60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Emotional, Singleplayer, Visual Novel.
A short, intense, dark visual narrative in 2 colors. You are stuck reliving a single day, over and over. Explore a tiny, giant world of a relationship between two people. Don't get arrested. Try to reach the person you love and escape the cursed time loop. Is it not too late?
The Quiet Things
Step into a fractured 00s childhood in the South of England. Inspired by the developer’s real diaries, this autobiographical narrative adventure invites you to uncover Alice’s story by piecing together evocative memories, and following in the footsteps of a young girl’s journey through adolescence.
He Fucked The Girl Out of Me
He Fucked The Girl Out Of Me is a semi-autobiographical narrative visual novel about trauma and sex work made for the gameboy. The author explains how sex work impacted her life and changed her perception of the world. The game takes approximately 40 minutes to play from start to finish.
Step into a fractured 00s childhood in the South of England. Inspired by the developer’s real diaries, this autobiographical narrative adventure invites you to uncover Alice’s story by piecing together evocative memories, and following in the footsteps of a young girl’s journey through adolescence.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 14.4%, Walking Simulator 14.4%, Psychological 10.6%, Female Protagonist 8.7%, Interactive Fiction 8.7%
He Fucked The Girl Out Of Me is a semi-autobiographical narrative visual novel about trauma and sex work made for the gameboy. The author explains how sex work impacted her life and changed her perception of the world. The game takes approximately 40 minutes to play from start to finish.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.7%, Psychological 14.9%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Emotional 9.8%, Female Protagonist 7.8%
TROPHIES is a kinetic visual novel of a young girl trying to escape to normality. Experience an endless tomorrow in this psychological thriller.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.9%, Psychological 22.7%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Female Protagonist 14.1%, Atmospheric 7.6%
A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Psychological 16.3%, LGBTQ+ 12.1%, Emotional 11.8%
Help Dawn, a young woman of faerie descent, with her first steps into loving and accepting who she is in a modern world where faeries and humans were supposed to live in harmony.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Psychological 14.5%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Female Protagonist 11.4%
A GxG coming-of-age visual novel. Nina sucks at choosing. But when a mysterious incident happens at the arts academy, will she muster the courage to choose–or will she let someone else decide on her behalf?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Female Protagonist 9.9%, Psychological 9.8%
After witnessing a murder, 16-year-old skater Azar Warren seeks refuge with her estranged grandfather on his rural compound, only to suspect he may be more dangerous than her pursuers. Ashes blends graphic novel panels with interactive puzzles in a story of murder and unease.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Female Protagonist 13.5%, Story Rich 13.4%, Atmospheric 6.6%
A short short mix tape of one story that connects three shorter stories. On the NewWave, a magical game console that is retro but new, enjoy DON'T SAY YES, TO:NORTH, and a secret tale nobody yet knows. Welcome to a slightly fantastical and nostalgic world of painful, toilful, and beautiful stories!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Female Protagonist 10.6%, Story Rich 8.7%
An emotional and immersive game about a man named Will and the people close to him. Experience his life through a story about love, memories and hope.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.6%, Walking Simulator 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Visual Novel 13%, Dark 7.8%
Frame of Mind - A game of thoughts is a brief and cozy narrative game that lets you explore a character via thoughts and momentos you find in stages of their life. Its an introspective game, meant to share some experiences a peer-group of neurodivergent queers, including the dev, had growing up.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.7%, Walking Simulator 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Female Protagonist 9.5%
A journey with your father to Lake Baikal, where a storm and an old photo album revive memories of family, loss, and reconciliation.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18%, Psychological 14.8%, Female Protagonist 11.2%, Story Rich 11%, Emotional 11%
First-person boat through the River of Wangchuan, lantern in hand—cut through the fog and chase scattered memory shards. You ferry a General toward the far shore, only to witness the massacre he committed to resurrect the Princess. In the end, who are you—the ferryman, or the General himself?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.8%, Psychological 16.8%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Dark 9.6%, Story Rich 9.5%
Witness to Mass Incarceration is a narrative-driven interactive story based on my life in federal prison. It is a brutally honest portrayal of the lack of humanity, how our lives inside are at risk every day, and the place you are forced to go within yourself to survive.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25%, Psychological 14.8%, Emotional 11%, Story Rich 10.7%, Visual Novel 9.2%
An emotional story portraying the struggles of anxiety—the paralyzing thoughts and irrational fears. Join Lucy on her journey to find solace, alongside her supportive yet puzzled roommate. A heartfelt narrative delving into the complexities of anxiety and the challenges of empathy.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.5%, Psychological 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Female Protagonist 11.2%
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: LGBTQ+ 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Psychological 16.2%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Dark 9.4%
Connor, a single father, visits a memory-restoration clinic in order to relive the days he had with his estranged son Bry. Experience what’s left of his past as he gets to relive his cherished memories and routine joys, while keeping away from the disturbing truth lurking beneath the surface.
