Games Like Aeonic

Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear. Seed new movements, destroy others. Subvert the rise and fall of empires, art, ideologies, and individuals in this experimental narrative game.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.8%, Text-Based 29.5%, Visual Novel 26%, Dystopian 5.7%, Adventure 3.6%

No rules, no censorship, the only limit is your imagination, not someone else's. AIdventure is a text adventure game with an AI as a storyteller. It is shipped with more than 25 starting scenarios. Unleash your creativity by writing and sharing your own stories with other players.

Why similar: Alternate History 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Text-Based 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Historical 14.8%

Adventure Game Traveling around Iceland

Why similar: Text-Based 30.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Dating Sim 7.5%, Adventure 6%

A Better World Company is hiring! We’re looking for a skilled new recruit to alter the past and reshape the future! Use our Computer to travel back in time, and make game-changing choices to make the world a better place! You decide what to do… as long as you follow our internal policies.

Why similar: Alternate History 30.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Text-Based 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Historical 5.1%

Omnimus. Welcome to the future! A visual novel about a daring experiment.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.3%, Visual Novel 29.2%, Adventure 17.6%, Indie 7.8%, Anime 6%

DREAMIO is a 'choose-your-own-adventure' game where stories and visuals are dynamically created through the power of generative AI in response to your decisions. Explore endless worlds with limitless possibilities; go anywhere, do anything.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Text-Based 22.5%, Artificial Intelligence 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 14.1%

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 30.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.6%, Visual Novel 21.8%, 2D 5.8%, Adventure 5.8%

Change the minds of evildoers…for good! MINDHACK is a text adventure game where you meet unique evildoers, hack their minds, and rewrite them into happy people!

Why similar: Visual Novel 29.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Text-Based 21.8%, Dystopian 11.5%, Adventure 5.5%

Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.

Why similar: Text-Based 31.9%, Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Adventure 10.7%, Dystopian 6.5%

Explore the ancient theatre of Arausio and discover Roman antiquity in this narrative exploration game!

Why similar: Education 26.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Historical 19.2%, Adventure 4%

With just a swipe to the left or right, you can make all kinds of decisions. So, please embark on your own unique adventure tale through the continent of Astra!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.4%, Interactive Fiction 29.4%, Alternate History 15.4%, Dating Sim 6.5%, 2D 5.9%

Set around 1929, this interactive visual novel lets you relive the early Red Army's epic journey from a first-person perspective. Experience immersive historical narratives and make pivotal branching choices. Beware: wrong decisions will end your game!

Why similar: Education 25.5%, Historical 23.5%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Text-Based 11.3%

Turn any PDF, TXT or DOCX into an interactive visual novel. Pick an anime companion, upload a paper or any text you want to understand, and let AI turn it into a 5–10 minute story — with quizzes, voice narration, a blackboard for formulas, and full character customization via Steam Workshop.

Why similar: Education 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Artificial Intelligence 16.3%, Text-Based 14.4%, Visual Novel 14%

A short Visual-Novel, made with Artificial-Inteligence art, about a party of adventurers on a medieval setting.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Text-Based 21.1%, Artificial Intelligence 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Visual Novel 11.9%

Wanderlust: Travel Stories is a bridge between literature and gaming. Step into the shoes of modern travelers—explore their desires, hopes and fears, and shape how their stories unfold. Make this journey your own.

Why similar: Education 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Text-Based 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Visual Novel 12.4%

Investigating a time-loop during the Cold War, light years away from Earth. Neoproxima is a text-based adventure game that combines exploration and simple RPG and survival mechanics. Plan your next loop carefully, and go as far as possible before time catches up with you.

Why similar: Alternate History 49.5%, Text-Based 18.8%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Dystopian 9.2%, Point & Click 6.2%

In "Time Rebuild", human civilization stands on the brink of destruction. You will become a time-traveling hero, embarking on a journey to save the world while encountering and bonding with women of vastly different appearances and personalities.

Why similar: Alternate History 30.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Visual Novel 15%, Dating Sim 5.6%

It's 1999 and your friend sends you a floppy disk, titled "RemBo". It turns out to be the installer for an old BBS service, filled with both strangers and a familiar face. How are you going to use it?

Why similar: Text-Based 27.5%, Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.8%, Visual Novel 16.9%, 2D 3.4%

The visual novel "Zavod" is an adventure that will take you to the industrial and factory everyday life of ordinary workers.

Why similar: Visual Novel 64%, Adventure 16.5%, Anime 14%, Indie 2.8%, Singleplayer 2.7%

Millennium Whisper is a next-gen dating-sim set in 1999 at the fictional Escafeld College with an AI trained by real actors portraying the cast! Who will you confess your feelings to at the end of the millennium?

