- #1 Survive the Blackout
97% matchMixed65% of 88 reviews2020
Dev: Baby Bison Games
Windows
Survive the Blackout is a narrative survival game set in a dark post-apocalyptic world. Choose Your Own Adventure gameplay, squad-level management, exploration, scavenging, and difficult moral choices. A modern-day tribute to The Oregon Trail.
Why similar: Survival 19.9%, Difficult 15.4%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Point & Click 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%
- #2 The Change Architect
96% matchMixed65% of 55 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 20.4%, Choices Matter 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
- #3 Ashwalkers
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 200 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 25.8%, Choices Matter 18.3%, Multiple Endings 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%
- #4 End of Lines
95% matchVery Positive93% of 72 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 24.1%, Choices Matter 16.4%, Survival 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
- #5 Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,773 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 31.3%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Survival 14.6%, Thriller 12.3%, Story Rich 8.1%
- #6 Gods Will Be Watching
94% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,945 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 21.8%, Difficult 20.3%, Thriller 19%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Survival 9.3%
- #7 Underchoice
92% matchMostly Positive76% of 123 reviews2026
Dev: TG IndiePub: Targem Games
Windows
Become the overseer and shape the fate of those who come knocking at the door. Each decision you make, whether it is to let in a stranger, to use your resources on something, or to risk the safety of the bunker.
Why similar: Dystopian 27.7%, Choices Matter 17.4%, Difficult 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
- #8 Survive In Russia
93% 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 18.7%, Survival 17.6%, Multiple Endings 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Story Rich 10.4%
- #9 The Pale Beyond
91% matchVery Positive89% of 2,234 reviews2023
Dev: Saltstone StudiosPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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 20%, Difficult 18%, Choices Matter 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%, Interactive Fiction 8.6%
- #10 ICY: Frostbite Edition
91% matchVery Positive86% of 402 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 34.2%, RPG 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Story Rich 10.4%
- #11 Epimutation
89% matchVery Positive96% of 73 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%, Thriller 17.5%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%
- #12 The Outcast Lovers
90% matchMixed66% of 86 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 20.1%, Choices Matter 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
- #13 Help Will Come Tomorrow
89% matchVery Positive80% of 941 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: Difficult 23.1%, Survival 21.6%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Story Rich 9.2%, Roguelike 8.1%
- #14 Man I Just Wanna Go Home
87% matchVery Positive95% of 765 reviews2024
Dev: JZPS Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 1.2 hrs≥1hr: 39%
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 34.4%, Thriller 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
- #15 Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Purgatory
88% matchVery Positive80% of 110 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 26.7%, Surreal 17.2%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
- #16 Betrayal At Club Low
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 584 reviews2022
Dev: Cosmo D Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 28.4%, Surreal 15.7%, Point & Click 14.9%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.7%
- #17 Grizzly Man
85% matchVery Positive90% of 68 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 25.6%, Point & Click 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Adventure 6.8%
- #18 Blake: The Visual Novel
86% matchVery Positive90% of 63 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 38.5%, Thriller 21.1%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
- #19 One's Own Exile
83% matchVery Positive100% of 479 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%, Multiple Endings 18.8%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Story Rich 13.5%, Atmospheric 8.4%
- #20 Playing Kafka
84% matchVery Positive95% of 345 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 25.3%, Point & Click 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%, Choices Matter 8.5%
- #21 Home Behind
84% matchVery Positive84% of 6,144 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 43.6%, RPG 21.3%, Adventure 14.8%, Difficult 9.1%, Roguelike 4%
- #22 Pathologic 2
82% matchVery Positive92% of 12,156 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 17.6%, Surreal 16.1%, Dystopian 16%, Survival 13.2%, Choices Matter 13%
- #23 Nobody Wants to Die
80% matchVery Positive83% of 7,373 reviews2024
Dev: Critical Hit GamesPub: PLAION
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 29.3%, Thriller 19.9%, Dystopian 18.1%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Interactive Fiction 7.8%
- #24 Minds Beneath Us
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,307 reviews2024
Dev: BearBoneStudio
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
- #25 Cult Vacui
79% matchVery Positive98% of 56 reviews2026
Dev: LBRTY gamesPub: Dionous Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Cult Vacui is a horror point-and-click adventure with survival and time management elements where your choices could keep you alive... or not.
