Games Like Waiting in the Lime forest

A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.

Why similar: Visual Novel 30.2%, Emotional 16.7%, LGBTQ+ 11.9%, Mystery 11%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%

A psychological interactive novel about a floppy disk with a mysterious program. Help Elliot cope with his mental issues and uncover the secret of the floppy disk.

Why similar: Visual Novel 28.2%, Text-Based 17.9%, Emotional 12%, Pixel Graphics 11.7%, Multiple Endings 7.3%

Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 43.9%, Mystery 22.9%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%, Atmospheric 4.5%

Immerse yourself in the winter forest and help a lost soul to find a piece of itself. What is awaiting you there.. or who?

Why similar: Visual Novel 37.5%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, Adventure 12.7%, Pixel Graphics 11.2%, 2D 8.7%

Step into the fog to confront your terror: the evil that hides within. Unravel the fog's mysteries before you become its next victim. Or join us, instead.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 42.8%, Text-Based 26.6%, Adventure 24.7%, Indie 5.9%

"we don't have to do this. why don't we just leave?" asks you your bestfriend while you try to escape your hometown. and you start hating them. and you start hating yourself. can you pull through or will you choose to go home again? both decisions feel wrong but this time it's you who has to choose.

Why similar: Visual Novel 42.6%, LGBTQ+ 22.6%, Emotional 10.9%, Multiple Endings 8.2%, 2D 6.8%

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+ 32.3%, Visual Novel 30.3%, Mystery 12.6%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.9%

Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time. While you sleep, he is alone. When you return to your PC he has hope. Your encouragement and advice will be the difference between his salvation or despair.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.4%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Adventure 14.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.3%, Text-Based 9.1%

A dark conversation with a girl during a nightly car trip. A short multi-ending novel game where you try to understand this girl and her pain.

Why similar: Visual Novel 31.3%, Adventure 19.4%, Dialogue Heavy 12.5%, Text-Based 12.1%, Multiple Endings 10%

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 24%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, LGBTQ+ 19.4%, Adventure 8.5%, Dialogue Heavy 7.9%

Delve into a troubled student's mind as his grip on reality unravels . . .

Why similar: Adventure 80.2%, Indie 19.8%

You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.

Why similar: Visual Novel 35.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Adventure 13.6%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Text-Based 7.7%

Play as a wise woman, help your neighbors, and they will help you in return. Fight alongside your closest friend to deal with the beasts threatening the village. Uncover the secrets of magic through your journey, and you might even have a chance to confront your inner demons.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 42.4%, Visual Novel 32%, Text-Based 12.1%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%, 2D 5.3%

Venture into the woods as you play Little Goody Two Shoes, a phantasmagorical horror narrative adventure where all your decisions matter!

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 40.6%, Mystery 22.3%, Adventure 17.5%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, 2D 8%

SELF is a suspenseful Kafkaesque text-based adventure game with simulation and puzzle mechanics. Could you seize the opportunity to find your father and your SELF back in this introspective journey?

Why similar: Adventure 44.3%, Mystery 27.3%, Indie 10.6%, Pixel Graphics 10%, Atmospheric 6.7%

Go about your normal every day life and meet new friends in this short visual novel!

Why similar: Visual Novel 51.4%, Text-Based 20.1%, 2D 10.7%, Adventure 9.3%, Casual 5.3%

Discover 'Departed Away,' a captivating visual novel where friendship intertwines with mystery. Uncover secrets, engage in verbal duels, and make choices that shape your story. Delve into emotional depth and intricate connections in this unique story.

Why similar: Visual Novel 40.2%, Mystery 24.7%, Pixel Graphics 14.8%, Multiple Endings 8.6%, 2D 8.2%

Beneath the shadowed sea of trees below the volcanic mountain lies a mysterious facility probing the afterlife, as omens of the world’s end approach. A loved one missing, reality twisting, a volcano stirring below. Once more you enter the maze, seeking the exit hidden in spectral forest shadows.

Why similar: Adventure 33.2%, Mystery 24.8%, Visual Novel 14.2%, 2D 11.3%, Text-Based 9.6%

A short visual novel where a private investigator gets reeled into a murky mystery, entangled in lies, secrets, and a family curse.

Why similar: Visual Novel 25.8%, Mystery 18%, LGBTQ+ 15.9%, Text-Based 12.4%, Linear 5.8%

a psychological visual novel where you investigate the souls of the dead. spend time with them, analyze their past, file reports to decide their eternal fate.

Why similar: Visual Novel 30.4%, Mystery 20.9%, Emotional 12.6%, Adventure 9%, Multiple Endings 8.9%

In an AI-powered age where original authors have become largely redundant, play as a dejected writer on the brink of losing their creative drive forever.

