60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Life Sim, Simulation, Choices Matter, Text-Based.
选择注定和失去相伴——那失去之后，还剩下什么？这不是逆天改命的爽文，这是一份长达十年的‘做题家’真实账单。带着全家的期望来到大城市，在底气与自尊的拉扯中规划每周时间。直面同辈碾压、现实重压与灰色的阶层锁，在残酷的抉择中，经历一段关于认清现实与自我和解的人生。
Plodding Recovery
"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.
The Laws of Probability
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 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 30.7%, Psychological 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Dialogue Heavy 11.8%, Text-Based 8.5%
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 13.9%, Text-Based 13.4%, Visual Novel 10.4%
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 17%, Resource Management 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Text-Based 9.8%
A consequence-driven narrative game where you play as a volunteer surgeon in a war-torn village. Patients arrive daily, but you won’t be able to treat everyone. Who you save, who you turn away, and how you do it ripples far beyond your clinic.
Why similar: Life Sim 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Psychological 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Text-Based 8.9%
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 23.8%, Psychological 21.1%, Dialogue Heavy 12.9%, 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 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Text-Based 11.4%, Visual Novel 9.6%
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 32.8%, Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Simulation 10.2%, Story Rich 8.9%
A narrative visual novel adapted from real life. Three days before his baby is born, a first-time father learns what it means to become one. Ordinary days, unspoken words, and choices that reshape his bond with his wife and family. About one hour per playthrough.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Life Sim 17%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Time Management 11%, Psychological 10.4%
Raise a Zanmi egg at the "Academie des Zœufs". Care for it, choose its activities and training, and build relationships with the other students to shape its growth in this character-raising simulation. What kind of Zanmi will you raise?
Why similar: Life Sim 30.7%, Time Management 17.4%, Story Rich 9.7%, Interactive Fiction 9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%
Build a life that keeps moving around you. Create your character, work, study, manage money, find a home and form relationships as families grow, careers change, neighbourhoods evolve and thousands of choices shape what happens next.
Why similar: Life Sim 29%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Simulation 12.5%, Text-Based 6.5%
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%, Psychological 25.6%, Simulation 13.5%, Text-Based 10%, Story Rich 9.8%
"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 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Resource Management 14.9%, 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 12.8%, Visual Novel 9.5%, 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 14.4%, Resource Management 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
Only 5 days until you quit. Plan your daily schedule, chat with coworkers, and make choices as you prepare to resign. Will you hand over your duties perfectly, or slack off in the breakroom and cause chaos? Experience a hyper-realistic K-office drama shaped by your choices!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Psychological 17.2%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Story Rich 10.4%
Beat the Machine is a stock trading game, corporation simulator, and job/career simulator.
Why similar: Life Sim 30.4%, Time Management 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Simulation 13%, Resource Management 8%
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%, Psychological 20.4%, Time Management 18%, Philosophical 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 32.6%, Time Management 20.7%, Text-Based 15.1%, Simulation 13.7%, Resource Management 12.2%
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 15.5%, Text-Based 11.8%, Visual Novel 8.7%
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 31.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Simulation 14.2%, Psychological 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%
You have a play to write. Is this your masterpiece, or a Halfway-to-Midlife Crisis Simulator?
Why similar: Life Sim 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Psychological 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Visual Novel 8.9%
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 27.9%, Time Management 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Dialogue Heavy 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.4%
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 29.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Story Rich 10%, Psychological 9.5%, Simulation 8.5%
Welcome to IT hell! Survive as GlobalCorp's only sysadmin – for a single day or a whole week. Fight absurd tickets, collect loot and lower your pulse with coffee. Keep the boss radar and your aggro down to still have a job at 16:30 – without throwing your monitor out of the window.
Why similar: Life Sim 28.5%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Simulation 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Text-Based 9.4%
More than a visual novel: explore campus, plan each day, use an interactive phone, discover dynamic events, earn achievements, and unlock character outfits through a cosmetic gacha system that never affects the story, choices, or in-game economy. What will tomorrow be? Chose on you.
Why similar: Life Sim 42.1%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Story Rich 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 10%
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 18.4%, Text-Based 16.5%, Simulation 10.9%
Master of Balance is a workplace survival game. You play as a junior manager who becomes caught up in a bizarre, otherworldly incident. To survive, you must carefully handle both daily life and work responsibilities while uncovering the truth behind what happened.
