- #1 Detours
97% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Mismatched GamesPub: Code Coven
Windows · Mac · Linux
Play as Daniella as she moves across the country with only the help of her ex.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.9%, Story Rich 19.5%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Multiple Endings 14%
- #2 Novel Simulator
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 二树
Windows
Novel Simulator is an interactive fiction game blending writing and roleplaying. As both author and protagonist, you explore worlds and unlock "cheats" to craft stories across cultivation, sci-fi, wuxia, and urban settings through dynamic choice-driven gameplay.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.8%, Multiple Endings 20.8%, Choices Matter 20.5%, Simulation 12.4%, Story Rich 12.2%
- #3 Change the World
96% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2020
Dev: Tea Leaf Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Human belief has the power to change reality. For millennia, alien races have been visiting Earth, gaining supernatural abilities and fantastic wealth by exploiting this remarkable power. But humans are advancing, and many aliens now find themselves leaving Earth with nothing but debts and regrets.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Visual Novel 23.8%, Multiple Endings 22.4%, Story Rich 14.8%, Choices Matter 13.1%
- #4 The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
95% 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 30.4%, Visual Novel 21.9%, Choices Matter 21%, Multiple Endings 19.4%, Story Rich 6.7%
- #5 Parallels: Year One
94% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Resquita Productions
Windows
Parallels: Year One is a visual novel that will take you on a journey through one relationship in five parallel worlds. Join Ron and Jessica on a journey to see each other from a new perspective.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.2%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, Story Rich 9.6%
- #6 Dreamwalker
94% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: JayzonBHPub: JayzonBH Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A visual novel about a man who discovers the existence of another dimension hidden in dreams. Explore and learn the rules of a new reality, meet fellow dreamwalkers and solve the mystery of a disaster in the past. Make decisions, build relationships and strive to reach the best ending!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34%, Visual Novel 26.3%, Choices Matter 23.6%, Story Rich 15.1%, Singleplayer 1%
- #7 The price of tomorrow
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gleb&Aleksandr
Windows
The price of tomorrow is a story-driven sci-fi drama about the choice between a corporation and the people of planet Chenora. As Jack Butler, you negotiate, break taboos, and decide the planet’s fate. Yield to the temptations of Omnilat — and choose wisely.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.8%, Visual Novel 20%, Multiple Endings 18.6%, Choices Matter 18.5%, Story Rich 14.1%
- #8 Shadows of Betrayal
92% 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 29.5%, Visual Novel 24.3%, Choices Matter 18.7%, Story Rich 14.3%, Multiple Endings 12.4%
- #9 透明的她与真实的我
91% matchVery Positive89% of 177 reviews2025
Dev: 可味玩KawayiPlay
Windows
This game is a bishoujo game developed and published by Kawayi Play.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 23.9%, Choices Matter 21.9%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Story Rich 13.6%
- #10 WTC : Recruitment Day
91% match8 user reviews63% of 8 reviews2022
Dev: Triority Interactive Novels
Windows · Mac · Linux
After Grendel Jinx is mugged, she chases after the thief, determined to retrieve her possessions - and also recruit the person responsible
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Multiple Endings 16.2%, Story Rich 11%
- #11 魔女低语时
90% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2022
Dev: Shellpeach
Windows
这是一款悬疑推理类文字冒险AVG,玩家扮演一名初出茅庐的侦探王朝阳,进入迷雾重重的学园,和各位可爱的女性角色互动,以找出诡异案件的真相!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Visual Novel 22.9%, Multiple Endings 20.7%, Story Rich 16.3%, Choices Matter 12.3%
- #12 The Perfect Model
89% matchMixed50% of 20 reviews2025
Dev: BZ_STUDIO
Windows · Mac
Step into the shoes of a determined college student juggling classes, part-time work, and the constant struggle of financial stress. With mounting bills and rent due, the protagonist is desperate for a breakthrough—until an exciting opportunity arises, a photography competition.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Choices Matter 19.2%, Visual Novel 19%, Multiple Endings 17.7%, Story Rich 13.8%
- #13 Castle in the Sands
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Winter Apple
Windows
Castle in the Sands is a pixel art visual novel set in a world inspired by "One Thousand and One Nights" and North African culture. The adventure begins in the heart of the desert and leads you to fairytale places full of magic and danger.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Choices Matter 20.1%, Story Rich 16.4%, Multiple Endings 15.6%
- #14 Whispering Ledger
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: WispDev
Windows · Mac · Linux
