My Vow to My Liege
Play a girl ruling as King FuChai of Ng in disguise, torn between country and love.
91% of 3,855 Steam reviews are positive$8.24
Visual novels like 铜刀银剑
If 铜刀银剑 left you wanting something hand-drawn and story-driven, you have options. These visual novels keep things close enough to feel familiar.
Shao Song I
You wake up as Zhao Gou, the Southern Song emperor history loves to blame, right after the Jingkang disaster. As a visual novel it plays as filmed court scenes and battlefield talk where your picks decide whether you flee south or march north with Yue Fei and Han Shizhong. Worth playing to rewrite that shame yourself.
Story-driven, Cinematic, Romantic
80% of 2,794 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$14.99My Vow to My Liege
Play a girl ruling as King FuChai of Ng in disguise, torn between country and love. Court four men — childhood healer, captive enemy king, loyal minister, quiet guard — across a long plot-heavy story of war, curses, and the Dragon God. Worth playing for visual novel readers who want history and slow-burn romance over fluff.
Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Cinematic
91% of 3,855 Steam reviews are positive$8.24Mandate Of Heaven
As the Second Prince of Xuan, you must decide whether to fight for the north or settle for comfort in the south. This live-action interactive drama plays out across 8 chapters and hundreds of choices, with dozens of endings shaped by loyalty, rivalry and sacrifice. A long, acted court epic for visual novel readers who want their decisions to write history.
Story-driven, Cinematic, Romantic
90% of 5,547 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$14.99Ignited in Cavern
A dark historical visual novel set in the Northern Wei Dynasty, where a Xianbei general and her Han captive chase a rumor of a blessing-granting stone statue to Dunhuang. Two routes, six endings, and about 2 to 5 hours of reading about murder, spirits, and tangled desire.
Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Cinematic
93% of 1,363 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$1.99Conquer the world
A live-action historical visual novel where you travel back to the fall of the Ming and fight invaders. With 512 episodes, 268 choices, and 87 endings, plus an arsenal, a shop, and six women who actually shape the war, there is a lot of history to argue with.
Story-driven, Cinematic, Romantic
92% of 2,007 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$12.99Fable of the Sword
This is a galgame with a story of ancient. It takes the developing group 蔷薇千墨 6 years to finish. With full-audio, this game will present you an experience when swords did the talk for you. And with the amazing theme song, it will like returning to the ancient, simpler time.
Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Cinematic
61% of 165 Steam reviews are positive$1.99Long Knives
Role-play as an ancient Chinese constable. Solving cases and bringing criminals to justice is only part of your duty. Every choice leads the story down a different path, and the world itself evolves in response to your actions.
Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Cinematic
98% of 673 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free风信楼
Behind a capital-city brothel you train staff, save money, gather intelligence and build connections while waiting for the moment to rebel. 风信楼 is a high-freedom raising sim and visual novel with 1.69 million-plus words, 1,446 choice sets and hundreds of endings shaped by what you choose.
Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Romantic
94% of 3,432 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$11.99月华辉映之刻
A Song-dynasty otome set in Kaifeng, where you play a widowed tavern keeper married into a powerful family and fall into a forbidden romance with your brothers-in-law. With a million words, 29 endings and full voice acting, it gives visual novel readers long branching routes, painful bad endings and hard-won happy ones worth rereading.
Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Cinematic
89% of 4,292 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 22$11.99剑与桃花 the sword and peachblossom
This is a country strange theme of short visual novel. The game has part of the text of classical Chinese. This game is purely fictional and has nothing to do with real history.
Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Romantic
88% of 34 Steam reviews are positive$3.99咸鱼殿下 / My journey
A live-action ancient-costume romance where you wake up as a noble Highness and talk, flirt, and scheme your way through brothels, banquets, and back-alley justice. You pick the replies, pick the ladies, and chase different endings, all shot like a glossy TV drama with very pretty costumes.
Story-driven, Cinematic, Romantic
85% of 1,984 Steam reviews are positive$11.99女儿国的诅咒 The Curse of Womanland
A romance-adventure text-based game themed around the Land of Women. You will travel to the Land of Women, meet the mysterious young lady Jian Ling, and gradually uncover the bloody and dark secrets behind this realm. Death, resistance, or degeneration? Everything depends on your choices.
Hand-drawn, Story-driven, Cinematic
95% of 549 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99
Cheaper than 铜刀银剑
Ignited in Cavern
A dark historical visual novel set in the Northern Wei Dynasty, where a Xianbei general and her Han captive chase a rumor of a blessing-granting…
93% of 1,363 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$1.99
Fable of the Sword
This is a galgame with a story of ancient. It takes the developing group 蔷薇千墨 6 years to finish.
61% of 165 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
剑与桃花 the sword and peachblossom
This is a country strange theme of short visual novel. The game has part of the text of classical Chinese.
88% of 34 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Tide—1927—
In the 16th year of the Republic of China, Shanghai. Bai Youfu, a young girl who was dissatisfied with the arranged marriage, saw the news of her…
87% of 53 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
The Dawning Letters -Sunrise-
In 1927, Lu Yanhe, a daughter of a royal family of the Qing dynasty decided, to run away from home.
95% of 160 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
神都不良探 Underdog Detective
A live-action mystery set in Luoyang under Empress Wu Zetian, where you play a quick-talking slum dweller turned detective.
