
Found a tech startup in 1990 and see if you can survive the dot-com bubble. Navigate 48 quarters of hype, hubris, and hostile board meetings across 19 possible endings. It's Oregon Trail meets Silicon Valley.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Choose Your Own Adventure, Text-Based, Choices Matter.

Found a tech startup in 1990 and see if you can survive the dot-com bubble. Navigate 48 quarters of hype, hubris, and hostile board meetings across 19 possible endings. It's Oregon Trail meets Silicon Valley.

Ukraine War Stories
Ukraine War Stories is a set of visual novels about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Set in the early months of the war, it tells the stories of civilians trapped on Russian-occupied territory. All stories are based on real events and eyewitness accounts.

Belarus Simulator: Preemptive Strike
You are the ruler of a democratic independent state of Belarus. Unfortunately, you receive troubled news. An act of aggression is planned against your country. You need to do everything in your power to stop it.
Ukraine War Stories is a set of visual novels about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Set in the early months of the war, it tells the stories of civilians trapped on Russian-occupied territory. All stories are based on real events and eyewitness accounts.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Text-Based 12.7%, Historical 12.6%, Visual Novel 10.3%
You are the ruler of a democratic independent state of Belarus. Unfortunately, you receive troubled news. An act of aggression is planned against your country. You need to do everything in your power to stop it.
Why similar: Economy 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Dark Humor 11.2%, Management 11%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.8%
In an engrossing interactive novel, live as the assistant to a remarkable historical figure: George Mueller, a man who witnessed orphans dying young in the streets of 1830's England and decided he would care for them, no matter the cost.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Historical 15.5%, Text-Based 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.5%
Please note: This game does not support English at current stage. 《小厨杂记》是一款融合了烹饪元素的视觉小说,通过为食客端上不同的菜肴与食客对话,并最终达成不同的结局。
Why similar: Text-Based 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Historical 14%, Simulation 7.3%
Welcome to Ostera: The curse of... Join the Adventure! Shape Your Destiny, Kiss Rats, and Slap Kids!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Dark Humor 15.1%, Text-Based 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Visual Novel 9.9%
Purrfect Galaxies is a text-based strategy game. As the ruler of the planet Cataris, hungry cats await your decisions. Will you let your meowpurrlation bask in catnip bliss, or will they unsheathe their claws and seal your doom?
Why similar: Economy 15%, Text-Based 13.9%, Management 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.6%
Your job is to make humanity happy. Observe the people living in your assigned district and make the best choices to ensure everyone's happiness.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Text-Based 17.4%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Multiple Endings 9%
You are an Administrator serving your probationary period in a medieval town. Make decisions to affect the town's reputation, order, military and supplies. Choose wisely to deal with bandits, famines, cultists and plagues. The most difficult choices will decide the fate of your town!
Why similar: Management 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Text-Based 12.1%, Choices Matter 9.3%
Build your own pharma empire—on fair play or greed. Face the consequences of every decision in this darkly humorous, satirical sim: set market prices, manage production, boost your brand, make tough choices... and see where they take you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Dark Humor 14.2%, Economy 10.6%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
A choice-driven narrative RPG set in China’s Warring States period. Rise from a nameless soldier to a legendary general through decisions with permanent consequences. Death is final. History remembers only the survivors.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Text-Based 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Historical 7.3%
Embark on a journey of this text anime quest with RPG elements! Walk through beautiful locations, overcome challenges and make Peter’s dreams come true. Every step you take matters. And don’t forget to take the diary - you’ll need it!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Historical 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Text-Based 13.5%, Narration 12.1%
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: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Text-Based 21.8%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
Help the eccentric inventor navigate the intrigue of the emerging electrical industry! Can you outsmart Thomas Edison and electrify the world?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Text-Based 18.7%, Historical 16.9%, Narration 10.3%, Choices Matter 8.4%
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 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Text-Based 17.6%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Choices Matter 7.5%
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Choices Matter 17%, Text-Based 13.6%, Visual Novel 11.6%
On the road to the sacred shrine of Karatl, lost souls entrust you with their stories. In this contemplative Visual Novel, listen to their truths and perhaps, at the journey's end, you will discover your own.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Text-Based 16.5%, Visual Novel 14%, Narration 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%
Travel to Veøya in the Viking Age and solve a dangerous mystery with cunning and song!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Historical 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Choices Matter 10.3%
In a ruthless world where you've lost everything, only desperate measures remain. Fight to survive as a sex worker and reach the top, avoiding deceit, murderers, and abuse on your path to success.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Dark Humor 13.1%, Management 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Text-Based 10.4%
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Text-Based 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Narration 11.6%, Dark Humor 11.2%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Text-Based 11.8%, Narration 10.2%
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 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Text-Based 12.5%, Choices Matter 8.6%
A tipsy tale of questionable choices, suspiciously charming strangers, and conversations that unravel faster than your sobriety. What begins as a harmless chat in the alley might end with truffle mushrooms, a missing crown, or waking up in someone else’s dungeon. You’ve been warned.
