60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Time Travel, Indie.
The year is 2087 and mankind has no time to lose. The time continuum is inexplicably unraveling by the hour, threatening to destroy the planet Earth. Travel back in time in this text-based adventure to prevent the assassination of President Kennedy and prevent the destruction of Earth.
Paradox Factor
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?
A Better World
A Better World Company is hiring! We’re looking for a skilled new recruit to alter the past and reshape the future! Use our Computer to travel back in time, and make game-changing choices to make the world a better place! You decide what to do… as long as you follow our internal policies.
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 51.1% ★, Text-Based 25%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Sci-fi 6.4%, Adventure 6%
A Better World Company is hiring! We’re looking for a skilled new recruit to alter the past and reshape the future! Use our Computer to travel back in time, and make game-changing choices to make the world a better place! You decide what to do… as long as you follow our internal policies.
Why similar: Time Travel 31.3% ★, Alternate History 17.9%, Text-Based 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Sci-fi 7.1%
Hank Krang, a dirty thief from the near future, recently had a self-aware time machine called the Time Excursion Digital Interface, or TEDI, fall into his lap after a poker game. He has decided to use this technology to go throughout time, stealing priceless artifacts.
Why similar: Time Travel 50% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Adventure 15.2%, Sci-fi 13.6%
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: Text-Based 43.1%, Interactive Fiction 32.7%, Adventure 16.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%
“The Xu Jing Chronicle: Illusory Dream” is a choice-driven visual novel. Some old peculiar research notes, inadvertently unlocked a gateway through time and space. What is illusion? What is reality? Make your choice and unlock exclusive endings. But there is only one truth!
Why similar: Time Travel 27.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 19%, Historical 15.4%, Adventure 13%, Alternate History 12.2%
A choice-based, visual novel with time travelling teapots!
Why similar: Time Travel 27.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Adventure 15.6%, Sci-fi 11.7%, Dialogue Heavy 9.6%
A text adventure game about a 19th century explorer who finds himself stranded and alone.
Why similar: Text-Based 45.4%, Interactive Fiction 34.4%, Adventure 20.2%
Rainy Time Travel is a 2D side-scrolling pixel narrative game. Yi fainted on the way home at night... He opens his eyes to only rain and an unfamiliar forest. He meets American detective Miles, and they journey together to find a way out. And thus begins the journey of Rainy Time Travel...
Why similar: Time Travel 33.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Dialogue Heavy 12.9%, Adventure 9.4%, Alternate History 9%
Stupid Stories - A 2D adventure. Travel through time and relive your grandfather's exciting adventures, or at least how he remembers them.
Why similar: Time Travel 51% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Alternate History 19.3%, Adventure 8%, Singleplayer 0.8%
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: Text-Based 24.2%, Time Travel 23% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Alternate History 16.1%, Historical 16%
"Metis: Shadow Days" is a soft science fiction visual novel game featuring simulation management. In this post-Cold War world, you will take on the role of a fuher of field department at Metis Biological Institute.
Why similar: Time Travel 35.2% ★, Alternate History 19%, Cold War 18.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Sci-fi 7.2%
Unlock diabolical magic in the time of Napoleon and Robespierre! Can you direct the course of the Revolution, or will you lose your head?
Why similar: Text-Based 29.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Alternate History 21.4%, Historical 15.2%, Adventure 7.6%
Memories of Rachel is a text adventure game where you pick up keywords called fragments from the protagonist's memories and answer questions to advance the main story. No sudden action sequences, no clicking on maps. But their secrets and the overlap of memories will stick like a thorn in your hear.
Why similar: Time Travel 44.5% ★, Text-Based 22.1%, Sci-fi 14.8%, Adventure 10.1%, Alternate History 7.4%
Strike is inadvertently transported into the past while attempting to repair a mysterious, abandoned clock tower. Endeavoring to return to the future, Strike must fix both the time machine and the island’s dysfunctional family who are responsible for much of the clock’s disrepair.
