Games Like Circus Saboteur

A humorous sci-fi text-driven adventure where you play a support engineer sent to fix system failures in a secret research complex. Explore strange labs, investigate bizarre incidents, solve absurd problems, talk to depressed robots, and make choices that lead to multiple endings.

Why similar: Nonlinear 15.8%, Investigation 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Text-Based 10.1%, Conversation 10.1%

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: Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Investigation 11.9%, Nonlinear 9.7%, Hand-drawn 9.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%

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: Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Conversation 13.4%, Text-Based 11.7%, Visual Novel 10.1%

《墨心》是一款将古代中国幻想元素和悬疑科幻相融合的国产视觉小说。男主（你）从昏迷中醒来丧失了记忆，发现自己和另外两女一男困于巨轮密室中。面对匪夷所思的船体变异，恐怖致命的巨型怪物，你们能否成功逃脱？而这超自然的现象，似乎跟一件千年前的战国墨家宝物有关......

Why similar: Investigation 17%, Conversation 13.3%, Nonlinear 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%, Visual Novel 8.9%

Relive the same day without remembering it. Your choices feed four inner alter egos (Shadow, Mad, Alex, and Bully) — shaping reality, glitches, and one of 16 possible endings. The day repeats. Your mind doesn’t. Or does it?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16%, Nonlinear 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Conversation 10.4%

A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Text-Based 12.2%, Investigation 12.2%, Conversation 10.7%, Stylized 9.6%

Experience the triumphs and tribulations of two Caribbean immigrants in post-war Britain, in the world’s first Windrush video game, from the creators of the BAFTA nominated Before I Forget. How will you shape your story in this branching narrative interactive photo album?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Hand-drawn 16.5%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Nonlinear 9.1%, Conversation 9%

What do mirror reflections do once they have no one to repeat after anymore? Play as Iris, quite a sarcastic reflection torn between the urge to unravel the mystery of death of her “prototype” and the need to find her place in a mirrored world.

Why similar: Investigation 14%, Nonlinear 13.7%, Conversation 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%

In a future where memories are the last connection to a lost humanity, you are an advanced AI exploring fragments of past lives. Understand emotions, traumas, and choices in a journey to uncover what it means to be alive.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Lore-Rich 15.2%, Conversation 13.5%, Text-Based 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.3%

A detective game where you fiddle information to your advantage. As an owner of a small bar, listen to visitors of your establishment, overhear their gossiping, collect information and then use to manipulate their thoughts and actions.

Why similar: Nonlinear 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Conversation 10.1%, Detective 9.6%

A Pentiment-like set in 19th-century Malaysia, featuring pirates, East Indiamen, headhunters, a locked-room murder mystery, a blade of meteoric ore, a tarot deck, a mountain of light, and a tiger. It’s time to put your thinking cap on; as for those voices in your head – probably best to ignore them.

Why similar: Investigation 16.6%, Conversation 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Hand-drawn 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8%

No criminal has ever been a match for you, and everybody is looking forward to a description of your brilliant deductions. There is just one small problem. One tiny detail that makes it different this time. A mere trifle, really. This time you have no idea who did it.

Why similar: Investigation 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Conversation 13.9%, Text-Based 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%

Choose, explore, interact, fight, solve, gather, trade! Rise to rebel in this immersive text-based fantasy story that seamlessly merges the best elements of RPGs, choose-your-own-adventure stories, visual novels, and interactive fiction.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14%, Nonlinear 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Text-Based 12.6%, Choices Matter 10.5%

A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.

Why similar: Investigation 18.8%, Conversation 15%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Hand-drawn 11.7%, Choices Matter 7.6%

Decide the fate of the son of a tailor and a witch doctor infected with an incurable disease in an interactive story with multiple endings depending on your actions.

Why similar: Nonlinear 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%

Your motel is busy for the first time in years. Antsy city-folk and dispossessed teens flood your rooms, and you can barely keep up. Now, after a week of all-nighters spent managing reservations, room service requests, and Yup! reviews, you begin to wonder… could you even fall asleep if you tried?

Why similar: Conversation 16.4%, Hand-drawn 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%

Become an investigator in a dark fantasy story. People keep going missing in Maligree, before being forgotten by all who knew them. Will you solve the case before you forget?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Detective 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Hand-drawn 11.1%

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: Conversation 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Nonlinear 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Lore-Rich 10.3%

The star magician of Morgan’s Traveling Circus is missing, but the show must go on! In this non-linear detective visual novel, unravel the mystery from two different perspectives as you learn the varying stories of an entire circus of performers, each with their own lives... and their own secrets.

Why similar: Conversation 13.8%, Investigation 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Detective 9.9%

Can you mix a cocktail while eye-to-eye with a criminal? Find out in Best Served Cold, a murder mystery set in a bustling speakeasy where you serve customers, make friends and enemies, and solve crimes. At the Nightcap bar, prohibition is a killer… and so are some of your customers!

