Games Like TELLURICENE

Tri City Monsters is a supernatural, monsterlovin' visual novel where you can romance and/or de-pants 3 demonic love interests. Navigate a dangerous urban jungle with their help and maybe you'll get a taste of what it means to be a monster.

Why similar: Otome 23.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Romance 12.5%, Lore-Rich 11.9%, Text-Based 10.2%

Discover secrets long forgotten, and nurture relationships waiting to bloom. In a game inspired by the lore of Dragon and Fae, make choices that can shape your story, relationships, and even personality. Will you be brave, kind, wise, charismatic? Only you know the answer to your fate.

Why similar: Otome 28.5% ★, Romance 12.5%, Lore-Rich 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, LGBTQ+ 10.3%

A murder mystery visual novel with a romantic twist. The killer is randomly chosen at the start of each playthrough, and you may unknowingly fall in love with them. How will your story come to its end? Will you bring the killer to justice, fall in love with them, or die at their hands?

Why similar: Otome 30.6% ★, Visual Novel 15.2%, Romance 15.1%, LGBTQ+ 14.3%, Text-Based 7.4%

Think you can handle a little romance with creatures from Spanish folklore? ❤️‍🔥 Careful: your love life isn’t the only thing at stake at Mythic Love: Iberian Legends.

Why similar: Otome 33.9% ★, Romance 15.3%, LGBTQ+ 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Multiple Endings 7.9%

Andromeda Six is a sci-fi inspired visual novel, with romance elements and an immersive, choice based story. Take on the role of a lost Traveler and uncover the truth of your past. Fight for a future for both yourself, and those you grow close to throughout your journey.

Why similar: Romance 21.1%, Otome 20.9% ★, Visual Novel 17.5%, Text-Based 12.1%, Multiple Endings 9.6%

Embrace the monster within in this dark fantasy visual novel with inclusive romances. Befriend charming allies, defy bitter rivals, fall in love. Your choices will save or condemn mortals, shaping the fate of a city as beautiful as it is cruel.

Why similar: Otome 27.7% ★, Lore-Rich 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, LGBTQ+ 10%, Romance 9.2%

Bokuten is a dramatic, emotional visual novel where you must play cupid and decide if the relationships you witness are worth rekindling, or if letting them fall apart would result in greater happiness. The decisions you make will echo into the course of your own love life.

Why similar: Romance 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Lore-Rich 12.4%, Emotional 10.6%

A dark fantasy tale where death is not the end but the path to the truth. Two magi trapped in a collapsing tower must unravel a deadly mystery. Each death reveals another piece of the puzzle that is their shared past and forbidden love. For fans of House in Fata Morgana and literary dark fantasy.

Why similar: Otome 24.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Romance 9.3%, Text-Based 9.1%, Visual Novel 8.7%

In a society plagued by visions of the future, a group of friends attempt to find their own way in a predestined life. This isn't easy, however, when they live under the Argus Corporation - a superpower dedicated to maintaining social order. A fully voice acted dystopic story/dating-sim. Play today!

Why similar: Otome 22.4% ★, Alternate History 15.9%, Lore-Rich 13.7%, Romance 13%, LGBTQ+ 10.9%

When tragedy sparks the advancement of science, a sentient android is created. Now, in this heart-wrenching, romantic, and beautiful visual novel, you will explore whether or not it's possible for man and machine to truly love each other.

Why similar: Romance 18%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Emotional 12.7%, Text-Based 12.4%, Multiple Endings 10.5%

《My Vow to My Liege》is a visual novel dating game. Players get to play as a girl disguised as the King of Ng, a man. The 4 dateable characters are: the guide, the enemy, the minister and the guard.Will they choose the man over the country? Love over hate? Who will they finally end up with?

Why similar: Otome 50.4% ★, Romance 22.6%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Text-Based 5.2%, LGBTQ+ 2.8%

A bickering and bantering rivals-to-lovers visual novel where you fall in love after first hack.

Why similar: Otome 27.8% ★, Romance 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.6%, LGBTQ+ 11.3%

Descend under a mountain to the marketplace below, where everything has a price. Meet the four men who can each give you what you need, but beware: they have their own hidden motives and uses for you. OBSCURA is a dark fantasy romance VN that asks how far you'll go to get what you need.

