
Delve into a dark fantasy visual novel where evil isn't always as it seems. Make your choices and grow your skills to help determine who survives the Great Culling. Featuring the voice talents of Ralph Ineson, Simon Callow, Savannah Steyn, and more.
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Delve into a dark fantasy visual novel where evil isn't always as it seems. Make your choices and grow your skills to help determine who survives the Great Culling. Featuring the voice talents of Ralph Ineson, Simon Callow, Savannah Steyn, and more.

Before They Catch Us
A dark text-based RPG set in a world gripped by a restless race for survival against a merciless mushroom Forest. As a prophet’s apprentice, guide your clan along the knife-edge between life and oblivion. Decipher misty visions, make critical decisions, and do whatever it takes to survive.

Herald of the Mists
A narrative-driven RPG where every dice roll shapes your fate. Step into the role of the Queen's Herald and traverse a mist-shrouded realm to uncover the fate of her lost army. Will your choices uphold loyalty, or lead you down a path of betrayal? The secrets of the mists await.
A dark text-based RPG set in a world gripped by a restless race for survival against a merciless mushroom Forest. As a prophet’s apprentice, guide your clan along the knife-edge between life and oblivion. Decipher misty visions, make critical decisions, and do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.6%, Dark Fantasy 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%, Visual Novel 8.5%, Choices Matter 8.1%
A narrative-driven RPG where every dice roll shapes your fate. Step into the role of the Queen's Herald and traverse a mist-shrouded realm to uncover the fate of her lost army. Will your choices uphold loyalty, or lead you down a path of betrayal? The secrets of the mists await.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Dark Fantasy 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Choices Matter 10%
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: Text-Based 20%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Lore-Rich 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Visual Novel 9.6%
THE SIN COLLECTOR: REPENTLESS is a game on the border of a visual novel and a classic text RPG, set in the world of The Sin Collector, a series of books written by Michał Gołkowski. Action takes place a couple of years before the events presented in the books.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Dark Fantasy 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%, Visual Novel 8.5%
A text-based RPG with a nonlinear story set in a free Slavic fantasy world. Shape the heroine's character through your choices and unlock multiple endings. Mystery, folklore, and relationships — your fate depends only on you.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Hand-drawn 7.7%
Choose, explore, interact, fight, solve, gather, trade! Rise to rebel in this immersive text-based fantasy story that seamlessly merges the best elements of RPGs, choose-your-own-adventure stories, visual novels, and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Choices Matter 10.1%
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 16.2%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Text-Based 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Choices Matter 10.3%
Do you enjoy listening to stories and having the ability to influence their unfolding? If so, then immerse yourself in the role of an active participant as you join Yaren on her quest for freedom.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Narration 9.5%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
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: Choices Matter 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Text-Based 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Visual Novel 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 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Text-Based 12.1%, Visual Novel 10.6%
Chess. Love. Destiny. All the same things, really.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Dark Fantasy 16.4%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Hand-drawn 9.5%, Text-Based 8.6%
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: Text-Based 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
Embark on a journey of this text anime quest with RPG elements! Walk through beautiful locations, overcome challenges and make Peter’s dreams come true. Every step you take matters. And don’t forget to take the diary - you’ll need it!
Why similar: Text-Based 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Medieval 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Visual Novel 9.2%
To get to heaven, you must climb the Nine Circles of Hell. But you might never make it to the depths.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Dark Fantasy 10%, Choices Matter 9.4%
In pursuit of coin, hired dagger Arthur finds himself embroiled in conspiracy involving the daughter of a noble House. Who is really pulling the strings behind the scenes?
Why similar: Visual Novel 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
A daemonic, handcrafted visual novel where your choices shape erotic dreams, secrets, and ritual desires.
Why similar: Text-Based 14.1%, Dark Fantasy 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Lore-Rich 9.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%
Fate is not a line is a visual novel game where your choices shape destinies. With 40+ decisions, 4 unique perspectives, and 25+ endings, every playthrough reveals new truths. Defy fate, face moral dilemmas, and uncover the secrets of the Arbiter of Fate.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Dark Fantasy 9.5%, Multiple Endings 9%
Scent of Clouds is a hand-drawn illustrated, text-based adventure game. As a perfumer's assistant, you create fragrances and journey through unknown lands in search of ingredients for the legendary "Scent of Clouds." With a keen nose, you'll unravel the timeless mystery of this world.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Lore-Rich 12.6%, Inventory Management 9.7%, Visual Novel 8.3%
Not It: Spookiest Edition is a horror-filled visual novel full of suspense and mystery where you navigate Katie through a living nightmare. Her move-in day on Halloween throws her into a centuries-old curse. Can she make it through the night? Will her new neighbors perish? Decide their fate.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Narration 9.6%
Step into a visual novel of rotten flowers. Play as a young woman in a world where the ability to lie is condemned, and seek shelter in the mysterious castle across the lake. Survive, little dove, in the rot infested halls, and be careful of who you choose to love — what you choose to lie about...
