- #1 Minds Beneath Us
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,730 reviews2024
Dev: BearBoneStudio
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Philosophical 20%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Story Rich 9.2%
- #2 Trinoline All Ages Version
96% matchVery Positive89% of 156 reviews2019
Dev: minoriPub: MangaGamer
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 26.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
When tragedy sparks the advancement of science, a sentient android is created. Now, in this heart-wrenching, romantic, and beautiful visual novel, you will explore whether or not it's possible for man and machine to truly love each other.
Why similar: Emotional 23.2%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Story Rich 10.3%
- #3 Sentience: The Android's Tale
96% matchVery Positive84% of 350 reviews2017
Dev: Pilgrim AdventuresPub: GrabTheGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
You can remember nothing before this moment. Your existence begins with a keystroke followed by the flick of a switch. Electrical power streams into your neural network, and you are alive.
Why similar: Robots 29.3%, Sci-fi 14.1%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Story Rich 10.1%, Philosophical 9.7%
- #4 2064: Read Only Memories
95% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,665 reviews2015
Dev: MidBoss, LLC.Pub: Chorus Worldwide Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco. Team up with Turing, the world's first sapient machine, to unravel a conspiracy that threatens to shake an entire society
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 38.7%, Emotional 12.4%, Visual Novel 10%, Multiple Endings 8.4%, Sci-fi 7%
- #5 NeuroNet: Mendax Proxy
94% matchVery Positive82% of 66 reviews2023
Dev: Dream Harvest
Windows
You are Arc, a city management AI. Designed to manage a city-wide AR metaverse known as the NeuroNet. Meet its many users, build relationships and help or hinder their lives while trying to balance the wider needs of the city. Find your humanity in a world losing theirs to technology.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 31.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Story Rich 8.6%, Sci-fi 8%
- #6 The Away Team: Lost Exodus
94% matchMostly Positive73% of 100 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: Dialogue Heavy 28.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Sci-fi 8.7%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%, Story Rich 7.1%
- #7 Dull Grey
93% matchVery Positive86% of 80 reviews2021
Dev: Provodnik Games
Windows · Linux
Dull Grey is an award-winning visual novel about growing up. Experience an emotional story of a mother and son in a dystopian world, make simple but meaningful choices and discover multiple endings. Will you see your story unfold in full colour?
Why similar: Philosophical 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Story Rich 8.6%
- #8 Robot Daycare
92% matchVery Positive87% of 156 reviews2021
Dev: KigyoDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
A visual novel about raising a cute robot child, which may or may not go horribly wrong. Your choices decide the outcome.
Why similar: Robots 28.6%, Philosophical 25.7%, Visual Novel 14%, Emotional 8.5%, Sci-fi 6.6%
- #9 RGB GlitchGazer
90% matchVery Positive98% of 94 reviews2026
Dev: 群星闪耀时Pub: 群星闪耀时
Windows
A mad and romantic ADV. Unravel a strange world of science and philosophy with a mecha girl, zombie girl, or beastfolk. Some paths may disturb you... or thrill you.
Why similar: Emotional 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Philosophical 16.9%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Sci-fi 10%
- #10 DIVINATION
91% matchVery Positive90% of 204 reviews2019
Dev: Mojiken
Windows · Mac
"What if you're born into this world without your permission?" DIVINATION is a very short visual novel where you act as a fortune teller in a futuristic world. Talk and listen to people's stories, then foresee their future using the runes they had drawn.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 21%, Philosophical 20.7%, Robots 13.3%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Multiple Endings 8%
- #11 Subsurface Circular
91% matchVery Positive94% of 1,931 reviews2017
Dev: Bithell Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 69%
When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 24.3%, Robots 20.8%, Philosophical 13.1%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Sci-fi 8.7%
- #12 Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog
89% matchVery Positive91% of 920 reviews2025
Dev: Space Colony StudiosPub: Astrolabe Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Survive the mystery that awaits the JFS Gun-Dog in deep space in this retro visual novel / graphic adventure.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Sci-fi 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Story Rich 9.6%
- #13 Silicon Dreams | cyberpunk interrogation
89% matchVery Positive94% of 255 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: Dialogue Heavy 30.6%, Emotional 16.9%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Story Rich 10.1%, Visual Novel 8.5%
- #14 The Robot Girl Meets The Human!
