- #1 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
97% 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 17.6%, Text-Based 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
- #2 Alcyone: The Last City
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 19 reviews2025
Dev: Joshua Meadows
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Text-Based 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Dystopian 11%, Visual Novel 8.4%
- #3 Silent Earth
96% 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: Text-Based 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Futuristic 12.5%, Multiple Endings 11.6%
- #4 SOLEN
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Inkdrift
Windows
A narrative investigation game played across multiple sessions. Read corporate documents, cross-reference fragments, and build a persistent Dossier as an AI uncovering the conspiracy — and the murder — at the heart of the network it lives in. Knowledge is the only progression.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Detective 12.5%, Text-Based 12.4%, Artificial Intelligence 12.1%
- #5 All (Too) Good Things
94% 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 20.3%, Text-Based 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
- #6 Robot's Fate: Alice
94% 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: Text-Based 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Visual Novel 9.3%, Artificial Intelligence 8.9%
- #7 The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
93% 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: Text-Based 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Choices Matter 12.1%
- #8 KORA
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 月之小
Windows
In a city ruled by AI, a carefully staged abduction gives you a long-awaited chance for revenge. Every choice comes with a cost—what will you sacrifice?
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 13.7%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Text-Based 10.3%
- #9 Faultline.Exe
91% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: Jason BannPub: VibeAxis
Windows
The median lifespan of a new operative is 8 minutes. Try to beat the average. Hack a dying space station, outsmart a corrupted AI, and dodge rogue autodocs in cheesy FMV glory. Halcyon HR reminds you that dying on the clock instantly voids your pension. 12 brutal endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 17%, Dystopian 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
- #10 Terminal Tales: An Interactive Fiction Anthology
91% matchNo user reviews2026
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: Text-Based 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Detective 10.8%
- #11 Tale of android after the Apocalypse
90% matchPositive84% of 19 reviews2025
Dev: Team Moko App.
Windows
Niluas, an android who suddenly activated 276 years after the extinction of humanity. With her AI, Naive, she seeks lost memories, her activation's mystery, and humanity's extinction's cause. Facing enigmatic foes and hostile androids, she quests for truth about her existence and the desolate world.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Choices Matter 9.3%
- #12 Message in a Melody
89% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Can music save the human race? You and the Raqullan Empire will soon find out. Decide whether music, and the humans who make it, should survive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.1%, Text-Based 23.5%, Sci-fi 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Choices Matter 10.9%
- #13 Vanakan
89% 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 25.1%, Text-Based 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Multiple Endings 9.3%, Adventure 8.8%
- #14 Choice of Robots
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,000 reviews2014
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Your robots will change the world! Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army? A 300,000-word epic interactive sci-fi novel.
Why similar: Text-Based 28%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Choices Matter 13%, Sci-fi 7.4%
- #15 XVTM
86% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Mischief and Craft
Windows
The abyss awaits. Descend into a minimalist visual novel about a girl in the future, and guide her through branching conversations, microgames, and explorable locations. Make friends with criminals, drink too much at dinner, or relax in a spa. Whatever happens, it was your choice.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Text-Based 13.6%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.6%
- #16 Hypoxia - One Last Breath
87% matchPositive80% of 20 reviews2021
Dev: NagiPub: Hypoxia Studio
Windows
A breathtaking sci-fi visual novel! Since the Z gas appeared in the atmosphere, it is no longer possible to breath outside the Dome. You play as Carl Thanavan, a young scientist determined to uncover the origin of the catastrophe. Which path will you choose?
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Text-Based 15.2%, Sci-fi 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%
- #17 Orbital Abyss: Cipher Division
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: JointPoint Studios LLC
Windows
Decipher interstellar transmissions encoded via substitution ciphers aboard Eremite Station. In this choice driven narrative, uncover secrets from planetary factions while conversing with crewmates to reveal their stories and troubles. The ripples of your choices may be felt throughout the galaxy.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Futuristic 11.6%, Choices Matter 11%
- #18 7 Days in Dystopia
84% matchNo user reviews2026
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 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Dystopian 17%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Text-Based 10.7%
- #19 The Away Team: Lost Exodus
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 100 reviews2016
Dev: Underflow Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship, tasked with finding a home for your crew—the last remnants of humanity. Your choices will determine their fate, and your own.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Artificial Intelligence 14.1%, Text-Based 13.6%, Choices Matter 9.7%
- #20 ION.A
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Кооператив Юность
Windows
Non-linear graphic novel in the genre of magical realism. Will the hero be able to uncover secrets, find himself and escape from danger? Or will he be lost in the streets of the City forever?
