Games like Asphodelium

If Asphodelium left you wanting something story-driven and romantic, you have options. These games are a good place to start.

It gets so lonely here
A dark fairytale visual novel about a girl running through a night forest, and the three lonely strangers waiting at the end of each path. A yandere yuri story told in second person, where love and danger wear the same face and every ending arrives exactly on time.
Story-driven, Romantic, Emotional
94% of 2,407 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6Free
Dreambound
Mysterious deaths. Dreams that are reality, and reality that is a dream. Will Noah be able to move forward and solve the mystery⁠—or will he give in to the demons of his past? A story-rich BL mystery visual novel.
Story-driven, Romantic, Emotional
95% of 86 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Return to Ash
“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.”
Story-driven, Romantic, Emotional
98% of 134 Steam reviews are positive$4.19
Set Yourself on Fire
A quiet town awaits death. Two young women fall in love.
Story-driven, Romantic, Emotional
97% of 459 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Kill or Love
A short visual novel about Jack, who wakes up in a hospital with no childhood memories while his girlfriend is held captive, and his nurse, the woman who put him there. A dark, tense love triangle where the truth comes in pieces and your final choices decide how much blood gets spilled.
Story-driven, Romantic, Emotional
89% of 2,187 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Dead Wishes
In this chaotic world, you must adapt - either to forgive or survive. A thriller-romance indie visual novel/dating simulator.
Story-driven, Romantic, Emotional
88% of 57 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Talk About Something in the Nowhere
A short horror visual novel where you get to know your brand new self-aware in-game boyfriend and explore your relationship through Talking About Something in the Nowhere.
Story-driven, Romantic, Emotional
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Nameless - The Departed Cycle
Follow the red star to the Umbral Forest and unravel the mysteries within, in this gay, romantic, dark fantasy visual novel.
Story-driven, Romantic, Emotional
97% of 31 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Black Lily's Tale
Perhaps it was the curse of a black lily that bloomed too early in the winter...Before graduation, a girl falls in love with another girl... But her pure feelings are torn apart by a "loop of tragedy."By [interrupting choices] and [typing in words], you will weave her feelings into the story.
Story-driven, Romantic, Emotional
86% of 443 Steam reviews are positive$18.99
May
Sudden tragic event shook up Yun’s routine: his friend is balancing between life and death. Doctors are not being supportive, not to mention that something feels shady. Would young man be able to help Max through?
Story-driven, Romantic, Emotional
85% of 33 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
The Way We All Go (2015)
A horror/romance visual novel with numerous choices and over 20 endings. Set in Japan in the 1980s, our protagonist, Atcchan, must navigate his relationship between his two estranged childhood friends, one of whom might be a yandere. Will he live to see the end of his summer vacation?
Story-driven, Romantic, Emotional
86% of 145 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Tales From The Under-Realm: Hazel
In this dark visual novel, discover what led the apprentice witch, Hazel, to her untimely demise. There is, however, a chance for her to cheat death. Can you find her happy ending with one of two love interests - Tori the tough paladin, or Sasha the deceiving assassin?
Story-driven, Romantic, Emotional
93% of 27 Steam reviews are positive$11.99

Cheaper than Asphodelium

Return to Ash

“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.”

$4.19

Rituals in the Dark

A lesbian / yuri romance story with mild horror elements set in the rainy English seaside town of Scarborough.

$6.99

Talk About Something in the Nowhere

A short horror visual novel where you get to know your brand new self-aware in-game boyfriend and explore your relationship through Talking About…

$3.99

May

Sudden tragic event shook up Yun’s routine: his friend is balancing between life and death.

$4.99

The Way We All Go (2015)

A horror/romance visual novel with numerous choices and over 20 endings.

$5.99

Novalie

Surreal horror themed visual novel, with lots of branching paths, blood, tears and twisted pitch-black humour.

$3.99

Lily of the Valley

Following his mother's death, a young man meets a strange young girl in the Welsh countryside.

$2.99

Melancholy Love

Melancholy Love is a Yuri Visual Novel between an elite and a misfit in an All-Girls' High School. How will sparks flare between the two?

$8.99

Brilliant Shadows - Part One of the Book of Gray Magic

Brilliant Shadows is a visual novel that follows the story of Veronica Ashmar, a new graduate of the Mountain and a necromancer.

$6.99

Find Love or Die Trying: Til Death Do Us Part

The afterstory to Find Love or Die Trying is here! Continue your romance with your chosen partner in the world beyond the killer dating show.

$4.99

a new life.

A hand-drawn romance about meeting, marrying, growing old, and deciding what to do when love hurts.

$2.99

Mandemon

Crumbling school buildings in Japan. A string of bizarre incidents. The eerie legend of Mandemon. Lies and truth intertwine.

$2.99

Hidden gems like Asphodelium

Set Yourself on Fire

A quiet town awaits death. Two young women fall in love.

Free

Her Love, Like Poison

A dark lesbian horror/romance story so toxic it's emitting spores.

$6.99

Return to Ash

“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.”

$4.19

Lover's Enigma

In Lover's Enigma , you investigate your husband's mysterious death while balancing complex relationships and personal trauma.

$11.99

Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate

Selene has limited time to win the heart of one of four women, and each route ends a different way.

$14

A Tithe in Blood

A dark yuri visual novel about a quiet university student who discovers blood magic in the depths of her grief.

$14.99

Paradise

Paradise is a Boys Love visual novel and tells the story of a group of men who go on holiday on a deserted island.

$19.99

It gets so lonely here

Run through a night forest, choose your path, and meet the three strangers waiting at the end of each one.

Free

Black Lily's Tale

Perhaps it was the curse of a black lily that bloomed too early in the winter...Before graduation, a girl falls in love with another girl...

$18.99

Trouble Comes Twice

Play as twins Hazel and Jace in this wholesome romcom visual novel.

$15

start;again

A BL/yaoi mystery visual novel that follows a man named Sebastian as he’s forced into a game of life-or-death, alongside three strangers.

$5.99

Chronicles of Taldun: The Remainder

A dark fantasy tale where death is not the end but the path to the truth. Two magi trapped in a collapsing tower must unravel a deadly mystery.

$27.99

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