60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Choices Matter, Story Rich, Singleplayer, Multiple Endings.
Congratulations! Your job application was successful. All you have to do now is get through the trial period. Respond to messages using a retro 2006 email client. The replies you send will determine whether you are hired or fired. Will you become a professional agony aunt?
Terranova
A nostalgic interactive fiction game set in the early 2000's. Chat with your friends, update your LimeJournal, and discover yourself through a rich world of storytelling, love and friendship.
Beek: Familiar Spirit - Remastered
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.
A nostalgic interactive fiction game set in the early 2000's. Chat with your friends, update your LimeJournal, and discover yourself through a rich world of storytelling, love and friendship.
Why similar: Nostalgia 25.3% ★, Text-Based 15.9%, LGBTQ+ 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Multiple Endings 7.2%
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: Text-Based 20.8%, LGBTQ+ 20%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
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: Nostalgia 23.6% ★, Text-Based 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, LGBTQ+ 13.2%, Conversation 10.4%
Emily <3 is a brand new story set on an old-new social media. Customize your facenook profile, send some friend requests and determine the outcome of your senior year.
Why similar: Nostalgia 31.4% ★, Choices Matter 13.4%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Conversation 9.5%, Simulation 8.4%
It's not what you say, it's how you say it. We should talk is a short-form narrative game that will make you think carefully about the words you choose. Can your relationship survive the night?
Why similar: Text-Based 19.8%, LGBTQ+ 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
Retro virtual pet game with total fidelity to the 90s classics. A pixel art simulator with multiple characters, including rare pets, where your choices shape the evolution of your virtual pet.
Why similar: Nostalgia 57.8% ★, Retro 14.1%, Multiple Endings 8.2%, Simulation 5.3%, Relaxing 4.5%
Experience a pastel-toned emotional journey in Yuika My Bestie, a short visual novel you can complete in under 15 minutes per playthrough. With 5 unique endings and heartfelt choices, it takes just 30–40 minutes to explore every path of this soft, late-night cry.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.4%, Conversation 13.1%, Text-Based 12.1%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%
A story about love, death, and the universe, told through tarot cards.
Why similar: Text-Based 25%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, LGBTQ+ 16.9%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
In this pre-smartphone-era text adventure, use that good ol’ T9 phone to text your way through the highs and lows of school days. Choose replies piece by piece to shape your own story. Friendships grow; feelings get complicated; secrets flicker. Every reply matters—it all happens Between the Lines.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.9%, Conversation 12.9%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Choices Matter 9.5%
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: Text-Based 20.5%, LGBTQ+ 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Multiple Endings 12.8%
Initiate a neural handshake with a doomed deep-space facility. Hack through a corrupted AI, evade corporate kill-squads, and uncover a terrifying biological conspiracy. Every keystroke decides who lives and who dies in this immersive sci-fi terminal thriller featuring 12 distinct endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 30.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Simulation 13.2%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
Travel to the world of the dead, whose stories encourage reflection on life. Chat with spirits, brew drinks to suit your mood, and bond with the people who run the afterlife cafes. In this urban sci-fi fantasy visual novel, your choices impact the living, the departed, and your own path forward.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.6%, Conversation 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
Dust off your coffee machine and prepare your warmest smile to meet your customers again in the second episode of the much loved coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator; Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.3%, Conversation 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Simulation 7.7%
A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Text-Based 17.3%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, LGBTQ+ 9.1%
Crown Delights Deli is a visual novel with multiple dialect/language choices. As the cashier at a Brooklyn bodega, choose to talk in English, AAVE, or Spanish to a diverse cast of characters as you try to maintain a five-star rating for your boss.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22%, Text-Based 19.9%, Conversation 16.8%, Choices Matter 13%, Story Rich 8.6%
If she leaves now you will never see her again. Would you have enough courage to take a step, or would you stay quiet and regret it? Experience this story about love and loss.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.3%, Multiple Endings 14.3%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Emotional 11.5%, Text-Based 10.8%
Randall is your typical nerdy kid living a normal, unexciting life in the 80s. Secretly in love with the most popular girl in school and bullied by the soccer team gang. Until one day, he meets you — a divine entity who can change everything!
Why similar: Nostalgia 51.4% ★, Retro 11.6%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Story Rich 9.6%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
Nostalgici Anonimi is a short visual novel set in a dystopian program to heal from feeling emotions. Choose your path, interact with the android therapist and the teenagers recovering from the nostalgia disease. Discover a card game to unveil your emotions and find hidden clues to find the truth.
Why similar: Nostalgia 40.9% ★, Text-Based 16%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
Commander Keen is back. In the modernised Definitive Edition of the lost episode "Keen Dream". The game structure has been reworked to make the game a more modern experience without sacrificing any of the original charm!
