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AshCreek is a female-oriented interactive visual novel centered on Lovecraftian cosmic horror. Players take on the role of an outsider who is unwillingly drawn into AshCreek, uncovering the truth behind its anomalies step by step by taking part in stories set across different worlds.

Why similar: Word Game 37.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Dating Sim 12.3%, Psychological Horror 7.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.6%

Welcome to an immersive horror fiction reading simulator. Every tale within is rooted in the chinese mundane, familiar moments we all live through —like the annual Spring Festival Gala You can shut down the simulator at any time. But remember: reality is always far more horrifying than any story.

Why similar: Word Game 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Immersive Sim 11.9%, Text-Based 11.4%

一则普通的短篇故事。男主角陈越泽是个因为失败而对自己失望的普通公司职员。离开家乡后他毫无热情的在某个公司过着麻木的上班生活。某一天，因为身份证过期上级给他请了小长假。他在烦恼要不要久违的回一趟老家。

Why similar: Word Game 32.2%, CRPG 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Psychological Horror 7.4%, Drama 6.3%

话题作《精神病大王花》重制作品。 追求精神病少女们的恋爱游戏，你能活到最后吗？

Why similar: Word Game 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Dating Sim 14.2%, Text-Based 13%, Horror 8.3%

《恋爱绮谭~不存在的真相~》是一款文字冒险游戏。 初到江城的顾唯，意外成为了一起社会新闻的主人公。凶险的都市中，他需要在混乱的舆论和虚假的情报中找到唯一的真相，也需要在两名各有千秋的少女间完成自我的抉择。秋去冬来，覆盖城市的厚厚积雪下，究竟掩藏着什么样的秘密......

Why similar: Word Game 32%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Text-Based 15.5%, Dating Sim 15.4%, Romance 6.3%

"Fish Tank" is a school-themed visual novel game that explores the inner world of teenagers and supernatural powers. Players will make choices in the game to reach different endings for the protagonist Xie Lihe.Use your imagination wisely and remember to manage your oxygen.

Why similar: Word Game 37.6%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Text-Based 20.6%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Drama 6.6%

A ‘Landmine × Yuri’ Visual Novel. To complete your master's thesis, you are forced to interact with these landmine girls—a decision that may well prove to be the most disastrous of your life. Your dialogue and choices will not only shape your relationships with the heroines, but also your thesis.

Why similar: Word Game 31.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Dating Sim 17.2%, Text-Based 9.9%, Adventure 7.9%

异世界！日式西幻！剑与魔法！公主！义妹妹！精灵！吸血鬼！全部结局都是后宫全收！纯粹服务男性向的galgame！

Why similar: Word Game 33.1%, Dating Sim 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Clicker 12.1% ★, Text-Based 6.4%

Waking up on a strange island, you find yourself transformed into the appearance of a child. You could make new friends, have fun, and explore the island. Depending on your choices, you may even become one with the darkside of the island.

Why similar: Word Game 37.6%, Text-Based 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Dating Sim 14.9%, Romance 2.6%

This is an ADV game work in the style of short story writing. On a sunny holiday, the main character returns with his sister to the place where he went when he was a child. "There are so many things I want to say to her, and I want to tell her that I wish I could live with her like I used to.

Why similar: Word Game 29.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Dating Sim 16.1%, Clicker 15.1% ★, Text-Based 8.3%

『戀戀寶島～雨港再世奇緣篇～』 這是一個以現實世界的『台灣』為舞台的"架空平行世界" 一款單線單結局的日式文字冒險遊戲。 以架空的台灣寶島基隆市為主要場景，著名都市傳說娜娜鬼屋為開端。 融合了戀愛，靈異，美食，架空歷史的絕妙組合。 演繹Boy Meets Girl的戀愛喜劇。

Why similar: Word Game 31.8%, Dating Sim 16.1%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, CRPG 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%

Navigate complex relationships and unexpected revelations as a transfer student with amnesia in this visual novel adventure. Uncover the truth behind a mysterious dream and the wishes of the campus crush.

