60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Choose Your Own Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Adventure, Text-Based.
Try again, as many times as it takes, to change the ending. You might be able to save everyone you couldn’t before. • Indie horror game • Playtime: approx. 2 hours • Graphics, dialogue, and the feel of the world change with each playthrough • Contains heavy themes
The Peresmeshnik
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.
CLOSED HANDS
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.
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 29.1%, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Text-Based 19.3%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, Horror 9.5%
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 32.6%, Interactive Fiction 32.5%, Text-Based 21.3%, Adventure 10.6%, Indie 2.2%
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 37.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 31.4%, Text-Based 8.4%, Psychological 8.4%, Psychological Horror 5.7%
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 26.6%, Text-Based 25.8%, Adventure 5%, Indie 3.2%
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 23.3%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Horror 11.5%, Dark Fantasy 7.6%
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%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Horror 16.6%, Psychological 10.5%
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 8.9%, Psychological Horror 8.7%, Cute 8.5%
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 38.6%, Interactive Fiction 26.1%, Text-Based 22.3%, Adventure 7.9%, Indie 5.1%
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 27.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.3%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Horror 10%, Adventure 8.5%
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 31.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.7%, Horror 16.2%, Text-Based 9.7%, Adventure 6.9%
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 46.3%, Text-Based 28.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Indie 4.2%
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%, Interactive Fiction 30.8%, Text-Based 20.7%, Adventure 6.7%, Singleplayer 0.8%
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 40.1%, Interactive Fiction 24%, Text-Based 20.9%, Adventure 9.3%, Indie 5.7%
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 36.2%, Text-Based 26.8%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Adventure 10.2%, Indie 5.8%
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: Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Psychological Horror 18.3%, Text-Based 16.3%, Adventure 9.8%
Vanakan is the journey of Tadevos - a priest, who travels the 500s Armenia to find the monastery that suits for his goal of becoming spiritually closer to Jesus Christ. He meets different people on his way and makes choices which will define his future and that of the country.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.8%, Interactive Fiction 33.5%, Text-Based 20.2%, Adventure 10.9%, Singleplayer 0.6%
“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 14.9%, Adventure 14.4%, Horror 13.6%
An ordinary commute becomes a moral crucible in Monar 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 18.2%, Psychological Horror 17.1%, Horror 13.6%, Adventure 6%
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 44.5%, Text-Based 22%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Adventure 9.3%, Indie 5.8%
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 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Text-Based 14%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Horror 11.5%
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 13.2%, Horror 11.5%
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 28%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28%, Text-Based 17.9%, Psychological 11.4%, Adventure 8.8%
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 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Psychological Horror 17%, Text-Based 12.9%, Horror 12%
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 37.7%, Text-Based 24.6%, Horror 19.5%, Dark 8.6%, Adventure 5.6%
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%, Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Psychological 11.6%, Horror 11.3%
Morhval: Ravenglaire is a dark fantasy text RPG about survival, choice and consequence. Create your character, explore a fractured province, fight turn-based battles, pass skill checks, help the desperate or abandon them, and decide who deserves to survive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.1%, Text-Based 23%, Dark Fantasy 12.5%, Indie 2.2%
Navigate school life, build friendships, survive rumours, and climb the social ladder through natural conversations with students who remember your choices. Every interaction shapes your reputation in this AI-powered social simulation.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 38.1%, Interactive Fiction 35.9%, Text-Based 14.7%, Adventure 8.4%, Indie 2.3%
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 19.9%, Text-Based 13.3%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Horror 9.6%
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 29.6%, Interactive Fiction 29.3%, Text-Based 22.1%, Dark Fantasy 5.8%, Horror 5.6%
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 35.9%, Interactive Fiction 29.1%, Horror 19.7%, Text-Based 13%, Indie 1.9%
