- #1 Silent Earth
97% matchPositive84% of 25 reviews2021
Dev: Fring Frang Games
Windows
Silent Earth is a short sci-fi text adventure about finding one’s place despite an uncertain future. Explore an off-world mining colony ship, navigate multi-linear character relationships, and steer the story toward one of five endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Futuristic 13.9%, Sci-fi 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
- #2 All (Too) Good Things
96% 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 21%, Text-Based 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Dialogue Heavy 11.6%, Multiple Endings 9%
- #3 Faultline.Exe
96% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: Jason BannPub: VibeAxis
Windows
The median lifespan of a new operative is 8 minutes. Try to beat the average. Hack a dying space station, outsmart a corrupted AI, and dodge rogue autodocs in cheesy FMV glory. Halcyon HR reminds you that dying on the clock instantly voids your pension. 12 brutal endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Space 9.5%
- #4 Across Kiloparsecs
95% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Dragon Dropper
Windows · Linux
A short science-fiction visual novel where you investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of a close friend.
Why similar: Text-Based 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Dialogue Heavy 9.7%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Space 8.8%
- #5 Do 11
94% matchPositive81% of 26 reviews2021
Dev: SJR Team
Windows · Mac
Find a way out of the Do 11 app by doing missions that come from the mysterious Do 11 app. A choice awaits you to solve puzzles and change the fate of the protagonist. Escape the main character from the Do 11 app while savoring a profound worldview and intriguing story. An incredible twist awaits.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Text-Based 15.8%, Dialogue Heavy 13.5%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
- #6 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
94% 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 20.9%, Text-Based 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
- #7 Terminal Tales: An Interactive Fiction Anthology
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NEWB GAMES, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Terminal Tales: An Interactive Fiction Anthology features multiple text-based adventures from a variety of genres. Explore a curated vault of brand-new, modern mysteries and sci-fi epics. No graphics. No limits. Just your imagination and a world waiting for your command.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
- #8 The Portal Pirate
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ZizihPub: Zizih Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A sound, a flash, a portal… A pirate emerges, bringing a deadly threat. Five friends stand before him, and one of them is the target. But which one? Even they don't know.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Mystery 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.9%
- #9 Tequila Moonrise
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Black Swan Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Take over a struggling bar on the politically tense Moon Village. Prepare and serve drinks, befriend and help your customers, find your purpose, and maybe even love... all while keeping the bar's lights on in this narrative driven bartending simulator set on the moon.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Text-Based 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%
- #10 Space Court
91% matchVery Positive98% of 161 reviews2020
Dev: Uphill Promise
Windows
As a newly appointed Judge, you will rule over Space Court and its denizens to keep the universe safe. Or possibly blow it all up. Either way, you’re tenured.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Text-Based 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Multiple Endings 11.6%
- #11 Message in a Melody
90% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Can music save the human race? You and the Raqullan Empire will soon find out. Decide whether music, and the humans who make it, should survive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.9%, Text-Based 24.7%, Sci-fi 14.4%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%
- #12 ROSETIA: A First Contact Simulation
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Redshift Panda
Windows
Become the first diplomat to an alien world in this dialogue-driven, Star Trek-inspired RPG. Explore an ancient civilization, befriend its strange inhabitants, and make agonizing choices that will forever shape the future of their species.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Dialogue Heavy 13.2%, Text-Based 13%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Space 11%
- #13 Space Station Adventure
89% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Morrigan Games
Windows · Mac
Space Station Adventure: No Response From Mars is a science-fiction text-based, interactive adventure full of mysteries and twists! Play as an Artificial Intelligence and help your technician navigate through the Hades station!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Space 11.9%, Futuristic 11%, Text-Based 10.8%
- #14 Life of a Space Force Captain
87% matchVery Positive85% of 61 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Live a full life in the future as a human, an alien, or even a robot as you rise through the ranks to become captain of your very own starship.
