60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Indie, Philosophical, Psychological.
P.I.G.E.O.N. is a short surrealist visual novel RPG in which you become a pigeon, armed with a camera, sent to spy. You will have to make choices, but you won't always be able to make a choice.
A Dream You Had Before the Dream You Had Before the Dream
is a short, interactive experience about those endless, looping fever dreams you get when you're sick.
My Head On Your Body
You've moved to a new house where the previous owner was murdered. They never found his head. But, it has found you.
is a short, interactive experience about those endless, looping fever dreams you get when you're sick.
Why similar: Experimental 15.5% ★, Philosophical 12.3%, Text-Based 11.3%, Abstract 10.8%, Surreal 9.7%
You've moved to a new house where the previous owner was murdered. They never found his head. But, it has found you.
Why similar: Experimental 20.7% ★, Philosophical 14.2%, Abstract 13.1%, Psychological 11%, Text-Based 10.4%
A short story about a parasitic sunflower and her loyal son. Eat everything you can. Enjoy the sunshine. Do whatever it takes to make her happy. This is a prequel to Siren's Call: Escape Velocity.
Why similar: Experimental 21% ★, Philosophical 14%, Abstract 12.8%, Psychological 10.5%, Text-Based 10.1%
Crawl through the darkness in this psychological horror visual novel with multiple endings, where you will traverse a surreal nightmare as you choose your own path and explore strange spaces in an attempt to wake up, if you can...
Why similar: Experimental 18.5% ★, Abstract 11.9%, Surreal 10.9%, Philosophical 10.4%, Psychological 8.5%
Experience a 'painfully human', 'psychological' narrative through dreams and allegory. Live in a flat. Buy things. Use things. Tire yourself out. Sleep. Dream. Wake up. Repeat. And maybe, just maybe, find a Bear in a Pit. What could be scarier than the Bear? Find out.
Why similar: Philosophical 19.9%, Experimental 19.8% ★, Abstract 14.9%, Psychological 14%, Interactive Fiction 8%
After shouting "Let Me Play!" to the cast in a theatre, the fiction comes crashing down as everyone, including you, becomes aware they're only following a script. Will you let the play continue? Or will you write your own ending?
Why similar: Experimental 25.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Surreal 13.8%, Philosophical 12.5%, Psychological 9.3%
❗ EARLY ACCESS ❗ This game is an anthology of visual novels, which includes the “Deep Russian Depression” (pilot chapter) and custom stories from the game community. You can create your own stories as mods for the game and publish them in the Steam Workshop.
Why similar: Experimental 22.1% ★, Abstract 14.1%, Philosophical 13%, Psychological 11.7%, Text-Based 10.4%
An existential drama in handmade clay animation. Game writer Eric is replaced by AI. He loses everything, and it's the best thing that's ever happened to him.
Why similar: Experimental 14.8% ★, Psychological 14.4%, Philosophical 12.8%, Surreal 9.2%, Visual Novel 9%
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Why similar: Experimental 22.2% ★, Abstract 13.8%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Psychological 12%, Text-Based 10.2%
In "Omnisight" you decide what people will believe. Theories, relationships with colleagues, and secrets are just tools at your disposal. You change reality and transform yourself along with it. But are you ready to accept the consequences?
Why similar: Conspiracy 18.4% ★, Dystopian 12.7%, Psychological 12.1%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
On the road to the sacred shrine of Karatl, lost souls entrust you with their stories. In this contemplative Visual Novel, listen to their truths and perhaps, at the journey's end, you will discover your own.
Why similar: Philosophical 14.9%, Text-Based 14.3%, Experimental 13.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.4%
Awake from your slumber and venture out to the mighty CITADEL.
Why similar: Philosophical 26.1%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Text-Based 8.5%, Interactive Fiction 8.2%, Choices Matter 7.7%
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 14.1%, Abstract 13.4%, Psychological 12.8%, Surreal 12.5%, Philosophical 10.2%
An interactive horror story based on a reality everyone eventually faces. Make choices to confront someone trying to enter your home - and uncover who they are.
