60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Choices Matter, Story Rich, Emotional.
You have money. You have a home. You have a family. And you're dying. You have very little time left. Make impossible choices and decide what you're willing to sacrifice for one more week of life.
Feral Absence
An existential drama in handmade clay animation. Game writer Eric is replaced by AI. He loses everything, and it's the best thing that's ever happened to him.
Dreaming After You
Play as a Duskweaver in this short "choices matter" story about self-sacrifice.
An existential drama in handmade clay animation. Game writer Eric is replaced by AI. He loses everything, and it's the best thing that's ever happened to him.
Why similar: Psychological 14.8%, Philosophical 11.7%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Emotional 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%
Play as a Duskweaver in this short "choices matter" story about self-sacrifice.
Why similar: Choices Matter 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Philosophical 15%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Psychological 10.6%
You've had the same dream all week: a school field trip to a zoo you can't leave, where the lions always find you in the end. Wander the zoo exhibits, make your choices, and search for the way out. A short, hand-painted interactive story about a recurring dream, and finally resolving it.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Multiple Endings 12%, Philosophical 8.7%
A quiet room. A window. Thirty one days spent watching strangers and inventing their lives. October is a minimalist, atmospheric story about isolation, building slowly toward the day you finally step outside.
Why similar: Psychological 14.6%, Philosophical 13.7%, Emotional 13.3%, Point & Click 11.3%, Story Rich 11%
There are things that often fail on nothing but themselves. Is there even a way out? Playing Kafka is a narrative adventure full of impenetrable schemes, insidious plot twists and conversations that slip out of hand. Based on Kafka’s life and his work, developed with Kafka experts.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Philosophical 15.2%, Psychological 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Point & Click 10.9%
Hope flickers against impossible odds. In this narrative RPG, step into the shoes of a retired soldier, thrust into a desperate last stand to save Jeomdo Village. With supplies dwindling and time running out, your decisions will shape the fate of those who look to you for salvation.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Resource Management 10.8%, Emotional 9.6%
A short psychological thriller visual novel where you guide Sora through twisted interrogations, moral dilemmas, and unraveling memories...
Why similar: Philosophical 20.5%, Psychological 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choices Matter 9.7%
A journey through the life of a star player of a cryptic and bizarre sport. The dialogue choices you make will determine the path your life takes, and the ultimate conclusion to your story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Psychological 13.8%, Emotional 11.6%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
A baby fell. You jumped after it. God didn't like that. DeadWeight: A Lullaby is a psychological narrative experience about guilt, judgment, and the weight of human intent.
Why similar: Philosophical 17.4%, Psychological 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Choices Matter 11.1%
This is a collaborative experiment between you and I. We will participate in a series of interchanges, each lasting three minutes. What will be revealed across our interfaces during that limited time?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Philosophical 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Choices Matter 16.3%, Adventure 5.3%
When the Wildflowers Leave is an engaging narrative RPG. Stop through an anthology of meteor-stricken towns while carefully convincing each of them to harbor a radical. Commit to decisions shifting you and your companions’ mental dilemmas, and make the choice for or against uncomfortable change.
Why similar: Philosophical 18.5%, Psychological 14.6%, Capitalism 13.8%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Emotional 10.4%
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 24%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Hand-drawn 11.7%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Emotional 10.1%
AN IOU is the debut visual novel by Davey Cadaver. The music, backgrounds, & characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. The user takes the POV of the protagonist to experience a memorable story with an incredible soundtrack and multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Emotional 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Psychological 10.8%
‘We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe’ is a socially engaged, text-based RPG about a journalist looking for his big break by uncovering the plights of refugees travelling from Africa to Europe. It is a story inspired by true events.
Why similar: Philosophical 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Emotional 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.4%
Every person you choose leaves someone else behind. Spend your limited afternoons building relationships, exploring the town, and recording each day in Kanata’s diary—then face timed Shadow Choices as an old book begins to fracture his ordinary life.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 15.3%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Psychological 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%
You find yourself in a singularity with Death itself. With few chances to speak with the living, Death proposes a little game. Do you dive deep within yourself to indulge this cosmic guide and find out when you will meet again on official business? The Ultimate Death Clock awaits!
Why similar: Philosophical 18.7%, Psychological 15.5%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Emotional 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 11%
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: Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Philosophical 12.9%, Emotional 12.3%, Psychological 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.3%
The (Other)World Syndrome is a story-driven adventure game that explores the lives of those exhausted by an uncertain future, and endless competition. After fleeing this world for the OtherWorld, will the protagonist finally discover true happiness?
Why similar: Philosophical 30%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Emotional 16.5%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%
She was made to serve. Never to feel. A narrative adventure about a being created to preserve the world's balance — who begins, for the first time, to question everything she was made for. Form bonds, make choices, and discover the price of becoming something you were never meant to be.
