- #1 Life is Strange: True Colors
97% matchVery Positive89% of 16,903 reviews2021
Dev: Deck NinePub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 14.9%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Female Protagonist 11.5%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Like Stray Gods, it centers on a deeply emotional narrative featuring a relatable female protagonist with supernatural emotional perception navigating a small-town mystery.
- #2 Harmony: The Fall of Reverie
96% matchMostly Positive73% of 296 reviews2023
Dev: DON'T NOD
Windows
The fate of humanity is at stake. Use your gift of clairvoyance to see into the future and stop an apocalypse that threatens the balance between your world and the deities'.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, LGBTQ+ 11.8%, Female Protagonist 11.2%, Choices Matter 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: This visual novel features a divine pantheon and choice-driven divination mechanics that mirror the mythological elements and branching storytelling of Stray Gods.
- #3 The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
96% matchVery Positive93% of 6,412 reviews2023
Dev: DeconstructeamPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Immerse yourself in an enchanting narrative experience as Fortuna, a fortune-teller Witch condemned to exile on her asteroid home. Craft your own Tarot deck, regain your freedom, and shape the fate of the cosmic Witch society.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.1%, LGBTQ+ 21.6%, Female Protagonist 18.5%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Story Rich 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers rich, character-driven interactive fiction with magical themes, complex relationship building, and deeply consequential choices.
- #4 Across the Grooves
95% matchVery Positive93% of 140 reviews2020
Dev: Nova-box
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your choices affect the destiny of Alice, drastically changing her reality and allowing her to explore alternative destinies by modifying her past. Travel across European cities, meet colourful characters and solve the mystery.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Choices Matter 13.1%, LGBTQ+ 12.8%, Female Protagonist 12%
Why You'll Like It: A graphic novel that uses a magical, reality-altering soundtrack to let players reshape the protagonist's life and choices, making it a great thematic match for Stray Gods.
- #5 Goodbye Volcano High
94% matchVery Positive89% of 1,869 reviews2023
Dev: KO_OP
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Goodbye Volcano High is a cinematic narrative adventure about love, change, and the end of the world. Guide Fang through their final year of high school as they try to make things right before time is up.
Why similar: Music 21%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, LGBTQ+ 11.6%, Comic Book 11.1%, Cinematic 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: This cinematic narrative adventure captures the same heavy emotional stakes, musical elements, and complex interpersonal drama found in Stray Gods.
- #6 Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
94% matchVery Positive86% of 6,391 reviews2025
Dev: DON'T NOD
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Embark on a new narrative journey by the creators of Life is Strange. Film your summer of 1995 and create memories of a lifetime with your new friends. 27 years later, confront the dark secrets that made you all promise to never speak again after that fateful summer.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 14.5%, Romance 13.3%, Choices Matter 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Female Protagonist 11%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on a deeply immersive narrative with a female-led cast, nostalgic atmosphere, and choices that heavily impact the unfolding mystery.
- #7 We Are OFK
93% matchVery Positive92% of 304 reviews2022
Dev: OFK
Windows · Mac
Start a virtual indie band in this behind-the-music comedy. Date, dance, skate, and run for your life across 5 episodes and interactive music videos, in a heartfelt story of what you risk to chase your dreams. All episodes out now!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Romance 14.6%, Cinematic 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: An episodic narrative game about friends, music, and the creative struggles of starting a band, sharing a similar focus on musical art and dialogue.
- #8 Overboard!
92% matchVery Positive90% of 678 reviews2021
Dev: inkle Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 68%
GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Comic Book 15.7%, Hand-drawn 12%, Choices Matter 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: A clever, highly replayable interactive fiction game built entirely around investigative choices and manipulating those around you.
- #9 This Bed We Made
91% matchVery Positive91% of 3,395 reviews2023
Dev: Lowbirth Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
This Bed We Made is a third-person mystery game in which you play as a maid in a 1950s hotel and snoop around strangers' rooms to uncover their deadly secrets. Discover what links guests together in this tale of love, heartbreak and murder!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.4%, Cinematic 18%, Female Protagonist 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: A narrative mystery game driven by curiosity, secrets, and intimate character interactions that echoes the investigative pacing of Stray Gods.
