60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Interactive Fiction, Visual Novel, Text-Based.
Simple visual novel in which you play as a young upperclass woman preparing for her debut before the Queen and her royal relatives. All of your decisions lead to one of four very different endings. Who will you become? The jewel of the season or the outcast, never again mentioned by your family?
A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Text-Based 10.1%, Female Protagonist 9.6%
A short, dark visual novel set in the UK about a young autistic girl's destructive obsession with her older brother.
Why similar: Visual Novel 13.2%, Female Protagonist 11.3%, Narration 11.2%, Text-Based 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%
Forge your own path and embark on a perilous journey on board a ship of Thorwal raiders in this epic tale set in the award-winning world of The Dark Eye RPG.
Why similar: Historical 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Narration 11%, Visual Novel 9%, Choices Matter 8.7%
At the heart of the action are a twelve-year-old Kenneth and his younger sister Esme, children of the Murphy family, who hit the trail of a mysterious monster following series of entangled events.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Text-Based 12.2%, Narration 12%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Choices Matter 8.8%
An award-winning, fully-voiced sound novel. In 1888 in Yoshiwara, the pleasure district of Tokyo, a man meets a woman. Soon after, the illustrious escort Hakuhi dies. So begins a tale of the events leading up to her death, told from the perspective of two men with nothing in common.
Why similar: Historical 16.3%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Narration 11.5%, Text-Based 10.4%, Drama 9.7%
Ukraine War Stories is a set of visual novels about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Set in the early months of the war, it tells the stories of civilians trapped on Russian-occupied territory. All stories are based on real events and eyewitness accounts.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Historical 12.1%, Text-Based 11.1%, Narration 11%, Visual Novel 10.4%
The Tiny World is a drama visual novel. A New Year's story about a long separation from home, family, friends, and tears freezing in the cold.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Drama 10.8%, Hand-drawn 10.2%, Text-Based 8%
Parallels: Year One is a visual novel that will take you on a journey through one relationship in five parallel worlds. Join Ron and Jessica on a journey to see each other from a new perspective.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Female Protagonist 14.6%, Text-Based 10.2%, Choices Matter 10%
A digital comic about the story of Emeline. She tries to live her dream of being a superheroine after her friends decided to change their career paths. A gentle and moving story, drawn by hand.
Why similar: Narration 13.7%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Hand-drawn 11.5%, Female Protagonist 8.8%
Interactive anime adventure in visual novel format!
Why similar: Narration 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Hand-drawn 12.8%, Text-Based 10.2%, Emotional 8.1%
A psychological horror visual novel about healing and destiny. When her brother disappears, Elham's desperate search plunges her into a world of haunting visions, buried truths, and battles against dark forces. Will she find her true calling and embrace the light? or will she succumb to darkness
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.1%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Hand-drawn 10.9%, Emotional 10.8%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
A short psychological horror interactive story. Five years after vanishing without a trace, the woman you once called your lover writes from beyond the silence: "I will give birth to our creation.” In three acts, descend into a fractured mindscape where obsession, memory, and myth intertwine.
Why similar: Visual Novel 12%, Narration 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Text-Based 10.4%, Psychological 9.2%
Not It: Spookiest Edition is a horror-filled visual novel full of suspense and mystery where you navigate Katie through a living nightmare. Her move-in day on Halloween throws her into a centuries-old curse. Can she make it through the night? Will her new neighbors perish? Decide their fate.
Why similar: Narration 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Text-Based 12.7%, Visual Novel 12%, Female Protagonist 10.4%
Experience the triumphs and tribulations of two Caribbean immigrants in post-war Britain, in the world’s first Windrush video game, from the creators of the BAFTA nominated Before I Forget. How will you shape your story in this branching narrative interactive photo album?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Hand-drawn 17.7%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Historical 11.4%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
A narrative-driven psychological visual novel where every floor of an elevator reveals a key moment from your past. Face your regrets, uncover forgotten memories, and make choices that shape your future. Will you find closure, or remain trapped in your own mind?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Text-Based 19.1%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Multiple Endings 12.9%
Embark on a journey of this text anime quest with RPG elements! Walk through beautiful locations, overcome challenges and make Peter’s dreams come true. Every step you take matters. And don’t forget to take the diary - you’ll need it!
