- #1 Our Personal Space
97% matchPositive83% of 30 reviews2021
Dev: Metasepia Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A visual novel where your choices determine the future of your relationship and the success of your colony. Choose how to treat your husband and how to spend your free time in this frontier sci-fi story.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 14.8%, Life Sim 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Text-Based 8.1%, Emotional 8%
- #2 Yuika My Bestie
96% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Feeling Potion
Windows · Mac
Experience a pastel-toned emotional journey in Yuika My Bestie, a short visual novel you can complete in under 15 minutes per playthrough. With 5 unique endings and heartfelt choices, it takes just 30–40 minutes to explore every path of this soft, late-night cry.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Emotional 10.9%, Life Sim 9.6%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%
- #3 All (Too) Good Things
96% 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 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Dialogue Heavy 14.4%, Text-Based 14.1%, Visual Novel 10.9%
- #4 LifeSimOS
95% 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 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Text-Based 11.4%, Choices Matter 9.3%
- #5 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
94% 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: Diplomacy 27.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Dialogue Heavy 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Text-Based 9.4%
- #6 Dimensions of Mind
94% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2022
Dev: Don Dao VGS
Windows
Enter to the characters mind and make decisions. The game is played like interactive movie/adventure game with morality choices which influence the outcome which can be: a manipulative, balanced or violent. The game is based on psychology/philosophy and teaches about thoughts and their consequences.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 16.4%, Life Sim 15.1%, Education 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Choices Matter 8.7%
- #7 Guilt Free
93% 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 23.3%, Text-Based 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Emotional 10.1%
- #8 HRO: Adventures of a Humanoid Resources Officer
92% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2023
Dev: Worthing & Moncrieff
Windows · Mac
HRO: Adventures of a Humanoid Resources Officer is a puzzle-driven adventure game set in a retro sci-fi universe. When the Endeavor stumbles into universe-shaking trouble, can you harness the power of the bureaucracy to rein in your crew’s worst impulses and survive to the next episode?
Why similar: Diplomacy 19.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Text-Based 10.6%
- #9 Your Story: Games with Death
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BoldBox
Windows
A medieval text quest in the "Choose Your Own Adventure" genre, where each choice could be your last. Create your story with more than 2,000 events, 200 of which will prove fatal. In a world where death plays against you, can you outsmart it and write your own story?
Why similar: Life Sim 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Text-Based 11.2%, Choices Matter 10%
- #10 Whispering Memories
90% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: Stellar Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
Return to a hometown that hasn’t changed the way it should have. A psychological visual novel focused on atmosphere, relationships, and a reality that slowly refuses to stay still. Can you uncover the truth before it consumes you?
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Text-Based 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.3%
- #11 Crown Delights Deli
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 83 reviews2022
Dev: baconeggandcheese
Windows · Mac
Crown Delights Deli is a visual novel with multiple dialect/language choices. As the cashier at a Brooklyn bodega, choose to talk in English, AAVE, or Spanish to a diverse cast of characters as you try to maintain a five-star rating for your boss.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20.9%, Life Sim 18.9%, Text-Based 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Choices Matter 9.6%
- #12 Animaloid Girl
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PANDRI-DON
Windows
The story of a girl who is changing from a human to a "KEMONO" and watching her coming of age. This is a multi-ending "adventure game about training an Animalized girl" set in a KEMOMIMI x Hong Kong x cyberpunk world.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23.7%, Life Sim 10.7%, Emotional 9.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%
- #13 EOS-503
89% match9 user reviews90% of 10 reviews2023
Dev: Pyrebug Studios
Windows
Welcome aboard EOS-503! As a professional DATA Agent, it's up to YOU to help the community resolve interpersonal disputes, navigate delicate political situations, and persuade fellow space travelers of new and different solutions to their problems. The future of humanity depends on it!
Why similar: Diplomacy 25.4% ★, Dialogue Heavy 12.7%, Education 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Text-Based 10.3%
- #14 Tequila Moonrise
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Black Swan Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Take over a struggling bar on the politically tense Moon Village. Prepare and serve drinks, befriend and help your customers, find your purpose, and maybe even love... all while keeping the bar's lights on in this narrative driven bartending simulator set on the moon.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Visual Novel 9.2%
- #15 Alcyone: The Last City
87% matchMostly Positive79% of 19 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 14.8%, Dialogue Heavy 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Text-Based 11.8%, Visual Novel 9.8%
- #16 Open Spaces SE
86% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Queenship Game StudioPub: Queenship Game Studio, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Skylar is an student with anxiety. Walter is a farmer with social anxiety and PTSD. Jessica is a programmer with anxiety and agoraphobia. Li Wei is an technologist with intense anxiety. Navigate their stories, learn how they move through the world, and about methods of treatment and recovery.
