Games Like Your mom

Welcome to Murderer’s Island. Your companions: four dead-sexy Killers who, underneath their murderous exteriors, just want a little romance. Flirt your way into their hearts, uncovering dark twists along the way. Will you find true love, forge friendships… or get hacked to death?

Why similar: Dating Sim 23%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Memes 12.7%, Text-Based 12.2%

Join Lydia as she takes her fight to expose the corruption in Cypress Ridge to City Hall in the second part of the visual novel series What Lydia Knows.

Why similar: Dating Sim 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Lore-Rich 9.6%

A choose-your-own-adventure novel. ​Enter the mind of a black-ops team leader heading an impossible mission in a parallel universe. Choices are remembered, story events reflect past decisions, and freely rewind time to try different paths.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Text-Based 18.4%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Horror 9.9%

Tri City Monsters is a supernatural, monsterlovin' visual novel where you can romance and/or de-pants 3 demonic love interests. Navigate a dangerous urban jungle with their help and maybe you'll get a taste of what it means to be a monster.

Why similar: Dating Sim 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Text-Based 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Lore-Rich 11.8%

A fable from your childhood. Don't you remember it?

Why similar: Dating Sim 17.6%, Text-Based 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Visual Novel 12.4%

Audiences connect to their favorite celebrities all the time. How does it affect these people when put into a game of life or death? Only time will tell.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Lore-Rich 13.8%, Text-Based 9.1%

Welcome to MONSTER LUV RADIO, where you play a radio DJ giving dating advice to a host of supernatural creatures! Keep your ratings up by giving sound advice and following the rhythm of your DJ mix board, and make sure your boss doesn't shut down your show!

Why similar: Dating Sim 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Text-Based 13.1%, Lore-Rich 12.4%

A pixelated homage to 16-bit RPGs, this former print-and-play card game has come full circle as a digital experience! Choose your champion, enter the tower, and make wise decisions on your ascent to face the Ice Lich at the top.

Why similar: Text-Based 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Lore-Rich 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.4%

In an abandoned bathroom waits a hungry female mouth; wet, eager, and downright sinister. Dare to feed it? — SHORT NAUGHTY SPOOKY VISUAL NOVEL · 26k words · 12 endings (in some you might even survive).

Why similar: Dating Sim 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Text-Based 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.5%

The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Horror 13.4%, Text-Based 13.1%

Welcome to an immersive horror fiction reading simulator. Every tale within is rooted in the chinese mundane, familiar moments we all live through —like the annual Spring Festival Gala You can shut down the simulator at any time. But remember: reality is always far more horrifying than any story.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Dating Sim 13.1%, Memes 13%, Visual Novel 10.8%

Locked In is a two-player visual novel simulating the breakdown of a marriage during lockdown.

Why similar: Dating Sim 25.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Story Rich 9.1%

Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Story Rich 13.3%, Dating Sim 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.4%

Convince the cannibals not to eat you.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Detective 13.3%, Psychological Horror 10.6%

Emily is Away Too is a brand new story featuring new characters and multiple different endings. Message your friends, surf the web and choose your path through this branching narrative.

Why similar: Dating Sim 23.8%, Text-Based 16.7%, Memes 16%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Choices Matter 10%

What is Love is full of pretty girls with dark secrets. Keep in mind that your actions matter, so Baby, don't hurt me! Not suitable for those who are easily disturbed by their own choices. It can result in Vietnam Flashbacks/PTSD after realising what you have done.

Why similar: Memes 22.9%, Dating Sim 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Psychological Horror 7.1%

Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Horror 11.3%, Psychological Horror 10.2%

A psychological horror story, with a spiking sense of danger and gentle melancholy. An out of this world adventure, revolving around books, memories and mortality. Along the way, perhaps you shall pick up pieces of a long forgotten heart, or some unlikely companions that you never knew you needed.

Why similar: Dating Sim 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Text-Based 12.5%

Parallel-Weirdo is a Japanese manga-style visual novel set in DYL High School. It follows Wang Zhe, an ordinary and frail boy, who tries to win the hearts of girls and complete his experiments. He gets entangled in bizarre events, plunging into darkness. Each choice you make determines his fate.

Why similar: Dating Sim 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Text-Based 13%, Lore-Rich 11.8%

A text-based adventure where you're tasked to exorcise your friend’s Inner Demon. You have 30 days to analyze objects filled with memories, discover which one is the reason for her possession and sacrifice it. Do not deviate from your mission. Save your friend no matter the cost.

Why similar: Dating Sim 14.7%, Text-Based 14.5%, Lore-Rich 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%

You have a case to solve, your memories reset each day, and two mysterious guides are vying for your attention– who will you decide to remember, and who will you decide to push aside…?

