60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Singleplayer, 2D, Adventure.
Witness to Mass Incarceration is a narrative-driven interactive story based on my life in federal prison. It is a brutally honest portrayal of the lack of humanity, how our lives inside are at risk every day, and the place you are forced to go within yourself to survive.
He Fucked The Girl Out of Me
He Fucked The Girl Out Of Me is a semi-autobiographical narrative visual novel about trauma and sex work made for the gameboy. The author explains how sex work impacted her life and changed her perception of the world. The game takes approximately 40 minutes to play from start to finish.
One's Own Exile
Follow Sybil in her pursuit for survival, having to sacrifice everything - her culture, her identity, her values - to achieve a single objective: escape from a place that is constantly trying to kill her. A short game about persecution and identity.
He Fucked The Girl Out Of Me is a semi-autobiographical narrative visual novel about trauma and sex work made for the gameboy. The author explains how sex work impacted her life and changed her perception of the world. The game takes approximately 40 minutes to play from start to finish.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 33.3%, Emotional 21.9%, Psychological 12.6%, Story Rich 9.2%, Visual Novel 8.6%
Follow Sybil in her pursuit for survival, having to sacrifice everything - her culture, her identity, her values - to achieve a single objective: escape from a place that is constantly trying to kill her. A short game about persecution and identity.
Why similar: Emotional 29.3%, Story Rich 15.1%, Dark 15.1%, Adventure 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.4%
In this short visual novel, four prisoners on death row are cleared of all charges. But the prison has a quota to meet. The four are put in a room and asked to decide among themselves over the course of an hour... who will be the one to die?
Why similar: Psychological 30.8%, Visual Novel 27.4%, Atmospheric 10.6%, Story Rich 9.4%, 2D 7.6%
This is a story about Iris, a nobody who didn't have a Happy Ending and now suffers the consequences of their own (lack of) actions all alone in the most northern city in the world. A depressing story and a melancholic lesson teached in life's hard way awaits you.
Why similar: Drama 22.4%, Emotional 19.8%, LGBTQ+ 17.9%, Psychological 14.7%, Visual Novel 10.7%
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: Dark 18.3%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Story Rich 15.5%, Psychological 14.3%, Point & Click 9.5%
A short non-linear narrative game about negative experiences after coming out as transgender.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 34.4%, Emotional 21.4%, Narration 13.9%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Story Rich 9.1%
Sci-Fi Mystery Visual Novel. Nine people are trapped in an underground research facility, forced to play a game of life and death. Check your log to find the truth that connects those apparent strangers - if you even want to, that is.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.5%, Psychological 16.1%, Emotional 14.9%, Narration 12.2%, Visual Novel 10%
memories is a sapphic visual novel dress-up game where clothes are linked to painful memories of a failed relationship.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 34.3%, Emotional 25.2%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Story Rich 10.3%, Adventure 7.1%
MALCATRAS' MAIDEN is a toxic yuri visual novel for adults about trauma, bonds, family, and sisterhood.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 39.8%, Dark 13.7%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Story Rich 10.6%, Adventure 7.3%
If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers is a narrative-driven point-and-click adventure with horror elements that explores the stories of four characters in a masked ball taking place aboard a train in the late 1920s.
Why similar: Point & Click 19.9%, Emotional 18.1%, Psychological 13.5%, Dark 12%, Story Rich 11.4%
Breakout 13 is a thrilling narrative game with interactive cinematic experience. Based on true stories. Embark on a revealing journey as you attempt to break free from a negligent correctional institute and carve out your own path to justice. Each decision you make shapes the story.
Why similar: Point & Click 58%, Story Rich 42%
When the world ends, who will you spend your final hours with? A visual novel for the GBA.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.1%, Emotional 20.2%, Drama 15.7%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Story Rich 9.2%
My Light In The Dark is a short story about a girl who lives with her abusive mother. The girl finds out some dark secrets about her mother, and she has to find a way to escape the house.
Why similar: Point & Click 19.2%, Emotional 18.6%, Dark 14.7%, Adventure 11.1%, Psychological 10.5%
Inmates is a story-driven, atmospheric psychological horror game. Featuring interactive exploration in a suffocating location, mind-bending puzzles and disturbing imagery. You wake up in a run-down prison cell and have no clue how you got there. You’ve convinced yourself this is all just a nightmare...
