Nodal

Games Like There's Always a Madman: Bring the Thunder

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Singleplayer, Choose Your Own Adventure, Story Rich.

There's Always a Madman: Bring the Thunder header art

Play as secret agents Franklin Benjamin and Virginia West as they attempt to stop a madman with a weather device in this single-player interactive spy novel. Track down this madman named Zeus and destroy his infernal weather machine. In other words, it’s time for YOU to bring the thunder, agent!

Reviews: No user reviews — 50%
Released: 2025-07-07
Developer: Sunny Demeanor Games
Genres: Adventure, RPG
Platforms: Windows

Similar Games

View all 60 recommendations
  1. #1 There's Always a Madman: The MacGuffin
    97% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Sunny Demeanor Games
    Windows

    Secret agent Franklin Benjamin's former mentor has resurfaced to take from you that which you hold most dear. In this singleplayer interactive spy novel, use your particular set of skills to save Virginia from the clutches of the madman Dustin MacGuffin. Which means - you’d better get the MacGuffin!

    Why similar: Espionage 30.3%, Satire 11.4%, Mouse Only 10.8%, Narrative 5.8%, Interactive Fiction 5.2%

  2. #2 There's Always a Madman: Do Your Worst
    96% matchNo user reviews2024
    Dev: Sunny Demeanor Games
    Windows

    Play as the vengeful secret agent Virginia West and take on a silver-loving madman called The Silver Fox in this single-player interactive spy novel. Surveil your enemy, get revenge for your partner's demise, and maybe - just maybe - save the world along the way. Don’t do your best … Do your worst!

    Why similar: Espionage 31.1%, Satire 11.6%, Narrative 10.5%, Mouse Only 7.4%, Interactive Fiction 5.3%

  3. #3 There's Always a Madman: Fight or Flight
    96% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2024
    Dev: Sunny Demeanor Games
    Windows

    Step into the shoes of the suave secret agent Franklin Benjamin in this single-player interactive spy novel. Drive fast cars, seduce beautiful women, take on false identities, and do whatever is necessary to save the world. Because there's always a madman, and you're the best agent we've got!

    Why similar: Espionage 27.9%, Satire 11%, Narrative 9.7%, Mouse Only 9.2%, Parody 7.3%

  4. #4 There's Always a Madman: V.I.C.T.O.R.
    95% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Sunny Demeanor Games
    Windows

    Secret agent Franklin Benjamin will stop at nothing to save the world. In this single-player interactive spy novel, you play as his greatest adversaries - can the criminal enterprise known as V.I.C.T.O.R. defeat the only man standing between them and world domination? To the VICTOR go the spoils!

    Why similar: Espionage 30.5%, Satire 11.4%, Mouse Only 9.7%, Narrative 8.5%, Parody 6.2%

  5. #5 180 Files: The Aegis Project
    94% matchPositive92% of 37 reviews2020
    Dev: Choice of Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Uncover a web of evil as a superspy! Break rules, break hearts–don't break cover.

    Why similar: Espionage 63.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Text-Based 7.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 5.1%, Choices Matter 3.4%

  6. #6 Chief Emoji Officer
    93% matchPositive100% of 32 reviews2023
    Dev: Bodeville
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Chief Emoji Officer is a text adventure that recreates the absurdities of the tech world by letting you become CEO using only emojis. Climb your way through corporate America by getting promoted, making allies, avoiding layoffs, and turning Redify into the most successful company in the world.

    Why similar: Satire 25.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Text-Based 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Visual Novel 8.1%

  7. #7 Undercover Agent
    94% matchMixed60% of 10 reviews2018
    Dev: Choice of Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Think fast and lie faster! When you go undercover to retrieve a deadly new bio-weapon, can you pull off the mission and escape with your life?

    Why similar: Espionage 66.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Text-Based 7.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.2%, Choices Matter 3%

  8. #8 My Wife is a Spy?!
    91% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Transparent Games
    Windows · Mac

    In this otome isekai visual novel you're thrown into an arranged marriage with the cold Duke of the North. Explore political tension, shifting loyalties, and two routes: romance or rebellion. Support your husband or betray him like a true villainess and take control of your fate.

