60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Choices Matter, Visual Novel, Interactive Fiction.
A story-rich coming-of-age experience told through a 2004 desktop, where friendships, music, and late-night conversations shape who you become. Explore chats, drama, mini-games, and the early internet in a branching story about growing up, making mistakes, and finding your place.
Guilt Free
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.
Between the Lines
In this pre-smartphone-era text adventure, use that good ol’ T9 phone to text your way through the highs and lows of school days. Choose replies piece by piece to shape your own story. Friendships grow; feelings get complicated; secrets flicker. Every reply matters—it all happens Between the Lines.
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: Dialogue Heavy 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Text-Based 11.4%, Choices Matter 9.4%
In this pre-smartphone-era text adventure, use that good ol’ T9 phone to text your way through the highs and lows of school days. Choose replies piece by piece to shape your own story. Friendships grow; feelings get complicated; secrets flicker. Every reply matters—it all happens Between the Lines.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 15.4%, Text-Based 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Choices Matter 9.1%
Find a way out of the Do 11 app by doing missions that come from the mysterious Do 11 app. A choice awaits you to solve puzzles and change the fate of the protagonist. Escape the main character from the Do 11 app while savoring a profound worldview and intriguing story. An incredible twist awaits.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Text-Based 11.4%, Choices Matter 10.3%
Pasajeros is developed through a collection of urban and surreal stories collected in a taxi in Bogotá . It’s a four-night adventure packed with micro-stories of vampires, mariachis, and thugs. In addition to the opportunity to find love or madness in the night magic of a city.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Choices Matter 8.6%, Multiple Endings 7.4%
Chronicles of Humanity is an expanding anthology of historical visual novels. Enter different eras, weigh conflicting testimony under political and personal pressure, and shape who is protected, what is recorded, and how each life is remembered. Complete stories are released as separate DLC.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.6%, Dialogue Heavy 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Text-Based 13%, Choices Matter 11.2%
Your job is to make humanity happy. Observe the people living in your assigned district and make the best choices to ensure everyone's happiness.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Text-Based 15.1%, Dialogue Heavy 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%
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 22.6%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Text-Based 18.7%, Choices Matter 13%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
Relive the same day without remembering it. Your choices feed four inner alter egos (Shadow, Mad, Alex, and Bully) — shaping reality, glitches, and one of 16 possible endings. The day repeats. Your mind doesn’t. Or does it?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Dialogue Heavy 11.9%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Text-Based 10.4%
You are a censor in a nameless war, blacking out the letters of two lovers who have never met. Their whole romance lives on paper — so every word you strike is struck from the love itself. Then the letters begin, impossibly, to answer your pen. A melancholy epistolary romance. Six endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Text-Based 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Story Rich 8.5%
Return to a hometown that hasn’t changed the way it should have. A psychological visual novel focused on atmosphere, relationships, and a reality that slowly refuses to stay still. Can you uncover the truth before it consumes you?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Dialogue Heavy 16.9%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Text-Based 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%
Cryspace is a fresh visual novel with a nostalgic flavor. Talk to your friends online, meet with them in-person, and allow your friend group to grow in numbers, or fall into despair through your own decision-making and discretion. Experience the first few dates with Sam for FREE.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Multiple Endings 10%, Dialogue Heavy 8.7%
Tayke Me With You is a visual novel about high school seniors and their struggles with each other and the world around them. You play as Gene, a sheltered, socially naive human from the city as he acclimates to living in a rural town filled with dinosaurs, finding friends (and love) along the way.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.5%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Text-Based 13.2%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%
Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Choices Matter 16.4%, Story Rich 12.5%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Text-Based 8.5%
A conversation adventure where you spend the worst, best summer visiting your booze-loving senpai, making weird food, and sneaking out together at midnight.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Dialogue Heavy 20%, Visual Novel 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Choices Matter 7.6%
The president trusts you. Exercise your Shamanic capabilities (or lack thereof). But don't get caught!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Dialogue Heavy 20.8%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Text-Based 11.4%
A visual novel where your choices determine the future of your relationship and the success of your colony. Choose how to treat your husband and how to spend your free time in this frontier sci-fi story.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.2%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Text-Based 9.8%, Choices Matter 9.7%
Where Control Ends is a psychological visual novel about Astra, a young girl trying to hold herself together after a night she cannot fully remember.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Text-Based 13.4%, Dialogue Heavy 12.7%, Choices Matter 9.4%
Born with a birth defect that he hates, Kakeru struggles with severe anxiety and depression. Guide his timid decisions as he takes a brave step into a new world - joining his school's music club, making unexpected and inspiring new connections, and daring to dream again.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%, Emotional 9.2%, Text-Based 9.2%
One million dollars. Two sisters. Countless consequences. Experience everyday life in modern Vietnam while uncovering the truth behind a mysterious one-million-dollar debt.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20%, Dialogue Heavy 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
