- #1 Saint Maker - Horror Visual Novel
97% matchVery Positive86% of 252 reviews2023
Dev: Yangyang MobilePub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac
A haunted convent. Statues that move on their own. A buried past. Welcome to Saint Idelora’s convent, where becoming a saint comes with a price.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Horror 11%, Female Protagonist 9.9%
- #2 TOY BOX
96% matchPositive87% of 45 reviews2024
Dev: DEADline Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Point & Click 10.3%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Text-Based 9.2%
- #3 Whispers From The Rift
96% 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 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Text-Based 11.7%, Horror 11.6%
- #4 Mass of Consumption
95% 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 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Horror 15%, Visual Novel 13%, Text-Based 7.9%
- #5 Cheerleaders
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lounatick Creations
Windows · Mac · Linux
Cheerleaders, sisterhood, sex, and competition. Follow the cheerleading team of an elite university for the rich and privileged as they aim for victory at the national championship, led by their ambitious captain, Elena.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Emotional 13.5%, Visual Novel 13%, Female Protagonist 10.4%
- #6 Miya Might Break
94% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2026
Dev: VAINSANE
Windows · Mac · Linux
A psychological horror visual novel about Miya, a former prodigy trapped in a decaying home with her unstable stepfather, her talking plush Mopa, and the bystander who hears every step she takes...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Horror 11.2%, Psychological Horror 9.8%
- #7 BBirthday - Visual Novel
93% matchPositive91% of 32 reviews2023
Dev: Yun Seven
Windows
Help Bianca to relive the 15 years of her life, but from another perspective 👁️. Enjoy this dreamcore style visual novel with escape room elements and hints of horror. Unlock different endings. ✨
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Text-Based 12.3%, Point & Click 9.5%, Psychological Horror 8.6%
- #8 Homunculus Hotel
92% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2022
Dev: Team SolEtude
Windows
Explore the dreams of the Homunculus Hotel's guests in order to understand yourself.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Point & Click 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Female Protagonist 8.8%
- #9 KaRu
91% matchPositive81% of 36 reviews2022
Dev: Mirror Studio
Windows · Linux
- Search for clues to progress the story. - Make choices to help your partner. - Collect bits and pieces to reveal secrets and lore bits. - Use your visions to see what he is feeling at the moment. - Don't drown in your own regrets.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Point & Click 13.2%, Emotional 11%, Horror 8.2%
- #10 The Accuser and The Abyss
91% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Spectre Sun Works
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are a detective. You have been assigned a partner to investigate a horrid case. But things are not what it seems. Navigate the paths as you attempt to unravel the truth behind your lost memories and your new disturbing detective partner.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Point & Click 9.8%, Horror 9.4%, Text-Based 8.8%
- #11 The Thief, the Witch, the Toad, and the Mushroom.
90% matchVery Positive100% of 184 reviews2024
Dev: Jack McNameePub: Ashtown Games
Windows
A fable from your childhood. Don't you remember it?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Text-Based 9.8%, Surreal 8.5%
- #12 Penrose
89% matchPositive88% of 32 reviews2023
Dev: doublespeak games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Emotional 14.6%, Text-Based 12.1%, Visual Novel 9.4%
- #13 Labyrinth of Crystal Princess
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: move the hearts
Windows
Labyrinth of Crystal Princess is a “escape the labyrinth by detecting the unseen” horror adventure.
Why similar: Emotional 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Female Protagonist 9.7%, Horror 9.2%
- #14 For Mother Matron
88% matchVery Positive91% of 163 reviews2022
Dev: Velvetique GamesPub: Neoclassic Games
Windows · Mac
A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths. A free atmospheric horror visual novel where you navigate life-or-death situations. SEEK PARADISE OR DIE TRYING
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Horror 9.9%, Psychological Horror 9.7%
- #15 Am I Nima
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HO! Games
Windows · Mac
Am I Nima is a psychological-horror game where you must convince your mom that you really are her daughter. Combine words together in your brain and use them to talk. Get her to trust you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Point & Click 10.4%, Psychological Horror 8.9%
- #16 Glitch
85% matchPositive93% of 29 reviews2025
Dev: Bulbo Games
Windows
Glitch is an intense and surreal narrative experience, drawn entirely by hand, that will make you question reality with every choice and each of the 26 endings that unlock the special and definitive conclusion!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Visual Novel 15%, Point & Click 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Horror 12%
- #17 Start Running
86% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: beepsoft industries
Windows · Linux
A horror point and click game where choices matter about trying to do your final marathon training run.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Point & Click 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Horror 10.1%, Surreal 8.9%
- #18 To Be With You
86% matchPositive96% of 28 reviews2021
Dev: Illus Seed Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?
