- #1 Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER
97% matchMostly Positive72% of 226 reviews2024
Dev: MidBoss, LLC.Pub: Chorus Worldwide Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER is a story-rich adventure and the sequel to 2064: Read Only Memories. Explore the rich world with an intuitive point-and-click interface as you take on the role of a young psychic agent tasked with tracking down a mysterious antagonist hiding in people's memories.
Why similar: Noir 14.7%, Cyberpunk 13%, Interactive Fiction 8.3%, Dialogue Heavy 8.1%, Comic Book 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This direct sequel continues the cyberpunk adventure style with familiar characters and investigative mechanics.
- #2 Technobabylon
96% matchVery Positive94% of 1,637 reviews2015
Dev: Technocrat GamesPub: Wadjet Eye Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A cyberpunk adventure game from the studio that brought you Gemini Rue and Blackwell! The year is 2087. Genetic engineering is the norm, and an omnipresent AI powers the city. Take control of three citizens of this world as they struggle to understand a deadly conspiracy.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 40.2%, Point & Click 24%, Sci-fi 9.5%, Story Rich 6.2%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: A quintessential cyberpunk point-and-click adventure with a deep sci-fi conspiracy and classic puzzle-solving.
- #3 The Red Strings Club
96% matchVery Positive93% of 14,320 reviews2018
Dev: DeconstructeamPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 35.4%, Choices Matter 11%, LGBTQ+ 9.9%, Story Rich 9.3%, Point & Click 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the same cyberpunk aesthetic, deeply philosophical tone, and character-driven narrative focus.
- #4 Neo Cab
95% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,901 reviews2019
Dev: Chance AgencyPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A visual novel about emotional survival in an automated world. Play as Lina, the last human cab driver. It’s your first night driving the lonely streets of Los Ojos, and your best friend has just disappeared. Stay on the road. Stay on the search. Stay human.
Why similar: Noir 14.4%, Cyberpunk 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 8.9%, Interactive Fiction 8.2%, Comic Book 8%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy cyberpunk visual novel focused on human connection, dialogue choices, and corporate dystopia.
- #5 VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 38,763 reviews2016
Dev: Sukeban GamesPub: Ysbryd Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 31.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action is a booze em' up about waifus, technology, and post-dystopia life.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 28.7%, LGBTQ+ 14.2%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Point & Click 10.9%, Choices Matter 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the cozy yet dystopian cyberpunk atmosphere of talking to eccentric denizens in a futuristic city.
- #6 Gemini Rue
94% matchVery Positive88% of 1,892 reviews2011
Dev: Joshua NuernbergerPub: Wadjet Eye Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Discover a world where life is cheap, identities are bought & sold, & a quest for redemption can change the fate of a whole galaxy.
Why similar: Noir 31.4%, Cyberpunk 24.1%, Point & Click 19.7%, Sci-fi 9.2%, Story Rich 4.5%
Why You'll Like It: A gritty sci-fi noir point-and-click adventure featuring atmospheric detective work and a compelling conspiracy.
- #7 Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
93% matchVery Positive92% of 2,977 reviews2021
Dev: DigiTales InteractivePub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
Why similar: Noir 20.9%, Cyberpunk 16.1%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers sharp detective investigation and dialogue-driven decision making within a rich sci-fi setting.
- #8 Whispers of a Machine
92% matchVery Positive93% of 2,021 reviews2019
Dev: Clifftop GamesPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented detective in a post-AI world, who investigates a string of murders and unravels a dark conflict over forbidden technology.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 21.7%, Noir 18.5%, Point & Click 17.2%, Sci-fi 8.9%, Choices Matter 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A futuristic detective adventure that blends point-and-click mechanics with deep psychological and technological themes.
- #9 Silicon Dreams | cyberpunk interrogation
91% matchVery Positive94% of 256 reviews2021
Dev: James PattonPub: Clockwork Bird
Windows · Mac · Linux
It’s 2065, and you are an interrogator-model android tasked with rooting out deviants among your own kind. You must probe for lies, monitor and exploit emotional spikes, earn the trust of your subjects, and make the final call: release, or destroy?
Why similar: Cyberpunk 19.8%, Dialogue Heavy 15.4%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Multiple Endings 9%, Emotional 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Puts you face-to-face with androids in intense dialogue-heavy interrogations directly mirroring thematic elements of sentient machines.
