- #1 Coalescence
97% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2022
Dev: Black Banshee Studios
Windows · Mac
Coalescence is a visual novel that takes you deep within Moniker Labs to explore its secrets. Play as one of three characters, each with their own storyline and dialogue options. Form relationships with the companions you encounter and try to make it out alive!
Why similar: Noir 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Immersive Sim 14%, Text-Based 13.9%
- #2 Royal Duality
96% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2022
Dev: Hyakuten Games
Windows
Royal Duality is an immersive dark fantasy visual novel with 15 endings, various side stories and hidden Easter Eggs all set in an engaging lore-rich world
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Immersive Sim 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Lore-Rich 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.7%
- #3 Imperial Bureaucracy Hero
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Munitions Mori
Windows · Mac · Linux
IBH is a rich role playing game at the end of time. You're a mid-level official in a dying sci-fi regime, given the impossible task of fixing a faltering machine; explore a vast world, define your mind, flex your authority, and become a sinner or a savior in countless other stories.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Noir 15.3%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Text-Based 9.5%
- #4 Echoes of Madness - The Hawthorne Case
95% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Mr.Bane Games
Windows
Detective Norman faces one of the longest nights of his career. Alone, he searches for the missing girl, Felicia, only to discover that this case runs far deeper than he ever imagined.
Why similar: Noir 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Lovecraftian 14.4%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Narration 9.9%
- #5 HPL: Nyarlathotep Rising
94% match9 user reviews56% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Touched by GracePub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac
Dive deep into the twisted HP Lovecraft universe with this oversized narrative RPG. Slip into the intertwined souls of Mark, Anna, and Victor, surrounded by cult worshippers, as Nyarlathotep, the cosmic horror, strives to enslave humanity in 1929.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 17%, Noir 15.1%, Text-Based 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Lore-Rich 11.5%
- #6 Five Biggest Accomplishments
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Assembling Chickens Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Five Biggest Accomplishments is a short Visual Novel where you play as someone who has held the same job for 30 years: push a button every 8 hours or the world will end. Suddenly, you get an email asking you to list your five biggest accomplishments for the week, or risk being fired.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Noir 20.3%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Text-Based 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 8.1%
- #7 To Be Altered: ACT 1
92% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: SKELLYBED Productions
Windows · Mac · Linux
Uncover the mystery of the Ghoul's Grove, hidden in the Australian outback and filled with strange and mutilated scare actors. To Be Altered is a multiple-ending visual novel where your choices matter, even the most minuscule decisions will decide the fates of Darcy and others.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Noir 13.6%, Immersive Sim 11.8%, Text-Based 10.7%
- #8 Fugue of Delights
91% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Enygmage
Windows
A daemonic, handcrafted visual novel where your choices shape erotic dreams, secrets, and ritual desires.
Why similar: Noir 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Text-Based 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Lore-Rich 11.2%
- #9 Mother May I
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CloudSnake
Windows
Unravel the story of three siblings determined to break free from the iron grip of an AI named "Mother." In a world of virtual imprisonment, navigate rebellion, unveil dark secrets, and fight for freedom. Will you defy Mother's control, or succumb to her virtual prison?