Why similar: Text-Based 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Dark Fantasy 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.8%
A loop-based text adventure where turn-based combat, exploration, and branching choices drive a haunting journey through death and memory.
Why similar: Text-Based 27.9%, Dark Fantasy 15.6%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
Embrace the monster within in this dark fantasy visual novel with inclusive romances. Befriend charming allies, defy bitter rivals, fall in love. Your choices will save or condemn mortals, shaping the fate of a city as beautiful as it is cruel.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Lore-Rich 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%, Choices Matter 8.3%
You've been tasked with collecting data on an alien planet. Choose between exploring the jungle tropics or navigating deep into the bioluminescent sea.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Text-Based 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Lore-Rich 12.5%, Visual Novel 11.4%
An interactive graphic novel reimagining Cervantes' masterpiece in striking neo-noir style. Guide Don Quixote through La Mancha, make choices that shape his journey, and discover four unique endings in this tragicomic tale of idealism and madness.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Narration 8.6%
A medieval text quest in the "Choose Your Own Adventure" genre, where each choice could be your last. Create your story with more than 2,000 events, 200 of which will prove fatal. In a world where death plays against you, can you outsmart it and write your own story?
Why similar: Text-Based 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Medieval 9.9%
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: Text-Based 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
Bleedings Moons is an interactive story revolving around the themes of fate, duty and free will. Your actions and decisions will shape the story of the game, so that Ian's story will be your story, with the logical consequences of your choices.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Dark Fantasy 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.9%
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: Text-Based 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
Aunewyth is a text-based game with a focus on narration and decision making. It features a short yet versatile storyline that reveals itself according to the choices you make.
Why similar: Text-Based 32.9%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%
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 33.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Dark Fantasy 8.1%, Choices Matter 7.4%
Royal Duality is an immersive dark fantasy visual novel with 15 endings, various side stories and hidden Easter Eggs all set in an engaging lore-rich world
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Lore-Rich 12.4%, Choices Matter 9.1%
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Text-Based 15.3%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Choices Matter 10.2%
As an elf in a panicked flight from home, you discover a more dangerous secret: a human claiming to be a dragon.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Visual Novel 8.6%
Decide the fate of the son of a tailor and a witch doctor infected with an incurable disease in an interactive story with multiple endings depending on your actions.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.8%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
From Beyond is a game about a man being transported into a different world after being stabbed. Will he find happiness and hope in a world filled with despair? Will he piece the puzzle pieces together and uncover the mystery of his newfound colorblindness? That's up to you... Or is it?
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 20%, Visual Novel 15%, Text-Based 14.9%, Medieval 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
Take control of Morgan's destiny as his world is turned upside down. Explore the world of Dreams, where mythological creatures and Nightmares are real. A story-heavy adventure game with multiple endings, romance options and a symphonic music! Inspired by Neil Gaiman and Inception.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.8%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Lore-Rich 12.1%, Choices Matter 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
Horny Academy is an adult visual novel that blends interactive storytelling with a deep, branching narrative. Every choice you make leads to steamy animated scenes or unexpected twists within the mysterious walls of the magical Academy
Why similar: Text-Based 18%, Visual Novel 13%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Narration 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%
Rewrite history in this narrative RPG set in the last days of Imperial Russia. Born into nobility, you will shape both your destiny and the fate of a nation.Will you preserve the old order, ignite the flames of revolution, or carve out your own path? Every decision will echo through time.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Dark Fantasy 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Medieval 11.1%
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 22.5%, Narration 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%
How do you become a true magician? Find out in True Magician, an interactive text adventure with RPG elements. Travel through the kingdom with your teacher, learn the art of magic, fight enemies and make friends. And remember, the world is not what it seems!
