
If an AI were sentient, how would you know if they were malfunctioning, or experiencing a mental health problem? A story-rich game that explores mental health and AI ethics in the form of therapy sessions with a sentient AI.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Story Rich, Choices Matter, Multiple Endings.

If an AI were sentient, how would you know if they were malfunctioning, or experiencing a mental health problem? A story-rich game that explores mental health and AI ethics in the form of therapy sessions with a sentient AI.

End of Lines
Travel across landscapes devastated by a catastrophic climate meltdown, following a small family in search of somewhere habitable. With limited supplies and facing potential death at every turn, your choices will decide their fate. Will they manage to settle down?

The Wreck
In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.
Travel across landscapes devastated by a catastrophic climate meltdown, following a small family in search of somewhere habitable. With limited supplies and facing potential death at every turn, your choices will decide their fate. Will they manage to settle down?
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.1%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Psychological 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Dystopian 11.2%
In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.
Why similar: Choices Matter 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Emotional 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Point & Click 11.2%
You are a Mech plague doctor treating a family infected by a disease that spreads through emotions, and mutates them into monsters. Your choices decide their fate.
Why similar: Medical Sim 30.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Psychological 10.1%, Visual Novel 9.4%
You know the feeling of struggling to get out of bed? In A Heavy Morning, you will play as a young girl battling with her own mind. Your only objective? Get out of bed and get to work on time.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, LGBTQ+ 10.1%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Point & Click 9.5%
“The hospital was empty. Quiet, and brighter than usual... like waking up on a snow day. But I didn't feel cold. I didn't feel much of anything.”
Why similar: Emotional 15.4%, Visual Novel 15.4%, LGBTQ+ 15%, Psychological 10.3%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
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: Interactive Fiction 16.5%, LGBTQ+ 15%, Emotional 14.9%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Choices Matter 12.7%
Skylar is an student with anxiety. Walter is a farmer with social anxiety and PTSD. Jessica is a programmer with anxiety and agoraphobia. Li Wei is an technologist with intense anxiety. Navigate their stories, learn how they move through the world, and about methods of treatment and recovery.
Why similar: Psychological 16%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Emotional 10.3%, LGBTQ+ 9.9%
Immerse yourself in a hand-drawn, comic-style visual novel where your choices shape the storyline. Guide Lia through various decisions and emotions that lead to different outcomes. This original story and art present a take on a dystopian world, enhanced by an original soundtrack.
Why similar: Medical Sim 22% ★, Psychological 14.2%, Emotional 10%, Visual Novel 8.7%, Choices Matter 8.1%
If she leaves now you will never see her again. Would you have enough courage to take a step, or would you stay quiet and regret it? Experience this story about love and loss.
Why similar: Emotional 15.3%, Visual Novel 13.6%, LGBTQ+ 12.5%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
Travelling Light is a narrative game about four friends, Lars, Leah, Samson, and Ivy, caught in the turbulence of their early thirties. Inspired by real events, this experience lets you step into each perspective as love, friendship, and heartbreak collide.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Point & Click 11.8%, LGBTQ+ 10.1%
A 'crunchy wholesome' game about making friends as an adult.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 13%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Emotional 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Female Protagonist 9.7%
You are a transgender therapist. The patients you encounter might regret transitioning. Your job is to protect them from that.
Why similar: Medical Sim 38.8% ★, Psychological 18.4%, LGBTQ+ 14.6%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Female Protagonist 8%
Cheerleaders, sisterhood, sex, and competition. Follow the cheerleading team of an elite university for the rich and privileged as they aim for victory at the national championship, led by their ambitious captain, Elena.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Choices Matter 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Female Protagonist 10.9%
A romantic loop 3D visual novel about a girl who forgets you every night. It’s always your first date. She resets. You don’t. Try to win her heart, or choose to let go. Another strange post from the town of Akabako.
Why similar: Psychological 18.2%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Emotional 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Choices Matter 7.7%
Gardening and magic are meeting in Margaret’s Little Shop of Wonders. Play as Margaret, a young witch who just opened her own flower shop, and fulfill the peculiar requests of her strange customers!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Point & Click 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Emotional 11.4%
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+ 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Emotional 11.5%, Female Protagonist 10.8%
A psychological horror visual novel about healing and destiny. When her brother disappears, Elham's desperate search plunges her into a world of haunting visions, buried truths, and battles against dark forces. Will she find her true calling and embrace the light? or will she succumb to darkness
Why similar: Emotional 15.6%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Psychological 11.7%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
Mailey wakes up and goes to make her morning tea. However, something strange is going on inside her house, and her housemate Derthan is nowhere to be seen. Perhaps, the answer lies somewhere in her memories?
Why similar: Point & Click 16.5%, Emotional 16.3%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Choices Matter 8.7%
Your choices affect the destiny of Alice, drastically changing her reality and allowing her to explore alternative destinies by modifying her past. Travel across European cities, meet colourful characters and solve the mystery.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Psychological 11.7%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%
Your story continues right where Origins left off. Whether Jessica finds herself wandering the streets alone, caught in George’s web of deceit, or trapped in the unsettling confines of Margaret Thatuals under Professor Trounch’s watchful gaze and the orderlies, every choice matters.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.2%, Female Protagonist 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Multiple Endings 11.7%
When your beloved wants to abandon his personality and become an absolutely ordinary person, what do you do? Bonjin ~ An Ordinary Man is an young adult romantic story about transgender identity, exploration of masculinity, and mutual understanding.
