- #1 All (Too) Good Things
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: YOWPY games
Windows
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Text-Based 14.6%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Conversation 10.8%
- #2 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
80% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Infinite Zone
Windows
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Text-Based 14.4%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 7.1%
- #3 Whispering Memories
74% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Stellar Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Conversation 12.6%, Text-Based 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.6%
- #4 201 - The Bad Number
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 29 reviews2024
Dev: Pavel Kopylov
Windows
"201 - The Bad Number" is an interactive science fiction game-book set on a post-apocalyptic Mars. In a world where only 200 people remain, each new inhabitant may hasten civilization's end. Players make choices that impact the fate of humanity and the colony in a unique dystopian setting.
Why similar: Text-Based 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Dystopian 11%, Visual Novel 8.3%
- #5 Defragmenting
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: pngTriads
Windows
The outside is being ravaged by a mysterious downpour of a glass, you are forced to take shelter in a seemingly innocuous rundown hotel. Yet, stuck with you are people who you wish you would never see again. What will you do to survive?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Text-Based 11.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%
- #6 The Dust of the Violet Crystals
71% matchPositive95% of 19 reviews2024
Dev: Corvaena Games LLC
Windows · Mac
A flesh-eating dust leaves you to survive alone against hordes of Listless.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%, RPG 8.9%
- #7 Imperial Bureaucracy Hero
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Munitions Mori
Windows · Mac · Linux
IBH is a rich role playing game at the end of time. You're a mid-level official in a dying sci-fi regime, given the impossible task of fixing a faltering machine; explore a vast world, define your mind, flex your authority, and become a sinner or a savior in countless other stories.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Visual Novel 12.4%, RPG 9.3%, Text-Based 8.6%
- #8 The Way Down
70% matchPositive95% of 37 reviews2024
Dev: Samuel Leigh
Windows
Absurdist Interactive fiction. Talk to the beings that inhabitant the world at its end. We forgot how to die.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Conversation 11%, Text-Based 9.8%
- #9 Mass of Consumption
69% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Wayward Woyrm Games
Windows
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Text-Based 11.4%, Choices Matter 8.3%
- #10 Tequila Moonrise
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Black Swan Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Take over a struggling bar on the politically tense Moon Village. Prepare and serve drinks, befriend and help your customers, find your purpose, and maybe even love... all while keeping the bar's lights on in this narrative driven bartending simulator set on the moon.
Why similar: Conversation 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Choices Matter 9%
- #11 Rouge Patrol
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Grimlark
Windows
A war that outlived the soldiers who fought it. Enemies inherited by a generation not grown. You will lead your precocious unit into this unending conflict and find out if the bonds of friendship can withstand the tides of war. Overflowing with black humour, you'll laugh till you cry...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Choices Matter 10%
- #12 Mother May I
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CloudSnake
Windows
Unravel the story of three siblings determined to break free from the iron grip of an AI named "Mother." In a world of virtual imprisonment, navigate rebellion, unveil dark secrets, and fight for freedom. Will you defy Mother's control, or succumb to her virtual prison?
