
A magical-realist visual novel, a funny and sad tale about ghosts of a Ukrainian subway, and an exploration of the meaning of life where there seems to be no meaning.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Choices Matter, Choose Your Own Adventure, Interactive Fiction.

A magical-realist visual novel, a funny and sad tale about ghosts of a Ukrainian subway, and an exploration of the meaning of life where there seems to be no meaning.

Gilded Rails
It's speed dating for the railway-tycoon monopolist robber baron! To obliterate your competition, you must marry a suitable partner before time runs out.

Shadow of Paris
Paris’s life changes when she encounters a charming stranger who seems to be watching her. This choice-driven psychological visual novel delivers a tense, intimate story focused on curiosity, trust, and crossing dangerous boundaries.
It's speed dating for the railway-tycoon monopolist robber baron! To obliterate your competition, you must marry a suitable partner before time runs out.
Why similar: Trains 45.2% ★, Text-Based 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Choices Matter 4.6%
Paris’s life changes when she encounters a charming stranger who seems to be watching her. This choice-driven psychological visual novel delivers a tense, intimate story focused on curiosity, trust, and crossing dangerous boundaries.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Comic Book 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Text-Based 11.5%, Visual Novel 10.1%
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: Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Text-Based 10.9%, Nonlinear 10.7%
Choices matter in this interactive short story. It only takes about 1 hour to play through once, but there are multiple endings to explore. You play as an AI assistant to the 7 year old Evie. What kind of bot will you be?
Why similar: Comic Book 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Visual Novel 9.4%, Choices Matter 9.3%
Princess Amaltea is sent out on this quest, and rescues Prince Ossian. They are both unwilling to play along in these traditional expectations of them, and after fleeing their own wedding they are now out on the open roads – on to new adventures in this gender flipped world!
Why similar: Comic Book 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Text-Based 12.3%
Decide the fate of the son of a tailor and a witch doctor infected with an incurable disease in an interactive story with multiple endings depending on your actions.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Nonlinear 14.2%, Text-Based 12%
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 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Female Protagonist 11.6%, Text-Based 9.4%
A mature branching visual novel where your choices guide Emily’s descent into temptation or resistance as she recovers in her fiancé’s family home under the watch of a dangerously charismatic father-in-law.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Female Protagonist 13%, Narration 13%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%
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 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Text-Based 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Narration 10.3%
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 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Text-Based 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Female Protagonist 9.8%
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 22.4%, Text-Based 21.5%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
The super-popular singing group “Melon Parker” is now in a visual novel game! You and your five childhood friends form the “Whatever Club” to solve the school’s problems! Where will your youthful story with the five of them lead...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Comic Book 15.6%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Text-Based 12.7%, Female Protagonist 11.1%
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 15.9%, Comic Book 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Text-Based 11.5%, Visual Novel 10.8%
Summer Story: An adventure game where you investigate and make choices that shape the story.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Text-Based 11.8%, Female Protagonist 11.3%
Parallels: Year One is a visual novel that will take you on a journey through one relationship in five parallel worlds. Join Ron and Jessica on a journey to see each other from a new perspective.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Female Protagonist 14.8%, Text-Based 12.1%, Choices Matter 8.5%
A text role-playing game about the fate of a mercenary who finds himself in the strange village: Villienville. Investigate who benefits from the sudden appearance of “ghosts” and help residents protect their homes from a mysterious enemy. The main thing is not to make a mistake in your choice!
Why similar: Text-Based 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Nonlinear 13.2%, Visual Novel 9.9%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Comic Book 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Narration 8.9%
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 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Text-Based 18%, Narration 11.1%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
The Vigilante Diaries is a narrative-driven role-playing game where you assume the role of a masked vigilante. Experience his life journey through his diaries spanning years, navigate the changes within his hideout, and make every decision that shapes his destiny.
