
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 30.9%, 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 8.8%, 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 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Simulation 16.9%, Investigation 10.3%, Puzzle 9.4%
You just did DMT at a campfire in the woods. Now you have to convince your best friend -- a skeptical, monitor-headed guy named Bingus -- that reality is a simulation. He doesn't believe you. The AI powering him doesn't want to. Pick apart the world's seams until one of you breaks.
Why similar: Typing 21.4% ★, Simulation 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Life Sim 18.4%, Narrative 8.8% ★
A group of passwords in front of you, with no way forward. Impossible to solve.
Why similar: Typing 35.3% ★, Simulation 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Puzzle 10.5%, Indie 1%
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 30.5%, Interactive Fiction 30%, Puzzle 12.2%, Investigation 9.7%, Exploration 8.1%
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 47% ★, Simulation 24.2%, Life Sim 13%, Text-Based 7.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%
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% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Simulation 11.3%, Puzzle 10.2%, Text-Based 5.8%
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 23.4%, Simulation 23.2%, Typing 22.4% ★, Life Sim 22%, Exploration 4.8%
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%, Interactive Fiction 28.2%, Life Sim 26.7%, Exploration 7.2%, First-Person 4.8%
An open world immersive comical experience featuring the rich culture and architecture from India. The game offers a light hearted and satirical approach with action packed missions to immerse into the daily desi lifestyle using a variety of different vehicles, weapons and inventories.
Why similar: Simulation 26%, Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Life Sim 23.2%, Action-Adventure 15.6%, Exploration 5.4%
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%, Simulation 17.1%, Action-Adventure 14.4%, Puzzle 9.5%
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%
Ten Tek Desire is an adult exploration game where you play as a spirit in a Japanese-style city. Move through apartments, solve puzzles, complete mini-games, read hidden stories, and unlock photos, videos, flash drives, and adult animations.
Why similar: Simulation 31.3%, Life Sim 28.2%, Puzzle 12.8%, Investigation 9.7%, Exploration 7.5%
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 24.1%, Narrative 6.3% ★, Linear 4.8%
Emotional highs and lows, but make it interdimensional.
Why similar: Typing 41.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 28.2%, Simulation 21.6%, Text-Based 8%, 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 24.4%, Simulation 20.3%, Investigation 10.3%, Exploration 6.7%
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 22.7%, Puzzle 11.5%, Exploration 6.2%
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 28.9%, Life Sim 27%, Investigation 8.1%, Story Rich 2.1%
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 37.1%, First-Person 10.3%, 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 35.1%, Interactive Fiction 33.6%, Puzzle 13.4%, 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%, Life Sim 34.5%, Puzzle 15.8%, First-Person 8.9%, Singleplayer 0.8%
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 21.3%, Simulation 21.3%, Text-Based 7%
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 38.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 28.3%, Investigation 17.9%, Text-Based 10.9%, Story Rich 2.6%
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 37.3%, Exploration 10.6%, Pixel Graphics 9%, Story Rich 3.8%
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 25.5% ★, Action-Adventure 12.6%, Text-Based 12.3%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%
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 32.9%, Life Sim 28.3%, 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 31%, Life Sim 29.2%, First-Person 5.9%, Indie 1.1%
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 36.7%, Interactive Fiction 30.3%, Action-Adventure 21%, Exploration 7.3%, Story Rich 2.7%
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 38.2%, Life Sim 31.3%, Simulation 23.7%, Story Rich 4.9%, Indie 1.3%
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 22.3%, Action-Adventure 16.3%, First-Person 4.9%
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 41.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 26.8%, Text-Based 10.8%, Puzzle 10.6%, Exploration 5.1%
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 13.9%, Exploration 12.6%, Linear 7.2%
A corporate parody JRPG. Battle coworkers, bosses, and the entire board of directors as you fight your way to the top of a satirical office tower. Build your team, master turn-based combat, and survive the most hostile workplace in gaming.
