- #1 Normal Person
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dexter ManningPub: Manning Media
Windows
Normal Person is a single player horror, first person Visual Novel where your choices matter! Will you be able to escape or will you be stuck in a limbo with the man who claims to be a "Normal person"
Why similar: Dark Comedy 28.9%, Visual Novel 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Choices Matter 10.7%
- #2 Class of '09: The Flip Side
96% matchMixed58% of 3,530 reviews2024
Dev: SBN3Pub: Wrath Club
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The final chapter of the Class of '09 VN series... this time from a different perspective! Join Nicole's best friend Jecka as you help her navigate the pitfalls of post-grad life! See what 2009 was truly like in this fully voiced interactive sitcom!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 26%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Satire 8% ★, Comedy 7.9%
- #3 Laugh Track
96% matchVery Positive91% of 69 reviews2026
Dev: Fiction Factory Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You're now the lead writer for Juno's World, a perfectly normal sitcom in which nothing strange or horrible happens, ever! Choose your scripts, decide what characters to build relationships with, and keep those audience ratings high -- or get cancelled in more ways than one! Welcome to Must See TV.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 22.1%, Text-Based 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.7%, 1980s 9.2%, Psychological Horror 8.7%
- #4 Mirrorandum
95% matchPositive96% of 26 reviews2025
Dev: AinkOink
Windows
Mirrorandum is not just a visual novel...it's a journey through a world of mirrors, where every reflection challenges your perception and every choice reveals the depths of your true self.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27%, Visual Novel 22.9%, Casual 15.7%, Text-Based 14.7%, Pixel Graphics 10.9%
- #5 Go For It Guile!
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tragic Masc.
Windows
Guile Murdoch is ready to start his second university attempt at the admittedly strange Yumi University. Through chance encounters with various men, he is forced into a self discovery journey to prove he is NOT INTO ANY OF THEM IN THE SLIGHTEST!!!! AND HE'S TOTALLY NOT GAY!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.4%, Text-Based 26.7%, Visual Novel 22%, Casual 11.9%, Comedy 6%
- #6 怪話2
94% matchPositive93% of 42 reviews2024
Dev: 法螺会
Windows · Mac
全15話で送る都市伝説がテーマのオムニバスストーリー
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Text-Based 23%, Visual Novel 21%, 1980s 13.5%, 1990's 9.4%
- #7 Mournhill
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LTech
Windows
Who will be the first to open the red door and find THE TRUTH? Mournhill is a comedic noir card game: swipe left or right, keep four factions happy, and collect 100+ endings. Everyone wants a favor. Nobody mentions the door. Something is counting down behind the jokes.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 24.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Satire 9.4% ★
- #8 Electric Sleep
93% matchPositive93% of 14 reviews2019
Dev: Vlad Abadzhiev-JahnPub: Emotion and Soul
Windows · Mac · Linux
Electric Sleep is a pixel art interactive story. Explore a crumbling world through the perspective of different emotions.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.8%, Text-Based 28.2%, Visual Novel 22.3%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%, Casual 8.4%
- #9 The Trials - Chapter Two
91% matchNo user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Hama Studios
Windows
A classic 90s choose your own adventure style horror visual novel. Escape the horrors hunting you, make decisions, forge your own path. An original complete story with multiple endings. Choose your own play style with a Text Adventure Mode, sound effects, and an ambient soundtrack.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.5%, Visual Novel 17%, Text-Based 15.8%, Choices Matter 11.6%, 1990's 10.2%
- #10 ふりかけ☆スペイシーOVA ベトナム・カンボジア・タイ・フィリピン編
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: よんとんトマチン
Windows
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.1%, Visual Novel 25.7%, Text-Based 20.6%, 1980s 13.6%, Comedy 8.9%
- #11 Dawn After Dusk
90% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Alexis Clay
Windows
Asylum simulator. An interactive fiction about schizophrenia and finding meaning after near-death, with Disco Elysium-style mechanics.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Dark Comedy 18.4%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Choices Matter 9.3%
- #12 C:aged
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Snowy Roof Games
Windows
