60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Multiple Endings, Choices Matter, Adventure.
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Sir Bucket
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.
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.
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: Narration 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Nonlinear 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Walking Simulator 10.7%
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 19.6%, Nonlinear 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Narration 10.1%, Walking Simulator 9.6%
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: Narration 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Nonlinear 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
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 18.8%, Investigation 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Narration 13.5%, Choices Matter 10.7%
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 37.8% ★, Narration 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Story Rich 5.9%, Exploration 4.6%
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 19.6%, Narration 17.7%, Walking Simulator 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Investigation 12.6%
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 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Narration 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
Question. Investigate. Save the girl. SURVIVE! The choices are yours in this retro, wacky, b-class horror, FMV arcade game.
Why similar: Investigation 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Narration 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Nonlinear 9.6%
Clara, a teenager struggling with psychological issues, is visited one night by a mysterious entity through her TV. As she falls asleep, She begins her perilous adventure in her dreams. Will she be able to discover the truth? Or will she continue to dream for eternity?
Why similar: Narration 19%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Multiple Endings 11.7%
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 20.6%, Nonlinear 17.6%, Narration 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Multiple Endings 11.9%
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 20.7%, Narration 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
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: Narration 18.7%, Nonlinear 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Investigation 13.6%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
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 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.1%
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%
The Barbarian and the Subterranean Caves is an adventure visual novel about the heroic feats of the intrepid warrior Ragnar. Now you can become the famed adventurer Ragnar and bravely seek out all-new original adventures in this exciting game. Delve into the mysteries of the caves and discover what lies in waiting below.
Why similar: Narration 21.8%, Nonlinear 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
"The Adventurous Four" is a sequel to our "Wild Island Quest" visual novel, which was published a few years ago. In this game-book you'll have to go on a journey full of dangers and adventures. The main characters are all good friends, ready to overcome difficulties to save each other in this quest.
Why similar: Nonlinear 20.8%, Narration 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
“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 14.4%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Investigation 11.1%
This interactive first-person VR experience is set in the Vajont valley, some hours before the disaster. A wife and her husband are talking about their future: the woman senses the danger and wants to leave; her husband dismisses the idea of danger. The player will determine the end of their story.
Why similar: Nonlinear 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Narration 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.2%
An experimental narrative game that tells its story through sound and memory. Sort through a box of personal mementos and relive memories from a seven-year relationship by closing your eyes in real life.
Why similar: Narration 18%, Investigation 18%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
Play as Kenneth, a private detective, and Blue, a runaway searching for answers. Explore the megacity of Republica in a semi-open world, solve criminal cases, make decisive moral choices, and uncover the truth behind Blue’s past.
Why similar: Narration 19%, Investigation 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Choices Matter 10.2%
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 21.4%, Narration 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Nonlinear 11.7%
A claustrophobic horror game taking place in an elevator.
Why similar: Narration 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Walking Simulator 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
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 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
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 19.8%, Nonlinear 17.6%, Narration 14.7%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Choices Matter 10%
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 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%
In this narrative game, you play as Paula Cole, a food safety officer for a multinational corporation, who gradually takes on the role of whistleblower. The whole scenario is based on a journalistic work, coordinated with the online newspaper Mediapart.
Why similar: Narration 26%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Investigation 16%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Choices Matter 10.3%
The prequel to Road 96. Play Zoe and Kaito where it all started. Change their destinies!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Investigation 14.8%, Walking Simulator 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
Step into the quiet wilderness and explore a vast natural region with your loyal dog. Pack your gear, grab your map, and begin a journey of discovery.
Why similar: Fishing 24% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Narration 16.3%, Investigation 13.1%, Exploration 8.2%
You wake up on a red chair in the waiting room of a closed psychiatric hospital. You know this place. Clothes that aren't yours. A file with your name you don't remember reading. Your heartbeat rises. The memories come back. Not all of them want to be remembered. St. Mary's, 1985.
Why similar: Narration 24.6%, Investigation 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Choices Matter 9.7%
Non-Linear Text Quests is a bundle of text games of various genres. Here you can find interactive stories with branching plots and text-only versions of classic Point & Click quests, where you can communicate with different characters, use your inventory and combine items in various locations.
Why similar: Nonlinear 21.3%, Narration 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%
Immerse yourself in the atmosphere of military events, become one of the volunteers of the country, where your every decision can become critical. Explore locations, make decisions, complete challenging missions. Everything is in your hands. Good luck!
Why similar: Narration 26.9%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.4%
This visual novel is a collection of alternative realities. How events would turn out and how they end will depend on your choices. Visit wolf's den and solve his secret, or try to tame the wild beast. Eat a pasty with mushrooms and experience something new, or feed it to the old lady, because it's her favorite filling.
Why similar: Narration 22.7%, Nonlinear 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
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 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Investigation 11.6%
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 22.4%, Nonlinear 13.5%, Exploration 9.2%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
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 32.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Walking Simulator 12.9%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
Dear Esther immerses you in a stunningly realised world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the outer Hebrides. As you step forwards, a voice begins to read fragments of a letter: 'Dear Esther...' - and so begins a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Narration 20.9%, Walking Simulator 17.3%, Investigation 15.6%, Exploration 8.4%
A sound, a flash, a portal… A pirate emerges, bringing a deadly threat. Five friends stand before him, and one of them is the target. But which one? Even they don't know.
Why similar: Narration 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Nonlinear 11.8%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
Northern Québec, 1970. A bizarre mist —the Brume— is disconnecting a rural mining village from its quiet reality. Step into the shoes of Detective Carl Faubert as he unfolds the mysteries haunting the region while battling for his own survival.