Why similar: Psychological 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Walking Simulator 13.4%, Story Rich 11.7%, Emotional 11.3%
A short, dark visual novel set in the UK about a young autistic girl's destructive obsession with her older brother.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.2%, Female Protagonist 13.5%, Psychological 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Dark 11.3%
If Found... is a game about going home, coming out and erasing everything.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 35.2%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Female Protagonist 9.6%, Story Rich 7.1%
Challenge fate in this psychological visual novel about a juvenile psych ward patient who discovers a book that can predict the future.
Why similar: Psychological 20.5%, LGBTQ+ 15.3%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Female Protagonist 9.8%, Dark 9.4%
As a father, you explore the empty home of your estranged daughter, Amy, after her death. Piece together the life you missed…one memory at a time. Follow the journey of regret and reconciliation as you try to comprehend the world she built without you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Walking Simulator 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Psychological 13.1%, Story Rich 6.9%
Explore a surreal dream world built from one man’s memories in this remastered story-rich first-person mystery/adventure.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Walking Simulator 18.1%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Dark 8.9%, Psychological 8.2%
A survival horror RPG that follows a pair of runaways escaping a hostile nighttime suburbia.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Dark 14.4%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Psychological 8.4%
Games can really show someone's personality, don't you think? By way of a simple exploration-based adventure, this data-science game analyzes your actions to estimate your personality.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.9%, LGBTQ+ 17.9%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Female Protagonist 13%, Story Rich 9.1%
A dark boys love / boys hate visual novel set in a 1001 Nights inspired world full of political intrigue. Yuel, once the King of Indra, is deposed by his older cousin, Tavi, during a coup and imprisoned within the palace. An uneasy relationship between them grows, and then...
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Dark 9.5%, Stylized 7.6%
The Club is a fetish visual novel with a number of puzzles. You can play the game as either a trainee mistress or a trainee maid, each of whom visit The Club and become immersed in the wonderful world of fetishism that they find there. All characters are dressed in latex, PVC or leather.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 33.9%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Female Protagonist 15.1%, Story Rich 9.8%
Inner Ashes is a first person, narrative, puzzle adventure, where the player puts himself in Henry's shoes, a forest guard diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. He has to travel through his mind to discover why his only daughter Enid disappeared from his life.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.7%, Psychological 14.8%, Story Rich 9.7%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Emotional 9.2%
A top-down 2D story-driven adventure game inspired by real-life events. Traverse and experience the life of a formerly homeless man through an interview of how he regained his sense of self by telling his past to a stray dog. Set in Bangkok, Thailand 2017.
Why similar: Psychological 20.8%, Walking Simulator 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Emotional 10.3%, Story Rich 10.1%
In Waiting is a first-person psychological horror game where you explore a haunted manor guided by Eleanor, an AI-powered ghost. Solve puzzles, uncover dark secrets, and experience true AI conversations that run 100% on your device with zero data collection.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Walking Simulator 16.5%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Psychological 9.2%, Dark 7.3%
An autopsy of a queer relationship.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.5%, LGBTQ+ 25.5%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Exploration 8.1%, Story Rich 6.3%
The only hands-on puzzle adventure guaranteed to accurately and humanely teach Socialization to Introverts, heh heh!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Walking Simulator 17.3%, Psychological 12%, Story Rich 7.5%
At first glance, your everyday life with your younger sister seems uneventful—going to school together, chatting, living side by side. But within that endless cycle of calm routines, could those seemingly insignificant actions be quietly changing your fate?
Why similar: Psychological 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Emotional 11.3%, Female Protagonist 9.7%
A short visual novel about queer love and art. Follow Maya, a once-celebrated painter now paralyzed, as she struggles to accept her new reality and its effects on her relationship. Argue with your Prefrontal Cortex, insult an art critic, befriend the elderly.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.8%, Psychological 18.6%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Female Protagonist 12.2%, Emotional 9.8%
When the world ends, who will you spend your final hours with? A visual novel for the GBA.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.9%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Female Protagonist 11.8%, Emotional 11.1%, Story Rich 9.4%
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+ 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Female Protagonist 14.8%, Story Rich 7.8%
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: LGBTQ+ 24%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Psychological 14.1%, Female Protagonist 10%, Emotional 9.3%
THOHH is a first-person narrative game in which you play a food delivery guy. Through a series of vignettes, you cross paths with the residents of a beautiful house on Holland Hill road, where you make frequent deliveries. In the wake of tragedy, something ominous looms behind their front door.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Walking Simulator 19.1%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Story Rich 10.6%, Emotional 7.8%
A yuri martial arts story set in a fictional setting. Players take on the role of a knight roaming the martial arts world, where you'll encounter exciting duels and encounters with diverse characters, all waiting for your exploration.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 32.6%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Female Protagonist 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Story Rich 7.2%
HOW WE KNOW WE'RE ALIVE is an award winning, hour long melancholy, point-and-click narrative mystery set in the bible belt of Sweden.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.7%, Walking Simulator 22.6%, Emotional 8.9%, Female Protagonist 8.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%
A mysterious plot about a film student who finds herself lost in the world of the dead, the Posthumous Lands. Alongside a purple-haired woman, Coralina must decipher Human Alchemy in this retro adventure with cinematic touches!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.6%, LGBTQ+ 17.4%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Female Protagonist 9.8%, Emotional 8%
It's 3am in your childhood home. Everyone's asleep, but you. Sneak out of your room to do what you always do - "T.W.I.R.L." - whatever that means.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.4%, Walking Simulator 16%, Psychological 11.6%, Story Rich 8.9%, Dark 8.4%
Fishbowl is a 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: Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Psychological 17.3%, LGBTQ+ 17%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Emotional 10.4%
병신같은 놈(The Butterfly Dream)은 비주얼 노벨과 어드벤처가 결합된 단편 게임입니다. 배치된 사물을 따라 상호작용하며 죄의식의 근원을 마주하세요.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Walking Simulator 19.2%, Visual Novel 16%, Psychological 14.2%, Story Rich 7.8%
Memory has weight. The departed are not gone. Step into a village drowned by flood and memory, and search for the final answer about guardianship and farewell among the shattered past.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Visual Novel 15%, Psychological 11.9%, Story Rich 7.9%
A journey through the life of a star player of a cryptic and bizarre sport. The dialogue choices you make will determine the path your life takes, and the ultimate conclusion to your story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Psychological 17.6%, Walking Simulator 15.5%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Emotional 9%
A quiet town awaits death. Two young women fall in love.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Visual Novel 16%, Female Protagonist 10.9%, Story Rich 9.5%
A short find it game that helps you make sense of a tragic accident as you uncover a piece of the story with each item found.
