60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Story Rich, Multiple Endings, Choices Matter.
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.
Return to Ash
“The hospital was empty. Quiet, and brighter than usual... like waking up on a snow day. But I didn't feel cold. I didn't feel much of anything.”
Everlasting Snooze
You lost your memory of nothing but a mundane day. But why do mysterious men keep jamming into your life, all of them pointing to the day you forgot? Find out a hypnotherapy clinic receptionist's memory of an insignificant day in this BL visual novel.
“The hospital was empty. Quiet, and brighter than usual... like waking up on a snow day. But I didn't feel cold. I didn't feel much of anything.”
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.3%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Emotional 12.6%, Psychological 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
You lost your memory of nothing but a mundane day. But why do mysterious men keep jamming into your life, all of them pointing to the day you forgot? Find out a hypnotherapy clinic receptionist's memory of an insignificant day in this BL visual novel.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Psychological 12.8%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Choices Matter 8.2%
Travelling Light is a narrative game about four friends, Lars, Leah, Samson, and Ivy, caught in the turbulence of their early thirties. Inspired by real events, this experience lets you step into each perspective as love, friendship, and heartbreak collide.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, LGBTQ+ 12%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Psychological 10.4%
If she leaves now you will never see her again. Would you have enough courage to take a step, or would you stay quiet and regret it? Experience this story about love and loss.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.2%, Emotional 12.4%, Visual Novel 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.1%
You know the feeling of struggling to get out of bed? In A Heavy Morning, you will play as a young girl battling with her own mind. Your only objective? Get out of bed and get to work on time.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, LGBTQ+ 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Visual Novel 9.5%, Psychological 9.3%
Experience a pastel-toned emotional journey in Yuika My Bestie, a short visual novel you can complete in under 15 minutes per playthrough. With 5 unique endings and heartfelt choices, it takes just 30–40 minutes to explore every path of this soft, late-night cry.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Emotional 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Visual Novel 9.4%
“Lone Bird in the Tree” is an ADV with male and female versions of each of the four characters. The story alternates between the “future” of the main character, who is deeply traumatized by the grief of his/her best friend, and the “story leading up to the loss of his/her best friend”.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Visual Novel 9.3%, Hand-drawn 7.4%
Anxiety Puppy is a 2D interactive narrative game that focuses on anxiety. In the game, anxiety is personified as a little puppy. Players will explore its story and try to coexist with it. Go find its traces and give it a hug.
Why similar: Psychological 16.5%, Education 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Emotional 10.1%, Visual Novel 9.8%
The threat is on the road ahead and deep beneath her skin. A psychological visual novel about memory, trauma, and the cost of every choice.
Why similar: Psychological 19.7%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Emotional 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.4%
A call for help within a mysterious messaging app. Someone lost and wandering through a forest in a faraway place. And their destiny in your hands.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Text-Based 9.6%
-Change the past, create the future - A novel game about changing the past. What would the present be like if you could remove the regrets of that time? Rewrite the book that contains your past and create the future that you could not get. A new sensation ADV is now available from HaraPeko club.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Psychological 13.9%, Multiple Endings 11%, Text-Based 9.4%
Enter to the characters mind and make decisions. The game is played like interactive movie/adventure game with morality choices which influence the outcome which can be: a manipulative, balanced or violent. The game is based on psychology/philosophy and teaches about thoughts and their consequences.
Why similar: Psychological 18.2%, Education 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%
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: Psychological 20.1%, LGBTQ+ 16.3%, Emotional 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.6%
Where are you, Cinderella? is a visual novel about Vietnamese culture and the world of entertainment. Will you be able to find the lost shoe’s owner? Or, will you find your shoe?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, LGBTQ+ 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Choices Matter 11.2%
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+ 16.6%, Psychological 13%, Emotional 11.5%, Visual Novel 11%, Choices Matter 10.2%
A 'crunchy wholesome' game about making friends as an adult.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.7%, Visual Novel 12%, Emotional 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%
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: Psychological 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, LGBTQ+ 12.9%, Emotional 11.4%, Visual Novel 11%
Your story continues right where Origins left off. Whether Jessica finds herself wandering the streets alone, caught in George’s web of deceit, or trapped in the unsettling confines of Margaret Thatuals under Professor Trounch’s watchful gaze and the orderlies, every choice matters.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Psychological 10.2%
A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?
Why similar: Psychological 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Emotional 10.6%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%
Stamped follows the journeys of six young travelers whose paths intersect across Asian urban landscapes. Bound by pleasure-fueled self-destruction, the group flounders from city to city, confronting the grief and discrimination that caused them to travel in the first place.
