Games Like To Be or Not To Be

GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 39.8%, Comedy 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Adventure 10.8%, Visual Novel 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes, comedic interactive mystery where you must cover up a murder you committed by manipulating the other passengers.

Elsinore is a time-looping adventure game set in the world of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Elsinore combines strong social simulation elements, a dynamic story that reacts immediately to player decisions, and a world full of diverse characters with secrets to uncover.

Why similar: Adventure 46.9%, Indie 35.2%, Female Protagonist 17.9%

Why You'll Like It: A time-looping adventure set in the world of Hamlet that allows you to change the tragic fate of the characters through your choices.

A choose-your-own-path where failing is more fun than succeeding.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 50.1%, Comedy 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 6.9%, Adventure 6.8%, Casual 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A hilarious, branching-path adventure game where choosing the wrong option leads to absurd and creative fail states.

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 34%, Comedy 26%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Casual 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A witty, historical comedy based on the real-life casebooks of Simon Forman, featuring branching narratives and musical interludes.

Pilfer from pirates, conspire with cardinals and perform miracles with an incompetent magician. The Procession to Calvary is a Pythonesque adventure game made from Renaissance paintings, and a spiritual successor to the critically acclaimed Four Last Things.

Why similar: Comedy 49.4%, Female Protagonist 17.4%, Adventure 16.6%, Indie 16.6%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, laugh-out-loud funny adventure game built from Renaissance paintings that shares the same irreverent spirit as the seed game.

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is an expanded re-imagining of 2013's The Stanley Parable. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will make a choice, and you will become powerless. You are not here to win. The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you.

Why similar: Comedy 72%, Adventure 15.1%, Casual 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: A meta-narrative masterpiece that constantly subverts player expectations with branching paths and dry, biting humor.

Kyle tries to prepare for his most important interview yet. Choose his path through over 100 endings and accept the consequences in this comedic adventure.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 46.8%, Comedy 25.3%, Adventure 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 13%

Why You'll Like It: A bizarre, meta-humorous game where your choices determine your fame and lead to a wide variety of ridiculous endings.

There is no game. So don't go messing things up by clicking everywhere. You don’t want to be kicked out of your video game world, do you? Of course not!

Why similar: Comedy 41.2%, Adventure 18.7%, Casual 16.8%, Indie 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A meta-comedy point-and-click adventure that constantly breaks the fourth wall and plays with game tropes in a way similar to Ryan North's writing.

Reigns: Her Majesty is the revolutionary follow-up to the smash swipe ‘em up hit Reigns.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.5%, Indie 14.8%, Female Protagonist 14.6%, Casual 14.3%, Comedy 13.9%

Why You'll Like It: A choice-driven simulation game that uses a simple swipe mechanic to deliver complex, funny, and often fatal consequences.

In this 2D, short narrative-based game, you assume the role of the Grim Reaper... on an office job. Your job is to decide which people are going to live or die. The consequences of your choices are yours to bear, while the mystery of your incarnation awaits revelation!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 53.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Casual 12.6%, Adventure 11.4%, Indie 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A dark comedy simulation game where you play as a Grim Reaper deciding who lives and who dies, with significant narrative branching.

Live the life of a Monster, from birth to elderhood and beyond, making decisions that affect the world of Monsters and Humans. Solve problems. Meet animals and interesting people. Get to know them. Eat them. Make your own story!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 46.2%, Comedy 15.2%, Casual 14.4%, Adventure 10.2%, Indie 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A choice-based game that explores the life of a monster, focusing on how your decisions shape your personality and the world around you.

1872, with a steampunk twist. Phileas Fogg has wagered he can circumnavigate the world in just 80 days. Travel by airship, submarine, mechanical camel, steam-train and more. Race other players and a clock that never stops in TIME Magazine's Game of 2014.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 51%, Adventure 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Indie 8.5%, Casual 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A masterful interactive fiction game that offers immense replayability through its branching narrative and global travel choices.

The Yawhg is a one-to-four player choose-your-own-adventure game that randomizes a unique story every time you play. The evil Yawhg is returning. How will the town’s locals lead their lives in the meanwhile, and what will they do when the dreaded Yawhg finally arrives?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 78.8%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Indie 9.3%, Casual 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: A short, branching narrative game where your choices determine how your characters survive an impending apocalypse.

