- #1 Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,918 reviews2023
Dev: hcnone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
"Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines" - In this short story from the Endless Monday, Penny, a mild-mannered corporate grunt, spends a weekend at the office in an effort to finish her project on time while overcoming distractions from coworkers, space aliens, imaginary friends, and herself.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Comic Book 6.9%
- #2 Endless Monday: In Progress
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: hcnone
Windows · Mac · Linux
"Endless Monday: In Progress" - New job, new Penny. Our favorite former corporate grunt is back, and working hard to live the dream! But as she struggles to keep the dream alive, she'll need all the help she can get, from friends, angry ex-coworkers, the past, and beyond.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Visual Novel 18%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Anime 6%
- #3 Reigns: The Witcher
96% matchVery Positive81% of 167 reviews2026
Dev: NerialPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Adventure as Geralt through the ballads of Dandelion. Swipe right, swipe left, seek glory, find death! Will you hunt monsters, upset the locals, or run a hot bath? Compose an inspiring epic to claim immortality.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Adventure 11.8%
- #4 Royal Duality
95% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Immersive Sim 15.1%, Choices Matter 9.1%
- #5 Star's Peaces: Memorial Edition
94% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Heisei High School Game Creation ClubPub: YOX-Project
Windows
A manga-style visual novel game featuring 30 high school students. Hikari Kamikura races around Heisei High School in an attempt to change her friendless situation!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Adventure 15.3%, Comic Book 13.2%, Anime 9.1%
- #6 Rewrite+
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 694 reviews2021
Dev: VisualArts/KeyPub: Sekai Project
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 60.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
In this city built upon the ideal coexistence of civilization and the environment, Tennouji Kotarou spends his days with his friends, Kanbe Kotori and Yoshino Haruhiko. In this peaceful city, a tumultuous event shakes the foundations of Kazamatsuri once a year.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Anime 9.7%, Adventure 7.7%
- #7 LOVEPICAL-POPPY!
92% matchVery Positive96% of 340 reviews2025
Dev: SMEEPub: Kagami Games
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 34.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
From renowned Japanese visual novel brand SMEE, LOVEPICAL-POPPY!, the ultimate moege, arrives on Steam! Made for SMEE’s 15th anniversary and celebrating 150k+ sales, it keeps the brand’s signature sweetness while adding life-sim gameplay and a unique story progression system.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Visual Novel 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Adventure 12.4%, Anime 9.8%
- #8 Wild Island Quest
93% matchMixed53% of 344 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 25.1%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Adventure 15.3%
- #9 Shadows of Betrayal
91% 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: Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Visual Novel 22%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Story Rich 7.6%
- #10 Sword Princess Amaltea - The Visual Novel
91% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Senpai Media GroupPub: Natalia Batista
Windows · Mac · Linux
Princess Amaltea is sent out on this quest, and rescues Prince Ossian. They are both unwilling to play along in these traditional expectations of them, and after fleeing their own wedding they are now out on the open roads – on to new adventures in this gender flipped world!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Comic Book 11.5%, Immersive Sim 10.4%
- #11 Atonement
90% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Nexus Media
Windows
Atonement is an interactive graphic novel set in the Wild West. At various points in the story, you will be asked to make a choice, these choices will take you down different paths in the story. There are 3 storylines featuring a manhunt, a bank job, and a train robbery.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Adventure 14.1%, Comic Book 10.2%
- #12 舌尖上的神兽
89% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: MYSTERY CROWN
Windows
"Beastly Feast"is a visual novel game. Modern Chen Qian transmigrates to a mythical world as a motley-feathered chicken chick. Players advance via decisions and exploration ,and finally become a Chaos Divine Beast, savoring the ultimate thrill of transcending realms through eating.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.5%, FMV 18.9% ★, Immersive Sim 17.9%, Visual Novel 16%, Adventure 6.6%
- #13 兽神
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MYSTERY CROWN
Windows
“Beast Lord”is a visual novel game. You’ll lead (half-beasts) against ogres, noble oppression, and other crises from an immersive perspective. Players make choices at key points, collect items, experience growth from personal survival to and uncover the world’s power struggles and survival rules.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.6%, FMV 18.4% ★, Immersive Sim 18%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Adventure 6.6%
- #14 Operation Blackfox
88% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Nexus Media
Windows
Operation Blackfox is an interactive graphic novel. At various points in the story, you will be asked to make a choice, these choices will take you down different paths in the story. Your objective is to rescue as many characters as possible. The game features 3 possible story endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Adventure 17%, Comic Book 14.1%, Choices Matter 10.6%
- #15 I Lost Someone
86% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Forget-Me-Not Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
The story of a father and son experiencing the ups and downs of life, and how they try to make the best of the twists and turns life puts them through
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Immersive Sim 15.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.4%
- #16 Mia and the Dragon Princess
85% matchMixed67% of 284 reviews2023
Dev: Wales Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 72%
A live-action, interactive action movie following Mia, a plucky barmaid whose life is thrown into chaos when a mysterious woman turns up at her workplace, on the run from a group of violent thugs and unable to speak English.
