60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Singleplayer, Interactive Fiction, Choose Your Own Adventure.
Christian Tyler is ready to investigate a new case! Uncover the mystery of the tourist town of Alkelano in our new visual novel.
Witch Hunter: Our Secret
Play as Erwin, a witch hunter navigating a fantasy world of magic and suspicion. Your decisions in this visual novel affect friendships, trust, and multiple story outcomes. Choose wisely—the fate of your journey rests with you.
Melancholic Night
A visual novel about returning home. That is, trying to get home. After all, your home is no longer there. You could say that it is actually about drinking in a bar and talking to strange people.
Play as Erwin, a witch hunter navigating a fantasy world of magic and suspicion. Your decisions in this visual novel affect friendships, trust, and multiple story outcomes. Choose wisely—the fate of your journey rests with you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 24%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Casual 9.1%, Hand-drawn 8.2%
A visual novel about returning home. That is, trying to get home. After all, your home is no longer there. You could say that it is actually about drinking in a bar and talking to strange people.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Casual 14.4%, Hand-drawn 10.7%, Psychological 8.5%
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Hand-drawn 7.1%, Text-Based 5.2%
Your story continues right where Origins left off. Whether Jessica finds herself wandering the streets alone, caught in George’s web of deceit, or trapped in the unsettling confines of Margaret Thatuals under Professor Trounch’s watchful gaze and the orderlies, every choice matters.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Casual 10.8%, Multiple Endings 6.8%
Fears are not always just rustles in the dark. And death is not always a bad ending.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Casual 11.9%, Hand-drawn 11%, Detective 8.5%
Travelling Light is a narrative game about four friends, Lars, Leah, Samson, and Ivy, caught in the turbulence of their early thirties. Inspired by real events, this experience lets you step into each perspective as love, friendship, and heartbreak collide.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Visual Novel 16%, Hand-drawn 11.5%, Psychological 7.4%
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: Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Psychological 9.1%, Text-Based 8.3%
Read words and make choices as you immerse yourself in the adventures inside the protagonist's head. This dark visual novel tells the story of a lost man among corpses in a northern Russian town. Will you help the hero find a good ending? I don't know what to do with him anymore.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Visual Novel 20%, Casual 14%, Hand-drawn 13.9%, Psychological 10.3%
The Apple Tree is an interactive story in the genre of a visual novel. Investigate a series of murders together with police Captain Christian Tyler and try not to fall into the trap of criminals!
Why similar: Detective 17.3%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Psychological 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Dark 7.3%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Casual 8.3%, Text-Based 7.9%
Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Psychological 9.1%, Text-Based 3.9%
The story of a father and son experiencing the ups and downs of life, and how they try to make the best of the twists and turns life puts them through
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Visual Novel 21%, Casual 11.5%, Emotional 7.9%
The Spirit Weaver is a narrative-driven visual novel where you use the power of Tarot to guide lost spirits through their grief, and maybe figure out your own. Explore a mystical spirit realm, help its denizens, and restore balance in a bittersweet story of love, loss, and empathy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Casual 12%, Detective 10.8%
Tomorrow Will Be Dying is an atmospheric, story-driven slice-of-life visual novel with light sim elements about finding yourself through your connections with others.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.6%, Visual Novel 21.7%, Casual 16.3%, Hand-drawn 11.9%, 2D 5.6%
Journey of animals trying to survive a War. An emotional tale where you'll decide the fate of all who embark on this journey.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Hand-drawn 9.4%, Casual 6.7%
Vacation Terminal is a short 2D Psychological thriller, horror and survival based visual novel with evading based puzzle elements. Following the story of two strangers.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Hand-drawn 10.6%, Dark 6%
Find the clues to make a time bending turnabout in this off the rails visual novel about murder, mayhem, and a thicc pumpkin girl with a machete.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Detective 11.7%, Hand-drawn 11.2%
A story-driven visual novel about healing, heartbreak, and second chances. Build relationships, face your past, and shape your future in a town where every choice leaves a mark. Romance, drama, and emotional chaos await in Cascade Falls.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.4%, Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Casual 8.6%, Violent 5.1%
A visual novel about depression and self-love. Play as Amatista, a young woman trapped in isolation, as she begins a journey she never asked for. Every choice shapes the story. Fully accessible for blind players.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Psychological 9.8%, Emotional 7.6%
A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Psychological 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Emotional 8.8%
A drama/comedy visual novel about how holding a relationship together and surviving a deadly blizzard may not be all that different.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Hand-drawn 10.6%, Casual 7.6%
