- #1 Yukizuki no Seisou
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: VODALES
Windows · Mac
High school student Kusaka Sousuke, who has faint precognition, visits Yukizuki during winter break—a town haunted by rumors of ghosts and mysterious disappearances. In the snow-covered town, he meets the mysterious girl he saw in a dream… An adventure-type visual novel from VODALES.
Why similar: Time Travel 33.2% ★, Visual Novel 15%, Sci-fi 8.2%, Anime 7.8%, Story Rich 7.7%
- #2 STEINS;GATE
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 27,155 reviews2016
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 67.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus, STEINS;GATE was awarded Famitsu magazine's coveted annual Game of Excellence award and was voted one of the most emotionally charged “tear-inducing games” ever made, in a Famitsu poll. It is a gripping and moving Visual Novel, which has already spawned manga and anime adaptations.
Why similar: Time Travel 35.1% ★, Visual Novel 17.3%, Sci-fi 8.2%, Anime 8.1%, Story Rich 7.9%
- #3 STEINS;GATE ELITE
96% matchVery Positive90% of 1,688 reviews2019
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 277.2 hrs≥1hr: 65%
STEINS;GATE ELITE follows a rag-tag band of tech-savvy young students who discover the means of changing the past via e-mail using a modified microwave.
Why similar: Time Travel 39.9% ★, Visual Novel 19.5%, Anime 9.9%, Sci-fi 9%, Story Rich 6.3%
- #4 Frog & Blade
95% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: StarGazer
Windows
Killed by the villain Frogman, you awaken to the same morning. A mysterious drink, "Soma," grants power to those with strong desires, plunging the city into chaos. Fight the emerging villains, solve the case, and uncover the truth. A multi-ending, battle-packed, looping supernatural suspense ADV.
Why similar: Time Travel 24.6% ★, Psychological 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Mystery 10.6%, Story Rich 7.2%
- #5 STEINS;GATE RE:BOOT
94% matchVery Positive90% of 1,088 reviews2026
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
STEINS;GATE returns! Rebooted for the modern era! Featuring fully updated visuals, UI, and an all-new story that breathes new life into the streets of Akihabara.
Why similar: Time Travel 30.9% ★, Visual Novel 16.5%, Sci-fi 8.3%, Romance 7%, Story Rich 6.4%
- #6 STEINS;GATE 0
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 8,522 reviews2018
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 128.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
If you can't save the one you love… How can you save humanity? Sequel to the visual novel cult classic. Experience an alternate worldline of STEINS;GATE.
Why similar: Time Travel 34.9% ★, Visual Novel 17.9%, Story Rich 9.3%, Anime 8.6%, Sci-fi 8.5%
- #7 Re:LeAP-future city and futureless
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 灰烬天国
Windows
This is a text adventure game about time travel, developed and published by the Scorched Heaven Community. The total text volume of this work is approximately 250,000 words. It also includes more than 30 scenes. This work advances the story through mouse clicks.
Why similar: Time Travel 31.1% ★, Romance 9.5%, Sci-fi 8.8%, Cyberpunk 8.7%, Anime 7.4%
- #8 Retrocausality
92% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: Thanatos
Windows
Now if the grandfather paradox isn't a thing, does that mean that we can we kick grandpa down the stairs? Retrocausality is a kinetic novel where you encounter paradoxes, causal loops, and inversions. The story follows our cast who survive an anomaly only to find themselves in a temporal war.
Why similar: Time Travel 34.5% ★, Visual Novel 13%, Cyberpunk 9.2%, Sci-fi 8.4%, Anime 7.8%
- #9 ISLAND
91% matchVery Positive95% of 1,776 reviews2018
Dev: FrontwingPub: Frontwing USA
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 154.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Sanzenkai Setsuna awakens on the shore of isolated island Urashima with no memories of his past. Befriending three local girls, Rinne, Karen, and Sara, Setsuna's quest to discover the secrets of Urashima and how they tie into his own past - and future - begins.
Why similar: Time Travel 29.8% ★, Visual Novel 18.7%, Anime 10.8%, Mystery 8.8%, Story Rich 8%
- #10 Poison Noir: Desire, Time & Gangsters
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Team Brunomir
Windows
A breathtaking visual novel that will make you live through two eras filled with love, terrifying mysteries, and bullets. Follow Jake as he travels back and forth between the 90s and the Prohibition era of the 20s, and make choices that will determine his fate.
