60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Time Travel, Choices Matter, Sci-fi.
A time travel project. A group of students. A cat that eats too much. Can you rewrite fate without losing what matters most?
STEINS;GATE ELITE
STEINS;GATE ELITE follows a rag-tag band of tech-savvy young students who discover the means of changing the past via e-mail using a modified microwave.
STEINS;GATE
Developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus, STEINS;GATE was awarded Famitsu magazine's coveted annual Game of Excellence award and was voted one of the most emotionally charged “tear-inducing games” ever made, in a Famitsu poll. It is a gripping and moving Visual Novel, which has already spawned manga and anime adaptations.
STEINS;GATE ELITE follows a rag-tag band of tech-savvy young students who discover the means of changing the past via e-mail using a modified microwave.
Why similar: Time Travel 42.2% ★, Visual Novel 25.5%, Anime 15.7%, Sci-fi 11%, Multiple Endings 2.6%
Developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus, STEINS;GATE was awarded Famitsu magazine's coveted annual Game of Excellence award and was voted one of the most emotionally charged “tear-inducing games” ever made, in a Famitsu poll. It is a gripping and moving Visual Novel, which has already spawned manga and anime adaptations.
Why similar: Time Travel 40.5% ★, Visual Novel 24.3%, Anime 14%, Sci-fi 10.8%, Multiple Endings 5.5%
A time-travel mystery visual novel about found-family, connections, and hope in dark times.
Why similar: Time Travel 38.7% ★, Visual Novel 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Anime 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.1%
If you can't save the one you love… How can you save humanity? Sequel to the visual novel cult classic. Experience an alternate worldline of STEINS;GATE.
Why similar: Time Travel 40.1% ★, Visual Novel 25.1%, Anime 14.7%, Sci-fi 11.1%, Multiple Endings 5.7%
A story for every lab member. Discover a new side of each STEINS;GATE character and get a glimpse of their inner thoughts through 10 new stories.
Why similar: Time Travel 44.6% ★, Visual Novel 26.9%, Anime 14.7%, Sci-fi 13.1%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Hank Krang, a dirty thief from the near future, recently had a self-aware time machine called the Time Excursion Digital Interface, or TEDI, fall into his lap after a poker game. He has decided to use this technology to go throughout time, stealing priceless artifacts.
Why similar: Time Travel 44.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Sci-fi 12.7%, Casual 10.3%
Sanzenkai Setsuna awakens on the shore of isolated island Urashima with no memories of his past. Befriending three local girls, Rinne, Karen, and Sara, Setsuna's quest to discover the secrets of Urashima and how they tie into his own past - and future - begins.
Why similar: Time Travel 33.3% ★, Visual Novel 25.7%, Anime 18.1%, Sci-fi 9.1%, Multiple Endings 4.6%
Join the Time Tenshi on their thrilling adventures through time! Make key decisions to influence the story's outcome... and maybe even go on a date!
Why similar: Time Travel 29.7% ★, Visual Novel 21.5%, Anime 15.9%, Sci-fi 10.3%, Multiple Endings 7.4%
Alter your past and future in this thought-provoking and edgy time travel game. Are you willing to live with the effects that your changes may cause?
Why similar: Time Travel 55.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 10%, Casual 8.9%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.9%
A breathtaking visual novel that will make you live through two eras filled with love, terrifying mysteries, and bullets. Follow Jake as he travels back and forth between the 90s and the Prohibition era of the 20s, and make choices that will determine his fate.
Why similar: Time Travel 34.7% ★, Visual Novel 17.4%, Anime 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.3%, Interactive Fiction 6.6%
"Ten years from now, I will be dead..." A coming-of-age fantasy adventure tale, Future Mirror is a visual novel that explores fate and the choices that affect our future, tragedy, relationships, and happiness.
Why similar: Time Travel 26.4% ★, Visual Novel 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Anime 9.8%
A visual novel for girls: Experience a fun time travel adventure and make friends with some quirky girls at a science camp. Will you solve the mysteries and find your way back to your time? Your choices make your own story! Full with challenging puzzle games, and unique endings.
Why similar: Time Travel 39.5% ★, Visual Novel 19.3%, Sci-fi 11.8%, Anime 9.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.8%
Japan, 2030 A.D. Memories can now be digitized and archived, allowing people to communicate with the deceased. With only one week left before his best friend’s memories are deleted, can Hiroki uncover the truth behind Sorano’s death?
