- #1 A Butterfly in the District of Dreams
97% matchPositive82% of 28 reviews2017
Dev: Life a LittlePub: Sekai Project
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 97%
An otherworldly town and the people who occupy it... It feels as if time doesn't pass here. This is the story of Olive Village, and the people who make it special.
Why similar: Visual Novel 39.1%, Casual 26%, Indie 20.8%, Story Rich 14.2%
- #2 Grisaia Phantom Trigger Vol.2
96% matchVery Positive94% of 166 reviews2017
Dev: FrontwingPub: Frontwing USA
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 66.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A VIP disappears en route to Japan, and it's up to Mihama students Rena, Tohka, Chris, and Murasaki to help investigate, with the twins from Kyousen Sakuragaoka in tow. Recovering the VIP pushes their minds and bodies to the brink, and to top it all off, Rena and Haruto’s past is revealed as well!
Why similar: Visual Novel 34.9%, Violent 28.3%, Anime 14.3%, Casual 11.3%, Story Rich 10%
- #3 A Light in the Dark
96% matchVery Positive93% of 1,722 reviews2018
Dev: CreSpiritPub: Sekai Project
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
──We cannot choose in this unfair world.The rich boy stuck in his never changing daily life...The fierce girl struggling for survival...Two people in totally opposite positions in life.In the face of confusion and the choices before them, what will they find...?
Why similar: Visual Novel 34.7%, Violent 20.2%, Casual 11.4%, Indie 10.8%, Anime 9.9%
- #4 MYTH - Steam Edition
95% matchVery Positive89% of 169 reviews2016
Dev: CircletempoPub: MangaGamer
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
A world of shadows. A world of light. In the world of light where no shadows exist lived a boy - Meito Tanabe. One day, he met a girl who possessed a shadow - Shimon. She brings him to her world - a place filled with shadows.
Why similar: Visual Novel 48.5%, Violent 29.9%, Indie 11.5%, Anime 10.1%
- #5 Grisaia Phantom Trigger Vol.1
94% matchVery Positive92% of 352 reviews2017
Dev: FrontwingPub: Frontwing USA
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 53.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
"Grisaia: Phantom Trigger" is a visual novel, specifically a kinetic novel (without branching routes). Returning character artist Akio Watanabe and writer Ryuta Fujisaki bring you the latest installment in the acclaimed Grisaia series.
Why similar: Visual Novel 36.3%, Violent 24.9%, Anime 15.5%, Casual 11.6%, Story Rich 10.3%
- #6 Summer Memory of Bell
93% matchVery Positive94% of 207 reviews2018
Dev: 忆夏之铃制作组
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
This is a Galgame about pure love which takes place in the summer, produced by Galgame Department of Jinan University's unnamed cartoon club in 2015 and re-optimized three years later.
Why similar: Visual Novel 44.6%, Casual 21.9%, Indie 17.5%, Anime 15.9%
- #7 Campus Notes - forget me not.
94% matchVery Positive88% of 72 reviews2016
Dev: 4th clusterPub: Dogenzaka Lab
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
A novel game set in the University of Tsukuba. Play as Yuta Kiriha and join the group "Bertha's Knights" to solve a mysterious case of being forgotten every day.
Why similar: Visual Novel 57.6%, Anime 21.6%, Indie 20.8%
- #8 The Melody of Grisaia
92% matchVery Positive94% of 90 reviews2016
Dev: FrontwingPub: Frontwing USA
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A side story for The Labyrinth of Grisaia, this episode takes place just after Kusakabe Asako officially names Kazami Yuuji her successor as number 9029, and details his globe-hopping exploits thereafter. Yet more secret passages of The Labyrinth of Grisaia are revealed within...
Why similar: Visual Novel 35.1%, Violent 25.1%, Anime 15.6%, Casual 12.8%, Story Rich 10.1%
- #9 Mhakna Gramura and Fairy Bell
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 652 reviews2018
Dev: ALICE IN DISSONANCE
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Written in the style of a children’s book, Mhakna Gramura and Fairy Bell is a Cinematic Novel about two children named Mhakna and Sebiarno that escape the wretched Mullbear Orphanage with the help of a Fairy named Bell, who promises eternal happiness as long as they agree to never grow up.
