60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Story Rich, Adventure, Exploration.
Soul Nexus is a text-based adventure game where you explore strange environments and interact with even stranger individuals. Will you wander the spaces forever or will you eventually fulfil your goal of being free?
Robot Vacuum Cleaner Quest
Robot Vacuum Cleaner Quest is an exploration adventure game. Reveal the house of Detectif Poirry as a robot vacuum cleaner, bump its inhabitants for stories, and clean your way to victory.
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An experiential linear narrative walking sim
Robot Vacuum Cleaner Quest is an exploration adventure game. Reveal the house of Detectif Poirry as a robot vacuum cleaner, bump its inhabitants for stories, and clean your way to victory.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Walking Simulator 17%, Text-Based 10.9%, Abstract 10.4%, Philosophical 8.4%
An experiential linear narrative walking sim
Why similar: Philosophical 23%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Walking Simulator 13.6%, Text-Based 13.3%, Linear 8.6%
HOW WE KNOW WE'RE ALIVE is an award winning, hour long melancholy, point-and-click narrative mystery set in the bible belt of Sweden.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Walking Simulator 23.3%, Philosophical 16.1%, Adventure 9.3%, Mystery 8.7%
Chat with a virtual friend from a cancelled mobile game! Ask questions, start arguments, and find the right responses to progress the story. Can you solve the horrific mystery hidden beneath the surface?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Lore-Rich 18.9%, Text-Based 16.8%, Typing 9.4% ★, Story Rich 8.8%
IN SILENCE WAITS is a modern take on classic graphical adventures. Solve puzzles and avoid dangers as you explore the desolate wastes of a cruel world in search of a new home. In this world, not all monsters must be feared... and not all friendly faces should be trusted.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Typing 17.4% ★, Text-Based 13.6%, Lore-Rich 12.6%, Dark Fantasy 11.6%
swamp_land.mp4 is a found footage horror walking sim set in southern Chile. Descend through 7 symbolic levels of sin to uncover a haunting past and open your museum. A 30-minute story with twists, eerie landscapes, and hidden collectibles.
Why similar: Philosophical 16.1%, Walking Simulator 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Lore-Rich 13.9%, Abstract 11.4%
The Hidden and Unknown is a story-based game, that aims to widen the perception of its audience in the areas of psychology and philosophy.
Why similar: Text-Based 22%, Philosophical 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Mystery 11.2%, Abstract 9.7%
A short, atmospheric, story-driven experience about a young woman searching for meaning in a world that no longer feels familiar.
Why similar: Philosophical 23.9%, Walking Simulator 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Abstract 13.1%, Story Rich 8.6%
In a dark world somewhere between dream and nightmare you find yourself alone, cold, and without memory of who you are or where you came from. Guided by little more than a silver locket and questions, you must find your way off an isolated island in pursuit of answers.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Typing 16.2% ★, Lore-Rich 13.5%, Dark Fantasy 11.1%, Text-Based 11%
A story-based exploration game about the very far future. With the help of two Artificial Intelligences, explore a universe conquered by humanity, uncover your purpose in it, and try to stop it from falling apart.
Why similar: Philosophical 28.8%, Walking Simulator 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Exploration 11.3%, Minimalist 8.2%
A psychological horror you never see — you read it. Blind and deaf, you sense an arctic station through a neural implant: text, smell, touch. Quarantine rules say only one person may leave their cabin at a time. You are out. Five bodies are found by morning.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Walking Simulator 13.7%, Lore-Rich 12.6%, Mystery 10.5%
808 explores the memories that define us and what happens when they're taken away. It's a surreal game about love, loss, and a difficult choice: the pain of authenticity, or the peace of self forgetfulness.
Why similar: Philosophical 21%, Walking Simulator 20.1%, Abstract 15.5%, Story Rich 9.6%, Mystery 9.1%
A top-down action-adventure game as you collect & solve puzzles in order for you to explore & unravel this mysterious world.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 18.1%, Abstract 16%, Walking Simulator 14.2%, Text-Based 11.8%, Mystery 11.6%
2050, a future world we had dreamed about. But suddenly, a disaster arrived, bringing the human into a desperate situation.