Why similar: Simulation 46.8%, Life Sim 42.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.7%, Singleplayer 1.1%
A portal back to August, Friday the 13th, 2021.
Why similar: Simulation 33.5%, Interactive Fiction 32.3%, Puzzle 12%, Investigation 8.8%, Exploration 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 50.1%, Action-Adventure 22.8%, Exploration 13.2%, First-Person 10.7%, Indie 2%
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 29.6%, Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Action-Adventure 16.5%, Investigation 10.5%, Text-Based 8.7%
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 42.4%, Investigation 26.5%, Puzzle 21.5%, Story Rich 6.5%, Indie 1.9%
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%, First-Person 10.4%, Story Rich 4.8%, Singleplayer 1%
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 44.9%, Simulation 31.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.2%, Exploration 5.2%, Story Rich 3%
An urban legend RPG. Play as an international student with 30 days to explore the city, upgrade stats, and bond with friends. When urban myths manifest as monsters, you must confront psychological traumas in looping battles. Gather clues, shatter the illusion of everyday life, and uncover the truth!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.7%, Life Sim 22.4%, Simulation 22.3%, Action-Adventure 16.6%, Exploration 5.7%
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 33%, Simulation 23.1%, Puzzle 13.3%, Text-Based 11.9%, Narrative 9.4% ★
Chat with Saki! Input keywords, ask questions, or simply check in to see how she's doing!
Why similar: Typing 40.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 27.3%, Life Sim 19%, Simulation 11.6%, Indie 0.6%
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%
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%, Puzzle 8.3%, Text-Based 8.2%
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 20.7%, Indie 1.1%, Singleplayer 0.5%
A fast-paced typing game where a pop-up ads are destroying your PC. Enter the right key combination to delete them! Do it quickly or your PC will die! and... don't fall for the ads.
Why similar: Typing 49.7% ★, Simulation 32.5%, Text-Based 8%, Narrative 7.9% ★, Indie 1.3%
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 32.7%, Life Sim 30.8%, Action-Adventure 19.6%, Exploration 8.9%, First-Person 6.5%
Void Future: Prologue is a standalone free experience set in the universe of Void Future. Play as a hacker in a cyberpunk world ruled by corporations and complete a single, fully designed mission. Hack systems, solve puzzles,and uncover secrets — while staying hidden from a system that never sleeps.
Why similar: Typing 40.4% ★, Simulation 29.6%, Puzzle 12.4%, Text-Based 8.8%, Investigation 7.5%
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 41.1%, First-Person 10.3%, Indie 2%, Singleplayer 1.2%
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%, Action-Adventure 25.4%, Puzzle 16.6%, Exploration 11.3%, First-Person 9%
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 42.7%, Exploration 12.1%, Singleplayer 1.4%
You're a detective. Investigate the haunting events surrounding the murder of Ann Peterson and her boyfriend. Explore an old safehouse for clues, deduce keywords and reveal redacted words as you search Ann's digital journal, and piece together your case report as this unfortunate story unfolds.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32%, Typing 27.5% ★, Investigation 18.1%, Text-Based 11.1%, Story Rich 5%
Welcome to What’s father’s father called? — a relative relationship puzzle game that has you laughing your head off while questioning life itself!
Why similar: Typing 50% ★, Simulation 38%, Text-Based 9.7%, Indie 1.5%, Singleplayer 0.8%
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 31.2%, Life Sim 29.2%, 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 48.9%, Simulation 38%, First-Person 11.7%, Singleplayer 1.4%
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 39.4% ★, Life Sim 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Simulation 12.7%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%
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 18.9%, Puzzle 14.1%, Investigation 12.3%, Action-Adventure 12.3%
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 47%, Life Sim 41.9%, Exploration 7.7%, Indie 1.9%, Singleplayer 1.6%
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 42.8% ★, Investigation 13.9%, Text-Based 12.6%, Puzzle 10.1%, Exploration 8.7%