60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Story Rich, Multiple Endings, Choices Matter.
Experience the triumphs and tribulations of two Caribbean immigrants in post-war Britain, in the world’s first Windrush video game, from the creators of the BAFTA nominated Before I Forget. How will you shape your story in this branching narrative interactive photo album?
All (Too) Good Things
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.
The Last Connection
You are a Switchboard Operator, and you're about to be replaced by a machine. Use your last week of work to connect townsfolk, overcome problems, and explore the history of a cast of engaging characters. Your choices matter, so use each day to leave lasting bonds.
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 27.1%, Text-Based 12.1%, Hand-drawn 9.8%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%
You are a Switchboard Operator, and you're about to be replaced by a machine. Use your last week of work to connect townsfolk, overcome problems, and explore the history of a cast of engaging characters. Your choices matter, so use each day to leave lasting bonds.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.8%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Multiple Endings 10%, Story Rich 8.4%, Emotional 6.9%
Chronicles of Humanity is an expanding anthology of historical visual novels. Enter different eras, weigh conflicting testimony under political and personal pressure, and shape who is protected, what is recorded, and how each life is remembered. Complete stories are released as separate DLC.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Historical 15.9%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Text-Based 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
Simple visual novel in which you play as a young upperclass woman preparing for her debut before the Queen and her royal relatives. All of your decisions lead to one of four very different endings. Who will you become? The jewel of the season or the outcast, never again mentioned by your family?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Hand-drawn 17.8%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Historical 11.6%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
Can you fall in love with quilts?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.2%, Hand-drawn 15.1%, Emotional 12.9%, Text-Based 9.4%, Adventure 7.7%
A visual novel set in 1920s Paris. As summer draws near, young students are revising their end-of-year exams. Olivier is one of them.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Historical 14.3%, Hand-drawn 10.7%, Emotional 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9%
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 27.5%, Historical 14.2%, Text-Based 9.7%, Choices Matter 8.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
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: Interactive Fiction 19%, Hand-drawn 15.2%, Historical 13.9%, Dialogue Heavy 10%, Text-Based 8.8%
Embark on a journey of this text anime quest with RPG elements! Walk through beautiful locations, overcome challenges and make Peter’s dreams come true. Every step you take matters. And don’t forget to take the diary - you’ll need it!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Hand-drawn 15.6%, Historical 13.4%, Text-Based 10.5%, Choices Matter 9.9%
A war of unseen ferocity is ravaging the continent. You, ringmaster dilettante, must keep the circus afloat. Travel, entertain, and keep the troupe’s spirits up while trying to find a mythical safe haven to last out the storm in this beautifully illustrated, text-based narrative adventure.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Hand-drawn 11.2%, Text-Based 9.1%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Historical 8.6%
A Brown Rabbit's Story is an interactive storybook, a text-driven adventure where your choices lead to branching paths and multiple endings. In a quiet orphanage, a boy wishes his toy rabbit to life… and together, they must face the world’s cruelties and find hope.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.4%, Text-Based 16.1%, Emotional 14.9%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Story Rich 9.4%
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: Interactive Fiction 23%, Hand-drawn 13.6%, Text-Based 11.8%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Nonlinear 9%
‘We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe’ is a socially engaged, text-based RPG about a journalist looking for his big break by uncovering the plights of refugees travelling from Africa to Europe. It is a story inspired by true events.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Hand-drawn 12.5%, Text-Based 10.4%, Emotional 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.1%
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: Interactive Fiction 29%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Hand-drawn 12.6%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Text-Based 7.9%
When you start the game, the narrator will instruct you to “close your eyes.” At that moment, whether you actually close them or keep them open will change the course of the story. Listen carefully to the voice as you proceed, and find your way to the truth.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Hand-drawn 13.3%, Multiple Endings 11%, Text-Based 9.5%, Adventure 9.5%
A detective game where you fiddle information to your advantage. As an owner of a small bar, listen to visitors of your establishment, overhear their gossiping, collect information and then use to manipulate their thoughts and actions.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Historical 10.5%, Hand-drawn 10.1%, Text-Based 8.9%, Choices Matter 7.9%
A pidgeon-doctor in a small town. A broken healthcare system. A heartfelt narrative game. Fall of Porcupine tells an emotional story about a young doctor who struggles to find his place. Accompany Finley in a lovingly illustrated world and uncover the darkest secrets of Porcupine.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Hand-drawn 16.3%, Emotional 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Story Rich 10.7%
Play as a Duskweaver in this short "choices matter" story about self-sacrifice.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.4%, Choices Matter 16.5%, Text-Based 13.2%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Emotional 10.1%