Why similar: Emotional 14%, LGBTQ+ 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Psychological 12.3%, Choices Matter 10.6%
A 2D, veterinarian horror game. In this game, select the appropriate treatment and treat patients with topical products injections, surgeries. Treat patients over the course of 7 days, using the in-game computer to research the best treatment option. Playtime is 30 minutes.
Why similar: Medical Sim 52% ★, Point & Click 12.6%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Multiple Endings 8.3%, Hand-drawn 6.1%
Fishbowl is a narrative game about dreams, grief, and hope. Rediscover your memories and find your way into the present in this intimate experience where slice-of-life meets surreal.
Why similar: Emotional 15.3%, Psychological 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Choices Matter 9.9%
Experience the stories of Haru, Erika, and Manami, a trio of friends navigating their feelings of love, connection, and just wanting to belong.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 14.7%, Emotional 13.3%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Female Protagonist 8.5%
A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Female Protagonist 9.2%
Guide Hamlet (now a Girl *and* a Werewolf) as she deals with a murder mystery, a usurped throne, and a cursed sledding competition. Her emotions are your stats, so.... emote wisely. Or impulsively. Or with shame. It’s her kingdom. Everyone else is just tolerated in it.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Choices Matter 12.6%, LGBTQ+ 11%, Female Protagonist 10.5%
On Call is a visual novel that takes you through a 3-day rotation at Merritt General Hospital. Build trust with your patients and their families to get them on the road to recovery. Manage your own stress while confronting these challenges or you may just crack under the pressure.
Why similar: Medical Sim 37.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Emotional 9.4%, Simulation 8.2%
You are Doctor Parsnip Green, the first and last line of defense against a grotesquely beautiful epidemic. Make difficult choices as you investigate the disease’s origin, operate on patients, and fight to save those you love - all while managing your own dwindling sanity.
Why similar: Medical Sim 27.8% ★, Visual Novel 13.4%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%
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: Emotional 21.6%, Psychological 21.4%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Female Protagonist 15.5%, Dystopian 8.2%
Graveyard Girls is a halloween-themed yuri visual novel about complicated grief and overcoming hardships. Collect Elle’s “scribbles” to learn about her struggles, befriend a mysterious girl, and have a conversation about death.
Why similar: Psychological 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Emotional 14.3%, Visual Novel 12.8%, LGBTQ+ 10.9%
A short, hand-drawn narrative about memory, loss, and final conversations. Explore the quiet streets of the past and decide what you're ready to let go.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.9%, Emotional 17.5%, Hand-drawn 12.7%, Point & Click 12.7%, Psychological 9.7%
Where are you, Cinderella? is a visual novel about Vietnamese culture and the world of entertainment. Will you be able to find the lost shoe’s owner? Or, will you find your shoe?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, LGBTQ+ 12.8%, Choices Matter 12.1%
Christian Tyler is ready to investigate a new case! Uncover the mystery of the tourist town of Alkelano in our new visual novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Psychological 12.8%, Emotional 9.5%
Flavor Favor is a soft sci-fi visual novel where you take on the role of a captive fumer, a form of advanced AI humanoid, on the remote island of Tuinu. Your captors insist on having liberated you, but as you gradually recover your memories, a more complex story starts to unfold.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Psychological 12.7%, Emotional 12.5%, Point & Click 11%
You don't cure patients; you decide their fate. In this grim medical sim, review records and face impossible bioethical dilemmas. Consult the Medical Bible and choose who gets the bed. Every signature impacts your Ethics, Reputation, and Legal Risk. In a broken system, mercy is a dangerous luxury.
Why similar: Medical Sim 39.9% ★, Visual Novel 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Psychological 9.7%, Emotional 9.6%
Help Dawn, a young woman of faerie descent, with her first steps into loving and accepting who she is in a modern world where faeries and humans were supposed to live in harmony.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Psychological 14.3%, LGBTQ+ 13.2%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Emotional 12%
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 17.5%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Emotional 13.2%, Female Protagonist 11.2%, LGBTQ+ 11.2%
Experience a pastel-toned emotional journey in Yuika My Bestie, a short visual novel you can complete in under 15 minutes per playthrough. With 5 unique endings and heartfelt choices, it takes just 30–40 minutes to explore every path of this soft, late-night cry.
Why similar: Emotional 14.4%, LGBTQ+ 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
In Until The End, you play as Zoe, a young nurse who has just graduated. At the Montagne Institute, you will help her make the best decisions for the well-being of her patients in a palliative care unit.
Why similar: Medical Sim 40.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Emotional 9.1%
The threat is on the road ahead and deep beneath her skin. A psychological visual novel about memory, trauma, and the cost of every choice.
