60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Story Rich, Interactive Fiction, Singleplayer.
A short, melancholic sci-fi visual novel told through text and ink-wash images, where Naomi wakes in an impossible world and searches for a way back.
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A short atmospheric sci-fi story told through text and ink-wash images, as New Zealand faces strange events beyond explanation.
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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?
A short atmospheric sci-fi story told through text and ink-wash images, as New Zealand faces strange events beyond explanation.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Text-Based 12.5%, Mystery 12.4%, Sci-fi 12.3%
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: Visual Novel 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Sci-fi 16.5%, Mystery 16.3%, Text-Based 9.5%
A breathtaking sci-fi visual novel! Since the Z gas appeared in the atmosphere, it is no longer possible to breath outside the Dome. You play as Carl Thanavan, a young scientist determined to uncover the origin of the catastrophe. Which path will you choose?
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Sci-fi 16.3%, Text-Based 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.4%, Visual Novel 21.1%, Text-Based 17.9%, Sci-fi 9.8%, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%
The Tenth Minute is a short narrative game told through chat and novel-style reading. Revisit a school-day memory shaped by unspoken feelings, misaligned memories, and belated understanding between three people. A youthful story with light psychological mystery, complete in around 2 hours.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.1%, Visual Novel 22.8%, Text-Based 18.2%, Mystery 11.2%, Story Rich 6.3%
A visual novel about a man who discovers the existence of another dimension hidden in dreams. Explore and learn the rules of a new reality, meet fellow dreamwalkers and solve the mystery of a disaster in the past. Make decisions, build relationships and strive to reach the best ending!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.4%, Visual Novel 33.9%, Mystery 13.5%, Atmospheric 8.4%, Story Rich 7.3%
A sci-fi visual novel reimagining The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902). Follow Vornovians Sherr-Lok & Watt-Sun as they try to uncover the truth of the "curse"
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.8%, Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Mystery 16.6%, Text-Based 13.2%, Sci-fi 9.6%
SILICON WASTELAND is a kinetic visual novel set during the twilight years of humanity, and follows the wandering android Silica, as she explores the beautiful and sometimes frightening wonders of the world in a small quest to discover her purpose.
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.1%, Text-Based 22.3%, Post-apocalyptic 19.3%, Sci-fi 8.2%, Story Rich 5.8%
Fishbowl Kid is an uplifting interactive story about coping with depression.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.2%, Visual Novel 26.2%, Comic Book 19.7%, Casual 6.2%, Story Rich 6%
Alex, a mid-level manager from the big city, is forced to return to his home village following a family tragedy. A temporary visit soon becomes a deeply emotional trial. He will have to confront a mystical lake, put his friendships to the test, and find true love.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.2%, Visual Novel 23.9%, Text-Based 17.4%, Comic Book 16.5%, Story Rich 4.5%
Discover the story of this point’n click and lead your town towards a better future! You’ll guide the town of Harmonium Point to a yet unbuilt future after a great war that ravaged the world. React to numerous events that punctuate the life of this town and build relationships with the other citizens!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.9%, Visual Novel 23.8%, Text-Based 18.2%, Post-apocalyptic 17%, Story Rich 7.1%
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 18.2%, Text-Based 18%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Mystery 11.8%, Sci-fi 11.2%
Is it okay to kill 6 billion people to avenge the deaths of 2 billion? In this epic sci-fi visual novel, make tough choices to solve "impossible" problems, unlock branching paths and achieve multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29%, Visual Novel 27.8%, Sci-fi 16.8%, Mystery 9%, Comic Book 6.3%
Visual novel «Burned One» - story that tells about a post-apocalyptic world in post-soviet decorations, and about its people. In the center of the story a stalker Voyla, who trying to find his wife, disappeared during the Cataclysm...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.8%, Visual Novel 27.1%, Post-apocalyptic 18.4%, Sci-fi 8.6%, Story Rich 4.8%
You wake in a monster’s cage with no memory and 30 days to act. Choose to escape, obey, or become its favorite.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Text-Based 16.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Sci-fi 8.7%
"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 24.2%, Visual Novel 22.3%, Text-Based 17.8%, Mystery 14.5%, Atmospheric 6.5%
This tale began five years earlier, in the spring of 2231. Mankind has evolved a new kind of communication ability called “telepathy”.
