- #1 Alcyone: The Last City
97% matchPositive80% of 20 reviews2025
Dev: Strange Artifice
Windows · Mac · Linux
Alcyone: The Last City is an interactive sci-fi novel where your choices can lead to the salvation or destruction of the last refuge of civilisation in the universe. Immerse yourself in a branching narrative of diverse characters, intrigue, and world-altering decisions.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11%, Dystopian 8.9%, Choices Matter 8.5%
- #2 Dream Shark - Pt. 1
96% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Benjamin McCarthyPub: Dream Shark
Windows
An 8-bit sci-fi action-adventure game about learning presence through a child's lucid dream.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Psychological 13.1%, Futuristic 12.5%, Dystopian 11.2%, Emotional 9.9%
- #3 7 Days in Dystopia
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YapabilityPub: Yapability Products
Windows
7 Days in Dystopia is a psychological dystopian game where you experience seven days by playing a series of games, making choices, and facing the consequences of winning and losing in a city where people hide behind masks.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Psychological 16.3%, Dystopian 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.8%
- #4 Astra
95% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Atlas VPub: Astrea
Windows
Embark on ASTRA, a mixed reality journey transforming your room into a spaceship. Follow your late mother's research on a cosmic mission to find life, uncover universal mysteries, and confront personal grief. It blends storytelling, VR, and stunning interactive design.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Futuristic 10.4%, Emotional 8.8%, Adventure 8.7%
- #5 Tempest In A Teapot
94% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: StrandGames
Windows
A choice-based, visual novel with time travelling teapots!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%, Futuristic 9.5%, Sci-fi 8.9%
- #6 Outsider
94% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Galantrix
Windows
Shape humanity's future in a sci-fi narrative game where choices matter. Experience an extraterrestrial contact while deciphering an overarching mystery of far-reaching consequences. Who is the Outsider?
Why similar: Transhumanism 28.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Dialogue Heavy 9.5%, Choices Matter 7.4%
- #7 Obreno: Chapter One
93% matchMostly Positive76% of 17 reviews2020
Dev: Out Of Time Interactive
Windows · Mac
An interactive novel. In the distant future, a search for a missing brother leads to a journey through an intergalactic civilization that may have reached the limits of progress.
Why similar: Transhumanism 28.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Futuristic 9.8%, Sci-fi 7.7%
- #8 StarStruck
92% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Strawberrytail
Windows
Embark on a thrilling journey through this highly engaging science fantasy visual novel with memorable characters and multiple endings. Journey through space, uncover the past and pull off a heist or two as you negotiate the pitfalls of friendship and a crumbling reality. Can you save the universe?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Dialogue Heavy 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, RPG 10.8%
- #9 Soul Diagnosis
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: The J and J Show
Windows
Your patients are dying. The voices in your head are keeping score. Soul Diagnosis is a dialogue-rich isometric cRPG where you are haunted by your mistakes. Navigate a labyrinthine hospital conspiracy, engage in fisticuffs with inanimate objects, and leverage your fractured psyche to survive.
Why similar: Isometric 27%, RPG 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%
- #10 Into Oblivion
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NanoLion
Windows
Into Oblivion is an immerse interactive novel where your choices shape the story. Set in the far-future, explore a galaxy on the brink of crisis with dynamic companions. So, settle your mind and pray you have what it takes to fly Into Oblivion.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, RPG 15.1%, Psychological 12.8%, Adventure 8.5%
- #11 Imperial Bureaucracy Hero
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Munitions Mori
Windows · Mac · Linux
IBH is a rich role playing game at the end of time. You're a mid-level official in a dying sci-fi regime, given the impossible task of fixing a faltering machine; explore a vast world, define your mind, flex your authority, and become a sinner or a savior in countless other stories.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, RPG 13.1%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Sci-fi 8.4%
- #12 Am I Nima
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: HO! Games
Windows · Mac
Am I Nima is a psychological-horror game where you must convince your mom that you really are her daughter. Combine words together in your brain and use them to talk. Get her to trust you.
Why similar: Transhumanism 28.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Dialogue Heavy 16%, Choices Matter 7.6%
- #13 Shifter Labs 4: All & For Good
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RuinTheSalamanderPub: Defied Realities
Windows
An HTML-based, furry TF adventure inspired by CHANGED, made with Harlowe. You find yourself at the bottom of a vast, 200+ layer bunker, you find yourself in a world where everything wants your humanity. Will you escape the Romanya Deep Residence without transforming?
