
Pine Hill is a quiet Midwestern college town. Quiet enough that nobody seemed to hear Ginny Nicholson die. Alone with the thoughts in your head, now you just want to know one thing: why?
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Pine Hill is a quiet Midwestern college town. Quiet enough that nobody seemed to hear Ginny Nicholson die. Alone with the thoughts in your head, now you just want to know one thing: why?

ChatNPC
Immerse yourself in ChatNPC, a retro pixel-art adventure where every conversation unlocks new stories. Interact with unique AI-driven characters, explore vibrant settings, and shape your journey through dynamic dialogue in this engaging, simplified RPG experience.

All (Too) Good Things
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.
Immerse yourself in ChatNPC, a retro pixel-art adventure where every conversation unlocks new stories. Interact with unique AI-driven characters, explore vibrant settings, and shape your journey through dynamic dialogue in this engaging, simplified RPG experience.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.9%, Dialogue Heavy 16.1%, Text-Based 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Story Rich 9.5%
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 21.9%, Text-Based 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Dialogue Heavy 13.4%
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 23.6%, Text-Based 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Story Rich 9.6%
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: Dialogue Heavy 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Text-Based 15.8%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%
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 29.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, RPG 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Story Rich 8.4%
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 22.2%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Dialogue Heavy 17.4%, Text-Based 16.1%, Story Rich 10.6%
“Flowers for You” is a gentle adventure game where you create custom bouquets based on each customer’s story as a florist. Set in modern Japan, listen to faded memories and craft floral arrangements that bring color back into their lives.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Dialogue Heavy 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.9%, LGBTQ+ 11.8%
A supernatural mystery visual novel where your choices shape relationships and determine the fate of a coastal town. Explore ancient secrets, unravel supernatural enigmas, and make decisions that lead to three distinct endings based on your choices across four intense days.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.6%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Text-Based 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Casual 8.1%
Follow Sophie as she embarks on her latest adventure in making money, working alongside the enigmatic Rias as they put on a special yuri/lesbian camgirl show for their viewers.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.3%, LGBTQ+ 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%
An interactive text narrative where charm, charisma, and seduction will be your key tools. Angel is an alluring and confident twink- each word, each glance, has deeper meanings as the two of you spend a fleeting night's tryst with eachother.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.4%, LGBTQ+ 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Text-Based 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Visual Novel 15%, Story Rich 9.4%
“Lone Bird in the Tree” is an ADV with male and female versions of each of the four characters. The story alternates between the “future” of the main character, who is deeply traumatized by the grief of his/her best friend, and the “story leading up to the loss of his/her best friend”.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.3%, LGBTQ+ 16.1%, Text-Based 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.2%
A flesh-eating dust leaves you to survive alone against hordes of Listless.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Visual Novel 15.4%, LGBTQ+ 11.9%, RPG 11.3%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Text-Based 20.9%, Dialogue Heavy 11.2%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
Challenge four hot beauties and save the world from the attacks of sexy bosses in the new EmyLiveShow game!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, LGBTQ+ 11.2%, RPG 9.4%
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 18.3%, Text-Based 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Dialogue Heavy 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.6%
Dust off your coffee machine and prepare your warmest smile to meet your customers again in the second episode of the much loved coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator; Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 30.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Visual Novel 11.6%, LGBTQ+ 11.5%, Story Rich 7.3%
Explore an alternative medieval Europe in this low-fantasy epic adventure! How far are you willing to go to take back your stolen treasure?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Text-Based 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, RPG 13.8%, Casual 10.7%
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 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Visual Novel 15.8%, RPG 12%, Text-Based 11.1%
They steal your crew and force your ship to crash-land on an alien planet where you must start fresh with nothing but a dilapidated base and a... talking cat?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Visual Novel 14.9%, LGBTQ+ 11.7%, RPG 10.6%
Return to a hometown that hasn’t changed the way it should have. A psychological visual novel focused on atmosphere, relationships, and a reality that slowly refuses to stay still. Can you uncover the truth before it consumes you?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Dialogue Heavy 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Text-Based 14.8%, Visual Novel 13.9%
An Interactive Visual Novel with 35 story branches, 150 unique lines of dialogue, unlockable skins and many wholesome vibes! Dere-chan is always kind, happy, and energetic so whatever happens she'll always be there with kindness and support!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Dialogue Heavy 13.3%, Text-Based 12.5%
"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: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Text-Based 18.9%, Visual Novel 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Story Rich 10.1%
Are you worthy of the throne? Or do your siblings deserve it more than you do? What kind of heir will you be?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Text-Based 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, RPG 14.8%, Casual 11.4%
Experience a pastel-toned emotional journey in Yuika My Bestie, a short visual novel you can complete in under 15 minutes per playthrough. With 5 unique endings and heartfelt choices, it takes just 30–40 minutes to explore every path of this soft, late-night cry.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, LGBTQ+ 13.8%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%
You buy a laptop with your hands. You find an interactive collection of short stories on your laptop and something else. Or someone? What will all this lead to?
