- #1 The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit
97% matchVery Positive93% of 15,127 reviews2018
Dev: DONTNOD EntertainmentPub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Have you ever dreamt of being a superhero? Meet Chris, a creative and imaginative 9 year old boy who escapes reality with fantastical adventures as his alter ego, the Awesome Captain Spirit! Captain Spirit is a free demo set in the Life is Strange universe. Contains links to Life is Strange 2
Why similar: Choices Matter 33.4%, Story Rich 22.7%, Great Soundtrack 21.6%, Adventure 8.3%, Atmospheric 6%
Why You'll Like It: This direct Life is Strange 2 companion follows Chris and provides essential emotional context for Sean and Daniel's journey through the same choice-driven style.
- #2 Life is Strange Remastered
96% matchVery Positive92% of 11,246 reviews2022
Dev: Deck NinePub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 22.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.
Why similar: Choices Matter 39.9%, Story Rich 21.8%, LGBTQ+ 14.7%, Great Soundtrack 7.3%, Adventure 3.9%
Why You'll Like It: The original Life is Strange offers the closest match for episodic supernatural drama, difficult relationships, evocative music, and choices that reshape personal outcomes.
- #3 Tell Me Why
96% matchVery Positive82% of 16,128 reviews2020
Dev: DONTNOD EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Tell Me Why is the multi-award winning episodic adventure game from Dontnod Entertainment in which twins use their supernatural bond to discover the truth of their troubled past.
Why similar: Episodic 30.5% ★, Choices Matter 25.8%, Story Rich 13.6%, LGBTQ+ 8.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: Made by the same studio, it centers on estranged twins confronting family trauma through empathetic dialogue choices and a grounded supernatural mystery.
- #4 Life is Strange: Before the Storm
95% matchVery Positive93% of 37,928 reviews2017
Dev: Deck NinePub: Square Enix
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 26.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Life is Strange: Before the Storm is a new three part standalone story adventure set three years before the events of the first game. This time play as Chloe Price, a rebel who forms an unlikely friendship with Rachel Amber in a dramatic new story in the BAFTA award winning franchise.
Why similar: Episodic 23.2% ★, Choices Matter 22.3%, Great Soundtrack 20.4%, Story Rich 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its intimate coming-of-age story, powerful friendship, licensed soundtrack, and dialogue-based consequences closely capture Life is Strange 2's emotional appeal.
- #5 Life is Strange: True Colors
94% matchVery Positive89% of 16,903 reviews2021
Dev: Deck NinePub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.
Why similar: Choices Matter 36.1%, Story Rich 18.4%, LGBTQ+ 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Atmospheric 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: This is another heartfelt, choice-led Life is Strange story built around empathy powers, small-town relationships, romance, and a strong musical atmosphere.
- #6 Life is Strange: Double Exposure
94% matchMixed68% of 10,809 reviews2024
Dev: Deck Nine GamesPub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
When Max Caulfield finds her friend Safi dead in the snow, she tears open the way to a parallel timeline. Here, Safi is still alive - and still in danger! With her new power to Shift between two timelines – can Max solve and prevent the same murder?
Why similar: Choices Matter 33.7%, Story Rich 16.7%, LGBTQ+ 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Great Soundtrack 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: Max's return retains the series' investigative dialogue, supernatural ability, branching relationships, and emotionally charged personal stakes.
- #7 Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
93% matchVery Positive86% of 6,391 reviews2025
Dev: DON'T NOD
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Embark on a new narrative journey by the creators of Life is Strange. Film your summer of 1995 and create memories of a lifetime with your new friends. 27 years later, confront the dark secrets that made you all promise to never speak again after that fateful summer.
Why similar: Choices Matter 29%, Episodic 25.8% ★, Story Rich 15.8%, LGBTQ+ 13.2%, Atmospheric 4.7%
Why You'll Like It: From the creators of the original Life is Strange, this nostalgic episodic drama focuses on friendship, memory, player choices, and a mysterious supernatural turn.
