60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Choose Your Own Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Visual Novel, Choices Matter.
Absurdist Interactive fiction. Talk to the beings that inhabitant the world at its end. We forgot how to die.
TOY BOX
A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.
Alcyone: The Last City
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.
A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Text-Based 10.3%, Visual Novel 9.6%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Dialogue Heavy 11.6%, Text-Based 9.7%
A short, twisted tale about a smuggler and a late night encounter in the English Channel. Control the camera and make tough choices, will you escape with your life?
Why similar: Dark Comedy 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%, Philosophical 10.6%
Run-based story game. Which mistakes would you repeat if you could?
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.1%, Dark Comedy 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Philosophical 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%
A choose-your-own-adventure novel. Enter the mind of a black-ops team leader heading an impossible mission in a parallel universe. Choices are remembered, story events reflect past decisions, and freely rewind time to try different paths.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Text-Based 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Horror 10.4%
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: Dialogue Heavy 15.5%, Dark Comedy 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Visual Novel 10.7%
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)!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 20.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11.9%, Text-Based 10.2%
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Text-Based 14.1%, Visual Novel 13%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%
Play as Alice who has just had an unsettingly life-like dream about the end of the world, and is retelling it to her friend. A single play-through might take as little as 20 minutes, but experiencing all the possible paths Alice can take through the ruins of her city will take you many hours.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.8%, Visual Novel 22.6%, Post-apocalyptic 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 17%, RPG 9.7%
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 19.2%, Dialogue Heavy 17.6%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Text-Based 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
A Hand-Drawn Visual Novel Essay Game
Why similar: Abstract 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Dystopian 15.9%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%
A war that outlived the soldiers who fought it. Enemies inherited by a generation not grown. You will lead your precocious unit into this unending conflict and find out if the bonds of friendship can withstand the tides of war. Overflowing with black humour, you'll laugh till you cry...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.6%
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 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Dystopian 12%, Dialogue Heavy 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.4%
An apocalyptic Visual Novel from Zombie Zone Germany for Christmas with German voice acting, lots of decisions and seven different endings. There is only a version in German language.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Dystopian 10.6%
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Text-Based 12.7%, Dystopian 12.4%, Visual Novel 10.2%
A point-and-click horror/tragedy visual novel about melding your perception of the world around you. Walk around, drive people to their death, and shape Perdita's existence. Remember: The flesh-sin is nothing. Before she can become everything, you must make her into something.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Visual Novel 11%, Dialogue Heavy 9.3%, Horror 8.8%
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: Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Dystopian 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Text-Based 11.8%
A visual novel passed through an image compressor Play as a murderer unsure of their entire life, down to their name. But you have a mission. One you NEED to undertake.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Dark Comedy 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Abstract 11.4%
A dark visual novel blending psychological horror, surreal storytelling, and chatroom-inspired UI. Navigate intrusive thoughts, branching choices, and dissect a fractured mind in a twisted search for connection and meaning.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Philosophical 11%, Abstract 9.9%
This year's Desire Hierarchy has begun. The stakes are now deadly. Hop into The Specter's Desire, a Visual Novel in which you play against the city's top talents to save your parents. Includes puzzling gameplay that has you tearing down arguments, hatching schemes, and revealing the truth!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Text-Based 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.7%
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Horror 14.7%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Text-Based 10.3%
The abstract male is the image of God, the absolute something.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 27.6%, Philosophical 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Visual Novel 12.3%
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 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Text-Based 15.1%, Dialogue Heavy 14.9%, Visual Novel 14.1%
Board the Trans-Siberian railroad and travel 9,289 km from Moscow to Vladivostok. Clash with a vibrant culture as you meet people as strange to you as you are to them. Journey into a standalone Wanderlust adventure from the makers of The Witcher.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%, Philosophical 11%, Text-Based 10.6%
A psychological drama from the perspective of an apathetic guy who is detached from casual suicidals, sexually aggressive idiots, and daily murderers. This is all until an intellectual genius of a woman named Samarah comes in to challenge him and the world of logical inconsistencies.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Text-Based 10.6%, Visual Novel 9.5%
A flesh-eating dust leaves you to survive alone against hordes of Listless.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, RPG 11.3%
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 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Text-Based 12.5%, Visual Novel 12.1%
"The very last flower grew in concrete. She danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died." A short interactive poetry experience, and science fiction, about the end. Explore brutalist ruins to collect memories of a dead world.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 18.9%, Philosophical 16.3%, Dystopian 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Horror 9.8%
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 24.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Post-apocalyptic 18.9%, Text-Based 17.3%, RPG 9.2%
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 24.4%, Dark Comedy 21%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Visual Novel 10.9%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Visual Novel 14.5%, RPG 12.1%, Choices Matter 8.7%
Embark on a thrilling journey through this highly engaging science fantasy visual novel with memorable characters and multiple endings. Journey through space, uncover the past and pull off a heist or two as you negotiate the pitfalls of friendship and a crumbling reality. Can you save the universe?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Dialogue Heavy 14.9%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%
