Games Like Where Is My Pocket?

Travel to Veøya in the Viking Age and solve a dangerous mystery with cunning and song!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.3%, Visual Novel 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Historical 11.7%, Education 8.5%

The most anticipated game since chess! A text-based comedy adventure in which you interact with the world by slamming one of two brightly colored buttons: Harm or Other

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Text-Based 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Comedy 13%, Adventure 10.5%

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: Interactive Fiction 27.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.9%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Text-Based 16%, Dialogue Heavy 7.3%

Ashley's Adventure - Get a Job or Die Trying is an interactive visual novel based in a multiple-choice style of gameplay where you meet colourful characters and crazy events which you must resolve with the power of being a NEET.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Visual Novel 17%, Dark Humor 14.5%, Comedy 7.7%

Interactive fiction starring Molly the Werezompire - a grad student who jumped into a portal, was killed by a werewolf, a zombie, and a vampire, and became a heroic werezompire! Also includes the sci-fi parody, Epiphany in Spaaace! Originally released on XBLIG.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.2%, Text-Based 18%, Comedy 11.3%, Adventure 8.7%

CLOSED HANDS is a groundbreaking work of interactive fiction that explores the tangled intertwined stories of five people thrown together by a fictional terror attack.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.4%, Text-Based 20.3%, Adventure 15.2%, Indie 1.3%

"Please Act Normal" is a live-action comedy about the agonizing pressure of social etiquette. Navigate awkward dinners and tense meetings through frequent dialogue choices, or embrace chaos and use your "Secret Weapon". Will they yell, laugh or just stare in pity? There’s only one way to find out.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Adventure 11.6%, Dark Humor 9.6%

Alchemy, puzzles, and a crashed starship. Old-style interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No dialogue trees! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 44.2%, Text-Based 24.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Adventure 7.2%, Indie 1.9%

The Trials of Ozymandias is a visual novel set in the high fantasy world of the kingdom of Johrotos. In the capitol city, Dassi, resides the most famous adventurer's guild in all the land: Talleh-Hoy. This is where your story begins.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Text-Based 17%, Comedy 7.1%

In an engrossing interactive novel, live as the assistant to a remarkable historical figure: George Mueller, a man who witnessed orphans dying young in the streets of 1830's England and decided he would care for them, no matter the cost.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Text-Based 12.4%, Historical 9.8%

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: Interactive Fiction 35%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.4%, Text-Based 18.1%, Adventure 14.6%, 2D 5.5%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.2%, Interactive Fiction 33.1%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Adventure 8.4%, Indie 1.2%

Border of her Heart is a VN about Border control.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Text-Based 12.7%, Dark Humor 11.1%

Customers... Don't let them find out... Rip-off! A thrilling rip-off adventure where if the customers find out, you'll explode!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.6%, Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Comedy 10.3%, Dark Humor 8.7%

You are hanging out at a festive Christmas party when your eyes discover the most perfect Christmas confectionery ever! You must have it!... but someone already has it! What will you be willing to do, to get your Christmas wish?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, Visual Novel 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Comedy 9.5%, Dark Humor 8.5%

Embark on a touching and poetic adventure through the hills of Provence in “Marcel and the Secret Spring.” Inspired by the childhood stories of legendary French author and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol, this narrative-driven game lets you experience a world filled with nature, mystery, and nostalgia.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Text-Based 8.6%, Historical 8.3%

A choice-based, visual novel with time travelling teapots!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Adventure 12.1%, Dialogue Heavy 7.9%

Adventure as Geralt through the ballads of Dandelion. Swipe right, swipe left, seek glory, find death! Will you hunt monsters, upset the locals, or run a hot bath? Compose an inspiring epic to claim immortality.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Adventure 11.4%, Comedy 5.1%

An irritable gargoyle spends 800 years stuck on the side of a cathedral as the world changes for better and for worse.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.2%, Adventure 16.5%, Comedy 11.1%, Historical 9.9%

Izumi, the demon girl you accidentally captured. A novel adventure game where you gradually connect hearts as you spend your days together with Izumi.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.3%, Visual Novel 26.9%, Adventure 18%, Text-Based 16.6%, 2D 6.4%

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 31.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Visual Novel 21.1%, Adventure 12.4%, Text-Based 6.3%

A psychological visual novel–style game focused on atmosphere and narrative. What feels like choice slowly collapses.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Dark Humor 14%, Comedy 7.7%

