60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Text-Based, Story Rich, Choose Your Own Adventure.
One thousand years beyond the fall of Earth, one last drink may yet be your epitaph, in this post-post-apocalyptic hangover odyssey by a novelist you've never heard of! A parser-driven text adventure for the ages! Or at least a weekend! Fun for all the family (except the kids)!
Stranded 2
Following a not highly unexpected crash landing (which seems to happen to you a lot), you find yourself stranded on a hostile alien world full of humour, mystery and quite a bit of walking - Your task is clear, find a way off of this planet and get home. - Should be simple!
The Way Down
Absurdist Interactive fiction. Talk to the beings that inhabitant the world at its end. We forgot how to die.
Following a not highly unexpected crash landing (which seems to happen to you a lot), you find yourself stranded on a hostile alien world full of humour, mystery and quite a bit of walking - Your task is clear, find a way off of this planet and get home. - Should be simple!
Why similar: Typing 22.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Dark Comedy 15.1%, Text-Based 14.2%, Investigation 9.9%
Absurdist Interactive fiction. Talk to the beings that inhabitant the world at its end. We forgot how to die.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 20.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11.9%, Text-Based 10.2%
GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Dialogue Heavy 13.4%, Text-Based 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%
Butter Side Down is a bizarro choose-your-own-choice game. Starring Basil Bonser, Adam Spargo, Grey Michael, Beatrice, Jeep Johnson, and Rotten Ruggerio. Answer questions, take calls, play card games, and solve one hell of a mystery.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 17.4%, Text-Based 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Dialogue Heavy 9.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 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: Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Text-Based 13.7%, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%, Dystopian 12.2%
No criminal has ever been a match for you, and everybody is looking forward to a description of your brilliant deductions. There is just one small problem. One tiny detail that makes it different this time. A mere trifle, really. This time you have no idea who did it.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Dialogue Heavy 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Investigation 9.1%
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 16.8%, Dark Comedy 16.6%, Dialogue Heavy 16.6%, Text-Based 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
You play all four heroines in this big multi-chapter sci-fi text adventure. Negotiate underwater mechs, AIs, abandoned cities, crime, friendship, suspense, horror, humour, an art exhibition, virtual realities and a tank. Experience each PC via first-person prose as you puzzle, converse and explore.
Why similar: Typing 28.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Text-Based 16.2%, Sci-fi 10.7%, Dialogue Heavy 10.6%
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Text-Based 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Sci-fi 7.6%
To know a language, know the world, and finally know you.
Why similar: Typing 19.9% ★, Dystopian 13.3%, Text-Based 12.7%, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%
Take over a struggling bar on the politically tense Moon Village. Prepare and serve drinks, befriend and help your customers, find your purpose, and maybe even love... all while keeping the bar's lights on in this narrative driven bartending simulator set on the moon.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Dystopian 10.8%, Text-Based 9.7%, Choices Matter 9.1%
Kindergarten 3 is the long awaited threequel to the Kindergarten series! Explore a new school with old and new friends...and new ways to get ruthlessly murdered.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Lore-Rich 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Comedy 9.9%
Date productivity applications in a retro, hand-drawn dating simulator set in a fictional operating system that definitely doesn't have a horrible secret.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 19.3%, Text-Based 12.7%, Lore-Rich 11.8%, Dystopian 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%
A pixelated homage to 16-bit RPGs, this former print-and-play card game has come full circle as a digital experience! Choose your champion, enter the tower, and make wise decisions on your ascent to face the Ice Lich at the top.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Text-Based 20.2%, Lore-Rich 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Dark Comedy 10.3%
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 24.6%, Dystopian 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%, Choices Matter 9.9%
You're a NASA intern working on the Apollo 11 project. Each day, you have a checklist to complete. Your tasks are well-reasoned and appropriate to your skill level as an intern. The Apollo team are all competent professionals. Everything goes very well, and you have no difficulties at all. 😛
Why similar: Dark Comedy 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Text-Based 15.2%, Dialogue Heavy 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%
A narrative driven exploration game. Close your eyes and listen. Uncover. Choose. Fight. All within the dark and eccentric sound world of Pitch Black. The light will know.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 25%, Post-apocalyptic 18.2%, Dystopian 14.8%, Mystery 9.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%
Better than a birthday card. Use the Steam gift system to deliver this birthday present to your friends. The amazing Sergio Spellbound will ensure they have the magical birthday adventure of a lifetime. They will Point&Click their way to BIRTHDAY GLORY. If they’re lucky, they may even survive …
Why similar: Typing 20.2% ★, Dark Comedy 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Comedy 13.6%, Text-Based 10.8%
"201 - The Bad Number" is an interactive science fiction game-book set on a post-apocalyptic Mars. In a world where only 200 people remain, each new inhabitant may hasten civilization's end. Players make choices that impact the fate of humanity and the colony in a unique dystopian setting.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Dystopian 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Sci-fi 10.1%
The most anticipated game since chess! A text-based comedy adventure in which you interact with the world by slamming one of two brightly colored buttons: Harm or Other