Why similar: Dystopian 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Hand-drawn 10.9%
- #10 THE DAY THAT WASN'T
90% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Noir 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Text-Based 12.4%
- #11 Omen Exitio: Plague
89% matchVery Positive85% of 621 reviews2018
Dev: Tiny Bull Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Investigate a paranormal disease that threatens to eradicate humanity in this unsettling Lovecraftian adventure, inspired by the choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks of the 80s and 90s. Your choices will determine the story, your character’s destiny… and the future of humanity.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 31.8%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Visual Novel 9.5%, Choices Matter 9.5%
- #12 The Castle
89% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: Sankurusu
Windows · Linux
Do you enjoy listening to stories and having the ability to influence their unfolding? If so, then immerse yourself in the role of an active participant as you join Yaren on her quest for freedom.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Narration 14.8%, Lore-Rich 10.1%
- #13 Monster Luv Radio
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RETCON Games
Windows · Mac
Welcome to MONSTER LUV RADIO, where you play a radio DJ giving dating advice to a host of supernatural creatures! Keep your ratings up by giving sound advice and following the rhythm of your DJ mix board, and make sure your boss doesn't shut down your show!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Text-Based 13.2%, Immersive Sim 11.6%, Lore-Rich 11.5%
- #14 The Crimson Call
87% matchPositive89% of 28 reviews2024
Dev: Fatih Mert
Windows · Mac
Set in a post-apocalyptic dystopian future, two young men set out on a journey to find The Great Appearance which manifests itself inside mankind's mind.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 20.6%, Dystopian 16%, Text-Based 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.9%
- #15 Tower of the Ice Lich
86% matchPositive100% of 17 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: Text-Based 20%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Lore-Rich 16.6%, Visual Novel 10.7%
- #16 True Magician
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dark CitadelPub: Brezg Studio
Windows
How do you become a true magician? Find out in True Magician, an interactive text adventure with RPG elements. Travel through the kingdom with your teacher, learn the art of magic, fight enemies and make friends. And remember, the world is not what it seems!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Immersive Sim 13.1%, Text-Based 12.1%, Lore-Rich 10.7%
- #17 Horny Academy
85% matchNo user reviews
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: Narration 17.7%, Text-Based 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Choices Matter 10.2%
- #18 The Allure Of Wanton Cove
84% matchVery Positive80% of 116 reviews2024
Dev: Ktulhu Solutions
Windows · Mac · Linux
An adult tale of lust and horror in the vein of HP Lovecraft. Take on the part of a former detective who could never let go of the last terrible case he worked. One day his old partner comes knocking, begging for help.
Why similar: Noir 16%, Lovecraftian 15.8%, Text-Based 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%
- #19 The Thief, the Witch, the Toad, and the Mushroom.
84% matchVery Positive100% of 184 reviews2024
Dev: Jack McNameePub: Ashtown Games
Windows
A fable from your childhood. Don't you remember it?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Text-Based 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Narration 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.1%
- #20 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: Text-Based 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Lore-Rich 11.6%, Narration 9.9%
- #21 All (Too) Good Things
82% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.3%, Text-Based 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Choices Matter 6.5%
- #22 Taina's Cursed Legacy
81% matchPositive82% of 33 reviews2025
Dev: dark_room_game
Windows
A text-based RPG with a nonlinear story set in a free Slavic fantasy world. Shape the heroine's character through your choices and unlock multiple endings. Mystery, folklore, and relationships — your fate depends only on you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Text-Based 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Hand-drawn 10.1%
- #23 The Sin Collector: Repentless
82% matchVery Positive92% of 90 reviews2021
Dev: Sylen Studio
Windows
THE SIN COLLECTOR: REPENTLESS is a game on the border of a visual novel and a classic text RPG, set in the world of The Sin Collector, a series of books written by Michał Gołkowski. Action takes place a couple of years before the events presented in the books.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Text-Based 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Narration 13.6%, Visual Novel 9.5%
- #24 Shadow of Paris
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Aris Script
Windows
Paris’s life changes when she encounters a charming stranger who seems to be watching her. This choice-driven psychological visual novel delivers a tense, intimate story focused on curiosity, trust, and crossing dangerous boundaries.
Why similar: Noir 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Text-Based 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Narration 11.3%
- #25 Ostera : The curse of...
80% matchPositive94% of 31 reviews2025
Dev: Profits Troll Studio
Windows
Welcome to Ostera: The curse of... Join the Adventure! Shape Your Destiny, Kiss Rats, and Slap Kids!
Why similar: Text-Based 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Lore-Rich 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Narration 10.4%
- #26 ACCIDENTALLY
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 40 reviews2025
Dev: M&K WORKSPub: Storytaco
Windows · Mac · Linux
A chance encounter. An inevitable murder. The truth always hides where you least expect it. Survive the night in this mansion.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Noir 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Immersive Sim 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.6%
- #27 La Jetée
79% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2022
Dev: Arthouse indie Games
Windows
‘This is the story of a man marked by an image from his childhood.’ An 30minute black noire game, with an deep story, 30 beautiful images and stunning backroundsound.
Why similar: Noir 26.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Dystopian 17.6%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Narration 12.5%
- #28 Reigns: The Witcher
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 140 reviews2026
Dev: NerialPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 45%
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 24.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Lore-Rich 7.4%
- #29 The Wanderer: Frankenstein’s Creature
79% matchVery Positive84% of 342 reviews2019
Dev: La Belle GamesPub: ARTE France
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Experience the Myth of Frankenstein through the innocent eyes of his creature. Make decisions and change people's view that you will meet on your way. Now, the myth is in your hands, so how are you going to end it?
