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.
The Butterfly Dream
병신같은 놈(The Butterfly Dream)은 비주얼 노벨과 어드벤처가 결합된 단편 게임입니다. 배치된 사물을 따라 상호작용하며 죄의식의 근원을 마주하세요.
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 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Psychological 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%, Emotional 8.8%
병신같은 놈(The Butterfly Dream)은 비주얼 노벨과 어드벤처가 결합된 단편 게임입니다. 배치된 사물을 따라 상호작용하며 죄의식의 근원을 마주하세요.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Walking Simulator 17.8%, Surreal 16.8%, Psychological 12.3%, Emotional 11.6%
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 17.3%, Surreal 15.6%, Emotional 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.9%
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 18.9%, Walking Simulator 18.1%, Surreal 15.5%, Emotional 10.3%, Psychological 8.1%
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: Psychological 18%, Surreal 16.7%, Emotional 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Visual Novel 8.4%
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 16.9%, Surreal 15.2%, Emotional 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Choices Matter 9.7%
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 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Psychological 12%, Dark 9.7%, Choices Matter 9%
This is the story of Mark's life...
Why similar: Psychological 15.3%, Emotional 12.6%, Walking Simulator 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Surreal 11.8%
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 21.4%, Emotional 19.9%, Walking Simulator 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
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 15.4%, Emotional 14.1%, Psychological 12.3%, Walking Simulator 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%
You are a father. You wake in a hallway that hums. Wander liminal spaces where fragments of your past call you forward. Voice acted by a real father and his daughters. Two endings. No right answer.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Emotional 14.6%, Surreal 14.5%, Psychological 12.3%, Choices Matter 7.7%
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 27.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Surreal 13.7%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%
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 18.3%, Psychological 16.6%, Emotional 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Dark 9.5%
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: Psychological 16.4%, Surreal 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Emotional 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%
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 21%, Surreal 20.5%, Walking Simulator 15.2%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Story Rich 9.7%
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 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Walking Simulator 17.3%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
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 20.4%, Psychological 18.3%, Emotional 16.2%, Dark 10.5%, Philosophical 10.1%
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 22.8%, Emotional 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Walking Simulator 14.5%, Story Rich 11%
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 23.8%, Psychological 16.5%, Emotional 12.4%, Dark 8.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%
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 18.4%, Emotional 14.9%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%, Walking Simulator 8.9%
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 16.6%, Psychological 14.8%, Emotional 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Dark 8.2%
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 20.1%, Surreal 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Walking Simulator 9.7%, Story Rich 7.7%
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 18.6%, Psychological 18.6%, Walking Simulator 15.8%, Visual Novel 9.5%, Emotional 9.4%
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 20.7%, Surreal 19.2%, Walking Simulator 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 8.5%, Story Rich 7.6%
A minimalist journey though life.
Why similar: Surreal 18.2%, Walking Simulator 17.6%, Emotional 15.6%, Psychological 12.2%, Philosophical 9%
A woman wanders into a heavily populated abandoned train station. What happens next might surprise you.
Why similar: Psychological 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Emotional 12.9%, Surreal 12%, Dark 8.9%
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 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Story Rich 9.5%, Choices Matter 8.9%
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 14.3%, Emotional 13.7%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%, Cinematic 7.8%
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 24.9%, Psychological 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Story Rich 9.5%
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Walking Simulator 12.9%, Emotional 11.6%, Psychological 11.5%, Choices Matter 11.1%
Play as a Duskweaver in this short "choices matter" story about self-sacrifice.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Psychological 14.6%, Emotional 14.2%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
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 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Story Rich 10.6%
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 22.3%, Psychological 19.8%, Emotional 17.9%, Cinematic 10.9%, Dark 9.2%
When demons leave your head and fill the whole world, all you can do is close your eyes and go forward. Immerse yourself in the atmospheric and moving adventure of white crow Ankou — one of pain, loneliness, and salvation that no one asked for.