Possess the living, aid the dead and flip between the worlds of Flipping Death - a puzzling adventure platformer where you find yourself filling in for Death. Maybe your new powers will help you solve the mystery of your own demise?

Why similar: Adventure 53.3%, Indie 35.1%, Female Protagonist 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A quirky, puzzle-filled adventure game with a dark sense of humor and a unique narrative style.

Rule the world or die trying!Being a Princess is not an easy job. Being a Queen is even harder. Especially when you're only fourteen years old, and the reason you've inherited the throne is that your royal mother has just met an untimely end.Now power is up for grabs.

Why similar: Visual Novel 37.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 33.4%, Female Protagonist 17.1%, Indie 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A deceptively cute visual novel that is famous for its brutal difficulty and the sheer variety of hilarious or tragic ways your character can die.

Dyscourse is an interactive choice-based narrative adventure game where you journey through a stylized world of choice and consequence. Choose wisely.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 52%, Adventure 17.7%, Casual 13.4%, Indie 12.3%, Female Protagonist 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-adventure game where every choice you make has lasting consequences on the story and the survival of your group.

Adventure as Geralt through the ballads of Dandelion. Swipe right, swipe left, seek glory, find death! Will you hunt monsters, upset the locals, or run a hot bath? Compose an inspiring epic to claim immortality.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 39.4%, Adventure 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Casual 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A card-based narrative game that brings the dark humor and choice-consequence mechanics of the Witcher universe to a mobile-style interface.

Die With Glory is a humor-packed adventure game with a rich, non-linear storyline where your ultimate goal is to die.

Why similar: Comedy 44.8%, Adventure 33.9%, Indie 21.3%

Why You'll Like It: A funny adventure game focused on guiding an aging hero to a glorious death, mirroring the seed game's focus on creative failure.

Afflicted by a crazy curse that causes strange phenomena including being attacked by women, you must avoid being confessed to in order to survive! From the creators of “Raging Loop” comes a wild ride of a visual novel, full of romance, comedy, and explosions!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 47.4%, Comedy 23.4%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Adventure 13.9%

Why You'll Like It: A comedic visual novel that blends romance and high-stakes supernatural elements with multiple branching paths.

Pat the alligator, a (mostly) harmless and (probably) innocent reptile is at the center of a conspiracy that could bring down the biggest, scariest family in Alligator New York City: his own! Explore the city, meet the Family, and try to save Pat before the clock runs out.

Why similar: Comedy 43.7%, Indie 30.7%, Casual 15.2%, Adventure 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A charming, funny, and stylish adventure game filled with quirky characters and witty dialogue.

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: Comedy 28.7%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Indie 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A dark comedy visual novel where you navigate social interactions by choosing how to say 'no' to everyone around you.

The original puzzle adventure game based on twisted William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Why similar: Adventure 62.3%, Comedy 16.8%, Indie 15.9%, Casual 5%

Why You'll Like It: A satirical point-and-click adventure that directly tackles the themes and characters of Hamlet with a comedic indie sensibility.

Congratulations! You’ve been accepted as the only human student at the prestigious St. PigeoNation’s Institute, a school for talented birds! Roam the halls and find love in between classes as a sophomore student at the world’s greatest pigeon high school.

Why similar: Visual Novel 36.1%, Comedy 32.8%, Female Protagonist 18.3%, Casual 6.4%, Indie 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: An absurd visual novel that uses its ridiculous premise to deliver a surprisingly deep and branching narrative experience.

The hottest bird lawyering game to come out of 1840s France! Join Jayjay Falcon and his witty apprentice, Sparrowson, as the two take on clients, interview witnesses, collect evidence, and deliver justice to the guilty.

Why similar: Comedy 35.4%, Visual Novel 30.6%, Adventure 19.4%, Indie 14.6%

Why You'll Like It: A historical comedy visual novel that features sharp writing and branching paths in a courtroom setting.

A story-driven adventure game about a haunted bed & breakfast. A dead & breakfast!

Why similar: Adventure 42.6%, Indie 35%, Female Protagonist 22.4%

Why You'll Like It: An indie adventure game that balances story-rich exploration with a quirky, lighthearted tone.

A unique choices matter adventure with horrific deaths and wonderful choices!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 43.3%, Comedy 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Adventure 9.5%, Casual 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A choice-heavy RPG that features multiple endings and a humorous tone similar to classic choose-your-own-adventure books.