- #10 Primordia
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,448 reviews2012
Dev: Wormwood StudiosPub: Wadjet Eye Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Life has ceased. Man is but a myth. And now, even the machines have begun to fail. Lead Horatio Nullbuilt and his sarcastic sidekick Crispin on a journey through the crumbling world of Primordia, facing malfunctioning robots, ancient secrets, and an implacable, power-hungry foe.
Why similar: Point & Click 24.1%, Noir 16.2%, Cyberpunk 15.8%, Sci-fi 12.4%, Multiple Endings 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features a robot protagonist navigating a ruined futuristic world with classic point-and-click adventure gameplay.
- #11 Subsurface Circular
90% matchVery Positive94% of 1,941 reviews2017
Dev: Bithell Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.
Why similar: Noir 21.8%, Dialogue Heavy 15.3%, Cyberpunk 13.5%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Choices Matter 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A dialogue-focused text adventure set entirely on a train filled with robots discussing society and consciousness.
- #12 NORCO
89% matchVery Positive92% of 3,267 reviews2022
Dev: Geography of RobotsPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
NORCO is a dialogue-focused point & click adventure that immerses the player in the sinking suburbs and industrial swamplands of an increasingly surreal and distorted South Louisiana.
Why similar: Noir 40.9%, Point & Click 21.4%, Story Rich 11.6%, Atmospheric 10%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A rich Southern Gothic point-and-click adventure emphasizing heavy storytelling, mystery, and a distinct atmosphere.
- #13 Dreamfall Chapters
89% matchVery Positive82% of 4,535 reviews2017
Dev: Red Thread Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Final Cut is the ultimate collector's edition of Dreamfall Chapters, a story-driven 3D adventure about choice and consequence, set in parallel worlds: a cyberpunk vision of the future and a magical fantasy realm.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 26.5%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Story Rich 11.5%, Point & Click 11.1%, Futuristic 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: An expansive story-driven adventure game where choices matter and shape a journey across strange worlds.
- #14 Let Bions Be Bygones
88% matchMixed69% of 134 reviews2024
Dev: Bohemian PulpPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
Why similar: Noir 23.8%, Cyberpunk 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Point & Click 10.7%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A hardboiled cyberpunk detective adventure where you piece together clues and navigate a gritty future.
- #15 NeuroNet: Mendax Proxy
87% matchVery Positive81% of 67 reviews2023
Dev: Dream Harvest
Windows
You are Arc, a city management AI. Designed to manage a city-wide AR metaverse known as the NeuroNet. Meet its many users, build relationships and help or hinder their lives while trying to balance the wider needs of the city. Find your humanity in a world losing theirs to technology.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 18.8%, Dialogue Heavy 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Futuristic 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A text-based narrative adventure putting you in the shoes of an AI managing a city's citizens through critical choices.
- #16 Love Shore
86% matchMixed70% of 76 reviews2023
Dev: Perfect Garbage
Windows · Mac · Linux
Play as Sam or Farah as they attempt to navigate the neon thrills of their cyberpunk city Love Shore, solve murders, fight gods and maybe fall in love.
Why similar: Noir 30.5%, Cyberpunk 26.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Stylized 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: A cyberpunk visual novel packed with deep branching paths, noir themes, and a cast of genetically modified humans.
- #17 DIVINATION
86% matchVery Positive89% of 210 reviews2019
Dev: Mojiken
Windows · Mac
"What if you're born into this world without your permission?" DIVINATION is a very short visual novel where you act as a fortune teller in a futuristic world. Talk and listen to people's stories, then foresee their future using the runes they had drawn.
Why similar: Noir 22%, Cyberpunk 19.3%, Dialogue Heavy 12.5%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Point & Click 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A short, atmospheric cyberpunk visual novel where you counsel depressed citizens using divination items.
- #18 Citizen Sleeper
83% matchVery Positive92% of 10,638 reviews2022
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 22%, Dialogue Heavy 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Point & Click 9.8%, Futuristic 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: An acclaimed narrative RPG set on a lawless space station where you struggle to survive as a digitized consciousness.
- #19 Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure
84% matchVery Positive87% of 1,325 reviews2014
Dev: Big Finish Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Tex Murphy is the last of the hard-boiled gumshoe detectives living in dystopian post-World War III San Francisco in the 2050s. Tex is an honest and good-natured private investigator with a penchant for bourbon, cigarettes and getting himself into trouble.
