- #1 Life is Strange: Double Exposure
97% matchMixed68% of 10,597 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: LGBTQ+ 23.7%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Female Protagonist 8.1%, Cinematic 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: As the direct narrative successor, it shares the same core mechanics and character-focused storytelling found in the Life is Strange series.
- #2 Life is Strange: True Colors
96% matchVery Positive89% of 16,841 reviews2021
Dev: Deck NinePub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 25.2 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: LGBTQ+ 20.9%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Female Protagonist 7.7%, Emotional 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: This title captures the signature emotional depth and supernatural-adjacent mystery that defines the franchise.
- #3 Life is Strange: Before the Storm
96% matchVery Positive93% of 37,865 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: Choices Matter 23.7%, Female Protagonist 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Story Rich 11.3%, LGBTQ+ 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a crucial look at the formative relationship between Chloe and Rachel, mirroring the character-driven focus of the seed game.
- #4 Tell Me Why
95% matchVery Positive82% of 16,033 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: LGBTQ+ 25.3%, Choices Matter 17%, Cinematic 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Emotional 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: Developed by the same team, this game features a similarly intimate, choice-heavy narrative centered on siblings and past trauma.
- #5 Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
94% matchVery Positive86% of 6,312 reviews2025
Dev: DON'T NOD
Windows
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 12.4 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: LGBTQ+ 26.8%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Cinematic 11.3%, Female Protagonist 9.7%, Romance 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game shares the nostalgic, character-focused atmosphere and narrative structure characteristic of the Life is Strange developers.
- #6 As Dusk Falls
94% matchVery Positive90% of 4,427 reviews2022
Dev: INTERIOR/NIGHTPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 7.1 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: Cinematic 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Choices Matter 17.5%, Emotional 10.5%, Mystery 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: This cinematic interactive drama focuses heavily on the consequences of player choices and complex interpersonal relationships.
- #7 The Walking Dead: The Final Season
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 21,475 reviews2018
Dev: Telltale GamesPub: Skybound Games
Windows
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 38.6 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 27.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Female Protagonist 13.3%, Story Rich 12.2%, Adventure 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: This title excels at building deep emotional bonds between characters while forcing players to make devastating, life-altering choices.
- #8 Beyond: Two Souls
92% matchVery Positive88% of 42,823 reviews2020
Dev: Quantic Dream
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 10.6 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 25.4%, Cinematic 22.9%, Female Protagonist 15.2%, Emotional 11.2%, Story Rich 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Featuring a strong female lead and supernatural elements, this game balances cinematic action with deep, story-driven gameplay.
- #9 Detroit: Become Human
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 260,419 reviews2020
Dev: Quantic Dream
Windows
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 19.0 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 28.5%, Cinematic 25.7%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Emotional 11.3%, Story Rich 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: It is a premier cinematic experience where every choice significantly branches the story, much like the high-stakes decision-making in Reunion.
- #10 The Quarry
91% matchVery Positive82% of 24,804 reviews2022
Dev: Supermassive GamesPub: 2K Games
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
When the sun goes down on the last night of summer camp, nine teenage counselors are plunged into an unpredictable night of horror. The only thing worse than the blood-drenched locals and creatures hunting them are the unimaginable choices you must make to help them survive.
Why similar: Choices Matter 38.8%, Cinematic 28.5%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Narrative 7.8% ★, Story Rich 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: This cinematic horror-adventure relies on a branching narrative where your choices determine the survival of the entire cast.
- #11 The Last of Us™ Part II Remastered
89% matchVery Positive91% of 54,496 reviews2025
Dev: Naughty Dog LLCPub: PlayStation Publishing LLC
Windows
Median: 29.2 hrsMean: 39.3 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Experience the winner of over 300 Game of the Year awards, now on PC. Discover Ellie and Abby’s story with graphical enhancements, gameplay modes like the roguelike survival experience No Return, and more.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 40.8%, Emotional 15.4%, Third Person 11%, Story Rich 10.9%, Female Protagonist 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: This title offers a powerful, cinematic, and emotionally taxing story featuring a prominent LGBTQ+ protagonist in a third-person action-adventure setting.
