- #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 17.7%, Text-Based 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
- #2 Alcyone: The Last City
96% matchPositive81% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: Strange Artifice
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: Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Text-Based 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Dystopian 11%, Visual Novel 8.4%
- #3 Glow Box
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 月刊湿地帯Pub: Waku Waku Games
Windows · Mac
A 60-minute adventure where all you do is glow.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Text-Based 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Futuristic 13.8%, Sci-fi 12%
- #4 Silent Earth
95% 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 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Futuristic 12.6%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
- #5 SOLEN
94% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Detective 12.6%, Text-Based 12.3%, Artificial Intelligence 12%
- #6 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 20.4%, Text-Based 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
- #7 Robot's Fate: Alice
93% 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 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Visual Novel 9.3%, Artificial Intelligence 8.8%
- #8 KORA
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 月之小
Windows
In a "perfect" city governed by AI, you're just an ordinary repair technician trying to survive. Then a routine job goes wrong, you get kidnapped, and the woman who taught you everything you know seems to have known it would happen all along.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 13.6%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Text-Based 10.3%
- #9 The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
91% 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 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Choices Matter 12%
- #10 Welcome to Victorville
91% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2026
Dev: Studio 7e
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your name is Gary Patterson. After waking up in a strange facility with your work partner Victor Adams, you must make a choice: Play along with Victor's plans? Or go it alone and make an escape? Only YOU can decide.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Detective 16%, Text-Based 11.7%, Multiple Endings 8%
- #11 Faultline.Exe
90% 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 16.8%, Dystopian 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
- #12 Terminal Tales: An Interactive Fiction Anthology
89% 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 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Detective 10.9%
- #13 呪霊が見せる夢 / Dreamscapes
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: アイエダゲームズ(Aieda Games)
Windows
Investigate six haunted properties and listen to the voices of spirits trapped in nightmares. Collect fragmented clues and discover the correct combination of names, locations, and vessels. A multi-ending horror adventure where the outcome changes depending on your choices during the ritual.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Text-Based 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Multiple Endings 12.3%
- #14 Tale of android after the Apocalypse
88% matchPositive81% of 21 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 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Choices Matter 9.1%
- #15 Message in a Melody
87% 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 23.4%, Sci-fi 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Choices Matter 10.8%
- #16 Monitor State
86% 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 20.8%, Futuristic 12.4%, Text-Based 12.2%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
- #17 Choice of Robots
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,000 reviews2014
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.8 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 27.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Sci-fi 7.4%
- #18 XVTM
84% match5 user reviews100% of 5 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 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Text-Based 13.4%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.7%
- #19 Hypoxia - One Last Breath
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 21 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 15.2%, Text-Based 15%, Sci-fi 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%
- #20 Will Die Alone
83% matchMostly Positive76% of 67 reviews2022
Dev: Arianna Ravioli
Windows · Mac
Some memories aren't meant to stay. We are our memories and our experiences. What happens if you delete some of them? If you change your past and, thus, your future?
Why similar: Text-Based 20.7%, Dystopian 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
- #21 PROJECT: MIRROR
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EXPECTACLE
Windows
PROJECT: MIRROR is a psychological horror narrative game about choices, scarcity, and AI observation. Answer ethical dilemmas, manage impossible systems, and watch your decisions become the basis for something that no longer asks permission.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Dystopian 15.6%, Artificial Intelligence 13.8%, Text-Based 13.2%, Choices Matter 10.2%
- #22 ION.A
81% 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 18.1%, Text-Based 14.8%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Choices Matter 8.3%
- #23 Inhuman Resources: A Literary Machination
80% matchVery Positive92% of 73 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 18.2%, Dystopian 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Visual Novel 9.2%
- #24 Cliffhanger: Challenger of Tomorrow
82% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2021
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Punch out Fascists and unravel conspiracies in this pulp adventure set in a retro-futuristic 1930s world of airships, fast cars, and two-fisted action!
Why similar: Text-Based 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Detective 14.7%, Alternate History 9.6%
- #25 The Away Team: Lost Exodus
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 100 reviews2016
Dev: Underflow Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 14.6%, Artificial Intelligence 14.1%, Text-Based 13.5%, Choices Matter 9.6%
- #26 StorySmith
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BigD Games
Windows
A live collaborative story game for you and your Twitch chat. AI generates each scene on your machine — no internet required. Chat votes, you narrate, together you write the story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Text-Based 15%, Artificial Intelligence 13.9%, Choices Matter 9.5%
- #27 The price of tomorrow
79% matchPositive80% of 10 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 21.2%, Dystopian 17.6%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Choices Matter 11.5%
- #28 CODE::LUX
78% matchPositive92% of 26 reviews2025
Dev: すやすやファクトリー
Windows
After a world war destroys civilization’s power grid, scavenger Kai meets Mitsuha, a mysterious girl seeking to restart the fusion reactor that once powered the world. Her wish is simple: to restart the fusion reactor that once supported the world.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Sci-fi 12.4%, Futuristic 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.6%
- #29 After the Storm
79% 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 23.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
- #30 Mother May I
78% 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 13.9%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%
- #31 Always On
77% 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 13.9%, Multiple Endings 12%, Choices Matter 11.1%
- #32 Whispers From The Rift
77% match6 user reviews83% of 6 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: Interactive Fiction 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Text-Based 21.9%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Choices Matter 10.6%
- #33 Cold Bed on Route
75% matchPositive94% of 48 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 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Text-Based 17.6%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
- #34 The World Well: Blood of Caro
73% matchVery Positive89% of 166 reviews2026
Dev: NimparthPub: 2P Games
Windows
The World Well: Blood of Caro is a cinematic dark fantasy visual novel where every choice reveals another piece of the truth. Join 4 and Noma as they journey through a vampire-ruled world filled with unforgettable characters, hidden secrets, and difficult decisions.
