Games Like Magic or Machinations?

You are hanging out at a festive Christmas party when your eyes discover the most perfect Christmas confectionery ever! You must have it!... but someone already has it! What will you be willing to do, to get your Christmas wish?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Dark Humor 10.3%, Multiple Endings 10.1%

A group of thieves have found their next gig: a museum holding the "Amulet of the Gods," a mysterious artifact said to contain godlike power inside of it. It's sitting there, just asking to be stolen. With law enforcement on the prowl, will the crew's leader, Orlando, lead them to riches or ruin?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Space 8.9%, Choices Matter 8.4%

Guide a squad of ten young adults through a kingdom on the brink of war! Navigate court politics, deadly rivalries, and magical chaos between Humans, Fae, and Werewolves... where every choice can make or break your future.

Why similar: Surreal 17.8%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Choices Matter 10.1%

A magical girl visual novel about giving middle-schoolers way too much power. Make (bad) choices, fight unexpected enemies, and maybe learn a lesson or two...

Why similar: Dark Humor 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Magic 8.3%

A brave hero and a bound lich rescue a legendary warrior from a forgotten tomb and put the romance back in necromancy. Necromance is a dark fantasy comedy visual novel with light puzzle elements, 3 endings, and 15 ways to die!

Why similar: Dark Humor 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Multiple Endings 8.3%

Ashley's Adventure - Get a Job or Die Trying is an interactive visual novel based in a multiple-choice style of gameplay where you meet colourful characters and crazy events which you must resolve with the power of being a NEET.

Why similar: Dark Humor 22%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Funny 6.1%

Help a psychopath find love in this stupid meme visual novel from 10+ years ago, which has finally gotten the remaster it deserves.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Dark Humor 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Surreal 9.5%

Experience the hunt for the Monster living in your room in this Visual Novel experience. Your choices will determine the fate of both you and the Monster. Will you figure out what the Monster really is?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Surreal 15.9%, First-Person 9.1%, Choices Matter 9%

It's June 2023 in Columbus, Ohio -- 10 years since Neal and Jack graduated, and 8 years since they last spoke. Follow two once-best friends' reluctant descent through classrooms and memories in Our Dirge, a game about growing up in a certain place & time, and making up for the time we lost.

Why similar: Dark Humor 17.8%, Surreal 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Funny 9.1%

A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Dark Humor 13.9%, Surreal 13.5%, Visual Novel 10.8%

"Please Act Normal" is a live-action comedy about the agonizing pressure of social etiquette. Navigate awkward dinners and tense meetings through frequent dialogue choices, or embrace chaos and use your "Secret Weapon". Will they yell, laugh or just stare in pity? There’s only one way to find out.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Dark Humor 14.4%, Visual Novel 14.4%, First-Person 6.6%

A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Visual Novel 14.4%, RPG 8.7%, Choices Matter 8.1%

A weird, surreal visual novel retelling the cult B-movie Manos: The Hands of Fate. Face tarot cards, blackjack duels, and bad vacation decisions in this Ghibli-meets-grindhouse choose-your-own-disaster comedy. Featuring Torgo. Lots of Torgo.

Why similar: Dark Humor 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Surreal 14.8%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Choices Matter 9.9%

Gold & Brown is a choice-based visual novel set in the medieval era, enhanced with card mechanics. Embark on a challenging journey as a knight, shape your fate through card choices, and pursue an impossible love across multiple endings.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choices Matter 10.5%, RPG 9.1%

Embark on a thrilling journey through this highly engaging science fantasy visual novel with memorable characters and multiple endings. Journey through space, uncover the past and pull off a heist or two as you negotiate the pitfalls of friendship and a crumbling reality. Can you save the universe?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, RPG 10.7%

Play as a bird in a small city called Tracadie.

Why similar: Dark Humor 29.1%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Funny 10.7%, RPG 10.3%

As a newly appointed Judge, you will rule over Space Court and its denizens to keep the universe safe. Or possibly blow it all up. Either way, you’re tenured.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Funny 10.7%

Guide Hamlet (now a Girl *and* a Werewolf) as she deals with a murder mystery, a usurped throne, and a cursed sledding competition. Her emotions are your stats, so.... emote wisely. Or impulsively. Or with shame. It’s her kingdom. Everyone else is just tolerated in it.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Surreal 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Choices Matter 11.4%

Your crush is missing. They texted you last night. And now you’re reliving the same day over and over. Welcome to Sunset High — where drama, dilemmas, and time loops collide in this narrative-driven, 2D adventure.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Dark Humor 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Surreal 11.2%

You return to your hometown but no one recognizes you. But that doesn’t matter, because you are not here for them. You are here for her. Midgårdsormen, singer and artist, pervert and goddess, a being truly out of this world.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Surreal 9.9%

A story-driven visual novel about healing, heartbreak, and second chances. Build relationships, face your past, and shape your future in a town where every choice leaves a mark. Romance, drama, and emotional chaos await in Cascade Falls.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Choices Matter 8.6%, Multiple Endings 8.2%

Those who skip Galgames are mere corporate drones; those who play are the true masters of wealth and power. That's just the way of the world! As an ordinary boy, wager your wildest fetishes and your dignity to reach the summit: Become the 'GALGAME GOD'!