Why similar: FMV 17.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Immersive Sim 10.3%
- #17 In The Days of My Life
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Redamantine Studios
Windows
Management and life-simulation Game with elaborate Relationships, where players manage their character’s actions and activities as they explore topics about self-discovery, parent-children relationships, friendships, and growing up as a College Student.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Anime 8%
- #18 The Ghost of Joe Papp
86% matchMixed50% of 12 reviews2017
Dev: Stegalosaurus Game Development
Windows · Linux
Median: 6 minMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 25%
Welcome to Joe Papp, Nevada. A theater town where local legends spring to life and nobody knows quite what to do with their lives.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Comedy 9.8%
- #19 Brageskålen
84% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2023
Dev: Tidvis Games
Windows · Mac
Travel to Veøya in the Viking Age and solve a dangerous mystery with cunning and song!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27%, Visual Novel 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Adventure 10.2%
- #20 Witch Hunter: Our Secret
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: artbakeries
Windows
Play as Erwin, a witch hunter navigating a fantasy world of magic and suspicion. Your decisions in this visual novel affect friendships, trust, and multiple story outcomes. Choose wisely—the fate of your journey rests with you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.8%, Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Visual Novel 18%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Adventure 8.2%
- #21 Last Journal
82% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Nexus Media
Windows
Last Journal is an interactive graphic novel where you play as John Weston, fighting to survive a deadly pandemic. Your choices shape the story, leading to branching paths, alliances, and multiple endings. Choose wisely—survive or perish.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.3%, Adventure 16.8%, Comic Book 15.4%, Choices Matter 13.3%
- #22 Parasite in Love
81% 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 27%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Adventure 13.9%, Choices Matter 7.6%
- #23 For Mother Matron
82% matchVery Positive91% of 164 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 23.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Anime 7%
- #24 Legend of Cozar
81% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Nexus Media
Windows
Legend of Cozar is an interactive fantasy graphic novel. At various points in the story, you will be asked to make a choice, these choices will take you down different paths in the story. There are 3 possible story endings. Lead Cozar on a quest to return the Fire Stone to the Temple of Vulcan.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Adventure 16.7%, Comic Book 15.5%, Choices Matter 13.4%
- #25 Late Shift
80% matchVery Positive86% of 9,154 reviews2017
Dev: CtrlMoviePub: Wales Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Late Shift is a high stakes FMV crime thriller. Forced into a brutal London heist, your choices matter in this interactive cinematic experience with adaptable storylines that lead to one of seven conclusions. Your decisions are you.
Why similar: FMV 31.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Choices Matter 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Story Rich 5%
- #26 Vanakan
79% 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 31.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.4%, Adventure 17.2%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Story Rich 4.8%
- #27 Secret Stream ASMR with Saya: Just the Two of Us
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SecretStreamAgencyPub: 69waves
Windows
A private ASMR experience with VTuber Saya.Get closer through livestreams and private chats in this interactive visual novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.3%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Adventure 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Anime 9.2%
- #28 Don Quijote
77% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Rubén Prende
Windows · Linux
An interactive graphic novel reimagining Cervantes' masterpiece in striking neo-noir style. Guide Don Quixote through La Mancha, make choices that shape his journey, and discover four unique endings in this tragicomic tale of idealism and madness.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Adventure 11%
- #29 MADE : Interactive Movie – 01. Run away!
79% matchMixed62% of 53 reviews2021
Dev: JOONSPICTURES
Windows
One day, JURI gets kidnapped and wakes up in dark basement. Desperately seeking her way to escape, JURI runs into a random guy who is indeed another hostage. And someone is chasing them! Who kidnapped them and why? Would they be able to survive?