Why similar: Time Travel 31.7% ★, Visual Novel 12.9%, Romance 9.7%, Anime 8%, Mystery 7.8%
- #11 時折記 -Tokioriki-
90% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 綴路工房
Windows
Every person you choose leaves someone else behind. Spend your limited afternoons building relationships, exploring the town, and recording each day in Kanata’s diary—then face timed Shadow Choices as an old book begins to fracture his ordinary life.
Why similar: Time Travel 21.7% ★, Visual Novel 18.1%, Psychological 14.3%, Mystery 11.6%, Story Rich 9.3%
- #12 IIT Quest
89% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: IQHQ Pub: IQHQ
Windows
Is it okay to kill 6 billion people to avenge the deaths of 2 billion? In this epic sci-fi visual novel, make tough choices to solve "impossible" problems, unlock branching paths and achieve multiple endings.
Why similar: Time Travel 25.3% ★, Visual Novel 17.6%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Choices Matter 7.1%, Multiple Endings 6.8%
- #13 Akiba of Time
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 星野修&雕小满Pub: 秋叶原拯救计划
Windows
If everything you love is destined to be swept away by the tides of time, will you still choose to fight? An otaku left behind by the times and a once-famous AI girl fight to save Akihabara.
Why similar: Time Travel 30.4% ★, Visual Novel 17.5%, Sci-fi 10.4%, Anime 9.2%, Story Rich 9%
- #14 Time Tenshi
89% match9 user reviews30% of 10 reviews2020
Dev: Silver Cow Studio
Windows
Join the Time Tenshi on their thrilling adventures through time! Make key decisions to influence the story's outcome... and maybe even go on a date!
Why similar: Time Travel 27.5% ★, Visual Novel 16.2%, Anime 9.8%, Romance 9.8%, Sci-fi 8.3%
- #15 STEINS;GATE: Linear Bounded Phenogram
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,360 reviews2019
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 130.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A story for every lab member. Discover a new side of each STEINS;GATE character and get a glimpse of their inner thoughts through 10 new stories.
Why similar: Time Travel 42.8% ★, Visual Novel 21.6%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Anime 9.4%, Story Rich 8.6%
- #16 Decide 4 God
85% matchVery Positive94% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Miracle Moon
Windows
The final entry of the Abime Series. Six intruders and six captives share a high-tech prison where their moral dilemmas may lead them to a fate worse than death. Can they overcome the wiles of Empathy Systems? What dark secrets lurk behind that institution? When does knowledge become a curse?
Why similar: Time Travel 19.9% ★, Psychological 15%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Thriller 10.4%, Conspiracy 9.7% ★
- #17 Ubel
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Regularjax
Windows
A visual novel where eight participants are forced to play a death game where they have to vote every two hours. Who will survive? Who will betray? Who are the masterminds behind it all?
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.1%, Mystery 14.8%, Thriller 13.1%, Anime 11.2%, Sci-fi 10.7%
- #18 Date Warp
86% matchVery Positive89% of 179 reviews2014
Dev: Hanako Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Five days ago, Janet left her dorm to go on a date - and never came back. Was she kidnapped? Murdered? The truth may be even stranger. Solve puzzles to connect together pieces of the story in a science-fiction adventure with eleven possible endings!
Why similar: Time Travel 33.9% ★, Visual Novel 14%, Mystery 10.2%, Sci-fi 9.4%, Romance 9.1%
- #19 Parallel Convergence
84% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: NYEKO Studio
Windows
A time travel project. A group of students. A cat that eats too much. Can you rewrite fate without losing what matters most?
Why similar: Time Travel 43.2% ★, Visual Novel 20%, Sci-fi 12.5%, Anime 11%, Multiple Endings 4.7%
- #20 Clandestined: Fade to Gray
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Astronomic Games
Windows
A mystery sci-fi story, taking place inside an underground lab facility, where groundbreaking research is being conducted to make people immune to a bioweapon virus that destroyed civilisation. You're one of the test subjects and you're about to find out what comes next for humanity.
