- #1 Diomedea Keep
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dryden Thomas Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Balance sleuthing and romance to solve the murder of a Duke who... pretty much deserved it. Both the Empire and your love are at stake!
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.6%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Hand-drawn 11.7%
- #2 Morningtide Motel
96% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: Slandercast Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your motel is busy for the first time in years. Antsy city-folk and dispossessed teens flood your rooms, and you can barely keep up. Now, after a week of all-nighters spent managing reservations, room service requests, and Yup! reviews, you begin to wonder… could you even fall asleep if you tried?
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 16.1%, Hand-drawn 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Visual Novel 10%
- #3 Adventurers Guild Receptionist
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio LITTE
Windows
Always wanted a fantasy world desk job?! Manage eccentric adventurers like a lazy witch, tsundere fairy & useless bard! Approve quests, keep them alive, pay off Elfie's crippling tax debt, and rake in gold for the Guild!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, RPG 11.7%, Medieval 8.5%
- #4 Sorceress Services
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 3STAR
Windows · Mac
Starting anew as a rookie Sorceress, complete magical transactions and requests to build your clientele and grow your business! In this narrative-driven fantasy vendor simulator, follow unique quest lines, use persuasive techniques, and cast enchantments on your goods with gestures.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Management 12.7%, Point & Click 8.1%
- #5 The Reeve
94% matchVery Positive86% of 50 reviews2024
Dev: Gray Muscat
Windows · Mac
You are an Administrator serving your probationary period in a medieval town. Make decisions to affect the town's reputation, order, military and supplies. Choose wisely to deal with bandits, famines, cultists and plagues. The most difficult choices will decide the fate of your town!
Why similar: Medieval 19%, Management 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Visual Novel 10%
- #6 Grave Knight
94% 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: Visual Novel 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Medieval 12.8%, Choices Matter 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%
- #7 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
93% matchVery Positive90% of 9,604 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.1 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: Choices Matter 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Medieval 10.6%
- #8 Darkly Glass
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BioSignosis
Windows · Linux
Trade your soul for digital fame in this psychological visual novel. As fallen tech mogul Doran White, navigate a treacherous social media landscape. Your choices shape his fate in this hand-drawn, neuroscience-inspired reimagining of Oscar Wilde's classic.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Dialogue Heavy 22.2%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Hand-drawn 12.4%, Choices Matter 12.2%
- #9 Pitchforks and Daggers
91% matchPositive91% of 22 reviews2025
Dev: Idan Sheinkman
Windows · Linux
How far will you go to keep your crown? A branching court politics drama, where every choice matters. Navigate treacherous lords, scheming family members, and angry peasants- all while trying to secure your kingdom’s future.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Medieval 16%, Dialogue Heavy 14.4%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.6%
- #10 FALLEN
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dusty Wolf
Windows
Finish what had already begun, halt the Darkness in its tracks, and shape a brighter future for the entire world. Prove yourself worthy as a warrior, as you take on what no faint heart could fathom.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 22.5%, Medieval 21.7%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Simulation 6.9%
- #11 Zugzwang
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Malice Studios LLC
Windows
Chess. Love. Destiny. All the same things, really.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 15%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Dialogue Heavy 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
- #12 StarStruck
89% 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 20.9%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Dialogue Heavy 15.6%, Choices Matter 15%, RPG 8.1%
- #13 The Siege of Jeomdo
88% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2026
Dev: Studio Hip Sword
Windows · Mac · Linux
Hope flickers against impossible odds. In this narrative RPG, step into the shoes of a retired soldier, thrust into a desperate last stand to save Jeomdo Village. With supplies dwindling and time running out, your decisions will shape the fate of those who look to you for salvation.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Hand-drawn 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
- #14 Fate of Persephone
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nuts and Volts Electronics
Windows
A grid-based, point-and-click, RPG where your actions and decisions have lasting consequences and uniquely shape your story.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Dialogue Heavy 14.4%, Medieval 13.1%, Hand-drawn 11.1%, Point & Click 10.2%
- #15 Smiling Misery
87% matchPositive90% of 40 reviews2025
Dev: Press For Coffee
Windows
Smiling Misery is an interactive tale that introduces us to the story of Margo, a jester who, weary of a comfortable life, embarks on a journey to seek misery. Join Margo on a brief adventure through a Mediterranean medieval kingdom and bring the story to its conclusion.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 19.1%, Medieval 15.1%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Hand-drawn 10.7%
- #16 The Protagonish
86% matchMixed56% of 32 reviews2024
Dev: College Fun Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short adventure game, where you don't control the adventurer. Play the side characters in a medieval village, and decide to help or hinder the adventurer in their mysterious quest.
