60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Singleplayer, Emotional, Text-Based.
The Tenth Minute is a short narrative game told through chat and novel-style reading. Revisit a school-day memory shaped by unspoken feelings, misaligned memories, and belated understanding between three people. A youthful story with light psychological mystery, complete in around 2 hours.
My Murder
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.
Missing Stars
Missing Stars is a visual novel that aims to depict mental disorders and the people who live with them in a realistic, but sensitive and respectful light.
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 22.3%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Psychological 11.8%, Story Rich 8%, Female Protagonist 7.8%
Missing Stars is a visual novel that aims to depict mental disorders and the people who live with them in a realistic, but sensitive and respectful light.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.3%, Drama 17.2%, Text-Based 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Emotional 9.3%
“A Lozenge” is a short interactive story about a mother-daughter road trip and motion sickness, dedicated to children of divorce.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Text-Based 13.8%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Emotional 12.6%, Drama 12.4%
The Tiny World is a drama visual novel. A New Year's story about a long separation from home, family, friends, and tears freezing in the cold.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Drama 23.2%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Text-Based 10.1%, Emotional 6.4%
In 120 Yen series, each season has a unique heroine. By using the four seasons of Japan to tell the story of two people meeting and getting along through the keyword "120 yen".
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Drama 12.9%, Emotional 12.4%, Story Rich 11.8%
Naomi wakes decades older in a house she does not recognize, and discovers that escape may cost the future.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Visual Novel 15%, Text-Based 14%, Psychological 13.7%, Mystery 8.5%
In the Spring Festival of 2005, the blizzard in Xuefeng mountain trapped the drama troupe performing in the village. At the same time, there was a homicide during the performance. Unlike the nervous members of the drama troupe, the villagers were afraid of a more terrible existence than the homicide
Why similar: Drama 21.7%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Text-Based 11.5%, Mystery 9%
I dreamed of a girl. From then on, I saw her every day in my dreams. I don't know why it happened. I can only keep telling myself that it is all false, all illusion. But on the other hand, I fell in love with it.
Why similar: Drama 30.9%, Visual Novel 22.2%, Text-Based 20.7%, Emotional 13.3%, Story Rich 6.2%
An emotional story portraying the struggles of anxiety—the paralyzing thoughts and irrational fears. Join Lucy on her journey to find solace, alongside her supportive yet puzzled roommate. A heartfelt narrative delving into the complexities of anxiety and the challenges of empathy.
Why similar: Drama 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Psychological 15.6%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Text-Based 12.8%
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 22.2%, Drama 20.4%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Psychological 11.2%, Emotional 8.3%
A small game to experience the life of an ordinary person.
Why similar: Drama 23.3%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Emotional 12.2%, Text-Based 10.7%
A journey with your father to Lake Baikal, where a storm and an old photo album revive memories of family, loss, and reconciliation.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Drama 16.2%, Emotional 13.1%, Psychological 11.9%, Story Rich 10.1%
Parallels: Year One is a visual novel that will take you on a journey through one relationship in five parallel worlds. Join Ron and Jessica on a journey to see each other from a new perspective.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.9%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Text-Based 13.7%, Drama 10.8%, Female Protagonist 8.9%
A narrative-driven psychological visual novel where every floor of an elevator reveals a key moment from your past. Face your regrets, uncover forgotten memories, and make choices that shape your future. Will you find closure, or remain trapped in your own mind?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.7%, Text-Based 24.9%, Visual Novel 20%, Drama 10.6%, Emotional 4.7%
Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Text-Based 21.6%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Psychological 10.9%, Emotional 9%
This is a story about Iris, a nobody who didn't have a Happy Ending and now suffers the consequences of their own (lack of) actions all alone in the most northern city in the world. A depressing story and a melancholic lesson teached in life's hard way awaits you.
