
The Pinkman Files is a mini-game rich, fast paced, turn based combat game with a side of visual novel, that will challenge your detective skills and allow you to uncover the secrets of a peculiar town.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Singleplayer, Interactive Fiction, Visual Novel.

The Pinkman Files is a mini-game rich, fast paced, turn based combat game with a side of visual novel, that will challenge your detective skills and allow you to uncover the secrets of a peculiar town.

You Can Save Everyone
You Can Save Everyone is a heartfelt horror meta-puzzle game. Trapped deep within a facility with only a console to communicate with the others inside, decipher the proper methods to control the console, and - just maybe - save everyone. But be careful. The locks aren't just there for you.

Memory Lane
A game that you'll never forget! Memory Lane is a turned based RPG about taking names. Literally.
You Can Save Everyone is a heartfelt horror meta-puzzle game. Trapped deep within a facility with only a console to communicate with the others inside, decipher the proper methods to control the console, and - just maybe - save everyone. But be careful. The locks aren't just there for you.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 27.1% ★, Experimental 22.8% ★, Investigation 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Visual Novel 6.8%
A game that you'll never forget! Memory Lane is a turned based RPG about taking names. Literally.
Why similar: Experimental 20.5% ★, Investigation 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Emotional 11.1%, Turn-Based Combat 10.7%
Sugarcreek is a story-based adventure game following Eddie the high-school goat and his closest friends as they try to find his missing step-sister before the week is over!
Why similar: Minigames 25.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, LGBTQ+ 14.6%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Cartoony 9.1%
An autopsy of a queer relationship.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.3%, LGBTQ+ 22.2%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Exploration 9.9%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
Rockin’ Racket is a narrative driven, fast paced, pop punk band management game with an undercurrent of teenage angst as you try to hold together a band of rowdy younger siblings, keep the crowd happy, and manage your frugal earnings while booking larger venues to rocket your band to stardom!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22%, LGBTQ+ 15.4%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Minigames 14% ★, Cartoony 12.3%
Acolyte: Prologue is the first act in a dynamic narrative detective/puzzle game that gives you your own Acolyte; a digital assistant you can talk to freely without pre-defined dialogue options. Just like a real conversation.
Why similar: Experimental 34% ★, Investigation 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Visual Novel 12%, 2.5D 9.7%
Explore an alien planet, snap pictures of wildlife and build relationships with your crewmates in this heartfelt sci-fi Point & Click - Visual Novel.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Minigames 18.3% ★, Visual Novel 14.8%, Exploration 8.7%
David is a Witch Boy, Henry is a Boy from the Future— and it's their first anniversary! Discover hilariously disastrous situations full of magic and mayhem as David attempts to create the perfect date in this minigame-filled Visual Novel!
Why similar: Minigames 33.2% ★, LGBTQ+ 19.4%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Funny 10%, Emotional 8.5%
Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.
Why similar: Experimental 21% ★, LGBTQ+ 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Emotional 10.1%
You Are Not a Banana is set in everyday life and has a sprinkle of imagination and humor. The audiovisuals (free OST included) seek to evoke nostalgia for the 80s and 90s. This short form experimental game unfolds as a sequence of thought provoking events and surprises.
Why similar: Minigames 41.1% ★, Experimental 24% ★, Funny 9.8%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Exploration 6.5%
Qiudu loses all memories of the day whenever he wakes up. After answering a victim’s call, the night-shift emergency hotline operator becomes entangled in a serial murder case. Gather clues from late-night calls, uncover the truth, and confront the memories he can never keep.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Investigation 18.7%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Story Rich 7.6%
A free drama-mystery visual novel with a modern fantasy setting. Reach out to the fourteen people trapped inside to find the truth through eighteen endings, influenced by but not exclusively bound to your own system time.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, LGBTQ+ 21.2%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Investigation 11.9%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
A colourful narrative adventure game. You're one of the first sheep to attend university. Roam the campus, attend lectures by day and enjoy friend-time at night. Discover campus truths, and sniff out secrets. Live the life of a campus sheep, but beware: not everybody wants to see a sheep graduate!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Visual Novel 14%, Emotional 12.5%, Funny 9.3%
Narrative-adventure game where you contain "anomalies" secretly and prevent the world’s end. Influenced by the "SCP Foundation" and "Cthulhu Mythos," the game offers a blend of unease and curiosity as you delve into a bizarre and disturbing world, eventually uncovering hidden truths.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 38.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Turn-Based Combat 10.3%, Exploration 7.4%
A narrative-driven sci-fi mystery. Switch between four playable protagonists trapped in an island mansion to explore, investigate, piece together clues from their mysterious past, and uncover the truth behind their predicament.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 36.4% ★, Investigation 20.9%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Multiple Endings 9%, Story Rich 8.5%
Find notes and clues that will lead to memories. Change the present by manipulating your past. You must save your childhood friend in order to escape the mansion of memories.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 45.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Story Rich 9.1%, Multiple Endings 8.5%, Cartoony 6.7%
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: Investigation 22.7%, LGBTQ+ 21.7%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Cartoony 11.4%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
Rock, paper, scissors meet anime turn-based fights and time travel!
