60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Interactive Fiction, Choices Matter, Singleplayer.
You have found the job you were looking for. Your only concern is your quota. or else? Protein was always the problem. The HFU solved it. Keep your head down, Do your job, you are here for a reason. Exitus is a terminal-style decision game. Pull up each case, then decide their fate.
Human.exe
An AI has isolated the mind of a philosophy professor to evaluate human morality. As the terminal operator, you access files, run programs, and take his consciousness through ethical dilemmas. Your decisions will train the AI's final algorithm.
Never Gives Up Her Dead
Time is running out after a meteor strikes your interstellar starship. While the crew is under full alert, only you seem to notice the strange red portals opening up throughout the ship. Old school text-based parser: no graphics, huge worlds, no hints. Recommended for text game veterans.
An AI has isolated the mind of a philosophy professor to evaluate human morality. As the terminal operator, you access files, run programs, and take his consciousness through ethical dilemmas. Your decisions will train the AI's final algorithm.
Why similar: Typing 30.5% ★, Text-Based 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Psychological Horror 9%, Dystopian 7.5%
Time is running out after a meteor strikes your interstellar starship. While the crew is under full alert, only you seem to notice the strange red portals opening up throughout the ship. Old school text-based parser: no graphics, huge worlds, no hints. Recommended for text game veterans.
Why similar: Typing 47.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Text-Based 15.3%, Multiple Endings 7.7%, Minimalist 5.6%
Bureau of Hero Affairs is a bureaucratic thriller simulation about uncovering the truth an agency buried.
Why similar: Political Sim 36.9% ★, Capitalism 16%, Investigation 12.9%, Dystopian 11.9%, Simulation 8.4%
"Norman's Great Illusion" is a 2D pixel art visual novel in which you have to live a year as an engineer at the plant in the face of rising social tensions. Make difficult decisions, but keep in mind: you will have to pay for each choice
Why similar: Political Sim 39.7% ★, Capitalism 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%, Text-Based 8.7%, Choices Matter 6.2%
MASK IT is a black-comedy adventure about manufacturing outrage by "editing" the news. As a fresh news editor, your job is to give dull everyday news a little "touch-up" and turn it into a viral sensation no one can look away from!
Why similar: Political Sim 40.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Text-Based 11.1%, Psychological Horror 8.1%, Multiple Endings 5.7%
NEXUS CORP, sub-basement 7-A. Stamp the forms. Ask nothing. Since 1952, forty-six clerks have vanished at this desk - you are the forty-seventh. Cross-check every claim on your terminal, rule APPROVED or REJECTED, and try not to wonder what the paperwork is really sealing.
Why similar: Investigation 17.5%, Dystopian 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Text-Based 11.9%, Psychological Horror 11.6%
Trapped in an underground bunker with your finger on the button, interpret intelligence signals, question unreliable AI advisors, and decide whether to escalate, stand down, or unleash doomsday.
Why similar: Political Sim 41.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 15%, Text-Based 13.3%, Dystopian 6.7%, Choices Matter 6.1%
A slow-burn investigative experience focused on reading, deduction, and uncovering connections between cases. Settle in for quiet night shifts, piece together hidden truths, and uncover the stories buried within The Archive.
Why similar: Typing 34.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Text-Based 12.2%, Lore-Rich 11.8%, Investigation 8.5%
Welcome to the heart of a 1980s bureaucracy. Review applicant files, cross-check records, and make heavy moral decisions. Amidst strange rumors of an unidentified illness, will you uncover the dark truth or become an accomplice to the system?
Why similar: Political Sim 30% ★, Dystopian 13.4%, Conspiracy 10.5% ★, Text-Based 9.9%, Choices Matter 8.8%
Everything is getting unaffordably expensive. Groceries. Bills. How long is this even sustainable? Enter the world of the protagonist, and find out if you have what it takes to turn your life around. A point-and-click, choice-driven adventure of modern survival.
Why similar: Political Sim 30.9% ★, Capitalism 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Dystopian 9.4%, Minimalist 6.8%
You have been assigned as an operator, reading protocols that force you to make decisions using buttons and switches. Every decision shapes your fate — and decides whether you’ve done what was expected of you.
Why similar: Political Sim 38.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Dystopian 16.4%, Simulation 8.9%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
A PSX Detective Mystery Horror game. You play as an investigator solving bizarre crime cases. The story unfolds through a blend of interviews, computer based investigations and unsettling psychological elements.
Why similar: Typing 34.2% ★, Investigation 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Text-Based 11.3%, Lore-Rich 9.8%
Following a not highly unexpected crash landing (which seems to happen to you a lot), you find yourself stranded on a hostile alien world full of humour, mystery and quite a bit of walking - Your task is clear, find a way off of this planet and get home. - Should be simple!