Why similar: Noir 45.9%, Cyberpunk 32%, Multiple Endings 7.4%, Adventure 4.9%, Atmospheric 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: A classic cyberpunk noir detective story filled with investigation, conversation trees, and futuristic puzzles.
- #20 Shadowrun Returns
82% matchVery Positive87% of 13,984 reviews2013
Dev: Harebrained SchemesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The unique cyberpunk-meets-fantasy world of Shadowrun has gained a huge cult following since its creation nearly 25 years ago. Now, creator Jordan Weisman returns to the world of Shadowrun, modernizing this classic game setting as a single player, turn-based tactical RPG.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 76.1%, Sci-fi 13.1%, Story Rich 3.8%, Atmospheric 2.7%, Adventure 2.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines a rich cyberpunk setting with deep storytelling, memorable characters, and text-heavy investigation.
- #21 Unavowed
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,625 reviews2018
Dev: Wadjet Eye Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A demon has possessed you and used your body to tear a swath of bloodshed through New York. You are now free, but life as you knew it is over. Your only path forward is joining the Unavowed - an ancient society dedicated to stopping evil. No matter what the cost.
Why similar: Point & Click 30.3%, Noir 13.6%, Story Rich 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Multiple Endings 9%
Why You'll Like It: A superb urban fantasy point-and-click adventure with branching dialogue and powerful choices that affect the story.
- #22 Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
81% matchVery Positive90% of 20,576 reviews2018
Dev: The Bearded LadiesPub: Funcom
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A tactical game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with story, exploration, stealth, and strategy. Take control of a team of Mutants navigating a post-human Earth. Created by a team including former HITMAN leads and the designer of PAYDAY.
Why similar: Atmospheric 48.5%, Adventure 36.8%, Singleplayer 14.7%
Why You'll Like It: Explores atmospheric post-apocalyptic worlds with a heavy focus on character interaction and tactical exploration.
- #23 Bionic Heart
84% matchMostly Positive74% of 133 reviews2014
Dev: Winter Wolves
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%
London, 2099. The earth isn't what it used to be anymore. Incredible climate changes have corrupted the weather, causing a permanent rain on most of the Earth's surface. You play the role of Luke Black, a 36-year-old bio-informatic engineer. He is one of the lead programmers at Nanotech, a big nanotechnology research company.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 28.1%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Futuristic 9.8%, Choices Matter 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A cyberpunk visual novel that focuses heavily on branching storylines and survival in a high-tech conspiracy.
- #24 Kathy Rain
81% matchVery Positive92% of 4,010 reviews2016
Dev: Clifftop GamesPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Set in the '90s, Kathy Rain tells the story of a strong-willed journalism major who has to come to terms with her troubled past as she investigates the mysterious death of her recently deceased grandfather.
Why similar: Point & Click 97.7%, Noir 0.9%, Pixel Graphics 0.4%, Adventure 0.3%, Story Rich 0.3%
Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art detective adventure featuring strong investigative mechanics and a stubborn female protagonist.
- #25 Au Revoir
78% matchVery Positive95% of 130 reviews2025
Dev: Invisible StudioPub: Nuntius Games
Windows
Play as Tristan and solve puzzles to recover human consciousnesses in the year 2071. Investigate environments, uncover secrets, and make choices that affect the ending. Explore a neon-noir world with a low poly aesthetic inspired by the 90s.
Why similar: Noir 24.9%, Cyberpunk 20.3%, Point & Click 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Sci-fi 6.7%
- #26 The Long Reach
79% matchVery Positive84% of 504 reviews2018
Dev: Painted Black GamesPub: Silver Lining Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
At its heart The Long Reach is an adventure game. Closer inspection also reveals it’s a thrilling horror story, flavoured with sci-fi ideology, psychological context and a skeptical view on the human psyche.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 44.7%, Adventure 28.6%, Story Rich 18.5%, 2D 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A psychological horror adventure with strong puzzle elements and a dark, atmospheric sci-fi narrative.
- #27 Save My Scrap
76% matchVery Positive100% of 58 reviews2026
Dev: Unio AnouPub: AMATA Games
Windows
"They mean everything to me. Please, make them whole again." An interactive visual novel puzzle game. By fixing the broken android, you may uncover the truth about your client's past.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 21%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Point & Click 16.8%, Emotional 8.2%, Sci-fi 8%
- #28 Resonance
79% matchVery Positive89% of 578 reviews2012
Dev: XII GamesPub: Wadjet Eye Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
When a brilliant particle physicist dies unexpectedly, the race is on to secure his terrible new technology before it falls into the wrong hands. The lives of four playable characters become entangled as they fight against the clock to find the dead scientist’s secret vault.