Why similar: Visual Novel 44.2%, Anime 28.7%, Sci-fi 12.7%, Casual 7.5%, Choices Matter 4.6%
STEINS;GATE returns! Rebooted for the modern era! Featuring fully updated visuals, UI, and an all-new story that breathes new life into the streets of Akihabara.
Why similar: Time Travel 34.1% ★, Visual Novel 26.1%, Sci-fi 10.5%, Anime 9.6%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
Play rock, paper, scissors to get off an alien space station. Esperanto: Vi devas ludi papero, tondilo, ŝtono por forlasi eksterteran kosmostacion.
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Sci-fi 17.9%, Casual 17.2%, Choices Matter 8.1%
A choice-based, visual novel with time travelling teapots!
Why similar: Time Travel 25.7% ★, Visual Novel 22%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Sci-fi 11.5%
4 years after the events of Angels with Scaly Wings, humans and dragons co-exist in a society built from the remains of a broken world. A new threat looms on the horizon. Re-discover this unique setting and lead an investigation in this compelling sci-fi visual novel with dating sim elements.
Why similar: Time Travel 33.2% ★, Visual Novel 15.3%, Sci-fi 9.6%, Anime 9.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%
Let's Go Fever Time! Lovely Angel! By day, ordinary girls. By night, the 'Phantom Thief Angels TwinAngel' - on a mission to reclaim stolen treasures. Winter 2024: The Angels descend on Steam.
Why similar: Time Travel 45.6% ★, Visual Novel 21.1%, Anime 11.5%, Sci-fi 8.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.4%
Memories of Rachel is a text adventure game where you pick up keywords called fragments from the protagonist's memories and answer questions to advance the main story. No sudden action sequences, no clicking on maps. But their secrets and the overlap of memories will stick like a thorn in your hear.
Why similar: Time Travel 39.3% ★, Visual Novel 20.9%, Sci-fi 13.6%, Anime 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
The strangest things happen when you don't expect them...
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.3%, Time Travel 17.5% ★, Anime 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Choices Matter 7.7%
Five days ago, Janet left her dorm to go on a date - and never came back. Was she kidnapped? Murdered? The truth may be even stranger. Solve puzzles to connect together pieces of the story in a science-fiction adventure with eleven possible endings!
Why similar: Time Travel 39.5% ★, Visual Novel 20.2%, Sci-fi 12.6%, Anime 11.1%, Multiple Endings 6.6%
Fate, love, death... Can the enigma be solved? 『The VII Enigma』is a character-driven sci-fi mystery visual novel. Set in a shadowy world of dystopian conspiracy, you must defy the fabric of reality, navigating the desperate path to the 'true end' against the tyranny of time itself.
Why similar: Time Travel 42.8% ★, Visual Novel 20%, Sci-fi 12.6%, Anime 11%, Multiple Endings 4.8%
A dark visual mystery novel featuring transhumanism, traditional marriage, loneliness, and cosplay. Two pursuable characters. Five endings. Welcome to the future.
Why similar: Visual Novel 52.8%, Anime 18.5%, Sci-fi 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 8.1%, Indie 2.3%
The Sequel to Sexbot, now in development.
Why similar: Time Travel 32.9% ★, Visual Novel 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Sci-fi 9.2%
A visual novel about cute melancholic girls!
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.1%, Anime 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Casual 9.6%
There's nothing better than swimming with a variety of women. Work hard and play hard with these beautiful swimmers to ensure the best of endings together as you compete for a place on the team.
Why similar: Time Travel 28.8% ★, Visual Novel 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Anime 11.7%
From renowned Japanese visual novel brand SMEE, LOVEPICAL-POPPY!, the ultimate moege, arrives on Steam! Made for SMEE’s 15th anniversary and celebrating 150k+ sales, it keeps the brand’s signature sweetness while adding life-sim gameplay and a unique story progression system.
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.1%, Anime 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Casual 9.3%
In the aftermath of catastrophic global warming, humans live in conflict with their new, not-so-human neighbors... and three "Alices" must fight against humanity to ensure the survival of their race.
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.2%, Anime 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Casual 15.2%, Sci-fi 14.2%
The latest visual novel by Tomo Kataoka, the author of Narcissu 1st & 2nd, has arrived! An empty world with endless rain and only one person. Here there is no hunger, sickness or even death. Just what story does this world's one occupant have?
