- #1 Space Diva
97% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: Rave Team
Windows
Join Carmen, a somewhat absent-minded middle-aged lady who has to endure bizarre situations in her space truck. And possibly mess things up like crazy. An interactive narrative experience about the most flamboyant beings in the universe.
Why similar: Alternate History 23.1%, LGBTQ+ 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choices Matter 7%
- #2 The World Well: Blood of Caro
96% matchVery Positive89% of 166 reviews2026
Dev: NimparthPub: 2P Games
Windows
The World Well: Blood of Caro is a cinematic dark fantasy visual novel where every choice reveals another piece of the truth. Join 4 and Noma as they journey through a vampire-ruled world filled with unforgettable characters, hidden secrets, and difficult decisions.
Why similar: Alternate History 18.9%, LGBTQ+ 16%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Text-Based 9.4%
- #3 Last Broadcast
96% matchMostly Positive80% of 98 reviews2023
Dev: The Disc JockeysPub: USC Games
Windows
An experimental narrative game set at a radio station at the end of the world. Host your last show as the sun turns red and the world burns down.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
- #4 Death Becomes You - Mystery Visual Novel
95% matchPositive93% of 27 reviews2021
Dev: Quill Yuri
Windows · Mac · Linux
Who killed your best friend?! Find out the truth before 4 suspects frame you instead! Death Becomes You is a mystery visual novel where you untangle the dark secrets and relationships between your fellow magic university students.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Investigation 13.8%, Crime 12.7%, LGBTQ+ 10%
- #5 The Dragon Blossom
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 3SkullsInteractive
Windows
Beat reporter Birdie Malone goes undercover as Hollywood star Clara Bow to stop a masked culprit from stealing The Dragon Blossom in this 1930's point and click whodunnit.
Why similar: Alternate History 18.1%, Crime 13.1%, Investigation 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
- #6 Sailors of Newport
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Puppet Show Media
Windows · Mac
There are rumours of homosexuals in the Navy, and it’s your mission to date them! Sailors of Newport is a point-and-click puzzle game set in 1920s Rhode Island. Infiltrate the gay community, choose who to seduce and who to report, solve puzzles, and grapple with your own burgeoning desires.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Investigation 17.1%, LGBTQ+ 14.6%, Point & Click 6.9%
- #7 Creepy Support
92% matchVery Positive90% of 126 reviews2026
Dev: Squirrel Melting
Windows
Save people from terrible paranormal dangers as a support operator of a secret SCP-like organization! Ask questions, give advice and watch the consequences of your choices... multiple endings in each story ;-)
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Crime 12.7%, Text-Based 11.7%, Investigation 11.6%
- #8 Where are you, Cinderella?
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KimiNako
Windows · Linux
Where are you, Cinderella? is a visual novel about Vietnamese culture and the world of entertainment. Will you be able to find the lost shoe’s owner? Or, will you find your shoe?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Text-Based 12%, Choices Matter 11.5%
- #9 Emily is Away
91% matchVery Positive89% of 32,336 reviews2015
Dev: Kyle Seeley
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 19.8 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Choices Matter 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Story Rich 12.4%, Retro 11.2%
- #10 Of Sense and Soul
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Forsythia ProductionsPub: Forsythia Productions Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
A queer Victorian romance visual novel in which a gentleman running from the past and a poet hiding from the future collide through a lonely hearts ad. Suddenly, their lives can blossom—if you choose to change them.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.2%, Alternate History 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
- #11 Soulbond
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Floating Realms
Windows · Mac · Linux
Customize your fate in a fallen world: forge bonds and uncover secrets in a tale of power, love, and the weight of grief. Your choices define your path: how will you rise in the hierarchy of the damned?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Text-Based 10.6%, Point & Click 8.3%
- #12 The Play's the Thing
89% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2021
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Win fame as a playwright before dark forces bring the curtain down for good! In a city stalked by a deadly curse, how will the power of your pen change the world?
