60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Psychological, Adventure, Emotional, Story Rich.
A journey through the life of a star player of a cryptic and bizarre sport. The dialogue choices you make will determine the path your life takes, and the ultimate conclusion to your story.
Playing Kafka
There are things that often fail on nothing but themselves. Is there even a way out? Playing Kafka is a narrative adventure full of impenetrable schemes, insidious plot twists and conversations that slip out of hand. Based on Kafka’s life and his work, developed with Kafka experts.
Telomere
A minimalist journey though life.
There are things that often fail on nothing but themselves. Is there even a way out? Playing Kafka is a narrative adventure full of impenetrable schemes, insidious plot twists and conversations that slip out of hand. Based on Kafka’s life and his work, developed with Kafka experts.
Why similar: Surreal 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Psychological 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%, Emotional 8.3%
A minimalist journey though life.
Why similar: Surreal 17.1%, Walking Simulator 16.5%, Emotional 14.3%, Philosophical 11.2%, Psychological 11.1%
7th Chance is a short (20-30 minute) story-based exploration adventure game. Waking up from a night of heavy drinking ... something isn't right.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Walking Simulator 17.8%, Surreal 15.1%, Emotional 9.9%, Choices Matter 7.8%
This is the story of Mark's life...
Why similar: Psychological 14.3%, Walking Simulator 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Emotional 11.9%, Surreal 11.3%
Shame & choices = possible apocalypse. You need to figure out what’s causing the apocalypse to happen, so that you can prevent it. 2 playable characters with different relations to shame → 2 unique perspectives of the same story. Complicated families, branching choices and unforgiving consequences.
Why similar: Psychological 16.5%, Surreal 15.3%, Emotional 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Choices Matter 9.6%
You find yourself in a singularity with Death itself. With few chances to speak with the living, Death proposes a little game. Do you dive deep within yourself to indulge this cosmic guide and find out when you will meet again on official business? The Ultimate Death Clock awaits!
Why similar: Psychological 15.7%, Surreal 14.5%, Emotional 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Philosophical 10%
병신같은 놈(The Butterfly Dream)은 비주얼 노벨과 어드벤처가 결합된 단편 게임입니다. 배치된 사물을 따라 상호작용하며 죄의식의 근원을 마주하세요.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Walking Simulator 17.6%, Surreal 16.6%, Psychological 11.8%, Emotional 11.2%
You are a father. You wake in a hallway that hums. Empty pools. Dead malls. Your four daughters are here. Voice acted by a real father and his daughters. Two endings. No right answer.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Surreal 14%, Emotional 13.9%, Psychological 11.5%, Choices Matter 7.4%
The definitive edition of the fan-favorite visual novel is here! A surreal, coming-of-age tale set in early 2010s Central Florida, Siren's Call is the small town you swore you'd always leave. Something inside you knows this is your last chance. Will you reach escape velocity?
Why similar: Surreal 16.4%, Psychological 15.2%, Emotional 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Visual Novel 9.4%
Every person you choose leaves someone else behind. Spend your limited afternoons building relationships, exploring the town, and recording each day in Kanata’s diary—then face timed Shadow Choices as an old book begins to fracture his ordinary life.
Why similar: Psychological 15.2%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Emotional 11.4%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
A story-rich interactive fiction about two people who find comfort in each other, and the quiet things they never say out loud.
Why similar: Psychological 17.5%, Emotional 14.3%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%, Walking Simulator 8.7%
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: Psychological 15.2%, Surreal 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Emotional 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
𝕭𝖀𝕽𝕹 is a short and replayable visual novel, where you play Nina BURN, the biggest pop star in the world at the turning point of her career. Will you change pop music? Will you become a monster? 𝖄𝖔𝖚 𝖜𝖎𝖑𝖑 𝕭𝖀𝕽𝕹.
