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.
89% of 670 Steam reviews are positive$0.74
Visual novels like Retention
If Retention left you wanting something emotional and minimalist, you have options. These visual novels keep things close enough to feel familiar.
Hindsight
What if the physical objects of everyday life, the possessions we hold close, were actual windows to the past? Peer into distant memories and unseen futures in Hindsight.
Emotional, Story-driven, Atmospheric
80% of 152 Steam reviews are positive$14.99SEASON: A letter to the future
Leave home on a bicycle to record a world before a cataclysm ends the season. You meet people, photograph and tape what matters, and build a journal for the future. Slow, tender and strange, it suits visual novel readers who come for story, characters and quiet reflection more than plot twists.
Emotional, Story-driven, Atmospheric
93% of 1,850 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$24.99Until Then
A slow, tender visual novel that turns strange: you follow Mark, a Filipino high-schooler, through school days, chats with friends, and small routines, until people vanish and memories stop adding up. Read on, keep going past the first ending, and piece together what is really happening.
Emotional, Story-driven, Atmospheric
96% of 16,275 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 133$19.99Once Again
Make up for lost time with Once Again, If you could travel through time, who’s the first person you’d meet? An interactive story about a boy who spends his summers wandering between past and present... After meeting her, summer will never be the same again...Who is she, and what journey awaits you?
Emotional, Story-driven, Atmospheric
90% of 952 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$1.27Journal
Enter the pages of the hand painted world of Journal. A journey through the life of a young and troubled girl as she tries to face up to the choices and responsibilities that come with childhood. An experience that questions the reliability of how we choose to remember events and explores the truths hidden within our dreams.
Emotional, Story-driven, Atmospheric
78% of 316 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Know by heart
Childhood friends reunite after spending a long time apart, revisiting old memories and rekindling their friendship. However, something beyond their control will ruin this reunion.
Emotional, Story-driven, Atmospheric
89% of 799 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling
A short psychological story about a stressed student buried in books and study, who becomes fixed on exploring her ceiling. You click through hand-drawn rooms, read her thoughts, and steer toward one of 3 endings, plus an unlockable mode that fills in the lore. Worth playing for its tender, uneasy take on burnout.
Emotional, Story-driven, Atmospheric
87% of 3,445 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$1.99随风而逝 Story About Times
Time is the only thing we can't resist. Some people and things will never be found once they are lost. In the dark, a man was walking alone. The moment when you turn back, don't forget the place where came from!
Emotional, Story-driven, Atmospheric
79% of 75 Steam reviews are positive$3.99memories
A short sapphic visual novel where getting dressed hurts. You pick clothes for a young woman, and each outfit pulls up a piece of her failed relationship. Choice-based dialogue, soft pastel art, and a sad, tender mood make it worth an evening for visual novel readers who like romance with bruises.
Emotional, Minimalist, Story-driven
93% of 1,566 Steam reviews are positiveFreeHazy Mind
You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.
Emotional, Story-driven, Atmospheric
85% of 327 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99Always Remember Me
Amy is desperate! Her boyfriend Aaron doesn't remember her anymore after a car accident! Will you be able to make him remember again? Or perhaps it's time to move on. Maybe Amy will fall in love with someone else? It's up to you to decide. Play this life simulation game with dating sim elements and shape Amy's destiny.
Emotional, Story-driven
59% of 142 Steam reviews are positive$17.99missed messages.
Your phone lights up: “goth gf’s iPhone” wants to AirDrop you a photo. Accept or decline? That small tap starts a short romance with horror edges about life, death, and memes, told in hand-drawn art across four endings you can reach in 15 to 30 minutes each.
Emotional, Story-driven, Atmospheric
96% of 15,581 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Cheaper than Retention
Antagonist
Play as D’Vil, the Dark Lord… and rising star at Evil Productions. Team up with Hero of Light, Ralph, and unleash devastating combos on your foes.
92% of 49 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Waiting in the Lime forest
Face your friend's twisted mind and do your best. You should stay sane until the end.
67% of 70 Steam reviews are positive$0.79
My Cute Commissar
☭My Cute Commissar☭ is a satirical historical visual novel with “match-3” gameplay.
88% of 386 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Love in Belarus
Love in Belarus is a fascinating love story with a Belarusian dictator. Melt the heart of the usurper of power!
82% of 50 Steam reviews are positive$0.69
Dreams with Furry 🦊
Dreams with Furry 🦊 - Cleopatra, Mulan, Catherine the Great and Joan of Arc are now furry girls!
