- #1 Travelling At Night
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Weather Factory
Windows · Mac · Linux
CONJURE. CONFESS. DISAPPEAR. Be an exorcist, a stage magician, or - worse yet - a writer, in this globe-trotting choices-matter CRPG. In a very alternate 1940s Europe, choose sides; choose motives; choose your History.
Why similar: World War II 17% ★, Alternate History 14.1%, Investigation 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%, Point & Click 9.4%
- #2 Wherever You Get Your Podcasts
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Matthew Linder
Windows
A podcast simulator horror game with cozy vibes. Become a podcast editor, repair audio files, and find the hosts of the podcast Spooky Sacramento before the hard drive dies!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Alternate History 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Investigation 13.1%, Point & Click 9.6%
- #3 Marcel Pagnol and the Secret Spring
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Playtouch
Windows
Embark on a touching and poetic adventure through the hills of Provence in “Marcel and the Secret Spring.” Inspired by the childhood stories of legendary French author and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol, this narrative-driven game lets you experience a world filled with nature, mystery, and nostalgia.
Why similar: Alternate History 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Historical 11.7%, Dialogue Heavy 10.6%
- #4 Survive, Resist, Collaborate - a World War 2 Choice-Based Story
95% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Asterism Games
Windows
A fully narrated branching narrative game set in occupied Netherlands during World War 2. Every choice shapes the fate of a young Dutch civilian. Will you resist the Germans? Simply try to survive? Or join them in the fight against Bolshevism? Based on real events.
Why similar: World War II 33.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Text-Based 10.9%, Historical 10.7%
- #5 The Terrible Persistence of Memory
94% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Pixels and Pins Studio
Windows
When you wake from a deep sleep, the first thing the goblin doctor asks is "What's your name?" The problem is: you don't know. Retrace your steps. Find what you've lost. Piece together who you are from the strange and incredible things you can do
Why similar: Investigation 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Hidden Object 14.8%, Lore-Rich 14.1%, Point & Click 14%
- #6 Cliffhanger: Challenger of Tomorrow
94% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2021
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Punch out Fascists and unravel conspiracies in this pulp adventure set in a retro-futuristic 1930s world of airships, fast cars, and two-fisted action!
Why similar: Alternate History 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Historical 12.1%, Lore-Rich 11.8%
- #7 The Lost Land Of Bahía Blanca
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Libromancy Studios
Windows
In this visual novel with light RPG elements, you’ll come out of exile to walk into the bloody belly of a vampiric regime once more in search of a past that still haunts you. Embark on a journey inspired by the horrors of the last Argentine civil-military dictatorship.
Why similar: Alternate History 16.3%, Post-apocalyptic 13.2%, Investigation 11%, Dark Humor 10.5%, Lore-Rich 10.2%
- #8 Hexfinder
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You will play a hexfinder in the employ of Queen Charlotte’s Anglican Church, tasked with seeking out the witches and warlocks (colloquially known as hexcrafters) who threaten her fair nation. A story-rich, text-based RPG, Hexfinder is a supernatural alt-historical adventure!
Why similar: Alternate History 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Text-Based 11.3%, Investigation 11.1%
- #9 ROTRDS - Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon and Snake
91% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: haatcci
Windows · Mac
ROTRDS is a visual novel RPG inspired by traditional Korean mythology. Only half of the Twelve Zodiac guardians remain with fragmented memories. Gigi has less than a week to gather all the Oksae seals and save the world.
Why similar: Alternate History 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Hidden Object 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Lore-Rich 11.5%
- #10 Pararecords
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 6th Sense GamesPub: Kodansha
Windows · Mac
As a counselor in a mysterious facility, you are to examine children with strange powers and fill in their "Paranormal Records". In this story-based, choice-driven game, you will have to pry open your subjects' minds... but what you find inside them could prove dangerous.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 28.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.3%, Point & Click 16.3%, Investigation 12.6%, Choices Matter 8.1%
- #11 We Were Here Before
90% matchNo user 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Point & Click 13.8%, Dark Humor 13.6%, Lore-Rich 11.7%
- #12 Letters from the War
89% matchPositive83% of 47 reviews2025
Dev: Etrurian Games
Windows
Modern reimagining of text adventure games with a new gameplay and multiple endings. Censor letters coming from soldiers at the front and make the history of your nation.
