Games like Engendering Joy

94%Game Brain Score

story, music

atmosphere, replayability

94% User Score Based on 1,139 reviews

After falling in love at first sight with the shy Sachi Usui, an injury-ridden, single-eyed high school girl, the protagonist tries to win over her lonely and isolated heart. A pure, heart-warming romance game where the apple of your eye only has one eye!

90%Game Brain Score

story, music

gameplay, grinding

90% User Score Based on 1,536 reviews

What will you do when the last sky comes? The story follows a group of Tokyo high school students through a mystery revolving around a prophecy about the end of the world and they try to find their own "Wonderful Everyday". Wonderful Everyday: Down the Rabbit-Hole is a visual novel with multiple routes which develops a story based on a few concepts: "the sky and the world", "the beginning and the…

73%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

stability, grinding

73% User Score Based on 1,582 reviews

As a new resident of a mysterious town, you stumble upon an old woman with magical powers. Suddenly you find yourself inhabiting the bodies of other townspeople at crucial moments in their lives. Make life and death decisions as you slowly uncover the truth about the place you’ve decided to call home in this engrossing RPG.

81%Game Brain Score

story, music

grinding, gameplay

81% User Score Based on 135 reviews

A golden dream, and a closed world. A spiral staircase into the garden of the mind. What lies beyond gilded wonderland?

89%Game Brain Score

story, graphics

music, gameplay

89% User Score Based on 442 reviews

AchievementsAchievements are included in the first and second chapters only. The second chapter is paid-DLC. Future chapters will not feature achievements. Please note that per this post, Achievements are presently disabled as we work out a problem with the library we use. Featured DLC About the GameWhat is A Place in the West?Half-Life: A Place in the West is a fan-made comic book set within…

85%Game Brain Score

story, humor

atmosphere, gameplay

85% User Score Based on 310 reviews

Gender Bender DNA Twister Extreme is a crazy visual novel that follows a cast of characters that have their genders flipped due to unforeseen and ridiculous circumstances. Pick a character from a massive cast and follow their unique stories as they find romance and experience a range of outrageous transformations.

72%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

replayability, stability

72% User Score Based on 788 reviews

With a style inspired by Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy 3, you play as a new arrival to a foggy and mysterious town. You find yourself waking up in the bodies of the town's inhabitants at pivotal moments of their lives. Make tough choices as you discover the truth about this town called Greyfox.

78%Game Brain Score

story, music

gameplay, atmosphere

82% User Score Based on 542 reviews

Critic Score 60%Based on 1 reviews

Let us live on this land so arid. KARAKARA. It is the sound of aridity. It is the sound of dry asphalt and sandy winds. It is the sound of relentless sunshine, as well as the sound of a withering race. The "Age of Dusk." It is a time of senescence for the human species, during which hybrids known as the "Others"—those who are human, yet not—exist in great numbers. On the windswept barrens of…

90%Game Brain Score

story, gameplay

grinding, stability

90% User Score Based on 928 reviews

The elders have entrusted you, an elite vampire courier, to deliver their secrets. Can you outrun the hunters, the other drivers, and the rising sun?

87%Game Brain Score

story, music

stability, gameplay

87% User Score Based on 92 reviews

In an effort to "grow" magic in beings born without the ability to use it, a college for magic users in the town of Vanaheim enrolls a human student from Midgard. In this open world visual novel, players must form connections to the people they meet during their adventure.