- #1 Tower of the Ice Lich
97% 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: Text-Based 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Dark Comedy 8.7%
- #2 THE DAY THAT WASN'T
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: MAD Tribe Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Relive the same day without remembering it. Your choices feed four inner alter egos (Shadow, Mad, Alex, and Bully) — shaping reality, glitches, and one of 16 possible endings. The day repeats. Your mind doesn’t. Or does it?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Nonlinear 13.7%, Text-Based 12.1%
- #3 Dr. Kinderwood's Asylum
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Richday
Windows · Mac · Linux
Decide the fate of the son of a tailor and a witch doctor infected with an incurable disease in an interactive story with multiple endings depending on your actions.
Why similar: Nonlinear 17.3%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Text-Based 12.7%
- #4 Do 11
95% matchPositive81% of 26 reviews2021
Dev: SJR Team
Windows · Mac
Find a way out of the Do 11 app by doing missions that come from the mysterious Do 11 app. A choice awaits you to solve puzzles and change the fate of the protagonist. Escape the main character from the Do 11 app while savoring a profound worldview and intriguing story. An incredible twist awaits.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Text-Based 13.7%, Visual Novel 11.1%
- #5 Are We in Love?
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pretty Dark Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
"Are We in Love?" is a dark, choice-driven visual novel that questions love and family. There are no butterflies in your stomach, only the harsh reality of a chemical sting in your nostrils and the acrid aftertaste of vodka. No common route. Fully branched story.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 18.4%, Nonlinear 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Visual Novel 11%
- #6 Dorm Till Dawn
94% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: RB Ashton
Windows · Mac · Linux
Welcome to St Fiacre’s College for Women of Unreliable Size. Your new home. If you can survive your first night… Featuring 40,000 words of text and over 500 images, this heart-pumping visual novel journey will thrill fans of shrinking and giants alike!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Text-Based 12.7%, Visual Novel 10.6%
- #7 OMEA
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: AImmersive Pub: AImmersive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your words shape the adventure. Omea is a revolutionary AI-powered narrative game where your personal Game Master responds to everything you write. No menus, no limits. Just type and forge your own legend across fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, and beyond.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Text-Based 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Nonlinear 13.6%, Visual Novel 10.6%
- #8 All (Too) Good Things
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: YOWPY games
Windows
Your job is to make humanity happy. Observe the people living in your assigned district and make the best choices to ensure everyone's happiness.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Text-Based 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
- #9 Moonbriar
91% 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 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Dark Fantasy 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.8%
- #10 Dawn After Dusk
91% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Alexis Clay
Windows
Asylum simulator. An interactive fiction about schizophrenia and finding meaning after near-death, with Disco Elysium-style mechanics.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Dark Comedy 17%, Choices Matter 8.9%
- #11 The Curse of the Horny Ghost
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Fantasy Games
Windows
You arrive at a cursed island with three friends, but a very horny ghost woman lives there who wants to use you as toys. Live different supernatural sex stories and find out how to break the island's curse... or stay and belong to the ghost forever.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Choices Matter 6.4%, Nudity 6.3%
- #12 The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Verse and Vision
Windows
A narrative-driven psychological visual novel where every floor of an elevator reveals a key moment from your past. Face your regrets, uncover forgotten memories, and make choices that shape your future. Will you find closure, or remain trapped in your own mind?
Why similar: Text-Based 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Multiple Endings 11.6%
- #13 HimeYoku: A Sacrifice of Lust and Grace
89% matchVery Positive91% of 198 reviews2022
Dev: Escu:dePub: Shiravune
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Hell-bent on vengeance, Caldo single-handedly topples the royal throne of Solide, capturing the king and the princess and working their ruin through his dark contracts with demons. A visual novel about hate and revenge... and possibly redemption.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Text-Based 13.8%, Dark Fantasy 12.7%, Visual Novel 9.4%
- #14 Serania - Path of the Scion
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FableTree Productions
Windows · Mac
Choose, explore, interact, fight, solve, gather, trade! Rise to rebel in this immersive text-based fantasy story that seamlessly merges the best elements of RPGs, choose-your-own-adventure stories, visual novels, and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Nonlinear 12.4%
- #15 TOY BOX
87% matchVery Positive86% of 51 reviews2024
Dev: DEADline Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Text-Based 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Visual Novel 11.6%
- #16 HUMAN INTELLIGENCE
86% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews
Dev: HamsulT
Windows
Spend ten days answering customers as the human behind a supposedly automated AI. Choose the exact reply you can live with as everyday requests turn invasive, deceptive, and impossible. Your words stay on record. When the contract ends, someone has to take responsibility.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Text-Based 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Visual Novel 11.5%
- #17 Five Biggest Accomplishments
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Assembling Chickens GamesPub: Fennonauts
Windows · Mac · Linux
Five Biggest Accomplishments is a short Visual Novel where you play as someone who has held the same job for 30 years: push a button every 8 hours or the world will end. Suddenly, you get an email asking you to list your five biggest accomplishments for the week, or risk being fired.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.3%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Nonlinear 12.2%, Text-Based 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%
- #18 Scribe
85% matchPositive89% of 33 reviews2024
Dev: TalesBar
Windows
Scribe is a scribe simulator in which you can secretly shape the destinies of the inhabitants of the estate: resolve disputes, influence the course of family intrigues, decide who lives and who does not. Choose what to write in letters and whether to change their recipients!
