- #1 Recluses
97% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2020
Dev: Timofei UsikovPub: cd-doma production
Windows
More than 30 orthodox sectarians underground. They locked themselves in man-made caves. You're a negotiator. Your task is to rescue recluses before Apocalypse.
Why similar: Text-Based 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Choices Matter 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%
- #2 Roadwarden
96% matchVery Positive94% of 4,905 reviews2022
Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, RPG 8.5%, Choices Matter 7.1%
- #3 Emily is Away
96% matchVery Positive89% of 32,165 reviews2015
Dev: Kyle Seeley
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 19.8 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Story Rich 11%, Text-Based 9.3%
- #4 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
95% 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 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Text-Based 13.5%, Visual Novel 11%
- #5 Worn Out
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Morimichi
Windows
A presence lingers in the dark, waiting. It asks. It doubts. It knows. What happened? Why are you here? Do you deserve this? The answers are yours to decide. What you choose matters. Every path leads somewhere. But will you like where it takes you?
Why similar: Text-Based 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Choices Matter 10.3%
- #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: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Text-Based 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Choices Matter 8.9%
- #7 恐怖夜話
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ひめこ
Windows
Late at night, a teacher shares two bizarre tales: a corpse stuffed in a sheet, and an abnormal presence in the mountains. It was just a ghost story, but a creepy "sense of unease" lurks within. A short psychological horror visual novel offering a dense, terrifying experience in about an hour.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.4%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Choices Matter 13.7%
- #8 Midnight Road
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dreamlight Games Studios SL
Windows
Embark on a nocturnal road movie full of mysteries, paranormal phenomena, and an unexpected destination. Choose your answers carefully... and you might just find a happy ending.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Mystery 14.4%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%
- #9 Whispers From The Rift
91% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Text-Based 18.9%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Choices Matter 11.3%
- #10 The Dark Egg Demo
90% matchVery Positive96% of 226 reviews2022
Dev: Transcend Pixels
Windows
A surrealist text-based RPG. You will explore an island, solve puzzles, and fight enemies, all in your attempt to get the Dark Egg.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Psychological Horror 8.9%, Choices Matter 8.8%
- #11 VERSUS: The Elite Trials
91% matchPositive88% of 33 reviews2016
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Will you infiltrate the gods' Elite Courte, stealing their superpowers, or turn double agent and join them, taking your place among the divine?
Why similar: Text-Based 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, RPG 9.1%
- #12 CAFE 0 ~The Sleeping Beast~ REMASTERED
89% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: ROSEVERTE MYSTERYPub: ROSEVERTE
Windows · Mac · Linux
The supernatural mystery visual novel, "CAFE 0 ~The Sleeping Beast~" returns as a remastered version. Will the maid, Corliss, find out why she died within the 7 days time limit?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Mystery 11.4%, Text-Based 11.2%
- #13 Follow the Black Kitten
89% matchVery Positive84% of 67 reviews2022
Dev: Total
Windows
You buy a laptop with your hands. You find an interactive collection of short stories on your laptop and something else. Or someone? What will all this lead to?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Text-Based 15%, RPG 9.6%, Adventure 7.6%
- #14 Serania - Path of the Scion
88% 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 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.5%
- #15 Tower of the Ice Lich
87% matchPositive100% of 17 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 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Choices Matter 10.2%
- #16 Parasite in Love
86% matchVery Positive94% of 52 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 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Adventure 7.3%
- #17 Under the Heavens: Warring States Saga
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: April May
Windows
A choice-driven narrative RPG set in China’s Warring States period. Rise from a nameless soldier to a legendary general through decisions with permanent consequences. Death is final. History remembers only the survivors.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%
- #18 Taina's Cursed Legacy
84% matchPositive82% of 33 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Text-Based 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Visual Novel 13.7%, RPG 6.8%
- #19 The Peresmeshnik
85% matchVery Positive93% of 107 reviews2020
Dev: Sean Arnold
Windows
It is said that the last frontier is space, but the crew of the Soviet Frigate, The Peresmeshnik, is about to discover that the sea still hides a terrifying secret. Waiting to be found.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Psychological Horror 9.1%, Choices Matter 7.9%
- #20 Vanakan
84% 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 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Text-Based 20.9%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Adventure 8.9%
- #21 The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Verse and Vision
Windows
A narrative-driven psychological visual novel where every floor of an elevator reveals a key moment from your past. Face your regrets, uncover forgotten memories, and make choices that shape your future. Will you find closure, or remain trapped in your own mind?
