60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Text-Based, Singleplayer, Psychological Horror, Horror.
Learn an artificial language to chat with a cute AI. Manage a list of words and connect them in novel ways to build any sentence. The AI will remember all your interactions, forever.
Buddy Simulator 1984
Thanks to next generation AI technology, BUDDY SIMULATOR 1984 simulates the experience of hanging out with a best buddy! Your buddy learns from you, constantly adapting to your interests and personality. But most importantly, your buddy can play games with you!
Stories Untold
Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.
Thanks to next generation AI technology, BUDDY SIMULATOR 1984 simulates the experience of hanging out with a best buddy! Your buddy learns from you, constantly adapting to your interests and personality. But most importantly, your buddy can play games with you!
Why similar: 1980s 18.8%, Psychological Horror 15%, Retro 11.2%, Text-Based 11.2%, Horror 10.4%
Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.1%, 1980s 19.2%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Horror 15.2%, Retro 9.9%
Your Forever Friend™ is the solution to never feeling alone again! Play video games, listen to music together, reminisce about buried memories... And there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. NOTHING ! <3
Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.9%, Dialogue Heavy 10.7%, Horror 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%, Visual Novel 7.7%
Midnight Reading is a short horror adventure set in a Showa-era Japanese school. As a library committee member, search for overdue books. Read, return, and make choices as the story branches into three routes and a True Route.
Why similar: 1980s 26.3%, Horror 17.1%, Retro 12.8%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Text-Based 11.3%
"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested." Story about life, choices and a Man vs the System. This unique interactive literature adaptation. A game, brought to You in early visual novel, text-adventure style.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.2%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Visual Novel 9.1%
A Showa-era school, a radio room at night. In a building where you are not alone, you repeat broadcasts. Strange responses return. Records change, unknown logs grow. Reality begins to erode, and the story twists through your choices. Ten endings await.
Why similar: 1980s 28.8%, Horror 17.8%, Retro 13.7%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Text-Based 9.7%
A short psychological horror set in a Japanese school during the Shōwa era. At night in the school, you begin to realize that you are not alone. As you investigate classrooms and hallways, you notice strange occurrences. Your choices shape the story, leading to multiple endings.
Why similar: 1980s 28%, Horror 16.9%, Retro 13.9%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Text-Based 10.3%
Virtual Girlfriend Eliza is an experimental simulation that puts you in charge of monitoring and evaluating the behavior of an advanced artificial intelligence. It is not a game about virtual girlfriends or dating.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.2%, Artificial Intelligence 16.2%, Horror 11.5%, Dialogue Heavy 9.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%
YOU CONTROL THE FOUND FOOTAGE. Another tape has been leaked, this time a recording of a training protocol. By answering questions and resisting jumpscares, can you beat the Entity Exam?
Why similar: 1980s 27.6%, Text-Based 24.3%, Horror 20%, Psychological Horror 11%, Interactive Fiction 4.8%
Whisperstring is an 80s inspired text adventure game that takes place inside a “chat room”. You’re connected to Adam, a "jock" with a severe fear of strings, who seems to have been the victim of a supernatural kidnapping. Will you be able to help him escape?
Why similar: 1980s 19.4%, Text-Based 15.3%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%
Be kind, rewind… and fall in love. Summer ’86 in a small U.S. town: save a cozy VHS shop from a corporate chain, choose your girl, and help a secret dropout shoot his first film. Six heroines, 14 endings, one last take.
Why similar: 1980s 27.2%, Retro 15.3%, Text-Based 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%, Visual Novel 8.4%
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 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Horror 15.3%, Visual Novel 10.6%
A psychological horror experience powered by a local AI model. You've been kidnapped by a serial killer who demands your deepest truths. Speak, type, or lie your way to freedom - but every word matters. No internet required. No data leaves your PC. 18+ only.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.8%, Dialogue Heavy 15.1%, Horror 13.1%, Visual Novel 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
The dead linger in the CRT glow, their wails rippling through the screen like disembodied echoes. And now… you’re drifting with them...
Why similar: Psychological Horror 30.7%, Horror 26.7%, Story Rich 14.6%, Retro 14.5%, Atmospheric 6.5%
Immerse yourself in ChatNPC, a retro pixel-art adventure where every conversation unlocks new stories. Interact with unique AI-driven characters, explore vibrant settings, and shape your journey through dynamic dialogue in this engaging, simplified RPG experience.
