Games like 2236 A.D.

Chasing that story-driven and mysterious feeling you got from 2236 A.D.? These games are a good place to start.

Memory's Dogma CODE:01
Japan, 2030 A.D. Memories can now be digitized and archived, allowing people to communicate with the deceased. With only one week left before his best friend’s memories are deleted, can Hiroki uncover the truth behind Sorano’s death?
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Mysterious, Romantic
79% of 207 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Is the Vat Utopia or Dystopia?
Earth is scheduled for demolition to make way for an interstellar highway, and two lonely teenagers get picked as samples for an alien "Human Observation Documentary". What follows is a short, sweet and surprisingly moving romance visual novel: dark jokes, meme-heavy dialogue, gorgeous presentation and a pure love story with a happy ending, all in about four hours.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Romantic, Emotional
97% of 1,020 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$2.99
Lingering Fragrance
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?
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Mysterious, Romantic
91% of 561 Steam reviews are positive$1.19
The Future Radio and the Artificial Pigeons
2061, Japan. Mankind has lost the sky, and with it, its connections. All of it was taken away by birds... ...By countless artificial pigeons flying through the sky.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Mysterious, Romantic
85% of 135 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
PARQUET
A short, all-ages visual novel from YuzusoftSOUR: a man built from thousands of stolen memories walks into the world to find out who he is, and moves in with two girls who share one body, one by day and one by night. Light, funny and warmer than its sci-fi setup suggests.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Mysterious, Romantic
95% of 1,785 Steam reviews are positive$16.99
Schrödinger's Call
The moon is falling and twenty-one nanoseconds remain. Mary, guided by a black cat named Hamlet, answers phone calls from souls stuck between life and death and helps them finish what they left unsaid. A hand-drawn, picture-book visual novel about listening, regret and one last conversation.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Mysterious, Romantic
94% of 1,219 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$17.99
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
What follows is a short, strange visual novel about existence, affection and what is real, told through hundreds of choices, surreal detours and multiple endings. Cute on the surface, unsettling underneath, and harder to shake off than its few hours suggest.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Mysterious, Romantic
93% of 20,760 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 66$1.99
tomorrow won't come for those without ██████
That day, we told a lie.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Mysterious, Emotional
93% of 978 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Together We Live
This is a visual novel game without player selections. To atone for the sins of humanity, the girl continues to die.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Mysterious, Romantic
95% of 224 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Analogue: A Hate Story
A lost generation ship, thousands of years dead, and only its logs left to speak. Dig through the crew's records with two very different AIs, piece together what happened aboard the Mugunghwa, and choose which of them to trust. A dark, slow-burning mystery with five endings.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Mysterious, Romantic
94% of 1,702 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Wonderful Everyday Down the Rabbit-Hole
A surreal visual novel about a town where dolls are thrown to the sky as offerings, and four girls searching for the place where world and sky meet. Philosophical, strange and genuinely dark, it won Best Story at the 2010 Moe Game Awards. Come for the mystery, stay for a story that keeps rearranging itself.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Mysterious, Romantic
92% of 2,597 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$29.99
SYNESTHESIA
🌀 Is there an escape to the endless spiral?🌀 『SYNESTHESIA』 is an emotive, character driven sci-fi mystery visual novel. Join a group of college students with strange cognitive powers, who soon discover something is amiss at the institute sworn to help them...
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Mysterious, Romantic
100% of 41 Steam reviews are positive$14.99

Cheaper than 2236 A.D.

Is the Vat Utopia or Dystopia?

Earth is being demolished, and two chosen students star in an alien documentary about falling in love.

$2.99

Lingering Fragrance

We walk together, play together, and do everything together. This is our last trip, our last memory.

$1.19

The NOexistenceN of you AND me

A short visual novel about affection and reality, where hundreds of choices twist the story toward very different endings.

$1.99

tomorrow won't come for those without ██████

That day, we told a lie.

$1.99

Together We Live

This is a visual novel game without player selections. To atone for the sins of humanity, the girl continues to die.

$9.99

Analogue: A Hate Story

Investigate a lost generation ship by reading its crew's logs, helped (and hindered) by two AIs with opinions.

$9.99

Notch - The Innocent LunA: Eclipsed SinnerS

Read through a dark island mystery where your choices split the story across branching routes and endings.

$9.99

YU-NO: A girl who chants love at the bound of this world

Takuya Arima receives a package from his supposedly deceased father.

$7.49

Epiphyllum in Love

You read a story of memory, love and loss in a world where memories are bought and sold.

$2.35

旧手表 - Old Watch

This is an Visual Novel game. It's a story about time leap.

$9.99

STEINS;GATE

A self-styled mad scientist and his friends turn a microwave into a machine that texts the past.

$8.99

Aliya: Timelink

Chat with a stranded girl across a thousand years, manage her oxygen in real time and guide her story to one of several endings.

$2.99

Hidden gems like 2236 A.D.

Is the Vat Utopia or Dystopia?

Earth is being demolished, and two chosen students star in an alien documentary about falling in love.

$2.99

Schrödinger's Call

Answer calls from souls caught between life and death and help them say what they never could, in a hand-drawn story about regret and listening.

$17.99

NICE TO MEET YOU, AGAIN

NICE TO MEET YOU, AGAIN is a dramatic story by veteran visual novel developer, Purple software.

$24.99

Dream about yoU

A dashing blond partner drops in from the sky, declaring they're taking responsibility for you—but they need a small favor.Find them in your dreams…

$7.99

Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It

Ask the questions a closed Soviet town wants left alone, in a strange, tender visual novel about a missing girl and the quiet outcast who won't stop…

Free

Natsuno-Kanata: Beyond Summer

──終わってしまった世界の夏、少女はあてのない旅をする。通話を介して終わってしまった世界を共に生きるアドベンチャーゲーム。

$10.99

Ever 17 - The Out of Infinity

To the promise we once made and the place we must return

$20.99

Sister Other Paranoia

A dark visual novel by acclaimed creator nyalra. Overly sensitive to other people's emotions, the protagonist—a light novel writer—develops the…

$9.99

Absent in the Rain

A mysterious senpai. A serial murder case that has taken the world by storm. And a giant, shadowy fish swimming at my feet...

Free

natsuno-kanata - beyond the summer

── In the summer of the world that has ended, the girl travels aimlessly. "natsuno-kanata - beyond the summer" is a text adventure game that depicts…

Free

4.1.60Co

Cobalt 60 of April 1 is a magical text-based adventure game in which players play Anton Andreevich Sidorov, the protagonist of the Soviet Union in…

$4.99

Aliya: Timelink

Chat with a stranded girl across a thousand years, manage her oxygen in real time and guide her story to one of several endings.

$2.99

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