
Welcome to Ostera: The curse of... Join the Adventure! Shape Your Destiny, Kiss Rats, and Slap Kids!
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Story Rich, Choices Matter, Choose Your Own Adventure.

Welcome to Ostera: The curse of... Join the Adventure! Shape Your Destiny, Kiss Rats, and Slap Kids!

We Were Here Before
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.

Tower of the Ice Lich
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.
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 15.5%, Dark Humor 13.6%, Text-Based 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Lore-Rich 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 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Lore-Rich 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Visual Novel 10%
A visual, interactive story with unique characters, consequential dialogue choices, and branching story paths set in the world of an M.M.O.R.P.G.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Dynamic Narration 13.4% ★, Text-Based 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Lore-Rich 10.8%
be you 2 is an interactive visual novel. In this sequel to "be you", you must raise a child by making story choices. There are multiple routes and endings based on your offspring's personality.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 15.1%, Dark Humor 12.9%, Dynamic Narration 12.7% ★, Text-Based 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%
『部活動の時間です。さあ、人殺しをはじめてください』 一癖も二癖もある強者ぞろいの巨大コミュニティ、それが鳴神学園。 そこには、ありとあらゆる部活動が存在し、到底常識では考えられない特殊な闇の倶楽部がある。その一つが殺人クラブだ。
Why similar: Dark Humor 22.1%, Dark Comedy 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Text-Based 12.7%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
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: Text-Based 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Dark Comedy 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Dark Humor 10.4%
Asylum simulator. An interactive fiction about schizophrenia and finding meaning after near-death, with Disco Elysium-style mechanics.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Dark Comedy 15.1%, Dark Humor 12.1%
You're gonna get yourself killed being out here all by your lonesome... There's monsters on this island! Besides, It's not always the beasts you should be afraid of... Beasts are easy to predict. They just want to kill and eat you. Humans are much harder... They'll pretend to be your friend first...
Why similar: Dark Comedy 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Dark Humor 13.5%, Visual Novel 9.3%, Lore-Rich 8.8%
A dark fantasy roguelite card game where choices matter. Swipe cards, make moral decisions, build your skill tree and spin the Wheel of Kings and survive until the year 2000, or watch your kingdom fall.
Why similar: Dark Humor 15.1%, Dynamic Narration 14.3% ★, Text-Based 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Lore-Rich 12.1%
Romance, seduce, and even marry your own drawings! Forget about finding true love; In Doodle Date, you create it!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 18.8%, Dark Humor 13.9%, Text-Based 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 10%
In an engrossing interactive novel, live as the assistant to a remarkable historical figure: George Mueller, a man who witnessed orphans dying young in the streets of 1830's England and decided he would care for them, no matter the cost.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Text-Based 14.9%, Dynamic Narration 14.3% ★, Visual Novel 12.2%
Welcome to St Fiacre’s College for Women of Unreliable Size. Your new home. If you can survive your first night… Featuring 40,000 words of text and over 500 images, this heart-pumping visual novel journey will thrill fans of shrinking and giants alike!
Why similar: Dark Humor 16.8%, Dark Comedy 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Text-Based 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%
Royal Duality is an immersive dark fantasy visual novel with 15 endings, various side stories and hidden Easter Eggs all set in an engaging lore-rich world
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Lore-Rich 14.4%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Immersive Sim 10.2%
"A heartwarming kingdom simulator + procedural story generator = make villager's life difficult, friendship betrayal, love entanglement, conflicts, join cults, overturn leaders, dragon dueling, turn villagers into animals, to create a beautiful ending." --- 10/10, anonymous.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 17.7% ★, Dark Humor 14.1%, Dark Comedy 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%
An unusual horror-themed Visual Novel about waking up in a carriage with a stranger… Whatever could go wrong?
