Games Like Imitosis

BatteryNote is a multi-ending sci-fi adventure visual novel game. You can recharge three robots with limited lifespans, bringing them back to life. Interact with them through conversations or experiment by applying high voltage. How they spend their final moments is entirely up to you.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29%, Robots 22.6%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Choices Matter 7.1%

It's not a game, it's a toy. Explore all cycles and prepare yourself to accept the inevitable effects of Mitoza.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 46.7%, Choices Matter 33.2%, Adventure 6.6%, Casual 4.8%, Atmospheric 4.5%

An algorithm decided to show you this. What now?

Why similar: Experimental 47.8%, Visual Novel 27.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Adventure 5.6%, Atmospheric 3.9%

A short 10 minute visual novel about being a fragment in the universe and trying to find a way out of the ****.

Why similar: Psychological 56.4%, Choices Matter 30.5%, Atmospheric 7.9%, Adventure 3.5%, Indie 0.9%

The self-destruction sequence has been activated. You have 5 minutes to solve your way out of a high-stakes, escape room-style disaster.

Why similar: Minimalist 28.7%, Psychological 17%, Space 16.8%, Sci-fi 15.9%, Casual 9.9%

A short-form psychological thriller. Confront the mysterious Finn through a monitor. No strategy or puzzles—and you are given almost no freedom of choice. Simply face the absurd situation and witness the end.

Why similar: Visual Novel 45.2%, Psychological 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Adventure 6.7%, Indie 3.5%

A visual novel about raising a cute robot child, which may or may not go horribly wrong. Your choices decide the outcome.

Why similar: Robots 28%, Visual Novel 24.1%, Psychological 23.3%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Sci-fi 8.4%

A little experimental game about making many choices quickly. Pick from 3 options, then do it again, and again, and again... Make the best out of a bad situation. Do it as quickly as you can because time is the most valuable resource at your disposal.

Why similar: Experimental 66.1%, Space 12.3%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Casual 6.7%, Indie 2.2%

"What if you're born into this world without your permission?" DIVINATION is a very short visual novel where you act as a fortune teller in a futuristic world. Talk and listen to people's stories, then foresee their future using the runes they had drawn.

Why similar: Experimental 45.2%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Robots 13%, Sci-fi 9%

Transcender is a brief interactive experience that takes place in a surreal sci-fi setting. Figuring out how to play and what to do is the main attraction of the experience. It will hopefully leave you thinking "Hmm, that was interesting"

Why similar: Experimental 46.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.9%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Sci-fi 8.4%, Indie 2.7%

Omnimus. Welcome to the future! A visual novel about a daring experiment.

Why similar: Visual Novel 27%, Adventure 17.7%, Choices Matter 17%, Sci-fi 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%

Go about your normal every day life and meet new friends in this short visual novel!

Why similar: Visual Novel 71.9%, Casual 11.1%, Adventure 8.4%, Indie 5.3%, Singleplayer 3.4%

A short visual novel about finding your name and a girl in the fog.

Why similar: Experimental 50.7%, Visual Novel 20%, Minimalist 13.8%, Psychological 8.1%, Interactive Fiction 5.1%

A visual novel set in a universe where the orderlies are trying to take over our planet.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.7%, Visual Novel 26.9%, Minimalist 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 8%, Adventure 6%

MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.3%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Psychological 18.3%, Choices Matter 16.9%, Sci-fi 10.5%

A cinematic techno-thriller about the fate of the intermediate links of progress.

Why similar: Visual Novel 29.5%, Minimalist 24%, Sci-fi 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Futuristic 9.1%

Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.

Why similar: Thriller 22.7%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Adventure 13.9%, Sci-fi 13.2%, Casual 9.4%

Something has been taken. Enter a new Grid and forge alliances via visual novel gameplay, uncovering truths through Identity Disc puzzles. Make critical decisions and plot your own course in a world without a creator.

Why similar: Visual Novel 27.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.8%, Choices Matter 20.9%, Sci-fi 14%, Adventure 6.9%

A linear visual novel about five short stories, unrelated at first glance. Be prepared for mysticism, gloomy atmosphere and light psychological horror. Not recommended to play if you are experiencing depression or severe psychological state.

Why similar: Visual Novel 40.5%, Thriller 29.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%, Adventure 8.6%, Atmospheric 5.3%

Delve into a troubled student's mind as his grip on reality unravels . . .

Why similar: Adventure 61.6%, Indie 38.4%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 24%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Thriller 17.1%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Psychological 9.8%

Did you ever pay attention to the importance of space? Space Between Worlds is a short puzzle game that expresses the concept of proximity and lets the player interpret the context and arc of the story.