Why similar: Psychological 12.8%, Mystery 12.6%, Sci-fi 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Conspiracy 11.7% ★
- #21 Epoch Reset
83% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: abnermtjPub: Kakehashi Games
Windows
Unravel a narrative-driven 2.5D anime adventure as Hector, a dirt-poor genius and creator of the world’s first time machine. Travel between timelines, meet intriguing characters, and explore futuristic cityscapes as you seek to save reality from time-bending forces beyond imagination.
Why similar: Time Travel 38.3% ★, Visual Novel 12.8%, Cyberpunk 9.2%, Anime 8.6%, Sci-fi 8.5%
- #22 莫待无花空折枝:做题家的 Git 重启日志
82% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: 西江仙客
Windows
现实里没有 git checkout,错过的分支无法回滚。但在这里,你可以。 这是一个写给「做题家」的纯爱文字 AVG:习惯用理性防御情感的男主「陆渊」,在博士毕业那天喝下一杯名为「重构」的酒,重回 2019 年夏天。 五条互斥纯爱单线,15万+字剧情。在这个赛博时空里,去解开当年无解的谜题,跑通属于你的唯一分支。
Why similar: Time Travel 38.1% ★, Visual Novel 16.8%, Romance 12%, Story Rich 8.7%, Multiple Endings 6.6%
- #23 Advent: Dawn
81% matchPositive86% of 21 reviews2026
Dev: Spire Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Seven strangers. One collapsed cave. No escape. A sci-fi mystery visual novel where every route to survival pulls you closer to a different companion—and a different lie. Will you unravel the mystery before the cave unravels you?
Why similar: Psychological 14%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Mystery 11%, Sci-fi 9.3%, Thriller 8.6%
- #24 My little sister: Prologue
82% matchPositive81% of 20 reviews2022
Dev: C's earth
Windows
😒😐🤨😉🥰😨😈 The girl of my dreams
Why similar: Time Travel 32.5% ★, Visual Novel 19.3%, Comic Book 12.5%, Anime 10.8%, Text-Based 9.2%
- #25 SYNESTHESIA
81% matchPositive100% of 45 reviews2023
Dev: Spire Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
🌀 Is there an escape to the endless spiral?🌀 『SYNESTHESIA』 is an emotive, character driven sci-fi mystery visual novel. Join a group of college students with strange cognitive powers, who soon discover something is amiss at the institute sworn to help them...
Why similar: Psychological 14.5%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Mystery 11%, Sci-fi 9.7%, Romance 9.5%
- #26 Timestamps: Lost Love
80% matchVery Positive85% of 68 reviews2025
Dev: Motkeyz Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
An exciting adult Visual Novel with a unique intriguing story featuring Sci-Fi, Time Travel, Romance, Sex, Humor, Character Development and some fun references.
Why similar: Time Travel 38.1% ★, Visual Novel 13.9%, Sci-fi 9.9%, Romance 9.2%, Mystery 8.3%
- #27 spookY2K
79% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: KigyoDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
You wake up on a cold bathroom floor, only to discover that you somehow time travelled to a Halloween party in 1999! As you try to make sense of your situation and get closer to the other guests, will your clueless choices let the party take a deadly turn?
Why similar: Time Travel 34.5% ★, Visual Novel 13%, Mystery 9.2%, Romance 8.6%, Thriller 8.3%
- #28 Save Ruika! — Looping with a Losing Heroine
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: sweet ampoule
Windows
A short romance adventure where you loop again and again with a losing heroine to help her finally win. She cries, gets mad, loses again—and still refuses to give up. Does a brighter future await Ruika?
Why similar: Time Travel 36.2% ★, Visual Novel 16.8%, Romance 11.7%, Story Rich 9%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
- #29 Rising Odds
78% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: Lone Fox Studio
Windows
Participate in the Death Game "Rising Odds", a psychological horror visual novel, with dark and gore themes. Your choices will decide how this story ends!
Why similar: Time Travel 32.1% ★, Psychological 13.2%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Mystery 9.7%, Multiple Endings 6.5%
- #30 Crimson Silk
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Swirling Pentapod
Windows
Crimson Silk is a political detective thriller with a mind-controlling villain. Investigate the assassination of your grandfather. Plunge into a world of complicated law and wild ESP powers. Gather clues, choose sides, jump timelines, and try not to get stuffed with lead.