Why similar: Word Game 35.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, CRPG 19.6%, Text-Based 12.4%, Immersive Sim 11.9%

A visual novel set in Tianjin, China, in the late Qing Dynasty of 1893. The gameplay involves cards and deduction. Players will take on the role of a medium, utilizing their supernatural abilities to investigate a series of bizarre unsolved cases and eerie occurrences around them.

Why similar: Word Game 33.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Text-Based 19.2%, Horror 7.3%, Psychological Horror 6.2%

优尔·阿莱夫和妹妹安雅·阿莱夫在幼年时因病被父母抛弃，后被爱尔兰都柏林的一家酒馆的老板娘西尔莎收留。在一次出差过程中，优尔意外的邂逅了自己梦中来历不明的少女，后得知对方的名字叫做艾尔温。面对这个熟悉又陌生的少女，优尔和她踏上了收集手稿和解开过去真相的旅程。

Why similar: Word Game 27.4%, CRPG 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Text-Based 16%, Dating Sim 14.9%

Magical girl idols are here! Get ready for the performance of a lifetime from the idol group Animal Trail ☆ Girlish Square! Gao~!

Why similar: Word Game 32.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Dating Sim 19%, Text-Based 14.3%, Immersive Sim 12.5%

Sunlit remedy is a visual novelYou will meet a girl who belongs only to you, and through your long days together, you will find courage, companionship, and love—slowly stepping out of your room to embrace the bright sunlight outside. Come and date the girl who is most dear to you!

Why similar: Word Game 38%, Interactive Fiction 25%, Dating Sim 20.7%, Text-Based 14.3%, Indie 1.5%

It is said that the last frontier is space, but the crew of the Soviet Frigate, The Peresmeshnik, is about to discover that the sea still hides a terrifying secret. Waiting to be found.

Why similar: Text-Based 27.2%, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Psychological Horror 11%, Horror 8.7%

A text-based adventure where you're tasked to exorcise your friend’s Inner Demon. You have 30 days 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: CRPG 18.4%, Text-Based 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Dating Sim 12.5%, Psychological Horror 11.6%

Welcome to the company! A friendly boss, harmonious colleagues—everything seems almost too good to be true. But you always feel there's something strange about it. This is a psychological suspense and chilling visual novel that unveils the truth hidden beneath the surface of everyday illusions.

Why similar: Word Game 29.5%, Clicker 18% ★, Interactive Fiction 17%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Horror 7%

Adventure casual games. Ordinary people will live a dull life? Where to go in the face of choice? In the face of temptations such as money and beauty, adhere to principles or obey nature?

Why similar: Word Game 33.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Dating Sim 17.6%, Text-Based 8.8%, Adventure 8.5%

你知道候鸟吗？候鸟有夏候鸟和冬候鸟之分。夏候鸟就是「春天来北方，秋天去南方」的鸟，他们一年四季都生活在很温暖的环境里，而冬候鸟……则是春天就飞向北方，飞到又远又冷的地方生活，冬季才返回的鸟。尽管它们可能会在同一个地方各自度过一生中一半的时光——却从来没有机会在一起。

Why similar: Word Game 44.9%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Dating Sim 19.3%, Drama 7.1%, Adventure 4.8%

This is a short visual novel that blends atmospheric audio with radio drama.After this snowy night, through the seasons to come, she will sit by his bedside, telling him of her hopes and the stories that belong to them.

Why similar: Word Game 42.4%, Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Text-Based 22%, Drama 8%, Indie 1.6%

一款单人心理恐怖视觉小说。玩家只需要持续点击体验文字和图画呈现的主线剧情。流程短但情节引人入胜。

Why similar: Word Game 42.1%, Text-Based 14.1%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Drama 11%, Horror 10.1%

THE LAKE LADY is a story-driven realistic horror interactive game. The river took everything from him. To find his daughter who went missing in the flood, Salvio returns to his hometown as a doctor and infiltrates Hongqiang Hospital for investigation.

