
A forgotten oldie returns with a full makeover. Control some lost idiot by typing commands. Unmake puzzles to progress. Bump into several lovely weirdos along the way. Discover a wonderland of disturbing nonsense and industrial amounts of sarcasm.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Visual Novel, Atmospheric.

A forgotten oldie returns with a full makeover. Control some lost idiot by typing commands. Unmake puzzles to progress. Bump into several lovely weirdos along the way. Discover a wonderland of disturbing nonsense and industrial amounts of sarcasm.

Essays on Empathy
A curated compilation of Deconstructeam's best efforts in seeking new narrative experiences in games. Explore 10 unique, offbeat tales including "De Tres al Cuarto," a brand new short experience exclusive to the compilation about a couple of two-bit comedians trying to make it big.

Text Adventure
Look at art, listen to jazz, and immerse yourself in the world of Joey Pawelko's Text Adventure.
A curated compilation of Deconstructeam's best efforts in seeking new narrative experiences in games. Explore 10 unique, offbeat tales including "De Tres al Cuarto," a brand new short experience exclusive to the compilation about a couple of two-bit comedians trying to make it big.
Why similar: Typing 31.6% ★, Abstract 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Puzzle 6.5%
Look at art, listen to jazz, and immerse yourself in the world of Joey Pawelko's Text Adventure.
Why similar: Typing 32.5% ★, Psychedelic 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Abstract 9.5%, Visual Novel 7.6%
A jumpscare-free abstract horror existential crisis of a lite-RPG. Explore Digressions - areas that continue longer than they should with sets of randomized text events and map variations for a differing experience each time. Features a unique non-violent interaction system with various Entities.
Why similar: 2.5D 17.5%, Abstract 17.4%, Psychedelic 15.8%, Dark Comedy 13.8%, Visual Novel 11.6%
A word game.
Why similar: Typing 35.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 17%, Abstract 16.4%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Stylized 5.8%
Where are you going with the main character? "Lost Infinity" is a game about nothing, or maybe something, only you will decide. Grieve, think, reason.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Abstract 22.3%, Visual Novel 19%, Horror 9.6%, Dark 8.5%
A mysterious woman is sitting in front of you. Who is she? And who are you? And why are you both there? Case #1472 is mystery information digging interrogation thriller game where there are more things going on than what meets the eye, but are you able to unravel what has happened?
Why similar: Typing 37% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Puzzle 8.1%, Dark 6.8%
Better than a birthday card. Use the Steam gift system to deliver this birthday present to your friends. The amazing Sergio Spellbound will ensure they have the magical birthday adventure of a lifetime. They will Point&Click their way to BIRTHDAY GLORY. If they’re lucky, they may even survive …
Why similar: Typing 31.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Dark Comedy 13.4%, Visual Novel 9.3%, Comedy 9%
Fears are not always just rustles in the dark. And death is not always a bad ending.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Psychedelic 19%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Adventure 9.4%, Dark 6.8%
A body horror, physics-based sit-n-survive. Prevent abstract threats from twisting your body. Endure nightmares and a reality gone mad. Dive into the kanvas.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Abstract 17.5%, Psychedelic 16.9%, Puzzle 9%, Lovecraftian 7.9%
A story about a woman who lives alone near the forest.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Psychedelic 15.8%, Abstract 14.5%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Horror 8.2%
A missing person case straight out of 1995. Search the early internet, dig through emails and dusty floppy discs, and uncover the secrets behind the disappearance of Victoria Mason.
Why similar: Typing 34.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Puzzle 7.9%, Comedy 6%
Tentacle Typer is a Lovecraftian text editor RPG experience. You're a giant tentacle monster with a magic mechanical typewriter, and you're trapped in a steampunk mansion. Psychically rouse elaborate mechanisms by typing almost whatever you want.
Why similar: Typing 48.5% ★, Lovecraftian 20%, Dark Comedy 19.5%, Psychedelic 12%
The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.
Why similar: Typing 34.5% ★, Lovecraftian 18%, Horror 10.2%, Puzzle 8.7%, Dark 5.8%
It's a winter night. You are coming home by train. You have to change trains at a small train station in the middle of the forest.It's not the first time you've traveled this route. But now you feel like something is different.As if something was watching you.
