- #1 Once Again
96% matchVery Positive91% of 1,019 reviews2022
Dev: RB Wolf DesignPub: RB Wolf Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 68.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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 54.5%, Indie 45.5%
- #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 57.1%, Indie 42.9%
- #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 58.8%, Adventure 41.2%
- #4 Memory Note
95% matchVery Positive95% of 75 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 54.4%, Indie 45.6%
- #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 57.5%, Indie 42.5%
- #6 Memoir
93% matchVery Positive97% of 278 reviews2022
Dev: 7757
Windows
A short memoir of first love.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #7 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%
- #8 Home
91% matchVery Positive100% of 144 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 57.4%, Indie 42.6%
- #9 Remember When
91% 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 73.2%, Indie 26.8%
- #10 Memories Off Sousou ~Not always true~
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 121 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 Retention
92% matchMostly Negative35% of 708 reviews2015
Dev: Sometimes You
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.4 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 55.1%, Indie 44.9%
- #12 memories
88% matchVery Positive94% of 1,525 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 50.7%, Adventure 49.3%
- #13 Little Red Lie
90% 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 55%, Indie 45%
- #14 My New Memories
89% matchVery Positive82% of 462 reviews2021
Dev: Killer7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 60.9%, Indie 39.1%
- #15 Monologue: Winter melancholy
86% matchVery Positive83% of 77 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%
- #16 My Camp of Memories: Episode 1
84% 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%
- #17 One Last Chance
87% 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%
- #18 Love in the distance
85% matchMixed66% of 335 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 71.6%, Adventure 28.4%
- #19 Forgotten Fields
84% 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%
- #20 Once upon a time
86% matchMostly Negative40% of 63 reviews2017
Dev: Bruno MARTIOL
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 8.9 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 56%, Indie 44%
- #21 Some Goodbyes We Made
79% 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 93.3%, Indie 6.7%
- #22 My Dream is a Lost Memory
81% matchVery Positive90% of 243 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%
- #23 The Raintime
83% 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 55.2%, Indie 44.8%
- #24 Lingering Fragrance
82% matchVery Positive92% of 596 reviews2018
Dev: BLESTWORKS
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 51.5%, Indie 48.5%
- #25 Dear me, I was...
77% matchVery Positive100% of 59 reviews2026
Dev: Arc System Works
Windows
A short tale, a long journey. With a beautiful watercolor touch, it depicts the life of a woman. In her ordinary and modest life...experience her joys, her sorrows, her growth. Witness the story she spins in a life woven by those around her.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #26 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 57.1%, Indie 42.9%
- #27 停留此刻 Stay in the moment
80% 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 70.3%, Indie 29.7%
- #28 Young Hearts
77% matchVery Positive91% of 94 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%
- #29 Home is Where One Starts...
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 716 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 56.6%, Indie 43.4%
- #30 Aeon on Mosaic: Anemone 时间碎片:奇迹
78% matchVery Positive93% of 87 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 78.7%, Indie 21.3%
- #31 Pursuing My Uncle
73% matchVery Positive89% of 81 reviews2025
Dev: ふわふわ電子研究所
Windows · Mac
Spend a week at your uncle’s house in this short visual novel.From time to time, a special “Pursue” button will appear, guiding the story toward one of two endings.Approx. 30 minutes playtimeTwo possible endingsRated R12[Features]The “Pursue” button cannot be skipped.
Why similar: Adventure 79.5%, Indie 20.5%
- #32 Tricolour Lovestory
76% matchVery Positive81% of 28,032 reviews2017
Dev: HL-Galgame
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 48.5 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 53.5%, Adventure 46.5%
- #33 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 56.6%, Indie 43.4%
- #34 Making Memories
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 59 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.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #35 Growing Up
73% matchVery Positive88% of 3,623 reviews2021
Dev: Vile Monarch
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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%
- #36 Sand Castle
74% 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 50.5%, Indie 49.5%
- #37 Don't Let Me Fade
70% 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: Adventure 73.6%, Indie 26.4%
- #38 Invisible Mind
76% 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 59.8%, Adventure 40.2%
- #39 我在终点线等你
72% 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%
- #40 Fragments of Him
74% matchVery Positive84% of 147 reviews2016
Dev: Sassybot
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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: Indie 100%
- #41 Before I Forget
71% matchVery Positive89% of 210 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 53%, Indie 47%
- #42 Shui's Odyssey
68% matchVery Positive88% of 139 reviews2024
Dev: Intentional StudioPub: 2P Games
Windows
This is a puzzle game that combines text and images. Players use visual illusions to piece together fragments of memories from Alzheimer's patients, in order to reconstruct the truth of the story and witness the passage of time for three generations.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #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 The Last Summer 那年夏末
68% matchVery Positive91% of 120 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 63.9%, Indie 36.1%
- #45 Before Your Eyes
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 22,878 reviews2021
Dev: GoodbyeWorld GamesPub: Skybound Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.5 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 55.3%, Adventure 44.7%
- #46 Earthshine
71% matchVery Positive90% of 68 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 57.4%, Indie 42.6%
- #47 Adabana Odd Tales
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,043 reviews2020
Dev: Liar-softPub: ANIPLEX.EXE
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 52.2 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%
- #48 十五
68% 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%
- #49 TREE
69% matchVery Positive93% of 2,314 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%
- #50 unWorded
72% matchMostly Positive74% of 53 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 54.9%, Indie 45.1%
- #51 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 56%, Indie 44%
- #52 HOPE: Winter Tale
66% matchVery Positive99% of 81 reviews2024
Dev: PanelkaGamesPub: 7DOTS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Every New Year is similar to the previous one. No friends, no family, no magic. But what if a fairy tale exists? And everything can change? HOPE: Winter Tale is a story about a man who has lost his all taste for life. But one winter night, everything changed.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
- #53 Actual Sunlight
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 615 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 52.2%, Adventure 47.8%
- #54 The Longest Road on Earth
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 631 reviews2021
Dev: Brainwash GangPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 59%
A thoughtful and deeply personal title with stripped-down mechanics. The lack of dialogue or text allows you to create your own narrative through your time with four characters. Each short story will allow players to be swept away by the haunting lyrics of over twenty original, nostalgic songs.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #55 Gone In November
70% matchMixed63% of 400 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 58.2%, Adventure 41.8%
- #56 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%
- #57 A Memoir Blue
66% matchVery Positive85% of 499 reviews2022
Dev: Cloisters InteractivePub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.0 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 79%, Indie 21%
- #58 Know by heart
65% matchVery Positive90% of 837 reviews2022
Dev: Ice-Pick Lodge
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Childhood friends reunite after spending a long time apart, revisiting old memories and rekindling their friendship. However, something beyond their control will ruin this reunion.
Why similar: Adventure 100%