
Step into the eerie and mysterious world of Gloomscape! With your trusty mood ring and sense of adventure, you’ll craft, explore, and strategize your way through this bizarre world. But beware - ghastly creatures lurk around every corner.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Choices Matter, Interactive Fiction, Choose Your Own Adventure, Multiple Endings.

Step into the eerie and mysterious world of Gloomscape! With your trusty mood ring and sense of adventure, you’ll craft, explore, and strategize your way through this bizarre world. But beware - ghastly creatures lurk around every corner.

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Do 11
Find a way out of the Do 11 app by doing missions that come from the mysterious Do 11 app. A choice awaits you to solve puzzles and change the fate of the protagonist. Escape the main character from the Do 11 app while savoring a profound worldview and intriguing story. An incredible twist awaits.
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Why similar: FMV 17.1% ★, Dark Comedy 12.8%, Text-Based 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%
Find a way out of the Do 11 app by doing missions that come from the mysterious Do 11 app. A choice awaits you to solve puzzles and change the fate of the protagonist. Escape the main character from the Do 11 app while savoring a profound worldview and intriguing story. An incredible twist awaits.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 13.6%, Dark Comedy 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Text-Based 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%
A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 17.3%, Text-Based 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Dialogue Heavy 9.1%
Guide local radio hosts Poe and Munro through six TV-like episodes of supernatural strangeness and sizzling on-screen chemistry. From the creators of The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker and The Shapeshifting Detective.
Why similar: FMV 23.5% ★, Dark Comedy 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Dark Humor 9.8%
『部活動の時間です。さあ、人殺しをはじめてください』 一癖も二癖もある強者ぞろいの巨大コミュニティ、それが鳴神学園。 そこには、ありとあらゆる部活動が存在し、到底常識では考えられない特殊な闇の倶楽部がある。その一つが殺人クラブだ。
Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.8%, Dark Humor 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Text-Based 10.5%
Look, just because I’m paid to fix computers, doesn’t mean I’ll sit here and listen to your life story. So what there’s been murders? Do I look like a detective?
Why similar: Dark Comedy 17.1%, Alternate History 15.5%, FMV 13.9% ★, Dark Humor 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%
Border of her Heart is a VN about Border control.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Dark Humor 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Text-Based 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%
Better than a birthday card. Use the Steam gift system to deliver this birthday present to your friends. The amazing Sergio Spellbound will ensure they have the magical birthday adventure of a lifetime. They will Point&Click their way to BIRTHDAY GLORY. If they’re lucky, they may even survive …
Why similar: Dark Comedy 14.7%, Dark Humor 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Text-Based 8.9%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
The Zodiac Trial has begun, and everybody's life is on the line! Will these 12 jurors be able to solve the mysteries and cooperate, or will they resort to betrayal, deception, and violence? Get out alive or die, die again!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 16.3%, Dark Humor 12%, Text-Based 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Dialogue Heavy 10.2%
An unusual horror-themed Visual Novel about waking up in a carriage with a stranger… Whatever could go wrong?
Why similar: Dark Comedy 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Dark Humor 12%, Text-Based 11.8%
Your crush is missing. They texted you last night. And now you’re reliving the same day over and over. Welcome to Sunset High — where drama, dilemmas, and time loops collide in this narrative-driven, 2D adventure.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Dark Humor 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Text-Based 12.4%, Dialogue Heavy 9.3%
Only Good Babysitters Go To Heaven is a First-Person comedy horror game about being stuck babysitting while the news is expressing that the world around you is ending.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Dark Humor 13.9%, Horror 10%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%
An FMV interactive romantic comedy where your choices and timing shape the night. Try to impress Ayşil at the bar and navigate a branching story that can lead to love… or total chaos.