Why similar: Transhumanism 42.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Exploration 4.3%, RPG 4.3%
- #14 Where the City Ends
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: M. P. Studio
Windows
A melancholic atmospheric game about energy management, introversion, and finding peace in an overwhelming modern city. Every decision costs energy. Nature helps you survive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Emotional 11.2%, Adventure 9.2%, Realistic 7.7%
- #15 A Line Held Tight
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Humble Grove
Windows · Mac · Linux
Tensions both political and personal are rising at the Brightworld mining colony. In this dynamic sci-fi visual novel you must decide where your heart and loyalties lie if you’re to shape the future and save yourself.
Why similar: Emotional 19.3%, Dystopian 16%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Futuristic 11.7%
- #16 S.E.X. Project: Simulated Emotional Xenotech
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Witenovastudio OÜ
Windows
Build emotional connections with synthetic beings in a sci-fi facility where every choice shapes their behavior and your fate.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Psychological 12.7%, Emotional 11.5%, Futuristic 11.1%, RPG 7.8%
- #17 The Mossfield Archives
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Any Percent
Windows · Linux
A game about building and exploring connections. Explore a rich vibrant world of diverse people as you figure out what mystery awaits in The Mossfield Archives
Why similar: Transhumanism 39.9% ★, Dialogue Heavy 14%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Sci-fi 7.1%, Emotional 7%
- #18 Guarded by the AI: Painted with Love
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cassie AlexanderPub: Cassie Alexander Studios
Windows
A luxe, high-heat sci-fi romance visual novel where your AI protector and his android counterpart take you to a beach house to ride out a biological nesting cycle—together, and on purpose.
Why similar: Transhumanism 28% ★, Emotional 13%, Psychological 11.1%, Futuristic 10.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%
- #19 BlightFog
84% matchVery Positive88% of 57 reviews2024
Dev: Zakroutil
Windows
Journey across a dying world. Manage your resources. Build relationships with anthropomorphic characters. Find a new home or become a fuel drinking madman.
Why similar: Transhumanism 30.4% ★, Isometric 20.1%, Dialogue Heavy 13.3%, Choices Matter 9.9%, RPG 7.6%
- #20 Missing Pieces
84% matchMostly Positive80% of 44 reviews2022
Dev: QuestYard
Windows
Missing Pieces is a story-driven adventure in a vibrant alien world, full of hidden secrets, a plethora of languages and a sparkling cast of characters: lovable rogues, heartbroken families, and questionable allies. Find friendship and love, learn about yourself and discover who you really are!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Futuristic 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Sci-fi 10%, Choices Matter 9.4%
- #21 Flavor Favor
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Malosi
Windows
Flavor Favor is a soft sci-fi visual novel where you take on the role of a captive fumer, a form of advanced AI humanoid, on the remote island of Tuinu. Your captors insist on having liberated you, but as you gradually recover your memories, a more complex story starts to unfold.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Emotional 13%, Psychological 12.2%, Futuristic 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.7%
- #22 ARCHETYPES - The Rite Of Passage
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dominik Saur
Windows
Discover the depth of your personality while journeying along the path of initiation as the young Viking Olaf. Every choice will impact your environment, and contribute to a map of your archetypal psychology. Embrace your inner warrior, lover, chieftain, and druid - and change the world!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Emotional 12.4%, Psychological 12.2%, RPG 12%, Dialogue Heavy 7.6%
- #23 CYBER EMOJI TALE 2099
82% matchVery Positive88% of 112 reviews2021
Dev: MICROCHELIK5000
Windows
CYBER EMOJI TALE 2099 is a classic RPG with elements of a graphic novel, set in an open rail world with a system of hardcore real-time battles, in the universe of the near future.
Why similar: Transhumanism 35% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Futuristic 13.4%, Sci-fi 9.3%, Choices Matter 8.8%
- #24 Orbital Abyss: Cipher Division
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: JointPoint Studios LLC
Windows
Decipher interstellar transmissions encoded via substitution ciphers aboard Eremite Station. In this choice driven narrative, uncover secrets from planetary factions while conversing with crewmates to reveal their stories and troubles. The ripples of your choices may be felt throughout the galaxy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Futuristic 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Dialogue Heavy 12%
- #25 Rue Valley
79% matchMostly Positive71% of 2,074 reviews2025
Dev: Emotion Spark StudioPub: Owlcat Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Rue Valley is a narrative adventure about a man trapped in a time loop, surrounded by a colorful cast with complex emotional stories, each hiding unexpected secrets. Dealing with mental challenges, the main character must delve into the anomaly to uncover its enigmatic origins.