Why similar: Philosophical 20.2%, Experimental 16.3% ★, Psychological 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 8.4%
Board the Trans-Siberian railroad and travel 9,289 km from Moscow to Vladivostok. Clash with a vibrant culture as you meet people as strange to you as you are to them. Journey into a standalone Wanderlust adventure from the makers of The Witcher.
Why similar: Experimental 23.2% ★, Philosophical 15.1%, Psychological 11.3%, Text-Based 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%
A miniature frozen between the atmosphere of a small room and Castaneda with Lovecraft. The story of radical spiritual practices in the search for truth among panels and stacks.
Why similar: Experimental 29.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Psychological 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Philosophical 8.9%
Prescription of Throes is a narrative adventure game. An experimental drug that can erase all psychological pain is circulating underground. You will meet companions, face their struggles alongside them, and gradually uncover the truth behind the drug through exploration and choice.
Why similar: Psychological 22.9%, Philosophical 15.9%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%
TOMORROW DON'T COME is a contextual puzzle game about depression and how it feels to be stuck.
Why similar: Experimental 22.1% ★, Psychological 12.5%, Text-Based 12.3%, Surreal 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%
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: Philosophical 19%, Psychological 14.1%, Surreal 11.8%, Abstract 10.2%, Text-Based 10%
Take your place at the terminal. Follow the procedures, process the records, and read messages never meant for you. NOEMA is a quiet, unsettling narrative experience about work, obedience, human connection, and what routine teaches us not to see.
Why similar: Experimental 31.5% ★, Philosophical 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Text-Based 10.5%, Surreal 7.9%
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Dystopian 17.4%, Text-Based 14.2%, Surreal 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Visual Novel 9.1%
RAIN DOGS is a single-player, narrative experience set in a reflection of the urban sprawl you used to call home. Explore and interact with other prisoners of this throw-away society to learn more about why you were put here and what your path forward will be.
Why similar: Philosophical 18.4%, Abstract 15.6%, Dystopian 15.5%, Psychological 12.8%, Surreal 12.3%
You will go blind in 291 days. Decide who gets a "Commutator" to survive in the new world. Four endings. Three are pure hell.
Why similar: Conspiracy 19.8% ★, Dystopian 11.8%, Visual Novel 10%, Surreal 9.6%, Text-Based 9.5%
Waking up at the bottom of a brown world, an amnesiac bee faces a dreadful choice: the pornocracy of the Queen of Flies or complicity in the crimes of a perverted incel spider. Can she crawl out of the pit and defend her identity?
Why similar: Philosophical 15.2%, Text-Based 13.7%, Dystopian 12.5%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Psychological 9.7%
This is a psychological horror visual novel game. You wake up in an eerie old hotel with no memory. You need to meet bizarre characters and recover lost memories. There are 20 endings. Pixel art, desaturated tones, dreamlike dread. Horror comes from existential self-reflection, not jump scares.
Why similar: Philosophical 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Surreal 13.8%, Visual Novel 13%, Experimental 10.1% ★
A grave robbery gone wrong sends you tumbling down an absurd rabbit hole.
Why similar: Abstract 16.6%, Philosophical 15.4%, Surreal 13.3%, Dystopian 11%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%
Welcome to Super Real AI, the ultimate AI Simulator where you are the intelligence. Judge, classify, and share your advice—but be careful, your answers for simple requests have super real consequences. Log in today and bring back the intelligence where it belongs: to humans.
Why similar: Experimental 17.3% ★, Philosophical 16.8%, Dystopian 16%, Psychological 13.1%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
A psychological horror visual novel. Tonight, shadows come to visit you while you lie paralyzed in the dark. One by one, they make you face what you are. All you have to do is be honest. Doesn't sound hard, does it?
Why similar: Philosophical 17%, Text-Based 16.8%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Surreal 11.1%, Psychological 9.9%
"What if you're born into this world without your permission?" DIVINATION is a very short visual novel where you act as a fortune teller in a futuristic world. Talk and listen to people's stories, then foresee their future using the runes they had drawn.
