- #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 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Text-Based 14.8%, Conversation 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.6%
- #2 Butter Side Down
96% matchPositive100% of 26 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 13.2%, Text-Based 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Dark Comedy 10.4%, Conversation 9.8%
- #3 The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
96% 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 19.7%, Text-Based 18.8%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, Choices Matter 13.3%
- #4 Whispering Memories
95% 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: Conversation 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Text-Based 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.5%
- #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 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Conversation 10.8%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
- #6 A Week in Paradise
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EtrikiaPub: Soft Serve Games
Windows
A Week in Paradise is an interactive narrative mystery. Discover the unusual circumstances of your arrival to a bar called Paradise, and drink through the night with the bar's charismatic regular. Each night, unravel the threads holding back memories in your dreams.
Why similar: Conversation 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
- #7 NOAH: 2050
93% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Text-Based 16%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Conversation 14.8%, Multiple Endings 13.8%
- #8 Kamilia
92% matchNo user reviews
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: Conversation 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Mystery 11%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%
- #9 Elevenses
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: REDRAYPub: PsychoFlux Entertainment
Windows
일레븐지스는 미스터리·로맨스 장르를 표방하는 비주얼 노벨 게임입니다. 악마 '메피'는 화자인 '이지원'을 위해 여러 가지 시련을 준비했습니다. 악마를 이기기 위해선 잔머리가 아닌 굳센 의지와 날카로운 직감이 필요합니다. 위대한 대적자, '메피'와 그녀가 준비한 장기말들을 직접 목도하세요.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Text-Based 15.1%, Conversation 14.1%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
- #10 Drunk But Not Wasted Knight
91% 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: Conversation 14.9%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Dark Humor 11.4%
- #11 Vida
90% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: YEON 연
Windows · Linux
In a future where memories are the last connection to a lost humanity, you are an advanced AI exploring fragments of past lives. Understand emotions, traumas, and choices in a journey to uncover what it means to be alive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Text-Based 17.5%, Conversation 14.2%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
- #12 TOY BOX
89% matchPositive87% of 45 reviews2024
Dev: DEADline Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Dark Comedy 13.6%, Text-Based 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Conversation 11%
- #13 Presidential Social Media Manager
89% 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: Conversation 12.5%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Dark Comedy 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Choices Matter 11.4%
- #14 There Is No Next Stop
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HANPAGE
Windows
After the announcement "There is no next stop," you are trapped in an endless subway. But you’re not alone—the "GUESTS" are hunting you. Trust the "GUIDES" to survive. Or don't.
Why similar: Conversation 15.2%, Text-Based 13.5%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Multiple Endings 12.2%
- #15 Come to my party!
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SIMSANG YOON
Windows
Set in a South Korean elementary school in 1999, 『Come to my party!』 follows 10-year-old Jimin's quest for her first-ever birthday party. Through multiple endings filled with laughs and heart, step into a story that might remind you of your own childhood.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Conversation 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%, Text-Based 8.6%
- #16 Mistbound
86% matchPositive92% of 12 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: Conversation 16.1%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
- #17 アパシー殺人クラブ
86% 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 16.6%, Multiple Endings 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Dark Humor 12.5%, Text-Based 10.8%
- #18 Tower of the Ice Lich
85% 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: Interactive Fiction 18%, Text-Based 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
- #19 You're a dad
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Linus Bohman
Windows · Mac · Linux
Choose your path and accept the consequences in this sleep deprived text adventure about becoming a parent. Be a responsible adult, make dinner and take care of your child. You must do this. Nothing else.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Text-Based 14.5%, Conversation 12.7%, Visual Novel 10.1%
- #20 Guilt Free
84% matchVery Positive86% of 288 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 13.9%, Text-Based 13.1%, Conversation 11.7%, Choices Matter 11%, Visual Novel 10.6%
- #21 The Wreck
83% matchVery Positive89% of 273 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: Choices Matter 13.2%, Conversation 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
- #22 Into the Waves
82% matchVery Positive92% of 88 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 16.2%, Multiple Endings 15.2%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Choices Matter 10.7%
- #23 AN IOU
82% 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: Conversation 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
- #24 The Trial
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NowakGamesPub: Pale Blue Dot
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 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.9%
- #25 Remembering Emily - Mystery visual novel
80% matchPositive84% of 19 reviews2025
Dev: Tortita Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Relive Thomas’s memories in this mystery-filled visual novel. What really happened to Emily? Make choices, explore different versions of events, and uncover two complementary endings that reveal the full truth.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.8%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Mystery 11.2%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
- #26 Dungeon of Departure
81% 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 16.7%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Text-Based 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Mystery 9.6%
- #27 When It Falls
79% 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: Conversation 16%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Dark Comedy 11.6%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%
- #28 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: Conversation 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Multiple Endings 11%
- #29 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%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Text-Based 16.4%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
- #30 Tequila Moonrise
78% 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 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Visual Novel 10%
- #31 Devil Apartment
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: L.S. Frei
Windows
Hello, Jake. Welcome to the game.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Dark 9.5%
- #32 Arderico's Journey
77% 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: Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.8%