Why similar: Surreal 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.6%
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: Emotional 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Psychological 11.4%, Dark 10.1%, Visual Novel 9.2%
First-person boat through the River of Wangchuan, lantern in hand—cut through the fog and chase scattered memory shards. You ferry a General toward the far shore, only to witness the massacre he committed to resurrect the Princess. In the end, who are you—the ferryman, or the General himself?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.3%, Psychological 15.5%, Emotional 11.9%, Dark 9.1%, Story Rich 8.5%
A short 10 minute visual novel about being a fragment in the universe and trying to find a way out of the ****.
Why similar: Surreal 19.4%, Psychological 17%, Emotional 15.2%, Philosophical 13%, Dark 10.8%
My parents sacrificed an orphan to the red egg. She came back home that night. How will the two of us survive the hunger? Good Children Say Grace.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Emotional 13.3%, Psychological 11.4%, Walking Simulator 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
Do you ever feel like life is slipping away, with too many dreams left unfulfilled? Like you're trapped in wanting to do so much, but never quite getting to any of it? Doesn't that thought scare you—looking back on a life that accomplished nothing, fading without leaving a mark? It scares me too.
Why similar: Psychological 20.3%, Emotional 19.1%, Walking Simulator 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Multiple Endings 10%
Uncover the skeletons in Hana's closet in "MINE MEMORY," a gripping psychological visual novel. Dive into Hana's memories, shape her destiny, and confront haunting choices with deep consequences.
Why similar: Psychological 26.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Surreal 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.8%
A short modern visual novel in which a young woman wanders into a [theoretically] abandoned train station, only to find people from her past waiting inside.
Why similar: Psychological 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Emotional 12.1%, Surreal 11.5%, Philosophical 10.2%
You ended the world. She, the one who holds every card, gave you an endless summer as your reward. Now your only way out is through sugar, jellyfish, sunlight, and blood — into the deepest reaches of her mind, or be dissolved along the way. Choose your path in this psycho-thriller visual novel.
Why similar: Psychological 20.3%, Surreal 17.6%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Multiple Endings 9.3%, Story Rich 8.9%
Dive into the eerie realms of "The Silent Bells" a spine-chilling horror anthology video game. Unearth four haunting stories, each woven from the threads of internet horror and creepypastas. Brace yourself, for every silent bell tolls the arrival of a new nightmare.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Psychological 15.8%, Emotional 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Dark 10%
In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Emotional 12%, Psychological 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
Welcome to wonderland, a place of dreams. Take on the role of Alister Hinch and go on a journey through this surreal realm of enchantment and wonder. Experience making friends in this realm... Now, what ending will you choose to have?
Why similar: Emotional 20.4%, Surreal 20.2%, Walking Simulator 15.1%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Story Rich 9.8%
A choice-based visual novel game about science, division, and the false ideology of knowledge. Each and every one of your choices will determine whether the disciplines will end in unity or complete division. The key to eternal knowledge is in your hands.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Emotional 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%, Choices Matter 8.2%, Cinematic 8%
808 explores the memories that define us and what happens when they're taken away. It's a surreal game about love, loss, and a difficult choice: the pain of authenticity, or the peace of self forgetfulness.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 18.2%, Surreal 12.9%, Emotional 12.8%, Psychological 12.7%, Philosophical 10.6%
Grotto is a mystical, narrative-focused experience. You are the Soothsayer. The one capable of talking with the stars and unveiling their messages. In a time of turmoil, the tribe of the valley turn to your powers of divination and come to you for guidance.
Why similar: Psychological 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Walking Simulator 16.9%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%
It's June 2023 in Columbus, Ohio -- 10 years since Neal and Jack graduated, and 8 years since they last spoke. Follow two once-best friends' reluctant descent through classrooms and memories in Our Dirge, a game about growing up in a certain place & time, and making up for the time we lost.