Why similar: Visual Novel 37.2%, Casual 18.6%, Anime 15.3%, Indie 14.9%, Story Rich 12.5%
- #10 Selenon Rising
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 21 reviews2016
Dev: Fastermind Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
An all-powerful alien race has conquered the Earth, and you work for them. As Violet, a psychic agent who can read emotions, you must solve crimes in order to discover the truth that could potentially save, or destroy, the human race.
Why similar: Visual Novel 43.3%, Casual 30.2%, Indie 26.5%
- #11 Lily of the Valley
90% matchVery Positive94% of 93 reviews2017
Dev: ebi-hime
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Following his mother's death, a young man meets a strange young girl in the Welsh countryside.
Why similar: Visual Novel 45.9%, Casual 30.1%, Indie 24.1%
- #12 Grisaia Phantom Trigger Vol.4
89% matchVery Positive97% of 132 reviews2018
Dev: FrontwingPub: Frontwing USA
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 84.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Taiga is an elementary student applying to join Class A, the combat unit. Her transfer is approved, but there's one catch: Chris must supervise her. All is well until a terrorist attack breaks out, and Chris rushes off alone. SORD is powerless - what will they do?
Why similar: Visual Novel 40%, Violent 23%, Anime 18.2%, Casual 10.7%, Story Rich 7.5%
- #13 Change
89% matchVery Positive92% of 384 reviews2017
Dev: Adventurer's Tavern
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 80%
你有没有一段时间,无论如何都提不起精神来,总以为离开这里会变好,换了个环境却没有任何改变。 觉得自己做的事情毫无意义,只想做“自己想做的事情”,却连什么是“自己想做的事情”都不知道。 害怕自己的人生就这么平淡的结束,但却一直没有找到改变的契机……
Why similar: Casual 38.6%, Indie 33.7%, Visual Novel 27.7%
- #14 旧手表 - Old Watch
88% matchVery Positive85% of 676 reviews2017
Dev: 灰烬天国
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
This is an Visual Novel game. It's a story about time leap.
Why similar: Visual Novel 39.3%, Casual 33.3%, Indie 27.4%
- #15 克莉丝的炎之信仰 Cryste: the Faith of Fire Vol.1
87% matchVery Positive89% of 296 reviews2017
Dev: SalvationPub: JingtuStudio
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
In another distant world, there is a kingdom of fire. They who live under the red sky. People with different social classes. Birth with different but changeless fate. Those of nobility bring fortune and power to men, and bring hope.
Why similar: Visual Novel 53.3%, Casual 19.3%, Indie 15.4%, Anime 12.1%
- #16 Sable's Grimoire
86% matchVery Positive96% of 145 reviews2018
Dev: Zetsubou
Windows · Mac · Linux
Sable's Grimoire is a visual novel featuring monster girls in a magic academy setting. Play as Sable, an aspiring magic researcher, as he get sucked into the daily lives and troubles of his demi-human classmates.
Why similar: Visual Novel 43.9%, Casual 21.5%, Anime 18.3%, Indie 16.3%
- #17 PacaPlus
86% matchVery Positive87% of 84 reviews2017
Dev: PacoProjectPub: Sekai Project
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
The story follows a certain Kazuma Saeki who is living an ordinary high school life. Surrounded by friends, especially his cute girlfriend Yukari Izumi, his school days could not be any better.
Why similar: Visual Novel 46%, Indie 27.6%, Casual 26.4%
- #18 Harmonia
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 777 reviews2016
Dev: VisualArts/KeyPub: VisualArts
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 89.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
From renowned visual novel studio Key, which brought you the highly rated visual novel “planetarian~the reverie of a little planet~”, this is “Harmonia”, the latest kinetic novel in the series.
Why similar: Visual Novel 44.7%, Anime 19.3%, Casual 15.2%, Violent 14.8%, Story Rich 5.9%
- #19 Nanairo Reincarnation
84% matchVery Positive96% of 165 reviews2019
Dev: Silky's Plus WasabiPub: Sekai Project
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Join spirit detective Kagami Makoto and his demon familiars as they hunt down the wandering ghosts disrupting the peace of his small town.
Why similar: Visual Novel 40.4%, Violent 19.9%, Anime 15.7%, Casual 7.2%, Choices Matter 6.7%
- #20 Walkerman
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 39 reviews2017
Dev: ScalemaiLPub: Sekai Project
Windows · Mac · Linux
Hunt monsters by discovering and exploiting their rules in this Visual Novel from ScalemaiL.