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.3%, Text-Based 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, RPG 14.3%, Casual 10.4%
Stamped follows the journeys of six young travelers whose paths intersect across Asian urban landscapes. Bound by pleasure-fueled self-destruction, the group flounders from city to city, confronting the grief and discrimination that caused them to travel in the first place.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Text-Based 16.3%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Dialogue Heavy 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%
Gadgets, conspiracy and conquest await you in this steampunk text adventure. An interactive romp through Victorian England and the British Empire.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Text-Based 24.5%, Visual Novel 13.7%, RPG 13.5%, Story Rich 11.2%
In this narrative adventure, Hideki steps into the laundromat, unaware that this is where he will stop feeling invisible. Explore the laundromat, build connections, and uncover the stories of those who become part of your life.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Casual 10.2%, Dialogue Heavy 9.5%
In this narrative card game about relationships and communication, navigate conversations in a colorful world reminiscent of our own. Learn and grow through the cards you choose to play. Who will you become? What will you leave behind?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Text-Based 13.9%, Dialogue Heavy 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%
A visual novel set in the world of 'The Noob Adventures'. Meet and talk to your favourite characters in this nostalgic fan-fiction.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Text-Based 20.9%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Story Rich 8.3%
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 23.6%, Text-Based 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Visual Novel 15.6%, RPG 10.1%
Guilt Free is a visual novel crossed with a point and click made to offer perspective on mental health and eating disorders. Navigate a couple's rocky relationship and encounter "flaws" or "quirks" that may actually be symptomatic behaviors.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Text-Based 17.6%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%
Find a way out of the Do 11 app by doing missions that come from the mysterious Do 11 app. A choice awaits you to solve puzzles and change the fate of the protagonist. Escape the main character from the Do 11 app while savoring a profound worldview and intriguing story. An incredible twist awaits.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Dialogue Heavy 17.4%, Text-Based 16.4%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%
Embark on a thrilling journey through this highly engaging science fantasy visual novel with memorable characters and multiple endings. Journey through space, uncover the past and pull off a heist or two as you negotiate the pitfalls of friendship and a crumbling reality. Can you save the universe?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Dialogue Heavy 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Story Rich 11.6%
Eyes of Iyre is a Visual Novel with heavy RPG elements. Follow Barbak the Orc as he discovers more about the world and his past, all the while trying to keep his temper under control. Make friends, cast magic, and learn the truths hidden in the city of Iyre!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24%, Text-Based 17.3%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, RPG 10.8%
A Greek Myth-based, heartfelt narrative game where you're a demigod named Aelius trying to find your godly father and re-forge your family.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Dialogue Heavy 14.8%, LGBTQ+ 13.2%, RPG 10.5%
Where are you, Cinderella? is a visual novel about Vietnamese culture and the world of entertainment. Will you be able to find the lost shoe’s owner? Or, will you find your shoe?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Text-Based 18.8%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, LGBTQ+ 13.9%
Will you serve the gods or overthrow them? Battle ancient evils and destiny itself in this epic interactive novel inspired by Greek myth.
