60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Choose Your Own Adventure, Choices Matter, Interactive Fiction.
A dark text-based RPG set in a world gripped by a restless race for survival against a merciless mushroom Forest. As a prophet’s apprentice, guide your clan along the knife-edge between life and oblivion. Decipher misty visions, make critical decisions, and do whatever it takes to survive.
Moonbriar
Delve into a dark fantasy visual novel where evil isn't always as it seems. Make your choices and grow your skills to help determine who survives the Great Culling. Featuring the voice talents of Ralph Ineson, Simon Callow, Savannah Steyn, and more.
Tower of the Ice Lich
A pixelated homage to 16-bit RPGs, this former print-and-play card game has come full circle as a digital experience! Choose your champion, enter the tower, and make wise decisions on your ascent to face the Ice Lich at the top.
Delve into a dark fantasy visual novel where evil isn't always as it seems. Make your choices and grow your skills to help determine who survives the Great Culling. Featuring the voice talents of Ralph Ineson, Simon Callow, Savannah Steyn, and more.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.6%, Dark Fantasy 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%, Visual Novel 8.5%, Choices Matter 8.1%
A pixelated homage to 16-bit RPGs, this former print-and-play card game has come full circle as a digital experience! Choose your champion, enter the tower, and make wise decisions on your ascent to face the Ice Lich at the top.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Lore-Rich 11.8%, Visual Novel 11%
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Text-Based 12.6%, Horror 10.8%
A short psychological horror interactive story. Five years after vanishing without a trace, the woman you once called your lover writes from beyond the silence: "I will give birth to our creation.” In three acts, descend into a fractured mindscape where obsession, memory, and myth intertwine.
Why similar: Text-Based 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Narrative 10.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Text-Based 12.6%, Dark Fantasy 12.5%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
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: Text-Based 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Hand-drawn 7.1%
Step into a visual novel of rotten flowers. Play as a young woman in a world where the ability to lie is condemned, and seek shelter in the mysterious castle across the lake. Survive, little dove, in the rot infested halls, and be careful of who you choose to love — what you choose to lie about...
Why similar: Text-Based 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
Narrative RPG inspired by works of H.P. Lovecraft, celtic myths, rapiers and gunpowder. World awaits the Arrival of unknown creatures. It needs a hero who would stop the menace. Or he won't. He may even join them. Only you shall decide who would Morar become.
Why similar: Narrative 19.8% ★, Text-Based 12.5%, Choices Matter 10%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Dark Fantasy 9.6%
Set off on an exciting swashbuckling quest in this classic Fantasy Choose Your Own Adventure! Meet charming characters, fight dangerous foes, and uncover a nefarious intrigue. Experience seamless and reactive storytelling. Prove your innocence, find your destiny, relish the journey!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Text-Based 11.3%
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Choices Matter 19.5%, Text-Based 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Visual Novel 11%
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: Text-Based 24.3%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Multiple Endings 13.3%
A narrative-driven RPG where every dice roll shapes your fate. Step into the role of the Queen's Herald and traverse a mist-shrouded realm to uncover the fate of her lost army. Will your choices uphold loyalty, or lead you down a path of betrayal? The secrets of the mists await.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.4%
Choose, explore, interact, fight, solve, gather, trade! Rise to rebel in this immersive text-based fantasy story that seamlessly merges the best elements of RPGs, choose-your-own-adventure stories, visual novels, and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Choices Matter 10.9%
It is said that the last frontier is space, but the crew of the Soviet Frigate, The Peresmeshnik, is about to discover that the sea still hides a terrifying secret. Waiting to be found.
Why similar: Text-Based 24%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Dark 7.8%, Choices Matter 7.5%
Dancing with Shadows: Prologue is a 2D dark fantasy visual novel with CYOA-influenced branching storylines. Guide three protagonists through an interlocked and inexorably connected storyline. There are no wrong answers, but your decisions have consequences.
Why similar: Narrative 18.9% ★, Text-Based 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Visual Novel 9.1%, Dark Fantasy 8.7%
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: Visual Novel 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Text-Based 13.5%, Choices Matter 11.1%
A surprising mix of adventure and memory games, featuring RPG-inspired mechanics and immersive storytelling. Explore a crypt filled with traps, dangers, and hostile creatures. Will you uncover the crypt’s secrets, or will you become its next victim? Make strategic choices to survive.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Multiple Endings 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: Text-Based 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
In pursuit of coin, hired dagger Arthur finds himself embroiled in conspiracy involving the daughter of a noble House. Who is really pulling the strings behind the scenes?
