Games Like Presidential Shaman

Play as Daniella as she moves across the country with only the help of her ex.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Dialogue Heavy 16.9%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Multiple Endings 9.6%

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: Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Dialogue Heavy 20.7%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Text-Based 11.4%

A fantasy adventure visual novel with humor and heart, by acclaimed adventure game writer Lori Ann Cole. Starring the voice of Zehra Fazal as Tilly, a mischief-making rogue at Hero-U, the school for heroes.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 24%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Text-Based 11.4%, Choices Matter 8.1%

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: Visual Novel 19.5%, Dialogue Heavy 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Text-Based 12.8%

Get yourself into and out of another fine mess! Win glory, renown, and much-needed money through cunning schemes that will seem like good ideas at the time.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Text-Based 18.1%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Dialogue Heavy 13%, RPG 9.8%

Chief Emoji Officer is a text adventure that recreates the absurdities of the tech world by letting you become CEO using only emojis. Climb your way through corporate America by getting promoted, making allies, avoiding layoffs, and turning Redify into the most successful company in the world.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Text-Based 13.3%, Dialogue Heavy 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.8%

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: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Dialogue Heavy 17.8%, Text-Based 15%, Multiple Endings 11.4%

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: Interactive Fiction 25.2%, Visual Novel 22.8%, Text-Based 18.4%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Multiple Endings 13.9%

Annoy this guys time in this comedic piece of interactive fiction.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Dialogue Heavy 18.7%, Comedy 15.1%, Choices Matter 9.5%

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: Visual Novel 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Multiple Endings 14%, Comedy 11%, Choices Matter 10.9%

「その選択肢、正気か？」シンプルなノベルゲームのはずなのに、とにかく“選択肢”がおかしい！？ 予想を超える展開が待ち受ける、奇想天外なテキストアドベンチャーゲーム！

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 21%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Text-Based 15.5%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Multiple Endings 9.8%

You dropped and broke your phone, but you still have to use it. As a college freshman, you must complete tasks like calling friends, replying to messages, and paying at checkout with this broken phone. How far can you go?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Dialogue Heavy 22.9%, Choices Matter 14%, Comedy 12.8%, Multiple Endings 12.4%

Skateboard into the bustling city of Shinjuku in this beautiful, hand drawn, adult visual novel. Follow the misadventures of Guy as he humorously pursues the affection of sexy ladies and discovers their heartfelt stories. Which girl will you choose?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Text-Based 14%, Choices Matter 11%, Multiple Endings 10.2%

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: Dialogue Heavy 28.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Text-Based 12.6%, Choices Matter 12.5%

You went to the desert to rest. You crushed a worm. Now it talks to you in dreams.

Why similar: Visual Novel 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Dialogue Heavy 16.8%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Multiple Endings 13.2%

Astrologaster is a comedy game set in Shakespeare’s London. Play as 'Doctor' Simon Forman and treat his patients using astrology. A story-driven adventure based on a truly ridiculous story.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 29.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Comedy 10.7%, Choices Matter 8.6%

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 22.4%, Visual Novel 20.9%, Dialogue Heavy 14.7%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Multiple Endings 11.6%

When you start the game, the narrator will instruct you to “close your eyes.” At that moment, whether you actually close them or keep them open will change the course of the story. Listen carefully to the voice as you proceed, and find your way to the truth.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Visual Novel 19%, Dialogue Heavy 15.6%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Text-Based 11.3%

Welcome to our wild neon flashing graphic adventure! Play as Tofu 🐹 a little hamster with a big attitude and experience his misadventures through a frantic college night in a city brimming with parties and mystery. Packed with humor, terrible jokes and tons of dru— I mean, SUGAR!

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 28.1%, Visual Novel 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Comedy 8.6%, Choices Matter 6.4%

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: Dialogue Heavy 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Multiple Endings 12.7%

A branching visual novel with multiple endings about fortune telling for eccentric clients with tarot cards.

Why similar: Visual Novel 17.8%, Dialogue Heavy 13.4%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Text-Based 12.7%, Comedy 11.5%

A struggling book company has decided to hire you, a baby, to be the new CEO? All you need to do is manage the budget, keep the company brand strong and make the employees happy. You can't talk? No problem! Give a thumbs up or down and try your best.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 19.2%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Cartoon 9.7%

You've been at the new school for a while now, but you still don't seem to have fully adapted. At least your test scores haven't improved, and to make matters worse, a popular classmate seems to be targeting you...

