- #1 Blake: The Visual Novel
97% matchVery Positive90% of 62 reviews2021
Dev: Ori MeesPub: LegendOri Productions
Windows · Mac
Graphic Novel meets Visual Novel in this story-rich, choice-driven thriller. Experience Blake’s journey as he encounters a clandestine nemesis, sparking a series of events that force him to choose between losing his sanity or rising to the challenge. Make the right decisions and save New Stone.
Why similar: Noir 21.1%, Comic Book 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Visual Novel 10.2%
- #2 Mothmen 1966
96% matchVery Positive91% of 320 reviews2022
Dev: LCB Game StudioPub: Chorus Worldwide Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Mothmen 1966 is a 'Pixel Pulp' - a visual novel fusing exceptional writing and stunning illustration, inspired by mid-20th century pulp fiction and 80s home computer graphics - set amongst the strange occurrences of the Leonid meteor shower of 1966.
Why similar: Noir 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Visual Novel 11%, Choices Matter 7.9%
- #3 Home
95% matchVery Positive100% of 144 reviews2025
Dev: Mr.Spoon
Windows
A game about the short journey of a boy who left home. Experience a dense story in around 2 hours, along with rhythm gameplay and music puzzles. Enjoy live acoustic sounds and a story that feels like a musical film!
Why similar: Visual Novel 48.7%, Story Rich 23.1%, Drama 12.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%, 2D 6%
- #4 Neo Cab
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,815 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: Noir 24.7%, Comic Book 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
- #5 End of Lines
94% matchVery Positive93% of 70 reviews2023
Dev: Nova-box
Windows · Mac · Linux
Travel across landscapes devastated by a catastrophic climate meltdown, following a small family in search of somewhere habitable. With limited supplies and facing potential death at every turn, your choices will decide their fate. Will they manage to settle down?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Comic Book 17.8%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Choices Matter 11.7%
- #6 This Is Not Your House
93% matchVery Positive87% of 258 reviews2024
Dev: Cody Tierson (Trash Eyes)Pub: Trash Eyes
Windows
Crush someone's skull, Suffer from Hypothermia, Transcend your Mortal Frame, Find all 10 Endings. GET YOUR HOUSE BACK.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
- #7 QUIET DAN
92% matchVery Positive94% of 1,412 reviews2025
Dev: ВСЖ
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
His name is Dan. He is an ordinary guy who works as a floor washer. However, soon in his life there are events that forever change his fate and push him on the path of crime... A chilling thriller in visual novel format.
Why similar: Noir 33.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Thriller 12.1%, Crime 9.3%
- #8 STAY
94% matchMixed68% of 567 reviews2018
Dev: Appnormals Team
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time. While you sleep, he is alone. When you return to your PC he has hope. Your encouragement and advice will be the difference between his salvation or despair.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Thriller 12.1%, Visual Novel 10.7%
- #9 YOUR HOUSE
91% matchVery Positive87% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: PATRONES & ESCONDITES
Windows · Mac
A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.
Why similar: Noir 22.3%, Comic Book 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Thriller 10.4%
- #10 Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
91% matchVery Positive92% of 2,845 reviews2021
Dev: DigiTales InteractivePub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
Why similar: Noir 29%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Thriller 9.7%, Choices Matter 9.7%
- #11 If only I could go home early
90% matchVery Positive93% of 148 reviews2023
Dev: 五十游戏Pub: NPC Entertainment
Windows
This is a pixel-style puzzle game. It tells about a white-collar worker in his thirties who is doing well in a big city. His career is on the rise, and he has a house, a cat, and a lovely wife. But one night, his wife started pretending to be dead…
Why similar: Multiple Endings 36.3%, Story Rich 21.1%, Pixel Graphics 16.2%, Stylized 16.1%, Casual 10.3%
- #12 Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 33,269 reviews2020
Dev: Nikita KryukovPub: Nikita Igorevich Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 11%
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Why similar: Visual Novel 50%, Interactive Fiction 37.1%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%, Story Rich 5.9%, Indie 0.4%
- #13 The Outcast Lovers
89% matchMixed66% of 85 reviews2020
Dev: ChardPub: Far Few Giants
Windows · Mac
Driving home late one night you encounter a refugee in distress. They are looking for salvation. Do you hand them over to violent authorities? Or risk sheltering them yourself?
