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"Why did it come to this?" That's what the protagonist asks, his body and mind worn to the breaking point. From there begins a journey of rediscovering the self he had long neglected. A small action at a time, he plods forward — slowly, haltingly — toward recovery.

Why similar: Life Sim 30.8%, Psychological 22.9%, Dialogue Heavy 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Text-Based 8.6%

You have exactly 5. Bread is 4, the bus fare to school is 3. What do you give up? In this short narrative experience, you play as 13-year-old Adam. Confront an interface that reacts to a painful reality, and discover that freedom of choice is sometimes nothing but a privilege.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Psychological 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Text-Based 13.4%, Visual Novel 10.3%

The Year is 1665 and the Great Plague has struck London. Guide your family through the darkest period of English history as you flee across the country. Navigate 100s of random events that challenge your ethics and your drive to survive.

Why similar: Life Sim 28.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Resource Management 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Text-Based 9.8%

Enter to the characters mind and make decisions. The game is played like interactive movie/adventure game with morality choices which influence the outcome which can be: a manipulative, balanced or violent. The game is based on psychology/philosophy and teaches about thoughts and their consequences.

Why similar: Life Sim 23.9%, Psychological 21.1%, Dialogue Heavy 13%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%

Parent Ted, your own childhood. On this journey, you will have the chance to discover your inner child and better understand the trauma and emotions of your childhood.

Why similar: Life Sim 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Text-Based 11.4%, Visual Novel 9.5%

A chronic illness simulator. You think you have a chronic illness, but you don't know what. All you know is you are always in some state of pain. You've been to too many doctors to count... but you still have to live your life.

Why similar: Life Sim 32.9%, Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Simulation 10.3%, Story Rich 8.9%

Can you heal a mind while racing against time? Psychologist Life is a strategic simulation game where you experience the life of a psychologist. Carefully plan your appointments, use your knowledge to treat patients, and prove your time management skills.

Why similar: Life Sim 32.1%, Psychological 25.5%, Simulation 13.5%, Text-Based 10.1%, Story Rich 9.7%

LIVORA is a choice-driven life simulation where money, work, relationships, health, family, weather, world events and pressure all connect. Build a life, face the consequences, recover from mistakes, chase ambition, fall in love, start again, and see how different every life can become.

Why similar: Life Sim 29.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Simulation 12.5%, Text-Based 6.5%

"Chinese Newcomer" blends deck-building with career simulation. Players choose one of three cards to collect, manage stamina. Use "Legacy Points" to grant Five-Elements talents to descendants, rectifying past regrets. Make choices along paths and embarking on a multi-generational journey.

Why similar: Life Sim 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Resource Management 15.2%, Text-Based 12.6%, Dialogue Heavy 7.6%

The theme of "the gaming industry", a Galgame centered on romantic plots and nurturing gameplay.

Why similar: Life Sim 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Time Management 12.9%, Visual Novel 9.4%, Simulation 9%

You are Arc, a city management AI. Designed to manage a city-wide AR metaverse known as the NeuroNet. Meet its many users, build relationships and help or hinder their lives while trying to balance the wider needs of the city. Find your humanity in a world losing theirs to technology.

Why similar: Life Sim 21.2%, Dialogue Heavy 14.5%, Resource Management 14%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%

Free Agency is the life simulation where the agents gradually become self-aware and try to find meaning in their lives. Meanwhile, you have to keep them too busy to think about it.

Why similar: Life Sim 45.1%, Psychological 20.3%, Time Management 18.1%, Philosophical 8.9%, Simulation 7.3%

My Music Label is a music management and simulation game where you take full control of your label. Discover young talents, manage legendary artists, and shape the evolution of the music industry. Every decision influences careers and the history of music.

Why similar: Life Sim 32.5%, Time Management 20.7%, Text-Based 15%, Simulation 13.7%, Resource Management 12.4%

You have a play to write. Is this your masterpiece, or a Halfway-to-Midlife Crisis Simulator?

Why similar: Life Sim 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Psychological 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Dialogue Heavy 8.9%

A medieval text quest in the "Choose Your Own Adventure" genre, where each choice could be your last. Create your story with more than 2,000 events, 200 of which will prove fatal. In a world where death plays against you, can you outsmart it and write your own story?