Why similar: Dating Sim 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Lore-Rich 15.3%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Text-Based 11.5%

《澄心大学》是一款校园题材剧情向视觉小说。在鲜活而平静的大学日常中，走近四位拥有不同故事的女主角，并通过选择与分支推动人物关系，走向属于你的青春结局。

Why similar: Dating Sim 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Text-Based 16.6%, Lore-Rich 15.1%, Visual Novel 14.2%

Step into the high-stakes world of journalism in this Playbook! As a reporter at the "The Meridian" newsroom, YOU are the hero. Chase a massive investigative scoop, navigate ruthless office politics, and build deep relationships. Will you break the story, or will the deadline break you?

Why similar: Dating Sim 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Text-Based 10.9%

A sci-fi drama about love, control, and the price of human emotion. Care for your wards, follow every order — or break the rules to discover who you truly are.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 20.5%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Dating Sim 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Story Rich 9.7%

💖 Meet five stunning girls in this sexy visual novel prologue — from a rebellious punk vampire to a playful zombie and a sweet angel. Play through each girl’s two chapter, flirt, and unlock steamy 3D scenes.

Why similar: Dating Sim 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Text-Based 13.3%

You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.

Why similar: Visual Novel 16.5%, Lore-Rich 12.9%, Dating Sim 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%

You are the Monarch. Choose between diplomacy and tyranny. Romance allies or enemies. Your decisions define your rule and the fate of those closest to you in this character-driven interactive tale.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Text-Based 16.8%, Dating Sim 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Visual Novel 11.9%

Distant Oceanic Getaway— A visual novel for sapphics! Will you be able to find true love while sailing the seven seas?

Why similar: Dating Sim 17.3%, Lore-Rich 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.2%

It's hard to focus on schoolwork when she's missing.

Why similar: Dating Sim 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Lore-Rich 14.3%, Visual Novel 14.1%

这是一款以中式校园为背景的推理类文字游戏，你将扮演一名高中生司空茂，在开学第一天目击密室杀人事件的现场，并经过调查和推理解决案件，找出真正的犯人和真相背后更深的阴谋。但在享受侦探游戏的同时，请千万不要忽视学习。保持情绪稳定，尽量维持活下去的念头...记住，你的成绩，永远比案件要更重要。

Why similar: Detective 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Text-Based 15.9%, Visual Novel 14.3%

You were meant to exorcise the ghost, not flirt with him! Choose your soulmate from ghost enthusiasts – dead or alive – and unravel the conspiracy lurking beneath the haunting in this exorcist dating sim.

Why similar: Dating Sim 18%, Visual Novel 13%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Lore-Rich 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%

I Wani Hug that Gator! Is a choice-driven narrative about teenagers struggling to find their way. Help Inco, loser highschooler extraordinaire, navigate his budding friendships (and romance!) while surviving being the only human in a dinosaur-filled school.

Why similar: Dating Sim 19.5%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Story Rich 9%

为了完成假期作业，你与三位美少女同学（以及一个疯狂吐槽作者的旁白）组建了“将你的日常做成Galgame”的制作小组。等待你的不止是温馨恋爱，还有吉迹国动物园的规则怪谈、以及看电影时穿越异世界的平淡展开！在这款含梗量极高的Meta题材的galgame里，唯一正常的，可能只有屏幕前被誉为史上颜值最高的主角的你。

Why similar: Memes 23.2%, Dating Sim 22.6%, Visual Novel 17%, Lore-Rich 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%

Back from hell and into Hyuga, enemies and allies clash in this epic sequel! Overcome ultimate despair or be consumed by it: the choice is yours, ronin!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Dating Sim 20.8%, Text-Based 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Visual Novel 12.9%

メモリーズオフシリーズ最新作のアフターストーリー 主人公「久寿米木一葵」と登場ヒロインたちの「その後」を楽しんでいただけます。 ビジュアルノベル形式のゲームスタイルで選択肢を選びながらストーリーが進行します。 それぞれの道を歩み始めたヒロインたち。 それぞれの未来を大切な「あなた」と一緒につかむため、 それぞれの想いが、今はじける……！

Why similar: Dating Sim 27.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Visual Novel 16%, Text-Based 8.5%

On a rainy night marked by loneliness, a man adrift from society discovers an AI product promising companionship: the AI Mother. Drawn in by the hope of escaping isolation, he purchases one... Only to uncover a chilling truth behind her perfect facade.

Why similar: Dating Sim 27.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Text-Based 11%, Horror 7.4%

Help Tashia unravel the case of a heinous murder and find her cell phone in this point & click, mystery adventure based on Caribbean folklore!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Lore-Rich 14.8%, Detective 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.6%

This is a retro story game about choices and the voices in your head. Unlock new voices, new thoughts, and new endings.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Lore-Rich 14.6%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Text-Based 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%

Everyone has secrets at Found Sheep Farm, but it’s so much easier to pretend no one does! Will you pull the wool over your eyes, or will your pursuit of the truth make you the black sheep in this thrilling horror visual novel?