Why similar: Medieval 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Point & Click 15.1%, Hand-drawn 12.2%, Story Rich 8.6%
- #17 Pussy Kingdom: Queen of Passion
86% match8 user reviews0% of 8 reviews2024
Dev: Untold Love Stories Games
Windows
Embark on a magical adventure where you will have to unite all the kingdoms and save the world from evil.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Medieval 15.3%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Point & Click 9.3%, Choices Matter 9%
- #18 イカスミポーション
84% matchVery Positive99% of 76 reviews2025
Dev: Nyamoli@
Windows
"イカスミ"でポーションをつくる!?怪しいポーション屋さんのイカ『スミミ』と共に、個性豊かな人外キャラクター達にポーションを売るアドベンチャーゲーム!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Hand-drawn 16.5%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Dialogue Heavy 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%
- #19 Butt Tattoo Artist Simulator
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hat Jump
Windows
Leo Pujols is just a wholesome man with a simple calling: open up a butt tattoo parlor. The historic town of Las Nalgas will never be the same. In this visual novel, your choices decide the fate of Leo and Las Nalgas. Also, you draw tattoos on butt cheeks.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.3%, Hand-drawn 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Dialogue Heavy 10.2%
- #20 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,034 reviews2020
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Medieval 13.1%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Management 10.6%
- #21 Memories Of Zattera
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: YouGo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Memories of Zattera is a visual novel that merges fantasy and science fiction. Explore moral and political dilemmas from multiple viewpoints as tradition, progress and freedom collide. Will you see the world the same once all truths are revealed?
Why similar: Medieval 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Visual Novel 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, RPG 8.4%
- #22 Whispers of Gold
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Falling Raven
Windows
In pursuit of coin, hired dagger Arthur finds himself embroiled in conspiracy involving the daughter of a noble House. Who is really pulling the strings behind the scenes?
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Choices Matter 14%, Hand-drawn 14%, Medieval 9.7%
- #23 Deep in the Forest
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ertal Games
Windows
A medieval fantasy BL Visual Novel in English and Spanish, Demo available
Why similar: Medieval 16.9%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Romance 9.1%
- #24 Reigns: The Witcher
80% matchVery Positive80% of 171 reviews2026
Dev: NerialPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Adventure as Geralt through the ballads of Dandelion. Swipe right, swipe left, seek glory, find death! Will you hunt monsters, upset the locals, or run a hot bath? Compose an inspiring epic to claim immortality.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Hand-drawn 8%
- #25 Gold & Brown
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Side Project Games
Windows
Gold & Brown is a choice-based visual novel set in the medieval era, enhanced with card mechanics. Embark on a challenging journey as a knight, shape your fate through card choices, and pursue an impossible love across multiple endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Medieval 19.4%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%
- #26 Arderico's Journey
81% 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 21.4%, Medieval 15.4%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%
- #27 Kill Ralph
79% matchVery Positive100% of 78 reviews2025
Dev: Andrii Tuzenko
Windows · Mac · Linux
"Lies, treachery, and a bounty worth dying for. You’re no warrior, just a cunning hunter—will your wits be enough to catch Ralph Devour?"
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Hand-drawn 10.8%, Medieval 10.4%
- #28 Decadent Heir
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PRdroid GamesPub: Valkyrie Initiative
Windows
Rewrite history in this narrative RPG set in the last days of Imperial Russia. Born into nobility, you will shape both your destiny and the fate of a nation.Will you preserve the old order, ignite the flames of revolution, or carve out your own path? Every decision will echo through time.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Medieval 15.1%, Management 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.8%
- #29 氷点下30度の絶望
77% matchVery Positive97% of 337 reviews2025
Dev: Mitsudomoe Koubou
Windows
可愛い後輩と2人っきり……冷凍庫の中で。 低体温症、矛盾脱衣、幻覚などの苦痛を乗り越えた先にあるのは、「真相」と「死」のみ。
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Point & Click 10.9%, Hand-drawn 10.7%
- #30 Peter's Journey
78% matchMixed52% of 42 reviews2024
Dev: Dreamer StudioPub: Start Game
Windows
Embark on a journey of this text anime quest with RPG elements! Walk through beautiful locations, overcome challenges and make Peter’s dreams come true. Every step you take matters. And don’t forget to take the diary - you’ll need it!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Medieval 15.4%, Visual Novel 13%, Hand-drawn 11.9%, Choices Matter 10.8%
- #31 Annoy This Guy
77% matchVery Positive94% of 65 reviews2024
Dev: Samuel Leigh
Windows
Annoy this guys time in this comedic piece of interactive fiction.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.2%, Dialogue Heavy 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Comedy 13.6%, Choices Matter 10.1%
- #32 - Mischief Dungeon Life - 異世界転生した俺のイタズラダンジョンライフ
78% match5 user reviews0% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: CyberStep, Inc.
