- #1 The Broken Crown
97% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: PiperFox
Windows
The Broken Crown is a dark fantasy text adventure between game and novel. Read through a fallen kingdom, make choices at key moments, and face the weight of memory and sacrifice.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.7%, Interactive Fiction 28.1%, Text-Based 18.4%, Dark Fantasy 11.1%, Adventure 10%
- #2 The Peresmeshnik
96% matchVery Positive92% of 111 reviews2020
Dev: Sean Arnold
Windows
It is said that the last frontier is space, but the crew of the Soviet Frigate, The Peresmeshnik, is about to discover that the sea still hides a terrifying secret. Waiting to be found.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.2%, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Text-Based 19.1%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, Horror 9.6%
- #3 マンドラゴラ心中
96% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: マリヒコPub: rhizome village
Windows · Mac
ある高校のスクールカウンセラーである主人公は、二人の少女が起こした心中事件に巻き込まれていく……。画面を二分割し、二人の少女を見比べながら進める「二画面同時進行」システムを採用。食い違う証言から事件の全体像が浮かび上がる。「rhizome village」が送るファナティックガールズトークADV。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.5%, Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Text-Based 16.3%, Psychological 7.7%, Anime 6.2%
- #4 スマートフォン
95% matchPositive97% of 29 reviews2026
Dev: OwataStudio
Windows
見知らぬ密室で目を覚ました主人公。 頼れるものは、手元に残された一台のスマートフォンだけ。 通話、メッセージ、アプリなどに残された痕跡をたどりながら、脱出の手がかりを探していく。 しかし、情報を集めるほどに、 この事件の裏に隠された異様な真実が浮かび上がっていく。 スマートフォンを操作して進める、サイコロジカル・ホラーADV。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.9%, Interactive Fiction 27.2%, Text-Based 16.9%, Horror 9.9%, Adventure 9%
- #5 Depression Quest
94% matchMixed62% of 3,940 reviews2014
Dev: The Quinnspiracy
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 78.0 hrs≥1hr: 43%
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 37.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 31.5%, Text-Based 8.4%, Psychological 8.3%, Psychological Horror 5.7%
- #6 CLOSED HANDS
94% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2021
Dev: PASSENGER
Windows · Mac · Linux
CLOSED HANDS is a groundbreaking work of interactive fiction that explores the tangled intertwined stories of five people thrown together by a fictional terror attack.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.7%, Interactive Fiction 32.5%, Text-Based 21%, Adventure 10.9%, Indie 2.2%
- #7 The Wake of the Wyrm
92% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A crown upon your head, danger all around. Rule, marry, scheme, raise heirs, wage wars, fulfill prophecies, and survive the waking Wyrm. An interactive text-based dark fantasy novel, 850,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.3%, Text-Based 21.8%, Dark Fantasy 7.6%, Horror 7.4%
- #8 Hadean Lands
93% matchPositive92% of 49 reviews2016
Dev: Zarfhome Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Alchemy, puzzles, and a crashed starship. Old-style interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No dialogue trees! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 39.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.8%, Text-Based 25.6%, Adventure 5.1%, Indie 3.2%
- #9 For Mother Matron
91% matchVery Positive92% of 173 reviews2022
Dev: Velvetique GamesPub: Neoclassic Games
Windows · Mac
A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths. A free atmospheric horror visual novel where you navigate life-or-death situations. SEEK PARADISE OR DIE TRYING
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.6%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Horror 11.5%, Dark Fantasy 7.5%
- #10 Samurai of Hyuga
91% matchVery Positive80% of 70 reviews2016
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Samurai of Hyuga is a brutal, heart-pounding interactive tale. Prepare to enter the land of silk and steel, where fantasy clashes against grim reality, and where the good guys don't always win in the end. It's a harsh world with tough choices at every turn. Good thing you're the toughest ronin around.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 39.3%, Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Text-Based 21.2%, Adventure 7.8%, Indie 4.9%
- #11 The Regis Family Experiment
90% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Productions RPIX inc.
