- #1 There's Always a Madman: Bring the Thunder
97% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Sunny Demeanor Games
Windows
Play as secret agents Franklin Benjamin and Virginia West as they attempt to stop a madman with a weather device in this single-player interactive spy novel. Track down this madman named Zeus and destroy his infernal weather machine. In other words, it’s time for YOU to bring the thunder, agent!
Why similar: Espionage 29.5% ★, Satire 11.8% ★, Narrative 10.6% ★, Mouse Only 7.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 5.5%
- #2 There's Always a Madman: The MacGuffin
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Sunny Demeanor Games
Windows
Secret agent Franklin Benjamin's former mentor has resurfaced to take from you that which you hold most dear. In this singleplayer interactive spy novel, use your particular set of skills to save Virginia from the clutches of the madman Dustin MacGuffin. Which means - you’d better get the MacGuffin!
Why similar: Espionage 30.8% ★, Satire 12% ★, Mouse Only 8.7% ★, Narrative 6.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 6.1%
- #3 There's Always a Madman: Fight or Flight
96% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Sunny Demeanor Games
Windows
Step into the shoes of the suave secret agent Franklin Benjamin in this single-player interactive spy novel. Drive fast cars, seduce beautiful women, take on false identities, and do whatever is necessary to save the world. Because there's always a madman, and you're the best agent we've got!
Why similar: Espionage 28.5% ★, Satire 11.6% ★, Narrative 11% ★, Mouse Only 7.4% ★, Parody 6.3% ★
- #4 There's Always a Madman: V.I.C.T.O.R.
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Sunny Demeanor Games
Windows
Secret agent Franklin Benjamin will stop at nothing to save the world. In this single-player interactive spy novel, you play as his greatest adversaries - can the criminal enterprise known as V.I.C.T.O.R. defeat the only man standing between them and world domination? To the VICTOR go the spoils!
Why similar: Espionage 30% ★, Satire 11.8% ★, Narrative 9.2% ★, Mouse Only 8.1% ★, Crime 7.6%
- #5 180 Files: The Aegis Project
94% matchPositive92% of 38 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: Espionage 63% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Text-Based 8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 4%, Female Protagonist 3%
- #6 My Wife is a Spy?!
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Transparent Games
Windows · Mac
In this otome isekai visual novel you're thrown into an arranged marriage with the cold Duke of the North. Explore political tension, shifting loyalties, and two routes: romance or rebellion. Support your husband or betray him like a true villainess and take control of your fate.
Why similar: Espionage 48.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Text-Based 9.6%, Visual Novel 8.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%
- #7 Undercover Agent
94% matchMixed60% of 10 reviews2018
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Think fast and lie faster! When you go undercover to retrieve a deadly new bio-weapon, can you pull off the mission and escape with your life?
Why similar: Espionage 67.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Text-Based 8.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 5.7%, Female Protagonist 2.4%
- #8 Assetflip attorney
92% matchVery Positive94% of 143 reviews2025
Dev: Xenom
Windows · Linux
Assetflip attorney is a murder mystery satire visual novel, Solve crimes in a world where everyone has gone insane and everything feels like a fever dream, interrogate witnesses, hunt for clues and take down the criminal organization that threatens to destroy reality
Why similar: Narrative 28.3% ★, Satire 22.7% ★, Parody 16% ★, Comedy 8.9%, Visual Novel 7.9%
- #9 Chief Emoji Officer
91% matchPositive100% of 32 reviews2023
Dev: Bodeville
Windows · Mac · Linux
Chief Emoji Officer is a text adventure that recreates the absurdities of the tech world by letting you become CEO using only emojis. Climb your way through corporate America by getting promoted, making allies, avoiding layoffs, and turning Redify into the most successful company in the world.
