60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Singleplayer, Emotional, Visual Novel.
A story-driven GameBoy game about an emo teen in 2007 with a HUGE gay crush on his best friend! Explore, puzzle-solve and button mash your way through gratuitous dialogue in this GameBoy adventure about awkward teens!
Fragments of Him
An emotional and immersive game about a man named Will and the people close to him. Experience his life through a story about love, memories and hope.
VIDEOVERSE
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…
An emotional and immersive game about a man named Will and the people close to him. Experience his life through a story about love, memories and hope.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.8%, Immersive 17.6% ★, Walking Simulator 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Visual Novel 10.4%
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 20.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Visual Novel 11.6%, LGBTQ+ 10.6%, Emotional 8.2%
Time is the only thing we can't resist. Some people and things will never be found once they are lost. In the dark, a man was walking alone. The moment when you turn back, don't forget the place where came from!
Why similar: Narrative 20.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Walking Simulator 12.7%, Emotional 10.6%, Visual Novel 8%
You're a young man named Alex who arrives in the cliffside town of Silverpine. Explore the town's many mysteries and meet its colourful townsfolk, while you grow closer to a kind-hearted local named Jake. Can the two of you save the town from the impending doom brewing inside the mysterious Vault?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Romance 12.7%, Walking Simulator 11.6%, Emotional 10%
Stories Want to be Told is an adventure game. It is more like an interactive story telling game. This the first episode The Prohecy
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Immersive 14.4% ★, Emotional 10%, Exploration 8.8%
A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Emotional 15.8%, LGBTQ+ 12.1%, Romance 9.8%
A short, intense, dark visual narrative in 2 colors. You are stuck reliving a single day, over and over. Explore a tiny, giant world of a relationship between two people. Don't get arrested. Try to reach the person you love and escape the cursed time loop. Is it not too late?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Walking Simulator 14.5%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Story Rich 8.8%
A yuri visual novel about Amber, a girl who's trying her best to be alone on the road, until she stumbles upon a young hitchhiker and the journal of a prospector from long ago. Fully voiced in English.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25%, Memes 21.8%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Romance 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%
Dive into "Homewords," a captivating, story-driven RPG without any combat. Explore Orbtüse with Zoë, a rude child, as you skillfully interrupt and guide her through conversations. Use the power of words to overcome conflicts, unravel mysteries, and help Zoë learn the art of empathy.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15%, Memes 15%, LGBTQ+ 12.2%, Emotional 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%
memories is a sapphic visual novel dress-up game where clothes are linked to painful memories of a failed relationship.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.9%, Romance 15.4%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Narrative 13.9% ★, Emotional 12.6%
Dawn Awaits is a 2D narrative adventure that creates an experience akin to controlling an anime movie. The story follows Li Han, a young noodle shop delivery man, whose heart is caught between a school friend and a female teacher to whom he is betrothed in repayment of a debt of gratitude.
Why similar: Narrative 24.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Romance 12.4%, Walking Simulator 11%
In this adventure visual novel, you travel across an alien planet stuck in an endless sunset. Shape the fates of 7 companions from different worlds. Uncover the truth about anomalous locations, hidden corridors, and a child who aged in a day. See what remains of a world abandoned by its creators.
Why similar: Narrative 23.5% ★, LGBTQ+ 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Romance 8%
A domineering CEO-like older sister who’s gentle only to her sister, a childhood friend who became her doctor, and a cheerful girl only she can see… Who was Chu Hebai before losing her memories, and how did she become entangled with them? A melancholic yuri AVG about regret and unspoken love.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Emotional 14.2%, Romance 12.4%
A colourful narrative adventure game. You're one of the first sheep to attend university. Roam the campus, attend lectures by day and enjoy friend-time at night. Discover campus truths, and sniff out secrets. Live the life of a campus sheep, but beware: not everybody wants to see a sheep graduate!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Emotional 10.4%, Story Rich 7.9%
Rescued at birth from a life of bondage, Eddie resolves to win his mother’s freedom from the tyranny of his father by defeating him when they meet in the arena. Join Eddie as he fights for his life in this non-combat adventure to dethrone a champion and rescue a slave.
Why similar: Narrative 21.3% ★, Walking Simulator 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Story Rich 9.3%
An apprentice. A healer. A warrior. Breathe, pull, and choose your way through their stories in this dark yet comforting narrative game about healing the worlds inside us.
Why similar: Narrative 22.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, LGBTQ+ 18.4%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Emotional 13.2%
Talk to kooky guests, trade party items, and explore Death’s mansion as you throw him the spookiest birthday party EVER!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Walking Simulator 14.1%, LGBTQ+ 12.7%, Story Rich 9.9%, Retro 9.8%
Collection of 4 yuri stories by Team ANPIM, featuring women who are 23 years and older! No longer students, they are finding romance while balancing the responsibilities of working, rent, and adulting.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.5%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Romance 15.5%, Emotional 10.6%, Story Rich 8.1%
Step into a fractured 00s childhood in the South of England. Inspired by the developer’s real diaries, this autobiographical narrative adventure invites you to uncover Alice’s story by piecing together evocative memories, and following in the footsteps of a young girl’s journey through adolescence.
