60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Story Rich, Adventure, Choices Matter.
Dancing with Shadows: Prologue is a 2D dark fantasy visual novel with CYOA-influenced branching storylines. Guide three protagonists through an interlocked and inexorably connected storyline. There are no wrong answers, but your decisions have consequences.
Dr. Kinderwood's Asylum
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.
Before They Catch Us
A dark text-based RPG set in a world gripped by a restless race for survival against a merciless mushroom Forest. As a prophet’s apprentice, guide your clan along the knife-edge between life and oblivion. Decipher misty visions, make critical decisions, and do whatever it takes to survive.
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 15.4%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
A dark text-based RPG set in a world gripped by a restless race for survival against a merciless mushroom Forest. As a prophet’s apprentice, guide your clan along the knife-edge between life and oblivion. Decipher misty visions, make critical decisions, and do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Narrative 18.9% ★, Text-Based 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Visual Novel 9.1%, Dark Fantasy 8.7%
A short psychological horror interactive story. Five years after vanishing without a trace, the woman you once called your lover writes from beyond the silence: "I will give birth to our creation.” In three acts, descend into a fractured mindscape where obsession, memory, and myth intertwine.
Why similar: Gothic 12.9% ★, Psychological 10.1%, Narrative 9.7% ★, Visual Novel 9.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
Set off on an exciting swashbuckling quest in this classic Fantasy Choose Your Own Adventure! Meet charming characters, fight dangerous foes, and uncover a nefarious intrigue. Experience seamless and reactive storytelling. Prove your innocence, find your destiny, relish the journey!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Medieval 10.5%, Romance 10.4%
A boy living as a warrant for a political marriage falls in love with a maid despite his unrequited love. You become a black rose fairy who grants wishes and discover that you were once human. Enter the bodies of the people in the mansion and trace their memories to discover their true identities.
Why similar: Gothic 17.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Romance 10.6%, Dark Fantasy 9.9%, Medieval 9.1%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Text-Based 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Nonlinear 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.6%
On Love, On Monsters is a Frankenstein-inspired story with an emphasis on love in its many forms. Play as three characters with alternating POVs; the Doctor, The Priest, and The Exile. Bond with allies and enemies, avoid raising suspicion in the town of Blackmoore, and learn what it means to love.
Why similar: Gothic 17.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Romance 8.7%
Balance work, vampirism and socialising as you explore Kings Cross, Sydney during the last year of the millennium. Keep a lid on your darkest desires and be rewarded with a deeper understanding of what it means to live again. Or don’t — no one will stop you. You’re a vampire, after all.
Why similar: Gothic 16% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Romance 10%, Visual Novel 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 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
Sanator: The Jewel of Monostructure is a dark fantasy visual novel that combines deep lore with exciting adventures. Who is behind the mysterious thefts and why are the gates of the Monostructure open again? Take control of Richard Murdock, the plague doctor, and find the answer.
Why similar: Nonlinear 12.2%, Supernatural 11.6%, Dark Fantasy 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Gothic 10.6% ★
A daemonic, handcrafted visual novel where your choices shape erotic dreams, secrets, and ritual desires.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Nonlinear 11%, Psychological 10.1%, Text-Based 10%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%
A text-based RPG with a nonlinear story set in a free Slavic fantasy world. Shape the heroine's character through your choices and unlock multiple endings. Mystery, folklore, and relationships — your fate depends only on you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Text-Based 14.8%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Supernatural 8.1%
Empyreal Dawn is a Gothic Fantasy Adventure where you lead a party named Caeruleum. Accompanied by the Swordsmaiden Alice Starwell, undertake your first steps toward becoming legendary heroes! Featuring full voice acting, an original soundtrack, and more!
Why similar: Gothic 14.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Nonlinear 12.1%, Romance 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.1%
A strange incident turns the life of an ordinary young man upside down when, having fallen asleep on a regular train commute, he wakes up in another country... in a body of a Japanese student! An unforgettable summer adventure awaits, promising many fateful meetings and momentous occasions.
Why similar: Narrative 21.1% ★, Text-Based 12%, Psychological 11.5%, Romance 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%
Fate is not a line is a visual novel game where your choices shape destinies. With 40+ decisions, 4 unique perspectives, and 25+ endings, every playthrough reveals new truths. Defy fate, face moral dilemmas, and uncover the secrets of the Arbiter of Fate.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Text-Based 15.8%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Choices Matter 8.1%
It always rains, they call it The Haze. Ghosts haunt every alley, every gray corner of the city. Lady of Bones is a visual novel that explores the darkest depths of existence where Maya will discover the horrible secrets of her mother's legacy.
