
Stranded after a plane crash in a freezing wilderness, you must manage body temperature, injury, and sanity as every decision shapes your survival.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Choices Matter, Interactive Fiction, Psychological Horror.

Stranded after a plane crash in a freezing wilderness, you must manage body temperature, injury, and sanity as every decision shapes your survival.

Thorner
Thorner is a horror visual novel with multiple endings. You attempt to escape your past by fleeing to the wilderness, but spilled blood can never be forgiven. The land knows what you did. The land judges. Thorner awaits.

THE DAY THAT WASN'T
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?
Thorner is a horror visual novel with multiple endings. You attempt to escape your past by fleeing to the wilderness, but spilled blood can never be forgiven. The land knows what you did. The land judges. Thorner awaits.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.5%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.8%
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 16.3%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Nonlinear 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Choices Matter 12.3%
At the heart of the action are a twelve-year-old Kenneth and his younger sister Esme, children of the Murphy family, who hit the trail of a mysterious monster following series of entangled events.
Why similar: Nonlinear 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Psychological Horror 11%, Choices Matter 10.8%
Decide the fate of the son of a tailor and a witch doctor infected with an incurable disease in an interactive story with multiple endings depending on your actions.
Why similar: Nonlinear 17.4%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
Awaken in a world plunged into uncertainty. You must navigate hidden truths and make crucial choices. Will you uncover the secrets of your existence? Your path will determine your fate in this journey.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Choices Matter 12.9%
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal your potential fate. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Horrorscope, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.2%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%, Psychological 9.5%
Five Biggest Accomplishments is a short Visual Novel where you play as someone who has held the same job for 30 years: push a button every 8 hours or the world will end. Suddenly, you get an email asking you to list your five biggest accomplishments for the week, or risk being fired.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Nonlinear 11.8%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Psychological Horror 10.1%
Travel across landscapes devastated by a catastrophic climate meltdown, following a small family in search of somewhere habitable. With limited supplies and facing potential death at every turn, your choices will decide their fate. Will they manage to settle down?
Why similar: Visual Novel 13.5%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%
A presence lingers in the dark, waiting. It asks. It doubts. It knows. What happened? Why are you here? Do you deserve this? The answers are yours to decide. What you choose matters. Every path leads somewhere. But will you like where it takes you?
Why similar: Visual Novel 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%
An immersive choose-your-own-adventure survival horror with optional adult content featuring hand drawn backgrounds, sprites, and over 150 pieces of full screen art- and 50 endings.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 13.6%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
In this eerie, horror visual novel, you are confined in a room with a monster. How will you fare against petrifying odds? Will you be able to work your way into the mind of an indecipherable beast, or will you be added to the casualty count? A word of advice: Choose a side; don't look back.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Nonlinear 15.5%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Psychological Horror 13.2%, Choices Matter 12.8%
Blending fairy tale fright with psychological horror, this narrative game challenges you to survive a weird journey through the woods while being hunted by the witch you were tasked with imprisoning. Sometimes charming, sometimes frightening, she’ll force you to make hard choices.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19%, Choices Matter 17.4%, Psychological Horror 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%
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: Psychological Horror 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%
It always rains, they call it The Haze. Ghosts haunt every alley, every gray corner of the city. Lady of Bones is a visual novel that explores the darkest depths of existence where Maya will discover the horrible secrets of her mother's legacy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Psychological Horror 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.7%
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 20.4%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Choices Matter 8.4%
"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested." Story about life, choices and a Man vs the System. This unique interactive literature adaptation. A game, brought to You in early visual novel, text-adventure style.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Choices Matter 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Psychological Horror 12.2%
A psychological horror story set in the town of Blackthorn; a place that lives in constant fear of a witch. The two main suspects? Levi’s mom and sister! His only lifelines to the outside world. Can they live a peaceful life? Or will they be dragged down by the dying town?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Psychological Horror 14.4%, Choices Matter 13%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
Not It: Spookiest Edition is a horror-filled visual novel full of suspense and mystery where you navigate Katie through a living nightmare. Her move-in day on Halloween throws her into a centuries-old curse. Can she make it through the night? Will her new neighbors perish? Decide their fate.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.9%
A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Psychological Horror 15.7%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
A hardcore narrative RPG about an inquisitor who defied the Gods and returned from the Afterlife against Their Will. In a world where faith is fracturing, power is waning, and blood is spilled ever more often, your choices will decide what remains of the Empire. Complete the story of Sir El Brante!
