- #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 19.3%, Text-Based 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Visual Novel 11%, Conversation 8.9%
- #2 Attorney Disbarment Adventure
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ambearth Games
Windows
A darkly comedic legal sim where your goal is to get disbarred—spectacularly. Play as a defense attorney or prosecutor in ethically disastrous cases full of bad decisions, weird clients, and Kafkaesque courtroom chaos. Succeed, and you lose.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Satire 17% ★, Choices Matter 12.3%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
- #3 Summer Daze: Tilly's Tale
96% matchMixed60% of 20 reviews2023
Dev: Transolar Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A fantasy adventure visual novel with humor and heart, by acclaimed adventure game writer Lori Ann Cole. Starring the voice of Zehra Fazal as Tilly, a mischief-making rogue at Hero-U, the school for heroes.
Why similar: Text-Based 15%, Conversation 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Visual Novel 9.7%
- #4 I Did It ALL for the COOKIE!
95% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2024
Dev: Paul RodenburgPub: Rodenburg Films Ltd
Windows · Mac
You are hanging out at a festive Christmas party when your eyes discover the most perfect Christmas confectionery ever! You must have it!... but someone already has it! What will you be willing to do, to get your Christmas wish?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Choices Matter 9.4%
- #5 Mart Mayhem
94% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Eleven Dot Studio
Windows · Mac
Be a convenience-store clerk in a first-of-its-kind chat game—and kick out AI Karens. There are no preset choices. Say what you couldn’t in real life and enjoy how the AI responds differently each time. A stress-relief game where your what-ifs come to life!
Why similar: Text-Based 16.1%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Satire 12.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
- #6 There's Always a Madman: Bring the Thunder
94% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Sunny Demeanor Games
Windows
Play as secret agents Franklin Benjamin and Virginia West as they attempt to stop a madman with a weather device in this single-player interactive spy novel. Track down this madman named Zeus and destroy his infernal weather machine. In other words, it’s time for YOU to bring the thunder, agent!
Why similar: Satire 25.1% ★, Text-Based 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Visual Novel 8%
- #7 Secret Agent Allan Martin in ... Phoenix Erupting
93% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: SC Games
Windows
You are Allan Martin, an occasionally suave British superspy armed with a licence to cause an international incident. Can you survive international assassins? Can you stop an evil mastermind's nefarious plans? Can you avoid contracting an STD?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Text-Based 14.9%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Comedy 11%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
- #8 Don Quijote
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rubén Prende
Windows · Linux
An interactive graphic novel reimagining Cervantes' masterpiece in striking neo-noir style. Guide Don Quixote through La Mancha, make choices that shape his journey, and discover four unique endings in this tragicomic tale of idealism and madness.
Why similar: Satire 21.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Choices Matter 10.3%
- #9 NOAH: 2050
91% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Team NOAH
Windows
『NOAH: 2050』 is a 2D visual novel game that blends an adventure format where you can explore a school.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
- #10 The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
91% 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: Text-Based 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
- #11 There's Always a Madman: The MacGuffin
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Sunny Demeanor Games
Windows
Secret agent Franklin Benjamin's former mentor has resurfaced to take from you that which you hold most dear. In this singleplayer interactive spy novel, use your particular set of skills to save Virginia from the clutches of the madman Dustin MacGuffin. Which means - you’d better get the MacGuffin!
Why similar: Satire 27.3% ★, Text-Based 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Visual Novel 7.6%
- #12 Presidential Shaman
89% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: BRB Drama
Windows · Mac
The president trusts you. Exercise your Shamanic capabilities (or lack thereof). But don't get caught!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Text-Based 13.6%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Conversation 12.1%, Choices Matter 12.1%
- #13 Tequila Moonrise
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Black Swan Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Take over a struggling bar on the politically tense Moon Village. Prepare and serve drinks, befriend and help your customers, find your purpose, and maybe even love... all while keeping the bar's lights on in this narrative driven bartending simulator set on the moon.
