- #1 Rising Angels: Reborn
97% matchVery Positive81% of 588 reviews2014
Dev: IDHAS StudiosPub: Sekai Project
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 17.7 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Despite determination and skill, Natalie Puccile, a Special Investigations and Tactics officer, has spent her career watching over a listening post in the middle of deep space. After the orders that she has always dreamed of arrive, she finds herself in charge of a small destroyer and tasked with discovering the fate of a missing...
Why similar: Visual Novel 58.9%, Anime 37.9%, Indie 3.1%
- #2 SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel
96% matchVery Positive93% of 874 reviews2015
Dev: Team Eleven
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 53%
SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.
Why similar: Visual Novel 60.1%, Anime 35.8%, Indie 4.1%
- #3 Driftwood The Visual Novel
96% matchMixed55% of 78 reviews2016
Dev: Wakagana
Windows · Mac · Linux
Driftwood is a visual novel following Marcus Feick and his new life on Marthas Vineyard.
Why similar: Visual Novel 66.2%, Anime 27.2%, Indie 6.6%
- #4 Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius
95% matchVery Positive92% of 2,810 reviews2014
Dev: Love in SpacePub: Sekai Project
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 59%
As Captain Kayto Shields, embark on a galactic voyage of heroism and survival. With his home world destroyed and his nation conquered, the inexperienced Captain Shields, and his newly minted vessel, the Sunrider, are left as the only hope against a galactic evil intent on subjugating all sentient life.
Why similar: Anime 50.7%, Visual Novel 47.3%, Indie 2.1%
- #5 The Away Team: Lost Exodus
94% matchMostly Positive73% of 100 reviews2016
Dev: Underflow Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship, tasked with finding a home for your crew—the last remnants of humanity. Your choices will determine their fate, and your own.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #6 Space Pilgrim Episode I: Alpha Centauri
94% matchVery Positive88% of 1,339 reviews2015
Dev: Pilgrim AdventuresPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Captain Gail Pilgrim has been flying starships since she was a kid, ferrying passengers between planets and space stations across the galaxy. She has no reason to expect that this latest trip to Alpha Centauri will be anything special, even if her passengers are a little more diverse than usual....
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #7 Neospace: Prologue
93% matchVery Positive90% of 59 reviews2024
Dev: DreamStudios
Windows
You wake up in a spaceship, you realize that strange things are going on there, you try to get back to civilization. However, this is harder than you think, the encounters will drive you crazy and you will doubt yourself.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #8 Starstruck Vagabond
92% matchVery Positive86% of 561 reviews2024
Dev: Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw
Windows
A space captain accidentally freezes themselves for two thousand years, finding themselves in an unfamiliar galaxy. Fortunately, there's always someone who needs cargo delivered.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #9 Bermuda
91% matchMixed53% of 223 reviews2015
Dev: InvertMouse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Trapped in an alien submarine, Edward's faith will be tested in a tale of trust and deceit. Bermuda is a visual novel mixed with open ended stealth puzzles.
Why similar: Visual Novel 55%, Anime 36.1%, Indie 8.9%
- #10 The Far Rings: A Space Opera Visual Novella
90% matchVery Positive84% of 80 reviews2019
Dev: TFR Team - Heiden, aMira, Debbie, and morePub: The Far Rings Team
Windows · Mac · Linux
Play as Doctor Athena, a passionate young woman with mixed alien heritage—and the sole survivor of refugee camp ITOH. Three days remain on the trip 'home'—with only the ship's unsettlingly polite Captain Odysseus and the cryptic alien war criminal Chiron for company. But is everything really as it seems?
Why similar: Visual Novel 89.3%, Indie 10.7%
- #11 Angels & Demigods - SciFi VR Visual Novel
91% matchMixed63% of 112 reviews2016
Dev: 7 Keys Studios
Windows · Mac
VR capable sci-fi visual novel which takes place in the distant future on Enceladus.
Why similar: Visual Novel 61.3%, Anime 33.5%, Indie 5.2%
- #12 Ceiba
88% matchVery Positive95% of 259 reviews2023
Dev: WirionPub: Moonworks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Ein, a simple-hearted member of an expedition sent by mankind to distant planets, tries to get romantic with a pretty but cold co-worker girl. Unfortunately, he is not the only one trying to make contact as from the abandoned and desolate alien ruins, the girl receives a message in human language.
