- #1 Vida
97% 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 21.5%, Lore-Rich 18.7%, Text-Based 17.4%, Conversation 16.9% ★, Visual Novel 12.6%
- #2 Weavers of Life
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: The Judgement of EdenPub: Judgement of Eden Games LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
A story of two brothers who must navigate the Fantasy World of Forvos after being reborn and reshaped by a powerful Rune Weaver. Will you, the Hand of Fate, be able to guide them to safety? To riches? To death? I who led the willing and dragged along the reluctant relinquish my control to you.
Why similar: Philosophical 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Lore-Rich 15.8%, Dark Fantasy 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%
- #3 The Bone Dancer's Bane
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A 700,000-word epic fantasy interactive novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Text-Based 15.6%, Dark Fantasy 14.3%, Drama 12.7%, Lore-Rich 12.1%
- #4 God of Chaos
95% matchPositive96% of 23 reviews2026
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Shatter civilization and avenge your pantheon as the world‘s last surviving god! Will you liberate humanity from tyranny, or let the world burn? A text-based interactive dark fantasy novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Text-Based 19.4%, Dark Fantasy 16.4%, Lore-Rich 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%
- #5 Tower of the Ice Lich
94% matchPositive100% of 19 reviews2025
Dev: Arcane Lorelabs
Windows · Mac
A pixelated homage to 16-bit RPGs, this former print-and-play card game has come full circle as a digital experience! Choose your champion, enter the tower, and make wise decisions on your ascent to face the Ice Lich at the top.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Lore-Rich 19.9%, Text-Based 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Visual Novel 11.9%
- #6 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 27%, Lore-Rich 17.4%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Text-Based 13%, Drama 12.5%
- #7 AmaTisMo
93% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: VegetinES
Windows · Mac · Linux
A visual novel about mental health, depression, and self-love. Play as Amatista, a young woman trapped in isolation, as she begins a journey she never asked for. Every choice shapes the story. Fully accessible for blind and visually impaired players.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Conversation 17.2% ★, Drama 16.9%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%
- #8 A Blade for the Emperor
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
An interactive fiction epic fantasy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22%, Text-Based 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Dark Fantasy 14.5%, Lore-Rich 13.8%
- #9 The Trials of Ozymandias
91% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Golden Axolotl Studios
Windows · Mac
The Trials of Ozymandias is a visual novel set in the high fantasy world of the kingdom of Johrotos. In the capitol city, Dassi, resides the most famous adventurer's guild in all the land: Talleh-Hoy. This is where your story begins.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Text-Based 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Drama 14%
- #10 Mercenary Guild Manager
91% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Code Dunamis
Windows
Raise a banner and run a mercenary guild in a grim medieval fantasy realm. Recruit and read your blades, negotiate contracts, send them into procedural missions, and survive a living political web where every payday bites and nothing is ever certain.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 24.4%, Text-Based 19%, Dark Fantasy 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%
- #11 X.E.H.A. Rogue
90% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Corvaena Games LLC
Windows · Mac
They steal your crew and force your ship to crash-land on an alien planet where you must start fresh with nothing but a dilapidated base and a... talking cat?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Lore-Rich 15.6%, Visual Novel 13.7%, RPG 9.8%
- #12 The Adventures of Bunny and Pig
89% matchPositive92% of 25 reviews2025
Dev: Li Min
Windows
It's a short, text-based interactive book with a psychological theme.▶TRIGGER WARNING◀ Contains childhood trauma, suicidal thoughts, and emotional abuse, but ultimately conveys hope and growth.
