Games like Project LUX

Hooked on the story-driven and hand-drawn side of Project LUX? These games could fill that gap nicely.

TOKYO CHRONOS
TOKYO CHRONOS is the VR game that has multiple-choice decision points as well as more than one ending. The game takes place in Shibuya, Tokyo, which has only eight people, including you, the protagonist, Kyosuke Sakurai. Why are they there?
Story-driven, Surreal, Cinematic
85% of 305 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$29.99
狼と香辛料VR/Spice&WolfVR
Spice and Wolf returns as a VR animation made with the original creators. You stand in merchant Lawrence's shoes as a sudden rainstorm drives him and Holo, the wolf girl, into an abandoned water mill. Around a small fire, the two banter while you watch from inches away. Finish the story and an interaction mode opens: pet her head, touch her tail, learn her moods. Short, warm and unlike anything else in your library.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Cinematic
92% of 1,061 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos
A sci-fi adventure full of robot battles, pop music, and emotion. Featuring one of the largest branching storylines ever in a VR game with 15-20 hours of gameplay, Altdeus will place you in the shoes of Chloe, a pilot in humanity's forces fighting massive hostile organisms known as the Meteora.
Story-driven, Surreal, Cinematic
95% of 380 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
LUNARiA -Virtualized Moonchild-
Genius gamer T-Bit rakes in the prize money in VR races day after day. One day, after experiencing a network error mid-race, he ends up in Lunar World, a moon-based server. There, he meets an AI avatar by the name of Lunar-Q. A love story spanning the 384,400 km between the Earth and moon begins!
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Cinematic
94% of 170 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
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.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Surreal
95% of 1,784 Steam reviews are positive$16.99
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?
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Surreal
79% of 207 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Spice&Wolf VR2
The team behind the original series has gotten together to bring you into the world of Spice and Wolf again for a second installment of VR animation! Animation has evolved from "watching" to "experiencing."
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Cinematic
97% of 670 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
FOCUS on YOU
The love at first sight, came like a sunny summer day. Meet YUA and make your own sparkling moments.
Story-driven, Surreal, Cinematic
91% of 791 Steam reviews are positive$39.99
Notch - The Innocent LunA: Eclipsed SinnerS
A dark visual novel about an isolated island town where murders wake old, half-forgotten memories. Follow Yuhito through a mystery that blurs dream and reality, with branching routes, 14 endings, over 50 songs and hand-drawn art. A heavy, emotional story that asks what is real and what is sin.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Surreal
95% of 3,152 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Surreal
97% of 1,003 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$2.69
AI: The Somnium Files
Detective Kaname Date hunts a serial killer through near-future Tokyo, and through other people's dreams. A murder mystery with sharp twists, a talking AI partner and dream puzzles on a six-minute clock. Dark, funny and stranger than it has any right to be.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Surreal
91% of 8,939 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 29$3.99
Our World Is Ended.
A controversial visual novel that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality. AR game developers, Judgement 7, see their creations break into the real world and threaten to destroy Tokyo. It certainly raised a few eyebrows on release, but few can argue with the quality of its rich story-telling.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Surreal
73% of 49 Steam reviews are positive$39.99

Cheaper than Project LUX

LUNARiA -Virtualized Moonchild-

Genius gamer T-Bit rakes in the prize money in VR races day after day.

$19.99

PARQUET

Read a near-future story about a manufactured man living with two girls who swap places at dawn and dusk.

$16.99

Innocent Forest: The Bird of Light

The “FullDive Novel”: Visual Novels meets Virtual Reality in this ultimate immersive reading experience.

$1.99

Memory's Dogma CODE:01

Japan, 2030 A.D. Memories can now be digitized and archived, allowing people to communicate with the deceased.

$14.99

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

Is the Vat Utopia or Dystopia?

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

$2.69

AI: The Somnium Files

Interrogate suspects by day, then step into their dreams on a six-minute clock to crack a serial killer case in Tokyo.

$3.99

VIRTUAL GIRL @ WORLD’S END

The story is set in future Tokyo, where human’s endless desires have consumed finite resources.

$19.99

Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-

You play a boy raising an android with a soul, in a near future that has no patience for one.

$9.99

Raining City: Millions Recollections

One night, Lyu Xuan woke up soaked in blood, a mysterious black hole in the palm of her hand, and millions pouring out of that hole, like an…

$11.99

Mandemon

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

$2.99

Re: LieF ~ Shin'ainaru Anata e~

"Re: LieF ~ Shin'ainaru Anata e~" is produced by Japanese visual novel brand Rask.

$10.84

Hidden gems like Project LUX

Is the Vat Utopia or Dystopia?

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

$2.69

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.

$24.99

The Real Face of a VTuber

A narrative courtroom adventure all about VTubers! Players will take the role of prosecutor Justin Truth and investigate a murder at a VTuber…

$10.19

Nobody Nowhere

a side-scrolling, story-driven text adventure game in pixel art.

$9.99

Jukai Maze

Beneath the shadowed sea of trees below the volcanic mountain lies a mysterious facility probing the afterlife, as omens of the world’s end approach.

$6.99

LUNARiA -Virtualized Moonchild-

Genius gamer T-Bit rakes in the prize money in VR races day after day.

$19.99

BLACK BOX LSS - The Shining Immortal

Play a smitten new recruit chasing his boss through a futuristic company, one crime scene at a time.

Free

Inverted Angel

A girl visited your home, who you don't know but she identified herself as your girlfriend.

$6.99

Raining City: Millions Recollections

One night, Lyu Xuan woke up soaked in blood, a mysterious black hole in the palm of her hand, and millions pouring out of that hole, like an…

$11.99

Love Love School Days

Escape a school run by a jilted AI girlfriend who hunts you through randomly generated halls, one run at a time.

$5.99

Perennial Dusk -Kinsenka-

“Perennial Dusk -Kinsenka-” is a kinetic novel about how the human heart endures relentless violence and limitless cruelty, telling the story of a…

$29.99

Ever 17 - The Out of Infinity

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

$20.99

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