60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Interactive Fiction, RPG, Visual Novel.
‘We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe’ is a socially engaged, text-based RPG about a journalist looking for his big break by uncovering the plights of refugees travelling from Africa to Europe. It is a story inspired by true events.
Breakout 13
Breakout 13 is a thrilling narrative game with interactive cinematic experience. Based on true stories. Embark on a revealing journey as you attempt to break free from a negligent correctional institute and carve out your own path to justice. Each decision you make shapes the story.
Star Story: The Horizon Escape
Join the journey of a funky space archaeologist who crashed on an unknown planet. A text turn-based adventure RPG in which your choices actually matter. Talk, explore, fight, make decisions to find a way out! Colourful graphics and the old comic book spirit.
Breakout 13 is a thrilling narrative game with interactive cinematic experience. Based on true stories. Embark on a revealing journey as you attempt to break free from a negligent correctional institute and carve out your own path to justice. Each decision you make shapes the story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Detective 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Multiple Endings 13%, Choices Matter 12.1%
Join the journey of a funky space archaeologist who crashed on an unknown planet. A text turn-based adventure RPG in which your choices actually matter. Talk, explore, fight, make decisions to find a way out! Colourful graphics and the old comic book spirit.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.1%, Nonlinear 17%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Hand-drawn 10.9%
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 18.6%, Text-Based 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Emotional 10%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
Far Away is a visual novel full of dark humor depicting immersive storylines rather than romantic drama. You will play as Krosa, a typical girl who experiences gang conflicts, crimes, conspiracies, and family grudges in the port city of Bedjan.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Dark Humor 17.8%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Multiple Endings 11%
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Hand-drawn 14.7%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Story Rich 11.2%
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 31.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, RPG 9.1%, Choices Matter 7%
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 21.9%, Choices Matter 21.4%, Text-Based 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Story Rich 10.6%
Wanderlust: Travel Stories is a bridge between literature and gaming. Step into the shoes of modern travelers—explore their desires, hopes and fears, and shape how their stories unfold. Make this journey your own.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Education 12.1%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
Explore an alternative medieval Europe in this low-fantasy epic adventure! How far are you willing to go to take back your stolen treasure?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Text-Based 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, RPG 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.6%
Driving home late one night you encounter a refugee in distress. They are looking for salvation. Do you hand them over to violent authorities? Or risk sheltering them yourself?
Why similar: Philosophical 22%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Text-Based 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Choices Matter 11.2%
The Dawn is Inevitable is an interactive crime drama/neo-western novel inspired by classic RPG games. A mysterious stranger is forced to hide in a village called Rassvet. This place is isolated from the outside world for the whole winter and keeps many dark secrets.
Why similar: Nonlinear 16.4%, Text-Based 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Emotional 10.5%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
Inspired by JCS videos and similar Interrogation analysis. Match evidence with statements. Play good cop/bad cop. Make choices. Learn what makes people tick. Unravel the mystery.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Text-Based 19.1%, Dark Humor 18.1%, Story Rich 7.7%
MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.
Why similar: Philosophical 25.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, Story Rich 10.1%
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: Text-Based 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Hand-drawn 9.9%, Emotional 9.8%
Insects Awaken is a puzzle visual novel set in the 1940s. It follows the story of Chen Shan, a young man entangled in espionage while defending his family and homeland. He embarks on a journey between the isolated cities of Chongqing and Shanghai, braving the chaos of war with his passion and youth.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Detective 10.5%
Players will play as five different characters and experience five environmental theme scenes relating to sustainable palm oil, orangutan conservation, rainforest protection, etc. Players need to make a variety of choices through their own understanding, and reach different story endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Modern 21.3%, Multiple Endings 15.2%, Text-Based 14.4%, RPG 7.4%
Board the Trans-Siberian railroad and travel 9,289 km from Moscow to Vladivostok. Clash with a vibrant culture as you meet people as strange to you as you are to them. Journey into a standalone Wanderlust adventure from the makers of The Witcher.
Why similar: Philosophical 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Text-Based 15.2%, Nonlinear 13.2%, Emotional 11.8%
A choice-driven RPG thriller set in the World of Darkness universe. Step into the shoes of Samira, a young werewolf refugee in Poland, as she battles dark forces and loneliness, caught between rage and despair. How will your story unfold?
Why similar: Text-Based 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Choices Matter 11.5%
"Murders on Yangtze River" is an Ace Attorney-like detective game that takes you on a journey through early 20th century China as you solve a series of intriguing cases. Use your logical reasoning and deduction skills to uncover clues, interrogate suspects, and solve the mysteries.
Why similar: Detective 50.1%, Story Rich 16.5%, Text-Based 13.4%, Adventure 8.1%, RPG 5.8%
The Twenty-Second: Stories of Underground Kharkiv is a quest and a visual novel that will tell you in the first person about the events of 2022 in the Kharkiv metro.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.3%, Modern 20.4%, Philosophical 17.9%, Emotional 17.9%, RPG 9.6%
Cyber Manhunt is a story-oriented puzzle game focusing on big data, hacking, citizen privacy, and social workers. It focuses on social issues such as cyber violence and privacy breaches.
