- #1 LIQUID
97% matchMostly Positive76% of 17 reviews2023
Dev: AutomaticGrasshopperPub: East2West Games
Windows
Liquids is a surreal adventure game. When Emma, the actress girlfriend of scientist Albert, dies strangely, police detective Todd investigates the unsolved case, and bizarrely Emma's body appears out of nowhere within many time and space.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Lore-Rich 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%
- #2 The Wreck
96% matchVery Positive89% of 279 reviews2023
Dev: The Pixel Hunt
Windows · Mac
In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.
Why similar: Choices Matter 16%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Dialogue Heavy 11.2%, Emotional 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
- #3 Harmony: The Fall of Reverie
96% matchMostly Positive73% of 274 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 14.2%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Resource Management 11.6%, Emotional 11.4%
- #4 This Warm Place
95% 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: Emotional 16.5%, Dialogue Heavy 15.2%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Philosophical 13.8%
- #5 The Siege of Jeomdo
94% 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: Resource Management 19.3%, Choices Matter 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Story Rich 11%
- #6 Tresmir Sight
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Context Free
Windows · Mac · Linux
Can you find what you're looking for? Or are you at the mercy of Tisik and her followers? Your words matter in this short game of dialogue.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%, Sci-fi 10.8%
- #7 Pockets of Hope
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Burnt Bit Games
Windows
Pockets of Hope is a narrative management game where you struggle to survive with your sick brother in the ruthless city of Veronka. Scavenge, steal, and make grim choices in a world where no one cares — all for a single goal: to find a cure.
Why similar: Resource Management 20.4%, Management 16.5%, Strategy 14%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
- #8 BatteryNote
91% 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 17.6%, Emotional 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Philosophical 13.5%, Story Rich 9.5%
- #9 The Cost of Salvation
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mokou Games
Windows · Mac
The Cost of Salvation is a story-rich adventure about a being created to preserve the world’s balance. Awaken across centuries, form fragile bonds, and face the weight of sacrifice in a journey through time, memory, and the meaning of life itself.
Why similar: Emotional 15.4%, Lore-Rich 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%
- #10 Don Quijote
91% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Rubén Prende
Windows · Linux
An interactive graphic novel reimagining Cervantes' masterpiece in striking neo-noir style. Guide Don Quixote through La Mancha, make choices that shape his journey, and discover four unique endings in this tragicomic tale of idealism and madness.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Philosophical 12.1%, Lore-Rich 8.9%
- #11 The Endless Dream
90% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Fortitudo Games
Windows
Dive into an enigmatic world, solve captivating puzzles, and unravel the mysteries of an endless dream. Reconstruct a fragmented life as the line between reality and illusion blurs. Challenge your mind and uncover the hidden truth in a gripping adventure that will leave you amazed!
Why similar: Lore-Rich 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Emotional 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.1%
- #12 Project Subtrahend
89% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: LilyDynamite
Windows · Mac · Linux
Project Subtrahend is a choose-your-own-adventure visual novel, where you have the chance to get to know the stories, lore, and personalities of nine unique characters. Choices matter in this game, and it's up to you who lives or dies as you explore what it means to be human.
Why similar: Philosophical 17%, Lore-Rich 16.9%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Emotional 11.3%
- #13 Kamilia
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: RQ play
Windows · Mac
Kamilia is a story-driven, choices-matter detective mystery. Follow a talented painter who finds himself wrapped up in an unsolved case, as he tries to unveil a hidden truth that has been buried for years.
Why similar: Choices Matter 14.7%, Emotional 13.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Story Rich 11.3%
- #14 Dunes Of Raeth
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kalempirion Studios 13Pub: Kalempirion Games
Windows
Dunes of Raeth is a 1st person Adventure game set in and below the dunes of a war-torn planet. You play as the King of Raeth. Solve the puzzles put before you by the embodiment of the planet you rule. Decide the future of your kingdom and of the ones you love!
Why similar: Philosophical 16.6%, Dialogue Heavy 12.5%, Choices Matter 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Lore-Rich 10.2%
- #15 Sky Caravan
87% 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: Choices Matter 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Resource Management 16.1%, Management 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%
- #16 Dreaming After You
86% matchPositive91% of 32 reviews2024
Dev: MangoPower
Windows
Play as a Duskweaver in this short "choices matter" story about self-sacrifice.