Why similar: Time Travel 75.9% ★, Adventure 18.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.8%
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 47.6% ★, Text-Based 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Sci-fi 11.9%, Story Rich 3.4%
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: Text-Based 49.1%, Interactive Fiction 38.6%, Adventure 10.6%, Story Rich 1.7%
A time machine. A war. A leap into 2225. Humanity now lives in retro districts — neighborhoods dedicated to different decades of the 20th century. Unlock ideas, secrets and places — from cabarets to TV studios, from galleries to protests. Choose your words wisely. Every dialogue shapes your path.
Why similar: Time Travel 33.6% ★, Alternate History 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Dialogue Heavy 9.2%, Sci-fi 8%
Punch out Fascists and unravel conspiracies in this pulp adventure set in a retro-futuristic 1930s world of airships, fast cars, and two-fisted action!
Why similar: Text-Based 28%, Alternate History 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Historical 17.3%, Sci-fi 6.5%
A story for every lab member. Discover a new side of each STEINS;GATE character and get a glimpse of their inner thoughts through 10 new stories.
Why similar: Time Travel 57.2% ★, Adventure 21.5%, Sci-fi 16.1%, Story Rich 4.5%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Here, your choices have consequences. Embark in a Time Travel Ninja Tale with multiple routes. Isao is a member of a Brotherhood from the Meiji Era in Japan who travels between the XXII and XIX centuries. What would be your choices on this journey? Make your choices and discover the consequences.
Why similar: Time Travel 37.9% ★, Text-Based 21.9%, Alternate History 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Sci-fi 6.9%
A mystery adventure where a boy travels back to Edo-period Japan and investigates grotesque murders in Yoshiwara's pleasure quarter. Using a time-loop system, players uncover the truth by replaying events and piecing together clues.
Why similar: Time Travel 37.2% ★, Text-Based 27.5%, Historical 19.7%, Adventure 11.1%, Story Rich 3.4%
A classic science-fiction point-and-click adventure inspired by the genre’s greatest titles, where you’ll control two characters and solve ingenious puzzles using an innovative temporal superposition mechanic.
Why similar: Time Travel 39.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Sci-fi 14.3%, Adventure 14%, Dialogue Heavy 3.8%
Mechanical ghosts hide in the fog and the summer sky prays to collapse. Like a broken tape, do you still remember your name?
Why similar: Time Travel 49.5% ★, Text-Based 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Adventure 8.2%, Story Rich 2.8%
A 60-minute adventure where all you do is glow.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.5%, Text-Based 27.9%, Adventure 20.4%, Sci-fi 19.8%, Story Rich 2.8%
Using a time travelling camera called the Cimera, adventure your way through time, defending yourself against the Time Earth Agency, the Professor and everything else time and space throws at you. Can you save the Universe and can you find your way back home before you are history?
Why similar: Time Travel 44.9% ★, Alternate History 20%, Historical 12.6%, Sci-fi 12%, Adventure 6.8%
Embark on a touching and poetic adventure through the hills of Provence in “Marcel and the Secret Spring.” Inspired by the childhood stories of legendary French author and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol, this narrative-driven game lets you experience a world filled with nature, mystery, and nostalgia.
Why similar: Alternate History 26%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Historical 16.9%, Text-Based 16.8%, Dialogue Heavy 9.4%
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: Text-Based 42.1%, Interactive Fiction 33.3%, Adventure 23.6%, Singleplayer 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: Text-Based 38.2%, Interactive Fiction 32.6%, Sci-fi 21.3%, Adventure 6.5%, Singleplayer 1.4%
Go from Prehistoric age to the future in this text-based adventure.
Why similar: Text-Based 28.8%, Alternate History 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Historical 17.5%, Adventure 6.7%
A new mystery arises from the collision of narrative puzzle games and film noir. Investigate a film set full of catty cast and crew in order to deduce and connect their relationships. Debunk or prove those connections using evidence to unravel the mystery of what occurred and who is responsible!