Why similar: Education 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Emotional 10%, Visual Novel 9.5%
- #17 Do 11
86% matchPositive81% of 26 reviews2021
Dev: SJR Team
Windows · Mac
Find a way out of the Do 11 app by doing missions that come from the mysterious Do 11 app. A choice awaits you to solve puzzles and change the fate of the protagonist. Escape the main character from the Do 11 app while savoring a profound worldview and intriguing story. An incredible twist awaits.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Text-Based 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.2%
- #18 NeuroNet: Mendax Proxy
85% matchVery Positive82% of 66 reviews2023
Dev: Dream Harvest
Windows
You are Arc, a city management AI. Designed to manage a city-wide AR metaverse known as the NeuroNet. Meet its many users, build relationships and help or hinder their lives while trying to balance the wider needs of the city. Find your humanity in a world losing theirs to technology.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 19.3%, Life Sim 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Text-Based 10.6%, Visual Novel 9.3%
- #19 THE DAY THAT WASN'T
84% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%, Text-Based 10.8%
- #20 Talking Coin
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ArchDawnPub: ArchDawn LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are a medieval merchant! Barter with the AI-driven NPCs powered by ChatGPT, featuring real-time speech and procedural animations! Your choices matter! Earn gold and influence—prevent or start wars, become king, and decide your town's fate. Dynamic gameplay ensures a unique experience every time.
Why similar: Diplomacy 22.9% ★, Dialogue Heavy 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Life Sim 10%
- #21 Professor of Magical Studies
83% matchPositive87% of 23 reviews2022
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Professor of Magical Studies is an interactive magical school novel by Stephen Granade, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
Why similar: Education 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Text-Based 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Choices Matter 9.3%
- #22 The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
82% 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 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Multiple Endings 11.4%
- #23 Pasajeros
82% matchPositive86% of 21 reviews2022
Dev: GameLoop
Windows
Pasajeros is developed through a collection of urban and surreal stories collected in a taxi in Bogotá . It’s a four-night adventure packed with micro-stories of vampires, mariachis, and thugs. In addition to the opportunity to find love or madness in the night magic of a city.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Visual Novel 11%, Emotional 9.5%
- #24 BatteryNote
79% matchVery Positive100% of 203 reviews2025
Dev: 72studioPub: room6
Windows · Mac
BatteryNote is a multi-ending sci-fi adventure visual novel game. You can recharge three robots with limited lifespans, bringing them back to life. Interact with them through conversations or experiment by applying high voltage. How they spend their final moments is entirely up to you.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Emotional 14.9%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Sci-fi 7.6%
- #25 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
80% 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 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Text-Based 16.3%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Choices Matter 8.4%
- #26 Venus: Improbable Dream
81% matchPositive100% of 20 reviews2021
Dev: Borealis
Windows · Mac
Born with a birth defect that he hates, Kakeru struggles with severe anxiety and depression. Guide his timid decisions as he takes a brave step into a new world - joining his school's music club, making unexpected and inspiring new connections, and daring to dream again.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%, Emotional 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Visual Novel 10.9%
- #27 Heart of mobius
81% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: gunsturn Inc.
Windows · Mac
Dive into a captivating standalone story in just an hour! Presenting the first installment of the "Handy Novel" series. Highly praised on smartphones, this acclaimed narrative is now ready for your enjoyment on Steam for PC/Mac!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Text-Based 18.9%, Visual Novel 16%, Emotional 15.5%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
- #28 The Afterlife Cafe
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Guava Pixel Studios
Windows · Linux
Travel to the world of the dead, whose stories encourage reflection on life. Chat with spirits, brew drinks to suit your mood, and bond with the people who run the afterlife cafes. In this urban sci-fi fantasy visual novel, your choices impact the living, the departed, and your own path forward.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
- #29 Quality Dreams, Reasonably Priced
77% matchPositive100% of 33 reviews2025
Dev: zorkie studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Work as a body modification consultant in a dystopian future. Talk to clients, make recommendations, and decide how much to upsell them. Balance helping others with earning enough to save your sick rabbit. Make decisions and change lives.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Life Sim 10%, Emotional 8.8%
- #30 Lost Connections
78% matchVery Positive96% of 77 reviews2023
Dev: Amber Pearl
Windows
If she leaves now you will never see her again. Would you have enough courage to take a step, or would you stay quiet and regret it? Experience this story about love and loss.
Why similar: Emotional 15.3%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.5%
- #31 Tempest In A Teapot
78% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: StrandGames
Windows
A choice-based, visual novel with time travelling teapots!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Dialogue Heavy 17.3%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choices Matter 7.9%
- #32 Home Sweet Homecoming
75% matchPositive100% of 41 reviews2025
Dev: HooksoftPub: Shiravune
Windows
After years abroad, Ryoutarou returns to his Japanese hometown to reconnect with old friends—and maybe find new love?! It's up to you to make this homecoming as sweet as can be in this rom-com visual novel from studio Hooksoft.
