60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Visual Novel, Interactive Fiction, Singleplayer.
A consequence-driven narrative game where you play as a volunteer surgeon in a war-torn village. Patients arrive daily, but you won’t be able to treat everyone. Who you save, who you turn away, and how you do it ripples far beyond your clinic.
First Steps in Learning about Childbirth
An educational serious game where you experience the process of childbirth through story and interactive mini-games, developed with medical professionals.
Until The End
In Until The End, you play as Zoe, a young nurse who has just graduated. At the Montagne Institute, you will help her make the best decisions for the well-being of her patients in a palliative care unit.
An educational serious game where you experience the process of childbirth through story and interactive mini-games, developed with medical professionals.
Why similar: Medical Sim 30.6% ★, Life Sim 14.3%, Visual Novel 11%, Simulation 9.8%, Adventure 9%
In Until The End, you play as Zoe, a young nurse who has just graduated. At the Montagne Institute, you will help her make the best decisions for the well-being of her patients in a palliative care unit.
Why similar: Medical Sim 34.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Life Sim 11.9%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%
You don't cure patients; you decide their fate. In this grim medical sim, review records and face impossible bioethical dilemmas. Consult the Medical Bible and choose who gets the bed. Every signature impacts your Ethics, Reputation, and Legal Risk. In a broken system, mercy is a dangerous luxury.
Why similar: Medical Sim 34.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Hand-drawn 7.4%, Strategy 6.6%
Take role as Dr. Smith, psychotherapist. Game consists of real people video recordings. Talk with them, treat, learn about psychology. Your choices have consequences, at the end you will see what happened in their life after meeting with you.
Why similar: Medical Sim 35.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Life Sim 14.4%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Immersive Sim 10%
Parent Ted, your own childhood. On this journey, you will have the chance to discover your inner child and better understand the trauma and emotions of your childhood.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Life Sim 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Text-Based 11.5%
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: Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, War 12.2%, Text-Based 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.1%
选择注定和失去相伴——那失去之后，还剩下什么？这不是逆天改命的爽文，这是一份长达十年的‘做题家’真实账单。带着全家的期望来到大城市，在底气与自尊的拉扯中规划每周时间。直面同辈碾压、现实重压与灰色的阶层锁，在残酷的抉择中，经历一段关于认清现实与自我和解的人生。
Why similar: Life Sim 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Psychological 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Text-Based 8.9%
You have exactly 5. Bread is 4, the bus fare to school is 3. What do you give up? In this short narrative experience, you play as 13-year-old Adam. Confront an interface that reacts to a painful reality, and discover that freedom of choice is sometimes nothing but a privilege.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Text-Based 14.5%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Adventure 10.9%
San Zoolin is a beautiful latin island full of mysteries and colorful characters. You get to explore the inner lives of these characters in depth, as well as the beautiful world around them as the new island therapist
Why similar: Medical Sim 34.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Life Sim 16%, Immersive Sim 10.8%, Simulation 7.4%
If an AI were sentient, how would you know if they were malfunctioning, or experiencing a mental health problem? A story-rich game that explores mental health and AI ethics in the form of therapy sessions with a sentient AI.
Why similar: Medical Sim 31.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%, Psychological 8.6%
You've been given the chance to go to the country's most prestigious academy. Your future couldn't have looked brighter! But you'll soon find out nothing is ever as it seems...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Life Sim 15.8%, Immersive Sim 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.4%
A psychological thriller visual novel where your choices deeply affect an 18-year-old woman's mental state, leading to multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Text-Based 13.1%, Hand-drawn 9.7%
My Child New Beginnings is a parenting simulator where you go through everyday life of growth. After a series of traumatic events that you and your child went through, you now get to rebuild life together in a new region of Norway.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Life Sim 18.9%, Immersive Sim 11%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Emotional 10.2%
A satirical mental hospital survival simulator: control four unstable characters, craft from junk, forge dubious alliances, communicate with patients and staff, and choose between a quiet life in a ward, a riot, or a risky escape to freedom.
Why similar: Medical Sim 52.8% ★, Visual Novel 13.1%, Life Sim 12.4%, Simulation 7%, Hand-drawn 5%
On Call is a visual novel that takes you through a 3-day rotation at Merritt General Hospital. Build trust with your patients and their families to get them on the road to recovery. Manage your own stress while confronting these challenges or you may just crack under the pressure.
Why similar: Medical Sim 37.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Visual Novel 14%, Simulation 13.3%, Emotional 6.7%
Four little letters that can turn your whole day upside down – ADHD. Think it’s nothing? That everyone has it? Then watering a few plants, walking the dog, or writing one simple email shouldn’t be a problem... right?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Life Sim 20.9%, Immersive Sim 14.7%, Simulation 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%
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: Life Sim 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Text-Based 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.5%
A washed-up mad doctor is hired back by a devious former test subject and asked to twist her hospital into a corrupt donation mill. Will he seize this second chance to practice his own vision of "science," or will his many failings drag him down once again in this pseudo-medical visual novel?