Why similar: Philosophical 20.6%, Text-Based 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Emotional 10.6%
- #13 Games of the Monarch's Eye
88% match8 user reviews25% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Steel, strategy, sabotage - or forbidden magic? How far will you go to defeat your greatest rival and win glory in the grandest tournament in the entire realm? A text-based adventure.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Lore-Rich 17.8%, Text-Based 17.7%, Dark Fantasy 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%
- #14 Book of Coin
89% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2022
Dev: redisguise
Windows
Immerse yourself in a dark fantasy world that is inspired by traditional text-based adventure and interactive fiction games.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.4%, Text-Based 28.1%, Dark Fantasy 26.2%, Fantasy 8%, RPG 6.8%
- #15 Crown of Exile
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ramona G
Windows
The realms are fractured. A kingdom burns. In this dark fantasy interactive tale, you flee with an exiled prince through a land of treachery and fading deities. Will you shape your fate in blood and fire, or vanish beneath the weight of secrets best left buried?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Conversation 17.4% ★, Text-Based 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Lore-Rich 16%
- #16 金烬秋明
86% 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 23.5%, Lore-Rich 21%, Visual Novel 17.7%, RPG 12.1%, Text-Based 11.8%
- #17 The Golden Rose: Book One
86% matchVery Positive90% of 163 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore an alternative medieval Europe in this low-fantasy epic adventure! How far are you willing to go to take back your stolen treasure?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Text-Based 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Lore-Rich 14.2%, RPG 13.1%
- #18 Diaspora
84% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Navigate unknown waters, deadly politics, and ancient magic in this low-fantasy adventure. Can you turn the tides of war and forge a future for your clan? A text-based interactive novel, 1 million words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26%, Text-Based 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, RPG 14.8%, Lore-Rich 13.4%
- #19 Vorum
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lon SevidanesPub: Dream Stories
Windows
Vorum is a retro-inspired RPG with elements of noir, horror, investigation, and science fiction. Its narrative is somewhat inspired by recent events in humanity, with touches of philosophy. It's a post-apocalyptic world with problems similar to our own.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Text-Based 17.7%, Lore-Rich 14.8%, Philosophical 14.5%, Dark Fantasy 12.5%
- #20 Belle-de-Nuit
85% matchPositive91% of 31 reviews2021
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
Win duels and hearts as a swordswoman at Paris's finest luxury brothel! Fight for the honor of ladies of the night in this game of swords and seductions.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Drama 17.2%, Text-Based 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Conversation 11.5% ★
- #21 Forbidden: A First's Obsession
82% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: N.A. Soleil
Windows · Mac · Linux
Meet Nemesis; Ascendent being and terminally bored. Until the shimmer at the end of Creation, known as the Void, becomes her fixation - and her undoing. A short linear visual novel with gorgeous hand-painted illustrations; a mythic tale of curiosity and consequences.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Lore-Rich 18.2%, RPG 11.7%, Dark Fantasy 10.7%
- #22 Love in a Time of Earthquakes
83% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
A interactive post-apocalyptic fantasy romance.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Text-Based 20.4%, Lore-Rich 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, RPG 13.3%
- #23 Kino
81% matchPositive97% of 32 reviews2025
Dev: Lacking Finesse Games
Windows
Odesa, 1929. A woman wakes up. This will be her last morning. An all-powerful film camera forces her to watch her life again. Can she find what was missing? A very short choose-your-own-adventure based on Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Visual Novel 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Conversation 16.6% ★, Drama 16.5%
- #24 Into Oblivion
80% 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 23%, Lore-Rich 17.1%, Text-Based 15.9%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%
- #25 这是生活
82% matchNo user reviews2023
Dev: 这是生活
Windows
A small game to experience the life of an ordinary person.
Why similar: Drama 20.5%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Emotional 12.6%, Philosophical 12.5%
- #26 Dull Grey
81% matchVery Positive85% of 85 reviews2021
Dev: Provodnik Games
Windows · Linux
Dull Grey is an award-winning visual novel about growing up. Experience an emotional story of a mother and son in a dystopian world, make simple but meaningful choices and discover multiple endings. Will you see your story unfold in full colour?
Why similar: Philosophical 21.8%, Conversation 16.1% ★, Drama 15.3%, Text-Based 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.9%
- #27 A Court of Seven Crowns
79% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Navigate a web of intrigue and assassination to make peace among warring fae! The fate of their realms and yours is in your hands! A text-based interactive novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Text-Based 20.6%, Lore-Rich 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, RPG 14.1%
- #28 Moonbriar
79% 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 19.9%, Dark Fantasy 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Lore-Rich 15.3%, Visual Novel 11.5%
- #29 Nanma, A Tecelã das Sombras
78% 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: Dark Fantasy 23.1%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Text-Based 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%
- #30 Imperial Bureaucracy Hero
78% 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 23.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Visual Novel 15.1%, RPG 11.6%, Lore-Rich 11.5%
- #31 Almost certain death.