Why similar: Adventure 38.8%, Psychological 32.7%, Story Rich 15.6%, Indie 7%, Atmospheric 5.9%
A short visual novel about queer love and art. Follow Maya, a once-celebrated painter now paralyzed, as she struggles to accept her new reality and its effects on her relationship. Argue with your Prefrontal Cortex, insult an art critic, befriend the elderly.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.7%, Emotional 21.3%, Psychological 15.3%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Story Rich 8.9%
Wheel of Innocence is a lesbian visual novel where you peer into the life of a disabled high schooler named Reina.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 36.8%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Drama 13%, Female Protagonist 8.1%, Story Rich 7.1%
There are things that often fail on nothing but themselves. Is there even a way out? Playing Kafka is a narrative adventure full of impenetrable schemes, insidious plot twists and conversations that slip out of hand. Based on Kafka’s life and his work, developed with Kafka experts.
Why similar: Point & Click 21.4%, Psychological 17%, Emotional 15%, Adventure 13.7%, Story Rich 13.6%
Immigration Enforcement Case #112: You are under arrest. Unless your friends can cross a broken America, retrieve your identifying documents and stay out of trouble... this is the end of the American dream for you.
Why similar: Emotional 34.1%, Dark 24.9%, Pixel Graphics 15.4%, Adventure 15%, 2D 6.7%
Take back your identity in Muffles’ Life Sentence, a darkly comedic narrative adventure set in a prison where inmates are remade to match their crimes.
Why similar: Psychological 33.2%, Story Rich 25%, Adventure 13.1%, Pixel Graphics 12.4%, 2D 5.7%
‘We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe’ is a socially engaged, text-based RPG about a journalist looking for his big break by uncovering the plights of refugees travelling from Africa to Europe. It is a story inspired by true events.
Why similar: Emotional 43%, Story Rich 21.7%, Adventure 15%, Education 13.5%, 2D 5.4%
ALTER EGO is a 2D point-and-click narrative-based adventure game featuring psychological elements. Explore two levels with atmospheric environments, solve puzzles, and use your inventory items to uncover the mystery behind Reese and Winona’s relationship, and find the real culprit—if there is one.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.9%, Psychological 18.8%, Point & Click 17.2%, Story Rich 11.7%, Emotional 10.2%
Back to the Dawn is a story-rich RPG set in a high-security prison ruled by factions and buried secrets. Investigate two conspiracies from the inside, gather evidence, and outsmart a system designed to silence you. Make friends (or foes) with fellow inmates and with their help, break out of prison.
Why similar: Story Rich 43%, Pixel Graphics 23.6%, Adventure 20.9%, LGBTQ+ 6.8%, Indie 3.6%
A short point & click narrative adventure inspired by the real life experience of a struggling solo indie game developer. A story about everything and hence nothing at all. Discover what truly matters to you.
Why similar: Psychological 25.4%, Point & Click 24%, Dark 16.6%, Adventure 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.4%
2D RPG about the brutal daily life of Ray - an artist struggling with addiction, who takes care of her little sister. Look after your condition - no one should know about the addiction. Improve your skills, sell paintings, do everything to ease the withdrawal. Survive and look for a way out.
Why similar: Emotional 23.7%, Point & Click 20%, Story Rich 16.5%, Psychological 15.9%, Adventure 10.8%
Closer the Distance is a slice-of-life sim that tells a deeply emotional story about the connections between family and friends in the face of tragedy. Unearth long kept secrets, repair strained relationships, and help your loved ones move on.
Why similar: Drama 26.4%, Emotional 24.5%, Point & Click 18.1%, Story Rich 13.5%, Narration 7.9%
"The day I put that uniform on, I saw myself in the mirror for the first time. And I dared to think, maybe, just maybe..." A free VN about standing up to the world to be yourself. Part of the NOISZ series, and prequel to NOISZ STΔRLIVHT.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 34.2%, Drama 17.3%, Emotional 14.6%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Story Rich 10.4%
Sanctuaries. Secrets. Serious consequences. A solo-developed psychological horror/drama visual novel.
Why similar: Emotional 25.9%, Psychological 22.4%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Dark 13.5%, Story Rich 13.1%
A short, interactive visual novel set in the mid-19th Century, in which a poet fights against time as she's writing the most important work of her life. Poetry is the answer, but what is the question?