Why similar: Life Sim 33.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Dialogue Heavy 14%, Story Rich 9.8%, Strategy 9.8%
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 32.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Psychological 9.8%, Story Rich 9.3%, Text-Based 9%
Play as an official’s daughter entering the imperial palace as a consort. Build relationships, shape your family’s fate, speak freely with memory-driven AI characters, navigate favor and political intrigue, or overturn the order of the court and pursue an entirely different ending.
Why similar: Life Sim 23%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Resource Management 12.2%, Text-Based 11.6%, Dialogue Heavy 10.6%
"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 12.7%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Dialogue Heavy 10.5%
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 24.2%, Dialogue Heavy 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Text-Based 9.7%
Working 9-5 as a corporate goblin. 💼 Train your stats, make some friends, expose your enemies, and uncover a conspiracy of mythical proportions! One wrong move and you're fired!🔥
Why similar: Life Sim 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Visual Novel 13%, Simulation 12.1%, Strategy 11.6%
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 39.5%, Time Management 25.4%, Simulation 17.7%, Resource Management 16.6%, Indie 0.9%
NEWS CENSOR: edit headlines, replace words, and approve only the “safe” stories. But remember: one wrong word can end your career.
Why similar: Psychological 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Time Management 9.8%, Story Rich 9.2%
Ishmael is a short multimedia-enhanced hypertext story about perpetual cycles of displacement and violence as seen through the lens of a child. Takes about 15 minutes to read/play through.
Why similar: Life Sim 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Text-Based 12.7%, Time Management 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%
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 25.7%, Life Sim 22.3%, Resource Management 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Strategy 10.8%
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 16.2%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Text-Based 13.4%, Story Rich 11.6%
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 30.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Time Management 20%, 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 31.8%, Dialogue Heavy 17.5%, Text-Based 13.3%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Story Rich 9.9%
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 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Strategy 8.9%
Mirror Drama is a story-focused RPG where everyday conversations become turn-based battles. Follow Shunta as he navigates his daily life, friendships, and the mysterious reflection that haunts his past.
Why similar: Life Sim 27.3%, Time Management 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Text-Based 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.3%
Cart Life was a retail simulation for Windows(tm).
Why similar: Life Sim 26.4%, Resource Management 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Time Management 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
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 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Psychological 15.8%, Text-Based 10.5%, Visual Novel 10.3%
Eatime is a Chinese-cuisine strategy puzzle about planning every minute. Arrange cooking steps on a timeline, manage chefs and cookware, combine tasks, and adapt your schedule so every dish is served at just the right moment.
Why similar: Life Sim 29.4%, Resource Management 24.9%, Time Management 17.6%, Strategy 13.9%, Simulation 11.7%
Manage a scrapyard bot-fighting team on the Lunar Ringworld. Build machines from scraps, plan each day through timeblocks, train adaptive AI fighters, and watch your choices unfold in brutal autonomous arena battles as you attract sponsors, fame, and headline matches across the Ring.
Why similar: Life Sim 37.8%, Time Management 21.9%, Resource Management 18.6%, Simulation 11.6%, Strategy 6.2%
Adopt Karin or Klaus in this dark, story-driven parenting game. Help your child cope with the effects of hatred and bullying. Balance resources to meet their needs. Based on the true stories of the Lebensborn children, you’ll make difficult choices that will impact your child’s life forever.
Why similar: Life Sim 17.7%, Dialogue Heavy 13.8%, Resource Management 13.6%, Psychological 12.9%, Time Management 12.8%
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 11.2%
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 28.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Text-Based 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, 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 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Dialogue Heavy 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Text-Based 10.3%
A serial killer named Karma has kidnapped 8 criminals and will force you to choose the order in which they are executed. Will you be able to decide who deserves salvation... and who deserves death?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Psychological 16.5%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Simulation 10.8%
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%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Dialogue Heavy 14.1%, Resource Management 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%
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 15.6%, Time Management 14.8%, Resource Management 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, 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 18.1%, Dialogue Heavy 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Visual Novel 10%
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%, Simulation 17.7%, Psychological 16.9%, Indie 1%
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 27.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Psychological 15.1%, Strategy 7.4%
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 18.3%, Time Management 15.6%, Resource Management 15%, Simulation 11.2%
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%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Philosophical 6.3%
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 34.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Psychological 17.4%, Visual Novel 8.9%, Text-Based 8.3%
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 18.6%, Time Management 14.8%, Simulation 13.5%, Psychological 9.4%
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 23.4%, Time Management 15.7%, Resource Management 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Visual Novel 9.5%
