60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Visual Novel, Choices Matter, Story Rich.
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.
Mr. Mueller's Grand Experiment
In an engrossing interactive novel, live as the assistant to a remarkable historical figure: George Mueller, a man who witnessed orphans dying young in the streets of 1830's England and decided he would care for them, no matter the cost.
Expelled!
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
In an engrossing interactive novel, live as the assistant to a remarkable historical figure: George Mueller, a man who witnessed orphans dying young in the streets of 1830's England and decided he would care for them, no matter the cost.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Dynamic Narration 13.7% ★, Historical 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Visual Novel 10.6%
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
Why similar: Comic Book 16.3%, Detective 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Dialogue Heavy 10.2%, Historical 8.4%
One million dollars. Two sisters. Countless consequences. Experience everyday life in modern Vietnam while uncovering the truth behind a mysterious one-million-dollar debt.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Dynamic Narration 14% ★, Visual Novel 13.8%, Dialogue Heavy 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 8.1%
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: Detective 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Comic Book 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Dialogue Heavy 9.6%
A Japanese mystery adventure where any of the four could be the killer. Holding the dead man's will, you stay in his estate until the seventh-day memorial. Question the household across 13 locations, but you get only ten moves. Motive, opportunity and proof decide what your accusation is worth.
Why similar: Detective 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Text-Based 9.7%, Nonlinear 8.5%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Nonlinear 11.6%, Text-Based 9.7%
Echoes of Chang'an is a Tang-dynasty mystery visual novel from NSTUDIO. You play the adopted son of general Duan Xiushi (fictional), pulled off a simple errand into a death trap that decides an empire's fate. Observe, reason, choose — break the plot, get out alive, earn your own ending.
Why similar: Detective 17.6%, Historical 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Visual Novel 13%
Chronicles of Humanity is an expanding anthology of historical visual novels. Enter different eras, weigh conflicting testimony under political and personal pressure, and shape who is protected, what is recorded, and how each life is remembered. Complete stories are released as separate DLC.
Why similar: Historical 16.7%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Text-Based 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%
Embody a displaced therapist in a futuristic refugee camp. Discover the life in the camp and share your everyday life alongside people with heavy pasts. Use logic and your therapeutic skills to solve mysteries threatening both your survival and the camp.
Why similar: Comic Book 14.4%, Detective 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Dynamic Narration 12.3% ★, Text-Based 9.4%
A detective noir puzzle deduction game. Explore a non-linear timeline as a clairvoyant investigator in 1941 Borneo. Jump between time and locations to uncover motives and discover what truly happened in the Goodwill tobacco plantation that fateful night on the eve of the WW2 Japanese invasion.
Why similar: Detective 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Text-Based 10.4%, Historical 8.3%, Visual Novel 8.1%
Play as the Count of Monte Cristo in 19th-century France. Charm & Dominate your enemies. Exploit their weaknesses, and orchestrate their downfall in this gripping narrative-driven tale of revenge.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Dynamic Narration 14.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 11%, Text-Based 10.3%, Visual Novel 9.7%
"The Nakano Laboratory" is a loop-based mystery 2D adventure game. Within each loop of 15 minutes, you take over researchers' bodies to gather clues around the ship, then present your evidence at the meeting.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Detective 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Text-Based 8.5%
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: Comic Book 19.3%, Dynamic Narration 16.2% ★, Text-Based 13.4%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%
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 21.8%, Text-Based 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 10.4%
Experience the triumphs and tribulations of two Caribbean immigrants in post-war Britain, in the world’s first Windrush video game, from the creators of the BAFTA nominated Before I Forget. How will you shape your story in this branching narrative interactive photo album?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Historical 10.4%, Hand-drawn 10.1%, Text-Based 8.9%, Choices Matter 7.9%
Kamilia is a story-driven, choices-matter detective mystery. Follow a talented painter who finds himself wrapped up in an unsolved case, as he tries to unveil a hidden truth that has been buried for years.