87% matchVery Positive97% of 70 reviews2022
Dev: Usui Sio
Windows · Mac
This is an adventure game that takes you on a journey through a world after humans have disappeared. Lead the robot girl "Scarlet" to find the surviving humans.
Why similar: Robots 31.6%, Emotional 18.2%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Story Rich 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.4%
- #15 Alone With You
88% matchMostly Positive80% of 103 reviews2017
Dev: BancyCo
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Alone With You is a bittersweet sci-fi adventure game that goes right for the heart. Escape a doomed space colony with the help of your troubled AI companion and four chatty holograms in this unique blend of adventure & visual novel storytelling.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.5%, Pixel Graphics 19.3%, Sci-fi 17.1%, Multiple Endings 14.3%, Story Rich 12.9%
- #16 Choice of Robots
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,000 reviews2014
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Your robots will change the world! Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army? A 300,000-word epic interactive sci-fi novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.5%, Robots 26.1%, Text-Based 13.6%, Sci-fi 8.5%, Choices Matter 8.2%
- #17 Friendsim 2
86% matchVery Positive88% of 103 reviews2022
Dev: Studio June
Windows · Mac
In this episodic visual novel, follow the adventures of MSPA Reader as they return to Alternia once more to save their friends... and realize that nothing is as it seems.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Sci-fi 9.9%
- #18 The Dearest Person
83% matchVery Positive94% of 631 reviews2024
Dev: house.opposite
Windows · Mac · Linux
A visual novel about what it means to be human. A story about loneliness, self-identification, and the meaning of existence.
Why similar: Philosophical 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Emotional 17.2%, Dialogue Heavy 15.1%, Visual Novel 10.5%
- #19 Guilt Free
85% matchVery Positive86% of 293 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 30.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Emotional 14.4%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Story Rich 7.6%
- #20 Neo Cab
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,815 reviews2019
Dev: Chance AgencyPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A visual novel about emotional survival in an automated world. Play as Lina, the last human cab driver. It’s your first night driving the lonely streets of Los Ojos, and your best friend has just disappeared. Stay on the road. Stay on the search. Stay human.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 42.2%, Emotional 12.8%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Multiple Endings 8.9%, Sci-fi 7.3%
- #21 OMNIMUS
84% matchVery Positive87% of 55 reviews2019
Dev: Angry gamesPub: Total
Windows · Mac · Linux
Omnimus. Welcome to the future! A visual novel about a daring experiment.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.3%, Sci-fi 18.7%, Multiple Endings 17.8%, Story Rich 13.8%, Adventure 13.7%
- #22 Reviver
81% matchVery Positive93% of 230 reviews2025
Dev: Cotton Game
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 73%
A narrative puzzle game with themes of love, fate and time. Follow the life stories of the two main characters and influence their destinies through interactions and choices. The game combines hand-drawn style and an immersive interactive experience to explore a profound journey of love and choice.
Why similar: Emotional 36.9%, Visual Novel 26.6%, Story Rich 14.9%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Adventure 4.3%
- #23 OneShot
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 62,700 reviews2016
Dev: Future Cat LLCPub: KOMODO
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 27.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Why similar: Story Rich 26.2%, Pixel Graphics 23.3%, Multiple Endings 17.4%, Atmospheric 11%, Choices Matter 10.3%
- #24 Memory Note
82% matchVery Positive95% of 75 reviews2020
Dev: CupcakeTime TeamPub: Phoenix_co
Windows · Mac · Linux
Memory note is a slice-of-life visual novel with meaningful player choices, several endings to explore, and a story that will touch your heart.
Why similar: Visual Novel 58.1%, Adventure 21.9%, Atmospheric 19.9%
- #25 Ego's Spark
80% matchVery Positive94% of 69 reviews2024
Dev: SatsukiPub: Shiravune
Windows
Is this a nascent ego—or just a nasty bug? Crash headfirst into cuddles, comfort, and maybe even love in this short visual novel about robots and the human heart.
