and unravel a quest that could save or doom both worlds.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Emotional 12.9%, Dark 10.8%, Anime 9.1%
- #52 Fishbowl
66% matchVery Positive95% of 193 reviews2026
Dev: imissmyfriends.studio
Windows · Mac
Fishbowl is a slow and tender narrative game about dreams, grief, and hope. Rediscover your memories and find your way into the present in this intimate experience where slice-of-life meets surreal.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 18.3%, Emotional 17.5%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Psychological 12.7%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
- #53 waga-mom
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: atominoko
Windows · Mac
――My curfew is 8 PM. Having a helicopter mom is annoying, but it's not a big deal.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20%, Multiple Endings 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Psychological 8.5%, Choices Matter 7.9%
- #54 BRXKEN INSIDE
67% matchVery Positive83% of 100 reviews2025
Dev: SHAWAVERSEPub: BRXKENVN
Windows · Linux
Shion's calm and measured life comes to an end when she meets Akiko. This encounter has the chance to change her life or plunge it further into the abyss of depression and hopelessness.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 15%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Psychological 13.8%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Dark 9.8%
- #55 Death by Begonia
70% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2022
Dev: Talia JettPub: Paper Moon Studios
Windows
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, LGBTQ+ 11.9%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Emotional 10.3%
- #56 In Her Service
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blue Factory Games
Windows
Jack and Sylvia work as sevants in Talia Godroy's house to clear a debt. What begins as work becomes something neither of them planned. A branching adult visual novel about romance, desire and jealousy — 20+ hours, 16 endings, no way to see them all in one run.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Emotional 14.2%, Psychological 12.3%, Dialogue Heavy 10.5%
- #57 Lone Bird in the Tree
66% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2026
Dev: Aosolagame
Windows · Mac
“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 their best friend”.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, LGBTQ+ 14%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Dialogue Heavy 10.7%
- #58 one night, hot springs
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,188 reviews2018
Dev: npckc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, LGBTQ+ 15.1%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Emotional 13.1%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
- #59 7 Deaths 1 Life
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Davter17
Windows · Mac · Linux
A serial killer named Karma has kidnapped 8 criminals and will force you to choose the order in which they are executed. Will you be able to decide who deserves salvation... and who deserves death?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Emotional 13.8%, Psychological 11%, Dark 8.3%