60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Indie, Visual Novel, Adventure.
Face your friend's twisted mind and do your best. You should stay sane until the end.
Until Then
A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.
Snowfall's Mystery
A psychological interactive novel about a floppy disk with a mysterious program. Help Elliot cope with his mental issues and uncover the secret of the floppy disk.
A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.1%, Emotional 16.7%, Mystery 11.3%, LGBTQ+ 10.7%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%
A psychological interactive novel about a floppy disk with a mysterious program. Help Elliot cope with his mental issues and uncover the secret of the floppy disk.
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.8%, Text-Based 18.1%, Emotional 12%, Pixel Graphics 11.7%, 2D 7.3%
Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 44.2%, Mystery 22.8%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%, Atmospheric 4.5%
Immerse yourself in the winter forest and help a lost soul to find a piece of itself. What is awaiting you there.. or who?
Why similar: Visual Novel 37.2%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, Adventure 12.4%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%, 2D 8.8%
Step into the fog to confront your terror: the evil that hides within. Unravel the fog's mysteries before you become its next victim. Or join us, instead.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 40.8%, Text-Based 27.9%, Adventure 25.1%, Indie 6.2%
"we don't have to do this. why don't we just leave?" asks you your bestfriend while you try to escape your hometown. and you start hating them. and you start hating yourself. can you pull through or will you choose to go home again? both decisions feel wrong but this time it's you who has to choose.
Why similar: Visual Novel 43.2%, LGBTQ+ 21.2%, Emotional 11.1%, Multiple Endings 8.4%, 2D 7.1%
Your bestie seems to be hiding something. There's something about your world that seems odd as well, like it has...secrets. Dive into the Cthulhu Mythos universe of this horror game and witness a "friendship" that rewrites the world.
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.8%, LGBTQ+ 30.6%, Mystery 13.1%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Pixel Graphics 7.2%
In this episodic visual novel, follow the adventures of MSPA Reader as they return to Alternia once more to save their friends... and realize that nothing is as it seems.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, LGBTQ+ 18%, Adventure 8.4%, Dialogue Heavy 8.1%
Delve into a troubled student's mind as his grip on reality unravels . . .
A dark conversation with a girl during a nightly car trip. A short multi-ending novel game where you try to understand this girl and her pain.
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.1%, Adventure 19%, Dialogue Heavy 12.7%, Text-Based 12.3%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
Play as a wise woman, help your neighbors, and they will help you in return. Fight alongside your closest friend to deal with the beasts threatening the village. Uncover the secrets of magic through your journey, and you might even have a chance to confront your inner demons.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 42.9%, Visual Novel 31.4%, Text-Based 12.1%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%, 2D 5.4%
Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time. While you sleep, he is alone. When you return to your PC he has hope. Your encouragement and advice will be the difference between his salvation or despair.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.9%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Adventure 13.7%, Pixel Graphics 10.3%, Text-Based 9.1%
Venture into the woods as you play Little Goody Two Shoes, a phantasmagorical horror narrative adventure where all your decisions matter!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 38.4%, Mystery 23.3%, Adventure 17.8%, Multiple Endings 11%, 2D 8.5%
You can't remember anything, and all you can see is HER. Delve into your story and uncover the truth behind what happened to you and your parents.
Why similar: Visual Novel 35.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Adventure 13.3%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Text-Based 7.8%
SELF is a suspenseful Kafkaesque text-based adventure game with simulation and puzzle mechanics. Could you seize the opportunity to find your father and your SELF back in this introspective journey?
Why similar: Adventure 43.5%, Mystery 27.6%, Indie 10.8%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%, Atmospheric 6.8%
Discover 'Departed Away,' a captivating visual novel where friendship intertwines with mystery. Uncover secrets, engage in verbal duels, and make choices that shape your story. Delve into emotional depth and intricate connections in this unique story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 39.8%, Mystery 24.8%, Pixel Graphics 14.9%, Multiple Endings 8.5%, 2D 8.4%
Go about your normal every day life and meet new friends in this short visual novel!
Why similar: Visual Novel 50.9%, Text-Based 20.3%, 2D 10.9%, Adventure 9.1%, Casual 5.6%
A short visual novel where a private investigator gets reeled into a murky mystery, entangled in lies, secrets, and a family curse.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.9%, Mystery 18.3%, LGBTQ+ 14.8%, Text-Based 12.8%, Linear 5.8%
Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.
Why similar: Adventure 21.5%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Mystery 15.8%, Text-Based 15.7%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%
It's not what you say, it's how you say it. We should talk is a short-form narrative game that will make you think carefully about the words you choose. Can your relationship survive the night?
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.6%, LGBTQ+ 23.7%, Text-Based 15.5%, Emotional 13.9%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
A short meta story about the struggles of procrastination, and never finishing the things you start. Help motivate me, and give me the confidence I need to finish something.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.2%, Visual Novel 27.3%, Emotional 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%, Text-Based 6.3%
In an AI-powered age where original authors have become largely redundant, play as a dejected writer on the brink of losing their creative drive forever.