Why similar: Comic Book 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Text-Based 12.4%
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 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Text-Based 12.2%, Choices Matter 8.5%
Welcome to Hakuba school! Live a student life in Hakuba and solve the mysteries surrounding the school and your past...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Narration 13.1%, Text-Based 10.8%
普通の女子高生・ソワレは、普通な自分を変えるために普通じゃない劇団のオーディションを受けることにした。そこで出会ったのは元子役の女子高生・マチネ。彼女もまた、ソワレと同じく主役の座を狙っていたのだった……。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.2%, Comic Book 22%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Female Protagonist 13.6%, Text-Based 12.9%
Choose, explore, interact, fight, solve, gather, trade! Rise to rebel in this immersive text-based fantasy story that seamlessly merges the best elements of RPGs, choose-your-own-adventure stories, visual novels, and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Text-Based 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Nonlinear 9.9%
Man I Just Wanna Go Home is an "MSPaint-noir" visual novel with 13 endings, a unique visual style and a killer 80s inspired soundtrack. The story revolves around a delivery person stranded in an unfamiliar part of the city under the devastating rain. All he wants is to get home. Help him!
Why similar: Comic Book 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Choices Matter 8.2%
Seers Isle is a narrative game, set in a fantasy version of medieval northern Europe, where your choices impact the fate of a group of characters.
Why similar: Comic Book 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Female Protagonist 10.8%
何気なく頼んだ「アイスコーヒー」の注文が、奥の部屋への「合言葉」になっちゃってる喫茶店。 1周5分の、ちょっとおかしくて怪しいマルチエンドADV。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.1%, Comic Book 22.3%, Visual Novel 16%, Text-Based 13.5%, Multiple Endings 6.6%
An Interactive Comic with PUNCHING in it.
Why similar: Comic Book 24.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Female Protagonist 10.5%, Choices Matter 8%
"Do you know a monster that dwells around here?" she asked. An ordinary barkeepers' journey, intertwined with the only survivor from a shrouded monster hunter company, started with this question.
Why similar: Comic Book 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Text-Based 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.7%
Comic Kingdom is a text-based adventure game primarily featuring a black-and-white comic style. It tells the story of a group of young manga artists who are trapped in a suburban farm.
Why similar: Comic Book 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Text-Based 12%, Visual Novel 10.6%
IN LOVE: Romance Edition features 3 heartfelt stories – Interview with Fate, Tessa’s Choice, and The Rhythm of Passion. Make decisions, shape your path, and experience unique endings in this interactive romance game.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Comic Book 17.9%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Narration 6.1%
"Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines" - In this short story from the Endless Monday, Penny, a mild-mannered corporate grunt, spends a weekend at the office in an effort to finish her project on time while overcoming distractions from coworkers, space aliens, imaginary friends, and herself.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Comic Book 14.5%, Choices Matter 9.3%
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 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Text-Based 12.3%, Choices Matter 9.7%
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 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Text-Based 18.3%, Visual Novel 15%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
A flesh-eating dust leaves you to survive alone against hordes of Listless.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Female Protagonist 12.2%, Text-Based 8.7%
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 15.5%, Text-Based 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Narration 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.5%
A sound, a flash, a portal… A pirate emerges, bringing a deadly threat. Five friends stand before him, and one of them is the target. But which one? Even they don't know.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Text-Based 18.6%, Narration 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Choices Matter 9.7%
You are Hidu, a beastman mercenary in a port city. You must survive one very bad day. How? That’s entirely up to you. There are countless ways for events to unfold — and 25 endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Nonlinear 14.1%, Narration 10.2%, Visual Novel 9.9%
Alex, a mid-level manager from the big city, is forced to return to his home village following a family tragedy. A temporary visit soon becomes a deeply emotional trial. He will have to confront a mystical lake, put his friendships to the test, and find true love.