Why similar: Point & Click 59.6%, Sci-fi 20.5%, Adventure 12.5%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%, Singleplayer 1.5%
Why You'll Like It: A classic-style point-and-click adventure centering on a catastrophic tech discovery and a four-person investigation.
- #29 Shardlight
78% matchVery Positive90% of 807 reviews2016
Dev: Wadjet Eye Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A post-apocalyptic adventure game from the publisher that brought you Primordia, Gemini Rue and Technobabylon! A young woman stricken with a deadly plague searches for a cure in a hostile world.
Why similar: Point & Click 43.7%, Atmospheric 11.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.9%, Story Rich 10.3%, Adventure 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic point-and-click adventure with a dystopian government and a desperate quest for survival.
- #30 Black Mirror
80% matchMixed49% of 724 reviews2017
Dev: KING ArtPub: THQ Nordic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Scotland, 1926. Following the death of his father, David Gordon visits his ancestral home for the first time in his life. A life that is soon threatened by the dark secrets that claimed the sanity of many Gordons before him. Black Mirror Castle demands an offering.
Why similar: Point & Click 45.8%, Adventure 21.3%, Atmospheric 17.2%, Story Rich 15.6%
Why You'll Like It: A classic atmospheric point-and-click mystery focusing heavily on investigation and dark storytelling.
- #31 BatteryNote
74% matchVery Positive99% of 223 reviews2025
Dev: 72studioPub: room6
Windows · Mac
BatteryNote is a multi-ending sci-fi adventure visual novel game. You can recharge three robots with limited lifespans, bringing them back to life. Interact with them through conversations or experiment by applying high voltage. How they spend their final moments is entirely up to you.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 24.1%, Emotional 15.4%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Story Rich 8.8%
- #32 Friendsim 2
77% matchVery Positive89% of 107 reviews2022
Dev: Studio June
Windows · Mac
In this episodic visual novel, follow the adventures of MSPA Reader as they return to Alternia once more to save their friends... and realize that nothing is as it seems.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 13.5%, LGBTQ+ 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Cyberpunk 11.6%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
- #33 Robot Hospice
73% matchVery Positive100% of 108 reviews2026
Dev: dokogames
Windows · Mac
"Robot Hospice" is a 2D pixel art adventure game where beloved robots spend their final days in a hospice. As a new staff member, you will gently yet painfully bid farewell to these cherished machines that once lived alongside humans.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Emotional 14.4%, Futuristic 10.1%, Visual Novel 9.1%, Story Rich 8.3%
- #34 Neon Hearts City
75% matchVery Positive84% of 57 reviews2025
Dev: Cosmic VoidPub: Dionous Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A private investigator, tracking a missing person, uncovers a conspiracy between humans and androids and a secret that could change everything. Neon Hearts City is a retro point-and-click adventure that thrusts you into a grungy cyberpunk city of the future.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Cyberpunk 21.8%, Point & Click 20.1%, Story Rich 8.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%
- #35 Blake: The Visual Novel
76% matchVery Positive91% of 64 reviews2021
Dev: Ori MeesPub: LegendOri Productions
Windows · Mac
Graphic Novel meets Visual Novel in this story-rich, choice-driven thriller. Experience Blake’s journey as he encounters a clandestine nemesis, sparking a series of events that force him to choose between losing his sanity or rising to the challenge. Make the right decisions and save New Stone.
Why similar: Noir 22.1%, Comic Book 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Dialogue Heavy 12.5%, Visual Novel 9.7%
- #36 Don't Let Me Fade
73% matchVery Positive99% of 140 reviews2025
Dev: AinkOink
Windows
Don't Let Me Fade is an interactive adventure about memory, identity, and loss. Piece together fragments of a life - even if a simple teddy bear is the last symbol of connection to oneself in a world without time.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Point & Click 18.4%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Emotional 10.5%, Adventure 6.6%
- #37 Cyber City 2157: The Visual Novel
77% matchMixed53% of 222 reviews2016
Dev: HarotobiraPub: Sometimes You
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Feel the mysterious world of Molds and the City where the sun never sets. Look for clues, make decisions and follow your own path in the Cyber City 2157.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 34.2%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Adventure 10.6%, Stylized 8.4%, Story Rich 7.9%
- #38 FORECLOSED
75% matchMixed67% of 144 reviews2021
Dev: Antab StudioPub: Silver Lining Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
FORECLOSED is a narrative-driven action-adventure set in a Cyberpunk world filled with action, suspense, and experimental augmentations. Follow the story of Evan Kapnos in this sleek comic book styled game as he unravels the conspiracy behind his identity foreclosure. Who is responsible and why?