- #8 Road 96 🛣️
92% matchVery Positive92% of 26,373 reviews2021
Dev: DigixartPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Hitchhike your way to freedom in this crazy procedurally generated road trip. No one's road is the same!
Why similar: Choices Matter 39.8%, Story Rich 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Adventure 9.3%, Atmospheric 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Its constantly shifting road-trip structure, youthful runaways, political tension, and choices made while traveling make it an especially natural follow-up.
- #9 The Walking Dead: The Final Season
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 21,546 reviews2018
Dev: Telltale GamesPub: Skybound Games
Windows
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 38.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
A secluded school might finally be Clementine’s chance for a home, but protecting it will mean sacrifice.
Why similar: Choices Matter 32.8%, Story Rich 21.3%, Episodic 19.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%, Adventure 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: Clementine's final chapter strongly emphasizes guardian-child bonds, consequential dialogue, survival on the road, and emotionally weighty endings.
- #10 The Walking Dead: Season Two
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 34,037 reviews2013
Dev: Telltale GamesPub: Skybound Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
The Walking Dead: Season Two continues the story of Clementine, a young girl orphaned by the undead apocalypse. Left to fend for herself, she has been forced to learn how to survive in a world gone mad.
Why similar: Episodic 40.3% ★, Story Rich 17.6%, Choices Matter 16%, Adventure 7.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: Playing as a vulnerable young survivor who must make painful decisions and protect others delivers a similarly intimate, morally difficult emotional journey.
- #11 As Dusk Falls
89% matchVery Positive90% of 4,479 reviews2022
Dev: INTERIOR/NIGHTPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Explore the entangled lives of two families across thirty years in an original interactive drama from INTERIOR/NIGHT. Starting in 1998 with a robbery-gone-wrong, the character's lives depend on the choices you make.
Why similar: Choices Matter 40.3%, Story Rich 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Sexual Content 7.6%, Adventure 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its branching narrative creates major, lasting consequences across multiple families, making each dialogue choice feel urgent and personal.
- #12 The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
90% matchVery Positive83% of 18,615 reviews2016
Dev: Telltale GamesPub: Skybound Games
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
After society was ripped apart by undead hands, pockets of civilization emerge from the chaos. But at what cost? Can the living be trusted on this new frontier?
Why similar: Episodic 32.4% ★, Choices Matter 28.5%, Story Rich 18.8%, Adventure 5.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: This season revolves around fractured family, sibling loyalty, life on the run, and high-stakes decisions within a cinematic episodic format.
- #13 The Walking Dead
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 80,693 reviews2012
Dev: Telltale GamesPub: Skybound Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.
Why similar: Episodic 38.5% ★, Choices Matter 20.2%, Story Rich 17.8%, Adventure 6.7%, Point & Click 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: Telltale's original season is a defining choice-driven drama about protecting a child amid tragedy, with relationships carrying more weight than action.
- #14 The Wolf Among Us
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 40,310 reviews2013
Dev: Telltale
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
From the makers of the 2012 Game of the Year: The Walking Dead, comes a thriller based on the award-winning Fables comic books. As Bigby Wolf you will discover that a brutal, bloody murder is just a taste of things to come in a game series where your every decision can have enormous consequences.
Why similar: Episodic 34.4% ★, Choices Matter 21.2%, Story Rich 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.3%, Adventure 6%
Why You'll Like It: Its dialogue-led investigations, branching interactions, episodic presentation, and morally gray protagonist suit players who enjoy narrative choices with consequences.
- #15 Dustborn
87% matchMixed66% of 784 reviews2024
Dev: Red Thread GamesPub: Spotlight by Quantic Dream
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Ragtag crew? Check. Musical gear? Check. Tour bus and robot driver? Check. Stolen package? Check! Embark on a perilous road-trip across a Divided States of America. Use the power of words to shape relationships with your crew, get out of trouble and reach your final destination.
