Games Like Monsterhearts: Welcome to Drowned Lake

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: Interactive Fiction 16%, LGBTQ+ 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Character Customization 10.5%

A dark fairy tale about the woods outside a small village and the monster that roams within them. Become Sage and play through to uncover the mystery when they're tossed away from everything they've ever known.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.5%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Dark Fantasy 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%

Follow the red star to the Umbral Forest and unravel the mysteries within, in this gay, romantic, dark fantasy visual novel.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Dark Fantasy 11.5%, Horror 9.7%

This year's Desire Hierarchy has begun. The stakes are now deadly. Hop into The Specter's Desire, a Visual Novel in which you play against the city's top talents to save your parents. Includes puzzling gameplay that has you tearing down arguments, hatching schemes, and revealing the truth!

Why similar: Dark Comedy 20%, Card Game 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%

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: LGBTQ+ 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Dark Fantasy 11.2%

Welcome to St Fiacre’s College for Women of Unreliable Size. Your new home. If you can survive your first night… Featuring 40,000 words of text and over 500 images, this heart-pumping visual novel journey will thrill fans of shrinking and giants alike!

Why similar: Dark Comedy 18.4%, LGBTQ+ 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Visual Novel 11.2%

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

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Lore-Rich 12.1%

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

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.3%, Card Game 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Lore-Rich 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%

TFTU: After Midnight is a dark / gothic visual novel with multiple endings. Your choices matter and will determine who stays alive and who dies. Discovering the whole truth about the murders will require more than one playthrough.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.5%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Dark Fantasy 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%

You're entangled in a royal conspiracy. A deadly game where the pieces can become friends, foes, lovers, and of course… sacrifices.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Dark Fantasy 10.7%, Lore-Rich 10%, Investigation 9.6%

A supernatural horror visual novel where vampires compete to save their eternal unlives in a high-stakes reality show.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 25.7%, LGBTQ+ 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Horror 10.1%

You've been tasked with collecting data on an alien planet. Choose between exploring the jungle tropics or navigating deep into the bioluminescent sea.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Lore-Rich 12.5%

A surprising mix of adventure and memory games, featuring RPG-inspired mechanics and immersive storytelling. Explore a crypt filled with traps, dangers, and hostile creatures. Will you uncover the crypt’s secrets, or will you become its next victim? Make strategic choices to survive.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Dark Fantasy 15.3%, Card Game 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Horror 12.8%

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+ 22.4%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Stylized 6.9%

An explorative horror point-and-click adventure game where your decisions seal the fates of your companions. Explore the world to uncover what happened at Dawnhall village. Listen to the messages in Avan's dreams to determine your choices. Become what you were born to be.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Horror 10.3%, Investigation 10.2%

DO NOT PLAY! This 8bit game is a port from a mystery source...This casual, linier, interactive story game centers around a campfire with old friends telling... tales.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 21%, 1990's 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Lore-Rich 10.4%

Your magic awakes—and so does your heart! A whimsical, text-based interactive romance novel.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Lore-Rich 11.4%, RPG 8.9%

After being invited to the biggest house party of the year, things take an unexpected turn when you summon an ancient lust demon. Navigate a bustling house party, attempting to lure unknowing party guests as sacrifices to your new god. Who knows, maybe if you do good they'll keep you?

Why similar: Dark Comedy 19.5%, 1990's 13.4%, LGBTQ+ 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%

Customize your fate in a fallen world: forge bonds and uncover secrets in a tale of power, love, and the weight of grief. Your choices define your path: how will you rise in the hierarchy of the damned?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Character Customization 10.6%

A deckbuilding narrative RPG about conflict negotiation, goats, and impending doom. Make your own goat character, navigate arguments with cards, uncover an ancient mystery, and try to save the world.

Why similar: Card Game 22.6%, LGBTQ+ 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Character Customization 11.9%

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: LGBTQ+ 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Lore-Rich 11.9%

Foul Play tells the story of a young, bright-eyed detective who is determined to succeed. Her world quickly turns upside down after she is tasked with catching a sexy, mercurial assassin. In the end, she'll need to determine how pure her conscience really is. After all, justice is subjective.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23%, Dark Comedy 17.6%, Investigation 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%

When 17 year old Sadie Finley discovers that her favorite fictional character from one of the video games she plays, Eugene Fellure, has somehow been transported to the real world, Sadie decides to embark on a journey to figure out how this happened and how the impossible could be possible.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.6%, Lore-Rich 16.1%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Investigation 10.1%, RPG 8.2%

A seasonal visual horror story! The night before Christmas, and you're tiny, trapped by a giant, malicious, man-eating elf. It's a race against time to find a path out of her workshop before she devours you all. In this illustrated, part animated narrative puzzle, your choices decide your survival.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Dark Fantasy 11%

Adult-Only Fantasy Murder Mystery Visual Novel filled with dark humor, countless deaths, despair, suspenseful twists, complex relationships, and multiple sex scenes in an exciting story!