Why similar: Detective 15.3%, Visual Novel 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Dialogue Heavy 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Dynamic Narration 14.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Historical 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.3%
"The hardest part is not to speak up. It’s being heard." Part video game, part graphic novel, Wednesdays seeks to raise awareness about child sexual abuse through a surprisingly hope-filled story.
Why similar: Comic Book 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Text-Based 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 8.8%
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.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Dynamic Narration 10.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Choices Matter 8.6%
A hand-illustrated visual mystery adventure that can be beaten in one sitting.
Why similar: Nonlinear 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Dialogue Heavy 10.5%, Detective 9.6%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Text-Based 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Detective 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Visual Novel 9.3%
Need more stress in your life? Meet Laura Silver, a paranoid and insomniac detective tasked with researching Slavic mythology. Do you know anything about the Vodnik? Neither does she. Unfortunately, her incompetence won't be your biggest problem in Czechoslovakia.
Why similar: Comic Book 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Detective 13%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.3%
A visual novel based on Touhou Project, made by fans for fans and others! Embark on the investigation of the greatest incident in Gensokyo's history and discover the terrifying truth of the youkai world with Reimu Hakurei, Marisa Kirisame, Sakuya Izayoi and other heroines!
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 17.5% ★, Detective 16.4%, Text-Based 11.8%, Nonlinear 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%
A war of unseen ferocity is ravaging the continent. You, ringmaster dilettante, must keep the circus afloat. Travel, entertain, and keep the troupe’s spirits up while trying to find a mythical safe haven to last out the storm in this beautifully illustrated, text-based narrative adventure.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Text-Based 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%, Nonlinear 9%, Historical 9%
"Curiosity killed the cat, but after satisfying it she was resurrected." This game is a visual novel. Features of the game - puzzles and several endings, depending on your choice.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 18.6% ★, Detective 17.2%, Nonlinear 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.7%
Who are you? You are not the main character. You are his inner voice, speaking to him. Aren't you? A life crisis. A strange job. A lonely train station. A dead man. Someone watching from the outside. A narrative-driven interactive mystery of choices, inner dialogue, and atmosphere.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Text-Based 11%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Dialogue Heavy 9.6%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Text-Based 13.9%, Historical 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.5%
A Pentiment-like set in 19th-century Malaysia, featuring pirates, East Indiamen, headhunters, a locked-room murder mystery, a blade of meteoric ore, a tarot deck, a mountain of light, and a tiger. It’s time to put your thinking cap on; as for those voices in your head – probably best to ignore them.
Why similar: Historical 14.7%, Detective 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Text-Based 10.4%
Pale Flamingos is a visual novel murder mystery with choices and a branching narrative. The year is 1986; the place, Miami. Florita and Melba, two Cuban grandmothers, are at the Miami Travel Agents' Convention where the owner of St. Neville Airways is found dead. Florita and Melba investigate.
Why similar: Comic Book 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Historical 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.3%
何気なく頼んだ「アイスコーヒー」の注文が、奥の部屋への「合言葉」になっちゃってる喫茶店。 1周5分の、ちょっとおかしくて怪しいマルチエンドADV。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Comic Book 19.9%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Text-Based 11.5%, Dialogue Heavy 9.7%
Your words shape the adventure. Omea is a revolutionary AI-powered narrative game where your personal Game Master responds to everything you write. No menus, no limits. Just type and forge your own legend across fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, and beyond.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Dynamic Narration 14% ★, Text-Based 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Nonlinear 11.9%
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: Nonlinear 15.8%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Text-Based 10.9%
The story begins the moment he kills his lover. Kazuma is driven into a corner by Asana’s obsessive love. Madness, jealousy, obsession, deception, and regret collide— plunging the case toward an unpredictable end. A yandere suspense novel of intense love and insanity: Crimson Reflection.
Why similar: Comic Book 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Detective 14.6%, Text-Based 11.6%, Visual Novel 9.9%
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: Detective 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Text-Based 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Dialogue Heavy 11%
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: Dynamic Narration 15.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Historical 12.8%, Text-Based 12.3%, Nonlinear 11.6%
Step into the role of a judge and decide the fate of every case. Listen to witnesses, examine evidence, uncover contradictions, and deliver verdicts that will change lives. Every decision matters in this tense courtroom simulation full of twists.
