- #1 Sepia Tears
97% matchVery Positive88% of 991 reviews2016
Dev: Scarlet String Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 32%
A visual novel about a memory that a boy named Mark tries very hard to forget, and a girl named Myra who unearths it.
Why similar: Visual Novel 100%
- #2 Eternal Hour: Golden Hour
96% matchVery Positive90% of 873 reviews2017
Dev: Seventh Heart StudiosPub: Sekai Project
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 51.7 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Play through a timeless adventure as Yasu or Rin Fujimoto and discover the origins of Eternal Hour! Eternal Hour: Golden Hour is a fun, emotional, and story-driven Visual Novel that takes place before the events of Eternal Hour.
Why similar: Visual Novel 64.7%, Casual 22.4%, Indie 13%
- #3 A Dual Ascent
95% matchVery Positive95% of 96 reviews2024
Dev: Mountain Toad EntertainmentPub: Rubika Supinfogame
Windows
Discover the tale of two peculiar characters: the Old Pilgrim and the Little Star, as they embark on a journey up the Great Mountain of Wonders. Guide them both simultaneously with a single controller. Join this poetic adventure that will challenge your mind and skills!
Why similar: Casual 91.8%, Indie 8.2%
- #4 Runeous: Part One
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 142 reviews2016
Dev: Novel Tea GamesPub: Lost Fables
Windows · Mac
Median: 18 minMean: 17.7 hrs≥1hr: 10%
Join our heroes in a world ravished by the wars of it's past in this exciting Visual Novel experience!
Why similar: Visual Novel 44.3%, Indie 28.8%, Casual 27%
- #5 memories
94% matchVery Positive94% of 1,515 reviews2023
Dev: guiyyuPub: Spookulele Games
Windows · Mac
memories is a sapphic visual novel dress-up game where clothes are linked to painful memories of a failed relationship.
Why similar: Visual Novel 54.9%, Casual 22.6%, Indie 22.5%
- #6 Once10
94% matchVery Positive82% of 104 reviews2019
Dev: JingtuStudio
Windows · Mac
This is a visual novel about 60 minutes in length, telling a story of memories.he visual novel "Once10" is a story which will recall the experience of many individuals.
Why similar: Visual Novel 53.9%, Indie 46.1%
- #7 Our Life: Beginnings & Always
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 13,335 reviews2020
Dev: GB Patch Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 25.8 hrs≥1hr: 55%
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Why similar: Visual Novel 77.4%, Casual 11.9%, Indie 10.7%
- #8 Six Days of Snow
93% matchMostly Positive77% of 459 reviews2017
Dev: ebi-hime
Windows · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 46%
In a small inn located in the snowy Japanese mountains, an unlikely relationship blossoms between a once-popular poet and the daughter of the inn's proprietress.
Why similar: Visual Novel 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #9 Once'
92% matchVery Positive88% of 171 reviews2019
Dev: Once重置制作室Pub: JingtuStudio
Windows · Mac
This is a visual novel about 60 minutes in length, telling a story of memories."Once'" is a story which will recall the experience of many individuals. Regardless of if you're in your springtime of life having full of dreams for the future, or if you're a matured adult who has already stepped into the society and owns a family,...
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #10 Lingering Fragrance
91% matchVery Positive92% of 596 reviews2018
Dev: BLESTWORKS
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
We walk together, play together, and do everything together. This is our last trip, our last memory. It is a short visual novel contains three story lines, after main story the other two will be unlocked. Which one is your side of story?
Why similar: Visual Novel 45%, Casual 31.1%, Indie 23.9%
- #11 Chasing Sunsets
89% matchVery Positive93% of 1,059 reviews2024
Dev: Stone Fox Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 31.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
When your mother remarries, her new husband's fiery daughter enters your life. After forming an initial strong connection, misunderstanding pushes you apart. Years later, reunited by tragedy and conspiracy, the two of you must choose a path to follow: Will you be rivals, friends, or lovers?