Why similar: Conversation 17.1%, Investigation 16.7%, Detective 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Choices Matter 10.7%

A call for help within a mysterious messaging app. Someone lost and wandering through a forest in a faraway place. And their destiny in your hands.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Text-Based 12.9%, Hand-drawn 11.6%, Conversation 11.4%, Choices Matter 11.3%

Welcome to the Kabaret - where monsters from Southeast Asian myths and folklores dwell. Perform tea ceremonies, play traditional games, and question your humanity.

Why similar: Investigation 17.6%, Lore-Rich 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Hand-drawn 10.2%, Choices Matter 10.2%

Ein, a simple-hearted member of an expedition sent by mankind to distant planets, tries to get romantic with a pretty but cold co-worker girl. Unfortunately, he is not the only one trying to make contact as from the abandoned and desolate alien ruins, the girl receives a message in human language.

Why similar: Nonlinear 13.5%, Conversation 13%, Lore-Rich 12.6%, Detective 9.6%, Text-Based 9.5%

The prequel to Road 96. Play Zoe and Kaito where it all started. Change their destinies!

Why similar: Conversation 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Investigation 12.2%, Choices Matter 9.1%

Determine the fate of Ventreville! Play as six protagonists with unique abilities and stories, their arcs tied to each other by the sudden murder of the Avidines. Make your choices count! The final protagonist, the interrogating detective, will only know as much as your previous characters know…

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14%, Investigation 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Hand-drawn 10.6%, Text-Based 9.2%

A dialogue sim about eternity and our minds.

Why similar: Nonlinear 14.1%, Text-Based 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Abstract 12.2%, Lore-Rich 11.4%

Unravel the secrets of the Bariton mansion! Take on the mantle of detective in the role of Lucas Usher, and solve the riddles plaguing the ghosts of those left behind! Uncover their secrets and help them find salvation … or damnation.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Steampunk 15.7% ★, Conversation 13.2%, Detective 12%, Investigation 8.6%

「ナカノ人格移植研究所」は、周回型ミステリー2Dアドベンチャーゲームです。 それぞれの周回でプレイヤーが憑依する対象の登場人物を選択することで、その登場人物を主人公としてストーリーを進めながら謎を解き明かします。 プレイヤーは本ゲームの中で 4 つのパートを行き来しながらストーリーを進めます。 ノベルパートでは、クリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 探索パートでは、画面上のアイテムをクリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 移動パートでは、再度ビューでプレイヤーを操作し、船の中を探索します。 会議パートでは、他のパートで集めた手がかりを利用して他の登場人物と会話します。

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Conversation 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Detective 10.1%

Liquids is a surreal adventure game. When Emma, the actress girlfriend of scientist Albert, dies strangely, police detective Todd investigates the unsolved case, and bizarrely Emma's body appears out of nowhere within many time and space.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Conversation 12.1%, Abstract 11.2%, Detective 10.8%, Lore-Rich 10.5%

Adventure as Geralt through the ballads of Dandelion. Swipe right, swipe left, seek glory, find death! Will you hunt monsters, upset the locals, or run a hot bath? Compose an inspiring epic to claim immortality.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Visual Novel 11%, Hand-drawn 8%

A text role-playing game about the fate of a mercenary who finds himself in the strange village: Villienville. Investigate who benefits from the sudden appearance of “ghosts” and help residents protect their homes from a mysterious enemy. The main thing is not to make a mistake in your choice!

Why similar: Nonlinear 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Text-Based 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Choices Matter 9.6%

Stranded after a plane crash in a freezing wilderness, you must manage body temperature, injury, and sanity as every decision shapes your survival.

Why similar: Nonlinear 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%

Lost & Found is an adventure-mystery game where you return townsfolk’s lost belongings & uncover personal stories behind each item. It features a hybrid animation style that blends 2D, 3D, pixel art, & more. Gather clues, investigate locals, & ensure every lost belonging ends up in the right hands.

Why similar: Investigation 16.7%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Nonlinear 13%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%, Detective 8.7%

You will answer questions that will reveal things deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to once again unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."

Why similar: Investigation 15.6%, Conversation 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Choices Matter 9.5%

Kamilia is a story-driven, choices-matter detective mystery. Follow a talented painter who finds himself wrapped up in an unsolved case, as he tries to unveil a hidden truth that has been buried for years.

Why similar: Investigation 15%, Conversation 14.2%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Visual Novel 11%

A detective noir puzzle deduction game. Explore a non-linear timeline as a clairvoyant investigator in 1941 Borneo. Jump between time and locations to uncover motives and discover what truly happened in the Goodwill tobacco plantation that fateful night on the eve of the WW2 Japanese invasion.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Detective 16%, Nonlinear 12.3%, Hand-drawn 9.4%, Text-Based 9%

A mystery game where you investigate a murder by searching the crime scene and interrogating AI-powered NPCs with unique personas.

Why similar: Conversation 17.2%, Investigation 16.8%, Detective 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Choices Matter 10.6%

A horror visual novel where you take on the role of a spy delving into the memories of others to find dirt on a sinister biocorporation. Not for children or the easily disturbed.

Why similar: Investigation 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Nonlinear 12.7%, Lore-Rich 11.9%, Hand-drawn 10.3%

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: Conversation 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Visual Novel 10.2%

Follow the story of Blanca Silverurn—a strix entangled in a murder mystery. Explore the Grimstrand campus and learn about its unique magic. Delve into the secrets of students and faculty members. Affect their relationships, including a spicy romance between Blanca and her enigmatic mentor.