Why similar: Comic Book 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.8%
- #14 Home
89% matchMixed67% of 1,774 reviews2012
Dev: BancyCo
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Home is a unique horror adventure set in a beautifully-realized pixel world. It’s a murder mystery with a twist—because you decide what ultimately happens.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.2%, Multiple Endings 24.2%, Pixel Graphics 15.3%, Thriller 14.1%, Story Rich 5.2%
- #15 KRAMPEN
85% matchVery Positive91% of 443 reviews2023
Dev: GMD13
Windows
Immerse yourself in the winter forest and help a lost soul to find a piece of itself. What is awaiting you there.. or who?
Why similar: Noir 28.9%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Thriller 12%, Choices Matter 10%
- #16 It Paints Me
84% matchVery Positive97% of 245 reviews2024
Dev: ENDYSIS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Take the role of a painter struggling to finish his masterpiece in this short Gothic horror visual novel about art, pain and love.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Story Rich 10%
- #17 Cyber City 2157: The Visual Novel
88% matchMixed53% of 222 reviews2016
Dev: HarotobiraPub: Sometimes You
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Feel the mysterious world of Molds and the City where the sun never sets. Look for clues, make decisions and follow your own path in the Cyber City 2157.
Why similar: Visual Novel 39.6%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Stylized 11.3%, Story Rich 10.9%, 2D 9.6%
- #18 2064: Read Only Memories
86% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,665 reviews2015
Dev: MidBoss, LLC.Pub: Chorus Worldwide Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure set in Neo-San Francisco. Team up with Turing, the world's first sapient machine, to unravel a conspiracy that threatens to shake an entire society
Why similar: Noir 23.8%, Comic Book 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
- #19 The Red Strings Club
84% matchVery Positive94% of 13,919 reviews2018
Dev: DeconstructeamPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy.
Why similar: Choices Matter 29.6%, Pixel Graphics 20.4%, Story Rich 19.8%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Atmospheric 6.7%
- #20 No Questions Asked
83% matchVery Positive94% of 83 reviews2023
Dev: Troubadour Collective
Windows
A neo-noir point&click thriller about a delivery service for illegal goods. Play as a Courier who—after hours—has to solve the mystery of his friend's disappearance. Visit various locations, collect clues, navigate branching dialogue options, and hurry as time is not on your side.
Why similar: Noir 38.8%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Thriller 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 5.8%
- #21 Let Bions Be Bygones
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 122 reviews2024
Dev: Bohemian PulpPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
Why similar: Noir 28.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
- #22 Midnight Ramen
81% matchVery Positive97% of 381 reviews2024
Dev: Cointinue Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
In Midnight Ramen, you play as the owner of a late-night ramen stand and his apprentice. You interact with your customers, listen to their troubles, and help them out whenever you can. But as the bowls of ramen are cooked and served, troubles are beginning to brew in your own life as well...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.4%, Visual Novel 31.4%, Story Rich 13.2%, 2D 7.6%, Atmospheric 5.8%
- #23 Retention
86% matchMostly Negative35% of 708 reviews2015
Dev: Sometimes You
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
This game is about a person who kept running through his life, never looking back at the past. Once during a trip, he gets into trouble. Now he's lying on the cold ground, buried beneath his bicycle. Slides of various moments fly through his head.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30%, Interactive Fiction 29.5%, Visual Novel 23%, 2D 6.7%, Casual 5.4%
- #24 Insects Awaken
79% matchVery Positive90% of 458 reviews2025
Dev: HelloMeow
Windows · Mac
Insects Awaken is a puzzle visual novel set in the 1940s. It follows the story of Chen Shan, a young man entangled in espionage while defending his family and homeland. He embarks on a journey between the isolated cities of Chongqing and Shanghai, braving the chaos of war with his passion and youth.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Multiple Endings 12.6%
- #25 回门 Way Back Home
82% matchMostly Positive72% of 519 reviews2021
Dev: 漫森游戏工作室
Windows
"Way back home" is a 2D horizontal board horror puzzle game. It takes the Republic of China period from 1905 to 1926 as the background of the times. With a large number of exquisite original paintings, rich playing methods, excellent music and dubbing, delicate script and narrative game style, it creates a strong historical...
