- #1 Decade
96% matchVery Positive97% of 111 reviews2025
Dev: Last Piscean
Windows
Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear. Seed new movements, destroy others. Subvert the rise and fall of empires, art, ideologies, and individuals in this experimental narrative game.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Text-Based 22.2%, Choices Matter 19.7%, Sci-fi 17.8%, Story Rich 13%
- #2 A Wise Use of Time
97% 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: Interactive Fiction 28.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.6%, Text-Based 24.8%, Choices Matter 21.5%
- #3 Space Court
96% matchVery Positive98% of 160 reviews2020
Dev: Uphill Promise
Windows
As a newly appointed Judge, you will rule over Space Court and its denizens to keep the universe safe. Or possibly blow it all up. Either way, you’re tenured.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Text-Based 13%, Choices Matter 12.9%
- #4 MINDHACK
95% matchVery Positive93% of 676 reviews2023
Dev: VODKAdemo?
Windows · Mac
Change the minds of evildoers…for good! MINDHACK is a text adventure game where you meet unique evildoers, hack their minds, and rewrite them into happy people!
Why similar: Text-Based 20.7%, Futuristic 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Story Rich 14.1%, Sci-fi 13.4%
- #5 A Guidebook of Babel
94% matchVery Positive91% of 1,697 reviews2023
Dev: StarryStarryPub: Thermite Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with the butterfly effect at its core. Board the Babel, a mysterious cruise ship that takes you on a whimsical journey to the afterlife. Use a special pen to help fellow travelers fulfill their wishes by rewriting the past, changing how the future unfolds.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 40% ★, Time Travel 30.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Funny 8%, Story Rich 7.1%
- #6 Eternal Threads
94% matchVery Positive86% of 817 reviews2022
Dev: Cosmonaut StudiosPub: Secret Mode
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 28.4% ★, Time Travel 24.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%, Multiple Endings 8%
- #7 Time Space Rebuild
93% matchMostly Positive82% of 435 reviews2025
Dev: INNOVATION DREAM
Windows · Mac
In "Time Rebuild", human civilization stands on the brink of destruction. You will become a time-traveling hero, embarking on a journey to save the world while encountering and bonding with women of vastly different appearances and personalities.
Why similar: Time Travel 27% ★, Alternate History 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
- #8 Headliner: NoviNews
92% matchVery Positive89% of 806 reviews2018
Dev: Unbound Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Award-winning adventure where you control the news and its impact on society, your friends and career. Different choices lead to unique combinations of endings. Share your story with the community, and see what the players before you did.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.5%, Multiple Endings 17.6%, Choices Matter 16.5%, Alternate History 16.1%, Story Rich 9.7%
- #9 No Time
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,071 reviews2019
Dev: Lost in Days Studio
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 24.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Go on a trip through time! Experience the freedom of traveling into any date, hour and minute in time between the years 1 and 3033 AD! Help your best friend Edward in his scientific affairs! Watch out for the Time Agents & avoid yourself!
Why similar: Time Travel 41.5% ★, Time Manipulation 40.5% ★, Sci-fi 6.3%, Story Rich 5.7%, First-Person 3.9%
- #10 Future Proof
91% matchVery Positive88% of 74 reviews2018
Dev: Silhouette Valley Games
Windows
Quirky, top-down puzzle adventure game. You’re trapped in a 12-minute time loop. Try to save yourself and a small town from destruction from a meteorite. Solve intuitive puzzles, interact with the people of the town, and discover the secrets of the town. Discover the 15 different endings!
Why similar: Time Travel 51.1% ★, Time Manipulation 16.5% ★, Funny 9.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%, Multiple Endings 5.9%
- #11 A Perfect Day
90% matchVery Positive85% of 1,802 reviews2022
Dev: Perfect Day Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Revisit and repeat the final moments of China's turn of the century in this narrative puzzle adventure. Play a 6th-grade student and greet classmates, explore secrets, play mini-4WD, or just wander around town. Make your choices to create a perfect day for everyone!
Why similar: Time Travel 36.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Retro 8.7%
- #12 Very Unserious Game
89% matchVery Positive92% of 78 reviews2025
Dev: Le Clown de la ClassePub: Youplaboum!
Windows
Are you looking for a new job that will give meaning to your life? The Innovality family is ready to welcome you! Between smart innovation and spontaneous conference calls, grow into a valued team member in a cutting-edge startup!