Experience a pastel-toned emotional journey in Yuika My Bestie, a short visual novel you can complete in under 15 minutes per playthrough. With 5 unique endings and heartfelt choices, it takes just 30–40 minutes to explore every path of this soft, late-night cry.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 18.4%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Emotional 9.5%
Be the person you needed. Brew tea, listen well, and guide branching stories in a narrative slice-of-life about showing up when it matters. No perfect answers. Only your choices and what they set in motion.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Emotional 11.7%
You've had the same dream all week: a school field trip to a zoo you can't leave, where the lions always find you in the end. Wander the zoo exhibits, make your choices, and search for the way out. A short, hand-painted interactive story about a recurring dream, and finally resolving it.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Text-Based 9.9%
Alcyone: The Last City is an interactive sci-fi novel where your choices can lead to the salvation or destruction of the last refuge of civilisation in the universe. Immerse yourself in a branching narrative of diverse characters, intrigue, and world-altering decisions.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Dialogue Heavy 15%, Visual Novel 14%, Text-Based 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%
A short talking sim with choices. Get to know Harper over a handful of voice-acted calls and text chats.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%
A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Dialogue Heavy 14.3%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Emotional 9.2%, Text-Based 8.8%
Chess. Love. Destiny. All the same things, really.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Text-Based 7%
Drinks with Abbey is a short, slice-of-life visual novel about a first date.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
A fantasy adventure visual novel with humor and heart, by acclaimed adventure game writer Lori Ann Cole. Starring the voice of Zehra Fazal as Tilly, a mischief-making rogue at Hero-U, the school for heroes.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Text-Based 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.3%
Idol Talent Show Simulation Game-Train from zero to idol debut! Rank high to stay in! Explore the map, manage your schedule and play mini-games.Face tough evaluations,compete with fellow trainees, and forge meaningful bonds. Your choices will unlock 10+ unique endings. Can you shine?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.7%, Visual Novel 20.8%, Choices Matter 18.2%, Story Rich 13.8%, Multiple Endings 13.6%
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 22.5%, Visual Novel 21.4%, Text-Based 14.7%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10%
Travel to the world of the dead, whose stories encourage reflection on life. Chat with spirits, brew drinks to suit your mood, and bond with the people who run the afterlife cafes. In this urban sci-fi fantasy visual novel, your choices impact the living, the departed, and your own path forward.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
If she leaves now you will never see her again. Would you have enough courage to take a step, or would you stay quiet and regret it? Experience this story about love and loss.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Emotional 11.4%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
A pixelated homage to 16-bit RPGs, this former print-and-play card game has come full circle as a digital experience! Choose your champion, enter the tower, and make wise decisions on your ascent to face the Ice Lich at the top.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Text-Based 17.6%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.4%
Play as Daniella as she moves across the country with only the help of her ex.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.7%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Dialogue Heavy 16.8%, Story Rich 13.5%, Choices Matter 10.9%
Kamilia is a story-driven, choices-matter detective mystery. Follow a talented painter who finds himself wrapped up in an unsolved case, as he tries to unveil a hidden truth that has been buried for years.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.9%, Dialogue Heavy 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Emotional 9.6%
Black Dog Bar is a dialog-based bartender simulator. Each client has its own story. Communicate, mix cocktails, and... manipulate. It is only you who decides where the complicated story of each hero will turn and what will happen to them when they leave the bar.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Visual Novel 18%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Emotional 8.7%
A strange incident turns the life of an ordinary young man upside down when, having fallen asleep on a regular train commute, he wakes up in another country... in a body of a Japanese student! An unforgettable summer adventure awaits, promising many fateful meetings and momentous occasions.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Text-Based 15.8%, Emotional 9.7%, Choices Matter 9.6%
Set off on an exciting swashbuckling quest in this classic Fantasy Choose Your Own Adventure! Meet charming characters, fight dangerous foes, and uncover a nefarious intrigue. Experience seamless and reactive storytelling. Prove your innocence, find your destiny, relish the journey!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Text-Based 9.8%
Heartbeat House: Hong Kong is a dating reality visual novel. Live with eight participants in a shared villa and make romantic choices. Your decisions are remembered, and relationships will change. If the screen flickers or something feels off—please relax and keep dating. The show is still ongoing.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Dialogue Heavy 15.4%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Emotional 9%
When you start the game, the narrator will instruct you to “close your eyes.” At that moment, whether you actually close them or keep them open will change the course of the story. Listen carefully to the voice as you proceed, and find your way to the truth.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Dialogue Heavy 14.1%, Text-Based 12.3%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
幻想若非幻想 自然可超自然 伴我梦中桃花 懒识人间滋味
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Text-Based 18%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%, Emotional 9.3%
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Visual Novel 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Text-Based 11.9%, Choices Matter 10.8%
Coffee Talk Tokyo is the newest entry in the beloved series, set in a late-night café in Tokyo. Brew drinks, meet humans and yōkai, and experience heartfelt stories in a cozy, story-rich world.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Visual Novel 15%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
Finding true love is hard enough when it’s in person! Build a relationship through the screen as a couple copes with lockdown life by staying connected online! Will their love be loud and clear, or will their signals fade away?
