- #1 TOMORROW DON'T COME - Puzzling Depression
97% matchVery Positive82% of 192 reviews2018
Dev: Peace & Love Games
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 34%
TOMORROW DON'T COME is a contextual puzzle game about depression and how it feels to be stuck.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.6%, Dark 21.1%, Multiple Endings 17.1%, Choices Matter 16.3%, 2D 6.9%
- #2 a new life.
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,375 reviews2020
Dev: Angela He
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 1.2 hrs≥1hr: 37%
When your loved one hurts you, what do you do? A classic love story about letting go.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 34.7%, Visual Novel 28.2%, Emotional 14.5%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
- #3 Love Alone Death
96% matchVery Positive99% of 402 reviews2023
Dev: vivid selfish
Windows · Mac
Build relationship with the characters. Your choices might earn you favor from one character, but disdain from another. Use items to solve problems. Confront various endings. Choose one person and face the end with them.
Why similar: Point & Click 34.4%, LGBTQ+ 14.7%, Drama 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Multiple Endings 11%
- #4 No Longer Home
95% matchMixed64% of 426 reviews2021
Dev: Humble GrovePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 50%
No Longer Home is a game about letting go of the life you've built due to circumstances beyond your control. Immerse yourself in the lives of Bo and Ao and learn about their dreams, frustrations and fears. Welcome the magic of the everyday and somewhat extraordinary.
Why similar: Point & Click 27.7%, LGBTQ+ 19.4%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Exploration 11.2%, Emotional 11.1%
- #5 Depression Quest
94% matchMixed61% of 3,931 reviews2014
Dev: The Quinnspiracy
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 75.2 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment.
Why similar: Visual Novel 37.6%, Dark 11.2%, Indie 11.1%, Emotional 10.3%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
- #6 Will Die Alone
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 67 reviews2022
Dev: Arianna Ravioli
Windows · Mac
Some memories aren't meant to stay. We are our memories and our experiences. What happens if you delete some of them? If you change your past and, thus, your future?
Why similar: Point & Click 27.7%, Visual Novel 21.9%, LGBTQ+ 13.4%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Choices Matter 10.3%
- #7 Drowning Cross
93% matchVery Positive92% of 206 reviews2019
Dev: origamihero games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Find your boyfriend before the night takes him away forever. It's all your fault, after all! Just like always.
Why similar: Point & Click 37.3%, LGBTQ+ 24.3%, Exploration 17.1%, Drama 11.1%, 2D 5.9%
- #8 Dreambound
91% matchVery Positive96% of 89 reviews2024
Dev: Two and a Half Studios
Windows · Mac
Mysterious deaths. Dreams that are reality, and reality that is a dream. Will Noah be able to move forward and solve the mystery—or will he give in to the demons of his past? A story-rich BL mystery visual novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.6%, LGBTQ+ 17.8%, Point & Click 17.2%, Drama 11.6%, Emotional 10.2%
- #9 7th Chance
92% matchMostly Positive78% of 64 reviews2021
Dev: Drewid GamesPub: Stasis Booth Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
7th Chance is a short (20-30 minute) story-based exploration adventure game. Waking up from a night of heavy drinking ... something isn't right.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.6%, Exploration 15.4%, Point & Click 14.1%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
- #10 Second Thoughts
91% matchMostly Positive73% of 82 reviews2022
Dev: Gestmorph Games
Windows · Mac
A psychological text-based game where each day you are tasked with executing someone based on the limited information provided until one person remains with their full story revealed.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 39.7%, Choices Matter 27.3%, Dark 19.2%, 2D 9.4%, Adventure 4.3%
- #11 Purgatory’s Flower
89% matchVery Positive95% of 91 reviews2025
Dev: vivid selfish
Windows
Hand-drawn 2D point and click Horror x Dating sim Meet the 'Flowers' imprisoned in hell. They long for an escape to purgatory. Your job here is simple. Listen to their stories, and break out together. Easy, right? ...But, doesn't it seem strange? These people... seem to be out of their mind, a bit.
