Visual novels like ODEN

Want something that feels story-driven and hand-drawn the way ODEN does? These visual novels are worth a look next.

Midnight Ramen
In Midnight Ramen, you play as the owner of a late-night ramen stand and his apprentice. You interact with your customers, listen to their troubles, and help them out whenever you can. But as the bowls of ramen are cooked and served, troubles are beginning to brew in your own life as well...
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Emotional
95% of 298 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$11.99
Chinese Street Food Legend
You run a night-market stall selling kaolengmian, flipping noodle sheets, cracking eggs and brushing sauce while customers stop to chat about their joys and frustrations. A cosplay-wearing helper drums up business, and a second tanghulu stall adds something sweet. Warm, funny and cozy for visual novel readers who like their stories served with steam.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Cute
98% of 611 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$3.99
Living on Plain Pasta
A conversation adventure where you spend the worst, best summer visiting your booze-loving senpai, making weird food, and sneaking out together at midnight.
Story-driven, Emotional, Relaxing
76% of 88 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
The Average Everyday Adventures of Samantha Browne
Samantha Browne is very hungry and has oatmeal on her shelf, but the dorm kitchen feels miles away. You pick her words and actions as this painfully introverted student tries to cross that distance. A short, funny, hand-drawn visual novel about how hard a simple task can feel.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Emotional
81% of 1,249 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Enjoy the Diner
Wander into Moon Palace, an eternal diner under a full moon, and spend a couple of hours talking with its strange regulars over drinks from the fountain. A short, dialogue-heavy visual novel with point-and-click exploring and two endings, made for slow reading and odd, tender company.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Emotional
96% of 1,148 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$10.99
inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories
Spend summer nights behind the counter of a small-town konbini as Makoto Hayakawa. Stock shelves, tidy displays, chat with regulars, and shape small neighborhood stories through branching dialogue in warm early-1990s Japan.
Story-driven, Emotional, Cute
86% of 1,073 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 34$15.79
Otome Legends
Play a dating sim inside of a dating sim to become an otome heroine protagonist. Nothing can possible go wrong... right?
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Emotional
90% of 110 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Double Cheeseburger, Medium Fries
Work as Penelope on her day off! Complete mini-games to prepare the food for a wide variety of customers!
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Cute
96% of 360 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free
GIRLS MADE PUDDING
"When there's nobody there to see you, you disappear." In Girls Made Pudding, two girls tour a series of towns that people have disappeared from.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Emotional
95% of 920 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99
Otaku's Adventure
A single otaku thirsting for love stumbles into a fantastic journey and a chance with three very different girls. You read, choose, solve odd puzzles and survive mini-games and strange battles to win their hearts across multiple endings. Hand-drawn, silly and romantic in equal measure.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Emotional
94% of 8,357 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$6.99
Buy a Croquette!
Chio Aozora needs 380 yen for a croquette and left her money in a textbook at school. You walk the shopping streets of Nagano, help residents, dig through trash bins and vending machines, solve word games and strange puzzles, and talk your way toward that crispy goal. Every favor and shortcut bends toward one of 12 endings, and the cute errand run slowly turns mysterious.
Story-driven, Emotional, Cute
98% of 8,913 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23Free
Kitsune Kitchen
Play through the story of a young man’s quest to create the ultimate BLT sandwich.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Emotional
84% of 49 Steam reviews are positive$0.99

Cheaper than ODEN

Kitsune Kitchen

Play through the story of a young man’s quest to create the ultimate BLT sandwich.

$0.99

Visual Novel: Requiem for Noodles

After being hit on the head with a stool, Dimon goes straight to Hell to find out where their now deceased buddy Seryoga hid the last pack of…

$0.99

Sakuya Izayoi Gives You Advice And Dabs

Sakuya Izayoi has been told she is too cold to humans, so now she is in your head, on a beach, ready to be nice.

$0.99

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

A girl needs to buy milk. That is the whole errand, and it is also the whole problem.

$1.49

Emily is Away Too

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

$0.99

Your Friend Hana

You don't know what do to? Just ask Hana! You can chat with Hana, ask her any question and as an oracle she will answer you.

$0.99

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

One Night Stand

After a night of fun, passion, and one too many drinks, you wake up the next morning to find a complete stranger lying naked beside you in bed.

$0.74

Along the Edge

Daphné inherits a crumbling estate in the French countryside and a family feud with it, plus rumours that her line are witches.

$1.39

In The Ember 余烬之中

Angelina was originally an ordinary adventurer.But since she met a weird man and robbed her of her job,everything has changed.

$0.99

Pink Rage Otome

Comedy visual novel. Try yourself as a tsundere girl!

$0.99

Bread around bread around bread around bread

A short story about how grandpa went to the store for bread.

$0.99

Hidden gems like ODEN

Chinese Street Food Legend

You run a night-market stall selling kaolengmian, flipping noodle sheets, cracking eggs and brushing sauce while customers stop to chat about their…

$3.99

Doomed Otaku

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

$17.99

Kemono Teatime

Run a small cafe for 21 days in Melodius, where everyone has animal ears.

$12.99

Coffee Talk Tokyo

A cozy visual novel set in a late-night Tokyo café, where you play the barista.

$14.99

GIRLS MADE PUDDING

"When there's nobody there to see you, you disappear." In Girls Made Pudding, two girls tour a series of towns that people have disappeared from.

$9.99

inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories

Spend summer nights behind the counter of a small-town konbini as Makoto Hayakawa.

$15.79

High Times

Run a donut shop where each donut shifts how a customer feels, and talk through life, love and heartbreak one order at a time.

$19.99

Taste of the Wind

A simulation and RPG game with multiple endings, set in a Chinese restaurant.

$10.99

Hookah Haze

You run a small hookah lounge on the quiet edge of Akihabara, mixing flavors and talking late into the night with three regulars.

$17.99

Midnight Ramen

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

$11.99

outside the door

Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office.

$1.99

Enjoy the Diner

Wander into Moon Palace, an eternal diner under a full moon, and spend a couple of hours talking with its strange regulars over drinks from the…

$10.99

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