- #1 Daria: A Kingdom Simulator
97% matchMixed44% of 18 reviews2024
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rule your realm, train heroes, and build a legendary kingdom in Daria. Experience strategy, storytelling, and diplomacy in this immersive sim.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.8%, Text-Based 24%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Simulation 14.6%, Choices Matter 7.4%
- #2 Vanakan
96% 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 29.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26%, Text-Based 21.9%, Choices Matter 8.9%, 2D 6%
- #3 The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Verse and Vision
Windows
A narrative-driven psychological visual novel where every floor of an elevator reveals a key moment from your past. Face your regrets, uncover forgotten memories, and make choices that shape your future. Will you find closure, or remain trapped in your own mind?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Text-Based 25%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Multiple Endings 8%
- #4 Tower of the Ice Lich
95% 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: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Text-Based 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%
- #5 Bootlegger: Moonshine Empire
94% 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 30.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.1%, Text-Based 24.9%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Multiple Endings 5.5%
- #6 Emily is Away
94% matchVery Positive89% of 32,252 reviews2015
Dev: Kyle Seeley
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Choices Matter 16.2%, Text-Based 11.1%, Simulation 10.2%
- #7 Mass of Consumption
93% 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 27.4%, Interactive Fiction 26.4%, Text-Based 14.4%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Visual Novel 6.7%
- #8 Jolly Good: Tea and Scones
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Extract yourself from another fine mess–this time, with your family watching! Mischief, mix-ups, and bewilderingly urgent capers at your ancestral estate.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31%, Text-Based 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Multiple Endings 5.7%
- #9 Wish Us Luck
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Black Moluska
Windows
Wish Us Luck is a multi-plot interactive fiction fueled by your hard decisions. Play three strangers whose fates are intertwined by the cogs of chance on an eventful day. But remember: favoring one character means jeopardizing the others. Good Luck.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Modern 21.1%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Drama 7.1%
- #10 Hadean Lands
91% matchPositive94% of 48 reviews2016
Dev: Zarfhome Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Alchemy, puzzles, and a crashed starship. Old-style interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No dialogue trees! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 40.5%, Text-Based 32.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Indie 3.1%, Story Rich 0.9%
- #11 All (Too) Good Things
90% 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 28.3%, Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Text-Based 21.4%, Choices Matter 7.6%, Multiple Endings 6.9%
- #12 The Trial
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NowakGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested." Story about life, choices and a Man vs the System. This unique interactive literature adaptation. A game, brought to You in early visual novel, text-adventure style.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Text-Based 19.2%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%
- #13 Choice of Robots
89% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.1%, Text-Based 28.9%, Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Indie 2.3%
- #14 Defragmenting
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: pngTriads
Windows
The outside is being ravaged by a mysterious downpour of a glass, you are forced to take shelter in a seemingly innocuous rundown hotel. Yet, stuck with you are people who you wish you would never see again. What will you do to survive?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Text-Based 14.8%, Simulation 8%, Choices Matter 7.1%
- #15 Echoes of Pinebridge
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Koalu Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
After a transfer student enters his life, college senior Kent begins suffering fainting spells and hearing voices. Navigate friendships, secrets, and a growing supernatural mystery in this choice-driven visual novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Modern 11.1%, Visual Novel 7.8%
- #16 A Wise Use of Time
87% matchVery Positive80% of 121 reviews2015
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
With the power to freeze time, you can ransack a casino, rescue a celebrity, or cheat death itself! A thrilling interactive sci-fi novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.3%, Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Text-Based 21.5%, Choices Matter 17.6%, Indie 4.9%
- #17 Conor Origins - T Trilogy
86% matchPositive83% of 17 reviews2024
Dev: Conor Hehr
Windows · Mac · Linux
Experience Conor's first three visual novels. There's a story about a lonely man going for a walk, a guy getting tapped in a prison cell on an island, and a girl trying to confess to her weird crush.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Text-Based 16.7%, Modern 16.6%, Simulation 9.6%
