- #1 Six Legends
96% matchVery Positive100% of 93 reviews2025
Dev: Vincent Paquin
Windows
The epic and emotional journey of six dragons growing up in a broken civilization, each with their own unique perspectives on life. Mixing Visual Novel, Point-And-Click, Rhythm, Cooking, Fighting and more, Six Legends is a unique experience about life and friends.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.5%, LGBTQ+ 11.3%, Point & Click 11.1%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%
- #2 Border of her Heart
97% matchMixed67% of 73 reviews2018
Dev: Tuomo LainePub: Tuomo's games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Border of her Heart is a VN about Border control.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Dark Humor 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Text-Based 11.8%, Visual Novel 9.5%
- #3 Where are you, Cinderella?
96% 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: Text-Based 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, LGBTQ+ 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.7%
- #4 Beek: Familiar Spirit - Remastered
95% matchPositive84% of 31 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Klondike AustraliaPub: Studio Klondike
Windows · Mac
A call for help within a mysterious messaging app. Someone lost and wandering through a forest in a faraway place. And their destiny in your hands.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, LGBTQ+ 14.8%, Visual Novel 9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
- #5 Comet Angel
94% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: Cross Couloir
Windows · Mac · Linux
Comet Angel is a sci-fi yuri narrative adventure with point and click puzzles. Join teenagers Izzy and Nat on an emotional journey of self-discovery and acceptance as they make humanity's first-ever alien contact.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 14.9%, Point & Click 13%, Text-Based 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Visual Novel 10.2%
- #6 Open Spaces SE
94% 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 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, LGBTQ+ 11.8%, Visual Novel 9.8%
- #7 Distant Oceanic Getaway
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Red bean Taiyaki
Windows · Mac
Distant Oceanic Getaway— A visual novel for sapphics! Will you be able to find true love while sailing the seven seas?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 14.3%, Dark Humor 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Text-Based 9.8%
- #8 You're a dad
92% 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: Text-Based 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Point & Click 11%, Visual Novel 10%
- #9 Homunculus Hotel
91% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2022
Dev: Team SolEtude
Windows
Explore the dreams of the Homunculus Hotel's guests in order to understand yourself.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, LGBTQ+ 12.7%, Point & Click 12.5%, Visual Novel 11.5%
- #10 Telvoikai
91% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Corvaena Games LLC
Windows · Mac
You've been tasked with collecting data on an alien planet. Choose between exploring the jungle tropics or navigating deep into the bioluminescent sea.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, LGBTQ+ 14%, Text-Based 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.9%
- #11 VT Harmony
90% matchMixed61% of 17 reviews2023
Dev: Yun Seven
Windows
Play as VT, a lonely TV-boy who seeks solitude until the sudden message from a strange bunny named IV. Discover the different endings of this cozy visual novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Text-Based 14.2%, Point & Click 14%, Visual Novel 13%, Choices Matter 8.1%
- #12 The Dust of the Violet Crystals
89% 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 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Visual Novel 12.8%, LGBTQ+ 12.3%, RPG 10.5%
- #13 All (Too) Good Things
89% 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: Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Text-Based 17.5%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Conversation 10.9%
- #14 Grave Knight
88% 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 18%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, RPG 12.8%, Text-Based 11.8%
- #15 Yuika My Bestie
87% 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: LGBTQ+ 13.7%, Conversation 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.5%
- #16 Waifu Pilled
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ReddX
Windows
A satirical match-3 dating sim set in a neon-drenched corporate dystopia. Crush tiles, charm synthetic waifus, and glitch your way to power in this vaporwave nightmare of love and late-stage capitalism. If you found this game, it wasn't an accident... I have something I want you to hear.
Why similar: Dark Humor 13%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Conversation 10.1%, Point & Click 9.9%
- #17 Drunk But Not Wasted Knight
86% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: BRB Drama
Windows · Mac
A tipsy tale of questionable choices, suspiciously charming strangers, and conversations that unravel faster than your sobriety. What begins as a harmless chat in the alley might end with truffle mushrooms, a missing crown, or waking up in someone else’s dungeon. You’ve been warned.