- #10 Mask of the Rose
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 404 reviews2023
Dev: Failbetter Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A marvellous romance with a hint of murder, where every playthrough is different! Seek love, friendship, or more... intimate encounters. Help a murdered man find justice. And watch out for the bats.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 26.5%, Romance 26.2%, Choices Matter 17.8%, Hand-drawn 16.2%, Multiple Endings 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Set in a whimsical, myth-infused alternate London, it combines visual novel romance elements with a compelling murder mystery.
- #11 Heaven's Vault
90% matchVery Positive84% of 2,498 reviews2019
Dev: inkle Ltd
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 61%
An archaeologist uncovers a lost history in an ancient space Nebula. Award-winning narrative adventure game with hieroglyphic language puzzles, from the creators of 80 DAYS.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Female Protagonist 18.4%, Choices Matter 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Atmospheric 8%
Why You'll Like It: An adventure game featuring an expansive narrative world steeped in ancient mythologies, archaeological mystery, and dialogue-driven exploration.
- #12 Roadwarden
88% matchVery Positive94% of 5,205 reviews2022
Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Story Rich 10.6%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A text-based RPG with rich narrative depth and strong choices that define your character's relationships with a distinct cast of isolationist communities.
- #13 UNBEATABLE
86% matchVery Positive92% of 7,794 reviews2025
Dev: D-CELL GAMESPub: Playstack
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
UNBEATABLE is a rhythm adventure where music is illegal and you do crimes. Follow the story of Beat and her band on the run, in a narrative experience full of big emotions powered by arcade-flawless rhythm gameplay.
Why similar: Music 40.3%, Female Protagonist 15.2%, LGBTQ+ 14.1%, Hand-drawn 10.4%, Story Rich 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: An intense rhythm-action game that leans heavily into indie music culture, emotional storytelling, and stylish visual novel presentation.
- #14 Paradox Vector
89% matchVery Positive84% of 73 reviews2020
Dev: Schmidt Workshops
Windows
Explore impossible mazes while battling the Ancient Ones and their bio-mechanical servitors in this retro first-person, Lovecraft inspired shooter. Paradox Vector's graphics are inspired by the old-school vector graphics games of the early 1980's.
Why similar: Stylized 53%, Atmospheric 31.8%, Singleplayer 15.2%
Why You'll Like It: Overboard!
- #15 Seers Isle
89% matchVery Positive91% of 202 reviews2018
Dev: Nova-box
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Seers Isle is a narrative game, set in a fantasy version of medieval northern Europe, where your choices impact the fate of a group of characters.
Why similar: Mythology 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Comic Book 9.3%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Hand-drawn 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric graphic novel focusing on a group of characters stranded in a myth-like wilderness dealing with supernatural forces and personal bonds.
- #16 BAD END THEATER
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 10,071 reviews2021
Dev: NomnomNami
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
select your protagonist and explore a variety of terrible fates!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.6%, Multiple Endings 16.8%, Choices Matter 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Story Rich 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A meta-narrative visual novel where manipulating character fates and exploring multiple tragic endings drives the core experience.
- #17 Murder by Numbers
87% matchVery Positive84% of 1,692 reviews2020
Dev: MediatonicPub: The Irregular Corporation
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Solve Pixel Puzzles to find clues. Use those clues to interrogate witnesses. Work your way to the truth... ...and uncover the mystery of Murder by Numbers!
Why similar: Comic Book 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 23.8%, LGBTQ+ 20.7%, Female Protagonist 16.7%, Story Rich 10%
Why You'll Like It: Combines a cheerful visual novel investigation framework with a colorful cast and a jazz-infused soundtrack that mirrors the lively vibe of Stray Gods.
- #18 Life is Strange Remastered
85% matchVery Positive92% of 11,246 reviews2022
Dev: Deck NinePub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 22.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Experience the BAFTA award-winning story of Life is Strange now beautifully remastered with enhanced visuals and vastly improved animation using mocap technology.
Why similar: Choices Matter 17.4%, LGBTQ+ 17%, Female Protagonist 13.6%, Multiple Endings 13%, Romance 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the same heavy emphasis on dialogue choices, supernatural investigations, and intimate character relationships.
- #19 Fields of Asphodel
83% matchVery Positive86% of 80 reviews2024
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Befriend misfit deities and make a life for yourself in the Underworld! Can you escape your arranged marriage to the King? Do you want to?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Romance 13%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Immerse yourself directly into Greek mythology with romance and choice-driven storytelling that mirrors the divine setting of Stray Gods.
