60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Story Rich, Singleplayer, Psychological Horror.
From the creator of Speed Dating for Ghosts comes a new weird text adventure about death and sleep paralysis set in the late 1980s.
A Case of Missing Identity
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.
Be Honest
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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 14.2%, Emotional 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Text-Based 9.7%, Point & Click 9.1%
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Why similar: Text-Based 20.7%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Supernatural 12.7%, Choices Matter 11%, Interactive Fiction 11%
Stuck in a dead-end town with plans that go nowhere, Jackie feels as if her life is doomed to stagnancy forever. Getting by with her friends, she is resigned to her fate in a small town- until a chance encounter with a deadly life-form sets in motion a deadly chain of events
Why similar: Supernatural 12.4%, Text-Based 12.1%, Dark Humor 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%
It always rains, they call it The Haze. Ghosts haunt every alley, every gray corner of the city. Lady of Bones is a visual novel that explores the darkest depths of existence where Maya will discover the horrible secrets of her mother's legacy.
Why similar: Supernatural 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Female Protagonist 10.8%
幻想若非幻想 自然可超自然 伴我梦中桃花 懒识人间滋味
Why similar: Text-Based 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Surreal 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Choices Matter 12.4%
Every town is unique. Liddy's town has a lot of supernatural activity and it is her job to find and free entities stuck on our realm. Join her and her friends on their adventures, finding clues and ways to banish the creatures that shouldn't be here.
Why similar: Supernatural 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Emotional 11.3%, Female Protagonist 10.9%
Led by her new friend, Mr. Voice, Misfortune ventures into the woods, where mysteries are unraveled and a little bad luck unfolds.
Why similar: Point & Click 15.8%, Dark Humor 15.2%, Psychological Horror 15%, Choices Matter 13%, Female Protagonist 9.8%
You are a father. You wake in a hallway that hums. Wander liminal spaces where fragments of your past call you forward. Voice acted by a real father and his daughters. Two endings. No right answer.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Emotional 12.6%, Surreal 12.5%, Psychological Horror 11.4%
An interactive fiction game about identity and self-discovery. Decide your own path through the labyrinth's strange halls, and confront the terrors and mysteries within.
Why similar: Nonlinear 26%, Text-Based 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Surreal 10.8%, Horror 8.1%
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: Text-Based 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Surreal 11.3%, Emotional 10.7%
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: Text-Based 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Surreal 15.7%, Choices Matter 10.3%
Delve into a dark adventure following the boy with a prosthetic face and a tragic past. Unravel the sinister mysteries of Sally's world to find the truth that lies hidden beneath the shadows.
Why similar: Supernatural 13.5%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Dark Humor 11%, Demons 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 10%
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 16.3%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Horror 11.1%
"Reality. A term concocted by creatures to give worth to their version of reality..." What happens if a 2D being is dragged into a 3D realm? Follow the "hero" through a world he/she barely understands and survive the demonic beings who brought our hero into this realm.
Why similar: Demons 21.3%, Supernatural 16.2%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Surreal 14.4%, Choices Matter 11%
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 25.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Horror 7.9%
A slow-burning mystery set in the polar night of northern Finland. Investigate a missing child in an isolated village hiding an ancient secret beneath its church.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Point & Click 13.2%, Supernatural 12.3%, Surreal 10.3%
Clock Out at 2 is a visual novel in which you have to survive inside the corporate machine known as the "workplace". Eat fast food. Drink lots of espressos. Experience microaggressions. Pray they don't fire you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Dark Humor 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Supernatural 12.9%, Emotional 10.4%
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: Text-Based 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%
Blending fairy tale fright with psychological horror, this narrative game challenges you to survive a weird journey through the woods while being hunted by the witch you were tasked with imprisoning. Sometimes charming, sometimes frightening, she’ll force you to make hard choices.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Choices Matter 15%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Horror 10.3%
Resequence: The Orchard is an occult-horror adventure game in which school counselor Saito approaches an inexplicable phenomena through his counseling sessions with students.