Why similar: Dark Humor 18%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Conversation 11.1%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%
- #18 SideEye High
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fundamental Studios
Windows
A grounded detective mystery set in the most dangerous place in America: a 1997 public high school.
Why similar: Dark Humor 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Point & Click 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Narration 10%
- #19 Presidential Shaman
84% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: BRB Drama
Windows · Mac
The president trusts you. Exercise your Shamanic capabilities (or lack thereof). But don't get caught!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Conversation 13.9%, Text-Based 12.2%, Choices Matter 8.7%
- #20 Hakuba School ! Hunting Prey
84% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Kenbu
Windows
Welcome to Hakuba school! Live a student life in Hakuba and solve the mysteries surrounding the school and your past...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Narration 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Point & Click 12.3%
- #21 The Dark Prophecy
83% matchMostly Positive77% of 43 reviews2022
Dev: Start Warp
Windows · Mac
The Dark Prophecy is a 2D pixel-art Point&Click adventure inspired by the best retro games of the 90s. Welcome to a peaceful medieval village, where life is safe and calm. But one fateful night, everything changes.
Why similar: Dark Humor 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Text-Based 12.3%, Point & Click 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%
- #22 Professor of Magical Studies
82% matchPositive91% of 22 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 20.8%, Text-Based 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, RPG 8.5%
- #23 Guilt Free
82% 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%, Narration 12%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
- #24 Summer Daze: Tilly's Tale
81% matchMixed60% of 20 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: Conversation 15.9%, Text-Based 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%
- #25 A Heavy Morning
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Saf Interactive
Windows
You know the feeling of struggling to get out of bed? In A Heavy Morning, you will play as a young girl battling with her own mind. Your only objective? Get out of bed and get to work on time.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, LGBTQ+ 13.2%, Point & Click 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.1%
- #26 BowlTown碗镇
80% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: StoneWall
Windows
欢迎来到碗镇。这是一则虚构的现实故事,讲述了少数群体的困境和自救。碗镇的居民几乎都是是兽人,如果你仔细观察会发现,他们在历史和现实中都有自己的名字,他们的故事也似曾相识。你是偶然逃到碗镇的兽人厨师,在碗镇流动设宴款待居民,在食物与交谈之中,完成自我和居民的治愈。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, LGBTQ+ 16%, Dark Humor 12.2%, RPG 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%
- #27 Jill O' Lantern: Final Cut
79% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2024
Dev: Screen Savor Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Find the clues to make a time bending turnabout in this off the rails visual novel about murder, mayhem, and a thicc pumpkin girl with a machete.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Point & Click 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Dark Humor 12.4%, Visual Novel 12.4%
- #28 Whispering Memories
79% match3 user reviews100% of 3 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: Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Text-Based 12.8%, Conversation 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.9%
- #29 Monster Luv Radio
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RETCON Games
Windows · Mac
Welcome to MONSTER LUV RADIO, where you play a radio DJ giving dating advice to a host of supernatural creatures! Keep your ratings up by giving sound advice and following the rhythm of your DJ mix board, and make sure your boss doesn't shut down your show!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Text-Based 12.5%, LGBTQ+ 11.4%, Visual Novel 9.8%
- #30 Lone Bird in the Tree
77% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Aosolagame
Windows · Mac
“Lone Bird in the Tree” is an ADV with male and female versions of each of the four characters. The story alternates between the “future” of the main character, who is deeply traumatized by the grief of his/her best friend, and the “story leading up to the loss of his/her best friend”.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Text-Based 12.7%, Visual Novel 10.8%
- #31 Holy Shift
76% matchPositive81% of 42 reviews2024
Dev: Kitten Purradise Studios
Windows
This game is a psychological test in which you will face dilemmas that reveal your personality. At the end of it, you will know your psychotype.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Dark Humor 13.5%, Text-Based 11.6%, Conversation 11.2%, Visual Novel 11.1%
- #32 Defragmenting
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: pngTriads
Windows
The outside is being ravaged by a mysterious downpour of a glass, you are forced to take shelter in a seemingly innocuous rundown hotel. Yet, stuck with you are people who you wish you would never see again. What will you do to survive?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Point & Click 13.4%, Text-Based 13%, Visual Novel 12.9%
