- #1 All (Too) Good Things
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: YOWPY games
Windows
Your job is to make humanity happy. Observe the people living in your assigned district and make the best choices to ensure everyone's happiness.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Text-Based 14.3%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11.2%
- #2 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
96% 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 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Text-Based 14.2%, Visual Novel 11%, Post-apocalyptic 7.2%
- #3 The Zoo
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: R ButtonPub: Hierarch Games
Windows · Mac
You've had the same dream all week: a school field trip to a zoo you can't leave, where the lions always find you in the end. Wander the zoo exhibits, make your choices, and search for the way out. A short, hand-painted interactive story about a recurring dream, and finally resolving it.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Text-Based 9%, Choices Matter 8.9%
- #4 201 - The Bad Number
95% matchPositive80% of 30 reviews2024
Dev: Pavel Kopylov
Windows
"201 - The Bad Number" is an interactive science fiction game-book set on a post-apocalyptic Mars. In a world where only 200 people remain, each new inhabitant may hasten civilization's end. Players make choices that impact the fate of humanity and the colony in a unique dystopian setting.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Text-Based 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Dystopian 11%, Visual Novel 8.4%
- #5 LifeSimOS
94% 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 17.2%, Dialogue Heavy 14.9%, Visual Novel 14%, Text-Based 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%
- #6 Whispering Memories
94% match5 user reviews100% of 5 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 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Dialogue Heavy 13.2%, Text-Based 11%, Visual Novel 10.7%
- #7 The Keytox Project
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BitRot Studios
Windows
The Keytox Project follows Anthony as he attempts to turn his life around. He takes a job at a government program, going to space, with his partner, Will. Their job is to hunt down alien lifeforms to ensure the safety of humanity. But what they find outside of Earth is far deeper than planned.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, RPG 9.4%, Text-Based 9.3%
- #8 Guilt Free
92% matchVery Positive85% of 295 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: Dialogue Heavy 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Text-Based 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Visual Novel 10.5%
- #9 Imperial Bureaucracy Hero
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Munitions Mori
Windows · Mac · Linux
IBH is a rich role playing game at the end of time. You're a mid-level official in a dying sci-fi regime, given the impossible task of fixing a faltering machine; explore a vast world, define your mind, flex your authority, and become a sinner or a savior in countless other stories.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Visual Novel 12.5%, RPG 9.5%, Text-Based 8.5%
- #10 The Dust of the Violet Crystals
91% matchPositive95% of 20 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 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, RPG 9%
- #11 Rouge Patrol
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Grimlark
Windows
A war that outlived the soldiers who fought it. Enemies inherited by a generation not grown. You will lead your precocious unit into this unending conflict and find out if the bonds of friendship can withstand the tides of war. Overflowing with black humour, you'll laugh till you cry...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.7%
- #12 Tale of android after the Apocalypse
89% matchPositive81% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: Team Moko App.
Windows
Niluas, an android who suddenly activated 276 years after the extinction of humanity. With her AI, Naive, she seeks lost memories, her activation's mystery, and humanity's extinction's cause. Facing enigmatic foes and hostile androids, she quests for truth about her existence and the desolate world.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
- #13 The Way Down
89% matchPositive95% of 40 reviews2024
Dev: Samuel Leigh
Windows
Absurdist Interactive fiction. Talk to the beings that inhabitant the world at its end. We forgot how to die.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%, Visual Novel 9.7%
- #14 Zugzwang
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Malice Studios LLC
Windows
Chess. Love. Destiny. All the same things, really.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Hand-drawn 9.9%, Dialogue Heavy 9.7%
- #15 Mass of Consumption
87% 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 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Text-Based 11.2%, Choices Matter 8.2%
- #16 Mother May I
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CloudSnake
Windows
Unravel the story of three siblings determined to break free from the iron grip of an AI named "Mother." In a world of virtual imprisonment, navigate rebellion, unveil dark secrets, and fight for freedom. Will you defy Mother's control, or succumb to her virtual prison?
