Games Like Little Boy : Small Steps, Big Changes

A 2D exploration-based horror adventure set in the “Deep Realm,” an otherworld connected to a natural history museum. Experience a unique atmosphere where quiet intellectual spaces intertwine with unsettling phenomena.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Retro 21.8%, Pixel Graphics 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%, Adventure 8.1%

The Gate is an interactive science fiction graphic novel. At various points in the story, you will be asked to make a choice, these choices will take you down different paths in the story. Your objective as you guide the story is to return back to earth. The game features 3 possible story endings.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Adventure 16.7%, Sci-fi 8.3%, 2D 6.6%

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 25.1%, Adventure 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Retro 12.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%

In this sci-fi pick your own story game, you must help astronaut Dorothy Chen survive in a vast underground alien city beneath the moon's surface. She faces insane robots, mutant canines, starvation, and insanity inside the city of the Anthria. Whether she survives is up to YOU.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Retro 16.5%, Sci-fi 9.1%, Adventure 7.8%

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 38%, Retro 27.5%, Pixel Graphics 19.5%, 2D 6%, Adventure 5.5%

Groi Marito meets Princess Carolanne because he wants to build a mine to help him achieve his goals.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Adventure 16.2%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%, Top-Down 7.5%

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

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.8%, Retro 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%

Escape the Family Dinner—a short, third-person exploration experience inspired by our traumatic & nostalgic memories.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.1%, Retro 16.1%, Pixel Graphics 15.5%, Adventure 13.6%, Top-Down 10%

In this classic graphical text adventure, originally released in 1985 for the Commodore 64 by the same studio that brought you The Hobbit, explore an adventure in the world of Count Dracula.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.9%, Retro 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Pixel Graphics 11.8%, Exploration 6.3%

Carolanne Marin, Princess of Prodo, is invited to Berlo, the capital of Birini and the great capital of Perfore, to see the Perforian in person for a request.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Pixel Graphics 12.8%, Adventure 10.3%, Top-Down 9.7%

Deepwell is a story-driven adventure game, about a small town surrounding a giant mystery hole.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.8%, Adventure 16.1%, Pixel Graphics 14.1%, Exploration 9.8%, Top-Down 8.9%

An adventure game where your choices change the world. Fri, a girl working at a coffee workshop, lives in a town that feels strangely mysterious. What will she encounter in this town while suffering from amnesia, and how will the world changing?

Why similar: Retro 26.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Pixel Graphics 19.6%, Adventure 19.4%, Choices Matter 6.6%

An Indie Sci-Fi Adventure game that thrusts you into the heart of the secrecy surrounding UFOs and Aliens. Visit exotic places, meet Aliens, make alliances and enemies alike as you make critical decisions and fight for what you think is right. Time is short, because it's 2024, and Aliens Are Coming!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.9%, Adventure 16.4%, Dynamic Narration 12.5% ★, Pixel Graphics 11.2%, Sci-fi 10.8%

"Robot Hospice" is a 2D pixel art adventure game where beloved robots spend their final days in a hospice. As a new staff member, you will gently yet painfully bid farewell to these cherished machines that once lived alongside humans.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.8%, Retro 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Pixel Graphics 13%, Sci-fi 6.9%

Embark on a tabletop-inspired fantasy adventure. Battle monsters, pass dice-roll skill checks, solve ancient puzzles, and uncover the lost Tomb of Mithras in this narrative-driven RPG-lite where every choice matters.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 41.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Adventure 19.6%, 2D 7.1%, Choices Matter 6.9%

Boyhood's End is an adventure horror game following Giovanni, the boy with the lowest human score in the universe, and Campenella, the delinquent genius, and their journey on the galactic railroad regarding the "human" and "inhuman".

Why similar: Retro 23.1%, Pixel Graphics 19%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Adventure 15.1%, Top-Down 6.5%

The year is 2074. “Spark” organization wants to «establish order» in your hometown of Eliseysk. It’s time to answer the call (of justice) and join the resistance. Will you be the one to shoulder the burden of this mission, and persist in this cruel and dangerous world in order to shape its future?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Retro 12%, Adventure 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 10.2%

(RPG) The Legends of Power Volume 1 is a pixel, adventure and horror game. You have to choose the fate determined of characters they'll be alive or death, but there might be other things that could help you to have advantage...

