Games Like Sticker Buds

Navigate school life, build friendships, survive rumours, and climb the social ladder through natural conversations with students who remember your choices. Every interaction shapes your reputation in this AI-powered social simulation.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Family Friendly 16.4%, Text-Based 12.9%, Choices Matter 11.1%

Explore an epic fantasy world alongside three heroes on a quest to recover a stolen jewel. Guide your party to victory in turn-based battles, make decisions that will determine the events of the story, and uncover the ancient secrets of Eldora as you race to catch the mechanical thief.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Family Friendly 9%, Hand-drawn 9%

Vasilisa the Wise is a visual novel based on the famous Russian fairy tale "The Frog Princess". However, unlike the well-known fairy tale, in this game there are several scenarios, depending on the actions of the player. The goal of the game is to defeat the evil and win the heart of Vasilisa.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Hand-drawn 13.9%, Cartoon 13.6%, Family Friendly 8.7%

You are a Switchboard Operator, and you're about to be replaced by a machine. Use your last week of work to connect townsfolk, overcome problems, and explore the history of a cast of engaging characters. Your choices matter, so use each day to leave lasting bonds.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Casual 9.6%, Cute 7.2%

A medieval fantasy text-based visual novel where you guide Santi’s choices, unlock secret routes, and discover hidden CGs through interactive scenes.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Hand-drawn 14.3%, Casual 12.5%, Text-Based 8.1%

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 30.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Casual 8.9%, Hand-drawn 8.5%

It's the night of the big ball, and things are going...well...they're going. When so many people of so many different species are gathered together in one place, you're sure to have an interesting time. But what if something a little more malicious is happening under the surface?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Text-Based 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Hand-drawn 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.2%

The Spirit Weaver is a narrative-driven visual novel where you use the power of Tarot to guide lost spirits through their grief, and maybe figure out your own. Explore a mystical spirit realm, help its denizens, and restore balance in a bittersweet story of love, loss, and empathy.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Casual 11.3%, Hand-drawn 11%, Text-Based 10.1%

Solve puzzles, enlist magic beans, eat soap, plan your escape, and confront the menacing mage who keeps you confined in his tower. Will you keep cracking jokes or learn from your mistakes? Your choices matter.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Text-Based 18.2%, Family Friendly 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.9%

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: Interactive Fiction 28.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.8%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Hand-drawn 10.8%, Casual 9.4%

Explore an alternative medieval Europe in this low-fantasy epic adventure! How far are you willing to go to take back your stolen treasure?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.8%, Text-Based 21.1%, Casual 13.4%, Choices Matter 11.3%

This is a collaborative experiment between you and I. We will participate in a series of interchanges, each lasting three minutes. What will be revealed across our interfaces during that limited time?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.1%, Choices Matter 16.3%, Philosophical 14.1%, 2D 5.8%

First the King’s sheeps then the King himself! Everyone seems to be mysteriously disappearing lately. As the King’s intrepid daughter, and with the help of a strange talking porcupine, travel through the kingdom and interrogate your subjects to solve the mysterious disappearances.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Cartoon 13.8%, Hand-drawn 11.6%, Family Friendly 9.8%

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: Interactive Fiction 26.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.1%, Text-Based 19.7%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Hand-drawn 8.8%

A supernatural mystery visual novel where your choices shape relationships and determine the fate of a coastal town. Explore ancient secrets, unravel supernatural enigmas, and make decisions that lead to three distinct endings based on your choices across four intense days.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Text-Based 15.7%, Family Friendly 11.3%, Casual 10.6%

Return to a hometown that hasn’t changed the way it should have. A psychological visual novel focused on atmosphere, relationships, and a reality that slowly refuses to stay still. Can you uncover the truth before it consumes you?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Text-Based 13.9%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Cute 9.2%

The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.8%, Text-Based 13.5%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Hand-drawn 9.2%

A funny, emotional text-based romance where your awkward crush meets accidental magic. Make branching choices, build relationships, and maybe ruin Valentine’s Day with a love potion that definitely shouldn’t have worked.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.4%, Interactive Fiction 30.1%, Text-Based 24%, Casual 12.2%, Singleplayer 2.5%

Experience the triumphs and tribulations of two Caribbean immigrants in post-war Britain, in the world’s first Windrush video game, from the creators of the BAFTA nominated Before I Forget. How will you shape your story in this branching narrative interactive photo album?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.1%, Hand-drawn 20.4%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Text-Based 12%, Casual 7.8%

Are you worthy of the throne? Or do your siblings deserve it more than you do? What kind of heir will you be?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.3%, Text-Based 20.8%, Casual 14.5%, Choices Matter 9.9%

