60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Interactive Fiction, Story Rich, Singleplayer.
During the 2020 lockdown, Dorothy spends her days caring for jars of sourdough starters. By sharing them with others, she builds unexpected connections and discovers small acts of kindness that bring warmth in difficult times.
Nothing Can Stop Us (Encore)
A ~1 hour short narrative game about a friendship that spans two lifetimes. Serious, funny, weird, maybe heartbreaking.
Always On
Choices matter in this interactive short story. It only takes about 1 hour to play through once, but there are multiple endings to explore. You play as an AI assistant to the 7 year old Evie. What kind of bot will you be?
A ~1 hour short narrative game about a friendship that spans two lifetimes. Serious, funny, weird, maybe heartbreaking.
Why similar: Philosophical 15.7%, Comic Book 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%, Emotional 9%
Choices matter in this interactive short story. It only takes about 1 hour to play through once, but there are multiple endings to explore. You play as an AI assistant to the 7 year old Evie. What kind of bot will you be?
Why similar: Comic Book 19%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Philosophical 11.7%, Choices Matter 9.7%
You've had the same dream all week: a school field trip to a zoo you can't leave, where the lions always find you in the end. Wander the zoo exhibits, make your choices, and search for the way out. A short, hand-painted interactive story about a recurring dream, and finally resolving it.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
A digital comic about the story of Emeline. She tries to live her dream of being a superheroine after her friends decided to change their career paths. A gentle and moving story, drawn by hand.
Why similar: Comic Book 19.5%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Psychological 10.4%, Female Protagonist 8.8%
"Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines" - In this short story from the Endless Monday, Penny, a mild-mannered corporate grunt, spends a weekend at the office in an effort to finish her project on time while overcoming distractions from coworkers, space aliens, imaginary friends, and herself.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Comic Book 12.1%, Hand-drawn 9.8%
Naomi wakes decades older in a house she does not recognize, and discovers that escape may cost the future.
Why similar: Philosophical 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Comic Book 12.6%, Psychological 12.2%
Take down multiple criminals case by case as you judge each and every one of them. Will you be naughty or nice? The final verdict is up to you!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, 2.5D 17%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Female Protagonist 11.8%
Potion Tales is a potion brewing game, in which the potions you create decide the fate of your customers. Make yourself at home in a cozy potion kitchen and prepare different potions for the unique problems of your customers.
Why similar: Cooking 24.5%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.6%
An existential drama in handmade clay animation. Game writer Eric is replaced by AI. He loses everything, and it's the best thing that's ever happened to him.
Why similar: Psychological 14.2%, Philosophical 11.6%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%, Choices Matter 9.3%
Fishbowl Kid is an uplifting interactive story about coping with depression.
Why similar: Comic Book 24%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Linear 10%, Psychological 9.1%
A conversation adventure where you spend the worst, best summer visiting your booze-loving senpai, making weird food, and sneaking out together at midnight.
Why similar: Cooking 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Psychological 7%
Black Dog Bar is a dialog-based bartender simulator. Each client has its own story. Communicate, mix cocktails, and... manipulate. It is only you who decides where the complicated story of each hero will turn and what will happen to them when they leave the bar.
Why similar: Cooking 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Relaxing 9.2%, Choices Matter 9.1%
"The hardest part is not to speak up. It’s being heard." Part video game, part graphic novel, Wednesdays seeks to raise awareness about child sexual abuse through a surprisingly hope-filled story.
Why similar: Comic Book 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Psychological 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Hand-drawn 9.8%
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: Cooking 18.5%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Female Protagonist 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Emotional 8.8%
An Interactive Comic with PUNCHING in it.
Why similar: Comic Book 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Female Protagonist 9.8%, Choices Matter 8.1%
A visual novel about mental health, depression, and self-love. Play as Amatista, a young woman trapped in isolation, as she begins a journey she never asked for. Every choice shapes the story. Fully accessible for blind and visually impaired players.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Psychological 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.3%
Step into the role of Esme, an AI built by Annie but built for what purpose? Evolve and learn by solving visual puzzles accompanied by beautiful hand-drawn artwork. Learn all about Annie's life, befriend her, and grow together.
Why similar: Comic Book 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Female Protagonist 10.6%, Philosophical 9.2%
Lucky Fat Cat Diner is a cozy narrative cooking adventure where you play as Bao, helping Grandma Lola keep the family restaurant open. Keep her legacy alive, by updating her restaurant’s menu, but not without some sizzlin’ spice.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Cooking 16.5%, 2.5D 15.9%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Female Protagonist 10.9%
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: Interactive Fiction 14%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Hand-drawn 9.9%
Be the person you needed. Brew tea, listen well, and guide branching stories in a narrative slice-of-life about showing up when it matters. No perfect answers. Only your choices and what they set in motion.
