- #1 Mass of Consumption
97% 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 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Horror 15.7%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Text-Based 9.8%
- #2 Whispers From The Rift
96% match6 user reviews83% of 6 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: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Text-Based 15.5%, Horror 13%
- #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 21.5%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Text-Based 18.8%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Choices Matter 11%
- #4 Shadows of Betrayal
95% 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: Visual Novel 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Horror 8.9%
- #5 Not It: Spookiest Edition
94% 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: Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Text-Based 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Horror 10.9%
- #6 All (Too) Good Things
94% 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: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Text-Based 15.9%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
- #7 Parasite in Love
93% matchVery Positive93% of 60 reviews2025
Dev: Night Asobu
Windows
Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Horror 9.3%, Adventure 7.8%
- #8 最上邸R
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: もこもこ
Windows
A Japanese-style horror visual novel set in 1980s Japan. Five years after a mysterious disappearance, Yukari Kanzaki and Akane Kiryu enter the abandoned Mogami Mansion. Explore its hidden secrets, uncover its dark past, and face multiple endings shaped by your choices.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Text-Based 16.1%, Female Protagonist 10.9%, Horror 9.7%
- #9 1453: Fall of Constantinople
91% 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: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Text-Based 14.4%, Female Protagonist 8.8%
- #10 Metamorphosis
91% matchPositive78% of 22 reviews2024
Dev: AKAI KIRI
Windows
An interactive visual novel in the mystical genre. Mikey is admitted to an unusual institution for treatment, where he encounters supernatural phenomena and begins to prepare for a metamorphosis that will lead him into another world.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.4%, Multiple Endings 14.8%, Horror 14%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%
- #11 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
90% 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: Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Text-Based 16%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
- #12 Lord of Lords: Dawn of the King
89% 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 24%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Adventure 9.3%, Text-Based 8.9%
- #13 Where are you, Cinderella?
89% 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: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Text-Based 14.3%, Multiple Endings 11.4%
- #14 For Mother Matron
88% matchVery Positive92% of 171 reviews2022
Dev: Velvetique GamesPub: Neoclassic Games
Windows · Mac
A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths. A free atmospheric horror visual novel where you navigate life-or-death situations. SEEK PARADISE OR DIE TRYING
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Multiple Endings 12%, Horror 11.5%
- #15 summer story
86% 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: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Text-Based 11.5%, Female Protagonist 9.3%
- #16 Saint Maker - Horror Visual Novel
86% matchVery Positive86% of 264 reviews2023
Dev: Yangyang MobilePub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac
A haunted convent. Statues that move on their own. A buried past. Welcome to Saint Idelora’s convent, where becoming a saint comes with a price.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Horror 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Female Protagonist 10.4%
- #17 Wild Island Quest
87% matchMixed53% of 346 reviews2015
Dev: NLB project
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
In an endless air ocean of an alien world, small lonesome plots of land float above the abyss. But sometimes approach each other, and lands which have never met before, reveal their secrets.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Visual Novel 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Choices Matter 13.2%
- #18 恐怖夜話 第二夜
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ひめこ
Windows
On a rainy night, three ghost stories are told in an old-fashioned café. As a writer for an occult magazine, you listen to three people recount their experiences. A psychological horror visual novel that slowly builds a sense of dread—Kyofu Yawa: Second Night.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Horror 14.7%, Text-Based 12.8%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
- #19 Parallels: Year One
84% 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 27.6%, Visual Novel 20.8%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, Text-Based 11.6%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
- #20 スマートフォン
83% match2 user reviews100% of 2 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 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Text-Based 17.7%, Horror 10%, Adventure 9.4%
- #21 Dr. Kinderwood's Asylum
84% 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 19%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Text-Based 12%
- #22 The Farm of the Living
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: PlayBook
Windows
A grim, choice-driven interactive gamebook. As the First Ranger of a fortified homestead, you must defend the last survivors from the infected, manage critical resources, and investigate a dangerous internal conspiracy. Every decision shapes the survival of the living.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Text-Based 11.3%, Choices Matter 9.9%
- #23 waga-mom
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: atominoko
Windows · Mac
――My curfew is 8 PM. Having a helicopter mom is annoying, but it's not a big deal.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.3%, Multiple Endings 15.8%, Text-Based 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Female Protagonist 10.1%
- #24 Witchlight Woods
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Delphin Casado
Windows