Why similar: Text-Based 24.3%, Satire 22.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Funny 10.5%
- #13 Wanderer
88% matchVery Positive84% of 1,059 reviews2022
Dev: Mighty Eyes
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Built from the ground up for VR, Wanderer has a unique blend of escape room style puzzles, tactile hands on interactions and action arcade sequences to bring you the ultimate time travel adventure. Are you ready to walk in the footsteps of those who have gone before you?
Why similar: Time Travel 58.7% ★, Time Manipulation 27.1% ★, Futuristic 6.9%, Historical 3.6%, Adventure 3%
- #14 Jolly Good: Cakes and Ale
89% matchVery Positive96% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Get yourself into and out of another fine mess! Win glory, renown, and much-needed money through cunning schemes that will seem like good ideas at the time.
Why similar: Text-Based 30.8%, Interactive Fiction 29.9%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Story Rich 8.5%, Funny 7.8%
- #15 Timeworks
87% matchVery Positive100% of 52 reviews2024
Dev: Starworks Studios
Windows
Timeworks is a time-traveling 3D puzzle platformer with a bouncy cartoon style. Work along past versions of yourself to solve puzzles, create unique Items, and fill out your quotas for your mysterious employers.
Why similar: Time Travel 48.1% ★, Time Manipulation 33.2% ★, Story Rich 5.9%, First-Person 5.6%, Sci-fi 4.3%
- #16 Ye Guild Clerk!
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 1,828 reviews2025
Dev: Devclerk
Windows
The local Adventurer's Guild is hiring!... Not for adventurers, but for guild clerks! You play an important role in handing out quests, gold, and equipment as your actions shape the stories of these animal adventurers for better, or for worse..!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Text-Based 19.9%, Multiple Endings 15.1%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%
- #17 PRODUCER 2021
85% matchVery Positive100% of 173 reviews2022
Dev: Stuffed Wombat
Windows
a ~2 hour long graphic adventure novella. Tasked with disrupting the end of the world, you explore, investigate and produce your way through a strangely familiar world.
Why similar: Alternate History 42.2%, Interactive Fiction 32.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Adventure 3%
- #18 Between Time: Escape Room
86% matchVery Positive80% of 341 reviews2021
Dev: mc2games
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
You are going to steal a time machine. In this escape room, you have to travel through time, explore mysterious places and solve puzzles to get priceless treasures. Will you be able to make it back alive?
Why similar: Time Travel 47.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Alternate History 19.2%, First-Person 3.8%, Adventure 2.2%
- #19 MetaHuman Inc.
86% matchVery Positive91% of 153 reviews2015
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
As the CEO of a corporation that sells superpowers to the highest bidder, you'll harness dark magic and travel through time to inflate your stock prices!
Why similar: Text-Based 70.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.4%
- #20 River Town Factory
84% matchVery Positive89% of 1,328 reviews2024
Dev: iFAction Studio
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
If possible, would you like to go back to ancient times to start a factory, refine oil, or even build a large computer? With the accidental fall of a meteorite, you traveled back to River Town a thousand years ago and became a workshop owner. And the story will begin from here……
Why similar: Time Travel 46.4% ★, Alternate History 34.8%, Sci-fi 9.5%, Story Rich 7.7%, Singleplayer 1.6%
- #21 Life of a Space Force Captain
84% matchVery Positive85% of 61 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Live a full life in the future as a human, an alien, or even a robot as you rise through the ranks to become captain of your very own starship.
Why similar: Text-Based 33.4%, Interactive Fiction 26.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Sci-fi 12.7%, Choices Matter 9.4%
- #22 Old Skies
81% matchVery Positive94% of 960 reviews2025
Dev: Wadjet Eye Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A time travel adventure spanning two hundred years! Dive into the past with time agent Fia Quinn as she embarks on seven trips through time. History is up for grabs, from the speakeasies of Prohibition to the vicious gangs of the Gilded Age to the World Trade Center on September 10, 2001.
