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A 2.5D pixel-art detective game set in a time loop. Piece together the protagonist's lost past and save the city from an approaching catastrophe. Explore the streets, gather clues, and use what you learn in the next cycles of your investigation.

Why similar: Time Travel 20.6% ★, Choices Matter 15.3%, Story Rich 13.5%, Visual Novel 12%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%

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 24.7%, Choices Matter 18.5%, Time Management 16.9%, Story Rich 14%, Casual 7.4%

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 35% ★, Visual Novel 24%, Sci-fi 13.8%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Multiple Endings 7.6%

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 33.8% ★, Visual Novel 24.6%, Story Rich 12.3%, Sci-fi 10.8%, Multiple Endings 8.9%

Step into Pixel's shoes in this one-of-a-kind journey that bridges time, memories, and the aroma of fresh coffee. Dive deep into a city balancing its past and future. Engage in intense arcade challenges, immerse yourself in heartfelt stories, and navigate a world crafted in pixel art.

Why similar: Time Management 18.5%, Crafting 16.1%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Cooking 12.2%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%

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: Crafting 19.1%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Cooking 14.5%, Story Rich 11.4%, Multiple Endings 9.2%

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 38.2% ★, Visual Novel 27.6%, Sci-fi 11.8%, Story Rich 9.7%, Choices Matter 5.9%

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 33% ★, Visual Novel 25%, Story Rich 14.1%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Multiple Endings 9.1%

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 33.1% ★, Visual Novel 22.1%, Story Rich 12.3%, Sci-fi 11.2%, Choices Matter 8.7%

An ironic adventure with cyberpunk aesthetics set in a world where humans have been replaced by dinosaurs. Become a top-notch repair shop mechanic: fix gadgets, have heart-to-heart talks, and offer drinks to your customers — everything to fulfill your ultimate dream.

Why similar: Crafting 23%, Visual Novel 13%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Multiple Endings 8.6%, Sci-fi 8.1%

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: Visual Novel 22.6%, Time Travel 22% ★, Choices Matter 15.5%, Sci-fi 13.4%, Multiple Endings 11.8%

A visual novel about the mind, change, and being locked up.

Why similar: Visual Novel 24.9%, Choices Matter 18.2%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, Story Rich 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 8%

Perfect·K·Night is a narrative game where you play as a pastry chef crafting parfaits. In a near-future virtual world where millions spend their sleep living a second life, your sweet, velvety creations heal weary souls and safeguard every perfect night.

Why similar: Visual Novel 17.5%, Crafting 13.6%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%, Cyberpunk 10.1%

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 29.5% ★, Visual Novel 23.4%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Sci-fi 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.3%

Who Am I: Error Code 99 is an action novel game where you save memories and uncover the truth.When you wake up, you find yourself in an unfamiliar place.Where is this?Who am I?In search of answers, the protagonist wanders through Toan, a city of desire and despair.

Why similar: Visual Novel 17.9%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Sci-fi 12.5%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Cyberpunk 10.1%

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 38.3% ★, Visual Novel 28.6%, Sci-fi 13.3%, Story Rich 12.4%, Adventure 7.1%

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 24.4% ★, Visual Novel 21.2%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Story Rich 11.7%, Multiple Endings 11.6%

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 28.5% ★, Visual Novel 26.5%, Story Rich 12.3%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Sci-fi 9.2%

"Pulse of Love" is a captivating visual novel set in the vibrant world of the Korean K-pop scene drama. Experience the exhilarating journey of love, passion, and self-discovery as you navigate the highs and lows of fame.

Why similar: Visual Novel 23.5%, Choices Matter 19.7%, Multiple Endings 16.3%, Story Rich 14.4%, Exploration 8.2%

Click Start is a visual novel about relationships, boundaries, and consequences. Make choices that shape conversations, relationships, and multiple endings—because what matters is not only who you choose, but how you treat others along the way.

Why similar: Visual Novel 27.8%, Choices Matter 20.2%, Multiple Endings 17.7%, Story Rich 13.3%, Casual 5.1%

Escape from the Cursed Convent is a narrative-driven adventure game set in a medieval girls' convent, offering a rich storytelling experience, and several gameplay styles including QTE, hunting, cooking, and puzzle-solving.

