- #1 Murders on the Yangtze River
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 20,567 reviews2024
Dev: OMEGAMES STUDIO
Windows · Mac
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
"Murders on Yangtze River" is an Ace Attorney-like detective game that takes you on a journey through early 20th century China as you solve a series of intriguing cases. Use your logical reasoning and deduction skills to uncover clues, interrogate suspects, and solve the mysteries.
Why similar: Detective 26%, Historical 22.7%, Story Rich 17.9%, RPG 10.4%, Adventure 10.4%
- #2 Vanity Fair: The Pursuit
96% matchVery Positive88% of 4,501 reviews2024
Dev: 木焱工作室Pub: Wave Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Players follow Lu Yuan through important stages of his life and experience his growth trajectory from youth to maturity. It will take you to relive those decisions that you have never tried to make in reality, and feel the different life brought about by each choice.
Why similar: Choices Matter 22.3%, RPG 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Story Rich 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.1%
- #3 Mohism: Battle of Words
95% matchMostly Positive78% of 607 reviews2023
Dev: 玄镜工作室Pub: Yooreka Studio
Windows
Mohism: Battle of Words is a detective game set in the world of wuxia. The game follows Zhang Xiaochen, investigates unsolved cases and comes into his own as a hero. He must rely on his wits and razor-sharp tongue to best his opponents, find the culprit and ensure justice prevails!
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.9%, Detective 22.9%, Story Rich 18.2%, Adventure 8.3%, Choices Matter 5.4%
- #4 Shanghai Summer
94% matchVery Positive90% of 450 reviews2024
Dev: FUTU StudioPub: Astrolabe Games
Windows
Shanghai Summer is an adventure game set in the millennium. Our protagonist, Baichuan, goes through a series of "anomalies" over the length of twelve days. In his pursuit of the truth, he found that his hopes and regrets from the past finally seem to converge. Will he be able to "fix" it for good?
Why similar: Multiple Endings 18%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Word Game 15%, Story Rich 12.3%
- #5 The Weeping Swan: Ten Days of the City's Fall
94% matchMixed59% of 8,400 reviews2026
Dev: 零创游戏(ZerocreationGame)
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 17.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A visual novel of brutal beauty and tragic love. You wake up trapped inside your own dark fantasy, Lion Camel Kingdom. To escape a ten-day demon massacre, you must survive and recover your memories to solve the mystery of a drowned Yangzhou courtesan.
Why similar: Historical 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Word Game 12.7%, Visual Novel 12%
- #6 Wandering Sword
93% matchVery Positive95% of 41,905 reviews2023
Dev: The Swordman StudioPub: Spiral Up Games
Windows
Median: 23.4 hrsMean: 42.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Wandering Sword is a Chinese martial-arts RPG where you play a young swordsman caught up in a feud and nearly dies. Escaping the event puts you on the path of pursuing the highest form of martial arts and exploring the pugilistic world to become the great hero you are always destined to be.
Why similar: RPG 55.5%, Story Rich 28.1%, Adventure 12%, Singleplayer 4.3%
- #7 Mandate Of Heaven
91% matchVery Positive92% of 5,892 reviews2025
Dev: 木焱工作室
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You will take on the role of the Second Prince of Xuan, heir of the Southern Regime. With foreign invaders entrenched in the north and a complacent court content to linger in the south, you face a defining choice:The choice… is yours!
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.9%, RPG 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
- #8 神都不良探 Underdog Detective
92% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,849 reviews2022
Dev: 天津芸芸科技有限公司
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Underdog Detective is a video-based playable, interactive story Set in the reign of Empress Wu Zetian of ancient China, you will play as a slum dweller in the imperial capital of Luoyang and embark on a thrilling yet comedic adventure! Traps and conspiracies, comradery and your unknown origin...
Why similar: Historical 21.4%, Choices Matter 16%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Visual Novel 12.2%, RPG 11.4%
- #9 A Perfect Day
91% matchVery Positive85% of 1,812 reviews2022
Dev: Perfect Day Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Revisit and repeat the final moments of China's turn of the century in this narrative puzzle adventure. Play a 6th-grade student and greet classmates, explore secrets, play mini-4WD, or just wander around town. Make your choices to create a perfect day for everyone!