Why similar: Supernatural 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Choices Matter 9.3%
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 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.2%
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Choices Matter 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Text-Based 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.2%
You are Nikaria. An agent of a mysterious god, sent to another country. Does the end justify the means? Is the will of the god above the law? Is the death of a non-believer insignificant? The decision is yours alone.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Nonlinear 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Romance 9.8%
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Gothic 12.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Text-Based 10.6%, Medieval 10.1%
How far will you go to keep your crown? A branching court politics drama, where every choice matters. Navigate treacherous lords, scheming family members, and angry peasants- all while trying to secure your kingdom’s future.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Medieval 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Narrative 10.3% ★
Customize your fate in a fallen world: forge bonds and uncover secrets in a tale of power, love, and the weight of grief. Your choices define your path: how will you rise in the hierarchy of the damned?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Romance 12.4%, Text-Based 11.7%, Visual Novel 10.1%
Katawa Shoujo is a romantic visual novel set in the fictional Japanese Yamaku High School for disabled children. Hisao's congenital heart defect forces him to move to a new school. Despite his difficulties, Hisao is able to find friends—and perhaps love, if he plays his cards right.
Why similar: Narrative 16.9% ★, Romance 12.5%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Text-Based 11.8%, Psychological 10.9%
DEVIL'S LIMINAL is a branching slow-burn horror and yuri romance visual novel. In a life of poverty and violence, Margo Silva has one last summer in Arizona before college. Make choices to maintain a normal facade at work, romance an enigmatic new girl, and stop the occult plot to take Margo's life.
Why similar: Gothic 15.5% ★, Nonlinear 11.9%, Supernatural 11.8%, Romance 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
Take the role of a painter struggling to finish his masterpiece in this short Gothic horror visual novel about art, pain and love.
Why similar: Gothic 22.5% ★, Visual Novel 11.5%, Supernatural 11.1%, Romance 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10%
Border of her Heart is a VN about Border control.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Text-Based 11.6%, Nonlinear 11.3%, Romance 10.1%
In this dark romance, horror visual novel, a brutal attack on your village leaves you stranded and vulnerable. Making matters worse is your run-in with the beast of the nearby woods. Will you find a way to escape your demented captor, or will you earn his trust? Choose a side; Don't look back.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Romance 14.7%, Nonlinear 14.3%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Choices Matter 9.4%
A sound, a flash, a portal… A pirate emerges, bringing a deadly threat. Five friends stand before him, and one of them is the target. But which one? Even they don't know.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Text-Based 16.4%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Psychological 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
Discover the depths of your fetishes and kinks with EmyLiveShow stars Emy and Nia! Spend amazing hours in the company of beautiful v-tubers and find out their secrets!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Nonlinear 14%, Romance 12.3%, Text-Based 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%
Delve into a dark fantasy visual novel where evil isn't always as it seems. Make your choices and grow your skills to help determine who survives the Great Culling. Featuring the voice talents of Ralph Ineson, Simon Callow, Savannah Steyn, and more.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.5%, Dark Fantasy 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Medieval 10.2%
Chess. Love. Destiny. All the same things, really.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Dark Fantasy 14.3%, Romance 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Text-Based 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Choices Matter 9.9%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Nonlinear 14.8%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Choices Matter 10.9%
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 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Choices Matter 14%, Multiple Endings 13.4%
A loop-based text adventure where turn-based combat, exploration, and branching choices drive a haunting journey through death and memory.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.2%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Dark Fantasy 13.2%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Choices Matter 11.7%
You're a renowned Special Exterminator for the Inquisition. Your mission is to hunt Chimeras, supernatural humans born from forbidden unions. Ignite a revolution, uphold the inquisition's power, or succumb to your own primal desires. Pursue intimate connections, or wild sex.
Why similar: Episodic 25.5% ★, Nonlinear 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Romance 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%
A narrative-driven RPG where every dice roll shapes your fate. Step into the role of the Queen's Herald and traverse a mist-shrouded realm to uncover the fate of her lost army. Will your choices uphold loyalty, or lead you down a path of betrayal? The secrets of the mists await.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Text-Based 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Dark Fantasy 10.2%
A job gone wrong traps lawyer R. M. Renfield at Castle Dracula. Sacrifice—others, or your own humanity—to survive, or risk it all for love in this romantic horror visual novel. But Renfield isn’t the only one looking for a way out. Who, if anyone, can you trust?