Why similar: Visual Novel 63.6%, Anime 36.4%
- #13 Humanity Must Perish
89% matchVery Positive81% of 271 reviews2017
Dev: Zetsubou
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 30%
Humanity Must Perish is a short, comedic visual novel in which the fate of humanity is placed in the hands of a witty, pessimistic android.
Why similar: Visual Novel 56.6%, Anime 35.7%, Indie 7.7%
- #14 Voices from the Sea
89% matchVery Positive93% of 1,262 reviews2015
Dev: Zeiva Inc
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 419.1 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Follow the story of a young boy, Cantus as he meets Maris, the mysterious girl by the sea - an experience that will change his life forever.
Why similar: Visual Novel 55%, Anime 42.4%, Indie 2.6%
- #15 Citizen Sleeper
85% matchVery Positive93% of 10,020 reviews2022
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #16 Detective Butler: Maiden Voyage Murder
87% matchVery Positive82% of 308 reviews2017
Dev: Goldbar Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 28%
Follow Detective Butler and his sidekick Gilligan as they solve a locked-room murder during a haunted cruise ship's maiden voyage. Can you solve the mystery before Detective Butler reveals the answer?
Why similar: Visual Novel 56.3%, Anime 39.5%, Indie 4.2%
- #17 SPACE ACCIDENT
86% matchMostly Positive77% of 295 reviews2022
Dev: Whale Rock Games
Windows
Your hero is Andy Freeman, a technical engineer of the Zeus-M700 spacecraft, sent on an expedition to the satellite of Jupiter to colonize it. However, what is conceived does not always go according to plan…
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #18 Without Within
86% matchVery Positive88% of 2,027 reviews2015
Dev: InvertMouse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 19%
The (mis)adventures of Vinty, a nobody who thinks she's somebody!
Why similar: Visual Novel 48.8%, Anime 48.4%, Indie 2.9%
- #19 Hunter: Space Pirates
84% matchMixed67% of 84 reviews2024
Dev: Mr. Mister
Windows
Dive into the enthralling story of Hunter, a young man whose dreams of joining the Navy are shattered by an unexpected twist of fate. As he navigates the complexities of his daily life, Hunter finds himself on an unexpected path filled with mystery, personal growth, and discovery.
Why similar: Visual Novel 100%
- #20 No More Future
84% matchVery Positive99% of 127 reviews2022
Dev: Sedge
Windows
In the last days of their life, a dying person takes one final gamble... No More Future is a linear Sci-Fi Visual Novel, where you explore a futuristic world as an android trying to rebuild their old life. In this strange journey, they'll question the very foundations of their life and their world.
Why similar: Visual Novel 95.9%, Indie 4.1%
- #21 Dies irae ~Amantes amentes~
83% matchVery Positive87% of 711 reviews2017
Dev: lightPub: views Co., Ltd
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Night after night, the same dream of a guillotine. A headhunting serial killer. And the "knights" in black who follow soon after. Irrationality that defies the realm of common sense begins to assault and devour the city.
Why similar: Visual Novel 63%, Anime 37%
- #22 Nobody Nowhere
80% matchVery Positive94% of 187 reviews2025
Dev: 深渊标记 Tag:hadal
Windows
a side-scrolling, story-driven text adventure game in pixel art. The story is set in 2079, when a Replicant awakens in a lab facility amidst a life-or-death situation. The replicant aid agency tries to rescue him but fails. In the process they stumble on the real secret of the Replicant project...
Why similar: Visual Novel 51.2%, Anime 48.8%
- #23 Carpe Diem
81% matchVery Positive89% of 8,560 reviews2015
Dev: Moonlit Works
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12 minMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 13%
Seize the day
Why similar: Visual Novel 52.2%, Anime 45.3%, Indie 2.5%
- #24 Space Pilgrim Episode III: Delta Pavonis
82% matchVery Positive83% of 601 reviews2016
Dev: Pilgrim AdventuresPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Still reeling from the life-changing events of the previous episode, Gail seeks out a safe haven with her father in the Delta Pavonis system. However, she soon learns that the politics of Planet Leto can be as treacherous and unpredictable as the local weather.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #25 Fare Thee Well
82% matchVery Positive93% of 146 reviews2018
Dev: Watercress
Windows · Mac · Linux
In the winter of 1967, a young man enters out of the snowy night into a bar in the sleepy town of Cedar, Maine. He is a wanderer cursed with eternal youth, sent out by fate forever to roam the world, never to find a home. An encounter with a girl in a green dress is about to change everything...
