- #1 SiTAS: Somewhere in time and space
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 6Magic Lab
Windows · Mac
Step into Farra’s shoes and begin a journey only you can understand. Collect topics, connect with others, and try to stop them from falling into the unknown. In a seemingly endless loop, move toward a fate waiting to be understood — and find yourself again.
Why similar: Time Travel 28.6% ★, Nonlinear 14.6%, Robots 9.6%, Text-Based 9.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%
- #2 Telvoikai
96% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Corvaena Games LLC
Windows · Mac
You've been tasked with collecting data on an alien planet. Choose between exploring the jungle tropics or navigating deep into the bioluminescent sea.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Text-Based 12%, Visual Novel 10%
- #3 Silk and Secrets: Rites of Pleasure
96% match3 user reviews25% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
Infiltrate the orgiastic secret society beneath the modern-day Palace of Versailles! Will you expose their sex rituals or surrender to their pleasures? An interactive romance novel.
Why similar: Text-Based 18%, Lore-Rich 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, RPG 12.9%
- #4 Paradox Factor
95% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Alter your past and future in this thought-provoking and edgy time travel game. Are you willing to live with the effects that your changes may cause?
Why similar: Time Travel 46.2% ★, Text-Based 18.6%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.4%
- #5 风信楼
94% matchVery Positive94% of 3,659 reviews2021
Dev: Pingfang Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
昏君误国,怨声载道,无数野心家暗起反心。在京城一家青楼的掩饰下,你培养手下、积攒钱财、收集情报、建立人脉,等待兵变夺权的最好时机……《风信楼》是一部拥有海量选项和丰富剧情的高自由度养成游戏——百种不同结局,尽在你的选择之中。
Why similar: Martial Arts 19.6% ★, Alternate History 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Lore-Rich 9.3%, Text-Based 9%
- #6 Taimanin Asagi
94% matchVery Positive86% of 174 reviews2023
Dev: LilithPub: Shiravune
Windows
A classic visual novel about a demon-slaying ninja. Asagi was the strongest Taimanin in Tokyo, but after completing her last mission, she just wants to settle down and marry her lover Kyousuke. Her old nemesis has other plans, however, and creeps back from the dead to seek vengeance...
Why similar: Ninja 34.8% ★, Martial Arts 17.8% ★, Visual Novel 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.4%, Female Protagonist 7.3%
- #7 Re:Curse
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Elseth GamesPub: Papertrail Studios
Windows · Mac
A time-travel mystery visual novel about found-family, connections, and hope in dark times.
Why similar: Time Travel 35.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Romance 8.5%, Female Protagonist 7.6%
- #8 Ink and Intrigue
92% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2024
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
Heed magic’s call! Find love as you explore ancient mysteries, craft dragon-rune tattoos, and discover your true loyalties. What passions shape your path?
Why similar: Text-Based 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Lore-Rich 13.3%, RPG 12.5%
- #9 シノビザムライ/Shinobi Samurai
91% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: MIZUBLUE GAMES
Windows
The item passed around the pawn shop turns out to be a Time Capsule, a drug that will send you to the present day...! This is a story about the youth of the shinobi and kunoichi who are after it, and the samurai who help them! It's a slightly unusual visual novel adventure!
Why similar: Ninja 27.2% ★, Time Travel 23.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
- #10 Dr. Kinderwood's Asylum
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Richday
Windows · Mac · Linux
Decide the fate of the son of a tailor and a witch doctor infected with an incurable disease in an interactive story with multiple endings depending on your actions.
Why similar: Nonlinear 17.2%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Text-Based 13%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Multiple Endings 11%
- #11 Devil on Your Shoulder
90% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
See your name in lights on Broadway! Find fame, fortune, and true love! All it costs is your immortal soul.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.9%, Lore-Rich 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Romance 10%
- #12 Choice of Robots
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,000 reviews2014
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Your robots will change the world! Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army? A 300,000-word epic interactive sci-fi novel.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Robots 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Choices Matter 11.8%
- #13 The Soul Stone War 2
89% matchPositive89% of 28 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Overcome all obstacles by trusting in your own strength, the power of your Soul Stone, and your loyal companions. Become the legend you were born to be.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.9%, Lore-Rich 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Romance 11%
- #14 When Silence Fell
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Maximilian Niebuhr
Windows
This grim interactive novel takes you directly into a period full of dread and peril - the Thirty Years' War in the 17th century!