Vanakan is the journey of Tadevos - a priest, who travels the 500s Armenia to find the monastery that suits for his goal of becoming spiritually closer to Jesus Christ. He meets different people on his way and makes choices which will define his future and that of the country.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.9%, Text-Based 21.7%, Choices Matter 11.6%, 2D 5.7%

Aozora Haru, a troubled, recently orphaned art student, finds it hard to attach much meaning to many of the things in his life. Through the meaningful bonds he has created with the people close to him, however, he begins to understand that life is much more important than it initially seems.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Casual 14%, Philosophical 9.5%, Choices Matter 8.5%

A cute coming-of-age boys' love (BL/yaoi) visual novel set in 2012 about a group of high school students who start a club to prepare for the end of the world.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.2%, Text-Based 17.6%, Casual 13.9%, Cute 11.7%, Stylized 7.6%

LIVORA is a choice-driven life simulation where you manage money, work, relationships, health and pressure as everyday decisions become long-term consequences. Build the life you want, live with the life you create, then start again and choose differently.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Casual 12.9%, Family Friendly 10.7%, Text-Based 8.7%

3 different Robot-romance stories. Written, drawn, and made by humans, for humans. Since the very moment the first mechanical mind became aware of itself, it craved love. No one truly understand why the heart made of copper and wires started beating, but it did. Even after we were gone.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Cartoon 14.2%, Text-Based 14%, Casual 10.1%

Experience the Myth of Frankenstein through the innocent eyes of his creature. Make decisions and change people's view that you will meet on your way. Now, the myth is in your hands, so how are you going to end it?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Text-Based 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Hand-drawn 13.8%, Choices Matter 12%

Home is where the stars are. An interactive bedtime story, for anyone who needs one. Take the bear and the little one on a deeply meaningful journey, as you experience stories of togetherness, of letting go and of finding a place you belong.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.7%, Family Friendly 18.9%, Hand-drawn 14%, Philosophical 11.2%, Casual 11.1%

A fantasy adventure visual novel with humor and heart, by acclaimed adventure game writer Lori Ann Cole. Starring the voice of Zehra Fazal as Tilly, a mischief-making rogue at Hero-U, the school for heroes.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Text-Based 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Family Friendly 15%, Choices Matter 9.6%

Make your name as a whiskey-runner, a politician, or a gangster as you quench thirsts from rural Pennsylvania to the New York City nightlife!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.6%, Text-Based 24.3%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Extract yourself from another fine mess–this time, with your family watching! Mischief, mix-ups, and bewilderingly urgent capers at your ancestral estate.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.6%, Text-Based 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Choices Matter 18.3%, Singleplayer 2.4%

With the power to freeze time, you can ransack a casino, rescue a celebrity, or cheat death itself! A thrilling interactive sci-fi novel.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.7%, Interactive Fiction 27.2%, Choices Matter 21.9%, Text-Based 20.3%, Indie 1.8%

Your robots will change the world! Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army? A 300,000-word epic interactive sci-fi novel.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.8%, Text-Based 27.5%, Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Choices Matter 17.7%, Singleplayer 0.9%

The Princess has been kidnapped by evildoers! It is now Pebbles Quest to breach the Castle, face a gauntlet of traps and trials, all to rescue his one true love.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Family Friendly 14.1%, Hand-drawn 12.8%, Choices Matter 9.4%

Where are you, Cinderella? is a visual novel about Vietnamese culture and the world of entertainment. Will you be able to find the lost shoe’s owner? Or, will you find your shoe?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Text-Based 17.7%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Cute 8.6%

An interactive story about a researcher who was spoken to by his experimental plant. Interact with the story and get one of three ending options.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Choices Matter 16.2%, Casual 15.4%, Cute 10.9%

A time-looping puzzle ballad of Ozark folk superstition. Reorder events in time to unravel the legend of a weather-making rooster.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19%, Text-Based 15.1%, Cartoon 13%, Hand-drawn 11.7%, Family Friendly 11.6%

Enjoy a winter fairy tale with Ellie! Learn more about the nature in the winter! Piece your adventure together! 150 exciting levels for players of all ages!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Hand-drawn 18.8%, Family Friendly 14.9%, Cute 12.5%, Casual 10.6%

When you awake, you find yourself transported back to the time when you were a student. You find it hard to breathe under the massive study load and oppressive environment, until you meet a stray cat that manages to wriggle its way into your world by chance...

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Hand-drawn 17%, Family Friendly 10.7%, Casual 8.4%

A magic glen full of magic creatures and bunnies. But the magic has been stolen and needs to be restored. Choices you make have dramatic effects. You help shape the story. The destiny of the Glen is in your hands!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, Hand-drawn 19.8%, Family Friendly 15.6%, Casual 15.6%, Choices Matter 11.5%

Old Man’s Journey, a soul-searching puzzle adventure, tells a story of life, loss, and hope. Interacting with the world around you, you'll shape the landscape to create the old man's path forward. Experience heartache and hope as you embark on a heartfelt journey through a sunkissed world.

