60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Story Rich, Choose Your Own Adventure, Text-Based.
Illustrated text-based RPG featuring a unique magic system. Develop skills, tend relations. Navigate complex social structures. Explore themes of identity and allegiance.
Hare Apparent
An ancient custom is invoked, and five kingdoms send their young heirs to play a legendary game. Build relationships, form alliances, and win the crown in this high-stakes game of woodland politics and social maneuvering.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
An ancient custom is invoked, and five kingdoms send their young heirs to play a legendary game. Build relationships, form alliances, and win the crown in this high-stakes game of woodland politics and social maneuvering.
Why similar: Diplomacy 23.1% ★, Political 14.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Text-Based 12.3%
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Diplomacy 27% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Gothic 10.7% ★, Text-Based 10.5%
House of stolen devil bargains and indolent angelic aristocracy: Nowhere Manor is doomed to disappear. You can leave if you’ve got a soul … but that’s not an option for an artificially created servant such as Liber. Just how far are you willing to go escape?
Why similar: Gothic 16.5% ★, Demons 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%, Lore-Rich 9.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%
Lead the first settlement on Jupiter's frozen moon, Europa! What alien life lurks beneath the ice? Who is sabotaging your mission? Who can you trust?
Why similar: Diplomacy 25.7% ★, Political 17.3% ★, Text-Based 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Lore-Rich 7.3%
"Escape from Death" is a 256,000-word interactive horror adventure novel by Tova Näslund. It’s entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
Why similar: Gothic 16% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Demons 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Dark Fantasy 9.7%
A text-based RPG with a nonlinear story set in a free Slavic fantasy world. Shape the heroine's character through your choices and unlock multiple endings. Mystery, folklore, and relationships — your fate depends only on you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Text-Based 16.7%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Hand-drawn 11.4%
A choice-driven narrative RPG set in China’s Warring States period. Rise from a nameless soldier to a legendary general through decisions with permanent consequences. Death is final. History remembers only the survivors.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Political 11.6% ★, Drama 11.3%
Into Oblivion is an immerse interactive novel where your choices shape the story. Set in the far-future, explore a galaxy on the brink of crisis with dynamic companions. So, settle your mind and pray you have what it takes to fly Into Oblivion.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Text-Based 13.8%, RPG 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.5%
Backed by interstellar weaponry, the nation of Panwestia has annexed half the globe. Resistance appears futile--but the hegemon has a very unique weakness...
Why similar: Diplomacy 22% ★, Political 16.3% ★, Text-Based 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%
A short psychological horror interactive story. Five years after vanishing without a trace, the woman you once called your lover writes from beyond the silence: "I will give birth to our creation.” In three acts, descend into a fractured mindscape where obsession, memory, and myth intertwine.
Why similar: Gothic 14.8% ★, Text-Based 12.3%, Psychological 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.9%
A psychological thriller visual novel where your choices deeply affect an 18-year-old woman's mental state, leading to multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Text-Based 14.8%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Hand-drawn 11.4%
3 short stories set in a mystical fantasy universe. You are a newborn Face of God. Hear tales of human suffering and triumph. Decide which Face of God you are. Pick a different fate for each main character. A short, linear experience that is introspective, emotional and spiritual.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Text-Based 15.4%, Lore-Rich 14.7%, Dark Fantasy 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%
They have magic and fangs. You have red tape! When vampires, werewolves, wizards, and demons clash, you must mediate. Save your city, or sell your soul?
Why similar: Diplomacy 22.7% ★, Text-Based 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Lore-Rich 11.3%, Demons 11%
Investigate the murder of Evie Roots. Save the town from disaster. Learn the history of the Great Houses. Immerse yourself in the centuries-old history of Pineford.
Why similar: Gothic 16% ★, Text-Based 13.8%, Lore-Rich 13.3%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Psychological 9.2%
On Love, On Monsters is a Frankenstein-inspired story with an emphasis on love in its many forms. Play as three characters with alternating POVs; the Doctor, The Priest, and The Exile. Bond with allies and enemies, avoid raising suspicion in the town of Blackmoore, and learn what it means to love.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Gothic 18.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Drama 11.2%
Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Drama 13.8%, Psychological 10.3%
Chess. Love. Destiny. All the same things, really.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Hand-drawn 14.4%, Dark Fantasy 13%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%
Travelling Light is a narrative game about four friends, Lars, Leah, Samson, and Ivy, caught in the turbulence of their early thirties. Inspired by real events, this experience lets you step into each perspective as love, friendship, and heartbreak collide.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Hand-drawn 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Psychological 9.2%
Voices: From the Stars is a story-rich visual novel where every choice you make can tip the balance between war and harmony and reveal the mysteries behind the voices that echo across the cosmos.
