- #1 Life is Strange: True Colors
97% matchVery Positive89% of 16,479 reviews2021
Dev: Deck NinePub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 23.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.
Why similar: Choices Matter 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Emotional 12.1%, Female Protagonist 10.8%
- #2 Detroit: Become Human
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 236,046 reviews2020
Dev: Quantic Dream
Windows
Median: 11.3 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Detroit: Become Human puts the destiny of both mankind and androids in your hands, taking you to a near future where machines have become more intelligent than humans. Every choice you make affects the outcome of the game, with one of the most intricately branching narratives ever created.
Why similar: Choices Matter 24.2%, Cinematic 20.2%, Multiple Endings 18.7%, Story Rich 12.1%, Emotional 11.9%
- #3 Life is Strange: Reunion
96% matchVery Positive92% of 2,457 reviews2026
Dev: Deck Nine GamesPub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
The saga of Max and Chloe, and the fate of Caledon, is yours to decide! Play as both Max and Chloe as an all-new story builds towards an epic climax. The fire will force Max and Chloe to make devastating decisions. Can they find a future together… Before everything burns?
Why similar: Cinematic 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Emotional 13.8%, Female Protagonist 8.7%
- #4 Star Trek: Resurgence
95% matchVery Positive89% of 2,970 reviews2024
Dev: Dramatic LabsPub: Bruner House
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Authentic Star Trek adventure from former members of Telltale Games. Engage in diplomacy, pilot shuttlecraft, and use your tricorder and phaser to overcome challenging puzzles and deadly threats. Tough decisions will impact relationships, your story, and the fate of the galaxy. What will YOU do?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Cinematic 13.2%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Female Protagonist 8.9%
- #5 Life is Strange Remastered
94% matchVery Positive91% of 9,009 reviews2022
Dev: Deck NinePub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.
Why similar: Choices Matter 21.3%, Multiple Endings 15.5%, Emotional 14.7%, Female Protagonist 12.4%, Story Rich 11.3%
- #6 Until Dawn™
94% matchVery Positive82% of 4,574 reviews2024
Dev: Ballistic MoonPub: PlayStation Publishing LLC
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Rebuilt and enhanced for PC – Until Dawn invites you to relive the nightmare, and immerse yourself in a gripping slasher horror where every decision can make the difference between life and death.
Why similar: Choices Matter 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Multiple Endings 15.5%, Cinematic 11.8%, Emotional 8.2%
- #7 AIDA
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Punch Punk Games
Windows
AIDA is an interactive movie/game with unique mechanics. Help Aida escape the ghetto and reach the mythical E continent.
Why similar: Cinematic 19%, Emotional 13.9%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Multiple Endings 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%
- #8 Beyond: Two Souls
92% matchVery Positive88% of 39,194 reviews2020
Dev: Quantic Dream
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A unique psychological action thriller delivered by A-list Hollywood performances by Elliot Page and Willem Dafoe, Beyond: Two Souls takes you on a thrilling journey across the globe as you play out the remarkable life of Jodie Holmes.
Why similar: Choices Matter 24.2%, Cinematic 20.5%, Female Protagonist 14%, Emotional 13.4%, Story Rich 13%
- #9 Cheerleaders
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lounatick Creations
Windows · Mac · Linux
Cheerleaders, sisterhood, sex, and competition. Follow the cheerleading team of an elite university for the rich and privileged as they aim for victory at the national championship, led by their ambitious captain, Elena.
Why similar: Choices Matter 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Multiple Endings 15.6%, Emotional 13.4%, Female Protagonist 13.2%
- #10 Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered
91% matchVery Positive84% of 3,927 reviews2022
Dev: Deck NinePub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Life is Strange: Before the Storm returns with remastered visuals across characters & environments.
Why similar: Choices Matter 19.8%, Multiple Endings 15.4%, Female Protagonist 13.9%, Emotional 13.7%, Cinematic 11.2%
- #11 Life is Strange: Double Exposure
90% matchMixed69% of 9,290 reviews2024
Dev: Deck Nine GamesPub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
When Max Caulfield finds her friend Safi dead in the snow, she tears open the way to a parallel timeline. Here, Safi is still alive - and still in danger! With her new power to Shift between two timelines – can Max solve and prevent the same murder?
Why similar: Choices Matter 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Female Protagonist 12.9%, Emotional 12.1%, Story Rich 9.7%
- #12 The Cost of Salvation
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mokou Games
Windows · Mac
The Cost of Salvation is a story-rich adventure about a being created to preserve the world’s balance. Awaken across centuries, form fragile bonds, and face the weight of sacrifice in a journey through time, memory, and the meaning of life itself.
