- #1 Ukraine War Stories
97% matchVery Positive87% of 1,079 reviews2022
Dev: Starni Games
Windows
Ukraine War Stories is a set of visual novels about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Set in the early months of the war, it tells the stories of civilians trapped on Russian-occupied territory. All stories are based on real events and eyewitness accounts.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, War 12.5%, Historical 12.1%, Visual Novel 12.1%
- #2 Under the Heavens: Warring States Saga
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: April May
Windows
A choice-driven narrative RPG set in China’s Warring States period. Rise from a nameless soldier to a legendary general through decisions with permanent consequences. Death is final. History remembers only the survivors.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.7%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Text-Based 12.5%, Drama 11.6%
- #3 어서오세요 신성재판에
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 지식보관소
Windows
Waking up after a car accident to find yourself in another world? Welcome to "Sacred Trial." In a magical world, you face the threat of being summoned to the sacred trial. A fantasy detective adventure where you must prove your innocence in a fantasy world.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Puzzle 15.7%, Drama 9.9%
- #4 Brageskålen
95% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: Tidvis Games
Windows · Mac
Travel to Veøya in the Viking Age and solve a dangerous mystery with cunning and song!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.1%, Visual Novel 21.3%, Historical 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Choices Matter 8.5%
- #5 Mr. Mueller's Grand Experiment
94% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Scott Tipton
Windows · Mac · Linux
In an engrossing interactive novel, live as the assistant to a remarkable historical figure: George Mueller, a man who witnessed orphans dying young in the streets of 1830's England and decided he would care for them, no matter the cost.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Historical 16%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Text-Based 9.4%
- #6 Kino
94% matchPositive100% of 22 reviews2025
Dev: Lacking Finesse Games
Windows
Odesa, 1929. A woman wakes up. This will be her last morning. An all-powerful film camera forces her to watch her life again. Can she find what was missing? A very short choose-your-own-adventure based on Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Visual Novel 21.8%, Historical 12.8%, Drama 12%
- #7 The Trials of Ozymandias
93% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Golden Axolotl Studios
Windows · Mac
The Trials of Ozymandias is a visual novel set in the high fantasy world of the kingdom of Johrotos. In the capitol city, Dassi, resides the most famous adventurer's guild in all the land: Talleh-Hoy. This is where your story begins.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Text-Based 13.6%, Drama 10.4%
- #8 Whispers From The Rift
92% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Interdimensional Games Inc
Windows
A choose-your-own-adventure novel. Enter the mind of a black-ops team leader heading an impossible mission in a parallel universe. Choices are remembered, story events reflect past decisions, and freely rewind time to try different paths.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Text-Based 13.3%, Choices Matter 8.1%
- #9 Dice Rollers
91% matchMixed69% of 35 reviews2021
Dev: Amateur Sloth
Windows
One table, a pack of dice, five participants: This story is about playing a tabletop RPG with swords and dragons while overcoming inner weaknesses.
Why similar: Board Game 46.8%, Visual Novel 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Choices Matter 9.1%, 2D 3.1%
- #10 Penrose
91% matchPositive88% of 32 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 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Drama 14.6%, Text-Based 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.5%
- #11 A War of a Madman's Making
89% matchVery Positive96% of 101 reviews2024
Dev: Witching Metal Prod.