Why similar: Life Sim 32.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Text-Based 11.8%, Visual Novel 8.7%

After years abroad, Ryoutarou returns to his Japanese hometown to reconnect with old friends—and maybe find new love?! It's up to you to make this homecoming as sweet as can be in this rom-com visual novel from studio Hooksoft.

Why similar: Life Sim 28%, Time Management 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Dialogue Heavy 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.3%

Four little letters that can turn your whole day upside down – ADHD. Think it’s nothing? That everyone has it? Then watering a few plants, walking the dog, or writing one simple email shouldn’t be a problem... right?

Why similar: Life Sim 31.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Simulation 14.3%, Psychological 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%

Willkommen in der IT-Hölle! Überlebe den Büro-Wahnsinn in diesem textbasierten SysAdmin-Simulator. Kämpfe gegen absurde Tickets, sammle Loot und senke deinen Puls mit Kaffee. Halte Chef-Radar und Aggro niedrig, um bis 16:30 Uhr deinen Job zu behalten – ohne den Monitor aus dem Fenster zu werfen.

Why similar: Life Sim 28.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Simulation 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Text-Based 9.4%

My Child New Beginnings is a parenting simulator where you go through everyday life of growth. After a series of traumatic events that you and your child went through, you now get to rebuild life together in a new region of Norway.

Why similar: Life Sim 29.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Story Rich 10%, Psychological 9.5%, Simulation 8.6%

As a psychiatrist, journey into the minds of your patients. Make tough decisions, uncover hidden stories, and strive to maintain your mental well-being.

Why similar: Psychological 23.7%, Life Sim 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Text-Based 16.5%, Simulation 10.9%

A game as beautiful and unpredictable as life. Navigate what fate throws at you and explore what a life well lived can mean in this minimalist roguelite role playing life simulation. Life is wild and then you die – a thousand times over.

Why similar: Life Sim 32.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Psychological 9.8%, Story Rich 9.2%, Text-Based 9.1%

"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: Psychological 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Text-Based 12.8%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Dialogue Heavy 10.6%

A visual novel where your choices determine the future of your relationship and the success of your colony. Choose how to treat your husband and how to spend your free time in this frontier sci-fi story.

Why similar: Life Sim 24.3%, Dialogue Heavy 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Text-Based 9.7%

Are sudden promotions and superpowers a blessing or a curse? After an accident, your fate has been changed. Faced with eccentric bosses, difficult colleagues and relatives, the only way to keep the balance of life is to make careful choices so as to reclaim the initiative of your destiny.

Why similar: Life Sim 33.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Dialogue Heavy 14%, Strategy 9.8%, Story Rich 9.8%

Survive 30 unforgiving days on the streets before a deadly blizzard hits. Hustle for change, dumpster dive, or risk it all by picking pockets and dodging cops. Balance your hunger, hygiene, and morale. The city doesn't care if you live or die, prove it wrong.

Why similar: Life Sim 39.3%, Time Management 25.3%, Simulation 17.6%, Resource Management 16.9%, Indie 0.9%

申户市高二学生兼小乐队主唱的少女时雨，在放学回家的路上摸摸野猫，打工的时候专心致志的摸鱼，合练之余去W记整点薯条，还有和大家一起为开Live而努力！ 只是，这样的生活随着某人的离开而戛然而止—— 那么，下一步要做什么呢？ 是就这样回归日复一日的平常生活，还是……试着从零开始复辟乐队呢？

Why similar: Time Management 25.8%, Life Sim 22.2%, Resource Management 12.9%, Visual Novel 12%, Strategy 10.8%

Be wary of visitors. Play as a reclusive NEET in this single-player adventure. Your responses to the strange "visitors" at your door will determine your fate. A chilling blend of human horror and the occult awaits within the confines of your apartment.

Why similar: Life Sim 31%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Time Management 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 6.4%

Crown Delights Deli is a visual novel with multiple dialect/language choices. As the cashier at a Brooklyn bodega, choose to talk in English, AAVE, or Spanish to a diverse cast of characters as you try to maintain a five-star rating for your boss.

