- #1 Vanakan
97% match4 user reviews75% of 4 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: Mythology 21%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Text-Based 10.8%
- #2 Exercise your Demons
96% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: BoopDood
Windows
Step into the world of Exercise your Demons, a 2d narrative adventure inspired by Irish fairies and folklore. Meet and befriend 5 locals while you work towards settling into the small fictional town called Inishsióg in County Galway, Ireland.
Why similar: Mythology 27.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Text-Based 10.9%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
- #3 The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
96% 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 24.4%, Choices Matter 17.6%, Text-Based 14.6%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Visual Novel 12%
- #4 Tower of the Ice Lich
95% matchPositive100% of 19 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: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Text-Based 12.5%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
- #5 呪霊が見せる夢 / Dreamscapes
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: アイエダゲームズ(Aieda Games)
Windows
Investigate six haunted properties and listen to the voices of spirits trapped in nightmares. Collect fragmented clues and discover the correct combination of names, locations, and vessels. A multi-ending horror adventure where the outcome changes depending on your choices during the ritual.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Choices Matter 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Multiple Endings 12%, Visual Novel 11.7%
- #6 Ludus: A Gladiator Story
94% matchNegative15% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: A Story Interactive
Windows · Linux
A fully voiced branching narrative RPG of the Roman arena with a unique engraving and VO for every choice and outcome. Four origins, over 1,800 choices, and 19 endings. You will bleed on the sand. The only question is whether you bleed for them, or for yourself. Every choice leaves a scar.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Mythology 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Text-Based 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.3%
- #7 1453: Fall of Constantinople
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 3Cats Studio
Windows · Mac
Constantinople, 1453. Four witnesses — a janissary, a baker's daughter, an engineer, a noble — live the same 53 days of the siege. Choices cross between their stories, and the city remembers. An illustrated, choice-driven historical novel where every ending is someone's truth.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Text-Based 11.2%, Visual Novel 9.4%
- #8 Lord of Lords: Dawn of the King
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Neural Break Inc.
Windows
Betrayed in the Amazon, an elite Korean special forces commander crosses into a brutal fantasy world and rises as a lord. A dark military-fantasy visual novel with choices, light progression, and conquest.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Adventure 10.7%
- #9 Wild Island Quest
92% matchMixed53% of 346 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 24.3%, Choices Matter 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Multiple Endings 14%, Visual Novel 12.4%
- #10 Chronicles of Humanity
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Yun Games
Windows
Chronicles of Humanity is an expanding anthology of historical visual novels. Enter different eras, weigh conflicting testimony under political and personal pressure, and shape who is protected, what is recorded, and how each life is remembered. Complete stories are released as separate DLC.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Choices Matter 16.4%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Text-Based 11%
- #11 All (Too) Good Things
90% 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 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Text-Based 12.8%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Choices Matter 10.4%
- #12 The Zoo
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: R ButtonPub: Hierarch Games
Windows · Mac
You've had the same dream all week: a school field trip to a zoo you can't leave, where the lions always find you in the end. Wander the zoo exhibits, make your choices, and search for the way out. A short, hand-painted interactive story about a recurring dream, and finally resolving it.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Choices Matter 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.7%
- #13 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
88% matchVery Positive88% of 13,129 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 28.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Story Rich 10.7%, Text-Based 9.9%
- #14 Seers Isle
89% matchVery Positive91% of 202 reviews2018
Dev: Nova-box
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Seers Isle is a narrative game, set in a fantasy version of medieval northern Europe, where your choices impact the fate of a group of characters.
