60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Choose Your Own Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Text-Based, Story Rich.
Asylum simulator. An interactive fiction about schizophrenia and finding meaning after near-death, with Disco Elysium-style mechanics.
TOY BOX
A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.
We Were Here Before
The frontier does not want to be settled. A narrative highly replayable story game where your choices build a settlement, shape its story, and seal its fate. Every run ends. Every obituary tells a story only you lived.
A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Text-Based 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Dark Comedy 13.9%, Psychological Horror 10.4%
The frontier does not want to be settled. A narrative highly replayable story game where your choices build a settlement, shape its story, and seal its fate. Every run ends. Every obituary tells a story only you lived.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Text-Based 16.6%, Psychological Horror 9.6%, Dark Humor 9.4%
To escape, you must hurt someone. KIZUTSUKE is a psychological suspense visual novel about four young men trapped together. Read their conversations, make difficult choices, and discover four endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Text-Based 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Choices Matter 8.7%
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 27.7%, Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Choices Matter 7.2%
Spend ten days answering customers as the human behind a supposedly automated AI. Choose the exact reply you can live with as everyday requests turn invasive, deceptive, and impossible. Your words stay on record. When the contract ends, someone has to take responsibility.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Text-Based 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Dark Comedy 15.1%, Psychological Horror 10.3%
Some memories aren't meant to stay. We are our memories and our experiences. What happens if you delete some of them? If you change your past and, thus, your future?
Why similar: Text-Based 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Psychological Horror 12%, Point & Click 8.5%
"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 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.1%
The horror personality q̷̦̈́͊u̸̠͗i̴͈͈̊̈z̴͈͇̳͗͌
Why similar: Text-Based 25.9%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Dark Comedy 6.7%
You are the new hire. The account you inherited is not new — it belonged to E. Vale, who is no longer with the company. Ten business days of email in which you choose what you say, then choose who sees it. The routing is permanent. Someone is still reading.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Text-Based 16%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Dark Humor 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Psychological Horror 12%, Choices Matter 9.2%
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: Interactive Fiction 41.1%, Text-Based 36.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Story Rich 1.6%, Indie 1.6%
Convince the cannibals not to eat you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Point & Click 7.9%
An unusual horror-themed Visual Novel about waking up in a carriage with a stranger… Whatever could go wrong?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Text-Based 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Dark Comedy 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.3%
Rule your realm, train heroes, and build a legendary kingdom in Daria. Experience strategy, storytelling, and diplomacy in this immersive sim.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.8%, Text-Based 30.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Simulation 9.7%, Choices Matter 8.2%
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 27.2%, Text-Based 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Visual Novel 7%
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: Interactive Fiction 22%, Text-Based 21.5%, Psychological Horror 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Choices Matter 13.2%
Your robots will change the world! Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army? A 300,000-word epic interactive sci-fi novel.
Why similar: Text-Based 32.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Story Rich 2.6%
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 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Psychological Horror 9.1%, Visual Novel 5.2%
Better than a birthday card. Use the Steam gift system to deliver this birthday present to your friends. The amazing Sergio Spellbound will ensure they have the magical birthday adventure of a lifetime. They will Point&Click their way to BIRTHDAY GLORY. If they’re lucky, they may even survive …
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Text-Based 13.4%, Dark Comedy 12.6%, Dark Humor 10.6%, Point & Click 10.4%
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: Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Choices Matter 21.1%, Text-Based 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Visual Novel 5.8%
Find a way out of the Do 11 app by doing missions that come from the mysterious Do 11 app. A choice awaits you to solve puzzles and change the fate of the protagonist. Escape the main character from the Do 11 app while savoring a profound worldview and intriguing story. An incredible twist awaits.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Text-Based 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Dark Comedy 11.9%, Choices Matter 11.4%
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 27.3%, Text-Based 25.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, Choices Matter 7.9%, Visual Novel 6.9%
Explore an alternative medieval Europe in this low-fantasy epic adventure! How far are you willing to go to take back your stolen treasure?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.3%, Text-Based 27.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Casual 6.5%
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 33.4%, Text-Based 30.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Indie 0.9%
10 participants. A death game that unfolds over 31 days. If you kill another participant, you can take their prize money. An interactive fiction game where the story changes based on your choices. In this dangerous game, choose who to trust and who to betray.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.6%, Text-Based 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Simulation 7.3%
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 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Dark Comedy 7.4%
With the power to freeze time, you can ransack a casino, rescue a celebrity, or cheat death itself! A thrilling interactive sci-fi novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.8%, Text-Based 25.1%, Choices Matter 18.2%, Indie 2.6%
This is a retro story game about choices and the voices in your head. Unlock new voices, new thoughts, and new endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Text-Based 14.1%, Choices Matter 11.3%
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.7%, Text-Based 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Visual Novel 6.8%
Make Cute Animal Friends in this 8-bit Gameboy-inspired adventure! But there's something lurking in the woods, with DARK SECRETS you'll need to uncover!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Dark Humor 13.7%, Point & Click 9.7%
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 31.4%, Interactive Fiction 30.6%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%, Visual Novel 9%
"In my dreams, I can get out. In my dreams, I can fit in." 'ghostpia' mixes the adorable art style of an illustrated book with glitches-and-noise effects. There are no choices to be made. There's only a lonely girl in a ghost town and her story full of mystery, friendhood...and a bit of violence.