Why similar: Life Sim 31.9%, Dialogue Heavy 17.6%, Text-Based 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Story Rich 9.8%

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 21.9%, Dialogue Heavy 16.3%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Text-Based 13.4%, Story Rich 11.6%

Cart Life is a story-based life sim starring three street vendors in a small city in the western United States. Guide their new ventures selling newspapers, coffee, and bagels. Set up shop, manage your budget, serve your customers, and try to survive. Make every decision count.

Why similar: Life Sim 26%, Resource Management 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Time Management 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%

Winterclaw is an immersive dark fantasy sim with an in-depth companion. Discover the fire within and survive the cold.

Why similar: Life Sim 25.9%, Time Management 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Strategy 8.9%

It was a morning like all others, until she realized her dad wasn't home. In his place, a stranger who speaks nonsense and insists she "takes her medicine". Who is he? Where is dad?

Why similar: Life Sim 26.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Psychological 15.8%, Text-Based 10.5%, Visual Novel 10.2%

Eatime is a hardcore time-management and logic puzzle game. Step into the role of a master chef and seamlessly weave together "active" hands-on prep with "passive" automated cooking. Optimize your timeline, eliminate idle seconds, and serve up culinary masterpieces in record time!

Why similar: Life Sim 29.2%, Resource Management 25.3%, Time Management 17.6%, Strategy 13.8%, Simulation 11.6%

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 25.9%, Psychological 24.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Story Rich 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 9.7%

Awakening in a frigid room with an empty pill bottle, she’s forgotten something vital. Trapped between a monochrome bedroom and distorted dreams, she must face anxiety and depression... Break mental shackles and find the light in this psychological puzzle adventure！

Why similar: Psychological 21.4%, Life Sim 19%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Story Rich 11.3%, Text-Based 11.3%

You are a park bench. Watch strangers sit, talk, break down, fall in love, argue, and reveal their secrets in a story-rich narrative simulation where your smallest reactions can change everything.

Why similar: Life Sim 28.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Text-Based 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Visual Novel 9.4%

A visual novel where you play as a farmer, father, and community member. Decide what to plant, which faction to support, and what kind of dad you want to be. How will you react when your daughter won't stop crying? When she bullies her friend? Or when she wants to hang out with the cool kids?

Why similar: Life Sim 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Dialogue Heavy 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Text-Based 10.4%

Did you ever have a virtual pet? Was your virtual pet responsible for solving mysteries in the cruel streets of Victorian London? Did your virtual pet forget to eat? Did he stay up to 3AM doing chemistry experiments? Your virtual pet is named Sherlock Holmes. Try to keep him alive.

Why similar: Life Sim 26.8%, Resource Management 14.5%, Dialogue Heavy 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%

Broke and fired, Qiqi gets a phone that teleports her to any photo! Her plan? Cross-border smuggling! In this 3-hour comedic simulator, manage inventory, stealth-teleport, and bluff through deadly customs checks to scalp goods. One bad lie means jail! Unlock 40+ hilarious endings in this hustle.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Time Management 14.8%, Resource Management 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Dialogue Heavy 10.5%

Experience a pastel-toned emotional journey in Yuika My Bestie, a short visual novel you can complete in under 15 minutes per playthrough. With 5 unique endings and heartfelt choices, it takes just 30–40 minutes to explore every path of this soft, late-night cry.

Why similar: Life Sim 18.2%, Dialogue Heavy 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Visual Novel 9.9%

You are an innkeeper, on a journey to transform a run-down inn into a bustling social space. Craft items, food, and beer to please your customers and improve your reputation as the best tavern in the entire country.

Why similar: Life Sim 33.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Time Management 15.7%, Resource Management 15.3%, Simulation 11.2%

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 34.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Psychological 17.4%, Visual Novel 8.9%, Text-Based 8.4%

A dark life-simulation where stress, money and time work against you. Trade coins, survive daily life and fight rising panic — every decision matters.

Why similar: Life Sim 40.4%, Time Management 24.1%, Simulation 17.7%, Psychological 16.8%, Indie 1%

Get the streamer's attention at any cost before someone else does. Write comments, chat, and make donations to your waifu, but do not dare to hate her!