Why similar: Gothic 18.1% ★, Romance 12.4%, Visual Novel 12%, Dark Fantasy 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.7%
Under developement, Grave Knight is an interactive RPG adventure inspired by SRD 5.1 ruleset and classical game books, where your decisions weave the fate of the characters and the story. Let the dice forge the fate of your hero and the realm by fighting the Grave knight and his horde.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Text-Based 11.2%
Five Biggest Accomplishments is a short Visual Novel where you play as someone who has held the same job for 30 years: push a button every 8 hours or the world will end. Suddenly, you get an email asking you to list your five biggest accomplishments for the week, or risk being fired.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.6%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Nonlinear 12.7%, Text-Based 9.5%, Choices Matter 9.4%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Text-Based 18.3%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
Embark on a journey of this text anime quest with RPG elements! Walk through beautiful locations, overcome challenges and make Peter’s dreams come true. Every step you take matters. And don’t forget to take the diary - you’ll need it!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Text-Based 12.8%, Romance 12.4%, Medieval 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%
Haunt a suit of armour. Explore an abandoned castle. Recover your memories... and bring the ghosts of the past to rest in this melancholy visual novel about love, family and regret.
Why similar: Gothic 25.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Romance 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Dark Fantasy 11.3%
Play the role of an apprentice alchemist on the road in a merchant caravan. During the journey you will discover many things, including love? A gay medieval fantasy visual novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Medieval 12.9%, Romance 12.3%, Nonlinear 11%
Make decisions, learn magic and lift the villain's curse instead of destroying her in this puzzle-adventure visual novel.
Why similar: Supernatural 20%, Romance 14.7%, Choices Matter 13%, Narrative 12.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%
An absurdist, psychological choose your own adventure, Surreality check has the player helping Rowan Roach discover the meaning of his life through therapy sessions with the Universe personified. The Universe being a massive tool doesn't help matters.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Psychological 12.8%, Supernatural 12.6%, Choices Matter 8%
A medieval text quest in the "Choose Your Own Adventure" genre, where each choice could be your last. Create your story with more than 2,000 events, 200 of which will prove fatal. In a world where death plays against you, can you outsmart it and write your own story?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Text-Based 12.8%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Medieval 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 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Text-Based 16.9%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
After a transfer student enters his life, college senior Kent begins suffering fainting spells and hearing voices. Navigate friendships, secrets, and a growing supernatural mystery in this choice-driven visual novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Supernatural 11.9%, Choices Matter 11.2%
Check in to your hotel, and check out the ghosts! Sexy specters await you - but can you fix up the hotel in style so that the living guests will find luxury, too?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Text-Based 16.7%, Romance 14.5%, Supernatural 13.5%
A brave hero and a bound lich rescue a legendary warrior from a forgotten tomb and put the romance back in necromancy. Necromance is a dark fantasy comedy visual novel with light puzzle elements, 3 endings, and 15 ways to die!
Why similar: Gothic 16% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Romance 10.5%
A war of unseen ferocity is ravaging the continent. You, ringmaster dilettante, must keep the circus afloat. Travel, entertain, and keep the troupe’s spirits up while trying to find a mythical safe haven to last out the storm in this beautifully illustrated, text-based narrative adventure.
Why similar: Narrative 21.1% ★, Text-Based 11.7%, Nonlinear 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
"With good intentions" is a nonlinear visual novel. Escape from a cursed monastery, win over its mighty Overlord, save your love and uncover the mysteries of time itself!
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Text-Based 12%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Medieval 10.1%
Through branching destinies, hidden lore, brooding gothic vistas, and a soundtrack that echoes like a warning, you’ll walk a world reshaped by every choice you dare to make. But tread carefully—each decision pulls you toward redemption… or toward a fate far more terrifying than death.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Text-Based 10.5%, Choices Matter 8.7%
The anti-dating sim where you make friends instead of girlfriends! Balance between heartbreak and heartache! Will you graduate without a single friend? Or will you survive long enough to reject them all?
Why similar: Narrative 22.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Text-Based 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.2%
A queer romance/horror visual novel about being locked into a path, and having _______ words hidden from You. Find Your way to discover what's missing and reach Your ____ End.
Why similar: Romance 13.2%, Nonlinear 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%
Will you rise to the heavens when you wield the magic of fallen stars? Call lightning, ride the wind, and raise the dead in this fantasy epic!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Text-Based 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Dark Fantasy 12.2%, Supernatural 10.8%
Where are you, Cinderella? is a visual novel about Vietnamese culture and the world of entertainment. Will you be able to find the lost shoe’s owner? Or, will you find your shoe?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Text-Based 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Choices Matter 12.1%
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 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Romance 11%, Choices Matter 7.4%