Why similar: Supernatural 18%, Surreal 12.8%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Text-Based 12.2%, Horror 11%
A choice-driven narrative game with RPG mechanics, filled with cosmic wonders and horror. Forge your own path across more than 50 unique endings. Barter, upgrade your character, fight, and explore alien worlds, overcoming every obstacle to find your way back to Earth… and to your daughter.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Dark Humor 13.3%, Nonlinear 12.7%
"Scottside" is a non-linear visual novel in the thriller genre. A small provincial town may seem quite dull. However, everything changes when you find a strange object in the forest.
Why similar: Nonlinear 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Point & Click 11.2%, Choices Matter 11.1%, 1980s 10.1%
Travel back to the 90s in this campy point-and-click horror adventure inspired by classic YA horror books like Fear Street and Point Horror.
Why similar: Old School 15.4%, 1980s 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Dark Humor 12.8%
A classic choose your own adventure story. Escape the horrors hunting you, make decisions, forge your own path. An original complete story with multiple endings and secrets to unlock. Choose your own play style with a Text Adventure Mode, sound effects, and an ambient soundtrack.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Supernatural 16%, Surreal 13.7%, Choices Matter 10.8%
Help Bianca to relive the 15 years of her life, but from another perspective 👁️. Enjoy this dreamcore style visual novel with escape room elements and hints of horror. Unlock different endings. ✨
Why similar: Text-Based 22.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Surreal 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.3%
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 21.9%, Nonlinear 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Point & Click 10.4%
Shame & choices = possible apocalypse. You need to figure out what’s causing the apocalypse to happen, so that you can prevent it. 2 playable characters with different relations to shame → 2 unique perspectives of the same story. Complicated families, branching choices and unforgiving consequences.
Why similar: Supernatural 15.7%, Text-Based 15%, Surreal 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Emotional 11.8%
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: Text-Based 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Nonlinear 16.2%, Supernatural 13.4%
Surreal horror themed visual novel, with lots of branching paths, blood, tears and twisted pitch-black humour. You're playing as Ashia, who's forced to marry her slimy uncle, suffering from surreal nightmares at night. Then she meets Novalie. And then things gets REALLY strange.
Why similar: Dark Humor 19%, Surreal 18%, Psychological Horror 15%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%
Lin Yue'an embarks on a journey home, but unsettling events soon disrupt her ordinary life. Strange dreams, lost memories, and eerie occurrences lead her to uncover hidden truths. Can she trace everything back to its true origin and escape the net of fate that has already been woven around her?
Why similar: Supernatural 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Surreal 13.4%, Emotional 11.5%, Horror 9.7%
A psychological horror visual novel about healing and destiny. When her brother disappears, Elham's desperate search plunges her into a world of haunting visions, buried truths, and battles against dark forces. Will she find her true calling and embrace the light? or will she succumb to darkness
Why similar: Supernatural 15.9%, Emotional 15.6%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Female Protagonist 9.8%, Horror 9.3%
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Why similar: Nonlinear 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Surreal 13.6%, Point & Click 11.4%
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Surreal 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Dark Humor 11.6%
Fate is not a line is a visual novel game where your choices shape destinies. With 40+ decisions, 4 unique perspectives, and 25+ endings, every playthrough reveals new truths. Defy fate, face moral dilemmas, and uncover the secrets of the Arbiter of Fate.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Female Protagonist 13.4%, Demons 12.2%, Choices Matter 9.1%
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: Dark Humor 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Point & Click 11.7%
An analog horror adventure where you work as a staff member at the uncanny facility named Sunberry Care Center, which is dedicated to the treatment of a mysterious disease called Sunberry Syndrome.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.6%, Old School 16.2%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%
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: Text-Based 17.6%, Surreal 15.2%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.4%
A Brown Rabbit's Story is an interactive storybook, a text-driven adventure where your choices lead to branching paths and multiple endings. In a quiet orphanage, a boy wishes his toy rabbit to life… and together, they must face the world’s cruelties and find hope.
Why similar: Text-Based 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 25%, Emotional 18%, Old School 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.8%
The elders have entrusted you, an elite vampire courier, to deliver their secrets. Can you outrun the hunters, the other drivers, and the rising sun?
Why similar: Text-Based 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Supernatural 15.5%, Choices Matter 11.3%
Cerebral is a short psychological horror game where every mistake hurts your memory. Save your mind or surrender it to the system. What remains of you either way?