Why similar: Text-Based 27.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, LGBTQ+ 14.6%, RPG 11.5%
Interactive fiction, visual novel adventure with point & click controls and AI-assisted illustrations. Explore a dangerous orbital station, an abandoned starship or a mysterious planet in this cyberpunk sci-fi text-based game. And, of course, discover a mystery that has an impact on the galaxy.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Story Rich 10.9%
Walk the path of a legendary mage, combining four different schools of magic to devastating effects.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, RPG 14.5%, Casual 10.4%
Explore the dreams of the Homunculus Hotel's guests in order to understand yourself.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Visual Novel 15.1%, LGBTQ+ 13.4%, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%
Travel to the world of the dead, whose stories encourage reflection on life. Chat with spirits, brew drinks to suit your mood, and bond with the people who run the afterlife cafes. In this urban sci-fi fantasy visual novel, your choices impact the living, the departed, and your own path forward.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Visual Novel 16.9%, LGBTQ+ 12.6%, Story Rich 10.1%
A cozy visual novel about running a tavern in a D&D-inspired fantasy! Gather rumors, serve magical drinks, and meet adventurers on a life-changing quest.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Dialogue Heavy 14.6%, LGBTQ+ 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%
Set in Launceston Tasmania's beautiful Cataract Gorge the player will adventure to find grandma's house.
Why similar: RPG 15.6%, Text-Based 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, LGBTQ+ 11.5%, Visual Novel 11.3%
You've been tasked with collecting data on an alien planet. Choose between exploring the jungle tropics or navigating deep into the bioluminescent sea.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Text-Based 15.7%, Visual Novel 15.3%, LGBTQ+ 14.5%
"How about a drink?" In this heartwarming, conversation-driven visual novel, you step into the role of the leader of a hot spring drinking club. You'll help its colorful members navigate personal troubles, sometimes with the aid of a drink or two, and see their challenges through to resolution.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.3%, Dialogue Heavy 20.9%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Story Rich 9.6%
The president trusts you. Exercise your Shamanic capabilities (or lack thereof). But don't get caught!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Dialogue Heavy 20.3%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Text-Based 15.6%, RPG 6.3%
Crown Delights Deli is a visual novel with multiple dialect/language choices. As the cashier at a Brooklyn bodega, choose to talk in English, AAVE, or Spanish to a diverse cast of characters as you try to maintain a five-star rating for your boss.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 21%, Text-Based 18%, Visual Novel 16.5%, LGBTQ+ 15.1%, Story Rich 10.1%
The sequel to "Heroes Rise: The Prodigy." It's America's #1 reality show for heroes! As a contestant on "The Hero Project," you'll battle villains and heroes alike with your newly discovered "Infini" powers.
Why similar: Text-Based 27.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, RPG 12.8%, LGBTQ+ 12.1%
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 24.2%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Text-Based 14.8%, RPG 14.4%
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: Interactive Fiction 24%, Text-Based 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Visual Novel 13%, Story Rich 9.1%
A dark sci-fi psychological Visual Novel where your choices shape who you are. The world has ended and it's been dominated by mysterious aliens who roam the city. Despite that, you only think of what you've lost. Will you be able to rebuild your relationships? Or even... the world itself?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Text-Based 22.4%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Dialogue Heavy 18.3%, Story Rich 6.5%
Pasajeros is developed through a collection of urban and surreal stories collected in a taxi in Bogotá . It’s a four-night adventure packed with micro-stories of vampires, mariachis, and thugs. In addition to the opportunity to find love or madness in the night magic of a city.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Dialogue Heavy 17.9%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Text-Based 10.4%
When you start the game, the narrator will instruct you to “close your eyes.” At that moment, whether you actually close them or keep them open will change the course of the story. Listen carefully to the voice as you proceed, and find your way to the truth.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Visual Novel 17%, Text-Based 15.9%, Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%
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: Visual Novel 17.7%, LGBTQ+ 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Story Rich 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%
A nostalgic interactive fiction game set in the early 2000's. Chat with your friends, update your LimeJournal, and discover yourself through a rich world of storytelling, love and friendship.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Text-Based 19.3%, Nostalgia 14.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Visual Novel 12.8%
A dark fairy tale about the woods outside a small village and the monster that roams within them. Become Sage and play through to uncover the mystery when they're tossed away from everything they've ever known.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Text-Based 15%, LGBTQ+ 13.9%
Audiences connect to their favorite celebrities all the time. How does it affect these people when put into a game of life or death? Only time will tell.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Visual Novel 16.3%, LGBTQ+ 13.6%, Text-Based 11%
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Text-Based 15.3%, Story Rich 8.3%