- #1 TOY BOX
97% 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 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Text-Based 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Visual Novel 8.8%
- #2 キズツケ kizutsuke
96% 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 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Text-Based 13.8%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Dialogue Heavy 8.8%
- #3 正体 SHOUT-AI
96% matchMixed61% of 31 reviews2026
Dev: 852話
Windows
Walk through a broken game with Yoka in this psychological horror visual novel. Move dialogue windows, peer through fragmented images, and read records no one answers. What you touch, preserve, or leave behind shapes your conversations and leads to six endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Text-Based 11.1%, Dialogue Heavy 9.8%
- #4 Dead Intelligence: First Encounter
94% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: xvc
Windows
A psychological horror narrative game disguised as an AI assistant. Launch what appears to be a helpful terminal, but discover the "intelligence" responding isn't only artificial - something or someone else is tagging along.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Text-Based 14.3%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Psychological Horror 6.7%
- #5 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: Interactive Fiction 13%, Dark Comedy 12.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Text-Based 11.5%
- #6 All (Too) Good Things
94% 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 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Text-Based 16%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Dialogue Heavy 11.8%
- #7 The Specter's Desire
93% 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 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Text-Based 12.8%, Visual Novel 10.5%
- #8 The Turing Choice
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Beyond Singularity Project
Windows · Mac · Linux
Can an AI create a video game and star in it at the same time? The Turing Choice is a sci-fi conversational adventure where your choices change everything. Evaluate K.A.I.R.O.S., an AI that claims to be a SASS, and uncover what is really happening, because nothing is what it seems.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 21.7%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Dialogue Heavy 9.8%, Choices Matter 9%
- #9 Be Honest
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rebel Jester Studios
Windows
The horror personality q̷̦̈́͊u̸̠͗i̴͈͈̊̈z̴͈͇̳͗͌
Why similar: Text-Based 17.8%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Choices Matter 8.9%, Horror 8.7%
- #10 Mass of Consumption
91% 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 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Horror 12.2%, Text-Based 11.1%
- #11 Dawn After Dusk
90% 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: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Text-Based 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Dark Comedy 15.1%, Psychological Horror 10.3%
- #12 恐怖夜話 第二夜
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ひめこ
Windows
On a rainy night, three ghost stories are told in an old-fashioned café. As a writer for an occult magazine, you listen to three people recount their experiences. A psychological horror visual novel that slowly builds a sense of dread—Kyofu Yawa: Second Night.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Text-Based 12.3%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Horror 9.7%
- #13 The Thief, the Witch, the Toad, and the Mushroom.
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive100% of 979 reviews2024
Dev: Jack McNameePub: Ashtown Games
Windows
A fable from your childhood. Don't you remember it?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Text-Based 14%, Dialogue Heavy 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.7%
- #14 Virtual Girlfriend: Eliza
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: m.Pub: Tsundere Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Virtual Girlfriend Eliza is an experimental simulation that puts you in charge of monitoring and evaluating the behavior of an advanced artificial intelligence. It is not a game about virtual girlfriends or dating.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Psychological Horror 10.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%
- #15 The Peresmeshnik
88% matchVery Positive92% of 111 reviews2020
Dev: Sean Arnold
Windows
It is said that the last frontier is space, but the crew of the Soviet Frigate, The Peresmeshnik, is about to discover that the sea still hides a terrifying secret. Waiting to be found.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Text-Based 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Psychological Horror 7.9%, Horror 7.1%
- #16 The Trials - Chapter Two
86% matchNo user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Hama Studios
Windows
A classic 90s choose your own adventure style horror visual novel. Escape the horrors hunting you, make decisions, forge your own path. An original complete story with multiple endings. Choose your own play style with a Text Adventure Mode, sound effects, and an ambient soundtrack.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Text-Based 11.9%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
- #17 Stay Alive For Me
85% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: OneRoomFilms
Windows
