
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, Choices Matter, Story Rich, Singleplayer.

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.

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.

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?
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 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Psychological 11%, Emotional 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.2%
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 14.2%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Psychological 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Dystopian 11.3%
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+ 10.2%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Point & Click 9.5%
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 30.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Psychological 10%, Visual Novel 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: Visual Novel 15.9%, Emotional 15%, LGBTQ+ 14.8%, Psychological 10.4%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
A cozy visual novel about running a tavern in a D&D-inspired fantasy! Gather rumors, serve magical drinks, and meet adventurers on a life-changing quest.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Emotional 12.5%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
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 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Emotional 10.2%, LGBTQ+ 10%
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+ 15.1%, Emotional 14.7%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Choices Matter 12.6%
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 22.1% ★, Psychological 14%, Emotional 9.9%, Visual Novel 8.7%, Dystopian 8%
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 15.1%, Visual Novel 13.7%, LGBTQ+ 12.6%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Choices Matter 10.4%
A 'crunchy wholesome' game about making friends as an adult.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Emotional 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Female Protagonist 9.8%
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 14.3%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Point & Click 11.7%, LGBTQ+ 10.1%
You are a transgender therapist. The patients you encounter might regret transitioning. Your job is to protect them from that.
Why similar: Medical Sim 38.4% ★, Psychological 17.9%, LGBTQ+ 15.2%, Visual Novel 13.2%, 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: Visual Novel 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Female Protagonist 11.1%
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 12.3%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Emotional 11.3%
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%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Emotional 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Choices Matter 7.6%
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+ 16.2%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Emotional 11.4%, Female Protagonist 10.9%
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 38.7% ★, Visual Novel 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Psychological 9.3%, Emotional 9.1%
A psychological horror visual novel about healing, where saving your brother means facing your own demons. Elham’s search forces her to confront haunting visions, buried family secrets, and dark entities. Will you help her embrace the light, or let her fall into the darkness?
Why similar: Emotional 15.4%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Psychological 11.6%, Multiple Endings 9%
In a "perfect" city governed by AI, you're just an ordinary repair technician trying to survive. Then a routine job goes wrong, you get kidnapped, and the woman who taught you everything you know seems to have known it would happen all along.
Why similar: Psychological 14.4%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Artificial Intelligence 13.3%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%
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 14.2%, Emotional 13.3%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Female Protagonist 9%
Fishbowl is a slow and tender 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 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Choices Matter 9.9%
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 14.2%, Visual Novel 13.2%, LGBTQ+ 13.2%, Point & Click 11.9%
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 39.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Visual Novel 11%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
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 2 hours.
Why similar: Medical Sim 52.4% ★, Point & Click 12.3%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Multiple Endings 8.3%, Hand-drawn 6.2%
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 11.6%, Choices Matter 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
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 13.9%, LGBTQ+ 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Psychological 12.2%, Choices Matter 10.5%
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 17.3%, Female Protagonist 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Multiple Endings 11.6%
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+ 15%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Emotional 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Female Protagonist 8.7%
A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Visual Novel 13%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Female Protagonist 9.3%
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 16%, Choices Matter 12.4%, LGBTQ+ 11%, Female Protagonist 10.6%
What if Martin looked into the mirror at night? A poetic visual novel, unfolding as a quiet journey through fragmented days. In the final year of high school, Wei Shi becomes you. Each morning begins without a name, and each night leads them through unfamiliar youth and the fragile art of happiness.
Why similar: Psychological 18.2%, LGBTQ+ 14.8%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
Experience the horror of this narrative-driven medical RPG. As Doctor Parsnip Green, you’ll point-and-click your way through 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 28.6% ★, Visual Novel 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%
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 13.3%, Psychological 11.6%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Female Protagonist 10.7%
Through a narrative based on Red Ribbon’s new album “Planet X”, experience a broken-heart girl’s journey through thoughts, daydreams and music.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Point & Click 12.8%, Emotional 12%, Psychological 10.8%
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 37.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Emotional 9.3%, Simulation 8.2%
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 14.2%, LGBTQ+ 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
In "Omnisight" you decide what people will believe. Theories, relationships with colleagues, and secrets are just tools at your disposal. You change reality and transform yourself along with it. But are you ready to accept the consequences?
Why similar: Psychological 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Visual Novel 14%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Artificial Intelligence 9.3%
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 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, LGBTQ+ 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.9%
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 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Emotional 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.9%, LGBTQ+ 11%
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 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Psychological 12.6%, Hand-drawn 9.4%
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 16.1%, Visual Novel 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Choices Matter 8.6%
A visual novel about mental health, depression, and self-love. Play as Amatista, a young woman trapped in isolation, as she begins a journey she never asked for. Every choice shapes the story. Fully accessible for blind and visually impaired players.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Psychological 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Emotional 11.8%
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 16.7%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Psychological 12.6%, Emotional 12.4%, Point & Click 11.1%
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 17.4%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Emotional 12.9%, Female Protagonist 11.3%, LGBTQ+ 11%
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 13.9%, LGBTQ+ 11.2%, Female Protagonist 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
Heal your patients from curses and possessions as a shunned witch doctor in this creepy, cozy witch-life adventure: Care for your plants, craft magical amulets and analyse what is wrong with your neighbors so they start trusting in magic again. Make mythical new friends and heal what is broken.
Why similar: Medical Sim 24.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Emotional 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%
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 21.3%, Psychological 21%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Female Protagonist 15.6%, Dystopian 8.2%
It’s almost Christmas. Spend a quiet evening with Misha, where small choices can lead to unexpected consequences.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18%, Psychological 17.1%, Female Protagonist 13.6%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Multiple Endings 11.8%
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 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Point & Click 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11.6%
Every person you choose leaves someone else behind. Spend your limited afternoons building relationships, exploring the town, and recording each day in Kanata’s diary—then face timed Shadow Choices as an old book begins to fracture his ordinary life.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.2%, Psychological 16.6%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Emotional 11.8%
Some memories aren't meant to stay. We are our memories and our experiences. What happens if you delete some of them? If you change your past and, thus, your future?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Point & Click 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9%
Neve is a non-linear interactive fiction in which your decisions can completely change the course of story. Manage your team, race against time and unravel the mysteries surrounding your ship's crash in this suffocating retrofuturistic thriller that will have you hooked from the first second.
Why similar: Psychological 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, LGBTQ+ 11.3%, Point & Click 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
Step into Greyholt as Ava, a would-be adventurer taking a chance to register with her father's guild. Will this bring the independence she craves, or something more dangerous? A psychological, choice-driven visual novel where every decision shapes the road ahead and the journey beneath her own skin.
Why similar: Psychological 20.4%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Emotional 14.8%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
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 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Psychological 12.3%, Choices Matter 10.2%
An image created by AI — is it yours? An AI art tool is placed before a nameless illustrator. To accept, or to refuse. A visual novel that tells the same story in different forms. Your choices shape the ending - there is no right answer.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Emotional 10.6%
The fate of humanity is at stake. Use your gift of clairvoyance to see into the future and stop an apocalypse that threatens the balance between your world and the deities'.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Emotional 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, LGBTQ+ 11.3%
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+ 14.4%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Emotional 9.6%
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 18.5%, LGBTQ+ 16.6%, Hand-drawn 13.9%, Emotional 12.2%, Choices Matter 12.1%