Why similar: Drama 27.4%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Psychological 16.4%, Emotional 12.3%, Text-Based 10.4%
The Trials of Ozymandias is a visual novel set in the high fantasy world of the kingdom of Johrotos. In the capitol city, Dassi, resides the most famous adventurer's guild in all the land: Talleh-Hoy. This is where your story begins.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Text-Based 20.8%, Drama 16.9%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Emotional 8%
A short love story
Why similar: Drama 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Text-Based 18.9%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Emotional 9.2%
A short, dark visual novel set in the UK about a young autistic girl's destructive obsession with her older brother.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.6%, Text-Based 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Emotional 10.8%, Psychological 10.6%
A short, emotional visual novel following a grieving man who relives memories of days long gone. An exploration of loss presented honestly and kinetically.
Why similar: Drama 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Emotional 12.1%, Mystery 8.7%
Essence Bloom is a linear, story-focused indie visual novel that allows the player to experience a world with beautiful cherry blossoms and fun times with friends....
Why similar: Drama 18.7%, Psychological 17.7%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Emotional 11%, Text-Based 10%
Anxiety Puppy is a 2D interactive narrative game that focuses on anxiety. In the game, anxiety is personified as a little puppy. Players will explore its story and try to coexist with it. Go find its traces and give it a hug.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Psychological 15.3%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Emotional 10.4%
For 20 years, she lived with depression. Now, she's strong enough to name what happened: a social murder. This is a visual essay—not a game—with over 400 illustrations about grief, guilt, and survival in a collapsing meritocracy.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.2%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Psychological 15.4%, Emotional 11.8%, Drama 9.9%
You have exactly 5. Bread is 4, the bus fare to school is 3. What do you give up? In this short narrative experience, you play as 13-year-old Adam. Confront an interface that reacts to a painful reality, and discover that freedom of choice is sometimes nothing but a privilege.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.7%, Text-Based 20.1%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Psychological 14%, Emotional 6.6%
A Fully Animated and Fully Voiced Light Novel Game! Set in Tokyo, a lonely android girl, Rin, meets Aoi and forms a deep friendship, gradually reclaiming her humanity. However, when Rin learns the secret of her origins, the story takes a dramatic turn.
Why similar: Drama 33.1%, Interactive Fiction 27.9%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Female Protagonist 10.6%, Anime 7.1%
A mysterious bracelet, familiar dreams, and Zhi An, a male college student who just got a girlfriend, now faces a sudden appearance of a lover (male) from his past life. How should he choose? What is the hidden abnormality beneath the surface of everyday life?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Drama 24.3%, Visual Novel 19%, Text-Based 11.9%, Mystery 10.1%
Humanity and the fae. This is a story of those who make kindling of their home to reach for the stars and the curses of those left behind.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Text-Based 15.2%, Emotional 13.5%, Female Protagonist 7.8%
These events happened in the places where any crime is nonsense. In broad daylight at the same time three children disappeared in nowhere. A young detective Jim Rene is the closest to the key of a mystery. But what’s the price of it? It's time to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Why similar: Drama 19.9%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Psychological 13.7%, Mystery 10%, Emotional 9.6%
A counseling-themed typing adventure where you type away the “words of trauma” eating into girls’ hearts. The girls who visit a secret psychiatric clinic carry deep inner darkness—some repeatedly run away from home, while others believe they are murderers. Save them with your typing.
