60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Simulation, Text-Based.
a weird console message appears on your screen should you check it out or shut down the pc the choices are yours but be careful your choices will shift everything
Profession investigator
Profession Investigator is an immersive simulator with a text-based interface in which you have to deal with real criminal cases. The game uses materials from court archives and specialized literature.
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Amid info nodes, you’re a codebreaker—each choice shifts the story. Click nodes for clues, pull key details from text, crack codes, link logic. When all light up, truth emerges: unravel with reason, or get stuck in a thought labyrinth? It depends on your calls.
Profession Investigator is an immersive simulator with a text-based interface in which you have to deal with real criminal cases. The game uses materials from court archives and specialized literature.
Why similar: Simulation 19.8%, Detective 17%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Adventure 14%, Text-Based 11%
Amid info nodes, you’re a codebreaker—each choice shifts the story. Click nodes for clues, pull key details from text, crack codes, link logic. When all light up, truth emerges: unravel with reason, or get stuck in a thought labyrinth? It depends on your calls.
Why similar: Strategy 24.9%, Simulation 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Adventure 14.5%, Immersive Sim 11.9%
“20 Minutes” is an episodic horror game blending psychological tension and puzzles. Players race against time in a dark hotel, exploring objects, solving mysteries, and confronting the consequences of their choices.
Why similar: Simulation 20.5%, Strategy 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Adventure 14.2%, Detective 8.8%
You wake up at a terminal you've never seen before. The language is alien. The interface is hostile. Every wrong click has consequences. Decode constructed languages, navigate unfamiliar operating systems, and survive the unknown in this puzzle-survival experience.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Simulation 14.5%, Text-Based 11.5%, Strategy 10.5%
Step into the role of a judge and decide the fate of every case. Listen to witnesses, examine evidence, uncover contradictions, and deliver verdicts that will change lives. Every decision matters in this tense courtroom simulation full of twists.
Why similar: Detective 12.8%, Text-Based 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Simulation 11%, Immersive Sim 10.5%
Your name is Gary Patterson. After waking up in a strange facility with your work partner Victor Adams, you must make a choice: Play along with Victor's plans? Or go it alone and make an escape? Only YOU can decide.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Detective 15.6%, Text-Based 9.1%, Exploration 7.4%
Rocwood Academy is a text-base choice-matters adventure game set in the wizard world hidden inside US society early 1900s. In the role of a first-year student, player is going to make friends, study wizardry and uncover the mystery beneath the school-back garden.
Why similar: Simulation 22.7%, Strategy 22.6%, Adventure 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Text-Based 11.3%
Dive into the world of divination with the Cartomancy Anthology, a collection of introspective and compact digital experiences presented together in a virtual tarot deck.
Why similar: Simulation 27.4%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Action-Adventure 15.1%, Immersive Sim 10.4%
Play the game from the perspective of a traveler who comes to the dealer and is faced with numerous choices in a story prepared by the dealer. Experience a story that changes based on your choices and see the ending that changes based on your choices!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Strategy 18%, Simulation 13.6%, Text-Based 10.6%
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi's first case, the Honjin Murder Mystery. Honjin descendant Kenzo Ichiyanagi and his new wife Katsuko Kubo lay dead in a bed of blood on the night of their wedding. Kosuke Kindaichi searches for the truth about this locked room murder mystery. However...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Detective 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Investigation 12.7%, Text-Based 11.5%
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 28.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Adventure 19.8%, Text-Based 18.1%, Choices Matter 4.9%
As the proud leader of the Dino Dudes, it’s up to you to lead your hairy band of Cro-Magnons to the top of the food chain. Discover fire, weapons, The Wheel . . . battle dinosaurs and rival tribesman . . .
Why similar: Simulation 37.5%, Strategy 37.4%, Adventure 25.1%
Have you ever been challenged in a real maze? Stand tall and find the path of the maze, and then try to get out of the maze by memory. It's a double test of patience and memory. We have crafted seven labyrinths, each with its own characteristics, come into the maze of virtual reality .
