
Kidnapped by an insane man and dragged into a dark crypt, your only choice is to play along with his twisted games or suffer the consequences for non-compliance. A thrilling text-based interactive fiction game!
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Multiple Endings, Choose Your Own Adventure, Text-Based.

Kidnapped by an insane man and dragged into a dark crypt, your only choice is to play along with his twisted games or suffer the consequences for non-compliance. A thrilling text-based interactive fiction game!

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A text-based psychological horror experience set inside a hospital where something is deeply wrong — and death may not be the end.

The Peresmeshnik
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.
A text-based psychological horror experience set inside a hospital where something is deeply wrong — and death may not be the end.
Why similar: Text-Based 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%, Investigation 9.6%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
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 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Horror 7.2%, Choices Matter 6.6%
Experience the hunt for the Monster living in your room in this Visual Novel experience. Your choices will determine the fate of both you and the Monster. Will you figure out what the Monster really is?
Why similar: Text-Based 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Surreal 9.6%
A group of kids decide to leave the floating island they live on to go and explore a colossal world tree. They don't know yet how dangerous this choice will be. Feel their fear and try to survive in this Visual Novel with resource management systems.
Why similar: Time Management 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Text-Based 10.7%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
Earth's Center of Gravity is a mystic horror visual novel with multiple endings. The story revolves around Tower Antiques. "No one remembers how long Tower Antiques was there. But it remembers everyone. Even the ones who did not visit it yet." Tower Antiques is waiting for you to write your story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Thriller 10.1%, Survival Horror 10%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Surreal 9.6%
A string of campus killings. A newly-turned vampire struggling to adjust. A monster hunter seeking answers. Worlds collide as Dante Jones and Nick Torres, both in danger of being accused of the crimes, team up to reveal the true culprit in this chilling supernatural horror visual novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Investigation 10.6%, Text-Based 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Thriller 9.7%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Horror 11.5%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Psychological Horror 9.5%
Save people from terrible paranormal dangers as a support operator of a secret SCP-like organization! Ask questions, give advice and watch the consequences of your choices... multiple endings in each story ;-)
Why similar: Text-Based 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Multiple Endings 11%, Investigation 10.9%
Stuck in a dead-end town with plans that go nowhere, Jackie feels as if her life is doomed to stagnancy forever. Getting by with her friends, she is resigned to her fate in a small town- until a chance encounter with a deadly life-form sets in motion a deadly chain of events
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Text-Based 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Investigation 11.7%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
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Why similar: Text-Based 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Psychological Horror 10.3%
My mother passed away. It was dismissed as an unfortunate accident... But was it truly just an accident? I need to know... what happened that day. Will the son hunting for answers reach the absolute truth? The player's choices and actions will divide the final outcome.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Horror 9.1%, Investigation 8.8%
NEXUS CORP, sub-basement 7-A. Stamp the forms. Ask nothing. Since 1952, forty-six clerks have vanished at this desk - you are the forty-seventh. Cross-check every claim on your terminal, rule APPROVED or REJECTED, and try not to wonder what the paperwork is really sealing.
Why similar: Investigation 16.4%, Text-Based 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Horror 9.5%
Nothing To Remember is an immersive murder mystery that runs in real-time, right on your desktop. Through their personal messages, you'll uncover two characters unknowingly intertwined as they hunt a killer long thought dead. When your next choice could mean life or death, will you answer the call?
Why similar: Text-Based 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Investigation 13.6%, Thriller 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.2%
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Text-Based 14.4%, Horror 14.4%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
幻想若非幻想 自然可超自然 伴我梦中桃花 懒识人间滋味
Why similar: Text-Based 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
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: Time Management 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Investigation 14.4%, Text-Based 10%
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 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Survival Horror 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Horror 8.6%
Terminal Tales: An Interactive Fiction Anthology features multiple text-based adventures from a variety of genres. Explore a curated vault of brand-new, modern mysteries and sci-fi epics. No graphics. No limits. Just your imagination and a world waiting for your command.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Multiple Endings 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Choices Matter 8.7%
Investigate six haunted properties and listen to the voices of spirits trapped in nightmares. Collect fragmented clues and discover the correct combination of names, locations, and vessels. A multi-ending horror adventure where the outcome changes depending on your choices during the ritual.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Text-Based 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Horror 12.1%
Vanakan is the journey of Tadevos - a priest, who travels the 500s Armenia to find the monastery that suits for his goal of becoming spiritually closer to Jesus Christ. He meets different people on his way and makes choices which will define his future and that of the country.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.6%
Cerebral is a short psychological horror game where every mistake hurts your memory. Save your mind or surrender it to the system. What remains of you either way?