Why similar: Experimental 20.5% ★, Philosophical 17.7%, Conspiracy 15.2% ★, Dystopian 12.4%, Text-Based 10.7%
Eschaton is a short, experimental, surreal first-person exploration game. Explore the 'aftermath' of a cult ritual in the grounds of a manor in the remote and picturesque Scottish Highlands.
Why similar: Conspiracy 23% ★, Experimental 21% ★, Philosophical 20%, Surreal 13.2%, Abstract 8.2%
A short visual novel about a man living its worst nightmare. There is no way out, no safe place, no death, just eternal limbo. Only you can help him... if that's what you want.
Why similar: Experimental 24.5% ★, Abstract 15.8%, Psychological 13.3%, Surreal 10.1%, Visual Novel 9.5%
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 22.9%, Surreal 19.5%, Psychological 14.7%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.3%
A text-based psychological horror game where you execute a list of people based on gradually revealed information about their lives, all while secretly following a trail laid out by a mysterious messenger.
Why similar: Philosophical 16.3%, Psychological 14.5%, Text-Based 13.3%, Dystopian 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
Employee 925 is a short psychological horror game about compliance and the quiet erosion of self in the workplace.
Why similar: Experimental 18.1% ★, Philosophical 17%, Dystopian 16.2%, Psychological 14%, Surreal 12.2%
A psychological text-based game where each day you are tasked with executing someone based on the limited information provided until one person remains with their full story revealed.
Why similar: Philosophical 17.5%, Psychological 14.6%, Text-Based 13.5%, Dystopian 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%
Assume a lead drug development role at Mazer- the foremost pharmaceutical company in the world! Create groundbreaking drugs for your customers, work hard to impress your bosses, and try not to ruffle too many feathers...
Why similar: Dystopian 22.7%, Conspiracy 20.2% ★, Philosophical 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Choices Matter 9.3%
Struggle. Fall. Triumph. Hold on. A small yet grand journey across life. Simple interactions connect seemingly unrelated moments, from the microscopic to the cosmic.
Why similar: Experimental 34.2% ★, Abstract 19.8%, Philosophical 18.2%, Psychological 12.7%, Adventure 6%
Weep for the dead! In this short psychological horror story, play as a professional mourner travelling between funerals. Ride a nightmarish bus whose destination depends on how you choose to face your traumas.
Why similar: Experimental 23.6% ★, Surreal 13%, Psychological 12.4%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Interactive Fiction 8.5%
An abstract visual novel about a girl dealing with the challenges of having ADHD while trying to complete a school assignment before the deadline.
Why similar: Experimental 17.4% ★, Abstract 16.6%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Text-Based 10%, Philosophical 8.5%
You’re a grade-schooler at a religious institution where something feels off in this surreal, first-person adventure game. Do your genes make a difference in the outcome of your suffering? Will your faith be enough to shroud your fears? Perhaps you already know the answer.
Why similar: Philosophical 26.9%, Psychological 21.1%, Surreal 17.6%, Abstract 10.9%, Atmospheric 8%
MaryPark St. is a short story telling indie game, set in a black and white dream-like world. Featuring two interpretations of the same story, The Dream & The Nightmare.
Why similar: Experimental 34.9% ★, Philosophical 18.5%, Abstract 16.2%, Surreal 14.1%, Story Rich 6.4%
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 22.5%, Text-Based 16.8%, Experimental 15.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Psychological 14.3%
In this experimental singleplayer 3D horror game, a man struggles with adopting a familiar child off the street while outrunning the consequences of an agreement he made with his nightmarish stalker.
Why similar: Experimental 22% ★, Conspiracy 17.4% ★, Philosophical 15.3%, Dystopian 14.6%, Surreal 10.2%
IN CELL is a kinetic visual novel (linear, no choices) about the epidemic of sexless, nationless, and friendless men. Gender dynamics are currently not functional, sustainable, or beneficial to either men or women. IN CELL is uncensored conversation between the sexes.
Why similar: Philosophical 20.7%, Conspiracy 17.9% ★, Abstract 15.2%, Dystopian 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%
A short experimental visual novel about obsessive counting.