Why similar: Surreal 16.6%, Nonlinear 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Choices Matter 12.6%
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: Surreal 14.3%, Text-Based 13.7%, Emotional 13%, Dark Humor 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%
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%, Nonlinear 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Text-Based 14.7%, Choices Matter 11.7%
Save people from terrible paranormal dangers as a support operator of a secret SCP-like organization! Ask questions, give advice and watch the consequences of your choices... multiple endings in each story ;-)
Why similar: Text-Based 21%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Dark Humor 16.8%, Old School 15.9%, Choices Matter 9.8%
Will you infiltrate the gods' Elite Courte, stealing their superpowers, or turn double agent and join them, taking your place among the divine?
Why similar: Text-Based 28.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Story Rich 8%
Explore all the different routes of PACTUM! Try to discover more about what really happened. Learn more about each character by picking between some... story-changing choices!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Demons 16.8%, Text-Based 15%, Point & Click 12.8%, Choices Matter 12.3%
"In my dreams, I can get out. In my dreams, I can fit in." 'ghostpia' mixes the adorable art style of an illustrated book with glitches-and-noise effects. There are no choices to be made. There's only a lonely girl in a ghost town and her story full of mystery, friendhood...and a bit of violence.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.7%, Dark Humor 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Point & Click 10%
Congratulations Dominica! You have been chosen to test the first virtual aquapark in history! Ten days in a tropical paradise where every detail is simulated to be perfect – what could possibly go wrong?
Why similar: Nonlinear 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%
Tri City Monsters is a supernatural, monsterlovin' visual novel where you can romance and/or de-pants 3 demonic love interests. Navigate a dangerous urban jungle with their help and maybe you'll get a taste of what it means to be a monster.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Dark Humor 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Demons 9.6%
Check in to your hotel, and check out the ghosts! Sexy specters await you - but can you fix up the hotel in style so that the living guests will find luxury, too?
Why similar: Text-Based 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Supernatural 17%, Choices Matter 8.3%
There are things that often fail on nothing but themselves. Is there even a way out? Playing Kafka is a narrative adventure full of impenetrable schemes, insidious plot twists and conversations that slip out of hand. Based on Kafka’s life and his work, developed with Kafka experts.
Why similar: Surreal 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Point & Click 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Emotional 9.2%
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: Text-Based 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Horror 11.8%
At the heart of the action are a twelve-year-old Kenneth and his younger sister Esme, children of the Murphy family, who hit the trail of a mysterious monster following series of entangled events.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.1%, Nonlinear 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.1%
- 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 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Point & Click 15.1%, Choices Matter 11%, Emotional 8.8%
Asylum simulator. An interactive fiction about schizophrenia and finding meaning after near-death, with Disco Elysium-style mechanics.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Dark Humor 10.3%
Not It: Spookiest Edition is a horror-filled visual novel full of suspense and mystery where you navigate Katie through a living nightmare. Her move-in day on Halloween throws her into a centuries-old curse. Can she make it through the night? Will her new neighbors perish? Decide their fate.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Female Protagonist 10.8%
Welcome to Midnight Special, a point-and-click survival horror game drenched in 16-bit pixel art and 1980s retro dread. On a thunderous night in 1987 in Maine, you awaken in a labyrinthine manor. You must click, explore, and solve puzzles to escape. Will you go gentle into that good night?
Why similar: 1980s 17.6%, Text-Based 16.5%, Old School 14.4%, Point & Click 11.8%, Psychological Horror 10.6%
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 15.9%, Dark Humor 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%
THE LAKE LADY is a story-driven realistic horror interactive game. The river took everything from him. To find his daughter who went missing in the flood, Salvio returns to his hometown as a doctor and infiltrates Hongqiang Hospital for investigation.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Text-Based 16.5%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Supernatural 12.5%, Point & Click 10.2%
Butter Side Down is a bizarro choose-your-own-choice game. Starring Basil Bonser, Adam Spargo, Grey Michael, Beatrice, Jeep Johnson, and Rotten Ruggerio. Answer questions, take calls, play card games, and solve one hell of a mystery.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Surreal 12.9%, Dark Humor 12.6%
