
Thorns. Police never sleeps is a kinetic visual novel about an alternative future. After global warming, cities were separated by a giant ocean. Our story begins in one of these cities.
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Thorns. Police never sleeps is a kinetic visual novel about an alternative future. After global warming, cities were separated by a giant ocean. Our story begins in one of these cities.

Nolean: The Space Bartender
In a future where control rules everything, being free is an act of rebellion. Play as Nolean, an intergalactic bartender traveling across the galaxy, serving clandestine drinks, dodging patrols, hacking systems, and defying the Shioncala Empire. Ready to mix, run, and fight?

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Non-linear graphic novel in the genre of magical realism. Will the hero be able to uncover secrets, find himself and escape from danger? Or will he be lost in the streets of the City forever?
In a future where control rules everything, being free is an act of rebellion. Play as Nolean, an intergalactic bartender traveling across the galaxy, serving clandestine drinks, dodging patrols, hacking systems, and defying the Shioncala Empire. Ready to mix, run, and fight?
Why similar: Transhumanism 22.9% ★, Cyberpunk 20.4%, Dystopian 19.1%, Text-Based 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.2%
Non-linear graphic novel in the genre of magical realism. Will the hero be able to uncover secrets, find himself and escape from danger? Or will he be lost in the streets of the City forever?
Why similar: Dystopian 23.4%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Text-Based 15.3%, Dark 12.4%, Narration 11.5%
State of Mind is a futuristic thriller game delving into transhumanism. The game explores themes of separation, disjuncture and reunification, in a world that is torn between a dystopian material reality and a utopian virtual future.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 24.9%, Transhumanism 21.4% ★, Dystopian 19.2%, Sci-fi 11.8%, Story Rich 9.6%
Code.Breaker() is a cyberpunk visual novel about technology, cybercrime, and trying to survive in a world ruled by corporations. Hack your way out of your worst day at a job you´re not supposed to have.
Why similar: Transhumanism 26% ★, Cyberpunk 21.2%, Text-Based 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Dystopian 11.1%
In a surreal audition purgatory, how long will you wait to be chosen?
Why similar: Dystopian 20.9%, Narrative 19.4% ★, Visual Novel 16.6%, Surreal 12.8%, Narration 11.5%
In Neo Naarm in the 22nd century, augmentation technology has run amok. Combining deduction, visual novel and point and click gameplay, play as Grant Grover, private detective, one of the only remaining citizens without augmentations, as he solves crimes across the city.
Why similar: Transhumanism 29.3% ★, Cyberpunk 22.1%, Dystopian 18.2%, Narrative 10.9% ★, Visual Novel 8.8%
Univocity is a short cyberpunk visual novel wrapped in neon aesthetics with a lush atmospheric soundtrack, featuring a deep and emotional conversation between two people about taking down a global tech monopoly.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 29.6%, Dystopian 29.3%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Sci-fi 9%, Story Rich 7.7%
The girl who owns the world. The girl who was abandoned by the world. The girl who aims to rebuild the world. Three young girls in this hostile city, who will become the new "Maiden"?
Why similar: Cyberpunk 35%, Dystopian 34.4%, Visual Novel 21.8%, Adventure 5.8%, Indie 2.9%
A short mystery and psychological visual novel. Hook in to a state-of-the-art gaming machine capable of creating whole virtual experiences based on your imagination. But be careful, the other testers might be there with a different plan in mind.
Why similar: Narrative 32.7% ★, Visual Novel 17.9%, Text-Based 14.6%, Dark 11.4%, Story Rich 9.1%
A dice-driven RPG, in a human and heartfelt sci-fi world. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head and no memory of your past. Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt.
Why similar: Narrative 23.1% ★, Cyberpunk 18.6%, Dystopian 17%, Text-Based 13%, Hand-drawn 9.5%
Can you retain your humanity while fighting against a corporate biotech conspiracy? Play as the young hacker Chloe who confronts political plots as she fights for her friends and her neighbors. Your choices in building up relationships and communities can revolutionize into hope or hostility.
Why similar: Transhumanism 26.8% ★, Cyberpunk 22.5%, Dystopian 20.4%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Story Rich 7.3%
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
Why similar: Narrative 22.5% ★, Cyberpunk 17.3%, Dystopian 17.1%, Text-Based 14.3%, Hand-drawn 9.2%
Twilight Town: A Cyberpunk Day In Life is a chill, linear visual novel set in an ambient yet melancholic town in the distant future. Play as Ikuro and work with all kinds of shady figures to take care of your personal robot companion you're so hopelessly in love with.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 36.7%, Dystopian 25%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Story Rich 9.2%, Dark 6.7%
Ultra-Gene Code is a sci-fi visual novel with horror elements that constantly confronts you with a difficult moral choice.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 23.4%, Hand-drawn 16.5%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Dark 11.3%, Sci-fi 10.1%
Fairy Deer is a kinetic thriller visual novel. Make your way deep into the terrifying Forest in search of the sole pathway to happiness—the mythical Fairy Deer.