- #18 Roadwarden
84% 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 32.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Pixel Graphics 10%, Choices Matter 7.5%
- #19 The Nascent Necromancer
85% 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: Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Text-Based 25.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.3%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Multiple Endings 6.8%
- #20 Professor of Magical Studies
84% matchPositive87% of 23 reviews2022
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Professor of Magical Studies is an interactive magical school novel by Stephen Granade, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Text-Based 21.4%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Modern 7.4%
- #21 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
82% matchVery Positive90% of 9,604 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Choices Matter 20.9%, Text-Based 16.5%, Visual Novel 5.5%
- #22 The Trials of Ozymandias
83% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Golden Axolotl Studios
Windows · Mac
The Trials of Ozymandias is a visual novel set in the high fantasy world of the kingdom of Johrotos. In the capitol city, Dassi, resides the most famous adventurer's guild in all the land: Talleh-Hoy. This is where your story begins.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Text-Based 22.4%, Drama 7.8%, Visual Novel 6.8%
- #23 Ukraine War Stories
81% matchVery Positive87% of 1,080 reviews2022
Dev: Starni Games
Windows
Ukraine War Stories is a set of visual novels about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Set in the early months of the war, it tells the stories of civilians trapped on Russian-occupied territory. All stories are based on real events and eyewitness accounts.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Text-Based 17.4%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Simulation 5.9%
- #24 The Peresmeshnik
82% matchVery Positive93% of 108 reviews2020
Dev: Sean Arnold
Windows
It is said that the last frontier is space, but the crew of the Soviet Frigate, The Peresmeshnik, is about to discover that the sea still hides a terrifying secret. Waiting to be found.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.4%, Text-Based 26.4%, Interactive Fiction 26%, Choices Matter 7.8%, Multiple Endings 4.4%
- #25 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
81% 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 27.7%, Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Text-Based 21.6%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Visual Novel 6.5%
- #26 The Portal Pirate
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ZizihPub: Zizih Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A sound, a flash, a portal… A pirate emerges, bringing a deadly threat. Five friends stand before him, and one of them is the target. But which one? Even they don't know.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.1%, Text-Based 24.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Psychological 5.9%
- #27 Worn Out
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Morimichi
Windows
A presence lingers in the dark, waiting. It asks. It doubts. It knows. What happened? Why are you here? Do you deserve this? The answers are yours to decide. What you choose matters. Every path leads somewhere. But will you like where it takes you?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Text-Based 16.7%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%
- #28 Arderico's Journey
78% 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 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Text-Based 12.7%, Drama 8.1%
- #29 Whispers From The Rift
78% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Interdimensional Games Inc
Windows
A choose-your-own-adventure novel. Enter the mind of a black-ops team leader heading an impossible mission in a parallel universe. Choices are remembered, story events reflect past decisions, and freely rewind time to try different paths.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.3%, Interactive Fiction 27.6%, Text-Based 22.6%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Visual Novel 7.1%
- #30 Depression Quest
79% matchMixed61% of 3,934 reviews2014
Dev: The Quinnspiracy
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 78.1 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 39.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.3%, Text-Based 11%, Indie 5.7%, Psychological 5.5%
- #31 Whiskey-Four
76% matchVery Positive93% of 106 reviews2024
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Never stop running, not with the galaxy at stake. Save it at all costs, and save yourself if you can.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.1%, Text-Based 20.6%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Multiple Endings 7.4%
- #32 Layer8Problem
75% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Schnaftikus Games
Windows · Linux
Willkommen in der IT-Hölle! Überlebe den Büro-Wahnsinn in diesem textbasierten SysAdmin-Simulator. Kämpfe gegen absurde Tickets, sammle Loot und senke deinen Puls mit Kaffee. Halte Chef-Radar und Aggro niedrig, um bis 16:30 Uhr deinen Job zu behalten – ohne den Monitor aus dem Fenster zu werfen.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Simulation 14.7%, Text-Based 13.3%, Modern 11.3%
- #33 Where are you, Cinderella?