Why similar: Dark Comedy 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Lore-Rich 10.9%, Dark Fantasy 9%

Slasher U is an 18+ character-driven RPG dating sim, set in the open-world campus of America’s Horniest Horror Movie University!

Why similar: Dark Comedy 23.9%, LGBTQ+ 19.2%, 1990's 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Horror 9%

Every choice you make brings you closer to Death. Dive into death, spirits, and your subconscious in this gothic fantasy visual novel told in six thrilling parts. (Parts 2-6 in development)

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.1%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Investigation 11.8%, Dark Fantasy 11.3%

Calamity Cait is a visual novel about the wonders and horrors of workplace romance.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.2%, Dark Comedy 20.9%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Romance 14%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%

Challenge four hot beauties and save the world from the attacks of sexy bosses in the new EmyLiveShow game!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.9%, LGBTQ+ 18.5%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, RPG 9%

Leviathan receives an order from the Fortress: infiltrate Pandemonium and eliminate Wrath, the ruthless traitor. Prove yourself, sea dragon. (Short adventure RPG / visual novel)

Why similar: Dark Comedy 24%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Visual Novel 15.7%, RPG 11.5%, Dark Fantasy 10.8%

A Chistmas themed afterstory to The Divine Speaker featuring Leos and Raen! Search for the elusive Mister Bells, spend the Winter Solstice together, and win at rock-paper-scissors against your favorite ex-assassin turned bounty hunter!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Romance 11.4%, RPG 8.1%

In this festive standalone addition to the satirical dating chatsim Killer Chat! series, journey through the serial killer server’s past, present & future to learn more about the gang and find the true meaning of Christmas. What's the worst that could happen?

Why similar: Dark Comedy 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, LGBTQ+ 14.3%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%

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: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Lore-Rich 17%, Romance 12.2%

Deliver Us From Evil: Masquerade is a short and sweet BL visual novel. Keldran and Ace are two centuries-long friends with benefits. What starts off as a fun haunted house trip soon turns sinister and If they cannot conquer their fears, they may find themselves wandering the halls forever.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 27.1%, LGBTQ+ 24.1%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Romance 10.7%

DisplaceMen is an experimental narrative game where you survive as a broke painter through art commissions. Paint with weird-ass found objects to unravel residents' mysterious pasts, change the story’s direction with observations and visual choices, and bring the forgotten Mermaid back to reality!

Why similar: Dark Comedy 28.8%, LGBTQ+ 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Mystery 7.3%

A romance-suspense visual novel set in Taishō Japan. Amnesiac actor Kotori Sakuma grapples with a dear friend's bizarre death, the awakening of his magic, and the blood ties that haunt him. As the truth unravels, shape Kotori's final choice: return to his bloodline's embrace, or pursue true freedom?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.8%, Dark Fantasy 11.9%, Visual Novel 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%, Lore-Rich 9.5%

A psychological horror story, with a spiking sense of danger and gentle melancholy. An out of this world adventure, revolving around books, memories and mortality. Along the way, perhaps you shall pick up pieces of a long forgotten heart, or some unlikely companions that you never knew you needed.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Romance 10.3%

"The Town of Nie Iromusubi", a fan-disc of the strange and eerie otherworldly BL fantasy "The Town of Nie." Weaving together extraordinary colors.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 32.8%, Visual Novel 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Romance 15%, Horror 14.4%

Spell Candle is your grief coping mechanism in a 2D romance visual novel. Take on the role of a foreign correspondent turned investigator of magical crimes to uncover the culprit behind the mysterious disappearance of a sleeping God.

