- #1 MELON PARKER -We are Whatever Club!-
97% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: CyberStep, Inc.
Windows
The super-popular singing group “Melon Parker” is now in a visual novel game! You and your five childhood friends form the “Whatever Club” to solve the school’s problems! Where will your youthful story with the five of them lead...
Why similar: Collectathon 23.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Comic Book 15.7%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Simulation 6.9%
- #2 Devils
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Francesco Cabbai
Windows
Your soul is on the line. Manage devils, manipulate fate through dice-based negotiations, and make soul deals in a Barcelona narrative strategy game about debt, temptation, and survival.
Why similar: Time Management 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Comic Book 11.7%
- #3 SINce Memories: Off The Starry Sky
96% matchPositive82% of 39 reviews2024
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: PQube
Windows
Follow the story of Junya, lost in his own world but soft-hearted and ready to help those in need, his close friends try to keep him grounded following the tragic loss of his brother. Trying to move on from his grief, focusing on his studies and his work, he loses himself in trying to help others.
Why similar: Time Management 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Action-Adventure 12.5%, Adventure 6.5%
- #4 Cold Bed on Route
95% matchPositive94% of 48 reviews2025
Dev: Old Retina Museum
Windows · Linux
"Cold Bed on Route" is an equation-like adventure game. Work with to find and dump unwanted items. Then, let's make up for the excess weight caused by having her on board. And let's prove that the universe is not yet completely cold and frigid. Now, pilot, it's your turn.
Why similar: Time Management 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Multiple Endings 6.1%
- #5 Almost Castaways
94% matchPositive100% of 20 reviews2026
Dev: Pent Panda
Windows
Stranded on a mysterious island after a sudden shipwreck, two girls must work together to survive. Balance deep narrative choices with sandbox survival mechanics as you build your camp, uncover ancient secrets, and navigate a story filled with humor, drama, and unexpected destiny.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Sandbox 13.7%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Comic Book 12.6%
- #6 Atonement
94% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Nexus Media
Windows
Atonement is an interactive graphic novel set in the Wild West. At various points in the story, you will be asked to make a choice, these choices will take you down different paths in the story. There are 3 storylines featuring a manhunt, a bank job, and a train robbery.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Comic Book 18.6%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Adventure 10.1%
- #7 Operation Blackfox
93% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Nexus Media
Windows
Operation Blackfox is an interactive graphic novel. At various points in the story, you will be asked to make a choice, these choices will take you down different paths in the story. Your objective is to rescue as many characters as possible. The game features 3 possible story endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.3%, Comic Book 26%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Adventure 12.4%, 2D 5.1%
- #8 Afesis: The Four Steps
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Aftos Studio
Windows
Discover the Castilian-inspired village of Valdejara in this suspenseful visual novel. Christian tradition comes alive in our story. Decipher biblical passages, confront the shadows that threaten faith, and feel the weight of every choice.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19%, Time Management 18.5%, Comic Book 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Visual Novel 13.6%
- #9 Man I Just Wanna Go Home
91% matchVery Positive95% of 765 reviews2024
Dev: JZPS Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 1.2 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Man I Just Wanna Go Home is an "MSPaint-noir" visual novel with 13 endings, a unique visual style and a killer 80s inspired soundtrack. The story revolves around a delivery person stranded in an unfamiliar part of the city under the devastating rain. All he wants is to get home. Help him!
Why similar: Comic Book 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Multiple Endings 6.4%
- #10 Seeds of Pain
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aky Heart
Windows · Mac · Linux
A group of kids decide to leave the floating island they live on to go and explore a colossal world tree. They don't know yet how dangerous this choice will be. Feel their fear and try to survive in this Visual Novel with resource management systems.
