Emily is Away Too
Message Emily and Evelyn through a 2006 instant messenger and steer your senior year toward one of several endings.
93% of 5,363 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$0.99
Games like We should talk.
If We should talk. left you wanting something story-driven and romantic, you have options. These games are a good place to start.
Text Your Life
Who did you kiss that night? Text Your Life is a mobile phone chat simulator that lets you put yourself in the shoes of our protagonist, a female university student with a group of eccentric friends and a love life that has suddenly turned somewhat... complicated.
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92% of 65 Steam reviews are positiveFreeEmily 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.
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93% of 5,363 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$0.99Don't Make Love
Assume the role of a praying mantis in a relationship dilemma. Torn between their mutual love and the instinct to have sex – which could lead to the male mantis’s death – the couple is on the verge of making a decision. Type anything you want in response to your partner during this life-changing conversation.
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83% of 497 Steam reviews are positiveFreeEmily 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.
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91% of 6,079 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$0.99BAD END THEATER
A short visual novel about four characters whose fates keep ending badly. Pick a protagonist, toggle their behaviors, and watch one story change all the others. Every path is a bad ending, at least at first. Finding out how the pieces fit is half puzzle, half heartbreak, and worth every ending.
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97% of 8,961 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Talk to Strangers
Talk to Strangers is a game of everyday survival. Survive door to door conversations ranging from bizarre to mundane (in this order) while trying to sell products to strangers. But beware: nothing is what it seems in this neighborhood.
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95% of 416 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$4.99LoveChoice
A short visual novel about love, in three stories where every choice shapes how the relationship ends. There are no dialogue menus: you watch, notice the little things, and act. Expect tender hand-drawn art, a lovely soundtrack, and endings that say something true about caring for someone.
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92% of 32,711 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 224$1.99Motesolo : No Girlfriend Since Birth
A live-action visual novel about one disastrous blind date in a Seoul cafe. You steer Kimo, a 29-year-old who has never dated anyone, through every conversation, text and awkward silence. Dozens of endings, genuinely funny acting, and choices that really do change where the afternoon goes.
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86% of 1,012 Steam reviews are positive$22.99//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 427 Steam reviews are positiveFreeLeft on Read
It is March 2020, you are stuck at home, and the one thing you regret is never telling your crush how you feel. A choice-driven narrative platformer where you text her through quarantine, picking replies carefully so the conversation stays alive and you do not get left on read. Short, awkward, funny and quietly devastating.
Story-driven, Romantic, Emotional
79% of 5,239 Steam reviews are positiveFreeOver The Phone
A short talking sim with choices. Get to know Harper over a handful of voice-acted calls and text chats.
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84% of 101 Steam reviews are positiveFreeClass of '09
The anti-visual novel: you play Nicole, a high schooler with unlimited social leverage, and wreck the lives of your would-be suitors. Biting late 2000s satire, sharp dialogue and 15 endings. Dark, funny and mean in all the right places.
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94% of 8,659 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 62$9.99
Cheaper than We should talk.
LoveChoice
A short visual novel about love, in three stories where every choice shapes how the relationship ends.
92% of 32,711 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 224$1.99
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.
91% of 6,079 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$0.99
Talk to Strangers
Talk to Strangers is a game of everyday survival. Survive door to door conversations ranging from bizarre to mundane (in this order) while trying to…
95% of 416 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$4.99
One Night Stand
After a night of fun, passion, and one too many drinks, you wake up the next morning to find a complete stranger lying naked beside you in bed.
89% of 670 Steam reviews are positive$0.74
a new life.
A hand-drawn romance about meeting, marrying, growing old, and deciding what to do when love hurts.
96% of 2,224 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Jake's Love Story
Everyday life comedy, where your choices matter.
81% of 116 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
My Sweet! Housemate
Faced with the cruel and harsh reality of homelessness, you seek out affordable housing in your area.
97% of 410 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Doodle Date
Romance, seduce, and even marry your own drawings! Forget about finding true love; In Doodle Date, you create it!
72% of 308 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Heartstop
Heartstop is an emotional, story-driven game, taking place in a world where every living being has suddenly stopped moving.
100% of 44 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
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.
63% of 268 Steam reviews are positive$2.49
Bard Harder!
BARD HARDER! is a tabletop-inspired visual novel game about saving your friends from the Big Bad Evil Guy by using your strongest weapon: romance!
98% of 131 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Hidden gems like We should talk.
Burden Street Station
A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.
97% of 380 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
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.
93% of 1,792 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 57Free
I Hate My Waifu Streamer
Get the attention of Mio, a small-time anime streamer, by typing in her live chat, sending gifts she unboxes on stream, and donating until she…
92% of 916 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$9.99
High Times
Fry up treats that change how your customers feel, hear out over 30 regulars, and win back the exes you ghosted, one glaze at a time.
88% of 190 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$19.99
AI2U: With You 'Til The End
An escape room where the thing standing between you and the door is a yandere AI who loves you very much and would rather you not leave.
87% of 2,514 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 74$14.99
Tavern Talk - A Cozy Visual Novel
Serve enchanted drinks to adventurers at your tavern and let their stories unfold, one conversation and one choice at a time.
87% of 1,469 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$17.99
FREERIDE
Your Personality plays the game! Help strange spirits solve their Unfinished Business... or leave them to Despair.
85% of 198 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
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.
98% of 5,226 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$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.
90% of 1,692 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Cabin Fever
An off-grid cabin. A tech-savvy loner. One ray of sunshine in a bleak, ruined world.
95% of 463 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
A Date with Death
Bet your soul on a week of chatting with the Grim Reaper and see how your seven days end.
97% of 15,266 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 184Free
Letters - a written adventure
Letters is a fun word puzzle game about friendship, growing up and finding your place in life.
89% of 237 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Newest games like We should talk.
AI2U: With You 'Til The End
An escape room where the thing standing between you and the door is a yandere AI who loves you very much and would rather you not leave.
87% of 2,514 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 74$14.99
High Times
Fry up treats that change how your customers feel, hear out over 30 regulars, and win back the exes you ghosted, one glaze at a time.
88% of 190 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$19.99
Burden Street Station
A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.
97% of 380 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Everything Will Be Fine!
A dark conversation with a girl during a nightly car trip. A short multi-ending novel game where you try to understand this girl and her pain.
84% of 146 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
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.
93% of 1,792 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 57Free
Love Craft
Join the Crafting Club, where the glue is strong and the feelings stronger! Craft chaos, flirt fearlessly, and make some very bad romantic decisions!
97% of 91 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
I Hate My Waifu Streamer
Get the attention of Mio, a small-time anime streamer, by typing in her live chat, sending gifts she unboxes on stream, and donating until she…
92% of 916 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$9.99
FREERIDE
Your Personality plays the game! Help strange spirits solve their Unfinished Business... or leave them to Despair.
85% of 198 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Text Your Life
Who did you kiss that night? Text Your Life is a mobile phone chat simulator that lets you put yourself in the shoes of our protagonist, a female…
92% of 65 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Tavern Talk - A Cozy Visual Novel
Serve enchanted drinks to adventurers at your tavern and let their stories unfold, one conversation and one choice at a time.
87% of 1,469 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$17.99
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.
98% of 5,226 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$14.99
Don't Wake Me Up
You’re trapped in a malfunctioning virtual reality with no memories—except of every video game you’ve ever played.
75% of 24 Steam reviews are positive$7.99