Why similar: Visual Novel 36.9%, Violent 32.6%, Indie 19.7%, Story Rich 9.8%, Singleplayer 1%
- #21 Grisaia Phantom Trigger Vol.3
83% matchVery Positive93% of 160 reviews2017
Dev: FrontwingPub: Frontwing USA
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 76.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
"Grisaia: Phantom Trigger" is a visual novel, specifically a kinetic novel (without branching routes). Returning character artist Akio Watanabe and writer Ryuta Fujisaki bring you the latest installment in the acclaimed Grisaia series.
Why similar: Visual Novel 36.4%, Violent 23.8%, Anime 16.8%, Casual 11.1%, Story Rich 10.8%
- #22 Memory Oblivion Box
82% matchVery Positive93% of 1,107 reviews2016
Dev: DreaMoryPub: NVLMaker
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
一份工作,让秦幽羽的父亲从此失踪,紧接着又是母亲的突然离去。虽然从未放弃过寻找,可是事情却毫无进展,直到那天……
Why similar: Visual Novel 47.2%, Casual 29.3%, Indie 23.5%
- #23 Ascendant Hearts
82% matchVery Positive88% of 122 reviews2018
Dev: Visualnoveler
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A visual novel where you wake up in a strange new world before going on a real-life RPG adventure with three wacky party members.
Why similar: Visual Novel 40.1%, Casual 21.7%, Anime 20.7%, Indie 16.8%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #24 The Falconers: Moonlight
81% matchVery Positive89% of 76 reviews2017
Dev: Bionic PenguinPub: Sekai Project
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The Falconers: Moonlight is a supernatural thriller visual novel set in the 19th Century West Coast of New Zealand. Falconer, Cassandra Winter, is on her first solo mission. Can she save the people of Moonlight from their plight? Or will she disappear into the mist like so many others before her?
Why similar: Visual Novel 53.4%, Casual 18%, Indie 14.9%, Story Rich 8.7%, Multiple Endings 5.1%
- #25 Littlewitch Romanesque: Editio Regia
81% matchVery Positive80% of 130 reviews2015
Dev: LittlewitchPub: JAST
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
As Domino, you must mentor Aria and Kaya in their training to become witches, mastering the magical arts. Take them to the classroom to grow the skills required to master powerful spells. Send them on quests to test their progress and show them the dangers that exist in the world.
Why similar: Visual Novel 56.1%, Anime 25.1%, Casual 14.3%, Story Rich 4%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #26 Your Smile Beyond Twilight:黄昏下的月台上
79% matchVery Positive94% of 599 reviews2017
Dev: Lingtan Studio
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 33.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A story about forced smiles, coming to terms with the past, and love—but most of all, redemption.
Why similar: Visual Novel 56.4%, Indie 22.2%, Anime 21.4%
- #27 Oblivious Garden ~Carmina Burana
80% matchVery Positive89% of 548 reviews2014
Dev: CorypheeSoftPub: DigitalEZ
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 17.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
This is a sumptuous palace built for the seven princesses. It is a "birdcage" glorified with the name "garden"… Irell Reis was once a famous general leading thousands of soldiers. However, the defeat three years ago cost him everything. Now, he is summoned by the Emperor of Celantu again...
Why similar: Visual Novel 47.9%, Anime 25.3%, Indie 13.9%, Casual 12.9%
- #28 The Rainy Port Keelung 雨港基隆
78% matchVery Positive86% of 425 reviews2015
Dev: Erotes Studio
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 36.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The story will develop into the year of 1947, where the players would face one of the most traumatic historical events in the history of Taiwan.Sorry,now there are only English interface, English subtitles are still being processed,we hope to complete as soon as possible.
Why similar: Visual Novel 60.9%, Anime 21.5%, Indie 17.6%
- #29 Lingering Fragrance
76% matchVery Positive92% of 596 reviews2018
Dev: BLESTWORKS
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 17.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
We walk together, play together, and do everything together. This is our last trip, our last memory. It is a short visual novel contains three story lines, after main story the other two will be unlocked. Which one is your side of story?