Why similar: Visual Novel 59.9%, Anime 35.8%, Indie 4.2%
- #26 Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog
78% matchVery Positive91% of 920 reviews2025
Dev: Space Colony StudiosPub: Astrolabe Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Survive the mystery that awaits the JFS Gun-Dog in deep space in this retro visual novel / graphic adventure.
Why similar: Visual Novel 57.5%, Anime 42.5%
- #27 Ambre - a heartbreaking kinetic novel
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 671 reviews2017
Dev: Träumendes Mädchen
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 42%
A heartbreaking kinetic novel about the meeting of a depressed thirty years old man with a lost little girl he takes in his house.
Why similar: Visual Novel 61.6%, Anime 32.9%, Indie 5.4%
- #28 Lucid9: Inciting Incident
79% matchVery Positive90% of 1,040 reviews2016
Dev: Fallen Snow Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Lucid9 is a visual novel focused on a web of intricate mysteries set in the fictional 2018 metropolis of Isamu. Lucid9: Inciting Incident is the first part of the story, focused on a string of disappearances that occur at a prestigious, uppity boarding academy.
Why similar: Visual Novel 59.2%, Anime 38.9%, Indie 2%
- #29 Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
76% matchVery Positive92% of 2,273 reviews2025
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A dice-driven RPG, in a human and heartfelt sci-fi world. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head and no memory of your past. Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #30 OPUS: The Day We Found Earth
79% matchVery Positive87% of 1,683 reviews2016
Dev: SIGONO INC.
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Dive into the boundless galaxy and embark on an emotional adventure! Help little robot Emeth to fulfill a century-old promise by finding Earth in order to save Mankind—so step into the spaceship, operate a deep space telescope, and find out what’s out there in the unknown.
Why similar: Visual Novel 62.8%, Anime 32.3%, Indie 4.9%
- #31 homebound
77% matchVery Positive89% of 54 reviews2023
Dev: Justin Yip
Windows · Mac
Tasked with finding humanity a new home, a lonely astronaut braves a desolate planet while making a fluffy friend along the way. homebound is a short 2D puzzle platformer that explores the feeling of home.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #32 A Traveler to unknown Thule
76% matchVery Positive91% of 65 reviews2023
Dev: komasukePub: Nostia
Windows · Mac
Adventure Game Traveling around Iceland
Why similar: Anime 50.7%, Visual Novel 49.3%
- #33 The Dearest Person
73% matchVery Positive94% of 631 reviews2024
Dev: house.opposite
Windows · Mac · Linux
A visual novel about what it means to be human. A story about loneliness, self-identification, and the meaning of existence.
Why similar: Visual Novel 63%, Anime 37%
- #34 OMNIMUS
77% matchVery Positive87% of 55 reviews2019
Dev: Angry gamesPub: Total
Windows · Mac · Linux
Omnimus. Welcome to the future! A visual novel about a daring experiment.
Why similar: Visual Novel 51%, Anime 35.5%, Indie 13.5%
- #35 Orion: A Sci-Fi Visual Novel
78% matchMixed54% of 82 reviews2015
Dev: Cylight Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A science-fiction visual novel centered on the implications of time travel, artificial intelligence, and humanity's ascent to the stars.
Why similar: Visual Novel 100%
- #36 Layover Lovers
74% matchVery Positive92% of 86 reviews2023
Dev: Moonlit Works
Windows · Mac · Linux
A terminal love story
Why similar: Visual Novel 55.7%, Anime 41.2%, Indie 3%
- #37 OPUS: Rocket of Whispers
74% matchVery Positive92% of 1,673 reviews2018
Dev: SIGONO INC.
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Rocket of Whispers is an award-winning post-apocalyptic adventure that follows two survivors on a journey to launch a space burial for the lost souls of their desolate world. Help them search the snowy wasteland for supplies and the courage to say goodbye.
