Games Like The Dust of the Violet Crystals

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, LGBTQ+ 12.8%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Female Protagonist 10.1%

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 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Visual Novel 12.9%, RPG 9.8%, Text-Based 8.7%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, LGBTQ+ 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Female Protagonist 9.5%

Play as Alice who has just had an unsettingly life-like dream about the end of the world, and is retelling it to her friend. A single play-through might take as little as 20 minutes, but experiencing all the possible paths Alice can take through the ruins of her city will take you many hours.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.3%, Visual Novel 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, RPG 12.6%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 15%, LGBTQ+ 14.1%, RPG 13.3%, Text-Based 11.6%

Under developement, Grave Knight is an interactive RPG adventure inspired by SRD 5.1 ruleset and classical game books, where your decisions weave the fate of the characters and the story. Let the dice forge the fate of your hero and the realm by fighting the Grave knight and his horde.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Visual Novel 17.6%, RPG 16.9%, Choices Matter 7%

DEAD DETENTION is a scribbly interactive story about a nerdy teen turned dooms day survivor! Play as 14 year old Max as he tries to escape his high school during a deadly zombie pandemic! Will he and his new friends get to safety?!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Female Protagonist 11.8%

They steal your crew and force your ship to crash-land on an alien planet where you must start fresh with nothing but a dilapidated base and a... talking cat?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Visual Novel 13.4%, RPG 13.2%, LGBTQ+ 12%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.9%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Visual Novel 15.1%, RPG 11%, Text-Based 9.9%

The sequel to "Heroes Rise: The Prodigy." It's America's #1 reality show for heroes! As a contestant on "The Hero Project," you'll battle villains and heroes alike with your newly discovered "Infini" powers.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.1%, RPG 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Text-Based 12.1%, LGBTQ+ 11.9%

Uncover a web of evil as a superspy! Break rules, break hearts–don't break cover.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, RPG 16%, LGBTQ+ 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Text-Based 9.4%

IBH is a rich role playing game at the end of time. You're a mid-level official in a dying sci-fi regime, given the impossible task of fixing a faltering machine; explore a vast world, define your mind, flex your authority, and become a sinner or a savior in countless other stories.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, RPG 15.2%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Choices Matter 6%

The Fifth Horseman is a narrative adventure game, set in a fantasy-medieval world, where you will experience many unique stories. After years of war, hunger and diseases mankind finds itself on the verge of extinction and it's up to you to decide its fate.

Why similar: RPG 24.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Text-Based 8.8%

Odesa, 1929. A woman wakes up. This will be her last morning. An all-powerful film camera forces her to watch her life again. Can she find what was missing? A very short choose-your-own-adventure based on Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Female Protagonist 13.8%, RPG 11%

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 26.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, RPG 11.7%, Text-Based 10.9%

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: LGBTQ+ 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Female Protagonist 15.2%

You wake up at the bottom of the ocean, surrounded by your broken memories. Reclaim and compile your magic or drown in a sea of dreams.

Why similar: RPG 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Text-Based 12.2%, LGBTQ+ 9.3%

You are the Veteran. You’re the oldest android in the Solar System, a relic and survivor of the ancient past. Now it’s time for you to fight again. A text-based science-fantasy novel, 700,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.4%, Interactive Fiction 26.1%, RPG 22.8%, Text-Based 11.1%, Choices Matter 5.7%

Join Carmen, a somewhat absent-minded middle-aged lady who has to endure bizarre situations in her space truck. And possibly mess things up like crazy. An interactive narrative experience about the most flamboyant beings in the universe.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, LGBTQ+ 14.5%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Female Protagonist 11.4%

Play as a wise woman, help your neighbors, and they will help you in return. Fight alongside your closest friend to deal with the beasts threatening the village. Uncover the secrets of magic through your journey, and you might even have a chance to confront your inner demons.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Visual Novel 13.2%, RPG 12.8%, Female Protagonist 11.1%

On Love, On Monsters is a Frankenstein-inspired story with an emphasis on love in its many forms. Play as three characters with alternating POVs; the Doctor, The Priest, and The Exile. Bond with allies and enemies, avoid raising suspicion in the town of Blackmoore, and learn what it means to love.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Visual Novel 15.5%, LGBTQ+ 12.1%, Female Protagonist 6.5%

