Games Like Dreaming After You

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 19.4%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Text-Based 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%

Transparent is a narrative game where every choice shapes Clara’s existence. On the eve of her 30th birthday, she revisits key moments of her life. Will her decisions anchor her to reality or make her fade away? Explore memories, face dilemmas, and discover multiple endings

Why similar: Narration 18.8%, Text-Based 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Emotional 11.2%

Do you enjoy listening to stories and having the ability to influence their unfolding? If so, then immerse yourself in the role of an active participant as you join Yaren on her quest for freedom.

Why similar: Text-Based 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Narration 14.4%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Psychological 11.2%

Your choices reveal what you value. Guide three adventurers through a kingdom in crisis, deciding whom to protect as its population and army decline. Character traits and dice shape the outcome, while every decision builds a five-principle value profile revealed at the end of your journey.

Why similar: Text-Based 18%, Choices Matter 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Philosophical 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%

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 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Philosophical 11.6%, Emotional 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.8%

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: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Text-Based 20.9%, Choices Matter 16.6%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Emotional 10.5%

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 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Choices Matter 18%, Multiple Endings 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 5.3%

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: Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Text-Based 24.9%, Emotional 15.1%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Story Rich 7.6%

Aunewyth is a text-based game with a focus on narration and decision making. It features a short yet versatile storyline that reveals itself according to the choices you make.

Why similar: Text-Based 29.9%, Choices Matter 20.2%, Multiple Endings 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.4%

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: Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Psychological 15%, Multiple Endings 14.8%, Emotional 13.5%

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 17.4%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Text-Based 12.6%, Psychological 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%

Writing on a blog and using her obscure ability, the mysterious Nightingale has been helping people in danger for years. Now, she’s forced to disappear, facing threats from a killer... one of those people she helped in the past. An interactive short story featuring an advanced navigation UI.

Why similar: Text-Based 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Narration 9.2%

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 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%

Prescription of Throes is a narrative adventure game. An experimental drug that can erase all psychological pain is circulating underground. You will meet companions, face their struggles alongside them, and gradually uncover the truth behind the drug through exploration and choice.

Why similar: Psychological 20.1%, Choices Matter 18%, Philosophical 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Multiple Endings 10.7%

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 23.8%, Choices Matter 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Text-Based 11.6%, Philosophical 9.1%

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 23.4%, Text-Based 23.3%, Choices Matter 16.8%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Psychological 10.4%

Tayke Me With You is a visual novel about high school seniors and their struggles with each other and the world around them. You play as Gene, a sheltered, socially naive human from the city as he acclimates to living in a rural town filled with dinosaurs, finding friends (and love) along the way.

Why similar: Choices Matter 19.3%, Multiple Endings 17.4%, Text-Based 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Emotional 10%

A visual novel about the mind, change, and being locked up.

Why similar: Choices Matter 19%, Text-Based 17.9%, Multiple Endings 17%, Philosophical 15.7%, Story Rich 7.6%

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.

Why similar: Choices Matter 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Philosophical 15%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Psychological 10.6%

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 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Multiple Endings 12.7%

It's the night of the big ball, and things are going...well...they're going. When so many people of so many different species are gathered together in one place, you're sure to have an interesting time. But what if something a little more malicious is happening under the surface?

Why similar: Philosophical 21.8%, Text-Based 16.8%, Multiple Endings 15%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%

A text-based choose your own adventure game, with multiple stories, each with several endings. Stories you create through branching narratives are kept so you can read them again or show them to friends.

Why similar: Multiple Endings 23.5%, Choices Matter 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Text-Based 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%

‘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: Text-Based 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Philosophical 15%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Multiple Endings 11.5%

Guilt Free is a visual novel crossed with a point and click made to offer perspective on mental health and eating disorders. Navigate a couple's rocky relationship and encounter "flaws" or "quirks" that may actually be symptomatic behaviors.

Why similar: Text-Based 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Choices Matter 16.9%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Emotional 11.9%

Wander into the carnival of a giant magical dragon lady, where nobody ever leaves unchanged! Answer an extensive list of questions disguised as mini games as you explore the carnival grounds to discover what animal spirit lives inside you.

Why similar: Philosophical 18.2%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Psychological 12.1%

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: Choices Matter 15.2%, Psychological 14.5%, Philosophical 13.5%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%

Who are you? You are not the main character. You are his inner voice, speaking to him. Aren't you? A life crisis. A strange job. A lonely train station. A dead man. Someone watching from the outside. A narrative-driven interactive mystery of choices, inner dialogue, and atmosphere.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19%, Text-Based 15.7%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Philosophical 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10.3%

On the road to the sacred shrine of Karatl, lost souls entrust you with their stories. In this contemplative Visual Novel, listen to their truths and perhaps, at the journey's end, you will discover your own.

