- #1 DIVINATION
97% matchVery Positive90% of 204 reviews2019
Dev: Mojiken
Windows · Mac
"What if you're born into this world without your permission?" DIVINATION is a very short visual novel where you act as a fortune teller in a futuristic world. Talk and listen to people's stories, then foresee their future using the runes they had drawn.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.3%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Conspiracy 15.5% ★, Philosophical 13.8%, Cyberpunk 12.6%
- #2 State of Mind
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 2,277 reviews2018
Dev: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
State of Mind is a futuristic thriller game delving into transhumanism. The game explores themes of separation, disjuncture and reunification, in a world that is torn between a dystopian material reality and a utopian virtual future.
Why similar: Futuristic 20.1%, Cyberpunk 18.6%, Sci-fi 15.9%, Story Rich 13.9%, Dystopian 13%
- #3 VIRTUAL GIRL @ WORLD’S END
96% matchVery Positive95% of 86 reviews2025
Dev: 株式会社ヘッドロックPub: Bushiroad Inc.
Windows
The story is set in future Tokyo, where human’s endless desires have consumed finite resources. In this world that is gradually approaching its end, the streamer girls continue to sing, while embracing dreams and despair in their hearts...
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.8%, Text-Based 15.8%, Cyberpunk 14.3%, Dystopian 12.8%, Futuristic 12.5%
- #4 2064: Read Only Memories
95% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,665 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: Comic Book 22.4%, Visual Novel 21.7%, Cyberpunk 17.3%, Futuristic 11.9%, Story Rich 11%
- #5 BatteryNote
93% matchVery Positive100% of 203 reviews2025
Dev: 72studioPub: room6
Windows · Mac
BatteryNote is a multi-ending sci-fi adventure visual novel game. You can recharge three robots with limited lifespans, bringing them back to life. Interact with them through conversations or experiment by applying high voltage. How they spend their final moments is entirely up to you.
Why similar: Visual Novel 28%, Philosophical 19.3%, Story Rich 16.6%, Text-Based 14.8%, Sci-fi 13.6%
- #6 Your Future Self
94% matchVery Positive81% of 95 reviews2019
Dev: Contortionist Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.
Why similar: Text-Based 29.2%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Adventure 15.6%, Dystopian 12.2%, Story Rich 10.2%
- #7 FORECLOSED
94% matchMixed69% of 137 reviews2021
Dev: Antab StudioPub: Silver Lining Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
FORECLOSED is a narrative-driven action-adventure set in a Cyberpunk world filled with action, suspense, and experimental augmentations. Follow the story of Evan Kapnos in this sleek comic book styled game as he unravels the conspiracy behind his identity foreclosure. Who is responsible and why?
Why similar: Comic Book 28.1%, Futuristic 19.4%, Story Rich 11.9%, Sci-fi 11.8%, Dystopian 11.1%
- #8 OMNIMUS
92% matchVery Positive87% of 55 reviews2019
Dev: Angry gamesPub: Total
Windows · Mac · Linux
Omnimus. Welcome to the future! A visual novel about a daring experiment.
Why similar: Visual Novel 34.5%, Adventure 28.1%, Sci-fi 14.4%, Story Rich 13.6%, Indie 8%
- #9 VOCÊ É UM DEFUNTO MECÂNICO
91% matchVery Positive97% of 410 reviews2022
Dev: Virgula LealPub: Jogo Joia
Windows · Mac · Linux
Baleado até a morte, você é um defunto mecânico se lembrando de como morreu, e das vidas torturadas que agora ficam para trás. Uma aventura em prosa para 20 minutos de pavor existencial no presente pós-singularidade.
