- #1 Once Again
96% matchVery Positive91% of 1,001 reviews2022
Dev: RB Wolf DesignPub: RB Wolf Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 61.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Make up for lost time with Once Again, If you could travel through time, who’s the first person you’d meet? An interactive story about a boy who spends his summers wandering between past and present... After meeting her, summer will never be the same again...Who is she, and what journey awaits you?
Why similar: Adventure 54.1%, Indie 45.9%
- #2 Once10
97% matchVery Positive82% of 104 reviews2019
Dev: JingtuStudio
Windows · Mac
This is a visual novel about 60 minutes in length, telling a story of memories.he visual novel "Once10" is a story which will recall the experience of many individuals.
Why similar: Adventure 56.7%, Indie 43.3%
- #3 Secret in Story
96% matchMixed69% of 114 reviews2017
Dev: Naivus Luo
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Accompanied by beautiful piano music, you begin to experience a wonderful love journey. There is no dialogue in the story, only pictures intertwined with montage techniques. Players need to unlock each puzzle to open every door of memory, to find the youth that we have been missing.
Why similar: Indie 59.2%, Adventure 40.8%
- #4 Memory Note
95% matchVery Positive95% of 73 reviews2020
Dev: CupcakeTime TeamPub: Phoenix_co
Windows · Mac · Linux
Memory note is a slice-of-life visual novel with meaningful player choices, several endings to explore, and a story that will touch your heart.
Why similar: Adventure 54%, Indie 46%
- #5 Gone Fireflies
94% matchVery Positive85% of 52 reviews2018
Dev: Quiet Bay Studio
Windows
A short story-driven experience about love, loss, and the choices we make.
Why similar: Adventure 57.1%, Indie 42.9%
- #6 Memoir
93% matchVery Positive97% of 272 reviews2022
Dev: 7757
Windows
A short memoir of first love.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #7 Home
91% matchVery Positive100% of 127 reviews2025
Dev: Mr.Spoon
Windows
A game about the short journey of a boy who left home. Experience a dense story in around 2 hours, along with rhythm gameplay and music puzzles. Enjoy live acoustic sounds and a story that feels like a musical film!
Why similar: Adventure 57%, Indie 43%
- #8 旧手表 - Old Watch
94% matchVery Positive85% of 676 reviews2017
Dev: 灰烬天国
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
This is an Visual Novel game. It's a story about time leap.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #9 Remember When
92% matchVery Positive85% of 68 reviews2021
Dev: Arrow Games
Windows
The story follows a phone call between Noah and his wife, Sarah as they recall pivotal moments in their relationship. Peer into Noah's memories and relive the couple's happiest moments through choice based dialogue, a unique art-style, and an original soundtrack in this fully voice acted experience.
Why similar: Adventure 72.8%, Indie 27.2%
- #10 Memories Off Sousou ~Not always true~
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 114 reviews2025
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
かけがえのない想いを見つけた、その先に――
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #11 Little Red Lie
91% matchVery Positive84% of 135 reviews2017
Dev: WZOGI
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
A contemporary adventure game about debt, family, and the truth about honesty.
Why similar: Adventure 54.6%, Indie 45.4%
- #12 Monologue: Winter melancholy
87% matchVery Positive83% of 76 reviews2023
Dev: ProjectKukuevo
Windows · Mac · Linux
In this short but profound story, you will discover that the New Year is not only fun, but also a time for self-reflection. Immerse yourself in an emotional journey that will leave you thoughtful and perhaps with a new perspective on the meaning of this holiday.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #13 My New Memories
88% matchVery Positive83% of 459 reviews2021
Dev: Killer7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Memories...One of the most important things in our lives. But what happens if you forget who you are? If you don't remember anything? Then you can only hope that the people that do know who you are help you out...This is your journey...On your way to finding new memories...
Why similar: Adventure 60.5%, Indie 39.5%
- #14 Retention
90% matchMostly Negative35% of 702 reviews2015
Dev: Sometimes You
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
This game is about a person who kept running through his life, never looking back at the past. Once during a trip, he gets into trouble. Now he's lying on the cold ground, buried beneath his bicycle. Slides of various moments fly through his head.
Why similar: Adventure 54.7%, Indie 45.3%
- #15 One Last Chance
89% matchMixed68% of 87 reviews2016
Dev: Last Lotus
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Do you remember that high school crush you never confessed your love to? Do you ever wonder what could have been if things had gone different back then? This short Visual Novel/Dating Sim explores those questions that we constantly ask ourselves.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #16 memories
84% matchVery Positive94% of 1,515 reviews2023
Dev: guiyyuPub: Spookulele Games
Windows · Mac
memories is a sapphic visual novel dress-up game where clothes are linked to painful memories of a failed relationship.
