Games Like Quarantine Circular

When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.

Why similar: Investigation 13.4%, Text-Based 13.1%, Detective 12.1%, Noir 10.4%, Visual Novel 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Created by the same developer, this game shares the exact same minimalist, text-based, and dialogue-focused sci-fi investigation gameplay.

Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.

Why similar: Text-Based 32.2%, Futuristic 19.7%, Sci-fi 17.9%, Multiple Endings 17.6%, Story Rich 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game features deep, text-heavy narrative choices and character-driven diplomacy within a compelling, atmospheric sci-fi setting.

A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.

Why similar: Noir 15.7%, Text-Based 15.4%, Detective 15.3%, Investigation 13.5%, Multiple Endings 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly focused detective experience where your choices in dialogue and investigation have significant consequences on the narrative path.

Something has been taken. Enter a new Grid and forge alliances via visual novel gameplay, uncovering truths through Identity Disc puzzles. Make critical decisions and plot your own course in a world without a creator.

Why similar: Detective 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Noir 11%, Choices Matter 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A visual novel that emphasizes dialogue-based puzzle-solving and branching paths, perfectly capturing the investigative feel of the seed game.

Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized. Can you find the culprit before it's too late? Experience an enthralling story set in a semi-open world that branches and ends based on your choices.

Why similar: Investigation 19.1%, Detective 17.8%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Futuristic 12.1%, Point & Click 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title combines a sci-fi mystery with a branching narrative system that requires careful investigation and decision-making.

1000xRESIST is a thrilling sci-fi adventure. The year is unknown, and a disease spread by an alien invasion keeps you underground. You are Watcher. You dutifully fulfil your purpose in serving the ALLMOTHER, until the day you discover a shocking secret that changes everything.

Why similar: Aliens 19.2%, Futuristic 16.6%, Cinematic 14.7%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Sci-fi 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-rich experience that explores complex sci-fi themes through deep dialogue and investigation.

MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.

Why similar: Cinematic 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Multiple Endings 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: This cinematic narrative game focuses on dialogue choices and social interaction within a futuristic, dystopian society.

Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative exploration game where you build a relationship with a lonely spaceship computer to get home to Earth.

Why similar: Sci-fi 22.2%, Multiple Endings 18.8%, Choices Matter 18.4%, Text-Based 14.1%, Mystery 13%

Why You'll Like It: It centers on communicating with an AI through text input, mirroring the conversational tension found in Quarantine Circular.

Authentic Star Trek adventure from former members of Telltale Games. Engage in diplomacy, pilot shuttlecraft, and use your tricorder and phaser to overcome challenging puzzles and deadly threats. Tough decisions will impact relationships, your story, and the fate of the galaxy. What will YOU do?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Point & Click 11.8%, Cinematic 11.7%, Multiple Endings 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a classic choose-your-own-adventure experience with a heavy emphasis on diplomacy and critical decision-making in a sci-fi setting.

You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 40%, Choices Matter 36%, Story Rich 16.6%, Adventure 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes survival narrative where your leadership and diplomatic choices determine the fate of your crew in a harsh environment.

Investigate a paranormal disease that threatens to eradicate humanity in this unsettling Lovecraftian adventure, inspired by the choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks of the 80s and 90s. Your choices will determine the story, your character’s destiny… and the future of humanity.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.9%, Visual Novel 20.9%, Choices Matter 20.4%, Text-Based 11.4%, Story Rich 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: An interactive fiction game that forces players to make difficult choices while investigating a dark, supernatural mystery.

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: Text-Based 17%, Investigation 15.6%, Detective 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Visual Novel 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This interactive fiction title focuses on observing and interacting with characters through a screen, mirroring the perspective of the seed game.

Text based quest, mix of Sci-Fi and horror in the veins of Alien and Dead Space.

Why similar: Text-Based 42.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.1%, Sci-fi 19.7%, Adventure 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A text-based sci-fi adventure that relies entirely on player choices to navigate a dangerous extraterrestrial mystery.

Welcome to the Museum! Machinika Museum is a mystery game where you discover beautiful and mysterious machines of extra-terrestrial origins in an atmospheric galaxy-spanning 3D puzzle game. Will you be able to understand their stories and discover what happened to their previous owner?

Why similar: Aliens 18.7%, Investigation 18.1%, Point & Click 13.9%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Futuristic 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi puzzle game that focuses on investigating mysterious artifacts, capturing the same sense of discovery found in the seed game.

An intricate mystery visual novel. Search text, piece together clues, and jump around the story to unravel the tangled events within the sealed tower.

Why similar: Detective 19.3%, Investigation 17.1%, Visual Novel 14%, Text-Based 12.9%, Logic 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A mystery-focused visual novel that requires careful attention to detail and logical deduction to solve its sci-fi puzzle.

