- #1 The Gate
95% 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 30.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28%, Adventure 18.7%, Sci-fi 13%, Casual 5.6%
- #2 Parallel Convergence
94% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: NYEKO Studio
Windows
A time travel project. A group of students. A cat that eats too much. Can you rewrite fate without losing what matters most?
Why similar: Time Travel 44.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Sci-fi 12.7%, Casual 10.3%
- #3 Alexia Crow and the Cave of Heroes
97% matchMixed45% of 67 reviews2015
Dev: Questtracers
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
An adventure game with hand-painted graphics and an intriguing story. It's up to you to escape from the mysterious Cave Of Heroes by solving brain-bending puzzles. Explore a game world based on Ancient Greek mythology in this fascinating and thought-provoking journey.
Why similar: Adventure 39%, Casual 34.2%, Indie 26.7%
- #4 Paradox Factor
96% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Alter your past and future in this thought-provoking and edgy time travel game. Are you willing to live with the effects that your changes may cause?
Why similar: Time Travel 50.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Casual 9.4%, Adventure 5.9%
- #5 Curse of the Assassin
96% matchPositive87% of 30 reviews2015
Dev: Tin Man Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Fight, outwit and explore in Orlandes City as you uncover a conspiracy in this Gamebook Adventure where YOU control the story!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 57.2%, Adventure 26.5%, Indie 16.3%
- #6 Tempest In A Teapot
92% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: StrandGames
Windows
A choice-based, visual novel with time travelling teapots!
Why similar: Time Travel 24.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Adventure 14.1%, Sci-fi 9.5%
- #7 Tick Tock Isle
94% matchVery Positive86% of 330 reviews2015
Dev: Squiddershins
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Strike is inadvertently transported into the past while attempting to repair a mysterious, abandoned clock tower. Endeavoring to return to the future, Strike must fix both the time machine and the island’s dysfunctional family who are responsible for much of the clock’s disrepair.
Why similar: Time Travel 61.8% ★, Adventure 14.8%, Casual 12.8%, Indie 10.6%
- #8 Gargoyle Doyle
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: easyActionPub: Astrea
Windows
An irritable gargoyle spends 800 years stuck on the side of a cathedral as the world changes for better and for worse.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.7%, Adventure 20.5%, Casual 17%, Indie 4.7%
- #9 Starship Traveller (Standalone)
93% matchMixed64% of 78 reviews2015
Dev: Tin Man Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
YOU are the hero in Starship Traveller! Captain a futuristic Starship in Steve Jackson's classic sci-fi RPG gamebook!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 45%, Adventure 24.9%, Indie 16.9%, Sci-fi 13.1%
- #10 Malvin`s Prehistoric Adventures
91% matchMixed67% of 12 reviews2020
Dev: Basic Sloth
Windows
Visit the different eras, resist weather conditions, solve the puzzles, meet the spirits of the time, not all of whom will be happy to help. And collect all artifacts, because Danny can`t do it alone.
Why similar: Time Travel 56.9% ★, Adventure 25.1%, Indie 18%
- #11 Sexbot II: Recalibrated
87% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Llamamann Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Sequel to Sexbot, now in development.
Why similar: Time Travel 33.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Adventure 9.2%, Casual 8.7%
- #12 Appointment with FEAR (Standalone)
90% matchMixed57% of 106 reviews2014
Dev: Tin Man Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
YOU are Titan City's resident superhero in this interactive graphic novel! Fight crime and solve clues to discover FEAR's fiendish plot!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 37.1%, Interactive Fiction 31.1%, Adventure 18.5%, Indie 13.3%
- #13 The Pizza Delivery Boy Who Saved the World
88% matchPositive97% of 30 reviews2018
Dev: Oh, a Rock! Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A semi-autobiographical game about pizza and the time-travelers who make it.
Why similar: Time Travel 50.5% ★, Indie 18%, Casual 15.8%, Adventure 15.7%
- #14 Project Graviton
89% matchMixed63% of 24 reviews2016
Dev: Enter Main Loop
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
About Project Graviton"Project Graviton" is a platformer game in which users will control the character Bob, whom after stumbling into a secret section of his workplace, gains possession of a Gravity Suit and learns of its capabilities.
Why similar: Adventure 36.9%, Casual 35.5%, Indie 27.7%
- #15 Meanwhile: An Interactive Comic Book
86% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2018
Dev: Zarfhome Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
An experimental mind-reading helmet, a time machine, and a doomsday device that can annihilate the human race. Which one would you like to test out first? The classic choose-your-path comic book by Jason Shiga.
