60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Choose Your Own Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Visual Novel, Text-Based.
A humorous sci-fi text-driven adventure where you play a support engineer sent to fix system failures in a secret research complex. Explore strange labs, investigate bizarre incidents, solve absurd problems, talk to depressed robots, and make choices that lead to multiple endings.
All (Too) Good Things
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.
THE DAY THAT WASN'T
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?
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: Text-Based 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Dialogue Heavy 10%
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: Nonlinear 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Text-Based 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%
Decide the fate of the son of a tailor and a witch doctor infected with an incurable disease in an interactive story with multiple endings depending on your actions.
Why similar: Nonlinear 18.4%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Text-Based 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%
《墨心》是一款将古代中国幻想元素和悬疑科幻相融合的国产视觉小说。男主（你）从昏迷中醒来丧失了记忆，发现自己和另外两女一男困于巨轮密室中。面对匪夷所思的船体变异，恐怖致命的巨型怪物，你们能否成功逃脱？而这超自然的现象，似乎跟一件千年前的战国墨家宝物有关......
Why similar: Text-Based 13.9%, Nonlinear 12.1%, Investigation 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Dialogue Heavy 10.1%
Choose, explore, interact, fight, solve, gather, trade! Rise to rebel in this immersive text-based fantasy story that seamlessly merges the best elements of RPGs, choose-your-own-adventure stories, visual novels, and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 19%, Nonlinear 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.6%
What do mirror reflections do once they have no one to repeat after anymore? Play as Iris, quite a sarcastic reflection torn between the urge to unravel the mystery of death of her “prototype” and the need to find her place in a mirrored world.
Why similar: Text-Based 14.1%, Nonlinear 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Investigation 10%
A text role-playing game about the fate of a mercenary who finds himself in the strange village: Villienville. Investigate who benefits from the sudden appearance of “ghosts” and help residents protect their homes from a mysterious enemy. The main thing is not to make a mistake in your choice!
Why similar: Nonlinear 18.1%, Text-Based 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Choices Matter 10%
A hand-illustrated visual mystery adventure that can be beaten in one sitting.
Why similar: Nonlinear 15.7%, Investigation 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Dialogue Heavy 10.6%, Text-Based 10%
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Choices Matter 9.3%
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%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Multiple Endings 7.4%
No criminal has ever been a match for you, and everybody is looking forward to a description of your brilliant deductions. There is just one small problem. One tiny detail that makes it different this time. A mere trifle, really. This time you have no idea who did it.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Investigation 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%
A choice-based, visual novel with time travelling teapots!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%, Choices Matter 8.8%
A fantasy adventure visual novel with humor and heart, by acclaimed adventure game writer Lori Ann Cole. Starring the voice of Zehra Fazal as Tilly, a mischief-making rogue at Hero-U, the school for heroes.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 16%, Text-Based 16%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
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 16.5%, Text-Based 16.3%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Dialogue Heavy 14.1%, Choices Matter 12.5%
Border of her Heart is a VN about Border control.
Why similar: Text-Based 15%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Nonlinear 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Visual Novel 11.2%
You are Arc, a city management AI. Designed to manage a city-wide AR metaverse known as the NeuroNet. Meet its many users, build relationships and help or hinder their lives while trying to balance the wider needs of the city. Find your humanity in a world losing theirs to technology.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 13.7%, Text-Based 13.7%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%
Take over a struggling bar on the politically tense Moon Village. Prepare and serve drinks, befriend and help your customers, find your purpose, and maybe even love... all while keeping the bar's lights on in this narrative driven bartending simulator set on the moon.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Text-Based 10.3%
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: Text-Based 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Nonlinear 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%
Summer Story: An adventure game where you investigate and make choices that shape the story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Text-Based 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Choices Matter 9%
HRO: Adventures of a Humanoid Resources Officer is a puzzle-driven adventure game set in a retro sci-fi universe. When the Endeavor stumbles into universe-shaking trouble, can you harness the power of the bureaucracy to rein in your crew’s worst impulses and survive to the next episode?