Why similar: Text-Based 24%, Visual Novel 18%, Cyberpunk 16.8%, Political 15.4% ★, Philosophical 10.5%
- #10 Nobody Nowhere
90% matchVery Positive94% of 187 reviews2025
Dev: 深渊标记 Tag:hadal
Windows
a side-scrolling, story-driven text adventure game in pixel art. The story is set in 2079, when a Replicant awakens in a lab facility amidst a life-or-death situation. The replicant aid agency tries to rescue him but fails. In the process they stumble on the real secret of the Replicant project...
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.9%, Text-Based 25.9%, Story Rich 15.9%, Sci-fi 14.6%, Adventure 10.1%
- #11 The Maker's Eden
91% matchMixed69% of 119 reviews2014
Dev: Screwy Lightbulb
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 61%
The Maker's Eden is a first-person hypertext adventure game presented in the style of a motion comic. You play a character trying to discover what their predefined purpose is, in a science fiction/noir inspired world filled with androids, flying cars and an early 20th century vibe.
Why similar: Adventure 53.1%, Cyberpunk 46.9%
- #12 Will Die Alone
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 67 reviews2022
Dev: Arianna Ravioli
Windows · Mac
Some memories aren't meant to stay. We are our memories and our experiences. What happens if you delete some of them? If you change your past and, thus, your future?
Why similar: Text-Based 29.5%, Visual Novel 21.5%, Political 19.6% ★, Dystopian 11.8%, Story Rich 10.9%
- #13 Silicon Dreams | cyberpunk interrogation
89% matchVery Positive94% of 255 reviews2021
Dev: James PattonPub: Clockwork Bird
Windows · Mac · Linux
It’s 2065, and you are an interrogator-model android tasked with rooting out deviants among your own kind. You must probe for lies, monitor and exploit emotional spikes, earn the trust of your subjects, and make the final call: release, or destroy?
Why similar: Cyberpunk 17.4%, Political 15.5% ★, Visual Novel 14.6%, Story Rich 12.5%, Futuristic 12.3%
- #14 Sentience: The Android's Tale
87% matchVery Positive84% of 350 reviews2017
Dev: Pilgrim AdventuresPub: GrabTheGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
You can remember nothing before this moment. Your existence begins with a keystroke followed by the flick of a switch. Electrical power streams into your neural network, and you are alive.
Why similar: Futuristic 24.4%, Cyberpunk 17.3%, Sci-fi 16.7%, Story Rich 15.3%, Adventure 11.4%
- #15 Friendsim 2
86% matchVery Positive88% of 103 reviews2022
Dev: Studio June
Windows · Mac
In this episodic visual novel, follow the adventures of MSPA Reader as they return to Alternia once more to save their friends... and realize that nothing is as it seems.
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.7%, Story Rich 13.2%, Dystopian 12.4%, Sci-fi 11.8%, Cyberpunk 10.2%
- #16 Cyber City 2157: The Visual Novel
88% 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: Visual Novel 34.3%, Adventure 24.8%, Cyberpunk 22.6%, Story Rich 11.2%, Indie 3.4%
- #17 natsuno-kanata - beyond the summer
84% matchVery Positive95% of 899 reviews2022
Dev: Kazuhide Oka
Windows · Mac
── In the summer of the world that has ended, the girl travels aimlessly. "natsuno-kanata - beyond the summer" is a text adventure game that depicts girls traveling in apocalypse. Through talking to the girls, we get to know them and approach the mysteries of the world ──
Why similar: Visual Novel 33.8%, Text-Based 30.9%, Sci-fi 10.6%, Story Rich 10.4%, Adventure 9.2%
- #18 Twilight Town: A Cyberpunk Day In Life
86% matchVery Positive86% of 166 reviews2021
Dev: Sigyaad Team
Windows
Twilight Town: A Cyberpunk Day In Life is a chill, linear visual novel set in an ambient yet melancholic town in the distant future. Play as Ikuro and work with all kinds of shady figures to take care of your personal robot companion you're so hopelessly in love with.