Why similar: Thriller 29.4%, Visual Novel 26.2%, Story Rich 16.2%, 2D 13.6%, Atmospheric 7.3%
- #26 Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 228 reviews2021
Dev: Mad About PandasPub: Versus Evil
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Hitchhiker is a mystery game set along lost highways, where your goal is to solve the puzzle of your own backstory.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.1%, Visual Novel 23.1%, Story Rich 23%, Atmospheric 10.9%, Casual 3.3%
- #27 Absurd Story: Back Home
78% matchPositive100% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: HcAndersen
Windows
A runaway wanderer, a frail Taoist priest, who want to return to their hometown at the end of the world. But when they step into the empty city, they are swept into the dead ruins…
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Multiple Endings 20.8%, Story Rich 15.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.9%, Thriller 10.8%
- #28 Loretta
78% matchVery Positive93% of 421 reviews2023
Dev: BonereadersPub: DANGEN Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.
Why similar: Noir 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Thriller 8.2%
- #29 Grizzly Man
77% matchVery Positive90% of 60 reviews2024
Dev: LCB Game Studio
Windows
1983, Alaska... During the Salmon Run, a deadly figure known as The Grizzly Man terrorizes a group of tourists led by Bob, an amnesiac former Man in Black. Survive the journey or become the catch of the day in this breathtaking pixel-art interactive fiction with heart-pounding pace!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Visual Novel 18%, Thriller 10.1%, Stylized 6.6%
- #30 it's always monday
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 291 reviews2016
Dev: Alon Zubina
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 32%
it's always monday - is a first person exploration game
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 41.6%, Visual Novel 25.8%, Story Rich 13.4%, Drama 9.2%, Atmospheric 6%
- #31 To Make a Game
77% matchVery Positive91% of 77 reviews2022
Dev: TheBluePenguin
Windows · Linux
A short meta story about the struggles of procrastination, and never finishing the things you start. Help motivate me, and give me the confidence I need to finish something.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.3%, Visual Novel 24.7%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%, Casual 8.3%
- #32 PIGBLUE
76% matchVery Positive93% of 84 reviews2023
Dev: Fatih Mert
Windows · Mac · Linux
A stranger arrives at a quiet and isolated town... PIGBLUE.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.4%, Visual Novel 27%, Noir 25%, Drama 5.2%, Pixel Graphics 5%
- #33 Make Good Choices
74% matchVery Positive87% of 619 reviews2025
Dev: TN Games
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 1.6 hrs≥1hr: 40%
You’re just trying to get home. It’s only a quarter mile. One street. What could go wrong.
Why similar: Choices Matter 83.3%, Casual 14.7%, Singleplayer 1.1%, Indie 0.9%
- #34 If Found...
75% matchVery Positive90% of 2,299 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: Visual Novel 35%, Interactive Fiction 28%, Story Rich 11%, Stylized 10.3%, Casual 9.2%
- #35 Bad Dream: Coma
75% matchVery Positive91% of 2,208 reviews2017
Dev: Desert Fox
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Welcome in Bad Dream: Coma. A point & click game where unique minimalistic art style creates an unforgettable and atmospheric experience. Travel through the surreal and disturbing dreamland where everything depends on your actions. You can't die but you can suffer greatly...
Why similar: Choices Matter 35.2%, Multiple Endings 34.8%, Story Rich 15.3%, Atmospheric 8%, Casual 4.6%
- #36 Martial Law
73% matchVery Positive92% of 3,854 reviews2021
Dev: FIXER
Windows · Mac · Linux
Martial Law is a game about difficulties that came with Communism in Poland. The story is shown from the perspective of a man who is abandoned because of his low social status. He tries his best to be there for his daughter despite the difficulties.
Why similar: Choices Matter 21.8%, Multiple Endings 21.2%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Pixel Graphics 15.7%, Story Rich 10.4%
- #37 Bahnsen Knights
73% matchVery Positive97% of 89 reviews2023
Dev: LCB Game StudioPub: Chorus Worldwide Games
Windows · Mac
1986, Tornado Alley, USA… Go undercover as Boulder, an agent infiltrating the notorious religious cult known as the Bahnsen Knights. Face off against occultists, biblical storms, and an enigmatic car salesman turned preacher as you investigate the disappearance of a fellow agent and close friend.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Thriller 12.5%, Choices Matter 9.7%
- #38 The Crown of Leaves
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,224 reviews2018
Dev: LingrimmPub: The Broken Horn
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Roui, a resilient city dandy, a half-educated jeweler and the author of scientific magic articles, was met with a colossal failure and must return to his homeland Latori.