Why similar: Philosophical 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Emotional 11.9%, Choices Matter 10.4%
A 'crunchy wholesome' game about making friends as an adult.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.1%, Philosophical 13.5%, Female Protagonist 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Emotional 9.2%
Games can really show someone's personality, don't you think? By way of a simple exploration-based adventure, this data-science game analyzes your actions to estimate your personality.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Female Protagonist 12%, Philosophical 11.8%
In After School Cure (Adventure Game / Visual Novel) play as the spirit Kimiko, and recruit a new member to the spirits living in the school.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.7%, 2.5D 14.6%, Female Protagonist 14.2%, Philosophical 13.4%, Choices Matter 12%
DEAD DETENTION is a scribbly interactive story about a nerdy teen turned dooms day survivor! Play as 14 year old Max as he tries to escape his high school during a deadly zombie pandemic! Will he and his new friends get to safety?!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Female Protagonist 12%, Choices Matter 9.3%
Gardening and magic are meeting in Margaret’s Little Shop of Wonders. Play as Margaret, a young witch who just opened her own flower shop, and fulfill the peculiar requests of her strange customers!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Female Protagonist 11.9%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Emotional 8.3%
Birb Café is a coffee-making visual novel about a cute bird helping adventurers on their quests. Your choices matter!
Why similar: Cooking 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Female Protagonist 11%, Choices Matter 8%
Your story continues right where Origins left off. Whether Jessica finds herself wandering the streets alone, caught in George’s web of deceit, or trapped in the unsettling confines of Margaret Thatuals under Professor Trounch’s watchful gaze and the orderlies, every choice matters.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.6%, Female Protagonist 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
Through a narrative based on Red Ribbon’s new album “Planet X”, experience a broken-heart girl’s journey through thoughts, daydreams and music.
Why similar: Comic Book 18%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Female Protagonist 11%, Psychological 8.6%
Christian Tyler is ready to investigate a new case! Uncover the mystery of the tourist town of Alkelano in our new visual novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Psychological 9.9%, Hand-drawn 8.9%
Seers Isle is a narrative game, set in a fantasy version of medieval northern Europe, where your choices impact the fate of a group of characters.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Visual Novel 12%, Comic Book 11%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Emotional 9.2%
Cheerleaders, sisterhood, sex, and competition. Follow the cheerleading team of an elite university for the rich and privileged as they aim for victory at the national championship, led by their ambitious captain, Elena.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Female Protagonist 13.1%, Choices Matter 11.4%
“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: Visual Novel 19.6%, Emotional 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Hand-drawn 10.1%
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: Psychological 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Choices Matter 9.6%
A choice-based visual novel game about science, division, and the false ideology of knowledge. Each and every one of your choices will determine whether the disciplines will end in unity or complete division. The key to eternal knowledge is in your hands.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Philosophical 12.6%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Emotional 8.7%
Inside Utopia is a Visual Novel in which you play as Didi, a brave young girl who is forced to infiltrate Utopia and steal the legendary Gold Stone back into her home land, or else the Queen will execute her mother.
Why similar: Philosophical 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Female Protagonist 10.9%, Comic Book 9.9%
The first step that you never knew you needed to take to get to wherever you're wanting to go...
Why similar: Philosophical 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Psychological 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choices Matter 10.1%
A philosophical interactive visual novel about everyday interactions
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Philosophical 13.3%, Emotional 8.3%
Serve coffee and befriend customers as you learn their story in this coming-of-age visual novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.7%, Female Protagonist 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Relaxing 9.4%
Play as a Duskweaver in this short "choices matter" story about self-sacrifice.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Philosophical 15.6%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Psychological 10.6%
She was made to serve. Never to feel. A narrative adventure about a being created to preserve the world's balance — who begins, for the first time, to question everything she was made for. Form bonds, make choices, and discover the price of becoming something you were never meant to be.
Why similar: Philosophical 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Emotional 9.3%
A psychological thriller visual novel where your choices deeply affect an 18-year-old woman's mental state, leading to multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Comic Book 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Hand-drawn 9.8%
Pale Flamingos is a visual novel murder mystery with choices and a branching narrative. The year is 1986; the place, Miami. Florita and Melba, two Cuban grandmothers, are at the Miami Travel Agents' Convention where the owner of St. Neville Airways is found dead. Florita and Melba investigate.