Why similar: World War II 36.6% ★, Text-Based 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Historical 10.6%
- #13 Storm the Swan - And the Power of FRIENDSHIP and IMAGINATION
88% matchVery Positive99% of 77 reviews2024
Dev: CatTrigger
Windows · Mac · Linux
Make Cute Animal Friends in this 8-bit Gameboy-inspired adventure! But there's something lurking in the woods, with DARK SECRETS you'll need to uncover!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Dark Humor 17.9%, Point & Click 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Investigation 11.5%
- #14 Morth
89% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2020
Dev: Hidden Crawlspace Studios
Windows
A darkness has fallen over the village of Drakehorn. People have gone missing in the night and have been seen walking into the woods and never returning. Find out what's causing these disappearances before time runs out.
Why similar: Investigation 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Point & Click 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Dialogue Heavy 11.5%
- #15 Fatal Falls
86% matchPositive88% of 17 reviews2024
Dev: Tripolar Studio
Windows
In Fatal Falls you explore the dark secrets of "The Grand Elysium", a posh luxury hotel in the middle of nowhere. Interact with its guests, drink a cocktail at the bar, peruse the noble premises – the choice is yours! Just make sure you don't get entangled in the hotel's dark deeds...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Hidden Object 15.7%, Point & Click 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Lore-Rich 11%
- #16 The Dark Prophecy
87% matchMostly Positive77% of 44 reviews2022
Dev: Start Warp
Windows · Mac
The Dark Prophecy is a 2D pixel-art Point&Click adventure inspired by the best retro games of the 90s. Welcome to a peaceful medieval village, where life is safe and calm. But one fateful night, everything changes.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Hidden Object 15.6%, Point & Click 14.4%, Dark Humor 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%
- #17 Temple of Endless Night
86% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2021
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
When you discover that the Serpent of Chaos is trying to destroy Egypt, will you stand against him, or will you help spread his eternal darkness?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Historical 14.6%, Lore-Rich 13.7%, Text-Based 13.1%
- #18 The Island of Crossed Destinies
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Paper Tigers
Windows
A Pentiment-like set in 19th-century Malaysia, featuring pirates, East Indiamen, headhunters, a locked-room murder mystery, a blade of meteoric ore, a tarot deck, a mountain of light, and a tiger. It’s time to put your thinking cap on; as for those voices in your head – probably best to ignore them.
Why similar: Investigation 18.2%, Historical 15.7%, Dialogue Heavy 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%
- #19 Ghost Hunting Journal
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 麻辣工作室 Spicy GamesPub: Okasan's Recipe
Windows
Ghost Hunting Journal is an anime-style narrative adventure game. The duo partners of self-proclaimed "Spirit Agent" accept various supernatural commissions, use a full set of ghost-hunting techniques to tackle urban myths caused by lingering ghosts in the city of Riverrun.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Hidden Object 15.7%, Dark Humor 13.3%, Point & Click 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%
- #20 Ephemera
85% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: Ashley Moore
Windows
Guide your character through it all, from their birth to their last breath. Make sure they remember you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Point & Click 14.9%, Text-Based 14.3%, Management 13%, Lore-Rich 11.1%
- #21 Wizard Confidential
82% match7 user reviews71% of 7 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: Alternate History 26%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Text-Based 13.9%, Investigation 11.9%
- #22 Quadrivium - Paths of History
83% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Quadrivium Game
Windows
In an innovative 2.5D puzzle game, the Quadrivium Project will transport you into a simulation where you will relive the past while solving puzzles and correcting the errors that threaten the world's historical memory.
Why similar: Hidden Object 16.6%, Historical 16.1%, Point & Click 14.9%, Alternate History 13.3%, Investigation 12.8%
- #23 Herald: The Interactive Period Drama – Complete Edition
82% matchPositive86% of 29 reviews2025
Dev: Wispfire
Windows · Mac · Linux
Herald is a choice-driven adventure set on the high seas. Board the HLV Herald and uncover its dark secrets in an intriguing tale about tyranny and servitude.
Why similar: Alternate History 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Point & Click 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Lore-Rich 12.7%
- #24 Addy
80% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Sofia Gyger
Windows · Mac · Linux
It's hard to focus on schoolwork when she's missing.
Why similar: Investigation 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Point & Click 15.7%, Lore-Rich 13%
- #25 Alien History
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Adam
Windows
A knowledge discovery game inspired by ancient astronaut theories. Travel across nine world regions, consult expert informants, and piece together evidence of non-human intelligence hidden in ancient civilizations. Every discovery brings you closer to the truth.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Alternate History 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Point & Click 17.7%, Investigation 9.1%
- #26 Attentat 1942
81% matchVery Positive93% of 488 reviews2017
Dev: Charles Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Attentat 1942 is a historically-accurate adventure about World War 2. Face moral dilemmas and existential struggles as you uncover the troubled past of your family.
