
A dark fairy tale about the woods outside a small village and the monster that roams within them. Become Sage and play through to uncover the mystery when they're tossed away from everything they've ever known.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Choose Your Own Adventure, Story Rich, Interactive Fiction.

A dark fairy tale about the woods outside a small village and the monster that roams within them. Become Sage and play through to uncover the mystery when they're tossed away from everything they've ever known.

Knight Case Files
"In the Phoenix Kingdom, there is a man known as the Corpse Killer." Thwart a necromancer's scheme in this dark fantasy visual novel.

Nameless - The Departed Cycle
Follow the red star to the Umbral Forest and unravel the mysteries within, in this gay, romantic, dark fantasy visual novel.
"In the Phoenix Kingdom, there is a man known as the Corpse Killer." Thwart a necromancer's scheme in this dark fantasy visual novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, LGBTQ+ 14.9%, Dark Fantasy 13.5%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Text-Based 12%
Follow the red star to the Umbral Forest and unravel the mysteries within, in this gay, romantic, dark fantasy visual novel.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.5%, Dark Fantasy 15%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
"The Town of Nie Iromusubi", a fan-disc of the strange and eerie otherworldly BL fantasy "The Town of Nie." Weaving together extraordinary colors.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Visual Novel 16%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Horror 10.5%
A surprising mix of adventure and memory games, featuring RPG-inspired mechanics and immersive storytelling. Explore a crypt filled with traps, dangers, and hostile creatures. Will you uncover the crypt’s secrets, or will you become its next victim? Make strategic choices to survive.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Horror 10.4%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Text-Based 12.6%, Dark Fantasy 12.5%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Dark 9.1%, Horror 7.8%
Step into the world of Banishing You, a visual novel where choices shape your journey. Accept a mysterious invitation to a dream realm full of enigmatic characters and challenges. Navigate passive-aggressive comments, flirtatious strangers, and unravel a quest that could save or doom both worlds.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Dark Fantasy 13.8%, Visual Novel 13.7%, LGBTQ+ 12.1%, Dark 10%
A free drama-mystery visual novel with a modern fantasy setting. Reach out to the fourteen people trapped inside to find the truth through eighteen endings, influenced by but not exclusively bound to your own system time.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.5%, LGBTQ+ 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%
A boys love / yaoi visual novel based loosely on Little Red Riding Hood. Follow Rain as he meets a mysterious werewolf, Zero, deep in the woods, and shape his fate with your choices. Will Rain be able to tame the werewolf, or will he meet a grisly end?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%
TFTU: After Midnight is a dark / gothic visual novel with multiple endings. Your choices matter and will determine who stays alive and who dies. Discovering the whole truth about the murders will require more than one playthrough.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.5%, Dark Fantasy 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, LGBTQ+ 15%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Text-Based 10.9%
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Horror 15.2%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
Solstice is a dystopian mystery visual novel about small personal disasters that turn into great catastrophes.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Visual Novel 12%, Dark Fantasy 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
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 22.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, RPG 8.7%, Dark Fantasy 8.2%
Will you rise to the heavens when you wield the magic of fallen stars? Call lightning, ride the wind, and raise the dead in this fantasy epic!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Dark Fantasy 14.5%, Text-Based 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 14%, LGBTQ+ 13.7%
You've been tasked with collecting data on an alien planet. Choose between exploring the jungle tropics or navigating deep into the bioluminescent sea.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, LGBTQ+ 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Text-Based 10.6%
A fantasy/adventure visual novel - as Freya Fae, track down the master assassin Orick Genn before he brings ruin to your home city. Rely on faithful companions and make friends with the citizens as you encounter dangers lurking through the streets.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Dark Fantasy 11.1%
Follow Joseph, Eric, and William (as well as a handful of other characters) as they awake from cryogenic stasis at the enigmatic facility known as Intermine Laboratories. But, deep within the abyss exists an ancient evil that is seeking to enact its own twisted machinations ...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Dark Fantasy 13.4%, Text-Based 13%, Multiple Endings 12.6%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Dark Fantasy 15.1%, LGBTQ+ 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.9%
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 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 15%, LGBTQ+ 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.8%, RPG 7.2%
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 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Text-Based 14.8%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Dark Fantasy 8.2%