Alice is stuck somewhere and she's very confused. Will you talk to her? Will you help her? Will you rescue her? A choices matter visual novel.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 26.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%, Casual 9.2%
- #13 Mature Comedy Visual Novel
89% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: YUM STUDIOS
Windows
Experience a world filled with awful people - and you're one of them! You embark on a journey to get your awful catgirl girlfriend some illicit materials, intense and prolonged misery immediately ensues.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.9%, Visual Novel 24.5%, Text-Based 15.8%, Casual 11.8%, Choices Matter 9.3%
- #14 Dungeons and Dames
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nikraria
Windows
A stranger pays you a hefty sum of money to teach a woman how to play a role-playing game. Will you be able to seduce her in the middle of the game? Will you prove that tabletop role-playing games hold no secrets for you?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.5%, Visual Novel 24.4%, Text-Based 19.5%, Casual 17.3%, Retro 10.4%
- #15 Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,036 reviews2026
Dev: Laplacian
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A mystery visual novel where horror meets occult comedy. Follow Kugayama Shiori, a ghost who casually dies over and over as she searches for her cause of death and the regrets that bind her to this world. Her investigation will eventually lead to a single incident—and the truth behind her demise.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Dark Comedy 20.9%, Text-Based 17.8%, Casual 11.9%
- #16 Five Biggest Accomplishments
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Assembling Chickens GamesPub: Fennonauts
Windows · Mac · Linux
Five Biggest Accomplishments is a short Visual Novel where you play as someone who has held the same job for 30 years: push a button every 8 hours or the world will end. Suddenly, you get an email asking you to list your five biggest accomplishments for the week, or risk being fired.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.9%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Text-Based 13%, Noir 11.5%, Psychological Horror 9.1%
- #17 The Trial
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NowakGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested." Story about life, choices and a Man vs the System. This unique interactive literature adaptation. A game, brought to You in early visual novel, text-adventure style.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.1%
- #18 Jeans on Toast
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Octaviaverse GamesPub: Luminary Interactive
Windows
Jeans on Toast is a text-based, choose your own adventure game summoned forth from the darkest depths of one girl's unhinged imagination.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.9%, Dark Comedy 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Visual Novel 20.9%, Pixel Graphics 5.3%
- #19 Bear With Me: The Pizza Chronicles (Prequel)
83% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Klemen Vrhovšek
Windows · Linux
You and your friend hear a scream in the woods, run toward it, and meet a very angry bear. One choice decides everything. Will you run, panic, throw a rock, or order pizza? Discover all 14 endings in this fully voice-acted dark comedy.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 31.8%, Visual Novel 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Casual 8.1%
- #20 DRINKRIME
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 72studioPub: room6
Windows · Mac
Jin, a talking liquor bottle with supernatural powers, has given you a mission. Face DRINKRIME's cast of unique characters and force them to confess their crimes. Interrogate them together and make those wrongdoers come to terms with their guilt!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, 1990's 21.8%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Text-Based 15%, Pixel Graphics 13.1%
- #21 小厨杂记
84% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: 山石
Windows
Please note: This game does not support English at current stage. 《小厨杂记》是一款融合了烹饪元素的视觉小说,通过为食客端上不同的菜肴与食客对话,并最终达成不同的结局。
Why similar: Text-Based 27.9%, Visual Novel 26.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Casual 12.3%, Choices Matter 7.9%
- #22 I'm in Love With Your Dead Grandmother
82% matchVery Positive92% of 78 reviews2026
Dev: Kimulator's Films
Windows · Linux
Hello, I'm Noah. I'm 28 years old and still haven't got a single date in my life, I'm looking for a life coach who can help me figure out the hard choices in my day to day life, you know? I'm sad and single, I have some friends online, but that's it.
