60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Choices Matter, Story Rich, Choose Your Own Adventure.
Tensions both political and personal are rising at the Brightworld mining colony. In this dynamic sci-fi visual novel you must decide where your heart and loyalties lie if you’re to shape the future and save yourself.
Alcyone: The Last City
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.
Mother May I
Unravel the story of three siblings determined to break free from the iron grip of an AI named "Mother." In a world of virtual imprisonment, navigate rebellion, unveil dark secrets, and fight for freedom. Will you defy Mother's control, or succumb to her virtual prison?
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: Dystopian 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Emotional 11.9%, Text-Based 9.7%
Unravel the story of three siblings determined to break free from the iron grip of an AI named "Mother." In a world of virtual imprisonment, navigate rebellion, unveil dark secrets, and fight for freedom. Will you defy Mother's control, or succumb to her virtual prison?
Why similar: Dystopian 27.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Hand-drawn 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
"201 - The Bad Number" is an interactive science fiction game-book set on a post-apocalyptic Mars. In a world where only 200 people remain, each new inhabitant may hasten civilization's end. Players make choices that impact the fate of humanity and the colony in a unique dystopian setting.
Why similar: Dystopian 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Text-Based 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Futuristic 11%
The price of tomorrow is a story-driven sci-fi drama about the choice between a corporation and the people of planet Chenora. As Jack Butler, you negotiate, break taboos, and decide the planet’s fate. Yield to the temptations of Omnilat — and choose wisely.
Why similar: Dystopian 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Futuristic 11.7%, Choices Matter 8.9%
Work as a body modification consultant in a dystopian future. Talk to clients, make recommendations, and decide how much to upsell them. Balance helping others with earning enough to save your sick rabbit. Make decisions and change lives.
Why similar: Dystopian 23.4%, Emotional 15.7%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 9%, Hand-drawn 7.8%
Live a day-in-the-life of a cyborg mechanic in a soft-apocalyptic future where disease is staved off with hard work and metal parts. Choose your person, romantic or otherwise, and walk their unique path through the walled city. Manage the shop and grow your future in one of 6 separate endings.
Why similar: Dystopian 15.8%, Emotional 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Capitalism 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%
A science fiction visual novel. Deep beneath the surface of Mars lies a secret that will change everything. Six researchers. One rift. No one will return the same.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Text-Based 14.4%, Emotional 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Hand-drawn 9%
Hope flickers against impossible odds. In this narrative RPG, step into the shoes of a retired soldier, thrust into a desperate last stand to save Jeomdo Village. With supplies dwindling and time running out, your decisions will shape the fate of those who look to you for salvation.
Why similar: Emotional 19%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Choices Matter 10.1%
A Hand-Drawn Visual Novel Essay Game
Why similar: Dystopian 33.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Hand-drawn 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
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: Dystopian 22%, Text-Based 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.2%
You are an anthropod, a synthetically crafted life form. Your objective is to save the ones who are stuck on an uninhabited planet. Persuade, charm, manipulate: use your ultimate power—freedom of choice—in sci-fi role playing hyper variative game LOCUS EQUATION.
Why similar: Emotional 19.3%, Dystopian 16%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Futuristic 11.8%
3 different Robot-romance stories. Written, drawn, and made by humans, for humans. Since the very moment the first mechanical mind became aware of itself, it craved love. No one truly understand why the heart made of copper and wires started beating, but it did. Even after we were gone.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Emotional 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Text-Based 10.9%
If an AI were sentient, how would you know if they were malfunctioning, or experiencing a mental health problem? A story-rich game that explores mental health and AI ethics in the form of therapy sessions with a sentient AI.
Why similar: Emotional 20.5%, Dystopian 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
Experience the triumphs and tribulations of two Caribbean immigrants in post-war Britain, in the world’s first Windrush video game, from the creators of the BAFTA nominated Before I Forget. How will you shape your story in this branching narrative interactive photo album?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Emotional 19.1%, Hand-drawn 15.8%, Text-Based 9.5%, Choices Matter 8.8%
The median lifespan of a new operative is 8 minutes. Try to beat the average. Hack a dying space station, outsmart a corrupted AI, and dodge rogue autodocs in cheesy FMV glory. Halcyon HR reminds you that dying on the clock instantly voids your pension. 12 brutal endings.
Why similar: Dystopian 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Text-Based 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Futuristic 10.2%
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: Emotional 28%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Text-Based 18.1%, Visual Novel 17%, Choices Matter 6.2%
Oddware is a science fiction visual novel about androids in space. You play as an android who meets other androids each with a distinct personalities. Your choices with the other androids will not only shape their personalities, but your own as well. Solve puzzles, mysteries, and your own origins.
