Visual novels like Pyre

Remember how story-driven and hand-drawn Pyre felt at its best? These visual novels line up well for what comes next.

Sacred Fire: A Role Playing Game
A text-based RPG full of choice and action. Fight for survival in the midst of the Roman invasion of ancient Caledonia. Strategize one dice roll at a time as emotions affect your performance. Use willpower to outsmart opponents, gain allies, wage war, or strive for peace. How will your story end?
Story-driven, Atmospheric, Emotional
94% of 475 Steam reviews are positive$18.99
Path of the Midnight Sun
Protect a noblewoman reckoning with unholy powers as she wards off the soul of the Demon King sealed inside her. Doubt your own companions, survive against unforgiving hordes of monsters. But beware; every choice has consequences in this epic JRPG adventure of betrayal, romance & self-acceptance.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Colorful
83% of 239 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99
Crown Gambit
Play as three intrepid paladins through a terrible war of succession to save a sinister medieval kingdom from political turmoil. Pick a side amongst noble families to choose the future monarch and crush those who stand in your way through board-shattering tactical card combat!
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Atmospheric
93% of 458 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$10.79
Winds of Change
Lead The Rebellion, build your army, and shape the world with your choices. A story-heavy adventure game with multiple endings, romance options, and non-linear storytelling. A vast fantasy world waiting to be explored. Inspired by Dragon Age, and Mass Effect. Fully voice acted by a stellar cast!
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Colorful
95% of 558 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
VED
VED is a story-driven, hand-drawn RPG with a unique turn-based combat system and roguelite elements. Set in two different worlds, VED tells the story of Cyrus, a young hero who sets out on a quest to become a master of sword and magic, and save everything he knows from destruction.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Colorful
80% of 55 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Annihilated
A story-driven roguelite RPG about carrying one broken hero out of a cursed dungeon. Fight turn-based card battles, shatter weapons on purpose, spend Curses to undo bad luck, and find out what really happened to the party. Four routes, four reckonings, and endings shaped by how you talk to your partner.
Story-driven, Emotional, Surreal
96% of 501 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 831$15.29
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.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Colorful
90% of 1,692 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
SkullX: Aibohphobia
You were hired to extract a bioengineer. Now your team is cut off, your comms are dead, and you're surrounded by something wearing human skin. Hold the line, make the calls, and survive the night in this choice-driven visual novel with turn-based combat.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Atmospheric
90% of 77 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Library Of Ruina
Library of Ruina is a card-battle RPG wrapped around a long, dark story about Angela, Roland, and the guests who walk into their Library. You invite visitors, fight them with cards and dice, and turn the defeated into books that unlock more of the City. Come for the plot and the atmosphere, told through scenes and battle dialogue, with brutal tactics attached.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Atmospheric
94% of 41,698 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,569$29.99
Sovereign Syndicate
A Victorian steampunk RPG with tarot cards instead of dice. Investigate the disappearance of society’s most vulnerable to uncover a mysterious cult. Play as three characters, each with their own skills and motivations. Customize your characters with narrative choices to unlock new tarot cards.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Atmospheric
79% of 586 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$7.99
Knell of St. Godhrkar
Seven strangers cross paths in a city caught between dream and reality, and death follows every choice they make. You read through each of their viewpoints, step in to change a decision, then watch the blood and fallout spread to the others. A dark, dense visual novel with branching routes and multiple endings, carried by its own invented language, music, and manga-style art.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Atmospheric
93% of 1,601 Steam reviews are positiveFree
The Yawhg
Pick a corner of town, make a choice, and live with what it does to your Mind, Charm or Physique. A one-to-four player choose-your-own-adventure with hand-drawn art, a haunting soundtrack, and over 50 endings.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Colorful
84% of 1,134 Steam reviews are positive$9.99

Cheaper than Pyre

Sacred Fire: A Role Playing Game

A text-based RPG full of choice and action. Fight for survival in the midst of the Roman invasion of ancient Caledonia.

$18.99

Crown Gambit

Play as three intrepid paladins through a terrible war of succession to save a sinister medieval kingdom from political turmoil.

$10.79

Annihilated

A story-driven roguelite RPG about carrying one broken hero out of a cursed dungeon.

$15.29

SkullX: Aibohphobia

You were hired to extract a bioengineer. Now your team is cut off, your comms are dead, and you're surrounded by something wearing human skin.

$9.99

Sovereign Syndicate

A Victorian steampunk RPG with tarot cards instead of dice. Investigate the disappearance of society’s most vulnerable to uncover a mysterious cult.

$7.99

Six Legends

The epic and emotional journey of six dragons growing up in a broken civilization, each with their own unique perspectives on life.

$14.99

The Yawhg

Pick a corner of town, make a choice, and live with what it does to your Mind, Charm or Physique.

$9.99

Frail Hearts: Versicorae Domlion

Frail Hearts: Versicorae Domlion is an old-school JRPG with a deep and mysterious storyline placed in a fictional dark city of Gris.

$9.99

Minotaur

An adventure game with visual novel-style narrative, Minotaur tells a dark mystery story set in a newly created science fantasy world of synthets…

$14.99

The Apocalypse Sacrifice

As an adventurer, you have unintentionally uncovered a horrifying secret hidden in the town for years.

$9.99

The World Next Door

An addictive mix of lightning-fast puzzle battles, powerful storytelling and immersive visual novel elements, The World Next Door follows Jun, a…

$4.99

BAD END THEATER

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

$9.99

Hidden gems like Pyre

Heartfall — A Tale in Three Lives

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

Free

Annihilated

A story-driven roguelite RPG about carrying one broken hero out of a cursed dungeon.

$15.29

The Silent Kingdom

An otome RPG adventure with a dark story and meaningful choices. Shape the fate of a princess who must corrupt her soul in order to save her kingdom.

$17.99

Sovereign Tower

Rule a magical tower as its new Sovereign: hear subjects each morning, recruit oddball knights, send them on quests, and rewind time through the…

$19.99

Crown Gambit

Play as three intrepid paladins through a terrible war of succession to save a sinister medieval kingdom from political turmoil.

$10.79

The Necromancer's Tale

A gothic origin story about becoming a necromancer in 1733, told through 400,000 words of dialogue, investigation and scheming.

$24.99

Aether & Iron

Play smuggler Gia Randazzo in a floating 1930s New York, gathering a crew to take on the city's Barons.

$24.99

Sigh of the Abyss

Embrace the monster within in this dark fantasy visual novel with inclusive romances. Befriend charming allies, defy bitter rivals, fall in love.

$17.99

The Apocalypse Sacrifice

As an adventurer, you have unintentionally uncovered a horrifying secret hidden in the town for years.

$9.99

Esoteric Ebb

Esoteric Ebb is a hand-drawn isometric CRPG that reads like a very talky visual novel with dice.

$24.99

Goodbye Volcano High

Guide Fang, a dinosaur teen, through senior year while an asteroid closes in.

$29.99

Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical

Guide Grace through a week of gods, secrets and songs that change with every decision you make, toward one of several endings.

$29.99

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