Why similar: Robots 29%, Emotional 19.2%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Sci-fi 13.1%, Dialogue Heavy 12.3%
- #26 Coffee Talk
79% matchVery Positive95% of 12,298 reviews2020
Dev: Toge Productions
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 39.4%, Philosophical 11.4%, Emotional 11.2%, Visual Novel 10%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%
- #27 Windy Meadow - A Roadwarden Tale
79% matchVery Positive87% of 101 reviews2023
Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Windy Meadow – A Roadwarden Tale is an interactive slice-of-life visual novel about choosing your own path. Help three protagonists make the most important choices of their lives. Featuring a multitude of hand-crafted characters and a richly detailed village set in the Roadwarden story world.
Why similar: Emotional 29.3%, Visual Novel 22.5%, Pixel Graphics 16.1%, Atmospheric 8.8%, Story Rich 7.8%
- #28 No More Future
78% matchVery Positive99% of 127 reviews2022
Dev: Sedge
Windows
In the last days of their life, a dying person takes one final gamble... No More Future is a linear Sci-Fi Visual Novel, where you explore a futuristic world as an android trying to rebuild their old life. In this strange journey, they'll question the very foundations of their life and their world.
Why similar: Visual Novel 28%, Philosophical 19.3%, Story Rich 16.6%, Text-Based 14.8%, Sci-fi 13.6%
- #29 Bionic Heart 2
82% matchMixed57% of 54 reviews2014
Dev: Winter Wolves
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Sequel to the sci-fi visual novel Bionic Heart. The game is told from four different points of view: each character choice will change the outcome of the story.
Why similar: Robots 28.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Sci-fi 13%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
- #30 Don't Let Me Fade
74% matchVery Positive99% of 131 reviews2025
Dev: AinkOink
Windows
Don't Let Me Fade is an interactive adventure about memory, identity, and loss. Piece together fragments of a life - even if a simple teddy bear is the last symbol of connection to oneself in a world without time.
Why similar: Emotional 23.6%, Visual Novel 22.2%, Pixel Graphics 12.3%, Story Rich 9.2%, Adventure 8.7%
- #31 Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER
77% matchMostly Positive72% of 217 reviews2024
Dev: MidBoss, LLC.Pub: Chorus Worldwide Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER is a story-rich adventure and the sequel to 2064: Read Only Memories. Explore the rich world with an intuitive point-and-click interface as you take on the role of a young psychic agent tasked with tracking down a mysterious antagonist hiding in people's memories.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 40.6%, Emotional 13.6%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Multiple Endings 8.8%, Sci-fi 7.3%
- #32 Robotherapy
76% matchVery Positive87% of 125 reviews2023
Dev: Lucas Molina
Windows · Mac · Linux
An emotional dark comedy about robots doing therapy. In Robotherapy, you're a robot therapist in a dystopian society that killed all the humans, but is still not happy. Treat patients, meet weird robots and enter their minds. If killing all humans doesn't bring happiness, then what does?
Why similar: Robots 27.4%, Emotional 20.6%, Philosophical 14.6%, Story Rich 10%, Visual Novel 9.6%
- #33 Tails Noir Preludes
76% matchVery Positive92% of 300 reviews2023
Dev: EggnutPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Tails Noir Preludes is a post-noir narrative adventure with branching choices. It is an intertwined series of vignettes about change, circumstance, and consequence. Guide four characters through formative moments in their lives in a dystopian Vancouver inhabited by anthropomorphic animals.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 39.4%, Emotional 18.2%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%, Story Rich 7.8%
- #34 Event[0]
78% matchVery Positive80% of 2,275 reviews2016
Dev: Ocelot Society
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative exploration game where you build a relationship with a lonely spaceship computer to get home to Earth.
