Games Like Glow Box

Silent Earth is a short sci-fi text adventure about finding one’s place despite an uncertain future. Explore an off-world mining colony ship, navigate multi-linear character relationships, and steer the story toward one of five endings.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Text-Based 16%, Futuristic 15.9%, Sci-fi 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%

CLOSED HANDS is a groundbreaking work of interactive fiction that explores the tangled intertwined stories of five people thrown together by a fictional terror attack.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Text-Based 19.8%, Adventure 19.1%, Atmospheric 5.4%

Vanakan is the journey of Tadevos - a priest, who travels the 500s Armenia to find the monastery that suits for his goal of becoming spiritually closer to Jesus Christ. He meets different people on his way and makes choices which will define his future and that of the country.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Text-Based 18.5%, Multiple Endings 9%, Adventure 7.6%

The Gate is an interactive science fiction graphic novel. At various points in the story, you will be asked to make a choice, these choices will take you down different paths in the story. Your objective as you guide the story is to return back to earth. The game features 3 possible story endings.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Adventure 20.4%, Sci-fi 15.2%, Choices Matter 6.1%

Can music save the human race? You and the Raqullan Empire will soon find out. Decide whether music, and the humans who make it, should survive.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.6%, Text-Based 18.4%, Sci-fi 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Choices Matter 6.6%

A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Text-Based 16.1%, Sci-fi 9%, Adventure 6.6%

見知らぬ密室で目を覚ました主人公。 頼れるものは、手元に残された一台のスマートフォンだけ。 通話、メッセージ、アプリなどに残された痕跡をたどりながら、脱出の手がかりを探していく。 しかし、情報を集めるほどに、 この事件の裏に隠された異様な真実が浮かび上がっていく。 スマートフォンを操作して進める、サイコロジカル・ホラーADV。

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Text-Based 17.2%, Adventure 17.1%, Multiple Endings 5.4%

Decipher interstellar transmissions encoded via substitution ciphers aboard Eremite Station. In this choice driven narrative, uncover secrets from planetary factions while conversing with crewmates to reveal their stories and troubles. The ripples of your choices may be felt throughout the galaxy.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Text-Based 16.1%, Futuristic 15.7%, Sci-fi 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%

A choice-based, visual novel with time travelling teapots!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Adventure 15.4%, Futuristic 11.8%, Sci-fi 11.1%

"201 - The Bad Number" is an interactive science fiction game-book set on a post-apocalyptic Mars. In a world where only 200 people remain, each new inhabitant may hasten civilization's end. Players make choices that impact the fate of humanity and the colony in a unique dystopian setting.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Text-Based 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Futuristic 13.7%, Sci-fi 12%

Alchemy, puzzles, and a crashed starship. Old-style interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No dialogue trees! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 41.1%, Text-Based 25.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Adventure 9.7%, Indie 2.2%

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: Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Text-Based 17.2%, Multiple Endings 8.5%, Adventure 8.2%

Navigate school life, build friendships, survive rumours, and climb the social ladder through natural conversations with students who remember your choices. Every interaction shapes your reputation in this AI-powered social simulation.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Adventure 14.7%, Text-Based 13.3%, Choices Matter 6.7%

The Broken Crown is a dark fantasy text adventure between game and novel. Read through a fallen kingdom, make choices at key moments, and face the weight of memory and sacrifice.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Adventure 21%, Text-Based 20.7%, Indie 1.5%

Make your name as a whiskey-runner, a politician, or a gangster as you quench thirsts from rural Pennsylvania to the New York City nightlife!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Text-Based 21.4%, Multiple Endings 7.2%, Choices Matter 6.9%

The year is 2074. “Spark” organization wants to «establish order» in your hometown of Eliseysk. It’s time to answer the call (of justice) and join the resistance. Will you be the one to shoulder the burden of this mission, and persist in this cruel and dangerous world in order to shape its future?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Futuristic 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Text-Based 12.6%, Adventure 11.7%

You've spent years undercover, disguised as a human, infiltrating the city’s magical law-enforcement organization. They stole your magic from you. Can you steal it back? (A text-based interactive historical urban fantasy novel.)

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Adventure 19%, Text-Based 18.5%, Multiple Endings 5.6%

In this sci-fi pick your own story game, you must help astronaut Dorothy Chen survive in a vast underground alien city beneath the moon's surface. She faces insane robots, mutant canines, starvation, and insanity inside the city of the Anthria. Whether she survives is up to YOU.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.6%, Sci-fi 17.7%, Adventure 10.3%, Multiple Endings 7%

Embark on ASTRA, a mixed reality journey transforming your room into a spaceship. Follow your late mother's research on a cosmic mission to find life, uncover universal mysteries, and confront personal grief. It blends storytelling, VR, and stunning interactive design.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Adventure 18.4%, Futuristic 14%, Sci-fi 9.1%

The median lifespan of a new operative is 8 minutes. Try to beat the average. Hack a dying space station, outsmart a corrupted AI, and dodge rogue autodocs in cheesy FMV glory. Halcyon HR reminds you that dying on the clock instantly voids your pension. 12 brutal endings.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Text-Based 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Futuristic 12.6%, Sci-fi 11.2%

Will you infiltrate the gods' Elite Courte, stealing their superpowers, or turn double agent and join them, taking your place among the divine?