Why similar: Time Travel 39.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Adventure 6.5%, Indie 3.8%
- #16 The Wolf's Bite
85% matchVery Positive88% of 58 reviews2017
Dev: Eric Bernier
Windows · Mac
The Wolf's Bite is a one-versus-one choose-your-own-adventure game with an entrepreneur fairy tale twist. Inspired by stories such as "The Three Little Pigs" and "The Stinky Cheeseman and Other Fairly Stupid Tales", the game revolves around thwarting the other player while ensuring your business thrives.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.5%, Adventure 24.4%, Casual 23.1%, Indie 19.1%
- #17 Me and myself
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 25 reviews2020
Dev: BarneyJiaPub: 腾讯游戏学院
Windows
Lily, a little girl who lost her parents in a car accident, lives in a big empty house. She really wants to have a friend with whom she could pass the tough time. One day, she finally get a friend, from mirror...
Why similar: Time Travel 54.7% ★, Adventure 26.4%, Indie 18.9%
- #18 Life of a Mercenary
82% matchPositive86% of 14 reviews2020
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lead a mercenary company seeking fame and fortune. Be honorable and help defend the kingdom or take contracts to those who pay the most. Rise to the top of the mercenary chain in this medieval story based around the events of The Great Tournament.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Adventure 19.8%, Casual 18.7%, Indie 14.6%
- #19 The Vigilante
78% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Nexus Media
Windows
The Vigilante is a gripping interactive graphic novel where your choices shape the story. Hunt a deadly drug lord and serial killer. Every decision matters—some lead to new paths, others to your demise. With branching storylines and multiple endings, choose your fate and live with it.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28%, Adventure 20.1%, Casual 16.8%, Indie 4.7%
- #20 To Be or Not To Be
82% matchVery Positive90% of 296 reviews2015
Dev: Tin Man Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Guide Hamlet, Ophelia and Hamlet Sr. to hundreds of hilarious deaths in Ryan North's chooseable-path edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 42.5%, Adventure 17.2%, Casual 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Indie 12%
- #21 Stupid Stories
80% matchPositive94% of 18 reviews2020
Dev: Mo
Windows
Stupid Stories - A 2D adventure. Travel through time and relive your grandfather's exciting adventures, or at least how he remembers them.
Why similar: Time Travel 52.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Casual 8.2%, Adventure 8.2%, Indie 5.4%
- #22 Hostile Dimension
83% matchMixed42% of 26 reviews2015
Dev: Alrauna StudiosPub: Play sp. z o. o.
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Defend your space flagship from hordes of alien fighters.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #23 Epanalepsis
81% matchMixed70% of 33 reviews2015
Dev: Cameron Kunzelman
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Epanalepsis is a narrative-focused adventure game that tells a story about those connections across sixty years and beyond that pays equal homage to New Wave science fiction, cyberpunk dystopian stories, and the art cinema of the early 1990s.
Why similar: Time Travel 58.7% ★, Adventure 24.1%, Indie 17.3%
- #24 Arclight Cascade
81% matchVery Positive85% of 55 reviews2015
Dev: Hexdragonal Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 94%
In the Arclight Arena, you fend off Glass Drones and other Player Pilots by swiping and slashing them away in glorious 4-way Sabre clashing combat!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #25 Legend of Cozar
73% 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 33.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.7%, Adventure 20.2%, Casual 11.4%, Indie 4.7%
- #26 Time Travel Trainer
79% matchNo user reviews2019
Dev: Time Travel Trainer
Windows
It’s time for time travel! Master the complexities of fourth dimensional thinking to succeed in this indie 2d puzzle game.
Why similar: Time Travel 64.2% ★, Indie 20.3%, Sci-fi 15.5%
- #27 Return NULL - Episode 1
79% matchMixed60% of 113 reviews2015
Dev: Michael LückgenPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Return NULL, a Point & Click Adventure, is set in a distant dystopian society under an oppressive force where you play the role of Jack Drebin; husband and soon to be father whose life is on the verge of chaos. Episode 1 sets up key characters and a plot that escalates into an intense finale.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 73.7%, Indie 16.2%, Adventure 10.1%
- #28 Scott in Space
78% matchMixed46% of 65 reviews2015
Dev: Ragiva Games e.K.