Why similar: Satire 29.3% ★, Text-Based 15%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Visual Novel 9%
- #10 Sage: Psychic Spy
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Infinite Evil Studios
Windows
A stealth action-adventure game where your mind is your weapon. Play as Sage, a psychic spy investigating a new drug cartel in Krad City. Sneak deep into enemy territory, read minds to gain intel, and use telekinesis to manipulate your enemies and environment.
Why similar: Espionage 68.6% ★, Crime 10.1%, Action-Adventure 5.5%, Female Protagonist 5%, Thriller 4.4%
- #11 Oleander-X
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Jason Nguyen
Windows · Mac
Oleander-X is a pixel-art stealth action game about classified missions, buried evidence, and a cure that should never have existed. Infiltrate guarded facilities, gather proof, plant explosives, and escape before the truth turns against you.
Why similar: Espionage 83.2% ★, Action-Adventure 8.2%, Action 3.6%, Adventure 3.2%, Story Rich 1.4%
- #12 Attorney Disbarment Adventure
89% 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: Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Text-Based 21.8%, Satire 19.7% ★, Crime 17.5%, Comedy 9.1%
- #13 The Silent Front: World War Ⅱ
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Oceanwave Technology Limited
Windows · Mac · Linux
In 1939, just before graduating from a German military academy, your true infiltration begins. You are Britain's hidden asset codenamed DEEP. Spying, deciphering, and moving through the shadows, you navigate rival factions, where every choice shapes your fate, your homeland, and peace.
Why similar: Espionage 76.7% ★, Visual Novel 9.5%, Story Rich 5.8%, Interactive Fiction 5.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 2.1%
- #14 Chronicles of Ella: Whispers of Mythrillis
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: VewDew
Windows · Linux
A lost mercenary navigates a dangerous monster girl village, where every choice, lie, and word could mean survival—or exposure.
Why similar: Espionage 66.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Visual Novel 9%, Female Protagonist 7.2%, Funny 3.9%
- #15 Secret Agent Allan Martin in ... Phoenix Erupting
88% 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: Parody 19.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Text-Based 14.4%, Comedy 14%, Visual Novel 13.3%
- #16 Honey, I'm an Agent
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Multinow
Windows · Mac · Linux
2D action, stealth, and noir comedy. A harmless man accidentally becomes a secret agent. Hide his double life by escaping his wife at night: complete missions, swing with your grappling hook, and use your super weapon: an umbrella that works as a parachute and for combat!
Why similar: Espionage 76.2% ★, Crime 7.2%, Thriller 6.8%, Action-Adventure 3.6%, Story Rich 3.3%
- #17 Puzzle Spy International
85% matchVery Positive92% of 133 reviews2026
Dev: Travel-Friendly Cake
Windows · Mac · Linux
Pursue diamond thieves and a trail of cryptic puzzles in this short ‘60s spy adventure. As Agent Epsilon you’ll choose your path as you chat with (or chat up!) suspicious contacts. Deduce the puzzle rules, decode cryptograms and decipher clues as you solve wordplay & logic puzzles across the globe!
Why similar: Espionage 60.9% ★, Visual Novel 9.5%, Crime 9.2%, Female Protagonist 6.7%, Comedy 5.5%
- #18 Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You
86% matchVery Positive90% of 15,473 reviews2016
Dev: Osmotic StudiosPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Big Brother has arrived - and it’s you. Investigate the lives of citizens to find those responsible for a series of terror attacks. Information from the internet, personal communications and private files are all accessible to you. But, be warned, the information you supply will have consequences.
Why similar: Espionage 97.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 1.4%, Visual Novel 0.7%, Story Rich 0.6%, Singleplayer 0.1%
- #19 Very Unserious Game
84% matchVery Positive92% of 83 reviews2025
Dev: Le Clown de la ClassePub: Youplaboum!
Windows
Are you looking for a new job that will give meaning to your life? The Innovality family is ready to welcome you! Between smart innovation and spontaneous conference calls, grow into a valued team member in a cutting-edge startup!