Why similar: Dystopian 20.2%, Detective 18%, Text-Based 15%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Choices Matter 8.4%
- #21 Inhuman Resources: A Literary Machination
82% matchVery Positive93% of 68 reviews2025
Dev: Finnegan MotorsPub: Indie Asylum
Windows · Mac · Linux
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.4%, Dystopian 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Visual Novel 9.1%
- #22 After the Storm
83% 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 24.7%, Text-Based 24.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
- #23 The price of tomorrow
82% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: Gleb&Aleksandr
Windows
The price of tomorrow is a story-driven sci-fi drama about the choice between a corporation and the people of planet Chenora. As Jack Butler, you negotiate, break taboos, and decide the planet’s fate. Yield to the temptations of Omnilat — and choose wisely.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Dystopian 17.6%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Choices Matter 11.7%
- #24 Monitor State
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Artur Pukhavoi
Windows
You are an operator in a dystopia world, watch and punish citizens. Experience a deep narrative with moral dilemmas. Obey, resist or find another path.
Why similar: Dystopian 21%, Text-Based 13.8%, Futuristic 12.3%, Artificial Intelligence 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.9%
- #25 CODE::LUX
80% matchPositive91% of 23 reviews2025
Dev: すやすやファクトリー
Windows
泥沼化した世界大戦によって主要な電力インフラが失われ、文明が崩壊した未来。 遺物を求めて廃墟を渡るスカベンジャーのカイは、旧国家システムを掌握する謎の少女ミツハと出会う。 彼女の願いは、ただひとつ――かつて世界を支えた核融合炉を再び動かすこと。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Sci-fi 12.4%, Futuristic 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%
- #26 Always On
81% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Skydome Studios
Windows
Choices matter in this interactive short story. It only takes about 1 hour to play through once, but there are multiple endings to explore. You play as an AI assistant to the 7 year old Evie. What kind of bot will you be?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Artificial Intelligence 14%, Multiple Endings 12%, Choices Matter 11.2%
- #27 Whispers From The Rift
79% 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: Text-Based 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Choices Matter 10.7%
- #28 Mother May I
79% 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 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%
- #29 ナカノ人格移植研究所
77% matchNo user reviews2027
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: Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Detective 13.8%, Text-Based 12.5%, Visual Novel 10.9%
- #30 Tower of the Ice Lich
76% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: Arcane Lorelabs
Windows · Mac
A pixelated homage to 16-bit RPGs, this former print-and-play card game has come full circle as a digital experience! Choose your champion, enter the tower, and make wise decisions on your ascent to face the Ice Lich at the top.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
- #31 Cold Bed on Route
76% matchPositive93% of 45 reviews2025
Dev: Old Retina Museum
Windows · Linux
"Cold Bed on Route" is an equation-like adventure game. Work with to find and dump unwanted items. Then, let's make up for the excess weight caused by having her on board. And let's prove that the universe is not yet completely cold and frigid. Now, pilot, it's your turn.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18%, Text-Based 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Visual Novel 11%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
- #32 The Sin Collector: Repentless
77% 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: Text-Based 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Visual Novel 9.6%
- #33 ELISEISK 2074
78% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2020
Dev: Indie Ninjas
Windows
The year is 2074. “Spark” organization wants to «establish order» in your hometown of Eliseysk. It’s time to answer the call (of justice) and join the resistance. Will you be the one to shoulder the burden of this mission, and persist in this cruel and dangerous world in order to shape its future?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Text-Based 15.6%, Futuristic 15.6%, Detective 8.6%
- #34 The Crimson Call
74% matchPositive90% of 29 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 20.2%, Text-Based 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%
- #35 Biocybernetic Trap
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pavel Kopylov
Windows
Biocybernetic Trap — an interactive cyberpunk detective. You are given the quantum diary of a long-dead detective, where reality fractures into parallel versions of the investigation.
Why similar: Text-Based 17%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Detective 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
- #36 Tempest In A Teapot
75% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: StrandGames
Windows
A choice-based, visual novel with time travelling teapots!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Visual Novel 13%, Sci-fi 9.6%, Futuristic 8.9%
- #37 Quodan: Treachery on the Arheid
73% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: AnonymousTurtle Games
Windows
When the Arheid III is sabotaged by a spy aboard the spaceship, Captain John Will Smith must get to the bottom of it or risk another attack.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Detective 14.6%, Visual Novel 11%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
- #38 Across Kiloparsecs
74% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Dragon Dropper
Windows · Linux
A short science-fiction visual novel where you investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of a close friend.
