
Christian Tyler is ready to investigate a new case! Uncover the mystery of the tourist town of Alkelano in our new visual novel.
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.

The Zoo
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.

The Caffeine Chronicles
A philosophical interactive visual novel about everyday interactions
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 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Hand-drawn 7.3%, Multiple Endings 5.3%
A philosophical interactive visual novel about everyday interactions
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Detective 12.4%, Casual 12.4%
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 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Visual Novel 17.9%, 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 22.4%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Casual 14.5%, Hand-drawn 10.7%, Psychological 8.4%
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 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Hand-drawn 7.2%, 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 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Casual 10.8%, Multiple Endings 6.7%
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 18.9%, Casual 11.9%, Hand-drawn 11%, Detective 8.6%
You have exactly 5. Bread is 4, the bus fare to school is 3. What do you give up? In this short narrative experience, you play as 13-year-old Adam. Confront an interface that reacts to a painful reality, and discover that freedom of choice is sometimes nothing but a privilege.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Psychological 11.1%, Text-Based 7.3%
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 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Hand-drawn 11.5%, Psychological 7.3%
A girl was murdered, and she is the only one still hunting for her killer. The day before her birthday, Han Xiaoxiao woke as a spirit with no memory, three days dead. Possess the living, gather clues, and uncover how you died. But some truths are harder to bear than death itself.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Visual Novel 21.9%, Psychological 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8%, Casual 7.9%
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 18.8%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Psychological 9%, Text-Based 8.2%
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 20.1%, Casual 14%, Hand-drawn 14%, Psychological 10.2%
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 35.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Visual Novel 13%, Psychological 9.1%, Emotional 3.9%
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 17.4%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Psychological 12.6%, 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 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Casual 8.3%, Text-Based 7.8%
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 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Casual 12%, Detective 10.8%
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 28.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Visual Novel 21.1%, Casual 11.5%, Emotional 7.9%
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 28.5%, Visual Novel 21.8%, Casual 16.4%, Hand-drawn 11.9%, 2D 5.5%
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 24.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Hand-drawn 10.6%, Dark 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 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Hand-drawn 9.4%, Casual 6.7%
In a rain-soaked megacity, one law remains: cross one trillion dollars in hidden wealth and you forfeit your right to live. You are K, the executioner who enforces it — until the numbers start to lie. A branching cyberpunk noir with 5 endings, where every choice is remembered.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Detective 12.5%, Hand-drawn 5.6%
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 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Visual Novel 16.5%, 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 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Casual 8.6%, Violent 5.2%
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 17.6%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Hand-drawn 10.6%, Casual 7.6%
A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Psychological 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Emotional 8.8%
A visual novel about mental health, 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 and visually impaired players.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Psychological 9.7%, Emotional 7.6%
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 23.5%, Visual Novel 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Emotional 12.7%, Hand-drawn 7.3%
Echoes of Chang'an is a Chinese-style mystery visual novel developed by NSTUDIO. You play as the adopted son of the renowned mid-Tang general Duan Xiushi who is unexpectedly drawn into an inescapable conspiracy that threatens the fate of the Tang Dynasty while carrying out a mission.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Detective 16.9%, Casual 7.7%
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 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Visual Novel 16%, Detective 13.1%, Hand-drawn 10.4%
"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 20.7%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Psychological 13.7%, 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 20%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Hand-drawn 11.9%, Psychological 7%
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 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Hand-drawn 8.9%, Text-Based 7%
This choices-matter visual novel is narrative-heavy, filled with beautifully illustrated characters, intricate stories, and two distinct endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Casual 13%, Detective 10.7%
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 28.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Visual Novel 21.1%, Casual 11.5%, Text-Based 6.6%
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 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Emotional 9.8%, Dark 9.3%, Psychological 9.2%
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: Visual Novel 15.2%, Psychological 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Hand-drawn 9.9%
3 different Robot-romance stories. Written, drawn, and made by humans, for humans. Since the very moment the first mechanical mind became aware of itself, it craved love. No one truly understand why the heart made of copper and wires started beating, but it did. Even after we were gone.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Casual 10.6%, Emotional 7%
"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 14.4%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Casual 10.5%
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 26.4%, Visual Novel 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, 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 21.2%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Hand-drawn 15.5%, Detective 7.4%
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 14.3%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Psychological 11.9%, Hand-drawn 10.8%
Rewrite - DYH - A game that changes every time you play!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Visual Novel 19.4%, 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 24.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Hand-drawn 12.8%, Casual 8.8%
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 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, 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 17.7%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Detective 17.3%, Hand-drawn 10.8%
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%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Hand-drawn 7.5%, Text-Based 5.9%
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 19.9%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Detective 13.2%, Casual 9%, Psychological 8%
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 20.1%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Text-Based 6.6%
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 19.8%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Detective 12.9%, Hand-drawn 8.2%
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 19.5%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Hand-drawn 13.3%, Psychological 8.7%, Emotional 7%
Constantinople, 1453. Four witnesses — a janissary, a baker's daughter, an engineer, a noble — live the same 53 days of the siege. Choices cross between their stories, and the city remembers. An illustrated, choice-driven historical novel where every ending is someone's truth.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Text-Based 7.5%, Female Protagonist 5.5%
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 19.2%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Psychological 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Hand-drawn 9.7%
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 27%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Casual 8.5%, Hand-drawn 6.9%
Interactive anime adventure in visual novel format!
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.4%, Hand-drawn 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Psychological 10.4%, Casual 9.1%
In this suspenseful fantasy visual novel, play as a young man stranded in snowy mountains. Guided by unseen forces, you enter an isolated mansion. As a peculiar daily life unfolds, you live alongside two vampire girls. Immerse yourself in this profound, dreamlike dark fairy tale.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.5%, Visual Novel 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Casual 17.5%, 2D 5.1%
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 26.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Psychological 9.2%, Emotional 8.5%
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 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, 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 16.9%, Psychological 13.9%, 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Detective 14.2%, Text-Based 4.8%
Alice & Aidy: The Big Adventure is a warm interactive story with a gentle children’s sci-fi feel. When Alice struggles to write about the future, she meets Aidy, an old companion robot. Read, choose, and explore as they search for lost sparks and learn to ask, create, and choose for themselves.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.6%, Visual Novel 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Casual 13.6%, 2D 4.3%