Why similar: Choices Matter 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Philosophical 15.1%, Emotional 12.3%, Multiple Endings 12.2%
- #17 Alcyone: The Last City
85% 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: Interactive Fiction 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Dialogue Heavy 12.3%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Emotional 8.8%
- #18 80 Days
86% matchVery Positive90% of 2,023 reviews2015
Dev: inkle Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
1872, with a steampunk twist. Phileas Fogg has wagered he can circumnavigate the world in just 80 days. Travel by airship, submarine, mechanical camel, steam-train and more. Race other players and a clock that never stops in TIME Magazine's Game of 2014.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choices Matter 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Story Rich 12.7%, Strategy 11.1%
- #19 Nothing Can Stop Us (Encore)
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Demigiant
Windows · Mac · Linux
A ~1 hour short narrative game about a friendship that spans two lifetimes. Serious, funny, weird, maybe heartbreaking.
Why similar: Philosophical 18.5%, Emotional 15%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Dialogue Heavy 10.5%
- #20 NeuroNet: Mendax Proxy
84% 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 16.1%, Resource Management 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Management 11%
- #21 We Were Here Before
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Inkdrift
Windows
The frontier does not want to be settled. A narrative highly replayable story game where your choices build a settlement, shape its story, and seal its fate. Every run ends. Every obituary tells a story only you lived.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Lore-Rich 13%, Philosophical 12%, Choices Matter 10%
- #22 The Last Connection
81% 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 25.2%, Choices Matter 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Story Rich 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
- #23 KUU
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Interactive Tragedy, Limited
Windows
Trapped in the fading light of a broken moonhouse, you have 30 nights to balance scarce resources. Grow meager rations in the weak earthlight. Navigate the emotional sanity of a fragile sisterhood. Decode ancient documents in search of secrets. Your only choices will be impossible ones.
Why similar: Resource Management 20.3%, Choices Matter 15%, Management 13.9%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Story Rich 11.1%
- #24 Ashwalkers
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 196 reviews2021
Dev: Nameless XIIIPub: Dear Villagers
Windows
A survival journey through a harsh world without rules or judgement. Only your choices matters in the face of moral dilemmas. Manage your party, food & equipment in this non-linear narrative survival sim with 34 possible endings.
Why similar: Resource Management 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choices Matter 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
- #25 Peak or Die
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: House of Morok
Windows · Mac · Linux
Peak or Die is a narrative-driven survival game about leading a team of adventurers up a deadly mountain, where every decision has lasting consequences. Manage oxygen, food, and team morale while facing moral dilemmas, random events, and an unforgiving environment. Reach the summit — or fail trying.
Why similar: Resource Management 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Lore-Rich 9.9%
- #26 LifeSimOS
79% 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: Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Dialogue Heavy 17.1%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Story Rich 11.4%, Emotional 10.7%
- #27 Fire Lookout: Abandoned Post
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Tale Experiences
Windows
Fire Lookout: Abandoned Post is a first-person psychological horror and narrative-driven mystery game. Where you play as a newly stationed lookout in Summit Ridge National Park.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 14.3%, Emotional 14%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%, Story Rich 11.1%, Mystery 10.9%
- #28 Do 11
80% 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 17.1%, Dialogue Heavy 15.7%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
- #29 The Reeve
78% 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: Management 16.5%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Resource Management 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%
- #30 In Cold Dark
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: \du interactivePub: done\undone
Windows
An interactive point-and-click space story about rediscovering a life, our friendships, our choices and regrets.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Philosophical 13.1%, Emotional 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%
- #31 Until Dawn™
76% matchVery Positive83% of 4,730 reviews2024
Dev: Ballistic MoonPub: PlayStation Publishing LLC
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Rebuilt and enhanced for PC – Until Dawn invites you to relive the nightmare, and immerse yourself in a gripping slasher horror where every decision can make the difference between life and death.
Why similar: Choices Matter 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Story Rich 8.4%
- #32 ROSETIA: A First Contact Simulation
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Redshift Panda
Windows
Become the first diplomat to an alien world in this dialogue-driven, Star Trek-inspired RPG. Explore an ancient civilization, befriend its strange inhabitants, and make agonizing choices that will forever shape the future of their species.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 14.8%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Lore-Rich 11.9%, Story Rich 10.4%
- #33 Room 337
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Spud Coding, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are a father. You wake in a hallway that hums. Empty pools. Dead malls. Your four daughters are here. Voice acted by a real father and his daughters. Two endings. No right answer.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Emotional 14.5%, Philosophical 11.9%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Story Rich 9.6%
- #34 ENDLING
74% matchVery Positive88% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Team HumansPub: TelePresent Games
Windows · Mac
Live the perfect day, break the cycle, and discover the truth about yourself in this short, quirky sci-fi mystery about freedom, choice, and loneliness.