Why similar: Dystopian 14.7%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Hand-drawn 9.6%
- #17 THE DAY THAT WASN'T
86% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Text-Based 11.1%, Dialogue Heavy 10%
- #18 FRACTURED RED
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: STORY GAMES
Windows
A science fiction visual novel. Deep beneath the surface of Mars lies a secret that will change everything. Six researchers. One rift. No one will return the same.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Text-Based 15.3%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Multiple Endings 8.2%, Exploration 7.9%
- #19 The Sin Collector: Repentless
84% matchVery Positive92% of 90 reviews2021
Dev: Sylen Studio
Windows
THE SIN COLLECTOR: REPENTLESS is a game on the border of a visual novel and a classic text RPG, set in the world of The Sin Collector, a series of books written by Michał Gołkowski. Action takes place a couple of years before the events presented in the books.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, Text-Based 12.6%, Visual Novel 9.9%
- #20 After the Storm
83% 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 22.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Text-Based 18.7%, Post-apocalyptic 17%, RPG 7.6%
- #21 Do 11
84% matchPositive81% of 26 reviews2021
Dev: SJR Team
Windows · Mac
Find a way out of the Do 11 app by doing missions that come from the mysterious Do 11 app. A choice awaits you to solve puzzles and change the fate of the protagonist. Escape the main character from the Do 11 app while savoring a profound worldview and intriguing story. An incredible twist awaits.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Dialogue Heavy 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Text-Based 12.6%, Visual Novel 10.9%
- #22 Whispers From The Rift
82% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Interdimensional Games Inc
Windows
A choose-your-own-adventure novel. Enter the mind of a black-ops team leader heading an impossible mission in a parallel universe. Choices are remembered, story events reflect past decisions, and freely rewind time to try different paths.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Text-Based 17%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Choices Matter 9.2%
- #23 Taina's Cursed Legacy
81% matchPositive82% of 34 reviews2025
Dev: dark_room_game
Windows
A text-based RPG with a nonlinear story set in a free Slavic fantasy world. Shape the heroine's character through your choices and unlock multiple endings. Mystery, folklore, and relationships — your fate depends only on you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Text-Based 16.3%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Hand-drawn 8.5%
- #24 Grave Knight
82% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: Dreamlight Games
Windows
Under developement, Grave Knight is an interactive RPG adventure inspired by SRD 5.1 ruleset and classical game books, where your decisions weave the fate of the characters and the story. Let the dice forge the fate of your hero and the realm by fighting the Grave knight and his horde.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Visual Novel 16.2%, RPG 11.3%, Text-Based 11.2%
- #25 The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
81% 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 21.3%, Text-Based 20.7%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Multiple Endings 11.4%
- #26 Tayke Me With You
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Foccelized Studios
Windows · Linux
Tayke Me With You is a visual novel about high school seniors and their struggles with each other and the world around them. You play as Gene, a sheltered, socially naive human from the city as he acclimates to living in a rural town filled with dinosaurs, finding friends (and love) along the way.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Text-Based 14.1%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11.4%
- #27 The Last Survey
80% matchPositive90% of 21 reviews2020
Dev: Nicholas O'Brien
Windows · Mac
A Hand-Drawn Visual Novel Essay Game
Why similar: Dystopian 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Text-Based 10.1%
- #28 Chronicles of Humanity
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Yun Games
Windows
Chronicles of Humanity is an expanding anthology of historical visual novels. Enter different eras, weigh conflicting testimony under political and personal pressure, and shape who is protected, what is recorded, and how each life is remembered. Complete stories are released as separate DLC.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Text-Based 14.8%, Dialogue Heavy 14.8%, Choices Matter 10.2%
- #29 Road 96: Mile 0
78% matchMixed68% of 2,128 reviews2023
Dev: Digixart
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 68%
The prequel to Road 96. Play Zoe and Kaito where it all started. Change their destinies!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Dialogue Heavy 13.2%, Dystopian 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.5%
- #30 The Wanderer: Frankenstein’s Creature
79% matchVery Positive84% of 373 reviews2019
Dev: La Belle GamesPub: ARTE France
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Experience the Myth of Frankenstein through the innocent eyes of his creature. Make decisions and change people's view that you will meet on your way. Now, the myth is in your hands, so how are you going to end it?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Text-Based 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Visual Novel 9.1%, Choices Matter 8.1%
- #31 Lone Bird in the Tree
75% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2026
Dev: Aosolagame
Windows · Mac
“Lone Bird in the Tree” is an adventure game with male and female versions of each of the four characters. The story alternates between the “future” of the main character, who is deeply traumatized by the grief of his/her best friend, and the “story leading up to the loss of his/her best friend”.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Text-Based 11.8%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Dialogue Heavy 9.3%
- #32 Yuika My Bestie
77% 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: Dialogue Heavy 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Visual Novel 11%, Text-Based 9.1%
- #33 Will Die Alone
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 67 reviews2022
Dev: Arianna Ravioli
Windows · Mac
Some memories aren't meant to stay. We are our memories and our experiences. What happens if you delete some of them? If you change your past and, thus, your future?
