60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Psychological Horror, Text-Based, Story Rich, Interactive Fiction.
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
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In an AI-powered age where original authors have become largely redundant, play as a dejected writer on the brink of losing their creative drive forever.
Minds Beneath Us
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.
In an AI-powered age where original authors have become largely redundant, play as a dejected writer on the brink of losing their creative drive forever.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Horror 11.2%
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: Dystopian 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Psychological Horror 9.6%
You are a body snatching creature. Capture the body, explore the environment, reproduce.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Surreal 11.6%, Horror 11.3%, Psychological Horror 9.3%
The Test: Reality Check is one of multiple installments in an ongoing social experiment that can be classified as an atmospheric, psychological-simulation with horror elements. Dive deep into your own psyche to find answers to questions you've kept locked away, hidden from yourself for far too long.
Why similar: Text-Based 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Dark Humor 11.4%, Surreal 11.1%, Psychological Horror 9.5%
A psychological text-based game where each day you are tasked with executing someone based on the limited information provided until one person remains with their full story revealed.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Dystopian 13.5%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Psychological Horror 9.7%
Sort forms, get to know your mysterious new collegues & unravel mysteries they're trying to cover up as you step in to replace the previous RH at this mysterious pharmaceutical company.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 23.8%, Dark Humor 21.9%, Horror 11.7%, Point & Click 10.7%, Choices Matter 9.9%
As the CEO of a corporation that sells superpowers to the highest bidder, you'll harness dark magic and travel through time to inflate your stock prices!
Why similar: Text-Based 55.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.8%, RPG 19%
Crush someone's skull, Suffer from Hypothermia, Transcend your Mortal Frame, Find all 10 Endings. GET YOUR HOUSE BACK.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Surreal 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.1%
Inspired by JCS videos and similar Interrogation analysis. Match evidence with statements. Play good cop/bad cop. Make choices. Learn what makes people tick. Unravel the mystery.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Text-Based 14.9%, Dark Humor 12.9%, Visual Novel 11%
A psychological surveillance adventure. Observe 16 real-time CCTV feeds as TOBOR, a spy unit uncovering secrets in a dystopian bunker. Monitor suspects, collect evidence, and choose who survives. Multiple endings.
Why similar: Dystopian 14.2%, Text-Based 13%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Surreal 9.7%, Dark Humor 9.4%
You are wetware, working a mysterious job.
Why similar: Surreal 17.7%, Dystopian 17.3%, Dark Humor 16%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Horror 10.8%
Auto-cannibalism. Demonic Seduction. Occult Rituals. Bloodfeasting Worms. This dark, horrific Twine-based dungeon crawler pairs edgy interactive fiction with grisly pixel art and light RPG elements. Navigate this sprawling narrative-driven labyrinth bristling with otherworldly doom.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.5%, Horror 18.2%, Text-Based 15.9%, Adventure 3.7%
A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths. A free atmospheric horror visual novel where you navigate life-or-death situations. SEEK PARADISE OR DIE TRYING
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Choices Matter 9%
An unusual horror-themed Visual Novel about waking up in a carriage with a stranger… Whatever could go wrong?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Text-Based 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Dark Humor 11.2%, Psychological Horror 10.4%
Working at a data entry job in the big city, you type up and transcribe the lost mail and letters that have nowhere else to go. But as the days carry on oddities in the mail start to emerge, and cracks begin to appear.
Why similar: Dystopian 19.7%, Text-Based 18.1%, Surreal 14.8%, Psychological Horror 12%, Horror 11.2%
A surrealist text-based RPG. You will explore an island, solve puzzles, and fight enemies, all in your attempt to get the Dark Egg.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Surreal 13.7%, Psychological Horror 9.5%
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: Text-Based 22.2%, Dystopian 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Visual Novel 9.2%
Point-and-click mystery adventure on the virtual SNS! Find secrets hidden by family, friends, companies, and idols.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Text-Based 14.1%, Dark Humor 13.1%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Psychological Horror 11.2%
You are subordinate to the deranged dictator and must plan his doomed invasion in this text-based RPG / Visual Novel. Navigate the shark-filled waters of the Great Leader's presidential cabinet, try to save your family, and survive the purges in a world of power-hungry leaders and nuclear warfare.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Text-Based 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Choices Matter 9.1%
A branching-path narrative horror RPG set in Vienna, Austria. Guide the Unnamed through the worst night of their life: Harass your neighbours. Debate with birds. Smoke to survive.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Multiple Endings 9.2%, Choices Matter 9%
Alone in the dead of night, you find yourself sent on a simple errand to check on a quiet gas station on the outskirts of town. But nothing here feels right. You can’t outrun this place. It wants you. And it will keep you.