Why similar: Psychological 17%, Surreal 15.9%, Emotional 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Choices Matter 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 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Walking Simulator 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Surreal 11.6%
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 16.9%, Psychological 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Emotional 11.4%, Choices Matter 9%
A remote mountain cabin, a raging snowstorm, and the line between reality and madness begins to blur. Make difficult choices, explore surreal worlds, and confront what waits in the dark.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Psychological 14%, Emotional 13.9%, Surreal 12%
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 17.9%, Walking Simulator 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Story Rich 8.9%, Visual Novel 8.9%
A love letter to horror manga in the form of a visual novel. Welcome to a world of distorted minds.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Surreal 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Dark 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.1%
幻想若非幻想 自然可超自然 伴我梦中桃花 懒识人间滋味
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Surreal 20.9%, Emotional 15.5%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%
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 19.5%, Walking Simulator 19.1%, Emotional 13%, Dark 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.6%
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 19.9%, Surreal 14.5%, Psychological 13.8%, Emotional 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%
Would you forgive yourself if you killed someone you love? Enter the traumatic memories of The Flower, experience death as the killer and the killed, and submerge yourself in a dark, interactive adventure of emotions, suffering, and regret - looking for a way to forget.
Why similar: Psychological 17.1%, Surreal 16.4%, Walking Simulator 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Cinematic 7.8%
"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 14.6%, Surreal 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Choices Matter 10%
A mysterious creature has torn your home from reality. Explore the City of Stolen Worlds, uncover the secrets of its inhabitants, and try to find your way back. Or perhaps you want to become the new Master?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Surreal 19.1%, Psychological 14.6%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Philosophical 8.5%
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 17.9%, Psychological 16.9%, Surreal 15.8%, Philosophical 9.6%, Emotional 8.7%
Skylar is an student with anxiety. Walter is a farmer with social anxiety and PTSD. Jessica is a programmer with anxiety and agoraphobia. Li Wei is an technologist with intense anxiety. Navigate their stories, learn how they move through the world, and about methods of treatment and recovery.
Why similar: Psychological 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Emotional 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Choices Matter 10.8%
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 16.6%, Surreal 15.3%, Emotional 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Dark 9.5%
Narrative experience from the mind of Thomas Hunt. Skateboarding Cows? Sentient boxes? A deep, emotional melodrama about the video games industry? Yep, it's got it all! NOT FOR YOU is a collection of short experiences, which you can play in any order you would like!
Why similar: Psychological 26%, Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Walking Simulator 13.9%, Emotional 7.8%, Visual Novel 7.5%
Follow Sybil in her pursuit for survival, having to sacrifice everything - her culture, her identity, her values - to achieve a single objective: escape from a place that is constantly trying to kill her. A short game about persecution and identity.
Why similar: Emotional 22.2%, Dark 12.7%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Story Rich 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.5%
The prequel to Road 96. Play Zoe and Kaito where it all started. Change their destinies!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Walking Simulator 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Emotional 11.8%, Choices Matter 9.7%
The Company wants you productive. The Company wants you calm. The Company wants you compliant.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Surreal 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Choices Matter 10.4%
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 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Visual Novel 11%
The Dreamcatcher is a single player first person psychological adventure set in the modern times. You play as a young man who has just started his life in a big city. You will adventure into different dream worlds, overcome obstacles in the dreams with the help from outside the dreams.
Why similar: Psychological 22.3%, Emotional 18.3%, Walking Simulator 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Surreal 11.3%
After shouting "Let Me Play!" to the cast in a theatre, the fiction comes crashing down as everyone, including you, becomes aware they're only following a script. Will you let the play continue? Or will you write your own ending?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Surreal 23.3%, Psychological 14.6%, Multiple Endings 7.2%, Adventure 6.8%
A romantic loop 3D visual novel about a girl who forgets you every night. It’s always your first date. She resets. You don’t. Try to win her heart, or choose to let go. Another strange post from the town of Akabako.
Why similar: Psychological 22.2%, Emotional 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Story Rich 10.8%
You are a terrifying monster living beneath someone’s house. This is a dark, cruel, twisted interactive novel where you are the main abomination.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Surreal 16.2%, Walking Simulator 13%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Dark 11.3%
A journey with your father to Lake Baikal, where a storm and an old photo album revive memories of family, loss, and reconciliation.
Why similar: Emotional 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Psychological 17.1%, Story Rich 11.8%, Funny 8.8%
Help out a highschool girl as she explores the wonders of social media for the first time, as well as the dangers.
Why similar: Surreal 19.9%, Psychological 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Visual Novel 10%, Dark 9.1%
“I hope she’s ok” is a single-player first-person atmospheric mystery inspired by Nordic folklore. Set around a beautiful lakeside cabin in the heart of Finland during the midsummer solstice, the idyllic scene takes a turn for the worse when you discover that your friend is missing.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Psychological 14.5%, Choices Matter 12%, Emotional 10.3%