Why similar: Emotional 26%, Psychological 19.9%, Point & Click 15.5%, Dark 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.9%
Martial Law is a game about difficulties that came with Communism in Poland. The story is shown from the perspective of a man who is abandoned because of his low social status. He tries his best to be there for his daughter despite the difficulties.
Why similar: Story Rich 20.5%, Emotional 18.2%, Pixel Graphics 17.7%, Visual Novel 14%, Adventure 13.8%
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: Psychological 26.5%, Emotional 19.3%, Visual Novel 17.9%, LGBTQ+ 11.7%, Dark 9.6%
A psychological horror experience told through environmental storytelling. Explore a house inhabited by trauma, denial, and fractured memories. Three endings. Multiple interpretations. This is the house that lives inside me.
Why similar: Psychological 27.4%, Visual Novel 21.2%, Emotional 20.4%, Adventure 16.6%, Atmospheric 7.9%
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: Emotional 22.6%, Psychological 17.3%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Story Rich 12.7%, Adventure 11.3%
Locked away in the most secure prison in the galaxy, with little hope of escape, Gail Pilgrim faces the most difficult ordeals of her life. Her only hope lies in trusting those who she has come to regard as her friends.
Why similar: Adventure 49.3%, Point & Click 14.2%, Story Rich 13.1%, Female Protagonist 6.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%
Prison Notes is a RPG with text-based ADV and cultivation elements. You act as a young migrant worker, wrongly imprisoned in the prison known as "The Coral Reef".What challenges and adventures are awaiting? Will you finally find a way out? Your choices and actions will decide the end of your story.
Why similar: Story Rich 46.5%, Visual Novel 43.4%, 2D 8.2%, Singleplayer 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: LGBTQ+ 24.6%, Emotional 21.4%, Psychological 14.9%, Visual Novel 10%, Story Rich 8.9%
Free Will is a 2D psychological puzzle RPG where the puzzles happen outside of the game. Dig deep into the system code to fix the corruption, and uncover information that might be better off hidden.
Why similar: Psychological 39.8%, Story Rich 22.2%, Emotional 16%, Dark 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 4.6%
"My Life with You" is a STORY DRIVEN experience that follows the journey of a young SINGLE MOM who must BALANCE life's challenges while raising her child. An emotional journey focused on the BOND BETWEEN MOTHER AND CHILD, marked by obstacles, growth, and love.
Why similar: Emotional 25%, Drama 24.7%, Point & Click 19.2%, Story Rich 8.1%, Female Protagonist 7.7%
If Found... is a game about going home, coming out and erasing everything.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 46.3%, Emotional 13.8%, Visual Novel 12%, Story Rich 9.7%, Adventure 7.2%
Thirteen girls awaken, only to find themselves in a prison. What awaits them: a Witch Trial. Help them prepare for the trial by exploring the prison in order to find the witch hidden amongst them. Find the witch, learn what kind of magic she holds, dispel the lies, and prepare for the execution.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 40.4%, Visual Novel 27.4%, Story Rich 15.6%, Female Protagonist 12.4%, Adventure 3.1%
Escape from the Cursed Convent is a narrative-driven adventure game set in a medieval girls' convent, offering a rich storytelling experience, and several gameplay styles including QTE, hunting, cooking, and puzzle-solving.
Why similar: Emotional 29.7%, Story Rich 18.2%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Female Protagonist 9.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.9%
Until Oblivion is an atmospheric narrative game that follows 17 year old nobody Emma Wilson as she tries to rekindle a dying relationship in a dying world. Join her in an increasingly nightmarish Halloween party and find out if anything (or anyone) is worth anything at all.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 47.4%, Story Rich 20.2%, Visual Novel 13%, Adventure 12.3%, Atmospheric 7.1%
"From Head to Toe" is a short interactive story about winter, existential guilt and your ex-classmates.
Why similar: Emotional 27.7%, Adventure 27.4%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Story Rich 11.4%, Female Protagonist 7.7%
In a game show starring only criminals, you must gamble against rival players to prove yourself worthy of being pardoned for your wrong deeds— But is the show really about proving your innocence? Jackpot Crash Course is a death game visual novel about crime, luck and spectacle.
Why similar: Point & Click 22.8%, Psychological 20.6%, Story Rich 18%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Adventure 12.3%
Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.