Why similar: Emotional 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Conversation 7.5%
- #19 Loop//Error
84% matchVery Positive90% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: Koro Pixel StudioPub: Dark Product
Windows
Alone in the dead of night, you find yourself sent on a simple errand to check on a quiet gas station on the outskirts of town. But nothing here feels right. You can’t outrun this place. It wants you. And it will keep you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Surreal 9.9%, Text-Based 9.7%
- #20 The Company
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Crawler Games
Windows
The Company wants you productive. The Company wants you calm. The Company wants you compliant.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Walking Simulator 15.6%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Surreal 7.7%
- #21 阴桃花 (The Flowers of Yin)
82% matchPositive95% of 42 reviews2022
Dev: SnowyYANGPub: 逐夏
Windows
幻想若非幻想 自然可超自然 伴我梦中桃花 懒识人间滋味
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Emotional 16.8%, Text-Based 12.9%, Surreal 11.6%
- #22 Guilt Free
82% matchVery Positive86% of 288 reviews2020
Dev: Lateral Games
Windows · Mac
Guilt Free is a visual novel crossed with a point and click made to offer perspective on mental health and eating disorders. Navigate a couple's rocky relationship and encounter "flaws" or "quirks" that may actually be symptomatic behaviors.
Why similar: Emotional 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Text-Based 10%
- #23 All (Too) Good Things
81% 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 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Text-Based 12.5%, Conversation 9.1%
- #24 Lost Connections
80% matchVery Positive96% of 76 reviews2023
Dev: Amber Pearl
Windows
If she leaves now you will never see her again. Would you have enough courage to take a step, or would you stay quiet and regret it? Experience this story about love and loss.
Why similar: Emotional 21.2%, Visual Novel 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Female Protagonist 7.7%
- #25 Margaret's Little Shop of Wonders
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Possum 5Pub: Abiding Bridge
Windows
Gardening and magic are meeting in Margaret’s Little Shop of Wonders. Play as Margaret, a young witch who just opened her own flower shop, and fulfill the peculiar requests of her strange customers!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Emotional 15.2%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Point & Click 12.8%, Female Protagonist 10.2%
- #26 Yuika My Bestie
79% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Feeling Potion
Windows · Mac
Experience a pastel-toned emotional journey in Yuika My Bestie, a short visual novel you can complete in under 15 minutes per playthrough. With 5 unique endings and heartfelt choices, it takes just 30–40 minutes to explore every path of this soft, late-night cry.
Why similar: Emotional 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Conversation 10.2%
- #27 Unrest
81% matchMixed68% of 195 reviews2014
Dev: Pyrodactyl
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Unrest is a role playing adventure game set in a fantasy interpretation of ancient India that adapts to death, failure, and the choices you make. Play as ordinary people in a struggle for safety, freedom, and a chance at peace. Use conversation, manipulation (and rarely, violence) to achieve your goals.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Walking Simulator 10.6%, Point & Click 9.8%, Visual Novel 9.5%
- #28 AUTOPHOBIA
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Violessence
Windows
A cinematic point-and-click experience following a girl's struggles with schizophrenia. Your choices dynamically affect not only the way others perceive her, but the way she perceives the world as well. Maintain her trauma and psychosis, or don't and suffer from progressively violent hallucinations.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Point & Click 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Emotional 11.4%, Visual Novel 10%
- #29 The Dust of the Violet Crystals
77% matchPositive95% of 19 reviews2024
Dev: Corvaena Games LLC
Windows · Mac
A flesh-eating dust leaves you to survive alone against hordes of Listless.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Female Protagonist 10.2%, RPG 10%
- #30 Not It: Spookiest Edition
78% matchPositive80% of 30 reviews2021
Dev: Snowhaven Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Not It: Spookiest Edition is a horror-filled visual novel full of suspense and mystery where you navigate Katie through a living nightmare. Her move-in day on Halloween throws her into a centuries-old curse. Can she make it through the night? Will her new neighbors perish? Decide their fate.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Text-Based 10.3%, Horror 9.9%
- #31 Into the Waves
77% matchVery Positive92% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Flying Whale
Windows · Mac · Linux
Morin is a barkeeper with an unusual curse. All people look like shadows to him, except for one mysterious stranger... Solve the mystery of the curse, fight true darkness and mix the most unusual cocktails in the atmospheric visual novel — Into the Waves!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Point & Click 12.2%, Text-Based 7.9%
- #32 im not supposed to be here: or anywhere
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LK ValentinePub: Titanomachy RPG
Windows
You used to help the hollow maid take care of herself. This time, she's missing & the front-facing UI has disappeared, giving way to a whole new environment. Find your friend.