Why similar: Visual Novel 37.1%, Text-Based 19.1%, Adventure 10%, Emotional 8.8%, Mystery 8.5%
Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 43.3%, Visual Novel 24.5%, Text-Based 9.1%, Emotional 6.9%, Indie 6%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Visual Novel 22.9%, Text-Based 15.1%, LGBTQ+ 13.8%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
A short visual novel about finding your name and a girl in the fog.
Why similar: Visual Novel 48.3%, Text-Based 24.3%, Pixel Graphics 15.5%, 2D 7.2%, Casual 2.2%
Immerse yourself in the obscure and mysterious autumnal forest, where every wrong step could be your last. As you travel uncover the dark story behind this place, where beauty and danger have become as one.
Why similar: Mystery 39%, Adventure 28.4%, Atmospheric 16.9%, Linear 10.1%, Indie 4.1%
You are The Fateweaver; an ancient beast of legendary status. It is your job to determine which way Fate will unravel as you dig deep into the psyche of those who beckon. Decide whether to help those who beg for your mercy, or invoke the wrath of the Gods upon those you deem unworthy of existence...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.8%, Visual Novel 28.7%, Mystery 19.9%, LGBTQ+ 12.2%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
Classic Zork meets Existential Crisis. A modern text adventure that explores themes of control, isolation and mental health while levelling up the genre with beautiful pixel art.
Why similar: Adventure 20.7%, Text-Based 20.2%, Dialogue Heavy 17.3%, Pixel Graphics 15.8%, Atmospheric 12.9%
Survive five nights of terror in this chilling adventure game. Travel between time periods to solve puzzles, gather clues, and outrun the threat relentlessly pursuing you. Move swiftly and stay hidden, and you may just survive. But be careful—it's not just your own life that’s on the line this time.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 25.3%, 1980s 24.5%, Adventure 17.1%, 2D 9.7%, LGBTQ+ 9.1%
Explore the inner demons of three childhood friends on a summer retreat. Unearth secrets, fears and obsessions as you help them reconnect and rediscover themselves. A mature and treacherous visual novel from the creator of Milky Way Prince – The Vampire Star.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.6%, Visual Novel 28.9%, LGBTQ+ 27.1%, Multiple Endings 7.4%, Adventure 3%
It's up to you to decide how far you're willing to go in order to survive in this psychological thriller visual novel about two best friends trapped in an experiment. Can these two men survive their choices between physical and psychological harm long enough to earn freedom?
Why similar: Visual Novel 33.7%, LGBTQ+ 30.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Emotional 9.3%, Multiple Endings 4.5%
Beneath the shadowed sea of trees below the volcanic mountain lies a mysterious facility probing the afterlife, as omens of the world’s end approach. A loved one missing, reality twisting, a volcano stirring below. Once more you enter the maze, seeking the exit hidden in spectral forest shadows.
Why similar: Adventure 33.6%, Mystery 24.5%, Visual Novel 13.6%, 2D 11.8%, Text-Based 9.5%
A psychological text-based game where each day you are tasked with executing someone based on the limited information provided until one person remains with their full story revealed.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 31.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Text-Based 20.9%, Adventure 11.7%, 2D 7.9%
This dark act takes place from a single day of the Lighthouse Keeper. Listen to keeper carefully and help him to interrupt his twenty-years-old shift at the Lighthouse.
Why similar: Adventure 39.5%, Text-Based 33.5%, Pixel Graphics 25.3%, Indie 1.2%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Build relationship with the characters. Your choices might earn you favor from one character, but disdain from another. Use items to solve problems. Confront various endings. Choose one person and face the end with them.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 33.4%, Emotional 20.4%, Adventure 18.6%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, 2D 9.6%
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.1%, Visual Novel 22.6%, Mystery 16.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.7%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
FIVE YEARS AGO IN THIS FOREST.. A journalist wanted to go there.And of course he didnt come back. Few days later,he called his best friend.He just said to him "Come Here" and line dropped. You're the best friend of this guy.You listened your friend and you went there. LET THE GAME BEGIN
Set out on a cross-country journey to win back the love of your life and endure the hardship of making story-defining choices that affect your life and the lives of those around you.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 42.4%, Pixel Graphics 20.4%, Indie 11.7%, Adventure 9.4%, Visual Novel 7.9%
Beacon Pines is a cute and creepy adventure set within a mysterious book. Sneak out late, make new friends, uncover hidden truths, and collect words that will change the course of fate!
Why similar: Visual Novel 40.7%, Emotional 20.5%, Mystery 16.6%, Adventure 8.1%, 2D 5%
Grotto is a mystical, narrative-focused experience. You are the Soothsayer. The one capable of talking with the stars and unveiling their messages. In a time of turmoil, the tribe of the valley turn to your powers of divination and come to you for guidance.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 44.3%, Multiple Endings 15.6%, Adventure 11.2%, 2D 9%, Atmospheric 8.5%
Led by her new friend, Mr. Voice, Misfortune ventures into the woods, where mysteries are unraveled and a little bad luck unfolds.