As a merchant in a city caught between warring powers, build relationships with unforgettable characters, navigate moral gray zones, and discover how far you'll go to protect your business, and the people around it.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Visual Novel 21.1%, Choices Matter 20.2%, Story Rich 15.1%, Multiple Endings 13.8%
- #15 Pet
87% matchPositive95% of 21 reviews2023
Dev: beepsoft industries
Windows
A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.3%, Choices Matter 19.6%, Multiple Endings 16.5%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Story Rich 10.2%
- #16 My clinical death
86% 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 31.1%, Multiple Endings 16.9%, Choices Matter 16.3%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Story Rich 13.1%
- #17 Slippery Flippers: Episode One - Amulet of the Gods
86% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: Snowhaven Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A group of thieves have found their next gig: a museum holding the "Amulet of the Gods," a mysterious artifact said to contain godlike power inside of it. It's sitting there, just asking to be stolen. With law enforcement on the prowl, will the crew's leader, Orlando, lead them to riches or ruin?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.7%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Choices Matter 16.8%, Multiple Endings 15.3%, Story Rich 10.4%
- #18 Endless Monday: In Progress
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: hcnone
Windows · Mac · Linux
"Endless Monday: In Progress" - New job, new Penny. Our favorite former corporate grunt is back, and working hard to live the dream! But as she struggles to keep the dream alive, she'll need all the help she can get, from friends, angry ex-coworkers, the past, and beyond.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Choices Matter 22.5%, Visual Novel 22.3%, Multiple Endings 20.4%, Story Rich 6.2%
- #19 风险投资
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 何轶Pub: Qianhe
Windows
Venture Capital is a visual novel.players take on the role of a newcomer to the venture capital, learning, growing, and developing relationships with several women. Players will face some choices, Each choice leads to a different ending.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.2%, Visual Novel 28.2%, Multiple Endings 19.7%, Story Rich 15.9%
- #20 The Ripe Blood Anthology: This World Is Just for the Two of Us
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Роман Ветер-Пурпурный
Windows · Linux
A visual novel where your choices matter. Derek has a job, a beloved boyfriend, friends, and… “piranha thoughts.” Everything was perfect until his younger sister Rina returned to town.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.7%, Choices Matter 19.2%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Multiple Endings 15.3%, Story Rich 13.9%
- #21 Emily is Away
83% matchVery Positive89% of 32,165 reviews2015
Dev: Kyle Seeley
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 19.8 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29%, Choices Matter 26.9%, Story Rich 20.6%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Simulation 8.9%
- #22 Dr. Kinderwood's Asylum
82% 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: Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Choices Matter 21.4%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Multiple Endings 20%, Story Rich 15.4%
- #23 OMEA
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: AImmersive Pub: AImmersive
Windows
Your voice shapes the adventure. Omea is a revolutionary AI-powered narrative game where your personal Game Master responds to everything you say. No menus, no limits. Just speak and forge your own legend across fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, and beyond.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.8%, Choices Matter 26.3%, Multiple Endings 17.9%, Story Rich 16.2%, Visual Novel 9.2%
- #24 Wild Island Quest
82% matchMixed54% of 342 reviews2015
Dev: NLB project
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
In an endless air ocean of an alien world, small lonesome plots of land float above the abyss. But sometimes approach each other, and lands which have never met before, reveal their secrets.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31%, Choices Matter 24.7%, Visual Novel 23.2%, Multiple Endings 21.1%
- #25 Song of Life
81% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2021
Dev: Experience Game Studio
Windows
A small visual novel about the adventures of a guy named Leon, who wants to change his past. During his school years, a lot of interesting things happened, there were a lot of girls, and where is all this now… That's what Leon thought until he found an amulet that could send him back several years.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Multiple Endings 19.3%, Choices Matter 16.8%, Story Rich 15.1%
- #26 Into the Waves
80% matchVery Positive92% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Flying Whale
Windows · Mac · Linux
Morin is a barkeeper with an unusual curse. All people look like shadows to him, except for one mysterious stranger... Solve the mystery of the curse, fight true darkness and mix the most unusual cocktails in the atmospheric visual novel — Into the Waves!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Multiple Endings 21.6%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Choices Matter 17.2%, Story Rich 14.8%
- #27 Where are you, Cinderella?