- #33 Frog's Princess
78% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2020
Dev: Joy Everafter Stories
Windows
*Voices *Music *Visual effects *Sound effects *Animation *Character customization *Narration for blind players *Sound text for deaf players *10 choices when heroes speak
Why similar: Education 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Point & Click 12.1%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Conversation 10.1%
- #34 CamGirls: Sophie X Rias
77% matchPositive88% of 24 reviews2021
Dev: Dharker Studios
Windows
Follow Sophie as she embarks on her latest adventure in making money, working alongside the enigmatic Rias as they put on a special yuri/lesbian camgirl show for their viewers.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Conversation 9.9%
- #35 Lost Connections
75% matchVery Positive96% of 76 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: LGBTQ+ 15.8%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
- #36 群魔死欲之山
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moongo Studio
Windows · Mac
Trapped in a snowbound medical camp, battlefield nurse May clings to a mysterious letter—a final hope. Uncover hidden truths, test fragile bonds, and navigate a path toward a distant sanatorium. Will you find salvation, or something far darker?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Text-Based 20.3%, Dark Humor 18.2%, LGBTQ+ 14.4%, RPG 11.5%
- #37 C.V. 私と私の中の人 The Fourth Insider
74% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: blooming spectrum
Windows · Mac
「私には『中の人』がいるらしい」 「声優×メタフィクション」新感覚ビジュアルノベル、開幕!ゲームの世界を認識している高校1年生・五月山さつきと、その親友・真野ユイ。そして二人の声を演じるのは声優・宮白桃子。キャラクターと「中の人」が交わるとき、物語はどこへ向かうのか。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Text-Based 15.8%, LGBTQ+ 15.7%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Narration 11.1%
- #38 The Test: Reality Check
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 632 reviews2025
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
The Test: Reality Check is one of multiple installments in an ongoing social experiment that can be classified as an atmospheric, psychological-simulation with horror elements. Dive deep into your own psyche to find answers to questions you've kept locked away, hidden from yourself for far too long.
Why similar: Education 15.5%, Dark Humor 14%, Text-Based 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.4%
- #39 Champion of the Gods
75% matchVery Positive86% of 174 reviews2015
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Will you serve the gods or overthrow them? Battle ancient evils and destiny itself in this epic interactive novel inspired by Greek myth.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, LGBTQ+ 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, RPG 10.7%
- #40 Foul Play - Yuri Visual Novel
73% matchPositive94% of 35 reviews2021
Dev: Bandit Visual Games
Windows
Foul Play tells the story of a young, bright-eyed detective who is determined to succeed. Her world quickly turns upside down after she is tasked with catching a sexy, mercurial assassin. In the end, she'll need to determine how pure her conscience really is. After all, justice is subjective.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.5%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Dark Humor 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
- #41 Corporation Inc.
73% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Victoria LagrangePub: KSU Gaming Studio
Windows
Newly hired for a revitalization program, work against a ticking clock and navigate a skeptical boss, a lousy friend, and discrimination while making hiring decisions. Interactive narrative with timed decisions Critical thinking Prosocial Empathy
Why similar: Education 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Text-Based 14.6%, Narration 7.2%
- #42 Do 11
73% 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: Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Text-Based 14%, Conversation 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.5%
- #43 Scribe
71% 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 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Point & Click 10.2%
- #44 Hedgehog's Dilemma
72% 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: Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Text-Based 15.3%, LGBTQ+ 13.1%, Visual Novel 12%, Narration 7.4%
- #45 Into the Waves
71% matchVery Positive92% of 88 reviews2021
Dev: Flying Whale
Windows · Mac · Linux
Morin is a barkeeper with an unusual curse. All people look like shadows to him, except for one mysterious stranger... Solve the mystery of the curse, fight true darkness and mix the most unusual cocktails in the atmospheric visual novel — Into the Waves!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Point & Click 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Text-Based 11.8%
- #46 Mikiwam: Solarpunk Herbalism
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Ekosi
Windows · Mac
A cozy tea-making game set in a post-colonial fantasy world. As a herbalist’s apprentice, serve magic elemental teas to influence a colourful cast of characters. Connect with your estranged home, discover your gifts, and find your place in a fractured, healing world.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Point & Click 11.4%, Conversation 11.4%, Visual Novel 11%
