Games Like Saving You From Yourself

If Found... is a game about going home, coming out and erasing everything.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 47.7%, Indie 22%, Visual Novel 19.7%, Female Protagonist 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A deeply emotional narrative about identity and belonging that shares the introspective, choice-driven nature of the seed game.

He Fucked The Girl Out Of Me is a semi-autobiographical narrative visual novel about trauma and sex work made for the gameboy. The author explains how sex work impacted her life and changed her perception of the world. The game takes approximately 40 minutes to play from start to finish.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 42.2%, Psychological 23.2%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Female Protagonist 9.2%, Indie 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A raw and deeply personal visual novel that explores the complexities of gender and trauma with unflinching honesty.

Guide vampires through centuries of emotional baggage, decades of delusions and the odd bout of self-loathing with real cognitive behavioral therapy concepts and become a Vampire Therapist! Even vampires need a shoulder to cry on when a neck to bite just won’t do.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 62.5%, Visual Novel 37.5%

Why You'll Like It: A direct thematic match that uses the framework of therapy to explore complex character arcs and psychological growth.

An adventure game about old computers, community, creativity, fandom, gender, and the internet. Alex Cole is a teenage trans girl in 1999 who has yet to figure herself out. She spends much of her free time on the internet, browsing a fan forum for her favorite magical girl show, and chatting with her friends.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 55.9%, Indie 26.1%, Female Protagonist 11.2%, Visual Novel 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A touching coming-of-age story centered on the transgender experience that captures the same intimate, character-focused tone.

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 32.9%, Visual Novel 26%, Female Protagonist 20.4%, Indie 14.6%, LGBTQ+ 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This visual novel explores the ethics of technology in therapy and mental health, resonating with the professional yet personal dilemmas found in the seed game.

When your loved one hurts you, what do you do? A classic love story about letting go.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 46.2%, Indie 23.8%, Visual Novel 19.7%, Female Protagonist 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A short, impactful LGBTQ+ visual novel that focuses on the emotional weight of relationships and personal growth.

Tell Me Why is the multi-award winning episodic adventure game from Dontnod Entertainment in which twins use their supernatural bond to discover the truth of their troubled past.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 100%

Why You'll Like It: This narrative adventure features a transgender protagonist and focuses on uncovering past truths, mirroring the focus on identity and personal history.

A short non-linear narrative game about negative experiences after coming out as transgender.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 48.2%, Visual Novel 22.9%, Female Protagonist 14.8%, Indie 14.1%

Why You'll Like It: A text-based visual novel that directly addresses the internal and external struggles associated with gender identity.

Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment.

Why similar: Indie 42.6%, Psychological 27.7%, Visual Novel 21%, LGBTQ+ 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A pioneering interactive fiction game that uses the medium to simulate the experience of living with mental health struggles.

Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 48%, Visual Novel 34.5%, Indie 17.5%

Why You'll Like It: While set in a fantasy world, the core gameplay involves listening to and supporting characters through their personal crises, much like a therapist.

Can you collect all the fragments to reach your happy ending? Or will your attempts only end in tragedy? Find out in this psychological otome game as you sort your way through the secrets & lies.

Why similar: Indie 29.6%, Psychological 23.7%, Visual Novel 19.1%, LGBTQ+ 17.8%, Female Protagonist 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A visual novel that balances emotional storytelling with mystery and character-driven development.

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+ 46.9%, Visual Novel 25.1%, Female Protagonist 18.2%, Indie 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A gentle, narrative-focused game that explores the social anxieties and experiences of a young trans woman.

A visual novel about cute melancholic girls!

Why similar: Visual Novel 78.4%, Indie 21.6%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation-based visual novel that explores the patient-therapist relationship through multiple narrative paths.

The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 50.6%, Indie 27.2%, Visual Novel 22.2%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological narrative game that explores the ethics of manipulating human emotions and desires.

