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Determine the fate of Ventreville! Play as six protagonists with unique abilities and stories, their arcs tied to each other by the sudden murder of the Avidines. Make your choices count! The final protagonist, the interrogating detective, will only know as much as your previous characters know…

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Text-Based 9.8%, Multiple Endings 8%

The supernatural mystery visual novel, "CAFE 0 ~The Sleeping Beast~" returns as a remastered version. Will the maid, Corliss, find out why she died within the 7 days time limit?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Female Protagonist 8.4%, Text-Based 8.4%

DEAD DETENTION is a scribbly interactive story about a nerdy teen turned dooms day survivor! Play as 14 year old Max as he tries to escape his high school during a deadly zombie pandemic! Will he and his new friends get to safety?!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Female Protagonist 11.8%, Funny 8.8%

A narrative-driven psychological visual novel where every floor of an elevator reveals a key moment from your past. Face your regrets, uncover forgotten memories, and make choices that shape your future. Will you find closure, or remain trapped in your own mind?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Visual Novel 18%, Text-Based 17.5%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.1%

Set off on an exciting swashbuckling quest in this classic Fantasy Choose Your Own Adventure! Meet charming characters, fight dangerous foes, and uncover a nefarious intrigue. Experience seamless and reactive storytelling. Prove your innocence, find your destiny, relish the journey!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Multiple Endings 8.7%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Text-Based 12.2%, Female Protagonist 9.9%

Ranko and her friend Astrid must investigate the vanishing of a girl from their school. Learn about the secrets of St. Joachim to find her, but be cautious! A bad step may lead you towards an ugly end...

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Text-Based 11.2%, Female Protagonist 10.7%, Multiple Endings 8.5%

一个欢乐气氛的悬疑文字冒险类游戏。你将不断在十位不同身份的角色间切换视点来推进故事的发展并达成各种各样的结局。这是由一个个平凡而又独特的个人故事所拼出的新的物语，或许里面也有着你的故事……？

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Female Protagonist 8.8%, Text-Based 8.7%

Management and life-simulation Game with elaborate Relationships, where players manage their character’s actions and activities as they explore topics about self-discovery, parent-children relationships, friendships, and growing up as a College Student.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Female Protagonist 10.1%, Choices Matter 8.3%

The Trials of Ozymandias is a visual novel set in the high fantasy world of the kingdom of Johrotos. In the capitol city, Dassi, resides the most famous adventurer's guild in all the land: Talleh-Hoy. This is where your story begins.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Text-Based 14.9%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Anime 6.6%

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 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Text-Based 11.5%, Female Protagonist 10.7%

Following the loss of a baby, a breakup, and a surprise heritage, Daphné decides to leave everything behind to start a new life in the French countryside. There, she discovers she's the last descendant of a line of witches. Will she embrace the family tradition?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Female Protagonist 12.8%, Choices Matter 8.5%

Morin is a barkeeper with an unusual curse. All people look like shadows to him, except for one mysterious stranger... Solve the mystery of the curse, fight true darkness and mix the most unusual cocktails in the atmospheric visual novel — Into the Waves!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Text-Based 9.1%

Choose, explore, interact, fight, solve, gather, trade! Rise to rebel in this immersive text-based fantasy story that seamlessly merges the best elements of RPGs, choose-your-own-adventure stories, visual novels, and interactive fiction.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Text-Based 14.6%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Choices Matter 8.3%

Waking up after a car accident to find yourself in another world? Welcome to "Sacred Trial." In a magical world, you face the threat of being summoned to the sacred trial. A fantasy detective adventure where you must prove your innocence in a fantasy world.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Drama 6.6%, Anime 5.6%

Parallels: Year One is a visual novel that will take you on a journey through one relationship in five parallel worlds. Join Ron and Jessica on a journey to see each other from a new perspective.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.4%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Female Protagonist 14.9%, Text-Based 9.9%, Multiple Endings 7.9%

What do mirror reflections do once they have no one to repeat after anymore? Play as Iris, quite a sarcastic reflection torn between the urge to unravel the mystery of death of her “prototype” and the need to find her place in a mirrored world.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Text-Based 10.8%, Female Protagonist 9.2%

A free drama-mystery visual novel with a modern fantasy setting. Reach out to the fourteen people trapped inside to find the truth through eighteen endings, influenced by but not exclusively bound to your own system time.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Mystery 8.8%

"Ten years from now, I will be dead..." A coming-of-age fantasy adventure tale, Future Mirror is a visual novel that explores fate and the choices that affect our future, tragedy, relationships, and happiness.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Multiple Endings 7.7%

Elena and 7 familiar faces are trapped in a room, and the only way out is to choose one person to die. Navigate social relationships and gain trust to steer the spotlight away from you, or else they just might decide you should be the one on the chopping block.