Why similar: Visual Novel 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Visual Novel 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Dark 9.2%, Text-Based 7.4%
Decide the fate of the son of a tailor and a witch doctor infected with an incurable disease in an interactive story with multiple endings depending on your actions.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.3%, Text-Based 14.3%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Choices Matter 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%
The abyss awaits. Descend into a minimalist visual novel about a girl in the future, and guide her through branching conversations, microgames, and explorable locations. Make friends with criminals, drink too much at dinner, or relax in a spa. Whatever happens, it was your choice.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Text-Based 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
The Sleeping Sickness is an interactive short story that allows the player to guide the main character's actions. The player’s choices will lock and unlock future locations, change dialogue, and alter the story. Choices matter in The Sleeping Sickness. It is an excellent choice for horror fans.
Why similar: Narrative 25.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Choices Matter 8.9%, Interactive Fiction 8.7%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
Scarlet Scarf is a visual novel inspired by the legend of Plague Maiden. Dive into the dark mysteries of a dying city with the fate of Sanator Richard Murdock in your hands. Perhaps it's not too late to stop the on-going calamity...
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 13.7%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Text-Based 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Lore-Rich 9.3%
A loop-based text adventure where turn-based combat, exploration, and branching choices drive a haunting journey through death and memory.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.1%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Multiple Endings 13%, Dark Fantasy 13%, Choices Matter 11.6%
Vacation Terminal is a short 2D Psychological thriller, horror and survival based visual novel with evading based puzzle elements. Following the story of two strangers.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Dark 7.8%, Text-Based 7.2%
How far will you go to keep your crown? A branching court politics drama, where every choice matters. Navigate treacherous lords, scheming family members, and angry peasants- all while trying to secure your kingdom’s future.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Narrative 10.9% ★, Visual Novel 10.7%
THE SIN COLLECTOR: REPENTLESS is a game on the border of a visual novel and a classic text RPG, set in the world of The Sin Collector, a series of books written by Michał Gołkowski. Action takes place a couple of years before the events presented in the books.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Dark Fantasy 9.7%
Play as Erwin, a witch hunter navigating a fantasy world of magic and suspicion. Your decisions in this visual novel affect friendships, trust, and multiple story outcomes. Choose wisely—the fate of your journey rests with you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Choices Matter 10%
Royal Duality is an immersive dark fantasy visual novel with 15 endings, various side stories and hidden Easter Eggs all set in an engaging lore-rich world
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Lore-Rich 11.5%, Choices Matter 9.1%
Vanakan is the journey of Tadevos - a priest, who travels the 500s Armenia to find the monastery that suits for his goal of becoming spiritually closer to Jesus Christ. He meets different people on his way and makes choices which will define his future and that of the country.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
Rewrite history in this narrative RPG set in the last days of Imperial Russia. Born into nobility, you will shape both your destiny and the fate of a nation.Will you preserve the old order, ignite the flames of revolution, or carve out your own path? Every decision will echo through time.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Dark Fantasy 10.7%
Take control of Morgan's destiny as his world is turned upside down. Explore the world of Dreams, where mythological creatures and Nightmares are real. A story-heavy adventure game with multiple endings, romance options and a symphonic music! Inspired by Neil Gaiman and Inception.
Why similar: Text-Based 14.5%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Lore-Rich 11.1%
"With good intentions" is a nonlinear visual novel. Escape from a cursed monastery, win over its mighty Overlord, save your love and uncover the mysteries of time itself!
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 15.1%, Text-Based 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%, Visual Novel 9.1%
A medieval text quest in the "Choose Your Own Adventure" genre, where each choice could be your last. Create your story with more than 2,000 events, 200 of which will prove fatal. In a world where death plays against you, can you outsmart it and write your own story?