Why similar: Psychological 22.2%, Point & Click 21%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Story Rich 11.8%, Adventure 11.1%
A free drama-mystery visual novel with a modern fantasy setting. Reach out to the fourteen people trapped inside to find the truth through eighteen endings, influenced by but not exclusively bound to your own system time.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 34.9%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Story Rich 15.3%, Drama 13.9%, Dark 11.9%
Them’s Tales is a story-driven game series based on Reddit-style storytelling. The stories are written to seem inspired by real events, but they’re completely fictional.
Why similar: Adventure 34.9%, Narration 23.8%, Dark 21.3%, Atmospheric 7.8%, Female Protagonist 6.3%
Cameras and heads are rolling in this noir inspired RPGmaker horror game. Save the spectral starlets trapped in the deadly director's mansion, and escape without joining them in their fate.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 40.5%, Drama 17.5%, Story Rich 13.4%, Adventure 8%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%
True stories told by real people. Welcome to Elk transforms the weird, wonderful, dark and desperate tales of the road less-traveled into an inventive, biographical adventure. This is an island like no other where drama, trauma, love and laughter hide around every corner.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.5%, Story Rich 23.3%, Adventure 16.3%, Point & Click 11.7%, Female Protagonist 8.1%
An otome visual novel - play a powerless victim of a terrifying, unfair world. 200+ choices, 50+ endings, 20+ hours of play - and only one way to escape.
Why similar: Story Rich 27.4%, Dark 25.7%, Visual Novel 23.5%, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Adventure 6.9%
A story about a dead lamb walking.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.4%, Emotional 17.8%, Story Rich 15.6%, Female Protagonist 11.2%, Psychological 11%
HOW WE KNOW WE'RE ALIVE is an award winning, hour long melancholy, point-and-click narrative mystery set in the bible belt of Sweden.
Why similar: Emotional 34.4%, Adventure 30.6%, Pixel Graphics 12.2%, Female Protagonist 6.3%, 2D 6.1%
This is a story of disease and suffering; of medication and adverse effects; of thoracotomy scars and cellular poisons; of the living who cannot help but to die and of the dying who cannot help but to live; of a resting place other than "on 7F" or "at home".
Why similar: Visual Novel 46.1%, Drama 16.1%, Story Rich 15.2%, Emotional 15%, Indie 2.8%
The poor woman who lives with her little brother. She is imprisoned and forced into prostitution for her brother’s medications, she keeps struggling to free herself from the prostitution and prosecute those bad guys with justice.
Why similar: Dark 37.5%, Visual Novel 27.3%, Story Rich 17.5%, Female Protagonist 17.2%, Singleplayer 0.4%
Follow a recluse who is the only being left in the world as she struggles with little things in her everyday life. This game was made entirely out of scanned traditional watercolor art.
Why similar: Psychological 21.7%, Emotional 18.2%, Story Rich 17.2%, Adventure 11.7%, Dark 10.8%
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: Emotional 35.3%, Point & Click 21.9%, Story Rich 21.2%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Atmospheric 2.2%
Without a Dawn is a dark, psychological, and philosophical visual horror novel featuring hauntingly beautiful pseudo-ASCII art.
Why similar: Emotional 24.4%, Psychological 13.5%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Story Rich 13.4%, Dark 11.2%
When the Darkness comes is a walking simulator whose glitchy and dark tale tries to illustrate the hardships of depression and anxiety through a variety of imaginary digital landscapes.
Why similar: Narration 21.6%, Emotional 16.3%, Psychological 15.8%, Dark 15%, Adventure 11.4%
"Hold Me Still" is a point-and-click puzzle mystery game where you investigate your friend's disappearance by exploring their house, collecting clues, solving puzzles, and uncovering the truth.
Why similar: Point & Click 27.2%, Drama 20.4%, Emotional 18.4%, Adventure 16.9%, Story Rich 6.8%
A woman is interviewed seven times by the police. Search the video database and explore hundreds of authentic clips to discover her story in this groundbreaking and award winning narrative game.
Why similar: Point & Click 39.1%, Visual Novel 24%, Story Rich 23.6%, Female Protagonist 11.6%, Singleplayer 1.7%
A narrative simulation game where you play as a mother-to-be working as a toll keeper in the fictional country of Janapa, a nation on the brink of chaos. Navigate daily challenges and make difficult moral choices to survive—all for the sake of your unborn child.
Why similar: Drama 39.7%, Point & Click 38.9%, Atmospheric 7.4%, Story Rich 7%, 2D 6.2%