Why similar: Text-Based 27.2%, Space 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Sci-fi 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
- #15 The Away Team: Lost Exodus
88% matchMostly Positive73% of 100 reviews2016
Dev: Underflow Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship, tasked with finding a home for your crew—the last remnants of humanity. Your choices will determine their fate, and your own.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Dialogue Heavy 15.1%, Text-Based 14.2%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%
- #16 HRO: Adventures of a Humanoid Resources Officer
86% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2023
Dev: Worthing & Moncrieff
Windows · Mac
HRO: Adventures of a Humanoid Resources Officer is a puzzle-driven adventure game set in a retro sci-fi universe. When the Endeavor stumbles into universe-shaking trouble, can you harness the power of the bureaucracy to rein in your crew’s worst impulses and survive to the next episode?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Text-Based 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Dialogue Heavy 10.3%
- #17 Vanakan
86% 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 28.6%, Text-Based 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Multiple Endings 8%
- #18 Mistbound
84% matchPositive88% of 17 reviews2026
Dev: aworyrate
Windows · Mac · Linux
Mistbound is a surreal narrative adventure about overcoming trauma, where the line between reality and dreams is blurred. Loneliness can be too loud. And salvation can be too quiet!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Dialogue Heavy 14.5%, Text-Based 13.6%, Multiple Endings 12.3%
- #19 Professor of Magical Studies
85% matchPositive87% of 23 reviews2022
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Professor of Magical Studies is an interactive magical school novel by Stephen Granade, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
Why similar: Text-Based 22%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Multiple Endings 9%
- #20 Alcyone: The Last City
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 19 reviews2025
Dev: Joshua Meadows
Windows · Mac · Linux
Alcyone: The Last City is an interactive sci-fi novel where your choices can lead to the salvation or destruction of the last refuge of civilisation in the universe. Immerse yourself in a branching narrative of diverse characters, intrigue, and world-altering decisions.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Text-Based 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.1%
- #21 Fixer's Tale
83% matchPositive95% of 19 reviews2024
Dev: Emblem Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A humorous sci-fi text-driven adventure where you play a support engineer sent to fix system failures in a secret research complex. Explore strange labs, investigate bizarre incidents, solve absurd problems, talk to depressed robots, and make choices that lead to multiple endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Dialogue Heavy 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%
- #22 Choice of Robots
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,000 reviews2014
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Your robots will change the world! Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army? A 300,000-word epic interactive sci-fi novel.
Why similar: Text-Based 30.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Choices Matter 16.4%, Sci-fi 7.7%
- #23 StarStruck
82% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Strawberrytail
Windows
Embark on a thrilling journey through this highly engaging science fantasy visual novel with memorable characters and multiple endings. Journey through space, uncover the past and pull off a heist or two as you negotiate the pitfalls of friendship and a crumbling reality. Can you save the universe?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Space 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Dialogue Heavy 12.5%
- #24 LifeSimOS
80% 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 23%, Text-Based 18.5%, Dialogue Heavy 16.1%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
- #25 Cold Bed on Route
79% matchPositive93% of 45 reviews2025
Dev: Old Retina Museum
Windows · Linux
"Cold Bed on Route" is an equation-like adventure game. Work with to find and dump unwanted items. Then, let's make up for the excess weight caused by having her on board. And let's prove that the universe is not yet completely cold and frigid. Now, pilot, it's your turn.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20%, Text-Based 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Choices Matter 9%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
- #26 Tempest In A Teapot
81% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: StrandGames
Windows
A choice-based, visual novel with time travelling teapots!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Dialogue Heavy 13.2%, Futuristic 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.8%
- #27 Sarawak
81% matchPositive86% of 22 reviews2021
Dev: Cowleyfornia StudiosPub: Cowleyfornia Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Text-Based 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Mystery 10.5%, Dialogue Heavy 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
- #28 NeuroNet: Mendax Proxy
79% matchVery Positive82% of 66 reviews2023
Dev: Dream Harvest
Windows
You are Arc, a city management AI. Designed to manage a city-wide AR metaverse known as the NeuroNet. Meet its many users, build relationships and help or hinder their lives while trying to balance the wider needs of the city. Find your humanity in a world losing theirs to technology.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 15.7%, Text-Based 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Futuristic 12.8%, Choices Matter 10.2%
- #29 Butter Side Down
77% matchPositive100% of 26 reviews2025
Dev: Kalle MacDonald
Windows · Linux
Butter Side Down is a bizarro choose-your-own-choice game. Starring Basil Bonser, Adam Spargo, Grey Michael, Beatrice, Jeep Johnson, and Rotten Ruggerio. Answer questions, take calls, play card games, and solve one hell of a mystery.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Choices Matter 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Mystery 9.5%
- #30 201 - The Bad Number
77% matchPositive80% of 30 reviews2024
Dev: Pavel Kopylov
Windows
"201 - The Bad Number" is an interactive science fiction game-book set on a post-apocalyptic Mars. In a world where only 200 people remain, each new inhabitant may hasten civilization's end. Players make choices that impact the fate of humanity and the colony in a unique dystopian setting.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Futuristic 11.6%, Choices Matter 11%
- #31 Inflorescences
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FloriProductions
Windows · Mac
A visual novel strategy game where your floral fragrances determine the fate of your mysterious shop and its patrons. Make choices, talk to customers, and shape the story. Get ready for a journey of heartfelt connections and strategic decision-making.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Text-Based 19.3%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Story Rich 11.2%
- #32 Death off the Cuff
78% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2021
Dev: Simon ChristiansenPub: SiChris Productions
Windows
No criminal has ever been a match for you, and everybody is looking forward to a description of your brilliant deductions. There is just one small problem. One tiny detail that makes it different this time. A mere trifle, really. This time you have no idea who did it.
