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60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Mystery, Choices Matter, Visual Novel.

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Travel to a remote snowy island where everything is not what it seems! Interact with the locals, unravel the prophecy, and prepare for a "holiday" with Helga Burevis in an action-packed visual novel where every choice matters. The only rule: trust no one. ESPECIALLY mirrors, masks, and musicians.

Reviews: No user reviews — 50%
Released: Q1 2027
Developer: YARMO studio
Genres: Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG
Platforms: Windows

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    97% matchVery Positive91% of 1,461 reviews2023
    Dev: Innocent GreyPub: Shiravune
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    Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 115.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%

    Unravel a string of gruesome murders terrorizing Tokyo in this mystery-thriller visual novel. The secrets of a case from six years prior may just be the key to the current unending cycle of tragedy—and the thing that cracks this woeful world’s shell may be one girl’s smile.

    Why similar: Cult 37.6%, Visual Novel 11%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Mystery 7.8%, Cinematic 7.7%

  2. #2 BURIED STARS
    96% matchVery Positive84% of 2,248 reviews2021
    Dev: LINE Games Corporation
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    Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    A mystery adventure set at the collapse site of a live survival audition show. Trapped contestants communicate with each other—and the outside world through social media—as they wait for rescue. But as unexpected events unfold, trust begins to crack, and survival becomes far more complicated.

    Why similar: Conspiracy 17%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Investigation 9.8%, Psychological 9.3%

  3. #3 To become a god
    96% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Shinsha
    Windows

    A game that alternates between a clicker section—where you gain followers and perform miracles—and novel game section—where you advance the story. If she were to become a god—surely everything would be resolved. Or so she thought.

    Why similar: Cult 35.6%, Faith 33.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Dialogue Heavy 5.9%

  4. #4 Station 21
    95% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Daze Gallery
    Windows

    What traps us is not time, but our faith in it.

    Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 14.5%, Investigation 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Story Rich 10.3%, Cinematic 8.6%

  5. #5 Ovine Replica
    94% matchPositive81% of 27 reviews2023
    Dev: Amorous Ursidae
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A fantasy visual novel featuring action, horror, and multiple endings to a tale of suspense, intrigue, desperation, and desire. Part I of The Enonoia Saga.

    Why similar: Conspiracy 20.3%, Nonlinear 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Visual Novel 10.8%

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    94% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: PHANTOM PRODUCTIONS YAZILIM LIMITED SIRKETI
    Windows

    Will you sell the truth to the highest bidder, use it to bring down the Consortium, or become just another ghost frozen in the system?

    Why similar: Cult 38.5%, Conspiracy 21.3%, Choices Matter 14%, Investigation 13.8%, Mystery 4.8%

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    92% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Fallen Horse Entertainment
    Windows

    Work for a dystopian Inspection Bureau, Determine whether the subjects are humans or not, Uncover secrets, Endure psychological horrors and reach your work quota - or else.

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    93% matchMostly Positive78% of 51 reviews2020
    Dev: ScoreboardGames
    Windows · Mac

    UNFORGOTTEN – a story-driven, non-linear visual novel, where you can immerse in the ethnic ambience of Northern myths and horrors. Can you solve the riddles of the past - without ever losing yourself in the present? Your fate is in your hands!

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    91% matchVery Positive88% of 283 reviews2023
    Dev: The Pixel Hunt
    Windows · Mac

    In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.

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    91% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Lightword Productions GmbH
    Windows

    Discover the authentically recreated world of the Gospels and witness the Story of Jesus of Nazareth as a young fisherboy. Shape your personal story while facing existential life questions and deal with fundamental human conflicts in a biblical context - the choice is yours.

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    90% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: KingsAvalon Studio
    Windows

    One million dollars. Two sisters. Countless consequences. Experience everyday life in modern Vietnam while uncovering the truth behind a mysterious one-million-dollar debt.

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  12. #12 Adeline's story
    89% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Pixel PushkinPub: One Dollar Games
    Windows

    «Adeline’s Story» — a psychological-horror visual novel about a girl who moves from a bustling city to a godforsaken village, where the nighttime silence is ripped apart by inhuman screams and people vanish one by one.

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  13. #13 In Her Service
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    Windows

    Jack and Sylvia work as sevants in Talia Godroy's house to clear a debt. What begins as work becomes something neither of them planned. A branching adult visual novel about romance, desire and jealousy — 20+ hours, 16 endings, no way to see them all in one run.

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    87% matchVery Positive95% of 681 reviews2024
    Dev: Innocent GreyPub: Shiravune
    Windows
    Median: 18.6 hrsMean: 173.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    Detective Reiji Tokisaka is back to face down a mystery that spans decades, if not centuries. With the aftermath of his last case weighing on his soul and a long-silent cult resurgent, can he solve the crime—or will it become his curse?

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    86% matchVery Positive92% of 53 reviews2024
    Dev: Purple Brick Games
    Windows · Mac

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    Windows

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    Windows

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    Windows

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    Windows

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    77% matchVery Positive93% of 59 reviews2024
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    76% matchNo user reviews2026
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    75% matchNo user reviews2026
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    72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 39,157 reviews2023
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    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%

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    72% matchPositive90% of 28 reviews2025
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    74% matchVery Positive97% of 236 reviews2021
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    73% matchVery Positive90% of 1,395 reviews2020
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    70% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2026
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    71% matchNo user reviews
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    71% matchNo user reviews2026
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    69% match7 user reviews88% of 7 reviews2026
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    70% matchNo user reviews2027
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    67% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2026
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    69% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2022
    Dev: Pleon Words
    Windows

    A detective noir, choose-your-own-adventure game with hand-drawn art, over 250k words, and an immersive soundtrack.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Conspiracy 15.1%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Psychological 11.1%, Investigation 10.9%

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