Games Like Glow Box

Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.

Why similar: Adventure 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 23%, Text-Based 22.2%, Sci-fi 14.2%, Story Rich 5.6%

BatteryNote is a multi-ending sci-fi adventure visual novel game. You can recharge three robots with limited lifespans, bringing them back to life. Interact with them through conversations or experiment by applying high voltage. How they spend their final moments is entirely up to you.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.9%, Sci-fi 18.8%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Text-Based 9.6%, Adventure 8.1%

Classic Zork meets Existential Crisis. A modern text adventure that explores themes of control, isolation and mental health while levelling up the genre with beautiful pixel art.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.9%, Text-Based 17.7%, Adventure 14.3%, Atmospheric 9.6%, Story Rich 9.4%

"Boxes are the most wonderful things ever! Truly they are, didn’t you know?" A Game About Boxes is a quirky little adventure that shifts from minimalist aesthetics to uncanny atmospheres, all while you jump around, summon boxes, and slowly learn to love them. :) or else <3

Why similar: Adventure 28.3%, Choices Matter 26.7%, Multiple Endings 21.7%, Atmospheric 16.9%, Indie 4.2%

Lowglow - an audiovisual puzzle journey. Glowingly beautiful graphics combined with a dynamic audio environment make sure that Lowglow is an unforgettable, mind-bending experience for you!

Why similar: Adventure 54.7%, Atmospheric 26.4%, Indie 14.7%, Singleplayer 4.3%

Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative exploration game where you build a relationship with a lonely spaceship computer to get home to Earth.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.1%, Sci-fi 20.7%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Adventure 11.5%, Story Rich 7.8%

A luminescent puzzle game about manipulating elements. By the light of fireflies, link and dissolve elemental forces to construct bridges, break through obstacles, and traverse a glowing, interconnected world.

Why similar: Adventure 55.3%, Atmospheric 38%, Singleplayer 6.7%

A "Blind" simulator that lets you experience a new perspective and immersive sensory journey. Step into a world of darkness using your guide cane.

Why similar: Atmospheric 33.2%, Story Rich 32.3%, Adventure 20.3%, Indie 9.1%, Singleplayer 5.1%

Omnimus. Welcome to the future! A visual novel about a daring experiment.

Why similar: Adventure 29.3%, Interactive Fiction 27%, Sci-fi 15.3%, Multiple Endings 9.2%, Choices Matter 6.9%

Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Text-Based 12.2%, Story Rich 10.5%

Transcender is a brief interactive experience that takes place in a surreal sci-fi setting. Figuring out how to play and what to do is the main attraction of the experience. It will hopefully leave you thinking "Hmm, that was interesting"

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 57.7%, Sci-fi 23.8%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Indie 4.3%, Singleplayer 1.5%

With the power to freeze time, you can ransack a casino, rescue a celebrity, or cheat death itself! A thrilling interactive sci-fi novel.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.7%, Text-Based 20.7%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Indie 4%

You can remember nothing before this moment. Your existence begins with a keystroke followed by the flick of a switch. Electrical power streams into your neural network, and you are alive.

Why similar: Futuristic 28%, Sci-fi 21.3%, Adventure 14.2%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Story Rich 6.8%

As a newly appointed Judge, you will rule over Space Court and its denizens to keep the universe safe. Or possibly blow it all up. Either way, you’re tenured.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Text-Based 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11%, Futuristic 10.7%

Feel the mysterious world of Molds and the City where the sun never sets. Look for clues, make decisions and follow your own path in the Cyber ​​City 2157.

Why similar: Adventure 68%, Atmospheric 11.6%, Story Rich 11%, Indie 6.7%, Singleplayer 2.6%

Don't Let Me Fade is an interactive adventure about memory, identity, and loss. Piece together fragments of a life - even if a simple teddy bear is the last symbol of connection to oneself in a world without time.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 41.5%, Adventure 25%, Text-Based 13.9%, Sci-fi 5.9%, Atmospheric 5.7%

Endless subway rides, void probes, cosmic gardens and the fate of a planet, fiction.colors is a series of short atmospheric experiences to explore at leisure.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 43.3%, Adventure 24.2%, Sci-fi 18.9%, Atmospheric 9.1%, Choices Matter 4.5%

a ~2 hour long graphic adventure novella. Tasked with disrupting the end of the world, you explore, investigate and produce your way through a strangely familiar world.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 42.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 31.5%, Adventure 17.8%, Atmospheric 8.3%

Immerse yourself in unique gameplay and atmosphere of the game Light in the shadow. You are waiting for an adventure in the mysterious maze, where your main character is a glowing sphere. You will move around the dark corners of the maze lighting the way in search of an exit, to reach the end you have to maintain inner glow using energy...

