60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Choose Your Own Adventure, Text-Based, Multiple Endings, Choices Matter.
Forces beyond human comprehension draw a macabre veil over the icy NY of 1927. A child has disappeared and you, a reporter with an unhappy past as an artist, become entangled in the drama. In this story, inspired by true events, you will investigate between reality, dreams and Lovecraftian horrors.
All (Too) Good Things
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.
Mass of Consumption
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
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 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Text-Based 17.2%, Conversation 13.1%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
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 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Horror 15.1%, Text-Based 12.4%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
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 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Horror 8.7%, Multiple Endings 7.1%
An adult tale of lust and horror in the vein of HP Lovecraft. Take on the part of a former detective who could never let go of the last terrible case he worked. One day his old partner comes knocking, begging for help.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 19.5%, Text-Based 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
You take a deep breath of salty air as the first raindrops begin to spatter the pavement, and the swollen, slate-colored clouds that blanket the sky mutter ominous portents amongst themselves over the little coastal town of Anchorhead.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 32.9%, Text-Based 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Horror 12.7%, Adventure 6.1%
Investigate a paranormal disease that threatens to eradicate humanity in this unsettling Lovecraftian adventure, inspired by the choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks of the 80s and 90s. Your choices will determine the story, your character’s destiny… and the future of humanity.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 41%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Text-Based 5.5%
Dive into the world based on the Lovecraft universe and its successors. In immersive visual novel discover the secret of the temple and learn the truth about your companions and your father’s past!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 23.8%, Conversation 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Text-Based 10.7%, Hand-drawn 9.7%
Experience the triumphs and tribulations of two Caribbean immigrants in post-war Britain, in the world’s first Windrush video game, from the creators of the BAFTA nominated Before I Forget. How will you shape your story in this branching narrative interactive photo album?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Hand-drawn 15.1%, Text-Based 11.5%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
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 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Multiple Endings 11.6%
Your eldritch existence is threatened when another abomination tries to feast on you. You flee, trapping yourself in human flesh, but will that be enough?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 30.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Horror 13.5%, Choices Matter 6.5%
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: Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.8%, Text-Based 21.1%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Choices Matter 9.1%
The Innsmouth Case is a text adventure game inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and the very first text-based adventure to combine horror and comedy in a fit and proper way.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 35.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Text-Based 15.6%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Horror 8.9%
This game is a psychological test in which you will face dilemmas that reveal your personality. At the end of it, you will know your psychotype.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Conversation 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Text-Based 12.4%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
Assassin at Crimson Keep is a short, point and click visual novel set in a dark, quasi-fantasy world. After a botched assassination attempt, you pursue the King into his lair known as the Crimson Keep. Your small choices can have great consequences, either for good or for evil.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Text-Based 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
You have been part of something terrible, something so unspeakable that caused you to blackout and forget all the events from the past few days. Now you are faced with the choice of going after the truth, facing the shadows that hide within our world, or trying to forget and leave all this behind.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Text-Based 14.7%, Multiple Endings 9.3%, Hand-drawn 8.1%
Christmas lights, winter snow, and a serial killer on the loose. Follow a gifted detective through a twisted holiday night in this story-driven, interactive horror game. Your choices determine who lives, and who dies. Can you outsmart the killer?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Horror 15.7%, Choices Matter 14%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%
7 Days in Dystopia is a psychological dystopian game where you experience seven days by playing a series of games, making choices, and facing the consequences of winning and losing in a city where people hide behind masks.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Conversation 11.1%, Text-Based 9.9%
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 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Conversation 11.6%
What if the choices you make during your investigation awaken ancient beings older than existence itself. Explore the official Choose Cthulhu gamebook adaptation, every decision you take seals the fate of mankind. Will the creeping madness consume you as you uncover the darkest secrets?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 29.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Horror 10.3%
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: Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Text-Based 23.7%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
Terminal Tales: An Interactive Fiction Anthology features multiple text-based adventures from a variety of genres. Explore a curated vault of brand-new, modern mysteries and sci-fi epics. No graphics. No limits. Just your imagination and a world waiting for your command.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Text-Based 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Conversation 9.6%
Alone in the dead of night, you find yourself sent on a simple errand to check on a quiet gas station on the outskirts of town. But nothing here feels right. You can’t outrun this place. It wants you. And it will keep you.
Why similar: Conversation 16.2%, Text-Based 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Horror 9.9%
Gloom and Doom is a visual novel throwback to 90s slacker movies - complete with the solitude and sarcastic retorts - but with a supernatural twist. Push a powerful but unmotivated wraith to complete his stagnated quest to enter heaven, while trying to kill the suicidal but unkillable Doom Bringer.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Conversation 15.5%, Horror 11.1%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
Immersed yourself in an interactive story with multiples choices, in the style of "choose your own Adventure book" (CYOA).Will you be able to survive ?Probably not!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 23.2%, Text-Based 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choices Matter 9.1%
Care is an atmospheric first person horror game with puzzle elements, where your choices have consequences. Be observant with your surroundings and unravel the horrific secrets that hide within these walls.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Conversation 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Horror 10.3%
Find a way out of the Do 11 app by doing missions that come from the mysterious Do 11 app. A choice awaits you to solve puzzles and change the fate of the protagonist. Escape the main character from the Do 11 app while savoring a profound worldview and intriguing story. An incredible twist awaits.
