- #1 Dreams and bubbles
97% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Dreams and bubbles
Windows
It is a game that combines maze exploration and action shooting elements.
Why similar: Strategy 37.4%, Interactive Fiction 31.6%, 2D Platformer 19.4%, Adventure 5.6%, 2D 5.3%
- #2 你与月光同罪-As Guilty As the Moon
96% match5 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2022
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows
This is a realistic + survival oriented work. The murder of a girl in a ride-hailing service two years ago, brought your 12 fates back together. You wake up in a strange room, and things are getting weird around you. In the fog, not everything you see is the truth. Is everything real or unreal?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.8%, Visual Novel 21.6%, Strategy 17.4%, Mystery 10.5%, 2D Platformer 6.4%
- #3 金风浏碧霄
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 镠铁工作室Pub: LoveCraft
Windows
A multi-ending text adventure set in an alternate Republican Era. As a rookie undercover agent in a world of hidden dangers, you'll face a mysterious superior, a cunning enemy officer, and a young colleague of uncertain intent. Navigate wisely, protect yourself, and make your final choice.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.4%, 2D Platformer 27.6%, Visual Novel 24%, Multiple Endings 6.1%, 2D 5.1%
- #4 Sokolov Test
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Holytoor
Windows
Sokolov Test is a psychological sci-fi visual novel in which a machine examiner evaluates your answers one by one. Face strange questions, visual tests, system anomalies, secrets and fragmented memories. The test is not asking whether you are good. It is asking whether you are a person.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.9%, Visual Novel 25.5%, Dynamic Narration 17% ★, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%, Mystery 5.6%
- #5 景安区奇案-Jing 'an District Copstories
94% matchMostly Positive71% of 35 reviews2021
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows
Jing' an District is a peaceful place, but sometimes some interesting cases will happen. The cases here are not all so bloody. But it also brings us a lot of reflection and insight. You will play a young policeman in Jing 'an District. Go through and solve these cases with your partner.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.2%, Visual Novel 21.1%, Strategy 18%, Mystery 11.3%, 2D Platformer 6.4%
- #6 The Wraith Train: Illusory Domain
93% matchVery Positive86% of 81 reviews2026
Dev: 司命工作室
Windows
The Wraith Train: Illusory Domain is an immersive live-action game mixing supernatural horror and puzzles. You play a passenger trapped on a creepy train and must survive. Focused on a blood-stained Passenger Survival Rules, you have to follow the rules, uncover their hidden secrets and escape.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.5%, Visual Novel 22.2%, Third Person 13.5%, Mystery 10.8%, Strategy 9%
- #7 卡牌游戏
94% match9 user reviews70% of 10 reviews2020
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows
This is a highest death rate game of survival, combined with masculinity, survival, thriller, suspense reasoning and other elements. There are two main lines you can choose from the story - the male line and the female line. Meanwhile, you can also choose different talents as you like.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.4%, Visual Novel 23%, Strategy 19.2%, Mystery 9.9%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
- #8 Radar ATC simulator
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: danteAligueri
Windows · Mac
This game is an air traffic controller simulator, specifically in a radar environment. It trains multitasking and air traffic reading skills to anticipate events, avoid risks, and optimize air traffic.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 42.8%, 2D Platformer 33.4%, Strategy 14.8%, 2D 8.1%, Singleplayer 1%
- #9 不可能犯罪事件簿-Impossible Crime Book
91% match9 user reviews40% of 10 reviews2022
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows
This is a decryption class of interactive novel. One accident, two suicides. In order to prevent more innocent lives from being killed, you will be assigned to lurk on campus with your partner and find out the suspicious in different criminal cases.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36%, Visual Novel 22.3%, Mystery 10%, 2D Platformer 9.5%, Strategy 9.5%
- #10 欢迎回家-Welcome Home
91% match8 user reviews80% of 10 reviews2022
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows
This is a secret room to escape burning brain puzzle work, which is divided into five chapters, puzzle level interesting design, complicated and confusing story, criticism and comment on the real society, is full of exquisite everywhere.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.9%, Strategy 17.7%, Visual Novel 15%, Mystery 12.3%, 2D Platformer 7.2%
- #11 末日航路-The Termination
90% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2021
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows
It's a story of deception and redemption. You receive a mysterious invitation to a seven days doomsday journey. An expectant interstellar journey has become a doomsday route to the end. There is only one word difference between "victim" and "perpetrator".
