Visual novels like RECORD_DrowsyVortex

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Is the Vat Utopia or Dystopia?
Earth is scheduled for demolition to make way for an interstellar highway, and two lonely teenagers get picked as samples for an alien "Human Observation Documentary". What follows is a short, sweet and surprisingly moving romance visual novel: dark jokes, meme-heavy dialogue, gorgeous presentation and a pure love story with a happy ending, all in about four hours.
Surreal, Dark, Story-driven
97% of 1,003 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$2.69
异化之恶〇Abnormal Treatment
A pixel-art sanatorium for people with strange abilities, where nobody ever seems to leave. You play staffer Carina, follow clues and solve puzzles, and your choices split the story into seven endings.
Surreal, Dark, Story-driven
97% of 3,627 Steam reviews are positiveFree
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, wake them up, and crack the dream maze. Sci-fi comedy, adventure starts now!
Surreal, Story-driven, Mysterious
88% of 103 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
OPUS: Rocket of Whispers
Two survivors cross a snowy, plague-ruined world to build a rocket and return lost souls to the stars. You gather materials, craft tools, and read the past through antiques and artifacts. Sad, tender, and quietly hopeful, it is worth playing for the story it tells one launch at a time.
Surreal, Dark, Story-driven
92% of 1,446 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Survivor's Notes
"Survivor's Notes" is an FMV . Players control two protagonists, using choices and QTEs to unlock different branches and endings. Follow a girl who foresees disaster and acolonel from the future as their stories reveal the outbreak's origins. Trust,rescue, or walk away. Survival is onlyone of them.
Dark, Story-driven, Mysterious
88% of 572 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$6.99
The Monstrous Horror Show
Four girls find their way into an abandoned hospital, each for her own reasons. Will they manage to unravel the dark secrets hiding within, escape safely, and return to their normal, peaceful lives?
Surreal, Dark, Story-driven
90% of 293 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
RGB GlitchGazer
A mad and romantic ADV. Unravel a strange world of science and philosophy with a mecha girl, zombie girl, or beastfolk. Some paths may disturb you... or thrill you.
Surreal, Dark, Story-driven
93% of 54 Steam reviews are positive$1.70
猩红梦魇 The Nightmare of Scarlet Tempest
Pixel X Adventure X Romance A horror theme visual game，having 3 romanceable characters and sweet horror pixels！ A young girl wakes up from the whistling body of the sea, and is welcomed into a strange world with the illusion of sluggish falling and suffocation. It's a travel to find her memory.
Surreal, Dark, Story-driven
97% of 29 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Raining City: Millions Recollections
One night, Lyu Xuan woke up soaked in blood, a mysterious black hole in the palm of her hand, and millions pouring out of that hole, like an unstoppable fountain of wealth. Still in shock, She has to evade the monsters that rushed to her and her new riches. A strange story begins in a gloomy city…
Surreal, Dark, Story-driven
84% of 259 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$11.99
Mandemon
Crumbling school buildings in Japan. A string of bizarre incidents. The eerie legend of Mandemon. Lies and truth intertwine. Love and hatred blur in the mist. What will you do? Who can you trust? Welcome to a cruel world of deceit and suffering—
Surreal, Dark, Story-driven
86% of 354 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$2.99
Nobody Nowhere
a side-scrolling, story-driven text adventure game in pixel art. The story is set in 2079, when a Replicant awakens in a lab facility amidst a life-or-death situation. The replicant aid agency tries to rescue him but fails. In the process they stumble on the real secret of the Replicant project...
Surreal, Dark, Story-driven
93% of 172 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
natsuno-kanata - beyond the summer
── In the summer of the world that has ended, the girl travels aimlessly. "natsuno-kanata - beyond the summer" is a text adventure game that depicts girls traveling in apocalypse. Through talking to the girls, we get to know them and approach the mysteries of the world ──
Surreal, Dark, Story-driven
94% of 909 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free

Cheaper than RECORD_DrowsyVortex

Is the Vat Utopia or Dystopia?

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

$2.69

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

Survivor's Notes

"Survivor's Notes" is an FMV . Players control two protagonists, using choices and QTEs to unlock different branches and endings.

$6.99

RGB GlitchGazer

A mad and romantic ADV. Unravel a strange world of science and philosophy with a mecha girl, zombie girl, or beastfolk.

$1.70

Mandemon

Crumbling school buildings in Japan. A string of bizarre incidents. The eerie legend of Mandemon. Lies and truth intertwine.

$2.99

Aliya: Timelink

You are chatting with Aliya, a girl stranded on a damaged ship a thousand years in the future.

$2.99

Tales of the Black Forest

Trapped in the town of Kuromori-cho, schoolgirl Kihara Kashin must travel into the past with Kiritani Yuki to find a way out.

$3.99

人类终结之日——2074

"Human Beings' Extinction Day: 2074"is a text-based visual novel game with a sci-fi and suspense theme.

$2.99

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

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

q.u.q.

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

$1.99

The Simen Rumors

本游戏以视觉小说的形式，收录了十四个奇幻恐怖的短篇故事。从网站专栏的投稿、社团的恐怖故事分享会、到某座设施中的秘密实验……你将以不同的视角，探索发生在鸶门市周边的种种奇妙传闻。

Hidden gems like RECORD_DrowsyVortex

Is the Vat Utopia or Dystopia?

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

$2.69

Survivor's Notes

"Survivor's Notes" is an FMV . Players control two protagonists, using choices and QTEs to unlock different branches and endings.

$6.99

SubZero

A frozen apocalypse shot as a live-action interactive movie, where you play a Marina Bay warehouse clerk leading three very different survivors.

$9.99

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

大科学家

Antoine is a tavern owner who privately conducts her own secret research.

Free

Mercury Abbey

In a mansion surrounded by mist, as the curse made by the Alchemist and Fairy reappears, the danger is quietly lurking in the darkness, awaiting its…

$17.99

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

Lightracer: For Judge

In a dystopian future, as The Judge with immense power, you journey through space to find hope in a divided society.

$7.99

Nobody Nowhere

a side-scrolling, story-driven text adventure game in pixel art.

$9.99

The Apocalypse Sacrifice

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

$9.99

Raining City: Millions Recollections

One night, Lyu Xuan woke up soaked in blood, a mysterious black hole in the palm of her hand, and millions pouring out of that hole, like an…

$11.99

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