Windows
You are subordinate to the deranged dictator and must plan his doomed invasion in this text-based RPG / Visual Novel. Navigate the shark-filled waters of the Great Leader's presidential cabinet, try to save your family, and survive the purges in a world of power-hungry leaders and nuclear warfare.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Historical 13.5%, War 13.4%
- #12 小厨杂记
90% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: 山石
Windows
Please note: This game does not support English at current stage. 《小厨杂记》是一款融合了烹饪元素的视觉小说,通过为食客端上不同的菜肴与食客对话,并最终达成不同的结局。
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Text-Based 16%, Historical 15.2%, Simulation 10%
- #13 31 Days In Orange Carnival
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ReversePI
Windows
10 participants. A death game that unfolds over 31 days. If you kill another participant, you can take their prize money. An interactive fiction game where the story changes based on your choices. In this dangerous game, choose who to trust and who to betray.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Text-Based 12.5%, Simulation 10%, Choices Matter 7.6%
- #14 The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Verse and Vision
Windows
A narrative-driven psychological visual novel where every floor of an elevator reveals a key moment from your past. Face your regrets, uncover forgotten memories, and make choices that shape your future. Will you find closure, or remain trapped in your own mind?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33%, Visual Novel 22.8%, Text-Based 16.7%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
- #15 Exploring Friscott
87% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: WolfBite Interactive LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
You're an adventurer going into Friscott Castle to see what treasures you can find within. Explore, meet the residents, find treasure & more. Be mindful though, as the castle isn't normal, & there are things about it that might drive a person to madness. That, or it might spell your demise.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Puzzle 14.8%, Text-Based 10.1%
- #16 Skin Tailor
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Night Asobu
Windows · Mac · Linux
Skin Tailor is a medieval horror dress up game and visual novel hybrid. Skin your supernatural enemies, create disguises and infiltrate vampire owned blood farms to rescue your comrades.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Historical 17.4%, Choices Matter 5.4%
- #17 Marcel Pagnol and the Secret Spring
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Playtouch
Windows
Embark on a touching and poetic adventure through the hills of Provence in “Marcel and the Secret Spring.” Inspired by the childhood stories of legendary French author and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol, this narrative-driven game lets you experience a world filled with nature, mystery, and nostalgia.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Historical 13.7%, Text-Based 6.6%
- #18 Defragmenting
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: pngTriads
Windows
The outside is being ravaged by a mysterious downpour of a glass, you are forced to take shelter in a seemingly innocuous rundown hotel. Yet, stuck with you are people who you wish you would never see again. What will you do to survive?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Text-Based 9.7%, Simulation 7.2%
- #19 Broken Bonds
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Victorian Games
Windows
A visual novel about detective William Beckett, investigating the case of a servant uprising in the ducal house of "Gentry." Together with intern Michelle Rouge, William must delve deep into the country's political life to uncover the secrets. Gather evidence, take notes, and analyze the information
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Historical 14.3%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Drama 11.8%
- #20 Mass of Consumption
83% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Wayward Woyrm Games
Windows
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.6%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Text-Based 9.4%, Choices Matter 7.7%
- #21 The Trial
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NowakGamesPub: Pale Blue Dot
Windows · Mac · Linux
"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested." Story about life, choices and a Man vs the System. This unique interactive literature adaptation. A game, brought to You in early visual novel, text-adventure style.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Text-Based 12.4%, Choices Matter 8.8%
- #22 7 Grand Steps: What Ancients Begat
84% matchMixed54% of 765 reviews2013
Dev: Mousechief
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
What Ancients Begat is a complete (~15 hour) game of family generations surviving the rise of western civilization. Survival is the ultimate goal. The sub-goals, you choose, build their story.Experience an abstract telling of the lives of our earliest recorded ancestors.
