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 18.1%, Dynamic Narration 13.8% ★, Historical 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Visual Novel 10.5%
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 16.1%, Detective 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Dialogue Heavy 10.4%, Historical 8.4%
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 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Comic Book 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Dialogue Heavy 9.8%
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 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Nonlinear 11.5%, Text-Based 9.9%
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 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Text-Based 10.5%, Visual Novel 8.2%, Nonlinear 7.9%
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 15.1%, Dynamic Narration 14.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 11%, Text-Based 10.5%, Visual Novel 9.6%
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 19.1%, Dynamic Narration 16.3% ★, Text-Based 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.9%
「ナカノ人格移植研究所」は、周回型ミステリー2Dアドベンチャーゲームです。 それぞれの周回でプレイヤーが憑依する対象の登場人物を選択することで、その登場人物を主人公としてストーリーを進めながら謎を解き明かします。 プレイヤーは本ゲームの中で 4 つのパートを行き来しながらストーリーを進めます。 ノベルパートでは、クリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 探索パートでは、画面上のアイテムをクリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 移動パートでは、再度ビューでプレイヤーを操作し、船の中を探索します。 会議パートでは、他のパートで集めた手がかりを利用して他の登場人物と会話します。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Detective 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Text-Based 8.6%
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 14.2%, Detective 13.4%, Dynamic Narration 12.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Text-Based 9.6%
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 21.6%, Text-Based 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Dialogue Heavy 10.6%
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 9%, Choices Matter 8%
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 18.9%, Dynamic Narration 14.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Historical 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.2%
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 15.2%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Dialogue Heavy 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%
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 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Dynamic Narration 10.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Choices Matter 8.7%
"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 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Text-Based 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 8.9%
A hand-illustrated visual mystery adventure that can be beaten in one sitting.
Why similar: Nonlinear 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Dialogue Heavy 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Detective 9.6%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Text-Based 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Detective 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Visual Novel 9.1%
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 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Detective 13%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.2%
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 17.6% ★, Detective 16.4%, Text-Based 12%, Nonlinear 11.6%, 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: Text-Based 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%, Nonlinear 8.9%, Historical 8.9%
"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 18.8% ★, Detective 17.2%, Nonlinear 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.5%
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 14.6%, Detective 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Text-Based 10.5%
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: Dynamic Narration 13.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Historical 11.1%, Detective 10.7%, Text-Based 9.3%
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 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Historical 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.2%
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 15.7%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Text-Based 11.1%
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 23.3%, Comic Book 19.6%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Text-Based 11.7%, Dialogue Heavy 10.2%
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 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Detective 14.6%, Text-Based 11.8%, Visual Novel 9.8%
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: Dynamic Narration 17.6% ★, Text-Based 15.8%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Dialogue Heavy 12.9%
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 15.2%, Text-Based 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%
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 15.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Historical 12.7%, Text-Based 12.4%, Nonlinear 11.5%
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: Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Dialogue Heavy 13.9%, Text-Based 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%
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 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Nonlinear 13%, Dynamic Narration 11.1% ★, Historical 9.2%
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: Dynamic Narration 16% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Text-Based 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Visual Novel 9.9%
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 15.5%, Dynamic Narration 15.3% ★, Text-Based 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Nonlinear 10.9%
Determine the fate of Ventreville! Play as six protagonists with unique abilities and stories, their arcs tied to each other by the sudden murder of the Avidines. Make your choices count! The final protagonist, the interrogating detective, will only know as much as your previous characters know…
Why similar: Detective 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Text-Based 11.2%, Visual Novel 9.8%
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 16.1%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Text-Based 13.7%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Nonlinear 8.9%
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 14.8%, Text-Based 12%, Nonlinear 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Dialogue Heavy 10.3%
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 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Multiple Endings 9%
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 17.6%, Comic Book 15%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Text-Based 13.6%, Visual Novel 12.8%
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 14.1%, Historical 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Dialogue Heavy 10.8%
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: Nonlinear 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Text-Based 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Visual Novel 9.4%
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 14.6%, Dialogue Heavy 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Text-Based 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.1%
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 17.5%, Text-Based 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Visual Novel 12%, Nonlinear 10.8%
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 18% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Historical 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Visual Novel 9.6%
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 15%, Nonlinear 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%
Poisoned Path is a deep visual novel set in a mysterious atmosphere, where your choices determine the story's fate. Uncover dark secrets and chart your own course.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Detective 15.7%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Hand-drawn 11.1%, Choices Matter 9.3%
Comic Kingdom is a text-based adventure game primarily featuring a black-and-white comic style. It tells the story of a group of young manga artists who are trapped in a suburban farm.
Why similar: Comic Book 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Text-Based 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.1%
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 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Text-Based 11.7%
Choices matter in this interactive short story. It only takes about 1 hour to play through once, but there are multiple endings to explore. You play as an AI assistant to the 7 year old Evie. What kind of bot will you be?
Why similar: Comic Book 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Visual Novel 9.3%, Choices Matter 8.9%
Become an investigator in a dark fantasy story. People keep going missing in Maligree, before being forgotten by all who knew them. Will you solve the case before you forget?
Why similar: Detective 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Choices Matter 8.8%
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: Dialogue Heavy 18%, Text-Based 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.3%
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 20.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Choices Matter 9.1%
A dark and suspenseful narrative RPG about an Italian mafia family, where morality is tested with every branching decision.
Why similar: Comic Book 14.3%, Detective 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Text-Based 10%
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: Dynamic Narration 15.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Dialogue Heavy 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
Take a Hint! is a comic-style visual novel where you control Delfina and must convince your best friend Ailén that her boyfriend is not good for her. It won't be easy, and no one will leave until the truth comes out.
Why similar: Comic Book 21%, Dialogue Heavy 15.7%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Dynamic Narration 10.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 9.7%
Immerse yourself in a dramatic yet charming and witty world of evidence-gathering, deduction and courtroom battles with this double-pack of the adventures of rookie lawyer Ryunosuke.
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Text-Based 14.6%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Historical 11%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Historical 13.6%, Text-Based 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.3%
这是一款以中式校园为背景的推理类文字游戏，你将扮演一名高中生司空茂，在开学第一天目击密室杀人事件的现场，并经过调查和推理解决案件，找出真正的犯人和真相背后更深的阴谋。但在享受侦探游戏的同时，请千万不要忽视学习。保持情绪稳定，尽量维持活下去的念头...记住，你的成绩，永远比案件要更重要。
Why similar: Detective 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Text-Based 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.3%
