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.
CLOSED HANDS
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.
A text adventure game about a 19th century explorer who finds himself stranded and alone.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 44.9%, Text-Based 39.5%, Adventure 15.6%
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 34.1%, Adventure 17%, 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 49.8%, Text-Based 42.1%, Adventure 8.1%
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 12.2%, Adventure 9%, Atmospheric 4.3%
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: Interactive Fiction 43.4%, Text-Based 37.2%, Adventure 19.4%
Immerse yourself in a dark fantasy world that is inspired by traditional text-based adventure and interactive fiction games.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 45.6%, Text-Based 44.2%, Adventure 10.3%
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 39.6%, Interactive Fiction 36.5%, Adventure 23.9%
A text adventure mystery with a modern parser.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 46.4%, Text-Based 38.1%, Adventure 15.5%
In The Watch Post you will explore areas through a living CRT television in this atmospheric dark-fantasy text adventure. Find strange items, unlock hidden paths, solve optional mysteries, and decide whether the signal should ever be answered.
Why similar: Text-Based 42.1%, Interactive Fiction 36.5%, Adventure 12.8%, Atmospheric 8.6%
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%, Interactive Fiction 28.3%, Adventure 15.7%
見知らぬ密室で目を覚ました主人公。 頼れるものは、手元に残された一台のスマートフォンだけ。 通話、メッセージ、アプリなどに残された痕跡をたどりながら、脱出の手がかりを探していく。 しかし、情報を集めるほどに、 この事件の裏に隠された異様な真実が浮かび上がっていく。 スマートフォンを操作して進める、サイコロジカル・ホラーADV。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 42.1%, Text-Based 34.2%, Adventure 17.5%, Atmospheric 6.2%
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 43.8%, Text-Based 19.9%, Adventure 18%, Pixel Graphics 11%, Atmospheric 7.4%
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 41.5%, Interactive Fiction 34.6%, Adventure 14.7%, 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 45.3%, Interactive Fiction 34.3%, Adventure 20.4%
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 42.2%, Interactive Fiction 38.8%, Adventure 19%
In a parallel universe text-based dialogue adventure game, a brand-new Three Kingdoms era is constructed. Players can freely choose to play as classic warriors, and each dialogue choice will lead to distinct and surprising events.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 52.9%, Text-Based 47.1%
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 34.4%, Interactive Fiction 34%, Pixel Graphics 17.3%, Atmospheric 11.6%, Adventure 2.6%
A 60-minute adventure where all you do is glow.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 44.6%, Text-Based 29%, Adventure 18.9%, Atmospheric 7.5%
Embark on an immersive adventure alongside Roh as she tries to break free from her strange dream.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 42.1%, Text-Based 25.1%, Adventure 17.2%, 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 50.3%, Interactive Fiction 30.6%, Adventure 19.1%
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 48.1%, Interactive Fiction 34.6%, Adventure 17.3%
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 44%, Text-Based 43.3%, Adventure 8%, Atmospheric 4.6%
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 47.5%, Text-Based 42.5%, Adventure 10%
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 43%, Interactive Fiction 41.8%, Adventure 15.2%
You have exactly 5. Bread is 4, the bus fare to school is 3. What do you give up? In this short narrative experience, you play as 13-year-old Adam. Confront an interface that reacts to a painful reality, and discover that freedom of choice is sometimes nothing but a privilege.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 41.9%, Text-Based 34.6%, Adventure 17%, Atmospheric 6.6%
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 49.3%, Text-Based 45.1%, Adventure 5.6%
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 33.8%, Text-Based 31.6%, Adventure 18.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%, Atmospheric 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 40.3%, Adventure 13.1%
2050, a future world we had dreamed about. But suddenly, a disaster arrived, bringing the human into a desperate situation.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 51%, Text-Based 42.2%, Adventure 6.8%
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 52.6%, Text-Based 41.1%, Adventure 6.2%
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 42.6%, Text-Based 35.3%, Pixel Graphics 12.4%, Adventure 5.9%, Atmospheric 3.8%
"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 32.3%, Text-Based 30.1%, Pixel Graphics 14.8%, Adventure 11.8%, Atmospheric 11%
Walk the path of a legendary mage, combining four different schools of magic to devastating effects.
Why similar: Text-Based 41.5%, Interactive Fiction 40.4%, Adventure 18%
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 40.6%, Interactive Fiction 39.5%, Adventure 19.9%
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 37.2%, Adventure 19.7%
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 43.9%, Text-Based 41.8%, Atmospheric 7.8%, Adventure 6.5%
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 50.3%, Text-Based 43.6%, Adventure 6.1%
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 50.8%, Text-Based 43.3%, Adventure 5.9%
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 42.5%, Text-Based 37.2%, Adventure 10.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%
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 41.6%, Adventure 15.5%
Navigate school life, build friendships, survive rumours, and climb the social ladder through natural conversations with students who remember your choices. Every interaction shapes your reputation in this AI-powered social simulation.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 54.8%, Text-Based 28.8%, Adventure 16.4%
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%, Text-Based 25.8%, Adventure 18.7%, Pixel Graphics 10.5%
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 58.7%, Interactive Fiction 41.3%
Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.
Why similar: Text-Based 39.9%, Interactive Fiction 39.6%, Atmospheric 10.8%, Adventure 9.8%
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 49.4%, Text-Based 44.4%, Adventure 6.1%
You log on to a computer having no clue of what lies within. Explore its files, solve puzzles to recover missing pieces, and decipher passwords to enter otherwise prohibited folders. As you delve deeper into its content, you’ll find that there is a greater mystery to be solved.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 46.2%, Text-Based 35.9%, Pixel Graphics 12.9%, Atmospheric 5%
An adventure visual novel with a pixel art style. About ghosts, past love, and a world of the unconscious.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 46.7%, Adventure 18.8%, Text-Based 14.3%, Pixel Graphics 12.2%, Atmospheric 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 41.9%, Text-Based 41%, Atmospheric 9.3%, Adventure 7.9%
I excitedly opened the 250-yuan inflatable doll, only to find a real girl inside! "Can you speak? Do you remember anything?" I had to stay with her till she regained her memory to clear my name.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 46.3%, Text-Based 32.5%, Adventure 21.2%
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 47.9%, Text-Based 42.5%, Adventure 9.6%
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 44.6%, Interactive Fiction 40.9%, Adventure 14.6%
The train is the only escape.
Why similar: Text-Based 50.4%, Interactive Fiction 27.1%, Adventure 15.1%, Atmospheric 7.5%
Can your steam-powered inventions save the ancient Library of Alexandria? Will you sacrifice the library to protect the city? Or the future king instead?
Why similar: Text-Based 43.6%, Interactive Fiction 35.4%, Adventure 21.1%
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 52.2%, Text-Based 47.8%
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 47.9%, Interactive Fiction 35.9%, Adventure 16.3%
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 46.8%, Interactive Fiction 46.8%, Adventure 6.4%
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 42.8%, Interactive Fiction 38.2%, Adventure 18.9%
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 25.1%, Atmospheric 12.1%, Pixel Graphics 12%, Adventure 10.1%
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 47.8%, Text-Based 43.4%, Adventure 8.8%
