- #1 Tower of the Ice Lich
97% 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 18.7%, Text-Based 15.4%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Lore-Rich 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
- #2 Roadwarden
96% matchVery Positive94% of 5,066 reviews2022
Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 16%, RPG 13.2%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%, Visual Novel 7.7%
- #3 Silk and Secrets: Rites of Pleasure
96% match3 user reviews25% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
Infiltrate the orgiastic secret society beneath the modern-day Palace of Versailles! Will you expose their sex rituals or surrender to their pleasures? An interactive romance novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Text-Based 16.4%, RPG 15.7%, Lore-Rich 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
- #4 Do 11
95% matchPositive81% of 26 reviews2021
Dev: SJR Team
Windows · Mac
Find a way out of the Do 11 app by doing missions that come from the mysterious Do 11 app. A choice awaits you to solve puzzles and change the fate of the protagonist. Escape the main character from the Do 11 app while savoring a profound worldview and intriguing story. An incredible twist awaits.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Visual Novel 14%, Text-Based 12.5%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Mystery 10.1%
- #5 Double bisociation
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 礼堂王
Windows
Ancient science fiction theme text adventure game - and you will play a scholar who can't get fame because of the abolition of the imperial examination in the world's highest town, and meet two small town scholars who can't get the imperial examination to explore the secrets of the town.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Visual Novel 18.8%, RPG 14.4%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Lore-Rich 12.2%
- #6 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
94% 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 21.2%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Text-Based 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, RPG 9%
- #7 Telvoikai
93% 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 19.4%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Lore-Rich 12.7%, Text-Based 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%
- #8 Into Oblivion
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NanoLion
Windows
Into Oblivion is an immerse interactive novel where your choices shape the story. Set in the far-future, explore a galaxy on the brink of crisis with dynamic companions. So, settle your mind and pray you have what it takes to fly Into Oblivion.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Visual Novel 15.9%, RPG 14.7%, Text-Based 12.9%, Lore-Rich 11.3%
- #9 All (Too) Good Things
91% 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 22.3%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Text-Based 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
- #10 Sabbatical In Merzouga
90% 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: Visual Novel 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Mystery 10.9%, Text-Based 9.5%
- #11 Lux, City of Secrets
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 32 reviews2021
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
It's time to make a name for yourself in the big city. In this first half of a two-part epic, can you unravel the mysteries of Lux, City of Secrets?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Text-Based 19.3%, Lore-Rich 15.4%, RPG 13.9%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
- #12 The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
89% 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 25%, Visual Novel 22.4%, Text-Based 21.1%, Multiple Endings 14%, Choices Matter 6.5%
- #13 Taina's Cursed Legacy
88% 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 21.5%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Text-Based 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, RPG 10.7%
- #14 The Fifth Horseman
89% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2019
Dev: Angelo Parodi
Windows
The Fifth Horseman is a narrative adventure game, set in a fantasy-medieval world, where you will experience many unique stories. After years of war, hunger and diseases mankind finds itself on the verge of extinction and it's up to you to decide its fate.
Why similar: RPG 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Text-Based 15.6%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
- #15 呪霊が見せる夢 / Dreamscapes
87% matchNo user reviews2026
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 22.5%, Visual Novel 21.2%, Text-Based 15%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
- #16 Our Burial Dolls Remastered
86% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: granatPub: ROSEVERTE
Windows · Mac · Linux
A horror mystery visual novel where a boy and a girl undergo a strange ritual in a remote mountain village. As eerie phenomena creep into their daily lives, they begin to uncover unsettling truths. Your choices shape how the story unfolds.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.2%, Lore-Rich 17.7%, Mystery 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Text-Based 9.8%
- #17 Coalescence
86% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2022
Dev: Black Banshee Studios
Windows · Mac
Coalescence is a visual novel that takes you deep within Moniker Labs to explore its secrets. Play as one of three characters, each with their own storyline and dialogue options. Form relationships with the companions you encounter and try to make it out alive!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Text-Based 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Immersive Sim 11.2%
- #18 God of Chaos
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Defy nature’s laws and avenge your slain pantheon! Humanity once feared and hated you, but now, awakened from a thousand-year slumber, you are their only hope. A text-based interactive game.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Text-Based 17.1%, RPG 16.7%, Lore-Rich 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%
- #19 The Farm of the Living
84% 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 21.4%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, RPG 11.8%, Text-Based 11.5%
- #20 Royal Duality
84% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2022
Dev: Hyakuten Games
Windows
Royal Duality is an immersive dark fantasy visual novel with 15 endings, various side stories and hidden Easter Eggs all set in an engaging lore-rich world
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Lore-Rich 13%, Immersive Sim 12.8%
- #21 The Trial
83% 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 18.7%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Text-Based 15.6%, Mystery 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
- #22 Gold & Brown
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Side Project Games
Windows
Gold & Brown is a choice-based visual novel set in the medieval era, enhanced with card mechanics. Embark on a challenging journey as a knight, shape your fate through card choices, and pursue an impossible love across multiple endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Lore-Rich 11.3%, RPG 9.8%
- #23 LifeSimOS
81% 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 22.8%, Visual Novel 21%, Text-Based 14.4%, Dialogue Heavy 11.7%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
- #24 Moonbriar
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Oldblood