Why similar: Time Travel 35.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 28.5%, Futuristic 13.2%, Retro 9.3%, Sci-fi 8.2%
- #23 River Town Factory: Prologue
82% matchVery Positive85% of 124 reviews2024
Dev: iFAction Studio
Windows
If possible, would you like to go back to ancient times to start a factory, refine oil, or even build a large computer? With the accidental fall of a meteorite, you traveled back to River Town a thousand years ago and became a workshop owner. And the story will begin from here……
Why similar: Time Travel 52.9% ★, Alternate History 30.5%, Story Rich 11.4%, Singleplayer 2.8%, Sci-fi 2.4%
- #24 80 Days
82% matchVery Positive90% of 2,020 reviews2015
Dev: inkle Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
1872, with a steampunk twist. Phileas Fogg has wagered he can circumnavigate the world in just 80 days. Travel by airship, submarine, mechanical camel, steam-train and more. Race other players and a clock that never stops in TIME Magazine's Game of 2014.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Choices Matter 17.9%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Story Rich 11.4%
- #25 Emily is Away
79% matchVery Positive89% of 32,165 reviews2015
Dev: Kyle Seeley
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 19.8 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 25.7%, Choices Matter 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Story Rich 12.8%, Text-Based 12.1%
- #26 Time Loader
79% matchVery Positive83% of 534 reviews2021
Dev: FlazmPub: META Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Time Loader is a story-driven puzzle-platformer with tiny robots, alternate realities, nostalgic music, and primitive tech from the 90s!
Why similar: Alternate History 33.9%, Time Manipulation 32% ★, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Sci-fi 6.8%
- #27 Hypnospace Outlaw
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,338 reviews2019
Dev: TendershootPub: No More Robots
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Greetings Enforcer, and thank you for enlisting in the Hypnospace Patrol Department! As the world falls into its slumber, Hypnospace becomes a bustling global village. These virtual streets aren't going to police themselves!
Why similar: Alternate History 42.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Retro 17.6%, Funny 10.3%, Story Rich 8%
- #28 Not For Broadcast
76% matchVery Positive94% of 12,340 reviews2022
Dev: NotGamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A new political Party has won a landslide in the General Election, and for some reason the editor at the news station you work at has done a runner. Now it’s up to you, the Janitor, to take over the editing booth in this tumultuous time - will you help the government, or stand in their way?
Why similar: Alternate History 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Choices Matter 12.7%
- #29 The Temporal Invasion
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 110 reviews2016
Dev: Hybriona Technologies LLPPub: Hybriona Technologies LLP
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 98%
EXPERIENCE this Story-Driven Alternate Reality Game (ARG) that blends Your Real Life with Science Fiction as it explores the Dark Limits of Conspiracy, Alternate History, The Supernatural and Fringe Science.
Why similar: Alternate History 58.4%, Sci-fi 14.5%, Story Rich 10.9%, Historical 8.2%, Adventure 7.9%
- #30 RE:CALL
76% matchVery Positive87% of 77 reviews2023
Dev: maitan69Pub: Whitethorn Games
Windows
Memories are malleable and changing them will modify the present. Tackle mind-bending puzzles that rely on altering your own recollections to shape the future.
Why similar: Choices Matter 53.3%, Funny 38.5%, Adventure 4.5%, Singleplayer 3.7%
- #31 Techno Banter
74% matchVery Positive92% of 122 reviews2025
Dev: Dexai ArtsPub: Crunching Koalas
Windows
You're the bouncer of the Green Door club, where every decision matters. Reject the unworthy of partying with clever retorts, explore a neon-lit city, and immerse yourself in the Berlin-like city's underground techno scene. The beat is pumping—are you in?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Multiple Endings 16.9%, Choices Matter 15%, Retro 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%
- #32 The Soul Stone War
77% matchMixed69% of 109 reviews2020
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Become the Wielder of Soul Stone, an ancient artifact of untold power, and shape the fate of your world. Outrun the past so that you may have a future.
Why similar: Text-Based 28.9%, Interactive Fiction 28.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Adventure 6.1%
- #33 The Away Team: Lost Exodus
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 98 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 21.9%, Text-Based 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Choices Matter 14%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
- #34 OMNIMUS
77% matchVery Positive87% of 54 reviews2019
Dev: Angry gamesPub: Total
Windows · Mac · Linux
Omnimus. Welcome to the future! A visual novel about a daring experiment.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.2%, Multiple Endings 18.6%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Sci-fi 13.3%, Story Rich 9.9%
- #35 Repair this!
73% matchVery Positive89% of 771 reviews2024
Dev: HGISoft
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Become a phone repair technician, get the opportunity to look into the personal data of customers. Influence their destinies if you dare!