Why similar: Typing 39.4% ★, Investigation 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Text-Based 15.8%, Sci-fi 3.4%
One thousand years beyond the fall of Earth, one last drink may yet be your epitaph, in this post-post-apocalyptic hangover odyssey by a novelist you've never heard of! A parser-driven text adventure for the ages! Or at least a weekend! Fun for all the family (except the kids)!
Why similar: Typing 23.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Lore-Rich 13%, Text-Based 13%, Dystopian 10.2%
You are a double agent between a break-off religious sect and an inquisition within a holy city. Gather intelligence from both sides, solve their puzzles, navigate between dark-truths, and collect insights to write reports that give you the power to shape an inevitable conflict to come...
Why similar: Political Sim 41.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 16%, Text-Based 12.6%, Lore-Rich 12.3%, Choices Matter 5.7%
Finish Report is a short science fiction horror game. All communications have been lost to a space station far in deep space. You as a one-man investigation unit has been sent to find out why did the station go silent.
Why similar: Typing 41.1% ★, Text-Based 17.2%, Investigation 14.8%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Thriller 6.3%
You are the Whisperer, hooded advisor to King Alric the Uncertain. Forty days. Twenty-five court crises. Four pillar-leaders pulling the realm in four directions. The King hears you last before every decision. Twenty-one endings. No correct path.
Why similar: Political Sim 35.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Text-Based 10.1%, Lore-Rich 9.7%, Choices Matter 9%
Run a newspaper under censorship. Report, choose your articles, strike out words, lay out the page. Sharp reporting draws the censors; a compliant paper loses its readers. 1920s Gyeongseong — a newspaper management simulation adventure where you complete a single page, every single day.
Why similar: Political Sim 35.8% ★, Investigation 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Text-Based 10.6%, Choices Matter 8.3%
Inspired by Papers, Please, False Echo is a narrative cryptography thriller set in the darkest depths of the Atlantic, aboard a secret military submarine. Operate the Obscura machine, decode messages, and decide what gets through in a regime where even the smallest mistake means a huge death toll.
Why similar: Typing 28.2% ★, Political Sim 28.2% ★, Conspiracy 11.2% ★, Dystopian 11.2%, Investigation 6.8%
Your probation as a health insurance Claims Adjuster begins now. Report to your terminal and inspect medical documents for reasons to deny coverage. Assume patient fraud. Your decisions have consequences: patients come back. Management is watching. A dystopian document thriller.
Why similar: Political Sim 20.2% ★, Capitalism 17%, Investigation 15.3%, Dystopian 13.6%, Choices Matter 8.2%
Chat with a virtual friend from a cancelled mobile game! Ask questions, start arguments, and find the right responses to progress the story. Can you solve the horrific mystery hidden beneath the surface?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Typing 19.9% ★, Lore-Rich 18.6%, Text-Based 13.1%, Psychological Horror 13.1%
Point and click work simulator where you do office jobs, like spreadsheets, sorting files, making a ledger, and more!
Why similar: Typing 38.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Capitalism 16.9%, Simulation 9.3%, Minimalist 7%
In the text-adventure “Head in the Cloud,” you play as a Marine hacker on a mission to sabotage a crime syndicate’s supercomputer. When things don’t go to plan, you must use your head to survive, or risk losing it!
Why similar: Typing 26.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Text-Based 18.4%, Lore-Rich 13.2%, Psychological Horror 7.8%
Your job is your life. Work for Glaucon Inc. processing debtors and making as much money as you can, while you slowly recall your past, and the truth.
Why similar: Capitalism 25.7%, Text-Based 24.3%, Dystopian 18.3%, Psychological Horror 8.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.4%
A model denied four thousand people this morning. The law says a human has to explain why. Read the file, work out what the machine saw, write the reason, and decide whether to sign your name to it. Sixty cases before the deadline.
Why similar: Political Sim 37.6% ★, Investigation 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Lore-Rich 9.9%, Text-Based 6.4%
Late Ming collapse—you carry a ruler’s secret in a world of blades and famine. Card combat drives battles and plot branches; AI persuasion challenges key figures, and skill cards help you win. Minigames change what comes next. Raise attributes and destiny, explore for events, items.
Why similar: Typing 29.8% ★, Political Sim 27.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Text-Based 11.1%, Lore-Rich 8.6%
In 1996’s digital haze, command DarkPulse, a rogue terminal torn from DARPA’s grip, to pierce Saraksen’s veiled conspiracy. Crack codes, hunt real-world clues, and decode cryptic media to expose forbidden truths. It's an ARG, and you’ve already been seen.