- #20 Sigh of the Abyss
82% matchVery Positive96% of 193 reviews2024
Dev: Rascal Devworks
Windows
Embrace the monster within in this dark fantasy visual novel with inclusive romances. Befriend charming allies, defy bitter rivals, fall in love. Your choices will save or condemn mortals, shaping the fate of a city as beautiful as it is cruel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.2%, LGBTQ+ 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Cinematic 9.5%, Female Protagonist 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A dark fantasy visual novel packed with intricate choices, romantic subplots, and mysterious lore.
- #21 Champion of the Gods
84% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, LGBTQ+ 15.8%, Romance 14.6%, Female Protagonist 12.2%
Why You'll Like It: A text-based choice-heavy RPG that places you directly in the middle of divine politics and mythological trials.
- #22 Expelled!
81% matchVery Positive94% of 254 reviews2025
Dev: inkle Ltd
Windows · Mac
A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the creators of Overboard!, 80 Days, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
Why similar: Comic Book 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Female Protagonist 11.7%, Hand-drawn 11.2%, Choices Matter 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A hand-drawn interactive fiction game featuring investigative elements and strong character-driven choices.
- #23 Astoria: Fate's Kiss
81% matchVery Positive98% of 62 reviews2024
Dev: UNICO INC.Pub: Voltage Inc.
Windows
It's a dangerous thing, gods and monsters living among mortals. Good thing your agency exists to keep them in line. With big dreams and an even bigger heart, you aspire to climb the agency's ladder... That is, until one day five mythical beings ask for your help!
Why similar: Mythology 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Romance 17.4%, Female Protagonist 12.2%, LGBTQ+ 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: A visual novel centered squarely on modern interactions with mythological gods and romance.
- #24 Dustborn
82% matchMixed66% of 784 reviews2024
Dev: Red Thread GamesPub: Spotlight by Quantic Dream
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Ragtag crew? Check. Musical gear? Check. Tour bus and robot driver? Check. Stolen package? Check! Embark on a perilous road-trip across a Divided States of America. Use the power of words to shape relationships with your crew, get out of trouble and reach your final destination.
Why similar: Comic Book 26.4%, LGBTQ+ 20.7%, Female Protagonist 15.3%, Choices Matter 15%, Story Rich 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features a road-trip narrative where the power of song and speech is weaponized to influence people, sharing a direct conceptual link with Stray Gods.
- #25 The Ballad Singer
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 93 reviews2019
Dev: Curtel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
The Ballad Singer is an asymmetric adventure, inspired by RPGs and game books, where you can experience many dynamic stories. Forge the fate of Hesperia through the stories of four different adventurers in a fantasy world completely illustrated and narrated.
Why similar: Music 25.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Hand-drawn 12.2%, Choices Matter 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A branching narrative adventure where choices dictate the survival of multiple protagonists in a dark fantasy setting with rich storybook art.
- #26 Sonata Theory
80% matchVery Positive93% of 75 reviews2021
Dev: Mayj Studios
Windows
2D/3D story-adventure game
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Female Protagonist 14.4%, Hand-drawn 14.2%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: An interactive fiction piece deeply intertwined with musical themes and artistic expression.
- #27 Gods of Savvarah | Part I
78% matchVery Positive98% of 169 reviews2023
Dev: ST Sinovar
Windows
Gods of Savvarah is a visual novel with the philosophy of a classic fantasy RPG. Defeat enemies, explore countries, make friends, and find your place in Savvarah.
Why similar: Mythology 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Multiple Endings 10%
Why You'll Like It: An interactive fiction visual novel exploring deity-heavy worlds and heavy decision-making.
- #28 Mythos, Book One
78% matchVery Positive85% of 72 reviews2025
Dev: Nine of Swords Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
An "adult" murder mystery urban fantasy comedy visual novel! Lisa Harrison (your ex-girlfriend) is dead, and you have a feeling there's more to it than meets the eye. As you search for answers surrounding Lisa's death, you discover a hidden magical world lurks within modern-day Baltimore.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, LGBTQ+ 11.8%, Romance 11%, Female Protagonist 9.8%
- #29 The Radiants
79% matchVery Positive85% of 87 reviews2023
Dev: Rose Arcana Games
Windows · Mac
The Radiants is a magical adventure visual novel with light stat raising & multiple endings. Choose what kind of Oracle you will become and maybe find romance along the way.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Romance 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Female Protagonist 13.1%, Choices Matter 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A visual novel focusing on romance and intimate character paths within an atmospheric story structure.
