- #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 15.1%, Text-Based 9.9%
- #2 Whispers From The Rift
96% 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: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Text-Based 15.6%, 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 19.7%, Text-Based 18.9%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.1%
- #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 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Choices Matter 9.8%, 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 14.2%, Text-Based 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Horror 10.8%
- #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%, Visual Novel 16%, Text-Based 16%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
- #7 Parasite in Love
93% matchVery Positive95% of 57 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 21.5%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Horror 9.3%, Adventure 7.7%
- #8 Metamorphosis
92% 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 24.3%, Multiple Endings 14.8%, Horror 14%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%
- #9 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
91% 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%, Text-Based 16.1%, Visual Novel 16%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
- #10 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: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Text-Based 14.4%, Multiple Endings 11.4%
- #11 For Mother Matron
90% matchVery Positive92% of 168 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 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Horror 11.5%
- #12 summer story
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: karol_thegame
Windows · Linux
Summer Story: An adventure game where you investigate and make choices that shape the story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Text-Based 11.6%, Female Protagonist 9.3%
- #13 Wild Island Quest
89% 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 22.3%, Visual Novel 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Choices Matter 13.3%
- #14 Saint Maker - Horror Visual Novel
88% matchVery Positive86% of 256 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%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Horror 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Female Protagonist 10.4%
- #15 Parallels: Year One
87% 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 20.7%, Female Protagonist 12%, Text-Based 11.7%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
- #16 Dr. Kinderwood's Asylum
86% 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 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Text-Based 12.1%
- #17 The Farm of the Living
86% matchNo user reviews
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 16.1%, Text-Based 11.4%, Choices Matter 10%
- #18 The Peresmeshnik
85% 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 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Horror 10.7%, Story Rich 7.5%
- #19 Witchlight Woods
84% 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 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%
- #20 Contra Spem Spero
83% 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 15.5%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choices Matter 10.8%
- #21 Into the Waves
84% 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 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Text-Based 10.8%
- #22 Vanakan
82% 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 27%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Text-Based 18.7%, Adventure 10.2%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
- #23 Tower of the Ice Lich
82% 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 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
- #24 Fate is not a line
81% 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%, Text-Based 17.7%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Female Protagonist 10.7%
- #25 The Shadow
81% matchNo user reviews
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 15.9%, Text-Based 11.8%, Choices Matter 9.9%
- #26 memOriedit
80% 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 18.8%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Female Protagonist 11.5%
- #27 Arderico's Journey
79% 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 15.6%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
- #28 Lady of bones, a mother's legacy
79% 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 19.8%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Female Protagonist 10%, Text-Based 9.7%
- #29 Heart of mobius
78% 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 22.2%, Text-Based 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Adventure 10.2%
- #30 Worn Out
77% 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 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Text-Based 13.3%, Horror 11.4%
- #31 What Is Sleeping In My Room?
78% 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%, Text-Based 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Horror 12.6%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
- #32 Flora Parasocial
77% matchNo user reviews
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 17.2%, Horror 11.9%, Text-Based 8.7%
- #33 The Music at the end of the World
76% 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 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Text-Based 14.4%, Multiple Endings 12.9%
- #34 THE DAY THAT WASN'T
76% 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 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Text-Based 12%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
- #35 Neko No Sentouki: The Greatest Fighter
75% 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 25.6%, Multiple Endings 18.2%, Text-Based 16.7%, Female Protagonist 13.1%, Choices Matter 12.9%
- #36 CAFE 0 ~The Sleeping Beast~ REMASTERED
75% 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 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Text-Based 10.7%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
- #37 MOOZ
74% 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%, Text-Based 15%, Horror 14.9%, Adventure 11.4%
- #38 The Dust of the Violet Crystals
74% 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 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Female Protagonist 10.1%, Text-Based 8.5%
- #39 Brood Year
73% 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 11.4%
- #40 Under the Table
72% match4 user reviews100% of 4 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%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Horror 12.6%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
- #41 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
71% matchVery Positive89% of 9,719 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 21.6%, Choices Matter 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Text-Based 13.6%
- #42 Change the World
73% 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 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Multiple Endings 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Story Rich 10%
- #43 Secret Agent Allan Martin in ... Phoenix Erupting
73% 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 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Text-Based 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Multiple Endings 13.5%
- #44 Nanma, A Tecelã das Sombras
71% 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 23.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Text-Based 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
- #45 Jessica's Choices - Forced [Episode 1]
70% 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 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Female Protagonist 12.4%
- #46 LifeSimOS
69% 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 21.3%, Text-Based 14.8%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Multiple Endings 10%
- #47 Ferrule Instincts
71% 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 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Story Rich 10.8%
- #48 CAFE 0 ~The Sleeping Beast~
72% matchVery Positive83% of 53 reviews2016
Dev: ROSEVERTE MYSTERYPub: ROSEVERTE
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 95%
A supernatural mystery visual novel. What kind of fate will the heroine face after she relives the last seven days before her death?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Horror 12.8%, Female Protagonist 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.3%
- #49 Reborn
70% 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 19.8%, Text-Based 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Horror 12%
- #50 Glitch
68% matchPositive91% of 35 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 21.1%, Horror 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Text-Based 15%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%
- #51 The Nascent Necromancer
70% 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 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
- #52 Pet
69% matchPositive95% of 21 reviews2023
Dev: beepsoft industries
Windows
A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Text-Based 13.1%, Multiple Endings 12%, Choices Matter 11.8%
- #53 Tale of android after the Apocalypse
68% 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: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Choices Matter 9.7%
- #54 Next Star
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Oneleafplay
Windows · Mac
Idol Talent Show Simulation Game-Train from zero to idol debut! Rank high to stay in! Explore the map, manage your schedule and play mini-games.Face tough evaluations,compete with fellow trainees, and forge meaningful bonds. Your choices will unlock 10+ unique endings. Can you shine?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.5%, Visual Novel 21.8%, Multiple Endings 17.7%, Choices Matter 16.8%, Story Rich 14.1%
- #55 Telvoikai
69% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Corvaena Games LLC
Windows · Mac
You've been tasked with collecting data on an alien planet. Choose between exploring the jungle tropics or navigating deep into the bioluminescent sea.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Text-Based 13%, Female Protagonist 9.9%
- #56 Road to Karatl
67% matchMixed67% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: Wild Angels Games
Windows
On the road to the sacred shrine of Karatl, lost souls entrust you with their stories. In this contemplative Visual Novel, listen to their truths and perhaps, at the journey's end, you will discover your own.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Text-Based 17.4%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Choices Matter 9.8%
- #57 com__et
67% matchVery Positive98% of 56 reviews2023
Dev: Margarita Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A queer romance/horror visual novel about being locked into a path, and having _______ words hidden from You. Find Your way to discover what's missing and reach Your ____ End.
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Horror 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
- #58 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: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Text-Based 17.8%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Story Rich 5.8%
- #59 Mr. Mueller's Grand Experiment
67% 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: Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Text-Based 13.7%, Multiple Endings 7.9%
- #60 Enelia: Dawn of Madness
66% matchVery Positive95% of 129 reviews2024
Dev: Indra Studio
Windows
Immerse yourself in the enigmatic world of Nauris, where enchanting landscapes hide terrifying secrets: the strange behavior of elders, sinister rituals of priests, and the disappearance of citizens. Madness lurks everywhere – will you master it or become its victim? The choice is yours.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Horror 13.4%, Multiple Endings 10%