Why similar: Visual Novel 46.1%, Casual 19.9%, Anime 19.4%, Indie 14.7%
- #30 ATOM GRRRL!!
79% matchMixed59% of 22 reviews2016
Dev: CosmillicaPub: Sekai Project
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 95%
9mm Kinetic Action From Cosmillica comes a yuri Tarantinoesque comedy about sex, drugs, and revenge. Follow Jessica L. Huster as she returns home to the crime-ridden streets of America. One little favor for a friend brings the pride of the Huster family charging into the crossfire with guns blazing.
Why similar: Violent 33%, Visual Novel 25.3%, Casual 23.8%, Indie 17.9%
- #31 Tokyo Babel
78% matchVery Positive91% of 93 reviews2016
Dev: propellerPub: MangaGamer
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
And so begins a grand epic of intertwining destinies; a tale of God, of angels, demons and humans living amongst the walls of the floating purgatory, Tokyo Babel -- a soaring bastion erected in the image of Tokyo, one of the largest cities of a world succumbed to the apocalypse.
Why similar: Visual Novel 66.5%, Anime 31.3%, Singleplayer 2.2%
- #32 不落城-Unconquered Castle
77% matchVery Positive81% of 150 reviews2018
Dev: 灰烬天国
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A Visual Novel Game. The story which happens thousand years after that "God's one day world". It's a story telling two brave girls who saved their city.
Why similar: Visual Novel 36.2%, Casual 28.6%, Indie 22.2%, Anime 13%
- #33 Space Live - Advent of the Net Idols
77% matchVery Positive83% of 63 reviews2017
Dev: CircusPub: MangaGamer
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Humanity abandoned reality and decided to reside in Net Space. Net Space is divided into a number of factions, and every four years, they hold a concert for control of all the Spaces. With such high stakes at play, the heated battle between Space Idols shall commence!
Why similar: Visual Novel 50.6%, Anime 24.9%, Casual 23.1%, Singleplayer 1.4%
- #34 Love Flute
73% matchVery Positive87% of 308 reviews2021
Dev: TALESSHOP Co., Ltd.
Windows
Play the piano, play the flute, and enjoy a ghost story as you use the profits from your street performances to buy new instruments and furniture! Let's shoot for fame and fortune!
Why similar: Visual Novel 43.4%, Casual 21.2%, Anime 18.6%, Story Rich 10.3%, Indie 5.4%
- #35 Real Life Plus Ver. Kaname Komatsuzaki
74% matchPositive91% of 43 reviews2020
Dev: Fan-naPub: Sekai Project
Windows · Mac · Linux
Real Life Plus Ver. Kaname Komatsuzaki is a game that lets you enjoy life interacting and growing up with Kaname Komatsuzaki, a childhood friend of protagonist, Kouichi.
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.1%, Casual 24.4%, Indie 19.6%, Anime 14.1%, Choices Matter 9%
- #36 Without Within 3 (初衷)
75% matchVery Positive97% of 86 reviews2018
Dev: InvertMouse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6 minMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 31%
Vinty returns on her third adventure, this time in Singapore and Malaysia!
Why similar: Visual Novel 53%, Indie 26.4%, Anime 20.5%
- #37 Memento of Spring
75% matchPositive91% of 35 reviews2018
Dev: Bright Onion Studios
Windows
Spring has come, and yet Juliane is more than happy to let it pass from the comforts of her bedroom. But how will her indoor nature survive when the world decides to boot her as far away as possible?
Why similar: Visual Novel 37.4%, Anime 22.9%, Casual 21.5%, Indie 18.2%
- #38 Hoshizora no Memoria -Wish upon a Shooting Star- HD
74% matchVery Positive94% of 382 reviews2017
Dev: FavoritePub: Sekai Project
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A Japanese love adventure game, as you follow the story of Kogasaka You, his hometown and a promise he made.
Why similar: Visual Novel 56.1%, Anime 16.1%, Casual 14.6%, Story Rich 12.4%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #39 An Octave Higher
76% matchVery Positive83% of 298 reviews2015
Dev: KidalangPub: PLAYISM
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Fall into the magically complicated world of Overture as the three main characters embark on an adventure that will shake their lives and the world around them. Will they fan the flames of the growing revolution, or will they be the key to extinguishing it?