Why similar: Visual Novel 15.9%, Crafting 14.5%, Cooking 13.6%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Multiple Endings 10.3%

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: Visual Novel 25.1%, Time Travel 20.3% ★, Choices Matter 17.2%, Multiple Endings 15%, Story Rich 14%

"Welcome, adventurer! What quest have you completed today?” A classic fantasy guild reception simulation — 『Galvatein: Adventurer’s Guild』

Why similar: Visual Novel 23.6%, Choices Matter 16.7%, Medieval 13.7%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Story Rich 10.6%

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: Visual Novel 20%, Choices Matter 18.2%, Time Travel 15.5% ★, Story Rich 13.6%, Multiple Endings 10.8%

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Why similar: Time Travel 33.6% ★, Visual Novel 22%, Story Rich 12.4%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Choices Matter 10.1%

Every answer lies in a timeline that no longer exists. 『The VII Enigma』 is an intricate time-travel mystery visual novel for players drawn to stories that test the mind, stir the heart, and reward careful attention. Unravel a conspiracy written across time in search of a future beyond their control.

Why similar: Time Travel 34% ★, Visual Novel 19%, Sci-fi 11.8%, Story Rich 11.4%, Choices Matter 9.5%

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 27% ★, Visual Novel 16.7%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Story Rich 11.2%

"Ten years from now, I will be dead..." A coming-of-age fantasy adventure tale, Future Mirror is a visual novel that explores fate and the choices that affect our future, tragedy, relationships, and happiness.

Why similar: Time Travel 22.5% ★, Visual Novel 19.1%, Choices Matter 14%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Exploration 9.8%

Floral Flowlove is a romance adventure game created by the Japanese game brand SAGA PLANETS. It won many awards in the art, music, and character categories in the year of its release in Japan.

Why similar: Visual Novel 28.7%, Choices Matter 18.2%, Story Rich 14.6%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Relaxing 7.7%

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 30.4% ★, Visual Novel 20.8%, Multiple Endings 14.5%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Story Rich 12.2%

Stop the public love proposal! No matter what happens...

Why similar: Time Travel 21.5% ★, Time Management 19.5%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Story Rich 10.3%

You are the only blacksmith in a dying empire. Listen to your customers, deduce their true intentions, and forge the weapons that will save your city - or arm its destroyers. Master the anvil, balance the factions, and live with the consequences of your craft.

Why similar: Crafting 30.5%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Story Rich 13.9%, Medieval 11.5%, Time Management 10.6%

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 33.2% ★, Visual Novel 19.4%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Sci-fi 11.7%, Multiple Endings 10.4%

This game is a bishoujo game developed and published by Kawayi Play.

Why similar: Visual Novel 22.6%, Choices Matter 20.9%, Multiple Endings 19.3%, Story Rich 12.9%, Time Travel 10.2% ★

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 32.9% ★, Visual Novel 17.8%, Sci-fi 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Multiple Endings 8.2%

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: Visual Novel 19.2%, Cooking 18.6%, Choices Matter 18.2%, Story Rich 13.6%, Multiple Endings 12.8%

Let's Go Fever Time! Lovely Angel! By day, ordinary girls. By night, the 'Phantom Thief Angels TwinAngel' - on a mission to reclaim stolen treasures. Winter 2024: The Angels descend on Steam.

Why similar: Time Travel 38% ★, Visual Novel 21%, Story Rich 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Sci-fi 8.2%

Wandering Wyrm is a high-fantasy visual novel with a focus on cooking. Run a tavern on the back of a dragon and serve a variety of unique adventurers. Influence the story with the food you serve!

Why similar: Visual Novel 21.6%, Choices Matter 16.5%, Cooking 13.9%, Pixel Graphics 13.7%, Multiple Endings 10.8%

Spend a full school year on a remote island, growing closer to four heroines while confronting the secrets hidden in their dreams. Plan each day, build shared memories, and make your choices before an ordinary youth begins to unravel.

Why similar: Visual Novel 26.9%, Choices Matter 16.9%, Time Management 15.9%, Story Rich 14%, Multiple Endings 11.6%

The rules are simple. Dive into your opponent's mindscape and search for secrets. Turn those secrets into content and make a short video. Gain the most Likes from the audience to win.

Why similar: Visual Novel 26.5%, Story Rich 17.3%, Sci-fi 17.1%, Cyberpunk 11.5%, Choices Matter 11%

朝の早い時間、午前五時くらいになると、この町にはときどき濃い霧が出る──。

Why similar: Visual Novel 33.4%, Exploration 14.9%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Story Rich 10%

Castle in the Sands is a pixel art visual novel set in a world inspired by "One Thousand and One Nights" and North African culture. The adventure begins in the heart of the desert and leads you to fairytale places full of magic and danger.

Why similar: Visual Novel 30.4%, Choices Matter 19%, Pixel Graphics 16.6%, Story Rich 15.8%, Multiple Endings 12.5%

A visual novel about a modern woman who wakes up in the body of a young novice in a medieval convent. Uncover the convent’s secrets through mini-games, make allies, and sing in the church choir to keep your sanity. Every decision leads to one of 5 unique endings.