- #12 Until Dawn™
90% matchVery Positive83% of 5,219 reviews2024
Dev: Ballistic MoonPub: PlayStation Publishing LLC
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Rebuilt and enhanced for PC – Until Dawn invites you to relive the nightmare, and immerse yourself in a gripping slasher horror where every decision can make the difference between life and death.
Why similar: Choices Matter 23.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Cinematic 13.5%, Multiple Endings 8.5%, Emotional 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a high-production cinematic experience where player decisions directly impact the fate of the characters in a supernatural setting.
- #13 Goodbye Volcano High
89% matchVery Positive89% of 1,860 reviews2023
Dev: KO_OP
Windows
Median: 6.1 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: LGBTQ+ 31.6%, Cinematic 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Emotional 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: A deeply emotional, narrative-driven game that explores LGBTQ+ themes and coming-of-age struggles through a choice-based lens.
- #14 I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,802 reviews2022
Dev: Northway GamesPub: Finji
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 15.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: LGBTQ+ 38.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Choices Matter 20.3%, Multiple Endings 8.9%, Story Rich 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game masterfully blends life-sim elements with a branching narrative where your choices shape the protagonist's identity and future.
- #15 Twin Mirror
87% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,721 reviews2021
Dev: DON'T NOD
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Cinematic 21.2%, Choices Matter 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, LGBTQ+ 13.2%, Third Person 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: This psychological mystery focuses on investigation and internal character conflict, echoing the investigative elements of the seed game.
- #16 Road 96: Mile 0
86% matchMixed68% of 2,128 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.3%, Choices Matter 18%, Emotional 13.7%, Narrative 12.8% ★, Multiple Endings 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy prequel that uses choice-based gameplay to explore the motivations and backgrounds of its central characters.
- #17 Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical
85% matchVery Positive91% of 3,910 reviews2023
Dev: Summerfall StudiosPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Gods. Romance. Murder. Musical Numbers?! Play as Grace in a world where Greek Gods live in hiding among us. Change your fate as you draw friends, foes & lovers into song using your powers of musical persuasion to unravel the mystery of the Last Muse's death.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Cinematic 13.2%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Female Protagonist 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It combines a unique musical narrative with choice-based gameplay that deeply impacts the relationships between characters.
- #18 Oxenfree
86% matchVery Positive91% of 12,110 reviews2016
Dev: Night School Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.3 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 23.4%, Supernatural 20.3%, Female Protagonist 15%, Story Rich 11.9%, Mystery 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game uses a unique dialogue system to drive a supernatural mystery that feels very similar to the tone of the Life is Strange series.
- #19 Night in the Woods
84% matchVery Positive95% of 20,210 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: Narrative 24.1% ★, Choices Matter 22.2%, Mystery 12.2%, Story Rich 11.8%, Stylized 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the feeling of returning home and dealing with personal growth, mystery, and complex friendships in a small-town setting.
- #20 Dustborn
84% matchMixed66% of 756 reviews2024
Dev: Red Thread GamesPub: Spotlight by Quantic Dream
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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: LGBTQ+ 33.4%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Emotional 13.8%, Female Protagonist 12%, Third Person 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game features a diverse cast and a narrative-driven road trip structure that prioritizes character interaction and choice.
- #21 Harmony: The Fall of Reverie
83% matchMostly Positive72% of 287 reviews2023
Dev: DON'T NOD
Windows
The fate of humanity is at stake. Use your gift of clairvoyance to see into the future and stop an apocalypse that threatens the balance between your world and the deities'.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Emotional 11%, Female Protagonist 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: A visual-novel style adventure that forces players to navigate complex choices that alter the fate of a world and its inhabitants.
- #22 Heavy Rain
82% matchVery Positive86% of 30,842 reviews2020
Dev: Quantic Dream
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 9.4 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 27.3%, Cinematic 21.9%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Emotional 10.9%, Story Rich 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This cinematic thriller is built entirely around the impact of player choices on a complex, multi-perspective mystery.
- #23 A Plague Tale: Requiem
81% matchVery Positive91% of 26,638 reviews2022
Dev: Asobo StudioPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 27.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Embark on a heartrending journey into a brutal, breathtaking world, and discover the cost of saving those you love in a desperate struggle for survival. Strike from the shadows or unleash hell with a variety of weapons, tools and unearthly powers.