Why similar: Dystopian 21%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Futuristic 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Capitalism 10.5%
- Cannibalism X superpowers X Suspense X Original worldview - "Fried Chicken Wings Cause a Love Fire" is a BL mystery comedy long visual novel. It uses the first-person perspective with a fixed protagonist, Aris; contains elements of horror and sexual innuendo.
Why similar: Dystopian 27.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Emotional 9.2%, LGBTQ+ 7.9%
An 8-bit sci-fi action-adventure game about learning presence through a child's lucid dream.
Why similar: Dystopian 23.8%, Emotional 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Futuristic 14.2%, Space 6.9%
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Text-Based 15.8%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Choices Matter 7.1%
You've had the same dream all week: a school field trip to a zoo you can't leave, where the lions always find you in the end. Wander the zoo exhibits, make your choices, and search for the way out. A short, hand-painted interactive story about a recurring dream, and finally resolving it.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Visual Novel 16%, Emotional 13.1%, Text-Based 9.6%
Columbus》 is a dark fantasy visual novel with dual male leads. Play as Weaponzzie, a nameless weapon trapped in a wealthy estate. Dialogue choices drive a branching story to 10 endings—tenderness, ruin, freedom, or downfall. Your bond with the young master is defined by you.
Why similar: Dystopian 18.7%, Emotional 18.6%, Visual Novel 15%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%
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 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Emotional 10.1%, Text-Based 8.7%
"Robot Hospice" is a 2D pixel art adventure game where beloved robots spend their final days in a hospice. As a new staff member, you will gently yet painfully bid farewell to these cherished machines that once lived alongside humans.
Why similar: Emotional 29.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Futuristic 13.5%, Visual Novel 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 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Emotional 11.9%, Text-Based 11.2%
A 60-minute adventure where all you do is glow.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Futuristic 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Text-Based 13.9%, Sci-fi 9.1%
"The hardest part is not to speak up. It’s being heard." Part video game, part graphic novel, Wednesdays seeks to raise awareness about child sexual abuse through a surprisingly hope-filled story.
Why similar: Emotional 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Text-Based 13.1%, Hand-drawn 13%
A visual novel about grief, memory and acceptance. Nayara is a painter of memories: she digs into her clients’ minds to change or even erase their memories. One day she realizes she has altered her own memory. What was so painful or unbearable that she wanted to forget it for good?
Why similar: Emotional 33.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Hand-drawn 7.3%
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: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Text-Based 20.5%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Emotional 11.3%, Choices Matter 11.1%
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 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Text-Based 16.8%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Hand-drawn 7.4%
Missing Pieces is a story-driven adventure in a vibrant alien world, full of hidden secrets, a plethora of languages and a sparkling cast of characters: lovable rogues, heartbroken families, and questionable allies. Find friendship and love, learn about yourself and discover who you really are!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Futuristic 13.4%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%, Space 8%
Immerse yourself in a dark sci-fi visual novel that tells a rich story through cinematic shots and meaningful dialogues with various characters. Every choice shapes the future. Every phrase and overlooked detail can cost the lives of all mankind. So make your choice with caution.
Why similar: Dystopian 25.3%, Emotional 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Visual Novel 13%, Futuristic 7%
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 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Text-Based 16.2%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Hand-drawn 12.2%
A sci-fi adventure full of robot battles, pop music, and emotion. Featuring one of the largest branching storylines ever in a VR game with 15-20 hours of gameplay, Altdeus will place you in the shoes of Chloe, a pilot in humanity's forces fighting massive hostile organisms known as the Meteora.
Why similar: Mechs 18.5% ★, Emotional 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Futuristic 10.8%
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: Emotional 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Text-Based 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Visual Novel 11.1%
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Dystopian 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Text-Based 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Visual Novel 10.7%
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 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Text-Based 17.1%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Choices Matter 9%
Ministry of Truth: False Memory is a story-driven simulator in a totalitarian society. Become an official, manipulate facts, rewrite history, and provide the ‘truth’ to the public. Choose: obey or fight against the regime. The Great Father is watching you!
Why similar: Dystopian 30.5%, Emotional 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Choices Matter 8.6%
If she leaves now you will never see her again. Would you have enough courage to take a step, or would you stay quiet and regret it? Experience this story about love and loss.
Why similar: Emotional 29%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Choices Matter 9%
The story of a girl who is changing from a human to a "KEMONO" and watching her coming of age. This is a multi-ending "adventure game about training an Animalized girl" set in a KEMOMIMI x Hong Kong x cyberpunk world.
Why similar: Dystopian 27.7%, Emotional 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.9%
Welcome to Awaken Infinity! Immerse yourself in a unique top-down RPG with visual novel elements. Wake up in a futuristic room with no memory, and unravel the mysteries of your past. Experience deep storytelling, meet intriguing characters, and uncover hidden secrets.