Why similar: Text-Based 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Adventure 15%, Choices Matter 9.4%

Your robots will change the world! Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army? A 300,000-word epic interactive sci-fi novel.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Text-Based 24.6%, Sci-fi 9.7%, Choices Matter 8.9%

Samurai of Hyuga is a brutal, heart-pounding interactive tale. Prepare to enter the land of silk and steel, where fantasy clashes against grim reality, and where the good guys don't always win in the end. It's a harsh world with tough choices at every turn. Good thing you're the toughest ronin around.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.4%, Interactive Fiction 29.3%, Text-Based 22.4%, Adventure 15.4%, Indie 3.5%

Betrayed in the Amazon, an elite Korean special forces commander crosses into a brutal fantasy world and rises as a lord. A dark military-fantasy visual novel with choices, light progression, and conquest.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Adventure 19.4%, Text-Based 9.9%, Multiple Endings 6.5%

When you're falsely accused of sorcery, corrupt inquisitors make you the object of a witch hunt. Now, sorcery might be the only way for you to survive.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.7%, Text-Based 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Multiple Endings 8.8%, Choices Matter 8.7%

Plunge into court politics and change the course of history, or pursue a love affair that rocks the kingdom to its foundations!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.5%, Text-Based 22%, Adventure 14%, Choices Matter 8.4%

A narrative-driven psychological visual novel where every floor of an elevator reveals a key moment from your past. Face your regrets, uncover forgotten memories, and make choices that shape your future. Will you find closure, or remain trapped in your own mind?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.1%, Text-Based 22.8%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Choices Matter 8.9%

主人公の前に突然現れた人工生命「レプリス」の少女・レゥ。人と変わらない感情を持つ彼女と過ごす中で、「心とは何か」「人間とは何か」という問いに向き合っていくSF恋愛アドベンチャー

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Adventure 18.5%, Text-Based 13.4%, Sci-fi 10%

It is said that the last frontier is space, but the crew of the Soviet Frigate, The Peresmeshnik, is about to discover that the sea still hides a terrifying secret. Waiting to be found.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Text-Based 22.3%, Adventure 8.2%, Multiple Endings 5.7%

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 12.4%, Multiple Endings 11%, Futuristic 10.6%

Take the captain's chair of the starship Odyssey. Assign specialized officers, manage vital ship systems, and navigate critical moral dilemmas in this text-based, choice-driven sci-fi command simulator. Will you uphold coalition protocols, or risk everything for survival?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Sci-fi 13%, Text-Based 10%, Adventure 9.8%

An epic adventure in a land of monsters, traps and magic. Journey across the deadly Shamutanti Hills and through Kharé, Cityport of Thieves. Armed with your sword and over fifty spells with weird and wonderful effects, embark on a narrative adventure of a thousand choices where every one is remembered.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.8%, Interactive Fiction 26.6%, Adventure 12.9%, Text-Based 12.9%, Choices Matter 7.2%

The most anticipated game since chess! A text-based comedy adventure in which you interact with the world by slamming one of two brightly colored buttons: Harm or Other

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.5%, Text-Based 23.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Adventure 16.3%, Sci-fi 8.6%

Professor of Magical Studies is an interactive magical school novel by Stephen Granade, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Text-Based 18.5%, Sci-fi 8.5%, Multiple Endings 8.3%

A text adventure game about a 19th century explorer who finds himself stranded and alone.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 44.3%, Text-Based 29.1%, Adventure 22.4%, Indie 4.2%

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: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Text-Based 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Sci-fi 9.3%, Adventure 8.8%

Claw your way to the top of Moreytown, a furry slum for human-animal hybrids. Will you take down the gangs who rule the town, or take them over instead?

