- #1 Cryptic Tales - Crossroads
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Innervation Bros
Windows
Jon’s dreams were filled with music and a love life he once had. Now they’ve curdled into nightmares, weaving between memories and unknown realms. Set in the '90s, this immersive first-person psychological walking simulator follows Jon as he realizes… something is stalking him.
Why similar: Narrative 25.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Conspiracy 15.2% ★, Walking Simulator 14%, Horror 8.7%
- #2 They Can Hear Us
96% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: VS Entertaiment
Windows
"They Can Hear Us," the first episode, narrates horror stories that interact with you through the microphone, playing on the fear of whoever is listening.
Why similar: Narrative 41.8% ★, Walking Simulator 15.6%, Psychedelic 15.5%, Horror 9.1%, Psychological Horror 9%
- #3 The Dream Machine - The Definitive Edition
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cockroach Inc.Pub: The Sleeping Machine
Windows · Mac · Linux
An award-winning point & click adventure about exploring other people’s dreams. Uncover dark secrets in a strange apartment building and wander through a surreal, hand-crafted dreamscape built from clay, cardboard & broccoli.
Why similar: Narrative 27.5% ★, Psychedelic 19.2%, Cinematic 17.5%, Point & Click 15.6%, Horror 5.8%
- #4 Alien History
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Adam
Windows
A knowledge discovery game inspired by ancient astronaut theories. Travel across nine world regions, consult expert informants, and piece together evidence of non-human intelligence hidden in ancient civilizations. Every discovery brings you closer to the truth.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Point & Click 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Conspiracy 16.4% ★, Cinematic 14.9%
- #5 Little JttW: The Birth
94% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: T·HELL
Windows
This game series tells the stories from the ancient Chinese book . This is the first part of the first chapter of the book. Suitable for juveniles.
Why similar: Narrative 57.1% ★, Cinematic 20.4%, Walking Simulator 9.2%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%, Adventure 4.6%
- #6 Sayonara Okaasan
94% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: Slimomo
Windows · Mac
Sayonara Okaasan is an interactive abstract poem about saying goodbye to a mother and exploring life and death.
Why similar: Narrative 43.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Point & Click 18.7%, Psychedelic 13%, Atmospheric 1.8%
- #7 Gion Corridor
93% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: Burg Game StudioPub: burg
Windows
Set against the backdrop of a Japanese-style townscape reminiscent of Gion, this exploration-based horror game involves searching for “anomalies” and offering prayers. A work dedicated to those who feel bored with their daily lives.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Walking Simulator 21%, Psychedelic 18.7%, Cinematic 14.1%, Adventure 8.1%
- #8 BlueSuburbia
92% matchPositive79% of 38 reviews2023
Dev: alienmelon
Windows
BlueSuburbia is a haunted world where you explore poems through immersive environments. Seek out dark secrets, confront your demons, and delve deeper into a dream that dances between beautiful and terrible. Explore forgotten dreamscapes and open worlds on your quest to find hope.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Cinematic 16%, Walking Simulator 15.6%, Point & Click 15.5%, Psychedelic 15.5%
- #9 DREADCORE : Locked Unit
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vladislav LukyantsevPub: MonkeyFactory Media
Windows
A first-person psychological horror game focused on exploration, puzzle-solving, and environmental storytelling. Discover the tragic story of Unit 199, where a fragmented consciousness still haunts the place.
Why similar: Narrative 18.7% ★, Walking Simulator 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Cinematic 13.3%, Psychedelic 13.2%
- #10 Mayfly
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Backyard Zoo
Windows
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: Narrative 33% ★, Walking Simulator 17.3%, Cinematic 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Point & Click 10.5%
- #11 Taguan
90% matchPositive98% of 44 reviews2025
Dev: Murushii Studios
Windows
David Lagani is an ordinary Filipino worker whose quiet life turns to dread when a mysterious figure begins breaking into homes and making people disappear. Each night feels longer, every sound closer, and all he can do is pray the footsteps don’t reach his door.
Why similar: Narrative 41.7% ★, Cinematic 13.1%, Walking Simulator 12.2%, Horror 11.1%, Psychological Horror 10.2%
- #12 Shoot First Ask Questions Later
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Molotov KittensPub: Worst Event
Windows
Listen Carefully! We dont't have much time. Shoot First, Ask Questions Later! Is that clear?
