- #1 Camille and Laura
97% matchPositive100% of 19 reviews2025
Dev: BonjourBorzoi
Windows
Camille and Laura is a point and click about the greatest adventure of all - parenting.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Point & Click 16.3%, Hand-drawn 10.5%, Drama 10.2%
- #2 あなたに花束を
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: abyss good gamesPub: Chorus Worldwide Games
Windows
“Flowers for You” is a gentle adventure game where you create custom bouquets based on each customer’s story as a florist. Set in modern Japan, listen to faded memories and craft floral arrangements that bring color back into their lives.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, LGBTQ+ 12.4%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Point & Click 9.6%
- #3 AmaTisMo
96% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: VegetinES
Windows · Mac · Linux
A visual novel about mental health, depression, and self-love. Play as Amatista, a young woman trapped in isolation, as she begins a journey she never asked for. Every choice shapes the story. Fully accessible for blind and visually impaired players.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Drama 13.4%, Psychological 7.8%
- #4 Jill O' Lantern: Final Cut
95% matchPositive100% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Screen Savor Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Find the clues to make a time bending turnabout in this off the rails visual novel about murder, mayhem, and a thicc pumpkin girl with a machete.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Point & Click 14.8%, Visual Novel 13%, Hand-drawn 11.7%
- #5 Forest of Death Masks
94% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Remnants of mosaic
Windows
Christian Tyler is ready to investigate a new case! Uncover the mystery of the tourist town of Alkelano in our new visual novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Visual Novel 16%, Hand-drawn 11.6%, Psychological 7.3%
- #6 Open Spaces SE
94% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Queenship Game StudioPub: Queenship Game Studio, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Skylar is an student with anxiety. Walter is a farmer with social anxiety and PTSD. Jessica is a programmer with anxiety and agoraphobia. Li Wei is an technologist with intense anxiety. Navigate their stories, learn how they move through the world, and about methods of treatment and recovery.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, LGBTQ+ 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Psychological 10.6%
- #7 KaRu
93% matchMostly Positive78% of 40 reviews2022
Dev: Mirror Studio
Windows · Linux
- Search for clues to progress the story. - Make choices to help your partner. - Collect bits and pieces to reveal secrets and lore bits. - Use your visions to see what he is feeling at the moment. - Don't drown in your own regrets.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.4%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Point & Click 15.4%, Drama 9.3%, Emotional 5.4%
- #8 The Spirit Weaver
91% matchPositive96% of 45 reviews2026
Dev: StarBullet StudioPub: GameChanger Studio
Windows
The Spirit Weaver is a narrative-driven visual novel where you use the power of Tarot to guide lost spirits through their grief, and maybe figure out your own. Explore a mystical spirit realm, help its denizens, and restore balance in a bittersweet story of love, loss, and empathy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Point & Click 15.6%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Hand-drawn 9.8%
- #9 Homunculus Hotel
92% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2022
Dev: Team SolEtude
Windows
Explore the dreams of the Homunculus Hotel's guests in order to understand yourself.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Point & Click 14.2%, LGBTQ+ 13.8%, Visual Novel 13.4%
- #10 Purrfect Tale
91% matchPositive80% of 15 reviews2023
Dev: BadMouse
Windows · Mac
When you awake, you find yourself transported back to the time when you were a student. You find it hard to breathe under the massive study load and oppressive environment, until you meet a stray cat that manages to wriggle its way into your world by chance...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Hand-drawn 14.1%, Point & Click 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.5%
- #11 Mind Scraper
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Scraper Games
Windows
Mind Scraper is a story-driven graphic adventure. Play as Robert and dive into dying minds—built from unresolved regrets—to explore memories and learn why those choices were made.
Why similar: Point & Click 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Hand-drawn 14.8%, Psychological 8.8%
- #12 Lost in the Past: A Heart's Remembrance Labyrinth
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CodingApe GamesPub: Vulpis Yazilim
Windows
Lost in the Past: A Heart's Remembrance Labyrinth is a story game about love, lost, hope, grief, medication, meditation and more. You will be the our nameless character and experience his memories.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Point & Click 17.3%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Hand-drawn 10.1%
- #13 魏识的夜晚
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: GOOD NEWS Editorial Department
Windows · Mac
Wei Shi becomes your reflection in your senior year. Drifting without a fixed self, they set out into oblivion—or piece together fragments of an unfamiliar youth. With your friends, they tend each other's restless hearts and share what it takes to find happiness.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, LGBTQ+ 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Psychological 11.3%
- #14 RETURN Machine.Love()
88% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: Fable BaePub: Fable Was Here
Windows · Mac · Linux
3 different Robot-romance stories. Written, drawn, and made by humans, for humans. Since the very moment the first mechanical mind became aware of itself, it craved love. No one truly understand why the heart made of copper and wires started beating, but it did. Even after we were gone.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Visual Novel 15.8%, LGBTQ+ 9.5%, Cartoon 7.2%
- #15 A Heavy Morning
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Saf Interactive
Windows
Some mornings, getting out of bed can feel impossible. In A Heavy Morning, you play as a woman fighting an invisible battle within her own mind. Help her overcome everyday obstacles and make it to work before it's too late.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Point & Click 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Hand-drawn 13.3%, Psychological 10.8%
- #16 AGERASIA
86% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Olivia WestmorlandPub: Rantan Games
Windows
Eight time periods from across human history collide in a competitive bid to stop the end of the world. Go from fighting monsters to solving a murder, dating sim to escape game. Experience seven vastly different routes in a bid to solve the mystery as to why you've all been brought together.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Point & Click 16.3%, Visual Novel 14%, Hand-drawn 10.8%
