60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Text-Based, Visual Novel, Drama, Adventure.
Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.
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You are a father. You wake in a hallway that hums. Wander liminal spaces where fragments of your past call you forward. Voice acted by a real father and his daughters. Two endings. No right answer.
The Trials of Ozymandias
The Trials of Ozymandias is a visual novel set in the high fantasy world of the kingdom of Johrotos. In the capitol city, Dassi, resides the most famous adventurer's guild in all the land: Talleh-Hoy. This is where your story begins.
You are a father. You wake in a hallway that hums. Wander liminal spaces where fragments of your past call you forward. Voice acted by a real father and his daughters. Two endings. No right answer.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Emotional 10.4%, Drama 9.9%, Surreal 9.4%
The Trials of Ozymandias is a visual novel set in the high fantasy world of the kingdom of Johrotos. In the capitol city, Dassi, resides the most famous adventurer's guild in all the land: Talleh-Hoy. This is where your story begins.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Drama 11.4%, Visual Novel 11.2%
A story-driven mystery visual novel set in a remote island village. Gather clues through conversations and exploration, and uncover hidden truths through branching routes and multiple endings amid the tense, claustrophobic atmosphere.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Drama 10.8%, Psychological 9.3%
The threat is on the road ahead and deep beneath her skin. A psychological visual novel about memory, trauma, and the cost of every choice.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.5%, Psychological 13.3%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Emotional 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%
My name is left behind these white walls. In its place, I am left with dozens of questions. I wander aimlessly, though she seems to guide me. I do not feel safe. Twenty-four hours... and everything will fall into place.
Why similar: Text-Based 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Drama 11%, Psychological 10.7%
Embark on an immersive adventure alongside Roh as she tries to break free from her strange dream.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Text-Based 15.3%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Puzzle 7.8%, Adventure 7.4%
Anxiety Puppy is a 2D interactive narrative game that focuses on anxiety. In the game, anxiety is personified as a little puppy. Players will explore its story and try to coexist with it. Go find its traces and give it a hug.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.1%, Drama 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Psychological 11.3%, Emotional 10.2%
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 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.3%, Drama 7.3%
A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15%, Drama 12%, Text-Based 11%, Emotional 10.4%, Psychological 10.3%
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 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Drama 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Visual Novel 10.4%
-Change the past, create the future - A novel game about changing the past. What would the present be like if you could remove the regrets of that time? Rewrite the book that contains your past and create the future that you could not get. A new sensation ADV is now available from HaraPeko club.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Visual Novel 14%, Drama 12.4%, Psychological 9.4%
When the world is coming to an end, who would you want to speak to one last time? Schrödinger’s Call is a visual novel that lets you experience the pain and salvation of human connection, as if you were turning the pages of a picture book.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.9%, Drama 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Emotional 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.4%
这是一款以中式校园为背景的推理类文字游戏，你将扮演一名高中生司空茂，在开学第一天目击密室杀人事件的现场，并经过调查和推理解决案件，找出真正的犯人和真相背后更深的阴谋。但在享受侦探游戏的同时，请千万不要忽视学习。保持情绪稳定，尽量维持活下去的念头...记住，你的成绩，永远比案件要更重要。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Text-Based 17%, Drama 10.4%, Visual Novel 9.8%
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 22%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Psychological 11.7%, Visual Novel 5.7%
「これは何を手にするために、何かを失う物語」 季節は変わり冬になる。死神の条件のために主人公、長谷部涼平は菅野雪乃への恋心を自覚するが、彼女の親友に想いを寄せられてしまい、今度は三角関係の当事者になってしまった。自分の未来を掴むためにも菅野雪乃との両思いを目指すことになるが…。青春群像劇ビジュアルドラマ三部作の最終章が遂に開幕！
Why similar: Text-Based 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Drama 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Emotional 9.7%
A psychological thriller visual novel where your choices deeply affect an 18-year-old woman's mental state, leading to multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Text-Based 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Drama 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.7%
A presence lingers in the dark, waiting. It asks. It doubts. It knows. What happened? Why are you here? Do you deserve this? The answers are yours to decide. What you choose matters. Every path leads somewhere. But will you like where it takes you?
