60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Choose Your Own Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Text-Based.
A psychological thriller visual novel where your choices deeply affect an 18-year-old woman's mental state, leading to multiple endings.
Wednesdays
"The hardest part is not to speak up. It’s being heard." Part video game, part graphic novel, Wednesdays seeks to raise awareness about child sexual abuse through a surprisingly hope-filled story.
Sword Princess Amaltea - The Visual Novel
Princess Amaltea is sent out on this quest, and rescues Prince Ossian. They are both unwilling to play along in these traditional expectations of them, and after fleeing their own wedding they are now out on the open roads – on to new adventures in this gender flipped world!
"The hardest part is not to speak up. It’s being heard." Part video game, part graphic novel, Wednesdays seeks to raise awareness about child sexual abuse through a surprisingly hope-filled story.
Why similar: Comic Book 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Text-Based 12.4%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Hand-drawn 11.6%
Princess Amaltea is sent out on this quest, and rescues Prince Ossian. They are both unwilling to play along in these traditional expectations of them, and after fleeing their own wedding they are now out on the open roads – on to new adventures in this gender flipped world!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Comic Book 16.2%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Text-Based 12.5%
An LGBTQ+ Mystery Visual Novel with comic panel style aesthetics and pixel styled backgrounds. Join The Heart Breachers operatives as they navigate the world of desire, treachery, and emotional turmoil while learning to understand lofty concepts such as friendship, hope, and belief in oneself.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Comic Book 16.3%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Text-Based 11.5%
The Trials of Ozymandias is a visual novel set in the high fantasy world of the kingdom of Johrotos. In the capitol city, Dassi, resides the most famous adventurer's guild in all the land: Talleh-Hoy. This is where your story begins.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Text-Based 18.1%, Visual Novel 15%, Anime 9.4%
"Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines" - In this short story from the Endless Monday, Penny, a mild-mannered corporate grunt, spends a weekend at the office in an effort to finish her project on time while overcoming distractions from coworkers, space aliens, imaginary friends, and herself.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Hand-drawn 13.5%, Comic Book 11.4%
Dive into the shadows of this fairytale-like narrative experience with Birdie, making choices and helping her find freedom and light in the darkness. Love isn't always what it seems.
Why similar: Text-Based 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Thriller 10.2%, Visual Novel 10.1%
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 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Text-Based 17.3%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Psychological 8.7%
A visual novel about mental health, depression, and self-love. Play as Amatista, a young woman trapped in isolation, as she begins a journey she never asked for. Every choice shapes the story. Fully accessible for blind and visually impaired players.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Emotional 8.1%, Comic Book 7.9%
みんなで過ごすことができる最後の夏。 『この夏を忘れない思い出にしよう。』 だれかが言ったその言葉から始まる、茹だるように暑い、鮮明な夏の日。 大丈夫。きっと忘れない。 たとえ、目に見えるものが偽物だとしても。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Comic Book 14.8%, Anime 11.2%, Adventure 9.1%
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 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Visual Novel 16%, Hand-drawn 11.3%, Adventure 8.2%
Deep under the sea, there is a princess who didn't know anything about french fries. This is her story, Princess Takorita's fated encounter with the french fries.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Comic Book 16.6%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Text-Based 13.7%, Hand-drawn 11%
Uncover the mystery of the Ghoul's Grove, hidden in the Australian outback and filled with strange and mutilated scare actors. To Be Altered is a multiple-ending visual novel where your choices matter, even the most minuscule decisions will decide the fates of Darcy and others.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Comic Book 12.5%, Text-Based 10.8%
3 different Robot-romance stories. Written, drawn, and made by humans, for humans. Since the very moment the first mechanical mind became aware of itself, it craved love. No one truly understand why the heart made of copper and wires started beating, but it did. Even after we were gone.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Text-Based 12.9%, Anime 9.4%
The supernatural mystery visual novel, "CAFE 0 ~The Sleeping Beast~" returns as a remastered version. Will the maid, Corliss, find out why she died within the 7 days time limit?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Hand-drawn 12.2%, Text-Based 11.2%
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 20.7%, Text-Based 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Emotional 9%
A Visual Novel game about adventure, fantasy, magic and friendship. This is a continuation of Chapter 3. There are only a few choices that can be made, and some paths to choose from. The decisions do not have an impact on the ending, instead they provide slightly different content.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Text-Based 12.7%, Anime 11.7%