Why similar: Choices Matter 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Multiple Endings 21.2%, Story Rich 14.9%, Adventure 8.7%
- #10 Breakout 13
90% matchVery Positive88% of 7,422 reviews2023
Dev: ALT Lab
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Breakout 13 is a thrilling narrative game with interactive cinematic experience. Based on true stories. Embark on a revealing journey as you attempt to break free from a negligent correctional institute and carve out your own path to justice. Each decision you make shapes the story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Detective 10.8%
- #11 Shui's Odyssey
89% matchVery Positive88% of 139 reviews2024
Dev: Intentional StudioPub: 2P Games
Windows
This is a puzzle game that combines text and images. Players use visual illusions to piece together fragments of memories from Alzheimer's patients, in order to reconstruct the truth of the story and witness the passage of time for three generations.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.8%, Word Game 22.7%, Historical 16.7%, Point & Click 11.9%, Adventure 10.2%
- #12 Minds Beneath Us
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,730 reviews2024
Dev: BearBoneStudio
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.
Why similar: Choices Matter 17.1%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, RPG 11.9%
- #13 蜀汉再临:源起 Restart ShuHan Dynasty:Origin
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 411 reviews2025
Dev: 浙江海蕊盈信网络科技有限公司
Windows
In the first Three Kingdoms-themed interactive movie game ‘Restart ShuHan Dynasty:Origin’, you take a role of an unlucky worker who time-travels to the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Faced with intricate storylines and the merciless twists of fate, you will personally experience a unique tale.
Why similar: Drama 18.9%, Historical 14.7%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%
- #14 THE VIG
87% matchVery Positive91% of 541 reviews2026
Dev: 亦盈文化
Windows
You'll be "Xie En", infiltrating the traitor's money empire. This urban hunt is a revenge saga where wit is your spear. Return as "Wu Wei," using rules as your shield in a world of grey. Will you choose love or vengeance? This lethal game of cash, betrayal and redemption awaits your move.
Why similar: RPG 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Drama 16.2%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Adventure 9%
- #15 The Three Kingdoms: Rebirth
86% matchVery Positive93% of 2,815 reviews2026
Dev: 玛奇阿朵互娱科技Pub: 凤麟工作室
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You, an ordinary modern person, cross into the Three Kingdoms. There you meet legendary heroes and beauties. Will you retreat with your love, or rise to conquer the land? Every choice rewrites history—or leads to your doom.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Choices Matter 16.6%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Multiple Endings 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%
- #16 再见断刀
85% matchVery Positive93% of 2,493 reviews2025
Dev: 非侠游戏Pub: LoveStoryProject
Windows
Median: 13.5 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
古风悬疑推理AVG《再见断刀》——在与世隔绝的山庄之中,接二连三地发生了骇人命案。只有通过细致入微的调查,抽丝剥茧的推理,才能定一个是非清白,还一个天理公道。 然而,在逐渐浮出水面的真相之下,似乎还有暗流涌动……
Why similar: Historical 17.5%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Multiple Endings 12%, Detective 10.9%
- #17 Game of Fate 2: A Century's Promise
86% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,232 reviews2025
Dev: KARMAGAME HK LIMITEDPub: EpicDream Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Transported back a century by fate, you find yourself in a legendary tale of vengeance. Amidst powerful enemies in a tumultuous era, your mission is to assist those around you. Experience this immersive epic from a first-person perspective—authentic, weighty, yet brimming with hope.
Why similar: Historical 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Multiple Endings 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, RPG 10.7%
- #18 Word Game
84% matchVery Positive94% of 6,324 reviews2022
Dev: Team9
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Word game is literally a game of words. Player controls "I" to find clues between lines, delete words to change the meaning of sentences, or shift words to rewrite facts. “I” must be wise and brave enough complete the mission of words. May the best "I” win!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Multiple Endings 20.5%, RPG 17.4%, Story Rich 14.8%, Word Game 13.1%
- #19 Miss Peacock
83% matchVery Positive100% of 86 reviews2026
Dev: Otter Club
Windows · Mac
Between 1930 and 1933, Lieutenant Chen, an ambitious Asian officer, travels to a remote mine in the mountains of French Indochina to investigate a decrease in mineral production. Various forces become entangled in the power play, revealing the truth amid diplomatic mediation and supernatural events.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.4%, RPG 16%, Historical 15.8%, Story Rich 12.4%, Detective 10.6%
- #20 Trials of Innocence
81% matchVery Positive93% of 1,658 reviews2025
Dev: 猫龙游戏
Windows
Median: 19.4 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Trials of Innocence is an indie courtroom detective game. Step into the shoes of the main character, rookie lawyer Luna Ray, and navigate her journey through the legal world. Unravel a shocking conspiracy that changes the fate of many, including herself, and confront her inner choices.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Detective 15.4%, Story Rich 11.9%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
- #21 Misty Judgment
81% matchVery Positive94% of 1,414 reviews2025
Dev: 次元边界
Windows
This is a suspense reasoning interactive work with real people. You will play the protagonist "Qi Yi", find evidence in a series of murders, piece together the truth, and find the ultimate murderer, all of which will lead you to an unpredictable future.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Detective 11.6%, Word Game 11.2%
- #22 The Rewinder
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 7,300 reviews2021
Dev: MistyMountainStudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
The Rewinder is an adventure puzzle game based on Chinese mythology. You play as Yun, the last known Rewinder, who can communicate with spirits and explore other people's memories to alter the past.
