60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Singleplayer, Adventure, Visual Novel.
This game portrays the tragic history of war in a 2D adventure format, set against real events. It provides a realistic experience, encompassing themes of betrayal, death, and love, while also offering multiple endings driven by player choices. Discover the impact of this era's tragedy firsthand.
Chronicles of Humanity
Chronicles of Humanity is an expanding anthology of historical visual novels. Enter different eras, weigh conflicting testimony under political and personal pressure, and shape who is protected, what is recorded, and how each life is remembered. Complete stories are released as separate DLC.
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A visual novel exploring a near-apocalyptic vision of North Texas, told through the poetic words of a young woman going home.
Chronicles of Humanity is an expanding anthology of historical visual novels. Enter different eras, weigh conflicting testimony under political and personal pressure, and shape who is protected, what is recorded, and how each life is remembered. Complete stories are released as separate DLC.
Why similar: Historical 20.3%, Text-Based 16.4%, Dialogue Heavy 14.7%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Visual Novel 8.8%
A visual novel exploring a near-apocalyptic vision of North Texas, told through the poetic words of a young woman going home.
Why similar: Philosophical 16.1%, Text-Based 14.9%, Narrative 14.6% ★, Lore-Rich 14.1%, Dialogue Heavy 12%
A narrative adventure about the momentum and whiplash of young adulthood. Explore the big city through 18-year-old Mara's eyes. Collect items, nurture ideas, and experience complex relationships while attempting to find your place in the world.
Why similar: Narrative 22.5% ★, Philosophical 17.3%, Historical 12.7%, Dialogue Heavy 10.8%, Point & Click 9.3%
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: Text-Based 14.7%, Philosophical 14.6%, Lore-Rich 13.8%, Point & Click 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%
A garden caught in eternal recurrence. A god who forgets everything. A witness without rest. In this narrative-driven 2D exploration game, walk, listen, and read your way through four cycles to piece together a truth hidden beneath the surface.
Why similar: Philosophical 25.8%, Narrative 25.2% ★, Lore-Rich 12.7%, Anime 7.5%, Visual Novel 6.3%
You are a father. You wake in a hallway that hums. Empty pools. Dead malls. Your four daughters are here. Voice acted by a real father and his daughters. Two endings. No right answer.
Why similar: Narrative 22.3% ★, Text-Based 16.5%, Philosophical 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.5%, Lore-Rich 8%
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: Philosophical 17.4%, Text-Based 15.8%, Dialogue Heavy 14.8%, Dark 8.4%, Multiple Endings 8%
A narrative adventure with exploration and visual novel elements. Join J.D. on a journey through the nation of Yoom to find the mythical figure known as the Faraway King and rid himself of his supposed curse. But should J.D. trust his bizarre companion, Zxtabella?
Why similar: Narrative 35.8% ★, Philosophical 21.8%, Lore-Rich 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.1%, Visual Novel 4.5%
A raw, cruel story about addiction, abuse, and recovery. A young man, bound by a vial of morphine, and a world that gives him just that, so long as there's a drop of him worth taking. It has to get worse before it gets better.
Why similar: Narrative 21% ★, Philosophical 16.4%, Dialogue Heavy 10.9%, Dark 10.5%, Point & Click 9%
Inspired by a historical event, relive the trial of Old Thiess, a 17th-century Livonian peasant accused of being a werewolf. Through his testimony, fight demons and witches in Hell to protect the villagers of Jürgensburg from a diabolical cult.
Why similar: Narrative 42.2% ★, Historical 17.6%, Lore-Rich 15%, Dialogue Heavy 7.1%, Story Rich 5%
Two vampires — an ambitious Kindred and a wretched Thinblood. Their fates clash in this Visual Novel set in the World of Darkness, where your arsenal extends beyond just words — from political machinations to forbidden Alchemy. Claw your way to power and leave your bitemarks on Berlin's underworld.