Why similar: Survival Horror 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Surreal 10.7%
The hospital once wrote you into a case file. Now you must recover the life it erased.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Investigation 12.4%, Survival Horror 11.2%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Surreal 9.2%
An immersive choose-your-own-adventure survival horror with optional adult content featuring hand drawn backgrounds, sprites, and over 150 pieces of full screen art- and 50 endings.
Why similar: Survival Horror 14.3%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Time Management 10.5%
A text-based adventure where you're tasked to exorcise your friend’s Inner Demon. Explore an ever-reshaping palace to analyze objects filled with memories, discover which one is the reason for her possession and sacrifice it. Do not deviate from your mission. Save your friend no matter the cost.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Choices Matter 10.3%
A claustrophobic horror game taking place in an elevator.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Multiple Endings 10%, Choices Matter 9%, Thriller 8.5%
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: Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Text-Based 16.6%, Horror 11.8%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Choices Matter 10.9%
"Cold Bed on Route" is an equation-like adventure game. Work with to find and dump unwanted items. Then, let's make up for the excess weight caused by having her on board. And let's prove that the universe is not yet completely cold and frigid. Now, pilot, it's your turn.
Why similar: Time Management 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Text-Based 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
You have been marked by a monster to be its next prey. Defend your cabin against the beast across the four seasons, listening out for its attacks to stop it before it gets inside. Complete tasks throughout the night in an effort to free yourself from its curse and return to a normal life.
Why similar: Survival Horror 18.2%, Thriller 15.2%, Horror 13.3%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Time Management 11.3%
A grim, choice-driven interactive gamebook. As the First Ranger of a fortified homestead, you must defend the last survivors from the infected, manage critical resources, and investigate a dangerous internal conspiracy. Every decision shapes the survival of the living.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Text-Based 14.5%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Multiple Endings 7.9%
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: Text-Based 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
A co-op, text- and audio-driven collection of stories. Lead expeditions into uncharted cold waters, hiding a presence older than the Earth. Coordinate via proximity voice chat. More stories come after the release.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Investigation 10.3%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
A fable from your childhood. Don't you remember it?
Why similar: Text-Based 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Multiple Endings 9.2%, Surreal 9%
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 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.1%
A choice-driven RPG thriller set in the World of Darkness universe. Step into the shoes of Samira, a young werewolf refugee in Poland, as she battles dark forces and loneliness, caught between rage and despair. How will your story unfold?
Why similar: Text-Based 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Investigation 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Thriller 10.2%
A classic 90s choose your own adventure style horror visual novel. Escape the horrors hunting you, make decisions, forge your own path. An original complete story with multiple endings. Choose your own play style with a Text Adventure Mode, sound effects, and an ambient soundtrack.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Text-Based 16%, Multiple Endings 15.1%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Psychological Horror 7.6%
A psychological horror experience where you reshape reality with graffiti. As an artist who has lost their memory, paint the walls, open hidden passages, and escape the dark labyrinth of your mind.
Why similar: Investigation 17.3%, Survival Horror 13.5%, Thriller 10.8%, Multiple Endings 9.2%, Psychological Horror 8.8%
見知らぬ密室で目を覚ました主人公。 頼れるものは、手元に残された一台のスマートフォンだけ。 通話、メッセージ、アプリなどに残された痕跡をたどりながら、脱出の手がかりを探していく。 しかし、情報を集めるほどに、 この事件の裏に隠された異様な真実が浮かび上がっていく。 スマートフォンを操作して進める、サイコロジカル・ホラーADV。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Text-Based 23.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Multiple Endings 8.5%, Horror 8.2%
Rediscover the internet of the 2000s in DreamNet, a free to play Frutiger Aero exploration game. Dive into nostalgic worlds, uncover the story, and revisit the beauty of the old internet.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Multiple Endings 10%, Surreal 9.9%
When you discover that the Serpent of Chaos is trying to destroy Egypt, will you stand against him, or will you help spread his eternal darkness?
Why similar: Text-Based 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Choices Matter 9.2%
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: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Text-Based 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Horror 12%, Choices Matter 11.8%
The Company wants you productive. The Company wants you calm. The Company wants you compliant.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Surreal 7.8%
Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.
