
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 Multiple Endings, Choices Matter, Interactive Fiction, Choose Your Own Adventure.

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 17.2% ★, Dark Comedy 12.8%, Text-Based 9.9%, 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 13.8%, Dark Comedy 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Text-Based 11.5%, 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 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Dialogue Heavy 9.2%
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 23.7% ★, Dark Comedy 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, 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 14.1%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Text-Based 10.6%
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 15.9%, FMV 14.9% ★, Alternate History 14.1%, Dark Humor 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%
Border of her Heart is a VN about Border control.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Dark Humor 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Text-Based 12%, Dialogue Heavy 11.3%
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 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 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Dialogue Heavy 10.4%
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 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, 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 13.2%, Dark Humor 13%, Text-Based 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Dialogue Heavy 9.4%
A short, twisted tale about a smuggler and a late night encounter in the English Channel. Control the camera and make tough choices, will you escape with your life?
Why similar: Dark Comedy 17.4%, Alternate History 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Dialogue Heavy 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%
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 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%
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 15.5%, Nonlinear 14.2%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Text-Based 11.7%
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 13.9%, Dark Humor 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Dialogue Heavy 10%
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 18%, Dark Humor 13.1%, Alternate History 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%
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 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, 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 27.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Dark Comedy 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Dark Humor 10.4%
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 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Text-Based 17.8%, Dialogue Heavy 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.2%
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%, Dialogue Heavy 12.5%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
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 15.9%, Text-Based 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, 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 17.3%, Text-Based 13.8%, Dark Humor 13.2%, Visual Novel 11%
Death Drive is a road trip visual novel inspired by classic American Gothic fiction.
Why similar: Dark Humor 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Dialogue Heavy 12.9%, Nonlinear 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.4%
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 18%, Dark Humor 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Text-Based 12.4%
A voxel-powered comedy about clothes, pockets, and the people who need them.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Text-Based 13%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Dark Humor 11.3%
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 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%, 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 16.6%, Nonlinear 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11.6%
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 15.6%, Dark Humor 14.3%, Dialogue Heavy 10.8%, Nonlinear 10.2%
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 17.2%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Horror 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.7%
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 9.9%
A fable from your childhood. Don't you remember it?
Why similar: Text-Based 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Dialogue Heavy 13.3%, Visual Novel 10.6%
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 17.3%, Dark Humor 16.6%, Dark Comedy 14.5%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.9%
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 17.2%, Text-Based 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Dark Humor 11.7%
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 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Visual Novel 14.1%, 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 13.9%, Text-Based 13.6%, Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Visual Novel 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Dark Humor 12.5%, Visual Novel 9.4%
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 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Horror 13.5%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Text-Based 12.7%
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 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Dark Humor 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Nonlinear 11.9%
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 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Visual Novel 9.9%
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 35.5% ★, Dark Comedy 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, 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 23.2%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Nonlinear 12.5%, Text-Based 10.7%, Psychological Horror 8.5%
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 14%, Text-Based 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
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 20.8%, Text-Based 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Nonlinear 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 13%
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 32.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Horror 7.9%
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: Dialogue Heavy 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Text-Based 14.1%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Psychological Horror 9.7%
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 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Text-Based 15.3%, Visual Novel 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%
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 20.3%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Dark Humor 11.2%
"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 30.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Nonlinear 9.2%, Visual Novel 8.2%
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 15.2%, Dark Humor 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%
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 14%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%
Get the streamer's attention at any cost before someone else does. Write comments, chat, and make donations to your waifu, but do not dare to hate her!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Dark Humor 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.2%
A psychological drama from the perspective of an apathetic guy who is detached from casual suicidals, sexually aggressive idiots, and daily murderers. This is all until an intellectual genius of a woman named Samarah comes in to challenge him and the world of logical inconsistencies.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 19.4%, Dark Humor 13.9%, Text-Based 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%
This game is a psychological test in which you will face dilemmas that reveal your personality. At the end of it, you will know your psychotype.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Dialogue Heavy 14.9%, Dark Humor 14.4%, Text-Based 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%
You're a NASA intern working on the Apollo 11 project. Each day, you have a checklist to complete. Your tasks are well-reasoned and appropriate to your skill level as an intern. The Apollo team are all competent professionals. Everything goes very well, and you have no difficulties at all. 😛
Why similar: Dark Comedy 20.7%, Text-Based 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Dialogue Heavy 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%
Hear sins. Judge souls. Upgrade your booth. Play as a priest hearing increasingly absurd confessions in this darkly comedic simulator. Will you guide your flock to salvation... or squeeze them for donations to install a hot tub in your confessional?
Why similar: Dark Comedy 26%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Dark Humor 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Multiple Endings 6.9%
《大禹治水》是一款关于一个男孩成长的AVG游戏,主要讲述少年大禹在突遭巨变后,如何从一个男孩逐渐历练成为一个男人,并最终收获亲情、友情和爱情的故事。游戏以AVG电子小说的方式进行,同时需要玩家化身大禹进行河道疏通、灌溉和救火等任务。随玩家选择不同,共有四个不同的结局。
Why similar: FMV 25.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Dialogue Heavy 10.5%, Visual Novel 9.3%
Parallel-Weirdo is a Japanese manga-style visual novel set in DYL High School. It follows Wang Zhe, an ordinary and frail boy, who tries to win the hearts of girls and complete his experiments. He gets entangled in bizarre events, plunging into darkness. Each choice you make determines his fate.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Text-Based 12.7%, Dark Humor 11.8%, Dialogue Heavy 10.2%
A dark sci-fi psychological Visual Novel where your choices shape who you are. The world has ended and it's been dominated by mysterious aliens who roam the city. Despite that, you only think of what you've lost. Will you be able to rebuild your relationships? Or even... the world itself?
Why similar: Text-Based 19.1%, Dialogue Heavy 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Psychological Horror 11.1%
Smeesa Street is a branching visual novel and an interesting way to spend time for those who enjoy atmospheric horror stories. Message us and you'll forget about your troubles. You'll be drowning in happiness. This is your path to endless joy.
Why similar: FMV 29.9% ★, Nonlinear 15.4%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
Romance, seduce, and even marry your own drawings! Forget about finding true love; In Doodle Date, you create it!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.3%, Dark Humor 13.1%, Text-Based 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%