60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Text-Based, Visual Novel, Story Rich.
A nostalgic interactive fiction game set in the early 2000's. Chat with your friends, update your LimeJournal, and discover yourself through a rich world of storytelling, love and friendship.
Anachronism\>
It's 1999 and your friend sends you a floppy disk, titled "RemBo". It turns out to be the installer for an old BBS service, filled with both strangers and a familiar face. How are you going to use it?
Beek: Familiar Spirit - Remastered
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.
It's 1999 and your friend sends you a floppy disk, titled "RemBo". It turns out to be the installer for an old BBS service, filled with both strangers and a familiar face. How are you going to use it?
Why similar: Typing 28.1% ★, Text-Based 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, LGBTQ+ 9.3%
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 16.3%, Typing 15.8% ★, LGBTQ+ 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.4%
Dear Agony Aunt is a nostalgic email simulator set in 2006. Offer the right advice to a diverse cast of characters to land a job as a professional agony aunt!
Why similar: Nostalgia 23.9% ★, Text-Based 14.3%, Typing 13.8% ★, LGBTQ+ 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
Where are you, Cinderella? is a visual novel about Vietnamese culture and the world of entertainment. Will you be able to find the lost shoe’s owner? Or, will you find your shoe?
Why similar: Text-Based 15.9%, LGBTQ+ 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Visual Novel 11.2%
In this pre-smartphone-era text adventure, use that good ol’ T9 phone to text your way through the highs and lows of school days. Choose replies piece by piece to shape your own story. Friendships grow; feelings get complicated; secrets flicker. Every reply matters—it all happens Between the Lines.
Why similar: Typing 23.1% ★, Text-Based 17%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Visual Novel 9.3%
Write letters with your typewriter on behalf of others in this cozy single-player game. Compose everything from simple hellos to theater scripts and love letters, express each client’s emotions, and find your own meaning to letter writing.
Why similar: Typing 33% ★, LGBTQ+ 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Text-Based 10.7%, Emotional 10.4%
Experience a pastel-toned emotional journey in Yuika My Bestie, a short visual novel you can complete in under 15 minutes per playthrough. With 5 unique endings and heartfelt choices, it takes just 30–40 minutes to explore every path of this soft, late-night cry.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Text-Based 10.4%, Visual Novel 10.3%
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 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.3%
12 Abroad St is a solo textual adventure game for PC set in a present and urban setting. You have been invited to a party you don't want to attend. Roam the city of Seaforth and try to dodge the party.
Why similar: Typing 40.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Text-Based 11.2%, Visual Novel 8%
If she leaves now you will never see her again. Would you have enough courage to take a step, or would you stay quiet and regret it? Experience this story about love and loss.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.5%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Emotional 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
A flesh-eating dust leaves you to survive alone against hordes of Listless.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, LGBTQ+ 14.6%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Text-Based 9.5%
You've been tasked with collecting data on an alien planet. Choose between exploring the jungle tropics or navigating deep into the bioluminescent sea.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.7%, LGBTQ+ 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Text-Based 14.3%, Visual Novel 12%
Audiences connect to their favorite celebrities all the time. How does it affect these people when put into a game of life or death? Only time will tell.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, LGBTQ+ 15.6%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Text-Based 9.9%
OPUS SCRIBA sends you on a hero’s journey through a magical world filled with unknown dangers, countless riches and an opportunity to become legend. Make choices to decide your fate or roll the dice and leave it to luck. Share your story with your friends and together you may just survive journey.
Why similar: Typing 33.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Text-Based 13.3%, Visual Novel 9.8%
Time is running out after a meteor strikes your interstellar starship. While the crew is under full alert, only you seem to notice the strange red portals opening up throughout the ship. Old school text-based parser: no graphics, huge worlds, no hints. Recommended for text game veterans.
Why similar: Typing 48.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Text-Based 18.8%, Multiple Endings 8.9%, Story Rich 2.9%
Investigate six haunted properties and listen to the voices of spirits trapped in nightmares. Collect fragmented clues and discover the correct combination of names, locations, and vessels. A multi-ending horror adventure where the outcome changes depending on your choices during the ritual.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Text-Based 17.9%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
A story about love, death, and the universe, told through tarot cards.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Visual Novel 14.7%, LGBTQ+ 14.2%, Choices Matter 9.4%
Constantinople, 1453. Four witnesses — a janissary, a baker's daughter, an engineer, a noble — live the same 53 days of the siege. Choices cross between their stories, and the city remembers. An illustrated, choice-driven historical novel where every ending is someone's truth.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Text-Based 18.6%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Multiple Endings 7.1%
3 different Robot-romance stories. Written, drawn, and made by humans, for humans. Since the very moment the first mechanical mind became aware of itself, it craved love. No one truly understand why the heart made of copper and wires started beating, but it did. Even after we were gone.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Text-Based 14.4%, Visual Novel 14.3%, LGBTQ+ 10.9%
Hysteria in Howlsbend is an Interactive Narrative Experience driven by conversational AI Characters, created with the cutting-edge ChatGPT Language Model.
