
In the heart of the Afghan wilderness, amidst the chaos of war, you awaken to the stark reality of your mission: three days to navigate the perilous landscape, uncover hidden truths, and confront the ghosts of the past.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Text-Based, Choices Matter, Multiple Endings, Choose Your Own Adventure.

In the heart of the Afghan wilderness, amidst the chaos of war, you awaken to the stark reality of your mission: three days to navigate the perilous landscape, uncover hidden truths, and confront the ghosts of the past.

The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
A narrative-driven psychological visual novel where every floor of an elevator reveals a key moment from your past. Face your regrets, uncover forgotten memories, and make choices that shape your future. Will you find closure, or remain trapped in your own mind?

Circus of the Moon
Play as Elise Berrie, a tightrope walker marked by a broken past. As she infiltrates the enigmatic Circus of the Moon, she discovers that beneath its magic lie unsettling secrets. Between performances and haunting dreams, every step may bring her closer to the truth… or make her disappear.
A narrative-driven psychological visual novel where every floor of an elevator reveals a key moment from your past. Face your regrets, uncover forgotten memories, and make choices that shape your future. Will you find closure, or remain trapped in your own mind?
Why similar: Text-Based 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.5%
Play as Elise Berrie, a tightrope walker marked by a broken past. As she infiltrates the enigmatic Circus of the Moon, she discovers that beneath its magic lie unsettling secrets. Between performances and haunting dreams, every step may bring her closer to the truth… or make her disappear.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 19.4%, Assassins 16.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Text-Based 10.6%
Your job is to make humanity happy. Observe the people living in your assigned district and make the best choices to ensure everyone's happiness.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Text-Based 19.5%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Multiple Endings 11.7%
"Cold Bed on Route" is an equation-like adventure game. Work with to find and dump unwanted items. Then, let's make up for the excess weight caused by having her on board. And let's prove that the universe is not yet completely cold and frigid. Now, pilot, it's your turn.
Why similar: Time Management 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Text-Based 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Visual Novel 12.2%
The Fifth Horseman is a narrative adventure game, set in a fantasy-medieval world, where you will experience many unique stories. After years of war, hunger and diseases mankind finds itself on the verge of extinction and it's up to you to decide its fate.
Why similar: RPG 18.1%, Text-Based 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Visual Novel 11.6%
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Text-Based 19.4%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
Ukraine War Stories is a set of visual novels about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Set in the early months of the war, it tells the stories of civilians trapped on Russian-occupied territory. All stories are based on real events and eyewitness accounts.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Text-Based 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
A visual novel passed through an image compressor Play as a murderer unsure of their entire life, down to their name. But you have a mission. One you NEED to undertake.
Why similar: Assassins 22.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Visual Novel 12%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
A story-rich coming-of-age experience told through a 2004 desktop, where friendships, music, and late-night conversations shape who you become. Explore chats, drama, mini-games, and the early internet in a branching story about growing up, making mistakes, and finding your place.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Text-Based 16.3%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%
You are the Veteran. You’re the oldest android in the Solar System, a relic and survivor of the ancient past. Now it’s time for you to fight again. A text-based science-fantasy novel, 700,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Text-Based 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, RPG 17%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
Under developement, Grave Knight is an interactive RPG adventure inspired by SRD 5.1 ruleset and classical game books, where your decisions weave the fate of the characters and the story. Let the dice forge the fate of your hero and the realm by fighting the Grave knight and his horde.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Text-Based 13.7%, RPG 13.5%
Make your name as a whiskey-runner, a politician, or a gangster as you quench thirsts from rural Pennsylvania to the New York City nightlife!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26%, Text-Based 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, RPG 10%
Face down your ghosts and unearth secrets better left buried as you prepare to take vengeance on the ones who wronged you. But be warned, burying your past only works if it stays put.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23%, Text-Based 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, RPG 16.3%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
Dive into a captivating standalone story in just an hour! Presenting the first installment of the "Handy Novel" series. Highly praised on smartphones, this acclaimed narrative is now ready for your enjoyment on Steam for PC/Mac!
Why similar: Text-Based 23.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Emotional 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
Vanakan is the journey of Tadevos - a priest, who travels the 500s Armenia to find the monastery that suits for his goal of becoming spiritually closer to Jesus Christ. He meets different people on his way and makes choices which will define his future and that of the country.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.7%, Text-Based 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Adventure 10%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
You've spent years undercover, disguised as a human, infiltrating the city’s magical law-enforcement organization. They stole your magic from you. Can you steal it back? (A text-based interactive historical urban fantasy novel.)
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Text-Based 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, RPG 15.7%, Adventure 9.3%
When you're falsely accused of sorcery, corrupt inquisitors make you the object of a witch hunt. Now, sorcery might be the only way for you to survive.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, RPG 10.6%
Your father stole his throne, intending to leave it to you. When the long-lost heir resurfaces, will you defend the king—or betray him to his enemies?