Why similar: Text-Based 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Dystopian 11.2%, Visual Novel 11.1%
- #34 StarStruck
76% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Strawberrytail
Windows
Embark on a thrilling journey through this highly engaging science fantasy visual novel with memorable characters and multiple endings. Journey through space, uncover the past and pull off a heist or two as you negotiate the pitfalls of friendship and a crumbling reality. Can you save the universe?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Dialogue Heavy 12.9%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%
- #35 A Line Held Tight
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Humble Grove
Windows · Mac · Linux
Tensions both political and personal are rising at the Brightworld mining colony. In this dynamic sci-fi visual novel you must decide where your heart and loyalties lie if you’re to shape the future and save yourself.
Why similar: Dystopian 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Emotional 11.9%, Text-Based 9.7%
- #36 Columbus
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ZHANG CHUNNING
Windows
Columbus》 is a dark fantasy visual novel with dual male leads. Play as Weaponzzie, a nameless weapon trapped in a wealthy estate. Dialogue choices drive a branching story to 10 endings—tenderness, ruin, freedom, or downfall. Your bond with the young master is defined by you.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 15.3%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Dystopian 9.2%
- #37 Robot's Fate: Alice
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Starni Games
Windows
Robot’s Fate: Alice is a text-based RPG set in the future where robots with neural network AI are integral to human life. You’re Alice - a robot who becomes self-aware, while everyone around fears rogue AI. Can you survive and reconcile humanity with robots? Your choices do matter.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Text-Based 13.9%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Choices Matter 7.7%
- #38 Hidden Clause
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: AUVMUJICA
Windows
Hidden Clause is a standalone interactive narrative game about consent, permissions, records, and interface obedience. Sign, refuse, wait, stare, click, and type as the system turns your actions and silence into evidence.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Text-Based 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Dialogue Heavy 9.6%
- #39 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
73% matchVery Positive88% of 12,656 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Choices Matter 17.5%, Text-Based 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.5%
- #40 Living on Plain Pasta
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Granité Works
Windows · Mac
A conversation adventure where you spend the worst, best summer visiting your booze-loving senpai, making weird food, and sneaking out together at midnight.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Dialogue Heavy 17.1%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
- #41 Jupiter-Saturn:testing conviction
71% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Salty universe
Windows · Mac · Linux
"Jupiter-Saturn:testing conviction" is a space-themed Visual Novel, with choices that affect the plot.The story follows a scientist and his struggle against the enemies he encounters along the way
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Text-Based 14.4%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11.2%, Dystopian 9.1%
- #42 ナカノ人格移植研究所
72% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 麺屋すぱいす 東京支店
Windows · Mac
「ナカノ人格移植研究所」は、周回型ミステリー2Dアドベンチャーゲームです。 それぞれの周回でプレイヤーが憑依する対象の登場人物を選択することで、その登場人物を主人公としてストーリーを進めながら謎を解き明かします。 プレイヤーは本ゲームの中で 4 つのパートを行き来しながらストーリーを進めます。 ノベルパートでは、クリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 探索パートでは、画面上のアイテムをクリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 移動パートでは、再度ビューでプレイヤーを操作し、船の中を探索します。 会議パートでは、他のパートで集めた手がかりを利用して他の登場人物と会話します。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Text-Based 10%, Dialogue Heavy 9.6%
- #43 Freedom Tower
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fire Trail
Windows
Roleplaying set in a dystopian universe inspired by early twentieth-century wars and Ukrainian folklore. You are Orest, and you might be the last hope of your occupied land. Establish the truths about the world getting drained of its energy, meet captivating characters, and make your land free.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Dialogue Heavy 10.5%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Dystopian 8.3%
- #44 The Meridian
70% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
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 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Text-Based 9.6%, Choices Matter 7.8%
- #45 A Week Before Autumn
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Paper
Windows
Pine Hill is a quiet Midwestern college town. Quiet enough that nobody seemed to hear Ginny Nicholson die. Alone with the thoughts in your head, now you just want to know one thing: why?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Text-Based 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Dialogue Heavy 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.7%
- #46 Quality Dreams, Reasonably Priced
69% matchPositive100% of 33 reviews2025
