60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Choices Matter, Visual Novel, Interactive Fiction, Text-Based.
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.
The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
A narrative-driven psychological visual novel where every floor of an elevator reveals a key moment from your past. Face your regrets, uncover forgotten memories, and make choices that shape your future. Will you find closure, or remain trapped in your own mind?
The Zoo
You've had the same dream all week: a school field trip to a zoo you can't leave, where the lions always find you in the end. Wander the zoo exhibits, make your choices, and search for the way out. A short, hand-painted interactive story about a recurring dream, and finally resolving it.
A narrative-driven psychological visual novel where every floor of an elevator reveals a key moment from your past. Face your regrets, uncover forgotten memories, and make choices that shape your future. Will you find closure, or remain trapped in your own mind?
Why similar: Text-Based 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.7%
You've had the same dream all week: a school field trip to a zoo you can't leave, where the lions always find you in the end. Wander the zoo exhibits, make your choices, and search for the way out. A short, hand-painted interactive story about a recurring dream, and finally resolving it.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Text-Based 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
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 20.3%, Visual Novel 19%, Text-Based 17.3%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Choices Matter 9.7%
Your job is to make humanity happy. Observe the people living in your assigned district and make the best choices to ensure everyone's happiness.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Text-Based 20.4%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
It's the night of the big ball, and things are going...well...they're going. When so many people of so many different species are gathered together in one place, you're sure to have an interesting time. But what if something a little more malicious is happening under the surface?
Why similar: Philosophical 19.7%, Text-Based 15.8%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
Awake from your slumber and venture out to the mighty CITADEL.
Why similar: Philosophical 23.4%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Text-Based 11%, Choices Matter 9.9%
Relive the same day without remembering it. Your choices feed four inner alter egos (Shadow, Mad, Alex, and Bully) — shaping reality, glitches, and one of 16 possible endings. The day repeats. Your mind doesn’t. Or does it?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Text-Based 13.7%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
"Life sometimes feels like it’s going in circles." Little Girl On Earth Asking Why She Asking Why is a short pixel art Visual Novel about a girl who tell herself this, forever. Maybe you can try to help her ?
Why similar: Philosophical 20.1%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Text-Based 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
A visual novel with multiple endings
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18%, Text-Based 17.5%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Philosophical 13.3%, Stylized 9.7%
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: Text-Based 15.8%, Philosophical 14.5%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Psychedelic 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
The frontier does not want to be settled. A narrative highly replayable story game where your choices build a settlement, shape its story, and seal its fate. Every run ends. Every obituary tells a story only you lived.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Text-Based 15.4%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Philosophical 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%
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: Philosophical 15.7%, Experimental 15.3%, Text-Based 12.4%, Psychedelic 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.3%
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Text-Based 20.8%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Choices Matter 8.8%
Play as a Duskweaver in this short "choices matter" story about self-sacrifice.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Philosophical 15.5%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Multiple Endings 13.6%
Decide the fate of the son of a tailor and a witch doctor infected with an incurable disease in an interactive story with multiple endings depending on your actions.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Text-Based 14.9%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.7%
A pixelated homage to 16-bit RPGs, this former print-and-play card game has come full circle as a digital experience! Choose your champion, enter the tower, and make wise decisions on your ascent to face the Ice Lich at the top.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
An interactive graphic novel reimagining Cervantes' masterpiece in striking neo-noir style. Guide Don Quixote through La Mancha, make choices that shape his journey, and discover four unique endings in this tragicomic tale of idealism and madness.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Philosophical 12.8%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
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 16%, Experimental 15.3%, Text-Based 14.9%, Philosophical 14%, Visual Novel 11.5%
Betrayed in the Amazon, an elite Korean special forces commander crosses into a brutal fantasy world and rises as a lord. A dark military-fantasy visual novel with choices, light progression, and conquest.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.2%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Adventure 11.7%, Text-Based 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%
P.I.G.E.O.N. is a short surrealist visual novel RPG in which you become a pigeon, armed with a camera, sent to spy. You will have to make choices, but you won't always be able to make a choice.
