- #1 Hidden Clause
97% 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: Word Game 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Text-Based 8.9%, Visual Novel 8.9%
- #2 Ceramic · Stainless Steel · Neurotransmitter
96% matchPositive100% of 26 reviews2026
Dev: ResiCat Studio
Windows
A short interactive novel. There is no "truth" in this game. This is not an armchair detective story—it is simply about a girl in a stall. You will advise the protagonist, determine how she perceives everything around her, and witness her ending.
Why similar: Word Game 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Visual Novel 9.1%, Text-Based 7.5%
- #3 童话镇 the Fairy Town
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 药屋ibuprofen
Windows
Fairy Town is an alternate-history narrative game. Brew a cup of coffee with your own hands and listen to the memories of Fairy Town’s survivors; or travel with Lilith across the collapsed continent of Fairy Town, visiting more than 30 regimes with radically different ideologies.
Why similar: Word Game 20.2%, Post-apocalyptic 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Visual Novel 11.2%
- #4 The Sojourning Wise Woman's Final Quest
95% matchPositive97% of 58 reviews2026
Dev: Orscat
Windows
Play as a wise woman, help your neighbors, and they will help you in return. Fight alongside your closest friend to deal with the beasts threatening the village. Uncover the secrets of magic through your journey, and you might even have a chance to confront your inner demons.
Why similar: Word Game 30.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Text-Based 9.2%
- #5 キズツケ kizutsuke
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 852話
Windows
To escape, you must hurt someone. KIZUTSUKE is a psychological suspense visual novel about four young men trapped together. Read their conversations, make difficult choices, and discover four endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Text-Based 14%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Psychological Horror 7.4%
- #6 海鸥灯塔Seagull Lighthouse
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LazzyCat
Windows
In a lighthouse, you read letters, write back, and wait. Only a sea, a flock of seagulls that deliver bottles, and bottles that drift in from nowhere, carrying the lives of strangers inside. Your replies may shape their stories. In an age of anxiety and speed, let yourself slow down.
Why similar: Word Game 35.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Visual Novel 9%, Text-Based 8.1%
- #7 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
93% 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 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Text-Based 14.6%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 6.9%
- #8 柔蒂亚克:永眠之城
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 华韵宇创工作室
Windows · Mac
Game IntroductionThis is a visual novel game with a sci-fi adventure theme, primarily based on dialogue options. In all cities, humanity has fallen into an unawakable dream, and you are one of the few "lucky" ones who remain awake.
Why similar: Word Game 30.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Lore-Rich 10.5%, Multiple Endings 5.8%
- #9 定风波·宁州
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 瓦舍游戏
Windows
《定风波·宁州》是一款奇幻架空背景下的热血恋爱AVG游戏,游戏内包含多种结局和多个可攻略角色,玩家将扮演男主角周知,从一个寂寂无名的矿奴逐渐成长为一个英雄,和多个充满魅力的角色一起创造特别的回忆,改变宁州将面临的可怕命运
Why similar: Word Game 32.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Text-Based 10.9%, Lore-Rich 8.3%
- #10 夏日重奏
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 俺们寻思工作室
Windows · Mac
夏日重奏 is a visual novel RPG in which you play as a seemingly ordinary high school student. In order to reclaim a once-lost dream of music, you will strive to improve yourself, search for teammates, spark new chemistry with your companions, and ultimately decide both your own future and theirs.
Why similar: Word Game 29.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Visual Novel 9.2%, Text-Based 9.1%
- #11 Tower of the Ice Lich
90% matchPositive100% of 19 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Text-Based 16%, Lore-Rich 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.7%
- #12 Uberich: Advent Sinners
89% matchVery Positive83% of 306 reviews2025
Dev: NBDR GamesPub: XD
Windows
The world and reality of Joe collapse as a sequence of paranormal events starts in September. A mysterious girl with physical powers named Chava wants him dead, as he can be a core key for her cult to dominate the reality between worlds.