Why similar: FMV 21.1% ★, Dark Humor 12.2%, Nonlinear 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
The printer is bleeding, the Wi-Fi is haunted, and Ticket #666 just came in. As the latest hire for a company run by cosmic horrors, your job is simple: Swipe to survive. Make binary decisions to survive the night shift in this dark comedy desktop simulator. I.T truly never ends.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 17.9%, Alternate History 13.2%, Dark Humor 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%
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 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Nonlinear 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Text-Based 11.6%
A walk-and-talk indie adventure game where you and your dysfunctional witch parents cook teens to stay young and powerful. But when they bring in a charming girl as your next meal, will you uphold the family tradition or risk everything to save her?
Why similar: Dark Comedy 17.8%, Text-Based 13.8%, Dark Humor 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%
Asylum simulator. An interactive fiction about schizophrenia and finding meaning after near-death, with Disco Elysium-style mechanics.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Dark Comedy 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Psychological Horror 11.1%
Welcome to Ostera: The curse of... Join the Adventure! Shape Your Destiny, Kiss Rats, and Slap Kids!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 17.8%, Dark Humor 15.1%, Text-Based 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%
You might wonder who I am, well I'm Sheesh-Man, I literally come from another planet, I'm like an alien, a spooky sheeshing alien to say the truth. Don't challenge me or I will sheesh your whole family, including your dog, it's not a threat, it's a fact.
Why similar: FMV 27% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Dark Comedy 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Dark Humor 10.5%
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 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Text-Based 17.7%, Dialogue Heavy 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.3%
Eldritch Boyfriend is the only skill-based visual novel dating sim where your sanity—or lack thereof—turns the very act of choosing the right dialogue options into a series of challenging mini-games.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 17.2%, Text-Based 11.4%, Dialogue Heavy 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%
Chat with a virtual friend from a cancelled mobile game! Ask questions, start arguments, and find the right responses to progress the story. Can you solve the horrific mystery hidden beneath the surface?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Text-Based 12.5%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Visual Novel 10.4%
You're not a real psychologist. He's not a sane president. Welcome to the most unhinged therapy session ever held in office.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 20.2%, Dark Humor 15.4%, Dialogue Heavy 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Visual Novel 10%
My name is Luzia and this story is about my big sister, Sombria. Are you ready to hear it?
Why similar: Dark Comedy 22.7%, Dark Humor 15.8%, Text-Based 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Psychological Horror 9.8%
You'd think that after 20+ cases, there'd be no crime left in Twin Lakes - but that's not how crime works, rookie. Six new mind-melting mysteries await Detective McQueen and Officer Dooley - just as soon as they get the mustard out of Dooley's gun.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Text-Based 13.7%, Dark Humor 13.2%, Visual Novel 11%
Will you be able to fix things, or will you fail and push that special person even further away? Your actions (and texts) will decide that. A fully-voiced, interactive visual novel!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Dark Humor 18%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Nonlinear 12.1%, Text-Based 9.3%
Two engaging and sexy FNAF-inspired Visual Novels combined into one, each set across 14 nights in a night club where the animatronics are harboring deep secrets. Can you save everyone, or will they be fated to something perhaps worse than death?
Why similar: Dark Humor 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Dialogue Heavy 13.3%, Text-Based 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.3%
Welcome to St Fiacre’s College for Women of Unreliable Size. Your new home. If you can survive your first night… Featuring 40,000 words of text and over 500 images, this heart-pumping visual novel journey will thrill fans of shrinking and giants alike!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 17.9%, Dark Humor 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Text-Based 12.3%
A voxel-powered comedy about clothes, pockets, and the people who need them.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Visual Novel 13%, Text-Based 12.9%, Dark Humor 11.3%
An HD-remaster of a comedy-horror visual novel from 2009, mixing classical Russian literature with anime, zombies and glam rock.
Why similar: Alternate History 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Dialogue Heavy 10.1%
Death Drive is a road trip visual novel inspired by classic American Gothic fiction.
Why similar: Dark Humor 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.7%, Nonlinear 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.5%
A podcast simulator horror game with cozy vibes. Become a podcast editor, repair audio files, and find the hosts of the podcast Spooky Sacramento before the hard drive dies!