Why similar: Cinematic 26.7%, Emotional 15.8%, Female Protagonist 14.7%, Third Person 11.1%, Adventure 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a high-stakes, cinematic journey focused on the intense bond between siblings in a dangerous world.
- #24 Firewatch
82% matchVery Positive91% of 99,247 reviews2016
Dev: Campo SantoPub: Panic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 13.5 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: Mystery 27.6%, Story Rich 25.9%, Adventure 22.8%, Atmospheric 19.6%, Singleplayer 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: It is a masterclass in atmospheric, narrative-driven storytelling that focuses on the emotional connection between two isolated characters.
- #25 Lake
81% matchVery Positive87% of 5,864 reviews2021
Dev: GamiousPub: Whitethorn Games
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
It's 1986 - Meredith Weiss takes a break from her career in the big city to deliver mail in her hometown. How will she experience two weeks in beautiful Providence Oaks, with its iconic lake and quirky community? And what will she do next? It's up to you.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Female Protagonist 11.5%, Romance 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy, narrative-driven game that allows players to step into a different life and make choices about their future and relationships.
- #26 What Remains of Edith Finch
80% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 52,461 reviews2017
Dev: Giant SparrowPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 6.3 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 26.9%, Female Protagonist 19.8%, Mystery 18.1%, Atmospheric 14.3%, Adventure 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game delivers a poignant, story-rich experience that explores family history and loss through unique, cinematic vignettes.
- #27 Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
79% matchVery Positive84% of 9,137 reviews2024
Dev: DON'T NODPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Hunt ghosts as two memorable characters in a story-driven Action-RPG where your decisions carry dramatic consequences. Torn between honoring your oath to the living and saving your departed partner, how far will you go for love?
Why similar: Cinematic 18.8%, Emotional 18.3%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Third Person 12.2%, Supernatural 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: It centers on the emotional weight of choices regarding life and death, wrapped in a narrative-heavy, atmospheric action-adventure.
- #28 This Bed We Made
78% matchVery Positive91% of 3,323 reviews2023
Dev: Lowbirth Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
This Bed We Made is a third-person mystery game in which you play as a maid in a 1950s hotel and snoop around strangers' rooms to uncover their deadly secrets. Discover what links guests together in this tale of love, heartbreak and murder!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.6%, Cinematic 17.3%, Female Protagonist 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Mystery 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A mystery game that emphasizes character observation and narrative discovery, fitting for fans of investigative storytelling.
- #29 The Wolf Among Us
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 40,122 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Choices Matter 19.5%, Cinematic 12.4%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Story Rich 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A classic Telltale-style narrative adventure that emphasizes the weight of moral choices in a dark, stylized world.
- #30 Citizen Sleeper
78% matchVery Positive92% of 10,481 reviews2022
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
Why similar: Narrative 42.6% ★, Multiple Endings 17.7%, Story Rich 17%, Adventure 11.8%, Atmospheric 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game uses a tabletop-inspired system to drive a deep, emotional narrative about survival, identity, and choice.
- #31 Life is Strange Remastered
77% matchVery Positive92% of 10,972 reviews2022
Dev: Deck NinePub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 22.3 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: LGBTQ+ 22.7%, Choices Matter 14%, Female Protagonist 8.8%, Emotional 7.8%, Cinematic 7.5%
- #32 Mixtape
75% matchVery Positive88% of 8,422 reviews2026
Dev: Beethoven and DinosaurPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.0 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: LGBTQ+ 39.5%, Narrative 24.5% ★, Female Protagonist 13.7%, Adventure 7.5%, Third Person 6.6%
- #33 Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered
77% matchVery Positive85% of 4,841 reviews2022
Dev: Deck NinePub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 24.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Life is Strange: Before the Storm returns with remastered visuals across characters & environments.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.9%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Female Protagonist 9.5%, Cinematic 7.6%, Emotional 7.2%
- #34 Life is Strange 2
76% matchVery Positive87% of 40,886 reviews2018
Dev: DONTNOD EntertainmentPub: Square Enix
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 27.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
After a tragic incident, brothers Sean and Daniel Diaz run away from home. Fearing the police, and dealing with Daniel's new telekinetic power, the boys head to Mexico. Each stop on their journey brings new friends and new challenges.