Why similar: Psychological 24.5%, Walking Simulator 18.8%, Female Protagonist 12.8%, Dark 11.2%, Emotional 11.2%
Messy Hearts is a pixel-art visual novel about a complicated coworker friendship. Through journal-style narration, Florence unpacks romance, trauma, and some messy boundaries in a deeply personal story of mental health and heartbreak. No choices; this is a linear narrative.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.5%, LGBTQ+ 17.9%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Psychological 13.3%, Emotional 7.8%
Wander through a secret lair. Help a young supervillain move out of his lifelong home. Think about your past, and his uncertain future. The third entry in the Violence series.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Psychological 16.7%, Story Rich 14.7%, Emotional 10%, Visual Novel 8.3%
A gloomy lesbian / yuri visual novel featuring characters based on famous Romantic poets such as Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Byron. Can you help Samantha Coleridge repair her fractured relationship with Lillian Wordsworth?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Female Protagonist 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Psychological 9.7%
THIS WORLD DESIRES YOUR DEATH. A ghost tour gone wrong leads Freya to a parallel dimension, almost designed for her. Can you beat death, and escape? A game of mystery, adventure and queer love stories for PC.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.5%, Psychological 22.1%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Female Protagonist 10.6%, Story Rich 5.8%
What does a SUPERVILLAIN do, when he is forbidden from doing anything evil for the day? WARNING: This is not the type of game where you can make meaningful choices.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 38.3%, Visual Novel 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Story Rich 10.7%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%
A story about a beautiful river that hides deadly secrets beneath its calm surface.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17%, Psychological 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Dark 9.9%
Road Trip to the End of the World is a visual novel about the death of a friendship. When Andy and her imaginary friend Fishy set off on a road trip to crash their ex-best friend’s wedding, will they know when to hit the brakes?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 29%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Female Protagonist 15.1%, Story Rich 11.4%, Emotional 11.4%
A queer mystery game about book banning. Play as Ruby (they/them), a journalism major on a surreal, after-hours adventure to investigate the disappearance of books from their college library.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Walking Simulator 14.6%, Story Rich 10%, Emotional 8.8%
Time is the only thing we can't resist. Some people and things will never be found once they are lost. In the dark, a man was walking alone. The moment when you turn back, don't forget the place where came from!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Walking Simulator 15.6%, Psychological 14.2%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Emotional 10.1%
《发现姐姐是妹控的我今后该如何是好》是一款短篇百合视觉小说，主要描述了主人公樱自从看见了那个场景之后，对姐姐态度的变化，心灵不断成长最后happy end的故事。
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 35.4%, Visual Novel 24%, Female Protagonist 16.9%, Emotional 7.6%, Story Rich 7.6%
Uncover the mystery of Thalassa, a first-person psychological drama set under the sea. Ill-fate has fallen on your former crew and friends and it’s up to you to find answers onboard the wreckage. Experience the melancholic underwater journey of human stories facing life and loss.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.1%, Psychological 19.8%, Emotional 10.4%, Atmospheric 9.5%, Story Rich 8.5%
Samael suffers from delusions. He feels lost until he encounters a priest one day. The priest is the only person in the world who makes him feel at peace. This, however, slowly turns into an obsession. Will Samael learn how to love properly or will he fall into a path of darkness? You decide.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, LGBTQ+ 21.8%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Psychological 14%, Dark 10.7%
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: Psychological 20.6%, LGBTQ+ 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Female Protagonist 8.6%
A remote mountain cabin, a raging snowstorm, and the line between reality and madness begins to blur. Make difficult choices, explore surreal worlds, and confront what waits in the dark.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Walking Simulator 19%, Psychological 14.3%, Dark 9.7%, Emotional 7.9%