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 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Text-Based 13.4%, Psychological 11.8%, Psychological Horror 8.1%
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 42.2%, Interactive Fiction 31.6%, Text-Based 23.1%, Indie 2.2%, Singleplayer 0.8%
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 13.4%, Cute 11.1%
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 35.4%, Interactive Fiction 29.1%, Text-Based 19.6%, Horror 15.5%, Singleplayer 0.4%
A yandere psychological horror visual novel. Choose a sweetheart to romance, but beware the petals of obsession.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.5%, Interactive Fiction 25.2%, Psychological 10.8%, Cute 9.5%, Psychological Horror 9.1%
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 34.7%, Interactive Fiction 27.1%, Horror 12.4%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Text-Based 9.5%
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 19.2%, Psychological Horror 16.8%, Psychological 14.3%, Horror 13.9%
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 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Horror 15.4%, Anime 7.7%
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 21%, Horror 14.6%, Anime 10.5%, Psychological 7.7%
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 38.1%, Interactive Fiction 28.9%, Text-Based 19.6%, Adventure 5.7%, Pixel Graphics 4.6%
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 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Horror 14.2%, Cute 8.4%
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 37.2%, Interactive Fiction 27.3%, Text-Based 23.1%, Adventure 7.6%, Indie 4.9%
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 32.4%, Interactive Fiction 25.2%, Text-Based 18.9%, Dark Fantasy 9%, Adventure 6.2%
In an abandoned bathroom waits a hungry female mouth; wet, eager, and downright sinister. Dare to feed it? — SHORT NAUGHTY SPOOKY VISUAL NOVEL · 26k words · 12 endings (in some you might even survive).
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Text-Based 13.2%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Horror 10.4%
A short, linear story game of a random demon guy's life.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.3%, Text-Based 18%, Psychological Horror 17.4%, Psychological 10.4%, Horror 10.3%
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 30.7%, Interactive Fiction 28%, Text-Based 21.3%, Horror 8.7%, Dark 6.4%
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%, Interactive Fiction 26.8%, Text-Based 20.9%, Psychological 9.7%, Psychological Horror 9.2%
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 27.6%, Interactive Fiction 27.4%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Text-Based 9.6%, Horror 9.2%
After your mother’s strange funeral, a black rain blocks the roads and leaves you stranded. The air smells like rotting fruit and nature begins to mutate. Can you get out of here before the forest finds you?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.6%, Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Adventure 9.1%, Text-Based 8.6%, Anime 7.8%
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 35.6%, Interactive Fiction 34.9%, Text-Based 23.4%, Adventure 3.3%, Indie 2%
Interactive teen supernatural mystery! You and your friends have developed magical psychic powers. Solve the case, save your school, find a date for prom!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.8%, Text-Based 31%, Interactive Fiction 28.1%, Indie 6.2%
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 33.1%, Interactive Fiction 28%, Text-Based 20.7%, Horror 13.4%, Psychological 4.6%
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 30.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Psychological Horror 17.3%, Horror 17%, Text-Based 8.4%
A directionless night-shift worker clings to a dying MMORPG, a legendary White Unicorn mount, and the belief that old games are more "real" in this short psychological horror visual novel about escapism and being left behind.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32%, Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Psychological Horror 16.6%, Horror 9%, Anime 8.2%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.2%, Interactive Fiction 32.8%, Psychological 13.9%, Text-Based 9.9%, Adventure 4.9%
This 2D psychological horror game traps you in a pastel-pink doll museum, where you help Valentine to survive the cruel Doll Queen!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Text-Based 13.9%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Psychological 12%, Cute 10.1%
In an AI-powered age where original authors have become largely redundant, play as a dejected writer on the brink of losing their creative drive forever.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Text-Based 20.1%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Psychological 14.6%, Horror 14.6%
Vacation Terminal is a short 2D Psychological thriller, horror and survival based visual novel with evading based puzzle elements. Following the story of two strangers.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.7%, Interactive Fiction 29.6%, Adventure 9.3%, Psychological Horror 9.2%, Horror 8.4%
Take the Watson-Scott personality test and discover your deepest and darkest fears. 30 multiple-choice questions will tell you if you're more afraid of clowns, snakes, or something more sinister...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.3%, Psychological Horror 25.2%, Text-Based 24.2%, Horror 18.1%, Indie 4.2%
