- #1 Agent Dunoz
97% matchMostly Positive78% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: VIWESA GAMES
Windows
In a dystopian world ruled by megacorporation's, you're a mercenary with a $15,000 debt. Face dice-based combat, moral dilemmas, and irreversible choices in this hardcore Sci-Fi Cyberpunk Text RPG. Will you reclaim your freedom or vanish in the shadows?
Why similar: Dice 41.9% ★, Cyberpunk 17.4%, Detective 10.8%, Sci-fi 7.4%, RPG 6.2%
- #2 Fear & Hope
96% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Imaginings Software
Windows
An immersive choose your own adventure mystery game with sci-fi and detective/crime themes. Explore a brave new world containing unique puzzles, hidden clues, intriguing characters, monsters / enemies, weapons, survivalist elements and games of chance.
Why similar: Dice 41.8% ★, Detective 13.2%, Choices Matter 7.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.5%, Multiple Endings 7.4%
- #3 Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
96% matchVery Positive92% of 2,252 reviews2025
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A dice-driven RPG, in a human and heartfelt sci-fi world. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head and no memory of your past. Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt.
Why similar: Dice 37.8% ★, Cyberpunk 15.9%, Dystopian 11.8%, Sci-fi 7.1%, Hand-drawn 6.2%
- #4 ShadowLess Light
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Uncommon Role
Windows · Linux
A visual novel with RPG elements set in a Cyberpunk dystopia where you play a detective tasked with solving a smorgasbord of cases.
Why similar: Dice 19.4% ★, Cyberpunk 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Detective 12.7%, RPG 11.3%
- #5 Legends of Savvarah: Flowers and Scorpions
94% matchVery Positive96% of 93 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: Nonlinear 15.8%, Mythology 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Choices Matter 9.2%
- #6 Nowhere Stars
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio Luna
Windows
A story driven visual novel set in a sci-fi space opera, where you navigate the remnants of humanity through a devastating Temporal War. Survive alien abductions, interstellar conflict and time travel, while making choices that shape desire, power and the survival of the human species.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 15.2%, Mythology 11%, Dystopian 10.8%, Nonlinear 10.7%, Romance 8.4%
- #7 Univocity
93% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Novaerc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Univocity is a short cyberpunk visual novel wrapped in neon aesthetics with a lush atmospheric soundtrack, featuring a deep and emotional conversation between two people about taking down a global tech monopoly.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 26.9%, Dystopian 21.6%, Sci-fi 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Choices Matter 8.4%
- #8 Citizen Sleeper
92% matchVery Positive93% of 9,995 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: Dice 36.6% ★, Cyberpunk 15.3%, Dystopian 12.2%, Sci-fi 7.1%, Multiple Endings 6.9%
- #9 银河七日生存法则—Seven Days on the Edge: Galactic Fringe
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CalmSeal
Windows · Mac
Daytime romance, nighttime werewolf! Explore freely by day—then face the “Night Council” nightly. Use what you uncover to choose the right side among factions… because your decisions will decide who lives and who doesn’t. And when you finally piece together every clue, the truth behind Ferron is…
Why similar: Cyberpunk 17.8%, Detective 15.3%, Nonlinear 14.4%, Dystopian 14.2%, Choices Matter 8.8%
- #10 MINDFLUX: Dead Man Walking
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lost Gate StudiosPub: Salix Augeat
Windows
You are a cybernetic detective on the brink of madness. The only doctor who can save you is missing. Modify your brain to extract clues, bargain with ghosts from your past at the cost of sanity, and survive a decaying world of nightmares in this first-person horror RPG.