'Angel of glory, Gloria' joined the 'Demonophobia Company' with disguising herself as 'Demon of vanity, Burbary.' Could Burbary finish her mission and go back to her home?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.4%, Visual Novel 20.1%, RPG 14.5%, Female Protagonist 13.9%, Multiple Endings 9.2%

Guide Hamlet (now a Girl *and* a Werewolf) as she deals with a murder mystery, a usurped throne, and a cursed sledding competition. Her emotions are your stats, so.... emote wisely. Or impulsively. Or with shame. It’s her kingdom. Everyone else is just tolerated in it.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, LGBTQ+ 13%, Female Protagonist 12.3%

With the power to freeze time, you can ransack a casino, rescue a celebrity, or cheat death itself! A thrilling interactive sci-fi novel.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.1%, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, RPG 20.1%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Text-Based 10%

The curse wove your fates together. Now their thoughts and feelings influence you and your actions determine their fates. Will you be able to break the curse? Or will their dark pasts drag you into an inescapable despair? And can a fresh start really erase the past?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Visual Novel 14.3%, LGBTQ+ 12.6%, Female Protagonist 12.2%

Visit a variety of water attractions with Jasmin, Celia and Brianna as they strive to have a day of fun together in this Fun yuri/lesbian LGBTQ+ visual novel game.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, LGBTQ+ 17.5%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Female Protagonist 12%

Face down your ghosts and unearth secrets better left buried as you prepare to take vengeance on the ones who wronged you. But be warned, burying your past only works if it stays put.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.2%, Interactive Fiction 25.5%, RPG 22%, Text-Based 11.2%, Choices Matter 6.1%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%, RPG 8.9%

Would a hero like you assassinate the president? "Heroes Rise: HeroFall" concludes the epic "Heroes Rise" trilogy of interactive novels 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: RPG 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, LGBTQ+ 17.6%, Female Protagonist 13.9%, Text-Based 10.8%

An interactive fantasy romance novel set amongst the Greek gods.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25%, Interactive Fiction 24.2%, RPG 19.9%, Text-Based 10.5%, Female Protagonist 7.8%

A visual novel in a post-apocalyptic setting. Find out what happened to humanity, traveling through the deserted world in search of the main character's family.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, RPG 19%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Post-apocalyptic 7.6%

In this Shakespearean comedy adventure, can forbidden love conquer adorable fairy outlaws? Magic, bears, and cross-dressing disguises await in the forest!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.2%, LGBTQ+ 18.2%, RPG 15.9%, Female Protagonist 12.7%, Text-Based 9.6%

A fantasy/adventure visual novel - as Freya Fae, track down the master assassin Orick Genn before he brings ruin to your home city. Rely on faithful companions and make friends with the citizens as you encounter dangers lurking through the streets.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, LGBTQ+ 14.5%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Female Protagonist 11%

Take down multiple criminals case by case as you judge each and every one of them. Will you be naughty or nice? The final verdict is up to you!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.3%, Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Female Protagonist 13.3%, Choices Matter 5.2%

A war that outlived the soldiers who fought it. Enemies inherited by a generation not grown. You will lead your precocious unit into this unending conflict and find out if the bonds of friendship can withstand the tides of war. Overflowing with black humour, you'll laugh till you cry...

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Female Protagonist 10.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%

The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.5%, Interactive Fiction 25%, Visual Novel 16%, Text-Based 7.1%, Choices Matter 6.9%

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 31.1%, Interactive Fiction 24%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Text-Based 10.4%, Multiple Endings 7.2%

A desert fantasy murder-mystery following young involuntary shut-in Vishara Vakricustos as she attempts to solve a murder plot to prove herself to her overprotective mother.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.2%, RPG 19.7%, Visual Novel 16.2%, LGBTQ+ 11.8%, Text-Based 8.5%

Run with unicorns, fly with pegasi, and swim with kelpies as a magical horse! Will you reunite the herds or drive them further apart? A text-based interactive fantasy novel with hundreds of choices and without graphics or sound effects.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.7%, Interactive Fiction 26.4%, RPG 23.1%, Text-Based 11.2%, Choices Matter 5.3%

Memories of Zattera is a visual novel that merges fantasy and science fiction. Explore moral and political dilemmas from multiple viewpoints as tradition, progress and freedom collide. Will you see the world the same once all truths are revealed?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Visual Novel 19.3%, RPG 13.8%, Female Protagonist 10.2%

A candy alchemist finds a candy golem in her basement workshop...