Why similar: Simulation 37.9%, Strategy 37.8%, Adventure 24.2%
Once again, your mission is to penetrate a strange organization’s infrastructure to discover their secrets. Your employer needs help discovering who is out to get her and she only trusts you to take on this perilous mission. Hack Time uses old-school prompts (like DOS and UNIX) to access virtual programs and systems.
Why similar: Simulation 37.9%, Strategy 37.8%, Adventure 24.2%
In 1996’s digital haze, command DarkPulse, a rogue terminal torn from DARPA’s grip, to pierce Saraksen’s veiled conspiracy. Crack codes, hunt real-world clues, and decode cryptic media to expose forbidden truths. It's an ARG, and you’ve already been seen.
Why similar: Simulation 25%, Strategy 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Text-Based 11.1%, Immersive Sim 10.5%
A Battle of Wits with AI: Solve the case by conversing with a suspect robot using GPT to gather evidence. What single truth emerges from countless dialogues and pieces of information?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Detective 13.1%, Immersive Sim 12.7%, Investigation 12.5%, Text-Based 12.2%
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 28.5%, Simulation 23.8%, Text-Based 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Choices Matter 4.4%
Step into a small town in 90s China as a grieving detective. In a place plagued by twisted homicides, the truth hides in the lies. Interrogate unpredictable witnesses, expose their contradictions, and rebuild a suspect’s face from an imperfect memory. Just like yours.
Why similar: Detective 19%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Investigation 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Logic 10.2%
Ragnar - the fearless leader of the Vikings, fell in battle with Evil. But this is not the end! The Scandinavian God Odin decided to return to him not only life, but also youth. Forward to meet new adventures!
Why similar: Strategy 38.2%, Simulation 37.7%, Adventure 24.1%
A mystery game where you investigate a murder by searching the crime scene and interrogating AI-powered NPCs with unique personas.
Why similar: Detective 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Simulation 12.7%, Investigation 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%
Nothing To Remember is an immersive murder mystery that runs in real-time, right on your desktop. Through their personal messages, you'll uncover two characters unknowingly intertwined as they hunt a killer long thought dead. When your next choice could mean life or death, will you answer the call?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Detective 13.8%, Text-Based 13.6%, Investigation 11.4%, Immersive Sim 10.1%
这一天回到了熟悉的高中教室，但这次我的身份从学生变为了老师（虽然是实习的），面对九个性格完全不同的学生，我该如何让他们在这最后一年真正的毕业继续前行？一场年轻老师与问题学生共同成长的青春舞台剧即将拉开序幕！
Why similar: Simulation 26.7%, Strategy 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Adventure 17.6%, Exploration 5.6%
Be a slime monster and go on a journey to become a king, god, demon, pie and more!
Why similar: Simulation 40.1%, Adventure 26.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Text-Based 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
CLOSED HANDS is a groundbreaking work of interactive fiction that explores the tangled intertwined stories of five people thrown together by a fictional terror attack.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Adventure 22.1%, Text-Based 21.8%, Singleplayer 0.7%
'Behind' is a narrative mystery adventure beyond simple deduction. Investigate every crime scene and piece together scattered clues. You will delve into the characters' complex emotions and hidden stories to reveal the ultimate truth, providing a deeply immersive experience.