Why similar: Text-Based 24%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, RPG 16.3%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
Relive the same day without remembering it. Your choices feed four inner alter egos (Shadow, Mad, Alex, and Bully) — shaping reality, glitches, and one of 16 possible endings. The day repeats. Your mind doesn’t. Or does it?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Text-Based 14.1%, Multiple Endings 12.1%
Run with unicorns, fly with pegasi, and swim with kelpies as a magical horse! Will you reunite the herds or drive them further apart? A text-based interactive fantasy novel with hundreds of choices and without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Text-Based 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, RPG 17.4%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
As the Harbinger, you are the only Keeper who can cast spells. Stop a necromantic plague, uncover an Elven conspiracy, and decide the fate of a dying world! A text-based fantasy novel, 193,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects."
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Text-Based 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, RPG 17.4%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 31.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, RPG 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
Step into the high-stakes world of journalism in this Playbook! As a reporter at the "The Meridian" newsroom, YOU are the hero. Chase a massive investigative scoop, navigate ruthless office politics, and build deep relationships. Will you break the story, or will the deadline break you?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Text-Based 11.6%, Multiple Endings 10%
When night falls, she wanders into another world... Moonless Moon is a text-based adventure game following a girl as she travels through a variety of different worlds.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Modern 13.4%, Emotional 8.4%
Assassin at Crimson Keep is a short, point and click visual novel set in a dark, quasi-fantasy world. After a botched assassination attempt, you pursue the King into his lair known as the Crimson Keep. Your small choices can have great consequences, either for good or for evil.
Why similar: Assassins 22.7% ★, Text-Based 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Visual Novel 10.3%
"What music would you listen to at the end of the world?" Explore an abandoned world after the apocalypse of the final winter. Shape the story of a man whose loneliness threatens his sanity. Use violence to survive or avoid it to protect your mind. Experience the end of the world!
Why similar: Text-Based 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Multiple Endings 14%
A text-based RPG with a nonlinear story set in a free Slavic fantasy world. Shape the heroine's character through your choices and unlock multiple endings. Mystery, folklore, and relationships — your fate depends only on you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Text-Based 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Visual Novel 14.4%, RPG 10%
Return to Hyuga just in time for the new semester! Sword fights, love confessions, demonic rituals—nobody said graduating was going to be easy! A text-based novel, 300,000 words and hundreds of choices, without animations or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Text-Based 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, RPG 16.8%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
The Trials of Ozymandias is a visual novel set in the high fantasy world of the kingdom of Johrotos. In the capitol city, Dassi, resides the most famous adventurer's guild in all the land: Talleh-Hoy. This is where your story begins.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Emotional 7.7%
Decide the fate of the son of a tailor and a witch doctor infected with an incurable disease in an interactive story with multiple endings depending on your actions.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Multiple Endings 15%, Text-Based 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%
Into Oblivion is an immerse interactive novel where your choices shape the story. Set in the far-future, explore a galaxy on the brink of crisis with dynamic companions. So, settle your mind and pray you have what it takes to fly Into Oblivion.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Text-Based 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Visual Novel 14.2%, RPG 14.2%
IBH is a rich role playing game at the end of time. You're a mid-level official in a dying sci-fi regime, given the impossible task of fixing a faltering machine; explore a vast world, define your mind, flex your authority, and become a sinner or a savior in countless other stories.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Visual Novel 15.2%, RPG 12.4%, Text-Based 11.3%
Hoist the Jolly Roger and set sail to find the legendary Titan’s Treasure! Do you fight with a cutlass or with magic? Are you biding your time until you can shoot your captain in the back, or are you the reason the rum is gone?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.6%, Text-Based 25.7%, RPG 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Multiple Endings 9%
Will you spill the tea about the secret, cozy magical cafe on your college campus? Brew potions and romance on coffee dates with your new friends! A text-based novel of magic and romance, with hundreds of choices and without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24%, Text-Based 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, RPG 17.1%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
Extract yourself from another fine mess–this time, with your family watching! Mischief, mix-ups, and bewilderingly urgent capers at your ancestral estate.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Text-Based 24.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, RPG 10.6%
The wilderfolk of Ushinega Island waste away in a rotting tropical paradise, haunted by a deadly malediction. Yet behind every curse lurks a secret. You have the power to save them... but should you?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.9%, Text-Based 21.1%, Multiple Endings 15.2%, RPG 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
Awaken your magic and break an ancient curse at a secret school of sorcery! What mysteries will you uncover at this crossroads between realms? A text-based fantasy novel, 280,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24%, Text-Based 23.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, RPG 16.9%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
