60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Text-Based, Multiple Endings, Choices Matter.
A sound, a flash, a portal… A pirate emerges, bringing a deadly threat. Five friends stand before him, and one of them is the target. But which one? Even they don't know.
You're a dad
Choose your path and accept the consequences in this sleep deprived text adventure about becoming a parent. Be a responsible adult, make dinner and take care of your child. You must do this. Nothing else.
The Castle
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.
Choose your path and accept the consequences in this sleep deprived text adventure about becoming a parent. Be a responsible adult, make dinner and take care of your child. You must do this. Nothing else.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Narration 13.2%, Dynamic Narration 9.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%
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: Text-Based 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Narration 15.6%, Psychological 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
Play as a Duskweaver in this short "choices matter" story about self-sacrifice.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Narration 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
Writing on a blog and using her obscure ability, the mysterious Nightingale has been helping people in danger for years. Now, she’s forced to disappear, facing threats from a killer... one of those people she helped in the past. An interactive short story featuring an advanced navigation UI.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Narration 9.4%, Psychological 8.4%
A dark sci-fi psychological Visual Novel where your choices shape who you are. The world has ended and it's been dominated by mysterious aliens who roam the city. Despite that, you only think of what you've lost. Will you be able to rebuild your relationships? Or even... the world itself?
Why similar: Text-Based 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Narration 14.4%, Dynamic Narration 10.9% ★, Choices Matter 7.2%
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: Narration 18.1%, Text-Based 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Drama 8.1%
After losing his parents and barely escaping his burning home, Zach wakes up in the hospital where he meets Aya, the ghost of a girl. Who is she, and why can only Zach see her? Together they try to investigate Aya's past, which quickly awakens new dangers.
Why similar: Text-Based 16%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Narration 12.7%, Thriller 9.6%, Mystery 9.2%
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 21%, Text-Based 14.4%, Narration 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
After a transfer student enters his life, college senior Kent begins suffering fainting spells and hearing voices. Navigate friendships, secrets, and a growing supernatural mystery in this choice-driven visual novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Supernatural 8.5%, Mystery 8.4%
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 27.5%, Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Visual Novel 5.4%
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 18.3%, Text-Based 17%, Narration 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%, Choices Matter 8.9%
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 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Narration 15%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Nonlinear 8.6%
Something is growing on your hand. You see the Doctor. Things get weird.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Psychological 12.6%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Text-Based 11.8%, Supernatural 10.2%
Scribe is a scribe simulator in which you can secretly shape the destinies of the inhabitants of the estate: resolve disputes, influence the course of family intrigues, decide who lives and who does not. Choose what to write in letters and whether to change their recipients!
Why similar: Text-Based 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Dynamic Narration 10.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%
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: Text-Based 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Psychological 10.4%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%
Suhoshin is a 2D Visual Novel set in the medieval Joseon period of Korea. While investigating a series of mysterious murders, you will have to make choices that will lead you down different paths toward different endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Narration 11.2%, Mystery 10.1%, Thriller 9.2%
Alex, a mid-level manager from the big city, is forced to return to his home village following a family tragedy. A temporary visit soon becomes a deeply emotional trial. He will have to confront a mystical lake, put his friendships to the test, and find true love.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Text-Based 20%, Narration 12.5%, Dynamic Narration 11.3% ★, Choices Matter 7%
In this narrative game, you play as Paula Cole, a food safety officer for a multinational corporation, who gradually takes on the role of whistleblower. The whole scenario is based on a journalistic work, coordinated with the online newspaper Mediapart.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22%, Narration 19.7%, Text-Based 14.2%, Psychological 10.3%, Choices Matter 10.3%
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 15%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Narration 13.1%, Dynamic Narration 9.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%
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 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Narration 11.3%, Nonlinear 9.4%
A psychological visual novel adventure about love, obsession, and blurred boundaries. Navigate a web of manipulation and dependency, make difficult choices, and face multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Text-Based 17.8%, Narration 13.7%, Dynamic Narration 11.5% ★, Choices Matter 9%
This grim interactive novel takes you directly into a period full of dread and peril - the Thirty Years' War in the 17th century!
Why similar: Text-Based 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Dynamic Narration 10.1% ★, Narration 9.8%, Choices Matter 8.5%
You went to the desert to rest. You crushed a worm. Now it talks to you in dreams.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Text-Based 12.7%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Narration 11.1%, Supernatural 10.7%
Kyle tries to prepare for his most important interview yet. Choose his path through over 100 endings and accept the consequences in this comedic adventure.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Narration 14.5%, Dynamic Narration 11.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.1%
Non-Linear Text Quests is a bundle of text games of various genres. Here you can find interactive stories with branching plots and text-only versions of classic Point & Click quests, where you can communicate with different characters, use your inventory and combine items in various locations.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Narration 14.9%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Nonlinear 9.7%
Your team must uncover the secrets of the Terraforming Center on Mars and face an overwhelming battle for the future of the Red Planet. But remember: every choice you make will shape the outcome of this fight.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Thriller 9.9%, Dynamic Narration 9.8% ★, Mystery 7.8%
Alone and lost for falling asleep on the first day of school, the only option left for Tsuki Ito is to trust a peculiar-looking girl with a radiant presence. Follow this story of romance and suspense inspired by the classic tale of "Little Red Riding Hood."
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Drama 9.8%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Text-Based 9.8%, Mystery 8.4%
Pilgrimage of angels on an important mission through scenic Japan
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Text-Based 19.4%, Narration 16.8%, Nonlinear 9%, Multiple Endings 7.1%
A presence lingers in the dark, waiting. It asks. It doubts. It knows. What happened? Why are you here? Do you deserve this? The answers are yours to decide. What you choose matters. Every path leads somewhere. But will you like where it takes you?