Why similar: Adventure 47.2%, 2D 15.1%, Atmospheric 14.6%, Indie 13.3%, Casual 5.9%
This short psychedelic visual novel takes place in a strange world inhabited by harrowing creatures shunned by the light. You’ll meet someone who has made this world their own, and in doing so, learn the reason why you shouldn't be there.
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Text-Based 14.6%, Emotional 11.7%, Adventure 9%
Unravel a mystery: A game you can read, a book you can play.
Why similar: Mystery 26.4%, Visual Novel 22.2%, LGBTQ+ 20.3%, Text-Based 15.4%, Adventure 12.1%
a hand-drawn mental-health-focused game!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.4%, Emotional 21.2%, Adventure 15.3%, Dialogue Heavy 9.4%, 2D 8%
Wander from room to room in this whimsical and dark visual novel as you follow five friends trapped during a freak storm. Listen while they have hard conversations and tough realizations as they confront the conflict in their lives. For what is a house but a box with windows?
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.3%, LGBTQ+ 24.4%, Emotional 17.2%, Dialogue Heavy 13.6%, Adventure 6.6%
A short-form psychological thriller. Confront the mysterious Finn through a monitor. No strategy or puzzles—and you are given almost no freedom of choice. Simply face the absurd situation and witness the end.
Why similar: Visual Novel 38.5%, Mystery 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%, Adventure 8.6%
A tribute to a friend who has passed — and to the adventures we still need to live. A story-driven adventure about a young polyglot traversing mystical islands and using the power of words to confront his own fate and save a world tamed by darkness.
Why similar: Emotional 32.7%, Adventure 21.1%, Pixel Graphics 20.5%, Linear 14.7%, Indie 4.9%
A Denpa Bishoujo Psychological Horror Curio: A Visual Novel ❦ Mild Horror, Mild Suspense, and a Hint of Whimsical Madness ❦ We Hope You Find Your Own "Happy Ending" Among Multiple Conclusions ❦ A Major Plot Twist, Perhaps? ❦ Glimpse a sliver of truth in the liminal space between life and death.
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.8%, LGBTQ+ 28%, Mystery 11.4%, Emotional 8.6%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
Befriend misfit deities and make a life for yourself in the Underworld! Can you escape your arranged marriage to the King? Do you want to?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 46%, Text-Based 19%, Adventure 13.2%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, LGBTQ+ 8.5%
First loves. Family issues. Yokai. 'Last Time I Saw You' is a coming-of-age adventure set in 1980s Japan. Explore a haunted forest hiding a terrible secret, and interact with a vast cast of friendly and deceitful characters in this beautifully hand-drawn story with some light action elements.
Why similar: 1980s 25.4%, Emotional 19.6%, Mystery 19.3%, Dialogue Heavy 10.9%, Adventure 8.5%
You don't know how you got here, and you don't know how you'll leave. Wander the depths of the Backrooms in hopes of finding something more.
Why similar: Adventure 42.5%, Multiple Endings 25.7%, Atmospheric 23%, Indie 6.5%, Casual 1.4%
A slice-of-death visual novel about making friends, cracking cat puns, and waiting for eternity to pass.
Why similar: Visual Novel 37%, LGBTQ+ 31.5%, Multiple Endings 6.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%, Dialogue Heavy 6%
Experience the Myth of Frankenstein through the innocent eyes of his creature. Make decisions and change people's view that you will meet on your way. Now, the myth is in your hands, so how are you going to end it?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.5%, Visual Novel 21.6%, Text-Based 15.3%, Emotional 10.3%, Multiple Endings 7.2%
When your uncle Kent mysteriously disappears, you'll embark on a journey find out what really happened. What will you sacrifice when trapped in a haunted manor? Will you destroy this evil or claim its power? And can love bloom in a haunted house?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 45.9%, Text-Based 26.5%, Adventure 21.9%, Indie 5.7%
Join forces with the psychic Director of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center and solve a variety of cases involving cursed relics, rental properties with shady histories, and dimensional anomalies. Monstrous oddities and otherworldly planes abound in this occult mystery adventure game!
Why similar: Visual Novel 30%, Mystery 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Text-Based 11.1%, Adventure 9.8%
“The hospital was empty. Quiet, and brighter than usual... like waking up on a snow day. But I didn't feel cold. I didn't feel much of anything.”
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.9%, LGBTQ+ 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Emotional 12.8%, Mystery 8.1%
矛盾を見つけ、相談者の悩みを解決する怪異判定アドベンチャー
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.2%, Visual Novel 25%, Adventure 16.9%, Text-Based 12.6%, Mystery 11.1%
NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.9%, Dialogue Heavy 24.5%, Mystery 21%, Adventure 12.9%, 2D 6.9%
W!LiB! Prologue allows you to try and live one day of Will's life in trying to save people on the legendary Suicide Bridge. Would you be able to find the right words? How many souls could you save in one day? And how would you feel if you're not good enough?..
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 28.2%, Adventure 27.8%, 2D 15.6%, Atmospheric 14%, Indie 7.4%
Atmospheric first person adventure game focusing on immersion and exploration. Meet strange characters, discover secrets and try to unfold the mystery of the Fragmentation.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 31%, Mystery 29.9%, Adventure 18.5%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Atmospheric 9.3%