Why similar: Narrative 19.4% ★, Walking Simulator 16.9%, LGBTQ+ 16.3%, Emotional 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%
A GxG coming-of-age visual novel. Nina sucks at choosing. But when a mysterious incident happens at the arts academy, will she muster the courage to choose–or will she let someone else decide on her behalf?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Romance 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Emotional 10.2%
Radio Ghosts is a narrative game about geometry tests, vampire baristas, and camping with your mom.
Why similar: Narrative 24.9% ★, Walking Simulator 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Retro 10.3%, Story Rich 9%
Javi lives in Santiago, and Shio lives in Kyoto. They're best friends over the internet, until one fateful December changes their lives forever. A narrative game about long-distance love that takes place over chats, video calls, and social media apps.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.7%, Narrative 18.7% ★, Romance 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Emotional 9.7%
What does a SUPERVILLAIN do, when he is forbidden from doing anything evil for the day? WARNING: This is not the type of game where you can make meaningful choices.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 35.9%, Visual Novel 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Story Rich 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%
A mysterious plot about a film student who finds herself lost in the world of the dead, the Posthumous Lands. Alongside a purple-haired woman, Coralina must decipher Human Alchemy in this retro adventure with cinematic touches!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18%, LGBTQ+ 16.7%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Romance 11.1%, Emotional 10.3%
After witnessing a murder, 16-year-old skater Azar Warren seeks refuge with her estranged grandfather on his rural compound, only to suspect he may be more dangerous than her pursuers. Ashes blends graphic novel panels with interactive puzzles in a story of murder and unease.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Story Rich 14%, Narrative 12.7% ★, Emotional 9.4%
Piece by piece, you pour your soul into the monster. This is your burden and you bear it willingly. Your friends think that this is unhealthy.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.3%, Narrative 20.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 20%, Emotional 12.9%, Visual Novel 10.2%
"Remember Us" is an emotional adventure game where you witness the final moments of Dean, an Alzheimer's patient, as he tries to remember his beloved wife Marta and his past before passing away. Find objects, revive memories, and discover Dean's poignant farewell moment.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Romance 13%, Emotional 9%, Exploration 8.4%
A short short mix tape of one story that connects three shorter stories. On the NewWave, a magical game console that is retro but new, enjoy DON'T SAY YES, TO:NORTH, and a secret tale nobody yet knows. Welcome to a slightly fantastical and nostalgic world of painful, toilful, and beautiful stories!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Emotional 11%, Story Rich 9%
An autopsy of a queer relationship.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Exploration 11.5%, Emotional 6.7%
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: LGBTQ+ 19.7%, Narrative 18.7% ★, Romance 12%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Emotional 10.1%
A laundromat. Every Wednesday. And stories that stay. Join Hideki in a small laundromat in the heart of a restless metropolis, where smartphones are not allowed and strangers slowly become part of each other’s lives.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.8%, LGBTQ+ 17.2%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Romance 10.5%, Emotional 10%
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 21.3% ★, LGBTQ+ 18%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Romance 11.7%
A narrative drawing game about an anxious cactus artist named Prickles. Explore Prickles' apartment building to find interesting subjects to draw and acquire new drawing tools and color palettes. Help your neighbors and discover secrets by gifting drawings and making new friendships along the way.
Why similar: Narrative 24.1% ★, LGBTQ+ 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Emotional 11.7%, Romance 10.5%
Marron's Day is a silly pocket-sized adventure where you're a bunny trying to save the town festival! Help out your animal friends, play cute minigames, and explore this cosy and retro pixel-art town.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.8%, Emotional 13.8%, Story Rich 10.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%, Retro 9.2%
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+ 30.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Romance 15.6%, Story Rich 9.2%
Messy Hearts is a pixel-art visual novel about a complicated coworker friendship. Through journal-style narration, Florence unpacks romance, trauma, and some messy boundaries in a deeply personal story of mental health and heartbreak.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, LGBTQ+ 17.9%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Emotional 10.2%, Romance 8.1%
Unable to sleep, you navigate a quiet condo complex. There's no rush - just you, the building, its inhabitants, and the stories they hold.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.6%, Immersive 22.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Emotional 11.4%, Exploration 9.2%
兩名少年在平靜而異常的日常之中，依靠彼此，並逐漸觸及被掩埋的過去。
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 35.5%, Visual Novel 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Pixel Graphics 12.5%, RPG 2.9%
Hey Dad, this might be a bit strange, but I’ve made a game for you. It’s about you and me, and the walks we used to take. Could you let me know what you think once you’ve finished it? - Junebug
Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, LGBTQ+ 17.3%, Exploration 9.4%, Narrative 8.2% ★
GymBeasts is a gay visual novel with a mysterious portal behind your squat rack. Will you fight monsters with the strongest guy in the gym, solve a mystery with the empathetic youngster, or derail EVERYTHING with the unfriendly hottie? But your biggest worry is whether there'll be time for dating!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.5%, Memes 21.5%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Romance 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%
Solo is an introspective puzzler set on a gorgeous and surreal archipelago. Reflect on your loving relationships by exploring contemplative, dream-like islands.