Why similar: Detective 19.6%, Dynamic Narration 16.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.3%
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: Dynamic Narration 16% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Text-Based 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Visual Novel 10%
A story-rich coming-of-age experience told through a 2004 desktop, where friendships, music, and late-night conversations shape who you become. Explore chats, drama, mini-games, and the early internet in a branching story about growing up, making mistakes, and finding your place.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Dialogue Heavy 13.7%, Text-Based 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
Interrogate your own player characters in this six-chapter murder mystery! Your decisions determine how many clues are uncovered for the final player character, the detective. Explore each stage of grief: Chapter 1 stars Orven as he navigates the shocking deaths of his dream and his hero.
Why similar: Detective 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Text-Based 11%, Visual Novel 9.9%
A narrative RPG of medieval intrigue and war. As Karl von Aiden, shape your destiny through five chapters of choices that matter. Build attributes, forge alliances, navigate court politics, and face consequences across three story routes and multiple endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Nonlinear 13.3%, Dynamic Narration 10.9% ★, Historical 8.9%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Dynamic Narration 15.2% ★, Text-Based 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Nonlinear 11%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Text-Based 13.6%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Nonlinear 9%
In pursuit of coin, hired dagger Arthur finds himself embroiled in conspiracy involving the daughter of a noble House. Who is really pulling the strings behind the scenes?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Multiple Endings 9%, Choices Matter 9%
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: Detective 14%, Dynamic Narration 13.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Historical 11%, Text-Based 9%
Stranded after a plane crash in a freezing wilderness, you must manage body temperature, injury, and sanity as every decision shapes your survival.
Why similar: Nonlinear 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Text-Based 10.2%
A psychological thriller visual novel where your choices deeply affect an 18-year-old woman's mental state, leading to multiple endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Comic Book 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Text-Based 13.4%, Visual Novel 13%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Text-Based 11.9%, Nonlinear 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Dialogue Heavy 10.2%
The star magician of Morgan’s Traveling Circus is missing, but the show must go on! In this non-linear detective visual novel, unravel the mystery from two different perspectives as you learn the varying stories of an entire circus of performers, each with their own lives... and their own secrets.
Why similar: Detective 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Historical 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Dialogue Heavy 10.6%
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: Nonlinear 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Text-Based 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Visual Novel 9.5%
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 17.6%, Text-Based 16.2%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Nonlinear 10.9%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Text-Based 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.2%
Paris, 1888. In this detective visual novel inspired by Ace Attorney and Golden Idol, play as a matchmaker-detective striving to keep her marriage agency open. Meet colourful characters, uncover their secrets, and spread love throughout the city!
Why similar: Detective 15.9%, Dialogue Heavy 14%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Visual Novel 11%, Historical 10.6%
A live collaborative story game for you and your Twitch chat. AI generates each scene on your machine — no internet required. Chat votes, you narrate, together you write the story.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 19.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Text-Based 11.4%, Nonlinear 10.5%
Forge your own path and embark on a perilous journey on board a ship of Thorwal raiders in this epic tale set in the award-winning world of The Dark Eye RPG.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 17.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Historical 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Visual Novel 9.7%
In a rain-soaked megacity, one law remains: cross one trillion dollars in hidden wealth and you forfeit your right to live. You are K, the executioner who enforces it — until the numbers start to lie. A branching cyberpunk noir with 5 endings, where every choice is remembered.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Detective 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Visual Novel 12%, Text-Based 10.5%
Play 4 characters, live their unique stories and manage their daily lives to create their best day ever. In this narrative game, your decisions have consequences and change the outcome of the stories.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 20.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Multiple Endings 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 14.8%, Nonlinear 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Visual Novel 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%
Return to a hometown that hasn’t changed the way it should have. A psychological visual novel focused on atmosphere, relationships, and a reality that slowly refuses to stay still. Can you uncover the truth before it consumes you?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.5%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Text-Based 11.5%
