- #1 End of Lines
97% matchVery Positive94% of 64 reviews2023
Dev: Nova-box
Windows · Mac · Linux
Travel across landscapes devastated by a catastrophic climate meltdown, following a small family in search of somewhere habitable. With limited supplies and facing potential death at every turn, your choices will decide their fate. Will they manage to settle down?
Why similar: Dystopian 20.6%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Narration 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%, Survival 8.8%
- #2 1979 Revolution: Black Friday
96% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,085 reviews2016
Dev: iNK Stories
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
1979 Revolution: Black Friday is a choice driven, narrative game that brings players into the brooding world of a nation on the verge of collapse. Play as Reza, an aspiring photojournalist, and make life and death decisions as you survive the gritty streets of Iran in the late 1970’s.
Why similar: Political 44.5% ★, Choices Matter 16.4%, Point & Click 9.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.5%, Multiple Endings 6.6%
- #3 Survive the Blackout
96% matchMixed64% of 87 reviews2020
Dev: Baby Bison Games
Windows
Survive the Blackout is a narrative survival game set in a dark post-apocalyptic world. Choose your adventure-type gameplay, squad-level management, exploration and scavenging, difficult moral choices. Modern-times tribute to Oregon Trail.
Why similar: Survival 20.3%, Difficult 15.5%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Point & Click 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%
- #4 Ashwalkers
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 195 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: Survival 25.5%, Choices Matter 18.7%, Multiple Endings 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%
- #5 Postmortem: One Must Die (Extended Cut)
95% matchMostly Negative40% of 187 reviews2013
Dev: Unbound Creations
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 20%
Narrative-adventure playing an Agent of Death who must take ONE life that could change the fate of a conflict-torn Nation
Why similar: Political 28.2% ★, RPG 13.7%, Point & Click 12.8%, Choices Matter 11%, Adventure 8.5%
- #6 Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,656 reviews2019
Dev: scriptwelderPub: Armor Games Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Survive through four days at the end of the world in this post-apocalyptic point-and-click thriller where your choices could keep you alive... or not.
Why similar: Point & Click 31.2%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Survival 14.7%, Thriller 11.9%, Story Rich 8.2%
- #7 Survive In Russia
94% matchMixed65% of 57 reviews2020
Dev: Alexander Sablin
Windows · Mac
Survive in Russia is a survival quest in Russia. You will be available a selection of characters. Each of them presents survival mode and story mode. Only on your choice will depend on the life of the character.
Why similar: Choices Matter 19.1%, Survival 17.4%, Multiple Endings 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Story Rich 10.3%
- #8 Help Will Come Tomorrow
92% matchVery Positive80% of 925 reviews2020
Dev: Arclight CreationsPub: Klabater
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
In an uninhabitable Siberian wilderness, in a wake of October Revolution, a group of passengers survives the mysterious catastrophe of Trans-Siberian railway train. They must endure in a harsh ice-clad climate until rescue arrives. Facing many dangers, their own weaknesses and, their own prejudice.
Why similar: Political 34.6% ★, Narration 17.7%, Survival 15.7%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Story Rich 6.8%
- #9 ICY: Frostbite Edition
91% matchVery Positive86% of 400 reviews2017
Dev: Innervoid InteractivePub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 95%
ICY: Frostbite Edition is a narrative-driven post-apocalyptic survival RPG set in a new Ice Age. Create your character, lead your family, make difficult choices, and try to survive in a frozen world.
Why similar: Survival 33.9%, RPG 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Story Rich 10.4%
- #10 Gods Will Be Watching
91% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,923 reviews2014
Dev: DeconstructeamPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Gods Will Be Watching is a minimalistic “point and click thriller” centered on despair, commitment, and sacrifice as players face intriguing puzzles and tough decisions that will affect their entire crew’s wellbeing.