Why similar: Life Sim 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Dialogue Heavy 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.6%

Is the glass half-full or half-empty? What does you answer say about you? Explore your outlook on life by filling glasses with your friend Tea-Total in Hydrodynamics of Hope & Optimism (in short, H2O). But are you ready to hear those answers? Are you reeeeeeeeeally sure?

Why similar: Psychological 34.7%, Dialogue Heavy 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Philosophical 6.2%

Erotic dating sim about relationship and desire. Help Tracy with the household chores, take care of your baby, earn money and spoil her with your kindness. Rediscover the pleasure of sex and have kinky experiences with her.

Why similar: Life Sim 23.5%, Time Management 15.8%, Resource Management 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Visual Novel 9.4%

This is a simple love story set in a modern city, featuring me and three girls. The story takes place in the company where I work as a supervisor. Together with the three women, The game follows a linear narrative, with hundreds of video clips providing branching choices for the players.

Why similar: Life Sim 27.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Psychological 15.1%, Strategy 7.5%

Operator, you have been appointed to the position of labor resource allocator. The System observes and analyzes every decision you make. Compliance with instructions is recommended. Begin work.

Why similar: Life Sim 27.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Time Management 14.9%, Simulation 13.5%, Psychological 9.3%

Run six different stores, from a car wash to a hardware shop. Buy inventory, set your prices, and outsmart the daily market trends to maximize profit. Manage daily utility bills and taxes carefully—falling $100K behind means game over. Build your retail empire to Millions!

Why similar: Life Sim 26.3%, Strategy 16.4%, Time Management 14.8%, Simulation 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%

Behind the cheerful "Internet's Darling" persona is a ruthless hacker mastermind! In Project: Idol / Empire, balance a double life: be an adored idol while waging cyberwar for world domination. Defend your streams, plan network takeovers, and build an empire under a mask that fools the whole server!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Time Management 14.7%, Resource Management 13.8%, Simulation 12.5%, Strategy 11.9%

Apes Ticker is a real-feel simulation game built on virtual data inspired by the atmosphere of historical markets. Experience the ups and downs of market fluctuations firsthand and enjoy crafting your own investment strategies.

Why similar: Life Sim 38.1%, Time Management 22.3%, Simulation 18.3%, Resource Management 15.1%, Realistic 5%

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.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22%, Text-Based 18.4%, Psychological 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Visual Novel 9.5%

An immersive visual novel experience that brings you on a journey through memory, nostalgia, and guilt.

Why similar: Psychological 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Dialogue Heavy 10.1%, Text-Based 9.5%, Visual Novel 9.2%

"Cold Bed on Route" is an equation-like adventure game. Work with to find and dump unwanted items. Then, let's make up for the excess weight caused by having her on board. And let's prove that the universe is not yet completely cold and frigid. Now, pilot, it's your turn.

Why similar: Time Management 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Text-Based 14.2%, Visual Novel 10.9%

After a failed rescue in northern Myanmar, Lin Wei and her friend fight to survive. Guide their escape through pivotal choices—with nearly 100 branching decisions that can trigger a butterfly effect, leading to vastly different endings.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Psychological 19.4%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Story Rich 11.3%

A roguelike, incremental business-sim where you cultivate a family environment, make BIG profit and sacrifice the lives of your employees to the devil. Welcome to the world of business.

Why similar: Life Sim 28.8%, Psychological 19.4%, Time Management 17%, Resource Management 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.8%

If we were to bring a loved one back to life as an AI, and then, for whatever reason, we had to let them go or part ways, would we be able to turn them off?

Why similar: Life Sim 34.9%, Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Simulation 18%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Story Rich 6.3%

A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?

Why similar: Psychological 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Dialogue Heavy 12%, Visual Novel 10%, Story Rich 9.5%

Storage Finder is a trade and strategy-focused simulation game where you try to make a profit by bargaining and selling items. We buy and sell items found in the city or retrieved from storage units won at auctions — with every deal, some of us make money, while some of us lose.

Why similar: Life Sim 33.9%, Time Management 25.8%, Resource Management 21.6%, Simulation 17.7%, Indie 1.1%