- #1 Let's MEAT Adam
97% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: SoulsofteaPub: Soulsoft
Windows · Mac · Linux
Let's MEAT Adam is a Bara, BxB visual novel set in a neon NIGHTMARE of an escape-room-turned-death-game. Muscles, Blood, Escape, Trust, Betray, MEAT.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18%, Thriller 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Psychological Horror 9.4%
- #2 Underground22
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KappieStudios
Windows
22 people awake and find themselves trapped in a game underground. To win, they must escape the world beneath our feet.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Point & Click 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Female Protagonist 9.9%, Dystopian 8.7%
- #3 Let's MEAT Adam 2
96% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2022
Dev: SoulsofteaPub: Soulsoft
Windows · Mac · Linux
LMA2 is a Gay Bara Horror Visual Novel, with murder mystery and puzzle elements; the sequel to 2017's "Let's MEAT Adam".
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, LGBTQ+ 15.7%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Psychological Horror 8.4%, Puzzle 7.9%
- #4 House Of Chavez
94% matchPositive93% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: Winter Wolves
Windows · Linux
Play as Adriana and travel to Europe with her brother Bruno. Meet Silke, who attended to Adriana's grandmother Maria during her final moments, and Dolores, a stunning and secretive woman on a trip. Explore House Chavez's shadowy hallways and navigate the mysteries within.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, LGBTQ+ 16.4%, Point & Click 14.1%, Thriller 13%, Visual Novel 12.2%
- #5 The Mask Game
94% matchPositive94% of 32 reviews2024
Dev: Ghost Clown
Windows · Linux
Which is worse: a toxic friend or a literal demon?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Female Protagonist 13.4%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.4%
- #6 Good Morning My Darling
93% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2025
Dev: Kova
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Visual Novel 15.1%, LGBTQ+ 9%, Puzzle 8.8%
- #7 HEARTLODGED
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hajimeli
Windows
In 6 hours, 28 minutes, and 11 seconds, an avalanche will crush the lodge. Is the cat in the box alive or dead?
Why similar: Point & Click 13%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Female Protagonist 11.1%, Multiple Endings 9%
- #8 POPULARITY CONTEST
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ScrythaDev
Windows · Mac
Elena and 7 familiar faces are trapped in a room, and the only way out is to choose one person to die. Navigate social relationships and gain trust to steer the spotlight away from you, or else they just might decide you should be the one on the chopping block.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.2%, Thriller 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Mystery 12.1%
- #9 Love You To Pieces
91% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: SoulsofteaPub: Soulsoft
Windows · Mac · Linux
"Love You To Pieces" is a Horror/Slasher Visual Novel thematically centered around Valentine's Day. Featuring elements of grind-house, choose-your-own-adventure and mystery. Can you or any of your friends survive this bloody love fest?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Thriller 8.9%
- #10 Lake of Darkness
90% matchPositive94% of 17 reviews2025
Dev: Steeze Games
Windows
Your small town is slowly becoming corrupted by a mysterious evil, In a dream you get a premonition of your own death. How do you avoid an unknown fate? Spend your final moments wisely in this choice-based psychological horror visual novel game.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Thriller 11.4%, Exploration 8.5%
- #11 The Albion Plague
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vulpes Artica Pub: Vulpes Artica
Windows · Linux
The Albion Plague is a 2D RPG with point-and-click mechanics, faction management, and a refined choice-and-consequence system based on fully customizable playstyles. Use every skill at your disposal to save Ulma, prevent a catastrophic civil war, and protect her from a terrifying enemy...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Female Protagonist 14.6%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Point & Click 11.2%, RPG 11.2%
- #12 Cemetery Mary
89% matchVery Positive97% of 375 reviews2021
Dev: arcadekitten
Windows · Mac · Linux
A visual novel about a girl who loves the cemetery. When her parents go missing, she receives a mysterious text that has the potential to completely ruin her life...or fix it?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Female Protagonist 13.3%, Thriller 10.4%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
- #13 Syrup and the Ultimate Sweet
87% matchVery Positive97% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: NomnomNami
Windows · Mac · Linux