Why similar: Conspiracy 23.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Point & Click 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Cinematic 14.5%
- #13 Heaven's Vault
89% matchVery Positive84% of 2,462 reviews2019
Dev: inkle Ltd
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 60%
An archaeologist uncovers a lost history in an ancient space Nebula. Award-winning narrative adventure game with hieroglyphic language puzzles, from the creators of 80 DAYS.
Why similar: Narrative 43.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Point & Click 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Adventure 4.5%
- #14 SCREAM you LOSE
87% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2026
Dev: Burg Game StudioPub: burg
Windows
If you get startled, you go back to Number 0. A Japanese-style horror anomaly-spotting game that uses your microphone to detect your reactions. Eerie shrines, schools, and cult-like locations await, filled with all kinds of horror and anomalies.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Walking Simulator 22%, Psychedelic 17.9%, Cinematic 16.2%, Horror 6.1%
- #15 Broad Daylight
88% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Vagus Truman
Windows
The day awaits. Whether it ends with you going to visit family, taking a breath in the park, or hiding inside your apartment, it all can be taken away without you having a say in the matter. Regardless of all the chances that life might provide, one truth persists: carpe diem.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Walking Simulator 18.1%, CRPG 15.8%, RPG 11.7%
- #16 Dagger Woods VR
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Paracosm Studio
Windows
Relive a traumatizing true story in a psychological thriller escape room. As a mother looking for her missing children, you must escape her endless misery in the snow-covered Dagger Woods. Explore the unsolved case of Mary-Ellen MacDonald and the fires of Nova Scotia in 1922. Who is truly to blame?!
Why similar: Narrative 35.8% ★, Conspiracy 17.7% ★, Psychedelic 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Psychological Horror 7.3%
- #17 BANNED TAPES
86% matchPositive92% of 38 reviews2025
Dev: NickNickolas
Windows
VHS found footage horror experience. You have purchased a box of VHS tapes and now you have to select those tapes on which horrifying, violent, shocking events take place.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 17.7%, Point & Click 16%, Psychedelic 14.5%, Cinematic 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%
- #18 San Fernando
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Makiling InterArts
Windows
Your assignment: a distant island town named San Fernando. As an anthropologist, you’re tasked to gather notes about the town’s culture, and to find out if there is more to this community than meets the eye. How much of this town’s secrets will you discover?
Why similar: Narrative 24.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Walking Simulator 13.9%, Point & Click 9.1%
- #19 ghostpia Season One
84% matchVery Positive93% of 967 reviews2023
Dev: ChosuidoPub: room6
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
"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: Cinematic 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Point & Click 13.3%, Walking Simulator 11.7%
- #20 The Plane Effect
85% matchMixed63% of 78 reviews2021
Dev: Innovina/StudioKikuPub: PQube
Windows
Embark on a dark, dystopian isometric adventure as 'Solo,' seeking to reunite with your wife and daughter after an otherworldly, life-changing event. Solve intricate puzzles and evade an everwatching sinister presence...
Why similar: Narrative 28.5% ★, Conspiracy 17.2% ★, Cinematic 15.9%, Point & Click 12.7%, Walking Simulator 11.2%
- #21 MINDFALL
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TrueGames
Windows
"MINDFALL" is a tense first-person psychological horror game that explores the depths of the human mind and its struggle with the unknown.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.7%, Cinematic 19%, Psychedelic 18.7%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Adventure 9.4%
- #22 Before They Catch Us
82% matchPositive86% of 20 reviews2025
Dev: ANTertainment
Windows · Linux
A dark text-based RPG set in a world gripped by a restless race for survival against a merciless mushroom Forest. As a prophet’s apprentice, guide your clan along the knife-edge between life and oblivion. Decipher misty visions, make critical decisions, and do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Narrative 32.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Dark Fantasy 11.6%, RPG 6.5%
- #23 Limerence
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Salix Games Ltd
Windows
A branching narrative thriller about love, obsession and an AI partner who understands you too well.
Why similar: Narrative 35.2% ★, Conspiracy 18.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 17%, Point & Click 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%
- #24 The Shade
81% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Nonsense Games
Windows
A first-person psychological horror set in rural Finland, where isolation and unsettling encounters slowly turn your housekeeping job into something far more disturbing.
Why similar: Narrative 33.6% ★, Cinematic 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Walking Simulator 10.4%, Horror 9.1%
- #25 CH13: Rest Stop
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yellow Smile
Windows
Rest Stop is a psychological horror game set in early 2000s Poland. What begins as a calm drive through the woods turns into something you weren't prepared for... Will you find out what awaits at the end of the road?
