60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Choose Your Own Adventure, Choices Matter, Multiple Endings, Visual Novel.
Non-Linear Text Quests is a bundle of text games of various genres. Here you can find interactive stories with branching plots and text-only versions of classic Point & Click quests, where you can communicate with different characters, use your inventory and combine items in various locations.
The Adventurous Four
"The Adventurous Four" is a sequel to our "Wild Island Quest" visual novel, which was published a few years ago. In this game-book you'll have to go on a journey full of dangers and adventures. The main characters are all good friends, ready to overcome difficulties to save each other in this quest.
The Barbarian and the Subterranean Caves
The Barbarian and the Subterranean Caves is an adventure visual novel about the heroic feats of the intrepid warrior Ragnar. Now you can become the famed adventurer Ragnar and bravely seek out all-new original adventures in this exciting game. Delve into the mysteries of the caves and discover what lies in waiting below.
"The Adventurous Four" is a sequel to our "Wild Island Quest" visual novel, which was published a few years ago. In this game-book you'll have to go on a journey full of dangers and adventures. The main characters are all good friends, ready to overcome difficulties to save each other in this quest.
Why similar: Nonlinear 16.1%, Adventure 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Narration 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
The Barbarian and the Subterranean Caves is an adventure visual novel about the heroic feats of the intrepid warrior Ragnar. Now you can become the famed adventurer Ragnar and bravely seek out all-new original adventures in this exciting game. Delve into the mysteries of the caves and discover what lies in waiting below.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Nonlinear 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Narration 12%, Adventure 11.7%
A text role-playing game about the fate of a mercenary who finds himself in the strange village: Villienville. Investigate who benefits from the sudden appearance of “ghosts” and help residents protect their homes from a mysterious enemy. The main thing is not to make a mistake in your choice!
Why similar: Text-Based 17.7%, Nonlinear 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Narration 10.3%
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 14.5%, Nonlinear 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Text-Based 13.4%, Visual Novel 12%
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: Text-Based 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Narration 11.4%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Experimental 10.3% ★
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: Nonlinear 18.8%, Text-Based 14.6%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Choices Matter 11.2%
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: Text-Based 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Choices Matter 12%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
A humorous sci-fi text-driven adventure where you play a support engineer sent to fix system failures in a secret research complex. Explore strange labs, investigate bizarre incidents, solve absurd problems, talk to depressed robots, and make choices that lead to multiple endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.8%, Nonlinear 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Visual Novel 9.8%
Guilt Free is a visual novel crossed with a point and click made to offer perspective on mental health and eating disorders. Navigate a couple's rocky relationship and encounter "flaws" or "quirks" that may actually be symptomatic behaviors.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.5%, Narration 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Experimental 11.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
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 17.6%, Narration 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Choices Matter 11%
In an endless air ocean of an alien world, small lonesome plots of land float above the abyss. But sometimes approach each other, and lands which have never met before, reveal their secrets.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Adventure 14.5%, Choices Matter 13.6%
You're an adventurer going into Friscott Castle to see what treasures you can find within. Explore, meet the residents, find treasure & more. Be mindful though, as the castle isn't normal, & there are things about it that might drive a person to madness. That, or it might spell your demise.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Text-Based 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Point & Click 13.5%, Visual Novel 11.3%
This visual novel is a collection of alternative realities. How events would turn out and how they end will depend on your choices. Visit wolf's den and solve his secret, or try to tame the wild beast. Eat a pasty with mushrooms and experience something new, or feed it to the old lady, because it's her favorite filling.
Why similar: Nonlinear 15.8%, Narration 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Visual Novel 11.2%
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%, Narration 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.4%
Knight, Death and the Devil — This is a dark visual novel that will take you into a creepy world full of danger and unexpected twists.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Nonlinear 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Narration 12.2%, Visual Novel 10.6%
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: Nonlinear 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Narration 11.7%, Choices Matter 9.2%
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 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
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 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Adventure 15.6%, Choices Matter 9%
A sound, a flash, a portal… A pirate emerges, bringing a deadly threat. Five friends stand before him, and one of them is the target. But which one? Even they don't know.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Narration 14.9%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Nonlinear 9.7%
A visual novel about a man experiencing his family relationships through a state of compressed time. Choose what happened in his past and then watch it play out as you explore family dynamics and the effects that a person's life events can have on the way they interact with others.
Why similar: Experimental 21.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Text-Based 13.2%, Nonlinear 10.8%, Narration 10.8%
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 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Narration 13.4%, Multiple Endings 10%
The Fifth Horseman is a narrative adventure game, set in a fantasy-medieval world, where you will experience many unique stories. After years of war, hunger and diseases mankind finds itself on the verge of extinction and it's up to you to decide its fate.
Why similar: Text-Based 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Indie 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.5%
Control Over is a story that begins when a player who loses his memory and falls down in a basement wakes up. And you have to control the player and decide how to solve this story.
Why similar: Text-Based 27.3%, Adventure 14.9%, Visual Novel 13%, Indie 10.5%, Point & Click 9.9%
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 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Narration 12.2%, Choices Matter 9.5%
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: Text-Based 26.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Adventure 15.8%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Multiple Endings 9%
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 23.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Nonlinear 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Visual Novel 11.3%
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: Experimental 17.6% ★, Text-Based 14.6%, Narration 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Nonlinear 11.7%
When you're falsely accused of sorcery, corrupt inquisitors make you the object of a witch hunt. Now, sorcery might be the only way for you to survive.
