
A spooky text-based, choose-your-own-adventure style game that tells several spine-chilling tales with several choices and items throughout, these may change your path... Can you uncover the truth?
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A spooky text-based, choose-your-own-adventure style game that tells several spine-chilling tales with several choices and items throughout, these may change your path... Can you uncover the truth?

Awakewood
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?

We Were Here Before
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.
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: Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Point & Click 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Adventure 7.5%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Point & Click 12.4%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Lore-Rich 10.2%
You're an adventurer going into Friscott Castle to see what treasures you can find within. Explore, meet the residents, find treasure & more. Be mindful though, as the castle isn't normal, & there are things about it that might drive a person to madness. That, or it might spell your demise.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Point & Click 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Text-Based 9.1%
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 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Dark 8.5%, Adventure 8.1%
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 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Horror 10.1%
Everyone has secrets at Found Sheep Farm, but it’s so much easier to pretend no one does! Will you pull the wool over your eyes, or will your pursuit of the truth make you the black sheep in this thrilling horror visual novel?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Point & Click 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Lore-Rich 8.5%
Navigate the claustrophobic corridors of a cargo ship and try to survive a night with man-eating tigers on the loose. Your choices will determine who lives and who dies.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Dark 9.1%, Survival Horror 8.8%
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 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Lore-Rich 12.2%, Horror 7.8%
Glitch is an intense and surreal narrative experience, drawn entirely by hand, that will make you question reality with every choice and each of the 26 endings that unlock the special and definitive conclusion!
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Point & Click 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Text-Based 10.7%
A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Point & Click 13.8%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Text-Based 10.7%
Return to a town that never changed… and a friend who's supposed to be dead. A psychological horror visual novel about memory and the cost of refusing to move forward.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Point & Click 17%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Psychological Horror 10.9%
A psychological horror visual novel about Miya, a former prodigy trapped in a decaying home with her unstable stepfather, her talking plush Mopa, and the bystander who hears every step she takes...
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Point & Click 12.6%, Psychological Horror 11%
Play as a farmer who struggles to manage a failing farm. You come to a point where there is no more hope, and you must do something.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Point & Click 11.9%, Dark 11.5%
Alone in the dead of night, you find yourself sent on a simple errand to check on a quiet gas station on the outskirts of town. But nothing here feels right. You can’t outrun this place. It wants you. And it will keep you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Text-Based 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%, Dialogue Heavy 9.5%
Convince the cannibals not to eat you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Visual Novel 13%, Point & Click 11.9%, Psychological Horror 11.3%
This is a retro story game about choices and the voices in your head. Unlock new voices, new thoughts, and new endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Lore-Rich 12.1%, Point & Click 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%
An ill-fated hiking trip spirals into a chilling fight for survival in this interactive psychological horror movie, inspired by centuries-old tales of vengeful spirits from Germany’s Black Forest.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Lore-Rich 11.3%, Point & Click 11.3%, Visual Novel 9.4%
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: Interactive Fiction 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Horror 8.2%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.6%, Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Point & Click 16%, Adventure 6.1%
Uncover the truth behind a broken ritual in Make Moku Proud... a psychological visual novel where guilt and obedience, and what it means to make Moku proud, shape the fate of a witness watching his companions disappear.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Point & Click 12.9%, Psychological Horror 11.7%
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 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Horror 13.2%, Text-Based 9.4%
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 19.9%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Point & Click 12%, Psychological Horror 11.5%
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 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Text-Based 12.1%, Lore-Rich 10%
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 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Point & Click 14.2%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Text-Based 9.8%
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: Interactive Fiction 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Adventure 8.8%, Dark 7.8%
Dive into the shadows of this fairytale-like narrative experience with Birdie, making choices and helping her find freedom and light in the darkness. Love isn't always what it seems.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Point & Click 12.9%, Text-Based 11.5%, Visual Novel 10.3%
A fable from your childhood. Don't you remember it?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Text-Based 11.6%, Dialogue Heavy 8.4%
Adventure as Geralt through the ballads of Dandelion. Swipe right, swipe left, seek glory, find death! Will you hunt monsters, upset the locals, or run a hot bath? Compose an inspiring epic to claim immortality.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Adventure 8.4%, Choices Matter 7.8%
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 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Text-Based 9.4%, Dialogue Heavy 7.3%
Awaken in a world plunged into uncertainty. You must navigate hidden truths and make crucial choices. Will you uncover the secrets of your existence? Your path will determine your fate in this journey.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Visual Novel 19.7%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Choices Matter 7%
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: Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Point & Click 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Survival Horror 10.6%
Interactive fiction, visual novel adventure with point & click controls and AI-assisted illustrations. Explore a dangerous orbital station, an abandoned starship or a mysterious planet in this cyberpunk sci-fi text-based game. And, of course, discover a mystery that has an impact on the galaxy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Point & Click 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Text-Based 13.1%
Am I Nima is a psychological-horror game where you must convince your mom that you really are her daughter. Combine words together in your brain and use them to talk. Get her to trust you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Point & Click 13.1%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 11.2%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Text-Based 14%, Dialogue Heavy 9.4%
Evil Spirits is a nonlinear psychological horror visual novel inspired by Slavic folklore. Uncover the secrets of a forgotten village, trust no one, and remember: true evil sometimes hides not in the shadows of a hut, but in the darkness of the human soul.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Point & Click 14.8%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
The abyss awaits. Descend into a minimalist visual novel about a girl in the future, and guide her through branching conversations, microgames, and explorable locations. Make friends with criminals, drink too much at dinner, or relax in a spa. Whatever happens, it was your choice.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Lore-Rich 13.1%, Text-Based 9%
Play as Erwin, a witch hunter navigating a fantasy world of magic and suspicion. Your decisions in this visual novel affect friendships, trust, and multiple story outcomes. Choose wisely—the fate of your journey rests with you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.6%, Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Choices Matter 6.2%, Dark 6.1%
Killer Night is a psychological survival thriller where a group of death row inmates face extreme trials in an isolated mansion to gain freedom. Among them lies a ruthless killer. Will you be able to discover the killer's identity before it's too late?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Point & Click 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Survival Horror 9.1%, Dark 9%
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: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Lore-Rich 16.3%, Text-Based 14.6%, Visual Novel 13.5%
DATE, FLIRT & SURVIVE in this Retro-Horror Adventure where you date characters based on REAL Computer VIRUSES. Explore and uncover dark secrets behind each character and make choices that will lead to a ❤️SMOOCH❤️ or your DOOM!