Why similar: Time Travel 17% ★, Text-Based 14.7%, Nonlinear 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%
- #15 Into Oblivion
87% 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: Text-Based 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Lore-Rich 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, RPG 12.3%
- #16 Forbidden Magic
86% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2023
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
Catch a magical arsonist before you lose your heart! Will you romance a rival agent, your hellhound shapeshifter partner, or your boss—an actual devil? A sweet romantic text-based, role playing game.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Lore-Rich 13%, RPG 12.4%
- #17 Nowhere Stars
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio Luna
Windows
A story driven visual novel set in a sci-fi space opera, where you navigate the remnants of humanity through a devastating Temporal War. Survive alien abductions, interstellar conflict and time travel, while making choices that shape desire, power and the survival of the human species.
Why similar: Time Travel 19.2% ★, Alternate History 12.2%, Lore-Rich 11.8%, Nonlinear 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
- #18 Deep Pixel Melancholy
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ok/no
Windows
Deep Pixel Melancholy is a visual novel about being stuck in a time loop inside a far northern city. Unravel the mystery, and decide whether escaping is really worth it.
Why similar: Time Travel 23% ★, Lore-Rich 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Nonlinear 10.2%, Visual Novel 10%
- #19 The Iron and the Oath
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FFire Studio
Windows
A narrative RPG of medieval intrigue and war. As Karl von Aiden, shape your destiny through five chapters of choices that matter. Build attributes, forge alliances, navigate court politics, and face consequences across three story routes and multiple endings.
Why similar: Nonlinear 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Lore-Rich 12.8%, Alternate History 9.5%
- #20 Tower of the Ice Lich
84% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: Arcane Lorelabs
Windows · Mac
A pixelated homage to 16-bit RPGs, this former print-and-play card game has come full circle as a digital experience! Choose your champion, enter the tower, and make wise decisions on your ascent to face the Ice Lich at the top.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.8%, Lore-Rich 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Visual Novel 10.9%
- #21 Legends of Savvarah: Time of Pariah
82% matchVery Positive97% of 142 reviews2024
Dev: ST Sinovar
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are Hidu, a beastman mercenary in a port city. You must survive one very bad day. How? That’s entirely up to you. There are countless ways for events to unfold — and 25 endings.
Why similar: Nonlinear 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choices Matter 9%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
- #22 Heart of Battle
83% matchPositive86% of 21 reviews2022
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
Battle for love as a gladiator in this epic romance of swords and sandals! Win glory, victory, a better life, your freedom - and spark a revolution!
Why similar: Martial Arts 20% ★, Text-Based 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 15%, RPG 12.5%
- #23 Lovely Lady RPG
81% matchVery Positive100% of 90 reviews2025
Dev: DAS POPPY UND MIA KUNSTKOLLEKTIV
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lovely Lady RPG is a visual novel about wandering around and just sort of seeing what life has in store for you. After waking up with a hole in her ceiling, a cosmic space Orb embedded in her chest and no recollection of basically anything, Ghost sets out to continue her life as best she can.
Why similar: Text-Based 23%, Alternate History 14.3%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Lore-Rich 11.7%, RPG 9.7%
- #24 Arcadie II: Cold Lands
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Arcadie & Utopie
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are the Monarch. Choose between diplomacy and tyranny. Romance allies or enemies. Your decisions define your rule and the fate of those closest to you in this character-driven interactive tale.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Romance 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Lore-Rich 9.6%
- #25 Memories of Rachel
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SANDWICH KITCHEN
Windows · Mac
Memories of Rachel is a text adventure game where you pick up keywords called fragments from the protagonist's memories and answer questions to advance the main story. No sudden action sequences, no clicking on maps. But their secrets and the overlap of memories will stick like a thorn in your hear.
