60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Choices Matter, Interactive Fiction, Story Rich.
A moral-descent thriller told through your phone, your feeds, and a trading terminal. Chase a California fortune one "just one more trade" at a time — through a crypto mania where every gain has a price. Your choices write the ledger. Six endings. How far will you go?
Blake: The Visual Novel
Graphic Novel meets Visual Novel in this story-rich, choice-driven thriller. Experience Blake’s journey as he encounters a clandestine nemesis, sparking a series of events that force him to choose between losing his sanity or rising to the challenge. Make the right decisions and save New Stone.
Pasajeros
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.
Graphic Novel meets Visual Novel in this story-rich, choice-driven thriller. Experience Blake’s journey as he encounters a clandestine nemesis, sparking a series of events that force him to choose between losing his sanity or rising to the challenge. Make the right decisions and save New Stone.
Why similar: Noir 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Thriller 10.8%, Visual Novel 10%
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: Noir 22%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Dialogue Heavy 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%
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 15.8%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Noir 12.7%, Text-Based 10.3%
A grim, choice-driven interactive gamebook. As the First Ranger of a fortified homestead, you must defend the last survivors from the infected, manage critical resources, and investigate a dangerous internal conspiracy. Every decision shapes the survival of the living.
Why similar: Noir 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Choices Matter 10.3%
Mothmen 1966 is a 'Pixel Pulp' - a visual novel fusing exceptional writing and stunning illustration, inspired by mid-20th century pulp fiction and 80s home computer graphics - set amongst the strange occurrences of the Leonid meteor shower of 1966.
Why similar: Noir 16.7%, Thriller 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Dialogue Heavy 10.2%
A sound, a flash, a portal… A pirate emerges, bringing a deadly threat. Five friends stand before him, and one of them is the target. But which one? Even they don't know.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Text-Based 17.4%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Thriller 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%
What starts as a simple, highly-paid night shoot in an abandoned marble quarry descends into a psychological nightmare. You are Stefano Caldara, a photographer caught in a web of dark rituals and dangerous secrets. Every choice shapes your morality, your sanity, and your survival...
Why similar: Noir 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Text-Based 10.6%
A choice game where you face the choice and truth of survival. An unpredictable ending awaits.
Why similar: Thriller 22.3%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Text-Based 16.6%, Dialogue Heavy 11.8%
Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.
Why similar: Noir 17.4%, Thriller 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Visual Novel 11.9%
In a rain-soaked megacity, one law remains: cross one trillion dollars in hidden wealth and you forfeit your right to live. You are K, the executioner who enforces it — until the numbers start to lie. A branching cyberpunk noir with 5 endings, where every choice is remembered.
Why similar: Noir 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Text-Based 10.5%
Five strangers wake up in a dark room in an abandoned building with no idea who put them there and why. They now need to work together in order to figure out what connects them and how to get out of this place. A short psychological thriller visual novel with choices.
Why similar: Thriller 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Psychological 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.5%
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 18%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Dialogue Heavy 13.9%, Text-Based 13.4%, Choices Matter 11.6%
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 14.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.7%, Text-Based 12.5%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%
Choose Your Story: Choices & Decisions game, Mystery visual novel adventure game
Why similar: Noir 23.3%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Thriller 11.8%, Dialogue Heavy 8%
You are a censor in a nameless war, blacking out the letters of two lovers who have never met. Their whole romance lives on paper — so every word you strike is struck from the love itself. Then the letters begin, impossibly, to answer your pen. A melancholy epistolary romance. Six endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Text-Based 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Choices Matter 11.4%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Noir 16.4%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Choices Matter 9.3%
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 19.3%, Text-Based 16.1%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Psychological 9.8%
Recent high school graduates gather at a remote cabin for a celebration. What begins as a night of laughter spirals into a tense mystery full of secrets, twists, and chilling choices. Who will survive? Navigate friendships, and uncover the multi-layered mystery in Shadows of Betrayal.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Thriller 17%, Choices Matter 12%
Where Control Ends is a psychological visual novel about Astra, a young girl trying to hold herself together after a night she cannot fully remember.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Text-Based 13.9%, Thriller 10.8%, Choices Matter 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Text-Based 17.1%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11.6%
Rearview Mirror is a narrative videogame in which most of the events take place inside a car. From a first-person perspective, the player interacts with the passengers through the rearview mirror.