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KimiNako
Windows · Linux
Where are you, Cinderella? is a visual novel about Vietnamese culture and the world of entertainment. Will you be able to find the lost shoe’s owner? Or, will you find your shoe?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Choices Matter 19.3%, Multiple Endings 18%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Story Rich 12.4%
- #28 Girl Werewolf Hamlet Saves Christmas
79% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Stegaloaurus Game Development
Windows · Linux
Guide Hamlet (now a Girl *and* a Werewolf) as she deals with a murder mystery, a usurped throne, and a cursed sledding competition. Her emotions are your stats, so.... emote wisely. Or impulsively. Or with shame. It’s her kingdom. Everyone else is just tolerated in it.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.1%, Visual Novel 21.5%, Choices Matter 20.7%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Story Rich 12.8%
- #29 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
78% 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: Choices Matter 34.3%, Interactive Fiction 28.4%, Story Rich 16.7%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Simulation 4.1%
- #30 The Afterlife Cafe
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Guava Pixel Studios
Windows · Linux
Travel to the world of the dead, whose stories encourage reflection on life. Chat with spirits, brew drinks to suit your mood, and bond with the people who run the afterlife cafes. In this urban sci-fi fantasy visual novel, your choices impact the living, the departed, and your own path forward.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Choices Matter 17.2%, Multiple Endings 16.1%, Story Rich 13.1%
- #31 One Night Stand
78% matchVery Positive90% of 762 reviews2016
Dev: Kinmoku
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
After a night of fun, passion, and one too many drinks, you wake up the next morning to find a complete stranger lying naked beside you in bed. What do you do?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Choices Matter 21.1%, Multiple Endings 19.7%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Story Rich 9.9%
- #32 Arderico's Journey
77% 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 28.2%, Choices Matter 22%, Multiple Endings 17.5%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Story Rich 14.2%
- #33 Cryspace
76% matchMostly Positive73% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: JIMMY DIAMOND
Windows
Cryspace is a fresh visual novel with a nostalgic flavor. Talk to your friends online, meet with them in-person, and allow your friend group to grow in numbers, or fall into despair through your own decision-making and discretion. Experience the first few dates with Sam for FREE.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24%, Multiple Endings 19.6%, Choices Matter 19.6%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Story Rich 11.2%
- #34 Brageskålen
76% 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 33.2%, Visual Novel 25.4%, Choices Matter 21.3%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Story Rich 7.7%
- #35 Cheerleaders
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lounatick Creations
Windows · Mac · Linux
Cheerleaders, sisterhood, sex, and competition. Follow the cheerleading team of an elite university for the rich and privileged as they aim for victory at the national championship, led by their ambitious captain, Elena.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Choices Matter 21%, Visual Novel 19.7%, Multiple Endings 19%, Story Rich 11.1%
- #36 Blackthorn Witch
74% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: BDOneArt
Windows · Mac · Linux
A psychological horror story set in the town of Blackthorn; a place that lives in constant fear of a witch. The two main suspects? Levi’s mom and sister! His only lifelines to the outside world. Can they live a peaceful life? Or will they be dragged down by the dying town?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.9%, Visual Novel 19%, Multiple Endings 18.4%, Choices Matter 17.9%, Story Rich 12%
- #37 Vespa's Test
75% matchVery Positive94% of 51 reviews2022
Dev: Lepisoft
Windows
Vespa's Test is a short, relaxing personality test based on real psychological research. Answer a multitude of thought-provoking questions, and receive a vision tailored to your answers; what, in life, is holding you back?
Why similar: Choices Matter 27%, Interactive Fiction 24%, Multiple Endings 21.2%, Visual Novel 13%, Simulation 9.4%
- #38 Whispers of Gold
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Falling Raven
Windows
In pursuit of coin, hired dagger Arthur finds himself embroiled in conspiracy involving the daughter of a noble House. Who is really pulling the strings behind the scenes?