Why similar: Dark Humor 25.8%, Surreal 18.4%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Multiple Endings 9.9%

Blending fairy tale fright with psychological horror, this narrative game challenges you to survive a weird journey through the woods while being hunted by the witch you were tasked with imprisoning. Sometimes charming, sometimes frightening, she’ll force you to make hard choices.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Dark Humor 10.6%

𝕭𝖀𝕽𝕹 is a short and replayable visual novel, where you play Nina BURN, the biggest pop star in the world at the turning point of her career. Will you change pop music? Will you become a monster? 𝖄𝖔𝖚 𝖜𝖎𝖑𝖑 𝕭𝖀𝕽𝕹.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Surreal 15.2%, Multiple Endings 11.6%

A psychological visual novel–style game focused on atmosphere and narrative. What feels like choice slowly collapses.

Why similar: Dark Humor 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Visual Novel 16%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Multiple Endings 8.4%

DEAD DETENTION is a scribbly interactive story about a nerdy teen turned dooms day survivor! Play as 14 year old Max as he tries to escape his high school during a deadly zombie pandemic! Will he and his new friends get to safety?!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Funny 10%, Choices Matter 9.6%

Very dumb adventure game about a very dumb person from a very dumb developer.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Dark Humor 17.7%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Visual Novel 10.7%

Always wanted a fantasy world desk job?! Manage eccentric adventurers like a lazy witch, tsundere fairy & useless bard! Approve quests, keep them alive, pay off Elfie's crippling tax debt, and rake in gold for the Guild!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, RPG 16.5%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Funny 6.2%

An office-based shrinking horror adventure in visual novel format! Explore a workplace packed with man-eating coworkers as you try to survive being tiny...

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Dark Humor 14%, Choices Matter 9.9%

Play as Erwin, a witch hunter navigating a fantasy world of magic and suspicion. Your decisions in this visual novel affect friendships, trust, and multiple story outcomes. Choose wisely—the fate of your journey rests with you.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29%, Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Choices Matter 9.4%

Join Lydia as she takes her fight to expose the corruption in Cypress Ridge to City Hall in the second part of the visual novel series What Lydia Knows.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Dark Humor 15.6%, Visual Novel 14.4%, RPG 9.7%

A love letter to horror manga in the form of a visual novel. Welcome to a world of distorted minds.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Surreal 15.1%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Choices Matter 8.2%

Trapped in an isolated room, you're guided by a mysterious voice and monitored by cameras. Solve intricate puzzles to break free, but be warned: the initial sarcasm hides a dramatic and unsettling truth. Follow the instructions... if you dare.

Why similar: Dark Humor 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Surreal 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Funny 8%

Recent high school graduates gather at a remote cabin for a celebration. What begins as a night of laughter spirals into a tense mystery full of secrets, twists, and chilling choices. Who will survive? Navigate friendships, and uncover the multi-layered mystery in Shadows of Betrayal.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.8%, Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Visual Novel 21.9%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 8.2%

IBH is a rich role playing game at the end of time. You're a mid-level official in a dying sci-fi regime, given the impossible task of fixing a faltering machine; explore a vast world, define your mind, flex your authority, and become a sinner or a savior in countless other stories.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Visual Novel 15.9%, RPG 13.2%, Choices Matter 8.9%

Can you and your friends master the ocean's magic and save your school? Dance, fight, and flirt with the other sea nymphs, selkies, and sirens!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.3%, RPG 16.9%, First-Person 9.3%, Magic 8.4%

A choose-your-own-adventure novel. ​Enter the mind of a black-ops team leader heading an impossible mission in a parallel universe. Choices are remembered, story events reflect past decisions, and freely rewind time to try different paths.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.4%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Choices Matter 10.8%, RPG 9.6%

Under developement, Grave Knight is an interactive RPG adventure inspired by SRD 5.1 ruleset and classical game books, where your decisions weave the fate of the characters and the story. Let the dice forge the fate of your hero and the realm by fighting the Grave knight and his horde.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Visual Novel 19.6%, RPG 15%, Choices Matter 10.7%

Create your character and experience a fun story in which you will meet friends, enemies and partners as you try to carry out a vital project with your friends: to create an anime before you finish your studies.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Choices Matter 10%, Multiple Endings 9.6%

Welcome to Joe Papp, Nevada. A theater town where local legends spring to life and nobody knows quite what to do with their lives.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Visual Novel 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Choices Matter 9.3%

You've been given the chance to go to the country's most prestigious academy. Your future couldn't have looked brighter! But you'll soon find out nothing is ever as it seems...