Why similar: Parody 20.7% ★, Satire 20.5% ★, Text-Based 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%
- #20 Molly the Werezompire
84% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2023
Dev: Zeboyd Digital Entertainment
Windows
Interactive fiction starring Molly the Werezompire - a grad student who jumped into a portal, was killed by a werewolf, a zombie, and a vampire, and became a heroic werezompire! Also includes the sci-fi parody, Epiphany in Spaaace! Originally released on XBLIG.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Text-Based 21.8%, Comedy 15.5%, Female Protagonist 10.9%
- #21 Standard Procedure
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Build At One
Windows
A 1–4 player co-op espionage experience where you and your friends do dirty jobs for the government.
Why similar: Espionage 65% ★, Thriller 10.9%, Comedy 9.9%, Action-Adventure 6.9%, Funny 4.1%
- #22 I Will Never Fall For My Tsundere Classmate, So I Will Just Date A Background Character Instead!
81% matchVery Positive100% of 76 reviews2025
Dev: Kaijoseisoft
Windows · Mac · Linux
A short parody visual novel about romance with a tsundere girl... Or not?
Why similar: Satire 33.9% ★, Parody 19.7% ★, Visual Novel 11%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.8%
- #23 Skin Tailor
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Night Asobu
Windows · Mac · Linux
Skin Tailor is a medieval horror dress up game and visual novel hybrid. Skin your supernatural enemies, create disguises and infiltrate vampire owned blood farms to rescue your comrades.
Why similar: Espionage 55.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Story Rich 3%
- #24 Going Your Own Way - Episode One
82% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Heavenshire Stories
Windows · Mac · Linux
Going Your Own Way is a visual novel that allows you to make choices that will help a young man trying to understand his place in the world while dealing with the recent ending of a long-term relationship, the challenges of modern dating, and a toxic workplace.
Why similar: Satire 20.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 19%, Parody 14.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Visual Novel 13.3%
- #25 DEI Manager Simulator
80% matchPositive100% of 36 reviews2026
Dev: Facetious Labs
Windows
Ruin a game studio with the power of performative DEI. In this linear satirical experience, the studio IS going to crash—that’s the point. Your choices just decide the flavor of the disaster. Can you boost your optics score enough to fail upwards before the inevitable collapse?
Why similar: Satire 36.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Parody 14.5% ★, Text-Based 14.3%, Comedy 11.1%
- #26 Isekaing: from zero to zero.
81% matchPositive86% of 22 reviews2024
Dev: ElvenNeko
Windows
Zoe is hit by Truck-kun and respawns in a retro game, where she must face dangers in the form of clichés, meaningless choices, a plot that has more holes than Swiss cheese, and other plagues of modern gaming. Also, every notable person is trying to sing her a song! Will she endure such torment?
Why similar: Satire 29.9% ★, Parody 18.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Comedy 9.7%, Visual Novel 8.3%
- #27 I Just Want to be Single!! Season One
79% matchMostly Positive80% of 283 reviews2025
Dev: m.Pub: Tsundere Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
The anti-dating sim where you make friends instead of girlfriends! Balance between heartbreak and heartache! Will you graduate without a single friend? Or will you survive long enough to reject them all?
Why similar: Narrative 27.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Text-Based 13.2%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
- #28 Baston
78% matchPositive93% of 30 reviews2026
Dev: GRIN-GAME
Windows
In the glorious town of Milenagrad, and mainly in its environs, they settled and occupied a shadow business - a branch of the Cartel, which greatly annoys the local major Stepanovich and he decided to call for help an old friend - Gena "Baston"...