Why similar: Nostalgia 68.5% ★, Retro 17.9%, 2D 6.3%, Casual 6.2%, Indie 1%
A summer memory in the countryside. Get a taste of nostalgia and let the pixel art warm your soul in this country life simulation. Do all the things you remember, and all the things you wish you had.
Why similar: Nostalgia 57.6% ★, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Retro 11.1%, Conversation 9.3%, Relaxing 6.1%
Pasajeros is developed through a collection of urban and surreal stories collected in a taxi in Bogotá . It’s a four-night adventure packed with micro-stories of vampires, mariachis, and thugs. In addition to the opportunity to find love or madness in the night magic of a city.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Conversation 14.4%, LGBTQ+ 13.4%, Text-Based 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
Play as a Duskweaver in this short "choices matter" story about self-sacrifice.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Choices Matter 17.8%, Multiple Endings 16%, Emotional 8.8%
Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
Why similar: Choices Matter 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Story Rich 14.9%, Retro 13.7%, Text-Based 13.1%
A Brown Rabbit's Story is an interactive storybook, a text-driven adventure where your choices lead to branching paths and multiple endings. In a quiet orphanage, a boy wishes his toy rabbit to life… and together, they must face the world’s cruelties and find hope.
Why similar: Text-Based 30.4%, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Emotional 13.1%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Story Rich 10%
A darkly comedic legal sim where your goal is to get disbarred—spectacularly. Play as a defense attorney or prosecutor in ethically disastrous cases full of bad decisions, weird clients, and Kafkaesque courtroom chaos. Succeed, and you lose.
Why similar: Text-Based 29.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Multiple Endings 14.3%, Story Rich 9%
“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: LGBTQ+ 26.1%, Text-Based 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Story Rich 10.1%, Conversation 9%
A spooky choices-matter mystery set in 2004 Switzerland. Many students have disappeared in Noirmont High over the past century. You're Lou, you just transferred here, and weird stuff immediately starts happening... will you be the next dropout?
Why similar: Nostalgia 48.2% ★, Choices Matter 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, LGBTQ+ 10.2%, Conversation 9%
A visual novel set in 1920s Paris. As summer draws near, young students are revising their end-of-year exams. Olivier is one of them.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Text-Based 13.9%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Emotional 9.5%
Trapped in a snowbound medical camp, battlefield nurse May clings to a mysterious letter—a final hope. Uncover hidden truths, test fragile bonds, and navigate a path toward a distant sanatorium. Will you find salvation, or something far darker?
Why similar: Text-Based 27.9%, LGBTQ+ 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
Cozy visual novel about a lovely witch who’s able to talk to spirits in a fantasy setting. Using her powers, Julia helps her neighbors in their daily whereabouts. Craft potions, find the right time to use them and get to know both spirits and clients to find their peace.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.8%, Conversation 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Emotional 11.3%, Choices Matter 9%
Be a convenience-store clerk in a first-of-its-kind chat game—and kick out AI Karens. There are no preset choices. Say what you couldn’t in real life and enjoy how the AI responds differently each time. A stress-relief game where your what-ifs come to life!
Why similar: Text-Based 21.4%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Simulation 11%
Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.8%, Conversation 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
Seduce and surveil as a sexy spy! Gather intel, or gamble on love in Versailles! Who will catch your eye: a spymistress, a poet, or a traitor to the king?
Why similar: Text-Based 26.2%, LGBTQ+ 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choices Matter 9%, Multiple Endings 7.9%
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: Text-Based 27.8%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Conversation 12.6%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Story Rich 9.2%
Coffee Talk Tokyo is the newest entry in the beloved series, set in a late-night café in Tokyo. Brew drinks, meet humans and yōkai, and experience heartfelt stories in a cozy, story-rich world.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Conversation 13.1%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
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 23.8%, Text-Based 15.4%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Story Rich 10.5%
A game where your goal is to find a door to get to the next level! What could be wrong ?
Why similar: Nostalgia 80.7% ★, Simulation 12.7%, Emotional 5.6%, Singleplayer 0.6%, Indie 0.3%
一个生活跌入谷底的男人，阴差阳错的穿越回90年代，重新遇到自己的亲人与朋友。 改变吧！用这仅有一次的机会！你的每一次选择都只有一次，且无比重要！
Why similar: Nostalgia 53.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Emotional 7.1%, Choices Matter 6.5%
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 32.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Choices Matter 16.9%, Multiple Endings 16.4%, Story Rich 5.4%
Revisit and repeat the final moments of China's turn of the century in this narrative puzzle adventure. Play a 6th-grade student and greet classmates, explore secrets, play mini-4WD, or just wander around town. Make your choices to create a perfect day for everyone!
