60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Choose Your Own Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Visual Novel, Choices Matter.
Milan, 1963. Inherit your uncle's mysterious studio and discover a color that shouldn't exist. In this cosmic horror gamebook, you must balance your Sanity and Lucidity as you uncover the secret of the 12th canvas. Will you finish the work, or let the pigment consume your mind?
The Shadow
What starts as a simple, highly-paid night shoot in an abandoned marble quarry descends into a psychological nightmare. You are Stefano Caldara, a photographer caught in a web of dark rituals and dangerous secrets. Every choice shapes your morality, your sanity, and your survival...
HPL: Nyarlathotep Rising
Dive deep into the twisted HP Lovecraft universe with this oversized narrative RPG. Slip into the intertwined souls of Mark, Anna, and Victor, surrounded by cult worshippers, as Nyarlathotep, the cosmic horror, strives to enslave humanity in 1929.
What starts as a simple, highly-paid night shoot in an abandoned marble quarry descends into a psychological nightmare. You are Stefano Caldara, a photographer caught in a web of dark rituals and dangerous secrets. Every choice shapes your morality, your sanity, and your survival...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Noir 13.6%, Visual Novel 9.5%, RPG 9.4%
Dive deep into the twisted HP Lovecraft universe with this oversized narrative RPG. Slip into the intertwined souls of Mark, Anna, and Victor, surrounded by cult worshippers, as Nyarlathotep, the cosmic horror, strives to enslave humanity in 1929.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 22.8%, Noir 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Text-Based 8.5%
Investigate a paranormal disease that threatens to eradicate humanity in this unsettling Lovecraftian adventure, inspired by the choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks of the 80s and 90s. Your choices will determine the story, your character’s destiny… and the future of humanity.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 41.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Visual Novel 9%, Choices Matter 6.3%
Coalescence is a visual novel that takes you deep within Moniker Labs to explore its secrets. Play as one of three characters, each with their own storyline and dialogue options. Form relationships with the companions you encounter and try to make it out alive!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Noir 16.3%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Text-Based 10.4%
Gadgets, conspiracy and conquest await you in this steampunk text adventure. An interactive romp through Victorian England and the British Empire.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Text-Based 14.9%, RPG 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%
The Innsmouth Case is a text adventure game inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and the very first text-based adventure to combine horror and comedy in a fit and proper way.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 35.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Visual Novel 11%, Text-Based 10.3%, Multiple Endings 6.9%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Noir 14%, RPG 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.9%
The Lost & The Found is a game about cooperation, deduction, and making the right choices. You and your colleague must reunite the people with their forgotten treasures. But be aware, all is not what it seems. Opposing forces vie for both your inventory and your loyalty.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 21.1%, Noir 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Visual Novel 9.3%
You have been part of something terrible, something so unspeakable that caused you to blackout and forget all the events from the past few days. Now you are faced with the choice of going after the truth, facing the shadows that hide within our world, or trying to forget and leave all this behind.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, RPG 15%, Text-Based 10%, Visual Novel 6%
Interactive psychological horror novel, Boston 1926. Explore, investigate, lose your grip on reality. Your choices shape a branching narrative where your mental state influences what you see and the paths that open before you. 5 routes, 8 endings, 15 to 20 hours of reading.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 30%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Choices Matter 5.8%, RPG 5.5%
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 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Text-Based 13.7%, Visual Novel 13%, RPG 9.6%
With debts to pay to the underworld, you need to make a lot of coin fast! Perhaps worse, you're wanted by the King's men for desertion. Survival is your first priority...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Noir 15.7%, RPG 12.4%, Text-Based 10.4%
Step into the high-stakes world of journalism in this Playbook! As a reporter at the "The Meridian" newsroom, YOU are the hero. Chase a massive investigative scoop, navigate ruthless office politics, and build deep relationships. Will you break the story, or will the deadline break you?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Visual Novel 11.9%, RPG 9.7%, Text-Based 7.5%
Your eldritch existence is threatened when another abomination tries to feast on you. You flee, trapping yourself in human flesh, but will that be enough?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 33.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, RPG 9.9%, Horror 8.3%
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 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Horror 10%, Text-Based 9.4%