Why similar: Satire 36% ★, Crime 27.4%, Parody 11.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Comedy 5.1%
- #29 Jay Schilling's Edge of Chaos
79% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2021
Dev: Jolt Country
Windows · Mac · Linux
A text adventure mystery with a modern parser.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.8%, Crime 26.5%, Text-Based 24.3%, Comedy 14%, Adventure 4.3%
- #30 summer story
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: karol_thegame
Windows · Linux
Summer Story: An adventure game where you investigate and make choices that shape the story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Text-Based 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Female Protagonist 10.6%
- #31 Taimanin Yukikaze
77% matchVery Positive89% of 207 reviews2024
Dev: LilithPub: Shiravune
Windows
A classic visual novel about a demon-slaying ninja. Yukikaze is an up-and-coming young Taimanin with a suite of deadly lightning powers, but when she embarks on a mission to rescue her missing mother, she just might have bitten off more than she can chew...
Why similar: Espionage 73.6% ★, Visual Novel 10.2%, Female Protagonist 6.8%, Story Rich 3.9%, Linear 3.3%
- #32 What Happened to Squad 7
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Blue Scarf Games
Windows
What happened to Squad 7 is a military visual novel where you will decide the outcome of the world, what members of the cast live and die, and Orion, the Frontman of Squad 7 which you play as. Will you follow orders? Or will you dig deeper beyond what you're given clearance?
Why similar: Espionage 60.6% ★, Thriller 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Story Rich 4.9%
- #33 Legion Was Here
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Geoffroy MondePub: Surefire.Games
Windows
Steal a face. Study a life. Survive the conversation.
Why similar: Espionage 65% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Thriller 8.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.5%, Story Rich 4.4%
- #34 Black Cycle
76% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2022
Dev: Katsuya Abe
Windows
Consumers have power. A short walking simulator game that makes you think a little about how we usually consume.
Why similar: Narrative 36.4% ★, Satire 34.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Text-Based 9.1%, Story Rich 5.5%
- #35 Apology Video
73% matchPositive100% of 49 reviews2026
Dev: Ethan BowerPub: Pictures of Horses
Windows · Mac · Linux
An FMV Choose-Your-Own-Adventure that'll leave you wanting to like and subscribe!
Why similar: Satire 40.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Parody 12.9% ★, Visual Novel 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%
- #36 Rustown
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Plotrick
Windows
A story-driven action-adventure set in a slum inhabited by infected outcasts suffering from cognitive decline. Receiving a letter from her missing father after three years of silence, can she find him in this lawless zone? 'Rustown': A tender dystopia dedicated to those weary of hatred.
Why similar: Espionage 75.3% ★, Female Protagonist 6.2%, Story Rich 5.8%, Action-Adventure 5.7%, Linear 4.8%
- #37 Sid Meier's Covert Action (Classic)
76% matchVery Positive90% of 167 reviews2014
Dev: MicroProse Software, IncPub: Atari
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12 minMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 35%
Sid Meier's Covert Action - A Techno-Thriller From the Case Files of Max Remington.
Why similar: Espionage 96% ★, Adventure 4%
- #38 I'm in Love With Your Dead Grandmother
72% matchVery Positive91% of 68 reviews2026
Dev: Kimulator's Films
Windows · Linux
Hello, I'm Noah. I'm 28 years old and still haven't got a single date in my life, I'm looking for a life coach who can help me figure out the hard choices in my day to day life, you know? I'm sad and single, I have some friends online, but that's it.
Why similar: Satire 33.6% ★, Parody 18.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Comedy 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
- #39 NZ78
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: emagnetic
Windows
A short atmospheric sci-fi story told through text and ink-wash images, as New Zealand faces strange events beyond explanation.
Why similar: Narrative 36.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Text-Based 17.9%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Story Rich 5.5%
- #40 Bahnsen Knights
73% matchVery Positive96% of 90 reviews2023
Dev: LCB Game StudioPub: Chorus Worldwide Games
Windows · Mac
1986, Tornado Alley, USA… Go undercover as Boulder, an agent infiltrating the notorious religious cult known as the Bahnsen Knights. Face off against occultists, biblical storms, and an enigmatic car salesman turned preacher as you investigate the disappearance of a fellow agent and close friend.