A candy alchemist finds a candy golem in her basement workshop...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, LGBTQ+ 22.7%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Female Protagonist 12.7%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
- #14 The Elevator Game with Catgirls
88% matchVery Positive100% of 107 reviews2022
Dev: NoBreadStudio
Windows · Linux
Kirin plays the elevator game and disappears. Will her girlfriend, Asahi, be able to find her? The Elevator Game with Catgirls is a horror visual novel with point-and-click elements, inspired by the Korean urban legend, Elevator to Another World.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.1%, Point & Click 14.5%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Female Protagonist 9.7%
- #15 Lone Lamp
86% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Redberryweo
Windows
A point-and-click puzzle adventure
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.7%, Point & Click 18.5%, Puzzle 10.9%, RPG 10.5%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
- #16 A Heavy Morning
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Saf Interactive
Windows
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, LGBTQ+ 15.8%, Point & Click 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Female Protagonist 9.8%
- #17 Stay Alive For Me
84% match8 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: OneRoomFilms
Windows
Survive a gripping psychological thriller in this visual novel. Make critical decisions, face a disturbed captor, and experience multiple chilling endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Thriller 14.5%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Choices Matter 9.8%
- #18 Solstice
85% matchMostly Positive76% of 190 reviews2016
Dev: MoaCube
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Solstice is a dystopian mystery visual novel about small personal disasters that turn into great catastrophes.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, LGBTQ+ 16.1%, Dystopian 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Female Protagonist 9.2%
- #19 Will Die Alone
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 67 reviews2022
Dev: Arianna Ravioli
Windows · Mac
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Dystopian 12.7%, Point & Click 11.2%, Visual Novel 11.1%, LGBTQ+ 10.9%
- #20 Amelie
82% matchVery Positive92% of 442 reviews2021
Dev: Two and a Half Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 61%
A psychological mystery yuri visual novel about a girl named Amelie. Forbidden from leaving the house, Amelie awaits the arrival of her long time penpal, Sofia, to her dear friend Lilika’s dismay. What secrets will Sofia unravel that were best kept buried?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.5%, Thriller 14%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Female Protagonist 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%
- #21 I Would Love to Wish You Good Morning
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silhouette Games
Windows
I Would Love to Wish You Good Morning is a choice-driven dystopian psychological horror visual novel about isolation, obedience, and the price of fitting in. Will you navigate the uncanny social dynamics of the future... or die trying?
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.8%, Thriller 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Mystery 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.7%
- #22 The Island: Into The Mist
83% matchMixed66% of 225 reviews2019
Dev: BADA Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
'The Island: In To The Mist' is an adventure game. It includes basic features of adventure genre and add some new systems to interest you. You have been given a chance to experience a group of university students, who confined in the island. There is a terrific but interesting story you will see.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Point & Click 11%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Psychological Horror 9%
- #23 Reflection Link
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Secretive Sheep Games
Windows
Locked inside a facility that erases memory, seven people must recover what they've forgotten to earn their freedom. Explore escape-room puzzles, piece together broken relationships, and uncover the truth behind the sins none of them remember committing in this branching path visual novel.
Why similar: Point & Click 14.5%, LGBTQ+ 12.9%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Thriller 10.3%, Visual Novel 10.3%
- #24 Neve
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Michelle SantosPub: Ritus Studio
Windows
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, LGBTQ+ 14.4%, Thriller 13.4%, Point & Click 11.7%, Visual Novel 9.5%
- #25 Stitched: Mother's Nightmare
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fluffex Studios
Windows
Stitched - Mother's Nightmare continues the story of Stitched, putting the player in control of a protagonist named Mia as she ventures in the mysterious doll factory. Why did she come there? What horror awaits her in the factory?