Why similar: Text-Based 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Visual Novel 18.6%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%
- #22 PIGBLUE
82% matchVery Positive93% of 84 reviews2023
Dev: Fatih Mert
Windows · Mac · Linux
A stranger arrives at a quiet and isolated town... PIGBLUE.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.4%, Visual Novel 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Mystery 11.7%, Psychological Horror 8%
- #23 Your Future Self
82% matchVery Positive81% of 95 reviews2019
Dev: Contortionist Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Psychological Horror 10.2%, Visual Novel 8.9%, Mystery 8.5%
- #24 蛙電話 Frog Telephone
81% matchNo user reviews2028
Dev: Acid House Studio
Windows
Frog Telephone (蛙电话 / 蛙電話) is a folklore mystery adventure game rooted in computer science concepts. You play as an amnesiac phone operator at a Tokyo travel agency, reconstructing shattered reality through the spin of a dial, exploring the terrifying truth hidden behind Gero City's mystery.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 17.9%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Text-Based 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Story Rich 9.5%
- #25 Wildwake
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonhaze Games
Windows
Stranded after a plane crash in a freezing wilderness, you must manage body temperature, injury, and sanity as every decision shapes your survival.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Psychological Horror 12.2%
- #26 Your Story: Games with Death
80% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Text-Based 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.4%
- #27 Grave Knight
79% 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 18.8%, Visual Novel 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Text-Based 13.1%, Choices Matter 12%
- #28 Be Honest
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rebel Jester Studios
Windows
The horror personality q̷̦̈́͊u̸̠͗i̴͈͈̊̈z̴͈͇̳͗͌
Why similar: Text-Based 21.2%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Visual Novel 8.8%
- #29 The Secret Of Greenwood Isle
77% 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 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Choices Matter 10.4%
- #30 All (Too) Good Things
78% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Text-Based 19.8%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Choices Matter 8.2%
- #31 Do 11
78% 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 15.7%, Text-Based 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.9%
- #32 Mass of Consumption
76% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Text-Based 13.5%, Choices Matter 10.9%
- #33 SAS:绝响诡计 | Case 0 风暴蝴蝶
75% matchVery Positive86% of 184 reviews2025
Dev: 秦遥
Windows
这是一款以中式校园为背景的推理类文字游戏,你将扮演一名高中生司空茂,在开学第一天目击密室杀人事件的现场,并经过调查和推理解决案件,找出真正的犯人和真相背后更深的阴谋。但在享受侦探游戏的同时,请千万不要忽视学习。保持情绪稳定,尽量维持活下去的念头...记住,你的成绩,永远比案件要更重要。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Text-Based 15.4%, Visual Novel 13%, Psychological Horror 10.2%
- #34 The Fifth Horseman
77% match7 user reviews86% of 7 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 18%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, RPG 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.5%
- #35 Dr. Kinderwood's Asylum
75% 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 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Text-Based 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%
- #36 Not It: Spookiest Edition
76% 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 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Visual Novel 13%, Psychological Horror 10.1%
- #37 The Music at the end of the World
74% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Text-Based 16%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Choices Matter 9.7%
- #38 Herald of the Mists
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FromNiki
Windows
A narrative-driven RPG where every dice roll shapes your fate. Step into the role of the Queen's Herald and traverse a mist-shrouded realm to uncover the fate of her lost army. Will your choices uphold loyalty, or lead you down a path of betrayal? The secrets of the mists await.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.5%
- #39 Imperial Bureaucracy Hero
73% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Visual Novel 15%, Text-Based 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.2%
- #40 奇天烈相談ダイヤル
72% matchVery Positive84% of 323 reviews2024
Dev: 法螺会
Windows · Mac
矛盾を見つけ、相談者の悩みを解決する怪異判定アドベンチャー
Why similar: Text-Based 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Adventure 9%, Mystery 8.8%
- #41 Penrose
73% matchPositive88% of 32 reviews2023
Dev: doublespeak games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.
Why similar: Text-Based 20%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Psychological Horror 6.8%
- #42 Stay Alive For Me
71% match8 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: OneRoomFilms
Windows
Survive a gripping psychological thriller in this visual novel. Make critical decisions, face a disturbed captor, and experience multiple chilling endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Text-Based 13.3%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.1%
- #43 i feel very lonely and i don't remember myself
71% matchVery Positive95% of 136 reviews2023
Dev: Ricardo Cancela
Windows
A short sci-fi visual novel about four scientists trapped in an underground lab. Explore their chat records to uncover the mysteries of Inturg Technologies. How can they escape their doom?
Why similar: Visual Novel 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Mystery 15%, Text-Based 12.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.3%
- #44 180 Files: The Aegis Project
72% matchPositive92% of 37 reviews2020
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Uncover a web of evil as a superspy! Break rules, break hearts–don't break cover.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, RPG 9.2%
- #45 Affairs of the Court: Choice of Romance
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 74 reviews2016
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Plunge into court politics and change the course of history, or pursue a love affair that rocks the kingdom to its foundations!