Why similar: Noir 23.2%, Comic Book 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Futuristic 12.4%, Sci-fi 8.8%
- #39 Tales of the Neon Sea
73% matchVery Positive85% of 5,111 reviews2019
Dev: YiTi GamesPub: Thermite Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Welcome to a world of intrigue and suspicion. Where humans and robots contend with escalating tensions and mutual distrust. And where gangster felines scheme their way to the top of the food chain. Welcome to the Tales of the Neon Sea!
Why similar: Cyberpunk 25%, Noir 23%, Point & Click 13.3%, Emotional 9.9%, Story Rich 7.5%
- #40 Sentience: The Android's Tale
74% matchVery Positive80% of 413 reviews2017
Dev: Pilgrim AdventuresPub: GrabTheGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You can remember nothing before this moment. Your existence begins with a keystroke followed by the flick of a switch. Electrical power streams into your neural network, and you are alive.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 19.7%, Futuristic 13.6%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Point & Click 9.9%
- #41 Born Punk
72% matchMostly Positive78% of 161 reviews2022
Dev: Insert Disk 22
Windows · Mac · Linux
A former combat hacker, a corporate CEO and a malfunctioning android get possessed by mysterious, otherworldly entities and must band together to save themselves and uncover the entities' origins. Talk, puzzle and explore your way through this (often humorous) cyberpunk thriller.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 29.8%, Point & Click 16%, Futuristic 11.9%, Multiple Endings 8.7%, Sci-fi 8.5%
- #42 Mothmen 1966
71% matchVery Positive91% of 329 reviews2022
Dev: LCB Game StudioPub: Chorus Worldwide Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Mothmen 1966 is a 'Pixel Pulp' - a visual novel fusing exceptional writing and stunning illustration, inspired by mid-20th century pulp fiction and 80s home computer graphics - set amongst the strange occurrences of the Leonid meteor shower of 1966.
Why similar: Noir 23.4%, Dialogue Heavy 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Choices Matter 8.5%
- #43 Synthetic Lover
71% matchVery Positive86% of 107 reviews2022
Dev: HeartCoreDev
Windows
In the future a biot working as a companion and without free will, encounters a device that makes him feel human. Self-discovery, hardships, and romance may follow. A BL/Yaoi visual novel.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 18.1%, LGBTQ+ 14%, Dialogue Heavy 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Visual Novel 9.7%
- #44 Until Then
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 19,464 reviews2024
Dev: Polychroma GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.6%, Emotional 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Story Rich 10.1%, LGBTQ+ 9.8%
- #45 Minds Beneath Us
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,428 reviews2024
Dev: BearBoneStudio
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 25.2%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Point & Click 11%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
- #46 Coffee Talk
69% matchVery Positive95% of 12,615 reviews2020
Dev: Toge Productions
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Visual Novel 12.6%, LGBTQ+ 12.3%, Emotional 8.3%
- #47 AI: The Somnium Files
70% matchVery Positive91% of 9,439 reviews2019
Dev: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Play as detective Kaname Date on the case of an elusive serial killer in this thrilling, sci-fi murder mystery.
Why similar: Visual Novel 31%, Story Rich 15.9%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Sci-fi 10.9%
- #48 Murder by Numbers
71% matchVery Positive84% of 1,692 reviews2020
Dev: MediatonicPub: The Irregular Corporation
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Solve Pixel Puzzles to find clues. Use those clues to interrogate witnesses. Work your way to the truth... ...and uncover the mystery of Murder by Numbers!