Why similar: Thriller 14.6%, Female Protagonist 12.2%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Exploration 9.7%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
- #26 DisplaceMen
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Eversea Club
Windows · Mac
DisplaceMen is an experimental narrative game where you survive as a broke painter through art commissions. Paint with weird-ass found objects to unravel residents' mysterious pasts, change the story’s direction with observations and visual choices, and bring the forgotten Mermaid back to reality!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.4%, Point & Click 16.5%, Visual Novel 15.5%, LGBTQ+ 15.5%, Mystery 6.9%
- #27 Lurkers
80% matchPositive95% of 19 reviews2020
Dev: Ertal Games
Windows
Chasing Jack the Ripper! A BL/ Yaoi Visual Novel
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.1%, Thriller 18.3%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Mystery 7.7%
- #28 Comet Angel
77% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: Cross Couloir
Windows · Mac · Linux
Comet Angel is a sci-fi yuri narrative adventure with point and click puzzles. Join teenagers Izzy and Nat on an emotional journey of self-discovery and acceptance as they make humanity's first-ever alien contact.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.7%, Point & Click 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Female Protagonist 8.4%
- #29 Apple of my Eye
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LeilanixPub: Niko Wright
Windows
Sometimes you need to be strong to the core to stand out from the rotten apples in society. Being an outcast is not easy, but is it worth indulging in a comfort that may bite? Play as Appril the apple snail through her everyday life in this RPG styled Psychological horror where your choices matter.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.4%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
- #30 VT Harmony
78% matchMixed61% of 17 reviews2023
Dev: Yun Seven
Windows
Play as VT, a lonely TV-boy who seeks solitude until the sudden message from a strange bunny named IV. Discover the different endings of this cozy visual novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Point & Click 16.1%, Visual Novel 15%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Choices Matter 10.3%
- #31 one night, hot springs
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,091 reviews2018
Dev: npckc
Windows · Mac · Linux
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+ 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Female Protagonist 12.9%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
- #32 Hope: A Sky Full of Ghosts
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wil Alvarez
Windows · Mac · Linux
In this narrative-driven, sci-fi point and click adventure, unravel the secrets of a stolen spaceship and your enigmatic crew. A new future away from corporate tyranny awaits. As captain, your choices matter and forging your crew's connections, even more so. Flying free has a cost. Will you pay it?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Point & Click 13.4%, LGBTQ+ 12%, Dystopian 11.9%, Female Protagonist 10.9%
- #33 BBirthday - Visual Novel
76% matchPositive91% of 32 reviews2023
Dev: Yun Seven
Windows
Help Bianca to relive the 15 years of her life, but from another perspective 👁️. Enjoy this dreamcore style visual novel with escape room elements and hints of horror. Unlock different endings. ✨
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Visual Novel 15%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Point & Click 11.8%, Multiple Endings 11.7%
- #34 BAD END THEATER
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 9,533 reviews2021
Dev: NomnomNami
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Choices Matter 11.4%
- #35 Dear Edmund
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mind The Grease
Windows
As the new Street Overseer, every decision you make in this dystopian choice game carries weight. Enforce the rules, help the desperate, or exploit the people’s suffering for personal gain. Choose wisely.
Why similar: Dystopian 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Point & Click 10.3%
- #36 Good Bones
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 32 reviews2023
Dev: RETCON Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your new house has old secrets in this haunting point-and-click mystery, where you'll search for clues about a mysterious death, solve narrative puzzles, and make heartbreaking choices to navigate amnesia, grief, and revenge.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Point & Click 13.7%, LGBTQ+ 10.6%, Female Protagonist 10.4%, Visual Novel 10.1%
- #37 Blue Bird's Song
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Purple Meadows Studio
Windows · Mac
Dive into the shadows of this fairytale-like narrative experience with Birdie, making choices and helping her find freedom and light in the darkness. Love isn't always what it seems.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Thriller 14.8%, Point & Click 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Female Protagonist 9.2%
- #38 MYMEMORY
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: jswessler
Windows · Mac
While having fun over the summer, Camille, a girl who can manipulate memories, suddenly encounters the SCP Foundation and is classified as SCP-9831. Relive her memories and uncover what the Foundation is hiding. Can you help Camille escape and get reality onto a different path?