A psychological horror story, with a spiking sense of danger and gentle melancholy. An out of this world adventure, revolving around books, memories and mortality. Along the way, perhaps you shall pick up pieces of a long forgotten heart, or some unlikely companions that you never knew you needed.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Text-Based 9.8%
This is an adventure novel of suspense and horror in which the story diverges depending on the choices you make. An online drinking session with friends. A person with a knife is lurking in the background. What will you do to rescue your friend?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Visual Novel 20%, Text-Based 12.8%, Horror 12%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
A job gone wrong traps lawyer R. M. Renfield at Castle Dracula. Sacrifice—others, or your own humanity—to survive, or risk it all for love in this romantic horror visual novel. But Renfield isn’t the only one looking for a way out. Who, if anyone, can you trust?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.2%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Dark Fantasy 13%, Horror 9.4%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
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: LGBTQ+ 19.6%, Dark Fantasy 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Visual Novel 13%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%
Death by Begonia is a surreal LGBTQ+ Southern gothic murder mystery. Follow Riley's attempts to reconnect with old childhood friends in a town haunted by annual serial murders. Will you fall in love and unlock the mysteries hidden in your friends' hearts? Or will you die trying?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
A queer romance/horror visual novel about being locked into a path, and having _______ words hidden from You. Find Your way to discover what's missing and reach Your ____ End.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.8%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
Challenge four hot beauties and save the world from the attacks of sexy bosses in the new EmyLiveShow game!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, LGBTQ+ 14.4%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, RPG 6.5%
Spellbound: The Magic Within is a branching narrative, multiple ending visual novel. Jump into a world of Magic, Witchcraft and Mystery as a magician in training. Interact with a host of unusual characters. Choose from multiple schools of magic, bond with your tutor, and maybe even save the world.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%
Enter the doomed town of Pareildas. Watch as the flames turn bone and stone to ash. Like joined wicks, we'll all burn together.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Dark 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
A yandere yuri visual novel with a fairytale theme. Can you escape from your mysterious pursuer?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.9%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Dark Fantasy 16.2%, Dark 9.5%, Horror 8.3%
Step into a visual novel of rotten flowers. Play as a young woman in a world where the ability to lie is condemned, and seek shelter in the mysterious castle across the lake. Survive, little dove, in the rot infested halls, and be careful of who you choose to love — what you choose to lie about...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Text-Based 11.5%, Dark Fantasy 11.4%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
Where are you, Cinderella? is a visual novel about Vietnamese culture and the world of entertainment. Will you be able to find the lost shoe’s owner? Or, will you find your shoe?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, LGBTQ+ 17.1%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Text-Based 13.3%, Multiple Endings 12.9%
A call for help within a mysterious messaging app. Someone lost and wandering through a forest in a faraway place. And their destiny in your hands.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.7%, Text-Based 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%
A love letter to horror manga in the form of a visual novel. Welcome to a world of distorted minds.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Visual Novel 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Dark 12.1%, Horror 11.3%
As an elf in a panicked flight from home, you discover a more dangerous secret: a human claiming to be a dragon.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Text-Based 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
A narrative-driven RPG where every dice roll shapes your fate. Step into the role of the Queen's Herald and traverse a mist-shrouded realm to uncover the fate of her lost army. Will your choices uphold loyalty, or lead you down a path of betrayal? The secrets of the mists await.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Text-Based 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Dark Fantasy 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.6%
"Whe its dyed in the color of the sunset" is a novel game set on Earth in 2034, where humans and other races coexist, depicting the love story of the beastman protagonist, Herbert. While living his school life, he will take actions to interact with the nine romanceable characters.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.7%, LGBTQ+ 24.7%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Adventure 6.1%
Play as Erwin, a witch hunter navigating a fantasy world of magic and suspicion. Your decisions in this visual novel affect friendships, trust, and multiple story outcomes. Choose wisely—the fate of your journey rests with you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Multiple Endings 14%, Dark 6.5%