Why similar: Text-Based 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Psychological 11.2%, Mystery 9.5%
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 19.7%, Text-Based 17.5%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Mystery 9.4%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
A choice-driven narrative RPG set in China’s Warring States period. Rise from a nameless soldier to a legendary general through decisions with permanent consequences. Death is final. History remembers only the survivors.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Text-Based 24.8%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Drama 9.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 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: Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Text-Based 23.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Choices Matter 8.5%
Shame & choices = possible apocalypse. You need to figure out what’s causing the apocalypse to happen, so that you can prevent it. 2 playable characters with different relations to shame → 2 unique perspectives of the same story. Complicated families, branching choices and unforgiving consequences.
Why similar: Text-Based 16%, Psychological 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Narration 13%, Choices Matter 12%
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 28.5%, Psychological 14.6%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Text-Based 11.8%
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 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Narration 15.2%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Nonlinear 10.3%
일레븐지스는 미스터리·로맨스 장르를 표방하는 비주얼 노벨 게임입니다. 악마 '메피'는 화자인 '이지원'을 위해 여러 가지 시련을 준비했습니다. 악마를 이기기 위해선 잔머리가 아닌 굳센 의지와 날카로운 직감이 필요합니다. 위대한 대적자, '메피'와 그녀가 준비한 장기말들을 직접 목도하세요.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Thriller 7.9%, Multiple Endings 7.7%
Embark on a touching and poetic adventure through the hills of Provence in “Marcel and the Secret Spring.” Inspired by the childhood stories of legendary French author and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol, this narrative-driven game lets you experience a world filled with nature, mystery, and nostalgia.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Narration 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Text-Based 11.5%, Dynamic Narration 10.5% ★
It is said that the last frontier is space, but the crew of the Soviet Frigate, The Peresmeshnik, is about to discover that the sea still hides a terrifying secret. Waiting to be found.
Why similar: Text-Based 28.3%, Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Thriller 6.4%
Five strangers wake up in a dark room in an abandoned building with no idea who put them there and why. They now need to work together in order to figure out what connects them and how to get out of this place. A short psychological thriller visual novel with choices.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Psychological 12.9%, Dynamic Narration 12.6% ★, Thriller 10.4%, Choices Matter 10.3%
A visual novel strategy game where your floral fragrances determine the fate of your mysterious shop and its patrons. Make choices, talk to customers, and shape the story. Get ready for a journey of heartfelt connections and strategic decision-making.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Text-Based 19.7%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Mystery 9.8%
Mistbound is a surreal narrative adventure about overcoming trauma, where the line between reality and dreams is blurred. Loneliness can be too loud. And salvation can be too quiet!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Text-Based 13.9%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Multiple Endings 11%, Dynamic Narration 10% ★
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 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Mystery 8.4%
Aunewyth is a text-based game with a focus on narration and decision making. It features a short yet versatile storyline that reveals itself according to the choices you make.
Why similar: Text-Based 35.1%, Choices Matter 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
An evolving death game set in a bar, where getting to know its players is the only way out. Each person hides one of the game's rules. Discover them through their pasts, tastes, and finding hidden clues, then face them in an all-out discussion. Only three can survive, unless you fight back.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.5%, Narration 11.1%, Psychological 9.6%, Mystery 9.4%, Thriller 9.1%
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: Text-Based 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Narration 13.9%, Psychological 11.7%, Choices Matter 9.8%
Born with a birth defect that he hates, Kakeru struggles with severe anxiety and depression. Guide his timid decisions as he takes a brave step into a new world - joining his school's music club, making unexpected and inspiring new connections, and daring to dream again.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Narration 13.4%, Text-Based 13.1%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%
Not It: Spookiest Edition is a horror-filled visual novel full of suspense and mystery where you navigate Katie through a living nightmare. Her move-in day on Halloween throws her into a centuries-old curse. Can she make it through the night? Will her new neighbors perish? Decide their fate.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Narration 17%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
Transparent is a narrative game where every choice shapes Clara’s existence. On the eve of her 30th birthday, she revisits key moments of her life. Will her decisions anchor her to reality or make her fade away? Explore memories, face dilemmas, and discover multiple endings
Why similar: Narration 23.7%, Text-Based 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%
This text adventure, beautifully illustrated in pixel art, invites you to explore a medieval abbey filled with secrets. You take full control by entering commands directly on your keyboard through a flexible command parser, allowing for free and immersive interaction.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Text-Based 25.1%, Narration 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Mystery 8.1%
Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time. While you sleep, he is alone. When you return to your PC he has hope. Your encouragement and advice will be the difference between his salvation or despair.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Text-Based 11.9%, Psychological 11.4%, Thriller 10.7%
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 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%, Mystery 9%
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: Text-Based 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Drama 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Psychological 9.9%
Experience the hunt for the Monster living in your room in this Visual Novel experience. Your choices will determine the fate of both you and the Monster. Will you figure out what the Monster really is?
Why similar: Text-Based 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 25.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
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: Interactive Fiction 19%, Text-Based 17.1%, Choices Matter 15%, Nonlinear 11.8%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
A short visual novel about a girl who experiences a clinical death.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.7%, Narration 18%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Drama 10.5%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.2%, Text-Based 24.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
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: Narration 21.3%, Text-Based 19.5%, Choices Matter 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
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 31.4%, Text-Based 26.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Narration 14.7%, Mystery 9.9%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