Why similar: Diplomacy 25.6% ★, Political 17.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Text-Based 10.6%, Lore-Rich 9.9%
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: Text-Based 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Lore-Rich 15.2%, Visual Novel 11.5%
Slice into a dark fantasy world of celestial magic and violence-devoted talking animals in this visual novel RPG. MoonFire intertwines personal mystery and complex characters within a landscape of political intrigue, all unknowingly set against the threat of a looming cosmic apocalypse.
Why similar: Diplomacy 28.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Dark Fantasy 11.5%, Demons 8.7%
You will play a hexfinder in the employ of Queen Charlotte’s Anglican Church, tasked with seeking out the witches and warlocks (colloquially known as hexcrafters) who threaten her fair nation. A story-rich, text-based RPG, Hexfinder is a supernatural alt-historical adventure!
Why similar: Text-Based 15.1%, Demons 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Political 12.8% ★
They steal your crew and force your ship to crash-land on an alien planet where you must start fresh with nothing but a dilapidated base and a... talking cat?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Lore-Rich 11.2%, RPG 9.9%
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: Psychological 13.9%, Text-Based 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Hand-drawn 11.1%
A 700,000-word epic fantasy interactive novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Text-Based 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, RPG 12.6%, Dark Fantasy 11.6%
A brave hero and a bound lich rescue a legendary warrior from a forgotten tomb and put the romance back in necromancy. Necromance is a dark fantasy comedy visual novel with light puzzle elements, 3 endings, and 15 ways to die!
Why similar: Gothic 15.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Lore-Rich 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.8%
Shame & choices = possible apocalypse. You need to figure out what’s causing the apocalypse to happen, so that you can prevent it. 2 playable characters with different relations to shame → 2 unique perspectives of the same story. Complicated families, branching choices and unforgiving consequences.
Why similar: Psychological 15.3%, Text-Based 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Lore-Rich 10%
As a humble baker in a quiet medieval town, your life takes a dark turn when a stranger arrives equipped for battle. Thrust into a hidden world of supernatural beings—elves, demons, fae, and more—you must make choices that alter the fate of the world you thought you knew.
Why similar: Demons 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Dark Fantasy 11.3%
A short, linear story game of a random demon guy's life.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Demons 18.4%, Text-Based 17.6%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Psychological 12.1%
Delve into a dark fantasy visual novel where evil isn't always as it seems. Make your choices and grow your skills to help determine who survives the Great Culling. Featuring the voice talents of Ralph Ineson, Simon Callow, Savannah Steyn, and more.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Dark Fantasy 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Lore-Rich 10.6%
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 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Visual Novel 13.4%, RPG 11.3%, Text-Based 10.2%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Demons 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Hand-drawn 11.1%
Leviathan receives an order from the Fortress: infiltrate Pandemonium and eliminate Wrath, the ruthless traitor. Prove yourself, sea dragon. (Short adventure RPG / visual novel)
Why similar: Demons 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Gothic 14.5% ★, Visual Novel 12.8%, RPG 11.3%
Haunt a suit of armour. Explore an abandoned castle. Recover your memories... and bring the ghosts of the past to rest in this melancholy visual novel about love, family and regret.
Why similar: Gothic 25.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Lore-Rich 11.1%, Dark Fantasy 10.4%
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 29.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, RPG 12.6%, Visual Novel 6.4%
A short Visual Novel where a demon offers a woman a terrifying proposal: to kill the man she once loved.
Why similar: Demons 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Drama 13.1%, Dark Fantasy 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.9%
This is the story of a family living in a haunted house in New Hampshire. And you're the one haunting them.
Why similar: Gothic 35.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Text-Based 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, RPG 11.4%
These monsters aren’t just in the movies! Will you hunt the vampires, werewolves and others stalking Hollywood, or will you become a monster instead? An interactive, text-based game set in the World of Darkness shared story universe.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Gothic 16% ★, Text-Based 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Demons 13.8%
A Philosophical Discussion of Worms is a Kinetic Visual Novel that explores two characters, Vynder and Ophiel, as they navigate cohabitation in a strange, unfamiliar house when they don't speak the same language.
Why similar: Gothic 20.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Text-Based 18.8%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Hand-drawn 11.4%
Take the role of a painter struggling to finish his masterpiece in this short Gothic horror visual novel about art, pain and love.
Why similar: Gothic 24% ★, Visual Novel 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Hand-drawn 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%
Not thrilled that fate has led him into the confines of a sinister place, Varlu is left with no choice but to come face to face with many types of demons, including his very own.
