60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Text-Based, Adventure, Choose Your Own Adventure.
A co-op, text- and audio-driven collection of stories. Lead expeditions into uncharted cold waters, hiding a presence older than the Earth. Coordinate via proximity voice chat. More stories come after the release.
Welcome to Victorville
Your name is Gary Patterson. After waking up in a strange facility with your work partner Victor Adams, you must make a choice: Play along with Victor's plans? Or go it alone and make an escape? Only YOU can decide.
CLOSED HANDS
CLOSED HANDS is a groundbreaking work of interactive fiction that explores the tangled intertwined stories of five people thrown together by a fictional terror attack.
Your name is Gary Patterson. After waking up in a strange facility with your work partner Victor Adams, you must make a choice: Play along with Victor's plans? Or go it alone and make an escape? Only YOU can decide.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Text-Based 14.2%, Detective 11%, Lore-Rich 9.4%
CLOSED HANDS is a groundbreaking work of interactive fiction that explores the tangled intertwined stories of five people thrown together by a fictional terror attack.
Why similar: Text-Based 31.5%, Interactive Fiction 27.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Adventure 10.7%, Atmospheric 6.2%
A text-based adventure where you're tasked to exorcise your friend’s Inner Demon. Explore an ever-reshaping palace to analyze objects filled with memories, discover which one is the reason for her possession and sacrifice it. Do not deviate from your mission. Save your friend no matter the cost.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Point & Click 10.6%, Lore-Rich 9.3%
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: Text-Based 38.9%, Interactive Fiction 33.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Adventure 5.1%, Puzzle 2.3%
You wake up at a terminal you've never seen before. The language is alien. The interface is hostile. Every wrong click has consequences. Decode constructed languages, navigate unfamiliar operating systems, and survive the unknown in this puzzle-survival experience.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Text-Based 18.9%, Point & Click 13.6%, Exploration 6.5%
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: Text-Based 27.9%, Interactive Fiction 26.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Adventure 10.3%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
Become a mailroom operator at Hotel Hermes and navigate an ancient mail system to deliver parcels on time. Learn about the hotel's guests and staff in this puzzle role-playing game, where your actions can alter the world. Hopefully for the best!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Text-Based 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Point & Click 15.8%, Adventure 8.9%
You're an adventurer going into Friscott Castle to see what treasures you can find within. Explore, meet the residents, find treasure & more. Be mindful though, as the castle isn't normal, & there are things about it that might drive a person to madness. That, or it might spell your demise.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Text-Based 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Point & Click 16.1%, Adventure 6.4%
Transmission in Progress is a detective game located in a sound powered world, playing in the shoes of Inres, a forensic detective falsely accused of murder. You must tap into several different audio channels to determine the real suspect of the crimes you were falsely accused of.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Text-Based 12.6%, Point & Click 11.1%, Investigation 10.4%
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 19.7%, Adventure 11%, Point & Click 10.9%, Casual 7.7%
A narrative investigation game played across multiple sessions. Read corporate documents, cross-reference fragments, and build a persistent Dossier as an AI uncovering the conspiracy — and the murder — at the heart of the network it lives in. Knowledge is the only progression.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Point & Click 10.1%, Detective 9.7%
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 20.8%, Text-Based 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Detective 11.8%, Investigation 11.5%
Follow amateur sleuth Marcella Moon to Ireland to investigate the disappearance of a famous writer.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Point & Click 14%, Detective 11.6%, Investigation 10.8%
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 32.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Psychological Horror 6.9%, Multiple Endings 6.2%
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: Text-Based 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Point & Click 12.7%, Lore-Rich 8.9%
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: Text-Based 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Investigation 13.4%, Point & Click 13.3%, Detective 8.9%
Explore a city that lives without your input in this illustrated text adventure. Observe the lives of its inhabitants behind the veil of your invisibility magic. Find items and combine them to solve intricate puzzles. Set your own pace as you control time and move freely in an open fantasy world.
Why similar: Text-Based 27.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Point & Click 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Detective 6.9%
Rummage through the abandoned profiles of an old PC to unravel an inherited mystery. What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software? Who was using this computer? And what happened to them?
Why similar: Text-Based 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Point & Click 12.6%, Investigation 11.1%, Detective 10.5%
Terminal Tales: An Interactive Fiction Anthology features multiple text-based adventures from a variety of genres. Explore a curated vault of brand-new, modern mysteries and sci-fi epics. No graphics. No limits. Just your imagination and a world waiting for your command.