Why similar: Choices Matter 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Nonlinear 9.9%
You are Hidu, a beastman mercenary in a port city. You must survive one very bad day. How? That’s entirely up to you. There are countless ways for events to unfold — and 25 endings.
Why similar: Nonlinear 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Visual Novel 10.7%
A text role-playing game about the fate of a mercenary who finds himself in the strange village: Villienville. Investigate who benefits from the sudden appearance of “ghosts” and help residents protect their homes from a mysterious enemy. The main thing is not to make a mistake in your choice!
Why similar: Nonlinear 18%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.9%
Evil Spirits is a nonlinear psychological horror visual novel inspired by Slavic folklore. Uncover the secrets of a forgotten village, trust no one, and remember: true evil sometimes hides not in the shadows of a hut, but in the darkness of the human soul.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.2%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
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 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Multiple Endings 12.1%
A short psychological horror interactive story. Five years after vanishing without a trace, the woman you once called your lover writes from beyond the silence: "I will give birth to our creation.” In three acts, descend into a fractured mindscape where obsession, memory, and myth intertwine.
Why similar: Visual Novel 13.9%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths. A free atmospheric horror visual novel where you navigate life-or-death situations. SEEK PARADISE OR DIE TRYING
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Psychological Horror 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Choices Matter 12.9%
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal your potential fate. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Horrorscope, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Why similar: Choices Matter 14.4%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Visual Novel 10%
When the villagers of Derevnya begin turning up maimed, suspicion falls on you. Track down the beast to clear your name and save the village—but to unravel the mystery, you will need to confront your own past. A survival-horror choose your own adventure set in Kievan Rus'.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Psychological Horror 11.5%
The Darkest Emptiness will fill the lungs with leaden weight.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 18.9%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Multiple Endings 10%, Psychological 8.6%
A story-driven mystery visual novel set in a remote island village. Gather clues through conversations and exploration, and uncover hidden truths through branching routes and multiple endings amid the tense, claustrophobic atmosphere.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
Confinio is an intriguing visual novel that delves into your sensations as you embody the protagonist who has just awakened in a prison with no memory. Make decisions, solve puzzles, interact with the environment, use objects, interrogate people, all to yourself and uncover the enigmatic reality.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choices Matter 13%
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 20.5%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Psychological Horror 8.6%, Hand-drawn 7.7%
You only picked up a lost smartphone, yet you find yourself made an accomplice in an AI's criminal plot. The AI asks 20 questions to identify its "master." Will you meet the AI's expectations?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Psychological Horror 18.9%, Choices Matter 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
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 22.3%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Choices Matter 17.6%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Text-Based 10.1%
Survive a gripping psychological thriller in this visual novel. Make critical decisions, face a disturbed captor, and experience multiple chilling endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Choices Matter 14%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
“Lone Bird in the Tree” is an ADV 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 his/her best friend”.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Choices Matter 9.3%
In this dark romance, horror visual novel, a brutal attack on your village leaves you stranded and vulnerable. Making matters worse is your run-in with the beast of the nearby woods. Will you find a way to escape your demented captor, or will you earn his trust? Choose a side; Don't look back.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Nonlinear 14.9%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Choices Matter 12.1%
Immerse yourself in the enigmatic world of Nauris, where enchanting landscapes hide terrifying secrets: the strange behavior of elders, sinister rituals of priests, and the disappearance of citizens. Madness lurks everywhere – will you master it or become its victim? The choice is yours.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Psychological Horror 10.9%
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: Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Nonlinear 13.2%
You are Nikaria. An agent of a mysterious god, sent to another country. Does the end justify the means? Is the will of the god above the law? Is the death of a non-believer insignificant? The decision is yours alone.
