60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Choose Your Own Adventure, Story Rich, Multiple Endings, Choices Matter.
Two vampires — an ambitious Kindred and a wretched Thinblood. Their fates clash in this Visual Novel set in the World of Darkness, where your arsenal extends beyond just words — from political machinations to forbidden Alchemy. Claw your way to power and leave your bitemarks on Berlin's underworld.
Before They Catch Us
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.
Reborn
A visual novel written as a psychological horror RPG where your choices shape your life, leading to irreversible consequences and determining how your descent into darkness unfolds. The game can end in many different ways. Your choices determine how.
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: Narrative 16.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 9.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%, Lore-Rich 9%, Text-Based 8.6%
A visual novel written as a psychological horror RPG where your choices shape your life, leading to irreversible consequences and determining how your descent into darkness unfolds. The game can end in many different ways. Your choices determine how.
Why similar: Narrative 19.3% ★, Text-Based 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Choices Matter 9%
You only picked up a lost smartphone, yet you find yourself made an accomplice in an AI's criminal plot. The AI asks 20 questions to identify its "master." Will you meet the AI's expectations?
Why similar: Narrative 19.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
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 9.7%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Visual Novel 8.9%, Lore-Rich 8.8%, Text-Based 8.8%
Cabernet is a 2D narrative RPG set in a 19th century Eastern European inspired world, with a modern twist. Guide Liza, a young vampire in her new unlife among the unsuspecting townsfolk. Will you retain your humanity or descend further into the horror you have become?
Why similar: Vampires 35.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.6%, Choices Matter 7%, Interactive Fiction 6.7%, Female Protagonist 6.4%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Horror 9.9%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Visual Novel 9.1%
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 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Multiple Endings 8%
A psychological horror visual novel about healing, where saving your brother means facing your own demons. Elham’s search pulls her through visions and entities rooted in Arabian folklore, and family secrets that should have stayed buried.
Why similar: Narrative 17.9% ★, Lore-Rich 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%, Visual Novel 9.1%, Psychological Horror 7.8%
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: Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Psychological Horror 7.7%, Dark 7.4%
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: Narrative 17.6% ★, Text-Based 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Psychological Horror 8.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.7%
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 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Horror 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Text-Based 9.9%
Investigate six haunted properties and listen to the voices of spirits trapped in nightmares. Collect fragmented clues and discover the correct combination of names, locations, and vessels. A multi-ending horror adventure where the outcome changes depending on your choices during the ritual.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Text-Based 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Horror 10.1%
A haunted convent. Statues that move on their own. A buried past. Welcome to Saint Idelora’s convent, where becoming a saint comes with a price.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Psychological Horror 10.6%, Horror 9.4%
A vampire romance visual novel about offering blood up to get closer to the person you are. The story of a boy, or a girl, or a person who meets with a woman, or a vampire, or... This person gets whisked away as a girl. Which is what she always wanted. Or they always wanted to try. Or...
Why similar: Vampires 34.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Text-Based 8.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%
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: Narrative 10.9% ★, Text-Based 10.4%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%
Year 2147: In a city where androids and vampires rule, you're caught in the crossfire. Searching for your lost twin, who will you trust - and what are you willing to sacrifice? Every choice decides your fate - for better or worse - within this dark visual novel with multiple endings.
Why similar: Vampires 24.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 7.4%, Choices Matter 7.2%, Visual Novel 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 14.5%, Lore-Rich 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Text-Based 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.4%
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 14.6%, Lore-Rich 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%, Choices Matter 8.7%
The secret is out. Vampires have been exposed to the world… and you’re one of them. Seize the night as a modern monster, stepping out of the shadows to build a thriving nightclub empire through fear, seduction, and forbidden supernatural gifts. Your second life begins tonight...
Why similar: Vampires 28.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 9.9%, Text-Based 8.3%, Visual Novel 8.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.8%
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: Vampires 17% ★, Interactive Fiction 9.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%, Visual Novel 8.6%, Text-Based 7.9%
Audiences connect to their favorite celebrities all the time. How does it affect these people when put into a game of life or death? Only time will tell.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Lore-Rich 13.5%, Visual Novel 11%, Horror 7.9%
A choice-driven narrative game with RPG mechanics, filled with cosmic wonders and horror. Forge your own path across more than 50 unique endings. Barter, upgrade your character, fight, and explore alien worlds, overcoming every obstacle to find your way back to Earth… and to your daughter.
