Games Like Wheels of Aurelia

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a Narrative-Adventure game about traveling, sharing stories, and surviving manifest destiny.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 26%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Adventure 16%, Indie 13%, Story Rich 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A sprawling, narrative-focused road trip across America that emphasizes the power of storytelling and character encounters.

Over The Alps is a choices-matter narrative adventure game told through interactive postcards, sent from a secret agent to their handler, in 1930s Switzerland.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 15.6%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Text-Based 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Adventure 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Set in 1939, this choose-your-own-adventure game features a similar focus on historical travel, branching narratives, and stylistic art.

Immerse yourself in an enchanting narrative experience as Fortuna, a fortune-teller Witch condemned to exile on her asteroid home. Craft your own Tarot deck, regain your freedom, and shape the fate of the cosmic Witch society.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 20.1%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Adventure 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep, choice-driven narrative mechanics with a strong emphasis on character development and branching paths.

A visual novel about emotional survival in an automated world. Play as Lina, the last human cab driver. It’s your first night driving the lonely streets of Los Ojos, and your best friend has just disappeared. Stay on the road. Stay on the search. Stay human.

Why similar: Visual Novel 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Story Rich 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: As a gig-economy driver, you navigate a futuristic city while managing conversations and choices that mirror the driving-and-dialogue loop of the seed game.

Your choices affect the destiny of Alice, drastically changing her reality and allowing her to explore alternative destinies by modifying her past. Travel across European cities, meet colourful characters and solve the mystery.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 19.8%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Female Protagonist 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choices Matter 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: A music-infused narrative adventure where your choices significantly alter the protagonist's life and the story's direction.

It's 1986 - Meredith Weiss takes a break from her career in the big city to deliver mail in her hometown. How will she experience two weeks in beautiful Providence Oaks, with its iconic lake and quirky community? And what will she do next? It's up to you.

Why similar: Driving 30.8%, Female Protagonist 17.3%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Romance 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, narrative-driven game about driving through a scenic town and connecting with its residents, focusing on the journey rather than the destination.

Florence Yeoh feels a little... stuck. Her life is an endless routine of work, sleep, and spending too much time on social media. Then one day, she meets a cello player named Krish who changes everything about how she sees the world and herself.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 15.9%, Romance 15.7%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Indie 12.9%, Adventure 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: A short, poignant interactive story that uses simple mechanics to convey the emotional arc of a relationship.

In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.

Why similar: Visual Novel 16.4%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Female Protagonist 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Adventure 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A powerful, 3D visual novel that uses dialogue and memory-based choices to explore complex emotional themes.

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 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Adventure 12%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Indie 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: An illustrated text-based RPG that emphasizes exploration, travel, and the impact of your choices on a living world.

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: Adventure 22.3%, Indie 18.9%, Female Protagonist 14.7%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 14%

Why You'll Like It: A deeply moving interactive fiction game about a woman's journey, relying on text-based communication and difficult choices.

Drive a constantly spinning limousine around town! Roundabout is a '70s B-Movie game where you pick up passengers, find secret collectibles, take on dangerous missions, and fall in love in a far out open world puzzle adventure - all while driving a revolving limo!

Why similar: Driving 54.8%, Female Protagonist 20.7%, Indie 13.8%, Adventure 7.8%, Casual 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: A quirky, driving-based game that shares the road-trip spirit while offering a more comedic and unconventional narrative style.

A thoughtful and deeply personal title with stripped-down mechanics. The lack of dialogue or text allows you to create your own narrative through your time with four characters. Each short story will allow players to be swept away by the haunting lyrics of over twenty original, nostalgic songs.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27%, Historical 22.7%, Visual Novel 22.2%, Indie 13.2%, Story Rich 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A meditative, wordless experience that captures the atmosphere of daily life and travel through a beautiful, minimalist lens.

Eliza is a visual novel about an AI counseling program, the people who develop it, and the people who use it. Follow Evelyn Ishino-Aubrey as she reconnects with people from her past, gets to know the people of Seattle who use Eliza for counseling, and decides the course of her future.

Why similar: Visual Novel 29.2%, Female Protagonist 29.1%, Great Soundtrack 12%, Indie 9.1%, Choices Matter 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A thought-provoking visual novel that focuses on dialogue and the human impact of technology, much like the thematic depth of the seed game.

