60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Choices Matter, Story Rich, Text-Based.
A text-based psychological horror game where you execute a list of people based on gradually revealed information about their lives, all while secretly following a trail laid out by a mysterious messenger.
Second Thoughts
A psychological text-based game where each day you are tasked with executing someone based on the limited information provided until one person remains with their full story revealed.
For Goodness Sake
In a final attempt to guarantee your place on the nice list, you decide to try and do some chores before midnight. Will Krampus take you? Take the test and find out.
A psychological text-based game where each day you are tasked with executing someone based on the limited information provided until one person remains with their full story revealed.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 11.1% ★, Psychological 10.8%, LGBTQ+ 9.8%, Philosophical 9.6%, Text-Based 9%
In a final attempt to guarantee your place on the nice list, you decide to try and do some chores before midnight. Will Krampus take you? Take the test and find out.
Why similar: Philosophical 17.3%, Psychological 14.4%, Text-Based 11.5%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Psychological Horror 7.9%
A short psychological thriller visual novel where you guide Sora through twisted interrogations, moral dilemmas, and unraveling memories...
Why similar: Philosophical 19.6%, Psychological 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Psychological Horror 9.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%
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: Dynamic Narration 22% ★, Philosophical 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Psychological Horror 7.1%
“Lone Bird in the Tree” is an adventure game with male and female versions of each of the four characters. The story alternates between the “future” of the main character, who is deeply traumatized by the grief of his/her best friend, and the “story leading up to the loss of their best friend”.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Text-Based 12.6%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Philosophical 10%
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 16.7%, Psychological 16.6%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Philosophical 9.9%
Welcome to AI Personality Diagnosis Quest! Answer only "Yes" or "No" to reveal your personality. WARNING: ■■■■ interference detected. Leave this page immedia (Failed to display text.)
Why similar: Philosophical 21.5%, Psychological 18.1%, Text-Based 11.8%, Psychological Horror 11%, Horror 10.2%
You are a father. You wake in a hallway that hums. Empty pools. Dead malls. Your four daughters are here. Voice acted by a real father and his daughters. Two endings. No right answer.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Psychological 12.9%, Philosophical 12.3%, Psychological Horror 10.3%
You can beat this game with any key on your keyboard. ANY key, I mean it.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 18.6% ★, Philosophical 13.5%, Text-Based 13.3%, Psychological 13%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%
Prescription of Throes is a narrative adventure game. An experimental drug that can erase all psychological pain is circulating underground. You will meet companions, face their struggles alongside them, and gradually uncover the truth behind the drug through exploration and choice.
Why similar: Psychological 29.6%, Philosophical 15.2%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
PROJECT: MIRROR is a psychological horror narrative game about choices, scarcity, and AI observation. Answer ethical dilemmas, manage impossible systems, and watch your decisions become the basis for something that no longer asks permission.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Philosophical 15.7%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Dystopian 12.1%, Text-Based 12%
Some memories aren't meant to stay. We are our memories and our experiences. What happens if you delete some of them? If you change your past and, thus, your future?
Why similar: Text-Based 19%, LGBTQ+ 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Dystopian 11.6%, Choices Matter 9.4%
Play as a Duskweaver in this short "choices matter" story about self-sacrifice.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Philosophical 16.9%, Choices Matter 16.5%, Psychological 14.3%
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: Psychological 16.3%, Text-Based 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Dynamic Narration 10.2% ★
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: Dynamic Narration 20.3% ★, Philosophical 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Text-Based 13.9%, Choices Matter 10.6%
❗ 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: Psychological 17.3%, Philosophical 14.3%, Text-Based 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Abstract 11.5%
Every headline has a cost. Decide what the city sees — and watch what it turns you into.
Why similar: Psychological 21.6%, Dystopian 16.1%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Dynamic Narration 11% ★
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: Dynamic Narration 20.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Text-Based 14.7%, Philosophical 13.7%, Choices Matter 10.9%
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Dystopian 13.8%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%
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 20.7%, Psychological 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Text-Based 10.1%
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: Psychological 16.8%, Philosophical 16.2%, Text-Based 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Abstract 11.1%
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 18.8%, Psychological 18.7%, Text-Based 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%
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: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Text-Based 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Psychological 13.9%, Choices Matter 10.3%
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 20.6%, Text-Based 19.1%, Psychological 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Minimalist 6.2%
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: Psychological 16.2%, Philosophical 16%, Text-Based 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Abstract 10.9%
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 16.3%, Psychological 14.5%, Text-Based 13.3%, Dystopian 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
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: Dynamic Narration 20.4% ★, Philosophical 17%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Text-Based 14.1%, Choices Matter 10.5%
NEXUS CORP, sub-basement 7-A. Stamp the forms. Ask nothing. Since 1952, forty-six clerks have vanished at this desk - you are the forty-seventh. Cross-check every claim on your terminal, rule APPROVED or REJECTED, and try not to wonder what the paperwork is really sealing.