Why similar: Word Game 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Text-Based 16.3%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Horror 9.2%

This is a text-based adventure horror & humor game. You are a restless college student who is lured into dangerous encounters with ghost women, murderers, and other supernatural beings through the enigmatic matchmaking site. You need to survive, making them blush, and let them fall in love with you.

Why similar: Word Game 38.3%, Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Dating Sim 21%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Indie 1.7%

It is said that when the bell of molten gold rings across the sky, the world beyond will take the place of this shore.The clock’s marks sum up life’s course. Moving its hands changes fate.The girl prays to the gods:“May happy days never fade. May the destined bloom never wither.”

Why similar: Word Game 35.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Dating Sim 18.9%, Adventure 8.3%, Text-Based 6.1%

This is a text-based horror game in which you investigate mysterious urban legends. Along the way, the player takes on the role of a character who gets “lost” and encounters a series of random events.

Why similar: Word Game 23.7%, Text-Based 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Horror 11%

Play as a wise woman, help your neighbors, and they will help you in return. Fight alongside your closest friend to deal with the beasts threatening the village. Uncover the secrets of magic through your journey, and you might even have a chance to confront your inner demons.

Why similar: Word Game 37.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Text-Based 14.7%, Drama 3.7%

Early this century, a school Model UN event steeped in emotional conflict and tragedy changed every participant’s life. Years later, the scattered youth reunite and seek revenge, amid fractured friendship, love, ambition and lost dreams.

Why similar: Word Game 34.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Clicker 15% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Adventure 8.1%

ESCAPE SITE 13 is a side-scrolling adventure set in the SCP universe, continuing the narrative of SCP-1730. As Investigator Liu Zhiming, explore Site 13, solve puzzles, and confront deadly anomalies. Uncover dark secrets in this chilling tale where reality warps and the past refuses to stay buried.

Why similar: Word Game 22.4%, CRPG 21.7%, Text-Based 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Psychological Horror 9.5%

The player is a student who, due to an accident, was plunged into a mystery of time. Can the player solve this mystery of time and space? When countless mysteries are solved, what will be the final outcome for the player and the person he loves?

Why similar: Word Game 32.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Dating Sim 16.8%, Clicker 15.3% ★, Drama 5.6%

"In my dreams, I can get out. In my dreams, I can fit in." 'ghostpia' mixes the adorable art style of an illustrated book with glitches-and-noise effects. There are no choices to be made. There's only a lonely girl in a ghost town and her story full of mystery, friendhood...and a bit of violence.

Why similar: Text-Based 16.5%, CRPG 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Dating Sim 13.9%, Psychological Horror 11.2%

Hack into a classified archive of 120 intercepted documents. In this retro terminal investigation, every file you read alters reality — your observations are irreversible, the Federation is watching, and three divergent endings await based on how deep you dare to dig.

Why similar: Word Game 35.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Text-Based 15.3%, Immersive Sim 10.5%, Adventure 7.8%

唐天宝十一载的上元夜，浮浪子弟韩承业在盛世长安城邂逅一位神秘的贵族少女。三年后，安史之乱爆发。本不可能走到一起的两个人，会被命运的漩涡抛向何处？玩家将经历多个主角生命中一系列的变故，以及，投入到那场中国古代史上最为惨烈的守城战中。是死守，是挽救，还是逃亡？做出你的抉择。

Why similar: Word Game 34.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Immersive Sim 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%, Text-Based 8.7%

This is a short, romance-focused visual novel where you play as a student. As you fall in love with your classmate Qiu, you become trapped in a time loop and die again and again. Together with Qiu, you must search for a way to break the loop, with your choices leading to different endings.

Why similar: Word Game 28.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Dating Sim 16.6%, Text-Based 7.9%

This is a detective game where you play as a middle-aged inspector searching for a terrifying serial killer in an isolated village. However, as a player, if you uncover the killer’s motives, you might consider whether to cooperate with them to achieve their goal of "killing THE time."

