60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Singleplayer, 2D, Visual Novel, Interactive Fiction.
Warsaw: Paris of the North is a Choose Your Own Adventure Game, built on text, graphics with plenty of choices that develop the main character’s features and direct him to a variety of plots. Set in 1930’s Warsaw.
Ghosts over the Water: Changing the Tides of Japan's Future
Ghosts over the Water: Changing the Tides of Japan's Future is an engaging strategy-based, multi-route historical visual novel. It is designed by a team of four undergraduate students associated with University of Texas, Austin's Japan Lab and Epoch Games Initiative.
The Communist Manifesto ~ A Visual Novel
The visual novel adaptation of The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Experience the Manifesto in a conversational style for the first time and fully customize your reading.
Ghosts over the Water: Changing the Tides of Japan's Future is an engaging strategy-based, multi-route historical visual novel. It is designed by a team of four undergraduate students associated with University of Texas, Austin's Japan Lab and Epoch Games Initiative.
Why similar: Education 21.9%, Politics 20.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Visual Novel 11%, Hand-drawn 9%
The visual novel adaptation of The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Experience the Manifesto in a conversational style for the first time and fully customize your reading.
Why similar: Political 36.5% ★, Politics 25.4% ★, Education 14.5%, Visual Novel 9%, Historical 8.2%
Travel to Veøya in the Viking Age and solve a dangerous mystery with cunning and song!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Historical 18%, Education 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%
Debate against leftists. Create your own debates and NPCs, and share them with your friends. The game includes tools to make the creation of user content easier.
Why similar: Politics 38.6% ★, Political 27.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 22%, Casual 6.4%, 2D 4.6%
How did the communist regime in Czechoslovakia fall? This hidden-object game tells the story of ordinary people taking part in the peaceful demonstrations that changed the course of history. Big crowds hide those, who want to tell you why they took to the streets.
Why similar: Political 23.2% ★, Politics 18.6% ★, Historical 15.8%, Education 15.6%, Hand-drawn 11%
Stalin's on your couch, and one wrong word sends you and your family to the gulag. Get inside his head before he decides you're the problem. Freud, Adler, Jung - pick your psychological method. A dark comedy about therapy, power, and what it costs to tell a tyrant the truth.
Why similar: Politics 27.9% ★, Political 17.3% ★, Education 13.5%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
You are the imprisoned dictator. People of your country come visit. Survive as long as you can.
Why similar: Political 40.2% ★, Politics 26.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Dialogue Heavy 8.6%, Adventure 6%
Go from Prehistoric age to the future in this text-based adventure.
Why similar: Education 26.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Historical 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.7%
Set around 1929, this interactive visual novel lets you relive the early Red Army's epic journey from a first-person perspective. Experience immersive historical narratives and make pivotal branching choices. Beware: wrong decisions will end your game!
Why similar: Politics 33.7% ★, Education 17.8%, Historical 14%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%
Alice & Aidy: The Big Adventure is a warm interactive story with a gentle children’s sci-fi feel. When Alice struggles to write about the future, she meets Aidy, an old companion robot. Read, choose, and explore as they search for lost sparks and learn to ask, create, and choose for themselves.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Education 17.2%, Adventure 8.6%
Learn about the ancestors of your PC with this visual novel! ENIAC...UNIVAC... Wait, why are these machines so handsome?!
Why similar: Education 30.6%, Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Historical 16.1%, Casual 6.7%
A voxel-powered comedy about clothes, pockets, and the people who need them.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Education 14.2%, Adventure 7.7%
Hail Britannia is a text-based game with lite RPG elements set in an alternate 1944 where the Central Powers won World War 1.
Why similar: Political 34.4% ★, Politics 27.7% ★, Visual Novel 14.4%, Casual 7.8%, Historical 6.3%
Chekhov's quiet masterpiece becomes a cinematic visual novel about longing, choice, and the impossible shape of an honest life.
Why similar: Education 28.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Historical 12.7%, Dialogue Heavy 6.8%
A short visual novel with quizzes to help you dip your toes into the world of startups.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Hand-drawn 16.3%, Historical 16.1%, Adventure 13.4%
How far will you go to keep your crown? A branching court politics drama, where every choice matters. Navigate treacherous lords, scheming family members, and angry peasants- all while trying to secure your kingdom’s future.
Why similar: Political 21.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Politics 11.8% ★, Visual Novel 11.8%
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 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Historical 16.2%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Hand-drawn 6.1%
Jena, GDR. Assel, Michael, and Hanna live in the same neighbourhood and fight against state surveillance. Can they bring about the necessary changes, or will they have to flee? Help them find their way! [Only available in German!]
Why similar: Education 26.7%, Political 19.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Historical 14.7%, Hand-drawn 8.9%
Welcome to the Ace & Aro Meetup! Everyone is accepted here – whether you’re a-spec yourself or just curious to learn more. Meet the members, try a cocktail (or two) and unwind with some arcade games. Let’s have a heart-to-heart!
