60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Story Rich, Psychological Horror, Choices Matter.
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.
DreamNet
Rediscover the internet of the 2000s in DreamNet, a free to play Frutiger Aero exploration game. Dive into nostalgic worlds, uncover the story, and revisit the beauty of the old internet.
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 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Text-Based 9.6%, Point & Click 9.2%
Rediscover the internet of the 2000s in DreamNet, a free to play Frutiger Aero exploration game. Dive into nostalgic worlds, uncover the story, and revisit the beauty of the old internet.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Surreal 12.4%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Nonlinear 10.1%
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Why similar: Text-Based 20.5%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Supernatural 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Choices Matter 10.8%
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Surreal 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Dark Humor 11.1%
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 12.3%, Dark Humor 12.1%, Text-Based 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 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Female Protagonist 11%
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 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Surreal 11.4%, Emotional 10.6%
Asylum simulator. An interactive fiction about schizophrenia and finding meaning after near-death, with Disco Elysium-style mechanics.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Dark Humor 10.4%
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 16.2%, Dark Humor 15%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Old School 9.5%
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 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Surreal 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Choices Matter 12.2%
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 16.4%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Horror 11.2%
Every town is unique. Liddy's town has a lot of supernatural activity and it is her job to find and free entities stuck in 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 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Emotional 11.2%, Female Protagonist 11.1%
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 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Surreal 12.6%, Emotional 12.5%, Psychological Horror 11.4%
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 15.9%, Dark Humor 15.3%, Psychological Horror 15%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Female Protagonist 9.8%
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 26.1%, Text-Based 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Surreal 10.8%, Horror 8.2%
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 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Female Protagonist 10.5%
Crazy and strange town. Mysterious events. A hero with multiple personality disorder. Laughter, tears and madness!
Why similar: Point & Click 14.8%, Demons 13.8%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Dark Humor 9.7%
An unsettling adventure following a boy with a prosthetic face. After a string of mysterious murders, Sal and his three friends discover something truly sinister casting shadows over their small town.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 13.7%, Supernatural 13.3%, Demons 10.8%, Dark Humor 10.8%, Point & Click 9.9%
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 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Surreal 15.8%, Choices Matter 10.1%
"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 21.7%, Supernatural 16%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Surreal 14.4%, Choices Matter 10.7%
Survive inside the corporate machine known as the "workplace". Eat fast food. Drink more espressos. Experience microaggressions. Pray they don't fire you. Can you power through a day at BIRA Corp. and Clock Out at 2, or are you doomed to repeat your past mistakes in this roguelite visual novel?!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Dark Humor 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Supernatural 12.8%, Emotional 10.3%
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%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Horror 8%
A psychological horror visual novel about healing, where saving your brother means facing your own demons. Elham’s search pulls her through visions and entities rooted in Arabian folklore, and family secrets that should have stayed buried.
Why similar: Demons 15.8%, Supernatural 13.1%, Emotional 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Psychological Horror 10.9%
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 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Dark Humor 13.4%, Nonlinear 12.9%
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 19.8%, Text-Based 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Horror 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.8%
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 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Supernatural 12.4%, Nonlinear 10.8%
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 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Psychological Horror 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Choices Matter 13.3%
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 18.9%, Nonlinear 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Choices Matter 10%
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 17.9%, Surreal 12.8%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Text-Based 12%, Horror 11.2%
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 16.5%, Psychological Horror 14.8%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Horror 10.7%
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 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Text-Based 14.5%, Choices Matter 11.5%
A Lovecraftian folk horror mystery set during the polar night of 1980s northern Finland. When a child preacher disappears during a revival sermon, a journalist becomes trapped in an isolated village where something ancient is beginning to awaken.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Point & Click 12.9%, Supernatural 11.5%, Surreal 10.3%
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%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Surreal 12.6%, Choices Matter 11.1%
‘We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe’ is a socially engaged, text-based RPG about a journalist looking for his big break by uncovering the plights of refugees travelling from Africa to Europe. It is a story inspired by true events.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.8%, Nonlinear 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Dark Humor 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%
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 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Point & Click 11.7%
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 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Nonlinear 16.3%, Supernatural 13.3%
Sacrificium is a dark psychological horror experience blending illustrated storytelling, branching choices, and sanity-driven gameplay. Trapped in a castle controlled by a satanic cult, you must escape before the nightmare consumes you.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Demons 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Supernatural 11%
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 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Supernatural 15.9%, Surreal 13.7%, Choices Matter 10.6%
You return to your hometown but no one recognizes you. But that doesn’t matter, because you are not here for them. You are here for her. Midgårdsormen, singer and artist, pervert and goddess, a being truly out of this world.
Why similar: Supernatural 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Surreal 14%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%
A first-person escape horror game, 'School Bathroom'.You've found yourself penned in an eerie stall.What is the source of the fear you feel in this inescapable space...
Why similar: Supernatural 21%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Psychological Horror 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Horror 10.4%
Parallel-Weirdo is a Japanese manga-style visual novel set in DYL High School. It follows Wang Zhe, an ordinary and frail boy, who tries to win the hearts of girls and complete his experiments. He gets entangled in bizarre events, plunging into darkness. Each choice you make determines his fate.
Why similar: Text-Based 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Dark Humor 11.8%, Nonlinear 10.9%
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Why similar: Nonlinear 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Surreal 13.6%, Point & Click 11.5%
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 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12%
"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 15.5%, Dark Humor 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Point & Click 10.1%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Text-Based 22.3%, Female Protagonist 13.6%, Demons 12.5%, Choices Matter 8.9%
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 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Choices Matter 12.4%
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 21.3%, Old School 16.4%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%
Experience the work of a courier in a city of living rumors and legends. Pay off your debt by carrying out strange requests from mystical customers. Uncover the reason behind the appearance of a mysterious fog that smells of decay.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.2%, Supernatural 15.4%, Psychological Horror 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
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 17.4%, Surreal 15.2%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.2%
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 26.8%, Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Emotional 17.9%, Old School 10.5%, Choices Matter 9.7%
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%, Demons 17.2%, Text-Based 14.7%, Point & Click 12.8%, Choices Matter 12%
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 14.4%, Text-Based 13.5%, Emotional 13%, Dark Humor 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%
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 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Choices Matter 11.1%
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 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Surreal 13.5%, Emotional 11.4%, Horror 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 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Supernatural 15.5%, Choices Matter 11.2%
A Japanese-style horror visual novel set in 1980s Japan. Five years after a mysterious disappearance, Yukari Kanzaki and Akane Kiryu enter the abandoned Mogami Mansion. Explore its hidden secrets, uncover its dark past, and face multiple endings shaped by your choices.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.4%, Text-Based 22.5%, Female Protagonist 15.1%, 1980s 13.4%, Choices Matter 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Text-Based 16.4%, Dark Humor 14.8%, Point & Click 12.5%
Amy receives an invitation to a group chat set up by some of her former classmates. Its purpose is to reconnect after all these years. But soon more and more disturbing facts about Amy's classmates are revealed, and Amy begins to fear that the people she's texting with may not be what they seem.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Supernatural 16.5%, Surreal 14.5%, Horror 11.6%
A monster dating sim where your choices determine if they are kind or terrifying. Can you understand all the horrors?
Why similar: Supernatural 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Emotional 11.6%, Psychological Horror 11.6%