Why similar: Visual Novel 44.2%, Anime 34%, Interactive Fiction 7.3%, Choices Matter 4.9%, Casual 4%
「あの頃に帰りたい─、たとえその先が暗闇だとしても─」『学園もの×SF』でお送りする青春SFビジュアルノベル。平凡な学園生活で、青春を謳歌する主人公とヒロイン。しかし、学園にはある病気と、世界を変えてしまうような秘密が潜んでおり……。
Why similar: Time Travel 39.9% ★, Visual Novel 20.4%, Sci-fi 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%, Anime 8.4%
Human belief has the power to change reality. For millennia, alien races have been visiting Earth, gaining supernatural abilities and fantastic wealth by exploiting this remarkable power. But humans are advancing, and many aliens now find themselves leaving Earth with nothing but debts and regrets.
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Anime 12.7%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%
Meet Mariah, Maria, and Missy a group of college girls from Greeley University of Arts, however like most people who attend college find themselves also working a part-time job trying to pay off their student loans and other bills. For Mariah, working part time at a shop wasn’t enough.
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.5%, Anime 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Casual 15.1%, Choices Matter 6.4%
Now if the grandfather paradox isn't a thing, does that mean that we can we kick grandpa down the stairs? Retrocausality is a kinetic novel where you encounter paradoxes, causal loops, and inversions. The story follows our cast who survive an anomaly only to find themselves in a temporal war.
Why similar: Time Travel 44.8% ★, Visual Novel 20.8%, Anime 15.1%, Sci-fi 12.6%, Casual 4.3%
A sci-fi adventure full of robot battles, pop music, and emotion. Featuring one of the largest branching storylines ever in a VR game with 15-20 hours of gameplay, Altdeus will place you in the shoes of Chloe, a pilot in humanity's forces fighting massive hostile organisms known as the Meteora.
Why similar: Time Travel 26.9% ★, Visual Novel 16.3%, Anime 12%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Sci-fi 10.7%
Kody, a modern gym rat gets zapped by strange lightning and time-travels to 1898. A BARA, choices matter, alternate history, Visual Novel Musical set in the East Coast of USA. LGBTQ+ with romance options.
Why similar: Time Travel 46.5% ★, Visual Novel 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Casual 7.6%, Choices Matter 5.2%
A semi-autobiographical game about pizza and the time-travelers who make it.
Why similar: Time Travel 51.8% ★, Visual Novel 26.2%, Casual 14.1%, Indie 6.4%, Singleplayer 1.5%
Experience school life with the members of Lazulight in this unofficial free fan-game. Go through a story full of ups and downs as you face new challenges and overcome your problems with the help of your new friends.
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.9%, Anime 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Casual 8.3%, Choices Matter 7.2%
Rectitude, is a Sci-Fi visual novel that centers around Timothy, a renowned professor who creates a groundbreaking technology.
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.4%, Anime 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Sci-fi 11.4%, Casual 9.9%
Bright Oak is a heavily character-driven visual novel with elements of science fiction. Discover the tragic secrets behind Bright Oak’s preternatural dilemma; find friendship, or possibly love; save the town and make your way home--and if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again!
Why similar: Time Travel 40.7% ★, Visual Novel 20%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Sci-fi 9.8%, Choices Matter 7.6%
Natural - Beyond Nature - is a Mystery, Drama, Supernatural Visual Novel. Follow the story of Olea in a chance encounter with two residents of a quiet island, Flori and Llima. Can Olea save them from their cruel yet inevitable fate?
Why similar: Visual Novel 35.8%, Anime 19.2%, Casual 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.8%
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 52.8%, Anime 26.4%, Casual 15.6%, Indie 4.4%, Singleplayer 0.8%
As their feet lead them on a journey... They happen upon the secret of how this world was destroyed.
Why similar: Visual Novel 34.7%, Anime 23.9%, Sci-fi 20.5%, Casual 17.9%, Indie 1.8%
Deep Pixel Melancholy is a visual novel about being stuck in a time loop inside a gray, soulless city. Unravel the mystery, and decide whether escaping is really worth it.
Why similar: Time Travel 29.7% ★, Visual Novel 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Sci-fi 9.8%
A breathtaking sci-fi visual novel! Since the Z gas appeared in the atmosphere, it is no longer possible to breath outside the Dome. You play as Carl Thanavan, a young scientist determined to uncover the origin of the catastrophe. Which path will you choose?
Why similar: Visual Novel 33%, Sci-fi 19.4%, Anime 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.8%
Let's spend the next three real-time days together uncovering the mystery of what went horribly wrong on a derelict generation ship, with the help of a spunky/more-than-slightly-traumatized AI sidekick! A sequel to Analogue: A Hate Story that tells a whole new hate story of its own.
