- #1 All (Too) Good Things
97% 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 22.7%, Text-Based 22.6%, Visual Novel 17%, Multiple Endings 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
- #2 Arderico's Journey
96% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Digital Masquerade
Windows
Set off on an exciting swashbuckling quest in this classic Fantasy Choose Your Own Adventure! Meet charming characters, fight dangerous foes, and uncover a nefarious intrigue. Experience seamless and reactive storytelling. Prove your innocence, find your destiny, relish the journey!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Choices Matter 14%, Text-Based 13.2%, Multiple Endings 11.8%
- #3 Into the Waves
96% matchVery Positive92% of 89 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 19.1%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Multiple Endings 15%, Text-Based 14.4%, Choices Matter 11.2%
- #4 LifeSimOS
94% 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 22.6%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Text-Based 18.8%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
- #5 Wild Island Quest
95% matchMixed53% of 345 reviews2015
Dev: NLB project
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
In an endless air ocean of an alien world, small lonesome plots of land float above the abyss. But sometimes approach each other, and lands which have never met before, reveal their secrets.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Visual Novel 22%, Choices Matter 16.8%, Multiple Endings 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.4%
- #6 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
94% 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: Text-Based 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Visual Novel 17%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
- #7 Parallels: Year One
93% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Resquita Productions
Windows
Parallels: Year One is a visual novel that will take you on a journey through one relationship in five parallel worlds. Join Ron and Jessica on a journey to see each other from a new perspective.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.9%, Visual Novel 21.2%, Text-Based 16%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
- #8 THE DAY THAT WASN'T
92% 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 21.9%, Visual Novel 19.7%, Text-Based 16%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Multiple Endings 12.1%
- #9 Tower of the Ice Lich
91% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: Arcane Lorelabs
Windows · Mac
A pixelated homage to 16-bit RPGs, this former print-and-play card game has come full circle as a digital experience! Choose your champion, enter the tower, and make wise decisions on your ascent to face the Ice Lich at the top.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
- #10 Dr. Kinderwood's Asylum
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Richday
Windows · Mac · Linux
Decide the fate of the son of a tailor and a witch doctor infected with an incurable disease in an interactive story with multiple endings depending on your actions.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Text-Based 16.7%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Multiple Endings 14.7%
- #11 Heart of mobius
90% 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: Text-Based 27.3%, Visual Novel 22.4%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.3%
- #12 Vanakan
89% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Erik Khachatryan
Windows
Vanakan is the journey of Tadevos - a priest, who travels the 500s Armenia to find the monastery that suits for his goal of becoming spiritually closer to Jesus Christ. He meets different people on his way and makes choices which will define his future and that of the country.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.5%, Text-Based 25.9%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
- #13 Death that blooms into a flower
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BloomingFate
Windows
A story about love, death, and the universe, told through tarot cards.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Visual Novel 19.7%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
- #14 Mass of Consumption
88% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Wayward Woyrm Games
Windows
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Text-Based 16.4%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11.1%
- #15 Road to Karatl
87% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: Wild Angels Games
Windows
On the road to the sacred shrine of Karatl, lost souls entrust you with their stories. In this contemplative Visual Novel, listen to their truths and perhaps, at the journey's end, you will discover your own.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Multiple Endings 11.8%
- #16 Vida
86% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: YEON 연
Windows · Linux
In a future where memories are the last connection to a lost humanity, you are an advanced AI exploring fragments of past lives. Understand emotions, traumas, and choices in a journey to uncover what it means to be alive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.4%, Text-Based 25.3%, Visual Novel 18.8%, Choices Matter 8.9%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
- #17 Roadwarden
85% matchVery Positive94% of 4,990 reviews2022
Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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: Text-Based 36.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Visual Novel 9.1%, Choices Matter 8.7%, Multiple Endings 7.7%