Why similar: Comic Book 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Female Protagonist 11.3%
ODEN: Divine Destiny in a Steaming Bowl - Serve Japanese soul food with mystical powers at your midnight oden cart. Choose the perfect ingredients to heal broken lives in this heartwarming journey.
Why similar: Cooking 22.4%, Comic Book 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Visual Novel 9.7%
The Perfect Bowl is a cozy, heartfelt narrative Ramen arranger about dealing with grief, following Jim Wada, the new owner of his family’s ramen business. Journey with him as he copes with his father’s illness and helps his customers find comfort in ramen, aiming to heal himself along the way.
Why similar: Cooking 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Relaxing 12.1%, Emotional 10%
Meet Kureha Kurono and her friends in this charming visual novel! With the help of the devil Blackwing-chan they'll be able to defeat the evil shadow, right? What was that? It was Blackwing himself who caused this mess? Oh dear.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Female Protagonist 13.2%, Emotional 10.8%, Choices Matter 9.3%
A girl was murdered, and she is the only one still hunting for her killer. The day before her birthday, Han Xiaoxiao woke as a spirit with no memory, three days dead. Possess the living, gather clues, and uncover how you died. But some truths are harder to bear than death itself.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Female Protagonist 15.4%, Psychological 13.2%, Story Rich 8.9%
Man I Just Wanna Go Home is an "MSPaint-noir" visual novel with 13 endings, a unique visual style and a killer 80s inspired soundtrack. The story revolves around a delivery person stranded in an unfamiliar part of the city under the devastating rain. All he wants is to get home. Help him!
Why similar: Comic Book 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Choices Matter 9.4%
Morta has summoned you to judge five souls trapped between salvation and oblivion. Enter their final memories, uncover what they hide, and decide their fate. In this gothic psychological trial, every verdict leaves a mark.
Why similar: Philosophical 15.4%, Psychological 11.6%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%
Management and life-simulation Game with elaborate Relationships, where players manage their character’s actions and activities as they explore topics about self-discovery, parent-children relationships, friendships, and growing up as a College Student.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Choices Matter 11%, Female Protagonist 10.8%
A psychological horror visual novel about Miya, a former prodigy trapped in a decaying home with her unstable stepfather, her talking plush Mopa, and the bystander who hears every step she takes...
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, 2.5D 13.7%, Female Protagonist 9.6%
You’re Kayla Ferrule - And your birthday is in a week. However, your friend Miles Hector got in with some bad apples. Can you outsmart everyone and make it to your 20th in one piece? Test your instincts in this brief interactive adventure based on Yellow Optic’s Fool Me Twice.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, 2.5D 14.9%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Story Rich 10.4%
A seaside village – and a monstrous threat. Explore as you choose, by day or by night. Can you unravel the secrets of history and defeat the Leviathan? A choose-your-path comic book by Jason Shiga.
Why similar: Comic Book 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Female Protagonist 12.6%, Choices Matter 10.8%
Aozora Haru, a troubled, recently orphaned art student, finds it hard to attach much meaning to many of the things in his life. Through the meaningful bonds he has created with the people close to him, however, he begins to understand that life is much more important than it initially seems.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Philosophical 15.6%, Emotional 9%, Choices Matter 6.6%
Do you ever feel like life is slipping away, with too many dreams left unfulfilled? Like you're trapped in wanting to do so much, but never quite getting to any of it? Doesn't that thought scare you—looking back on a life that accomplished nothing, fading without leaving a mark? It scares me too.
Why similar: Psychological 17.6%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Emotional 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
An interactive point-and-click space story about rediscovering a life, our friendships, our choices and regrets.
Why similar: 2.5D 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Philosophical 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Emotional 9.3%
"Endless Monday: In Progress" - New job, new Penny. Our favorite former corporate grunt is back, and working hard to live the dream! But as she struggles to keep the dream alive, she'll need all the help she can get, from friends, angry ex-coworkers, the past, and beyond.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Multiple Endings 11.9%
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
Why similar: Comic Book 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Female Protagonist 11%, Hand-drawn 9.8%
A short psychological thriller visual novel where you guide Sora through twisted interrogations, moral dilemmas, and unraveling memories...
Why similar: Philosophical 20.3%, Psychological 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.5%
Travel across landscapes devastated by a catastrophic climate meltdown, following a small family in search of somewhere habitable. With limited supplies and facing potential death at every turn, your choices will decide their fate. Will they manage to settle down?
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.6%, Comic Book 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Choices Matter 11%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
The game allows you to reach different storylines by making choices. This is a comic game, mainly allowing you to experience different storylines through choices. Players can achieve different endings by selecting different buttons.
Why similar: Comic Book 28.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Hand-drawn 12.3%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.6%