Why similar: Sci-fi 26%, Multiple Endings 20.6%, Story Rich 14.6%, Atmospheric 12.8%, Choices Matter 10.8%
- #35 S4U: CITYPUNK 2011 AND LOVE PUNCH
73% matchVery Positive91% of 2,548 reviews2025
Dev: U0U GamesPub: GCORES PUBLISHING
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
This is a modern adventure of young adults seeking love and meaning. Return to 2011's Castor Yard, tap on your keyboard, and make those letters dance: Use your online persona to make meaningful decisions for your clients and yourself.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.4%, Multiple Endings 16.9%, Story Rich 16.6%, Pixel Graphics 14.8%, Sci-fi 11.3%
- #36 ELECTROBASIS
75% matchVery Positive94% of 105 reviews2024
Dev: Rat Room Games
Windows
ELECTROBASIS is a 3d dialogue-driven game, sprinkled with platforming and puzzle quests. Meet a cast of heavenly hosts that come with a MYRIAD of issues, and help to fix (most of) them! The casino yearns for a savior - she awaits a restoration.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 31.9%, Visual Novel 28.5%, Multiple Endings 16.5%, Story Rich 14.2%, Choices Matter 8.9%
- #37 The Wanderer: Frankenstein’s Creature
77% matchVery Positive83% of 349 reviews2019
Dev: La Belle GamesPub: ARTE France
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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 25.8%, Emotional 16.3%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Text-Based 10%
- #38 Imitosis
74% matchVery Positive98% of 204 reviews2024
Dev: One Over Games
Windows
A free 5-minute visual novel. A security concern demands your attention.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29%, Robots 22.6%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Choices Matter 7.1%
- #39 ROBOTICS;NOTES ELITE
75% matchVery Positive90% of 669 reviews2020
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 38.2 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Thanks to the rising popularity of the PhoneDroid—a device which features augmented reality (A.R.)—the age of advanced technology has finally reached Tanegashima. On that island, Central Tanegashima High's "Robot Research Club" is about to have their club disbanded.
Why similar: Visual Novel 33.3%, Robots 23.1%, Sci-fi 18.7%, Story Rich 14.7%, Adventure 9.4%
- #40 Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
73% matchVery Positive92% of 2,845 reviews2021
Dev: DigiTales InteractivePub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 32.5%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Sci-fi 12.2%, Pixel Graphics 11.1%, Text-Based 9.2%
- #41 Techno Banter
72% matchVery Positive92% of 124 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: Dialogue Heavy 50.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Story Rich 6.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.3%
- #42 The Red Strings Club
73% matchVery Positive94% of 13,919 reviews2018
Dev: DeconstructeamPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 22.7%, Story Rich 19.6%, Philosophical 13.6%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.6%
- #43 Citizen Sleeper
71% matchVery Positive93% of 10,020 reviews2022
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 40.3%, Sci-fi 14.7%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Story Rich 12.1%, Text-Based 10.4%
- #44 Emily is Away <3
71% matchVery Positive91% of 6,663 reviews2021
Dev: Kyle Seeley
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Emily <3 is a brand new story set on an old-new social media. Customize your facenook profile, send some friend requests and determine the outcome of your senior year.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 21.3%, Emotional 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Visual Novel 10.8%
- #45 Before Your Eyes
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 22,878 reviews2021
Dev: GoodbyeWorld GamesPub: Skybound Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Embark on an emotional first-person narrative adventure where you control the story—and affect its outcomes—with your real-life blinks. With this innovative technique you will fully immerse yourself in a world of memories, both joyous and heartbreaking, as your whole life flashes before your eyes.
Why similar: Emotional 52.6%, Philosophical 20.8%, Story Rich 19.7%, Choices Matter 2.9%, Adventure 2.8%
- #46 NODE The Last Favor of the Antarii
69% matchVery Positive95% of 190 reviews2025
Dev: Lapsus Games
Windows · Linux
NODE is a 2.5D puzzle platformer with Timeline-based navigation set in a Cold War era nuclear complex. Plan a route for your robot, strategize, sequence commands and execute them to navigate between checkpoints. Try again. And again. Influence the story with your choices and solve the mystery.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 24.9%, Robots 23.8%, Emotional 20.1%, Sci-fi 11%, Story Rich 9.6%
- #47 Au Revoir
70% matchVery Positive95% of 118 reviews2025
Dev: Invisible StudioPub: Nuntius Games
Windows
Play as Tristan and solve puzzles to recover human consciousnesses in the year 2071. Investigate environments, uncover secrets, and make choices that affect the ending. Explore a neon-noir world with a low poly aesthetic inspired by the 90s.