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Scott in Space is a stylizied action platformer about the epic adventure of a lone guinea pig in space. Prove your guinea pig platformer skills and defeat the evil Rhino Empire!
Why similar: Adventure 36%, Casual 34.6%, Indie 29.4%
- #29 DESOPE
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Celephais Seeker Division
Windows · Mac · Linux
Mechanical ghosts hide in the fog and the summer sky prays to collapse. Like a broken tape, do you still remember your name?
Why similar: Time Travel 48.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Adventure 8%, Indie 5.1%
- #30 Catorize
77% matchMostly Negative30% of 20 reviews2015
Dev: Anima Locus
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Catorize is the game that is bound to carry you away to the magical world of the good and the bad where you will meet the main hero of the story. Find out how you can become a part of the greatest heroic event and help to make the world bright and cheerful place to live in!
Why similar: Indie 35.3%, Casual 32.5%, Adventure 32.3%
- #31 Scribble Space
77% matchMixed61% of 104 reviews2015
Dev: Coty GetzelmanPub: N/A
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Draw a ship, Fly it. Get creative.
Why similar: Casual 66.4%, Indie 33.6%
- #32 Black Sword
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nexus Media
Windows
Black Sword is a narrative-driven light RPG set in a dark fantasy world. Play as a lone knight on pilgrimage to plague-cursed Canterbury. Features turn-based combat, dice-roll skill checks, tactical targeting, vampiric abilities, exploration, and choice-driven storytelling.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.6%, Adventure 20.7%, Casual 17.3%, Indie 4.6%
- #33 Orbit HD
75% matchMixed58% of 89 reviews2015
Dev: Brainchild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Explore the cosmos as a comet, orbiting planets with a realistic gravity system and a backdrop of procedurally generated nebulae. Learn to use planetary gravity to your advantage, and relax in the ambience of space.
Why similar: Adventure 40.4%, Casual 38.1%, Indie 21.5%
- #34 PeriAreion
76% matchMostly Negative40% of 63 reviews2015
Dev: Explorasaurus Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Prepare for the ultimate test of survival! Do you have the skill necessary to build and manage the first sustainable extraterrestrial colony, or will your colonists become mere footnotes in the history of human space exploration? Their lives and legacies are in your hands!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #35 Re:Curse
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Elseth GamesPub: Papertrail Studios
Windows · Mac
A time-travel mystery visual novel about found-family, connections, and hope in dark times.
Why similar: Time Travel 51.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Casual 6.8%, Indie 2.7%
- #36 Stargazer
74% matchMixed68% of 117 reviews2015
Dev: John WizardPub: Amaranth Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
When stargazer Zach watches the sky one night, he sees a star fall and land in the nearby woods. He rushes to check it out, only to find that out the star was actually a girl, and with her, magic returns to the world.
- #37 Hush
75% matchMostly Negative30% of 44 reviews2015
Dev: Game Studio 78
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Surrounded by blood freezing phobias intent on absorbing her into oblivion
Why similar: Adventure 58.2%, Indie 41.8%
- #38 Letters From the Moon
68% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2022
Dev: Marvelous Spiral Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
In this sci-fi pick your own story game, you must help astronaut Dorothy Chen survive in a vast underground alien city beneath the moon's surface. She faces insane robots, mutant canines, starvation, and insanity inside the city of the Anthria. Whether she survives is up to YOU.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.9%, Interactive Fiction 31.6%, Sci-fi 17%, Adventure 10.5%, Indie 4%
- #39 The Great Perhaps
69% matchVery Positive81% of 838 reviews2019
Dev: Caligari GamesPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 71%
The Great Perhaps is a time travel puzzle game about an astronaut returning to Earth destroyed by natural cataclysms. There, among the ruins he finds an unusual artifact — an old lantern, in the light of which you can see glimpses of another time and travel to the past.
Why similar: Time Travel 48.7% ★, Adventure 16.1%, Casual 13%, Indie 11.1%, Sci-fi 11.1%
- #40 Timeways
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HannaHannaGames
Windows
Dive into 'Timeways', a riveting adventure where you control Elliot, a detective with the rare ability to warp time. Solve complex puzzles, uncover hidden secrets, and navigate through a world ripe with intrigue. Will you alter the course of history to uncover the truth?