Why similar: Time Travel 26.9% ★, Text-Based 20.3%, Cold War 19.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Historical 12.7%
Timequest is a classic graphical text-based adventure game of breathtaking scope and astonishing depth. Travel to 80 locations to see the effects of your actions unfold over 3 millennia.
Why similar: Text-Based 45%, Adventure 29.1%, Sci-fi 17.6%, Retro 8.3%
Help the eccentric inventor navigate the intrigue of the emerging electrical industry! Can you outsmart Thomas Edison and electrify the world?
Why similar: Text-Based 35.7%, Interactive Fiction 27.2%, Historical 21.6%, Adventure 8.8%, Story Rich 3.3%
This is a text adventure game about time travel, developed and published by the Scorched Heaven Community. The total text volume of this work is approximately 250,000 words. It also includes more than 30 scenes. This work advances the story through mouse clicks.
Why similar: Time Travel 48.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 21%, Sci-fi 15%, Text-Based 9.3%, Story Rich 3.6%
This story is of God and us and our grand revenge against Lucifer.
Why similar: Time Travel 45.2% ★, Text-Based 28.3%, Sci-fi 12.9%, Adventure 8.8%, Story Rich 4.3%
Chronicles of Humanity is an expanding anthology of historical visual novels. Enter different eras, weigh conflicting testimony under political and personal pressure, and shape who is protected, what is recorded, and how each life is remembered. Complete stories are released as separate DLC.
Why similar: Text-Based 29.7%, Historical 25%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%, Adventure 7.3%
Travel back in time to help defend Hua Mulan against evil time bandits all while learning Chinese in this story-driven, role-playing, open 3D world episodic adventure.
Why similar: Time Travel 37.1% ★, Alternate History 17%, Historical 15.4%, Assassins 10.9% ★, Sci-fi 10.5%
Thaumistry: In Charm's Way is an all-new comedy text adventure from award-winning Infocom and Legend Entertainment author Bob Bates.
Why similar: Text-Based 43.2%, Adventure 29.4%, Interactive Fiction 26.5%, Singleplayer 1%
Narrative VR adventure inspired by classic graphic adventures. Explore historical eras, interact with characters, and solve story-driven puzzles through dialogue and immersive environments. Designed for experienced players who enjoy story-driven challenges.
Why similar: Time Travel 34.5% ★, Alternate History 18%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Historical 14.1%, Sci-fi 9.9%
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: Text-Based 43.4%, Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Adventure 17.3%, Sci-fi 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 5.1%
Once you step through the door to Zork, you leave the world of arcade games and trite fantasies behind and enter the dimension of your imagination.
Why similar: Text-Based 60.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Adventure 19.1%
A science-fantasy retro-flavoured textual adventure running in your terminal
Why similar: Text-Based 30.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Sci-fi 14.7%, Dialogue Heavy 10.1%, Minimalist 7.7%
Become Rolando the Majestic and find out how he became the most powerful wizard to ever live! Explore parallel levels using magic and time-travel in a stealth based narrative adventure in order to take vengance against the men who took everything from him as a child.
Why similar: Time Travel 56.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Adventure 7.8%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%, Retro 4.5%
A Sea of Grey & Green is a First Person exploration game. Explore your surroundings, find hidden objects, complete Cas' daily tasks and uncover what it really means to see life through their macabre eyes.
Why similar: Cold War 26.3% ★, Alternate History 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Historical 14.3%, Minimalist 9.6%
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: Text-Based 25.2%, Sci-fi 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Adventure 18.4%, Alternate History 13.1%
Live through the last ten minutes of Juan Fuentes, who has been given the chance to choose his very last words. Captured by Victoriano Huerta's army after the Ten Tragic Days during the Mexican Revolution, Juan will confront his life, death, family, relationships and existence.
Why similar: Text-Based 33.6%, Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Historical 21.7%, Dialogue Heavy 9.8%, Adventure 8.3%
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 47% ★, Sci-fi 13.2%, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%, Text-Based 8.9%
In this cyberpunk-themed linear visual novel, you take on the role of Jill the bartender during a 14-day time loop. While crafting drinks for customers is part of your job, the true challenge lies in unraveling the dark secrets hidden beneath this neon-lit world.