Why similar: Otome 36% ★, Romance 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Visual Novel 11.8%, LGBTQ+ 11.1%

Solstice is a dystopian mystery visual novel about small personal disasters that turn into great catastrophes.

Why similar: Otome 23.1% ★, Dystopian 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Romance 11%, Visual Novel 10.4%

Roadtrip across the country. Confront a tyrant. The revolution will be messy—but the relationships will be messier.

Why similar: Romance 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Dark 11.7%, Visual Novel 10.9%, LGBTQ+ 10.6%

A short visual novel about isolation. You try to search for comfort in the lonesome people around you. Keeping the darkness at bay with small embers of light. Will you let the fear change you?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, Visual Novel 19.7%, Romance 13.3%, Emotional 12%, Dark 9.9%

An immersive MMORPG-simulation chatroom based romance / otome visual novel. You are the leader of a raiding guild in the world's hottest MMORPG, Emberfate. Will you lead your guild to success in the newest raid — and perhaps find love along the way among your guildmates?

Why similar: Otome 36.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Romance 9.8%, LGBTQ+ 8.4%

Mysterious deaths. Dreams that are reality, and reality that is a dream. Will Noah be able to move forward and solve the mystery⁠—or will he give in to the demons of his past? A story-rich BL mystery visual novel.

Why similar: Romance 14.2%, LGBTQ+ 13.6%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Lore-Rich 12.1%, Emotional 9.7%

Play as the young witch Shar, as she moves in with a famous witch who keeps demonic prisoners in her basement. Will you find romance or doom?

Why similar: Otome 34.1% ★, Romance 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.7%, LGBTQ+ 11.3%

Expose the dark secrets and mysteries of your seemingly idyllic hometown in this romantic thriller! Will you fall in love or fall victim to its horrors?

Why similar: Romance 30.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Text-Based 21.8%, Atmospheric 9.5%, Casual 5%

A mad and romantic ADV. Unravel a strange world of science and philosophy with a mecha girl, zombie girl, or beastfolk. Some paths may disturb you... or thrill you.

Why similar: Visual Novel 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Lore-Rich 17.8%, Emotional 16%, Multiple Endings 10.9%

In this interactive tale of love and war, be the force of reason that your kingdom needs, or perpetuate its reputation as a force of destruction. Find love and weave friendships, or cast it all away for the sake of retribution.

Why similar: Romance 18.3%, Lore-Rich 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Text-Based 14.3%, LGBTQ+ 11.8%

You are the Monarch. Choose between diplomacy and tyranny. Romance allies or enemies. Your decisions define your rule and the fate of those closest to you in this character-driven interactive tale.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Romance 15.8%, Text-Based 13.9%, Lore-Rich 12.9%, Visual Novel 10.1%

A superhero-themed yandere romance visual novel. He's your coworker, your crush, and the villain you need to stop? Make choices to be with your supervillian ex, or move on to a new hot superhero.

Why similar: Romance 20.3%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Text-Based 16.6%, Otome 11.6% ★, Multiple Endings 9.8%

Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.6%, LGBTQ+ 22.7%, Visual Novel 21.9%, Multiple Endings 16.8%, Story Rich 8.7%

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: Dystopian 16%, Text-Based 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Point & Click 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.3%

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 27.9%, Emotional 22.4%, Romance 18.3%, LGBTQ+ 12%, Story Rich 9.9%

You are a girl with a demonic heart, trapped with a group of suspicious individuals. A demonspawn arrives, setting off a chain of mysterious murders. Can you trust any of your fellow captives and find love in the chaos? Or will you fight for your life alone?

Why similar: Otome 39% ★, Romance 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Multiple Endings 8.4%

Cycle of Struggle: Ardengrad is a visual novel about politics, love, and the cost of historical choices in an alternate world. You are a student drawn into events that will soon erupt into civil war. Here, ideologies are not just words—they define people’s fates. Every decision leaves a mark.

Why similar: Alternate History 37.9%, Romance 23.5%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Story Rich 5.9%

Bewitching Sinners is a dark comedy dating sim where your choices will either leave you with your true love or ruin a whole world and potentially killing millions of people within it, no pressure! Explore a fantasy world full of witches, hot priests, and the occasional dance with death.