Why similar: Text-Based 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Lore-Rich 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
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: Lore-Rich 16.9%, Text-Based 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Visual Novel 10.1%
Blending fairy tale fright with psychological horror, this narrative game challenges you to survive a weird journey through the woods while being hunted by the witch you were tasked with imprisoning. Sometimes charming, sometimes frightening, she’ll force you to make hard choices.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Psychological Horror 11%, Horror 9.5%
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: Lore-Rich 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Text-Based 9.9%
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: Vampires 28.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%, Visual Novel 8.6%, Multiple Endings 7.9%
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 13.7%, Lore-Rich 13.2%, Text-Based 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Horror 8%
The elders have entrusted you, an elite vampire courier, to deliver their secrets. Can you outrun the hunters, the other drivers, and the rising sun?
Why similar: Vampires 31.2% ★, Text-Based 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choices Matter 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: Narrative 19.2% ★, Text-Based 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Psychological Horror 8.3%
An image created by AI — is it yours? An AI art tool is placed before a nameless illustrator. To accept, or to refuse. A visual novel that tells the same story in different forms. Your choices shape the ending - there is no right answer.
Why similar: Narrative 25.8% ★, Visual Novel 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Multiple Endings 10%
Thorner is a horror visual novel with multiple endings. You attempt to escape your past by fleeing to the wilderness, but spilled blood can never be forgiven. The land knows what you did. The land judges. Thorner awaits.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.9%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Dark 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%
Some memories aren't meant to stay. We are our memories and our experiences. What happens if you delete some of them? If you change your past and, thus, your future?
Why similar: Text-Based 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
Survive a gripping psychological thriller in this visual novel. Make critical decisions, face a disturbed captor, and experience multiple chilling endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Text-Based 10.2%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.6%
On a rainy night, three ghost stories are told in an old-fashioned café. As a writer for an occult magazine, you listen to three people recount their experiences. A psychological horror visual novel that slowly builds a sense of dread—Kyofu Yawa: Second Night.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Text-Based 11.7%, Psychological Horror 10.9%, Horror 10.3%
He’s been searching for his missing friend for days. She’s been searching for her long-lost clan member for decades. Now their paths cross.
Why similar: Vampires 28.8% ★, Lore-Rich 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Visual Novel 8%
After awakening as a forbidden vampire spawn, you're thrown into a cruel world where survival is not guaranteed. Who will you choose as your ally - and will you survive, or betray them yourself? Find out in this horror romance visual novel!
Why similar: Vampires 24.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Visual Novel 9.3%, Interactive Fiction 8.2%, Psychological Horror 8.1%
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: Lore-Rich 14.3%, Text-Based 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9%
――My curfew is 8 PM. Having a helicopter mom is annoying, but it's not a big deal.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.7%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Text-Based 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Female Protagonist 9.2%
The Sleeping Sickness is an interactive short story that allows the player to guide the main character's actions. The player’s choices will lock and unlock future locations, change dialogue, and alter the story. Choices matter in The Sleeping Sickness. It is an excellent choice for horror fans.
Why similar: Narrative 23.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Lore-Rich 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%, Choices Matter 7.9%
“Signed Mary”, a psychological horror visual novel, in which not your choices of action will determine the story’s end, but the choices of how to perceive your reality.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 14.7%, Text-Based 11.4%, Visual Novel 9.4%, Psychological Horror 8.4%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
In this visual novel the main character, Lorenzo Righi, an Italian Professor, is invited to a meeting of History Scholars held in Boston. Excited and flattered by the invitation, he discovers that something else, hidden and mysterious, awaits for him.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Lore-Rich 15.7%, Text-Based 15.2%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Narrative 9% ★
Chat with a virtual friend from a cancelled mobile game! Ask questions, start arguments, and find the right responses to progress the story. Can you solve the horrific mystery hidden beneath the surface?