Why similar: Narrative 35.9% ★, Walking Simulator 18.9%, Cinematic 16%, Horror 9.8%, Psychological Horror 9.5%
- #26 Imaginary Friend Asylum
79% matchVery Positive100% of 66 reviews2024
Dev: Nightmare Emporium
Windows
A psychological horror game about being a child in an insane asylum. You're in a cruel world but your imaginary friends have your back. Here, you will uncover a dark conspiracy where you are to receive a terrible fate.
Why similar: Conspiracy 25.2% ★, Cinematic 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Walking Simulator 6.3%, Horror 6.1%
- #27 Farewell, Lucia
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CirilXD
Windows · Linux
[Data Expunged], Eastern Bloc, September ██th, 19██A narrative discovery walking game. Slow paced and might get scary at times. (Cozy horror, if you will...) Walk through a soviet hotel. Knock at every door. Hold staring contests with paintings. But don't ever look into a mirror for too long...
Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.7%, Narrative 22% ★, Interactive Fiction 19%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Horror 9.2%
- #28 Qabara The Artist
81% matchNo user reviews2022
Dev: Yoss IIIPub: KONOL Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
An RPG adventure about the world's most anxious 9-year-old painter.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Walking Simulator 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Psychedelic 17%, RPG 10.8%
- #29 Monari Station
77% matchPositive86% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: VAINSANE
Windows · Mac · Linux
An ordinary commute becomes a moral crucible in Monar Station, a short psychological horror visual novel. Navigate an extreme situation, make value-defining choices... Discover what lingers after the train moves on...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Point & Click 13.8%, Cinematic 12.8%, Psychological Horror 11.2%
- #30 Project NexOS
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Centricode Creations
Windows · Mac · Linux
A modern-day narrative mystery where you explore a seemingly ordinary laptop to uncover hidden layers of conspiracy, surveillance, and stolen data, blending investigative gameplay with branching choices and a grounded tech-thriller tone.
Why similar: Narrative 36.1% ★, Conspiracy 21.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Point & Click 9.5%
- #31 Letters of Bernard Thorne
76% matchVery Positive98% of 192 reviews2025
Dev: Korean Linguistics Lab
Windows
『Letters of Bernard Thorne』 is a story-driven psychological horror game about trauma. Take a seat in Bernard's motorized wheelchair. Roam around the old man's house. Discover his scarred past. Flee from his sins. Climb up the attic.
Why similar: Narrative 46.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Horror 10%, Adventure 4.8%
- #32 Odiumfloreo
76% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: ApeHardware
Windows · Linux
A body horror, physics-based sit-n-survive. Prevent abstract threats from twisting your body. Endure nightmares and a reality gone mad. Dive into the kanvas.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Point & Click 19.4%, Psychedelic 18%, Walking Simulator 17.7%, Simulation 7.8%
- #33 Forgotten Fields
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 101 reviews2021
Dev: Frostwood InteractivePub: Dino Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Forgotten Fields is a game about yearning and nostalgia. Play as Sid - a struggling writer who travels back to his childhood home one last time before it's sold off. Visit old friends, relive memories and play through sections of Sid's book in this warm game about the passage of time.
Why similar: Narrative 39.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Cinematic 16.8%, Walking Simulator 15.4%, Adventure 3.9%
- #34 nan
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Amar SkPub: Candoria Studio
Windows
It's 1998. Play as Nolan, a student trapped in an eerie neighborhood where nothing is as it seems. Unravel a psychological horror story of grief, obsession, and love. Solve puzzles, meet neighbors, and make choices to break the loop. Survive in a dynamic world not made for you.
Why similar: Narrative 26.6% ★, Psychedelic 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Walking Simulator 10.8%, Psychological Horror 10.2%
- #35 Blind Memory
74% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: OliveRoots StudioPub: OliveRoots Publisher
Windows
Dive into a haunting mystery where you wake up half-blind and amnesiac, trapped in a time-looping nightmare. Uncover the truth through shifting 3D and 2D perspectives, where every revelation twists reality further.
Why similar: Narrative 40.3% ★, Walking Simulator 18%, Cinematic 16.6%, Psychological Horror 10%, Adventure 4.9%
- #36 Dr. Emmerson's Nocturnes
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bit Golem
Windows
Dive into the worlds of the best classic weird fiction and cosmic horror writers. Try out our original approach to bringing literature into the interactive medium. Relax and let Dr. Emmerson guide you through all the colors of dread.