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Visual Novel 15.2%, RPG 10.4%, Choices Matter 7.6%

"Endless Monday: In Progress" - New job, new Penny. Our favorite former corporate grunt is back, and working hard to live the dream! But as she struggles to keep the dream alive, she'll need all the help she can get, from friends, angry ex-coworkers, the past, and beyond.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Multiple Endings 12.9%

The meteorite will hit your space station in 3 days, and you’re bolted to the floor. Can you convince someone to free you? Meet, persuade, and escape certain doom with a large cast of characters in this bittersweet and hilarious adventure game!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Choices Matter 10%

Surreal horror themed visual novel, with lots of branching paths, blood, tears and twisted pitch-black humour. You're playing as Ashia, who's forced to marry her slimy uncle, suffering from surreal nightmares at night. Then she meets Novalie. And then things gets REALLY strange.

Why similar: Dark Humor 22.6%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Surreal 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choices Matter 12.2%

Astronaut: The Best is an occult management adventure where people aren't just numbers: they're screwups. You must run a proper space academy using lies, witchcraft, and/or hard work. Guide cadets through a roguelite web of scandals and challenges, or the government will have you killed.

Why similar: Dark Humor 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Multiple Endings 9.1%

Gardening and magic are meeting in Margaret’s Little Shop of Wonders. Play as Margaret, a young witch who just opened her own flower shop, and fulfill the peculiar requests of her strange customers!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Magic 10.2%

Meet Kureha Kurono and her friends in this charming visual novel! With the help of the devil Blackwing-chan they'll be able to defeat the evil shadow, right? What was that? It was Blackwing himself who caused this mess? Oh dear.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Surreal 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Funny 9%

In LOVE! again... every choice leads to consequences. Choose your romance, and write your own story.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Visual Novel 15.6%, RPG 15.5%, Funny 6.4%

A tipsy tale of questionable choices, suspiciously charming strangers, and conversations that unravel faster than your sobriety. What begins as a harmless chat in the alley might end with truffle mushrooms, a missing crown, or waking up in someone else’s dungeon. You’ve been warned.

Why similar: Dark Humor 22.4%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%

Butter Side Down is a bizarro choose-your-own-choice game. Starring Basil Bonser, Adam Spargo, Grey Michael, Beatrice, Jeep Johnson, and Rotten Ruggerio. Answer questions, take calls, play card games, and solve one hell of a mystery.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Dark Humor 14.4%, Surreal 13%, Choices Matter 9.8%

Take down multiple criminals case by case as you judge each and every one of them. Will you be naughty or nice? The final verdict is up to you!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.9%, Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Visual Novel 17%, Choices Matter 7.5%, Multiple Endings 7%

Duel wizards, cast spells, find true love, and keep your academic scholarship, all while investigating the mysterious disappearances plaguing your campus!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, RPG 16.1%, Magic 9.5%, First-Person 9%

Customers... Don't let them find out... Rip-off! A thrilling rip-off adventure where if the customers find out, you'll explode!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Dark Humor 13.8%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Comedy 6.5%

Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Dark Humor 11.6%

A flesh-eating dust leaves you to survive alone against hordes of Listless.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Visual Novel 16%, RPG 12.8%, Choices Matter 7.2%

Adventure as Geralt through the ballads of Dandelion. Swipe right, swipe left, seek glory, find death! Will you hunt monsters, upset the locals, or run a hot bath? Compose an inspiring epic to claim immortality.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.3%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Story Rich 5.1%

Hear sins. Judge souls. Upgrade your booth. Play as a priest hearing increasingly absurd confessions in this darkly comedic simulator. Will you guide your flock to salvation... or squeeze them for donations to install a hot tub in your confessional?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Dark Humor 20.8%, Choices Matter 7.6%, Funny 7.5%

An intriguing, choice-driven erotic story where the main character meets up with his internet girlfriend for a passionate week at a luxury resort. Indulge in steamy sex with a variety of gorgeous women, face temptation, drama, and desire—every decision leads to new pleasures… or consequences.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Choices Matter 8.9%, Multiple Endings 8.8%

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: Dark Humor 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Surreal 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Choices Matter 9.5%

Convince the cannibals not to eat you.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Dark Humor 10.8%