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KimiNako
Windows · Linux
Where are you, Cinderella? is a visual novel about Vietnamese culture and the world of entertainment. Will you be able to find the lost shoe’s owner? Or, will you find your shoe?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Text-Based 19.3%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
- #34 Fox Spirit: A Two-Tailed Adventure
77% matchPositive90% of 30 reviews2020
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Dazzle humanity or destroy it as a magical, two-tailed fox! Weave illusions, shapeshift, or control minds. You'll set the world on fire, one way or another.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.9%, Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Text-Based 21.9%, Choices Matter 8.3%, Drama 6.4%
- #35 Affairs of the Court: Choice of Romance
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 74 reviews2016
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Plunge into court politics and change the course of history, or pursue a love affair that rocks the kingdom to its foundations!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.6%, Text-Based 26.6%, Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Indie 4.4%
- #36 Your Story: Games with Death
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BoldBox
Windows
A medieval text quest in the "Choose Your Own Adventure" genre, where each choice could be your last. Create your story with more than 2,000 events, 200 of which will prove fatal. In a world where death plays against you, can you outsmart it and write your own story?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Text-Based 17.1%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Simulation 6.8%
- #37 After the Storm
74% 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 31.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.5%, Text-Based 25.2%, Choices Matter 9%, Multiple Endings 5.3%
- #38 Moonless Moon
73% matchVery Positive92% of 306 reviews2024
Dev: Kazuhide OkaPub: KAMITSUBAKI STUDIO
Windows · Mac
When night falls, she wanders into another world... Moonless Moon is a text-based adventure game following a girl as she travels through a variety of different worlds.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Modern 23.6%, Visual Novel 7.3%, Choices Matter 6.1%
- #39 The Meridian
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PlayBook
Windows
Step into the high-stakes world of journalism in this Playbook! As a reporter at the "The Meridian" newsroom, YOU are the hero. Chase a massive investigative scoop, navigate ruthless office politics, and build deep relationships. Will you break the story, or will the deadline break you?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.8%, Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Text-Based 12.5%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Visual Novel 6.6%
- #40 LifeSimOS
72% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Clayton Davis
Windows
A story-rich coming-of-age experience told through a 2004 desktop, where friendships, music, and late-night conversations shape who you become. Explore chats, drama, mini-games, and the early internet in a branching story about growing up, making mistakes, and finding your place.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Text-Based 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Visual Novel 8%
- #41 Space Court
73% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Text-Based 15%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%
- #42 말리온
72% match8 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: BepavedPub: ARTAME
Windows
Play the game from the perspective of a traveler who comes to the dealer and is faced with numerous choices in a story prepared by the dealer. Experience a story that changes based on your choices and see the ending that changes based on your choices!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.5%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Text-Based 14.8%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Simulation 10.3%
- #43 貢がせろ!女苑ちゃん!!
71% matchVery Positive93% of 128 reviews2023
Dev: ISY
Windows
疫病神の依神女苑ちゃん。 女苑ちゃんが提示してくるお題に大急ぎで答えて 見返りも求めずに物品を貢ぎまくろう!!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Simulation 18.6%, Text-Based 16.9%, Choices Matter 8.4%
- #44 ぼったくりタクシー
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2024
Dev: 総合コンテンツ制作サークル
Windows
Customers... Don't let them find out... Rip-off! A thrilling rip-off adventure where if the customers find out, you'll explode!