Why similar: FMV 27.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Immersive Sim 11%
- #30 SHIBUYA SUSHI MASTER
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TOONLEAGUE
Windows
Cyberpunk Sushi Master Adventure
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Adventure 12.7%, Comic Book 9.4%
- #31 Man I Just Wanna Go Home
75% matchVery Positive95% of 719 reviews2024
Dev: JZPS Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 1.3 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Man I Just Wanna Go Home is an "MSPaint-noir" visual novel with 13 endings, a unique visual style and a killer 80s inspired soundtrack. The story revolves around a delivery person stranded in an unfamiliar part of the city under the devastating rain. All he wants is to get home. Help him!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Comic Book 12.5%, Choices Matter 10.7%
- #32 Between
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Stillroom
Windows
A story-driven visual novel set on a quiet coastal town, where fleeting connections, unspoken desires, and personal choices shape how every relationship unfolds.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Adventure 13.9%, Choices Matter 7.5%
- #33 Rainbow Heights Academy: Year 1
76% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Immersive Sim 15.4%, Choices Matter 8.8%
- #34 Shadows Of Memory ll
75% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Pixelyarn
Windows
Go home, Alice. The past awaits you. This is the second chapter in the horror visual novel trilogy.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.3%, Interactive Fiction 26.7%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Adventure 9%, Anime 6.2%
- #35 The Change Architect
77% matchMixed65% of 54 reviews2020
Dev: ChardPub: Far Few Giants
Windows · Mac
You are a protest organiser, coordinating the crowd outside your window. When the police move in on your position you have to decide whether to tell the protestors to hold the line or pull back.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.6%, Interactive Fiction 29.7%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Adventure 9.8%, Multiple Endings 3.2%
- #36 Scream - Steam Edition -
74% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: POISON MOTIONPub: PRODUCTION PENCIL
Windows
Enjoy watching how team members react to the various mishaps that occur during the intensive training camp.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.6%, Visual Novel 26.1%, Adventure 21.2%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Atmospheric 5.2%
- #37 Beta Kafe : Write Your Love Story
72% matchNo user reviews88% of 76 reviews2026
Dev: Cine-mo
Windows
A man with a broken heart, trying to find sex and love—though it’s hard. In this dating simulation, you’ll be facing some of the most terrible first date experiences. It’s cinematic, funny, and brutally honest!
Why similar: FMV 22.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Choices Matter 9.7%
- #38 The Music at the end of the World
73% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Immersive Sim 13.7%, Choices Matter 10%
- #39 Love is All Around: Echoes of Yesterday
72% matchVery Positive81% of 2,138 reviews2024
Dev: intiny
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 75%
在本作中,“你”化身为即将迎来毕业季的男主顾易,在对未来的迷茫与憧憬中,你将与六位性格迥异、各具魅力的女生发生一连串的故事,她们或是鬼马少女、或是温柔甜心、猫系娇女、豆腐西施,千娇百媚、亦幻亦真,敬过往。
Why similar: FMV 21.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Immersive Sim 11.8%
- #40 Adventurers Guild Receptionist
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio LITTE
Windows
Always wanted a fantasy world desk job?! Manage eccentric adventurers like a lazy witch, tsundere fairy & useless bard! Approve quests, keep them alive, pay off Elfie's crippling tax debt, and rake in gold for the Guild!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Anime 7.3%, Comedy 7.1%
- #41 Crush at first sight🍓
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sight GamePub: JC WorkShop
Windows
In this First-Person Full Motion Video Game, you will meet all kinds of charming ladies. From childhood sweethearts to obeyed workplace junior, elegant teacher, cat girl cosplayer, and hot yoga instructor. You will experience an unimaginable love journey and reach the happy ending with them.
Why similar: FMV 22.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Immersive Sim 11.4%, Visual Novel 11.2%
- #42 Change the World
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 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 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Story Rich 8.6%
- #43 反转21克
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,132 reviews2024
Dev: 想象颗粒
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
In 2055, "You", the retired soldier king, was assassinated by a comrade who once fought side by side. His peaceful life was suddenly broken. In order to find the truth, he was involved in a series of bizarre murders.
Why similar: FMV 25.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Immersive Sim 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
- #44 Memories Off Sousou Break out of my shell
69% matchPositive93% of 45 reviews2026
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
メモリーズオフシリーズ最新作のアフターストーリー 主人公「久寿米木一葵」と登場ヒロインたちの「その後」を楽しんでいただけます。 ビジュアルノベル形式のゲームスタイルで選択肢を選びながらストーリーが進行します。 それぞれの道を歩み始めたヒロインたち。 それぞれの未来を大切な「あなた」と一緒につかむため、 それぞれの想いが、今はじける……!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Adventure 14.9%, Choices Matter 7.8%
- #45 Paper Shakespeare 3: Girl Werewolf Hamlet Absolutely Solves the War of the Roses
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Stegalosaurus Game Development
Windows · Linux
Guide a squad of ten young adults through a kingdom on the brink of war! Navigate court politics, deadly rivalries, and magical chaos between Humans, Fae, and Werewolves... where every choice can make or break your future.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Choices Matter 14%, Comedy 9.9%
- #46 Z Virus: Outbreak
71% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Nexus Media
Windows
Z Virus: Outbreak is an interactive graphic novel. At various points in the story, you will be asked to make a choice, these choices will take you down different paths in the story. Your objective is to escape the city of Redrock during a zombie outbreak. The game features 3 possible story endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Adventure 16.8%, Comic Book 14.2%, Choices Matter 10.8%
- #47 囚人カウンセリング
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: MoshikabaStudio
Windows
An interactive prison adventure. You play as a psychiatrist, working one-on-one with inmates who have committed crimes. Use case files to choose appropriate responses and hand out items from the drawer to maintain their trust. Your choices can either open up or close the inmates.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.9%, Visual Novel 22.4%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Adventure 11.6%, Story Rich 9.6%
- #48 Sovereign Brain Empire
68% matchVery Positive81% of 447 reviews2025
Dev: Mountain and Sea Studio
Windows
“Who isn’t a baby anyway?”~You travelled to a parallel world governed by the Sovereign Brain AI. In SB Empire, you’re an adopted “one-year-old”, recognized as a "Monarch-level" prodigy! There will be beauties giving you a sheltered babyhood. Your brilliance and privileges will change their fates!