Why similar: Text-Based 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Drama 12.3%, Psychological 10.2%
A short, dark visual novel set in the UK about a young autistic girl's destructive obsession with her older brother.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.1%, Drama 14.9%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Emotional 11.2%
A short psychological horror interactive story. Five years after vanishing without a trace, the woman you once called your lover writes from beyond the silence: "I will give birth to our creation.” In three acts, descend into a fractured mindscape where obsession, memory, and myth intertwine.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Psychological 10.3%, Drama 10%
It is a Japanese visual novel game. It is a game to read texts. Enjoy the story of anguish, conflict, dreams and hope. There is no branching depending on the choices, but you can have a rich story experience like a movie.
Why similar: Text-Based 28.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Drama 15.1%, Emotional 10.6%
Wake up, watch tv, make a cup of cofffee and try to bear your own meaningless existence.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Drama 14.2%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Psychological 9.8%
Born with a birth defect that he hates, Kakeru struggles with severe anxiety and depression. Guide his timid decisions as he takes a brave step into a new world - joining his school's music club, making unexpected and inspiring new connections, and daring to dream again.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Drama 12.4%, Text-Based 12.2%, Emotional 11.1%
Ukraine War Stories is a set of visual novels about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Set in the early months of the war, it tells the stories of civilians trapped on Russian-occupied territory. All stories are based on real events and eyewitness accounts.
Why similar: Text-Based 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Visual Novel 9.1%, Drama 8.8%
"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested." Story about life, choices and a Man vs the System. This unique interactive literature adaptation. A game, brought to You in early visual novel, text-adventure style.
Why similar: Text-Based 20%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Psychological Horror 6.8%
In an AI-powered age where original authors have become largely redundant, play as a dejected writer on the brink of losing their creative drive forever.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Psychological 13.6%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Drama 9.4%
A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Text-Based 16%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Psychological Horror 8.8%, Drama 7.5%
Break the dead ends! A music creation adventure where the sounds you create change depending on your "emotional choices". A dark tale of creation, modelled on the real world and real events.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Drama 13.9%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Emotional 10%
Shame & choices = possible apocalypse. You need to figure out what’s causing the apocalypse to happen, so that you can prevent it. 2 playable characters with different relations to shame → 2 unique perspectives of the same story. Complicated families, branching choices and unforgiving consequences.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Psychological 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Surreal 11.5%
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 26.4%, Text-Based 24.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Adventure 9.1%, Atmospheric 6.5%
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 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Drama 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Emotional 10.3%
Morin is a barkeeper with an unusual curse. All people look like shadows to him, except for one mysterious stranger... Solve the mystery of the curse, fight true darkness and mix the most unusual cocktails in the atmospheric visual novel — Into the Waves!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Text-Based 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Drama 12.9%
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: Text-Based 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Surreal 13%, Story Rich 4.8%
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 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Emotional 12.7%, Visual Novel 11%
Join the talented photography student Neera on a captivating journey through her memories. Haunted by recurring nightmares, her life spirals into chaos, questioning everything. Involuntarily, she returns to a place she once left behind: her childhood home.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Drama 20.2%, Emotional 14.2%, Female Protagonist 7.4%, Story Rich 7.1%
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: Text-Based 20.2%, Drama 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Emotional 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.8%
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: Interactive Fiction 35.2%, Text-Based 34.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Adventure 4.7%, Puzzle 4%
is a story-driven adventure about a young woman who loses her balance in life after a major event and begins searching for her path again. Explore her daily moments, talk with people, and follow her journey toward finding answers.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Drama 13.1%, Text-Based 11.4%, Emotional 10.8%
Originally released in 2012, Loving Life is a non-fictional auto-biographical visual novel about Zhenghua Yang (Z) and the near-fatal incident which led to the founding of Serenity Forge. This is where it all began.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Text-Based 16.6%, Drama 16.6%, Emotional 13.2%, Visual Novel 9.9%
幻想若非幻想 自然可超自然 伴我梦中桃花 懒识人间滋味
Why similar: Text-Based 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Surreal 13.7%, Emotional 11.1%
Set in a South Korean elementary school in 1999, 『Come to my party!』 follows 10-year-old Jimin's quest for her first-ever birthday party. Through multiple endings filled with laughs and heart, step into a story that might remind you of your own childhood.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Drama 15.1%, Text-Based 12.2%, Emotional 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
What do mirror reflections do once they have no one to repeat after anymore? Play as Iris, quite a sarcastic reflection torn between the urge to unravel the mystery of death of her “prototype” and the need to find her place in a mirrored world.
