
Ichth.ys is a visual novel with turn-based combat where your choices affect the story! You follow Fraser, a hacker who was recently expelled from university, in a tale of mystery, deception, censorship, freedom, and board game cafes!
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Political, Story Rich, Visual Novel, Choices Matter.

Ichth.ys is a visual novel with turn-based combat where your choices affect the story! You follow Fraser, a hacker who was recently expelled from university, in a tale of mystery, deception, censorship, freedom, and board game cafes!

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Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make the decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?
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Why similar: Political 20% ★, Political Sim 16.3% ★, Conspiracy 15.3% ★, Drama 9.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.3%
Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make the decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?
Why similar: Political Sim 17.1% ★, Political 16.2% ★, Alternate History 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Text-Based 8.5%
An interactive story about hacking, unveiling secrets, chatting with people, and searching for purpose.
Why similar: Hacking 27.5% ★, Conspiracy 19.2% ★, Alternate History 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Dystopian 9.6%
Step into the shoes of a government official in a top-secret department of the Orwell surveillance program. Given the power to both uncover and fabricate "the truth", how far will you go in the service of your country? Season 2 of Orwell, the award-winning surveillance thriller.
Why similar: Political Sim 28% ★, Political 21.7% ★, Dystopian 13.5%, Hacking 13.3% ★, Choices Matter 8.8%
Overthrow a corporate oligarch and uplift your neighbors through the information you observe and learn.
Why similar: Political 21.5% ★, Capitalism 15.3%, Alternate History 13.6%, Dystopian 12.3%, Cyberpunk 11.6%
F around and find out! A ruthless no F's given dark comedy where you play the president of the United States of America, abuse executive power, crank up the FAFO meter, deal with robot overlords, alien invasions, drain swamps, flip off allies, crush protests, and destroy all that oppose you!
Why similar: Political Sim 18.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 13%, Alternate History 11.9%, Conspiracy 11% ★, Capitalism 9.9%
A retro audio-based narrative game about the power of the news. Robert Evergreen is dead! The public adored him, but what was he like in private? Listen to interviews with Robert’s friends and family, decide what kind of article you’d like your paper to print, and watch the story unfold.
Why similar: Political 19.2% ★, Alternate History 16.2%, LGBTQ+ 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
You are at the nexus of the events of 2020; you will hire agents, run political ads, research topics, use hacking, and more in this turn-based political strategy game. In Electioneering, your goal is to ensure your candidate becomes the next President of the United States.
Why similar: Political Sim 19.1% ★, Hacking 16.6% ★, Political 16.5% ★, Conspiracy 15.7% ★, Alternate History 14.2%
A choice-driven narrative RPG set in China’s Warring States period. Rise from a nameless soldier to a legendary general through decisions with permanent consequences. Death is final. History remembers only the survivors.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Text-Based 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Political 11.1% ★
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: Political 22.2% ★, Text-Based 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Dystopian 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%
MINISTRY OF TRUTH: 1984 is a story-driven simulator in a totalitarian society. Become an official, manipulate facts, rewrite history, and provide the ‘truth’ to the public. Choose: obey or fight against the regime. Big Brother is watching you! This game is inspired by George Orwell’s classic novel.
Why similar: Political Sim 23.5% ★, Political 20.2% ★, Dystopian 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
VSCS-II is a retro-styled narrative game about privacy and security. Using an upgraded '80s operating system, navigate an underground network to make connections, unearth conspiracies, and ultimately decide the fate of the dark web.
Why similar: Hacking 22.4% ★, Political Sim 20% ★, Political 14.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%, Dystopian 9.9%
Be a troll-for-hire on social media! You will serve in the Social Warfare battalion and promote loyalty to the Great Kingdom of Eternia, while disrupting society in the enemy nation.
Why similar: Political Sim 27.5% ★, Alternate History 18.4%, Text-Based 13.2%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Political 8.4% ★
Harness the phenomenal abilities of an unliving wraith to preserve liberty—or to subvert it. Will you use your powers over quintessence to save your nation, or will you profit from its broken shell?
Why similar: Alternate History 18.2%, Conspiracy 17.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Text-Based 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%
Secret agents fight shadowy wars for global conspiracies vying for absolute power in this espionage strategy game inspired by 1990's conspiracy theories. Infiltrate governments, undermine civil rights, and foment wars in your campaign to establish a New World Order.