Why similar: FMV 24.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Immersive Sim 12.3%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.8%
- #49 フリと忘れじの都 -FRI the Unforgettable City-
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cicada Studio
Windows
An adventure game where your choices change the world. Fri, a girl working at a coffee workshop, lives in a town that feels strangely mysterious. What will she encounter in this town while suffering from amnesia, and how will the world changing?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.8%, Visual Novel 23.1%, Adventure 20.3%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Pixel Graphics 10.8%
- #50 Pencil Plus: The Wrath of The Spankster
69% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2023
Dev: Rocky Mountain Vault Studios
Windows
Pencil Plus: The Wrath of the Spankster is an interactive novel style choose your own adventure game in which players take the role of Conner, a normal high school kid that gains a very unique super power: the ability to pull limitless pencils out of his pockets.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Comic Book 12%, Choices Matter 7.8%
- #51 MADE VR : Interactive Movie - 01. Run away!
70% matchMostly Negative23% of 13 reviews2021
Dev: JOONSPICTURES
Windows
One day, JURI gets kidnapped and wakes up in dark basement. Desperately seeking her way to escape, JURI runs into a random guy who is indeed another hostage. And someone is chasing them! Who kidnapped them and why? Would they be able to survive?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.9%, FMV 18.3% ★, Visual Novel 17.8%, Adventure 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%
- #52 OmOneko
67% matchVery Positive100% of 63 reviews2025
Dev: TaleChaser
Windows · Mac · Linux
“A story about cat girls … with bite.” Nekos have evolved in the shadows of human society. Beautiful. Mysterious. Chaotic. And now, three of them live with you. Will you be able to get past the stigma and grow closer to them? OmOneko is a tale of cat and mouse... and rats.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Immersive Sim 11.6%, Comic Book 10.2%
- #53 Song of Life
70% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2021
Dev: Experience Game Studio
Windows
A small visual novel about the adventures of a guy named Leon, who wants to change his past. During his school years, a lot of interesting things happened, there were a lot of girls, and where is all this now… That's what Leon thought until he found an amulet that could send him back several years.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Adventure 13.1%, Choices Matter 11.5%
- #54 Five Dates
68% matchVery Positive85% of 2,808 reviews2020
Dev: Wales Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Five Dates is an interactive rom-com about the unpredictable world of digital dating. With five potential female matches, Vinny explores whether compatibility, chemistry and connection is still possible in a world where physical touch is no longer an option.
Why similar: FMV 23.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Choices Matter 11.3%
- #55 Dead Detention (Rescribbled)
67% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Jack Astral
Windows
DEAD DETENTION is a scribbly interactive story about a nerdy teen turned dooms day survivor! Play as 14 year old Max as he tries to escape his high school during a deadly zombie pandemic! Will he and his new friends get to safety?!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Anime 5.7%
- #56 The Vigilante Diaries
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Out of the Blue Games
Windows
The Vigilante Diaries is a narrative-driven role-playing game where you assume the role of a masked vigilante. Experience his life journey through his diaries spanning years, navigate the changes within his hideout, and make every decision that shapes his destiny.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Comic Book 11.1%
- #57 我家恋天使太废柴鸟真~可怕
64% matchVery Positive100% of 69 reviews2026
Dev: HulottePub: Kagami Games
Windows
HULOTTE’s classic visual novel is now on Steam! After an injury ends his track dream, Sakuma Tsumugi meets a clumsy Love Angel and begins a sweet search for his destined special someone.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.2%, Visual Novel 21.5%, Adventure 18%, Anime 10.4%, Choices Matter 8.8%
- #58 The Gate
67% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Nexus Media
Windows
The Gate is an interactive science fiction graphic novel. At various points in the story, you will be asked to make a choice, these choices will take you down different paths in the story. Your objective as you guide the story is to return back to earth. The game features 3 possible story endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.5%, Adventure 19.8%, Choices Matter 12.4%, 2D 4%
- #59 Echoes of Pinebridge
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Koalu Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
After a transfer student enters his life, college senior Kent begins suffering fainting spells and hearing voices. Navigate friendships, secrets, and a growing supernatural mystery in this choice-driven visual novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Comedy 7.4%