60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Mystery, Interactive Fiction, Choose Your Own Adventure, Atmospheric.
A dark atmospheric test that asks you to see things in new ways, including the experience of playing itself. In this love letter to flash horror, explore 60 ending permutations and reactivity to your answers, as the game not only allows but implores you to play and break it how you see fit.
Atelier of Oblivion
An atelier in the forest. The Artist’s brush halts before an empty frame, leaving the portrait unfinished. Lost souls arrive with memories of tragedy. Render the cruel truth, or shield their eyes with an eternal lie. A Gothic Mystery granting rest to the dead.
The Curse We Made
A short 70–90 minute hand-drawn cozy-gothic puzzle adventure with easy, relaxing puzzles, where color slowly returns to a cursed town as you uncover its secrets.
An atelier in the forest. The Artist’s brush halts before an empty frame, leaving the portrait unfinished. Lost souls arrive with memories of tragedy. Render the cruel truth, or shield their eyes with an eternal lie. A Gothic Mystery granting rest to the dead.
Why similar: Gothic 27.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Mystery 9.5%, Hand-drawn 9.4%
A short 70–90 minute hand-drawn cozy-gothic puzzle adventure with easy, relaxing puzzles, where color slowly returns to a cursed town as you uncover its secrets.
Why similar: Gothic 31.7% ★, Point & Click 17%, Hand-drawn 12.1%, Mystery 12%, Dark 8.2%
A steampunk-ish detective adventure from the creator of A Golden Wake and Shardlight! Can you help private investigator Miles Fordham find justice for his clients and track down his partner's killer before his entire world comes apart?
Why similar: Gothic 27% ★, Noir 13.6%, Point & Click 13.2%, Mystery 9.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%
A boy living as a warrant for a political marriage falls in love with a maid despite his unrequited love. You become a black rose fairy who grants wishes and discover that you were once human. Enter the bodies of the people in the mansion and trace their memories to discover their true identities.
Why similar: Gothic 27% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Noir 13%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Text-Based 8.3%
The Cabinets of Doctor Arcana is a dark adventure game set inside the haunted mansion of a mysterious magician who vanished several years ago. Resolve a maze of riddles and perplexing puzzles to unlock doors and secret passages, or be doomed to spend eternity trapped inside the inescapable mansion.
Why similar: Gothic 24.7% ★, Noir 14.7%, Point & Click 11.3%, Mystery 10.1%, Magic 9.4%
A tale of two siblings struggling to survive their present and heal from their past. Just how long can they ignore that which haunts them? "Willows: A Dream of Shadows" is a psychological gothic horror visual novel puzzle game, featuring hand drawn assets, and a episodic branching story-line.
Why similar: Gothic 28.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Hand-drawn 11.6%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
Route messages at a remote station's CRT console, choose your responses, and infer the protocol from clues hidden in the signals. Every cycle brings the quiet threat closer through traces left by previous operators.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.6%, Minimalist 12.9%, Mystery 12.3%, Point & Click 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
A gothic short story set in the most Blighted city of the North Kingdom.
Why similar: Gothic 24.8% ★, Text-Based 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Minimalist 8.8%, Hand-drawn 8.8%
You are a soul, ready for your next lifetime on earth. To prepare for incarnation, you visit the Interdimensional Museum to remember your personalities from past lives. Tour the museum artifacts, remember who you were, and when you're ready, the museum will reveal your next life to you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Hand-drawn 13.5%, Point & Click 10.5%, Supernatural 9.9%
House of stolen devil bargains and indolent angelic aristocracy: Nowhere Manor is doomed to disappear. You can leave if you’ve got a soul … but that’s not an option for an artificially created servant such as Liber. Just how far are you willing to go escape?
Why similar: Gothic 27.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Hand-drawn 11%, Mystery 7.6%
It all began when you opened that letter. Penned by your late master, it details how you are now heir to his mysterious legacy. You set off for the island on which he'd spent his final years... and so a truly unsettling journey begins, a journey into the deepest secrets of magic and the occult.
Why similar: Gothic 20.3% ★, Magic 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Text-Based 10.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%
In this hand-drawn RPG, you play as Joe, a young man attending a dinner party with his new girlfriend. What he doesn't know is that every decision he makes, no matter how small, will have its consequence...