Why similar: Text-Based 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.1%
Through branching destinies, hidden lore, brooding gothic vistas, and a soundtrack that echoes like a warning, you’ll walk a world reshaped by every choice you dare to make. But tread carefully—each decision pulls you toward redemption… or toward a fate far more terrifying than death.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Text-Based 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Visual Novel 12%, Choices Matter 8.5%
An interactive visual novel in the mystical genre. Mikey is admitted to an unusual institution for treatment, where he encounters supernatural phenomena and begins to prepare for a metamorphosis that will lead him into another world.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.3%, Choices Matter 16.5%, Multiple Endings 16%, Text-Based 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%
A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths. A free atmospheric horror visual novel where you navigate life-or-death situations. SEEK PARADISE OR DIE TRYING
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Visual Novel 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Choices Matter 10.5%
A text-based choose your own adventure game, with multiple stories, each with several endings. Stories you create through branching narratives are kept so you can read them again or show them to friends.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Text-Based 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%
Follow Joseph, Eric, and William (as well as a handful of other characters) as they awake from cryogenic stasis at the enigmatic facility known as Intermine Laboratories. But, deep within the abyss exists an ancient evil that is seeking to enact its own twisted machinations ...
Why similar: Text-Based 18%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Dark Fantasy 10.9%
When you're falsely accused of sorcery, corrupt inquisitors make you the object of a witch hunt. Now, sorcery might be the only way for you to survive.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Choices Matter 14%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
Thorner is a horror visual novel with multiple endings. You attempt to escape your past by fleeing to the wilderness, but spilled blood can never be forgiven. The land knows what you did. The land judges. Thorner awaits.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.4%, Dark 14.5%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%
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: Text-Based 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Choices Matter 11.5%
Fate is not a line is a visual novel game where your choices shape destinies. With 40+ decisions, 4 unique perspectives, and 25+ endings, every playthrough reveals new truths. Defy fate, face moral dilemmas, and uncover the secrets of the Arbiter of Fate.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Choices Matter 8.8%
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 19.7%, Text-Based 15.2%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, Visual Novel 13.7%
This game portrays the tragic history of war in a 2D adventure format, set against real events. It provides a realistic experience, encompassing themes of betrayal, death, and love, while also offering multiple endings driven by player choices. Discover the impact of this era's tragedy firsthand.
Why similar: Narrative 25% ★, Text-Based 17.1%, Lore-Rich 11.5%, Multiple Endings 9.4%, Dark 8.7%
To get to heaven, you must climb the Nine Circles of Hell. But you might never make it to the depths.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Choices Matter 10%
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 31.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Choices Matter 7.7%, Visual Novel 6.9%
Survive a gripping psychological thriller in this visual novel. Make critical decisions, face a disturbed captor, and experience multiple chilling endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Text-Based 14%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
Spend your time well: in 30 days a powerful Magician arrives, and everything changes! Explore the wilds around your remote village, learn from mistakes, recover magical artifacts, and turn setbacks into advantages in this text-based open world roguelike adventure. Time's up: Upheaval is here again!
Why similar: Narrative 24.2% ★, Text-Based 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
Chess. Love. Destiny. All the same things, really.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Dark Fantasy 14.9%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Hand-drawn 9.3%
A call for help within a mysterious messaging app. Someone lost and wandering through a forest in a faraway place. And their destiny in your hands.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Choices Matter 12%, Visual Novel 10.6%
Morin is a barkeeper with an unusual curse. All people look like shadows to him, except for one mysterious stranger... Solve the mystery of the curse, fight true darkness and mix the most unusual cocktails in the atmospheric visual novel — Into the Waves!
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.1%, Multiple Endings 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Text-Based 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%
A text-based adventure where you're tasked to exorcise your friend’s Inner Demon. You have 30 days to analyze objects filled with memories, discover which one is the reason for her possession and sacrifice it. Do not deviate from your mission. Save your friend no matter the cost.
Why similar: Narrative 19% ★, Text-Based 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Lore-Rich 11%, Choices Matter 10.2%
A horror mystery visual novel where a boy and a girl undergo a strange ritual in a remote mountain village. As eerie phenomena creep into their daily lives, they begin to uncover unsettling truths. Your choices shape how the story unfolds.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.9%, Lore-Rich 16.5%, Text-Based 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
You are a father. You wake in a hallway that hums. Wander liminal spaces where fragments of your past call you forward. Voice acted by a real father and his daughters. Two endings. No right answer.
Why similar: Narrative 20.8% ★, Text-Based 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
Bleedings Moons is an interactive story revolving around the themes of fate, duty and free will. Your actions and decisions will shape the story of the game, so that Ian's story will be your story, with the logical consequences of your choices.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Dark Fantasy 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.5%
Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Horror 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 10%
As an elf in a panicked flight from home, you discover a more dangerous secret: a human claiming to be a dragon.
Why similar: Text-Based 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.1%
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Choices Matter 9.7%
