Oh hell yes we DO have a topic for this! Here goes: last year I played a visual novel called Breathless Winds and goddamn it's so good and I wish more people knew about it. OP, don't know if it'll be up your alley, but I'm gonna leave it here anyway for you and whoever else comes looking.
It's kind of a "choose who you want to romance out of characters introduced and then depending on your pick the plot will unravel accordingly" game, if anyone is into that (I am usually not! and yet!), and all the routes are so distinct and different and well-written. One of them, not spoiling which, even had a whole entire separate location and additional cast drawn specifically for it, which is commitment (the other three routes are happening entirely in one place with the same case so having all that work put into just one character 'cause it wouldn't make sense otherwise instilled a lot of respect for the developers in me).
The official description, which I'm gonna give to avoid spilling spoilers, goes as such: "After recovering from a painful incident, a closeted trans woman finds herself split between four possible paths - returning to sailing, becoming a healer, helping the resident witch, or joining a prince on a mysterious quest."
And it made me feel so many things. Each route tackles some difficult but very relatable subjects - that's besides the heroine's journey, of course, which takes noticeably different ways depending on the route, it's not all one and the same.
The ending, however, is always happy - or at least I've never seen a bad one. Maybe I just played my cards right
The worldbuilding is solid, I loved the music a lot, and there's something very soothing and magical about the art style for me.
So honestly if all that sounds even remotely interesting to you or someome I can't recommend it enough. It's got criminally little eyes on it, I think (well that may not be such a bad thing, considering the negative attention it could get, but I know this forum is a safe place to share <3)
It's on Steam, not free, but not too expensive either.