Why similar: Nostalgia 41.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Retro 9.3%
Graveyard Girls is a halloween-themed yuri visual novel about complicated grief and overcoming hardships. Collect Elle’s “scribbles” to learn about her struggles, befriend a mysterious girl, and have a conversation about death.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.9%, Text-Based 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Emotional 10.5%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
Get yourself into and out of another fine mess! Win glory, renown, and much-needed money through cunning schemes that will seem like good ideas at the time.
Why similar: Text-Based 32.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Conversation 9.9%, Story Rich 9.5%
Vespa's Test is a short, relaxing personality test based on real psychological research. Answer a multitude of thought-provoking questions, and receive a vision tailored to your answers; what, in life, is holding you back?
Why similar: Choices Matter 19.3%, Multiple Endings 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Retro 12.4%, Relaxing 11.7%
Samael suffers from delusions. He feels lost until he encounters a priest one day. The priest is the only person in the world who makes him feel at peace. This, however, slowly turns into an obsession. Will Samael learn how to love properly or will he fall into a path of darkness? You decide.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.5%, LGBTQ+ 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Simulation 10.9%, Emotional 8.9%
Every day, tens of thousands of dreams are born, destroyed and reborn
Why similar: Nostalgia 92.2% ★, 2D 5.2%, Singleplayer 1.7%, Indie 0.9%
You came here with a motive, so as everyone, except that you are able to change theirs. Ride with Lucas to turn down all the love interests or end their trouble in this (obviously artificial intelligence-themed) sci-fi BL visual novel. Enjoy the long-waited grand finale in this trilogy!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Conversation 15.2%, Multiple Endings 13%, Choices Matter 11.7%
「春の音はまるで君に似てて」は暗い夜、道に迷ったような時期に悩んでいた主人公、相原愛理が偶然蒼の歌声を聞くようになり、二人の物語が始まります。日本の女学校を背景とし、少女と少女が出会い、お互いを通して自分が進みたい道を見つけ、一歩、また一歩踏み出していく、成長と恋の過程を込めた「ゆり」キネティックノーベルです。
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 35.6%, Text-Based 24.7%, Simulation 13.1%, Story Rich 10.7%, Emotional 7.4%
In this bizarre graphically-augmented text-adventure originally released in 1983 from the mind of Mel Croucher, Uncle Groucho is your guide in a wacky alternative Hollywood where cigars are currency and you are as likely to travel in a space shuttle as in a covered wagon.
Why similar: Nostalgia 48.1% ★, Text-Based 23.4%, Retro 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 7.9%, Funny 5.5%
Write letters with your typewriter on behalf of others in this cozy single-player game. Compose everything from simple hellos to theater scripts and love letters, express each client’s emotions, and find your own meaning to letter writing.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23%, Text-Based 15%, Emotional 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Typing 9.9% ★
A nostalgic metroidvania from the good old days back in 19XX. Take on the role of Sean, a young boy who ventures into the fictional city of Arostia to repay his father's debt. Rescue your 3 friends from imprisonment, defeat strong enemies, all while getting your debt paid in time!
Why similar: Nostalgia 65% ★, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Retro 9.4%, Story Rich 8.2%, 2D 2.7%
A lewd Visual-Novel about Futas on an open island
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Simulation 12%, Retro 10.9%, Conversation 9%
"Curtain Call" is a visual novel about (literally) breaking through social masks by forming meaningful connections with incredibly deep personalities. Whether you’re looking to make new friends or something more, there’s a whole cast of characters just dying to meet you!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.1%, Text-Based 17%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.3%
Follow Sophie as she embarks on her latest adventure in making money, working alongside the enigmatic Rias as they put on a special yuri/lesbian camgirl show for their viewers.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Conversation 11.6%, Choices Matter 9.7%
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 26.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Story Rich 9.7%
A chat dating sim game inspired by Mystic Messenger, VTuber communities, and internet spam
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.3%, Text-Based 19.3%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.5%
You lost your memory of nothing but a mundane day. But why do mysterious men keep jamming into your life, all of them pointing to the day you forgot? Find out a hypnotherapy clinic receptionist's memory of an insignificant day in this BL visual novel.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Conversation 13.2%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Multiple Endings 11.4%
You are a Switchboard Operator, and you're about to be replaced by a machine. Use your last week of work to connect townsfolk, overcome problems, and explore the history of a cast of engaging characters. Your choices matter, so use each day to leave lasting bonds.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Choices Matter 17.4%, Multiple Endings 14%, Story Rich 10.3%, Conversation 7.9%
Experience the stories of Haru, Erika, and Manami, a trio of friends navigating their feelings of love, connection, and just wanting to belong.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Emotional 10.3%
A GxG coming-of-age visual novel. Nina sucks at choosing. But when a mysterious incident happens at the arts academy, will she muster the courage to choose–or will she let someone else decide on her behalf?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Text-Based 14.6%, Conversation 11.2%, Choices Matter 9.5%