You are a protest organiser, coordinating the crowd outside your window. When the police move in on your position you have to decide whether to tell the protestors to hold the line or pull back.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.6%, Interactive Fiction 28.2%, Visual Novel 21.2%, Casual 5.6%, Multiple Endings 4.9%
A rookie investigator's first case leads them to four sexy girls. It can stop them... or make them even more determined to find the solution.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Detective 13%, Hand-drawn 10.4%
A visual novel about grief, memory and acceptance. Nayara is a painter of memories: she digs into her clients’ minds to change or even erase their memories. One day she realizes she has altered her own memory. What was so painful or unbearable that she wanted to forget it for good?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Visual Novel 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Emotional 12.8%, Hand-drawn 7.3%
"The hardest part is not to speak up. It’s being heard." Part video game, part graphic novel, Wednesdays seeks to raise awareness about child sexual abuse through a surprisingly hope-filled story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Psychological 13.8%, Hand-drawn 13%, Emotional 9.5%
A psychological thriller visual novel where your choices deeply affect an 18-year-old woman's mental state, leading to multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Hand-drawn 11.9%, Psychological 7.1%
Not It: Spookiest Edition is a horror-filled visual novel full of suspense and mystery where you navigate Katie through a living nightmare. Her move-in day on Halloween throws her into a centuries-old curse. Can she make it through the night? Will her new neighbors perish? Decide their fate.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Hand-drawn 8.9%, Text-Based 7.1%
This choices-matter visual novel is narrative-heavy, filled with beautifully illustrated characters, intricate stories, and two distinct endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Casual 13%, Detective 10.7%
A short, dark visual novel set in the UK about a young autistic girl's destructive obsession with her older brother.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Emotional 9.8%, Dark 9.3%, Psychological 9.2%
A supernatural mystery visual novel where your choices shape relationships and determine the fate of a coastal town. Explore ancient secrets, unravel supernatural enigmas, and make decisions that lead to three distinct endings based on your choices across four intense days.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Visual Novel 21%, Casual 11.5%, Text-Based 6.6%
Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.5%, Visual Novel 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Dark 7.6%, Atmospheric 4.9%
An accident at birth gave the protagonist the ability to see the soul. He always thought it was a useless ability when he was growing up. After helping his childhood sweetheart who is a policewomen solve a case, he discovered the correct way to use this ability.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Hand-drawn 15.5%, Detective 7.4%
"Under the Streetlights of the Reiche" is an omnibus-style adventure game. Experience one man's last day in the town. A good man who is well-liked by those around him loses his job and is forced to leave the town he has lived in for a long time.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Casual 10.5%
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: Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Psychological 12%, Hand-drawn 10.8%
Rewrite - DYH - A game that changes every time you play!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Hand-drawn 12%, Casual 9.8%
You are a soul, ready for your next lifetime on earth. To prepare for incarnation, you visit the Interdimensional Museum to remember your personalities from past lives. Tour the museum artifacts, remember who you were, and when you're ready, the museum will reveal your next life to you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Visual Novel 15%, Hand-drawn 12.8%, Casual 8.7%
In pursuit of coin, hired dagger Arthur finds himself embroiled in conspiracy involving the daughter of a noble House. Who is really pulling the strings behind the scenes?
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Hand-drawn 13.3%, Detective 7.6%
Become an investigator in a dark fantasy story. People keep going missing in Maligree, before being forgotten by all who knew them. Will you solve the case before you forget?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Detective 17.2%, Hand-drawn 10.8%
In Kayotica, you play as April—a clever but manipulative student caught in a web of friendship, rivalry, and dark crimes. What begins as ordinary campus life quickly turns into a mystery of betrayal, hidden truths, and a shocking murder. Can you solve the mystery, or will you become the next victim?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Detective 13.2%, Casual 9%, Psychological 8%
This game is a psychological test in which you will face dilemmas that reveal your personality. At the end of it, you will know your psychotype.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Detective 12.9%, Hand-drawn 8.2%
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: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Hand-drawn 7.5%, Text-Based 5.9%
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 19.6%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Hand-drawn 13.2%, Psychological 8.8%, Emotional 7%
这是一款以中式校园为背景的推理类文字游戏，你将扮演一名高中生司空茂，在开学第一天目击密室杀人事件的现场，并经过调查和推理解决案件，找出真正的犯人和真相背后更深的阴谋。但在享受侦探游戏的同时，请千万不要忽视学习。保持情绪稳定，尽量维持活下去的念头...记住，你的成绩，永远比案件要更重要。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Detective 20%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Text-Based 6.7%
Interactive anime adventure in visual novel format!
