Visual novels like Venba

Looking for that same emotional and story-driven spark as Venba? These visual novels keep things close enough to feel familiar.

Midnight Ramen
In Midnight Ramen, you play as the owner of a late-night ramen stand and his apprentice. You interact with your customers, listen to their troubles, and help them out whenever you can. But as the bowls of ramen are cooked and served, troubles are beginning to brew in your own life as well...
Emotional, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
95% of 298 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$11.99
Chinese Street Food Legend
You run a night-market stall selling kaolengmian, flipping noodle sheets, cracking eggs and brushing sauce while customers stop to chat about their joys and frustrations. A cosplay-wearing helper drums up business, and a second tanghulu stall adds something sweet. Warm, funny and cozy for visual novel readers who like their stories served with steam.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Relaxing
98% of 611 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$3.99
Cooking Companions
A cute cabin cooking setup in the Tatras Mountains turns into psychological horror. You cook meals, talk with your companions, and make choices that branch toward 11 endings, with talking vegetables, folklore, and a slow build of dread worth reading for in one evening.
Emotional, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
93% of 1,094 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$14.99
Kitchen Sync: Aloha!
Kitchen Sync: Aloha! is a cozy, story-driven cooking RPG. As head chef of your family's restaurant in Hawaii, build a trusty team of chefs and dish up tasty Hawaiian food. Manage kitchens, build friendships, find romance, explore tropical venues, and discover the power of cooking together.
Emotional, Story-driven, Relaxing
99% of 162 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
Double Cheeseburger, Medium Fries
Work as Penelope on her day off! Complete mini-games to prepare the food for a wide variety of customers!
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Relaxing
96% of 360 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free
A Taste of the Past
Mei has lost her mother and her mother's noodle recipe, so she boards a train to the afterlife where her ancestors are already waiting. You walk the carriages, talk, remember, and cook your way back to that recipe in this hand-drawn, voice-acted story about grief, family, and healing.
Emotional, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
97% of 1,787 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Cook For Love
Win the hearts of Parisians with your cooking, discover delicious recipes, and become a chef worthy of working onboard the Orient Express.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Relaxing
51% of 35 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
Pixel Cafe
Pixel Cafe mixes fast arcade time management with a visual novel about Pixel, a small-town cook finding her way in the big city of Karstok. You brew coffee, cook dishes, upgrade gear and decorate your grandma's house between shifts across 10 bars, with 50 optional Nightmare levels if you want real pressure.
Emotional, Story-driven, Relaxing
91% of 857 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$12.99
My Sweet! Housemate
Faced with the cruel and harsh reality of homelessness, you seek out affordable housing in your area. Luckily, it seems you've found the perfect rental, but something is very off about your landlord...
Emotional, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
97% of 410 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
The Average Everyday Adventures of Samantha Browne
Samantha Browne is very hungry and has oatmeal on her shelf, but the dorm kitchen feels miles away. You pick her words and actions as this painfully introverted student tries to cross that distance. A short, funny, hand-drawn visual novel about how hard a simple task can feel.
Emotional, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
81% of 1,249 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Sushi Ben
An interactive anime story! Save a beloved local sushi bar from dastardly landsharks, get distracted in countless mini games and make unforgettable friends in this larger-than-life narrative adventure. Written by Moa (Hatoful Boyfriend) and featuring a fully voiced cast!
Emotional, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
81% of 264 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
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.
Emotional, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
90% of 1,692 Steam reviews are positive$29.99

Cheaper than Venba

Midnight Ramen

In Midnight Ramen, you play as the owner of a late-night ramen stand and his apprentice.

$11.99

Chinese Street Food Legend

You run a night-market stall selling kaolengmian, flipping noodle sheets, cracking eggs and brushing sauce while customers stop to chat about their…

$3.99

Pixel Cafe

Pixel Cafe mixes fast arcade time management with a visual novel about Pixel, a small-town cook finding her way in the big city of Karstok.

$12.99

My Sweet! Housemate

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

$4.99

Sushi Ben

An interactive anime story! Save a beloved local sushi bar from dastardly landsharks, get distracted in countless mini games and make unforgettable…

$11.99

GIRLS MADE PUDDING

"When there's nobody there to see you, you disappear." In Girls Made Pudding, two girls tour a series of towns that people have disappeared from.

$9.99

Taste of the Wind

A simulation and RPG game with multiple endings, set in a Chinese restaurant.

$10.99

The Heroes Around Me

The Heroes Around Me tells a story of a family of 3: the hard-working and quiet father – Nan, his daughter Lili, and their pet dog Sesame.

$4.19

Once Again

Make up for lost time with Once Again, If you could travel through time, who’s the first person you’d meet?

$1.27

Love at The Milky Way Diner

An inclusive, cozy, sci-fi cooking/dating sim about making friends, finding love, and running a diner in deep space.

$13.99

Florence

Florence Yeoh, 25, is stuck in work, sleep and scrolling until she meets cellist Krish.

$5.99

Home

A game about the short journey of a boy who left home. Experience a dense story in around 2 hours, along with rhythm gameplay and music puzzles.

$7.99

Hidden gems like Venba

Chinese Street Food Legend

You run a night-market stall selling kaolengmian, flipping noodle sheets, cracking eggs and brushing sauce while customers stop to chat about their…

$3.99

Home

A game about the short journey of a boy who left home. Experience a dense story in around 2 hours, along with rhythm gameplay and music puzzles.

$7.99

Fishbowl

Fishbowl is a slow and tender narrative game about dreams, grief, and hope.

$9.99

The Witch's Bakery

Bake, explore Paris and heal your friends' hearts as a cheerful witch in a hand-drawn adventure.

$19.99

Summer’s Heartbeat

Village romance hotter than summer's heat! Drowning in debt, you escape to the countryside only to meet the loan shark noona, your first love, and…

$15.99

GIRLS MADE PUDDING

"When there's nobody there to see you, you disappear." In Girls Made Pudding, two girls tour a series of towns that people have disappeared from.

$9.99

Kitchen Sync: Aloha!

Kitchen Sync: Aloha! is a cozy, story-driven cooking RPG. As head chef of your family's restaurant in Hawaii, build a trusty team of chefs and dish…

$19.99

inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories

Spend summer nights behind the counter of a small-town konbini as Makoto Hayakawa.

$15.79

High Times

Run a donut shop where each donut shifts how a customer feels, and talk through life, love and heartbreak one order at a time.

$19.99

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

Taste of the Wind

A simulation and RPG game with multiple endings, set in a Chinese restaurant.

$10.99

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