60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Story Rich, Choices Matter, Indie.
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?
Will Die Alone
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?
Millennium Whisper
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?
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: Text-Based 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Visual Novel 11.9%, LGBTQ+ 9.5%
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: Typing 37.2% ★, 1990's 17.4%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Text-Based 7.8%
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 27.3%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Choices Matter 11.5%, LGBTQ+ 11.3%
Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.1%, Choices Matter 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Text-Based 14.6%, Visual Novel 11.2%
Emily <3 is a brand new story set on an old-new social media. Customize your facenook profile, send some friend requests and determine the outcome of your senior year.
Why similar: Typing 27.6% ★, Choices Matter 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
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 15.2%, LGBTQ+ 15%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Text-Based 10.8%
An adventure game about old computers, community, creativity, fandom, gender, and the internet. Alex Cole is a teenage trans girl in 1999 who has yet to figure herself out. She spends much of her free time on the internet, browsing a fan forum for her favorite magical girl show, and chatting with her friends.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 65.4%, Female Protagonist 18.9%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Singleplayer 2%, Indie 2%
Arcade Spirits is a romantic visual novel that follows an alternative timeline where the 1983 video game crash never occurred. It's 20XX and you've just started a new job at the Funplex game arcade. Who will you meet along the way? Will you find the romance you're seeking?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Visual Novel 19.7%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Female Protagonist 9.3%
Can you save magic before the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve? Life After Magic is a queer, retro visual novel that follows jaded ex-magical girls as they reconnect, deal with young adulthood, and face off against one last threat before Y2K hits.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.1%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Female Protagonist 14.3%, Choices Matter 12.5%, 1990's 8.6%
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: 1990's 29.5%, Text-Based 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Choices Matter 12.9%
A psychological interactive novel about a floppy disk with a mysterious program. Help Elliot cope with his mental issues and uncover the secret of the floppy disk.
Why similar: Text-Based 30.4%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Multiple Endings 6.1%
Games can really show someone's personality, don't you think? By way of a simple exploration-based adventure, this data-science game analyzes your actions to estimate your personality.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Visual Novel 15%, LGBTQ+ 13.3%, Female Protagonist 11.2%
An interactive novel about identity, roleplay, and dreams.
Why similar: Typing 32% ★, Text-Based 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, LGBTQ+ 13.6%, Visual Novel 11.5%
This is a plot exploration game set in the 1990s. In the game, you will go back to the age of 15, make up for those regrets and mistakes, rewrite our story and destiny, and explore different life and destination!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.3%, 1990's 22.8%, Visual Novel 17.4%, 2D 7.5%, Story Rich 7.3%
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 31.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Female Protagonist 7.2%, Choices Matter 6.2%
Dive into the charming Stories of Mara, an episodic slice of life tale about a diverse cast of characters. Get to know your neighbours and bond with them, but… Could you make them stick together to help each other?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.4%, Visual Novel 17.7%, 1990's 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choices Matter 13.5%
What if the physical objects of everyday life, the possessions we hold close, were actual windows to the past? Peer into distant memories and unseen futures in Hindsight.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.9%, Female Protagonist 24.1%, Visual Novel 22.2%, Story Rich 8.4%, Emotional 7.5%
Andromeda Six is a sci-fi inspired visual novel, with romance elements and an immersive, choice based story. Take on the role of a lost Traveler and uncover the truth of your past. Fight for a future for both yourself, and those you grow close to throughout your journey.
Why similar: Text-Based 28.5%, Visual Novel 26.5%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, LGBTQ+ 7.1%
When the world ends, who will you spend your final hours with? A visual novel for the GBA.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 33.4%, Visual Novel 30.3%, Female Protagonist 16%, Emotional 6.3%, Story Rich 5.9%
You wake up at the bottom of the ocean, surrounded by your broken memories. Reclaim and compile your magic or drown in a sea of dreams.
Why similar: Text-Based 31.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, LGBTQ+ 9.4%, Choices Matter 8.3%
In this interactive tale of love and war, be the force of reason that your kingdom needs, or perpetuate its reputation as a force of destruction. Find love and weave friendships, or cast it all away for the sake of retribution.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, LGBTQ+ 15%, Choices Matter 8.8%
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: Typing 46.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Multiple Endings 5.5%
2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco. Team up with Turing, the world's first sapient machine, to unravel a conspiracy that threatens to shake an entire society
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.7%, Visual Novel 18.6%, LGBTQ+ 16%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
Flashback is a strategy game oriented to your choices. You will play the role of a deliveryman and live in a turbulent city for a month. You will meet various characters and experience events, and those characters' fates will cross and they will usher in their own futures based on your choices.