Why similar: Text-Based 17%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Visual Novel 8.9%, Emotional 7.9%
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: Interactive Fiction 29.3%, Text-Based 28.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Adventure 10%, Atmospheric 8.1%
Christian Tyler is ready to investigate a new case! Uncover the mystery of the tourist town of Alkelano in our new visual novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Psychological 9.1%, Text-Based 8.3%
Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Text-Based 11.1%, Psychological 9.3%, Visual Novel 8.6%
"Hira Hira Hihiru" is a visual novel set in a fictional Taishō Era. It tells the story of its two protagonists' struggle against Aerodema, a terrifying disease which brings the dead back to life.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Text-Based 17.9%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Drama 14.6%, Adventure 7.9%
She wakes in a cold room, an empty pill bottle by her side. Did she forget something important? Drawn into twisted dreams of anxiety and self-doubt, she must confront familiar mental shackles. Face deep grief and find the light in this psychological adventure...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Text-Based 15%, Drama 12.9%, Psychological 11.5%, Emotional 10.5%
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 23%, Text-Based 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Puzzle 8.2%
There are things that often fail on nothing but themselves. Is there even a way out? Playing Kafka is a narrative adventure full of impenetrable schemes, insidious plot twists and conversations that slip out of hand. Based on Kafka’s life and his work, developed with Kafka experts.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Surreal 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Psychological 11.8%, Emotional 7.8%
A point-and-click horror/tragedy visual novel about melding your perception of the world around you. Walk around, drive people to their death, and shape Perdita's existence. Remember: The flesh-sin is nothing. Before she can become everything, you must make her into something.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Emotional 14.6%, Text-Based 12.1%, Visual Novel 9.4%
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 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Drama 8.6%, Psychological 8.4%
メモリーズオフシリーズ最新作のアフターストーリー 主人公「久寿米木一葵」と登場ヒロインたちの「その後」を楽しんでいただけます。 ビジュアルノベル形式のゲームスタイルで選択肢を選びながらストーリーが進行します。 それぞれの道を歩み始めたヒロインたち。 それぞれの未来を大切な「あなた」と一緒につかむため、 それぞれの想いが、今はじける……！
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Drama 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Text-Based 9.9%
Your story continues right where Origins left off. Whether Jessica finds herself wandering the streets alone, caught in George’s web of deceit, or trapped in the unsettling confines of Margaret Thatuals under Professor Trounch’s watchful gaze and the orderlies, every choice matters.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Drama 10.8%, Female Protagonist 7.9%
A surrealist text-based RPG. You will explore an island, solve puzzles, and fight enemies, all in your attempt to get the Dark Egg.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Surreal 11.3%, Puzzle 6.8%
Skylar is an student with anxiety. Walter is a farmer with social anxiety and PTSD. Jessica is a programmer with anxiety and agoraphobia. Li Wei is an technologist with intense anxiety. Navigate their stories, learn how they move through the world, and about methods of treatment and recovery.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Psychological 13.2%, Text-Based 10.5%, Emotional 9.8%
Rue Valley is a narrative adventure about a man trapped in a time loop, surrounded by a colorful cast with complex emotional stories, each hiding unexpected secrets. Dealing with mental challenges, the main character must delve into the anomaly to uncover its enigmatic origins.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Drama 11.1%, Psychological 10.7%, Emotional 9.6%
"How about a drink?" In this heartwarming, conversation-driven visual novel, you step into the role of the leader of a hot spring drinking club. You'll help its colorful members navigate personal troubles, sometimes with the aid of a drink or two, and see their challenges through to resolution.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.8%, Drama 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Psychological 7.9%
I dreamed of a girl. From then on, I saw her every day in my dreams. I don't know why it happened. I can only keep telling myself that it is all false, all illusion. But on the other hand, I fell in love with it.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.9%, Drama 25%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Emotional 17.1%, Casual 5.5%
The Tiny World is a drama visual novel. A New Year's story about a long separation from home, family, friends, and tears freezing in the cold.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Drama 19%, Visual Novel 14%, Text-Based 12.7%, Emotional 8.3%
Play as a Duskweaver in this short "choices matter" story about self-sacrifice.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Emotional 10.7%, Psychological 9.9%
A stranger arrives at a quiet and isolated town... PIGBLUE.
Why similar: Text-Based 27.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Drama 13.2%, Puzzle 7%
