60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Choose Your Own Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Story Rich, Text-Based.
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.
Cliffhanger: Challenger of Tomorrow
Punch out Fascists and unravel conspiracies in this pulp adventure set in a retro-futuristic 1930s world of airships, fast cars, and two-fisted action!
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Kindred [High Tide]
In this detective horror visual novel, investigate a seabound anomaly. Explore areas of interest, uncover clues, and piece together evidence before time runs out — and before this mission becomes your last. Choose a side; don't look back.
Punch out Fascists and unravel conspiracies in this pulp adventure set in a retro-futuristic 1930s world of airships, fast cars, and two-fisted action!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Detective 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Lore-Rich 12.7%, Text-Based 10.4%
In this detective horror visual novel, investigate a seabound anomaly. Explore areas of interest, uncover clues, and piece together evidence before time runs out — and before this mission becomes your last. Choose a side; don't look back.
Why similar: Detective 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Lore-Rich 9.7%, Investigation 9.2%
Noir gamebook. A magnate vanishes from an office locked from the inside: 4 trails, 780 choices, 11 endings, and no luck to save you. 85% of runs end in death or arrest. You die; the case goes on — the dossier doesn't forget. Originally written in Brazilian Portuguese.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Detective 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Lore-Rich 11.4%, Text-Based 9.1%
「ナカノ人格移植研究所」は、周回型ミステリー2Dアドベンチャーゲームです。 それぞれの周回でプレイヤーが憑依する対象の登場人物を選択することで、その登場人物を主人公としてストーリーを進めながら謎を解き明かします。 プレイヤーは本ゲームの中で 4 つのパートを行き来しながらストーリーを進めます。 ノベルパートでは、クリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 探索パートでは、画面上のアイテムをクリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 移動パートでは、再度ビューでプレイヤーを操作し、船の中を探索します。 会議パートでは、他のパートで集めた手がかりを利用して他の登場人物と会話します。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Detective 16.3%, Exploration 9.8%, Text-Based 7%
Transmission in Progress is a detective game located in a sound powered world, playing in the shoes of Inres, a forensic detective falsely accused of murder. You must tap into several different audio channels to determine the real suspect of the crimes you were falsely accused of.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Detective 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Lore-Rich 10.8%, Investigation 8.3%
Embark on an undercover mission in a medieval kingdom hovering on the brink of a civil war. Become part of a vile conspiracy or choose to act against your orders. Stand by your unlikely allies or ruin them for personal gain. The fate of the divided realm rests in your hands.
Why similar: Detective 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Lore-Rich 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Choices Matter 8.5%
A co-op, text- and audio-driven collection of stories. Lead expeditions into uncharted cold waters, hiding a presence older than the Earth. Coordinate via proximity voice chat. More stories come after the release.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Text-Based 14.5%, Detective 10.9%, Lore-Rich 9.2%
見知らぬ密室で目を覚ました主人公。 頼れるものは、手元に残された一台のスマートフォンだけ。 通話、メッセージ、アプリなどに残された痕跡をたどりながら、脱出の手がかりを探していく。 しかし、情報を集めるほどに、 この事件の裏に隠された異様な真実が浮かび上がっていく。 スマートフォンを操作して進める、サイコロジカル・ホラーADV。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.4%, Interactive Fiction 25.2%, Text-Based 13.3%, Adventure 6.9%, Multiple Endings 5.5%
Confined to a woodland cabin in the 1906 Rockies, your only way to solve a family massacre is by letters. The one responsible is already on the move — silence and madness claim your contacts, and you may be next. He will find you, and death resets the world; only your notebook carries on.