Why similar: Typing 35% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Text-Based 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.4%
Play as Luna, a girl caught in a fight between armed insurgents and spies. Help her navigate her way to saving her friend. Explore a laboratory dedicated to the production of new materials. Enjoy a lighthearted and chaotic story of a girl out of her depth in an espionage mission.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, LGBTQ+ 19.2%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Choices Matter 8%
Will you serve the gods or overthrow them? Battle ancient evils and destiny itself in this epic interactive novel inspired by Greek myth.
Why similar: Text-Based 26%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, LGBTQ+ 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choices Matter 8.2%
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Multiple Endings 10%, Emotional 8.8%
Customize your fate in a fallen world: forge bonds and uncover secrets in a tale of power, love, and the weight of grief. Your choices define your path: how will you rise in the hierarchy of the damned?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.9%, LGBTQ+ 15.9%, Text-Based 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Visual Novel 11%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Text-Based 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
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 22%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Multiple Endings 9%
Shape queer love and friendship at the end of the world in this choice-driven, emotional narrative game. Will you settle for pessimism, or open yourself to trust?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Emotional 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%
Pine Hill is a quiet Midwestern college town. Quiet enough that nobody seemed to hear Ginny Nicholson die. Alone with the thoughts in your head, now you just want to know one thing: why?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Text-Based 19.1%, Nostalgia 14.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, LGBTQ+ 13%
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Text-Based 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
It's not what you say, it's how you say it. We should talk is a short-form narrative game that will make you think carefully about the words you choose. Can your relationship survive the night?
Why similar: Text-Based 19.1%, LGBTQ+ 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Emotional 9.7%
A psychological horror story, with a spiking sense of danger and gentle melancholy. An out of this world adventure, revolving around books, memories and mortality. Along the way, perhaps you shall pick up pieces of a long forgotten heart, or some unlikely companions that you never knew you needed.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Text-Based 13.8%, Visual Novel 11.2%
Tayke Me With You is a visual novel about high school seniors and their struggles with each other and the world around them. You play as Gene, a sheltered, socially naive human from the city as he acclimates to living in a rural town filled with dinosaurs, finding friends (and love) along the way.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.4%
After the death of your lover May, you suddenly receive a new email: she is back, in the form of AI "M". The lover who "lives" in the mailbox, who is strong and eternal, always online, and always loves you. You just need to send letters to her: your choices will affect her and the story.
Why similar: Typing 25.3% ★, LGBTQ+ 16.8%, Text-Based 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Visual Novel 9.4%
Summer Story: An adventure game where you investigate and make choices that shape the story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Text-Based 14.8%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
You've had the same dream all week: a school field trip to a zoo you can't leave, where the lions always find you in the end. Wander the zoo exhibits, make your choices, and search for the way out. A short, hand-painted interactive story about a recurring dream, and finally resolving it.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Text-Based 12.9%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
Be a convenience-store clerk in a first-of-its-kind chat game—and kick out AI Karens. There are no preset choices. Say what you couldn’t in real life and enjoy how the AI responds differently each time. A stress-relief game where your what-ifs come to life!
Why similar: Typing 33.2% ★, Text-Based 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.4%
Skylar is an student with anxiety. Walter is a farmer with social anxiety and PTSD. Jessica is a programmer with anxiety and agoraphobia. Li Wei is an technologist with intense anxiety. Navigate their stories, learn how they move through the world, and about methods of treatment and recovery.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Text-Based 9.8%
Marisa rounds up a most unlikely crew, in search of adventure, and of course, treasure! Interpersonal conflict ensues among the crew, but in the end, their stark differences bring clarity to their personal lives. The real treasure is the one you find within yourself!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Text-Based 15.9%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
A story-rich coming-of-age experience told through a 2004 desktop, where friendships, music, and late-night conversations shape who you become. Explore chats, drama, mini-games, and the early internet in a branching story about growing up, making mistakes, and finding your place.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Text-Based 17.6%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.8%
Melancholy Love is a Yuri Visual Novel between an elite and a misfit in an All-Girls' High School. How will sparks flare between the two?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.2%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Emotional 10.2%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%
Peek into the sins and memories of five personalities through surveillance cameras──This is an immersive, mystery adventure game that unravels the thoughts of the dark past that lie dormant inside Sofia,a suspect in the murder of a presidential candidate, and uncovers the truth behind the crime.
