Games like VIDEOVERSE

If the story-driven and emotional rhythm of VIDEOVERSE stuck with you, this helps. These games keep things close enough to feel familiar.

Terranova
A nostalgic interactive fiction game set in the early 2000's. Chat with your friends, update your LimeJournal, and discover yourself through a rich world of storytelling, love and friendship.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Emotional, Retro
97% of 34 Steam reviews are positive$20.04
Emily is Away Too
It is 2006, senior year, and two girls are waiting for your reply. A story told entirely through an old instant messenger, with branching chats, multiple endings and a soundtrack that hits the nostalgia nerve. Short, sincere and surprisingly emotional.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Emotional, Retro
93% of 5,363 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$0.99
Emily is Away <3
It's 2008, AIM is dead, and everyone at school is on Facenook. Post on walls, poke your crush, and type every message yourself as you stumble through senior year with Emily or Evelyn. A short, funny, quietly painful story about teenage romance, where the choices you make decide how it all ends.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Emotional, Retro
91% of 6,075 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$0.99
lovebyte.exe
Your favorite streamer goes silent, the rumors pile up, and the group chat you join to escape them might hold the answer. A chat-based dating sim where you flirt with six mystery posters, dodge phishing scams, and try to work out who is real. Funny, sweet, and very online.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Emotional, Relaxing
96% of 389 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$11.99
Secret Little Haven
An adventure game about old computers, community, creativity, fandom, gender, and the internet. Alex Cole is a teenage trans girl in 1999 who has yet to figure herself out. She spends much of her free time on the internet, browsing a fan forum for her favorite magical girl show, and chatting with her friends.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Emotional, Retro
98% of 469 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Goodbye Volcano High
A cinematic visual novel about Fang's final year of high school, with the world about to end. Hand-drawn art, original songs you perform, and choices that shape who Fang becomes. A heartfelt, funny story about love, friendship and making things count while there is still time.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Emotional, Cinematic
90% of 1,692 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
I Wanna Be A Game Dev!
Live out your school days as you navigate the rocky world of game development! Can you make an amazing game, or will something get in the way?
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Emotional, Relaxing
95% of 237 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop)
A game about being kind to real people. Send nice letters from your cozy room, go outside and say hi to your neighbors, swap recommendations, dress up for the poetry slam and add your dreams to a sky full of wishes. Join a community of real people with their hearts on their sleeves.
Story-driven, Emotional, Relaxing
92% of 637 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99
Convento
A story about growing up online and dealing with IRL updates. A look back at the past 2 decades of gaming that will make you think about the good, the bad, and the ones left behind.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Emotional, Cinematic
94% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Until 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 · Story-driven, Emotional, Retro
96% of 16,275 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 149$19.99
ESC
An interactive novel about identity, roleplay, and dreams.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Emotional, Relaxing
99% of 102 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Anachronism\>
It's 1999 and your friend sends you a floppy disk, titled "RemBo". It turns out to be the installer for an old BBS service, filled with both strangers and a familiar face. How are you going to use it?
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Emotional, Retro
66% of 56 Steam reviews are positiveFree

Cheaper than VIDEOVERSE

Emily is Away <3

Type every message yourself and steer a teenage romance toward one of its many endings, in a short, funny and quietly painful story.

$0.99

Emily is Away Too

Message Emily and Evelyn through a 2006 instant messenger and steer your senior year toward one of several endings.

$0.99

lovebyte.exe

Chat your way through romance, scams and secrets to find out who is real, with endings shaped by every choice.

$11.99

Secret Little Haven

An adventure game about old computers, community, creativity, fandom, gender, and the internet.

$4.99

Convento

A story about growing up online and dealing with IRL updates.

$5.99

ESC

An interactive novel about identity, roleplay, and dreams.

$4.99

Buddy Simulator 1984

Type answers to a lonely old computer, watch it build a tiny world around you, and find out what it really wants from you.

$9.99

Broken Reality

You explore a full-3D parody of the early web, solving puzzles, meeting odd characters and collecting likes to open new levels.

$3.74

Fireside Feelings

Sit by a hand-drawn campfire, answer gentle questions, and read how strangers far away replied to the same ones.

$7.99

Class of '09

Play Nicole, a high schooler with all the social power, and steer her cruel comedy through branching routes to one of many endings.

$9.99

Love in the distance

A word adventure game based on a long-distance relationship. On high school and college campuses, pick up memories that belong only to that time.

$2.49

Monster Prom

Flirt with monster classmates, raise your stats and race rivals to the big ask before three weeks run out.

$11.99

Hidden gems like VIDEOVERSE

lovebyte.exe

Chat your way through romance, scams and secrets to find out who is real, with endings shaped by every choice.

$11.99

Our Wonderland

A horror-romance visual novel following the trials of a dysfunctional friend group thrust back into the wish-granting wonderland of their youth.

Free

Killer Chat! - Original Edition

A satirical dating sim where you, a writer researching a crime book, blunder into a serial killer chatroom and decide to stay.

Free

I Wanna Be A Game Dev!

Live out your school days as you navigate the rocky world of game development! Can you make an amazing game, or will something get in the way?

Free

Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop)

A game about being kind to real people. Send nice letters from your cozy room, go outside and say hi to your neighbors, swap recommendations, dress…

$19.99

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.

$13.99

No Players Online

you find an abandoned fps game on an old computer. you decide to play it.

$14.99

I Wani Hug that Gator!

Steer a human teen through a dinosaur high school, one friendship and one sharp-tongued gator artist at a time, toward one of four endings.

$14.99

Goodbye Volcano High

Guide Fang through their last year of high school, making choices about love, family and music before an asteroid arrives.

$29.99

Emberfate: Tempest of Elements

An immersive MMORPG-simulation chatroom based romance / otome visual novel.

Free

Komorebi

In a society plagued by visions of the future, a group of friends attempt to find their own way in a predestined life.

$9.99

Broken Reality 2000

Get ready for a new adventure in the world of NATEM! Explore beautiful worlds, solve puzzles with new tools and meet wonderful people in this…

$13.49

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