60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Choose Your Own Adventure, Text-Based, Adventure, Story Rich.
You have exactly 5. Bread is 4, the bus fare to school is 3. What do you give up? In this short narrative experience, you play as 13-year-old Adam. Confront an interface that reacts to a painful reality, and discover that freedom of choice is sometimes nothing but a privilege.
Penrose
Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.
CLOSED HANDS
CLOSED HANDS is a groundbreaking work of interactive fiction that explores the tangled intertwined stories of five people thrown together by a fictional terror attack.
Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Text-Based 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Psychological 10.3%
CLOSED HANDS is a groundbreaking work of interactive fiction that explores the tangled intertwined stories of five people thrown together by a fictional terror attack.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.7%, Text-Based 23.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Adventure 17.3%, Atmospheric 4.7%
Wake up, watch tv, make a cup of cofffee and try to bear your own meaningless existence.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Text-Based 15.5%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Psychological 12.2%, Minimalist 10.4%
見知らぬ密室で目を覚ました主人公。 頼れるものは、手元に残された一台のスマートフォンだけ。 通話、メッセージ、アプリなどに残された痕跡をたどりながら、脱出の手がかりを探していく。 しかし、情報を集めるほどに、 この事件の裏に隠された異様な真実が浮かび上がっていく。 スマートフォンを操作して進める、サイコロジカル・ホラーADV。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Text-Based 19.9%, Adventure 15%, Dark 6.4%
Do you enjoy listening to stories and having the ability to influence their unfolding? If so, then immerse yourself in the role of an active participant as you join Yaren on her quest for freedom.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Text-Based 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Psychological 13.9%, Adventure 8.1%
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: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 16%, Text-Based 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Minimalist 7%
A serial killer named Karma has kidnapped 8 criminals and will force you to choose the order in which they are executed. Will you be able to decide who deserves salvation... and who deserves death?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Adventure 14.2%, Psychological 10.4%
Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Psychological 11.1%, Text-Based 9.6%
Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Adventure 13.6%, Text-Based 7%
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: Interactive Fiction 26.1%, Text-Based 24.2%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%, Adventure 6.6%
Betrayed in the Amazon, an elite Korean special forces commander crosses into a brutal fantasy world and rises as a lord. A dark military-fantasy visual novel with choices, light progression, and conquest.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Adventure 15.7%, Text-Based 10.5%
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Text-Based 19.4%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Minimalist 6.7%
Izumi, the demon girl you accidentally captured. A novel adventure game where you gradually connect hearts as you spend your days together with Izumi.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.8%, Visual Novel 23.2%, Adventure 20.3%, Text-Based 19%, Atmospheric 5.6%
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 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Visual Novel 18%, Text-Based 11.8%, Psychological 6.3%
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 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Text-Based 15.5%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Adventure 13.9%
When night falls, she wanders into another world... Moonless Moon is a text-based adventure game following a girl as she travels through a variety of different worlds.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Modern 11.3%, Adventure 9.8%
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 38.1%, Text-Based 30.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Adventure 8.6%, Indie 1.8%
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: Interactive Fiction 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Text-Based 18.1%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Adventure 6.1%
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: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Text-Based 16%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Psychological 9.2%
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 23.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Adventure 17%, Emotional 10.1%
Christian Tyler is ready to investigate a new case! Uncover the mystery of the tourist town of Alkelano in our new visual novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Psychological 11.1%, Text-Based 7.3%
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 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Text-Based 15%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Psychological 9.5%
There are no second chances in medicine. A medical suspense visual novel where a young doctor gains the power to rewind time. Use the loop to change the fate of diagnoses, surgeries, and emergency treatments. Your choices shape the story, leading to multiple Bad, Good, and True Endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24%, Visual Novel 21.8%, Psychological 14.9%, Text-Based 14.4%, Adventure 12.4%
Navigate school life, build friendships, survive rumours, and climb the social ladder through natural conversations with students who remember your choices. Every interaction shapes your reputation in this AI-powered social simulation.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.9%, Text-Based 15.8%, Adventure 13.3%, 2D 4.4%
The Tenth Minute is a short narrative game told through chat and novel-style reading. Revisit a school-day memory shaped by unspoken feelings, misaligned memories, and belated understanding between three people. A youthful story with light psychological mystery, complete in around 2 hours.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.7%, Text-Based 20.1%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Psychological 14%, Emotional 6.6%
A psychological thriller visual novel where your choices deeply affect an 18-year-old woman's mental state, leading to multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Text-Based 17.2%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Psychological 8.7%
The Broken Crown is a dark fantasy text adventure between game and novel. Read through a fallen kingdom, make choices at key moments, and face the weight of memory and sacrifice.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.6%, Text-Based 24.5%, Adventure 18.9%, Indie 1.2%
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 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Text-Based 20.6%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Adventure 7.5%
主人公の前に突然現れた人工生命「レプリス」の少女・レゥ。人と変わらない感情を持つ彼女と過ごす中で、「心とは何か」「人間とは何か」という問いに向き合っていくSF恋愛アドベンチャー
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.3%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Adventure 15.6%, Text-Based 15.3%
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 24.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Text-Based 19.3%, Modern 12.3%, Visual Novel 6.4%
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: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Text-Based 20.1%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Adventure 9.1%
