60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Interactive Fiction, Choose Your Own Adventure, Story Rich.
A dark and suspenseful narrative RPG about an Italian mafia family, where morality is tested with every branching decision.
One Night: Burlesque
Step into the smoky, seductive world of the Angels Den, a luxurious burlesque club. Get into the high heels of Holly, a talented dancer graced with a unique gift of telepathy. Help her on a desperate mission to save a friend from certain doom.
Shadow of Paris
Paris’s life changes when she encounters a charming stranger who seems to be watching her. This choice-driven psychological visual novel delivers a tense, intimate story focused on curiosity, trust, and crossing dangerous boundaries.
Step into the smoky, seductive world of the Angels Den, a luxurious burlesque club. Get into the high heels of Holly, a talented dancer graced with a unique gift of telepathy. Help her on a desperate mission to save a friend from certain doom.
Why similar: Noir 20.2%, Conversation 11.5%, Comic Book 11.1%, Detective 9.4%, Interactive Fiction 8.4%
Paris’s life changes when she encounters a charming stranger who seems to be watching her. This choice-driven psychological visual novel delivers a tense, intimate story focused on curiosity, trust, and crossing dangerous boundaries.
Why similar: Noir 17%, Comic Book 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Narration 9.7%
A detective game where you fiddle information to your advantage. As an owner of a small bar, listen to visitors of your establishment, overhear their gossiping, collect information and then use to manipulate their thoughts and actions.
Why similar: Comic Book 13%, Detective 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Narration 10.2%, Text-Based 9.1%
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: Noir 14.4%, Comic Book 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Detective 10.4%
A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.
Why similar: Noir 15.9%, Detective 12.9%, Comic Book 12%, Narration 10%, Interactive Fiction 9%
Uncover the mystery of the Ghoul's Grove, hidden in the Australian outback and filled with strange and mutilated scare actors. To Be Altered is a multiple-ending visual novel where your choices matter, even the most minuscule decisions will decide the fates of Darcy and others.
Why similar: Noir 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Comic Book 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Narration 9.3%
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 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Text-Based 13%, Detective 11.3%
Embody a displaced therapist in a futuristic refugee camp. Discover the life in the camp and share your everyday life alongside people with heavy pasts. Use logic and your therapeutic skills to solve mysteries threatening both your survival and the camp.
Why similar: Comic Book 14.3%, Detective 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Narration 9.5%
Man I Just Wanna Go Home is an "MSPaint-noir" visual novel with 13 endings, a unique visual style and a killer 80s inspired soundtrack. The story revolves around a delivery person stranded in an unfamiliar part of the city under the devastating rain. All he wants is to get home. Help him!
Why similar: Noir 23.7%, Comic Book 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Visual Novel 10%
Hauma is a deduction visual novel set in Munich. Discover a conspiracy amongst the upper echelons of society alongside former detective Judith, while visiting real locations in a comic-inspired look.
Why similar: Noir 17.9%, Comic Book 15.7%, Detective 13.4%, Narration 11.1%, Conversation 10%
Comic Kingdom is a text-based adventure game primarily featuring a black-and-white comic style. It tells the story of a group of young manga artists who are trapped in a suburban farm.
Why similar: Comic Book 15%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Text-Based 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Conversation 9.4%
"The hardest part is not to speak up. It’s being heard." Part video game, part graphic novel, Wednesdays seeks to raise awareness about child sexual abuse through a surprisingly hope-filled story.
Why similar: Comic Book 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Text-Based 11.6%, Hand-drawn 11.2%, Narration 10.5%
Rearview Mirror is a narrative videogame in which most of the events take place inside a car. From a first-person perspective, the player interacts with the passengers through the rearview mirror.
Why similar: Noir 21.9%, Comic Book 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Conversation 10.2%, Narration 10%
Graphic Novel meets Visual Novel in this story-rich, choice-driven thriller. Experience Blake’s journey as he encounters a clandestine nemesis, sparking a series of events that force him to choose between losing his sanity or rising to the challenge. Make the right decisions and save New Stone.
Why similar: Noir 21.4%, Comic Book 16.2%, Detective 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%
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 15.5%, Noir 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Narration 11%
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: Noir 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Detective 12.4%, Female Protagonist 9.2%, Visual Novel 9.2%
Not It: Spookiest Edition is a horror-filled visual novel full of suspense and mystery where you navigate Katie through a living nightmare. Her move-in day on Halloween throws her into a centuries-old curse. Can she make it through the night? Will her new neighbors perish? Decide their fate.
Why similar: Narration 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Text-Based 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Visual Novel 9.4%
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 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Text-Based 15.5%, Conversation 12.3%, Visual Novel 11%
GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
Why similar: Detective 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Conversation 12%, Comic Book 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%
Enter a world of ridiculously underpowered superheroes as you navigate a comic and pop culture convention celebrating their history. Gather stories, piece together history, and interact with the denizens of the super and the geek.
