Visual novels like X-note

Miss the mysterious and story-driven pull of X-note? These visual novels are a good place to start.

Blood Code
An otome dating sim where you play an ordinary girl in a strange city, digging into her father's death while romancing knights and princes, gentle to inhospitable. You plan her weeks, build stats, date and gift your way to multiple endings, with nearly 40 CGs and a 10-track original soundtrack.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Romantic
73% of 1,727 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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. Who put him there, and more importantly… who can he trust?
Mysterious, Story-driven, Romantic
95% of 169 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$5.99
Nicole
Excited to join her first choice school, Nicole discovers a disturbing series of disappearances on campus upon moving into the university dorms. Three girls have vanished, and she might be next, deviating from her ideal college experience.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Romantic
75% of 76 Steam reviews are positive$18.99
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 ghastly series of events... When fate comes knocking, will you have the courage to make a choice?
Mysterious, Story-driven, Romantic
79% of 992 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Notch - The Innocent LunA: Eclipsed SinnerS
A gothic horror visual novel set in an isolated town where murders have woken old, forgotten memories. You read through illusion and reality, dreams of ruin and rebirth, and choose branching routes toward 14 endings across 10+ hours, backed by 50+ songs.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Romantic
95% of 3,152 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Otome Legends
Play a dating sim inside of a dating sim to become an otome heroine protagonist. Nothing can possible go wrong... right?
Mysterious, Story-driven, Romantic
90% of 110 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Trick and Treat - Visual Novel
You go into a cursed forest with friends to check out the local legend, something attacks, and you wake up alone. What follows is a short Halloween thriller about surviving the woods with help from two strange girls, Ashley and Lilian, whose motives stay unclear until you chase every ending.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Romantic
89% of 3,627 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary
A ghost with no memory keeps dying in front of you, and treats it like a joke. You are the only living person who can talk to Kugayama Shiori, so you help her chase her lost memories, question other ghosts, and fill an Urban Legend Encyclopedia until one incident explains everything. Funny, bloody, and sad in that order.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Romantic
94% of 1,113 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$24.99
7'scarlet
The remote town of Okunezato is shaped like a crescent moon and shrouded in dark myths and legends. Take on the role of a brave young woman journeying into the unknown to uncover dangerous truths and locate her missing brother with her childhood friend.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Romantic
74% of 802 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Dark Nights
Nothing is as it seems.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Romantic
91% of 444 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1Free
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. You follow three routes, meet three girls, and die three ways while an amused narrator judges your choices. Short, strange, and sweet in a morbid way.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Romantic
94% of 2,402 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6Free
Darling, Darling... Dead?
Yandere x yandere x yandere: one must go. Yandere x yandere, a vampire-themed Visual Novel.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Romantic
100% of 15 Steam reviews are positive$12

Cheaper than X-note

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.

$5.99

Blood Code

An otome dating sim where you play an ordinary girl in a strange city, digging into her father's death while romancing knights and princes, gentle…

$9.99

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…

$1.99

Notch - The Innocent LunA: Eclipsed SinnerS

A gothic horror visual novel set in an isolated town where murders have woken old, forgotten memories.

$9.99

Otome Legends

Play a dating sim inside of a dating sim to become an otome heroine protagonist. Nothing can possible go wrong... right?

$7.99

Darling, Darling... Dead?

Yandere x yandere x yandere: one must go. Yandere x yandere, a vampire-themed Visual Novel.

$12

Mandemon

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

$2.99

The 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…

$11.99

Never give up!

Someone is killing half-bloods (half-elves, half-humans) in a small city.

$4.99

Return to Shironagasu Island

A New York detective and his assistant travel to solitary Shironagasu Island on a dead millionaire's invitation, then murders start.

$4.99

BBirthday - Visual Novel

Help Bianca to relive the 15 years of her life, but from another perspective 👁️.

$8.99

√Letter - Root Letter -

When a letter is delivered 15 years late - you discover an old pen-friend was involved in a murder, before she disappeared.

$1.99

Hidden gems like X-note

Money for Girls: Amortized

A girl detective has twelve weeks to save her mom from crippling debt in a horror-romance visual novel that is sweet, filthy and brutally funny.

$15

Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary

A ghost with no memory keeps dying in front of you, and treats it like a joke.

$24.99

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?

$16.99

Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate

A college junior is told she will die unless she finds her soulmate, so you juggle classes, an internship and a job while romancing four women.

$14

Bloody Painter Dating Sim

Captured by the Bloody Painter, you get seven days to talk your way toward survival. Every choice shifts how he treats you, across ten endings.

Free

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.

Free

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?

Free

Sisters: Last Day of Summer

A fully-animated visual novel about a boy who wakes up in an unknown house with two beautiful sisters, their mother, and an unspoken truth.

$24.99

Dark Nights

Nothing is as it seems.

Free

Mandemon

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

$2.99

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.

$5.99

Otome Legends

Play a dating sim inside of a dating sim to become an otome heroine protagonist. Nothing can possible go wrong... right?

$7.99

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