Why similar: Text-Based 15%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.1%
Chief Emoji Officer is a text adventure that recreates the absurdities of the tech world by letting you become CEO using only emojis. Climb your way through corporate America by getting promoted, making allies, avoiding layoffs, and turning Redify into the most successful company in the world.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Visual Novel 10.9%
Horny Academy is an adult visual novel that blends interactive storytelling with a deep, branching narrative. Every choice you make leads to steamy animated scenes or unexpected twists within the mysterious walls of the magical Academy
Why similar: Text-Based 18%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Nonlinear 11.7%
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: Text-Based 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Choices Matter 12.3%
Biocybernetic Trap — an interactive cyberpunk detective. You are given the quantum diary of a long-dead detective, where reality fractures into parallel versions of the investigation.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.3%, Nonlinear 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Investigation 8.9%
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: Dialogue Heavy 18.5%, Text-Based 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Choices Matter 12.1%
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: Text-Based 16%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Dialogue Heavy 13.5%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Visual Novel 12.2%
「その選択肢、正気か？」シンプルなノベルゲームのはずなのに、とにかく“選択肢”がおかしい！？ 予想を超える展開が待ち受ける、奇想天外なテキストアドベンチャーゲーム！
Why similar: Text-Based 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Dialogue Heavy 14%, Choices Matter 10.9%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Text-Based 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Investigation 9.8%
Five Biggest Accomplishments is a short Visual Novel where you play as someone who has held the same job for 30 years: push a button every 8 hours or the world will end. Suddenly, you get an email asking you to list your five biggest accomplishments for the week, or risk being fired.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Nonlinear 13.9%, Text-Based 12.1%, Story Rich 10.8%
You are Hidu, a beastman mercenary in a port city. You must survive one very bad day. How? That’s entirely up to you. There are countless ways for events to unfold — and 25 endings.
Why similar: Nonlinear 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.2%
Decipher interstellar transmissions encoded via substitution ciphers aboard Eremite Station. In this choice driven narrative, uncover secrets from planetary factions while conversing with crewmates to reveal their stories and troubles. The ripples of your choices may be felt throughout the galaxy.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Dialogue Heavy 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%
Alcyone: The Last City is an interactive sci-fi novel where your choices can lead to the salvation or destruction of the last refuge of civilisation in the universe. Immerse yourself in a branching narrative of diverse characters, intrigue, and world-altering decisions.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 11%
Stranded after a plane crash in a freezing wilderness, you must manage body temperature, injury, and sanity as every decision shapes your survival.
Why similar: Nonlinear 18%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%
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: Choices Matter 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Text-Based 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Visual Novel 12.2%
The president trusts you. Exercise your Shamanic capabilities (or lack thereof). But don't get caught!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Visual Novel 17%, Dialogue Heavy 15.7%, Text-Based 15.2%, Choices Matter 13.9%
A dark sci-fi psychological Visual Novel where your choices shape who you are. The world has ended and it's been dominated by mysterious aliens who roam the city. Despite that, you only think of what you've lost. Will you be able to rebuild your relationships? Or even... the world itself?
Why similar: Text-Based 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Dialogue Heavy 14.1%, Choices Matter 8.4%
Chrongrid is an AI-driven narrative experience. Inside an author's story blueprint, you make your own choices and the world responds in its own way — every choice echoes, no two journeys alike. Built-in blueprints are the start; play others' stories or write your own, in any language.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.7%, Nonlinear 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Choices Matter 10%
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 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Adventure 9.7%
Embark on a thrilling journey through this highly engaging science fantasy visual novel with memorable characters and multiple endings. Journey through space, uncover the past and pull off a heist or two as you negotiate the pitfalls of friendship and a crumbling reality. Can you save the universe?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Dialogue Heavy 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 10%
Return to a hometown that hasn’t changed the way it should have. A psychological visual novel focused on atmosphere, relationships, and a reality that slowly refuses to stay still. Can you uncover the truth before it consumes you?