Why similar: Narrative 24.7% ★, Lore-Rich 15.6%, Text-Based 13.6%, Multiple Endings 8.6%, Dark 7.7%
My dream is a Lost Memory is a short interactive story about having Déjà vu, realizing that this Déjà vu came to you because of a dream, and then wondering if that dream is actually a memory. It's a story about work, limitations and self-respect.
Why similar: Narrative 23.2% ★, Philosophical 17.2%, Lore-Rich 12.1%, Point & Click 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 9%
A historical and narrative RPG set in the world of Emile Zola's novel. You are a young man in 1866, forced to work deep in the mines to survive. But every day, the work gets harder and the meals get smaller. Organize a strike, reignite the smoldering revolt, and try to change this unjust world.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.9%, Historical 21.2%, Narrative 14.2% ★, Dialogue Heavy 13.6%, Multiple Endings 11.4%
An interactive AVG with a time-travelling male protagonist in an ancient style, with multiple endings and multiple branches, and a journey of bondage in which you and six close friends join hands to dominate the world in a parallel world.
Why similar: Philosophical 20.6%, Lore-Rich 18%, Historical 14.2%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 8%
“Only Monsters Become Perfect Idols” — A choice-driven psychological mystery visual novel, Anti-Anti. In a world once devastated by slime monsters, you are forced into a suspicious audition. A locked-room mystery, ensemble drama, adventure, thriller, and romance!
Why similar: Lore-Rich 19.7%, Dialogue Heavy 15.2%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Visual Novel 9.4%, Choices Matter 9.2%
For five years, Licht lived as a mid-tier mercenary. Now he must not only escape from a dungeon teeming with giant insects and ancient secrets, but also decide whether to accept his ancestors' legacy or reject it once and for all.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 17.6%, Text-Based 15.2%, Dark 13.4%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.3%
Tea for Sana is a story-driven exploration game set in a Slavic-inspired fantasy world. You play as Vesna, a spirit healer who is losing her memory. Discover recipes, find new ingredients, and cook traditional dishes to restore the balance between the mountain spirits and the villagers.
Why similar: Narrative 32.5% ★, Dialogue Heavy 16.4%, Lore-Rich 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%, Story Rich 7.1%
You awaken in an ever-shifting manor with no memory of who you are. As you explore its corridors, you encounter a disfigured man, an arrogant scientist, and a faceless doll waiting for someone in a greenhouse. Uncover the tragic link between them.
Why similar: Philosophical 22%, Dialogue Heavy 14.6%, Point & Click 12.2%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Story Rich 8.7%
A short mystery and psychological visual novel. Hook in to a state-of-the-art gaming machine capable of creating whole virtual experiences based on your imagination. But be careful, the other testers might be there with a different plan in mind.
Why similar: Narrative 34% ★, Text-Based 13.1%, Dark 10.5%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
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: Narrative 26.6% ★, Text-Based 15.1%, Lore-Rich 13.4%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Dark 9%
A short, twisted tale about a smuggler and a late night encounter in the English Channel. Control the camera and make tough choices, will you escape with your life?
Why similar: Philosophical 19.5%, Text-Based 15.4%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%, Point & Click 8.5%
Quarantined inside an airlock. No memories. No way out. The remaining crew thinks there’s something wrong with you, but the Voice says it’ll help you escape. Navigate volatile conversations & unravel mysteries in this narrative adventure about trust, self-destruction, & shifting identities.
Why similar: Narrative 36.7% ★, Dialogue Heavy 18%, Philosophical 13.8%, Multiple Endings 7.7%, Exploration 5.4%
You only picked up a lost smartphone, yet you find yourself made an accomplice in an AI's criminal plot. The AI asks 20 questions to identify its "master." Will you meet the AI's expectations?
Why similar: Narrative 28.3% ★, Text-Based 15.6%, Dark 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
You control an Artifically Intelligent Quantum Bit (Qubit) completing mysterious Trials. Juggle being controlled by a Superintelligent master of the Infinite and employees of a large, ill-intentioned Corporation while reckoning with the nature of your reality.