Why similar: Point & Click 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Psychological Horror 10%
Your motel is busy for the first time in years. Antsy city-folk and dispossessed teens flood your rooms, and you can barely keep up. Now, after a week of all-nighters spent managing reservations, room service requests, and Yup! reviews, you begin to wonder… could you even fall asleep if you tried?
Why similar: Point & Click 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Dialogue Heavy 10.7%
Watercolors Sink Beneath the Surface is a nostalgic pixel-art point-and-click adventure set on Narumi Island, where only an abandoned high school stands. Years later, two girls return to complete a watercolor inspired by their school memories, gathering ideas from the remnants of the past.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Point & Click 20.9%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Adventure 10.4%, Text-Based 9.8%
Psychological Body Horror visual novel in a space setting with different endings depending on your actions.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Point & Click 14.7%, Horror 10%, Psychological Horror 9.2%
Help Tashia unravel the case of a heinous murder and find her cell phone in this point & click, mystery adventure based on Caribbean folklore!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Point & Click 13.9%, Lore-Rich 12.8%, Visual Novel 11.9%
IBH is a rich role playing game at the end of time. You're a mid-level official in a dying sci-fi regime, given the impossible task of fixing a faltering machine; explore a vast world, define your mind, flex your authority, and become a sinner or a savior in countless other stories.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Lore-Rich 8.5%, Text-Based 7.5%
A psychological horror game about testing dolls and determining if they are Good or Dangerous. Play in a strange location with dolls potentially filled with bloodlust. Uncover secrets about who you are, where you are, and just WHAT is happening.
Why similar: Point & Click 15.2%, Lore-Rich 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Psychological Horror 11.9%
Slice through a collection of HORROR STORIES, produced by a solo dev! Survive through the body horror of health clinics, haunted dating sims, robot takeovers, CORPORATE COMPLIANCE VIDEOS & MORE!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Point & Click 13.2%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Text-Based 9.5%
A 'Choose Your Own Adventure' themed sequel to the free-to-play 'Disturbed'. Your journey begins with Gabriel, a depressed soul who has been banished away on Greyrock Island. Discover an unfolding world as you wander to fulfill the desires of your heart.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Point & Click 16.7%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Text-Based 9.4%, Dark 7.6%
A point-and-click horror/tragedy visual novel about melding your perception of the world around you. Walk around, drive people to their death, and shape Perdita's existence. Remember: The flesh-sin is nothing. Before she can become everything, you must make her into something.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Point & Click 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Horror 8.3%
In Amanda the Adventurer 2, the story continues as Riley encounters a mysterious masked figure after destroying the TV in the attic. Travel to the Kensdale Public Library and dig deeper into the mystery of Amanda the Adventurer.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Point & Click 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Horror 9.6%, Dark 9.4%
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: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Psychological Horror 12%, Horror 10.5%
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Point & Click 14%, Lore-Rich 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.2%
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 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 23%, Text-Based 17.1%, Dark 8.3%, Psychological Horror 8%
You wake up at a terminal you've never seen before. The language is alien. The interface is hostile. Every wrong click has consequences. Decode constructed languages, navigate unfamiliar operating systems, and survive the unknown in this puzzle-survival experience.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.8%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Point & Click 17.2%, Text-Based 10.6%, Exploration 9.9%
Help Nari and Sena make sense of a cringeworthy drink called MINDFUNK that predicts their death. Your choices in this psychological horror visual novel will determine how they deal with this MIND****.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Point & Click 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Psychological Horror 9.7%
- Search for clues to progress the story. - Make choices to help your partner. - Collect bits and pieces to reveal secrets and lore bits. - Use your visions to see what he is feeling at the moment. - Don't drown in your own regrets.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 24%, Point & Click 17.9%, Horror 7.1%, Choices Matter 6.3%
In Fatal Falls you explore the dark secrets of "The Grand Elysium", a posh luxury hotel in the middle of nowhere. Interact with its guests, drink a cocktail at the bar, peruse the noble premises – the choice is yours! Just make sure you don't get entangled in the hotel's dark deeds...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Point & Click 13.3%, Lore-Rich 11.2%, Text-Based 9.5%
Interrogate a friend accused of murder in Mota Must Die... a psychological visual novel where belief decides whether someone lives or dies
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Point & Click 12.6%, Psychological Horror 11.9%
You just wanted to finish your cargo run. The universe had other plans, Abyssal Frontier is a choice-driven cosmic horror visual novel with light RPG elements, time loop mechanics, and dating sim suggestions.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Horror 9.1%
Delve into the heart of darkness with Enelia, a chilling horror visual novel set in an Avatar-inspired biopunk realm. It's a dramatic story about adventure, love and fate.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Point & Click 15.2%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Dark 10%