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Adrian Heart is a reclusive composer dragged into the world of the entertainment industry by his famous sister to become the new personal assistant to one of the elite talents who calls the agency home. He is none to happy about it.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.7%, Romance 16.1%, Dating Sim 13.4%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%

The anti-dating sim where you make friends instead of girlfriends! Balance between heartbreak and heartache! Will you graduate without a single friend? Or will you survive long enough to reject them all?

Why similar: Narrative 20.2% ★, LGBTQ+ 14.3%, Dating Sim 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%, Visual Novel 8.2%

Luna has been working too hard, fortunately as she finishes up each night she manages to find her way to a hidden out of the way cafe, one where the gals all dress up like different animals. It could be a place for dreams to come true, or just for Luna to blow off some steam and relax each night.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.7%, Romance 13.5%, Dating Sim 12.5%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%

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+ 17.4%, Dating Sim 12.8%, Romance 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Visual Novel 9.9%

High Elo Girls is a Visual Novel set in the esports scene where you play as the latest recruit for a new all-girls team. Can you help your squad achieve their true potential, or will you only squander your own?

Why similar: Narrative 20% ★, LGBTQ+ 13.3%, Romance 9.8%, Dating Sim 9.1%, Interactive Fiction 7.8%

Three loves. One week. Merry Crisis is an intimate, character-driven romance visual novel about love, loss, and belonging—is home what you left behind, or where you’re headed?

Why similar: Narrative 21.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, LGBTQ+ 11.2%, Dating Sim 10.5%, Romance 8.9%

TFTU: After Midnight is a dark / gothic visual novel with multiple endings. Your choices matter and will determine who stays alive and who dies. Discovering the whole truth about the murders will require more than one playthrough.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.9%, Dating Sim 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%, Visual Novel 9.2%, Choices Matter 8.4%

Sole survivor of a terrible incident, you find yourself in the company of new friends and new conflict on the island of Illyria.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.3%, Dating Sim 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Romance 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.2%

The hapless, love-struck Ichika made a big mistake, and she might have ruined her friendship with Hana forever. With the help of her classmate Ayumi, can she work her own feelings out in time to show Hana how she really feels? A soft, comedic romance with big personalities and a tinge of melodrama.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 14.8%, Dating Sim 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Romance 11%, Visual Novel 9.2%

Spellbound: The Magic Within is a branching narrative, multiple ending visual novel. Jump into a world of Magic, Witchcraft and Mystery as a magician in training. Interact with a host of unusual characters. Choose from multiple schools of magic, bond with your tutor, and maybe even save the world.

Why similar: Narrative 17.2% ★, LGBTQ+ 16.1%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%, Dating Sim 9.4%

A psychological horror story where you work in a company that serves mermaids as seafood. Gamble your blood, chat with customers, trade ingredients, and create fake mermaids. Are mermaids more like fish, people, or monsters?

Why similar: Narrative 23% ★, Dating Sim 12%, Romance 11.5%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%

Roadtrip across the country. Confront a tyrant. The revolution will be messy—but the relationships will be messier.

Why similar: Narrative 17.4% ★, Romance 14.4%, LGBTQ+ 11%, Choices Matter 10%, Mystery 8.6%

A modern fantasy BL Visual Novel following a young mans journey into a hidden world of gods and magic to recover the past he's lost, and find his missing family. Alongside 3 attractive romance options, Myka Riley delves into the unknown.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.4%, Romance 13.7%, Dating Sim 12.5%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%

An off-grid cabin. A tech-savvy loner. One ray of sunshine in a bleak, ruined world. Cabin Fever is a slice-of-life visual novel with meaningful player choices, multiple endings to explore, and a story that will touch your heart.

Why similar: Narrative 26.9% ★, Dating Sim 16%, Romance 14.9%, Visual Novel 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%

"I promise, I will get you to Heaven!" Earn your afterlife ticket with angel Ariel! Manage schedules and master 3 mini-games: Dog Walking (Action), Playtime (Survivor-like), and Cleaning (Tower Defense). A heartwarming multi-ending visual novel featuring a Monk, Nun, and Pastor helper trio.

