
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Choices Matter, Visual Novel, Choose Your Own Adventure, Multiple Endings.

A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.

Contra Spem Spero
Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.

The Thief, the Witch, the Toad, and the Mushroom.
A fable from your childhood. Don't you remember it?
Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%, Horror 9.8%, Choices Matter 9.4%
A fable from your childhood. Don't you remember it?
Why similar: Text-Based 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Surreal 10.9%, Narration 9.5%
The horror personality q̷̦̈́͊u̸̠͗i̴͈͈̊̈z̴͈͇̳͗͌
Why similar: Text-Based 19.1%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Surreal 8.9%
In a surreal audition purgatory, how long will you wait to be chosen?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Dystopian 15.6%, Surreal 14.9%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Narration 10.3%
Not It: Spookiest Edition is a horror-filled visual novel full of suspense and mystery where you navigate Katie through a living nightmare. Her move-in day on Halloween throws her into a centuries-old curse. Can she make it through the night? Will her new neighbors perish? Decide their fate.
Why similar: Text-Based 14.4%, Narration 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Visual Novel 9.3%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Text-Based 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Horror 9.8%
Experience the hunt for the Monster living in your room in this Visual Novel experience. Your choices will determine the fate of both you and the Monster. Will you figure out what the Monster really is?
Why similar: Text-Based 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Surreal 13.9%, Choices Matter 8.4%
A classic choose your own adventure story. Escape the horrors hunting you, make decisions, forge your own path. An original complete story with multiple endings and secrets to unlock. Choose your own play style with a Text Adventure Mode, sound effects, and an ambient soundtrack.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Surreal 12%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Psychological Horror 9%
Surreal horror themed visual novel, with lots of branching paths, blood, tears and twisted pitch-black humour. You're playing as Ashia, who's forced to marry her slimy uncle, suffering from surreal nightmares at night. Then she meets Novalie. And then things gets REALLY strange.
Why similar: Surreal 15.4%, Dark Humor 13.6%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Choices Matter 10.6%
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Horror 12.8%, Text-Based 12.5%, Visual Novel 11.8%
To get to heaven, you must climb the Nine Circles of Hell. But you might never make it to the depths.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Text-Based 18.7%, Surreal 15.1%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Narration 11.6%
Travel across landscapes devastated by a catastrophic climate meltdown, following a small family in search of somewhere habitable. With limited supplies and facing potential death at every turn, your choices will decide their fate. Will they manage to settle down?
Why similar: Dystopian 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Narration 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.5%
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Text-Based 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Choices Matter 8%
Some memories aren't meant to stay. We are our memories and our experiences. What happens if you delete some of them? If you change your past and, thus, your future?
Why similar: Text-Based 16.8%, Dystopian 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Visual Novel 8.7%
Alone in the dead of night, you find yourself sent on a simple errand to check on a quiet gas station on the outskirts of town. But nothing here feels right. You can’t outrun this place. It wants you. And it will keep you.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.2%, Surreal 13.7%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%, Visual Novel 9.3%
A psychological surveillance adventure. Observe 16 real-time CCTV feeds as TOBOR, a spy unit uncovering secrets in a dystopian bunker. Monitor suspects, collect evidence, and choose who survives. Multiple endings.
Why similar: Dystopian 14.3%, Text-Based 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Surreal 9.8%, Dark Humor 9.4%
The Test: Reality Check is one of multiple installments in an ongoing social experiment that can be classified as an atmospheric, psychological-simulation with horror elements. Dive deep into your own psyche to find answers to questions you've kept locked away, hidden from yourself for far too long.
