- #1 LifeSimOS
97% 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: Dialogue Heavy 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Text-Based 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.2%
- #2 All (Too) Good Things
96% 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 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Text-Based 14.4%, Dialogue Heavy 13.9%, Visual Novel 11.7%
- #3 キズツケ kizutsuke
96% 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 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Text-Based 13.9%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11.7%
- #4 Butter Side Down
95% matchPositive100% of 28 reviews2025
Dev: Kalle MacDonald
Windows · Linux
Butter Side Down is a bizarro choose-your-own-choice game. Starring Basil Bonser, Adam Spargo, Grey Michael, Beatrice, Jeep Johnson, and Rotten Ruggerio. Answer questions, take calls, play card games, and solve one hell of a mystery.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Text-Based 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Dark Comedy 10.4%, Dialogue Heavy 10.2%
- #5 THE DAY THAT WASN'T
94% 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 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Dialogue Heavy 11.2%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
- #6 HUMAN INTELLIGENCE
94% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews
Dev: HamsulT
Windows
Spend ten days answering customers as the human behind a supposedly automated AI. Choose the exact reply you can live with as everyday requests turn invasive, deceptive, and impossible. Your words stay on record. When the contract ends, someone has to take responsibility.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13%, Dark Comedy 12.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Text-Based 11.5%
- #7 正体 SHOUT-AI
93% 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: Dialogue Heavy 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Text-Based 11.1%
- #8 The Zoo
92% 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: Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Choices Matter 11.2%
- #9 Whispering Memories
91% 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: Dialogue Heavy 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Text-Based 10.8%
- #10 Guilt Free
91% 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: Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Text-Based 13.6%, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Choices Matter 11.4%
- #11 Avalon Gates: 1 Million D
90% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: KingsAvalon Studio
Windows
One million dollars. Two sisters. Countless consequences. Experience everyday life in modern Vietnam while uncovering the truth behind a mysterious one-million-dollar debt.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.7%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
- #12 Chronicles of Humanity
89% 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: Dialogue Heavy 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Text-Based 13.3%, Multiple Endings 12.2%
- #13 Kamilia
89% match7 user reviews88% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: RQ play
Windows · Mac
Kamilia is a story-driven, choices-matter detective mystery. Follow a talented painter who finds himself wrapped up in an unsolved case, as he tries to unveil a hidden truth that has been buried for years.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 14.5%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Choices Matter 11%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Mystery 10.6%
- #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: Dark Comedy 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
- #15 The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
87% 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 20.3%, Text-Based 19%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Choices Matter 13.4%
- #16 And who is the maiden?
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cipi Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A young man disappeared in a Slavic village. You show up with three companions and a few days to find out what really happened, before the water decides to answer for itself. Based on Adam Wołoszczuk's award-winning scenario "A kto dziewczyna?", with 11 different ways it can end.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Text-Based 10.5%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
- #17 Living on Plain Pasta
85% 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: Dialogue Heavy 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Multiple Endings 9%
- #18 TOY BOX
86% matchVery Positive86% of 51 reviews2024
Dev: DEADline Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14%, Dark Comedy 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Text-Based 12.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%
- #19 アパシー殺人クラブ
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 21 reviews2024
Dev: SHANNON
Windows
『部活動の時間です。さあ、人殺しをはじめてください』 一癖も二癖もある強者ぞろいの巨大コミュニティ、それが鳴神学園。 そこには、ありとあらゆる部活動が存在し、到底常識では考えられない特殊な闇の倶楽部がある。その一つが殺人クラブだ。
Why similar: Dark Comedy 16.4%, Multiple Endings 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Dark Humor 12.4%, Text-Based 10.5%
- #20 Tower of the Ice Lich
84% 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: Interactive Fiction 18%, Text-Based 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
- #21 Sabbatical In Merzouga
83% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Feeling Potion
Windows · Mac
You went to the desert to rest. You crushed a worm. Now it talks to you in dreams.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Dialogue Heavy 13.9%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Choices Matter 11.6%
- #22 What If We Warm It?
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: vodoyom
Windows · Mac
Who are you? You are not the main character. You are his inner voice, speaking to him. Aren't you? A life crisis. A strange job. A lonely train station. A dead man. Someone watching from the outside. A narrative-driven interactive mystery of choices, inner dialogue, and atmosphere.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Dialogue Heavy 13.7%, Text-Based 11.5%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
- #23 Presidential Psychologist
82% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: BRB Drama
Windows · Mac
You're not a real psychologist. He's not a sane president. Welcome to the most unhinged therapy session ever held in office.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 15.1%, Dark Comedy 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.6%
- #24 The Trial
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NowakGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested." Story about life, choices and a Man vs the System. This unique interactive literature adaptation. A game, brought to You in early visual novel, text-adventure style.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Text-Based 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.6%
- #25 AN IOU
81% matchPositive100% of 27 reviews2022
Dev: Red Room Games
Windows · Mac
AN IOU is the debut visual novel by Davey Cadaver. The music, backgrounds, & characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. The user takes the POV of the protagonist to experience a memorable story with an incredible soundtrack and multiple endings.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
- #26 The Portal Pirate
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ZizihPub: Zizih Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A sound, a flash, a portal… A pirate emerges, bringing a deadly threat. Five friends stand before him, and one of them is the target. But which one? Even they don't know.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Text-Based 18.1%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Mystery 9.9%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
- #27 Mistbound
78% matchPositive90% of 21 reviews2026
Dev: aworyrate
Windows · Mac · Linux
Mistbound is a surreal narrative adventure about overcoming trauma, where the line between reality and dreams is blurred. Loneliness can be too loud. And salvation can be too quiet!