Why similar: Narrative 24.6% ★, Time Management 16.1%, Dating Sim 13.5%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Romance 9.6%

A BL/yaoi mystery visual novel that follows a man named Sebastian as he’s forced into a game of life-or-death, alongside three strangers. Who put him there, and more importantly… who can he trust?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.7%, Romance 11.6%, Supernatural 10.3%, Visual Novel 10%, Mystery 7.6%

Finding love isn't always easy. Within a limited time, manage your life and find someone you truly love.

Why similar: Dating Sim 16.6%, Time Management 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Romance 9.7%

A BL dating sim with elements of studio management and interactions with voice actors! Follow Aki, a newbie voice director who has to complete the recordings for several BL dramas, and interact with the charming voice actors. Come give voice to the language of love!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.1%, Dating Sim 17.2%, Romance 13.8%, Visual Novel 9.4%, Drama 9.2%

Investigate a murder. Romance five woman. But trust carefully: one of them is the killer.

Why similar: Dating Sim 17.4%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Romance 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Mystery 9.5%

Fearbonding is a Yandere x Demon BL Horror Visual Novel. Play as Hinata, a demon, and try to tame the deranged Kosuke. Will you get to satisfy your hunger for fear through your new hunting dog or will you be the one to get devoured?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.5%, Romance 13.2%, Supernatural 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Dating Sim 9.2%

You wake up as a jester next to the king's lifeless body. You are trapped in a cursed kingdom with three love interests. Will you seek the truth, help the others, or try to escape?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 13.7%, Dating Sim 10.3%, Romance 10.1%, Detective 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 8.5%

A Boys Love visual novel set around a pulse-pounding hostage situation. Can Numata make it out of things unscathed? Every choice matters! Fully translated into English with the original Japanese voice acting intact.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Dating Sim 10.9%, Drama 10%

Charlotte, has been dumped by her long term girlfriend Mikka. Fortunately her sexy friend Sophie insists on taking her out to try and cheer her up. But Sophie is quite a wildcat so who knows where such a date could lead in this yuri/lesbian themed visual novel with multiple routes and endings.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.4%, Dating Sim 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Romance 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.8%

The girls of the Lingerie shop are back and they are in for their toughest day of the year, a mega sale event! How will the girls handle things, you get to decide not only how the sale goes but who you will control in this adult yuri/lesbian themed multi-routed visual novel game.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.6%, Dating Sim 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Romance 11.5%, Visual Novel 9.4%

In a world where the fae-touched fall prey to a sinister killer, only a Faeologist can uncover the truth. A dark academia murder mystery visual novel with supernatural cases, interactive investigation, romanceable characters, and multiple endings, set in the roaring 1920s New York.

Why similar: Narrative 17.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Detective 12.2%, Romance 11.3%, LGBTQ+ 11.2%

This world is woven of strings, of fate and of hate. What do you see, detective? A horror-mystery yuri visual novel peering into the maddening darkness of love and death.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.7%, Detective 14.3%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Romance 9.8%, Multiple Endings 8.7%

Camp Palut is an otome-style mystery that can be completed in 2-4 hours. Play as Jess, a high school senior attending summer camp for the first time. Luckily there are cuties ready to get to know you! Choose between the four unique love interests or play them all to piece together the whole story.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.8%, Supernatural 14%, Romance 13.5%, Dating Sim 13.1%, Visual Novel 11.2%

Death by Begonia is a surreal LGBTQ+ Southern gothic murder mystery. Follow Riley's attempts to reconnect with old childhood friends in a town haunted by annual serial murders. Will you fall in love and unlock the mysteries hidden in your friends' hearts? Or will you die trying?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Romance 11.6%, Visual Novel 9.2%, Multiple Endings 8.3%