Why similar: Dystopian 14.7%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Hand-drawn 9.6%
- #13 Whispers From The Rift
68% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Interdimensional Games Inc
Windows
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Text-Based 17.3%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choices Matter 9.4%
- #14 NOAH: 2050
68% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Team NOAH
Windows
『NOAH: 2050』 is a 2D visual novel game that blends an adventure format where you can explore a school.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Text-Based 17%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Conversation 12.7%, Multiple Endings 11%
- #15 Taina's Cursed Legacy
67% matchPositive82% of 33 reviews2025
Dev: dark_room_game
Windows
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Text-Based 16.6%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Hand-drawn 8.5%
- #16 Zugzwang
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Malice Studios LLC
Windows
Chess. Love. Destiny. All the same things, really.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Hand-drawn 9.9%, Conversation 9.3%
- #17 After the Storm
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rebuild society after the climate apocalypse! Can you keep your settlement alive? Will you hold onto your humanity or lose it in the directionless expanse?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Text-Based 19%, Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, RPG 7.5%
- #18 The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Verse and Vision
Windows
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 21.2%, Text-Based 21%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
- #19 The Sin Collector: Repentless
68% matchVery Positive92% of 90 reviews2021
Dev: Sylen Studio
Windows
THE SIN COLLECTOR: REPENTLESS is a game on the border of a visual novel and a classic text RPG, set in the world of The Sin Collector, a series of books written by Michał Gołkowski. Action takes place a couple of years before the events presented in the books.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Text-Based 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Visual Novel 9.7%
- #20 Grave Knight
68% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: Dreamlight Games
Windows
Under developement, Grave Knight is an interactive RPG adventure inspired by SRD 5.1 ruleset and classical game books, where your decisions weave the fate of the characters and the story. Let the dice forge the fate of your hero and the realm by fighting the Grave knight and his horde.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Visual Novel 16%, Text-Based 11.4%, RPG 11.1%
- #21 Beek: Familiar Spirit - Remastered
66% matchPositive84% of 31 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Klondike AustraliaPub: Studio Klondike
Windows · Mac
A call for help within a mysterious messaging app. Someone lost and wandering through a forest in a faraway place. And their destiny in your hands.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Text-Based 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
- #22 Lone Bird in the Tree
65% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: Aosolagame
Windows · Mac
“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: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Text-Based 12%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Hand-drawn 9.2%
- #23 7 Days in Dystopia
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YapabilityPub: Yapability Products
Windows
7 Days in Dystopia is a psychological dystopian game where you experience seven days by playing a series of games, making choices, and facing the consequences of winning and losing in a city where people hide behind masks.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Dystopian 12.6%, Choices Matter 10%, Conversation 9.2%
- #24 THE DAY THAT WASN'T
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: MAD Tribe Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Text-Based 11.3%, Conversation 9.6%
- #25 Road 96: Mile 0
65% matchMixed68% of 1,986 reviews2023
Dev: Digixart
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
The prequel to Road 96. Play Zoe and Kaito where it all started. Change their destinies!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Conversation 12.8%, Dystopian 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.5%
- #26 Do 11
67% matchPositive81% of 26 reviews2021
Dev: SJR Team
Windows · Mac
Find a way out of the Do 11 app by doing missions that come from the mysterious Do 11 app. A choice awaits you to solve puzzles and change the fate of the protagonist. Escape the main character from the Do 11 app while savoring a profound worldview and intriguing story. An incredible twist awaits.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Conversation 14.2%, Text-Based 12.9%, Visual Novel 10.8%
- #27 The Last Survey
67% matchPositive89% of 19 reviews2020
Dev: Nicholas O'Brien
Windows · Mac
A Hand-Drawn Visual Novel Essay Game
Why similar: Dystopian 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Visual Novel 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Text-Based 10.3%
- #28 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
64% matchVery Positive90% of 9,492 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Choices Matter 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Text-Based 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.1%
- #29 ナカノ人格移植研究所
64% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 麺屋すぱいす 東京支店
Windows · Mac
「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: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Text-Based 10.2%, Conversation 9.2%
- #30 Freedom Tower
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fire Trail
Windows
Roleplaying set in a dystopian universe inspired by early twentieth-century wars and Ukrainian folklore. You are Orest, and you might be the last hope of your occupied land. Establish the truths about the world getting drained of its energy, meet captivating characters, and make your land free.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Conversation 10.1%, Dystopian 8.4%
- #31 Serania - Path of the Scion
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FableTree Productions
Windows · Mac
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Text-Based 18%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Choices Matter 9.8%
- #32 Windrush Tales
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 3-Fold Games
Windows
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?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Hand-drawn 12.1%, Text-Based 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
- #33 A Week Before Autumn
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Paper
Windows
Pine Hill is a quiet Midwestern college town. Quiet enough that nobody seemed to hear Ginny Nicholson die. Alone with the thoughts in your head, now you just want to know one thing: why?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Text-Based 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Conversation 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.6%
- #34 Dead Detention (Rescribbled)
62% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Jack Astral
Windows
DEAD DETENTION is a scribbly interactive story about a nerdy teen turned dooms day survivor! Play as 14 year old Max as he tries to escape his high school during a deadly zombie pandemic! Will he and his new friends get to safety?!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choices Matter 9.2%
- #35 Tempest In A Teapot
64% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: StrandGames
Windows
A choice-based, visual novel with time travelling teapots!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Visual Novel 14%, Conversation 13.2%, Choices Matter 7.4%
- #36 Yuika My Bestie
63% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Feeling Potion
Windows · Mac
Experience a pastel-toned emotional journey in Yuika My Bestie, a short visual novel you can complete in under 15 minutes per playthrough. With 5 unique endings and heartfelt choices, it takes just 30–40 minutes to explore every path of this soft, late-night cry.
