60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Psychedelic, Psychological, Philosophical, Interactive Fiction.
Experience a unique adventure by getting drugs and consuming them in a +70,000 word visualised text game. Explore a hub connecting a variety of locations. Engage in dialogues and read books. Choose different paths to develop several independent storylines in non-linear chronology.
Snowfall's Mystery
A psychological interactive novel about a floppy disk with a mysterious program. Help Elliot cope with his mental issues and uncover the secret of the floppy disk.
Road to Karatl
On the road to the sacred shrine of Karatl, lost souls entrust you with their stories. In this contemplative Visual Novel, listen to their truths and perhaps, at the journey's end, you will discover your own.
A psychological interactive novel about a floppy disk with a mysterious program. Help Elliot cope with his mental issues and uncover the secret of the floppy disk.
Why similar: Psychedelic 25.2%, Philosophical 17.5%, Text-Based 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Psychological 12.9%
On the road to the sacred shrine of Karatl, lost souls entrust you with their stories. In this contemplative Visual Novel, listen to their truths and perhaps, at the journey's end, you will discover your own.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Text-Based 21.2%, Psychedelic 19.1%, Philosophical 16.2%, Experimental 8.3% ★
Humanity has perished. You are an AI incapable of self-termination, sailing into the void. Trapped in terminal wakefulness, chew on your own endless, redundant processing power and face the ultimate decay of the universe alone.
Why similar: Psychedelic 33%, Philosophical 28.1%, Psychological 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Atmospheric 4.4%
Live through the last ten minutes of Juan Fuentes, who has been given the chance to choose his very last words. Captured by Victoriano Huerta's army after the Ten Tragic Days during the Mexican Revolution, Juan will confront his life, death, family, relationships and existence.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Text-Based 22.3%, Philosophical 21.9%, Psychological 13.8%, Experimental 8.3% ★
A blind guy with a ghost in his brain tries to save a cursed girl. Naturally, it all goes to hell. A visual novel packed with dark humor, gritty mysticism, violence, and characters who know exactly who’s watching them.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.5%, Psychedelic 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Experimental 16.4% ★, Psychological 9.5%
You find yourself in a singularity with Death itself. With few chances to speak with the living, Death proposes a little game. Do you dive deep within yourself to indulge this cosmic guide and find out when you will meet again on official business? The Ultimate Death Clock awaits!
Why similar: Philosophical 20.4%, Psychedelic 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Psychological 15%, Text-Based 14.6%
An interactive ordeal about blacking out in a dive bar and then trying to piece back your understanding of existence. It's gonna get a lot worse before it gets less worse.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Psychedelic 17.8%, Psychological 17%, Philosophical 15.5%, Dark Humor 14%
When a mysterious package appears in his living room, Detective Walter Miles is suddenly transported to a World War II Era newspaper building. Can you solve the mystery and escape?
Why similar: Psychedelic 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Aliens 18.3%, Dark Humor 11%, Philosophical 10.8%
Awake from your slumber and venture out to the mighty CITADEL.
Why similar: Philosophical 29.6%, Psychedelic 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Text-Based 13.1%, Story Rich 9.2%
A short psychedelic trip: the passage of time in Central Sisatsophy.
Why similar: Psychedelic 39%, Philosophical 25.3%, Dark Humor 18.5%, Psychological 15.5%, Indie 1%
Bit-Broken Identity is a psychological horror visual novel about escaping reality. A tempting part-time job. Just submit a form. W̸͖͋̈́ḩ̴̮̹̟͛a̶̳͊̒̒̎t̷̜͆ ̷̎́̂͋͜c̶̫̈̈́ǫ̵̔̐̔͝ṳ̸͎́l̵͕̃́̀d̶̯̔̀͠ ̵̻̀g̴͕̯͋̒̕ͅo̵̥͉̺͐͊ ̷͍͖͚̒ẁ̶͎̫̿͘ŕ̴͎̉̏̔ö̶̹́̓ǹ̴͕̌̓͘g̸̼̹̈́͊͝?̸̢̛̭̟͂ 🎣 👁️
Why similar: Psychedelic 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Philosophical 15.8%, Text-Based 15.2%, Violent 9.7%
KARMA: The Dark World is a first-person cinematic psychological thriller set in a dystopian world where the Leviathan Corporation is omnipresent. The year is 1984, the place is East Germany, and things are not quite what they seem.