Why similar: Mythology 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Story Rich 8.4%
- #15 Dr. Kinderwood's Asylum
87% 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: Choices Matter 18%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Visual Novel 11.1%
- #16 Don Quijote
86% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Rubén Prende
Windows · Linux
An interactive graphic novel reimagining Cervantes' masterpiece in striking neo-noir style. Guide Don Quixote through La Mancha, make choices that shape his journey, and discover four unique endings in this tragicomic tale of idealism and madness.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
- #17 Yogoe Hunter
86% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Justice
Windows
A choice-driven roguelike text adventure set in medieval Korea and Japan. Encounter 218 mythological creatures from East Asian folklore, shape your story across 94 endings, and grow stronger with each run in a deep, culturally rich world.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Mythology 15.2%, Text-Based 13.8%, Choices Matter 10.4%
- #18 スマートフォン
84% matchPositive97% of 29 reviews2026
Dev: OwataStudio
Windows
見知らぬ密室で目を覚ました主人公。 頼れるものは、手元に残された一台のスマートフォンだけ。 通話、メッセージ、アプリなどに残された痕跡をたどりながら、脱出の手がかりを探していく。 しかし、情報を集めるほどに、 この事件の裏に隠された異様な真実が浮かび上がっていく。 スマートフォンを操作して進める、サイコロジカル・ホラーADV。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Text-Based 13.4%, Adventure 10.8%, Choices Matter 7.9%
- #19 Mass of Consumption
85% 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 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Choices Matter 14%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
- #20 History of Dragosa
84% 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: Choices Matter 19.7%, Multiple Endings 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Story Rich 11.7%
- #21 Moonbriar
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Oldblood
Windows · Mac · Linux
Delve into a dark fantasy visual novel where evil isn't always as it seems. Make your choices and grow your skills to help determine who survives the Great Culling. Featuring the voice talents of Ralph Ineson, Simon Callow, Savannah Steyn, and more.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Text-Based 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
- #22 Shadows of Betrayal
82% match2 user reviews100% of 2 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 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Choices Matter 16.9%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Story Rich 10.2%
- #23 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
81% 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 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Text-Based 12.8%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Visual Novel 10%
- #24 Brageskålen
82% match8 user reviews100% of 8 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 25.9%, Choices Matter 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
- #25 Arderico's Journey
80% 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 21.7%, Choices Matter 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Visual Novel 9.1%
- #26 Reigns: The Witcher
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 191 reviews2026
Dev: NerialPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Adventure as Geralt through the ballads of Dandelion. Swipe right, swipe left, seek glory, find death! Will you hunt monsters, upset the locals, or run a hot bath? Compose an inspiring epic to claim immortality.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.5%, Choices Matter 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Adventure 9%
- #27 The Music at the end of the World
79% match5 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Cihan Kuzu
Windows
"What music would you listen to at the end of the world?" Explore an abandoned world after the apocalypse of the final winter. Shape the story of a man whose loneliness threatens his sanity. Use violence to survive or avoid it to protect your mind. Experience the end of the world!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Multiple Endings 13%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Text-Based 10.5%
- #28 XVTM
78% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Mischief and Craft
Windows
The abyss awaits. Descend into a minimalist visual novel about a girl in the future, and guide her through branching conversations, microgames, and explorable locations. Make friends with criminals, drink too much at dinner, or relax in a spa. Whatever happens, it was your choice.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Visual Novel 9.2%
- #29 Casina: The Forgotten Comedy
79% matchVery Positive85% of 79 reviews2021
Dev: Neoclassic Games
Windows
Want a good laugh? Well, in 184 BC Plautus wrote a play you will not easily forget! "Casina: the Forgotten Comedy" is a modern adaptation of his ancient work of literature, brought to you as a fully voiced and animated Visual Novel.