Why similar: Sci-fi 23.9%, Story Rich 22.1%, Multiple Endings 17.1%, Text-Based 16.3%, Atmospheric 12.5%
- #48 The Use of Life
67% matchVery Positive90% of 756 reviews2025
Dev: だらねこげーむず/Daraneko GamesPub: PLAYISM
Windows
The Use of Life is a multi-ending adventure book style JRPG. The main character’s various attachments change in accordance with the choices the player makes, and the ending changes depending on “the use of life” you choose through your journey.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 51.3%, Multiple Endings 16.4%, Story Rich 15.6%, Choices Matter 7.9%, Adventure 4.1%
- #49 My Protogen Engineer ⚙️
68% matchVery Positive97% of 232 reviews2024
Dev: Dirty Fox Games
Windows
You've almost died, you lost your body. Gladly, you were saved by your old friend Xena, a genius engineer who lives on a desolate planet. Now it's time to recover and find a new goal in your life!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 38.9%, Robots 27.8%, Atmospheric 9.9%, Sci-fi 8.6%, Adventure 5.9%
- #50 MINDHACK
69% matchVery Positive93% of 711 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Visual Novel 21.8%, Story Rich 14.5%, Sci-fi 14%, Philosophical 11.9%
- #51 Justice.exe
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 102 reviews2022
Dev: Late Game ClutchPub: Gameclaw Studio
Windows · Mac
Justice.exe is a dialogue-heavy dystopian legal drama in which you defend sentient AI in court. Discover key story elements in dialogue, build your case by studying arguments, and engage the opposing counsel in wits, charisma and skullduggery. Small choices might alter the fate of your clients.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 23.2%, Story Rich 21.2%, Pixel Graphics 18.9%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Atmospheric 12.1%
- #52 ANONYMOUS;CODE
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 525 reviews2023
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Hack Into God
Why similar: Visual Novel 48.7%, Story Rich 22.1%, Adventure 14.3%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #53 ENDLING
68% matchVery Positive88% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Team HumansPub: TelePresent Games
Windows · Mac
Live the perfect day, break the cycle, and discover the truth about yourself in this short, quirky sci-fi mystery about freedom, choice, and loneliness.
Why similar: Philosophical 34.9%, Emotional 26.2%, Sci-fi 13.3%, Choices Matter 7.9%, Multiple Endings 7.1%
- #54 Andromeda Six
66% matchVery Positive97% of 74 reviews2025
Dev: Wanderlust Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Andromeda Six is a sci-fi inspired visual novel, with romance elements and an immersive, choice based story. Take on the role of a lost Traveler and uncover the truth of your past. Fight for a future for both yourself, and those you grow close to throughout your journey.
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.6%, Multiple Endings 16.6%, Emotional 15%, Story Rich 12.5%, Text-Based 11.1%
- #55 Refind Self: The Personality Test Game
67% matchVery Positive88% of 3,694 reviews2023
Dev: LizardryPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Games can really show someone's personality, don't you think? By way of a simple exploration-based adventure, this data-science game analyzes your actions to estimate your personality.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Emotional 18.9%, Philosophical 15.8%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Story Rich 10%
- #56 VOCÊ É UM DEFUNTO MECÂNICO
68% matchVery Positive97% of 410 reviews2022
Dev: Virgula LealPub: Jogo Joia
Windows · Mac · Linux
Baleado até a morte, você é um defunto mecânico se lembrando de como morreu, e das vidas torturadas que agora ficam para trás. Uma aventura em prosa para 20 minutos de pavor existencial no presente pós-singularidade.
Why similar: Robots 30.6%, Philosophical 14.6%, Emotional 14.5%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%
- #57 Sky Caravan
69% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.9%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Text-Based 9.9%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Sci-fi 9.3%
- #58 No Longer Home
71% matchMixed63% of 432 reviews2021
Dev: Humble GrovePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 51%
No Longer Home is a game about letting go of the life you've built due to circumstances beyond your control. Immerse yourself in the lives of Bo and Ao and learn about their dreams, frustrations and fears. Welcome the magic of the everyday and somewhat extraordinary.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 34.4%, Emotional 19.2%, Philosophical 14.9%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Story Rich 8.7%
- #59 Tavern Talk - A Cozy Visual Novel
66% matchVery Positive89% of 1,699 reviews2024
Dev: Gentle Troll Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 69%
A cozy visual novel about running a tavern in a D&D-inspired fantasy! Gather rumors, serve magical drinks, and meet adventurers on a life-changing quest.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Emotional 16.6%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
- #60 BLUE NIGHT LAUNDROMAT
67% matchVery Positive84% of 51 reviews2024
Dev: polte
Windows
A short 2D exploration adventure in a retro style! Explore a laundromat in the middle of the night and try to clear it!
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 41.2%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Pixel Graphics 16.4%, Atmospheric 8.8%, Choices Matter 7.6%