Why similar: Alternate History 22.4%, LGBTQ+ 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Text-Based 11.5%
- #13 Juicy Futa
89% matchPositive98% of 40 reviews2023
Dev: Juicy EliotPub: Juicy Eliot Games
Windows · Linux
A lewd Visual-Novel about Futas on an open island
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 22.8%, 1990's 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Retro 8.5%, Choices Matter 7.5%
- #14 Beek: Familiar Spirit - Remastered
88% matchPositive82% of 32 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Klondike AustraliaPub: Studio Klondike
Windows · Mac
A call for help within a mysterious messaging app. Someone lost and wandering through a forest in a faraway place. And their destiny in your hands.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Text-Based 14%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
- #15 Anachronism\>
87% matchMixed65% of 54 reviews2021
Dev: EloTherePub: Easy~ Interactive Software
Windows · Mac
It's 1999 and your friend sends you a floppy disk, titled "RemBo". It turns out to be the installer for an old BBS service, filled with both strangers and a familiar face. How are you going to use it?
Why similar: 1990's 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, LGBTQ+ 14.7%, Text-Based 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%
- #16 Will Die Alone
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 67 reviews2022
Dev: Arianna Ravioli
Windows · Mac
Some memories aren't meant to stay. We are our memories and our experiences. What happens if you delete some of them? If you change your past and, thus, your future?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Text-Based 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
- #17 The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: JasperMarie
Windows
The Cold Cases: Remembering Jory is a story rich, investigative mystery game where your only tools are your contacts and the people you can find and get to talk to you. Read through old internet archives, pick out what is important, and solve the mystery of the 10 year old cold case.
Why similar: Investigation 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Crime 14.3%, Text-Based 9.8%, Choices Matter 8.8%
- #18 A Weekend Trip
84% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: lukepagca
Windows
A short narrative about a trip with friends over the weekend. Decide what River does during the trip. Help your friends, explore the place, or just enjoy the scenery.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.3%, LGBTQ+ 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Investigation 12.3%, Point & Click 10.2%
- #19 Cliffhanger: Challenger of Tomorrow
85% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2021
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Punch out Fascists and unravel conspiracies in this pulp adventure set in a retro-futuristic 1930s world of airships, fast cars, and two-fisted action!
Why similar: Alternate History 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Text-Based 13%, Choices Matter 9%
- #20 DRINKRIME
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 72studioPub: room6
Windows · Mac
Jin, a talking liquor bottle with supernatural powers, has given you a mission. Face DRINKRIME's cast of unique characters and force them to confess their crimes. Interrogate them together and make those wrongdoers come to terms with their guilt!
Why similar: 1990's 34.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%, Text-Based 9.8%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
- #21 Dark City Trouble Nights
83% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Grey Hair Studio
Windows
DARK CITY TROUBLE NIGHTS es un videojuego de ROL narrativo con toma de decisiones. Toma el papel de Chad Simons, detective privado. Tu comportamiento decidirá el final de tu historia en Dark City, ¿podrás resolver el caso, y salir con vida?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Crime 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Investigation 13.3%, Text-Based 8.6%
- #22 Dear Edmund
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mind The Grease
Windows
As the new Street Overseer, every decision you make in this dystopian choice game carries weight. Enforce the rules, help the desperate, or exploit the people’s suffering for personal gain. Choose wisely.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Story Rich 8.9%
- #23 Please, Take The Phone
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bad Tape Studio
Windows
Welcome to Jiabao Tower Property Management.The night shift has begun. Your job is simple: answer calls, check the manual, and fill out the forms. When the night feels slow, watch some TV—though the programs may seem strange.Remember: serve every resident well. Jiabao Tower is our home forever.