Why similar: Point & Click 43.8%, Emotional 18.1%, Colorful 14.2%, Drama 13.7%, 2D 6.5%
- #12 non-binary
89% matchVery Positive93% of 291 reviews2022
Dev: owof games
Windows · Mac · Linux
"non-binary" is a video game that mixes text choices and bullet hell to tell the story of two non-binary people's journey of self-discovery. Make your choices. Dodge words. Go through things that hurt without breaking down. If you can.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 31.5%, Visual Novel 31.2%, Multiple Endings 16.8%, Emotional 15.4%, 2D 4.8%
- #13 Depression The Game
90% matchMixed69% of 310 reviews2018
Dev: DeepWorks Studios
Windows
Depression The Game is an interactive game simulating major depression. You are joining a young man on one of his really bad days trying to handle his thoughts and survive that day... Will he?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 30.9%, Visual Novel 27.4%, Emotional 14.6%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
- #14 Amarantus
88% matchVery Positive82% of 79 reviews2023
Dev: ub4q
Windows · Mac · Linux
Roadtrip across the country. Confront a tyrant. The revolution will be messy—but the relationships will be messier.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.3%, Dark 16.9%, Choices Matter 15.5%, LGBTQ+ 14.5%, Drama 12.2%
- #15 BlightFog
86% matchVery Positive87% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: Zakroutil
Windows
Journey across a dying world. Manage your resources. Build relationships with anthropomorphic characters. Find a new home or become a fuel drinking madman.
Why similar: Point & Click 28.5%, Visual Novel 19.7%, LGBTQ+ 14.6%, Dark 10.6%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
- #16 The Outcast Lovers
87% matchMixed66% of 85 reviews2020
Dev: ChardPub: Far Few Giants
Windows · Mac
Driving home late one night you encounter a refugee in distress. They are looking for salvation. Do you hand them over to violent authorities? Or risk sheltering them yourself?
Why similar: Point & Click 31.8%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Drama 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Emotional 12.3%
- #17 Friendsim 2
86% matchVery Positive88% of 102 reviews2022
Dev: Studio June
Windows · Mac
In this episodic visual novel, follow the adventures of MSPA Reader as they return to Alternia once more to save their friends... and realize that nothing is as it seems.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.5%, LGBTQ+ 19.3%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Drama 10.4%
- #18 Gender Dysphoria
85% matchVery Positive91% of 70 reviews2023
Dev: exodrifter
Windows · Linux
A short non-linear narrative game about negative experiences after coming out as transgender.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 39.7%, Visual Novel 36%, Emotional 19.4%, Indie 3.2%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #19 Blood Lily Loop
84% matchVery Positive84% of 67 reviews2024
Dev: Sounding Stone / 老奉毊
Windows
Your bestie seems to be hiding something. There's something about your world that seems odd as well, like it has...secrets. Dive into the Cthulhu Mythos universe of this horror game and witness a "friendship" that rewrites the world.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.5%, Visual Novel 24.4%, Multiple Endings 14.7%, Choices Matter 14%, Exploration 11.2%
- #20 The Window Box
84% matchVery Positive80% of 82 reviews2019
Dev: Sundew Studios
Windows · Mac
Wander from room to room in this whimsical and dark visual novel as you follow five friends trapped during a freak storm. Listen while they have hard conversations and tough realizations as they confront the conflict in their lives. For what is a house but a box with windows?
Why similar: Visual Novel 33.4%, LGBTQ+ 28.8%, Emotional 19%, Dark 15.5%, Adventure 2.2%
- #21 "LIFE" not found;
82% matchVery Positive94% of 330 reviews2022
Dev: BerCh1n
Windows
This small Narrative Point & Click (Puzzle) game is about the mental health struggles of a adolescent high school dropout who's lost at life. Find out what they're struggling with, you might even recognize some things from your own life.