Why similar: Point & Click 21.7%, Difficult 19.9%, Thriller 19.2%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Survival 9.2%
- #11 For the People
90% matchMostly Positive74% of 788 reviews2020
Dev: Brezg StudioPub: 101XP
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
For the People is a mix of a political management sim and a visual novel, putting players in the shoes of an idealistic young state official tasked with shaping the future of a communist factory town. Will the party provide for the people, or are the people just cogs in its machine?..
Why similar: Political 24.2% ★, Noir 22.3%, Dystopian 12.3%, Point & Click 9.5%, Choices Matter 8.1%
- #12 The Night Fisherman
89% matchVery Positive82% of 771 reviews2020
Dev: de FaultPub: Far Few Giants
Windows · Mac
A short, twisted tale about a smuggler and a late night encounter in the English Channel. Control the camera and make tough choices, will you escape with your life?
Why similar: Political 23.2% ★, Point & Click 12.7%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Narration 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 9%
- #13 The Outcast Lovers
89% matchMixed66% of 85 reviews2020
Dev: ChardPub: Far Few Giants
Windows · Mac
Driving home late one night you encounter a refugee in distress. They are looking for salvation. Do you hand them over to violent authorities? Or risk sheltering them yourself?
Why similar: Point & Click 24.1%, Choices Matter 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Story Rich 9.9%
- #14 Home Behind
87% matchVery Positive84% of 6,095 reviews2016
Dev: TPP Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
In Home Behind, you take on the role of a refugee cast out from your homeland by a band of rebels. Your home and the peace you enjoyed has been destroyed, and your family has disappeared. Can you survive the struggle, famine, and sickness to make it to the safety of Europe?
Why similar: Survival 45.2%, RPG 22.4%, Adventure 15.1%, Difficult 9.5%, 2D 2.7%
- #15 The Change Architect
88% matchMixed65% of 54 reviews2020
Dev: ChardPub: Far Few Giants
Windows · Mac
You are a protest organiser, coordinating the crowd outside your window. When the police move in on your position you have to decide whether to tell the protestors to hold the line or pull back.
Why similar: Point & Click 25.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Adventure 7.4%
- #16 The Pale Beyond
86% matchVery Positive89% of 2,115 reviews2023
Dev: Saltstone StudiosPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.
Why similar: Survival 24.9%, Choices Matter 21%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Story Rich 10.6%
- #17 Duskpunk
84% matchVery Positive92% of 147 reviews2025
Dev: Clockwork Bird
Windows · Mac · Linux
A gritty dice-driven RPG, in a steampunk city. You escaped the War, but how to survive? Explore the city. Build up your skills. Decide who to trust. Choose carefully: you might just spark a revolution!
Why similar: Political 23.7% ★, Dystopian 19.8%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Multiple Endings 10%, Story Rich 9.6%
- #18 Grizzly Man
85% matchVery Positive90% of 58 reviews2024
Dev: LCB Game Studio
Windows
1983, Alaska... During the Salmon Run, a deadly figure known as The Grizzly Man terrorizes a group of tourists led by Bob, an amnesiac former Man in Black. Survive the journey or become the catch of the day in this breathtaking pixel-art interactive fiction with heart-pounding pace!
Why similar: Thriller 25.8%, Point & Click 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Adventure 6.6%
- #19 Interrogation: You will be deceived
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 369 reviews2019
Dev: Critique GamingPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
As a detective tasked with bringing down a dangerous terrorist group, you fight on two fronts: interrogating suspects & managing your team and its reputation. With time running out, how far will you go to stop these criminals? Manipulation, threats or even torture? Does the end justify the means?
Why similar: Noir 33.6%, Political 31.9% ★, Choices Matter 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 7.4%, Story Rich 5.9%
- #20 Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Purgatory
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 101 reviews2024
Dev: Different Tales
Windows · Mac · Linux
A choice-driven RPG thriller set in the World of Darkness universe. Step into the shoes of Samira, a young werewolf refugee in Poland, as she battles dark forces and loneliness, caught between rage and despair. How will your story unfold?