Why similar: World War II 28.8% ★, Investigation 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Historical 13.4%, Hidden Object 11.1%
- #27 Defragmenting
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: pngTriads
Windows
The outside is being ravaged by a mysterious downpour of a glass, you are forced to take shelter in a seemingly innocuous rundown hotel. Yet, stuck with you are people who you wish you would never see again. What will you do to survive?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Point & Click 15.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Text-Based 10.6%
- #28 水彩画は水底に沈む
78% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Takoko
Windows
Watercolors Sink Beneath the Surface is a nostalgic pixel-art point-and-click adventure set on Narumi Island, where only an abandoned high school stands. Years later, two girls return to complete a watercolor inspired by their school memories, gathering ideas from the remnants of the past.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Point & Click 21.2%, Post-apocalyptic 18.8%, Text-Based 10.8%, Dialogue Heavy 10.6%
- #29 An Eye for Optical Theory 1666
79% matchPositive94% of 16 reviews2023
Dev: Perfect Crime Games
Windows
An Eye for Optical Theory 1666 is a short point & click horror adventure game with a focus on atmosphere and narrative. It is the plague year of 1666 and Isaac Newton, in lockdown at his home, has been thinking on the topic of Optics, and planning a series of experiments. Will you help him?
Why similar: Point & Click 18.4%, Dark Humor 18.3%, Historical 16.7%, Investigation 14%, Lore-Rich 10.2%
- #30 JOGO FINDA
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FODA! Corp.Pub: Cia A DitaCuja
Windows
In the game FINDA, you control the character The Survivor. Trapped in a bunker, you'll need to manage limited resources while revisiting their memories, battling loneliness and fear, and trying to understand what life after the apocalypse still holds.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 19.3%, Lore-Rich 13.5%, Text-Based 13.2%, Hidden Object 11.9%, Point & Click 10.8%
- #31 The Play's the Thing
78% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2021
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Win fame as a playwright before dark forces bring the curtain down for good! In a city stalked by a deadly curse, how will the power of your pen change the world?
Why similar: Alternate History 23.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Historical 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Lore-Rich 12.6%
- #32 Report on the Death of Robert Evergreen
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: The Local RagPub: The Local Rag
Windows
A retro audio-based narrative game about the power of the news. Robert Evergreen is dead! The public adored him, but what was he like in private? Listen to interviews with Robert’s friends and family, decide what kind of article you’d like your paper to print, and watch the story unfold.
Why similar: Alternate History 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Investigation 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choices Matter 9.4%
- #33 The Iron and the Oath
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FFire Studio
Windows
A narrative RPG of medieval intrigue and war. As Karl von Aiden, shape your destiny through five chapters of choices that matter. Build attributes, forge alliances, navigate court politics, and face consequences across three story routes and multiple endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Alternate History 16.4%, Lore-Rich 12.6%, Choices Matter 11.7%
- #34 Nothing To Declare
76% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Flying Squirrel Games
Windows · Mac
As a guardian of the customs realm, you hold sway over the comings and goings of travelers, packages, and cargo containers alike. Do you possess the mettle to tackle such a formidable responsibility?
Why similar: Investigation 24%, Point & Click 19.9%, Dialogue Heavy 16.7%, Management 15.5%, Choices Matter 13.3%
- #35 Gerda: A Flame in Winter
75% matchVery Positive95% of 528 reviews2022
Dev: BirdIsland/PortaPlayPub: DON'T NOD
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 59%
You have five days to save your husband, who has just been arrested by the Gestapo. Investigate, explore and form allegiances in this story-rich RPG-lite. Who will you trust?
Why similar: World War II 37.6% ★, Historical 16.9%, Dialogue Heavy 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
- #36 Hollow Bequest
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ANIQ
Windows · Mac · Linux
As a legendary detective, the disappearance of a former mentor provokes a return to your humble beginnings. Every clue reveals the dark secrets that haunt the town. What should have been a quick investigation gradually became a struggle for your life and freedom. Who or what is responsible?
Why similar: Alternate History 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Hidden Object 16.5%, Point & Click 16.3%, Investigation 11.8%
- #37 Harlot's Diary
74% matchPositive86% of 21 reviews2024
Dev: Veratrum
Windows · Linux
In a ruthless world where you've lost everything, only desperate measures remain. Fight to survive as a sex worker and reach the top, avoiding deceit, murderers, and abuse on your path to success.