Why similar: Text-Based 28.7%, Interactive Fiction 28.6%, Exploration 14.5%, Linear 9.5%, Story Rich 8.4%
A short narrative-heavy non-linear exploration game. Where you explore a dungeon, journal your own notes, manage your light, avoid traps, read lore, and hunt for a way out.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 22%, Walking Simulator 21.6%, Mystery 14.8%, Dark Fantasy 12.3%, Exploration 10%
3 short stories set in a mystical fantasy universe. You are a newborn Face of God. Hear tales of human suffering and triumph. Decide which Face of God you are. Pick a different fate for each main character. A short, linear experience that is introspective, emotional and spiritual.
Why similar: Philosophical 21.5%, Text-Based 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Lore-Rich 18.3%, Dark Fantasy 12.4%
Answer the question of mortality in this sidescroller inspired by the adventures of old. Wander the depths of two parallel worlds. Confer with gods, locals, and other travelers. Solve problems through intuition and a collection of odd trinkets. Choose: death, or eternal life?
Why similar: Philosophical 29.1%, Interactive Fiction 23%, Lore-Rich 13.7%, Story Rich 8.6%, Puzzle 7.1%
Goodbye Page is a third-person walking simulator where you play as Page, exploring the mysterious environment of her dad's house. With surreal settings and strange oddities throughout, can she uncover what is really happening in the house?
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.6%, Philosophical 18.1%, Abstract 14%, Story Rich 8.8%, Exploration 8.2%
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
Why similar: Philosophical 28.3%, Walking Simulator 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Abstract 13%, Story Rich 11%
A 1-bit exploration through a decaying city of the dead. Get lost in dialogue trees, leaf through weighty tomes, and make friends or enemies with the superstitious locals.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Walking Simulator 21%, Lore-Rich 14.7%, Exploration 10.6%, Philosophical 9.5%
You find yourself in a utopian setting, immersed in the matrix of an omnipotent AI that holds all knowledge and wisdom. There is no clarity as to how you got here, but a mission looms before you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Walking Simulator 22.7%, Philosophical 18.1%, Abstract 13.6%, Exploration 11.6%
This is the story of Mark's life...
Why similar: Philosophical 21.7%, Walking Simulator 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Lore-Rich 14%, Abstract 11.8%
Awake from your slumber and venture out to the mighty CITADEL.
Why similar: Philosophical 31.8%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Text-Based 14%, Mystery 9.9%, Story Rich 8.9%
Time is running out after a meteor strikes your interstellar starship. While the crew is under full alert, only you seem to notice the strange red portals opening up throughout the ship. Old school text-based parser: no graphics, huge worlds, no hints. Recommended for text game veterans.
Why similar: Typing 27.2% ★, Text-Based 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Puzzle 8.7%, Minimalist 6.7%
The hero who stopped a world-eating calamity was branded a demon by history. Centuries later, an orphan carrying his last fragment pieces the truth together from rumor and record. No combat — only Ashen Flame, a power that costs you with every use. Two loops. One truth.
Why similar: Text-Based 25%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Mystery 10.6%, Lore-Rich 10.5%, Dark Fantasy 9.5%
Investigate an abandoned server frozen in time. Explore liminal, blocky spaces, uncover strange anomalies, and piece together what went wrong. The deeper you go, the more the world shifts, watching and reacting to your presence.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Abstract 14.7%, Adventure 9.2%, Puzzle 9.1%
You wake up on a floating island with no idea how you got there. Find ways to reach new and strange islands and meet other survivors all while uncovering the story of how you all got there.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Walking Simulator 20.3%, Lore-Rich 18.7%, Mystery 12.8%, Story Rich 9.3%
You play all four heroines in this big multi-chapter sci-fi text adventure. Negotiate underwater mechs, AIs, abandoned cities, crime, friendship, suspense, horror, humour, an art exhibition, virtual realities and a tank. Experience each PC via first-person prose as you puzzle, converse and explore.
Why similar: Text-Based 22%, Typing 21.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Mystery 8.6%, Story Rich 8.3%
What would be your first and last wish if you died tomorrow? Explore this mysterious and frightening island. Solve its puzzles. And discover the truth before sinking into the purest madness that can exist... That of knowing your death.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Text-Based 16.8%, Philosophical 11.1%, Puzzle 8.7%
Summerland is a first-person narrative game about morality and the afterlife. You take control of Matthew, a detective reliving the events of his past, being questioned on his morals along the way. In every door lies another memory, and every memory unlocks another door.
