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  1. #1 Return to Ash
    97% matchVery Positive99% of 149 reviews2025
    Dev: Serenity Forge
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    “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: LGBTQ+ 22.3%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Emotional 10.5%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Hand-drawn 8.4%

  2. #2 clear cherry ice.
    96% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
    Dev: blush.exe
    Windows

    Did I really save this pretty boy ten years ago...? A fresh summer youth BL visual novel about memory, promises, and mutual salvation. [clear cherry ice.] Get closer to Jiwon and Chaehyun, and see whether your bond becomes friendship—or something more.

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.9%, Visual Novel 16%, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%, Text-Based 10.7%, Multiple Endings 8.1%

  3. #3 请在正确答案处咬下
    96% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: 别的工作室 Autre Studio
    Windows · Mac

    When obedient top student Fang Zhu discovers her childhood friend Jiang Xiangyi is secretly a werewolf, she risks her own academic standing to protect him from their suffocating school environment, toxic classmates, and an unfeeling teacher.

    Why similar: Supernatural 19.3%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Female Protagonist 13%, Hand-drawn 11%, Choices Matter 8.8%

  4. #4 The Afterlife Cafe
    95% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
    Dev: Guava Pixel Studios
    Windows · Linux

    Travel to the world of the dead, whose stories encourage reflection on life. Chat with spirits, brew drinks to suit your mood, and bond with the people who run the afterlife cafes. In this urban sci-fi fantasy visual novel, your choices impact the living, the departed, and your own path forward.

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.2%, Dialogue Heavy 16.2%, Supernatural 14.5%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Choices Matter 7.6%

  5. #5 A Vessel of Frustration
    94% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Micki
    Windows

    You return to your hometown after a decade of escapism, and no one from your past recognizes you. But that doesn’t matter, because you're not here for them. You are here for her. Midgårdsormen, singer and artist, pervert and goddess. She will help you reach true divinity. You refuse to remain human.

    Why similar: Supernatural 15.8%, Surreal 12.1%, LGBTQ+ 10.4%, Psychological 9.8%, Visual Novel 8.3%

  6. #6 After the Wane
    94% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Nova-box
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    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: Visual Novel 12.7%, LGBTQ+ 12.6%, Female Protagonist 10.5%, Supernatural 9.1%, Emotional 8.8%

  7. #7 The Final Fragment
    93% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: mahousparkle
    Windows

    A GxG coming-of-age visual novel. Nina sucks at choosing. But when a mysterious incident happens at the arts academy, will she muster the courage to choose–or will she let someone else decide on her behalf?

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22%, Visual Novel 13%, Dialogue Heavy 11.5%, Female Protagonist 10.3%, Text-Based 8.2%

  8. #8 Open Spaces SE
    92% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2023
    Dev: Queenship Game StudioPub: Queenship Game Studio, LLC
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    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: LGBTQ+ 16.2%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Psychological 10.4%, Choices Matter 8.4%, Female Protagonist 7.9%

  9. #9 Yuika My Bestie
    91% matchNo user reviews2025
    Dev: Feeling Potion
    Windows · Mac

    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: LGBTQ+ 18.7%, Dialogue Heavy 15.6%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Female Protagonist 9.4%, Emotional 9.3%

  10. #10 Lost Connections
    91% matchVery Positive96% of 79 reviews2023
    Dev: Amber Pearl
    Windows

    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: LGBTQ+ 20%, Visual Novel 16%, Emotional 10.8%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Female Protagonist 9.4%

  11. #11 Personal Digital Affliction
    90% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Annihilation Team
    Windows

    A Kinetic Novel about a girl investigating a video tied to the death of a friend.

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.8%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11.8%, Surreal 11.2%, Linear 10.8%

  12. #12 Road Trip to the End of the World
    89% matchVery Positive98% of 224 reviews2025
    Dev: Shark and Pelican Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Road Trip to the End of the World is a visual novel about the death of a friendship. When Andy and her imaginary friend Fishy set off on a road trip to crash their ex-best friend’s wedding, will they know when to hit the brakes?