Why similar: Text-Based 14.4%, Surreal 13.1%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%, Visual Novel 9%
Social welfare survival horror based on real events. Endure emotional pain and societal pressure. Stay entertained. Survive the routine and become the hero of your studio apartment—battle inner demons, hide skeletons in the closet, and most importantly… keep the bathroom clean.
Why similar: Dark Humor 26.4%, Surreal 18.9%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Story Rich 11.4%, Horror 9.8%
"Choose your own adventure" style nightmares
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Text-Based 17.8%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Psychological Horror 11.7%
A fourth-wall-breaking narrative adventure. It’s interview day, and you really need this job—enough to ignore the talking printer, the anomaly corridor, and the ridiculous life-or-death trials your interviewer keeps putting you in. But deep down, you know... something here is very, very wrong.
Why similar: Choices Matter 27%, Multiple Endings 21.8%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Surreal 14.7%, Story Rich 14.4%
A horror channel browsing game where each channel holds a different nightmare to experience, explore them and find out the truth about what has happened in a small town where the inhabitants have disappeared.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Horror 13.7%, Dark Humor 13.3%
Investigate a paranormal disease that threatens to eradicate humanity in this unsettling Lovecraftian adventure, inspired by the choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks of the 80s and 90s. Your choices will determine the story, your character’s destiny… and the future of humanity.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Story Rich 10.2%
This is a collection of short and experimental horror experiences, focused on surreal and bizarre plots.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Horror 13%, Surreal 11.2%
An interactive psychological horror drama.
Why similar: Surreal 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Psychological Horror 13%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Horror 9.4%
An immersive choose-your-own-adventure survival horror with optional adult content featuring hand drawn backgrounds, sprites, and over 150 pieces of full screen art- and 50 endings.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.4%
Thank You for Your Application is a story-driven interview simulation game. After 15 rounds of interviews, you are reassigned as a junior interviewer, tasked with screening candidates’ resumes according to company requirements and issuing the appropriate thank letters.
Why similar: Dystopian 39.9%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Point & Click 13.7%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, RPG 8.1%
Experience death from the comfort of your seat.
Why similar: Surreal 23.7%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Dark Humor 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.1%
Conversation is a dangerous game. Manipulate a fractured band of renegade divers to reach the depths of this short narrative puzzle. Uncover alliances and expose betrayals — before something horrific from the dark abyss silences you all. Don’t let the conversation get too deep.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Dystopian 12.8%, Story Rich 10.9%, Atmospheric 10.2%
Inspired by SCP-261, you play as a homeless girl struggling to survive in a distorted city using a vending machine that should not exist. Every coin dispenses impossible food that defies biology and logic, and every meal reshapes your fate. How long can you survive before you stop being human?
Why similar: Dark Humor 26.2%, Psychological Horror 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Horror 9.7%
Every why has a wherefore. You are trapped, and you must escape. But is that really the goal? Centum is an unreliable narrative-driven adventure where everything may be a lie.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Visual Novel 14%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Horror 10%
Join forces with the psychic Director of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center and solve a variety of cases involving cursed relics, rental properties with shady histories, and dimensional anomalies. Monstrous oddities and otherworldly planes abound in this occult mystery adventure game!
Why similar: Text-Based 20.6%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Horror 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
A dark and satirical management sim, where you take control of a recycling factory with a twist: it recycles humans. Your job is to decide who gets to escape our dying planet in a cozy spaceship and who sacrifices their blood, sweat and tears for humanity. Literally.
Why similar: Dystopian 33.3%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Multiple Endings 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Story Rich 10.1%
You're working overtime again in your dead-end job, whilst your boss is on vacation. However, strange things are happening throughout the office. Complete your daily work tasks, explore your office, report any anomalies you may find, and you may just find yourself getting a promotion...
Why similar: Surreal 25.5%, Psychological Horror 23.8%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Atmospheric 12.2%, Horror 10.9%
An interactive horror experience of exploring a missing woman’s phone.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 16.3%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Horror 14.8%, Choices Matter 14%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
Beso's Shawarma is a short, narrative-driven horror game. A late-night call lures you on a surreal journey through empty streets to a sketchy shawarma shop. Talk to a cast of strange characters, make a terrifying choice, and try to escape a disjointed, looping nightmare.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Surreal 13.6%, Psychological Horror 12%, Horror 9.1%
Trolley Problem, Inc. is a darkly comedic narrative game based on real-world philosophical papers, in which you are asked to make a series of impossible choices from two awful answers. Wrestle with your moral compass, decide the fate of millions – and compare your choices with the rest of the world.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.3%, Dark Humor 23.7%, Surreal 19.6%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Minimalist 9.3%
Step into the role of a faceless detective investigating creatures from Slavic folklore. Explore dialogue-driven mysteries, solve puzzles, and uncover post-Soviet occult secrets in a pixel art housing block full of bizarre residents and hidden truths
Why similar: Text-Based 26.2%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Dark Humor 15.7%, Story Rich 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%
There are things that often fail on nothing but themselves. Is there even a way out? Playing Kafka is a narrative adventure full of impenetrable schemes, insidious plot twists and conversations that slip out of hand. Based on Kafka’s life and his work, developed with Kafka experts.