Why similar: Family Friendly 19%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Hand-drawn 17.9%, Cartoon 12.4%, Stylized 8.9%

A psychological thriller visual novel where your choices deeply affect an 18-year-old woman's mental state, leading to multiple endings.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Text-Based 17.6%, Hand-drawn 15.3%, Stylized 7.6%

Play as a Duskweaver in this short "choices matter" story about self-sacrifice.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Text-Based 20.7%, Choices Matter 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Philosophical 10.2%

Cardamom is a visual novel set in a Broadway musical. Play as a cartoon cat and befriend the cat loving residents of the building. Make decisions and listen to their outcomes in song.

Why similar: Family Friendly 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Hand-drawn 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Cartoon 10.4%

Alchemy, puzzles, and a crashed starship. Old-style interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No dialogue trees! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 44.4%, Text-Based 31.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Indie 1.2%

You are a soul, ready for your next lifetime on earth. To prepare for incarnation, you visit the Interdimensional Museum to remember your personalities from past lives. Tour the museum artifacts, remember who you were, and when you're ready, the museum will reveal your next life to you.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Hand-drawn 16.2%, Text-Based 10%, Casual 8.6%

We Wear the Mask is a satirical interactive fiction game where you play as 18-year-old Daniel at a shady Silicon Valley AI startup. Train the AI, navigate eccentric coworkers, and uncover MegaCorp's secrets. Your choices matter: will you pursue romance and justice or join the elite to get rich?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 32.2%, Choices Matter 17.5%, Casual 8%, 2D 6.3%

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: Interactive Fiction 29.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.9%, Text-Based 21.5%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Casual 6.7%

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: Interactive Fiction 27.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.6%, Text-Based 22.2%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Casual 6.6%

Put your imagination to the test and go on a freaky rescue trip. Help rescue Salcy’s beloved cockapoo from unknown danger in which she was sure to find herself. In Freaky Trip you will encounter many logical puzzles, which you can find everywhere.

Why similar: Cartoon 17.5%, Family Friendly 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Hand-drawn 12.5%, Cute 9.7%

A mini point and click puzzle + visual novel, an experience of Nihilism and self-salvation. The storm is coming. The storm has never left.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Casual 13.2%, Text-Based 11.3%, Hand-drawn 9%

In an engrossing interactive novel, live as the assistant to a remarkable historical figure: George Mueller, a man who witnessed orphans dying young in the streets of 1830's England and decided he would care for them, no matter the cost.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.2%, Text-Based 15.8%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Casual 7.4%

Rush the university's secret societies as a first-year Magical Studies major! Will you keep your magic a secret from the mundanes or expose the truth?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Text-Based 21.5%, Cute 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.3%

"Spirit School Days": Campus Romance Meets Supernatural Adventure Step into a mysterious campus and begin an extraordinary college life. Play as a new freshman, meet unique characters, and together uncover supernatural mysteries. Every choice shapes your story, creating unique memories of youth.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.6%, Casual 18%, Text-Based 15.5%, Cute 13.2%, Colorful 7.7%

Travelling Light is a narrative game about four friends, Lars, Leah, Samson, and Ivy, caught in the turbulence of their early thirties. Inspired by real events, this experience lets you step into each perspective as love, friendship, and heartbreak collide.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Hand-drawn 16%, Cartoon 9.1%, Stylized 6.8%

An experimental mind-reading helmet, a time machine, and a doomsday device that can annihilate the human race. Which one would you like to test out first? The classic choose-your-path comic book by Jason Shiga.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.3%, Hand-drawn 14.5%, Cartoon 14%, Choices Matter 13.2%

When you're falsely accused of sorcery, corrupt inquisitors make you the object of a witch hunt. Now, sorcery might be the only way for you to survive.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.2%, Text-Based 24.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Choices Matter 17.9%, Singleplayer 3.4%

Rewrite - DYH - A game that changes every time you play!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Hand-drawn 15.5%, Casual 9.8%, Colorful 7.8%

Harold's Harem is a comedic visual novel that parodies dating sim where you play as the newest recruit in a top-secret Love Infiltration Unit, tasked with preventing a world-ending disaster in just three days.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Cartoon 19.6%, Choices Matter 7.7%, Casual 7.7%

Plunge into court politics and change the course of history, or pursue a love affair that rocks the kingdom to its foundations!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.3%, Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Text-Based 25.3%, Choices Matter 17.2%, Indie 1.7%

Once you open this book, you are no longer just a reader. A "reading-style" fantasy adventure in the spirit of The NeverEnding Story — handcrafted over six years by a 30-year veteran from Vanillaware. 100% handmade, from the first page to the last.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Hand-drawn 18.3%, Text-Based 13.2%, Choices Matter 11.6%