Why similar: 1990's 22.3%, Text-Based 17.4%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Retro 9.9%
- #24 Neon Hearts City
81% matchVery Positive84% of 56 reviews2025
Dev: Cosmic VoidPub: Dionous Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A private investigator, tracking a missing person, uncovers a conspiracy between humans and androids and a secret that could change everything. Neon Hearts City is a retro point-and-click adventure that thrusts you into a grungy cyberpunk city of the future.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Investigation 16.9%, 1990's 14.3%, Crime 13.8%, Point & Click 10.3%
- #25 The Fortuneteller
80% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Baursaq Studio
Windows
Take up the mantle, read the fates, control them, use them. You are The Fortuneteller. You are to be the best of the best. Use the tools given to take what is rightfully yours, vengeance.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, 1990's 12.9%, Crime 11%, Point & Click 9.3%
- #26 Champion of the Gods
81% matchVery Positive86% of 174 reviews2015
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Will you serve the gods or overthrow them? Battle ancient evils and destiny itself in this epic interactive novel inspired by Greek myth.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Text-Based 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Choices Matter 11%
- #27 I Am a Dorm Resident (but Cat)
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Project Bon
Windows · Mac
You wake up as Bon, the dorm’s beloved cat — memories gone, paws in place. Roam a century-old student dorm, chat with residents, nap under the kotatsu, enjoy a cat life while uncovering lost secrets and your past. ※This game is distributed with permission from the Yoshida Dormitory Student Council.
Why similar: Alternate History 27.7%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Investigation 12.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%
- #28 Tower of the Ice Lich
78% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: Arcane Lorelabs
Windows · Mac
A pixelated homage to 16-bit RPGs, this former print-and-play card game has come full circle as a digital experience! Choose your champion, enter the tower, and make wise decisions on your ascent to face the Ice Lich at the top.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Text-Based 15.8%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
- #29 LifeSimOS
78% 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 22%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Text-Based 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Story Rich 9.2%
- #30 Entropic Float: This World Will Decay And Disappear
79% matchPositive92% of 50 reviews2022
Dev: Nico HPub: Starfield Gaming
Windows · Mac
A free drama-mystery visual novel with a modern fantasy setting. Reach out to the fourteen people trapped inside to find the truth through eighteen endings, influenced by but not exclusively bound to your own system time.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Investigation 9.4%
- #31 Lone Bird in the Tree
77% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2026
Dev: Aosolagame
Windows · Mac
“Lone Bird in the Tree” is an adventure game with male and female versions of each of the four characters. The story alternates between the “future” of the main character, who is deeply traumatized by the grief of his/her best friend, and the “story leading up to the loss of his/her best friend”.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Text-Based 10.6%, Story Rich 9%
- #32 Attorney Disbarment Adventure
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ambearth Games
Windows
A darkly comedic legal sim where your goal is to get disbarred—spectacularly. Play as a defense attorney or prosecutor in ethically disastrous cases full of bad decisions, weird clients, and Kafkaesque courtroom chaos. Succeed, and you lose.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.5%, Text-Based 18.2%, Crime 15.5%, Choices Matter 14%, Multiple Endings 11.9%
- #33 BAD END THEATER
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 10,015 reviews2021
Dev: NomnomNami
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 30.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Multiple Endings 14.3%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Story Rich 9.7%
- #34 31 Days In Orange Carnival
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ReversePI
Windows
10 participants. A death game that unfolds over 31 days. If you kill another participant, you can take their prize money. An interactive fiction game where the story changes based on your choices. In this dangerous game, choose who to trust and who to betray.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Text-Based 14.4%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%
- #35 MIGHTY 1990
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Chaosmonger Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
A hilarious retro game mixing text-based adventures with point-and-click mechanics! Solve puzzles, roll the dice, and shape your story with multiple endings in a pixel-perfect 16-color world. Relive the charm of classic games with a modern twist!