Why similar: Visual Novel 57.4%, Anime 36.2%, Indie 6.4%
- #38 Stellar Code
71% matchVery Positive97% of 469 reviews2025
Dev: Fragaria
Windows
Mysterious phenomena from space. A researcher's fatal accident. Cryptic codes engraved on an unknown material. Together with your brilliant sister-in-law, you must unravel a mystery that could determine the fate of Earth. A sci-fi mystery visual novel of discovery and suspense.
Why similar: Visual Novel 60%, Anime 39.3%, Indie 0.7%
- #39 群星战纪: 遗失的星辰 - STARS ERA: LOST STARS
75% matchVery Positive85% of 81 reviews2020
Dev: AnimicGame
Windows
在可怕的噩梦中苏醒,岁月发现自己已沉睡了数万年。 自己曾经效忠的庞大帝国,因为突然爆发的“深渊侵蚀”,只剩下寥寥数人与最珍贵的“心智模型”。 面对外部极其相近的“类人类文明”与卷土重来的“深渊”,背负着仇恨与责任的岁月,又该如何抉择……
Why similar: Visual Novel 56.3%, Anime 39.5%, Indie 4.3%
- #40 PASSIONERS
73% matchMixed64% of 284 reviews2025
Dev: CryoDreams Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Passioners is a steamy visual novel set aboard a colonization spacecraft. Awakened from cryosleep too soon, the protagonist faces isolation but decides to awaken others, sparking forbidden desires and intense encounters.
Why similar: Visual Novel 100%
- #41 Last Horizon
75% matchVery Positive81% of 260 reviews2015
Dev: PixeljamPub: Akupara Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 18 minMean: 112.4 hrs≥1hr: 32%
Pilot the last vessel of a fallen civilization into the vast expanse of space. Collect resources and search for a new world to call home in this minimalist space exploration and survival game.
Why similar: Anime 77.5%, Indie 22.5%
- #42 A Long Journey to an Uncertain End
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 57 reviews2023
Dev: Crispy Creative
Windows
Explore the known and unknown galaxy with a ragtag crew of eclectic new friends in this narrative management space opera. You are a sentient spaceship, an outlawed commodity, and there's an entire galaxy between you and freedom…not to mention your abusive ex on your tail.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #43 Imitosis
70% matchVery Positive98% of 204 reviews2024
Dev: One Over Games
Windows
A free 5-minute visual novel. A security concern demands your attention.
Why similar: Visual Novel 93.4%, Indie 6.6%
- #44 Toran
72% matchVery Positive94% of 250 reviews2019
Dev: Really Interactive
Windows
In this sci-fi puzzle adventure "short game" you are a scientist, stranded on a distant moon during an expedition to investigate alien remains. After finding a strange platform, what seemed to be a one way trip might turn into an intergalactic odyssey.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #45 A Flicker of Light
71% matchVery Positive84% of 137 reviews2022
Dev: 饺子社
Windows
In this visual novel, experience the story of Ethan Syfran, who by an accident got him and his family caught in a whirlpool of crime in a catastrophe-swept world. How would he struggle to get out and save everything he cherished... or carry up all the sins he'd done and keep going?
Why similar: Visual Novel 54.1%, Anime 42.1%, Indie 3.8%
- #46 Stellar Dream - Part 1
68% matchVery Positive88% of 119 reviews2025
Dev: Winterlook Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Embark on a journey to find a new home for humanity. Forge relationships with women aboard the ship and aliens on exotic planets in this Adults-Only Visual Novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 100%
- #47 natsuno-kanata - beyond the summer
69% matchVery Positive95% of 899 reviews2022
Dev: Kazuhide Oka
Windows · Mac
── In the summer of the world that has ended, the girl travels aimlessly. "natsuno-kanata - beyond the summer" is a text adventure game that depicts girls traveling in apocalypse. Through talking to the girls, we get to know them and approach the mysteries of the world ──
Why similar: Visual Novel 56.8%, Anime 40%, Indie 3.2%
- #48 Odysseus Kosmos and his Robot Quest: Episode 1
71% matchVery Positive80% of 584 reviews2018
Dev: Pavel KostinPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 23.3 hrs≥1hr: 31%
What do you do if you are the only one left aboard a spaceship? Your team has embarked on a mysterious expedition a few years ago, the ship’s machinery has started acting up and it seems there are ghosts wandering about. Luckily, the black hole above you doesn’t pose any problems…yet.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #49 Vlare
67% matchVery Positive95% of 65 reviews2026
Dev: Meyley
Windows
A supernova, a broken telescope, Lum, and a night full of strange encounters and painful memories. Join Eli on a short, emotional point-and-click journey through the city.