Why similar: Psychedelic 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Lovecraftian 11.5%, Horror 6.1%
A meditative and story-driven puzzle game, where you must discover answers to decisions, we all have to make. Can you make a change in a world of endless wars?
Why similar: Typing 39.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Puzzle 8.7%, Stylized 6.1%
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 22.1%, Psychedelic 20%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Horror 11.2%, Dark 9.7%
A normal story about Charlotte's ex.
Why similar: Typing 38.6% ★, Abstract 15%, Puzzle 8.1%, Dark 8.1%, Horror 7.7%
Following a not highly unexpected crash landing (which seems to happen to you a lot), you find yourself stranded on a hostile alien world full of humour, mystery and quite a bit of walking - Your task is clear, find a way off of this planet and get home. - Should be simple!
Why similar: Typing 45.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Dark Comedy 14.3%, Adventure 9.4%, Comedy 6.5%
タイピング×ノベルゲーム。「ファントピア」という謎の世界に迷い込んでしまったあなた。あなたは元の世界に帰るためにファントピア中を旅することになります。ノベルパートとタイピングパートに分かれたオリジナルゲーム。
Why similar: Typing 68.3% ★, Visual Novel 18.7%, Adventure 9.3%, 2D 3.7%
Created out of boredom by an abstract entity known as Epsilon, you find yourself in a bizarre non-Euclidean maze. You must rescue all the denizens who have become lost in the maze. Oh, and there's weird monsters too.
Why similar: Abstract 22%, Psychedelic 20.9%, Horror 8%, Comedy 7.9%, First-Person 6.1%
An interactive novel about identity, roleplay, and dreams.
Why similar: Typing 33.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Abstract 16.4%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Stylized 6.3%
Until Oblivion is an atmospheric narrative game that follows 17 year old nobody Emma Wilson as she tries to rekindle a dying relationship in a dying world. Join her in an increasingly nightmarish Halloween party and find out if anything (or anyone) is worth anything at all.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, 2.5D 15.7%, Abstract 14.9%, Psychedelic 13.9%, Visual Novel 11.1%
In Death In The Afternoon, throw yourself into a night of drinking. You play as Arthur, a young student who likes to drink a little too much... Try to fight your addiction ! And choose your drinks and interactions carefully, or you might have the worst BlackOut of your life !
Why similar: Abstract 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Psychedelic 19%, Dark Comedy 15.4%, First-Person 7.4%
NeverHome - Tower of Vanity is the second chapter of the NeverHome horror anthology. Explore an abstract new world and use your wits to solve its mysteries and find a way out.
Why similar: Abstract 21.8%, Psychedelic 19.1%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Puzzle 9.2%, Stylized 7%
A patchwork quilt of meanings, ideas, references, and madness. A crack in the sink of your understanding. And also the story of one unfortunate girl.
Why similar: Abstract 28.5%, Psychedelic 23.9%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Horror 10.4%, Dark 9.6%
Waking up at night, the main character realizes that he cannot move. A terrible sense of panic gradually overtakes his mind, and the imagination begins to paint frightening pictures.
Why similar: Psychedelic 20.5%, Dark Comedy 20.1%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Abstract 13.6%, Horror 8%
Have you set your alarm for 07:00 yet? He was waiting for you too.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Abstract 19.3%, Psychedelic 17.3%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Adventure 9%
INFERIAE is a two-hour-long descent into a nightmare over 20 years in the making, an immersive experience blending unsettling soundscapes with hundreds of shifting scenes and a haunting narrative.
Why similar: Abstract 26.9%, Visual Novel 20.9%, Psychedelic 19.4%, Stylized 12.5%, Horror 5.9%
The Ocean Will Have Us All is a first person exploration game.Experience a day in the subatomic life of Moira Leech. Get up, go to work, go home, go back to sleep. Or. Go off the the beaten track! Take charge! Stick your finger in an electrical socket!
Why similar: Abstract 19%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Psychedelic 17.1%, Dark Comedy 13.7%, Stylized 6.4%
A short 90s bureaucratic horror game where you process impossible tax forms for the living, the dead, and the unborn.