Why similar: FMV 24.6% ★, Dark Comedy 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Satire 15.4% ★, Visual Novel 10.4%
- #23 Zombie Sandwich
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 毒島卯子
Windows
『Zombie Sandwich』は、ゾンビアポカリプスの世界でサンドイッチを販売するテキストベース経営シミュレーションです。 あなたはキッチンカーの主人となり、誰とも知れない客相手にサンドイッチを売ります。相手が誰であるかは問題ではありません。 定期的にならず者から金銭を要求されます。暴力的な終末を迎えないためにも、お金は備えておきましょう。 最終的なゴールは……この終末世界でお金持ちになることです! それが何の意味になるかは、この際考えないでいいでしょう。大事なのは、サンドイッチを作り、そして売ることなのですから。
Why similar: Dark Comedy 32.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.4%, Text-Based 21.6%, Education 19.9%, Indie 1%
- #24 Retro Game Aliens
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: qbertPub: Waku Waku Games
Windows
A late-night adventure for the 8-bit PC generation. - Retro Game Aliens is packed with nostalgia and love for the text-based genre of adventure games that shaped the evolution of RPGs and visual novels before fading into obscurity.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.8%, Visual Novel 24.7%, 1980s 15%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Retro 8.5%
- #25 Gloomscape
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lachrymose Games
Windows
Step into the eerie and mysterious world of Gloomscape! With your trusty mood ring and sense of adventure, you’ll craft, explore, and strategize your way through this bizarre world. But beware - ghastly creatures lurk around every corner.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 20.6%, FMV 17.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Text-Based 15.7%, Visual Novel 12.2%
- #26 Tower of the Ice Lich
80% matchPositive100% of 19 reviews2025
Dev: Arcane Lorelabs
Windows · Mac
A pixelated homage to 16-bit RPGs, this former print-and-play card game has come full circle as a digital experience! Choose your champion, enter the tower, and make wise decisions on your ascent to face the Ice Lich at the top.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Dark Comedy 10.7%, Choices Matter 9%
- #27 最上邸R
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: もこもこ
Windows
A Japanese-style horror visual novel set in 1980s Japan. Five years after a mysterious disappearance, Yukari Kanzaki and Akane Kiryu enter the abandoned Mogami Mansion. Explore its hidden secrets, uncover its dark past, and face multiple endings shaped by your choices.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.8%, Text-Based 23.9%, Visual Novel 23.2%, 1980s 10.8%, Choices Matter 7.5%
- #28 TOY BOX
78% matchVery Positive86% of 51 reviews2024
Dev: DEADline Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 24%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Text-Based 19.2%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Psychological Horror 10.2%
- #29 AQK
77% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Asroni Inc
Windows
"AQK" is a job interview simulation game where you, a job seeker, face off against a series of eccentric interviewers in pursuit of that coveted job offer.
Why similar: Text-Based 37.4%, Visual Novel 33%, Casual 17.5%, Comedy 10.7%, Indie 1.3%
- #30 Man I Just Wanna Live
77% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: JZPS Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Mia wakes up with a hangover and a dead body in her apartment. Unfortunately, the body has friends who are about to break in through the front door. From there, things only get worse. This "MSPaint-noir" VN with 16 endings is as stylish as it is relentless. Mia just wants to live! Well, who doesn’t?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.6%, Visual Novel 20.5%, Dark Comedy 18.5%, Casual 13%, Noir 10.9%
- #31 我家恋天使太废柴鸟真~可怕。
75% matchVery Positive99% of 97 reviews2026
Dev: HulottePub: Kagami Games
Windows
HULOTTE’s classic visual novel is now on Steam! After an injury ends his track dream, Sakuma Tsumugi meets a clumsy Love Angel and begins a sweet search for his destined special someone.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.7%, Visual Novel 24.4%, Text-Based 20.9%, Casual 11%, Choices Matter 7.3%
- #32 MATCH APP!
76% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: TEAM DTOX
Windows
MATCH APP! is a visual novel game based on a Japanese dating app. Players take on the role of the protagonist and experience a story of new encounters through the dating app.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 25.9%, Text-Based 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Casual 6.6%
- #33 Iseshima mystery annai: Itsuwari no Kuro shinnjyu
78% matchPositive84% of 44 reviews2019
Dev: Happymeal Inc.Pub: Flyhigh Works
Windows
舞台は東京から伊勢志摩へ…… ファミコン風アドベンチャーゲームの完全新作!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Text-Based 17.7%, Visual Novel 14.8%, 1980s 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 10.8%
- #34 PIGBLUE
76% matchVery Positive93% of 84 reviews2023
Dev: Fatih Mert
Windows · Mac · Linux
A stranger arrives at a quiet and isolated town... PIGBLUE.