Why similar: Casual 52%, Indie 48%

A short, atmospheric experience set inside a handcrafted dream. You are a small, solitary citizen drifting through augmented memories. Boot up your LonelyOS and let the robots guide you.

Why similar: Robots 60.5%, Futuristic 16.2%, Adventure 13.5%, Atmospheric 7.8%, Indie 1.1%

Play as Doctor Athena, a passionate young woman with mixed alien heritage—and the sole survivor of refugee camp ITOH. Three days remain on the trip 'home'—with only the ship's unsettlingly polite Captain Odysseus and the cryptic alien war criminal Chiron for company. But is everything really as it seems?

Why similar: Visual Novel 58%, Sci-fi 21.8%, Indie 10.1%, Casual 10.1%

Error: Human Not Found is a visual-novel/puzzle game with portions of point-and-click adventure. Play as Grace and work to uncover the cause of death for the first AI to inhabit a physical body. Solve 4 types of computer-science based puzzles that increase in difficulty as the story progresses.

Why similar: Adventure 44.2%, Casual 29.2%, Indie 26.6%

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: Experimental 27.4%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Minimalist 8.7%

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: Visual Novel 52.1%, Sci-fi 18.8%, Adventure 13.5%, Futuristic 10.9%, Indie 3.2%

An FPS with ZERO graphics!? Yes, you heard right ! Run • Blast • Escape • Survive, through sound alone, as you challenge your makers and unravel the mysteries of your existence. You may be blind, but you're far from helpless !

Why similar: Experimental 49.3%, Thriller 20%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Sci-fi 11.2%, Atmospheric 2.9%

A short 2D exploration adventure in a retro style! Explore a laundromat in the middle of the night and try to clear it!

Why similar: Visual Novel 47.5%, Choices Matter 30.7%, Atmospheric 7.2%, Adventure 5.9%, Casual 4.9%

You have exactly 60 minutes to save humanity from nuclear extinction. There are no second attempts. No manual saves. Explore a collapsing bunker, repair critical systems, and solve puzzles under pressure. Succeed or watch the world end.

Why similar: Sci-fi 43%, Adventure 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Casual 10%, Singleplayer 5.8%

Horror/thriller visual novel with RPG elements about two friends that explores guilt, co-dependency, and personal limits being pushed.

Why similar: Visual Novel 66.2%, Choices Matter 26.5%, Indie 4.5%, Singleplayer 2.8%

It’s 2065, and you are an interrogator-model android tasked with rooting out deviants among your own kind. You must probe for lies, monitor and exploit emotional spikes, earn the trust of your subjects, and make the final call: release, or destroy?

Why similar: Experimental 40.1%, Choices Matter 19.9%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Sci-fi 10.1%, Futuristic 5.5%

Sci-Fi Mystery Visual Novel. Nine people are trapped in an underground research facility, forced to play a game of life and death. Check your log to find the truth that connects those apparent strangers - if you even want to, that is.

Why similar: Visual Novel 30.6%, Psychological 29.5%, Sci-fi 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Futuristic 5.2%

Acolyte: Prologue is the first act in a dynamic narrative detective/puzzle game that gives you your own Acolyte; a digital assistant you can talk to freely without pre-defined dialogue options. Just like a real conversation.

Why similar: Experimental 53.2%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%, Adventure 6%

Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.

Why similar: Choices Matter 29.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Indie 4.9%

Short visual novel about a guy and his cracks down relations. Help him decide what is best for him - his work or his girlfriend.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 40.6%, Visual Novel 39.3%, Casual 20%

When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.

Why similar: Visual Novel 25.8%, Robots 25.5%, Choices Matter 20%, Sci-fi 13.9%, Futuristic 5.6%

A visual novel about what it means to be human. A story about loneliness, self-identification, and the meaning of existence.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 38.8%, Visual Novel 33.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Minimalist 10.4%, Atmospheric 5.4%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.3%, Choices Matter 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Thriller 12.9%, Sci-fi 8.1%

You've only precious moments before time collapses onto itself to save your family. Warp, jump and rewind through time and space - and pray that whatever lives between it doesn't notice you.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 37.2%, Psychological 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Adventure 12.3%, Atmospheric 7.4%

Unroaded is a short free visual novel about the living dead man who instead of inaction has chosen the road.

