60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Choose Your Own Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Text-Based, Choices Matter.
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.
All (Too) Good Things
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.
The Peresmeshnik
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.
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: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Text-Based 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Conversation 8.4%
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 26.4%, Interactive Fiction 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Story Rich 7.2%, Multiple Endings 7.1%
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Text-Based 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Multiple Endings 9.3%, Choices Matter 7.5%
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: Interactive Fiction 29.3%, Text-Based 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Choices Matter 8.1%
Rebuild society after the climate apocalypse! Can you keep your settlement alive? Will you hold onto your humanity or lose it in the directionless expanse?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.6%, Text-Based 25.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
The year is 2074. “Spark” organization wants to «establish order» in your hometown of Eliseysk. It’s time to answer the call (of justice) and join the resistance. Will you be the one to shoulder the burden of this mission, and persist in this cruel and dangerous world in order to shape its future?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Text-Based 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Cyberpunk 11%, Futuristic 9.7%
"201 - The Bad Number" is an interactive science fiction game-book set on a post-apocalyptic Mars. In a world where only 200 people remain, each new inhabitant may hasten civilization's end. Players make choices that impact the fate of humanity and the colony in a unique dystopian setting.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Detective 10.7%
Experience the hunt for the Monster living in your room in this Visual Novel experience. Your choices will determine the fate of both you and the Monster. Will you figure out what the Monster really is?
Why similar: Text-Based 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Choices Matter 8.7%
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Text-Based 16.4%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Horror 10.5%
Forces beyond human comprehension draw a macabre veil over the icy NY of 1927. A child has disappeared and you, a reporter with an unhappy past as an artist, become entangled in the drama. In this story, inspired by true events, you will investigate between reality, dreams and Lovecraftian horrors.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Text-Based 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Conversation 9.6%
Decipher interstellar transmissions encoded via substitution ciphers aboard Eremite Station. In this choice driven narrative, uncover secrets from planetary governments while conversing with crewmates to reveal their stories and troubles. The ripples of your choices may be felt through the galaxy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Text-Based 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Story Rich 9.1%
Alcyone: The Last City is an interactive sci-fi novel where your choices can lead to the salvation or destruction of the last refuge of civilisation in the universe. Immerse yourself in a branching narrative of diverse characters, intrigue, and world-altering decisions.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Text-Based 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
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 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Detective 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Conversation 8.8%
An analog horror adventure where you work as a staff member at the uncanny facility named Sunberry Care Center, which is dedicated to the treatment of a mysterious disease called Sunberry Syndrome.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Psychological Horror 9.2%
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.
Why similar: Text-Based 28.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Detective 8.1%
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 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Choices Matter 8.8%
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 25.7%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Detective 13.4%, Choices Matter 13%, Horror 10.4%
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: Interactive Fiction 31.2%, Text-Based 29%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.8%
A choose-your-own-adventure novel. Enter the mind of a black-ops team leader heading an impossible mission in a parallel universe. Choices are remembered, story events reflect past decisions, and freely rewind time to try different paths.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Text-Based 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Story Rich 8.4%
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: Text-Based 30%, Interactive Fiction 28.4%, Multiple Endings 15.3%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7%
When you're falsely accused of sorcery, corrupt inquisitors make you the object of a witch hunt. Now, sorcery might be the only way for you to survive.
Why similar: Text-Based 28%, Interactive Fiction 27%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Multiple Endings 12%, Choices Matter 12%
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: Interactive Fiction 39.7%, Text-Based 35.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Puzzle 4%, Story Rich 3.3%
Silent Earth is a short sci-fi text adventure about finding one’s place despite an uncertain future. Explore an off-world mining colony ship, navigate multi-linear character relationships, and steer the story toward one of five endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 27.6%, Interactive Fiction 27.1%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Futuristic 9.3%
A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Choices Matter 7.4%
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 18.6%, Multiple Endings 15.3%, Text-Based 14.7%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Conversation 10.4%
Extract yourself from another fine mess–this time, with your family watching! Mischief, mix-ups, and bewilderingly urgent capers at your ancestral estate.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32%, Text-Based 28.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
Aunewyth is a text-based game with a focus on narration and decision making. It features a short yet versatile storyline that reveals itself according to the choices you make.
Why similar: Text-Based 36.4%, Multiple Endings 15.6%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%
Play as a Duskweaver in this short "choices matter" story about self-sacrifice.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Multiple Endings 16%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
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 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Story Rich 7.8%
10 participants. A death game that unfolds over 31 days. If you kill another participant, you can take their prize money. An interactive fiction game where the story changes based on your choices. In this dangerous game, choose who to trust and who to betray.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Text-Based 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Modern 15%, Choices Matter 9.3%
Professor of Magical Studies is an interactive magical school novel by Stephen Granade, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Choices Matter 9.2%
You’re trapped in a malfunctioning virtual reality with no memories—except of every video game you’ve ever played. Jack into a wild dream in cyberspace.
