Games Like Your mom

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 15%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Text-Based 12.9%, Lore-Rich 12.1%

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 22.9%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Memes 12.6%, Text-Based 12.3%

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 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Lore-Rich 9.8%

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 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Text-Based 18.6%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Horror 9.8%

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

Why similar: Dating Sim 17.6%, Text-Based 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Visual Novel 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 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Lore-Rich 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.3%

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 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Text-Based 13.2%, Lore-Rich 12.5%

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 13.7%, Story Rich 13.3%, Dating Sim 12.6%, Choices Matter 11.5%

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 21.1%, Visual Novel 16%, Horror 13.4%, Text-Based 13.2%

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

Why similar: Dating Sim 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Story Rich 9.1%

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 choice-driven interactive tale.

Why similar: Dating Sim 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Text-Based 14.7%, Lore-Rich 13.7%

Convince the cannibals not to eat you. Collect knowledge, choose your responses carefully and dig up secrets to pit the cultists against each other. Get wiser, get manipulative and mastermind your way out of being dinner in this trial-simulator set in the snowy Canadian north.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Detective 13.2%, Psychological Horror 10.6%

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 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Text-Based 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.6%

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 23.9%, Text-Based 16.9%, Memes 15.7%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.2%

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 22.7%, Dating Sim 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Psychological Horror 7.2%

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 14.6%, Text-Based 14.6%, Lore-Rich 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%

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 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Lore-Rich 15.4%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Text-Based 11.6%

《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 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Text-Based 16.7%, Lore-Rich 15.2%, Visual Novel 14.1%

💖 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 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Text-Based 13.4%

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 20.7%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Dating Sim 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Story Rich 9.7%

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 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Dating Sim 19.2%, Visual Novel 15%, Text-Based 14.2%

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

Why similar: Visual Novel 16.3%, Lore-Rich 13.1%, Dating Sim 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%

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 17.2%, Lore-Rich 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Visual Novel 12.1%

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 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Text-Based 8.5%

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

Why similar: Dating Sim 24.5%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Text-Based 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%

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 23.1%, Dating Sim 22.5%, Visual Novel 17%, Lore-Rich 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%

In a future where memories are the last connection to a lost humanity, you are an advanced AI exploring fragments of past lives. Understand emotions, traumas, and choices in a journey to uncover what it means to be alive.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Text-Based 21.9%, Lore-Rich 20.5%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Story Rich 8.4%

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 17.9%, Visual Novel 13%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Lore-Rich 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%

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 14.5%, Visual Novel 14.1%

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 27.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Text-Based 11.1%, Horror 7.3%

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 19.4%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Story Rich 9%

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 21.3%, Dating Sim 20.9%, Text-Based 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Visual Novel 13.4%

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 14.7%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Text-Based 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%

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

Why similar: Visual Novel 18.3%, Dating Sim 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Psychological Horror 10.9%

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 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Lore-Rich 10.9%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Detective 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Text-Based 16%, Visual Novel 14.2%

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 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Dating Sim 13.2%

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 17.1%, Text-Based 10.9%, Memes 9.4%

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 20.1%, Detective 18.1%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Text-Based 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%

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 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Text-Based 13.6%, Lore-Rich 12.4%

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 22.8%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Text-Based 11.8%, 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%

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

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Detective 14.6%, Lore-Rich 14.3%, Visual Novel 11.9%

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 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Text-Based 14.6%

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 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Story Rich 8.6%, Horror 8.3%

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 17.1%, Memes 15.5%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Dating Sim 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%

Follow the story from different points of view and make choices to decide your future on five different routes and discover the mystery behind this magical adventure as you find love with one of the appliances of your kitchen.

Why similar: Dating Sim 20.3%, Text-Based 15.9%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Lore-Rich 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%

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 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Text-Based 14.7%, Visual Novel 12.6%

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 17.5%, Text-Based 15.8%, Lore-Rich 15.3%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Horror 9%

Explore an alternative medieval Europe in this low-fantasy epic adventure! How far are you willing to go to take back your stolen treasure?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Text-Based 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Lore-Rich 13%, Choices Matter 7.2%

Your job is to make humanity happy. Observe the people living in your assigned district and make the best choices to ensure everyone's happiness.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Text-Based 21.3%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Story Rich 6.6%

A light-hearted lesbian romance between a tired office lady and a gyaru foxgirl. Make choices as Sasami and pursue a relationship with the cheerful Mirai, or risk ruining it.

Why similar: Dating Sim 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Text-Based 16.4%, Visual Novel 15.4%

The abyss awaits. Descend into a minimalist visual novel about a girl in the future, and guide her through branching conversations, microgames, and explorable locations. Make friends with criminals, drink too much at dinner, or relax in a spa. Whatever happens, it was your choice.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Lore-Rich 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Text-Based 13.7%

This is a visual novel featuring beastmen. In a lakeside village, the protagonist picks up a mysterious lion beastman and begins to lead a secret life.

Why similar: Dating Sim 25.4%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Text-Based 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Story Rich 9.1%

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%, Text-Based 18.2%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%

The old Lily Flash Games are being recompiled for modern systems! In Lily's Lil Video help Lily learn to be the best worker at the Happy Video Store! Sort through VHS tapes, stock up the shelves, and pick up after messy customers. Strive for perfection every day so Lily can be the best employee!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Lore-Rich 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Detective 13.3%, Visual Novel 11.5%

A visual novel intertwining elements of summer, love, mystery, featuring multiple choices and branching endings. I have a friend—but only I can see her. The doctor insists she’s a delusion, yet she claims to be from another world. Whose words can I truly trust? My choice will determine everything.

Why similar: Dating Sim 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Lore-Rich 14.7%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%

Welcome to Bear Ridge Summer Camp! Jenny Lewis is an awkward high school graduate working her first job as a camp counsellor. Help her navigate an exciting summer of making new friends, and finding her first love. But be wary! Not all is as it seems...

Why similar: Dating Sim 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Detective 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%

A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Text-Based 20.9%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Story Rich 8.6%

Can you find love at the nerdiest convention ever? "Monster Con" goes back to the multiplayer dating sim formula: go through absurd and funny situations as you find love among six sexy monsters! Who will you romance? The mimic who cosplays? The idol clown? Or the eldritch cutie? (There's also Liam)

Why similar: Memes 20.8%, Dating Sim 18.9%, Text-Based 14.2%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%