Games like Kiss the Demiurge
Forgotton Anne
Forgotton Anne is a 2d cinematic adventure game combining puzzle platforming with adventure game elements. You play as Anne, the enforcer keeping order in the Forgotton Realm, as she sets out to squash a rebellion that might prevent her master, Bonku, and herself from returning to the human world. The World of Forgotton Anne: Imagine a place where everything that is lost and forgotten goes; old toys, letters, single socks. The Forgotten Realm is a magical world inhabited by Forgotlings, creatures composed of mislaid objects longing to be remembered again.
Everlasting Summer
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 content, produced by the collective efforts of Russian chan communities.
Don't Notice Me
Don't Notice Me is an adventure puzzle game where you play as Mika Kittinger, a normal teen girl who just wants to get back a love letter she gave to her crush. All you need to do is sneak into his room and find the letter before anyone notices. You may need to find his address, break into his house and crack the codes on all the locks he seems to have in his room. You may even get an opportunity to snoop through his phone and computer while you're there.
Muv-Luv
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, which is unlocked after completing the two main heroine routes in Extra. The gameplay in Muv-Luv follows a linear plot line, which offers pre-determined scenarios and courses of interaction, and focuses on the differing scenarios of the female main characters. In 2015, the game, alongside Muv-Luv Alternative, photonflowers*, and photonmelodies♮, was fully funded for an English release on Kickstarter, for Windows PC via Steam, PlayStation Vita, and mobile platforms.
My So-called Future Girlfriend
This game is a male-oriented visual novel that features text, illustration, and voice. The game centers around dating and carries an uplifting sensibility. The play time is around 5-6 hours.
Three Lilies and Their Ghost Stories
Three different areas, three different decades, three different tales. A visual novel defined as a "kinetic story anthology".
Seventh Lair
From Novectacle, the creators of the highly acclaimed The House in Fata Morgana, comes Seventh Lair, a tongue-in-cheek, but emotional look at the online interactions between an indie game developer and fans!
A Guardian's Wish
Many witches exist nowadays, each of them unique in their own way. But what they all have in common is that they have a guardian angel, who visits them in their dreams and guides them throughout their life, trying to lead them to the right way as much as possible. Many angels have a passionate wish to protect their witches, as if they were their children (even though they technically kinda are).
Refinery
Nineteen-year-old artist Kouro Tomomi is bored and restless. She's tired of life in her small, slow-moving Hokkaido hometown. But her plans to study at a prestigious art college and break into the architectural and landscape design field were sidelined by a rude shock that impacted her on both a mental and physical level. Treading the worn path of routine at her parents' house and her part-time job at a local home and gardening store, she feels frozen in place, trapped—that it's still too early for anyone to buy her services landscaping is not helping.
