60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Text-Based, Interactive Fiction, Psychological Horror.
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?
Athanasy
Deep beneath the surface of the dead Earth, the City, the last refuge of humanity, hides. Engineering genius and efforts of all mankind; a giant structure of steel, concrete, and biopolymers. It keeps the remnants of civilization one step away from total extinction.
The Solitary Existence of a Little Universe
In this dark interactive novel you will play as a lost soul wandering a forsaken desert, accompanied by a mysterious girl. Explore ancient ruins and face obscure choices. Your decisions will shape their journey—often in ways you’ll never fully understand. Will you find peace, or something else?
Deep beneath the surface of the dead Earth, the City, the last refuge of humanity, hides. Engineering genius and efforts of all mankind; a giant structure of steel, concrete, and biopolymers. It keeps the remnants of civilization one step away from total extinction.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 15.4% ★, Text-Based 12.8%, Lore-Rich 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Visual Novel 9.3%
In this dark interactive novel you will play as a lost soul wandering a forsaken desert, accompanied by a mysterious girl. Explore ancient ruins and face obscure choices. Your decisions will shape their journey—often in ways you’ll never fully understand. Will you find peace, or something else?
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 21% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Visual Novel 9.5%, Multiple Endings 7.3%, Psychological Horror 7.3%
A visual novel about a girl who escaped from a psychiatric hospital. She is pursued by a strange being from another world — and it seems she’s not the only one who can see visitors from beyond.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Text-Based 14%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Psychological Horror 9.9%
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 18.1%, Dialogue Heavy 16.2%, Visual Novel 16%, Text-Based 15.2%, Choices Matter 8.3%
While filming a documentary on analog horror, something goes horribly wrong. A cursed VHS tape. Lost cultists. Salvation. Are you brave enough to follow the tape’s sinister commands? Face analog nightmares and decide your fate in this horror visual novel with multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Horror 10.9%, Text-Based 10.1%, Psychological Horror 9.7%
Late at night, a teacher shares two bizarre tales: a corpse stuffed in a sheet, and an abnormal presence in the mountains. It was just a ghost story, but a creepy "sense of unease" lurks within. A short psychological horror visual novel offering a dense, terrifying experience in about an hour.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.2%, Visual Novel 18%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Psychological Horror 15.4%, Horror 11.2%
Ascension is a visual novel following three lost souls as they venture into The Zone - a dangerous and alien world. Follow the abrasive Doctor, the shy Scholar and sardonic Escort on their journey - though none of them will come out unscathed.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Lore-Rich 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.4%
A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14%, Dialogue Heavy 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Psychological Horror 10.3%, Text-Based 10.1%
At Di Yingling High, rumors of missing girls run rampant. Exchange student Meng Jiangnan uncovers the school’s hidden darkness. The Remake heightens the suspense with black-and-white comic visuals and upgraded systems. Will you face the truth?
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 16.6% ★, Text-Based 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Lore-Rich 10.6%, Dialogue Heavy 10.1%
My True North - a nonlinear visual novel about Personal Choice of a Human, Love, and the Journey to Yourself in a world of the living dead. Watch. Love. And don't go under the ice. Especially in the height of summer.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Text-Based 12.7%, Dialogue Heavy 10.5%, Psychological Horror 9.8%
Where Control Ends is a psychological visual novel about Astra, a young girl trying to hold herself together after a night she cannot fully remember.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Text-Based 16.1%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Dialogue Heavy 10.8%
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: Text-Based 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Dynamic Narration 10.3% ★
Something is growing on your hand. You see the Doctor. Things get weird.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Text-Based 10.6%, Horror 10.4%
In an AI-powered age where original authors have become largely redundant, play as a dejected writer on the brink of losing their creative drive forever.