Why similar: Alternate History 23.8%, 1990's 20.4%, Text-Based 14.4%, Retro 12.3%, Point & Click 10.2%
- #36 Vanakan
74% match2 user reviews100% of 2 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 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Text-Based 17%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Multiple Endings 11%
- #37 BEAST CRIMES
75% matchMixed63% of 67 reviews2022
Dev: LINK
Windows
Crimes across the times. Are you able to solve them all?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Point & Click 9.2%, Choices Matter 9.1%
- #38 Choose Your Own Alternative
73% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: F(r)ictions Ludiques
Windows
A text-based adventure where you're tasked to exorcise your friend’s Inner Demon. Explore an ever-reshaping palace to analyze objects filled with memories, discover which one is the reason for her possession and sacrifice it. Do not deviate from your mission. Save your friend no matter the cost.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Text-Based 13.7%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Investigation 10.5%
- #39 Flora Parasocial
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Laments_VN
Windows
Audiences connect to their favorite celebrities all the time. How does it affect these people when put into a game of life or death? Only time will tell.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 22%, LGBTQ+ 21.6%, Choices Matter 8.6%, Text-Based 7.7%
- #40 FOOL'S PARADISE
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DEADline Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Invited by a stranger to join FOOL'S PARADISE, you'll seek a sense of community without conformity as you make choices that determine to the fate of the commune and all those within it. So, when confronted by division and derision, will you change the status quo or are you content to let it crumble?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.9%, Alternate History 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Text-Based 12.1%, Point & Click 9.1%
- #41 A Chronicle of Occultism in Skinnerburg
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Paracosm Narration
Windows
This is a magic-realism story about self-discovery, spirit analysis and psychological reconstruction. Playing the role of Belikov, an intensely delusional occultist, who attends an occult forum in his hometown Skinnerburg, where witchcraft and riots are rampant, but trapped in a conspiracy.
Why similar: Alternate History 29.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Text-Based 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.2%
- #42 Monitor State
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Artur Pukhavoi
Windows
You are an operator in a dystopia world, watch and punish citizens. Experience a deep narrative with moral dilemmas. Obey, resist or find another path.
Why similar: Alternate History 14.7%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Retro 11.9%, Investigation 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
- #43 A Night With Angel
71% matchPositive87% of 31 reviews2025
Dev: The PoundryPub: Circle Jerk(s)
Windows
An interactive text narrative where charm, charisma, and seduction will be your key tools. Angel is an alluring and confident twink- each word, each glance, has deeper meanings as the two of you spend a fleeting night's tryst with eachother.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 32.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Text-Based 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Point & Click 9%
- #44 The Dust of the Violet Crystals
72% matchPositive95% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Corvaena Games LLC
Windows · Mac
A flesh-eating dust leaves you to survive alone against hordes of Listless.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, LGBTQ+ 20.6%, Choices Matter 8.1%, Text-Based 7.4%
- #45 Roadwarden
71% matchVery Positive94% of 5,150 reviews2022
Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%, Choices Matter 8.2%
- #46 Cooking Companions 2: Dread Weight
70% matchVery Positive87% of 182 reviews2024
Dev: Deer Dream Studios
Windows · Mac
Trapped in a crumbling mansion, it’s up to you to outsmart and outlast an ancient witch hunting you down. Scavenge for items to set traps, solve puzzles and discover hidden secrets to avoid your demise. Don’t be scared: encounters with ghosts are rewarded in this horror visual novel.
Why similar: Alternate History 24.9%, LGBTQ+ 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Choices Matter 10%
- #47 Editor's Hell
71% matchPositive81% of 27 reviews2023
Dev: Pixelated Goose Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You just became the editor for a newspaper in a troublesome country. After months of unemployment; you just had to took it. First, you have to make a choice. Will you support the government or will you go against it? Dreams, nightmares, don’t matter anymore; you have a new opportunity in your life.