A deep, interactive adventure about love and loss, beautifully depicted and offering an intense cinematic experience. What would you do to save the one you love?

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 21.4%, Adventure 15.9%, Choices Matter 14%, Indie 12.8%, Romance 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: An emotional, atmospheric narrative game that explores the consequences of choices and the weight of the past.

Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.

Why similar: Visual Novel 21.1%, Female Protagonist 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Adventure 10%

Why You'll Like It: A psychological thriller that uses a visual novel structure to explore the dark consequences of a woman's choices.

A mature take on Cinderella that's all about player choices and breaking the classic fairy tale in any way you like.

Why similar: Visual Novel 21.6%, Female Protagonist 18.4%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Romance 12.4%, Multiple Endings 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A mature take on classic fairy tales that excels at providing meaningful, branching choices within a visual novel format.

Traverse a dried-out seabed littered with the remains of a decaying civilization. Keep your unique vessel going, overcome numerous obstacles and withstand the hazardous weather conditions. How far can you make it? What will you find?

Why similar: Driving 49.5%, Adventure 15.6%, Atmospheric 11.5%, Indie 10.8%, Story Rich 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the atmospheric journey of operating a unique vehicle across a desolate landscape, emphasizing the feeling of travel.

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: Visual Novel 16.5%, Great Soundtrack 15.3%, Female Protagonist 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Choices Matter 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A choice-heavy visual novel that focuses on character relationships and the consequences of your decisions in a mystical setting.

NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.

Why similar: Visual Novel 29.9%, Choices Matter 21.8%, Adventure 20%, Story Rich 16.8%, Atmospheric 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A character-driven narrative game that excels at capturing the feeling of returning home and the complexities of human relationships.

A neon-noir story in a rain-drenched cyberpunk metropolis. It’s your first night on the job working for the Cloudpunk delivery service. Two rules: Don’t miss a delivery and don’t ask what’s in the package.

Why similar: Driving 39.8%, Female Protagonist 18.1%, Great Soundtrack 8.9%, Adventure 8.5%, Story Rich 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy delivery game set in a sprawling cyberpunk city that emphasizes the experience of driving through an atmospheric environment.

Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.

Why similar: Visual Novel 22.2%, Experimental 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Multiple Endings 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A dialogue-heavy game that focuses on listening to the stories of others, mirroring the conversational focus of the seed game.

Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 19.4%, Choices Matter 17.7%, Great Soundtrack 16.6%, Story Rich 13%, Adventure 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features a naturalistic dialogue system where your choices and interruptions shape the narrative and character dynamics.

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 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Adventure 11.5%, Story Rich 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-rich RPG that uses dice-based mechanics to drive a story about survival and personal choices in a foreign environment.

Embark on an unique and unforgettable journey and guide Sable through her Gliding; a rite of passage that will take her across vast deserts and mesmerizing landscapes, capped by the remains of spaceships and ancient wonders.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 27.7%, Choices Matter 18.6%, Adventure 15.6%, Multiple Endings 15.1%, Story Rich 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: An exploration-focused game that captures the meditative, atmospheric nature of traveling through a vast, stylized world.

NORCO is a dialogue-focused point & click adventure that immerses the player in the sinking suburbs and industrial swamplands of an increasingly surreal and distorted South Louisiana.

Why similar: Story Rich 29.6%, Adventure 29.1%, Atmospheric 24.9%, Colorful 16.4%

Why You'll Like It: A surreal, point-and-click narrative adventure that excels at world-building and atmospheric storytelling.

The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 28.1%, Choices Matter 19.4%, Story Rich 13.9%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Adventure 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A cyberpunk narrative game that revolves entirely around dialogue, choices, and the manipulation of human emotions.

Unpacking is a zen puzzle game about the familiar experience of pulling possessions out of boxes and fitting them into a new home. Part block-fitting puzzle, part home decoration, you are invited to create a satisfying living space while learning clues about the life you’re unpacking.

Why similar: Isometric 24.7%, Female Protagonist 23.6%, Story Rich 14.5%, Indie 14.1%, Atmospheric 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A zen, narrative-driven game that tells a life story through the objects you unpack, mirroring the intimate storytelling of the seed game.

Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 32.1%, Adventure 25.6%, Indie 20.3%, Female Protagonist 16.9%, Casual 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A charming, relaxing game about the journey to a mountain peak, focusing on exploration and small, meaningful character interactions.