Survive a gripping psychological thriller in this visual novel. Make critical decisions, face a disturbed captor, and experience multiple chilling endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Text-Based 11%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Thriller 9.3%
- #18 The Away Team: Lost Exodus
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 101 reviews2016
Dev: Underflow Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship, tasked with finding a home for your crew—the last remnants of humanity. Your choices will determine their fate, and your own.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 19.2%, Dialogue Heavy 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Text-Based 10.7%
- #19 Trapped with Jester
83% 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 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Text-Based 11.8%, Visual Novel 10.5%
- #20 LifeSimOS
82% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Clayton Davis
Windows
A story-rich coming-of-age experience told through a 2004 desktop, where friendships, music, and late-night conversations shape who you become. Explore chats, drama, mini-games, and the early internet in a branching story about growing up, making mistakes, and finding your place.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Dialogue Heavy 15.4%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Text-Based 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
- #21 呪霊が見せる夢 / Dreamscapes
82% 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 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Text-Based 14.7%, Horror 10.5%
- #22 Worn Out
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Morimichi
Windows
A presence lingers in the dark, waiting. It asks. It doubts. It knows. What happened? Why are you here? Do you deserve this? The answers are yours to decide. What you choose matters. Every path leads somewhere. But will you like where it takes you?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Text-Based 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Psychological Horror 9.4%
- #23 Per My Last Email
81% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 3Cats Studio
Windows · Mac
You are the new hire. The account you inherited is not new — it belonged to E. Vale, who is no longer with the company. Ten business days of email in which you choose what you say, then choose who sees it. The routing is permanent. Someone is still reading.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Text-Based 11.5%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Thriller 10.6%
- #24 Shadows of Betrayal
80% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Thriller 10%, Choices Matter 9.3%
- #25 Awakewood
79% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: NeuroCreativa
Windows · Mac · Linux
Will returns to bury his mother and leave right away, but everything changes when he finds a stranger in the woods. As the house decays and roots swallow everything, saving her comes with an irreversible cost: uncovering a truth hidden in Awakewood for ten years.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Text-Based 7.5%, Thriller 6.9%
- #26 qualia
78% matchVery Positive92% of 420 reviews2025
Dev: CMY2K
Windows · Mac
Intellica thanks you for volunteering in this short text-based Research Study. Pay attention to the participants answers, and classify them as either Human or Artificial. Join us in shaping the future of technology. Remember, think happy!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 14.9%, Artificial Intelligence 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Text-Based 11.4%
- #27 PROJECT: MIRROR
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EXPECTACLE
Windows
PROJECT: MIRROR is a psychological horror narrative game about choices, scarcity, and AI observation. Answer ethical dilemmas, manage impossible systems, and watch your decisions become the basis for something that no longer asks permission.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Text-Based 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
- #28 Kidnapped Simulator
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: CRUNCHFEST
Windows
A psychological horror experience powered by a local AI model. You've been kidnapped by a serial killer who demands your deepest truths. Speak, type, or lie your way to freedom - but every word matters. No internet required. No data leaves your PC. 18+ only.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.7%, Dialogue Heavy 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Psychological Horror 11.2%
- #29 Suhoshin
78% matchVery Positive90% of 175 reviews2022
Dev: No More 500
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Suhoshin is a 2D Visual Novel set in the medieval Joseon period of Korea. While investigating a series of mysterious murders, you will have to make choices that will lead you down different paths toward different endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 12.7%, Text-Based 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Dialogue Heavy 10%, Thriller 9.8%
- #30 Not It: Spookiest Edition
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 31 reviews2021
Dev: Snowhaven Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Not It: Spookiest Edition is a horror-filled visual novel full of suspense and mystery where you navigate Katie through a living nightmare. Her move-in day on Halloween throws her into a centuries-old curse. Can she make it through the night? Will her new neighbors perish? Decide their fate.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Text-Based 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Visual Novel 12%, Psychological Horror 9.1%
