60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Life Sim, Story Rich, Choices Matter, Visual Novel.
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.
Your Story: Games with Death
A medieval text quest in the "Choose Your Own Adventure" genre, where each choice could be your last. Create your story with more than 2,000 events, 200 of which will prove fatal. In a world where death plays against you, can you outsmart it and write your own story?
Zœufs Story Academie
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?
A medieval text quest in the "Choose Your Own Adventure" genre, where each choice could be your last. Create your story with more than 2,000 events, 200 of which will prove fatal. In a world where death plays against you, can you outsmart it and write your own story?
Why similar: Life Sim 30.7%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
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 30.8%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Story Rich 9.2%
Follow the journey of a young boy living in seclusion, whose life takes a dramatic turn after a fierce storm uncovers a peculiar mirror. What begins as a simple curiosity transforms into a heartfelt connection as the boy discovers the mirror's magical properties.
Why similar: Life Sim 31.4%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Exploration 8%
A small visual novel about the adventures of a guy named Leon, who wants to change his past. During his school years, a lot of interesting things happened, there were a lot of girls, and where is all this now… That's what Leon thought until he found an amulet that could send him back several years.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.2%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Story Rich 10.7%, Life Sim 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
You've arrived in town jobless, catfished, and completely broke. But every great story needs a little drama! It’s time to build your dream home, make lifelong friends, and uncover the town's deepest secrets.
Why similar: Life Sim 33.1%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Story Rich 11.8%, Cozy 8.6%, Exploration 7.3%
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.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.8%, Life Sim 18.3%, Modern 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Choices Matter 10.3%
A story-driven adult visual novel packed with drama, humor, impactful choices—and sex. In RAVE, you step into the shoes of a troublemaker who's finally pushed things too far. Reconnect with old friends, meet new girls, and shape your future through meaningful choices in a heartfelt, branching story.
Why similar: Life Sim 27.7%, Visual Novel 22.2%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Story Rich 10.5%
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: Life Sim 30.4%, Modern 12.2%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%, Story Rich 9.2%
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: Life Sim 31.3%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%, Story Rich 9.3%
“Mansion Dungeon” is a retro RPG-style adventure where you manage an apartment building while interacting with demons. Venture into dungeons featuring nostalgic 2D graphics, and bring back so many rewards that they won’t all fit on the small screen.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Multiple Endings 12%, Life Sim 11.5%, Modern 10%
You didn't want to spend your summer at the beach, but after being dragged there by your friend, you decide to make the most of it! Meet four unique girls and spend time with them to unlock and uncover their hidden stories, and maybe even fall in love in this heart-throbbing, rom-com visual novel!
Why similar: Life Sim 22.5%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Story Rich 10.8%, Choices Matter 9.3%
The 14th straight day of crunch. Then your heart stops — and a voice asks: would you start over? Begin again at age zero, making new choices across school, love, work, life, and death. 31 endings, 17 companions, 10 career paths — what kind of life will you choose this time?
Why similar: Life Sim 32.2%, Visual Novel 23.7%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Story Rich 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
Listen to your customers, find out what they really want, and search for the right property to recommend in this real estate simulation and story-driven adventure. Work alongside your boss, Hisui Odate, at a small neighborhood agency and help each customer find a place they can truly call home.
Why similar: Life Sim 27.8%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Modern 11.1%, Story Rich 10%, Choices Matter 8.5%
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: Life Sim 36.7%, Visual Novel 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Story Rich 9.4%, Simulation 7.5%
You've been given the chance to go to the country's most prestigious academy. Your future couldn't have looked brighter! But you'll soon find out nothing is ever as it seems...
Why similar: Life Sim 26.7%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Choices Matter 7.6%
Leo Pujols is just a wholesome man with a simple calling: open up a butt tattoo parlor. The historic town of Las Nalgas will never be the same. In this visual novel, your choices decide the fate of Leo and Las Nalgas. Also, you draw tattoos on butt cheeks.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.9%, Life Sim 16.4%, Story Rich 12.3%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%
In this cozy life-simulation RPG, you play as a young artist who moves to a new city to pursue your dreams. Plan your schedule, balance life and career, explore the city, and meet new friends! Live a fulfilling year on your own, at your own pace.
Why similar: Life Sim 31.6%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Story Rich 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
Reality Rivals is the reality show you can play. Compete in challenges, form alliances, and survive the vote in this social strategy game. Every choice shapes the drama. Will you avoid Exile, and beat your Rivals?
Why similar: Life Sim 28.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Modern 9.4%, Choices Matter 8.1%
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 26.1%, Life Sim 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Modern 8.8%, Adventure 8.2%
A point-and-click narrative puzzle game with a delicate art style and soothing pace. In this Underworld at the end of all things, guide souls who lost their memories and speech safely across the Styx. Luckily, our protagonist is about to face the most restless bunch of them all...