Why similar: Detective 45.7%, RPG 28.5%, Story Rich 14.7%, 2D 5.8%, Singleplayer 3.8%
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 32.9%, Interactive Fiction 28.7%, Story Rich 16.4%, RPG 9.1%, Adventure 7.1%
The Wake is a record of past wounds opened at a three-day funeral. The journal is encoded with a simple substitution cipher that the player must break in order to reveal the writer’s psyche and discover the contradictions that define him.
Why similar: Text-Based 48.3%, Education 20.4%, Story Rich 17.2%, Adventure 8.3%, 2D 5.8%
An edutainment jRPG experience, spanning from ancient Greece to the 12th century European Renaissance, brimming with historically-accurate characters and events, experienced through two realms: of spirits, thoughts and emotions, and the material world.
Why similar: RPG 92.3%, Singleplayer 7.7%
In this narrative card game about relationships and communication, navigate conversations in a colorful world reminiscent of our own. Learn and grow through the cards you choose to play. Who will you become? What will you leave behind?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Text-Based 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Choices Matter 13.3%, RPG 7.7%
Bury me, my Love tells the story of Syrian refugee Nour and her husband Majd, as Nour undertakes a perilous journey to safety in Europe.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 52.9%, Adventure 26.5%, Story Rich 20.7%
Witness to Mass Incarceration is a narrative-driven interactive story based on my life in federal prison. It is a brutally honest portrayal of the lack of humanity, how our lives inside are at risk every day, and the place you are forced to go within yourself to survive.
Why similar: Emotional 43%, Story Rich 21.7%, Adventure 15%, Education 13.5%, 2D 5.4%
VED is a story-driven, hand-drawn RPG with a unique turn-based combat system and roguelite elements. Set in two different worlds, VED tells the story of Cyrus, a young hero who sets out on a quest to become a master of sword and magic, and save everything he knows from destruction.
Why similar: Emotional 24%, Hand-drawn 20.8%, Choices Matter 17.9%, Story Rich 14%, RPG 9.8%
Roadtrip across the country. Confront a tyrant. The revolution will be messy—but the relationships will be messier.
Why similar: Choices Matter 15.8%, Emotional 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Hand-drawn 13.7%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
A surrealist text-based RPG. You will explore an island, solve puzzles, and fight enemies, all in your attempt to get the Dark Egg.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Story Rich 8%
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a Narrative-Adventure game about traveling, sharing stories, and surviving manifest destiny.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 49.5%, Story Rich 22.4%, RPG 12.9%, Adventure 12.7%, Singleplayer 2.6%
Immigration Enforcement Case #112: You are under arrest. Unless your friends can cross a broken America, retrieve your identifying documents and stay out of trouble... this is the end of the American dream for you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Emotional 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Choices Matter 10.3%, RPG 9.8%
As a judge of the Kobardde court, solve complex cases inspired by actual events. Your decisions will directly affect people's (and perhaps yours) lives. You may have to make difficult decisions for your family, country, and life. What kind of judge will you be?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.9%, Text-Based 20.5%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, RPG 9.3%
It's a choice-oriented story game. Play as a group of underground workers who fight in the dark, and stage a treacherous spy war story in Nanjing during World War II. How will you respond to identity crises, betrayals, and collapsed beliefs? Loyalty or betrayal, abandon others or be abandoned...
Why similar: Detective 19.6%, Hand-drawn 18.1%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Story Rich 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%
A comic-style narrative-oriented game based on the Christmas Eve Truce during World War I.
Why similar: Emotional 36.9%, Interactive Fiction 36%, Colorful 10.8%, RPG 9%, Adventure 7.4%
The Thaumaturge is a character-driven RPG with a rich story, morally ambiguous choices, and turn-based combat. In a city on the brink of change, use your mystical powers to read emotions, uncover motives, and command folklore-inspired demons — while resisting the temptation of your own pride.
Why similar: Detective 33.4%, Choices Matter 18%, Multiple Endings 16%, Story Rich 14.2%, RPG 10.8%
A top-down 2D story-driven adventure game inspired by real-life events. Traverse and experience the life of a formerly homeless man through an interview of how he regained his sense of self by telling his past to a stray dog. Set in Bangkok, Thailand 2017.
Why similar: Emotional 32.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Story Rich 16.3%, Multiple Endings 15.8%, Adventure 6.6%
Border of her Heart is a VN about Border control.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Text-Based 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Dark Humor 13.7%, Nonlinear 12.8%
Survive in Russia is a survival quest in Russia. You will be available a selection of characters. Each of them presents survival mode and story mode. Only on your choice will depend on the life of the character.