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.9%, LGBTQ+ 20.2%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Female Protagonist 13.6%, Multiple Endings 7.9%

An epic adventure in a land of monsters, traps and magic. Journey across the deadly Shamutanti Hills and through Kharé, Cityport of Thieves. Armed with your sword and over fifty spells with weird and wonderful effects, embark on a narrative adventure of a thousand choices where every one is remembered.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 39.3%, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, RPG 17.2%, Choices Matter 7.8%, Text-Based 6.4%

Summer Story: An adventure game where you investigate and make choices that shape the story.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Female Protagonist 12.2%, Text-Based 7%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.5%, LGBTQ+ 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%, Multiple Endings 8.3%

A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Choices Matter 14%, Visual Novel 12.8%, RPG 12.6%

Always wanted a fantasy world desk job?! Manage eccentric adventurers like a lazy witch, tsundere fairy & useless bard! Approve quests, keep them alive, pay off Elfie's crippling tax debt, and rake in gold for the Guild!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.9%, RPG 20.7%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Choices Matter 3.6%

A haunted convent. Statues that move on their own. A buried past. Welcome to Saint Idelora’s convent, where becoming a saint comes with a price.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Female Protagonist 13.9%, RPG 8.2%

A text-based RPG with a nonlinear story set in a free Slavic fantasy world. Shape the heroine's character through your choices and unlock multiple endings. Mystery, folklore, and relationships — your fate depends only on you.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Visual Novel 14.8%, RPG 13.2%, Text-Based 10.1%

Check in to your hotel, and check out the ghosts! Sexy specters await you - but can you fix up the hotel in style so that the living guests will find luxury, too?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 23.9%, RPG 20.2%, Text-Based 10.4%, Female Protagonist 7.5%

Choose your own story as you take over a beach resort, of course it's not all fun and games but at least the park is filled with an array of beautiful women to distract you. Your choices will determine the story and whether romance is in the air and how your beach visit will end.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, LGBTQ+ 14.3%, Visual Novel 14%, Female Protagonist 11.7%

Charlotte, has been dumped by her long term girlfriend Mikka. Fortunately her sexy friend Sophie insists on taking her out to try and cheer her up. But Sophie is quite a wildcat so who knows where such a date could lead in this yuri/lesbian themed visual novel with multiple routes and endings.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, LGBTQ+ 14.9%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Female Protagonist 12%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.6%, Interactive Fiction 29.2%, RPG 13.7%, Text-Based 12.4%, Choices Matter 7.6%

Your father stole his throne, intending to leave it to you. When the long-lost heir resurfaces, will you defend the king—or betray him to his enemies?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.9%, Interactive Fiction 25.8%, RPG 21.8%, Text-Based 12%, Choices Matter 5.9%

Your robots will change the world! Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army? A 300,000-word epic interactive sci-fi novel.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32%, Interactive Fiction 22%, Text-Based 14.1%, Choices Matter 9.7%, RPG 7.8%

这是一部以“女性支配”为主题的短篇视觉小说。你首次登录这款游戏，发现自己竟是被班上校霸的早古女主，于是你放飞自我，拳打霸凌咔校霸（纪文川），脚踢不听话跟踪狂学生会长（林子莫），故事由此展开……（内涵囚禁、暴力、公调等元素）

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.1%, RPG 29.8%, Visual Novel 20.9%, Female Protagonist 16.2%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Into Oblivion is an immerse interactive novel where your choices shape the story. Set in the far-future, explore a galaxy on the brink of crisis with dynamic companions. So, settle your mind and pray you have what it takes to fly Into Oblivion.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, RPG 18.7%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Text-Based 8.1%

Recent high school graduates gather at a remote cabin for a celebration. What begins as a night of laughter spirals into a tense mystery full of secrets, twists, and chilling choices. Who will survive? Navigate friendships, and uncover the multi-layered mystery in Shadows of Betrayal.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.6%, Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Visual Novel 22.1%, Choices Matter 8.4%, Multiple Endings 5.7%

Help SIS and BRO escape the city (or not, it's up to you).

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Visual Novel 12.1%, LGBTQ+ 11.9%, Female Protagonist 9.6%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Visual Novel 17.2%, RPG 11.6%, Choices Matter 9.1%

You are an intergalactic bounty hunter leading a team of bickering misfits as you track down targets with your words and your weapons to find your missing mom. Make every choice count in this reactive, visual novel love letter to Cowboy Bebop.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, LGBTQ+ 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Female Protagonist 10.8%