Why similar: Otome 36.3% ★, Romance 14.1%, LGBTQ+ 13.3%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%

A Visual Novel and Dating Sim. Lead a chaotic development team through high-pressure deadlines and personal drama. Make choices to balance the demanding project, relationships, and ambitious goals, determining your team's ultimate success or failure.

Why similar: Visual Novel 27.7%, Romance 26.5%, Multiple Endings 19.7%, Text-Based 15.3%, Casual 5.8%

In the future a biot working as a companion and without free will, encounters a device that makes him feel human. Self-discovery, hardships, and romance may follow. A BL/Yaoi visual novel.

Why similar: Otome 24.5% ★, Romance 20%, LGBTQ+ 19.6%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Multiple Endings 10.9%

Play the role of a young alchemist apprentice who is unwillingly bound to an illegal spirit. Suddenly drawn into a war between humanity and magic, they must join a group of unlikely heroes to escape their own doom, hopefully saving the world along the way.

Why similar: Otome 34.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Romance 14%, Visual Novel 12.6%, LGBTQ+ 9.5%

Love Curse is a GL visual novel. You’ve fallen under a curse, and the only way to break it is to find your soulmate! The clock is ticking… Will you find true love? And what secrets will you uncover along the way?

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 32%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Romance 17.8%, Multiple Endings 9%, Text-Based 7.7%

A dark fantasy tale where death is not the end but the path to the truth. Two magi trapped in a collapsing tower must unravel a deadly mystery. Each death reveals another piece of the puzzle that is their shared past and forbidden love. For fans of House in Fata Morgana and literary dark fantasy.

Why similar: Otome 34.7% ★, Visual Novel 12.9%, Text-Based 10.5%, Romance 7.8%, LGBTQ+ 7.4%

Homicipher is a language deciphering and exploration ADV based on the concept of "romance with horror men." The protagonist, who has wandered into another world, interacts with non-human beings to decipher their language while striving to escape.

Why similar: Otome 37.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Visual Novel 12%, Text-Based 11.8%, Multiple Endings 8.3%

MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.

Why similar: Dystopian 27.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Point & Click 13.7%, Multiple Endings 11.2%

A marvellous romance with a hint of murder, where every playthrough is different! Seek love, friendship, or more... intimate encounters. Help a murdered man find justice. And watch out for the bats.

Why similar: Alternate History 21.6%, Romance 18.5%, Visual Novel 15.4%, LGBTQ+ 15.3%, Lore-Rich 13.3%

Investigate a paranormal disease that threatens to eradicate humanity in this unsettling Lovecraftian adventure, inspired by the choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks of the 80s and 90s. Your choices will determine the story, your character’s destiny… and the future of humanity.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 39.9%, Visual Novel 29.1%, Story Rich 13.3%, Text-Based 11.8%, Casual 5.9%

A free drama-mystery visual novel with a modern fantasy setting. Reach out to the fourteen people trapped inside to find the truth through eighteen endings, influenced by but not exclusively bound to your own system time.

Why similar: Visual Novel 26.7%, LGBTQ+ 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Dark 10.1%

An eerie liminal game that explores just how far an angel can fall. Play as sapphic Lucifer and corrupt angels into falling... in love with you.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.6%, Romance 20.9%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Text-Based 9.7%

Driving home late one night you encounter a refugee in distress. They are looking for salvation. Do you hand them over to violent authorities? Or risk sheltering them yourself?

Why similar: Text-Based 16.2%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Point & Click 13.4%, Multiple Endings 10.6%

"I" make a deal with the witch to give up my heart, in exchange for love— from everyone. ——————————————————————————Is it worth it if losing my heart means gaining *his*? In this short visual novel, make choices and answer the question: is love a zero-sum game?

Why similar: Romance 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Emotional 11%, Visual Novel 10.9%

This otome-style visual novel blends eeriness and romance into a compelling drama. A ring of deadly towers traps you in the small mining town of Bataille, Missouri with extreme conspiracy theorists, a serial killer, and wealthy vampires. Choose your partner wisely.

Why similar: Otome 53.8% ★, Romance 24%, Visual Novel 22.1%

It's date night in the dystopian future. You're going out with Mel, a half-melon person with psychic powers. They seem a little weird, but at least they're cute. Choose where to go, what to do, and what to say in this highly interactive, romance visual novel.