Why similar: Conversation 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Text-Based 9.3%
- #37 Summer Daze: Tilly's Tale
62% matchMixed60% of 20 reviews2023
Dev: Transolar Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A fantasy adventure visual novel with humor and heart, by acclaimed adventure game writer Lori Ann Cole. Starring the voice of Zehra Fazal as Tilly, a mischief-making rogue at Hero-U, the school for heroes.
Why similar: Conversation 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Text-Based 14.4%, Visual Novel 11.8%
- #38 Your Story: Games with Death
62% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BoldBox
Windows
A medieval text quest in the "Choose Your Own Adventure" genre, where each choice could be your last. Create your story with more than 2,000 events, 200 of which will prove fatal. In a world where death plays against you, can you outsmart it and write your own story?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Text-Based 13.8%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.7%
- #39 A Case of Missing Identity
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AwesomeTrinket
Windows
A point-and-click horror/tragedy visual novel about melding your perception of the world around you. Walk around, drive people to their death, and shape Perdita's existence. Remember: The flesh-sin is nothing. Before she can become everything, you must make her into something.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Emotional 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Text-Based 9.5%
- #40 A Blade for the Emperor
61% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
An interactive fiction epic fantasy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Text-Based 16.2%, Dystopian 12.3%, RPG 11.9%
- #41 VOICE
63% matchPositive89% of 19 reviews2021
Dev: WTFMAN
Windows
VOICE is a game about the story of living in a dystopian world where speaking is forbidden.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Text-Based 16%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Conversation 11.6%, Dystopian 8.4%
- #42 Superstorm Melon Date
62% matchVery Positive91% of 74 reviews2021
Dev: A. Hagen
Windows · Mac
It's date night in the dystopian future. You're going out with Mel, a half-melon person with psychic powers. They seem a little weird, but at least they're cute. Choose where to go, what to do, and what to say in this highly interactive, romance visual novel.
Why similar: Dystopian 16%, Conversation 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%
- #43 Fixer's Tale
61% matchPositive94% of 18 reviews2024
Dev: Emblem Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Text-Based 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Conversation 10.4%
- #44 The Crimson Call
60% matchPositive89% of 28 reviews2024
Dev: Fatih Mert
Windows · Mac
Set in a post-apocalyptic dystopian future, two young men set out on a journey to find The Great Appearance which manifests itself inside mankind's mind.