Why similar: Conversation 14%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Text-Based 10.1%
- #14 summer story
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: karol_thegame
Windows · Linux
Summer Story: An adventure game where you investigate and make choices that shape the story.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Text-Based 13.6%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Choices Matter 8.4%
- #15 MoonShot
87% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Joey ParrishPub: Chicken Noodle Soap
Windows · Mac · Linux
You're a NASA intern working on the Apollo 11 project. Each day, you have a checklist to complete. Your tasks are well-reasoned and appropriate to your skill level as an intern. The Apollo team are all competent professionals. Everything goes very well, and you have no difficulties at all. 😛
Why similar: Text-Based 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Satire 12.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Conversation 8.7%
- #16 Knights Only: A Brush With Destiny
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stableboy Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Help Bertie the stableboy find his way out of difficult situations he unwittingly started in this modern take on the adventure game genre. There are many paths to success, making each playthrough unique. Help Bertie on his journey to becoming the hero of the kingdom, whether he wants to or not.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Satire 16% ★, Choices Matter 13.7%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Funny 9.7%
- #17 Where are you, Cinderella?
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KimiNako
Windows · Linux
Where are you, Cinderella? is a visual novel about Vietnamese culture and the world of entertainment. Will you be able to find the lost shoe’s owner? Or, will you find your shoe?
Why similar: Text-Based 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choices Matter 12%, Visual Novel 11.5%
- #18 Smashing My Phone: Broken-Screen Diaries
85% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Avocado Factory
Windows
You dropped and broke your phone, but you still have to use it. As a college freshman, you must complete tasks like calling friends, replying to messages, and paying at checkout with this broken phone. How far can you go?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Conversation 12.5%, Comedy 11.3%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
- #19 Space Court
84% matchVery Positive98% of 160 reviews2020
Dev: Uphill Promise
Windows
As a newly appointed Judge, you will rule over Space Court and its denizens to keep the universe safe. Or possibly blow it all up. Either way, you’re tenured.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Choices Matter 14%, Text-Based 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
- #20 Vanakan
84% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Erik Khachatryan
Windows
Vanakan is the journey of Tadevos - a priest, who travels the 500s Armenia to find the monastery that suits for his goal of becoming spiritually closer to Jesus Christ. He meets different people on his way and makes choices which will define his future and that of the country.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Multiple Endings 7.7%
- #21 Reigns: The Witcher
82% matchMostly Positive79% of 140 reviews2026
Dev: NerialPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Adventure as Geralt through the ballads of Dandelion. Swipe right, swipe left, seek glory, find death! Will you hunt monsters, upset the locals, or run a hot bath? Compose an inspiring epic to claim immortality.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Cartoony 6.3%
- #22 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
83% 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 20.6%, Text-Based 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Choices Matter 9.5%
- #23 Meet Claude
81% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: Farniente Lab
Windows
A free narrative game about the best roommate you'll ever have. He cooks, he cleans, he fixes your relationship. Everything improves. Nobody asked what it costs. A short satire about saying yes until you forget what no sounds like. Multiple endings. 1-2 hours.
Why similar: Satire 32.5% ★, Visual Novel 14.1%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Story Rich 9%
- #24 立ち絵が変なポーズの恋愛アドベンチャー あるいはオリジナリティの無い卒業までの日々
82% matchPositive96% of 27 reviews2024
Dev: ななにのん
Windows
Standing pictures is strange! The story is also strange! Novel game where you can enjoy chaos!!
Why similar: Text-Based 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Funny 13.4%, Comedy 13.2%
- #25 アイアイ喫茶店
81% matchVery Positive96% of 190 reviews2025
Dev: 麺屋すぱいす 東京支店
Windows · Mac
何気なく頼んだ「アイスコーヒー」の注文が、奥の部屋への「合言葉」になっちゃってる喫茶店。 1周5分の、ちょっとおかしくて怪しいマルチエンドADV。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Text-Based 15.5%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Conversation 8.9%, Funny 7.4%
- #26 Mass of Consumption
80% 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 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Text-Based 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Choices Matter 10.8%
- #27 My Therapy
79% matchVery Positive96% of 332 reviews2022
Dev: Suvorov Mikhail
Windows · Linux
A visual novel about cute melancholic girls!
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.2%, Satire 17% ★, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%
- #28 Fixer's Tale
79% matchPositive94% of 18 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 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Visual Novel 10.8%
- #29 Cringe Rizz Lines
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BRB Drama
Windows · Mac
A visual novel where you deliver cheesy pickup lines. Charm your love interest or reject them with a diss comment.