Why similar: Detective 16.6%, Dystopian 14.5%, Nonlinear 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Multiple Endings 11%
- #11 Young Hearts
90% matchVery Positive91% of 93 reviews2024
Dev: Sky SeekersPub: Evening Studio
Windows
‘Young Hearts’ is a visual novel in the genres of romance and slice of life, telling stories about the everyday life of a student company living in a warm southern town: stories about their secrets, dreams, love, their problems and ghosts of the past…
Why similar: Nonlinear 17.2%, Romance 14.5%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Choices Matter 10.1%
- #12 Gods of the Twilight
89% matchPositive100% of 21 reviews2023
Dev: Volutian Design
Windows · Mac · Linux
How will you end the world? Play as Althea and Farkas as old Norse magic returns to their world of tech, and they realize they're more than human. Encounter gods, monsters, governments, corporations, and criminals... decide who to trust, and prepare for Ragnarök.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 18.2%, Dystopian 13.3%, Mythology 12.8%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
- #13 Quality Dreams, Reasonably Priced
89% matchPositive100% of 33 reviews2025
Dev: zorkie studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Work as a body modification consultant in a dystopian future. Talk to clients, make recommendations, and decide how much to upsell them. Balance helping others with earning enough to save your sick rabbit. Make decisions and change lives.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 24%, Dystopian 16.2%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Sci-fi 9.2%, Visual Novel 8.8%
- #14 Static Between Stations
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Static Between Stations
Windows
Static Between Stations is a narrative-driven RPG in the dying city of Patchwater. Explore, negotiate, scavenge, craft or try your best to avoid conflict. In a fight for survival adaptability is your only advantage.
Why similar: Dice 42.8% ★, Dystopian 12.7%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Nonlinear 10.3%, Story Rich 7.8%
- #15 Holy Deadline
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sunday Morning Meet-up Studio
Windows
Holy Deadline is a surreal, story-rich visual novel where you play as a demigod lawyer. You have one week to investigate the divine divorce of Adam and Eve! Flirt, drink, raise your stats and make bold choices in minigames and Heaven's drama.
Why similar: Detective 16.4%, Nonlinear 13.6%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Mythology 9.5%
- #16 Disjunction
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 168 reviews2021
Dev: Ape Tribe GamesPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 51%
In a city driven by corruption, three hardened citizens rise to uncover a conspiracy threatening its fate. Define your playstyle and engage in lethal high-octane combat, or keep out of sight in gripping stealth action.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 19.6%, Detective 18.3%, Dystopian 13.5%, Choices Matter 12%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
- #17 Friendsim 2
86% matchVery Positive88% of 103 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: Dystopian 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Cyberpunk 11.8%, Sci-fi 9.8%
- #18 Celestial Return
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Metaphor GamesPub: Shoreline Games
Windows
Loot, bribe, gamble, survive. The dice will be your savior or your downfall in this story-driven RPG. Every roll matters when trying to uncover cosmic horrors and outwit megacorps. Pray your next roll won’t be your last.
Why similar: Dice 40.8% ★, Cyberpunk 16.7%, Nonlinear 10.1%, Choices Matter 9%, Story Rich 6.1%
- #19 Minds Beneath Us
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,706 reviews2024
Dev: BearBoneStudio
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Cyberpunk 19.7%, Dystopian 16.5%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Multiple Endings 9.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
- #20 Devil's Terminal
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 𝘿𝙍𝘼𝙈𝘼
Windows · Mac
Troubled teen simulator. Build a deck of dice and roll against fear.
Why similar: Dice 42.9% ★, Choices Matter 8.8%, Romance 8.8%, Multiple Endings 7.7%, Hand-drawn 7.5%
- #21 I drink Sorrel Coffee to reboot reality, but I'm being hunted by Monster Girls and armed agents
83% matchVery Positive85% of 253 reviews2025
Dev: ST SinovarPub: TopHouse Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
"I drink Sorrel Coffee to reboot reality, but I'm being hunted by Monster Girls and armed agents" is a branching visual novel where your choices truly matter...
Why similar: Detective 20.3%, Nonlinear 16.3%, Romance 13.4%, Visual Novel 11%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
- #22 VIOLENT RUSH
82% matchPositive100% of 42 reviews2026
Dev: Sky SeekersPub: Evening Studio
Windows
A near future where ruthless corporations reign supreme. A familiar story, isn’t it? Once again, few have the courage to challenge the authorities. Enter our heroes: desperate youths armed with spray cans and… the truth. A visual novel about street art in a cyberpunk world, by Sky Seekers Studio.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 21.3%, Detective 17.5%, Dystopian 11.1%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.7%
- #23 CyberControl: Another Life
81% matchPositive81% of 41 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Games Studio
Windows
An interactive cyberpunk drama where you live the life of a border officer in a brutal future ruled by tyranny, manipulation, and survival. Check documents, approve or deny entry, build relationships, and face nonlinear stories.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 27.2%, Romance 14.8%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Sci-fi 11%, Story Rich 9.7%
- #24 Guilt Trip
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Made With Squares
Windows
A crime-solving mystery game from the perspective of the culprit. You know everything they don't, and the only way to make it back home is to Guilt Trip.
