- #1 Mech Mind Ninja
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Leonardo M A SilvaPub: Consttelattions
Windows
Here, your choices have consequences. Embark in a Time Travel Ninja Tale with multiple routes. Isao is a member of a Brotherhood from the Meiji Era in Japan who travels between the XXII and XIX centuries. What would be your choices on this journey? Make your choices and discover the consequences.
Why similar: Time Travel 28.4% ★, Nonlinear 14.6%, Text-Based 9.5%, Robots 9.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%
- #2 Re:Curse
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Elseth GamesPub: Papertrail Studios
Windows · Mac
A time-travel mystery visual novel about found-family, connections, and hope in dark times.
Why similar: Time Travel 39.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Female Protagonist 10.8%, Visual Novel 9.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.1%
- #3 Memories of Rachel
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SANDWICH KITCHEN
Windows · Mac
Memories of Rachel is a text adventure game where you pick up keywords called fragments from the protagonist's memories and answer questions to advance the main story. No sudden action sequences, no clicking on maps. But their secrets and the overlap of memories will stick like a thorn in your hear.
Why similar: Time Travel 35.7% ★, Point & Click 11.5%, Female Protagonist 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Text-Based 10.3%
- #4 Paradox Factor
95% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Alter your past and future in this thought-provoking and edgy time travel game. Are you willing to live with the effects that your changes may cause?
Why similar: Time Travel 55.4% ★, Text-Based 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%, Sci-fi 5.7%
- #5 The Sojourning Wise Woman's Final Quest
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Orscat
Windows
Play as a wise woman, help your neighbors, and they will help you in return. Fight alongside your closest friend to deal with the beasts threatening the village. Uncover the secrets of magic through your journey, and you might even have a chance to confront your inner demons.
Why similar: Word Game 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Text-Based 9.7%
- #6 Grail to the Thief
94% matchMixed60% of 43 reviews2015
Dev: For All To Play
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Hank Krang, a dirty thief from the near future, recently had a self-aware time machine called the Time Excursion Digital Interface, or TEDI, fall into his lap after a poker game. He has decided to use this technology to go throughout time, stealing priceless artifacts.
Why similar: Time Travel 48.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Sci-fi 10.7%, Indie 3.1%
- #7 Hellink
93% matchVery Positive94% of 52 reviews2019
Dev: Ikigai
Windows · Mac · Linux
The first visual novel about fake news! Investigate in 2044 in a humorous and cyberpunk universe. Counter your opponents' lies and thwart the plot that threatens Néo-Sorbonne!
Why similar: Text-Based 15.1%, Female Protagonist 11.7%, Point & Click 10.3%, Sci-fi 10.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%
- #8 Shanghai Summer
91% matchVery Positive91% of 444 reviews2024
Dev: FUTU StudioPub: Astrolabe Games
Windows
Shanghai Summer is an adventure game set in the millennium. Our protagonist, Baichuan, goes through a series of "anomalies" over the length of twelve days. In his pursuit of the truth, he found that his hopes and regrets from the past finally seem to converge. Will he be able to "fix" it for good?
Why similar: Time Travel 32% ★, Word Game 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Text-Based 9.5%, Narration 8.4%
- #9 Non-Linear Text Quests
92% matchMostly Positive78% of 45 reviews2018
Dev: NLB project
Windows · Linux
Non-Linear Text Quests is a bundle of text games of various genres. Here you can find interactive stories with branching plots and text-only versions of classic Point & Click quests, where you can communicate with different characters, use your inventory and combine items in various locations.
Why similar: Nonlinear 24.3%, Text-Based 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Narration 10.8%
- #10 Parallel Convergence
91% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: NYEKO Studio
Windows
A time travel project. A group of students. A cat that eats too much. Can you rewrite fate without losing what matters most?
Why similar: Time Travel 48.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Visual Novel 13%, Sci-fi 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
- #11 Scandal Notes
90% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2022
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
Find glamor, glitz, gossip, and love in 1920s London! You and your friends are the talk of the town - but will a malicious journalist turn the tables?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Nonlinear 13.7%, RPG 12.3%, Text-Based 8.3%
- #12 Dr. Kinderwood's Asylum
89% 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: Nonlinear 28.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Text-Based 11.4%, Visual Novel 11.2%
- #13 Tempest In A Teapot
89% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: StrandGames
Windows
A choice-based, visual novel with time travelling teapots!