Why similar: Text-Based 20%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Horror 10.1%
Stranded after a plane crash in a freezing wilderness, you must manage body temperature, injury, and sanity as every decision shapes your survival.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Text-Based 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Lore-Rich 9.5%
You are a nameless cultist. An otherworldly entity has awakened, seeking to unite all into a single mind. Roll dice to craft amalgams. Control the awakening or suppression of the creature within characters. Uncover the world's history and face the consequences of your actions.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 18.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Lore-Rich 13.2%, Text-Based 10.4%
A psychological visual novel adventure about love, obsession, and blurred boundaries. Navigate a web of manipulation and dependency, make difficult choices, and face multiple endings.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 20.7% ★, Text-Based 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Psychological Horror 11.5%
The abyss awaits. Descend into a minimalist visual novel about a girl in the future, and guide her through branching conversations, microgames, and explorable locations. Make friends with criminals, drink too much at dinner, or relax in a spa. Whatever happens, it was your choice.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Lore-Rich 13.3%, Text-Based 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
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: Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Dialogue Heavy 15.9%, Text-Based 15.2%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
Whisperstring is an 80s inspired text adventure game that takes place inside a “chat room”. You’re connected to Adam, a "jock" with a severe fear of strings, who seems to have been the victim of a supernatural kidnapping. Will you be able to help him escape?
Why similar: Text-Based 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Psychological Horror 9.7%
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: Text-Based 15.8%, Dialogue Heavy 14.7%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Psychological Horror 11%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
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 22%, Text-Based 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Choices Matter 8.2%
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 18.7%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Text-Based 13.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
A HUD-only psychological horror. You are an operator on a night shift that never ends, watching a frozen Arctic station through a dead man's terminal. No body, no camera, no music — only the interface, and the thing learning to use it back. Fully playable text-only.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Text-Based 15.5%, Psychological Horror 14.1%, Horror 9.7%, Minimalist 9.7%
In a future where memories are the last connection to a lost humanity, you are an advanced AI exploring fragments of past lives. Understand emotions, traumas, and choices in a journey to uncover what it means to be alive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Text-Based 21%, Lore-Rich 17.2%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Multiple Endings 6%
At the heart of the action are a twelve-year-old Kenneth and his younger sister Esme, children of the Murphy family, who hit the trail of a mysterious monster following series of entangled events.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Horror 9.7%
The Darkest Emptiness will fill the lungs with leaden weight.
Why similar: Text-Based 18%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Horror 9.8%
A text-driven psychological horror visual novel. You wake up in a strange living room. Two silent men stand beside you. On the wall, blood writes: “Confess your sins, and you shall be redeemed.” Every choice changes the ending. Over 80,000 words in the base game, plus 4 standalone character DLCs.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.5%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Text-Based 8.1%, Mystery 8%, Lore-Rich 7.9%
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: Dynamic Narration 20.8% ★, Text-Based 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Multiple Endings 6.5%
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 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.6%
Fear is real. Sometimes tragedy needs nothing more than that. 💀 A short visual novel based on the story of the same name — about the silence that lets something shuffling into your home. 👁️👁️
Why similar: Visual Novel 18%, Psychological Horror 15%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Text-Based 10.9%, Horror 10.7%
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: Dynamic Narration 18.3% ★, Text-Based 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Lore-Rich 14.5%, Dialogue Heavy 8.8%
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: Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Text-Based 15.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.1%
This is a simple story about young people, about the aroma of youth and the smells of life, which can so easily be cut short by a fatal accident.Or maybe at the behest of a heartless fate.