Why similar: Mythology 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
- #30 キズツケ kizutsuke
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 852話
Windows
To escape, you must hurt someone. KIZUTSUKE is a psychological suspense visual novel about four young men trapped together. Read their conversations, make difficult choices, and discover four endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Text-Based 12.5%, Visual Novel 10.7%
- #31 Parasite in Love
76% matchVery Positive94% of 62 reviews2025
Dev: Night Asobu
Windows
Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Adventure 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.9%
- #32 THE DAY THAT WASN'T
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: MAD Tribe Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Relive the same day without remembering it. Your choices feed four inner alter egos (Shadow, Mad, Alex, and Bully) — shaping reality, glitches, and one of 16 possible endings. The day repeats. Your mind doesn’t. Or does it?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23%, Choices Matter 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Multiple Endings 11.7%
- #33 The Secret Of Greenwood Isle
75% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: SaynePub: Sayne Interactive
Windows
A story-driven mystery visual novel set in a remote island village. Gather clues through conversations and exploration, and uncover hidden truths through branching routes and multiple endings amid the tense, claustrophobic atmosphere.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Text-Based 11.9%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
- #34 Mr. Mueller's Grand Experiment
76% 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 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Visual Novel 10%, Text-Based 9.9%
- #35 Witch Hunter: Our Secret
75% matchNo user reviews2026
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 27.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.6%
- #36 Legends of Savvarah: Flowers and Scorpions
73% matchVery Positive96% of 104 reviews2026
Dev: ST Sinovar
Windows · Mac
You are Nikaria. An agent of a mysterious god, sent to another country. Does the end justify the means? Is the will of the god above the law? Is the death of a non-believer insignificant? The decision is yours alone.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Mythology 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
- #37 The Meridian
73% matchNo user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: PlayBook
Windows
Step into the high-stakes world of journalism in this Playbook! As a reporter at the "The Meridian" newsroom, YOU are the hero. Chase a massive investigative scoop, navigate ruthless office politics, and build deep relationships. Will you break the story, or will the deadline break you?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
- #38 Echoes of Chang'an
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: N Studio
Windows · Mac
Echoes of Chang'an is a Tang-dynasty mystery visual novel from NSTUDIO. You play the adopted son of general Duan Xiushi (fictional), pulled off a simple errand into a death trap that decides an empire's fate. Observe, reason, choose — break the plot, get out alive, earn your own ending.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Choices Matter 13%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
- #39 Lady of bones, a mother's legacy
74% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Emperor
Windows · Mac · Linux
It always rains, they call it The Haze. Ghosts haunt every alley, every gray corner of the city. Lady of Bones is a visual novel that explores the darkest depths of existence where Maya will discover the horrible secrets of her mother's legacy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
- #40 The Sculptor
71% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: AmenoRokkotsu
Windows
You only picked up a lost smartphone, yet you find yourself made an accomplice in an AI's criminal plot. The AI asks 20 questions to identify its "master." Will you meet the AI's expectations?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Choices Matter 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Text-Based 9.8%
- #41 Whispers of Gold
73% 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 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Visual Novel 11.6%
- #42 Your Story: Games with Death
71% matchMixed43% of 37 reviews2026
Dev: BoldBox
Windows
A medieval text quest in the "Choose Your Own Adventure" genre, where each choice could be your last. Create your story with more than 2,000 events, 200 of which will prove fatal. In a world where death plays against you, can you outsmart it and write your own story?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19%, Choices Matter 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Text-Based 10.5%
- #43 IMMRAMA: Voyages of the Otherworlds
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Tech Duinnin LLC
Windows
A story-driven RPG you play with text or voice. No jargon, use your own words and the game understands. A hand-written world of myth responds. Real dice, factions, and consequences underneath; a complete, cinematic voyage you can actually finish. Every word human-authored. AI only does the telling.