Why similar: Time Travel 35.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 30.7%, Adventure 19.6%, Sci-fi 10.2%, Indie 4.1%
- #41 Swamp Castle
70% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2020
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are a newly appointed Lord in charge of a small castle. Manage your castle's finances, hire troops, resolve conflicts among the peasants, and bring order to the realm. Expand your power through war, diplomacy, or stealth. Whether you rise or fall is up to you in Swamp Castle.
Why similar: Adventure 24%, Casual 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Indie 17.2%
- #42 Age of Survival
64% matchVery Negative12% of 245 reviews2025
Dev: Silky Sullivan
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Age of Survival is survival simulation crafting game from Silky Sullivan. Your player has been stranded on an island not far off of the coast of Africa where you will encounter many creatures, and players alike.
Why similar: Adventure 61.7%, Indie 38.3%
- #43 SiTAS: Somewhere in time and space
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 6Magic Lab
Windows · Mac
Step into Farra’s shoes and begin a journey only you can understand. Collect topics, connect with others, and try to stop them from falling into the unknown. In a seemingly endless loop, move toward a fate waiting to be understood — and find yourself again.
Why similar: Time Travel 48.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Sci-fi 10.7%, Indie 3.1%
- #44 The Change Architect
69% 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 43.8%, Interactive Fiction 33.3%, Adventure 11.9%, Casual 6.3%, Indie 4.7%
- #45 Human Extinction Simulator
73% matchMostly Negative33% of 39 reviews2015
Dev: Machine 22
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Tactical turn-based space battles. Elaborate war strategies to prepare against the inevitable alien invasion.
Why similar: Sci-fi 55%, Indie 45%
- #46 CLOSED HANDS
67% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2021
Dev: PASSENGER
Windows · Mac · Linux
CLOSED HANDS is a groundbreaking work of interactive fiction that explores the tangled intertwined stories of five people thrown together by a fictional terror attack.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 33.6%, Adventure 22.7%, Indie 5.4%
- #47 Who Are You, Mr. Cooper?
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 18 reviews2019
Dev: The Last Fairy Tale
Windows · Linux
Who Are You, Mr Cooper? is a choose-your-own-adventure game in the steampunk genre. The unravelling of secrets, unexpected encounters, the assembling of various mechanisms, and all this is under a chasing by a bunch of criminals!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Adventure 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Casual 19.7%, Indie 15.4%
- #48 Wimp: Who Stole My Pants?
71% matchVery Positive82% of 56 reviews2015
Dev: FlexileStudio
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Go to catch the bad thief! Just explore in the awesome world!
Why similar: Adventure 38%, Casual 33.9%, Indie 28.1%
- #49 Shmadow
70% matchVery Positive82% of 200 reviews2015
Dev: Extrokold Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Inspired by “shmups” and shadows, Shmadow is a modern twin-stick side-scroller that nods to retro arcade gameplay. Use your light to blast through your enemies, unlock new powers, and defeat bosses before the darkness extinguishes you.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #50 Sentinel 4: Dark Star
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 63 reviews2015
Dev: Origin8 Technologies Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Want a tactical and strategic tower defense challenge that's packed with options and upgrades? Take command of the dropship Sentinel and do battle across a vibrant sci-fi world.
Why similar: Sci-fi 55.9%, Indie 44.1%
- #51 Ant War: Domination
71% matchMixed58% of 250 reviews2015
Dev: Anarchy Enterprises
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Emerge from the ant hill with a handful of ants and a dream... to conquer the world. Train your ants, manage their daily workload, and travel across the town in search of new land. Sharpen your pincers and be ready to fight everyone from beetles and slugs, to the town police and the army!
Why similar: Casual 49.4%, Indie 35.3%, Adventure 15.4%
- #52 Amygdala
72% matchMostly Negative31% of 36 reviews2015
Dev: MachineSpirit
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 97%
His body stolen by an angry wizard, an ordinary man must venture into a surreal and magical world. Facing off against a menagerie of foes and gruelling obstacles with his surprising mobility and psychic powers he discovers something important about himself and about goddamned wizards.
Why similar: Adventure 57%, Indie 43%
- #53 Deadnaut
69% matchMixed64% of 157 reviews2014
Dev: Screwfly Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Deadnaut is Screwfly Studios' second game and follow up to cult hit, Zafehouse: Diaries. Deadnauts, so named because they’re unlikely to return, must explore, investigate and fight their way through the derelict ships of dead civilisations. Every mission is unique and no two locations are the same.
Why similar: Sci-fi 100%