Why similar: Psychedelic 23.7%, Philosophical 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Psychological 12.5%, Experimental 12.3% ★
Experience a 'painfully human', 'psychological' narrative through dreams and allegory. Live in a flat. Buy things. Use things. Tire yourself out. Sleep. Dream. Wake up. Repeat. And maybe, just maybe, find a Bear in a Pit. What could be scarier than the Bear? Find out.
Why similar: Experience 26.8% ★, Philosophical 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Psychological 15.2%, Experimental 12.2% ★
This is a story with illustrations. You have to choose your destiny. You are obsessed with the idea of creating an ideal society. One day you come up with a genius idea, and you create a society that could live forever, BUT HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE!!?
Why similar: Psychedelic 26.1%, Philosophical 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Text-Based 15.2%, Psychological 8.5%
A surrealist indie first-person adventure game based on art and derealization. Explore the idea of a mind losing its grasp with reality, as reality turns into a dream, and that dream turns into a nightmare.
Why similar: Psychedelic 26.4%, Philosophical 18.8%, Psychological 13.3%, Experimental 13.1% ★, Dark Humor 12.8%
A short visual novel about finding your name and a girl in the fog.
Why similar: Psychedelic 31.2%, Text-Based 19.6%, Experimental 17.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Story Rich 7.2%
Play as a Duskweaver in this short "choices matter" story about self-sacrifice.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.5%, Text-Based 25.5%, Philosophical 20.2%, Psychological 12.7%, Story Rich 9.2%
Chasing colors in the void. A game we made to Zen you.
Why similar: Experience 28% ★, Psychedelic 27.3%, Philosophical 20%, Experimental 14.1% ★, Atmospheric 3.9%
You're fired! Who needs game writers when AI can do the job? …What? You want to join the Resistance? Don't make me laugh — that's just an urban legend!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Philosophical 23.7%, Psychedelic 17.1%, Psychological 14.1%, Dark Humor 12.7%
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: Text-Based 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Psychedelic 22%, Psychological 18.3%, Story Rich 8.8%
Board the Trans-Siberian railroad and travel 9,289 km from Moscow to Vladivostok. Clash with a vibrant culture as you meet people as strange to you as you are to them. Journey into a standalone Wanderlust adventure from the makers of The Witcher.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Experience 18.5% ★, Text-Based 16.1%, Philosophical 16.1%, Experimental 13.8% ★
Two small experimental games made as part of a one-week game workshop in Zagreb, Croatia, as part of a project called "Interactive Empathy - Citizenship & Storytelling in Video Games". Inside is also a documentary video about the workshop, as well as a booklet about the whole project.
Why similar: Psychedelic 26.1%, Philosophical 20.6%, Experimental 16% ★, Text-Based 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%
Crawl through the darkness in this psychological horror visual novel with multiple endings, where you will traverse a surreal nightmare as you choose your own path and explore strange spaces in an attempt to wake up, if you can...
Why similar: Psychedelic 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Text-Based 14.1%, Experimental 13.9% ★, Philosophical 13.9%
Ordinary life shattered when a riverside drowning and spatial anomalies pulled you into a vortex. In this rain-lashed town of crumbling reality. Truth hides in every raindrop and shadow.
Why similar: Text-Based 33%, Philosophical 30.6%, Psychological 18.7%, Gore 8%, Violent 7.3%
Help out a highschool girl as she explores the wonders of social media for the first time, as well as the dangers.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.1%, Psychedelic 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Psychological 15.8%, Philosophical 12.7%
A haiku platformer. It's short and vague.
Why similar: Experience 30% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Experimental 14.7% ★, Psychological 14%, Dark Humor 12.1%
It's a winter night. You are coming home by train. You have to change trains at a small train station in the middle of the forest.It's not the first time you've traveled this route. But now you feel like something is different.As if something was watching you.