Why similar: Simulation 24%, Strategy 22.7%, Logic 13.9%, Immersive Sim 13.8%, Detective 12.4%
No criminal has ever been a match for you, and everybody is looking forward to a description of your brilliant deductions. There is just one small problem. One tiny detail that makes it different this time. A mere trifle, really. This time you have no idea who did it.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Text-Based 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Detective 15%, Investigation 12.4%
「ナカノ人格移植研究所」は、周回型ミステリー2Dアドベンチャーゲームです。 それぞれの周回でプレイヤーが憑依する対象の登場人物を選択することで、その登場人物を主人公としてストーリーを進めながら謎を解き明かします。 プレイヤーは本ゲームの中で 4 つのパートを行き来しながらストーリーを進めます。 ノベルパートでは、クリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 探索パートでは、画面上のアイテムをクリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 移動パートでは、再度ビューでプレイヤーを操作し、船の中を探索します。 会議パートでは、他のパートで集めた手がかりを利用して他の登場人物と会話します。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Adventure 14.9%, Detective 13.5%, Text-Based 10%
Your goal is simple. Take the elevator to floor 6. But this is no ordinary elevator... Who knows which random floor you'll end up at. A hotel, dungeon, hedge maze, a train? Check the clues on each floor to be able to progress, and achieve the perfect run!
Why similar: Simulation 25.8%, Strategy 24.1%, Adventure 19.1%, Investigation 11.9%, Logic 7.9%
THE LAST LOGIN is a psychological hacker thriller where you use GHOST//OS to exploit websites, intercept data, control cameras, and make dangerous choices as the voice in your head pushes you deeper into crime.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Simulation 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Action-Adventure 12.6%, Adventure 11.8%
Academagia, the greatest of the ancient schools for wizards. Build the legend of your mage with thousands of options, emergent storytelling and endless replayability. The definitive version of the magical life simulator is at last on Steam!
Why similar: Simulation 27.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Strategy 18.9%, Text-Based 17.9%, Adventure 14%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Text-Based 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Detective 11.9%, Adventure 11.7%
A first-person livestream horror game where you explore abandoned locations, survive terrifying encounters, and experience dynamic audience interactions through realtime chat and donation systems.
Why similar: Simulation 27.9%, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Adventure 19.5%, Action-Adventure 15.3%, Exploration 6.3%
Every decision made influences humanity's fate, with USMLE level medical questions woven into patient care, revealing the mysteries of a dying world.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Simulation 15.8%, Detective 15.3%, Investigation 12.4%, Adventure 10.5%
A co-op, text- and audio-driven collection of stories. Lead expeditions into uncharted cold waters, hiding a presence older than the Earth. Coordinate via proximity voice chat. More stories come after the release.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Text-Based 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Adventure 9.7%, Detective 9%
Inspect cursed relics. Question unreliable visitors. Find the Seven Powers. Feed what you can, return what you must, destroy what should never leave. Keep the Archive alive for one more day.
Why similar: Simulation 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Strategy 16.2%, Immersive Sim 11.3%
Explore non-linear paths and evade lurking monsters as you uncover the mysteries of this eerie maze. Beware of the sinister entities that inhabit the shadows, ready to drag you deeper into the unknown.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Simulation 18.1%, Action-Adventure 14%, Adventure 11.8%
Strategy and simulation game where you will be faced to enemies for control of oil refinery and strategic resource locations.
Why similar: Strategy 38.6%, Simulation 38%, Adventure 23.4%
Who Made This is a fun, light and easy-to-play click and point investigation game. Put your detective skills to the test by walking around the city and visiting various places, collecting the information you need to solve the cases.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22%, Strategy 16.9%, Action-Adventure 13.9%, Detective 13.5%, Adventure 12.8%
A Soul, A Story, A Stone. 1962 Antarctica. An expedition unearths a stone that shatters reality. Trapped in a shifting 1960s estate, you must use its unnatural light to reveal hidden secrets. Time is bleeding away in this cinematic mystery. Can you escape before the heartbeat stops?
Why similar: Simulation 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Adventure 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Action-Adventure 12.7%
A narrative noir thriller set in Kyoto. Detective Thomas Bennett investigates the disappearance of a British agent, only to collide with the Yakuza, a shadowy conspiracy, and a truth that should never surface.
Why similar: Simulation 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Adventure 17.1%, Detective 12.4%, Exploration 7.5%
An art curator is held hostage by a portraitist who threatens to detonate a bomb unless their demands are met. 'The Gallery' contains two interactive narratives - set in 1981 (with a female protagonist) and 2021 (with a male protagonist).