Why similar: Education 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, LGBTQ+ 11.8%, Visual Novel 9.8%
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: Psychological 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Emotional 12.6%, LGBTQ+ 11.5%, Visual Novel 10.2%
You came here with a motive, so as everyone, except that you are able to change theirs. Ride with Lucas to turn down all the love interests or end their trouble in this (obviously artificial intelligence-themed) sci-fi BL visual novel. Enjoy the long-waited grand finale in this trilogy!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Psychological 11.8%, Choices Matter 9.5%
The Death of the Video Star is a visual novel about dealing with the aftermath of killing God, and maybe having to kill Her again.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.3%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Psychological 10.3%, Choices Matter 8.3%, Female Protagonist 7.5%
Return to a hometown that hasn’t changed the way it should have. A psychological visual novel focused on atmosphere, relationships, and a reality that slowly refuses to stay still. Can you uncover the truth before it consumes you?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Visual Novel 11%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
“Flowers for You” is a gentle adventure game where you create custom bouquets based on each customer’s story as a florist. Set in modern Japan, listen to faded memories and craft floral arrangements that bring color back into their lives.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14%, LGBTQ+ 13.8%, Emotional 10.4%, Visual Novel 9.7%
A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Multiple Endings 8.8%, Psychological 7.5%
A psychological horror visual novel about healing and destiny. When her brother disappears, Elham's desperate search plunges her into a world of haunting visions, buried truths, and battles against dark forces. Will she find her true calling and embrace the light? or will she succumb to darkness
Why similar: Emotional 13.3%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Psychological 12.9%, Choices Matter 12%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
Overcome your past and become someone new in Truer than You. A choice-driven narrative adventure about love, loss and being lost in life. You're hired as a gig-working actor to play roles in real-life situations. Have conversations, get a good rating and follow the rules. All good?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.3%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Visual Novel 11%, Emotional 9.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
Coffee Buns is a transformation visual novel set in the world of Mice Tea. Leonardo Bianco is a barista getting used to living in a world where a magical tea can turn you into a furry, and when he gets his own chance to try it he's thrust into an erotic, gender-bending journey of self-discovery.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Cartoon 9.7%, Emotional 7.7%
If an AI were sentient, how would you know if they were malfunctioning, or experiencing a mental health problem? A story-rich game that explores mental health and AI ethics in the form of therapy sessions with a sentient AI.
Why similar: Psychological 16%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Emotional 10.3%, LGBTQ+ 9.9%
On Love, On Monsters is a Frankenstein-inspired story with an emphasis on love in its many forms. Play as three characters with alternating POVs; the Doctor, The Priest, and The Exile. Bond with allies and enemies, avoid raising suspicion in the town of Blackmoore, and learn what it means to love.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Visual Novel 13%, LGBTQ+ 12.8%, Choices Matter 7.2%
The fate of humanity is at stake. Use your gift of clairvoyance to see into the future and stop an apocalypse that threatens the balance between your world and the deities'.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, LGBTQ+ 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Choices Matter 10.1%
7 Days in Dystopia is a psychological dystopian game where you experience seven days by playing a series of games, making choices, and facing the consequences of winning and losing in a city where people hide behind masks.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Psychological 19.9%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Story Rich 7.4%
Your job is to make humanity happy. Observe the people living in your assigned district and make the best choices to ensure everyone's happiness.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Text-Based 10.4%, Multiple Endings 9%
Melancholy Love is a Yuri Visual Novel between an elite and a misfit in an All-Girls' High School. How will sparks flare between the two?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.5%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Emotional 11.8%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%
Determine the fate of Ventreville! Play as six protagonists with unique abilities and stories, their arcs tied to each other by the sudden murder of the Avidines. Make your choices count! The final protagonist, the interrogating detective, will only know as much as your previous characters know…
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Emotional 8.6%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, LGBTQ+ 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Female Protagonist 8.2%
You are ready to say goodbye to life, but are you prepared to face your life's truth? Navigate a grad student's life between greed and fear in his final 6 hours (and beyond) in this BL visual novel.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Psychological 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Choices Matter 9.3%
Guide Hamlet (now a Girl *and* a Werewolf) as she deals with a murder mystery, a usurped throne, and a cursed sledding competition. Her emotions are your stats, so.... emote wisely. Or impulsively. Or with shame. It’s her kingdom. Everyone else is just tolerated in it.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Visual Novel 14.5%, LGBTQ+ 13.8%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%
Shame & choices = possible apocalypse. You need to figure out what’s causing the apocalypse to happen, so that you can prevent it. 2 playable characters with different relations to shame → 2 unique perspectives of the same story. Complicated families, branching choices and unforgiving consequences.