Why similar: Nonlinear 15.7%, Alternate History 14%, Dark Comedy 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
A ghost wants her exit interview. Do you listen, refuse or hire her back part-time? You're Hell's HR manager: hundreds of absurd cases, questionable policies, a Board watching your numbers, and a court that quotes your own decisions back to you. Survive 30 days. Find one of 13 ways out.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 23.6%, Dark Humor 15.5%, Text-Based 12.6%, Dialogue Heavy 12.1%, Multiple Endings 9%
Embark on a touching and poetic adventure through the hills of Provence in “Marcel and the Secret Spring.” Inspired by the childhood stories of legendary French author and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol, this narrative-driven game lets you experience a world filled with nature, mystery, and nostalgia.
Why similar: Alternate History 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.4%
A humorous sci-fi text-driven adventure where you play a support engineer sent to fix system failures in a secret research complex. Explore strange labs, investigate bizarre incidents, solve absurd problems, talk to depressed robots, and make choices that lead to multiple endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.5%, Nonlinear 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%
The year is 1995, and you're newly single and ready to mingle in Stradania, the dysfunctional micronation whose chief exports are pig iron, human misery, and radioactive souvenir mugs. Sample the nightlife, try a VR trip or two, and maybe even find love - just try not to get your organs stolen.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 16.1%, Alternate History 15.8%, Dark Humor 14.3%, Dialogue Heavy 10.7%, Nonlinear 10.3%
Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Horror 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.8%
Negative Nancy is a choose your “no” adventure for people who have had enough. An interactive sitcom where you can only say “no” (or nothing at all). Your choices control the story.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 25.8%, Dark Humor 14%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Visual Novel 10%
A fable from your childhood. Don't you remember it?
Why similar: Text-Based 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Dialogue Heavy 13.2%, Visual Novel 10.7%
Meet Mina! She's a landmine girl! That means she's cute on the outside, but dangerous on the inside! But maybe she's the kind of danger you've always been looking for. This is a rogue fast-love dating sim. And the only sim that teaches you to be nice to girls. Or else.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.1%, Dark Humor 16.6%, Dark Comedy 14.5%, Psychological Horror 12%, Visual Novel 11%
Welcome to the most stressful job in politics making the President look sane online. Fix typos, fight trolls, and spin chaos into strategy. One wrong emoji could spark a crisis. A satirical management game where timing and damage control are your only lifelines.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 18.8%, Dark Humor 15.7%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.3%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
Butter Side Down is a bizarro choose-your-own-choice game. Starring Basil Bonser, Adam Spargo, Grey Michael, Beatrice, Jeep Johnson, and Rotten Ruggerio. Answer questions, take calls, play card games, and solve one hell of a mystery.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 17.3%, Text-Based 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Dark Humor 11.7%
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Dark Humor 12.5%, Visual Novel 9.5%
Jeans on Toast is a text-based, choose your own adventure game summoned forth from the darkest depths of one girl's unhinged imagination.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 20.7%, Text-Based 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Multiple Endings 6.3%
A girl named Anastasia, who lives in an old multi-story building, decides to leave her apartment. She goes to get some salt to ask her neighbors and find a treasure hidden in this house. But what kind of treasure is this, and is it worth looking for?