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.3%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Female Protagonist 14%, Emotional 11.1%, Story Rich 9%

  13. #13 Lady in Mystery
    89% matchVery Positive94% of 168 reviews2021
    Dev: nolsoft
    Windows

    Welcome to a small detective agency in old Seoul. Lady in Mystery is a Yuri mystery visual novel set in 18th-century Joseon. Choose one of four women to grow closest to Heesoo, the disguised detective. Your choices may lead to love, revenge, or darker paths than you imagined.

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.1%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Text-Based 11%, Dialogue Heavy 9.2%

  14. #14 Signal Creek
    88% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2025
    Dev: snacktime games
    Windows · Mac

    Explore the abandoned Signal Creek Shopping Mall in this dialogue-rich pixel art RPG. Playing as college student Nour, you must guide your companions through encounters with the past.

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.2%, Supernatural 13.1%, Surreal 11.9%, Text-Based 10.2%, Female Protagonist 9.5%

  15. #15 More Than A Woman
    87% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Light Horse Games, LLC
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    An emotionally charged kinetic visual novel about Hana, an aspiring actress whose relationships and career are slipping through her fingers - until a sudden transformation into a futanari throws her life into chaos and forces her to confront everything she thought she knew.

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.5%, Visual Novel 19.7%, Female Protagonist 15.3%, Dialogue Heavy 13.6%, Emotional 9.8%

  16. #16 Stranding
    86% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: 于人的心
    Windows · Mac

    A psychological narrative dating sim visual novel. You play as Yu Xiao, an unemployed artist, searching for a way out amid the constant pull of CPTSD. You will make decisions at three crossroads, leading to different romantic relationships and endings.

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.3%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Female Protagonist 15.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11.6%, Psychological 8.8%

  17. #17 State of Presence
    86% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Harmony Frontiers
    Windows · Mac

    Waking up in a stranger's apartment is a jarring experience, even worse is learning you're there because you died. Phase between memories, the liminal plane, and current day to uncover your demise. Both the dead and living can help you on this journey. Will you play it safe or take risks?

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.9%, Supernatural 17.1%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Dialogue Heavy 13%, Psychological 9.2%

  18. #18 if you stay
    85% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: YukimiSoft
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    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+ 20.6%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Dialogue Heavy 13.6%, Female Protagonist 10.7%, Multiple Endings 7.9%

  19. #19 We Need Space
    84% matchPositive93% of 14 reviews2024
    Dev: Winter Twilight Productions, LLC
    Windows

    A romantic comedy visual novel with a sci-fi tilt. If you've ever wanted to blast someone into space, this may very well be for you.

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Dialogue Heavy 13.9%, Female Protagonist 12.7%, Choices Matter 7.9%

  20. #20 I Can Never Love Another
    84% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Love Every Soul Studio
    Windows · Mac

    A realistic visual novel based on a true story. As a lawyer trying to save a rock singer from her toxic family, you uncover the suffocating truth of "Codependency." Will you leave, sink into the abyss, or g◼︎ai◻︎n the c#our%ag◼︎e to f◼︎ac◻︎e the p#ai%n? Your choices decide.

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.3%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Female Protagonist 12.9%, Hand-drawn 7.9%, Choices Matter 7.7%

  21. #21 Et le grain mourut
    83% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Fülli
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A visual novel set in 1920s Paris. As summer draws near, young students are revising their end-of-year exams. Olivier is one of them.

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.5%, Supernatural 15.1%, Visual Novel 14%, Text-Based 10.5%, Emotional 8.6%

  22. #22 Blood Lily Ghoststories
    82% matchVery Positive92% of 132 reviews2025
    Dev: Sounding Stone / 老奉毊
    Windows

    A horror game about a needy female ghost. A trio of close-knit occult club girls gather late at night to enjoy telling ghost stories. Little do they know that Miss Choker, a ghost that targets girls, is just dying to appear...

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.1%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Female Protagonist 13.5%, Supernatural 12.9%, Choices Matter 9.6%

  23. #23 留在四月以后
    82% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Miyabi233
    Windows

    A dark yuri visual novel. An accidental death drags several students into a web of secrets from which there is no turning back. Lies, silence, judgment, and incriminating evidence held against one another gradually transform the already complex relationship between Situ Yang and Su Ying.