Why similar: Indie 51.2%, Adventure 48.8%
- #17 Forgotten Fields
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 101 reviews2021
Dev: Frostwood InteractivePub: Dino Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Forgotten Fields is a game about yearning and nostalgia. Play as Sid - a struggling writer who travels back to his childhood home one last time before it's sold off. Visit old friends, relive memories and play through sections of Sid's book in this warm game about the passage of time.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #18 My Dream is a Lost Memory
85% matchVery Positive90% of 241 reviews2022
Dev: LeJunesArt
Windows
My dream is a Lost Memory is a short interactive story about having Déjà vu, realizing that this Déjà vu came to you because of a dream, and then wondering if that dream is actually a memory. It's a story about work, limitations and self-respect.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #19 My Camp of Memories: Episode 1
83% matchVery Positive90% of 99 reviews2023
Dev: Daniil Tarasau
Windows · Mac
Visual novel in the genre of romance and adventure. You are eighteen years old, and you have just entered the last stage of education. However, strange fragments of memories, notes and a series of events say that it will not work out to study calmly. The path you take is entirely in your hands.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #20 Once upon a time
86% matchMostly Negative40% of 63 reviews2017
Dev: Bruno MARTIOL
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 35%
« Once Upon A Time » is an adventure game in which a young woman, finds a magic book and is instantly teleported inside. Each chapter of the book is one single tale in which you will have to solve riddles in fairy tale designed settings. Magic and nature will be friends and foes.
Why similar: Adventure 55.6%, Indie 44.4%
- #21 Some Goodbyes We Made
80% matchVery Positive98% of 180 reviews2024
Dev: Safe Flight Games
Windows · Mac
I have some memories of saying goodbye that I don't want to forget, so I turned them into 11 minigames and backed them up in this collection.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #22 Love in the distance
84% matchMixed66% of 334 reviews2021
Dev: Level-Buster Studio
Windows
A word adventure game based on a long-distance relationship. On high school and college campuses, pick up memories that belong only to that time. Ideal and reality, if we can chose it again, can we not have regrets?
Why similar: Indie 72%, Adventure 28%
- #23 Young Hearts
79% matchVery Positive93% of 91 reviews2024
Dev: Sky SeekersPub: Evening Studio
Windows
‘Young Hearts’ is a visual novel in the genres of romance and slice of life, telling stories about the everyday life of a student company living in a warm southern town: stories about their secrets, dreams, love, their problems and ghosts of the past…
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #24 Lingering Fragrance
81% matchVery Positive92% of 596 reviews2018
Dev: BLESTWORKS
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
We walk together, play together, and do everything together. This is our last trip, our last memory. It is a short visual novel contains three story lines, after main story the other two will be unlocked. Which one is your side of story?
Why similar: Adventure 51%, Indie 49%
- #25 WhiTaers: Gongren Edition
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 50 reviews2019
Dev: JingtuStudio
Windows · Mac
《WhiTaers: Gongren Edition》是一个15分钟短片视觉小说。《WhiTaers: Gongren Edition》不同于《WhiTaers》,采用全新剧本讲述旅途的故事。 《WhiTaers: Gongren Edition》将采用全新的剧本,讲述一个令人耳目一新的故事。无论您身处何方,希望这部作品在寒冷的季节里能够在您的心中带来一丝温暖。
Why similar: Adventure 56.7%, Indie 43.3%
- #26 The Raintime
82% matchMostly Positive70% of 54 reviews2020
Dev: socah developmentPub: socah
Windows · Mac · Linux
Delve into a troubled student's mind as his grip on reality unravels . . .
Why similar: Adventure 54.8%, Indie 45.2%
- #27 停留此刻 Stay in the moment
79% matchVery Positive84% of 116 reviews2022
Dev: 遇见咖啡厅
Windows
《停留此刻》是一款单线路的短篇视觉小说,讲述了白小夕与律晓文的师生之间,因为一本诗集所引发的互相改变与和解的故事
Why similar: Adventure 69.9%, Indie 30.1%
- #28 Home is Where One Starts...
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 712 reviews2015
Dev: David Wehle
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Home is Where One Starts... is a short, first-person exploration game in the same vein as Dear Esther or Gone Home. It’s a story about childhood, hope, and the miracle of memory. You play as a little girl from a broken home somewhere in the American South.
Why similar: Adventure 56.1%, Indie 43.9%
- #29 Until Then
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 15,382 reviews2024
Dev: Polychroma GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows · Linux
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: Adventure 100%
- #30 Sand Castle
77% matchVery Positive94% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Alice NowakPub: Unusual Meaning
Windows · Mac · Linux
A date on the beach, small talk, a little bit of nostalgia and an important decision. All of that taking place to the accompaniment of the summer breeze.