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.9%, Visual Novel 21%, Strategy 14.3%, 2D Platformer 12.6%, Mystery 11.5%
- #12 梦魇逃亡
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: deertube
Windows
Choice-driven, story-rich visual novel about memory loops and unreliable truths. As Chu-Ling, relive the same night, gather clues, and decide who to trust. Your choices branch 8 chapters toward multiple endings, gallery unlocks, and New-Game-Plus conveniences.
Why similar: Strategy 38.9%, Visual Novel 32.4%, Horror 13.1%, Multiple Endings 8.7%, Adventure 4.6%
- #13 欺诈之森
89% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: siyuan fang
Windows
主角小骨在森林里醒来,却发现身体只剩骷髅骨架,而随着对于森林的进一步探索,更发行这里的动物与人灵魂似乎进行了不可思议的对调。ta是否能一路找到线索解开森林的真相?以及自己的真实身份? 高自由度,多种探索路线,不断浮现的零星信息。 简单的操作,包含着独具匠心的设计和谜题,每种道具都有独特的功能和用处,道路往往就在脚下。
Why similar: Strategy 33.9%, 2D Platformer 28.7%, Dynamic Narration 19.5% ★, 2D 6.4%, Multiple Endings 5.4%
- #14 A Hundred Light Years
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Green Apple Tree Games
Windows
A text-based space survival game inspired by The Oregon Trail. Lead your family 100 light-years across deep space to a distant colony. Every choice matters. Not everyone makes it. Some things out there are worse than death.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.8%, Strategy 30.3%, Dark 9.1%, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%, Horror 6.5%
- #15 Necromancer-I'm the Scourge!
87% match5 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: FalooGames
Windows
Urban Abilities Text Adventure Game
Why similar: Strategy 33.3%, Visual Novel 26.1%, Dynamic Narration 17.4% ★, 2D Platformer 16%, 2D 6.5%
- #16 我死后的那些天-After Death
86% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2022
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows
This is a suspense game, you are sitting in front of the TV, the news is broadcast: last night a young girl was killed, the body was found in a deep alley. And the girl who was murdered -- you. You are involved in a serial murder, and you are reborn as a female journalist.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.6%, Visual Novel 22.8%, Strategy 19.4%, Mystery 11.1%, Multiple Endings 5.3%
- #17 雷雨漫漫Endless Thunder
86% matchMixed61% of 28 reviews2023
Dev: 龙科游戏LONG GamePub: 龙科世界LONG Tec. GLOBAL
Windows
《雷雨漫漫》是由龙科游戏使用Ren'py引擎制作的文字类游戏。游戏中,你将扮演A市一名办公人员,在你的下班路上,你察觉到背后有人在不断跟着你。通过重重选择,活下来。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.7%, Strategy 21.3%, Visual Novel 18.7%, 2D Platformer 16.6%, Mystery 5.2%
- #18 ADT Pilot 01
85% matchMixed70% of 32 reviews2023
Dev: Renis
Windows
Confront the moral dilemma, and then become the hero that saves the world.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.3%, Visual Novel 28.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Dark 10%, Multiple Endings 5.2%
- #19 村庄-The Village
84% matchMostly Negative38% of 13 reviews2021
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows
After you graduated from college, you were assigned to a small village as a doctor.It looks like an ordinary village, but there are many strange things in it.A man knocking at the door in the middle of the night may not be asking for a doctor.The person you saw may not be alive.Haunted?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Strategy 13%, Mystery 10.6%, 2D Platformer 9%
- #20 致命游戏-Lethal Gamble 1 Werewolf Puzzle
84% matchMixed64% of 11 reviews2021
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows
“Lethal Gamble 1 Werewolf Puzzle”is a suspense reasoning emotional work based on werewolf killing rules.A group of college students accidentally came to a mysterious villa. They wanted to play a game of werewolf killing.You have only five days left to refute the truth.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.1%, Visual Novel 21.9%, Strategy 16.9%, Mystery 9.9%, 2D Platformer 7.1%
- #21 无尽迷途:轮回之境
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 导弹猫工作室
Windows
Endless Lost: The Realm of Reincarnation "is a suspenseful puzzle game where players will be trapped in the endless cycle of suffering and strive to escape through various clues.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.5%, Strategy 14.8%, Visual Novel 13.9%, 2D Platformer 13.1%, Mystery 9.8%
