- #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 19.4%, Text-Based 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Dialogue Heavy 9.3%
- #2 There's Something Wrong with the Hero's Choices
96% 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: Text-Based 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Dialogue Heavy 10.9%, Choices Matter 8.9%
- #3 Don Quijote
96% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2026
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 20.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Choices Matter 10%
- #4 Summer Daze: Tilly's Tale
95% matchMixed62% of 21 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 14.6%, Dialogue Heavy 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Visual Novel 9.8%
- #5 I Did It ALL for the COOKIE!
94% 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 18.3%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%, Choices Matter 9.1%
- #6 Attorney Disbarment Adventure
94% 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 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Satire 17% ★, Choices Matter 12.1%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
- #7 Presidential Shaman
93% 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 15.2%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Text-Based 13.2%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Choices Matter 11.7%
- #8 呪霊が見せる夢 / Dreamscapes
92% 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: Text-Based 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Choices Matter 10.2%
- #9 LifeSimOS
91% 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 15.9%, Text-Based 15.6%, Visual Novel 14%, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.5%
- #10 Secret Agent Allan Martin in ... Phoenix Erupting
91% 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 17.2%, Text-Based 14.7%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Comedy 11%, Multiple Endings 10%
- #11 Mart Mayhem
90% 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 15.9%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Satire 12.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
- #12 The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
89% 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 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Multiple Endings 11%
- #13 summer story
89% 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 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Text-Based 13.3%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Choices Matter 8.1%
- #14 Contracting at a Tech Giant
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: wk
Windows · Mac
A darkly comic workplace visual novel set inside a Chinese tech giant. Decide what programmer Lin Mo believes, what he says aloud, and which records he keeps. Your choices reshape credit, access, relationships, and the truth left behind across seven endings.
Why similar: Satire 22.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Visual Novel 10%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%
- #15 キズツケ kizutsuke
87% 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 18.7%, Text-Based 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choices Matter 9.2%
- #16 No Truce With The Groceries
86% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: High Tower Games
Windows · Linux
Can you shop for groceries? In 🗽America🗽? In this economy? No Truce With The Groceries is a Disco-lite narrative point-and-click adventure that seeks answers to these questions and more.
Why similar: Satire 17.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Text-Based 8.3%, Interactive Fiction 7.9%
- #17 Chronicles of Humanity
86% 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: Text-Based 17.2%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%
- #18 MoonShot
85% 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 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Satire 12.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 9.2%
- #19 Knights Only: A Brush With Destiny
84% 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 18.6%, Satire 15.8% ★, Choices Matter 13.3%, Multiple Endings 11%, Visual Novel 9.8%
- #20 Smashing My Phone: Broken-Screen Diaries
84% match3 user reviews100% of 3 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%, Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Comedy 11.2%, Multiple Endings 10%
- #21 Reigns: The Witcher
82% matchMostly Positive79% of 191 reviews2026
Dev: NerialPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 47%
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 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Cartoony 6.4%
- #22 Where are you, Cinderella?
83% 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 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.7%
- #23 Please Act Normal
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ezhaac Studio
Windows
"Please Act Normal" is a live-action comedy about the agonizing pressure of social etiquette. Navigate awkward dinners and tense meetings through frequent dialogue choices, or embrace chaos and use your "Secret Weapon". Will they yell, laugh or just stare in pity? There’s only one way to find out.
Why similar: Satire 17.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Comedy 7%
- #24 Fixer's Tale
81% 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 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Visual Novel 11%
- #25 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
80% 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 20.8%, Text-Based 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Choices Matter 9.3%
- #26 Space Court
81% matchVery Positive98% of 161 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 15.4%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Text-Based 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
- #27 アイアイ喫茶店
78% matchVery Positive96% of 208 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 22.6%, Text-Based 15.1%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Dialogue Heavy 9.3%, Funny 7.4%
- #28 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
79% matchPositive96% of 28 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 14.3%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Funny 13.4%, Comedy 13.2%
- #29 Meet Claude
78% matchPositive96% of 25 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 32.2% ★, Visual Novel 14.4%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Story Rich 9.2%
- #30 Not It: Spookiest Edition
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 31 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 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Choices Matter 10%
- #31 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 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Text-Based 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Choices Matter 10.6%
- #32 1453: Fall of Constantinople
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 3Cats Studio
Windows · Mac
Constantinople, 1453. Four witnesses — a janissary, a baker's daughter, an engineer, a noble — live the same 53 days of the siege. Choices cross between their stories, and the city remembers. An illustrated, choice-driven historical novel where every ending is someone's truth.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Text-Based 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Choices Matter 8.8%
- #33 HRO: Adventures of a Humanoid Resources Officer
77% match5 user reviews100% of 5 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 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Choices Matter 10%, Visual Novel 9.9%
- #34 My Therapy
76% matchVery Positive96% of 335 reviews2022
Dev: Suvorov Mikhail
Windows · Linux
A visual novel about cute melancholic girls!