Road Trip to the End of the World is a visual novel about the death of a friendship. When Andy and her imaginary friend Fishy set off on a road trip to crash their ex-best friend’s wedding, will they know when to hit the brakes?

Why similar: Driving 23.5%, Visual Novel 22.5%, Female Protagonist 19.9%, Adventure 9.4%, Story Rich 8.9%

Firebird is a narrative road trip that takes place in Slavic folklore, in an adventure that ressembles a traditional tale. Aboard your truck, travel to the far north, meet colorful characters, and face the creatures inhabiting these sacred lands.

Why similar: Driving 21.3%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Female Protagonist 12%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Text-Based 10%

🚗 Take part in a roller coaster of emotions with Louise embarking on a road trip of a lifetime through the late 1960s USA, trying to show her son Mitch how to navigate the often cruel modern world. Your choices matter! ✅

Why similar: Female Protagonist 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Adventure 10.2%

Explore a deeply emotional story about love and sacrifice, and the hope that exists in us all.

Why similar: Visual Novel 20.2%, Adventure 19.5%, Great Soundtrack 15.8%, Indie 15%, Female Protagonist 13.5%

Roadtrip across the country. Confront a tyrant. The revolution will be messy—but the relationships will be messier.

Why similar: Romance 16.9%, Choices Matter 16.3%, Visual Novel 15%, Great Soundtrack 9.7%, Multiple Endings 8.7%

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: Visual Novel 22.1%, Text-Based 20.4%, Adventure 13.6%, Female Protagonist 11.5%, Story Rich 8.4%

Explore a memorable 1920s fantasy world where you interact with, befriend and romance hundreds of characters with unique quests, as an already rich and famous heroine.

Why similar: Isometric 15.9%, Female Protagonist 15.5%, Historical 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Romance 11.6%

If Found... is a game about going home, coming out and erasing everything.

Why similar: Visual Novel 21.6%, Great Soundtrack 15.4%, Female Protagonist 15%, Indie 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 11%

An atmospheric management RPG about life on the open road. Pick up hitchhikers, work odd jobs, customize and repair your car, and map your route across the country. Use upgrades, skills and items to overcome challenges. And remember to take it easy. You’re young. You have time.

Why similar: Driving 54%, Adventure 13.8%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Atmospheric 10.5%, Indie 10.4%

Hitchhike your way to freedom in this crazy procedurally generated road trip. No one's road is the same!

Why similar: Choices Matter 18.3%, Nonlinear 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Adventure 13.9%, Multiple Endings 12.1%

Long-lost family secrets. Hints of a hidden fortune. And miles to go before they sleep. Tess Devine’s relationship with her mom has never been easy, but they’re about to set out together on a journey into the past that they’ll never forget.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.6%, Adventure 27.5%, Story Rich 17.8%, Atmospheric 10.1%, Female Protagonist 4.6%

Travel with the O'Malleys as they take a trip down Route 66!

Why similar: Adventure 40.3%, Female Protagonist 31.3%, Casual 15.6%, Story Rich 12.8%

Set out on a cross-country journey to win back the love of your life and endure the hardship of making story-defining choices that affect your life and the lives of those around you.

Why similar: Indie 26.1%, Choices Matter 16.2%, Great Soundtrack 16.1%, Story Rich 14%, Romance 8.4%

“A Lozenge” is a short interactive story about a mother-daughter road trip and motion sickness, dedicated to children of divorce.

Why similar: Experimental 21.9%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Text-Based 13%, Adventure 8.7%

The Witches Tea Party is a story-driven adventure game with a magical world and colourful characters. There will be small quests, collectables, mysteries, disturbing rooms and multiple endings. Having tea with witches is probably not an easy task...

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 28.9%, Adventure 21.3%, Indie 16.9%, Female Protagonist 15.9%, Story Rich 11%

Windy Meadow – A Roadwarden Tale is an interactive slice-of-life visual novel about choosing your own path. Help three protagonists make the most important choices of their lives. Featuring a multitude of hand-crafted characters and a richly detailed village set in the Roadwarden story world.