Why similar: Illuminati 21.5% ★, Conspiracy 19.7% ★, Political Sim 19.2% ★, Political 15.2% ★, Capitalism 12.2%
Embark on an insane journey with Comer Sintra through MMOs, hacking, the financial markets, love, and a philosophical understanding of how absolutely everything works.
Why similar: Hacking 23.4% ★, Political Sim 15.7% ★, Capitalism 14.5%, Political 13.5% ★, Conspiracy 11.9% ★
You are the Pope's secretary. Wade through the letters addressed to the Pope, and pass on information as instructed. You will use the Vatican's bespoke operating system, Holy OS.
Why similar: Political 20.2% ★, Political Sim 18.4% ★, Hacking 16.1% ★, Text-Based 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
Betrayed by the calculated cruelty of an evil corporation, Josephine finds herself homeless, jobless and without a heart. With nothing to lose, she joins a ragtag group of rebels seeking vengeance. Choose a love interest and let them guide Josephine's heart in this capitalist hellscape.
Why similar: Political 18.3% ★, Cyberpunk 16.3%, LGBTQ+ 13.3%, Dystopian 13.2%, Capitalism 13.1%
Follow a new set of events involving Pegasus-5 crew with them being stuck in a city under curfew after a terrorist attack and getting entangled in a massive conspiracy. Stick close to your allies, build romantic relations, and make important choices.
Why similar: Conspiracy 20.9% ★, Cyberpunk 15.7%, Political 14.4% ★, Dystopian 12.5%, Visual Novel 8.4%
Joe Biden is back as the one term president hoping to become the two time president. November 2024 is only months away but the world is getting more ridiculing by the day. Choose your decisions wisely and help Mister 46 survive his next 3 weeks in office. You must help Joe Escape From MAGA, again.
Why similar: Political 19.1% ★, Conspiracy 18.5% ★, Political Sim 16.3% ★, Alternate History 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 9%
Dread whispers echo across the Information Superhighway. Y2K is coming, heralding the rise of the Old Ones. With your meatspace mind unraveling, time is running out -- barter with gods, embrace the deathless aeons, or go offline permanently in this modempunk horror story.
Why similar: Hacking 18.4% ★, Alternate History 16.8%, Cyberpunk 13.9%, LGBTQ+ 12.3%, Visual Novel 9.8%
Award-winning adventure where you control the news and its impact on society, your friends and career. Different choices lead to unique combinations of endings. Share your story with the community, and see what the players before you did.
Why similar: Political Sim 25.9% ★, Political 23.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Dystopian 9.7%, Visual Novel 9%
“Your Price, Your Honor.” is a game where you control the choices of a judge who is getting close to retirement. You must manage the public’s tolerance for injustice… and your own wallet.
Why similar: Political 20.6% ★, Political Sim 19.8% ★, Capitalism 16.1%, Conspiracy 14.8% ★, Alternate History 12.5%
In the last days of their life, a dying person takes one final gamble... No More Future is a linear Sci-Fi Visual Novel, where you explore a futuristic world as an android trying to rebuild their old life. In this strange journey, they'll question the very foundations of their life and their world.
Why similar: Conspiracy 17.5% ★, Text-Based 16.6%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Political 12.5% ★, Cyberpunk 11.4%
Code.Breaker() is a cyberpunk visual novel about technology, cybercrime, and trying to survive in a world ruled by corporations. Hack your way out of your worst day at a job you´re not supposed to have.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 18.6%, Hacking 14.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, LGBTQ+ 12.1%, Visual Novel 10.6%
Uncover Sabotage, Conspiracy and Counter-Revolution in this cyberpunk detective mystery. Using a mind-probing interface, you explore and act within memories, collect facts, meet agents of change and enormous corporations. Build your case against a person torn between idealism and turmoil.
Why similar: Conspiracy 21.8% ★, Political 17.6% ★, Cyberpunk 17.2%, LGBTQ+ 10.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%
How to Win is an anarchic adventure/gaming experiment where players decide the rules. Whatever you decide, that’s what happens next in our story. No matter what chaos it creates. Play through all 5 chapters of Season 1, then send us your ideas for Season 2!