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Detective 14.6%, Simulation 12.1%, Immersive Sim 11.6%
(RPG) The Legends of Power Volume 1 is a pixel, adventure and horror game. You have to choose the fate determined of characters they'll be alive or death, but there might be other things that could help you to have advantage...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Action-Adventure 16.9%, Adventure 13.8%, Exploration 7.5%
Forsaken Realm is a building strategy game that challenges you to build your own empire. Settle down to build your new own kingdom, develop resources and grow into an economic power.
Why similar: Simulation 37.9%, Strategy 37.8%, Adventure 24.2%
Create your own company, make money and avoid disasters.
Why similar: Simulation 39%, Strategy 37.2%, Adventure 23.8%
“A single wingbeat can destroy everything.” New Elysium is a cinematic narrative drama where every choice reshapes the story. Explore a shattered utopia, survive the night, and decide the final wingbeat of destiny.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Immersive Sim 15.7%, Action-Adventure 11.9%, Exploration 8.2%
Peek into the sins and memories of five personalities through surveillance cameras──This is an immersive, mystery adventure game that unravels the thoughts of the dark past that lie dormant inside Sofia,a suspect in the murder of a presidential candidate, and uncovers the truth behind the crime.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Text-Based 18.6%, Adventure 13.8%, Investigation 13.1%, Mystery 7.1%
"The Last Night™" is a horror point and click game, mixing 2D and 3D with a very particular pixel art style. Will you be able to make the right choices ?
Why similar: Simulation 19.2%, Strategy 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Action-Adventure 14.3%, Immersive Sim 14.1%
Summer Story: An adventure game where you investigate and make choices that shape the story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Action-Adventure 12.8%, Text-Based 12.4%, Investigation 9.3%
A procedural mystery game where you play as a detective racing against time to solve a murder case. As toxic gas slowly shrinks the map, find hidden clues and freely interrogate suspects with open-ended questioning. Manage your investigation under increasing pressure in a challenge against time.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Investigation 14.7%, Detective 12.3%, Simulation 10.5%, Text-Based 10.2%
In the continents of disputes among nations, countries have organized competitions. You can recruit all kinds of martial arts to help you win the competitions in the future. You can also establish relationships with these generals, such as husband and wife, brothers and so on. The abilities and attributes of these generals are random.
Why similar: Strategy 39.4%, Simulation 37.7%, Adventure 22.9%
LOOP 13 is a psychological horror game where you work as a quality control clerk in a dystopian biotech company, inspecting anomalous products and making moral decisions. Every choice changes both your job — and your body.
Why similar: Simulation 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Adventure 13.8%, Immersive Sim 11.1%
Build your audience as a content creator in this streaming simulator roleplaying game. Riskier moves bring more viewers to your channel but raise notoriety. Push the edgy content too much and you’ll be banned. Balance hype and caution to stay live, gain viewers, and become the Content King!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Simulation 18.5%, Immersive Sim 13%, Adventure 12%
Alchemy, puzzles, and a crashed starship. Old-style interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No dialogue trees! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 40.1%, Text-Based 27.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Adventure 10.8%, Story Rich 1.3%
DiyMachinery is Physics game.Build complex and interesting machines to accomplish tasks. If you like research, don't miss it.
Why similar: Simulation 38.8%, Strategy 38.7%, Adventure 22.4%
Put yourself in the shoes of Moriarty and plan the robbery of "La Gioconda". You have 3 days and 3 nights to organize everything and get away with it. Remember: Do not arouse suspicion, be cautious, talk to other citizens and avoid being seen at the most crucial moments. Do you think you can do it?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Strategy 16%, Detective 13.6%, Action-Adventure 12.2%, Investigation 10.8%
Gravity puzzles!
Why similar: Simulation 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Adventure 19.1%, Immersive Sim 13.1%, Strategy 8.7%