Why similar: Text-Based 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Dark Humor 11.4%, Surreal 11.1%, Psychological Horror 9.6%
Blending fairy tale fright with psychological horror, this narrative game challenges you to survive a weird journey through the woods while being hunted by the witch you were tasked with imprisoning. Sometimes charming, sometimes frightening, she’ll force you to make hard choices.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Visual Novel 15%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%
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 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Narration 13.7%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Choices Matter 8.9%
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 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Text-Based 12.8%, RPG 10%
Your mom left you alone at the checkout. With a full cart. It's your turn. What do you do? A short psychological game about everyday anxiety.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Text-Based 14%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Narration 11.8%
Make Cute Animal Friends in this 8-bit Gameboy-inspired adventure! But there's something lurking in the woods, with DARK SECRETS you'll need to uncover!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Dark Humor 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Narration 12%, Psychological Horror 11.5%
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 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Text-Based 12.6%, Narration 11%
Piece together your memories. Reveal the truth. A minimalistic Lovecraftian tale of symbols, sentences, and quiet discovery.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.5%, Dystopian 13.6%, Surreal 12.4%, Narration 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.5%
A horror point and click game where choices matter about trying to do your final marathon training run.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Surreal 12.4%, Text-Based 11.3%, Narration 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.3%
A haunted convent. Statues that move on their own. A buried past. Welcome to Saint Idelora’s convent, where becoming a saint comes with a price.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Horror 10.4%
Transparent is a narrative game where every choice shapes Clara’s existence. On the eve of her 30th birthday, she revisits key moments of her life. Will her decisions anchor her to reality or make her fade away? Explore memories, face dilemmas, and discover multiple endings
Why similar: Narration 19.4%, Text-Based 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.2%
As a psychologist, how would you handle your clients falling victim to their own phobias? Find out in this horror visual novel infused with point-and-click gameplay elements.
Why similar: Text-Based 14%, Dystopian 13.1%, Narration 11.6%, Surreal 11.1%, Dark Humor 10.8%
A choice-driven narrative game with RPG mechanics, filled with cosmic wonders and horror. Forge your own path across more than 50 unique endings. Barter, upgrade your character, fight, and explore alien worlds, overcoming every obstacle to find your way back to Earth… and to your daughter.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Narration 11.1%, Dark Humor 10.6%
Shame & choices = possible apocalypse. You need to figure out what’s causing the apocalypse to happen, so that you can prevent it. 2 playable characters with different relations to shame → 2 unique perspectives of the same story. Complicated families, branching choices and unforgiving consequences.
Why similar: Surreal 14%, Text-Based 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Narration 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10%
A visual novel about a girl who escaped from a psychiatric hospital. She is pursued by a strange being from another world — and it seems she’s not the only one who can see visitors from beyond.
Why similar: Text-Based 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Surreal 13.3%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Psychological Horror 10%
Un visual novel d’horreur qui se déroule dans le noir complet, où les paroles des personnages sont mises en musique.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.3%, Narration 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Psychological Horror 11.1%
A short psychological horror interactive story. Five years after vanishing without a trace, the woman you once called your lover writes from beyond the silence: "I will give birth to our creation.” In three acts, descend into a fractured mindscape where obsession, memory, and myth intertwine.
Why similar: Text-Based 13.7%, Narration 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Psychological Horror 11%, Visual Novel 10.8%
Set in a post-apocalyptic dystopian future, two young men set out on a journey to find The Great Appearance which manifests itself inside mankind's mind.
Why similar: Dystopian 19.8%, Text-Based 15.7%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.3%
Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Surreal 11.2%, Visual Novel 8.8%
Do you enjoy listening to stories and having the ability to influence their unfolding? If so, then immerse yourself in the role of an active participant as you join Yaren on her quest for freedom.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Narration 14.6%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
Lin Yue'an embarks on a journey home, but unsettling events soon disrupt her ordinary life. Strange dreams, lost memories, and eerie occurrences lead her to uncover hidden truths. Can she trace everything back to its true origin and escape the net of fate that has already been woven around her?
Why similar: Narration 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Surreal 12.7%, Horror 9.4%, Psychological Horror 8.3%
Cabbage and the Chompettes want to play hide and seek! Can you find all five of them?