Why similar: Emotional 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Point & Click 14.2%, Surreal 11%, Visual Novel 9.9%
- #33 Fatal Falls
76% matchPositive93% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: Tripolar Studio
Windows
In Fatal Falls you explore the dark secrets of "The Grand Elysium", a posh luxury hotel in the middle of nowhere. Interact with its guests, drink a cocktail at the bar, peruse the noble premises – the choice is yours! Just make sure you don't get entangled in the hotel's dark deeds...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Walking Simulator 11.1%, Point & Click 10%, Horror 8.5%
- #34 You're a dad
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Linus Bohman
Windows · Mac · Linux
Choose your path and accept the consequences in this sleep deprived text adventure about becoming a parent. Be a responsible adult, make dinner and take care of your child. You must do this. Nothing else.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Emotional 12.6%, Text-Based 11.1%, Point & Click 10.9%
- #35 Witchlight Woods
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Delphin Casado
Windows
Blending fairy tale fright with psychological horror, this narrative game challenges you to survive a weird journey through the woods while being hunted by the witch you were tasked with imprisoning. Sometimes charming, sometimes frightening, she’ll force you to make hard choices.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Horror 11.8%, Psychological Horror 10.5%
- #36 Alcyone: The Last City
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: Joshua Meadows
Windows · Mac · Linux
Alcyone: The Last City is an interactive sci-fi novel where your choices can lead to the salvation or destruction of the last refuge of civilisation in the universe. Immerse yourself in a branching narrative of diverse characters, intrigue, and world-altering decisions.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Emotional 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Text-Based 9.5%
- #37 Parasite in Love
73% matchVery Positive94% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: Night Asobu
Windows
Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Horror 8.6%, Psychological Horror 7.6%
- #38 derealization
73% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews
Dev: Sempiternal Rain
Windows
A visual novel about a girl who escaped from a psychiatric hospital. She is pursued by a strange being from another world — and it seems she’s not the only one who can see visitors from beyond.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Surreal 9.7%, Text-Based 9.4%, Female Protagonist 9%
- #39 Chromatic Memories
74% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Perla Oculta
Windows · Mac · Linux
A visual novel about grief, memory and acceptance. Nayara is a painter of memories: she digs into her clients’ minds to change or even erase their memories. One day she realizes she has altered her own memory. What was so painful or unbearable that she wanted to forget it for good?
Why similar: Emotional 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Female Protagonist 7.2%
- #40 Shadows Of Memory ll
72% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Pixelyarn
Windows
Go home, Alice. The past awaits you. This is the second chapter in the horror visual novel trilogy.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Horror 12.3%, Psychological Horror 9.3%
- #41 Enelia: Dawn of Madness
71% matchVery Positive95% of 127 reviews2024
Dev: Indra Studio
Windows
Immerse yourself in the enigmatic world of Nauris, where enchanting landscapes hide terrifying secrets: the strange behavior of elders, sinister rituals of priests, and the disappearance of citizens. Madness lurks everywhere – will you master it or become its victim? The choice is yours.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Horror 11%, Point & Click 9.7%
- #42 What Is Sleeping In My Room?
73% match7 user reviews86% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Text-Based 13.3%, Surreal 11.3%, Horror 10.8%
- #43 Next Please
71% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Feeling Potion
Windows · Mac
Your mom left you alone at the checkout. With a full cart. It's your turn. What do you do? A short psychological game about everyday anxiety.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Visual Novel 14%, Horror 11.7%, Psychological Horror 9.4%, Text-Based 9.2%
- #44 The Wreck
71% matchVery Positive89% of 273 reviews2023
Dev: The Pixel Hunt
Windows · Mac
In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.
