Visual novels like Leila

Looking for that same emotional and hand-drawn spark as Leila? These visual novels are a good place to start.

Journal
Enter the pages of the hand painted world of Journal. A journey through the life of a young and troubled girl as she tries to face up to the choices and responsibilities that come with childhood. An experience that questions the reliability of how we choose to remember events and explores the truths hidden within our dreams.
Emotional, Hand-drawn, Atmospheric
78% of 316 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Who's Lila?
A missing girl, a boy who saw her last, and no dialogue menu to hide behind. You steer William's face muscle by muscle, and a neural network reads the emotion you make. Fifteen endings wait on what you show and what you hold back, in a grainy ditherpunk world that keeps asking: Who is Lila?
Emotional, Hand-drawn, Atmospheric
94% of 3,532 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$11.99
Reviver
A narrative puzzle game with themes of love, fate and time. Follow the life stories of the two main characters and influence their destinies through interactions and choices. The game combines hand-drawn style and an immersive interactive experience to explore a profound journey of love and choice.
Emotional, Hand-drawn, Atmospheric
91% of 202 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
NAIRI: Tower of Shirin
A hand-drawn adventure blending visual novel storytelling with point-and-click puzzles. Explore a vibrant yet dangerous oasis city where humans and animals live side by side. Meet unforgettable characters, trade and combine quirky items, and solve challenging puzzle-dungeons filled with mystery.
Emotional, Hand-drawn, Atmospheric
87% of 218 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Until Then
A slow, tender visual novel that turns strange: you follow Mark, a Filipino high-schooler, through school days, chats with friends, and small routines, until people vanish and memories stop adding up. Read on, keep going past the first ending, and piece together what is really happening.
Emotional, Atmospheric, Story-driven
96% of 16,275 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 149$19.99
Lost Words: Beyond the Page
A short, fully voiced, story-first adventure across two worlds. Rearrange words into platforms in Izzy’s diary, then wield word magic to shape your path in the fantasy she writes. Gentle puzzles, watercolour wonder, and a bittersweet story of family, loss, and healing.
Emotional, Hand-drawn, Atmospheric
94% of 639 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
"LIFE" not found;
This small Narrative Point & Click (Puzzle) game is about the mental health struggles of a adolescent high school dropout who's lost at life. Find out what they're struggling with, you might even recognize some things from your own life.
Emotional, Hand-drawn, Atmospheric
93% of 339 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling
A short psychological story about a stressed student buried in books and study, who becomes fixed on exploring her ceiling. You click through hand-drawn rooms, read her thoughts, and steer toward one of 3 endings, plus an unlockable mode that fills in the lore. Worth playing for its tender, uneasy take on burnout.
Emotional, Hand-drawn, Atmospheric
87% of 3,444 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$1.99
Storyteller
Storyteller hands you the title, the cast and the empty panels, and asks you to make the story fit. You arrange heroes, villains, dragons, vampires and heartbroken lovers until betrayal lands where it should. Short, clever and warmly drawn, it suits visual novel readers who like their stories hands-on.
Emotional, Hand-drawn, Story-driven
88% of 8,282 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 46$14.99
Hindsight
What if the physical objects of everyday life, the possessions we hold close, were actual windows to the past? Peer into distant memories and unseen futures in Hindsight.
Emotional, Hand-drawn, Atmospheric
80% of 152 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
lily's world XD
You find Lily's laptop from 2004 and start reading. Her diary, her blog, her messages to childhood friends — each file pulls you closer to why she vanished, while something else on the computer watches you back. A sad, scary desktop mystery with real teenage photos and voice work from LilyPichu.
Emotional, Atmospheric, Story-driven
96% of 1,808 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$11.99
The Diary
Several diaries gradually reveal the thrilling story of a missing case; after multiple deductions, are the answers in the past or present? With frequent plot twists, you never know which is the truth and which is the unexpected; in a dense fog, time buries the past, but the marks remain.
Emotional, Hand-drawn, Atmospheric
65% of 147 Steam reviews are positive$15.99

Cheaper than Leila

Journal

Enter the pages of the hand painted world of Journal. A journey through the life of a young and troubled girl as she tries to face up to the choices…

$9.99

Reviver

A narrative puzzle game with themes of love, fate and time. Follow the life stories of the two main characters and influence their destinies through…

$8.99

NAIRI: Tower of Shirin

A hand-drawn adventure blending visual novel storytelling with point-and-click puzzles.

$9.99

Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling

A short psychological story about a stressed student buried in books and study, who becomes fixed on exploring her ceiling.

$1.99

Once Again

Make up for lost time with Once Again, If you could travel through time, who’s the first person you’d meet?

$1.27

In His Time

Enter the hauntingly beautiful shadow world of In His Time, a 2D puzzle-solving adventure game.

$5.99

Relieve

"Relieve" is a hand-drawn comic style narrative puzzle visual novel with unique art and high-quality music.

$8.99

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

q.u.q.

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

$1.99

Epiphany City

Use magical picture frames to manipulate the world around you in mind-bending ways.

$9.99

Hazy Mind

You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.

$9.99

Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk

A short sequel that picks up where the first game ends. You talk with a frightened girl, choose what to say back, and try to help her feel a little…

$8.99

Hidden gems like Leila

lily's world XD

You find Lily's laptop from 2004 and start reading. Her diary, her blog, her messages to childhood friends — each file pulls you closer to why she…

$11.99

Lovely Lady RPG

Lovely Lady RPG is a visual novel about wandering around and just sort of seeing what life has in store for you.

$15.99

Alice's World

Alice's World is a story-driven 2D adventure puzzle game. Amidst desolate ruins and deserted cities in a world filled with death, the young girl…

$13.99

Provoron

When demons leave your head and fill the whole world, all you can do is close your eyes and go forward.

$9.99

Reviver

A narrative puzzle game with themes of love, fate and time. Follow the life stories of the two main characters and influence their destinies through…

$8.99

q.u.q.

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

$1.99

It gets so lonely here

A yandere yuri visual novel about a girl running through a dark forest from someone who loves her to death.

Free

SEASON: A letter to the future

Leave home on a bicycle to record a world before a cataclysm ends the season.

$24.99

Hazy Mind

You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.

$9.99

Once Again

Make up for lost time with Once Again, If you could travel through time, who’s the first person you’d meet?

$1.27

Type-NOISE: Shonen Shojo

Type-NOISE: Shonen Shojo is a multi-ending mystery adventure game.

$9.99

"LIFE" not found;

This small Narrative Point & Click (Puzzle) game is about the mental health struggles of a adolescent high school dropout who's lost at life.

Free

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