60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Text-Based, Adventure, Indie.
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.
Mainland
A text adventure game about a 19th century explorer who finds himself stranded and alone.
呪霊が見せる夢 Dreamscapes
Investigate six haunted properties and listen to the voices of spirits trapped in nightmares. Collect fragmented clues and discover the correct combination of names, locations, and vessels. A multi-ending horror adventure where the outcome changes depending on your choices during the ritual.
A text adventure game about a 19th century explorer who finds himself stranded and alone.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 44.9%, Text-Based 40%, Adventure 15.1%
Investigate six haunted properties and listen to the voices of spirits trapped in nightmares. Collect fragmented clues and discover the correct combination of names, locations, and vessels. A multi-ending horror adventure where the outcome changes depending on your choices during the ritual.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 44.6%, Text-Based 42.4%, Adventure 13.1%
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: Interactive Fiction 40.5%, Text-Based 34.6%, Adventure 16.4%, Atmospheric 8.4%
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: Interactive Fiction 49.7%, Text-Based 42.6%, Adventure 7.8%
Vanakan is the journey of Tadevos - a priest, who travels the 500s Armenia to find the monastery that suits for his goal of becoming spiritually closer to Jesus Christ. He meets different people on his way and makes choices which will define his future and that of the country.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 41.6%, Text-Based 33.8%, Adventure 17%, Atmospheric 7.7%
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 47.1%, Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Pixel Graphics 12.3%, Adventure 8.9%, Atmospheric 4.3%
Immerse yourself in a dark fantasy world that is inspired by traditional text-based adventure and interactive fiction games.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 45.5%, Text-Based 44.7%, Adventure 9.9%
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 40.3%, Interactive Fiction 36.6%, Adventure 23.1%
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 56.6%, Interactive Fiction 28.2%, Adventure 15.1%
A text adventure mystery with a modern parser.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 46.4%, Text-Based 38.6%, Adventure 15%
Explore a Fallout 2 inspired tactical grid map in this text-based sci-fi cRPG. You blacked out in 2089 and woke up 300 years later to a solar system reduced to ruins. Scavenge ships, craft items, and survive turn-based combat as narrative choices shape your journey.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 48.2%, Text-Based 46.1%, Atmospheric 5.7%
Don't Let Me Fade is an interactive adventure about memory, identity, and loss. Piece together fragments of a life - even if a simple teddy bear is the last symbol of connection to oneself in a world without time.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 43.6%, Text-Based 20.5%, Adventure 17.6%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%, Atmospheric 7.5%
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 42%, Interactive Fiction 34.6%, Adventure 14.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%
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 46%, Interactive Fiction 34.4%, Adventure 19.7%
Unravel the mysterious past of your parents and homeland while journeying through four unique lands in this exciting science-fantasy adventure!
Why similar: Text-Based 42.8%, Interactive Fiction 38.9%, Adventure 18.3%
Embark on an immersive adventure alongside Roh as she tries to break free from her strange dream.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 42.2%, Text-Based 25.5%, Adventure 16.7%, Pixel Graphics 10%, Atmospheric 5.6%
Claw your way to the top of Moreytown, a furry slum for human-animal hybrids. Will you take down the gangs who rule the town, or take them over instead?
Why similar: Text-Based 51%, Interactive Fiction 30.6%, Adventure 18.4%
A narrative-driven psychological visual novel where every floor of an elevator reveals a key moment from your past. Face your regrets, uncover forgotten memories, and make choices that shape your future. Will you find closure, or remain trapped in your own mind?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 43.9%, Text-Based 43.8%, Adventure 7.7%, Atmospheric 4.6%
The main character is the usual average schoolboy, who can be found on the street after the 7th lesson. But it's not so simple, because he has a dream inside of his head, a dream that you have to implement!
Why similar: Text-Based 34.7%, Interactive Fiction 33.8%, Pixel Graphics 17.2%, Atmospheric 11.6%, Adventure 2.5%
BEL/S is an Elemental Firewall: a fire elemental bound with C++ code to protect a network of people and places. She can learn things, develop relationships, and even gain sapience. Or she can burn everything with fire. It's up to you.
Why similar: Text-Based 48.8%, Interactive Fiction 34.5%, Adventure 16.7%
Hoist the Jolly Roger and set sail to find the legendary Titan’s Treasure! Do you fight with a cutlass or with magic? Are you biding your time until you can shoot your captain in the back, or are you the reason the rum is gone?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 47.4%, Text-Based 43%, Adventure 9.6%
Samurai of Hyuga is a brutal, heart-pounding interactive tale. Prepare to enter the land of silk and steel, where fantasy clashes against grim reality, and where the good guys don't always win in the end. It's a harsh world with tough choices at every turn. Good thing you're the toughest ronin around.
