Is the Vat Utopia or Dystopia?
Earth is being demolished, and two chosen students star in an alien documentary about falling in love.
97% of 1,003 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$2.69
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Looking for that same emotional and story-driven spark as Countdown? These games could fill that gap nicely.
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.
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94% of 1,215 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$17.99Return 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.”
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98% of 134 Steam reviews are positive$4.19Pandemic Love
A short visual novel about isolation. You try to search for comfort in the lonesome people around you. Keeping the darkness at bay with small embers of light. Will you let the fear change you?
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92% of 234 Steam reviews are positiveFreeSay Goodbye
This visual novel about an ordinary man with his typical problems. Suddenly, you got a report that your distant cousin died in a car crash. Fortunately, her daughter wasn't with her. You take the girl under your wing. But soon, something starts to go wrong...
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52% of 232 Steam reviews are positiveFreeFind someone else
A visual novel about the ever-changing nature of relationships and the hardships of dealing with loss.
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91% of 132 Steam reviews are positiveFreeCabin Fever
An off-grid cabin. A tech-savvy loner. One ray of sunshine in a bleak, ruined world. Cabin Fever is a slice-of-life visual novel with meaningful player choices, multiple endings to explore, and a story that will touch your heart.
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95% of 463 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Autumn's end (Part 1)
Navigate love, friendship, art, and mental horror to find meaning in a dying world. A visual novel.
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97% of 61 Steam reviews are positiveFreeIt 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.
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94% of 2,402 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6FreeSet Yourself on Fire
A quiet town awaits death. Two young women fall in love.
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97% of 456 Steam reviews are positiveFreeMoe Era
A cute visual novel about four girls who need a hero, and you just volunteered. It starts with jokes, memes and flirting, then asks real questions about how you spend your life. Non-linear, with several endings and a story that sticks with you.
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87% of 4,816 Steam reviews are positiveFreeUntil Then
Mark is a regular high school student until a meeting sets off a chain reaction: people vanish, memories stop adding up, and something is very wrong beneath the everyday. A pixel-art narrative adventure from the Philippines that starts as a warm coming-of-age story and turns into a mystery you will not put down.
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Story-driven, Dark
96% of 16,233 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 149$19.99//TODO: today
A visual novel about figuring out life with the help of an AI. //TODO: today is a pastel colored slice-of-life story that let's you freely choose your pronouns and romantic preferences!
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92% of 428 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Hidden gems like Countdown
Set Yourself on Fire
A quiet town awaits death. Two young women fall in love.
97% of 456 Steam reviews are positiveFree
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.
94% of 1,215 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$17.99
Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary
Talk to a dead girl who remembers nothing, chase the truth of her death through urban legends and branching choices, and find one of many endings.
94% of 1,113 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$24.99
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.”
98% of 134 Steam reviews are positive$4.19
outside the door
Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office.
93% of 764 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
q.u.q.
You follow a crude girl and her enormous gun across a dying desert, through nine endings of weird, funny and quietly sad story.
94% of 1,879 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
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.
94% of 2,402 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6Free
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...
94% of 932 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Mandemon
Crumbling school buildings in Japan. A string of bizarre incidents. The eerie legend of Mandemon. Lies and truth intertwine.
86% of 354 Steam reviews are positive$2.69
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.
95% of 169 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$5.99
Until Then
Follow Mark through school days, first love and a mystery that slowly unravels everything he thought he knew.
96% of 16,233 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 149$19.99
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Autumn's end (Part 1)
Navigate love, friendship, art, and mental horror to find meaning in a dying world. A visual novel.
97% of 61 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Is the Vat Utopia or Dystopia?
Earth is being demolished, and two chosen students star in an alien documentary about falling in love.
97% of 1,003 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$2.69
Unquiet Grey
You can't save him... but what if you could meet him again? Unquiet Grey is a heartbreaking timeloop visual novel about a troubled young woman and…
98% of 100 Steam reviews are positiveFree
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.
94% of 1,215 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$17.99
Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary
Talk to a dead girl who remembers nothing, chase the truth of her death through urban legends and branching choices, and find one of many endings.
94% of 1,113 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$24.99
Set Yourself on Fire
A quiet town awaits death. Two young women fall in love.
97% of 456 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Denpa Nightmares
No matter how long you’re gone, there will always be a girl waiting for you in the same place. This is a story about forgetting, and about waiting.
92% of 187 Steam reviews are positiveFree
The happiness of maggots
It is a visual novel AVG with a female beta as the protagonist,.
88% of 52 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Mobile Murder Mystery
Follow the story of the Unseen Narrator, whose repetitive life falls apart when their co-worker decides to quit on a whim.
97% of 76 Steam reviews are positiveFree
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.”
98% of 134 Steam reviews are positive$4.19
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.
93% of 20,708 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 109$1.99
My clinical death
A short visual novel about a girl who experiences a clinical death.
83% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$0.99