Why similar: Nonlinear 14%, Text-Based 13.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
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 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Horror 13.5%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Text-Based 12.6%
A choice-driven narrative game with RPG mechanics, filled with cosmic wonders and horror. Forge your own path across more than 50 unique endings. Barter, upgrade your character, fight, and explore alien worlds, overcoming every obstacle to find your way back to Earth… and to your daughter.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Dark Humor 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Nonlinear 12%
Being a bumbling supervillain's henchman is a thankless job. The spandex chafes, there's tons of late nights, and your boss rarely remembers your name. But in this narrative adventure you'll soon discover that - sometimes - even the choices of the lowliest henchman can change everything.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 17.7%, Dark Humor 15.6%, Dialogue Heavy 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Visual Novel 10%
《黑绳话·西门庆》是一款取材自《金瓶梅》与《水浒传》的中式暗黑互动叙事游戏。你将化身徘徊生死之间的西门庆,在阳谷城重走酒、色、财、气四道黑绳,于开放街区、亡宅冷房、雨伞铺与酒楼中探查旧债。每次选择都会改变业障、净魂与人物命运;收集三魂七魄,唤醒困于魂瓶中的李瓶儿。与潘金莲、王婆、武松及更多原著人物周旋,通过影像分支、物件回忆、AI人物自由对话与皮影共演,改写熟悉却未必注定的结局。试玩版开放第一结完整轮回。
Why similar: FMV 31.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Visual Novel 11%, Psychological Horror 7.1%
Explore a raptor-infested compound in classic retro horror style. Gather "evidence" to shift blame of your crimes. Survive in the courtroom of your few remaining peers. Do not accept any responsibility. Do not try to escape.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 29.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Text-Based 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
Hello, I'm Noah. I'm 28 years old and still haven't got a single date in my life, I'm looking for a life coach who can help me figure out the hard choices in my day to day life, you know? I'm sad and single, I have some friends online, but that's it.
Why similar: FMV 35.2% ★, Dark Comedy 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Dark Humor 9.7%
Five Biggest Accomplishments is a short Visual Novel where you play as someone who has held the same job for 30 years: push a button every 8 hours or the world will end. Suddenly, you get an email asking you to list your five biggest accomplishments for the week, or risk being fired.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.3%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Nonlinear 12.6%, Text-Based 10.6%, Psychological Horror 8.5%
An erotic visual novel with multiple endings! In a alternate America where women have gained the ability to swallow humans whole, some cities have made it legal one day a year! Read or listen as each chapter of the story is played out, with you holding the power of where the story goes next!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Text-Based 14.5%, Nonlinear 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%
You are hanging out at a festive Christmas party when your eyes discover the most perfect Christmas confectionery ever! You must have it!... but someone already has it! What will you be willing to do, to get your Christmas wish?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Dark Humor 11.2%
MESMALIE is an occult adventure game. A magickal incident in your personal life brings you to a small witches' coven in the middle of nowhere. Here, you'll learn to tame your ability... though, not without some bumps along the way.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Nonlinear 14.9%, Dialogue Heavy 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.1%
Can you survive a night in St Fiacre's at tiny size? This feature-length interactive visual novel returns to the world of Sensus Supra, with better visuals, dozens of animations, more complex puzzles and even more dangerous giantesses hunting for your blood. Every action has consequences...
Why similar: Dark Comedy 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Text-Based 15%, Dark Humor 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%
A visual novel about a girl who escaped from a psychiatric hospital. She is pursued by a strange being from another world — and it seems she’s not the only one who can see visitors from beyond.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Dialogue Heavy 14.4%, Text-Based 14%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Psychological Horror 9.8%
A story-rich coming-of-age experience told through a 2004 desktop, where friendships, music, and late-night conversations shape who you become. Explore chats, drama, mini-games, and the early internet in a branching story about growing up, making mistakes, and finding your place.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Text-Based 15.2%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
"Strange Rites" is a Chinese horror interactive puzzle game. As a reporter with the ability to see the unseen, you investigate monster rumors in the chaotic Republic of China era, navigating a 3D+2D world, finding clues, and sealing evil spirits. Uncover forgotten folk horrors.
Why similar: FMV 30.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Nonlinear 9.2%, Visual Novel 8.3%
Once the pet of an evil worshiper... Now adopted by an unlucky family! THE PARROT THAT SUMMONS DEMONS is a horror FMV visual novel featuring a dark and unsettling story with several playable characters and numerous endings.
Why similar: FMV 32.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Visual Novel 12%, Horror 8%