Why similar: Philosophical 23.2%, Walking Simulator 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Story Rich 9.4%, Exploration 7.6%
Yuntai is a story-driven horror game, where Veris travels to Yuntai City for the Qiqiao Festival after a friend's invitation, but ends up uncover a sinister cult and a series of eerie supernatural events.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.1%, Walking Simulator 23.7%, Text-Based 19.8%, Puzzle 11.4%, Story Rich 5.3%
A garden caught in eternal recurrence. A god who forgets everything. A witness without rest. In this narrative-driven 2D exploration game, walk, listen, and read your way through four cycles to piece together a truth hidden beneath the surface.
Why similar: Philosophical 29.4%, Walking Simulator 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Lore-Rich 13.7%, Exploration 8.9%
7th Chance is a short (20-30 minute) story-based exploration adventure game. Waking up from a night of heavy drinking ... something isn't right.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Walking Simulator 23%, Philosophical 13.1%, Exploration 11.2%, Puzzle 9.8%
A first-person psychological puzzle game set in Eastern Europe, 1999. Explore a surreal black-and-white world, decipher an invented alphabet using a reality-altering mask, and unlock the story letter by letter.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 27.1%, Abstract 15.1%, Exploration 13.8%, Puzzle 11.9%, Linear 9.8%
You are S-9. You may or may not have some consciousness. You keep a family alive, but you are unable to do it eternally. The simulation will still require supervision. Decide. How could humanity get itself into such a bizarre situation?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Walking Simulator 15.8%, Lore-Rich 13.4%, Philosophical 11.8%, Exploration 9.4%
Explore an abandoned movie theater and step inside five black-and-white films in this mystery text adventure that pays tribute to classic Hollywood B-Movies and combines the best elements of interactive fiction, visual novels, and gamebooks.
Why similar: Text-Based 35.8%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Adventure 12.8%, Mystery 10.5%, Story Rich 7.8%
This game is not normal. It has no traditional gameplay loop or world format. In the game, you walk through a room. Each one is just as different as the last. You learn about the people who inhabit the world, known as Meeples, and you learn about the dark secret behind the world.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Walking Simulator 24.4%, Philosophical 13.6%, Exploration 9.4%, Comedy 9.3%
Trackless is an atmospheric first-person exploration and puzzle game set in the distant future. Trackless uses text input that allows you to interact with characters and objects. Using your in-game phone will help you find clues and give you special abilities.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Philosophical 16.9%, Walking Simulator 15.6%, Adventure 9.9%
Deepwell is a story-driven adventure game, about a small town surrounding a giant mystery hole.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.9%, Lore-Rich 17.2%, Exploration 12.1%, Adventure 11.9%, Mystery 10.3%
On the early morning he comes of age, Yu begins the sacred journey to the foothill of Mountain Frostkorn.
Why similar: Philosophical 36.7%, Walking Simulator 16.5%, Exploration 12.3%, Linear 12.3%, Adventure 11.3%
One thousand years beyond the fall of Earth, one last drink may yet be your epitaph, in this post-post-apocalyptic hangover odyssey by a novelist you've never heard of! A parser-driven text adventure for the ages! Or at least a weekend! Fun for all the family (except the kids)!
Why similar: Text-Based 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Lore-Rich 15.3%, Typing 12.8% ★, Mystery 9.7%
Waking up alone in a derelict terraforming facility on an unknown (and distinctly not terraformed) planet, it's up to you to find a way to survive, learn what happened to the people who lived here and why you were abandoned in this narrative-driven incremental game.
Why similar: Text-Based 30.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Lore-Rich 14.6%, Exploration 9.8%, Story Rich 8.5%
Two games in one! - Prove you are not human by completing 9 impossible challenges. - Explore various scenes directly inspired by a poem, solving a few riddles along the way.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 25.9%, Philosophical 19.1%, Abstract 15.5%, Exploration 13.2%, Puzzle 11.4%
I’m releasing this collection of games so that you may start talking to me again
Why similar: Walking Simulator 23.8%, Philosophical 20.5%, Abstract 16.8%, Story Rich 11.2%, Adventure 9.8%
A first-person livestream horror game where you explore abandoned locations, survive terrifying encounters, and experience dynamic audience interactions through realtime chat and donation systems.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24%, Walking Simulator 20.5%, Puzzle 12.1%, Adventure 11.7%, Mystery 10.1%
It's time to make a name for yourself in the big city. In this first half of a two-part epic, can you unravel the mysteries of Lux, City of Secrets?