Why similar: Point & Click 35.6%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Emotional 13%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Dark 9%
- #22 Aimi
83% matchVery Positive81% of 121 reviews2020
Dev: Toasty
Windows · Mac
Memories swirl all around you...Or are these memories? Familiar faces and places you think you remember but somehow now seem so different. Why are you here? Where is here?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.3%, Dark 18.6%, Exploration 14.2%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Choices Matter 13.6%
- #23 BAD END THEATER
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 9,533 reviews2021
Dev: NomnomNami
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.7%, LGBTQ+ 27.6%, Multiple Endings 18.4%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Colorful 5.4%
- #24 To Make a Game
81% matchVery Positive91% of 77 reviews2022
Dev: TheBluePenguin
Windows · Linux
A short meta story about the struggles of procrastination, and never finishing the things you start. Help motivate me, and give me the confidence I need to finish something.
Why similar: Visual Novel 46.6%, Emotional 18.8%, Choices Matter 12%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, 2D 8.2%
- #25 it's always monday
82% matchMostly Positive79% of 291 reviews2016
Dev: Alon Zubina
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 32%
it's always monday - is a first person exploration game
Why similar: Adventure 75.8%, Walking Simulator 7.4%, Visual Novel 4.6%, Dark 3.9%, Emotional 3.3%
- #26 Afterparty
81% matchMixed68% of 949 reviews2020
Dev: Night School Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 65%
In Afterparty, you are Milo and Lola, recently deceased best buds who suddenly find themselves staring down an eternity in Hell. But there's a loophole: outdrink Satan and he'll grant you re-entry to Earth.
Why similar: Point & Click 35.4%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Drama 14.4%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Colorful 12.5%
- #27 Not Tonight 2
79% matchMostly Positive80% of 447 reviews2022
Dev: PanicBarnPub: No More Robots
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Immigration Enforcement Case #112: You are under arrest. Unless your friends can cross a broken America, retrieve your identifying documents and stay out of trouble... this is the end of the American dream for you.
Why similar: Dark 23.2%, Drama 17.7%, Colorful 15.1%, Emotional 14.4%, Choices Matter 13.2%
- #28 Saihate Station
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 8,177 reviews2025
Dev: びぶ/viv
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.
Why similar: Visual Novel 32.4%, LGBTQ+ 29.3%, Dark 11%, Multiple Endings 10%, Exploration 9.3%
- #29 HOMESICKNESS
77% matchVery Positive96% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: jnity
Windows
HOMESICKNESS is a point-&-click psychological horror indie game exploring the nuances of nostalgia. Play as Theo, trapped in CHILDREEF’s daycare, descending floor by floor; surviving the remnants of time. Use the Kids' multi-tool, listen to obscure tapes, and make your way to the lot. She's waiting.
Why similar: Point & Click 62.5%, Exploration 31%, Singleplayer 2.7%, Adventure 2.6%, Indie 1.2%
- #30 The Safe Place
78% matchVery Positive91% of 97 reviews2023
Dev: Anate Studio
Windows · Mac
This is a dramatic deep social point&click adventure about tough childhood and self-sacrifice.
Why similar: Point & Click 50.4%, Exploration 15.2%, Dark 9.2%, Drama 6%, 2D 5.2%
- #31 Another Tomorrow
78% matchVery Positive90% of 50 reviews2022
Dev: Glitch Games
Windows · Mac
Another Tomorrow is a first-person point and click game. Trapped without your memories you’ll explore abandoned apartments, airfields, temples, and underground facilities to search for clues, solve puzzles, and unlock secrets to answer the question; who are you?
