- #1 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
97% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Text-Based 16.3%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Choices Matter 7.2%
- #2 Villienville. Echoes of Deception
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 14 reviews2024
Dev: JAD Labs
Windows · Mac
A text role-playing game about the fate of a mercenary who finds himself in the strange village: Villienville. Investigate who benefits from the sudden appearance of “ghosts” and help residents protect their homes from a mysterious enemy. The main thing is not to make a mistake in your choice!
Why similar: Text-Based 14.6%, CRPG 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Narration 10%
- #3 Grave Knight
96% 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 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Visual Novel 15.2%, RPG 11.7%, Text-Based 11.3%
- #4 The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
95% 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 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
- #5 201 - The Bad Number
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 29 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 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Visual Novel 8.7%, Artificial Intelligence 8.4%
- #6 Echoes in the Deep - A Fateforge Tale
94% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: LEAP Game StudiosPub: Adeliane
Windows
One last job. One final gamble. The Free City is yours to explore, but how you pull off the ultimate heist is entirely up to you. Assemble your crew, earn their trust, and make tough choices that shape your fate. But remember - every decision has consequences.
Why similar: CRPG 29.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Visual Novel 12.6%, RPG 8.1%, Multiple Endings 7.9%
- #7 A Spaceship Accident
93% 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: CRPG 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Text-Based 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Narration 9.1%
- #8 Under the Heavens: Warring States Saga
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: April May
Windows
A choice-driven narrative RPG set in China’s Warring States period. Rise from a nameless soldier to a legendary general through decisions with permanent consequences. Death is final. History remembers only the survivors.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Text-Based 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Choices Matter 11%
- #9 Fate/Tiny Me
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 山岭法庭广东分庭
Windows
The Holy Grail War begins anew in a modern era. Players will select one of seven Masters, stepping into his or her perspective to be summoned as a Servant in the grand ritual. The store page has been carefully designed to be spoiler-free, so feel free to explore without worry~
Why similar: CRPG 35.8%, Text-Based 18.8%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Multiple Endings 9.3%, Choices Matter 8.6%
- #10 Ukraine War Stories
91% matchVery Positive87% of 1,079 reviews2022
Dev: Starni Games
Windows
Ukraine War Stories is a set of visual novels about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Set in the early months of the war, it tells the stories of civilians trapped on Russian-occupied territory. All stories are based on real events and eyewitness accounts.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Text-Based 13.6%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Narration 10.1%
- #11 Transparent
90% 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: Text-Based 17.6%, Narration 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.2%
- #12 Whispers From The Rift
89% 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 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Text-Based 18.2%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Choices Matter 9.6%
- #13 True Magician
89% 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: CRPG 26.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Text-Based 11%, Visual Novel 9.6%
- #14 Guilt Free
88% matchVery Positive86% of 288 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: Text-Based 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Narration 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Visual Novel 10.8%
- #15 SIS and BRO: The Cyborg Siblings
87% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: ajtoons
Windows · Mac · Linux
Help SIS and BRO escape the city (or not, it's up to you).
Why similar: CRPG 26.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Choices Matter 6.4%
- #16 All (Too) Good Things
86% 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 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Text-Based 18.2%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
- #17 Always On
86% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Skydome Studios
Windows
Choices matter in this interactive short story. It only takes about 1 hour to play through once, but there are multiple endings to explore. You play as an AI assistant to the 7 year old Evie. What kind of bot will you be?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Artificial Intelligence 13.3%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
- #18 Aunewyth
85% 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 26.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Choices Matter 13.4%, RPG 12%, Multiple Endings 11.9%
- #19 Imperial Bureaucracy Hero
84% 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 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Visual Novel 13.4%, RPG 11.2%, Text-Based 9.7%
- #20 Choice of Robots
84% 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 24.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Robots 7.1%
- #21 Niverium
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Snowflakes
Windows
Niverium is a survival game in a harsh world where you have to take on the role of a man sent to the very bottom. You will have to do any dirty work for those who stand above you, under threat of death.
Why similar: CRPG 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Visual Novel 9.5%, Science 8.7% ★
- #22 Broad Daylight
82% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Vagus Truman
Windows
The day awaits. Whether it ends with you going to visit family, taking a breath in the park, or hiding inside your apartment, it all can be taken away without you having a say in the matter. Regardless of all the chances that life might provide, one truth persists: carpe diem.
