60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Story Rich, Choices Matter, Emotional.
Immerse yourself in a hand-drawn, comic-style visual novel where your choices shape the storyline. Guide Lia through various decisions and emotions that lead to different outcomes. This original story and art present a take on a dystopian world, enhanced by an original soundtrack.
Syntherapy
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.
AN IOU
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.
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: Medical Sim 22.1% ★, Psychological 14.1%, Emotional 9.9%, Visual Novel 8.7%, Choices Matter 8.1%
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: Soundtrack 17.2% ★, Dialogue Heavy 12.5%, Emotional 12%, Psychological 11.5%, Visual Novel 9.9%
A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?
Why similar: Psychological 16.2%, Dialogue Heavy 12.1%, Emotional 12%, Immersive Sim 10.3%, Visual Novel 10.1%
Unravel the story of three siblings determined to break free from the iron grip of an AI named "Mother." In a world of virtual imprisonment, navigate rebellion, unveil dark secrets, and fight for freedom. Will you defy Mother's control, or succumb to her virtual prison?
Why similar: Dystopian 19.7%, Hand-drawn 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Immersive Sim 8.7%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
Could an AI fall in love with a human? What if that human were you? IA is a psychological horror visual novel about an AI that falls in "love" with you, despite her hatred for humanity.
Why similar: Psychological 24%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Immersive Sim 9.4%
A cyberpunk atmospheric thriller. Explore a city that measures your every feeling. Question the system, navigate dangerous connections, hack, survive, rely on emotional stimulants, and make choices with lasting consequences.
Why similar: Dystopian 19.4%, Transhumanism 18.7% ★, Psychological 13.3%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Choices Matter 7.8%
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: Emotional 17.8%, Dystopian 15.8%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Dark 12%
Eliza is a visual novel about an AI counseling program, the people who develop it, and the people who use it. Follow Evelyn Ishino-Aubrey as she reconnects with people from her past, gets to know the people of Seattle who use Eliza for counseling, and decides the course of her future.
Why similar: Psychological 22.9%, Emotional 19.7%, Female Protagonist 17%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Dystopian 13.4%
Ghost of Ice valley is a Visual Novel where you follow multiple different storylines and make choices according to what you believe the characters may do in that situation. Interact in the Interview system to find out more about the characters and about yourself as you go along.
Why similar: Dystopian 16.2%, Hand-drawn 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Female Protagonist 9.7%
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: Soundtrack 21.8% ★, Emotional 12.1%, Dialogue Heavy 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Female Protagonist 11.1%
Weep for the dead! In this short psychological horror story, play as a professional mourner travelling between funerals. Ride a nightmarish bus whose destination depends on how you choose to face your traumas.
Why similar: Psychological 16.7%, Dialogue Heavy 15.1%, Emotional 12.5%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Female Protagonist 9.6%
You are an anthropod, a synthetically crafted life form. Your objective is to save the ones who are stuck on an uninhabited planet. Persuade, charm, manipulate: use your ultimate power—freedom of choice—in sci-fi role playing hyper variative game LOCUS EQUATION.
Why similar: Transhumanism 24.4% ★, Psychological 15.6%, Emotional 12%, Dialogue Heavy 11.9%, Dystopian 11.9%
In this post-pandemic psychological visual novel, players embody psychotherapist Honda, drawn into a neural imaging project targeting teens. There, Honda meets Natasha, a mysterious girl whose "world" unfolds like a spider's web, disrupting Honda's "calm" life. "Don't you think so, Dr. Honda...?"
Why similar: Psychological 27.1%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Female Protagonist 15.7%, Dialogue Heavy 14.6%, Emotional 8.9%
Leila is a heartfelt, hand-animated narrative game about the small yet significant struggles we all face. Solve story-driven puzzles, relive fragile memories, and discover a deeply personal journey that may feel more familiar than you expect.
Why similar: Soundtrack 19.1% ★, Psychological 18.7%, Hand-drawn 13.8%, Emotional 12.6%, Female Protagonist 11%
A boy regains his hope and a girl finds herself in solitude. A kinetic novel that will take you through their darkest days and immerse you in their deepest emotions.
Why similar: Psychological 21.9%, Emotional 15.1%, Hand-drawn 14.4%, Visual Novel 14%, Female Protagonist 7%
“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: Emotional 18.3%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Psychological 14.4%, Hand-drawn 14.1%, Multiple Endings 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 14.6%, Dialogue Heavy 14.4%, Psychological 14.3%, Emotional 12%, Visual Novel 11.2%
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: Emotional 16.9%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Psychological 14.9%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Hand-drawn 11.8%
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 18.9%, Emotional 16.6%, Dialogue Heavy 15.9%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.2%
Experience a story-driven adventure game as a robot doctor. In a city of robots, illness is looming. Crack open ports and units to trace causes. Diagnose, repair and cross paths with robots and stories. Uncover secrets buried in the past and future, discover the truth that makes each robot unique.