77% matchMixed56% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: 画往时文化
Windows
After a failed rescue in northern Myanmar, Lin Wei and her friend fight to survive. Guide their escape through pivotal choices—with nearly 100 branching decisions that can trigger a butterfly effect, leading to vastly different endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Philosophical 23.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Drama 16.2%, Visual Novel 14.9%
- #32 Eyes of Rain
77% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Corvaena Games LLC
Windows · Mac
As a humble baker in a quiet medieval town, your life takes a dark turn when a stranger arrives equipped for battle. Thrust into a hidden world of supernatural beings—elves, demons, fae, and more—you must make choices that alter the fate of the world you thought you knew.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Dark Fantasy 17.2%, Lore-Rich 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.5%
- #33 大梦春秋
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 夫夫游戏工作室
Windows
An interactive AVG with a time-travelling male protagonist in an ancient style, with multiple endings and multiple branches, and a journey of bondage in which you and six close friends join hands to dominate the world in a parallel world.
Why similar: Philosophical 22.7%, Lore-Rich 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Emotional 8.9%
- #34 Roadwarden
75% matchVery Positive94% of 5,205 reviews2022
Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.4 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 31.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, RPG 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Dark Fantasy 9.7%
- #35 Devil on Your Shoulder
76% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
See your name in lights on Broadway! Find fame, fortune, and true love! All it costs is your immortal soul.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Lore-Rich 19%, Text-Based 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Drama 8.9%
- #36 We Were Here Before
74% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Inkdrift
Windows
The frontier does not want to be settled. A narrative highly replayable story game where your choices build a settlement, shape its story, and seal its fate. Every run ends. Every obituary tells a story only you lived.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Philosophical 16.9%, Lore-Rich 16.6%, Text-Based 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%
- #37 Taina's Cursed Legacy
73% matchPositive83% of 35 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 23.6%, Text-Based 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Visual Novel 14.7%, RPG 9.6%
- #38 Child of Ash
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Imoyokan
Windows
The hero who stopped a world-eating calamity was branded a demon by history. Centuries later, an orphan carrying his last fragment pieces the truth together from rumor and record. No combat — only Ashen Flame, a power that costs you with every use. Two loops. One truth.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Dark Fantasy 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Lore-Rich 12.1%
- #39 The Soul Stone War 2
75% matchPositive90% of 30 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Overcome all obstacles by trusting in your own strength, the power of your Soul Stone, and your loyal companions. Become the legend you were born to be.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Lore-Rich 21.1%, Text-Based 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, RPG 8.7%
- #40 You're a dad
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Linus Bohman
Windows · Mac · Linux
A sleep-deprived text adventure about new parenthood, daydreaming, and the things left unsaid. Be a responsible adult, make dinner and take care of your child. You must do this. Nothing else.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Conversation 18.2% ★, Text-Based 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Drama 11.9%
- #41 Ink and Intrigue
73% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2024
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
Heed magic’s call! Find love as you explore ancient mysteries, craft dragon-rune tattoos, and discover your true loyalties. What passions shape your path?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Text-Based 21.3%, Lore-Rich 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, RPG 14.1%
- #42 Silk and Secrets: Rites of Pleasure
72% 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 25.4%, Lore-Rich 21.9%, Text-Based 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, RPG 14.9%
- #43 Gold & Brown
71% 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 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Lore-Rich 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Text-Based 10.8%
- #44 流木缘Driftwood Fate
70% matchVery Positive93% of 70 reviews2025
Dev: 神经传达室
Windows
A mysterious bracelet, familiar dreams, and Zhi An, a male college student who just got a girlfriend, now faces a sudden appearance of a lover (male) from his past life. How should he choose? What is the hidden abnormality beneath the surface of everyday life?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24%, Drama 21.2%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Text-Based 12%, Emotional 8.5%
- #45 終わりの鐘が鳴る前に Chapter3
71% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Cynical Honey
Windows
「これは何を手にするために、何かを失う物語」 季節は変わり冬になる。死神の条件のために主人公、長谷部涼平は菅野雪乃への恋心を自覚するが、彼女の親友に想いを寄せられてしまい、今度は三角関係の当事者になってしまった。自分の未来を掴むためにも菅野雪乃との両思いを目指すことになるが…。青春群像劇ビジュアルドラマ三部作の最終章が遂に開幕!
