60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Story Rich, Interactive Fiction, 2D.
A narrative visual novel adapted from real life. Three days before his baby is born, a first-time father learns what it means to become one. Ordinary days, unspoken words, and choices that reshape his bond with his wife and family. About one hour per playthrough.
Two Years Later
More than a visual novel: explore campus, plan each day, use an interactive phone, discover dynamic events, earn achievements, and unlock character outfits through a cosmetic gacha system that never affects the story, choices, or in-game economy. What will tomorrow be? Chose on you.
What Acts up
What Acts up is a psychological realism narrative adventure about social anxiety. Make choices, act under time pressure, and interact with shifting windows as Lin Mo’s fear and self-doubt invade the desktop. Some choices cannot be made, and some words simply refuse to come out.
More than a visual novel: explore campus, plan each day, use an interactive phone, discover dynamic events, earn achievements, and unlock character outfits through a cosmetic gacha system that never affects the story, choices, or in-game economy. What will tomorrow be? Chose on you.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.8%, Life Sim 18.3%, Modern 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Choices Matter 10.3%
What Acts up is a psychological realism narrative adventure about social anxiety. Make choices, act under time pressure, and interact with shifting windows as Lin Mo’s fear and self-doubt invade the desktop. Some choices cannot be made, and some words simply refuse to come out.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Modern 14.5%, Lore-Rich 10.3%, Choices Matter 10.3%
Step into a narrative-driven social media simulator in a world dominated by one powerful platform. Here, followers are your currency and your life. You had it all—until someone set you up and banned your account for good. Start over. Climb. Be seen. Ultimately, the world's fate is in your hands.
Why similar: Modern 18.2%, Life Sim 14.7%, Time Management 12%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
Collect expressions to use in conversations as you immerse yourself in each character’s psychological journey, where your words, decisions, and even your thoughts determine the course of every story. Plant flowers, drink tea, and have fun romancing as you help bring the village back to life.
Why similar: Emotional 17.6%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Cozy 13.1%, Psychological 10.3%, Visual Novel 9.9%
The theme of "the gaming industry", a Galgame centered on romantic plots and nurturing gameplay.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Modern 18.2%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Simulation 9.4%, Life Sim 9.2%
The prologue arc to the "Garden of Roses" story. A visual novel set in a world where monster girls walk among us. Take the role of Will Getz, a young man with a score to settle after 15 long years of being away from home.
Why similar: Modern 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Emotional 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.4%
A chronic illness simulator. You think you have a chronic illness, but you don't know what. All you know is you are always in some state of pain. You've been to too many doctors to count... but you still have to live your life.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.9%, Visual Novel 23.7%, Life Sim 17%, Simulation 11.7%, Emotional 9.4%
《高三最后300天》是一款以2020年代中国普通公立高中为背景的横屏互动叙事生活模拟游戏。从距高考300天开始，选择主角的性别、选科方向与住校或走读身份，安排每周计划，在早读、晚自习、考试、宿舍和回家路上作出决定。你的选择会改变六科学习状态、精力与压力，也会影响承诺能否兑现、同学之间如何相处，以及某段关系最终停在友情还是继续靠近。故事将经过月考、换座、寒假、百日誓师、一模、二模、毕业照和三天高考，直到查分、填报志愿与收到录取结果。高分不是唯一答案；通关后重新开始，你还能带着有限的记忆，试着改变那些真正放不下的遗憾。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Time Management 16.5%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Life Sim 9.6%, Emotional 8.4%
Every choice comes with loss. This is no power fantasy, but a ten-year reckoning with ambition, class, pride, and reality. Plan each week, face relentless comparison and locked paths, and find out what remains when you finally stop trying to become someone else.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Life Sim 16.9%, Visual Novel 12%, Time Management 10.9%, Psychological 10.4%
Build a life from childhood to legacy. LIVORA is a choice-driven life simulation where education, work, money, relationships, family, health, time and where you live all connect — and the decisions you make can shape what happens years later.
