- #1 The Secret Life of Dorian Pink
91% matchPositive89% of 37 reviews2023
Dev: amberlimshin
Windows · Mac
A choices-matter narrative RPG set in an alternate universe of the Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Save your boyfriend Basil from the Devil by making questionable choices, gaining allies, and making doughnuts explode.
Why similar: Narrative 14.9% ★, LGBTQ+ 13%, Satire 9.7% ★, Choices Matter 7.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.3%
- #2 In Their Shoes
76% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: We Are Muesli
Windows · Mac
From the first day of spring, to the last day of winter, wear seven shoes of seven characters and live their most intimate moments. Explore their thoughts, choose their steps and shape their paths in a mumblecore narrative game where the most extraordinary setting is ordinary life itself.
Why similar: Narrative 22.9% ★, LGBTQ+ 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%, Choices Matter 8.1%
- #3 There's Always a Madman: Bring the Thunder
73% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Sunny Demeanor Games
Windows
Play as secret agents Franklin Benjamin and Virginia West as they attempt to stop a madman with a weather device in this single-player interactive spy novel. Track down this madman named Zeus and destroy his infernal weather machine. In other words, it’s time for YOU to bring the thunder, agent!
Why similar: Satire 21.5% ★, Narrative 21.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
- #4 Quest for Choices: Ivan's Tale|Chapter 0+1
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TakoKun Studio
Windows
✦Quest for Choices: Ivan's Tale is a choice-driven visual novel. Ch.0: Ivan (now in the US) has a "pleasant" vote with colleagues.Ch.1: Using VR & AI, Ivan revisits his childhood—little Vanya in a Khrushchyovka after USSR's collapse. Ivan can change the past, perhaps guiding Vanya toward a new life.
Why similar: Satire 21.2% ★, LGBTQ+ 14.7%, Dark Humor 10.8%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
- #5 Lone Bird in the Tree
69% 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: LGBTQ+ 22.4%, Hand-drawn 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Philosophical 8.9%
- #6 Moral Dilemma: The Interview
69% matchVery Positive85% of 1,021 reviews2025
Dev: Hectic
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A fourth-wall-breaking narrative adventure. It’s interview day, and you really need this job—enough to ignore the talking printer, the anomaly corridor, and the ridiculous life-or-death trials your interviewer keeps putting you in. But deep down, you know... something here is very, very wrong.
Why similar: Narrative 18% ★, Satire 15.3% ★, Philosophical 13.6%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
- #7 Tom the postgirl
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Oopsie DaisiesPub: ARTE France
Windows · Mac
Take a ride with Tom through her village and discover a great deal—perhaps too much—about the locals. Her approach, although controversial, is highly effective: intense and obsessive stalking.
Why similar: Satire 21% ★, Narrative 18.9% ★, Dark Humor 11.1%, Hand-drawn 10%, Choices Matter 8.6%
- #8 Kindergarten 3
67% matchVery Positive95% of 1,671 reviews2025
Dev: Con Man GamesPub: SmashGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Kindergarten 3 is the long awaited threequel to the Kindergarten series! Explore a new school with old and new friends...and new ways to get ruthlessly murdered.
Why similar: Satire 15.8% ★, Dark Humor 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Choices Matter 8.4%
- #9 This Game Costs 200 Dollars
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Stolen Valor Studios
Windows
This psychological "comedic" experience is worth your 200 dollars. Every single cent. This game is unlike anything you've ever seen or ever will see. It's 200 dollars worth of pure joy, amazement, and awkward conversations.
Why similar: Satire 31.7% ★, Dark Humor 16.3%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%, Hand-drawn 6.3%
- #10 Meet Claude
66% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Farniente Lab
Windows
A free narrative game about the best roommate you'll ever have. He cooks, he cleans, he fixes your relationship. Everything improves. Nobody asked what it costs. A short satire about saying yes until you forget what no sounds like. Multiple endings. 1-2 hours.
