- #1 Cheap Golf
97% matchVery Positive84% of 207 reviews2018
Dev: PixeljamPub: Akupara Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Shoot a golf ball through psychedelic settings while being harassed by an intrusive AI. Put your grasp of physics to the test and try to get a hole-in-one while fighting for your sanity in this surreal take on golfing.
Why similar: Mini Golf 57.3% ★, Surreal 12%, Retro 11.3%, Story Rich 7%, Puzzle 5.8%
- #2 Golf Club Nostalgia
96% matchVery Positive81% of 1,576 reviews2021
Dev: Demagog StudioPub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Human life is wiped out. Earth is now a golf course for the ultra-rich. In this dystopian sports puzzler, play through destroyed brutalist monuments, crumbling shopping malls, and abandoned museums as you piece together the full story of how humanity fell.
Why similar: Dystopian 45.9%, Sci-fi 18.6%, Story Rich 15.6%, Puzzle 12.1%, Adventure 5.4%
- #3 4D Golf
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 787 reviews2024
Dev: CodeParade
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore higher dimensions... with golf! Conquer mind-bending challenges, design your own 4D courses, and unlock new worlds and accessories as you golf your way through the 4th dimension and beyond!
Why similar: Mini Golf 72% ★, Surreal 11.6%, Puzzle 8.2%, Psychological 5.3%, Indie 2.1%
- #4 Minds Beneath Us
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,817 reviews2024
Dev: BearBoneStudio
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.
Why similar: Dystopian 20.8%, Cyberpunk 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Psychological 11.5%, Visual Novel 10.7%
- #5 Vertiginous Golf
96% matchMixed58% of 1,109 reviews2015
Dev: Kinelco & Lone Elk CreativePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 18 minMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 24%
Vertiginous Golf is a dystopian steam punk mini golf adventure game set in the skies above an alternate world where life on the ground is enveloped in permanent smog, constant darkness and never-ending rain.
Why similar: Mini Golf 70.5% ★, Dystopian 26.5%, Singleplayer 1.8%, Indie 1.3%
- #6 Decade
93% matchVery Positive97% of 119 reviews2025
Dev: Last Piscean
Windows
Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear. Seed new movements, destroy others. Subvert the rise and fall of empires, art, ideologies, and individuals in this experimental narrative game.
Why similar: Narrative 25.1% ★, Sci-fi 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Investigation 10.2%, Dystopian 9.8%
- #7 Will Die Alone
92% matchMostly Positive76% of 67 reviews2022
Dev: Arianna Ravioli
Windows · Mac
Some memories aren't meant to stay. We are our memories and our experiences. What happens if you delete some of them? If you change your past and, thus, your future?
Why similar: Political 28.6% ★, Dystopian 15.2%, LGBTQ+ 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%
- #8 Wonderputt Forever
91% matchVery Positive84% of 135 reviews2022
Dev: Damp GnatPub: Rogue Games, Inc.
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Explore ever-evolving levels with three different gameplay modes in Wonderputt Forever, an adventurous mini-golf game.
Why similar: Mini Golf 76.8% ★, Isometric 15.4%, Puzzle 5.4%, Indie 1.7%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #9 The Endless Empty
91% matchVery Positive96% of 307 reviews2018
Dev: Erik Sheader-Smith
Windows
A surreal post-life adventure
Why similar: Surreal 28.9%, LGBTQ+ 28.1%, Story Rich 14.5%, Adventure 10.2%, Puzzle 9.4%
- #10 Your Future Self
90% matchVery Positive81% of 95 reviews2019
Dev: Contortionist Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.
Why similar: Dystopian 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Sci-fi 12%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Retro 10.3%
- #11 No More Future
89% matchVery Positive99% of 128 reviews2022
Dev: Sedge
Windows
In the last days of their life, a dying person takes one final gamble... No More Future is a linear Sci-Fi Visual Novel, where you explore a futuristic world as an android trying to rebuild their old life. In this strange journey, they'll question the very foundations of their life and their world.
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.5%, Political 19% ★, Cyberpunk 15.6%, Dystopian 14.6%, Story Rich 11.8%
- #12 State of Mind
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 2,283 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: Cyberpunk 27.9%, Dystopian 21.6%, Sci-fi 19%, Story Rich 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 7.5%
- #13 Psychroma
88% matchVery Positive90% of 193 reviews2024
Dev: Rocket AdriftPub: Gamma Space Collaborative Studio
Windows · Linux
Psychroma is a psychological horror side-scroller set in a haunted cyberpunk house. Collect cards and explore the memories stored on them to piece together your past. But the deeper you go, the more you expose yourself to the brightest heat, the warmest color...