Why similar: Detective 24.2%, Multiple Endings 15.8%, Visual Novel 13.7%, RPG 11.6%, Hand-drawn 8.7%
- #25 Legends of Savvarah: Time of Pariah
80% matchVery Positive97% of 142 reviews2024
Dev: ST Sinovar
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are Hidu, a beastman mercenary in a port city. You must survive one very bad day. How? That’s entirely up to you. There are countless ways for events to unfold — and 25 endings.
Why similar: Nonlinear 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Choices Matter 12%, Multiple Endings 11%, Romance 9.5%
- #26 Moonlight: Season One
81% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Big Bat Productions
Windows · Mac · Linux
Neural Implants have redefined humanity, but a single death threatens to expose their darkest secret. Investigate, uncover, and survive in this adult visual novel of mystery, passion, and control.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 22%, Dystopian 18.6%, Romance 11.5%, Detective 9.2%, Sci-fi 8.9%
- #27 Interim Crossroads
79% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2024
Dev: Astronomic Games
Windows
A visual novel with choices and consequences, set in a purgatory dimension where we must complete certain tasks before we are deemed worthy to move on. Build trust and romance, confront the past, and choose the future.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 21.5%, Dystopian 14.1%, Romance 11.6%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
- #28 Kardiya: The Winds of Fate
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: InEv Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rogue-lite RPG Dicebuilding game. Roll the dice, choose your companions, organize your gear, explore all of Kardia, and die. Then try again! Try again and again. Experience a different story each time. Until you find The Winds of Fate.
Why similar: Dice 56% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%, Visual Novel 7%, Nonlinear 6.6%, Choices Matter 5.3%
- #29 Song of Farca
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,602 reviews2021
Dev: Wooden MonkeysPub: Alawar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Hack into crime scenes, look for evidence, analyze data, interrogate criminals, track suspects and deal with the consequences of your decisions. This is a dark and brutal detective story with a Black Mirror-esque atmosphere of digital dominance and the narrative structure of a US crime procedural.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 18.9%, Dystopian 18.4%, Detective 17.9%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
- #30 Kill The Clock
77% matchVery Positive93% of 80 reviews2025
Dev: Happy Slugs
Windows
Kill the Clock is a narrative time-loop mystery adventure where you relive the same week to solve a murder that keeps changing. Customize your character, roll dice to influence story outcomes, and uncover the truth—before time resets again.
Why similar: Dice 30.9% ★, Detective 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
- #31 LoveSick Darlings
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dimitri Odysseus
Windows · Mac · Linux
TRY THE FREE DEMO! Make impossible decisions, romance girls, break each others hearts, and form unique bonds through your choices in this immersive game and story! Who will YOU go with to the end-of-year dance?
Why similar: Nonlinear 18.5%, Romance 15.7%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.3%
- #32 Steel Soul Shaper
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GENEPOP StudioPub: Spiral Up Games
Windows
A narrative-driven simulation where you play a highly skilled cyberware surgeon running a secret back-alley clinic in a cyberpunk city. As you modify your clients' tech, you'll hear their stories, uncover their secrets, and quietly shape the course of destiny in this concrete jungle.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 28.3%, Dystopian 13.6%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, RPG 9.4%
- #33 WRITE.EYE
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: MorroMedia
Windows
In a futuristic Seattle, the CorpoState regulates every citizen's perception through a mandatory contact lens. Magic, a weary editor in Tower D#503, has come to realize the history he polishes is a hollow lie. Installing an unauthorized override, he toggles his lens to descend to the streets below.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 38.5%, Dystopian 29%, Sci-fi 14.4%, Multiple Endings 7.3%, Story Rich 5.5%
- #34 Synergia
76% matchVery Positive87% of 801 reviews2020
Dev: Radi ArtPub: Top Hat Studios, Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Synergia is a yuri thriller visual novel that takes place in a cyberpunk future, wrapped up in a beautifully unique, vibrant neon aesthetic. At the end of the world, sometimes love is the ultimate crime.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 25.9%, Dystopian 20.6%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Sci-fi 10.1%, Choices Matter 8.1%
- #35 I Feel Fine
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Secret Lab
Windows · Mac · Linux
The meteorite will hit your space station in 3 days, and you’re bolted to the floor. Can you convince someone to free you? Meet, persuade, and escape certain doom with a large cast of characters in this bittersweet and hilarious adventure game!