Why similar: Text-Based 22%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Horror 10.2%, Multiple Endings 9%
While trying to plan a party that’s to die for, a high school queen bee finds she has an uninvited guest that is much scarier than your average teenage girl.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 16.3%, Lore-Rich 13.4%, Psychological Horror 13%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Horror 9.3%
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 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Dynamic Narration 13.6% ★, Choices Matter 9.5%, Dialogue Heavy 7.7%
Immerse yourself in a first-person psychological horror experience where every choice matters. Confront the echoes of a forgotten past and uncover the truth behind your lost identity.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 24.8% ★, Dialogue Heavy 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Psychological Horror 11.2%, Horror 8.7%
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Why similar: Text-Based 22.6%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Horror 10.5%, Choices Matter 9.4%
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Post-apocalyptic 8.7%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
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 21.9% ★, Text-Based 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Lore-Rich 14.4%, Visual Novel 12%
Naomi wakes decades older in a house she does not recognize, and discovers that escape may cost the future.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Text-Based 17.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Sci-fi 9%
A text-based psychological horror experience set inside a hospital where something is deeply wrong — and death may not be the end.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Horror 8.9%
Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.6%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Horror 12.4%, Choices Matter 9.4%
You wake in a monster’s cage with no memory and 30 days to act. Choose to escape, obey, or become its favorite.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Psychological Horror 9.9%
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: Dynamic Narration 20.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Text-Based 14.3%, Visual Novel 11%, Dialogue Heavy 10.2%
You went to the desert to rest. You crushed a worm. Now it talks to you in dreams.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Text-Based 11.7%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
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 17.1%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Dynamic Narration 11.1% ★, Visual Novel 9.3%
A text-based adventure where you're tasked to exorcise your friend’s Inner Demon. Explore an ever-reshaping palace to analyze objects filled with memories, discover which one is the reason for her possession and sacrifice it. Do not deviate from your mission. Save your friend no matter the cost.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.5%, Lore-Rich 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
Weep for the dead! In this short psychological horror story, play as a professional mourner travelling between funerals. Ride a nightmarish bus whose destination depends on how you choose to face your traumas.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 14.1%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Emotional 8.3%
For five years, Licht lived as a mid-tier mercenary. Now he must not only escape from a dungeon teeming with giant insects and ancient secrets, but also decide whether to accept his ancestors' legacy or reject it once and for all.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.9%, Lore-Rich 15.3%, Text-Based 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
The president trusts you. Exercise your Shamanic capabilities (or lack thereof). But don't get caught!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20%, Dialogue Heavy 19.1%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Text-Based 14.9%, Choices Matter 9.7%
Not It: Spookiest Edition is a horror-filled visual novel full of suspense and mystery where you navigate Katie through a living nightmare. Her move-in day on Halloween throws her into a centuries-old curse. Can she make it through the night? Will her new neighbors perish? Decide their fate.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 14%, Psychological Horror 11.5%, Horror 9.6%
If you're ready to run and play a deadly game of hide-and-seek, then come on in and make yourself at home. Behind the door, endless oppressive corridors, filthy walls, deadly traps, and a ravenous creature eagerly waiting to get up close and personal with you await.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 15.1%, Psychological Horror 15%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Text-Based 12.6%, Horror 12%
Nippon Island is a first-person story adventure that begins on a flight to Japan. What starts as a peaceful trip slowly turns surreal. Reality shifts, memories stir... and somewhere, a cat begins to care. The journey is just beginning.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Dynamic Narration 13.8% ★, Lore-Rich 11.2%, Horror 9.9%
A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Text-Based 15.1%, Psychological Horror 14.6%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Choices Matter 9.8%
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.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 17.7% ★, Text-Based 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 10.8%
You are a father. You wake in a hallway that hums. Empty pools. Dead malls. Your four daughters are here. Voice acted by a real father and his daughters. Two endings. No right answer.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Emotional 9.4%, Lore-Rich 7.3%
After the announcement "There is no next stop," you are trapped in an endless subway. But you’re not alone—the "GUESTS" are hunting you. Trust the "GUIDES" to survive. Or don't.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.9%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
The Evil Mouse is a short linear story psychological horror game about guilt and memory. You discover a strange program on your computer that pulls you into a haunted house. Inside waits Lucy, a girl asking for help, and the evil mouse, who will do anything to keep you out.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 15.3%, Text-Based 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Horror 13%, Visual Novel 11.6%
In April, when cherry blossoms flutter through the air, a gruesome discovery is made—a blood-soaked corpse in a quiet town.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.3%, Lore-Rich 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Emotional 9.8%