Why similar: Visual Novel 13.7%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Narration 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%
Dull Grey is an award-winning visual novel about growing up. Experience an emotional story of a mother and son in a dystopian world, make simple but meaningful choices and discover multiple endings. Will you see your story unfold in full colour?
Why similar: Dystopian 19.5%, Text-Based 13.4%, Narration 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Visual Novel 11.1%
A presence lingers in the dark, waiting. It asks. It doubts. It knows. What happened? Why are you here? Do you deserve this? The answers are yours to decide. What you choose matters. Every path leads somewhere. But will you like where it takes you?
Why similar: Text-Based 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.5%
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 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
Help Bianca to relive the 15 years of her life, but from another perspective 👁️. Enjoy this dreamcore style visual novel with escape room elements and hints of horror. Unlock different endings. ✨
Why similar: Text-Based 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Psychological Horror 12%, Surreal 11.9%
Morin is a barkeeper with an unusual curse. All people look like shadows to him, except for one mysterious stranger... Solve the mystery of the curse, fight true darkness and mix the most unusual cocktails in the atmospheric visual novel — Into the Waves!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Text-Based 12.6%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths. A free atmospheric horror visual novel where you navigate life-or-death situations. SEEK PARADISE OR DIE TRYING
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Choices Matter 9.6%
𝕭𝖀𝕽𝕹 is a short and replayable visual novel, where you play Nina BURN, the biggest pop star in the world at the turning point of her career. Will you change pop music? Will you become a monster? 𝖄𝖔𝖚 𝖜𝖎𝖑𝖑 𝕭𝖀𝕽𝕹.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Surreal 13.6%, Narration 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.1%
"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested." Story about life, choices and a Man vs the System. This unique interactive literature adaptation. A game, brought to You in early visual novel, text-adventure style.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Choices Matter 10.6%
It is said that the last frontier is space, but the crew of the Soviet Frigate, The Peresmeshnik, is about to discover that the sea still hides a terrifying secret. Waiting to be found.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Psychological Horror 9.3%, Horror 7.9%
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 29.3%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, RPG 9.9%
Horny Academy is an adult visual novel that blends interactive storytelling with a deep, branching narrative. Every choice you make leads to steamy animated scenes or unexpected twists within the mysterious walls of the magical Academy
Why similar: Narration 17.7%, Text-Based 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.3%
A fantasy interactive tale about the beast-man Hidu investigating murders in a port city.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Narration 13.7%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Visual Novel 8.3%
A short psychological audio horror call where every number routes you deeper into a faceless bureau that measures and files you.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Narration 13%, Surreal 12.8%, Horror 11.6%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Text-Based 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Dystopian 13.4%, Visual Novel 10.1%
A sci-fi choose your own adventure game!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Dark Humor 13.8%, Surreal 13.5%, Visual Novel 10.8%
Survive a gripping psychological thriller in this visual novel. Make critical decisions, face a disturbed captor, and experience multiple chilling endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Visual Novel 14%, Text-Based 13.6%, Psychological Horror 13%, Choices Matter 10.5%
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: Text-Based 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Narration 12.5%, Visual Novel 9.9%
幻想若非幻想 自然可超自然 伴我梦中桃花 懒识人间滋味
Why similar: Text-Based 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Surreal 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Choices Matter 11.9%
At the heart of the action are a twelve-year-old Kenneth and his younger sister Esme, children of the Murphy family, who hit the trail of a mysterious monster following series of entangled events.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Narration 13.6%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Psychological Horror 9.8%
Glitch is an intense and surreal narrative experience, drawn entirely by hand, that will make you question reality with every choice and each of the 26 endings that unlock the special and definitive conclusion!
Why similar: Text-Based 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%
Stuck in a dead-end town with plans that go nowhere, Jackie feels as if her life is doomed to stagnancy forever. Getting by with her friends, she is resigned to her fate in a small town- until a chance encounter with a deadly life-form sets in motion a deadly chain of events
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Text-Based 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Dark Humor 11.1%, Psychological Horror 10.6%
A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Psychological Horror 9.8%