Visual novels like Prison Notes

Did Prison Notes leave you in a story-driven and replayable frame of mind? You might settle into these visual novels easily.

Romp of Dump
Visual novel fully animated in Live2D, Observing Scum Prisoners! In a prison called a dump, a betting card game among dangerous prisoners begins. Penalty game for the losers! Uncover the hidden pasts and bizarre crimes of these lunatics!
Story-driven, Replayable, Hand-drawn
94% of 78 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Jackpot Crash Course
You are a prisoner turned contestant on BET AND FORGIVE, gambling against 12 criminal rivals for a pardon. Read, scheme, befriend and bet your way through branching routes and endings, with jazzy music and bright pixel art around every bad decision.
Story-driven, Replayable, Hand-drawn
99% of 468 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3Free
HENPRI
Thrown in Tulip Prison for calling public nuisance art, Shuichiro Minato has ten years of penal servitude on an inescapable island full of criminals deemed too far gone to rehabilitate. This visual novel from the makers of NUKITASHI follows how he survives, who he trusts, and whether he finds happiness on the inside.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Mysterious
96% of 4,058 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$24.99
Far Away
Far Away is a 500,000-word visual novel with no romance, only trouble. You play Krosa, a docker with mechanical arms in the port city of Bedjan, picking from 300+ choices across 9 storylines and 16 endings. Gangs, cops, reporters and conspiracies pull her in different directions, with dark humor and full Cantonese voice acting throughout.
Also in Detective · Story-driven, Replayable, Hand-drawn
94% of 7,612 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
THE VIG
You'll be "Xie En", infiltrating the traitor's money empire. This urban hunt is a revenge saga where wit is your spear. Return as "Wu Wei," using rules as your shield in a world of grey. Will you choose love or vengeance? This lethal game of cash, betrayal and redemption awaits your move.
Story-driven, Replayable, Mysterious
89% of 495 Steam reviews are positive$12.59
A Light in the Dark
A rich boy wakes up tied up in a strange room, held for ransom by a girl who has nothing to lose. A Light in the Dark is a dark visual novel about those two opposite lives colliding over several days of captivity, with investigation, limited stamina, and multiple endings shaped by your choices.
Story-driven, Replayable, Hand-drawn
92% of 1,536 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Blood Money: Lethal Eden
Lured by an online lover, you wake up trapped in Eden, a scam compound where kindness can get you killed. This first-person live-action visual novel makes every choice count toward survival, betrayal, or burning the place down, across branching routes and multiple endings.
Story-driven, Replayable, Mysterious
91% of 1,276 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$8.99
Billionaire Lovers
A broke graduate, 100 million dollars from a distant uncle, and four handsome men waiting in a downtown mansion. It looks like a fluffy dating story until the smiles slip. A short, twisty visual novel about romance scams that reads fast and lands its lesson.
Story-driven, Replayable, Hand-drawn
95% of 3,667 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
S4U: CITYPUNK 2011 AND LOVE PUNCH
More than 20 characters, 300 choices and multiple endings make every keystroke count toward work, friendship and love.
Story-driven, Replayable
90% of 2,345 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.79
Steam Prison
Sentenced for a crime you didn't commit, you're cast out of your utopian home and exiled to the destitute steampunk districts below. As you seek to clear name in this otome visual novel, you'll learn about love, encounter handsome allies in low places, and confront the stigma both societies hold.
Story-driven, Replayable, Hand-drawn
81% of 391 Steam reviews are positive$34.99
囚笼之诗
You wake in a monster’s cage with no memory and 30 days to act. Choose to escape, obey, or become its favorite.
Story-driven, Replayable, Mysterious
100% of 18 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Inner Scales 1:Choice
《Inner Scales 1:Choice》is a first-person FMV. Set in a sealed cage. It pushes survival, humanity, emotion and moral dilemmas to the extreme. You will face surveillance, cages, and the fates of eight trapped women—every choice you make decides life and death for others and yourself.
Story-driven, Replayable, Mysterious
83% of 904 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$6.99

Cheaper than Prison Notes

Blood Money: Lethal Eden

Lured by an online lover, you wake up trapped in Eden, a scam compound where kindness can get you killed.

$8.99

Billionaire Lovers

A broke graduate, 100 million dollars from a distant uncle, and four handsome men waiting in a downtown mansion.

$2.99

S4U: CITYPUNK 2011 AND LOVE PUNCH

More than 20 characters, 300 choices and multiple endings make every keystroke count toward work, friendship and love.

$9.79

囚笼之诗

You wake in a monster’s cage with no memory and 30 days to act. Choose to escape, obey, or become its favorite.

$6.99

Inner Scales 1:Choice

《Inner Scales 1:Choice》is a first-person FMV. Set in a sealed cage. It pushes survival, humanity, emotion and moral dilemmas to the extreme.

$6.99

My Sweet! Housemate

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

$4.99

Snowdome

For Tan Yan, there is little hope his life will change. It's like his whole life is trapped inside a snowdome, unable to escape.

$6.99

BUZZ or DIE

The rules are simple. Dive into your opponent's mindscape and search for secrets. Turn those secrets into content and make a short video.

$6.39

Dream about yoU

A dashing blond partner drops in from the sky, declaring they're taking responsibility for you—but they need a small favor.Find them in your dreams…

$7.99

Endless Jade Sea -Midori no Umi-

A suspense with a twist, this game is made by Cabbit, sister brand of SkyFish.

$1.99

Banter Schooldays!!三〇一室无一人

Banter Schooldays!! is a visual novel legal drama adventure game developed by the independent team Lingtan Studio.

$3.99

Roadwarden

Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG about a lone guard sent to a grim peninsula for 30 hours of reading, questioning and choosing sides.

$2.74

Hidden gems like Prison Notes

Jackpot Crash Course

You are a prisoner turned contestant on BET AND FORGIVE, gambling against 12 criminal rivals for a pardon.

Free

Rebooted Fate

You are Qi Nian, broke after graduation, handed a strange manual that turns life into choice panels and meters.

$14.99

Such a guy

Join two close friends in building a cozy seaside B&B. Every choice affects the story and your relationships.

$12.99

Blood Money: Lethal Eden

Lured by an online lover, you wake up trapped in Eden, a scam compound where kindness can get you killed.

$8.99

THE VIG

You'll be "Xie En", infiltrating the traitor's money empire. This urban hunt is a revenge saga where wit is your spear.

$12.59

Trivia About You

"Trivia About You" is a romance visual novel about furry characters sharing meaningful moments in Carol’s House.

$14.99

Dream about yoU

A dashing blond partner drops in from the sky, declaring they're taking responsibility for you—but they need a small favor.Find them in your dreams…

$7.99

Inner Scales 1:Choice

《Inner Scales 1:Choice》is a first-person FMV. Set in a sealed cage. It pushes survival, humanity, emotion and moral dilemmas to the extreme.

$6.99

My Sweet! Housemate

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

$4.99

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

我的恋爱逃生攻略 Love to Live

Trapped in a game of dreams, where the price of failing to escape is eternal slumber. Across shifting worlds, you meet 'him.'

$9.99

Malleus Cocconum: The Heiress

You are Arenda Finch—fifteen years old, wealthy beyond measure, and newly exiled from your former school.

$21.99

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