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A crude girl drags a giant gun across a red-sky desert in this surreal visual novel.
Hooked on the story-driven and funny side of Pesterquest? These visual novels offer a similar pull for your backlog.
Hiveswap Friendsim is an episodic visual novel in 18 volumes where each route pairs you with new trolls, from grimy clubs to stately mansions, with good and bad endings for your social survival skills.
Story-driven, Funny, Hand-drawn
Two influencers start a social media brand while talking to supernatural forces, and things spiral from there. Written and illustrated by Andrew Hussie with music by Clark Powell, this dark, funny visual novel is mostly linear reading with hand-drawn and pixel art. Worth it for visual novel readers who like messy queer leads and political satire.
Story-driven, Funny, Hand-drawn
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, Funny, Hand-drawn
A crude girl drags a giant gun across a red-sky desert in this surreal visual novel. You read, choose, and die in stupid ways until you find one of 9 endings. Short, strange, funny and sad, with retro pixel art and a soundtrack worth staying for.
Story-driven, Funny, Hand-drawn
A sentient comet named Hheily has crash-landed in your living room, shapeshifted into a cute dateable form, and needs you to feed her flame to save the world. A horror-comedy visual novel with old-school anime art, full voice acting, point-and-click puzzles, and multiple endings to chase.
Story-driven, Funny, Hand-drawn
Luna is unemployed and wants one thing: her favorite magical girl figure. When her city recruits a magical girl team, she signs up. MAHOUTEQ is a short, linear visual novel with crude MS Paint art, rapid absurd jokes, simple two-button fights, and no choices to slow you down.
Story-driven, Funny, Hand-drawn
Wake up as Grian on a strange island with 12 odd neighbors, then read and choose your way through wildly different routes about friendship, betrayal, and fatal-but-temporary shenanigans. With 400,000 words, hundreds of artworks, and 50 original tracks, it gives visual novel readers a lot of story to get lost in.
Story-driven, Funny, Hand-drawn
A girl detective has twelve weeks to save her mom from crippling debt in a horror-romance visual novel that is sweet, filthy and brutally funny. You pick stickers, outfits and bad decisions across a tropical island, chase love or cold cash, and collect a gallery of horrible endings.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Surreal
Familiar Travels is a different kind of graphic adventure with a focus on diverse relationships, an important, story and forging genuine connections with the cast.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Colorful
One thousand zombies from the massacre of Hachiko High are crashing Olive's birthday party! Trapped in the Grimalkin Estate they'll have to unravel the mystery behind the zombies, all while making sure their friends are having the Purrfect Apawcalypse!
Story-driven, Funny, Hand-drawn
The anti-visual novel where you play the anime girl instead of chasing her. As cynical teen Nicole in the late 2000s, you pick cutting dialogue choices and ride the chaos into 15 different endings, with full voice acting and extra scenes for completionists.
Story-driven, Funny, Hand-drawn
You join a school literature club full of cute, chatty members and pick words for poems to win their attention. It reads like a sweet dating sim at first, then turns strange and dark in ways best met unspoiled. Short, story-led, and hard to forget.
Story-driven, Funny, Hand-drawn

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

Luna is unemployed and wants one thing: her favorite magical girl figure. When her city recruits a magical girl team, she signs up.

One thousand zombies from the massacre of Hachiko High are crashing Olive's birthday party!

Evil forces have turned these five hunky beefcake time-displaced boys into animals! You've got to help cure them and maybe even fall in love! Mystery!

A BL/yaoi mystery visual novel that follows a man named Sebastian as he’s forced into a game of life-or-death, alongside three strangers.

Three bad-at-being-good teens spend one night in a lonely camp cabin waiting for the devil.

The anti-visual novel where you play the anime girl instead of chasing her.

Pick a heroine, steer her toward doom, then do it again differently.

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

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

When the last thread becomes entangled, their song will be heard.


A girl detective has twelve weeks to save her mom from crippling debt in a horror-romance visual novel that is sweet, filthy and brutally funny.

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

Wake up as Grian on a strange island with 12 odd neighbors, then read and choose your way through wildly different routes about friendship…

A horror-romance visual novel following the trials of a dysfunctional friend group thrust back into the wish-granting wonderland of their youth.

Luna is unemployed and wants one thing: her favorite magical girl figure. When her city recruits a magical girl team, she signs up.

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

A sentient comet named Hheily has crash-landed in your living room, shapeshifted into a cute dateable form, and needs you to feed her flame to save…

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

Summoned to a witch-ruled fantasy world as Palmier, you fake your double's life while four dateable boys circle for attention.

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

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

When the last thread becomes entangled, their song will be heard.

Wake up as Grian on a strange island with 12 odd neighbors, then read and choose your way through wildly different routes about friendship…

A sentient comet named Hheily has crash-landed in your living room, shapeshifted into a cute dateable form, and needs you to feed her flame to save…

A girl detective has twelve weeks to save her mom from crippling debt in a horror-romance visual novel that is sweet, filthy and brutally funny.

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

A horror-romance visual novel following the trials of a dysfunctional friend group thrust back into the wish-granting wonderland of their youth.

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

Luna is unemployed and wants one thing: her favorite magical girl figure. When her city recruits a magical girl team, she signs up.

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

Summoned to a witch-ruled fantasy world as Palmier, you fake your double's life while four dateable boys circle for attention.

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

Storyteller hands you the title, the cast and the empty panels, and asks you to make the story fit.

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