Why similar: Visual Novel 53.6%, Anime 16.9%, Indie 12.5%, Story Rich 9.5%, Casual 6%
- #40 Sankaku Renai: Love Triangle Trouble
73% matchVery Positive94% of 256 reviews2019
Dev: ASa ProjectPub: NekoNyan Ltd.
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Meet Sousuke. He's just your average student, living in a rural town. Ever since his father remarried when he was young, he's been living together with his little sister Nanaru. Together with his childhood friend Maho and their other friends, they have fun geeking out in the Otaku Club.
Why similar: Visual Novel 61.9%, Anime 25.8%, Casual 12.2%
- #41 Zarie: The Story of Sin
68% matchPositive96% of 46 reviews2023
Dev: MOON USAGI
Windows
What kind of conversation will you have with the Shinigami girl? How will you conclude your story? The choice is yours in this tale of sin and 'the girl'.
Why similar: Visual Novel 36.6%, Casual 16.4%, Violent 14.4%, Story Rich 10.4%, Anime 9.2%
- #42 Hello, Goodbye
72% matchVery Positive93% of 67 reviews2019
Dev: Lump of SugarPub: NekoNyan Ltd.
Windows
"Toubu Kaito" That is the fake name assumed by a young military officer from the United Provinces of Japan. He has been tasked with infiltrating Tenshudo Academy, located in Special District Morino, impersonating a transfer student. He is to cast aside his former identity, and 'become' Toubu Kaito.
Why similar: Visual Novel 58.2%, Casual 20.9%, Anime 12.4%, Story Rich 8.5%
- #43 </reality>
73% matchPositive88% of 42 reviews2017
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
When a withdrawn virtual reality nerd has the opportunity to beta test a neural device that feels more “real” than reality itself, everything she assumed about the nature of existence is thrown into question.
Why similar: Visual Novel 44.6%, Anime 15.4%, Indie 12.4%, Story Rich 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.3%
- #44 Winter Polaris
71% matchVery Positive94% of 96 reviews2019
Dev: stage-nanaPub: Sekai Project
Windows
A mysterious global pandemic is making people disappear into thin air. A mysterious glass object carried by a girl found adrift at sea. Two stories that set two pairs of protagonists off on separate journeys around the world. What does it mean to live, make mistakes, and live again?
Why similar: Casual 34.3%, Violent 27.8%, Visual Novel 26.9%, Anime 11%
- #45 山:临界幸存者
67% matchVery Positive92% of 625 reviews2022
Dev: 迩来工作室Pub: WindField Games
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
偏远的山村中,正举行着古老的祭祀『仙姑宴』。少女吟诵着,舞动着,一场漫长而恐怖的杀戮剧正在悄然上演……
Why similar: Visual Novel 53.9%, Anime 20.4%, Story Rich 17.5%, Indie 6.9%, Singleplayer 1.4%
- #46 The Warmth Between Us
69% matchVery Positive97% of 173 reviews2020
Dev: Connection
Windows
It is late December in Taipei. The pavement glows like silver under the winter rain. That's when we met for the first time. The warmth between us has a certain comfort that I’ve never felt before.
Why similar: Visual Novel 43.7%, Anime 18.9%, Story Rich 15.5%, Casual 11.2%, Indie 10.1%
- #47 Miniature Garden
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 95 reviews2017
Dev: MuzintouPub: Fruitbat Factory
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 165.7 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Miniature Garden is a Japanese mystery visual novel with multiple endings and art by Korie Riko (Lump of Sugar).
Why similar: Visual Novel 49.3%, Anime 21.5%, Casual 15.9%, Indie 13.2%
- #48 七人杀阵 - Seven Sacrifices
70% matchVery Positive80% of 1,067 reviews2018
Dev: 章鱼罐头制作组
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Seven girls came to a mountain villa on the outskirts to attend a party. Suddenly they were struck by a storm. They were trapped and lost contact with the outside world.Everyone was caught unawares by the accident, but the conspiracy has just begun.
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.9%, Violent 26.8%, Casual 21.6%, Indie 16.1%, Story Rich 6.6%
- #49 the 9th day:第九日
70% matchVery Positive92% of 317 reviews2017
Dev: Lingtan Studio
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 95%
The story of The 9th Day, that started with the autumn fire incident, begins here…
Why similar: Visual Novel 51.1%, Anime 25.1%, Indie 23.7%
- #50 Lyset Core
61% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Lyset Team
Windows
A horror visual novel set in a steampunk universe. Young Lyset finds herself wandering through a mysterious world of sentient machines. In her desperate search for her long-lost brother, she must choose between death and immortality.