Why similar: Text-Based 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Comedy 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Adventure 7.8%
Intellica thanks you for volunteering in this short text-based Research Study. Pay attention to the participants answers, and classify them as either Human or Artificial. Join us in shaping the future of technology. Remember, think happy!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 18.1%, Typing 16.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Text-Based 13.4%, Lore-Rich 10.8%
Decipher interstellar transmissions encoded via substitution ciphers aboard Eremite Station. In this choice driven narrative, uncover secrets from planetary factions while conversing with crewmates to reveal their stories and troubles. The ripples of your choices may be felt throughout the galaxy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20%, Text-Based 19.5%, Dialogue Heavy 13.2%, Sci-fi 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.1%
An interactive fiction epic fantasy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Text-Based 18.1%, Dystopian 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Lore-Rich 12.7%
Choose the gender of both the protagonist and their partner! In this near-future world, you'll play as someone trapped in a virtual system. With help from a mysterious figure called DU, embark on a lighthearted, comedic adventure through dreams.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 19.9%, Dystopian 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Sci-fi 11.9%, Choices Matter 9.4%
A science-fantasy retro-flavoured textual adventure running in your terminal
Why similar: Typing 19% ★, Text-Based 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Dialogue Heavy 14.3%, Sci-fi 10.5%
Niluas, an android who suddenly activated 276 years after the extinction of humanity. With her AI, Naive, she seeks lost memories, her activation's mystery, and humanity's extinction's cause. Facing enigmatic foes and hostile androids, she quests for truth about her existence and the desolate world.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Choices Matter 9%, Sci-fi 7.7%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Text-Based 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Dialogue Heavy 12.1%, Mystery 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
Set in a post-apocalyptic dystopian future, two young men set out on a journey to find The Great Appearance which manifests itself inside mankind's mind.
Why similar: Dystopian 21%, Post-apocalyptic 19.5%, Text-Based 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.1%
The printer is bleeding, the Wi-Fi is haunted, and Ticket #666 just came in. As the latest hire for a company run by cosmic horrors, your job is simple: Swipe to survive. Make binary decisions to survive the night shift in this dark comedy desktop simulator. I.T truly never ends.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 22.3%, Dystopian 16.5%, Lore-Rich 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%
Chrongrid is an AI-driven narrative experience. Inside an author's story blueprint, you make your own choices and the world responds in its own way — every choice echoes, no two journeys alike. Built-in blueprints are the start; play others' stories or write your own, in any language.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Text-Based 17.9%, Lore-Rich 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Dialogue Heavy 9.8%
Soul Nexus is a text-based adventure game where you explore strange environments and interact with even stranger individuals. Will you wander the spaces forever or will you eventually fulfil your goal of being free?
Why similar: Text-Based 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Lore-Rich 15.4%, Typing 12.8% ★, Mystery 9.7%
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: Interactive Fiction 23%, Text-Based 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Dialogue Heavy 16%, Choices Matter 6.8%
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 26.9%, Text-Based 23.3%, Post-apocalyptic 23.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Choices Matter 7.6%
VOICE is a game about the story of living in a dystopian world where speaking is forbidden.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.5%, Lore-Rich 17.5%, Dialogue Heavy 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Dystopian 11.7%
Can you find what you're looking for? Or are you at the mercy of Tisik and her followers? Your words matter in this short game of dialogue.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 22%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Dialogue Heavy 15.5%, Sci-fi 13.4%
Astrologaster is a comedy game set in Shakespeare’s London. Play as 'Doctor' Simon Forman and treat his patients using astrology. A story-driven adventure based on a truly ridiculous story.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 25.8%, Dark Comedy 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Comedy 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%
Learn to communicate with the people of Hierre by speaking their languages and understanding their cultures in this sci-fi translation game. Use your translation skills to navigate Kallay Tirridor, uncovering its dark secrets while solving the sudden disappearance of your brother.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 19.7%, Lore-Rich 18%, Typing 17.6% ★, Sci-fi 10.8%, Text-Based 9%
Sunset Inferno is a choice-driven narrative adventure where you are a Recycler: a machine built to hunt war deserters. But a targeted explosion shatters your programming. Find the saboteur before your makers decide you've learned too much.
Why similar: Dystopian 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Mystery 13%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Dialogue Heavy 10.3%
A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Text-Based 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Dialogue Heavy 12.3%
Soulfused is a modern take on the classic text adventures from the early days of computer gaming. Dive into a dystopian future ruled by an empire focused on conquest and control. Take on the role of a newly converted Soulfused; a part human/part robot soldier in service to the Empire.
Why similar: Typing 28.6% ★, Text-Based 21%, Dystopian 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Sci-fi 8%
The median lifespan of a new operative is 8 minutes. Try to beat the average. Hack a dying space station, outsmart a corrupted AI, and dodge rogue autodocs in cheesy FMV glory. Halcyon HR reminds you that dying on the clock instantly voids your pension. 12 brutal endings.