Why similar: Dystopian 30.6%, Romance 23.4%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Multiple Endings 11.3%

Tender is a narrative game that explores connection and rejection in the era of swipe culture. It’s a story told by and through the modern interface for finding love.

Why similar: Visual Novel 33.9%, Romance 23.7%, LGBTQ+ 23.4%, Casual 9.3%, Multiple Endings 7.1%

To know a language, know the world, and finally know you.

Why similar: Dystopian 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Romance 16.8%, Text-Based 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.1%

Olive is trapped in school in the midst of the apocalypse! With demons slaughtering every dog in sight there's only so many left to spend time with! Will their special someone be Brownie the snack-loving corgi, Sparky the sporty husky or Patches the dalmatian bookworm? You decide!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.5%, LGBTQ+ 24.9%, Visual Novel 23%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Story Rich 8.6%

Welcome to the Night Market. Survive your journey while navigating a foreign land, rife with political intrigue, arbitrary rules and secrets designed to keep you distracted. Fall in love, explore a world with rich characters, and try to save the realm.

Why similar: Romance 28.7%, LGBTQ+ 25.1%, Text-Based 19.3%, First-Person 13%, Story Rich 7.2%

Planet Stronghold is a sci-fi role-playing game with a turn-based combat system. You take the role of a young, new recruit that somehow gets assigned to the most well-known, and well-defended, human outpost in the whole galaxy: Planet Stronghold.

Why similar: Otome 28% ★, Science 19.4%, Romance 15.9%, LGBTQ+ 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.7%

You are The Fateweaver; an ancient beast of legendary status. It is your job to determine which way Fate will unravel as you dig deep into the psyche of those who beckon. Decide whether to help those who beg for your mercy, or invoke the wrath of the Gods upon those you deem unworthy of existence...

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.7%, Visual Novel 25.7%, Multiple Endings 20.7%, LGBTQ+ 12.8%, Story Rich 9.2%

"Date Z" - a captivating mix of high school drama, romance, and mystery. As a transfer student, your challenge is to navigate relationships and secure a date by Friday to survive a deadly virus outbreak. Unravel the hidden secrets. Every choice you make counts.

Why similar: Romance 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Text-Based 21.2%, Visual Novel 20.8%, Story Rich 7%

An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.5%, Visual Novel 26.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Dark 9.5%

Millennium Whisper is a next-gen dating-sim set in 1999 at the fictional Escafeld College with an AI trained by real actors portraying the cast! Who will you confess your feelings to at the end of the millennium?

Why similar: Romance 28.5%, Visual Novel 25.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Text-Based 9.8%, LGBTQ+ 8.3%

MEN ARE EXTINCT. ONLY WOMEN REMAIN. Welcome to Eclipse—a choice-driven Yuri VN where God, Kings, Soldiers, and even Villains are all women. As Haesu, an elite agent, your choices will forge her destiny and the very future of the world. Amidst love, desire, and bloodshed—can you handle the truth?

Why similar: Lore-Rich 17.5%, Text-Based 15.8%, LGBTQ+ 15.8%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Multiple Endings 10.1%

Embrace or resist the demonic influence around you. Romance your companions in this RPG with an emphasis on conversation choices and character interactions.

Why similar: Otome 47.1% ★, Romance 18.8%, LGBTQ+ 15%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Story Rich 5.2%

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: Visual Novel 16%, LGBTQ+ 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Emotional 12.3%, Multiple Endings 12.2%

Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear. Seed new movements, destroy others. Subvert the rise and fall of empires, art, ideologies, and individuals in this experimental narrative game.

Why similar: Visual Novel 23.9%, Dystopian 23.6%, Text-Based 21.9%, Story Rich 12.6%, Stylized 10%

Perhaps it was the curse of a black lily that bloomed too early in the winter...Before graduation, a girl falls in love with another girl... But her pure feelings are torn apart by a "loop of tragedy."By [interrupting choices] and [typing in words], you will weave her feelings into the story.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 31.8%, Visual Novel 29.9%, Emotional 12.8%, Story Rich 8.8%, Atmospheric 8.6%

Your robots will change the world! Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army? A 300,000-word epic interactive sci-fi novel.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 43.1%, Text-Based 38.6%, LGBTQ+ 6.4%, Story Rich 6.3%, Romance 4.8%