Your robots will change the world! Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army? A 300,000-word epic interactive sci-fi novel.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 73.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Indie 8.4%, Female Protagonist 2%

Why You'll Like It: A classic text-based interactive fiction game that offers deep, branching paths based on your moral and scientific choices.

Want a good laugh? Well, in 184 BC Plautus wrote a play you will not easily forget! "Casina: the Forgotten Comedy" is a modern adaptation of his ancient work of literature, brought to you as a fully voiced and animated Visual Novel.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 43.3%, Comedy 21%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Adventure 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A visual novel adaptation of a classic Roman comedy that captures the spirit of historical farce.

This is a text adventure game that combines the gameplay of desktop pets and mini-games. You can advance the plot by clicking on the dialogue, or play mini-games to accumulate values to trigger new plots, and you can also cultivate your favorite characters by hanging up.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 62.4%, Visual Novel 23.5%, Adventure 14.1%

Experience a Narrative Adventure where your choices and character growth truly matter. As a member of a 1793 secret society, live a tale of intrigue and manipulation on the hunt for your missing mother.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 53.7%, Adventure 46.3%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven adventure game where your choices and social skills significantly impact the historical mystery.

Sit on the throne as a benevolent (or malevolent) medieval monarch of the modern age and swipe your royal controller either left or right to impose your will upon the kingdom.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 55.5%, Comedy 14.3%, Indie 11.6%, Adventure 10.6%, Casual 7.9%

This is a point-and-click, command-selection style adventure game where the protagonist is a girl who has become a ghost. The objective is to fulfill her desires by speaking to her beloved "him" causing poltergeists, visiting in dreams, or even cursing.

Why similar: Adventure 21.1%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Casual 17%, Comedy 16.9%

Become a ghostwriter and write on the behalf of others--everything from love letters to apologies! There's just one catch in this crazy adventure game: the most important words in your writings are decided by roulette.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 51.4%, Comedy 25.2%, Adventure 20.4%, Indie 1.6%, Visual Novel 1.3%

Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 43.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Indie 12.1%, Visual Novel 12%, Casual 10.9%

Narrative-adventure playing an Agent of Death who must take ONE life that could change the fate of a conflict-torn Nation

Why similar: Adventure 36.6%, Indie 23.3%, Visual Novel 12%, Casual 10%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A short, choice-heavy narrative game where you play as an agent of Death deciding who must perish.

Embark on a whimsically twisted adventure with Agatha, a child torn between her love for eating meat and her friendships with animals. Join her as she discovers religion and creates her own, Carnivorism, to convince animals that the sacrifice of their flesh is the secret to their eternal happiness.

Why similar: Adventure 46.7%, Indie 38.7%, Female Protagonist 14.6%

Embark on a hilarious, choice-driven adventure in MultiEnding Heroes! Guide The Priest and The Hero through multiple universes, making decisions that lead to over 75 unique endings. Every choice matters, will you lead them to glory or disaster?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 41.3%, Comedy 22.1%, Adventure 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Indie 9.9%

Join the investigation in Murder Is Game Over, a pixel art point-and-click game where you and Cleo try to solve the murder of a famous game designer. Can you uncover the clues and catch the killer before it's game over?

Why similar: Visual Novel 39.4%, Interactive Fiction 37.5%, Casual 23%

Gods. Romance. Murder. Musical Numbers?! Play as Grace in a world where Greek Gods live in hiding among us. Change your fate as you draw friends, foes & lovers into song using your powers of musical persuasion to unravel the mystery of the Last Muse's death.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 39.2%, Comedy 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Adventure 9.9%, Visual Novel 9.3%

A magical girl visual novel about giving middle-schoolers way too much power. Make (bad) choices, fight unexpected enemies, and maybe learn a lesson or two...

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 37.8%, Comedy 19.3%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Casual 8.8%

Emily is Away Too is a brand new story featuring new characters and multiple different endings. Message your friends, surf the web and choose your path through this branching narrative.