Why similar: Point & Click 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Dark Humor 13.9%, Management 12.2%
- #38 The Pilgrimage
73% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2023
Dev: Nicholas Brakespear
Windows
One thousand years beyond the fall of Earth, one last drink may yet be your epitaph, in this post-post-apocalyptic hangover odyssey by a novelist you've never heard of! A parser-driven text adventure for the ages! Or at least a weekend! Fun for all the family (except the kids)!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Lore-Rich 12.9%, Dialogue Heavy 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%
- #39 The Night Fisherman
74% matchVery Positive82% of 771 reviews2020
Dev: de FaultPub: Far Few Giants
Windows · Mac
A short, twisted tale about a smuggler and a late night encounter in the English Channel. Control the camera and make tough choices, will you escape with your life?
Why similar: Alternate History 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.1%, Point & Click 11.6%
- #40 LIMB.INC
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: STARDOM Games
Windows
LIMB.INC is a signal-like horror job simulator where you read the lives of lost souls and match their files to the objects that defined them. Interpret clues, make decisions, customize your desk, and survive the day in the worst job in the underworld.
Why similar: Point & Click 16.1%, Management 14.1%, Investigation 13.6%, Lore-Rich 11.4%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%
- #41 Into the Harmony
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sempiternal Rain
Windows
Into the Harmony is a psychological quest set in a post-apocalyptic world after an AI uprising. Awakening with amnesia, Sophia must piece together her forgotten past to uncover a secret that ties her own fate to the destiny of humanity.
Why similar: Alternate History 21%, Hidden Object 15.6%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Point & Click 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%
- #42 Morningtide Motel
71% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: Slandercast Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your motel is busy for the first time in years. Antsy city-folk and dispossessed teens flood your rooms, and you can barely keep up. Now, after a week of all-nighters spent managing reservations, room service requests, and Yup! reviews, you begin to wonder… could you even fall asleep if you tried?
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 16.1%, Point & Click 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Choices Matter 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%
- #43 The Sea of Death
73% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2023
Dev: Hoit Studio
Windows
The Sea of Death is a mystery puzzle adventure in which the story revolves around the people and experiences that the protagonist, who has lost his memory due to an accident, meets in the process of regaining his memory.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.1%, Hidden Object 14.8%, Point & Click 14%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Choices Matter 12.1%
- #44 The Sin Collector: Repentless
72% matchVery Positive92% of 90 reviews2021
Dev: Sylen Studio
Windows
THE SIN COLLECTOR: REPENTLESS is a game on the border of a visual novel and a classic text RPG, set in the world of The Sin Collector, a series of books written by Michał Gołkowski. Action takes place a couple of years before the events presented in the books.
Why similar: Alternate History 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Post-apocalyptic 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Text-Based 12.1%
- #45 Creepy Support
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Squirrel Melting
Windows
Save people from terrible paranormal dangers as a support operator of a secret SCP-like organization! Ask questions, give advice and watch the consequences of your choices... multiple endings in each story ;-)
Why similar: Investigation 21.1%, Dark Humor 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Text-Based 15.2%, Choices Matter 10.5%
- #46 Murder Mystery Mayhem AI
69% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2026
Dev: AI Media Design
Windows
Murder Mystery Mayhem AI is a single-player detective game set in a stylish 1920s world of secrets, suspicion, and social intrigue. Talk freely to a colorful cast of cunning suspects, gather clues, uncover motives, and deduce who among them is the killer.
Why similar: Investigation 18.3%, Point & Click 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Dialogue Heavy 13.4%, Historical 12.5%
- #47 After the Storm
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rebuild society after the climate apocalypse! Can you keep your settlement alive? Will you hold onto your humanity or lose it in the directionless expanse?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25%, Post-apocalyptic 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Text-Based 18%, Choices Matter 9.8%
- #48 Sailors of Newport
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Puppet Show Media
Windows · Mac
There are rumours of homosexuals in the Navy, and it’s your mission to date them! Sailors of Newport is a point-and-click puzzle game set in 1920s Rhode Island. Infiltrate the gay community, choose who to seduce and who to report, solve puzzles, and grapple with your own burgeoning desires.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.4%, Investigation 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Point & Click 12.9%, Historical 7.9%
- #49 A Weekend Trip
70% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: lukepagca
Windows
A short narrative about a trip with friends over the weekend. Decide what River does during the trip. Help your friends, explore the place, or just enjoy the scenery.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Point & Click 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Dialogue Heavy 16.5%, Investigation 14.1%
- #50 AIdventure
70% matchMixed55% of 55 reviews2022
Dev: Lyaaaaa Games
Windows · Linux
No rules, no censorship, the only limit is your imagination, not someone else's. AIdventure is a text adventure game with an AI as a storyteller. It is shipped with more than 25 starting scenarios. Unleash your creativity by writing and sharing your own stories with other players.