Why similar: Text-Based 27.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Visual Novel 24%, Psychological Horror 8.7%, Noir 8.1%
- #35 qualia
73% matchVery Positive92% of 420 reviews2025
Dev: CMY2K
Windows · Mac
Intellica thanks you for volunteering in this short text-based Research Study. Pay attention to the participants answers, and classify them as either Human or Artificial. Join us in shaping the future of technology. Remember, think happy!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 18.7%, Text-Based 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, FMV 15.7% ★, Visual Novel 11.2%
- #36 Forest Quest 88
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ShangkoStudio
Windows · Mac · Linux
You wake up lost in the woods and just want to get home and go to sleep. A dry, deadpan text adventure on a green CRT screen: type anything or pick from five choices, loot questionable items, and survive cryptid ambushes that only spare you if you packed the right thing. Die in one of 130 ways.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Dark Comedy 16.3%, 1980s 13%, Casual 12.1%
- #37 Clarence Goes to the F&#%ING Store
75% matchPositive100% of 16 reviews2021
Dev: Bad Gremlin Studios
Windows
An absurdist comedy choose-your-own-adventure game featuring a massive cast of bizarre characters, notebook-doodle visuals, and 7 crazy endings! As you embark on your quest to go to the store, the denizens of this zany town will seek your help with their insane problems.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 34%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.9%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Choices Matter 10%, Casual 6%
- #38 Class of '09
73% matchVery Positive95% of 9,128 reviews2021
Dev: SBN3
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
This is the anti-visual novel. Instead of playing as some guy magically able to score with beautiful anime girls, YOU play the anime girl and create mass chaos in the lives of your potential "suitors". Earnest comedy, social accuracy, and late 2000's aesthetic await you in Class of '09!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.1%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Dark Comedy 17.2%, Satire 17% ★, Comedy 9.3%
- #39 My Bloodsucking 9-to-5
73% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: Max Morkson
Windows · Mac · Linux
You're James, a middle-aged office worker who just so happens to be a vampire. Someone stole your lunch. Find the thief, feed your goldfish, explore the building and DO. NOT. KILL. ANYONE. Easy!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.7%, Visual Novel 17.6%, 1980s 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Text-Based 9.7%
- #40 Follow the Black Kitten
74% matchVery Positive85% of 72 reviews2022
Dev: Total
Windows
You buy a laptop with your hands. You find an interactive collection of short stories on your laptop and something else. Or someone? What will all this lead to?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Visual Novel 21.9%, Text-Based 19.3%, Casual 14.1%, Pixel Graphics 9%
- #41 黒洞々|KOKUTOTO
71% match6 user reviews88% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: TENDA Games
Windows
Beyond Good and Evil: What Will You Choose in This Ambiguity? Kurotōtō is a multi-ending adventure game that questions the realm beyond good and evil. Its compact length lets you experience the bleak aspects of modern society and make nerve-wracking scenario choices. What ending will you reach?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.1%, Visual Novel 29%, Text-Based 15.6%, Pixel Graphics 14.1%, Casual 11.2%
- #42 さよなら人生。
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: トンデモ理論武装
Windows
女性キャラ多めで全体的にキャラクターのあくが強いです。 テンポのいいテキストを心がけております。 オカルト、歴史、泣き、コメディ、バトル、ミステリ、恋愛少々、と様々な要素があり。
Why similar: Dark Comedy 29.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, Text-Based 24.1%, Visual Novel 21.2%
- #43 green ogre gives you terrible life advice and dies
71% matchVery Positive97% of 97 reviews2024
Dev: forster82
Windows · Mac · Linux
Enter the swamp and meet green ogre who will guide you through some of the struggles of life by giving you some God tier advice.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 33.4%, Visual Novel 21.3%, Casual 14.4%, Text-Based 13.1%, Psychological Horror 9.7%
- #44 Hira Hira Hihiru
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 985 reviews2023
Dev: BA-KUPub: ANIPLEX.EXE
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
"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 29.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.6%, Text-Based 18.7%, Casual 14%, Choices Matter 11.2%
- #45 HUMAN INTELLIGENCE
70% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews
Dev: HamsulT
Windows
Spend ten days answering customers as the human behind a supposedly automated AI. Choose the exact reply you can live with as everyday requests turn invasive, deceptive, and impossible. Your words stay on record. When the contract ends, someone has to take responsibility.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 25.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Text-Based 19.1%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Psychological Horror 9.7%
- #46 束縛彼女とペットな僕 - I'm Your Pet -
71% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: CyberStep, Inc.
Windows
Wouldn't anyone be happy to have a girlfriend who makes them lunch and comes to pick them up every morning? If I had to pick one flaw...it would be that this love is very suffocating...
Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Text-Based 17.8%, Casual 9%
- #47 VHS Romance
70% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Warm Neon Games
Windows · Mac
Be kind, rewind… and fall in love. Summer ’86 in a small U.S. town: save a cozy VHS shop from a corporate chain, choose your girl, and help a secret dropout shoot his first film. Six heroines, 14 endings, one last take.