- #33 Sabbatical In Merzouga
76% 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 14.4%, Conversation 13.4%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Choices Matter 12%
- #34 Loop//Error
74% matchVery Positive90% of 51 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: Conversation 16.2%, Text-Based 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Choices Matter 10.3%
- #35 7 Days in Dystopia
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YapabilityPub: Yapability Products
Windows
7 Days in Dystopia is a psychological dystopian game where you experience seven days by playing a series of games, making choices, and facing the consequences of winning and losing in a city where people hide behind masks.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Conversation 11.3%, Story Rich 9%
- #36 Under the Heavens: Warring States Saga
75% 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: Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Text-Based 17.8%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%
- #37 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: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Text-Based 16.8%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Conversation 11.8%
- #38 Worn Out
74% 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: Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Text-Based 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Choices Matter 11.1%
- #39 Venus: Improbable Dream
76% 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 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Conversation 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10%
- #40 Holy Shift
73% matchPositive81% of 42 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: Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Conversation 15.2%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Text-Based 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
- #41 Presidential Psychologist
72% match3 user reviews100% of 3 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: Conversation 14%, Dark Comedy 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Visual Novel 10%
- #42 Alcyone: The Last City
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 18 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: Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Conversation 14.2%, Text-Based 12.9%, Visual Novel 10.8%
- #43 Yuika My Bestie
73% 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: Conversation 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.7%
- #44 The Secret Of Greenwood Isle
71% 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 15.3%, Text-Based 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
- #45 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 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Visual Novel 12%, Choices Matter 11.9%
- #46 氷点下30度の絶望
69% matchVery Positive97% of 285 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: Conversation 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Multiple Endings 12%, Choices Matter 9.4%
- #47 Scribe
70% matchPositive91% of 33 reviews2024
Dev: TalesBar
Windows
Scribe is a scribe simulator in which you can secretly shape the destinies of the inhabitants of the estate: resolve disputes, influence the course of family intrigues, decide who lives and who does not. Choose what to write in letters and whether to change their recipients!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Text-Based 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Visual Novel 9.9%
- #48 The Night Fisherman
71% matchVery Positive82% of 771 reviews2020
Dev: de FaultPub: Far Few Giants
Windows · Mac
A short, twisted tale about a smuggler and a late night encounter in the English Channel. Control the camera and make tough choices, will you escape with your life?
Why similar: Conversation 12.9%, Dark Comedy 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Choices Matter 10.1%
- #49 Slacking Off Company: Workplace Survival
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ByDesignK
Windows
Tired of the daily grind? Become the puppet master in this office survival sim! Guide your employee in the art of slacking off, avoid the boss's watchful eye, and test the limits under their nose. Can you help them 'survive' without getting fired?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Conversation 14.7%, Text-Based 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
- #50 Mass of Consumption
68% 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 20.6%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Text-Based 11.9%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
- #51 The Portal Pirate
69% 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 19.7%, Text-Based 17.5%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Mystery 9.4%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
- #52 To Be With You
70% matchPositive96% of 28 reviews2021
Dev: Illus Seed Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A semi-autobiographical horror visual novel about unhealthy relationships. Can you help Alsie save her relationship from ruin?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Conversation 13.3%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Text-Based 8.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%
- #53 Summer Daze: Tilly's Tale
69% 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: Conversation 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Text-Based 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.8%
- #54 Gloomscape
68% 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: Conversation 13.1%, Dark Comedy 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Text-Based 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%
- #55 Orbital Abyss: Cipher Division
67% 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 governments while conversing with crewmates to reveal their stories and troubles. The ripples of your choices may be felt through the galaxy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Text-Based 14.1%, Multiple Endings 10%, Story Rich 9.2%
- #56 Roadwarden
67% matchVery Positive94% of 4,905 reviews2022
Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Choices Matter 8.1%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
- #57 Pitchforks and Daggers
66% matchPositive91% of 22 reviews2025
Dev: Idan Sheinkman
Windows · Linux
How far will you go to keep your crown? A branching court politics drama, where every choice matters. Navigate treacherous lords, scheming family members, and angry peasants- all while trying to secure your kingdom’s future.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Conversation 14.2%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
- #58 墨心:波云诡船
67% matchVery Positive90% of 1,395 reviews2020
Dev: 1001 Studio
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 69%
《墨心》是一款将古代中国幻想元素和悬疑科幻相融合的国产视觉小说。男主(你)从昏迷中醒来丧失了记忆,发现自己和另外两女一男困于巨轮密室中。面对匪夷所思的船体变异,恐怖致命的巨型怪物,你们能否成功逃脱?而这超自然的现象,似乎跟一件千年前的战国墨家宝物有关......
Why similar: Conversation 15.5%, Text-Based 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%
- #59 ナカノ人格移植研究所
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 麺屋すぱいす 東京支店
Windows · Mac
「ナカノ人格移植研究所」は、周回型ミステリー2Dアドベンチャーゲームです。 それぞれの周回でプレイヤーが憑依する対象の登場人物を選択することで、その登場人物を主人公としてストーリーを進めながら謎を解き明かします。 プレイヤーは本ゲームの中で 4 つのパートを行き来しながらストーリーを進めます。 ノベルパートでは、クリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 探索パートでは、画面上のアイテムをクリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 移動パートでは、再度ビューでプレイヤーを操作し、船の中を探索します。 会議パートでは、他のパートで集めた手がかりを利用して他の登場人物と会話します。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Conversation 11.4%, Text-Based 10.2%
- #60 Death off the Cuff
68% 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: Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Text-Based 16.2%, Conversation 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Visual Novel 10.5%