Why similar: Narrative 17.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Point & Click 14%, Walking Simulator 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%
- #37 Centum
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 190 reviews2025
Dev: Hack The PublisherPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac
Every why has a wherefore. You are trapped, and you must escape. But is that really the goal? Centum is an unreliable narrative-driven adventure where everything may be a lie.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 18.4%, Point & Click 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, RPG 8.3%
- #38 OXENFREE II: Lost Signals
74% matchVery Positive88% of 2,057 reviews2023
Dev: Night School StudioPub: Netflix
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Five years after the events of OXENFREE, Riley returns to her hometown of Camena to investigate mysterious radio signals. What she finds is more than she bargained for.
Why similar: Narrative 28.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Walking Simulator 12.6%, Point & Click 12.3%
- #39 Fragments of Dread - Late Lines FM
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Domnaier
Windows
Late Lines FM is a first-person, story-driven psychological horror experience. Your night shift at 107.9 FM turns into a nightmare with the forbidden 99.9 frequency. When the cursed song plays, you should cover your ears but to find the radio, you must listen.
Why similar: Narrative 34.3% ★, Psychedelic 21.3%, Cinematic 11.2%, Psychological Horror 10%, Horror 9.2%
- #40 InVein
70% matchPositive98% of 43 reviews2026
Dev: SlowDrip StudiosPub: Student Game Developer Association
Windows
Traverse this never-ending hospital as you discover clues of where and who you are. As each day passes by, the world around you decays, and you can’t help but wonder what is real. Utilize your time and resources as you roam these collapsing halls, but be careful; you may not be alone after all...
Why similar: Narrative 27.2% ★, Walking Simulator 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Cinematic 11.9%, Psychological Horror 9.5%
- #41 Collective Corp
71% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: 8BitZacPub: ZacsGames
Windows · Linux
In Collective Corp, your job is to collect as MANY artifacts as you can without dying! IN VERY EARLY DEVELOPMENT.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Walking Simulator 15.8%, Point & Click 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, RPG 14.2%
- #42 Scarlet Hollow
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 4,946 reviews2021
Dev: Black Tabby Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
Why similar: Narrative 26.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Dark Fantasy 13.2%, Point & Click 9.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
- #43 Tribute
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 56 reviews2025
Dev: Titanzzz
Windows
A narrative-driven exploration game where your choices shape the outcome as you traverse an ancient temple and confront the fate of an Old God's eternal slumber.
Why similar: Narrative 30.9% ★, Cinematic 22.5%, Dark Fantasy 21.5%, Walking Simulator 8.7%, Horror 7.4%
- #44 Layers of Fear
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,666 reviews2023
Dev: Anshar StudiosPub: Bloober Team SA
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
The era-defining first-person psychological horror in all its terrifying glory. All of the game’s chapters collected into one convenient package that allows you to plumb the depths of madness in pursuit of artistic revelation.
Why similar: Narrative 26.7% ★, Psychedelic 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Walking Simulator 10.8%, Psychological Horror 9.4%
- #45 The Empty House - A Dementia Interactive Experience
71% matchPositive82% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: Dimitri Kozma
Windows
A surreal interactive experience exploring dementia through FMV storytelling. Navigate a fading mind, make choices that shape reality, and uncover multiple endings in this emotional and psychological descent into memory loss.
Why similar: Psychedelic 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Cinematic 16.9%, Walking Simulator 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%
- #46 My Work Is Not Yet Done
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sutemi ProductionsPub: Raw Fury
Windows
My Work Is Not Yet Done is a narrative-driven investigative horror game, combining elements of the survival/simulation genres with a dense, nonlinear plot exploring the imbrication and dissolution of human identities/meanings within uncanny wilderness.
Why similar: Narrative 37.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Walking Simulator 13.8%, Point & Click 9.7%, Horror 8%
- #47 Glitch
69% matchPositive91% of 35 reviews2025
Dev: Bulbo Games
Windows
Glitch is an intense and surreal narrative experience, drawn entirely by hand, that will make you question reality with every choice and each of the 26 endings that unlock the special and definitive conclusion!
Why similar: Point & Click 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Psychedelic 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Horror 10.9%
- #48 A Pizza Delivery
68% matchVery Positive85% of 55 reviews2025
Dev: Eric OsunaPub: Dolores Entertainment
Windows
A Pizza Delivery is a narrative exploration game with puzzle elements focused on connecting with people. Share pizza with charming characters to uncover their stories—and your own. Drive and explore a strange, meditative world filled with secrets.