Why similar: Visual Novel 41.7%, Sci-fi 17.4%, Mystery 14.6%, Casual 14.1%, Indie 6.6%
Parallels: Year One is a visual novel that will take you on a journey through one relationship in five parallel worlds. Join Ron and Jessica on a journey to see each other from a new perspective.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.1%, Visual Novel 28.6%, Text-Based 13.6%, Casual 5.6%, Story Rich 5%
As their feet lead them on a journey... They happen upon the secret of how this world was destroyed.
Why similar: Visual Novel 35.5%, Post-apocalyptic 22.1%, Sci-fi 21%, Casual 12%, Story Rich 6.2%
There's a spider haunting these hills.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.4%, Post-apocalyptic 19.5%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Text-Based 13.8%, Casual 6.6%
Sequel of Old Watch
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Sci-fi 16.7%, Mystery 15.3%, Text-Based 14.2%
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 33.6%, Visual Novel 31%, Text-Based 25.1%, Atmospheric 4%, Story Rich 3.5%
Niluas, an android who suddenly activated 276 years after the extinction of humanity. With her AI, Naive, she seeks lost memories, her activation's mystery, and humanity's extinction's cause. Facing enigmatic foes and hostile androids, she quests for truth about her existence and the desolate world.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26%, Visual Novel 20%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Mystery 10.4%, Sci-fi 10.3%
Beacon 2010 is a short science fiction visual novel that, with the development of technology, humanity has embarked on an interstellar exploration. The story originates from a super jump project
Why similar: Visual Novel 38.5%, Text-Based 32.1%, Sci-fi 24.2%, Indie 2.8%, Singleplayer 2.4%
Embark on a nocturnal road movie full of mysteries, paranormal phenomena, and an unexpected destination. Choose your answers carefully... and you might just find a happy ending.
Why similar: Visual Novel 32.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Mystery 22%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Story Rich 4.8%
Follow Joseph, Eric, and William (as well as a handful of other characters) as they awake from cryogenic stasis at the enigmatic facility known as Intermine Laboratories. But, deep within the abyss exists an ancient evil that is seeking to enact its own twisted machinations ...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.1%, Visual Novel 25.6%, Text-Based 17.8%, Sci-fi 10.8%, Story Rich 6.1%
Late at night, a teacher shares two bizarre tales: a corpse stuffed in a sheet, and an abnormal presence in the mountains. It was just a ghost story, but a creepy "sense of unease" lurks within. A short psychological horror visual novel offering a dense, terrifying experience in about an hour.
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.3%, Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Text-Based 22.9%, Mystery 16.9%, 2D 2.6%
A short kinetic visual novel (about 45 minutes). Silas Reed returns to his hometown of Dry Creek… but something feels wrong in the abandoned town.
Why similar: Visual Novel 33.5%, Mystery 20.4%, Sci-fi 17.8%, Text-Based 15%, Atmospheric 11%
An LGBTQ+ Mystery Visual Novel with comic panel style aesthetics and pixel styled backgrounds. Join The Heart Breachers operatives as they navigate the world of desire, treachery, and emotional turmoil while learning to understand lofty concepts such as friendship, hope, and belief in oneself.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.4%, Visual Novel 24.4%, Comic Book 16.2%, Text-Based 13.5%, Mystery 9.7%
One day, as he is walking through this bustling city of monotony, moving through the crowds of people all dressed exactly the same... Something actually stands out—a girl dressed in a traditional school uniform from ages past…
Why similar: Visual Novel 36.8%, Text-Based 27.5%, Sci-fi 19.8%, Casual 12.3%, Indie 1.9%
A dark sci-fi psychological Visual Novel where your choices shape who you are. The world has ended and it's been dominated by mysterious aliens who roam the city. Despite that, you only think of what you've lost. Will you be able to rebuild your relationships? Or even... the world itself?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Text-Based 17.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Sci-fi 9%
"Do you know a monster that dwells around here?" she asked. An ordinary barkeepers' journey, intertwined with the only survivor from a shrouded monster hunter company, started with this question.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Visual Novel 20.9%, Text-Based 15.4%, Comic Book 15.1%, Mystery 13%
"Summer Syndrome" is a sci-fi mystery visual novel set in the near future. Eerie plane crashes, shadowy organizations operating in the dark, and the increasingly prevalent "Summer Syndrome"... Players will experience a non-linear narrative through chapter-based choices and uncover the truth.
