Games Like Chicken Boy

Will you be able to remember who you are before the clock shows 00:00 again?

Why similar: Abstract 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Text-Based 15.2%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Psychedelic 8%

A short visual novel about finding your name and a girl in the fog.

Why similar: Abstract 20.6%, Text-Based 19.5%, Psychedelic 15.5%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%

This is a psychological horror in which we play as a girl who has psychological health problems, and her mother has sent her to the store. Our task is to help her buy groceries.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Abstract 14.4%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Minimalist 13.5%, Text-Based 12.8%

Alchemy, puzzles, and a crashed starship. Old-style interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No dialogue trees! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next.

Why similar: Text-Based 40%, Interactive Fiction 35.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Adventure 2%, Indie 0.7%

Chronicles from the Abyss is a collection of 4 twisted Horror & Thriller stories that will play on the darkest corners of your mind, & every choice drips with dread. Twisted plots, haunting art, and chilling secrets await. Ready to uncover what lurks beneath?

Why similar: Abstract 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Text-Based 12.3%, Visual Novel 12.1%

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: Text-Based 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Visual Novel 15%, Minimalist 10%

Have you set your alarm for 07:00 yet? He was waiting for you too.

Why similar: Abstract 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Text-Based 14.5%, Visual Novel 13%

Wake up, watch tv, make a cup of cofffee and try to bear your own meaningless existence.

Why similar: Text-Based 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Abstract 15.9%, Minimalist 14.7%, Visual Novel 14.1%

This short psychedelic visual novel takes place in a strange world inhabited by harrowing creatures shunned by the light. You’ll meet someone who has made this world their own, and in doing so, learn the reason why you shouldn't be there.

Why similar: Text-Based 22.9%, Abstract 15.7%, Psychedelic 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Visual Novel 12.9%

A psychological thriller visual novel where your choices deeply affect an 18-year-old woman's mental state, leading to multiple endings.

Why similar: Text-Based 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Anime 7.8%

A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.

Why similar: Text-Based 26.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26%, Interactive Fiction 22%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Minimalist 9.2%

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: Text-Based 27.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Anime 7.5%

这是一个关于爱与梦想的故事。 想要造出火箭飞上天的少年，追逐着星星，大声许下了誓言： 我们之所以要飞上星空，绝非因为此事很简单，正相反，是因为它难以做到，才更值得去追逐！ 梦想随着时间蒙尘，流转到浑浑噩噩躺在社团活动室的午后。 神秘出现在社团门口的美少女，钻进你的怀里，痛哭着称呼你为“爸爸！” 打破了平静日常的她，却从此刻起一时失去了踪影。追逐她，重新找到她，询问其哭泣与称呼父亲的含义，对她发动复仇！ 神秘记者侦探美少女星岛，帮助寻找美少女之间，揭露这一切背后蕴藏着的阴谋—— 反派……竟然是我自己！？ 欢迎打开《幻恋逢星之时》，与美少女一起体验这浓缩了阴谋的校园故事。

Why similar: Text-Based 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Abstract 15.1%, Psychedelic 11.2%, Visual Novel 9.9%

Enjoy the murder by the word.

Why similar: Text-Based 24.1%, Psychedelic 15.8%, Abstract 15.5%, Minimalist 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.7%

INFERIAE is a two-hour-long descent into a nightmare over 20 years in the making, an immersive experience blending unsettling soundscapes with hundreds of shifting scenes and a haunting narrative.

Why similar: Abstract 25.3%, Text-Based 18.2%, Visual Novel 18%, Psychedelic 14.3%, Minimalist 12.5%

Sacrificium is a dark psychological horror experience blending illustrated storytelling, branching choices, and sanity-driven gameplay. Trapped in a castle controlled by a satanic cult, you must escape before the nightmare consumes you.

Why similar: Text-Based 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Psychedelic 12.5%

CLOSED HANDS is a groundbreaking work of interactive fiction that explores the tangled intertwined stories of five people thrown together by a fictional terror attack.

Why similar: Text-Based 34.8%, Interactive Fiction 30.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.3%, Adventure 4.5%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Battle demons and undead attorneys, and win souls to pay back your student loans! At the elite demonic-law firm of Varkath Nebuchadnezzar Stone, you'll depose a fallen god, find romance, and maybe even make partner, if you don't lose your own soul first.

Why similar: Text-Based 43.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 37.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Indie 0.9%

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 25.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Text-Based 19.5%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Anime 7.5%

Electric Sleep is a pixel art interactive story. Explore a crumbling world through the perspective of different emotions.

Why similar: Text-Based 35.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.2%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Adventure 1.8%

Drakkon World Builder is a comprehensive tool for generating, creating and roleplaying with your favorite table top role-playing game systems. It comes with a world generator, dungeon mapper, solo-play oracle and a variety of other helpful tools to let you role-play solo or with friends!

Why similar: Utilities 44.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Text-Based 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Pixel Graphics 5.2%

Folk Horror Adventure gameGame ConseptThree ritualsNew original languageMysterious Knights

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.9%, Text-Based 22%, Abstract 17%, Visual Novel 16%, Psychedelic 12.5%

It's a winter night. You are coming home by train. You have to change trains at a small train station in the middle of the forest.It's not the first time you've traveled this route. But now you feel like something is different.As if something was watching you.