Why similar: Text-Based 27.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
Plunge into court politics and change the course of history, or pursue a love affair that rocks the kingdom to its foundations!
Why similar: Text-Based 28.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Adventure 11%
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Choices Matter 8.8%
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: Text-Based 29.7%, Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Adventure 17.6%, Indie 4.5%
Make your name as a whiskey-runner, a politician, or a gangster as you quench thirsts from rural Pennsylvania to the New York City nightlife!
Why similar: Text-Based 28.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Point & Click 12.2%, Adventure 9.3%
Choose your path and accept the consequences in this sleep deprived text adventure about becoming a parent. Be a responsible adult, make dinner and take care of your child. You must do this. Nothing else.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Narration 12.3%, Point & Click 10.5%
Will you infiltrate the gods' Elite Courte, stealing their superpowers, or turn double agent and join them, taking your place among the divine?
Why similar: Text-Based 30.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Adventure 12%
Buried is a playable, interactive story told through stunning photos, a haunting soundscape, and gripping text. You play the role of Roger Hastings, a logger who awakens to find his friends missing, uncovering something that should have stayed hidden...
Why similar: Text-Based 35.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Adventure 17%, Indie 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.9%
This text adventure, beautifully illustrated in pixel art, invites you to explore a medieval abbey filled with secrets. You take full control by entering commands directly on your keyboard through a flexible command parser, allowing for free and immersive interaction.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Narration 16.7%, Adventure 8.7%
Human belief has the power to change reality. For millennia, alien races have been visiting Earth, gaining supernatural abilities and fantastic wealth by exploiting this remarkable power. But humans are advancing, and many aliens now find themselves leaving Earth with nothing but debts and regrets.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Narration 10.9%
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 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.3%
A choice-driven narrative game with RPG mechanics, filled with cosmic wonders and horror. Forge your own path across more than 50 unique endings. Barter, upgrade your character, fight, and explore alien worlds, overcoming every obstacle to find your way back to Earth… and to your daughter.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Nonlinear 13.3%, Narration 10.6%
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 36.4%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Adventure 8.6%, Choices Matter 7.4%
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 35.8%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%
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: Text-Based 36.7%, Interactive Fiction 30.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Adventure 8.5%, Indie 6.7%
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 20.6%, Nonlinear 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Narration 12.8%, Visual Novel 10.8%
Explore a deserted elementary school and escape from an alternate reality in this short adventure. Collect clues and experience changing endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 31.4%, Adventure 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Indie 10.8%
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 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Choices Matter 10%
You've spent years undercover, disguised as a human, infiltrating the city’s magical law-enforcement organization. They stole your magic from you. Can you steal it back? (A text-based interactive historical urban fantasy novel.)
Why similar: Text-Based 25%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Adventure 15.8%, Choices Matter 8.4%
An interactive visual novel in the mystical genre. Mikey is admitted to an unusual institution for treatment, where he encounters supernatural phenomena and begins to prepare for a metamorphosis that will lead him into another world.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.7%, Text-Based 17.2%, Choices Matter 16.3%, Multiple Endings 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%
Dive into the shadows of this fairytale-like narrative experience with Birdie, making choices and helping her find freedom and light in the darkness. Love isn't always what it seems.
Why similar: Text-Based 20%, Narration 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Point & Click 9.8%
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 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Visual Novel 9.9%
Claw your way to the top of Moreytown, a furry slum for human-animal hybrids. Will you take down the gangs who rule the town, or take them over instead?
Why similar: Text-Based 35.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Adventure 16%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Indie 11.3%
Become a mailroom operator at Hotel Hermes and navigate an ancient mail system to deliver parcels on time. Learn about the hotel's guests and staff in this puzzle role-playing game, where your actions can alter the world. Hopefully for the best!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Text-Based 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Point & Click 14.9%, Adventure 14.9%
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 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Narration 12.1%, Choices Matter 9.9%
Play as VT, a lonely TV-boy who seeks solitude until the sudden message from a strange bunny named IV. Discover the different endings of this cozy visual novel.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Point & Click 13.7%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Choices Matter 11.7%
Electric Sleep is a pixel art interactive story. Explore a crumbling world through the perspective of different emotions.
Why similar: Text-Based 31.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Adventure 7.2%
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: Nonlinear 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%
Hoist the Jolly Roger and set sail to find the legendary Titan’s Treasure! Do you fight with a cutlass or with magic? Are you biding your time until you can shoot your captain in the back, or are you the reason the rum is gone?
Why similar: Text-Based 29.8%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Adventure 8.4%
Samurai of Hyuga is a brutal, heart-pounding interactive tale. Prepare to enter the land of silk and steel, where fantasy clashes against grim reality, and where the good guys don't always win in the end. It's a harsh world with tough choices at every turn. Good thing you're the toughest ronin around.
Why similar: Text-Based 31.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Adventure 13.2%, Indie 10.6%
Never stop running, not with the galaxy at stake. Save it at all costs, and save yourself if you can.
Why similar: Text-Based 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Multiple Endings 11%