Meet cheerful Kaori Sawai, fresh out of nursing school, as she joins Yurigahama Hospital. Surviving a near death experience as a child left her with a desire to become a nurse and "healing hands" that let her relieve pain in patients just by touching them.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 52.3%, Visual Novel 27.4%, Female Protagonist 20.3%

Why You'll Like It: A medical-themed visual novel that explores the professional and personal lives of healthcare workers.

Have you ever wanted to be a psychiatrist? Now you can! Be a shrink for 14 days. Meet 14 patients with unique story of their lives. Diagnosis, treatment, chosen dialogues have impact on history of patients. The choice is yours.

Why similar: Medical Sim 46.8% ★, LGBTQ+ 26.9%, Psychological 26.3%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a direct simulation of the clinical environment, focusing on the diagnostic and conversational aspects of therapy.

Can you save magic before the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve? Life After Magic is a queer, retro visual novel that follows jaded ex-magical girls as they reconnect, deal with young adulthood, and face off against one last threat before Y2K hits.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 51.9%, Visual Novel 26.8%, Female Protagonist 18.9%, Indie 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: A story-rich visual novel that emphasizes character relationships and personal identity within a fantasy setting.

From Dischan Media, creators of the highly acclaimed Juniper's Knot, comes Dysfunctional Systems: Learning to Manage Chaos.Dysfunctional Systems is a visual novel series featuring Winter Harrison, a student mediator from a utopian world. Learning to Manage Chaos is the first entry in the series.What is a mediator?

Why similar: Visual Novel 69.5%, Indie 22.8%, Female Protagonist 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy game about managing complex systems and the psychological toll of high-stakes decision-making.

memories is a sapphic visual novel dress-up game where clothes are linked to painful memories of a failed relationship.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 43.7%, Visual Novel 24.7%, Indie 16.9%, Female Protagonist 14.7%

Why You'll Like It: A choice-driven visual novel that centers on LGBTQ+ themes and the impact of past decisions on the present.

Set out on a cross-country journey to win back the love of your life and endure the hardship of making story-defining choices that affect your life and the lives of those around you.

Why similar: Indie 49.2%, LGBTQ+ 42%, Female Protagonist 4.8%, Visual Novel 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: A game about life choices and the emotional consequences of the paths we take, mirroring the branching narrative of the seed game.

WE KNOW THE DEVIL is a visual novel about teens reluctantly fighting the devil at summer camp. Follow meangirl Neptune, tomboy Jupiter, and shy shy Venus as they get to know each other--but one always gets left out.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 42.8%, Visual Novel 23.3%, Indie 19.5%, Female Protagonist 14.5%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological visual novel that delves into the anxieties and identities of teenagers navigating their own internal struggles.

A visual novel about emotional survival in an automated world. Play as Lina, the last human cab driver. It’s your first night driving the lonely streets of Los Ojos, and your best friend has just disappeared. Stay on the road. Stay on the search. Stay human.

Why similar: Visual Novel 100%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on emotional labor and navigating the personal lives of passengers, echoing the therapist-patient dynamic.

A short visual novel about queer love and art. Follow Maya, a once-celebrated painter now paralyzed, as she struggles to accept her new reality and its effects on her relationship. Argue with your Prefrontal Cortex, insult an art critic, befriend the elderly.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 36.4%, Psychological 28.6%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Female Protagonist 14.6%

Why You'll Like It: A short, emotional visual novel that focuses on the nuances of queer identity and personal expression.

An intense, but also funny, medical drama that deals with a lot of life-changing decisions. Become an aspiring surgeon at Little Creek Hospital!

Why similar: Medical Sim 76.9% ★, Indie 14.8%, Female Protagonist 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A medical simulation game that incorporates heavy narrative elements and character-driven drama.

