
The frontier does not want to be settled. A narrative highly replayable story game where your choices build a settlement, shape its story, and seal its fate. Every run ends. Every obituary tells a story only you lived.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Choose Your Own Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Visual Novel, Story Rich.

The frontier does not want to be settled. A narrative highly replayable story game where your choices build a settlement, shape its story, and seal its fate. Every run ends. Every obituary tells a story only you lived.
Convince the cannibals not to eat you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.7%
Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, Choices Matter 7.8%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Text-Based 8.9%, Choices Matter 7.9%
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 15.3%, Text-Based 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Point & Click 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.5%
Asylum simulator. An interactive fiction about schizophrenia and finding meaning after near-death, with Disco Elysium-style mechanics.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Text-Based 16.6%, Psychological Horror 9.6%, Dark Humor 9.4%
Shape the news. Sway the nation. A visual novel where your choices on-air shift the world.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Dark Humor 14.6%, Point & Click 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Philosophical 11.1%
You wake up at a terminal you've never seen before. The language is alien. The interface is hostile. Every wrong click has consequences. Decode constructed languages, navigate unfamiliar operating systems, and survive the unknown in this puzzle-survival experience.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Point & Click 13%, Text-Based 11.3%, Exploration 9.1%
A spooky text-based, choose-your-own-adventure style game that tells several spine-chilling tales with several choices and items throughout, these may change your path... Can you uncover the truth?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Point & Click 12.5%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Lore-Rich 9.9%
"The Pinch" is a character-driven sci-fi narrative with branching story paths and meaningful choices about a group of scientists struggling to save their planet from an addictive virtual reality known as "the Gel." Your choices determine your personal relationships and the fate of those around you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19%, Philosophical 15.5%, Point & Click 14.2%, Lore-Rich 8.5%, Choices Matter 8.3%
DATE, FLIRT & SURVIVE in this Retro-Horror Adventure where you date characters based on REAL Computer VIRUSES. Explore and uncover dark secrets behind each character and make choices that will lead to a ❤️SMOOCH❤️ or your DOOM!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Point & Click 14.5%, Dark Humor 12%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%
Welcome to Ostera: The curse of... Join the Adventure! Shape Your Destiny, Kiss Rats, and Slap Kids!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Dark Humor 13.5%, Text-Based 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Lore-Rich 10.7%
Slice through a collection of HORROR STORIES, produced by a solo dev! Survive through the body horror of health clinics, haunted dating sims, robot takeovers, CORPORATE COMPLIANCE VIDEOS & MORE!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Dark Humor 10.5%, Text-Based 10.4%, Point & Click 10.3%
Chat with a virtual friend from a cancelled mobile game! Ask questions, start arguments, and find the right responses to progress the story. Can you solve the horrific mystery hidden beneath the surface?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20%, Lore-Rich 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Text-Based 11%, Visual Novel 10.9%
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Text-Based 13.4%, Dark Humor 10.6%, Visual Novel 9.6%
"Life sometimes feels like it’s going in circles." Little Girl On Earth Asking Why She Asking Why is a short pixel art Visual Novel about a girl who tell herself this, forever. Maybe you can try to help her ?
Why similar: Philosophical 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Text-Based 10.6%
A text-based adventure where you're tasked to exorcise your friend’s Inner Demon. Explore an ever-reshaping palace to analyze objects filled with memories, discover which one is the reason for her possession and sacrifice it. Do not deviate from your mission. Save your friend no matter the cost.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Text-Based 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Lore-Rich 11.8%, Point & Click 10.4%
A pixelated homage to 16-bit RPGs, this former print-and-play card game has come full circle as a digital experience! Choose your champion, enter the tower, and make wise decisions on your ascent to face the Ice Lich at the top.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Text-Based 16.4%, Lore-Rich 14.3%, Visual Novel 11.6%
Stranded after a plane crash in a freezing wilderness, you must manage body temperature, injury, and sanity as every decision shapes your survival.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Text-Based 10.2%, Psychological Horror 9.4%
In this 2D choices matter/ visual novel game. Will you rise up to make the kingdom a better place? Steal the crown? Or burn it to the ground?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Point & Click 14.9%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Lore-Rich 10.1%
Hidden Clause is a standalone interactive narrative game about consent, permissions, records, and interface obedience. Sign, refuse, wait, stare, click, and type as the system turns your actions and silence into evidence.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Text-Based 11.5%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Lore-Rich 9.8%
Audiences connect to their favorite celebrities all the time. How does it affect these people when put into a game of life or death? Only time will tell.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Lore-Rich 11.7%, Text-Based 7.9%
It's a winter night. You are coming home by train. You have to change trains at a small train station in the middle of the forest.It's not the first time you've traveled this route. But now you feel like something is different.As if something was watching you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Philosophical 12.6%, Point & Click 11.7%, Text-Based 11.4%
To escape, you must hurt someone. KIZUTSUKE is a psychological suspense visual novel about four young men trapped together. Read their conversations, make difficult choices, and discover four endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Text-Based 15.3%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Psychological Horror 8.3%
On the road to the sacred shrine of Karatl, lost souls entrust you with their stories. In this contemplative Visual Novel, listen to their truths and perhaps, at the journey's end, you will discover your own.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Text-Based 15.3%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Philosophical 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%
The abyss awaits. Descend into a minimalist visual novel about a girl in the future, and guide her through branching conversations, microgames, and explorable locations. Make friends with criminals, drink too much at dinner, or relax in a spa. Whatever happens, it was your choice.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Lore-Rich 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Text-Based 10.4%
Intellica thanks you for volunteering in this short text-based Research Study. Pay attention to the participants answers, and classify them as either Human or Artificial. Join us in shaping the future of technology. Remember, think happy!
