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The final chapter of the Class of '09 VN series... this time from a different perspective! Join Nicole's best friend Jecka as you help her navigate the pitfalls of post-grad life! See what 2009 was truly like in this fully voiced interactive sitcom!

Why similar: Dark Comedy 34%, Comedy 18.8%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Thriller 5.9%

Work! Wan Wan Human is an [ADV Novel Game of Human Gachi-Inukenka] that educates sinners and turns them into adorable dogs. Become a correctional officer in a city of chaos where humans, demons, and angels are all mixed together and get the job done.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 28.6%, Visual Novel 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Comedy 14.3%, Dystopian 7.7%

Trapped in a haunted mansion with only your wits and an unlikely ally at your side, what will it take to survive this endless nightmare?

Why similar: Dark Comedy 31.6%, Thriller 18.8%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Comedy 9.1%

An absurdist comedy choose-your-own-adventure game featuring a massive cast of bizarre characters, notebook-doodle visuals, and 7 crazy endings! As you embark on your quest to go to the store, the denizens of this zany town will seek your help with their insane problems.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 40.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Comedy 12.1%, Adventure 3.3%

Customers... Don't let them find out... Rip-off! A thrilling rip-off adventure where if the customers find out, you'll explode!

Why similar: Dark Comedy 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Comedy 19.1%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%

Normal Person is a single player horror, first person Visual Novel where your choices matter! Will you be able to escape or will you be stuck in a limbo with the man who claims to be a "Normal person"

Why similar: Dark Comedy 42.8%, Visual Novel 24.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Comedy 11.1%, Choices Matter 4%

Alice is stuck somewhere and she's very confused. Will you talk to her? Will you help her? Will you rescue her? A choices matter visual novel.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 34.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Comedy 18.1%, Visual Novel 18%, Casual 4.7%

Heili, The musician who survived the life-or-death variety show "VIAGRA" and won a massive prize, has once again joined a show where his life on the line! Want to survive? Then, DANCE! PERIOD SURVIVAL:Final Trial is a mystery adventure game you find "Varient" participants through dance battle.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 36.2%, Thriller 26.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Comedy 7.9%, Interactive Fiction 7.4%

The Mall Explodes! is a visual novel about a security guard with only a few minutes to stop a bomb from exploding in a shopping mall. Figure out who the bomber is and stop them before it's too late!

Why similar: Thriller 38.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.9%, Visual Novel 21.6%, Adventure 4.2%, Casual 3.6%

F around and find out! A ruthless no F's given dark comedy where you play the president of the United States of America, abuse executive power, crank up the FAFO meter, deal with robot overlords, alien invasions, drain swamps, flip off allies, crush protests, and destroy all that oppose you!

Why similar: Dark Comedy 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Capitalism 9.4%, Conspiracy 9.4% ★

Play as an amnesiac cyborg exploring a Weird World. Encounter eccentric characters, engage in real-time combat, and shape your journey through meaningful choices. A unique visual novel blending surreal comedy with fast-paced action.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 35.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Comedy 17.1%, Adventure 3.6%

After a transfer student enters his life, college senior Kent begins suffering fainting spells and hearing voices. Navigate friendships, secrets, and a growing supernatural mystery in this choice-driven visual novel.

Why similar: Visual Novel 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Thriller 19.7%, Comedy 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%

Recent high school graduates gather at a remote cabin for a celebration. What begins as a night of laughter spirals into a tense mystery full of secrets, twists, and chilling choices. Who will survive? Navigate friendships, and uncover the multi-layered mystery in Shadows of Betrayal.

Why similar: Thriller 28.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.1%, Visual Novel 26%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Choices Matter 3.7%

Are you Quirky enough to win The Questionably Quirky Quiz Show with Gobby McGobblenutz, and permanently enter your name into the Hall of Legends for other players around the world to see how incredibly awesome you are?! Well then... What are you waiting for?!

Why similar: Dark Comedy 26.1%, Conspiracy 15.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Comedy 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.6%

'On Air Island' is set on a mysterious 'remote island' that is full of intrigue. It tells the mysterious and horrifying story of the main characters trapped on a remote island.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 31.6%, Thriller 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Immersive Sim 6.5%

This is the anti-visual novel. Instead of playing as some guy magically able to score with beautiful anime girls, YOU play the anime girl and create mass chaos in the lives of your potential "suitors". Earnest comedy, social accuracy, and late 2000's aesthetic await you in Class of '09!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Comedy 21.8%, Dark Comedy 21.1%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Satire 11.3% ★

This year's Desire Hierarchy has begun. The stakes are now deadly. Hop into The Specter's Desire, a Visual Novel in which you play against the city's top talents to save your parents. Includes puzzling gameplay that has you tearing down arguments, hatching schemes, and revealing the truth!

Why similar: Dark Comedy 31.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Thriller 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%

A choice game where you face the choice and truth of survival. An unpredictable ending awaits.

Why similar: Thriller 39.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.6%, Visual Novel 24.3%, Adventure 7%, Choices Matter 2.8%

A short spooky-fun visual novel where you are a special guest for a special test! Is death a game to you? Do you like color schemes that involve the color black? EXPERIENCE FINGERNAIL FLOSS! !