Why similar: Text-Based 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Choices Matter 9.8%
- #19 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
84% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Infinite Zone
Windows
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Text-Based 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Choices Matter 7.7%
- #20 The Zoo
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: R ButtonPub: Hierarch Games
Windows · Mac
You've had the same dream all week: a school field trip to a zoo you can't leave, where the lions always find you in the end. Wander the zoo exhibits, make your choices, and search for the way out. A short, hand-painted interactive story about a recurring dream, and finally resolving it.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Text-Based 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.2%
- #21 呪霊が見せる夢 / Dreamscapes
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: アイエダゲームズ(Aieda Games)
Windows
Investigate six haunted properties and listen to the voices of spirits trapped in nightmares. Collect fragmented clues and discover the correct combination of names, locations, and vessels. A multi-ending horror adventure where the outcome changes depending on your choices during the ritual.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Text-Based 17.1%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
- #22 B.E.S.T
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 485 reviews2025
Dev: DolylaPub: Dolydev
Windows · Mac · Linux
B.E.S.T is an adult visual novel where romance, competition, and betrayal intertwine. 100 participants. $500,000 at stake: who will you trust? Make your choices, build your relationships, seduce or betray… and become the last one standing.
Why similar: Visual Novel 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Nonlinear 11.7%, Text-Based 10.8%, Nudity 9.7%
- #23 NTR Clinic
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Tryst
Windows
At a hospital built to repair relationships, Dr. Ryo Kurose can only respond to women who already have partners. Choose his day and night visits, uncover varied endings across four interwoven routes, and experience 70+ H-scene CGs and animations with full Japanese voice acting.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Dark Comedy 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Nudity 6.1%
- #24 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
81% matchVery Positive88% of 13,129 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Choices Matter 17.8%, Text-Based 15.5%, Visual Novel 12.3%
- #25 Horny Academy
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wet Ink
Windows
Horny Academy is an adult visual novel that blends interactive storytelling with a deep, branching narrative. Every choice you make leads to steamy animated scenes or unexpected twists within the mysterious walls of the magical Academy
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Text-Based 17%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Nonlinear 10.6%
- #26 Whispers From The Rift
80% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Interdimensional Games Inc
Windows
A choose-your-own-adventure novel. Enter the mind of a black-ops team leader heading an impossible mission in a parallel universe. Choices are remembered, story events reflect past decisions, and freely rewind time to try different paths.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Text-Based 20.3%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Choices Matter 9.7%
- #27 The Specter's Desire
79% matchVery Positive98% of 56 reviews2024
Dev: Themisian
Windows · Mac
This year's Desire Hierarchy has begun. The stakes are now deadly. Hop into The Specter's Desire, a Visual Novel in which you play against the city's top talents to save your parents. Includes puzzling gameplay that has you tearing down arguments, hatching schemes, and revealing the truth!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Text-Based 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 12.2%
- #28 Wildwake
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonhaze Games
Windows
Stranded after a plane crash in a freezing wilderness, you must manage body temperature, injury, and sanity as every decision shapes your survival.
Why similar: Nonlinear 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Text-Based 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.7%
- #29 Monsters of Little Haven
79% matchVery Positive88% of 446 reviews2019
Dev: Nikita Igorevich Studio
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 66%
At the heart of the action are a twelve-year-old Kenneth and his younger sister Esme, children of the Murphy family, who hit the trail of a mysterious monster following series of entangled events.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.7%, Nonlinear 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Choices Matter 8.5%
- #30 Fixer's Tale
78% matchPositive90% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Emblem Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A humorous sci-fi text-driven adventure where you play a support engineer sent to fix system failures in a secret research complex. Explore strange labs, investigate bizarre incidents, solve absurd problems, talk to depressed robots, and make choices that lead to multiple endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.2%, Nonlinear 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.8%
- #31 Mass of Consumption
77% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Wayward Woyrm Games
Windows
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Text-Based 13.7%, Choices Matter 8.8%
- #32 You are a Failed Murderer
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rambi_PorkChop
Windows
A visual novel passed through an image compressor Play as a murderer unsure of their entire life, down to their name. But you have a mission. One you NEED to undertake.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Abstract 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Dark Comedy 11.5%
- #33 Villienville. Echoes of Deception
76% matchPositive80% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: JAD Labs
Windows · Mac
A text role-playing game about the fate of a mercenary who finds himself in the strange village: Villienville. Investigate who benefits from the sudden appearance of “ghosts” and help residents protect their homes from a mysterious enemy. The main thing is not to make a mistake in your choice!