Why similar: Thriller 26.5%, Point & Click 20%, Survival 15.9%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Story Rich 7.5%
- #26 BlightFog
81% matchVery Positive87% of 63 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 27.6%, Choices Matter 21.3%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, RPG 12.6%, Story Rich 12%
- #27 The Descendant
81% matchVery Positive89% of 7,313 reviews2016
Dev: Gaming Corps ABPub: Microids Indie
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.6 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 90.8%, Point & Click 5.6%, Story Rich 1.9%, Choices Matter 1.6%, Singleplayer 0.1%
- #28 Survivor
82% matchMixed64% of 117 reviews2019
Dev: Reija Meriläinen
Windows · Mac
Outwit, Outplay, Outcast.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 40.7%, Adventure 32.9%, Story Rich 26.4%
- #29 Lightracer: For Judge
77% matchVery Positive93% of 499 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 24.8%, Dystopian 16.5%, Surreal 12.7%, Point & Click 11.7%, Choices Matter 9.6%
- #30 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
76% matchVery Positive88% of 12,656 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 33.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Story Rich 12.5%, RPG 12%
- #31 The Underground Man
78% 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 22.6%, Survival 19.9%, Difficult 15.4%, Atmospheric 12.3%, RPG 12%
- #32 Overland
78% matchMostly Positive75% of 573 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%
- #33 NEO Scavenger
77% matchVery Positive90% of 5,410 reviews2014
Dev: Blue Bottle Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.
Why similar: Survival 35.1%, Perma Death 27.9%, Difficult 15.4%, Roguelike 9.4%, RPG 9.3%
- #34 Liquidators
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,226 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 20.5%, Thriller 20.2%, Surreal 17.7%, Survival 11.7%, Choices Matter 9.8%
- #35 Citizen Sleeper
74% matchVery Positive92% of 10,481 reviews2022
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
Why similar: Dystopian 26.8%, Point & Click 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, RPG 9.1%
- #36 Heading Out
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 703 reviews2024
Dev: Serious SimPub: Crunching Koalas
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 34.5%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%
- #37 Duskpunk
73% matchVery Positive92% of 182 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: Dystopian 24.6%, Choices Matter 17.6%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Story Rich 12.1%, RPG 12.1%
- #38 For the People
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 815 reviews2020
Dev: Brezg StudioPub: 101XP
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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: Noir 29.1%, Dystopian 16%, Point & Click 12.5%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%
- #39 The Reeve
73% matchVery Positive87% of 53 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: Choices Matter 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Multiple Endings 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, RPG 12.4%
- #40 The Flayed Man
70% matchVery Positive91% of 383 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 36.1%, Multiple Endings 17.4%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Story Rich 10.7%, Atmospheric 8.8%
- #41 Insurmountable
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 981 reviews2021
Dev: ByteRockers' GamesPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Confront various terrains as a lonely mountaineer and endure the countless dangers of climbing! Many tough decisions await you in a risky environment. Make your way up and down the mountain, overcoming insurmountable heights!
Why similar: Perma Death 33.2%, Survival 20.3%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Roguelike 9.4%, Atmospheric 7.6%
- #42 Let Bions Be Bygones
72% matchMixed70% of 133 reviews2024
Dev: Bohemian PulpPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
Why similar: Noir 29%, Point & Click 13.6%, Dystopian 11.5%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Interactive Fiction 8.4%
- #43 Knell of St. Godhrkar
71% matchVery Positive93% of 1,575 reviews2021
Dev: -二律背反-
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 34.5%, RPG 14.9%, Story Rich 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Adventure 8.3%
- #44 March of the Living
74% matchMostly Positive71% of 536 reviews2016
Dev: Machine 22Pub: Creaky Corpse Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Roguelike-like inspired by FTL and popular zombie fiction. Guide a group of survivors to a rumoured safe haven.