Why similar: Narrative 34.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Thriller 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Visual Novel 11.6%
- #41 Signs of the Sojourner
74% matchVery Positive87% of 255 reviews2020
Dev: Echodog Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%
In this narrative card game about relationships and communication, navigate conversations in a colorful world reminiscent of our own. Learn and grow through the cards you choose to play. Who will you become? What will you leave behind?
Why similar: Narrative 26.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Text-Based 13.6%, Mouse Only 12.4% ★, Visual Novel 11.7%
- #42 Furry Shakespeare: Love's Lizards Lost
75% matchNo user reviews2022
Dev: Stegalosaurus Game Development
Windows · Linux
You've just landed in a new world, set to discover new mysteries and solve great conflicts. You're also a small reptile.
Why similar: Satire 34.7% ★, Parody 21.2% ★, Visual Novel 13%, Comedy 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%
- #43 Runaway Cheater
72% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: 170Denier
Windows
You just got caught by the husband of the girl you were cheating with! Run away, cheater!!
Why similar: Espionage 56.6% ★, Satire 30.7% ★, Comedy 6.5%, Funny 5.1%, Action 0.8%
- #44 Profiler Files - New Orleans
71% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Land Creations
Windows · Mac · Linux
A narrative adventure blending point-and-click and visual novel elements. Play as a young FBI agent in New Orleans, investigate crime scenes, profile suspects, and make choices that shape a branching story mixing offbeat humor with a gripping crime thriller.
Why similar: Crime 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Parody 15% ★, Text-Based 11.9%, Thriller 11.2%
- #45 Stealth Operative Syn: Virtual Training
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Kosimo
Windows
Synthia “Syn” is training to become a Stealth Operative. In order to do so, she trains in the Virtual Simulation Room. Use different tactics and techniques to sneak past the guards and obstacles. Finish every level to complete your virtual training!
Why similar: Espionage 77.7% ★, Female Protagonist 9.5%, Action-Adventure 6.4%, Linear 2.6%, Action 2.5%
- #46 Whispers of the Luminaries Part 1
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: VN Heaven
Windows · Mac · Linux
Idol-themed murder mystery. Play as a detective, solve logic puzzles, and shape your relationships in this VN inspired by Danganronpa & Famicom Detective Club.
Why similar: Narrative 28.7% ★, Crime 20.7%, Text-Based 14.2%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Female Protagonist 8.8%
- #47 Tom the postgirl
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Oopsie DaisiesPub: ARTE France
Windows · Mac
Join Tom, the village’s new postgirl, and get to know the locals, perhaps a little too well. Her method, although controversial, is highly effective: intense, obsessive stalking.
Why similar: Satire 30.8% ★, Narrative 26.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Female Protagonist 8.6%
- #48 Red Rebellion
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Aikasa Collective
Windows · Mac · Linux
A sapphic fairy tale mashup as Robin Hood teams up with Red Riding Hood to save their town set in a historically accurate medieval England.
Why similar: Espionage 56.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Text-Based 10.4%, Visual Novel 9.2%, Female Protagonist 7.2%
- #49 Detective School Club
69% matchPositive90% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Danny Garay
Windows · Linux
Welcome to the Detective Club! Led by the troublesome and shy president Alice Baskerville. Follow this comedy story where together you will solve cases using your deductive powers!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Crime 16.9%, Text-Based 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.1%
- #50 A MANSION on the HILL
68% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: DIRIGO GAMES
Windows
ATMOSPHERIC UNDERGROUND ADVENTURE. You seek revenge against the oligarch who destroyed your family. Is killing ever justified?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.6%, Crime 31.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Story Rich 9.1%, Adventure 5.1%
- #51 The Secret Life of Dorian Pink | Prologue
70% matchPositive100% of 23 reviews2022
Dev: amberlimshin
Windows · Mac
Prologue chapter of Dorian Pink, a choices-matter narrative RPG set in an alternate universe of the Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Save your boyfriend Basil from the Devil by making questionable choices, gaining allies, and making doughnuts explode.
