Your Future Self
Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an…
79% of 84 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Visual novels like Sunset High
If Sunset High scratched a story-driven and mysterious itch for you, keep reading. You will find a few strong contenders among these visual novels.
Expelled!
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
Also in Detective · Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
92% of 228 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99Goodbye 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, Replayable, Emotional
90% of 1,692 Steam reviews are positive$29.99The Chrono Jotter
Ran Ibuki wakes in a derelict forest school where classmates keep getting murdered, and her missing girlfriend Ann Sakura is the reason she has to get out. You die, rewind time with your clues intact, and try again to unmask the killer. A yuri horror visual novel about forbidden love that refuses to stay dead.
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94% of 1,981 Steam reviews are positive$11.99Rue 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 itself. Your personality shapes dialogue, and each restart lets you try a different answer. Best for visual novel readers who like heavy dialogue and psychological mystery.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Emotional
70% of 1,950 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99Kill The Clock
Kill the Clock is a narrative time-loop mystery adventure where you relive the same week to solve a murder that keeps changing. Customize your character, roll dice to influence story outcomes, and uncover the truth—before time resets again.
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89% of 45 Steam reviews are positive$14.99The Demons Told Me to Make This Game
Welcome to Red Hives, a lovely Midwestern town infested with demons. You're a little spirit stuck in a time loop, your only way to interact with the world is by possessing people and whispering into their ears. Explore timelines, solve mysteries, and please, try to keep your hosts alive...
Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
96% of 104 Steam reviews are positive$12.99I 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?
Story-driven, Replayable, Emotional
95% of 237 Steam reviews are positiveFreeClass of '09
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, Replayable, Emotional
94% of 8,659 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 62$9.99Reviver
A narrative puzzle game with themes of love, fate and time. Follow the life stories of the two main characters and influence their destinies through interactions and choices. The game combines hand-drawn style and an immersive interactive experience to explore a profound journey of love and choice.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
91% of 202 Steam reviews are positive$8.99Black Closet
Command your minions to solve mysteries and cover up scandals in a high-class boarding school, where the competition is cut-throat and image is everything. But be careful - one of your minions is a traitor.
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91% of 248 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Until 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.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Retro
96% of 16,275 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 149$19.9912 Hours to Die
A mystery visual novel about six students forced to play a 12-hour long killing game.
Also in Detective · Story-driven, Mysterious
74% of 227 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Cheaper than Sunset High
十五
This is a plot exploration game set in the 1990s. In the game, you will go back to the age of 15, make up for those regrets and mistakes, rewrite…
92% of 53 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
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
Survival Circle
College students are trapped in a collapsing building. Strange things begin to take place within its confines.
88% of 17 Steam reviews are positive$5.41
好久不见 - Long Time No See
The story centers around a frustrated middle-aged man named Yu Kaijie.
76% of 227 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Suicide Countdown: 7 Days
Only 7 days remain until death embraces you -- the everyday life of a young boy begins to distort little by little, unfolding into a bizarre and…
79% of 992 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Departed Away
Discover 'Departed Away,' a captivating visual novel where friendship intertwines with mystery.
88% of 555 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Magical Diary: Horse Hall
You have been invited to attend a magical school. You can make new friends, learn spells, face exams, run for class office, and try to find a date…
93% of 713 Steam reviews are positive$3.74
Sumire
One Day, One Life. Sumire is a magical narrative adventure about choices made, and dreams lost and found.
95% of 892 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Extra Case: My Girlfriend's Secrets
Your girlfriend seems to be hiding something. Will you respect her privacy or pry into her secrets? Don't worry, though.
84% of 163 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Mandemon
Crumbling school buildings in Japan. A string of bizarre incidents. The eerie legend of Mandemon. Lies and truth intertwine.
86% of 353 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$2.99
Subsurface Circular
A two-hour detective story set entirely on a robot-only subway.
94% of 1,497 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Hidden gems like Sunset High
The Posthumous Investigation
A dead man hired you to solve his own murder. You have one day. Fourteen suspects. And as many attempts as it takes.
93% of 583 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
The Demons Told Me to Make This Game
Welcome to Red Hives, a lovely Midwestern town infested with demons.
96% of 104 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Yet Another Killing Game
You wake up in a house, alone with two beautiful girls... But no one is allowed to leave until one of you DIES. Why is this happening?
96% of 253 Steam reviews are positive$16.99
Decade
Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear.
95% of 147 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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
Expelled!
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU.
92% of 228 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
Malleus Cocconum: The Heiress
You are Arenda Finch—fifteen years old, wealthy beyond measure, and newly exiled from your former school.
94% of 163 Steam reviews are positive$21.99
The Apocalypse Sacrifice
As an adventurer, you have unintentionally uncovered a horrifying secret hidden in the town for years.
94% of 222 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
Reviver
A narrative puzzle game with themes of love, fate and time. Follow the life stories of the two main characters and influence their destinies through…
91% of 202 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Goodbye Volcano High
Guide Fang, a dinosaur teen, through senior year while an asteroid closes in.
90% of 1,692 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Departed Away
Discover 'Departed Away,' a captivating visual novel where friendship intertwines with mystery.
88% of 555 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Midnight Witch
Your average student life quickly descents into horror as a mysterious witch takes over the college... Can you save the girl you love?
92% of 373 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Newest visual novels like Sunset High
The Posthumous Investigation
A dead man hired you to solve his own murder. You have one day. Fourteen suspects. And as many attempts as it takes.
93% of 583 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
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
The Demons Told Me to Make This Game
Welcome to Red Hives, a lovely Midwestern town infested with demons.
96% of 104 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
The Diary
Several diaries gradually reveal the thrilling story of a missing case; after multiple deductions, are the answers in the past or present?
65% of 147 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
Kill The Clock
Kill the Clock is a narrative time-loop mystery adventure where you relive the same week to solve a murder that keeps changing.
89% of 45 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Decade
Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear.
95% of 147 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Expelled!
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU.
92% of 228 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$14.99
时忆 Memory of Time
This is a science fiction detective themed visual novel game, where players need to play the role of a "detective", connecting seemingly unrelated…
94% of 34 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Yet Another Killing Game
You wake up in a house, alone with two beautiful girls... But no one is allowed to leave until one of you DIES. Why is this happening?
96% of 253 Steam reviews are positive$16.99
Malleus Cocconum: The Heiress
You are Arenda Finch—fifteen years old, wealthy beyond measure, and newly exiled from your former school.
94% of 163 Steam reviews are positive$21.99
Reviver
A narrative puzzle game with themes of love, fate and time. Follow the life stories of the two main characters and influence their destinies through…
91% of 202 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
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