Windows
After an accident, Renji was reborn in another world as a "shapeshifter," a demon that can transform at will. He was reborn in a dungeon inhabited by demons… Using new demon powers, a thrilling and exciting life in the mischief dungeon begins…!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.3%, Visual Novel 23.3%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Simulation 9.3%, Hand-drawn 9.2%
- #33 Refuge of Embers
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Escape Sauce
Windows · Mac · Linux
Hand drawn visual novel with complex sprites, cinematic scenes, and frame-by-frame drawn animated h-scenes. Refuge of Embers features a wide cast of characters to romance and multiple endings in an original fantasy setting. Adult content can be toggled to your preference.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 18.2%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Medieval 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Hand-drawn 11.3%
- #34 Cannibal Date
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: actpng
Windows
You go on a date with a mysterious woman from a dating app. What could possibly go wrong?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.6%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Dialogue Heavy 15.9%, Point & Click 13.1%, Choices Matter 10.3%
- #35 Enelia: Dawn of Madness
75% matchVery Positive95% of 129 reviews2024
Dev: Indra Studio
Windows
Immerse yourself in the enigmatic world of Nauris, where enchanting landscapes hide terrifying secrets: the strange behavior of elders, sinister rituals of priests, and the disappearance of citizens. Madness lurks everywhere – will you master it or become its victim? The choice is yours.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Point & Click 9%
- #36 Homunculus Hotel
75% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2022
Dev: Team SolEtude
Windows
Explore the dreams of the Homunculus Hotel's guests in order to understand yourself.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Dialogue Heavy 14%, Point & Click 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%
- #37 Sacred Fire: A Role Playing Game
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 501 reviews2021
Dev: PoeticPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
A text-based RPG full of choice and action. Fight for survival in the midst of the Roman invasion of ancient Caledonia. Strategize one dice roll at a time as emotions affect your performance. Use willpower to outsmart opponents, gain allies, wage war, or strive for peace. How will your story end?
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20.6%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Medieval 12.9%, Visual Novel 10.5%
- #38 Crash-Land Fantasy
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ArachnidAnt
Windows · Mac · Linux
A mysterious magic force knocks your research satellite out of orbit. You crash land and must try to survive on this planet ruled by nature. You meet character's and discover the mystery of the magic force as you try to get back home.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Dialogue Heavy 18.1%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Medieval 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%
- #39 HeartWare
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 32 reviews2024
Dev: Sabiá Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Yours decisions matters, leading to multiple unique endings that reflect your influence on Iris’s fate.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Point & Click 13.2%, Choices Matter 10.8%, RPG 10.5%
- #40 LifeSimOS
72% 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: Dialogue Heavy 21.9%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%
- #41 Astrologaster
74% matchVery Positive95% of 525 reviews2019
Dev: Nyamyam
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Astrologaster is a comedy game set in Shakespeare’s London. Play as 'Doctor' Simon Forman and treat his patients using astrology. A story-driven adventure based on a truly ridiculous story.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 28.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Medieval 10.5%, Comedy 9.4%
- #42 Am I Nima
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HO! Games
Windows · Mac
Am I Nima is a psychological-horror game where you must convince your mom that you really are her daughter. Combine words together in your brain and use them to talk. Get her to trust you.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Hand-drawn 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
- #43 - Mischief Dungeon Life - 異世界転生した俺のイタズラダンジョンライフ Janice Edition
73% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2022
Dev: CyberStep, Inc.Pub: CyberStep, Inc.