Why similar: Narrative 32.1% ★, Dialogue Heavy 16.5%, Lore-Rich 14.7%, Text-Based 14%, Interactive Fiction 7.8%
DOT’S HOME is a single-player, 2D, narrative-driven video game that follows a young Black woman in Detroit living in her grandmother’s beloved home, as she travels through time to relive key moments in her family’s history where race, place, and home collide in difficult choices.
Why similar: Narrative 41.2% ★, Point & Click 14.7%, Text-Based 14.2%, Multiple Endings 6%, Choices Matter 5.8%
Unravel the mysteries of the ocean spirit world by accompanying a recent high school graduate, Bulut, who lost all of his memories of family and friends. The Inspireist is a story-rich puzzle adventure narrative set in a recent 21st century, alternate realm Izmrr.
Why similar: Narrative 46.3% ★, Dialogue Heavy 17.6%, Lore-Rich 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 7%, Adventure 5.4%
A war of unseen ferocity is ravaging the continent. You, ringmaster dilettante, must keep the circus afloat. Travel, entertain, and keep the troupe’s spirits up while trying to find a mythical safe haven to last out the storm in this beautifully illustrated, text-based narrative adventure.
Why similar: Narrative 25.1% ★, Text-Based 15.1%, Historical 11.8%, Dialogue Heavy 10.8%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
Determine the fate of the Crusaders in this history-based visual novel game. Be the leader of the Christians or the leader of the Turks. Choose your own path in a story where every decision matters. You will change the history of this Crusade.
Why similar: Narrative 28.9% ★, Historical 20%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Text-Based 10%, Visual Novel 9%
Faced with evil... would you pull the trigger? Tyrania Enforcers is a story-driven visual novel exploring morality, duty, and the cost of enforcing order in a world on the brink of conflict.
Why similar: Narrative 23.3% ★, Text-Based 20.9%, Lore-Rich 13%, Dialogue Heavy 11%, Visual Novel 9.8%
You're a barber in a city full of beastfolk. Chat with your customers, style their look, help them see something new in the mirror... and in themselves.
Why similar: Narrative 23.4% ★, Dialogue Heavy 19.8%, Philosophical 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%, Visual Novel 7.5%
Far from Noise is a narrative set on the edge of a cliff, where two characters discuss what it means to balance between life and death.
Why similar: Narrative 29.5% ★, Philosophical 21.8%, Dialogue Heavy 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 6.9%, Visual Novel 6.5%
CONJURE. CONFESS. DISAPPEAR. Be an exorcist, a stage magician, or - worse yet - a writer, in this globe-trotting choices-matter CRPG. In a very alternate 1940s Europe, choose sides; choose motives; choose your History.
Why similar: Narrative 24.4% ★, Lore-Rich 13.9%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Text-Based 12%, Point & Click 9.3%
A short emotional journey through memory, grief, and healing. Help Íris piece together her fragmented memories and uncover hidden truths. A portion of the sales is donated to AbleGamers Brazil. 🧡🖤
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20.4%, Text-Based 17.1%, Historical 13.9%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Point & Click 10.3%
A visual novel written as a psychological horror RPG where your choices shape your life, leading to irreversible consequences and determining how your descent into darkness unfolds. The game can end in many different ways. Your choices determine how.
Why similar: Narrative 30% ★, Text-Based 18.2%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Visual Novel 10%, Dark 8.8%
Wax Heads is a cozy-punk narrative sim about working in a struggling record store. Chat to quirky customers with unique tastes, explore a handcrafted record collection, fall in love with bands (and their drama!), or just slack off with your colleagues - whatever gets everyone’s groove back!
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23.5%, Narrative 22.2% ★, Text-Based 14.2%, Point & Click 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 6.8%
Live through the last ten minutes of Juan Fuentes, who has been given the chance to choose his very last words. Captured by Victoriano Huerta's army after the Ten Tragic Days during the Mexican Revolution, Juan will confront his life, death, family, relationships and existence.