Why similar: Political 19.8% ★, Political Sim 17.8% ★, Capitalism 12.8%, LGBTQ+ 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
"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: Text-Based 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Dystopian 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Visual Novel 8.8%
Creatures Like Us is a queer narrative sim about squatting, solidarity and surviving capitalism together. Follow a group of friends as they make homes in abandoned buildings. They forage, fix stuff, hold meetings and figure out how to live alongside each other with care, conflict and humour.
Why similar: Political Sim 26.8% ★, LGBTQ+ 17.8%, Dystopian 15.2%, Capitalism 11.9%, Political 9.9% ★
Radiotext is an interactive story set in the near future, where communication without intrusion requires radio-waves. Dive into a cryptographic radio-net in this text-based rpg, where you need to think carefully before typing your answers.
Why similar: Hacking 28.8% ★, Cyberpunk 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Dystopian 9.8%
A Street Story is an interactive story in which you play a gangster in the suburbs from Paris, France. Discover a troubled world mixing gangsters, cops and terrorists. Choose your own path among those shady characters and try to survive!
Why similar: Conspiracy 16.7% ★, Political 14.9% ★, Capitalism 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Text-Based 10.7%
Immigration Enforcement Case #112: You are under arrest. Unless your friends can cross a broken America, retrieve your identifying documents and stay out of trouble... this is the end of the American dream for you.
Why similar: Political 22.6% ★, Political Sim 19.4% ★, Alternate History 17.3%, Dystopian 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%
Pax Astra is a political sim rpg set in a space opera setting. You are free to follow any ideology, pursue any strategy, and define your own path to power. Manage politics, elections, crisis, economics, secret scientific projects, external politics and more.
Why similar: Political Sim 28% ★, Political 22% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Visual Novel 9.5%, Interactive Fiction 7.7%
Spark romance amid secrets in a crumbling mansion! What will you sacrifice for love? Can you trust your own heart?
Why similar: Conspiracy 26.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Text-Based 12%, RPG 11.3%
Find the unfindable and do the impossible? It’s all in a day’s work for you. As a concierge, how far will you go to make billionaires’ dreams come true?
Why similar: Capitalism 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Text-Based 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, RPG 11.8%
Follow the new worker of the disinformation agency day by day. Decide how to oppose news and people through the use of fake scandals and redirections. Ensure a win for your employers - or find some conscience after all.
Why similar: Political Sim 29% ★, Visual Novel 13%, Capitalism 11.5%, Text-Based 9.3%, Political 9.3% ★
Welcome to Forward Green, Dave, we hope you're excited. Project Lagoon Breeze is a great opportunity to make connections, oversee construction, and manage community relations on an international scale. This role requires resilience, but we know you're up for it. Are you ready to make a difference?
Why similar: Political 28.7% ★, Capitalism 21%, Text-Based 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Visual Novel 8.7%
Live your own story in a world of the early Middle Ages! Lead a dynasty, expand your domain, help your subjects, and don’t forget to leave an heir! Thy Kingdom Come!
Why similar: Political Sim 25.6% ★, Political 22% ★, Alternate History 15.4%, Text-Based 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%
Greetings. Your Mind Scanner request has been approved. Your duty is to diagnose and treat the citizens of The Structure. The patient list is long so don't waste your time. We’ll let you see your daughter soon...
Why similar: Political 20.4% ★, Political Sim 18.6% ★, Cyberpunk 13.1%, Dystopian 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
You are Juno, a teenage girl getting evidence to clear her brother's name. Choose who helps you solve the mystery. With multiple endings, some scenes are flashbacks to the past. Your actions there may even change who committed the crime, with what, and where!
Why similar: Hacking 25.1% ★, Cyberpunk 18.8%, Conspiracy 15.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Visual Novel 11%
"Liberty has rotted; only a New Order can save Americe." you are the President. To end chaos, you follow the "advanced experience" from the peninsula. Reorganize the USA into the Democratic People's Republic of Americe (DPRA). Achieve the true MAGA!
Why similar: Political Sim 29.1% ★, Dystopian 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Political 10.7% ★, Visual Novel 9%
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Illuminati 20.8% ★, Dystopian 13.8%, Text-Based 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%
When a sudden election rocks the country, whose side are you on? In Civic Story, you'll encounter colorful characters & situations that show how the upcoming election affects you, your colleagues, and the nation in this comedic 8-chapter Visual Novel parody that helps you understand our world today.