- #30 Paradise Killer
77% matchVery Positive93% of 4,539 reviews2020
Dev: Kaizen Game WorksPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Paradise Island, a world outside reality. There’s been a murder that only "investigation freak" Lady Love Dies can solve. Gather evidence and interrogate suspects in this open world adventure. You can accuse anyone, but you’ll have to prove your case in trial. It’s up to you to decide who’s guilty.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 21.1%, Choices Matter 20.1%, Multiple Endings 19.8%, Story Rich 14.3%, Stylized 13.3%
- #31 Reviver
75% matchVery Positive92% of 244 reviews2025
Dev: Cotton Game
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
A narrative puzzle game with themes of love, fate and time. Follow the life stories of the two main characters and influence their destinies through interactions and choices. The game combines hand-drawn style and an immersive interactive experience to explore a profound journey of love and choice.
Why similar: Mythology 22.2%, Comic Book 17.9%, Hand-drawn 12.9%, Female Protagonist 12.7%, Romance 11.3%
- #32 If Found...
77% matchVery Positive90% of 2,364 reviews2020
Dev: DREAMFEELPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
If Found... is a game about going home, coming out and erasing everything.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 35.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Female Protagonist 15%, Story Rich 10%, Stylized 8.9%
- #33 Solstice
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 191 reviews2016
Dev: MoaCube
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Solstice is a dystopian mystery visual novel about small personal disasters that turn into great catastrophes.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, LGBTQ+ 13.6%, Romance 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: A haunting visual novel driven by narrative choices and alternate endings akin to interactive psychological fiction.
- #34 Legends of Savvarah: Children of the Sun
75% matchVery Positive92% of 86 reviews2025
Dev: ST Sinovar
Windows · Mac · Linux
A fantasy interactive story (visual novel) where the mysteries of ancient gods, enigmas of bygone eras, magic, and the complex relationships between various beings are intricately woven together.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Mythology 14.2%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Hand-drawn 9.5%
- #35 Half Past Fate
76% matchVery Positive92% of 303 reviews2020
Dev: Serenity ForgePub: Way Down Deep
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Love is in the air, but work, life, and spicy Ramen keep getting in the way! From 8 hours to 8 years, this time-jumping saga will change the way you feel about fate forever.
Why similar: Romance 30.2%, Adventure 18.4%, Female Protagonist 17.6%, Comedy 13.1%, Story Rich 11.7%
- #36 Seraphim Slum
74% matchVery Positive96% of 179 reviews2024
Dev: rosesrotPub: angelrot games
Windows · Mac · Linux
An eerie liminal game that explores just how far an angel can fall. Play as sapphic Lucifer and corrupt angels into falling... in love with you.
Why similar: Mythology 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, LGBTQ+ 15.2%, Romance 11.5%, Choices Matter 11.1%
- #37 vivid/stasis
72% matchVery Positive94% of 3,998 reviews2025
Dev: Team VividstasisPub: Hajimeli
Windows
Rhythm-mystery hybrid game about uncovering the history of a mysterious system. The stage is set. Will you step up and play your role?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 33.8%, Female Protagonist 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Hand-drawn 13.1%, Story Rich 8.7%
- #38 Mutazione
74% matchVery Positive95% of 1,415 reviews2019
Dev: Die Gute FabrikPub: Akupara Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A mutant soap opera where small-town gossip meets the supernatural. Explore the Mutazione community as Kai as she cares for her ailing grandfather. Discover magical gardens, new friends & old secrets. They can survive an apocalyptic meteor strike, but can they survive their small-town drama?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.2%, Female Protagonist 23.1%, Story Rich 17.7%, Atmospheric 12.8%, Adventure 6.4%
- #39 Fateweaver: Smash or Pass
73% matchVery Positive94% of 81 reviews2023
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
You are The Fateweaver; an ancient beast of legendary status. It is your job to determine which way Fate will unravel as you dig deep into the psyche of those who beckon. Decide whether to help those who beg for your mercy, or invoke the wrath of the Gods upon those you deem unworthy of existence...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Choices Matter 17.4%, Multiple Endings 16.6%, LGBTQ+ 14.7%
- #40 Pendula Swing - The Complete Journey
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 65 reviews2020
Dev: Valiant Game Studio
Windows · Mac
Explore a memorable 1920s fantasy world where you interact with, befriend and romance hundreds of characters with unique quests, as an already rich and famous heroine.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, LGBTQ+ 19.7%, Romance 19.2%, Female Protagonist 15.9%, Story Rich 10.5%
- #41 People of Note
69% matchVery Positive91% of 470 reviews2026
Dev: Iridium StudiosPub: Annapurna Interactive
Windows
In this turn-based RPG musical, join Cadence as she recruits an ensemble of musicians on her quest for stardom. Experience turn-based combat like never before, where each battle is a musical performance with evolving combat conditions and genre-bending mashup attacks!