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.6%, Visual Novel 21.9%, Text-Based 11.7%, Female Protagonist 10.7%, Story Rich 10.6%

  24. #24 Meat Girl
    81% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
    Dev: ophanimkei
    Windows

    𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊 Meat Girl is a lesbian visual novel about a girl searching for her mentally ill roommate in cold mountains filled with meat 𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.2%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Psychological 12.3%, Female Protagonist 9.9%, Text-Based 9.3%

  25. #25 Graveyard Girls
    81% matchVery Positive98% of 168 reviews2022
    Dev: Delphinium Interactive
    Windows

    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: LGBTQ+ 16.6%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Text-Based 10.1%, Emotional 9.7%, Psychological 9.6%

  26. #26 Fishbowl
    79% matchVery Positive95% of 193 reviews2026
    Dev: imissmyfriends.studio
    Windows · Mac

    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: Dialogue Heavy 17.3%, LGBTQ+ 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Emotional 10.9%, Psychological 8.8%

  27. #27 Sinemorsk: oil inclusive
    78% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
    Dev: 7x7 Games
    Windows · Mac

    A visual novel about an environmental disaster. Coordinate volunteers, make difficult decisions, and try to survive as you try to save a coastal town dying from an oil spill.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 21.3%, Female Protagonist 15.7%, Text-Based 12.7%, Multiple Endings 11%, Story Rich 10.4%

  28. #28 Victorian Debutante
    80% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2022
    Dev: Liquid Darkness
    Windows · Mac

    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: Visual Novel 15.1%, Female Protagonist 13.1%, Text-Based 11.5%, Hand-drawn 10%, Choices Matter 10%

  29. #29 Columbus
    78% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
    Dev: ZHANG CHUNNING
    Windows

    Columbus》 is a dark fantasy visual novel with dual male leads. Play as Weaponzzie, a nameless weapon trapped in a wealthy estate. Dialogue choices drive a branching story to 10 endings—tenderness, ruin, freedom, or downfall. Your bond with the young master is defined by you.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 17.3%, Dialogue Heavy 16.6%, LGBTQ+ 16.6%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10%

  30. #30 VOICE
    79% matchPositive89% of 19 reviews2021
    Dev: WTFMAN
    Windows

    VOICE is a game about the story of living in a dystopian world where speaking is forbidden.

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.9%, Visual Novel 14%, Text-Based 13.9%, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%, Choices Matter 7.7%

  31. #31 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+ 22.1%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11.8%, Text-Based 11.8%, Female Protagonist 9.1%

  32. #32 Shadows Of Memory lll
    77% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Pixelyarn
    Windows

    Face your fears, Alice. This time, you're not alone. This is the last chapter in the horror visual novel trilogy.

    Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 15%, Surreal 13.6%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Female Protagonist 11.7%, Linear 7.9%

  33. #33 Spirit Driver
    76% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2025
    Dev: Stellar Horse Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    From the everyday passenger to the horrors of Halloween, Spirit Driver is a short, casual conversation visual novel where your choices can affect the fates of people and spirits alike. Remember, your choices have consequences. Good luck!

    Why similar: Visual Novel 22%, Dialogue Heavy 21.6%, Supernatural 15.7%, Text-Based 12.6%, Choices Matter 8.9%

  34. #34 Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate
    74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,478 reviews2025
    Dev: Xso
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    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+ 35.1%, Female Protagonist 18.7%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Supernatural 7.1%, Choices Matter 6.2%

  35. #35 Date For Dead
    75% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Divonia Studios
    Windows

    A dark romantic comedy where every match brings you closer to love… or something far more dangerous. Meet monsters, go on dates, and shape your relationships through meaningful choices. But behind every perfect date lies a secret: You’re not looking for love. You’re trying to bring love back.

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.9%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Female Protagonist 8.8%, Multiple Endings 7.6%

  36. #36 The Window Box
    76% matchVery Positive81% of 83 reviews2019
    Dev: Sundew Studios
    Windows · Mac

    Wander from room to room in this whimsical and dark visual novel as you follow five friends trapped during a freak storm. Listen while they have hard conversations and tough realizations as they confront the conflict in their lives. For what is a house but a box with windows?

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.9%, Dialogue Heavy 16.3%, Surreal 13.7%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Emotional 9.4%

  37. #37 The Shame of a Daydreamer
    73% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2026
    Dev: Micki
    Windows

    Shame & choices = possible apocalypse. You need to figure out what’s causing the apocalypse to happen, so that you can prevent it. 2 playable characters with different relations to shame → 2 unique perspectives of the same story. Complicated families, branching choices and unforgiving consequences.