Why similar: Choices Matter 34.8%, Story Rich 21.8%, LGBTQ+ 18.2%, Adventure 8.1%, Atmospheric 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: A politically charged road trip about a found family uses dialogue choices, music, and supernatural-adjacent abilities to tell an emotionally personal story.
- #16 Detroit: Become Human
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 263,955 reviews2020
Dev: Quantic Dream
Windows
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Detroit: Become Human puts the destiny of both mankind and androids in your hands, taking you to a near future where machines have become more intelligent than humans. Every choice you make affects the outcome of the game, with one of the most intricately branching narratives ever created.
Why similar: Choices Matter 50.2%, Story Rich 26%, Great Soundtrack 11.7%, Adventure 3.3%, Atmospheric 3%
Why You'll Like It: It expands the choice-and-consequence formula into highly cinematic branching paths, including an especially touching guardian-and-child storyline.
- #17 Beyond: Two Souls
86% matchVery Positive88% of 43,686 reviews2020
Dev: Quantic Dream
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A unique psychological action thriller delivered by A-list Hollywood performances by Elliot Page and Willem Dafoe, Beyond: Two Souls takes you on a thrilling journey across the globe as you play out the remarkable life of Jodie Holmes.
Why similar: Choices Matter 45.5%, Story Rich 24.8%, Adventure 9.4%, Great Soundtrack 9.4%, Atmospheric 2.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its supernatural lead, chronological-spanning personal drama, and player-shaped relationships make it a good fit for Life is Strange's character-focused side.
- #18 Oxenfree
86% matchVery Positive91% of 12,124 reviews2016
Dev: Night School Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.
Why similar: Choices Matter 34%, Story Rich 25.4%, Great Soundtrack 18.9%, Atmospheric 7.3%, Adventure 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: A group of teens confronts supernatural events through naturalistic real-time dialogue choices, moody exploration, and an excellent atmospheric soundtrack.
- #19 The Expanse: A Telltale Series
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,930 reviews2023
Dev: Deck NinePub: Telltale
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Take on the role of Camina Drummer and explore the dangerous, uncharted edges of the Belt. From scavenging wrecked ships in a zero-g environment, to combating fearsome pirates, you make the difficult choices in this latest Telltale adventure. All five episodes playable at launch!
Why similar: Choices Matter 38.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Story Rich 15.7%, Adventure 13.2%, LGBTQ+ 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: This cinematic episodic adventure combines difficult crew leadership decisions, tense relationships, and a focused character story in a dangerous journey through space.
- #20 Heavy Rain
84% matchVery Positive86% of 31,694 reviews2020
Dev: Quantic Dream
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
Why similar: Choices Matter 48.9%, Story Rich 24.7%, Sexual Content 6.8%, Adventure 5.7%, Atmospheric 3.6%
Why You'll Like It: This tense interactive drama uses multiple protagonists, quick decisions, and radically diverging outcomes to create a similarly cinematic emotional thriller.
- #21 Open Roads
83% matchMostly Positive78% of 362 reviews2024
Dev: Open Roads TeamPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Long-lost family secrets. Hints of a hidden fortune. And miles to go before they sleep. Tess Devine’s relationship with her mom has never been easy, but they’re about to set out together on a journey into the past that they’ll never forget.
Why similar: Story Rich 51%, Adventure 24.2%, Atmospheric 13.8%, Mystery 6.1%, Emotional 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: This quiet road-trip drama explores a complicated parent-child relationship through environmental storytelling, conversations, and the gradual uncovering of family secrets.
- #22 Firewatch
82% matchVery Positive91% of 99,559 reviews2016
Dev: Campo SantoPub: Panic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Firewatch is a single-player first-person mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness, where your only emotional lifeline is the person on the other end of a handheld radio.