Why similar: Visual Novel 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Dialogue Heavy 14.6%, Comedy 11.6%, Text-Based 9.8%

Screech, halt! Max and his ice cream truck reach an unfamiliar universe never seen before. Continue making your way as you go after the little kid’s balloon. Solve mysteries with emotion-flavored ice cream. Will you be able to retrieve the kid’s lost balloon?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Dialogue Heavy 15.6%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Visual Novel 11.9%

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 28.5%, Visual Novel 23.1%, Multiple Endings 16.5%, Text-Based 13.9%, Choices Matter 6.2%

You are ready to say goodbye to life, but are you prepared to face your life's truth? Navigate a grad student's life between greed and fear in his final 6 hours (and beyond) in this BL visual novel.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Dialogue Heavy 20.2%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.5%

Take a Hint! is a comic-style visual novel where you control Delfina and must convince your best friend Ailén that her boyfriend is not good for her. It won't be easy, and no one will leave until the truth comes out.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 25.6%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Multiple Endings 12%, Choices Matter 11.8%

Meet quirky characters and clean strange artifacts in this short cozy comedy game. From an enchanted teacup to a cursed skull with a chip on its shoulder, each item and client brings new twists and surprises.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Visual Novel 16%, Comedy 12%, Multiple Endings 9.8%

Be the person you needed. Brew tea, listen well, and guide branching stories in a narrative slice-of-life about showing up when it matters. No perfect answers. Only your choices and what they set in motion.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Multiple Endings 10.3%

Idol Talent Show Simulation Game-Train from zero to idol debut! Rank high to stay in! Explore the map, manage your schedule and play mini-games.Face tough evaluations,compete with fellow trainees, and forge meaningful bonds. Your choices will unlock 10+ unique endings. Can you shine?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.7%, Visual Novel 23.1%, Choices Matter 21.3%, Multiple Endings 18.3%, Story Rich 6.6%

Step into a vibrant otome story where your choices shape relationships with a dog senior, rabbit professor, and cat office worker. Navigate romance, mystery, and emotional growth as your decisions determine how each bond unfolds.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Multiple Endings 11.4%

Something is growing on your hand. You see the Doctor. Things get weird.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Choices Matter 14%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Dialogue Heavy 13.2%

HRO: Adventures of a Humanoid Resources Officer is a puzzle-driven adventure game set in a retro sci-fi universe. When the Endeavor stumbles into universe-shaking trouble, can you harness the power of the bureaucracy to rein in your crew’s worst impulses and survive to the next episode?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Dialogue Heavy 16.5%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Text-Based 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.7%

You lost your memory of nothing but a mundane day. But why do mysterious men keep jamming into your life, all of them pointing to the day you forgot? Find out a hypnotherapy clinic receptionist's memory of an insignificant day in this BL visual novel.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Dialogue Heavy 19%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Multiple Endings 10.3%

Stamped follows the journeys of six young travelers whose paths intersect across Asian urban landscapes. Bound by pleasure-fueled self-destruction, the group flounders from city to city, confronting the grief and discrimination that caused them to travel in the first place.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Dialogue Heavy 15.4%, Text-Based 12.6%, Choices Matter 9%

A humorous sci-fi text-driven adventure where you play a support engineer sent to fix system failures in a secret research complex. Explore strange labs, investigate bizarre incidents, solve absurd problems, talk to depressed robots, and make choices that lead to multiple endings.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Dialogue Heavy 15.5%, Text-Based 15.1%, Choices Matter 13.8%

Standing pictures is strange! The story is also strange! Novel game where you can enjoy chaos!!

Why similar: Visual Novel 21.9%, Comedy 16.1%, Dialogue Heavy 15.3%, Funny 12.9%, Text-Based 11.7%

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: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Text-Based 15.8%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Multiple Endings 11.7%

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 21.7%, Visual Novel 20.5%, Dialogue Heavy 15.6%, Text-Based 13.7%, Choices Matter 11.5%

Romance a titillating trio of Busty Bosomed Moms, OR... maybe... set your sights on a lone awkward nerd. Good, Bad, you're the one with the choices.

Why similar: Visual Novel 19%, Comedy 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 10.3%

A conversation adventure where you spend the worst, best summer visiting your booze-loving senpai, making weird food, and sneaking out together at midnight.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 24%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Choices Matter 9.5%

No criminal has ever been a match for you, and everybody is looking forward to a description of your brilliant deductions. There is just one small problem. One tiny detail that makes it different this time. A mere trifle, really. This time you have no idea who did it.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Dialogue Heavy 19.8%, Text-Based 15.8%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Choices Matter 10.4%

Decide the fate of the son of a tailor and a witch doctor infected with an incurable disease in an interactive story with multiple endings depending on your actions.

