
Welcome to Tales of Herring Lake, where your favourite Sunday fishing show meets Alfred Hitchcock. Grab your gear and start shaping your story!
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Interactive Fiction, Multiple Endings, Adventure.

Welcome to Tales of Herring Lake, where your favourite Sunday fishing show meets Alfred Hitchcock. Grab your gear and start shaping your story!

Banned Together
A queer mystery game about book banning. Play as Ruby (they/them), a journalism major on a surreal, after-hours adventure to investigate the disappearance of books from their college library.

When the Crow Sings
WHEN THE CROW SINGS is an adventure mystery game with a focus on exploration, characters, and world building, featuring a cast of diverse survivors trying to keep the status quo as their compound life grows more complicated and dangerous.
A queer mystery game about book banning. Play as Ruby (they/them), a journalism major on a surreal, after-hours adventure to investigate the disappearance of books from their college library.
Why similar: Investigation 21.8%, Nonlinear 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Walking Simulator 10.8%, Multiple Endings 7%
WHEN THE CROW SINGS is an adventure mystery game with a focus on exploration, characters, and world building, featuring a cast of diverse survivors trying to keep the status quo as their compound life grows more complicated and dangerous.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Investigation 15.8%, Nonlinear 12.1%, Walking Simulator 11.2%, Choices Matter 10%
My parents sacrificed an orphan to the red egg. She came back home that night. How will the two of us survive the hunger? Good Children Say Grace.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Nonlinear 16.4%, Investigation 11.7%, Multiple Endings 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
Sir Bucket is a choose-your-own-adventure game set in a fantasy world with over 30 different endings. Explore the world and have your story told by a wisecracking narrator.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Nonlinear 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Walking Simulator 12.9%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
“I hope she’s ok” is a single-player first-person atmospheric mystery inspired by Nordic folklore. Set around a beautiful lakeside cabin in the heart of Finland during the midsummer solstice, the idyllic scene takes a turn for the worse when you discover that your friend is missing.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Walking Simulator 14.5%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Investigation 11.1%
Decide the fate of the son of a tailor and a witch doctor infected with an incurable disease in an interactive story with multiple endings depending on your actions.
Why similar: Nonlinear 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Multiple Endings 15.9%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
Tonight, you are not just helping Serena survive. You are deciding whether she will live, lose her mind, or vanish in this hotel forever.
Why similar: Nonlinear 23.1%, Investigation 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Walking Simulator 12.6%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
The prequel to Road 96. Play Zoe and Kaito where it all started. Change their destinies!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Investigation 14.7%, Walking Simulator 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
A hand-illustrated visual mystery adventure that can be beaten in one sitting.
Why similar: Investigation 21.5%, Nonlinear 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
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: Interactive Fiction 19%, Nonlinear 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Investigation 11.6%
A humorous sci-fi text-driven adventure where you play a support engineer sent to fix system failures in a secret research complex. Explore strange labs, investigate bizarre incidents, solve absurd problems, talk to depressed robots, and make choices that lead to multiple endings.
Why similar: Nonlinear 21.7%, Investigation 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%
A Long Dark Night is a Lovecraftian narrative-driven game. Navigate the stormy Gulf of Maine, unraveling the truth behind your family's past. Explore a beautiful seaside, shape the narrative with your choices, and confront shocking revelations in this gripping story, taking place at sea.
Why similar: Fishing 32.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Walking Simulator 13%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
Welcome to Archival Anemoia, an archive of over 30 different games made over the course of around 13 years, all by one girl in her childhood, and all for free!
Why similar: Fishing 42.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Nonlinear 13.5%, Exploration 9.2%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
Dive into Fishing on the Fly, a U.S.-made indie fly fishing game with authentic and true-to-life fishing challenges. Perfect for future and experienced fly anglers alike!
Why similar: Fishing 44.5% ★, Investigation 20.1%, Simulation 5.1%, Realistic 4.8%, Story Rich 4.7%
You are alone in a deserted station. Or are you? Take pictures of strange anomalies around the station and you might find a way out.