- #47 Not It: Spookiest Edition
71% matchPositive80% of 30 reviews2021
Dev: Snowhaven Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Not It: Spookiest Edition is a horror-filled visual novel full of suspense and mystery where you navigate Katie through a living nightmare. Her move-in day on Halloween throws her into a centuries-old curse. Can she make it through the night? Will her new neighbors perish? Decide their fate.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Narration 10.8%
- #48 あなたに花束を
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: abyss good games
Windows
“Flowers for You” is a gentle adventure game where you create custom bouquets based on each customer’s story as a florist. Set in modern Japan, listen to faded memories and craft floral arrangements that bring color back into their lives.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16%, LGBTQ+ 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Conversation 13%, Visual Novel 10.8%
- #49 Soulbond
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Floating Realms
Windows · Mac · Linux
Customize your fate in a fallen world: forge bonds and uncover secrets in a tale of power, love, and the weight of grief. Your choices define your path: how will you rise in the hierarchy of the damned?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Text-Based 13.8%, LGBTQ+ 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Point & Click 12.3%
- #50 Zugzwang
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Malice Studios LLC
Windows
Chess. Love. Destiny. All the same things, really.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Visual Novel 11.5%, RPG 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%, Conversation 8.8%
- #51 HeartWare
68% matchMostly Positive75% 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 19.5%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Point & Click 15.9%, Text-Based 15%, RPG 12.2%
- #52 I Did It ALL for the COOKIE!
68% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2024
Dev: Paul RodenburgPub: Rodenburg Films Ltd
Windows · Mac
You are hanging out at a festive Christmas party when your eyes discover the most perfect Christmas confectionery ever! You must have it!... but someone already has it! What will you be willing to do, to get your Christmas wish?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Dark Humor 10.9%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
- #53 Change the World
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 13 reviews2020
Dev: Tea Leaf Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Human belief has the power to change reality. For millennia, alien races have been visiting Earth, gaining supernatural abilities and fantastic wealth by exploiting this remarkable power. But humans are advancing, and many aliens now find themselves leaving Earth with nothing but debts and regrets.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Story Rich 9.3%
- #54 Will Die Alone
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 67 reviews2022
Dev: Arianna Ravioli
Windows · Mac
Some memories aren't meant to stay. We are our memories and our experiences. What happens if you delete some of them? If you change your past and, thus, your future?
Why similar: Text-Based 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Point & Click 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.7%
- #55 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
67% 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 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Text-Based 18.6%, Visual Novel 13.8%, RPG 8.5%
- #56 A Week Before Autumn
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Paper
Windows
Pine Hill is a quiet Midwestern college town. Quiet enough that nobody seemed to hear Ginny Nicholson die. Alone with the thoughts in your head, now you just want to know one thing: why?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Text-Based 16.9%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Conversation 11.4%
- #57 J-Town: A Visual Novel
67% matchPositive94% of 30 reviews2023
Dev: Star Town
Windows · Mac
A friendly crash course in Japanese American history, culture, and community! Inspired by the real stories of the three historic Japantowns of California: San Francisco, San Jose, and Los Angeles's Little Tokyo.
Why similar: Education 20.6%, Conversation 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Narration 9.7%, Text-Based 8.1%
- #58 THE DAY THAT WASN'T
67% 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 18.3%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Text-Based 12.5%, Conversation 8.9%
- #59 Whispers From The Rift
66% 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 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Text-Based 19.4%, Visual Novel 15%, RPG 8.8%
- #60 Dear Mom: My Letter to You
67% matchPositive82% of 11 reviews2024
Dev: Mangoku418
Windows · Mac
One year following a traumatic event, high schooler Ayame turns over a new leaf. Experience her journey to make amends with friends and family after her long absence in this heartwarming, narrative-driven role-playing game wrapped in a dating sim.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, LGBTQ+ 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Text-Based 10.9%, Narration 9.4%