Why similar: Dating Sim 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Lore-Rich 10.8%

Investigate a murder. Romance five woman. But trust carefully: one of them is the killer.

Why similar: Dating Sim 24.5%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Text-Based 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%

Where are you, Cinderella? is a visual novel about Vietnamese culture and the world of entertainment. Will you be able to find the lost shoe’s owner? Or, will you find your shoe?

Why similar: Text-Based 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Dating Sim 13.3%

The outside is being ravaged by a mysterious downpour of a glass, you are forced to take shelter in a seemingly innocuous rundown hotel. Yet, stuck with you are people who you wish you would never see again. What will you do to survive?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Dating Sim 19.2%, Visual Novel 15%, Text-Based 14%

Harold is sent to a school for people with no friends. The teachers observe and then pair them up, making them roommates. What will happen when Harold ends up sharing a room with a girl?

Why similar: Dating Sim 24.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Text-Based 10.8%, Memes 9.5%

A horror mystery visual novel where a boy and a girl undergo a strange ritual in a remote mountain village. As eerie phenomena creep into their daily lives, they begin to uncover unsettling truths. Your choices shape how the story unfolds.

Why similar: Lore-Rich 22.6%, Visual Novel 20%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Text-Based 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%

Virtual Girlfriend Eliza is an experimental simulation that puts you in charge of monitoring and evaluating the behavior of an advanced artificial intelligence. It is not a game about virtual girlfriends or dating.

Why similar: Dating Sim 16.4%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Psychological Horror 9.7%

Cabbage and the Chompettes want to play hide and seek! Can you find all five of them?

Why similar: Visual Novel 18.1%, Dating Sim 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Psychological Horror 10.7%

Fulfilling your dream is just the beginning… but what if your dreams held a mystery? Join Konekomaru in this dating VN, where romance, comedy, and a hidden enigma intertwine. Meet different girls, make choices, and uncover the meaning of his dreams. Love, destiny, or something more?

Why similar: Dating Sim 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Text-Based 14.4%

Interrogate your past. In this demo, you embody Detective Juno facing off against the White Rabbit in the corrupt city of WoodHale. Detect his lies, confront contradictions, and manage your trauma before time runs out. Will you be the one to break him, or will you be the one who breaks?

Why similar: Memes 24.4%, Detective 19.1%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Story Rich 12.4%, Horror 11.7%

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: Text-Based 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Horror 9.2%

A detective visual novel inspired by Danganronpa and Everlasting Summer. You play as a young agent sent to an elite girls’ academy to investigate a suspicious death. Interrogate suspects, gather clues, and build romantic relationships — truth or temptation?

Why similar: Dating Sim 20.6%, Detective 18%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Text-Based 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%

Border of her Heart is a VN about Border control.

Why similar: Dating Sim 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Text-Based 15.4%, Visual Novel 13.4%

Paris’s life changes when she encounters a charming stranger who seems to be watching her. This choice-driven psychological visual novel delivers a tense, intimate story focused on curiosity, trust, and crossing dangerous boundaries.

Why similar: Dating Sim 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Text-Based 14.6%, Visual Novel 12.6%

"In my dreams, I can get out. In my dreams, I can fit in." 'ghostpia' mixes the adorable art style of an illustrated book with glitches-and-noise effects. There are no choices to be made. There's only a lonely girl in a ghost town and her story full of mystery, friendhood...and a bit of violence.

Why similar: Dating Sim 16.8%, Text-Based 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Visual Novel 12%

A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Detective 14.7%, Lore-Rich 14.2%, Visual Novel 12%

Kirsa is a young girl who moved in a house with many supernatural creatures living under its roof! What secrets could they be hiding?

Why similar: Text-Based 17%, Memes 15.8%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Dating Sim 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%

A Slice-of-life Anime Visual Novel about 4 friends trying to recapture old feelings. Has multiple story branches and endings.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Text-Based 15.7%, Lore-Rich 15.2%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Horror 9.1%

No criminal has ever been a match for you, and everybody is looking forward to a description of your brilliant deductions. There is just one small problem. One tiny detail that makes it different this time. A mere trifle, really. This time you have no idea who did it.

Why similar: Text-Based 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Detective 15%, Visual Novel 13.1%

Chaotic Love and Sex is an 18+ romantic visual novel where your choices shape who you grow close to—and how your story ends. Flirt, explore, and make tough decisions as you uncover the hidden sides of Aiko, Amanda, and Hina in a story full of passion, drama, consequence, and sex.

Why similar: Dating Sim 24.1%, Text-Based 18.1%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%

It is said that the last frontier is space, but the crew of the Soviet Frigate, The Peresmeshnik, is about to discover that the sea still hides a terrifying secret. Waiting to be found.

Why similar: Text-Based 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Story Rich 8.6%, Horror 8.3%

This is a romance visual novel rotating around a murder mystery, with multiple-endings and gender selectable protagonist.

Why similar: Dating Sim 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Text-Based 13.6%