Why similar: Psychological 20.5%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Emotional 15%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
After a night of fun, passion, and one too many drinks, you wake up the next morning to find a complete stranger lying naked beside you in bed. What do you do?
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Point & Click 12.2%, Multiple Endings 11.7%
AN IOU is the debut visual novel by Davey Cadaver. The music, backgrounds, & characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. The user takes the POV of the protagonist to experience a memorable story with an incredible soundtrack and multiple endings.
Why similar: Emotional 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Psychological 12.4%, Choices Matter 10.3%
When everyone hides a deadly obsession, can you trust - or love - those who get close? Play as junior researcher Sky. Navigate romance, betrayal, and impossible choices across secret-filled Science City and post-apocalyptic lands. Recreate the lost medicine before your trust costs lives.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Visual Novel 11.3%, LGBTQ+ 10.5%, Psychological 9.3%
The kind Blacksmith is a Visual Horror Novel set in ficticious medieval Italy. In a land ravaged by war and sickness, you take on the roll of the Blacksmith - a lonely man that happens to take in a sick Knight of the invading forces. The Knight's fate is in your hands. To be kind is your choice.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.3%, LGBTQ+ 16.5%, Hand-drawn 13.8%, Emotional 12.3%, Choices Matter 12.2%
Do you ever feel like life is slipping away, with too many dreams left unfulfilled? Like you're trapped in wanting to do so much, but never quite getting to any of it? Doesn't that thought scare you—looking back on a life that accomplished nothing, fading without leaving a mark? It scares me too.
Why similar: Psychological 22.3%, Emotional 19.9%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%
A satirical mental hospital survival simulator: control four unstable characters, craft from junk, forge dubious alliances, communicate with patients and staff, and choose between a quiet life in a ward, a riot, or a risky escape to freedom.
Why similar: Medical Sim 56.7% ★, Visual Novel 13.6%, Psychological 7.8%, Choices Matter 6.8%, Hand-drawn 5.3%
The curse wove your fates together. Now their thoughts and feelings influence you and your actions determine their fates. Will you be able to break the curse? Or will their dark pasts drag you into an inescapable despair? And can a fresh start really erase the past?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.8%, LGBTQ+ 11.1%, Female Protagonist 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
Unravel the story of three siblings determined to break free from the iron grip of an AI named "Mother." In a world of virtual imprisonment, navigate rebellion, unveil dark secrets, and fight for freedom. Will you defy Mother's control, or succumb to her virtual prison?
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Dystopian 13%, Hand-drawn 12.1%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
Human belief has the power to change reality. For millennia, alien races have been visiting Earth, gaining supernatural abilities and fantastic wealth by exploiting this remarkable power. But humans are advancing, and many aliens now find themselves leaving Earth with nothing but debts and regrets.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Multiple Endings 15%, Hand-drawn 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.3%
The story of a girl who is changing from a human to a "KEMONO" and watching her coming of age. This is a multi-ending "adventure game about training an Animalized girl" set in a KEMOMIMI x Hong Kong x cyberpunk world.
Why similar: Emotional 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Dystopian 11.3%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Point & Click 10%
Melancholy Love is a Yuri Visual Novel between an elite and a misfit in an All-Girls' High School. How will sparks flare between the two?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.8%, Emotional 14.9%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Female Protagonist 10.8%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
A candy alchemist finds a candy golem in her basement workshop...
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Female Protagonist 12.4%, Multiple Endings 11.9%
Shape queer love and friendship at the end of the world in this choice-driven, emotional narrative game. Will you settle for pessimism, or open yourself to trust?
Why similar: Emotional 17.6%, LGBTQ+ 15.9%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Multiple Endings 12.1%
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: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, LGBTQ+ 15.1%, Emotional 13.8%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Female Protagonist 10%
Cozy visual novel about a lovely witch who’s able to talk to spirits in a fantasy setting. Using her powers, Julia helps her neighbors in their daily whereabouts. Craft potions, find the right time to use them and get to know both spirits and clients to find their peace.
Why similar: Emotional 16.9%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, LGBTQ+ 11.3%, Choices Matter 8.4%
A light admonishment from Mom sparks the realization that these twin sisters care for each other in more than a familial sense. In this dramatic & romantic yuri Visual Novel, it's up to you to navigate the forbidden tension between the sisters so their love can flourish without growing one-sided.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.9%, LGBTQ+ 18.8%, Female Protagonist 13.5%, Choices Matter 12%, Emotional 11.1%
Simple visual novel in which you play as a young upperclass woman preparing for her debut before the Queen and her royal relatives. All of your decisions lead to one of four very different endings. Who will you become? The jewel of the season or the outcast, never again mentioned by your family?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Psychological 11.7%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Hand-drawn 10.6%
Retracing the footsteps of a mother she never knew, Lena's trying to make it as a dancer in the city. Caught in a quarrel between dance companies, dealing with love and heartbreak and the challenges of young adulthood, she must also cope with the voice in her head commenting on everything she does.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Psychological 12.2%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Female Protagonist 9.8%
An autopsy of a queer relationship.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Visual Novel 16.8%, LGBTQ+ 16.6%, Choices Matter 11%, Multiple Endings 9.3%