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Through the eyes of Torao, explore a story that raises profound questions about the value of life. Questions that speak to those living in modern times, those in the city, and for all of us.

Why similar: Visual Novel 43.8%, Adventure 25.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, 2D 4.9%, Story Rich 4.5%

When night falls, she wanders into another world... Moonless Moon is a text-based adventure game following a girl as she travels through a variety of different worlds.

Why similar: Text-Based 27.8%, Visual Novel 26.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Adventure 11.9%, Story Rich 11.1%

【A ghost girl, is here.】Terau Mare is a shy girl moves to Tokyo to go to university, and her new house, Hakusan-so, is like an abandoned. As soon as she enters the room, Mare meets a ghost girl, Furuzaki Yuika. Yuika says, "I'm going to kick you out of here soon." But...

Why similar: Visual Novel 36.1%, Text-Based 27.6%, Adventure 18.5%, Story Rich 12.9%, 2D 3.1%

A medium-length visual novel set in a fantasy world where magic exists. The encounter between a boy living in a rural farming village and a girl who is a dark wizard leads to the revelation of truths that were never meant to be revealed.

Why similar: Visual Novel 31.6%, Magic 21.9%, Adventure 15.5%, Text-Based 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%

幽霊のために、何ができるの

Why similar: Visual Novel 41.8%, Text-Based 38.5%, Adventure 16.1%, Singleplayer 3.6%

A man awoke by the lake with no memory. Guided by a pilgrim, he discovers he was once the sorcerer Merlin—and learns the truth about the "Saint" who sealed him away. A dark fantasy visual novel about unrequited love. Three endings await.

Why similar: Visual Novel 25.7%, Text-Based 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Adventure 16.1%, Magic 13.4%

The English version of the heartwarming story that was highly acclaimed in Japan. Enjoy the meticulously crafted narrative. Set in Okinawa, Japan, it is also a story that unravels the mysteries hidden within its history and fantasy.

Why similar: Visual Novel 28.2%, Text-Based 21.9%, Magic 18.9%, Story Rich 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%

Izumi, the demon girl you accidentally captured. A novel adventure game where you gradually connect hearts as you spend your days together with Izumi.

Why similar: Visual Novel 32%, Adventure 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Text-Based 20.4%, 2D 4.6%

When the past awakens, the future bleeds. A full length cinematic sci-fi mystery visual novel where augmented reality, history, AI technology and murder collide in the heart of Kyoto.

Why similar: Visual Novel 39.4%, Text-Based 35.2%, Adventure 18.8%, 2D 4.6%, Singleplayer 2%

Is cutting down a young girl a sin, or a salvation? In the Haku-a Church where pure love and jealousy collide, a young gem-craftsman is forced to choose—to let her live, or to end her life.

Why similar: Visual Novel 27.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Text-Based 17.9%, Adventure 16.7%, Magic 11.2%

Boy meets girl against a backdrop of magical battles in a dramatic visual novel!

Why similar: Visual Novel 28.2%, Text-Based 21.2%, Magic 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Adventure 13.9%

正田崇とＧユウスケが送る"神座万象シリーズ"再始動作品・第一弾『黒白のアヴェスター』。 善と悪に分けられた二元論の世界で、殺戮の荒野を行く男の冥府魔道の物語！

Why similar: Visual Novel 31.6%, Magic 22.8%, Adventure 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Story Rich 7%

Medical clerk Manami Sorano discovers a medical record of a non-existent patient. The next day at a hot spring inn, a murder occurs—the victim’s name matches the record. Coincidence or fate? Using her skills and medical records, she unravels the truth in this mystery adventure!

Why similar: Visual Novel 29.8%, Text-Based 26.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Adventure 13%, 2D 4.7%

"Sign White" is a text visual novel set in a fictionalized medieval era. Send letters from your pigeon house to communicate with people for a limited period of time. Make connections to save people, listen to their worries, and participate in important decisions to change the fate of the world.

Why similar: Visual Novel 30.7%, Text-Based 27.6%, Adventure 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Tetsuya Kai sneaks into school at night to pick up a forgotten item and is suddenly attacked by an unidentified monster. In a desperate pinch, he is saved by his classmate Tomomi Soshi.The mystery surrounding the "shikigami" that attacked him and saved him is explored.