Why similar: Surreal 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Story Rich 9%, Point & Click 8.1%
Bite-sized surreal horror with multiple choices. Make your own way through the claymation madness!
Why similar: Surreal 21%, Dark Humor 20.2%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Horror 9.7%, Story Rich 6.5%
A Lovecraftian investigative gamebook. New York, 1927. A case pulled from real history, wrapped in cosmic horror. His name was Billy Gaffney. The man who took him was real. But his purpose was from another plane of existence. You play a journalist. You make choices. The story remembers all of them.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Text-Based 18%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Choices Matter 10%
If you don't sacrifice your neighbors, the world ends. Life Eater is a horror fantasy kidnapping simulator where you must become intimately familiar with your targets' lives one intrusive action at a time... and hope that the dark god you serve is even real.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Psychological Horror 14.3%, Horror 14.2%, Point & Click 8.7%
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: Text-Based 17%, Dystopian 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Visual Novel 8.9%
Join Brian Pasternack on his first working day at Sintracorp. Uncertain, unprepared, and massively unqualified, will Pasternack have what it takes to shine in Sintracorp’s hierarchy? It all depends on how he performs on his first assignment… and whether he survives it.
Why similar: Dark Humor 22.8%, Psychological Horror 19.3%, Choices Matter 15%, Horror 14.5%, Multiple Endings 13.1%
An atmospheric retro inspired survival horror game. Enjoy the late shift at 'The Month' in an abstract and unsettling night of terror, spooks and convenience.
Why similar: Dark Humor 31.2%, Psychological Horror 26.3%, Atmospheric 20.2%, Multiple Endings 19.1%, Adventure 3.2%
A short SF psychedelic interrogation ADV game that focuses on the interrogation of a suspect in a dismemberment murder case. The protagonist is a lieutenant colonel, tasked with interrogating the suspect. The protagonist needs to find out why she killed the two men and how she committed the crime.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.1%, Visual Novel 23.2%, Surreal 14.9%, Horror 11.8%, Multiple Endings 6.2%
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Choices Matter 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Text-Based 15.2%, Visual Novel 10.3%
Spot anomalies and uncover hidden clues to escape an office where overwork turns strange and experiments happen more often than coffee breaks.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Surreal 22.6%, Psychological Horror 19.4%, Horror 12.9%, Multiple Endings 11.4%
The Innsmouth Case is a text adventure game inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and the very first text-based adventure to combine horror and comedy in a fit and proper way.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Text-Based 21.1%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Horror 10.2%
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: Text-Based 16.7%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Horror 11.9%
Mothmen 1966 is a 'Pixel Pulp' - a visual novel fusing exceptional writing and stunning illustration, inspired by mid-20th century pulp fiction and 80s home computer graphics - set amongst the strange occurrences of the Leonid meteor shower of 1966.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Horror 10.4%
This is a text-based adventure puzzle game, where you must struggle to survive in a world filled with ghosts and urban legends. While collecting clues, you'll uncover the truth behind the world and find the way out. The game features a wealth of levels, unconventional rules, and a touch of horror.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 30%, Text-Based 17.2%, Story Rich 14.5%, Horror 14.2%, Stylized 9.4%
If you're nervous about job searching and interviews, face your fears head-on in "Welcome to the Karoshi Club" a Japanese horror business punk visual novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.1%, Surreal 20.1%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Atmospheric 11%, Horror 9.8%
A Point and Click work simulator where you juggle 7 jobs to pay your debt. Start by doing simple spreadsheet and progress to more important job like overseeing a nuclear bomb.
Why similar: Dystopian 37.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Dark Humor 19%, Point & Click 14.8%, Casual 2.5%
Classic Zork meets Existential Crisis. A modern text adventure that explores themes of control, isolation and mental health while levelling up the genre with beautiful pixel art.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.9%, Text-Based 22.1%, Story Rich 14.6%, Atmospheric 12.3%, Choices Matter 6.5%
Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.1%, Text-Based 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Psychological Horror 6.5%
This year's Desire Hierarchy has begun. The stakes are now deadly. Hop into The Specter's Desire, a Visual Novel in which you play against the city's top talents to save your parents. Includes puzzling gameplay that has you tearing down arguments, hatching schemes, and revealing the truth!
Why similar: Text-Based 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Horror 8.6%
