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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Choose Your Own Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Choices Matter, Visual Novel.

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Are you an android? Two university students volunteer for a paid experiment, rating an android's humanity—except Erin Cole isn’t told she might be the test subject. Their conversations about love, free will, and death challenge what it means to be human in this thrilling, melancholic visual novel.

Reviews: Positive — 86% — of 44 reviews
Released: 2026-02-13
Developer: ZEITGEISTLABOR
Genres: Adventure, Indie, Free To Play
Platforms: Windows, Mac

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    Dev: Team SolEtude
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  2. #2 Comet Angel
    96% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2025
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    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.

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    Dev: HNP Studios
    Windows · Linux

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    Why similar: Programming 24.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Romance 9.1%

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    95% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2026
    Dev: GREEN CONE STUDIO
    Windows

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    94% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2022
    Dev: Dharker Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    93% matchVery Positive98% of 57 reviews2023
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    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    Dev: Tiny Moon Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    Dev: Caramel Column Inc.
    Windows · Mac

    This is a collaborative experiment between you and I. We will participate in a series of interchanges, each lasting three minutes. What will be revealed across our interfaces during that limited time?

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    Windows

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    90% matchVery Positive94% of 247 reviews2024
    Dev: Citreat Studio
    Windows · Mac

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    89% matchVery Positive88% of 3,751 reviews2023
    Dev: LizardryPub: PLAYISM
    Windows
    Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 69%

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    88% matchVery Positive93% of 59 reviews2025
    Dev: Night Asobu
    Windows

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    89% matchNo user reviews2022
    Dev: Pixels and Pins Studio
    Windows

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    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%

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    Windows

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    Windows

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    Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%

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    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    75% matchPositive82% of 22 reviews2022
    Dev: Obcerd Productions
    Windows

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    71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,061 reviews2024
    Dev: BearBoneStudio
    Windows
    Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%

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    Dev: Winter Wolves
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%

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    73% matchNo user reviews
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    Windows · Linux

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    73% matchNo user reviews2026
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    Windows

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    73% matchPositive93% of 14 reviews2022
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    72% matchNo user reviews
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    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    71% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2026
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    Windows · Mac

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    Windows

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    70% matchNo user reviews
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    Windows

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    Windows

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    67% matchNo user reviews2026
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    Dev: HeartCoreDev
    Windows

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

    Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.3%, Cyberpunk 20.2%, Romance 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%

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Based on tag similarity + player behavior
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