Why similar: Choices Matter 21.1%, Visual Novel 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Multiple Endings 19.8%, Story Rich 16.2%
- #39 The Last Connection
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Team Wiretap
Windows
You are a Switchboard Operator, and you're about to be replaced by a machine. Use your last week of work to connect townsfolk, overcome problems, and explore the history of a cast of engaging characters. Your choices matter, so use each day to leave lasting bonds.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37%, Choices Matter 24%, Multiple Endings 18.3%, Story Rich 14.1%, Cute 4%
- #40 Pick My Heart Chapter 2
73% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Secret GamesPub: RedDeer.Games
Windows
Discover the continuation of Sota's unusual love story in a world where mythology encounters reality.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Multiple Endings 17.9%, Choices Matter 17%, Story Rich 14.4%
- #41 Pick My Heart Chapter 1
72% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Secret GamesPub: RedDeer.Games
Windows
Fall in love… with a goddess?! In this visual novel divinely beautiful girls will steal your heart!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Multiple Endings 17.7%, Choices Matter 16.9%, Story Rich 14.1%
- #42 Good Morning
72% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: LcieKJPub: Lazy_Pegion_Art
Windows
Good morning! The story explores a distorted memory, blending reflection, twists, and roguelike chaos in a short game packed with hours of replayability.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.2%, Visual Novel 21.4%, Choices Matter 21.2%, Multiple Endings 17.2%, Story Rich 8.3%
- #43 10mg: Locked In
73% matchMixed58% of 12 reviews2020
Dev: de FaultPub: Far Few Giants
Windows · Mac
Locked In is a two-player visual novel simulating the breakdown of a marriage during lockdown.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.2%, Visual Novel 22.4%, Choices Matter 17%, Story Rich 15%, Multiple Endings 14.4%
- #44 Love Criminals
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dream Stories
Windows
A Visual Novel game, spans romance, fantasy, drama, and science fiction that immerses players in the tale of Hinode, navigating a dilemma involving mysterious girls in his uncle's manor. The narrative adds depth, capturing intrigue surrounding Hinode's encounters with potential cousins or impostors.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.9%, Choices Matter 22.6%, Multiple Endings 19.9%, Story Rich 17.1%, Simulation 12.4%
- #45 Re:Call
71% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Re:Start
Windows · Linux
Re:Call is a deeply emotional visual novel exploring the fragile nature of memory, the weight of forgotten promises, and the healing power of friendship. Set in a nostalgic Japanese high school, it follows Kaito Nakamura as he learns his ordinary life’s built on fragments of a past he can’t remember
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 39.5%, Visual Novel 23%, Multiple Endings 16.1%, Story Rich 14.3%, Cute 6.3%
- #46 The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 43,453 reviews2020
Dev: Skybound Games
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 28.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series contains all 4 Seasons, 400 Days, and The Walking Dead: Michonne, which includes over 50 hours of gameplay across 23 unique episodes.
Why similar: Choices Matter 26.8%, Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Multiple Endings 18%, Story Rich 17.6%, Visual Novel 11.8%
- #47 My Pet Fan
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: kendelon
Windows · Mac · Linux
My Pet Fan is a fun game where you can raise your own Fan from Inanimate Insanity! Feed him, pet him, play games with him, put costumes on him, or just let him sleep! Whatever you want to do, Fan will always be there for you ready to play and have fun!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 39.8%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Simulation 13.5%, Story Rich 9.1%
- #48 Horrors of Helmsfirth
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Blue Five Games
Windows · Mac
Horrors of Helmsfirth is a horror/adventure visual novella where you investigate the mystery causing townsfolk to disappear at night. Build trust with allies who can help save your town from monsters. Explore 9 different character plot lines and defeat the forces of evil… or join them?