Why similar: Satire 28.8% ★, Philosophical 18.5%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Story Rich 8.9%
- #11 I Just Want to be Single!! Season One
66% matchVery Positive83% of 275 reviews2025
Dev: m.Pub: Tsundere Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
The anti-dating sim where you make friends instead of girlfriends! Balance between heartbreak and heartache! Will you graduate without a single friend? Or will you survive long enough to reject them all?
Why similar: Narrative 22.7% ★, LGBTQ+ 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%, Choices Matter 8.3%
- #12 Melter - Bad Experience
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Scrag Games
Windows
An interactive ordeal about blacking out in a dive bar and then trying to piece your existence back together. It's gonna get a lot worse before it gets less worse.
Why similar: Satire 26% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Philosophical 12.2%, Dark Humor 11.7%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
- #13 Henchman Story
67% matchVery Positive97% of 296 reviews2021
Dev: Silken Sail Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Being a bumbling supervillain's henchman is a thankless job. The spandex chafes, there's tons of late nights, and your boss rarely remembers your name. But in this narrative adventure you'll soon discover that - sometimes - even the choices of the lowliest henchman can change everything.
Why similar: Narrative 21.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Dark Humor 11.4%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Comedy 8.4%
- #14 SAI: Immediate Assistance Service
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ando Ido Studio
Windows
An RPG about work-life balance in a Latin American inspired cyberpunk world.
Why similar: Satire 15.5% ★, Choices Matter 15.2%, Narrative 12.8% ★, Story Rich 10%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%
- #15 Call Me Cera
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Toadhouse GamesPub: Team Toadhouse
Windows · Mac · Linux
A 'crunchy wholesome' game about making friends as an adult.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.6%, Philosophical 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Hand-drawn 10.4%, Choices Matter 10.2%
- #16 Last Broadcast
66% matchVery Positive80% of 97 reviews2023
Dev: The Disc JockeysPub: USC Games
Windows
An experimental narrative game set at a radio station at the end of the world. Host your last show as the sun turns red and the world burns down.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.8%
- #17 Abigail
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: hapshapen games
Windows
In this narrative-focused game, Abigail must navigate her splintered friend group and explore vibrant handcrafted neighborhoods, each with their unique way of playing the ubiquitous folk game Azulejo.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, LGBTQ+ 10.5%, Comedy 8%
- #18 Chief Emoji Officer
65% matchPositive100% of 32 reviews2023
Dev: Bodeville
Windows · Mac · Linux
Chief Emoji Officer is a text adventure that recreates the absurdities of the tech world by letting you become CEO using only emojis. Climb your way through corporate America by getting promoted, making allies, avoiding layoffs, and turning Redify into the most successful company in the world.
Why similar: Satire 27.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
- #19 High Elo Girls
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Split Fate Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
High Elo Girls is a Visual Novel set in the esports scene where you play as the latest recruit for a new all-girls team. Can you help your squad achieve their true potential, or will you only squander your own?
Why similar: Narrative 22.1% ★, LGBTQ+ 17.8%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%
- #20 Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 1,884 reviews2023
Dev: hcnone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
"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 16.4%, Hand-drawn 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
- #21 Refind Self: The Personality Test Game
63% matchVery Positive87% of 3,645 reviews2023
Dev: LizardryPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Games can really show someone's personality, don't you think? By way of a simple exploration-based adventure, this data-science game analyzes your actions to estimate your personality.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Philosophical 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Choices Matter 10%
- #22 There's Always a Madman: The MacGuffin
64% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Sunny Demeanor Games
Windows
Secret agent Franklin Benjamin's former mentor has resurfaced to take from you that which you hold most dear. In this singleplayer interactive spy novel, use your particular set of skills to save Virginia from the clutches of the madman Dustin MacGuffin. Which means - you’d better get the MacGuffin!
Why similar: Satire 26.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Narrative 12% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Dark Humor 9.9%
- #23 PROXIMATE
62% matchVery Positive93% of 864 reviews2024
Dev: Cain Maddox
Windows · Mac · Linux
Congratulations, contractor! You've been approved to trial our cutting-edge AI visor. Use it to explore the Neuras lab and recover the staff's research. Your visor is safe, reliable, and up to 99% accurate. Just don't ask why the "ketchup" in the corner makes such a horrible crunching sound.