Why similar: Philosophical 18%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Multiple Endings 13%, Emotional 11.3%
A trading app, a group chat, and one "just one more trade." Chase a California fortune through a crypto mania where every gain costs something you can't buy back — a moral-descent thriller told entirely through your phone. Your choices write the ledger. Six endings.
Why similar: Capitalism 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Economy 9.8%
My Room Philosopher is a text-based game where a boy asks questions many people face during adolescence. Answer his questions and explore his thoughts while reflecting on your own values and life.
Why similar: Philosophical 26%, Psychological 14.1%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Emotional 10.6%, Story Rich 10.2%
My parents sacrificed an orphan to the red egg. She came back home that night. How will the two of us survive the hunger? Good Children Say Grace.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Emotional 11.7%, Psychological 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.
Why similar: Choices Matter 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Psychological 11.2%
Play as Elise Berrie, a tightrope walker marked by a broken past. As she infiltrates the enigmatic Circus of the Moon, she discovers that beneath its magic lie unsettling secrets. Between performances and haunting dreams, every step may bring her closer to the truth… or make her disappear.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 22%, Choices Matter 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Philosophical 9.8%
Become the Overseer, unravel an apocalyptic conspiracy, and attempt to heal the wound at the heart of the world.
Why similar: Philosophical 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Choices Matter 14%, Psychological 12.5%, Hand-drawn 10.2%
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 24.9%, Choices Matter 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Story Rich 9%
The first step that you never knew you needed to take to get to wherever you're wanting to go...
Why similar: Philosophical 19.2%, Psychological 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Multiple Endings 13%
"Between something and someone." U-chronia is a mysterious world constantly changing like a book whose pages are flipped out of order. You will wear the shoes of OU, the protagonist, to live through this game-shaped experience—without knowing what it really is.
Why similar: Psychological 17.3%, Emotional 14.6%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Hand-drawn 10.8%
The Door Has Doubts is a very short and absurd narrative game about manipulation, dialogue, and the existential crisis of room furnitures. You are stuck in a room, there is a door. Your only way out: Convince the door to open. Choose your words carefully, as you try to escape the room.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Choices Matter 16.5%, Psychological 15.6%, Multiple Endings 15.2%
Gamble your entire life savings on ludicrous stock trades hoping to get rich or die trying in this hilarious narrative misadventure about winning at capitalism.
Why similar: Capitalism 22.1%, Choices Matter 16.5%, Economy 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
Market Panic is a single-player finance roguelite where you build a portfolio, queue trades, manage clients, inspect rivals, and survive market crises across a 10-year quarterly run. Every asset can break when panic hits.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Economy 14.8%, Point & Click 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Capitalism 10.7%
Play 4 characters, live their unique stories and manage their daily lives to create their best day ever. In this narrative game, your decisions have consequences and change the outcome of the stories.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Emotional 10%
Holy Deadline is a surreal, story-rich adventure about a demigod lawyer working in the Heavenly Office. You have exactly one week to investigate the sudden divorce of John and Lilith. Take on mortal petitions, level up your logic and flair to eventually uncover who sent you back to Heaven!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Philosophical 10.1%
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 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Emotional 10.1%, Story Rich 9.4%
Your diner is the final stop before the infamous afterlife gate. Let customers drown their sorrows for profit, or attempt to show them a better way? You decide in this morally confronting choice-based game.
Why similar: Philosophical 14.4%, Capitalism 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
A ~1 hour short narrative game about a friendship that spans two lifetimes. Serious, funny, weird, maybe heartbreaking.
Why similar: Philosophical 21.8%, Emotional 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
Maybe you didn’t do it… but you watched. The Sin of Fabien is a psychological horror experience woven around guilt, denial, and silence, where every choice reshapes the world and the story. Each decision brings you closer to the truth… or pulls you further away from it forever.
Why similar: Choices Matter 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Dark 11.4%, Psychological 10.9%
A serial killer named Karma has kidnapped 8 criminals and will force you to choose the order in which they are executed. Will you be able to decide who deserves salvation... and who deserves death?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Psychological 11.9%, Emotional 11.7%, Adventure 7.5%
An interactive point-and-click space story about rediscovering a life, our friendships, our choices and regrets.
Why similar: Philosophical 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Emotional 11.6%
A story-rich interactive fiction about two people who find comfort in each other, and the quiet things they never say out loud.
Why similar: Psychological 17.9%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Emotional 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
Haunted by the ability to read minds, Suteru embarks on a journey of revenge against those who wronged him. Uncovering the secrets of his tormentors, he must confront his demons in a story that explores the depths and darkness of the human mind.