- #22 宅府诡话-Mysteries of the Manor
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2024
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows
In an old mansion rife with secrets, a pretend Taoist unwittingly encounters real ghosts. Unknown to him are their whereabouts, the victim, or his own fate. He must unravel the conspiracy through time loops.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.8%, Strategy 20.7%, Visual Novel 18.3%, 2D Platformer 16.1%, Mystery 6.5%
- #23 Beneath the Iron Gate
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: FunPlaceGame
Windows
A grounded post-apocalyptic interactive narrative. Fortify the Black Box shelter, manage supplies, trust, and evidence, and decide who survives on either side of the iron gate.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.3%, Visual Novel 21%, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Strategy 11.4%, Mystery 6.6%
- #24 Still Life Inside
81% matchNo user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: DIM Games
Windows
Descend 7 floors of a decaying building in this psychological horror visual novel. Confront fears through unique mini-games, collect memory fragments, and question the voice in your head. Will you face the chilling truth or remain trapped in a self-made nightmare?
Why similar: Visual Novel 32.7%, 2D Platformer 28.8%, Horror 12.7%, Adventure 8.3%, 2D 8%
- #25 死亡编码-Death Code
81% matchMixed69% of 13 reviews2021
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows
Death Code is a battle royale genre. It tells the story of Lin Mohuai, a female protagonist with amnesia, who wakes up to find herself involved in an eight-person battle royale game. Everyone is given a code, and the way to win is to kill the player whose number is plus one.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.9%, Visual Novel 21.1%, Strategy 15.4%, Mystery 11.5%, 2D Platformer 10.6%
- #26 WHERE SAFETY ENDS *R*
79% matchPositive91% of 46 reviews2024
Dev: CHRONOPHOBIA
Windows · Mac
What does it take to be SAFE? Maybe it's all about a person who will come to your rescue no matter what. Or maybe it has to do with a place that you know inside and out. OR, perhaps, (just maybe) a room full of strangers with no entrance might just do the trick.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.4%, Visual Novel 23.4%, 2D Platformer 20.3%, Dark 8.9%, 2D 5.9%
- #27 知更鸟-The Robin
80% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2021
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows
“The Robin”tells the story of a school bully who kills a girl named "Robin." Thirteen people involved are kidnapped and embark on a desperate journey to survive. The work revolves around who is behind the black hand and who is responsible for the death of "Robin" these two questions unfold.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.2%, Visual Novel 22.6%, Strategy 17.5%, Mystery 11.8%, Multiple Endings 5.3%
- #28 Help My Wife Fall in Love NTR
79% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: HIBOX
Windows
A chat-based relationship suspense visual novel. Read messages, inspect social posts, make choices, and uncover the truth behind a marriage shaped by suspicion, desire, and betrayal.
Why similar: Strategy 31.3%, Interactive Fiction 29.8%, Visual Novel 18.1%, 2D Platformer 14.7%, 2D 3.7%
- #29 狂潮-Staggering Through The Dark
78% matchPositive93% of 44 reviews2020
Dev: Longxi Zhao
Windows
This is an AVG trying to tell a story about a city under British governance. In 1970s, newspapers were rife with exaggerated title and drama plots. Xu Dan, a fresh journalist accidentally ran into a collaboration of cops and mafia.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 39.6%, Visual Novel 24.5%, Strategy 21.3%, 2D Platformer 9.1%, Adventure 3.7%
- #30 SCORE80
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: IsezakiGameWorks
Windows
SCORE 80 is a deadly collection of brain-training challenges where your goal is simple: score 80 points before time runs out. Test your judgment, math skills, memory, spatial awareness, and more. Stay focused under pressure, overcome every challenge, and survive.