Why similar: Time Management 28%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Multiple Endings 5.5%
- #11 Good Gaijin, Bad Gaijin
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Wamill
Windows · Mac
You’ve just landed in Japan with nothing but a suitcase and a lot to learn. Navigate cultural minefields, engage with a cast of local characters, and decide what kind of visitor you want to be. Part social simulator, part cinematic journey—it’s time to choose your own adventure.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Visual Novel 17%, Comic Book 11.8%, Adventure 9.4%
- #12 Rouge Patrol
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Grimlark
Windows
A war that outlived the soldiers who fought it. Enemies inherited by a generation not grown. You will lead your precocious unit into this unending conflict and find out if the bonds of friendship can withstand the tides of war. Overflowing with black humour, you'll laugh till you cry...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Time Management 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Multiple Endings 7.7%
- #13 Betrayed
88% matchVery Positive84% of 56 reviews2024
Dev: Joraell
Windows
Betrayed is erotic game that focuses on the main storyline. The player's choices throughout the game will influence the direction of the story. In addition to the main storyline, the game also features side quests, hidden scenes, and bonus content.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Time Management 13.8%, Sandbox 12.3%
- #14 One Week Left : Last Days at the Office
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: yongdustudio
Windows
Only 5 days until you quit. Plan your daily schedule, chat with coworkers, and make choices as you prepare to resign. Will you hand over your duties perfectly, or slack off in the breakroom and cause chaos? Experience a hyper-realistic K-office drama shaped by your choices!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Visual Novel 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Time Management 12.2%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
- #15 The Art Keeper
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Faded Canvas Studio
Windows
The Art Keeper is a cozy 3D painting sandbox where you can create shapes, paint textures, and build a world of your own. Unleash your creativity with endless possibilities, discover 400+ paintings and music pieces, and solve 12 unique puzzles hidden throughout your artistic journey.
Why similar: Collectathon 23.6%, Time Management 21.8%, Sandbox 18.1%, Base Building 9.9%, Simulation 9.6%
- #16 KONOSUBA - God's Blessing on this Wonderful World! Love For These Clothes Of Desire!
86% matchVery Positive87% of 297 reviews2024
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: PQube
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 97.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
It's time for a Visual Novel Quest with a twist! Join Kazuma, a reincarnated adventurer, and spend turbulent days with his unfortunate party members. Prepare for waifus, dress-up and resource management and get ready for an Isekai comedy that’s out of this world!
Why similar: Time Management 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Action-Adventure 10.2%
- #17 Last Journal
85% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Nexus Media
Windows
Last Journal is an interactive graphic novel where you play as John Weston, fighting to survive a deadly pandemic. Your choices shape the story, leading to branching paths, alliances, and multiple endings. Choose wisely—survive or perish.
Why similar: Comic Book 29.1%, Interactive Fiction 28.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Adventure 12.5%, Choices Matter 4.9%
- #18 Watch out, the Doors are Closing
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cat TalesPub: TERNOX
Windows
A magical-realist visual novel, a funny and sad tale about ghosts of a Ukrainian subway, and an exploration of the meaning of life where there seems to be no meaning.
Why similar: Comic Book 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Simulation 5.2%
- #19 Always On
84% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Skydome Studios
Windows
Choices matter in this interactive short story. It only takes about 1 hour to play through once, but there are multiple endings to explore. You play as an AI assistant to the 7 year old Evie. What kind of bot will you be?
Why similar: Comic Book 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Multiple Endings 7.7%
- #20 United by Love's Heart
82% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Capky Games
Windows
Help Katsune find the Love's Heart while meeting countless girls at our lesbian university!
Why similar: Time Management 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Sandbox 12%, Visual Novel 10.8%
- #21 Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,996 reviews2023
Dev: hcnone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
"Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines" - In this short story from the Endless Monday, Penny, a mild-mannered corporate grunt, spends a weekend at the office in an effort to finish her project on time while overcoming distractions from coworkers, space aliens, imaginary friends, and herself.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Comic Book 15.4%, Multiple Endings 7.7%
- #22 数学と親友とネタ帳 - Math, BFF, and Notes -
83% matchNo user reviews2023
Dev: CyberStep, Inc.
Windows
Married women are the only women for me!
Why similar: Collectathon 22.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Comic Book 16.8%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Simulation 10%
- #23 Z Virus: Outbreak
81% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Nexus Media
Windows
Z Virus: Outbreak is an interactive graphic novel. At various points in the story, you will be asked to make a choice, these choices will take you down different paths in the story. Your objective is to escape the city of Redrock during a zombie outbreak. The game features 3 possible story endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.2%, Comic Book 26.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Adventure 12.2%, 2D 5.1%
- #24 Legend of Cozar
81% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Nexus Media
Windows
Legend of Cozar is an interactive fantasy graphic novel. At various points in the story, you will be asked to make a choice, these choices will take you down different paths in the story. There are 3 possible story endings. Lead Cozar on a quest to return the Fire Stone to the Temple of Vulcan.