Why similar: Time Manipulation 31.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Turn-Based Combat 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Emotional 10.1%
What if you could create your own constellations? A love story about Asian American identity, mental health, and stargazing.
Why similar: Experimental 40% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Emotional 9.2%, Story Rich 5.3%
A queer mystery game about book banning. Play as Ruby (they/them), a journalism major on a surreal, after-hours adventure to investigate the disappearance of books from their college library.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.1%, Investigation 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Emotional 13.3%, Story Rich 8.5%
Javi lives in Santiago, and Shio lives in Kyoto. They're best friends over the internet, until one fateful December changes their lives forever. A narrative game about long-distance love that takes place over chats, video calls, and social media apps.
Why similar: Minigames 39.6% ★, LGBTQ+ 19.3%, Visual Novel 12%, Emotional 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 8.3%
Body found. Two missing. Detective Malinowski hears what others miss. Noir adventure where sound reveals clues and sketches tell the story. A short case you can finish tonight. Start now.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 33.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Investigation 15.7%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Emotional 10.6%
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+ 22.3%, Emotional 16.8%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%
How do you see the world when nothing is real? An experimental metafictional visual novel.
Why similar: Experimental 28.8% ★, LGBTQ+ 16.4%, Emotional 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%
Twelfth Life is a visual novel in the genre of shounen-ai. Classmates Tyler and Jean have supernatural abilities that can help them resist the mysterious ghosts haunting the boys.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 40.3% ★, LGBTQ+ 21.9%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Funny 5.8%
The anti-dating sim where you make friends instead of girlfriends! Balance between heartbreak and heartache! Will you graduate without a single friend? Or will you survive long enough to reject them all?
Why similar: Minigames 28.7% ★, LGBTQ+ 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Visual Novel 12%, Funny 8.1%
A short narrative exploration game in which you play as Bean, an unemployed, 20-something, smart-ass. Wander around town, play mini games, feed the geese, and get to know the neighbours as Bean’s sanity begins to slip...
Why similar: Minigames 41.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Emotional 11.2%, Exploration 9.9%, Story Rich 7.8%
"non-binary" is a video game that mixes text choices and bullet hell to tell the story of two non-binary people's journey of self-discovery. Make your choices. Dodge words. Go through things that hurt without breaking down. If you can.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Emotional 13.8%, Multiple Endings 11.8%
Fall in love with marbles and learn to believe in yourself again.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Cartoony 11%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
MEET YOUR NEW FRIEND: BUBS! A collection of 20+ minigames, follow Bubs the Cat as he leads you through a series of 5-second activities whether you like it or not
Why similar: Minigames 47.3% ★, LGBTQ+ 20.2%, Funny 11.1%, Cartoony 9.1%, Story Rich 6.6%
A deceptively cozy narrative game about an alchemist that immigrates to a new country and opens an apothecary. Get to know your weird and wonderful community, brew the potions your customers need, and use your words to stir up a country on the brink of change.
Why similar: Investigation 29.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Multiple Endings 11%, Emotional 10.6%, LGBTQ+ 8.2%
It's not what you say, it's how you say it. We should talk is a short-form narrative game that will make you think carefully about the words you choose. Can your relationship survive the night?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Emotional 13.4%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
The darkest game in 2022 , depends not only on how dark it is, but also on how dark readers can imagine it. The goal of the game is not to kill dragons, but to control "which character releases skills" and "which character dies first" to obtain different game endings.
Why similar: Emotional 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Cartoony 8.5%
Connected Fates is a surreal top down Puzzle Adventure game where you guide a child through a dying world and help him return home. The game knows you exist, and you are able to influence it through unconventional means.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Cartoony 13%, LGBTQ+ 11%, Emotional 11%, Story Rich 10.1%
A dark noir visual novel following Alex, a former police officer drawn into the mafia’s world. In a city where trust can get you killed and everyone has something to hide, Alex and a mafia leader with buried secrets are pulled into revenge, power, and slow-burn romance shaped by your choices.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Multiple Endings 8.2%, Emotional 6.8%
Listen closely. With hand-drawn visuals and the help of a cat named Blinky, escape Dr. Lazarus’s trap and uncover the truth buried in an audio-visual journey through the past.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 35.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Experimental 14% ★, Visual Novel 12%, Emotional 9.9%
Run a tea shop in the British countryside in this heartfelt visual novel voiced by Bethan Dixon Bate (Baldur's Gate 3) and Lenval Brown (Disco Elysium). Play as Ms Meadows as she prepares for her best friend’s long-awaited visit. Brew tea, listen to customers’ stories, and craft poems.
Why similar: Minigames 32.4% ★, Visual Novel 14.5%, Emotional 13.9%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%
“A Lozenge” is a short interactive story about a mother-daughter road trip and motion sickness, dedicated to children of divorce.