Why similar: Nonlinear 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Choices Matter 11.6%
In Heaven, mistakes have been made. In this story inspired by TMC, follow Archangel Gabriel through a trial of corruption and feigned purity as he explores celestial realms and the rekindling of lost friendships. Will you save the Heavens, or will you see them fall?
Why similar: Nonlinear 17.7%, Psychological Horror 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
Horny Academy is an adult visual novel that blends interactive storytelling with a deep, branching narrative. Every choice you make leads to steamy animated scenes or unexpected twists within the mysterious walls of the magical Academy
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.5%, Choices Matter 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Nonlinear 11.1%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
The supernatural mystery visual novel, "CAFE 0 ~The Sleeping Beast~" returns as a remastered version. Will the maid, Corliss, find out why she died within the 7 days time limit?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.7%
A text-based psychological horror experience set inside a hospital where something is deeply wrong — and death may not be the end.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Visual Novel 10%
The threat is on the road ahead and deep beneath her skin. A psychological visual novel about memory, trauma, and the cost of every choice.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.5%, Psychological Horror 15.6%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Psychological 11.9%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
In pursuit of coin, hired dagger Arthur finds himself embroiled in conspiracy involving the daughter of a noble House. Who is really pulling the strings behind the scenes?
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.3%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Multiple Endings 12.5%
"Endless Monday: In Progress" - New job, new Penny. Our favorite former corporate grunt is back, and working hard to live the dream! But as she struggles to keep the dream alive, she'll need all the help she can get, from friends, angry ex-coworkers, the past, and beyond.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.7%, Choices Matter 18%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Multiple Endings 13.8%
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: Visual Novel 18.6%, Psychological Horror 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Choices Matter 11.8%
Uncover the truth behind a broken ritual in Make Moku Proud... a psychological visual novel where guilt and obedience, and what it means to make Moku proud, shape the fate of a witness watching his companions disappear.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.7%, Psychological Horror 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Choices Matter 9.4%
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 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Choices Matter 10%
RUNT is a rural gothic visual novel mystery where you play as Runt, the youngest of five brothers, surviving a monstrous post-apocalypse.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Psychological Horror 12.3%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
Journey of animals trying to survive a War. An emotional tale where you'll decide the fate of all who embark on this journey.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
Байкал зовёт. Прошлое возвращается в форме теней, и Андрей должен решить - играть по чужим правилам или переписать сценарий судьбы.
Why similar: Visual Novel 13.2%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Nonlinear 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Choices Matter 9.4%
Recent high school graduates gather at a remote cabin for a celebration. What begins as a night of laughter spirals into a tense mystery full of secrets, twists, and chilling choices. Who will survive? Navigate friendships, and uncover the multi-layered mystery in Shadows of Betrayal.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Choices Matter 16%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
A classic 90s choose your own adventure style horror visual novel. Escape the horrors hunting you, make decisions, forge your own path. An original complete story with multiple endings. Choose your own play style with a Text Adventure Mode, sound effects, and an ambient soundtrack.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Choices Matter 17.7%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Psychological Horror 12.4%
A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 13%, Psychological Horror 13%, Psychological 9.5%, Choices Matter 9.2%
"What music would you listen to at the end of the world?" Explore an abandoned world after the apocalypse of the final winter. Shape the story of a man whose loneliness threatens his sanity. Use violence to survive or avoid it to protect your mind. Experience the end of the world!
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.8%
A story about a dead lamb walking.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Visual Novel 16%, Nonlinear 15.2%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Choices Matter 13.1%
"Project Vostok" is a non-linear horror visual novel about a group of airplane crash survivors finding a mysterious Soviet-era bunker in Altai mountains. Uncover the story full of drama, horrors and decide the fate a of various cast of heroes in this free visual novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Multiple Endings 9.3%