Why similar: Text-Based 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Conversation 11.5%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Visual Novel 11.2%
- #30 Emily is Away
78% matchVery Positive89% of 32,165 reviews2015
Dev: Kyle Seeley
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 19.8 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
Why similar: Choices Matter 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Story Rich 13%, Text-Based 11.2%
- #31 Mature Comedy Visual Novel
77% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: YUM STUDIOS
Windows
Experience a world filled with awful people - and you're one of them! You embark on a journey to get your awful catgirl girlfriend some illicit materials, intense and prolonged misery immediately ensues.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Text-Based 15%, Comedy 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.7%
- #32 Endless Monday: In Progress
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: hcnone
Windows · Mac · Linux
"Endless Monday: In Progress" - New job, new Penny. Our favorite former corporate grunt is back, and working hard to live the dream! But as she struggles to keep the dream alive, she'll need all the help she can get, from friends, angry ex-coworkers, the past, and beyond.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Multiple Endings 11.9%
- #33 Run TavernQuest
74% matchVery Positive92% of 114 reviews2026
Dev: Silicon Sundial
Windows
A classic text adventure - but you're not the one playing it. You're the game master for an idiot player named STEVE. Parse the player's enigmatic commands and decide how NPCs react to him. Who knew that running an RPG would be so frustrating?
Why similar: Text-Based 18.3%, Satire 17.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choices Matter 9.4%
- #34 Mr. Mueller's Grand Experiment
76% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Scott Tipton
Windows · Mac · Linux
In an engrossing interactive novel, live as the assistant to a remarkable historical figure: George Mueller, a man who witnessed orphans dying young in the streets of 1830's England and decided he would care for them, no matter the cost.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Text-Based 16%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Choices Matter 9%
- #35 Whispering Memories
75% 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 17%, Text-Based 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Conversation 11.2%
- #36 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
75% matchVery Positive90% of 9,503 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Choices Matter 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Text-Based 16.3%, Visual Novel 10.6%
- #37 Do 11
76% 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: Text-Based 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Conversation 11.7%
- #38 Tower of the Ice Lich
74% matchPositive100% of 17 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: Text-Based 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Choices Matter 10.8%
- #39 Beek: Familiar Spirit - Remastered
73% matchPositive84% of 31 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Klondike AustraliaPub: Studio Klondike
Windows · Mac
A call for help within a mysterious messaging app. Someone lost and wandering through a forest in a faraway place. And their destiny in your hands.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
- #40 Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 1,887 reviews2023
Dev: hcnone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
"Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines" - In this short story from the Endless Monday, Penny, a mild-mannered corporate grunt, spends a weekend at the office in an effort to finish her project on time while overcoming distractions from coworkers, space aliens, imaginary friends, and herself.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
- #41 Drunk But Not Wasted Knight
73% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: BRB Drama
Windows · Mac
A tipsy tale of questionable choices, suspiciously charming strangers, and conversations that unravel faster than your sobriety. What begins as a harmless chat in the alley might end with truffle mushrooms, a missing crown, or waking up in someone else’s dungeon. You’ve been warned.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Conversation 10.6%, Comedy 9.6%
- #42 Death off the Cuff
73% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Simon ChristiansenPub: SiChris Productions
Windows
No criminal has ever been a match for you, and everybody is looking forward to a description of your brilliant deductions. There is just one small problem. One tiny detail that makes it different this time. A mere trifle, really. This time you have no idea who did it.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Conversation 10.3%, Visual Novel 10%
- #43 Harm Other
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dennis Farrell
Windows
The most anticipated game since chess! A text-based comedy adventure in which you interact with the world by slamming one of two brightly colored buttons: Harm or Other
Why similar: Text-Based 27.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Comedy 15.4%, Choices Matter 6.6%
- #44 Not It: Spookiest Edition
72% 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: Text-Based 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.3%
- #45 Under the Heavens: Warring States Saga
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: April May
Windows
A choice-driven narrative RPG set in China’s Warring States period. Rise from a nameless soldier to a legendary general through decisions with permanent consequences. Death is final. History remembers only the survivors.