Why similar: Time Travel 35.4% ★, Text-Based 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Alternate History 16.9%, Story Rich 1%
Visit the different eras, resist weather conditions, solve the puzzles, meet the spirits of the time, not all of whom will be happy to help. And collect all artifacts, because Danny can`t do it alone.
Why similar: Time Travel 69.2% ★, Adventure 30.8%
The Nazis are scouring the globe for powerful occult artifacts. Can you beat them to the treasures and save the world from a thousand years of darkness?
Why similar: Text-Based 38.5%, Interactive Fiction 26.1%, Historical 18.3%, Adventure 13.3%, Story Rich 3.3%
A total-immersion kinetic novel: boot up a PC running Prisma OS and descend into the psyche of a broken protagonist as 2001 Argentina collapses in the background. Late-night chats, obsession, music, and raw Y2K bleakness — all the way to a point of no return.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 25%, Adventure 14.7%, Dialogue Heavy 13.4%, Historical 10.7%
In your dying dad's strip-mall cantina, you find a psychotropic slime tunnel to the world's greatest dives. Each new bar has a surreal crisis to solve: kick open doors to places you don't belong, entangle yourself with strangers, and master practical vices such as vandalism, seduction, & journalism.
Why similar: Time Travel 43.3% ★, Text-Based 20.8%, Alternate History 18.1%, Adventure 7.1%, Dialogue Heavy 6.5%
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: Text-Based 41.8%, Interactive Fiction 32.6%, Adventure 24.6%, Singleplayer 1%
이 지옥 같은 현실을 바꿀 수만 있다면…몇십 번, 몇 백번이라도 기꺼이 죽어주마!
Why similar: Text-Based 46.6%, Time Travel 38.5% ★, Adventure 9.3%, Story Rich 5%, Singleplayer 0.6%
This is an AVG trying to tell a story about a city under British governance. In 1970s, newspapers were rife with exaggerated title and drama plots. Xu Dan, a fresh journalist accidentally ran into a collaboration of cops and mafia.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.9%, Text-Based 27.6%, Historical 24%, Adventure 11.9%, Story Rich 5%
Dive into 'Timeways', a riveting adventure where you control Elliot, a detective with the rare ability to warp time. Solve complex puzzles, uncover hidden secrets, and navigate through a world ripe with intrigue. Will you alter the course of history to uncover the truth?
Why similar: Time Travel 37.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 27%, Adventure 20.7%, Sci-fi 12%, Story Rich 2.6%
Unlock the mysteries of a strange yet familiar world and forage real wild plants & herbs in this curious, peaceful adventure! An experimental interactive fiction cook-em-up with educational elements.
Why similar: Text-Based 28.5%, Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Alternate History 24%, Adventure 13.1%, Sci-fi 8.3%
Explore an abandoned movie theater and step inside five black-and-white films in this mystery text adventure that pays tribute to classic Hollywood B-Movies and combines the best elements of interactive fiction, visual novels, and gamebooks.
Why similar: Text-Based 47.4%, Adventure 24%, Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Story Rich 3.8%, Singleplayer 1%
Every answer lies in a timeline that no longer exists. 『The VII Enigma』 is an intricate time-travel mystery visual novel for players drawn to stories that test the mind, stir the heart, and reward careful attention. Unravel a conspiracy written across time in search of a future beyond their control.
Why similar: Time Travel 52.7% ★, Text-Based 15.5%, Sci-fi 14.8%, Adventure 6.6%, Interactive Fiction 6.1%
4 years after the events of Angels with Scaly Wings, humans and dragons co-exist in a society built from the remains of a broken world. A new threat looms on the horizon. Re-discover this unique setting and lead an investigation in this compelling sci-fi visual novel with dating sim elements.
Why similar: Time Travel 42.1% ★, Text-Based 20%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Sci-fi 11.7%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%