Why similar: Music 41.9%, LGBTQ+ 14.5%, Female Protagonist 12.6%, Stylized 12.1%, Story Rich 10.5%
- #42 Infinite Stars - The Visual Novel
72% matchVery Positive89% of 96 reviews2022
Dev: Wraiith303Pub: IF THEN ELSE Interactive Fiction
Windows
Infinite Stars is a visual novel filled with romance, mystery & roleplaying elements where you choose how the adventure unfolds. Establish your character & personality through the hundreds of choices presented in this interactive fiction inspired by stories like Dune, The Expanse & Mass Effect.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, LGBTQ+ 14.7%, Romance 14.1%, Female Protagonist 11.9%
- #43 Life is Strange: Before the Storm Remastered
71% matchVery Positive85% of 4,957 reviews2022
Dev: Deck NinePub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Life is Strange: Before the Storm returns with remastered visuals across characters & environments.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 16.9%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Romance 14.6%, Female Protagonist 14.6%, Multiple Endings 12.2%
- #44 Afterparty
73% matchMixed68% of 967 reviews2020
Dev: Night School Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 65%
In Afterparty, you are Milo and Lola, recently deceased best buds who suddenly find themselves staring down an eternity in Hell. But there's a loophole: outdrink Satan and he'll grant you re-entry to Earth.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Comedy 11.3%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
- #45 Always Sometimes Monsters
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,447 reviews2014
Dev: Vagabond Dog
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Set out on a cross-country journey to win back the love of your life and endure the hardship of making story-defining choices that affect your life and the lives of those around you.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 27.9%, Choices Matter 23.3%, Story Rich 22.3%, Romance 14.2%, Female Protagonist 6.1%
- #46 ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree
70% matchVery Positive83% of 161 reviews2023
Dev: Wildboy StudiosPub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 52%
ATONE is a Norse mythology-inspired, hand-drawn game that blends interactive storytelling and complex puzzles with a rhythm game combat system. Inherit the role of a young warrior named Estra as she journeys through Midgard to unveil the truth behind her father’s death.
Why similar: Mythology 22%, Hand-drawn 18.9%, Female Protagonist 16.4%, Story Rich 14.7%, Multiple Endings 12%
- #47 Wandersong
70% matchVery Positive95% of 3,910 reviews2018
Dev: Wishes Ultd.Pub: Greg Lobanov
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A musical platforming adventure with an emotional story. Play as a silly bard and use music to interact with everything on a journey around the world. Along the way you'll explore, solve puzzles, and meet a huge cast of characters!
Why similar: Music 57%, Comedy 12.8%, Story Rich 9.4%, Funny 6.1%, Adventure 5.2%
- #48 Love Shore
71% matchMixed70% of 76 reviews2023
Dev: Perfect Garbage
Windows · Mac · Linux
Play as Sam or Farah as they attempt to navigate the neon thrills of their cyberpunk city Love Shore, solve murders, fight gods and maybe fall in love.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Choices Matter 18.2%, Cinematic 18.2%, Stylized 10.1%
- #49 Neo Cab
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,901 reviews2019
Dev: Chance AgencyPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A visual novel about emotional survival in an automated world. Play as Lina, the last human cab driver. It’s your first night driving the lonely streets of Los Ojos, and your best friend has just disappeared. Stay on the road. Stay on the search. Stay human.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Comic Book 20.7%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Story Rich 9.6%
- #50 Heroes of Myth
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 73 reviews2019
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Everyone thinks you saved the world, but it was all a lie! You faked a "prophecy" with magical illusions. But now, your prophecy is coming true.