Why similar: Emotional 31.2%, Text-Based 17.3%, Futuristic 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%
A short visual novel game in which a boy named Shiomi suddenly appears one day, and the protagonist, who recognizes him as an imaginary friend, converses with him to find out what happened between them.
Why similar: Emotional 39.3%, Visual Novel 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Story Rich 11.6%, Adventure 5.3%
Robot’s Fate: Alice is a text-based RPG set in the future where robots with neural network AI are integral to human life. You’re Alice - a robot who becomes self-aware, while everyone around fears rogue AI. Can you survive and reconcile humanity with robots? Your choices do matter.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Text-Based 13.6%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Emotional 11%
Skylar is an student with anxiety. Walter is a farmer with social anxiety and PTSD. Jessica is a programmer with anxiety and agoraphobia. Li Wei is an technologist with intense anxiety. Navigate their stories, learn how they move through the world, and about methods of treatment and recovery.
Why similar: Emotional 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Choices Matter 8.4%
You have exactly 5. Bread is 4, the bus fare to school is 3. What do you give up? In this short narrative experience, you play as 13-year-old Adam. Confront an interface that reacts to a painful reality, and discover that freedom of choice is sometimes nothing but a privilege.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Text-Based 16.5%, Emotional 15.9%, Visual Novel 15.2%
A point-and-click horror/tragedy visual novel about melding your perception of the world around you. Walk around, drive people to their death, and shape Perdita's existence. Remember: The flesh-sin is nothing. Before she can become everything, you must make her into something.
Why similar: Emotional 30.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Text-Based 9%
“The hospital was empty. Quiet, and brighter than usual... like waking up on a snow day. But I didn't feel cold. I didn't feel much of anything.”
Why similar: Emotional 31.2%, Visual Novel 19%, Hand-drawn 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, LGBTQ+ 10.7%
In 120 Yen series, each season has a unique heroine. By using the four seasons of Japan to tell the story of two people meeting and getting along through the keyword "120 yen".
Why similar: Emotional 31.6%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Story Rich 11.6%, Text-Based 7.4%
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 19.7%, Emotional 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Text-Based 14.5%, Visual Novel 14.2%
Tayke Me With You is a visual novel about high school seniors and their struggles with each other and the world around them. You play as Gene, a sheltered, socially naive human from the city as he acclimates to living in a rural town filled with dinosaurs, finding friends (and love) along the way.
Why similar: Emotional 21.5%, Visual Novel 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Text-Based 14.3%, Choices Matter 11.5%
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 21.8%, Emotional 18.8%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Text-Based 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
A visual novel about mental health, depression, and self-love. Play as Amatista, a young woman trapped in isolation, as she begins a journey she never asked for. Every choice shapes the story. Fully accessible for blind and visually impaired players.
Why similar: Emotional 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Choices Matter 8.8%
Mirrorandum is not just a visual novel...it's a journey through a world of mirrors, where every reflection challenges your perception and every choice reveals the depths of your true self.
Why similar: Emotional 32.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Text-Based 11.9%, Choices Matter 8.7%
Your job is your life. Work for Glaucon Inc. processing debtors and making as much money as you can, while you slowly recall your past, and the truth.
Why similar: Dystopian 41.1%, Text-Based 22.3%, Capitalism 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%, Story Rich 8%
Follow Sybil in her pursuit for survival, having to sacrifice everything - her culture, her identity, her values - to achieve a single objective: escape from a place that is constantly trying to kill her. A short game about persecution and identity.
Why similar: Emotional 33.3%, Dystopian 24.6%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Story Rich 9.6%, Interactive Fiction 7.7%
90 minutes remain until the world ends. Will you face the end with regret or go out with a bang?”
Why similar: Dystopian 30.9%, Interactive Fiction 26.6%, Emotional 23.3%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Adventure 1.8%
The prequel to Road 96. Play Zoe and Kaito where it all started. Change their destinies!
Why similar: Dystopian 23%, Emotional 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Visual Novel 11.7%
What do mirror reflections do once they have no one to repeat after anymore? Play as Iris, quite a sarcastic reflection torn between the urge to unravel the mystery of death of her “prototype” and the need to find her place in a mirrored world.
Why similar: Emotional 17%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Text-Based 13%, Visual Novel 11.2%
Constantinople, 1453. Four witnesses — a janissary, a baker's daughter, an engineer, a noble — live the same 53 days of the siege. Choices cross between their stories, and the city remembers. An illustrated, choice-driven historical novel where every ending is someone's truth.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Text-Based 15.7%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Emotional 13%
Experience the Myth of Frankenstein through the innocent eyes of his creature. Make decisions and change people's view that you will meet on your way. Now, the myth is in your hands, so how are you going to end it?
Why similar: Emotional 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Text-Based 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Hand-drawn 11.6%