Why similar: Comic Book 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Text-Based 16.1%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Narration 8.6%
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 18.1%, Narration 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Visual Novel 14.1%
Non-Linear Text Quests is a bundle of text games of various genres. Here you can find interactive stories with branching plots and text-only versions of classic Point & Click quests, where you can communicate with different characters, use your inventory and combine items in various locations.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Nonlinear 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.5%
Five Biggest Accomplishments is a short Visual Novel where you play as someone who has held the same job for 30 years: push a button every 8 hours or the world will end. Suddenly, you get an email asking you to list your five biggest accomplishments for the week, or risk being fired.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.3%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Text-Based 10.5%, Nonlinear 10%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%
A humorous sci-fi text-driven adventure where you play a support engineer sent to fix system failures in a secret research complex. Explore strange labs, investigate bizarre incidents, solve absurd problems, talk to depressed robots, and make choices that lead to multiple endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Nonlinear 13%, Visual Novel 13%
𝕭𝖀𝕽𝕹 is a short and replayable visual novel, where you play Nina BURN, the biggest pop star in the world at the turning point of her career. Will you change pop music? Will you become a monster? 𝖄𝖔𝖚 𝖜𝖎𝖑𝖑 𝕭𝖀𝕽𝕹.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Female Protagonist 11.6%, Choices Matter 9.9%
Take over a struggling bar on the politically tense Moon Village. Prepare and serve drinks, befriend and help your customers, find your purpose, and maybe even love... all while keeping the bar's lights on in this narrative driven bartending simulator set on the moon.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Comic Book 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Choices Matter 9.6%
Meet-cute (n) - An amusing or charming first encounter that leads to the development of a romantic relationship
Why similar: Comic Book 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Visual Novel 13%, Text-Based 13%
“A story about cat girls … with bite.” Nekos have evolved in the shadows of human society. Beautiful. Mysterious. Chaotic. And now, three of them live with you. Will you be able to get past the stigma and grow closer to them? OmOneko is a tale of cat and mouse... and rats.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Comic Book 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Text-Based 11.5%
IN LOVE: Mystic Passions Pack features 3 enchanting stories – A Raven’s Call, Bloodstained, and Arcanum Academy. Make your choices, dive into mystery, and experience supernatural romances filled with emotion and suspense.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Comic Book 18.3%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Narration 5.7%
IN LOVE: Temptations in Amsterdam takes you on a thrilling romantic journey through canals, secrets, and desire. Your choices will shape how far you’ll go in this passionate and mysterious adventure.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Comic Book 18.3%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Narration 5.7%
Uncover the mystery of the Ghoul's Grove, hidden in the Australian outback and filled with strange and mutilated scare actors. To Be Altered is a multiple-ending visual novel where your choices matter, even the most minuscule decisions will decide the fates of Darcy and others.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Comic Book 15.5%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Text-Based 10.8%
Vanakan is the journey of Tadevos - a priest, who travels the 500s Armenia to find the monastery that suits for his goal of becoming spiritually closer to Jesus Christ. He meets different people on his way and makes choices which will define his future and that of the country.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.5%, Text-Based 20.4%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
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 22.1%, Text-Based 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Choices Matter 11.4%
Set off on an exciting swashbuckling quest in this classic Fantasy Choose Your Own Adventure! Meet charming characters, fight dangerous foes, and uncover a nefarious intrigue. Experience seamless and reactive storytelling. Prove your innocence, find your destiny, relish the journey!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Text-Based 10.9%
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 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Text-Based 18.4%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Choices Matter 8%
Following the loss of a baby, a breakup, and a surprise heritage, Daphné decides to leave everything behind to start a new life in the French countryside. There, she discovers she's the last descendant of a line of witches. Will she embrace the family tradition?
Why similar: Comic Book 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Female Protagonist 13.4%
Cheerleaders, sisterhood, sex, and competition. Follow the cheerleading team of an elite university for the rich and privileged as they aim for victory at the national championship, led by their ambitious captain, Elena.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Female Protagonist 13.5%, Choices Matter 10.9%
A short visual novel about a girl who experiences a clinical death.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Narration 11.7%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
After a transfer student enters his life, college senior Kent begins suffering fainting spells and hearing voices. Navigate friendships, secrets, and a growing supernatural mystery in this choice-driven visual novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Multiple Endings 7.7%
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 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Text-Based 19.3%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Choices Matter 10%
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 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Text-Based 14.4%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Narration 9.7%
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 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Text-Based 16.3%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Choices Matter 10%