60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Story Rich, Choices Matter, Multiple Endings.
Of course Grandma loves you — but she loves it even more when you simply listen. Dive into her labyrinth of memories, challenge her stories and watch everything around you fall apart. Can you escape her version of the past?
DreamNet
Rediscover the internet of the 2000s in DreamNet, a free to play Frutiger Aero exploration game. Dive into nostalgic worlds, uncover the story, and revisit the beauty of the old internet.
I SHALL NAME THE DEAD
The Nameless Dead cannot be buried, their remains pile up in a mass of indignity. You have crawled from the gutter to name them. Explore the cemetery and uncover their names before the Worm eats your insides.
Rediscover the internet of the 2000s in DreamNet, a free to play Frutiger Aero exploration game. Dive into nostalgic worlds, uncover the story, and revisit the beauty of the old internet.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Surreal 10.8%, Nonlinear 9.4%
The Nameless Dead cannot be buried, their remains pile up in a mass of indignity. You have crawled from the gutter to name them. Explore the cemetery and uncover their names before the Worm eats your insides.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20%, Psychological Horror 15%, Female Protagonist 13.2%, Surreal 11.9%, Hand-drawn 10.6%
This grim interactive novel takes you directly into a period full of dread and peril - the Thirty Years' War in the 17th century!
Why similar: Time Travel 17.7% ★, Dynamic Narration 17.6% ★, Nonlinear 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%
Immerse yourself in a first-person psychological horror experience where every choice matters. Confront the echoes of a forgotten past and uncover the truth behind your lost identity.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 22.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Dialogue Heavy 9.7%, Nonlinear 9.7%
You're stuck in a time loop – and you have five minutes to stop it.
Why similar: Time Travel 30.9% ★, Nonlinear 12.1%, Dialogue Heavy 10.5%, Female Protagonist 8.3%, Psychological Horror 8.2%
Maybe you didn’t do it… but you watched. The Sin of Fabien is a psychological horror experience woven around guilt, denial, and silence, where every choice reshapes the world and the story. Each decision brings you closer to the truth… or pulls you further away from it forever.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Dark 9.4%
A secret scientific research on life’s final terrene days. Your consciousness serves as a vessel gathering information on a future period they dubbed Eon of the Green. Slowly but surely it takes hold of your mind and the only human factor is that colleague on the intercom.
Why similar: Time Travel 32.7% ★, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Choices Matter 8.7%, Surreal 8.2%
An experimental mind-reading helmet, a time machine, and a doomsday device that can annihilate the human race. Which one would you like to test out first? The classic choose-your-path comic book by Jason Shiga.
Why similar: Time Travel 32% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Hand-drawn 11.1%, Choices Matter 9.6%
A surreal dream exploration game, both beautiful and terrifying.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.2%, Surreal 17%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Dark 10.7%, Hand-drawn 10.4%
The legend speaks of an illusive temple cursed by the evil wizard Somnus. In this experimental puzzle-adventure game, two explorers uncover the temple and dive deep into its depths, only to find connections to our own future. Will they survive the madness, or will their psyches break them first?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Dynamic Narration 14.2% ★, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Surreal 10.4%, Top-Down 8%
"Ten years from now, I will be dead..." A coming-of-age fantasy adventure tale, Future Mirror is a visual novel that explores fate and the choices that affect our future, tragedy, relationships, and happiness.
Why similar: Time Travel 24.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Female Protagonist 10.9%, Choices Matter 9.2%
Am I Nima is a psychological-horror game where you must convince your mom that you really are her daughter. Combine words together in your brain and use them to talk. Get her to trust you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Dialogue Heavy 13.8%, Hand-drawn 12%
Step into Farra’s shoes and begin a journey only you can understand. Collect topics, connect with others, and try to stop them from falling into the unknown. In a seemingly endless loop, move toward a fate waiting to be understood — and find yourself again.
Why similar: Time Travel 37.5% ★, Nonlinear 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Female Protagonist 10.2%
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
Why similar: Time Travel 26.5% ★, Dynamic Narration 20.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Choices Matter 8.3%
Alter your past and future in this thought-provoking and edgy time travel game. Are you willing to live with the effects that your changes may cause?
Why similar: Time Travel 54.3% ★, Choices Matter 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Psychological Horror 8.7%
A time-travel mystery visual novel about found-family, connections, and hope in dark times.
Why similar: Time Travel 41.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 18%, Emotional 12.3%, Female Protagonist 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%
Experience the triumphs and tribulations of two Caribbean immigrants in post-war Britain, in the world’s first Windrush video game, from the creators of the BAFTA nominated Before I Forget. How will you shape your story in this branching narrative interactive photo album?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Hand-drawn 17.8%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Emotional 10.3%, Nonlinear 9.4%
A story about a dead lamb walking.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19%, Nonlinear 15.2%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Female Protagonist 12.6%, Choices Matter 10.1%
Escape a time loop as an overworked office employee by solving cryptic puzzles with alternate reality game elements.