Why similar: Visual Novel 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Choices Matter 16.2%, Multiple Endings 14.9%, Text-Based 11.8%

Welcome to Joe Papp, Nevada. A theater town where local legends spring to life and nobody knows quite what to do with their lives.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Comedy 12.7%, Choices Matter 12.1%

You came here with a motive, so as everyone, except that you are able to change theirs. Ride with Lucas to turn down all the love interests or end their trouble in this (obviously artificial intelligence-themed) sci-fi BL visual novel. Enjoy the long-waited grand finale in this trilogy!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Dialogue Heavy 20.6%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Choices Matter 11%

Return to a hometown that hasn’t changed the way it should have. A psychological visual novel focused on atmosphere, relationships, and a reality that slowly refuses to stay still. Can you uncover the truth before it consumes you?

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Text-Based 11.9%

From the everyday passenger to the horrors of Halloween, Spirit Driver is a short, casual conversation visual novel where your choices can affect the fates of people and spirits alike. Remember, your choices have consequences. Good luck!

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 29.3%, Visual Novel 26.9%, Text-Based 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Multiple Endings 9.5%

Create your character and experience a fun story in which you will meet friends, enemies and partners as you try to carry out a vital project with your friends: to create an anime before you finish your studies.

Why similar: Visual Novel 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Cartoon 9.3%

You are Allan Martin, an occasionally suave British superspy armed with a licence to cause an international incident. Can you survive international assassins? Can you stop an evil mastermind's nefarious plans? Can you avoid contracting an STD?

Why similar: Visual Novel 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Comedy 14.5%, Multiple Endings 14.4%, Text-Based 12.9%

Serve coffee and befriend customers as you learn their story in this coming-of-age visual novel.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 27.7%, Visual Novel 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Multiple Endings 9.4%

Adventure as Geralt through the ballads of Dandelion. Swipe right, swipe left, seek glory, find death! Will you hunt monsters, upset the locals, or run a hot bath? Compose an inspiring epic to claim immortality.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Dialogue Heavy 7.8%, Comedy 6.6%

AKIBA LOVE is a dating simulation game, in other words, a G·A·L·G·A·M·E! During your half-year exchange at Japan's Inada University, as a hardcore otaku, you will meet, get to know, and fall in love with five heroines, experiencing a romantic comedy of your own!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Visual Novel 17%, Dialogue Heavy 12.3%, Text-Based 11.8%, Multiple Endings 10.5%

A Greek Myth-based, heartfelt narrative game where you're a demigod named Aelius trying to find your godly father and re-forge your family.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Dialogue Heavy 19.4%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Multiple Endings 9.8%

Investigate six haunted properties and listen to the voices of spirits trapped in nightmares. Collect fragmented clues and discover the correct combination of names, locations, and vessels. A multi-ending horror adventure where the outcome changes depending on your choices during the ritual.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Visual Novel 24.2%, Text-Based 14.7%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, Choices Matter 13.3%

A story of love, connections, and separation, a story about philosophy and science. Marharyta and Mykhailo try to figure out their relationships - and cannot help but fall in love over and over again.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Text-Based 14.3%, Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Choices Matter 10.2%

You’re shipwrecked on a mysterious island of talking animals! You’ll need to make friends with the local critters if you hope to return home. This adventure includes branching conversations, memorable endings, and dark secrets...

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Visual Novel 22.2%, Dialogue Heavy 17.5%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 9.9%

You meet with Yuika to talk about your relationship. Where is this conversation headed towards?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Dialogue Heavy 17.3%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Choices Matter 12%

Black Dog Bar is a dialog-based bartender simulator. Each client has its own story. Communicate, mix cocktails, and... manipulate. It is only you who decides where the complicated story of each hero will turn and what will happen to them when they leave the bar.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 27%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Relaxing 5.5%

In this pre-smartphone-era text adventure, use that good ol’ T9 phone to text your way through the highs and lows of school days. Choose replies piece by piece to shape your own story. Friendships grow; feelings get complicated; secrets flicker. Every reply matters—it all happens Between the Lines.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Text-Based 15.4%, Choices Matter 12.7%

Tired of the daily grind? Become the puppet master in this office survival sim! Guide your employee in the art of slacking off, avoid the boss's watchful eye, and test the limits under their nose. Can you help them 'survive' without getting fired?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20%, Dialogue Heavy 19.1%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Text-Based 11.8%, Choices Matter 10.9%