Why similar: Text-Based 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Narration 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Hand-drawn 9%
- #30 The Music at the end of the World
77% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Text-Based 16.3%, Immersive Sim 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Visual Novel 12.4%
- #31 Vogvhathos
78% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2023
Dev: Corvaena Games LLC
Windows
As an elf in a panicked flight from home, you discover a more dangerous secret: a human claiming to be a dragon.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Lore-Rich 9.7%, Hand-drawn 9.2%
- #32 Artifact
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 49 reviews2022
Dev: Mesmerizers
Windows
Adult Lovecraftian horror-strategy. Stealthily transform your university into horny, blonde bimbos! Dynamically change genitalia and breast sizes, IQ, mind control your peers via eldritch powers or eldritch parasites, erase your competition, and avoid a mysterious rival faction!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 17.4%, Noir 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Text-Based 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%
- #33 The Shame of a Daydreamer
74% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: Micki
Windows
Shame & choices = possible apocalypse. You need to figure out what’s causing the apocalypse to happen, so that you can prevent it. 2 playable characters with different relations to shame → 2 unique perspectives of the same story. Complicated families, branching choices and unforgiving consequences.
Why similar: Text-Based 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Narration 11.7%, Lore-Rich 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%
- #34 Mass of Consumption
75% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Text-Based 14%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Choices Matter 8.9%
- #35 Inhuman Resources: A Literary Machination
73% matchVery Positive92% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Finnegan MotorsPub: Indie Asylum
Windows · Mac · Linux
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Text-Based 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Narration 13.7%, Dystopian 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%
- #36 FORTUNE the FATED
75% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2023
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
To unlock ancient spells needed to defend the galaxy, can you navigate fantasy quests, noir cases, heroic competitions, dystopian worlds & space heists?
Why similar: Noir 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Text-Based 16.2%, Mythology 11.7%
- #37 Weirdo
72% matchVery Positive89% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: CASCHA GAMES
Windows · Mac · Linux
Parallel-Weirdo is a Japanese manga-style visual novel set in DYL High School. It follows Wang Zhe, an ordinary and frail boy, who tries to win the hearts of girls and complete his experiments. He gets entangled in bizarre events, plunging into darkness. Each choice you make determines his fate.
Why similar: Noir 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Text-Based 13.5%, Lore-Rich 11.3%
- #38 Grave Knight
74% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: Dreamlight Games
Windows
Under developement, Grave Knight is an interactive RPG adventure inspired by SRD 5.1 ruleset and classical game books, where your decisions weave the fate of the characters and the story. Let the dice forge the fate of your hero and the realm by fighting the Grave knight and his horde.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Text-Based 13.9%, Choices Matter 10%
- #39 Vida
73% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: YEON 연
Windows · Linux
In a future where memories are the last connection to a lost humanity, you are an advanced AI exploring fragments of past lives. Understand emotions, traumas, and choices in a journey to uncover what it means to be alive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Text-Based 22.4%, Lore-Rich 19.2%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Choices Matter 7.1%
- #40 Not It: Spookiest Edition
73% matchPositive80% of 30 reviews2021
Dev: Snowhaven Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Not It: Spookiest Edition is a horror-filled visual novel full of suspense and mystery where you navigate Katie through a living nightmare. Her move-in day on Halloween throws her into a centuries-old curse. Can she make it through the night? Will her new neighbors perish? Decide their fate.
Why similar: Text-Based 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Narration 15.1%, Visual Novel 11.2%
- #41 Whispers From The Rift
71% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Text-Based 21.1%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Choices Matter 9.9%
- #42 The Die Is Cast
72% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: Odyssée
Windows
The Die Is Cast is an interactive fiction set in a medieval-fantasy universe. You will have to balance your skills and make the right decisions to survive the scenario and reach your goal.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Text-Based 17.4%, Immersive Sim 17.2%, Narration 14.5%
- #43 The Golden Rose: Book One
71% matchVery Positive90% of 158 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore an alternative medieval Europe in this low-fantasy epic adventure! How far are you willing to go to take back your stolen treasure?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Text-Based 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Lore-Rich 11.7%, Choices Matter 8.5%
- #44 Transparent
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DamDSN
Windows
Transparent is a narrative game where every choice shapes Clara’s existence. On the eve of her 30th birthday, she revisits key moments of her life. Will her decisions anchor her to reality or make her fade away? Explore memories, face dilemmas, and discover multiple endings
Why similar: Narration 21.3%, Text-Based 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Visual Novel 12.3%
- #45 Road to Karatl
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: Wild Angels Games
Windows
On the road to the sacred shrine of Karatl, lost souls entrust you with their stories. In this contemplative Visual Novel, listen to their truths and perhaps, at the journey's end, you will discover your own.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Narration 15.1%, Visual Novel 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
- #46 Man I Just Wanna Go Home
69% matchVery Positive95% of 685 reviews2024
Dev: JZPS Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 1.3 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Man I Just Wanna Go Home is an "MSPaint-noir" visual novel with 13 endings, a unique visual style and a killer 80s inspired soundtrack. The story revolves around a delivery person stranded in an unfamiliar part of the city under the devastating rain. All he wants is to get home. Help him!