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 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Text-Based 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.4%, RPG 9.6%
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 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Visual Novel 16%, RPG 15.8%, Text-Based 9.4%
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 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Text-Based 12.7%, Visual Novel 10.7%
A Lovecraftian investigative gamebook. New York, 1927. A case pulled from real history, wrapped in cosmic horror. His name was Billy Gaffney. The man who took him was real. But his purpose was from another plane of existence. You play a journalist. You make choices. The story remembers all of them.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 22.7%, Noir 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%, Text-Based 8.4%
Five Biggest Accomplishments is a short Visual Novel where you play as someone who has held the same job for 30 years: push a button every 8 hours or the world will end. Suddenly, you get an email asking you to list your five biggest accomplishments for the week, or risk being fired.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.8%, Noir 19.9%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%, Text-Based 8.1%
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 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Text-Based 12.5%, Horror 8.6%
An adult tale of lust and horror in the vein of HP Lovecraft. Take on the part of a former detective who could never let go of the last terrible case he worked. One day his old partner comes knocking, begging for help.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 23.1%, Noir 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Text-Based 9.9%
What if the choices you make during your investigation awaken ancient beings older than existence itself. Explore the official Choose Cthulhu gamebook adaptation, every decision you take seals the fate of mankind. Will the creeping madness consume you as you uncover the darkest secrets?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Choices Matter 6.1%
To unlock ancient spells needed to defend the galaxy, can you navigate fantasy quests, noir cases, heroic competitions, dystopian worlds & space heists?
Why similar: Noir 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 19%, RPG 15.2%, Text-Based 11.4%
A horror dice roll adventure inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos. Much like in a tabletop RPG, "abilities," "luck," and "dice rolls" influence the story's progression. The protagonist is cursed on an island in the Seto Inland Sea. Investigate the island, uncover the mysteries, and break the curse!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 41.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Text-Based 6.9%, Horror 6.1%
Death Drive is a road trip visual novel inspired by classic American Gothic fiction.
Why similar: Noir 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Lovecraftian 13%, Visual Novel 12.1%, RPG 9.3%
Detective Norman faces one of the longest nights of his career. Alone, he searches for the missing girl, Felicia, only to discover that this case runs far deeper than he ever imagined.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Noir 22.2%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Text-Based 6.7%
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 27.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Choices Matter 7.8%, Horror 5.5%
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 25%, Interactive Fiction 24.1%, RPG 20.7%, Text-Based 16%, Choices Matter 5.5%
As the Harbinger, you are the only Keeper who can cast spells. Stop a necromantic plague, uncover an Elven conspiracy, and decide the fate of a dying world! A text-based fantasy novel, 193,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects."
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 23.6%, RPG 20.3%, Text-Based 16.2%, Choices Matter 4.9%
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 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 23.8%, RPG 20.4%, Text-Based 15.8%, Choices Matter 5%
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 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, RPG 19.2%, Text-Based 16.8%, Choices Matter 5.5%
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 39.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Horror 8.5%
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 26%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Text-Based 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.8%, RPG 11.7%
Experience the horror of this narrative-driven medical RPG. As Doctor Parsnip Green, you’ll point-and-click your way through difficult choices as you investigate the disease’s origin, operate on patients, and fight to save those you love - all while managing your own dwindling sanity.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, RPG 9.1%
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 35.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, RPG 14.9%, Text-Based 10.1%, Choices Matter 7.2%
An interactive Lovecraftian horror story about surviving a family you never knew and their servitude to a dark patron. True to the genre, you retain all knowledge from every play-through. Shape your fate and that of the family. Will you embrace this gift or rid humanity of their taint?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Noir 13.3%, Visual Novel 10.6%
Four female college students visit a mountain where spirits live. There had been a number of disappearances there in the past, and it was known as a dangerous place. This work is a visual novel that depicts the secrets of Mount Leng and the adventures of college students.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.2%, Lovecraftian 26.3%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Horror 8.8%, Choices Matter 8.6%