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.6%, Life Sim 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Exploration 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%
In the game, the protagonist is selected by the system and has the ability to travel through multiple universes. He can purchase items in other worlds and then sell them in his own world to earn money, upgrade the system, and continue the main storyline to discover the truth of the world
Why similar: Life Sim 40.7%, Visual Novel 22.5%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Story Rich 11.6%, Simulation 7.9%
"Endless Monday: In Progress" - New job, new Penny. Our favorite former corporate grunt is back, and working hard to live the dream! But as she struggles to keep the dream alive, she'll need all the help she can get, from friends, angry ex-coworkers, the past, and beyond.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 10%
Marchen fantasy raising simulation 『Lullaby Days』 is a game where the goal is to grow a duckling girl into a hero. Your duckling girl will grow through education, part-time work, exploration, and more. Create 70 endings in the Kingdom of Oberebach with around 90 sub-characters.
Why similar: Life Sim 34.4%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Story Rich 10.9%, Choices Matter 7.9%
"Is this really the life you want?" A visual novel with simple life-sim elements, based on 80% true stories from world travelers. Step behind the bar in Tokyo, encounter extraordinary lives, and challenge your values. A simulation to rediscover yourself and open the door to a "new you."
Why similar: Life Sim 21.2%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Modern 10.1%, Multiple Endings 10%
Red Chamber Chronicle is a classical Chinese life simulation and visual novel with multiple endings. You play as Jia Baoyu in the Grand View Garden, where daily life, relationships, and choices shape your branching story and different outcomes.
Why similar: Life Sim 38.5%, Visual Novel 25.2%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Choices Matter 8.7%, Hand-drawn 5.8%
Master of Balance is a workplace survival game. You play as a junior manager who becomes caught up in a bizarre, otherworldly incident. To survive, you must carefully handle both daily life and work responsibilities while uncovering the truth behind what happened.
Why similar: Life Sim 35.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Story Rich 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.2%
Warm soft skin, contrasted with hard chitin. It isn't something you've thought of until one day where your curiosity forced an encounter with an actual insect girl! Will you be able to help her integrate into society? Or will there be someone who stands in your way..?
Why similar: Life Sim 28.7%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
Guide the traumatized 'Woochan' as you navigate his destiny. He can either find happiness with the heroine or remain forever lost in the depths of his past.
Why similar: Life Sim 22.4%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.1%
It is a multi-ending simulation game where you strive to become an alchemist. Along the way, discover new endings through encounters with different people.
Why similar: Life Sim 40.1%, Visual Novel 26.6%, Story Rich 10.4%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Simulation 7.2%
A visual novel about life, love and death. The sequel to Laments of a Platinum Rose continues the story through the eyes of the abdicated Jane Perdita, who also must overcome insurmountable odds to save the one that she loves.
Why similar: Life Sim 28.7%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Exploration 10.1%, Choices Matter 8.2%
Human belief has the power to change reality. For millennia, alien races have been visiting Earth, gaining supernatural abilities and fantastic wealth by exploiting this remarkable power. But humans are advancing, and many aliens now find themselves leaving Earth with nothing but debts and regrets.
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.5%, Multiple Endings 15.3%, Story Rich 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%
Prepare the next monarch by finding her hobbies, training her for battle, and befriending the citizens she'll one day protect. Dive into an all-new parenting-simulator-RPG adventure, where every decision you make will not only affect the future of your daughter but that of an entire empire!
Why similar: Life Sim 43.1%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Story Rich 6.5%
Run the last post office on the seabed. Weigh every parcel, price it to the exact stamp, catch the forgeries, and pack the day's mail into a fish-shaped cargo hold that has to hang level. Four weeks. Four rent days. One desk between you and eviction.
Why similar: Life Sim 53.5%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Simulation 12.4%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Cozy 8.8%
Working 9-5 as a corporate goblin. 💼 Train your stats, make some friends, expose your enemies, and uncover a conspiracy of mythical proportions! One wrong move and you're fired!🔥
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.7%, Life Sim 21.5%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Simulation 8.5%
Live the life of a Monster within a society of fantastic creatures. Hunt for food, make friends and allies, and battle your own instincts in order to rise above your humble origins in the sequel to the best-selling Monster Loves You!
Why similar: Life Sim 35.7%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Hand-drawn 6.8%
Princess Maker: Children of Revelation is a raising simulation game that returns after nearly 18 years as part of the Princess Maker package series, where you raise a young girl into adulthood. Become a parent in the game and help fulfill your daughter's dreams!
Why similar: Life Sim 50.8%, Simulation 13.6%, Multiple Endings 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%, Choices Matter 8.5%
Choice of Life: Floors is a psychological horror detective game where every choice shapes your story. An elevator descends through the endless floors of your own home, leading you into a game against your own mind. Each step brings you closer to escape… or to madness
Why similar: Life Sim 29.7%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Story Rich 7.5%
"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%, Multiple Endings 14.5%, Choices Matter 14%, Story Rich 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%
Raise your daughter while she attends a magical academy. Choose which classes she attends, jobs she does, training she undergoes, and more in a character raising sim packed full of story and over 50 endings to reach. How she grows up to be the world's cutest princess depends on you!