Why similar: Investigation 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Multiple Endings 15.1%, Walking Simulator 13.5%, Exploration 7.6%
Question. Investigate. Save the girl. SURVIVE! The choices are yours in this retro, wacky, b-class horror, FMV arcade game.
Why similar: Investigation 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Nonlinear 10.8%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
The Company wants you productive. The Company wants you calm. The Company wants you compliant.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Walking Simulator 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Exploration 9.3%
Racing against time, a guy wanders around a graveyard on the middle of nowhere, searching for something that may break a deadly curse. Among murders and secrets, only darkness is certain.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.8%, Investigation 12.9%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Exploration 11.9%
You are Hidu, a beastman mercenary in a port city. You must survive one very bad day. How? That’s entirely up to you. There are countless ways for events to unfold — and 25 endings.
Why similar: Nonlinear 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Choices Matter 11.8%
Christmas lights, winter snow, and a serial killer on the loose. Follow a gifted detective through a twisted holiday night in this story-driven, interactive horror game. Your choices determine who lives, and who dies. Can you outsmart the killer?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.1%, Investigation 20.1%, Choices Matter 16.4%, Multiple Endings 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%
Relive the same day without remembering it. Your choices feed four inner alter egos (Shadow, Mad, Alex, and Bully) — shaping reality, glitches, and one of 16 possible endings. The day repeats. Your mind doesn’t. Or does it?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Nonlinear 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Choices Matter 12.8%
Lake Minnewaska is a narrative driven first person fishing game. Fish, explore, and uncover the secrets of Lake Minnewaska as you guide Sosa's journey in becoming a better father.
Why similar: Fishing 46.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Story Rich 7.4%, Exploration 5.8%, Simulation 5.6%
Grotto is a mystical, narrative-focused experience. You are the Soothsayer. The one capable of talking with the stars and unveiling their messages. In a time of turmoil, the tribe of the valley turn to your powers of divination and come to you for guidance.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Multiple Endings 16.1%, Walking Simulator 15%, Choices Matter 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%
A deceptively cozy narrative game about an alchemist that immigrates to a new country and opens an apothecary. Get to know your weird and wonderful community, brew the potions your customers need, and use your words to stir up a country on the brink of change.
Why similar: Investigation 31.1%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Story Rich 5.7%
9 kids who wake up in a mysterious shelter with lost memory. Investigate the signs of intruders and murders and discuss them with your colleagues to move towards the truth! Listen to everyone's statements and use your counter-arguments to uncover the truth behind someone's lies!
Why similar: Investigation 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Multiple Endings 17.2%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
Niluas, an android who suddenly activated 276 years after the extinction of humanity. With her AI, Naive, she seeks lost memories, her activation's mystery, and humanity's extinction's cause. Facing enigmatic foes and hostile androids, she quests for truth about her existence and the desolate world.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23%, Investigation 16.6%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Choices Matter 11.8%
A narrative-driven RPG where you investigate an anomaly consuming the world. Explore, engage in turn-based combat, and make choices that shape the story, your allies, and the fate of everything.
Why similar: Investigation 19.8%, Nonlinear 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%
Paradise Club is known to the wealthy as the island of all fantasies. The leaders cater to every need: young women, submissives, strippers, twins, etc... Our two heroes arrive on the island to solve the mystery surrounding the disappearance of their half-sister.
Why similar: Investigation 23.1%, Nonlinear 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Choices Matter 6.7%
《墨心》是一款将古代中国幻想元素和悬疑科幻相融合的国产视觉小说。男主(你)从昏迷中醒来丧失了记忆,发现自己和另外两女一男困于巨轮密室中。面对匪夷所思的船体变异,恐怖致命的巨型怪物,你们能否成功逃脱?而这超自然的现象,似乎跟一件千年前的战国墨家宝物有关......
Why similar: Investigation 24.9%, Nonlinear 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%
All I want you to do is catch fish and search for others who seem hungry. You are only a bird.