Windows
The Regis Family Experiment is an independent narrative horror game that immerses you in the dark secrets of an abandoned farm. Uncover the mysteries of a cursed family and prepare for the terror that has only just begun. Will you survive the night ?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Horror 16.7%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Psychological 10.4%
- #12 キズツケ kizutsuke
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 852話
Windows
To escape, you must hurt someone. KIZUTSUKE is a psychological suspense visual novel about four young men trapped together. Read their conversations, make difficult choices, and discover four endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.2%, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Text-Based 16.6%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Psychological 6.4%
- #13 The Final Prize is Soup
89% matchVery Positive94% of 68 reviews2024
Dev: 4nokiPub: Quill Yuri
Windows · Linux
You who are unqualified to drink Meng Po's soup, you have been chosen for the game of life. A horror yuri visual novel following a series of death games in the afterlife.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Horror 9%, Psychological Horror 8.7%, Cute 8.5%
- #14 Parasite in Love
86% matchVery Positive94% of 62 reviews2025
Dev: Night Asobu
Windows
Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.3%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Horror 10%, Adventure 8.7%
- #15 This Book Is A Dungeon
87% matchMostly Positive72% of 299 reviews2015
Dev: Nathan MeunierPub: Plug In Digital
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Auto-cannibalism. Demonic Seduction. Occult Rituals. Bloodfeasting Worms. This dark, horrific Twine-based dungeon crawler pairs edgy interactive fiction with grisly pixel art and light RPG elements. Navigate this sprawling narrative-driven labyrinth bristling with otherworldly doom.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.8%, Horror 16.2%, Text-Based 9.5%, Adventure 7%
- #16 Choice of the Deathless
86% matchVery Positive91% of 324 reviews2014
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Battle demons and undead attorneys, and win souls to pay back your student loans! At the elite demonic-law firm of Varkath Nebuchadnezzar Stone, you'll depose a fallen god, find romance, and maybe even make partner, if you don't lose your own soul first.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 46.5%, Text-Based 28.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Indie 4.1%
- #17 Samurai of Hyuga Book 2
85% matchPositive88% of 50 reviews2016
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
The toughest ronin in Hyuga returns! Heated battles and even hotter romances await you in the land of silk and steel!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 40.3%, Interactive Fiction 24%, Text-Based 20.6%, Adventure 9.5%, Indie 5.7%
- #18 Recluses
84% matchPositive93% of 15 reviews2020
Dev: Timofei UsikovPub: cd-doma production
Windows
More than 30 orthodox sectarians underground. They locked themselves in man-made caves. You're a negotiator. Your task is to rescue recluses before Apocalypse.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Psychological Horror 18.3%, Text-Based 16.1%, Adventure 10%
- #19 Molly the Werezompire
82% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2023
Dev: Zeboyd Digital Entertainment LLC
Windows
Interactive fiction starring Molly the Werezompire - a grad student who jumped into a portal, was killed by a werewolf, a zombie, and a vampire, and became a heroic werezompire! Also includes the sci-fi parody, Epiphany in Spaaace! Originally released on XBLIG.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 41.7%, Interactive Fiction 30.4%, Text-Based 20.1%, Adventure 7%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #20 Welcome to Moreytown
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 43 reviews2017
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Claw your way to the top of Moreytown, a furry slum for human-animal hybrids. Will you take down the gangs who rule the town, or take them over instead?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.4%, Text-Based 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Adventure 10.4%, Indie 5.7%
- #21 Rest House
83% matchMostly Negative28% of 39 reviews2020
Dev: studio Don Quixote
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
“All wrong.” Game consists of five stories that are connected with mysterious characters and events. The main character is trying to discover the meaning each of them. He gets sucked in the events that will lead him to the strange places where he meets strange people, fairy tale creatures and landscapes.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Psychological 14.8%, Adventure 14.8%, Horror 13.7%
- #22 Monari Station
80% matchPositive88% of 17 reviews2026
Dev: VAINSANE
Windows · Mac · Linux
An ordinary commute becomes a moral crucible in Monari Station, a short psychological horror visual novel. Navigate an extreme situation, make value-defining choices... Discover what lingers after the train moves on...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Horror 13.6%, Adventure 6.1%
- #23 The Laws of Probability
79% matchPositive90% of 49 reviews2026
Dev: Unspoken
Windows
