Games Like Swamptown: Animal Testing

Solve the mystery of the disappearance of a real estate tycoon. This adventure/visual novel game will unveil the secrets hidden behind the facades of a neighborhood in Seoul, with some being frightening and others holding pleasant surprises.

Why similar: Conspiracy 17.1% ★, Dark Comedy 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Visual Novel 9.6%

Wander around a nonsensical world just beyond the LAND OF THE LIVING! A world of waffles, death, and choices that just might bring everyone HOME...

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Dark Comedy 13.3%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Cartoon 9.7%

Listen Carefully! We dont't have much time. Shoot First, Ask Questions Later! Is that clear?

Why similar: Conspiracy 23% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Point & Click 13.1%, Dark Comedy 9.6%

A dead Santa Claus right before Christmas is never a good sign. Interrogate the North Pole suspects to solve the murder and figure out how to save the festive season in this short dark comedy visual novel whodunnit.

Why similar: Conspiracy 20% ★, Dark Comedy 18%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%, Crime 9.5%

An absurdist comedy choose-your-own-adventure game featuring a massive cast of bizarre characters, notebook-doodle visuals, and 7 crazy endings! As you embark on your quest to go to the store, the denizens of this zany town will seek your help with their insane problems.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 26%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Point & Click 10.9%, Hand-drawn 7.7%

It's the future, bees have taken over the world... John Fart and a cartoon bear are fighting back by traveling to the past! Will it work? Will they noscope the bees? Now THAT'S the question!

Why similar: Cartoon 17%, Point & Click 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Dark Comedy 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Point & Click 14.2%, Hand-drawn 10.1%

The apocalypse is here… and its beat for the gods! How likely was your debut as a drag artist to be overshadowed by a zombie apocalypse? Meet quirky characters, solve puzzles, and catfight with your rivals in this fresh narrative adventure.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Dark Comedy 14.4%, Point & Click 13%, Visual Novel 12.7%

Find the clues to make a time bending turnabout in this off the rails visual novel about murder, mayhem, and a thicc pumpkin girl with a machete.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Point & Click 15.2%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Hand-drawn 9.5%

Lost in the Past: A Heart's Remembrance Labyrinth is a story game about love, lost, hope, grief, medication, meditation and more. You will be the our nameless character and experience his memories.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Point & Click 17.2%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Hand-drawn 7.9%

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 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Cartoon 13.3%, Hand-drawn 10.7%

"Rich and Youn" is a classic visual novel with a few choices. The game combines a visual novel with an adult series. The game is filled with humor and cynical jokes. If you are an impressionable nature or may get offended by reading some jokes, this game is not for you.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Point & Click 16.3%, Visual Novel 16%, Cinematic 12%

VANDALISM101: An Office Simulation Visual Novel! You’ll become a new employee at the mysterious, top-secret research facility VANDALISM101. Complete the tasks assigned to you, boost your performance, and survive!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Dark Comedy 14.7%, RPG 12.5%

Manage our AI girlfriend product as the newest engagement lead at Bigger Tech Corp. Make the tough choices for Alice as she slowly drives her user insane. A satirical choose-your-own-adventure with beautiful pixel art and widely branching narrative.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Conspiracy 18.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Dark Comedy 15.6%, Visual Novel 13.2%

Slagford. Some call it The Backbone of the North, most call it proper sh*te. This silly misadventure will take you up monolithic megatowers, down dingy dung pits and beyond. Puzzle your way across the unravelling city by picking up pieces of the world and sticking them where they don't belong.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 24.1%, Point & Click 17%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Cartoon 11.5%, Comedy 7.6%

Explore a raptor-infested compound in classic retro horror style. Gather "evidence" to shift blame of your crimes. Survive in the courtroom of your few remaining peers. Do not accept any responsibility. Do not try to escape.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 27.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Point & Click 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Hand-drawn 7.6%

Your soul is on the line. Manage devils, manipulate fate through dice-based negotiations, and make soul deals in a Barcelona narrative strategy game about debt, temptation, and survival.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Point & Click 17.7%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Hand-drawn 8.5%

Kluber's Adventure. Finally, your choices matter... Unless Kluber has better plans. Welcome to an absurdist narrative experience.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Hand-drawn 13.7%, Point & Click 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.8%

Camille and Laura is a point and click about the greatest adventure of all - parenting.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Point & Click 18.8%, Hand-drawn 9.5%, Adventure 8.2%

Eight time periods from across human history collide in a competitive bid to stop the end of the world. Go from fighting monsters to solving a murder, dating sim to escape game. Experience seven vastly different routes in a bid to solve the mystery as to why you've all been brought together.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Point & Click 16.8%, Visual Novel 16%, Hand-drawn 8.8%

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 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Point & Click 17.2%, Cartoon 13%, Hand-drawn 8.6%