Dev: zorkie studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Work as a body modification consultant in a dystopian future. Talk to clients, make recommendations, and decide how much to upsell them. Balance helping others with earning enough to save your sick rabbit. Make decisions and change lives.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 15.4%, Dystopian 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%
- #47 Avalon Gates: 1 Million D
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KingsAvalon Studio
Windows
One million dollars. Two sisters. Countless consequences. Experience everyday life in modern Vietnam while uncovering the truth behind a mysterious one-million-dollar debt.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Dialogue Heavy 16.3%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Choices Matter 10.6%
- #48 Serania - Path of the Scion
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FableTree Productions
Windows · Mac
Choose, explore, interact, fight, solve, gather, trade! Rise to rebel in this immersive text-based fantasy story that seamlessly merges the best elements of RPGs, choose-your-own-adventure stories, visual novels, and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Text-Based 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Choices Matter 9.6%
- #49 Tempest In A Teapot
71% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: StrandGames
Windows
A choice-based, visual novel with time travelling teapots!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Dialogue Heavy 13.7%, Choices Matter 7.2%
- #50 Windrush Tales
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 3-Fold Games
Windows
Experience the triumphs and tribulations of two Caribbean immigrants in post-war Britain, in the world’s first Windrush video game, from the creators of the BAFTA nominated Before I Forget. How will you shape your story in this branching narrative interactive photo album?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Hand-drawn 12.2%, Text-Based 10.5%, Choices Matter 10%, Dialogue Heavy 8.9%
- #51 Fixer's Tale
68% matchPositive90% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Emblem Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A humorous sci-fi text-driven adventure where you play a support engineer sent to fix system failures in a secret research complex. Explore strange labs, investigate bizarre incidents, solve absurd problems, talk to depressed robots, and make choices that lead to multiple endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 16%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Visual Novel 12%, Dialogue Heavy 10.8%
- #52 目を閉じてプレイするゲーム「星の記す真実」
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TeamKomori
Windows
When you start the game, the narrator will instruct you to “close your eyes.” At that moment, whether you actually close them or keep them open will change the course of the story. Listen carefully to the voice as you proceed, and find your way to the truth.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Text-Based 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%
- #53 囚笼之诗
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Zig
Windows · Mac
You wake in a monster’s cage with no memory and 30 days to act. Choose to escape, obey, or become its favorite.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Text-Based 14.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Exploration 7.7%
- #54 VOICE
69% matchPositive89% of 19 reviews2021
Dev: WTFMAN
Windows
VOICE is a game about the story of living in a dystopian world where speaking is forbidden.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Text-Based 15.7%, Dialogue Heavy 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Dystopian 8.3%
- #55 Superstorm Melon Date
68% matchVery Positive89% of 74 reviews2021
Dev: A. Hagen
Windows · Mac
It's date night in the dystopian future. You're going out with Mel, a half-melon person with psychic powers. They seem a little weird, but at least they're cute. Choose where to go, what to do, and what to say in this highly interactive, romance visual novel.
Why similar: Dystopian 15.9%, Dialogue Heavy 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%
- #56 Dead Detention (Rescribbled)
67% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Jack Astral
Windows
DEAD DETENTION is a scribbly interactive story about a nerdy teen turned dooms day survivor! Play as 14 year old Max as he tries to escape his high school during a deadly zombie pandemic! Will he and his new friends get to safety?!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Choices Matter 8.9%
- #57 The Thief, the Witch, the Toad, and the Mushroom.
66% matchVery Positive100% of 298 reviews2024
Dev: Jack McNameePub: Ashtown Games
Windows
A fable from your childhood. Don't you remember it?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Text-Based 15%, Dialogue Heavy 12.5%, Visual Novel 11.6%
- #58 Inhuman Resources: A Literary Machination
66% matchVery Positive92% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: Finnegan MotorsPub: Indie Asylum
Windows · Mac · Linux
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Text-Based 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Dystopian 13.5%, Visual Novel 10.3%
- #59 There's Something Wrong with the Hero's Choices
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 港ねずみPub: PLAYISM
Windows
「その選択肢、正気か?」シンプルなノベルゲームのはずなのに、とにかく“選択肢”がおかしい!? 予想を超える展開が待ち受ける、奇想天外なテキストアドベンチャーゲーム!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Text-Based 18%, Dialogue Heavy 16.1%, Visual Novel 14%, Choices Matter 8.5%