Why similar: Visual Novel 52.3%, Anime 18.6%, Sci-fi 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 6.5%, Indie 2.6%
Complex Loop is a sci-fi themed visual novel. This is a story of time loops between past and future. Within a time limit of 20 minutes, your mission is to save a mysterious girl died from an explosion accident one year ago. Solve puzzles and reveal the truth behind the tragedy. An adventure awaits!
Why similar: Time Travel 37.2% ★, Visual Novel 16.3%, Anime 12%, Sci-fi 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
Mechanical ghosts hide in the fog and the summer sky prays to collapse. Like a broken tape, do you still remember your name?
Why similar: Time Travel 45.5% ★, Visual Novel 16.3%, Anime 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
Dullpain is a side-scrolling, interaction, and storytelling game. Playing as Jingwen, a young boss of a long-established repair shop, you need to repair not only everyday items, also memories. You can enjoy dull-pain and breathtaking stories in different time and space and redefine the end of story.
Why similar: Time Travel 35% ★, Visual Novel 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Anime 12.9%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
"Endless Monday: In Progress" - New job, new Penny. Our favorite former corporate grunt is back, and working hard to live the dream! But as she struggles to keep the dream alive, she'll need all the help she can get, from friends, angry ex-coworkers, the past, and beyond.
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.6%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Anime 13.1%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
A fan visual novel where you join Nana at Japari Park as new caretaker. Fun and food await in adventures with an energetic serval cat and an always hungry fox!
Why similar: Visual Novel 35.2%, Anime 25%, Sci-fi 18.9%, Choices Matter 7%, Multiple Endings 6.5%
This lighthearted visual novel lets you meet four quirky young women. A fun and highly interactive story taking you back in time – to the 1990s and a castle full of science, mysteries and – perhaps – romance...
Why similar: Time Travel 34.8% ★, Visual Novel 19.9%, Anime 14.1%, Sci-fi 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.2%
Unravel a narrative-driven 2.5D anime adventure as Hector, a dirt-poor genius and creator of the world’s first time machine. Travel between timelines, meet intriguing characters, and explore futuristic cityscapes as you seek to save reality from time-bending forces beyond imagination.
Why similar: Time Travel 47.2% ★, Visual Novel 19.5%, Anime 16%, Sci-fi 12%, Choices Matter 2.8%
In this city built upon the ideal coexistence of civilization and the environment, Tennouji Kotarou spends his days with his friends, Kanbe Kotori and Yoshino Haruhiko. In this peaceful city, a tumultuous event shakes the foundations of Kazamatsuri once a year.
Why similar: Visual Novel 28%, Anime 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Casual 7.5%
One day, as he is walking through this bustling city of monotony, moving through the crowds of people all dressed exactly the same... Something actually stands out—a girl dressed in a traditional school uniform from ages past…
Why similar: Visual Novel 35.7%, Anime 23.9%, Sci-fi 19.1%, Casual 18.1%, Indie 2%
Alone and stuck in job that he has no passion for, Ray is about to meet someone that may change his life forever. Will they be able to find salvation together?
Why similar: Visual Novel 36.9%, Anime 26.4%, Sci-fi 22.7%, Casual 10.4%, Indie 1.9%
a love story between time and space
Why similar: Time Travel 50.8% ★, Visual Novel 23.2%, Anime 9%, Multiple Endings 7.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 5.4%
"Human Beings' Extinction Day: 2074"is a text-based visual novel game with a sci-fi and suspense theme. After an unprecedented disaster caused by an accident, the future of humanity seems bleak. Until April 9, 2074, a pivotal event that would shape humanity's fate occurred……
Why similar: Time Travel 48.4% ★, Visual Novel 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Sci-fi 8.8%, Multiple Endings 6%
Nanaboshi Kanata is a student traumatized by love whose world gets turned upside down when two girls vying for the Galactic Presidency declare that he will fall in love with them. Aliens, UFOs and even a guidebook for love? Nothing is normal and everything is weird in this comedic visual novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 35%, Anime 21.9%, Sci-fi 19%, Casual 10.2%, Choices Matter 6.6%
Tomorrow Will Be Dying is an atmospheric, story-driven slice-of-life visual novel with light sim elements about finding yourself through your connections with others.
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.2%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Anime 18.6%, Casual 15.7%, Multiple Endings 6.4%