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.3%, Hand-drawn 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Psychological 10.4%, Casual 9.1%
Royal Duality is an immersive dark fantasy visual novel with 15 endings, various side stories and hidden Easter Eggs all set in an engaging lore-rich world
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Casual 8.5%, Hand-drawn 6.9%
Human belief has the power to change reality. For millennia, alien races have been visiting Earth, gaining supernatural abilities and fantastic wealth by exploiting this remarkable power. But humans are advancing, and many aliens now find themselves leaving Earth with nothing but debts and regrets.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Hand-drawn 12.1%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
You can’t understand them—yet. Decode the “Second Reality” through Talk, Mind Read, and Translate in an empathy-driven psychological mystery adventure.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Psychological 14%, Detective 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%
「ナカノ人格移植研究所」は、周回型ミステリー2Dアドベンチャーゲームです。 それぞれの周回でプレイヤーが憑依する対象の登場人物を選択することで、その登場人物を主人公としてストーリーを進めながら謎を解き明かします。 プレイヤーは本ゲームの中で 4 つのパートを行き来しながらストーリーを進めます。 ノベルパートでは、クリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 探索パートでは、画面上のアイテムをクリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 移動パートでは、再度ビューでプレイヤーを操作し、船の中を探索します。 会議パートでは、他のパートで集めた手がかりを利用して他の登場人物と会話します。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Detective 14.2%, Text-Based 4.9%
Wake up, watch tv, make a cup of cofffee and try to bear your own meaningless existence.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Psychological 11.2%, Dark 9.6%, Casual 9.1%
Born with a birth defect that he hates, Kakeru struggles with severe anxiety and depression. Guide his timid decisions as he takes a brave step into a new world - joining his school's music club, making unexpected and inspiring new connections, and daring to dream again.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Visual Novel 16%, Emotional 9.4%, Psychological 8.1%
Sometimes loneliness pushes us into strange, risky choices. A nightclub that wasn’t here yesterday. Mysterious strangers—each leaving more questions than answers. Just one short night that simply won’t end. What could possibly go wrong?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Visual Novel 17%, Psychological 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Hand-drawn 9.7%
Cast Into A Boundless White Void. Paintings Hunger For Your Story. What Will You Answer?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Psychological 11.5%, Casual 10%, Dark 9.1%
A text-based RPG with a nonlinear story set in a free Slavic fantasy world. Shape the heroine's character through your choices and unlock multiple endings. Mystery, folklore, and relationships — your fate depends only on you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Hand-drawn 12.7%, Text-Based 8.2%
A visual novel in the romance and adventure genre. Awaken in the Honeycombs, a camp where memory is erased and secrets hum in the night. Forge bonds, defy the Union, and uncover your past. Will you be a pawn or ignite freedom as war looms?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Visual Novel 21%, Detective 17.5%, Casual 9.6%, Emotional 9.5%
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 18.8%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Emotional 10%, Dark 9.3%
Chess. Love. Destiny. All the same things, really.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.4%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Hand-drawn 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Psychological 5.8%
Adventure as Geralt through the ballads of Dandelion. Swipe right, swipe left, seek glory, find death! Will you hunt monsters, upset the locals, or run a hot bath? Compose an inspiring epic to claim immortality.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Casual 10.3%, Hand-drawn 7.6%
A mystery adventure featuring a public security duo and supernatural cases. Unravel the truth behind the otherworldly "Ghosturbance Cases"!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.5%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Detective 14.7%, Casual 10.1%, Hand-drawn 8.4%
A short meta story about the struggles of procrastination, and never finishing the things you start. Help motivate me, and give me the confidence I need to finish something.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Visual Novel 22.2%, Casual 15.2%, Psychological 10.3%, Emotional 9.6%
Take control of Morgan's destiny as his world is turned upside down. Explore the world of Dreams, where mythological creatures and Nightmares are real. A story-heavy adventure game with multiple endings, romance options and a symphonic music! Inspired by Neil Gaiman and Inception.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Hand-drawn 12.3%, Emotional 9.6%