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%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Philosophical 12.6%, Text-Based 10.5%
An erotic visual novel with multiple endings! In a alternate America where women have gained the ability to swallow humans whole, some cities have made it legal one day a year! Read or listen as each chapter of the story is played out, with you holding the power of where the story goes next!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 23.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Text-Based 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.3%
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 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Dialogue Heavy 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.8%
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20%, Choices Matter 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Text-Based 11.8%
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: Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Dialogue Heavy 12.1%, Text-Based 10.6%
You went to the desert to rest. You crushed a worm. Now it talks to you in dreams.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Dialogue Heavy 13.9%, Choices Matter 11%, Horror 10%
Alone in the dead of night, you find yourself sent on a simple errand to check on a quiet gas station on the outskirts of town. But nothing here feels right. You can’t outrun this place. It wants you. And it will keep you.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 16.4%, Text-Based 12.5%, Philosophical 12%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%
The Devil rais'd the storm is a mysterious science fiction visual novel with point-and-click elements. Unravel a tense and moody story as you navigate your new role stationed at a strange outpost on a remote planet.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Dialogue Heavy 16.2%, Post-apocalyptic 15.6%, Visual Novel 12%, Dystopian 9.4%
A text-based psychological horror game where you execute a list of people based on gradually revealed information about their lives, all while secretly following a trail laid out by a mysterious messenger.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Text-Based 12.3%, Philosophical 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%, Choices Matter 9.8%
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series contains all 4 Seasons, 400 Days, and The Walking Dead: Michonne, which includes over 50 hours of gameplay across 23 unique episodes.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, Horror 8.9%
A short psychological thriller visual novel where you guide Sora through twisted interrogations, moral dilemmas, and unraveling memories...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Philosophical 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Abstract 10.1%
The prequel to Road 96. Play Zoe and Kaito where it all started. Change their destinies!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Dialogue Heavy 15.7%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Dystopian 11%
My name is left behind these white walls. In its place, I am left with dozens of questions. I wander aimlessly, though she seems to guide me. I do not feel safe. Twenty-four hours... and everything will fall into place.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Philosophical 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Dialogue Heavy 11%
A psychological text-based game where each day you are tasked with executing someone based on the limited information provided until one person remains with their full story revealed.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Text-Based 12.6%, Philosophical 12.5%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Dystopian 9.3%
An interactive fiction epic fantasy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Text-Based 14.4%, RPG 14.4%, Dystopian 12.2%
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 23%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Choices Matter 10.6%
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 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Dialogue Heavy 17.2%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Text-Based 11.3%
Pine Hill is a quiet Midwestern college town. Quiet enough that nobody seemed to hear Ginny Nicholson die. Alone with the thoughts in your head, now you just want to know one thing: why?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Dialogue Heavy 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Text-Based 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.9%
Is the glass half-full or half-empty? What does you answer say about you? Explore your outlook on life by filling glasses with your friend Tea-Total in Hydrodynamics of Hope & Optimism (in short, H2O). But are you ready to hear those answers? Are you reeeeeeeeeally sure?
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23.5%, Dark Comedy 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Psychological 11.3%
SIRE is a narrative card game about dealing with the death of a parent, and the whirlwind of emotions that follow. Players combine cards to explore a darkly comedic, surreal world of loss and learning, in a combination of classic point-n-click adventure and real video footage.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Philosophical 12.6%, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
"Are We in Love?" is a dark, choice-driven visual novel that questions love and family. There are no butterflies in your stomach, only the harsh reality of a chemical sting in your nostrils and the acrid aftertaste of vodka. No common route. Fully branched story.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Choices Matter 9.6%
An absurdist, psychological choose your own adventure, Surreality check has the player helping Rowan Roach discover the meaning of his life through therapy sessions with the Universe personified. The Universe being a massive tool doesn't help matters.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Visual Novel 15.3%, RPG 13.5%, Dialogue Heavy 13%, Interactive Fiction 7.5%
Driving home late one night you encounter a refugee in distress. They are looking for salvation. Do you hand them over to violent authorities? Or risk sheltering them yourself?
Why similar: Dark Comedy 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 8.8%, Visual Novel 8.5%
Under developement, Grave Knight is an interactive RPG adventure inspired by SRD 5.1 ruleset and classical game books, where your decisions weave the fate of the characters and the story. Let the dice forge the fate of your hero and the realm by fighting the Grave knight and his horde.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Visual Novel 18.6%, RPG 14.3%, Choices Matter 10.8%
The president trusts you. Exercise your Shamanic capabilities (or lack thereof). But don't get caught!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Dialogue Heavy 20.8%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Choices Matter 12%, Text-Based 11.4%
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 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Text-Based 16.9%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Dark Comedy 11%
Sit across from an administrator and complete a paper cognitive assessment. Answer every question. Hand the form back when prompted. Something is wrong with the room, the form, and the figure watching you fill it out.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Dialogue Heavy 15.3%, Text-Based 13.3%, Horror 10.8%, Abstract 9.2%
A fantasy adventure visual novel with humor and heart, by acclaimed adventure game writer Lori Ann Cole. Starring the voice of Zehra Fazal as Tilly, a mischief-making rogue at Hero-U, the school for heroes.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Visual Novel 13%, Text-Based 12.9%