Why similar: Education 28.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Hand-drawn 9.3%, Casual 7.7%
Echoes of Chang'an is a Chinese-style mystery visual novel developed by NSTUDIO. You play as the adopted son of the renowned mid-Tang general Duan Xiushi who is unexpectedly drawn into an inescapable conspiracy that threatens the fate of the Tang Dynasty while carrying out a mission.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Historical 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Adventure 6.4%
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 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Dialogue Heavy 8.9%, Hand-drawn 8.1%
Play as Erwin, a witch hunter navigating a fantasy world of magic and suspicion. Your decisions in this visual novel affect friendships, trust, and multiple story outcomes. Choose wisely—the fate of your journey rests with you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.5%, Interactive Fiction 26.1%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Hand-drawn 10.1%, Casual 7%
Master your personal resources to achieve startup business success in this pro bono entrepreneurial life simulator game.
Why similar: Education 29.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Hand-drawn 10.6%
Adventure as Geralt through the ballads of Dandelion. Swipe right, swipe left, seek glory, find death! Will you hunt monsters, upset the locals, or run a hot bath? Compose an inspiring epic to claim immortality.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Adventure 10.1%, Hand-drawn 8.2%
Korn Kachakon, a high school student, finds a painting of an ancient emperor at an art gallery. Unfortunately, a guard knocks him unconscious, and his spirit is whisked to the realm of "Pralai," where he's tasked with changing an ancient kingdom's fate.
Why similar: Political 32.3% ★, Politics 28.7% ★, Visual Novel 17.5%, Casual 10.1%, Text-Based 5.9%
A war of unseen ferocity is ravaging the continent. You, ringmaster dilettante, must keep the circus afloat. Travel, entertain, and keep the troupe’s spirits up while trying to find a mythical safe haven to last out the storm in this beautifully illustrated, text-based narrative adventure.
Why similar: World War I 22.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Historical 10.2%
The 4K Ultra HD Remaster of "Template!! An Angel's Gift"—a hilarious slice-of-life visual novel—is now on Steam! Follow Sakura Sora, whose bizarre new condition makes ridiculous "classic tropes" real, sparking a twist-filled daily comedy with unique companions.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Visual Novel 20%, Adventure 13.4%, Casual 11.5%
Vatan is a narrative-focused historical drama set in Sivas in 1892. In young Ahmet's life, caught between family, love, and homeland, every decision you make changes relationships, atmosphere, and the path to the finale; every scene carries an emotional cost
Why similar: World War I 24% ★, Education 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Historical 10.8%
Experience a world created by illustrator Kristjana S. Williams as you follow your own personal White Rabbit companion, hunt for missing objects, solve the Caterpillar's mind-bending riddles, visit the Queen of Hearts’ croquet garden, and experience classic moments from this legendary tale.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Education 24.7%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Adventure 12.5%, Hand-drawn 10.8%
Dive into U.S. political history with Campaign Clash, a strategic card game where you mix and match historical figures and policies to shape America's past and present. Master the art of political strategy and history through over 1,000 unique cards and all 60 elections from 1789 to 2024.
Why similar: Political 33.9% ★, Politics 27.2% ★, Education 21.2%, Historical 14.1%, 2D 2.1%
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 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Historical 14.3%, Dialogue Heavy 8.2%
In this suspenseful fantasy visual novel, play as a young man stranded in snowy mountains. Guided by unseen forces, you enter an isolated mansion. As a peculiar daily life unfolds, you live alongside two vampire girls. Immerse yourself in this profound, dreamlike dark fairy tale.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.2%, Visual Novel 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Adventure 12.4%, Casual 12.1%
Pencil Plus: The Wrath of the Spankster is an interactive novel style choose your own adventure game in which players take the role of Conner, a normal high school kid that gains a very unique super power: the ability to pull limitless pencils out of his pockets.
Why similar: Education 32.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Adventure 4.6%
The Cummunist Manifesto is a kinetic novel retelling of the classic Communist Work "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx except Karl is now a busty babe.
Why similar: Political 40.7% ★, Politics 21.4% ★, Visual Novel 16.6%, Hand-drawn 8.9%, Education 8%
Newly hired for a revitalization program, work against a ticking clock and navigate a skeptical boss, a lousy friend, and discrimination while making hiring decisions. Interactive narrative with timed decisions Critical thinking Prosocial Empathy
Why similar: Education 33.7%, Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Casual 10.2%, Text-Based 4.9%
Play as a pregnant woman experiencing daily life from early pregnancy to childbirth prep. Learn about local medical and support systems through interactive choices. Features 1-hour playtime and save/load. Great for those interested in healthcare, education, or social welfare
Why similar: Education 34.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.2%, Visual Novel 23.1%, Adventure 15%, Singleplayer 0.4%
The violent clashes in the suburbs ended as a result of the military's harsh interventions. During the clashes, a general was killed brutally by a group of rebels. Seven people suspected of killing the general were arrested in next morning.