Why similar: Visual Novel 41.4%, Sci-fi 25.5%, Mystery 24.5%, Story Rich 8.6%
After witnessing a murder, 16-year-old skater Azar Warren seeks refuge with her estranged grandfather on his rural compound, only to suspect he may be more dangerous than her pursuers. Ashes blends graphic novel panels with interactive puzzles in a story of murder and unease.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32%, Visual Novel 29.1%, Mystery 14.6%, Story Rich 10.2%, Atmospheric 7.7%
Awake from your slumber and venture out to the mighty CITADEL.
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Sci-fi 17.1%, Mystery 12.5%, Text-Based 11.3%
A dark visual mystery novel featuring transhumanism, traditional marriage, loneliness, and cosplay. Two pursuable characters. Five endings. Welcome to the future.
Why similar: Visual Novel 58.6%, Sci-fi 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Story Rich 4.3%, Mystery 2.6%
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi's first case, the Honjin Murder Mystery. Honjin descendant Kenzo Ichiyanagi and his new wife Katsuko Kubo lay dead in a bed of blood on the night of their wedding. Kosuke Kindaichi searches for the truth about this locked room murder mystery. However...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.2%, Visual Novel 23.1%, Mystery 18.5%, Text-Based 14.7%, Story Rich 5.9%
Amy receives an invitation to a group chat set up by some of her former classmates. Its purpose is to reconnect after all these years. But soon more and more disturbing facts about Amy's classmates are revealed, and Amy begins to fear that the people she's texting with may not be what they seem.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.1%, Visual Novel 24.6%, Text-Based 20.8%, Mystery 14.3%, Atmospheric 8.7%
A free drama-mystery visual novel with a modern fantasy setting. Reach out to the fourteen people trapped inside to find the truth through eighteen endings, influenced by but not exclusively bound to your own system time.
Why similar: Visual Novel 32.8%, Interactive Fiction 30.9%, Mystery 19.6%, Story Rich 6.8%, Text-Based 5.9%
A single-screen satirical game where you press a button to request a mortgage… and you're always told no. There is no ending. No progress. Just despair — for the price of a coffee.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.4%, Visual Novel 31.7%, Text-Based 15.2%, Sci-fi 14.3%, 2D 3.4%
Stories Want to be Told is an adventure game. It is more like an interactive story telling game. This the first episode The Prohecy
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 40.6%, Visual Novel 30.4%, Mystery 12.1%, Atmospheric 7.6%, Story Rich 3.9%
「We prove our void――」
Why similar: Visual Novel 49.4%, Mystery 21.6%, Text-Based 17.7%, Atmospheric 9.9%, Singleplayer 1.4%
When your self-driving Autocab kills a cyclist in this murder mystery visual novel, it's up to you as Emily Knight to talk with fellow passengers and use the clues you find to contradict their lies as you unravel how you ALL could possibly know the victim and have a motive for murder - even the car!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23%, Visual Novel 22.8%, Mystery 15.8%, Sci-fi 15.5%, Comic Book 10.3%
Don't Let Me Fade is an interactive adventure about memory, identity, and loss. Piece together fragments of a life - even if a simple teddy bear is the last symbol of connection to oneself in a world without time.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.8%, Visual Novel 26.9%, Text-Based 12.9%, Atmospheric 7.1%, Sci-fi 5.4%
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 24.2%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Text-Based 15.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Sci-fi 9.6%
Dark Lovers is a short pixel art teenage romantic mistery visual novel game about a highschool prom night in 1979 which contains multiple endings and secrets.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.1%, Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Text-Based 15.9%, Mystery 9.1%, Story Rich 7.1%