Why similar: Visual Novel 66.7%, Indie 19.8%, Casual 13.5%
- #12 Dawn
90% matchVery Positive91% of 868 reviews2017
Dev: Brave Rabbit GamesPub: SMU Guildhall
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Dawn is an atmospheric 3D platformer in which players guide a druidic creature named Ash through a beautiful environment to bring life and light back to a dead tree at the center of the world.
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #13 This Winter of Ours
87% matchVery Positive99% of 132 reviews2025
Dev: VARIA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Alone as two, together as one - A fantasy/yuri visual novel telling the story of two girls traversing a snow covered forest and growing closer.
Why similar: Visual Novel 100%
- #14 Alex's Hope & Alex's Solitude
88% matchVery Positive91% of 65 reviews2024
Dev: Violet Horizons Productions
Windows · Mac · Linux
A boy regains his hope and a girl finds herself in solitude. A kinetic novel that will take you through their darkest days and immerse you in their deepest emotions.
Why similar: Visual Novel 71.5%, Casual 28.5%
- #15 TREE
86% matchVery Positive93% of 2,301 reviews2018
Dev: The Strangers
Windows
TREE tells a story of a relationship between a boy and his tree. What starts off as a simple connection, over time it grows into something deeper.
Why similar: Casual 43.1%, Indie 35.2%, Visual Novel 21.8%
- #16 Say Goodbye
89% matchMixed52% of 229 reviews2017
Dev: morojenoe's empire
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
This visual novel about an ordinary man with his typical problems. Suddenly, you got a report that your distant cousin died in a car crash. Fortunately, her daughter wasn't with her. You take the girl under your wing. But soon, something starts to go wrong...
Why similar: Visual Novel 49.6%, Indie 25.6%, Casual 24.7%
- #17 Sand Castle
85% matchVery Positive94% of 99 reviews2022
Dev: Alice NowakPub: Unusual Meaning
Windows · Mac · Linux
A date on the beach, small talk, a little bit of nostalgia and an important decision. All of that taking place to the accompaniment of the summer breeze.
Why similar: Visual Novel 67.9%, Indie 32.1%
- #18 Find someone else
86% matchVery Positive92% of 130 reviews2018
Dev: Red Skald
Windows
A visual novel about the ever-changing nature of relationships and the hardships of dealing with loss.
Why similar: Visual Novel 61%, Indie 39%
- #19 My New Memories
84% matchVery Positive83% of 459 reviews2021
Dev: Killer7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Memories...One of the most important things in our lives. But what happens if you forget who you are? If you don't remember anything? Then you can only hope that the people that do know who you are help you out...This is your journey...On your way to finding new memories...
Why similar: Visual Novel 62%, Casual 25.3%, Indie 12.7%
- #20 The Painting
82% matchVery Positive99% of 69 reviews2024
Dev: Tymedust Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short, emotional visual novel following a grieving man who relives memories of days long gone. An exploration of loss presented honestly and kinetically.
Why similar: Visual Novel 94.2%, Indie 5.8%
- #21 Fire Tonight
84% matchVery Positive87% of 104 reviews2021
Dev: Reptoid GamesPub: Way Down Deep
Windows · Mac
A narrative puzzle game about two people trying to find their way back together in a city on fire.
Why similar: Visual Novel 40.3%, Casual 33.6%, Indie 26.1%
- #22 Ambre - a heartbreaking kinetic novel
83% matchMostly Positive75% of 670 reviews2017
Dev: Träumendes Mädchen
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 42%
A heartbreaking kinetic novel about the meeting of a depressed thirty years old man with a lost little girl he takes in his house.
Why similar: Visual Novel 52.3%, Casual 27%, Indie 20.7%
- #23 Fireside Feelings
78% matchVery Positive98% of 276 reviews2025
Dev: Team Empreintes
Windows
Share your thoughts and discover those shared by others, in Fireside Feelings. Gather around the welcoming warmth of the campfire and take part in conversations between real people separated in space and time. Sometimes, we all need a good talk under the stars.