Why similar: Point & Click 62.6%, Exploration 20.3%, Adventure 7.7%, 2D 6.1%, Indie 2.3%
- #32 One's Own Exile
74% matchVery Positive100% of 394 reviews2025
Dev: Updog Software
Windows
Follow Sybil in her pursuit for survival, having to sacrifice everything - her culture, her identity, her values - to achieve a single objective: escape from a place that is constantly trying to kill her. A short game about persecution and identity.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.7%, Dark 20%, Multiple Endings 18.1%, Emotional 17.5%, Choices Matter 10.9%
- #33 Today Is My Birthday
80% matchMixed56% of 104 reviews2020
Dev: Wonder GamesPub: CRYTlVO
Windows
Today Is My Birthday offers a classic horror experience for fans of the genre, thrusting players into insurmountable odds with only a few tools at their disposal to escape death. Your own survival instincts, problem solving skills, and willingness to explore will shape your fate.
Why similar: Adventure 48.8%, Indie 45.6%, Singleplayer 5.6%
- #34 this morning I decided to die
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 169 reviews2023
Dev: ctcPub: Nikita Kryukov
Windows · Mac · Linux
Follow a girl through the last day of her life.
Why similar: Visual Novel 46%, Multiple Endings 20.9%, Drama 15.1%, Colorful 13.9%, Indie 2.6%
- #35 We Know the Devil
76% matchVery Positive94% of 1,141 reviews2016
Dev: Pillow Fight
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
WE KNOW THE DEVIL is a visual novel about teens reluctantly fighting the devil at summer camp. Follow meangirl Neptune, tomboy Jupiter, and shy shy Venus as they get to know each other--but one always gets left out.
Why similar: Visual Novel 37%, LGBTQ+ 35.6%, Multiple Endings 8.7%, Choices Matter 7.1%, Dark 4.5%
- #36 Ashwalkers
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 195 reviews2021
Dev: Nameless XIIIPub: Dear Villagers
Windows
A survival journey through a harsh world without rules or judgement. Only your choices matters in the face of moral dilemmas. Manage your party, food & equipment in this non-linear narrative survival sim with 34 possible endings.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 30.2%, Choices Matter 26.6%, Dark 17.7%, Emotional 12.7%, Adventure 6.9%
- #37 Portrait of a Torn
74% matchVery Positive85% of 59 reviews2024
Dev: Indigo Studios - Interactive StoriesPub: Firenut Games
Windows
As a young soldier returning to an eerily deserted home, you'll explore enigmatic rooms and uncover a haunting, tragic story. Experience an atmospheric journey filled with suspense, mysterious encounters, and a deep narrative.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 35.4%, Exploration 17.1%, Dark 14.8%, Drama 13.9%, Emotional 11.8%
- #38 Introvert: A Teenager Simulator
75% matchMostly Positive72% of 869 reviews2021
Dev: Euphoric Brothers
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 47%
One of the new guys in school tells you he’s going to shoot up the school if he doesn’t make friends in 5 days. Discover the decisions, people, situations you will encounter while playing and trying to make friends of your own and living your own life.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.7%, Exploration 19.5%, Choices Matter 17.2%, Dark 16.5%, Drama 12.5%
- #39 Road Trip to the End of the World
71% matchVery Positive97% of 188 reviews2025
Dev: Shark and Pelican Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Road Trip to the End of the World is a visual novel about the death of a friendship. When Andy and her imaginary friend Fishy set off on a road trip to crash their ex-best friend’s wedding, will they know when to hit the brakes?
Why similar: Visual Novel 33.3%, LGBTQ+ 28.6%, Emotional 17.1%, Colorful 13.6%, 2D 3.5%
- #40 Purrfect Apawcalypse: Patches' Infurno
73% matchVery Positive99% of 441 reviews2021
Dev: Denny TruongPub: 90% Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 30.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Patches is dragged to school for the first ever cat-and-dog school day! All he needs to do is get this damn collar off and wreck some havoc! Will he prove cats and dogs can get along, or will he make this the Purrfect Apawcalypse?
Why similar: Point & Click 34%, Visual Novel 24.3%, LGBTQ+ 22.8%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Choices Matter 9.4%
- #41 Garage: Bad Dream Adventure
72% matchVery Positive97% of 365 reviews2022
Dev: 作場金属製作所 Sakuba Metal Works
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 39%
You are thrown into a weird world by the machine Garage. Can you escape from it?
