I Write Games Not Tragedies
An emo-inspired narrative rhythm game exploring growing pains, addiction, romance and music.
100% of 52 Steam reviews are positive$8.44
Visual novels like Mixtape
If Mixtape scratched a emotional and atmospheric itch for you, keep reading. You might settle into these visual novels easily.
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.
Emotional, Atmospheric, Story-driven
90% of 1,692 Steam reviews are positive$29.99I Write Games Not Tragedies
An emo-inspired narrative rhythm game exploring growing pains, addiction, romance and music. Scream with Ash as he makes the transition from baby bat to elder emo, guide him through his crash outs and help him navigate his (teenage) dirtbag life through music.
Emotional, Atmospheric, Story-driven
100% of 52 Steam reviews are positive$8.44Know by heart
Childhood friends reunite after spending a long time apart, revisiting old memories and rekindling their friendship. However, something beyond their control will ruin this reunion.
Emotional, Atmospheric, Story-driven
89% of 799 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Night 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.
Emotional, Atmospheric, Story-driven
94% of 18,197 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 162$19.99We Are OFK
Start a virtual indie band in this behind-the-music comedy. Date, dance, skate, and run for your life across 5 episodes and interactive music videos, in a heartfelt story of what you risk to chase your dreams. All episodes out now!
Emotional, Story-driven, Colorful
92% of 279 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Wax Heads
Wax Heads is a cozy-punk narrative sim about working in a struggling record store. Chat to quirky customers with unique tastes, explore a handcrafted record collection, fall in love with bands (and their drama!), or just slack off with your colleagues - whatever gets everyone’s groove back!
Emotional, Atmospheric, Story-driven
96% of 553 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$14.99Until 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$19.99The Longest Road on Earth
A thoughtful and deeply personal title with stripped-down mechanics. The lack of dialogue or text allows you to create your own narrative through your time with four characters. Each short story will allow players to be swept away by the haunting lyrics of over twenty original, nostalgic songs.
Emotional, Atmospheric, Story-driven
77% of 564 Steam reviews are positive$9.99UNBEATABLE
UNBEATABLE is a rhythm adventure that reads like an anime series about Beat, a pink-haired runaway starting a band where music is illegal. You spend half the 6-8 hour story walking around, talking, helping people or not, and punching cops, and half trying to survive two-button concerts and chaotic setpieces. The songs are original, the cast is prickly and funny, and the story aims straight for big feelings.
Emotional, Atmospheric, Story-driven
92% of 6,883 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 104$27.99Riley & Rochelle
Uncover the lives, losses, and stories of two musicians from opposite sides of the tracks as they become superstars, fall in love and fall apart in this 90s narrative puzzle game.
Emotional, Atmospheric, Story-driven
90% of 41 Steam reviews are positive$9.99I 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?
Emotional, Story-driven, Colorful
95% of 237 Steam reviews are positiveFreeHome
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. Enjoy live acoustic sounds and a story that feels like a musical film!
Emotional, Atmospheric, Story-driven
99% of 129 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Cheaper than Mixtape
The Longest Road on Earth
A thoughtful and deeply personal title with stripped-down mechanics.
77% of 564 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Riley & Rochelle
Uncover the lives, losses, and stories of two musicians from opposite sides of the tracks as they become superstars, fall in love and fall apart in…
90% of 41 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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.
99% of 129 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
ESC
An interactive novel about identity, roleplay, and dreams.
99% of 102 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Once Again
Make up for lost time with Once Again, If you could travel through time, who’s the first person you’d meet?
90% of 952 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$1.27
GOODBYE WORLD
"GOODBYE WORLD" is a narrative adventure game. Play through 12 stages of a puzzle platformer while following the two protagonists through 13…
84% of 769 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
If Found...
You erase Kasio's December 1993 diary page by page to relive her month back home in Ireland: family fights, awkward crushes, kisses, a punk concert…
93% of 1,641 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$12.99
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…
78% of 316 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
q.u.q.
A crude girl drags a giant gun across a red-sky desert in this surreal visual novel.
94% of 1,883 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
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…
91% of 4,139 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Class of '09
The anti-visual novel where you play the anime girl instead of chasing her.
94% of 8,659 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 62$9.99
Hidden gems like Mixtape
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.
99% of 149 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7Free
Set Yourself on Fire
A quiet town awaits death. Two young women fall in love.
97% of 459 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Wax Heads
Wax Heads is a cozy-punk narrative sim about working in a struggling record store.
96% of 553 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$14.99
Perfect Tides: Station to Station
A narrative adventure about the momentum and whiplash of young adulthood. Explore the big city through 18-year-old Mara's eyes.
97% of 240 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99
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.
99% of 129 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
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?
95% of 237 Steam reviews are positiveFree
vivid/stasis
A rhythm-mystery hybrid that reads like a visual novel at heart: four girls, a missing sister, and a strange system behind it all.
93% of 4,086 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 53Free
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…
88% of 198 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
UNBEATABLE
UNBEATABLE is a rhythm adventure that reads like an anime series about Beat, a pink-haired runaway starting a band where music is illegal.
92% of 6,883 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 104$27.99
Mediterranea Inferno
Three old friends, one blazing villa in Southern Italy, two lost years to make up for.
96% of 255 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Goodbye Volcano High
Guide Fang, a dinosaur teen, through senior year while an asteroid closes in.
90% of 1,692 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
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…
94% of 209 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Newest visual novels like Mixtape
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.
99% of 149 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7Free
The Quiet Things
Step into a fractured 00s childhood in the South of England.
80% of 35 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
Wax Heads
Wax Heads is a cozy-punk narrative sim about working in a struggling record store.
96% of 553 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$14.99
summer haze/glory days
Go on a cross-country tour with your band in pursuit of fame, success, and happiness in this drama visual novel set during the summer of 2007.
96% of 45 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$15.99
Set Yourself on Fire
A quiet town awaits death. Two young women fall in love.
97% of 459 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Perfect Tides: Station to Station
A narrative adventure about the momentum and whiplash of young adulthood. Explore the big city through 18-year-old Mara's eyes.
97% of 240 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99
UNBEATABLE
UNBEATABLE is a rhythm adventure that reads like an anime series about Beat, a pink-haired runaway starting a band where music is illegal.
92% of 6,883 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 104$27.99
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.
99% of 129 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
I Write Games Not Tragedies
An emo-inspired narrative rhythm game exploring growing pains, addiction, romance and music.
100% of 52 Steam reviews are positive$8.44
vivid/stasis
A rhythm-mystery hybrid that reads like a visual novel at heart: four girls, a missing sister, and a strange system behind it all.
93% of 4,086 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 53Free
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…
88% of 198 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$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?
95% of 237 Steam reviews are positiveFree