Why similar: Visual Novel 38.4%, Choices Matter 23.7%, Story Rich 15.2%, 2D 9.2%, Atmospheric 6.8%
- #39 TOMORROW DON'T COME - Puzzling Depression
76% matchVery Positive82% of 192 reviews2018
Dev: Peace & Love Games
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 34%
TOMORROW DON'T COME is a contextual puzzle game about depression and how it feels to be stuck.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.9%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Multiple Endings 16.4%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Casual 7.1%
- #40 Nobody Wants to Die
71% matchVery Positive84% of 6,806 reviews2024
Dev: Critical Hit GamesPub: PLAION
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Lose yourself in the dystopian world of New York, 2329; immortality comes at a price that someone has to pay. In this interactive noir story, lead the investigation using advanced technology, as Detective James Karra who risks it all in pursuit of a serial killer targeting the city’s elite.
Why similar: Noir 35.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Thriller 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
- #41 I Write Games Not Tragedies
70% matchVery Positive100% of 53 reviews2025
Dev: Studio WifePub: Yotsuba Interactive
Windows
An emo-inspired narrative rhythm game exploring growing pains, addiction, romance and music. Scream with Ash as he makes the transition from baby bat to elder emo, guide him through his crash outs and help him navigate his (teenage) dirtbag life through music.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.7%, Visual Novel 27.9%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Story Rich 9.9%, Stylized 9%
- #42 Tron: Identity
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 292 reviews2023
Dev: Bithell Games
Windows · Mac
Something has been taken. Enter a new Grid and forge alliances via visual novel gameplay, uncovering truths through Identity Disc puzzles. Make critical decisions and plot your own course in a world without a creator.
Why similar: Noir 25.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
- #43 One Eleven
72% matchVery Positive82% of 113 reviews2023
Dev: Kitten Purradise Studios
Windows
One eleven is a dark detective story about twelve lonely people who, by chance, find themselves in the same house with a mad maniac. Who will be the victim and who will be the killer? Be attentive and courageous, and solve the riddles of One Eleven.
Why similar: Noir 30.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Visual Novel 15%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
- #44 Oneiro Man
70% matchVery Positive100% of 59 reviews2024
Dev: Izi Studios
Windows
Oneiro is an office worker who is forced to stay up all night writing reports to avoid losing his job. The game combines typing mechanics with various mini-games. It’s a 30-40 minute experience with multiple endings depending on your performance.
Why similar: Comic Book 55.2%, Multiple Endings 21.8%, Casual 10.7%, 2D 7.3%, Story Rich 3.8%
- #45 The Wanderer: Frankenstein’s Creature
73% matchVery Positive83% of 349 reviews2019
Dev: La Belle GamesPub: ARTE France
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Experience the Myth of Frankenstein through the innocent eyes of his creature. Make decisions and change people's view that you will meet on your way. Now, the myth is in your hands, so how are you going to end it?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
- #46 Backspace Backspace Backspace
70% matchVery Positive97% of 60 reviews2024
Dev: Blue Tango Street
Windows · Mac
In an AI-powered age where original authors have become largely redundant, play as a dejected writer on the brink of losing their creative drive forever.
Why similar: Visual Novel 30.3%, Interactive Fiction 29.5%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Story Rich 9.8%
- #47 Death Drive
68% matchVery Positive97% of 96 reviews2025
Dev: LunaticMoon
Windows
Death Drive is a road trip visual novel inspired by classic American Gothic fiction.