Why similar: Text-Based 22%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Dialogue Heavy 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Choices Matter 10.1%
- #33 Universe Has No Favorites
75% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2024
Dev: Radek VolfPub: Walker & Volf
Windows · Mac
Interactive fiction, visual novel adventure with point & click controls and AI-assisted illustrations. Explore a dangerous orbital station, an abandoned starship or a mysterious planet in this cyberpunk sci-fi text-based game. And, of course, discover a mystery that has an impact on the galaxy.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Sci-fi 10.9%, Dialogue Heavy 9.3%
- #34 The Peresmeshnik
76% matchVery Positive93% of 108 reviews2020
Dev: Sean Arnold
Windows
It is said that the last frontier is space, but the crew of the Soviet Frigate, The Peresmeshnik, is about to discover that the sea still hides a terrifying secret. Waiting to be found.
Why similar: Text-Based 28.2%, Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Story Rich 7.3%
- #35 What Is Sleeping In My Room?
75% match7 user reviews88% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: CousinCatnip
Windows
Experience the hunt for the Monster living in your room in this Visual Novel experience. Your choices will determine the fate of both you and the Monster. Will you figure out what the Monster really is?
Why similar: Text-Based 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
- #36 Whispering Memories
73% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: Stellar Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
Return to a hometown that hasn’t changed the way it should have. A psychological visual novel focused on atmosphere, relationships, and a reality that slowly refuses to stay still. Can you uncover the truth before it consumes you?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Text-Based 16.8%, Dialogue Heavy 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Choices Matter 12.3%
- #37 Hadean Lands
76% matchPositive94% of 48 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 38.8%, Text-Based 35.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Puzzle 4.7%, Story Rich 3.1%
- #38 Bootlegger: Moonshine Empire
73% matchPositive80% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Make your name as a whiskey-runner, a politician, or a gangster as you quench thirsts from rural Pennsylvania to the New York City nightlife!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.9%, Text-Based 28.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
- #39 Guilt Free
74% matchVery Positive86% of 293 reviews2020
Dev: Lateral Games
Windows · Mac
Guilt Free is a visual novel crossed with a point and click made to offer perspective on mental health and eating disorders. Navigate a couple's rocky relationship and encounter "flaws" or "quirks" that may actually be symptomatic behaviors.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 21.2%, Text-Based 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
- #40 The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
74% 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: Text-Based 29.3%, Interactive Fiction 27.3%, Choices Matter 16.9%, Multiple Endings 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.2%
- #41 Jolly Good: Tea and Scones
73% 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 30.3%, Text-Based 27.4%, Choices Matter 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Multiple Endings 9%
- #42 7 Days in Dystopia
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: YapabilityPub: Yapability Products
Windows
7 Days in Dystopia is a psychological dystopian game where you experience seven days by playing a series of games, making choices, and facing the consequences of winning and losing in a city where people hide behind masks.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Text-Based 12.1%, Dialogue Heavy 10%
- #43 Slippery Flippers: Episode One - Amulet of the Gods
72% 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 23.8%, Space 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Choices Matter 13%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
- #44 The Last Connection
70% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2026
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 30.1%, Choices Matter 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Story Rich 8.2%
- #45 Aunewyth
71% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2023
Dev: Captain Cool
Windows
Aunewyth is a text-based game with a focus on narration and decision making. It features a short yet versatile storyline that reveals itself according to the choices you make.