Why similar: Time Travel 26.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Sci-fi 9.2%
- #14 Villienville. Echoes of Deception
88% 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: Nonlinear 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Text-Based 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Narration 11%
- #15 When Silence Fell
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Maximilian Niebuhr
Windows
This grim interactive novel takes you directly into a period full of dread and peril - the Thirty Years' War in the 17th century!
Why similar: Time Travel 19.6% ★, Nonlinear 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Text-Based 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%
- #16 Hedgehog's Dilemma
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Neo Vulgate Cycle
Windows · Mac · Linux
A story of love, connections, and separation, a story about philosophy and science. Marharyta and Mykhailo try to figure out their relationships - and cannot help but fall in love over and over again.
Why similar: Nonlinear 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Text-Based 13.5%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, Visual Novel 8.9%
- #17 Knight, Death and the Devil
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Frequency eye
Windows
Knight, Death and the Devil — This is a dark visual novel that will take you into a creepy world full of danger and unexpected twists.
Why similar: Nonlinear 22%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Narration 11.9%, Point & Click 10.3%
- #18 Deep Pixel Melancholy
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ok/no
Windows
Deep Pixel Melancholy is a visual novel about being stuck in a time loop inside a gray, soulless city. Unravel the mystery, and decide whether escaping is really worth it.
Why similar: Time Travel 27.8% ★, Nonlinear 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Narration 8.8%
- #19 Legends of Savvarah: Time of Pariah
83% matchVery Positive98% of 133 reviews2024
Dev: ST Sinovar
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are Hidu, a beastman mercenary in a port city. You must survive one very bad day. How? That’s entirely up to you. There are countless ways for events to unfold — and 25 endings.
Why similar: Nonlinear 26.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Narration 11.4%, Story Rich 8%
- #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 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Robots 14.5%, Sci-fi 7.5%
- #21 Chronautical
84% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Sleepy Siren Studios LLC
Windows · Mac
In this narrative-driven sci-fi mystery, investigate across space and time to uncover clues and unravel the secrets of a star system that has disappeared, and the man trying to find it.
Why similar: Time Travel 33.9% ★, Nonlinear 22.8%, Point & Click 11.1%, Sci-fi 9.6%, Visual Novel 8.6%
- #22 Fixer's Tale
82% matchPositive94% of 18 reviews2024
Dev: Emblem Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A humorous sci-fi text-driven adventure where you play a support engineer sent to fix system failures in a secret research complex. Explore strange labs, investigate bizarre incidents, solve absurd problems, talk to depressed robots, and make choices that lead to multiple endings.
Why similar: Nonlinear 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Text-Based 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Visual Novel 8.9%
- #23 Engram
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: sitokaPub: Yet Another AI
Windows · Mac
In a desolate sci‑fi world, search for a way to save your sister Mia. In Engram, you will make many choices that affect and change the fate of every character in the story. Like an intricate web of butterfly effects, a unique story will emerge under the influence of your decisions.
Why similar: Nonlinear 20.8%, Word Game 14%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Point & Click 10.6%
- #24 Keeper of the Labyrinth
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Athena Abbott
Windows · Mac
An interactive fiction game about identity and self-discovery. Decide your own path through the labyrinth's strange halls, and confront the terrors and mysteries within.
Why similar: Nonlinear 39.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Text-Based 18.9%, Female Protagonist 7.9%, RPG 6.9%
- #25 Phantom Thief Angels: Twin Angel - Labyrinth of Time and World - Re:light
80% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: ALTERCIWS
Windows · Mac
Let's Go Fever Time! Lovely Angel! By day, ordinary girls. By night, the 'Phantom Thief Angels TwinAngel' - on a mission to reclaim stolen treasures. Winter 2024: The Angels descend on Steam.
Why similar: Time Travel 48.8% ★, Female Protagonist 12.8%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.9%, Story Rich 7.4%
- #26 Sexbot II: Recalibrated
81% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Llamamann Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Sequel to Sexbot, now in development.
