Games like The Heart of Sorrows

80%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, character development

85% User Score Based on 322 reviews

Critic Score 67%Based on 3 reviews

RAINSWEPT is an adventure game - A murder mystery dealing with themes of love, relationships and unresolved trauma. The focus is on delivering an emotional story, tied together with charming art style, characters with deep histories, and a moving soundtrack. FEATURES - An emotional story set in an immersive and atmospheric game world - Characters with deep histories, meaningful motivations and di… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Rainswept.

80%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, music

80% User Score Based on 82 reviews

An ill-fated hiking trip into the Black Forest spirals into a chilling fight for survival in this interactive horror adventure. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Heart of the Forest.

70%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:emotional, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, gameplay

96% User Score Based on 24 reviews

Game OverviewThis is a first-person psychological narrative game. Your choices shape the story, reveal the heroine's past, and open a path toward the people around her. StoryNoele is a police officer whose biggest monthly expense is treating her chronic neck pain at a massage parlor. Late in the fall, a strike erupts at a toy factory. Cursed dolls begin appearing in an abandoned tower… And a … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Stiff Neck.

If you want to try the game out, here's a link to the demo: https://kazuki-t126.itch.io/ones-desolation-demo In the esteemed estate of the Cichy mansion, there seems to be a rift within the household. However, one day Adele Cichy tells her daughter Liridona she has set up an arranged marriage with a prince named Nathaniel. Everything seems to be going well between the two of them until Liridona he… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Void Chronicles: One's Desolation.

96%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, character development

96% User Score Based on 469 reviews

A free horror Visual Novel about an ill-fated journey across Sinnlos, a lake where awful monsters lurk just beneath the surface. With times being so dire you'll need to decide what, and who, is going to be sacrificed. Anyone can be saved, but not everyone can be. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Lake of Voices.

81%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, stability

77% User Score Based on 97 reviews

Critic Score 100%Based on 1 reviews

Quantum Suicide is a game of betrayal, deception and romance in the cold depths of space. This science fiction thriller tells the tale of an intergenerational mission and its diverse crew, fighting against a deadly AI (and each other) for the chance to survive. Strategy, love interests and quantum mechanics await you. Your choices change the fate of everyone in Quantum Suicide. You play as a resea… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Quantum Suicide.

95%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, music

95% User Score Based on 107 reviews

Vessels is an atmospheric, character-driven narrative adventure game. Players assume the role of crewmember quarantined in the airlock of their ship with no memory of how they got there, and with crewmates who refuse to let you out. Players can posses other crew members to explore the ship and find a way to free yourself, where different choices can lead to multiple endings. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Vessels.

86%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

86% User Score Based on 72 reviews

Every choice you make will change your story. Every small choice will change your relationships with comrades, and change your fate and those of your comrades at critical moments. You may be the villain, or a trustworthy comrade. Everything depends on your choices. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to 7Days Origins.

88%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

88% User Score Based on 1,620 reviews

When seven people fall prey to a vicious curse, they will discover that horror rests not from the shadows lurking about, but within themselves. To what ends will one go in order to survive? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Letter.

89%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding

95% User Score Based on 1,582 reviews

Critic Score 83%Based on 27 reviews

Steins;Gate 0 is a Japanese visual novel. It is the fifth game in the Science Adventure series and the sequel to Steins;Gate. Like Steins;Gate, the game is described as a "hypothetical science ADV". The player assumes the role of Okabe Rintaro in the β World Timeline. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to STEINS;GATE 0.

94%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, monetization

94% User Score Based on 262 reviews

Can you defeat the rebellion in your kingdom before your past consumes you? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to I, the Forgotten One.

82%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, graphics

82% User Score Based on 142 reviews

You are Pandora, the mastermind behind a death game in which you must find the traitor while concealing your identity. Six hours, one school, six deaths. Nine participants fight for survival: it's kill or be killed, trust or deceive, escape or die. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Birth ME Code.

51%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:character development, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, music

79% User Score Based on 16 reviews

Uncover the dark and tortured legacy of mad science in this psychological horror interactive novel about entrapment and the lingering echoes of trauma. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Blood for Poppies.

"Don’t break the rules, don’t leave the house. Unless, of course, you want to stay alive", — that’s what they always told me... If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Reflections of the Void.