Why similar: Time Travel 18.9% ★, Visual Novel 16.5%, Mystery 14.2%, Story Rich 10.3%, Anime 9.2%
- #31 Shanghai Summer
77% matchVery Positive90% of 452 reviews2024
Dev: FUTU StudioPub: Astrolabe Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Shanghai Summer is an adventure game set in the millennium. Our protagonist, Baichuan, goes through a series of "anomalies" over the length of twelve days. In his pursuit of the truth, he found that his hopes and regrets from the past finally seem to converge. Will he be able to "fix" it for good?
Why similar: Time Travel 32.5% ★, Visual Novel 13%, Mystery 10.3%, Romance 8.6%, Anime 8%
- #32 Tulpa the Unseen Lover
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Horse Position
Windows · Linux
Create yourself a perfect friend in this choice-driven visual novel. Love her, hate her, don't let her turn your life into a living hell.
Why similar: Psychological 21.3%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Romance 13.8%, Comic Book 13.6%, Multiple Endings 7.9%
- #33 Head AS Code
77% matchVery Positive94% of 77 reviews2021
Dev: Miracle Moon
Windows
The first entry of the Abime Series. Eight captives must cooperate or compete to escape an underground subway under the manipulation of a dangerous psychopath. Can you really trust anyone? What about yourself? And what is the meaning of a good ending? Is reaching one even possible?
Why similar: Visual Novel 13.2%, Psychological 12.8%, Thriller 12.5%, Mystery 12.5%, Conspiracy 11% ★
- #34 Re:Curse
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Elseth GamesPub: Papertrail Studios
Windows · Mac
A time-travel mystery visual novel about found-family, connections, and hope in dark times.
Why similar: Time Travel 44.7% ★, Visual Novel 18.2%, Romance 9%, Anime 7.5%, Interactive Fiction 5.9%
- #35 Metahorror Therapy Session
74% matchPositive97% of 37 reviews2025
Dev: Meiri GamesPub: ZNT Productions
Windows · Mac
Take control of a therapist in a mysterious, never-ending therapy session. Can you unravel the truth behind your patient's lies, and live to tell the tale? A psychological mystery developed by a psychologist.
Why similar: Time Travel 35.8% ★, Psychological 16.7%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Mystery 11.2%, Story Rich 7.5%
- #36 Rail of Möbius
75% matchVery Positive95% of 495 reviews2021
Dev: PHOSEPO
Windows
It is an adventure game with multiple endings. An original script written by a well-known light novelist with a total of 400,000 words. With reasoning, suspense, love, and science fiction elements, it allows players to embark on a highly immersive journey of salvation on the submarine train.
Why similar: Time Travel 36.3% ★, Visual Novel 13%, Romance 9.7%, Mystery 9%, Story Rich 7.1%
- #37 GNOSIA
74% matchVery Positive94% of 5,158 reviews2022
Dev: Petit DepottoPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Gnosia lie. Pretending to be human, they’ll get in close, trick and deceive, and then eliminate one victim at a time...
Why similar: Time Travel 35.4% ★, Visual Novel 13.9%, Psychological 13.4%, Mystery 10.3%, Sci-fi 9.4%
- #38 Root Double -Before Crime * After Days- Xtend Edition
76% matchVery Positive91% of 616 reviews2016
Dev: YetiPub: Sekai Project
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Rescue squad captain Watase Kasasagi wakes up without his memories in the middle of his most critical mission yet-- a nuclear meltdown at a research facility. In an unfamiliar place and without his years of training, he must rescue the survivors and escape...
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.9%, Mystery 13.8%, Anime 12.9%, Story Rich 11.1%, Sci-fi 9.5%
- #39 Omnisight
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yahont Games
Windows
In "Omnisight" you decide what people will believe. Theories, relationships with colleagues, and secrets are just tools at your disposal. You change reality and transform yourself along with it. But are you ready to accept the consequences?
Why similar: Visual Novel 17%, Psychological 16.7%, Story Rich 11.4%, Conspiracy 11.2% ★, Choices Matter 9.2%
- #40 My Silly Science Summer in the Past
72% matchPositive90% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: TBFPub: TLS
Windows · Mac · Linux
A visual novel for girls: Experience a fun time travel adventure and make friends with some quirky girls at a science camp. Will you solve the mysteries and find your way back to your time? Your choices make your own story! Full with challenging puzzle games, and unique endings.