Why similar: Text-Based 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Philosophical 15.6%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Multiple Endings 13.6%

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 27.5%, Choices Matter 16.5%, Text-Based 13.2%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Emotional 10.1%

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 24.6%, Philosophical 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Emotional 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.8%

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 28.1%, Text-Based 25.1%, Choices Matter 20.7%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%

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 27.5%, Choices Matter 20.1%, Multiple Endings 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Emotional 8.1%

A fully narrated branching narrative game set in occupied Netherlands during World War 2. Every choice shapes the fate of a young Dutch civilian. Will you resist the Germans? Simply try to survive? Or join them in the fight against Bolshevism? Based on real events.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Text-Based 17.4%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Narration 12.1%

A psychological interactive novel about a floppy disk with a mysterious program. Help Elliot cope with his mental issues and uncover the secret of the floppy disk.

Why similar: Philosophical 17.5%, Text-Based 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Psychological 12.5%

The wilderfolk of Ushinega Island waste away in a rotting tropical paradise, haunted by a deadly malediction. Yet behind every curse lurks a secret. You have the power to save them... but should you?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.7%, Choices Matter 21.8%, Text-Based 21.7%, Multiple Endings 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.4%

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: Interactive Fiction 27.1%, Text-Based 26.4%, Choices Matter 18.7%, Multiple Endings 16.6%, Story Rich 7.4%

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 28.3%, Text-Based 28%, Choices Matter 17.8%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%

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 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Emotional 11.1%, Psychological 10.2%

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 28.5%, Text-Based 26.7%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Multiple Endings 12.4%

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%, Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Choices Matter 19.8%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%

"The Pinch" is a character-driven sci-fi narrative with branching story paths and meaningful choices about a group of scientists struggling to save their planet from an addictive virtual reality known as "the Gel." Your choices determine your personal relationships and the fate of those around you.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Philosophical 21.2%, Choices Matter 17.5%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Text-Based 10.5%

A story-rich coming-of-age experience told through a 2004 desktop, where friendships, music, and late-night conversations shape who you become. Explore chats, drama, mini-games, and the early internet in a branching story about growing up, making mistakes, and finding your place.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23%, Text-Based 18.3%, Choices Matter 17.3%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Emotional 9.4%

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 23.7%, Text-Based 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Multiple Endings 15.2%, Choices Matter 11.2%

Newly hired for a revitalization program, work against a ticking clock and navigate a skeptical boss, a lousy friend, and discrimination while making hiring decisions. Interactive narrative with timed decisions Critical thinking Prosocial Empathy

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24%, Text-Based 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Narration 10.9%

Why Do People Want to Die? Why Don't People Want to Die? This is a story about a group of girls in a world that exists in limbo between life and death. Embark on a dramatic real-time tactical adventure.

Why similar: Philosophical 17.9%, Text-Based 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Multiple Endings 11.8%

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: Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Philosophical 18.2%, Multiple Endings 16.2%, Psychological 15%, Choices Matter 13.6%

A story-driven mystery visual novel set in a remote island village. Gather clues through conversations and exploration, and uncover hidden truths through branching routes and multiple endings amid the tense, claustrophobic atmosphere.

Why similar: Text-Based 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Psychological 11.4%

Help the eccentric inventor navigate the intrigue of the emerging electrical industry! Can you outsmart Thomas Edison and electrify the world?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.2%, Text-Based 23.7%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Narration 13.5%, Multiple Endings 11.2%

A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Choices Matter 18.4%, Text-Based 16.3%, Multiple Endings 15.4%, Story Rich 6.4%

Build a life from childhood to legacy. LIVORA is a choice-driven life simulation where education, work, money, relationships, family, health, time and where you live all connect — and the decisions you make can shape what happens years later.

Why similar: Text-Based 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Choices Matter 16.4%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Emotional 12.3%

A short emotional journey through memory, grief, and healing. Help Íris piece together her fragmented memories and uncover hidden truths. A portion of the sales is donated to AbleGamers Brazil. 🧡🖤

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Text-Based 17.5%, Emotional 15.6%, Psychological 14.3%, Multiple Endings 13.6%

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 25.5%, Text-Based 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Psychological 10%

A visual novel strategy game where your floral fragrances determine the fate of your mysterious shop and its patrons. Make choices, talk to customers, and shape the story. Get ready for a journey of heartfelt connections and strategic decision-making.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Text-Based 18.9%, Choices Matter 18.8%, Multiple Endings 17.1%, Story Rich 11.7%

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 25.4%, Choices Matter 19.2%, Multiple Endings 17.6%, Psychological 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%

Never stop running, not with the galaxy at stake. Save it at all costs, and save yourself if you can.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Choices Matter 21.5%, Text-Based 21.3%, Multiple Endings 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%

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: Text-Based 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Emotional 12.7%, Multiple Endings 12.6%

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 18.5%, Choices Matter 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Multiple Endings 15.7%, Emotional 11.7%

Simple visual novel in which you play as a young upperclass woman preparing for her debut before the Queen and her royal relatives. All of your decisions lead to one of four very different endings. Who will you become? The jewel of the season or the outcast, never again mentioned by your family?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Choices Matter 17%, Text-Based 16.9%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Emotional 9.5%

You are a censor in a nameless war, blacking out the letters of two lovers who have never met. Their whole romance lives on paper — so every word you strike is struck from the love itself. Then the letters begin, impossibly, to answer your pen. A melancholy epistolary romance. Six endings.

Why similar: Text-Based 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Multiple Endings 12%, Psychological 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 18.5%, Choices Matter 18%, Psychological 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Emotional 10.5%