Why similar: Noir 24.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choices Matter 8.7%
- #47 Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files - Rise of the Rat King
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Play On Words Studios
Windows
Shadow City Mysteries: Case Files – Rise of the Rat King is a narrative game set in Shadow City’s underbelly. Assume the role of the Rat King, an underworld mastermind fighting for absolute power. Shape your legend by forging alliances, crushing rivals, and leaving a trail of consequences.
Why similar: Noir 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Lovecraftian 11%, Narration 10.9%
- #48 Let Bions Be Bygones
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 117 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: Noir 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Lore-Rich 13.9%, Narration 13.6%
- #49 Assassin at Crimson Keep
70% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2022
Dev: Shadow Glass Studios LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Assassin at Crimson Keep is a short, point and click visual novel set in a dark, quasi-fantasy world. After a botched assassination attempt, you pursue the King into his lair known as the Crimson Keep. Your small choices can have great consequences, either for good or for evil.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.1%, Lovecraftian 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Visual Novel 9%
- #50 Dream Enders RPG
70% matchPositive87% of 23 reviews2019
Dev: C.A.Withey
Windows
A visual, interactive story with unique characters, consequential dialogue choices, and branching story paths set in the world of an M.M.O.R.P.G.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Text-Based 14.6%, Immersive Sim 14.4%, Lore-Rich 12.7%
- #51 Nadaca
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nadaca Studio
Windows · Mac
Discover the world of Nadaca, meet emotionally rich characters and help them express their feelings through conversations, mini-games and a plant-growing system.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.4%, Narration 14.7%, Lore-Rich 12.2%, Hand-drawn 10.5%, Visual Novel 8.3%
- #52 10:16
67% matchVery Positive87% of 105 reviews2023
Dev: Catsket
Windows · Mac · Linux
To get to heaven, you must climb the Nine Circles of Hell. But you might never make it to the depths.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.8%, Text-Based 21.4%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Narration 13.6%, Choices Matter 8.8%
- #53 A Heavy Morning
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Saf Interactive
Windows
You know the feeling of struggling to get out of bed? In A Heavy Morning, you will play as a young girl battling with her own mind. Your only objective? Get out of bed and get to work on time.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Immersive Sim 15.4%, Narration 13.8%, Visual Novel 10.8%
- #54 VOICE
68% matchPositive89% of 19 reviews2021
Dev: WTFMAN
Windows
VOICE is a game about the story of living in a dystopian world where speaking is forbidden.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Text-Based 18.7%, Lore-Rich 15.8%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Dystopian 9.6%
- #55 A Spaceship Accident
66% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Pick Your Universe
Windows
A choice-driven narrative game with RPG mechanics, filled with cosmic wonders and horror. Forge your own path across more than 50 unique endings. Barter, upgrade your character, fight, and explore alien worlds, overcoming every obstacle to find your way back to Earth… and to your daughter.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Lore-Rich 13.3%, Narration 12.2%
- #56 Oremus
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Narkhos & Stormi
Windows · Linux
This text adventure, beautifully illustrated in pixel art, invites you to explore a medieval abbey filled with secrets. You take full control by entering commands directly on your keyboard through a flexible command parser, allowing for free and immersive interaction.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Text-Based 22.3%, Narration 19.4%, 2D 4.7%
- #57 Telvoikai
66% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Corvaena Games LLC
Windows · Mac
You've been tasked with collecting data on an alien planet. Choose between exploring the jungle tropics or navigating deep into the bioluminescent sea.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Lore-Rich 15.9%, Text-Based 15.1%, Visual Novel 12.3%
- #58 The Dragon and the Djinn
67% matchMixed69% of 16 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Text-Based 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Lore-Rich 15.4%, Choices Matter 8%