Why similar: Philosophical 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Text-Based 10.8%, Dark Humor 9.5%
IBH is a rich role playing game at the end of time. You're a mid-level official in a dying sci-fi regime, given the impossible task of fixing a faltering machine; explore a vast world, define your mind, flex your authority, and become a sinner or a savior in countless other stories.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Text-Based 8.6%, Lore-Rich 7.6%
A short psychological thriller visual novel where you guide Sora through twisted interrogations, moral dilemmas, and unraveling memories...
Why similar: Philosophical 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Point & Click 11.1%
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 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Text-Based 14.5%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Point & Click 10.1%
Alone in the dead of night, you find yourself sent on a simple errand to check on a quiet gas station on the outskirts of town. But nothing here feels right. You can’t outrun this place. It wants you. And it will keep you.
Why similar: Text-Based 12.8%, Philosophical 12.5%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
Make Cute Animal Friends in this 8-bit Gameboy-inspired adventure! But there's something lurking in the woods, with DARK SECRETS you'll need to uncover!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Dark Humor 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Point & Click 11.7%, Psychological Horror 9.8%
You're an adventurer going into Friscott Castle to see what treasures you can find within. Explore, meet the residents, find treasure & more. Be mindful though, as the castle isn't normal, & there are things about it that might drive a person to madness. That, or it might spell your demise.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Point & Click 16.1%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Text-Based 12.2%
You are a protest organiser, coordinating the crowd outside your window. When the police move in on your position you have to decide whether to tell the protestors to hold the line or pull back.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15%, Text-Based 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Philosophical 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.4%
Why Do People Want to Die? Why Don't People Want to Die? This is a story about a group of girls in a world that exists in limbo between life and death. Embark on a dramatic real-time tactical adventure.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Philosophical 13.8%, Dark Humor 12.9%, Text-Based 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%
The definitive edition of the fan-favorite visual novel is here! A surreal, coming-of-age tale set in early 2010s Central Florida, Siren's Call is the small town you swore you'd always leave. Something inside you knows this is your last chance. Will you reach escape velocity?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Lore-Rich 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Point & Click 10.4%
A story of two brothers who must navigate the Fantasy World of Forvos after being reborn and reshaped by a powerful Rune Weaver. Will you, the Hand of Fate, be able to guide them to safety? To riches? To death? I who led the willing and dragged along the reluctant relinquish my control to you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Philosophical 13.4%, Lore-Rich 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.4%
A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Text-Based 13.4%, Point & Click 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.2%
A short, twisted tale about a smuggler and a late night encounter in the English Channel. Control the camera and make tough choices, will you escape with your life?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Philosophical 13.2%, Text-Based 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Visual Novel 10.2%
“Lone Bird in the Tree” is an adventure game with male and female versions of each of the four characters. The story alternates between the “future” of the main character, who is deeply traumatized by the grief of his/her best friend, and the “story leading up to the loss of their best friend”.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Text-Based 11.5%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Psychological Horror 10%
A wedding where one of the guests arrives dead. A strange black hole eclipsing the Florida sun. And your best friend? Gone. Is all this a butterfly dream or is reality breaking? Is their story romance or mystery? Your choices will determine the genre of his soul. Welcome to the town of Siren's Call.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Lore-Rich 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Point & Click 11%
An interactive card game that stirs memories and emotions. In silence, the cards speak, touching the depths of the heart. Philosophical space and tension quietly envelop the players.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Text-Based 16.2%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Philosophical 11.8%, Multiple Endings 7.9%
You are the new hire. The account you inherited is not new — it belonged to E. Vale, who is no longer with the company. Ten business days of email in which you choose what you say, then choose who sees it. The routing is permanent. Someone is still reading.