Why similar: Surreal 16.8%, Walking Simulator 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Visual Novel 9.3%, Funny 8.6%
You're the maintenance man for an apartment complex that has mysteriously been transported to the middle of the ocean. Woodrot is a surreal adventure game about getting to know your neighbors who all seem to blame themselves for their recent relocation.
Why similar: Psychological 18.9%, Surreal 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Walking Simulator 9.5%, Story Rich 7.6%
Weep for the dead! In this short psychological horror story, play as a professional mourner travelling between funerals. Ride a nightmarish bus whose destination depends on how you choose to face your traumas.
Why similar: Surreal 16.2%, Psychological 14%, Emotional 13%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Dark 8.5%
Welcome to your endless summer! Escape its influence before the town of Siren's Call erases you completely. This version of the game is a free prologue and covers the first part of this story.
Why similar: Psychological 14.9%, Surreal 14.1%, Emotional 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Dark 9.4%
A short, intense, dark visual narrative in 2 colors. You are stuck reliving a single day, over and over. Explore a tiny, giant world of a relationship between two people. Don't get arrested. Try to reach the person you love and escape the cursed time loop. Is it not too late?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Psychological 17.6%, Walking Simulator 15.5%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Emotional 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 19.5%, Surreal 14.2%, Emotional 13.2%, Psychological 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%
"Are We in Love?" is a dark, choice-driven visual novel that questions love and family. There are no butterflies in your stomach, only the harsh reality of a chemical sting in your nostrils and the acrid aftertaste of vodka. No common route. Fully branched story.
Why similar: Psychological 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Visual Novel 9.3%
A love letter to horror manga in the form of a visual novel. Welcome to a world of distorted minds.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Surreal 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Dark 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.6%
"I" make a deal with the witch to give up my heart, in exchange for love— from everyone. ——————————————————————————Is it worth it if losing my heart means gaining *his*? In this short visual novel, make choices and answer the question: is love a zero-sum game?
Why similar: Emotional 13.5%, Surreal 13%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Philosophical 10.4%
Rediscover the internet of the 2000s in DreamNet, a free to play Frutiger Aero exploration game. Dive into nostalgic worlds, uncover the story, and revisit the beauty of the old internet.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24%, Surreal 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Emotional 11.6%, Story Rich 8.9%
Frame of Mind - A game of thoughts is a brief and cozy narrative game that lets you explore a character via thoughts and momentos you find in stages of their life. Its an introspective game, meant to share some experiences a peer-group of neurodivergent queers, including the dev, had growing up.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 16.2%, Emotional 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Choices Matter 9.2%
What if walls could answer? Whatever that means, you’ll explore the memories of a neurotic scientist resolving puzzles that could help his mental state, discovering different endings of his life.
Why similar: Psychological 19.7%, Walking Simulator 18.9%, Surreal 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.4%, Multiple Endings 7.9%
Guide a squad of ten young adults through a kingdom on the brink of war! Navigate court politics, deadly rivalries, and magical chaos between Humans, Fae, and Werewolves... where every choice can make or break your future.
Why similar: Surreal 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Choices Matter 12%, Story Rich 10.4%
You return to your hometown but no one recognizes you. But that doesn’t matter, because you are not here for them. You are here for her. Midgårdsormen, singer and artist, pervert and goddess, a being truly out of this world.
Why similar: Psychological 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Choices Matter 12%, Surreal 11.2%
Step into a world where dreams and reality mix. You find yourself in a dream-like world, and explore a different traumatic experience each day. Your choice determines if the boy accepts these moments and moves on, or stays in the past.
Why similar: Surreal 21%, Emotional 14.7%, Psychological 12.8%, Dark 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.8%
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Philosophical 14.9%, Psychological 13.1%, Surreal 12.6%
It's Sara's first day of work. However, when she takes the elevator to go to the office, she suddenly finds herself on a mysterious floor. What truth lies behind these weird rooms? Will you be able to move on? Or rather... will you want to move on?