Why similar: Text-Based 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Medieval 10.5%, Lore-Rich 9.6%
A call for help within a mysterious messaging app. Someone lost and wandering through a forest in a faraway place. And their destiny in your hands.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Visual Novel 9.3%
A text-based choose your own adventure game, with multiple stories, each with several endings. Stories you create through branching narratives are kept so you can read them again or show them to friends.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 15.3%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Text-Based 13.5%
"With good intentions" is a nonlinear visual novel. Escape from a cursed monastery, win over its mighty Overlord, save your love and uncover the mysteries of time itself!
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 18.8%, Text-Based 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%, Medieval 9.3%
A dark fairy tale about the woods outside a small village and the monster that roams within them. Become Sage and play through to uncover the mystery when they're tossed away from everything they've ever known.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 17%, Text-Based 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Visual Novel 11.5%
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 17.3%, Text-Based 15.1%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Choices Matter 11.3%
Scribe is a scribe simulator in which you can secretly shape the destinies of the inhabitants of the estate: resolve disputes, influence the course of family intrigues, decide who lives and who does not. Choose what to write in letters and whether to change their recipients!
Why similar: Text-Based 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Visual Novel 9.6%
The abyss awaits. Descend into a minimalist visual novel about a girl in the future, and guide her through branching conversations, microgames, and explorable locations. Make friends with criminals, drink too much at dinner, or relax in a spa. Whatever happens, it was your choice.
Why similar: Text-Based 15%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Lore-Rich 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.4%
Defy nature’s laws and avenge your slain pantheon! Humanity once feared and hated you, but now, awakened from a thousand-year slumber, you are their only hope. A text-based interactive game.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Dark Fantasy 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Lore-Rich 12%
Discover the world of Nadaca, meet emotionally rich characters and help them express their feelings through conversations, mini-games and a plant-growing system.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.7%, Lore-Rich 10.3%, Female Protagonist 10.1%, Narration 9.8%, Hand-drawn 8.8%
Scarlet Scarf is a visual novel inspired by the legend of Plague Maiden. Dive into the dark mysteries of a dying city with the fate of Sanator Richard Murdock in your hands. Perhaps it's not too late to stop the on-going calamity...
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 17.6%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Text-Based 12%, Lore-Rich 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.3%
A short psychological horror interactive story. Five years after vanishing without a trace, the woman you once called your lover writes from beyond the silence: "I will give birth to our creation.” In three acts, descend into a fractured mindscape where obsession, memory, and myth intertwine.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Dark Fantasy 11.2%, Choices Matter 9.1%
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Text-Based 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Medieval 10%, Dark Fantasy 9.8%
A short visual novel featuring elements inspired by the Princess and the Frog with a cultivation twist. Spend time with a cute little snake and have some fun together as you make decisions to determine the fate of a young goddess.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Lore-Rich 11.5%, Choices Matter 9.2%
Swing a sword, delve dungeons, and lead a resistance against the tyrannical queen of a war-torn fantasy realm. Will you unite the realm and end the queen’s reign of terror... or join her and rule by her side?
Why similar: Text-Based 29%, Medieval 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Choices Matter 7.9%
Trapped in a mysterious cave system, four dungeon explorers struggle to find a way out before the light fades forever... Navigate a mysterious underground as you navigate through multiple story paths in this text-based, pixel-art, dark fantasy rpg, visual novel computer game
Why similar: Text-Based 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Lore-Rich 10.7%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
At the heart of the action are a twelve-year-old Kenneth and his younger sister Esme, children of the Murphy family, who hit the trail of a mysterious monster following series of entangled events.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Narration 9.8%, Choices Matter 9.8%
Through branching destinies, hidden lore, brooding gothic vistas, and a soundtrack that echoes like a warning, you’ll walk a world reshaped by every choice you dare to make. But tread carefully—each decision pulls you toward redemption… or toward a fate far more terrifying than death.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Text-Based 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Visual Novel 11%, Dark Fantasy 10.4%
A choice-driven narrative RPG set in China’s Warring States period. Rise from a nameless soldier to a legendary general through decisions with permanent consequences. Death is final. History remembers only the survivors.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
You are Hidu, a beastman mercenary in a port city. You must survive one very bad day. How? That’s entirely up to you. There are countless ways for events to unfold — and 25 endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Narration 9.7%, Visual Novel 8.7%
In a future where memories are the last connection to a lost humanity, you are an advanced AI exploring fragments of past lives. Understand emotions, traumas, and choices in a journey to uncover what it means to be alive.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Lore-Rich 16.7%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Choices Matter 8.5%