    Why similar: Supernatural 14.8%, LGBTQ+ 13.8%, Surreal 12.8%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Psychological 9.6%

  38. #38 Crown Delights Deli
    75% matchMostly Positive78% of 83 reviews2022
    Dev: baconeggandcheese
    Windows · Mac

    Crown Delights Deli is a visual novel with multiple dialect/language choices. As the cashier at a Brooklyn bodega, choose to talk in English, AAVE, or Spanish to a diverse cast of characters as you try to maintain a five-star rating for your boss.

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.1%, Dialogue Heavy 19.9%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Text-Based 12.9%, Choices Matter 10%

  39. #39 Nurse Love Syndrome
    74% matchVery Positive93% of 323 reviews2019
    Dev: KOGADO STUDIOPub: KOMODO
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 231.2 hrs≥1hr: 67%

    Meet cheerful Kaori Sawai, fresh out of nursing school, as she joins Yurigahama Hospital. Surviving a near death experience as a child left her with a desire to become a nurse and "healing hands" that let her relieve pain in patients just by touching them.

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28%, Visual Novel 17%, Female Protagonist 14.3%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Multiple Endings 10.3%

  40. #40 Eclipse : Special Forces
    72% matchVery Positive92% of 92 reviews2025
    Dev: MoonSun
    Windows · Mac

    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: LGBTQ+ 21.3%, Visual Novel 14%, Text-Based 13.2%, Female Protagonist 9.6%, Cartoony 8.6%

  41. #41 Pet
    73% matchPositive95% of 21 reviews2023
    Dev: beepsoft industries
    Windows

    A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 15.1%, Female Protagonist 11.7%, Text-Based 11.3%, Choices Matter 11%, Multiple Endings 9.5%

  42. #42 Margo
    72% matchVery Positive94% of 324 reviews2022
    Dev: ygretz
    Windows · Mac

    Margo just woke up from a nap! Will you help her get back on track?

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.6%, Dialogue Heavy 13.2%, Surreal 12.7%, Female Protagonist 11.6%, Emotional 8.9%

  43. #43 Shadows Of Memory ll
    71% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2025
    Dev: Pixelyarn
    Windows

    Go home, Alice. The past awaits you. This is the second chapter in the horror visual novel trilogy.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 14.7%, Surreal 13.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%, Female Protagonist 12.5%, Linear 8%

  44. #44 Lone Bird in the Tree
    70% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2026
    Dev: Aosolagame
    Windows · Mac

    “Lone Bird in the Tree” is an adventure game 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 their best friend”.

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.5%, Visual Novel 13%, Text-Based 11%, Dialogue Heavy 10.4%, Hand-drawn 10.2%

  45. #45 少女的幻想乐园
    69% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2026
    Dev: 残雨子
    Windows

    This is a visual novel about loneliness and fantasy. You will play a student in a closed boarding school for girls, feeling lonely and alienated, communicating with an imaginary friend every day.Your choices will lead to an ending of either redemption or downfall.

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 29.5%, Visual Novel 21.1%, Female Protagonist 17.2%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Emotional 11%

  46. #46 Girl Werewolf Hamlet Saves Christmas
    71% matchNo user reviews2025
    Dev: Stegaloaurus Game Development
    Windows · Linux

    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: Visual Novel 18.7%, LGBTQ+ 17.5%, Surreal 13.5%, Female Protagonist 13.3%, Choices Matter 10.9%

  47. #47 Greed and Fear and the Rest
    70% matchPositive95% of 22 reviews2024
    Dev: Cyampire
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    You are ready to say goodbye to life, but are you prepared to face your life's truth? Navigate a grad student's life between greed and fear in his final 6 hours (and beyond) in this BL visual novel.

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.8%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Dialogue Heavy 15.5%, Psychological 8.6%, Multiple Endings 8.5%

  48. #48 P R I S M - A Visual Novel
    73% 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+ 34.4%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Female Protagonist 14.5%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Story Rich 9.9%

  49. #49 Tokyo Onmyoji -The Tale of Rei Tengenjibashi-
    71% matchPositive92% of 24 reviews2022
    Dev: HolicWorksPub: Moonchime Studios
    Windows

    It is the year 2014 in the Shinjuku ward of Tokyo, Japan. Though previously banned at the close of World War II, the practice of the onmyoji—masters of spirits and divination—has been approved once again in order to combat the ongoing supernatural threat.