A drama/comedy visual novel about how holding a relationship together and surviving a deadly blizzard may not be all that different.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Hand-drawn 9.5%

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 22.1%, Point & Click 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Visual Novel 13.7%, RPG 12.2%

A knowledge discovery game inspired by ancient astronaut theories. Travel across nine world regions, consult expert informants, and piece together evidence of non-human intelligence hidden in ancient civilizations. Every discovery brings you closer to the truth.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Conspiracy 19.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Point & Click 16.3%, Cinematic 10%

Space Detective 14 is a visual novel set in the Space Station 14 universe. Giovanni Mariotti is a hardboiled detective investigating on a serial-killer. Popular Space Station 14’s player characters make an appearance as either friend or foe of the protagonist: Nilk the Narf, Sister Niima, Smudge.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Dark Comedy 18.5%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Point & Click 15%, Conspiracy 9.1% ★

A comforting and heartfelt Visual Novel about a young musician struggling to write a simple song. Roki Olsen seems to want nothing more than singing on stage…truly, when he looks at Elly Hammington, we think he might be lying.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.2%, Point & Click 18.8%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Cinematic 11.4%, Hand-drawn 8.8%

Summoned by Accident is a text based rpg focused mainly on m/m content with character driven plot. In it, you explore and run into inhabitants of the world. Some friendly, some foe. Inspired by other text based games and some videos.

Why similar: Conspiracy 20.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Cartoon 10.1%

Return to an idyllic island in Paradise Lust 3, a 2D point-and-click dating sim adventure. Help organize a high-stakes beauty pageant competition, build romantic relationships, unlock animated sex scenes, and juggle minigames as you manage a resort full of beautiful, unpredictable women.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Point & Click 13.7%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Cartoon 13.1%

A choice-driven story where you meet real monsters, navigate their strange rules, and decide how far you’ll go to form a connection without losing your humanity.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Point & Click 13%

A puzzle-adventure game blended with visual novel storytelling. A mysterious girl and butterflies appear each time you solve a puzzle inside the room. Who are they? What do they want? Unravel each puzzle one by one — and the truth draws ever closer.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Cartoon 13.3%, RPG 12.9%, Hand-drawn 8.1%

Stroll around the beautiful suburban town of Bonerdale. Meet its lovable and sexy residents while you and your friends are trying to find a job and uncover the mystery of the murders that are taking place in the town.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Point & Click 15.3%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Cartoon 12.9%

Always wanted a fantasy world desk job?! Manage eccentric adventurers like a lazy witch, tsundere fairy & useless bard! Approve quests, keep them alive, pay off Elfie's crippling tax debt, and rake in gold for the Guild!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Visual Novel 18.7%, RPG 14.9%, Comedy 6%

A pointy-clicky comedy corporate thriller. Solve puzzles, get to know your colleagues, and unravel a sinister global conspiracy. All in a day's work.

Why similar: Conspiracy 30% ★, Dark Comedy 21.8%, Point & Click 18%, Comedy 8%, Hand-drawn 6.5%

The 4K Ultra HD Remaster of "Template!! An Angel's Gift"—a hilarious slice-of-life visual novel—is now on Steam! Follow Sakura Sora, whose bizarre new condition makes ridiculous "classic tropes" real, sparking a twist-filled daily comedy with unique companions.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Visual Novel 21.3%, Adventure 10.1%, Comedy 5.9%

Customers... Don't let them find out... Rip-off! A thrilling rip-off adventure where if the customers find out, you'll explode!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Dark Comedy 17.2%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Comedy 8.9%

An incompetent wizard is tasked with stopping a recently awakened evil entity that just so happens to be trapped inside a (deeply suspiciously heavy) spoon. What follows is a sprawling, absurd 1990s-style point-and-click comedy adventure across bizarre fantasy realms and also North Derbyshire.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Dark Comedy 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Point & Click 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.6%

An accident at birth gave the protagonist the ability to see the soul. He always thought it was a useless ability when he was growing up. After helping his childhood sweetheart who is a policewomen solve a case, he discovered the correct way to use this ability.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Point & Click 15.9%, Hand-drawn 14.3%

DisplaceMen is an experimental narrative game where you survive as a broke painter through art commissions. Paint with weird-ass found objects to unravel residents' mysterious pasts, change the story’s direction with observations and visual choices, and bring the forgotten Mermaid back to reality!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.3%, Dark Comedy 25.5%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Point & Click 17.8%, Adventure 4.2%

JOHNNY ROCKETFINGERS 1 & 2 - GAME COLLECTION! The internet smash hit Point & Click Adventure game, "Johnny Rocketfingers," is finally available to play from your desktop computer!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Point & Click 16.7%, Cartoon 13.1%, Dark Comedy 8.8%, RPG 8.6%

Corti Co is a Science Fiction, Visual novel sandbox. Follow several people involved in a conspiracy surrounding Corti Co, an AI development and research firm.