Why similar: Noir 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Hand-drawn 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
These monsters aren’t just in the movies! Will you hunt the vampires, werewolves and others stalking Hollywood, or will you become a monster instead? An interactive, text-based game set in the World of Darkness shared story universe.
Why similar: Gothic 21.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Text-Based 13.3%, Noir 12.2%
You've had the same dream all week: a school field trip to a zoo you can't leave, where the lions always find you in the end. Wander the zoo exhibits, make your choices, and search for the way out. A short, hand-painted interactive story about a recurring dream, and finally resolving it.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Text-Based 10.6%, Hand-drawn 9.3%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
You wake up at a terminal you've never seen before. The language is alien. The interface is hostile. Every wrong click has consequences. Decode constructed languages, navigate unfamiliar operating systems, and survive the unknown in this puzzle-survival experience.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Point & Click 15.6%, Text-Based 13.1%, Puzzle 5.9%
A text-based RPG with a nonlinear story set in a free Slavic fantasy world. Shape the heroine's character through your choices and unlock multiple endings. Mystery, folklore, and relationships — your fate depends only on you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Text-Based 17.3%, Hand-drawn 13.3%, Magic 7.6%
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 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Text-Based 18.7%, Mystery 8.9%, Dark 8%
The frontier does not want to be settled. A narrative highly replayable story game where your choices build a settlement, shape its story, and seal its fate. Every run ends. Every obituary tells a story only you lived.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Point & Click 14%, Text-Based 13.4%, Philosophical 9.8%
A horror lurks beneath the earth. Terror rises from the past.
Why similar: Gothic 26.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Text-Based 14.3%, Mystery 7.1%
In a town of exactly 245 residents, every breath is a subtraction. A narrative experience blending Gothic hand-drawn art and natural history puzzles. Waking into a world of "domestic bliss" as thick as a fungal bloom, will you submit to the morbid order, or shatter the balance?
Why similar: Gothic 24.9% ★, Hand-drawn 13%, Point & Click 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%, Dark 6.9%
It's the night of the big ball, and things are going...well...they're going. When so many people of so many different species are gathered together in one place, you're sure to have an interesting time. But what if something a little more malicious is happening under the surface?
Why similar: Philosophical 16.5%, Text-Based 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Hand-drawn 12.8%
The Crawling Horror is dead, but its legacy of madness lives on!
Why similar: Gothic 27% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Text-Based 15.8%, Dark 7.5%
Evil Spirits is a nonlinear psychological horror visual novel inspired by Slavic folklore. Uncover the secrets of a forgotten village, trust no one, and remember: true evil sometimes hides not in the shadows of a hut, but in the darkness of the human soul.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Point & Click 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Hand-drawn 9.6%, Mystery 9%
Experience the Myth of Frankenstein through the innocent eyes of his creature. Make decisions and change people's view that you will meet on your way. Now, the myth is in your hands, so how are you going to end it?
Why similar: Text-Based 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Point & Click 14%, Hand-drawn 12.4%
A cyberpunk noir point-and-click. One bar, one bad night, one drink that proves something. Mix the impossible cocktail. Trade favours. Step out into the rain and meet the stranger waiting under the COCKTAILS sign. Episode 1 of an ongoing indie narrative experiment.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Point & Click 20.4%, Hand-drawn 12.3%, Noir 11.9%, Stylized 7.3%
In a village slowly being consumed by a supernatural curse, you are a witch’s apprentice charged with breaking it. Explore the town, uncover forbidden ingredients, earn the trust of its troubled inhabitants, and complete the ritual before the thorns claim everything.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Gothic 16.7% ★, Text-Based 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%, Choices Matter 7.9%
RUNT is a rural gothic visual novel mystery where you follow the story of Runt, the youngest of five brothers, surviving a monstrous post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Gothic 27.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Hand-drawn 8.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%, Multiple Endings 8%
After a cat show competition, three contestants, Claudette, Aberdeen, and Illia, head back to their hotel rooms to decompress and unwind. The next day, Claudette's body is found floating in the hotel's pool. Did Claudette take her own life, or was she murdered by cutthroat competition?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Noir 16.5%, Point & Click 12.9%, Mystery 10.9%, Text-Based 10.4%
1996—Miami, FL. At the bottom of a downward spiral, Beth meets an inhuman stranger. Will she accept the new, dark gift he offers?