Why similar: Story Rich 29.6%, Great Soundtrack 22.6%, Walking Simulator 12.4%, Adventure 11.9%, Atmospheric 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: Although less branching, its lonely wilderness journey, intimate radio relationship, mystery, and exceptional atmosphere suit fans of Life is Strange 2's reflective stretches.
- #23 Goodbye Volcano High
81% matchVery Positive89% of 1,869 reviews2023
Dev: KO_OP
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Goodbye Volcano High is a cinematic narrative adventure about love, change, and the end of the world. Guide Fang through their final year of high school as they try to make things right before time is up.
Why similar: Choices Matter 30.1%, Story Rich 22.3%, LGBTQ+ 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Adventure 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: This music-infused visual novel centers on queer teenage friendships, romance, family pressures, and choices made during an uncertain final year of school.
- #24 Night in the Woods
82% matchVery Positive95% of 20,322 reviews2017
Dev: Infinite FallPub: Finji
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.
Why similar: Choices Matter 37.9%, Story Rich 29.8%, Adventure 10.8%, Atmospheric 9.8%, Mystery 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its sharply written coming-of-age story explores friendship, mental health, family strain, and small-town unease through memorable conversations and exploration.
- #25 Life is Strange: Reunion
77% matchVery Positive89% of 5,734 reviews2026
Dev: Deck Nine GamesPub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The saga of Max and Chloe, and the fate of Caledon, is yours to decide! Play as both Max and Chloe as an all-new story builds towards an epic climax. The fire will force Max and Chloe to make devastating decisions. Can they find a future together… Before everything burns?
Why similar: Choices Matter 33.1%, LGBTQ+ 17.5%, Story Rich 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Adventure 8.6%
- #26 The Wreck
79% matchVery Positive89% of 287 reviews2023
Dev: The Pixel Hunt
Windows · Mac
In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.
Why similar: Choices Matter 38.6%, Story Rich 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Adventure 7.5%, Atmospheric 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A vulnerable interactive drama about family trauma lets you revisit pivotal memories and alter how its protagonist processes a life-changing crisis.
- #27 Dreamfall Chapters
81% matchVery Positive82% of 4,535 reviews2017
Dev: Red Thread Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Final Cut is the ultimate collector's edition of Dreamfall Chapters, a story-driven 3D adventure about choice and consequence, set in parallel worlds: a cyberpunk vision of the future and a magical fantasy realm.
Why similar: Choices Matter 31.7%, Story Rich 25.9%, Adventure 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%, Atmospheric 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: This episodic adventure combines supernatural mysteries with a substantial choice system and deeply personal stories about identity, family, and responsibility.
- #28 SEASON: A letter to the future
78% matchVery Positive93% of 2,094 reviews2023
Dev: Scavengers Studio
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Leave home for the first time to collect memories before a mysterious cataclysm washes everything away. Ride, record, meet people, and unravel the strange world around you in this third-person meditative exploration game.
Why similar: Story Rich 41%, Atmospheric 15.7%, Adventure 12.5%, Walking Simulator 10.6%, Mystery 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: This contemplative journey through a changing world emphasizes travel, music, observation, and preserving the emotional stories of people met along the way.
- #29 Neo Cab
80% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,901 reviews2019
Dev: Chance AgencyPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A visual novel about emotional survival in an automated world. Play as Lina, the last human cab driver. It’s your first night driving the lonely streets of Los Ojos, and your best friend has just disappeared. Stay on the road. Stay on the search. Stay human.
Why similar: Choices Matter 41.5%, Story Rich 25.8%, Atmospheric 10.1%, Point & Click 9.7%, Adventure 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: As a lone driver navigating a strange city, you build relationships and manage emotionally charged conversations while constantly remaining on the move.
- #30 I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,851 reviews2022
Dev: Northway GamesPub: Finji
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 15.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.
Why similar: Choices Matter 41.1%, Story Rich 22.8%, LGBTQ+ 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Singleplayer 3.5%
Why You'll Like It: Its remarkable long-term choice system lets relationships, identity, trauma, and repeated decisions shape an intensely personal coming-of-age story.