Why similar: Board Game 27.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Historical 14.2%, Puzzle 8.3%
- #23 On Love, On Monsters
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lighthouse Theory Games
Windows
On Love, On Monsters is a Frankenstein-inspired story with an emphasis on love in its many forms. Play as three characters with alternating POVs; the Doctor, The Priest, and The Exile. Bond with allies and enemies, avoid raising suspicion in the town of Blackmoore, and learn what it means to love.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Drama 12.7%, Choices Matter 5.5%
- #24 SAS:绝响诡计 | Case 0 风暴蝴蝶
78% matchVery Positive86% of 184 reviews2025
Dev: 秦遥
Windows
这是一款以中式校园为背景的推理类文字游戏,你将扮演一名高中生司空茂,在开学第一天目击密室杀人事件的现场,并经过调查和推理解决案件,找出真正的犯人和真相背后更深的阴谋。但在享受侦探游戏的同时,请千万不要忽视学习。保持情绪稳定,尽量维持活下去的念头...记住,你的成绩,永远比案件要更重要。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Puzzle 14.2%, Text-Based 11%
- #25 Rewrite+
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 669 reviews2021
Dev: VisualArts/KeyPub: Sekai Project
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 60.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In this city built upon the ideal coexistence of civilization and the environment, Tennouji Kotarou spends his days with his friends, Kanbe Kotori and Yoshino Haruhiko. In this peaceful city, a tumultuous event shakes the foundations of Kazamatsuri once a year.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.1%, Visual Novel 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Drama 10.9%, Simulation 7%
- #26 Hadean Lands
81% matchPositive94% of 47 reviews2016
Dev: Zarfhome Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Alchemy, puzzles, and a crashed starship. Old-style interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No dialogue trees! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 48.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Text-Based 21.2%, Puzzle 7.6%
- #27 Arderico's Journey
79% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Digital Masquerade
Windows
Set off on an exciting swashbuckling quest in this classic Fantasy Choose Your Own Adventure! Meet charming characters, fight dangerous foes, and uncover a nefarious intrigue. Experience seamless and reactive storytelling. Prove your innocence, find your destiny, relish the journey!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.3%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Drama 11.5%, Choices Matter 10.1%
- #28 MysteryOS
78% match5 user reviews20% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: Clermont Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
You wake up at a terminal you've never seen before. The language is alien. The interface is hostile. Every wrong click has consequences. Decode constructed languages, navigate unfamiliar operating systems, and survive the unknown in this puzzle-survival experience.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.2%, Puzzle 15.3%, Text-Based 10.5%, Simulation 9.8%
- #29 Depression Quest
80% matchMixed61% of 3,931 reviews2014
Dev: The Quinnspiracy
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 75.2 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 46.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.8%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Text-Based 6.8%, Drama 4.6%
- #30 Insects Awaken
76% matchVery Positive90% of 445 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 22.6%, Historical 17.1%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Drama 14.3%
- #31 Daria: A Kingdom Simulator
77% matchMixed44% of 18 reviews2024
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rule your realm, train heroes, and build a legendary kingdom in Daria. Experience strategy, storytelling, and diplomacy in this immersive sim.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Text-Based 17.8%, Simulation 14.7%, Choices Matter 6.5%
- #32 All (Too) Good Things
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: YOWPY games
Windows
Your job is to make humanity happy. Observe the people living in your assigned district and make the best choices to ensure everyone's happiness.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.2%, Visual Novel 19%, Text-Based 14.4%, Choices Matter 6.1%
- #33 Where Is My Pocket?
77% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: MoldyBits
Windows · Mac
A voxel-powered comedy about clothes, pockets, and the people who need them.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Text-Based 10.3%, Historical 8.7%
- #34 summer story
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: karol_thegame
Windows · Linux
Summer Story: An adventure game where you investigate and make choices that shape the story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Text-Based 9.7%, Drama 9%
- #35 The Widow's Boutique
75% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2023
Dev: Tidvis Games
Windows · Mac
Step into a small town society of the 1820s in this historically accurate visual novel, filled with drama, dresses and danger.