Why similar: Psychological 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Drama 15.4%, Text-Based 14.7%, Story Rich 7.3%
In April, when cherry blossoms flutter through the air, a gruesome discovery is made—a blood-soaked corpse in a quiet town.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Text-Based 16.2%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Emotional 11%, Psychological 9.3%
A short, atmospheric pixel-art story about the late-night moment when a father sees his own mistakes and remembers what really matters. Inspired by a classic essay on fatherhood. A quiet experience in a single sitting — for anyone who's ever thought, "what if I'd done things differently…"
Why similar: Text-Based 28%, Visual Novel 24.7%, Drama 23.2%, Emotional 10.3%, Atmospheric 5.6%
"Masquerade" is an independently developed AVG. You will survive in the mysterious and cruel "Little Pig Park" from the first perspective of the male protagonist Youta. There will be multiple choices involved, and you need to struggle between harsh reality and inner conscience, uncovering the truth!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.3%, Drama 17.3%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Psychological 10.9%, Emotional 6.9%
After witnessing a murder, 16-year-old skater Azar Warren seeks refuge with her estranged grandfather on his rural compound, only to suspect he may be more dangerous than her pursuers. Ashes blends graphic novel panels with interactive puzzles in a story of murder and unease.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.6%, Visual Novel 19.7%, Story Rich 13.5%, Female Protagonist 8.8%, Emotional 8.5%
We Carry the Fire is a fantasy-adventure visual novel about four people embarking on a dangerous quest to save a small village from an apocalyptic curse.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.8%, Drama 26.6%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Emotional 10.6%, Adventure 6.7%
It's a short, text-based interactive book with a psychological theme.▶TRIGGER WARNING◀ Contains childhood trauma, suicidal thoughts, and emotional abuse, but ultimately conveys hope and growth.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.5%, Psychological 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Emotional 11.3%
일레븐지스: 플라스크는 미스터리·로맨스 장르를 표방하는 비주얼 노벨 게임입니다. 한 치 앞을 예상할 수 없는 전개와 끝없이 펼쳐지는 반전, 영원히 끝나지 않는 11시의 티타임에 여러분을 초대합니다.
Why similar: Drama 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Text-Based 12.3%, Mystery 8.8%
A strange incident turns the life of an ordinary young man upside down when, having fallen asleep on a regular train commute, he wakes up in another country... in a body of a Japanese student! An unforgettable summer adventure awaits, promising many fateful meetings and momentous occasions.
Why similar: Text-Based 20%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Visual Novel 16%, Psychological 12.7%, Emotional 10.7%
Within this fully voice-acted Visual Novel, meet Elliot, and the vortex of conflicting truths he has become trapped in. Reach each ending to discover reality for yourself.
Why similar: Drama 26.5%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Psychological 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Story Rich 6.9%
"Same encounter, different world." Moon is a young woman who lives an ordinary city life as an office worker. However, because she suffers from depression, she reacts and deals with things in a way that is very different from regular city folk.
Why similar: Drama 26.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Emotional 13.6%, Visual Novel 11%, Story Rich 8.8%
Dreamy Golden Snow is a fantasy mystery-themed visual novel that tells a story among high school girls. The story appears in an ordinary high school. After the incident, the protagonist is also affected, and players will guide her through numerous choices to uncover the truth.
Why similar: Drama 21%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Mystery 11.1%, Story Rich 9.1%
Follow the young boy Qiuxu to meet the girl who always sprints in the sunshine, and get to know three other girls with distinct personalities. In the daily life of the Second Municipal High School, you will witness a youth that cannot be turned back — a story destined to go somewhere.
Why similar: Drama 33.2%, Visual Novel 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Story Rich 6.8%, Anime 5.4%
In an AI-powered age where original authors have become largely redundant, play as a dejected writer on the brink of losing their creative drive forever.
Why similar: Text-Based 22%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Psychological 17.5%, Story Rich 7.9%
Wake up, watch tv, make a cup of cofffee and try to bear your own meaningless existence.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Text-Based 18%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Psychological 13.3%, Emotional 10%
What kind of game is this? This is a second fan game of Oriental project. This work contains different settings from the original, so please pay attention to the players who feel uncomfortable about it
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.3%, Drama 28.5%, Text-Based 14.8%, Anime 7.8%, Story Rich 6.7%
The story of three foreign students at a private British boarding school. Becoming information brokers within the school walls brought them money and respect, but knowledge can also bring trouble. The forbidden fruit was forced in their mouths and its taste will remain forever.