Why similar: Text-Based 18.3%, Nonlinear 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Visual Novel 10.4%
- #34 Legends of Savvarah: Time of Pariah
75% matchVery Positive95% of 154 reviews2024
Dev: ST Sinovar
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are Hidu, a beastman mercenary in a port city. You must survive one very bad day. How? That’s entirely up to you. There are countless ways for events to unfold — and 25 endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Nonlinear 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.2%
- #35 Grim's Gambit
75% matchPositive100% of 22 reviews2024
Dev: Christopher Baboolal
Windows · Mac
Get ready for a tale where every cup poured is a step closer to unraveling the mysteries that bind the afterlife. Take on a soul-stirring quest as you serve lost souls, piece together your forgotten past, and unveil the chilling secrets of the Stygian Keep.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.8%, Dark Comedy 20.3%, Dark Fantasy 12%, Nonlinear 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
- #36 The Way Down
74% matchPositive95% of 42 reviews2024
Dev: Samuel Leigh
Windows
Absurdist Interactive fiction. Talk to the beings that inhabitant the world at its end. We forgot how to die.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Text-Based 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.4%
- #37 キズツケ kizutsuke
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 852話
Windows
To escape, you must hurt someone. KIZUTSUKE is a psychological suspense visual novel about four young men trapped together. Read their conversations, make difficult choices, and discover four endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Text-Based 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Choices Matter 8.3%
- #38 Border of her Heart
76% matchMixed67% of 73 reviews2018
Dev: Tuomo LainePub: Tuomo's games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Border of her Heart is a VN about Border control.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Text-Based 15.2%, Nonlinear 12.2%, Visual Novel 12%
- #39 Odysseus: Homecoming
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Luca Games
Windows
Become Odysseus, the king who brought down Troy, and survive the cursed voyage home. Every choice is remembered, and every death becomes a clue for your next attempt. A narrative survival adventure with no hidden dice — where even your first instincts are woven into the song.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Text-Based 12.2%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
- #40 Where are you, Cinderella?
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KimiNako
Windows · Linux
Where are you, Cinderella? is a visual novel about Vietnamese culture and the world of entertainment. Will you be able to find the lost shoe’s owner? Or, will you find your shoe?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Text-Based 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
- #41 Jessica's Plight
73% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: FlimsyLegs
Windows · Mac
Play as Jessica in this adult visual novel, where you land into all sorts of kinky trouble at the office!
Why similar: Text-Based 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Nonlinear 13.2%, Nudity 9%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
- #42 Bear With Me: The Pizza Chronicles (Prequel)
71% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Klemen Vrhovšek
Windows · Linux
You and your friend hear a scream in the woods, run toward it, and meet a very angry bear. One choice decides everything. Will you run, panic, throw a rock, or order pizza? Discover all 14 endings in this fully voice-acted dark comedy.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 30.6%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Multiple Endings 12.1%
- #43 The Hotel
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rebelradio Creative
Windows
Explore a strange, liminal hotel full of untrustworthy patrons in an old-school text adventure. Collect tokens and trinkets, and try to take down the Boss - while avoiding the guts of over 100 hungry guests...
Why similar: Text-Based 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Nudity 12.4%, Sexual Content 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%
- #44 Legends of Savvarah: Flowers and Scorpions
70% matchVery Positive96% of 104 reviews2026
Dev: ST Sinovar
Windows · Mac
You are Nikaria. An agent of a mysterious god, sent to another country. Does the end justify the means? Is the will of the god above the law? Is the death of a non-believer insignificant? The decision is yours alone.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Nonlinear 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
- #45 Trapped with Jester
71% matchVery Positive94% of 1,595 reviews2022
Dev: AntaPub: Neoclassic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
An unusual horror-themed Visual Novel about waking up in a carriage with a stranger… Whatever could go wrong?