Why similar: Cyberpunk 24%, LGBTQ+ 18.5%, Dystopian 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Surreal 8.4%
- #14 The Red Strings Club
86% matchVery Positive94% of 14,017 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: Cyberpunk 39.6%, LGBTQ+ 16.6%, Story Rich 12.3%, Dystopian 9.9%, Visual Novel 6.9%
- #15 VIDEOVERSE
86% matchVery Positive95% of 241 reviews2023
Dev: Kinmoku
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social network 'Videoverse' were still popular…
Why similar: Narrative 30.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Visual Novel 11%, LGBTQ+ 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
- #16 Miniatures
85% matchVery Positive95% of 351 reviews2024
Dev: Other Tales Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
A collection of surreal tales, each connected to a stored-away object from childhood. Pick one to follow the moon, feed a hungry lizard or build a peculiar cabinet.
Why similar: Narrative 27.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Surreal 15.8%, Psychological 14.1%, Story Rich 10.5%
- #17 Gone Golfing
87% matchMostly Positive74% of 134 reviews2020
Dev: IcehelmPub: Icehelm
Windows
Gone Golfing is a first person golfing survival horror. Try to finish the course with as few strokes as possible while surviving the horrors lurking at the cozy cove mini golf resort.
Why similar: Story Rich 47.7%, Psychological 45.5%, Retro 3.9%, Singleplayer 1.5%, Indie 1.4%
- #18 RGB GlitchGazer
84% matchVery Positive97% of 97 reviews2026
Dev: 群星闪耀时Pub: 群星闪耀时
Windows
A mad and romantic ADV. Unravel a strange world of science and philosophy with a mecha girl, zombie girl, or beastfolk. Some paths may disturb you... or thrill you.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Surreal 22.1%, Sci-fi 19.1%, Adventure 6.7%
- #19 Three Minutes To Eight
84% matchMostly Positive72% of 196 reviews2023
Dev: Chaosmonger StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Three Minutes To Eight is a mind bending pixel art adventure. A gaming experience threading the edge of consciousness, where everything is possible and yet remains elusive. Players will find themselves in ███ ██ █ ▓ ▒ ░ ¿⊕ξד¶¶¶ Error 0x80070570.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.6%, Psychological 21.5%, Sci-fi 16.9%, Story Rich 15.4%, Puzzle 11%
- #20 Backspace Backspace Backspace
82% 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: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Psychological 21.4%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Narrative 16.6% ★, Story Rich 10.4%
- #21 Silicon Dreams | cyberpunk interrogation
82% matchVery Positive94% of 255 reviews2021
Dev: James PattonPub: Clockwork Bird
Windows · Mac · Linux
It’s 2065, and you are an interrogator-model android tasked with rooting out deviants among your own kind. You must probe for lies, monitor and exploit emotional spikes, earn the trust of your subjects, and make the final call: release, or destroy?
Why similar: Political 22.6% ★, Cyberpunk 20.2%, Dystopian 15.3%, Investigation 15%, Story Rich 8%
- #22 Citizen Sleeper
79% matchVery Positive92% of 10,196 reviews2022
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.4 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 29.1% ★, Cyberpunk 18.7%, Dystopian 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Sci-fi 9.6%
- #23 MINE MEMORY
80% matchVery Positive96% of 55 reviews2024
Dev: VAINSANE
Windows · Mac · Linux
Uncover the skeletons in Hana's closet in "MINE MEMORY," a gripping psychological visual novel. Dive into Hana's memories, shape her destiny, and confront haunting choices with deep consequences.
Why similar: Psychological 29.8%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Surreal 12.6%, Story Rich 9.1%
- #24 A Little Golf Journey
81% matchVery Positive84% of 153 reviews2021
Dev: OkidokicoPub: Playtonic Friends
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 47%
A Little Golf Journey is a relaxing adventure golf experience played on beautiful diorama courses across a variety of destinations. Unlock secrets, discover treasure and take on challenges. Your journey awaits.