Why similar: Dark Comedy 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Dark Humor 14.5%, Text-Based 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%
This year's Desire Hierarchy has begun. The stakes are now deadly. Hop into The Specter's Desire, a Visual Novel in which you play against the city's top talents to save your parents. Includes puzzling gameplay that has you tearing down arguments, hatching schemes, and revealing the truth!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Text-Based 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Visual Novel 10.9%
A ghost wants her exit interview. Do you listen, refuse or hire her back part-time? You're Hell's HR manager: hundreds of absurd cases, questionable policies, a Board watching your numbers, and a court that quotes your own decisions back to you. Survive 30 days. Find one of 13 ways out.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 22.2%, Dark Humor 17.5%, Text-Based 14.2%, Choices Matter 8.1%, Interactive Fiction 7.6%
You'd think that after 20+ cases, there'd be no crime left in Twin Lakes - but that's not how crime works, rookie. Six new mind-melting mysteries await Detective McQueen and Officer Dooley - just as soon as they get the mustard out of Dooley's gun.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Text-Based 15.6%, Dark Humor 15.1%, Visual Novel 11.6%
Kindergarten 3 is the long awaited threequel to the Kindergarten series! Explore a new school with old and new friends...and new ways to get ruthlessly murdered.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.9%, Dark Humor 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Lore-Rich 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%
A walk-and-talk indie adventure game where you and your dysfunctional witch parents cook teens to stay young and powerful. But when they bring in a charming girl as your next meal, will you uphold the family tradition or risk everything to save her?
Why similar: Dark Comedy 17.8%, Text-Based 16.5%, Dark Humor 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Dynamic Narration 12.2% ★
You've studied latin for a few months and you accidentally read a passage from your textbook which lands you in a demon speed dating bar. Unsure of how to get home, you decide to ride it out and see how things go. Maybe you'll even find a date! Or maybe you'll find death? Who knows...
Why similar: Dark Comedy 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Dark Humor 16.4%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Text-Based 10.3%
Jeans on Toast is a text-based, choose your own adventure game summoned forth from the darkest depths of one girl's unhinged imagination.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.4%, Dark Comedy 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Exploration 6.2%
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: Dynamic Narration 15.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Text-Based 14.9%, Lore-Rich 13%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%
Art imitates life. Horrifying, unclean life.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Text-Based 17.9%, Steampunk 14.5% ★, Lore-Rich 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%
Border of her Heart is a VN about Border control.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Dark Humor 16.4%, Text-Based 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Visual Novel 10.8%
Welcome to MONSTER LUV RADIO, where you play a radio DJ giving dating advice to a host of supernatural creatures! Keep your ratings up by giving sound advice and following the rhythm of your DJ mix board, and make sure your boss doesn't shut down your show!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Text-Based 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Lore-Rich 12.4%, Visual Novel 9.9%
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 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Dynamic Narration 14.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Visual Novel 10.2%
1872, with a steampunk twist. Phileas Fogg has wagered he can circumnavigate the world in just 80 days. Travel by airship, submarine, mechanical camel, steam-train and more. Race other players and a clock that never stops in TIME Magazine's Game of 2014.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Steampunk 17.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Story Rich 8.8%
Shape the news. Sway the nation. A visual novel where your choices on-air shift the world.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Dark Humor 20.1%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Dark Comedy 9%, Multiple Endings 7.2%
"What music would you listen to at the end of the world?" Explore an abandoned world after the apocalypse of the final winter. Shape the story of a man whose loneliness threatens his sanity. Use violence to survive or avoid it to protect your mind. Experience the end of the world!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Text-Based 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
配信中に次々と飛んでくるバカコメントへ、三つの選択肢でツッコミを返しながら炎上を回避していく配信者シミュレーション。返し方ひとつで空気も流れも激変。ときどき発生するボーナスステージでは、リズムゲーム要素のあるミニゲームにも挑戦できます。
Why similar: Dark Humor 25.7%, Dark Comedy 24.8%, Text-Based 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Immersive Sim 6.1%
Intellica thanks you for volunteering in this short text-based Research Study. Pay attention to the participants answers, and classify them as either Human or Artificial. Join us in shaping the future of technology. Remember, think happy!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 15.3%, Text-Based 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Dark Humor 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%
Better than a birthday card. Use the Steam gift system to deliver this birthday present to your friends. The amazing Sergio Spellbound will ensure they have the magical birthday adventure of a lifetime. They will Point&Click their way to BIRTHDAY GLORY. If they’re lucky, they may even survive …
Why similar: Dark Humor 16.8%, Dark Comedy 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Text-Based 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
Distant Oceanic Getaway— A visual novel for sapphics! Will you be able to find true love while sailing the seven seas?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Dark Humor 14.7%, Lore-Rich 13.4%, Text-Based 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%
Negative Nancy is a choose your “no” adventure for people who have had enough. An interactive sitcom where you can only say “no” (or nothing at all). Your choices control the story.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 25%, Dark Humor 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 20.2%, Text-Based 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Visual Novel 11%
Only Good Babysitters Go To Heaven is a First-Person comedy horror game about being stuck babysitting while the news is expressing that the world around you is ending.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Dark Humor 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Funny 9.2%
Jimin dreams of finally having her first birthday party, but what begins as a childhood wish unravels into social pressure, fragile friendships, family expectations, and consequences that hit closer than you’d like. Join Jimin in this coming-of-age story where every choice carries weight.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 23%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Dark Humor 10.2%, Text-Based 9.6%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Text-Based 12.6%, Choices Matter 9.6%
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 24.7%, Text-Based 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
Welcome to the most stressful job in politics making the President look sane online. Fix typos, fight trolls, and spin chaos into strategy. One wrong emoji could spark a crisis. A satirical management game where timing and damage control are your only lifelines.