Why similar: Modern 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Life Sim 14.8%, Emotional 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.9%
You have a play to write. Is this your masterpiece, or a Halfway-to-Midlife Crisis Simulator?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Modern 13.1%, Emotional 11.7%, Choices Matter 11.1%
Only you can shape her destiny. Raise and guide the last princess of a fallen kingdom. Through friendship, love, growth, and loss, your choices determine her future. An emotional life simulation RPG with dozens of endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.1%, Life Sim 14.5%, Time Management 14.1%, Emotional 11.9%, Simulation 9.1%
Meet Nemesis; Ascendent being and terminally bored. Until the shimmer at the end of Creation, known as the Void, becomes her fixation - and her undoing. A short linear visual novel with gorgeous hand-painted illustrations; a mythic tale of curiosity and consequences.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 25.2%, RPG 9.8%, Lore-Rich 9.8%, Linear 7.4%
10 participants. A death game that unfolds over 31 days. If you kill another participant, you can take their prize money. An interactive fiction game where the story changes based on your choices. In this dangerous game, choose who to trust and who to betray.
Why similar: Modern 29.7%, Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Simulation 11.2%, Visual Novel 8.2%
Dark Matter God × unemployed girl. Urban Fantasy Visual Novel for Women.
Why similar: Modern 25.8%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Emotional 11.5%
Raise a Zanmi egg at the "Academie des Zœufs". Care for it, choose its activities and training, and build relationships with the other students to shape its growth in this character-raising simulation. What kind of Zanmi will you raise?
Why similar: Life Sim 16.6%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Time Management 14%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%
Three stories. An emotional game about the stories we live in between certain chapters of our lives and the chance to make new choices, reliving those moments.
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.6%, Choices Matter 17.5%, Time Management 13.9%, Story Rich 9.1%, Cozy 9.1%
After years abroad, Ryoutarou returns to his Japanese hometown to reconnect with old friends—and maybe find new love?! It's up to you to make this homecoming as sweet as can be in this rom-com visual novel from studio Hooksoft.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Time Management 15.3%, Life Sim 14.6%, Choices Matter 8.5%
My Child New Beginnings is a parenting simulator where you go through everyday life of growth. After a series of traumatic events that you and your child went through, you now get to rebuild life together in a new region of Norway.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Life Sim 15.4%, Emotional 14.6%, Simulation 9.8%
《瑶光》是一款大学校园题材的恋爱视觉小说。在绩点决定未来的大一生活中，作为有些内向的学霸——周缘，你将会在多重结局中见证只属于青春的成长与遗憾。在关键的时刻做出选择，点亮那道名为“瑶光”的星辰。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Simulation 17.3%, RPG 11.4%, Emotional 11.1%
集回合、养成、随机事件、Galgame、藏品、人生模拟、危机系统等玩法的一款2D视觉恋爱小说游戏。内含78个剧情事件、70个模拟玩法事件结局、24个藏品、3个IF线结局。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Modern 14.4%, Simulation 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Life Sim 11.1%
Musings on grief, moving on, and a life made and lived in the rural Midwest. Features a collection of lovingly hand-drawn panels and pixel art.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Emotional 20%, Simulation 10.2%, Hand-drawn 5.4%
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: Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Visual Novel 20%, Modern 14.3%, Emotional 12%, Choices Matter 9.5%
A series of murders puts a town in Chile on alert, and the police are unable to identify the perpetrator and his strange messages. Meanwhile, Nicolas, the young owner of Bar Delirio, suspects that the culprit is hiding among his frequent customers.
Why similar: Modern 27.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Visual Novel 17%, Emotional 10.1%, Choices Matter 10%
Welcome to the world of scandals, intrigue and incredible investigations in STEPMOM: Milf Scandal 💖! To become a player in this visual novel for adults means to get into the whirlwind of real journalistic leaks and adventures.
Why similar: Modern 26.2%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Life Sim 12.5%, Emotional 11.9%, Choices Matter 11.3%
Wei Shi becomes your reflection in your senior year. Drifting without a fixed self, they set out into oblivion—or piece together fragments of an unfamiliar youth. With your friends, they tend each other's restless hearts and share what it takes to find happiness.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Modern 17.8%, Psychological 11.1%, Emotional 9.6%
Sacking an employee from The Violet Hotel soon becomes unwanted news on Grendel's malicious web blog. Can the protagonist stop Grendel from causing further problems ?
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.4%, Interactive Fiction 24%, Modern 15.6%, Life Sim 12.1%, Simulation 9.9%
A fake therapist loses her magic and must face real patients with nothing but words. Manage appointments, money, and emotional collapse in a narrative RPG about lies, deduction, and cognitive dissonance. Are lies your weapon... or your redemption?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Time Management 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Psychological 10.2%
Welcome to the world of Step-Sister's Pussy🔞– an adult visual novel that will immerse you in family intrigues and unpredictable antics. Get ready to delve into the complex relationships of a family where each character hides their secrets and dreams.