Why similar: Typing 48.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Horror 5.5%, Psychological Horror 5.3%, Dark 5.2%
Dive into "Oneiric" a charming walking simulator. Play as a 7-year-old boy exploring a nostalgic world of dreams and solve the riddles in a single enchanting night. Short nap, thats 15 minutes game experience focused on visual aspect.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.5%, Abstract 23.5%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Psychedelic 17.2%, Adventure 7.7%
A programming workplace horror comedy. Ascend through an eldritch tower. Input your movements ahead. Dodge unknown entities. Complain in the private chat. Get back to work.
Why similar: 2.5D 19.4%, Psychedelic 19.2%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Dark Comedy 12.9%, Lovecraftian 8.7%
A science fiction point and click word puzzle video game. Navigate an off-course spaceship, and find a way toward returning home. The end is near… Can you save the Bay Bell?
Why similar: Typing 47.8% ★, Abstract 17.8%, Puzzle 9.3%, First-Person 7.3%, Stylized 6.8%
The Strange Box is a 2D adventure puzzle game, a dark fairy tale woven from horror, mystery, and fantasy. Beneath the apartment’s walls lies a hideous secret, where a lonely child is slowly devoured by nightmares.
Why similar: Abstract 24.5%, Psychedelic 22.5%, Puzzle 11.3%, Stylized 10.9%, Dark 8.4%
A Neo-Western town is simmering with conflict: mysterious forces fight for power, and you're the lynchpin that can save or destroy it. With a novel dynamic text system, you can say and do anything to the NPCs, then they generate personalized actions and speech in response.
Why similar: Typing 59.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 28.7%, Adventure 11.9%
It's a game where you can clear the stage by pressing the key code on the keyboard
Hysteria in Howlsbend is an Interactive Narrative Experience driven by conversational AI Characters, created with the cutting-edge ChatGPT Language Model.
Why similar: Typing 45.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Dark 5.8%, 2D 3.8%
This is a psychological horror in which we play as a girl who has psychological health problems, and her mother has sent her to the store. Our task is to help her buy groceries.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Abstract 17.2%, Psychedelic 15.8%, First-Person 6.7%
A game in the Chatbot Roleplay category.Among the ancient Egyptian ruins, a book is found, and in our game, we talk to this book. The book answers everything we write. The book's general power is that everything written in it becomes real in the world, but we discuss the consequences with the book.
Why similar: Typing 59.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 22%, Puzzle 10.5%, First-Person 5.2%, Adventure 2.6%
"Let's play a typing game." Dyping Escape is a simple game where you type according to instructions from the game master, a mysterious eyeball. But be careful; everything you type becomes reality. Just be careful not to brick your computer.
Why similar: Typing 42.4% ★, Psychedelic 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Horror 7.6%, Psychological Horror 4.5%
An interactive psychological horror drama.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Dark Comedy 16.1%, Psychedelic 16%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Horror 7.4%
A game about presence.
Why similar: Psychedelic 30.4%, Interactive Fiction 24%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Abstract 15.4%, 2D 5.1%
Welcome to the polar station, where a mysterious timer counts down every hour! Your task is to decipher and input codes on an old terminal, but beware: the polar night holds many secrets. Can you face the horrors that might become reality?
Why similar: Typing 39.9% ★, Psychedelic 18.1%, Horror 9%, Puzzle 8.6%, First-Person 7.9%
Take care of your ailing father while facing a disturbing presence that distorts reality around you in this short psychological horror experience. Your choices matter, and opening the wrong door might be your last.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.5%, Puzzle 13.1%, Adventure 12%, First-Person 10.2%, Dark 9.6%
Fend off spirits by ripping your spirit off your body. Explore a glitched haunted house. Recall twisted memories. Get out alive.