    Why similar: Espionage 46.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%, Visual Novel 8.6%, Text-Based 8.4%

  9. #9 Secret Agent Allan Martin in ... Phoenix Erupting
    92% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2020
    Dev: SC Games
    Windows

    You are Allan Martin, an occasionally suave British superspy armed with a licence to cause an international incident. Can you survive international assassins? Can you stop an evil mastermind's nefarious plans? Can you avoid contracting an STD?

    Why similar: Parody 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Comedy 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Text-Based 10.5%

  10. #10 Assetflip attorney
    91% matchVery Positive94% of 143 reviews2025
    Dev: Xenom
    Windows · Linux

    Assetflip attorney is a murder mystery satire visual novel, Solve crimes in a world where everyone has gone insane and everything feels like a fever dream, interrogate witnesses, hunt for clues and take down the criminal organization that threatens to destroy reality

    Why similar: Narrative 25.7%, Satire 22%, Parody 19%, Comedy 8.8%, Visual Novel 7.9%

  11. #11 Creatio Ex Nihilo III: Amor Dei
    90% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Shoho Games
    Windows

    Experience the meeting of the divine and mortal world as a forbidden love affair have unforseen consequences.

    Why similar: Satire 24.5%, Parody 20.4%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%, Dark Humor 9.4%

  12. #12 Attorney Disbarment Adventure
    89% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Ambearth Games
    Windows

    A darkly comedic legal sim where your goal is to get disbarred—spectacularly. Play as a defense attorney or prosecutor in ethically disastrous cases full of bad decisions, weird clients, and Kafkaesque courtroom chaos. Succeed, and you lose.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Text-Based 18.1%, Satire 17.6%, Crime 12.1%, Multiple Endings 10.6%

  13. #13 The Secret Life of Dorian Pink | Prologue
    89% matchPositive100% of 23 reviews2022
    Dev: amberlimshin
    Windows · Mac

    Prologue chapter of Dorian Pink, a choices-matter narrative RPG set in an alternate universe of the Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Save your boyfriend Basil from the Devil by making questionable choices, gaining allies, and making doughnuts explode.

    Why similar: Satire 22.1%, Narrative 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%, Multiple Endings 7.6%

  14. #14 The Silent Front: World War Ⅱ
    88% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Oceanwave Technology Limited
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    In 1939, just before graduating from a German military academy, your true infiltration begins. You are Britain's hidden asset codenamed DEEP. Spying, deciphering, and moving through the shadows, you navigate rival factions, where every choice shapes your fate, your homeland, and peace.

    Why similar: Espionage 72.6%, Visual Novel 8.9%, Interactive Fiction 4.8%, Multiple Endings 4.4%, Choices Matter 3.4%

  15. #15 I'm in Love With Your Dead Grandmother
    86% matchVery Positive91% of 66 reviews2026
    Dev: Kimulator's Films
    Windows · Linux

    Hello, I'm Noah. I'm 28 years old and still haven't got a single date in my life, I'm looking for a life coach who can help me figure out the hard choices in my day to day life, you know? I'm sad and single, I have some friends online, but that's it.

    Why similar: Satire 27.6%, Parody 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Comedy 9.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%

  16. #16 Apology Video
    87% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Ethan BowerPub: Pictures of Horses
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    An FMV Choose-Your-Own-Adventure that'll leave you wanting to like and subscribe!

    Why similar: Satire 32.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Parody 13%, Visual Novel 9.5%, Multiple Endings 8.2%

  17. #17 Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You
    86% matchVery Positive90% of 15,430 reviews2016
    Dev: Osmotic StudiosPub: Daedalic Entertainment
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Big Brother has arrived - and it’s you. Investigate the lives of citizens to find those responsible for a series of terror attacks. Information from the internet, personal communications and private files are all accessible to you. But, be warned, the information you supply will have consequences.