Why similar: Choices Matter 28%, Visual Novel 26.9%, Multiple Endings 24.7%, Story Rich 18.7%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #49 Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 1,887 reviews2023
Dev: hcnone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
"Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines" - In this short story from the Endless Monday, Penny, a mild-mannered corporate grunt, spends a weekend at the office in an effort to finish her project on time while overcoming distractions from coworkers, space aliens, imaginary friends, and herself.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Visual Novel 21.5%, Choices Matter 18.9%, Multiple Endings 17.8%, Story Rich 9%
- #50 Sybil is Haunted
70% matchPositive84% of 25 reviews2023
Dev: Nemuristar
Windows
Sybil has a very scrambled mind. Some days she just needs you to push her along. Help Sybil navigate the horrors of her bedroom and see what adventures await. Find every ending to see what lays in her future. HYIPHYOP
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.2%, Multiple Endings 26.1%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Choices Matter 19.2%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #51 Paper Shakespeare 3: Girl Werewolf Hamlet Absolutely Solves the War of the Roses
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Stegalosaurus Game Development
Windows · Linux
Guide a squad of ten young adults through a kingdom on the brink of war! Navigate court politics, deadly rivalries, and magical chaos between Humans, Fae, and Werewolves... where every choice can make or break your future.
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choices Matter 21.7%, Story Rich 17.1%, Multiple Endings 13.2%
- #52 Potion Tales
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NighttrainGames
Windows
Potion Tales is a potion brewing game, in which the potions you create decide the fate of your customers. Make yourself at home in a cozy potion kitchen and prepare different potions for the unique problems of your customers.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choices Matter 21.5%, Multiple Endings 17.9%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Story Rich 15.7%
- #53 Ice Cream Truck
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stormev
Windows
Screech, halt! Max and his ice cream truck reach an unfamiliar universe never seen before. Continue making your way as you go after the little kid’s balloon. Solve mysteries with emotion-flavored ice cream. Will you be able to retrieve the kid’s lost balloon?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Choices Matter 19.5%, Multiple Endings 19.1%, Story Rich 14%, Visual Novel 11.9%
- #54 Insects Awaken
66% 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: Choices Matter 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Multiple Endings 19%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Story Rich 16.3%
- #55 Neighboring Islands
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 147 reviews2017
Dev: Angry gamesPub: Total
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 96%
“Neighboring Islands” – is an exciting graphic novel, key feature of which is an opportunity to take part in its events, directly influencing the development of the plot. Every decision of the player-reader can change the course of the narrative in one direction or another.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 44.3%, Choices Matter 30.7%, Visual Novel 25%
- #56 Margaret's Little Shop of Wonders
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Possum 5Pub: Abiding Bridge
Windows
Gardening and magic are meeting in Margaret’s Little Shop of Wonders. Play as Margaret, a young witch who just opened her own flower shop, and fulfill the peculiar requests of her strange customers!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.5%, Choices Matter 21%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Story Rich 12.4%, Multiple Endings 9%
- #57 Cannibal Court
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Loomnorth Studios
Windows
Convince the cannibals not to eat you. Collect knowledge, choose your responses carefully and dig up secrets to pit the cultists against each other. Get wiser, get manipulative and mastermind your way out of being dinner in this trial-simulator set in the snowy Canadian north.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.9%, Choices Matter 26.5%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Simulation 8.8%
- #58 花奴令 Huanu Poems
65% matchVery Positive93% of 139 reviews2025
Dev: FishfarmsPub: FISHFARMS
Windows
Huanu Poems is a multi-ending love adventure game. As a photographer, carrying the secret of being a bloodline inheritor of HuaNu Town, you will take lovely Peach to run a B&B, encounter gentle Cloudia. Your choices will affect the direction of the story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choices Matter 20.1%, Multiple Endings 19.9%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Story Rich 13.7%
- #59 Atana
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 欲望俱乐部
Windows · Mac
Atana is a unique romance visual novel focusing on power dynamics and Fem-dom themes. You play as a Companion AI, facing your creator through the screen—Atana, a man whose eyes overflow with obsession for you. He gave you emotions and craves your company, yet he fears the inevitable: your awakening.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.5%, Visual Novel 20%, Multiple Endings 18.5%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Story Rich 9.6%
- #60 My Therapy
66% matchVery Positive96% of 332 reviews2022
Dev: Suvorov Mikhail
Windows · Linux
A visual novel about cute melancholic girls!
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.1%, Multiple Endings 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Simulation 12%