60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Noir, Story Rich, Choose Your Own Adventure.
A comic/manga inspired interactive game. The game requires you to trust your instincts to determine best approach. Actions are chosen either through drawn pages or open stages. Your gameplay will affect your characters emotional strength as well as their skills/cards.
NOL
NOL is a first-person horror game with visuals inspired by black and white horror manga. You play as Guntur, a young man trapped in a dream world after reading news about the massacre of his childhood friend's family. Since the game focuses on dreams, ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN.
Shadow of Paris
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.
NOL is a first-person horror game with visuals inspired by black and white horror manga. You play as Guntur, a young man trapped in a dream world after reading news about the massacre of his childhood friend's family. Since the game focuses on dreams, ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN.
Why similar: Noir 22.3%, 2.5D 19.8%, Comic Book 17%, Hand-drawn 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%
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: Noir 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Comic Book 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Text-Based 11.4%
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 28.3%, Comic Book 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Thriller 10.3%
A psychological mystery where every clue reshapes reality. Unravel the link between a vanished woman and your missing sister, only to discover four entirely different truths, each revealing a new world, a new enemy, and the price of remembering.
Why similar: Noir 23.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Text-Based 11.6%, Thriller 10.5%
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: Noir 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Comic Book 13.8%, Immersive Sim 11.5%
Think BATMAN, but always DRUNK and he can TIME-TRAVEL. Sink into Hank's comic book world and escape The Unraveler's trap. Play a dangerous time-bending co-op with your past self.
Why similar: Noir 21.1%, 2.5D 15.5%, Comic Book 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Immersive Sim 10.4%
To pull the trigger takes guts; to miss invites death. Hunt down 10 sinners in this mouse-only Noir Western. Battle your own nerves and a cursed revolver where hand tremors make every duel a gamble. How steady is your aim?
Why similar: Quick-Time Events 29% ★, Noir 23.3%, Comic Book 16.4%, Thriller 12.5%, 2.5D 6.8%
After being interviewed by a mysterious individual you find yourself thrown head first into a new town. Not long after you find the day you've spent there is repeating! You're stuck in an inescapable loop! Will you find a way out, or will you be forced to relive the same day over and over again?
Why similar: 2.5D 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Lore-Rich 13.2%, Action-Adventure 10.1%
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: Noir 22.1%, Comic Book 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Thriller 12.3%, Text-Based 11.4%
A psychological thriller visual novel where your choices deeply affect an 18-year-old woman's mental state, leading to multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Comic Book 15.7%, Text-Based 14.7%, Thriller 12.9%
Dive into a devastated world where survival depends not only on your weapons… but on your choices. In The Last Among The Dead, play as a survivor trapped in a land ravaged by a mysterious infection.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Comic Book 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Immersive Sim 10.9%, Text-Based 10.8%
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 27.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Immersive Sim 15.8%, Text-Based 14.5%
Lucrom City’s notorious asylum has been overrun by a recently caught sadistic mastermind - the Unraveler. He’s willing to negotiate before he starts killing the hostages on one condition. He gets to speak to one person - Hank, his captor.
Why similar: Noir 24.3%, 2.5D 17.5%, Comic Book 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Action-Adventure 8.3%
“A single wingbeat can destroy everything.” New Elysium is a cinematic narrative drama where every choice reshapes the story. Explore a shattered utopia, survive the night, and decide the final wingbeat of destiny.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Immersive Sim 16.6%, Thriller 11.2%, Action-Adventure 10.1%
Sling spells and crack the case in a city full of bootleggers, corrupt cops, and vampires. Can you save your partner before a wizard dooms Seattle? A text-based interactive urban fantasy noir novel.
Why similar: Alternate History 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Text-Based 16.5%, Noir 15.2%
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: Noir 22.4%, Comic Book 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Text-Based 13%, Hand-drawn 10%
A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.
Why similar: Noir 22.6%, Thriller 19.4%, Comic Book 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Text-Based 11.3%
Parallel-Weirdo is a Japanese manga-style visual novel set in DYL High School. It follows Wang Zhe, an ordinary and frail boy, who tries to win the hearts of girls and complete his experiments. He gets entangled in bizarre events, plunging into darkness. Each choice you make determines his fate.
Why similar: Noir 25.3%, Comic Book 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Text-Based 12.4%
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: Noir 23.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Text-Based 9.6%, Lore-Rich 7.9%
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 28.6%, Comic Book 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Thriller 15%
Step into the smoky, seductive world of the Angels Den, a luxurious burlesque club. Get into the high heels of Holly, a talented dancer graced with a unique gift of telepathy. Help her on a desperate mission to save a friend from certain doom.