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.1%, Interactive Fiction 27.9%, Text-Based 17.7%, Psychological 11.4%, Adventure 9.1%
- #24 Worn Out
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Morimichi
Windows
A presence lingers in the dark, waiting. It asks. It doubts. It knows. What happened? Why are you here? Do you deserve this? The answers are yours to decide. What you choose matters. Every path leads somewhere. But will you like where it takes you?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Text-Based 13.9%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Horror 11.6%
- #25 Guns of Infinity
82% matchVery Positive96% of 140 reviews2016
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
As commander of a squadron of cavalry, what will you sacrifice to win the war of gunpowder and magic? Fight for power, riches, love, or glory!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 44.6%, Text-Based 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Adventure 9.5%, Indie 5.7%
- #26 Livber: Smoke and Mirrors
79% matchVery Positive90% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: InEv Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short psychological horror interactive story. Five years after vanishing without a trace, the woman you once called your lover writes from beyond the silence: "I will give birth to our creation.” In three acts, descend into a fractured mindscape where obsession, memory, and myth intertwine.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Text-Based 13%, Horror 11.6%
- #27 Choice of Alexandria
81% matchVery Positive95% of 79 reviews2016
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Can your steam-powered inventions save the ancient Library of Alexandria? Will you sacrifice the library to protect the city? Or the future king instead?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 39.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Text-Based 21.4%, Adventure 10.8%, Indie 5.9%
- #28 怪異番号~20✕✕(ニーマルバツバツ)~
77% matchVery Positive96% of 100 reviews2026
Dev: EBA GAME
Windows
A mysterious phone number on a park restroom wall leads to an unknown “voice,” quietly awakening the town’s hidden apparitions. This is a horror text adventure with no jump scares—no loud noises or grotesque surprises—designed for a safe and tension-focused experience.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 37.8%, Text-Based 24.3%, Horror 19.6%, Dark 8.5%, Adventure 5.8%
- #29 The Silent Bells
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DeadEnd Games
Windows
Dive into the eerie realms of "The Silent Bells" a spine-chilling horror anthology video game. Unearth four haunting stories, each woven from the threads of internet horror and creepypastas. Brace yourself, for every silent bell tolls the arrival of a new nightmare.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Psychological 11.5%, Horror 11.3%
- #30 A Hundred Light Years
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Green Apple Tree Games
Windows
A text-based space survival game inspired by The Oregon Trail. Lead your family 100 light-years across deep space to a distant colony. Every choice matters. Not everyone makes it. Some things out there are worse than death.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29%, Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Text-Based 14.9%, Adventure 9%, Horror 8.6%
- #31 Doppelganger
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Omotenashi Games
Windows
Yukari Niijima, a girl leading a mundane life, finds herself plagued by nightly nightmares filled with puzzles, keys, and eerie creatures, disrupting her usual routine of work and subway rides.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Psychological Horror 17%, Text-Based 12.8%, Horror 12.1%
- #32 Trapped with Jester
76% matchVery Positive94% of 1,595 reviews2022
Dev: AntaPub: Neoclassic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
An unusual horror-themed Visual Novel about waking up in a carriage with a stranger… Whatever could go wrong?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Text-Based 13.2%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Horror 9.8%
- #33 Before They Catch Us
74% matchPositive86% of 20 reviews2025
Dev: ANTertainment
Windows · Linux
A dark text-based RPG set in a world gripped by a restless race for survival against a merciless mushroom Forest. As a prophet’s apprentice, guide your clan along the knife-edge between life and oblivion. Decipher misty visions, make critical decisions, and do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Text-Based 13.3%, Psychological 11.7%, Psychological Horror 8.1%
- #34 Mass of Consumption
75% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Wayward Woyrm Games
Windows
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36%, Interactive Fiction 29.1%, Horror 19.8%, Text-Based 12.8%, Indie 1.8%
- #35 The Nascent Necromancer
75% matchMixed60% of 15 reviews2023
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
When you're falsely accused of sorcery, corrupt inquisitors make you the object of a witch hunt. Now, sorcery might be the only way for you to survive.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.7%, Interactive Fiction 29.4%, Text-Based 21.9%, Dark Fantasy 5.7%, Horror 5.6%
- #36 Subway: 0% Escape
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio51 Inc.Pub: Voltage Inc.