Why similar: Dark Comedy 44.8%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Comedy 15.4%, Capitalism 12.5%, Adventure 4.1%

The Ducksuckers is a Kinetic Comedy Visual Novel about music, battling inner demons and the inability to let go. Taking about 40-60 minutes to read it's a short and sweet read, with some dramatic elements.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 43.3%, Visual Novel 28.3%, Comedy 17.3%, Casual 7%, 2D 3.7%

Guide Hamlet, Ophelia and Hamlet Sr. to hundreds of hilarious deaths in Ryan North's chooseable-path edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.9%, Comedy 26.7%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Adventure 8.9%, Casual 8.2%

The Christmas Cackler is a first-person Christmas-themed Comedic Horror game where you play as little Jimmy, lying in bed on the night before Christmas, trying to finish drawing his mother's present and avoid getting grabbed by the Christmas Cackler!

Why similar: Dark Comedy 48.8%, Comedy 27%, Thriller 9.1%, Interactive Fiction 7.3%, Casual 4.2%

Manage our AI girlfriend product as the newest engagement lead at Bigger Tech Corp. Make the tough choices for Alice as she slowly drives her user insane. A satirical choose-your-own-adventure with beautiful pixel art and widely branching narrative.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 25.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Conspiracy 13% ★, Interactive Fiction 9.7%

Astrologaster is a comedy game set in Shakespeare’s London. Play as 'Doctor' Simon Forman and treat his patients using astrology. A story-driven adventure based on a truly ridiculous story.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 29.1%, Comedy 18%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Historical 8.4%

An exhilarating visual novel blending thriller and dark comedy. A tale of a train, money, greedy people, and bears.

Why similar: Thriller 30.3%, Dark Comedy 25.4%, Comedy 18.3%, Visual Novel 17%, Adventure 3%

女性キャラ多めで全体的にキャラクターのあくが強いです。 テンポのいいテキストを心がけております。 オカルト、歴史、泣き、コメディ、バトル、ミステリ、恋愛少々、と様々な要素があり。

Why similar: Dark Comedy 39.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Adventure 8.3%, Historical 5.9%

You're a NASA intern working on the Apollo 11 project. Each day, you have a checklist to complete. Your tasks are well-reasoned and appropriate to your skill level as an intern. The Apollo team are all competent professionals. Everything goes very well, and you have no difficulties at all. 😛

Why similar: Dark Comedy 31.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Comedy 10.5%, Conspiracy 9.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 8.9%

Five years after the events of OXENFREE, Riley returns to her hometown of Camena to investigate mysterious radio signals. What she finds is more than she bargained for.

Why similar: Thriller 32.1%, Dark Comedy 25.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 7%

Only Good Babysitters Go To Heaven is a First-Person comedy horror game about being stuck babysitting while the news is expressing that the world around you is ending.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 38.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Thriller 18%, Interactive Fiction 7.3%, Comedy 6.9%

Part visual novel, part WarioWare-inspired minigame collection, Please Leave Me Alone, I Need to Poop is a modern workplace comedy that you can beat within a short session in your office bathroom stall. Multiple stories, multiple minigames, and multiple endings provide replayability.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 35.1%, Comedy 15.2%, Capitalism 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Satire 8.7% ★

A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 33.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Thriller 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%

GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 32.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Comedy 14.1%, Visual Novel 11%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%

Afflicted by a crazy curse that causes strange phenomena including being attacked by women, you must avoid being confessed to in order to survive! From the creators of “Raging Loop” comes a wild ride of a visual novel, full of romance, comedy, and explosions!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.5%, Visual Novel 29.9%, Comedy 27.2%, Adventure 8.6%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Negative Nancy is a choose your “no” adventure for people who have had enough. An interactive sitcom where you can only say “no” (or nothing at all). Your choices control the story.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 41.7%, Comedy 16.1%, Visual Novel 16%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 5.3%

A mystery visual novel where horror meets occult comedy. Follow Kugayama Shiori, a ghost who casually dies over and over as she searches for her cause of death and the regrets that bind her to this world. Her investigation will eventually lead to a single incident—and the truth behind her demise.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 29.7%, Visual Novel 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Adventure 9.1%, Casual 7.3%

DisplaceMen is an experimental narrative game where you survive as a broke painter through art commissions. Paint with weird-ass found objects to unravel residents' mysterious pasts, change the story’s direction with observations and visual choices, and bring the forgotten Mermaid back to reality!

Why similar: Dark Comedy 40.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.7%, Visual Novel 21.2%, Adventure 4.3%, Mystery 3.8%

The abstract male is the image of God, the absolute something.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 41%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%, Conspiracy 7.2% ★

Experience the meeting of the divine and mortal world as a forbidden love affair have unforseen consequences.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 36.8%, Comedy 17.6%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Satire 10.6% ★

Get ready for a tale where every cup poured is a step closer to unraveling the mysteries that bind the afterlife. Take on a soul-stirring quest as you serve lost souls, piece together your forgotten past, and unveil the chilling secrets of the Stygian Keep.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 31.1%, Visual Novel 29.9%, Comedy 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Casual 7.5%

"Witness the rise of the great 16th-century Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. Navigate palace intrigue, strategic battles, and critical decisions to guide the Ottoman Empire. Shape Suleiman's destiny and write your own history with multiple endings."