Why similar: Visual Novel 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Female Protagonist 11.9%

A choice-driven narrative RPG set in China’s Warring States period. Rise from a nameless soldier to a legendary general through decisions with permanent consequences. Death is final. History remembers only the survivors.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Text-Based 15.5%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Choices Matter 9.7%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Text-Based 14.7%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Multiple Endings 9.2%

Odesa, 1929. A woman wakes up. This will be her last morning. An all-powerful film camera forces her to watch her life again. Can she find what was missing? A very short choose-your-own-adventure based on Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Female Protagonist 13.9%, Drama 7.8%

A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Text-Based 14.4%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Multiple Endings 7.2%

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

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Text-Based 10%, Multiple Endings 8%

In a fantasy world, play as a girl who rebelled against a group of demonic rulers, searching for all truths about the royal House, and about her heart.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Text-Based 11%, Female Protagonist 10.6%

A flesh-eating dust leaves you to survive alone against hordes of Listless.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Female Protagonist 12.2%, Text-Based 7%

A story-driven mystery visual novel set in a remote island village. Gather clues through conversations and exploration, and uncover hidden truths through branching routes and multiple endings amid the tense, claustrophobic atmosphere.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Text-Based 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Multiple Endings 8%

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 26.6%, Visual Novel 16%, Text-Based 15%, Female Protagonist 13.4%, Multiple Endings 9.4%

"Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines" - In this short story from the Endless Monday, Penny, a mild-mannered corporate grunt, spends a weekend at the office in an effort to finish her project on time while overcoming distractions from coworkers, space aliens, imaginary friends, and herself.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Choices Matter 8.2%

On Love, On Monsters is a Frankenstein-inspired story with an emphasis on love in its many forms. Play as three characters with alternating POVs; the Doctor, The Priest, and The Exile. Bond with allies and enemies, avoid raising suspicion in the town of Blackmoore, and learn what it means to love.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Drama 7.7%, Female Protagonist 6.5%

After a transfer student enters his life, college senior Kent begins suffering fainting spells and hearing voices. Navigate friendships, secrets, and a growing supernatural mystery in this choice-driven visual novel.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Choices Matter 8.3%, Multiple Endings 8%

Your story continues right where Origins left off. Whether Jessica finds herself wandering the streets alone, caught in George’s web of deceit, or trapped in the unsettling confines of Margaret Thatuals under Professor Trounch’s watchful gaze and the orderlies, every choice matters.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Female Protagonist 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Multiple Endings 11.2%

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 26.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.3%, Text-Based 16.5%, Multiple Endings 7.7%, Choices Matter 7.4%

A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Text-Based 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Investigation 8%

Who killed your best friend?! Find out the truth before 4 suspects frame you instead! Death Becomes You is a mystery visual novel where you untangle the dark secrets and relationships between your fellow magic university students.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Investigation 9.4%, Text-Based 9.3%

Take down multiple criminals case by case as you judge each and every one of them. Will you be naughty or nice? The final verdict is up to you!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Female Protagonist 13.1%, Multiple Endings 6.1%

A Fully Animated and Fully Voiced Light Novel Game! Set in Tokyo, a lonely android girl, Rin, meets Aoi and forms a deep friendship, gradually reclaiming her humanity. However, when Rin learns the secret of her origins, the story takes a dramatic turn.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Female Protagonist 19.1%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Drama 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%

"Endless Monday: In Progress" - New job, new Penny. Our favorite former corporate grunt is back, and working hard to live the dream! But as she struggles to keep the dream alive, she'll need all the help she can get, from friends, angry ex-coworkers, the past, and beyond.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Choices Matter 10.8%

After the revolution, Kikoku is plunged into chaos. Takekosen joins the secret organization Hiseido, facing her final trial. She must abandon her name, wear the mask, and forge her path through fate. A fantasy visual novel set in an ancient Eastern world.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Visual Novel 21.3%, Female Protagonist 10.8%, Story Rich 8.3%, Anime 8.1%

A visual novel about a girl who loves the cemetery. When her parents go missing, she receives a mysterious text that has the potential to completely ruin her life...or fix it?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.8%, Visual Novel 17%, Female Protagonist 14.1%, Multiple Endings 8.8%, Choices Matter 8%

Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Female Protagonist 7.2%, Text-Based 5.5%

