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On the road to the sacred shrine of Karatl, lost souls entrust you with their stories. In this contemplative Visual Novel, listen to their truths and perhaps, at the journey's end, you will discover your own.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18%, Text-Based 17.5%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Philosophical 13.3%, Stylized 9.7%

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 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Text-Based 11.1%, Philosophical 8.1%

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 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Text-Based 17.9%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Adventure 8.8%

Experience the Myth of Frankenstein through the innocent eyes of his creature. Make decisions and change people's view that you will meet on your way. Now, the myth is in your hands, so how are you going to end it?

Why similar: Text-Based 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Nature 10.2%, Visual Novel 10%

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 23.7%, Text-Based 23.6%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%, Choices Matter 6.2%

My name is left behind these white walls. In its place, I am left with dozens of questions. I wander aimlessly, though she seems to guide me. I do not feel safe. Twenty-four hours... and everything will fall into place.

Why similar: Philosophical 13.5%, Text-Based 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.3%

Constantinople, 1453. Four witnesses — a janissary, a baker's daughter, an engineer, a noble — live the same 53 days of the siege. Choices cross between their stories, and the city remembers. An illustrated, choice-driven historical novel where every ending is someone's truth.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Text-Based 17.7%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Emotional 5.9%

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 25.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Text-Based 20.7%, Adventure 10.7%, Dark 9.2%

Dive into a captivating standalone story in just an hour! Presenting the first installment of the "Handy Novel" series. Highly praised on smartphones, this acclaimed narrative is now ready for your enjoyment on Steam for PC/Mac!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Text-Based 22.8%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Emotional 14.1%, Adventure 11.4%

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 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Text-Based 13.5%, Emotional 5.7%

中式原生家庭环境下，少年找寻存在方式的故事。

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Visual Novel 22.1%, Cats 17.2%, Stylized 14.3%, Emotional 11.5%

The frontier does not want to be settled. A narrative highly replayable story game where your choices build a settlement, shape its story, and seal its fate. Every run ends. Every obituary tells a story only you lived.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Text-Based 14.9%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Philosophical 12.4%

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 29.5%, Text-Based 25.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Adventure 12.6%, Atmospheric 7.2%

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 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Emotional 10.6%

Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Adventure 9.7%, Dark 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Text-Based 16.9%, Emotional 10.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%

Ukraine War Stories is a set of visual novels about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Set in the early months of the war, it tells the stories of civilians trapped on Russian-occupied territory. All stories are based on real events and eyewitness accounts.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Text-Based 16.3%, Visual Novel 13%, Emotional 7.5%

Board the Trans-Siberian railroad and travel 9,289 km from Moscow to Vladivostok. Clash with a vibrant culture as you meet people as strange to you as you are to them. Journey into a standalone Wanderlust adventure from the makers of The Witcher.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Text-Based 14.4%, Philosophical 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Visual Novel 10.8%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Text-Based 20.7%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Adventure 5.1%

Aozora Haru, a troubled, recently orphaned art student, finds it hard to attach much meaning to many of the things in his life. Through the meaningful bonds he has created with the people close to him, however, he begins to understand that life is much more important than it initially seems.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Philosophical 15.6%, Emotional 10.5%, Stylized 9.4%

Alone as two, together as one - A fantasy/yuri visual novel telling the story of two girls traversing a snow covered forest and growing closer.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Cats 18.4%, Text-Based 17.1%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Emotional 9.8%

The Trials of Ozymandias is a visual novel set in the high fantasy world of the kingdom of Johrotos. In the capitol city, Dassi, resides the most famous adventurer's guild in all the land: Talleh-Hoy. This is where your story begins.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Text-Based 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Emotional 9.5%

You are a protest organiser, coordinating the crowd outside your window. When the police move in on your position you have to decide whether to tell the protestors to hold the line or pull back.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Text-Based 15.6%, Philosophical 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Visual Novel 12.3%

A short, twisted tale about a smuggler and a late night encounter in the English Channel. Control the camera and make tough choices, will you escape with your life?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Philosophical 15.8%, Text-Based 14.9%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%

A philosophical interactive visual novel about everyday interactions

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Philosophical 13.7%, Emotional 10%

My Room Philosopher is a text-based game where a boy asks questions many people face during adolescence. Answer his questions and explore his thoughts while reflecting on your own values and life.

Why similar: Philosophical 24.3%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Text-Based 13.5%, Emotional 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.3%

Mystery adventure where no one dies. Use your “ability to see too much” to uncover an inconvenient truth.

Why similar: Cats 27.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Stylized 10.1%, Adventure 6.8%

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 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Text-Based 11.2%, Emotional 5.2%

In the heart of the Afghan wilderness, amidst the chaos of war, you awaken to the stark reality of your mission: three days to navigate the perilous landscape, uncover hidden truths, and confront the ghosts of the past.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Text-Based 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Visual Novel 14%, Emotional 8.1%

Navigate the claustrophobic corridors of a cargo ship and try to survive a night with man-eating tigers on the loose. Your choices will determine who lives and who dies.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Cats 10.6%, Adventure 10.3%

A Girl's Kidnapping Case in Your Neighborhood...Your Choices and Actions Determine the Outcome

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Cats 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Adventure 9.4%, Dark 6.7%

It's the night of the big ball, and things are going...well...they're going. When so many people of so many different species are gathered together in one place, you're sure to have an interesting time. But what if something a little more malicious is happening under the surface?