Why similar: Philosophical 24.8%, Text-Based 21.4%, Historical 20.1%, Dialogue Heavy 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%
Run a newspaper under censorship. Report, choose your articles, strike out words, lay out the page. Sharp reporting draws the censors; a compliant paper loses its readers. 1920s Gyeongseong — a newspaper management simulation adventure where you complete a single page, every single day.
Why similar: Historical 17.2%, Text-Based 12.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.3%, Multiple Endings 9.4%, Dark 7.9%
A story-rich coming-of-age experience told through a 2004 desktop, where friendships, music, and late-night conversations shape who you become. Explore chats, drama, mini-games, and the early internet in a branching story about growing up, making mistakes, and finding your place.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 19.4%, Text-Based 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10%
"Technophobia: DAgtH" is a Narrative FPS Adventure where you're tasked with rescuing FESAC Engineers kidnapped by terroristic androids in a dark forest, all while discussing the ethics of using androids and AI in our daily lives. Is AI truly better than humans?
Why similar: Narrative 30.7% ★, Philosophical 19.7%, Lore-Rich 14.1%, Multiple Endings 7.6%, Visual Novel 6.7%
The Void Calls, and you will answer. Explore the mysteries and secrets of Reprieve, a town stitched together from the dark past of its bizarre inhabitants in this horror-filled point-and-click adventure.
Why similar: Philosophical 21.8%, Lore-Rich 19.3%, Point & Click 16.4%, Dark 12.2%, Dialogue Heavy 8.9%
Linda & Joan is a narrative game about a British family. You play as Russell, Linda, and Joan — son, mother, and grandmother — switching between them to help the family cope with a series of traumatic events. Based on a true story. Prologue available now. Main game is in development.
Why similar: Narrative 31.4% ★, Philosophical 18%, Dialogue Heavy 13.5%, Point & Click 10.8%, Story Rich 7.1%
Coffee Talk Tokyo is the newest entry in the beloved series, set in a late-night café in Tokyo. Brew drinks, meet humans and yōkai, and experience heartfelt stories in a cozy, story-rich world.
Why similar: Narrative 29.3% ★, Dialogue Heavy 16.8%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%, Visual Novel 7.9%
“Signed Mary”, a psychological horror visual novel, in which not your choices of action will determine the story’s end, but the choices of how to perceive your reality.
Why similar: Philosophical 24.8%, Lore-Rich 18.1%, Text-Based 16.7%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Visual Novel 7.6%
Answer the question of mortality in this sidescroller inspired by the adventures of old. Wander the depths of two parallel worlds. Confer with gods, locals, and other travelers. Solve problems through intuition and a collection of odd trinkets. Choose: death, or eternal life?
Why similar: Philosophical 31.3%, Lore-Rich 15.5%, Narrative 13.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11.4%
My Room Philosopher is a text-based game where a boy asks questions many people face during adolescence. Answer his questions and explore his thoughts while reflecting on your own values and life.
Why similar: Philosophical 31.9%, Text-Based 14.8%, Point & Click 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Story Rich 9.4%
Consumers have power. A short walking simulator game that makes you think a little about how we usually consume.
Why similar: Narrative 34.9% ★, Philosophical 22.6%, Dialogue Heavy 10.3%, Text-Based 10%, Story Rich 6.6%
Spend your time well: in 30 days a powerful Magician arrives, and everything changes! Explore the wilds around your remote village, learn from mistakes, recover magical artifacts, and turn setbacks into advantages in this text-based open world roguelike adventure. Time's up: Upheaval is here again!
Why similar: Narrative 29.4% ★, Text-Based 18.5%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Point & Click 8.9%
Impartial is an intriguing short 2D narrative game where you take on the role as a conflict resolver - tasked with resolving moral dilemmas between the Police Force and Superheroes to fight crime in Neo-Victorian London.