Twelve years after Senior Inspector Jeon Gyeong's retirement, she is visited by a young police officer: a woman who pleads with her to reexamine Seowon's case. But with each uncovered memory, only one thing becomes clear: everyone in Seowon's vicinity was lying.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Visual Novel 13%, Investigation 12.7%, Text-Based 11.1%, Female Protagonist 10.3%

メモリーズオフシリーズ最新作のアフターストーリー 主人公「久寿米木一葵」と登場ヒロインたちの「その後」を楽しんでいただけます。 ビジュアルノベル形式のゲームスタイルで選択肢を選びながらストーリーが進行します。 それぞれの道を歩み始めたヒロインたち。 それぞれの未来を大切な「あなた」と一緒につかむため、 それぞれの想いが、今はじける……！

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Drama 7%, Text-Based 6.5%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.4%, Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Choices Matter 7.8%

Dazzle humanity or destroy it as a magical, two-tailed fox! Weave illusions, shapeshift, or control minds. You'll set the world on fire, one way or another.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Text-Based 15.1%, Action-Adventure 10.4%, Multiple Endings 6.6%

Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi's first case, the Honjin Murder Mystery. Honjin descendant Kenzo Ichiyanagi and his new wife Katsuko Kubo lay dead in a bed of blood on the night of their wedding. Kosuke Kindaichi searches for the truth about this locked room murder mystery. However...

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Investigation 11.5%, Text-Based 10.8%

Chief Emoji Officer is a text adventure that recreates the absurdities of the tech world by letting you become CEO using only emojis. Climb your way through corporate America by getting promoted, making allies, avoiding layoffs, and turning Redify into the most successful company in the world.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Text-Based 13.6%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Choices Matter 8.4%

Peek into the sins and memories of five personalities through surveillance cameras──This is an immersive, mystery adventure game that unravels the thoughts of the dark past that lie dormant inside Sofia,a suspect in the murder of a presidential candidate, and uncovers the truth behind the crime.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Text-Based 15.7%, Investigation 10.8%, Multiple Endings 7.8%

"Riddle Me Bunny: Nonogram" is a charming Nonogram puzzle-adventure game . When Nono, a watchmaker's daughter, finds a mysterious headband called "Riddle Me Bunny," she meets Gram, a magical blue rabbit. Together they solve picture-logic puzzles to restore their village's vanishing scenery!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Text-Based 12%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Mystery 7%

A haunted convent. Statues that move on their own. A buried past. Welcome to Saint Idelora’s convent, where becoming a saint comes with a price.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Female Protagonist 13.9%, Story Rich 6.8%

𝕭𝖀𝕽𝕹 is a short and replayable visual novel, where you play Nina BURN, the biggest pop star in the world at the turning point of her career. Will you change pop music? Will you become a monster? 𝖄𝖔𝖚 𝖜𝖎𝖑𝖑 𝕭𝖀𝕽𝕹.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Female Protagonist 11.9%, Multiple Endings 10.2%

Recent high school graduates gather at a remote cabin for a celebration. What begins as a night of laughter spirals into a tense mystery full of secrets, twists, and chilling choices. Who will survive? Navigate friendships, and uncover the multi-layered mystery in Shadows of Betrayal.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.3%, Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Visual Novel 21.3%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Story Rich 7.6%

Inspired by the Italian culture and taking place in a western Fantasy setting, our visual novel introduces the story of Elisa, a beautiful owner of an inn, struggling with the amorous proposal of honorable Knights, high born Princes and rich Merchants.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Multiple Endings 7.4%

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: Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Female Protagonist 12.8%, Text-Based 8.5%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Text-Based 10.8%, Multiple Endings 8.2%

Under developement, Grave Knight is an interactive RPG adventure inspired by SRD 5.1 ruleset and classical game books, where your decisions weave the fate of the characters and the story. Let the dice forge the fate of your hero and the realm by fighting the Grave knight and his horde.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Text-Based 10.4%, Choices Matter 8.9%

A visual novel strategy game where your floral fragrances determine the fate of your mysterious shop and its patrons. Make choices, talk to customers, and shape the story. Get ready for a journey of heartfelt connections and strategic decision-making.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Text-Based 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.1%

In pursuit of coin, hired dagger Arthur finds himself embroiled in conspiracy involving the daughter of a noble House. Who is really pulling the strings behind the scenes?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.7%

Princess Amaltea is sent out on this quest, and rescues Prince Ossian. They are both unwilling to play along in these traditional expectations of them, and after fleeing their own wedding they are now out on the open roads – on to new adventures in this gender flipped world!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Visual Novel 15%, Female Protagonist 12.9%, Text-Based 11.2%