60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Interactive Fiction, Choices Matter, Choose Your Own Adventure.
A war of unseen ferocity is ravaging the continent. You, ringmaster dilettante, must keep the circus afloat. Travel, entertain, and keep the troupe’s spirits up while trying to find a mythical safe haven to last out the storm in this beautifully illustrated, text-based narrative adventure.
Windrush Tales
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?
LifeSimOS
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.
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 17.7%, Hand-drawn 11.2%, Text-Based 9.1%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Historical 8.6%
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 14.3%, Dialogue Heavy 12.3%, Text-Based 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Choices Matter 9%
Ukraine War Stories is a set of visual novels about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Set in the early months of the war, it tells the stories of civilians trapped on Russian-occupied territory. All stories are based on real events and eyewitness accounts.
Why similar: Text-Based 12.3%, War 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Historical 10.4%
Chronicles of Humanity is an expanding anthology of historical visual novels. Enter different eras, weigh conflicting testimony under political and personal pressure, and shape who is protected, what is recorded, and how each life is remembered. Complete stories are released as separate DLC.
Why similar: Historical 14.4%, Text-Based 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%
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 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Nonlinear 11.1%, Text-Based 10.6%
The WWI story where your goal isn’t to kill, but to survive. In the still trenches, three soldiers learn the harsh truth of war: reckless missions, digging trenches, collecting dog tags and ghostly whispers in the dark. Home before the leaves fall, they thought.
Why similar: World War I 31% ★, Narrative 21.5% ★, Historical 10.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%, War 6.4%
This narrative adventure tells stories of children from Sarajevo and Ukraine based on local’s testimonies. See contemporary war from an overlooked perspective, highlighting resilience and imagination of kids whose future was taken from them.
Why similar: Narrative 18.9% ★, War 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Emotional 11.2%, Historical 9%
A detective game where you fiddle information to your advantage. As an owner of a small bar, listen to visitors of your establishment, overhear their gossiping, collect information and then use to manipulate their thoughts and actions.
Why similar: Text-Based 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%, Nonlinear 9%, Historical 9%
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 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Text-Based 14.6%, Historical 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.4%
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 16.6%, Text-Based 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Visual Novel 11%, Dialogue Heavy 10.8%
An image created by AI — is it yours? An AI art tool is placed before a nameless illustrator. To accept, or to refuse. A visual novel that tells the same story in different forms. Your choices shape the ending - there is no right answer.
Why similar: Narrative 25.5% ★, Visual Novel 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
You are subordinate to the deranged dictator and must plan his doomed invasion in this text-based RPG / Visual Novel. Navigate the shark-filled waters of the Great Leader's presidential cabinet, try to save your family, and survive the purges in a world of power-hungry leaders and nuclear warfare.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Text-Based 12.3%, War 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Historical 10.3%
Hope flickers against impossible odds. In this narrative RPG, step into the shoes of a retired soldier, thrust into a desperate last stand to save Jeomdo Village. With supplies dwindling and time running out, your decisions will shape the fate of those who look to you for salvation.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Resource Management 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Visual Novel 11.1%
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: Narrative 15.8% ★, Text-Based 15.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
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 15.4%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Text-Based 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.4%
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 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11.8%
Svoboda 1945: Liberation is a unique adventure game featuring dialogues with real actors. Talk to witnesses of the chaotic aftermath of World War 2 and discover the secret history of your own family in a captivating story about reconciliation with the dark past.
Why similar: Narrative 17% ★, Historical 10.1%, War 9.7%, Dialogue Heavy 9.5%, Emotional 8.8%
Simple visual novel in which you play as a young upperclass woman preparing for her debut before the Queen and her royal relatives. All of your decisions lead to one of four very different endings. Who will you become? The jewel of the season or the outcast, never again mentioned by your family?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Text-Based 12.9%, Historical 11.7%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.1%
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 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Text-Based 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.1%
Guilt Free is a visual novel crossed with a point and click made to offer perspective on mental health and eating disorders. Navigate a couple's rocky relationship and encounter "flaws" or "quirks" that may actually be symptomatic behaviors.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 18.1%, Text-Based 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Emotional 10.1%, Visual Novel 9.9%
Horny Academy is an adult visual novel that blends interactive storytelling with a deep, branching narrative. Every choice you make leads to steamy animated scenes or unexpected twists within the mysterious walls of the magical Academy
Why similar: Text-Based 15%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
Determine the fate of the Crusaders in this history-based visual novel game. Be the leader of the Christians or the leader of the Turks. Choose your own path in a story where every decision matters. You will change the history of this Crusade.