Why similar: Emotional 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Cinematic 12.9%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
- #13 Frame of Mind - A game of thoughts.
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: made by betalarsPub: Polynormal Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Frame of Mind - A game of thoughts is a brief and cozy narrative game that lets you explore a character via thoughts and momentos you find in stages of their life. Its an introspective game, meant to share some experiences a peer-group of neurodivergent queers, including the dev, had growing up.
Why similar: Cinematic 16.6%, Emotional 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Multiple Endings 12.1%
- #14 The Wreck
88% matchVery Positive89% of 273 reviews2023
Dev: The Pixel Hunt
Windows · Mac
In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.
Why similar: Choices Matter 18.4%, Emotional 14.1%, Cinematic 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Multiple Endings 13%
- #15 Elflock
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NovaSphera Studio
Windows · Linux
Immerse yourself in a fairy tale, where your actions shape the story! Become a princess, navigate the murky political landscape, forge an alliance with the Fae, or turn your back on them. Make decisions that could save your kingdom, or destroy it if you misjudge the circumstances.
Why similar: Cinematic 23.2%, Female Protagonist 14.5%, Emotional 14.1%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Third Person 11.4%
- #16 I Saw Black Clouds
86% matchMixed62% of 633 reviews2021
Dev: Ghost Dog FilmsPub: Wales Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
After the unexpected death of a close friend, Kristina returns to her hometown looking for answers, only to unearth a string of dark secrets. I Saw Black Clouds is an interactive psychological thriller with supernatural elements and branching storylines.
Why similar: Cinematic 15.3%, Choices Matter 14%, Emotional 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Female Protagonist 10.1%
- #17 Lies as a Starting Point
86% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Mamekujira
Windows
The story revolves around a conversation between the main character Kanata and the main heroine Nozomi on a train. The story branches into three different routes (junior high school, high school and university) by following Nozomi's past. The heroine and protagonist differ depending on the chapter.
Why similar: Emotional 28.4%, Cinematic 25.6%, Female Protagonist 13.5%, Story Rich 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%
- #18 Wish Us Luck
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Black Moluska
Windows
Wish Us Luck is a multi-plot interactive fiction fueled by your hard decisions. Play three strangers whose fates are intertwined by the cogs of chance on an eventful day. But remember: favoring one character means jeopardizing the others. Good Luck.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Choices Matter 17.6%, Multiple Endings 16.4%, Emotional 12.6%, Story Rich 9.7%
- #19 Mia and the Dragon Princess
84% matchMixed67% of 280 reviews2023
Dev: Wales Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
A live-action, interactive action movie following Mia, a plucky barmaid whose life is thrown into chaos when a mysterious woman turns up at her workplace, on the run from a group of violent thugs and unable to speak English.
Why similar: Cinematic 16.3%, Emotional 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Multiple Endings 11.6%
- #20 My Pretty Closet
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tyro Interactive
Windows
Why similar: Cinematic 17.5%, Choices Matter 16.7%, Multiple Endings 15.6%, Emotional 13.4%, Story Rich 10.3%
- #21 Silent Trip: Until We Meet
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LOGIC - Bawang Studio
Windows
A story-rich interactive fiction about two people who find comfort in each other, and the quiet things they never say out loud.
Why similar: Emotional 17.9%, Choices Matter 16.2%, Cinematic 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Multiple Endings 12.2%
- #22 Lost & Found: A This Bed We Made Story
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lowbirth Games
Windows
Lost & Found is a standalone, short story game taking place aboard a 1960s transatlantic ship. Play as Sophie Roy in her new job as a stewardess, and help solve a curious series of thefts in this narrative-driven mystery set after the events of This Bed We Made.
Why similar: Cinematic 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Emotional 15.1%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Third Person 8.1%
- #23 The Uncertain: Light At The End
82% matchMixed64% of 1,182 reviews2020
Dev: ComonGamesPub: META Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The Uncertain is a story-driven adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Humanity disappeared from the face of the Earth and has been replaced by robots. Together with Emily, one of the survivors, you will have to witness how people try to live in a world ruled by robots.
Why similar: Cinematic 19.9%, Emotional 15.9%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Female Protagonist 8.9%
- #24 Ending the Happy Route
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Water Phoenix
Windows
A visual novel depicting a protagonist who desperately struggles to change their fate of despair.