Why similar: Comic Book 29.2%, Interactive Fiction 28.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Adventure 12.4%, Choices Matter 5%
- #25 Pencil Plus: The Wrath of The Spankster
80% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2023
Dev: Rocky Mountain Vault Studios
Windows
Pencil Plus: The Wrath of the Spankster is an interactive novel style choose your own adventure game in which players take the role of Conner, a normal high school kid that gains a very unique super power: the ability to pull limitless pencils out of his pockets.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Comic Book 22%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Multiple Endings 4.6%
- #26 ぐうたら娘更生計画 ~Neet Girl Rehabilitation Plan~
79% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: CyberStep, Inc.
Windows
No matter how many times I get rejected, I will continue supporting them... Until the day they find employment!
Why similar: Collectathon 23.2%, Comic Book 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Simulation 10.3%
- #27 Lord of Lords: Dawn of the King
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Neural Break Inc.
Windows
Betrayed in the Amazon, an elite Korean special forces commander crosses into a brutal fantasy world and rises as a lord. A dark military-fantasy visual novel with choices, light progression, and conquest.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Visual Novel 19.7%, Adventure 12%, Multiple Endings 5.7%
- #28 Cain
79% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Jefferson Souza de OliveiraPub: JeffGames
Windows
Carrying the weight of an unforgivable sin, the murder of his brother Abel, Cain wrapped his body in bandages to hide his guilt. In a devastated world, he faces relentless obstacles, and with each step, he moves closer to a choice: seek redemption or succumb to the hatred consuming him.
Why similar: Collectathon 27%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Action-Adventure 12.7%, Story Rich 5.6%
- #29 Eyes of Iyre
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: D0Studios
Windows · Mac
Eyes of Iyre is a Visual Novel with heavy RPG elements. Follow Barbak the Orc as he discovers more about the world and his past, all the while trying to keep his temper under control. Make friends, cast magic, and learn the truths hidden in the city of Iyre!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Action-Adventure 13.1%, Third Person 7.5%
- #30 Cascade Falls
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stray Paranormal
Windows · Mac · Linux
A story-driven visual novel about healing, heartbreak, and second chances. Build relationships, face your past, and shape your future in a town where every choice leaves a mark. Romance, drama, and emotional chaos await in Cascade Falls.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Realistic 7%, Multiple Endings 6.4%
- #31 Player City
78% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2021
Dev: Leandro César MenzenPub: Menzen Produções
Windows · Linux
Adventure game that integrates 3D semiotics with the real world through videos and photos of the city of Farroupilha (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil). Take control of the character "Kiwinho" and get to know the sights.
Why similar: Collectathon 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Action-Adventure 11.2%
- #32 Knight Vows
76% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Tigerems Studio
Windows
KNIGHT VOWS is a dark medieval visual novel set in the 13th century. You are a newly initiated knight of the Order of Saint Féran, a religious order that spreads its faith through iron and blood. Will you remain faithful to your vow... or to your humanity? Your choices will speak for you.
Why similar: Comic Book 31.9%, Visual Novel 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
- #33 Witch Hunter: Our Secret
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: artbakeries
Windows
Play as Erwin, a witch hunter navigating a fantasy world of magic and suspicion. Your decisions in this visual novel affect friendships, trust, and multiple story outcomes. Choose wisely—the fate of your journey rests with you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.1%, Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Multiple Endings 8.8%, Adventure 6.3%
- #34 HINA-CHAN's BIG TRADE! Millionaire Lunch
76% matchPositive96% of 23 reviews2022
Dev: ISY
Windows
With no offers to be in the mainline games, Hina-chan finally finds herself with no more than a single cucumber in her fridge. Help her by searching for and trading all sorts of items to various humans and youkai to get enough food to make her lunch a rich one!
