Visual novels like Convento

Want something that feels story-driven and hand-drawn the way Convento does? These visual novels offer a similar pull for your backlog.

VIDEOVERSE
Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social network 'Videoverse' were still popular…
Story-driven, Colorful, Emotional
94% of 209 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
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.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Emotional
97% of 34 Steam reviews are positive$20.04
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?
Story-driven, Colorful, Funny
95% of 237 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Doomed Otaku
Jin Da-yeon blew the group-buy money on herself, and the order deadline is in 14 days.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Colorful
97% of 162 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$17.99
Purrgatory
You wake up in Purrgatory with no memory and a cat for company. To pass eternity you wander a hand-drawn afterlife, talk through big feelings with seven downtrodden souls, run small errands, and trade an endless stream of cat puns on the way to multiple endings.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Colorful
98% of 5,074 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free
NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
You are P-chan, manager and chatter for Ame, a needy girl trying to become the number one internet angel as OMGkawaiiAngel. Plan her days, feed her streams with topics, answer her messages, and watch followers, stress, and darkness rise and fall toward many different endings.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Colorful
94% of 55,183 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 219$15.99
VTuber Connect
VTuber Connect is a love letter to VTubers as a medium. One that hides nothing, but embraces everything. Whether you’re a VTuber or a viewer, we all form connections in our own way. How will you connect?
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Emotional
97% of 148 Steam reviews are positiveFree
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.
Story-driven, Emotional
98% of 469 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
A short surreal visual novel where a mysterious girl appears in your room and your only real job is to say hello. You pick through hundreds of choices about whether she exists, bake strawberry cake, play king, stop a time-machine plot, and date at the world's end. Tender, strange, and short enough to finish in an evening.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Surreal
93% of 20,760 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 66$1.99
Goodbye Volcano High
Guide Fang, a dinosaur teen, through senior year while an asteroid closes in. You pick dialogue, nurture friendships and crushes, and turn hard conversations into songs. Hand-drawn and fully voice-acted, it is a warm, sad, funny story about making things right before time runs out.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Colorful
90% of 1,692 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
I Hate My Waifu Streamer
A visual novel where you are a viewer in Mio's chat, typing comments, sending donations and gifts to win her attention. Be sweet and she might fall for you. Be cruel and you can turn the chat against her. Sweet, dark and uncomfortable by turns.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Surreal
92% of 916 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$9.99
Emberfate: Tempest of Elements
An immersive MMORPG-simulation chatroom based romance / otome visual novel. You are the leader of a raiding guild in the world's hottest MMORPG, Emberfate. Will you lead your guild to success in the newest raid — and perhaps find love along the way among your guildmates?
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Emotional
98% of 145 Steam reviews are positiveFree

Cheaper than Convento

Secret Little Haven

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

$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.

$2.49

Monologin

A directionless night-shift worker clings to a dying MMORPG, a legendary White Unicorn mount, and the belief that old games are more "real" in this…

$2.99

The NOexistenceN of you AND me

A short surreal visual novel where a mysterious girl appears in your room and your only real job is to say hello.

$1.99

Emily is Away <3

It is 2008, AIM is dead, and everyone is on Facenook. You build a profile, add friends, poke, post, and type every word of senior year yourself as…

$0.99

Emily is Away Too

You are back in senior year with a buzzing messenger window and two separate threads to keep straight.

$0.99

Another Adventure

Four short stories about ordinary dreamers: a student who sleeps through his 6 a.m. alarm, a programmer who wants to change the world, a quitter…

$1.99

My Sweet! Housemate

Faced with the cruel and harsh reality of homelessness, you seek out affordable housing in your area.

$4.99

ESC

An interactive novel about identity, roleplay, and dreams.

$4.99

Is the Vat Utopia or Dystopia?

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

$2.99

tomorrow won't come for those without ██████

That day, we told a lie.

$1.99

q.u.q.

A crude girl drags a giant gun across a red-sky desert in this surreal visual novel.

$1.99

Hidden gems like Convento

lovebyte.exe

Your favorite VTuber goes silent, and you land in a chaotic fan group chat where someone might be him in disguise.

$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

Doomed Otaku

A broke otaku shut-in shuttles between reality and her favorite online game, trying to fix one very expensive mistake.

$17.99

Killer Chat! - Original Edition

You asked too many murder questions for your book and landed in a serial killer chatroom.

Free

Monster Prom 4: Monster Con

Find love at a monster convention full of comics, games, streamers and paranormal nonsense.

$14.99

I Hate My Waifu Streamer

A visual novel where you are a viewer in Mio's chat, typing comments, sending donations and gifts to win her attention.

$9.99

My Sweet! Housemate

Faced with the cruel and harsh reality of homelessness, you seek out affordable housing in your area.

$4.99

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?

Free

Kimochii Classroom

Welcome to Kimochii Classroom! A slice-of-life visual novel with stunning visuals, a beautiful soundtrack, and an immersive story.

Free

S4U: CITYPUNK 2011 AND LOVE PUNCH

More than 20 characters, 300 choices and multiple endings make every keystroke count toward work, friendship and love.

$13.99

Firefighter Connor

Firefighter Connor is a linear narrative visual novel that tells a story in a modern world where humans and furries coexist.

$8.99

Mediterranea Inferno

Three old friends, one blazing villa in Southern Italy, two lost years to make up for.

$14.99

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