Why similar: Drama 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Psychological 17.9%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Anime 6.1%
Can you fall in love with quilts?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.1%, Text-Based 16.3%, Drama 13.6%, Emotional 13.1%, Female Protagonist 9.3%
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: Interactive Fiction 28.6%, Psychological 18%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Text-Based 13.2%, Female Protagonist 5.9%
The vibe of a typical Russian train is conveyed through illustrations, sounds, and characters. So, hold your seat on the train!
Why similar: Drama 21.1%, Text-Based 19.3%, Psychological 15.5%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Emotional 8.5%
Don't Let Me Fade is an interactive adventure about memory, identity, and loss. Piece together fragments of a life - even if a simple teddy bear is the last symbol of connection to oneself in a world without time.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.4%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Text-Based 13.4%, Emotional 9.8%, Adventure 7.2%
This is a short visual novel that immerses the player in the inner world of the main character, who suffers from social anxiety and is afraid even of a simple phone call. Experience with her the anxiety, procrastination, and constant struggle with herself.
Why similar: Drama 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Psychological 19.5%, Visual Novel 18%, Story Rich 6.1%
Faced with evil... would you pull the trigger? Tyrania Enforcers is a story-driven visual novel exploring morality, duty, and the cost of enforcing order in a world on the brink of conflict.
Why similar: Text-Based 21%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Psychological 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Emotional 7.3%
Join the talented photography student Neera on a captivating journey through her memories. Haunted by recurring nightmares, her life spirals into chaos, questioning everything. Involuntarily, she returns to a place she once left behind: her childhood home.
Why similar: Drama 29%, Interactive Fiction 28.7%, Emotional 12.8%, Story Rich 9.4%, Female Protagonist 8.9%
-Change the past, create the future - A novel game about changing the past. What would the present be like if you could remove the regrets of that time? Rewrite the book that contains your past and create the future that you could not get. A new sensation ADV is now available from HaraPeko club.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.2%, Text-Based 20.8%, Drama 19.4%, Psychological 12.3%, Emotional 7.9%
Awakening in a frigid room with an empty pill bottle, she’s forgotten something vital. Trapped between a monochrome bedroom and distorted dreams, she must face anxiety and depression... Break mental shackles and find the light in this psychological puzzle adventure！
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23%, Text-Based 15%, Psychological 14.9%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Emotional 10.1%
It is a Japanese visual novel game. It is a game to read texts. Enjoy the story of anguish, conflict, dreams and hope. There is no branching depending on the choices, but you can have a rich story experience like a movie.
Why similar: Text-Based 28.1%, Visual Novel 25.1%, Drama 22.7%, Emotional 10%, Story Rich 6.4%
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: Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Visual Novel 21.6%, Emotional 16.4%, Psychological 15.1%, Story Rich 10.6%
《井底》是一款2024年3月立项的文字类galgame，题材是“超能力悬疑推理故事”，画风是日系校园风格的 故事主要讲述了游戏女主王语韴作为一个业余“侦探”，遇到各种疑难问题，并在侦探事务所所长天翔及其妹妹天音的帮助下，解决案件的故事。 游戏主要使用鼠标点击来推进剧情
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.7%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Emotional 10.6%, Text-Based 10.4%, Mystery 10.2%
《五色浮影绽放于花之海洋》是由日本知名美少女游戏品牌Applique制作的和风传奇作品。由名作《月影魅像-解放之羽-》与《黄昏的禁忌之药》的原班人马打造。由小田原箱根担当人物设计与原画，由桐月担当剧本，由鹰石忍制作音乐。主题歌《华历》由知名歌姬Ayumi.献唱，曾荣获萌系游戏大赏的年度主题曲金奖。
Why similar: Drama 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Text-Based 11.4%, Story Rich 6.7%
Visual novel in the form of interactive comic book about love, life and fighting to be heard.
Why similar: Drama 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Visual Novel 16%, Psychological 14.2%, Emotional 10.4%