Why similar: Philosophical 14.8%, Text-Based 14.3%, Experimental 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.3%
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: Text-Based 16.8%, Philosophical 16.4%, Psychedelic 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.3%
This game is an experimental stream-of-consciousness visual novel. It tells the story of you and an amnesiac girl exploring, wandering, traveling, singing, dancing, laughing, crying, loving, and embracing in an empty city.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Philosophical 16%, Psychedelic 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
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: Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Visual Novel 21.6%, Choices Matter 15%, Multiple Endings 14%, Adventure 12.2%
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%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Text-Based 17.7%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
You are a protest organiser, coordinating the crowd outside your window. When the police move in on your position you have to decide whether to tell the protestors to hold the line or pull back.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Text-Based 16.4%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Philosophical 12.9%, Choices Matter 10%
A short, twisted tale about a smuggler and a late night encounter in the English Channel. Control the camera and make tough choices, will you escape with your life?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Philosophical 15.8%, Text-Based 15.6%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Choices Matter 9.6%
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: Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Philosophical 15.5%, Text-Based 15.4%, Psychedelic 14.6%, Visual Novel 13.6%
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Choices Matter 20.7%, Text-Based 17%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
A science fiction visual novel. Deep beneath the surface of Mars lies a secret that will change everything. Six researchers. One rift. No one will return the same.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.6%
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 33.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Visual Novel 8.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.1%, Choices Matter 7.5%
Chronicles of Humanity is an expanding anthology of historical visual novels. Enter different eras, weigh conflicting testimony under political and personal pressure, and shape who is protected, what is recorded, and how each life is remembered. Complete stories are released as separate DLC.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.5%, Text-Based 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Choices Matter 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: Text-Based 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Text-Based 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Choices Matter 10.3%
Choose, explore, interact, fight, solve, gather, trade! Rise to rebel in this immersive text-based fantasy story that seamlessly merges the best elements of RPGs, choose-your-own-adventure stories, visual novels, and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
Horny Academy is an adult visual novel that blends interactive storytelling with a deep, branching narrative. Every choice you make leads to steamy animated scenes or unexpected twists within the mysterious walls of the magical Academy
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.2%, Text-Based 19.1%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
Fears are not always just rustles in the dark. And death is not always a bad ending.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Text-Based 16.5%, Psychedelic 13.8%, Adventure 10.5%
In this dark interactive novel you will play as a lost soul wandering a forsaken desert, accompanied by a mysterious girl. Explore ancient ruins and face obscure choices. Your decisions will shape their journey—often in ways you’ll never fully understand. Will you find peace, or something else?
Why similar: Philosophical 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.7%
Play as Elise Berrie, a tightrope walker marked by a broken past. As she infiltrates the enigmatic Circus of the Moon, she discovers that beneath its magic lie unsettling secrets. Between performances and haunting dreams, every step may bring her closer to the truth… or make her disappear.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Text-Based 12.3%
Tayke Me With You is a visual novel about high school seniors and their struggles with each other and the world around them. You play as Gene, a sheltered, socially naive human from the city as he acclimates to living in a rural town filled with dinosaurs, finding friends (and love) along the way.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.6%, Text-Based 18.4%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Multiple Endings 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%
Dive into a captivating standalone story in just an hour! Presenting the first installment of the "Handy Novel" series. Highly praised on smartphones, this acclaimed narrative is now ready for your enjoyment on Steam for PC/Mac!