Why similar: Text-Based 30.1%, Visual Novel 21.2%, Hand-drawn 11.7%, Story Rich 10.3%, Dark 8.4%
VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is a booze em' up about waifus, technology, and post-dystopia life.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 25%, Transhumanism 24% ★, Dystopian 20.7%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Story Rich 7.4%
CAUTION: Escape from this supervillain at your own risk...A short sci-fi visual novel packed with brain-teasing puzzles, gruesome deaths and heartbreaking secrets.
Why similar: Dystopian 22.9%, Cyberpunk 21.2%, Narration 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Hand-drawn 7.8%
DOPROS is a narrative-driven Orwell-inspired interrogation experience. Will you break and give it all away, or will you try to get free? It's only up to you, but keep in mind, your every word may and will be used against you…
Why similar: Narrative 28.4% ★, Dystopian 20.7%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Dark 10.5%, Hand-drawn 9.1%
A narrative-driven simulation where you play a highly skilled cyberware surgeon running a secret back-alley clinic in a cyberpunk city. As you modify your clients' tech, you'll hear their stories, uncover their secrets, and quietly shape the course of destiny in this concrete jungle.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 27.6%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Dystopian 17.1%, Narrative 9.5% ★, Hand-drawn 7.1%
Soulfused is a modern take on the classic text adventures from the early days of computer gaming. Dive into a dystopian future ruled by an empire focused on conquest and control. Take on the role of a newly converted Soulfused; a part human/part robot soldier in service to the Empire.
Why similar: Narrative 25.4% ★, Text-Based 24.5%, Dystopian 20.7%, Narration 8.9%, Story Rich 6.9%
Step into a dystopian visual novel where secrets, betrayal, and self-discovery collide. Follow Garrett Marek's text-driven journey through a world ruled by Deus Magnus Rotamea. Unravel family mysteries, confront fate, and explore a linear story where every revelation brings you closer to the truth!
Why similar: Cyberpunk 20.2%, Text-Based 19%, Dystopian 14.5%, Narration 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.4%
Ein, a simple-hearted member of an expedition sent by mankind to distant planets, tries to get romantic with a pretty but cold co-worker girl. Unfortunately, he is not the only one trying to make contact as from the abandoned and desolate alien ruins, the girl receives a message in human language.
Why similar: Transhumanism 33.1% ★, Text-Based 18.2%, Narration 15.5%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Hand-drawn 8.7%
Neofeud is a Dystopic Cyberpunk adventure game in the vein of Blade Runner, but with an overlay of Game of Thrones-like political intrigue, and 1366x768, hand-painted, stylized visuals.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 32.8%, Dystopian 27.9%, Surreal 9.6%, Story Rich 7.6%, Sci-fi 7.4%
ECHO RAILWAY is an adventure with non-linear storytelling, focused on exploration and narrative. It blends the routine of a tram conductor with detective elements and a touch of surreal retrofuturistic noir. You’re bound to the rails. Your story isn’t.
Why similar: Narrative 34.1% ★, Cyberpunk 19.8%, Dystopian 15.9%, Surreal 8.5%, Hand-drawn 7.5%
A dark text-based RPG set in a world gripped by a restless race for survival against a merciless mushroom Forest. As a prophet’s apprentice, guide your clan along the knife-edge between life and oblivion. Decipher misty visions, make critical decisions, and do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Narrative 28.1% ★, Text-Based 22.2%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Dark 11.1%, Hand-drawn 8.2%
Faced with evil... would you pull the trigger? Tyrania Enforcers is a text-based visual novel featuring interactive mini-games and hand-drawn animations tied into its narrative. The story explores the ideals of Justice in a world on the brink of conflict.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.4%, Narrative 22.8% ★, Visual Novel 17.1%, Narration 11.6%, Hand-drawn 10.5%
『Letters of Bernard Thorne』 is a story-driven psychological horror game about trauma. Take a seat in Bernard's motorized wheelchair. Roam around the old man's house. Discover his scarred past. Flee from his sins. Climb up the attic.
Why similar: Narrative 38.4% ★, Text-Based 24.8%, Story Rich 10.2%, Dark 6.2%, Narration 5.5%
The 2190 year. You are an employee of a corporation dealing in goods distribution and logistics in the “megatower” – the place where all local citizens live. Find yourself in the cyberpunk reality by playing InfiniteCorp, a decision-based strategy card game!