    Why similar: Espionage 88.8%, Choices Matter 8.4%, Interactive Fiction 1.1%, Visual Novel 0.6%, Multiple Endings 0.6%

  18. #18 Going Your Own Way - Episode One
    85% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
    Dev: Heavenshire Stories
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Going Your Own Way is a visual novel that allows you to make choices that will help a young man trying to understand his place in the world while dealing with the recent ending of a long-term relationship, the challenges of modern dating, and a toxic workplace.

    Why similar: Satire 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Parody 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 12.2%

  19. #19 Don Quijote
    84% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
    Dev: Rubén Prende
    Windows · Linux

    An interactive graphic novel reimagining Cervantes' masterpiece in striking neo-noir style. Guide Don Quixote through La Mancha, make choices that shape his journey, and discover four unique endings in this tragicomic tale of idealism and madness.

    Why similar: Satire 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Multiple Endings 8.4%

  20. #20 Very Unserious Game
    83% matchVery Positive91% of 80 reviews2025
    Dev: Le Clown de la ClassePub: Youplaboum!
    Windows

    Are you looking for a new job that will give meaning to your life? The Innovality family is ready to welcome you! Between smart innovation and spontaneous conference calls, grow into a valued team member in a cutting-edge startup!

    Why similar: Parody 23%, Satire 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Text-Based 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%

  21. #21 Please Act Normal
    84% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Ezhaac Studio
    Windows

    "Please Act Normal" is a live-action comedy about the agonizing pressure of social etiquette. Navigate awkward dinners and tense meetings through frequent dialogue choices, or embrace chaos and use your "Secret Weapon". Will they yell, laugh or just stare in pity? There’s only one way to find out.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Satire 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Dark Humor 8.3%

  22. #22 Tom the postgirl
    82% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Oopsie DaisiesPub: ARTE France
    Windows · Mac

    Join Tom, the village’s new postgirl, and get to know the locals, perhaps a little too well. Her method, although controversial, is highly effective: intense, obsessive stalking.

    Why similar: Satire 25.9%, Narrative 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Dark Humor 10.4%, Visual Novel 8.9%

  23. #23 I Just Want to be Single!! Season One
    81% matchVery Positive81% of 278 reviews2025
    Dev: m.Pub: Tsundere Studio
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    The anti-dating sim where you make friends instead of girlfriends! Balance between heartbreak and heartache! Will you graduate without a single friend? Or will you survive long enough to reject them all?

    Why similar: Narrative 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Text-Based 10.9%, Visual Novel 10%

  24. #24 Basements n' Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery
    82% matchVery Positive90% of 171 reviews2023
    Dev: eNVy softworks
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A visual novel paying satirical homage to the world’s greatest TTRPG. Make important choices, roll countless dice, build lasting relationships, explore magical lands and experience all the rest of the crap you expect from a fantasy game without the hassle of finding actual friends to play with!

    Why similar: Parody 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Text-Based 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.6%

  25. #25 Skin Tailor
    80% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Night Asobu
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Skin Tailor is a medieval horror dress up game and visual novel hybrid. Skin your supernatural enemies, create disguises and infiltrate vampire owned blood farms to rescue your comrades.

    Why similar: Espionage 52.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Choices Matter 4.1%

  26. #26 The Secret Life of Dorian Pink
    79% matchPositive89% of 37 reviews2023
    Dev: amberlimshin
    Windows · Mac

    A choices-matter narrative RPG set in an alternate universe of the Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Save your boyfriend Basil from the Devil by making questionable choices, gaining allies, and making doughnuts explode.

    Why similar: Narrative 24%, Satire 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Multiple Endings 9.2%, Comedy 8.8%

  27. #27 I Did It ALL for the COOKIE!
    79% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2024
    Dev: Paul RodenburgPub: Rodenburg Films Ltd
    Windows · Mac

    You are hanging out at a festive Christmas party when your eyes discover the most perfect Christmas confectionery ever! You must have it!... but someone already has it! What will you be willing to do, to get your Christmas wish?