Why similar: Isometric 19.1%, Psychological 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Emotional 12.7%
- #26 Fixer's Tale
81% matchPositive95% of 19 reviews2024
Dev: Emblem Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A humorous sci-fi text-driven adventure where you play a support engineer sent to fix system failures in a secret research complex. Explore strange labs, investigate bizarre incidents, solve absurd problems, talk to depressed robots, and make choices that lead to multiple endings.
Why similar: Isometric 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11.2%
- #27 Microbial Awakening: Genesis
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameCellStudio
Windows
The human microbiome, activated by an ancient virus, develops self-awareness, creating a conflict between the microbial consciousness and human self-awareness. The protagonist's father is controlled by the awakened microbiome, setting off a series of tragedies.
Why similar: Transhumanism 40% ★, Emotional 11.7%, Dialogue Heavy 9.3%, Interactive Fiction 9%, RPG 8.6%
- #28 Road 96: Mile 0
79% matchMixed68% of 2,092 reviews2023
Dev: Digixart
Windows
Median: 4.0 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 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Dialogue Heavy 14.1%, Dystopian 11.6%, Emotional 10.7%
- #29 XVTM
78% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Mischief and Craft
Windows
The abyss awaits. Descend into a minimalist visual novel about a girl in the future, and guide her through branching conversations, microgames, and explorable locations. Make friends with criminals, drink too much at dinner, or relax in a spa. Whatever happens, it was your choice.
Why similar: Transhumanism 27.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Futuristic 10.4%
- #30 Out of Your Mind
78% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: 32 bitaPub: Udžbenik.hr
Windows
Immerse yourself in a hand-drawn, comic-style visual novel where your choices shape the storyline. Guide Lia through various decisions and emotions that lead to different outcomes. This original story and art present a take on a dystopian world, enhanced by an original soundtrack.
Why similar: Transhumanism 24.5% ★, Psychological 15.6%, Emotional 12%, Dystopian 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 11.8%
- #31 The Wreck
77% matchVery Positive88% of 282 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: Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Choices Matter 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%, Emotional 12.7%
- #32 Sunset Inferno
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Treasured Trash
Windows
Sunset Inferno is a choice-driven narrative adventure where you are a Recycler: a machine built to hunt war deserters. But when a bomb destroys your transport, it also cracks your programming. Uncover who attacked you before your makers decide you've changed too much.
Why similar: Dystopian 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Psychological 13.4%, RPG 9.3%
- #33 Tequila Moonrise
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Black Swan Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Take over a struggling bar on the politically tense Moon Village. Prepare and serve drinks, befriend and help your customers, find your purpose, and maybe even love... all while keeping the bar's lights on in this narrative driven bartending simulator set on the moon.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Sci-fi 8.9%
- #34 Oddware
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Previously Pluto
Windows
Oddware is a science fiction visual novel about androids in space. You play as an android who meets other androids each with a distinct personalities. Your choices with the other androids will not only shape their personalities, but your own as well. Solve puzzles, mysteries, and your own origins.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%, Futuristic 12.2%, Dystopian 11.7%
- #35 ELISEISK 2074
77% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2020
Dev: Indie Ninjas
Windows
The year is 2074. “Spark” organization wants to «establish order» in your hometown of Eliseysk. It’s time to answer the call (of justice) and join the resistance. Will you be the one to shoulder the burden of this mission, and persist in this cruel and dangerous world in order to shape its future?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Futuristic 18.9%, RPG 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 7.6%
- #36 Synapse
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SB Games
Windows · Mac
A cyberpunk atmospheric thriller. Explore a city that measures your every feeling. Question the system, navigate dangerous connections, hack, survive, rely on emotional stimulants, and make choices with lasting consequences.