Why similar: Visual Novel 14.2%, LGBTQ+ 12.4%, Romance 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Dark Fantasy 9.8%

A free drama-mystery visual novel with a modern fantasy setting. Reach out to the fourteen people trapped inside to find the truth through eighteen endings, influenced by but not exclusively bound to your own system time.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.1%, Visual Novel 22%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Mystery 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%

A point-and-click visual novel. You’re thrust into a mysterious dungeon, where your mission is to traverse it and find love amongst its inhabitants. Explore, survive and interact with characters.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Lore-Rich 12.3%, Dark Fantasy 11.2%

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+ 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Romance 9.3%

- Cannibalism X superpowers X Suspense X Original worldview - "Fried Chicken Wings Cause a Love Fire" is a BL mystery comedy long visual novel. It uses the first-person perspective with a fixed protagonist, Aris; contains elements of horror and sexual innuendo.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Dark Fantasy 11.9%, Visual Novel 9.3%

Can you survive a night in St Fiacre's at tiny size? This feature-length interactive visual novel returns to the world of Sensus Supra, with better visuals, dozens of animations, more complex puzzles and even more dangerous giantesses hunting for your blood. Every action has consequences...

Why similar: Dark Comedy 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, LGBTQ+ 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.2%

You're now the lead writer for Juno's World, a perfectly normal sitcom in which nothing strange or horrible happens, ever! Choose your scripts, decide what characters to build relationships with, and keep those audience ratings high -- or get cancelled in more ways than one! Welcome to Must See TV.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 26.7%, LGBTQ+ 16.5%, Visual Novel 12.9%, 1990's 11.5%, Romance 10.2%

The story-rich 18+ prequel to The Divine Speaker. Follow alongside Aemyl and Lucius in a two-sided story about the past and the future.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 32.4%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Romance 12.4%, Fantasy 7.7%

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 18.5%, LGBTQ+ 14.8%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Romance 11.5%

A surreal dark comedy visual novel about monster camp politics, childhood trauma, and a bribe-prone Bigfoot. Battle rival camp Wonderfang during what could be the last summer at Camp Apocalypse Blood!

Why similar: Dark Comedy 29.1%, LGBTQ+ 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%

On November 17, 1992, a small group of three developers released a video game like no other. Only available for the NEC PC-9801 computer, this was the most ambitious game the industry had ever conceived. Unfortunately, it was a sales failure and was lost in the abyss of time.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 18.8%, LGBTQ+ 15.1%, 1990's 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Visual Novel 11.1%

Killer Chat! is a satirical serial killer dating chatsim. Play as a (customisable!) writer as you pretend to be a serial killer, get inspiration for your book, fall in love and try not to call the cops through a whirlwind six months with your murderous beau of choice. What could possibly go wrong?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.9%, Dark Comedy 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Horror 9.6%

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: Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, LGBTQ+ 16.3%, Investigation 16.1%, Visual Novel 15.4%

Play as EVE, an immortal assassin cursed with the kiss of death, as she turns on her (literal) evil corporate overlords in an attempt to break free of her iron-clad contract in this LGBTQ+ dark comedy, supernatural visual novel.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 34.3%, Dark Comedy 28.6%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Romance 9.5%, RPG 8.5%

An incompetent wizard is tasked with stopping a recently awakened evil entity that just so happens to be trapped inside a (deeply suspiciously heavy) spoon. What follows is a sprawling, absurd 1990s-style point-and-click comedy adventure across bizarre fantasy realms and also North Derbyshire.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, 1990's 13.9%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%

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+ 26.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Romance 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.1%

Harlequinade is a horror otome romance visual novel about a never-ending carnival and a very death-prone college student. With the aid of 2 clowns, can you escape this timeloop?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28%, Character Customization 16.3%, Visual Novel 14%, Horror 12.8%, Dark Fantasy 10.6%

Play as Vivienne Sanssouci, a daring journalist who has been tasked to review the Ouroboros Express. She quickly notices that this is not your regular train—and a devastating secret changes her life forever, and that of the other passengers…

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, LGBTQ+ 16.9%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Dark Fantasy 11.1%

ScreamCap is a team of paranormal investigators live streaming their dives into the unknown to an audience of believers.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 22.6%, LGBTQ+ 16.5%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Investigation 10.9%, Horror 10.7%

6-episode visual novel. One day, Finn Flynn wakes up in the body of a housefly. Without the use of his voice, he'll have to enlist his prankster ex-boyfriend, and his dads, an insectophobic mad scientist and a punk rocker, to solve the mystery of his transformation, and maybe get his life back?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.8%, Dark Comedy 23%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Horror 10.6%

When you discover that the Serpent of Chaos is trying to destroy Egypt, will you stand against him, or will you help spread his eternal darkness?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Lore-Rich 13.2%, Character Customization 13%, Horror 10.8%