Why similar: Historical 22.9%, Detective 20.8%, Story Rich 14.5%, Point & Click 11.5%, Adventure 11.2%
- #23 栖云异梦
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 91 reviews2023
Dev: 炭焱网络 Tantrum NetworkPub: East2West Games
Windows
《栖云异梦》是一款由叙事驱动的指向点击冒险解谜游戏。在一次午后,主角方哲收到了一个包裹,其中的线索竟指向失踪多年的母亲。循环的梦魇、惊悚的哨音、多年前的来信...方哲为了解开真相踏上了一段奇异的冒险。剧场中的魅影、不为人知的密室、诡异的古村,梦境与现实交错,指引他步步逼近真相......
Why similar: Drama 25.4%, Detective 11%, Story Rich 10.3%, RPG 10.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%
- #24 Sinking The Boats
80% matchVery Positive97% of 63 reviews2025
Dev: 孟夏MengxiaPub: 糕薯科技
Windows
It's a choice-oriented story game. Play as a group of underground workers who fight in the dark, and stage a treacherous spy war story in Nanjing during World War II. How will you respond to identity crises, betrayals, and collapsed beliefs? Loyalty or betrayal, abandon others or be abandoned...
Why similar: Historical 16%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Choices Matter 14.1%, RPG 13.5%, Story Rich 10.9%
- #25 The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty
78% matchVery Positive95% of 59,133 reviews2024
Dev: 零创游戏(ZerocreationGame)
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 24.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
He is a bandit who sells lives. She is a mute girl seeking revenge. In a famine-ravaged ancient China, a ruthless trafficker escorts four girls to a demon's feast. But when a deadly secret is revealed, a cold transaction turns into a journey of redemption. A dark visual novel about an unlikely bond.
Why similar: Historical 22.4%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Word Game 9.7%
- #26 The Heroes Around Me
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 745 reviews2024
Dev: OKJOY
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 63%
The Heroes Around Me tells a story of a family of 3: the hard-working and quiet father – Nan, his daughter Lili, and their pet dog Sesame. Players will experience the harshness and warmth in the simpler time of the 1990s, where lots of stories are untold.
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.1%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, RPG 16.6%, Story Rich 16%, Adventure 6.4%
- #27 Far Away
79% matchVery Positive95% of 8,120 reviews2021
Dev: Gratesca
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Far Away is a visual novel full of dark humor depicting immersive storylines rather than romantic drama. You will play as Krosa, a typical girl who experiences gang conflicts, crimes, conspiracies, and family grudges in the port city of Bedjan.
Why similar: Choices Matter 15.8%, Word Game 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%
- #28 我打不过漂亮的她们
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,319 reviews2025
Dev: 想象颗粒
Windows
Shi Lei once ruled the underground world and retired at his peak. Years later, unsettling truths emerge, disrupting his peace. Will he resolve old issues or break free from fate to uncover the secrets behind these truths? This time, he won't face it alone; she will help him.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.4%, RPG 19.4%, Story Rich 15.1%, Multiple Endings 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%
- #29 Road to Empress I
76% matchVery Positive87% of 11,584 reviews2025
Dev: New One Studio
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 95%
You've never played a game like this before. Road to Empress I is a cinematic palace adventure where your choices decide everyone's fate. Tackle multiple story branches and a high mortality rate with charm, wisdom and courage? First...survive.