Why similar: Time Travel 33.5% ★, Text-Based 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Female Protagonist 8.2%
- #26 Vogvhathos
80% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2023
Dev: Corvaena Games LLC
Windows
As an elf in a panicked flight from home, you discover a more dangerous secret: a human claiming to be a dragon.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Lore-Rich 10%, Romance 9.8%
- #27 Parallel Convergence
79% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: NYEKO Studio
Windows
A time travel project. A group of students. A cat that eats too much. Can you rewrite fate without losing what matters most?
Why similar: Time Travel 41.5% ★, Visual Novel 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%, Sci-fi 7.9%
- #28 Superheroes Inc: #VictoryLeague
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
As a social media influencer recruited to a team of heroes, can you earn their trust, defend the city, and prove you’re worth more than your follower count? A text-based interactive superhero novel.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.6%, Lore-Rich 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, RPG 13.4%
- #29 Witch's Brew: Love and Lattes
78% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
Will you spill the tea about the secret, cozy magical cafe on your college campus? Brew potions and romance on coffee dates with your new friends! A text-based novel of magic and romance, with hundreds of choices and without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, RPG 15.5%, Romance 13.3%
- #30 A Better World
77% matchMixed69% of 59 reviews2025
Dev: LudogramPub: ARTE France
Windows · Mac
A Better World Company is hiring! We’re looking for a skilled new recruit to alter the past and reshape the future! Use our Computer to travel back in time, and make game-changing choices to make the world a better place! You decide what to do… as long as you follow our internal policies.
Why similar: Time Travel 29.5% ★, Alternate History 14.9%, Text-Based 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%
- #31 Veils of the Past
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TangoScarMike Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A psychological mystery where every clue reshapes reality. Unravel the link between a vanished woman and your missing sister, only to discover four entirely different truths, each revealing a new world, a new enemy, and the price of remembering.
Why similar: Time Travel 18% ★, Text-Based 13.8%, Lore-Rich 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%
- #32 Leas: City of the Sun
77% matchPositive100% of 37 reviews2025
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
When a new magic is discovered, it's up to you to unravel the mystery! Find answers from fae and humans, save your city, and maybe even fall in love! A text-based interactive fantasy novel, 400,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, RPG 14.6%, Romance 10.2%
- #33 Fugue of Delights
76% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Enygmage
Windows
A daemonic, handcrafted visual novel where your choices shape erotic dreams, secrets, and ritual desires.
Why similar: Text-Based 13.5%, Lore-Rich 13.2%, Nonlinear 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
- #34 Serania - Path of the Scion
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FableTree Productions
Windows · Mac
Choose, explore, interact, fight, solve, gather, trade! Rise to rebel in this immersive text-based fantasy story that seamlessly merges the best elements of RPGs, choose-your-own-adventure stories, visual novels, and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Nonlinear 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.6%
- #35 Ninja Ordinance
75% matchPositive85% of 46 reviews2024
Dev: OneCoinPub: Saikey Studios
Windows
Join Momijimaru, an elite ninja on a mission of survival in this Stealth ARPG! Sneak past enemies and strike from the shadows—or confront them head-on with a decisive blow! But beware, one wrong move can lead our agent of shadows into many precarious situations!
Why similar: Ninja 36.6% ★, Text-Based 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Romance 10.7%, Choices Matter 6.8%
- #36 Kittengumi Short: Chapter 0
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Guarida Games Studio S.L.
Windows
A short visual novel set in the peculiar universe of Kittengumi. Meet its characters, make decisions, and discover what lies behind this title.
Why similar: Ninja 36.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 12%, Female Protagonist 6.8%
- #37 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
74% 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: Text-Based 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Choices Matter 8.3%
- #38 History of Dragosa
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Violence in Video Games
Windows
A text-based choose your own adventure game, with multiple stories, each with several endings. Stories you create through branching narratives are kept so you can read them again or show them to friends.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Lore-Rich 14.2%, Choices Matter 13%, Interactive Fiction 12%
- #39 The Play's the Thing
74% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2021
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Win fame as a playwright before dark forces bring the curtain down for good! In a city stalked by a deadly curse, how will the power of your pen change the world?