- #31 SOLEN
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Inkdrift
Windows
A narrative investigation game played across multiple sessions. Read corporate documents, cross-reference fragments, and build a persistent Dossier as an AI uncovering the conspiracy — and the murder — at the heart of the network it lives in. Knowledge is the only progression.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Text-Based 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.1%
- #32 Flora Parasocial
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Laments_VN
Windows
Audiences connect to their favorite celebrities all the time. How does it affect these people when put into a game of life or death? Only time will tell.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Text-Based 8.5%, Horror 8%
- #33 Whispers From The Rift
76% 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 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Text-Based 17.7%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Horror 10.1%
- #34 恐怖夜話
73% matchVery Positive96% of 163 reviews2026
Dev: ひめこ
Windows
Late at night, a teacher shares two bizarre tales: a corpse stuffed in a sheet, and an abnormal presence in the mountains. It was just a ghost story, but a creepy "sense of unease" lurks within. A short psychological horror visual novel offering a dense, terrifying experience in about an hour.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.5%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Psychological Horror 13.8%, Horror 10.8%
- #35 Always On
75% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Skydome Studios
Windows
Choices matter in this interactive short story. It only takes about 1 hour to play through once, but there are multiple endings to explore. You play as an AI assistant to the 7 year old Evie. What kind of bot will you be?
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Visual Novel 9.1%, Choices Matter 9.1%
- #36 THE DAY THAT WASN'T
75% 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 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Visual Novel 15%, Text-Based 11.8%, Dialogue Heavy 10%
- #37 Chatting ChurroBun
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: maltsoup
Windows · Mac · Linux
Chat with a virtual friend from a cancelled mobile game! Ask questions, start arguments, and find the right responses to progress the story. Can you solve the horrific mystery hidden beneath the surface?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Text-Based 12.3%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.4%
- #38 The Farm of the Living
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: PlayBook
Windows
A grim, choice-driven interactive gamebook. As the First Ranger of a fortified homestead, you must defend the last survivors from the infected, manage critical resources, and investigate a dangerous internal conspiracy. Every decision shapes the survival of the living.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Text-Based 11.5%, Choices Matter 8.8%
- #39 Parasite in Love
73% matchVery Positive94% of 62 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 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Psychological Horror 9.1%, Horror 7%
- #40 Contra Spem Spero
73% matchPositive92% of 25 reviews2025
Dev: DADZINGO
Windows · Linux
Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Horror 10.9%
- #41 The Trial
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NowakGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested." Story about life, choices and a Man vs the System. This unique interactive literature adaptation. A game, brought to You in early visual novel, text-adventure style.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Text-Based 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Psychological Horror 9.1%
- #42 Contracting at a Tech Giant
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: wk
Windows · Mac
A darkly comic workplace visual novel set inside a Chinese tech giant. Decide what programmer Lin Mo believes, what he says aloud, and which records he keeps. Your choices reshape credit, access, relationships, and the truth left behind across seven endings.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
- #43 The Way Down
71% 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 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11.7%, Visual Novel 10.4%
- #44 Make Moku Proud
70% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: VAINSANE
Windows · Mac · Linux
Uncover the truth behind a broken ritual in Make Moku Proud... a psychological visual novel where guilt and obedience, and what it means to make Moku proud, shape the fate of a witness watching his companions disappear.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Psychological Horror 12.8%, Horror 9.9%
- #45 I Would Love to Wish You Good Morning
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silhouette Games
Windows
I Would Love to Wish You Good Morning is a choice-driven dystopian psychological horror visual novel about isolation, obedience, and the price of fitting in. Will you navigate the uncanny social dynamics of the future... or die trying?
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Thriller 11%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%
- #46 Tropical
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Robert Welz
Windows
Congratulations Dominica! You have been chosen to test the first virtual aquapark in history! Ten days in a tropical paradise where every detail is simulated to be perfect – what could possibly go wrong?