Why similar: Word Game 26.4%, CRPG 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Text-Based 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%

"Illusion Pathology" is a suspenseful and slightly scary B female love game. You will wake up as a doctor in a mental hospital, and become entangled with three suspicious "patients" around you, and your life and memory will be gradually revealed.

Why similar: Word Game 31.9%, CRPG 23.9%, Clicker 18% ★, Dating Sim 14.9%, Romance 5.5%

PinYuAn Tales is a AVG with thematic elements of weirdness and sidekick adventures. After Bai Qiming is laid off from his company, he starts to conduct psychic live broadcasting activities, and during one of the broadcasts, he meets a strange young man, and the story of the two of them unfolds.

Why similar: Word Game 37%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Text-Based 10.9%, Horror 9.8%

This is a visual novel game featuring toxic wave of electricity with a gameplay duration of 5-10 minutes. You will spend some bedtime moments with your “best friend” that can be either enjoyable or less pleasant. Will you take the medicine?

Why similar: Word Game 45.2%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Clicker 11% ★, Immersive Sim 10.2%

Alchemy, puzzles, and a crashed starship. Old-style interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No dialogue trees! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 39%, Text-Based 35.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Adventure 5.9%, Indie 2.9%

国产本土新怪谈恐怖游戏——幽魂社前社长在直播中突然失踪，销声匿迹数月后发来诡异消息，将你引入离奇的规则世界。走不出的吞人楼栋、满员即死的午夜巴士、地图上不存在的村庄，还有勾魂剧院、吃人公司……世界的“暗面”等待探索，怪谲的谜题等待揭露。

Why similar: Word Game 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Dating Sim 12.7%, CRPG 12.3%

《致过去破损的时光》是一款独特的像素风格纯剧情游戏。玩家扮演着拥有特殊使命的主角，开始调查一些奇怪的事件，最后发现令人惊奇的秘密，玩家将跟随主角的脚步，体验一段深刻而动人的故事。游戏通过精美的像素艺术，将玩家带入一个充满想象力的梦境空间，让玩家在探索剧情的同时，感受到视觉与心灵的双重震撼。这是一款感动的纯剧情游戏。我们诚挚邀请您踏入这个充满惊喜的故事，展开一段最过去的时光的寻找之旅。在这个世界里。

Why similar: Word Game 36.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, CRPG 16.1%, Clicker 13.4% ★, Text-Based 7.9%

This is a visual novel game that focuses on the daily lives of the background NPCs living in a 【supernatural fiction】 world. You will play as the owner of a mini job agency, assigning work to the 'supporting characters' of K City.

Why similar: Word Game 37.8%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Text-Based 16.4%, Adventure 8.9%, Drama 6%

Try again, as many times as it takes, to change the ending. You might be able to save everyone you couldn’t before. • Indie horror game • Playtime: approx. 2 hours • Graphics, dialogue, and the feel of the world change with each playthrough • Contains heavy themes

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Text-Based 19%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Horror 11.6%

在河北省，核大战后孤独的世界末日，机器人守卫在尘封的考场。 长久的等待之后，全国最后一名考生探出了路口。 再过一年的六月六，高考结束之后，在这个一片荒芜的世界，两人又该何去何从……

Why similar: Word Game 37.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Dating Sim 16.6%, Text-Based 15.3%, Adventure 5.5%

A light fantasy visual novel. After losing your memory in a car accident, you take over an art gallery to recover your blank past — every painting holds the same blurry figure. When the door to your memory bursts open, are you ready to face the truth?

Why similar: Word Game 32.7%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Dating Sim 12.2%, CRPG 11.5%, Text-Based 8.9%

A simple adventure about your life in the new world.