Windows
After an accident, Renji was reborn in another world as a "shapeshifter," a demon that can transform at will. He was reborn in a dungeon inhabited by demons… Using new demon powers, a thrilling and exciting life in the mischief dungeon begins…!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.1%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Romance 13.2%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Hand-drawn 9.3%
- #44 Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,926 reviews2023
Dev: hcnone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
"Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines" - In this short story from the Endless Monday, Penny, a mild-mannered corporate grunt, spends a weekend at the office in an effort to finish her project on time while overcoming distractions from coworkers, space aliens, imaginary friends, and herself.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Hand-drawn 15.4%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%
- #45 Sky Caravan
71% matchVery Positive98% of 56 reviews2022
Dev: Studio Bravarda
Windows
Welcome to the Skyways, caravaneer. Complete missions, manage your ship’s resources and make tough decisions to keep your crew alive and happy. Or not. Choices have lasting consequences in this Text-Based RPG. You are the captain - and the clouds are waiting!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Management 16.3%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, RPG 7.2%
- #46 Taina's Cursed Legacy
70% matchPositive82% of 34 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 24.2%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Hand-drawn 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Medieval 10.5%
- #47 All (Too) Good Things
70% 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 26%, Dialogue Heavy 18%, Visual Novel 17%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choices Matter 9.3%
- #48 Legends of Savvarah: Time of Pariah
69% matchVery Positive97% of 142 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Medieval 11.3%
- #49 Over The Phone
71% matchVery Positive83% of 95 reviews2021
Dev: Ramify Games
Windows · Mac
A short talking sim with choices. Get to know Harper over a handful of voice-acted calls and text chats.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Choices Matter 12.4%
- #50 Drinks With Abbey
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 400 reviews2019
Dev: Ramify Games
Windows · Mac
Drinks with Abbey is a short, slice-of-life visual novel about a first date.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 38.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 10%
- #51 Death Trick: Double Blind
68% matchVery Positive87% of 275 reviews2024
Dev: Citreat StudioPub: Neon Doctrine
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The star magician of Morgan’s Traveling Circus is missing, but the show must go on! In this non-linear detective visual novel, unravel the mystery from two different perspectives as you learn the varying stories of an entire circus of performers, each with their own lives... and their own secrets.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Hand-drawn 10.4%, Choices Matter 10.3%
- #52 Soul Sorter: A Morality Personality Test
67% matchPositive100% of 25 reviews2025
Dev: Alomy
Windows
A point and click personality test game where you take the role of a Sorter, a soul tasked with determining the fate of the recently deceased. Learn their stories and sentence them to an afterlife of either punishment or forgiveness as you confront your own morality.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 29.3%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Point & Click 14.2%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Simulation 10.5%
- #53 Count of Hatchet
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Grumpo Games
Windows
In a crumbling empire, you are the Regent of Hatchet, facing dwindling resources and advancing enemies. Forge alliances or stand alone, navigate political intrigue, and make choices that shape your realm. Will you defend your legacy or succumb? Your decisions dictate Hatchet's fate.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Medieval 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.3%, RPG 9%
- #54 Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ジギタリス出版Pub: 15 Industry
Windows
Once you open this book, you are no longer just a reader. A "reading-style" fantasy adventure in the spirit of The NeverEnding Story — handcrafted over six years by a 30-year veteran from Vanillaware. 100% handmade, from the first page to the last.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Hand-drawn 16.1%, Medieval 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choices Matter 10.8%
- #55 Guilt Free
69% matchVery Positive86% of 293 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: Dialogue Heavy 28.2%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%
- #56 PLEASE KNOCK -before entering my room-
67% matchPositive96% of 26 reviews2024
Dev: polte
Windows
『はじめまして、ぼくはクーヤ! 同じ研究室の”ニトロ先輩”の研究をサポートしながら日々を過ごす、ごく普通の大学生だ!』 ◉先輩と後輩の、ドタバタコメディノベル! うまくセンパイを導いて、研究を捗らせよう!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Hand-drawn 21.1%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%, Comedy 12%
- #57 Fetch Quest Remastered
66% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: HollowmendPub: Soft Source
Windows · Mac · Linux
Did you bring your character sheet this time? We can’t start the game if you don’t know who your character is…anyway…we have an item to retrieve, do you accept this quest?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Medieval 12.3%, Hand-drawn 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%
- #58 There's Something Wrong with the Hero's Choices
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 港ねずみPub: PLAYISM
Windows
「その選択肢、正気か?」シンプルなノベルゲームのはずなのに、とにかく“選択肢”がおかしい!? 予想を超える展開が待ち受ける、奇想天外なテキストアドベンチャーゲーム!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Dialogue Heavy 21.2%, Visual Novel 17.4%, Choices Matter 12%, Hand-drawn 10.3%
- #59 Superstorm Melon Date
68% matchVery Positive91% of 74 reviews2021
Dev: A. Hagen
Windows · Mac
It's date night in the dystopian future. You're going out with Mel, a half-melon person with psychic powers. They seem a little weird, but at least they're cute. Choose where to go, what to do, and what to say in this highly interactive, romance visual novel.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20.7%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Hand-drawn 11.8%
- #60 AGERASIA
65% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Olivia WestmorlandPub: Rantan Games
Windows
Eight time periods from across human history collide in a competitive bid to stop the end of the world. Go from fighting monsters to solving a murder, dating sim to escape game. Experience seven vastly different routes in a bid to solve the mystery as to why you've all been brought together.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Point & Click 13.5%, Hand-drawn 11.7%