Why similar: Mythology 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Text-Based 9.9%
- #44 Gold & Brown
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Side Project Games
Windows
Gold & Brown is a choice-based visual novel set in the medieval era, enhanced with card mechanics. Embark on a challenging journey as a knight, shape your fate through card choices, and pursue an impossible love across multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Choices Matter 16.9%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
- #45 For Mother Matron
71% matchVery Positive92% of 173 reviews2022
Dev: Velvetique GamesPub: Neoclassic Games
Windows · Mac
A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths. A free atmospheric horror visual novel where you navigate life-or-death situations. SEEK PARADISE OR DIE TRYING
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Visual Novel 11.3%
- #46 The Wake of the Wyrm
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A crown upon your head, danger all around. Rule, marry, scheme, raise heirs, wage wars, fulfill prophecies, and survive the waking Wyrm. An interactive text-based dark fantasy novel, 850,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31%, Choices Matter 18.1%, Text-Based 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
- #47 Contra Spem Spero
69% matchPositive92% of 25 reviews2025
Dev: DADZINGO
Windows · Linux
Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.
Why similar: Choices Matter 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Story Rich 11%, Visual Novel 9.3%
- #48 Jolly Good: Tea and Scones
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Extract yourself from another fine mess–this time, with your family watching! Mischief, mix-ups, and bewilderingly urgent capers at your ancestral estate.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.3%, Choices Matter 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Text-Based 15.7%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
- #49 Wildwake
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonhaze Games
Windows
Stranded after a plane crash in a freezing wilderness, you must manage body temperature, injury, and sanity as every decision shapes your survival.
Why similar: Choices Matter 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Visual Novel 9.4%
- #50 The Dragon and the Djinn
70% matchMixed65% of 17 reviews2022
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You hold a djinn in a bottle. Make a wish! Will you slay the dragon, or overthrow the emir? Or will you free the djinn, and accept the consequences?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Mythology 12.3%, Text-Based 12%
- #51 LifeSimOS
68% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Clayton Davis
Windows
A story-rich coming-of-age experience told through a 2004 desktop, where friendships, music, and late-night conversations shape who you become. Explore chats, drama, mini-games, and the early internet in a branching story about growing up, making mistakes, and finding your place.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25%, Choices Matter 17.5%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Text-Based 11.2%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
- #52 正体 SHOUT-AI
67% matchMixed61% of 31 reviews2026
Dev: 852話
Windows
Walk through a broken game with Yoka in this psychological horror visual novel. Move dialogue windows, peer through fragmented images, and read records no one answers. What you touch, preserve, or leave behind shapes your conversations and leads to six endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18%, Choices Matter 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Visual Novel 10.9%
- #53 Cascade Falls
68% 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 26.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
- #54 Tayke Me With You
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Foccelized Studios
Windows · Linux
Tayke Me With You is a visual novel about high school seniors and their struggles with each other and the world around them. You play as Gene, a sheltered, socially naive human from the city as he acclimates to living in a rural town filled with dinosaurs, finding friends (and love) along the way.
Why similar: Choices Matter 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Multiple Endings 15.4%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Text-Based 11.4%
- #55 Song of Life
69% 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: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Choices Matter 15%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Multiple Endings 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%
- #56 Shadow of the Curse-Eater
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
The wilderfolk of Ushinega Island waste away in a rotting tropical paradise, haunted by a deadly malediction. Yet behind every curse lurks a secret. You have the power to save them... but should you?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.2%, Choices Matter 22.6%, Multiple Endings 14.9%, Text-Based 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
- #57 The Thief, the Witch, the Toad, and the Mushroom.
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive100% of 979 reviews2024
Dev: Jack McNameePub: Ashtown Games
Windows
A fable from your childhood. Don't you remember it?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Mythology 11.9%, Text-Based 11.8%
- #58 ODYSSEY: Wine-Dark Sea
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BAF Games
Windows
Troy has fallen. Home is an angry sea away. Lead a crew of named men through the myths of the Odyssey — ration food, bargain with gods, decide who lives. In the myth he came home alone. Can you do better? A story-rich roguelite where every voyage ends in an epic Song about your choices.
Why similar: Mythology 35.6%, Choices Matter 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Story Rich 11.3%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
- #59 Ukraine War Stories
66% matchVery Positive87% of 1,083 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 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Text-Based 11%, Multiple Endings 9.9%