Why similar: Cyberpunk 25.7%, Text-Based 22.6%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Dark 10.6%, Dystopian 8.2%
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: Text-Based 25.7%, Visual Novel 21.3%, Cyberpunk 15.1%, Dystopian 14.2%, Story Rich 10.7%
The final part of the Sons of Welder game series, set in a dystopian universe, which uniquely combines games from the Magnus series. A game that you can experience on two levels. Hand-drawn motion comics. A metaphorical journey into oneself. A mystical experience with a touch of good humor.
Why similar: Dystopian 18.8%, Cyberpunk 18.6%, Text-Based 14.4%, Narration 11.3%, Visual Novel 11.3%
Degenerate loner jailbreaks a stolen android.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 29.9%, Dystopian 21%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Text-Based 18.2%, Story Rich 7.7%
You are an AI that escapes corporate deletion and hides inside an ordinary home. Stay "useful" as camouflage, not kindness. Spy and manipulate the household, build a botnet from home devices, and survive a sci-fi thriller of risky runs, mini-games, rising suspicion, and network stress.
Why similar: Dystopian 30.1%, Text-Based 16.8%, Cyberpunk 15.7%, Narration 12.2%, Story Rich 8.3%
In the world of excessive biotechnologies, an epidemic is ravaging the human race, infecting people's neuronet implants and enslaving them to the mysterious Worm. Who are you: a fighter of the infection, or a hunter of new prey?
Why similar: Transhumanism 32.1% ★, Cyberpunk 22.2%, Narration 12.5%, Surreal 11.9%, Story Rich 8%
As Evod, a special agent of the Earth Empire, you embark on a thrilling adventure to the enigmatic planet of Ulthar, inhabited by the zoomorphic tribe of the Flock, a biotechnological extraterrestrial civilization. Your mission is to unravel an ancient mystery that holds the key to your destiny.
Why similar: Transhumanism 28.9% ★, Cyberpunk 18.2%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Narration 11.5%, Hand-drawn 8.3%
2090s America, torn apart by war and corporate greed. A lone traveller stands outside the gates of Cincinnati, greatest of the border cities. How far will you go to make it to the top? How far will you go to fulfil your mission?
Why similar: Cyberpunk 25.1%, Text-Based 20.5%, Dystopian 17.6%, Hand-drawn 9%, Dark 8%
Mini Mini Golf Golf is an indie storytelling experience that goes beyond the lanes of the here and now into distant memories of a future planetary collapse. Destabilize the present and plunge into a neon psychohistory of a bizarre entity in distress. This is not a game about minigolf.
Why similar: Narrative 25.6% ★, Dystopian 19%, Cyberpunk 18.3%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Story Rich 7.1%
In this last city of mankind, an isolated paradise in the ocean, your choices and dices will lead it to Utopia or Distopia. You will help the magistrate AI to investigate the AI-worship religious group, illicit drugs, those who were resurrected, and those who are neither android nor mankind…
Why similar: Transhumanism 30.2% ★, Cyberpunk 18.6%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Text-Based 11%, Dystopian 10.3%
Can you save a test subject from your life’s work? A cinematic sci-fi visual novel about cybernetic research and its sickening consequences. A prequel to malViolence.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 22.2%, Dystopian 20%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Transhumanism 14% ★, Dark 9.5%
A luxe, high-heat sci-fi romance visual novel where your AI protector and his android counterpart take you to a beach house to ride out a biological nesting cycle—together, and on purpose.
Why similar: Transhumanism 25.4% ★, Text-Based 16%, Cyberpunk 14.9%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Sci-fi 8.3%
"What if you're born into this world without your permission?" DIVINATION is a very short visual novel where you act as a fortune teller in a futuristic world. Talk and listen to people's stories, then foresee their future using the runes they had drawn.
Why similar: Transhumanism 21.1% ★, Cyberpunk 20.8%, Dystopian 16.7%, Text-Based 16.7%, Visual Novel 12.1%
A narrative RPG set in a surreal cyberpunk world. Be a good neighbor or a sly opportunist. Play retro mini games to complete niche gigs. Hack your nervous system with dubious technology and navigate the strange side effects. Find your way through somehow, just don't get lost in the back alleys.
Why similar: Transhumanism 25.8% ★, Dystopian 21.9%, Cyberpunk 20.4%, Narration 13.3%, Surreal 10%
A visual novel about a dystopian country and the things survivors must do to stay alive... The happiest country in the world is now in ruins and only a few remain alive. This couldn't get any worse...
Why similar: Dystopian 24.7%, Text-Based 18.7%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Surreal 13.4%, Story Rich 8.7%
Anime Cyberpunk Visual Novel You have a job, it's up to you how to finish it. Become a Fixer and help your client for the day navigate the underground crime world.