Why similar: Text-Based 15%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Detective 12.5%, Dystopian 11.4%
- #35 ナカノ人格移植研究所
75% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Detective 13.8%, Text-Based 12.4%, Visual Novel 11%
- #36 ELISEISK 2074
76% 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 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Futuristic 15.8%, Text-Based 15.5%, Detective 8.7%
- #37 Tower of the Ice Lich
73% 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 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
- #38 The Sin Collector: Repentless
74% 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 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Visual Novel 9.6%
- #39 Tempest In A Teapot
74% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: StrandGames
Windows
A choice-based, visual novel with time travelling teapots!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Sci-fi 9.6%, Futuristic 9%
- #40 OMEA
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: AImmersive Pub: AImmersive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your words shape the adventure. Omea is a revolutionary AI-powered narrative game where your personal Game Master responds to everything you write. No menus, no limits. Just type and forge your own legend across fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, and beyond.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Artificial Intelligence 13.3%, Choices Matter 11.1%
- #41 Lord of Lords: Dawn of the King
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Neural Break Inc.
Windows
Betrayed in the Amazon, an elite Korean special forces commander crosses into a brutal fantasy world and rises as a lord. A dark military-fantasy visual novel with choices, light progression, and conquest.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Text-Based 11.6%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
- #42 Echoes of Chang'an
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: N Studio
Windows · Mac
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 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Detective 17.4%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
- #43 THE 13th Digit
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Uesho Co., Ltd.
Windows
In a rain-soaked megacity, one law remains: cross one trillion dollars in hidden wealth and you forfeit your right to live. You are K, the executioner who enforces it — until the numbers start to lie. A branching cyberpunk noir with 5 endings, where every choice is remembered.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Text-Based 14.1%, Detective 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.2%
- #44 Biocybernetic Trap
71% 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 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Detective 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
- #45 TOBOR
71% 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 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Detective 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
- #46 The Crimson Call
70% matchPositive91% of 32 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 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%
- #47 EMIT:Embrace Beyond Time
69% matchPositive97% of 32 reviews2026
Dev: LuLuLuna Studio
Windows
In a near-future city ruled by AI system EDEN, you become a Memory Restorer, entering the past to fix events deemed wrong. But each restoration changes reality. When the optimal solution demands you abandon her, will you save the world, or save the one who should not remain?
Why similar: Dystopian 23.2%, Artificial Intelligence 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Text-Based 8.8%
- #48 Trauma Record
70% matchNo user reviews2026
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 16.6%, Dystopian 16.1%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
- #49 Quodan: Treachery on the Arheid
69% 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 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Detective 14.7%, Visual Novel 11%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
- #50 Across Kiloparsecs
70% 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 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.3%
- #51 Vanakan
69% match2 user reviews100% of 2 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: Text-Based 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.2%
- #52 The Zoo
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: R ButtonPub: Hierarch Games
Windows · Mac
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 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Text-Based 13.1%, Multiple Endings 12.9%
- #53 Roadwarden
67% matchVery Positive94% of 5,150 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 33.5%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Choices Matter 7.2%, Multiple Endings 7.2%
- #54 Mass of Consumption
67% 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 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Text-Based 15.1%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
- #55 Bootlegger: Moonshine Empire
67% 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: Interactive Fiction 26.5%, Text-Based 26.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
- #56 Herald of the Mists
67% 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 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Detective 11.7%, Choices Matter 11.5%
- #57 My Merry May with be
65% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: MAGES. Inc.
Windows
主人公の前に突然現れた人工生命「レプリス」の少女・レゥ。人と変わらない感情を持つ彼女と過ごす中で、「心とは何か」「人間とは何か」という問いに向き合っていくSF恋愛アドベンチャー
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Text-Based 16.3%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Adventure 8.4%
- #58 1453: Fall of Constantinople
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 3Cats Studio
Windows · Mac
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Text-Based 19.9%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
- #59 Choices That Matter: And The Sun Went Out
68% 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%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Detective 12.6%, Multiple Endings 12.5%