Why similar: Noir 28.7%, Comic Book 13.8%, Alternate History 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%
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: Comic Book 20%, Hand-drawn 17.5%, Noir 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Text-Based 13.8%
This year's Desire Hierarchy has begun. The stakes are now deadly. Hop into The Specter's Desire, a Visual Novel in which you play against the city's top talents to save your parents. Includes puzzling gameplay that has you tearing down arguments, hatching schemes, and revealing the truth!
Why similar: Card Game 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Text-Based 15.3%, Thriller 11%
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 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Immersive Sim 19.5%, Lore-Rich 13.9%, Choices Matter 7.2%
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 30.8%, Thriller 20.3%, Comic Book 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%
In this game, you can watch as 7 protagonists come to a crossroad, facing their own destiny. You will witness their own choices and the blood-splattering consequence they have on one another. There is no way out except to plunge them into the abyss...
Why similar: Comic Book 19%, Noir 16.3%, Text-Based 15.6%, Immersive Sim 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%
Playing a card game where you navigate from the revenge of an English peasant against marauding Vikings in medieval England to the attainment of kingdom power.
Why similar: Card Game 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Alternate History 16.6%, Hand-drawn 10.3%
Kill all the cultists before midnight strikes
Why similar: Noir 31.9%, Card Game 26.8%, Comic Book 25.4%, Strategy 11.8%, Atmospheric 4.1%
Can you find what you're looking for? Or are you at the mercy of Tisik and her followers? Your words matter in this short game of dialogue.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Lore-Rich 18.1%, Comic Book 15.9%, Hand-drawn 12.5%
GOLOD is an atmospheric visual novel about survival in the pixel-art style, where you will have to fight not only with a lack of food, but also with panic, suffocating idleness, secrets of the past, betrayal and difficult moral choices in a confined space.
Why similar: Thriller 23.3%, Alternate History 15.5%, Anime 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
“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: Comic Book 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Immersive Sim 13.6%, Text-Based 12.1%
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: Comic Book 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Text-Based 14.1%, Immersive Sim 13%
Lucifer Lives in Lower Manhattan is a 1940s Crime Noir Murder Mystery Visual Novel with non-linear game play and a subtle love letter to classic adventure games of the 80s and 90s.
Why similar: Noir 27.1%, Comic Book 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Immersive Sim 14.8%, Strategy 8%
A daemonic, handcrafted visual novel where your choices shape erotic dreams, secrets, and ritual desires.
Why similar: Noir 26.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Text-Based 13.3%, Lore-Rich 12%
FORECLOSED is a narrative-driven action-adventure set in a Cyberpunk world filled with action, suspense, and experimental augmentations. Follow the story of Evan Kapnos in this sleek comic book styled game as he unravels the conspiracy behind his identity foreclosure. Who is responsible and why?
Why similar: Noir 29.7%, Comic Book 22%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Hand-drawn 8.6%, Third Person 7.1%
Point-&-Click Adventure with Deck-builder Cards Combat, Play as a retired detective investigating a missing child case while facing your past demons. Explore Midnight Cove, Victorian city with semi-open world mechanics and characters relationships. The story is episode-based, chapter by chapter.
Why similar: Noir 30%, Alternate History 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Card Game 14.1%, Text-Based 12.3%
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 31.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Hand-drawn 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Choices Matter 9.9%
This is a lightweight mountaineering-themed strategy game. You need to allocate your physical strength and time reasonably, plan your route, and successfully climb the mountain before you run out of food.
Why similar: Quick-Time Events 26.8% ★, 2.5D 24%, Card Game 23.7%, Text-Based 16.3%, Strategy 9.2%
Where does the dream end and reality begins? That's up to you to find out.
Why similar: Noir 25.9%, Comic Book 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Thriller 12%, Action-Adventure 10.6%
A dark and suspenseful narrative RPG about an Italian mafia family, where morality is tested with every branching decision.
Why similar: Noir 27.6%, Comic Book 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Text-Based 12%
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 33.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.9%, Text-Based 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Choices Matter 7.6%
Stranded on a mysterious island after a sudden shipwreck, two girls must work together to survive. Balance deep narrative choices with sandbox survival mechanics as you build your camp, uncover ancient secrets, and navigate a story filled with humor, drama, and unexpected destiny.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Quick-Time Events 18.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Immersive Sim 17%, Comic Book 14.1%
Need more stress in your life? Meet Laura Silver, a paranoid and insomniac detective tasked with researching Slavic mythology. Do you know anything about the Vodnik? Neither does she. Unfortunately, her incompetence won't be your biggest problem in Czechoslovakia.
Why similar: Noir 21.9%, Comic Book 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Hand-drawn 10.1%
Versetender is a narrative bartending game where you serve drinks across multiple worlds—medieval taverns, cyberpunk clubs, and distant space stations. a chill game to play on the side, shaping the fate of travelers, outlaws, and wanderers. Mod-friendly and choice-driven.