Why similar: Text-Based 27.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Detective 8.2%
Embark on an undercover mission in a medieval kingdom hovering on the brink of a civil war. Become part of a vile conspiracy or choose to act against your orders. Stand by your unlikely allies or ruin them for personal gain. The fate of the divided realm rests in your hands.
Why similar: Text-Based 14.6%, Point & Click 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
A sci-fi detective game where you interrogate the brain scans of crime victims. Uncover the hidden truth behind the dystopian regime by any means necessary.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Point & Click 17.8%, Text-Based 12.7%, Detective 11.3%, Investigation 10.9%
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 29.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Atmospheric 6.4%, Psychological Horror 5.4%
Ironic point & click adventure where a once brilliant detective quits his trade and lands a job in IT to make a living. But even in the seemingly mundane world of office life, there are secrets to be uncovered. Navigate through puzzles, quirky colleagues, and intrigues to crack corporate mysteries.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.3%, Point & Click 14.9%, Detective 13.4%, Investigation 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%
Interrogate your own player characters in this six-chapter murder mystery! Make your choices carefully, as your decisions determine how many clues you uncover before the detective, the final player character, questions you. Will your protagonists know enough to catch the murderer?
Why similar: Text-Based 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Point & Click 12.6%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
Sling spells and crack the case in a city full of bootleggers, corrupt cops, and vampires. Can you save your partner before a wizard dooms Seattle? A text-based interactive urban fantasy noir novel.
Why similar: Text-Based 27.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Detective 8.3%, Investigation 7.5%
A narrative point-and-click adventure game blending puzzles and wit. Explore, interact with a cast of colorful characters, combine items, and manipulate reality through an integrated magic system. Humor, adventure, and discovery await to bring you into new and unexpected worlds.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.6%, Text-Based 26.5%, Point & Click 24.3%, Adventure 13.1%, Atmospheric 7.6%
No criminal has ever been a match for you, and everybody is looking forward to a description of your brilliant deductions. There is just one small problem. One tiny detail that makes it different this time. A mere trifle, really. This time you have no idea who did it.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Investigation 11%, Detective 11%
'The Island: In To The Mist' is an adventure game. It includes basic features of adventure genre and add some new systems to interest you. You have been given a chance to experience a group of university students, who confined in the island. There is a terrific but interesting story you will see.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Point & Click 11%, Detective 10.4%
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 29.4%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Lore-Rich 12.5%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
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: Text-Based 34%, Interactive Fiction 28.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Multiple Endings 8.5%, Adventure 3.3%
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 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Investigation 8.6%
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 42.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Multiple Endings 6.1%, Adventure 5.8%
Small in scope, detailed, gritty text-based fantasy RPG. Recreates the gameplay of the old gamebooks. Simple battle system and hassle-free inventory management.
Why similar: Text-Based 29.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Old School 8.1%
这是一款以中式校园为背景的推理类文字游戏，你将扮演一名高中生司空茂，在开学第一天目击密室杀人事件的现场，并经过调查和推理解决案件，找出真正的犯人和真相背后更深的阴谋。但在享受侦探游戏的同时，请千万不要忽视学习。保持情绪稳定，尽量维持活下去的念头...记住，你的成绩，永远比案件要更重要。
Why similar: Text-Based 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Detective 14.4%, Psychological Horror 8%
Samurai of Hyuga is a brutal, heart-pounding interactive tale. Prepare to enter the land of silk and steel, where fantasy clashes against grim reality, and where the good guys don't always win in the end. It's a harsh world with tough choices at every turn. Good thing you're the toughest ronin around.
Why similar: Text-Based 36%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.1%, Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Adventure 8.7%, Indie 2.5%
In Fatal Falls you explore the dark secrets of "The Grand Elysium", a posh luxury hotel in the middle of nowhere. Interact with its guests, drink a cocktail at the bar, peruse the noble premises – the choice is yours! Just make sure you don't get entangled in the hotel's dark deeds...