Windows · Mac · Linux
Delve into a dark fantasy visual novel where evil isn't always as it seems. Make your choices and grow your skills to help determine who survives the Great Culling. Featuring the voice talents of Ralph Ineson, Simon Callow, Savannah Steyn, and more.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Lore-Rich 10.6%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
- #25 Choose Your Own Alternative
81% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: F(r)ictions Ludiques
Windows
A text-based adventure where you're tasked to exorcise your friend’s Inner Demon. Explore an ever-reshaping palace to analyze objects filled with memories, discover which one is the reason for her possession and sacrifice it. Do not deviate from your mission. Save your friend no matter the cost.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Lore-Rich 12.9%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%
- #26 Slacking Off Company: Workplace Survival
79% 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 18.1%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Text-Based 12.4%, Multiple Endings 9.4%, Dialogue Heavy 9%
- #27 Grave Knight
80% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: Dreamlight Games
Windows
Under developement, Grave Knight is an interactive RPG adventure inspired by SRD 5.1 ruleset and classical game books, where your decisions weave the fate of the characters and the story. Let the dice forge the fate of your hero and the realm by fighting the Grave knight and his horde.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, RPG 15.6%, Text-Based 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%
- #28 The Shadow
79% 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 21.1%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Text-Based 12%, RPG 11.5%
- #29 The Music at the end of the World
78% 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: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Text-Based 14.3%, Multiple Endings 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%
- #30 This Fallen Lizard Still Dreams of Flame
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DoriDreams
Windows
For five years, Licht lived as a mid-tier mercenary. Now he must not only escape from a dungeon teeming with giant insects and ancient secrets, but also decide whether to accept his ancestors' legacy or reject it once and for all.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.4%, Lore-Rich 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Text-Based 12.9%, Multiple Endings 12.8%
- #31 A Blade for the Emperor
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
An interactive fiction epic fantasy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Text-Based 16%, RPG 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Lore-Rich 10.3%
- #32 Dr. Kinderwood's Asylum
76% 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 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Multiple Endings 14%, Text-Based 12.6%, RPG 9.8%
- #33 Get the Guy
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ByDesignK
Windows
A mysterious interface connects you to a troubled girl from an Eastern fantasy realm. Receive her words and visions instantly. Guide her choices through conscious labyrinths as your fates intertwine.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Text-Based 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
- #34 Vida
75% 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 25.7%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Text-Based 18.7%, Lore-Rich 16.3%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
- #35 Zugzwang
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Malice Studios LLC
Windows
Chess. Love. Destiny. All the same things, really.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Visual Novel 15.2%, RPG 12.6%, Dark Fantasy 9.2%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
- #36 卡牌游戏
77% match9 user reviews70% of 10 reviews2020
Dev: 橙光游戏
Windows
This is a highest death rate game of survival, combined with masculinity, survival, thriller, suspense reasoning and other elements. There are two main lines you can choose from the story - the male line and the female line. Meanwhile, you can also choose different talents as you like.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.6%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Multiple Endings 14%, Mystery 12.7%, RPG 11.6%
- #37 Fugue of Delights
74% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Enygmage
Windows
A daemonic, handcrafted visual novel where your choices shape erotic dreams, secrets, and ritual desires.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Underground 13.5% ★, Text-Based 12.2%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Lore-Rich 11.4%
- #38 Ludus: A Gladiator Story
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: A Story Interactive
Windows · Linux
A fully branching narrative RPG of the Roman arena. Four origins, over 1,800 choices, and 19 endings, each carried by hand-inked engravings. You will bleed on the sand. The only question is whether you bleed for them, or for yourself. Every choice leaves a scar.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Text-Based 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Lore-Rich 10.9%
- #39 The Dust of the Violet Crystals
73% 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 23.7%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, RPG 13.3%, Text-Based 8.6%
- #40 Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Purgatory
73% matchVery Positive80% of 106 reviews2024
Dev: Different Tales
Windows · Mac · Linux
A choice-driven RPG thriller set in the World of Darkness universe. Step into the shoes of Samira, a young werewolf refugee in Poland, as she battles dark forces and loneliness, caught between rage and despair. How will your story unfold?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15%, Text-Based 12.1%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Lore-Rich 9.6%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
- #41 Worn Out
73% 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 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Text-Based 13.7%, Mystery 11.5%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
- #42 金烬秋明
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 光羽造物
Windows
A visual novel set in an ancient, alternate world. Explore this stormy and unstable country alongside Jiang Jin and Zhaoming, gradually encountering the shifting intrigues of the court. Whether you choose to stay on the sidelines or step forward is up to you
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Visual Novel 22.3%, Lore-Rich 15.5%, RPG 15%, Text-Based 10.6%
- #43 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 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Mystery 9.6%
- #44 Touhou: Beyond Gensokyo
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: FUF Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Discover the mysteries of Gensokyo through the lens of Shin, a photographer from the outside world. In this immersive visual novel, join forces with the shrine maiden Reimu Hakurei to unravel the truth behind this incident and stop the enigmatic Kurohana.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23%, Mystery 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
- #45 Lisa: The Lost Memories
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Manja Studio
Windows
Lisa The Lost Memories is a visual novel game where you help Lisa regain her memories. You'll choose your own path and unlock multiple endings. CONQUER THE MEMORY DUNGEON!