Why similar: Gothic 16.2% ★, Demons 13.7%, Text-Based 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%
Defy nature’s laws and avenge your slain pantheon! Humanity once feared and hated you, but now, awakened from a thousand-year slumber, you are their only hope. A text-based interactive game.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Text-Based 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, RPG 14.3%, Lore-Rich 12.5%
A Slice-of-life Anime Visual Novel about 4 friends trying to recapture old feelings. Has multiple story branches and endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Text-Based 14.8%, Demons 12.9%, Lore-Rich 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.9%
Eyes of Iyre is a Visual Novel with heavy RPG elements. Follow Barbak the Orc as he discovers more about the world and his past, all the while trying to keep his temper under control. Make friends, cast magic, and learn the truths hidden in the city of Iyre!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Text-Based 15.8%, Visual Novel 13.7%, RPG 10.1%
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: Interactive Fiction 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Text-Based 15.3%, Visual Novel 11%, Psychological 9%
Recover a stolen artifact and lose your heart as a secret magical agent! Can you uncover an arcane conspiracy before the clock runs out? An interactive, text-based magical romance novel.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.5%, Demons 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Dark Fantasy 10.4%
Dive deep into the twisted HP Lovecraft universe with this oversized narrative RPG. Slip into the intertwined souls of Mark, Anna, and Victor, surrounded by cult worshippers, as Nyarlathotep, the cosmic horror, strives to enslave humanity in 1929.
Why similar: Text-Based 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Lore-Rich 11.7%, Demons 11.5%
Ancient science fiction theme text adventure game - and you will play a scholar who can't get fame because of the abolition of the imperial examination in the world's highest town, and meet two small town scholars who can't get the imperial examination to explore the secrets of the town.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Lore-Rich 13.8%, Text-Based 13.7%, RPG 13.4%
Do you enjoy listening to stories and having the ability to influence their unfolding? If so, then immerse yourself in the role of an active participant as you join Yaren on her quest for freedom.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Psychological 15.2%, Lore-Rich 9.8%
This is a train to 21C, via 19C. Passengers will require a valid click to use this service. Passengers are advised that this train consists of 9 cars, divided by each era. Please mind the fire. This train is ready to depart, please stand clear of the fire.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Hand-drawn 15.8%, Psychological 12.3%, Lore-Rich 12.1%, Dark Fantasy 11.3%
An adventure visual novel with a pixel art style. About ghosts, past love, and a world of the unconscious.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Hand-drawn 15.1%, Dark Fantasy 9.8%, Stylized 8.4%
Customize your fate in a fallen world: forge bonds and uncover secrets in a tale of power, love, and the weight of grief. Your choices define your path: how will you rise in the hierarchy of the damned?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Text-Based 14.9%, Demons 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.2%
The famous fairy tale “Sleeping Beauty” is completely reimagined and redesigned as Visual Novel… With a demonic imagination and originality.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 20.4%, Drama 19%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Hand-drawn 9.9%, Story Rich 9.8%
The fate of Mirador is an ADULT medieval (RenPy) game with RPG elements, such as turn-based combat, level-up, class choice, etc. In FOM you can expect to make choices that will follow you to the very end. So make sure to choose wisely your royal highness. Especially when it comes to your companions.
Why similar: Diplomacy 29.1% ★, Demons 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Visual Novel 11%, Dark Fantasy 10.1%
This is a short visual novel that immerses the player in the inner world of the main character, who suffers from social anxiety and is afraid even of a simple phone call. Experience with her the anxiety, procrastination, and constant struggle with herself.
Why similar: Psychological 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Drama 15.9%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Hand-drawn 11.8%
Christian Tyler is ready to investigate a new case! Uncover the mystery of the tourist town of Alkelano in our new visual novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Hand-drawn 12.4%, Psychological 11.6%
A Boys Love visual novel with branching plotlines and two love interests. Features beautiful CGs and sprites, and top-notch voice acting throughout the game.
Why similar: Demons 20%, Gothic 15.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.4%
The threat is on the road ahead and deep beneath her skin. A psychological visual novel about memory, trauma, and the cost of every choice.
Why similar: Psychological 18.2%, Text-Based 15.9%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Lore-Rich 9.5%
A boy living as a warrant for a political marriage falls in love with a maid despite his unrequited love. You become a black rose fairy who grants wishes and discover that you were once human. Enter the bodies of the people in the mansion and trace their memories to discover their true identities.
Why similar: Gothic 21.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Dark Fantasy 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Text-Based 10.1%
She wakes in a cold room, an empty pill bottle by her side. Did she forget something important? Drawn into twisted dreams of anxiety and self-doubt, she must confront familiar mental shackles. Face deep grief and find the light in this psychological adventure...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Psychological 14.6%, Text-Based 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Drama 11.1%