INTERACTIVE DARK FANTASY MYSTERY NOVEL where you banter and have a situationship with the narratorWhat to Expect Romance plot with one and only ML (male lead). A defined female character with her own personality and backstory. Murder mystery in a Dark Academia setting. Choices that matter—decide how our heroine interacts with the world and how the story ends. No fail states or bad endings—… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Strix and Scholar.

When you wake up, you suddenly find yourself back in time, you have a vague memory, you don't know why you are here, and in the process of escaping, you may discover the truth hidden behind this place. The game requires players to explore different scenarios to trigger and find out different events and solve the mysteries around them step by step At the same time, it is also necessary to pay… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Before waking up (梦醒边缘).

74%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:character development, gameplay

74% User Score Based on 58 reviews

At nightfall, the sieged city falls. Yaoguai came to massacre. You are nothing but a scholar on the brink of madness, trying to survive alongside a courtesan you met years ago. Experience two intertwined storylines in this sequel to the visual novel "The Hungry Lamb". If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Weeping Swan: Ten Days of the City's Fall.

96%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, optimization

96% User Score Based on 3,492 reviews

Your Creation, Her Eternity If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The NOexistenceN of you AND me.

52%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding

75% User Score Based on 20 reviews

What is "Love Starts Again"?A live-action romance adventure with high-definition images that unfold from the protagonist's perspective. As you become the protagonist and make choices to change the future, you will become embroiled in dramatic romances with the heroines. A realistic romance simulation filled with situations that everyone dreams of experiencing at least once. A story of … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Love starts again.

94%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding

94% User Score Based on 53 reviews

There they stood all steeped in shame, another victim claimed in my name. The Murder Hotel is an interactive Murder Mystery Adventure with a huge twist: A scissors wielding demon is the murderer and you have to blame one of the human guests, forging a plausible theory how they could have done it. Feel free to call me Gastfenger. I'm the demonic hotelier, at your service. Oh, you wa… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Murder Hotel.

83%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, stability

97% User Score Based on 36 reviews

A Game from the "Legends of Savvarah" series. "Time of Pariah" is an interactive story. The game is primarily text-based, but with lots of illustrations (essentially a visual novel in a non-standardised setting). On the continent of Erteon, the endless war rages between Kradzhan – an alliance of three beastly kingdoms – and Dominion of the Horned Ones. Seihal is a port… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Legends of Savvarah: Time of Pariah.

91%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, character development

100% User Score Based on 42 reviews

The year is 2029. The Huntley Scientific Research Institute has opened its doors to a select few—young individuals gifted with extraordinary mental powers and mysterious abilities. Among them is Ziek, a university student with a rare form of “synesthesia”—a perception that allows him to see the hidden significance of objects through vibrant splashes of color. But what begins as an exciting oppor… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to SYNESTHESIA.

76%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, replayability

76% User Score Based on 50 reviews

Ark Noir is a resource management-heavy RPG in which you’ll use a wide variety of Perks to build characters to your liking and take advantage of all sorts of seemingly randomly appearing items in order to survive the extreme conditions in which you find yourself. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Ark Noir.

84%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:atmosphere, grinding

85% User Score Based on 684 reviews

Critic Score 80%Based on 1 reviews

Let's spend the next three real-time days together uncovering the mystery of what went horribly wrong on a derelict generation ship, with the help of a spunky/more-than-slightly-traumatized AI sidekick! A sequel to Analogue: A Hate Story that tells a whole new hate story of its own. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Hate Plus.

47%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, gameplay

59% User Score Based on 31 reviews

The story picks up after the first game ends, where Tom, Luke, and Helen escape to Mars with fake IDs, and Tanya remains on Earth to fight Nanotech, the company led by Richard Meier. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Bionic Heart 2.

90%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization

92% User Score Based on 292 reviews

Critic Score 80%Based on 2 reviews

The Blue Reflection: Second Light Digital Deluxe Edition includes the following: - Blue Reflection: Second Light base game - Hoshinomiya Extreme Makeover Swimsuit – Costume Set - Uniform Alt. Color – Costume Set - Extreme School Makeover Kit - Jump Start Fragment Set - Special Photo Frame – Bulletin Board: Display your fondest memories on a bulletin board. The Photo Frame “Bulletin Board” is adde… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to BLUE REFLECTION: Second Light.

