
The Temple is an interactive visual novel game adapted from the short story of the same name by H. P. Lovecraft. The game is being developed by a single person.
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The Temple is an interactive visual novel game adapted from the short story of the same name by H. P. Lovecraft. The game is being developed by a single person.

Sunken Ships
Explore a little seaside coast of submerged ruins, sunken ships and lonely islands.

Silent Orbits
Explore a Fallout 2 inspired tactical grid map in this text-based sci-fi cRPG. You blacked out in 2089 and woke up 300 years later to a solar system reduced to ruins. Scavenge ships, craft items, and survive turn-based combat as narrative choices shape your journey.
Explore a little seaside coast of submerged ruins, sunken ships and lonely islands.
Why similar: Submarine 31.6% ★, Underwater 22.5% ★, RPG 21.7%, Exploration 9.2%, Adventure 6.6%
Explore a Fallout 2 inspired tactical grid map in this text-based sci-fi cRPG. You blacked out in 2089 and woke up 300 years later to a solar system reduced to ruins. Scavenge ships, craft items, and survive turn-based combat as narrative choices shape your journey.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.3%, Text-Based 31.8%, RPG 17.8%, Exploration 6.2%, Mystery 4.4%
2050, a future world we had dreamed about. But suddenly, a disaster arrived, bringing the human into a desperate situation.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.9%, Text-Based 26.9%, RPG 18.6%, Exploration 15.3%, Adventure 2.8%
Find your missing father and uncover the dark conspiracy surrounding a sacred artifact and an enigmatic brotherhood in this haunting text adventure that combines the best elements of classic interactive fiction and gamebooks.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.7%, RPG 25.8%, Text-Based 25.8%, Adventure 8.3%, Exploration 6.5%
Sunken Seeker is a short, first-person underwater horror experience. Forced to pilot a decaying submersible, you have 7 days to pay off a massive debt. Navigate pitch-black waters, scan for salvage beyond your headlights, and survive the shift before the Director cuts your life support.
Why similar: Submarine 42.4% ★, Underwater 33.1% ★, Exploration 10.4%, First-Person 7.9%, Adventure 3.7%
The year is 1997. Pilot a small submersible into the depths of the Pacific to investigate a massive sonar anomaly. Navigate by instruments, scan targets, and uncover something far older than it should be.
Why similar: Submarine 40.1% ★, Underwater 32.3% ★, Exploration 10.3%, First-Person 7%, Mystery 4%
A surveyor breaks into a mysterious and sinister Mansion on Pleasant Street in order to find his missing sister. She was last seen being interviewed by the mansion's young and mysterious Butler.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.2%, RPG 28%, Narration 14.6%, Exploration 11.9%, Adventure 8.9%
An AI-driven narrative RPG that grows alongside your focus sessions. Set a real-life task, start a 25-minute Pomodoro, and return to a fresh chapter written while you worked. Choose a fantasy cooking journey or a sci-fi survival mystery. Free AI built in.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.7%, RPG 27.9%, Text-Based 26.3%, Narration 14.7%, Singleplayer 0.4%
A flashlight. An abandoned hospital. Seven rooms. Remember what's normal — then spot what's changed. Chair turned? Ruler gone? Poster watching you? Close the wrong door, start over. Eight floors, thirty-four anomalies. The truth hides in the details.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.7%, RPG 22.2%, Noir 17.3%, Abstract 9.9%, Exploration 7.6%
To unlock ancient spells needed to defend the galaxy, can you navigate fantasy quests, noir cases, heroic competitions, dystopian worlds & space heists?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27%, Noir 26.2%, RPG 22.8%, Text-Based 19.1%, Mystery 4.6%
Dive into the 'Sacrifices', a narrative-driven adventure game where you unravel the poignant tale of a child's reality.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.1%, RPG 29.2%, Text-Based 20.6%, First-Person 9.7%, Adventure 5.3%
Under the Water Depths is a first-person game in which you will dive into a trench in the middle of an unknown ocean. The depths of the sea hide sinister yet mystical secrets.
Why similar: Underwater 39.4% ★, Submarine 31% ★, Exploration 9.8%, Mystery 6.4%, Adventure 5.7%
《浊令》 是一款第一人称文字冒险游戏,融合视觉小说元素。玩家将沉浸于探索“宙与埃”世界观的互动故事,通过选择驱动叙事发展,解锁多样的剧情分支。体验引人入胜的对话、收集精美CG与成就,感受独特的情感旅程。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.5%, RPG 33.7%, Text-Based 30.1%, Singleplayer 0.7%
Unravel the mysterious past of your parents and homeland while journeying through four unique lands in this exciting science-fantasy adventure!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.5%, Text-Based 31%, RPG 28%, Adventure 9.1%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Hardcode logical detective game. Only a few clues will help finding murderer. Was it just an accident or a murder? Thief broke in to steal something? Money? Or was it just a broken heart revenge? Well, you`ve got a chance to solve this case...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Noir 21.7%, RPG 16.7%, Text-Based 16.2%, Exploration 9.1%
Go forth on a text-based, choose your own adventure where you can choose your role and embark on adventure as various different people who tread different paths.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.6%, RPG 33.9%, Text-Based 25.7%, Adventure 3.2%, Singleplayer 0.6%
BEL/S is an Elemental Firewall: a fire elemental bound with C++ code to protect a network of people and places. She can learn things, develop relationships, and even gain sapience. Or she can burn everything with fire. It's up to you.