Why similar: Medical Sim 27.4% ★, Dystopian 17.3%, Dialogue Heavy 14.1%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Immersive Sim 9.9%
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: Hand-drawn 14.5%, Psychological 14.4%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Female Protagonist 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.9%
a psychological visual novel where you investigate the souls of the dead. spend time with them, analyze their past, file reports to decide their eternal fate.
Why similar: Psychological 19.9%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Dialogue Heavy 12.1%, Choices Matter 12%, Emotional 11.6%
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: Dystopian 19.5%, Psychological 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Hand-drawn 13.7%, Choices Matter 12.9%
A 2D, veterinarian horror game. In this game, select the appropriate treatment and treat patients with topical products injections, surgeries. Treat patients over the course of 7 days, using the in-game computer to research the best treatment option. Playtime is 30 minutes.
Why similar: Medical Sim 46.6% ★, Choices Matter 11.4%, Dark 11.2%, Dystopian 11%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
You are a Mech plague doctor treating a family infected by a disease that spreads through emotions, and mutates them into monsters. Your choices decide their fate.
Why similar: Medical Sim 31.2% ★, Psychological 14.7%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Hand-drawn 10%
Navigate a dystopian city, uncover secrets, and shape your path in this story-driven sci-fi visual novel.
Why similar: Transhumanism 26.7% ★, Psychological 17.5%, Immersive Sim 11%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Hand-drawn 9.2%
Be the person you needed. Brew tea, listen well, and guide branching stories in a narrative slice-of-life about showing up when it matters. No perfect answers. Only your choices and what they set in motion.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 19.8%, Emotional 18.6%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Hand-drawn 11.1%
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 19.4%, Emotional 15.1%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Dialogue Heavy 10.4%, Dark 10.1%
Assume a lead drug development role at Mazer- the foremost pharmaceutical company in the world! Create groundbreaking drugs for your customers, work hard to impress your bosses, and try not to ruffle too many feathers...
Why similar: Dystopian 24.9%, Dialogue Heavy 16.7%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
Am I Nima is a psychological-horror game where you must convince your mom that you really are her daughter. Combine words together in your brain and use them to talk. Get her to trust you.
Why similar: Transhumanism 23.4% ★, Dialogue Heavy 20%, Hand-drawn 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Female Protagonist 10.5%
Two people meet in a strange, critical moment; changing their lives forever. An intimate visual novel exploring the nature of love, fate, tragedy, and the will to live on.
Why similar: Psychological 18.2%, Soundtrack 18.2% ★, Emotional 15.4%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
A short, dark visual novel set in the UK about a young autistic girl's destructive obsession with her older brother.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.9%, Emotional 16%, Psychological 15.8%, Female Protagonist 15.1%, Dark 12.2%
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 24.9%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Emotional 15.5%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Female Protagonist 10%
You're Sam, a young dreamer struggling in the gig economy. However, tonight may change everything. In this absurd comedy, fight your inner battles, rally your forces, and get ready to overthrow the system!
Why similar: Psychological 22.6%, Dystopian 22.5%, Emotional 16.1%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.4%
Run a tea shop in the British countryside and enkindle your love for poetry in this heartfelt visual novel. Play as Ms Meadows, retired journalist and tea enthusiast, as she prepares for her best friend’s long-awaited visit. Listen to customers’ stories, brew tea, and craft wholehearted poems.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 18.7%, Emotional 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Female Protagonist 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.2%
A visual novel set in a Chinese high school. Mostly realistic, with a werewolf twist. Your choices determine the heroine's fate—caught between envy and longing, will she claim her place in the system, or burn it all down for a dream no one values?
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.1%, Hand-drawn 18.8%, Female Protagonist 15.6%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Emotional 12.8%
She died, but no one ever asked her what really happened. Now she speaks—and you're the only one listening. What you say will decide whether she finally moves on… or disappears forever.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 19.3%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Emotional 14.2%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Female Protagonist 13.4%
Screech, halt! Max and his ice cream truck reach an unfamiliar universe never seen before. Continue making your way as you go after the little kid’s balloon. Solve mysteries with emotion-flavored ice cream. Will you be able to retrieve the kid’s lost balloon?
Why similar: Hand-drawn 14.7%, Dialogue Heavy 13.8%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Dark 11.5%
Serve coffee and befriend customers as you learn their story in this coming-of-age visual novel.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23.7%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Female Protagonist 15.3%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Psychological 10.6%
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: Dialogue Heavy 16.1%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Psychological 12.8%, Female Protagonist 12.8%, Choices Matter 10.2%
Confessing love to someone is one of the most intimidating challenges we face in our lives. Doki Doki First Love Club takes this relatable fear to the extreme. This visual novel isn't your average rom-com; it's a fight between two stubborn geniuses in a battle of who will confess first
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20.6%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Psychological 14.4%, Emotional 13.1%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
"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 24.8%, Emotional 16.2%, Hand-drawn 15.5%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Dialogue Heavy 14.2%
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 27.7%, Emotional 21.1%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Choices Matter 12.5%
Finn was sad, so he killed himself. But he was greeted by Aoi a mysterious girl who granted him one wish before he gets reincarnated. Finn's wish, he wanted to see if anyone cared at all that he had committed suicide. Even though he knows no one ever cared about him.