Why similar: Point & Click 18.5%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Female Protagonist 12.6%, Puzzle 12.1%, RPG 8.6%
- #39 Am I Nima
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HO! Games
Windows · Mac
Am I Nima is a psychological-horror game where you must convince your mom that you really are her daughter. Combine words together in your brain and use them to talk. Get her to trust you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Point & Click 13%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Female Protagonist 10.1%
- #40 The Dust of the Violet Crystals
71% matchPositive95% of 19 reviews2024
Dev: Corvaena Games LLC
Windows · Mac
A flesh-eating dust leaves you to survive alone against hordes of Listless.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.4%, LGBTQ+ 16.2%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Female Protagonist 12.6%, RPG 9.1%
- #41 Eldritch University
73% matchPositive82% of 11 reviews2020
Dev: Nightshade
Windows · Mac · Linux
Kasumi Kawamura thought the nightmare was over, but it followed her to university. A strange affliction begins to affect the city, causing the victims to suffer terrible nightmares. At the same time, Kasumi's old wound starts to burn with a frightening power, making her wonder if she is to blame...
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.7%, Thriller 16.8%, Female Protagonist 11.6%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
- #42 Kill The Clock
70% matchVery Positive92% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: Happy Slugs
Windows
Kill the Clock is a narrative time-loop mystery adventure where you relive the same week to solve a murder that keeps changing. Customize your character, roll dice to influence story outcomes, and uncover the truth—before time resets again.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Thriller 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Character Customization 10.6%, Mystery 9.2%
- #43 P R I S M - A Visual Novel
74% matchNo user reviews2022
Dev: GoldieClaws
Windows · Mac · Linux
On her way to the city of opportunity, a young Freyja is trapped when a sudden fog descends upon the town known as Avon-On-Reach. Soon, she starts to wonder if there's more to the fog than meets the eye, and if it has a connection to the strange monstrous happenings around the town.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 30.9%, Multiple Endings 14.4%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Female Protagonist 13.5%, Choices Matter 8.8%
- #44 Spirit Eyes
72% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Jan Radtke
Windows
Spirit Eyes is a horror game in which, as an experienced exorcist, you take a contract to an abandoned house in Wyoming. Player must discover the type of ghost and try to get rid of it. As you try to communicate with the spirit, you will have to make choices that will affect the course of the game.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Character Customization 14.7%, Thriller 11.1%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Exploration 9.1%
- #45 Feeling Death
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SYUPRO-DXPub: room6
Windows · Mac
A Game Where You're Killed for Becoming a Couple.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Mystery 12.9%, Thriller 12.6%, Psychological Horror 9.3%
- #46 Detective Firefly
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AMETZ STUDIO
Windows
In Detective Firefly, your job is to solve cases by meticulously filling in the report with the locations and actions of all suspects at the time of the murder. Interrogate all witnesses, search for evidence, and form hypotheses to uncover the identity of the criminal and bring them to justice.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.2%, Point & Click 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Exploration 8.6%, Puzzle 7.9%
- #47 Call the Tune
70% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: St☆rletPub: Elephant Shrew Crew
Windows · Mac · Linux
In this detective/idol game fusion, every decision you make will influence the narrative. Your choices will shape relationships, uncover secrets, and determine the fate of the characters and the school itself.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Point & Click 10.1%
- #48 Lone Bird in the Tree
68% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Aosolagame
Windows · Mac
“Lone Bird in the Tree” is an ADV with male and female versions of each of the four characters. The story alternates between the “future” of the main character, who is deeply traumatized by the grief of his/her best friend, and the “story leading up to the loss of his/her best friend”.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Exploration 10%
- #49 倘若你想见到明天
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: AppleSeeds Studio - Juvia
Windows
Welcome, Test Subject 0216. The collar on your neck will explode in one hour. To survive, you must quickly raise your scores in Appearance, Wealth, and Power to over 85. If not, you’ll be disposed of. Don't be nervous - This girl, Tomorrow, will guide you. Yet, surviving might come at a cost.