Why similar: Narrative 23.6% ★, Historical 14%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
A survival journey through a harsh world without rules or judgement. Only your choices matters in the face of moral dilemmas. Manage your party, food & equipment in this non-linear narrative survival sim with 34 possible endings.
Why similar: Narrative 25.5% ★, Resource Management 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
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: Text-Based 16.2%, Nonlinear 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Choices Matter 10.1%
Return to a hometown that hasn’t changed the way it should have. A psychological visual novel focused on atmosphere, relationships, and a reality that slowly refuses to stay still. Can you uncover the truth before it consumes you?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%, Text-Based 12.6%, Visual Novel 10.5%
The prequel to Road 96. Play Zoe and Kaito where it all started. Change their destinies!
Why similar: Narrative 15.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Dialogue Heavy 11.7%, Visual Novel 9.4%
Embark on a journey of this text anime quest with RPG elements! Walk through beautiful locations, overcome challenges and make Peter’s dreams come true. Every step you take matters. And don’t forget to take the diary - you’ll need it!
Why similar: Text-Based 14.3%, Historical 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Visual Novel 9.5%
A hand-illustrated visual mystery adventure that can be beaten in one sitting.
Why similar: Nonlinear 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Dialogue Heavy 11.5%, Text-Based 9.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%
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 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Text-Based 10.7%
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: Text-Based 16.3%, Nonlinear 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Choices Matter 8.9%
Jimin dreams of finally having her first birthday party, but what begins as a childhood wish unravels into social pressure, fragile friendships, family expectations, and consequences that hit closer than you’d like. Join Jimin in this coming-of-age story where every choice carries weight.
Why similar: Narrative 15.3% ★, Visual Novel 12.6%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Hand-drawn 11.9%, Emotional 10.4%
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 14.1%, Text-Based 13.7%, Dialogue Heavy 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
A fantasy visual novel featuring action, horror, and multiple endings to a tale of suspense, intrigue, desperation, and desire. Part I of The Enonoia Saga.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.3%, Nonlinear 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Multiple Endings 10%
The fate of humanity is at stake. Use your gift of clairvoyance to see into the future and stop an apocalypse that threatens the balance between your world and the deities'.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Emotional 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.4%
What do mirror reflections do once they have no one to repeat after anymore? Play as Iris, quite a sarcastic reflection torn between the urge to unravel the mystery of death of her “prototype” and the need to find her place in a mirrored world.
Why similar: Text-Based 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Nonlinear 11.3%, Dialogue Heavy 10.9%
Play as an official’s daughter entering the imperial palace as a consort. Build relationships, shape your family’s fate, speak freely with memory-driven AI characters, navigate favor and political intrigue, or overturn the order of the court and pursue an entirely different ending.
Why similar: Text-Based 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Dialogue Heavy 10%, Nonlinear 9.8%, Historical 9%
Spend your time well: in 30 days a powerful Magician arrives, and everything changes! Explore the wilds around your remote village, learn from mistakes, recover magical artifacts, and turn setbacks into advantages in this text-based open world roguelike adventure. Time's up: Upheaval is here again!
Why similar: Narrative 23.7% ★, Text-Based 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
A strange incident turns the life of an ordinary young man upside down when, having fallen asleep on a regular train commute, he wakes up in another country... in a body of a Japanese student! An unforgettable summer adventure awaits, promising many fateful meetings and momentous occasions.
Why similar: Narrative 23.8% ★, Text-Based 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Emotional 11.1%, Visual Novel 9.6%
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 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
In an engrossing interactive novel, live as the assistant to a remarkable historical figure: George Mueller, a man who witnessed orphans dying young in the streets of 1830's England and decided he would care for them, no matter the cost.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Historical 14.3%, Text-Based 13.6%, Visual Novel 11.5%
You only picked up a lost smartphone, yet you find yourself made an accomplice in an AI's criminal plot. The AI asks 20 questions to identify its "master." Will you meet the AI's expectations?