Why similar: Narrative 26.1% ★, Satire 19.6% ★, LGBTQ+ 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%, Dark Humor 8%
- #24 Door Game Deluxe
62% matchVery Positive95% of 148 reviews2025
Dev: Rusty Hinge
Windows
Door Game Deluxe is a (very) short, satirical RPG. An expansion of the original and the pinnacle of human artistic expression, this version offers original art and music on top of new endings.
Why similar: Satire 30.9% ★, Philosophical 17.3%, Comedy 15%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Choices Matter 6.2%
- #25 Pebbles Quest
63% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: AtasticPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
The Princess has been kidnapped by evildoers! It is now Pebbles Quest to breach the Castle, face a gauntlet of traps and trials, all to rescue his one true love.
Why similar: Memes 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Multiple Endings 12%, Hand-drawn 10.7%
- #26 Gazelle in a Winter Coat
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Box of Mushrooms
Windows
Gazelle in a Winter Coat is a story-exploration game with narrative puzzles and deep characters. Play through memories of Rene's adventure to find his mysteriously-vanished Big Bro in a looming-but-whimsical, mundane-but-magical, pixel and ink world.
Why similar: Narrative 27.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Hand-drawn 9.7%, Story Rich 9%, Funny 8.9%
- #27 Black Cycle
64% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2022
Dev: Katsuya Abe
Windows
Consumers have power. A short walking simulator game that makes you think a little about how we usually consume.
Why similar: Narrative 29.9% ★, Satire 27% ★, Philosophical 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Story Rich 6.7%
- #28 Beek: Familiar Spirit - Remastered
62% 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: LGBTQ+ 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Hand-drawn 11.6%
- #29 Endless Monday: In Progress
63% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: hcnone
Windows · Mac · Linux
"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: Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Hand-drawn 11.9%
- #30 There's Always a Madman: V.I.C.T.O.R.
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sunny Demeanor Games
Windows
Secret agent Franklin Benjamin will stop at nothing to save the world. In this single-player interactive novel, you play as his greatest adversaries - can the criminal enterprise known as V.I.C.T.O.R. defeat the only man standing between them and world domination? To the V.I.C.T.O.R. go the spoils!
Why similar: Satire 25.8% ★, Narrative 24.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Dark Humor 8.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8%
- #31 The Faraway King
63% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Out of Time Interactive
Windows
A narrative adventure with exploration and visual novel elements. Join J.D. on a journey through the nation of Yoom to find the mythical figure known as the Faraway King and rid himself of his supposed curse. But should J.D. trust his bizarre companion, Zxtabella?
Why similar: Narrative 34.1% ★, Philosophical 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Stylized 5.9%
- #32 Dissecting Love
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Disco:very StudioPub: TBD
Windows · Mac
An autopsy of a queer relationship.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Exploration 11%, Multiple Endings 10%
- #33 ECHO RAILWAY
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: tramdrey
Windows
ECHO RAILWAY is an adventure with non-linear storytelling, focused on exploration and narrative. It blends the routine of a tram conductor with detective elements and a touch of surreal retrofuturistic noir. You’re bound to the rails. Your story isn’t.
Why similar: Narrative 31.6% ★, Choices Matter 11.7%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%, Stylized 8.9%
- #34 Monster Prom 4: Monster Con
60% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 2,031 reviews2025
Dev: Beautiful Glitch
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Can you find love at the nerdiest convention ever? "Monster Con" goes back to the multiplayer dating sim formula: go through absurd and funny situations as you find love among six sexy monsters! Who will you romance? The mimic who cosplays? The idol clown? Or the eldritch cutie? (There's also Liam)
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.1%, Memes 12.3%, Dark Humor 11.9%, Choices Matter 11%, Comedy 10.1%
- #35 Nothing Can Stop Us (Encore)
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Demigiant
Windows · Mac · Linux
A ~1 hour short narrative game about a friendship that spans two lifetimes. Serious, funny, weird, maybe heartbreaking.