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 33.3%, Text-Based 16.6%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Emotional 5.4%
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 36.2%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Hand-drawn 10.9%, Adventure 9.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.3%
Human belief has the power to change reality. For millennia, alien races have been visiting Earth, gaining supernatural abilities and fantastic wealth by exploiting this remarkable power. But humans are advancing, and many aliens now find themselves leaving Earth with nothing but debts and regrets.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Hand-drawn 17.6%, Multiple Endings 15%, Story Rich 10.8%, Choices Matter 9.4%
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 28.2%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Text-Based 9.2%, Nonlinear 8.8%
Return to a hometown that hasn’t changed the way it should have. A psychological visual novel focused on atmosphere, relationships, and a reality that slowly refuses to stay still. Can you uncover the truth before it consumes you?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Hand-drawn 11%, Dialogue Heavy 10.3%, Text-Based 9.6%
Chess. Love. Destiny. All the same things, really.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.2%, Hand-drawn 21.8%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Multiple Endings 7.7%, Dialogue Heavy 7.2%
She was made to serve. Never to feel. A narrative adventure about a being created to preserve the world's balance — who begins, for the first time, to question everything she was made for. Form bonds, make choices, and discover the price of becoming something you were never meant to be.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Hand-drawn 14%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Emotional 10.6%
A story-rich coming-of-age experience told through a 2004 desktop, where friendships, music, and late-night conversations shape who you become. Explore chats, drama, mini-games, and the early internet in a branching story about growing up, making mistakes, and finding your place.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.6%, Choices Matter 13%, Dialogue Heavy 11.7%, Text-Based 11%, Story Rich 9.8%
Play as Da Rong across a lifetime of meetings and farewells with family, friends, and fellow villagers. This linear narrative game unfolds through walking, dialogue, and interaction. Choices reveal what Da Rong leaves unspoken, but do not change the main story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Hand-drawn 15.7%, Historical 14.8%, Emotional 12.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%
Help the eccentric inventor navigate the intrigue of the emerging electrical industry! Can you outsmart Thomas Edison and electrify the world?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.6%, Historical 15.3%, Text-Based 14.3%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Multiple Endings 8%
幻想若非幻想 自然可超自然 伴我梦中桃花 懒识人间滋味
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.2%, Text-Based 14.3%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Emotional 11%, Multiple Endings 10%
Be the person you needed. Brew tea, listen well, and guide branching stories in a narrative slice-of-life about showing up when it matters. No perfect answers. Only your choices and what they set in motion.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22%, Hand-drawn 14.8%, Emotional 14.6%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%
Live through the last ten minutes of Juan Fuentes, who has been given the chance to choose his very last words. Captured by Victoriano Huerta's army after the Ten Tragic Days during the Mexican Revolution, Juan will confront his life, death, family, relationships and existence.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.4%, Historical 15%, Text-Based 13.3%, Hand-drawn 12.9%, Dialogue Heavy 8.4%
Toymaker is a toy-crafting and store management simulator set in the 1910s Spain. Meet unique customers and colorful locals in a bustling city, and discover a magical story based on a folk legend. Follow two different mythic paths, and change the future of your hometown!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.2%, Hand-drawn 20.3%, Emotional 12.6%, Historical 11.7%, Casual 6.9%
Unravel the mysterious past of your parents and homeland while journeying through four unique lands in this exciting science-fantasy adventure!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.2%, Text-Based 17.1%, Adventure 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
A hand-illustrated visual mystery adventure that can be beaten in one sitting.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Hand-drawn 16.5%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Dialogue Heavy 9.4%, Nonlinear 9.1%
Constantinople, 1453. Four witnesses — a janissary, a baker's daughter, an engineer, a noble — live the same 53 days of the siege. Choices cross between their stories, and the city remembers. An illustrated, choice-driven historical novel where every ending is someone's truth.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.7%, Historical 12.7%, Text-Based 12.5%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%
Where Control Ends is a psychological visual novel about Astra, a young girl trying to hold herself together after a night she cannot fully remember.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.7%, Text-Based 11.4%, Hand-drawn 11.4%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
Experience the Myth of Frankenstein through the innocent eyes of his creature. Make decisions and change people's view that you will meet on your way. Now, the myth is in your hands, so how are you going to end it?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Hand-drawn 17.1%, Text-Based 12.1%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
Alcyone: The Last City is an interactive sci-fi novel where your choices can lead to the salvation or destruction of the last refuge of civilisation in the universe. Immerse yourself in a branching narrative of diverse characters, intrigue, and world-altering decisions.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Hand-drawn 12.2%, Text-Based 10.5%, Choices Matter 10%, Dialogue Heavy 8.9%