Why similar: Text-Based 34.4%, RPG 29.7%, Interactive Fiction 27.3%, Adventure 8.1%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Witness to the sections of BigBoy's life sucked into a vortex of crime. Is there divine justice?This is the prologue of the story.
Why similar: Conversation 29.6% ★, Noir 26.1%, Narration 16.8%, Text-Based 15.8%, Exploration 9.1%
Morhval: Ravenglaire is a dark fantasy text RPG about survival, choice and consequence. Create your character, explore a fractured province, fight turn-based battles, pass skill checks, help the desperate or abandon them, and decide who deserves to survive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.6%, RPG 33.4%, Text-Based 30.4%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Help the eccentric inventor navigate the intrigue of the emerging electrical industry! Can you outsmart Thomas Edison and electrify the world?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.2%, Text-Based 26.2%, RPG 22.2%, Narration 14.4%, Adventure 3.7%
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: Interactive Fiction 30.6%, RPG 22%, Noir 19.9%, Text-Based 13.3%, Exploration 9%
Experience a race against time written by a former forensic investigation expert. As detective JACK, you are the last hope to rescue the US President's kidnapped daughter. With only 1% battery left on her phone, use authentic detective techniques to find her before the screen goes black.
Why similar: Noir 29.3%, Interactive Fiction 27.9%, Text-Based 21.4%, RPG 10.3%, Mystery 5.4%
Harness wind, earth, fire, and all the forces of nature to destroy your enemies! Will you stabilize the broken magic of the weather, or revel in its chaos?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.5%, Text-Based 31.2%, RPG 31%, Adventure 2.8%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Step into the eerie shadows of an old haunted house in 'Lost in memories,' a gripping narrative-driven game that will unravel the mysteries of the past. As you wander through the decaying corridors and dimly lit rooms, you will gradually piece together fragments of memories.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.9%, Conversation 20.3% ★, Narration 12.4%, Exploration 10.9%, First-Person 8.9%
As captain of the Pandora sub, you must explore the Trench and retrieve data from the Neptune wreckage. But beware - the trench is home to unimaginable horrors that will test your courage. Can you survive the terrors of the deep and complete your mission, or will you become the next victim?
Why similar: Submarine 39.2% ★, Underwater 28.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Mystery 4.9%, First-Person 3.5%
Interactive teen supernatural mystery! You and your friends have developed magical psychic powers. Solve the case, save your school, find a date for prom!
Why similar: Text-Based 40.1%, Interactive Fiction 31.2%, RPG 28.7%
Uncover the mystery of Thalassa, a first-person psychological drama set under the sea. Ill-fate has fallen on your former crew and friends and it’s up to you to find answers onboard the wreckage. Experience the melancholic underwater journey of human stories facing life and loss.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.1%, Underwater 19.7% ★, First-Person 11.7%, RPG 10.4%, Exploration 7.9%
Blackwood knows how to keep secrets: beneath the neon, behind polite smiles, in offices with no nameplates. Stella is searching for a missing friend and realizes too late that she was let in for a reason.
Why similar: Noir 34.3%, Interactive Fiction 24.2%, RPG 19.2%, Text-Based 10.9%, Dark 5.1%
Can you and your friends master the ocean's magic and save your school? Dance, fight, and flirt with the other sea nymphs, selkies, and sirens!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.9%, RPG 28.7%, Text-Based 25.6%, First-Person 10%, Adventure 2.5%
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: Interactive Fiction 35.7%, RPG 32.5%, Text-Based 28.1%, Adventure 2.9%, Singleplayer 0.8%
A short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon.
Why similar: Submarine 40.8% ★, Underwater 29.4% ★, Abstract 7.8%, First-Person 6.3%, Exploration 4.6%
Cataclysm destroyed the sky and the earth, but it didn't destroy "Leningrad" - an autonomous underwater city-fortress. It is up to you to take on the role of the Captain of the "Leningrad". The future of the ship and its citizens depends on your actions.
Why similar: Submarine 30.8% ★, Underwater 23.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Text-Based 17.1%, RPG 8.9%
I found myself at the station. The story unfolds as you type commands on your keyboard. As the days repeat, I keep wondering what I can do for her. A command-driven adventure steeped in nostalgic pixel art and sound.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 48.5%, Text-Based 38.5%, Adventure 8.3%, Atmospheric 4.6%
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: Interactive Fiction 36.1%, RPG 32%, Text-Based 28.5%, Adventure 2.9%, Singleplayer 0.5%
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: Interactive Fiction 35.5%, RPG 32.3%, Text-Based 28.8%, Adventure 2.8%, Singleplayer 0.6%
There is a monster living in your apartment.