Why similar: Visual Novel 49.7%, Choices Matter 21.6%, Adventure 12.8%, Indie 8.2%, Casual 7.8%

The world ends in 1 hour. It can't be saved. Wanna chat?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.8%, Visual Novel 27.7%, Psychological 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Atmospheric 5.1%

What does a SUPERVILLAIN do, when he is forbidden from doing anything evil for the day? WARNING: This is not the type of game where you can make meaningful choices.

Why similar: Visual Novel 68.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Indie 5.2%, Casual 4.5%, Singleplayer 2.9%

Humanity Must Perish is a short, comedic visual novel in which the fate of humanity is placed in the hands of a witty, pessimistic android.

Why similar: Visual Novel 71.9%, Indie 14.2%, Casual 14%

A short Visual-Novel, made with Artificial-Inteligence art, about a party of adventurers on a medieval setting.

Why similar: Experimental 32.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Minimalist 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.5%

It was supposed to be just a harmless chat to kill time with a stranger named Mina. But from the other side of the browser, the boundary between your reality and the internet is slowly being eroded. This is a desktop-invasion chat horror.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 63.5%, Adventure 16.7%, Casual 9.7%, Atmospheric 5.4%, Singleplayer 4.7%

You buy a laptop with your hands. You find an interactive collection of short stories on your laptop and something else. Or someone? What will all this lead to?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29%, Visual Novel 26.1%, Adventure 11.1%, Sci-fi 10%, Choices Matter 7.8%

You wake up in a spaceship, you realize that strange things are going on there, you try to get back to civilization. However, this is harder than you think, the encounters will drive you crazy and you will doubt yourself.

Why similar: Choices Matter 33.4%, Space 26.8%, Sci-fi 21.4%, Adventure 10.8%, Atmospheric 5.9%

Mimic Search is a short indie horror game, in which you take the role of a police officer investigating a recent mimic attack.

Why similar: Thriller 55.2%, Psychological 19.1%, Adventure 11.5%, Atmospheric 7.9%, Singleplayer 4.6%

Experience a 10 minute dive into the unknown depths of the multiverse!

Why similar: Adventure 37.4%, Indie 21.7%, Casual 21.2%, Atmospheric 12.4%, Singleplayer 7.3%

"From Head to Toe" is a short interactive story about winter, existential guilt and your ex-classmates.

Why similar: Experimental 45.1%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Adventure 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 7.8%, Casual 7.6%

Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative exploration game where you build a relationship with a lonely spaceship computer to get home to Earth.

Why similar: Space 26.5%, Sci-fi 24.7%, Choices Matter 24.4%, Adventure 10.3%, Atmospheric 5.9%

🚨 Emergency Alert 🚨 New security protocols have been activated. Remain indoors. Do not open your doors under any circumstance. Isolation is safety. Isolation is truth. Or is it?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.6%, Visual Novel 29.4%, Sci-fi 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Casual 4.5%

CAUTION: Escape from this supervillain at your own risk...A short sci-fi visual novel packed with brain-teasing puzzles, gruesome deaths and heartbreaking secrets.

Why similar: Visual Novel 42.7%, Choices Matter 27.7%, Sci-fi 25.6%, Singleplayer 4%

You can remember nothing before this moment. Your existence begins with a keystroke followed by the flick of a switch. Electrical power streams into your neural network, and you are alive.

Why similar: Robots 28.2%, Sci-fi 17.6%, Space 15.2%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Futuristic 9.2%

A haiku platformer. It's short and vague.

Why similar: Experimental 46%, Psychological 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 6.2%, Adventure 3.7%

You wake up in your cryo-pod. Other crew members are dead. Something is wrong with the spaceship and if you don't use all your wits, you will not leave this place alive...

Why similar: Adventure 62.4%, Indie 37.6%

A short interrogation game taking full advantage of ChatGPT! You are tasked with interrogating the suspect [AI] of a murder case as an [excellent police officer]. How you choose to interrogate the suspect is up to you. How the AI reacts is rendered in real-time through ChatGPT.

Why similar: Sci-fi 31.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Futuristic 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Adventure 10.9%

"Hello my World! Lily." is a visual novel about a programmer who finds an unusual way to cope with loneliness and routine. But after a while, his imagination and actions go too far, and the line between reality and fantasy begins to melt rapidly.

Why similar: Visual Novel 46.4%, Thriller 34.2%, Adventure 16.6%, Indie 2.8%

A short point & click narrative adventure inspired by the real life experience of a struggling solo indie game developer. A story about everything and hence nothing at all. Discover what truly matters to you.

Why similar: Psychological 36.9%, Visual Novel 27.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Adventure 9.5%, Casual 5.9%