A slice-of-life visual novel about the hardships and joys of a trans girl transformed into a zombie.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 54.3%, Visual Novel 30.4%, Female Protagonist 15.3%

Help this girlfailure witch save her failing potion shop in this cute yuri visual novel!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 56.1%, Visual Novel 26.4%, Indie 9.2%, Female Protagonist 8.3%

It feels like your life isn't going anywhere--like there's some kind of mental block. You take the first step towards making an improvement and set up an appointment with a therapist in your local area.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 50.5%, Visual Novel 28.8%, Psychological 20.7%

Become the noble of a country on the brink of war.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 36.9%, Indie 28.4%, Visual Novel 23.4%, Female Protagonist 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: An indie visual novel that focuses on the branching paths of life and the importance of personal choices.

A yandere psychological horror visual novel. Choose a sweetheart to romance, but beware the petals of obsession.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 36.6%, Psychological 30.5%, Visual Novel 26.5%, Female Protagonist 6.3%

POV: You are Hitler’s psychologist in 1925. Diagnose his complexes by using both Jungian and Freudian psychotherapy and attempt to heal him. Resolve Hitler's trauma and prevent catastrophe via therapy and psychology. Succeed and avoid the war and holocaust.

Why similar: Psychological 43.5%, Visual Novel 39.8%, Indie 16.7%

In this unconventional visual novel, the player controls the story by choosing whether to use the main character's ability to read people's minds. As an agent of an intergalactic society of freedom fighters, Blaire's telepathic skills can be used in the name of freedom, or to manipulate others for power.

Why similar: Visual Novel 100%

Why You'll Like It: A visual novel that forces players to navigate complex social interactions and ethical choices.

A visit to a local Doctor takes an unsuspected turn, when a simple checkup turns intimate. Will your new GP be able to resolve your qualms?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 45.6%, Psychological 28.5%, Visual Novel 25.8%

[18+] Run a small clinic that performs transformations for clients. Research new transformation techniques. Hire staff and fulfill their dreams by granting them their own transformation. Upgrade your clinic and gain fame (or infamy!) from your actions. Become the ultimate TRANSFORMATION TYCOON!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 81.8%, Indie 18.2%

You are The Fateweaver; an ancient beast of legendary status. It is your job to determine which way Fate will unravel as you dig deep into the psyche of those who beckon. Decide whether to help those who beg for your mercy, or invoke the wrath of the Gods upon those you deem unworthy of existence...

Why similar: Psychological 33.7%, LGBTQ+ 30.3%, Visual Novel 24.5%, Female Protagonist 11.5%

Step into the chair of a therapist in Therapy Simulator! Guide your patients through emotional journeys with branching dialogue choices. Balance humor, humanity, and the chaos of therapy!

Why similar: Indie 100%

Experience a sneak peek of YIIK I.V! Step beyond Alex Eggleston's story and become the Nameless Child, a young girl pushed from a mysterious tower. Guide her through a surreal dimension where she must find a way to save both the Good Brother and the Bad Brother.

Why similar: Psychological 72.5%, Female Protagonist 27.5%

During the university summer break, I was wondering how to spend my time with no particular plans when my roommate Akira becomes a girl due to TS syndrome! If she climaxes 100 times within 30 days of TS syndrome, her gender will become fixed!? A debauched summer life with a sudden girl begins...

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 63.6%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Indie 14.2%, Female Protagonist 5.5%

Melody has decided to become a healer in this classic-inspired turn-based RPG about love, anxiety, and fighting funny-looking monsters in dungeons.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 59.4%, Indie 20.3%, Female Protagonist 20.3%

An eerie liminal game that explores just how far an angel can fall. Play as sapphic Lucifer and corrupt angels into falling... in love with you.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 51.5%, Visual Novel 28.7%, Female Protagonist 19.8%

"The day I put that uniform on, I saw myself in the mirror for the first time. And I dared to think, maybe, just maybe..." A free VN about standing up to the world to be yourself. Part of the NOISZ series, and prequel to NOISZ STΔRLIVHT.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 46.7%, Visual Novel 27.6%, Female Protagonist 19.8%, Indie 5.9%