Why similar: Visual Novel 27.6%, Artificial Intelligence 25.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Text-Based 13%, Dating Sim 7.4%

Aeon of Sands – The Trail is a roleplaying game set in a post-apocalyptic desert world. It combines real-time exploration gameplay with classic gamebooks where you create your very own non-linear story adventure.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 75.8%, Adventure 10.9%, Indie 8.4%, Singleplayer 4.8%

A mad and romantic ADV. Unravel a strange world of science and philosophy with a mecha girl, zombie girl, or beastfolk. Some paths may disturb you... or thrill you.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.8%, Visual Novel 32.7%, 2D 10.6%, Adventure 7.5%, Anime 7.5%

This is a modern adventure of young adults seeking love and meaning. Return to 2011's Castor Yard, tap on your keyboard, and make those letters dance: Use your online persona to make meaningful decisions for your clients and yourself.

Why similar: Visual Novel 33.6%, Interactive Fiction 31.3%, Artificial Intelligence 19.5%, 2D 7%, Adventure 4.6%

A text adventure game of the mid Tang Dynasty, where players can experience the story of a lonely city in the Western Regions during the Tang Tibetan War in the 13th year of Jianzhong by the 'bound barbarians'. Witness the growth and helplessness of characters and the rise and fall of the era.

Why similar: Historical 29.3%, Interactive Fiction 28.9%, Visual Novel 21.4%, Dating Sim 5.9%, Adventure 5%

Become the Wielder of Soul Stone, an ancient artifact of untold power, and shape the fate of your world. Outrun the past so that you may have a future.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.1%, Text-Based 27.6%, Interactive Fiction 26%, Adventure 11.1%, Indie 5.2%

Can your steam-powered inventions save the ancient Library of Alexandria? Will you sacrifice the library to protect the city? Or the future king instead?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.7%, Text-Based 28.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Adventure 8.6%, Indie 3.6%

Love is deception, germinated in desperation. Fill the role of one of the nation's top researchers. You will have 10 days to study the rapidly spreading and mysterious new species to decide: friend or foe? The coming Telluricene rests in your hands.

Why similar: Alternate History 30.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Text-Based 18%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Dystopian 6.4%

Classic Zork meets Existential Crisis. A modern text adventure that explores themes of control, isolation and mental health while levelling up the genre with beautiful pixel art.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.5%, Text-Based 24.6%, Artificial Intelligence 23.9%, Adventure 6.2%, 2D 3.9%

Explore the meaning of memories in this mysterious fairytale where fantasy and reality intertwine. The story unfolds from the perspectives of two women: one who travels in the ruins of Engine City New York, and one who finds herself in an underground world with an eldritch, violet sky.

Why similar: Alternate History 31.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Text-Based 19.7%, Visual Novel 19%, Anime 4.5%

World's first RPG in which all entities are AI-generated and all game mechanics are AI-directed.

Why similar: Text-Based 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Artificial Intelligence 19.8%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%

"Murder Mystery Paradox: Fifteen Years of Summer" is a text-based adventure game. Enter the remote and sparsely populated island of Shikinejima and attempt to solve the strangely recurring mystery found there.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.2%, Text-Based 21.9%, Alternate History 20%, Visual Novel 18%, 2D 5.6%

A science-fiction visual novel centered on the implications of time travel, artificial intelligence, and humanity's ascent to the stars.

Why similar: Visual Novel 84.1%, Adventure 15.9%

Shanghai Summer is an adventure game set in the millennium. Our protagonist, Baichuan, goes through a series of "anomalies" over the length of twelve days. In his pursuit of the truth, he found that his hopes and regrets from the past finally seem to converge. Will he be able to "fix" it for good?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.5%, Text-Based 25.4%, Visual Novel 23.4%, Dating Sim 6.8%, 2D 6.5%

In this cyberpunk-themed linear visual novel, you take on the role of Jill the bartender during a 14-day time loop. While crafting drinks for customers is part of your job, the true challenge lies in unraveling the dark secrets hidden beneath this neon-lit world.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Alternate History 20.6%, Text-Based 20.3%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Artificial Intelligence 7.4%

Immerse yourself in this Decopunk Narrative RPG set in an alternate 1930s where anti-gravitational technology has taken cars, roads, and even New York City into the sky. Muster a crew, master tactical turn-based combat, and unravel the dark secrets lurking beneath the floating metropolis.

Why similar: Alternate History 59.3%, Visual Novel 28.2%, Point & Click 5.9%, Adventure 4.7%, Singleplayer 2%

Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social network 'Videoverse' were still popular…

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.3%, Visual Novel 24.9%, Adventure 6%, Anime 3.2%

Build the tanks, Date the girls, Choose your side. Live through the adventure and drama of an alternate universe World War 2.