Blending fairy tale fright with psychological horror, this narrative game challenges you to survive a weird journey through the woods while being hunted by the witch you were tasked with imprisoning. Sometimes charming, sometimes frightening, she’ll force you to make hard choices.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Horror 13.9%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%
- #25 Contra Spem Spero
80% matchPositive92% of 25 reviews2025
Dev: DADZINGO
Windows · Linux
Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Horror 15.6%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choices Matter 10.7%
- #26 Tower of the Ice Lich
79% 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 20.7%, Text-Based 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
- #27 The Peresmeshnik
81% matchVery Positive93% of 110 reviews2020
Dev: Sean Arnold
Windows
It is said that the last frontier is space, but the crew of the Soviet Frigate, The Peresmeshnik, is about to discover that the sea still hides a terrifying secret. Waiting to be found.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Text-Based 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Horror 10.7%, Story Rich 7.5%
- #28 Into the Waves
79% matchVery Positive92% of 91 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: Visual Novel 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Text-Based 10.7%
- #29 朝凪高校生徒会 - 決断の記録
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ELISTA×STUDIO
Windows
As the student council president of Asanagi High School, you must decide how to respond to opinion forms submitted to the suggestion box in this school-themed choice-based adventure game. Your choices change how events unfold and lead to multiple endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Text-Based 15.6%, Multiple Endings 15.4%, Adventure 11.1%
- #30 Fate is not a line
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: samet bozbıyıkPub: pixel include
Windows
Fate is not a line is a visual novel game where your choices shape destinies. With 40+ decisions, 4 unique perspectives, and 25+ endings, every playthrough reveals new truths. Defy fate, face moral dilemmas, and uncover the secrets of the Arbiter of Fate.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Text-Based 17.6%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Female Protagonist 10.8%
- #31 The Zoo
77% 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 21.5%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Choices Matter 10.7%
- #32 memOriedit
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: いちか鉢
Windows · Mac
An adventure exploring two distinct types of information: conversation and memory. A district two stations away from the city, a night district who exude a atmosphere of alluring “Just listen to their desires, then do whatever you like.” —Told ya?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Text-Based 18.7%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Female Protagonist 11.5%
- #33 The Shadow
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: PlayBook
Windows
What starts as a simple, highly-paid night shoot in an abandoned marble quarry descends into a psychological nightmare. You are Stefano Caldara, a photographer caught in a web of dark rituals and dangerous secrets. Every choice shapes your morality, your sanity, and your survival...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Visual Novel 16%, Text-Based 11.7%, Choices Matter 9.8%
- #34 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: Interactive Fiction 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
- #35 Lady of bones, a mother's legacy
76% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Emperor
Windows · Mac · Linux
It always rains, they call it The Haze. Ghosts haunt every alley, every gray corner of the city. Lady of Bones is a visual novel that explores the darkest depths of existence where Maya will discover the horrible secrets of her mother's legacy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Female Protagonist 10.1%, Text-Based 9.6%
- #36 Heart of mobius
75% 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: Visual Novel 22.3%, Text-Based 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Adventure 10.4%
- #37 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: Visual Novel 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Text-Based 13.3%, Horror 11.5%
- #38 What Is Sleeping In My Room?
74% match7 user reviews88% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: CousinCatnip
Windows
Experience the hunt for the Monster living in your room in this Visual Novel experience. Your choices will determine the fate of both you and the Monster. Will you figure out what the Monster really is?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Text-Based 18.5%, Horror 12.7%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
- #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: Visual Novel 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Text-Based 14.6%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Choices Matter 12.7%
- #40 Flora Parasocial
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Laments_VN
Windows
Audiences connect to their favorite celebrities all the time. How does it affect these people when put into a game of life or death? Only time will tell.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Horror 12%, Text-Based 8.7%
- #41 THE DAY THAT WASN'T
73% 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 20.9%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Text-Based 11.9%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
- #42 Vermin God
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Neuroticfly Games
Windows
A grotesque body horror visual novel inspired by SCP-027, play as the young host of the Vermin God. Wake up in a hidden lab with no memories and experience the terror of a mysterious disease turning your body into a living hive for swarms of pests. Make choices to escape the crawling chaos.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.6%, Horror 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Female Protagonist 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.2%
- #43 MOOZ
72% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: motsuhouse
Windows
This is an adventure novel of suspense and horror in which the story diverges depending on the choices you make. An online drinking session with friends. A person with a knife is lurking in the background. What will you do to rescue your friend?
