60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Choices Matter, Multiple Endings, Choose Your Own Adventure, Interactive Fiction.
Noir/Horror themed story rich interactive adventure indie game with party-based RPG elements. As you investigate various mysterious cases, you will learn more about the secrets of this dystopian world and maybe discover why most of mankind has turned into zombies. Each of your choices really matters
Five Biggest Accomplishments
Five Biggest Accomplishments is a short Visual Novel where you play as someone who has held the same job for 30 years: push a button every 8 hours or the world will end. Suddenly, you get an email asking you to list your five biggest accomplishments for the week, or risk being fired.
Shadow City Mysteries: A Clockwork Noir
Shadow City Mysteries is a narrative adventure game in which players take on the role of a detective investigating a Mystery. Or is it a Conspiracy? Or is it a Supernatural Thriller? Experience the story multiple times to discover a story and world bigger than they suspected existed.
Five Biggest Accomplishments is a short Visual Novel where you play as someone who has held the same job for 30 years: push a button every 8 hours or the world will end. Suddenly, you get an email asking you to list your five biggest accomplishments for the week, or risk being fired.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Noir 19.5%, Visual Novel 13%, Nonlinear 9%, Psychological Horror 8.2%
Shadow City Mysteries is a narrative adventure game in which players take on the role of a detective investigating a Mystery. Or is it a Conspiracy? Or is it a Supernatural Thriller? Experience the story multiple times to discover a story and world bigger than they suspected existed.
Why similar: Noir 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Dynamic Narration 14% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Detective 11.1%
An interactive Lovecraftian horror story about surviving a family you never knew and their servitude to a dark patron. True to the genre, you retain all knowledge from every play-through. Shape your fate and that of the family. Will you embrace this gift or rid humanity of their taint?
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 19.1% ★, Noir 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Psychological Horror 9.9%
Immerse yourself in a first-person psychological horror experience where every choice matters. Confront the echoes of a forgotten past and uncover the truth behind your lost identity.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 21.4% ★, Noir 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
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 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Thriller 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.6%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Noir 13.1%, Nonlinear 11.3%
The fate of Savannah is in your hands!
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 23.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Nonlinear 14.5%, Visual Novel 11.7%
One eleven is a dark detective story about twelve lonely people who, by chance, find themselves in the same house with a mad maniac. Who will be the victim and who will be the killer? Be attentive and courageous, and solve the riddles of One Eleven.
Why similar: Noir 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Detective 12.9%, Nonlinear 9.4%, Visual Novel 9%
'The Island: In To The Mist' is an adventure game. It includes basic features of adventure genre and add some new systems to interest you. You have been given a chance to experience a group of university students, who confined in the island. There is a terrific but interesting story you will see.
Why similar: Noir 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Detective 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Psychological Horror 8.8%
Rearview Mirror is a narrative videogame in which most of the events take place inside a car. From a first-person perspective, the player interacts with the passengers through the rearview mirror.
Why similar: Noir 19.8%, Dynamic Narration 18.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.3%
Байкал зовёт. Прошлое возвращается в форме теней, и Андрей должен решить - играть по чужим правилам или переписать сценарий судьбы.
Why similar: Noir 16.2%, Detective 16%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Psychological Horror 10.2%
Paris’s life changes when she encounters a charming stranger who seems to be watching her. This choice-driven psychological visual novel delivers a tense, intimate story focused on curiosity, trust, and crossing dangerous boundaries.
Why similar: Noir 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Nonlinear 8.8%
Awaken in a world plunged into uncertainty. You must navigate hidden truths and make crucial choices. Will you uncover the secrets of your existence? Your path will determine your fate in this journey.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Noir 9.7%
Convince the cannibals not to eat you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Detective 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Psychological Horror 14%, Choices Matter 12.7%
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series contains all 4 Seasons, 400 Days, and The Walking Dead: Michonne, which includes over 50 hours of gameplay across 23 unique episodes.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Dynamic Narration 10.2% ★, Multiple Endings 9.4%
Reflections in Amber is a mystical detective visual novel. Investigate a mysterious death in a remote village alongside Detective Redbreast, who battles the weight of depression. Use an old supernatural camera to uncover hidden paths. Shape the course of the story with your choices!
Why similar: Noir 17.9%, Dynamic Narration 17.2% ★, Detective 13%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Visual Novel 9.9%
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Why similar: Detective 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Nonlinear 10.2%
A dystopian future-noir social thriller. As an Imperial Inspector, navigate a towering technocratic empire where loyalty is survival. Investigate secrets, manipulate factions, and make brutal moral choices. In this alternate history, will you uphold the regime or subvert the truth?