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.6%, Cyberpunk 26.2%, Dystopian 16.1%, Futuristic 13.3%, Story Rich 12.8%
- #19 Subsurface Circular
85% matchVery Positive94% of 1,931 reviews2017
Dev: Bithell Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 69%
When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.8%, Visual Novel 21.5%, Philosophical 10.6%, Cyberpunk 10%, Futuristic 10%
- #20 Anamnesia - part 1: am i my body?
84% matchVery Positive94% of 89 reviews2024
Dev: Simon Herbig
Windows · Mac
Sci-Fi Mystery Visual Novel. Nine people are trapped in an underground research facility, forced to play a game of life and death. Check your log to find the truth that connects those apparent strangers - if you even want to, that is.
Why similar: Visual Novel 32.3%, Philosophical 19.7%, Sci-fi 14.9%, Story Rich 14.5%, Futuristic 11.6%
- #21 Citizen Sleeper
82% matchVery Positive93% of 10,020 reviews2022
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.6%, Cyberpunk 16.6%, Dystopian 14.8%, Futuristic 14.7%, Story Rich 11.3%
- #22 Elysium
82% matchVery Positive90% of 77 reviews2025
Dev: YvelRevo
Windows
In this cyberpunk-themed linear visual novel, you take on the role of Jill the bartender during a 14-day time loop. While crafting drinks for customers is part of your job, the true challenge lies in unraveling the dark secrets hidden beneath this neon-lit world.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.4%, Comic Book 24.4%, Visual Novel 24.4%, Futuristic 12.8%, Cyberpunk 8.2%
- #23 NeuroNet: Mendax Proxy
83% matchVery Positive82% of 66 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: Text-Based 21.3%, Visual Novel 20.8%, Futuristic 15.4%, Cyberpunk 14.9%, Story Rich 10.6%
- #24 RGB GlitchGazer
80% matchVery Positive98% of 94 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: Visual Novel 32.5%, Futuristic 17.8%, Philosophical 16.9%, Sci-fi 12.5%, Adventure 10.1%
- #25 Last Broadcast
81% matchMostly Positive80% of 98 reviews2023
Dev: The Disc JockeysPub: USC Games
Windows
An experimental narrative game set at a radio station at the end of the world. Host your last show as the sun turns red and the world burns down.
Why similar: Story Rich 62.4%, Adventure 35.9%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #26 Fallstreak: Requiem for my Homeland
81% matchVery Positive98% of 50 reviews2020
Dev: Centicerise Productions
Windows · Mac · Linux
A death march to the end of the world. Can humanity's lost future be reclaimed?
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.1%, Philosophical 16%, Story Rich 15.6%, Sci-fi 13.7%, Futuristic 13.2%
- #27 Don't Let Me Fade
78% matchVery Positive99% of 131 reviews2025
Dev: AinkOink
Windows
Don't Let Me Fade is an interactive adventure about memory, identity, and loss. Piece together fragments of a life - even if a simple teddy bear is the last symbol of connection to oneself in a world without time.
Why similar: Visual Novel 34.7%, Text-Based 22.9%, Adventure 20.5%, Story Rich 10.4%, Sci-fi 4.8%
- #28 Replicomica
79% matchVery Positive98% of 57 reviews2025
Dev: enyevgPub: Look Who’s Talking Publishing
Windows · Mac
A short, atmospheric experience set inside a handcrafted dream. You are a small, solitary citizen drifting through augmented memories. Boot up your LonelyOS and let the robots guide you.
Why similar: Comic Book 35.3%, Futuristic 19.8%, Cyberpunk 18.1%, Story Rich 9.9%, Adventure 9.7%
- #29 Neo Cab
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,815 reviews2019
Dev: Chance AgencyPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A visual novel about emotional survival in an automated world. Play as Lina, the last human cab driver. It’s your first night driving the lonely streets of Los Ojos, and your best friend has just disappeared. Stay on the road. Stay on the search. Stay human.