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 14.9%, Text-Based 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choices Matter 9%
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Text-Based 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Choices Matter 9.7%
Cozy visual novel about a lovely witch who’s able to talk to spirits in a fantasy setting. Using her powers, Julia helps her neighbors in their daily whereabouts. Craft potions, find the right time to use them and get to know both spirits and clients to find their peace.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23.4%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Emotional 11.1%, Choices Matter 8.2%
It's not what you say, it's how you say it. We should talk is a short-form narrative game that will make you think carefully about the words you choose. Can your relationship survive the night?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Visual Novel 16%, Text-Based 15.5%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Emotional 9.2%
In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Dialogue Heavy 15.4%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Visual Novel 14%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social network 'Videoverse' were still popular…
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Narrative 9.3% ★, Story Rich 8.8%
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: Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Choices Matter 22.1%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Text-Based 13.5%, Story Rich 10.6%
Where are you, Cinderella? is a visual novel about Vietnamese culture and the world of entertainment. Will you be able to find the lost shoe’s owner? Or, will you find your shoe?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Text-Based 15.1%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
Border of her Heart is a VN about Border control.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18%, Dialogue Heavy 15%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Text-Based 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
Step into the high-stakes world of journalism in this Playbook! As a reporter at the "The Meridian" newsroom, YOU are the hero. Chase a massive investigative scoop, navigate ruthless office politics, and build deep relationships. Will you break the story, or will the deadline break you?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Text-Based 9.7%
"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested." Story about life, choices and a Man vs the System. This unique interactive literature adaptation. A game, brought to You in early visual novel, text-adventure style.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Text-Based 15.7%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
You meet with Yuika to talk about your relationship. Where is this conversation headed towards?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Dialogue Heavy 14.9%, Emotional 11%, Choices Matter 10.4%
Shamrock Creations is proud to present Watashi Suzume. A story that explores the far reaching impacts that love, friendship, and understanding have on not only our own lives, but how we view life itself. All wrapped up in a supernatural murder mystery narrative that we think everyone will enjoy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Text-Based 16.9%, Dialogue Heavy 13.3%, Choices Matter 10%
Dust off your coffee machine and prepare your warmest smile to meet your customers again in the second episode of the much loved coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator; Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 36.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Emotional 6.3%
AN IOU is the debut visual novel by Davey Cadaver. The music, backgrounds, & characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. The user takes the POV of the protagonist to experience a memorable story with an incredible soundtrack and multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Dialogue Heavy 16.9%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Emotional 10.5%, Choices Matter 10.4%
Transparent is a narrative game where every choice shapes Clara’s existence. On the eve of her 30th birthday, she revisits key moments of her life. Will her decisions anchor her to reality or make her fade away? Explore memories, face dilemmas, and discover multiple endings
Why similar: Text-Based 16.7%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Emotional 10.5%, Choices Matter 10%
Chief Emoji Officer is a text adventure that recreates the absurdities of the tech world by letting you become CEO using only emojis. Climb your way through corporate America by getting promoted, making allies, avoiding layoffs, and turning Redify into the most successful company in the world.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Text-Based 15.7%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.6%