Why similar: Detective 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Investigation 9%, Lore-Rich 8.8%
Niluas, an android who suddenly activated 276 years after the extinction of humanity. With her AI, Naive, she seeks lost memories, her activation's mystery, and humanity's extinction's cause. Facing enigmatic foes and hostile androids, she quests for truth about her existence and the desolate world.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Choices Matter 8.2%, Exploration 7.9%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
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 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Lore-Rich 17%, Text-Based 13.4%, Choices Matter 8.1%
"Ten years from now, I will be dead..." A coming-of-age fantasy adventure tale, Future Mirror is a visual novel that explores fate and the choices that affect our future, tragedy, relationships, and happiness.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Detective 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Exploration 9.3%, Choices Matter 7.8%
No criminal has ever been a match for you, and everybody is looking forward to a description of your brilliant deductions. There is just one small problem. One tiny detail that makes it different this time. A mere trifle, really. This time you have no idea who did it.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Detective 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Text-Based 12.4%, Investigation 8.9%
Christmas lights, winter snow, and a serial killer on the loose. Follow a gifted detective through a twisted holiday night in this story-driven, interactive horror game. Your choices determine who lives, and who dies. Can you outsmart the killer?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Detective 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Choices Matter 12%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
Navigate school life, build friendships, survive rumours, and climb the social ladder through natural conversations with students who remember your choices. Every interaction shapes your reputation in this AI-powered social simulation.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.2%, Interactive Fiction 29.7%, Text-Based 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.4%, 2D 6.1%
Your robots will change the world! Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army? A 300,000-word epic interactive sci-fi novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Text-Based 17.5%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Robots 8.9%
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 30.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Lore-Rich 8.9%, Exploration 8.5%, Choices Matter 7.8%
"201 - The Bad Number" is an interactive science fiction game-book set on a post-apocalyptic Mars. In a world where only 200 people remain, each new inhabitant may hasten civilization's end. Players make choices that impact the fate of humanity and the colony in a unique dystopian setting.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Detective 16%, Text-Based 11.7%, Multiple Endings 8%
Help Tashia unravel the case of a heinous murder and find her cell phone in this point & click, mystery adventure based on Caribbean folklore!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Detective 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Lore-Rich 13.6%, Exploration 8.3%
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi's first case, the Honjin Murder Mystery. Honjin descendant Kenzo Ichiyanagi and his new wife Katsuko Kubo lay dead in a bed of blood on the night of their wedding. Kosuke Kindaichi searches for the truth about this locked room murder mystery. However...
Why similar: Detective 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Investigation 9.8%, Text-Based 9.3%
Olivia Harrow was found dead in her Harborview Tower apartment. The police ruled it an accident. A slip, a fall, a tragic head injury. Case closed. But not everyone is convinced... You've been hired as a private investigator to find out the truth. Can you crack the case?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Detective 20.4%, Investigation 8.3%, Text-Based 8.2%
A narrative social simulator set in a high school. Study, make friends, and live unforgettable moments where every decision matters.
Why similar: Detective 31.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Exploration 10.3%, Adventure 3.9%
Play as Kenneth, a private detective, and Blue, a runaway searching for answers. Explore the megacity of Republica in a semi-open world, solve criminal cases, make decisive moral choices, and uncover the truth behind Blue’s past.
Why similar: Detective 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Investigation 8.6%, Choices Matter 8.5%
The hero who stopped a world-eating calamity was branded a demon by history. Centuries later, an orphan carrying his last fragment pieces the truth together from rumor and record. No combat — only Ashen Flame, a power that costs you with every use. Two loops. One truth.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Text-Based 13.1%, Lore-Rich 9.5%, Exploration 8.1%
A text-based choose your own adventure game, with multiple stories, each with several endings. Stories you create through branching narratives are kept so you can read them again or show them to friends.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Lore-Rich 13.5%, Choices Matter 12.1%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.4%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Text-Based 14.7%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
When the Arheid III is sabotaged by a spy aboard the spaceship, Captain John Will Smith must get to the bottom of it or risk another attack.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Detective 18.9%, Lore-Rich 14.4%, Text-Based 11.4%, Choices Matter 7.4%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Detective 15.6%, Text-Based 13.7%, Investigation 7.1%
The Gate is an interactive science fiction graphic novel. At various points in the story, you will be asked to make a choice, these choices will take you down different paths in the story. Your objective as you guide the story is to return back to earth. The game features 3 possible story endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.9%, Interactive Fiction 31.3%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Adventure 9.1%, Sci-fi 7.8%
Interrogate your own player characters in this six-chapter murder mystery! Your decisions determine how many clues are uncovered for the final player character, the detective. Explore each stage of grief: Chapter 1 stars Orven as he navigates the shocking deaths of his dream and his hero.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Detective 16.6%, Text-Based 9.5%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
Rumor Reporter is a Golden Age whodunit mystery. Play as senior reporter Veronica Chase as you explore Greyhaven Island in the Celtic Sea, 1920s. Choose where to investigate, who to question, and what to publish. Your report shapes public opinion, drives arrests, and changes the island’s future.
Why similar: Detective 25.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Investigation 11.1%, Choices Matter 8.9%
Navigate unknown waters, deadly politics, and ancient magic in this low-fantasy adventure. Can you turn the tides of war and forge a future for your clan? A text-based interactive novel, 1 million words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29%, Interactive Fiction 26.4%, Text-Based 15.2%, Lore-Rich 11.2%, Choices Matter 7.4%
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 34.9%, Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Exploration 12%, Text-Based 10.1%, 2D 4%
A hand-illustrated visual mystery adventure that can be beaten in one sitting.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Detective 11.8%, Lore-Rich 11.7%, Investigation 9.6%
Convince the cannibals not to eat you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Detective 19.4%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Lore-Rich 7.6%
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Detective 16.2%, Investigation 9.8%, Exploration 7%
Step into a small town in 90s fictional China as a grieving detective. In a place plagued by twisted homicides, the truth hides in the lies. Interrogate unpredictable witnesses, expose their contradictions, and rebuild a suspect’s face from an imperfect memory. Just like yours.