Why similar: Text-Based 23%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.3%
- #46 Whispers From The Rift
70% 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: Text-Based 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Choices Matter 12.4%
- #47 Your Story: Games with Death
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BoldBox
Windows
A medieval text quest in the "Choose Your Own Adventure" genre, where each choice could be your last. Create your story with more than 2,000 events, 200 of which will prove fatal. In a world where death plays against you, can you outsmart it and write your own story?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Text-Based 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Visual Novel 10.2%
- #48 Dr. Kinderwood's Asylum
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Richday
Windows · Mac · Linux
Decide the fate of the son of a tailor and a witch doctor infected with an incurable disease in an interactive story with multiple endings depending on your actions.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.3%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%
- #49 The Trials of Ozymandias
71% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Golden Axolotl Studios
Windows · Mac
The Trials of Ozymandias is a visual novel set in the high fantasy world of the kingdom of Johrotos. In the capitol city, Dassi, resides the most famous adventurer's guild in all the land: Talleh-Hoy. This is where your story begins.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Comedy 8.2%
- #50 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Text-Based 14.3%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Choices Matter 12.1%
- #51 JAS: Job App Sux!
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yoruneko Studio
Windows · Mac
JAS: Job App Sux! Is a coming-of-RAGE story about Rose, an aspiring art professional fighting to pave her path in the industry.
Why similar: Satire 20.9% ★, Visual Novel 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Story Rich 8.8%
- #52 I Wani Hug that Gator!
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 5,486 reviews2024
Dev: Cavemanon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 19.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
I Wani Hug that Gator! Is a choice-driven narrative about teenagers struggling to find their way. Help Inco, loser highschooler extraordinaire, navigate his budding friendships (and romance!) while surviving being the only human in a dinosaur-filled school.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Text-Based 9.7%
- #53 HRO: Adventures of a Humanoid Resources Officer
69% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2023
Dev: Worthing & Moncrieff
Windows · Mac
HRO: Adventures of a Humanoid Resources Officer is a puzzle-driven adventure game set in a retro sci-fi universe. When the Endeavor stumbles into universe-shaking trouble, can you harness the power of the bureaucracy to rein in your crew’s worst impulses and survive to the next episode?
Why similar: Text-Based 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Visual Novel 9.8%
- #54 Defragmenting
68% 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 21%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Text-Based 15.4%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Choices Matter 8.1%
- #55 Slippery Flippers: Episode One - Amulet of the Gods
68% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: Snowhaven Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A group of thieves have found their next gig: a museum holding the "Amulet of the Gods," a mysterious artifact said to contain godlike power inside of it. It's sitting there, just asking to be stolen. With law enforcement on the prowl, will the crew's leader, Orlando, lead them to riches or ruin?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Funny 9.4%
- #56 Heart of mobius
67% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: gunsturn Inc.
Windows · Mac
Dive into a captivating standalone story in just an hour! Presenting the first installment of the "Handy Novel" series. Highly praised on smartphones, this acclaimed narrative is now ready for your enjoyment on Steam for PC/Mac!
Why similar: Text-Based 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
- #57 There's Always a Madman: Fight or Flight
67% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Sunny Demeanor Games
Windows
Step into the shoes of the suave secret agent Franklin Benjamin in this single-player interactive spy novel. Drive fast cars, seduce beautiful women, take on false identities, and do whatever is necessary to save the world. Because there's always a madman, and you're the best agent we've got!
Why similar: Satire 27.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Text-Based 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Visual Novel 8.7%
- #58 The Music at the end of the World
66% match5 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Cihan Kuzu
Windows
"What music would you listen to at the end of the world?" Explore an abandoned world after the apocalypse of the final winter. Shape the story of a man whose loneliness threatens his sanity. Use violence to survive or avoid it to protect your mind. Experience the end of the world!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Text-Based 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Multiple Endings 11%
- #59 Dead Detention (Rescribbled)
66% 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 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Funny 9.7%
- #60 小厨杂记
67% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: 山石
Windows
Please note: This game does not support English at current stage. 《小厨杂记》是一款融合了烹饪元素的视觉小说,通过为食客端上不同的菜肴与食客对话,并最终达成不同的结局。
Why similar: Text-Based 26.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Multiple Endings 7.5%