Why similar: Text-Based 35.4%, Choices Matter 18.9%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%
- #46 Summer Daze: Tilly's Tale
71% matchMixed62% of 21 reviews2023
Dev: Transolar Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A fantasy adventure visual novel with humor and heart, by acclaimed adventure game writer Lori Ann Cole. Starring the voice of Zehra Fazal as Tilly, a mischief-making rogue at Hero-U, the school for heroes.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 19.6%, Text-Based 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Choices Matter 9.6%
- #47 The Nascent Necromancer
71% matchMixed57% of 14 reviews2023
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
When you're falsely accused of sorcery, corrupt inquisitors make you the object of a witch hunt. Now, sorcery might be the only way for you to survive.
Why similar: Text-Based 28.1%, Interactive Fiction 26.5%, Choices Matter 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
- #48 Outsider
69% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Galantrix
Windows
Shape humanity's future in a sci-fi narrative game where choices matter. Experience an extraterrestrial contact while deciphering an overarching mystery of far-reaching consequences. Who is the Outsider?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Text-Based 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Dialogue Heavy 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.1%
- #49 Oddware
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Previously Pluto
Windows
Oddware is a science fiction visual novel about androids in space. You play as an android who meets other androids each with a distinct personalities. Your choices with the other androids will not only shape their personalities, but your own as well. Solve puzzles, mysteries, and your own origins.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%, Futuristic 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Space 10.3%
- #50 Silent Orbits
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AlekPub: QuickNap
Windows
Explore a Fallout 2 inspired tactical grid map in this text-based sci-fi cRPG. You blacked out in 2089 and woke up 300 years later to a solar system reduced to ruins. Scavenge ships, craft items, and survive turn-based combat as narrative choices shape your journey.
Why similar: Text-Based 33.9%, Interactive Fiction 32.9%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Mystery 8%, Space 7.2%
- #51 THE DAY THAT WASN'T
69% 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 23.6%, Text-Based 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Choices Matter 14%, Dialogue Heavy 10.9%
- #52 The Trial
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NowakGames
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: Text-Based 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Mystery 10.8%
- #53 Windrush Tales
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 3-Fold Games
Windows
Experience the triumphs and tribulations of two Caribbean immigrants in post-war Britain, in the world’s first Windrush video game, from the creators of the BAFTA nominated Before I Forget. How will you shape your story in this branching narrative interactive photo album?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.6%, Text-Based 14.8%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Dialogue Heavy 9.1%
- #54 Whispers From The Rift
67% 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 26.6%, Text-Based 25.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Story Rich 8%
- #55 阴桃花 (The Flowers of Yin)
68% matchPositive93% of 44 reviews2022
Dev: SnowyYANGPub: 逐夏
Windows
幻想若非幻想 自然可超自然 伴我梦中桃花 懒识人间滋味
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Text-Based 25.7%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
- #56 Dreaming After You
67% matchPositive91% of 32 reviews2024
Dev: MangoPower
Windows
Play as a Duskweaver in this short "choices matter" story about self-sacrifice.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Choices Matter 19.1%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%
- #57 MysteryOS
66% matchMixed40% of 10 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 25.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Text-Based 18.3%, Puzzle 9.9%, Sci-fi 6.7%
- #58 Shadow of the Curse-Eater
68% 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 32.6%, Text-Based 24.1%, Choices Matter 19%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
- #59 XVTM
66% match4 user reviews100% of 4 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 18.2%, Text-Based 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
- #60 First Moon of Mercury
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Games by Stitch
Windows
Solve puzzle boxes to assemble a new space station, designed to deflect massive solar flares in this sci-fi thriller. Repair damaged modules, uncover political saboteurs, and don't let anyone find out you're an illegal AI.
Why similar: Space 19.5%, Choices Matter 19%, Sci-fi 15%, Puzzle 13.3%, Multiple Endings 12.1%