Why similar: Casual 51%, Indie 49%
- #24 Emily is Away
80% matchVery Positive89% of 32,165 reviews2015
Dev: Kyle Seeley
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 19.8 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
Why similar: Visual Novel 40.3%, Indie 33.1%, Casual 26.5%
- #25 Reaching for Petals
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 199 reviews2017
Dev: Blue Entropy Studios
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Reaching for Petals is a poetic adventure about love, loss, and ambition. You will travel to the peak of the ever-reaching mountain to uncover the true nature of your mysterious and seemingly unguided journey.
Why similar: Casual 53.4%, Indie 46.6%
- #26 Layover Lovers
79% matchVery Positive92% of 86 reviews2023
Dev: Moonlit Works
Windows · Mac · Linux
A terminal love story
Why similar: Visual Novel 47.1%, Casual 41.4%, Indie 11.5%
- #27 A Warmer Shade of Summer
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 117 reviews2021
Dev: 52.6 Productions
Windows
You return to the family farm to find it in disrepair. Maybe you have what it takes to bring it back to its former glory? Who knows who you'll meet on you're way? An old friend? That special someone? Anything is possible in Summerset.
Why similar: Visual Novel 48.1%, Casual 39.4%, Indie 12.5%
- #28 Jellyfish Season
81% matchMostly Positive77% of 95 reviews2018
Dev: Kombinat
Windows
A short visual novel about meeting with a stranger on the beach.
Why similar: Casual 53.4%, Indie 46.6%
- #29 Memoir
77% matchVery Positive97% of 272 reviews2022
Dev: 7757
Windows
A short memoir of first love.
Why similar: Visual Novel 52.2%, Casual 30.4%, Indie 17.4%
- #30 Once on a windswept night
79% matchVery Positive87% of 195 reviews2017
Dev: ebi-hime
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
A metafictional yuri visual novel about a traveller who runs across two cute nuns in an abandoned church.
Why similar: Visual Novel 43.5%, Casual 31.2%, Indie 25.3%
- #31 The Heavens
76% matchVery Positive92% of 59 reviews2025
Dev: ctcPub: Expedition Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Ascend to the Heavens and find out if you're pure enough to be reborn on the Earth.
Why similar: Visual Novel 63.1%, Casual 25.3%, Indie 11.7%
- #32 Juniper's Knot
78% matchVery Positive96% of 316 reviews2017
Dev: Dischan Media
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Juniper's Knot is a short (~30 mins) kinetic novel about the meeting of a demon and a boy. A kinetic novel is a game that uses text, sound, and illustrations to tell a story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 39.9%, Casual 31.8%, Indie 28.3%
- #33 my brother lives in a canyon
77% matchVery Positive93% of 87 reviews2021
Dev: Kenneth Dodrill
Windows · Linux
my brother lives in a canyon is a short adventure game about two brothers reminiscing over short-wave radios.
Why similar: Casual 76.4%, Indie 23.6%
- #34 The Average Everyday Adventures of Samantha Browne
76% matchVery Positive82% of 1,224 reviews2016
Dev: Lemonsucker Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 44.0 hrs≥1hr: 35%
An interactive story about a painfully introverted college student who must find a way to make some oatmeal in the communal kitchen of her dorm. One simple task, can you help her complete it?
Why similar: Visual Novel 42.3%, Indie 30.2%, Casual 27.5%
- #35 Evening Surprise
75% matchVery Positive89% of 741 reviews2017
Dev: Aleksandr Soldatov
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 18%
Max and his girlfriend Ann are very happy together. They have no arguments, they enjoy spending time with each other, they are in love. What else can they wish? Well, Max, you will get a big surprise this evening...
Why similar: Visual Novel 66.5%, Indie 33.5%
- #36 Familiar Travels - Volume One
75% matchVery Positive88% of 111 reviews2019
Dev: Rose TudorPub: Halftone Studios
Windows · Mac
Familiar Travels is a different kind of graphic adventure with a focus on diverse relationships, an important, story and forging genuine connections with the cast.