This is a fun, tongue in cheek story of lustful urges and workplace romance. As two women go on a night out together to reaffirm their friendship as they start to work together once more.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.4%, Dating Sim 16.8%, Romance 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%

Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social network 'Videoverse' were still popular…

Why similar: Narrative 28% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Visual Novel 10.5%, LGBTQ+ 9%, Choices Matter 7.3%

Briana has been craving some time off all summer and finally with her shoot wrapped for hiatus she can relax at her summer cottage on the lake. To really enjoy herself she even drags her female co-stars along for the ride.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15%, Dating Sim 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Visual Novel 10%, Romance 9.9%

A slice-of-life visual novel with darker twists hiding within! Haru Amari wasn't looking for love, just a new beginning far from his past. Instead he finds himself in complicated relationships where he must decide between his needs and those of the men around him.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.3%, Dating Sim 16%, Romance 13.8%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Choices Matter 7.7%

A Chistmas themed afterstory to The Divine Speaker featuring Leos and Raen! Search for the elusive Mister Bells, spend the Winter Solstice together, and win at rock-paper-scissors against your favorite ex-assassin turned bounty hunter!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.8%, Dating Sim 14.7%, Romance 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Visual Novel 11.3%

Sent to Klodan as a royal envoy, the youngest prince of Fescilia expects diplomacy—not a land of fear and silence. With a trusted friend at his side, he is drawn into court intrigues and an encounter with a masked stranger. Six paths lie ahead, each leading to a different fate. Which will he choose?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.1%, Dating Sim 14.6%, Romance 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Visual Novel 11.6%

A detective visual novel inspired by Danganronpa and Everlasting Summer. You play as a young agent sent to an elite girls’ academy to investigate a suspicious death. Interrogate suspects, gather clues, and build romantic relationships — truth or temptation?

Why similar: Detective 15.4%, Romance 14.6%, Dating Sim 14.4%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%

Fall in love with marbles and learn to believe in yourself again.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.9%, Dating Sim 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Romance 11%, Visual Novel 10.1%

It is the year 2014 in the Shinjuku ward of Tokyo, Japan. Though previously banned at the close of World War II, the practice of the onmyoji—masters of spirits and divination—has been approved once again in order to combat the ongoing supernatural threat.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.4%, Supernatural 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Romance 10.2%, Multiple Endings 9.7%

Heart Rates: Plus is a short college romance Adult Visual Novel with meaningful choices and a realistic-but-simple sex simulation.

Why similar: Dating Sim 18.3%, Romance 15.7%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, LGBTQ+ 10.6%

A light admonishment from Mom sparks the realization that these twin sisters care for each other in more than a familial sense. In this dramatic & romantic yuri Visual Novel, it's up to you to navigate the forbidden tension between the sisters so their love can flourish without growing one-sided.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.2%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Romance 11.9%, Dating Sim 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.1%

Your choices guide Lane through this dark drama and romance as shifting pressures form, strain, and shatter strong bonds. Found a student government, recruit members, and struggle to maintain them in the face of unexpected challenges and danger.

Why similar: Dating Sim 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Romance 11.9%, Choices Matter 9.8%

Quantum Suicide is a game of betrayal, deception and romance in the cold depths of space.

Why similar: Narrative 18.8% ★, Romance 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Choices Matter 8.9%

Choose your own story as you take over a beach resort, of course it's not all fun and games but at least the park is filled with an array of beautiful women to distract you. Your choices will determine the story and whether romance is in the air and how your beach visit will end.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Dating Sim 15%, Visual Novel 11%, Romance 10.5%

Guide the traumatized 'Woochan' as you navigate his destiny. He can either find happiness with the heroine or remain forever lost in the depths of his past.

Why similar: Dating Sim 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Romance 11%, Multiple Endings 8.7%

Help Katsune find the Love's Heart while meeting countless girls at our lesbian university!