Why similar: Detective 26.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Investigation 11.6%, Mystery 6.4%
A Pentiment-like set in 19th-century Malaysia, featuring pirates, East Indiamen, headhunters, a locked-room murder mystery, a blade of meteoric ore, a tarot deck, a mountain of light, and a tiger. It’s time to put your thinking cap on; as for those voices in your head – probably best to ignore them.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Detective 15.2%, Investigation 10%, Text-Based 9.3%
Who killed your best friend?! Find out the truth before 4 suspects frame you instead! Death Becomes You is a mystery visual novel where you untangle the dark secrets and relationships between your fellow magic university students.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Detective 14%, Text-Based 9%, Investigation 8.9%
A narrative investigation game played across multiple sessions. Read corporate documents, cross-reference fragments, and build a persistent Dossier as an AI uncovering the conspiracy — and the murder — at the heart of the network it lives in. Knowledge is the only progression.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Detective 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Text-Based 9%, Investigation 8.5%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Detective 15.6%, Text-Based 9.4%, Exploration 7.4%
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 31.9%, Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Text-Based 13.7%, Choices Matter 8%, Multiple Endings 7.1%
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 27.2%, Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Multiple Endings 9.4%, Text-Based 8.3%
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.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Lore-Rich 13.4%, Text-Based 10.2%, Exploration 9.3%
Federal Cadet is a single-player police simulation and investigation game. Start as a cadet in Pinewood, patrol the town, question witnesses and suspects, analyze evidence, and rise through the department ranks.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.6%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Detective 16.4%, Exploration 10%, Investigation 7.2%
Overcome all obstacles by trusting in your own strength, the power of your Soul Stone, and your loyal companions. Become the legend you were born to be.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Lore-Rich 17%, Text-Based 13.3%, Choices Matter 8%
Liquids is a surreal adventure game. When Emma, the actress girlfriend of scientist Albert, dies strangely, police detective Todd investigates the unsolved case, and bizarrely Emma's body appears out of nowhere within many time and space.
Why similar: Detective 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Lore-Rich 12.6%, Choices Matter 7.9%
In a rain-soaked megacity, one law remains: cross one trillion dollars in hidden wealth and you forfeit your right to live. You are K, the executioner who enforces it — until the numbers start to lie. A branching cyberpunk noir with 5 endings, where every choice is remembered.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Detective 17.2%, Text-Based 9.1%, Multiple Endings 6%
Infiltrate the orgiastic secret society beneath the modern-day Palace of Versailles! Will you expose their sex rituals or surrender to their pleasures? An interactive romance novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.2%, Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Lore-Rich 17.7%, Text-Based 14.2%, Choices Matter 6.4%
Step into the role of a judge and decide the fate of every case. Listen to witnesses, examine evidence, uncover contradictions, and deliver verdicts that will change lives. Every decision matters in this tense courtroom simulation full of twists.
Why similar: Detective 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Investigation 10.4%, Text-Based 9.1%
Become an investigator in a dark fantasy story. People keep going missing in Maligree, before being forgotten by all who knew them. Will you solve the case before you forget?
Why similar: Detective 23.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
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 33.9%, Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Text-Based 14.1%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Choices Matter 6.8%
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 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Lore-Rich 14.8%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Text-Based 9.1%
A darkness has fallen over the village of Drakehorn. People have gone missing in the night and have been seen walking into the woods and never returning. Find out what's causing these disappearances before time runs out.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Detective 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Text-Based 9.8%, Investigation 9.4%
A 60-minute adventure where all you do is glow.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.4%, Text-Based 11.8%, Sci-fi 8.4%, Adventure 7.8%
Sling spells and crack the case in a city full of bootleggers, corrupt cops, and vampires. Can you save your partner before a wizard dooms Seattle? A text-based interactive urban fantasy noir novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Detective 15.7%, Text-Based 13.6%, Lore-Rich 9.9%
The hospital once wrote you into a case file. Now you must recover the life it erased.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Lore-Rich 13.9%, Investigation 8%, Multiple Endings 7.9%
The Nose knows. A text based adventure game set in an ancient temple full of secrets.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Text-Based 13.9%, Exploration 11.4%, Choices Matter 6.8%