Why similar: Visual Novel 35.4%, Casual 35.2%, Indie 29.4%
- #37 Sunset Hills
74% matchMixed61% of 600 reviews2024
Dev: Cotton Game
Windows · Mac
After being discharged from the army and starting to write novels, Nico embarks on a trip to the world with the roar of a train, encountering all kinds of people and events on the way, and experiencing the new world after the war, and the real purpose of Nico's trip gradually emerges ......
Why similar: Visual Novel 56.9%, Casual 24.4%, Indie 18.7%
- #38 Enamored Risks
73% matchVery Positive86% of 204 reviews2020
Dev: Crystal Game Works
Windows
Upon finding a mysterious social media account, Alex sets out to find the origins of the photos and meets three urban explorers, each of them unearthing something new and unfamiliar in her heart.
Why similar: Visual Novel 53.7%, Casual 27.9%, Indie 18.3%
- #39 Where The Water Tastes Like Wine: Fireside Chats
74% matchVery Positive90% of 51 reviews2018
Dev: Dim Bulb GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine: Fireside Chats is a free standalone experience which acts as a companion to Where The Water Tastes Like Wine.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #40 SnowNight
73% matchVery Positive92% of 394 reviews2018
Dev: Hollowings
Windows
This is a small, warm story that happened in the winter. Two people who met by chance, because of each other's existence, and then felt more past that had not been deliberately remembered - After telling the story, I finally ushered in the day when the first snow fell.
Why similar: Visual Novel 45.1%, Casual 30.5%, Indie 24.4%
- #41 Pine: A Story of Loss
71% matchMostly Positive80% of 209 reviews2024
Dev: Made Up GamesPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
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: Visual Novel 57.2%, Casual 26.4%, Indie 16.4%
- #42 Making Memories
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 57 reviews2023
Dev: Kvitravn Tales
Windows · Mac · Linux
A Visual novel made from the heart. Experience, and expect the "Mature" in Maturity, A story about Sex, Romance, friendship, healing, and moving on. Made to put a smile on one's face.
Why similar: Visual Novel 76.4%, Casual 23.6%
- #43 Remember When
73% matchVery Positive85% of 68 reviews2021
Dev: Arrow Games
Windows
The story follows a phone call between Noah and his wife, Sarah as they recall pivotal moments in their relationship. Peer into Noah's memories and relive the couple's happiest moments through choice based dialogue, a unique art-style, and an original soundtrack in this fully voice acted experience.
Why similar: Visual Novel 56.6%, Casual 30.9%, Indie 12.6%
- #44 Know by heart
70% matchVery Positive90% of 830 reviews2022
Dev: Ice-Pick Lodge
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Childhood friends reunite after spending a long time apart, revisiting old memories and rekindling their friendship. However, something beyond their control will ruin this reunion.
Why similar: Visual Novel 69.3%, Casual 30.7%
- #45 One Thousand Lies
71% matchVery Positive89% of 1,129 reviews2016
Dev: Keinart Lobre
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 36%
One day, Ciarán starts receiving enigmatic emails from a mysterious sender, turning his everyday life into a mess of a romantic comedy with psychological themes mixed in. What lies beyond the mystery he's been presented with? In the words of Harry H.: "If you want to know the truth, go find it".
Why similar: Visual Novel 65.6%, Casual 23.1%, Indie 11.3%
- #46 Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,111 reviews2017
Dev: Dicesuki
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 25.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
Why similar: Visual Novel 83%, Indie 13.1%, Casual 4%
- #47 DUET
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 594 reviews2025
Dev: Dolos Studio
Windows
DUET illustrates the Hifuu Club's first encounter. It is a wordless, narrative-driven experience about connection and small moments in life. Step into the subtle yet fateful daily interactions that intertwine Renko and Merry's lives.
Why similar: Casual 49.5%, Visual Novel 42.3%, Indie 8.2%
- #48 Purrgatory
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 4,893 reviews2021
Dev: Niv
Windows
A slice-of-death visual novel about making friends, cracking cat puns, and waiting for eternity to pass.