Why similar: Noir 20.8%, Thriller 16.2%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%
Man I Just Wanna Go Home is an "MSPaint-noir" visual novel with 13 endings, a unique visual style and a killer 80s inspired soundtrack. The story revolves around a delivery person stranded in an unfamiliar part of the city under the devastating rain. All he wants is to get home. Help him!
Why similar: Noir 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Choices Matter 9.9%
Play as Captain Grégoire Lefèbvre and investigate the murder of a controversial country priest in this gripping historical detective thriller.
Why similar: Noir 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Thriller 13.1%, Visual Novel 10.7%
Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time. While you sleep, he is alone. When you return to your PC he has hope. Your encouragement and advice will be the difference between his salvation or despair.
Why similar: Thriller 18.2%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Psychological 9%
You are the Whisperer, hooded advisor to King Alric the Uncertain. Forty days. Twenty-five court crises. Four pillar-leaders pulling the realm in four directions. The King hears you last before every decision. Twenty-one endings. No correct path.
Why similar: Noir 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.9%
A Week in Paradise is a narrative mystery where you find yourself in a bar called Paradise. Have a drink each night with its mysterious regular and discover how deeply your stories connect. Hunt down clues in your dreams to find out why you end up here every day, and what keeps you coming back.
Why similar: Noir 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%, Choices Matter 10%
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: Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Text-Based 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Thriller 11.3%
Maybe you didn’t do it… but you watched. The Sin of Fabien is a psychological horror experience woven around guilt, denial, and silence, where every choice reshapes the world and the story. Each decision brings you closer to the truth… or pulls you further away from it forever.
Why similar: Thriller 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Story Rich 8.2%
The third and final part of the 'Cold Verdict' trilogy. Claire has spent two years tracking down the elusive masked man who puts people through psychological games. Now she has to get through another of his ordeals if she wants to bring him to justice. Make choices and decide the final outcome!
Why similar: Thriller 22%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Psychological 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.3%
A child is missing. The police are failing. And you're a retired detective with a bit too much time on your hands. Time to throw out the rules & do whatever it takes to bring the child home. From the developers of I AM RIPPER, The Occupation & Ether One.
Why similar: Noir 18.5%, Thriller 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 10.6%, Choices Matter 8.2%
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: Thriller 17.4%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Text-Based 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Dialogue Heavy 9.3%
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 21.5%, Text-Based 21.4%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.7%
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 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Visual Novel 12%, Psychological 8.2%
In this hand-drawn RPG, you play as Joe, a young man attending a dinner party with his new girlfriend. What he doesn't know is that every decision he makes, no matter how small, will have its consequence...
Why similar: Noir 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Visual Novel 9.5%
A text-driven psychological horror visual novel. You wake up in a strange living room. Two silent men stand beside you. On the wall, blood writes: “Confess your sins, and you shall be redeemed.” Every choice changes the ending. Over 80,000 words in the base game, plus 4 standalone character DLCs.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.1%, Noir 16.4%, Thriller 15%, Mystery 10.5%, Choices Matter 9.8%
"The Bunker Notes" is a visual novel about a concrete trap where the past whispers through the cracks of rusted doors. In this world, survival is everything; meeting another person might be your last mistake.
Why similar: Noir 19.7%, Thriller 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Visual Novel 11%, Text-Based 9.9%
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 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Text-Based 14.2%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Choices Matter 11.4%
"Humility" is a thriller visual novel. Immerse yourself in the fascinating story of a young Elma, who defies a cruel cult to save her beloved.
Why similar: Noir 16.3%, Thriller 15.7%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
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: Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Text-Based 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Dialogue Heavy 10.8%
Blackwood knows how to keep secrets: beneath the neon, behind polite smiles, in offices with no nameplates. Stella is searching for a missing friend and realizes too late that she was let in for a reason.
Why similar: Noir 29.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Psychological 8.2%, Text-Based 7.5%
A conversation adventure where you spend the worst, best summer visiting your booze-loving senpai, making weird food, and sneaking out together at midnight.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Dialogue Heavy 15.1%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Choices Matter 8.1%
In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.
Why similar: Choices Matter 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Visual Novel 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Dialogue Heavy 10.7%
7 Days in Dystopia is a psychological dystopian game where you experience seven days by playing a series of games, making choices, and facing the consequences of winning and losing in a city where people hide behind masks.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Psychological 11.8%, Story Rich 9.1%
Five Biggest Accomplishments is a short Visual Novel where you play as someone who has held the same job for 30 years: push a button every 8 hours or the world will end. Suddenly, you get an email asking you to list your five biggest accomplishments for the week, or risk being fired.