Why similar: Text-Based 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Choices Matter 14.4%, RPG 9%
- #46 空野まなみの事件録 ― 空白のカルテ ―
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rabbitly
Windows
Medical clerk Manami Sorano discovers a medical record of a non-existent patient. The next day at a hot spring inn, a murder occurs—the victim’s name matches the record. Coincidence or fate? Using her skills and medical records, she unravels the truth in this mystery adventure!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.7%, Text-Based 24.4%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Mystery 13.3%, Adventure 6.7%
- #47 貴方が狼カードデス!
69% matchVery Positive93% of 56 reviews2023
Dev: toRipota
Windows
Accuse and execute the owner of the werewolf card. It's a 5-minute round of a repeated death game in the werewolf genre.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.1%, Text-Based 21.3%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Mystery 9.5%
- #48 retrospect
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: pankuzufactory
Windows · Mac
"retrospect" is a novel game consisting of five chapters. Trace the memories of the ghosts and learn about them. That is the only mourning you can do.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.1%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Adventure 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 9%
- #49 Sorcery! Parts 1 and 2
71% matchVery Positive89% of 739 reviews2016
Dev: inkle Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
An epic adventure in a land of monsters, traps and magic. Journey across the deadly Shamutanti Hills and through Kharé, Cityport of Thieves. Armed with your sword and over fifty spells with weird and wonderful effects, embark on a narrative adventure of a thousand choices where every one is remembered.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Text-Based 12.5%, RPG 9.4%
- #50 Samurai of Hyuga Book 5
70% matchPositive89% of 27 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Back from hell and into Hyuga, enemies and allies clash in this epic sequel! Overcome ultimate despair or be consumed by it: the choice is yours, ronin!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Text-Based 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Visual Novel 12.7%, RPG 10.5%
- #51 Contra Spem Spero
67% matchPositive96% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: DADZINGO
Windows · Linux
Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Choices Matter 13%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%
- #52 The Golden Rose: Book One
69% matchVery Positive90% of 158 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore an alternative medieval Europe in this low-fantasy epic adventure! How far are you willing to go to take back your stolen treasure?
Why similar: Text-Based 22%, Interactive Fiction 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Choices Matter 10.5%, RPG 10.2%
- #53 Whispers of Gold
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Falling Raven
Windows
In pursuit of coin, hired dagger Arthur finds himself embroiled in conspiracy involving the daughter of a noble House. Who is really pulling the strings behind the scenes?
Why similar: Visual Novel 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Mystery 13.6%
- #54 The Beresford family
68% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Dreamlight Games Studios SL
Windows
What happened on the night of July 20, 1824? The Beresford family was sleeping unaware that an ancient evil was about to resurface. An ancient evil that brought upon them a curse whose echoes resonate to this day.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.5%, Psychological Horror 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Mystery 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%
- #55 A Wise Use of Time
70% matchVery Positive80% of 121 reviews2015
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
With the power to freeze time, you can ransack a casino, rescue a celebrity, or cheat death itself! A thrilling interactive sci-fi novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Text-Based 20%, Choices Matter 19.3%, RPG 11.2%
- #56 Terror Diversion
67% matchMixed45% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: FatCoke
Windows
This is a text-based horror game in which you investigate mysterious urban legends. Along the way, the player takes on the role of a character who gets “lost” and encounters a series of random events.
Why similar: Text-Based 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Choices Matter 12%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Visual Novel 9%
- #57 海鳥野ガクの精神鑑定録
65% matchVery Positive83% of 312 reviews2024
Dev: いもチャイ屋
Windows
「彼は本当に精神疾患なのか?それとも……」 精神科医である道島(主人公)は、ある入院患者の担当を任される。母親を刺したというその少年は、 奇妙な幻聴の症状を抱えており……。貴方は神話生物の魔の手から逃れ、生き延びる事が出来るのか…!?
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Text-Based 18%, Mystery 13.7%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%
- #58 Sarawak
68% matchPositive86% of 22 reviews2021
Dev: Cowleyfornia StudiosPub: Cowleyfornia Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Text-Based 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Mystery 11.3%, Visual Novel 11.1%
- #59 31 Days In Orange Carnival
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ReversePI
Windows
10 participants. A death game that unfolds over 31 days. If you kill another participant, you can take their prize money. An interactive fiction game where the story changes based on your choices. In this dangerous game, choose who to trust and who to betray.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Text-Based 19.2%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%
- #60 Lake of Darkness
65% matchPositive94% of 17 reviews2025
Dev: Steeze Games
Windows
Your small town is slowly becoming corrupted by a mysterious evil, In a dream you get a premonition of your own death. How do you avoid an unknown fate? Spend your final moments wisely in this choice-based psychological horror visual novel game.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Text-Based 10%, Choices Matter 8.1%