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Multiple Endings 13%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Comedy 11.6%

  28. #28 Return of Red Riding Hood Enhanced Edition
    81% matchVery Positive86% of 70 reviews2018
    Dev: NLB project
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    This visual novel is a collection of alternative realities. How events would turn out and how they end will depend on your choices. Visit wolf's den and solve his secret, or try to tame the wild beast. Eat a pasty with mushrooms and experience something new, or feed it to the old lady, because it's her favorite filling.

    Why similar: Mouse Only 25.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Multiple Endings 8.9%

  29. #29 The door has doubts
    78% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
    Dev: wrongchairstudio
    Windows

    The Door Has Doubts is a very short and absurd narrative game about manipulation, dialogue, and the existential crisis of room furnitures. You are stuck in a room, there is a door. Your only way out: Convince the door to open. Choose your words carefully, as you try to escape the room.

    Why similar: Narrative 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Comedy 10.2%

  30. #30 Meet Claude
    77% matchPositive100% of 20 reviews2026
    Dev: Farniente Lab
    Windows

    A free narrative game about the best roommate you'll ever have. He cooks, he cleans, he fixes your relationship. Everything improves. Nobody asked what it costs. A short satire about saying yes until you forget what no sounds like. Multiple endings. 1-2 hours.

    Why similar: Satire 33.6%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Multiple Endings 8.8%

  31. #31 Isekaing: from zero to zero.
    78% matchPositive86% of 22 reviews2024
    Dev: ElvenNeko
    Windows

    Zoe is hit by Truck-kun and respawns in a retro game, where she must face dangers in the form of clichés, meaningless choices, a plot that has more holes than Swiss cheese, and other plagues of modern gaming. Also, every notable person is trying to sing her a song! Will she endure such torment?

    Why similar: Satire 27.5%, Parody 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Dark Humor 9.5%, Comedy 9.1%

  32. #32 Before They Catch Us
    76% matchPositive90% of 20 reviews2025
    Dev: ANTertainment
    Windows · Linux

    A dark text-based RPG set in a world gripped by a restless race for survival against a merciless mushroom Forest. As a prophet’s apprentice, guide your clan along the knife-edge between life and oblivion. Decipher misty visions, make critical decisions, and do whatever it takes to survive.

    Why similar: Narrative 25.7%, Text-Based 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%

  33. #33 My Beeloved: A Bee Dating Sim
    76% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Fickle Sickle
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A fully voiced raunchy bee dating sim. Make choices, earn Buzzies, play minigames, laugh, cry, and unlock endings.

    Why similar: Satire 28%, Parody 21.4%, Comedy 8.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8%, Visual Novel 7.8%

  34. #34 Shadows of Betrayal
    75% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
    Dev: JayzonBHPub: JayzonBH Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Recent high school graduates gather at a remote cabin for a celebration. What begins as a night of laughter spirals into a tense mystery full of secrets, twists, and chilling choices. Who will survive? Navigate friendships, and uncover the multi-layered mystery in Shadows of Betrayal.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Thriller 12.1%, Choices Matter 9%

  35. #35 Furry Shakespeare: Love's Lizards Lost
    77% matchNo user reviews2022
    Dev: Stegalosaurus Game Development
    Windows · Linux

    You've just landed in a new world, set to discover new mysteries and solve great conflicts. You're also a small reptile.

    Why similar: Satire 31%, Parody 23.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Visual Novel 12%, Comedy 10.8%

  36. #36 Runaway Cheater
    74% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
    Dev: 170Denier
    Windows

    You just got caught by the husband of the girl you were cheating with! Run away, cheater!!

    Why similar: Espionage 51.6%, Satire 27.1%, Dark Humor 8.8%, Funny 6.4%, Comedy 5.8%

  37. #37 Henchman Story
    74% matchVery Positive97% of 299 reviews2021
    Dev: Silken Sail Entertainment
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Being a bumbling supervillain's henchman is a thankless job. The spandex chafes, there's tons of late nights, and your boss rarely remembers your name. But in this narrative adventure you'll soon discover that - sometimes - even the choices of the lowliest henchman can change everything.