Why similar: Dystopian 15.7%, Text-Based 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Horror 8.9%
A sound, a flash, a portal… A pirate emerges, bringing a deadly threat. Five friends stand before him, and one of them is the target. But which one? Even they don't know.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Psychological 16%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Dynamic Narration 13.3% ★
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: Psychological 22%, Text-Based 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Psychological Horror 13%, Horror 9.6%
Samael suffers from delusions. He feels lost until he encounters a priest one day. The priest is the only person in the world who makes him feel at peace. This, however, slowly turns into an obsession. Will Samael learn how to love properly or will he fall into a path of darkness? You decide.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Text-Based 18.1%, Psychological 13.9%, Dark 7.5%
A short horror visual novel where you get to know your brand new self-aware in-game boyfriend and explore your relationship through Talking About Something in the Nowhere.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.2%, Text-Based 14.5%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Psychological 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
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: Psychological 17%, Text-Based 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Psychological Horror 10.7%
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: Psychological 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Text-Based 14.4%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
Absurdist Interactive fiction. Talk to the beings that inhabitant the world at its end. We forgot how to die.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Text-Based 12.1%, Philosophical 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.6%
Neve is a non-linear interactive fiction in which your decisions can completely change the course of story. Manage your team, race against time and unravel the mysteries surrounding your ship's crash in this suffocating retrofuturistic thriller that will have you hooked from the first second.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.1%, Psychological 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Psychological Horror 9.4%
Play as an AI interacting with users.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Philosophical 13.9%, Dystopian 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
A text-based psychological horror experience set inside a hospital where something is deeply wrong — and death may not be the end.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Psychological 13.3%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Psychological Horror 10.4%
Adventure Gamebook: Dive into an interactive experience where you can create, play, and share your own unique stories. Use the intuitive story editor to craft narratives without coding, explore them solo or in co-op with friends, and share them on the Workshop for everyone to enjoy.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 25.3% ★, Text-Based 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%
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: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Text-Based 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Horror 8%, Dark 7.6%
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: Text-Based 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Psychological Horror 9.3%, Choices Matter 8.8%
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: Psychological 18.5%, Philosophical 18.5%, Text-Based 16%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Choices Matter 10.2%
A dark sci-fi psychological Visual Novel where your choices shape who you are. The world has ended and it's been dominated by mysterious aliens who roam the city. Despite that, you only think of what you've lost. Will you be able to rebuild your relationships? Or even... the world itself?
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 20.2% ★, Text-Based 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Choices Matter 8.5%
Your twin sister is missing. Under her name, you uncover a deadly system where 50 people compete for a Wish powerful enough to change anything. The price of entry is a piece of yourself, signed away in a contract. Survive. Find her. And try not to lose yourself to the people you meet along the way.
Why similar: Psychological 24.4%, LGBTQ+ 22.2%, Philosophical 15.5%, Dystopian 12.8%, Choices Matter 7.7%
My name is left behind these white walls. In its place, I am left with dozens of questions. I wander aimlessly, though she seems to guide me. I do not feel safe. Twenty-four hours... and everything will fall into place.
Why similar: Psychological 18.7%, Philosophical 16.3%, Text-Based 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Choices Matter 8.3%
Embody a displaced therapist in a futuristic refugee camp. Discover the life in the camp and share your everyday life alongside people with heavy pasts. Use logic and your therapeutic skills to solve mysteries threatening both your survival and the camp.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 16.4% ★, Psychological 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Text-Based 13.6%, Dystopian 13.3%
This short psychedelic visual novel takes place in a strange world inhabited by harrowing creatures shunned by the light. You’ll meet someone who has made this world their own, and in doing so, learn the reason why you shouldn't be there.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.5%, Philosophical 14.4%, Psychological 12.5%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Abstract 10%
is a short, interactive experience about those endless, looping fever dreams you get when you're sick.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Philosophical 15.4%, Psychological 12.7%, Psychological Horror 10.7%
Immerse yourself in a first-person psychological horror experience where every choice matters. Confront the echoes of a forgotten past and uncover the truth behind your lost identity.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 25.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Psychological 12.5%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Psychological Horror 10.4%
Your choices reveal what you value. Guide three adventurers through a kingdom in crisis, deciding whom to protect as its population and army decline. Character traits and dice shape the outcome, while every decision builds a five-principle value profile revealed at the end of your journey.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Choices Matter 16.2%, Philosophical 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%
Prediction Error is a first-person psychological meta-game. Wander a void maze of geometry and synapses under a cynical narrator's gaze. Endure the dread of high free energy, break the fourth wall, and face cognitive choices. No dopamine rewards here—only an existential stress test.
Why similar: Philosophical 26.3%, Psychological 22.6%, Psychological Horror 14%, Abstract 9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.5%
A story of a simple walk home, with a sprinkling of intrusive thoughts. Make a few choices, decide what's best, and please, try not to overthink.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.2%, Psychological 15.3%, Abstract 14.6%, Dynamic Narration 11.1% ★, Minimalist 8.6%
Someone knocks at your door every day. You decide who to help, who to turn away—and what it costs. A slow, atmospheric narrative game set in 1934, full of choices, guilt, and quiet desperation. Every choice changes the game.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 17.7% ★, Text-Based 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Philosophical 11.9%, Dystopian 9%
My parents adopted an orphan who burned down her house. I haven't slept since my girlfriend disappeared. Now everything looks like eggs. Good Children Say Grace.
Why similar: Philosophical 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Psychological 12.4%, Psychological Horror 11%, Choices Matter 10.7%
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: Philosophical 17.3%, Text-Based 16.6%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Psychological Horror 10.7%
A queer romance/horror visual novel about being locked into a path, and having _______ words hidden from You. Find Your way to discover what's missing and reach Your ____ End.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.6%, Dynamic Narration 20% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Text-Based 11.5%, Choices Matter 9%
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: Interactive Fiction 20.3%, LGBTQ+ 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Text-Based 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.3%
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: Text-Based 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Psychological 11.5%, Choices Matter 11.1%
My Room Philosopher is a text-based game where a boy asks questions many people face during adolescence. Answer his questions and explore his thoughts while reflecting on your own values and life.
Why similar: Philosophical 28.1%, Psychological 18.2%, Text-Based 13.7%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Story Rich 7.3%
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: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, LGBTQ+ 16.7%, Psychological 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Psychological Horror 7.7%