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 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, RPG 19.7%, Text-Based 16.4%, Choices Matter 6.1%
Uncover the mystery of the Ghoul's Grove, hidden in the Australian outback and filled with strange and mutilated scare actors. To Be Altered is a multiple-ending visual novel where your choices matter, even the most minuscule decisions will decide the fates of Darcy and others.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, RPG 14.2%, Noir 13.7%, Visual Novel 12%
When a new magic is discovered, it's up to you to unravel the mystery! Find answers from fae and humans, save your city, and maybe even fall in love! A text-based interactive fantasy novel, 400,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, RPG 18.6%, Text-Based 16.2%, Choices Matter 4.5%
When you're falsely accused of sorcery, corrupt inquisitors make you the object of a witch hunt. Now, sorcery might be the only way for you to survive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Text-Based 17.1%, RPG 12.7%, Choices Matter 8.9%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Noir 13.5%, Text-Based 10%
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, RPG 16.1%, Visual Novel 6.8%
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 29.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, RPG 18.4%, Text-Based 14.6%, Choices Matter 11.4%
DATACORE: HAYWIRE Is a gritty dystopian top-down Puzzle/Adventure game within the confines of an indestructible fifty thousand square mile cube. With no knowledge of why or how.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 35.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, RPG 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, 2D 4.5%
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: Interactive Fiction 26.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.7%, Text-Based 17.7%, RPG 12.3%, Choices Matter 7.3%
Echoes is a 2D narrative game where you play as Ricky Fox, a detective haunted by the death of his best friend, Arthur. Step into Greenhearth, a small town full of secrets, and make choices that will shape your investigation. Will you crack the case with your sanity intact?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Noir 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Visual Novel 10.4%
A flesh-eating dust leaves you to survive alone against hordes of Listless.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, RPG 14%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Text-Based 7.1%
You've spent years undercover, disguised as a human, infiltrating the city’s magical law-enforcement organization. They stole your magic from you. Can you steal it back? (A text-based interactive historical urban fantasy novel.)
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, RPG 19.2%, Text-Based 15.3%, Choices Matter 5.4%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Text-Based 15.2%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Choices Matter 7.4%
Man I Just Wanna Go Home is an "MSPaint-noir" visual novel with 13 endings, a unique visual style and a killer 80s inspired soundtrack. The story revolves around a delivery person stranded in an unfamiliar part of the city under the devastating rain. All he wants is to get home. Help him!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Noir 22%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Visual Novel 13%, Choices Matter 6.4%
By the power of your Soul Stone and the strength of your own indomitable soul, uncover secrets held in blood and lead the charge that will change the world. A text-based fantasy novel, 260,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 24.9%, RPG 20.9%, Text-Based 16.6%, Choices Matter 5.6%
Awaken your magic and break an ancient curse at a secret school of sorcery! What mysteries will you uncover at this crossroads between realms? A text-based fantasy novel, 280,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 23.6%, RPG 19.9%, Text-Based 16.3%, Choices Matter 5.2%
Will you infiltrate the gods' Elite Courte, stealing their superpowers, or turn double agent and join them, taking your place among the divine?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.6%, Text-Based 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, RPG 16.5%, Choices Matter 9.9%
You take a deep breath of salty air as the first raindrops begin to spatter the pavement, and the swollen, slate-colored clouds that blanket the sky mutter ominous portents amongst themselves over the little coastal town of Anchorhead.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 40%, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Text-Based 17.1%, Horror 8.8%, Indie 3.9%
Return to Hyuga just in time for the new semester! Sword fights, love confessions, demonic rituals—nobody said graduating was going to be easy! A text-based novel, 300,000 words and hundreds of choices, without animations or sound effects.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 23.9%, RPG 20.4%, Text-Based 16.4%, Choices Matter 5.8%
Summer Story: An adventure game where you investigate and make choices that shape the story.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Text-Based 10.4%, Investigation 6%
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 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Choices Matter 13.8%, RPG 11.6%, Text-Based 11.5%
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 29%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Text-Based 15.3%, Visual Novel 14%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