Why similar: Historical 21%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Drama 11.3%
- #36 Memories Off Sousou Break out of my shell
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
メモリーズオフシリーズ最新作のアフターストーリー 主人公「久寿米木一葵」と登場ヒロインたちの「その後」を楽しんでいただけます。 ビジュアルノベル形式のゲームスタイルで選択肢を選びながらストーリーが進行します。 それぞれの道を歩み始めたヒロインたち。 それぞれの未来を大切な「あなた」と一緒につかむため、 それぞれの想いが、今はじける……!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Visual Novel 19%, Drama 11.7%, Text-Based 6.2%
- #37 Echoes of Pinebridge
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Koalu Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
After a transfer student enters his life, college senior Kent begins suffering fainting spells and hearing voices. Navigate friendships, secrets, and a growing supernatural mystery in this choice-driven visual novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Visual Novel 21.9%, Drama 10.3%, Choices Matter 8.7%
- #38 Witch Hunter: Our Secret
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: artbakeries
Windows
Play as Erwin, a witch hunter navigating a fantasy world of magic and suspicion. Your decisions in this visual novel affect friendships, trust, and multiple story outcomes. Choose wisely—the fate of your journey rests with you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.6%, Visual Novel 20.8%, Choices Matter 7.9%, 2D 5.2%
- #39 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
73% matchVery Positive90% of 9,503 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Choices Matter 16.4%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Text-Based 11%
- #40 Shadows of Betrayal
72% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: JayzonBHPub: JayzonBH Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Recent high school graduates gather at a remote cabin for a celebration. What begins as a night of laughter spirals into a tense mystery full of secrets, twists, and chilling choices. Who will survive? Navigate friendships, and uncover the multi-layered mystery in Shadows of Betrayal.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.5%, Visual Novel 26.9%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #41 Streams Upon Memories : Dawn of the Fractured Mind
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kashi Maadsen
Windows · Mac · Linux
Awaken in a world plunged into uncertainty. You must navigate hidden truths and make crucial choices. Will you uncover the secrets of your existence? Your path will determine your fate in this journey.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.2%, Visual Novel 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Drama 7.8%
- #42 Hachi Hachi Mystery
73% matchMixed69% of 13 reviews2021
Dev: Ondori Games
Windows · Mac
Hachi Hachi Mystery is a interactive Visual Novelf taking place at university. It's your first year as a university student and you're going to discover this new life! ...Well, that's how it should have happened.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.6%, Visual Novel 21.7%, Simulation 18.7%, Drama 12.9%, Text-Based 9.4%
- #43 Days With Ollie
70% matchMixed70% of 76 reviews2024
Dev: PT. Global Digital ArthaPub: hololive Indonesia
Windows
The day has finally come. The day that will determine on whether or not you'll be accepted as a reporter in hololive. And not just any reporter, but the exclusive reporter for Kureiji Ollie! What goes down on in the life of the zombie idol? Find out what it'll be like to spend Days with Ollie!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.7%, Visual Novel 23.4%, Drama 16%, Text-Based 15.7%, Choices Matter 9.1%
- #44 1402
71% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Larisa ShapiroPub: Burrru publishing
Windows
1402 is a chic twist on a classic puzzle game. Be enchanted by 14 ballads, including the world’s first Valentine’s love letter, set to music for the very first time. Dive into 15th-century France, where every tile tells a story, and every move gets you closer to the crown of French kings.
Why similar: Board Game 48.3%, Puzzle 21.3%, Historical 17.4%, Choices Matter 6.9%, 2D 5.4%
- #45 Scarlet Enigma
71% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Braveforge
Windows
Investigate a chilling birthday murder in a branching mystery filled with secrets, suspects, and puzzles. Uncover the truth, bend time, and stop the killer before reality begins to unravel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Puzzle 19.1%, 2D 3.7%
- #46 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
69% 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: Interactive Fiction 31.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.5%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Text-Based 14.5%, Choices Matter 7.4%
- #47 Grave Knight
71% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: Dreamlight Games
Windows
Under developement, Grave Knight is an interactive RPG adventure inspired by SRD 5.1 ruleset and classical game books, where your decisions weave the fate of the characters and the story. Let the dice forge the fate of your hero and the realm by fighting the Grave knight and his horde.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.2%, Visual Novel 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Text-Based 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.2%
- #48 Scribe
69% matchPositive91% of 33 reviews2024
Dev: TalesBar
Windows
Scribe is a scribe simulator in which you can secretly shape the destinies of the inhabitants of the estate: resolve disputes, influence the course of family intrigues, decide who lives and who does not. Choose what to write in letters and whether to change their recipients!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Text-Based 12.7%, Drama 12%
- #49 Dorm Till Dawn
69% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: RB Ashton
Windows · Mac · Linux
Welcome to St Fiacre’s College for Women of Unreliable Size. Your new home. If you can survive your first night… Featuring 40,000 words of text and over 500 images, this heart-pumping visual novel journey will thrill fans of shrinking and giants alike!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Puzzle 11.3%, Drama 10.4%
- #50 Overboard!