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 19.9% ★, Noir 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Detective 12.5%
In this eerie, horror visual novel, you are confined in a room with a monster. How will you fare against petrifying odds? Will you be able to work your way into the mind of an indecipherable beast, or will you be added to the casualty count? A word of advice: Choose a side; don't look back.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Dystopian 14.5%, Nonlinear 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Psychological Horror 11.6%
A short horror game where a terrifying ancient god manifests itself through worms, maggots, etc, looking to be reborn through someone's body. You will have to find that someone, speaking to the locals, investigating, uncovering truths and decide who to kill before the world is taken over.
Why similar: Detective 27.7%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Noir 14.2%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
"201 - The Bad Number" is an interactive science fiction game-book set on a post-apocalyptic Mars. In a world where only 200 people remain, each new inhabitant may hasten civilization's end. Players make choices that impact the fate of humanity and the colony in a unique dystopian setting.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Dystopian 14.8%, Detective 13.4%, Visual Novel 9.5%
A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths. A free atmospheric horror visual novel where you navigate life-or-death situations. SEEK PARADISE OR DIE TRYING
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
A psychological mystery where every clue reshapes reality. Unravel the link between a vanished woman and your missing sister, only to discover four entirely different truths, each revealing a new world, a new enemy, and the price of remembering.
Why similar: Noir 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Detective 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Visual Novel 9.4%
Man I Just Wanna Go Home is an "MSPaint-noir" visual novel with 13 endings, a unique visual style and a killer 80s inspired soundtrack. The story revolves around a delivery person stranded in an unfamiliar part of the city under the devastating rain. All he wants is to get home. Help him!
Why similar: Noir 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Choices Matter 8.4%
A psycho-thriller narrative RPG, fusing a retro-cinematic art style with mechanics from visual novels and adventure games. Escape a procedurally generated looping nightmare. Manage your sanity or your mind will turn against you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Noir 11.9%, Dynamic Narration 11.1% ★, Dystopian 9.8%
A classic 90s choose your own adventure style horror visual novel. Escape the horrors hunting you, make decisions, forge your own path. An original complete story with multiple endings. Choose your own play style with a Text Adventure Mode, sound effects, and an ambient soundtrack.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Psychological Horror 10.2%
Death Drive is a road trip visual novel inspired by classic American Gothic fiction.
Why similar: Noir 24.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Nonlinear 9.8%, Psychological Horror 9.6%
A detective game where you fiddle information to your advantage. As an owner of a small bar, listen to visitors of your establishment, overhear their gossiping, collect information and then use to manipulate their thoughts and actions.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 16.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Detective 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Visual Novel 10.5%
Biocybernetic Trap — an interactive cyberpunk detective. You are given the quantum diary of a long-dead detective, where reality fractures into parallel versions of the investigation.
Why similar: Noir 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Detective 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Nonlinear 10.5%
Uncover the truth behind a broken ritual in Make Moku Proud... a psychological visual novel where guilt and obedience, and what it means to make Moku proud, shape the fate of a witness watching his companions disappear.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Horror 11.6%
You were hired to watch. Not to ask questions. Night shift. Corporate building. Cameras, reports, anomalies. Your predecessor left no final report. Now you're going to find out why. Please proceed.
Why similar: Dystopian 13.5%, Noir 12.6%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Detective 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%
You are a detective who is slowly going blind. The only faces you can still see clearly belong to those who are about to die. A visual novel investigation where every choice affects the fate of Tokyo and leads you either closer to the truth or deeper into darkness.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.5%, Detective 20.9%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Psychological Horror 12%, Thriller 8.5%
Play 4 characters, live their unique stories and manage their daily lives to create their best day ever. In this narrative game, your decisions have consequences and change the outcome of the stories.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 23.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Multiple Endings 11%
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 19.1%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%
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: Dynamic Narration 23.4% ★, Detective 17%, Noir 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Dystopian 14%
Play as Kenneth, a private detective, and Blue, a runaway searching for answers. Explore the megacity of Republica in a semi-open world, solve criminal cases, make decisive moral choices, and uncover the truth behind Blue’s past.
Why similar: Detective 17.9%, Noir 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Dystopian 12.6%
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 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Nonlinear 13.4%, Psychological Horror 13.3%
USSR, 1952. A psychological thriller visual novel about the still-unsolved Case No. 17, inspired by real events. Search for the murderer inside a Soviet psychiatric hospital, make choices with irreversible consequences — and don’t trust the past. Don’t trust anyone. Not even yourself.