Christian Tyler is ready to investigate a new case! Uncover the mystery of the tourist town of Alkelano in our new visual novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Hand-drawn 11.9%, Psychological 7%
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 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Text-Based 19%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Hand-drawn 7.8%
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 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Text-Based 15.1%, Visual Novel 13%, Thriller 7.3%
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 27.2%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Hand-drawn 9.8%, 2D 5.2%
Travelling Light is a narrative game about four friends, Lars, Leah, Samson, and Ivy, caught in the turbulence of their early thirties. Inspired by real events, this experience lets you step into each perspective as love, friendship, and heartbreak collide.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Hand-drawn 13.3%, Emotional 6.7%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Visual Novel 14%, Text-Based 13.6%, Hand-drawn 7.9%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Text-Based 18.6%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Hand-drawn 13.2%
A visual novel about returning home. That is, trying to get home. After all, your home is no longer there. You could say that it is actually about drinking in a bar and talking to strange people.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.3%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Hand-drawn 12.6%, Anime 11.9%, Text-Based 8.6%
Not It: Spookiest Edition is a horror-filled visual novel full of suspense and mystery where you navigate Katie through a living nightmare. Her move-in day on Halloween throws her into a centuries-old curse. Can she make it through the night? Will her new neighbors perish? Decide their fate.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Text-Based 16.6%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Hand-drawn 9.7%
You're looking for a new apartment in Amsterdam. Your once-confident search is morphing into panic. Nothing is available. Anything will do. ANYTHING.
Why similar: Comic Book 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Visual Novel 14%, Text-Based 13.4%
Interactive anime adventure in visual novel format!
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.4%, Hand-drawn 14.5%, Text-Based 14.1%, Anime 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%
In an abandoned bathroom waits a hungry female mouth; wet, eager, and downright sinister. Dare to feed it? — SHORT NAUGHTY SPOOKY VISUAL NOVEL · 26k words · 12 endings (in some you might even survive).
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Comic Book 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Text-Based 13.1%
After your mother’s strange funeral, a black rain blocks the roads and leaves you stranded. The air smells like rotting fruit and nature begins to mutate. Can you get out of here before the forest finds you?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Anime 9%, Adventure 8.5%
This game is a psychological test in which you will face dilemmas that reveal your personality. At the end of it, you will know your psychotype.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Visual Novel 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Text-Based 12.2%, Hand-drawn 8.7%
Experience the Myth of Frankenstein through the innocent eyes of his creature. Make decisions and change people's view that you will meet on your way. Now, the myth is in your hands, so how are you going to end it?
Why similar: Text-Based 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Hand-drawn 12.1%, Visual Novel 11%
A bizarre campus legend, take you into the traditional Japanese black-and-white comic horror story. Witness the familiar scenes and contemplate the terrifying moments.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Comic Book 14.1%, Text-Based 13.9%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Hand-drawn 11.1%
A heartwarming romance visual novel with mini cozy puzzle games… where yes, you can date capybaras. Welcome to Capybara Cafe Chronicles.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Text-Based 12.1%, Hand-drawn 10.1%
Comic Kingdom is a text-based adventure game primarily featuring a black-and-white comic style. It tells the story of a group of young manga artists who are trapped in a suburban farm.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Comic Book 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Text-Based 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.1%
Solis a hand drawn adventure. The city of Solis never sleeps — and tonight, neither will you. Elixer, the company you've dedicated yourself to, has gathered its people for an end-of-year celebration with a staggering promise at its heart: eternal life.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 18.6%, Comic Book 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Text-Based 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%
A directionless night-shift worker clings to a dying MMORPG, a legendary White Unicorn mount, and the belief that old games are more "real" in this short psychological horror visual novel about escapism and being left behind.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Anime 9.4%, Thriller 6.8%
Rewrite - DYH - A game that changes every time you play!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Hand-drawn 13.1%, Anime 11.4%
A digital comic about the story of Emeline. She tries to live her dream of being a superheroine after her friends decided to change their career paths. A gentle and moving story, drawn by hand.