Why similar: Time Travel 24.1% ★, Nonlinear 16.2%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.4%
You are a Switchboard Operator, and you're about to be replaced by a machine. Use your last week of work to connect townsfolk, overcome problems, and explore the history of a cast of engaging characters. Your choices matter, so use each day to leave lasting bonds.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Story Rich 8.3%, Emotional 8.3%
A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Emotional 12.1%, Dialogue Heavy 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
She died, but no one ever asked her what really happened. Now she speaks—and you're the only one listening. What you say will decide whether she finally moves on… or disappears forever.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 16.1% ★, Dialogue Heavy 13.6%, Female Protagonist 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Choices Matter 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 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Nonlinear 16.5%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Dialogue Heavy 9.4%
Memories swirl all around you...Or are these memories? Familiar faces and places you think you remember but somehow now seem so different. Why are you here? Where is here?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.6%, Surreal 13.3%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Dark 9.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
In Dermapis, a point-and-click adventure set (mostly) in an apartment, you take on the role of its resident: Yvette. Meet interesting characters, solve puzzles, and make decisions that can influence the plot.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19%, Nonlinear 14.7%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, Exploration 9.6%
Enter a World of Your Dreams!This immersive first-person action-adventure transforms your dream journal entries into a narrative-rich playground. Create, Explore, and Unravel. Expect the unexpected in this ever-evolving dream world - beware though - you are not alone!
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 26.3% ★, Nonlinear 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Choices Matter 10.2%
WTP - Story 1 is a dynamic choice lead adventure.
Why similar: Time Travel 23.6% ★, Dynamic Narration 20.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 10.7%
Stranded after a plane crash in a freezing wilderness, you must manage body temperature, injury, and sanity as every decision shapes your survival.
Why similar: Nonlinear 17.1%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%
In this visual novel you're a voice in schizophrenic heads of dynasty Müller. You pass from generation to generation and you countrol your schizophrenic, talking sometimes with him. The important thing is, you shouldn't let your schizophrenic die without offspring, otherwise you'll die with him.
Why similar: Time Travel 34.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, Choices Matter 7.8%, Interactive Fiction 7.1%
A psychological visual novel adventure about love, obsession, and blurred boundaries. Navigate a web of manipulation and dependency, make difficult choices, and face multiple endings.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 22% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Nonlinear 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 9.7%
One million dollars. Two sisters. Countless consequences. Experience everyday life in modern Vietnam while uncovering the truth behind a mysterious one-million-dollar debt.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 19.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Dialogue Heavy 14.7%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%
A story-rich, dark fantasy, single-player, 2d point and click adventure, where a witch's curse means it's Groundhog Day in a forgotten wonderland. Cast spells, build a flying bathtub, talk to inanimate objects, find missing socks and much more!
Why similar: Time Travel 34.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Hand-drawn 12%, Female Protagonist 10%, Emotional 7.9%
«Adeline’s Story» — a psychological-horror visual novel about a girl who moves from a bustling city to a godforsaken village, where the nighttime silence is ripped apart by inhuman screams and people vanish one by one.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 22.6% ★, Nonlinear 18.3%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Dialogue Heavy 11.5%, Choices Matter 10.4%
A point-and-click horror/tragedy visual novel about melding your perception of the world around you. Walk around, drive people to their death, and shape Perdita's existence. Remember: The flesh-sin is nothing. Before she can become everything, you must make her into something.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Emotional 15.7%, Female Protagonist 9.4%, Surreal 8.9%
Solve puzzles and uncover the secrets of Brentwood in this mysterious point-and-click adventure. The unique powers you hold will lead to moral choices that directly influence the story, the fate of the town, and which of the multiple endings you unlock. Will you follow destiny or fight against it?
Why similar: Time Travel 43% ★, Emotional 13.8%, Hand-drawn 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Story Rich 9.6%
Rue Valley is a narrative adventure about a man trapped in a time loop, surrounded by a colorful cast with complex emotional stories, each hiding unexpected secrets. Dealing with mental challenges, the main character must delve into the anomaly to uncover its enigmatic origins.
Why similar: Time Travel 29% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Surreal 10.8%, Emotional 10.7%
SYNTAXIA is a dream-dark adventure game that allows you to rewrite reality itself by changing the words that describe it. Use your creativity and intuition to escape. Which path will you choose?
Why similar: Surreal 16.5%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Nonlinear 14.1%, Choices Matter 11.9%
Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Surreal 11.6%, Emotional 11.5%, Psychological Horror 9%
Experience a gruesome adventure in monochrome 4-color pixel art. Exit the castle and figure out what happened by investigating objects and fighting enemies - remember, you only have one life.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 19% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Dialogue Heavy 10.3%
In 6 hours, 28 minutes, and 11 seconds, an avalanche will crush the lodge. Is the cat in the box alive or dead?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 15.4%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, Nonlinear 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Top-Down 9.6%
A horror-romance visual novel following the trials of a dysfunctional friend group thrust back into the wish-granting wonderland of their youth. Either they face the issues plaguing them or risk dying in horrific ways again… and again… and again.