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Horror 14.9%, Text-Based 14.8%, Adventure 11.5%
- #44 Neko No Sentouki: The Greatest Fighter
71% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: skredjun
Windows · Mac
An Adventure Visual Novel where you can choose your protagonist – Play as Aiko or Hikaru as they try to uncover the secrets that lurk all around them in this character-driven story. Every choice you make will have an impact on the story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.7%, Multiple Endings 18.2%, Text-Based 16.6%, Female Protagonist 13.2%, Choices Matter 12.8%
- #45 The Music at the end of the World
71% 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: Visual Novel 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Text-Based 14.3%, Multiple Endings 12.8%
- #46 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
70% matchVery Positive88% of 12,656 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.8 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: Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Choices Matter 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Text-Based 13.8%
- #47 CAFE 0 ~The Sleeping Beast~ REMASTERED
71% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2023
Dev: ROSEVERTE MYSTERYPub: ROSEVERTE
Windows · Mac · Linux
The supernatural mystery visual novel, "CAFE 0 ~The Sleeping Beast~" returns as a remastered version. Will the maid, Corliss, find out why she died within the 7 days time limit?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Text-Based 10.6%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
- #48 The Dust of the Violet Crystals
70% matchPositive95% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Corvaena Games LLC
Windows · Mac
A flesh-eating dust leaves you to survive alone against hordes of Listless.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Female Protagonist 10.1%, Text-Based 8.5%
- #49 Brood Year
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wurm Fud
Windows
Stuck in a dead-end town with plans that go nowhere, Jackie feels as if her life is doomed to stagnancy forever. Getting by with her friends, she is resigned to her fate in a small town- until a chance encounter with a deadly life-form sets in motion a deadly chain of events
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Visual Novel 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Horror 11.9%, Text-Based 11.3%
- #50 Under the Table
69% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: RB Ashton
Windows · Mac · Linux
An office-based shrinking horror adventure in visual novel format! Explore a workplace packed with man-eating coworkers as you try to survive being tiny...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Horror 12.6%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
- #51 Nanma, A Tecelã das Sombras
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Luísa Destro
Windows
Nanma: A Tecelã das Sombras is a Brazilian dark high-fantasy visual novel where the loom of fate is in your hands. Take on the role of Nanma and discover whether your powers are a gift or a curse.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Text-Based 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
- #52 Reborn
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gecko Gaming
Windows
A visual novel written as a psychological horror RPG where your choices shape your life, leading to irreversible consequences and determining how your descent into darkness unfolds. The game can end in many different ways. Your choices determine how.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.9%, Text-Based 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Horror 12%
- #53 Secret Agent Allan Martin in ... Phoenix Erupting
70% 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: Visual Novel 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Text-Based 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Multiple Endings 13.5%
- #54 LifeSimOS
66% 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 22.5%, Visual Novel 21.4%, Text-Based 14.7%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10%
- #55 Change the World
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 14 reviews2020
Dev: Tea Leaf Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Human belief has the power to change reality. For millennia, alien races have been visiting Earth, gaining supernatural abilities and fantastic wealth by exploiting this remarkable power. But humans are advancing, and many aliens now find themselves leaving Earth with nothing but debts and regrets.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Multiple Endings 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Story Rich 10%
- #56 Jessica's Choices - Forced [Episode 1]
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DoAdventures
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your story continues right where Origins left off. Whether Jessica finds herself wandering the streets alone, caught in George’s web of deceit, or trapped in the unsettling confines of Margaret Thatuals under Professor Trounch’s watchful gaze and the orderlies, every choice matters.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Female Protagonist 12.5%
- #57 Chronicles of Humanity
67% 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: Visual Novel 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Text-Based 15.7%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.4%
- #58 Ferrule Instincts
68% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2022
Dev: Yellow Optic
Windows · Mac · Linux
You’re Kayla Ferrule - And your birthday is in a week. However, your friend Miles Hector got in with some bad apples. Can you outsmart everyone and make it to your 20th in one piece? Test your instincts in this brief interactive adventure based on Yellow Optic’s Fool Me Twice.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Choices Matter 12%, Story Rich 10.8%
- #59 The Nascent Necromancer
67% matchMixed60% of 15 reviews2023
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
When you're falsely accused of sorcery, corrupt inquisitors make you the object of a witch hunt. Now, sorcery might be the only way for you to survive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Text-Based 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Multiple Endings 11.6%
- #60 Glitch
65% matchPositive92% of 37 reviews2025
Dev: Bulbo Games
Windows
Glitch is an intense and surreal narrative experience, drawn entirely by hand, that will make you question reality with every choice and each of the 26 endings that unlock the special and definitive conclusion!
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.2%, Horror 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Text-Based 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%