Banebush
Hide in your childhood village, listen to the old tales, and find out which of six endings is yours.
94% of 2,204 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$2.99
Games like R/A\W
If the dark and story-driven rhythm of R/A\W stuck with you, this helps. You will find a few strong contenders among these games.
Ukraine War Stories
Three visual novels about the first months of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, told from the civilian side. You play a retired engineer in Hostomel, a teenager in occupied Bucha and a surgeon under siege in Mariupol, keeping the people around you alive. Every story is built from eyewitness accounts, and every choice costs something.
Also in Visual novel · Dark, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
87% of 1,089 Steam reviews are positiveFreeIZGUB 2001
You decide how a civil war in the country of Izgub is supposed to end. Visual novel with strong themes of war, political violence and moral dilemma.
Also in Visual novel · Dark, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
97% of 113 Steam reviews are positive$3.9993, Kuindzhi
A short, heavy first-person story about Artyom, an 18-year-old from Donbas who volunteers in Mariupol in March 2022, after his father is sent to the front. He never picks up a weapon. What carries him, and you, is sound, memory and an argument with himself that you help settle.
Also in Visual novel · Dark, Story-driven, Emotional
93% of 7,125 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9FreeThe Dawn is Inevitable
The Dawn is Inevitable is an interactive crime drama/neo-western novel inspired by classic RPG games. A mysterious stranger is forced to hide in a village called Rassvet. This place is isolated from the outside world for the whole winter and keeps many dark secrets.
Also in Visual novel · Dark, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
87% of 91 Steam reviews are positive$6.99Torn Away
Torn Away is an award winning interactive story with a unique blend of adventure games, side-scrollers, and cinematic first-person levels. Help little Asya find her way home in the middle of war.
Also in Visual novel · Dark, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
91% of 598 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
A quiet outcast. A missing girl. A closed Soviet town that would rather not talk about either. Z.A.T.O. is a linear visual novel about Asya Shubina, who asks the questions nobody in Vorkuta-5 wants asked, and sends a signal to the universe. Seven-odd hours of strange, tender, unsettling storytelling.
Also in Visual novel · Dark, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
98% of 14,078 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 95FreeI, the Forgotten One
To defeat the rebel knights and stabilize the crown, you must journey through the most dangerous realm in the kingdom--your own wretched past.
Dark, Story-driven, Emotional
89% of 200 Steam reviews are positive$7.99Cycle of Struggle: Ardengrad
Cycle of Struggle: Ardengrad is a visual novel about politics, love, and the cost of historical choices in an alternate world. You are a student drawn into events that will soon erupt into civil war. Here, ideologies are not just words—they define people’s fates. Every decision leaves a mark.
Also in Visual novel · Dark, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
98% of 55 Steam reviews are positive$9.99ASH OF WAR™
The story about an uneasy journey of one man. You will experience certain situations, those, that could have happened with our parents, children or even a neighbours on just any other war. Through the eyes of our hero you will see his struggle in a modern war, struggle with oneself.
Dark, Story-driven, Emotional
57% of 51 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Sixtieth Kilometer
A commuter train stops sixty kilometres from Moscow. Outside, a pink fog kills anything that breathes it. Inside, a handful of strangers are locked in with no answers. A post-apocalyptic visual novel where your choices decide who makes it out alive.
Also in Visual novel · Dark, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
78% of 1,440 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Crisis: The Third Way
A visual novel set in 2034, eight years after World War III. You are Yevgeny Krylov, a junior sergeant in the Ural Republic, and your choices decide whether your broken country sides with Europe, with China, or with no one at all. Ten endings, hand-drawn art and original music carry a story about one small man and a very large war.
Also in Visual novel · Dark, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
91% of 4,053 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 66FreeВторая степень покоя
Read words and make choices as you immerse yourself in the adventures inside the protagonist's head. This dark visual novel tells the story of a lost man among corpses in a northern Russian town. Will you help the hero find a good ending? I don't know what to do with him anymore.
Also in Visual novel · Dark, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
100% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
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Crisis: The Third Way
As a junior sergeant in a broken post-war republic, your choices steer the country between Europe, China or going it alone, across ten endings.
91% of 4,053 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 66Free
93, Kuindzhi
Walk through Mariupol in March 2022 as an unarmed volunteer, listening, remembering and deciding how Artyom argues himself forward.
93% of 7,125 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9Free
IZGUB 2001
You decide how a civil war in the country of Izgub is supposed to end. Visual novel with strong themes of war, political violence and moral dilemma.
97% of 113 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Little Green Girl
One day the protagonist meets an alien girl and the story turns...
96% of 411 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free
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…
98% of 14,078 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 95Free
Torn Away
Torn Away is an award winning interactive story with a unique blend of adventure games, side-scrollers, and cinematic first-person levels.
91% of 598 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
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 1,885 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 2,410 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7Free
The Czar is Dead
The Czar is Dead is a visual novel in the setting of the Russian Empire. Help the last russian emperor save his soul, life and country.
90% of 101 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Athanasy
Deep beneath the surface of the dead Earth, the City, the last refuge of humanity, hides.
97% of 494 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
I, the Forgotten One
To defeat the rebel knights and stabilize the crown, you must journey through the most dangerous realm in the kingdom--your own wretched past.
89% of 200 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Newest games like R/A\W
93, Kuindzhi
Walk through Mariupol in March 2022 as an unarmed volunteer, listening, remembering and deciding how Artyom argues himself forward.
93% of 7,125 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9Free
Cycle of Struggle: Ardengrad
Cycle of Struggle: Ardengrad is a visual novel about politics, love, and the cost of historical choices in an alternate world.
98% of 55 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Crisis: The Third Way
As a junior sergeant in a broken post-war republic, your choices steer the country between Europe, China or going it alone, across ten endings.
91% of 4,053 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 66Free
Abyss Veil
Investigate the lives of Ivy, Issa, Everett, Logan, Anju, Aisha, Billy, Leslie, Idris, Jimmy, Pinto, e-slum5, Mel, Granny, Gramp, Au, Joel, Eel…
95% of 62 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
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…
98% of 14,078 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 95Free
Rattenwalzer -Песня о борьбе и жизни человеческой-
The visual novel Rattenwalzer is a story about the human willpower that regardless of sufferings and terrors lasting thousands of years has kept its…
100% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Burned One
Visual novel «Burned One» - story that tells about a post-apocalyptic world in post-soviet decorations, and about its people.
100% of 22 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Вторая степень покоя
Read words and make choices as you immerse yourself in the adventures inside the protagonist's head.
100% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
MOOD
MOOD is a short visual novel combining horror, dark humor, and dialogues on a wide variety of topics, from old movies to ancient wars.
86% of 436 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Banebush
Hide in your childhood village, listen to the old tales, and find out which of six endings is yours.
94% of 2,204 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$2.99
IZGUB 2001
You decide how a civil war in the country of Izgub is supposed to end. Visual novel with strong themes of war, political violence and moral dilemma.
97% of 113 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
The Czar is Dead
The Czar is Dead is a visual novel in the setting of the Russian Empire. Help the last russian emperor save his soul, life and country.
90% of 101 Steam reviews are positive$7.99