Why similar: Visual Novel 33.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Adventure 16.8%, Text-Based 14.3%, Story Rich 10.6%

My second spring in high school. Surrounded by my dreamy upperclassman, that classmate I'm interested in, and my childhood friend who's a year younger than me. She's been in the search for a boyfriend who would look at her, and only her. The protagonist Chika decides to confess her feelings to……

Why similar: Visual Novel 32.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Adventure 20.7%, Text-Based 20.3%, 2D 4.5%

A story of Ideal that saves Perfection.

Why similar: Visual Novel 37.5%, Text-Based 28.8%, Adventure 13.5%, Story Rich 13.3%, 2D 5.6%

Dive into a captivating standalone story in just an hour! Presenting the first installment of the "Handy Novel" series. Highly praised on smartphones, this acclaimed narrative is now ready for your enjoyment on Steam for PC/Mac!

Why similar: Visual Novel 28.6%, Text-Based 26%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Adventure 18.4%, Story Rich 7.3%

Love remembers you. Even if you’ve forgotten.

Why similar: Visual Novel 32.5%, Text-Based 29.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Adventure 13.8%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Spend a week at your uncle’s house in this short visual novel.From time to time, a special “Pursue” button will appear, guiding the story toward one of two endings.Approx. 30 minutes playtimeTwo possible endingsRated R12[Features]The “Pursue” button cannot be skipped.

Why similar: Visual Novel 31.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Adventure 20.7%, Text-Based 20.7%, 2D 4.6%

A short visual novel about a stylish blonde-dyed part-timer who works the night shift.

Why similar: Visual Novel 34.4%, Text-Based 28.6%, Adventure 21.2%, Story Rich 9%, 2D 5.3%

魔法の薬とそれにまつわる人々、そして『魔女』が織り成す50の物語。

Why similar: Visual Novel 35%, Text-Based 20.6%, Adventure 17.2%, Story Rich 13.1%, Magic 7.8%

Enjoy the warm family trip.

Why similar: Visual Novel 32%, Adventure 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Text-Based 20.4%, 2D 4.6%

An abandoned amusement park in a broken world. It was a paradise called "Lagoon" where children were self-sufficient. A boy working as a mercenary in "Lagoon" happened to meet a silver-haired girl. The wheels of their destiny begin to move.

Why similar: Visual Novel 34.5%, Text-Based 17.7%, Adventure 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Story Rich 11.3%

It is a Japanese visual novel game. It is a game to read texts. Enjoy the story of anguish, conflict, dreams and hope. There is no branching depending on the choices, but you can have a rich story experience like a movie.

Why similar: Visual Novel 34.9%, Text-Based 29.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Adventure 9.3%, Story Rich 7.1%

"retrospect" is a novel game consisting of five chapters. Trace the memories of the ghosts and learn about them. That is the only mourning you can do.

Why similar: Visual Novel 31.3%, Text-Based 26.4%, Adventure 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Story Rich 5.1%

「これは何を手にするために、何かを失う物語」 季節は変わり冬になる。死神の条件のために主人公、長谷部涼平は菅野雪乃への恋心を自覚するが、彼女の親友に想いを寄せられてしまい、今度は三角関係の当事者になってしまった。自分の未来を掴むためにも菅野雪乃との両思いを目指すことになるが…。青春群像劇ビジュアルドラマ三部作の最終章が遂に開幕！

Why similar: Visual Novel 28.6%, Text-Based 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Adventure 17.7%, Story Rich 5.5%

This is an adventure novel of suspense and horror in which the story diverges depending on the choices you make. An online drinking session with friends. A person with a knife is lurking in the background. What will you do to rescue your friend?

Why similar: Visual Novel 32.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Adventure 20.9%, Text-Based 19.6%, 2D 4.7%

The day has finally come. The day that will determine on whether or not you'll be accepted as a reporter in hololive. And not just any reporter, but the exclusive reporter for Kureiji Ollie! What goes down on in the life of the zombie idol? Find out what it'll be like to spend Days with Ollie!

Why similar: Visual Novel 28.7%, Text-Based 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Story Rich 9.9%, Adventure 9.8%

サウンドノベル「かまいたちの夜」シリーズ30周年を記念して、『かまいたちの夜×3』がSteamに登場！ シリーズ3作目にして完結編となる本作には、『かまいたちの夜』『かまいたちの夜2』のメインストーリーも収録。 初めてシリーズを遊ぶ方でも登場人物たちの関係性や過去にあった事件を知ることができるので、安心してプレイできる。

Why similar: Visual Novel 30.8%, Text-Based 27.7%, Adventure 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Enjoy your new life living with your brother's wife, who suddenly appeared.