- #31 Life is Strange - Episode 1
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 176,179 reviews2015
Dev: DONTNOD EntertainmentPub: Square Enix
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Why similar: Episodic 24.6% ★, Choices Matter 23.2%, Great Soundtrack 19.8%, Story Rich 17.3%, Atmospheric 3.9%
- #32 1979 Revolution: Black Friday
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,088 reviews2016
Dev: iNK Stories
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
1979 Revolution: Black Friday is a choice driven, narrative game that brings players into the brooding world of a nation on the verge of collapse. Play as Reza, an aspiring photojournalist, and make life and death decisions as you survive the gritty streets of Iran in the late 1970’s.
Why similar: Choices Matter 40.5%, Story Rich 16.6%, Great Soundtrack 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Adventure 10%
Why You'll Like It: Its historical setting still delivers the core appeal of cinematic dialogue choices, personal relationships, and difficult decisions under escalating pressure.
- #33 Mixtape
73% matchVery Positive88% of 8,643 reviews2026
Dev: Beethoven and DinosaurPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
On their last night together, three friends embark on one final adventure. Play through a mixtape of memories, set to the soundtrack of a generation.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 26.2%, LGBTQ+ 25.7%, Adventure 14.8%, Story Rich 8.8%, Atmospheric 7.6%
- #34 Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered
76% matchVery Positive85% of 4,957 reviews2022
Dev: Deck NinePub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Life is Strange: Before the Storm returns with remastered visuals across characters & environments.
Why similar: Choices Matter 41%, Story Rich 21.3%, LGBTQ+ 16.9%, Adventure 5.6%, Third Person 5%
- #35 Tales from the Borderlands
75% matchVery Positive94% of 19,598 reviews2021
Dev: Telltale GamesPub: 2K
Windows
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Tales from the Borderlands is a five-part episodic game set on the unforgiving world of Pandora between the events of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3. This is a story full of Borderlands' trademark humor, following two adventurers on their quest for greatness.
Why similar: Episodic 29.9% ★, Choices Matter 22.4%, Story Rich 14.4%, Great Soundtrack 11%, Adventure 5.7%
- #36 A Plague Tale: Innocence
74% matchVery Positive93% of 72,930 reviews2019
Dev: Asobo StudioPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Follow the grim tale of young Amicia and her little brother Hugo, in a heartrending journey through the darkest hours of history.
Why similar: Story Rich 40.6%, Great Soundtrack 22.9%, Adventure 13.4%, Atmospheric 9.7%, Third Person 5.6%
- #37 The Council
75% matchVery Positive84% of 5,731 reviews2018
Dev: Big Bad WolfPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Experience a Narrative Adventure where your choices and character growth truly matter. As a member of a 1793 secret society, live a tale of intrigue and manipulation on the hunt for your missing mother.
Why similar: Choices Matter 38%, Episodic 21% ★, Story Rich 16.5%, Adventure 8.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 4.4%
- #38 Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons
74% matchVery Positive94% of 41,286 reviews2013
Dev: Starbreeze Studios ABPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Guide two brothers on an epic fairy tale journey from visionary Swedish film director, Josef Fares and top-tier developer Starbreeze Studios. Control both brothers at once as you experience co-op play in single player mode, like never before.
Why similar: Story Rich 32.1%, Adventure 20.2%, Great Soundtrack 20.1%, Atmospheric 15%, Emotional 3.4%
- #39 Twin Mirror
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,737 reviews2021
Dev: DON'T NOD
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The small town of Basswood will be changed forever by ex-investigative journalist Sam Higgs in this thrilling narrative experience from award-winning studio DON'T NOD. Will you find the truth – no matter the cost?