Why similar: Perma Death 30.9%, Survival 18.4%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Multiple Endings 8.7%, Roguelike 7.6%
- #45 Wait! Life is Beautiful! Prologue
71% matchVery Positive87% of 441 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 22.6%, Point & Click 17.9%, Difficult 16.6%, Survival 12.3%, Choices Matter 11.2%
- #46 The Apocalypse Sacrifice
69% matchVery Positive95% of 248 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 27.6%, Point & Click 21.7%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, Multiple Endings 9.8%
- #47 American Arcadia
67% matchVery Positive94% of 4,205 reviews2023
Dev: Out of the Blue GamesPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 34.7%, Point & Click 28.8%, Story Rich 9.1%, Atmospheric 7.5%, 2D 6.5%
- #48 BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 695 reviews2020
Dev: THE BROTHERHOOD
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 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 33.9%, Multiple Endings 16.7%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Story Rich 12.3%, Atmospheric 9.4%
- #49 Breakout 13
68% matchVery Positive88% of 7,474 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 20.7%, Choices Matter 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Multiple Endings 12.7%
- #50 STAY
72% matchMixed68% of 569 reviews2018
Dev: Appnormals Team
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.5 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 30.4%, Choices Matter 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Story Rich 9%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%
- #51 Sky Caravan
70% 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 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Point & Click 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, RPG 10.7%
- #52 The Joker's Game
67% matchVery Positive83% of 512 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 30.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, RPG 9.5%
- #53 CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience
68% matchVery Positive91% of 2,841 reviews2020
Dev: Delve Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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: Choices Matter 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Survival 15.7%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Roguelike 10.9%
- #54 1979 Revolution: Black Friday
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,087 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: Choices Matter 28%, Point & Click 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Story Rich 10.1%
- #55 The Dawn is Inevitable
68% matchVery Positive89% of 109 reviews2023
Dev: Last Spring
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Dawn is Inevitable is an interactive crime drama/neo-western novel inspired by classic RPG games. A mysterious stranger is forced to hide in a village called Rassvet. This place is isolated from the outside world for the whole winter and keeps many dark secrets.
Why similar: Choices Matter 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Multiple Endings 15.8%, RPG 12.2%, Story Rich 9.1%
- #56 Deserter: Prologue
66% matchVery Positive95% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: AskaLot Games
Windows
Deserter: Prologue is a free stealth-RPG game. Use stealth, cunning, and thieving skills to escape from a military camp in the heart of a dystopian war.
Why similar: Dystopian 30.3%, Survival 19.1%, Choices Matter 15.2%, RPG 14.3%, Story Rich 9.2%
- #57 Changeover: Decisions
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 52 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 68.9%, Adventure 31.1%
- #58 Broken Roads
67% matchMixed53% of 459 reviews2024
Dev: Drop Bear BytesPub: Versus Evil
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Broken Roads is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in a decaying, post-apocalyptic version of the vast Australian Outback, featuring a genre-redefining morality system. Survive, form bonds, and make tough choices that will shape your dangerous yet mesmerizing 25+ hour journey across the wilds.
Why similar: Choices Matter 27.1%, RPG 21.6%, Multiple Endings 17.8%, Story Rich 14.3%, Adventure 6.9%
- #59 The Night Fisherman
67% 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: Point & Click 20.6%, Choices Matter 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
- #60 Primordia
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,432 reviews2012
Dev: Wormwood StudiosPub: Wadjet Eye Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Life has ceased. Man is but a myth. And now, even the machines have begun to fail. Lead Horatio Nullbuilt and his sarcastic sidekick Crispin on a journey through the crumbling world of Primordia, facing malfunctioning robots, ancient secrets, and an implacable, power-hungry foe.
Why similar: Point & Click 34.6%, Noir 22.5%, Dystopian 12%, Multiple Endings 7.2%, Adventure 6.2%