Why similar: Word Game 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Lore-Rich 10.6%
- #13 人生记事簿:Life Memoirs
89% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: 悦文Yuewen
Windows
A choice-driven text game about living an ordinary life in modern China. Shape your path through study, work, love, and family, and see how your future unfolds year by year.
Why similar: Word Game 31%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Text-Based 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Lore-Rich 10.4%
- #14 Flora Parasocial
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Laments_VN
Windows
Audiences connect to their favorite celebrities all the time. How does it affect these people when put into a game of life or death? Only time will tell.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Visual Novel 13%, Lore-Rich 10%, Text-Based 7.7%
- #15 Chrongrid
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Chrongrid Studio
Windows
Chrongrid is an AI-driven narrative experience. Inside an author's story blueprint, you make your own choices and the world responds in its own way — every choice echoes, no two journeys alike. Built-in blueprints are the start; play others' stories or write your own, in any language.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Word Game 17.6%, Text-Based 13.7%, Lore-Rich 11%
- #16 All (Too) Good Things
86% 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 28.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Text-Based 15.9%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Multiple Endings 6.6%
- #17 浮生箓 Floating Life
87% matchMixed49% of 150 reviews2022
Dev: 心流工作室(Heart Stream Studio)
Windows
《浮生箓》是一款剧情重开模拟游戏,互动式轻量小说游戏。支持创意工坊自由编辑与上传自己的剧本,融合如修仙、武侠、玄幻等小说题材的背景,可自由选择出生的剧本,体验千变万化的人生,从出生开始让你体验到丰富多变的剧情,多种多样的选择,不同选择带来不同的变化,各种有趣的梗。来吧,开始你的浮生之旅,随着进程生成自己的浮生箓!
Why similar: Word Game 36.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Text-Based 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Visual Novel 11.8%
- #18 Jukai Maze
84% matchVery Positive88% of 118 reviews2026
Dev: 致意
Windows · Mac · Linux
Beneath the shadowed sea of trees below the volcanic mountain lies a mysterious facility probing the afterlife, as omens of the world’s end approach. A loved one missing, reality twisting, a volcano stirring below. Once more you enter the maze, seeking the exit hidden in spectral forest shadows.
Why similar: Word Game 37.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Lore-Rich 9%, Text-Based 5.8%, Adventure 5.2%
- #19 Get the Guy
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ByDesignK
Windows
A mysterious interface connects you to a troubled girl from an Eastern fantasy realm. Receive her words and visions instantly. Guide her choices through conscious labyrinths as your fates intertwine.
Why similar: Word Game 28.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Text-Based 9.7%
- #20 是谁偷走了我的人生?
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unfinished Lives studio
Windows
《是谁偷走了我的人生?》是一部发生在虚构自由城市“伯利蒂尔”的中长篇青春群像视觉小说。玩家将跟随社会学新生荆千和,在高校城中结识孔澄洸、池迟望等人,并通过轻量互动,逐渐走近她们各自隐藏的过去与困境。 “我,荆千和,失去了初中三年的记忆。” 来到伯利蒂尔后,她拥有了新的朋友与珍贵的日常,遗失的青春似乎正一点点重新生长。直到那个少年平静地说: “记住我,然后,去改变。” 当被掩埋的真相浮出水面,那些曾经失去的、渴望的,以及无法改变的过去,又将把她们带向怎样的未来? 愿你走完这段旅程时,也能重新找到属于自己的人生。
Why similar: Word Game 37.3%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Lore-Rich 10.2%, Multiple Endings 4.6%
- #21 Alcyone: The Last City
83% matchPositive81% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: Strange Artifice
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 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Text-Based 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.1%
- #22 What Acts up
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rebirth Studio
Windows
What Acts up is a psychological realism narrative adventure about social anxiety. Make choices, act under time pressure, and interact with shifting windows as Lin Mo’s fear and self-doubt invade the desktop. Some choices cannot be made, and some words simply refuse to come out.