Why similar: Nonlinear 26.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Multiple Endings 14.7%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Story Rich 9.4%
A curated compilation of Deconstructeam's best efforts in seeking new narrative experiences in games. Explore 10 unique, offbeat tales including "De Tres al Cuarto," a brand new short experience exclusive to the compilation about a couple of two-bit comedians trying to make it big.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 40.9%, Emotional 23.7%, RPG 13.3%, 2D 8.8%, Adventure 8.2%
Hymer 2000 is an interactive text puzzle game, where players freely converse with the "Hymer" and use an open "Search" function to retrieve past conversations. By discovering keywords, gathering clues, and collecting "Faces", players uncover Hymer's secrets and ultimately shut it down.
Why similar: Text-Based 32.6%, Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Detective 19.3%, Story Rich 12.2%, RPG 6.4%
Players follow Lu Yuan through important stages of his life and experience his growth trajectory from youth to maturity. It will take you to relive those decisions that you have never tried to make in reality, and feel the different life brought about by each choice.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.8%, Choices Matter 27.2%, Story Rich 17.5%, RPG 14.4%, Colorful 6.8%
The Light in the Darkness tells the story of a working-class family of Polish Jews in France during the Holocaust. It is the first videogame to portray the Holocaust, releasing free for educational purposes.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 40%, Education 29.1%, Emotional 21.2%, Adventure 8%, Singleplayer 1.8%
The Test: Reality Check is one of multiple installments in an ongoing social experiment that can be classified as an atmospheric, psychological-simulation with horror elements. Dive deep into your own psyche to find answers to questions you've kept locked away, hidden from yourself for far too long.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.7%, Dark Humor 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Education 11.6%
Soulflow is a 2.5D fantasy-detective game that offers a unique experience with its graphic style. In this story-based role play game, players must gather information from others during the day and try to solve the murders in the neighborhood to stay free.
Why similar: Detective 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Multiple Endings 14.8%, Choices Matter 11.7%
"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 20.4%, Text-Based 18.6%, Emotional 17.3%, Hand-drawn 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%
When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.
Why similar: Detective 26.1%, Text-Based 25.9%, Philosophical 19.8%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Story Rich 8.6%
Field Hospital is a text-based bureaucratic detective game about hard decisions. Decide who to treat and whom to refuse. Face consequences. Study patients’ info and read their stories. Investigate the tangled case of Dr. Taylor.
Why similar: Detective 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Text-Based 17%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Choices Matter 12.1%
Unrest is a role playing adventure game set in a fantasy interpretation of ancient India that adapts to death, failure, and the choices you make. Play as ordinary people in a struggle for safety, freedom, and a chance at peace. Use conversation, manipulation (and rarely, violence) to achieve your goals.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Choices Matter 11%, Hand-drawn 10.8%
You have five days to save your husband, who has just been arrested by the Gestapo. Investigate, explore and form allegiances in this story-rich RPG-lite. Who will you trust?
Why similar: Emotional 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Hand-drawn 11.7%
A gritty dice-driven RPG, in a steampunk city. You escaped the War, but how to survive? Explore the city. Build up your skills. Decide who to trust. Choose carefully: you might just spark a revolution!
Why similar: Text-Based 26%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Hand-drawn 11.8%
This is a narrative role-playing game telling the story of a crown prince of the Blessed Arknian Empire. You possess great power, but are also burdened by duty. Can you change the world and stay true to yourself? Every decision comes with a cost.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Choices Matter 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Multiple Endings 15.3%, Hand-drawn 10.1%
21 Days is a simulation adventure game in which you experience the life of a Syrian refugee. Though you escaped the war in Syria, your family still has a hard journey ahead of them. Over 21 days, you must manage money, time, hunger and mental status. For yourself, and for the hope of saving your family.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
Emily is Away Too is a brand new story featuring new characters and multiple different endings. Message your friends, surf the web and choose your path through this branching narrative.
Why similar: Text-Based 29.2%, Choices Matter 22.6%, Multiple Endings 18.7%, Story Rich 13.2%, RPG 6.8%
When night falls, she wanders into another world... Moonless Moon is a text-based adventure game following a girl as she travels through a variety of different worlds.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.9%, Modern 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Emotional 12%, Story Rich 8%
a side-scrolling, story-driven text adventure game in pixel art. The story is set in 2079, when a Replicant awakens in a lab facility amidst a life-or-death situation. The replicant aid agency tries to rescue him but fails. In the process they stumble on the real secret of the Replicant project...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.8%, Text-Based 26.8%, Story Rich 15.5%, RPG 7.6%, Adventure 7.2%
The Use of Life is a multi-ending adventure book style JRPG. The main character’s various attachments change in accordance with the choices the player makes, and the ending changes depending on “the use of life” you choose through your journey.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.9%, Multiple Endings 15.8%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Story Rich 12.7%, RPG 10%
Hardcore survival RPG with non-linear story that lets you play as a young medieval soldier who over the course of battles and adventures becomes the most formidable and respected knight of his era. Or, if he’s not lucky enough, perishes in the chaos of the Hundred Years' War.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
Ishmael is a short multimedia-enhanced hypertext story about perpetual cycles of displacement and violence as seen through the lens of a child. Takes about 15 minutes to read/play through.
Why similar: Philosophical 20.5%, Text-Based 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Emotional 13.5%
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Dark Humor 13%, Choices Matter 9.9%