Why similar: Text-Based 15.9%, Alternate History 14.8%, Lore-Rich 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%
- #40 Sound of Summer Thunder: Day 1
72% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Jaxx CorddPub: Electronic Escapades
Windows · Mac · Linux
Kody, a modern gym rat gets zapped by strange lightning and time-travels to 1898. A BARA, choices matter, alternate history, Visual Novel Musical set in the East Coast of USA. LGBTQ+ with romance options.
Why similar: Time Travel 38.6% ★, Alternate History 17.3%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Choices Matter 6.3%
- #41 Love in match
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Factory Trashcension
Windows
Follow Marianne, a young debutante in an alternative Regency England, where unique opportunities arise. Take part in “the great experiment”, as you navigate intrigue, romance, and life-changing decisions. Will you help Marianne find love, secure a prestigious place in high society… or achieve both?
Why similar: Time Travel 23% ★, Text-Based 15.2%, Alternate History 12.8%, Romance 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%
- #42 穿越日记
71% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: 娃哈哈哈 WaHa Works
Windows · Mac
《穿越日记》是一款沉浸式互动剧情游戏,玩家将扮演一名穿越入盛世皇城的现代女性,亲历宫廷风云与权谋博弈。通过选择不同剧情分支,推动故事走向多个结局,体验细腻的人物情感与复杂的人心博弈。支持单人离线游玩,适用于 Windows 和 macOS 平台,适合喜爱剧情向、宫廷题材及互动叙事体验的玩家。
Why similar: Alternate History 14.4%, Lore-Rich 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
- #43 Affairs of the Court: Choice of Romance
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 74 reviews2016
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Plunge into court politics and change the course of history, or pursue a love affair that rocks the kingdom to its foundations!
Why similar: Text-Based 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Choices Matter 12.1%, RPG 12%
- #44 Wizard Confidential
69% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Sling spells and crack the case in a city full of bootleggers, corrupt cops, and vampires. Can you save your partner before a wizard dooms Seattle? A text-based interactive urban fantasy noir novel.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.6%, Alternate History 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, RPG 12.1%
- #45 OMEA
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: AImmersive Pub: AImmersive
Windows
Your words shape the adventure. Omea is a revolutionary AI-powered narrative game where your personal Game Master responds to everything you write. No menus, no limits. Just type and forge your own legend across fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, and beyond.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Lore-Rich 12.9%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, RPG 10.1%
- #46 Villienville. Echoes of Deception
70% matchPositive80% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: JAD Labs
Windows · Mac
A text role-playing game about the fate of a mercenary who finds himself in the strange village: Villienville. Investigate who benefits from the sudden appearance of “ghosts” and help residents protect their homes from a mysterious enemy. The main thing is not to make a mistake in your choice!
Why similar: Text-Based 18.5%, Nonlinear 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Visual Novel 9.3%
- #47 Tempest In A Teapot
71% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: StrandGames
Windows
A choice-based, visual novel with time travelling teapots!
Why similar: Time Travel 23% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Choices Matter 7.7%
- #48 金烬秋明
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 光羽造物
Windows
A visual novel set in an ancient, alternate world. Explore this stormy and unstable country alongside Jiang Jin and Zhaoming, gradually encountering the shifting intrigues of the court. Whether you choose to stay on the sidelines or step forward is up to you
Why similar: Lore-Rich 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Alternate History 14.8%, RPG 12.5%
- #49 Haunted Hearts Hotel
70% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
Check in to your hotel, and check out the ghosts! Sexy specters await you - but can you fix up the hotel in style so that the living guests will find luxury, too?
Why similar: Text-Based 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, RPG 14.5%, Romance 13.5%
- #50 The Fifth Horseman
72% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2019
Dev: Angelo Parodi
Windows
The Fifth Horseman is a narrative adventure game, set in a fantasy-medieval world, where you will experience many unique stories. After years of war, hunger and diseases mankind finds itself on the verge of extinction and it's up to you to decide its fate.