Why similar: Time Travel 34% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Robots 11%, Visual Novel 9.9%
- #27 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: Nonlinear 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Text-Based 11.3%
- #28 Get the Guy
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ByDesignK
Windows
A mysterious interface connects you to a troubled girl from an Eastern fantasy realm. Receive her words and visions instantly. Guide her choices through conscious labyrinths as your fates intertwine.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Word Game 19%, Female Protagonist 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Text-Based 10.5%
- #29 Forest Life
78% matchVery Positive93% of 72 reviews2023
Dev: 星辰重工Pub: B.I.G Technology Co., Limited
Windows
Players will play as five different characters and experience five environmental theme scenes relating to sustainable palm oil, orangutan conservation, rainforest protection, etc. Players need to make a variety of choices through their own understanding, and reach different story endings.
Why similar: Time Travel 30.2% ★, Word Game 19%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Text-Based 8.4%, RPG 7%
- #30 The Dust of the Violet Crystals
78% 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: Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Female Protagonist 14.6%, Visual Novel 10.9%, RPG 10.8%
- #31 Emily_
77% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Tetrabyte Games
Windows
Chat with a mysterious AI, uncover secret codes and find hidden files. Your choices may lead you to uncover different things, the only way to find the truth is through Emily and whatever was left inside the old computer. You need her help
Why similar: Nonlinear 19.4%, Word Game 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Text-Based 11.5%
- #32 My Silly Science Summer in the Past
76% matchPositive89% of 19 reviews2025
Dev: TBFPub: TLS
Windows · Mac · Linux
A visual novel for girls: Experience a fun time travel adventure and make friends with some quirky girls at a science camp. Will you solve the mysteries and find your way back to your time? Your choices make your own story! Full with challenging puzzle games, and unique endings.
Why similar: Time Travel 44% ★, Female Protagonist 14.1%, Sci-fi 10.3%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
- #33 Sea of Leaves
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Simona Maiorano
Windows
A tragic mistery, from Apulia with love.
Why similar: Nonlinear 30.3%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Narration 14.7%, Female Protagonist 13.5%, Story Rich 9.5%
- #34 WTP Story 1
77% matchNo user reviews2023
Dev: Andrew Joseph Smith
Windows · Mac · Linux
WTP - Story 1 is a dynamic choice lead adventure.
Why similar: Time Travel 26.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Narration 10.8%, Science 7.4% ★
- #35 Critical Attraction
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 扯拐工作室
Windows
Critical Attraction is a 2D side-scrolling otome simulation romance RPG visual novel. When the player’s older sister suddenly goes missing, they embark on a journey to find her. Along the way, they meet 4 companions with distinct personalities, grow through various life experiences.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23%, Word Game 22.9%, Time Travel 17.1% ★, Female Protagonist 10.3%, Visual Novel 9.6%
- #36 Algorithm Prescription
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Shochiku
Windows
Xenoria, a city run entirely by AI Trust, occupation, romance, everything in life is pre-determined by "Empathy Score" which reveals a person's personality. Cocoro will unravel the secret of this city, and pursue the truth about herself. An indulging love suspense.
Why similar: Word Game 18%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Female Protagonist 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Visual Novel 9.1%
- #37 时漏界限-edge-
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 图层新建分组工作室
Windows · Mac
一场神秘的“梦”,打破了你平静的生活。横贯两个世界的旅程,却总是遭遇同一场危机。你遇到了意味不明的茶味男,看起来很好说话的异瞳少年,突然出现的神秘妹妹头,呆傻的美丽学长,好久不见突然变成金色的幼驯染。你们的故事打破了两个世界,人们的命运就此交织…… 《时漏界限-edge-》是一款文字avg乙女冒险游戏,正式版包含4位可攻略男主角,一位隐藏可攻略男主角。正式版游戏文本量在50w字以上,拥有50张以上精美cg。 在游戏中,你将扮演一名即将毕业的大学生,在穿越两个世界的旅途中寻找世界的真相,并作出自己的选择。游戏拥有多个分支结局,等待你在游玩过程中逐步解锁。
Why similar: Word Game 26.3%, Time Travel 18.2% ★, Female Protagonist 13.2%, Text-Based 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.5%
- #38 LO FI - A YEAR TO FULFILL MY DREAM.mp3
75% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2022
Dev: PonpipaipidupiPub: Rotating Gear Studio
Windows
This is a story about a young woman who thinks and chases her dreams bravely under the pressure of reality and family. In order to prove that she has the ability to support herself with music as a career, Lu must show her strength by winning the annual award of the streaming platform.