Why similar: Political 34.3% ★, Politics 33.7% ★, Historical 15.9%, Stylized 8.1%, 2D 4.3%
An irritable gargoyle spends 800 years stuck on the side of a cathedral as the world changes for better and for worse.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, Historical 17.1%, Adventure 15.2%, Casual 12.4%
USSR, August 1991. Perestroika, glasnost, an attempted military coup. Soon the world will change forever. The USSR will cease to exist, and a new country will appear – Russia. Go out to the square, become a free person, and try to keep your freedom in this new country. Sorry, but you already failed
Why similar: Politics 29.4% ★, Political 29% ★, Historical 13.2%, Stylized 7.7%, Adventure 7.6%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Historical 15%, Realistic 7.6%
Skylar is an student with anxiety. Walter is a farmer with social anxiety and PTSD. Jessica is a programmer with anxiety and agoraphobia. Li Wei is an technologist with intense anxiety. Navigate their stories, learn how they move through the world, and about methods of treatment and recovery.
Why similar: Education 26.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Hand-drawn 8.1%
Holy Great Martyr Theodore the Tyro (or Theodore the Recruit) lived in the early 300s. This Synaxarion will step through his story as it is known today.
Why similar: Historical 27.9%, Education 25.9%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Hand-drawn 8.9%, Casual 8.6%
A virtual exhibition recreating the first public museum in Lithuania—the Vilnius Museum of Antiquities. Open the doors to the mid-19th century, discover over 100 unique historical exhibits, talk to the founder of the museum himself, and learn about the fate of the collection.
Why similar: Education 31.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Historical 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 6.9%
A choice-based, visual novel with time travelling teapots!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Adventure 11.3%, Dialogue Heavy 9.7%
Explore and share Stan & Jan Berenstain’s classic, "The Berenstain Bears Get in a Fight", adapted from the original storybook into an interactive animated adventure!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.1%, Education 22.6%, Visual Novel 18%, Adventure 13.9%, Casual 11.5%
The classic visual novel 'HimaNatsu' from the critically acclaimed developer Makura is available in English for the first time! Weave a cheerful yet sometimes painful tale of promises and redemption together with the Oboshiro Choir Squad in this never-ending summer vacation.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.4%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Adventure 12.4%, Casual 12.2%
ONIGASHIMA is a psychological horror visual novel with romantic tragedy, supernatural loop mechanics, and dual-layered narration. Play as a nameable protagonist and uncover the truth behind the Red Moon and the devouring of your villagers.
Why similar: Historical 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Hand-drawn 10.2%
Enjoy this visual novel about Maruja Mallo's life! Help her recovering her artistic souls. Fix her paintings using your mouse to relocate pieces of the painting, interact and explore paintings using your mouse.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Education 21%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Historical 12.3%, Casual 10.6%
Gerrymap is a puzzle game about gerrymandering. Win congressional seats for your party by drawing districts, using US Census data!
Why similar: Political 41.5% ★, Politics 38.4% ★, Education 20%, Singleplayer 0.1%
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 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Hand-drawn 14.4%, Stylized 7.4%
To Burn in Memory. Ahistorical and atemporal Interactive Fiction. Explore a city that never existed, and uncover its secret history through the memories of those caught in the chaos of a Europe spiraling ever faster into war.
Why similar: World War I 32.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Historical 18%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Adventure 11.2%
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 25.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Visual Novel 20%, Hand-drawn 13.6%, Casual 10.7%
Experience the triumphs and tribulations of two Caribbean immigrants in post-war Britain, in the world’s first Windrush video game, from the creators of the BAFTA nominated Before I Forget. How will you shape your story in this branching narrative interactive photo album?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.5%, Hand-drawn 20.2%, Historical 13.2%, Adventure 8.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8%
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 26.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Hand-drawn 13.3%, Adventure 11.6%
"Please Act Normal" is a live-action comedy about the agonizing pressure of social etiquette. Navigate awkward dinners and tense meetings through frequent dialogue choices, or embrace chaos and use your "Secret Weapon". Will they yell, laugh or just stare in pity? There’s only one way to find out.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Adventure 11.6%, Realistic 10%
An adventure visual novel with a pixel art style. About ghosts, past love, and a world of the unconscious.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.6%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Hand-drawn 16.8%, Adventure 12.3%, Stylized 8.1%
Mental pain will never disappear, it will forever torment the soul of the protagonist. Who is he? How did he end up here? Why do dead people appear before him? Who is this girl with bandaged eyes? Eternal Pain: Epiphany is the story of the insight of a person who finds himself in purgatory.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.3%, Visual Novel 22%, Adventure 12.7%, Hand-drawn 12.4%, Dialogue Heavy 7.9%
An educational game that teaches about Self Managed Abortion.
Why similar: Education 46.8%, Hand-drawn 19.5%, Dialogue Heavy 14.1%, Casual 12.9%, 2D 6.5%
Unlock the mysteries of a strange yet familiar world and forage real wild plants & herbs in this curious, peaceful adventure! An experimental interactive fiction cook-em-up with educational elements.
Why similar: Education 35.4%, Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Hand-drawn 14.3%, Adventure 8.2%, Casual 7.2%