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.6%, Satire 16.9% ★, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%
- #35 正体 SHOUT-AI
74% 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: Text-Based 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.7%
- #36 THE DAY THAT WASN'T
75% 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 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Text-Based 14%, Choices Matter 11.7%
- #37 Whispering Memories
73% 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 17.1%, Text-Based 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.5%
- #38 Death off the Cuff
75% match8 user reviews88% of 8 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 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Dialogue Heavy 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.1%
- #39 Tayke Me With You
73% 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 17.5%, Text-Based 17.1%, Visual Novel 16%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Multiple Endings 11.8%
- #40 Do 11
74% 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 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.8%
- #41 FAFO Executive Order Simulator
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 1981 Games
Windows
F around and find out! A ruthless no F's given dark comedy where you play the president of the United States of America, abuse executive power, crank up the FAFO meter, deal with robot overlords, alien invasions, drain swamps, flip off allies, crush protests, and destroy all that oppose you!
Why similar: Satire 16.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Text-Based 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.2%
- #42 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
71% matchVery Positive88% of 13,129 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.9 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: Choices Matter 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Text-Based 16.3%, Visual Novel 11.1%
- #43 Guilt Free
73% matchVery Positive85% of 296 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: Text-Based 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.1%
- #44 Kluber's Adventure
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sundin Games
Windows
Kluber's Adventure. Finally, your choices matter... Unless Kluber has better plans. Welcome to an absurdist narrative experience.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Satire 12.8% ★, Visual Novel 8.3%
- #45 Confessional Simulator
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: null.exePub: Subconscious Games
Windows
You're the new priest at St. Augustine's. Sinners kneel on the other side of the screen and tell you everything. Forgive them and your Faith grows. Work the guilt and the donations roll in. Push it too far and the Bishop starts listening. A voiced dark comedy about other people's sins.
Why similar: Satire 28.4% ★, Choices Matter 12.7%, Comedy 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Funny 8.9%
- #46 Endless Monday: In Progress
70% matchNo user reviews
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 17.8%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Multiple Endings 12%
- #47 Emily is Away
71% matchVery Positive89% of 32,336 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 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Story Rich 13.2%, Text-Based 11.2%
- #48 The Options Menu
68% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Belfrost Studios
Windows
The Options Menu is a game where you play as a 'Player' and experience a life filled with Options. Explore countless endings to uncover a game that may surprise you as the real friend all along was your Options Menu in this Comedic Story.
Why similar: Satire 35.3% ★, Choices Matter 13.2%, Comedy 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%, Interactive Fiction 7%
- #49 Tower of the Ice Lich
69% 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: Text-Based 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Choices Matter 10.6%
- #50 Mr. Mueller's Grand Experiment
70% 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 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Text-Based 15.7%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choices Matter 8.7%
- #51 Mature Comedy Visual Novel
70% 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 22.8%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Text-Based 14.7%, Comedy 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.4%
- #52 Lord of Lords: Dawn of the King
69% 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 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Visual Novel 15%, Text-Based 11.3%, Choices Matter 9.1%
- #53 Living on Plain Pasta
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 76 reviews2026
Dev: Granité Works
Windows
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 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Dialogue Heavy 14%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Choices Matter 8.3%
- #54 Vanakan
69% match4 user reviews75% of 4 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 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
- #55 Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,011 reviews2023
Dev: hcnone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
"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 15.4%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
- #56 Class of '09
68% matchVery Positive95% of 9,128 reviews2021
Dev: SBN3
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
This is the anti-visual novel. Instead of playing as some guy magically able to score with beautiful anime girls, YOU play the anime girl and create mass chaos in the lives of your potential "suitors". Earnest comedy, social accuracy, and late 2000's aesthetic await you in Class of '09!
Why similar: Satire 30.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Comedy 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Multiple Endings 8%
- #57 Your Story: Games with Death
66% matchMixed43% of 37 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 18.4%, Text-Based 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choices Matter 13%, Visual Novel 10.6%
- #58 The Zoo
67% 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 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Text-Based 12.7%
- #59 Will Die Alone
67% 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 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Choices Matter 9.3%
- #60 Harm Other
66% 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 26.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Comedy 15.4%, Choices Matter 6.5%