Why similar: Text-Based 27.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Adventure 20.1%, Indie 4%

Investigate six haunted properties and listen to the voices of spirits trapped in nightmares. Collect fragmented clues and discover the correct combination of names, locations, and vessels. A multi-ending horror adventure where the outcome changes depending on your choices during the ritual.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Text-Based 16.6%, Adventure 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10%

More than 30 orthodox sectarians underground. They locked themselves in man-made caves. You're a negotiator. Your task is to rescue recluses before Apocalypse.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Adventure 19.4%, Text-Based 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Choices Matter 8.6%

Into Oblivion is an immerse interactive novel where your choices shape the story. Set in the far-future, explore a galaxy on the brink of crisis with dynamic companions. So, settle your mind and pray you have what it takes to fly Into Oblivion.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Adventure 17.5%, Text-Based 14.8%, Sci-fi 9.5%

"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 18%, Futuristic 16.9%, Sci-fi 12.9%, Adventure 8.4%

Can your steam-powered inventions save the ancient Library of Alexandria? Will you sacrifice the library to protect the city? Or the future king instead?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.7%, Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Text-Based 22.2%, Adventure 20.9%, Indie 4.1%

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 33.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Text-Based 9.6%, Adventure 9.2%, Choices Matter 7.8%

The toughest ronin in Hyuga returns! Heated battles and even hotter romances await you in the land of silk and steel!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.9%, Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Text-Based 21.6%, Adventure 18.6%, Indie 4%

Hoist the Jolly Roger and set sail to find the legendary Titan’s Treasure! Do you fight with a cutlass or with magic? Are you biding your time until you can shoot your captain in the back, or are you the reason the rum is gone?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.6%, Text-Based 23.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Adventure 10.5%, Choices Matter 8.7%

Interactive fiction starring Molly the Werezompire - a grad student who jumped into a portal, was killed by a werewolf, a zombie, and a vampire, and became a heroic werezompire! Also includes the sci-fi parody, Epiphany in Spaaace! Originally released on XBLIG.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.6%, Text-Based 21.5%, Adventure 13.5%, Singleplayer 1%

Ready your sword, pack your provisions and prepare to embark upon quests in which YOU are the hero! Choose what happens at every turn of the page with Fighting Fantasy Classics – text-based roleplaying adventures remastered.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Text-Based 17.5%, Sci-fi 8.2%, Choices Matter 8.1%

You are the Veteran. You’re the oldest android in the Solar System, a relic and survivor of the ancient past. Now it’s time for you to fight again. A text-based science-fantasy novel, 700,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24%, Text-Based 21.2%, Multiple Endings 6.9%, Adventure 6.6%

A breathtaking sci-fi visual novel! Since the Z gas appeared in the atmosphere, it is no longer possible to breath outside the Dome. You play as Carl Thanavan, a young scientist determined to uncover the origin of the catastrophe. Which path will you choose?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Sci-fi 19.4%, Adventure 17.6%, Text-Based 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%

Rebuild society after the climate apocalypse! Can you keep your settlement alive? Will you hold onto your humanity or lose it in the directionless expanse?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Text-Based 21.6%, Multiple Endings 6.9%, Adventure 5.7%

Befriend misfit deities and make a life for yourself in the Underworld! Can you escape your arranged marriage to the King? Do you want to?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Text-Based 16.9%, Adventure 9%, Choices Matter 8.8%

The abyss awaits. Descend into a minimalist visual novel about a girl in the future, and guide her through branching conversations, microgames, and explorable locations. Make friends with criminals, drink too much at dinner, or relax in a spa. Whatever happens, it was your choice.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Futuristic 13.2%, Text-Based 12.5%, Multiple Endings 9.1%

Never stop running, not with the galaxy at stake. Save it at all costs, and save yourself if you can.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Text-Based 17.8%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Choices Matter 9.6%

"Cold Bed on Route" is an equation-like adventure game. Work with to find and dump unwanted items. Then, let's make up for the excess weight caused by having her on board. And let's prove that the universe is not yet completely cold and frigid. Now, pilot, it's your turn.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Text-Based 15.8%, Sci-fi 9.1%, Multiple Endings 8%

Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.

Why similar: Text-Based 29.4%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Adventure 11%, Multiple Endings 5.5%

The wilderfolk of Ushinega Island waste away in a rotting tropical paradise, haunted by a deadly malediction. Yet behind every curse lurks a secret. You have the power to save them... but should you?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.8%, Text-Based 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.1%

Face down your ghosts and unearth secrets better left buried as you prepare to take vengeance on the ones who wronged you. But be warned, burying your past only works if it stays put.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Text-Based 21.7%, Multiple Endings 7.6%, Choices Matter 6.3%

Extract yourself from another fine mess–this time, with your family watching! Mischief, mix-ups, and bewilderingly urgent capers at your ancestral estate.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.3%, Text-Based 22.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Multiple Endings 8.1%

I found myself at the station. The story unfolds as you type commands on your keyboard. As the days repeat, I keep wondering what I can do for her. A command-driven adventure steeped in nostalgic pixel art and sound.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 44.6%, Text-Based 29.1%, Adventure 18.8%, Atmospheric 7.6%