Why similar: Thriller 26.8%, Surreal 17.2%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
- #21 Epimutation
83% matchVery Positive95% of 63 reviews2025
Dev: Barbieronpa
Windows · Mac · Linux
399 days ago, the world ended. Epimutation is a horror visual novel that follows seven survivors as they attempt to navigate life in the apocalypse. Make life or death decisions, form bonds with your fellow survivors, and attempt to unravel the mystery behind the outbreak.
Why similar: Point & Click 18.2%, Thriller 18.1%, Choices Matter 14%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%
- #22 Nobody Wants to Die
82% matchVery Positive84% of 6,506 reviews2024
Dev: Critical Hit GamesPub: PLAION
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Lose yourself in the dystopian world of New York, 2329; immortality comes at a price that someone has to pay. In this interactive noir story, lead the investigation using advanced technology, as Detective James Karra who risks it all in pursuit of a serial killer targeting the city’s elite.
Why similar: Noir 25.5%, Thriller 17.5%, Dystopian 15.7%, Narration 12.4%, Choices Matter 8.3%
- #23 One's Own Exile
81% matchVery Positive100% of 394 reviews2025
Dev: Updog Software
Windows
Follow Sybil in her pursuit for survival, having to sacrifice everything - her culture, her identity, her values - to achieve a single objective: escape from a place that is constantly trying to kill her. A short game about persecution and identity.
Why similar: Dystopian 26.3%, Multiple Endings 18.8%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Story Rich 13.3%, Atmospheric 8.5%
- #24 Blake: The Visual Novel
82% matchVery Positive90% of 62 reviews2021
Dev: Ori MeesPub: LegendOri Productions
Windows · Mac
Graphic Novel meets Visual Novel in this story-rich, choice-driven thriller. Experience Blake’s journey as he encounters a clandestine nemesis, sparking a series of events that force him to choose between losing his sanity or rising to the challenge. Make the right decisions and save New Stone.
Why similar: Noir 38.3%, Thriller 21.2%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
- #25 Playing Kafka
79% matchVery Positive95% of 317 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: Surreal 25.7%, Point & Click 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%, Choices Matter 8.9%
- #26 Man I Just Wanna Go Home
79% matchVery Positive95% of 685 reviews2024
Dev: JZPS Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 1.3 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Man I Just Wanna Go Home is an "MSPaint-noir" visual novel with 13 endings, a unique visual style and a killer 80s inspired soundtrack. The story revolves around a delivery person stranded in an unfamiliar part of the city under the devastating rain. All he wants is to get home. Help him!
Why similar: Noir 34.1%, Thriller 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%
- #27 TOBOR
80% matchVery Positive94% of 86 reviews2023
Dev: Cogoo
Windows · Mac
A psychological surveillance adventure. Observe 16 real-time CCTV feeds as TOBOR, a spy unit uncovering secrets in a dystopian bunker. Monitor suspects, collect evidence, and choose who survives. Multiple endings.
Why similar: Political 26.1% ★, Dystopian 17.2%, Surreal 13.4%, Choices Matter 10%, Interactive Fiction 8.3%
- #28 Save Koch
81% matchMixed64% of 154 reviews2019
Dev: Wooden Monkeys
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You are local mafia kingpin, Jeffrey Koch. Your empire in New Kandinski is in total chaos because an unknown Mastermind has decided to take your place. And they’ve planted a sleeper Mole inside your operation. It’s time to act, but you need to act smart.
Why similar: Political 27.6% ★, Choices Matter 13.3%, Difficult 12%, Thriller 10.1%, Point & Click 7.9%
- #29 Lightracer: For Judge
77% matchVery Positive94% of 467 reviews2025
Dev: Smartmelon Games
Windows
In a dystopian future, as The Judge with immense power, you journey through space to find hope in a divided society. This sci-fi adventure explores hope amidst adversity.