Why similar: Alternate History 33%, Visual Novel 31%, Historical 22.2%, Adventure 5.7%, Indie 4.1%

The player connects to a girl in distress in space thousands of years later? How will they resolve the crisis and discover the truth? Through the mechanism of real-time synchronization, the game breaks through the dimensional wall and creates an immersive dialogue across time and space.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.6%, Text-Based 27.6%, Visual Novel 26.7%, 2D 5%, Dating Sim 1%

Erannorth Renaissance is a text driven gamebook with sandbox elements. Create your hero, build their party, and shape your journey. Set in an open world, it mixes text based narrative, turn based combat, deep character customization, and sandbox freedom.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 39.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 32.1%, Dating Sim 10.1%, 2D 10%, Adventure 5.5%

BatteryNote is a multi-ending sci-fi adventure visual novel game. You can recharge three robots with limited lifespans, bringing them back to life. Interact with them through conversations or experiment by applying high voltage. How they spend their final moments is entirely up to you.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 51.2%, Visual Novel 25.4%, Text-Based 15.2%, Adventure 4%, 2D 3.2%

"What if you're born into this world without your permission?" DIVINATION is a very short visual novel where you act as a fortune teller in a futuristic world. Talk and listen to people's stories, then foresee their future using the runes they had drawn.

Why similar: Text-Based 34%, Visual Novel 26.5%, Experimental 17.3%, Dystopian 8.2%, Point & Click 5.4%

You are the Monarch. Choose between diplomacy and tyranny. Romance allies or enemies. Your decisions define your rule and the fate of those closest to you in this character-driven interactive tale.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.8%, Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Text-Based 24.6%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Dating Sim 4.7%

In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship, tasked with finding a home for your crew—the last remnants of humanity. Your choices will determine their fate, and your own.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.4%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Artificial Intelligence 20.4%, Text-Based 19.1%, 2D 4.6%

Suhoshin is a 2D Visual Novel set in the medieval Joseon period of Korea. While investigating a series of mysterious murders, you will have to make choices that will lead you down different paths toward different endings.

Why similar: Visual Novel 23.8%, Text-Based 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Anime 5.1%

When tragedy sparks the advancement of science, a sentient android is created. Now, in this heart-wrenching, romantic, and beautiful visual novel, you will explore whether or not it's possible for man and machine to truly love each other.

Why similar: Visual Novel 26%, Text-Based 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Anime 6%

Investigate a paranormal disease that threatens to eradicate humanity in this unsettling Lovecraftian adventure, inspired by the choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks of the 80s and 90s. Your choices will determine the story, your character’s destiny… and the future of humanity.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.5%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Text-Based 9.8%, Adventure 4.7%

Walk the path of a legendary mage, combining four different schools of magic to devastating effects.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31%, Text-Based 30.2%, Interactive Fiction 28.5%, Adventure 8.2%, Indie 1.2%

Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make the decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Alternate History 21.8%, Text-Based 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Visual Novel 15.6%

Forge your own story and explore the world of Athens in Athenian Rhapsody, a souls-like platonic dating simulator with cooking-mama and WarioWare style battle mechanics... and by that I mean it's a choose-your-own-adventure action RPG with the ability to trade ENTIRE PLAYTHROUGHS between friends!!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 49%, Interactive Fiction 40.6%, Dating Sim 8.4%, Adventure 2.1%

"Durka Simulator" is a visual novel with humorous elements that takes place in an alternative reality in the Russian Federation.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Text-Based 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Historical 11.9%

a ~2 hour long graphic adventure novella. Tasked with disrupting the end of the world, you explore, investigate and produce your way through a strangely familiar world.

Why similar: Alternate History 27%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Visual Novel 15.5%, 2D 5%

Dullpain is a side-scrolling, interaction, and storytelling game. Playing as Jingwen, a young boss of a long-established repair shop, you need to repair not only everyday items, also memories. You can enjoy dull-pain and breathtaking stories in different time and space and redefine the end of story.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 43.1%, Visual Novel 28.6%, Dating Sim 6.7%, Anime 6.4%, Adventure 5.9%

A story-based exploration game about the very far future. With the help of two Artificial Intelligences, explore a universe conquered by humanity, uncover your purpose in it, and try to stop it from falling apart.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 78.1%, Adventure 14.8%, Indie 4.1%, Singleplayer 3%

Transported back a century by fate, you find yourself in a legendary tale of vengeance. Amidst powerful enemies in a tumultuous era, your mission is to assist those around you. Experience this immersive epic from a first-person perspective—authentic, weighty, yet brimming with hope.

Why similar: Historical 30.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.8%, Interactive Fiction 27.4%, Dating Sim 8%, Adventure 2.4%

A chat dating sim game inspired by Mystic Messenger, VTuber communities, and internet spam

Why similar: Text-Based 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Dating Sim 6%

Polylithic is a survival game unlike any other, set in the most pivotal moment in mankind's history: the Stone Age. Experience life as a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer, settle down as a Neolithic farmer, form tribes in co-op multiplayer, or go at it alone in a world where we're not yet apex predators.

Why similar: Alternate History 79.8%, Adventure 12%, Indie 4.8%, Singleplayer 3.4%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.9%, Interactive Fiction 32.8%, Text-Based 30.1%, Indie 1.3%, Singleplayer 1%