Why similar: Philosophical 15.1%, Psychological 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.8%
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: Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Nonlinear 11.7%
"Are We in Love?" is a dark, choice-driven visual novel that questions love and family. There are no butterflies in your stomach, only the harsh reality of a chemical sting in your nostrils and the acrid aftertaste of vodka. No common route. Fully branched story.
Why similar: Psychological 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Nonlinear 12.7%
Skylar is an student with anxiety. Walter is a farmer with social anxiety and PTSD. Jessica is a programmer with anxiety and agoraphobia. Li Wei is an technologist with intense anxiety. Navigate their stories, learn how they move through the world, and about methods of treatment and recovery.
Why similar: Psychological 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Emotional 10.8%
Uncover the skeletons in Hana's closet in "MINE MEMORY," a gripping psychological visual novel. Dive into Hana's memories, shape her destiny, and confront haunting choices with deep consequences.
Why similar: Psychological 26.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Story Rich 7.3%
The little boy Kiddo has spent most of his life in the hospital. Little does he know what a complicated and fascinating world lies concealed beyond the hospital walls. Today, on Kiddo's birthday, his mom wasn't around. Instead of her, the boy met Shadow, who inspired him to escape from a hospital.
Why similar: Psychological 13.9%, Choices Matter 13%, Emotional 11.1%, Point & Click 10.9%, Nonlinear 10.6%
Aozora Haru, a troubled, recently orphaned art student, finds it hard to attach much meaning to many of the things in his life. Through the meaningful bonds he has created with the people close to him, however, he begins to understand that life is much more important than it initially seems.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Philosophical 17.9%, Emotional 11.5%, Choices Matter 9.1%
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 21.6%, Choices Matter 19.2%, Multiple Endings 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Story Rich 10%
- Search for clues to progress the story. - Make choices to help your partner. - Collect bits and pieces to reveal secrets and lore bits. - Use your visions to see what he is feeling at the moment. - Don't drown in your own regrets.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Point & Click 11.9%, Emotional 8.2%
Collect expressions to use in conversations as you immerse yourself in each character’s psychological journey, where your words, decisions, and even your thoughts determine the course of every story. Plant flowers, drink tea, and have fun romancing as you help bring the village back to life.
Why similar: Psychological 19.5%, Emotional 19%, Choices Matter 17.2%, Story Rich 13%, Multiple Endings 7.1%
If an AI were sentient, how would you know if they were malfunctioning, or experiencing a mental health problem? A story-rich game that explores mental health and AI ethics in the form of therapy sessions with a sentient AI.
Why similar: Psychological 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Emotional 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
Be the person you needed. Brew tea, listen well, and guide branching stories in a narrative slice-of-life about showing up when it matters. No perfect answers. Only your choices and what they set in motion.
Why similar: Philosophical 17.6%, Emotional 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
Things are bad. Rent is late, again. There's no food, again. Your parent-in-law needs medication, again. Life is relentless. In this ethically ambiguous title, it's time to set your morals aside, and do whatever it takes to survive. When all you have is nothing, you take from those who have it all.
Why similar: Capitalism 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Philosophical 13.8%, Economy 9.7%, Psychological 9.6%
Lenin – The Lion is a Puzzle RPG game about overcoming fears. Walk into chaos and find the claws of loneliness or carefully build your path and find the benefits of understanding and acceptance.
Why similar: Psychological 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Emotional 15.6%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Multiple Endings 14.7%
During the 2020 lockdown, Dorothy spends her days caring for jars of sourdough starters. By sharing them with others, she builds unexpected connections and discovers small acts of kindness that bring warmth in difficult times.
Why similar: Philosophical 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Psychological 12%, Choices Matter 11.6%
Found a tech startup in 1990 and try to survive the dot-com bubble. Navigate 48 quarters of hype, hubris, and hostile board meetings across 19 possible endings.
Why similar: Capitalism 18.8%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Economy 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%
SCA-DI's award-winning visual novel masterpiece is finally available in English and in full HD! Sakura no Uta is a story of those whose paths stop short—and of those who walk on.
Why similar: Philosophical 31.6%, Psychological 19.7%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Choices Matter 8.9%, Story Rich 6.2%
My name is left behind these white walls. In its place, I am left with dozens of questions. I wander aimlessly, though she seems to guide me. I do not feel safe. Twenty-four hours... and everything will fall into place.
Why similar: Philosophical 16.7%, Psychological 16%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Emotional 10.4%
A choice-based visual novel game about science, division, and the false ideology of knowledge. Each and every one of your choices will determine whether the disciplines will end in unity or complete division. The key to eternal knowledge is in your hands.
Why similar: Philosophical 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Emotional 11.6%