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: Dark Fantasy 17%, Text-Based 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Visual Novel 11.5%
Follow Sophie as she embarks on her latest adventure in making money, working alongside the enigmatic Rias as they put on a special yuri/lesbian camgirl show for their viewers.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Multiple Endings 11.9%
A flesh-eating dust leaves you to survive alone against hordes of Listless.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, LGBTQ+ 15.9%, Visual Novel 15.1%, RPG 8.1%
Connect with four occult enthusiasts (and possibly sell your soul) in this macabre LGBTQ+ horror visual novel/interface drama dating sim.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.7%, Dark Fantasy 14.3%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Text-Based 8.7%, Interactive Fiction 8.5%
Chess. Love. Destiny. All the same things, really.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths. A free atmospheric horror visual novel where you navigate life-or-death situations. SEEK PARADISE OR DIE TRYING
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Visual Novel 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Dark Fantasy 12.4%
You buy a laptop with your hands. You find an interactive collection of short stories on your laptop and something else. Or someone? What will all this lead to?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Text-Based 12.7%, RPG 10%, Adventure 7.7%
A man awoke by the lake with no memory. Guided by a pilgrim, he discovers he was once the sorcerer Merlin—and learns the truth about the "Saint" who sealed him away. A dark fantasy visual novel about unrequited love. Three endings await.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Visual Novel 19%, Text-Based 17%, Dark Fantasy 16.5%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
A choose-your-own-adventure novel. Enter the mind of a black-ops team leader heading an impossible mission in a parallel universe. Choices are remembered, story events reflect past decisions, and freely rewind time to try different paths.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Text-Based 16.4%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Horror 12.9%
Balance work, vampirism and socialising as you explore Kings Cross, Sydney during the last year of the millennium. Keep a lid on your darkest desires and be rewarded with a deeper understanding of what it means to live again. Or don’t — no one will stop you. You’re a vampire, after all.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Dark Fantasy 13.1%, LGBTQ+ 13%, Visual Novel 12%, Multiple Endings 11%
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Text-Based 15.8%, Visual Novel 15%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
A string of campus killings. A newly-turned vampire struggling to adjust. A monster hunter seeking answers. Worlds collide as Dante Jones and Nick Torres, both in danger of being accused of the crimes, team up to reveal the true culprit in this chilling supernatural horror visual novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, LGBTQ+ 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Dark Fantasy 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
A Boys Love visual novel set around a pulse-pounding hostage situation. Can Numata make it out of things unscathed? Every choice matters! Fully translated into English with the original Japanese voice acting intact.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.6%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%
A dark fantasy tale where death is not the end but the path to the truth. Two magi trapped in a collapsing tower must unravel a deadly mystery. Each death reveals another piece of the puzzle that is their shared past and forbidden love. For fans of House in Fata Morgana and literary dark fantasy.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 14.1%, Dark Fantasy 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Text-Based 11%, Visual Novel 11%
An otome game with intricate dark fantasy/fairytales. Can you solve the mysteries and find love?
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Multiple Endings 14.7%, Dark Fantasy 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%
Welcome to St Fiacre’s College for Women of Unreliable Size. Your new home. If you can survive your first night… Featuring 40,000 words of text and over 500 images, this heart-pumping visual novel journey will thrill fans of shrinking and giants alike!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, LGBTQ+ 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Dark Fantasy 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.9%
"Love You To Pieces" is a Horror/Slasher Visual Novel thematically centered around Valentine's Day. Featuring elements of grind-house, choose-your-own-adventure and mystery. Can you or any of your friends survive this bloody love fest?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Horror 14.6%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
Morin is a barkeeper with an unusual curse. All people look like shadows to him, except for one mysterious stranger... Solve the mystery of the curse, fight true darkness and mix the most unusual cocktails in the atmospheric visual novel — Into the Waves!
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.1%, Multiple Endings 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Text-Based 10.3%
Uncover a web of evil as a superspy! Break rules, break hearts–don't break cover.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.2%, Text-Based 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, RPG 9.1%
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 16%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Dark Fantasy 11.8%