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It gets so lonely here

Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac • 2023

Should you play it?

A yandere yuri visual novel with a fairytale theme. Can you escape from your mysterious pursuer?

What works

  • Beautiful writing and narrative
  • Immersive art and music
  • Multiple story routes and endings
  • Free to play
  • Unique meta storytelling

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited player agency and choices
  • Short playtime
  • Some typos and awkward english
  • Lack of character customization
  • Repetitive elements in multiple playthroughs

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Find Love or Die Trying

  • Midnight Witch

  • DRAMAtical Murder

  • Rewrite+

  • The Fruit of Grisaia

  • CHAOS;CHILD

Less violent

Games that feels like It gets so lonely here but with less combat and destruction

  • Starlight Vega

  • Trick and Treat - Visual Novel

  • SeaBed

  • TAISHO x ALICE epilogue

  • Asphyxia

  • Wolf Tails

Less survival-focused

Games that feels like It gets so lonely here but with less survival pressure

  • The House in Fata Morgana

  • ONE.

  • Senren＊Banka

  • Endless Jade Sea -Midori no Umi-

  • Natsu no Iro no Nostalgia

  • OZMAFIA!!

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Asphyxia

  • The Sad Story of Emmeline Burns

  • Sweetest Monster

  • Lynne

  • Six Days of Snow

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

It gets so lonely here: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence, Survival, Intimacy.

Last update: 03/08/2026