Why similar: Noir 25.5%, Dystopian 17%, Surreal 13.1%, Point & Click 12%, Choices Matter 10.1%
- #30 BlightFog
78% matchVery Positive87% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: Zakroutil
Windows
Journey across a dying world. Manage your resources. Build relationships with anthropomorphic characters. Find a new home or become a fuel drinking madman.
Why similar: Point & Click 31.1%, Choices Matter 19.4%, Multiple Endings 15.4%, RPG 12.5%, Story Rich 11.5%
- #31 Minds Beneath Us
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,416 reviews2024
Dev: BearBoneStudio
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.
Why similar: Dystopian 23.6%, Point & Click 14.4%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
- #32 Organs Please
76% matchVery Positive84% of 320 reviews2023
Dev: TECHHOMEPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A dark and satirical management sim, where you take control of a recycling factory with a twist: it recycles humans. Your job is to decide who gets to escape our dying planet in a cozy spaceship and who sacrifices their blood, sweat and tears for humanity. Literally.
Why similar: Political 25.3% ★, Dystopian 18%, Point & Click 13.7%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Survival 9.4%
- #33 Survivor
78% matchMixed64% of 115 reviews2019
Dev: Reija Meriläinen
Windows · Mac
Outwit, Outplay, Outcast.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 41.3%, Adventure 32.2%, Story Rich 26.5%
- #34 The Descendant
76% matchVery Positive89% of 7,313 reviews2016
Dev: Gaming Corps ABPub: Microids Indie
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
In THE DESCENDANT, the end of the world is only the start. With what remains of humanity protected in underground Ark facilities, your mission is to keep survivors alive, while discovering a far greater conspiracy buried within Ark-01.
Why similar: Adventure 90.5%, Point & Click 5.7%, Story Rich 1.9%, Choices Matter 1.7%, Singleplayer 0.1%
- #35 The Underground Man
77% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,389 reviews2016
Dev: Mehsoft
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Moscow: somewhere in the near future. The city and perhaps the Earth's surface has turned into a radioactive ash. Those who decided that they could not exist in such conditions began to live under the ground.
Why similar: Story Rich 22.7%, Survival 19.8%, Difficult 15.1%, Atmospheric 12.5%, RPG 11.9%
- #36 The Captain
75% matchVery Positive93% of 318 reviews2021
Dev: Sysiac GamesPub: Tomorrow Corporation
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
In this retro-inspired adventure game you will have to race back home across the galaxy. Collect new friends on your journey. Make new enemies. You won't be able to save everyone. Who will you leave behind? Which civilizations will you save - or destroy - along the way?
Why similar: Point & Click 27.8%, Choices Matter 19.6%, Multiple Endings 15.6%, RPG 10.8%, Story Rich 10.6%
- #37 Legends of Savvarah: Time of Pariah
73% matchVery Positive98% of 133 reviews2024
Dev: ST Sinovar
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are Hidu, a beastman mercenary in a port city. You must survive one very bad day. How? That’s entirely up to you. There are countless ways for events to unfold — and 25 endings.
Why similar: Narration 18.9%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
- #38 Pathologic 2
74% matchVery Positive92% of 11,869 reviews2019
Dev: Ice-Pick LodgePub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.
Why similar: Difficult 17.2%, Surreal 16.2%, Dystopian 16%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Survival 13.1%
- #39 Heading Out
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 668 reviews2024
Dev: Serious SimPub: Crunching Koalas
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Flee your fear and carve your story. Blaze a trail across mythic American highways, where choices twist your tale and danger’s always in the rearview mirror. With roguelike routes, limited resources, and breakneck chases, this isn’t just a drive—it’s your legend in the making.
Why similar: Noir 29%, Narration 20.5%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Multiple Endings 9.3%, Interactive Fiction 8.3%
- #40 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
72% matchVery Positive90% of 9,503 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.0 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 33.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Story Rich 12.4%, RPG 11.7%
- #41 American Arcadia
70% matchVery Positive94% of 3,860 reviews2023
Dev: Out of the Blue GamesPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
American Arcadia is a cinematic puzzle game that combines a 2.5D platformer and first-person game to tell the tale of a thrilling escape. Experience the extraordinary story of Trevor, an average man escaping from the world's most popular reality tv show.