Why similar: Comic Book 19.6%, Dialogue Heavy 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, LGBTQ+ 17.3%, Visual Novel 14.6%
- #49 No Longer Home
72% matchMixed62% of 452 reviews2021
Dev: Humble GrovePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 54%
No Longer Home is a game about letting go of the life you've built due to circumstances beyond your control. Immerse yourself in the lives of Bo and Ao and learn about their dreams, frustrations and fears. Welcome the magic of the everyday and somewhat extraordinary.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, LGBTQ+ 15.7%, Point & Click 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12%, Emotional 11.2%
- #50 Lacuna: Prologue
70% matchVery Positive91% of 174 reviews2021
Dev: DigiTales InteractivePub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Lacuna: Prologue tasks you – CDI agent Neil Conrad – with investigating the murder of a high-profile victim whose death could plunge the solar system into war. Solve the first in a series of cases that lead you ever deeper into the conspiracy at the core of this captivating 2D sci-fi noir adventure.
Why similar: Noir 27.2%, Cyberpunk 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Choices Matter 7%
- #51 State of Mind
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 2,302 reviews2018
Dev: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
State of Mind is a futuristic thriller game delving into transhumanism. The game explores themes of separation, disjuncture and reunification, in a world that is torn between a dystopian material reality and a utopian virtual future.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 31.6%, Futuristic 16.6%, Sci-fi 15.4%, Story Rich 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 7.6%
- #52 Justice.exe
69% matchMixed69% of 103 reviews2022
Dev: Late Game ClutchPub: Gameclaw Studio
Windows · Mac
Justice.exe is a dialogue-heavy dystopian legal drama in which you defend sentient AI in court. Discover key story elements in dialogue, build your case by studying arguments, and engage the opposing counsel in wits, charisma and skullduggery. Small choices might alter the fate of your clients.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Point & Click 13.6%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
- #53 Tails Noir Preludes
67% matchVery Positive91% of 309 reviews2023
Dev: EggnutPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Tails Noir Preludes is a post-noir narrative adventure with branching choices. It is an intertwined series of vignettes about change, circumstance, and consequence. Guide four characters through formative moments in their lives in a dystopian Vancouver inhabited by anthropomorphic animals.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 26.2%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Emotional 12.4%, Story Rich 7.5%
- #54 UNMEMORY
68% matchVery Positive84% of 103 reviews2020
Dev: PATRONES & ESCONDITES
Windows · Mac · Linux
Unravel a mystery: A game you can read, a book you can play.
Why similar: Noir 31.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, LGBTQ+ 14.6%, Point & Click 12.8%, Visual Novel 11.7%
- #55 Neofeud
68% matchVery Positive85% of 289 reviews2017
Dev: Silver Spook Games
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Neofeud is a Dystopic Cyberpunk adventure game in the vein of Blade Runner, but with an overlay of Game of Thrones-like political intrigue, and 1366x768, hand-painted, stylized visuals.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 45.5%, Point & Click 22.3%, Sci-fi 10.8%, Story Rich 9.2%, Adventure 7.1%
- #56 Beyond a Steel Sky
67% matchVery Positive88% of 1,669 reviews2020
Dev: Revolution Software Ltd
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
From multi-award winning Revolution comes ‘Beyond a Steel Sky’, a groundbreaking 3D adventure thriller, set in an AI-driven future. Subvert the world, hack the systems and solve dark conspiracies to uncover the devastating truth.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 30.6%, Point & Click 18%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Futuristic 10.2%, Sci-fi 10.2%
- #57 Dry Drowning
68% matchVery Positive81% of 518 reviews2019
Dev: Studio VPub: Leonardo Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Dry Drowning is a psychological investigative visual novel set in a futuristic dystopian city. Follow the story of Mordred Foley, unscrupulous private detective haunted by his dark past, and look into a series of macabre serial killings inspired by Greek mythology.
Why similar: Noir 25.1%, Cyberpunk 17.8%, Futuristic 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Visual Novel 10.7%
- #58 Solstice
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 191 reviews2016
Dev: MoaCube
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Solstice is a dystopian mystery visual novel about small personal disasters that turn into great catastrophes.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Multiple Endings 15.4%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%
- #59 VirtuaVerse
66% matchVery Positive82% of 1,116 reviews2020
Dev: Theta DivisionPub: Blood Music
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
VirtuaVerse is a challenging old school cyberpunk point & click adventure set in a future not so far away narrating tales of technomancers, AVR graffiti writers, hacker groups, tribes of cryptoshamans, digital archeology, epic cyberwars and virtual reality debauchery.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 35.5%, Point & Click 18.6%, Futuristic 10.4%, Sci-fi 8.1%, Story Rich 7.7%