Why similar: Philosophical 21.7%, Text-Based 16.7%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%

"This way. I'm waiting for you." The Cloud VR is a healing fantasy VR game where you go on an adventure to meet someone waiting for you. You can interact and explore in various spaces on your journey. We hope you enjoy a moving journey in a fairytale-like world.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.8%, Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Emotional 7.2%, Stylized 6.3%

This is a romantic furry visual novel. Interact with the girls, explore beautiful places and find the way to cure your childhood friend!

Why similar: Text-Based 25.8%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Cats 20.2%, Adventure 8.8%, Nature 6.7%

You're looking for a new apartment in Amsterdam. Your once-confident search is morphing into panic. Nothing is available. Anything will do. ANYTHING.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Text-Based 14.7%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Philosophical 13.1%

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 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Text-Based 16.5%, Emotional 9.2%

A psychological thriller visual novel where your choices deeply affect an 18-year-old woman's mental state, leading to multiple endings.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Text-Based 17.9%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Emotional 9.1%

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.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Visual Novel 19%, Text-Based 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Emotional 9.3%

Play as a Duskweaver in this short "choices matter" story about self-sacrifice.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Text-Based 20.9%, Philosophical 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Emotional 11%

Betrayed in the Amazon, an elite Korean special forces commander crosses into a brutal fantasy world and rises as a lord. A dark military-fantasy visual novel with choices, light progression, and conquest.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Adventure 11.6%, Text-Based 11.4%

Journey of animals trying to survive a War. An emotional tale where you'll decide the fate of all who embark on this journey.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Stylized 7.5%, Emotional 7.2%

Love remembers you. Even if you’ve forgotten.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.1%, Text-Based 28.2%, Visual Novel 23.4%, Atmospheric 9.7%, Adventure 9.2%

A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Text-Based 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Stylized 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.8%

An existential drama in handmade clay animation. Game writer Eric is replaced by AI. He loses everything, and it's the best thing that's ever happened to him.

Why similar: Visual Novel 13.5%, Philosophical 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Emotional 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%

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 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Text-Based 21.1%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Choices Matter 4.5%

Linda & Joan is a narrative game about a British family. You play as Russell, Linda, and Joan — son, mother, and grandmother — switching between them to help the family cope with a series of traumatic events. Based on a true story. “Four Months Earlier” is part one of the Linda & Joan story.

Why similar: Philosophical 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Text-Based 13.8%, Emotional 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.6%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Text-Based 20.8%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Adventure 6.4%

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 23.7%, Visual Novel 20%, Text-Based 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Adventure 6.5%

When night falls, she wanders into another world... Moonless Moon is a text-based adventure game following a girl as she travels through a variety of different worlds.

Why similar: Text-Based 23.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Emotional 10.7%, Adventure 7.2%

Driving home late one night you encounter a refugee in distress. They are looking for salvation. Do you hand them over to violent authorities? Or risk sheltering them yourself?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Philosophical 16.1%, Text-Based 15.1%, Visual Novel 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%

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 21.3%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Text-Based 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Adventure 9.3%

Parent Ted, your own childhood. On this journey, you will have the chance to discover your inner child and better understand the trauma and emotions of your childhood.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Text-Based 16.8%, Visual Novel 15%, Philosophical 14.9%

Stranded after a plane crash in a freezing wilderness, you must manage body temperature, injury, and sanity as every decision shapes your survival.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Text-Based 13.9%, Dark 8.5%

Izumi, the demon girl you accidentally captured. A novel adventure game where you gradually connect hearts as you spend your days together with Izumi.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.9%, Visual Novel 25%, Text-Based 20.9%, Adventure 15.2%, Atmospheric 8.7%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 31%, Interactive Fiction 28.5%, Philosophical 24.9%, Adventure 8.3%, Choices Matter 6.8%

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 38.2%, Text-Based 32.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Adventure 6.3%, Story Rich 0.5%

It's a winter night. You are coming home by train. You have to change trains at a small train station in the middle of the forest.It's not the first time you've traveled this route. But now you feel like something is different.As if something was watching you.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Philosophical 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Text-Based 15.4%, Visual Novel 13.2%

It is said that the last frontier is space, but the crew of the Soviet Frigate, The Peresmeshnik, is about to discover that the sea still hides a terrifying secret. Waiting to be found.

Why similar: Text-Based 26.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 24%, Dark 7.9%, Adventure 5%

Vacation Terminal is a short 2D Psychological thriller, horror and survival based visual novel with evading based puzzle elements. Following the story of two strangers.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Adventure 10.3%, Dark 7.8%

The (Other)World Syndrome is a story-driven adventure game that explores the lives of those exhausted by an uncertain future, and endless competition. After fleeing this world for the OtherWorld, will the protagonist finally discover true happiness?

Why similar: Philosophical 29.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Emotional 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Adventure 11.6%