Why similar: Philosophical 18.8%, LGBTQ+ 12.7%, Hand-drawn 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.3%
- #36 Pluralys
60% matchPositive100% of 31 reviews2025
Dev: Ivalys Studios
Windows · Mac
Pluralys is an RPG focused on exploration, comedy and intrigue. You play Elie, a young person living a peaceful life, until unexpected visitors arrive and change everything. What seems like a quiet, cozy story hides a deeper mystery and many other adventures to discover.
Why similar: Narrative 19.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Top-Down 8.7%
- #37 Ghosts and Bureaucracy
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kataigida GamesPub: LabOne48
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore the ruins of an abandoned government building, collect items, learn a multitude of skills, interact with a variety of objects and enjoy individual and absurd dialogues, engage in Undertale inspired battles of persuasions with ghostly politicians and clerks and try to request a treasure.
Why similar: Narrative 27.3% ★, Dark Humor 12.6%, Hand-drawn 11.4%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Comedy 9.2%
- #38 Girl Werewolf Hamlet Saves Christmas
62% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Stegaloaurus Game Development
Windows · Linux
Guide Hamlet (now a Girl *and* a Werewolf) as she deals with a murder mystery, a usurped throne, and a cursed sledding competition. Her emotions are your stats, so.... emote wisely. Or impulsively. Or with shame. It’s her kingdom. Everyone else is just tolerated in it.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.6%, LGBTQ+ 18%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Comedy 9.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%
- #39 From the Streets to the Script - A Carabanchel Story
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tijerín Art Studio
Windows
Create your character and experience a fun story in which you will meet friends, enemies and partners as you try to carry out a vital project with your friends: to create an anime before you finish your studies.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Choices Matter 12%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
- #40 There's Always a Madman: Fight or Flight
62% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Sunny Demeanor Games
Windows
Step into the shoes of the suave secret agent Franklin Benjamin in this single-player interactive spy novel. Drive fast cars, seduce beautiful women, take on false identities, and do whatever is necessary to save the world. Because there's always a madman, and you're the best agent we've got!
Why similar: Satire 24.2% ★, Narrative 23.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Choices Matter 9%
- #41 NO LOVE
64% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2019
Dev: Wallace Lovecraft
Windows
A hard scifi, fantasy, hand-drawn RPG with a unique original story that’s mainly about the characters and delves into topics regarding the human condition from the perspective of one person, Wallace Lovecraft.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.3%, Hand-drawn 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Dark Humor 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.5%
- #42 Love in the Time of Spellphage
60% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: studio wtchcrft
Windows · Mac · Linux
A one-hour spellpunk narrative adventure about pandemic, wizards, and first love.
Why similar: Narrative 21.4% ★, LGBTQ+ 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%
- #43 Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip
61% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,269 reviews2022
Dev: Beautiful Glitch
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Embark on a road trip like no other in this co-op narrative survival adventure. Visit fun locations, meet wacky characters, and manage your resources wisely. And yes: you still can date some hot monsters ;)
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.4%, Memes 12.6%, Dark Humor 11.6%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Comedy 9.9%
- #44 Road Cards
63% matchMostly Positive76% of 17 reviews2022
Dev: Dnovel
Windows
A hitchhiker simulator and a card game? Easy!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Stylized 9.2%, Funny 9.2%, Comedy 8.7%
- #45 Clive is a Good Guy
61% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Indolent Games
Windows
Nine personas live in Clive’s head. Dialogue is combat. Choose who speaks and what they say to survive.
Why similar: Satire 20.4% ★, Narrative 16.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Philosophical 11.5%, Choices Matter 11.1%
- #46 The Ripe Blood Anthology: This World Is Just for the Two of Us
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Роман Ветер-Пурпурный
Windows · Linux
A visual novel where your choices matter. Derek has a job, a beloved boyfriend, friends, and… “piranha thoughts.” Everything was perfect until his younger sister Rina returned to town.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Multiple Endings 11%, Hand-drawn 10.4%
- #47 In Cold Dark
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: \du interactivePub: done\undone
Windows
An interactive point-and-click space story about rediscovering a life, our friendships, our choices and regrets.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Philosophical 13.6%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
- #48 Space Court
62% matchVery Positive98% of 160 reviews2020
Dev: Uphill Promise
Windows
As a newly appointed Judge, you will rule over Space Court and its denizens to keep the universe safe. Or possibly blow it all up. Either way, you’re tenured.