Why similar: Puzzle 61.5%, Adventure 26%, Singleplayer 12.5%
- #25 Ballistic Mini Golf
83% matchMixed51% of 88 reviews2017
Dev: Microlith Games
Windows
Ballistic Mini Golf is a futuristic mini golf game set in a Sci-fi universe with hundreds of challenging holes, advanced ball customization and single-player / multi-player game modes for up to 4 players.
Why similar: Mini Golf 76.5% ★, Sci-fi 10.7%, Puzzle 6.7%, Indie 4.7%, Singleplayer 1.4%
- #26 No Longer Home
81% matchMixed62% of 437 reviews2021
Dev: Humble GrovePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 52%
No Longer Home is a game about letting go of the life you've built due to circumstances beyond your control. Immerse yourself in the lives of Bo and Ao and learn about their dreams, frustrations and fears. Welcome the magic of the everyday and somewhat extraordinary.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 31%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Surreal 13.6%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Story Rich 10.9%
- #27 non-binary
78% matchVery Positive94% of 298 reviews2022
Dev: owof games
Windows · Mac · Linux
"non-binary" is a video game that mixes text choices and bullet hell to tell the story of two non-binary people's journey of self-discovery. Make your choices. Dodge words. Go through things that hurt without breaking down. If you can.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 36%, Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Political 12.3% ★, Story Rich 8.5%
- #28 An Other Golf Game
78% matchVery Positive91% of 53 reviews2024
Dev: waxycaps
Windows
An odd, openish-world life sim where you must learn how to make money just so you can afford to learn how to play golf. A truly unique golf experience with permadeath.
Why similar: Singleplayer 100%
- #29 I doesn't exist - a modern text adventure
79% matchMixed69% of 78 reviews2023
Dev: LUAL Games KIGPub: DreadXP
Windows · Mac · Linux
Classic Zork meets Existential Crisis. A modern text adventure that explores themes of control, isolation and mental health while levelling up the genre with beautiful pixel art.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.3%, Psychological 26.2%, Story Rich 16.9%, Puzzle 11%, Adventure 5.7%
- #30 Mars Vice
77% matchVery Positive97% of 74 reviews2025
Dev: Rho Labyrinths GmbH
Windows
Mars Vice is a narrative adventure game set on a distant and futuristic Mars. Follow two civil investigators, Dax and Anaya, as they root out deep-seated corruption in the Martian city of Pavonis in this biopunk-infused story.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Investigation 15.4%, Cyberpunk 14.2%, Sci-fi 8.9%
- #31 Neon Hearts City
76% matchVery Positive85% of 53 reviews2025
Dev: Cosmic VoidPub: Dionous Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A private investigator, tracking a missing person, uncovers a conspiracy between humans and androids and a secret that could change everything. Neon Hearts City is a retro point-and-click adventure that thrusts you into a grungy cyberpunk city of the future.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Investigation 19.4%, Cyberpunk 19%, Puzzle 9.5%, Story Rich 9.1%
- #32 Transcender
77% matchVery Positive85% of 87 reviews2020
Dev: Aldo Jeffrey
Windows
Transcender is a brief interactive experience that takes place in a surreal sci-fi setting. Figuring out how to play and what to do is the main attraction of the experience. It will hopefully leave you thinking "Hmm, that was interesting"
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 49.5%, Surreal 22.8%, Sci-fi 20.7%, Indie 5%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #33 Friendsim 2
76% matchVery Positive89% of 104 reviews2022
Dev: Studio June
Windows · Mac
In this episodic visual novel, follow the adventures of MSPA Reader as they return to Alternia once more to save their friends... and realize that nothing is as it seems.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.4%, Dystopian 16.3%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Cyberpunk 12.1%
- #34 Until Then
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 17,259 reviews2024
Dev: Polychroma GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows · Linux
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Visual Novel 23%, Psychological 17.8%, LGBTQ+ 16.9%, Story Rich 13.4%
- #35 Au Revoir
73% matchVery Positive95% of 122 reviews2025
Dev: Invisible StudioPub: Nuntius Games
Windows
Play as Tristan and solve puzzles to recover human consciousnesses in the year 2071. Investigate environments, uncover secrets, and make choices that affect the ending. Explore a neon-noir world with a low poly aesthetic inspired by the 90s.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 26.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Sci-fi 12.4%, Investigation 11.5%, Retro 11%
- #36 ESC
75% matchVery Positive99% of 105 reviews2020
Dev: Lena RainePub: Radical Dreamland
Windows
An interactive novel about identity, roleplay, and dreams.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Cyberpunk 16.2%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Retro 10.5%
- #37 Sayonara Golden Days
74% matchVery Positive97% of 102 reviews2021
Dev: NotDeadLuna Studio
Windows · Mac
Discover the reason why a college gaming club broke apart in this unfinished game made by its club members, and relive the golden days that vaguely exist in our memories.