Why similar: Surreal 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Story Rich 9.4%, Choices Matter 8.6%
What if Martin looked into the mirror at night? A poetic visual novel, unfolding as a quiet journey through fragmented days. In the final year of high school, Wei Shi becomes you. Each morning begins without a name, and each night leads them through unfamiliar youth and the fragile art of happiness.
Why similar: Psychological 19%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Emotional 10.4%
You're fired! Who needs game writers when AI can do the job? …What? You want to join the Resistance? Don't make me laugh — that's just an urban legend!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Psychological 15.8%, Surreal 15.2%, Philosophical 12.4%, Emotional 8.2%
Play as a Duskweaver in this short "choices matter" story about self-sacrifice.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Psychological 13.6%, Emotional 13.5%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
7 Days in Dystopia is a psychological dystopian game where you experience seven days by playing a series of games, making choices, and facing the consequences of winning and losing in a city where people hide behind masks.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Psychological 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Story Rich 9.5%
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 22.4%, Psychological 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Emotional 9.9%
A war veteran and newly minted starship captain faces ancient cosmic horrors as his dreams become reality. Navigate romance, mystery, and sacrifice in this sci-fi adult visual novel where every choice echoes beyond the stars. Optional graphic adult content via free DLC.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Psychological 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Emotional 10.9%, Visual Novel 9.2%
Connor, a single father, visits a memory-restoration clinic in order to relive the days he had with his estranged son Bry. Experience what’s left of his past as he gets to relive his cherished memories and routine joys, while keeping away from the disturbing truth lurking beneath the surface.
Why similar: Psychological 22.1%, Emotional 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Walking Simulator 14.6%, Story Rich 11.2%
A dark, story-heavy puzzle game. Enter the mind of Mayu, as her soul is invaded and dug through by a seemingly evil witch. Can you stop her? What if you were able to get the upper hand, and invade her back? Would you show mercy, or destroy her? Jishogi will test you in more ways than one.
Why similar: Surreal 18.8%, Walking Simulator 18.4%, Emotional 12.3%, Dark 10.9%, Philosophical 9.1%
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: Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Visual Novel 13%, Choices Matter 11%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
Hitchhiker is a mystery game set along lost highways, where your goal is to solve the puzzle of your own backstory.
Why similar: Surreal 12.8%, Psychological 12.6%, Emotional 11.4%, Philosophical 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%
A point-and-click horror/tragedy visual novel about melding your perception of the world around you. Walk around, drive people to their death, and shape Perdita's existence. Remember: The flesh-sin is nothing. Before she can become everything, you must make her into something.
Why similar: Emotional 19%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Walking Simulator 12.9%, Surreal 11.3%
Mayfly is an eerie story-based quiet horror set aboard a narrowboat in Northern England. Upon waking alone to find your husband is missing you find yourself weaving through a shifting, unstable reality as you search your confined surroundings in this focussed narrative exploration game.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.8%, Psychological 16.5%, Surreal 14.3%, Emotional 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
Journey through a distorted theatre held together by the fragile mind of a grieving puppet master. With only a needle and thread, traverse through this world and evade twisted and terrifying creations. Shatter the delusion and unravel the truth behind it all.
Why similar: Surreal 21.9%, Psychological 18.9%, Emotional 17.2%, Cinematic 11.7%, Dark 9.6%
One last GPS pin. One final hope. Following a GPS pin to the cabin, she thought she was coming for a rescue. She didn't know she was stepping into a frozen trap. Stranded and hunted by 'The Ice', you must keep the fire alive to survive the night. Uncover the chilling truth before you become his art
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Walking Simulator 22.2%, Psychological 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Adventure 6.9%
My Room Philosopher is a text-based game where a boy asks questions many people face during adolescence. Answer his questions and explore his thoughts while reflecting on your own values and life.
Why similar: Psychological 16.2%, Philosophical 15.9%, Visual Novel 14%, Emotional 13.6%, Story Rich 10.5%