Why similar: Word Game 41.9%, Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Text-Based 24.3%, Adventure 4.2%, Drama 3%

异世界恋爱文字冒险游戏——玩家将扮演一名四处奔波的酒贩兼猎人，寻找传说中的永生之酒，展开奇妙的冒险故事。

Why similar: Word Game 33.9%, CRPG 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Dating Sim 17.7%, Adventure 5.5%

九省通衢之地的阴影里，不知名的存在正在蠢蠢欲动。普通到极点的学生顾韦，作为“非日常部”的一员，和女友苏半夏开始调查“虚拟偶像消失事件”的传闻。讲述都市怪谈的可疑直播间，废墟一般的住宅楼，等待在两人前方的是……

Why similar: Word Game 31.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Text-Based 15.1%, Dating Sim 14.8%, Romance 6.9%

“The clock of fate has already been hung high, waiting for the one prophesied by Eros.” Seek out the truth beneath the surface. At the moment when you figure out the truth, how will you choose to move forward? Perhaps the destiny in your hands will provide the answer.

Why similar: Word Game 34.8%, CRPG 20%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Text-Based 12.9%, Immersive Sim 12.5%

"Diamond Runway" is an interactive RPG where you play as Lindsay, an aspiring supermodel. Starting as a novice in a NYC competition, you'll face rivalry, friendships, romance, and growth. Your choices shape relationships, career, and endings in a journey through the glamorous yet dark fashion world.

Why similar: Word Game 36.9%, Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Dating Sim 19.8%, Text-Based 7.8%, Drama 6.6%

A heartwarming visual novel about a romance with a younger female colleague. Enjoy an authentic office love story between two working adults navigating their careers and their feelings for each other.

Why similar: Text-Based 28.9%, Dating Sim 27.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Adventure 12.9%, Romance 10%

In the text adventure mode, spend a terrifying night of uncertain fate in a perilous hotel. "Fu Sha" has a large number of side options and endings. Any choice may trigger a terrifying situation that is hard to face. In the end, can you make the right choice and escape this curse of death?

Why similar: Word Game 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Horror 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Psychological Horror 10%

Xenoria, a city run entirely by AI Trust, occupation, romance, everything in life is pre-determined by "Empathy Score" which reveals a person's personality. Cocoro will unravel the secret of this city, and pursue the truth about herself. An indulging love suspense.

Why similar: Word Game 30.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Dating Sim 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Text-Based 11.3%

In the summer of 1990, you return to the secluded mountain village of Iwao as your grandfather falls critically ill. The village shrine is said to seal the yokai "Tsuchigumo." As the "Mushi Okuri Festival" nears, its ritual flames may awaken a thousand-year-old curse…

Why similar: Word Game 27.9%, Text-Based 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Horror 11.3%, Supernatural 7.2%

CLOSED HANDS is a groundbreaking work of interactive fiction that explores the tangled intertwined stories of five people thrown together by a fictional terror attack.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.1%, Text-Based 30.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Adventure 13%, Indie 2%

Beneath the shadowed sea of trees below the volcanic mountain lies a mysterious facility probing the afterlife, as omens of the world’s end approach. A loved one missing, reality twisting, a volcano stirring below. Once more you enter the maze, seeking the exit hidden in spectral forest shadows.

Why similar: Word Game 44.5%, Interactive Fiction 26.4%, Adventure 10.3%, Text-Based 8.6%, Romance 5.2%

Return to College Age "is a text-based adventure game set against the backdrop of college campus life. On the day you return to college for enrollment, will you choose to earn some money and live a better life, or will you choose to leave no regrets and pursue the various goddesses you meet.

Why similar: Word Game 37.7%, Dating Sim 20.3%, CRPG 20.3%, Text-Based 14.2%, Drama 5.9%

I failed the entrance exam and was transferred to a women's college. And the school had to assign me to be the international student's study partner? Ladies, can you please go away, I just want to study hard. This visual novel game focuses on college life, with a fun plot and full of fan service...

Why similar: Word Game 36.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Dating Sim 20.5%, Text-Based 11.8%, Romance 6%