82%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

95% User Score Based on 130 reviews

Critic Score 54%Based on 4 reviews

A visual novel with multiple endings set in a fantasy world. "Enigma is a mystery visual novel where you discover the secrets of Enigma, a worldwide epidemic, and a forest on a lonely island that bears its name." If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to ENIGMA:.

48%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, gameplay

80% User Score Based on 10 reviews

Critic Score 50%Based on 1 reviews

Nothing To Remember is an immersive murder mystery that runs in real-time, right on your desktop. Through their personal messages, you'll uncover two characters unknowingly intertwined as they hunt a killer long thought dead. When your next choice could mean life or death, will you answer the call? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Nothing To Remember.

92%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:stability

92% User Score Based on 391 reviews

An algorithm decided to show you this. What now? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Locke(d).

94%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

98% User Score Based on 22,352 reviews

Critic Score 89%Based on 8 reviews

Youre here to slay the princess. Dont believe her lies. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Slay the Princess.

85%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability

82% User Score Based on 822 reviews

Critic Score 100%Based on 1 reviews

"The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker is a horror themed murder mystery FMV game where you play as a therapist questioning patients. The game features the simplest of interfaces, over 1600 HD video responses, six main characters, and a randomly chosen murderer at the start of the game (which determines your story path)." If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker.

97%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:character development, grinding

97% User Score Based on 608 reviews

John is a young man suffering from severe depression. As he loses his sense of purpose in life, he begins to see the world in unfocused gray. Just when he begins to lose all hope, John meets a girl... a very special girl. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Crimson Gray.

48%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, music

48% User Score Based on 126 reviews

Do you often think of what is there, beneath the towns and the cities we live in? Sewer systems, bombshelters, scientific objects... Are you ready to find yourself in a place on the edge of the reality plane you are used to? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Agony.

97%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, character development

97% User Score Based on 347 reviews

So you're a villain now? Let's see if you survive the experience. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Fallen Hero: Retribution.

96%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:character development, replayability

96% User Score Based on 55 reviews

Clyde Raveron and his coworker Devon Rhodes find themselves in a mysterious place with 14 other strangers, where they are forced to compete in a series of sadistic games of life and death. Each game is presented by a bubbly goddess with a penchant for chaos, and the players will need to survive each round if they hope to be granted one wish. Nothing is promised during the Game of Fourtune. Depe… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Game of Fourtune.

63%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:character development, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, optimization

94% User Score Based on 18 reviews

Take charge of the Polaris Mk 0 and repair your damaged ship, learn from your crewmates, and discover the true nature of what lies beyond existence… before you do it all over again. Follow the core tenants of the Sectorian Collective as you: Seek Knowledge Each loop in the game will offer you new insights into how to efficiently rectify the Polaris Mk 0’s many misfortunes whilst traveling through… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Beyond The Marion.

Bug Queen Flow Studios Evolution never stopped. It learned to run experiments. Seven strangers. One contaminated temple. A labyrinth of levels and layers and lies that only reveals itself once you think you've escaped. They are connected by hidden sins. The system knows what those sins are. It has been building the test around them. Chakra Hearts is nine episodes of psychological horror ab… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Chakra Hearts.

Lost Spirits is an FMV game. About the Game Every moment in the hospital leaves a mark... These marks are everywhere. The floors, the walls, the corridors—they are soaked in stories, in experiences, in things left unsaid. The clock on the wall starts ticking for you. The place where you fainted trembles for you. When you begin to sense us, a new tomorrow begins to take shape. The way your soul… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Lost Spirits.

- Cannibalism X superpowers X Suspense X Original worldview -"Fried Chicken Wings Cause a Love Fire" is a BL mystery comedy long visual novel. It uses the first-person perspective with a fixed protagonist, Aris, and includes elements of horror and sexual innuendo. Story Background:The world is divided into three tiers: the luxurious and wasteful Upper Layer, the competitive Middle Laye… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Fried chicken wings cause love fires.

"People in my time tell each other that they ripped the emotional architecture out of me. But they could see me screaming through the blackness of the screen, and they still let it happen." > Terminal is a text-based escape room. You sit before a black screen, witness to a conversation that exists outside of time. A ghost is embedded within the files, folders, and wires of your mach… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to > Terminal.

98%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:emotional, story

Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, monetization

98% User Score Based on 2,700 reviews

Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about an astronaut drifting through the vastness of space, searching for a reason to keep going while struggling with the feeling that there may be no way back home. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, the game explores despair, friendship and how we are able to move forward even in the deepest void of the cosmos. A Hopecore-Ins… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Control, I'm Not Coming Back.

