
In 2016, a group of ambitious students got together to make the best adventure game ever — but they failed. Discover their story by playing through different builds of their game and reading their development logs.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Singleplayer, Interactive Fiction, Life Sim.

In 2016, a group of ambitious students got together to make the best adventure game ever — but they failed. Discover their story by playing through different builds of their game and reading their development logs.

My Child New Beginnings
My Child New Beginnings is a parenting simulator where you go through everyday life of growth. After a series of traumatic events that you and your child went through, you now get to rebuild life together in a new region of Norway.

Echoes of MK-ULTRA
In 1996’s digital haze, command DarkPulse, a rogue terminal torn from DARPA’s grip, to pierce Saraksen’s veiled conspiracy. Crack codes, hunt real-world clues, and decode cryptic media to expose forbidden truths. It's an ARG, and you’ve already been seen.
My Child New Beginnings is a parenting simulator where you go through everyday life of growth. After a series of traumatic events that you and your child went through, you now get to rebuild life together in a new region of Norway.
Why similar: Simulation 33.5%, Interactive Fiction 30.8%, Life Sim 28.9%, Story Rich 4.7%, Indie 1.3%
In 1996’s digital haze, command DarkPulse, a rogue terminal torn from DARPA’s grip, to pierce Saraksen’s veiled conspiracy. Crack codes, hunt real-world clues, and decode cryptic media to expose forbidden truths. It's an ARG, and you’ve already been seen.
Why similar: Simulation 27.2%, Typing 25.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Puzzle 8.7%, Investigation 7.6%
You were just the owner of an office, but something piqued your curiosity. Understand what happened to Andy by browsing through his most personal archives and memories. OS: Memories is a short and engaging storyline about the everyday life of a game developer.
Why similar: Life Sim 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Simulation 16.9%, Investigation 10.3%, Puzzle 9.3%
A group of passwords in front of you, with no way forward. Impossible to solve.
Why similar: Typing 35.4% ★, Simulation 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Puzzle 10.3%, Indie 1%
CozyTyper is a relaxing game where you can enjoy a cozy atmosphere while you spend your time improving your typing accuracy and speed, without the pressure of a ticking clock. Take your touch typing to the next level with calm practice and muscle memory training! Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
Why similar: Typing 46.5% ★, Simulation 24.4%, Life Sim 13.1%, Text-Based 7.7%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a Mouse? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be inside of a Maze? Wonder no more! In R.A.T.T.Z. Maze you will have to rely on the mouse to smell, and your brain to remember! Welcome to the Maze, Good luck!
Why similar: Simulation 30.6%, Interactive Fiction 30.1%, Puzzle 12.1%, Investigation 9.7%, Exploration 8.1%
A game in the Chatbot Roleplay category.Among the ancient Egyptian ruins, a book is found, and in our game, we talk to this book. The book answers everything we write. The book's general power is that everything written in it becomes real in the world, but we discuss the consequences with the book.
Why similar: Typing 43.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Simulation 11.4%, Puzzle 10.1%, Text-Based 5.9%
Wasteland Corp is a text-based post-apocalyptic simulation that brings cutting-edge local AI models into game experience. Command your corporate mercenary through a brutal wasteland filled with radiation, rival corporations, and mutant threats.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Simulation 23.2%, Typing 22.4% ★, Life Sim 22.1%, Exploration 4.7%
Four little letters that can turn your whole day upside down – ADHD. Think it’s nothing? That everyone has it? Then watering a few plants, walking the dog, or writing one simple email shouldn’t be a problem... right?
Why similar: Simulation 29.1%, Interactive Fiction 28.2%, Life Sim 26.8%, Exploration 7.2%, First-Person 4.8%
Hachi Hachi Mystery is a interactive Visual Novelf taking place at university. It's your first year as a university student and you're going to discover this new life! ...Well, that's how it should have happened.
Why similar: Simulation 34.8%, Interactive Fiction 32.4%, Investigation 11.8%, First-Person 8.6%, Text-Based 7.6%
You wake up in a silent white room with no exit—just a voice that follows you through five strange spaces, growing more unsettling as the world twists around you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Life Sim 23.1%, Simulation 17.1%, Action-Adventure 14.3%, Puzzle 9.4%
One day during a study session at the campus library, you instinctively scratch an itch through your pants due to a recurring skin condition. Unbeknownst to you, a girl seated across misinterprets your action as something indecent and records a video to report you.
Why similar: Simulation 32.4%, Interactive Fiction 28.8%, Life Sim 27.1%, Investigation 8.1%, Story Rich 2.1%
A narrative driven hacking game that takes you on a journey around murky hacking circles. You will be using the console and graphical tools to hack systems in order to profit and advance the storyline.