Why similar: Emotional 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Cinematic 16.2%, Multiple Endings 15.4%, Choices Matter 14%
- #25 Dry Sand Damp Steps
80% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Domple GamingPub: Pirate-Rob
Windows
A short story about a water spirit wandering the wastes of a dry world. As you travel, you'll interact with the inhabitants, accumulate and manage your water, collect trinkets, avoid danger and push forwards into the uncertain future.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Choices Matter 18.2%, Emotional 17.5%, Multiple Endings 16.5%, Female Protagonist 11.3%
- #26 Letters From the Moon
81% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2022
Dev: Marvelous Spiral Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
In this sci-fi pick your own story game, you must help astronaut Dorothy Chen survive in a vast underground alien city beneath the moon's surface. She faces insane robots, mutant canines, starvation, and insanity inside the city of the Anthria. Whether she survives is up to YOU.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.3%, Female Protagonist 14.4%, Sci-fi 14.1%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Multiple Endings 12.6%
- #27 5分間のメイド
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: おんねんちゃんねる
Windows
Rimu has lost her memory and become trapped in a looping phenomenon. Moreover, only a tiny fraction of her memories carry over between loops. Within each five-minute cycle, she must retain only the crucial “memories” while setting the necessary flags. Will Rimu ever regain her memories?
Why similar: Emotional 27.5%, Multiple Endings 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Story Rich 10.9%, Female Protagonist 9.9%
- #28 The Wonderful Adventures Of Sip
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ELECTRIS Game StudiosPub: ELECTRIS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Follow a journey of discovery, thunder, and destiny. Guide Sip through a world that judges, fears and misunderstands him. Uncover the ultimate purpose behind his existence. Your actions will shape the future. Choose wisely.
Why similar: Cinematic 18.1%, Emotional 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Multiple Endings 12.5%
- #29 Lost Connections
78% matchVery Positive96% of 76 reviews2023
Dev: Amber Pearl
Windows
If she leaves now you will never see her again. Would you have enough courage to take a step, or would you stay quiet and regret it? Experience this story about love and loss.
Why similar: Emotional 22.4%, Multiple Endings 18.5%, Choices Matter 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Story Rich 11.7%
- #30 The Expanse: A Telltale Series
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 2,659 reviews2023
Dev: Deck NinePub: Telltale
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Take on the role of Camina Drummer and explore the dangerous, uncharted edges of the Belt. From scavenging wrecked ships in a zero-g environment, to combating fearsome pirates, you make the difficult choices in this latest Telltale adventure. All five episodes playable at launch!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Choices Matter 18.9%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Female Protagonist 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
- #31 Deadset Darling
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ivory Shade
Windows
Deadset Darling is a mature, choice-driven adult visual novel about betrayal, desire, and starting over in a city that never forgives weakness.
Why similar: Cinematic 19.2%, Choices Matter 16.7%, Emotional 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Multiple Endings 12.8%
- #32 Forgotlings
75% matchPositive87% of 45 reviews2026
Dev: Throughline GamesPub: Hitcents
Windows
A fully voice-acted cinematic adventure set in a hand-drawn world of living forgotten objects. Lead Fig and the crew of the Volare through a story of identity, unity, and survival—where diplomacy, difficult choices, and moments of action shape the fate of five divided tribes.
Why similar: Cinematic 23.6%, Emotional 21.4%, Choices Matter 17.4%, Multiple Endings 15.3%, Story Rich 10.9%
- #33 Best Month Ever!
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 202 reviews2022
Dev: Warsaw Film School Video Game & Film Production StudioPub: Klabater
Windows
🚗 Take part in a roller coaster of emotions with Louise embarking on a road trip of a lifetime through the late 1960s USA, trying to show her son Mitch how to navigate the often cruel modern world. Your choices matter! ✅
Why similar: Emotional 25.9%, Cinematic 15.2%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Female Protagonist 9.7%
- #34 Mindworks: The Great Division
76% matchMixed71% of 14 reviews2022
Dev: Kornyart
Windows · Mac · Linux
A choice-based visual novel game about science, division, and the false ideology of knowledge. Each and every one of your choices will determine whether the disciplines will end in unity or complete division. The key to eternal knowledge is in your hands.
Why similar: Cinematic 18%, Emotional 16.8%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Multiple Endings 13.1%
- #35 The Quarry
75% matchVery Positive82% of 22,220 reviews2022
Dev: Supermassive GamesPub: 2K Games
Windows
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
When the sun goes down on the last night of summer camp, nine teenage counselors are plunged into an unpredictable night of horror. The only thing worse than the blood-drenched locals and creatures hunting them are the unimaginable choices you must make to help them survive.