The Gnosia lie. Pretending to be human, they’ll get in close, trick and deceive, and then eliminate one victim at a time...

Why similar: Visual Novel 27%, Detective 25.9%, Sci-fi 19.3%, Mystery 13.3%, Story Rich 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This sci-fi social deduction game uses a loop-based structure to force players into constant, high-stakes diplomatic conversations.

Investigating a time-loop during the Cold War, light years away from Earth. Neoproxima is a text-based adventure game that combines exploration and simple RPG and survival mechanics. Plan your next loop carefully, and go as far as possible before time catches up with you.

Why similar: Investigation 23.1%, Point & Click 18.4%, Sci-fi 15.6%, Text-Based 14.3%, Mystery 11%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven sci-fi mystery that relies on point-and-click investigation and story-rich encounters.

Experience a Narrative Adventure where your choices and character growth truly matter. As a member of a 1793 secret society, live a tale of intrigue and manipulation on the hunt for your missing mother.

Why similar: Detective 29%, Choices Matter 26.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Story Rich 9%, Mystery 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: An adventure game that leans heavily into social manipulation and diplomacy as the primary mechanics for progressing through its mystery.

Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.

Why similar: Detective 28.9%, Choices Matter 19.9%, Noir 16.4%, Point & Click 12%, Story Rich 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for text-based investigation, offering unparalleled depth in how dialogue choices influence the world and character development.

In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship, tasked with finding a home for your crew—the last remnants of humanity. Your choices will determine their fate, and your own.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, Text-Based 22.9%, Choices Matter 16.8%, Sci-fi 13.2%, Multiple Endings 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A text-based sci-fi adventure that focuses on managing a crew through difficult moral and strategic choices.

Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.

Why similar: Text-Based 33.8%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Sci-fi 13.4%, Casual 11.7%, Mystery 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A casual, text-based adventure that explores psychological themes through a unique, conversation-heavy narrative.

Three friends uncover mysteries in the 1980s. Follow their amazing adventures in a game where your decisions really matter. Be prepared to spin like a record on your incredible journey back to the era of synthesizers, VHS Rental stores, 8 bits games and evil alien conspiracies.

Why similar: Multiple Endings 21.6%, Point & Click 21.3%, Choices Matter 20%, Sci-fi 14.7%, Mystery 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A point-and-click adventure that features multiple endings and significant choices, reminiscent of classic interactive fiction.

Quarantined inside an airlock. No memories. No way out. The remaining crew thinks there’s something wrong with you, but the Voice says it’ll help you escape. Navigate volatile conversations & unravel mysteries in this narrative adventure about trust, self-destruction, & shifting identities.

Why similar: Choices Matter 23.4%, Multiple Endings 21.4%, Mystery 21.1%, Sci-fi 20.7%, Story Rich 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-focused exploration game that emphasizes atmospheric storytelling and mystery-solving.

VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is a booze em' up about waifus, technology, and post-dystopia life.

Why similar: Visual Novel 28.1%, Point & Click 19.8%, Choices Matter 18.2%, Sci-fi 14.6%, Story Rich 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: While centered on bartending, the core gameplay is entirely driven by the conversations you have with patrons and the choices you make in dialogue.

In this episodic visual novel, follow the adventures of MSPA Reader as they return to Alternia once more to save their friends... and realize that nothing is as it seems.

Why similar: Aliens 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Multiple Endings 13%, Choices Matter 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: A visual novel that prioritizes character interaction and branching dialogue paths to explore its narrative.

Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.

Why similar: Visual Novel 36%, Choices Matter 22.3%, Multiple Endings 22.2%, Story Rich 13.1%, Casual 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, dialogue-driven game where you influence the lives of your customers through the drinks you serve and the conversations you hold.

NORCO is a dialogue-focused point & click adventure that immerses the player in the sinking suburbs and industrial swamplands of an increasingly surreal and distorted South Louisiana.

Why similar: Investigation 28.5%, Noir 27.3%, Point & Click 20.5%, Mystery 12%, Story Rich 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric, text-heavy narrative game that blends sci-fi elements with a surreal mystery, perfect for fans of deep storytelling.

A short visual novel about isolation. You try to search for comfort in the lonesome people around you. Keeping the darkness at bay with small embers of light. Will you let the fear change you?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 40.4%, Visual Novel 31.4%, Text-Based 10.3%, Multiple Endings 8.9%, Story Rich 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation-based visual novel that captures the feeling of navigating relationships during a crisis.

