60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Choose Your Own Adventure, Story Rich, Choices Matter.
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.
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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.
ナカノ人格移植研究所
「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。
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 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Lore-Rich 9.9%, Investigation 9.3%
「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 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Detective 16.4%, Exploration 9.8%, Text-Based 6.9%
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 20.4%, Detective 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Lore-Rich 10.9%, 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%, Lore-Rich 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Choices Matter 8.5%
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 29.5%, Interactive Fiction 27.1%, Text-Based 13.2%, Choices Matter 7.6%, Adventure 7.4%
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 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Text-Based 14.2%, Detective 11%, Lore-Rich 9.4%
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 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Choices Matter 8.2%, Exploration 7.9%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
"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%
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 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Lore-Rich 17.3%, Text-Based 13.1%, Choices Matter 8.2%
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 20%, Detective 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Lore-Rich 13%, Text-Based 10.2%
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 22.9%, Detective 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
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 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Text-Based 12%, Investigation 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 30.8%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Lore-Rich 9.1%, Exploration 8.6%, Choices Matter 7.9%
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 33.7%, Interactive Fiction 30.3%, Text-Based 10%, Choices Matter 9.3%, 2D 6.3%
"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 18.1%, Detective 16%, Text-Based 11.4%, Multiple Endings 8%
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 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Investigation 9.9%, Text-Based 9.1%
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 22.1%, Detective 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Lore-Rich 13.7%, Exploration 8.3%
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 32.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Text-Based 17.3%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Robots 8.9%
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 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Investigation 8.6%, Choices Matter 8.5%
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%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Lore-Rich 13.6%, Choices Matter 12.2%
A narrative social simulator set in a high school. Study, make friends, and live unforgettable moments where every decision matters.
Why similar: Detective 31.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Exploration 10.4%, Adventure 3.9%
Interrogate your own player characters in this six-chapter murder mystery! Make your choices carefully, as your decisions determine how many clues you uncover before the detective, the final player character, questions you. Will your protagonists know enough to catch the murderer?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Detective 16.6%, Text-Based 9.3%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
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 24.9%, Detective 19%, Lore-Rich 14.6%, Text-Based 11.1%, Choices Matter 7.5%
A hand-illustrated visual mystery adventure that can be beaten in one sitting.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Lore-Rich 11.8%, Detective 11.7%, Investigation 9.6%
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 16.3%, Detective 15.9%, Investigation 9.9%, Multiple Endings 7%
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 35.2%, Interactive Fiction 31.8%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Adventure 9%, Sci-fi 7.9%
Step into a small town in 90s 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 18.1%, Investigation 11.6%, Mystery 6.4%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Detective 15.9%, Text-Based 13.6%, Investigation 7.3%
Convince the cannibals not to eat you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Detective 19.4%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Lore-Rich 7.7%
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 35.2%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Exploration 12.1%, Text-Based 9.9%, 2D 4.1%
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 15.7%, Detective 15.2%, Investigation 10.1%, Text-Based 9%
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 19.3%, Detective 14%, Investigation 8.9%, Text-Based 8.7%
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 20.5%, Detective 15.6%, Text-Based 9.1%, Exploration 7.4%
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 25.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Investigation 11.3%, Choices Matter 9.1%
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 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Lore-Rich 12.7%, Choices Matter 8%
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 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Text-Based 8.7%, Investigation 8.5%
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 13.7%, Text-Based 9.9%, Exploration 9.3%
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%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
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 24.9%, Lore-Rich 17.9%, Text-Based 13.8%, Choices Matter 6.5%
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 27.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Lore-Rich 17.3%, Text-Based 13%, Choices Matter 8.1%
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 32.2%, Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Text-Based 13.4%, Choices Matter 8.1%, Multiple Endings 7.2%
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 15%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Text-Based 8.8%
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 16.2%, Text-Based 9.5%, Investigation 9.4%
A detective noir, choose-your-own-adventure game with hand-drawn art, over 250k words, and an immersive soundtrack.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Detective 15%, Lore-Rich 14.6%, Choices Matter 8.4%, Investigation 7.5%
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 14%, Investigation 8.1%, 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 33.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Text-Based 13.5%, Exploration 11.4%, Choices Matter 6.9%
A dark detective thriller where folklore is real, violence is chilling, and every choice has consequences.
Why similar: Detective 24.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Investigation 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.8%
Recover a stolen artifact and lose your heart as a secret magical agent! Can you uncover an arcane conspiracy before the clock runs out? An interactive, text-based magical romance novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Detective 17.5%, Text-Based 11.6%, Conspiracy 9.8% ★
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 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Detective 15.8%, Text-Based 13.2%, Lore-Rich 10.1%
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 34.2%, Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Text-Based 13.8%, Multiple Endings 9.2%, Choices Matter 6.9%
This year's Desire Hierarchy has begun. The stakes are now deadly. Hop into The Specter's Desire, a Visual Novel in which you play against the city's top talents to save your parents. Includes puzzling gameplay that has you tearing down arguments, hatching schemes, and revealing the truth!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Detective 18.1%, Text-Based 10.9%, Choices Matter 7.1%
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 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Text-Based 14%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Exploration 7.3%
'The Island: In To The Mist' is an adventure game. It includes basic features of adventure genre and add some new systems to interest you. You have been given a chance to experience a group of university students, who confined in the island. There is a terrific but interesting story you will see.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Detective 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Text-Based 8.3%
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Detective 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Lore-Rich 15.2%, Choices Matter 7.9%
Chrongrid is an AI-driven narrative experience. Inside an author's story blueprint, you make your own choices and the world responds in its own way — every choice echoes, no two journeys alike. Built-in blueprints are the start; play others' stories or write your own, in any language.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Lore-Rich 16.3%, Text-Based 12%, Choices Matter 8%
这是一款以中式校园为背景的推理类文字游戏，你将扮演一名高中生司空茂，在开学第一天目击密室杀人事件的现场，并经过调查和推理解决案件，找出真正的犯人和真相背后更深的阴谋。但在享受侦探游戏的同时，请千万不要忽视学习。保持情绪稳定，尽量维持活下去的念头...记住，你的成绩，永远比案件要更重要。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.2%, Detective 27.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Text-Based 11.1%, Story Rich 4.3%
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 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Lore-Rich 15.7%, Text-Based 12.2%, Choices Matter 9.2%
A philosophical interactive visual novel about everyday interactions
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Detective 19.3%, Investigation 8%, Choices Matter 5.4%