Why similar: Modern 25.3%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Life Sim 12.8%, Emotional 11.6%, Choices Matter 11.2%
Love, Startup & Co-founder is a realistic visual novel with company management simulation. Build an AI startup from scratch and balance money, love, career under outside pressure. Navigate your relationships between five heroines with distinct personalities, and make choices that shape your journey.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.4%, Modern 17.4%, Choices Matter 15%, Emotional 11.1%, Simulation 11.1%
Messy Hearts is a pixel-art visual novel about a complicated coworker friendship. Through journal-style narration, Florence unpacks romance, trauma, and some messy boundaries in a deeply personal story of mental health and heartbreak.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27%, Visual Novel 22.4%, Modern 21.6%, Emotional 12%, Psychological 7.1%
中式原生家庭环境下，少年找寻存在方式的故事。
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.8%, Interactive Fiction 28.8%, Modern 22%, Emotional 13.8%, RPG 4.3%
is a story-driven hospital receptionist simulator with multiple endings. Become a hospital receptionist in a pandemic apocalypse and manage the order in which patients receive treatment.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.3%, Visual Novel 22.2%, Emotional 13.9%, Simulation 11.6%, Choices Matter 6.8%
Welcome to the captivating world of intrigue and mysteries in the visual novel for adults My Shameless StepMom! Embark on an exciting journey with the main character, Dylan, who finds himself in the midst of tangled family and professional intrigues.
Why similar: Modern 25.9%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Life Sim 12.6%, Emotional 11.7%, Choices Matter 11.1%
Hope flickers against impossible odds. In this narrative RPG, step into the shoes of a retired soldier, thrust into a desperate last stand to save Jeomdo Village. With supplies dwindling and time running out, your decisions will shape the fate of those who look to you for salvation.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Visual Novel 21.6%, Choices Matter 16.6%, Emotional 12%, RPG 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 28.5%, Visual Novel 22.5%, Modern 17.1%, Psychological 9.9%, Emotional 9.1%
A gentle Cozy&lo-fi timer game with wandering rabbits, warm tea, and letters under the moonlight. During your breaks in this pomodoro-style routine, the rabbits gather for tea in a quiet garden
Why similar: Modern 30.6%, Time Management 19.6%, Cozy 17.8%, Life Sim 14.4%, Simulation 10.8%
This is one (or more) story of reality, a story of youth, dreams, chains, and rebellion. Step into different lives of 7 ordinary teens through the "Doors", and to rewrite their fate tightly locked with your choices.
Why similar: Modern 22.5%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Emotional 11.6%, Psychological 8.9%
Welcome to Pride Park! Experience six main stories and several bonus stories centered around the staff and students of this eclectic idol school in this episodic, slice-of-life visual novel!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.3%, Visual Novel 22.5%, Simulation 16.3%, Modern 15.9%, Emotional 11%
Only 5 days until you quit. Plan your daily schedule, chat with coworkers, and make choices as you prepare to resign. Will you hand over your duties perfectly, or slack off in the breakroom and cause chaos? Experience a hyper-realistic K-office drama shaped by your choices!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.2%, Visual Novel 27%, Modern 12.2%, Psychological 8.7%, Time Management 8.2%
送外卖，攒彩礼，目标 18 万 8！“想娶我女儿，彩礼必须 18 万 8，一分都不能少！”，丈母娘的一句话，让你决定离开电子厂，开始全职送外卖，努力奋斗，只为攒够彩礼，迎娶你的心上人。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33%, Modern 26.3%, Visual Novel 25.9%, 2D 6%, Linear 4.5%
Fishbowl is a slow and tender narrative game about dreams, grief, and hope. Rediscover your memories and find your way into the present in this intimate experience where slice-of-life meets surreal.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Emotional 16.6%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Cozy 10.9%
建安十二年，日渐衰落的东汉王朝在长期的军阀混战下早已名存实亡。为了攫取更多的权力，将天下纳入自己的囊中，诸多姓氏的野心家们开始了无休止的争斗，纷争无休的乱世就此展开。 这一年，怀着同样对争夺天下的渴望，长期处在四处奔逃的困境中的军阀刘备决意前往隆中拜访名士诸葛亮。同年，刘备之妾甘氏为其诞下一子。故事就此这里开始……
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29%, Visual Novel 23%, RPG 12.6%, Emotional 11.3%, Choices Matter 6.8%
In the heart of the Afghan wilderness, amidst the chaos of war, you awaken to the stark reality of your mission: three days to navigate the perilous landscape, uncover hidden truths, and confront the ghosts of the past.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Modern 18%, Time Management 13%, Emotional 9.6%
A suspenseful, atmospheric text adventure where you play an entrepreneur reborn two years before his mysterious death. At the scene were his abandoned ex, devoted roommate, and hostile socialite. Your choices reveal why they were there, why he died, and which truths stay buried.