Why similar: Investigation 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Conversation 17.5%, Nonlinear 10.5%, Choices Matter 9.7%

This interactive first-person VR experience is set in the Vajont valley, some hours before the disaster. A wife and her husband are talking about their future: the woman senses the danger and wants to leave; her husband dismisses the idea of danger. The player will determine the end of their story.

Why similar: Nonlinear 18.5%, Conversation 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Choices Matter 11%

Deep Copy is a top down point-and-click literary adventure set in a hand-painted science fiction world. Awakened with no memory, you must solve puzzles and navigate a branching story to piece together the dense, interconnected mystery at the heart of the lab.

Why similar: Nonlinear 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Choices Matter 11%, Lore-Rich 10.9%, Conversation 10.6%

Welcome to this graphic adventure! You become in a little hámter 🐹 called Tofu. You will live together a lot of adventures from de university nights, clearly a city full of party and mistery, a lot of humor and bad jokes, but above all..... Dru.... i mean, SUGAR!

Why similar: Conversation 23%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Hand-drawn 12%, Detective 8.9%

Alcyone: The Last City is an interactive sci-fi novel where your choices can lead to the salvation or destruction of the last refuge of civilisation in the universe. Immerse yourself in a branching narrative of diverse characters, intrigue, and world-altering decisions.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Conversation 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Text-Based 10.2%, Visual Novel 9.4%

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: Interactive Fiction 19%, Lore-Rich 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Text-Based 13.9%, Visual Novel 10.3%

“Lone Bird in the Tree” is an ADV with male and female versions of each of the four characters. The story alternates between the “future” of the main character, who is deeply traumatized by the grief of his/her best friend, and the “story leading up to the loss of his/her best friend”.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Conversation 10.9%, Text-Based 9.3%

You are Hidu, a beastman mercenary in a port city. You must survive one very bad day. How? That’s entirely up to you. There are countless ways for events to unfold — and 25 endings.

Why similar: Nonlinear 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Visual Novel 7.7%

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: Conversation 11.8%, Investigation 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Text-Based 8.8%

Grab your crayons and delve into the world of Crayontopia in this murder mystery visual novel. Become an adept or inept detective as you gather evidence, get to know your fellow crayon-lovers, and seek to uncover the colorful secrets behind the murders that plague this seemingly perfect world.

Why similar: Investigation 19.3%, Detective 12.2%, Hand-drawn 11.5%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.6%

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 17.8%, Lore-Rich 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Conversation 15%, Hand-drawn 13.2%

Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.

Why similar: Investigation 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Hand-drawn 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Detective 9.1%

Of Roots and Gears is a dialogue-based RPG in an aetherpunk setting. Explore the world where nature and technology are charged with magic. Make choices, find friends and enemies. Make your own path!

Why similar: Nonlinear 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Conversation 18%, Lore-Rich 15.8%, Hand-drawn 10.4%

A visual novel based on Touhou Project, made by fans for fans and others! Embark on the investigation of the greatest incident in Gensokyo's history and discover the terrifying truth of the youkai world with Reimu Hakurei, Marisa Kirisame, Sakuya Izayoi and other heroines!

Why similar: Nonlinear 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Lore-Rich 13.4%, Detective 11.3%, Text-Based 10.5%

The Spirit Weaver is a narrative-driven visual novel where you use the power of Tarot to guide lost spirits through their grief, and maybe figure out your own. Explore a mystical spirit realm, help its denizens, and restore balance in a bittersweet story of love, loss, and empathy.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Hand-drawn 10.3%, Investigation 9.9%

The Zodiac Trial has begun, and everybody's life is on the line! Will these 12 jurors be able to solve the mysteries and cooperate, or will they resort to betrayal, deception, and violence? Get out alive or die, die again!

Why similar: Investigation 16.4%, Conversation 12%, Nonlinear 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Text-Based 9.5%

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 16%, Conversation 15.4%, Choices Matter 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Visual Novel 9.6%

Transmission in Progress is a detective game located in a sound powered world, playing in the shoes of Inres, a forensic detective falsely accused of murder. You must tap into several different audio channels to determine the real suspect of the crimes you were falsely accused of.

Why similar: Investigation 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Detective 11.4%, Lore-Rich 10.6%

In this detective horror visual novel, investigate a seabound anomaly. Explore areas of interest, uncover clues, and piece together evidence before time runs out — and before this mission becomes your last. Choose a side; don't look back.

Why similar: Investigation 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Detective 14.3%, Lore-Rich 9.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%

This game is based on the theme of love & light reasoning. Even if you choose the wrong option, it will not lead to game over. It is very suitable for casual players who like love reasoning but don't want to waste their brain cells.

Why similar: Investigation 29.8%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Conversation 19.9%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Text-Based 10.9%

Become the Overseer, unravel an apocalyptic conspiracy, and attempt to heal the wound at the heart of the world.

Why similar: Investigation 21.8%, Hand-drawn 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Stylized 9.7%