Why similar: Text-Based 20%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Psychedelic 16.9%, Visual Novel 12.2%

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 29.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%

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 42.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%, Visual Novel 7.6%

Axelle spends most of her life inside her room : watching anime, scrolling on forums online and playing video games. She desperately wants a boyfriend. You are her conscience, help her attain that goal.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Psychedelic 15.7%, Visual Novel 15%, Text-Based 13.8%

A Hand-Drawn Visual Novel Essay Game

Why similar: Abstract 28.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Text-Based 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%

A capitalist fever dream disguised as a corporate wellness guided meditation. Will you be stuck in the first day of your unpaid internship forever? A unique visual novel experience in virtual reality that combines absurd humor and trippy visuals to tell a story about you, an intern.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Psychedelic 16.5%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Cartoony 10.4%

Welcome to the Detective Club! Led by the troublesome and shy president Alice Baskerville. Follow this comedy story where together you will solve cases using your deductive powers!

Why similar: Text-Based 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Cartoony 8.2%

The Ocean Will Have Us All is a first person exploration game.Experience a day in the subatomic life of Moira Leech. Get up, go to work, go home, go back to sleep. Or. Go off the the beaten track! Take charge! Stick your finger in an electrical socket!

Why similar: Abstract 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Psychedelic 13%, Minimalist 10.3%

RAIN;CHECK tells a short story set in a small, remote town about a girl just trying to get by in the middle of a rainy, tumultuous night. On this special occasion, an unexpected storm of events brews ever closer.

Why similar: Abstract 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Minimalist 11%

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 29%, Text-Based 28.6%, Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Adventure 1.8%

An interactive text narrative where charm, charisma, and seduction will be your key tools. Angel is an alluring and confident twink- each word, each glance, has deeper meanings as the two of you spend a fleeting night's tryst with eachother.

Why similar: Text-Based 28.6%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%

A supernatural mystery visual novel where your choices shape relationships and determine the fate of a coastal town. Explore ancient secrets, unravel supernatural enigmas, and make decisions that lead to three distinct endings based on your choices across four intense days.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Text-Based 23%, Visual Novel 18%, Colorful 5.3%

A voxel-powered comedy about clothes, pockets, and the people who need them.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Text-Based 20.5%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%

A short visual novel about a man living its worst nightmare. There is no way out, no safe place, no death, just eternal limbo. Only you can help him... if that's what you want.

Why similar: Abstract 20.3%, Psychedelic 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Visual Novel 12%, Minimalist 10.9%

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 29.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.2%, Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Singleplayer 0.3%

A visual novel set in the world of 'The Noob Adventures'. Meet and talk to your favourite characters in this nostalgic fan-fiction.

Why similar: Text-Based 27.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Anime 4.9%

Medical clerk Manami Sorano discovers a medical record of a non-existent patient. The next day at a hot spring inn, a murder occurs—the victim’s name matches the record. Coincidence or fate? Using her skills and medical records, she unravels the truth in this mystery adventure!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.9%, Text-Based 34.7%, Visual Novel 21.1%, 2D 3.4%, Adventure 3.1%

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 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Text-Based 18.8%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Anime 9.4%

Dive into "Oneiric" a charming walking simulator. Play as a 7-year-old boy exploring a nostalgic world of dreams and solve the riddles in a single enchanting night. Short nap, thats 15 minutes game experience focused on visual aspect.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Abstract 22.7%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Psychedelic 13.1%, Minimalist 11.4%

A spin-off minigame collection of "Needy Streamer Overload". Meet your internet angel in this retro-style game world!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Text-Based 18%, Psychedelic 16.8%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%

A game about presence.

Why similar: Psychedelic 23%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Text-Based 18.8%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Abstract 14.8%

Glitch is an intense and surreal narrative experience, drawn entirely by hand, that will make you question reality with every choice and each of the 26 endings that unlock the special and definitive conclusion!

Why similar: Text-Based 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Psychedelic 13.5%

On the road to the sacred shrine of Karatl, lost souls entrust you with their stories. In this contemplative Visual Novel, listen to their truths and perhaps, at the journey's end, you will discover your own.

Why similar: Text-Based 27.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Psychedelic 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%

An experimental, horror visual novel about raising a virtual pet. Help a tamagotchi-like creature navigate his angst. We love Momo!

Why similar: Text-Based 25.9%, Abstract 20.4%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Minimalist 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.2%

Overnight, otaku “DanDan” wakes up in the college dorm… as a drop-dead gorgeous girl! His absurd new life begins—only to discover he’s not the only one. The once-icy campus queen Wu Yangyang, formerly a burly jock, and a chubby shut-in whose soul was always a pretty girl, are in the same boat.

Why similar: Abstract 22.8%, Text-Based 18.6%, Visual Novel 16%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%

Boy meets girl against a backdrop of magical battles in a dramatic visual novel!

Why similar: Text-Based 28.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.5%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Anime 12%, Interactive Fiction 5.9%

I found myself at the station. The story unfolds as you type commands on your keyboard. As the days repeat, I keep wondering what I can do for her. A command-driven adventure steeped in nostalgic pixel art and sound.

Why similar: Text-Based 43.5%, Interactive Fiction 37.1%, Pixel Graphics 15.6%, Adventure 3.8%

This text adventure, beautifully illustrated in pixel art, invites you to explore a medieval abbey filled with secrets. You take full control by entering commands directly on your keyboard through a flexible command parser, allowing for free and immersive interaction.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.3%, Text-Based 29.5%, Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%, 2D 2.9%

Samurai of Hyuga is a brutal, heart-pounding interactive tale. Prepare to enter the land of silk and steel, where fantasy clashes against grim reality, and where the good guys don't always win in the end. It's a harsh world with tough choices at every turn. Good thing you're the toughest ronin around.

Why similar: Text-Based 36.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 33.7%, Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Adventure 3.4%, Indie 1.3%

Interactive teen supernatural mystery! You and your friends have developed magical psychic powers. Solve the case, save your school, find a date for prom!

Why similar: Text-Based 46.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.7%, Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Indie 1.4%