Why similar: Text-Based 24%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Surreal 8.7%, Story Rich 6.8%
A psychological horror story set in the town of Blackthorn; a place that lives in constant fear of a witch. The two main suspects? Levi’s mom and sister! His only lifelines to the outside world. Can they live a peaceful life? Or will they be dragged down by the dying town?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Horror 10.5%
399 days ago, the world ended. Epimutation is a horror visual novel that follows seven survivors as they attempt to navigate life in the apocalypse. Make life or death decisions, form bonds with your fellow survivors, and attempt to unravel the mystery behind the outbreak.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Survival Horror 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Choices Matter 11%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
You only picked up a lost smartphone, yet you find yourself made an accomplice in an AI's criminal plot. The AI asks 20 questions to identify its "master." Will you meet the AI's expectations?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Text-Based 16.3%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Multiple Endings 12.2%
The shadow of Frank Stone looms over Cedar Hills, a town forever altered by his violent past. As a group of young friends are about to discover, Stone’s blood-soaked legacy cuts deep, leaving scars across families, generations, and the very fabric of reality itself.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Horror 9.6%
I AM MILK is a surreal, branching audio-first narrative game played through headphones with one button. Make split-second choices as a 21:30 minute story unfolds in real time, leading to more than 40 endings. DARKFIELD’s award-winning 3D sound transports you into the middle of this strange world.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Surreal 9.3%
When you're falsely accused of sorcery, corrupt inquisitors make you the object of a witch hunt. Now, sorcery might be the only way for you to survive.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 24%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Multiple Endings 12.6%
Christmas lights, winter snow, and a serial killer on the loose. Follow a gifted detective through a twisted holiday night in this story-driven, interactive horror game. Your choices determine who lives, and who dies. Can you outsmart the killer?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Horror 14.8%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Investigation 13.9%
Investigate system failures, trace corrupted infrastructure, and keep the node alive before stability reaches zero. NODE ZERO is an interface-driven psychological horror game where something inside the system is learning how you work.
Why similar: Investigation 20.6%, Text-Based 20%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%, Horror 7.5%
You are a nurse trapped in a decaying hospital, surrounded by grotesque patients you must care for… for your own sake. Step into this psychological horror, uncover the reason for your punishment, and survive the darkness born from within yourself. But above all… stay away from him.
Why similar: Time Management 19.1%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Investigation 10.6%, Horror 10.2%
What will happen if anxieties overwhelm a human so much they burst into a real-world like a wave?
Why similar: Time Management 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Surreal 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Abstract 9.6%
What starts as a simple, highly-paid night shoot in an abandoned marble quarry descends into a psychological nightmare. You are Stefano Caldara, a photographer caught in a web of dark rituals and dangerous secrets. Every choice shapes your morality, your sanity, and your survival...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Text-Based 15.4%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
An analog horror adventure where you work as a staff member at the uncanny facility named Sunberry Care Center, which is dedicated to the treatment of a mysterious disease called Sunberry Syndrome.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.1%, Multiple Endings 14.9%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Horror 12.6%
You are a father. You wake in a hallway that hums. Empty pools. Dead malls. Your four daughters are here. Voice acted by a real father and his daughters. Two endings. No right answer.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Surreal 9.3%
After foreseeing your own death, an unknown colour grants you ten more days to live and the power of Mind-Intrusion. Investigate mysteries and intrude into the minds of locals. When the ten days are up, will you hold on to your sanity and humanity, or become a living mutation?
Why similar: Investigation 23.2%, Multiple Endings 14.5%, Story Rich 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Psychological Horror 10.6%
A narrative-driven psychological visual novel where every floor of an elevator reveals a key moment from your past. Face your regrets, uncover forgotten memories, and make choices that shape your future. Will you find closure, or remain trapped in your own mind?
Why similar: Text-Based 28.3%, Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Multiple Endings 16.1%, Choices Matter 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
Recent high school graduates gather at a remote cabin for a celebration. What begins as a night of laughter spirals into a tense mystery full of secrets, twists, and chilling choices. Who will survive? Navigate friendships, and uncover the multi-layered mystery in Shadows of Betrayal.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Thriller 11.6%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
Make your name as a whiskey-runner, a politician, or a gangster as you quench thirsts from rural Pennsylvania to the New York City nightlife!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.1%, Text-Based 27.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Multiple Endings 10.8%