60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Interactive Fiction, 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.”
Lost Connections
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.
“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%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Emotional 12.3%, Psychological 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
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 12.3%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Choices Matter 10%
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 15.5%, LGBTQ+ 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Psychological 9.5%
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+ 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Emotional 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Visual Novel 9.7%
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+ 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Psychological 13.5%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Choices Matter 8.4%
“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+ 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, 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 17.6%, Education 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Emotional 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.6%
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 19%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, LGBTQ+ 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Psychological 10.7%
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 17.9%, Education 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%
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 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, LGBTQ+ 11.8%, Visual Novel 9.8%
Retracing the footsteps of a mother she never knew, Lena's trying to make it as a dancer in the city. Caught in a quarrel between dance companies, dealing with love and heartbreak and the challenges of young adulthood, she must also cope with the voice in her head commenting on everything she does.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Emotional 11%, LGBTQ+ 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Choices Matter 10.1%
Welcome to the Ace & Aro Meetup! Everyone is accepted here – whether you’re a-spec yourself or just curious to learn more. Meet the members, try a cocktail (or two) and unwind with some arcade games. Let’s have a heart-to-heart!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23%, Education 21%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Emotional 5.8%
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 16.2%, LGBTQ+ 15%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Choices Matter 11.1%
A 'crunchy wholesome' game about making friends as an adult.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.7%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Emotional 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%
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+ 16.7%, Psychological 12.8%, Emotional 11.4%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.1%
What if Martin looked into the mirror at night? A poetic visual novel, unfolding as a quiet journey through fragmented days. In the final year of high school, Wei Shi becomes you. Each morning begins without a name, and each night leads them through unfamiliar youth and the fragile art of happiness.
Why similar: Psychological 18.9%, LGBTQ+ 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%
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 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
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+ 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.9%
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 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, LGBTQ+ 12.9%, Emotional 11.3%, Visual Novel 11.1%
Fishbowl is a slow and tender 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 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Emotional 12.7%, LGBTQ+ 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.2%
Step into Greyholt as Ava, a would-be adventurer taking a chance to register with her father's guild. Will this bring the independence she craves, or something more dangerous? A psychological, choice-driven visual novel where every decision shapes the road ahead and the journey beneath her own skin.
Why similar: Psychological 20.2%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Emotional 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.7%
You choose a favorite and walk beside them. But those you left behind — where do they go while you're gone? LUNADUN: LUNATIC DUNGEON is an emotional adventure where choices shape the fate of four characters. 'The ones you loved, the ones you ignored — you don't get to walk away from either of them.'
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Psychological 15.7%, Emotional 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.3%, LGBTQ+ 9.7%
A visual novel about mental health, depression, and self-love. Play as Amatista, a young woman trapped in isolation, as she begins a journey she never asked for. Every choice shapes the story. Fully accessible for blind and visually impaired players.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Psychological 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Choices Matter 10.5%
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 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Emotional 10.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%
A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?
Why similar: Psychological 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Emotional 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
"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 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Emotional 11.9%, Text-Based 8.1%
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 17.8%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Text-Based 10.3%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
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 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Emotional 10.2%, LGBTQ+ 10%
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 20.1%, Psychological 19.7%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Story Rich 7.4%
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 18.4%, LGBTQ+ 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Female Protagonist 8.3%
You have exactly 5. Bread is 4, the bus fare to school is 3. What do you give up? In this short narrative experience, you play as 13-year-old Adam. Confront an interface that reacts to a painful reality, and discover that freedom of choice is sometimes nothing but a privilege.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Psychological 17.1%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Text-Based 9.9%
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+ 16%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Psychological 10.5%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Female Protagonist 7.8%
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%, Visual Novel 14.6%, LGBTQ+ 13.8%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%
In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.
Why similar: Choices Matter 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Psychological 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Visual Novel 9.9%
A GxG coming-of-age visual novel. Nina sucks at choosing. But when a mysterious incident happens at the arts academy, will she muster the courage to choose–or will she let someone else decide on her behalf?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Psychological 10.4%, Emotional 10.1%
“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 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, LGBTQ+ 14.5%, Emotional 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.2%
A flesh-eating dust leaves you to survive alone against hordes of Listless.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, LGBTQ+ 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Female Protagonist 8.6%
A psychological horror visual novel about healing, where saving your brother means facing your own demons. Elham’s search forces her to confront haunting visions, buried family secrets, and dark entities. Will you help her embrace the light, or let her fall into the darkness?
Why similar: Visual Novel 13.7%, Emotional 13.6%, Psychological 13.1%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
-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 19.2%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Psychological 14.4%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Text-Based 9.8%
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+ 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Cartoon 10.2%, Emotional 8%
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 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Psychological 10.7%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Choices Matter 8.5%
A candy alchemist finds a candy golem in her basement workshop...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, LGBTQ+ 21.3%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Female Protagonist 9.3%
Simple visual novel in which you play as a young upperclass woman preparing for her debut before the Queen and her royal relatives. All of your decisions lead to one of four very different endings. Who will you become? The jewel of the season or the outcast, never again mentioned by your family?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14%, Psychological 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Emotional 8.7%
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 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Psychological 14.1%, Text-Based 11.2%, Emotional 10.5%
A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Psychological 7.7%
Investigate six haunted properties and listen to the voices of spirits trapped in nightmares. Collect fragmented clues and discover the correct combination of names, locations, and vessels. A multi-ending horror adventure where the outcome changes depending on your choices during the ritual.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
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+ 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Emotional 10.1%
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+ 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Text-Based 10.2%
Every person you choose leaves someone else behind. Spend your limited afternoons building relationships, exploring the town, and recording each day in Kanata’s diary—then face timed Shadow Choices as an old book begins to fracture his ordinary life.
Why similar: Psychological 17.4%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
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 14.5%, Psychological 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Emotional 11.8%, Choices Matter 11%
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+ 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Psychological 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Choices Matter 9.1%
3 different Robot-romance stories. Written, drawn, and made by humans, for humans. Since the very moment the first mechanical mind became aware of itself, it craved love. No one truly understand why the heart made of copper and wires started beating, but it did. Even after we were gone.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Visual Novel 14.1%, LGBTQ+ 10.4%, Cartoon 8.9%
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 15.1%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
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 16.7%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Female Protagonist 10.8%
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 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Psychological 10.5%, Text-Based 8.9%
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%, Emotional 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.4%
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 23.2%, Emotional 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
Travel to Veøya in the Viking Age and solve a dangerous mystery with cunning and song!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Education 15.2%, Choices Matter 12.8%
Flavor Favor is a soft sci-fi visual novel where you take on the role of a captive fumer, a form of advanced AI humanoid, on the remote island of Tuinu. Your captors insist on having liberated you, but as you gradually recover your memories, a more complex story starts to unfold.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Psychological 13.6%, LGBTQ+ 13.1%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Choices Matter 10.7%
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 18.1%, Emotional 17.6%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, LGBTQ+ 10.1%