Why similar: Adventure 50.1%, Indie 49.9%
- #31 Making Memories
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 57 reviews2023
Dev: Kvitravn Tales
Windows · Mac · Linux
A Visual novel made from the heart. Experience, and expect the "Mature" in Maturity, A story about Sex, Romance, friendship, healing, and moving on. Made to put a smile on one's face.
- #32 Aeon on Mosaic: Anemone 时间碎片:奇迹
77% matchVery Positive93% of 86 reviews2020
Dev: Fantasia Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Five stories, a life. In an accident, the man named "Miracle" met the girl he hit, and the trajectory of his life has changed since then. Ten years, in the scattered fragments of time, witness together his precious memories.
Why similar: Adventure 78.4%, Indie 21.6%
- #33 我在终点线等你
74% matchVery Positive92% of 180 reviews2023
Dev: DreaMory
Windows
一个讲述少年少女勇敢踏出追梦第一步的青春日常系故事。
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #34 Tricolour Lovestory
76% matchVery Positive81% of 28,032 reviews2017
Dev: HL-GalgamePub: SakuraGame
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 48.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Time flies and never comes back. But with an incredible 1-million-word script and 100+ original CGs, this game will take you back to when you were young, simple and pure. Go and get the love of your life back, start something new, or end everything in flame, that's for you to decide!
Why similar: Indie 53.9%, Adventure 46.1%
- #35 Rabbit Story
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 123 reviews2017
Dev: Slava Bushuev
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Rabbit Story is an adventure game that offers a unique play experience: simple in controls and appealing to feelings. Its dramatic plot tells the player about relationship breakup and struggles, doubts and fears related to it.
Why similar: Adventure 56.2%, Indie 43.8%
- #36 ef - the first tale. (All Ages)
74% matchVery Positive96% of 189 reviews2019
Dev: minoriPub: MangaGamer
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 286.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
What starts with a conversation between two long lost friends spills out into a captivating visual novel about four youths struggling to pursue their dreams and find their place in the world as love complicates everything.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #37 Campus Notes - forget me not.
75% matchVery Positive88% of 72 reviews2016
Dev: 4th clusterPub: Dogenzaka Lab
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A novel game set in the University of Tsukuba. Play as Yuta Kiriha and join the group "Bertha's Knights" to solve a mysterious case of being forgotten every day.
Why similar: Adventure 54.4%, Indie 45.6%
- #38 Growing Up
71% matchVery Positive88% of 3,558 reviews2021
Dev: Vile Monarch
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
This is the story of your life. Experience the entire journey from toddler to adulthood. Go to schools, learn new things, meet new friends, and have wild adventures! Every choice you make will influence your future career, and decide who your romantic partner will be. Who will you become?
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #39 Invisible Mind
75% matchMixed78% of 456 reviews2016
Dev: VGstudio
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Go on a trip around the worlds created by your own mind and learn yourself.
Why similar: Indie 60.2%, Adventure 39.8%
- #40 Before I Forget
72% matchVery Positive89% of 205 reviews2020
Dev: 3-Fold Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
A woman alone in a house. A mystery and a love story. Explore the present to uncover the past, in a short story of love and loss and a life well-lived. A narrative exploration game that examines a world where memories are constantly fading and jumbled.
Why similar: Adventure 52.6%, Indie 47.4%
- #41 Don't Let Me Fade
67% matchVery Positive99% of 127 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: Adventure 73.3%, Indie 26.7%
- #42 Before Your Eyes
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 22,221 reviews2021
Dev: GoodbyeWorld GamesPub: Skybound Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Embark on an emotional first-person narrative adventure where you control the story—and affect its outcomes—with your real-life blinks. With this innovative technique you will fully immerse yourself in a world of memories, both joyous and heartbreaking, as your whole life flashes before your eyes.
Why similar: Indie 55.4%, Adventure 44.6%
- #43 Sunset's Ashes
73% matchVery Positive88% of 161 reviews2016
Dev: Fifth One
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 27%
Experience the short story of Alex and Nic as they share memories with each other while climbing a mountain together for the first time. For years, Alex has been going for climbs, and trying to get Nic to join. It’s a chance for them to remember their lives together and know why this climb is so important.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #44 Earthshine
72% matchVery Positive89% of 65 reviews2019
Dev: ElleivPub: Phoenix_co
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore a deeply emotional story about love and sacrifice, and the hope that exists in us all.
Why similar: Adventure 57%, Indie 43%
- #45 Adabana Odd Tales
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,033 reviews2020
Dev: Liar-softPub: ANIPLEX.EXE
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 52.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
"This is a tale of 'flowers' that never bloom." Shirohime, a girl who has lost her memory, and Kurofude, a mysterious boy, traverse through classic Japanese fairy tales within the land of Adabana, a realm of illustrated books. What awaits them after they mend the distorted tales?