Why similar: Comic Book 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Hand-drawn 13.2%, Emotional 9.3%
At Di Yingling High, rumors of missing girls run rampant. Exchange student Meng Jiangnan uncovers the school’s hidden darkness. The Remake heightens the suspense with black-and-white comic visuals and upgraded systems. Will you face the truth?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Comic Book 13.4%, Text-Based 12.8%, Hand-drawn 11.5%, Visual Novel 10.6%
Mental pain will never disappear, it will forever torment the soul of the protagonist. Who is he? How did he end up here? Why do dead people appear before him? Who is this girl with bandaged eyes? Eternal Pain: Epiphany is the story of the insight of a person who finds himself in purgatory.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Text-Based 12.6%, Hand-drawn 11.3%, Anime 9.9%
A drama/comedy visual novel about how holding a relationship together and surviving a deadly blizzard may not be all that different.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Hand-drawn 11.8%, Anime 9.9%
A Visual Novel game about adventure, fantasy, magic and friendship. This is a continuation of Chapter 4, and the conclusion of Book 1. There are only a few choices that can be made, and some paths to choose from. But they do not have an impact on the ending.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Comic Book 14.7%, Text-Based 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.7%
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 19.7%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Text-Based 16.1%, Hand-drawn 8.2%, Thriller 7.3%
メモリーズオフシリーズ最新作のアフターストーリー 主人公「久寿米木一葵」と登場ヒロインたちの「その後」を楽しんでいただけます。 ビジュアルノベル形式のゲームスタイルで選択肢を選びながらストーリーが進行します。 それぞれの道を歩み始めたヒロインたち。 それぞれの未来を大切な「あなた」と一緒につかむため、 それぞれの想いが、今はじける……！
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Adventure 9.3%, Anime 8.9%
Shame & choices = possible apocalypse. You need to figure out what’s causing the apocalypse to happen, so that you can prevent it. 2 playable characters with different relations to shame → 2 unique perspectives of the same story. Complicated families, branching choices and unforgiving consequences.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Text-Based 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Psychological 10.5%, Visual Novel 10.1%
Relive the four days of destiny...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Hand-drawn 11.8%, Anime 11.8%, Text-Based 9.3%
Skylar is an student with anxiety. Walter is a farmer with social anxiety and PTSD. Jessica is a programmer with anxiety and agoraphobia. Li Wei is an technologist with intense anxiety. Navigate their stories, learn how they move through the world, and about methods of treatment and recovery.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Psychological 10.5%, Text-Based 8.9%
When you awake, you find yourself transported back to the time when you were a student. You find it hard to breathe under the massive study load and oppressive environment, until you meet a stray cat that manages to wriggle its way into your world by chance...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20%, Comic Book 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Hand-drawn 14.9%, Visual Novel 12.9%
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 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Text-Based 13.5%, Hand-drawn 8.5%
“A story about cat girls … with bite.” Nekos have evolved in the shadows of human society. Beautiful. Mysterious. Chaotic. And now, three of them live with you. Will you be able to get past the stigma and grow closer to them? OmOneko is a tale of cat and mouse... and rats.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Comic Book 15.4%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Text-Based 12.3%
"Lies, treachery, and a bounty worth dying for. You’re no warrior, just a cunning hunter—will your wits be enough to catch Ralph Devour?"
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Comic Book 13.2%, Hand-drawn 11.1%
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 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Text-Based 13.5%, Thriller 11.6%, Anime 10.9%
Paris’s life changes when she encounters a charming stranger who seems to be watching her. This choice-driven psychological visual novel delivers a tense, intimate story focused on curiosity, trust, and crossing dangerous boundaries.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Text-Based 13.9%, Comic Book 13%, Visual Novel 12.4%
Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.3%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Text-Based 9.9%, Psychological 7.7%
Sword of Shandar is a narrative-driven light RPG focused on choice, consequence, and discovery. Engage in turn-based combat, resolve challenges through dice-roll skill checks, crack locks in hands-on minigames, and decipher ancient runes as you uncover the secrets of a fading world.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Comic Book 16.7%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Text-Based 14.7%
A visual novel set in a Chinese high school. Mostly realistic, with a werewolf twist. Your choices determine the heroine's fate—caught between envy and longing, will she claim her place in the system, or burn it all down for a dream no one values?
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.6%, Hand-drawn 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%, Emotional 9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.4%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Text-Based 14%, Hand-drawn 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 13%
Welcome to Hakuba school! Live a student life in Hakuba and solve the mysteries surrounding the school and your past...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Text-Based 13%, Anime 12.3%
"イカスミ"でポーションをつくる！？怪しいポーション屋さんのイカ『スミミ』と共に、個性豊かな人外キャラクター達にポーションを売るアドベンチャーゲーム！
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Hand-drawn 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Comic Book 12.4%
这是一个关于遗憾与成长的故事。男生的思绪不断回到17岁的夏天，在一次次回忆与抉择中徘徊，是去尝试弥补遗憾？还是在释然间体会成长的意义?回忆中的她会在那等我吗？
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Hand-drawn 13.8%, Comic Book 13.5%, Emotional 13.2%
