- #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 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Text-Based 17%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
- #2 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
96% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Infinite Zone
Windows
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Text-Based 16.7%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
- #3 Slippery Flippers: Episode One - Amulet of the Gods
96% 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 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Space 9.4%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
- #4 I Feel Fine
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Secret Lab
Windows · Mac · Linux
The meteorite will hit your space station in 3 days, and you’re bolted to the floor. Can you convince someone to free you? Meet, persuade, and escape certain doom with a large cast of characters in this bittersweet and hilarious adventure game!
Why similar: Time Management 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
- #5 The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
94% 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 22.9%, Text-Based 22.2%, Visual Novel 18%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Choices Matter 10%
- #6 Mass of Consumption
94% 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 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Text-Based 12.3%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
- #7 3 DAYS: Ghosts of War
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: KovalGames
Windows · Mac
In the heart of the Afghan wilderness, amidst the chaos of war, you awaken to the stark reality of your mission: three days to navigate the perilous landscape, uncover hidden truths, and confront the ghosts of the past.
Why similar: Time Management 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Text-Based 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Visual Novel 12.2%
- #8 Vanakan
92% 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: Interactive Fiction 26%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Text-Based 19.8%, Multiple Endings 8%, Choices Matter 6.9%
- #9 Where are you, Cinderella?
91% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Text-Based 15.7%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
- #10 Whispers From The Rift
91% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Text-Based 18.8%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Choices Matter 8.3%
- #11 SINce Memories: Off The Starry Sky
90% matchPositive81% of 37 reviews2024
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: PQube
Windows
Follow the story of Junya, lost in his own world but soft-hearted and ready to help those in need, his close friends try to keep him grounded following the tragic loss of his brother. Trying to move on from his grief, focusing on his studies and his work, he loses himself in trying to help others.
Why similar: Time Management 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Cute 6.5%, Multiple Endings 5.4%
- #12 Rouge Patrol
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Grimlark
Windows
A war that outlived the soldiers who fought it. Enemies inherited by a generation not grown. You will lead your precocious unit into this unending conflict and find out if the bonds of friendship can withstand the tides of war. Overflowing with black humour, you'll laugh till you cry...
Why similar: Time Management 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
- #13 Tower of the Ice Lich
89% matchPositive100% of 18 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: Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Text-Based 19.8%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
- #14 Mr. Mueller's Grand Experiment
88% 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 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Text-Based 14.3%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Multiple Endings 6.9%
- #15 Xoru: The Nightmare Wars
87% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Castlelore Studios
Windows
A dark fantasy horror visual novel where your choices reshape a nightmare‑ridden world. Explore surreal realms, solve narrative puzzles, and face the consequences of every decision.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Roguelite 15.7%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Text-Based 11.9%
- #16 Whispering Memories
86% 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 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Text-Based 13.5%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Multiple Endings 9%
- #17 Witch Hunter: Our Secret
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: artbakeries
Windows
Play as Erwin, a witch hunter navigating a fantasy world of magic and suspicion. Your decisions in this visual novel affect friendships, trust, and multiple story outcomes. Choose wisely—the fate of your journey rests with you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.9%, Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Choices Matter 7.7%
- #18 Orbital Abyss: Cipher Division
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: JointPoint Studios LLC
Windows
Decipher interstellar transmissions encoded via substitution ciphers aboard Eremite Station. In this choice driven narrative, uncover secrets from planetary factions while conversing with crewmates to reveal their stories and troubles. The ripples of your choices may be felt throughout the galaxy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20%, Text-Based 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Choices Matter 9%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
- #19 The Music at the end of the World
84% 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 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Text-Based 15.5%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Multiple Endings 11.6%
- #20 The Last Bastion
84% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2022
Dev: Voidpeak Games
Windows
The Last Bastion is a survival-management game where you lead an army of defeated soldiers across a setting inspired by medieval India. Fight overwhelming forces, manage dwindling resources and make choices with devastating consequences in a bitter struggle for survival and salvation.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Text-Based 14.7%, Roguelite 14.6%, Visual Novel 11.6%
- #21 XVTM
82% match4 user reviews100% of 4 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 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Text-Based 12.7%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
- #22 Parallels: Year One
82% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Resquita Productions
Windows
Parallels: Year One is a visual novel that will take you on a journey through one relationship in five parallel worlds. Join Ron and Jessica on a journey to see each other from a new perspective.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.8%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Text-Based 13.4%, Multiple Endings 9.3%, Cute 8.4%
- #23 Silent Earth
83% matchPositive84% of 25 reviews2021
Dev: Fring Frang Games
Windows
Silent Earth is a short sci-fi text adventure about finding one’s place despite an uncertain future. Explore an off-world mining colony ship, navigate multi-linear character relationships, and steer the story toward one of five endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24%, Text-Based 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Sci-fi 8.4%
- #24 Dr. Kinderwood's Asylum
81% 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: Visual Novel 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Text-Based 13.9%, Multiple Endings 12.7%
- #25 Shadows of Betrayal
80% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: JayzonBHPub: JayzonBH Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Recent high school graduates gather at a remote cabin for a celebration. What begins as a night of laughter spirals into a tense mystery full of secrets, twists, and chilling choices. Who will survive? Navigate friendships, and uncover the multi-layered mystery in Shadows of Betrayal.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.3%, Interactive Fiction 24%, Visual Novel 21.4%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
- #26 Tale of android after the Apocalypse
79% matchPositive84% of 19 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 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Choices Matter 8.1%
- #27 Curtain Call
81% matchVery Positive92% of 59 reviews2022
Dev: Dramatis Personae GamesPub: Juggernaut Entertainment
Windows · Mac
"Curtain Call" is a visual novel about (literally) breaking through social masks by forming meaningful connections with incredibly deep personalities. Whether you’re looking to make new friends or something more, there’s a whole cast of characters just dying to meet you!
