256 games like Hold My Hand (Or Let Go)

Spring is the season of first meetings. Begin your new life in the city of Tokyo as Shindou Touki. Meet many colorful characters, forge romances, and live out your high-school days, in this interactive story with cutting-edge artwork and a moving soundtrack.

Dreaming Blue is a romance visual novel set in a world of shrine gods and spirits. The protagonist is a woman in her mid-to-late twenties meeting different supernatural beings while on a mission to break her curse.

A dark fantasy boys' love / yaoi visual novel about an assassin who falls for the runaway prince he has been entasked with killing.

Play as the newest servant to Prince Railan, who's had all of his previous servants fired. While navigating your position, you'll try to pry down his carefully guarded walls as you challenge him on everything he believes about himself and the world. Just try n...

A mysterious encounter turns into something far deeper. In a futuristic world where emotions and truth intertwine, your choices will shape a fragile bond… and uncover what lies beyond the light.

Mark, an average irresponsible high school student, tries to get by and find purpose in a humdrum life of scrolling, cramming, and traffic. He meets friends, both old and new, and embarks upon a seemingly never-ending trouble, until nothing is ever the same ag...

Au fil de l'eau is a short meditation game about kayaking and immersion in a beautiful landscape. Leave your apartment and go on an adventure. I choose this subject because it's a good way to explore storytelling and visual art based on a simple gameplay.

Date Everything is a sandbox dating simulator set in the comfort of your own home, featuring 100 fully voice acted datable characters! Let the romance flow between your bed, smoke alarm and… Overwhelming Sense of Existential Dread? Are you ready to Date Everyt...

Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator is a game where you play as a Dad and your goal is to meet and romance other hot Dads. Are you ready? Hi ready, I'm Dad.

Semyon, a poster child contemporary chan culture consumer, falls asleep in the bus, only to wake up in front of the gates of Sovyonok, a pioneer camp of the late Soviet Russia. Everlasting Summer is a time-warping, mind-bending visual novel with some eroge con...

Katawa Shoujo is a bishoujo-style visual novel set in the fictional Yamaku High School for disabled children, located somewhere in modern Japan. Hisao Nakai, a normal boy living a normal life, has his life turned upside down when a congenital heart defect forc...

Muv-Luv is a Japanese visual novel originally released as an adult game and the first game in the Muv-Luv franchise. Subsequent releases of the games were with the adult content removed. The game consists of two parts: Muv-Luv Extra and Muv-Luv Unlimited, whic...

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Cinders is a mature take on a classic fairytale with a heavy emphasis on player choices and role playing.

A horror visual novel about Fuminori Sakisaka, a medicine student who suffers an accident that leaves his perception of the world distorted: everything and everyone is perceived as a twisted mass of intestines, flesh and blood. Everything, except Saya.

Welcome to Bad End Theater! Select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates! The decisions you make in one story will affect the others. you can toggle these behaviors to open up new paths! unfortunately, every path leads to a bad ending... Can...

Welcome to the club! Write poems for your crush and experience the terror of school romance in this critically-acclaimed psychological horror story.

You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies. Slay the Princess is a choice-driven psychological horror visual novel with dramatic branching, light RPG elements, and hand-penciled art.

Clannad follows the life of Tomoya Okazaki, a high school delinquent who meets many people in his last year at school, including five girls, and helps resolve their individual problems. The gameplay of Clannad follows a branching plot line which offers pre-de...

Ever 17: The Out of Infinity is a visual novel video game developed by KID. It is the second entry in the Infinity series; it is preceded by Never 7: The End of Infinity, and followed by Remember 11: The Age of Infinity, 12Riven: The Psi-Climinal of Integral,...