Why similar: Visual Novel 28%, Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Adventure 17.3%, Text-Based 8.7%, Atmospheric 8.6%

1872, with a steampunk twist. Phileas Fogg has wagered he can circumnavigate the world in just 80 days. Travel by airship, submarine, mechanical camel, steam-train and more. Race other players and a clock that never stops in TIME Magazine's Game of 2014.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Adventure 16.3%, Choices Matter 16%, Story Rich 9.9%, Multiple Endings 8.8%

A Pizza Delivery is a narrative exploration game with puzzle elements focused on connecting with people. Share pizza with charming characters to uncover their stories—and your own. Drive and explore a strange, meditative world filled with secrets.

Why similar: Adventure 27.6%, Female Protagonist 27%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Atmospheric 12.4%, Colorful 11.2%

„The Lion's Song: Episode 1 – Silence" draws the player into the life of a talented young composer, Wilma, preparing for her breakthrough concert, the defining moment of her career. Searching for inspiration she escapes from the pressure for success to the solitude of the Austrian Alps.

Why similar: Indie 26.5%, Great Soundtrack 17%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Adventure 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.4%

An exploration game about emotional ties that transcend even death. Riley is faced with a headstrong ghost, urging her on an adventure across atmospheric shores, uncovering the island's tragic secret. Choices in dialogue shape the bond between the two, ultimately deciding Riley's fate.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 17.9%, Female Protagonist 15.7%, Romance 14.3%, Adventure 14.2%, Story Rich 9.8%

Make up for lost time with Once Again, If you could travel through time, who’s the first person you’d meet? An interactive story about a boy who spends his summers wandering between past and present... After meeting her, summer will never be the same again...Who is she, and what journey awaits you?

Why similar: Visual Novel 23.2%, Female Protagonist 22.8%, Adventure 13.9%, Indie 12%, Story Rich 9%

Inspired by the Italian culture and taking place in a western Fantasy setting, our visual novel introduces the story of Elisa, a beautiful owner of an inn, struggling with the amorous proposal of honorable Knights, high born Princes and rich Merchants.

Why similar: Visual Novel 18.4%, Female Protagonist 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Romance 11.7%, Choices Matter 9.7%

Wheel of Innocence is a lesbian visual novel where you peer into the life of a disabled high schooler named Reina.

Why similar: Visual Novel 36.3%, Female Protagonist 31.7%, Romance 13.3%, Story Rich 5.7%, Adventure 5.4%

Lovely Lady RPG is a visual novel about wandering around and just sort of seeing what life has in store for you. After waking up with a hole in her ceiling, a cosmic space Orb embedded in her chest and no recollection of basically anything, Ghost sets out to continue her life as best she can.

Why similar: Visual Novel 27.4%, Text-Based 25.2%, Indie 10.8%, Nonlinear 10.2%, Choices Matter 8.6%

Flee your fear and carve your story. Blaze a trail across mythic American highways, where choices twist your tale and danger’s always in the rearview mirror. With roguelike routes, limited resources, and breakneck chases, this isn’t just a drive—it’s your legend in the making.

Why similar: Driving 26.8%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Nonlinear 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Choices Matter 8.8%

When the Past was Around is an adventure point-and-click puzzle game about love, moving on, letting go, and the joy and pain of everything in between.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 28.7%, Interactive Fiction 24%, Romance 18.5%, Story Rich 10.2%, Atmospheric 7.7%

A thrilling Western adventure in the alternate 19th century world of Lamplight City! Embark on a harrowing journey across the frontier with Harley Leger and her ragtag posse, encountering bandits, rebels, visionaries, eccentrics, and many more friends and foes on your quest for fame and riches.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 21.5%, Choices Matter 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Adventure 14.3%, Story Rich 9.9%

Lead The Rebellion, build your army, and shape the world with your choices. A story-heavy adventure game with multiple endings, romance options, and non-linear storytelling. A vast fantasy world waiting to be explored. Inspired by Dragon Age, and Mass Effect. Fully voice acted by a stellar cast!

Why similar: Visual Novel 28%, Romance 18.2%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Adventure 10.6%, Story Rich 10.3%

A Mortician's Tale is a short, story-driven game about a mortician tasked with running a funeral home.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 20.2%, Experimental 16.2%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Indie 12.2%, Great Soundtrack 11.4%

A narrative adventure about the momentum and whiplash of young adulthood. Explore the big city through 18-year-old Mara's eyes. Collect items, nurture ideas, and experience complex relationships while attempting to find your place in the world.

Why similar: Female Protagonist 18.1%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Historical 17%, Romance 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%