Windows
With over 2 million downloads, this smash-hit suspense visual novel arrives on PC! Your choices determine the fate of 14 passengers trapped on a runaway subway train. With a killer in your midst, can you survive the paranoia and escape? Play the complete edition uninterrupted!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.2%, Interactive Fiction 30.9%, Adventure 10.3%, Anime 10%, Horror 9.7%
- #37 Love Potions Suck: A Text Romance
73% match3 user reviews75% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Grumpo Games
Windows
A funny, emotional text-based romance where your awkward crush meets accidental magic. Make branching choices, build relationships, and maybe ruin Valentine’s Day with a love potion that definitely shouldn’t have worked.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 42.4%, Interactive Fiction 31.6%, Text-Based 22.9%, Indie 2.2%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #38 Cooking Companions: Appetizer Edition
74% matchVery Positive88% of 399 reviews2020
Dev: Deer Dream Studios
Windows
Cabbage and the Chompettes want to play hide and seek! Can you find all five of them?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Horror 13.5%, Cute 11.1%
- #39 Whispers From The Rift
72% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Interdimensional Games Inc
Windows
A choose-your-own-adventure novel. Enter the mind of a black-ops team leader heading an impossible mission in a parallel universe. Choices are remembered, story events reflect past decisions, and freely rewind time to try different paths.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 35.5%, Interactive Fiction 29.1%, Text-Based 19.4%, Horror 15.6%, Singleplayer 0.3%
- #40 Hydrangea
72% matchVery Positive92% of 143 reviews2024
Dev: Meiri Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A yandere psychological horror visual novel. Choose a sweetheart to romance, but beware the petals of obsession.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.6%, Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Psychological 10.7%, Cute 9.5%, Psychological Horror 9.1%
- #41 Mutual Harrow
70% matchPositive94% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: VAINSANE
Windows · Mac · Linux
Guide Mina and Rex through a dark and intense psychological visual novel of trauma, love, and insecurity... Traverse Section 56’s dangers, confront the past, and shape their fate.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Psychological Horror 16.8%, Psychological 14.2%, Horror 14%
- #42 Flora Parasocial
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Laments_VN
Windows
Audiences connect to their favorite celebrities all the time. How does it affect these people when put into a game of life or death? Only time will tell.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.8%, Interactive Fiction 27%, Horror 12.5%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Text-Based 9.4%
- #43 Saint Maker - Horror Visual Novel
71% matchVery Positive86% of 267 reviews2023
Dev: Yangyang MobilePub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac
A haunted convent. Statues that move on their own. A buried past. Welcome to Saint Idelora’s convent, where becoming a saint comes with a price.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Horror 15.4%, Anime 7.8%
- #44 Storm the Swan - And the Power of FRIENDSHIP and IMAGINATION
70% matchVery Positive99% of 83 reviews2024
Dev: CatTrigger
Windows · Mac · Linux
Make Cute Animal Friends in this 8-bit Gameboy-inspired adventure! But there's something lurking in the woods, with DARK SECRETS you'll need to uncover!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Horror 14.3%, Cute 8.4%
- #45 BAD END
73% matchVery Positive83% of 398 reviews2015
Dev: Arai Koh Create OfficePub: YOX-Project
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
It's rumored that those who play 'BAD END'- a Visual Novel will die in REAL LIFE if they make the wrong decision in the game itself.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Horror 14.7%, Anime 10.6%, Psychological 7.6%
- #46 The Lighthouse of Black Salt
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Light Source
Windows
A dark gamebook-inspired RPG where your choices, luck, and blade decide what the sea keeps. Climb a cursed lighthouse and uncover the name buried beneath the bell.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.5%, Interactive Fiction 25.2%, Text-Based 18.7%, Dark Fantasy 8.9%, Adventure 6.3%