Why similar: Visual Novel 36.2%, Violent 21.3%, Anime 16.6%, Story Rich 12.8%, Indie 7.4%
- #51 The Way We All Go (2015)
71% matchVery Positive87% of 154 reviews2015
Dev: ebi-hime
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A horror/romance visual novel with numerous choices and over 20 endings. Set in Japan in the 1980s, our protagonist, Atcchan, must navigate his relationship between his two estranged childhood friends, one of whom might be a yandere. Will he live to see the end of his summer vacation?
Why similar: Visual Novel 45.6%, Violent 29.3%, Anime 13.6%, Indie 11.6%
- #52 六阶谜题 six-step mystery
67% matchVery Positive88% of 655 reviews2020
Dev: 章鱼罐头制作组
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
失意青年刘在机缘巧合下得到了一份离奇的工作,在命运齿轮的推动下,结识了几名性格各异的少女。忽然有一天祸从天降,他卷入了一起绑架案,并被迫参与一场事关生死的游戏。在求生的同时,他不得不重新审视过去生活寻求蛛丝马迹,那看似平静的生活实则早已暗流涌动……
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.7%, Casual 30.9%, Indie 24.7%, Story Rich 12.6%
- #53 Malus Code
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 103 reviews2016
Dev: M2 Co.,LTDPub: Dogenzaka Lab
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Malus Code is the story of a graduate student studying abroad at a Japanese university, and the three people he meets in the laboratory there. In this unfamiliar environment, can you earn their friendship? For those who don't want a lonely, sad life.
Why similar: Visual Novel 66.2%, Anime 33.8%
- #54 The Afterglow of Grisaia
69% matchVery Positive96% of 122 reviews2016
Dev: FrontwingPub: Frontwing USA
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 27.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A side story to The Labyrinth of Grisaia, this game explores protagonist Kazami Yuuji's past, focusing on his life with Kusakabe Asako, the CIRS agent who rescued him at a young age from a terrorist organization. Secret passages of The Labyrinth of Grisaia are revealed within...
Why similar: Visual Novel 37.8%, Violent 24.5%, Anime 16.6%, Casual 11.6%, Story Rich 8.2%
- #55 Mysterious insects
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Conversations Games
Windows
Gloria Horn, a middle-aged woman who never left the town where she was born and grew up, due to a sudden hearing loss, is forced to go to an operation in New York - America's largest megalopolis.
Why similar: Visual Novel 35.4%, Violent 25%, Casual 21.6%, Indie 18.1%
- #56 Season of 12 Colors
68% matchVery Positive94% of 2,049 reviews2016
Dev: 橘子班Pub: NVLMaker
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
--The way it was, Just like it is now, On a bright, bright summer day. "That's a promise, right?" The girl in a white dress said. Sunny sky. A paper plane slid across it, riding on blue winds.
Why similar: Visual Novel 50.8%, Casual 18.2%, Indie 16.5%, Anime 14.5%
- #57 Re Angel
67% matchVery Positive99% of 141 reviews2018
Dev: Studio GU
Windows
Re Angel is a 2nd visual novel created by Studio GU, an indy game developer from Thailand.
Why similar: Visual Novel 56.2%, Indie 25.8%, Anime 17.9%
- #58 Juniper's Knot
66% matchVery Positive96% of 316 reviews2017
Dev: Dischan Media
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Juniper's Knot is a short (~30 mins) kinetic novel about the meeting of a demon and a boy. A kinetic novel is a game that uses text, sound, and illustrations to tell a story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 44.8%, Casual 22.3%, Indie 19%, Anime 12.6%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #59 Xi-Portal
61% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2024
Dev: KakaMigu
Windows · Mac · Linux
Unravel the Mystery of Xi-Portal You'll have the chance to join a diverse community of students and explore the exciting world of Xi-Portal alongside captivating characters such as Schneider, Hikari, Ayako, Ai, and KakaMigu.
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Dev: Moonlit Works
Windows · Mac · Linux
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