Why similar: Narrative 27.8% ★, Satire 27.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%, Comedy 8.5%
- #52 Warfare Marionettes
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ultra Max 60 Games
Windows
Warfare Marionettes combines high-speed third-person combat, exploration, and progression-driven gameplay in a Sci-Fi conspiracy thriller. Traverse dangerous environments, unlock new abilities, defeat enemies, and uncover the truth behind TSAR Genomics and the government’s deadly cloudburst weapon.
Why similar: Espionage 89.8% ★, Thriller 6.7%, Action 3.5%
- #53 Don Quijote
68% match1 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Rubén Prende
Windows · Linux
An interactive graphic novel reimagining Cervantes' masterpiece in striking neo-noir style. Guide Don Quixote through La Mancha, make choices that shape his journey, and discover four unique endings in this tragicomic tale of idealism and madness.
Why similar: Satire 28.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Comedy 5.7%
- #54 Quirk! Origins: A Jester's Tale
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Emmerse Studios Ltd
Windows
Enter the world of Playcardia. A short visual novel based on a Jester, who is keen to unleash havoc in the name of entertainment. Just don't upset the royals! Find items, discover pranks and play them on unsuspecting victims... Who knows what will happen next?
Why similar: Narrative 36.9% ★, Parody 17.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 17%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Linear 5%
- #55 Basements n' Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery
68% matchVery Positive90% of 171 reviews2023
Dev: eNVy softworks
Windows · Mac · Linux
A visual novel paying satirical homage to the world’s greatest TTRPG. Make important choices, roll countless dice, build lasting relationships, explore magical lands and experience all the rest of the crap you expect from a fantasy game without the hassle of finding actual friends to play with!
Why similar: Parody 24.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Text-Based 17.8%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%
- #56 Class of '09
67% matchVery Positive95% of 8,695 reviews2021
Dev: SBN3
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
This is the anti-visual novel. Instead of playing as some guy magically able to score with beautiful anime girls, YOU play the anime girl and create mass chaos in the lives of your potential "suitors". Earnest comedy, social accuracy, and late 2000's aesthetic await you in Class of '09!
Why similar: Satire 37.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Comedy 15.9%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Female Protagonist 11.1%
- #57 Creatio Ex Nihilo III: Amor Dei
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Shoho Games
Windows
Experience the meeting of the divine and mortal world as a forbidden love affair have unforseen consequences.
Why similar: Satire 32.7% ★, Parody 22.2% ★, Visual Novel 12.7%, Comedy 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%
- #58 VIDEOVERSE
66% matchVery Positive95% of 241 reviews2023
Dev: Kinmoku
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Relive the days of the early internet and dive into this fictional video game era, where the 'Kinmoku Shark’ gaming system and its online social network 'Videoverse' were still popular…
Why similar: Narrative 40.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Story Rich 7.2%
- #59 Before They Catch Us
65% matchPositive90% of 20 reviews2025
Dev: ANTertainment
Windows · Linux
A dark text-based RPG set in a world gripped by a restless race for survival against a merciless mushroom Forest. As a prophet’s apprentice, guide your clan along the knife-edge between life and oblivion. Decipher misty visions, make critical decisions, and do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Narrative 32.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Text-Based 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%
- #60 呪霊が見せる夢 / Dreamscapes
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: アイエダゲームズ(Aieda Games)
Windows
Investigate six haunted properties and listen to the voices of spirits trapped in nightmares. Collect fragmented clues and discover the correct combination of names, locations, and vessels. A multi-ending horror adventure where the outcome changes depending on your choices during the ritual.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Text-Based 19.2%, Visual Novel 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Female Protagonist 9.8%