Why similar: Political Sim 24.2% ★, Political 19% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Visual Novel 9.6%
Join Carmen, a somewhat absent-minded middle-aged lady who has to endure bizarre situations in her space truck. And possibly mess things up like crazy. An interactive narrative experience about the most flamboyant beings in the universe.
Why similar: Alternate History 22.3%, LGBTQ+ 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Visual Novel 12.5%
A flesh-eating dust leaves you to survive alone against hordes of Listless.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, LGBTQ+ 15.4%, Visual Novel 13.3%, RPG 10.1%
Take the role of Redactor at Liaise, the world’s largest social media firm in the year 2062. Deal with noisy chat bots, hateful messages, fake news, and anything else that disrupts the fragile social ties in a dystopian world. Can you keep people engaged on the platform without losing your sanity?
Why similar: Cyberpunk 20.6%, Capitalism 18.5%, Conspiracy 17.3% ★, Dystopian 17%, Futuristic 10.8%
Join a mysterious internet cult in a visual novel that plays out like a real conversation happening within a chat app.
Why similar: Hacking 15.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Text-Based 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.4%
Change the minds of evildoers…for good! MINDHACK is a text adventure game where you meet unique evildoers, hack their minds, and rewrite them into happy people!
Why similar: Hacking 32.9% ★, Dystopian 18%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Futuristic 9.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%
Tensions both political and personal are rising at the Brightworld mining colony. In this dynamic sci-fi visual novel you must decide where your heart and loyalties lie if you’re to shape the future and save yourself.
Why similar: Dystopian 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Capitalism 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Text-Based 10%
A narrative-driven sci-fi exploration game that sees a couple being torn apart by invisible forces whilst trying to salvage an abandoned spaceship and uncover its mysteries.
Why similar: Political 24.7% ★, Capitalism 18.2%, LGBTQ+ 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Drama 8.1%
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: Alternate History 20.3%, Political 15.9% ★, Text-Based 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%
Future? No Thanks! is a narrative-driven, open-world adventure set in an ecosocialist utopia. You're old, bitter, and scheduled for euthanasia. Enjoy your last day in a future that works for everyone but you.
Why similar: Capitalism 19.5%, Cyberpunk 17%, LGBTQ+ 16.7%, Political 16% ★, Dystopian 11.7%
They steal your crew and force your ship to crash-land on an alien planet where you must start fresh with nothing but a dilapidated base and a... talking cat?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, LGBTQ+ 15.3%, Visual Novel 13%, RPG 9.7%
A new political Party has won a landslide in the General Election, and for some reason the editor at the news station you work at has done a runner. Now it’s up to you, the Janitor, to take over the editing booth in this tumultuous time - will you help the government, or stand in their way?
Why similar: Political Sim 20.4% ★, Political 20% ★, Alternate History 14.3%, Dystopian 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%
A sci-fi visual novel about climate, class, and the relationships that shape our worldview.
Why similar: Conspiracy 24.4% ★, LGBTQ+ 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Drama 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.5%
In this short character-focused narrative experience you are a monarch of a small medieval kingdom and must name your successor before it is too late
Why similar: Political Sim 34.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choices Matter 7%
夜を歩く、血だまりの上を走る、永遠を断ち切る。 復讐のための翼は折れない。
Why similar: Cyberpunk 17.4%, Text-Based 16.1%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Dystopian 14.1%, LGBTQ+ 9.8%
A choose-your-own-adventure novel. Enter the mind of a black-ops team leader heading an impossible mission in a parallel universe. Choices are remembered, story events reflect past decisions, and freely rewind time to try different paths.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Text-Based 18.4%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Choices Matter 10%
A call for help within a mysterious messaging app. Someone lost and wandering through a forest in a faraway place. And their destiny in your hands.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.1%, Text-Based 18%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.3%
Unravel the mystery behind the disappearance of Druhyus' favorite celebrity playboy, Walker Kahmenos. Join investigative journalist Verity Lux, in this interactive fiction title and follow leads, conduct interviews, and submit your findings as you seek out the truth - before it's too late.
Why similar: Conspiracy 17.7% ★, Alternate History 14.5%, Cyberpunk 12%, Drama 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%