Why similar: Medical Sim 36.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Life Sim 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Text-Based 9.2%
A serial killer named Karma has kidnapped 8 criminals and will force you to choose the order in which they are executed. Will you be able to decide who deserves salvation... and who deserves death?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Adventure 12.3%, Simulation 10%
Discover the next level of virtual sex simulation with Real Feel. Utilizing the latest graphic rendering technologies, combined with state of the art physics and animations systems that together produce a seemingly realistic adult film simulation that you control and interact with.
Why similar: Medical Sim 33.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Life Sim 14.1%, Immersive Sim 10.3%, Visual Novel 9.9%
Awakening in a frigid room with an empty pill bottle, she’s forgotten something vital. Trapped between a monochrome bedroom and distorted dreams, she must face anxiety and depression... Break mental shackles and find the light in this psychological puzzle adventure！
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Life Sim 11.7%, Text-Based 11%, Immersive Sim 10.1%
You are a park bench. Watch strangers sit, talk, break down, fall in love, argue, and reveal their secrets in a story-rich narrative simulation where your smallest reactions can change everything.
Why similar: Life Sim 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Text-Based 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Visual Novel 11.7%
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 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Adventure 11.8%, Hand-drawn 9.5%
Build a true fake news empire. Fabricate interviews, twist the truth, hire on-air stars - and remember: Reliability first! (as long as it gets clicks…)
Why similar: Life Sim 18.9%, Immersive Sim 15.4%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Adventure 10.8%
You live in a small soviet slav eastern european cyberpunk city. You have severe heroin addiction that you need to sustain. Heroin is very expensive and earnings in a rural city are very small, barely enough for survival. Survive one week.
Why similar: Medical Sim 42.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Life Sim 17.9%, Immersive Sim 12.1%, Simulation 8.4%
You're HR investigating a missing employee. On the surface, it seems like a routine personnel issue until you open his computer, and a dark world built on overtime work and psychological control slowly comes into view. Peer through the screen to uncover the truth and stay awake until the end.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Immersive Sim 19%, Life Sim 18.5%, Visual Novel 15%, Simulation 7.2%
A fully voiced branching medieval RPG of over 800,000 words. Swear the oath, ride to a dying kingdom's war, and answer for every choice. When you fall, you are not reloaded, you are marked. Four origins, twelve chapters, and an ending that weighs what your oath was worth.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Strategy 14.3%, Simulation 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%
Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Text-Based 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Emotional 9.4%
If we were to bring a loved one back to life as an AI, and then, for whatever reason, we had to let them go or part ways, would we be able to turn them off?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Life Sim 21.5%, Simulation 16.8%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Immersive Sim 14.9%
A chronic illness simulator. You think you have a chronic illness, but you don't know what. All you know is you are always in some state of pain. You've been to too many doctors to count... but you still have to live your life.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.6%, Life Sim 23.8%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Simulation 11.3%, Emotional 7.6%
Stranded on a mysterious island after a sudden shipwreck, two girls must work together to survive. Balance deep narrative choices with sandbox survival mechanics as you build your camp, uncover ancient secrets, and navigate a story filled with humor, drama, and unexpected destiny.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Immersive Sim 13.7%, Life Sim 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.9%
Step into a psychosomatic clinic as a therapist. Diagnose patients with shooting mechanics and treat them via rhythmic QTEs. Manage dual sanity: you relieve others' mental pain, while endless emotions wear on your own mind. Experience mutual healing — healers carry pain too.
Why similar: Medical Sim 48.5% ★, Life Sim 12.8%, Simulation 11.8%, Psychological 11.5%, Strategy 9.3%
a weird console message appears on your screen should you check it out or shut down the pc the choices are yours but be careful your choices will shift everything
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Strategy 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Simulation 13.8%, Adventure 12.2%
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 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Visual Novel 18%, Text-Based 10.3%, Hand-drawn 7.7%
This is a hospital simulator for those aged 18 and over. You can have various experiences with multiple female nurses. The nurses will satisfy your sexual desires according to your choices. However, if you impregnate a girl, the nurse will bear all the responsibility.
Why similar: Medical Sim 54.4% ★, Life Sim 14.9%, Immersive Sim 13.3%, Simulation 7.1%, Psychological 5%
Alma is an interactive narrative that captures the tension of work-life balance for healthcare workers. Play as Alma, a caring mother and pediatric nurse, who must tend to both aspects of her life. Alma is a story of self-care and the struggle to find balance in an imbalanced life.
Why similar: Medical Sim 36.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Visual Novel 11%, Hand-drawn 6.9%
You are subordinate to the deranged dictator and must plan his doomed invasion in this text-based RPG / Visual Novel. Navigate the shark-filled waters of the Great Leader's presidential cabinet, try to save your family, and survive the purges in a world of power-hungry leaders and nuclear warfare.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Text-Based 12.9%, War 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.4%
You are a Mech plague doctor treating a family infected by a disease that spreads through emotions, and mutates them into monsters. Your choices decide their fate.