Your crush is missing. They texted you last night. And now you’re reliving the same day over and over. Welcome to Sunset High — where drama, dilemmas, and time loops collide in this narrative-driven, 2D adventure.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Text-Based 12.9%, Dark Humor 11.2%

「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: Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Visual Novel 16%, Adventure 11.1%, Text-Based 10.1%

You’ve just landed in Japan with nothing but a suitcase and a lot to learn. Navigate cultural minefields, engage with a cast of local characters, and decide what kind of visitor you want to be. Part social simulator, part cinematic journey—it’s time to choose your own adventure.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Adventure 11.7%, Comedy 6.6%

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: Interactive Fiction 27.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Text-Based 11.9%, Nonlinear 7.2%

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: Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Text-Based 16.6%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Dialogue Heavy 8%

An Interactive Visual Novel with 35 story branches, 150 unique lines of dialogue, unlockable skins and many wholesome vibes! Dere-chan is always kind, happy, and energetic so whatever happens she'll always be there with kindness and support!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.9%, Interactive Fiction 28.5%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Text-Based 10.5%, Dialogue Heavy 7.2%

Medical clerk Manami Sorano discovers a medical record of a non-existent patient. The next day at a hot spring inn, a murder occurs—the victim’s name matches the record. Coincidence or fate? Using her skills and medical records, she unravels the truth in this mystery adventure!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.1%, Visual Novel 24.6%, Text-Based 21.3%, Adventure 10.9%, 2D 6.4%

Annoy this guys time in this comedic piece of interactive fiction.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 39.5%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Comedy 13.6%, Dialogue Heavy 8.5%, Adventure 7.5%

A text-based RPG with a nonlinear story set in a free Slavic fantasy world. Shape the heroine's character through your choices and unlock multiple endings. Mystery, folklore, and relationships — your fate depends only on you.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.1%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Text-Based 17.3%, Adventure 7.9%

Stamped follows the journeys of six young travelers whose paths intersect across Asian urban landscapes. Bound by pleasure-fueled self-destruction, the group flounders from city to city, confronting the grief and discrimination that caused them to travel in the first place.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Text-Based 13.5%, Education 11.6%

Samurai of Hyuga is a brutal, heart-pounding interactive tale. Prepare to enter the land of silk and steel, where fantasy clashes against grim reality, and where the good guys don't always win in the end. It's a harsh world with tough choices at every turn. Good thing you're the toughest ronin around.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.6%, Interactive Fiction 30.3%, Text-Based 22.2%, Adventure 11.8%, Indie 3.1%

夜の世界で「星のかけら」を集める少女アイの ゆるくてかわいい街ブラノベルゲーム！

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.7%, Visual Novel 26.4%, Text-Based 22.9%, Adventure 17.9%, Indie 1.5%

Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 45.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.7%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Text-Based 8.8%, Indie 3.5%

Buck Trucker must gamble and sweet-talk his way through The Golden Palm Casino, Las Vegas, to save an orphanage back home—or succumb to Sin City's many temptations in this choice-driven story featuring mini-games, multiple endings, and a cast of outlandish characters.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Text-Based 14.2%, Dark Humor 10.5%, Comedy 7.1%

Explore a deserted elementary school and escape from an alternate reality in this short adventure. Collect clues and experience changing endings.

Why similar: Text-Based 23.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Adventure 17%, Dark Humor 15.6%, Visual Novel 15.2%

A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.8%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Text-Based 17.7%, Adventure 5.6%

Interactive novel in pixel style about the king HappyWolf. You're a powerful king Happy Wolf of the kingdom EbenGrad. For a long time, your citizens were happy about everything, but times have changed.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Dark Humor 10.4%, Adventure 7.3%

Atonement is an interactive graphic novel set in the Wild West. 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. There are 3 storylines featuring a manhunt, a bank job, and a train robbery.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Adventure 13.3%, Dialogue Heavy 6.5%

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: Interactive Fiction 29.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Text-Based 18.7%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Pixel Graphics 6%

In 2032, Tokyo scientists unveil Araraginium, the 257th element, capable of materializing matter and bringing back the deceased as Araragi Humans. Masakazu Tokimune, a Japanese high school student, grapples with daily life's blend of humor, intrigue, and love.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Text-Based 14.8%, Comedy 10.5%, Adventure 10.1%

This text adventure, beautifully illustrated in pixel art, invites you to explore a medieval abbey filled with secrets. You take full control by entering commands directly on your keyboard through a flexible command parser, allowing for free and immersive interaction.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30%, Text-Based 18.3%, Adventure 7.9%, 2D 5.5%