Why similar: Word Game 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Nonlinear 18.9%, Female Protagonist 13.1%, Text-Based 11.2%
- #39 Midline '85
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nadsat
Windows
Midline ‘85 is an interactive thriller about the tough work of an emergency service operator. Face panic, horror and human cruelty, break rules and observe the consequences. Save Midline — or let the city burn.
Why similar: Nonlinear 16.5%, Word Game 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Text-Based 9.6%
- #40 DESOPE
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Celephais Seeker Division
Windows · Mac · Linux
Mechanical ghosts hide in the fog and the summer sky prays to collapse. Like a broken tape, do you still remember your name?
Why similar: Time Travel 45.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Text-Based 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Visual Novel 7.7%
- #41 Universe Has No Favorites
72% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Radek VolfPub: Walker & Volf
Windows · Mac
Interactive fiction, visual novel adventure with point & click controls and AI-assisted illustrations. Explore a dangerous orbital station, an abandoned starship or a mysterious planet in this cyberpunk sci-fi text-based game. And, of course, discover a mystery that has an impact on the galaxy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Text-Based 16.8%, Point & Click 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Sci-fi 11%
- #42 Project Kuragava
73% matchMostly Positive70% of 10 reviews2022
Dev: SimpleWhite Games
Windows
Project Kuragava is a visual kinetic novel with a thoughtful plot The protagonist Yuki enters Kuragawa Academy, he is the first guy in this academy. Will Yuki be able to change his past and future? Or will he lose this fateful battle?
Why similar: Time Travel 34.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Sci-fi 8.5%, Female Protagonist 8.4%
- #43 Future Mirror
72% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2022
Dev: 皐月の夢Pub: LocaGames
Windows
"Ten years from now, I will be dead..." A coming-of-age fantasy adventure tale, Future Mirror is a visual novel that explores fate and the choices that affect our future, tragedy, relationships, and happiness.
Why similar: Time Travel 30.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Female Protagonist 14.1%, Visual Novel 10.2%
- #44 The Lighthouse of Black Salt
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Light Source
Windows
A dark gamebook-inspired RPG where your choices, luck, and blade decide what the sea keeps. Climb a cursed lighthouse and uncover the name buried beneath the bell.
Why similar: Nonlinear 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Text-Based 17.2%, RPG 10%
- #45 DeCoDiary.volume 1 起 ~ Atheohood
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 彼界岛Bronjland
Windows · Mac
"What is The Ritual?"—Senior 1 student Zi Xiaoying left her hometown and arrived at the School on Isle Island, moving into Gracirsium's House. Even before settling in, she heard about esoterica and rituals on the island, and unexpectedly encountered a white-hair girl with an censer in the forest...
Why similar: Word Game 27.1%, Nonlinear 19.6%, RPG 14.5%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Sci-fi 9.7%
- #46 Essence of Time
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Box Fire Games
Windows
Essence of Time is a story rich, hand-drawn RPG. Craft modular moves in a sphere grid as you build friendships, unravel mysteries, and explore timelines and their consequences during the final days of battle school. While students compete to be the next emperor, can you find a future without war?
Why similar: Time Travel 40.7% ★, Nonlinear 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Story Rich 8.3%, Visual Novel 8%
- #47 问题偶像的养成计划
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 海肠工作室
Windows
Welcome to the private performing arts college full of love and dreams - Xingmengdian~! The sweat of youth and dreams is sprinkled in every corner of the college. Come and experience a happy and colorful campus life with the idols you meet!