Why similar: Lore-Rich 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Text-Based 11%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Text-Based 11.2%, Choices Matter 11%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Psychological Horror 10.7%
Immerse yourself in the enigmatic world of Nauris, where enchanting landscapes hide terrifying secrets: the strange behavior of elders, sinister rituals of priests, and the disappearance of citizens. Madness lurks everywhere – will you master it or become its victim? The choice is yours.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Horror 8.9%, Choices Matter 8.5%
It always rains, they call it The Haze. Ghosts haunt every alley, every gray corner of the city. Lady of Bones is a visual novel that explores the darkest depths of existence where Maya will discover the horrible secrets of her mother's legacy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Female Protagonist 9.1%
Step into Greyholt as Ava, a would-be adventurer taking a chance to register with her father's guild. Will this bring the independence she craves, or something more dangerous? A psychological, choice-driven visual novel where every decision shapes the road ahead and the journey beneath her own skin.
Why similar: Text-Based 12.3%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Lore-Rich 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.9%
Desideratum is essentially a canonical Anaxverse pulp fiction Visual Novel in Story Mode with RPG elements if playing in Game Mode. It tells the story from the perspectives of a beginner monster hunter and forlorn nosferatu and features dark fantasy, horror, and science fiction.
Why similar: Vampires 36% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Lore-Rich 9.8%, Visual Novel 9.2%
You've had the same dream all week: a school field trip to a zoo you can't leave, where the lions always find you in the end. Wander the zoo exhibits, make your choices, and search for the way out. A short, hand-painted interactive story about a recurring dream, and finally resolving it.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
Vacation Terminal is a short 2D Psychological thriller, horror and survival based visual novel with evading based puzzle elements. Following the story of two strangers.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Hand-drawn 9.7%, Dark 6.8%
A psychological horror story set in the town of Blackthorn; a place that lives in constant fear of a witch. The two main suspects? Levi’s mom and sister! His only lifelines to the outside world. Can they live a peaceful life? Or will they be dragged down by the dying town?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Visual Novel 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Psychological Horror 10%
It is said that the last frontier is space, but the crew of the Soviet Frigate, The Peresmeshnik, is about to discover that the sea still hides a terrifying secret. Waiting to be found.
Why similar: Text-Based 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Psychological Horror 7.7%, Horror 7.6%
Interactive psychological horror novel, Boston 1926. Explore, investigate, lose your grip on reality. Your choices shape a branching narrative where your mental state influences what you see and the paths that open before you. 5 routes, 8 endings, 15 to 20 hours of reading.
Why similar: Narrative 18% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Choices Matter 8.9%
A classic 90s choose your own adventure style horror visual novel. Escape the horrors hunting you, make decisions, forge your own path. An original complete story with multiple endings. Choose your own play style with a Text Adventure Mode, sound effects, and an ambient soundtrack.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Multiple Endings 12%, Text-Based 11.5%, Visual Novel 11.3%
A branching-path narrative horror RPG set in Vienna, Austria. Guide the Unnamed through the worst night of their life: Harass your neighbours. Debate with birds. Smoke to survive.
Why similar: Narrative 15.8% ★, Text-Based 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Multiple Endings 9.4%, Psychological Horror 9.3%
The frontier does not want to be settled. A narrative highly replayable story game where your choices build a settlement, shape its story, and seal its fate. Every run ends. Every obituary tells a story only you lived.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Lore-Rich 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Text-Based 11.8%, Visual Novel 10%
見知らぬ密室で目を覚ました主人公。 頼れるものは、手元に残された一台のスマートフォンだけ。 通話、メッセージ、アプリなどに残された痕跡をたどりながら、脱出の手がかりを探していく。 しかし、情報を集めるほどに、 この事件の裏に隠された異様な真実が浮かび上がっていく。 スマートフォンを操作して進める、サイコロジカル・ホラーADV。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Text-Based 16.8%, Dark 8.9%, Horror 7.2%
Evil Spirits is a nonlinear psychological horror visual novel inspired by Slavic folklore. Uncover the secrets of a forgotten village, trust no one, and remember: true evil sometimes hides not in the shadows of a hut, but in the darkness of the human soul.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Horror 8.7%
This school for supernaturals isn't hell, but it is a hellmouth! Can you make peace between the vampires and werewolves, and close the portal to hell?
Why similar: Vampires 18.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Text-Based 13.5%, Lore-Rich 12.7%
A presence lingers in the dark, waiting. It asks. It doubts. It knows. What happened? Why are you here? Do you deserve this? The answers are yours to decide. What you choose matters. Every path leads somewhere. But will you like where it takes you?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Text-Based 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Choices Matter 9.8%
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 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Text-Based 16.6%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Horror 10.7%