Why similar: Life Sim 35.6%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Story Rich 7.4%
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: Life Sim 21.3%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Modern 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
A real journey into the depths of yourself, an atmospheric immersion in the night city, soaked with rain, melancholy and the mysterious whispering of destinies. You are not just a reader, but the creator of your own story, a composer whose decisions are the chords that form the unique melody of fate
Why similar: Life Sim 30.9%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Multiple Endings 9.3%, Story Rich 8.8%
You are a wishing well in a small seaside town. Eight people return for eight days, tossing coins and whispering what they want most. Your power is limited: every wish you grant makes another impossible. The town remembers everything.
Why similar: Life Sim 33.7%, Visual Novel 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Simulation 10.6%, Exploration 7.8%
You've had the same dream all week: a school field trip to a zoo you can't leave, where the lions always find you in the end. Wander the zoo exhibits, make your choices, and search for the way out. A short, hand-painted interactive story about a recurring dream, and finally resolving it.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11.7%
Did you ever have a virtual pet? Was your virtual pet responsible for solving mysteries in the cruel streets of Victorian London? Did your virtual pet forget to eat? Did he stay up to 3AM doing chemistry experiments? Your virtual pet is named Sherlock Holmes. Try to keep him alive.
Why similar: Life Sim 28.1%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
Tayke Me With You is a visual novel about high school seniors and their struggles with each other and the world around them. You play as Gene, a sheltered, socially naive human from the city as he acclimates to living in a rural town filled with dinosaurs, finding friends (and love) along the way.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, Story Rich 10.5%
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: Life Sim 32%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 8%, Choices Matter 7.3%
A simulation SLG (Simulated Management) game that simulates working life in a modern city. In the game, you will play as a young graduate starting a magical working journey.
Why similar: Life Sim 43.8%, Visual Novel 23.5%, Simulation 12.7%, Multiple Endings 9.4%, Choices Matter 8.4%
College Craze is a female gaze adult dating and life simulation game. Find endless sexy possibilities for your own college experience at Sugardale U with your custom female MC, the branching story structure, and +25 love interests. No fade-to-black scenes here, so enroll today!
Why similar: Life Sim 28.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Modern 10.4%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.2%
You're just a simple inhabitant of the endless Gigastructure. The best you'll get is seven shifts at a machine and a bowl of feed concentrate, and that for good service to the party.... Is that it? Or do you have a choice?
Why similar: Life Sim 27.2%, Visual Novel 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Choices Matter 9.4%
It's morning time, there are customers waiting, and you can't afford to lose your job! Play as the forgetful apprentice and do your best to keep this magical potion shop afloat in this short, brew-your-own adventure.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Life Sim 12.8%, Choices Matter 9.1%
Recent high school graduates gather at a remote cabin for a celebration. What begins as a night of laughter spirals into a tense mystery full of secrets, twists, and chilling choices. Who will survive? Navigate friendships, and uncover the multi-layered mystery in Shadows of Betrayal.
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Story Rich 12.6%
A psychological horror story set in the town of Blackthorn; a place that lives in constant fear of a witch. The two main suspects? Levi’s mom and sister! His only lifelines to the outside world. Can they live a peaceful life? Or will they be dragged down by the dying town?
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.3%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
For Nikita, time stood still long ago. His life has become an endless, exhausting marathon of anxiety, where night brings no rest. Trying to find some peace and escape the haunting nightmares, he suddenly discovers that reality has cracked.
Why similar: Life Sim 35.6%, Visual Novel 21.9%, Exploration 12.4%, Multiple Endings 8.6%, Choices Matter 7.9%
Experience a pastel-toned emotional journey in Yuika My Bestie, a short visual novel you can complete in under 15 minutes per playthrough. With 5 unique endings and heartfelt choices, it takes just 30–40 minutes to explore every path of this soft, late-night cry.
Why similar: Life Sim 19.6%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.1%
Mistel Garden is a cozy school RPG/fantasy Visual Novel similar to ‘Princess Maker’. The player raises a child to become a hero, a magical prodigy or uncover ancient secrets. You choose school lessons, work and activities to navigate the events of the story and (hopefully) get a good ending!
Why similar: Life Sim 35.6%, Visual Novel 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Hand-drawn 6.9%, Simulation 6.4%
What to do when your days are not going well? What to do when you need to wake up and manage a troubled life, in which you need to work, eat well and still have time for yourself? Isolated Room is about that, and maybe a little more.
Why similar: Life Sim 38.4%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%
A psychological horror RPG with visual novel elements, where you live the life of Hicha, a shut-in hikikomori trapped in an endless cycle of depression, anxiety, and routine.
Why similar: Life Sim 34.2%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Story Rich 11.7%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Choices Matter 10%
A black and white manga-style visual novel about high school, parties, crushes, best friends and bullies!
Why similar: Life Sim 36.9%, Visual Novel 24.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Choices Matter 8%, Multiple Endings 7.4%
An experimental narrative game that tells its story through sound and memory. Sort through a box of personal mementos and relive memories from a relationship by closing your eyes in real life.
Why similar: Life Sim 28.2%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Choices Matter 8.4%