Why similar: Conversation 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Text-Based 15.2%, Multiple Endings 13.2%
A fable from your childhood. Don't you remember it?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Text-Based 16.8%, Conversation 13.8%, Horror 9%
Experience the hunt for the Monster living in your room in this Visual Novel experience. Your choices will determine the fate of both you and the Monster. Will you figure out what the Monster really is?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Text-Based 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Horror 11.2%
Celestial power thrums in your veins, Hell’s throne calls, and demons conspire. Will you ascend as savior, tyrant, or something in between? A text-based horror novel, 295,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Dark 9.8%, Horror 7.4%
Extract yourself from another fine mess–this time, with your family watching! Mischief, mix-ups, and bewilderingly urgent capers at your ancestral estate.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Text-Based 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
Return to a hometown that hasn’t changed the way it should have. A psychological visual novel focused on atmosphere, relationships, and a reality that slowly refuses to stay still. Can you uncover the truth before it consumes you?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Conversation 17.2%, Text-Based 14.6%, Multiple Endings 11%
Never stop running, not with the galaxy at stake. Save it at all costs, and save yourself if you can.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Text-Based 19.1%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Multiple Endings 13.4%
Wish Us Luck is a multi-plot interactive fiction fueled by your hard decisions. Play three strangers whose fates are intertwined by the cogs of chance on an eventful day. But remember: favoring one character means jeopardizing the others. Good Luck.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Conversation 15%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Choices Matter 12%
Homicipher is a female-targeted language deciphering and exploration ADV based on the concept of "romance with horror men." The protagonist, who has wandered into another world, interacts with non-human beings to decipher their language while striving to escape.
Why similar: Conversation 15.7%, Text-Based 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
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 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Multiple Endings 16.1%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
Not thrilled that fate has led him into the confines of a sinister place, Varlu is left with no choice but to come face to face with many types of demons, including his very own.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 20.8%, Text-Based 13.5%, Conversation 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Interactive Fiction 13%
Dive deep into the twisted HP Lovecraft universe with this oversized narrative RPG. Slip into the intertwined souls of Mark, Anna, and Victor, surrounded by cult worshippers, as Nyarlathotep, the cosmic horror, strives to enslave humanity in 1929.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 25.5%, Text-Based 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
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 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Text-Based 13.8%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Conversation 12.2%
The shadow of Frank Stone looms over Cedar Hills, a town forever altered by his violent past. As a group of young friends are about to discover, Stone’s blood-soaked legacy cuts deep, leaving scars across families, generations, and the very fabric of reality itself.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choices Matter 13%
The outside is being ravaged by a mysterious downpour of a glass, you are forced to take shelter in a seemingly innocuous rundown hotel. Yet, stuck with you are people who you wish you would never see again. What will you do to survive?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Text-Based 14.9%, Conversation 12.2%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
The wilderfolk of Ushinega Island waste away in a rotting tropical paradise, haunted by a deadly malediction. Yet behind every curse lurks a secret. You have the power to save them... but should you?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.8%, Text-Based 20.7%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Multiple Endings 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%
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 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Choices Matter 10.5%
In a world of ice, the last human city is tearing itself apart. Explore the underbelly of a monstrous metropolis in a surreal adventure about everything and nothing.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Choices Matter 9.6%
Cthulhu style AVG. Main gameplay is exploration and selection.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 45.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Hand-drawn 16.7%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Indie 2%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Text-Based 21.8%, Horror 13.9%, Choices Matter 11.7%
Step into the world of Exercise your Demons, a 2d narrative adventure inspired by Irish fairies and folklore. Meet and befriend 5 locals while you work towards settling into the small fictional town called Inishsióg in County Galway, Ireland.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Text-Based 21.8%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
Mistbound is a surreal narrative adventure about overcoming trauma, where the line between reality and dreams is blurred. Loneliness can be too loud. And salvation can be too quiet!
Why similar: Conversation 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Multiple Endings 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Choices Matter 13%
A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Text-Based 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Conversation 12.3%, Horror 9.7%
In this narrative game, you play as Paula Cole, a food safety officer for a multinational corporation, who gradually takes on the role of whistleblower. The whole scenario is based on a journalistic work, coordinated with the online newspaper Mediapart.
Why similar: Conversation 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Text-Based 13.4%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Choices Matter 10.1%
You are the Veteran. You’re the oldest android in the Solar System, a relic and survivor of the ancient past. Now it’s time for you to fight again. A text-based science-fantasy novel, 700,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Text-Based 23.6%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Choices Matter 9.1%
Play as Erwin, a witch hunter navigating a fantasy world of magic and suspicion. Your decisions in this visual novel affect friendships, trust, and multiple story outcomes. Choose wisely—the fate of your journey rests with you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.2%, Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Multiple Endings 14.7%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Hand-drawn 9.3%
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 36.2%, Text-Based 32.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Adventure 4.8%, Indie 3.6%
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 24.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Horror 9.4%, Dark 8.8%, Adventure 8%
A fantasy adventure visual novel with humor and heart, by acclaimed adventure game writer Lori Ann Cole. Starring the voice of Zehra Fazal as Tilly, a mischief-making rogue at Hero-U, the school for heroes.
Why similar: Conversation 23.5%, Text-Based 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 36.6%, Horror 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Text-Based 11.1%
Plunge into court politics and change the course of history, or pursue a love affair that rocks the kingdom to its foundations!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.2%, Text-Based 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Adventure 6.5%
Rebuild society after the climate apocalypse! Can you keep your settlement alive? Will you hold onto your humanity or lose it in the directionless expanse?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Text-Based 24.2%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Choices Matter 9%
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 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Hand-drawn 11.2%, Adventure 7.8%, Text-Based 7.6%
Miskatonic is a text-based strategy game where players take the role of an ancient god, determined to harvest fear for power. Incept your victims through dialogues with their psyche, study the limits of their mind by unlocking their stories, and manipulate the maze with powerful abilities.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 39.6%, Text-Based 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Choices Matter 5.1%, Dark 5%