Why similar: Life Sim 19.5%, Dialogue Heavy 15.9%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
- #33 Summer Daze: Tilly's Tale
77% matchMixed62% of 21 reviews2023
Dev: Transolar Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A fantasy adventure visual novel with humor and heart, by acclaimed adventure game writer Lori Ann Cole. Starring the voice of Zehra Fazal as Tilly, a mischief-making rogue at Hero-U, the school for heroes.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 24.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Text-Based 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Visual Novel 11.2%
- #34 StarStruck
76% 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 20.1%, Dialogue Heavy 16.6%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%
- #35 Master of Balance
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NiniNana Studio
Windows
Are sudden promotions and superpowers a blessing or a curse? After an accident, your fate has been changed. Faced with eccentric bosses, difficult colleagues and relatives, the only way to keep the balance of life is to make careful choices so as to reclaim the initiative of your destiny.
Why similar: Life Sim 22.5%, Dialogue Heavy 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Multiple Endings 9%, Choices Matter 8.6%
- #36 Mirrorandum
74% matchPositive100% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: AinkOink
Windows
Mirrorandum is not just a visual novel...it's a journey through a world of mirrors, where every reflection challenges your perception and every choice reveals the depths of your true self.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Emotional 16.8%, Text-Based 11.7%, Choices Matter 10%
- #37 Stamped: an anti-travel game
75% 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: Education 15.6%, Dialogue Heavy 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Text-Based 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%
- #38 The Last Connection
73% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: Team Wiretap
Windows
You are a Switchboard Operator, and you're about to be replaced by a machine. Use your last week of work to connect townsfolk, overcome problems, and explore the history of a cast of engaging characters. Your choices matter, so use each day to leave lasting bonds.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Dialogue Heavy 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
- #39 Thoughtless
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Aky Heart
Windows · Mac · Linux
A dark sci-fi psychological Visual Novel where your choices shape who you are. The world has ended and it's been dominated by mysterious aliens who roam the city. Despite that, you only think of what you've lost. Will you be able to rebuild your relationships? Or even... the world itself?
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20.2%, Text-Based 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Choices Matter 7%
- #40 Spirit Talk - Cozy Visual Novel
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Tortita Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Cozy visual novel about a lovely witch who’s able to talk to spirits in a fantasy setting. Using her powers, Julia helps her neighbors in their daily whereabouts. Craft potions, find the right time to use them and get to know both spirits and clients to find their peace.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23.7%, Emotional 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Choices Matter 7.3%
- #41 This Warm Place
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Wundev
Windows
Be the person you needed. Brew tea, listen well, and guide branching stories in a narrative slice-of-life about showing up when it matters. No perfect answers. Only your choices and what they set in motion.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20.7%, Emotional 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.2%
- #42 目を閉じてプレイするゲーム「星の記す真実」
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TeamKomori
Windows
When you start the game, the narrator will instruct you to “close your eyes.” At that moment, whether you actually close them or keep them open will change the course of the story. Listen carefully to the voice as you proceed, and find your way to the truth.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Dialogue Heavy 14.6%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Text-Based 12.2%
- #43 Hare Apparent
72% matchPositive98% of 42 reviews2022
Dev: Devin P. Quinn
Windows
An ancient custom is invoked, and five kingdoms send their young heirs to play a legendary game. Build relationships, form alliances, and win the crown in this high-stakes game of woodland politics and social maneuvering.
Why similar: Diplomacy 28.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Text-Based 13.6%, Dialogue Heavy 8.3%
- #44 Fixer's Tale
71% matchPositive95% of 19 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: Text-Based 15.6%, Dialogue Heavy 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.6%
- #45 Outsider
70% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Galantrix
Windows
Shape humanity's future in a sci-fi narrative game where choices matter. Experience an extraterrestrial contact while deciphering an overarching mystery of far-reaching consequences. Who is the Outsider?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Life Sim 14.8%, Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Text-Based 11.8%
- #46 Rainbow Heights Academy: Year 1
72% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2022
Dev: White Room Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
You've been given the chance to go to the country's most prestigious academy. Your future couldn't have looked brighter! But you'll soon find out nothing is ever as it seems...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Life Sim 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Choices Matter 7.6%
- #47 Black Dog Bar
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BitLight
Windows · Mac · Linux
Black Dog Bar is a dialog-based bartender simulator. Each client has its own story. Communicate, mix cocktails, and... manipulate. It is only you who decides where the complicated story of each hero will turn and what will happen to them when they leave the bar.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Emotional 11.9%, Choices Matter 10.1%
- #48 Cryspace
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: JIMMY DIAMOND
Windows
Cryspace is a fresh visual novel with a nostalgic flavor. Talk to your friends online, meet with them in-person, and allow your friend group to grow in numbers, or fall into despair through your own decision-making and discretion. Experience the first few dates with Sam for FREE.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Visual Novel 14%, Emotional 11.6%, Choices Matter 11.5%
- #49 The Butterfly Effect
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 8 Ball Studios
Windows · Mac
Follow the journey of a young boy living in seclusion, whose life takes a dramatic turn after a fierce storm uncovers a peculiar mirror. What begins as a simple curiosity transforms into a heartfelt connection as the boy discovers the mirror's magical properties.