Why similar: Dystopian 18.5%, Text-Based 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Mystery 9.9%
Oddware is a science fiction visual novel about androids in space. You play as an android who meets other androids each with a distinct personalities. Your choices with the other androids will not only shape their personalities, but your own as well. Solve puzzles, mysteries, and your own origins.
Why similar: Dystopian 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Dialogue Heavy 14.7%, Lore-Rich 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
Adventure as Geralt through the ballads of Dandelion. Swipe right, swipe left, seek glory, find death! Will you hunt monsters, upset the locals, or run a hot bath? Compose an inspiring epic to claim immortality.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Lore-Rich 8.7%, Adventure 8.3%
50% Visual Novel - 50% Sci-Fi Karaoke-Musical. A dystopian future where you hide beneath the waves. Your choices write the story - and the lyrics you'll sing.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 23.9%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Dystopian 13.8%, Dialogue Heavy 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%
Explore a raptor-infested compound in classic retro horror style. Gather "evidence" to shift blame of your crimes. Survive in the courtroom of your few remaining peers. Do not accept any responsibility. Do not try to escape.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 35.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Text-Based 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Mystery 9.6%
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 29.5%, Text-Based 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Adventure 11.1%, Choices Matter 8.8%
This is a retro story game about choices and the voices in your head. Unlock new voices, new thoughts, and new endings.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 16%, Dark Comedy 15.5%, Typing 13.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%
A thousand years beyond the fall of Earth, the return of Mars heralds doom for a small town, as foes approach under the cover of the god-storm. Sin and siege await, with only a young captain, untested and uncertain, to stand in their way...
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 22.2%, Text-Based 20.9%, Lore-Rich 20%, Dystopian 18.3%, Sci-fi 10.6%
Become the first diplomat to an alien world in this dialogue-driven, Star Trek-inspired RPG. Explore an ancient civilization, befriend its strange inhabitants, and make agonizing choices that will forever shape the future of their species.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Lore-Rich 13.8%, Text-Based 13%, Sci-fi 11.4%
In this hostage simulation, take the mic and negotiate the ransom to free the hostages. With advanced AI and complete freedom of choice, use your charisma, your narrative decisions, and your power of persuasion to manipulate unpredictable situations. Every word matters—and could come at a high cost.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Typing 21.2% ★, Comedy 13.5%, Text-Based 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
A story-rich detective mystery set in 1930s England. Investigate a murder inside a sprawling manor, interrogate suspicious residents, and make meaningful choices to uncover the truth — before Scotland Yard arrives.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 17.3%, Dialogue Heavy 16%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Mystery 9.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
Explore an abandoned facility in this narrative-driven terminal adventure. Unlock hidden files, solve text-based puzzles, and piece together a fragmented AI as you uncover the truth behind a failed salvation and a buried past in this cold, atmospheric mystery.
Why similar: Typing 27.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.3%, Text-Based 13.3%, Lore-Rich 12.9%, Investigation 8.7%
Come to My Party! is a coming-of-age visual novel where choices matter. Jimin sets out to win class president and have her first birthday party. What begins as a simple goal spirals into social pressure, fragile friendships, and choices that can’t be taken back, hitting closer than you’d like.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Text-Based 12.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%, Comedy 9.8%
Scent of Clouds is a hand-drawn illustrated, text-based adventure game. As a perfumer's assistant, you create fragrances and journey through unknown lands in search of ingredients for the legendary "Scent of Clouds." With a keen nose, you'll unravel the timeless mystery of this world.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Lore-Rich 19%, Dialogue Heavy 11.2%, Mystery 10.8%
A retro early 1980s text adventure experience involving a murder mystery that is generated differently each time the game is played.
Why similar: Typing 26.2% ★, Text-Based 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Mystery 14%, Investigation 9.4%
Time itself is breaking up, and Dodger, the dishwashing dude onboard Penrose Space Station, is the unlikely fixer. Join the chaos in this 80s-style comedy, sci-fi text-parser adventure as Dodger tackles a cosmic crisis like no other! This version includes all three episodes + new extra content!
Why similar: Typing 29% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Comedy 14.5%, Text-Based 13.2%, Sci-fi 11.7%
The Fatum — a test of your deduction in a world of total control. Interrogate, inspect, pass a verdict. Compare visual details, analyze dossiers, and converse with residents. Your decisions write the finale — be prepared for the consequences.
Why similar: Dystopian 19.3%, Lore-Rich 17.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Dialogue Heavy 13.9%, Investigation 10.6%
A PSX Detective Mystery Horror game. You play as an investigator solving bizarre crime cases. The story unfolds through a blend of interviews, computer based investigations and unsettling psychological elements.
Why similar: Typing 26.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Text-Based 13.7%, Lore-Rich 11.9%, Investigation 11.4%
Your goal in this text-based choice game is to help the protagonist survive until he uncovers the mysteries surrounding the city in order to reunite with his daughter, Susan.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Mystery 11.4%
Welcome to Ostera: The curse of... Join the Adventure! Shape Your Destiny, Kiss Rats, and Slap Kids!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 23.5%, Text-Based 18.3%, Lore-Rich 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%