Why similar: Historical 14.1%, Narration 13.1%, Text-Based 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Hand-drawn 10.9%
Play as a Duskweaver in this short "choices matter" story about self-sacrifice.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Text-Based 15.3%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Narration 9.9%
A short, emotional visual novel following a grieving man who relives memories of days long gone. An exploration of loss presented honestly and kinetically.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Hand-drawn 12.4%, Emotional 12.2%, Drama 11.5%
Faced with evil... would you pull the trigger? Tyrania Enforcers is a text-based visual novel featuring interactive mini-games and hand-drawn animations tied into its narrative. The story explores the ideals of Justice in a world on the brink of conflict.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.7%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Female Protagonist 11.6%, Narration 10.1%, Psychological 10%
Writing on a blog and using her obscure ability, the mysterious Nightingale has been helping people in danger for years. Now, she’s forced to disappear, facing threats from a killer... one of those people she helped in the past. An interactive short story featuring an advanced navigation UI.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18%, Text-Based 16.5%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Female Protagonist 10.5%
Famine Way is a 2D adventure game in the author's hand-drawn style, which unfolds Holodomor in 1932-1933. Go on a journey, experiencing all the tragedy through the eyes of little Olena and her companion - a wounded stork!
Why similar: Historical 17.1%, Hand-drawn 15.1%, Narration 14.2%, Female Protagonist 10.9%, Drama 10.4%
The threat is on the road ahead and deep beneath her skin. A psychological visual novel about memory, trauma, and the cost of every choice.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.6%, Psychological 12.8%, Text-Based 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Emotional 10%
Guilt Free is a visual novel crossed with a point and click made to offer perspective on mental health and eating disorders. Navigate a couple's rocky relationship and encounter "flaws" or "quirks" that may actually be symptomatic behaviors.
Why similar: Narration 16%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Text-Based 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Choices Matter 11.1%
Transparent is a narrative game where every choice shapes Clara’s existence. On the eve of her 30th birthday, she revisits key moments of her life. Will her decisions anchor her to reality or make her fade away? Explore memories, face dilemmas, and discover multiple endings
Why similar: Narration 19.2%, Text-Based 15.5%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Emotional 10.6%
Join the talented photography student Neera on a captivating journey through her memories. Haunted by recurring nightmares, her life spirals into chaos, questioning everything. Involuntarily, she returns to a place she once left behind: her childhood home.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20%, Female Protagonist 14.5%, Drama 12.5%, Emotional 11.9%, Choices Matter 10.8%
An isolated village during the war. Men leave one by one, along the winding forest path painted crimson by distant fires, and do not return. Young Nadia becomes a part-time postwoman filling in for her sick mother. She is now a messenger of hope and of trouble.
Why similar: Historical 14.5%, Narration 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Hand-drawn 12.2%, Female Protagonist 10%
This is a short visual novel that immerses the player in the inner world of the main character, who suffers from social anxiety and is afraid even of a simple phone call. Experience with her the anxiety, procrastination, and constant struggle with herself.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Psychological 14.7%, Hand-drawn 11.7%, Drama 11.5%
A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Psychological 9.9%, Emotional 9.2%, Female Protagonist 9%
Can you fall in love with quilts?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Female Protagonist 15.1%, Emotional 12%, Hand-drawn 12%, Text-Based 12%
Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Text-Based 16%, Drama 11%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Emotional 8.3%
"The hardest part is not to speak up. It’s being heard." Part video game, part graphic novel, Wednesdays seeks to raise awareness about child sexual abuse through a surprisingly hope-filled story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Hand-drawn 14%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Text-Based 12.3%, Psychological 12.3%
Experience the Myth of Frankenstein through the innocent eyes of his creature. Make decisions and change people's view that you will meet on your way. Now, the myth is in your hands, so how are you going to end it?
Why similar: Narration 13.6%, Text-Based 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Hand-drawn 11.7%, Choices Matter 9.8%
A mature branching visual novel where your choices guide Emily’s descent into temptation or resistance as she recovers in her fiancé’s family home under the watch of a dangerously charismatic father-in-law.
Why similar: Narration 17.8%, Visual Novel 17%, Female Protagonist 14.2%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%
Your story continues right where Origins left off. Whether Jessica finds herself wandering the streets alone, caught in George’s web of deceit, or trapped in the unsettling confines of Margaret Thatuals under Professor Trounch’s watchful gaze and the orderlies, every choice matters.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.2%, Female Protagonist 15.5%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Choices Matter 9.9%
You know the feeling of struggling to get out of bed? In A Heavy Morning, you will play as a young girl battling with her own mind. Your only objective? Get out of bed and get to work on time.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14%, Narration 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Female Protagonist 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.6%
Magic and science. Past and future. But what of the present?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Narration 16.7%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Female Protagonist 13.4%, Text-Based 13%
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 18.1%, Hand-drawn 18%, Female Protagonist 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Multiple Endings 11.4%
《穿越日记》是一款沉浸式互动剧情游戏，玩家将扮演一名穿越入盛世皇城的现代女性，亲历宫廷风云与权谋博弈。通过选择不同剧情分支，推动故事走向多个结局，体验细腻的人物情感与复杂的人心博弈。支持单人离线游玩，适用于 Windows 和 macOS 平台，适合喜爱剧情向、宫廷题材及互动叙事体验的玩家。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Female Protagonist 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Historical 9.9%
Do you enjoy listening to stories and having the ability to influence their unfolding? If so, then immerse yourself in the role of an active participant as you join Yaren on her quest for freedom.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Text-Based 16.4%, Narration 14.9%, Psychological 11.3%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
Step into a small town society of the 1820s in this historically accurate visual novel, filled with drama, dresses and danger.