Why similar: Dark Humor 19.2%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
Hear sins. Judge souls. Upgrade your booth. Play as a priest hearing increasingly absurd confessions in this darkly comedic simulator. Will you guide your flock to salvation... or squeeze them for donations to install a hot tub in your confessional?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Dark Humor 16.7%, Management 14.8%, Choices Matter 6.6%
Transparent is a narrative game where every choice shapes Clara’s existence. On the eve of her 30th birthday, she revisits key moments of her life. Will her decisions anchor her to reality or make her fade away? Explore memories, face dilemmas, and discover multiple endings
Why similar: Text-Based 17.9%, Narration 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Visual Novel 13.4%
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 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Text-Based 18.8%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Choices Matter 9.5%
Under developement, Grave Knight is an interactive RPG adventure inspired by SRD 5.1 ruleset and classical game books, where your decisions weave the fate of the characters and the story. Let the dice forge the fate of your hero and the realm by fighting the Grave knight and his horde.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Visual Novel 18%, Text-Based 12.4%, Choices Matter 9.6%
Border of her Heart is a VN about Border control.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Dark Humor 13.9%, Text-Based 13.1%, Visual Novel 11.2%
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: Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Text-Based 19.3%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
Embark on a touching and poetic adventure through the hills of Provence in “Marcel and the Secret Spring.” Inspired by the childhood stories of legendary French author and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol, this narrative-driven game lets you experience a world filled with nature, mystery, and nostalgia.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Historical 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Narration 9.6%
The Last Bastion is a survival-management game where you lead an army of defeated soldiers across a setting inspired by medieval India. Fight overwhelming forces, manage dwindling resources and make choices with devastating consequences in a bitter struggle for survival and salvation.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Text-Based 14%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Management 10.4%
Do you enjoy listening to stories and having the ability to influence their unfolding? If so, then immerse yourself in the role of an active participant as you join Yaren on her quest for freedom.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Text-Based 18.6%, Narration 13.6%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
A fully narrated branching narrative game set in occupied Netherlands during World War 2. Every choice shapes the fate of a young Dutch civilian. Will you resist the Germans? Simply try to survive? Or join them in the fight against Bolshevism? Based on real events.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Text-Based 15.2%, Historical 12.9%, Narration 10.1%
Travel to Poland in 1772, experience life as a servant, and solve a mystery at court!