Why similar: Strategy 36.9%, Visual Novel 23.8%, 2D Platformer 19.4%, Dark 8.7%, 2D 4.6%
- #31 Good Morning
77% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: LcieKJPub: Lazy_Pegion_Art
Windows
Good morning! The story explores a distorted memory, blending reflection, twists, and roguelike chaos in a short game packed with hours of replayability.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.3%, Visual Novel 24.8%, Strategy 15.7%, Horror 7.2%, Multiple Endings 6.8%
- #32 Burned One
76% matchPositive100% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: HELIX741
Windows
Visual novel «Burned One» - story that tells about a post-apocalyptic world in post-soviet decorations, and about its people. In the center of the story a stalker Voyla, who trying to find his wife, disappeared during the Cataclysm...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.3%, Visual Novel 25.7%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Horror 8.5%, 2D 6.6%
- #33 Parasite in Love
76% matchVery Positive94% of 62 reviews2025
Dev: Night Asobu
Windows
Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.3%, Visual Novel 26.1%, Dark 10.8%, Horror 8.4%, 2D 6.1%
- #34 Thoughtless
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Aky Heart
Windows · Mac · Linux
A dark sci-fi psychological Visual Novel where your choices shape who you are. The world has ended and it's been dominated by mysterious aliens who roam the city. Despite that, you only think of what you've lost. Will you be able to rebuild your relationships? Or even... the world itself?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Visual Novel 19%, Dynamic Narration 16.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Horror 8.2%
- #35 Please Praise the SR Girls!
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MOONSTONEPub: Kagami Games
Windows
Please praise them! The international edition of Please Praise the SR Girls! is now on Steam. An ordinary boy discovers that he is an SR boy and enters a mysterious girls' academy, where he meets four other SR girls., and helps them grow through love and companionship in a sweet youthful romance.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 41%, Visual Novel 27%, 2D Platformer 18.4%, Adventure 6.4%, 2D 6.3%
- #36 LIMINAL: Within
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: OntologyPlay
Windows
A cinematic horror mystery where investigation, choices, and Exorcism shape the story. Enter a yokai-infested world, reopen a long-closed case, and bring peace to the suffering. Adapted from Hirata’s World in San Tian Liang Jiao’s Thriller Paradise.
Why similar: Strategy 32.9%, Interactive Fiction 31.5%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Mystery 5.9%, Horror 5.9%
- #37 Boundary Cage
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 夜栖鹤
Windows
A dark dystopian interactive novel. Trapped within a cage ruled by alien races, you will meet different characters and make critical choices. Every decision you make alters the plot, unlocking branching storylines and multiple endings in this suspenseful narrative.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.1%, 2D Platformer 25.1%, Visual Novel 21.9%, Multiple Endings 4.5%, 2D 4.4%
- #38 大科学家
72% matchVery Positive94% of 396 reviews2025
Dev: 箱社
Windows
Antoine is a tavern owner who privately conducts her own secret research. Due to an accident, a little girl enters her life and her once-quiet existence is forever changed. Antoine is forced to take risks involuntarily, and bit by bit the truth of the world is revealed to her again.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32%, Visual Novel 23.2%, 2D Platformer 18.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, Mystery 7%
- #39 不上岸不恋爱
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 考研上岸制作组
Windows
因为学历贬值而找不到好工作的本科生布郝,在一次送外卖途中得知一个名叫“做题家之岛”的岛屿,在那里,只要能够考研上岸,就能获得取之不尽的权力和财富,揣怀着咸鱼翻身理想的他,踏上了前往“做题家之岛”的邮轮……
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.2%, 2D Platformer 27.2%, Visual Novel 25.1%, Multiple Endings 7.3%, Adventure 2.7%
- #40 Pentimento