Why similar: Typing 35.5% ★, Simulation 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 24%, Narrative 6.3% ★, Linear 4.8%
Emotional highs and lows, but make it interdimensional.
Why similar: Typing 41.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 28.2%, Simulation 21.5%, Text-Based 8.1%, Singleplayer 0.7%
GRAFTAGE is a solarpunk hacking game where a bug has turned an office building into a cage. As you hack the corrupted machines through puzzles within their allotted runtimes, you bring the trapped denizens of the office building one step closer to freedom with each win you make against the virus.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Life Sim 24.5%, Simulation 20.3%, Investigation 10.2%, Exploration 6.6%
Within industrial silence, every machine holds a secret. Maintain the order... or break the loop.
Why similar: Simulation 26%, Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Life Sim 22.8%, Puzzle 11.3%, Exploration 6.2%
Explore a beautifully crafted modern apartment in Dream Home Simulator. Relax and walk through a detailed, fully furnished space, offering a glimpse of your dream home in a peaceful, casual experience.
Why similar: Simulation 50.7%, Life Sim 37.2%, First-Person 10.2%, Singleplayer 1.9%
Navigate a nightmarish labyrinth, avoid eerie entities, and uncover dark secrets in this liminality based horror game. Explore realistic levels, unravel secrets, and figure out life or death puzzles. Will you escape the madness? Brought to you by a solo 13 year old dev.
Why similar: Simulation 35.2%, Interactive Fiction 33.6%, Puzzle 13.2%, Exploration 9.2%, First-Person 6.4%
Labyrinth with traps and enemies: overcome deadly traps and avoid being chased by a treacherous enemy. Building mode: manage four regions, creating unique architectural masterpieces.
Why similar: Simulation 40.1%, Life Sim 34.6%, Puzzle 15.6%, First-Person 8.9%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Following a not highly unexpected crash landing (which seems to happen to you a lot), you find yourself stranded on a hostile alien world full of humour, mystery and quite a bit of walking - Your task is clear, find a way off of this planet and get home. - Should be simple!
Why similar: Typing 38.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 28.2%, Investigation 17.8%, Text-Based 11%, Story Rich 2.6%
Another day, another data retrieval job. Or is it? Using a linux-like terminal, explore BeyondHelix's systems and uncover what led to the company's demise.
Why similar: Typing 41.3% ★, Simulation 24.7%, Puzzle 13.9%, Exploration 9.6%, Text-Based 8.7%
Where there is sky and sea, there is a story. Experience the "slow life" of your dreams on a southern island!
Why similar: Simulation 38.5%, Life Sim 37.4%, Exploration 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 9%, Story Rich 3.8%
Live Through Time is an AI-powered historical text adventure. Survive gritty eras from the Colosseum in Ancient Rome to the trenches of Passchendaele during The Great War. Type or dictate your actions to co-author a script-free RPG where the world reacts to your every move.
Why similar: Typing 24.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Life Sim 21.4%, Simulation 21.2%, Text-Based 7%
If we were to bring a loved one back to life as an AI, and then, for whatever reason, we had to let them go or part ways, would we be able to turn them off?
Why similar: Simulation 35.3%, Interactive Fiction 32.8%, Life Sim 28.4%, Story Rich 2.9%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Embark on an AI-powered adventure above the Himalayas in "The Everest Encounter." Engage in dynamic, evolving conversations with Katherine, an AI flight attendant, in a photorealistic environment. Customize your journey with your own GenAI + LLM models and challenge your perception of reality.
Why similar: Simulation 32.4%, Interactive Fiction 30.9%, Life Sim 29.2%, First-Person 5.9%, Indie 1.1%
A first-person psychological horror where a journalist’s hunt for two missing friends spirals into paranoia, deadly secrets, and a killer clown no one can explain.
Why similar: Simulation 30.1%, Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Life Sim 22.4%, Action-Adventure 16.2%, First-Person 4.9%
Dive into the world of divination with the Cartomancy Anthology, a collection of introspective and compact digital experiences presented together in a virtual tarot deck.