A choose-your-own-adventure novel. Enter the mind of a black-ops team leader heading an impossible mission in a parallel universe. Choices are remembered, story events reflect past decisions, and freely rewind time to try different paths.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Text-Based 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Visual Novel 16.1%, RPG 9.1%
10 participants. A death game that unfolds over 31 days. If you kill another participant, you can take their prize money. An interactive fiction game where the story changes based on your choices. In this dangerous game, choose who to trust and who to betray.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Text-Based 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Modern 14.5%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
Never stop running, not with the galaxy at stake. Save it at all costs, and save yourself if you can.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Text-Based 19.9%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, RPG 11%
A pixelated homage to 16-bit RPGs, this former print-and-play card game has come full circle as a digital experience! Choose your champion, enter the tower, and make wise decisions on your ascent to face the Ice Lich at the top.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Multiple Endings 11.7%
A visual novel with multiple endings
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Text-Based 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Stylized 8.2%
Alcyone: The Last City is an interactive sci-fi novel where your choices can lead to the salvation or destruction of the last refuge of civilisation in the universe. Immerse yourself in a branching narrative of diverse characters, intrigue, and world-altering decisions.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Text-Based 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
A medieval text quest in the "Choose Your Own Adventure" genre, where each choice could be your last. Create your story with more than 2,000 events, 200 of which will prove fatal. In a world where death plays against you, can you outsmart it and write your own story?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Text-Based 16.5%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11.8%
A fantasy adventure visual novel with humor and heart, by acclaimed adventure game writer Lori Ann Cole. Starring the voice of Zehra Fazal as Tilly, a mischief-making rogue at Hero-U, the school for heroes.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Dialogue Heavy 9.8%
Can music save the human race? You and the Raqullan Empire will soon find out. Decide whether music, and the humans who make it, should survive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.6%, Text-Based 24.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, RPG 10.8%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
On the road to the sacred shrine of Karatl, lost souls entrust you with their stories. In this contemplative Visual Novel, listen to their truths and perhaps, at the journey's end, you will discover your own.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Visual Novel 16%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%
Rebuild society after the climate apocalypse! Can you keep your settlement alive? Will you hold onto your humanity or lose it in the directionless expanse?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27%, Text-Based 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, RPG 9.8%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Text-Based 15%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
Samurai of Hyuga is a brutal, heart-pounding interactive tale. Prepare to enter the land of silk and steel, where fantasy clashes against grim reality, and where the good guys don't always win in the end. It's a harsh world with tough choices at every turn. Good thing you're the toughest ronin around.
Why similar: Text-Based 27.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 23%, RPG 14.9%, Adventure 8%
Aunewyth is a text-based game with a focus on narration and decision making. It features a short yet versatile storyline that reveals itself according to the choices you make.
Why similar: Text-Based 32.4%, Multiple Endings 16.3%, RPG 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%
A psychological thriller visual novel where your choices deeply affect an 18-year-old woman's mental state, leading to multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Text-Based 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Emotional 7.5%
Back from hell and into Hyuga, enemies and allies clash in this epic sequel! Overcome ultimate despair or be consumed by it: the choice is yours, ronin!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Text-Based 19.7%, RPG 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Visual Novel 12.5%
Sword of Shandar is a narrative-driven light RPG focused on choice, consequence, and discovery. Engage in turn-based combat, resolve challenges through dice-roll skill checks, crack locks in hands-on minigames, and decipher ancient runes as you uncover the secrets of a fading world.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, RPG 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Text-Based 16.3%, Visual Novel 15.6%
Rule your realm, train heroes, and build a legendary kingdom in Daria. Experience strategy, storytelling, and diplomacy in this immersive sim.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.2%, Text-Based 27.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, RPG 10.8%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
The president trusts you. Exercise your Shamanic capabilities (or lack thereof). But don't get caught!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Visual Novel 18%, Text-Based 15.6%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Dialogue Heavy 9.1%
A flesh-eating dust leaves you to survive alone against hordes of Listless.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Visual Novel 15.6%, RPG 12.3%, Text-Based 10.5%
Become a mailroom operator at Hotel Hermes and navigate an ancient mail system to deliver parcels on time. Learn about the hotel's guests and staff in this puzzle role-playing game, where your actions can alter the world. Hopefully for the best!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Time Management 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Text-Based 15.4%, Adventure 9.3%
When a new magic is discovered, it's up to you to unravel the mystery! Find answers from fae and humans, save your city, and maybe even fall in love! A text-based interactive fantasy novel, 400,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, RPG 16.5%, Multiple Endings 6.9%
It's the ultimate battle between werewolves and human supremacists, and your werewolf pack is caught in the middle of a four-way fight!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.3%, Text-Based 26%, RPG 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Multiple Endings 9.2%