Mysterious phenomena from space. A researcher's fatal accident. Cryptic codes engraved on an unknown material. Together with your brilliant sister-in-law, you must unravel a mystery that could determine the fate of Earth. A sci-fi mystery visual novel of discovery and suspense.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Visual Novel 18%, Investigation 13.4%, Sci-fi 12%, Futuristic 9.1%

399 days ago, the world ended. Epimutation is a horror visual novel that follows seven survivors as they attempt to navigate life in the apocalypse. Make life or death decisions, form bonds with your fellow survivors, and attempt to unravel the mystery behind the outbreak.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Point & Click 16.8%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Multiple Endings 12.2%

Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER is a story-rich adventure and the sequel to 2064: Read Only Memories. Explore the rich world with an intuitive point-and-click interface as you take on the role of a young psychic agent tasked with tracking down a mysterious antagonist hiding in people's memories.

Why similar: Noir 21.2%, Visual Novel 15%, Point & Click 13.1%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Choices Matter 11%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi narrative game that focuses on investigating memories and interacting with a diverse cast of characters.

BatteryNote is a multi-ending sci-fi adventure visual novel game. You can recharge three robots with limited lifespans, bringing them back to life. Interact with them through conversations or experiment by applying high voltage. How they spend their final moments is entirely up to you.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.3%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Sci-fi 13.1%, Text-Based 11%

Synergia is a yuri thriller visual novel that takes place in a cyberpunk future, wrapped up in a beautifully unique, vibrant neon aesthetic. At the end of the world, sometimes love is the ultimate crime.

Why similar: Visual Novel 36%, Sci-fi 22.5%, Choices Matter 16.8%, Multiple Endings 16.1%, Story Rich 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A visual novel set in a cyberpunk world that explores the relationship between humans and androids through branching dialogue.

Play as Tristan and solve puzzles to recover human consciousnesses in the year 2071. Investigate environments, uncover secrets, and make choices that affect the ending. Explore a neon-noir world with a low poly aesthetic inspired by the 90s.

Why similar: Noir 16.2%, Text-Based 13.8%, Cinematic 12.5%, Point & Click 11.4%, Investigation 10.4%

A short sci-fi visual novel about four scientists trapped in an underground lab. Explore their chat records to uncover the mysteries of Inturg Technologies. How can they escape their doom?

Why similar: Visual Novel 29.8%, Sci-fi 21.1%, Text-Based 19.1%, Mystery 14.3%, Story Rich 6.8%

The Station is a first-person sci-fi mystery set on a space station sent to study a sentient alien civilization. Assuming the role of a recon specialist, players must unravel a mystery which will decide the fate of two civilizations.

Why similar: Sci-fi 45.3%, Story Rich 25%, Adventure 15.2%, Mystery 14.6%

a side-scrolling, story-driven text adventure game in pixel art. The story is set in 2079, when a Replicant awakens in a lab facility amidst a life-or-death situation. The replicant aid agency tries to rescue him but fails. In the process they stumble on the real secret of the Replicant project...

Why similar: Text-Based 26.7%, Visual Novel 21.8%, Sci-fi 19.2%, Mystery 13.2%, Story Rich 10.3%

An archaeologist uncovers a lost history in an ancient space Nebula. Award-winning narrative adventure game with hieroglyphic language puzzles, from the creators of 80 DAYS.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Point & Click 20%, Choices Matter 18%, Sci-fi 17.6%, Mystery 13.4%

Lacuna: Prologue tasks you – CDI agent Neil Conrad – with investigating the murder of a high-profile victim whose death could plunge the solar system into war. Solve the first in a series of cases that lead you ever deeper into the conspiracy at the core of this captivating 2D sci-fi noir adventure.

Why similar: Noir 17.1%, Detective 16.7%, Text-Based 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Investigation 11.3%

Tacoma is a sci-fi narrative adventure from the creators of Gone Home. Set aboard a high-tech space station in the year 2088, explore every detail of how the station’s crew lived and worked, finding the clues that add up to a gripping story of trust, fear, and resolve in the face of disaster.

Why similar: Sci-fi 36.4%, Story Rich 19.2%, Futuristic 18.4%, Mystery 15.2%, Adventure 8.8%

An emotional point-and-click hard sci-fi adventure game about exploring an abandoned space station. Follow messages left by the long-gone staff to learn the outcome of the research team and the secrets they left behind.

Why similar: Point & Click 19.4%, Sci-fi 17.3%, Futuristic 15.3%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Mystery 12.7%

In an endless air ocean of an alien world, small lonesome plots of land float above the abyss. But sometimes approach each other, and lands which have never met before, reveal their secrets.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.5%, Visual Novel 25.7%, Choices Matter 20.7%, Multiple Endings 19.3%, Adventure 7.9%

2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco. Team up with Turing, the world's first sapient machine, to unravel a conspiracy that threatens to shake an entire society

Why similar: Noir 20.9%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Point & Click 12.8%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.4%

Waking up alone in a derelict terraforming facility on an unknown (and distinctly not terraformed) planet, it's up to you to find a way to survive, learn what happened to the people who lived here and why you were abandoned in this narrative-driven incremental game.