83% of 86 Steam reviews are positive$0.69
The Days Without Gods
The Days Without Gods is a text-based DND fantasy ADV in which the player takes on the role of Mori Granson, an apprentice and subordinate of Hysso…
80% of 40 Steam reviews are positive$0.89
The Adventures of Bunny and Pig
A short interactive storybook about trauma, companionship, and self-belief.
91% of 23 Steam reviews are positive$0.69
Ryclaw: Hope
Ryclaw: Hope is a short kinetic novel about a young girl named Sakura who has spent most of her life in the hospital.
100% of 12 Steam reviews are positive$0.49
Death Live
有的人活着他已经死了，有的人死了他还活着。还有的人……早就麻木，忘了自己到底是死是活——死亡直播间Plus！橘子班灰色短篇视觉小说合集，由《死亡直播间》《假期第三天》等作品组成。
85% of 637 Steam reviews are positive$0.54
Story of Love & Food
"Huh?! Diabetes? Me?!"Fresh out of college and new to the workforce, Mi Lirong is shocked when her doctor warns her of diabetes and serious health…
80% of 56 Steam reviews are positive$0.69
Revenge of the Antagonist - BL (Boys Love)
Gerald isn't a known actor, so he struggles to land roles. But the guy who (unintentionally) made a mockery of him became a popular heartthrob.
100% of 15 Steam reviews are positive$0.79
Hidden gems like Retention
Flower in Us
The first thing you notice is the darkness of the basement as you awaken, your memory wiped clean by a brutal attack.
93% of 428 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$7.99
Disillusion ST
A strange journey throughout an elaborate labyrinth awaits, featuring hundreds of characters and happenings as you try to gather items that once…
96% of 550 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
My Sweet! Housemate
Faced with the cruel and harsh reality of homelessness, you seek out affordable housing in your area.
97% of 410 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
outside the door
Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office.
93% of 771 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
memories
A short sapphic visual novel where getting dressed hurts. You pick clothes for a young woman, and each outfit pulls up a piece of her failed…
93% of 1,566 Steam reviews are positiveFree
q.u.q.
A crude girl drags a giant gun across a red-sky desert in this surreal visual novel.
94% of 1,885 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
It gets so lonely here
A yandere yuri visual novel about a girl running through a dark forest from someone who loves her to death.
94% of 2,410 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7Free
SEASON: A letter to the future
Leave home on a bicycle to record a world before a cataclysm ends the season.
93% of 1,850 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$24.99
Hazy Mind
You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.
85% of 327 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
Once Again
Make up for lost time with Once Again, If you could travel through time, who’s the first person you’d meet?
90% of 952 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$1.27
"LIFE" not found;
This small Narrative Point & Click (Puzzle) game is about the mental health struggles of a adolescent high school dropout who's lost at life.
93% of 339 Steam reviews are positiveFree
start;again
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.
95% of 169 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$5.99
Newest visual novels like Retention
Rue Valley
Rue Valley traps you in a repeating evening in a small town, where you read, talk, and piece together the secrets of its residents and the loop…
70% of 1,950 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
Mobile Murder Mystery
Follow the story of the Unseen Narrator, whose repetitive life falls apart when their co-worker decides to quit on a whim.
97% of 78 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free
Flower in Us
The first thing you notice is the darkness of the basement as you awaken, your memory wiped clean by a brutal attack.
93% of 428 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$7.99
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
A short surreal visual novel where a mysterious girl appears in your room and your only real job is to say hello.
93% of 20,760 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 66$1.99
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?
95% of 237 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Disillusion ST
A strange journey throughout an elaborate labyrinth awaits, featuring hundreds of characters and happenings as you try to gather items that once…
96% of 550 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
My Sweet! Housemate
Faced with the cruel and harsh reality of homelessness, you seek out affordable housing in your area.
97% of 410 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Until Then
A slow, tender visual novel that turns strange: you follow Mark, a Filipino high-schooler, through school days, chats with friends, and small…
96% of 16,275 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 133$19.99
Bedrotting
This game is about bed rotting. You lie in the bed for 20 days trying to survive.
70% of 54 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
outside the door
Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office.
93% of 771 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Hazy Mind
You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.
85% of 327 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
The Leak
Wake up, watch tv, make a cup of cofffee and try to bear your own meaningless existence.
85% of 60 Steam reviews are positiveFree