Why similar: Thriller 36.5%, Point & Click 29.8%, Story Rich 9.4%, Atmospheric 7.9%, 2D 7%
- #42 STAY
74% matchMixed68% of 566 reviews2018
Dev: Appnormals Team
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Award-winning, innovative puzzle-adventure. By communicating through your PC, you must help a kidnapped man escape captivity - in real-time. While you sleep, he is alone. When you return to your PC he has hope. Your encouragement and advice will be the difference between his salvation or despair.
Why similar: Thriller 28%, Choices Matter 16.4%, Narration 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%, Interactive Fiction 8.2%
- #43 Liquidators
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,184 reviews2020
Dev: Gray Unit
Windows
Chernobyl, USSR, 1986. Three nuclear plant workers go on a daring mission to prevent a radioactive fallout that would affect half of Europe. Every moment is permanent, and all is at stake.
Why similar: Perma Death 21%, Thriller 20.9%, Surreal 18.1%, Survival 11.8%, Choices Matter 10.3%
- #44 The Flayed Man
69% matchVery Positive92% of 363 reviews2025
Dev: Snoring Dog Games
Windows
The Flayed Man is a short narrative-driven point and click horror game. Awaking without memories (or skin), you must uncover the sins of the past, pass judgement, and decide your fate in this macabre adventure.
Why similar: Point & Click 35.7%, Multiple Endings 17.6%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Story Rich 10.6%, Atmospheric 8.8%
- #45 Betrayal At Club Low
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 557 reviews2022
Dev: Cosmo D Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Tonight you're on a rescue mission, infiltrating a nightclub that was once a coffin factory. Will you succeed? Will you fail? Or will your night take an unexpected detour? Roll the Pizza Dice and find out!
Why similar: Noir 31%, Surreal 17.2%, Point & Click 16.1%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.3%
- #46 BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 684 reviews2020
Dev: THE BROTHERHOOD
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION is an isometric, point & click adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic future. Explore an unscene landscape, solve puzzles, meet new friends and make powerful enemies, mediate conflicts and fight for your life as you unravel the secrets of the desolate world around you.
Why similar: Point & Click 33.5%, Multiple Endings 16.9%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Story Rich 12.3%, Atmospheric 9.5%
- #47 Changeover: Decisions
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 51 reviews2018
Dev: KHB-Soft
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your character has lost his memory and finds himself in a godforsaken place. An adventure with a nonlinear storyline, lots of choices, and a unique combat system. Could he get out alive?
Why similar: Difficult 69%, Adventure 31%
- #48 The Apocalypse Sacrifice
68% matchVery Positive95% of 247 reviews2024
Dev: FOG GAMESPub: INDIECN
Windows
As an adventurer, you have unintentionally uncovered a horrifying secret hidden in the town for years. Every choice you make will shape the story and become part of your personality test. Will you be the hero who saves the villagers, or will you sacrifice them to create your own legend?
Why similar: Thriller 27.7%, Point & Click 21.3%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
- #49 Wait! Life is Beautiful! Prologue
71% matchVery Positive87% of 439 reviews2020
Dev: [DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]Pub: GameNet
Windows
W!LiB! Prologue allows you to try and live one day of Will's life in trying to save people on the legendary Suicide Bridge. Would you be able to find the right words? How many souls could you save in one day? And how would you feel if you're not good enough?..
Why similar: Thriller 22.8%, Point & Click 17.8%, Difficult 16.3%, Survival 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.5%
- #50 Knell of St. Godhrkar
69% matchVery Positive94% of 1,530 reviews2021
Dev: 二律背反Pub: 旅人计划
Windows · Mac
In this game, you can watch as 7 protagonists come to a crossroad, facing their own destiny. You will witness their own choices and the blood-splattering consequence they have on one another. There is no way out except to plunge them into the abyss...