    Why similar: Narrative 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Dark Humor 10.6%, Comedy 9.6%

  38. #38 Door Game Deluxe
    72% matchVery Positive95% of 151 reviews2025
    Dev: Rusty Hinge
    Windows

    Door Game Deluxe is a (very) short, satirical RPG. An expansion of the original and the pinnacle of human artistic expression, this version offers original art and music on top of new endings.

    Why similar: Satire 35.3%, Text-Based 16.8%, Comedy 16%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Parody 11.3%

  39. #39 The Sculptor
    73% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: AmenoRokkotsu
    Windows

    You only picked up a lost smartphone, yet you find yourself made an accomplice in an AI's criminal plot. The AI asks 20 questions to identify its "master." Will you meet the AI's expectations?

    Why similar: Narrative 26.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Text-Based 12.5%, Multiple Endings 10.3%

  40. #40 Please Leave Me Alone, I Need to Poop
    73% matchPositive95% of 39 reviews2024
    Dev: CoproTech Enterprise Solutions
    Windows · Mac

    Part visual novel, part WarioWare-inspired minigame collection, Please Leave Me Alone, I Need to Poop is a modern workplace comedy that you can beat within a short session in your office bathroom stall. Multiple stories, multiple minigames, and multiple endings provide replayability.

    Why similar: Satire 23.5%, Parody 16.5%, Dark Humor 10.5%, Visual Novel 9.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%

  41. #41 Mythos Ever After: A Cthulhu Dating Sim RX
    75% matchNo user reviews2021
    Dev: Stegalosaurus Game Development
    Windows · Linux

    Just another cosmic horror dating sim. Set at a comic book convention.

    Why similar: Parody 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Satire 11.2%

  42. #42 Signs of the Sojourner
    73% matchVery Positive88% of 250 reviews2020
    Dev: Echodog Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 70%

    In this narrative card game about relationships and communication, navigate conversations in a colorful world reminiscent of our own. Learn and grow through the cards you choose to play. Who will you become? What will you leave behind?

    Why similar: Narrative 22.3%, Mouse Only 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Text-Based 11.4%

  43. #43 Negative Nancy
    72% matchVery Positive94% of 117 reviews2021
    Dev: FEEDPub: Effort Star
    Windows · Mac

    Negative Nancy is a choose your “no” adventure for people who have had enough. An interactive sitcom where you can only say “no” (or nothing at all). Your choices control the story.

    Why similar: Parody 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Comedy 9.8%

  44. #44 The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
    71% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Verse and Vision
    Windows

    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 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Visual Novel 18%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Choices Matter 10.4%

  45. #45 Dead Wrong Detective
    71% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: NAGORI EMBER
    Windows

    Self-proclaimed genius detective Nanko and her assistant tackle 23 cases in this comedy detective ADV. Find clues, shout "The culprit is YOU!" — and get it wrong. Every. Single. Time. The world's worst detective begins her investigation. Skill issue? No. It's a feature.

    Why similar: Parody 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Text-Based 9.6%, Dark Humor 9%

  46. #46 The Wheel of Fortune
    71% matchPositive92% of 25 reviews2021
    Dev: Takujin soft.
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    The only visual novel dating sim with turbo-folk music playing in the background. Be a loser, get scammed, live with your parents and fail to get laid! Do you have what it takes to turn your luck around?

    Why similar: Satire 29.2%, Parody 27.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Comedy 6.8%

  47. #47 EULA
    70% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: MoEater
    Windows · Linux

    An image created by AI — is it yours? An AI art tool is placed before a nameless illustrator. To accept, or to refuse. A visual novel that tells the same story in different forms. Your choices shape the ending - there is no right answer.

    Why similar: Narrative 31.3%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Multiple Endings 11.5%

  48. #48 Legion Was Here
    70% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Geoffroy MondePub: Surefire.Games
    Windows

    You are Legion, a secret agent who can change his appearance at will. Use your investigative and chameleon skills to infiltrate enemy ranks!