Why similar: Text-Based 30.8%, Interactive Fiction 28%, Lore-Rich 21.3%, Mystery 7.5%, Story Rich 6.7%
Time itself is breaking up, and Dodger, the dishwashing dude onboard Penrose Space Station, is the unlikely fixer. Join the chaos in this 80s-style comedy, sci-fi text-parser adventure as Dodger tackles a cosmic crisis like no other! This version includes all three episodes + new extra content!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Typing 20.5% ★, Text-Based 16.3%, Comedy 11%, Story Rich 8%
Dear Esther immerses you in a stunningly realised world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the outer Hebrides. As you step forwards, a voice begins to read fragments of a letter: 'Dear Esther...' - and so begins a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.9%, Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Exploration 11%, Puzzle 9.5%, Linear 9%
In The Watch Post you will explore areas through a living CRT television in this atmospheric dark-fantasy text adventure. Find strange items, unlock hidden paths, solve optional mysteries, and decide whether the signal should ever be answered.
Why similar: Text-Based 36%, Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Typing 14.7% ★, Adventure 8.7%, Puzzle 7.5%
Join a boy named Timothy and his alien friend Gus on a journey of self discovery as they explore the colorful world of Fragment.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.3%, Philosophical 23.2%, Puzzle 12.8%, Adventure 12.4%, Exploration 11.3%
HushWood is an atmospheric first-person adventure set in a mysterious forest where night never ends. Follow the light, listen to the sounds around you, use your notebook for clues, and help those who live in the forest as you search for a way home—before you forget why you wanted to leave.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 29%, Exploration 14.9%, Puzzle 12.7%, Linear 10.4%, Mystery 8.3%
WARNING, THIS GAME IS A CLEVER JOKE: this game is a philosophical narrative that unites Science and Faith to combat global extremist ideology, offering cognitive physiotherapy and mental health support to all those saddened by conflicts such as the war between Ukraine and Russia. A light game!
Why similar: Philosophical 31.1%, Walking Simulator 24.9%, Mystery 13.1%, Story Rich 10.4%, Exploration 7.7%
You're the maintenance man for an apartment complex that has mysteriously been transported to the middle of the ocean. Woodrot is a surreal adventure game about getting to know your neighbors who all seem to blame themselves for their recent relocation.
Why similar: Philosophical 16.3%, Abstract 14%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Walking Simulator 11.7%, Mystery 11.7%
Naomi wakes decades older in a house she does not recognize, and discovers that escape may cost the future.
Why similar: Philosophical 24%, Interactive Fiction 22%, Text-Based 19.5%, Mystery 13.6%, Story Rich 9.4%
A dialogue sim about eternity and our minds.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Lore-Rich 15.7%, Walking Simulator 14.5%, Abstract 14.2%
The Flux is not keen on giving away its secrets, and you’re one of them. Sail a vast planet under a blanket of stars and use your tools and wits to remind yourself of what was lost and what could come next. An open world mystery about understanding the end of the world.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 20.7%, Lore-Rich 18.7%, Philosophical 16.2%, Mystery 13%, Exploration 9.4%
Recover an inter-generational story of migration told through real audio recordings of a Lebanese family coming to America in the early 1990's. Maneuver a forgotten strip of audio tape through puzzling landscapes to piece together the voices of the past.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Philosophical 19.7%, Abstract 16.7%, Linear 10.9%, Puzzle 9.6%
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 28.5%, Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Lore-Rich 20.9%, Story Rich 8.5%, Dark Fantasy 7.4%
Explore the abandoned trails and forgotten cabins of Wolfstone Pine by day and survive the night by staying in doors. Search for supplies, uncover the park's buried history and stay hidden until sunrise as you plan your escape from the strange national park.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Walking Simulator 17.7%, Story Rich 16.7%, Lore-Rich 13.1%, Exploration 10.5%
A friend you haven't seen for a long time sends you a long letter from him and a copy of the video game.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 20%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Abstract 12.6%, Philosophical 12.5%, Mystery 11.2%