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Pixel Graphics 11.8%, Adventure 11.3%, Exploration 8.2%

Investigate a malfunctioning robot factory. Hack them, befriend them, or dispose of them. Every choice changes what you find.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Adventure 13.5%, Dynamic Narration 9% ★, Pixel Graphics 8.7%

Recover Fred's memory completely. Solve puzzles, explore the floors, and uncover secrets. Gather intriguing clues and help Fred understand his past. Discover a surprising truth at the end of this journey!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 42.4%, Adventure 18%, Dystopian 18%, Exploration 9.8%, Sci-fi 5.9%

A retro-sci-fi themed mystery investigation puzzle game. Search for clues across the solar system, gather intelligence using your cutting-edge investigation tools, and figure out what happened. When you find all 15 ships, you win!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 48%, Retro 22.8%, Pixel Graphics 16.2%, 2D 8.3%, Singleplayer 2.8%

An 8-bit sci-fi action-adventure game about learning presence through a child's lucid dream.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26%, Retro 19%, Dystopian 15.6%, Pixel Graphics 8%, Adventure 7.9%

Mars Underground is an apocalyptic adventure where you relive the same day over and over. With each cycle new items can be picked up and topics unlocked.​ Explore the possibilities of this timeloop and uncover multiple endings.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.1%, Retro 22.4%, Adventure 20.4%, Pixel Graphics 14.7%, 2D 6.8%

Join a boy named Timothy and his alien friend Gus on a journey of self discovery as they explore the colorful world of Fragment.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.6%, Adventure 17.5%, Retro 16.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.8%, Exploration 9.7%

Avatar Zero is a text-based interactive narrative centered around “choice.” Set in a cyberpunk dystopia, you become the subject of a secret experiment. Your entire gameplay consists solely of sequential binary choices. Through continuous choices, you will uncover the truth behind the experiment.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.5%, Adventure 14.7%, Dystopian 13.8%, Choices Matter 12%, Pixel Graphics 10.8%

As the new Street Overseer, every decision you make in this dystopian choice game carries weight. Enforce the rules, help the desperate, or exploit the people’s suffering for personal gain. Choose wisely.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Dystopian 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Pixel Graphics 12.3%, Choices Matter 9.5%

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 29.3%, Retro 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 12.3%, Adventure 8.3%

"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 28.3%, Retro 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.9%, Choices Matter 7.9%

Operation Blackfox is an interactive graphic novel. At various points in the story, you will be asked to make a choice, these choices will take you down different paths in the story. Your objective is to rescue as many characters as possible. The game features 3 possible story endings.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 41.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Adventure 18.2%, 2D 7.2%, Choices Matter 6.8%

ATMOSPHERIC UNDERGROUND ADVENTURE. You seek revenge against the oligarch who destroyed your family. Is killing ever justified?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 49.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Adventure 17%, Story Rich 5.3%, 2D 5.2%

This is a collaborative experiment between you and I. We will participate in a series of interchanges, each lasting three minutes. What will be revealed across our interfaces during that limited time?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 40.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.6%, Adventure 11.7%, Choices Matter 9.3%, 2D 7.5%

A text-based space survival game inspired by The Oregon Trail. Lead your family 100 light-years across deep space to a distant colony. Every choice matters. Not everyone makes it. Some things out there are worse than death.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Adventure 14.4%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%, Retro 10.9%

Searchbar Detective is a 2D Mystery Game set in a virtual world in which you use your searchbar to solve crimes and uncover conspiracies.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Dynamic Narration 17.8% ★, Dystopian 14.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%, Exploration 7.1%

Experience a gruesome adventure in monochrome 4-color pixel art. Exit the castle and figure out what happened by investigating objects and fighting enemies - remember, you only have one life.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Retro 17.7%, Dynamic Narration 13.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Pixel Graphics 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 35.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Retro 12.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%, Adventure 9%

Kris has thirty days before the scrap press. Play as Sam, the fifteen-year-old who found him in an attic, and explore Cedar Falls together. Solve point-and-click puzzles, change what he can do with old floppy disks, and decide which memories you dare erase to give him a future.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.6%, Exploration 11.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%, Retro 9.4%, Choices Matter 8.3%

Rediscover the internet of the 2000s in DreamNet, a free to play Frutiger Aero exploration game. Dive into nostalgic worlds, uncover the story, and revisit the beauty of the old internet.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 40.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Retro 15.5%, Exploration 6.4%, Story Rich 4.3%

An adventure game about spending one night in the passenger seat of a friend's car, enjoying the conversation, the music, and the view outside the window. For anyone who has ever stayed out late with friends for no reason at all.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 41.8%, Adventure 17.5%, Pixel Graphics 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, 2D 4.8%

FoMO is an experimental first-person horror with unpredictable mazes, a suffocating atmosphere, and a decaying retro look. No weapons, only escape, paranoia, and choices that accelerate the horror.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.8%, Retro 24.5%, Dystopian 18.9%, Pixel Graphics 13.6%, Adventure 7.8%

Survive the mystery that awaits the JFS Gun-Dog in deep space in this retro visual novel / graphic adventure.