Why similar: Word Game 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Lore-Rich 12.9%, Text-Based 10.3%
- #23 Into Oblivion
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NanoLion
Windows
Into Oblivion is an immerse interactive novel where your choices shape the story. Set in the far-future, explore a galaxy on the brink of crisis with dynamic companions. So, settle your mind and pray you have what it takes to fly Into Oblivion.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Visual Novel 13%, Text-Based 12.5%, Lore-Rich 10%
- #24 Chatting ChurroBun
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: maltsoup
Windows · Mac · Linux
Chat with a virtual friend from a cancelled mobile game! Ask questions, start arguments, and find the right responses to progress the story. Can you solve the horrific mystery hidden beneath the surface?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Lore-Rich 13.5%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Text-Based 11.4%
- #25 品玉庵异谈 PinYuAn Tales
81% matchVery Positive93% of 106 reviews2024
Dev: 小青蛙妙妙制作组
Windows
PinYuAn Tales is a AVG with thematic elements of weirdness and sidekick adventures. After Bai Qiming is laid off from his company, he starts to conduct psychic live broadcasting activities, and during one of the broadcasts, he meets a strange young man, and the story of the two of them unfolds.
Why similar: Word Game 32.7%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%, Psychological Horror 8.5%
- #26 Otherealm
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CASCHA GAMES
Windows · Mac · Linux
Story-driven ADV × Puzzles × Multiple Endings. Trapped in a cursed school, survive deadly trials to escape. Find clues, break secret rules, and expose its horrifying truth. Lies and mortal danger test your humanity; each choice changes allies’ bonds and picks the survivor.
Why similar: Word Game 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Lore-Rich 10.3%
- #27 灰烬溪AshCreek
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pigeon Studio
Windows · Mac
AshCreek is a female-oriented interactive visual novel centered on Lovecraftian cosmic horror. Players take on the role of an outsider who is unwillingly drawn into AshCreek, uncovering the truth behind its anomalies step by step by taking part in stories set across different worlds.
Why similar: Word Game 39.2%, Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Psychological Horror 6%, Text-Based 5.3%
- #28 Depth Loop
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: KEMCO
Windows
A werewolf game set in a deep-sea lab, where the survival of humanity is at stake—does justice lie with humankind or the werewolves?
Why similar: Word Game 24.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Dystopian 12.2%, Text-Based 9.3%
- #29 Terror Diversion
78% matchMixed45% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: FatCoke
Windows
This is a text-based horror game in which you investigate mysterious urban legends. Along the way, the player takes on the role of a character who gets “lost” and encounters a series of random events.
Why similar: Word Game 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Text-Based 12.5%, Visual Novel 9%
- #30 余生水花 Survival,The Diphylleia Grayis.
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 玻璃雨 Glass Rain
Windows
公元2017年12月中旬,洪水摧毁了远海世界某个叫忆城的大都市,中原联邦接管此处后,一切记忆似乎都要被时间抹除,包括一个叫永弦的音乐人。 解离症将她的记忆和灵魂分离开,纵使心中燃烧着对音乐热爱的火焰,那些明确的曾经的故事却早已不曾记得了。 透过玻璃墙看去,她看见的是自己的二手贝斯,笔下疼痛的情侣……以及,一个虚无缥缈又无比真实的女人,那真的是我曾经所爱着的人吗? 另一边,随着科技的快速进步和发展,可控时空穿越技术的成功研发,为现实世界中许多过往的遗憾带来了弥补的可能性。 不过大家都知道,遗憾的定义始终在人。所以,无限地信任自己的科学技术,还是承认并回归人性,还是要交给您自己选择。
Why similar: Word Game 37.5%, Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%, Multiple Endings 4%
- #31 Worn Out
77% 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 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Text-Based 12.3%, Psychological Horror 8.7%
- #32 Slacking Off Company: Workplace Survival
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ByDesignK
Windows
Tired of the daily grind? Become the puppet master in this office survival sim! Guide your employee in the art of slacking off, avoid the boss's watchful eye, and test the limits under their nose. Can you help them 'survive' without getting fired?