Why similar: Noir 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Text-Based 16.7%, RPG 14.1%, Exploration 7.9%
A short first-person horror game. An accident cripples your submarine while trying to find the wreck of the Titanic. In the darkness, you must restore life-support systems through tense puzzles, only to discover that you are not alone.
Why similar: Submarine 38.7% ★, Underwater 25.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 18%, Exploration 4.7%, Atmospheric 3.9%
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: Interactive Fiction 33.6%, RPG 29%, Text-Based 28.3%, Mystery 6%, Adventure 2.5%
A text adventure game about a 19th century explorer who finds himself stranded and alone.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 49.9%, Text-Based 39.8%, Adventure 10.3%
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: Interactive Fiction 35.8%, RPG 32.6%, Text-Based 28.2%, Adventure 2.8%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Explore and navigate an underwater cave in your submarine.
Why similar: Submarine 43.4% ★, Underwater 30% ★, Abstract 8.9%, Exploration 5.1%, Atmospheric 3.6%
Hoist the Jolly Roger and set sail to find the legendary Titan’s Treasure! Do you fight with a cutlass or with magic? Are you biding your time until you can shoot your captain in the back, or are you the reason the rum is gone?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.6%, Text-Based 31.3%, RPG 24.6%, Adventure 4.8%, Singleplayer 0.7%
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: Interactive Fiction 34%, RPG 29.7%, Text-Based 26.6%, Adventure 9.2%, Singleplayer 0.5%
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: Interactive Fiction 32.2%, Noir 22.3%, RPG 21.5%, Text-Based 20.1%, Adventure 3.6%
Samurai of Hyuga is a brutal, heart-pounding interactive tale. Prepare to enter the land of silk and steel, where fantasy clashes against grim reality, and where the good guys don't always win in the end. It's a harsh world with tough choices at every turn. Good thing you're the toughest ronin around.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.9%, Text-Based 32.7%, RPG 26.9%, Adventure 7.6%
A submarine touring the Titanic has gone missing. As part of the coast guard, you have been called in to locate and rescue the crew before their oxygen runs out.
Why similar: Submarine 42.9% ★, Underwater 31% ★, Exploration 9.2%, First-Person 7.7%, Mystery 3.6%
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 39.3%, Interactive Fiction 25.6%, RPG 25.4%, Adventure 5.1%, Mystery 2.5%
Trapped in a snowbound medical camp, battlefield nurse May clings to a mysterious letter—a final hope. Uncover hidden truths, test fragile bonds, and navigate a path toward a distant sanatorium. Will you find salvation, or something far darker?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.9%, Text-Based 28.9%, RPG 22.6%, Exploration 13.3%, Singleplayer 0.3%
The life of a serf is hard, but its time to change that. Could the legendary monk really change your fortune?
Why similar: Conversation 27.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Text-Based 17.9%, Narration 14.7%, RPG 8.5%
Yun Tianming gave Cheng Xin a small universe, and I also want to give you one!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34%, Conversation 32.2% ★, Text-Based 24.3%, RPG 8.9%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Make friends, cast spells, and uncover secrets in your magical small town! Will you preserve the forest or let the town grow?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.9%, Text-Based 32.7%, RPG 27.9%, Singleplayer 0.5%
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: Interactive Fiction 35.3%, RPG 31%, Text-Based 30.4%, Adventure 2.8%, Singleplayer 0.5%
It's the ultimate battle between werewolves and human supremacists, and your werewolf pack is caught in the middle of a four-way fight!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 40.2%, Text-Based 31%, RPG 25.2%, Adventure 2.8%, Singleplayer 0.9%
A psychological thriller where reality and memory collide. Unravel abandonment, depression, and shattered love through mysterious tapes. Dare to face your ghosts...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 41.3%, Narration 21.3%, Exploration 13.8%, First-Person 12.3%, Adventure 10.7%
Stan, a professional diver in the North Sea, is struggling to overcome a life-changing loss during an extended mission underwater. Stuck in his self-imposed solitude, he starts to experience strange events and will have to make the most significant choice of his life...
Why similar: Underwater 44% ★, Submarine 33.1% ★, Exploration 11.7%, Adventure 6.8%, Atmospheric 3.6%
Immerse yourself in a dark fantasy world that is inspired by traditional text-based adventure and interactive fiction games.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 42.4%, Text-Based 37.2%, RPG 14%, Adventure 5.6%, Singleplayer 0.7%
It's time to make a name for yourself in the big city. In this first half of a two-part epic, can you unravel the mysteries of Lux, City of Secrets?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.7%, Text-Based 30.2%, RPG 24.6%, Mystery 4.1%, Adventure 4%
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: Interactive Fiction 35.4%, RPG 31.7%, Text-Based 29.6%, Adventure 2.8%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Claw your way to the top of Moreytown, a furry slum for human-animal hybrids. Will you take down the gangs who rule the town, or take them over instead?
Why similar: Text-Based 38.2%, RPG 26.6%, Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Adventure 9.5%