Why similar: Historical 29.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Text-Based 15.4%, Narration 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.7%
You’re Kayla Ferrule - And your birthday is in a week. However, your friend Miles Hector got in with some bad apples. Can you outsmart everyone and make it to your 20th in one piece? Test your instincts in this brief interactive adventure based on Yellow Optic’s Fool Me Twice.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Strategy 11.2%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Text-Based 11%
Play 4 characters, live their unique stories and manage their daily lives to create their best day ever. In this narrative game, your decisions have consequences and change the outcome of the stories.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Narration 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Management 10.5%
A medieval text quest in the "Choose Your Own Adventure" genre, where each choice could be your last. Create your story with more than 2,000 events, 200 of which will prove fatal. In a world where death plays against you, can you outsmart it and write your own story?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Text-Based 14.5%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Choices Matter 10.6%
This year's Desire Hierarchy has begun. The stakes are now deadly. Hop into The Specter's Desire, a Visual Novel in which you play against the city's top talents to save your parents. Includes puzzling gameplay that has you tearing down arguments, hatching schemes, and revealing the truth!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Text-Based 14.8%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Narration 10.1%
The Nose knows. A text based adventure game set in an ancient temple full of secrets.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Text-Based 18.9%, Historical 17.6%, Choices Matter 6.8%
It is a strategy/adventure game set in a small, quiet town. Survive as an ordinary salaryman under a ruthless Mexican cartel by laundering money, making tough decisions, acquiring businesses, and finding trustworthy allies. But in this cutthroat world, will you be able to keep to your humanity?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Economy 14%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.7%, Visual Novel 9.4%
Immerse yourself in the atmosphere of military events, become one of the volunteers of the country, where your every decision can become critical. Explore locations, make decisions, complete challenging missions. Everything is in your hands. Good luck!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Narration 16.7%, Historical 12.3%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
A short visual novel about a girl who experiences a clinical death.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Narration 14%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
Award Winner: PAX 10 2019 | Winner, Momocon 2018 Indie Games Awards | "A fascinating reverse-RPG" - PC Gamer | "A cross between The Sims and a rousing game of Dungeons and Dragons" - Geek & Sundry
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Narration 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Management 13.7%, Text-Based 9.4%
Horny Academy is an adult visual novel that blends interactive storytelling with a deep, branching narrative. Every choice you make leads to steamy animated scenes or unexpected twists within the mysterious walls of the magical Academy
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Narration 16.4%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Text-Based 15.2%, Choices Matter 10.7%
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 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Text-Based 16.4%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
You are hanging out at a festive Christmas party when your eyes discover the most perfect Christmas confectionery ever! You must have it!... but someone already has it! What will you be willing to do, to get your Christmas wish?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.4%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Dark Humor 11.6%
Hexia is a strategy game where your task, as King of your assigned Realm, is to create and expand territory, build new infrastructure, and command and guide your people. The Hexia universe is full of unexpected surprises and mysteries waiting to be uncovered.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Economy 16.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, Management 9.3%
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 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Text-Based 14.3%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
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 26.8%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Text-Based 13.8%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11.9%
Recent high school graduates gather at a remote cabin for a celebration. What begins as a night of laughter spirals into a tense mystery full of secrets, twists, and chilling choices. Who will survive? Navigate friendships, and uncover the multi-layered mystery in Shadows of Betrayal.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.5%, Interactive Fiction 24%, Visual Novel 21.3%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
Rewrite history in this narrative RPG set in the last days of Imperial Russia. Born into nobility, you will shape both your destiny and the fate of a nation.Will you preserve the old order, ignite the flames of revolution, or carve out your own path? Every decision will echo through time.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Text-Based 14.4%, Management 13.4%, Visual Novel 11%
Scribe is a scribe simulator in which you can secretly shape the destinies of the inhabitants of the estate: resolve disputes, influence the course of family intrigues, decide who lives and who does not. Choose what to write in letters and whether to change their recipients!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Text-Based 16.8%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.2%
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: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Narration 15.8%, Text-Based 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Visual Novel 12.5%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Text-Based 12.7%, Historical 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.4%
Play as a Duskweaver in this short "choices matter" story about self-sacrifice.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Text-Based 19.3%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Multiple Endings 12.6%
Rule your realm, train heroes, and build a legendary kingdom in Daria. Experience strategy, storytelling, and diplomacy in this immersive sim.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Text-Based 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Simulation 11.4%, Choices Matter 7.4%
Human belief has the power to change reality. For millennia, alien races have been visiting Earth, gaining supernatural abilities and fantastic wealth by exploiting this remarkable power. But humans are advancing, and many aliens now find themselves leaving Earth with nothing but debts and regrets.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Narration 11%
The Trials of Ozymandias is a visual novel set in the high fantasy world of the kingdom of Johrotos. In the capitol city, Dassi, resides the most famous adventurer's guild in all the land: Talleh-Hoy. This is where your story begins.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Text-Based 19.9%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Simulation 4.7%
Stamped follows the journeys of six young travelers whose paths intersect across Asian urban landscapes. Bound by pleasure-fueled self-destruction, the group flounders from city to city, confronting the grief and discrimination that caused them to travel in the first place.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Dark Humor 14.8%, Text-Based 14.5%, Visual Novel 12%
To get to heaven, you must climb the Nine Circles of Hell. But you might never make it to the depths.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.7%, Text-Based 19.7%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Narration 12%, Multiple Endings 9.2%