Why similar: Adventure 100%

Century of Anticipation is a short, surreal adventure about being stuck waiting for something misterious. Explore your apartment to find increasingly unusual ways to pass the time, from cooking to throwing your head through the window, while enjoying the amazing soundtrack by Brazilian indie bands.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 53.2%, Adventure 25.2%, Atmospheric 15.7%, Multiple Endings 4.6%, Indie 0.7%

Blink into a world of after-images, where you can walk on light. Solve puzzles by manipulating lights and blinking between worlds. Explore hand drawn landscapes while uncovering the secrets behind this strange power.

Why similar: Adventure 82.6%, Indie 17.4%

Chromatic Conundrum is a first person puzzle game where you manipulate light. Combine different colors and form shadows to illuminate your way through an enigmatic world.

Why similar: Sci-fi 33.9%, Futuristic 30.3%, Adventure 18.1%, Atmospheric 13.4%, Indie 2.6%

You have exactly 60 minutes to save humanity from nuclear extinction. There are no second attempts. No manual saves. Explore a collapsing bunker, repair critical systems, and solve puzzles under pressure. Succeed or watch the world end.

Why similar: Sci-fi 34%, Interactive Fiction 33.8%, Adventure 29.9%, Singleplayer 2.3%

You buy a laptop with your hands. You find an interactive collection of short stories on your laptop and something else. Or someone? What will all this lead to?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Adventure 20.9%, Text-Based 16.6%, Sci-fi 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 8%

Combat, romance, adventure, and of course—magic! Master four elements and take on fate itself in this epic, interactive fantasy tale! Six possible endings. Four hours for a single playthrough. Three love interests. Countless choices. Male or female? Leader or loner? Good or evil? What kind of mage will you be?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32%, Adventure 30.8%, Text-Based 30.6%, Indie 6.5%

A mad and romantic ADV. Unravel a strange world of science and philosophy with a mecha girl, zombie girl, or beastfolk. Some paths may disturb you... or thrill you.

Why similar: Futuristic 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Sci-fi 19%, Adventure 15%, Multiple Endings 9.6%

In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship, tasked with finding a home for your crew—the last remnants of humanity. Your choices will determine their fate, and your own.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Text-Based 13.1%, Sci-fi 12.2%, Adventure 9.2%

'Chasing Light' is the story of the seven days of exploring the physical properties of a game and uncovering an inner world of human beings and society. Have a weird trip!

Why similar: Adventure 71.4%, Indie 15.4%, Story Rich 6.7%, Atmospheric 6.5%

Live the perfect day, break the cycle, and discover the truth about yourself in this short, quirky sci-fi mystery about freedom, choice, and loneliness.

Why similar: Sci-fi 33%, Choices Matter 18.4%, Adventure 17.5%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Atmospheric 11%

A free 5-minute visual novel. A security concern demands your attention.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.8%, Sci-fi 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Adventure 12.7%, Choices Matter 10.6%

STAR-BOX – RPG Adventures in Space!Strap on your gravity boots, power up your laser, and climb aboard your spaceship for a retro-styled, RPG-jaunt into the unknown!Travel an open-world, sandbox universe where you are the architect of your own story.

Why similar: Adventure 36%, Futuristic 29.3%, Sci-fi 26.2%, Indie 8.6%

Live a full life in the future as a human, an alien, or even a robot as you rise through the ranks to become captain of your very own starship.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Text-Based 23.9%, Sci-fi 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Adventure 12.3%

A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Text-Based 21.5%, Multiple Endings 9.3%, Choices Matter 7.4%

Explore a unique and connected world. Understand its fragile balance, uncover its deepest questions, and find more than just the answers.

Why similar: Sci-fi 35.2%, Adventure 35%, Atmospheric 14.5%, Story Rich 7.6%, Indie 5.2%

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: Interactive Fiction 32.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Adventure 7.7%

A story-based exploration game about the very far future. With the help of two Artificial Intelligences, explore a universe conquered by humanity, uncover your purpose in it, and try to stop it from falling apart.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.2%, Sci-fi 30.4%, Adventure 15.2%, Multiple Endings 7.6%, Atmospheric 5.6%

Beat the Game is an adventure game where you find your way with sounds. Sounds you find introduce cinematic cutscenes as the story unfolds. You can create new combinations on your holographic music mixer throughout the game. In the end you perform a live show with all the sounds you find.

Why similar: Adventure 55.5%, Sci-fi 30.8%, Indie 11.4%, Singleplayer 2.3%

This is a story with illustrations. You have to choose your destiny. You are obsessed with the idea of creating an ideal society. One day you come up with a genius idea, and you create a society that could live forever, BUT HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE!!?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Futuristic 19.5%, Text-Based 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Adventure 8.2%

"Robot Hospice" is a 2D pixel art adventure game where beloved robots spend their final days in a hospice. As a new staff member, you will gently yet painfully bid farewell to these cherished machines that once lived alongside humans.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Futuristic 17%, Sci-fi 12.9%, Adventure 8.6%

A minimal point and click adventure, designed to take the player on a short but memorable journey.