73% of 2,722 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$7.99
Soulslayer～灭魂·误佳期～
An exciting adventure in a story of ancient Chinese setting.Visual Novel with multiple endings to explore.
95% of 661 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
缚戎人：唐建中十三年
A text adventure game of the mid Tang Dynasty, where players can experience the story of a lonely city in the Western Regions during the Tang…
79% of 39 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
再见断刀
A wuxia murder mystery set in a cliffside manor cut off by a single suspension bridge.
92% of 2,662 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$6.99
Prisoner of the Ephemeral Kingdom
Fourteen from across the world are abruptly abducted to an isolated structure dubbed "Ephemera Manor".
76% of 494 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
阎罗索命
古风悬疑探案文字冒险游戏——北宋天圣年间，科举省试方毕，汴京国子监突发连环命案，遇害者死状惊悚离奇，如遭阎罗审判。玩家将化身为被卷入权斗暗流的新科进士文彦博，通过勘验尸体、搜寻线索、推演谜局，找出案件背后的骇人真相……
87% of 108 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Hidden gems like 铜刀银剑
Hua Manlou
You run a dance hall in the enemy capital that hides a spy ring.
97% of 1,462 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
Long Knives
Role-play as an ancient Chinese constable. Solving cases and bringing criminals to justice is only part of your duty.
98% of 673 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free
女儿国的诅咒 The Curse of Womanland
A romance-adventure text-based game themed around the Land of Women.
95% of 549 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99
Under the River
Under the River: The Borrowed Skin-She saved you—but turned you into a monster. You live on, wearing her skin as your body rots.
95% of 521 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$5.99
The Three Kingdoms: Rebirth
You are Liu Xiaoshan, an ordinary modern man dropped into a parallel Three Kingdoms.
91% of 2,563 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$13.99
THE VIG
You'll be "Xie En", infiltrating the traitor's money empire. This urban hunt is a revenge saga where wit is your spear.
89% of 495 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
Conquer the world
A live-action historical visual novel where you travel back to the fall of the Ming and fight invaders.
92% of 2,007 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$12.99
阎罗索命
古风悬疑探案文字冒险游戏——北宋天圣年间，科举省试方毕，汴京国子监突发连环命案，遇害者死状惊悚离奇，如遭阎罗审判。玩家将化身为被卷入权斗暗流的新科进士文彦博，通过勘验尸体、搜寻线索、推演谜局，找出案件背后的骇人真相……
87% of 108 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
The Dawning Letters -Sunrise-
In 1927, Lu Yanhe, a daughter of a royal family of the Qing dynasty decided, to run away from home.
95% of 160 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
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.'
85% of 900 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
再见断刀
A wuxia murder mystery set in a cliffside manor cut off by a single suspension bridge.
92% of 2,662 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$6.99
Ignited in Cavern
A dark historical visual novel set in the Northern Wei Dynasty, where a Xianbei general and her Han captive chase a rumor of a blessing-granting…
93% of 1,363 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$1.99
Newest visual novels like 铜刀银剑
Hua Manlou
You run a dance hall in the enemy capital that hides a spy ring.
97% of 1,462 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
Shao Song I
You wake up as Zhao Gou, the Southern Song emperor history loves to blame, right after the Jingkang disaster.
80% of 2,794 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$14.99
PatriotMemoirs
Shangchuan, 1939, Japanese-occupied. By day a bowing traitor, by night a ghost, in Demon's Lair, No. 86. All wear masks: pretend, kill, survive.
83% of 547 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$15.58
The Shu legend
《The Shu Legend》 is an interactive adventure novel. In an apocalypse ruled by the Dog Clan, bandit Shi Jin is forced by a terrifying army to…
96% of 49 Steam reviews are positive$3.60
Road to Empress Ⅱ
A live-action palace drama where you rise from a nun in Ganye Temple to empress of a dynasty.
80% of 8,030 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 102$18
阎罗索命
古风悬疑探案文字冒险游戏——北宋天圣年间，科举省试方毕，汴京国子监突发连环命案，遇害者死状惊悚离奇，如遭阎罗审判。玩家将化身为被卷入权斗暗流的新科进士文彦博，通过勘验尸体、搜寻线索、推演谜局，找出案件背后的骇人真相……
87% of 108 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
女儿国的诅咒 The Curse of Womanland
A romance-adventure text-based game themed around the Land of Women.
95% of 549 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99
Tales of Justice Academy: Winds Arise
Train at a martial arts academy, build your own fighting style, and shape your fate across a branching wuxia story.
71% of 485 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$9.34
The Three Kingdoms: Rebirth
You are Liu Xiaoshan, an ordinary modern man dropped into a parallel Three Kingdoms.
91% of 2,563 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$13.99
咒影 Curse of the Shadow
"Curse of the Shadow" is a BL-themed horror visual novel. Cursed by a "ghost", protagonist Xu finds eerie dark shadows in every photo he takes.Once…
81% of 295 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
THE VIG
You'll be "Xie En", infiltrating the traitor's money empire. This urban hunt is a revenge saga where wit is your spear.
89% of 495 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
Under the River
Under the River: The Borrowed Skin-She saved you—but turned you into a monster. You live on, wearing her skin as your body rots.
95% of 521 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$5.99