Why similar: Dark Humor 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Text-Based 11.3%
An interactive graphic novel reimagining Cervantes' masterpiece in striking neo-noir style. Guide Don Quixote through La Mancha, make choices that shape his journey, and discover four unique endings in this tragicomic tale of idealism and madness.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Philosophical 11.1%, Choices Matter 8.1%
A choice-driven narrative game with RPG mechanics, filled with cosmic wonders and horror. Forge your own path across more than 50 unique endings. Barter, upgrade your character, fight, and explore alien worlds, overcoming every obstacle to find your way back to Earth… and to your daughter.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Text-Based 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Dark Humor 12.4%, Lore-Rich 11.3%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Text-Based 11.3%, Choices Matter 8.3%
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 16.5%, Text-Based 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Point & Click 12.2%, Visual Novel 9.4%
Glitch is an intense and surreal narrative experience, drawn entirely by hand, that will make you question reality with every choice and each of the 26 endings that unlock the special and definitive conclusion!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Visual Novel 16%, Point & Click 14.2%, Text-Based 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12%
Jeff's relationship with Mia, now in a tight spot, helps him on his quest to apologize to Mia and get back together with her.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Point & Click 11.4%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Lore-Rich 10.6%
The outside is being ravaged by a mysterious downpour of a glass, you are forced to take shelter in a seemingly innocuous rundown hotel. Yet, stuck with you are people who you wish you would never see again. What will you do to survive?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Point & Click 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Text-Based 11.5%
It's the night of the big ball, and things are going...well...they're going. When so many people of so many different species are gathered together in one place, you're sure to have an interesting time. But what if something a little more malicious is happening under the surface?
Why similar: Philosophical 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Text-Based 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%
Point-and-click mystery adventure on the virtual Social Media! Find secrets hidden by family, friends, companies, and idols.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Dark Humor 14%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Text-Based 11.3%, Point & Click 10.5%
Manage a mysterious entertainment house in a fog-shrouded town. Train your heroines, build relationships through fixed dialogue choices, explore dangerous locations, and uncover the truth behind a repeating cycle in this mystery visual novel with multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Lore-Rich 10.7%, Exploration 10.5%, Text-Based 9.4%
A point-and-click narrative puzzle game with a delicate art style and soothing pace. In this Underworld at the end of all things, guide souls who lost their memories and speech safely across the Styx. Luckily, our protagonist is about to face the most restless bunch of them all...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Point & Click 12%, Exploration 10.4%
Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Psychological Horror 8.8%, Text-Based 6.1%
This is a retro story game about choices and the voices in your head. Unlock new voices, new thoughts, and new endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Lore-Rich 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Point & Click 10.4%
An SCP-1471 Visual Novel for [YOU]. Remastered and upgraded from the original release to provide the definitive experience. Choices matter more than ever. Will you be able to unearth the truth before the walls come crashing down?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Text-Based 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Dark Humor 13.2%, Lore-Rich 10.7%
Return to a town that never changed… and a friend who's supposed to be dead. A psychological horror visual novel about memory and the cost of refusing to move forward.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Point & Click 15.3%, Psychological Horror 11.7%
Morin is a barkeeper with an unusual curse. All people look like shadows to him, except for one mysterious stranger... Solve the mystery of the curse, fight true darkness and mix the most unusual cocktails in the atmospheric visual novel — Into the Waves!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Point & Click 13.2%, Text-Based 10.5%
Your name is Gary Patterson. After waking up in a strange facility with your work partner Victor Adams, you must make a choice: Play along with Victor's plans? Or go it alone and make an escape? Only YOU can decide.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Lore-Rich 13.3%, Text-Based 10.2%, Exploration 9.4%
Tri City Monsters is a supernatural, monsterlovin' visual novel where you can romance and/or de-pants 3 demonic love interests. Navigate a dangerous urban jungle with their help and maybe you'll get a taste of what it means to be a monster.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Dark Humor 12.2%, Text-Based 11.7%, Lore-Rich 10.5%