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.1%, Supernatural 19.3%, Visual Novel 18%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Text-Based 8.5%

  50. #50 Pages of Tomorrow
    70% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Doksa
    Windows · Linux

    Challenge fate in this psychological visual novel about a juvenile psych ward patient who discovers a book that can predict the future.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 15.7%, LGBTQ+ 15.1%, Psychological 12.5%, Text-Based 11.7%, Female Protagonist 10.9%

  51. #51 Syrup and the Ultimate Sweet
    68% matchVery Positive98% of 83 reviews2025
    Dev: NomnomNami
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A candy alchemist finds a candy golem in her basement workshop...

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.2%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Female Protagonist 14.4%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Choices Matter 6.4%

  52. #52 Targeted By Her
    69% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: hotwatermelon
    Windows

    You've been at the new school for a while now, but you still don't seem to have fully adapted. At least your test scores haven't improved, and to make matters worse, a popular classmate seems to be targeting you...

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.1%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Female Protagonist 13.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%, Text-Based 9.7%

  53. #53 Bonjin ~ An Ordinary Man
    68% matchPositive93% of 27 reviews2025
    Dev: VNDI
    Windows · Linux

    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: LGBTQ+ 22.5%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Female Protagonist 10.5%, Emotional 10.1%, Dialogue Heavy 9.7%

  54. #54 BASIC PARADE or: "you should be depressed."
    69% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: TABLEAUX THEORY
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Socially underdeveloped Lisa found solace in books... Until her eyes fell out. You take the role of Henry, the therapist assigned to guide Lisa through her depression. There's just one problem: she isn't depressed.

    Why similar: Visual Novel 19.4%, Text-Based 15.3%, Dialogue Heavy 13.9%, Surreal 13.1%, Psychological 10.6%

  55. #55 A Hint of Purple
    68% matchVery Positive94% of 127 reviews2023
    Dev: Empty Exhibit
    Windows

    A short visual novel about queer love and art. Follow Maya, a once-celebrated painter now paralyzed, as she struggles to accept her new reality and its effects on her relationship. Argue with your Prefrontal Cortex, insult an art critic, befriend the elderly.

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.2%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Female Protagonist 12.9%, Text-Based 11%, Psychological 10.8%

  56. #56 Interstate 35
    67% matchPositive100% of 41 reviews2024
    Dev: Radiant ArrayPub: Honeybee Rodeo
    Windows · Linux

    A visual novel exploring a near-apocalyptic vision of North Texas, told through the poetic words of a young woman going home.

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.3%, Dialogue Heavy 13.6%, Surreal 13.4%, Text-Based 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.4%

  57. #57 Call Me Cera
    67% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Toadhouse GamesPub: Team Toadhouse
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A 'crunchy wholesome' game about making friends as an adult.

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.5%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Female Protagonist 13.4%, Emotional 9.6%, Choices Matter 8.3%

  58. #58 The Witch In The Woods
    66% matchPositive90% of 39 reviews2025
    Dev: Dream Nyght Studio
    Windows · Mac

    In the treacherous Greywind Forest, a mysterious and dangerous witch resides. Nellie enters the forest, driven by her own motives. A fateful encounter awaits as their paths intertwine in this captivating fantasy Yuri visual novel. Unveil the secrets that lie ahead and make your choices.

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.4%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Female Protagonist 12.9%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Emotional 9%

  59. #59 There's Something Wrong with the Hero's Choices
    67% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: 港ねずみPub: PLAYISM
    Windows

    「その選択肢、正気か?」シンプルなノベルゲームのはずなのに、とにかく“選択肢”がおかしい!? 予想を超える展開が待ち受ける、奇想天外なテキストアドベンチャーゲーム!

    Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.6%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Text-Based 16.5%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Multiple Endings 8.3%

  60. #60 30 Days Another
    66% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: The Bricks Games
    Windows

    「30 Days」 will change someone's life, maybe your life.

    Why similar: Text-Based 14.3%, Female Protagonist 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Psychological 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.2%

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