Why similar: CRPG 33.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, RPG 10.5%, Choices Matter 6.5%
- #23 永恒地牢与刹那之恋
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: zeros
Windows
《永恒地牢与刹那之恋》是基于AI实时推演的动态叙事AVG。在这个视觉小说内,输入你独一无二的选择生成新的世界线与游戏CG。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Artificial Intelligence 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, RPG 10.5%
- #24 Dreaming After You
81% matchPositive91% of 32 reviews2024
Dev: MangoPower
Windows
Play as a Duskweaver in this short "choices matter" story about self-sacrifice.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%
- #25 Alcyone: The Last City
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 18 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Text-Based 14.1%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Choices Matter 7.9%
- #26 My clinical death
80% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: TerryFlyoPub: Mystael studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short visual novel about a girl who experiences a clinical death.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Narration 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Multiple Endings 10%
- #27 StarStruck
79% 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 20.7%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Narration 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
- #28 THE DAY THAT WASN'T
79% 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 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Text-Based 12.3%, Narration 9.9%
- #29 Dr. Kinderwood's Asylum
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Richday
Windows · Mac · Linux
Decide the fate of the son of a tailor and a witch doctor infected with an incurable disease in an interactive story with multiple endings depending on your actions.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Text-Based 13.2%, Choices Matter 11.8%
- #30 Message in a Melody
77% 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 26.1%, Text-Based 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Sci-fi 10.2%
- #31 The Dust of the Violet Crystals
76% matchPositive95% of 19 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 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Visual Novel 13.6%, RPG 10.9%, Text-Based 8.9%
- #32 The Fifth Horseman
78% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2019
Dev: Angelo Parodi
Windows
The Fifth Horseman is a narrative adventure game, set in a fantasy-medieval world, where you will experience many unique stories. After years of war, hunger and diseases mankind finds itself on the verge of extinction and it's up to you to decide its fate.
Why similar: RPG 18.2%, Text-Based 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Visual Novel 11.5%
- #33 Scribe
75% matchPositive91% of 33 reviews2024
Dev: TalesBar
Windows
Scribe is a scribe simulator in which you can secretly shape the destinies of the inhabitants of the estate: resolve disputes, influence the course of family intrigues, decide who lives and who does not. Choose what to write in letters and whether to change their recipients!
Why similar: Text-Based 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Visual Novel 10.1%
- #34 Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk
78% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2018
Dev: Prime Games
Windows · Mac
The Battle for Murk is an interactive narrative set in a gritty medieval world. Play as Corporal Mandrake from the City Watch in a fantasy adventure game. Uncover the truth behind a treacherous conspiracy in a race against time to save your hometown from falling into the hands of a cruel leader.
Why similar: CRPG 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Text-Based 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Visual Novel 9.7%
- #35 Thirty eternal days
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Democratic Games
Windows
Touch the world after the Catastrophe. Remember your life, which has become almost endless. Repent of your past and try to save the future in this sci-fi text-based interactive adventure game.
Why similar: CRPG 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Text-Based 13.5%, Science 11.7% ★
- #36 《道格拉斯警督的日记》
74% match6 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: 日食网络 solar eclipse studioPub: 日食网络
Windows
This is a detective game where you play as a middle-aged inspector searching for a terrifying serial killer in an isolated village. However, as a player, if you uncover the killer’s motives, you might consider whether to cooperate with them to achieve their goal of "killing THE time."