A sound, a flash, a portal… A pirate emerges, bringing a deadly threat. Five friends stand before him, and one of them is the target. But which one? Even they don't know.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.4%, Text-Based 15.5%, Choices Matter 14%, Multiple Endings 9%, Story Rich 7.5%
"The hardest part is not to speak up. It’s being heard." Part video game, part graphic novel, Wednesdays seeks to raise awareness about child sexual abuse through a surprisingly hope-filled story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.7%, Hand-drawn 20.3%, Emotional 12.5%, Text-Based 11.1%, Dialogue Heavy 8.1%
Echoes of Chang'an is a Chinese-style mystery visual novel developed by NSTUDIO. You play as the adopted son of the renowned mid-Tang general Duan Xiushi who is unexpectedly drawn into an inescapable conspiracy that threatens the fate of the Tang Dynasty while carrying out a mission.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.8%, Historical 18.3%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Multiple Endings 8.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.6%
This is a train to 21C, via 19C. Passengers will require a valid click to use this service. Passengers are advised that this train consists of 9 cars, divided by each era. Please mind the fire. This train is ready to depart, please stand clear of the fire.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.6%, Hand-drawn 22.5%, Adventure 11.2%, Emotional 10.5%, Dialogue Heavy 7.6%
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.1%, Hand-drawn 11.9%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
Guilt Free is a visual novel crossed with a point and click made to offer perspective on mental health and eating disorders. Navigate a couple's rocky relationship and encounter "flaws" or "quirks" that may actually be symptomatic behaviors.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Dialogue Heavy 15.3%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Text-Based 11.5%, Emotional 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: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Choices Matter 15%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Nonlinear 11.5%, Story Rich 11%
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: Interactive Fiction 41.2%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Text-Based 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Adventure 10.4%
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: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Hand-drawn 15.4%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Text-Based 9.9%
When letters from an unknown figure arrive in Julia's mailbox, she unravels a forgotten, painful truth behind it. Witness a unique narrative experience illustrated in a series of hand-painted scenes that tell the story of Julia and a familiar stranger that lives inside her fractured memories.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 40%, Hand-drawn 26%, Emotional 12.2%, Story Rich 10.1%, Casual 5.6%
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: Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Text-Based 12.9%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Nonlinear 10.8%, Hand-drawn 10.1%
Award-winning cinematic narrative adventure set in a hand-drawn world of living forgotten objects. Lead Fig and the crew of the Volare through a story of identity, unity, and survival—where diplomacy, difficult choices, and moments of action shape the fate of five divided tribes.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Hand-drawn 20.1%, Emotional 13.5%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
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 34.7%, Hand-drawn 14.4%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
A darkly comedic legal sim where your goal is to get disbarred—spectacularly. Play as a defense attorney or prosecutor in ethically disastrous cases full of bad decisions, weird clients, and Kafkaesque courtroom chaos. Succeed, and you lose.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.3%, Text-Based 16.9%, Choices Matter 15%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Story Rich 9%
Screech, halt! Max and his ice cream truck reach an unfamiliar universe never seen before. Continue making your way as you go after the little kid’s balloon. Solve mysteries with emotion-flavored ice cream. Will you be able to retrieve the kid’s lost balloon?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Hand-drawn 19.9%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Multiple Endings 12%, Story Rich 9.6%
The Perfect Prince is an adventure game featuring a touching story and storybook-style visuals. Progress through puzzles and light action, as the tale branches based on your choices and actions. Build bonds with the characters and shape a story that’s uniquely yours.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 28.9%, Adventure 13.8%, Emotional 13.6%, Story Rich 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.4%
A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.7%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Hand-drawn 10.9%, Text-Based 10.3%
Four thousand miles. Twenty thousand pounds. Four murderous rivals. One unforgettable adventure.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.9%, Adventure 13%, Historical 12.5%, Text-Based 11.8%, Casual 9.2%
A humorous sci-fi text-driven adventure where you play a support engineer sent to fix system failures in a secret research complex. Explore strange labs, investigate bizarre incidents, solve absurd problems, talk to depressed robots, and make choices that lead to multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Text-Based 13%, Nonlinear 10.1%, Story Rich 9.5%
Stranded after a plane crash in a freezing wilderness, you must manage body temperature, injury, and sanity as every decision shapes your survival.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Hand-drawn 15.9%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Nonlinear 9.5%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
Mistbound is a surreal narrative adventure about overcoming trauma, where the line between reality and dreams is blurred. Loneliness can be too loud. And salvation can be too quiet!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%, Story Rich 9.4%