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.8%, Multiple Endings 15%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Choices Matter 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%
- #28 Tayke Me With You
79% 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: Visual Novel 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Multiple Endings 14.9%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Text-Based 13.4%
- #29 Pasajeros
79% matchPositive86% of 21 reviews2022
Dev: GameLoop
Windows
Pasajeros is developed through a collection of urban and surreal stories collected in a taxi in Bogotá . It’s a four-night adventure packed with micro-stories of vampires, mariachis, and thugs. In addition to the opportunity to find love or madness in the night magic of a city.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
- #30 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
78% 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 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Text-Based 16.1%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
- #31 The Wreck
77% matchVery Positive89% of 287 reviews2023
Dev: The Pixel Hunt
Windows · Mac
In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 14.2%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
- #32 Where Control Ends
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Softveil StudioPub: Softveil
Windows · Mac · Linux
Where Control Ends is a psychological visual novel about Astra, a young girl trying to hold herself together after a night she cannot fully remember.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Text-Based 13.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Multiple Endings 10%
- #33 Presidential Social Media Manager
77% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: BRB Drama
Windows · Mac
Welcome to the most stressful job in politics making the President look sane online. Fix typos, fight trolls, and spin chaos into strategy. One wrong emoji could spark a crisis. A satirical management game where timing and damage control are your only lifelines.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 13.5%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Dark Comedy 12.7%, Multiple Endings 12%, Choices Matter 11.5%
- #34 HR Hell
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: playerboot
Windows
A ghost wants her exit interview. Do you listen, refuse or hire her back part-time? You're Hell's HR manager: hundreds of absurd cases, questionable policies, a Board watching your numbers, and a court that quotes your own decisions back to you. Survive 30 days. Find one of 13 ways out.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 16.1%, Dialogue Heavy 13.4%, Text-Based 11.5%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.7%
- #35 Loop//Error
74% matchVery Positive88% of 58 reviews2025
Dev: Koro Pixel StudioPub: Dark Product
Windows
Alone in the dead of night, you find yourself sent on a simple errand to check on a quiet gas station on the outskirts of town. But nothing here feels right. You can’t outrun this place. It wants you. And it will keep you.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 16.8%, Text-Based 13%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Choices Matter 10%
- #36 呪霊が見せる夢 / Dreamscapes
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: アイエダゲームズ(Aieda Games)
Windows
Investigate six haunted properties and listen to the voices of spirits trapped in nightmares. Collect fragmented clues and discover the correct combination of names, locations, and vessels. A multi-ending horror adventure where the outcome changes depending on your choices during the ritual.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Text-Based 14.4%, Multiple Endings 13.3%
- #37 When It Falls
75% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Team StargazerPub: Indie Game Foundry
Windows
An apocalyptic Ice Age approaches the automatic doors of your convenience store. Scrape together what you need to survive through bartering or outright scamming in this short narrative game. In the end, only you can judge yourself.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.5%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Dark Comedy 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
- #38 Holy Shift
74% matchPositive81% of 43 reviews2024
Dev: Kitten Purradise Studios
Windows
This game is a psychological test in which you will face dilemmas that reveal your personality. At the end of it, you will know your psychotype.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Text-Based 10.5%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
- #39 スマートフォン
72% matchPositive97% of 29 reviews2026
Dev: OwataStudio
Windows
見知らぬ密室で目を覚ました主人公。 頼れるものは、手元に残された一台のスマートフォンだけ。 通話、メッセージ、アプリなどに残された痕跡をたどりながら、脱出の手がかりを探していく。 しかし、情報を集めるほどに、 この事件の裏に隠された異様な真実が浮かび上がっていく。 スマートフォンを操作して進める、サイコロジカル・ホラーADV。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Text-Based 17.3%, Multiple Endings 8.3%, Mystery 8.1%
- #40 Dungeon of Departure
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: quite adept
Windows
Trapped in a mysterious cave system, four dungeon explorers struggle to find a way out before the light fades forever... Navigate a mysterious underground as you navigate through multiple story paths in this text-based, pixel-art, dark fantasy rpg, visual novel computer game
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Text-Based 12.4%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Mystery 10%
- #41 Alcyone: The Last City
73% matchPositive81% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: Strange Artifice
Windows · Mac · Linux
Alcyone: The Last City is an interactive sci-fi novel where your choices can lead to the salvation or destruction of the last refuge of civilisation in the universe. Immerse yourself in a branching narrative of diverse characters, intrigue, and world-altering decisions.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Dialogue Heavy 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Text-Based 12.6%, Visual Novel 10.9%
- #42 Serania - Path of the Scion
72% 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: Text-Based 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.6%
- #43 時折記 -Tokioriki-
71% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 綴路工房
Windows
Every person you choose leaves someone else behind. Spend your limited afternoons building relationships, exploring the town, and recording each day in Kanata’s diary—then face timed Shadow Choices as an old book begins to fracture his ordinary life.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.7%, Multiple Endings 14.9%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Mystery 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%