Why similar: Narrative 26.9% ★, LGBTQ+ 22.7%, Romance 13.7%, Story Rich 8.4%, Exploration 8.1%
Winter 1999. Kicked out of your house after being outed by your closest friend, you plan to leave your hometown. Your girlfriend, Mika, wants to see you one more time. Decide whether or not you'll stay together.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.1%, Romance 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Visual Novel 14%, Emotional 7.9%
A poet ponders queer life and love after his happily ever after.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Romance 14.5%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Emotional 10.7%
Step into the fractured mind of a dying scientist in Remembrance, a mind-bending VR narrative puzzle adventure. Piece together broken memories, uncover devastating truths, and decide the fate of a world teetering on the edge of collapse. Will you save humanity?
Why similar: Immersive 22.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Exploration 14.4%, Narrative 13.8% ★, Emotional 9.8%
Start a virtual indie band in this behind-the-music comedy. Date, dance, skate, and run for your life across 5 episodes and interactive music videos, in a heartfelt story of what you risk to chase your dreams. All episodes out now!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Romance 15.4%, Emotional 12.8%, Visual Novel 11.3%
UNVEILED: Steamy Chat Logs between a Guy and a Femboy!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.7%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Memes 17%, Romance 15.6%, Story Rich 6.7%
Alone in the forest glade he shared with his wife, a woodworker struggles to accept her passing. Help him hold on to cherished memories of their life together as he struggles to care for himself and his now empty home. Pine is a single-serving game focused on telling a beautiful, emotional tale.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Emotional 16.1%, Romance 15.9%, Narrative 14.8% ★, Visual Novel 12.2%
A dark boys love / boys hate visual novel set in a 1001 Nights inspired world full of political intrigue. Yuel, once the King of Indra, is deposed by his older cousin, Tavi, during a coup and imprisoned within the palace. An uneasy relationship between them grows, and then...
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Romance 11.4%, Emotional 9.8%
Your village is dying. Your only hope of saving it is buried in the desert scrapyard, hidden behind mountains of trash // memories. Will you uncover those memories? Or will you blast them to pieces?
Why similar: Narrative 21.9% ★, Walking Simulator 20%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Emotional 10.9%, Story Rich 10.1%
Rubbernecking is a dangerous sport, and after being caught in the act by your GF, it's blue balls for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.6%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Memes 17%, Romance 15.6%, Story Rich 6.7%
It's not what you say, it's how you say it. We should talk is a short-form narrative game that will make you think carefully about the words you choose. Can your relationship survive the night?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Romance 13.8%, Emotional 11.2%
Dumpster Baby is a game about being queer and homeless, and the importance of community and friendship in hard times. You play as Bandit, an optimistic racoon meeting new friends as he tries to find people to be roommates with. A narrative focused single player experience.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Walking Simulator 17.3%, Story Rich 10.7%, Exploration 8.6%
As a father, you explore the empty home of your estranged daughter, Amy, after her death. Piece together the life you missed…one memory at a time. Follow the journey of regret and reconciliation as you try to comprehend the world she built without you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Walking Simulator 17.5%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Romance 13.6%, Emotional 9.3%
A quiet town awaits death. Two young women fall in love.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Romance 15.6%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Story Rich 9.1%
One day while browsing a gay hookup app, you just so happen to find your type. What happens next will blow your mind... 💦
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.5%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Memes 16.9%, Romance 15.9%, Story Rich 6.9%
A short narrative exploration game in which you play as Bean, an unemployed, 20-something, smart-ass. Wander around town, play mini games, feed the geese, and get to know the neighbours as Bean’s sanity begins to slip...
Why similar: Narrative 32.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 20%, Exploration 10.5%, Emotional 9.5%, Story Rich 8.6%
Games can really show someone's personality, don't you think? By way of a simple exploration-based adventure, this data-science game analyzes your actions to estimate your personality.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, LGBTQ+ 18.3%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Emotional 11%, Story Rich 9%
A top-down 2D story-driven adventure game inspired by real-life events. Traverse and experience the life of a formerly homeless man through an interview of how he regained his sense of self by telling his past to a stray dog. Set in Bangkok, Thailand 2017.
Why similar: Emotional 14.1%, Walking Simulator 14%, Romance 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Story Rich 10%
A visual novel where your choices matter. Derek has a job, a beloved boyfriend, friends, and… “piranha thoughts.” Everything was perfect until his younger sister Rina returned to town.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Romance 14.9%, Story Rich 9.9%
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+ 34.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Romance 19.4%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Story Rich 5.8%