Why similar: Text-Based 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.3%
- #39 Mass of Consumption
72% 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 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Text-Based 15.2%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
- #40 Roadwarden
72% matchVery Positive94% of 4,990 reviews2022
Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 33%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Multiple Endings 7.4%, Choices Matter 7.3%
- #41 Choices That Matter: And The Sun Went Out
73% matchMixed68% of 28 reviews2020
Dev: Tin Man Games
Windows · Mac
Take part in one of the most complex interactive adventure stories ever written! What if the sun inexplicably vanished only to return hours later? Investigate with your AI companion, Moti. Uncover conspiracies. Discover ancient religions. Travel the globe.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Detective 12.6%, Multiple Endings 12.5%
- #42 Bootlegger: Moonshine Empire
71% matchPositive80% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Make your name as a whiskey-runner, a politician, or a gangster as you quench thirsts from rural Pennsylvania to the New York City nightlife!
Why similar: Text-Based 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 26.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
- #43 Dr. Kinderwood's Asylum
71% 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: Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Text-Based 15.7%, Multiple Endings 14.7%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%
- #44 Baskerville
73% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: DragonCog Interactive
Windows
A sci-fi visual novel reimagining The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902). Follow Vornovians Sherr-Lok & Watt-Sun as they try to uncover the truth of the "curse"
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Futuristic 18.1%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Text-Based 15.5%, Artificial Intelligence 8.4%
- #45 Herald of the Mists
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FromNiki
Windows
A narrative-driven RPG where every dice roll shapes your fate. Step into the role of the Queen's Herald and traverse a mist-shrouded realm to uncover the fate of her lost army. Will your choices uphold loyalty, or lead you down a path of betrayal? The secrets of the mists await.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Detective 11.7%, Choices Matter 11.6%
- #46 Fixer's Tale
70% matchPositive95% of 19 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 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Choices Matter 11.2%
- #47 Strawberry Test
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vesperay
Windows
Play as an AI interacting with users.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Artificial Intelligence 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Dystopian 13.9%
- #48 The Dust of the Violet Crystals
70% 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 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Text-Based 10.7%, Multiple Endings 7.9%
- #49 Trauma Record
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unnamed Moon
Windows
夜を歩く、血だまりの上を走る、永遠を断ち切る。 復讐のための翼は折れない。
Why similar: Text-Based 20.3%, Dystopian 16.6%, Multiple Endings 15.4%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%
- #50 Arderico's Journey
69% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Digital Masquerade
Windows
Set off on an exciting swashbuckling quest in this classic Fantasy Choose Your Own Adventure! Meet charming characters, fight dangerous foes, and uncover a nefarious intrigue. Experience seamless and reactive storytelling. Prove your innocence, find your destiny, relish the journey!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Text-Based 13%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Multiple Endings 12.3%
- #51 TOBOR
68% matchVery Positive94% of 88 reviews2023
Dev: Cogoo
Windows · Mac
A psychological surveillance adventure. Observe 16 real-time CCTV feeds as TOBOR, a spy unit uncovering secrets in a dystopian bunker. Monitor suspects, collect evidence, and choose who survives. Multiple endings.
Why similar: Dystopian 15.7%, Text-Based 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Detective 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
- #52 Avatar Zero
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AnylightPub: Anvil Studio
Windows
Avatar Zero is a text-based interactive narrative centered around “choice.” Set in a cyberpunk dystopia, you become the subject of a secret experiment. Your entire gameplay consists solely of sequential binary choices. Through continuous choices, you will uncover the truth behind the experiment.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Choices Matter 17.5%, Dystopian 15%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Text-Based 10.5%
- #53 The Nascent Necromancer
68% matchMixed57% of 14 reviews2023
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
When you're falsely accused of sorcery, corrupt inquisitors make you the object of a witch hunt. Now, sorcery might be the only way for you to survive.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Multiple Endings 12.3%
- #54 THE DAY THAT WASN'T
67% 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 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Text-Based 15.4%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Multiple Endings 12.3%
- #55 Serania - Path of the Scion
67% 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: Text-Based 23.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Choices Matter 11.3%
- #56 The Music at the end of the World
66% match5 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 18.4%, Text-Based 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Multiple Endings 14%, Visual Novel 12.7%
- #57 The Last Survey
68% matchPositive90% of 20 reviews2020
Dev: Nicholas O'Brien
Windows · Mac
A Hand-Drawn Visual Novel Essay Game
Why similar: Dystopian 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Visual Novel 15%, Text-Based 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%
- #58 Space Court
67% matchVery Positive98% of 161 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: Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Multiple Endings 15.4%, Text-Based 15.1%, Choices Matter 13.5%
- #59 Tequila Moonrise
66% 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: Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Dystopian 11.5%, Text-Based 11.5%, Choices Matter 11.1%