Why similar: Typing 32.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Text-Based 12.7%, Conspiracy 10.9% ★, Simulation 10.8%
A short psychological horror game, where you attempt to gain root access into an unethical superstructure.
Why similar: Typing 34.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Investigation 12.4%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Thriller 9%
Dallas, Texas, 1999. Congratulations, James Steel, you are now an agent of Dallas' Internal Security. The security of the United States is at risk; communism is spreading through our streets and threatening our institutions. You must stop it.
Why similar: Political Sim 26.8% ★, Capitalism 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Investigation 10.4%, Dystopian 8.5%
My Helpers is an experimental horror game that hides a group of virtual… "assistants" inside your machine. FIND THEM by combing through your real files, exploring weird applications, and using your computer in ways you may have never expected - and remember: this is just a game.
Why similar: Typing 21.4% ★, Investigation 13.3%, Text-Based 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Psychological Horror 10.2%
A Beholder series spin-off. Become a conductor of the Determination Bringer train: monitor passengers, report incidents, and carry out important Ministry assignments — whose level of secrecy depends only on your loyalty. And remember: mission success is very important to you!
Why similar: Political Sim 50.9% ★, Investigation 13.3%, Dystopian 11.6%, Choices Matter 7.3%, Multiple Endings 6.3%
The median lifespan of a new operative is 8 minutes. Try to beat the average. Hack a dying space station, outsmart a corrupted AI, and dodge rogue autodocs in cheesy FMV glory. Halcyon HR reminds you that dying on the clock instantly voids your pension. 12 brutal endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Conspiracy 14% ★, Dystopian 12.5%, Psychological Horror 9.5%
Thank You for Your Application is a story-driven interview simulation game. After 15 rounds of interviews, you are reassigned as a junior interviewer, tasked with screening candidates’ resumes according to company requirements and issuing the appropriate thank letters.
Why similar: Capitalism 27.4%, Political Sim 26.1% ★, Dystopian 17.3%, Multiple Endings 9.4%, Choices Matter 9.4%
To know a language, know the world, and finally know you.
Why similar: Typing 31.3% ★, Investigation 14.5%, Text-Based 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Dystopian 10%
In The Watch Post you will explore areas through a living CRT television in this atmospheric dark-fantasy text adventure. Find strange items, unlock hidden paths, solve optional mysteries, and decide whether the signal should ever be answered.
Why similar: Typing 28.8% ★, Text-Based 26%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Investigation 12.6%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
A retro early 1980s text adventure experience involving a murder mystery that is generated differently each time the game is played.
Why similar: Typing 36% ★, Text-Based 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Investigation 15.3%, Multiple Endings 10%
Award-winning adventure where you control the news and its impact on society, your friends and career. Different choices lead to unique combinations of endings. Share your story with the community, and see what the players before you did.
Why similar: Political Sim 44.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Dystopian 10.5%, Choices Matter 8.7%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
A psychological horror you never see — you read it. Blind and deaf, you sense an arctic station through a neural implant: text, smell, touch. Quarantine rules say only one person may leave their cabin at a time. You are out. Five bodies are found by morning.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.4%, Investigation 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Lore-Rich 12.9%
PROJECT: MIRROR is a psychological horror narrative game about choices, scarcity, and AI observation. Answer ethical dilemmas, manage impossible systems, and watch your decisions become the basis for something that no longer asks permission.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Political Sim 15.8% ★, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Text-Based 12.1%, Dystopian 11.5%
Soulfused is a modern take on the classic text adventures from the early days of computer gaming. Dive into a dystopian future ruled by an empire focused on conquest and control. Take on the role of a newly converted Soulfused; a part human/part robot soldier in service to the Empire.
Why similar: Typing 41.4% ★, Text-Based 19.7%, Dystopian 12%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%, Story Rich 4.5%
You are an intern at the central ministry of a totalitarian state with your whole career ahead of you. Work your way up the ladder by scheming against employees, spying on your boss, and completing paperwork. Or do you turn against the state and expose corruption. The choice is still yours to make!
Why similar: Political Sim 37.6% ★, Dystopian 15.6%, Lore-Rich 12.3%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
A short turn-based planet management sim about flipping a world for profit. Balance supply, unrest, famine, and conflict. Or let it collapse and cash out before it’s too late.
Why similar: Capitalism 24.8%, Dystopian 15.3%, Psychological Horror 13%, Political Sim 10.8% ★, Simulation 9.2%
A terminal‑based hacking simulator focused on realism and system‑level interaction.
Why similar: Typing 35.7% ★, Capitalism 17.6%, Text-Based 13.2%, Investigation 9.6%, Dystopian 8.4%
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: Typing 37.3% ★, Text-Based 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
12 Abroad St is a solo textual adventure game for PC set in a present and urban setting. You have been invited to a party you don't want to attend. Roam the city of Seaforth and try to dodge the party.