71%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, optimization

90% User Score Based on 30 reviews

【Beware of telecom fraud and protect your financial security】You arrive at a border region of a certain country, filled with anticipation to meet your long-time online lover in person. Unexpectedly, you fall victim to a romance scam and are kidnapped to “Eden,” a sinister compound, where you begin a so-called “high-paying” job. You will immerse yourself in the complex interplay of cruelty and temp… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Blood Money: Lethal Eden.

98%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability

98% User Score Based on 103 reviews

An adventure game inspired by your favorite dark saturday morning cartoons! (The runtime is only around thirty minutes as well. Pretend it’s a feature.) The time-traveling vigilante Hank thought he was going for a nice drink, only to find himself poisoned! Paralyzed, he lies on the floor, drowning in a puddle of spilled beer. As his brain withers away, the hero embarks on a journey through his o… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Hank: Drowning On Dry Land.

Weirdo is a Japanese manga-style visual novel set in DYL High School. It follows Wang Zhe, an ordinary and frail boy, who tries to win the hearts of girls and complete his experiments. He gets entangled in bizarre events, plunging into darkness. Each choice you make determines his fate. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Weirdo.

92%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay

Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, monetization

92% User Score Based on 1,161 reviews

More from this franchise - check out collection banner above About the Game What to ExpectThis is not a management game! ‍♀️ Play the tavern owner. D&D inspired story: Over 20 colorful characters. ️‍ LGBTQ+ positive representation. At least 12h of immersive reading on your first play-through. Multiple endings. Casual drink mixing & quest building. No tavern managemen… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Tavern Talk - A Cozy Visual Novel.

89%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, humor

Most mentioned negative aspects:character development, optimization

92% User Score Based on 48 reviews

You're now the lead writer for Juno's World, a perfectly normal sitcom in which nothing strange or horrible happens, ever! Choose your scripts, decide what characters to build relationships with, and keep those audience ratings high -- or get cancelled in more ways than one! Welcome to Must See TV. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Laugh Track.

67%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay

95% User Score Based on 21 reviews

山庄坐落在偏僻的深山之中，四周都是悬崖峭壁，只通过一条吊桥连接外界。 山庄内部的构造、建筑的设计，也常有不合理的地方。 曾经极负盛名的山庄如今却人才凋敝，冷清落寞。 这一切怪异之处，似乎都在暗示着，有一个巨大的秘密埋藏在山庄之下…… 全角色总计300+立绘差分，生动勾勒出了来自五湖四海、三教九流，身份、性格各异的人物形象。 20+背景原画，100+场景差分，全面描绘出一处坐落于悬崖瀑布之间，古色古香的山庄风光。 阴暗、厚重的美术色调，配合悬疑紧张的故事情节，共同塑造出了冷清、深沉的游戏氛围。 调查案件时，玩家可以在山庄内自由选择移动，前往不同的地点观察现场，搜集物证，还原案件过程。 玩家可以从不同的角色口中询问证言，打听情报，探究背后缘由……不过切记，证言之中可能存在谎言。 是静观其变，还是结束一切？ … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to 再见断刀.

56%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music

Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, gameplay

92% User Score Based on 12 reviews

"In the year 21XX, there is no rest for the dead—only servitude." The world is ruled by an Emperor of unparalleled power, who commands the fate of millions in life—but also after death. He promises safety and dominion. In return, he demands absolute obedience. You are a servitor—stripped of your name, your past, and your future. Bound by laws you did not choose, you exist as one small … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Mortal Advocate.

93%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics

Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding

93% User Score Based on 413 reviews

Survive the mystery that awaits the JFS Gun-Dog in deep space in this retro visual novel / graphic adventure. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog.

74%Game Brain Score

Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, atmosphere

Most mentioned negative aspects:story, gameplay

100% User Score Based on 25 reviews

KAFKA-ESQUE GIRLHOODMetamorph is a 3D story-driven dating sim with a horror theme, about growing up in a body that quickly becomes foreign to you. You play as a high-school girl who has begun to slowly, but steadily, turn into a twisted cockroach monster. With no signs of being able to reverse it, she sets out to score a date with her crush, all before her grotesque transformation is fully complet… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Metamorph.