Why similar: Narrative 29.7% ★, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Text-Based 12.4%, Point & Click 11.4%, Story Rich 8.5%
Follow the story of a plague doctor alchemist and their attempt to alter the minds of a gardener, a street urchin, and a priest. Explore the abstract, reactive worlds of each subject; solve puzzles, interact with bizarre denizens, and see how your actions change minds -- for better, or for worse.
Why similar: Philosophical 21.9%, Lore-Rich 15.5%, Historical 14.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.9%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
Forgotten Fields is a game about yearning and nostalgia. Play as Sid - a struggling writer who travels back to his childhood home one last time before it's sold off. Visit old friends, relive memories and play through sections of Sid's book in this warm game about the passage of time.
Why similar: Narrative 34.1% ★, Philosophical 16%, Dialogue Heavy 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
Comet Angel is a sci-fi yuri narrative adventure with point and click puzzles. Join teenagers Izzy and Nat on an emotional journey of self-discovery and acceptance as they make humanity's first-ever alien contact.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.4%, Philosophical 15.8%, Point & Click 14.5%, Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Multiple Endings 8%
In this adventure visual novel, you travel across an alien planet stuck in an endless sunset. Shape the fates of 7 companions from different worlds. Uncover the truth about anomalous locations, hidden corridors, and a child who aged in a day. See what remains of a world abandoned by its creators.
Why similar: Narrative 35.8% ★, Dialogue Heavy 14.9%, Multiple Endings 7.5%, Interactive Fiction 7.2%, Visual Novel 7.1%
A dark conversation with a girl during a nightly car trip. A short multi-ending novel game where you try to understand this girl and her pain.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 24.1%, Text-Based 19.9%, Multiple Endings 16.7%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Dark 9.4%
Project Subtrahend is a choose-your-own-adventure visual novel, where you have the chance to get to know the stories, lore, and personalities of nine unique characters. Choices matter in this game, and it's up to you who lives or dies as you explore what it means to be human.
Why similar: Philosophical 24.2%, Lore-Rich 21.3%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Visual Novel 9%, Dark 7.9%
Sky of Tides is a choice-driven isometric sci-fi adventure following Rin D’Lorah as she searches for her missing father in a shattered world where oceans float in the sky. Shape her through decisions, balance who she is becoming, and uncover a mystery where every choice quietly rewrites the future.
Why similar: Narrative 39.7% ★, Point & Click 14.7%, Dialogue Heavy 10.3%, Story Rich 8.6%, Interactive Fiction 5.9%
A strange incident turns the life of an ordinary young man upside down when, having fallen asleep on a regular train commute, he wakes up in another country... in a body of a Japanese student! An unforgettable summer adventure awaits, promising many fateful meetings and momentous occasions.
Why similar: Narrative 30.2% ★, Text-Based 18.6%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 8.5%, Visual Novel 7.7%
You will play a detective and go back to winter Peking more than seventy years ago. On the eve of the peaceful liberation of Peking, you will feel the cold, nothingness, exploration, pursuit, drama and gunshots in the process of searching for missing persons.
Why similar: Philosophical 17%, Historical 16.9%, Text-Based 14.3%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Visual Novel 7.9%
A story-rich single-player AVG RPG. Features a 2-hour main storyline with multiple branching narratives, encompassing political intrigue, demon clan wars, and emotional entanglements. confront the apocalyptic crisis of the demon clan's resurgence.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 24.7%, Dialogue Heavy 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Story Rich 9.3%
Speak for Earth in ROSETIA—a first contact CRPG for fans of hopeful sci-fi and hard choices. Win the trust of an alien civilization. Change their world or stay your hand. Become humanity’s finest diplomat or a disaster of cosmic proportions.
Why similar: Narrative 19.4% ★, Dialogue Heavy 18.9%, Point & Click 11.3%, Multiple Endings 8.9%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%
A science fiction visual novel. Deep beneath the surface of Mars lies a secret that will change everything. Six researchers. One rift. No one will return the same.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.8%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Visual Novel 9.4%, Story Rich 7.2%