Why similar: Noir 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Story Rich 10.4%, Text-Based 10%
雪山ペンションで起こる殺人事件を阻止するため、 聞き込みとパソコンで情報整理するマルチエンドミステリーADV『夜明けの影法師』！
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Thriller 13.3%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Choices Matter 10.4%
There are no second chances in medicine. A medical suspense visual novel where a young doctor gains the power to rewind time. Use the loop to change the fate of diagnoses, surgeries, and emergency treatments. Your choices shape the story, leading to multiple Bad, Good, and True Endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Text-Based 12.5%, Psychological 10.7%, Story Rich 10%
Dive deep into the twisted HP Lovecraft universe with this oversized narrative RPG. Slip into the intertwined souls of Mark, Anna, and Victor, surrounded by cult worshippers, as Nyarlathotep, the cosmic horror, strives to enslave humanity in 1929.
Why similar: Noir 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Text-Based 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Visual Novel 10.2%
Step into a chilling mystery and peel back the ominous veil shrouding a peaceful southern Russian town.
Why similar: Noir 21%, Thriller 17.5%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Psychological 12.5%, Mystery 9.2%
Desktop mystery: you're journalist Max Drascher, reopening Jory Michener's 2016 disappearance for a GlimmerTV documentary. Email, web searches, social feeds, phone calls. Every clue lives on your machine. Evansburg would rather you let it rest.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14%, Text-Based 11.8%, Dialogue Heavy 11%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Choices Matter 8.9%
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 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Visual Novel 14%, Dialogue Heavy 13.2%, Text-Based 12.6%
A classic 90s choose your own adventure style horror visual novel. Escape the horrors hunting you, make decisions, forge your own path. An original complete story with multiple endings. Choose your own play style with a Text Adventure Mode, sound effects, and an ambient soundtrack.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Text-Based 12.8%, Thriller 10.5%
A suspense mystery set in a police station. Includes two visual novels. *Lost* features a multi-ending system based on player choices. *Secret A* is a short story with no choices. Both offer suspenseful storylines.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Thriller 12.3%, Text-Based 11.9%, Mystery 10%
Milan, 1963. Inherit your uncle's mysterious studio and discover a color that shouldn't exist. In this cosmic horror gamebook, you must balance your Sanity and Lucidity as you uncover the secret of the 12th canvas. Will you finish the work, or let the pigment consume your mind?
Why similar: Noir 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Visual Novel 13%, Text-Based 11.5%
Survive a gripping psychological thriller in this visual novel. Make critical decisions, face a disturbed captor, and experience multiple chilling endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.8%, Thriller 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Text-Based 11.9%
Coalescence is a visual novel that takes you deep within Moniker Labs to explore its secrets. Play as one of three characters, each with their own storyline and dialogue options. Form relationships with the companions you encounter and try to make it out alive!
Why similar: Noir 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Text-Based 14.5%, Visual Novel 14.3%
Biocybernetic Trap — an interactive cyberpunk detective. You are given the quantum diary of a long-dead detective, where reality fractures into parallel versions of the investigation.
Why similar: Noir 16%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Text-Based 13.9%, Thriller 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%
Step into the high-stakes world of journalism in this Playbook! As a reporter at the "The Meridian" newsroom, YOU are the hero. Chase a massive investigative scoop, navigate ruthless office politics, and build deep relationships. Will you break the story, or will the deadline break you?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Thriller 10.2%, Text-Based 10%
"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 16.4%, Text-Based 16.1%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Choices Matter 12.4%
An evolving death game set in a bar, where getting to know its players is the only way out. Each person hides one of the game's rules. Discover them through their pasts, tastes, and finding hidden clues, then face them in an all-out discussion. Only three can survive, unless you fight back.
Why similar: Thriller 17%, Text-Based 16.3%, Dialogue Heavy 14.3%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%
A cinematic mystery visual novel about a vanished woman. You're the detective on the case. Twelve years ago, your sister disappeared the same way. Four investigations lead to four different answers about what really happened — and none of them is the wrong one. The truth is whichever one you find.
Why similar: Noir 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Thriller 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Dialogue Heavy 9.6%