Why similar: Text-Based 27.9%, Interactive Fiction 26%, Cyberpunk 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8%, Multiple Endings 6.7%
Biocybernetic Trap — an interactive cyberpunk detective. You are given the quantum diary of a long-dead detective, where reality fractures into parallel versions of the investigation.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Cyberpunk 13%, Detective 11.4%, Multiple Endings 9%
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 38%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Story Rich 7.7%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
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: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Text-Based 20.1%, Detective 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Puzzle 8.1%
Find a way out of the Do 11 app by doing missions that come from the mysterious Do 11 app. A choice awaits you to solve puzzles and change the fate of the protagonist. Escape the main character from the Do 11 app while savoring a profound worldview and intriguing story. An incredible twist awaits.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Text-Based 18.6%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Conversation 10.6%
幻想若非幻想 自然可超自然 伴我梦中桃花 懒识人间滋味
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.8%, Text-Based 26.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.6%
This game is a psychological test in which you will face dilemmas that reveal your personality. At the end of it, you will know your psychotype.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Text-Based 16.1%, Detective 11.9%, Multiple Endings 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%
The horror personality q̷̦̈́͊u̸̠͗i̴͈͈̊̈z̴͈͇̳͗͌
Why similar: Text-Based 27.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Psychological Horror 9.9%
The wilderfolk of Ushinega Island waste away in a rotting tropical paradise, haunted by a deadly malediction. Yet behind every curse lurks a secret. You have the power to save them... but should you?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.2%, Text-Based 24.8%, Multiple Endings 15.3%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%
A darkly comedic legal sim where your goal is to get disbarred—spectacularly. Play as a defense attorney or prosecutor in ethically disastrous cases full of bad decisions, weird clients, and Kafkaesque courtroom chaos. Succeed, and you lose.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.2%, Text-Based 30%, Multiple Endings 14.3%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Story Rich 8.3%
Experience the triumphs and tribulations of two Caribbean immigrants in post-war Britain, in the world’s first Windrush video game, from the creators of the BAFTA nominated Before I Forget. How will you shape your story in this branching narrative interactive photo album?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.3%, Text-Based 15.3%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Story Rich 9.6%
A call for help within a mysterious messaging app. Someone lost and wandering through a forest in a faraway place. And their destiny in your hands.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%
Nothing To Remember is an immersive murder mystery that runs in real-time, right on your desktop. Through their personal messages, you'll uncover two characters unknowingly intertwined as they hunt a killer long thought dead. When your next choice could mean life or death, will you answer the call?
Why similar: Text-Based 20%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Detective 13.3%, Choices Matter 8.4%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
A text-based choose your own adventure game, with multiple stories, each with several endings. Stories you create through branching narratives are kept so you can read them again or show them to friends.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Text-Based 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Choices Matter 13.1%
"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested." Story about life, choices and a Man vs the System. This unique interactive literature adaptation. A game, brought to You in early visual novel, text-adventure style.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Story Rich 8.7%
A fable from your childhood. Don't you remember it?
Why similar: Text-Based 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Multiple Endings 9.3%, Conversation 8.6%
Never stop running, not with the galaxy at stake. Save it at all costs, and save yourself if you can.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.1%, Text-Based 24%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, Choices Matter 13.5%
A short, story-driven, detective-mystery game where you are tasked with solving a deceptively simple break-in case. Meet the citizens of Arcadia Springs, find and follow the clues, make the right choices, and you may unlock a dark secret kept under lock and key.
Why similar: Detective 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Story Rich 14.6%, Puzzle 9.7%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
7 Days in Dystopia is a psychological dystopian game where you experience seven days by playing a series of games, making choices, and facing the consequences of winning and losing in a city where people hide behind masks.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Text-Based 12.9%, Choices Matter 11%, Story Rich 9.8%
Wish Us Luck is a multi-plot interactive fiction fueled by your hard decisions. Play three strangers whose fates are intertwined by the cogs of chance on an eventful day. But remember: favoring one character means jeopardizing the others. Good Luck.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Modern 14.6%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, Choices Matter 10.9%
A Brown Rabbit's Story is an interactive storybook, a text-driven adventure where your choices lead to branching paths and multiple endings. In a quiet orphanage, a boy wishes his toy rabbit to life… and together, they must face the world’s cruelties and find hope.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.2%, Text-Based 31%, Story Rich 9.4%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Multiple Endings 7%
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 28.8%, Text-Based 27.8%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Story Rich 9.4%
Can music save the human race? You and the Raqullan Empire will soon find out. Decide whether music, and the humans who make it, should survive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.2%, Text-Based 29.4%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
Befriend misfit deities and make a life for yourself in the Underworld! Can you escape your arranged marriage to the King? Do you want to?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Text-Based 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
Classic Zork meets Existential Crisis. A modern text adventure that explores themes of control, isolation and mental health while levelling up the genre with beautiful pixel art.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Text-Based 17%, Modern 10.8%, Story Rich 10.8%, Conversation 9.3%
Stuck in a dead-end town with plans that go nowhere, Jackie feels as if her life is doomed to stagnancy forever. Getting by with her friends, she is resigned to her fate in a small town- until a chance encounter with a deadly life-form sets in motion a deadly chain of events
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Text-Based 16.3%, Detective 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
Hoist the Jolly Roger and set sail to find the legendary Titan’s Treasure! Do you fight with a cutlass or with magic? Are you biding your time until you can shoot your captain in the back, or are you the reason the rum is gone?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.6%, Text-Based 31.3%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