Why similar: 1980s 20.4%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Text-Based 14.8%, Retro 11.4%
- #48 秋田・男鹿ミステリー案内 凍える銀鈴花
72% matchMixed60% of 15 reviews2021
Dev: Happymeal Inc.Pub: Flyhigh Works
Windows
The second retro-style travel mystery adventure! This game is a suspense command ADV set in Akita's Oga region in Japan.The character designer is a manga artist Kiyokazu Arai, following his previous work "Iseshima Mystery Annai".
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.3%, Visual Novel 20.7%, 1980s 11.8%, Investigation 10.3%, 1990's 9.7%
- #49 クイズ!罵倒ネア!
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NAGI Studio
Windows
This game is a quiz game that includes satire and jokes.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.5%, Visual Novel 28.7%, Text-Based 22.5%, Casual 14%, Indie 1.3%
- #50 Taster's Table
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Michael Balamotis
Windows · Mac
A light puzzle and comical dialog game where you get served bad food. The foods are in different shapes. Fill your dish. Make the meal's poison stronger or healing by matching foods. Trick chefs into eating their own dishes. Who will be the first to fall? Who's behind it? It's a detective mystery.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 37.1%, Visual Novel 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Noir 6.4%
- #51 Behind the Screen
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: AlphaGames
Windows · Linux
Behind the Screen is a narrative indie game about depression, facades, and escape. Make impactful daily choices, balance Jonas' willpower, and escape reality through fast-paced retro minigames on a virtual PC monitor. Can you find a way through the noise?
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.1%, Text-Based 23%, Casual 22.4%, Pixel Graphics 13.5%, Retro 10.7%
- #52 The Gray-Crowned Reincarnate
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: JinCycle
Windows
An isekai fantasy visual novel about Kai, a boy reborn as a summoned hero, and Lilia, the saint who travels beside him. Across 15 illustrated scenes, your choices lead to four endings: become the Demon King, defeat him, flee together, or let the world fall.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 37.4%, Visual Novel 25.6%, Casual 12.1%, Choices Matter 12%, 1980s 11.9%
- #53 Chivalrish
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Chivalrish TeamPub: LunaticMoon
Windows
Chivalrish is a novella-sized, romance visual novel set in a medieval fantasy world. Set out on an adventure to rescue a princess who is not at all like you imagined her to be. Meet characters along the way, and decide your fate and theirs in this fun, comical, and thrilling journey.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 35.6%, Visual Novel 30.4%, Casual 21.8%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Indie 1.3%
- #54 OTHERS
67% matchPositive100% of 16 reviews2025
Dev: Sicosiber
Windows
This is a retro story game about choices and the voices in your head. Unlock new voices, new thoughts, and new endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Dark Comedy 15.3%, Text-Based 14%, Psychological Horror 12.3%
- #55 貴方が狼カードデス!
67% matchVery Positive93% of 59 reviews2023
Dev: toRipota
Windows
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 38.1%, Text-Based 26.4%, Visual Novel 26%, Choices Matter 9.6%
- #56 Triple Pairing
65% matchPositive98% of 45 reviews2026
Dev: HOOKSOFTPub: Kagami Games
Windows
The three-way romance VN "Triple Pairing" now available on Steam! You are caught between an elite lady, a complicated childhood friend, and a motherly poster girl. Who will you choose? Navigate sweet moments and chaotic showdowns. Use the Love Triangle and Radar Chart systems to find your true love!
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.4%, Text-Based 18.9%, Casual 16.4%, Comedy 6.5%
- #57 Manludo
67% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2024
Dev: Max Accelerated Xebec LLC
Windows · Linux
Play rock, paper, scissors to get off an alien space station. Esperanto: Vi devas ludi papero, tondilo, ŝtono por forlasi eksterteran kosmostacion.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36%, Visual Novel 30.7%, Casual 22.1%, Choices Matter 11.2%
- #58 わたしをそとにつれてって
65% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: 鬼火書天
Windows
Explore a sealed classroom and work together with a mysterious girl to escape. As the story unfolds, it gradually begins to seep into reality.
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.9%, Text-Based 30.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Casual 6.1%
- #59 海鳥野ガクの精神鑑定録
66% matchVery Positive83% of 326 reviews2024
Dev: いもチャイ屋
Windows
「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 32.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.4%, Text-Based 21.9%, Pixel Graphics 15%, Indie 1.2%