Why similar: Alternate History 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Historical 11.8%
- #51 Death Trick: Double Blind
68% matchVery Positive87% of 275 reviews2024
Dev: Citreat StudioPub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The star magician of Morgan’s Traveling Circus is missing, but the show must go on! In this non-linear detective visual novel, unravel the mystery from two different perspectives as you learn the varying stories of an entire circus of performers, each with their own lives... and their own secrets.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Investigation 14.6%, Point & Click 14.1%, Historical 13.8%, Dialogue Heavy 13.8%
- #52 Grizzly Man
68% matchVery Positive90% of 60 reviews2024
Dev: LCB Game Studio
Windows
1983, Alaska... During the Salmon Run, a deadly figure known as The Grizzly Man terrorizes a group of tourists led by Bob, an amnesiac former Man in Black. Survive the journey or become the catch of the day in this breathtaking pixel-art interactive fiction with heart-pounding pace!
Why similar: World War II 23.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Point & Click 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Dialogue Heavy 9.1%
- #53 Scary Stories
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bruce Devlin
Windows · Linux
A spooky text-based, choose-your-own-adventure style game that tells several spine-chilling tales with several choices and items throughout, these may change your path... Can you uncover the truth?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Point & Click 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Lore-Rich 12.7%, Text-Based 9%
- #54 Svoboda 1945: Liberation
69% matchVery Positive98% of 189 reviews2021
Dev: Charles Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Svoboda 1945: Liberation is a unique adventure game featuring dialogues with real actors. Talk to witnesses of the chaotic aftermath of World War 2 and discover the secret history of your own family in a captivating story about reconciliation with the dark past.
Why similar: World War II 27.2% ★, Dialogue Heavy 18.2%, Investigation 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Historical 12.2%
- #55 TOY BOX
67% matchPositive87% of 45 reviews2024
Dev: DEADline Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Point & Click 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Text-Based 13.3%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%
- #56 One Night: Burlesque
67% matchPositive85% of 39 reviews2023
Dev: RedDeer.Games
Windows
Step into the smoky, seductive world of the Angels Den, a luxurious burlesque club. Get into the high heels of Holly, a talented dancer graced with a unique gift of telepathy. Help her on a desperate mission to save a friend from certain doom.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 25.2%, Alternate History 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Point & Click 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%
- #57 I Am a Dorm Resident (but Cat)
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Project Bon
Windows · Mac
You wake up as Bon, the dorm’s beloved cat — memories gone, paws in place. Roam a century-old student dorm, chat with residents, nap under the kotatsu, enjoy a cat life while uncovering lost secrets and your past. ※This game is distributed with permission from the Yoshida Dormitory Student Council.
Why similar: Alternate History 29.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Investigation 14.8%, Dialogue Heavy 8.3%
- #58 MoonShot
66% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Joey ParrishPub: Chicken Noodle Soap
Windows · Mac · Linux
You're a NASA intern working on the Apollo 11 project. Each day, you have a checklist to complete. Your tasks are well-reasoned and appropriate to your skill level as an intern. The Apollo team are all competent professionals. Everything goes very well, and you have no difficulties at all. 😛
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Point & Click 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Historical 13.4%, Dialogue Heavy 13.1%
- #59 Project Pastorate
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 38 reviews2018
Pub: Meridian4
Windows · Mac
Project Pastorate is a first-person psychological horror game focused on exploration, environmental storytelling, and unsettling atmosphere rather than combat.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Hidden Object 15.8%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Point & Click 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%
- #60 Rauniot
65% matchVery Positive89% of 169 reviews2024
Dev: Act Normal Games
Windows · Linux
Rauniot is an isometric post-apocalyptic point and click adventure game which takes place to Northern Finland.
Why similar: Alternate History 23.7%, Post-apocalyptic 21.1%, Investigation 18.3%, Point & Click 15.3%, Dark Humor 13.6%