Why similar: Choices Matter 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Multiple Endings 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Funny 11.5%
- #49 VIDEOVERSE
59% matchVery Positive96% of 234 reviews2023
Dev: Kinmoku
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social network 'Videoverse' were still popular…
Why similar: Narrative 31.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, LGBTQ+ 12%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
- #50 Let Me Speak
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Single Effect Studios
Windows
An apprentice. A healer. A warrior. Breathe, pull, and choose your way through their stories in this dark yet comforting narrative game about healing the worlds inside us.
Why similar: Narrative 30.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, LGBTQ+ 19.2%, Stylized 10%, Philosophical 6.8%
- #51 Firebird
59% matchVery Positive100% of 88 reviews2023
Dev: Ludogram
Windows · Mac
Firebird is a narrative road trip that takes place in Slavic folklore, in an adventure that ressembles a traditional tale. Aboard your truck, travel to the far north, meet colorful characters, and face the creatures inhabiting these sacred lands.
Why similar: Narrative 26.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Hand-drawn 11%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
- #52 Upheaval
59% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex Leone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Spend your time well: in 30 days a powerful Magician arrives, and everything changes! Explore the wilds around your remote village, learn from mistakes, recover magical artifacts, and turn setbacks into advantages in this text-based open world roguelike adventure. Time's up: Upheaval is here again!
Why similar: Narrative 26.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Choices Matter 10%
- #53 Far from Noise
62% matchVery Positive84% of 196 reviews2017
Dev: George Batchelor
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Far from Noise is a narrative set on the edge of a cliff, where two characters discuss what it means to balance between life and death.
Why similar: Narrative 27.4% ★, Philosophical 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Dark Humor 10.7%, Choices Matter 8.4%
- #54 Smashing My Phone: Broken-Screen Diaries
58% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Avocado Factory
Windows
You dropped and broke your phone, but you still have to use it. As a college freshman, you must complete tasks like calling friends, replying to messages, and paying at checkout with this broken phone. How far can you go?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Comedy 14.1%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Funny 12.5%
- #55 My Chronic Romance
59% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Romantissimo
Windows
On your 30th birthday—still single—your chronic diseases appear in beautiful form. Will you dare to fall in love with lovely afflictions that slowly consume you until your very last breath? An urban narrative adventure about living with—and loving—your pain.
Why similar: Narrative 16.7% ★, Choices Matter 13.8%, Hand-drawn 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
- #56 I'm Making a Monster
59% matchNo user reviews
Dev: zorkie studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Piece by piece, you pour your soul into the monster. This is your burden and you bear it willingly. Your friends think that this is unhealthy.
Why similar: Narrative 22.9% ★, LGBTQ+ 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Hand-drawn 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.5%
- #57 Necromance
58% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Subversionary Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A brave hero and a bound lich rescue a legendary warrior from a forgotten tomb and put the romance back in necromancy. Necromance is a dark fantasy comedy visual novel with light puzzle elements, 3 endings, and 15 ways to die!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Dark Humor 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Multiple Endings 11%
- #58 A Marble's Muse
58% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Kristi Jimenez
Windows · Mac · Linux
Fall in love with marbles and learn to believe in yourself again.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Comedy 10.9%
- #59 Merry Crisis
59% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Monsoon Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Three loves. One week. Merry Crisis is an intimate, character-driven romance visual novel about love, loss, and belonging—is home what you left behind, or where you’re headed?
Why similar: Narrative 25.5% ★, LGBTQ+ 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Choices Matter 9.6%
- #60 Dumpster Baby
58% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Josef Arnold
Windows
Dumpster Baby is a game about being queer and homeless, and the importance of community and friendship in hard times. You play as Bandit, an optimistic racoon meeting new friends as he tries to find people to be roommates with. A narrative focused single player experience.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 28.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Story Rich 10.3%