Why similar: Choices Matter 32.9%, LGBTQ+ 17.6%, Story Rich 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Adventure 8.6%
- #35 Life is Strange - Episode 1
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 175,606 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: Choices Matter 28%, Female Protagonist 17.1%, Story Rich 14.2%, Mystery 7.3%, Multiple Endings 6.8%
- #36 The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit
75% matchVery Positive93% of 15,074 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 42.3%, Story Rich 19.5%, Adventure 15.6%, Atmospheric 9.8%, Emotional 4.6%
- #37 The Expanse: A Telltale Series
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,875 reviews2023
Dev: Deck NinePub: Telltale
Windows
Median: 5.7 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, Choices Matter 18.9%, LGBTQ+ 12.4%, Female Protagonist 11.9%, Adventure 9.7%
- #38 a new life.
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,420 reviews2020
Dev: Angela He
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 1.2 hrs≥1hr: 37%
When your loved one hurts you, what do you do? A classic love story about letting go.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 47.2%, Emotional 14.3%, Romance 12.2%, Female Protagonist 9.8%, Choices Matter 8.7%
- #39 Dreamfall Chapters
74% matchVery Positive82% of 4,524 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 15.8%, Cinematic 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Female Protagonist 12.6%, Emotional 10%
- #40 Syberia: The World Before
72% matchVery Positive90% of 5,031 reviews2022
Dev: Microids Studio ParisPub: Microids
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Embark on a quest for identity through time, as you piece together the puzzle of two lives.
Why similar: Cinematic 23.7%, Female Protagonist 14.3%, Emotional 13.3%, Mystery 10.3%, Choices Matter 8.4%
- #41 Set Yourself on Fire
69% matchVery Positive98% of 362 reviews2026
Dev: Denhop
Windows · Mac · Linux
A quiet town awaits death. Two young women fall in love.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 35.9%, Cinematic 13.7%, Romance 11.6%, Female Protagonist 11.5%, Emotional 10.4%
- #42 Road 96 🛣️
71% matchVery Positive92% of 26,081 reviews2021
Dev: DigixartPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 7.5 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 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Emotional 15.6%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Story Rich 9.2%
- #43 Last Stop
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 369 reviews2021
Dev: Variable StatePub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Last Stop is a single-player third-person adventure set in present day London, where you play as three separate characters whose worlds collide in the midst of a supernatural crisis.
Why similar: Adventure 28.4%, Narrative 16.2% ★, Story Rich 15.3%, Emotional 13.5%, Mystery 13.1%
- #44 Marvel's Spider-Man 2
70% matchVery Positive83% of 45,622 reviews2025
Dev: Insomniac GamesPub: PlayStation Publishing LLC
Windows
Median: 26.0 hrsMean: 30.2 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Be Greater. Together. The incredible power of the symbiote forces Peter Parker and Miles Morales into a desperate fight as they balance their lives, friendships, and their duty to protect in an exciting chapter of the critically acclaimed Spider-Man franchise on PC.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 30.5%, Action 18%, Third Person 16.4%, Adventure 13.5%, Story Rich 12.5%
- #45 OXENFREE II: Lost Signals
71% matchVery Positive88% of 2,070 reviews2023
Dev: Night School StudioPub: Netflix
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 11.3 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Supernatural 17%, Narrative 13.8% ★, Choices Matter 12.9%, Female Protagonist 11.1%
- #46 Winds of Change
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 592 reviews2019
Dev: Klace
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Lead The Rebellion, build your army, and shape the world with your choices. A story-heavy adventure game with multiple endings, romance options, and non-linear storytelling. A vast fantasy world waiting to be explored. Inspired by Dragon Age, and Mass Effect. Fully voice acted by a stellar cast!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 38.8%, Choices Matter 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Romance 11.8%, Story Rich 6.9%
- #47 Heatwave: Sam's Stay
67% matchVery Positive95% of 616 reviews2026
Dev: CodyFord
Windows · Mac · Linux
Step into Sam’s shoes and guide him through a summer of self-discovery, complicated relationships, and unexpected desires that will change everything.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 51.8%, Cinematic 8.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.4%, Choices Matter 8.1%, Romance 5.8%
- #48 Chasing Sunsets
68% matchVery Positive93% of 1,112 reviews2024
Dev: Stone Fox Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 31.3 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Choices Matter 18.7%, Romance 12.5%, Cinematic 8.7%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
- #49 Dragon Age™: The Veilguard
69% matchMixed68% of 44,908 reviews2024
Dev: BioWarePub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 33.7 hrsMean: 48.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Unite the Veilguard and defy the gods in Dragon Age™: The Veilguard, an immersive single-player RPG.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 70.6%, Romance 5.9%, Third Person 5.1%, Choices Matter 4.2%, Story Rich 3%
- #50 The Casting of Frank Stone™
70% matchMixed62% of 5,963 reviews2024
Dev: Supermassive GamesPub: Behaviour Interactive Inc.