Why similar: Point & Click 41%, Dark 20.2%, Exploration 15.9%, Drama 15.3%, 2D 4.3%
- #42 7 Days
70% matchVery Positive100% of 80 reviews2025
Dev: Daver The DavePub: IC Industries
Windows
Step into a world where dreams and reality mix. You find yourself in a dream-like world, and explore a different traumatic experience each day. Your choice determines if the boy accepts these moments and moves on, or stays in the past.
Why similar: Dark 26.3%, Choices Matter 21%, Multiple Endings 19.7%, Emotional 18.9%, 2D 7.1%
- #43 The Immaculate Drag
73% matchVery Positive95% of 85 reviews2022
Dev: Discrete Infinity
Windows · Linux
A small game about letting go. Stay up late. Smoke cigarettes. Talk to strangers. Think about what you've lost. Someone you used to love? Or someone you used to be?
Why similar: Point & Click 31.4%, Walking Simulator 30.9%, Exploration 14.6%, Emotional 10.3%, Colorful 10.2%
- #44 If Found...
72% matchVery Positive90% of 2,276 reviews2020
Dev: DREAMFEELPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
If Found... is a game about going home, coming out and erasing everything.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 44.6%, Visual Novel 35.1%, Emotional 10.6%, Indie 5.7%, Adventure 2.8%
- #45 Twofold
71% matchVery Positive96% of 106 reviews2023
Dev: Salty Salty StudiosPub: Studio Élan
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a bid to avoid failing out of college, Olive Penn inadvertently finds themselves caught in the middle of a feud between two campus club leaders whose rivalry seemingly threatens to tear their friendship apart.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.8%, LGBTQ+ 20.7%, Emotional 11.8%, Drama 11.3%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
- #46 Let Me Die (inside)
73% matchMixed66% of 65 reviews2021
Dev: No
Windows
The characters of Let Me Die (inside) have fallen into despair head over heels, so they want to leave this world and end their lives. Your duty is to fulfil their wish. In every level, the player is expected to find a way to die, but before that, he has to complete the death wishes of the character.
Why similar: Dark 54.6%, Choices Matter 18.4%, 2D 10%, Adventure 9.1%, Indie 4.2%
- #47 Make Good Choices
69% matchVery Positive88% of 609 reviews2025
Dev: TN Games
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 1.6 hrs≥1hr: 38%
You’re just trying to get home. It’s only a quarter mile. One street. What could go wrong.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 60.1%, Choices Matter 36.8%, Indie 2%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #48 Hell of a Birthday
68% matchVery Positive96% of 91 reviews2025
Dev: MyGrandfather Games
Windows
IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY!!! and nobody came to celebrate with you… Hell of a Birthday is a First-Person comedic horror game where you play as the Birthday Boy trying to survive your special day. From the maker of Bite Night and Invasion of the Halloween Fiends comes another unique adventure.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 80.7%, Adventure 13.8%, Indie 4.1%, Singleplayer 1.5%
- #49 Late Bird
70% matchVery Positive95% of 120 reviews2022
Dev: Vladimir SlavPub: Coldwild Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Late Bird is a short interactive story about birds, movies, suicidal thoughts and not growing up in time.
Why similar: Point & Click 40.1%, Visual Novel 27.5%, Dark 13%, Drama 10.8%, 2D 6%
- #50 Puzzled Hive
67% matchVery Positive100% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: Player Links Players(PLP漂流瓶)
Windows
Embark on a journey of maze exploration with Meo and Noth. A multi-layered, intricate maze with various puzzles.Exploration and discovery helps you understand the Puzzled Hive better. By now, you should have already made your final decision—will you leave?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 39.8%, Exploration 23.5%, Drama 15.5%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, 2D 6.3%
- #51 An Outcry
70% matchVery Positive93% of 120 reviews2022
Dev: Quinn K.
