Games like Dark Impulses

"Legend of a Savior: Book One" is an 18+ interactive fiction game where players uncover the dark truth behind a mysterious cult's emergence in a crumbling Empire. With content warnings for violence, abuse, and suggestive themes, the game follows the player's accidental discovery of the cult's interest in the royal family, as they leave a trail of destruction and death. The game promises a deep exploration of morality and the meaning of life.

"Fading: Legend of a Savior" is an 18+ interactive fiction game set in a dark adult fantasy world. After the Empire begins to crumble, a mysterious cult emerges, leaving a path of destruction and death in their wake. As you uncover their plans to target the royal family, you must navigate a moral minefield in a world where lies and truths blur, and survival is not always morally right. Content warnings include language, violence, death, parental abuse, and blood/gore.

In the small, medieval-inspired village of Rose Bud, people are mysteriously disappearing and reappearing in the forbidden Oakcaster Thicket. As the player, you'll navigate this twisted fairytale world in "The One Who Made Red," an interactive text-based thriller/supernatural romance game, where you'll build relationships and uncover the truth behind the disappearances. Content warnings include gore, violence, mentions of death, and possible sexual content.

"A Tale of Crowns" is a high fantasy romance game with Middle Eastern roots, featuring a text-based story with choices that shape your character's personality, skills, and relationships. The game includes four love interests, each with their own secrets, and takes place in the fictional world of Arsur. Content warnings include violence, death, trauma, and sexual suggestiveness, making it suitable for ages 16 and up.

Orphaned by intruders seeking to use her in a ritual, a magic-wielding protagonist is rescued and raised by a mysterious stranger. When he goes missing, a soldier seeking information leads her to the capital, where she becomes embroiled in a larger conspiracy. The journey to uncover the truth about her mentor turns into a battle for survival and justice in "The Divinity of Bloodshed."

"Birthright" is a text-based game where you return to your childhood town after receiving a letter about a loss, uncovering a complicated web of mystery, magic, and gaps in your memory. Play as a male, female, or non-binary character, with 12,000+ words in the prologue and 10,000+ for Part 1. The game allows you to choose your pronouns for a personalized experience.

"Ballad of the Judgment Night" is a dark fantasy interactive fiction game, where you play as an angel determined to destroy the world. After centuries of fighting for peace, you now seek to wipe out the idea of a harmonious world, viewing chaos as an opportunity. This 18+ game includes mature content such as violence, death, language, and sexual content.

In "Softly, Opulent," a dark fantasy romance interactive fiction, you play as a neglected and abused royal sibling, locked away for 18 years and then sent to a foreign kingdom for an arranged marriage. Facing contempt from your new husband and his subjects, you navigate political intrigue, possible war, and mature themes, including abuse, assault, and death. This game is not suitable for those under 17.

The Threshold - Interactive Fiction [TUMBLR | BUG/ERROR REPORT] The Threshold is an interactive fiction game made with Twine, inspired by works like Zero Escape and Danganronpa. It has horror and adventure elements, but it’s focused on characters and their relationships. (CW) It’s rated +18 for mentions and depictions of violence, blood, death, abduction, explicit language, use of alcohol, …

The Thousand of Us is a post-apocalyptic, choice-driven, text based interactive fiction game where the end of the world gave birth to something far stranger.Two years after an asteroid nearly destroyed Earth, only a thousand survivors remain, all under eighteen and gifted (or cursed) with new abilities. Mutated life forms now roam the planet, and survival depends on more than power alone. Play as…