Why similar: Cyberpunk 18.1%, Nonlinear 12.8%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
- #36 TRAGEDYPUNK:LABOR, SURVIVAL AND ROCKET
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Guo BenPub: 糕薯科技
Windows
Cyber job application simulator! Start an adventure in a city whose main industry is rocket manufacturing. Face multiple challenges from job hunting, work, and life.
Why similar: Dystopian 22.1%, Cyberpunk 21.2%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Story Rich 9.8%
- #37 Dr. Kinderwood's Asylum
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Richday
Windows · Mac · Linux
Decide the fate of the son of a tailor and a witch doctor infected with an incurable disease in an interactive story with multiple endings depending on your actions.
Why similar: Nonlinear 21.2%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Multiple Endings 14.8%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Story Rich 10.7%
- #38 Biocybernetic Trap
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pavel Kopylov
Windows
Biocybernetic Trap — an interactive cyberpunk detective. You are given the quantum diary of a long-dead detective, where reality fractures into parallel versions of the investigation.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 19.1%, Detective 15.1%, Nonlinear 14.2%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Multiple Endings 9%
- #39 Fallen Seeds II
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KPDPub: Monkey Rave Production
Windows
Continue Evod's adventure on the enigmatic planet of Ulthar, unraveling deeper mysteries and navigating political intrigues with his companions Ada, Lily, Sif, Ophelia, and Kaya.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 14.3%, Nonlinear 13.5%, Romance 11.7%, Detective 11.6%, Choices Matter 10.5%
- #40 Horny Academy
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Wet Ink
Windows
Horny Academy is an adult visual novel that blends interactive storytelling with a deep, branching narrative. Every choice you make leads to steamy animated scenes or unexpected twists within the mysterious walls of the magical Academy
Why similar: Choices Matter 15.8%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Nonlinear 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%
- #41 Let Bions Be Bygones
72% matchMostly Positive73% of 122 reviews2024
Dev: Bohemian PulpPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 21.6%, Detective 17.4%, Dystopian 12%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
- #42 Silicon Dreams | cyberpunk interrogation
73% 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: Cyberpunk 21.8%, Detective 13.6%, Dystopian 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
- #43 Fallen Seeds
71% matchVery Positive87% of 92 reviews2024
Dev: KPDPub: Monkey Rave Production
Windows
As Evod, a special agent of the Earth Empire, you embark on a thrilling adventure to the enigmatic planet of Ulthar, inhabited by the zoomorphic tribe of the Flock, a biotechnological extraterrestrial civilization. Your mission is to unravel an ancient mystery that holds the key to your destiny.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 17.4%, Nonlinear 13.3%, Romance 12.3%, Detective 11.9%, Sci-fi 10%
- #44 Die for a Die
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Frog Collective
Windows · Linux
Explore a choose-your-own-adventure book, fight your enemies with powerful dice, craft a unique bag of dice and choose your path in the realm of Amartia.
Why similar: Dice 50.9% ★, Mythology 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%, RPG 6.5%, Hand-drawn 5.3%
- #45 Gods of Savvarah | Part I
71% matchVery Positive98% of 166 reviews2023
Dev: ST Sinovar
Windows
Gods of Savvarah is a visual novel with the philosophy of a classic fantasy RPG. Defeat enemies, explore countries, make friends, and find your place in Savvarah.
Why similar: Mythology 15.4%, Nonlinear 14%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
- #46 Poisoned Path
70% match3 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Inspiration Overload Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Poisoned Path is a deep visual novel set in a mysterious atmosphere, where your choices determine the story's fate. Uncover dark secrets and chart your own course.
Why similar: Detective 16.7%, Hand-drawn 15%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%
- #47 Superstorm Melon Date
72% matchVery Positive91% of 74 reviews2021
Dev: A. Hagen
Windows · Mac
It's date night in the dystopian future. You're going out with Mel, a half-melon person with psychic powers. They seem a little weird, but at least they're cute. Choose where to go, what to do, and what to say in this highly interactive, romance visual novel.
Why similar: Dystopian 21.9%, Romance 15.8%, Choices Matter 13%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.4%
- #48 ION.A
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Кооператив Юность
Windows
Non-linear graphic novel in the genre of magical realism. Will the hero be able to uncover secrets, find himself and escape from danger? Or will he be lost in the streets of the City forever?