Why similar: Satire 36.5% ★, Multiple Endings 24.4%, Choices Matter 21.6%, Story Rich 14%, Adventure 2.1%
- #36 Over the Alps
75% matchVery Positive88% of 243 reviews2020
Dev: Stave Studios
Windows · Mac
Over The Alps is a choices-matter narrative adventure game told through interactive postcards, sent from a secret agent to their handler, in 1930s Switzerland.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Text-Based 17.3%, Choices Matter 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Multiple Endings 13.1%
- #37 Chronigma
71% matchNo user reviews100% of 286 reviews2025
Dev: C3BGames
Windows · Mac
Master time in this story-rich time-bending puzzle game. You travel back in time to be in two places at once, to solve puzzles impossible to complete alone. Your success hinges on your ability to collaborate with yourself. Can you learn to manipulate time to save humanity?
Why similar: Time Travel 42.9% ★, Time Manipulation 38.7% ★, Multiple Endings 6.7%, Futuristic 4.4%, Sci-fi 3.6%
- #38 Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate
73% matchMixed68% of 136 reviews2025
Dev: Mighty Eyes
Windows
Step into the unknown and embark on an epic, time travel adventure, completely re-imagined. Introducing Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate, a remake of the critically acclaimed VR adventure game - Wanderer. There’s no telling where you’ll go and who you’ll become as you unravel the mysteries of time.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 30.7% ★, Time Travel 30.2% ★, Alternate History 17.8%, Futuristic 7%, Story Rich 6.3%
- #39 CorpoNation: The Sorting Process
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 129 reviews2024
Dev: CanteenPub: Playtonic Friends
Windows
Greetings, valued employee. You have been tasked with sorting the Ringo CorpoNation's genetic samples. With the credits that you earn, you can shop, game and pay your bills on time. Rogue workers may try to entice you into betraying your beloved employer, but we know you'll give 110%.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.9%, Retro 21.8%, Funny 19.5%, Story Rich 15.6%, Adventure 4.1%
- #40 Not For Broadcast VR
75% matchMostly Negative40% of 68 reviews2023
Dev: NotGamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Get closer to the truth than ever in the VR edition of Not For Broadcast. Keep the cameras rolling, censor the swears and immerse yourself in the powerful, alluring and occasionally deadly world of broadcast television news.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 22.2%, Choices Matter 21.1%, Alternate History 14.4%, Story Rich 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%
- #41 Kaptain Brawe: A Brawe New World
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 176 reviews2011
Dev: Cateia Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Step into a hilarious, steampunk-tinged point n click space adventure! Play as Captain Brawe, Agent Luna and Danny across four colorful planets — solve clever puzzles, uncover conspiracies, and meet unforgettable characters (space pirates, secret agents, and eccentric aliens).
Why similar: Alternate History 57.5%, Sci-fi 21.1%, Funny 14%, Adventure 4.1%, Singleplayer 3.3%
- #42 Truberbrook / Trüberbrook
72% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,295 reviews2019
Dev: btfPub: Headup
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Enjoy an adventurous vacation to a 1960's parallel universe! A Sci-Fi-Mystery Adventure Game with handmade scenery.
Why similar: Time Travel 34.2% ★, Story Rich 18.9%, Adventure 13.7%, Funny 13.5%, Retro 12.3%
- #43 Border Bots VR
70% matchVery Positive85% of 71 reviews2024
Dev: Paw Print Games Ltd.Pub: Team17
Windows
As a human border agent, you begin a new role as a booth operator at an AI travel border. Interact and check over a variety of robots as they try to get through security.
Why similar: Futuristic 31.6%, Choices Matter 29%, Sci-fi 29%, Singleplayer 6.6%, Adventure 3.9%
- #44 Unusual Findings
69% matchVery Positive90% of 550 reviews2022
Dev: Epic Llama GamesPub: ESDigital Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Three friends uncover mysteries in the 1980s. Follow their amazing adventures in a game where your decisions really matter. Be prepared to spin like a record on your incredible journey back to the era of synthesizers, VHS Rental stores, 8 bits games and evil alien conspiracies.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 30.1%, Choices Matter 25.2%, Sci-fi 14.9%, America 13.4% ★, Story Rich 13.1%
- #45 BatteryNote
66% matchVery Positive100% of 186 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.3%, Multiple Endings 18.7%, Sci-fi 13.4%, Text-Based 13.1%, Story Rich 12.9%
- #46 Wanderlust: Travel Stories
71% matchVery Positive83% of 132 reviews2019
Dev: Different Tales
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Wanderlust: Travel Stories is a bridge between literature and gaming. Step into the shoes of modern travelers—explore their desires, hopes and fears, and shape how their stories unfold. Make this journey your own.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23%, Text-Based 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Choices Matter 12.9%
- #47 Your Future Self
71% matchVery Positive81% of 95 reviews2019
Dev: Contortionist Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.