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fool Bloom Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Cast Into A Boundless White Void. Paintings Hunger For Your Story. What Will You Answer?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35%, Visual Novel 23.6%, Dark 12.8%, Mystery 9.7%, Horror 9.6%
- #41 No Recollection
73% matchMixed67% of 30 reviews2024
Dev: Jake Platt
Windows · Mac · Linux
A mystery visual novel following a boy who awoke in a strange building, with no recollection of where he is, how he arrived, why he’s here, or how to leave. Discover the answers to these mysteries as you search for a way out. Meet a small but colorful cast in your journey, and escape together!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.8%, Visual Novel 23.2%, Mystery 12.3%, Dark 11.7%, Horror 9.5%
- #42 Rewrite - DYH
73% matchPositive100% of 27 reviews2020
Dev: DYHPub: WinCode
Windows · Linux
Rewrite - DYH - A game that changes every time you play!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.9%, Visual Novel 23.7%, Strategy 23.1%, Mystery 6.5%, 2D 6.2%
- #43 异馆十二月
71% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Qiyue Studio
Windows
Manage a mysterious entertainment house in a fog-shrouded town. Train your heroines, build relationships through fixed dialogue choices, explore dangerous locations, and uncover the truth behind a repeating cycle in this mystery visual novel with multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.5%, Strategy 27.2%, Visual Novel 22.8%, 2D 4.6%, Mystery 4.3%
- #44 Starecrown (DEMO)
71% matchVery Positive86% of 59 reviews2024
Dev: Jofini
Windows
In STARECROWN, a visual-novel merged with a puzzle-based horror experience, your ANGEL whose watched from the distance finally makes himself known. For the worse.
Why similar: Strategy 30.6%, Visual Novel 27.7%, Horror 15.9%, Dark 9.7%, Mystery 6.3%
- #45 Entropic Float: This World Will Decay And Disappear
72% matchPositive92% of 50 reviews2022
Dev: Nico HPub: Starfield Gaming
Windows · Mac
A free drama-mystery visual novel with a modern fantasy setting. Reach out to the fourteen people trapped inside to find the truth through eighteen endings, influenced by but not exclusively bound to your own system time.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.2%, Visual Novel 30%, Mystery 13.2%, Dark 9.7%, Multiple Endings 7.1%
- #46 帝国末日前的学院狂想
71% matchPositive94% of 17 reviews2024
Dev: 左宗棠
Windows
A fictional history based text romance adventure game based on the early 20th century. You need to use your choices to determine you, the one you choose, and even the fate of this country in an era where human stars shine.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.1%, 2D Platformer 28.1%, Visual Novel 27.3%, 2D 3.6%, Multiple Endings 3.4%
- #47 Fostering Apocalypse
70% matchVery Positive94% of 77 reviews2021
Dev: Incisor Studios
Windows · Mac
The demon summoned to embark the second apocalypse is only a child, and a woman who has lost it all resolves to save her. A half-hour long narrative game with survival gameplay elements and two endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 41.4%, Visual Novel 25.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17.2%, Multiple Endings 6%, 2D 5%
- #48 The King of Cats
70% matchPositive91% of 45 reviews2023
Dev: Witching Metal Prod.
Windows
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: Interactive Fiction 37.1%, Visual Novel 24.4%, Dark 11.3%, Horror 8.8%, 2D 6.2%
- #49 长乐夜前夕
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 山雨不知制作组
Windows
In faint light, a story of struggle. The bustling world is mist over painted smiles and hidden cold. A candle flickers but never bows. Together, let us see the truth and grope our way forward… Can we finally light our own freedom and life? Only the night knows.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.8%, Visual Novel 26.7%, 2D Platformer 21.9%, 2D 6.3%, Multiple Endings 4.4%
- #50 实习班主任 Practice Teacher
69% matchPositive86% of 22 reviews2023
Dev: 弥渳工作室
Windows
这一天回到了熟悉的高中教室,但这次我的身份从学生变为了老师(虽然是实习的),面对九个性格完全不同的学生,我该如何让他们在这最后一年真正的毕业继续前行?一场年轻老师与问题学生共同成长的青春舞台剧即将拉开序幕!