Why similar: Choices Matter 20.6%, Historical 14.9%, Visual Novel 12.8%, RPG 12.7%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
- #30 Hero's Adventure: Road to Passion
77% matchVery Positive85% of 24,523 reviews2023
Dev: 半瓶醋工作室(Half Amateur Studio)Pub: XD
Windows
Median: 14.0 hrsMean: 34.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Hero's Adventure:Road to Passion is a wuxia open-world RPG. You will commence your journey as an underdog in the tumultuous Martial World and will be met with a wide array of choices as you navigate your own heroic saga.
Why similar: RPG 33%, Multiple Endings 26.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Adventure 8.1%, Indie 6.5%
- #31 SIFU Kidnapped! Adventure in the Women's Kingdom
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,761 reviews2026
Dev: 次元边界
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Modern worker reborn as Golden Cicada in the all-female Land of Women. Unravel the Mother-Son River’s secrets, battle Demon King Mara, and bond with seven goddesses. Your choices shape many endings—balance enlightenment and love to rewrite the Three Realms.
Why similar: Drama 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Visual Novel 14.1%, RPG 13.9%, Multiple Endings 11.4%
- #32 咸鱼殿下 / My journey
75% matchVery Positive86% of 2,084 reviews2025
Dev: 大聪明工作室Pub: 恭迎皇子驾到工作室
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
This is a Interactive Live-Action Game. You will travel back in time to become a noble Highness and experience the local customs and practices of ancient times. A series of your choices will influence the development trajectory of this world.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Historical 16%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Multiple Endings 14.4%, RPG 13.1%
- #33 Sanfu
76% matchVery Positive83% of 17,608 reviews2023
Dev: Shiying StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
2000年,山城市新闻频道的电视画面莫名跳出一则旧广告,而广告的代言人是已经去世的特异功能少年——三眼神童。有传闻三眼神童的亡魂劫持了电视信号。 调查局受命展开调查。随着调查的深入,一个藏在黑暗处的犯罪团伙逐渐浮出水面。
Why similar: RPG 27.4%, Visual Novel 24.1%, Story Rich 15.3%, Detective 13.7%, Adventure 11.2%
- #34 Firework
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 44,022 reviews2021
Dev: Shiying StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
An accidental fire at a funeral forces the police to re-investigate a closed case of massacre. Lin Lixun participates the re-investigation by chances. As the investigation goes deeper, the past of the victims gradually emerges. However, the case becomes more bewildering.
Why similar: Visual Novel 32.1%, Indie 22.2%, RPG 15.9%, 2D 14.2%, Detective 8%
- #35 Matchmaking Inc.
73% matchVery Positive88% of 6,938 reviews2025
Dev: Wave GamesPub: Lightning Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A young single man returns to his hometown and takes over the family's matchmaking business. Matchmaking Inc. is a modern-themed RPG designed for men that combines gameplay elements of simulation management and text adventure.
Why similar: Choices Matter 20.8%, Multiple Endings 19.3%, Word Game 18.7%, RPG 16.5%, Story Rich 13.1%
- #36 The Red Pearls Of Borneo
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,382 reviews2026
Dev: Bushmonkey Games
Windows · Mac
A detective noir puzzle deduction game. Explore a non-linear timeline as a clairvoyant investigator in 1941 Borneo. Jump between time and locations to uncover motives and discover what truly happened in the Goodwill tobacco plantation that fateful night on the eve of the WW2 Japanese invasion.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Detective 18.2%, Historical 13.6%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Story Rich 11.8%
- #37 Ignited in Cavern
72% matchVery Positive94% of 1,279 reviews2024
Dev: 伤官制作组 Team Uranian
Windows · Mac · Linux
In the waning years of the Northern Wei Dynasty, a rumor circulates about a stone statue that bestows blessings in the mortal realm. Lured by the rumor, Anu and Chu Qingqing, a Xianbei General and her Han captive, are led to Dunhuang to face their fates.