Why similar: Investigation 23.8%, Narration 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Walking Simulator 10%, Exploration 6.8%
A Pentiment-like set in 19th-century Malaysia, featuring pirates, East Indiamen, headhunters, a locked-room murder mystery, a blade of meteoric ore, a tarot deck, a mountain of light, and a tiger. It’s time to put your thinking cap on; as for those voices in your head – probably best to ignore them.
Why similar: Narration 22.4%, Investigation 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
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: Narration 21.4%, Investigation 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%
Holy Deadline is a surreal, story-rich visual novel where you play as a demigod lawyer. You have one week to investigate the divine divorce of Adam and Eve! Flirt, drink, raise your stats and make bold choices in minigames and Heaven's drama.
Why similar: Narration 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Nonlinear 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Choices Matter 10.8%
All hands on deck! A strange, oily fog has enveloped the waterfront of the port town of Quietcape, where local fishermen go, never to return again... Can you solve this mystery?
Why similar: Narration 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Investigation 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Multiple Endings 12.2%
Play as a ghost and influence women in the house in order to get sexual pleasures from them and achieve your goals by manipulating both the environment as well as their mind.
Why similar: Narration 19.1%, Nonlinear 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Choices Matter 8.9%
Welcome to the Kabaret - where monsters from Southeast Asian myths and folklores dwell. Perform tea ceremonies, play traditional games, and question your humanity.
Why similar: Investigation 22.7%, Narration 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Choices Matter 11.5%
This is an multi-perspective detective story and you are the centerpiece. With a narrator watching everything you do, bending his story to what you've uncovered, and failed experimental creatures hunting for new meat, will you survive to find the truth of what happened to your brother?
Why similar: Narration 21%, Nonlinear 19.1%, Walking Simulator 13.4%, Investigation 13.4%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
Embark down the small path of a girl named Abby as she goes back home and digs through her childhood, reliving the past to help reveal the secrets of what actually happened. What will you uncover? Will the family mystery end with you, or will it be just another legend. REIMAGINED VERSION OUT NOW!!
Why similar: Narration 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Investigation 19.5%, Walking Simulator 14.5%, Exploration 7.8%
HYPNOS is a first-person adventure and exploration game, set in a lovecraftian megastructure fever dream. Enter the Nameless City at the edge of Dreams. Follow the trail into the shadow of the Holy Mountain. Embrace your destiny.
Why similar: Narration 16.9%, Walking Simulator 14.9%, Nonlinear 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Multiple Endings 10%
Experience liminal spaces like never before. A psychological exploration where intuition replaces guidance, environments feel alive, and the fear comes not from monsters, but from being lost, observed, and slowly overwhelmed by the space itself.
Why similar: Investigation 18.7%, Narration 18.5%, Nonlinear 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Walking Simulator 13.4%
The meteorite will hit your space station in 3 days, and you’re bolted to the floor. Can you convince someone to free you? Meet, persuade, and escape certain doom with a large cast of characters in this bittersweet and hilarious adventure game!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Narration 16.7%, Nonlinear 15.2%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%
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 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Multiple Endings 15.2%, Walking Simulator 13.4%, Exploration 7.6%
A short visual novel about a girl who experiences a clinical death.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28%, Narration 23.7%, Multiple Endings 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Choices Matter 11.6%
Human belief has the power to change reality. For millennia, alien races have been visiting Earth, gaining supernatural abilities and fantastic wealth by exploiting this remarkable power. But humans are advancing, and many aliens now find themselves leaving Earth with nothing but debts and regrets.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Multiple Endings 20.8%, Narration 18.6%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%
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 26.2%, Investigation 20.2%, Choices Matter 16.7%, Multiple Endings 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%
Hardcode logical detective game. Only a few clues will help finding murderer. Was it just an accident or a murder? Thief broke in to steal something? Money? Or was it just a broken heart revenge? Well, you`ve got a chance to solve this case...
Why similar: Investigation 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Nonlinear 13.6%, Narration 9.6%, Exploration 7.4%
Play 4 characters, live their unique stories and manage their daily lives to create their best day ever. In this narrative game, your decisions have consequences and change the outcome of the stories.
Why similar: Narration 26.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Multiple Endings 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Choices Matter 12.9%
Wild West, ancient magic, non-linear plot, puzzles and colorful characters are all waiting for you in “The Dancing Bones”! Deep drama and humor intertwine in a unique world where every choice you make changes the story. Are you ready to uncover secrets, break curses, and change your destiny?
Why similar: Nonlinear 19.2%, Narration 18.3%, Walking Simulator 17.3%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Story Rich 8.8%
A narrative noir thriller set in Kyoto. Detective Thomas Bennett investigates the disappearance of a British agent, only to collide with the Yakuza, a shadowy conspiracy, and a truth that should never surface.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.6%, Narration 25.4%, Simulation 10.6%, Investigation 10.5%, Exploration 8.6%
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 29.7%, Investigation 12.9%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Exploration 11.8%
An interactive graphic novel reimagining Cervantes' masterpiece in striking neo-noir style. Guide Don Quixote through La Mancha, make choices that shape his journey, and discover four unique endings in this tragicomic tale of idealism and madness.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Narration 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Choices Matter 12%, Multiple Endings 11.6%
Decamped is a first-person puzzle adventure game that finds the character waking up to an overgrown desolate world. They must face their past in order to move forward and unravel the mystery of what happened in Deckner.
Why similar: Investigation 28.1%, Narration 19%, Story Rich 11%, Exploration 10.3%, Adventure 10.1%
