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A short, branching BL/yaoi mystery visual novel about surviving a deadly trust game with three strangers, featuring romance routes, time travel, and multiple endings.

START AGAIN: a prologue
A short, melancholic time-loop RPG prologue to In Stars and Time with LGBTQ+ themes and a satisfying battle challenge.
2021-08-18
- Fantasy
- Bird view / Isometric

Indie

Turn-based strategy (TBS)

Role-playing (RPG)

Mystery

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SoulSet

A mystery/romance visual novel where you build relationships with amnesiac strangers in an eerie mansion and unravel the truth through linked routes.

2017-02-07

Comedy
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Mystery
Romance
Visual Novel

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BUSTAFELLOWS

A noir otome visual novel mixing murder mystery with romance and time travel, featuring a female protagonist and well-written routes across a roughly 25-hour story.

2021-07-30

First person
Thriller
Text
Mystery
Romance
Visual Novel

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Stillwater

A short, choice-driven visual novel about a private investigator unraveling a family curse, praised for its muted art and heartfelt queer-themed writing.

2022-09-06

Adventure
Horror
Indie
Text
Mystery
Visual Novel

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Seventh Lair

A short single-player anime-style medieval visual novel set in a parallel world to The House in Fata Morgana, starting goofy before turning disturbing, with reviewer playtimes around 8.6 hours.

2022-03-31

Comedy
Adventure
Indie
Text
Drama
Romance
Visual Novel

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The Chrono Jotter

A roughly 12-hour yuri visual novel about time-rewinding murder investigations and psychological horror in a high school death game, with word-puzzle gameplay and very positive reviews.

2021-08-25

Adventure
Horror
Fantasy
Indie
Text
Drama
Visual Novel

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Heart Fragment

A psychological otome game where collecting fragments across slow-burn, resetting routes leads to happy endings or tragedy, with a median reviewer playtime of about 8 hours.

2021-07-30

Thriller
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)
Romance
Visual Novel

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Drops of Death

A compact, replayable murder mystery visual novel where the randomly chosen killer may be your romantic interest.

2025-08-07

Thriller
Indie
Simulator
Mystery
Romance
Visual Novel

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Dreambound

A story-rich BL mystery visual novel about dreams, reality, and facing one's past, delivering an emotional psychological narrative in roughly 8-10 hours.

2024-04-29

Indie
Side view
Text
Mystery
Drama
Visual Novel

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Sentimental Trickster: Yaoi BL Gay Visual Novel

A single-player slice-of-life visual novel with darker twists, relationship choices, and a roughly 12-hour story.

2021-03-23

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Stiff Neck

A compact, story-driven adventure about love and old wounds in a seaside town, mixing visual-novel reading, branching romance paths, and a cursed-doll horror thread.

2026-04-02

Adventure
Indie
Text
Role-playing (RPG)
Visual Novel

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My Dangerous Life

A short, dialogue-driven romance RPG in New York with multiple love interests and melodramatic writing, completing in about two and a half hours.

2020-07-23

Adventure
Indie
Simulator