Why similar: Anime 93.1%, Indie 6.9%
- #50 Narcissu 1st & 2nd
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,284 reviews2015
Dev: stage-nanaPub: Sekai Project
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 47%
This is a story of disease and suffering; of medication and adverse effects; of thoracotomy scars and cellular poisons; of the living who cannot help but to die and of the dying who cannot help but to live; of a resting place other than "on 7F" or "at home".
Why similar: Visual Novel 63.8%, Anime 33.9%, Indie 2.3%
- #51 Winter Polaris
70% matchVery Positive94% of 96 reviews2019
Dev: stage-nanaPub: Sekai Project
Windows
A mysterious global pandemic is making people disappear into thin air. A mysterious glass object carried by a girl found adrift at sea. Two stories that set two pairs of protagonists off on separate journeys around the world. What does it mean to live, make mistakes, and live again?
Why similar: Visual Novel 59.4%, Anime 40.6%
- #52 NeuroNet: Mendax Proxy
69% matchVery Positive82% of 66 reviews2023
Dev: Dream Harvest
Windows
You are Arc, a city management AI. Designed to manage a city-wide AR metaverse known as the NeuroNet. Meet its many users, build relationships and help or hinder their lives while trying to balance the wider needs of the city. Find your humanity in a world losing theirs to technology.
Why similar: Visual Novel 100%
- #53 Quantum Suicide
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 118 reviews2020
Dev: Cotton Candy Cyanide
Windows · Mac · Linux
Quantum Suicide is a game of betrayal, deception and romance in the cold depths of space.
Why similar: Visual Novel 55.8%, Anime 39.6%, Indie 4.6%
- #54 Anamnesia - part 1: am i my body?
67% matchVery Positive94% of 89 reviews2024
Dev: Simon Herbig
Windows · Mac
Sci-Fi Mystery Visual Novel. Nine people are trapped in an underground research facility, forced to play a game of life and death. Check your log to find the truth that connects those apparent strangers - if you even want to, that is.
Why similar: Visual Novel 59.5%, Anime 39.2%, Indie 1.4%
- #55 Procrastinaut
67% matchVery Positive86% of 77 reviews2024
Dev: cptbuk
Windows
Stranded for unknown reasons in the lower orbit of a purple gas giant, you are kind of just chilling out. You should probably get on with your mission. There's still plenty of time, though.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #56 OPUS: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 9,275 reviews2021
Dev: SIGONO INC.
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 13.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Echo of Starsong is a visual novel style adventure game. Eda, a girl who can hear mysterious sound waves known as starsong, crosses paths with a young man in search of their source. Together, they venture out to the heart of space to unravel an ancient myth.
Why similar: Visual Novel 56.7%, Anime 39.2%, Indie 4.2%
- #57 Panthalassa
63% matchVery Positive100% of 51 reviews2026
Dev: Meia Calça
Windows
Panthalassa is a Point and click Puzzle game set in an underwater alien world. You play as an AI reborn in a highly advanced body they do not recognize. Interface with otherworldly technology and unlock the secrets behind this strange planet.
Why similar: Visual Novel 100%
- #58 Replicomica
64% matchVery Positive98% of 57 reviews2025
Dev: enyevgPub: Look Who’s Talking Publishing
Windows · Mac
A short, atmospheric experience set inside a handcrafted dream. You are a small, solitary citizen drifting through augmented memories. Boot up your LonelyOS and let the robots guide you.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #59 Starcom: Nexus
66% matchVery Positive91% of 2,295 reviews2019
Dev: Wx3 Labs, LLC
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Suddenly thrown into an unknown galaxy, you must explore, fight or befriend aliens and transform your ship from a small survey vessel into a powerful battlecruiser to unravel the mystery of the forces that brought you here and find your way home.
Why similar: Indie 100%