Why similar: RPG 18.7%, Text-Based 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Visual Novel 11.1%
- #51 REPLAY BOYS
69% matchVery Positive95% of 122 reviews2023
Dev: Split Narrative Inc.
Windows · Mac
Band emergency! This was supposed to be Hannah’s day off, but now she’s been roped into managing The Replay Boys, an up-and-coming boy band. Make choices to stoke multi-timeline romances, keep the band from killing each other, and fight a resurrected ’80s pop star ghost. Can you manage?
Why similar: Time Travel 23% ★, Text-Based 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Romance 10.2%
- #52 Pivot of Hearts
68% matchPositive97% of 34 reviews2025
Dev: Dragonroll Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Game developer Wén Xiàn has a second chance at love, but it’s not what he expects. Will he be able to stray off the beaten path and find true happiness? Play your cards right and find out in Pivot of Hearts, a non-monogamous visual novel!
Why similar: Nonlinear 15.5%, Text-Based 13.4%, Romance 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Lore-Rich 11.9%
- #53 X.E.H.A. Rogue
68% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Corvaena Games LLC
Windows · Mac
They steal your crew and force your ship to crash-land on an alien planet where you must start fresh with nothing but a dilapidated base and a... talking cat?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Lore-Rich 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.5%, RPG 10.4%
- #54 Tale of android after the Apocalypse
67% matchPositive84% of 19 reviews2025
Dev: Team Moko App.
Windows
Niluas, an android who suddenly activated 276 years after the extinction of humanity. With her AI, Naive, she seeks lost memories, her activation's mystery, and humanity's extinction's cause. Facing enigmatic foes and hostile androids, she quests for truth about her existence and the desolate world.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Robots 13.2%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
- #55 Poison Noir: Desire, Time & Gangsters
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Team Brunomir
Windows
A breathtaking visual novel that will make you live through two eras filled with love, terrifying mysteries, and bullets. Follow Jake as he travels back and forth between the 90s and the Prohibition era of the 20s, and make choices that will determine his fate.
Why similar: Time Travel 33.8% ★, Romance 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
- #56 Time Space Rebuild
66% matchMostly Positive81% of 435 reviews2025
Dev: INNOVATION DREAM
Windows · Mac
In "Time Rebuild", human civilization stands on the brink of destruction. You will become a time-traveling hero, embarking on a journey to save the world while encountering and bonding with women of vastly different appearances and personalities.
Why similar: Time Travel 25.1% ★, Alternate History 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%, Romance 9.2%
- #57 Lux, City of Secrets
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 31 reviews2021
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
It's time to make a name for yourself in the big city. In this first half of a two-part epic, can you unravel the mysteries of Lux, City of Secrets?
Why similar: Text-Based 23.4%, Lore-Rich 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, RPG 12.5%, Choices Matter 9.7%
- #58 Heavens' Revolution: A Lion Among the Cypress
67% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a Persian steampunk empire, will you use your arcane alchemy to repair a spaceship, or pilot a mech? Ignite a revolution, or snuff it out?
Why similar: Text-Based 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Lore-Rich 14.1%, RPG 13.4%
- #59 Dullpain
67% matchVery Positive85% of 92 reviews2023
Dev: 埋月山枯Pub: East2West Games
Windows
Dullpain is a side-scrolling, interaction, and storytelling game. Playing as Jingwen, a young boss of a long-established repair shop, you need to repair not only everyday items, also memories. You can enjoy dull-pain and breathtaking stories in different time and space and redefine the end of story.
Why similar: Time Travel 29.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Romance 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
- #60 Silent Earth
67% matchPositive84% of 25 reviews2021
Dev: Fring Frang Games
Windows
Silent Earth is a short sci-fi text adventure about finding one’s place despite an uncertain future. Explore an off-world mining colony ship, navigate multi-linear character relationships, and steer the story toward one of five endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Romance 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Multiple Endings 11.5%