Why similar: Comic Book 23.5%, Visual Novel 22.6%, Cyberpunk 17.1%, Futuristic 11.8%, Story Rich 10.8%
- #30 The Red Strings Club
78% matchVery Positive94% of 13,919 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 34%, Story Rich 19%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Philosophical 8.3%, Dystopian 7.6%
- #31 Andromeda Six
77% matchVery Positive97% of 74 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: Visual Novel 35%, Text-Based 25.7%, Cyberpunk 20.7%, Story Rich 11.4%, Colorful 4.3%
- #32 Nobody Wants to Die
75% matchVery Positive84% of 6,806 reviews2024
Dev: Critical Hit GamesPub: PLAION
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Lose yourself in the dystopian world of New York, 2329; immortality comes at a price that someone has to pay. In this interactive noir story, lead the investigation using advanced technology, as Detective James Karra who risks it all in pursuit of a serial killer targeting the city’s elite.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 27.8%, Philosophical 27.4%, Dystopian 27.2%, Story Rich 17.6%
- #33 End of Lines
77% matchVery Positive93% of 70 reviews2023
Dev: Nova-box
Windows · Mac · Linux
Travel across landscapes devastated by a catastrophic climate meltdown, following a small family in search of somewhere habitable. With limited supplies and facing potential death at every turn, your choices will decide their fate. Will they manage to settle down?
Why similar: Visual Novel 32.2%, Comic Book 26.6%, Dystopian 18.3%, Story Rich 15.6%, Adventure 4.4%
- #34 BlightFog
76% matchVery Positive87% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: Zakroutil
Windows
Journey across a dying world. Manage your resources. Build relationships with anthropomorphic characters. Find a new home or become a fuel drinking madman.
Why similar: Visual Novel 50.4%, Story Rich 29.4%, Sci-fi 19.1%, Singleplayer 1%
- #35 Neon Hearts City
76% matchVery Positive85% of 53 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: Cyberpunk 27.4%, Story Rich 23.7%, Adventure 20.4%, Colorful 11.7%, Sci-fi 9.8%
- #36 Lightracer: For Judge
74% matchVery Positive94% of 479 reviews2025
Dev: Smartmelon Games
Windows
In a dystopian future, as The Judge with immense power, you journey through space to find hope in a divided society. This sci-fi adventure explores hope amidst adversity.
Why similar: Visual Novel 35.3%, Dystopian 20.6%, Cyberpunk 18.4%, Sci-fi 14.2%, Adventure 10.6%
- #37 Minds Beneath Us
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,730 reviews2024
Dev: BearBoneStudio
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22%, Cyberpunk 17.1%, Dystopian 15.9%, Philosophical 15.7%, Story Rich 11.6%
- #38 No More Money - Season 1
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 891 reviews2022
Dev: RoyalCandy
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 55%
In this Visual Novel you play the role of a 20 years old guy, who just moved to another city where he starts a new life. Be careful because every choice matters and you can either become the hero of the story or the villain. The choice is yours.
Why similar: Visual Novel 70.2%, Story Rich 20.9%, Adventure 5.8%, Indie 2%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #39 Au Revoir
73% matchVery Positive95% of 118 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: Text-Based 28.6%, Cyberpunk 22.2%, Story Rich 15.2%, Sci-fi 12.9%, Futuristic 11.2%
- #40 Countdown
74% matchVery Positive83% of 63 reviews2024
Dev: duskstudio
Windows
Countdown is a short visual novel that tells the story of an ordinary individual's journey through their thoughts and emotions as their life approaches its end. The plot includes critiques and discussions of social issues such as life, family, the workplace, and the healthcare system.