Why similar: Visual Novel 37.4%, Text-Based 18.8%, Adventure 10.2%, Emotional 8.8%, Mystery 8.4%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 42.6%, Visual Novel 24.8%, Text-Based 9%, Emotional 7%, Indie 6%

Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.

Why similar: Adventure 22.1%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Mystery 15.7%, Text-Based 15.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%

Classic Zork meets Existential Crisis. A modern text adventure that explores themes of control, isolation and mental health while levelling up the genre with beautiful pixel art.

Why similar: Adventure 21.2%, Text-Based 20%, Dialogue Heavy 17.2%, Pixel Graphics 15.8%, Atmospheric 12.8%

A short visual novel about finding your name and a girl in the fog.

Why similar: Visual Novel 48.8%, Text-Based 24%, Pixel Graphics 15.5%, 2D 7.1%, Casual 2%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Visual Novel 23%, LGBTQ+ 14.9%, Text-Based 14.8%, Multiple Endings 7.4%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.8%, Visual Novel 27.7%, Emotional 11.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%, Text-Based 6.2%

"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+ 30.3%, Visual Novel 28.1%, Emotional 14%, Text-Based 9.3%, Multiple Endings 8.6%

Beacon Pines is a cute and creepy adventure set within a mysterious book. Sneak out late, make new friends, uncover hidden truths, and collect words that will change the course of fate!

Why similar: Visual Novel 41%, Emotional 20.5%, Mystery 16.5%, Adventure 8.3%, 2D 4.9%

This dark act takes place from a single day of the Lighthouse Keeper. Listen to keeper carefully and help him to interrupt his twenty-years-old shift at the Lighthouse.

Why similar: Adventure 40.3%, Text-Based 33%, Pixel Graphics 25%, Indie 1.2%, Singleplayer 0.6%

You are The Fateweaver; an ancient beast of legendary status. It is your job to determine which way Fate will unravel as you dig deep into the psyche of those who beckon. Decide whether to help those who beg for your mercy, or invoke the wrath of the Gods upon those you deem unworthy of existence...

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29%, Visual Novel 28.8%, Mystery 19.7%, LGBTQ+ 13.2%, Multiple Endings 9.4%

FIVE YEARS AGO IN THIS FOREST.. A journalist wanted to go there.And of course he didnt come back. Few days later,he called his best friend.He just said to him "Come Here" and line dropped. You're the best friend of this guy.You listened your friend and you went there. LET THE GAME BEGIN

Why similar: Adventure 79.8%, Indie 20.2%

Immerse yourself in the obscure and mysterious autumnal forest, where every wrong step could be your last. As you travel uncover the dark story behind this place, where beauty and danger have become as one.

Why similar: Mystery 39%, Adventure 28.9%, Atmospheric 16.6%, Linear 10.1%, Indie 4%

It's not what you say, it's how you say it. We should talk is a short-form narrative game that will make you think carefully about the words you choose. Can your relationship survive the night?

Why similar: Visual Novel 27.3%, LGBTQ+ 25.4%, Text-Based 15%, Emotional 13.6%, Multiple Endings 7.9%

You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.7%, Visual Novel 23%, Mystery 17%, Pixel Graphics 9.7%, Multiple Endings 9.7%

Led by her new friend, Mr. Voice, Misfortune ventures into the woods, where mysteries are unraveled and a little bad luck unfolds.

Why similar: Adventure 47.9%, 2D 15%, Atmospheric 14.3%, Indie 13.4%, Casual 5.6%

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: LGBTQ+ 35.2%, Emotional 19.7%, Adventure 18.5%, Multiple Endings 14.3%, 2D 9.1%

It's up to you to decide how far you're willing to go in order to survive in this psychological thriller visual novel about two best friends trapped in an experiment. Can these two men survive their choices between physical and psychological harm long enough to earn freedom?

Why similar: Visual Novel 33%, LGBTQ+ 32.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Emotional 9%, Multiple Endings 4.4%

Set out on a cross-country journey to win back the love of your life and endure the hardship of making story-defining choices that affect your life and the lives of those around you.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 44.5%, Pixel Graphics 19.7%, Indie 11.2%, Adventure 9.3%, Visual Novel 7.7%

First loves. Family issues. Yokai. 'Last Time I Saw You' is a coming-of-age adventure set in 1980s Japan. Explore a haunted forest hiding a terrible secret, and interact with a vast cast of friendly and deceitful characters in this beautifully hand-drawn story with some light action elements.

Why similar: 1980s 25.5%, Emotional 19.7%, Mystery 19.1%, Dialogue Heavy 10.7%, Adventure 8.7%

A short-form psychological thriller. Confront the mysterious Finn through a monitor. No strategy or puzzles—and you are given almost no freedom of choice. Simply face the absurd situation and witness the end.

Why similar: Visual Novel 39%, Mystery 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.7%, Adventure 8.7%

A tribute to a friend who has passed — and to the adventures we still need to live. A story-driven adventure about a young polyglot traversing mystical islands and using the power of words to confront his own fate and save a world tamed by darkness.