Why similar: Gothic 29.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Point & Click 13.3%, Philosophical 10.6%, Dark 7.6%
'The Island: In To The Mist' is an adventure game. It includes basic features of adventure genre and add some new systems to interest you. You have been given a chance to experience a group of university students, who confined in the island. There is a terrific but interesting story you will see.
Why similar: Noir 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Point & Click 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Text-Based 11.1%
My name is left behind these white walls. In its place, I am left with dozens of questions. I wander aimlessly, though she seems to guide me. I do not feel safe. Twenty-four hours... and everything will fall into place.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Text-Based 12.9%, Hand-drawn 12.2%, Philosophical 11.6%
This is the story of a family living in a haunted house in New Hampshire. And you're the one haunting them.
Why similar: Gothic 50.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Text-Based 13.9%, Atmospheric 4.3%
Your new colleagues may be demons in disguise. A bleak horror visual novel with point-and-click gameplay.
Why similar: Noir 23.1%, Point & Click 14.9%, Gothic 14.2% ★, Text-Based 14.2%, Multiple Endings 7.4%
When the world is coming to an end, who would you want to speak to one last time? Schrödinger’s Call is a visual novel that lets you experience the pain and salvation of human connection, as if you were turning the pages of a picture book.
Why similar: Gothic 28.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Philosophical 12.9%, Hand-drawn 11.2%, Text-Based 10.6%
From killer dolls to lethal furniture, nothing wooden can be trusted!
Why similar: Gothic 27.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Text-Based 15.3%, Dark 7.4%
A classic choose your own adventure story. Escape the horrors hunting you, make decisions, forge your own path. An original complete story with multiple endings and secrets to unlock. Choose your own play style with a Text Adventure Mode, sound effects, and an ambient soundtrack.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Text-Based 18%, Hand-drawn 8.9%, Mystery 8.8%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
Take part in one of the most complex interactive adventure stories ever written! What if the sun inexplicably vanished only to return hours later? Investigate with your AI companion, Moti. Uncover conspiracies. Discover ancient religions. Travel the globe.
Why similar: Noir 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Text-Based 16.4%, Mystery 9%
The iconic game The 7th Guest has been brought back to life with modern technology, delivering an atmospheric story like no other. Explore a foreboding mansion, solve mind-bending puzzles, and uncover its dark secrets. The 7th Guest is the ultimate mystery adventure, reimagined for modern platforms.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Gothic 17.2% ★, Mystery 15.4%, Noir 14.6%, Supernatural 8.6%
"Escape from Death" is a 256,000-word interactive horror adventure novel by Tova Näslund. It’s entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
Why similar: Gothic 27.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Text-Based 9.3%, Dark 8.5%
Need more stress in your life? Meet Laura Silver, a paranoid and insomniac detective tasked with researching Slavic mythology. Do you know anything about the Vodnik? Neither does she. Unfortunately, her incompetence won't be your biggest problem in Czechoslovakia.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Noir 15.4%, Point & Click 13.4%, Hand-drawn 10.8%
"Humility" is a thriller visual novel. Immerse yourself in the fascinating story of a young Elma, who defies a cruel cult to save her beloved.
Why similar: Noir 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Point & Click 12.3%, Text-Based 10.8%
Doctor Arcana's second adventure takes you to a legendary castle on a mysterious island where new puzzling challenges await and dark secrets are guarded by deadly traps. Can you complete the Trials of the Elders?
Why similar: Gothic 32% ★, Noir 14.4%, Point & Click 12.3%, Hand-drawn 11%, Magic 9.3%
A brave hero and a bound lich rescue a legendary warrior from a forgotten tomb and put the romance back in necromancy. Necromance is a dark fantasy comedy visual novel with light puzzle elements, 3 endings, and 15 ways to die!
Why similar: Gothic 24.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Hand-drawn 10%, Magic 8.3%
Some memories aren't meant to stay. We are our memories and our experiences. What happens if you delete some of them? If you change your past and, thus, your future?