Why similar: Adventure 56.2%, Sci-fi 30.3%, Indie 11.6%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Step into a radiant dimension where souls reboot as data. Recover your reincarnation machine from alien terrorists and explore glowing temples of memory, logic, and light. A surreal odyssey through death, rebirth, and the beauty of being lost.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 53.5%, Sci-fi 18.3%, Adventure 10%, Story Rich 9.7%, Atmospheric 6.6%

Mini Mini Golf Golf is an indie storytelling experience that goes beyond the lanes of the here and now into distant memories of a future planetary collapse. Destabilize the present and plunge into a neon psychohistory of a bizarre entity in distress. This is not a game about minigolf.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Sci-fi 20.1%, Adventure 9.9%, Story Rich 7.7%

Waking up alone in a derelict terraforming facility on an unknown (and distinctly not terraformed) planet, it's up to you to find a way to survive, learn what happened to the people who lived here and why you were abandoned in this narrative-driven incremental game.

Why similar: Text-Based 32.6%, Interactive Fiction 30.7%, Sci-fi 15.6%, Adventure 12.4%, Story Rich 7.5%

A short and surreal meta-narrative experience. Explore the gallery and find a way to push The Button...

Why similar: Adventure 64.8%, Atmospheric 21.6%, Indie 13.7%

Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear. Seed new movements, destroy others. Subvert the rise and fall of empires, art, ideologies, and individuals in this experimental narrative game.

Why similar: Sci-fi 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Text-Based 16.9%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Story Rich 8.2%

An experimental narrative game set at a radio station at the end of the world. Host your last show as the sun turns red and the world burns down.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.5%, Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Adventure 14.4%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Story Rich 9%

Just One Line is a fantasy RPG gamebook-like indie game heavily focused on choices and their consequences in which you may compete with other players in an interactive leaderboard. Create different Adventurers and embark on epic quests, unlocking new content for your next playthroughs or create and share your own adventures with the...

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.8%, Text-Based 26.9%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Adventure 11.3%, Choices Matter 9.8%

A story-driven adventure among the stars, Journey to Foundation puts you at the center of your own sci-fi saga. Unleash your unique Mentalic abilities, gain information through diplomacy or coercion, and choose who to trust. Where will your journey lead you?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.3%, Sci-fi 22%, Futuristic 16.9%, Choices Matter 10%, Story Rich 7.6%

Explore an unknown and abandoned world. Each step, each puzzle, brings you closer to discovering the history and secrets of a lost civilization. Can you find the light?

Why similar: Atmospheric 44.1%, Adventure 34.4%, Indie 15.6%, Singleplayer 5.9%

Walk the path of a legendary mage, combining four different schools of magic to devastating effects.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.3%, Text-Based 22.3%, Adventure 19.3%, Story Rich 3.6%

Investigating a time-loop during the Cold War, light years away from Earth. Neoproxima is a text-based adventure game that combines exploration and simple RPG and survival mechanics. Plan your next loop carefully, and go as far as possible before time catches up with you.

Why similar: Sci-fi 36.4%, Text-Based 20.7%, Adventure 15.8%, Atmospheric 12.9%, Story Rich 12.7%

Be the light.

Why similar: Futuristic 38.2%, Multiple Endings 23.6%, Adventure 18.7%, Story Rich 14.4%, Indie 3.1%

Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time. While you sleep, he is alone. When you return to your PC he has hope. Your encouragement and advice will be the difference between his salvation or despair.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Adventure 13.7%, Text-Based 11.6%, Choices Matter 9.9%

As a strange being from beneath the ocean, discover the beauty of the surface world. What relationship will you have with the humans? Can you survive? Will they?

Why similar: Adventure 39%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27%, Multiple Endings 15.3%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Indie 8.2%

You're the bouncer of the Green Door club, where every decision matters. Reject the unworthy of partying with clever retorts, explore a neon-lit city, and immerse yourself in the Berlin-like city's underground techno scene. The beat is pumping—are you in?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Futuristic 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Choices Matter 9.7%

Uncover secrets, experience history, solve puzzles and understand one another. Immerse yourself and explore a surreal and colorful world in this short, first-person adventure.

Why similar: Adventure 70.2%, Atmospheric 18.6%, Story Rich 8.2%, Indie 1.7%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Dive into a realistic, single-player, first-person journey through the harsh northern latitudes as you sail endless waters, searching for a way back to your loved ones. Will you follow the light?

Why similar: Adventure 43.1%, Atmospheric 24.6%, Story Rich 22.5%, Indie 5.1%, Singleplayer 4.7%

Three Minutes To Eight is a mind bending pixel art adventure. A gaming experience threading the edge of consciousness, where everything is possible and yet remains elusive. Players will find themselves in ███ ██ █ ▓ ▒ ░ ¿⊕ξד¶¶¶ Error 0x80070570.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Futuristic 18.3%, Sci-fi 14.4%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Adventure 10%