Why similar: Visual Novel 58.4%, Comic Book 19.1%, Text-Based 14.8%, Indie 5%, 2D 1.7%
- #41 Mini Mini Golf Golf
73% matchVery Positive86% of 64 reviews2024
Dev: Three More Years
Windows · Mac · Linux
Mini Mini Golf Golf is an indie storytelling experience that goes beyond the lanes of the here and now into distant memories of a future planetary collapse. Destabilize the present and plunge into a neon psychohistory of a bizarre entity in distress. This is not a game about minigolf.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.5%, Political 19.1% ★, Cyberpunk 15.6%, Dystopian 14.6%, Story Rich 11.8%
- #42 PEPPERED: an existential platformer
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 660 reviews2025
Dev: Mostly Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
An existential platformer where Doomsday is just around the corner. Save the world or become an eternal corporate slave for the God of Death. Choices matter. Or do they? Goof around and find out.
Why similar: Philosophical 38.5%, Dystopian 33%, Story Rich 26.1%, Singleplayer 2.4%
- #43 Komorebi
72% matchVery Positive93% of 286 reviews2023
Dev: Klace
Windows
In a society plagued by visions of the future, a group of friends attempt to find their own way in a predestined life. This isn't easy, however, when they live under the Argus Corporation - a superpower dedicated to maintaining social order. A fully voice acted dystopic story/dating-sim. Play today!
Why similar: Comic Book 40.7%, Visual Novel 38%, Story Rich 18.3%, 2D 3%
- #44 The Dearest Person
70% matchVery Positive94% of 631 reviews2024
Dev: house.opposite
Windows · Mac · Linux
A visual novel about what it means to be human. A story about loneliness, self-identification, and the meaning of existence.
Why similar: Text-Based 29.3%, Visual Novel 28.5%, Philosophical 25.2%, Cyberpunk 14.4%, 2D 2.6%
- #45 ENDLING
70% matchVery Positive88% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Team HumansPub: TelePresent Games
Windows · Mac
Live the perfect day, break the cycle, and discover the truth about yourself in this short, quirky sci-fi mystery about freedom, choice, and loneliness.
Why similar: Philosophical 51.8%, Sci-fi 24.9%, Adventure 13.5%, Futuristic 4.8%, Story Rich 3.7%
- #46 Trinoline All Ages Version
73% matchVery Positive89% of 156 reviews2019
Dev: minoriPub: MangaGamer
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 26.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
When tragedy sparks the advancement of science, a sentient android is created. Now, in this heart-wrenching, romantic, and beautiful visual novel, you will explore whether or not it's possible for man and machine to truly love each other.
Why similar: Visual Novel 32.1%, Text-Based 25.6%, Story Rich 15.4%, Sci-fi 10.6%, Cyberpunk 9.2%
- #47 PROTOTYPE原型
71% matchVery Positive83% of 162 reviews2023
Dev: Veronika OrfeevaPub: Nikita Kryukov
Windows
A cinematic techno-thriller about the fate of the intermediate links of progress.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.6%, Cyberpunk 22.2%, Futuristic 17.5%, Dystopian 16.7%, Sci-fi 14%
- #48 End Transmission?
70% matchVery Positive83% of 138 reviews2025
Dev: Team Tall Trees
Windows
If the world was ending, how would you spend your final days? Explore a narrative management game set shortly before the end of the world, about enjoying the time you have left. Play music, take calls, and help the town face the challenges of saying goodbye to those closest to them.
Why similar: Story Rich 67.7%, Colorful 29.5%, Indie 1.7%, Singleplayer 1%
- #49 My Protogen Engineer ⚙️
69% matchVery Positive97% of 232 reviews2024
Dev: Dirty Fox Games
Windows
You've almost died, you lost your body. Gladly, you were saved by your old friend Xena, a genius engineer who lives on a desolate planet. Now it's time to recover and find a new goal in your life!
