60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Text-Based, Choose Your Own Adventure, Singleplayer, Adventure.
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 19.3%, 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 29.8%, Text-Based 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Adventure 17.1%, Atmospheric 4.8%
Wake up, watch tv, make a cup of cofffee and try to bear your own meaningless existence.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Text-Based 15.6%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Psychological 12.3%, Minimalist 10.4%
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 28%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Text-Based 20.6%, Adventure 16%, 2D 3.8%
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 21.2%, Text-Based 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Psychological 13.9%, Adventure 8%
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 17.7%, Adventure 13.4%, Text-Based 7.1%
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 35%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Psychological 11.1%, Text-Based 9.7%
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 24.4%, Visual Novel 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%, Adventure 6.5%
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 19.5%, Visual Novel 15%, 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 23.1%, Adventure 20.1%, Text-Based 19.2%, Atmospheric 5.6%
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 27.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Psychological 16.4%, Text-Based 10.1%, Adventure 7.2%
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 30.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Adventure 8.5%, Indie 1.8%
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 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Text-Based 15.6%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Adventure 13.7%
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 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Modern 11.2%, Adventure 9.6%
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 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Psychological 11.1%, Text-Based 7.4%
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 16.1%, Visual Novel 13%, Psychological 9.2%
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 15.1%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Psychological 9.5%
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 23.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Adventure 16.8%, Emotional 10.1%
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 20.2%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Psychological 14%, Emotional 6.6%
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 31.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.9%, Text-Based 15.9%, Adventure 13.1%, 2D 4.5%
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 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Text-Based 17.3%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Psychological 8.7%
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 20.7%, Visual Novel 16%, Adventure 7.4%
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 20.9%, Text-Based 19.4%, Modern 12.3%, Visual Novel 6.4%
A young man enters prison after a desperate mistake — but the real transformation has already begun. An adult visual novel about identity, survival, and unexpected desire.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Adventure 16.6%, Psychological 12.8%
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 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Text-Based 20.3%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Adventure 9%
A visual novel with multiple endings
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Text-Based 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Adventure 8.7%
Love remembers you. Even if you’ve forgotten.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.1%, Text-Based 27.9%, Visual Novel 23.4%, Adventure 13.1%, Atmospheric 6.8%
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 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Adventure 9.2%
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 25.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Adventure 14.3%, Text-Based 7.5%
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: Text-Based 27.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27%, Visual Novel 23.4%, Adventure 20.5%, 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 22.1%, Text-Based 18.7%, Adventure 17.6%, Emotional 7.8%
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 18.7%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Psychological 12.6%, Emotional 7.2%
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 20.1%, Text-Based 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Psychological 13.3%
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 14.7%, 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 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Emotional 6.8%
-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 20.5%, Text-Based 20%, Psychological 12.6%, Adventure 12.1%
A text-based psychological horror experience set inside a hospital where something is deeply wrong — and death may not be the end.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Text-Based 15.8%, Psychological 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Visual Novel 10.4%
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 13.3%, Text-Based 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
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 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Psychological 18.4%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Adventure 6.5%
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 25.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Adventure 15.5%, Text-Based 9.1%
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 25.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.9%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Text-Based 11.5%, Adventure 3.8%
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 25.1%, Text-Based 22.1%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Choices Matter 4.2%
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 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Psychological 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.5%
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 18.7%, Text-Based 14.7%, Adventure 4.7%
Embark on an immersive adventure alongside Roh as she tries to break free from her strange dream.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.8%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Text-Based 15.7%, Adventure 15.6%, Psychological 8.1%
Enjoy the warm family trip.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.8%, Visual Novel 23.1%, Adventure 20.1%, Text-Based 19.2%, Atmospheric 5.6%
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 26.2%, Visual Novel 22.5%, Adventure 13%, 2D 4.9%
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 30.5%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Adventure 17.5%, Text-Based 13.4%, Emotional 7.7%
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 17.6%, Text-Based 14.9%, Choices Matter 3.9%
In the heart of the Afghan wilderness, amidst the chaos of war, you awaken to the stark reality of your mission: three days to navigate the perilous landscape, uncover hidden truths, and confront the ghosts of the past.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Text-Based 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Adventure 7.9%
Kagari, a withdrawn child, and Kagami, the robot living in society as their stand-in—Only one will be recognized as the real Kagari. Your role is to gently observe their choices and decisions. Your role is to gently observe their choices and decisions.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Adventure 15.7%, Psychological 12.5%, Text-Based 9.5%
Anxiety Puppy is a 2D interactive narrative game that focuses on anxiety. In the game, anxiety is personified as a little puppy. Players will explore its story and try to coexist with it. Go find its traces and give it a hug.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Psychological 17.2%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Adventure 10%
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 29.6%, Text-Based 27.3%, Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Adventure 13.9%, Indie 3%
"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: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Text-Based 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Visual Novel 16%, Adventure 7.9%
Play as an AI interacting with users.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Text-Based 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Psychological 8.8%, Minimalist 7.5%
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: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Psychological 17.2%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Text-Based 9.9%
"Sign White" is a text visual novel set in a fictionalized medieval era. Send letters from your pigeon house to communicate with people for a limited period of time. Make connections to save people, listen to their worries, and participate in important decisions to change the fate of the world.
Why similar: Text-Based 27.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.1%, Visual Novel 23.4%, Adventure 20.3%, Indie 1.4%
A short psychological horror interactive story. Five years after vanishing without a trace, the woman you once called your lover writes from beyond the silence: "I will give birth to our creation.” In three acts, descend into a fractured mindscape where obsession, memory, and myth intertwine.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Text-Based 15.7%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Psychological 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%
You are the wizard of this interactive fantasy story! Stay alive, manage your spell power, find treasure, and smite evil. All 6 episodes are included for 20+hours of adventure.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Text-Based 20.8%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Adventure 7.8%