Why similar: Philosophical 21.7%, Lore-Rich 18.1%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Emotional 14.3%, Sci-fi 8.7%
- #35 Mistbound
74% matchPositive88% of 17 reviews2026
Dev: aworyrate
Windows · Mac · Linux
Mistbound is a surreal narrative adventure about overcoming trauma, where the line between reality and dreams is blurred. Loneliness can be too loud. And salvation can be too quiet!
Why similar: Choices Matter 17.4%, Dialogue Heavy 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%
- #36 We Stay Behind
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Backwoods EntertainmentPub: Application Systems Heidelberg
Windows · Mac
We Stay Behind is a single-player third-person mystery between dreams and reality. A comet is on course to destroy a small town but its inhabitants refuse to leave. Interview the people of Laburnum Creek, explore a beautiful national park and unravel the secrets of this picturesque town.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Dialogue Heavy 14.9%, Emotional 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Story Rich 9.4%
- #37 Call Me Cera
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Toadhouse GamesPub: Team Toadhouse
Windows · Mac · Linux
A 'crunchy wholesome' game about making friends as an adult.
Why similar: Philosophical 14.5%, Emotional 14%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Lore-Rich 12.2%
- #38 Uberich: Advent Sinners
73% matchVery Positive84% of 306 reviews2025
Dev: NBDR GamesPub: XD
Windows
The world and reality of Joe collapse as a sequence of paranormal events starts in September. A mysterious girl with physical powers named Chava wants him dead, as he can be a core key for her cult to dominate the reality between worlds.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Emotional 9.6%
- #39 Best Day Ever
76% matchPositive83% of 23 reviews2021
Dev: ReRolled Studio
Windows
Play 4 characters, live their unique stories and manage their daily lives to create their best day ever. In this narrative game, your decisions have consequences and change the outcome of the stories.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choices Matter 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Management 11.5%, Multiple Endings 11.4%
- #40 Lord of Metal
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Horns Up Games
Windows
🤘Lord of Metal is a single player story-driven management simulator about organizing 🎸Rock music festivals, bringing a dystopian world back to life. 🎤 Gather your crew 🥁 book bands 🎧 sign sponsors 🔊 claim festival grounds and bring some 🔥Rock to the masses! \m/
Why similar: Management 18.4%, Choices Matter 16.7%, Resource Management 15.8%, Story Rich 12.3%, Strategy 11.9%
- #41 Under His Eyes
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: HAS Games
Windows
Build a criminal empire. Every choice shapes your rise - or your fall. A crime strategy and management game: make tough dialogue decisions, manage your crew, collect protection money, buy businesses, send operators on missions, and defend your territory from rival gangs.
Why similar: Management 14.1%, Resource Management 14%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Dialogue Heavy 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%
- #42 Rottenroots
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Klabautermann Games
Windows
In this haunting visual novel, you become Salem - torn between forbidden love and regime loyalty. Make split-second decisions that transform his personality in a solarpunk dystopia. With multiple paths and endings, your choices define who Salem becomes in a world where being different is dangerous.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Emotional 10.7%
- #43 Fork in the Road
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pigeon in the Booth
Windows · Mac
In this hand-drawn RPG, you play as Joe, a young man attending a dinner party with his new girlfriend. What he doesn't know is that every decision he makes, no matter how small, will have its consequence...
Why similar: Choices Matter 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Story Rich 11.7%, Multiple Endings 11.6%
- #44 Purgatory Pitstop
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Live Rail Games
Windows
Your diner is the final stop before the infamous afterlife gate. Let customers drown their sorrows for profit, or attempt to show them a better way? You decide in this morally confronting choice-based game.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 13%, Philosophical 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Resource Management 10.9%, Emotional 10.8%
- #45 Morningtide Motel
71% 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%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Story Rich 11.4%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
- #46 Dead in Antares
69% matchMostly Positive80% of 181 reviews2026
Dev: Ishtar GamesPub: Nacon
Windows
Dead in Antares is a turn-based survival management game with RPG elements, set on an alien planet. Lead a crew of survivors sent on a mission to save humanity. Manage their needs, strengthen their teamwork, and explore this mysterious world to find a way back home.