Why similar: Time Travel 32.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 14%, Emotional 12%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
A horror adventure that tasks you with detecting the Unseen to escape the facility's labyrinths alive.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Emotional 11.7%, Female Protagonist 10.9%, Top-Down 9.6%
Explore a mysterious sunken village, discover hidden objects, and uncover long forgotten secrets in this cozy narrative adventure. Travel through time to help Mora find her lost brother. Play on PC, or immerse yourself in VR.
Why similar: Time Travel 31.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Emotional 14.1%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Female Protagonist 9.2%
My parents sacrificed an orphan to the red egg. She came back home that night. How will the two of us survive the hunger? Good Children Say Grace.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Nonlinear 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Emotional 12.2%
Step into a world where dreams and reality mix. You find yourself in a dream-like world, and explore a different traumatic experience each day. Your choice determines if the boy accepts these moments and moves on, or stays in the past.
Why similar: Surreal 17.1%, Hand-drawn 14.2%, Emotional 12.7%, Choices Matter 12%, Psychological Horror 11.3%
A story-driven hidden object game. She forgets you every week.And reality begins to fall apart. 6 endings. 15 dynamic backgrounds. 200+ strange items.
Why similar: Time Travel 25.3% ★, Dynamic Narration 16.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Hand-drawn 9.4%, Surreal 9%
“Lone Bird in the Tree” is an adventure game with male and female versions of each of the four characters. The story alternates between the “future” of the main character, who is deeply traumatized by the grief of his/her best friend, and the “story leading up to the loss of his/her best friend”.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Hand-drawn 14.7%, Exploration 9.6%
A garden-themed 2D RPG which tackles the struggle of problem-solving in an uncomfortable and unknown place. Solve and explore your way across this dark landscape to uncover the truth behind your visit, meeting a familiar face to keep you company.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Surreal 19.6%, Emotional 15.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%, Dark 7.4%
What do mirror reflections do once they have no one to repeat after anymore? Play as Iris, quite a sarcastic reflection torn between the urge to unravel the mystery of death of her “prototype” and the need to find her place in a mirrored world.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Nonlinear 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Dialogue Heavy 11.5%, Female Protagonist 10%
Forge your own path and embark on a perilous journey on board a ship of Thorwal raiders in this epic tale set in the award-winning world of The Dark Eye RPG.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 22.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Hand-drawn 10.2%
Prison Glow is a 2D realistic suspense pixel visual novel about a wrongfully imprisoned girl. Facing seemingly solid charges, she accepts a plea deal for a lighter sentence and waits quietly behind bars for the truth.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 20.2% ★, Psychological Horror 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Female Protagonist 11%, Dialogue Heavy 9.8%
Speak and fight at the same time - your words are weapons, letting you enrage, manipulate, or break enemies during combat. What you say shapes the fight and changes the outcome.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 27.5% ★, Nonlinear 14.8%, Dialogue Heavy 13.7%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Female Protagonist 9.9%
Blending fairy tale fright with psychological horror, this narrative game challenges you to survive a weird journey through the woods while being hunted by the witch you were tasked with imprisoning. Sometimes charming, sometimes frightening, she’ll force you to make hard choices.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Hand-drawn 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%
Get lost... in the labyrinth. Explore the interconnected maze to find the "exit." Race, climb, and slide through the multiple areas, and try solving the mystery of the “Amazing Labyrinth” in the process.
Why similar: Time Travel 26.8% ★, Nonlinear 16.8%, Top-Down 11.4%, Surreal 9.4%, Exploration 8.9%
A choice-based, visual novel with time travelling teapots!
Why similar: Time Travel 25.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%, Choices Matter 9%
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: Dynamic Narration 18.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Nonlinear 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Dialogue Heavy 9.3%
Congratulations Dominica! You have been chosen to test the first virtual aquapark in history! Ten days in a tropical paradise where every detail is simulated to be perfect – what could possibly go wrong?
Why similar: Nonlinear 16.7%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Dialogue Heavy 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%
Let's Go Fever Time! Lovely Angel! By day, ordinary girls. By night, the 'Phantom Thief Angels TwinAngel' - on a mission to reclaim stolen treasures. Winter 2024: The Angels descend on Steam.
Why similar: Time Travel 45.8% ★, Emotional 15.9%, Female Protagonist 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%, Story Rich 7.4%
Chosen isolation has kept you inside for far too long. Now, explore an interactive home, examine objects to uncover past memories, and confront surreal nightmares within. Every choice branches the narrative toward multiple endings. Can you step outside?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Surreal 13%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.4%
The little boy Kiddo has spent most of his life in the hospital. Little does he know what a complicated and fascinating world lies concealed beyond the hospital walls. Today, on Kiddo's birthday, his mom wasn't around. Instead of her, the boy met Shadow, who inspired him to escape from a hospital.
Why similar: Nonlinear 15.9%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Hand-drawn 12.4%, Emotional 11.3%, Surreal 10.8%