Rewind time to save your girlfriend in a twisted high school death game. A gripping yuri visual novel: Investigate brutal murders, unravel psychological horrors, and fight for a forbidden love that defies death itself.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 41.5%, Visual Novel 23.6%, Indie 17.8%, Female Protagonist 17.1%

A visual slice-of-life lesbian romance about building trust, settling differences and a Nymph protagonist pining for muscular women.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 42.5%, Indie 25%, Visual Novel 22.4%, Female Protagonist 10.1%

A gloomy lesbian / yuri visual novel featuring characters based on famous Romantic poets such as Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Byron. Can you help Samantha Coleridge repair her fractured relationship with Lillian Wordsworth?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 33.5%, Visual Novel 21.7%, Indie 16.1%, Female Protagonist 15.2%, Psychological 13.6%

MALCATRAS' MAIDEN is a toxic yuri visual novel for adults about trauma, bonds, family, and sisterhood.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 46.1%, Visual Novel 24.4%, Female Protagonist 17.1%, Indie 12.4%

Wheel of Innocence is a lesbian visual novel where you peer into the life of a disabled high schooler named Reina.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 42%, Visual Novel 31%, Female Protagonist 21%, Indie 6.1%

"non-binary" is a video game that mixes text choices and bullet hell to tell the story of two non-binary people's journey of self-discovery. Make your choices. Dodge words. Go through things that hurt without breaking down. If you can.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 65.9%, Visual Novel 34.1%

The August Before: Chapter One is the first chapter in a meditative narrative 3D puzzle about cleaning up, sorting out and packing up your life before moving on. Clean up and don’t forget your old belongings on your way to the new life!

Why similar: Female Protagonist 69.7%, Indie 30.3%

Guide Bunnygirl through a lab of malfunctioning robots in this RPG about self-care! Learn how to weaponize her emotions in combat and meet unhinged robots who seem to know more about her than she does. Can you protect Bunnygirl? And...who is she, anyway??

Why similar: Female Protagonist 50.3%, Indie 49.7%

You are trapped in an experiment, trying to find ways to make you still "yourself" , persevere, and survive.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 58.5%, Indie 41.5%

Love Curse is a GL visual novel. You’ve fallen under a curse, and the only way to break it is to find your soulmate! The clock is ticking… Will you find true love? And what secrets will you uncover along the way?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 54.1%, Visual Novel 21.3%, Female Protagonist 21.2%, Indie 3.3%

Cameras and heads are rolling in this noir inspired RPGmaker horror game. Save the spectral starlets trapped in the deadly director's mansion, and escape without joining them in their fate.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 66.5%, Indie 19.5%, Female Protagonist 14%

Live out your last two summers with your childhood friend and attempt to save her from the many fates that await her in the backwards village where she grew up.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 70%, Indie 30%

In order to save the friend who was chosen as a victim, the girl embarked on the road alone... What will happen to this dreamy and mysterious road? What kind of role will you meet during the period? Also see the last.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 50.4%, Indie 49.6%

Shiina Taki's Decameron is a doujin interactive fiction based on anime「BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!!」. The story concentrates on Shiina Taki, the drummer and song writer of MyGO!!!!! and her fight against fate till the last breath.

Why similar: Visual Novel 36.2%, LGBTQ+ 34.4%, Indie 29.4%

Explore the mysterious room by traversing time, while you watch a man succumb to the room syndrome.

Why similar: Indie 71.6%, Female Protagonist 28.4%

Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).

Why similar: Indie 46.9%, Female Protagonist 36.7%, LGBTQ+ 16.4%

ALTER EGO is a 2D point-and-click narrative-based adventure game featuring psychological elements. Explore two levels with atmospheric environments, solve puzzles, and use your inventory items to uncover the mystery behind Reese and Winona’s relationship, and find the real culprit—if there is one.

Why similar: Psychological 41.6%, LGBTQ+ 40.3%, Female Protagonist 18.1%