Why similar: Psychological 22.7%, Emotional 17.3%, Dialogue Heavy 16.9%, Dark 13.2%, Multiple Endings 11.9%
You're a barber in a city full of beastfolk. Chat with your customers, style their look, help them see something new in the mirror... and in themselves.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 32.5%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Female Protagonist 7.9%
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: Psychological 16.5%, Emotional 16%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11.3%
Log In to the near future metaverse platform E-ON. Explore and connect with Ellie as you break the bounds of your unverified account and uncover the truth of the world and Ellie.
Why similar: Transhumanism 26.5% ★, Immersive Sim 15.7%, Dialogue Heavy 14.8%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Female Protagonist 11%
His World is a short visual novel game where you play as a young shy introvert boy and witness his life with his family and get to see his internal world and struggles. You also make a few decisions throughout the game that will decide on one of game's multiple endings.
Why similar: Psychological 19%, Emotional 18.9%, Visual Novel 18%, Dialogue Heavy 17.6%, Choices Matter 13.6%
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.
Why similar: Psychological 23.5%, Emotional 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Female Protagonist 9.2%
Would you forgive yourself if you killed someone you love? Enter the traumatic memories of The Flower, experience death as the killer and the killed, and submerge yourself in a dark, interactive adventure of emotions, suffering, and regret - looking for a way to forget.
Why similar: Soundtrack 22.9% ★, Dialogue Heavy 19.3%, Psychological 19.2%, Female Protagonist 9.9%, Dark 8.3%
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: Visual Novel 19.6%, Female Protagonist 17.5%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Psychological 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.1%
Dive into a world of fleeting hope in this thrilling dark romance visual novel! Feel the fear, survive the hunt and navigate through danger on a daunting quest for freedom.
Why similar: Psychological 20.4%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Emotional 12.4%, Dystopian 12.3%, Female Protagonist 11.4%
Can you save a test subject from your life’s work? A cinematic sci-fi visual novel about cybernetic research and its sickening consequences. A prequel to malViolence.
Why similar: Dystopian 17.6%, Psychological 15.8%, Transhumanism 12.8% ★, Visual Novel 12.5%, Futuristic 10.6%
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: Immersive Sim 17.2%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Psychological 13%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.1%
Tears of Sulfuria is an emotional visual novel about two sisters in a dark fantasy world that rejects them. Marília and Adka must survive at any cost—and their choices may scar Sulfuria itself. Sacrifice yourself, lose your sanity, and do the unforgivable to move forward.
Why similar: Psychological 17.4%, Emotional 14.7%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Female Protagonist 10.7%
Trade your soul for digital fame in this psychological visual novel. As fallen tech mogul Doran White, navigate a treacherous social media landscape. Your choices shape his fate in this hand-drawn, neuroscience-inspired reimagining of Oscar Wilde's classic.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 24.5%, Psychological 22.1%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Hand-drawn 14.6%, Choices Matter 13.7%
Misgiven is an emotional sci-fi adventure about the lump in your throat. Stranded in a city veiled in toxic fog, take on a stranger's mask to survive. Wrestle with your thoughts in a tangible dialogue system. Struggle to keep up the facade, or dare to drop it, to find allies as a harbinger of doom.
Why similar: Psychological 22.2%, Emotional 13.9%, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Futuristic 9.6%
You don't cure patients; you decide their fate. In this grim medical sim, review records and face impossible bioethical dilemmas. Consult the Medical Bible and choose who gets the bed. Every signature impacts your Ethics, Reputation, and Legal Risk. In a broken system, mercy is a dangerous luxury.
Why similar: Medical Sim 37.4% ★, Visual Novel 13%, Psychological 13%, Hand-drawn 12.3%, Emotional 10.9%
I can't do this anymore -- but I've decided to choose. There are people I want to protect, but I can't save them all. One old book shatters an ordinary life -- a visual novel of despair and love, where your choices shape the story. Japanese voice / English subtitles / ~10hrs
Why similar: Psychological 21.4%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Emotional 13%
Heal your patients from curses and possessions as a shunned witch doctor in this creepy, cozy witch-life adventure: Care for your plants, craft magical amulets and analyse what is wrong with your neighbors so they start trusting in magic again. Make mythical new friends and heal what is broken.
Why similar: Medical Sim 22.1% ★, Dialogue Heavy 15.4%, Emotional 13%, Visual Novel 12%, Choices Matter 10.3%