Why similar: Time Travel 41% ★, Visual Novel 16.2%, Sci-fi 10.6%, Anime 6.8%, Story Rich 6.6%
- #41 start;again
73% matchVery Positive95% of 195 reviews2022
Dev: Two and a Half Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A BL/yaoi mystery visual novel that follows a man named Sebastian as he’s forced into a game of life-or-death, alongside three strangers. Who put him there, and more importantly… who can he trust?
Why similar: Time Travel 26.2% ★, Visual Novel 15.7%, Mystery 12.8%, Romance 11.6%, Anime 8.9%
- #42 Three Minutes To Eight
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 202 reviews2023
Dev: Chaosmonger StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Three Minutes To Eight is a mind bending pixel art adventure. A gaming experience threading the edge of consciousness, where everything is possible and yet remains elusive. Players will find themselves in ███ ██ █ ▓ ▒ ░ ¿⊕ξד¶¶¶ Error 0x80070570.
Why similar: Time Travel 32.7% ★, Psychological 13.9%, Mystery 13.1%, Sci-fi 8.7%, Story Rich 8.3%
- #43 NCH: Chronos Rebirth
71% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Simian Dawn
Windows
A sci-fi narrative game where you play as a mastermind behind the scenes. You are a life scientist from the future, sent back to the eve of the Great Cataclysm. Armed with advanced knowledge and future technology to reshape history. How will you rewrite the past to change a divided future?
Why similar: Time Travel 30.9% ★, Visual Novel 11.9%, Conspiracy 9.6% ★, Sci-fi 8.8%, Cyberpunk 6.9%
- #44 Timestamps: Unconditional Love
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 183 reviews2023
Dev: Motkeyz Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
An exciting adult Visual Novel with a unique intriguing story featuring Sci-Fi, Time Travel, Romance, Sex, Humour, Character Development and some fun references.
Why similar: Time Travel 40.5% ★, Visual Novel 16.1%, Sci-fi 9.8%, Romance 9.5%, Mystery 8.5%
- #45 Dullpain
71% matchVery Positive85% of 92 reviews2023
Dev: 埋月山枯Pub: East2West Games
Windows
Dullpain is a side-scrolling, interaction, and storytelling game. Playing as Jingwen, a young boss of a long-established repair shop, you need to repair not only everyday items, also memories. You can enjoy dull-pain and breathtaking stories in different time and space and redefine the end of story.
Why similar: Time Travel 33.7% ★, Visual Novel 14.2%, Romance 11.4%, Story Rich 8.8%, Anime 8.3%
- #46 ROBOTICS;NOTES DaSH
72% matchMixed67% of 298 reviews2020
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 30.0 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Half a year after the events of ROBOTICS;NOTES ELITE, Kaito Yashio is introduced to Itaru Hashida through Nae Tennouji. Unsettling incidents start occurring all around them, harbingers of an event that will again plunge the world into chaos.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.3%, Story Rich 20.3%, Sci-fi 18.2%, Mystery 17.7%, Anime 13.8%
- #47 Time For Changes
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wedared Game Studio
Windows
During exam prep, Semyon faces a family crisis that leads to failure and a transfer to a troubled class. There, he encounters not only hostility but also makes new friends and meets girls who change his outlook on life. He must make tough choices between friendship, dreams, and harsh reality.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.5%, Mystery 17.1%, Romance 15.2%, Story Rich 12%, Anime 10.4%
- #48 Reflection
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: White Rainbow
Windows
In a world where the USSR leads in science and space, Sergei, a student of rocket engineering, loses his parents in the “Zarya” station disaster. Years later, he discovers his university's link to the project and sets out to uncover the truth.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.8%, Sci-fi 15.6%, Anime 11.8%, Romance 11.2%, Mystery 10.8%
- #49 Yet Another Killing Game
69% matchVery Positive97% of 258 reviews2025
Dev: Soulseer Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
You wake up in a house, alone with two beautiful girls... But no one is allowed to leave until one of you DIES. Why is this happening? What is the purpose of this “killing game”? But most importantly...WHO SHOULD DIE?!