Why similar: Time Travel 23.7% ★, Word Game 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Text-Based 7.5%
- #48 Robot's Fate: Alice
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Starni Games
Windows
Robot’s Fate: Alice is a text-based RPG set in the future where robots with neural network AI are integral to human life. You’re Alice - a robot who becomes self-aware, while everyone around fears rogue AI. Can you survive and reconcile humanity with robots? Your choices do matter.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Text-Based 13.7%, Narration 10.9%, Visual Novel 8.8%
- #49 Watch out, the Doors are Closing
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cat TalesPub: TERNOX
Windows
A magical-realist visual novel, a funny and sad tale about ghosts of a Ukrainian subway, and an exploration of the meaning of life where there seems to be no meaning.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18%, Nonlinear 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Text-Based 12.7%, Female Protagonist 12.3%
- #50 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
68% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Infinite Zone
Windows
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Text-Based 17.8%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Story Rich 8.5%
- #51 Stamped: an anti-travel game
69% match7 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2023
Dev: Kawika GuillermoPub: Analgesic Productions
Windows
Stamped follows the journeys of six young travelers whose paths intersect across Asian urban landscapes. Bound by pleasure-fueled self-destruction, the group flounders from city to city, confronting the grief and discrimination that caused them to travel in the first place.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Text-Based 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Point & Click 11.3%, Narration 9.3%
- #52 唐宫诗与谋
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 木兰舟工作室
Windows
History's main thread is set, but countless fates diverge. A woman destined for tragedy becomes the protagonist of a game. You, a voice in her mind, can influence her choices. How will the stories of Wu Zhao, Princess Taiping, Empress Wei, and Princess Anle then unfold?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Word Game 20.6%, Female Protagonist 18.8%, RPG 12.4%, Visual Novel 10%
- #53 Whispers From The Rift
68% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Interdimensional Games Inc
Windows
A choose-your-own-adventure novel. Enter the mind of a black-ops team leader heading an impossible mission in a parallel universe. Choices are remembered, story events reflect past decisions, and freely rewind time to try different paths.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Text-Based 18.5%, Visual Novel 12%, Story Rich 9.1%
- #54 STEINS;GATE ELITE
69% matchVery Positive90% of 1,627 reviews2019
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 272.4 hrs≥1hr: 66%
STEINS;GATE ELITE follows a rag-tag band of tech-savvy young students who discover the means of changing the past via e-mail using a modified microwave.
Why similar: Time Travel 58.2% ★, Visual Novel 16.7%, Sci-fi 11.9%, Story Rich 8.3%, Science 4.3% ★
- #55 Gender Dysphoria
67% matchVery Positive91% of 70 reviews2023
Dev: exodrifter
Windows · Linux
A short non-linear narrative game about negative experiences after coming out as transgender.
Why similar: Nonlinear 31.3%, Text-Based 16.6%, Narration 12.7%, Female Protagonist 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%
- #56 鸥鹭罔继
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 二浮舟
Windows
你将观测一段虚构的故事,通过选项的干涉决定被观测者的命运。你将观测的对象是一个迷茫、执拗,有着孩童的天真与暴虐的女孩,你开始观测的时刻,她失去了自己生命中最重要的人,面临决定未来的诸多抉择。你的每一次干涉,都会将她的故事导向截然不同的方向。
Why similar: Nonlinear 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Female Protagonist 13.9%, Visual Novel 10.3%, RPG 9.7%
- #57 Little World
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 44次日落工作室
Windows
Yun Tianming gave Cheng Xin a small universe, and I also want to give you one!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.4%, Nonlinear 25.8%, Text-Based 18.2%, Sci-fi 13.4%, Robots 8%
- #58 The Bible
66% matchVery Positive88% of 1,127 reviews2022
Dev: Bible Games
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 242.2 hrs≥1hr: 48%
A digital recreation of The Bible in Kinetic Novel form! Read through and save passages in any order with an original soundtrack, or listen through the greatest story ever told in audiobook form. Featuring an extensive Trivia section to find out how well you really know the stories of Old and New.
Why similar: Nonlinear 21.2%, Word Game 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Text-Based 10.8%, Narration 10.2%
- #59 Escape from Norwood
67% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2023
Dev: Singular Works
Windows · Mac
Explore a city that lives without your input in this illustrated text adventure. Observe the lives of its inhabitants behind the veil of your invisibility magic. Find items and combine them to solve intricate puzzles. Set your own pace as you control time and move freely in an open fantasy world.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Text-Based 18.7%, Point & Click 14%, Narration 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%
- #60 Return of Red Riding Hood Enhanced Edition
68% matchVery Positive87% of 70 reviews2018
Dev: NLB project
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
This visual novel is a collection of alternative realities. How events would turn out and how they end will depend on your choices. Visit wolf's den and solve his secret, or try to tame the wild beast. Eat a pasty with mushrooms and experience something new, or feed it to the old lady, because it's her favorite filling.
Why similar: Nonlinear 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Narration 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Female Protagonist 12.3%