Why similar: Retro 25%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%, Sci-fi 8.5%

Confront the moral dilemma, and then become the hero that saves the world.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38%, Retro 23.7%, Pixel Graphics 15.7%, Adventure 8.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.5%

An aquarium where a huge tank called "RONNARIUM" is on display. There is a rumor that if one enters the aquarium at night, he or she will be "divinely bewitched". A girl named "Yocto" hears the rumor and visits the aquarium to confirm the truth.

Why similar: Retro 32.1%, Pixel Graphics 24.3%, Adventure 17.6%, Exploration 10.1%, Top-Down 8.9%

In a world ruled by a single shade of green, color is the ultimate taboo—and the ultimate truth. Explore, restore, and then choose: Will you maintain the illusion of order, or embrace the chaos of color?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.2%, Pixel Graphics 19.3%, Dystopian 17.6%, Retro 16.9%, Choices Matter 7%

In this unique hybrid action RPG from 1987, take on the role of Doc the Destroyer, outcast and heretic in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, as he battles to save the dwellers of a life-saving dome from extinction. Make decisions in a branching storyline, and fight in one-on-one battle sequences.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.5%, Retro 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Pixel Graphics 13.2%, Choices Matter 5.6%

ある高校のスクールカウンセラーである主人公は、二人の少女が起こした心中事件に巻き込まれていく……。画面を二分割し、二人の少女を見比べながら進める「二画面同時進行」システムを採用。食い違う証言から事件の全体像が浮かび上がる。「rhizome village」が送るファナティックガールズトークADV。

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Adventure 8.5%, 2D 7.4%

Esca is a gripping survival RPG where you play as a repair robot maintaining an underwater research station, facing tough decisions and uncovering secrets of your past.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37%, Adventure 14.9%, Dynamic Narration 14.3% ★, Pixel Graphics 13.2%, Exploration 9.4%

A 60-minute adventure where all you do is glow.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 41.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Adventure 17.7%, Sci-fi 11.1%, Choices Matter 4.9%

You wake up as Bon, the dorm’s beloved cat — memories gone, paws in place. Roam a century-old student dorm, chat with residents, nap under the kotatsu, enjoy a cat life while uncovering lost secrets and your past. ※This game is distributed with permission from the Yoshida Dormitory Student Council.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.8%, Adventure 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Retro 12.5%

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: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Retro 16.1%, Adventure 16%, Dystopian 14.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%

90 minutes remain until the world ends. Will you face the end with regret or go out with a bang?”

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 43%, Dystopian 19.5%, Pixel Graphics 15.2%, Exploration 13.4%, Adventure 5.3%

A melancholic atmospheric game about energy management, introversion, and finding peace in an overwhelming modern city. Every decision costs energy. Nature helps you survive.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 40.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Adventure 16.4%, Dynamic Narration 9.1% ★, Exploration 8.9%

Z Virus: Outbreak is an interactive graphic novel. At various points in the story, you will be asked to make a choice, these choices will take you down different paths in the story. Your objective is to escape the city of Redrock during a zombie outbreak. The game features 3 possible story endings.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 41.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Adventure 18%, 2D 7.2%, Choices Matter 6.9%

What are the crazy chemists doing in their laboratories? Is the military test range near the town really dangerous? What is the doctor’s secret? Undelivered is a detective quest where you have to find the answers to all these questions and decide what to do next!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24%, Retro 18.8%, Dynamic Narration 17.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Exploration 6.5%

Play a series of retro games and learn about what's really going on in your bedroom.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 42.2%, Adventure 13.3%, Retro 12.6%, Pixel Graphics 12.5%, Top-Down 8.4%

A short sci-fi visual novel about four scientists trapped in an underground lab. Explore their chat records to uncover the mysteries of Inturg Technologies. How can they escape their doom?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.7%, Retro 19.9%, Pixel Graphics 16%, Sci-fi 12%, Adventure 8.7%

In the kingdom of Bruneva, an unlikely hero embarks on a magical mission full of humor. With eccentric characters, comedic challenges, and witty dialogues, "The Adventures of Bruneva" guarantees laughter at every turn.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 52%, Adventure 23%, Exploration 12.9%, 2D 8.9%, Singleplayer 3.1%

OMEGA 6 The Triangle Stars is an adventure game with 16-bit styling, based on the manga by former Nintendo art director, Takaya Imamura.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27%, Retro 22.5%, Pixel Graphics 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Exploration 6.4%

Liam wakes up alone after surgery. He walks around the facility and sees what happened while he was unconscious.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 40.5%, Adventure 16.3%, Pixel Graphics 12.8%, Top-Down 8.7%, 2D 7.1%