Why similar: Emotional 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Point & Click 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.2%
- #45 Star Crystal Warriors Go!
70% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
When nightmare monsters invade your city, can you and your friends defeat them with your dream magic and still make it to school on time? A text-based interactive magical girl anime novel, 250,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Emotional 16.5%, Visual Novel 12%, Text-Based 10.6%
- #46 Yonder World: Interview with the Void
72% matchPositive93% of 14 reviews2022
Dev: Fluttering Abyss
Windows · Mac · Linux
A psychological horror story, with a spiking sense of danger and gentle melancholy. An out of this world adventure, revolving around books, memories and mortality. Along the way, perhaps you shall pick up pieces of a long forgotten heart, or some unlikely companions that you never knew you needed.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Emotional 9.4%, Female Protagonist 8.8%
- #47 Defragmenting
70% 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 24%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Point & Click 12.6%, Text-Based 9%
- #48 Pet
70% matchPositive95% of 21 reviews2023
Dev: beepsoft industries
Windows
A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Psychological Horror 10%, Text-Based 9.1%, Female Protagonist 9.1%
- #49 Make Moku Proud
68% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: VAINSANE
Windows · Mac · Linux
Uncover the truth behind a broken ritual in Make Moku Proud... a psychological visual novel where guilt and obedience, and what it means to make Moku proud, shape the fate of a witness watching his companions disappear.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Horror 12.4%, Psychological Horror 10.9%
- #50 Who's Lila?
69% matchVery Positive95% of 3,515 reviews2022
Dev: Garage Heathen
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
A reverse-detective adventure, where you control your character's face
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Point & Click 10.9%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Horror 9.5%
- #51 Contra Spem Spero
68% matchPositive96% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: DADZINGO
Windows · Linux
Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Horror 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Psychological Horror 10%
- #52 Mirrorandum
68% matchPositive100% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: AinkOink
Windows
Mirrorandum is not just a visual novel...it's a journey through a world of mirrors, where every reflection challenges your perception and every choice reveals the depths of your true self.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26%, Emotional 23.8%, Visual Novel 18%, Text-Based 8.9%, Choices Matter 6.5%
- #53 THE DAY THAT WASN'T
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: MAD Tribe Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Relive the same day without remembering it. Your choices feed four inner alter egos (Shadow, Mad, Alex, and Bully) — shaping reality, glitches, and one of 16 possible endings. The day repeats. Your mind doesn’t. Or does it?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Emotional 8.9%, Text-Based 8.4%
- #54 Watashi Suzume
69% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2022
Dev: Shamrock Creations LLC.
Windows
Shamrock Creations is proud to present Watashi Suzume. A story that explores the far reaching impacts that love, friendship, and understanding have on not only our own lives, but how we view life itself. All wrapped up in a supernatural murder mystery narrative that we think everyone will enjoy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Emotional 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Text-Based 12.4%, Point & Click 12.2%
- #55 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
67% 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 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Text-Based 12.8%, RPG 7.7%
- #56 Awakewood
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NeuroCreativa
Windows · Mac · Linux
After your mother’s strange funeral, a black rain blocks the roads and leaves you stranded. The air smells like rotting fruit and nature begins to mutate. Can you get out of here before the forest finds you?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Point & Click 15%, Horror 6.1%
- #57 Whispering Memories
65% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Stellar Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
Return to a hometown that hasn’t changed the way it should have. A psychological visual novel focused on atmosphere, relationships, and a reality that slowly refuses to stay still. Can you uncover the truth before it consumes you?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Conversation 10.3%, Text-Based 9.2%
- #58 Jessica's Choices - Forced [Episode 1]
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DoAdventures
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your story continues right where Origins left off. Whether Jessica finds herself wandering the streets alone, caught in George’s web of deceit, or trapped in the unsettling confines of Margaret Thatuals under Professor Trounch’s watchful gaze and the orderlies, every choice matters.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Female Protagonist 13.1%, Emotional 11.7%
- #59 Slumber Clause
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Copychaser Games
Windows · Mac
From the creator of Speed Dating for Ghosts comes a new weird text adventure about death and sleep paralysis set in the late 1980s.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Emotional 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Text-Based 9.7%, Point & Click 9.1%