Why similar: Cyberpunk 40.8%, Adventure 24.8%, Sci-fi 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Story Rich 4.7%
- #50 CYBER EMOJI TALE 2099
71% matchVery Positive88% of 112 reviews2021
Dev: MICROCHELIK5000
Windows
CYBER EMOJI TALE 2099 is a classic RPG with elements of a graphic novel, set in an open rail world with a system of hardcore real-time battles, in the universe of the near future.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.4%, Cyberpunk 19.6%, Futuristic 19.6%, Story Rich 12.2%, Sci-fi 12.1%
- #51 One's Own Exile
66% matchVery Positive100% of 448 reviews2025
Dev: Updog Software
Windows
Follow Sybil in her pursuit for survival, having to sacrifice everything - her culture, her identity, her values - to achieve a single objective: escape from a place that is constantly trying to kill her. A short game about persecution and identity.
Why similar: Visual Novel 38.7%, Story Rich 23.6%, Dystopian 19.3%, Adventure 16.2%, 2D 1.2%
- #52 non-binary
68% matchVery Positive94% of 296 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: Visual Novel 42.1%, Text-Based 29.7%, Story Rich 15%, Political 9.8% ★, 2D 2.7%
- #53 Imitosis
66% matchVery Positive98% of 204 reviews2024
Dev: One Over Games
Windows
A free 5-minute visual novel. A security concern demands your attention.
Why similar: Visual Novel 52.1%, Sci-fi 18.8%, Adventure 13.5%, Futuristic 10.9%, Indie 3.2%
- #54 Ultreïa: Prologue
69% matchVery Positive96% of 55 reviews2021
Dev: Olivier De Rop
Windows
A little robot becomes a pilgrim and crosses a wild post-apocalyptic world to find the meaning of life.
Why similar: Story Rich 49.9%, Adventure 38.1%, Indie 7.4%, Singleplayer 4.6%
- #55 Everything Ends In 0
66% matchVery Positive94% of 160 reviews2024
Dev: findaeden
Windows
The world ends in 1 hour. It can't be saved. Wanna chat?
Why similar: Visual Novel 38.7%, Text-Based 29.6%, Philosophical 28.2%, 2D 3.4%
- #56 Primordia
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,401 reviews2012
Dev: Wormwood StudiosPub: Wadjet Eye Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Life has ceased. Man is but a myth. And now, even the machines have begun to fail. Lead Horatio Nullbuilt and his sarcastic sidekick Crispin on a journey through the crumbling world of Primordia, facing malfunctioning robots, ancient secrets, and an implacable, power-hungry foe.
Why similar: Sci-fi 27.1%, Cyberpunk 19.6%, Adventure 18.1%, Story Rich 15.6%, Dystopian 13.3%
- #57 Don't Get Your Hopes Up
65% matchVery Positive97% of 61 reviews2025
Dev: Krish Raghav
Windows · Mac · Linux
You're looking for a new apartment in Amsterdam. Your once-confident search is morphing into panic. Nothing is available. Anything will do. ANYTHING.
Why similar: Comic Book 32.8%, Visual Novel 23.9%, Text-Based 21.9%, Philosophical 12.4%, Adventure 8.8%
- #58 Nocturne: Prelude
66% matchVery Positive97% of 399 reviews2020
Dev: Pracy Studios
Windows
The afterlife is now digital. Discover that eternal life comes with sacrifice in the first chapter of a genre-defying RPG with unique rhythm combat.
Why similar: Philosophical 31%, Dystopian 28.7%, Story Rich 23.7%, Colorful 11.8%, 2D 4.8%
- #59 Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
62% matchVery Positive92% of 2,273 reviews2025
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A dice-driven RPG, in a human and heartfelt sci-fi world. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head and no memory of your past. Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.5%, Cyberpunk 18.6%, Dystopian 15.4%, Futuristic 13.3%, Story Rich 12.6%
- #60 Humanity Must Perish
68% matchVery Positive81% of 271 reviews2017
Dev: Zetsubou
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 30%
Humanity Must Perish is a short, comedic visual novel in which the fate of humanity is placed in the hands of a witty, pessimistic android.
Why similar: Visual Novel 89.3%, Indie 10.7%