Why similar: Fishing 40.3% ★, Investigation 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Walking Simulator 12.7%, Exploration 6.1%
An experimental narrative game set at a radio station at the end of the world. Host your last show as the sun turns red and the world burns down.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Multiple Endings 17.3%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Story Rich 11.1%
There are rumours of homosexuals in the Navy, and it’s your mission to date them! Sailors of Newport is a point-and-click puzzle game set in 1920s Rhode Island. Infiltrate the gay community, choose who to seduce and who to report, solve puzzles, and grapple with your own burgeoning desires.
Why similar: Investigation 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Multiple Endings 8.3%, Choices Matter 7.6%
Dark Memories is an episodic psychological horror game based on road thriller, slasher, and survival thriller genres. You are currently viewing the prologue episode of the Dark Memories anthology.
Why similar: Investigation 22.7%, Nonlinear 16.5%, Walking Simulator 16%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Choices Matter 7.4%
A text role-playing game about the fate of a mercenary who finds himself in the strange village: Villienville. Investigate who benefits from the sudden appearance of “ghosts” and help residents protect their homes from a mysterious enemy. The main thing is not to make a mistake in your choice!
Why similar: Nonlinear 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.6%
Sanator: The Jewel of Monostructure is a dark fantasy visual novel that combines deep lore with exciting adventures. Who is behind the mysterious thefts and why are the gates of the Monostructure open again? Take control of Richard Murdock, the plague doctor, and find the answer.
Why similar: Nonlinear 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Investigation 16.7%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Choices Matter 10.6%
An immersive storytelling experience that gives you the freedom to roam and explore a large and mysterious building at your own pace while an interwoven narrative plays out around you. Rewind time and watch each story from every angle.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.4%, Walking Simulator 21.5%, Nonlinear 9.1%, Investigation 8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.7%
An experimental narrative game that tells its story through sound and memory. Sort through a box of personal mementos and relive memories from a relationship by closing your eyes in real life.
Why similar: Investigation 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Choices Matter 9.4%
Idol Talent Show Simulation Game-Train from zero to idol debut! Rank high to stay in! Explore the map, manage your schedule and play mini-games.Face tough evaluations,compete with fellow trainees, and forge meaningful bonds. Your choices will unlock 10+ unique endings. Can you shine?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.5%, Multiple Endings 22.3%, Choices Matter 20.7%, Story Rich 13.1%, Simulation 7%
Children have been vanishing while playing with the brand new Room2Room handheld gaming system. You have been contracted to monitor playtest sessions, document any unwanted quirks, and help young testers play safely.
Why similar: Investigation 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Nonlinear 17.5%, Multiple Endings 8%, Exploration 7.3%
Knight, Death and the Devil — This is a dark visual novel that will take you into a creepy world full of danger and unexpected twists.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Nonlinear 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Choices Matter 8.9%
Play as a contractor for a mysterious organization in a new mystery point and click. You're tasked to review tapes and complete reports about strange situations. Find clues, connect dots, choose what you want to believe and influence the world.
Why similar: Investigation 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Multiple Endings 14.9%, Nonlinear 14.4%, Choices Matter 11%
Lost & Found is an adventure-mystery game where you return townsfolk’s lost belongings & uncover personal stories behind each item. It features a hybrid animation style that blends 2D, 3D, pixel art, & more. Gather clues, investigate locals, & ensure every lost belonging ends up in the right hands.
Why similar: Investigation 22.1%, Choices Matter 16.8%, Nonlinear 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
Nightmare Getaway is a first-person psychological horror where Ethan is trapped in a twisted house. Alone, he must survive, uncover dark secrets, and face nightmares that blur with reality. Will he escape or be consumed forever?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Walking Simulator 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Investigation 15.3%, Exploration 9.4%
После неожиданной смерти студент Александр попадает в "Отделение 38", где бюрократия переплетается с мистикой. Раскройте тайны этого потустороннего мира и найдите ответы, которые изменят всё.
Why similar: Investigation 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Nonlinear 20.3%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Choices Matter 9%
Stranded after a plane crash in a freezing wilderness, you must manage body temperature, injury, and sanity as every decision shapes your survival.