Why similar: Text-Based 56.8%, Sci-fi 17%, Story Rich 11.8%, Mystery 9%, Adventure 5.4%

Field Hospital is a text-based bureaucratic detective game about hard decisions. Decide who to treat and whom to refuse. Face consequences. Study patients’ info and read their stories. Investigate the tangled case of Dr. Taylor.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Detective 16.2%, Text-Based 14.2%, Investigation 13.5%, Point & Click 11.6%

"Hira Hira Hihiru" is a visual novel set in a fictional Taishō Era. It tells the story of its two protagonists' struggle against Aerodema, a terrifying disease which brings the dead back to life.

Why similar: Visual Novel 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Text-Based 18.8%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Casual 6.8%

Mothmen 1966 is a 'Pixel Pulp' - a visual novel fusing exceptional writing and stunning illustration, inspired by mid-20th century pulp fiction and 80s home computer graphics - set amongst the strange occurrences of the Leonid meteor shower of 1966.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.3%, Noir 24%, Visual Novel 18%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Mystery 8.3%

In the world of excessive biotechnologies, an epidemic is ravaging the human race, infecting people's neuronet implants and enslaving them to the mysterious Worm. Who are you: a fighter of the infection, or a hunter of new prey?

Why similar: Point & Click 32.1%, Sci-fi 20.5%, Futuristic 16.8%, Story Rich 12.3%, Mystery 11.7%

Gods Will Be Watching is a minimalistic “point and click thriller” centered on despair, commitment, and sacrifice as players face intriguing puzzles and tough decisions that will affect their entire crew’s wellbeing.

Why similar: Point & Click 33.8%, Sci-fi 26.9%, Choices Matter 20.8%, Story Rich 12.8%, Adventure 5.8%

BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION is an isometric, point & click adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic future. Explore an unscene landscape, solve puzzles, meet new friends and make powerful enemies, mediate conflicts and fight for your life as you unravel the secrets of the desolate world around you.

Why similar: Cinematic 17%, Point & Click 16.4%, Investigation 16.2%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Sci-fi 11.2%

It’s 2065, and you are an interrogator-model android tasked with rooting out deviants among your own kind. You must probe for lies, monitor and exploit emotional spikes, earn the trust of your subjects, and make the final call: release, or destroy?

Why similar: Investigation 21.4%, Detective 14%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Futuristic 9.4%

Set during a pandemic lockdown in France, The World After is a FMV adventure game experience that tells the story of a man who tries to uncover the truth behind his strange nightmares and the mystery of the village he's living in.

Why similar: Investigation 21.5%, Point & Click 16.3%, Cinematic 13.7%, Sci-fi 11.8%, Multiple Endings 11.8%

Embark on an interplanetary adventure as the first robo reporter for the Times & Galaxy, the solar system’s most trusted holopaper. You’re just an intern, but if you can get the scoop, write great stories, and impress your colleagues, maybe you'll get to keep your job!

Why similar: Detective 19.1%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Investigation 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Point & Click 10.8%

Travel across landscapes devastated by a catastrophic climate meltdown, following a small family in search of somewhere habitable. With limited supplies and facing potential death at every turn, your choices will decide their fate. Will they manage to settle down?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.8%, Visual Novel 24.7%, Choices Matter 20.2%, Multiple Endings 16.6%, Story Rich 9.6%

Quarantine is an intense turn-based strategy game about waging war on pandemic disease. Recruit a team of specialized operatives to deploy on worldwide missions. Research the contagion, upgrade your tech, and quarantine the outbreak before it kills us all.

Life has ceased. Man is but a myth. And now, even the machines have begun to fail. Lead Horatio Nullbuilt and his sarcastic sidekick Crispin on a journey through the crumbling world of Primordia, facing malfunctioning robots, ancient secrets, and an implacable, power-hungry foe.

Why similar: Point & Click 34%, Sci-fi 22.4%, Noir 15.9%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Story Rich 6.3%

It's a mystery game that reveals the truth through an autopsy. Be a forensic doctor and find out why the dead died.

Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Text-Based 13.6%, Point & Click 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Choices Matter 11.3%

Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear. Seed new movements, destroy others. Subvert the rise and fall of empires, art, ideologies, and individuals in this experimental narrative game.

Why similar: Investigation 20.2%, Text-Based 19.6%, Sci-fi 18.1%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Visual Novel 15.9%