Why similar: Time Management 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, LGBTQ+ 9.9%, Romance 9.9%, Dating Sim 9.8%

Play through this loved-filled adventure. Find friends, lovers, or enemies at every turn. Some “friends” are not as they seem. Danger lurks here! Unravel the mystery and find love before time runs out in 8 Days of School.

Why similar: Dating Sim 14.2%, Romance 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Multiple Endings 9.7%

Campus Confidential is an LGBTQ slice-of-life dating sim with a supernatural subplot. Enjoy your campus experience, choose your subjects, study hard (or not), meet potential love interests of different genders... and try to uncover the mysteries shrouding the campus!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.8%, Dating Sim 20.4%, Supernatural 16.9%, Visual Novel 11%, Romance 9.2%

Crimes across the times. Are you able to solve them all?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Detective 12.6%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%

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: LGBTQ+ 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Choices Matter 10%

Live an 'ordinary life' as a game programmer. Go to work, pay your rent, and make time for yourself in your free time. What could go wrong?

Why similar: Time Management 22%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Dating Sim 12.2%, Multiple Endings 9.8%

A medieval fantasy BL Visual Novel in English and Spanish, Demo available

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.5%, Romance 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Dating Sim 9%, Anime 8.4%

Maiden of Milk is an adult, stat-based VN about managing the milk, moods, and schedules of five very busty women. Spend limited weekly energy on dates, milking, gifts, and intimate scenes to grow their curves and unlock new events.

Why similar: Dating Sim 18%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Time Management 15.6%, Visual Novel 11%, LGBTQ+ 8.9%

Shadows of Deceit is a choice-driven adult Visual Novel where you find yourself bound to the Goddess of Temptation, accept her gift and indulge in a life of pleasure or resist her pull and stay true to your heart. Go on a journey filled with desire, corruption, drama, comedy, and lots of sex.

Why similar: Dating Sim 17%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Romance 10.4%, Supernatural 8.4%

"Curtain Call" is a visual novel about (literally) breaking through social masks by forming meaningful connections with incredibly deep personalities. Whether you’re looking to make new friends or something more, there’s a whole cast of characters just dying to meet you!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.6%, Time Management 15.1%, Dating Sim 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Romance 11.4%

DEVIL'S LIMINAL is a branching slow-burn horror and yuri romance visual novel. In a life of poverty and violence, Margo Silva has one last summer in Arizona before college. Make choices to maintain a normal facade at work, romance an enigmatic new girl, and stop the occult plot to take Margo's life.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 14.7%, Dating Sim 11.7%, Supernatural 11.3%, Romance 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%

The story-rich 18+ prequel to The Divine Speaker. Follow alongside Aemyl and Lucius in a two-sided story about the past and the future.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24%, Romance 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Anime 7.5%

It's the Dawn of a New Age- The 21st century has brought about its own slew of problems for society at large. Asa result, the most promising youths from around the world have been gathered and enrolled in Amakawa Noble Academy.

Why similar: Visual Novel 17.5%, Romance 17.2%, Mystery 11.5%, Drama 11%, Story Rich 9.9%

Somnium Eleven is a text-based, dating sim RPG where you find romance as you try to explore the world, meet characters, and survive through a series of competitive trials to unlock your fate.

Why similar: Time Management 15.9%, Dating Sim 13.1%, LGBTQ+ 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Romance 10.6%

One of them is visiting a friend in Chicago. The other wants to shake things up in New York City. It starts in San Francisco, but where this relationship goes is all up to you.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.7%, Romance 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Dating Sim 12%

Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll: the romanticism of the Eighties, mystery and intrigues, betrayal and sacrifice, hatred and passion — all this and more in the new game from the creators of the legendary visual novel Everlasting Summer!

Why similar: Romance 12%, Detective 11.4%, Dating Sim 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%

To Kill Eros is a drama-filled BL Visual Novel exploring the flavors of love and the depth between people who join hands — while also blaming Eros for everything, of course!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.5%, Dating Sim 18.1%, Romance 14.8%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Choices Matter 7.6%