Why similar: Puzzle 47.4%, Surreal 22.6%, Story Rich 10.5%, Adventure 9.6%, Indie 5.3%
- #38 Sinless + OST
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 375 reviews2015
Dev: MGP StudiosPub: Forever Entertainment S. A.
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
"Before we knew it, what we once knew as 'freedom' became nothing more but a faint and distant memory." Venture forth and discover the truth behind the seemingly perfect OmniCare society in Sinless: a unique point and click and visual novel hybrid, set in an original cyberpunk reality.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 56.8%, Visual Novel 26.2%, Adventure 11.6%, Indie 5.4%
- #39 TOBOR
72% matchVery Positive94% of 88 reviews2023
Dev: Cogoo
Windows · Mac
A psychological surveillance adventure. Observe 16 real-time CCTV feeds as TOBOR, a spy unit uncovering secrets in a dystopian bunker. Monitor suspects, collect evidence, and choose who survives. Multiple endings.
Why similar: Political 21.7% ★, Dystopian 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Investigation 10.1%, Psychological 9.6%
- #40 FORECLOSED
74% matchMixed69% of 137 reviews2021
Dev: Antab StudioPub: Silver Lining Interactive
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
FORECLOSED is a narrative-driven action-adventure set in a Cyberpunk world filled with action, suspense, and experimental augmentations. Follow the story of Evan Kapnos in this sleek comic book styled game as he unravels the conspiracy behind his identity foreclosure. Who is responsible and why?
Why similar: Dystopian 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Sci-fi 19.6%, Story Rich 13.7%, Visual Novel 8.8%
- #41 RECORD_DrowsyVortex
70% matchVery Positive100% of 58 reviews2024
Dev: LunarHillz
Windows
RECORD_DrowsyVortex is a post-apocalyptic exploration-focused RPG set in the future era of Space Immigration. It is one piece of recorded data transmitted from Planet Drowsy Vortex centuries later, offering an immersive experience of a local post-disaster survivor's weird and memorable story.
Why similar: Sci-fi 36.7%, Visual Novel 34%, Story Rich 20.2%, Adventure 9.1%
- #42 Subsurface Circular
71% matchVery Positive94% of 1,932 reviews2017
Dev: Bithell Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 69%
When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.
Why similar: Investigation 25.5%, Cyberpunk 22.6%, Visual Novel 20%, Sci-fi 15.8%, Story Rich 10.8%
- #43 Virtual Virtual Reality
71% matchVery Positive92% of 662 reviews2018
Dev: Tender Claws
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A game about VR, AI, and our collective sci-fi fever dreams. In a future where AI has transformed society, can humans still find purpose? Find out with Activitude, a service that lets humans aid AI clients in increasingly curious ways.
Why similar: Sci-fi 26%, Story Rich 21.4%, Psychological 18.6%, Surreal 13.1%, Adventure 11.4%
- #44 Cursed to Golf
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 795 reviews2022
Dev: Chuhai LabsPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Cursed to Golf is a challenging golf-like adventure where every shot counts. Players are tasked with making it out of Golf Purgatory to become a Golfing Legend. With insane hazards, otherworldly power-ups and tons of replayability, will you make it back alive or will you forever be… Cursed to Golf!?
Why similar: Retro 60.1%, Adventure 39.9%
- #45 Cyber City 2157: The Visual Novel
73% 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: Cyberpunk 40.9%, Visual Novel 25.6%, Adventure 15.5%, Story Rich 11.2%, Indie 4.6%
- #46 DreamBreak
73% matchMixed51% of 108 reviews2016
Dev: Fortell Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Dreambreak is a story-driven adventure set in an alternative post-Cold War world, a quirky and unique mix of clashing gameplay genres. Get fingered for murder in without actually going there!