Why similar: Transhumanism 28.1% ★, Dystopian 15.8%, Psychological 12.3%, Choices Matter 8.9%, Emotional 8.9%
- #37 Penrose
73% matchPositive88% of 33 reviews2023
Dev: doublespeak games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Emotional 13.9%, Psychological 13.4%, Visual Novel 5.6%
- #38 Forgotten Lectures - Fall of a Dynasty - The Beginning
73% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: ForgottenLectures
Windows
Humanity went out to the stars and conquered a decent portion of the known galaxy. While technology advanced society did not necessarily. Greed, the struggle for power and influence is stronger than ever before and while besieged from outside forces there’s no lack of internal strife. -Visual Novel-
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Futuristic 14.8%, Sci-fi 13.7%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Realistic 11.3%
- #39 Woodsalt
75% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2021
Dev: Team Woodsalt
Windows · Mac
"Woodsalt" is an adventure game set on the planet of Nu-Terra, 1000 years after Earth was evacuated during chaotic natural disasters and an attack by giant creatures.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Dialogue Heavy 12.3%, Sci-fi 11.9%, RPG 9.2%
- #40 Everlasting Snooze
73% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2024
Dev: Cyampire
Windows · Mac · Linux
You lost your memory of nothing but a mundane day. But why do mysterious men keep jamming into your life, all of them pointing to the day you forgot? Find out a hypnotherapy clinic receptionist's memory of an insignificant day in this BL visual novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Psychological 14.2%, Dialogue Heavy 14%, Emotional 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.6%
- #41 Bunker 2322
74% matchMixed56% of 34 reviews2022
Dev: DnovelPub: Studio2760
Windows
A visual novel in a post-apocalyptic setting. Find out what happened to humanity, traveling through the deserted world in search of the main character's family.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, RPG 16.7%, Futuristic 12.3%, Adventure 9.5%
- #42 Living Pipes
72% matchMixed45% of 31 reviews2025
Dev: Ashton WaldenPub: Ringling College of Art and Design
Windows
A narrative-driven first-person puzzle game set in the dystopian future of 2080. Take on the role of a maintenance worker investigating strange malfunctions in a crumbling apartment building, where nothing is as it seems.
Why similar: Transhumanism 40.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Dystopian 9.7%, Sci-fi 7.4%, Realistic 6%
- #43 The Gate
72% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Nexus Media
Windows
The Gate is an interactive science fiction graphic novel. At various points in the story, you will be asked to make a choice, these choices will take you down different paths in the story. Your objective as you guide the story is to return back to earth. The game features 3 possible story endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.3%, Sci-fi 14.7%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Adventure 12.6%
- #44 Island of Lost Things
71% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Andrea MendezPub: Indie Game Foundry
Windows
Play as Eric, a spirit medium, who is navigating the space between life and death. Help trapped souls by recovering items from their past, reconnecting them with their lives, and guiding them to make the ultimate decision: return to life or pass on to whatever comes next.
Why similar: Isometric 27.4%, Dialogue Heavy 15.9%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Emotional 12.1%, Psychological 11.4%
- #45 The Way Down
71% matchPositive95% of 40 reviews2024
Dev: Samuel Leigh
Windows
Absurdist Interactive fiction. Talk to the beings that inhabitant the world at its end. We forgot how to die.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Dialogue Heavy 13.2%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Dystopian 9.4%
- #46 Thirty eternal days
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Democratic Games
Windows
Touch the world after the Catastrophe. Remember your life, which has become almost endless. Repent of your past and try to save the future in this sci-fi text-based interactive adventure game.
Why similar: Transhumanism 21.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Dystopian 12.4%, Futuristic 10.8%
- #47 Neospace: Prologue
70% matchVery Positive90% of 59 reviews2024
Dev: DreamStudios
Windows
You wake up in a spaceship, you realize that strange things are going on there, you try to get back to civilization. However, this is harder than you think, the encounters will drive you crazy and you will doubt yourself.
Why similar: Emotional 22.4%, Choices Matter 17.5%, Sci-fi 13%, Space 11.4%, RPG 9.2%
- #48 Take Control
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Maksim Supolnikov
Windows
Take Control is an action game with puzzle elements that takes place in the future. To fully master the ability to control minds a DNM operative will have to pass a series of tests. Your mind is your main weapon!
Why similar: Transhumanism 43.1% ★, Futuristic 19.8%, Sci-fi 16.2%, Dialogue Heavy 8.4%, Puzzle 7.6%
- #49 Whispers of Elysium
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Omnitale
Windows
A former friend needs you to rescue him from an abandoned research station on Mars. Explore the station, engage in interactive dialogues and solve mysteries. What will await you?