Why similar: Conspiracy 19.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Point & Click 15%, Visual Novel 14.1%

Interrogate your own player characters in this six-chapter murder mystery! Your decisions determine how many clues are uncovered for the final player character, the detective. Explore each stage of grief: Chapter 1 stars Orven as he navigates the shocking deaths of his dream and his hero.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Point & Click 14%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Cartoon 12.8%

An ordinary commute becomes a moral crucible in Monar Station, a short psychological horror visual novel. Navigate an extreme situation, make value-defining choices... Discover what lingers after the train moves on...

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Visual Novel 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Point & Click 12.1%, Cinematic 8.1%

F around and find out! A ruthless no F's given dark comedy where you play the president of the United States of America, abuse executive power, crank up the FAFO meter, deal with robot overlords, alien invasions, drain swamps, flip off allies, crush protests, and destroy all that oppose you!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Conspiracy 15.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Point & Click 14.9%, Visual Novel 14.1%

« Santa Closes » is a pint-sized point & click adventure in which you take on the role of an Elf whose sole mission is to save Christmas...but the poor devil will soon find how hard spreading that holiday cheer can be.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 20.6%, Point & Click 19.3%, Cartoon 18%, Hand-drawn 11.1%, Cartoony 6.6%

A short visual novel set in Hong Kong where you play as Barbara, a newly minted barrister. This game is quite short, you can probably play through it in about two hours. Features two legal cases, fully voice acted and also has nice music.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.1%, Point & Click 19.1%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Cartoon 14.1%, Adventure 9.7%

These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from my dear, sweet, extremely dead father? This is complete bullsh*t, and I'm going to make them dead.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Point & Click 16.9%, Cartoon 13.2%, Dark Comedy 12.6%

Welcome to the Detective Club! Led by the troublesome and shy president Alice Baskerville. Follow this comedy story where together you will solve cases using your deductive powers!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Point & Click 15%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Crime 10.3%

GILLES shows the Journey of a Theater Director's 10 years exile to create his Great Work, his Theater Play named The Klown. On this first episode, join him and SamPath on their Journey to show the Great Premiere. GILLES is a story exploration game from Infiniti Studio.

Why similar: Conspiracy 24.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Point & Click 14.8%, Cinematic 10.8%

"Falling Down" tells the story of a young hero destined for heroics through a visually stunning action-platformer game.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Cartoon 14%, Cinematic 12.1%, Hand-drawn 11.6%

The first short story from PolyCity. A point and click adventure delving into the dark and dirty polygonated corners of the City of angles... mostly right angles. The Affair follows a soft boiled/over easy private detective as he unpicks an organised crime syndicate operating across the city.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 22%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Point & Click 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Cinematic 9.4%

Convince Grandpa into giving you 10 million dollars. A thriller and comedy visual novel that you can finish within 30 minutes.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 26.6%, Conspiracy 18% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%

The secret agent "Ace" represents the latest generation of spies: armed with improbable Pizza Gadgets, he will have to travel the world to thwart a global gastronomic threat. Test your skills in this action-comedy adventure game by the makers of “Detective Gallo”!

Why similar: Conspiracy 33.1% ★, Point & Click 16.2%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Cinematic 8.1%, Comedy 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 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Cartoon 18.1%, Comedy 6.2%

Just a Memory is a story based choice and consequence game featuring Aaron Page, a 19 year-old college student investigating the murder of his best friend while confronting his demons.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Point & Click 16%, Crime 12%, Cinematic 11.1%

"イカスミ"でポーションをつくる！？怪しいポーション屋さんのイカ『スミミ』と共に、個性豊かな人外キャラクター達にポーションを売るアドベンチャーゲーム！

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Hand-drawn 15.1%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Point & Click 12.8%

You're a NASA intern working on the Apollo 11 project. Each day, you have a checklist to complete. Your tasks are well-reasoned and appropriate to your skill level as an intern. The Apollo team are all competent professionals. Everything goes very well, and you have no difficulties at all. 😛

Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Conspiracy 15% ★, Point & Click 13.9%

College Crisis is a darkly comedic, turn based survival sim about surviving college inside a broken system. Progress week by week managing money, energy, sanity, dormmates, and scholarships that vanish without warning as subtle cosmic anomalies creep into campus life.

Why similar: Conspiracy 20.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Dark Comedy 13.8%, Point & Click 10.1%

Survive seven days with a cursed painting. Rely on notes from past victims and manage to successfully paint her portrait. But be careful not to upset her, or you'll quickly find yourself dead! An assortment of terminal tableaus awaits you. Will you be the one to finally finish her?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Point & Click 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Visual Novel 14%, Cinematic 10%

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 30.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.6%, Visual Novel 18%, Adventure 8.2%, Hand-drawn 7.1%