Why similar: Nonlinear 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Choices Matter 16%, Multiple Endings 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%
The Faceless Man is a first-person horror game inspired by an old creepypasta about a Tall Thin Man. Brace yourself to confront one of the victims of the ancient legend known as The Faceless Man, whose intentions remain shrouded in mystery.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.4%, Walking Simulator 18.1%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Investigation 12.5%, Exploration 9.4%
You are Max Boston, tasked with solving a murder-suicide crisis in this third person psychological thriller. Use futuristic forensic tools, gather evidence, interrogate suspects, and solve challenging puzzles as you explore the city. Fair warning, Max has to face a few demons of his own, as well...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Nonlinear 20.1%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%
Killer Frequency is a first-person horror puzzle game set in 1987, that puts you in the role of a late-night radio talk show host in small town America whose callers are being stalked by a mysterious killer.
Why similar: Investigation 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Walking Simulator 12.8%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Choices Matter 9.9%
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 33.2%, Choices Matter 16.9%, Multiple Endings 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Nonlinear 11%
Talk is cheap. Trust is earned. You are stuck on The Destin, a forsaken starship on the brink of oblivion that is controlled by Novah, a sentient AI who holds the key to your survival. Befriend, manipulate, deceive, and persuade your way to freedom in this sci-fi narrative adventure.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Investigation 23.5%, Walking Simulator 15.9%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Exploration 7.6%
Silent Harbor is a first-person horror adventure game that will immerse you in a creepy story.
Why similar: Investigation 26%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Walking Simulator 9.7%, Choices Matter 8.7%
The bus to the suburbs suddenly exploded, the scene was a mess, the sales staff, including all 10 people on board died. Lin Shanhai led the scene investigation team to conduct a detailed investigation and visited all the families and friends of the deceased, but the case is still no clue.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Investigation 16.6%, Nonlinear 15%, Walking Simulator 14.8%, Exploration 6.6%
Mistbound is a surreal narrative adventure about overcoming trauma, where the line between reality and dreams is blurred. Loneliness can be too loud. And salvation can be too quiet!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Multiple Endings 19.4%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Walking Simulator 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%
The Vanished Soul is a solo-developed, first-person psychological horror set in 2016 in the fictional city of Novazenica. Explore a hauntingly realistic world, solve puzzles, make choices that matter, and face randomized scares in every playthrough.
Why similar: Nonlinear 23.9%, Investigation 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.1%
You are Nikaria. An agent of a mysterious god, sent to another country. Does the end justify the means? Is the will of the god above the law? Is the death of a non-believer insignificant? The decision is yours alone.
Why similar: Nonlinear 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Choices Matter 11%
Your words shape the adventure. Omea is a revolutionary AI-powered narrative game where your personal Game Master responds to everything you write. No menus, no limits. Just type and forge your own legend across fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, and beyond.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.1%, Choices Matter 19.4%, Multiple Endings 16.3%, Nonlinear 14.1%, Story Rich 9.9%
Lin Shanhai, a reclusive yet brilliant detective, solved major intricate cases in the 90s, compiling vignettes into the acclaimed Lin Shanhai Case Files through his unparalleled deductive skills, earning legendary status.
Why similar: Investigation 26.1%, Nonlinear 22.8%, Walking Simulator 17.1%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Exploration 8.2%
Forget Her is a survival psychological horror game where you explore a haunted house, uncover chilling secrets, solve the mystery, and perform a deadly ritual or run.. Can you survive Alison’s ghost and discover the truth?
Why similar: Investigation 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Walking Simulator 14%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Choices Matter 8.6%
Frame of Mind - A game of thoughts is a brief and cozy narrative game that lets you explore a character via thoughts and momentos you find in stages of their life. Its an introspective game, meant to share some experiences a peer-group of neurodivergent queers, including the dev, had growing up.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Walking Simulator 14.8%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Choices Matter 11.8%
In the early 2000s Somewhere in America, There is a serial killer who calls himself the Love Killer who likes to murder any couple indiscriminately For five years, you'll play Elijah Sanders, a private investigator whose partner is Lieutenant Anthony Williams. victim woman named Kate Hernandez.
Why similar: Nonlinear 24.2%, Investigation 22%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%