Why similar: Modern 28.4%, Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Visual Novel 21.5%, Lore-Rich 6.6%, Emotional 6.6%
OneDayOne - visual novel where you will dive into the routine life of Sergey, from which only a miracle and...your choices can help him escape
Why similar: Modern 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Emotional 9.9%, Simulation 8.8%
A story-rich sim about the crew of a luxury cruise ship. The guests don't notice you. The crew does. Clean rooms by day; find your people at the dinner table.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.9%, Life Sim 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Emotional 15.6%, Story Rich 8.2%
If we were to bring a loved one back to life as an AI, and then, for whatever reason, we had to let them go or part ways, would we be able to turn them off?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.6%, Visual Novel 24%, Simulation 19.7%, Life Sim 17.3%, 2D 4.1%
《这个ceo我当定了！》跟随着主人公（林燃）的求职机遇，进入这职场之中的龙争虎斗。财富与名望，就在选择之间，抓住机遇，成就事业。在这暗斗之中，是为利益与虎谋皮？还是无畏恐惧向死而生？这职场ceo我当定了！
Why similar: Modern 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Lore-Rich 11.5%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Life Sim 10%
GAL BOCCHI is an internet artist simulator ADV where you control the dogshit female artist “aimisu_u” and become the legendary artist she so desperately wants to become! All the time left for the not-so-young-anymore aimisu_u to escape reality for her dream is…drum roll…1 single year!
Why similar: Modern 30.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Simulation 8.4%, Psychological 7.8%
One day during a study session at the campus library, you instinctively scratch an itch through your pants due to a recurring skin condition. Unbeknownst to you, a girl seated across misinterprets your action as something indecent and records a video to report you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.8%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Simulation 18.6%, Life Sim 17%, RPG 8.5%
A visual novel about a man who discovers the existence of another dimension hidden in dreams. Explore and learn the rules of a new reality, meet fellow dreamwalkers and solve the mystery of a disaster in the past. Make decisions, build relationships and strive to reach the best ending!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.1%, Visual Novel 34.4%, Choices Matter 19.8%, Story Rich 8.9%, Indie 1.2%
Shortstack, Interaction, Desktop Companion. Your Momo is a narrative, cozy desktop game. Talk with Momo through playful spanks on her butt and build a deeper bond. Unlock new items through conversation and watch her draw freely on your desktop as time passes.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Time Management 16.6%, Simulation 13.5%, Emotional 13.3%
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: Visual Novel 28.2%, Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Emotional 21.7%, Psychological 10.2%, Story Rich 8.6%
Welcome Tavernkeep! In this D&D-inspired visual novel you will run a cozy seaside tavern, meet adventurers, gather rumours and mix fate-altering drinks to stop dreams from twisting into nightmares.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Cozy 15.3%, Life Sim 12%, Emotional 11.2%
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 29.7%, Visual Novel 25.7%, Emotional 18.5%, Story Rich 10.7%, RPG 8.4%
Chess. Love. Destiny. All the same things, really.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.3%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Choices Matter 11.7%, RPG 9.4%, Hand-drawn 7.6%
A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Simulation 9.9%, Emotional 7.1%
JAS: Job App Sux! Is a coming-of-RAGE story about Rose, an aspiring art professional fighting to pave her path in the industry.
Why similar: Visual Novel 28%, Modern 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Hand-drawn 8.5%
A story-rich, girl's love visual novel about the titular phantom thief, Forget Me Not, and the famous ballet troupe that visits the city with its precious jewel and a certain ballerina that they fall for.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Modern 21.2%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Emotional 11.8%, Simulation 11.8%