Why similar: Choices Matter 33.3%, Cinematic 22.9%, Multiple Endings 22.2%, Story Rich 7.4%, Narrative 5.1% ★
- #36 Rite as Rain
76% match9 user reviews90% of 10 reviews2023
Dev: Celestia Studios
Windows
A magical open world RPG, where your choices matter!
Why similar: Cinematic 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Female Protagonist 10.3%
- #37 Summer Pockets REFLECTION BLUE
72% matchVery Positive88% of 989 reviews2025
Dev: VISUAL ARTS/KeyPub: VISUAL ARTS
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 118.0 hrs≥1hr: 62%
No matter how much times passes... I remember that blue, blue summer. Summer Pockets, the midsummer story brought to you by Key, has been powered-up with even more to play, including new heroines and routes, in Summer Pockets REFLECTION BLUE, now available on Steam!
Why similar: Emotional 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Multiple Endings 21%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Story Rich 12.3%
- #38 Milf Dream
74% match8 user reviews25% of 8 reviews2023
Dev: Byaka Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Do you want to hook up the hottest moms? We got you covered, milf lovers!
Why similar: Cinematic 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Realistic 11.4%
- #39 Cascade Falls
73% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.4%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Emotional 9.7%
- #40 Distant Sun
74% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Koboi Interactive
Windows
A sci-fi game based on character dialogue and choices. Uncover the mysteries of Pioneer Station by attempting diplomacy and seeking peace or gunning through those that stand against you. The decisions you make will have an impact on the ending.
Why similar: Choices Matter 22%, Multiple Endings 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Sci-fi 13.4%, Story Rich 12.1%
- #41 I am OK
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cubidoo EntertainmentPub: tba
Windows
Join the talented photography student Neera on a captivating journey through her memories. Haunted by recurring nightmares, her life spirals into chaos, questioning everything. Involuntarily, she returns to a place she once left behind: her childhood home.
Why similar: Emotional 23.7%, Choices Matter 16.9%, Female Protagonist 16.6%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Story Rich 12.3%
- #42 In Their Shoes
71% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: We Are Muesli
Windows · Mac
From the first day of spring, to the last day of winter, wear seven shoes of seven characters and live their most intimate moments. Explore their thoughts, choose their steps and shape their paths in a mumblecore narrative game where the most extraordinary setting is ordinary life itself.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Female Protagonist 13.3%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Narrative 12.7% ★
- #43 BURN
73% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2024
Dev: Convict Games
Windows
𝕭𝖀𝕽𝕹 is a short and replayable visual novel, where you play Nina BURN, the biggest pop star in the world at the turning point of her career. Will you change pop music? Will you become a monster? 𝖄𝖔𝖚 𝖜𝖎𝖑𝖑 𝕭𝖀𝕽𝕹.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Choices Matter 18.3%, Multiple Endings 18.2%, Cinematic 17.9%, Female Protagonist 13.3%
- #44 New Elysium
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Frame One
Windows
“A single wingbeat can destroy everything.” New Elysium is a cinematic narrative drama where every choice reshapes the story. Explore a shattered utopia, survive the night, and decide the final wingbeat of destiny.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.2%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Emotional 9.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%
- #45 Veil of the Skies
70% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Crescent Dial Games
Windows
A game that will break your heart! A deeply emotional, story-driven adventure set in a stunningly crafted post-apocalyptic world. Play as Sara, torn from her family during a brutal conflict, and embark on a journey of hope, loss, and discovery.
Why similar: Emotional 31.1%, Cinematic 21.4%, Female Protagonist 15.5%, Story Rich 14.5%, Third Person 9.4%
- #46 Love vs Lust: The story of a Gigolo
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Digital Tease
Windows · Mac · Linux
Becoming a gigolo seemed like the perfect gig, until one seductive contract pulled you into a web of lies, manipulation, and power. Years later, you're free… or so you think. A ghost from your past is back, and she wants you working for her again.
Why similar: Choices Matter 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Emotional 13.4%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Cinematic 12.7%
- #47 Lost in Love: Berlin
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lake System
Windows · Mac
Swipe, date & survive Berlin’s wild winter nights in this story-rich horror dating sim. Help Nora find herself — balance Energy, Cash & rising Pain while sex clubs, techno raves, and a messy ex tear your heart apart. Merry Christmas! Your choices decide who you wake up as.