Why similar: Text-Based 22%, Typing 21.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Visual Novel 17%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
Experience the stories of Haru, Erika, and Manami, a trio of friends navigating their feelings of love, connection, and just wanting to belong.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Emotional 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
A short, dark visual novel set in the UK about a young autistic girl's destructive obsession with her older brother.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.2%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Emotional 11.3%, Anime 11.1%
As an elf in a panicked flight from home, you discover a more dangerous secret: a human claiming to be a dragon.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.3%, LGBTQ+ 18%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Visual Novel 9.6%
DREAMIO is a 'choose-your-own-adventure' game where stories and visuals are dynamically created through the power of generative AI in response to your decisions. Explore endless worlds with limitless possibilities; go anywhere, do anything.
Why similar: Typing 29.7% ★, Text-Based 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Visual Novel 9.9%
You are the Monarch. Choose between diplomacy and tyranny. Romance allies or enemies. Your decisions define your rule and the fate of those closest to you in this character-driven interactive tale.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, LGBTQ+ 13.5%, Visual Novel 9.4%
An interactive novel about identity, roleplay, and dreams.
Why similar: Typing 27.8% ★, LGBTQ+ 16.3%, Text-Based 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Visual Novel 10.4%
Graveyard Girls is a halloween-themed yuri visual novel about complicated grief and overcoming hardships. Collect Elle’s “scribbles” to learn about her struggles, befriend a mysterious girl, and have a conversation about death.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, LGBTQ+ 15.2%, Text-Based 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Emotional 10.8%
Foul Play tells the story of a young, bright-eyed detective who is determined to succeed. Her world quickly turns upside down after she is tasked with catching a sexy, mercurial assassin. In the end, she'll need to determine how pure her conscience really is. After all, justice is subjective.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Anime 8.9%
Dive into a captivating standalone story in just an hour! Presenting the first installment of the "Handy Novel" series. Highly praised on smartphones, this acclaimed narrative is now ready for your enjoyment on Steam for PC/Mac!
Why similar: Text-Based 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Emotional 13%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
Some memories aren't meant to stay. We are our memories and our experiences. What happens if you delete some of them? If you change your past and, thus, your future?
Why similar: Text-Based 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, LGBTQ+ 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.8%
The hapless, love-struck Ichika made a big mistake, and she might have ruined her friendship with Hana forever. With the help of her classmate Ayumi, can she work her own feelings out in time to show Hana how she really feels? A soft, comedic romance with big personalities and a tinge of melodrama.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Multiple Endings 7.9%
A free drama-mystery visual novel with a modern fantasy setting. Reach out to the fourteen people trapped inside to find the truth through eighteen endings, influenced by but not exclusively bound to your own system time.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, LGBTQ+ 19.2%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
Under Heaven Or Hell is a Dark Romance Visual Novel where love, danger, and temptation intertwine. Step into Hell and navigate a world of deadly intrigues, alluring devils and a mysterious angel. Each decision carries weight, shaping your fate, desire and the hearts bound to it.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Text-Based 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, LGBTQ+ 10.5%
Samael suffers from delusions. He feels lost until he encounters a priest one day. The priest is the only person in the world who makes him feel at peace. This, however, slowly turns into an obsession. Will Samael learn how to love properly or will he fall into a path of darkness? You decide.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Text-Based 19.7%, LGBTQ+ 17.8%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Anime 10.1%
A light-hearted lesbian romance between a tired office lady and a gyaru foxgirl. Make choices as Sasami and pursue a relationship with the cheerful Mirai, or risk ruining it.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Text-Based 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, LGBTQ+ 15%, Visual Novel 13%
Perhaps it was the curse of a black lily that bloomed too early in the winter...Before graduation, a girl falls in love with another girl... But her pure feelings are torn apart by a "loop of tragedy."By [interrupting choices] and [typing in words], you will weave her feelings into the story.
Why similar: Typing 39.8% ★, LGBTQ+ 22.3%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Emotional 6.7%, Anime 6.5%
Luna has been working too hard, fortunately as she finishes up each night she manages to find her way to a hidden out of the way cafe, one where the gals all dress up like different animals. It could be a place for dreams to come true, or just for Luna to blow off some steam and relax each night.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
Games can really show someone's personality, don't you think? By way of a simple exploration-based adventure, this data-science game analyzes your actions to estimate your personality.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, LGBTQ+ 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Emotional 9.8%
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Text-Based 15.2%, Visual Novel 15%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