Why similar: Life Sim 23.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Choices Matter 5.9%
- #50 重启人生
68% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: MR薛
Windows
What would you do if you could restart life? Live from birth to old age in a life-sim visual novel with branching careers, romance routes, random fate events, and 30 endings.
Why similar: Life Sim 22.2%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Multiple Endings 10.5%, Emotional 9.4%
- #51 Chief Emoji Officer
69% matchPositive100% of 32 reviews2023
Dev: Bodeville
Windows · Mac · Linux
Chief Emoji Officer is a text adventure that recreates the absurdities of the tech world by letting you become CEO using only emojis. Climb your way through corporate America by getting promoted, making allies, avoiding layoffs, and turning Redify into the most successful company in the world.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Choices Matter 10.3%
- #52 Where are you, Cinderella?
68% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Text-Based 15%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.3%
- #53 Crash-Land Fantasy
67% 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: Dialogue Heavy 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Choices Matter 9.1%
- #54 Solar Echoes: The Star Legation
69% matchPositive93% of 14 reviews2022
Dev: Corefun Studios, LLC
Windows
Solar Echoes: The Star Legation is a choice-driven cinematic Sci-Fi Visual Novel game with RPG elements. Journey through space to gather and manage an alien crew, visit new worlds, negotiate with alien leaders, and even risk romance across the stars!
Why similar: Diplomacy 30.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Choices Matter 9%
- #55 Secret Some
66% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: AFTERTIME.INCPub: NBOXGAMES.INC
Windows
"Secret Some" is an authentic game It is a 'Youth Love Comedy Story' that depicts the process of creating a story of four characters and two people. Starting with graduation, there's another story about dating a character You can feel the feeling of a growing connection.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Text-Based 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Choices Matter 10%
- #56 Song of Life
69% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2021
Dev: Experience Game Studio
Windows
A small visual novel about the adventures of a guy named Leon, who wants to change his past. During his school years, a lot of interesting things happened, there were a lot of girls, and where is all this now… That's what Leon thought until he found an amulet that could send him back several years.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Choices Matter 9.9%
- #57 A Case of Missing Identity
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AwesomeTrinket
Windows
A point-and-click horror/tragedy visual novel about melding your perception of the world around you. Walk around, drive people to their death, and shape Perdita's existence. Remember: The flesh-sin is nothing. Before she can become everything, you must make her into something.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Emotional 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Dialogue Heavy 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.7%
- #58 ナカノ人格移植研究所
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 麺屋すぱいす 東京支店
Windows · Mac
「ナカノ人格移植研究所」は、周回型ミステリー2Dアドベンチャーゲームです。 それぞれの周回でプレイヤーが憑依する対象の登場人物を選択することで、その登場人物を主人公としてストーリーを進めながら謎を解き明かします。 プレイヤーは本ゲームの中で 4 つのパートを行き来しながらストーリーを進めます。 ノベルパートでは、クリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 探索パートでは、画面上のアイテムをクリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 移動パートでは、再度ビューでプレイヤーを操作し、船の中を探索します。 会議パートでは、他のパートで集めた手がかりを利用して他の登場人物と会話します。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Dialogue Heavy 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Text-Based 10.1%
- #59 Ninki Seiyuu: How to Make a Pop Voice Actress
67% matchVery Positive92% of 225 reviews2021
Dev: MintCUBEPub: Shiravune
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
A love comedy set in the voice acting industry, from the point of view of voice actresses, managers, and sound engineers... and it's, like, 78% accurate! Play it, and you might find out what this industry is all about!
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Text-Based 13.2%, Emotional 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.5%
- #60 Orbital Abyss: Cipher Division
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: JointPoint Studios LLC
Windows
Decipher interstellar transmissions encoded via substitution ciphers aboard Eremite Station. In this choice driven narrative, uncover secrets from planetary factions while conversing with crewmates to reveal their stories and troubles. The ripples of your choices may be felt throughout the galaxy.
Why similar: Text-Based 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Dialogue Heavy 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Choices Matter 11.5%