Why similar: Text-Based 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Point & Click 13.9%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
Become a mailroom operator at Hotel Hermes and navigate an ancient mail system to deliver parcels on time. Learn about the hotel's guests and staff in this puzzle role-playing game, where your actions can alter the world. Hopefully for the best!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Point & Click 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Text-Based 13.3%, Mystery 8.2%
Become the Overseer, unravel an apocalyptic conspiracy, and attempt to heal the wound at the heart of the world.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Hand-drawn 16.2%, Philosophical 12.8%, Mystery 10.6%, Stylized 10%
A co-op, text- and audio-driven collection of stories. Lead expeditions into uncharted cold waters, hiding a presence older than the Earth. Coordinate via proximity voice chat. More stories come after the release.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Point & Click 14.9%, Mystery 8%
Kluber's Adventure. Finally, your choices matter... Unless Kluber has better plans. Welcome to an absurdist narrative experience.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.4%, Hand-drawn 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Point & Click 12.3%, Choices Matter 9.8%
Take the role of a painter struggling to finish his masterpiece in this short Gothic horror visual novel about art, pain and love.
Why similar: Gothic 36.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Hand-drawn 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Dark 7.5%
Scribe is a scribe simulator in which you can secretly shape the destinies of the inhabitants of the estate: resolve disputes, influence the course of family intrigues, decide who lives and who does not. Choose what to write in letters and whether to change their recipients!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Text-Based 17.2%, Point & Click 12.4%, Choices Matter 7.8%
A Philosophical Discussion of Worms is a Kinetic Visual Novel that explores two characters, Vynder and Ophiel, as they navigate cohabitation in a strange, unfamiliar house when they don't speak the same language.
Why similar: Gothic 30.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Text-Based 18.6%, Hand-drawn 12.7%, Dark 5.7%
To unlock ancient spells needed to defend the galaxy, can you navigate fantasy quests, noir cases, heroic competitions, dystopian worlds & space heists?
Why similar: Noir 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Text-Based 15.2%, Mystery 8.3%
Wake up inside the nightmare world you created in this standalone, hand-drawn dark fantasy point-and-click adventure with psychological horror elements. Explore islands, solve puzzles, and make morally ambiguous choices that lead to multiple endings. Inspired by H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński.
Why similar: Gothic 29.4% ★, Point & Click 18.1%, Mystery 10.2%, Hand-drawn 9.3%, Dark 8.7%
A miniature meditative puzzle experience based on the Lithuanian-American environment artist Aleksandra Kasuba’s concept of the Retreat House - a unique, utopian facility used by large corporations to rejuvenate their overworked employees.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Point & Click 16.4%, Hand-drawn 13.9%, Philosophical 11.3%, Minimalist 10.2%
Aristocrat Evan Alford receives a mysterious invitation to the fair and comes to a small village on the outskirts of the country. The village seems strange and painfully familiar, but Evan has never been here. In addition, other guests of the fair are not as simple as it seems.
Why similar: Gothic 26.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Magic 8.7%, Dark 8.7%
A demon has possessed you and used your body to tear a swath of bloodshed through New York. You are now free, but life as you knew it is over. Your only path forward is joining the Unavowed - an ancient society dedicated to stopping evil. No matter what the cost.
Why similar: Point & Click 25.8%, Gothic 15.2% ★, Mystery 10.6%, Supernatural 9.2%, Noir 8.4%
Wake up, watch tv, make a cup of cofffee and try to bear your own meaningless existence.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Minimalist 16.2%, Text-Based 16.1%, Mystery 12.3%, Dark 10%
The first short story from PolyCity. A point and click adventure delving into the dark and dirty polygonated corners of the City of angles... mostly right angles. The Affair follows a soft boiled/over easy private detective as he unpicks an organised crime syndicate operating across the city.
Why similar: Noir 24.5%, Point & Click 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Mystery 6.2%
A 'Choose Your Own Adventure' themed sequel to the free-to-play 'Disturbed'. Your journey begins with Gabriel, a depressed soul who has been banished away on Greyrock Island. Discover an unfolding world as you wander to fulfill the desires of your heart.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Point & Click 16.9%, Hand-drawn 14.8%, Text-Based 13%, Mystery 9.8%