Why similar: Historical 18.9%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Female Protagonist 13%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
A visual novel set in 1920s Paris. As summer draws near, young students are revising their end-of-year exams. Olivier is one of them.
Why similar: Historical 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Visual Novel 14%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Emotional 9.6%
A GxG coming-of-age visual novel. Nina sucks at choosing. But when a mysterious incident happens at the arts academy, will she muster the courage to choose–or will she let someone else decide on her behalf?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Narration 11%, Female Protagonist 10.4%, Text-Based 9%
Shame & choices = possible apocalypse. You need to figure out what’s causing the apocalypse to happen, so that you can prevent it. 2 playable characters with different relations to shame → 2 unique perspectives of the same story. Complicated families, branching choices and unforgiving consequences.
Why similar: Psychological 11.9%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Narration 11.2%, Text-Based 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
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 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Multiple Endings 15.8%, Hand-drawn 13.4%, Narration 11.7%
Born with a birth defect that he hates, Kakeru struggles with severe anxiety and depression. Guide his timid decisions as he takes a brave step into a new world - joining his school's music club, making unexpected and inspiring new connections, and daring to dream again.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Narration 11.3%, Emotional 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.3%
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.
Why similar: Choices Matter 14%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Narration 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
Retracing the footsteps of a mother she never knew, Lena's trying to make it as a dancer in the city. Caught in a quarrel between dance companies, dealing with love and heartbreak and the challenges of young adulthood, she must also cope with the voice in her head commenting on everything she does.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Hand-drawn 11.9%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Female Protagonist 11%
Skylar is an student with anxiety. Walter is a farmer with social anxiety and PTSD. Jessica is a programmer with anxiety and agoraphobia. Li Wei is an technologist with intense anxiety. Navigate their stories, learn how they move through the world, and about methods of treatment and recovery.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Psychological 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Emotional 8.4%
Within this fully voice-acted Visual Novel, meet Elliot, and the vortex of conflicting truths he has become trapped in. Reach each ending to discover reality for yourself.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.3%, Psychological 15.9%, Multiple Endings 15.1%, Narration 14.5%, Drama 12.4%
Your mom left you alone at the checkout. With a full cart. It's your turn. What do you do? A short psychological game about everyday anxiety.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Narration 12.3%, Text-Based 11.9%, Choices Matter 11.2%
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: Narration 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Female Protagonist 10.8%, Hand-drawn 8.4%
Chess. Love. Destiny. All the same things, really.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Hand-drawn 16.2%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Narration 10%, Choices Matter 9.8%
Read words and make choices as you immerse yourself in the adventures inside the protagonist's head. This dark visual novel tells the story of a lost man among corpses in a northern Russian town. Will you help the hero find a good ending? I don't know what to do with him anymore.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Hand-drawn 16.8%, Psychological 10.1%, Narration 7.7%
A strange incident turns the life of an ordinary young man upside down when, having fallen asleep on a regular train commute, he wakes up in another country... in a body of a Japanese student! An unforgettable summer adventure awaits, promising many fateful meetings and momentous occasions.
Why similar: Text-Based 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Drama 10%, Emotional 9.8%
A queer Victorian romance visual novel in which a gentleman running from the past and a poet hiding from the future collide through a lonely hearts ad. Suddenly, their lives can blossom—if you choose to change them.
Why similar: Historical 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Narration 11.7%, Choices Matter 9.9%
A choice-driven narrative RPG set in China’s Warring States period. Rise from a nameless soldier to a legendary general through decisions with permanent consequences. Death is final. History remembers only the survivors.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Text-Based 17.7%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Drama 10.1%
Slava is an ordinary guy living in a shabby socket. Well, like living, existing. He has lost all his dreams, and now he has one task - not to live until dawn. But before that you need to write a will...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Text-Based 11.6%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Narration 11%, Hand-drawn 8.3%
Live through the last ten minutes of Juan Fuentes, who has been given the chance to choose his very last words. Captured by Victoriano Huerta's army after the Ten Tragic Days during the Mexican Revolution, Juan will confront his life, death, family, relationships and existence.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Historical 16.9%, Text-Based 16%, Psychological 11.1%, Hand-drawn 9.6%
Anxiety Puppy is a 2D interactive narrative game that focuses on anxiety. In the game, anxiety is personified as a little puppy. Players will explore its story and try to coexist with it. Go find its traces and give it a hug.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Drama 12.3%, Psychological 11.6%
An autopsy of a queer relationship.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Narration 13.8%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
