Games like Prison Notes

Did Prison Notes leave you in a story-driven and replayable frame of mind? You might settle into these games easily.

Back to the Dawn
A story-rich prison RPG: you have 21 days to gather evidence, survive Boulderton Prison and break out. Play a framed reporter or an undercover agent, befriend 47 inmates, pick a gang or play lone wolf, and find your own route to freedom in a pixel-art mystery with multiple endings.
Also in Detective · Story-driven, Replayable, Hand-drawn
94% of 8,656 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 136$23.99
Romp of Dump
Visual novel fully animated in Live2D, Observing Scum Prisoners! In a prison called a dump, a betting card game among dangerous prisoners begins. Penalty game for the losers! Uncover the hidden pasts and bizarre crimes of these lunatics!
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Replayable, Hand-drawn
94% of 78 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Jackpot Crash Course
Death row gets a game show in this casino-themed visual novel: as a criminal contestant on BET AND FORGIVE, you gamble against 12 rivals for a pardon, make choices that split the story into routes and endings, and wonder what the show is really judging.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Replayable, Hand-drawn
99% of 463 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6Free
子夜之章:历史的终局～MidNights of Desperado～
The protagonist of this lonely life is you. You leave your hometown and come to a strange world. The world is prosperous and cold, strange but real. You may like it or wish you could tear it to pieces. The good news is, you have the choice!
Story-driven, Replayable, Mysterious
98% of 269 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Space Prison
Survive the galaxy's toughest prison and rise to the top of a space gang! Explore, fight, craft, trade and learn convicts' stories to escape the facility. Space Prison is a turn-based tactical survival game with deep strategy and social RPG elements.
Story-driven, Replayable, Hand-drawn
84% of 281 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
HENPRI
A visual novel from the makers of NUKITASHI: Shuichiro gets ten years in Tulip Prison, an island fortress for people the justice system wrote off, after his art gets mistaken for a crime. Outwit a rotten system, bond with fellow prisoners, and find out whether happiness can survive behind bars. Dark, absurd, and surprisingly moving.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Mysterious
96% of 4,058 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$24.99
Far Away
Far Away is a visual novel set in Bedjan, a port city where gangs, police and schemers all want a piece of the action. You play Krosa, a docker with mechanical arms whose ordinary morning turns into something much bigger. Nine storylines, sixteen endings and full Cantonese voice acting make it worth more than one run.
Also in Visual novel and Detective · Story-driven, Replayable, Hand-drawn
94% of 7,608 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
A Light in the Dark
A visual novel about a rich kid who wakes up tied in a strange room, and the girl who put him there. Talk, investigate, manage your stamina and make choices under a ticking clock, across a story about class, prejudice and two people on opposite sides of an unfair world.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Replayable, Hand-drawn
92% of 1,536 Steam reviews are positive$7.49
文字獄
The protagonist is trapped inside a prison, please help the protagonist to escape this place by making sentences and unravel the secrets of this prison.
Story-driven, Mysterious
89% of 328 Steam reviews are positiveFree
🧠 OUT OF THE BOX
Dive into a wild story of gangsters and criminals where you decide the fate of the peculiar customers of a luxurious nightclub in a never-ending race against the clock.
Story-driven, Replayable, Hand-drawn
88% of 212 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Blood Money: Lethal Eden
A live-action thriller where a trip to meet your online lover ends in a scam compound called Eden. Forced to run phone fraud under threat of violence, you climb, scheme or resist, and every choice pushes the story toward very different endings. Dark, tense and surprisingly hard to put down.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Replayable, Mysterious
91% of 1,273 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$8.99
Billionaire Lovers
A broke graduate wakes up 100 million dollars richer, thanks to an uncle nobody has heard from in years. Then four handsome men appear, each charming in his own way, each with a smile that hides something. A short, funny, slowly unsettling visual novel about romance, trust and the many ways strangers want your money.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Replayable, Hand-drawn
95% of 3,669 Steam reviews are positive$2.99

Cheaper than Prison Notes

子夜之章:历史的终局～MidNights of Desperado～

The protagonist of this lonely life is you. You leave your hometown and come to a strange world. The world is prosperous and cold, strange but real.

$4.99

A Light in the Dark

A kidnapped rich boy and the girl holding him captive talk, clash and slowly see each other's world, while your choices steer the story toward very…

$7.49

Hard Time

The toughest prison sim in the yard has been locked back up to serve another sentence in 2D!

$4.99

A guard walks into a tavern

You are a guard whose job is to post bounties. Try your best to deal with various matters and make money to raise your family.

$7.99

Blood Money: Lethal Eden

A live-action thriller where a trip to meet your online lover turns into a scam compound, and every choice you make under pressure shapes how your…

$8.99

Billionaire Lovers

Inherit a fortune, meet four charming men, and find out what they really want from you.

$2.99

Purgatory’s Flower

Hand-drawn 2D point and click Horror x Dating sim Meet the 'Flowers' imprisoned in hell. They long for an escape to purgatory.

$2.50

S4U: CITYPUNK 2011 AND LOVE PUNCH

Play Miki, a part-time online mouthpiece in a pixel-art city, and decide whose words you type and which memories you keep.

$9.79

Lianhai Casino

A beam of light spills across the sea, beckoning you aboard Lianhai CASINO.

$8.99

Inner Scales 1:Choice

《Inner Scales 1:Choice》is a first-person FMV. Set in a sealed cage. It pushes survival, humanity, emotion and moral dilemmas to the extreme.

$6.99

Prison Escape Simulator: Dig Out

Tunnel your way to freedom one spoonful of sand at a time, trading with cellmates and following hidden letters along the way.

$4.55

寇莎梅特：困世迷情 Consummate:Missing World

Escape a strange man's house as an amnesiac girl, one puzzle and one ending at a time.

$0.99

Hidden gems like Prison Notes

Jackpot Crash Course

Death row gets a game show in this casino-themed visual novel: as a criminal contestant on BET AND FORGIVE, you gamble against 12 rivals for a…

Free

Blood Money: Lethal Eden

A live-action thriller where a trip to meet your online lover turns into a scam compound, and every choice you make under pressure shapes how your…

$8.99

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…

$7.19

Purgatory’s Flower

Hand-drawn 2D point and click Horror x Dating sim Meet the 'Flowers' imprisoned in hell. They long for an escape to purgatory.

$2.50

Inner Scales 1:Choice

《Inner Scales 1:Choice》is a first-person FMV. Set in a sealed cage. It pushes survival, humanity, emotion and moral dilemmas to the extreme.

$6.99

My Sweet! Housemate

Faced with the cruel and harsh reality of homelessness, you seek out affordable housing in your area.

$4.99

我的恋爱逃生攻略 Love to Live

Trapped in a game of dreams, where the price of failing to escape is eternal slumber. Across shifting worlds, you meet 'him.'

$9.99

HENPRI

A visual novel from the makers of NUKITASHI: Shuichiro gets ten years in Tulip Prison, an island fortress for people the justice system wrote off…

$24.99

S4U: CITYPUNK 2011 AND LOVE PUNCH

Play Miki, a part-time online mouthpiece in a pixel-art city, and decide whose words you type and which memories you keep.

$9.79

Office Life

Climb from fresh graduate through office politics, stocks and romance, with branching choices that lead to many different endings.

$11.99

Lost:Antinomy

Play a hero reborn on the continent of Astra, where every choice is a swipe and every girl has her own story.

$2.99

Back to the Dawn

A 21-day race to uncover who framed you, survive behind bars and find your own way out.

$23.99

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