60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Text-Based, Interactive Fiction, Choose Your Own Adventure, Story Rich.
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.
Red Bow: Strange Dream
Embark on an immersive adventure alongside Roh as she tries to break free from her strange dream.
Room 337
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.
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 15.2%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Puzzle 7.9%, Adventure 7.5%
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: Text-Based 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Emotional 11.2%, Surreal 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
"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 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Psychological Horror 6.7%
The Tenth Minute is a short narrative game told through chat and novel-style reading. Revisit a school-day memory shaped by unspoken feelings, misaligned memories, and belated understanding between three people. A youthful story with light psychological mystery, complete in around 2 hours.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Text-Based 21.8%, Visual Novel 12%, Psychological 10.9%, Emotional 9%
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 27.1%, Text-Based 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Adventure 9.3%, Atmospheric 6.4%
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 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Surreal 12.9%, Story Rich 4.7%
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 20%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Psychological 10.2%, Visual Novel 10.1%
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 34.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Adventure 4.7%, Puzzle 4%
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 28.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Adventure 10.1%, Atmospheric 8.1%
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 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Surreal 13.7%, Emotional 11%
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 13.4%, Psychological 9.1%, Text-Based 8.3%
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 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Psychological 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Surreal 11.9%
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%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Surreal 11.2%, Puzzle 6.8%
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 17.8%, Psychological 14.4%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Emotional 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%
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 17.4%, Emotional 14.4%, Text-Based 12.1%, Visual Novel 9.5%
Not It: Spookiest Edition is a horror-filled visual novel full of suspense and mystery where you navigate Katie through a living nightmare. Her move-in day on Halloween throws her into a centuries-old curse. Can she make it through the night? Will her new neighbors perish? Decide their fate.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Psychological Horror 7.2%
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 28.5%, Interactive Fiction 25%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%, Choices Matter 5.6%
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 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Psychological 11.9%, Surreal 9.8%
A text-based psychological horror experience set inside a hospital where something is deeply wrong — and death may not be the end.
Why similar: Text-Based 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Psychological 11.3%, Psychological Horror 7.6%
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%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Psychological 12.2%, Visual Novel 6%
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 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Text-Based 10%, Psychological Horror 9.4%
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 26.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Emotional 14.6%, Adventure 9.5%
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 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Text-Based 18.7%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Puzzle 7.9%
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 23.5%, Text-Based 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Puzzle 8.4%
A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Text-Based 12.4%, Emotional 11.6%, Psychological 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Text-Based 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Story Rich 4.8%
Where Control Ends is a psychological visual novel about Astra, a young girl trying to hold herself together after a night she cannot fully remember.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Text-Based 19%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Psychological Horror 7.9%, Puzzle 7.8%
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 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Text-Based 8.5%, Adventure 8%
More than 30 orthodox sectarians underground. They locked themselves in man-made caves. You're a negotiator. Your task is to rescue recluses before Apocalypse.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Adventure 8.9%
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 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Psychological 14.6%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Psychological Horror 9.4%
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Surreal 11.6%, Visual Novel 9.2%
Play as an unnamed man who suspects his wife of something, and dive deep into his memories of the day when he was about to propose to her. Your choices can influence the story. Genre: thriller.
Why similar: Text-Based 31.9%, Surreal 18.6%, Psychological 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Story Rich 7.9%
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 34.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Text-Based 11.8%, Psychological 9.8%, Visual Novel 9.1%
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 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Psychological 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.9%
You're looking for a new apartment in Amsterdam. Your once-confident search is morphing into panic. Nothing is available. Anything will do. ANYTHING.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Text-Based 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Surreal 11%, Visual Novel 10.9%
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: Text-Based 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Story Rich 6.7%
You find yourself in a singularity with Death itself. With few chances to speak with the living, Death proposes a little game. Do you dive deep within yourself to indulge this cosmic guide and find out when you will meet again on official business? The Ultimate Death Clock awaits!
Why similar: Text-Based 14.5%, Psychological 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Surreal 11.7%
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 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Psychological 13.5%, Emotional 12.2%, Visual Novel 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 23.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Story Rich 6.3%
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 20.7%, Text-Based 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Emotional 9%
A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Text-Based 17.2%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Psychological Horror 9.5%, Emotional 5.9%
A visual novel about depression and self-love. Play as Amatista, a young woman trapped in isolation, as she begins a journey she never asked for. Every choice shapes the story. Fully accessible for blind players.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Psychological 10.3%, Emotional 10.3%
When night falls, she wanders into another world... Moonless Moon is a text-based adventure game following a girl as she travels through a variety of different worlds.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Emotional 10.6%, Atmospheric 7.5%
It always rains, they call it The Haze. Ghosts haunt every alley, every gray corner of the city. Lady of Bones is a visual novel that explores the darkest depths of existence where Maya will discover the horrible secrets of her mother's legacy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Text-Based 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Psychological Horror 8.6%
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 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Psychological 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.5%
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 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Emotional 8.4%
A dark fantasy horror visual novel where your choices reshape a nightmare‑ridden world. Explore surreal realms, solve narrative puzzles, and face the consequences of every decision.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Text-Based 15.1%, Surreal 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.7%
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 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Emotional 9.8%
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 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Psychological 8.1%
Play as a Duskweaver in this short "choices matter" story about self-sacrifice.
Why similar: Text-Based 24%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Emotional 11.1%, Psychological 10.3%
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 27.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Psychological 14.5%, Text-Based 12.3%, Story Rich 7.7%
A text-based RPG with a nonlinear story set in a free Slavic fantasy world. Shape the heroine's character through your choices and unlock multiple endings. Mystery, folklore, and relationships — your fate depends only on you.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Adventure 5.2%
You wake up at a terminal you've never seen before. The language is alien. The interface is hostile. Every wrong click has consequences. Decode constructed languages, navigate unfamiliar operating systems, and survive the unknown in this puzzle-survival experience.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Text-Based 18.3%, Puzzle 8.8%, Exploration 6.8%
Help out a highschool girl as she explores the wonders of social media for the first time, as well as the dangers.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.4%, Surreal 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Psychological 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.3%
IBH is a rich role playing game at the end of time. You're a mid-level official in a dying sci-fi regime, given the impossible task of fixing a faltering machine; explore a vast world, define your mind, flex your authority, and become a sinner or a savior in countless other stories.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Text-Based 13%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Emotional 5.3%
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 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Atmospheric 6.8%
"The hardest part is not to speak up. It’s being heard." Part video game, part graphic novel, Wednesdays seeks to raise awareness about child sexual abuse through a surprisingly hope-filled story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Text-Based 19.6%, Psychological 15%, Emotional 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.3%
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 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Text-Based 16.7%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Emotional 6.3%
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 21%, Surreal 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Psychological 12.6%, Emotional 8.2%
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 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Psychological 11.9%, Emotional 10.6%, Surreal 10.3%