Why similar: Text-Based 44.8%, Interactive Fiction 40.2%, Adventure 15.1%
This text adventure, beautifully illustrated in pixel art, invites you to explore a medieval abbey filled with secrets. You take full control by entering commands directly on your keyboard through a flexible command parser, allowing for free and immersive interaction.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 42.4%, Text-Based 37.7%, Adventure 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%
The discovery of an old magic book turns your life upside down. Will you succeed in becoming a guild wizard—or will you travel a different path?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 49.1%, Text-Based 45.6%, Adventure 5.3%
2050, a future world we had dreamed about. But suddenly, a disaster arrived, bringing the human into a desperate situation.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 50.9%, Text-Based 42.6%, Adventure 6.5%
Interactive fiction starring Molly the Werezompire - a grad student who jumped into a portal, was killed by a werewolf, a zombie, and a vampire, and became a heroic werezompire! Also includes the sci-fi parody, Epiphany in Spaaace! Originally released on XBLIG.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 46.6%, Text-Based 40.8%, Adventure 12.6%
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: Interactive Fiction 52.5%, Text-Based 41.5%, Adventure 6%
More than 30 orthodox sectarians underground. They locked themselves in man-made caves. You're a negotiator. Your task is to rescue recluses before Apocalypse.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.9%, Text-Based 32.1%, Adventure 18.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%, Atmospheric 6.6%
In the text-adventure “Head in the Cloud,” you play as a Marine hacker on a mission to sabotage a crime syndicate’s supercomputer. When things don’t go to plan, you must use your head to survive, or risk losing it!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 42.5%, Text-Based 35.7%, Pixel Graphics 12.4%, Adventure 5.7%, Atmospheric 3.8%
Walk the path of a legendary mage, combining four different schools of magic to devastating effects.
Why similar: Text-Based 42.1%, Interactive Fiction 40.5%, Adventure 17.4%
Find your missing father and uncover the dark conspiracy surrounding a sacred artifact and an enigmatic brotherhood in this haunting text adventure that combines the best elements of classic interactive fiction and gamebooks.
Why similar: Text-Based 41.2%, Interactive Fiction 39.6%, Adventure 19.2%
You've spent years undercover, disguised as a human, infiltrating the city’s magical law-enforcement organization. They stole your magic from you. Can you steal it back? (A text-based interactive historical urban fantasy novel.)
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 43.1%, Text-Based 37.8%, Adventure 19%
Silent Earth is a short sci-fi text adventure about finding one’s place despite an uncertain future. Explore an off-world mining colony ship, navigate multi-linear character relationships, and steer the story toward one of five endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 43.8%, Text-Based 42.2%, Atmospheric 7.8%, Adventure 6.2%
Make your name as a whiskey-runner, a politician, or a gangster as you quench thirsts from rural Pennsylvania to the New York City nightlife!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 50.1%, Text-Based 44%, Adventure 5.9%
It's the ultimate battle between werewolves and human supremacists, and your werewolf pack is caught in the middle of a four-way fight!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 50.6%, Text-Based 43.7%, Adventure 5.7%
You take a deep breath of salty air as the first raindrops begin to spatter the pavement, and the swollen, slate-colored clouds that blanket the sky mutter ominous portents amongst themselves over the little coastal town of Anchorhead.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 42.9%, Text-Based 42.2%, Adventure 14.9%
"GOODBYE WORLD" is a narrative adventure game. Play through 12 stages of a puzzle platformer while following the two protagonists through 13 chapters of their story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.4%, Text-Based 30.6%, Pixel Graphics 14.7%, Adventure 11.3%, Atmospheric 11.1%
An interactive fiction about a man who lost his wife and goes in search of a UFO that shouldn't exist.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 54.7%, Pixel Graphics 24.3%, Atmospheric 13.4%, Adventure 7.6%
Interactive teen supernatural mystery! You and your friends have developed magical psychic powers. Solve the case, save your school, find a date for prom!