Why similar: Visual Novel 32%, Adventure 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Text-Based 20.4%, 2D 4.6%

怖すぎるにも ほどがある。新聞部は、夏休み前の学校新聞で「学校の七不思議」を特集することになった。七人の学生を集めて、彼らから怖い話を聞き、それを特集としてまとめるのだ。新聞部三年生の日野から命を受け、新入部員の坂上修一はその集会の聞き役を担当することになった。集会当日、放課後の新聞部部室に日野によって集められた七人の語り部と聞き役の坂上修一は初めて顔を合わせる。しかし、七人集められたはずの語り部は、何故か六人しかいなかった。七人目が姿を見せぬまま始まる七不思議の集会。七人目は、現れるのか。そして、この集会の終わりに待っているのは……。

Why similar: Visual Novel 31.3%, Text-Based 27.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Adventure 19.8%, Singleplayer 1.4%

This gal game combines both horror and romance for an experience overflowing with thrills. What will be your fate? A sweet, happy ending or a truly unspeakable one?

Why similar: Visual Novel 39.1%, Text-Based 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Adventure 16.8%, 2D 3.7%

In a shattered post-apocalyptic world, your story is forged through tension, intrigue, and humanity. Traverse hidden paths, witness multiple perspectives, and shape the fate of the last refuge. Will you wield cold steel or ignite the flame of empathy?

Why similar: Visual Novel 36.2%, Adventure 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Story Rich 9.8%, 2D 5.2%

少女達の「最期の一日」を辿り、真相を紐解いていく

Why similar: Visual Novel 32.8%, Text-Based 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Adventure 19.7%, 2D 4.7%

Discover the secrets held within the old House on 32, Dandelion Drift. In this classic Visual Novel you’ll find joy, hope, but also remorse and terror.

Why similar: Visual Novel 30.8%, Text-Based 20.8%, Adventure 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Story Rich 11.3%

Help the little bear to find the way home. What dangers can be hidden in the night streets of a quiet suburb? Who is waiting for him at home, and who is waiting in the dark around the corner?

Why similar: Visual Novel 41.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Adventure 21.1%, Story Rich 9.3%, 2D 4.7%

Accuse and execute the owner of the werewolf card. It's a 5-minute round of a repeated death game in the werewolf genre.

Why similar: Visual Novel 31%, Text-Based 25.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.3%, Adventure 12.2%, 2D 4.9%

Buried is a playable, interactive story told through stunning photos, a haunting soundscape, and gripping text. You play the role of Roger Hastings, a logger who awakens to find his friends missing, uncovering something that should have stayed hidden...

Why similar: Text-Based 35.3%, Visual Novel 24.1%, Adventure 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%

"Hira Hira Hihiru" is a visual novel set in a fictional Taishō Era. It tells the story of its two protagonists' struggle against Aerodema, a terrifying disease which brings the dead back to life.

Why similar: Visual Novel 36.8%, Text-Based 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Adventure 16.9%, Story Rich 4.8%

"Even though I knew this love was forbidden..." While the tragedy is being told, the girl's true love is revealed! Enjoy this crazy pure love drama with beautiful visuals and cute characters!

Why similar: Visual Novel 41.9%, Text-Based 22.1%, Adventure 14.9%, Story Rich 9.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%

Deep inside a forest, a voice calls out to the hero. It is there that he crosses paths with Omaylas, the Dark Magic Queen. Imprisoned in the forest, she offers to swear an oath to the hero in exchange for her freedom, but is there a secret agenda to her actions?

Why similar: Visual Novel 37.9%, Text-Based 24.4%, Magic 23.8%, Adventure 12.6%, Singleplayer 1.3%

「彼は本当に精神疾患なのか？それとも……」 精神科医である道島（主人公）は、ある入院患者の担当を任される。母親を刺したというその少年は、 奇妙な幻聴の症状を抱えており……。貴方は神話生物の魔の手から逃れ、生き延びる事が出来るのか…！？

Why similar: Visual Novel 39.1%, Text-Based 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Adventure 18.4%, Singleplayer 1.4%

The main character is looked down upon at her part-time job. Using a hypnotic object given to him by a college senior, we'll test the mother and daughter by making them do various naughty things.

Why similar: Visual Novel 31.3%, Text-Based 24.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Adventure 19%, 2D 4.4%

Having lost the meaning of life, Shionagi meets Ayana, who suffers from a certain illness. “Kidnap me from this boring everyday life.” He wishes to die. A girl promised death. A bittersweet summer kidnapping drama where they confront each other's “lives.”