Why similar: Detective 16.7%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Thriller 12%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Noir 11.7%
A narrative roguelite where you lead desperate people across a fractured dark fantasy continent. No combat screens — every choice is made in words and every consequence follows you. Your companions have their own reasons to leave. How you survive reveals who you are.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Perma Death 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Dynamic Narration 15.5% ★, Roguelite 9.6%
Return to a town that never changed… and a friend who's supposed to be dead. A psychological horror visual novel about memory and the cost of refusing to move forward.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Choices Matter 8.2%
The Lost & The Found is a game about cooperation, deduction, and making the right choices. You and your colleague must reunite the people with their forgotten treasures. But be aware, all is not what it seems. Opposing forces vie for both your inventory and your loyalty.
Why similar: Noir 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Dynamic Narration 13.9% ★, Visual Novel 10.8%
This ported edition of Baroque Syndrome presents the visual novel depicting the events before the main Baroque story. Play as Kitsune, owner of the Baroque Shop, and experience a branching narrative shaped by your choices. Fonts, stills, animations, and UI have been remastered for smoother play.
Why similar: Noir 27.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Thriller 11.4%, Horror 7.4%
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Horror 15.8%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Choices Matter 9.2%
You are Max Boston, tasked with solving a murder-suicide crisis in this third person psychological thriller. Use futuristic forensic tools, gather evidence, interrogate suspects, and solve challenging puzzles as you explore the city. Fair warning, Max has to face a few demons of his own, as well...
Why similar: Detective 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Nonlinear 11.8%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
«NEUROBROOD» is a visual novel in the cyberpunk‑horror genre. Those touched by the abyss of neurodream never wake up the same.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Noir 16.1%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Dynamic Narration 11.5% ★, Horror 7.6%
‘This is the story of a man marked by an image from his childhood.’ An 30minute black noire game, with an deep story, 30 beautiful images and stunning backroundsound.
Why similar: Noir 27.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Dystopian 19.3%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Thriller 10%
"The Bunker Notes" is a visual novel about a concrete trap where the past whispers through the cracks of rusted doors. In this world, survival is everything; meeting another person might be your last mistake.
Why similar: Noir 20.3%, Dystopian 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Psychological Horror 10%
An apocalyptic Visual Novel from Zombie Zone Germany for Christmas with German voice acting, lots of decisions and seven different endings. There is only a version in German language.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 15.5% ★, Dystopian 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Zombies 11.2%
A narrative RPG of medieval intrigue and war. As Karl von Aiden, shape your destiny through five chapters of choices that matter. Build attributes, forge alliances, navigate court politics, and face consequences across three story routes and multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Dynamic Narration 13.5% ★, Nonlinear 13.4%, Choices Matter 9.5%
Go home, Alice. The past awaits you. This is the second chapter in the horror visual novel trilogy.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Visual Novel 17%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Horror 11.9%
A Lovecraftian investigative gamebook. New York, 1927. A case pulled from real history, wrapped in cosmic horror. His name was Billy Gaffney. The man who took him was real. But his purpose was from another plane of existence. You play a journalist. You make choices. The story remembers all of them.
Why similar: Noir 17.3%, Dynamic Narration 16.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Detective 11%, Interactive Fiction 10%
Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files – Rise of the Rat King is a narrative game set in Shadow City’s underbelly. Assume the role of the Rat King, an underworld mastermind fighting for absolute power. Shape your legend by forging alliances, crushing rivals, and leaving a trail of consequences.
Why similar: Noir 21.8%, Dynamic Narration 17.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Detective 12.9%
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 20.7%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Horror 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.2%
As a young detective, investigate the disappearance of a little girl and live the memories of those tragic moments in the shoes of the little one.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 19.7% ★, Detective 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Nonlinear 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
Why similar: Noir 21.7%, Detective 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Dystopian 10.9%
Agarta has been designed to show you how valuable and important every decision you make in your individual life, every choice you make is. Because every choice you make is also a renunciation and you cannot undo any decision.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 19.2% ★, Detective 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Perma Death 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%
Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.
Why similar: Noir 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Thriller 11.6%
A Case of Distrust is a narrative mystery from 1924 San Francisco. Play as private investigator Phyllis Cadence Malone in this historical 2D adventure game.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 18.4% ★, Noir 17.9%, Detective 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%
Audiences connect to their favorite celebrities all the time. How does it affect these people when put into a game of life or death? Only time will tell.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Horror 9.9%, Psychological Horror 9.3%