Why similar: Text-Based 21%, Drama 18.1%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Conversation 12.4% ★
- #46 Faerie's Bargain: The Price of Business
72% matchMostly Positive74% of 19 reviews2021
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Become the greatest of the goblin merchants in this gaslamp faery-tale! Buy and sell secrets and memories! Trade in time, shadows, and stranger things!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Text-Based 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, RPG 12.2%, Lore-Rich 8.5%
- #47 To Reign in Hell
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Hell’s throne is empty. Will you seize it? Command demons, forge dark bargains, shape the future of the afterlife—or watch it burn as chaos reigns. A text-based interactive dark fantasy novel, 630,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Text-Based 21.5%, Dark Fantasy 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, RPG 15.7%
- #48 Monster Girl Manor
70% matchPositive89% of 28 reviews2025
Dev: Xena AlexanderPub: Monstery Peoplez
Windows
Welcome to the MONSTER GIRL MANOR! Tour around to find your way to meet the characters created by Dream Audio VA, Lacey Audayo, Method Switch, Startlit Audios and Xena Alexander. Find out which girls are your vibe and find out more of their lore!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.4%, Lore-Rich 25.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Visual Novel 16.5%, RPG 5.1%
- #49 The Broken Crown
69% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: PiperFox
Windows
The Broken Crown is a dark fantasy text adventure between game and novel. Read through a fallen kingdom, make choices at key moments, and face the weight of memory and sacrifice.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31%, Text-Based 25.3%, Dark Fantasy 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Indie 0.7%
- #50 未择之路
69% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: 未择之路工作室
Windows
"The Road Not Taken " is a live-action interactive game exploring life's choices through Yi Jing (I Ching) philosophy. Follow a student's struggles in parallel modern China, reflecting youth anxiety. A student-made project celebrating Chinese cultural wisdom.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Philosophical 18%, Lore-Rich 13%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%
- #51 Telvoikai
70% 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 22.2%, Lore-Rich 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Text-Based 15.1%, Visual Novel 14.3%
- #52 Wizard Confidential
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Sling spells and crack the case in a city full of bootleggers, corrupt cops, and vampires. Can you save your partner before a wizard dooms Seattle? A text-based interactive urban fantasy noir novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Text-Based 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Dark Fantasy 14%, Lore-Rich 12.4%
- #53 栖霞日记
67% matchPositive75% of 44 reviews2026
Dev: 片川文化
Windows
The Qixia Diary is an original Visual Novel inspired by the food culture of Hangzhou, China. You play as Sheng Sheng—a first-year art student at Yunqi University. Through her eyes, you'll step into a unique university life brimming with warmth and local charm beside the West Lake.
Why similar: Drama 25.3%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Conversation 16.4% ★, RPG 14.3%, Text-Based 12.1%
- #54 Re:Call
69% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Re:Start
Windows · Linux
Re:Call is a deeply emotional visual novel exploring the fragile nature of memory, the weight of forgotten promises, and the healing power of friendship. Set in a nostalgic Japanese high school, it follows Kaito Nakamura as he learns his ordinary life’s built on fragments of a past he can’t remember
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.5%, Lore-Rich 26.7%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Drama 12.8%, Emotional 8.1%
- #55 The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
67% 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 28.2%, Text-Based 26.5%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Drama 9.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.8%
- #56 Stars Arisen
68% matchPositive86% of 29 reviews2023
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Will you rise to the heavens when you wield the magic of fallen stars? Call lightning, ride the wind, and raise the dead in this fantasy epic!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Text-Based 20.3%, Dark Fantasy 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Emotional 9.8%
- #57 Rosa Mortifera
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: sky blue aster
Windows · Mac · Linux
A fantasy visual novel about a knight who would do anything for his lady. Handmade illustrations with original music.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 20.1%, Text-Based 17.7%, Dark Fantasy 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.2%
- #58 Eternal Affairs
67% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
Recover a stolen artifact and lose your heart as a secret magical agent! Can you uncover an arcane conspiracy before the clock runs out? An interactive, text-based magical romance novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Text-Based 18.1%, Dark Fantasy 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Lore-Rich 12%
- #59 Findme ~30才の夢追い人~
68% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2022
Dev: 三ノ宮グループPub: Blue Moon
Windows
It is a Japanese visual novel game. It is a game to read texts. Enjoy the story of anguish, conflict, dreams and hope. There is no branching depending on the choices, but you can have a rich story experience like a movie.
Why similar: Text-Based 27%, Visual Novel 22.8%, Drama 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Emotional 9.9%
- #60 Dungeon of Departure
66% 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 22.5%, Lore-Rich 16.6%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Text-Based 16%, Dark Fantasy 9.5%