- #47 Oremus
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Narkhos & Stormi
Windows · Linux
This text adventure, beautifully illustrated in pixel art, invites you to explore a medieval abbey filled with secrets. You take full control by entering commands directly on your keyboard through a flexible command parser, allowing for free and immersive interaction.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 38.2%, Interactive Fiction 28.9%, Text-Based 19.4%, Adventure 5.8%, Pixel Graphics 4.6%
- #48 Everyday Devil
67% matchVery Positive96% of 326 reviews2026
Dev: alleesaur
Windows
A short, linear story game of a random demon guy's life.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.6%, Text-Based 17.7%, Psychological Horror 17.6%, Psychological 10.3%, Horror 10.3%
- #49 How to #### a Man
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Monstrr
Windows · Mac · Linux
Axelle spends most of her life inside her room : watching anime, scrolling on forums online and playing video games. She desperately wants a boyfriend. You are her conscience, help her attain that goal.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.4%, Interactive Fiction 27.1%, Psychological Horror 10%, Horror 9.5%, Text-Based 9.3%
- #50 Affairs of the Court: Choice of Romance
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 75 reviews2016
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Plunge into court politics and change the course of history, or pursue a love affair that rocks the kingdom to its foundations!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 37.3%, Interactive Fiction 27.2%, Text-Based 22.8%, Adventure 7.8%, Indie 4.8%
- #51 Throne of Blood
67% matchPositive80% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Celestial power thrums in your veins, Hell’s throne calls, and demons conspire. Will you ascend as savior, tyrant, or something in between? A text-based horror novel, 295,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.8%, Interactive Fiction 28%, Text-Based 21%, Horror 8.7%, Dark 6.4%
- #52 異界ノ宿帳
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Frontier Works Inc.
Windows
忘れられたモノが流れ着く異界の温泉宿を舞台にした温泉ホラーシミュレーション。昼はケガレを抱えた付喪神たちをもてなし、夜は宿に溢れたケガレが引き起こす怪奇から生き延びる。あなたの選択が、客の癒しと宿の運命を変えていく。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Psychological Horror 16.7%, Horror 15.8%, Psychological 15.4%, Cute 7.8%
- #53 Penrose
68% matchPositive83% of 36 reviews2023
Dev: doublespeak games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.2%, Interactive Fiction 26.8%, Text-Based 20.7%, Psychological 9.6%, Psychological Horror 9.2%
- #54 Awakewood
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: NeuroCreativa
Windows · Mac · Linux
Will returns to bury his mother and leave right away, but everything changes when he finds a stranger in the woods. As the house decays and roots swallow everything, saving her comes with an irreversible cost: uncovering a truth hidden in Awakewood for ten years.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.7%, Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Adventure 9.3%, Text-Based 8.5%, Anime 7.8%
- #55 Contra Spem Spero
66% matchPositive92% of 25 reviews2025
Dev: DADZINGO
Windows · Linux
Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Horror 17%, Text-Based 8.3%
- #56 Bootlegger: Moonshine Empire
67% matchPositive81% of 21 reviews2024
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Make your name as a whiskey-runner, a politician, or a gangster as you quench thirsts from rural Pennsylvania to the New York City nightlife!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 35.8%, Interactive Fiction 34.9%, Text-Based 23.2%, Adventure 3.4%, Indie 2%
- #57 What Is Sleeping In My Room?
68% match7 user reviews88% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: CousinCatnip
Windows
Experience the hunt for the Monster living in your room in this Visual Novel experience. Your choices will determine the fate of both you and the Monster. Will you figure out what the Monster really is?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.2%, Interactive Fiction 28.1%, Text-Based 20.5%, Horror 13.5%, Psychological 4.5%
- #58 Four Nights at Yuki's -Yotsuya no Yuki-
65% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Sibyl Networks
Windows
A pure romance horror action novel between you and the yokai "Yuki." Can you survive four nights and claim a future together with her──?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Horror 8.3%, Anime 7.7%