Why similar: Alternate History 25.6%, 1990's 14.2%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Point & Click 9.1%
- #48 London: Echoes of the Past
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 317 reviews2025
Dev: Stellar Artificer Games
Windows · Mac
A mysterious woman comes back from the dead, and the dusty past surfaces. Between a gloomy student girl and a glamorous ex-girlfriend, the clues are intertwined, who is the mastermind behind the scene? Play as a detective heroine in 1935 London, embark on a journey of love and growth.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 23%, Crime 12.8%, Investigation 10.8%, Retro 10%, Choices Matter 9.4%
- #49 Get In Get Out
69% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: Wessi
Windows
A post-apocalyptic alternate-history guard simulator. A mysterious infection is ravaging the German-occupied UK. Interrogate arrivals, scan for symptoms, and make though moral calls as a guard. Randomized traits,multiple tools, an authoritarian regime, multiple endings and over 80 unique characters!
Why similar: Alternate History 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Investigation 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choices Matter 9.1%
- #50 Federal Cadet
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: LeeRanger Studio
Windows
Federal Cadet is a single-player police simulation and investigation game. Start as a cadet in Pinewood, patrol the town, question witnesses and suspects, analyze evidence, and rise through the department ranks.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Crime 15.9%, Investigation 12.7%, Simulation 10.4%
- #51 Space Court
70% 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 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Choices Matter 15%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Text-Based 10.5%
- #52 A Study in Blue
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Relate Games
Windows
Play as Kenneth, a private detective, and Blue, a runaway searching for answers. Explore the megacity of Republica in a semi-open world, solve criminal cases, make decisive moral choices, and uncover the truth behind Blue’s past.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Investigation 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, 1990's 11.3%, Choices Matter 11.1%
- #53 The Shadow Over Cyberspace
67% matchVery Positive90% of 117 reviews2025
Dev: Fiction Factory Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Dread whispers echo across the Information Superhighway. Y2K is coming, heralding the rise of the Old Ones. With your meatspace mind unraveling, time is running out -- barter with gods, embrace the deathless aeons, or go offline permanently in this modempunk horror story.
Why similar: Alternate History 22.2%, LGBTQ+ 17.7%, 1990's 16.6%, Choices Matter 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%
- #54 Aster Initiative
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Patchbay Games
Windows
A puzzle-horror experience - navigate a huge mid-90s internet and use a variety of programs on your work computer to take down your pharmaceutical company without getting caught.
Why similar: 1990's 21.6%, Alternate History 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Retro 9.4%
- #55 The Sin Collector: Repentless
68% 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: Alternate History 24%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Text-Based 12.1%, Choices Matter 10.1%
- #56 Split Decision
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Quarc Games
Windows
In a dying town where boxing is the last stand of entertainment, you hold the judge’s pen. Bribes, threats, and loyalties will decide whether you live to judge another day… Or get knocked out cold. Split Decision is a tense narrative game where every point makes a difference.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Crime 17.8%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Point & Click 11.7%, Retro 11.4%
- #57 Suzerain
67% matchVery Positive92% of 11,790 reviews2020
Dev: Torpor Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make the decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?
Why similar: Alternate History 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Text-Based 10.9%, Choices Matter 9.2%
- #58 Inflorescences
67% 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 23.7%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Text-Based 13.3%, Story Rich 13%, Multiple Endings 12.5%
- #59 Endless Bounty
68% matchVery Positive93% of 134 reviews2020
Dev: WolfBite Interactive LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
This is a point and click adventure where you lead Drok'tar through the town of Gabranth and its surrounding areas while looking for his bounty. You'll meet a slew of characters along with way, and if you play your cards right, you'll find yourself in more... erotic situations with some of them.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.6%, Investigation 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Point & Click 9.9%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
- #60 College Quest
65% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Anthony S. AnselmoPub: Pretty Bird Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A classic Sierra-inspired point-and-click adventure featuring exploration, inventory puzzles, dialogue, and multiple solutions to college assignments.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.1%, 1990's 18.7%, Retro 15.7%, Point & Click 14.5%, Choices Matter 11.4%