- #18 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
84% matchVery Positive90% of 9,604 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Choices Matter 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Text-Based 18.7%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.1%
- #19 The Fifth Horseman
86% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2019
Dev: Angelo Parodi
Windows
The Fifth Horseman is a narrative adventure game, set in a fantasy-medieval world, where you will experience many unique stories. After years of war, hunger and diseases mankind finds itself on the verge of extinction and it's up to you to decide its fate.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.6%
- #20 Shadow of the Curse-Eater
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
The wilderfolk of Ushinega Island waste away in a rotting tropical paradise, haunted by a deadly malediction. Yet behind every curse lurks a secret. You have the power to save them... but should you?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.9%, Text-Based 24.4%, Choices Matter 18%, Multiple Endings 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 5.4%
- #21 Next Star
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Oneleafplay
Windows · Mac
Idol Talent Show Simulation Game-Train from zero to idol debut! Rank high to stay in! Explore the map, manage your schedule and play mini-games.Face tough evaluations,compete with fellow trainees, and forge meaningful bonds. Your choices will unlock 10+ unique endings. Can you shine?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.5%, Visual Novel 22.1%, Choices Matter 20.9%, Multiple Endings 19.3%, Story Rich 6.7%
- #22 Serania - Path of the Scion
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FableTree Productions
Windows · Mac
Choose, explore, interact, fight, solve, gather, trade! Rise to rebel in this immersive text-based fantasy story that seamlessly merges the best elements of RPGs, choose-your-own-adventure stories, visual novels, and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Multiple Endings 9%
- #23 Whispers From The Rift
82% 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 26.1%, Text-Based 25.6%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
- #24 The Nascent Necromancer
81% matchMixed57% of 14 reviews2023
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
When you're falsely accused of sorcery, corrupt inquisitors make you the object of a witch hunt. Now, sorcery might be the only way for you to survive.
Why similar: Text-Based 29.1%, Interactive Fiction 26.5%, Choices Matter 16.3%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%
- #25 右手にペンを、左手に過去を。
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HaraPeko部
Windows
-Change the past, create the future - A novel game about changing the past. What would the present be like if you could remove the regrets of that time? Rewrite the book that contains your past and create the future that you could not get. A new sensation ADV is now available from HaraPeko club.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.5%, Visual Novel 23.3%, Multiple Endings 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%, Drama 7.8%
- #26 Bootlegger: Moonshine Empire
80% matchPositive80% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Make your name as a whiskey-runner, a politician, or a gangster as you quench thirsts from rural Pennsylvania to the New York City nightlife!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.5%, Text-Based 29.9%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%
- #27 Jolly Good: Tea and Scones
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Extract yourself from another fine mess–this time, with your family watching! Mischief, mix-ups, and bewilderingly urgent capers at your ancestral estate.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.9%, Text-Based 28.9%, Choices Matter 17.5%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%
- #28 Dreaming After You
78% matchPositive91% of 32 reviews2024
Dev: MangoPower
Windows
Play as a Duskweaver in this short "choices matter" story about self-sacrifice.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 23%, Choices Matter 18.2%, Multiple Endings 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 5.2%
- #29 Not It: Spookiest Edition
79% 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 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.7%
- #30 Memories Off Sousou Break out of my shell
76% matchPositive93% of 45 reviews2026
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
メモリーズオフシリーズ最新作のアフターストーリー 主人公「久寿米木一葵」と登場ヒロインたちの「その後」を楽しんでいただけます。 ビジュアルノベル形式のゲームスタイルで選択肢を選びながらストーリーが進行します。 それぞれの道を歩み始めたヒロインたち。 それぞれの未来を大切な「あなた」と一緒につかむため、 それぞれの想いが、今はじける……!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Text-Based 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.4%, Choices Matter 8.4%
- #31 Transparent
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DamDSN
Windows
Transparent is a narrative game where every choice shapes Clara’s existence. On the eve of her 30th birthday, she revisits key moments of her life. Will her decisions anchor her to reality or make her fade away? Explore memories, face dilemmas, and discover multiple endings
Why similar: Text-Based 24%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Choices Matter 11.1%
- #32 Metamorphosis
77% matchPositive82% of 22 reviews2024
Dev: AKAI KIRI
Windows
An interactive visual novel in the mystical genre. Mikey is admitted to an unusual institution for treatment, where he encounters supernatural phenomena and begins to prepare for a metamorphosis that will lead him into another world.