Why similar: Emotional 32.6%, Adventure 21.7%, Pixel Graphics 20.4%, Linear 14.7%, Indie 4.8%

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+ 33.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Text-Based 20.2%, Adventure 11.8%, 2D 7.6%

A slice-of-death visual novel about making friends, cracking cat puns, and waiting for eternity to pass.

Why similar: Visual Novel 36.3%, LGBTQ+ 33.6%, Multiple Endings 6.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%, Dialogue Heavy 5.2%

a hand-drawn mental-health-focused game!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31%, Emotional 21.3%, Adventure 15.8%, Dialogue Heavy 9.3%, 2D 7.9%

This short psychedelic visual novel takes place in a strange world inhabited by harrowing creatures shunned by the light. You’ll meet someone who has made this world their own, and in doing so, learn the reason why you shouldn't be there.

Why similar: Visual Novel 27.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Text-Based 14.2%, Emotional 11.6%, Adventure 9.2%

A conversation adventure where you spend the worst, best summer visiting your booze-loving senpai, making weird food, and sneaking out together at midnight.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33%, Visual Novel 25.5%, Dialogue Heavy 11%, Emotional 7.6%, Adventure 7.2%

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 29.8%, LGBTQ+ 26%, Emotional 16.8%, Dialogue Heavy 13.2%, Adventure 6.7%

Explore the inner demons of three childhood friends on a summer retreat. Unearth secrets, fears and obsessions as you help them reconnect and rediscover themselves. A mature and treacherous visual novel from the creator of Milky Way Prince – The Vampire Star.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.3%, LGBTQ+ 28.9%, Visual Novel 28.5%, Multiple Endings 7.2%, Adventure 3%

Century of Anticipation is a short, surreal adventure about being stuck waiting for something misterious. Explore your apartment to find increasingly unusual ways to pass the time, from cooking to throwing your head through the window, while enjoying the amazing soundtrack by Brazilian indie bands.

Why similar: Adventure 37.7%, Atmospheric 21.2%, 2D 15.6%, Dialogue Heavy 11.5%, Visual Novel 6.7%

Grotto is a mystical, narrative-focused experience. You are the Soothsayer. The one capable of talking with the stars and unveiling their messages. In a time of turmoil, the tribe of the valley turn to your powers of divination and come to you for guidance.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 43.5%, Multiple Endings 15.6%, Adventure 11.5%, 2D 8.9%, Atmospheric 8.4%

Unravel a mystery: A game you can read, a book you can play.

Why similar: Mystery 25.8%, Visual Novel 22%, LGBTQ+ 21.7%, Text-Based 14.9%, Adventure 12.2%

“The hospital was empty. Quiet, and brighter than usual... like waking up on a snow day. But I didn't feel cold. I didn't feel much of anything.”

Why similar: Visual Novel 28%, LGBTQ+ 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Emotional 12.7%, Mystery 7.9%

矛盾を見つけ、相談者の悩みを解決する怪異判定アドベンチャー

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.8%, Visual Novel 25.4%, Adventure 17.2%, Text-Based 12.5%, Mystery 11.1%

Can you save the world from an unknown destiny?

Why similar: Mystery 32.7%, Adventure 21.6%, Pixel Graphics 19.3%, 2D 8.1%, Multiple Endings 6.2%

Join forces with the psychic Director of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center and solve a variety of cases involving cursed relics, rental properties with shady histories, and dimensional anomalies. Monstrous oddities and otherworldly planes abound in this occult mystery adventure game!

Why similar: Visual Novel 30.4%, Mystery 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Text-Based 10.9%, Adventure 9.9%

Word game is literally a game of words. Player controls "I" to find clues between lines, delete words to change the meaning of sentences, or shift words to rewrite facts. “I” must be wise and brave enough complete the mission of words. May the best "I” win!

Why similar: Visual Novel 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, 1980s 14.8%, Mystery 12.4%, Text-Based 9.3%

Save people from terrible paranormal dangers as a support operator of a secret SCP-like organization! Ask questions, give advice and watch the consequences of your choices... multiple endings in each story ;-)

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 38%, Text-Based 18.7%, Mystery 17.7%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Adventure 8.8%

W!LiB! Prologue allows you to try and live one day of Will's life in trying to save people on the legendary Suicide Bridge. Would you be able to find the right words? How many souls could you save in one day? And how would you feel if you're not good enough?..

Why similar: Adventure 28.6%, Pixel Graphics 28%, 2D 15.3%, Atmospheric 13.8%, Indie 7.4%

Befriend misfit deities and make a life for yourself in the Underworld! Can you escape your arranged marriage to the King? Do you want to?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 44.8%, Text-Based 19.2%, Adventure 13.5%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, LGBTQ+ 9.2%