Why similar: Dark Humor 18.3%, Dark Comedy 18.3%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%
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 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Dark Humor 15.7%, Lore-Rich 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%
A visual novel about life, love and death. The sequel to Laments of a Platinum Rose continues the story through the eyes of the abdicated Jane Perdita, who also must overcome insurmountable odds to save the one that she loves.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Dark Comedy 15.8%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Lore-Rich 12.6%, Text-Based 9.1%
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 19.8%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Dark Humor 10.9%, Choices Matter 9.7%
You are hanging out at a festive Christmas party when your eyes discover the most perfect Christmas confectionery ever! You must have it!... but someone already has it! What will you be willing to do, to get your Christmas wish?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Dark Humor 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
A brave hero and a bound lich rescue a legendary warrior from a forgotten tomb and put the romance back in necromancy. Necromance is a dark fantasy comedy visual novel with light puzzle elements, 3 endings, and 15 ways to die!
Why similar: Dark Humor 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Lore-Rich 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.1%
You're not a real psychologist. He's not a sane president. Welcome to the most unhinged therapy session ever held in office.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 20.3%, Dark Humor 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
Gold & Brown is a choice-based visual novel set in the medieval era, enhanced with card mechanics. Embark on a challenging journey as a knight, shape your fate through card choices, and pursue an impossible love across multiple endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Lore-Rich 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Text-Based 11%
Can you survive a night in St Fiacre's at tiny size? This feature-length interactive visual novel returns to the world of Sensus Supra, with better visuals, dozens of animations, more complex puzzles and even more dangerous giantesses hunting for your blood. Every action has consequences...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Dark Humor 17.2%, Text-Based 17.2%, Dark Comedy 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%
Chrongrid is an AI-driven narrative experience. Inside an author's story blueprint, you make your own choices and the world responds in its own way — every choice echoes, no two journeys alike. Built-in blueprints are the start; play others' stories or write your own, in any language.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Lore-Rich 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Dynamic Narration 14.3% ★
Tri City Monsters is a supernatural, monsterlovin' visual novel where you can romance and/or de-pants 3 demonic love interests. Navigate a dangerous urban jungle with their help and maybe you'll get a taste of what it means to be a monster.
Why similar: Dark Humor 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Text-Based 14.8%, Lore-Rich 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 12%
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 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Lore-Rich 14.4%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Text-Based 10.6%
Step into the eerie and mysterious world of Gloomscape! With your trusty mood ring and sense of adventure, you’ll craft, explore, and strategize your way through this bizarre world. But beware - ghastly creatures lurk around every corner.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 17.8%, Dark Humor 15.1%, Text-Based 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%
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 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Text-Based 14.8%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Choices Matter 8.4%
Your name is Gary Patterson. After waking up in a strange facility with your work partner Victor Adams, you must make a choice: Play along with Victor's plans? Or go it alone and make an escape? Only YOU can decide.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Lore-Rich 15.5%, Text-Based 12.9%, Exploration 8.2%
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 26.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
Jeff's relationship with Mia, now in a tight spot, helps him on his quest to apologize to Mia and get back together with her.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Lore-Rich 12.7%, Text-Based 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.3%
The printer is bleeding, the Wi-Fi is haunted, and Ticket #666 just came in. As the latest hire for a company run by cosmic horrors, your job is simple: Swipe to survive. Make binary decisions to survive the night shift in this dark comedy desktop simulator. I.T truly never ends.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 19.1%, Dark Humor 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Lore-Rich 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
A text-based choose your own adventure game, with multiple stories, each with several endings. Stories you create through branching narratives are kept so you can read them again or show them to friends.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Multiple Endings 14%, Lore-Rich 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Text-Based 12.8%
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 24.1%, Text-Based 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Choices Matter 7.5%