Why similar: Choices Matter 37.7%, Story Rich 22.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Adventure 7.7%, LGBTQ+ 6.5%
- #40 Gone Home
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 18,462 reviews2013
Dev: Fullbright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
June 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, but the house is empty. Something's not right. Where is everyone? And what's happened here? Unravel the mystery for yourself in Gone Home, a story exploration game from The Fullbright Company.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 29.8%, Story Rich 20.8%, LGBTQ+ 15.4%, Great Soundtrack 14.1%, Atmospheric 9.7%
- #41 Last Day of June
71% matchVery Positive87% of 4,725 reviews2017
Dev: OvosonicoPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
A deep, interactive adventure about love and loss, beautifully depicted and offering an intense cinematic experience. What would you do to save the one you love?
Why similar: Choices Matter 26.1%, Great Soundtrack 24.4%, Story Rich 22.1%, Adventure 9.3%, Atmospheric 8.9%
- #42 Embracelet
71% matchVery Positive94% of 110 reviews2020
Dev: Mattis FolkestadPub: machineboy
Windows
Explore a beautiful, low-poly Norwegian island as 17-year-old Jesper. Armed with a mysterious, magical bracelet, you'll solve puzzles, uncover your grandfather's past, and make choices in this heartwarming coming-of-age story about love, friendship, and family.
Why similar: Choices Matter 28.7%, Story Rich 20.1%, Adventure 11.7%, LGBTQ+ 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
- #43 No Longer Home
72% matchMixed62% of 452 reviews2021
Dev: Humble GrovePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 54%
No Longer Home is a game about letting go of the life you've built due to circumstances beyond your control. Immerse yourself in the lives of Bo and Ao and learn about their dreams, frustrations and fears. Welcome the magic of the everyday and somewhat extraordinary.
Why similar: Story Rich 32.3%, LGBTQ+ 26.6%, Point & Click 12.6%, Atmospheric 11%, Adventure 9.9%
- #44 Nocturnals
68% matchVery Positive87% of 941 reviews2024
Dev: Cowboy Toad Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short, choose your own adventure game about two boys that find each other in a lonely, post-apocalyptic town.
Why similar: Choices Matter 42.7%, LGBTQ+ 19.7%, Story Rich 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Atmospheric 4.9%
- #45 Road 96: Mile 0
70% matchMixed68% of 2,154 reviews2023
Dev: Digixart
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 68%
The prequel to Road 96. Play Zoe and Kaito where it all started. Change their destinies!
Why similar: Choices Matter 38.1%, Story Rich 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Walking Simulator 10.6%, Adventure 6.6%
- #46 Haven
69% matchVery Positive88% of 6,113 reviews2020
Dev: The Game Bakers
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Two lovers gave up everything and escaped to a lost planet to be together. Glide through a mysterious landscape, explore a fragmented world and fight against what’s trying to tear them apart in this RPG adventure about love, rebellion, and freedom.
Why similar: Choices Matter 29.8%, Story Rich 21.1%, LGBTQ+ 17.4%, Sexual Content 12.7%, Atmospheric 7.6%
- #47 Runaway, A Road Adventure
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 794 reviews2007
Dev: Pendulo StudiosPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 56%
New York, 2000......Without knowing how or why, Brian, a student on the verge of graduating from college, is attacked by Mafia gangsters. During his desperate getaway, in the company of a mysterious striptease dancer, he ends up meeting a wide range of unusual characters.
Why similar: Point & Click 26.6%, Adventure 26.1%, Great Soundtrack 15.1%, Story Rich 14.2%, Mystery 5.9%
- #48 The Endless Empty
70% matchVery Positive97% of 320 reviews2018
Dev: Erik Sheader-Smith
Windows
A surreal post-life adventure
Why similar: Great Soundtrack 26.9%, Choices Matter 23.1%, Story Rich 17.8%, Adventure 12.9%, LGBTQ+ 9.2%
- #49 If Found...