Why similar: Psychedelic 18.3%, Dark Comedy 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Lovecraftian 12.3%, Puzzle 8.8%
A compilation of two slow-paced, cosmic horror walking simulators, to be completed in under an hour. Please makes you maintain a power station and ignore the noises from the main engine, while Please Follow has you explore the trenches of a losing war, exposing your mind to visions of another world.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 22%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, First-Person 10%, Horror 9.1%, Dark 8.8%
DISCOVER THE FUTURE OF A.I.Explore the post-apocalyptic landscape of Westervoort and Arnhem through the eyes of a survivor.Navigate, uncover, and puzzle your way to the conclusion.
Why similar: Typing 34.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Abstract 13.3%, Puzzle 7.2%
An AI has isolated the mind of a philosophy professor to evaluate human morality. Interface with the terminal, type system commands, and channel his responses through impossible ethical dilemmas. Your principles are on trial as every choice is recorded to determine your final profile.
Why similar: Typing 43.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Horror 8.6%, Dark 8.6%, Stylized 6.2%
SUFFER THE NIGHT is a first-person survival horror experience. Alone in a secluded cabin during a violent storm, horror illustrator Stacey Linden discovers the true meaning of fear. Explore a constantly changing world and solve puzzles; but above all: survive!
Why similar: Typing 42.9% ★, Lovecraftian 17.7%, Horror 9%, Puzzle 8.6%, Mystery 6%
Crawl through the darkness in this psychological horror visual novel with multiple endings, where you will traverse a surreal nightmare as you choose your own path and explore strange spaces in an attempt to wake up, if you can...
Why similar: Abstract 19.4%, Psychedelic 18.7%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Dark 9.4%
You see them in your dreams, only you can solve the riddle. Immerse yourself in crime, fantasy, horror events.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.4%, Psychedelic 25.3%, Adventure 11.8%, First-Person 9.2%, Dark 7.5%
Escape the shady brackwater swamp together with the Professor and the Captn in a small Cutter, in a short, text-heavy, linear Horror-Adventure (without Jumpscares).
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.1%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Lovecraftian 13.6%, Horror 9.3%, Stylized 6.9%
Enter into a Horror Adventure Lovecraftian-inspired story. As your sanity begins to erode, and armed with only a oil-lit lantern, work to unlock and uncover the secrets of the ship. Yet be aware, for something ancient and unknowable stirs within the suffocating darkness of the ship's maw...
Why similar: Lovecraftian 26.1%, Horror 15%, Puzzle 13.5%, First-Person 12.7%, Stylized 12.7%
Tormentum II is a dark, surreal Point & Click adventure where nightmare worlds, grotesque creatures, and uneasy choices await. Inspired by H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński, it’s the long-awaited return to Tormentum.
Why similar: 2.5D 19.7%, Psychedelic 16.8%, Lovecraftian 14.3%, Dark 11.6%, Horror 10.1%
Blinghead is a dark, surreal first-person psychological puzzle game. Trapped in a shifting, dreamlike world, you must rely on logic and keen observation to solve each mystery and move forward.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.9%, Psychedelic 22.1%, Puzzle 14%, Adventure 13.4%, First-Person 8.1%
In 1960s USA, Jane Ferguson, a New York restaurant owner, receives an information on her CIA agent husband Mark, who had vanished mysteriously during a Tibet mission. To uncover his hidden secrets, she follows his trail, delving into the enigma of his disappearance.
Why similar: Psychedelic 21.8%, Lovecraftian 20.4%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Horror 9.5%, Puzzle 8.8%
Don't Text and Drive is a challenging single-player horror game where you text for help as you are driving.
Why similar: Typing 64.6% ★, Horror 14.4%, First-Person 9%, Dark 7.5%, Atmospheric 4.5%
Join Alfred in this 3D adventure game set onboard a scary alien mothership. In space no one can hear you s#!t yourself, thankfully.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.1%, Dark Comedy 25.2%, Puzzle 11.8%, First-Person 9.9%, Horror 8.1%
Very funny, very short and very sweet text adventure game about Chub, Color, 23 and You.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Abstract 15.9%, Comedy 12.1%, Puzzle 10.4%
A promising facility has fallen to ruin, yet experiments continue to torment. Traverse the depths, restore minds turned into code. Troubleshoot repression, live to see tomorrow.
Why similar: 2.5D 30.2%, Visual Novel 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Horror 10.8%, Psychological Horror 6.1%