Tomorrow Will Be Dying is an atmospheric, story-driven slice-of-life visual novel with light sim elements about finding yourself through your connections with others.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.8%, Visual Novel 30.7%, Text-Based 10.9%, Casual 10.9%, Story Rich 4%
The first AI detective game that doesn't cheat. Developed by a former Meta AI Engineer. Interrogate suspects using your own words to solve the murder of Harambe. Features procedurally generated cases, consistent hard logic, and a unique stress mechanic. You have 3 hours to find the truth.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36%, Visual Novel 25%, Mystery 17.6%, Text-Based 14.8%, Story Rich 3.7%
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: Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Text-Based 19.3%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Mystery 14.6%, Sci-fi 10.9%
Play as Doctor Athena, a passionate young woman with mixed alien heritage—and the sole survivor of refugee camp ITOH. Three days remain on the trip 'home'—with only the ship's unsettlingly polite Captain Odysseus and the cryptic alien war criminal Chiron for company. But is everything really as it seems?
Why similar: Visual Novel 41.7%, Mystery 18.3%, Sci-fi 17.4%, Casual 9.7%, Story Rich 8.4%
A short, nostalgic slice-of-life visual novel with a coming-of-age story about a forgotten ice pop and the girl who once felt like a big sister to you.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Comic Book 15.3%, Text-Based 15%, Mystery 11%
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: Interactive Fiction 33.3%, Visual Novel 26.8%, Text-Based 21.9%, Story Rich 6.7%, Sci-fi 6.4%
Experience the story of Glow, a young and naive furry heroine caught between two empires' interplanetary ambitions, forged in tragedy and conspiracy.
Why similar: Visual Novel 39.7%, Sci-fi 21.2%, Mystery 19.9%, Story Rich 9.8%, Casual 3.8%
The Hidden and Unknown is a story-based game, that aims to widen the perception of its audience in the areas of psychology and philosophy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Text-Based 19.5%, Mystery 15.6%, Sci-fi 12.3%
A horror mystery visual novel where a boy and a girl undergo a strange ritual in a remote mountain village. As eerie phenomena creep into their daily lives, they begin to uncover unsettling truths. Your choices shape how the story unfolds.
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.7%, Mystery 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Text-Based 12.2%, Story Rich 7.1%
Dry Spring Monologue is a chapter-based visual novel game that follows Lu Zimo. The story includes adult themes such as overtime work, insomnia, and performance reviews, as well as terrifying elements like living spaghetti.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.3%, Visual Novel 23.8%, Comic Book 16.3%, Text-Based 13.9%, Casual 5%
Set in a post-apocalyptic dystopian future, two young men set out on a journey to find The Great Appearance which manifests itself inside mankind's mind.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Text-Based 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 16.8%, Atmospheric 8.3%
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 32.2%, Visual Novel 25.5%, Text-Based 21.6%, Sci-fi 8.3%, Casual 5.6%
Wake up, watch tv, make a cup of cofffee and try to bear your own meaningless existence.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Visual Novel 24.6%, Text-Based 17.7%, Mystery 16.7%, Atmospheric 9%
Interactive fiction, visual novel adventure with point & click controls and AI-assisted illustrations. Explore a dangerous orbital station, an abandoned starship or a mysterious planet in this cyberpunk sci-fi text-based game. And, of course, discover a mystery that has an impact on the galaxy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.2%, Visual Novel 22.8%, Text-Based 20.3%, Sci-fi 15.4%, Story Rich 6.9%