Why similar: Visual Novel 28.3%, Choices Matter 19.6%, Multiple Endings 18.6%, Text-Based 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.2%
- #33 Circus of the Moon
75% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2026
Dev: Davter17
Windows · Mac · Linux
Play as Elise Berrie, a tightrope walker marked by a broken past. As she infiltrates the enigmatic Circus of the Moon, she discovers that beneath its magic lie unsettling secrets. Between performances and haunting dreams, every step may bring her closer to the truth… or make her disappear.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Choices Matter 17.7%, Text-Based 14%, Visual Novel 13.5%
- #34 Where are you, Cinderella?
77% 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 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Multiple Endings 14%
- #35 The Music at the end of the World
75% match5 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Cihan Kuzu
Windows
"What music would you listen to at the end of the world?" Explore an abandoned world after the apocalypse of the final winter. Shape the story of a man whose loneliness threatens his sanity. Use violence to survive or avoid it to protect your mind. Experience the end of the world!
Why similar: Text-Based 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Multiple Endings 14.8%, Choices Matter 10.9%
- #36 Beek: Familiar Spirit - Remastered
74% 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 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 22%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Visual Novel 13.5%
- #37 Do 11
76% 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 20.3%, Text-Based 19.2%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Choices Matter 13.6%
- #38 The Trials of Ozymandias
74% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Golden Axolotl Studios
Windows · Mac
The Trials of Ozymandias is a visual novel set in the high fantasy world of the kingdom of Johrotos. In the capitol city, Dassi, resides the most famous adventurer's guild in all the land: Talleh-Hoy. This is where your story begins.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.1%, Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%, Drama 7.6%
- #39 The Tenth Minute
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: XU S.A Studio
Windows
The Tenth Minute is a short narrative game told through chat and novel-style reading. Revisit a school-day memory shaped by unspoken feelings, misaligned memories, and belated understanding between three people. A youthful story with light psychological mystery, complete in around 2 hours.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28%, Text-Based 25.2%, Visual Novel 20%, Drama 10.1%, Emotional 4.7%
- #40 Grave Knight
73% 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 24.4%, Visual Novel 23.7%, Text-Based 17.1%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%
- #41 Taina's Cursed Legacy
71% matchPositive82% of 34 reviews2025
Dev: dark_room_game
Windows
A text-based RPG with a nonlinear story set in a free Slavic fantasy world. Shape the heroine's character through your choices and unlock multiple endings. Mystery, folklore, and relationships — your fate depends only on you.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Multiple Endings 6%
- #42 Shadows of Betrayal
72% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: JayzonBHPub: JayzonBH Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Recent high school graduates gather at a remote cabin for a celebration. What begins as a night of laughter spirals into a tense mystery full of secrets, twists, and chilling choices. Who will survive? Navigate friendships, and uncover the multi-layered mystery in Shadows of Betrayal.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Visual Novel 26.7%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
- #43 Your Story: Games with Death
72% 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: Text-Based 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Multiple Endings 12.2%
- #44 We should talk.
73% matchMixed57% of 165 reviews2020
Dev: Insatiable CyclePub: Whitethorn Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 46%
It's not what you say, it's how you say it. We should talk is a short-form narrative game that will make you think carefully about the words you choose. Can your relationship survive the night?
Why similar: Text-Based 23%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Multiple Endings 12.2%
- #45 The Meridian
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PlayBook
Windows
Step into the high-stakes world of journalism in this Playbook! As a reporter at the "The Meridian" newsroom, YOU are the hero. Chase a massive investigative scoop, navigate ruthless office politics, and build deep relationships. Will you break the story, or will the deadline break you?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Text-Based 14.3%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
- #46 Aunewyth
71% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2023
Dev: Captain Cool
Windows
Aunewyth is a text-based game with a focus on narration and decision making. It features a short yet versatile storyline that reveals itself according to the choices you make.
