Visual novels like Your Future Self

Want something that feels story-driven and mysterious the way Your Future Self does? Browse these visual novels for your next favorite.

Supposedly Wonderful Future
A science fiction story about screens, small rooms, and existential dread told through a series of RPG-style dialogues.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Atmospheric
94% of 18 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Decade
Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear. Seed new movements, destroy others. Subvert the rise and fall of empires, art, ideologies, and individuals in this experimental narrative game.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Atmospheric
95% of 147 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Subsurface Circular
A two-hour detective story set entirely on a robot-only subway. As a Tek detective, you question passengers about missing workers, collect words as Focus Points, and spend them to open new dialogue lines. Short, dry, and built for visual novel readers who want one mystery solved in one sitting.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Atmospheric
94% of 1,497 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
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 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, Atmospheric
70% of 1,950 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
Complex Loop
Complex Loop is a sci-fi themed visual novel. This is a story of time loops between past and future. Within a time limit of 20 minutes, your mission is to save a mysterious girl died from an explosion accident one year ago. Solve puzzles and reveal the truth behind the tragedy. An adventure awaits!
Story-driven, Mysterious, Atmospheric
91% of 57 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
ESC
An interactive novel about identity, roleplay, and dreams.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Atmospheric
99% of 102 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
The 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, Atmospheric
96% of 104 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Neoproxima
Investigating a time-loop during the Cold War, light years away from Earth. Neoproxima is a text-based adventure game that combines exploration and simple RPG and survival mechanics. Plan your next loop carefully, and go as far as possible before time catches up with you.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Atmospheric
94% of 71 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Mini Mini Golf Golf
Mini Mini Golf Golf is an indie storytelling experience that goes beyond the lanes of the here and now into distant memories of a future planetary collapse. Destabilize the present and plunge into a neon psychohistory of a bizarre entity in distress. This is not a game about minigolf.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Atmospheric
88% of 68 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
STAY
Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time. While you sleep, he is alone. When you return to your PC he has hope. Your encouragement and advice will be the difference between his salvation or despair.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Atmospheric
67% of 471 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
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 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, Atmospheric
96% of 16,275 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 133$19.99
Sentimental Death Loop
Just as you begin to settle in for a fun day at your best friend's house, something changes in her and she kills you. And not just once—she ends your life time and time and time again.Your goal is to escape from this endless loop of despair.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Atmospheric
58% of 151 Steam reviews are positive$19.99

Cheaper than Your Future Self

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

outside the door

Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office.

$1.99

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.

$1.99

q.u.q.

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

$1.99

Looking 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.

$1.99

The Wanderer: Frankenstein’s Creature

Experience the Myth of Frankenstein through the innocent eyes of his creature. Make decisions and change people's view that you will meet on your way.

$1.59

Retention

This game is about a person who kept running through his life, never looking back at the past. Once during a trip, he gets into trouble.

$0.99

tomorrow won't come for those without ██████

That day, we told a lie.

$1.99

HeatStroke

HeatStroke is a simulation game tasking you to transcribe an unhinged short story while driving down a seemingly endless desert road.

$1.99

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

A girl needs to buy milk. That is the whole errand, and it is also the whole problem.

$1.49

The Test

The Test asks you a run of blunt Yes or No questions, reads what your answers say about you, then hands you a single secret word like Chaos or…

$1.99

The end is nahual: If I may say so

It's sometimes a visual novel and point-and-click adventure about nothing, it's sometimes chaos, someone said that the ending was like jazz... if…

$2.49

Hidden gems like Your Future Self

The Demons Told Me to Make This Game

Welcome to Red Hives, a lovely Midwestern town infested with demons.

$12.99

Decade

Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear.

$9.99

Until Oblivion

Until Oblivion is an atmospheric narrative game that follows 17 year old nobody Emma Wilson as she tries to rekindle a dying relationship in a dying…

Free

outside the door

Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office.

$1.99

i feel very lonely and i don't remember myself

A short sci-fi visual novel about four scientists trapped in an underground lab.

Free

MINDHACK

Change the minds of evildoers…for good! MINDHACK is a text adventure game where you meet unique evildoers, hack their minds, and rewrite them into…

$12.99

PRODUCER 2021

a ~2 hour long graphic adventure novella. Tasked with disrupting the end of the world, you explore, investigate and produce your way through a…

$9.99

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.

Free

SEASON: A letter to the future

Leave home on a bicycle to record a world before a cataclysm ends the season.

$24.99

No More Future

In the last days of their life, a dying person takes one final gamble...

Free

Night Loops

Journey through the psyche… Welcome to the Seaside Hotel, where the final hour of your night shift awaits.

$9.99

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.

$9.99

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