Why similar: Dystopian 15.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Text-Based 14.4%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%
- #45 StarStruck
61% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Strawberrytail
Windows
Embark on a thrilling journey through this highly engaging science fantasy visual novel with memorable characters and multiple endings. Journey through space, uncover the past and pull off a heist or two as you negotiate the pitfalls of friendship and a crumbling reality. Can you save the universe?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Conversation 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%
- #46 Terminal Tales: An Interactive Fiction Anthology
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NEWB GAMES, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Terminal Tales: An Interactive Fiction Anthology features multiple text-based adventures from a variety of genres. Explore a curated vault of brand-new, modern mysteries and sci-fi epics. No graphics. No limits. Just your imagination and a world waiting for your command.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Text-Based 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
- #47 Pasajeros
62% matchPositive86% of 21 reviews2022
Dev: GameLoop
Windows
Pasajeros is developed through a collection of urban and surreal stories collected in a taxi in Bogotá . It’s a four-night adventure packed with micro-stories of vampires, mariachis, and thugs. In addition to the opportunity to find love or madness in the night magic of a city.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Conversation 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Visual Novel 12%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
- #48 The Wanderer: Frankenstein’s Creature
62% matchVery Positive84% of 342 reviews2019
Dev: La Belle GamesPub: ARTE France
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Text-Based 15%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Visual Novel 9%, Choices Matter 8.3%
- #49 Deathwish Bloom
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sharp Glass Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Deathwish Bloom is a romance adventure visual novel set in a soft post-apocalyptic world. Charm, scheme, bribe or blackmail your way through a Science City to recreate a lost medicine despite all odds. Or give in to the darkness that every child of the apocalypse carries in their heart.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Choices Matter 10.4%
- #50 Vanakan
60% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Erik Khachatryan
Windows
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 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Text-Based 20.1%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
- #51 Dr. Kinderwood's Asylum
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Richday
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Visual Novel 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Text-Based 12.9%, Choices Matter 11.9%
- #52 The Thief, the Witch, the Toad, and the Mushroom.
59% matchVery Positive100% of 184 reviews2024
Dev: Jack McNameePub: Ashtown Games
Windows
A fable from your childhood. Don't you remember it?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Text-Based 15.2%, Conversation 12%, Visual Novel 11.6%
- #53 Vida
60% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: YEON 연
Windows · Linux
In a future where memories are the last connection to a lost humanity, you are an advanced AI exploring fragments of past lives. Understand emotions, traumas, and choices in a journey to uncover what it means to be alive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Text-Based 20%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Conversation 13.1%, Choices Matter 7.3%
- #54 Witch Hunter: Our Secret
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: artbakeries
Windows
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 27%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Choices Matter 9%
- #55 Robot's Fate: Alice
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Starni Games
Windows
Robot’s Fate: Alice is a text-based RPG set in the future where robots with neural network AI are integral to human life. You’re Alice - a robot who becomes self-aware, while everyone around fears rogue AI. Can you survive and reconcile humanity with robots? Your choices do matter.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Text-Based 14.1%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Choices Matter 7.9%
- #56 Guilt Free
61% matchVery Positive86% of 288 reviews2020
Dev: Lateral Games
Windows · Mac
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 15.1%, Text-Based 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Conversation 10.6%
- #57 Silent Earth
61% matchPositive84% of 25 reviews2021
Dev: Fring Frang Games
Windows
Silent Earth is a short sci-fi text adventure about finding one’s place despite an uncertain future. Explore an off-world mining colony ship, navigate multi-linear character relationships, and steer the story toward one of five endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Text-Based 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Multiple Endings 11%, Futuristic 10.4%
- #58 Forest of Death Masks
59% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Remnants of mosaic
Windows
Christian Tyler is ready to investigate a new case! Uncover the mystery of the tourist town of Alkelano in our new visual novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Hand-drawn 8.5%, Text-Based 6.7%
- #59 The Music at the end of the World
59% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Cihan Kuzu
Windows
"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: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Text-Based 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
- #60 The Siege of Jeomdo
60% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio Hip Sword
Windows · Mac
Hope flickers against impossible odds. In this narrative RPG, step into the shoes of a retired soldier, thrust into a desperate last stand to save Jeomdo Village. With supplies dwindling and time running out, your decisions will shape the fate of those who look to you for salvation.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Choices Matter 12.1%, RPG 9.3%