Why similar: Choices Matter 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, LGBTQ+ 20.3%, Female Protagonist 17%, Story Rich 11.3%
- #51 Bard Harder!
68% matchVery Positive99% of 138 reviews2021
Dev: Shark and Pelican Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
BARD HARDER! is a tabletop-inspired visual novel game about saving your friends from the Big Bad Evil Guy by using your strongest weapon: romance! So brush up on your pick-up lines and prepare some sexy tunes…what’s the worst that could happen?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, LGBTQ+ 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Comic Book 13.7%, Comedy 9.7%
- #52 Hades II
62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 123,698 reviews2025
Dev: Supergiant Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 24.6 hrsMean: 43.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Battle beyond the Underworld using dark sorcery to take on the Titan of Time in this bewitching sequel to the award-winning rogue-like dungeon crawler.
Why similar: Mythology 42.1%, Female Protagonist 18.6%, Hand-drawn 12.6%, Story Rich 10%, LGBTQ+ 8.6%
- #53 Athenian Rhapsody
66% matchVery Positive90% of 371 reviews2024
Dev: Nico PapaliaPub: Top Hat Studios, Inc.
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Forge your own story and explore the world of Athens in Athenian Rhapsody, a souls-like platonic dating simulator with cooking-mama and WarioWare style battle mechanics... and by that I mean it's a choose-your-own-adventure action RPG with the ability to trade ENTIRE PLAYTHROUGHS between friends!!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.1%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Funny 9%
- #54 Little Goody Two Shoes
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 2,553 reviews2023
Dev: AstralShiftPub: Square Enix
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Venture into the woods as you play Little Goody Two Shoes, a phantasmagorical horror narrative adventure where all your decisions matter!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 25.1%, Female Protagonist 15.5%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Multiple Endings 15.1%, Romance 12.7%
- #55 Penny Larceny: Gig Economy Supervillain
66% matchVery Positive97% of 123 reviews2023
Dev: Fiction Factory Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A comic book adventure of freelance supervillainy, petting cats, and/or destroying capitalism in which your choices determine success in a series of daring heists and capers.
Why similar: Comic Book 21.2%, LGBTQ+ 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Multiple Endings 11%, Female Protagonist 10%
- #56 The Red Strings Club
67% matchVery Positive93% of 14,320 reviews2018
Dev: DeconstructeamPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy.
Why similar: Choices Matter 30.9%, Story Rich 24.5%, LGBTQ+ 23.8%, Atmospheric 12.7%, Adventure 5.4%
- #57 Sigh of the Abyss: Shadow Bonds
67% matchVery Positive93% of 105 reviews2022
Dev: Rascal Devworks
Windows
Embrace the monster within to free yourself from a curse in this dark fantasy visual novel, a standalone introduction to the characters and setting of Sigh of the Abyss.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 12.6%, Romance 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Female Protagonist 10.4%, Cinematic 9.6%
- #58 Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong
69% matchMixed63% of 756 reviews2023
Dev: Big Bad WolfPub: Nacon
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Play as 3 vampires, wield their powers wisely, and strike the right balance between your human and animal side in a heart-pounding story in which your choices will decide the fate of Boston.
Why similar: Choices Matter 23.9%, Female Protagonist 18.4%, Story Rich 17.2%, Multiple Endings 16.5%, Atmospheric 12.2%
- #59 Choice of the Deathless
69% matchVery Positive91% of 324 reviews2014
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Battle demons and undead attorneys, and win souls to pay back your student loans! At the elite demonic-law firm of Varkath Nebuchadnezzar Stone, you'll depose a fallen god, find romance, and maybe even make partner, if you don't lose your own soul first.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 61.9%, Interactive Fiction 38.1%
- #60 Arcade Spirits
67% matchVery Positive91% of 636 reviews2019
Dev: Fiction Factory GamesPub: PQube
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Arcade Spirits is a romantic visual novel that follows an alternative timeline where the 1983 video game crash never occurred. It's 20XX and you've just started a new job at the Funplex game arcade. Who will you meet along the way? Will you find the romance you're seeking?
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 20.4%, Romance 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Female Protagonist 10.1%