Why similar: Cyberpunk 29.1%, Dystopian 27.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Investigation 13.2%, Story Rich 5.4%
- #47 Rue Valley
66% matchMixed70% of 1,993 reviews2025
Dev: Emotion Spark StudioPub: Owlcat Games
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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: Narrative 25.5% ★, Isometric 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Psychological 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
- #48 VirtuaVerse
69% matchVery Positive82% of 1,107 reviews2020
Dev: Theta DivisionPub: Blood Music
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
VirtuaVerse is a challenging old school cyberpunk point & click adventure set in a future not so far away narrating tales of technomancers, AVR graffiti writers, hacker groups, tribes of cryptoshamans, digital archeology, epic cyberwars and virtual reality debauchery.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 31.1%, Dystopian 29.6%, Retro 10.1%, Sci-fi 9.9%, Story Rich 8%
- #49 2064: Read Only Memories
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,670 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: Cyberpunk 26%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, LGBTQ+ 17.9%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Sci-fi 10.3%
- #50 Solstice
70% 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+ 24.6%, Dystopian 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
- #51 OMNIMUS
69% matchVery Positive87% of 55 reviews2019
Dev: Angry gamesPub: Total
Windows · Mac · Linux
Omnimus. Welcome to the future! A visual novel about a daring experiment.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Visual Novel 20.5%, Sci-fi 16.5%, Adventure 14%, Story Rich 10.8%
- #52 NeuroNet: Mendax Proxy
68% matchVery Positive82% of 66 reviews2023
Dev: Dream Harvest
Windows
You are Arc, a city management AI. Designed to manage a city-wide AR metaverse known as the NeuroNet. Meet its many users, build relationships and help or hinder their lives while trying to balance the wider needs of the city. Find your humanity in a world losing theirs to technology.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 23%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Investigation 11.6%
- #53 MINDHACK
65% matchVery Positive93% of 726 reviews2023
Dev: VODKAdemo?
Windows · Mac
Change the minds of evildoers…for good! MINDHACK is a text adventure game where you meet unique evildoers, hack their minds, and rewrite them into happy people!
Why similar: Dystopian 30.1%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Psychological 14.8%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%
- #54 Grotto
67% matchVery Positive90% of 344 reviews2021
Dev: Brainwash GangPub: Digerati
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Grotto is a mystical, narrative-focused experience. You are the Soothsayer. The one capable of talking with the stars and unveiling their messages. In a time of turmoil, the tribe of the valley turn to your powers of divination and come to you for guidance.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.5%, Psychological 24%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Story Rich 10.1%, LGBTQ+ 5.9%
- #55 GLITCH DADDY
66% matchVery Positive96% of 52 reviews2024
Dev: Sad Mask Party
Windows
You have a strange dream where you meet a creature named Glitch Daddy, telling you that the world is ending very soon. Then, you wake up and go to unravel the truth through a wild, abstract psychedelic journey.
Why similar: Surreal 49.4%, Puzzle 27.5%, Adventure 11.5%, Indie 6.5%, Singleplayer 5.1%
- #56 WHAT THE GOLF?
65% matchVery Positive93% of 4,734 reviews2020
Dev: Triband
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A silly physics-based golf parody where every golf course is a new surprising type of golf, some brilliant or hilarious, others so absurd you will ask yourself: WHAT THE GOLF?
Why similar: Mini Golf 89.3% ★, Adventure 5%, Indie 3.3%, Singleplayer 2.4%
- #57 Arcane Golf
68% matchVery Positive97% of 62 reviews2018
Dev: FromLefcourt
Windows
Arcane Golf is a miniature golf puzzle game set in a fantasy world full of dungeons, dangers, gems, and geometry. Play across 200 levels set in 4 unique courses inspired by classic adventure games!
Why similar: Mini Golf 75.9% ★, Retro 10.7%, Puzzle 10.3%, Indie 1.6%, Singleplayer 1.6%
- #58 Nobody Nowhere
64% matchVery Positive94% of 189 reviews2025
Dev: 深渊标记 Tag:hadal
Windows
a side-scrolling, story-driven text adventure game in pixel art. The story is set in 2079, when a Replicant awakens in a lab facility amidst a life-or-death situation. The replicant aid agency tries to rescue him but fails. In the process they stumble on the real secret of the Replicant project...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.4%, Sci-fi 23.1%, Visual Novel 22.1%, Story Rich 17.5%, Adventure 6.9%