Why similar: Psychological 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Choices Matter 11%, Emotional 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%
Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Psychological 13.2%, Text-Based 10.5%, Emotional 9.8%
A psychological thriller visual novel where your choices deeply affect an 18-year-old woman's mental state, leading to multiple endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Psychological 10.2%, Text-Based 8.6%
A flesh-eating dust leaves you to survive alone against hordes of Listless.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, LGBTQ+ 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Female Protagonist 8.6%
What do mirror reflections do once they have no one to repeat after anymore? Play as Iris, quite a sarcastic reflection torn between the urge to unravel the mystery of death of her “prototype” and the need to find her place in a mirrored world.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Psychological 10.7%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Choices Matter 8.5%
A narrative-driven psychological visual novel where every floor of an elevator reveals a key moment from your past. Face your regrets, uncover forgotten memories, and make choices that shape your future. Will you find closure, or remain trapped in your own mind?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Text-Based 13.1%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
"The hardest part is not to speak up. It’s being heard." Part video game, part graphic novel, Wednesdays seeks to raise awareness about child sexual abuse through a surprisingly hope-filled story.
Why similar: Psychological 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Emotional 12.1%, Visual Novel 12%, Text-Based 8.1%
A candy alchemist finds a candy golem in her basement workshop...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, LGBTQ+ 21.4%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Multiple Endings 10%, Female Protagonist 9.3%
When everyone hides a deadly obsession, can you trust - or love - those who get close? Play as junior researcher Sky. Navigate romance, betrayal, and impossible choices across secret-filled Science City and post-apocalyptic lands. Recreate the lost medicine before your trust costs lives.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, LGBTQ+ 12.7%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Psychological 9.7%
Shape queer love and friendship at the end of the world in this choice-driven, emotional narrative game. Will you settle for pessimism, or open yourself to trust?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.7%, Emotional 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.5%
Akari was a beloved streamer—until she died live on camera. Now, as a spirit, she’s still performing. You’ve been hired to speak with her, and uncover the truth behind the smile she never took off.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Cartoon 8.5%, Choices Matter 7.7%
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: Psychological 17%, Emotional 16.3%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, LGBTQ+ 9.6%
Take control of Morgan's destiny as his world is turned upside down. Explore the world of Dreams, where mythological creatures and Nightmares are real. A story-heavy adventure game with multiple endings, romance options and a symphonic music! Inspired by Neil Gaiman and Inception.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Psychological 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Emotional 11.9%, Choices Matter 11.1%
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Visual Novel 13%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Emotional 10.2%
The curse wove your fates together. Now their thoughts and feelings influence you and your actions determine their fates. Will you be able to break the curse? Or will their dark pasts drag you into an inescapable despair? And can a fresh start really erase the past?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, LGBTQ+ 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Female Protagonist 8.5%
Waking up in a stranger's apartment is a jarring experience, even worse is learning you're there because you died. Phase between memories, the liminal plane, and current day to uncover your demise. Both the dead and living can help you on this journey. Will you play it safe or take risks?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.3%, Psychological 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Emotional 11%, Visual Novel 10.7%
Do you ever feel like life is slipping away, with too many dreams left unfulfilled? Like you're trapped in wanting to do so much, but never quite getting to any of it? Doesn't that thought scare you—looking back on a life that accomplished nothing, fading without leaving a mark? It scares me too.
Why similar: Psychological 23.4%, Emotional 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Visual Novel 12%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
AN IOU is the debut visual novel by Davey Cadaver. The music, backgrounds, & characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. The user takes the POV of the protagonist to experience a memorable story with an incredible soundtrack and multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Psychological 13.2%, Emotional 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.3%
Follow Sophie as she embarks on her latest adventure in making money, working alongside the enigmatic Rias as they put on a special yuri/lesbian camgirl show for their viewers.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
Do you enjoy listening to stories and having the ability to influence their unfolding? If so, then immerse yourself in the role of an active participant as you join Yaren on her quest for freedom.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Psychological 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Text-Based 10.8%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
Christian Tyler is ready to investigate a new case! Uncover the mystery of the tourist town of Alkelano in our new visual novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Psychological 13.9%, Emotional 8%