Why similar: Word Game 26.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Text-Based 11.4%, Visual Novel 9.8%
- #33 The Dust of the Violet Crystals
77% 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 28.8%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Text-Based 7.7%
- #34 Mass of Consumption
76% 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 29.1%, Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Text-Based 11.2%, Multiple Endings 6%
- #35 The Secret Of Greenwood Isle
75% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: SaynePub: Sayne Interactive
Windows
A story-driven mystery visual novel set in a remote island village. Gather clues through conversations and exploration, and uncover hidden truths through branching routes and multiple endings amid the tense, claustrophobic atmosphere.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Text-Based 14.6%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Multiple Endings 6.1%
- #36 Parasite in Love
75% matchVery Positive94% of 62 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 24.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Psychological Horror 8.2%, Text-Based 5.9%
- #37 XVTM
74% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Mischief and Craft
Windows
The abyss awaits. Descend into a minimalist visual novel about a girl in the future, and guide her through branching conversations, microgames, and explorable locations. Make friends with criminals, drink too much at dinner, or relax in a spa. Whatever happens, it was your choice.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Lore-Rich 10.7%, Text-Based 10.6%
- #38 The Keytox Project
74% 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 28.1%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Lore-Rich 13%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Text-Based 9.8%
- #39 The Zoo
73% 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 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Text-Based 9.8%, Multiple Endings 7.1%
- #40 After the Storm
73% 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 27%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.6%, Text-Based 18.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Multiple Endings 5%
- #41 TOUQI
71% matchVery Positive90% of 486 reviews2025
Dev: 橙光游戏Pub: Paleo
Windows
《頭七》(头七怪谈)是一款中式民俗恐怖解谜游戏。作为刚入职西封杂志社的成员,你需要根据主编的要求,整合“頭七”论坛中民间灵异故事贴之间的关联,并在必要时与同伴实地探索,以揭开帖子后隐藏的秘密。
Why similar: Word Game 33.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Lore-Rich 11.2%, Psychological Horror 9.9%
- #42 The Trial
72% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Text-Based 14.8%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Psychological Horror 8.3%
- #43 Lord of Lords: Dawn of the King
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Neural Break Inc.
Windows
Betrayed in the Amazon, an elite Korean special forces commander crosses into a brutal fantasy world and rises as a lord. A dark military-fantasy visual novel with choices, light progression, and conquest.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.6%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Text-Based 8.9%, Adventure 6.2%
- #44 The Laws of Probability
70% matchPositive90% of 49 reviews2026
Dev: Unspoken
Windows
You have exactly 5. Bread is 4, the bus fare to school is 3. What do you give up? In this short narrative experience, you play as 13-year-old Adam. Confront an interface that reacts to a painful reality, and discover that freedom of choice is sometimes nothing but a privilege.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Text-Based 16%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Psychological 6.9%
- #45 Seeds of Pain
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aky Heart
Windows · Mac · Linux
A group of kids decide to leave the floating island they live on to go and explore a colossal world tree. They don't know yet how dangerous this choice will be. Feel their fear and try to survive in this Visual Novel with resource management systems.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Text-Based 9.2%
- #46 Bedtime Story : Saint
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 22 reviews2025
Dev: TinyBigger
Windows
A writer obsessed with words, a voice in their mind like that of a god, and a strange story unfolding in the depths of winter. Between a cup of coffee and a cigarette, you are the deity that intervenes in the course of the story, guiding the writer to complete the narrative and its ending...