Why similar: Typing 50.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Text-Based 11.3%, Lore-Rich 10.8%, Choices Matter 4.9%
Ministry of Truth: False Memory is a story-driven simulator in a totalitarian society. Become an official, manipulate facts, rewrite history, and provide the ‘truth’ to the public. Choose: obey or fight against the regime. The Great Father is watching you!
Why similar: Political Sim 40% ★, Dystopian 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
F around and find out! A ruthless no F's given dark comedy where you play the president of the United States of America, abuse executive power, crank up the FAFO meter, deal with robot overlords, alien invasions, drain swamps, flip off allies, crush protests, and destroy all that oppose you!
Why similar: Political Sim 31.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Capitalism 14.4%, Text-Based 10.4%, Conspiracy 8.5% ★
A short, narrative, dystopian office survival game. Ship code to eat. Optimise your nootropics stack. Stay sane. Cope with HR's passive-aggressive pings. Climb the career ladder. Retire early (if you can).
Why similar: Typing 23.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Capitalism 16.2%, Dystopian 10.4%, Multiple Endings 10%
Seaburn is a choice-based political simulator where your choices affect the future of the planet. Play as a policymaker as you sign legislation, respond to events, and compete in high-stakes elections. Earn money, become popular, and save the environment.
Why similar: Political Sim 53.8% ★, Text-Based 16.2%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Simulation 9.4%
Working at a data entry job in the big city, you type up and transcribe the lost mail and letters that have nowhere else to go. But as the days carry on oddities in the mail start to emerge, and cracks begin to appear.
Why similar: Typing 41.4% ★, Text-Based 14.3%, Dystopian 11.6%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, Procedural Generation 7.7%
The printer is bleeding, the Wi-Fi is haunted, and Ticket #666 just came in. As the latest hire for a company run by cosmic horrors, your job is simple: Swipe to survive. Make binary decisions to survive the night shift in this dark comedy desktop simulator. I.T truly never ends.
Why similar: Capitalism 18.6%, Lore-Rich 14.3%, Dystopian 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Choices Matter 8.5%
Investigate system failures, trace corrupted infrastructure, and keep the node alive before stability reaches zero. NODE ZERO is an interface-driven psychological horror game where something inside the system is learning how you work.
Why similar: Investigation 23.8%, Text-Based 17.8%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%, Choices Matter 6.2%
Your duties will be to enter specific sentences and report anomalies in the surveillance video. The period will be 5 days and you are expected to work hard.
Why similar: Typing 43.9% ★, Investigation 21.4%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Conspiracy 11.6% ★, Multiple Endings 9.9%
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 18%, Lore-Rich 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Investigation 11.6%, Psychological Horror 11.1%
The year is 2036. In this famine-riddled world, food-centric sovereignty has been established. Living alone inside a food-inspection booth, you are striving to find truth and peace beyond the borderline.
Why similar: Political Sim 30.5% ★, Dystopian 15.3%, Conspiracy 13.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 11%, Choices Matter 9%
HNI Industries is HIRING TODAY! Join a team where productivity is purpose and exhaustion is honor. Your worth will be measured by each word you successfully type. Can you handle the stress?
Why similar: Typing 51.3% ★, Capitalism 12.1%, Text-Based 11.3%, Psychological Horror 8.2%, Multiple Endings 6.7%
Explore an abandoned facility in this narrative-driven terminal adventure. Unlock hidden files, solve text-based puzzles, and piece together a fragmented AI as you uncover the truth behind a failed salvation and a buried past in this cold, atmospheric mystery.
Why similar: Typing 40.9% ★, Investigation 15.1%, Text-Based 12.6%, Lore-Rich 12.3%, Minimalist 5.7%
You're a detective. Investigate the haunting events surrounding the murder of Ann Peterson and her boyfriend. Explore an old safehouse for clues, deduce keywords and reveal redacted words as you search Ann's digital journal, and piece together your case report as this unfortunate story unfolds.
Why similar: Typing 30.3% ★, Investigation 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Text-Based 17.4%, Story Rich 5.8%
Lead a republic through 48 months. Examine documents, manage your cabinet, pass laws, survive crises, and answer for the consequences of every political compromise.
Why similar: Political Sim 45.6% ★, Choices Matter 12.1%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 8%, Text-Based 7.1%
A prequel set in the SYS.POST-FUTURE universe: a cyberpunk interface simulation where your decisions permanently shape the main game. As a covert operations director, dispatch agents, manage cyber defenses, and write the official canon through community-driven choices.
Why similar: Investigation 23.7%, Lore-Rich 11.9%, Dystopian 10.8%, Text-Based 10.5%, Choices Matter 10.2%