Why similar: Experimental 30.3% ★, Abstract 18.4%, Visual Novel 15%, Philosophical 11.7%, Text-Based 9.5%
Wander into the carnival of a giant magical dragon lady, where nobody ever leaves unchanged! Answer an extensive list of questions disguised as mini games as you explore the carnival grounds to discover what animal spirit lives inside you.
Why similar: Philosophical 20.5%, Psychological 14.2%, Text-Based 9%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%, Surreal 8.7%
A short visual novel about the day to day life of a grieving women. Join her story and make the right decisions so she can get out of a cycle that seems to have no end.
Why similar: Experimental 21.6% ★, Abstract 14.2%, Psychological 12.2%, Text-Based 11.6%, Surreal 10.6%
You're the maintenance man for an apartment complex that has mysteriously been transported to the middle of the ocean. Woodrot is a surreal adventure game about getting to know your neighbors who all seem to blame themselves for their recent relocation.
Why similar: Psychological 17.3%, Surreal 15.1%, Philosophical 14.2%, Abstract 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 7.8%
A psychological surveillance adventure. Observe 16 real-time CCTV feeds as TOBOR, a spy unit uncovering secrets in a dystopian bunker. Monitor suspects, collect evidence, and choose who survives. Multiple endings.
Why similar: Dystopian 16.5%, Text-Based 12.7%, Psychological 11.8%, Surreal 10.1%, Interactive Fiction 10%
A writer is trying to finish his "perfect work," but things keep getting in his way. He is poor and full of anxiety. In this retro lo-fi visual novel, fix the problems with point-and-click, explore the depths of consciousness. Forgive yourself? or stare into the dark and fall deeper? It's up to you.
Why similar: Psychological 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Abstract 12.6%, Surreal 12%
Avatar Zero is a text-based interactive narrative centered around “choice.” Set in a cyberpunk dystopia, you become the subject of a secret experiment. Your entire gameplay consists solely of sequential binary choices. Through continuous choices, you will uncover the truth behind the experiment.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Dystopian 15.5%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Psychological 10.7%
Spatial expectations built up and torn down. Spoken word inspired pacing. Ode to bilinguality. Interactive slam poem anthology. Concrete Spaces.
Why similar: Experimental 26.1% ★, Philosophical 19.1%, Abstract 16.2%, Text-Based 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%
Dream Within the Vessel is a psychological horror visual novel. Follow Ze through six days in a seemingly peaceful town—where happiness feels arranged, and something alive is watching. Your choices will shape his final decision.
Why similar: Dystopian 24.3%, Philosophical 20.9%, Visual Novel 16%, Text-Based 11.2%, Adventure 6.1%
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 29.4%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Psychological 14.1%, Text-Based 11.8%, Choices Matter 8.2%
Play as a Duskweaver in this short "choices matter" story about self-sacrifice.
Why similar: Philosophical 19.2%, Text-Based 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Multiple Endings 12.4%
A Hand-Drawn Visual Novel Essay Game
Why similar: Dystopian 24.9%, Abstract 23.4%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Text-Based 10.7%
The Memories That Shape Us is a narrative video game that lasts about two hours. Find the Memory Capsules to uncover the story of a person’s life from childhood to adulthood, all the joys, all the struggles, and all the lessons. How much can one take before they’ve had enough?
Why similar: Experimental 20.4% ★, Abstract 18.3%, Philosophical 17.6%, Psychological 14.5%, Surreal 9.2%
Acolyte: Prologue is the first act in a dynamic narrative detective/puzzle game that gives you your own Acolyte; a digital assistant you can talk to freely without pre-defined dialogue options. Just like a real conversation.
Why similar: Experimental 29.5% ★, Abstract 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Text-Based 6.6%
Absurdist Interactive fiction. Talk to the beings that inhabitant the world at its end. We forgot how to die.
Why similar: Philosophical 12.6%, Dystopian 12.4%, Abstract 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Text-Based 10.7%
Crush someone's skull, Suffer from Hypothermia, Transcend your Mortal Frame, Find all 10 Endings. GET YOUR HOUSE BACK.
Why similar: Conspiracy 16.1% ★, Abstract 15%, Surreal 12.2%, Psychological 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11%