Why similar: Mystery Dungeon 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Text-Based 8.6%
- #46 Rainbow Heights Academy: Year 1
71% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2022
Dev: White Room Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
You've been given the chance to go to the country's most prestigious academy. Your future couldn't have looked brighter! But you'll soon find out nothing is ever as it seems...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Immersive Sim 12.5%, RPG 11.1%
- #47 海边的忘川亭
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 乱星工作室
Windows
Lethe Bar by the sea is a pixel-art afterlife sitcom. Play as AQi, a new Meng Po. Listen to ghost stories and brew custom soup using bizarre ingredients. Serve the perfect bowl to grant satisfaction or instant amnesia, sending souls on their way to reincarnation.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Text-Based 14.4%, Lore-Rich 14%, Immersive Sim 11.9%
- #48 Deigon Witch
69% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Berk Arifoglu
Windows
Open your own potion shop in Deigon Forest. Listen to your customers’ stories, prepare the potions they need, and, through the choices you make, forge your own path in the struggle between fate and free will.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.2%, Multiple Endings 15.8%, Text-Based 13.4%, RPG 9.7%, Female Protagonist 7.9%
- #49 Summer Daze: Tilly's Tale
70% 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: Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Visual Novel 16%, Text-Based 14.6%, Dialogue Heavy 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%
- #50 summer story
70% 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 22.1%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Text-Based 12.5%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
- #51 Herald of the Mists
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FromNiki
Windows
A narrative-driven RPG where every dice roll shapes your fate. Step into the role of the Queen's Herald and traverse a mist-shrouded realm to uncover the fate of her lost army. Will your choices uphold loyalty, or lead you down a path of betrayal? The secrets of the mists await.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Text-Based 16.1%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, RPG 9.1%
- #52 Leas: City of the Sun
68% matchPositive100% of 37 reviews2025
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
When a new magic is discovered, it's up to you to unravel the mystery! Find answers from fae and humans, save your city, and maybe even fall in love! A text-based interactive fantasy novel, 400,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Text-Based 20.2%, RPG 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Mystery 11.1%
- #53 Presidential Shaman
69% 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: Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Visual Novel 21.6%, Text-Based 13%, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%, Multiple Endings 12.3%
- #54 Phantompunk
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MKMK9999
Windows
Not thrilled that fate has led him into the confines of a sinister place, Varlu is left with no choice but to come face to face with many types of demons, including his very own.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Text-Based 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Lore-Rich 11.1%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
- #55 Dreamy Golden Snow
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 可食用蓝墨水
Windows · Mac · Linux
Dreamy Golden Snow is a fantasy mystery-themed visual novel that tells a story among high school girls. The story appears in an ordinary high school. After the incident, the protagonist is also affected, and players will guide her through numerous choices to uncover the truth.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.9%, Mystery 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, RPG 11.4%, Female Protagonist 8.3%
- #56 Surreality Check
67% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Absurdity Interactive
Windows
An absurdist, psychological choose your own adventure, Surreality check has the player helping Rowan Roach discover the meaning of his life through therapy sessions with the Universe personified. The Universe being a massive tool doesn't help matters.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.1%, RPG 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Mystery 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 8.3%
- #57 Imperial Bureaucracy Hero
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Munitions Mori
Windows · Mac · Linux
IBH is a rich role playing game at the end of time. You're a mid-level official in a dying sci-fi regime, given the impossible task of fixing a faltering machine; explore a vast world, define your mind, flex your authority, and become a sinner or a savior in countless other stories.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, RPG 14.2%, Text-Based 9.8%
- #58 Whispers From The Rift
66% 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 25.5%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Text-Based 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, RPG 10.3%
- #59 The Dreamwalkers
66% matchPositive90% of 30 reviews2024
Dev: Nightbloomer Studio
Windows
Take control of Morgan's destiny as his world is turned upside down. Explore the world of Dreams, where mythological creatures and Nightmares are real. A story-heavy adventure game with multiple endings, romance options and a symphonic music! Inspired by Neil Gaiman and Inception.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.1%, Mystery 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Lore-Rich 13.4%, Text-Based 13.1%
- #60 Creepy Crypt Critters
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Arcade Eleven
Windows
A surprising mix of adventure and memory games, featuring RPG-inspired mechanics and immersive storytelling. Explore a crypt filled with traps, dangers, and hostile creatures. Will you uncover the crypt’s secrets, or will you become its next victim? Make strategic choices to survive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Mystery 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, RPG 11%