Why similar: Text-Based 33.1%, Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Retro 12.2%, Sci-fi 11.4%, Story Rich 10.2%
- #48 I Am Your President
70% matchMixed67% of 275 reviews2023
Dev: President
Windows
Play as a fictional US president in this satirical narrative strategy! Lead Democrats or Republicans to make America great again. Again.
Why similar: Text-Based 36.4%, Choices Matter 20.6%, Multiple Endings 20.2%, Story Rich 10.3%, America 9.9% ★
- #49 WILL: A Wonderful World / WILL:美好世界
68% matchVery Positive93% of 5,446 reviews2017
Dev: WMY Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Become a god and help change the fate of people, even the world! In WILL: A Wonderful World, you will receive letters written by characters living in urban cities. By rearranging the order and combinations of sentences in these letters, you are going to alter the destiny of whomever that wrote them.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.3%, Choices Matter 26.9%, Story Rich 17.9%, Sci-fi 17.9%, Adventure 4%
- #50 AIdventure
70% matchMixed56% of 53 reviews2022
Dev: Lyaaaaa Games
Windows · Linux
No rules, no censorship, the only limit is your imagination, not someone else's. AIdventure is a text adventure game with an AI as a storyteller. It is shipped with more than 25 starting scenarios. Unleash your creativity by writing and sharing your own stories with other players.
Why similar: Alternate History 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Text-Based 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
- #51 The Forgotten City
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 13,031 reviews2021
Dev: Modern StorytellerPub: Dear Villagers
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
The Forgotten City is a narrative-driven time loop adventure in ancient Rome. Discover the ruins of an ancient underground city, travel 2000 years into the past, and unravel the mystery of who destroyed it by cleverly exploiting the power to wind back time. The fate of the city is in your hands.
Why similar: Time Travel 55.2% ★, Choices Matter 14.3%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Story Rich 8.6%, First-Person 5.5%
- #52 Sky Caravan
68% matchVery Positive98% of 56 reviews2022
Dev: Studio Bravarda
Windows
Welcome to the Skyways, caravaneer. Complete missions, manage your ship’s resources and make tough decisions to keep your crew alive and happy. Or not. Choices have lasting consequences in this Text-Based RPG. You are the captain - and the clouds are waiting!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.5%, Text-Based 19.2%, Choices Matter 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Sci-fi 6.2%
- #53 The Silent Age
67% matchVery Positive93% of 7,165 reviews2015
Dev: House On Fire
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Experience a post-apocalyptic world like never before in The Silent Age, a thrilling point-and-click adventure game. Use time travel to unravel the mystery behind humanity's disappearance and save the world from extinction. Start your journey now!
Why similar: Time Manipulation 37.5% ★, Alternate History 32.1%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Sci-fi 8.7%, Story Rich 7.6%
- #54 Neoproxima
66% matchVery Positive97% of 68 reviews2024
Dev: Lonestone Studio
Windows
Investigating a time-loop during the Cold War, light years away from Earth. Neoproxima is a text-based adventure game that combines exploration and simple RPG and survival mechanics. Plan your next loop carefully, and go as far as possible before time catches up with you.
Why similar: Alternate History 50.2%, Text-Based 17.2%, Sci-fi 16.3%, Story Rich 12.7%, Adventure 2.1%
- #55 Title_Pending
66% matchVery Positive96% of 438 reviews2022
Dev: DEVBEEF
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Congratulations! You've been hired by an up and coming Game Development Studio to play-test their New Game (which as of now does not have a title). Not only that, you'll get to talk with the Lead Developer of the project, Matthew Stanton, who will give insight on his team's creative process.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 35.9%, Multiple Endings 32.5%, Story Rich 15.9%, 3D 7.2%, Adventure 5.9%
- #56 Silicon Dreams | cyberpunk interrogation
67% matchVery Positive94% of 253 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: Choices Matter 24.3%, Multiple Endings 24.1%, Futuristic 15.3%, Story Rich 14.5%, Sci-fi 11.9%