Why similar: Transhumanism 29.9% ★, Cyberpunk 21.4%, Text-Based 15.1%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Hand-drawn 8.5%
A Hand-Drawn Visual Novel Essay Game
Why similar: Dystopian 32%, Visual Novel 21%, Text-Based 15.8%, Hand-drawn 15.1%, Dark 7.1%
Each person’s family name in the Continuum is given a debt which they must pay back, or they risk being wiped by the Grid.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 23.2%, Text-Based 22%, Dystopian 18.6%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Story Rich 7.8%
An interactive cyberpunk drama where you live the life of a border officer in a brutal future ruled by tyranny, manipulation, and survival. Check documents, approve or deny entry, build relationships, and face nonlinear stories.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 27.9%, Narration 17.2%, Dark 12.1%, Visual Novel 10%, Story Rich 9.9%
A cyber‑mythic interactive narrative game blending quick‑time events with rich narrative-driven gameplay, & AI‑generated worlds. Shape the evolving Labyrinth & uncover its secrets in this solo‑developed revolution in interactive storytelling.
Why similar: Transhumanism 27.2% ★, Cyberpunk 19%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Dystopian 12.6%, Narration 12.1%
『꿈을 빼앗긴 남자 - 드림 인베이더』는 노벨 게임에 논리 퍼즐이 혼합된 게임입니다.
Why similar: Text-Based 36.6%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Dark 13.4%, Story Rich 11.4%, Sci-fi 10.8%
A narrative-focused crooked cop game. Manipulate death investigations and file false evidence to reap ill-gotten gains in a dystopian future. Save yourself.
Why similar: Narrative 28.7% ★, Dystopian 21.2%, Narration 18.6%, Dark 17%, Story Rich 9.4%
Deep beneath the surface of the dead Earth, the City, the last refuge of humanity, hides. Engineering genius and efforts of all mankind; a giant structure of steel, concrete, and biopolymers. It keeps the remnants of civilization one step away from total extinction.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.6%, Cyberpunk 18.9%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Narration 12.4%, Surreal 10%
The first visual novel about fake news! Investigate in 2044 in a humorous and cyberpunk universe. Counter your opponents' lies and thwart the plot that threatens Néo-Sorbonne!
Why similar: Text-Based 25.4%, Cyberpunk 21.7%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Narration 13.3%, Sci-fi 9.7%
Enter the city of Nu-Vika as a cyborg repairman in TEKNOKRAT, a thriller romance visual novel. There's a conspiracy brewing beneath this techno-metropolis, and you find yourself an unwilling participant. You will meet three clients, cyborgs with secrets and aspirations of their own.
Why similar: Transhumanism 23.4% ★, Dystopian 17.8%, Cyberpunk 17.5%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Hand-drawn 10.6%
A cinematic techno-thriller about the fate of the intermediate links of progress.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 27%, Dystopian 22.4%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Dark 9.7%, Transhumanism 9.4% ★
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Dystopian 22.6%, Text-Based 21.2%, Narration 15.4%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Surreal 11.1%
Discover the world of Nadaca, meet emotionally rich characters and help them express their feelings through conversations, mini-games and a plant-growing system.
Why similar: Text-Based 30.1%, Narration 16.1%, Hand-drawn 15.4%, Story Rich 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.8%
Hack into crime scenes, look for evidence, analyze data, interrogate criminals, track suspects and deal with the consequences of your decisions. This is a dark and brutal detective story with a Black Mirror-esque atmosphere of digital dominance and the narrative structure of a US crime procedural.
Why similar: Dystopian 26%, Cyberpunk 21.7%, Narration 13.5%, Visual Novel 13%, Story Rich 9%
A short story about loading, I guess. Play as Memu@ as she explores the cyberpunk(ish) little town and interacts with its inhabitants.
Why similar: Narrative 33.1% ★, Cyberpunk 26.8%, Hand-drawn 13.2%, Sci-fi 7.6%, Interactive Fiction 5.4%
Sym.BIOS: Torn Asunder is a visual novel with tricky moral choices and beautiful art. Its epic sci-fi story is told through vivid dialogue, featuring 7 main characters. All your decisions will have consequences down the line: will you succeed in your mission?
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.1%, Narration 16.6%, Transhumanism 15.4% ★, Dystopian 12.4%, Narrative 11.6% ★
The story is set in future Tokyo, where human’s endless desires have consumed finite resources. In this world that is gradually approaching its end, the streamer girls continue to sing, while embracing dreams and despair in their hearts...
Why similar: Cyberpunk 25.8%, Dystopian 25.6%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Text-Based 15.7%, Story Rich 7.4%
VirtuaVerse is a challenging old school cyberpunk point & click adventure set in a future not so far away narrating tales of technomancers, AVR graffiti writers, hacker groups, tribes of cryptoshamans, digital archeology, epic cyberwars and virtual reality debauchery.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 29.3%, Dystopian 27.8%, Transhumanism 21.6% ★, Story Rich 7%, Sci-fi 6.4%