Why similar: Time Travel 33% ★, Visual Novel 13.1%, Mystery 11.5%, Thriller 10.7%, Anime 8.4%
- #50 Complex Loop
70% matchVery Positive93% of 72 reviews2023
Dev: あみそ組
Windows
Complex Loop is a sci-fi themed visual novel. This is a story of time loops between past and future. Within a time limit of 20 minutes, your mission is to save a mysterious girl died from an explosion accident one year ago. Solve puzzles and reveal the truth behind the tragedy. An adventure awaits!
Why similar: Time Travel 34.9% ★, Comic Book 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Sci-fi 8.7%, Thriller 8.3%
- #51 No More Future
69% matchVery Positive99% of 136 reviews2022
Dev: Sedge
Windows
In the last days of their life, a dying person takes one final gamble... No More Future is a linear Sci-Fi Visual Novel, where you explore a futuristic world as an android trying to rebuild their old life. In this strange journey, they'll question the very foundations of their life and their world.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.2%, Comic Book 17%, Text-Based 11.5%, Story Rich 10.3%, Sci-fi 9.1%
- #52 LYNK: The Algorithm of Intimacy
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: VEILWORKS
Windows
LYNK: The Algorithm of Intimacy is a psychological romance thriller about intimacy, surveillance, and the fear of being truly seen. What begins as a dating app slowly moves beyond the screen, into real encounters, unstable connections, and choices that reveal who you become when someone is watching.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.2%, Comic Book 14.2%, Psychological 8.7%, Text-Based 8.7%, Cyberpunk 8.4%
- #53 The Retrospection Of Tomorrow
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cherish Fan
Windows · Mac · Linux
A full-length time-travel romance visual novel. Date handsome boys just like any other game… until they die before your eyes(!) Trapped between memories and delusions, fighting fate itself - can you rewrite their endings? Dear time traveler, welcome home.
Why similar: Time Travel 43.6% ★, Visual Novel 11.8%, Mystery 11.5%, Sci-fi 10.6%, Romance 8.6%
- #54 34EVERLAST
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kanata LabPub: PLAYISM
Windows
"How many times do I have to end the world before I can see you again?" This is a super-concentrated action entertainment for busy working adults, in which one game loop can be as short as 10 minutes and your discoveries and actions unravel a complex and intertwined world.
Why similar: Time Travel 35.5% ★, Comic Book 14.9%, Romance 11%, Sci-fi 10.8%, Story Rich 7.4%
- #55 Faraday Blues
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Serenity Forge
Windows
A surreal sci-fi adventure about a daughter searching for parents who don't know she exists. Play character cards to rewrite tragic choices across three interconnected visual novels, unlocking 64 reality-altering endings before you're permanently forgotten.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.5%, Mystery 14.6%, Anime 11.7%, Text-Based 9.5%, Sci-fi 9.4%
- #56 MilkwaySubway
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: plasmafall
Windows
We haven't gone anywhere!We haven't gone anywhere!We haven't gone anywhere!We're just making some changes to our store page for a few reasons.
Why similar: Time Travel 30.6% ★, Mystery 11%, Sci-fi 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Cyberpunk 8.8%
- #57 Sweet Science – The Girls of Silversee Castle
67% matchPositive86% of 44 reviews2024
Dev: TBF
Windows · Mac · Linux
This lighthearted visual novel lets you meet four quirky young women. A fun and highly interactive story taking you back in time – to the 1990s and a castle full of science, mysteries and – perhaps – romance...
Why similar: Time Travel 33.1% ★, Visual Novel 15.4%, Romance 11.2%, Sci-fi 9.3%, Anime 8.8%
- #58 Trauma Record
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Unnamed Moon
Windows
夜を歩く、血だまりの上を走る、永遠を断ち切る。 復讐のための翼は折れない。
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.4%, Romance 11.7%, Cyberpunk 10.7%, Anime 9%, Text-Based 9%
- #59 Where Control Ends
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Softveil StudioPub: Softveil
Windows · Mac · Linux
Where Control Ends is a psychological visual novel about Astra, a young girl trying to hold herself together after a night she cannot fully remember.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.9%, Romance 12.1%, Psychological 9.9%, Text-Based 9.8%, Thriller 7.6%
- #60 DESOPE
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Celephais Seeker Division
Windows · Mac · Linux
Mechanical ghosts hide in the fog and the summer sky prays to collapse. Like a broken tape, do you still remember your name?
Why similar: Time Travel 43.8% ★, Mystery 14%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Text-Based 8.7%, Anime 7.4%