Why similar: Text-Based 37.9%, Choices Matter 18.8%, Multiple Endings 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.9%
- #47 Attorney Disbarment Adventure
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ambearth Games
Windows
A darkly comedic legal sim where your goal is to get disbarred—spectacularly. Play as a defense attorney or prosecutor in ethically disastrous cases full of bad decisions, weird clients, and Kafkaesque courtroom chaos. Succeed, and you lose.
Why similar: Text-Based 30.6%, Interactive Fiction 30.1%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Multiple Endings 15.1%, Story Rich 4%
- #48 The Secret Of Greenwood Isle
69% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: SaynePub: Sayne Interactive
Windows
A story-driven mystery visual novel set in a remote island village. Gather clues through conversations and exploration, and uncover hidden truths through branching routes and multiple endings amid the tense, claustrophobic atmosphere.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Multiple Endings 12.2%
- #49 NOAH: 2050
70% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Team NOAH
Windows
『NOAH: 2050』 is a 2D visual novel game that blends an adventure format where you can explore a school.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.6%, Visual Novel 22.3%, Multiple Endings 15.2%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
- #50 Neko No Sentouki: The Greatest Fighter
69% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: skredjun
Windows · Mac
An Adventure Visual Novel where you can choose your protagonist – Play as Aiko or Hikaru as they try to uncover the secrets that lurk all around them in this character-driven story. Every choice you make will have an impact on the story.
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.7%, Text-Based 24.2%, Multiple Endings 21.2%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Adventure 9.2%
- #51 The Portal Pirate
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ZizihPub: Zizih Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A sound, a flash, a portal… A pirate emerges, bringing a deadly threat. Five friends stand before him, and one of them is the target. But which one? Even they don't know.
Why similar: Text-Based 28.7%, Interactive Fiction 27.6%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Visual Novel 5.7%
- #52 Scarlet Sails
68% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Hoist the Jolly Roger and set sail to find the legendary Titan’s Treasure! Do you fight with a cutlass or with magic? Are you biding your time until you can shoot your captain in the back, or are you the reason the rum is gone?
Why similar: Text-Based 31%, Interactive Fiction 30.6%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.2%
- #53 Pet
68% matchPositive95% of 21 reviews2023
Dev: beepsoft industries
Windows
A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Text-Based 18.5%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Multiple Endings 13.7%
- #54 Secret Agent Allan Martin in ... Phoenix Erupting
70% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: SC Games
Windows
You are Allan Martin, an occasionally suave British superspy armed with a licence to cause an international incident. Can you survive international assassins? Can you stop an evil mastermind's nefarious plans? Can you avoid contracting an STD?
Why similar: Text-Based 19.9%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Multiple Endings 15.6%, Choices Matter 12%
- #55 Thoughtless
68% 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: Text-Based 26%, Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Visual Novel 21.4%, Multiple Endings 10%, Choices Matter 9.1%
- #56 There Is No Next Stop
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HANPAGE
Windows
After the announcement "There is no next stop," you are trapped in an endless subway. But you’re not alone—the "GUESTS" are hunting you. Trust the "GUIDES" to survive. Or don't.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.1%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Drama 7.8%
- #57 Parasite in Love
66% matchVery Positive95% of 57 reviews2025
Dev: Night Asobu
Windows
Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.7%, Visual Novel 22.8%, Text-Based 9.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%, Choices Matter 8.7%
- #58 Scribe
66% 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 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
- #59 目を閉じてプレイするゲーム「星の記す真実」
67% 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 23%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Text-Based 18.5%, Multiple Endings 14.4%, Choices Matter 8%
- #60 Message in a Melody
66% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Can music save the human race? You and the Raqullan Empire will soon find out. Decide whether music, and the humans who make it, should survive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.5%, Text-Based 29.6%, Choices Matter 14.7%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.6%