Why similar: Modern 31.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Visual Novel 5.8%, Choices Matter 5.7%
- #45 Under the Table
71% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: RB Ashton
Windows · Mac · Linux
An office-based shrinking horror adventure in visual novel format! Explore a workplace packed with man-eating coworkers as you try to survive being tiny...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Modern 19.8%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Visual Novel 7.6%
- #46 Choice of the Deathless
73% matchVery Positive91% of 323 reviews2014
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Battle demons and undead attorneys, and win souls to pay back your student loans! At the elite demonic-law firm of Varkath Nebuchadnezzar Stone, you'll depose a fallen god, find romance, and maybe even make partner, if you don't lose your own soul first.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 39.4%, Text-Based 35.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Indie 4%
- #47 Saturnine
70% matchMixed69% of 26 reviews2025
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are the Veteran. You’re the oldest android in the Solar System, a relic and survivor of the ancient past. Now it’s time for you to fight again. A text-based science-fantasy novel, 700,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.1%, Text-Based 24.9%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Multiple Endings 5.3%
- #48 Fallen Hero: Revelations
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Face down your ghosts and unearth secrets better left buried as you prepare to take vengeance on the ones who wronged you. But be warned, burying your past only works if it stays put.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.3%, Text-Based 25.3%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Multiple Endings 5.8%
- #49 Hearts in Hades: Divine Passion
68% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
An interactive fantasy romance novel set amongst the Greek gods.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Text-Based 22.8%, Drama 10.7%, Choices Matter 7.9%
- #50 小厨杂记
69% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: 山石
Windows
Please note: This game does not support English at current stage. 《小厨杂记》是一款融合了烹饪元素的视觉小说,通过为食客端上不同的菜肴与食客对话,并最终达成不同的结局。
Why similar: Text-Based 27.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.2%, Simulation 12.7%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Choices Matter 9.4%
- #51 7 Days in Dystopia
68% 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 31.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.5%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Text-Based 11.5%, Psychological 8%
- #52 Shadow of the Curse-Eater
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
The wilderfolk of Ushinega Island waste away in a rotting tropical paradise, haunted by a deadly malediction. Yet behind every curse lurks a secret. You have the power to save them... but should you?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.1%, Text-Based 22.5%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
- #53 What Is Sleeping In My Room?
69% match7 user reviews88% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: CousinCatnip
Windows
Experience the hunt for the Monster living in your room in this Visual Novel experience. Your choices will determine the fate of both you and the Monster. Will you figure out what the Monster really is?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.6%, Text-Based 24.1%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Multiple Endings 6.5%
- #54 Message in a Melody
67% 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 35.3%, Text-Based 26.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Multiple Endings 5.5%
- #55 VERSUS: The Elite Trials
70% matchPositive88% of 33 reviews2016
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Will you infiltrate the gods' Elite Courte, stealing their superpowers, or turn double agent and join them, taking your place among the divine?
Why similar: Text-Based 29%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Indie 4.9%
- #56 Shadows of Betrayal
67% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: JayzonBHPub: JayzonBH Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Recent high school graduates gather at a remote cabin for a celebration. What begins as a night of laughter spirals into a tense mystery full of secrets, twists, and chilling choices. Who will survive? Navigate friendships, and uncover the multi-layered mystery in Shadows of Betrayal.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.1%, Interactive Fiction 28.9%, Choices Matter 13%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Thriller 6.9%
- #57 STAY
69% matchMixed68% of 567 reviews2018
Dev: Appnormals Team
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time. While you sleep, he is alone. When you return to your PC he has hope. Your encouragement and advice will be the difference between his salvation or despair.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Text-Based 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%
- #58 3 DAYS: Ghosts of War
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: KovalGames
Windows · Mac
In the heart of the Afghan wilderness, amidst the chaos of war, you awaken to the stark reality of your mission: three days to navigate the perilous landscape, uncover hidden truths, and confront the ghosts of the past.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Text-Based 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Modern 14.5%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
- #59 Turncoat Chronicle
67% matchMixed69% of 13 reviews2023
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your father stole his throne, intending to leave it to you. When the long-lost heir resurfaces, will you defend the king—or betray him to his enemies?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.1%, Text-Based 26.5%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Multiple Endings 5.1%
- #60 Terminal Tales: An Interactive Fiction Anthology
66% 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: Interactive Fiction 26.4%, Text-Based 23.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Modern 15%, Choices Matter 9.2%