Why similar: CRPG 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Text-Based 10.2%, Visual Novel 9.2%
- #37 Mass of Consumption
73% 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 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Text-Based 13%, Choices Matter 9.2%
- #38 Arderico's Journey
74% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Digital Masquerade
Windows
Set off on an exciting swashbuckling quest in this classic Fantasy Choose Your Own Adventure! Meet charming characters, fight dangerous foes, and uncover a nefarious intrigue. Experience seamless and reactive storytelling. Prove your innocence, find your destiny, relish the journey!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Text-Based 11.1%
- #39 Roadwarden
73% matchVery Positive94% of 4,905 reviews2022
Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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 28.5%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, RPG 12.8%, Choices Matter 6.8%
- #40 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
73% matchVery Positive90% of 9,503 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Choices Matter 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Text-Based 14.4%, Visual Novel 11.4%
- #41 Choices That Matter: And The Sun Went Out
75% matchMixed68% of 28 reviews2020
Dev: Tin Man Games
Windows · Mac
Take part in one of the most complex interactive adventure stories ever written! What if the sun inexplicably vanished only to return hours later? Investigate with your AI companion, Moti. Uncover conspiracies. Discover ancient religions. Travel the globe.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Text-Based 16.8%, Science 13.6% ★, Multiple Endings 10.4%
- #42 Bootlegger: Moonshine Empire
72% matchPositive81% of 16 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 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Text-Based 22.7%, Choices Matter 10.1%, RPG 9.8%
- #43 Hearts in Hades: Divine Passion
71% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
An interactive fantasy romance novel set amongst the Greek gods.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Text-Based 19.6%, RPG 14.5%, Drama 8.9%
- #44 You're a dad
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Linus Bohman
Windows · Mac · Linux
Choose your path and accept the consequences in this sleep deprived text adventure about becoming a parent. Be a responsible adult, make dinner and take care of your child. You must do this. Nothing else.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Text-Based 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Narration 11.7%, Visual Novel 11%
- #45 Vanakan
71% 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 24.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Text-Based 21%, Choices Matter 8.9%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
- #46 Saturnine
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are the Veteran. You’re the oldest android in the Solar System, a relic and survivor of the ancient past. Now it’s time for you to fight again. A text-based science-fantasy novel, 700,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Text-Based 21.1%, RPG 17%, Choices Matter 8%
- #47 OTHERS
69% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Sicosiber
Windows
This is a retro story game about choices and the voices in your head. Unlock new voices, new thoughts, and new endings.
Why similar: CRPG 23.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Text-Based 10.7%
- #48 3 DAYS: Ghosts of War
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KovalGames
Windows · Mac
In the heart of the Afghan wilderness, amidst the chaos of war, you awaken to the stark reality of your mission: three days to navigate the perilous landscape, uncover hidden truths, and confront the ghosts of the past.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Text-Based 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
- #49 The Trials of Ozymandias
71% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Golden Axolotl Studios
Windows · Mac
The Trials of Ozymandias is a visual novel set in the high fantasy world of the kingdom of Johrotos. In the capitol city, Dassi, resides the most famous adventurer's guild in all the land: Talleh-Hoy. This is where your story begins.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Drama 6.8%
- #50 Across Kiloparsecs
70% 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: Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Text-Based 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Science 11.2% ★, Visual Novel 11.2%
- #51 Fight in the Arena by Daniel da Silva
70% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Daniel da SilvaPub: SmokeSomeFrogs
Windows · Linux
Fight in the Arena is a text-based RPG with an in-depth turn-based combat system.
Why similar: CRPG 31.2%, Text-Based 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Choices Matter 8.2%
- #52 Tower of the Ice Lich
68% 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 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choices Matter 9.2%
- #53 Fallen Hero: Revelations
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Face down your ghosts and unearth secrets better left buried as you prepare to take vengeance on the ones who wronged you. But be warned, burying your past only works if it stays put.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Text-Based 21.1%, RPG 16.2%, Choices Matter 8.4%
- #54 The Sin Collector: Repentless
69% 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 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Text-Based 14.6%, Narration 12%, Visual Novel 10.7%
- #55 Into Oblivion
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NanoLion
Windows
Into Oblivion is an immerse interactive novel where your choices shape the story. Set in the far-future, explore a galaxy on the brink of crisis with dynamic companions. So, settle your mind and pray you have what it takes to fly Into Oblivion.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Text-Based 15%, RPG 13.5%, Visual Novel 13.3%
- #56 Taina's Cursed Legacy
66% 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 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Text-Based 18.9%, Visual Novel 13.6%, RPG 9.7%
- #57 Jolly Good: Tea and Scones
67% 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 25.6%, Text-Based 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Choices Matter 13.6%, RPG 10.1%
- #58 Protocol Endfall
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Round Brick Studio
Windows
You are the captain of a space ship lost in time and space. You receive an order for delivery of a special cargo from an organization that has been considered destroyed for hundreds of years. What are your next steps?
Why similar: CRPG 30.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Sci-fi 7.8%
- #59 The Castle
67% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Text-Based 19.7%, Narration 13.5%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
- #60 Space Court
66% matchVery Positive98% of 160 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Text-Based 13%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Multiple Endings 12.5%