Why similar: Comic Book 22.6%, Detective 20%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
It's after midnight on the Quartzway Express, and there's been a MAGICAL CRIME! Investigate the crime scene, question suspects, and defend the accused through unique cross-examination puzzles in this "Phoenix Wright" inspired mystery comedy.
Why similar: Noir 19.5%, Detective 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Hand-drawn 10.2%, Text-Based 9.9%
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: Noir 23.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Visual Novel 12%, Text-Based 8.9%, Story Rich 8.8%
Pasajeros is developed through a collection of urban and surreal stories collected in a taxi in Bogotá . It’s a four-night adventure packed with micro-stories of vampires, mariachis, and thugs. In addition to the opportunity to find love or madness in the night magic of a city.
Why similar: Noir 27.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Conversation 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Visual Novel 9.7%
At Di Yingling High, rumors of missing girls run rampant. Exchange student Meng Jiangnan uncovers the school’s hidden darkness. The Remake heightens the suspense with black-and-white comic visuals and upgraded systems. Will you face the truth?
Why similar: Noir 18.2%, Comic Book 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Text-Based 10.2%, Hand-drawn 9.5%
A grounded detective mystery set in the most dangerous place in America: a 1997 public high school.
Why similar: Narration 14.2%, Detective 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Conversation 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
Immerse yourself in Roman history with this management game! Gain acceptance of the goddess Cybele into the pantheon of Roman gods, influence public opinion, and go through many historical events. Will you be able to get Cybele adopted by the Romans?
Why similar: Rome 38.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Conversation 12.9%, Comic Book 8.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.9%
Do you enjoy listening to stories and having the ability to influence their unfolding? If so, then immerse yourself in the role of an active participant as you join Yaren on her quest for freedom.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Text-Based 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Narration 15%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
Why similar: Comic Book 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Conversation 13.2%, Hand-drawn 10.7%, Detective 10.6%
Hauma is a deduction visual novel set in Munich. Discover a conspiracy amongst the upper echelons of society alongside former detective Judith, while visiting real locations in a comic-inspired look.
Why similar: Noir 21.3%, Comic Book 16.3%, Detective 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%, Conversation 8.9%
A turn-based Clue-inspired detective game where you get to solve a murder mystery by interrogating paintings.
Why similar: Noir 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Detective 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Narration 11.7%
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: Noir 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Detective 12.8%, Text-Based 12%
'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 19.9%, Detective 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Text-Based 9.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%
Travel across landscapes devastated by a catastrophic climate meltdown, following a small family in search of somewhere habitable. With limited supplies and facing potential death at every turn, your choices will decide their fate. Will they manage to settle down?
Why similar: Comic Book 15.7%, Narration 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Hand-drawn 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.4%
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: Noir 20.1%, Comic Book 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Text-Based 10.7%
Echoes is a 2D narrative game where you play as Ricky Fox, a detective haunted by the death of his best friend, Arthur. Step into Greenhearth, a small town full of secrets, and make choices that will shape your investigation. Will you crack the case with your sanity intact?
Why similar: Noir 19.9%, Comic Book 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Detective 11.2%
Christian Tyler is ready to investigate a new case! Uncover the mystery of the tourist town of Alkelano in our new visual novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Detective 13.4%, Visual Novel 13%, Hand-drawn 10.7%
A word game, does not support the handle, the operation is the mouse and keyboard space. It can be said that it is very simple. The theme of obsessive-compulsive disorder and psychosis is a large text dialogue, which is more depressing. Please be careful if you don't like it.
Why similar: Noir 16.9%, Text-Based 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Conversation 12.5%, Narration 10.2%
A daemonic, handcrafted visual novel where your choices shape erotic dreams, secrets, and ritual desires.
Why similar: Noir 19.6%, Narration 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Text-Based 10.7%
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 14.6%, Detective 12.8%, Conversation 12.8%, Text-Based 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
Guilt Free is a visual novel crossed with a point and click made to offer perspective on mental health and eating disorders. Navigate a couple's rocky relationship and encounter "flaws" or "quirks" that may actually be symptomatic behaviors.
Why similar: Narration 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Text-Based 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Conversation 10.2%
A magical-realist visual novel, a funny and sad tale about ghosts of a Ukrainian subway, and an exploration of the meaning of life where there seems to be no meaning.
Why similar: Comic Book 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Text-Based 11.7%, Narration 10.3%
An episodic co-op noir murder mystery. Play as one half of a crime-fighting duo: the detective Jack Finch and his police dog, Archie. Use your deduction skills and sense of smell to find evidence, interrogate suspects, and catch the culprit in a gritty story set in the Great Depression.