Why similar: Time Management 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Text-Based 12.8%, Visual Novel 11.4%
- #28 貴方が狼カードデス!
78% matchVery Positive93% of 56 reviews2023
Dev: toRipota
Windows
Accuse and execute the owner of the werewolf card. It's a 5-minute round of a repeated death game in the werewolf genre.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.8%, Text-Based 20.8%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Cute 9.5%, Choices Matter 7.9%
- #29 Mature Comedy Visual Novel
79% 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 27.6%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Text-Based 13.8%, Cute 10%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
- #30 summer story
78% 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 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Text-Based 13.7%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
- #31 Robot's Fate: Alice
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Starni Games
Windows
Robot’s Fate: Alice is a text-based RPG set in the future where robots with neural network AI are integral to human life. You’re Alice - a robot who becomes self-aware, while everyone around fears rogue AI. Can you survive and reconcile humanity with robots? Your choices do matter.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Text-Based 16%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
- #32 Ecos de Luaré
76% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Treelight Atelier
Windows
A supernatural mystery visual novel where your choices shape relationships and determine the fate of a coastal town. Explore ancient secrets, unravel supernatural enigmas, and make decisions that lead to three distinct endings based on your choices across four intense days.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Text-Based 16%, Multiple Endings 5.9%
- #33 StarStruck
77% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Strawberrytail
Windows
Embark on a thrilling journey through this highly engaging science fantasy visual novel with memorable characters and multiple endings. Journey through space, uncover the past and pull off a heist or two as you negotiate the pitfalls of friendship and a crumbling reality. Can you save the universe?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.9%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Space 8.9%
- #34 目を閉じてプレイするゲーム「星の記す真実」
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TeamKomori
Windows
When you start the game, the narrator will instruct you to “close your eyes.” At that moment, whether you actually close them or keep them open will change the course of the story. Listen carefully to the voice as you proceed, and find your way to the truth.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Text-Based 14.2%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
- #35 Arderico's Journey
75% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Digital Masquerade
Windows
Set off on an exciting swashbuckling quest in this classic Fantasy Choose Your Own Adventure! Meet charming characters, fight dangerous foes, and uncover a nefarious intrigue. Experience seamless and reactive storytelling. Prove your innocence, find your destiny, relish the journey!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Text-Based 11.5%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
- #36 KONOSUBA - God's Blessing on this Wonderful World! Love For These Clothes Of Desire!
74% matchVery Positive87% of 281 reviews2024
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: PQube
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 107.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
It's time for a Visual Novel Quest with a twist! Join Kazuma, a reincarnated adventurer, and spend turbulent days with his unfortunate party members. Prepare for waifus, dress-up and resource management and get ready for an Isekai comedy that’s out of this world!