Why similar: Military 27.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Alternate History 15.2%, Conspiracy 7% ★

Interactive novel in pixel style about the king HappyWolf. You're a powerful king Happy Wolf of the kingdom EbenGrad. For a long time, your citizens were happy about everything, but times have changed.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 29.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Comedy 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 11%

Visit a surreal world and help a blue girl navigate the perils of paranoia and the intrusion of mysterious beings in her life...

Why similar: Dark Comedy 32.1%, Conspiracy 17% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Comedy 9%

A dead Santa Claus right before Christmas is never a good sign. Interrogate the North Pole suspects to solve the murder and figure out how to save the festive season in this short dark comedy visual novel whodunnit.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 33.8%, Conspiracy 16.3% ★, Visual Novel 13.7%, Comedy 13%, Satire 10% ★

Interrogate a friend accused of murder in Mota Must Die... a psychological visual novel where belief decides whether someone lives or dies

Why similar: Thriller 34.5%, Visual Novel 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%, Adventure 5.9%

『部活動の時間です。さあ、人殺しをはじめてください』 一癖も二癖もある強者ぞろいの巨大コミュニティ、それが鳴神学園。 そこには、ありとあらゆる部活動が存在し、到底常識では考えられない特殊な闇の倶楽部がある。その一つが殺人クラブだ。

Why similar: Dark Comedy 41.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Comedy 12.6%, Adventure 5.6%

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 29%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.4%, Comedy 17.8%, Adventure 8.5%, Interactive Fiction 8.1%

Kindergarten 3 is the long awaited threequel to the Kindergarten series! Explore a new school with old and new friends...and new ways to get ruthlessly murdered.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 38.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Comedy 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 9%, Satire 7.5% ★

A fully voiced visual novel where your choices actually matter. Welcome to college: annoying frat boys, unhinged goth girls, weird roommates, and every flavor of chaos. Go to class, get wasted, find love, whatever. Just try not to die.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 40.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Casual 6.6%, Satire 4.5% ★

A pointy-clicky comedy corporate thriller. Solve puzzles, get to know your colleagues, and unravel a sinister global conspiracy. All in a day's work.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 35.6%, Conspiracy 21.3% ★, Comedy 20.2%, Satire 10.7% ★, Mystery 5.1%

Date productivity applications in a retro, hand-drawn dating simulator set in a fictional operating system that definitely doesn't have a horrible secret.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 29%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Comedy 13.8%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Immersive Sim 7.6%

Hear sins. Judge souls. Upgrade your booth. Play as a priest hearing increasingly absurd confessions in this darkly comedic simulator. Will you guide your flock to salvation... or squeeze them for donations to install a hot tub in your confessional?

Why similar: Dark Comedy 41.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Comedy 8.5%, Satire 5.1% ★

Set two years after the events of "Summer with Mia", reunite with Mia and decide the course of your relationship with her and many others throughout this exciting, lengthy story. With hundreds of quality animations, impactful choices and multiple endings, journey into a summer you'll never forget.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 34.6%, Comedy 16.5%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Immersive Sim 7.9%

Gobby McGobblenutz is just your run of the mill Goblin trying to make some friends in a dark, lonely world... Will you be his friend? Or will his cringe-inducing jokes push you too far over the edge? Come find out on The Art of the Dad Joke!

Why similar: Dark Comedy 29.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Comedy 15.2%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Conspiracy 14% ★

"Fire that rocket in your pants into her from behind." Nasty and silly, comedy visual novel. You are a young mobster and your mission is to find Lolita ― of a crime syndicate. Engage with women to investigate or to just accept the temptation.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 35.3%, Comedy 20.6%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Adventure 5.2%

This is a point-and-click, command-selection style adventure game where the protagonist is a girl who has become a ghost. The objective is to fulfill her desires by speaking to her beloved "him" causing poltergeists, visiting in dreams, or even cursing.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 34.7%, Visual Novel 25%, Comedy 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%, Adventure 8%

Navigate the claustrophobic corridors of a cargo ship and try to survive a night with man-eating tigers on the loose. Your choices will determine who lives and who dies.

Why similar: Thriller 24.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Visual Novel 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Adventure 9.2%

Be consumed by darkness and light in this humorous psychological thriller adventure!

Why similar: Thriller 54.6%, Visual Novel 30.8%, Adventure 14.6%

An irritable gargoyle spends 800 years stuck on the side of a cathedral as the world changes for better and for worse.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.7%, Comedy 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Adventure 12.2%, Casual 9.9%

Made for people who love Hallmark movies — and people who love to hate them. A totally normal love story in a perfectly ordinary small town, where nothing weird ever happens…or so you’re told.

Why similar: Thriller 41.9%, Visual Novel 28.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Mystery 5.8%, Choices Matter 3.3%