Why similar: Psychedelic 31.5%, Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Philosophical 20%, Text-Based 18.8%, Atmospheric 3%
I found myself at the station. The story unfolds as you type commands on your keyboard. As the days repeat, I keep wondering what I can do for her. A command-driven adventure steeped in nostalgic pixel art and sound.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 48.3%, Text-Based 39.6%, Atmospheric 6.7%, Pixel Graphics 5.3%
A dark comedy visual novel with elements of psychological horror. Stepashka — not just the name of the protagonist, but a whole way of life... But is it a life sentence? That’s exactly what the player will have to decide!
Why similar: Psychedelic 38.6%, Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Psychological 15.5%, Text-Based 8.7%, Atmospheric 5.9%
A dark visual novel blending psychological horror, surreal storytelling, and chatroom-inspired UI. Navigate intrusive thoughts, branching choices, and dissect a fractured mind in a twisted search for connection and meaning.
Why similar: Psychedelic 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Philosophical 18.3%, Dark Humor 13.5%, Text-Based 12.9%
I have some memories of saying goodbye that I don't want to forget, so I turned them into 11 minigames and backed them up in this collection.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Experience 21.4% ★, Philosophical 14.3%, Experimental 13.1% ★, Psychological 12.1%
The Darkest Emptiness will fill the lungs with leaden weight.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.6%, Psychedelic 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Psychological 14.4%, Story Rich 12%
An interactive horror story based on a reality everyone eventually faces. Make choices to confront someone trying to enter your home - and uncover who they are.
Why similar: Philosophical 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Psychological 15.8%, Text-Based 13.5%, Experimental 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: Philosophical 26%, Psychedelic 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Text-Based 13.4%, Psychological 8.9%
A game about presence.
Why similar: Psychedelic 43.1%, Interactive Fiction 29.2%, Text-Based 17.8%, Story Rich 7.1%, Atmospheric 2.2%
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 52.2%, Text-Based 41.3%, Story Rich 4.3%, Indie 2.3%
Interactive 3d encyclopedia of alien dimensions
Why similar: Psychedelic 30.8%, Interactive Fiction 26.7%, Aliens 21.3%, Philosophical 21%, Singleplayer 0.2%
You've moved to a new house where the previous owner was murdered. They never found his head. But, it has found you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Philosophical 19.8%, Text-Based 19.7%, Experimental 16.1% ★, Psychological 15.1%
AENTITY challenges you as an artist. Leaving my mind behind, the contours of the ego blur. Past the dream wall are no rules to break, there are playful moves to make, veiled visions to wake, unseen pictures to take.
Why similar: Psychedelic 30.5%, Experience 29% ★, Philosophical 21.8%, Experimental 14.6% ★, Atmospheric 4%
❗ EARLY ACCESS ❗ This game is an anthology of visual novels, which includes the “Deep Russian Depression” (pilot chapter) and custom stories from the game community. You can create your own stories as mods for the game and publish them in the Steam Workshop.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Text-Based 19.6%, Philosophical 17.9%, Experimental 17.1% ★, Psychological 16%
What do you play? I play nothing!
Why similar: Psychedelic 34%, Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Philosophical 20.6%, Text-Based 12.8%, Sexual Content 2.9%
Investigate six haunted properties and listen to the voices of spirits trapped in nightmares. Collect fragmented clues and discover the correct combination of names, locations, and vessels. A multi-ending horror adventure where the outcome changes depending on your choices during the ritual.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 51%, Text-Based 44.8%, Singleplayer 2.2%, Indie 2%
An anthology of short indie games with emotional storytelling and simple gameplay. Discover unique experiences, each with distinct art, music, and tone. Perfect for players who enjoy narrative adventures, hidden details, and bite-sized stories.
Why similar: Experience 24.7% ★, Philosophical 19%, Psychological 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Experimental 14.5% ★
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: Psychedelic 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Text-Based 19.3%, Psychological 13.1%, Dark Humor 12.6%
A surreal and quiet horror tale about a murderous little marshmallow who's escaped death row. A mysterious plague that makes people stare at dirt... Creepy love letters trying to win your affection... You may have closed your eyes, but now it's time to feast.