Why similar: Indie 30.1%, Casual 28.5%, Visual Novel 26.8%, Adventure 14.6%

Ever wonder what the little sisters of famous idols get up to in their free time? Get ready for an adventure full of headpats and wish-driven insanity! Discover 12+ endings in this visual novel that pushes the genre beyond its limits.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 48.8%, Comedy 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Visual Novel 8%, Casual 7.1%

~ ~ A Comedic Mystery Visual Novel with Relationship Building ~ ~ Play as a paranormal investigator hired by the paranormal to investigate! Search for a headless horseman's missing head before the night is over.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 40%, Comedy 21.2%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Casual 13.8%, Indie 9.1%

GlitchSPANKR is a comedy-driven narrative adventure full of secrets, chaos, minigames, and unexpected choices. Spank, spare, or smooch your way through a corrupted 90s game haunted by a lonely, unstable virus. Every level is different. Every choice matters. Your future is in your wiggly hand.

Why similar: Comedy 60%, Casual 20.4%, Adventure 13.1%, Indie 6.5%

What do mirror reflections do once they have no one to repeat after anymore? Play as Iris, quite a sarcastic reflection torn between the urge to unravel the mystery of death of her “prototype” and the need to find her place in a mirrored world.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 50.2%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Adventure 11.8%, Female Protagonist 9.2%

Travel the kingdom as Jester with his best friend Sok to improvise theatre shows and perform on stages far and wide. Sing your hearts out, crack jokes and impress audiences to become the stars of the famous Royal Theatrical Spectacle!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 45.9%, Comedy 32.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Indie 9.8%

tERRORbane is a comedic adventure where bugs are your FRIENDS! Enjoy exploring a crazy and outlandish world, full of unique, quirky characters and homages to the history of videogaming, challenge the Developer with your creativity and be the Bane of Errors!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 54.9%, Comedy 31.4%, Adventure 13.7%

A horrific choices matter adventure game where you need to get out of the house!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 42.3%, Comedy 21%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%, Adventure 8%, Female Protagonist 7.2%

The local Adventurer's Guild is hiring!... Not for adventurers, but for guild clerks! You play an important role in handing out quests, gold, and equipment as your actions shape the stories of these animal adventurers for better, or for worse..!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 54.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Casual 16.2%, Indie 11.2%

select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 67.4%, Visual Novel 29.2%, Female Protagonist 3.4%

A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 38.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Female Protagonist 12.7%, Adventure 12.5%

Kindergarten 3 is the long awaited threequel to the Kindergarten series! Explore a new school with old and new friends...and new ways to get ruthlessly murdered.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 48.7%, Comedy 27.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Adventure 10.9%

Explore a world built from the luscious landscapes, turbulent townscapes and preposterous portraits of real Renaissance paintings. Death of the Reprobate is a Rabelaisian adventure game from the creator of Four Last Things and The Procession to Calvary.

Why similar: Comedy 64.3%, Adventure 25.2%, Indie 10.5%

Get yourself into and out of another fine mess! Win glory, renown, and much-needed money through cunning schemes that will seem like good ideas at the time.

Why similar: Comedy 49.4%, Interactive Fiction 39.2%, Indie 11.4%

A comedy point-and-click adventure game about a dead uncle, a hidden treasure, a reluctant ghost sidekick, old people and pizza.

Why similar: Comedy 52.1%, Adventure 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Indie 11.1%

An intense, but also funny, medical drama that deals with a lot of life-changing decisions. Become an aspiring surgeon at Little Creek Hospital!

Why similar: Casual 39.4%, Adventure 23.9%, Indie 22.3%, Female Protagonist 14.4%

You've never played a game like this before. Road to Empress I is a cinematic palace adventure where your choices decide everyone's fate. Tackle multiple story branches and a high mortality rate with charm, wisdom and courage? First...survive.

Why similar: Visual Novel 28.5%, Female Protagonist 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Adventure 17%, Casual 8.6%

Chook & Sosig: Walk the Plank is a charming point-and-click adventure about tabletop gaming, mischievous friends, and spectral poultry.

Why similar: Comedy 38.9%, Adventure 27.6%, Indie 18.6%, Casual 14.9%

In To Be Headed Or Not To Be, you and a friend will have to use your heads, both figuratively and literally, to solve enigmas and challenges in order to escape the mansion.

Why similar: Adventure 46%, Indie 31.1%, Casual 22.9%

be you 2 is an interactive visual novel. In this sequel to "be you", you must raise a child by making story choices. There are multiple routes and endings based on your offspring's personality.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 55.7%, Visual Novel 18%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Casual 11.5%