Why similar: Experimental 32.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Emotional 19.1%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Story Rich 8.7%
Experience the stories of Haru, Erika, and Manami, a trio of friends navigating their feelings of love, connection, and just wanting to belong.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Emotional 14.1%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
A visual novel about grief, memory and acceptance. Nayara is a painter of memories: she digs into her clients’ minds to change or even erase their memories. One day she realizes she has altered her own memory. What was so painful or unbearable that she wanted to forget it for good?
Why similar: Investigation 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Emotional 20.5%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Story Rich 4.3%
Attentat 1942 is a historically-accurate adventure about World War 2. Face moral dilemmas and existential struggles as you uncover the troubled past of your family.
Why similar: Minigames 33.5% ★, Investigation 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Emotional 10%, Visual Novel 9.6%
Explore a cozy point-and-click mystery where your only way to escape is by manipulating time. Shift between different times of the same day, find clues and items to escape the Great Ebony Clock’s Time Prison. You never thought you’d be so happy to see Monday.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 54.6% ★, Investigation 18.8%, Multiple Endings 8.2%, Story Rich 7.6%, Exploration 5.2%
EMBERBOUND is a furry visual novel about returning home, reuniting with old friends, and promises left unfinished. Back in his hometown to handle matters concerning his family’s old house, Yunxi faces the regrets and feelings that never truly faded.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Emotional 10.6%, Casual 7.3%
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 36% ★, Investigation 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Emotional 9.9%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
"The Nakano Laboratory" is a loop-based mystery 2D adventure game. Within each loop of 15 minutes, you take over researchers' bodies to gather clues around the ship, then present your evidence at the meeting.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 23.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Exploration 9.2%
Guilt Free is a visual novel crossed with a point and click made to offer perspective on mental health and eating disorders. Navigate a couple's rocky relationship and encounter "flaws" or "quirks" that may actually be symptomatic behaviors.
Why similar: Experimental 24.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Emotional 14.7%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
Look through someone else’s computer. Inspired by early “escape room” flash games.
Why similar: Investigation 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 14.6%, 2.5D 11.1%, Cartoony 9.6%
The greate waves destroyed everything in the city, but the mysterious mechanism stopped the time in the game district. For all outside residents, the events within the segment stopped, but for the inhabitants of the district the time continues to go.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 36.9% ★, Experimental 28.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Story Rich 6.9%, Exploration 5.6%
An immersive storytelling experience that gives you the freedom to roam and explore a large and mysterious building at your own pace while an interwoven narrative plays out around you. Rewind time and watch each story from every angle.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 32.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Emotional 12%, Investigation 7.6%, Exploration 6.3%
It seems that there can be no more boring profession in the world than a pawnshop appraiser. But a meeting with a mysterious but pretty stranger changes Dan's idea of his job.
Why similar: Experimental 29.8% ★, Investigation 19%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Cartoony 7.2%
9 kids who wake up in a mysterious shelter with lost memory. Investigate the signs of intruders and murders and discuss them with your colleagues to move towards the truth! Listen to everyone's statements and use your counter-arguments to uncover the truth behind someone's lies!
Why similar: Investigation 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Cartoony 10.5%, Emotional 10.1%
Foul Play tells the story of a young, bright-eyed detective who is determined to succeed. Her world quickly turns upside down after she is tasked with catching a sexy, mercurial assassin. In the end, she'll need to determine how pure her conscience really is. After all, justice is subjective.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.4%, Investigation 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
A dark boys love / boys hate visual novel set in a 1001 Nights inspired world full of political intrigue. Yuel, once the King of Indra, is deposed by his older cousin, Tavi, during a coup and imprisoned within the palace. An uneasy relationship between them grows, and then...
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.2%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Emotional 12.1%, Multiple Endings 6.4%
Shape queer love and friendship at the end of the world in this choice-driven, emotional narrative game. Will you settle for pessimism, or open yourself to trust?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.5%, Emotional 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Multiple Endings 14.1%
A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.
Why similar: Emotional 22.4%, Visual Novel 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, LGBTQ+ 14%, Story Rich 10.6%
Dive into "Homewords," a captivating, story-driven RPG without any combat. Explore Orbtüse with Zoë, a rude child, as you skillfully interrupt and guide her through conversations. Use the power of words to overcome conflicts, unravel mysteries, and help Zoë learn the art of empathy.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.4%, Emotional 14.5%, Funny 13.8%, LGBTQ+ 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%
A short work of interactive horror fiction, about bright minds, and the end of all things. Feel the ink on your skin, return to the woods, and escape the small town that you've never called home.
Why similar: Experimental 42.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, LGBTQ+ 22.9%, Emotional 10.7%, Singleplayer 1%
Discover Aliorbis, a world where magic and science, chaos and order, are two sides of the same coin. But remember: you're not this world's hero.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Investigation 18.4%, Turn-Based Combat 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.9%, 2.5D 10%
Play as a fairytale hero and help him garden, since saving the princess didn't go that well. A fantasy gardening visual novel and clicker game.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Emotional 14.3%, Cartoony 9.8%