Why similar: Historical 19.8%, Word Game 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.9%, RPG 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11%
- #38 We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe
74% matchVery Positive88% of 138 reviews2023
Dev: Act Zero
Windows
‘We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe’ is a socially engaged, text-based RPG about a journalist looking for his big break by uncovering the plights of refugees travelling from Africa to Europe. It is a story inspired by true events.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Detective 10.5%
- #39 Game Of Fate 3:Clash Of Crowns
71% matchVery Positive85% of 864 reviews2025
Dev: KARMAGAME HK LIMITEDPub: EpicDream Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
An accident transports you from 1945 to 2010, embroiling you in a high-society kidnapping case. Confused and disoriented, you discover that the victim is your own descendant. Gunfire erupts, chaos escalates, and schemes unfold within schemes... Don’t want to be a pawn? How to become the player?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Story Rich 14.7%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Detective 8.1%
- #40 Heartbeat in Thailand
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,067 reviews2025
Dev: RainbowGame
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Freshly graduated, you head to Bangkok’s Chinatown to find your uncle—only to lose contact. Seeking a steady job, you’re mistaken for a gang boss and thrown into chaos. Along the way, you meet a sweet cousin, cold widow, mysterious performer, quirky ghost, and even... someone unexpected.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Multiple Endings 18.8%, Story Rich 14.4%, RPG 13.6%
- #41 Cellveillance
71% matchVery Positive86% of 605 reviews2025
Dev: KARMAGAME HK LIMITEDPub: EpicDream Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
"Cellveillance" is a detective drama entertainment product, you will visit the apartment every day, and the entire apartment is responsible for everything that happens in the apartment, a mysterious organization asks you to return the information of the residents.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Multiple Endings 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Word Game 12.9%
- #42 Conquer the world
70% matchVery Positive92% of 2,332 reviews2025
Dev: 互动之星
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
"Conquer the world" is a historical theme of live-action interactive film game. First-person immersive experience, super-long and massive endings,rich interaction with multiple gameplay. Here,you will cross the river of history, Against invaders!
Why similar: Historical 19.8%, Drama 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Multiple Endings 14.8%, Visual Novel 13.1%
- #43 十五
73% matchVery Positive94% of 64 reviews2023
Dev: 有杕之杜
Windows
This is a plot exploration game set in the 1990s. In the game, you will go back to the age of 15, make up for those regrets and mistakes, rewrite our story and destiny, and explore different life and destination!
Why similar: Drama 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Story Rich 14.7%, RPG 13.9%, Visual Novel 11.8%
- #44 Over the Alps
73% matchVery Positive88% of 243 reviews2020
Dev: Stave Studios
Windows · Mac
Over The Alps is a choices-matter narrative adventure game told through interactive postcards, sent from a secret agent to their handler, in 1930s Switzerland.
Why similar: Choices Matter 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Story Rich 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Multiple Endings 11.7%
- #45 锈翅 逃离我的家乡 Without Wings
69% matchVery Positive91% of 188 reviews2025
Dev: 埋月山枯Pub: Never Knows Best
Windows
玩家将以第一视角,扮演一名高中辍学的女孩,她被迫进入注塑厂打工。后来,她通过一款网络游戏,认识了大城市里的男孩阿澈,她义无反顾地向着有阿澈的未来奔去,也是向着能够逃离大山的未来奔去。在这跨越千里的鸿沟之间,她经历了期待、欣喜、意外、无助……最终,你将做出怎样的选择?
Why similar: Drama 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Visual Novel 11%, Word Game 10.9%
- #46 Legend of Mortal
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 36,048 reviews2024
Dev: Obb Studio Inc.Pub: Paras Games
Windows
Median: 22.0 hrsMean: 38.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The game world is set in a turbulent state and the mighty Tang-Man declines. The threats from the old enemies keep coming one after another.As a nobody, will you choose either to leave yourself out of it or to fight for Tang-Man's future and turning the tide? The journey of yours,is unpredictable.
Why similar: Choices Matter 33.9%, Multiple Endings 29.3%, RPG 25.6%, Indie 3.5%, Adventure 3.1%
- #47 Chants of Sennaar
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 30,726 reviews2023
Dev: RundiscPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
In this award-winning puzzle adventure game, play as the Traveler on a quest to reunite the Peoples of the Tower. Observe, listen, and decipher ancient languages in a fascinating universe inspired by the Myth of Babel.