Why similar: Medical Sim 38.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Hand-drawn 7.9%, Psychological 7.6%
More than a visual novel: explore campus, plan each day, use an interactive phone, discover dynamic events, earn achievements, and unlock character outfits through a cosmetic gacha system that never affects the story, choices, or in-game economy. What will tomorrow be? Chose on you.
Why similar: Life Sim 28.9%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Adventure 6.8%
Build a life that keeps moving around you. Create your character, work, study, manage money, find a home and form relationships as families grow, careers change, neighbourhoods evolve and thousands of choices shape what happens next.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Life Sim 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Simulation 13.9%, Emotional 8.5%
Amid info nodes, you’re a codebreaker—each choice shifts the story. Click nodes for clues, pull key details from text, crack codes, link logic. When all light up, truth emerges: unravel with reason, or get stuck in a thought labyrinth? It depends on your calls.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Strategy 19.1%, Immersive Sim 15.5%, Simulation 15.3%, Adventure 12.9%
An experimental narrative game that tells its story through sound and memory. Sort through a box of personal mementos and relive memories from a relationship by closing your eyes in real life.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Life Sim 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Immersive Sim 14%, Visual Novel 12.8%
The Year is 1665 and the Great Plague has struck London. Guide your family through the darkest period of English history as you flee across the country. Navigate 100s of random events that challenge your ethics and your drive to survive.
Why similar: Life Sim 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Text-Based 11.8%, Simulation 9.1%
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: Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Text-Based 17.5%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Hand-drawn 6.7%
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: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Text-Based 17%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Hand-drawn 11.1%
This is a simple love story set in a modern city, featuring me and three girls. The story takes place in the company where I work as a supervisor. Together with the three women, The game follows a linear narrative, with hundreds of video clips providing branching choices for the players.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Life Sim 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Immersive Sim 14.4%, Strategy 7.9%
The story of a father and son experiencing the ups and downs of life, and how they try to make the best of the twists and turns life puts them through
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Immersive Sim 17%, Emotional 9.6%
When things aren't as they seem, nobody stands against fate but one nurse. Play as Karen—a nurse who saves lives and kicks butt! Complete tasks, give meds, and document assessments. But when night comes, beware of those who try to steer you away from what's right.
Why similar: Medical Sim 55.9% ★, Life Sim 24%, Simulation 16.7%, 2D 3.5%
A detective-style psychological horror game. Live a terribly depressing office life! Meet Death! Take over the bodies of your coworkers! Struggle fruitlessly against the relentless drudgery of your mundane existence! Maybe eat some pancakes, or become one.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Life Sim 20.7%, Simulation 13.1%, Immersive Sim 11.5%, Visual Novel 11.3%
OneDayOne - visual novel where you will dive into the routine life of Sergey, from which only a miracle and...your choices can help him escape
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Immersive Sim 12%, Psychological 8.9%
Constantinople, 1453. Four witnesses — a janissary, a baker's daughter, an engineer, a noble — live the same 53 days of the siege. Choices cross between their stories, and the city remembers. An illustrated, choice-driven historical novel where every ending is someone's truth.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Text-Based 15.9%, Visual Novel 15.3%, War 6.2%
Betrayed in the Amazon, an elite Korean special forces commander crosses into a brutal fantasy world and rises as a lord. A dark military-fantasy visual novel with choices, light progression, and conquest.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Adventure 14.6%, Text-Based 9.5%
A visual novel about mental health, depression, and self-love. Play as Amatista, a young woman trapped in isolation, as she begins a journey she never asked for. Every choice shapes the story. Fully accessible for blind and visually impaired players.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Emotional 9.1%, Psychological 8.9%
"The hardest part is not to speak up. It’s being heard." Part video game, part graphic novel, Wednesdays seeks to raise awareness about child sexual abuse through a surprisingly hope-filled story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Text-Based 14.1%, Psychological 12.7%, Hand-drawn 12.2%
Illustrated text-based RPG featuring a unique magic system. Develop skills, tend relations. Navigate complex social structures. Explore themes of identity and allegiance.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Destruction 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Text-Based 12%, Visual Novel 10.5%
It was a morning like all others, until she realized her dad wasn't home. In his place, a stranger who speaks nonsense and insists she "takes her medicine". Who is he? Where is dad?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Life Sim 18.1%, Visual Novel 14%, Text-Based 11.3%, Emotional 8.3%
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 26.9%, Text-Based 22%, Visual Novel 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%, Choices Matter 7.9%
A cute story-driven zen puzzler in which you brew potions, customize your workshop, and interact with the quirky residents of the magical town of Mangrove.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Life Sim 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Immersive Sim 13.2%, Visual Novel 13.2%
Christian Tyler is ready to investigate a new case! Uncover the mystery of the tourist town of Alkelano in our new visual novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Hand-drawn 10.5%, Psychological 8.4%