Why similar: Dark Comedy 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Text-Based 14.5%, Visual Novel 12.1%
- #46 Tayke Me With You
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Foccelized Studios
Windows · Linux
Tayke Me With You is a visual novel about high school seniors and their struggles with each other and the world around them. You play as Gene, a sheltered, socially naive human from the city as he acclimates to living in a rural town filled with dinosaurs, finding friends (and love) along the way.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Text-Based 16.9%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Multiple Endings 12.4%
- #47 Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,036 reviews2026
Dev: Laplacian
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A mystery visual novel where horror meets occult comedy. Follow Kugayama Shiori, a ghost who casually dies over and over as she searches for her cause of death and the regrets that bind her to this world. Her investigation will eventually lead to a single incident—and the truth behind her demise.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Text-Based 16.2%, Cinematic 11.1%
- #48 I Feel Fine
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Secret Lab
Windows · Mac · Linux
The meteorite will hit your space station in 3 days, and you’re bolted to the floor. Can you convince someone to free you? Meet, persuade, and escape certain doom with a large cast of characters in this bittersweet and hilarious adventure game!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Nonlinear 12%, Visual Novel 11.8%
- #49 The Wake of the Wyrm
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A crown upon your head, danger all around. Rule, marry, scheme, raise heirs, wage wars, fulfill prophecies, and survive the waking Wyrm. An interactive text-based dark fantasy novel, 850,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Text-Based 26%, Interactive Fiction 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Dark Fantasy 8.7%
- #50 1453: Fall of Constantinople
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 3Cats Studio
Windows · Mac
Constantinople, 1453. Four witnesses — a janissary, a baker's daughter, an engineer, a noble — live the same 53 days of the siege. Choices cross between their stories, and the city remembers. An illustrated, choice-driven historical novel where every ending is someone's truth.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Text-Based 18.6%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Choices Matter 7.6%
- #51 Jessica's Choices - Forced [Episode 1]
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DoAdventures
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your story continues right where Origins left off. Whether Jessica finds herself wandering the streets alone, caught in George’s web of deceit, or trapped in the unsettling confines of Margaret Thatuals under Professor Trounch’s watchful gaze and the orderlies, every choice matters.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Multiple Endings 12%, Choices Matter 8.3%
- #52 狂信ちゃん
70% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: アルティネット
Windows
It is a multi-ending novel game depicting the fan of VTuber "Toaru" "Hinade-chan" and "I" go to an off-line meeting and finish the off-line meeting.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Visual Novel 22.9%, Text-Based 16.6%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Simulation 9.5%
- #53 Witch's Last Curse
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Granitefire Games
Windows
A fantasy RPG about saving a medieval town from a spreading curse as the Witch's Apprentice. Spend your limited daily actions investigating secrets, earning the trust of townsfolk, discovering the ingredients your ritual actually needs, and holding back the thorns before time runs out.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Text-Based 16.3%, Dark Fantasy 13%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
- #54 Nanma, A Tecelã das Sombras
68% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Dark Fantasy 15.1%, Text-Based 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.7%
- #55 Roll Value
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: = tale(JK, 3)
Windows
Your choices reveal what you value. Guide three adventurers through a kingdom in crisis, deciding whom to protect as its population and army decline. Character traits and dice shape the outcome, while every decision builds a five-principle value profile revealed at the end of your journey.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Text-Based 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Nonlinear 13.3%, Choices Matter 12.6%
- #56 Dorm Till Dawn 2
67% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: RB Ashton
Windows · Mac · Linux
Can you survive a night in St Fiacre's at tiny size? This feature-length interactive visual novel returns to the world of Sensus Supra, with better visuals, dozens of animations, more complex puzzles and even more dangerous giantesses hunting for your blood. Every action has consequences...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Dark Comedy 18.2%, Text-Based 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Visual Novel 12.2%
- #57 Will Die Alone
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 67 reviews2022
Dev: Arianna Ravioli
Windows · Mac
Some memories aren't meant to stay. We are our memories and our experiences. What happens if you delete some of them? If you change your past and, thus, your future?
Why similar: Text-Based 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
- #58 The Portal Pirate
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ZizihPub: Zizih Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A sound, a flash, a portal… A pirate emerges, bringing a deadly threat. Five friends stand before him, and one of them is the target. But which one? Even they don't know.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Nonlinear 10.4%
- #59 Ostera : The curse of...
66% matchPositive91% of 34 reviews2025
Dev: Profits Troll Studio
Windows
Welcome to Ostera: The curse of... Join the Adventure! Shape Your Destiny, Kiss Rats, and Slap Kids!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 20.8%, Text-Based 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Visual Novel 11.2%
- #60 The Secret Of Greenwood Isle
65% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: SaynePub: Sayne Interactive
Windows
A story-driven mystery visual novel set in a remote island village. Gather clues through conversations and exploration, and uncover hidden truths through branching routes and multiple endings amid the tense, claustrophobic atmosphere.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Multiple Endings 9.2%