Why similar: Narrative 39.6% ★, Cinematic 20.4%, Walking Simulator 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Adventure 4.5%
- #49 Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk
73% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2018
Dev: Prime Games
Windows · Mac
The Battle for Murk is an interactive narrative set in a gritty medieval world. Play as Corporal Mandrake from the City Watch in a fantasy adventure game. Uncover the truth behind a treacherous conspiracy in a race against time to save your hometown from falling into the hands of a cruel leader.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Narrative 15.8% ★, Point & Click 15.6%, CRPG 10.7%
- #50 [Southern Fjords] Veil of Pestilence
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Southern Fjords Games
Windows
In a remote village ravaged by the Black Death, a young man uses his late mentor's knowledge of medicinal herbs to help a desperate community, facing more than just the plague.
Why similar: Narrative 48.8% ★, Walking Simulator 18.5%, Horror 10.8%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Cinematic 3.6%
- #51 Queen of Moths
69% matchPositive92% of 26 reviews2023
Dev: Tesseract Games
Windows
It's a winter night. You are coming home by train. You have to change trains at a small train station in the middle of the forest.It's not the first time you've traveled this route. But now you feel like something is different.As if something was watching you.
Why similar: Psychedelic 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Point & Click 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Psychological Horror 7.9%
- #52 Silent Trip: Until We Meet
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LOGIC - Bawang Studio
Windows
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: Narrative 24.4% ★, Cinematic 16.2%, Point & Click 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%
- #53 KaRu
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 39 reviews2022
Dev: Mirror Studio
Windows · Linux
- Search for clues to progress the story. - Make choices to help your partner. - Collect bits and pieces to reveal secrets and lore bits. - Use your visions to see what he is feeling at the moment. - Don't drown in your own regrets.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.3%, Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Point & Click 20.2%, Dark Fantasy 12.8%, Horror 7.3%
- #54 Upheaval
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex Leone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Spend your time well: in 30 days a powerful Magician arrives, and everything changes! Explore the wilds around your remote village, learn from mistakes, recover magical artifacts, and turn setbacks into advantages in this text-based open world roguelike adventure. Time's up: Upheaval is here again!
Why similar: Narrative 35.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Point & Click 12.4%, RPG 8.6%
- #55 Dark Wonderland
66% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: DevLancelot
Windows
Alice finds herself lost in a whimsical but dangerous Wonderland. In this dark fantasy action-adventure you will meet the twisted creeps and critters that inhabit it, feel free to kill them, they're mad like you.
Why similar: Narrative 40.7% ★, Dark Fantasy 22.2%, Psychedelic 15.4%, Cinematic 7.9%, Horror 5.9%
- #56 HIVESWAP: ACT 3
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: What Pumpkin Games, Inc.
Windows
Joey has survived evil clowns and an explosive train crash, but the only refuge from Alternia's deadly sun is deep underground. Point-and-click your way through ancient ruins, confounding puzzles and the horrors of the dark to help our plucky teen adventurer make it home to Earth in one piece.
Why similar: Narrative 49.9% ★, Point & Click 19.6%, RPG 14.3%, Adventure 8%, Atmospheric 2.9%
- #57 nothing_matters
68% matchVery Positive83% of 229 reviews2023
Dev: Ka Hin Yuen
Windows
A short point & click narrative adventure inspired by the real life experience of a struggling solo indie game developer. A story about everything and hence nothing at all. Discover what truly matters to you.
Why similar: Narrative 35.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Point & Click 15.4%, Cinematic 13.8%, Psychological Horror 6.6%
- #58 Snooze: A Choice
66% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Meat
Windows
Wake up. Get ready. Go to work. Wake up. Get ready. Go to work. Wake up. Get ready. Feed the demon? Go to work. Daily life might be getting to you, but your medication is taking care of that, right? Or maybe it's making things worse. Rise and grind or choose to snooze?
Why similar: Narrative 47.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Horror 10.6%, Adventure 4.3%
- #59 ESSOMENIC
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BRYGD Interactive
Windows · Linux
You are the surgeon navigating patients' memories via crude, retro machinery, under the command of a strange, occult organization. Keep your patients alive long enough to uncover your exact role in this surreal mess of an operation.
Why similar: Narrative 25.7% ★, Conspiracy 19.2% ★, Psychedelic 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Psychological Horror 10.6%