Why similar: Noir 22.5%, Comic Book 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Detective 11.7%, Conversation 10.2%
Choices matter in this interactive short story. It only takes about 1 hour to play through once, but there are multiple endings to explore. You play as an AI assistant to the 7 year old Evie. What kind of bot will you be?
Why similar: Comic Book 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Conversation 8.3%
Her old love still lingers in her mind like a cactus, nurtured by tears. Its thorns still hurt her, but life goes on. It's time to bring new plants to the garden! Meet 5 guys in her daily routine and choose the new relationship to nurture in this visual novel about love, endings and beginnings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Narration 13%, Conversation 11.8%, Comic Book 10.9%, Visual Novel 9%
Witness to the sections of BigBoy's life sucked into a vortex of crime. Is there divine justice?This is the prologue of the story.
Why similar: Noir 27.8%, Conversation 15.5%, Narration 15.5%, Text-Based 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.5%
An atmospheric visual novel with puzzle elements and a nonlinear storyline.
Why similar: Noir 35.2%, Narration 17.8%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Story Rich 8.2%
This visual novel is the story of a boy and a robot traveling through a world where hatred and violence threaten life, where humans are more dangerous than machines, and machines are more dangerous than humanity. The game features fictional mechanical puzzles.
Why similar: Comic Book 24.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Conversation 17.3%, Narration 14.6%, Visual Novel 13.9%
An urban fantasy 2D point & click adventure set in Taipei, where the supernatural lurks beneath reality. You play as a paranormal investigator with abilities of her own. Unravel a brutal case of human sacrifice, piece together the clues, interview witnesses and try to keep your head—literally.
Why similar: Comic Book 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Detective 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Conversation 12.2%
The first AI detective game that doesn't cheat. Developed by a former Meta AI Engineer. Interrogate suspects using your own words to solve the murder of Harambe. Features procedurally generated cases, consistent hard logic, and a unique stress mechanic. You have 3 hours to find the truth.
Why similar: Noir 28%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Detective 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Text-Based 11.8%
Sometimes loneliness pushes us into strange, risky choices. A nightclub that wasn’t here yesterday. Mysterious strangers—each leaving more questions than answers. Just one short night that simply won’t end. What could possibly go wrong?
Why similar: Noir 31%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Story Rich 9.3%
Lacuna: Prologue tasks you – CDI agent Neil Conrad – with investigating the murder of a high-profile victim whose death could plunge the solar system into war. Solve the first in a series of cases that lead you ever deeper into the conspiracy at the core of this captivating 2D sci-fi noir adventure.
Why similar: Noir 24.8%, Detective 15.8%, Narration 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Text-Based 10.4%
No criminal has ever been a match for you, and everybody is looking forward to a description of your brilliant deductions. There is just one small problem. One tiny detail that makes it different this time. A mere trifle, really. This time you have no idea who did it.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Detective 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Conversation 13%
A cinematic interactive novel set in Ancient Rome. With impactful choices and a well written story with deep characters. You will command legions, navigate relationships and immerse yourself in history. Shaping your fate or being shaped by it.
Why similar: Rome 38.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Conversation 12.1%, Narration 11.2%, Visual Novel 9.4%
Take over a struggling bar on the politically tense Moon Village. Prepare and serve drinks, befriend and help your customers, find your purpose, and maybe even love... all while keeping the bar's lights on in this narrative driven bartending simulator set on the moon.
Why similar: Conversation 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Comic Book 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Visual Novel 9.3%
Reflections in Amber is a mystical detective visual novel. Investigate a mysterious death in a remote village alongside Detective Redbreast, who battles the weight of depression. Use an old supernatural camera to uncover hidden paths. Shape the course of the story with your choices!
Why similar: Noir 21.6%, Detective 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Text-Based 12.3%, Narration 11.3%
A fable from your childhood. Don't you remember it?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Text-Based 14%, Conversation 11.9%, Narration 11.7%
Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files – Rise of the Rat King is a narrative game set in Shadow City’s underbelly. Assume the role of the Rat King, an underworld mastermind fighting for absolute power. Shape your legend by forging alliances, crushing rivals, and leaving a trail of consequences.
Why similar: Noir 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Detective 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Narration 11%
Take a Hint! is a comic-style visual novel where you control Delfina and must convince your best friend Ailén that her boyfriend is not good for her. It won't be easy, and no one will leave until the truth comes out.
Why similar: Comic Book 22.2%, Conversation 18.2%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Multiple Endings 11%
A Pentiment-like set in 19th-century Malaysia, featuring pirates, East Indiamen, headhunters, a locked-room murder mystery, a blade of meteoric ore, a tarot deck, a mountain of light, and a tiger. It’s time to put your thinking cap on; as for those voices in your head – probably best to ignore them.
Why similar: Narration 15.6%, Conversation 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Detective 11.4%, Text-Based 11%