69% matchVery Positive90% of 2,364 reviews2020
Dev: DREAMFEELPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
If Found... is a game about going home, coming out and erasing everything.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 31%, Great Soundtrack 28.9%, Story Rich 21%, Adventure 7.9%, Atmospheric 6.7%
- #50 Always Sometimes Monsters
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,447 reviews2014
Dev: Vagabond Dog
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Set out on a cross-country journey to win back the love of your life and endure the hardship of making story-defining choices that affect your life and the lives of those around you.
Why similar: Choices Matter 30.4%, Story Rich 26.5%, Great Soundtrack 17.8%, LGBTQ+ 13.7%, Walking Simulator 4.8%
- #51 my brother lives in a canyon
69% matchVery Positive92% of 91 reviews2021
Dev: Kenneth Dodrill
Windows · Linux
my brother lives in a canyon is a short adventure game about two brothers reminiscing over short-wave radios.
Why similar: Adventure 31.7%, Story Rich 23.6%, Walking Simulator 20.3%, Atmospheric 12.9%, Mystery 8%
- #52 What Remains of Edith Finch
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 53,006 reviews2017
Dev: Giant SparrowPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
Why similar: Story Rich 39.9%, Great Soundtrack 21.7%, Walking Simulator 11.4%, Atmospheric 11.2%, Adventure 6.6%
- #53 Dispatch
62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 184,614 reviews2025
Dev: AdHoc Studio
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero. All episodes out now!
Why similar: Choices Matter 32.6%, Episodic 23.6% ★, Story Rich 16.7%, Sexual Content 8.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.1%
- #54 OXENFREE II: Lost Signals
67% matchVery Positive88% of 2,080 reviews2023
Dev: Night School StudioPub: Netflix
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Five years after the events of OXENFREE, Riley returns to her hometown of Camena to investigate mysterious radio signals. What she finds is more than she bargained for.
Why similar: Choices Matter 31.2%, Story Rich 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Adventure 9.5%, Walking Simulator 8.1%
- #55 Batman - The Telltale Series
68% matchVery Positive88% of 18,280 reviews2016
Dev: Telltale
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Enter the fractured psyche of Bruce Wayne and discover the powerful and far-reaching consequences of your choices as the Dark Knight.
Why similar: Episodic 34.9% ★, Choices Matter 29.2%, Story Rich 16.1%, Adventure 6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 5%
- #56 Chasing Sunsets
65% matchVery Positive93% of 1,118 reviews2024
Dev: Stone Fox Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 30.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
When your mother remarries, her new husband's fiery daughter enters your life. After forming an initial strong connection, misunderstanding pushes you apart. Years later, reunited by tragedy and conspiracy, the two of you must choose a path to follow: Will you be rivals, friends, or lovers?
Why similar: Choices Matter 24.3%, Episodic 23% ★, Sexual Content 13.2%, Story Rich 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
- #57 New Tales from the Borderlands
70% matchMostly Negative31% of 2,158 reviews2022
Dev: Gearbox SoftwarePub: 2K
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 24.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Decide the fates of altruistic scientist Anu, her ambitious, "streetwise" brother Octavio, and the fierce, frogurt-slinging Fran. Claw and con your way through five thrilling chapters!
Why similar: Episodic 39.8% ★, Choices Matter 26.7%, Story Rich 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Adventure 5%
- #58 Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Remake
66% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,377 reviews2024
Dev: Avantgarden SRLPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Guide two brothers on an epic journey of discovery, loss, adventure and mystery remade for the latest generation of graphics, performance, and gameplay. Play in single-player mode or local co-op with a friend. This is one journey you will never forget.
Why similar: Adventure 77.4%, Singleplayer 19.6%, Puzzle 3%
- #59 The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 13,968 reviews2019
Dev: Supermassive GamesPub: BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The Dark Pictures Anthology is a series of stand-alone, branching cinematic horror games that can also be played online with a friend. In Man of Medan, five friends set sail on a holiday diving trip that soon changes into something much more sinister.
Why similar: Choices Matter 63.8%, Story Rich 17%, Adventure 9%, Atmospheric 3.6%, Sexual Content 1.9%