Why similar: Strategy 35.6%, Interactive Fiction 33.2%, 2D Platformer 17.7%, Adventure 6.4%, 2D 4.8%
- #51 Lost Infinity
67% matchPositive84% of 56 reviews2025
Dev: Void EchoPub: Valera Entertainment
Windows
Where are you going with the main character? "Lost Infinity" is a game about nothing, or maybe something, only you will decide. Grieve, think, reason.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.3%, Visual Novel 27.5%, Dark 11.9%, Horror 11.6%, 2D 7.1%
- #52 无名作
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 单刀双掷Pub: 无
Windows
This comic-style visual novel combines light turn-based combat with multiple endings. Players uncover the full story through the perspectives of different protagonists.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 49.5%, 2D Platformer 22.4%, Mystery 7.2%, Adventure 6.5%, Multiple Endings 6.4%
- #53 Vermin God
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Neuroticfly Games
Windows
A grotesque body horror visual novel inspired by SCP-027, play as the young host of the Vermin God. Wake up in a hidden lab with no memories and experience the terror of a mysterious disease turning your body into a living hive for swarms of pests. Make choices to escape the crawling chaos.
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.3%, Interactive Fiction 26.1%, Horror 17.6%, Dark 9.2%, 2D 7.6%
- #54 Lab Rats
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sayorii NakamuraPub: Sweet Spice Studios
Windows · Mac
Fall in love with a mad scientist who kidnaps you or will you try to escape his grasp?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.3%, Strategy 30.1%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Dark 8.3%, Horror 6%
- #55 여우불
68% matchMixed68% of 25 reviews2020
Dev: MyoungJang Games
Windows
A platform game where you collect items to clear the stage, avoid or defeat enemies, pass through traps, and clear the stage with a system (operation) that uses the natural principle that creates a shadow when light does not pass through an object.
Why similar: Strategy 55.3%, 2D Platformer 23.3%, Adventure 9.2%, 2D 6.5%, Indie 4.5%
- #56 残阳 1645/1937
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 未雪游戏(NotsnowyGame)
Windows
As a Ming officer in 1645’s Yangzhou & Jiangyin massacres, shield a girl from shouma fate while obeying orders. In 1937’s Battle of Yangzhou, protect a war journalist returned from Japan. Your choices decide their survival and shape their fates across 300 years.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.6%, Visual Novel 27.3%, Strategy 21.9%, 2D Platformer 9.8%, Multiple Endings 4.6%
- #57 DR3AMy
66% matchPositive87% of 31 reviews2024
Dev: ph0ton
Windows · Mac
"Players, please break the chains of Amy's nightmares with DR3AMy!" Break free from nightmares with the lovely DR3AMy android and Amy. This game contains visual and auditory horror elements. It is not recommended for the elderly or those with a weak heart.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.7%, 2D Platformer 24.7%, Dark 14.2%, Mystery 10.7%, Horror 10.4%
- #58 恐怖夜話 第二夜
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ひめこ
Windows
On a rainy night, three ghost stories are told in an old-fashioned café. As a writer for an occult magazine, you listen to three people recount their experiences. A psychological horror visual novel that slowly builds a sense of dread—Kyofu Yawa: Second Night.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.8%, Visual Novel 27.6%, Horror 12.9%, Dark 7.2%, Multiple Endings 6.8%
- #59 True Game
67% matchVery Positive88% of 52 reviews2021
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows · Mac
"True Game" is a work of suspense reasoning. The work tells the story that people in trouble are taken to a closed space and ask to get chips from others through different competitions. This work has a high degree of brain burning, exquisite picture and strong sense of substitution.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.8%, Visual Novel 24%, Strategy 16.3%, Mystery 11.4%, Multiple Endings 6.6%
- #60 The Colors of Love - Re-Colored
65% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: Crimson R Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A romantic visual novel about connection, choices, and the colors of the heart. Features an animated Live2D love interest, multiple endings, English and Spanish support, Steam achievements, and hidden secrets to uncover.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 44.3%, Visual Novel 36%, Multiple Endings 8.7%, 2D 8.4%, Indie 1.7%