Why similar: Visual Novel 23.9%, Choices Matter 21.2%, Multiple Endings 17.3%, Medieval 15.8%, Story Rich 15.1%

A simulation and RPG game with multiple endings, set in a Chinese restaurant. Play as the owner, and manage the restaurant, form bonds with characters, and explore the lively town. Uncover the secrets behind the restaurant’s mysterious downfall.

Why similar: Time Management 18.8%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Cooking 16.5%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Multiple Endings 12.4%

Work as Penelope on her day off! Complete mini-games to prepare the food for a wide variety of customers!

Why similar: Visual Novel 24.2%, Cooking 18.5%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%

The darkest game in 2022 , depends not only on how dark it is, but also on how dark readers can imagine it. The goal of the game is not to kill dragons, but to control "which character releases skills" and "which character dies first" to obtain different game endings.

Why similar: Visual Novel 18.4%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Story Rich 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Medieval 10.2%

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 32.5% ★, Visual Novel 19.9%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Sci-fi 12.3%, Multiple Endings 10.5%

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 36.4% ★, Visual Novel 20.2%, Story Rich 12.4%, Sci-fi 12.1%, Cyberpunk 8.9%

Martial Law is a game about difficulties that came with Communism in Poland. The story is shown from the perspective of a man who is abandoned because of his low social status. He tries his best to be there for his daughter despite the difficulties.

Why similar: Choices Matter 22.2%, Pixel Graphics 21.3%, Multiple Endings 17.1%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Story Rich 13.3%

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 26.7% ★, Visual Novel 21.1%, Choices Matter 14%, Story Rich 12.5%, Multiple Endings 11.5%

RATTENTION! From now on, you manage a rat mafia. Hire the best gangsters from the worst. Earn the trust of the residents of the sewers. Decide who gets paid, whose tail to cover, and what you’ll sacrifice to survive. Just make sure no one finds out who you really work for.

Why similar: Choices Matter 25.7%, Visual Novel 23.1%, Story Rich 15.5%, Pixel Graphics 10.9%, Multiple Endings 8.5%

Mirrorandum is not just a visual novel...it's a journey through a world of mirrors, where every reflection challenges your perception and every choice reveals the depths of your true self.

Why similar: Visual Novel 28.5%, Choices Matter 16%, Pixel Graphics 15%, Casual 12.3%, Multiple Endings 12%

At your grandfather's old tea house, every customer who walks in has a story worth hearing. Brew drinks, serve an odd cast of regulars, build deep connections — and maybe find love along the way. Years of family secrets are waiting to surface.

Why similar: Visual Novel 19.5%, Crafting 13.9%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Pixel Graphics 12.3%, Story Rich 11.3%

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 32.2% ★, Visual Novel 19.3%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Story Rich 12.4%, Multiple Endings 11.6%

Alone With You is a bittersweet sci-fi adventure game that goes right for the heart. Escape a doomed space colony with the help of your troubled AI companion and four chatty holograms in this unique blend of adventure & visual novel storytelling.

Why similar: Visual Novel 22.5%, Pixel Graphics 18.5%, Sci-fi 16%, Story Rich 13.2%, Multiple Endings 13%

The protagonist, a member of a university occult club, obtains a mysterious notebook about a high school’s “Seven Mysteries” The story branches based on your choices — will you uncover the truth, or meet an ending best left hidden? A suspense-driven horror visual novel exploring the Seven Mysteries.

Why similar: Visual Novel 33.2%, Exploration 19%, Choices Matter 17.8%, Story Rich 15.9%, 2D 7.9%

It's time for a Visual Novel Quest with a twist! Join Kazuma, a reincarnated adventurer, and spend turbulent days with his unfortunate party members. Prepare for waifus, dress-up and resource management and get ready for an Isekai comedy that’s out of this world!

Why similar: Visual Novel 19.1%, Crafting 18.6%, Time Management 16.3%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Multiple Endings 10.8%

Miuma is a cozy game about a little, modest bakery with unexpected twists. The game features the significant feat of Kevin, the bakery’s new owner, and his venture within the middle of nowhere of which he calls his home.

Why similar: Crafting 21.2%, Cooking 20.6%, Pixel Graphics 14%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Story Rich 10.3%

Craft original weapons and engage in strategic time-freezing battles as you dive into the million-floor deep underground world of this deep-diving action strategy game.

Why similar: Time Travel 29.4% ★, Crafting 18.7%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Sci-fi 10%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%

Conquering of the Royal Keep is a choice-driven visual novel where a squire braves deadly trials, unravels dark mysteries, and endures each fatal loop until the secrets of the keep are finally conquered.

Why similar: Visual Novel 30.3%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Exploration 11.5%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Medieval 10.2%