Why similar: Word Game 28.6%, Adventure 16.1%, Detective 15.7%, Point & Click 15.1%, Indie 9.7%
- #48 FLAM EVAW
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,480 reviews2025
Dev: 北京万合瑞晟文化传媒有限公司
Windows
In"FLAM EVAW ", you will continue to embody the community detective Maple Kurosawa, using your powerful detective and hacker skills to embark on a journey of investigation against the Rainbow Crime Organization with several female assistants of different styles.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 24.8%, Detective 22.7%, Story Rich 18%, RPG 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%
- #49 江华号
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 178 reviews2023
Dev: 知音动漫Pub: IndieArk
Windows
《江华号》是一款国风水墨横版卷轴叙事游戏。1928年,武汉的大街小巷流传着一则“头七夜死者还魂”的诡异消息,引发各界关注。《楚城时报》新人记者虞慧龄奉命前去采访,却误打误撞,被种种谜团指引着登上了一艘名为“江华号”的豪华客轮。在那里,一段不为人知的隐秘往事渐渐浮出水面……
Why similar: Historical 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Word Game 16%, Detective 10.7%, Story Rich 10.2%
- #50 Back to the Dawn
65% matchVery Positive95% of 10,038 reviews2025
Dev: Metal Head GamesPub: Spiral Up Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Back to the Dawn is a story-rich RPG set in a high-security prison ruled by factions and buried secrets. Investigate two conspiracies from the inside, gather evidence, and outsmart a system designed to silence you. Make friends (or foes) with fellow inmates and with their help, break out of prison.
Why similar: Choices Matter 21.1%, RPG 20.9%, Detective 16%, Story Rich 15.9%, Multiple Endings 15.5%
- #51 Soul Gambler
71% matchVery Positive87% of 2,718 reviews2014
Dev: Ilex GamesPub: Gamestorming
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Soul Gambler puts YOU in the role of Faust, an ordinary young man living in the present day whose DESTINY is about to be change forever.
Why similar: Visual Novel 29%, Choices Matter 19.4%, RPG 15%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Adventure 8.5%
- #52 Lay a Beauty to Rest: The Darkness Peach Blossom Spring
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 6,928 reviews2021
Dev: 零创游戏(ZerocreationGame)
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Love-suspense AVG with the theme of "The Peach Blossom Spring". The equinox flowers, bloom for one thousand years and wither for one thousand years. Eternal paradise. Do you choose to stay here, escape here, or bury everything here?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Multiple Endings 17.5%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Word Game 15.5%, Story Rich 11.2%
- #53 Blake: The Visual Novel
69% matchVery Positive90% of 62 reviews2021
Dev: Ori MeesPub: LegendOri Productions
Windows · Mac
Graphic Novel meets Visual Novel in this story-rich, choice-driven thriller. Experience Blake’s journey as he encounters a clandestine nemesis, sparking a series of events that force him to choose between losing his sanity or rising to the challenge. Make the right decisions and save New Stone.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choices Matter 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Detective 13.2%
- #54 Sunset Hills
68% matchMixed61% of 601 reviews2024
Dev: Cotton Game
Windows · Mac
After being discharged from the army and starting to write novels, Nico embarks on a trip to the world with the roar of a train, encountering all kinds of people and events on the way, and experiencing the new world after the war, and the real purpose of Nico's trip gradually emerges ......
Why similar: RPG 35%, Visual Novel 27%, Story Rich 15.7%, Adventure 10.7%, Casual 5.9%
- #55 Sultan's Game
62% matchVery Positive94% of 33,952 reviews2025
Dev: Double CrossPub: 2P Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 24.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Survive a mad Sultan's reign in this brutal resource management RPG. Draw a card every seven days and complete its challenge. Make dreadful choices to stay alive: will you die a loyal servant, become a kingslayer, or call down the gods' judgement?
Why similar: Choices Matter 21%, Multiple Endings 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, RPG 15.7%, Story Rich 13.9%
- #56 墨心:波云诡船
67% matchVery Positive90% of 1,395 reviews2020
Dev: 1001 Studio
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 69%
《墨心》是一款将古代中国幻想元素和悬疑科幻相融合的国产视觉小说。男主(你)从昏迷中醒来丧失了记忆,发现自己和另外两女一男困于巨轮密室中。面对匪夷所思的船体变异,恐怖致命的巨型怪物,你们能否成功逃脱?而这超自然的现象,似乎跟一件千年前的战国墨家宝物有关......
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.5%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%
- #57 The Nameless: Slay Dragon
63% matchVery Positive92% of 1,994 reviews2024
Dev: The Nameless EpicPub: WhisperGames
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
The Nameless: Slay Dragon is like a mix of CRPG and JRPG. In short - how to slay the immensely powerful and cunning evil dragon? You will play as a young man having a bloody feud with a dragon, and face powerful, sinister and tricky enemies with friends....
Why similar: RPG 19%, Choices Matter 16.9%, Story Rich 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Multiple Endings 13.2%