Why similar: Resource Management 24.6%, Choices Matter 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Management 11.4%, Strategy 11.4%
- #47 Interdimensional Gas Station
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hadi ChaabanPub: Twin Dragon Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Experience a sci-fi narrative where you run a gas station on a drifting asteroid in the infinite void. Service increasingly complex alien ships, upgrade and expand your gas station's operations, and shape the fate of the galactic stage through your choices!
Why similar: Lore-Rich 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Story Rich 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
- #48 AI Confidential
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Critical Wit
Windows · Linux
Artificial Intelligence, Real Problems: You are Makenzy Turner, an affable RoboTechnician employed by AI megacorp, Indelligent Solutions. With your trusty assistant ARI, use high-tech tools and old-fashioned empathy to mend everything from broken parts to broken hearts.
Why similar: Philosophical 16.5%, Dialogue Heavy 16%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%
- #49 7 Days in Dystopia
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: YapabilityPub: Yapability Products
Windows
7 Days in Dystopia is a psychological dystopian game where you experience seven days by playing a series of games, making choices, and facing the consequences of winning and losing in a city where people hide behind masks.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Choices Matter 16.4%, Story Rich 12.2%, Dialogue Heavy 10.6%
- #50 Prolegomena To a Hyperdimensional Interface That Will Be Able to Manifest From Three-Minute Interchanges
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Caramel Column Inc.
Windows · Mac
This is a collaborative experiment between you and I. We will participate in a series of interchanges, each lasting three minutes. What will be revealed across our interfaces during that limited time?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Philosophical 24%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Choices Matter 18.8%, Adventure 7.2%
- #51 Orbital Abyss: Cipher Division
69% 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: Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Choices Matter 16.3%, Dialogue Heavy 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Sci-fi 10%
- #52 Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind
70% matchVery Positive82% of 478 reviews2019
Dev: A SharpPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Life between myths. Lead the Riders clan into legend or obscurity as you explore an ancient world. Plan ahead as you navigate this challenging storybook strategy game, immersing you in the land of old gods and magic also seen in King of Dragon Pass.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Resource Management 14.2%, Management 12.7%, Strategy 9.3%
- #53 Windrush Tales
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 3-Fold Games
Windows
Experience the triumphs and tribulations of two Caribbean immigrants in post-war Britain, in the world’s first Windrush video game, from the creators of the BAFTA nominated Before I Forget. How will you shape your story in this branching narrative interactive photo album?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Emotional 12.4%, Story Rich 12%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
- #54 Midnight Therapy
68% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Cointinue Games
Windows
A powerless, FAKE therapist facing raw truth. Balance financial pressure and patients' collapse in this narrative RPG. Use speechcraft and the "Mind Reading Spell" to dive into minds and shatter cognitive dissonance. Are lies your weapon... or redemption?
Why similar: Choices Matter 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Resource Management 13.1%, Lore-Rich 13%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
- #55 Playing Kafka
66% matchVery Positive95% of 329 reviews2024
Dev: Charles Games
Windows · Mac
There are things that often fail on nothing but themselves. Is there even a way out? Playing Kafka is a narrative adventure full of impenetrable schemes, insidious plot twists and conversations that slip out of hand. Based on Kafka’s life and his work, developed with Kafka experts.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Philosophical 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Story Rich 11.7%, Emotional 9.7%
- #56 Imperial Bureaucracy Hero
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Munitions Mori
Windows · Mac · Linux
IBH is a rich role playing game at the end of time. You're a mid-level official in a dying sci-fi regime, given the impossible task of fixing a faltering machine; explore a vast world, define your mind, flex your authority, and become a sinner or a savior in countless other stories.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Lore-Rich 9.7%, Story Rich 8.2%
- #57 The Journey - Episode 1: Whatever This Is
67% matchVery Positive98% of 296 reviews2021
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
The first step that you never knew you needed to take to get to wherever you're wanting to go...
Why similar: Philosophical 17.8%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Emotional 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Lore-Rich 11.9%
- #58 Memory Lane
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Inferno
Windows
A game that you'll never forget! Memory Lane is a turned based RPG about taking names. Literally.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 16%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Emotional 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%
- #59 Zero-Sum Heart
65% matchVery Positive95% of 237 reviews2024
Dev: Citreat Studio
Windows · Mac
"I" make a deal with the witch to give up my heart, in exchange for love— from everyone. ——————————————————————————Is it worth it if losing my heart means gaining *his*? In this short visual novel, make choices and answer the question: is love a zero-sum game?
Why similar: Philosophical 17%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Emotional 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%
- #60 Guilt Free
67% 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 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Emotional 13.5%, Story Rich 10.7%