Why similar: Transhumanism 18.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Dystopian 11%, Sci-fi 10.8%, Emotional 10%
- #50 Avatar Zero
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AnylightPub: Anvil Studio
Windows
Avatar Zero is a text-based interactive narrative centered around “choice.” Set in a cyberpunk dystopia, you become the subject of a secret experiment. Your entire gameplay consists solely of sequential binary choices. Through continuous choices, you will uncover the truth behind the experiment.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Choices Matter 20.7%, Psychological 12.2%, Dystopian 12.1%, Adventure 9.4%
- #51 Darkly Glass
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BioSignosis
Windows · Linux
Trade your soul for digital fame in this psychological visual novel. As fallen tech mogul Doran White, navigate a treacherous social media landscape. Your choices shape his fate in this hand-drawn, neuroscience-inspired reimagining of Oscar Wilde's classic.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.4%, Dialogue Heavy 20.6%, Psychological 17.4%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Visual Novel 8.2%
- #52 Dimensions of Mind
70% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2022
Dev: Don Dao VGS
Windows
Enter to the characters mind and make decisions. The game is played like interactive movie/adventure game with morality choices which influence the outcome which can be: a manipulative, balanced or violent. The game is based on psychology/philosophy and teaches about thoughts and their consequences.
Why similar: Psychological 18.7%, Dialogue Heavy 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choices Matter 12.7%
- #53 Nexa Tech Laboratory
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DrixounPub: DrixGames
Windows
Mysterious game: puzzles, secrets, and merging technology.
Why similar: Transhumanism 41.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Dialogue Heavy 14.5%, Exploration 6.8%, Sci-fi 6.1%
- #54 The Call of Darkness
66% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: Ace_Games_
Windows · Mac · Linux
A war veteran and newly minted starship captain faces ancient cosmic horrors as his dreams become reality. Navigate romance, mystery, and sacrifice in this sci-fi adult visual novel where every choice echoes beyond the stars. Optional graphic adult content via free DLC.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Psychological 13.4%, Futuristic 12.9%, Emotional 11.2%
- #55 Surreality Check
67% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Absurdity Interactive
Windows
An absurdist, psychological choose your own adventure, Surreality check has the player helping Rowan Roach discover the meaning of his life through therapy sessions with the Universe personified. The Universe being a massive tool doesn't help matters.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Psychological 15.8%, RPG 15.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.1%, Choices Matter 9.2%
- #56 Misgiven
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Symmetry Break Studio
Windows
Misgiven is an emotional sci-fi adventure about the lump in your throat. Stranded in a city veiled in toxic fog, take on a stranger's mask to survive. Wrestle with your thoughts in a tangible dialogue system. Struggle to keep up the facade, or dare to drop it, to find allies as a harbinger of doom.
Why similar: Psychological 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Emotional 13.9%, Futuristic 11.6%, Sci-fi 11%
- #57 State of Mind
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 2,288 reviews2018
Dev: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
State of Mind is a futuristic thriller game delving into transhumanism. The game explores themes of separation, disjuncture and reunification, in a world that is torn between a dystopian material reality and a utopian virtual future.
Why similar: Transhumanism 30% ★, Futuristic 19.5%, Sci-fi 17.3%, Dystopian 14%, Interactive Fiction 7.4%
- #58 The Laws of Probability
65% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: Unspoken
Windows
You have exactly 5. Bread is 4, the bus fare to school is 3. What do you give up? In this short narrative experience, you play as 13-year-old Adam. Confront an interface that reacts to a painful reality, and discover that freedom of choice is sometimes nothing but a privilege.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Psychological 17.2%, Emotional 10.3%, Adventure 9.4%
- #59 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
66% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Infinite Zone
Windows
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 24%, Choices Matter 10.9%, RPG 10.3%, Sci-fi 8.8%
- #60 Saturn
65% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,204 reviews2024
Dev: Ninsar Games
Windows
Saturn is a tactical RPG set on the moons of Saturn and on Earth. The protagonist controls robots on the moons of Saturn and explores an underground city where one can find keys to the secrets of deep space.
Why similar: Isometric 27.1%, Futuristic 14.7%, Dialogue Heavy 14.3%, Choices Matter 12.5%, RPG 10.8%