Why similar: Detective 22.7%, Dystopian 21.5%, Visual Novel 14%, Story Rich 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.9%
- #49 Herald of the Mists
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FromNiki
Windows
A narrative-driven RPG where every dice roll shapes your fate. Step into the role of the Queen's Herald and traverse a mist-shrouded realm to uncover the fate of her lost army. Will your choices uphold loyalty, or lead you down a path of betrayal? The secrets of the mists await.
Why similar: Dice 22.9% ★, Choices Matter 14.4%, Detective 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Visual Novel 9%
- #50 Under the Heavens: Warring States Saga
69% 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: Dice 49% ★, Choices Matter 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%, Multiple Endings 7.7%, Story Rich 7.6%
- #51 SIGILLVM: RESONANCE
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: LevistokPub: BRXKENVN
Windows · Linux
The Long Night is close at hand. The city comes to a standstill in the lead up to the festivities. But a series of strange events forces Asra to seek out the truth she doesn't truly wish to know, and to come face-to-face to those she has long since left behind.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 22.4%, Nonlinear 16.8%, Romance 14.1%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
- #52 The Crane Rider's Tale
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Psychic Kiss
Windows · Mac · Linux
Fly passengers around a fantasy town inspired by Chinese folktales and unravel a mindbending, Zero Escape-like mystery.
Why similar: Dice 29.4% ★, Mythology 20.7%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Visual Novel 7.9%
- #53 Long Knives
66% matchVery Positive99% of 368 reviews2025
Dev: Jade Hex
Windows · Mac
An oriental narrative mystery. The story branches upon your choices. The dice lies.
Why similar: Dice 41.4% ★, Detective 19.9%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Multiple Endings 7.7%, Story Rich 7%
- #54 Isle of Maligree
68% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: Gilded Rune Games
Windows · Mac
Become an investigator in a dark fantasy story. People keep going missing in Maligree, before being forgotten by all who knew them. Will you solve the case before you forget?
Why similar: Detective 21.4%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Visual Novel 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%
- #55 CELL 0: Cyber Entertainment Leisure Lounge
67% matchPositive93% of 44 reviews2024
Dev: Någon Annan
Windows · Mac
CELL is a short non-linear visual novel in a post-apocalypse/cyberpunk setting. Kenzo is an artificially grown human who lived his entire life alone isolated with a sweet, but artificial service intelligence. He's not okay. Help him to go through the disturbing situation he's about to get into.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 26.3%, Nonlinear 18.2%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.3%
- #56 Tron: Identity
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 292 reviews2023
Dev: Bithell Games
Windows · Mac
Something has been taken. Enter a new Grid and forge alliances via visual novel gameplay, uncovering truths through Identity Disc puzzles. Make critical decisions and plot your own course in a world without a creator.
Why similar: Detective 23.7%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
- #57 ECHO RAILWAY
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: tramdrey
Windows
Step into the role of a tram conductor robot in a future where humanity is preparing to leave Earth. Are you suited for something greater than being scrapped?
Why similar: Cyberpunk 19.9%, Detective 17.8%, Dystopian 13%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
- #58 Villienville. Echoes of Deception
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 14 reviews2024
Dev: JAD Labs
Windows · Mac
A text role-playing game about the fate of a mercenary who finds himself in the strange village: Villienville. Investigate who benefits from the sudden appearance of “ghosts” and help residents protect their homes from a mysterious enemy. The main thing is not to make a mistake in your choice!
Why similar: Nonlinear 20.7%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, RPG 9.2%
- #59 Stories of a coup d'état: The Three Siblings
66% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2026
Dev: cjgamedev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Visual novel set in Chile, 1973. The military dictatorship rises up, and a family of siblings try to live their daily life, interrupted by the regime's activities. You will be cornered and forced to take tough decisions that will test your morality. Remember: Every decision will have consequences.
Why similar: Dystopian 23.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Visual Novel 14%, RPG 12.7%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
- #60 malViolence - Definitive Edition
67% matchVery Positive93% of 149 reviews2023
Dev: Mado
Windows · Mac · Linux
CAUTION: Escape from this supervillain at your own risk...A short sci-fi visual novel packed with brain-teasing puzzles, gruesome deaths and heartbreaking secrets.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 22.9%, Dystopian 20.1%, Sci-fi 10.3%, Choices Matter 10%, Visual Novel 9.4%