Why similar: Visual Novel 38.1%, Text-Based 29.8%, Adventure 24.6%, 2D 5.8%, Singleplayer 1.7%

It is a multi-ending novel game depicting the fan of VTuber "Toaru" "Hinade-chan" and "I" go to an off-line meeting and finish the off-line meeting.

Why similar: Visual Novel 37.5%, Text-Based 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Adventure 14.1%, Story Rich 6.8%

This is a visual novel game without player selections. To atone for the sins of humanity, the girl continues to die.

Why similar: Visual Novel 60.5%, Adventure 39.5%

A text-based RPG with a nonlinear story set in a free Slavic fantasy world. Shape the heroine's character through your choices and unlock multiple endings. Mystery, folklore, and relationships — your fate depends only on you.

Why similar: Text-Based 24.2%, Visual Novel 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Magic 13%, Adventure 10.5%

A short visual novel about a manga club torn between its two competing princesses.

Why similar: Visual Novel 34.9%, Text-Based 28.3%, Adventure 21.7%, Story Rich 8.1%, 2D 5.5%

An adventure exploring two distinct types of information: conversation and memory. A district two stations away from the city, a night district who exude a atmosphere of alluring “Just listen to their desires, then do whatever you like.” —Told ya?

Why similar: Visual Novel 29.4%, Text-Based 27%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Adventure 10.5%, Story Rich 8.6%

In a world where lewd words are punished, this text adventure unfolds in EdeN404, a secret bar hidden in the city that slips past censors. Use conversation to lower guards and draw out hidden desires. With colorful regulars, choices and timing shape bonds and nightly drama toward a sci‑fi truth.

Why similar: Visual Novel 36.2%, Adventure 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Story Rich 9.8%, 2D 5.2%

Peek into the sins and memories of five personalities through surveillance cameras──This is an immersive, mystery adventure game that unravels the thoughts of the dark past that lie dormant inside Sofia,a suspect in the murder of a presidential candidate, and uncovers the truth behind the crime.

Why similar: Visual Novel 31.4%, Text-Based 26.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Adventure 13.6%, Story Rich 7.9%

お騒がせ少女たちが東南アジアで難民に！？「さぁたん」たちの地元・日本列島が沈没しちゃった。あれやこれやで「かがみ」がトゥクトゥク化！謎の小包を運ばされる一行に忍び寄る影とはいったい…？──「ORIGINAL VIDEOGAME of ASIA」略して「OVA」！もうネオ昭和とか関係ないけど腹をくくれ！

Why similar: Visual Novel 35.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Text-Based 23.3%, Adventure 16%, Singleplayer 1.5%

유산을 차지하는 건 과연 누가 될 것인가?

Why similar: Visual Novel 37.3%, Text-Based 34.8%, Story Rich 13.7%, Adventure 12.2%, Singleplayer 2.1%

『学校であった怖い話』の語り部、荒井昭二。 彼は一年の夏休み、友人の誘いを受けてとある牧場でアルバイトをする。 全編、荒井昭二で染まる耽美且つ狂気の世界に貴方の心は息つく間もなく犯される。

Why similar: Visual Novel 28.3%, Text-Based 25.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Adventure 18.2%, Story Rich 7.9%

Control Over is a story that begins when a player who loses his memory and falls down in a basement wakes up. And you have to control the player and decide how to solve this story.

Why similar: Text-Based 29.8%, Visual Novel 26.4%, Adventure 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%, Story Rich 9.2%

In "Fragment's Note+ AfterStory," you can enjoy the story following the previous title's events, "Fragment's Note+." Join them to see what kind of future Yukiha's choices will create!

Why similar: Visual Novel 32.3%, Text-Based 23.4%, Adventure 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Enjoy the sex life of lovers. Especially the heroine mother's sex technique is wonderful. The protagonists work hard to be recognized by their mother.

Why similar: Visual Novel 31.8%, Text-Based 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Adventure 19.8%, 2D 4.6%

Enjoy watching how team members react to the various mishaps that occur during the intensive training camp.

Why similar: Visual Novel 40.1%, Adventure 26.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.1%, 2D 5.7%, Singleplayer 1.7%

As nuts as Jun is about his wife, he can’t help but drool over Towaka Minefuji. So when Jun is asked to attend his wife’s school committee meetings in her place, his brain goes into overdrive at the thought of him and Towaka being in the same room together...

Why similar: Visual Novel 32.2%, Text-Based 31.6%, Story Rich 15.9%, Adventure 14.9%, 2D 3.3%