Why similar: Choices Matter 36.5%, Female Protagonist 25.6%, Multiple Endings 22.5%, 2D 7.2%, Casual 5%
Your robots will change the world! Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army? A 300,000-word epic interactive sci-fi novel.
Why similar: Text-Based 32.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Choices Matter 12.8%, LGBTQ+ 4%
A 5 minutes game about love and hesitation. Use Backspace to play. Hope you will never experience this hesitation.
Why similar: Typing 23% ★, Text-Based 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, LGBTQ+ 17.5%, Female Protagonist 10.4%
Rhythm-mystery hybrid game about uncovering the history of a mysterious system. The stage is set. Will you step up and play your role?
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.8%, LGBTQ+ 29.8%, Female Protagonist 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, 2D 3.8%
Lovely Lady RPG is a visual novel about wandering around and just sort of seeing what life has in store for you. After waking up with a hole in her ceiling, a cosmic space Orb embedded in her chest and no recollection of basically anything, Ghost sets out to continue her life as best she can.
Why similar: Text-Based 41.9%, Visual Novel 24%, LGBTQ+ 16.5%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Multiple Endings 5.2%
you have an update for your operating system...
Why similar: 1990's 57.3%, Casual 17.7%, 2D 11.8%, Singleplayer 8.2%, Indie 5.1%
Perhaps it was the curse of a black lily that bloomed too early in the winter...Before graduation, a girl falls in love with another girl... But her pure feelings are torn apart by a "loop of tragedy."By [interrupting choices] and [typing in words], you will weave her feelings into the story.
Why similar: Typing 47.6% ★, LGBTQ+ 19.1%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Female Protagonist 11.1%, Story Rich 2.8%
Emily is Away Too is a brand new story featuring new characters and multiple different endings. Message your friends, surf the web and choose your path through this branching narrative.
Why similar: Text-Based 34.8%, Choices Matter 21.7%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Story Rich 5.5%
Reverse: 1999 is a 20th Century Time-Travel Strategic RPG developed by Bluepoch. As the Timekeeper, the observer of eras, you will embark on a journey across time and space, from the Roaring '20s to the turn of the millennium, uncovering the truth about the "Storm" and the mystery of the year 1999.
Why similar: Visual Novel 60.2%, Story Rich 15.1%, 2D 9.3%, Female Protagonist 8.2%, Singleplayer 7.1%
Experience the stories of Haru, Erika, and Manami, a trio of friends navigating their feelings of love, connection, and just wanting to belong.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, LGBTQ+ 18.8%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Female Protagonist 9.1%
"non-binary" is a video game that mixes text choices and bullet hell to tell the story of two non-binary people's journey of self-discovery. Make your choices. Dodge words. Go through things that hurt without breaking down. If you can.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.3%, LGBTQ+ 22.6%, Text-Based 17.6%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
Two girls must travel to the Moon's core after it has been thrown out of orbit. A PC98 inspired visual novel about fear of the unknown and people in love.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.6%, LGBTQ+ 22.7%, 1990's 19.3%, Visual Novel 19%, Emotional 4.3%
Interactive teen supernatural mystery! You and your friends have developed magical psychic powers. Solve the case, save your school, find a date for prom!
Why similar: Text-Based 45.8%, Interactive Fiction 28.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Indie 1.1%
Make up for lost time with Once Again, If you could travel through time, who’s the first person you’d meet? An interactive story about a boy who spends his summers wandering between past and present... After meeting her, summer will never be the same again...Who is she, and what journey awaits you?
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.9%, Female Protagonist 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Story Rich 7.4%, Emotional 6.8%
Befriend misfit deities and make a life for yourself in the Underworld! Can you escape your arranged marriage to the King? Do you want to?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Text-Based 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Multiple Endings 6%
In this episodic visual novel, follow the adventures of MSPA Reader as they return to Alternia once more to save their friends... and realize that nothing is as it seems.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Visual Novel 20.1%, LGBTQ+ 19.9%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
In an AI-powered age where original authors have become largely redundant, play as a dejected writer on the brink of losing their creative drive forever.
Why similar: Text-Based 33%, Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Visual Novel 21.1%, Choices Matter 7.4%, Multiple Endings 4.6%
A mysterious woman comes back from the dead, and the dusty past surfaces. Between a gloomy student girl and a glamorous ex-girlfriend, the clues are intertwined, who is the mastermind behind the scene? Play as a detective heroine in 1935 London, embark on a journey of love and growth.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.2%, Text-Based 18.8%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Female Protagonist 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.3%
Write letters with your typewriter on behalf of others in this cozy single-player game. Compose everything from simple hellos to theater scripts and love letters, express each client’s emotions, and find your own meaning to letter writing.