    Why similar: Espionage 65.8%, Dark Humor 10.6%, Thriller 5.5%, Interactive Fiction 5.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 5.1%

  49. #49 DEI Manager Simulator
    68% matchPositive100% of 33 reviews2026
    Dev: Facetious Labs
    Windows

    Ruin a game studio with the power of performative DEI. In this linear satirical experience, the studio IS going to crash—that’s the point. Your choices just decide the flavor of the disaster. Can you boost your optics score enough to fail upwards before the inevitable collapse?

    Why similar: Satire 35.3%, Parody 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Text-Based 12.9%, Comedy 11%

  50. #50 All (Too) Good Things
    70% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: YOWPY games
    Windows

    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 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Text-Based 17.9%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Multiple Endings 11.3%

  51. #51 My Summer Adventure: Memories of Another Life
    69% matchVery Positive91% of 132 reviews2023
    Dev: AlkinoyPub: 101XP
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A strange incident turns the life of an ordinary young man upside down when, having fallen asleep on a regular train commute, he wakes up in another country... in a body of a Japanese student! An unforgettable summer adventure awaits, promising many fateful meetings and momentous occasions.

    Why similar: Narrative 27%, Text-Based 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Multiple Endings 9.5%

  52. #52 I Will Never Fall For My Tsundere Classmate, So I Will Just Date A Background Character Instead!
    67% matchVery Positive100% of 71 reviews2025
    Dev: Kaijoseisoft
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A short parody visual novel about romance with a tsundere girl... Or not?

    Why similar: Satire 33.7%, Parody 24%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%

  53. #53 summer story
    68% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: karol_thegame
    Windows · Linux

    Summer Story: An adventure game where you investigate and make choices that shape the story.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Text-Based 12.3%, Multiple Endings 9.2%

  54. #54 Paper Shakespeare: Very Naked Hamlet
    69% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2021
    Dev: Stegalosaurus Game Development
    Windows · Linux

    So, like, either know Shakespeare's Hamlet, or don't get laid. That's it. That's the game.

    Why similar: Satire 28.6%, Parody 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%

  55. #55 Kokoro Space Opera
    67% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: PonzuSoft
    Windows · Linux

    In KOKORO SPACE OPERA join an all-girl squad of galactic fighter pilots as they try to save the Earth from assured destruction. Will this wacky space adventure get a happy ending? Or is this sci-fi story secretly a tragedy? Your choices decide their fate!

    Why similar: Satire 26.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Comedy 11.4%, Visual Novel 11%, Interactive Fiction 8.1%

  56. #56 Echoes of Pinebridge
    67% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Koalu Studio
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    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: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Comedy 9.3%

  57. #57 Come to my party!
    66% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: SIMSANG YOONPub: LINE Games Corporation
    Windows

    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: Narrative 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Text-Based 10.6%

  58. #58 Molly the Werezompire
    66% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2023
    Dev: Zeboyd Digital Entertainment
    Windows

    Interactive fiction starring Molly the Werezompire - a grad student who jumped into a portal, was killed by a werewolf, a zombie, and a vampire, and became a heroic werezompire! Also includes the sci-fi parody, Epiphany in Spaaace! Originally released on XBLIG.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Text-Based 20.2%, Comedy 15.8%, Female Protagonist 6.8%

  59. #59 Puzzle Spy International
    63% matchVery Positive94% of 121 reviews2026
    Dev: Travel-Friendly Cake
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Pursue diamond thieves and a trail of cryptic puzzles in this short ‘60s spy adventure. As Agent Epsilon you’ll choose your path as you chat with (or chat up!) suspicious contacts. Deduce the puzzle rules, decode cryptograms and decipher clues as you solve wordplay & logic puzzles across the globe!

    Why similar: Espionage 64.2%, Visual Novel 10%, Crime 7.2%, Comedy 5.7%, Funny 5.7%

  60. #60 SHAKESPEARE? More like THIRSTspeare, amirite?
    68% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2021
    Dev: Stegalosaurus Game Development
    Windows · Linux

    A human dating sim about writing a furry dating sim.

    Why similar: Parody 24.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Satire 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.8%

Modeli
There's Always a Madman: Bring the Thunder cover art

Games Like There's Always a Madman: Bring the Thunder

Based on tag similarity + player behavior
Loading graph...