- #44 Death off the Cuff
73% 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: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Dialogue Heavy 16.2%, Text-Based 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Visual Novel 10.6%
- #45 Per My Last Email
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 3Cats Studio
Windows · Mac
You are the new hire. The account you inherited is not new — it belonged to E. Vale, who is no longer with the company. Ten business days of email in which you choose what you say, then choose who sees it. The routing is permanent. Someone is still reading.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Visual Novel 12%, Dark Humor 11.5%, Text-Based 11.4%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
- #46 Worn Out
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Morimichi
Windows
A presence lingers in the dark, waiting. It asks. It doubts. It knows. What happened? Why are you here? Do you deserve this? The answers are yours to decide. What you choose matters. Every path leads somewhere. But will you like where it takes you?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Text-Based 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.4%
- #47 Yuika My Bestie
71% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Feeling Potion
Windows · Mac
Experience a pastel-toned emotional journey in Yuika My Bestie, a short visual novel you can complete in under 15 minutes per playthrough. With 5 unique endings and heartfelt choices, it takes just 30–40 minutes to explore every path of this soft, late-night cry.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.3%
- #48 TOBOR
69% matchVery Positive94% of 88 reviews2023
Dev: Cogoo
Windows · Mac
A psychological surveillance adventure. Observe 16 real-time CCTV feeds as TOBOR, a spy unit uncovering secrets in a dystopian bunker. Monitor suspects, collect evidence, and choose who survives. Multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Dialogue Heavy 12.5%, Text-Based 12.1%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
- #49 Dear Nobody
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 3Cats Studio
Windows · Mac
You are a censor in a nameless war, blacking out the letters of two lovers who have never met. Their whole romance lives on paper — so every word you strike is struck from the love itself. Then the letters begin, impossibly, to answer your pen. A melancholy epistolary romance. Six endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13%, Text-Based 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.4%
- #50 Venus: Improbable Dream
70% matchPositive100% of 20 reviews2021
Dev: Borealis
Windows · Mac
Born with a birth defect that he hates, Kakeru struggles with severe anxiety and depression. Guide his timid decisions as he takes a brave step into a new world - joining his school's music club, making unexpected and inspiring new connections, and daring to dream again.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
- #51 1453: Fall of Constantinople
68% 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 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Text-Based 15.3%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
- #52 Border of her Heart
71% matchMixed67% of 73 reviews2018
Dev: Tuomo LainePub: Tuomo's games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Border of her Heart is a VN about Border control.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Dialogue Heavy 14.2%, Text-Based 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.1%
- #53 Summer Daze: Tilly's Tale
69% 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: Dialogue Heavy 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Text-Based 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.8%
- #54 The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: JasperMarie
Windows
The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory is a story rich, investigative mystery game where your only tools are your contacts and the people you can find and get to talk to you. Read through old internet archives, pick out what is important, and solve the mystery of the 10 year old cold case.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Text-Based 11.4%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Mystery 9.1%
- #55 Mass of Consumption
67% 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: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Text-Based 11.7%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
- #56 Gloomscape
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lachrymose Games
Windows
Step into the eerie and mysterious world of Gloomscape! With your trusty mood ring and sense of adventure, you’ll craft, explore, and strategize your way through this bizarre world. But beware - ghastly creatures lurk around every corner.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 13.6%, Dark Comedy 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Text-Based 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%
- #57 氷点下30度の絶望
65% matchVery Positive98% of 389 reviews2025
Dev: Mitsudomoe Koubou
Windows
可愛い後輩と2人っきり……冷凍庫の中で。 低体温症、矛盾脱衣、幻覚などの苦痛を乗り越えた先にあるのは、「真相」と「死」のみ。
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Choices Matter 9.5%
- #58 Presidential Shaman
68% 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: Dialogue Heavy 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Multiple Endings 12.7%
- #59 LOOP SYNDROME
65% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: TBCATGAMES
Windows
There are no second chances in medicine. A medical suspense visual novel where a young doctor gains the power to rewind time. Use the loop to change the fate of diagnoses, surgeries, and emergency treatments. Your choices shape the story, leading to multiple Bad, Good, and True Endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Multiple Endings 15.6%, Text-Based 12.2%, Story Rich 10.5%
- #60 The Secret Of Greenwood Isle
66% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: SaynePub: Sayne Interactive
Windows
A story-driven mystery visual novel set in a remote island village. Gather clues through conversations and exploration, and uncover hidden truths through branching routes and multiple endings amid the tense, claustrophobic atmosphere.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Text-Based 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11.5%