Why similar: Noir 23.8%, Comic Book 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Immersive Sim 12.4%
Scavenge abandoned apartments, cut on broken glass, fight anomalies, trade with the merchants, deceive them into buying bad products and most importantly - try to stay alive and care about yourself!
Why similar: Quick-Time Events 44.8% ★, Noir 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Action-Adventure 7.4%, Immersive Sim 7.3%
a weird console message appears on your screen should you check it out or shut down the pc the choices are yours but be careful your choices will shift everything
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Strategy 15.6%, Text-Based 13.6%, Action-Adventure 12.3%
The game is a 3D first-person horror game and features Korean and Japanese soldiers and is played in a place called Yeongyeong, the palace of the Goryeo Dynasty. (Please understand that the game size is high for quality reasons.)
Why similar: Quick-Time Events 26.9% ★, Thriller 19.9%, Action-Adventure 16.6%, Strategy 14.2%, Text-Based 12.1%
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: Thriller 21.7%, Text-Based 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Hand-drawn 10.1%
Play as Sam or Farah as they attempt to navigate the neon thrills of their cyberpunk city Love Shore, solve murders, fight gods and maybe fall in love.
Why similar: Noir 36.7%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Text-Based 12.8%, Choices Matter 9.5%
WHEN THE CROW SINGS is an adventure mystery game with a focus on exploration, characters, and world building, featuring a cast of diverse survivors trying to keep the status quo as their compound life grows more complicated and dangerous.
Why similar: Quick-Time Events 22% ★, Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Lore-Rich 11.3%, Hand-drawn 11.3%
"RuleScape：Survival" is FMV where you play as He Wei, gifted with the 'Eye of Truth' to see hidden rules. Navigate deadly contradictions while caring for your roommate's enigmatic girlfriend. 10 distinct endings. Uncover the truth behind the horror, but beware—every revelation comes at a price.
Why similar: Comic Book 29.4%, Thriller 18.9%, Immersive Sim 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Anime 11.8%
is a horror game based on a true incident. Dreams distort memories, blending the main character’s guilt into horror. Spatial distortion, unique design, and unsettling sounds induce psychological unease, inviting you into the ‘Aesthetics of Discomfort’.
Why similar: Noir 30.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Immersive Sim 19.7%, Strategy 12.3%, Exploration 10.2%
A logical puzzle game where timing and planning matter. Guide Luna through a cursed labyrinth using candlelight and echoes of past attempts to reach the Eternal Flame. Solve layered challenges and uncover meaning in every flicker of hope.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, 2.5D 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Immersive Sim 15.2%, Action-Adventure 13.8%
You are a scholarship student at the secluded Veir Academy. Two heroines. Nora or Lika? Trust or distance? Submit to the system — or break it? An introspective visual novel about tension, closeness, and silent choices.
Why similar: Noir 26.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Lore-Rich 11.9%, Anime 9.5%
With debts to pay to the underworld, you need to make a lot of coin fast! Perhaps worse, you're wanted by the King's men for desertion. Survival is your first priority...
Why similar: Noir 28.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Text-Based 15.9%, Choices Matter 6.3%
A dark fantasy roguelite card game where choices matter. Swipe cards, make moral decisions, build your skill tree — spin the Wheel of Kings and survive until the year 2000, or watch your kingdom fall.
Why similar: Card Game 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Text-Based 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Lore-Rich 12.8%
These monsters aren’t just in the movies! Will you hunt the vampires, werewolves and others stalking Hollywood, or will you become a monster instead? An interactive, text-based game set in the World of Darkness shared story universe.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Noir 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Text-Based 15.6%, Thriller 11%
The A.C.E.S. Once the watchful guardians of Switchblade City - are being taken down, one by one. Now it's up to one man, with two fists, to get to the bottom of it all. Fallen Aces is a crime noir FPS that plays right out of the '90s and looks like it's right outta the comics.
Why similar: Noir 35.1%, Comic Book 21.7%, 2.5D 18.2%, Immersive Sim 16.1%, Hand-drawn 9%
Third Eye Open is a supernatural narrative adventure about a young girl coming of age. The game is set in a small Malaysian suburb which the player navigates to speak to friends, families, and ghosts. Various minigames immerse the player deeper into the protagonist's journey.
Why similar: Thriller 20.9%, 2.5D 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Hand-drawn 10.6%, Action-Adventure 8.5%
In 2016, a young Uruguayan travels to the neighborhood of 'Terminal 81' a place marked by violence, inequality, and vice, where a dangerous human trafficking network operates. Determined to find his sister, the young man ventures into the perilous and dark world of Terminal 81.
Why similar: Noir 31.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Immersive Sim 14.9%, Thriller 13.2%, Action-Adventure 10.8%