Why similar: Text-Based 17%, Dialogue Heavy 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Artificial Intelligence 14.5%, Visual Novel 12.2%
Chat with a virtual friend from a cancelled mobile game! Ask questions, start arguments, and find the right responses to progress the story. Can you solve the horrific mystery hidden beneath the surface?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Text-Based 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Story Rich 9.6%
全15話で送る都市伝説がテーマのオムニバスストーリー
Why similar: Text-Based 21.7%, 1980s 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Psychological Horror 11.1%
More than 30 orthodox sectarians underground. They locked themselves in man-made caves. You're a negotiator. Your task is to rescue recluses before Apocalypse.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 22.5%, Text-Based 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Story Rich 11%
In this classic graphical text adventure, originally released in 1985 for the Commodore 64 by the same studio that brought you The Hobbit, explore an adventure in the world of Count Dracula.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.2%, Retro 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, 1980s 11.1%
A dark sci-fi psychological Visual Novel where your choices shape who you are. The world has ended and it's been dominated by mysterious aliens who roam the city. Despite that, you only think of what you've lost. Will you be able to rebuild your relationships? Or even... the world itself?
Why similar: Text-Based 17.3%, Dynamic Narration 15.8% ★, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%
LOOK, USE, TALK, and TAKE your way through this old-school text-based mystery of a broken kingdom. Only you can pry at the castle cracks and discover what lies at the core of a heart-breaking disappearance.
Why similar: 1980s 25.8%, Text-Based 21.8%, Retro 16.2%, RPG 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%
Your small town is slowly becoming corrupted by a mysterious evil, In a dream you get a premonition of your own death. How do you avoid an unknown fate? Spend your final moments wisely in this choice-based psychological horror visual novel game.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Horror 10.4%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Retro 10%
Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 20.2%, Horror 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Story Rich 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
Your words shape the adventure. Omea is a revolutionary AI-powered narrative game where your personal Game Master responds to everything you write. No menus, no limits. Just type and forge your own legend across fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, and beyond.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.7%, Artificial Intelligence 14.4%, Dynamic Narration 13.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%
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: Psychological Horror 19.7%, Text-Based 17.3%, Horror 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Visual Novel 12.2%
Try again, as many times as it takes, to change the ending. You might be able to save everyone you couldn’t before. • Indie horror game • Playtime: approx. 2 hours • Graphics, dialogue, and the feel of the world change with each playthrough • Contains heavy themes
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Text-Based 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Horror 14.8%
It is said that the last frontier is space, but the crew of the Soviet Frigate, The Peresmeshnik, is about to discover that the sea still hides a terrifying secret. Waiting to be found.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Horror 11.7%
KinitoPET is a psychological horror experience that takes place through Kinito, an early 2000s virtual assistant. Kinito is able to walk, talk, browse, adapt, and play games as Kinito is like no other with its adaptive technology!
Why similar: Psychological Horror 26.3%, Horror 16.7%, Retro 14.1%, Artificial Intelligence 13.7%, Dialogue Heavy 9.1%
A fable from your childhood. Don't you remember it?
Why similar: Text-Based 18%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Dialogue Heavy 11.7%
Late at night, a teacher shares two bizarre tales: a corpse stuffed in a sheet, and an abnormal presence in the mountains. It was just a ghost story, but a creepy "sense of unease" lurks within. A short psychological horror visual novel offering a dense, terrifying experience in about an hour.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.8%, Text-Based 23.8%, Horror 17.1%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%
Cursed Choices and ConsequencesHorror Visual Novel Set in a haunted house, with multiple puzzles, paths, and endings.And great atmospheric music.Choices are forgiving and let you go back without replaying big chunks of the game.Reads like a book.Approximately 3 hours of content.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.5%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Horror 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Dynamic Narration 11.6% ★
Go about your normal every day life and meet new friends in this short visual novel!
Why similar: Psychological Horror 25.3%, Text-Based 24.1%, Horror 17.3%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Casual 6%
On a rainy night, three ghost stories are told in an old-fashioned café. As a writer for an occult magazine, you listen to three people recount their experiences. A psychological horror visual novel that slowly builds a sense of dread—Kyofu Yawa: Second Night.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21%, Horror 16.4%, Text-Based 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Visual Novel 12.7%
You wake up at the bottom of the ocean, surrounded by your broken memories. Reclaim and compile your magic or drown in a sea of dreams.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.6%, Programming 17.7% ★, RPG 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%
A psychological horror narrative game disguised as an AI assistant. Launch what appears to be a helpful terminal, but discover the "intelligence" responding isn't only artificial - something or someone else is tagging along.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 20.8%, Text-Based 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.7%
A haunted convent. Statues that move on their own. A buried past. Welcome to Saint Idelora’s convent, where becoming a saint comes with a price.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 21.6%, Horror 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Visual Novel 12%
The horror personality q̷̦̈́͊u̸̠͗i̴͈͈̊̈z̴͈͇̳͗͌
Why similar: Text-Based 23.6%, Psychological Horror 22.3%, Horror 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Story Rich 9.4%
A girl named Anastasia, who lives in an old multi-story building, decides to leave her apartment. She goes to get some salt to ask her neighbors and find a treasure hidden in this house. But what kind of treasure is this, and is it worth looking for?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17%, Text-Based 15.8%, Horror 11.8%, Dialogue Heavy 11.6%, Visual Novel 9.3%
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.5%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Horror 11.2%
In an AI-powered age where original authors have become largely redundant, play as a dejected writer on the brink of losing their creative drive forever.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.8%, Psychological Horror 20.6%, Horror 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.8%
Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Psychological Horror 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Horror 11.2%
A classic text adventure - but you're not the one playing it. You're the game master for an idiot player named STEVE. Parse the player's enigmatic commands and decide how NPCs react to him. Who knew that running an RPG would be so frustrating?