Why similar: Collectathon 34.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.3%, Visual Novel 20.9%, Adventure 14.2%
- #35 IIT Quest
75% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: IQHQ Pub: IQHQ
Windows
Is it okay to kill 6 billion people to avenge the deaths of 2 billion? In this epic sci-fi visual novel, make tough choices to solve "impossible" problems, unlock branching paths and achieve multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Comic Book 9.3%, Realistic 8.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%
- #36 Shadows of Betrayal
74% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: JayzonBHPub: JayzonBH Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Recent high school graduates gather at a remote cabin for a celebration. What begins as a night of laughter spirals into a tense mystery full of secrets, twists, and chilling choices. Who will survive? Navigate friendships, and uncover the multi-layered mystery in Shadows of Betrayal.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.8%, Interactive Fiction 26.6%, Visual Novel 24.3%, Story Rich 7.3%, Multiple Endings 6.3%
- #37 7 Deaths 1 Life
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Davter17
Windows · Mac · Linux
A serial killer named Karma has kidnapped 8 criminals and will force you to choose the order in which they are executed. Will you be able to decide who deserves salvation... and who deserves death?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Simulation 11.9%, Adventure 11.1%
- #38 Parasite in Love
72% matchVery Positive93% of 60 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 27.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Adventure 10.7%, Atmospheric 4.8%
- #39 Welcome to Goodland
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 36 reviews2023
Dev: Big City Lab
Windows · Mac
It is a strategy/adventure game set in a small, quiet town. Survive as an ordinary salaryman under a ruthless Mexican cartel by laundering money, making tough decisions, acquiring businesses, and finding trustworthy allies. But in this cutthroat world, will you be able to keep to your humanity?
Why similar: Time Management 18.5%, Comic Book 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Visual Novel 11.4%
- #40 Content King
70% matchVery Positive96% of 312 reviews2026
Dev: Usurper Studios
Windows
Build your audience as a content creator in this streaming simulator roleplaying game. Riskier moves bring more viewers to your channel but raise notoriety. Push the edgy content too much and you’ll be banned. Balance hype and caution to stay live, gain viewers, and become the Content King!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Sandbox 20%, Simulation 12%, Third Person 8.4%
- #41 The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 46,738 reviews2020
Dev: Skybound Games
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 29.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series contains all 4 Seasons, 400 Days, and The Walking Dead: Michonne, which includes over 50 hours of gameplay across 23 unique episodes.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Comic Book 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Story Rich 8.2%
- #42 Every Legend
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: VeDoN
Windows
Every Legend is a text-based AI RPG where each adventure is generated around your choices. Create your hero, type your actions, explore branching stories, meet unique characters, and shape a new legend every playthrough.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Comic Book 17.4%, Sandbox 16.8%, Visual Novel 13.7%
- #43 The Vigilante Diaries
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Out of the Blue Games
Windows
The Vigilante Diaries is a narrative-driven role-playing game where you assume the role of a masked vigilante. Experience his life journey through his diaries spanning years, navigate the changes within his hideout, and make every decision that shapes his destiny.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Comic Book 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Story Rich 6.8%
- #44 Day X
73% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Nexus Media
Windows
Day X is an interactive graphic novel where you play as Jason Miller, a Navy SEAL fighting to survive a nuclear strike and a bioweapon outbreak. Your choices shape the story, leading to branching paths, alliances, and multiple endings. Choose wisely—survive or perish.
Why similar: Comic Book 29.2%, Interactive Fiction 28.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Adventure 12.4%, Choices Matter 5%
- #45 Wild Island Quest
73% matchMixed53% of 346 reviews2015
Dev: NLB project
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
In an endless air ocean of an alien world, small lonesome plots of land float above the abyss. But sometimes approach each other, and lands which have never met before, reveal their secrets.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.7%, Visual Novel 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Adventure 12.6%, Multiple Endings 10%
- #46 The Beyond: An Interactive Comic Book
70% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Zarfhome Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your death was a tragedy... your afterlife is a mystery. Unravel the secrets of death with the help of Xochitl, your guide. Can you find your way through the doors of the great library of the Beyond? A new choose-your-path comic book by Jason Shiga.