A visual novel with multiple endings
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Text-Based 17.9%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Adventure 8.8%
Love remembers you. Even if you’ve forgotten.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.1%, Text-Based 27.7%, Visual Novel 23.5%, Adventure 13.2%, Atmospheric 6.7%
Vacation Terminal is a short 2D Psychological thriller, horror and survival based visual novel with evading based puzzle elements. Following the story of two strangers.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Adventure 14.4%, Text-Based 7.4%
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 25%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Text-Based 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Adventure 9.3%
夜の世界で「星のかけら」を集める少女アイの ゆるくてかわいい街ブラノベルゲーム！
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27%, Text-Based 26.9%, Visual Novel 23.4%, Adventure 20.7%, Indie 1.3%
少女達の「最期の一日」を辿り、真相を紐解いていく
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Visual Novel 22.2%, Text-Based 18.5%, Adventure 17.8%, Emotional 7.8%
A story-driven mystery visual novel set in a remote island village. Gather clues through conversations and exploration, and uncover hidden truths through branching routes and multiple endings amid the tense, claustrophobic atmosphere.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20%, Text-Based 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Psychological 13.3%
-Change the past, create the future - A novel game about changing the past. What would the present be like if you could remove the regrets of that time? Rewrite the book that contains your past and create the future that you could not get. A new sensation ADV is now available from HaraPeko club.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Text-Based 19.8%, Psychological 12.5%, Adventure 12.3%
A visual novel about mental health, depression, and self-love. Play as Amatista, a young woman trapped in isolation, as she begins a journey she never asked for. Every choice shapes the story. Fully accessible for blind and visually impaired players.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Psychological 12.5%, Emotional 7.2%
My name is left behind these white walls. In its place, I am left with dozens of questions. I wander aimlessly, though she seems to guide me. I do not feel safe. Twenty-four hours... and everything will fall into place.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Psychological 15.1%, Text-Based 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.7%
The Trials of Ozymandias is a visual novel set in the high fantasy world of the kingdom of Johrotos. In the capitol city, Dassi, resides the most famous adventurer's guild in all the land: Talleh-Hoy. This is where your story begins.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Text-Based 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Visual Novel 17%, Emotional 6.8%
――My curfew is 8 PM. Having a helicopter mom is annoying, but it's not a big deal.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.4%, Text-Based 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Adventure 10.4%, Psychological 8.9%
A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Psychological 14.5%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Text-Based 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
A girl was murdered, and she is the only one still hunting for her killer. The day before her birthday, Han Xiaoxiao woke as a spirit with no memory, three days dead. Possess the living, gather clues, and uncover how you died. But some truths are harder to bear than death itself.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Visual Novel 21.1%, Psychological 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%, Text-Based 7.5%
Tune the two older women he lives with as humiliation gives way to a sweet, dangerous reversal.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.8%, Visual Novel 23.2%, Adventure 20.3%, Text-Based 19%, Atmospheric 5.6%
メモリーズオフシリーズ最新作のアフターストーリー 主人公「久寿米木一葵」と登場ヒロインたちの「その後」を楽しんでいただけます。 ビジュアルノベル形式のゲームスタイルで選択肢を選びながらストーリーが進行します。 それぞれの道を歩み始めたヒロインたち。 それぞれの未来を大切な「あなた」と一緒につかむため、 それぞれの想いが、今はじける……！
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Adventure 15.7%, Text-Based 9%
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: Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Text-Based 11.4%, Adventure 3.9%
In an AI-powered age where original authors have become largely redundant, play as a dejected writer on the brink of losing their creative drive forever.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Psychological 18.4%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Adventure 6.6%
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 24%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Text-Based 14.6%, Adventure 4.8%
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%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.2%, Text-Based 22%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Choices Matter 4.2%
Enjoy the warm family trip.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.8%, Visual Novel 23.2%, Adventure 20.3%, Text-Based 19%, Atmospheric 5.6%
Embark on an immersive adventure alongside Roh as she tries to break free from her strange dream.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.7%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Adventure 15.8%, Text-Based 15.6%, Psychological 8.1%
Medical clerk Manami Sorano discovers a medical record of a non-existent patient. The next day at a hot spring inn, a murder occurs—the victim’s name matches the record. Coincidence or fate? Using her skills and medical records, she unravels the truth in this mystery adventure!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.9%, Text-Based 26%, Visual Novel 22.5%, Adventure 13.1%, 2D 4.8%
Don't Let Me Fade is an interactive adventure about memory, identity, and loss. Piece together fragments of a life - even if a simple teddy bear is the last symbol of connection to oneself in a world without time.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.7%, Visual Novel 18%, Adventure 17.5%, Text-Based 13.1%, Emotional 7.9%
Board the Trans-Siberian railroad and travel 9,289 km from Moscow to Vladivostok. Clash with a vibrant culture as you meet people as strange to you as you are to them. Journey into a standalone Wanderlust adventure from the makers of The Witcher.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Text-Based 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Psychological 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.6%
Samurai of Hyuga is a brutal, heart-pounding interactive tale. Prepare to enter the land of silk and steel, where fantasy clashes against grim reality, and where the good guys don't always win in the end. It's a harsh world with tough choices at every turn. Good thing you're the toughest ronin around.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.2%, Interactive Fiction 27%, Text-Based 26.2%, Adventure 13.7%, Indie 2.9%
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.8%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Text-Based 14.8%, Choices Matter 3.8%
A boy who hates the night meets a vampire girl who loves it. As they steal blood packs and help those in need under the cover of darkness, the two gradually fall in love. A multi-ending visual novel that gently illuminates the lives of those lost in the night and offers comfort to the lonely.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Text-Based 21.4%, Visual Novel 16%, Modern 11.9%, Emotional 9.5%