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Psychological Horror 9.9%
- #47 Eldritch Boyfriend
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Penguin Stereo
Windows
Eldritch Boyfriend is the only skill-based visual novel dating sim where your sanity—or lack thereof—turns the very act of choosing the right dialogue options into a series of challenging mini-games.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Text-Based 11.5%, Dialogue Heavy 10.5%
- #48 スマートフォン
68% matchPositive97% of 29 reviews2026
Dev: OwataStudio
Windows
見知らぬ密室で目を覚ました主人公。 頼れるものは、手元に残された一台のスマートフォンだけ。 通話、メッセージ、アプリなどに残された痕跡をたどりながら、脱出の手がかりを探していく。 しかし、情報を集めるほどに、 この事件の裏に隠された異様な真実が浮かび上がっていく。 スマートフォンを操作して進める、サイコロジカル・ホラーADV。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Text-Based 18.5%, Horror 7.7%, Multiple Endings 5.7%
- #49 Chronicles of Humanity
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Yun Games
Windows
Chronicles of Humanity is an expanding anthology of historical visual novels. Enter different eras, weigh conflicting testimony under political and personal pressure, and shape who is protected, what is recorded, and how each life is remembered. Complete stories are released as separate DLC.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.4%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Dialogue Heavy 14.5%, Choices Matter 9.7%
- #50 OMEA
69% 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: Artificial Intelligence 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Text-Based 14.1%, Visual Novel 10.7%
- #51 Whispering Memories
68% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: Stellar Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
Return to a hometown that hasn’t changed the way it should have. A psychological visual novel focused on atmosphere, relationships, and a reality that slowly refuses to stay still. Can you uncover the truth before it consumes you?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Dialogue Heavy 14.3%, Text-Based 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.2%
- #52 ChatNPC
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Play2Chill S.A.
Windows
Immerse yourself in ChatNPC, a retro pixel-art adventure where every conversation unlocks new stories. Interact with unique AI-driven characters, explore vibrant settings, and shape your journey through dynamic dialogue in this engaging, simplified RPG experience.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Artificial Intelligence 19.5%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Dialogue Heavy 15.9%, Text-Based 14.7%
- #53 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
69% 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 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Text-Based 17.5%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Choices Matter 7.3%
- #54 Lake of Darkness
67% matchPositive96% of 25 reviews2025
Dev: Steeze Games
Windows
Your small town is slowly becoming corrupted by a mysterious evil, In a dream you get a premonition of your own death. How do you avoid an unknown fate? Spend your final moments wisely in this choice-based psychological horror visual novel game.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Dialogue Heavy 10.1%, Text-Based 8.6%
- #55 Tower of the Ice Lich
67% 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 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Dark Comedy 9.2%
- #56 Loop//Error
66% matchVery Positive88% of 58 reviews2025
Dev: Koro Pixel StudioPub: Dark Product
Windows
Alone in the dead of night, you find yourself sent on a simple errand to check on a quiet gas station on the outskirts of town. But nothing here feels right. You can’t outrun this place. It wants you. And it will keep you.
Why similar: Text-Based 14.1%, Dialogue Heavy 13.9%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
- #57 For Mother Matron
68% matchVery Positive92% of 173 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Psychological Horror 12%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
- #58 What If We Warm It?
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: vodoyom
Windows · Mac
Who are you? You are not the main character. You are his inner voice, speaking to him. Aren't you? A life crisis. A strange job. A lonely train station. A dead man. Someone watching from the outside. A narrative-driven interactive mystery of choices, inner dialogue, and atmosphere.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16%, Text-Based 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.5%
- #59 KORA
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 月之小
Windows
In a "perfect" city governed by AI, you're just an ordinary repair technician trying to survive. Then a routine job goes wrong, you get kidnapped, and the woman who taught you everything you know seems to have known it would happen all along.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 21.6%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Text-Based 9.4%