Find the clues to make a time bending turnabout in this off the rails visual novel about murder, mayhem, and a thicc pumpkin girl with a machete.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Dark Humor 10.7%, Adventure 8%

A supernatural mystery visual novel where your choices shape relationships and determine the fate of a coastal town. Explore ancient secrets, unravel supernatural enigmas, and make decisions that lead to three distinct endings based on your choices across four intense days.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Visual Novel 21.5%, Text-Based 14.5%, 2D 4.3%

A narrative-driven psychological visual novel where every floor of an elevator reveals a key moment from your past. Face your regrets, uncover forgotten memories, and make choices that shape your future. Will you find closure, or remain trapped in your own mind?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34%, Visual Novel 24.3%, Text-Based 22.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Adventure 6.2%

The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29%, Visual Novel 19.7%, Text-Based 12.4%, 2D 5.2%

"Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines" - In this short story from the Endless Monday, Penny, a mild-mannered corporate grunt, spends a weekend at the office in an effort to finish her project on time while overcoming distractions from coworkers, space aliens, imaginary friends, and herself.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Visual Novel 20.8%, Comedy 7%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%

お騒がせ少女たちが東南アジアで難民に！？「さぁたん」たちの地元・日本列島が沈没しちゃった。あれやこれやで「かがみ」がトゥクトゥク化！謎の小包を運ばされる一行に忍び寄る影とはいったい…？──「ORIGINAL VIDEOGAME of ASIA」略して「OVA」！もうネオ昭和とか関係ないけど腹をくくれ！

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.9%, Visual Novel 26.5%, Text-Based 16.6%, Comedy 12%, Adventure 12%

「彼は本当に精神疾患なのか？それとも……」 精神科医である道島（主人公）は、ある入院患者の担当を任される。母親を刺したというその少年は、 奇妙な幻聴の症状を抱えており……。貴方は神話生物の魔の手から逃れ、生き延びる事が出来るのか…！？

Why similar: Visual Novel 30%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27%, Text-Based 15.9%, Adventure 14.4%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%

Play as Erwin, a witch hunter navigating a fantasy world of magic and suspicion. Your decisions in this visual novel affect friendships, trust, and multiple story outcomes. Choose wisely—the fate of your journey rests with you.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 31.9%, Visual Novel 20.8%, Adventure 7.8%, 2D 5.5%

A choose-your-own-adventure novel. ​Enter the mind of a black-ops team leader heading an impossible mission in a parallel universe. Choices are remembered, story events reflect past decisions, and freely rewind time to try different paths.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.6%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Text-Based 18.7%, Singleplayer 0.3%

Vacation Terminal is a short 2D Psychological thriller, horror and survival based visual novel with evading based puzzle elements. Following the story of two strangers.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Visual Novel 20%, Adventure 12.7%, Text-Based 6.5%

After your mother’s strange funeral, a black rain blocks the roads and leaves you stranded. The air smells like rotting fruit and nature begins to mutate. Can you get out of here before the forest finds you?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Visual Novel 21%, Adventure 12.6%, Text-Based 8%

Sword of Shandar is a narrative-driven light RPG focused on choice, consequence, and discovery. Engage in turn-based combat, resolve challenges through dice-roll skill checks, crack locks in hands-on minigames, and decipher ancient runes as you uncover the secrets of a fading world.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Text-Based 13.5%, Adventure 13%

All the characters are in strange poses, but that's normal for this game. A school romance novel game set in a strange world.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.4%, Visual Novel 23.4%, Adventure 15.1%, Text-Based 14%, Comedy 10.8%

My second spring in high school. Surrounded by my dreamy upperclassman, that classmate I'm interested in, and my childhood friend who's a year younger than me. She's been in the search for a boyfriend who would look at her, and only her. The protagonist Chika decides to confess her feelings to……

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.6%, Visual Novel 27.1%, Adventure 17.7%, Text-Based 16.6%, 2D 6.3%

You are Allan Martin, an occasionally suave British superspy armed with a licence to cause an international incident. Can you survive international assassins? Can you stop an evil mastermind's nefarious plans? Can you avoid contracting an STD?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Text-Based 14.1%, Comedy 12.1%

You buy a laptop with your hands. You find an interactive collection of short stories on your laptop and something else. Or someone? What will all this lead to?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Text-Based 14.6%, Adventure 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 7.8%