Why similar: Emotional 18.2%, Multiple Endings 15.9%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Cinematic 13%, Narrative 10.8% ★
- #48 Heavy Rain
70% matchVery Positive85% of 27,203 reviews2020
Dev: Quantic Dream
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
Why similar: Choices Matter 25.5%, Multiple Endings 20.4%, Cinematic 19.1%, Story Rich 12.7%, Emotional 12.6%
- #49 The Sleeping Sickness
70% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Paper Scrap LLC
Windows
The Sleeping Sickness is an interactive short story that allows the player to guide the main character's actions. The player’s choices will lock and unlock future locations, change dialogue, and alter the story. Choices matter in The Sleeping Sickness. It is an excellent choice for horror fans.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Cinematic 13.5%, Multiple Endings 13%, Narrative 12.8% ★
- #50 Hard Days
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: VNAdults
Windows
The confinement has started, Loren (or whatever name you decide), a happily married and dangerously horny woman, is going through a difficult time in her sex life, and being locked up all day at home increases her sexual appetite.
Why similar: Choices Matter 14.9%, Cinematic 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Emotional 13.7%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
- #51 JR's Christmas Adventure
69% matchMixed58% of 33 reviews2024
Dev: LarsmidnattPub: Witching Hour Entertainment LLC
Windows
Join Jessica in this humorous holiday FMV adventure. With 9 unique endings to discover, will you find joy or chaos?
Why similar: Cinematic 28%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.3%, Realistic 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
- #52 Schrödinger's Call
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Acrobatic ChirimenjakoPub: SHUEISHA GAMES
Windows
When the world is coming to an end, who would you want to speak to one last time? Schrödinger’s Call is a visual novel that lets you experience the pain and salvation of human connection, as if you were turning the pages of a picture book.
Why similar: Emotional 21.8%, Cinematic 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Female Protagonist 11.9%
- #53 As Dusk Falls
68% matchVery Positive91% of 4,052 reviews2022
Dev: INTERIOR/NIGHTPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Explore the entangled lives of two families across thirty years in an original interactive drama from INTERIOR/NIGHT. Starting in 1998 with a robbery-gone-wrong, the character's lives depend on the choices you make.
Why similar: Cinematic 21.1%, Choices Matter 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Emotional 14%, Multiple Endings 13.2%
- #54 High Elo Girls
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Split Fate Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
High Elo Girls is a Visual Novel set in the esports scene where you play as the latest recruit for a new all-girls team. Can you help your squad achieve their true potential, or will you only squander your own?
Why similar: Emotional 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Female Protagonist 11%
- #55 The Last Connection
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Team Wiretap
Windows
You are a Switchboard Operator, and you're about to be replaced by a machine. Use your last week of work to connect townsfolk, overcome problems, and explore the history of a cast of engaging characters. Your choices matter, so use each day to leave lasting bonds.
Why similar: Choices Matter 23.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Multiple Endings 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Emotional 13.2%
- #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: Choices Matter 25.5%, Multiple Endings 21.7%, Emotional 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Story Rich 10.7%
- #57 A Case of Missing Identity
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AwesomeTrinket
Windows
A point-and-click horror/tragedy visual novel about melding your perception of the world around you. Walk around, drive people to their death, and shape Perdita's existence. Remember: The flesh-sin is nothing. Before she can become everything, you must make her into something.
Why similar: Emotional 24.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Female Protagonist 10.8%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.3%
- #58 透明的她与真实的我
65% matchVery Positive89% of 177 reviews2025
Dev: 可味玩KawayiPlay
Windows
This game is a bishoujo game developed and published by Kawayi Play.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 25.9%, Emotional 25.9%, Choices Matter 23.7%, Story Rich 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 7.4%
- #59 The Run
65% matchVery Positive92% of 73 reviews2026
Dev: PRM Games
Windows · Mac
An FMV horror-thriller. A famous fitness influencer must fight for survival when she's hunted by killers. Your decisions determine whether she lives or dies.
Why similar: Cinematic 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
- #60 Jessica's Choices - Forced [Episode 1]
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DoAdventures
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your story continues right where Origins left off. Whether Jessica finds herself wandering the streets alone, caught in George’s web of deceit, or trapped in the unsettling confines of Margaret Thatuals under Professor Trounch’s watchful gaze and the orderlies, every choice matters.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Female Protagonist 18%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Emotional 12.7%