Why similar: Noir 36.7%, RPG 15.7%, Story Rich 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Adventure 8.6%
- #51 Overland
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 557 reviews2019
Dev: Finji
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Take care of a group of travelers on a post-apocalyptic road-trip across the United States in this turn-based survival game.
Why similar: Survival 100%
- #52 Sky Caravan
68% 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 22%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Point & Click 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, RPG 10.6%
- #53 Breakout 13
65% matchVery Positive88% of 7,394 reviews2023
Dev: ALT Lab
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Breakout 13 is a thrilling narrative game with interactive cinematic experience. Based on true stories. Embark on a revealing journey as you attempt to break free from a negligent correctional institute and carve out your own path to justice. Each decision you make shapes the story.
Why similar: Point & Click 21.5%, Choices Matter 18%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Multiple Endings 13.4%
- #54 We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe
67% matchVery Positive87% of 127 reviews2023
Dev: Act Zero
Windows
‘We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe’ is a socially engaged, text-based RPG about a journalist looking for his big break by uncovering the plights of refugees travelling from Africa to Europe. It is a story inspired by true events.
Why similar: Political 35.9% ★, Choices Matter 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%
- #55 Need to Know
70% matchMixed67% of 293 reviews2018
Dev: Monomyth Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Welcome to the Department of Liberty. Ascend the ranks of the NSA-like surveillance agency and decide: will you stand up for privacy, or help create an unstoppable police state? Spy on people’s deepest secrets, pick apart their private lives and decide their fate in this modern surveillance thriller.
Why similar: Political 62.3% ★, Point & Click 18.4%, Adventure 11.3%, Story Rich 8%
- #56 Sub-Verge
66% matchMostly Positive74% of 53 reviews2025
Dev: Interactive Tragedy, LimitedPub: Pantaloon
Windows · Mac
Conversation is a dangerous game. Manipulate a fractured band of renegade divers to reach the depths of this short narrative puzzle. Uncover alliances and expose betrayals — before something horrific from the dark abyss silences you all. Don’t let the conversation get too deep.
Why similar: Survival 17.7%, Choices Matter 16.3%, Dystopian 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Story Rich 10%
- #57 CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience
66% matchVery Positive91% of 2,754 reviews2020
Dev: Delve Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
CHANGE is an award nominated homeless survival experience set in a randomly created city with rogue-like elements. Explore, survive, earn perks, find items & kindness to develop your character & escape to a new life. Over 7 years of development & over 200 updates so far!
Why similar: Political 33.8% ★, Choices Matter 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Survival 11.5%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
- #58 The Joker's Game
63% matchVery Positive87% of 493 reviews2025
Dev: All In Game Co., Limited
Windows · Mac
"The Joker's Game" is an FMV crime battle royale. Jack, drowning in debt, joins a lethal game. Critical choices, even small ones, shape outcomes. Outwit rivals, uncover truths, or perish? Every move decides survival... or the deadly prize.
Why similar: Thriller 31.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, RPG 9.4%
- #59 A War of a Madman's Making
65% matchVery Positive96% of 101 reviews2024
Dev: Witching Metal Prod.
Windows
You are subordinate to the deranged dictator and must plan his doomed invasion in this text-based RPG / Visual Novel. Navigate the shark-filled waters of the Great Leader's presidential cabinet, try to save your family, and survive the purges in a world of power-hungry leaders and nuclear warfare.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Choices Matter 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Story Rich 9.9%
- #60 Justice.exe
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 102 reviews2022
Dev: Late Game ClutchPub: Gameclaw Studio
Windows · Mac
Justice.exe is a dialogue-heavy dystopian legal drama in which you defend sentient AI in court. Discover key story elements in dialogue, build your case by studying arguments, and engage the opposing counsel in wits, charisma and skullduggery. Small choices might alter the fate of your clients.
Why similar: Political 28.6% ★, Dystopian 18.2%, Point & Click 12.6%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Interactive Fiction 7.7%