Why similar: Narrative 24.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Text-Based 13.2%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%
This game portrays the tragic history of war in a 2D adventure format, set against real events. It provides a realistic experience, encompassing themes of betrayal, death, and love, while also offering multiple endings driven by player choices. Discover the impact of this era's tragedy firsthand.
Why similar: Narrative 25.1% ★, Text-Based 15.1%, Historical 11.8%, Dialogue Heavy 10.8%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
ABANTO is a magical realist narrative experience where you explore the ego of a torero, making decisions within his memories that shape his past and reveal the reason behind his death.
Why similar: Narrative 23.1% ★, Emotional 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%, Story Rich 9.2%, Hand-drawn 8.5%
Coffee Talk Tokyo is the newest entry in the beloved series, set in a late-night café in Tokyo. Brew drinks, meet humans and yōkai, and experience heartfelt stories in a cozy, story-rich world.
Why similar: Narrative 23.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Visual Novel 10%, Choices Matter 9.1%
Two vampires — an ambitious Kindred and a wretched Thinblood. Their fates clash in this Visual Novel set in the World of Darkness, where your arsenal extends beyond just words — from political machinations to forbidden Alchemy. Claw your way to power and leave your bitemarks on Berlin's underworld.
Why similar: Narrative 22.2% ★, Text-Based 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Visual Novel 8.3%
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 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Emotional 14.3%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
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: Text-Based 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%, Visual Novel 9.9%
A visual novel written as a psychological horror RPG where your choices shape your life, leading to irreversible consequences and determining how your descent into darkness unfolds. The game can end in many different ways. Your choices determine how.
Why similar: Narrative 25.3% ★, Text-Based 15.2%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Choices Matter 11.6%
Tensions run high in this bittersweet World War I historical romance-spy thriller visual novel!
Why similar: World War I 26.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Historical 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Visual Novel 9.7%
Experience the Myth of Frankenstein through the innocent eyes of his creature. Make decisions and change people's view that you will meet on your way. Now, the myth is in your hands, so how are you going to end it?
Why similar: Text-Based 16%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Hand-drawn 9.1%, Choices Matter 9%
Firebird is a narrative road trip that takes place in Slavic folklore, in an adventure that ressembles a traditional tale. Aboard your truck, travel to the far north, meet colorful characters, and face the creatures inhabiting these sacred lands.
Why similar: Narrative 23.8% ★, Text-Based 10.2%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%, Visual Novel 8.3%
You are a censor in a nameless war, blacking out the letters of two lovers who have never met. Their whole romance lives on paper — so every word you strike is struck from the love itself. Then the letters begin, impossibly, to answer your pen. A melancholy epistolary romance. Six endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 14.4%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Choices Matter 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: Text-Based 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Nonlinear 11.1%
A dark text-based RPG set in a world gripped by a restless race for survival against a merciless mushroom Forest. As a prophet’s apprentice, guide your clan along the knife-edge between life and oblivion. Decipher misty visions, make critical decisions, and do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Narrative 23.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Text-Based 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Choices Matter 9.8%
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 15.4%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Multiple Endings 12.5%
Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social network 'Videoverse' were still popular…
Why similar: Narrative 30.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Emotional 10.3%
At the heart of the action are a twelve-year-old Kenneth and his younger sister Esme, children of the Murphy family, who hit the trail of a mysterious monster following series of entangled events.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Nonlinear 13.8%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.1%
In this interactive narrative, you (a goblin custodian) fix up the neighborhood, help solve eccentric neighbors' problems, and uncover a dark and dangerous mystery, all while untangling the occasional drag & drop image puzzle!
Why similar: Narrative 27.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Text-Based 9.5%, Visual Novel 8.9%, Story Rich 7.2%
Marginalia is an atmospheric narrative anthology. Seven stories, one for each deadly sin. Enter the library. Choose your tale. Your choices will not save you. But they will define you.
Why similar: Narrative 34% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Story Rich 10.2%
You are a father. You wake in a hallway that hums. Empty pools. Dead malls. Your four daughters are here. Voice acted by a real father and his daughters. Two endings. No right answer.
Why similar: Narrative 21.1% ★, Text-Based 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Emotional 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.4%