Why similar: Visual Novel 65.6%, Casual 23.9%, Indie 10.5%
- #49 Second Chance
71% matchVery Positive85% of 1,128 reviews2018
Dev: COMANPub: C&E
Windows · Mac · Linux
One night, Leslie finds himself at a small town train station, completely lost in the memories of his past. As he explores his past, he makes friends, but... Who are they really? Who is lying and who is telling the truth? And is it true that everyone in our world is entitled to a second chance?
Why similar: Visual Novel 75.9%, Casual 13%, Indie 11.1%
- #50 Some Goodbyes We Made
67% matchVery Positive98% of 180 reviews2024
Dev: Safe Flight Games
Windows · Mac
I have some memories of saying goodbye that I don't want to forget, so I turned them into 11 minigames and backed them up in this collection.
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #51 Fragments of Him
72% matchVery Positive84% of 146 reviews2016
Dev: Sassybot
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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: Visual Novel 48.1%, Casual 28.7%, Indie 23.2%
- #52 bygone snow
67% matchVery Positive99% of 74 reviews2025
Dev: Creatalsoftware Games
Windows
When the world ends, who will you spend your final hours with? A visual novel for the GBA.
Why similar: Visual Novel 64.8%, Casual 23.5%, Indie 11.7%
- #53 Something Strange
69% matchPositive91% of 66 reviews2022
Dev: Ethan ZimmerlePub: Mr. Hand
Windows
Go about your normal every day life and meet new friends in this short visual novel!
Why similar: Visual Novel 56.4%, Casual 30.8%, Indie 12.8%
- #54 Marie's Room
67% matchVery Positive93% of 6,612 reviews2018
Dev: Kenny Guillaume
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Marie's Room is a short story exploration game about an unconventional friendship between two classmates. You play as Kelsey, remembering Marie's room as it was twenty years ago. But something’s off. What happened to Marie?
Why similar: Indie 55%, Casual 45%
- #55 A Date in the Park
69% matchVery Positive88% of 1,998 reviews2016
Dev: Cloak and Dagger Games
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 36%
A short and mysterious free point and click adventure game, inspired by the feeling of oddness in an everyday situation.
- #56 Fling with a Tiefling
66% matchVery Positive92% of 83 reviews2024
Dev: Kristi Jimenez
Windows · Mac · Linux
Fling with a Tiefling is a short fantasy romance visual novel that follows you, an adventurer whose journey is about to come to an end. With tonight potentially being the last night with your treasured Tiefling companion Karrus, how will you spend it with him?
Why similar: Visual Novel 81.5%, Indie 18.5%
- #57 From Head to Toe
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 105 reviews2019
Dev: Party for Introverts
Windows · Mac
"From Head to Toe" is a short interactive story about winter, existential guilt and your ex-classmates.
Why similar: Casual 40%, Indie 33.4%, Visual Novel 26.6%
- #58 Seasonala Cemetery
65% matchVery Positive95% of 93 reviews2025
Dev: Gabby DaRienzo
Windows · Mac
A meditative experience that invites players to explore the serene beauty of a living, breathing cemetery as it changes with the seasons.
Why similar: Casual 78.2%, Indie 21.8%
- #59 Humanity Must Perish
69% matchVery Positive82% of 266 reviews2017
Dev: Zetsubou
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 30%
Humanity Must Perish is a short, comedic visual novel in which the fate of humanity is placed in the hands of a witty, pessimistic android.
Why similar: Visual Novel 43.5%, Casual 29.9%, Indie 26.5%
- #60 Guilt Free
68% matchVery Positive86% of 288 reviews2020
Dev: Lateral Games
Windows · Mac
Guilt Free is a visual novel crossed with a point and click made to offer perspective on mental health and eating disorders. Navigate a couple's rocky relationship and encounter "flaws" or "quirks" that may actually be symptomatic behaviors.
Why similar: Visual Novel 71.3%, Casual 28.7%