Why similar: Text-Based 25.5%, Visual Novel 22.1%, Adventure 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
The president trusts you. Exercise your Shamanic capabilities (or lack thereof). But don't get caught!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Text-Based 15.8%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Multiple Endings 11.7%
A text-based RPG with a nonlinear story set in a free Slavic fantasy world. Shape the heroine's character through your choices and unlock multiple endings. Mystery, folklore, and relationships — your fate depends only on you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Text-Based 21.7%, Visual Novel 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Adventure 6.7%
Constantinople, 1453. Four witnesses — a janissary, a baker's daughter, an engineer, a noble — live the same 53 days of the siege. Choices cross between their stories, and the city remembers. An illustrated, choice-driven historical novel where every ending is someone's truth.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22%, Text-Based 20.2%, Visual Novel 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Choices Matter 8.6%
An existential drama in handmade clay animation. Game writer Eric is replaced by AI. He loses everything, and it's the best thing that's ever happened to him.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.6%, Philosophical 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Experimental 11%
Morin is a barkeeper with an unusual curse. All people look like shadows to him, except for one mysterious stranger... Solve the mystery of the curse, fight true darkness and mix the most unusual cocktails in the atmospheric visual novel — Into the Waves!
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Multiple Endings 14.4%, Text-Based 14%, Choices Matter 10.5%
Driving home late one night you encounter a refugee in distress. They are looking for salvation. Do you hand them over to violent authorities? Or risk sheltering them yourself?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Philosophical 16.1%, Text-Based 15.8%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Choices Matter 9.6%
Set off on an exciting swashbuckling quest in this classic Fantasy Choose Your Own Adventure! Meet charming characters, fight dangerous foes, and uncover a nefarious intrigue. Experience seamless and reactive storytelling. Prove your innocence, find your destiny, relish the journey!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Text-Based 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 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 20.2%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Text-Based 11.7%, Experimental 11.6%
The Last Bastion is a survival-management game where you lead an army of defeated soldiers across a setting inspired by medieval India. Fight overwhelming forces, manage dwindling resources and make choices with devastating consequences in a bitter struggle for survival and salvation.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Text-Based 17.1%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Philosophical 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
A visual novel about the mind, change, and being locked up.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.4%, Text-Based 19.1%, Philosophical 16%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Multiple Endings 14%
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: Text-Based 26.4%, Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%
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: Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Text-Based 23.3%, Visual Novel 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Choices Matter 11.7%
Non-Linear Text Quests is a bundle of text games of various genres. Here you can find interactive stories with branching plots and text-only versions of classic Point & Click quests, where you can communicate with different characters, use your inventory and combine items in various locations.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Experimental 12.1%, Choices Matter 9.3%
Experience the Myth of Frankenstein through the innocent eyes of his creature. Make decisions and change people's view that you will meet on your way. Now, the myth is in your hands, so how are you going to end it?
Why similar: Text-Based 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Choices Matter 10%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
You are a censor in a nameless war, blacking out the letters of two lovers who have never met. Their whole romance lives on paper — so every word you strike is struck from the love itself. Then the letters begin, impossibly, to answer your pen. A melancholy epistolary romance. Six endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.2%, Text-Based 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
This is a psychological horror visual novel game. You wake up in an eerie old hotel with no memory. You need to meet bizarre characters and recover lost memories. There are 20 endings. Pixel art, desaturated tones, dreamlike dread. Horror comes from existential self-reflection, not jump scares.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Philosophical 23.3%, Visual Novel 19%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Multiple Endings 7.7%
"What music would you listen to at the end of the world?" Explore an abandoned world after the apocalypse of the final winter. Shape the story of a man whose loneliness threatens his sanity. Use violence to survive or avoid it to protect your mind. Experience the end of the world!
Why similar: Text-Based 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Multiple Endings 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
The Last Station is a visual novel. It's loneliness. This is the absence of a second attempt. It's the lack of happy endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.3%, Text-Based 16.4%, Psychedelic 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Philosophical 10.2%
A story-driven mystery visual novel set in a remote island village. Gather clues through conversations and exploration, and uncover hidden truths through branching routes and multiple endings amid the tense, claustrophobic atmosphere.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.4%
is a short, interactive experience about those endless, looping fever dreams you get when you're sick.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Philosophical 14.3%, Experimental 12.8%