Why similar: Dystopian 18.5%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Mystery 11%, Multiple Endings 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8%
- #50 Wormwood
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: smallerORPub: NOARON
Windows
Through exploration and choices, uncover the village's secrets. Attempt to save the girls' futures, or ignore their misfortune and pursue your own path to survival.
Why similar: Point & Click 20.7%, RPG 14.8%, Puzzle 12.6%, Exploration 11.1%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
- #51 Retrace
70% matchPositive93% of 42 reviews2020
Dev: Spider Lily Studios LLC
Windows
THIS WORLD DESIRES YOUR DEATH. A ghost tour gone wrong leads Freya to a parallel dimension, almost designed for her. Can you beat death, and escape? A game of mystery, adventure and queer love stories for PC.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.7%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Female Protagonist 9.4%, Puzzle 7.8%
- #52 The Paracelsian Project
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2023
Dev: Sixkilla Gaming
Windows · Mac · Linux
You awaken in an unfamiliar location with unfamiliar people and are surrounded by mystery. Will you be able to solve the puzzle and uncover why you are here in this sci-fi/mystery/puzzle visual novel? The future hangs in the balance.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Thriller 11%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Psychological Horror 10%
- #53 Project B-FER: Prime Cut
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Streamcope
Windows · Mac · Linux
You and 4 other people are trapped underground on a moving subway train. What are you willing to do to get out? Will you play by the rules, or break them?
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.7%, LGBTQ+ 17.7%, Female Protagonist 15.5%, Puzzle 13.2%, Choices Matter 9.7%
- #54 Epimutation
67% matchVery Positive95% of 63 reviews2025
Dev: Barbieronpa
Windows · Mac · Linux
399 days ago, the world ended. Epimutation is a horror visual novel that follows seven survivors as they attempt to navigate life in the apocalypse. Make life or death decisions, form bonds with your fellow survivors, and attempt to unravel the mystery behind the outbreak.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Point & Click 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Thriller 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.5%
- #55 Ib
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 5,037 reviews2022
Dev: kouriPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
A 2D exploration adventure game set in a creepy, mysterious art gallery.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Female Protagonist 10.2%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Choices Matter 8.2%
- #56 Knight, Death and the Devil
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Frequency eye
Windows
Knight, Death and the Devil — This is a dark visual novel that will take you into a creepy world full of danger and unexpected twists.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Point & Click 13.2%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, Exploration 9.1%
- #57 School Quest
66% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Pretty Bird Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A retro point-and-click adventure set in a 1980s high school, where a wisecracking teen investigates a missing friend, dodges bullies, and uncovers a bizarre conspiracy lurking in the halls.
Why similar: Point & Click 26.1%, LGBTQ+ 16.1%, Puzzle 11.8%, Exploration 11.4%, Story Rich 8.2%
- #58 A Totally Normal Love Story
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Something Hippo
Windows · Mac
Made for people who love Hallmark movies — and people who love to hate them. A totally normal love story in a perfectly ordinary small town, where nothing weird ever happens…or so you’re told.
Why similar: Thriller 21.4%, Visual Novel 21.3%, Multiple Endings 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Mystery 10.7%
- #59 Drops of Death
65% matchVery Positive93% of 86 reviews2025
Dev: Snowhaven Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: LGBTQ+ 19.5%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Thriller 14.3%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Character Customization 9.7%