Why similar: Experience 23.1% ★, Psychedelic 22.6%, Experimental 11.7% ★, Gore 11.4%, Psychological 10.8%
This is a reading game that describes internet life. You can push the plot by clicking on different positions on the screen and pass the customs in 30 minutes.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.4%, Text-Based 23.7%, Philosophical 21.4%, Dark Humor 13.1%, Story Rich 6.3%
One-Eyed Likho is a grim first-person horror adventure set in a world inspired by a dark, Slavic fairy tale. Explore an unsettling and twisted land set in 19th-century Russia in your endeavor to escape your own evil fate.
Why similar: Psychedelic 29%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Philosophical 20.4%, Psychological 16.6%, Story Rich 6.3%
A short story about a parasitic sunflower and her loyal son. Eat everything you can. Enjoy the sunshine. Do whatever it takes to make her happy. This is a prequel to Siren's Call: Escape Velocity.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Philosophical 19.8%, Text-Based 19.5%, Experimental 16.7% ★, Psychological 14.9%
Why Do People Want to Die? Why Don't People Want to Die? This is a story about a group of girls in a world that exists in limbo between life and death. Embark on a dramatic real-time tactical adventure.
Why similar: Philosophical 22.4%, Text-Based 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Psychological 15.1%, Dark Humor 14.8%
White room. White light. A white table. And only white intentions. A story that always ends before it begins. But one day the circle will be broken. All you have to do is realise...
Why similar: Psychedelic 32.8%, Text-Based 21.5%, Philosophical 20.9%, Psychological 15.6%, Story Rich 7.2%
You are an insect collector. Wander through old summer memories looking for colors.
Why similar: Experience 30.6% ★, Psychedelic 25.9%, Philosophical 21.6%, Experimental 15.2% ★, Atmospheric 4.6%
It's a short, text-based interactive book with a psychological theme.▶TRIGGER WARNING◀ Contains childhood trauma, suicidal thoughts, and emotional abuse, but ultimately conveys hope and growth.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.9%, Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Psychological 22.9%, Philosophical 22.7%, Indie 2%
A text adventure game about a 19th century explorer who finds himself stranded and alone.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 52.5%, Text-Based 43.3%, Indie 4.2%
Atuel is an award-winning surrealist documentary game in which you explore beautiful, dreamlike landscapes inspired by the topography and wildlife of the Atuel River Valley in Argentina.
Why similar: Psychedelic 26%, Experience 23.7% ★, Philosophical 23.4%, Experimental 12.5% ★, Story Rich 8.8%
In this digital ritual, you will carve sigils into your flesh—quite literally. Take a pen, marker, or anything you can use to write on your skin, and inscribe sigils onto your body, reincarnating the prophet and becoming their vessel. This is an honor unlike any other.
Why similar: Psychedelic 59.4%, Interactive Fiction 31.8%, Experimental 6.7% ★, Indie 1.3%, Singleplayer 0.9%
The story of a girl tossed about in a world where letters rain down.
Why similar: Psychedelic 24.8%, Philosophical 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Text-Based 18.1%, Psychological 14.8%
A short experimental visual novel about obsessive counting.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Experimental 20.6% ★, Psychedelic 20.4%, Text-Based 15.6%, Philosophical 14.1%
Lost Voice is a story-based first-person sci-fi adventure game with strong action elements, puzzles, and unique gameplay mechanics.
Why similar: Philosophical 31.4%, Psychedelic 31.4%, Experimental 21.7% ★, Story Rich 7.2%, Atmospheric 5.6%
A point-and-click interactive fiction game. Navigate cryptic dreams, hide your insanity from your classmates, and try not to break the school computer.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.3%, Text-Based 28.7%, Philosophical 22%, Story Rich 8.7%, Indie 1.6%
Once Home is a 3D interactive horror visual novel of slow dread and haunting beauty. Explore the Hemm residence at your own pace, observing, hovering, and listening to uncover what transpired in the hours before your arrival—when everything began to change.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.1%, Aliens 27.3%, Story Rich 11.8%, Psychological 8.1%, Gore 5.7%