Why similar: Comic Book 28.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.2%, Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Adventure 6.5%, Story Rich 5%
- #47 Reigns: The Witcher
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 185 reviews2026
Dev: NerialPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Adventure as Geralt through the ballads of Dandelion. Swipe right, swipe left, seek glory, find death! Will you hunt monsters, upset the locals, or run a hot bath? Compose an inspiring epic to claim immortality.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Adventure 10.2%, Choices Matter 5.5%
- #48 Nocturama
71% matchPositive90% of 20 reviews2022
Dev: Italian Party of Indie DevelopersPub: IV Productions
Windows · Mac
Nocturama Bononia is a container of interactive comics, of an urban fantasy genre, set in a nocturnal Bologna. Different stories and characters but with a single common denominator: living the most important night of one's existence.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19%, Comic Book 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Action-Adventure 12.5%
- #49 Rewrite+
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 774 reviews2021
Dev: VisualArts/KeyPub: Sekai Project
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 61.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
In this city built upon the ideal coexistence of civilization and the environment, Tennouji Kotarou spends his days with his friends, Kanbe Kotori and Yoshino Haruhiko. In this peaceful city, a tumultuous event shakes the foundations of Kazamatsuri once a year.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Visual Novel 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Simulation 8.3%, Adventure 6.4%
- #50 summer story
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: karol_thegame
Windows · Linux
Summer Story: An adventure game where you investigate and make choices that shape the story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.3%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Action-Adventure 13%, Multiple Endings 6.6%
- #51 Secret Glory Hole
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: jonnymelabo
Windows · Mac · Linux
In an abandoned bathroom waits a hungry female mouth; wet, eager, and downright sinister. Dare to feed it? — SHORT NAUGHTY SPOOKY VISUAL NOVEL · 26k words · 12 endings (in some you might even survive).
Why similar: Comic Book 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Multiple Endings 6.4%
- #52 Project: Idol / Empire
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Eros Game Studio 79
Windows
Behind the cheerful "Internet's Darling" persona is a ruthless hacker mastermind! In Project: Idol / Empire, balance a double life: be an adored idol while waging cyberwar for world domination. Defend your streams, plan network takeovers, and build an empire under a mask that fools the whole server!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Time Management 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Simulation 9%
- #53 The Meridian
67% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: PlayBook
Windows
Step into the high-stakes world of journalism in this Playbook! As a reporter at the "The Meridian" newsroom, YOU are the hero. Chase a massive investigative scoop, navigate ruthless office politics, and build deep relationships. Will you break the story, or will the deadline break you?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.4%, Interactive Fiction 25.2%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Multiple Endings 6.7%, Realistic 6.5%
- #54 Gin's Gunstore
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gin studioPub: 2P Games
Windows
Run Gin's Gunstore as Kara, an unexpected new owner in a stylized future city. Craft custom guns, negotiate with quirky customers, and build your humble shop into a legendary weapons workshop.
Why similar: Collectathon 20.6%, Time Management 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Comic Book 16.7%, Visual Novel 13.1%
- #55 Perseverance: Part 3
69% matchMostly Negative37% of 19 reviews2022
Dev: Titanite NovelsPub: Feardemic
Windows
Perseverance: Part 3 is the much-awaited conclusion to the drama/horror visual novel series full of intrigue, guts, and gossip. Swap between Jack, a father trying to protect his family, and Karen, an ex-agent on the run from her troubled past, and help them form an unlikely alliance. 🧟♂️🧟♀️
Why similar: Comic Book 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Adventure 6.2%
- #56 My (♂) Life as a Vampire's Maid (♀)
64% matchVery Positive84% of 97 reviews2026
Dev: Studio Ubai TransPub: Kagami Games
Windows
In this suspenseful fantasy visual novel, play as a young man stranded in snowy mountains. Guided by unseen forces, you enter an isolated mansion. As a peculiar daily life unfolds, you live alongside two vampire girls. Immerse yourself in this profound, dreamlike dark fairy tale.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.8%, Visual Novel 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Adventure 12.2%, Story Rich 5.5%
- #57 Blightened: Relic Keeper
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: xombis
Windows
Inspect cursed relics. Question unreliable visitors. Find the Seven Powers. Feed what you can, return what you must, destroy what should never leave. Keep the Archive alive for one more day.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Collectathon 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Simulation 16.5%, Inventory Management 4.7%
- #58 OmOneko
65% matchVery Positive97% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: TaleChaser
Windows · Mac · Linux
“A story about cat girls … with bite.” Nekos have evolved in the shadows of human society. Beautiful. Mysterious. Chaotic. And now, three of them live with you. Will you be able to get past the stigma and grow closer to them? OmOneko is a tale of cat and mouse... and rats.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Comic Book 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Simulation 6.2%
- #59 Tempest In A Teapot
68% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: StrandGames
Windows
A choice-based, visual novel with time travelling teapots!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Adventure 10.9%, Realistic 8.5%