Why similar: Typing 39.5% ★, LGBTQ+ 13.7%, Text-Based 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Visual Novel 10.5%
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 32.7%, Text-Based 25.5%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Choices Matter 4.9%
Your bestie seems to be hiding something. There's something about your world that seems odd as well, like it has...secrets. Dive into the Cthulhu Mythos universe of this horror game and witness a "friendship" that rewrites the world.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Female Protagonist 13.4%
A short story about loading, I guess. Play as Memu@ as she explores the cyberpunk(ish) little town and interacts with its inhabitants.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 67%, Female Protagonist 13%, 2D 9.3%, Casual 5.8%, Singleplayer 4%
A short visual novel about finding your name and a girl in the fog.
Why similar: Text-Based 37.7%, Visual Novel 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Story Rich 4.8%, 2D 3.2%
WARNING 18+: After more than two decades apart, you reunite with the daughter of your old friend and establish a relationship, though your new relationship causes more problems in your life than you anticipate.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 41.1%, Visual Novel 31.7%, Choices Matter 17%, Story Rich 5.6%, Casual 2.8%
A short non-linear narrative game about negative experiences after coming out as transgender.
Why similar: Text-Based 29.5%, LGBTQ+ 22.1%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Female Protagonist 9.8%
memories is a sapphic visual novel dress-up game where clothes are linked to painful memories of a failed relationship.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.9%, Visual Novel 24%, Choices Matter 18%, Female Protagonist 14.1%, Emotional 5.3%
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 32.7%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Text-Based 14.7%, Multiple Endings 8.9%, Choices Matter 7.5%
Loser Named Hana is a friendship-building visual novel. You respond to an ad advertising $100 a week to be the lonely college student, Hana, friend.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.3%, LGBTQ+ 16.4%, Choices Matter 6.2%, Casual 4.5%
Welcome to a small detective agency in old Seoul. Lady in Mystery is a Yuri mystery visual novel set in 18th-century Joseon. Choose one of four women to grow closest to Heesoo, the disguised detective. Your choices may lead to love, revenge, or darker paths than you imagined.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.1%, LGBTQ+ 20.9%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Female Protagonist 11.9%, Choices Matter 8.7%
An experiment in letter writing, meant to evoke the distinctly sweet homoeroticism of Victorian and Edwardian literature. Follow the correspondence of two professors, in the months before one of them makes a decision he'll never be able to take back.
Why similar: Text-Based 31.1%, LGBTQ+ 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Visual Novel 21.4%
A word adventure game based on a long-distance relationship. On high school and college campuses, pick up memories that belong only to that time. Ideal and reality, if we can chose it again, can we not have regrets?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 40.4%, Visual Novel 23.1%, Multiple Endings 20.5%, Story Rich 8.1%, Singleplayer 3.6%
Is what is recorded in a photograph necessarily true? I don't think so. "But I think that even if it's a fake photo, the emotions of its creator are real after all." She said. So, your memories, then, must be real? Visual novel "Frozen Memories" gives you a fictionalised version of a real memory.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 29.8%, Visual Novel 24%, Female Protagonist 16.1%, Casual 13.9%, Story Rich 5%
You've never played a game like this before. Road to Empress I is a cinematic palace adventure where your choices decide everyone's fate. Tackle multiple story branches and a high mortality rate with charm, wisdom and courage? First...survive.
Why similar: Choices Matter 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Female Protagonist 15.7%, LGBTQ+ 9%
DOT’S HOME is a single-player, 2D, narrative-driven video game that follows a young Black woman in Detroit living in her grandmother’s beloved home, as she travels through time to relive key moments in her family’s history where race, place, and home collide in difficult choices.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.4%, 1990's 20.2%, Female Protagonist 19.3%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Multiple Endings 5.5%
Step into the shoes of Lyric, the humble innkeeper in a quiet mountain village, as she reflects upon a lifetime of poignant memories, heartwarming friendships, and bittersweet choices — proving along the way that you don't have to slay dragons to be the hero of your own story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Female Protagonist 13.6%, LGBTQ+ 12.3%
A hand-drawn story exploration game set 300 years after the apocalypse. You play an archaeologist named Professor Zay, joined by her companion, ARORA, a centuries-old AI capable of recreating human memories from scanned relics.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 45.3%, Story Rich 19.6%, Casual 19.3%, Singleplayer 11.4%, Indie 4.4%