Why similar: Time Management 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
- #37 Serania - Path of the Scion
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FableTree Productions
Windows · Mac
Choose, explore, interact, fight, solve, gather, trade! Rise to rebel in this immersive text-based fantasy story that seamlessly merges the best elements of RPGs, choose-your-own-adventure stories, visual novels, and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Text-Based 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Visual Novel 14%, Choices Matter 9%
- #38 Your Story: Games with Death
73% 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 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Text-Based 15.2%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
- #39 Into Oblivion
73% 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 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Text-Based 15.6%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Space 5.7%
- #40 Days With Ollie
72% matchMostly Positive70% of 77 reviews2024
Dev: PT. Global Digital ArthaPub: hololive Indonesia
Windows
The day has finally come. The day that will determine on whether or not you'll be accepted as a reporter in hololive. And not just any reporter, but the exclusive reporter for Kureiji Ollie! What goes down on in the life of the zombie idol? Find out what it'll be like to spend Days with Ollie!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.2%, Text-Based 20.9%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Cute 9.5%, Choices Matter 8.8%
- #41 The Meridian
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PlayBook
Windows
Step into the high-stakes world of journalism in this Playbook! As a reporter at the "The Meridian" newsroom, YOU are the hero. Chase a massive investigative scoop, navigate ruthless office politics, and build deep relationships. Will you break the story, or will the deadline break you?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Visual Novel 15%, Text-Based 11.1%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
- #42 Yogoe Hunter
72% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Justice
Windows
A choice-driven roguelike text adventure set in medieval Korea and Japan. Encounter 218 mythological creatures from East Asian folklore, shape your story across 94 endings, and grow stronger with each run in a deep, culturally rich world.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.5%, Text-Based 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Roguelite 10.1%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
- #43 Secret Agent Allan Martin in ... Phoenix Erupting
74% 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 23.5%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Text-Based 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Multiple Endings 12.5%
- #44 201 - The Bad Number
71% matchPositive80% of 30 reviews2024
Dev: Pavel Kopylov
Windows
"201 - The Bad Number" is an interactive science fiction game-book set on a post-apocalyptic Mars. In a world where only 200 people remain, each new inhabitant may hasten civilization's end. Players make choices that impact the fate of humanity and the colony in a unique dystopian setting.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18%, Text-Based 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Visual Novel 11%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
- #45 Five Biggest Accomplishments
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Assembling Chickens GamesPub: Fennonauts
Windows · Mac · Linux
Five Biggest Accomplishments is a short Visual Novel where you play as someone who has held the same job for 30 years: push a button every 8 hours or the world will end. Suddenly, you get an email asking you to list your five biggest accomplishments for the week, or risk being fired.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.8%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Text-Based 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Story Rich 8.3%
- #46 THE DAY THAT WASN'T
71% 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: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Text-Based 13.6%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
- #47 Alcyone: The Last City
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 19 reviews2025
Dev: Joshua Meadows
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%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Text-Based 15.2%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
- #48 Endless Monday: In Progress
70% 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 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Choices Matter 11.3%
- #49 Grave Knight
70% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: Dreamlight Games
Windows
Under developement, Grave Knight is an interactive RPG adventure inspired by SRD 5.1 ruleset and classical game books, where your decisions weave the fate of the characters and the story. Let the dice forge the fate of your hero and the realm by fighting the Grave knight and his horde.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Text-Based 13.5%, Choices Matter 9.1%
- #50 Hotel Hermes
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Adjective Noun Studios
Windows · Linux
Become a mailroom operator at Hotel Hermes and navigate an ancient mail system to deliver parcels on time. Learn about the hotel's guests and staff in this puzzle role-playing game, where your actions can alter the world. Hopefully for the best!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Time Management 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Text-Based 14%, Multiple Endings 5.5%
- #51 The Dust of the Violet Crystals
68% matchPositive95% of 19 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 27.7%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Text-Based 9.7%, Multiple Endings 6.9%
- #52 Space Court
69% 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 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Text-Based 13.5%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Choices Matter 10.9%
- #53 Into the Waves
68% matchVery Positive92% of 89 reviews2021
Dev: Flying Whale
Windows · Mac · Linux
Morin is a barkeeper with an unusual curse. All people look like shadows to him, except for one mysterious stranger... Solve the mystery of the curse, fight true darkness and mix the most unusual cocktails in the atmospheric visual novel — Into the Waves!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Text-Based 12.7%
- #54 Tempest In A Teapot
69% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: StrandGames
Windows
A choice-based, visual novel with time travelling teapots!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Choices Matter 6.8%, Story Rich 6.5%
- #55 The Reeve
67% matchVery Positive86% of 50 reviews2024
Dev: Gray Muscat
Windows · Mac
You are an Administrator serving your probationary period in a medieval town. Make decisions to affect the town's reputation, order, military and supplies. Choose wisely to deal with bandits, famines, cultists and plagues. The most difficult choices will decide the fate of your town!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Text-Based 14.1%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
- #56 The Last Road
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Crow Station Studios
Windows
In this narrative-driven casual strategy RPG, you take on the role of The Driver, sworn to deliver goods along The Last Road. With each journey bringing different semi randomized events to challenge the player, you will need to manage your resources carefully in order to survive.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Roguelite 16.4%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Text-Based 11.2%
- #57 Taina's Cursed Legacy
66% matchPositive82% of 34 reviews2025
Dev: dark_room_game
Windows
A text-based RPG with a nonlinear story set in a free Slavic fantasy world. Shape the heroine's character through your choices and unlock multiple endings. Mystery, folklore, and relationships — your fate depends only on you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Text-Based 19.8%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Multiple Endings 4.9%
- #58 Message in a Melody
67% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Can music save the human race? You and the Raqullan Empire will soon find out. Decide whether music, and the humans who make it, should survive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.3%, Text-Based 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Sci-fi 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.7%
- #59 Bootlegger: Moonshine Empire
67% matchPositive80% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Make your name as a whiskey-runner, a politician, or a gangster as you quench thirsts from rural Pennsylvania to the New York City nightlife!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.9%, Text-Based 24.3%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Choices Matter 9.1%
- #60 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.8%, Text-Based 23.4%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Choices Matter 6.7%