Why similar: Noir 32.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Choices Matter 9%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
- #48 INFINITY DEADLINE
68% matchVery Positive95% of 59 reviews2026
Dev: YvelRevo
Windows
Play as 25yo writer Jian Xun in a 5-min deadline loop. Your script is alive! In this thriller puzzle, use "keyframe sorting" to piece stories. Fight AI, break the 4th wall & escape the nightmare!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.5%, Comic Book 25.7%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Multiple Endings 14.8%, Stylized 8.6%
- #49 Dry Drowning
71% matchVery Positive81% of 512 reviews2019
Dev: Studio VPub: Leonardo Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Dry Drowning is a psychological investigative visual novel set in a futuristic dystopian city. Follow the story of Mordred Foley, unscrupulous private detective haunted by his dark past, and look into a series of macabre serial killings inspired by Greek mythology.
Why similar: Noir 30.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Thriller 10.3%
- #50 Roadwarden
67% matchVery Positive94% of 4,990 reviews2022
Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9%
- #51 BLUE NIGHT LAUNDROMAT
68% matchVery Positive84% of 51 reviews2024
Dev: polte
Windows
A short 2D exploration adventure in a retro style! Explore a laundromat in the middle of the night and try to clear it!
Why similar: Visual Novel 37%, Choices Matter 22.4%, Pixel Graphics 15.9%, 2D 11.2%, Atmospheric 7.4%
- #52 Depression The Game
71% matchMixed69% of 310 reviews2018
Dev: DeepWorks Studios
Windows
Depression The Game is an interactive game simulating major depression. You are joining a young man on one of his really bad days trying to handle his thoughts and survive that day... Will he?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.2%, Visual Novel 22.6%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Story Rich 9.9%
- #53 Degraman: Act I. Vincent
69% matchVery Positive83% of 192 reviews2021
Dev: NamNorm
Windows · Mac · Linux
An otome visual novel - play a powerless victim of a terrifying, unfair world. 200+ choices, 50+ endings, 20+ hours of play - and only one way to escape.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.7%, Thriller 18.6%, Multiple Endings 18.3%, Choices Matter 16%, Story Rich 10.3%
- #54 ROAD59 A Yakuza’s Last Stand
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 63 reviews2025
Dev: 株式会社ロケットスタジオPub: Bushiroad Inc.
Windows
Born as the heir to a crime syndicate, yet longing for an ordinary and peaceful life, the kind-hearted protagonist fights desperately to protect their loved ones. Set against a backdrop of towering skyscrapers, this visual novel weaves together the lives of 23 characters in a modern-day legend.
Why similar: Comic Book 29.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Crime 6.9%
- #55 Soul Gambler
69% matchVery Positive87% of 2,718 reviews2014
Dev: Ilex GamesPub: Gamestorming
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Soul Gambler puts YOU in the role of Faust, an ordinary young man living in the present day whose DESTINY is about to be change forever.
Why similar: Visual Novel 53.4%, Choices Matter 23.7%, Multiple Endings 16.5%, Story Rich 4.7%, Indie 1.1%
- #56 We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe
67% matchVery Positive88% of 138 reviews2023
Dev: Act Zero
Windows
‘We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe’ is a socially engaged, text-based RPG about a journalist looking for his big break by uncovering the plights of refugees travelling from Africa to Europe. It is a story inspired by true events.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.5%, Multiple Endings 14.5%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Story Rich 8.7%
- #57 BatteryNote
64% matchVery Positive100% of 203 reviews2025
Dev: 72studioPub: room6
Windows · Mac
BatteryNote is a multi-ending sci-fi adventure visual novel game. You can recharge three robots with limited lifespans, bringing them back to life. Interact with them through conversations or experiment by applying high voltage. How they spend their final moments is entirely up to you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 35.8%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Story Rich 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.9%
- #58 Wait! Life is beautiful!
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 256 reviews2020
Dev: [DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]Pub: GameNet
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 66%
W!LiB! is an interactive psychological thriller about suicide, based on personal experience. This is a story about a void in the soul, about search and loss of the life purpose in trying to save oneself and others. This is a life that can be lived your own way. For any life is beautiful... isn’t it?
Why similar: Multiple Endings 32.3%, Story Rich 17.8%, Pixel Graphics 17.7%, 2D 13.8%, Atmospheric 8.4%
- #59 Snowfall's Mystery
65% matchVery Positive87% of 112 reviews2025
Dev: Sempiternal Rain
Windows
A psychological interactive novel about a floppy disk with a mysterious program. Help Elliot cope with his mental issues and uncover the secret of the floppy disk.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%