Visual novels like Dancing with Ghosts

Did Dancing with Ghosts leave you in a story-driven and relaxing frame of mind? These visual novels offer a similar pull for your backlog.

Bangkok Story: A Stray Dog
A top-down 2D story-driven adventure game inspired by real-life events. Traverse and experience the life of a formerly homeless man through an interview of how he regained his sense of self by telling his past to a stray dog. Set in Bangkok, Thailand 2017.
Story-driven, Relaxing, Emotional
100% of 62 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Danchi Days
A bittersweet, funny slice-of-life adventure in 2000s Japan: 12-year-old Hoshino tries to revive her danchi's summer festival by winning over 51 quirky neighbors. No combat, no money, no timers. Just Explore, Look, Sense, Talk and a wonderfully weird retro internet, in a story that makes you laugh and then quietly gets you.
Also in Cozy · Story-driven, Relaxing, Emotional
100% of 58 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$13.49
Night in the Woods
College dropout Mae Borowski returns to crumbling Possum Springs, where old friends have grown up and something stirs in the woods. You wander, talk, and choose who to spend time with in a hand-drawn town full of sharp, funny dialogue and a slow-building mystery worth reading to the end.
Story-driven, Relaxing, Emotional
94% of 18,197 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 136$19.99
Speed Dating for Ghosts
Branching dialogue! Hard choices! A cemetery's worth of phantoms, wraiths, and poltergeists lookin' for love in all the blight places.
Story-driven, Relaxing, Emotional
95% of 505 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Afterlove EP
From the creator of Coffee Talk and What Comes After, comes a slice-of-life adventure set in modern Jakarta about love, loss and finding your own way forward. Step into the shoes of Rama, a young musician struggling to move on with life after the death of his girlfriend, Cinta.
Story-driven, Relaxing, Emotional
88% of 198 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
Puppergeist
Journey through the Doggie Underworld in this heartwarming rhythm visual novel. Reunite with your lost Pup by connecting with other dog spirits, learning their stories, and lifting their moods through rhythm games full of charm and challenges!
Story-driven, Relaxing, Emotional
93% of 208 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$4.99
Pine: A Story of Loss
Alone in the forest glade he shared with his wife, a woodworker struggles to accept her passing. Help him hold on to cherished memories of their life together as he struggles to care for himself and his now empty home. Pine is a single-serving game focused on telling a beautiful, emotional tale.
Story-driven, Relaxing, Emotional
79% of 211 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Decollate Decoration
This is a point-and-click, command-selection style adventure game where the protagonist is a girl who has become a ghost. The objective is to fulfill her desires by speaking to her beloved "him" causing poltergeists, visiting in dreams, or even cursing.
Story-driven, Relaxing, Emotional
93% of 513 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
A Taste of the Past
Mei has lost her mother and her mother's noodle recipe, so she boards a train to the afterlife where her ancestors are already waiting. You walk the carriages, talk, remember, and cook your way back to that recipe in this hand-drawn, voice-acted story about grief, family, and healing.
Also in Cozy · Story-driven, Relaxing, Emotional
97% of 1,787 Steam reviews are positiveFree
The Doll Shop
The Doll Shop is a hand-drawn narrative game – part romance, part horror – set in the Japanese countryside. Play as a young dollmaker who reunites with his childhood friend in an eerie snowbound village. Will you dare confess your secret?
Story-driven, Relaxing, Emotional
93% of 94 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$12.99
Autumn Spirit
Hunted by anxiety, you exiled yourself to a lonely mountain inhabited by a ghost and his regrets.
Story-driven, Relaxing, Emotional
95% of 95 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Venba
Venba is a short narrative cooking game about a South Indian mother who moves to Canada with her family in the 1980s. You restore her damaged recipe book, cook idlis, dosas and biriyani, and follow the family through love and loss. Warm hand-drawn art and Tamil-inspired music carry a story that lands hard in about two hours.
Story-driven, Relaxing, Emotional
93% of 2,503 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99

Cheaper than Dancing with Ghosts

Bangkok Story: A Stray Dog

A top-down 2D story-driven adventure game inspired by real-life events.

$9.99

Danchi Days

A cozy, funny story about a girl, her aging apartment block and the summer festival only she believes in, played at your own pace with no combat and…

$13.49

Speed Dating for Ghosts

Branching dialogue! Hard choices! A cemetery's worth of phantoms, wraiths, and poltergeists lookin' for love in all the blight places.

$6.99

Puppergeist

Journey through the Doggie Underworld in this heartwarming rhythm visual novel.

$4.99

Pine: A Story of Loss

Alone in the forest glade he shared with his wife, a woodworker struggles to accept her passing.

$9.99

Decollate Decoration

This is a point-and-click, command-selection style adventure game where the protagonist is a girl who has become a ghost.

$8.99

The Doll Shop

The Doll Shop is a hand-drawn narrative game – part romance, part horror – set in the Japanese countryside.

$12.99

Fishbowl

Fishbowl is a slow and tender narrative game about dreams, grief, and hope.

$9.99

Land of Ghosts

A literary horror adventure made in RPG Maker MV, where you explore a land of endless rain and continue a lonely journey through fleeting encounters…

$4.50

Sumire

One Day, One Life. Sumire is a magical narrative adventure about choices made, and dreams lost and found.

$5.99

Midnight Ramen

In Midnight Ramen, you play as the owner of a late-night ramen stand and his apprentice.

$11.99

Good Bones

Your new house has old secrets in this haunting point-and-click mystery, where you'll search for clues about a mysterious death, solve narrative…

$6.74

Hidden gems like Dancing with Ghosts

Robot Hospice

"Robot Hospice" is a 2D pixel art adventure game where beloved robots spend their final days in a hospice.

Free

Puppergeist

Journey through the Doggie Underworld in this heartwarming rhythm visual novel.

$4.99

Home

A game about the short journey of a boy who left home. Experience a dense story in around 2 hours, along with rhythm gameplay and music puzzles.

$7.99

Land of Ghosts

A literary horror adventure made in RPG Maker MV, where you explore a land of endless rain and continue a lonely journey through fleeting encounters…

$4.50

Decollate Decoration

This is a point-and-click, command-selection style adventure game where the protagonist is a girl who has become a ghost.

$8.99

Fishbowl

Fishbowl is a slow and tender narrative game about dreams, grief, and hope.

$9.99

Summer’s Heartbeat

Village romance hotter than summer's heat! Drowning in debt, you escape to the countryside only to meet the loan shark noona, your first love, and…

$15.99

The Witch's Bakery

Bake, explore Paris and heal your friends' hearts as a cheerful witch in a hand-drawn adventure.

$19.99

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

Midnight Ramen

In Midnight Ramen, you play as the owner of a late-night ramen stand and his apprentice.

$11.99

Garage Sale

It's garage sale day! Embark on a small scavenger hunt throughout Lettuce Village's community-wide garage sale.

$6.99

Afterlove EP

From the creator of Coffee Talk and What Comes After, comes a slice-of-life adventure set in modern Jakarta about love, loss and finding your own…

$19.99

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