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #46 十五
69% matchVery Positive94% of 64 reviews2023
Dev: 有杕之杜
Windows
This is a plot exploration game set in the 1990s. In the game, you will go back to the age of 15, make up for those regrets and mistakes, rewrite our story and destiny, and explore different life and destination!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #47 TREE
70% matchVery Positive93% of 2,301 reviews2018
Dev: The Strangers
Windows
TREE tells a story of a relationship between a boy and his tree. What starts off as a simple connection, over time it grows into something deeper.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #48 unWorded
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 51 reviews2017
Dev: Bento StudioPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac
unWorded is an innovative Narrative Puzzle Game where everything is built from letters. Use your imagination to create objects by assembling letters together and discover the story of a writer hospitalized after a serious accident...
Why similar: Adventure 54.5%, Indie 45.5%
- #49 SnowNight
70% matchVery Positive92% of 394 reviews2018
Dev: Hollowings
Windows
This is a small, warm story that happened in the winter. Two people who met by chance, because of each other's existence, and then felt more past that had not been deliberately remembered - After telling the story, I finally ushered in the day when the first snow fell.
Why similar: Adventure 55.6%, Indie 44.4%
- #50 Actual Sunlight
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 611 reviews2014
Dev: WZOGI
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
A short interactive story about love, depression and the corporation.
Why similar: Indie 52.6%, Adventure 47.4%
- #51 To the Moon
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 84,848 reviews2012
Dev: Freebird Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A story-driven experience about two doctors traversing backwards through a dying man's memories to artificially fulfill his last wish.
Why similar: Indie 61%, Adventure 39%
- #52 A Memoir Blue
67% matchVery Positive85% of 491 reviews2022
Dev: Cloisters InteractivePub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
A song from years ago triggers a flood of memories for champion swimmer Miriam. Embark on an evocative journey through her turbulent childhood and the complicated relationship she shared with her devoted mother.
Why similar: Adventure 78.7%, Indie 21.3%
- #53 VIDEOVERSE
65% matchVery Positive96% of 235 reviews2023
Dev: Kinmoku
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social network 'Videoverse' were still popular…
Why similar: Adventure 56.4%, Indie 43.6%
- #54 Omoide Ni Kawaru Kimi Memories Off
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 86 reviews2024
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
*This game is only available in Japanese, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese. なんとなく大学生になった主人公、「加賀正午」。 それなりに一人暮らしの大学生活を楽しんでいる一方で、彼は漠然とした憂鬱さを感じていた。 その原因は数年前、理由も告げず突然消えた恋人、「黒須カナタ」だった。 カナタとの唐突な別れは彼の心に大きな傷をつけていたのだ……。 それから数年後── 偶然にもカフェで再会するカナタと正午。 失ったと思っていたカナタとの再会で彼の心は乱れてしまう。
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #55 Forgotten, Not Lost - A Kinetic Novel
69% matchVery Positive89% of 242 reviews2016
Dev: Afterthought Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
An old farmer lives with his wife - However, he hasn't quite been himself lately. His mind wanders off, he forgets his daily routine and he often brings up things from the past. Forgotten, Not Lost comes from the creators of A More Beautiful World and is a kinetic novel that tackles the theme of dementia and is a visual novel that hopes...
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #56 The Last Summer 那年夏末
64% matchVery Positive92% of 108 reviews2024
Dev: Seven Tales StudioPub: WindField Games
Windows
这是一个关于遗憾与成长的故事。男生的思绪不断回到17岁的夏天,在一次次回忆与抉择中徘徊,是去尝试弥补遗憾?还是在释然间体会成长的意义?回忆中的她会在那等我吗?
Why similar: Adventure 63.5%, Indie 36.5%
- #57 Gone In November
71% matchMixed63% of 398 reviews2016
Dev: FlorastaminePub: Sometimes You
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Coming home after visiting your doctor for the last time, you are told that you only have three more days to live. A sequence of short memory fragments flashing through as you try to run away from what you have done.
Why similar: Indie 58.6%, Adventure 41.4%
- #58 Short Stories Collection of Class Tangerine
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 969 reviews2017
Dev: 橘子班Pub: NVLMaker
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Short Stories Collection of Class Tangerine is a collection of five Visual Novels by indie-game team "Class Tangerine".
Why similar: Adventure 54.4%, Indie 45.6%
- #59 Later
62% matchVery Positive97% of 106 reviews2025
Dev: GaHa Games
Windows
A short hidden object adventure about doing things later. Search, find, and don't lose yourself.
Why similar: Adventure 51.9%, Indie 48.1%