Why similar: Simulation 36.8%, Interactive Fiction 30.3%, Action-Adventure 20.9%, Exploration 7.3%, Story Rich 2.7%
In the text-adventure “Head in the Cloud,” you play as a Marine hacker on a mission to sabotage a crime syndicate’s supercomputer. When things don’t go to plan, you must use your head to survive, or risk losing it!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.9%, Typing 25.6% ★, Action-Adventure 12.5%, Text-Based 12.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%
A chronic illness simulator. You think you have a chronic illness, but you don't know what. All you know is you are always in some state of pain. You've been to too many doctors to count... but you still have to live your life.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.1%, Life Sim 31.4%, Simulation 23.7%, Story Rich 4.9%, Indie 1.3%
A psychological exploration through a liminal dreamscape: no guides, no paths, just you and small environmental mysteries.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35%, Simulation 22.5%, Puzzle 13.8%, Exploration 12.6%, Linear 7.2%
Elevator Pitch is a narrative-driven game where you pitch ideas you come up with during elevator rides right before presenting to your boss. Build a strong pitch navigate branching conversations, and rise through the floors of a satirical office tower.
Why similar: Simulation 46.8%, Life Sim 42.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.7%, Singleplayer 1.1%
A portal back to August, Friday the 13th, 2021.
Why similar: Simulation 33.6%, Interactive Fiction 32.3%, Puzzle 11.8%, Investigation 8.8%, Exploration 7%
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: Simulation 29.7%, Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Action-Adventure 16.4%, Investigation 10.5%, Text-Based 8.7%
A Game About Mining Rocks is a single-player survival game where you mine rocks, gather minerals, sell them, and upgrade your gear to explore deeper. Reach the bottom to find a legendary crystal, but be careful something down there is waiting for you.
Why similar: Simulation 50.2%, Action-Adventure 22.7%, Exploration 13.2%, First-Person 10.7%, Indie 2%
A detective game that combines written, audio, visual and meta-game puzzles to create an enthralling experience. It plays for roughly 2-3 hours.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 42.5%, Investigation 26.6%, Puzzle 21.3%, Story Rich 6.5%, Indie 2%
Chat with Saki! Input keywords, ask questions, or simply check in to see how she's doing!
Why similar: Typing 40.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 27.2%, Life Sim 19.1%, Simulation 11.6%, Indie 0.6%
Do you miss life pre covid? The fantastic yet boring 9-5 of our existence? Then this is NOT the game for you. This boring game involves you clicking your way through the day during quarantine as you go by living life with covid in this endless experience.
Why similar: Simulation 43.8%, Life Sim 40.1%, First-Person 10.3%, Story Rich 4.8%, Singleplayer 1%
You log on to a computer having no clue of what lies within. Explore its files, solve puzzles to recover missing pieces, and decipher passwords to enter otherwise prohibited folders. As you delve deeper into its content, you’ll find that there is a greater mystery to be solved.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.7%, Simulation 23.3%, Puzzle 13.2%, Text-Based 12.1%, Narrative 9.5% ★
A life simulation game where you create your dream home and farm. Escape the busy and crowded city to restore a forgotten land in northeastern Thailand, and discover the warmth of rural life in Na Sarp Village.
Why similar: Life Sim 45%, Simulation 31.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.2%, Exploration 5.2%, Story Rich 3%
A first person horror game that knows when your eyes are open. Closing your eyes provides safety from the terror, but also leaves you vulnerable to the unknown. Haunted by a clown doll, you can either hide, or open your eyes to the horrors.
Why similar: Simulation 35.8%, Interactive Fiction 33.9%, Investigation 12.9%, Exploration 10%, Linear 5.7%
Greenhouse is a gloomy and atmospheric erotic interactive fiction with an aura of mystery. You'll play as Erik, a male scalie dragon, as you navigate the sexual perils of the greenhouse.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.5%, Action-Adventure 18.8%, Puzzle 13.8%, Exploration 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%
A minimalist typing game where every 10 seconds is a year of your life. Balance Work, Family, and Health as time runs out.
Why similar: Typing 51.3% ★, Life Sim 26.4%, Simulation 20.6%, Indie 1.1%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Can you succeed as a car dealer? If your answer is yes, start your business by purchasing cars in the city. Remember that you can repair, rent, customize, and have them evaluated by an expert before selling your vehicles.
Why similar: Simulation 45.3%, Life Sim 41.2%, First-Person 10.3%, Indie 2%, Singleplayer 1.2%
You play all four heroines in this big multi-chapter sci-fi text adventure. Negotiate underwater mechs, AIs, abandoned cities, crime, friendship, suspense, horror, humour, an art exhibition, virtual realities and a tank. Experience each PC via first-person prose as you puzzle, converse and explore.
Why similar: Typing 41.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 26.8%, Text-Based 10.9%, Puzzle 10.5%, Exploration 5.1%
Descend deep into the Earth beneath the Kola Superdeep Borehole, exploring underground layers as a geologist sent to investigate strange signals — and uncover that Earth is not what science believes it to be.