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The shadow of Frank Stone looms over Cedar Hills, a town forever altered by his violent past. As a group of young friends are about to discover, Stone’s blood-soaked legacy cuts deep, leaving scars across families, generations, and the very fabric of reality itself.
Why similar: Choices Matter 20.4%, Cinematic 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Supernatural 9.3%
- #51 Lost & Found: A This Bed We Made Story
66% matchVery Positive94% of 399 reviews2026
Dev: Lowbirth Games
Windows
Lost & Found is a standalone, short story game taking place aboard a 1960s transatlantic ship. Play as Sophie Roy in her new job as a stewardess, and help solve a curious series of thefts in this narrative-driven mystery set after the events of This Bed We Made.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.6%, Cinematic 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Emotional 9.9%
- #52 Solstice
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 191 reviews2016
Dev: MoaCube
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Solstice is a dystopian mystery visual novel about small personal disasters that turn into great catastrophes.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Female Protagonist 10%, Romance 8.7%
- #53 Life After Magic
69% matchVery Positive98% of 284 reviews2023
Dev: Team StarlightPub: Chirashi Games
Windows · Linux
Can you save magic before the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve? Life After Magic is a queer, retro visual novel that follows jaded ex-magical girls as they reconnect, deal with young adulthood, and face off against one last threat before Y2K hits.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 44%, Female Protagonist 14.6%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Romance 11.3%, Story Rich 8.2%
- #54 Tides of Tomorrow 🌊
66% matchVery Positive87% of 695 reviews2026
Dev: DigixartPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 71%
From the creators of Road 96 comes a groundbreaking solo narrative adventure where other players’ choices matter. Follow in your friends’ footsteps, face the consequences of their actions, and decide the fate of a plasticpunk world.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.8%, Choices Matter 19.2%, Emotional 16.9%, Multiple Endings 9.4%, Stylized 8.4%
- #55 Echoes of the End: Enhanced Edition
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,888 reviews2025
Dev: Myrkur GamesPub: Deep Silver
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Embark on a perilous journey to rescue your brother and prevent a looming war. Harness the power of devastating magical abilities to conquer enemies, traverse treacherous landscapes, and unveil the hidden history of Aema.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 20.9%, Third Person 15.9%, LGBTQ+ 13.4%, Story Rich 9.6%, Mystery 9.1%
- #56 Growing Up
68% matchVery Positive88% of 3,699 reviews2021
Dev: Vile Monarch
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
This is the story of your life. Experience the entire journey from toddler to adulthood. Go to schools, learn new things, meet new friends, and have wild adventures! Every choice you make will influence your future career, and decide who your romantic partner will be. Who will you become?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.8%, Choices Matter 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Emotional 15.9%, Story Rich 7.3%
- #57 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: LGBTQ+ 45.6%, Choices Matter 22.7%, Story Rich 13.5%, Romance 7.8%, Female Protagonist 4.8%
- #58 Return to Ash
65% matchVery Positive99% of 143 reviews2025
Dev: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
“The hospital was empty. Quiet, and brighter than usual... like waking up on a snow day. But I didn't feel cold. I didn't feel much of anything.”
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 34.3%, Emotional 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Female Protagonist 7.3%
- #59 Dispatch
62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 182,678 reviews2025
Dev: AdHoc Studio
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 12.3 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 30.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Cinematic 17.3%, Romance 11.1%, Story Rich 10.6%