Why similar: Text-Based 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Dialogue Heavy 13.3%, Visual Novel 13.2%
A short science-fiction visual novel where you investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of a close friend.
Why similar: Text-Based 14%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Dialogue Heavy 10.1%
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 22%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Text-Based 13.1%, Nonlinear 10%, Story Rich 9.5%
A fantasy visual novel featuring action, horror, and multiple endings to a tale of suspense, intrigue, desperation, and desire. Part I of The Enonoia Saga.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.3%, Nonlinear 16%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Choices Matter 11.3%
Peek into the sins and memories of five personalities through surveillance cameras──This is an immersive, mystery adventure game that unravels the thoughts of the dark past that lie dormant inside Sofia,a suspect in the murder of a presidential candidate, and uncovers the truth behind the crime.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.5%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Investigation 13.4%, Choices Matter 9.5%
Congratulations Dominica! You have been chosen to test the first virtual aquapark in history! Ten days in a tropical paradise where every detail is simulated to be perfect – what could possibly go wrong?
Why similar: Nonlinear 16.6%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%, Choices Matter 12%, Interactive Fiction 11%
Shamrock Creations is proud to present Watashi Suzume. A story that explores the far reaching impacts that love, friendship, and understanding have on not only our own lives, but how we view life itself. All wrapped up in a supernatural murder mystery narrative that we think everyone will enjoy.
Why similar: Text-Based 21%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Investigation 13.7%, Choices Matter 10.7%
When you start the game, the narrator will instruct you to “close your eyes.” At that moment, whether you actually close them or keep them open will change the course of the story. Listen carefully to the voice as you proceed, and find your way to the truth.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Text-Based 15.6%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Dialogue Heavy 10.2%
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Text-Based 15%, Choices Matter 11.7%
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 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choices Matter 11.5%
Dive into a captivating standalone story in just an hour! Presenting the first installment of the "Handy Novel" series. Highly praised on smartphones, this acclaimed narrative is now ready for your enjoyment on Steam for PC/Mac!
Why similar: Text-Based 25.2%, Visual Novel 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Adventure 9.6%, Choices Matter 9.4%
Non-Linear Text Quests is a bundle of text games of various genres. Here you can find interactive stories with branching plots and text-only versions of classic Point & Click quests, where you can communicate with different characters, use your inventory and combine items in various locations.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.4%, Nonlinear 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.8%
Niluas, an android who suddenly activated 276 years after the extinction of humanity. With her AI, Naive, she seeks lost memories, her activation's mystery, and humanity's extinction's cause. Facing enigmatic foes and hostile androids, she quests for truth about her existence and the desolate world.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Choices Matter 12%, Investigation 9.7%
This game is based on the theme of love & light reasoning. Even if you choose the wrong option, it will not lead to game over. It is very suitable for casual players who like love reasoning but don't want to waste their brain cells.
Why similar: Investigation 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Text-Based 17.6%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Dialogue Heavy 15.8%
A detective game where you fiddle information to your advantage. As an owner of a small bar, listen to visitors of your establishment, overhear their gossiping, collect information and then use to manipulate their thoughts and actions.
Why similar: Text-Based 15%, Nonlinear 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%
At the heart of the action are a twelve-year-old Kenneth and his younger sister Esme, children of the Murphy family, who hit the trail of a mysterious monster following series of entangled events.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.6%, Nonlinear 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Choices Matter 11.3%
Pilgrimage of angels on an important mission through scenic Japan
Why similar: Text-Based 19.6%, Nonlinear 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Dialogue Heavy 12.5%
Silent Earth is a short sci-fi text adventure about finding one’s place despite an uncertain future. Explore an off-world mining colony ship, navigate multi-linear character relationships, and steer the story toward one of five endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Sci-fi 9%
Rectitude, is a Sci-Fi visual novel that centers around Timothy, a renowned professor who creates a groundbreaking technology.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Nonlinear 12.1%, Dialogue Heavy 10.5%, Choices Matter 9.5%
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 28.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Choices Matter 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Story Rich 9.4%