Windows
A branching-path narrative horror RPG set in Vienna, Austria. Guide the Unnamed through the worst night of their life: Harass your neighbours. Debate with birds. Smoke to survive.
Why similar: Dark 27.2%, Multiple Endings 23.5%, Choices Matter 19.2%, LGBTQ+ 18.8%, 2D 8.8%
- #52 Man I Just Wanna Go Home
67% matchVery Positive95% of 685 reviews2024
Dev: JZPS Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 1.3 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Man I Just Wanna Go Home is an "MSPaint-noir" visual novel with 13 endings, a unique visual style and a killer 80s inspired soundtrack. The story revolves around a delivery person stranded in an unfamiliar part of the city under the devastating rain. All he wants is to get home. Help him!
Why similar: Visual Novel 43.9%, Choices Matter 20.4%, Multiple Endings 19.9%, 2D 9.8%, Drama 5%
- #53 With My Past
67% matchVery Positive95% of 344 reviews2024
Dev: Imagine Wings StudioPub: Edigger
Windows
"How should I face my past in my ever-changing life? "Collaborating with the shadow of the past to unravel allegorical puzzles, confront inner struggles, and explore the path of self-growth.
Why similar: Drama 65.7%, 2D 29.3%, Indie 3%, Singleplayer 2%
- #54 It's You: A Breakup Story
71% matchVery Positive87% of 52 reviews2018
Dev: Brwarner Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
It's You: A Breakup Story is a narrative-driven breakup game where it is them, not you, even when it doesn't feel that way. The game only has one ending; you decide how to get there.
Why similar: Choices Matter 44.2%, Drama 44%, Indie 11.8%
- #55 Road 96: Mile 0
69% matchMixed68% of 1,995 reviews2023
Dev: Digixart
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
The prequel to Road 96. Play Zoe and Kaito where it all started. Change their destinies!
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.1%, Visual Novel 20.9%, Exploration 13.5%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
- #56 A Long Journey to an Uncertain End
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 57 reviews2023
Dev: Crispy Creative
Windows
Explore the known and unknown galaxy with a ragtag crew of eclectic new friends in this narrative management space opera. You are a sentient spaceship, an outlawed commodity, and there's an entire galaxy between you and freedom…not to mention your abusive ex on your tail.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 41.8%, Multiple Endings 24.3%, Choices Matter 23.1%, Adventure 4.5%, Indie 4.1%
- #57 GOODBYE WORLD
68% matchVery Positive85% of 832 reviews2022
Dev: YO FUJIIPub: Flyhigh Works
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 68%
"GOODBYE WORLD" is a narrative adventure game. Play through 12 stages of a puzzle platformer while following the two protagonists through 13 chapters of their story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 33.1%, Walking Simulator 24.8%, Drama 15%, Emotional 13%, Indie 5.8%
- #58 I Write Games Not Tragedies
65% matchVery Positive100% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Studio WifePub: Yotsuba Interactive
Windows
An emo-inspired narrative rhythm game exploring growing pains, addiction, romance and music. Scream with Ash as he makes the transition from baby bat to elder emo, guide him through his crash outs and help him navigate his (teenage) dirtbag life through music.
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.9%, LGBTQ+ 25.4%, Colorful 13.5%, Emotional 12.7%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
- #59 Birth
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,771 reviews2023
Dev: Madison Karrh
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You are alone. You will build a creature, a partner, a wet warm heart, a collection of bones.
Why similar: Point & Click 83.8%, 2D 5.2%, Adventure 4.6%, Indie 4.2%, Singleplayer 2.3%
- #60 Growing Up
66% matchVery Positive88% of 3,558 reviews2021
Dev: Vile Monarch
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
This is the story of your life. Experience the entire journey from toddler to adulthood. Go to schools, learn new things, meet new friends, and have wild adventures! Every choice you make will influence your future career, and decide who your romantic partner will be. Who will you become?
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.5%, LGBTQ+ 20.7%, Choices Matter 17.4%, Emotional 16.4%, Multiple Endings 13.9%