Why similar: Word Game 35.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Text-Based 8.7%, Adventure 5.7%
- #47 Will Die Alone
73% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Text-Based 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Dystopian 8.5%
- #48 正体 SHOUT-AI
69% matchMixed61% of 31 reviews2026
Dev: 852話
Windows
Walk through a broken game with Yoka in this psychological horror visual novel. Move dialogue windows, peer through fragmented images, and read records no one answers. What you touch, preserve, or leave behind shapes your conversations and leads to six endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Text-Based 12.5%, Psychological Horror 10%
- #49 The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
70% 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 25.7%, Text-Based 20.6%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
- #50 Tale of android after the Apocalypse
69% 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 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%, Multiple Endings 6.4%
- #51 201 - The Bad Number
69% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Text-Based 14.8%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Dystopian 9.4%
- #52 Lady of bones, a mother's legacy
70% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Emperor
Windows · Mac · Linux
It always rains, they call it The Haze. Ghosts haunt every alley, every gray corner of the city. Lady of Bones is a visual novel that explores the darkest depths of existence where Maya will discover the horrible secrets of her mother's legacy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Visual Novel 14%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Text-Based 9.2%
- #53 Imperial Bureaucracy Hero
68% 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 29.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Text-Based 8.9%, Lore-Rich 7%
- #54 Midnight Road
66% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: Dreamlight Games Studios SL
Windows
Embark on a mysterious nocturnal road trip where every conversation matters. Make choices, explore different paths and uncover multiple stories and endings. Can you find them all?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Psychological Horror 12%, Mystery 5.9%
- #55 南海饥年志
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Framea Studios
Windows
乱世饥年,岭南盐沼中的丰浦仍有热饭与灯火。你是账房执笔者江砚:翻名册、核份额,把「添丰」与「归丰」一笔一笔记清楚。供期临近,潮路、闭门规矩与人们过分周全的好意,让熟悉的日常渐渐显出不对劲。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Lore-Rich 8.7%, Psychological Horror 7.4%
- #56 スマートフォン
65% matchPositive97% of 29 reviews2026
Dev: OwataStudio
Windows
見知らぬ密室で目を覚ました主人公。 頼れるものは、手元に残された一台のスマートフォンだけ。 通話、メッセージ、アプリなどに残された痕跡をたどりながら、脱出の手がかりを探していく。 しかし、情報を集めるほどに、 この事件の裏に隠された異様な真実が浮かび上がっていく。 スマートフォンを操作して進める、サイコロジカル・ホラーADV。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.8%, Interactive Fiction 26.5%, Text-Based 17.5%, Adventure 6.2%, 2D 4.8%
- #57 Aliya: Timelink
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 9,693 reviews2024
Dev: TDGame StudioPub: Anotherindie
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 23.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
The player connects to a girl in distress in space thousands of years later? How will they resolve the crisis and discover the truth? Through the mechanism of real-time synchronization, the game breaks through the dimensional wall and creates an immersive dialogue across time and space.
Why similar: Word Game 34.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Text-Based 12.2%, Multiple Endings 6.9%
- #58 GONE
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 《走了》制作组
Windows
This is a story about self-discovery, wrapped in the guise of family. You step into the shoes of Gu Huixing. Watching my life unfold as an outsider, re-examining trivial days from an omniscient perspective — what will I become? Life is never a dead end. It is always a choice.
Why similar: Word Game 30%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Lore-Rich 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Text-Based 7.5%
- #59 呪霊が見せる夢 / Dreamscapes
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: アイエダゲームズ(Aieda Games)
Windows
Investigate six haunted properties and listen to the voices of spirits trapped in nightmares. Collect fragmented clues and discover the correct combination of names, locations, and vessels. A multi-ending horror adventure where the outcome changes depending on your choices during the ritual.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Text-Based 14.7%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
- #60 Sophie II: Paradox
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DavyCroquetteGame
Windows · Mac · Linux
To save humanity, your mind was sent back in time to rewrite history. But you did not wake up in your own body. Can we truly change the past? And what if something else is hiding behind all of this?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Text-Based 15%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Dystopian 10.5%