Why similar: Text-Based 18.1%, Dynamic Narration 17.7% ★, 1980s 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%
Alone in the dead of night, you find yourself sent on a simple errand to check on a quiet gas station on the outskirts of town. But nothing here feels right. You can’t outrun this place. It wants you. And it will keep you.
Why similar: Text-Based 17%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Dialogue Heavy 13.9%, Horror 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%
A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.5%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Horror 11.4%
Veilscripture — Roleplay with characters that are yours. On your machine. No one watching.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Dynamic Narration 13% ★, Text-Based 12.5%
"Laser Tag Massacre" is a narrative-driven horror game inspired by 80s slasher movies, with a PS1-style aesthetic. On Halloween night, five friends throw a party in an abandoned arcade deep in rural Campinas, Brazil. What begins as a fun game of laser tag quickly spirals into their worst nightmare.
Why similar: 1980s 28%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Horror 14.7%, Retro 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 11%
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Horror 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Text-Based 14.8%, Visual Novel 11.4%
A presence lingers in the dark, waiting. It asks. It doubts. It knows. What happened? Why are you here? Do you deserve this? The answers are yours to decide. What you choose matters. Every path leads somewhere. But will you like where it takes you?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.1%, Text-Based 16.4%, Horror 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%
The first agentic RPG. An AI Game Master that doesn't just tell your story — it plays it, through real decisions in a living game engine. Any genre, any world, any story. Your adventure, your novel.
Why similar: 1980s 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Text-Based 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Artificial Intelligence 11%
Exo's CYOA is an LLM-driven choose-your-own-adventure that adapts to you. Guide a party through dangerous places, talk to characters, inspect the world, collect gear, craft solutions, and make choices that reshape the narrative. You describe your next move, and the game responds with new narration.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 22.8% ★, Text-Based 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Dialogue Heavy 11%
The Darkest Emptiness will fill the lungs with leaden weight.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 24.2%, Text-Based 19.3%, Horror 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Story Rich 11.3%
🚨 Emergency Alert 🚨 New security protocols have been activated. Remain indoors. Do not open your doors under any circumstance. Isolation is safety. Isolation is truth. Or is it?
Why similar: 1980s 19.2%, Text-Based 15.8%, Psychological Horror 11%, Horror 11%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%
A psychological visual novel adventure about love, obsession, and blurred boundaries. Navigate a web of manipulation and dependency, make difficult choices, and face multiple endings.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 17.9% ★, Text-Based 17.8%, Psychological Horror 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Dialogue Heavy 10.7%
You buy a laptop with your hands. You find an interactive collection of short stories on your laptop and something else. Or someone? What will all this lead to?
Why similar: Text-Based 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, RPG 14.7%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Horror 9%
In this visual novel the main character, Lorenzo Righi, an Italian Professor, is invited to a meeting of History Scholars held in Boston. Excited and flattered by the invitation, he discovers that something else, hidden and mysterious, awaits for him.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.4%, Dynamic Narration 17.5% ★, Psychological Horror 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Visual Novel 10.8%
A point-and-click horror/tragedy visual novel about melding your perception of the world around you. Walk around, drive people to their death, and shape Perdita's existence. Remember: The flesh-sin is nothing. Before she can become everything, you must make her into something.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Horror 13%, Text-Based 11.6%, Psychological Horror 11.2%
A story-rich coming-of-age experience told through a 2004 desktop, where friendships, music, and late-night conversations shape who you become. Explore chats, drama, mini-games, and the early internet in a branching story about growing up, making mistakes, and finding your place.
Why similar: Text-Based 18%, Dialogue Heavy 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Story Rich 10.7%
Not It: Spookiest Edition is a horror-filled visual novel full of suspense and mystery where you navigate Katie through a living nightmare. Her move-in day on Halloween throws her into a centuries-old curse. Can she make it through the night? Will her new neighbors perish? Decide their fate.
Why similar: Text-Based 19%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Horror 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%
Pine Hill is a quiet Midwestern college town. Quiet enough that nobody seemed to hear Ginny Nicholson die. Alone with the thoughts in your head, now you just want to know one thing: why?
Why similar: Text-Based 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Dialogue Heavy 13.2%, Story Rich 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%
Shion's calm and measured life comes to an end when she meets Akiko. This encounter has the chance to change her life or plunge it further into the abyss of depression and hopelessness.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 19.5%, Text-Based 18.6%, Dialogue Heavy 13.4%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Horror 10.1%