Why similar: Simulation 30.1%, Action-Adventure 25.2%, Puzzle 16.5%, Exploration 11.3%, First-Person 9%
A PSX Detective Mystery Horror game. You play as an investigator solving bizarre crime cases. The story unfolds through a blend of interviews, computer based investigations and unsettling psychological elements.
Why similar: Typing 35.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Investigation 16%, Text-Based 8.3%, Puzzle 8.2%
This game is a reality coffee shop Simulator. where you can eat, take pictures or walk around a coffee shop. You can use your cell phone or just hang out in a realistic 3D coffee shop
Why similar: Simulation 43.8%, Life Sim 42.8%, Exploration 12%, Singleplayer 1.4%
Welcome to the cutting edge of virtual mayhem in "ByteBurst" – the ultimate hacker's playground. Immerse yourself in a thrilling journey through the digital realm, where your skills will be pushed to the limit, and every line of code is a potential weapon.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.3%, Simulation 25.6%, Typing 24.3% ★, Puzzle 14.3%, Indie 2.5%
A first-person life simulation game where you work as an insurance agent, complete office tasks, manage your daily routine, and unwind with interactive activities after hours.
Why similar: Simulation 32.8%, Life Sim 30.9%, Action-Adventure 19.4%, Exploration 8.9%, First-Person 6.4%
Take control of a basketball team. Choose tactics, sign players and help them develop. Guide your team to victory!
Why similar: Simulation 33.5%, Interactive Fiction 31.1%, Life Sim 29.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.5%, Singleplayer 0.7%
This game is a sex shop management simulation game. In the game, you can open a sex shop, make sales, interact with customers, navigate the map, and perform tasks.
Why similar: Life Sim 49%, Simulation 38%, First-Person 11.7%, Singleplayer 1.4%
A short psychological horror game, where you attempt to gain root access into an unethical superstructure.
Why similar: Typing 34.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Simulation 16.6%, Investigation 11.2%, Puzzle 8%
Experience the thrill and challenges of life on the open road in Trucking Simulator! Strap in, hit the gas, and embark on an immersive journey through the bustling highways and scenic landscapes. Navigate your massive rig through ever-changing road conditions to deliver your cargo safely and on time
Why similar: Simulation 46.9%, Life Sim 42%, Exploration 7.6%, Indie 1.9%, Singleplayer 1.6%
『Letters of Bernard Thorne』 is a story-driven psychological horror game about trauma. Take a seat in Bernard's motorized wheelchair. Roam around the old man's house. Discover his scarred past. Flee from his sins. Climb up the attic.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Narrative 19.2% ★, Simulation 16.3%, Text-Based 13.4%, Puzzle 9.2%
Hardcode logical detective game. Only a few clues will help finding murderer. Was it just an accident or a murder? Thief broke in to steal something? Money? Or was it just a broken heart revenge? Well, you`ve got a chance to solve this case...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Simulation 19%, Investigation 15.6%, Puzzle 13.1%, Text-Based 8.9%
Trapped on the tracks with an earthquake threatening your life, you must escape from the subway tunnel and station about to collapse. Must solve the puzzles, avoid, collect things and use the enviroment at your favor. Play alone this First Person Horror puzzle game and try to survive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.5%, Simulation 19%, Puzzle 14%, Investigation 12.3%, Action-Adventure 12.2%
Time itself is breaking up, and Dodger, the dishwashing dude onboard Penrose Space Station, is the unlikely fixer. Join the chaos in this 80s-style comedy, sci-fi text-parser adventure as Dodger tackles a cosmic crisis like no other! This version includes all three episodes + new extra content!
Why similar: Typing 39.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Text-Based 8.2%, Puzzle 7.2%, Exploration 6.3%
Supreme OS is an operating system that runs on your operating system. With such stupendously amazing features as agile mail servers, exciting terminal commands, puzzles for your puzzles and the occasional AI singularity, Supreme OS is bound to be a game-changer!
Why similar: Typing 40% ★, Simulation 31.9%, Puzzle 12.4%, Text-Based 8.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%
Finish Report is a short science fiction horror game. All communications have been lost to a space station far in deep space. You as a one-man investigation unit has been sent to find out why did the station go silent.
Why similar: Typing 42.9% ★, Investigation 13.9%, Text-Based 12.6%, Puzzle 9.9%, Exploration 8.7%
A narrative simulation game where you play as a mother-to-be working as a toll keeper in the fictional country of Janapa, a nation on the brink of chaos. Navigate daily challenges and make difficult moral choices to survive—all for the sake of your unborn child.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.8%, Life Sim 29.7%, Simulation 23.1%, Investigation 12.2%, Narrative 3.1% ★