Why similar: Text-Based 59%, Interactive Fiction 41%
Become a mailroom operator at Hotel Hermes and navigate an ancient mail system to deliver parcels on time. Learn about the hotel's guests and staff in this puzzle role-playing game, where your actions can alter the world. Hopefully for the best!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 45.2%, Text-Based 26.2%, Adventure 18.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.5%
A darkly comedic legal sim where your goal is to get disbarred—spectacularly. Play as a defense attorney or prosecutor in ethically disastrous cases full of bad decisions, weird clients, and Kafkaesque courtroom chaos. Succeed, and you lose.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 49.2%, Text-Based 44.8%, Adventure 5.9%
Dive into the 'Sacrifices', a narrative-driven adventure game where you unravel the poignant tale of a child's reality.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 46%, Text-Based 33.1%, Adventure 12.3%, Atmospheric 8.6%
The train is the only escape.
Why similar: Text-Based 50.5%, Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Adventure 14.4%, Atmospheric 7.6%
Plunge into court politics and change the course of history, or pursue a love affair that rocks the kingdom to its foundations!
Why similar: Text-Based 45.1%, Interactive Fiction 40.8%, Adventure 14%
You didn’t expect so many essays sophomore year. Or so many hellhound attacks. This year is shaping up to be a killer—hopefully not literally.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 47.8%, Text-Based 43%, Adventure 9.2%
An adventure visual novel with a pixel art style. About ghosts, past love, and a world of the unconscious.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 46.9%, Adventure 18.2%, Text-Based 14.5%, Pixel Graphics 12.2%, Atmospheric 8.1%
Rule your realm, train heroes, and build a legendary kingdom in Daria. Experience strategy, storytelling, and diplomacy in this immersive sim.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 51.9%, Text-Based 48.1%
Harness wind, earth, fire, and all the forces of nature to destroy your enemies! Will you stabilize the broken magic of the weather, or revel in its chaos?
Why similar: Text-Based 47.3%, Interactive Fiction 46.6%, Adventure 6.1%
Your first case as a detective is forcing you to open your eyes to a world bigger than you thought. Or maybe it's better to keep them closed. Seems the supernatural didn’t get the memo that nothing exciting ever happens in the little town of Wayhaven.
Why similar: Text-Based 48.5%, Interactive Fiction 35.8%, Adventure 15.7%
Take the Watson-Scott personality test and discover your deepest and darkest fears. 30 multiple-choice questions will tell you if you're more afraid of clowns, snakes, or something more sinister...
Why similar: Text-Based 47%, Interactive Fiction 42.1%, Atmospheric 10.9%
The toughest ronin in Hyuga returns! Heated battles and even hotter romances await you in the land of silk and steel!
Why similar: Text-Based 43.4%, Interactive Fiction 38.3%, Adventure 18.3%
A far-future cyberpunk space adventure.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 47%, Text-Based 23.3%, Adventure 19%, Atmospheric 10.7%
It's time to make a name for yourself in the big city. In this first half of a two-part epic, can you unravel the mysteries of Lux, City of Secrets?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 47.6%, Text-Based 43.9%, Adventure 8.5%
A Chinese ancient-style visual novel made with Ren'Py. Two factions fight for a mysterious relic. Your choices unlock multiple endings. The story includes suspense, time travel and soul fusion. Simple mouse and keyboard controls. Enjoy an immersive storytelling experience.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 48.6%, Text-Based 41.1%, Adventure 10.4%
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 40.6%, Text-Based 25.4%, Atmospheric 12.2%, Pixel Graphics 12%, Adventure 9.8%
因为学历贬值而找不到好工作的本科生布郝，在一次送外卖途中得知一个名叫“做题家之岛”的岛屿，在那里，只要能够考研上岸，就能获得取之不尽的权力和财富，揣怀着咸鱼翻身理想的他，踏上了前往“做题家之岛”的邮轮……
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 51%, Text-Based 27.9%, Adventure 21.1%
A co-op, text- and audio-driven collection of stories. Lead expeditions into uncharted cold waters, hiding a presence older than the Earth. Coordinate via proximity voice chat. More stories come after the release.
Why similar: Text-Based 44.9%, Interactive Fiction 36.9%, Adventure 9.9%, Atmospheric 8.3%
LOOK, USE, TALK, and TAKE your way through this old-school text-based mystery of a broken kingdom. Only you can pry at the castle cracks and discover what lies at the core of a heart-breaking disappearance.
Why similar: Text-Based 40.7%, Interactive Fiction 30.5%, Adventure 17.4%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%
Rebuild society after the climate apocalypse! Can you keep your settlement alive? Will you hold onto your humanity or lose it in the directionless expanse?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 50.8%, Text-Based 43.5%, Adventure 5.7%