Why similar: Text-Based 18%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Dark Humor 10.6%
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 26.5%, Psychological Horror 20.4%, Text-Based 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Choices Matter 14.4%
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 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Choices Matter 10.6%
ある高校のスクールカウンセラーである主人公は、二人の少女が起こした心中事件に巻き込まれていく……。画面を二分割し、二人の少女を見比べながら進める「二画面同時進行」システムを採用。食い違う証言から事件の全体像が浮かび上がる。「rhizome village」が送るファナティックガールズトークADV。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27%, Text-Based 25.6%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Story Rich 3.7%
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 22%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Choices Matter 10.2%
Welcome to Ostera: The curse of... Join the Adventure! Shape Your Destiny, Kiss Rats, and Slap Kids!
Why similar: Text-Based 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Dark Comedy 15%, Dark Humor 12%
Dive into the shadows of this fairytale-like narrative experience with Birdie, making choices and helping her find freedom and light in the darkness. Love isn't always what it seems.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Choices Matter 9.3%
Extract yourself from another fine mess–this time, with your family watching! Mischief, mix-ups, and bewilderingly urgent capers at your ancestral estate.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.1%, Text-Based 29.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Indie 0.9%
Scribe is a scribe simulator in which you can secretly shape the destinies of the inhabitants of the estate: resolve disputes, influence the course of family intrigues, decide who lives and who does not. Choose what to write in letters and whether to change their recipients!
Why similar: Text-Based 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Point & Click 8.4%
A funny, emotional text-based romance where your awkward crush meets accidental magic. Make branching choices, build relationships, and maybe ruin Valentine’s Day with a love potion that definitely shouldn’t have worked.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.8%, Text-Based 31.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.8%, Casual 5.9%, Indie 1.1%
Return to a town that never changed… and a friend who's supposed to be dead. A psychological horror visual novel about memory and the cost of refusing to move forward.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Point & Click 12.4%, Choices Matter 9.6%
Will you infiltrate the gods' Elite Courte, stealing their superpowers, or turn double agent and join them, taking your place among the divine?
Why similar: Text-Based 32.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Story Rich 4.6%
A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.7%, Text-Based 18.6%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Visual Novel 6.6%
Welcome to St Fiacre’s College for Women of Unreliable Size. Your new home. If you can survive your first night… Featuring 40,000 words of text and over 500 images, this heart-pumping visual novel journey will thrill fans of shrinking and giants alike!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Text-Based 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Dark Comedy 14.6%, Dark Humor 11.7%
A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths. A free atmospheric horror visual novel where you navigate life-or-death situations. SEEK PARADISE OR DIE TRYING
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Psychological Horror 17.9%, Choices Matter 11%, Visual Novel 7.5%
Plunge into court politics and change the course of history, or pursue a love affair that rocks the kingdom to its foundations!
Why similar: Text-Based 30.8%, Interactive Fiction 27%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.9%, Choices Matter 14%, Indie 2.3%
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 22.1%, Text-Based 16.4%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Dark Humor 10.8%
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 20.7%, Psychological Horror 18%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Text-Based 11%
The outside is being ravaged by a mysterious downpour of a glass, you are forced to take shelter in a seemingly innocuous rundown hotel. Yet, stuck with you are people who you wish you would never see again. What will you do to survive?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Text-Based 17.8%, Point & Click 10.7%, Choices Matter 7.5%
Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 42.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, Text-Based 13%, Psychological Horror 6.9%, Visual Novel 5.3%
Can you survive a night in St Fiacre's at tiny size? This feature-length interactive visual novel returns to the world of Sensus Supra, with better visuals, dozens of animations, more complex puzzles and even more dangerous giantesses hunting for your blood. Every action has consequences...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Text-Based 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Dark Comedy 13.4%, Dark Humor 11.3%
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 30.2%, Text-Based 29%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Thriller 4.4%
You're an adventurer going into Friscott Castle to see what treasures you can find within. Explore, meet the residents, find treasure & more. Be mindful though, as the castle isn't normal, & there are things about it that might drive a person to madness. That, or it might spell your demise.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.8%, Text-Based 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Point & Click 13.5%, Choices Matter 6.9%
Are you worthy of the throne? Or do your siblings deserve it more than you do? What kind of heir will you be?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.6%, Text-Based 27.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Choices Matter 8.6%, Casual 7.1%
Stir up a fresh take on iconic Disney Villains in this rich visual novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.5%, Text-Based 20.2%, Point & Click 17.4%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Casual 8.4%
A directionless night-shift worker clings to a dying MMORPG, a legendary White Unicorn mount, and the belief that old games are more "real" in this short psychological horror visual novel about escapism and being left behind.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Point & Click 11%, Visual Novel 8.2%
A crown upon your head, danger all around. Rule, marry, scheme, raise heirs, wage wars, fulfill prophecies, and survive the waking Wyrm. An interactive text-based dark fantasy novel, 850,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.3%, Text-Based 32.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Indie 0.9%
A dark visual novel blending psychological horror, surreal storytelling, and chatroom-inspired UI. Navigate intrusive thoughts, branching choices, and dissect a fractured mind in a twisted search for connection and meaning.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Dark Comedy 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Text-Based 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.1%