70% matchVery Positive90% of 640 reviews2021
Dev: inkle Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 66%
GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Historical 13.2%, Puzzle 11.7%, Visual Novel 10.7%
- #51 連続テレビゲーム小説「どんぐり公園~人工衛星ヘッドシザースホイップ~」
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Knuth
Windows · Mac
As an elementary school student, you meet a mysterious woman at the park after school. "It's just a little mini-game," she says. Enjoy playing familiar mini-games with this slightly competitive Onee-san! But why is she always at the park...?
Why similar: Board Game 31.1%, Visual Novel 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Simulation 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.1%
- #52 My clinical death
68% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: TerryFlyoPub: Mystael studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short visual novel about a girl who experiences a clinical death.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Drama 15.1%, Choices Matter 8.3%
- #53 IN LOVE: True Romance Pack
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Playtouch
Windows
IN LOVE: Romance Edition features 3 heartfelt stories – Interview with Fate, Tessa’s Choice, and The Rhythm of Passion. Make decisions, shape your path, and experience unique endings in this interactive romance game.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Drama 11.9%, Choices Matter 5.2%
- #54 Almost certain death.
66% matchMixed67% of 12 reviews2026
Dev: 画往时文化
Windows
After a failed rescue in northern Myanmar, Lin Wei and her friend fight to survive. Guide their escape through pivotal choices—with nearly 100 branching decisions that can trigger a butterfly effect, leading to vastly different endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.8%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Drama 13.1%, Simulation 4.1%
- #55 Cascade Falls
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stray Paranormal
Windows · Mac · Linux
A story-driven visual novel about healing, heartbreak, and second chances. Build relationships, face your past, and shape your future in a town where every choice leaves a mark. Romance, drama, and emotional chaos await in Cascade Falls.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.8%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Drama 8.1%, Choices Matter 7.7%
- #56 Vanakan
67% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Erik Khachatryan
Windows
Vanakan is the journey of Tadevos - a priest, who travels the 500s Armenia to find the monastery that suits for his goal of becoming spiritually closer to Jesus Christ. He meets different people on his way and makes choices which will define his future and that of the country.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 40%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.8%, Text-Based 16.4%, Choices Matter 8%, 2D 5.9%
- #57 FrenchConnection
65% matchPositive100% of 19 reviews2025
Dev: CloudStar
Windows
Identical in looks, height, and figure yet polar opposites in heart, twin sisters pull me into a dilemma: pursue the high-school first love I’ve longed for, or the coworker twin who openly longs for me? A sweet, bittersweet tale of tangled affection.
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.4%, Simulation 23.1%, Drama 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, 2D 6.7%
- #58 The Wizard’s Beans Or: A Short Period of Unplanned Internment
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pixel Prophecy
Windows
Solve puzzles, enlist magic beans, eat soap, plan your escape, and confront the menacing mage who keeps you confined in his tower. Will you keep cracking jokes or learn from your mistakes? Your choices matter.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.1%, Interactive Fiction 29.4%, Puzzle 17.9%, Text-Based 14.3%, Choices Matter 7.7%
- #59 Temple of Egmelitia
66% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Ian Hornik
Windows · Mac
The Nose knows. A text based adventure game set in an ancient temple full of secrets.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.8%, Historical 19.2%, Text-Based 14.8%, Choices Matter 6.3%