Why similar: Text-Based 19%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Point & Click 11.8%, Lore-Rich 8.5%
Turn on your ghost detector and join your new pals in a funny, thrilling, and lovingly-presented interactive text adventure. Brain-teasing puzzles, a cartoon visual style, and engaging audio design - Delete After Reading weaves a delightful interactive tale.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Point & Click 12.3%, Detective 10.5%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Text-Based 29.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Detective 8.8%, Mystery 8.7%
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 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Point & Click 16.3%, Text-Based 15.2%, Detective 8.3%
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: Text-Based 35%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.9%, Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Casual 6.4%, Indie 1%
Point-and-click mystery adventure on the virtual SNS! Find secrets hidden by family, friends, companies, and idols.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Investigation 13.1%, Point & Click 11.3%, Mystery 9.8%
Battle demons and undead attorneys, and win souls to pay back your student loans! At the elite demonic-law firm of Varkath Nebuchadnezzar Stone, you'll depose a fallen god, find romance, and maybe even make partner, if you don't lose your own soul first.
Why similar: Text-Based 45.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 34.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Indie 2%
Infiltrate the orgiastic secret society beneath the modern-day Palace of Versailles! Will you expose their sex rituals or surrender to their pleasures? An interactive romance novel.
Why similar: Text-Based 29.3%, Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Lore-Rich 12.3%, Mystery 7%
「ナカノ人格移植研究所」は、周回型ミステリー2Dアドベンチャーゲームです。 それぞれの周回でプレイヤーが憑依する対象の登場人物を選択することで、その登場人物を主人公としてストーリーを進めながら謎を解き明かします。 プレイヤーは本ゲームの中で 4 つのパートを行き来しながらストーリーを進めます。 ノベルパートでは、クリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 探索パートでは、画面上のアイテムをクリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 移動パートでは、再度ビューでプレイヤーを操作し、船の中を探索します。 会議パートでは、他のパートで集めた手がかりを利用して他の登場人物と会話します。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Text-Based 16.7%, Detective 10.2%, Adventure 8.4%
Claw your way to the top of Moreytown, a furry slum for human-animal hybrids. Will you take down the gangs who rule the town, or take them over instead?
Why similar: Text-Based 41.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Adventure 10.8%, Indie 2.7%
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: Text-Based 29.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26%, Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Adventure 4.9%
Do you enjoy listening to stories and having the ability to influence their unfolding? If so, then immerse yourself in the role of an active participant as you join Yaren on her quest for freedom.
Why similar: Text-Based 28.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Lore-Rich 7.6%
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: Text-Based 29.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Multiple Endings 7.2%, Mystery 6.7%
A choice-driven roguelike text adventure set in medieval Korea and Japan. Encounter 218 mythological creatures from East Asian folklore, shape your story across 94 endings, and grow stronger with each run in a deep, culturally rich world.
Why similar: Text-Based 31.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Point & Click 10.5%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
A terminal operator sim with no tutorial. Route messages, infer the rules from failure and repetition, and survive the loop.
Why similar: Text-Based 29.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Point & Click 11.4%, Mystery 10.3%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
You'd think that after 20+ cases, there'd be no crime left in Twin Lakes - but that's not how crime works, rookie. Six new mind-melting mysteries await Detective McQueen and Officer Dooley - just as soon as they get the mustard out of Dooley's gun.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Text-Based 22.2%, Point & Click 15.6%, Detective 9%, Exploration 7.5%
Live life as a Crewmate in this dangerous narrative adventure through space. As Guard, you're in charge of shipwide security and everything is fine. Until there's a MURDER?! Prove your innocence before the Impostor gets to the rest of the crew... and you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Point & Click 14.2%, Investigation 12.5%, Mystery 11.6%
In a Persian steampunk empire, will you use your arcane alchemy to repair a spaceship, or pilot a mech? Ignite a revolution, or snuff it out?
Why similar: Text-Based 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Adventure 9.9%, Lore-Rich 9.6%
One day, the game distribution site “ViruStream” was infected by a virus caused by hackers! Solve the riddles that the hacker gives you and remove the virus! Inspired by a certain experiential escape game, this is a puzzle-solving game with a time limit of 60 minutes!
Why similar: Text-Based 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Point & Click 11.5%, Investigation 11.2%
Explore different locations, talk to characters, collect evidence, and draw your own conclusions about who, how, and why is behind what happened.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24%, Point & Click 20.1%, Detective 13.6%, Mystery 9.3%, Adventure 6.9%
Ezrebeth is an old, bitter recluse who finds herself constantly invaded by her peculiar relatives during the winter holidays. Oh, and she's stuck in a time loop! Investigate, interview and cross-reference as you attempt to figure out what's going on in this surreal visual novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Point & Click 17.3%, Detective 14.3%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Mystery 9.3%
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: Text-Based 32.1%, Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Lore-Rich 8.5%, Casual 7.3%