- #17 Melancholic Night
86% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Witches Hat
Windows
A visual novel about returning home. That is, trying to get home. After all, your home is no longer there. You could say that it is actually about drinking in a bar and talking to strange people.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.4%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Drama 12.6%, Hand-drawn 12.6%, Psychological 7.7%
- #18 Let Me Speak
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Single Effect Studios
Windows
An apprentice. A healer. A warrior. Breathe, pull, and choose your way through their stories in this dark yet comforting narrative game about healing the worlds inside us.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Visual Novel 14.3%, LGBTQ+ 13.4%, Emotional 10.3%, Drama 7.8%
- #19 Short Short Fictions
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: room6
Windows
A short short mix tape of one story that connects three shorter stories. On the NewWave, a magical game console that is retro but new, enjoy DON'T SAY YES, TO:NORTH, and a secret tale nobody yet knows. Welcome to a slightly fantastical and nostalgic world of painful, toilful, and beautiful stories!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, LGBTQ+ 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Visual Novel 12%, Point & Click 11.1%
- #20 Saltsea Chronicles
84% matchVery Positive97% of 105 reviews2023
Dev: Die Gute Fabrik
Windows · Mac
It begins with a kidnapped captain and a stolen ship. Where it leads next? That’s up to you… In this story-driven adventure game you will explore strange and wonderful communities, uncover a deep conspiracy, and chart a journey through twists and turns, difficulties and delights.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, LGBTQ+ 13%, Point & Click 10.4%, Hand-drawn 9.9%
- #21 Pine: A Story of Loss
83% matchVery Positive77% of 258 reviews2024
Dev: Made Up GamesPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Alone in the forest glade he shared with his wife, a woodworker struggles to accept her passing. Help him hold on to cherished memories of their life together as he struggles to care for himself and his now empty home. Pine is a single-serving game focused on telling a beautiful, emotional tale.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Hand-drawn 14.7%, Point & Click 13.1%, Emotional 12%, Visual Novel 11.7%
- #22 EmyLiveShow: Case of Four Hot Witnesses
82% matchPositive92% of 25 reviews2024
Dev: Team Emily
Windows · Mac
A rookie investigator's first case leads them to four sexy girls. It can stop them... or make them even more determined to find the solution.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Visual Novel 13.3%, LGBTQ+ 13.2%, Hand-drawn 11.4%
- #23 視靈
82% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: 巧娃工坊
Windows
An accident at birth gave the protagonist the ability to see the soul. He always thought it was a useless ability when he was growing up. After helping his childhood sweetheart who is a policewomen solve a case, he discovered the correct way to use this ability.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Hand-drawn 16.9%, Visual Novel 15%, Point & Click 14.9%
- #24 Puppetmaster Movie-Viewer
81% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2023
Dev: Puppetmaster3dx
Windows
Puppetmaster - Movie Viewer lets you complete your Puppetmaster collection with previous Episodes!
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 19.9%, Drama 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Visual Novel 10.7%
- #25 Defragmenting
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: pngTriads
Windows
The outside is being ravaged by a mysterious downpour of a glass, you are forced to take shelter in a seemingly innocuous rundown hotel. Yet, stuck with you are people who you wish you would never see again. What will you do to survive?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Point & Click 14.2%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Hand-drawn 5.7%
- #26 A Weekend Trip
79% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: lukepagca
Windows
A short narrative about a trip with friends over the weekend. Decide what River does during the trip. Help your friends, explore the place, or just enjoy the scenery.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Point & Click 15.3%, Hand-drawn 12.4%, LGBTQ+ 11.6%
- #27 The Wanderer: Frankenstein’s Creature
81% matchVery Positive84% of 372 reviews2019
Dev: La Belle GamesPub: ARTE France
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Experience the Myth of Frankenstein through the innocent eyes of his creature. Make decisions and change people's view that you will meet on your way. Now, the myth is in your hands, so how are you going to end it?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Point & Click 13.4%, Hand-drawn 12.3%, Visual Novel 10.4%
- #28 Past Spirals to Present
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: R ButtonPub: Hierarch Games
Windows · Mac
You are a soul, ready for your next lifetime on earth. To prepare for incarnation, you visit the Interdimensional Museum to remember your personalities from past lives. Tour the museum artifacts, remember who you were, and when you're ready, the museum will reveal your next life to you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Hand-drawn 13.9%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Point & Click 10.5%
- #29 Breaking Point
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Phantom Script Studio
Windows
A psychological thriller visual novel where your choices deeply affect an 18-year-old woman's mental state, leading to multiple endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Hand-drawn 13.3%, Emotional 6.7%
- #30 Rewrite - DYH
79% matchPositive100% of 27 reviews2020
Dev: DYHPub: WinCode
Windows · Linux
Rewrite - DYH - A game that changes every time you play!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Visual Novel 16%, Hand-drawn 13.2%, Point & Click 5.6%
- #31 Witch Hunter: Our Secret
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: artbakeries
Windows
Play as Erwin, a witch hunter navigating a fantasy world of magic and suspicion. Your decisions in this visual novel affect friendships, trust, and multiple story outcomes. Choose wisely—the fate of your journey rests with you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.1%, Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Hand-drawn 10.2%, 2D 4.3%
- #32 Vasilisa the Wise
77% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Fleon Games
Windows
Vasilisa the Wise is a visual novel based on the famous Russian fairy tale "The Frog Princess". However, unlike the well-known fairy tale, in this game there are several scenarios, depending on the actions of the player. The goal of the game is to defeat the evil and win the heart of Vasilisa.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Hand-drawn 13.9%, Cartoon 8%
- #33 Oto's Planet
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Skill Lab, Dpt., SmallPub: Astrea
Windows
This VR fable immerses us in the peaceful life of Oto and Skippy on their planet, which is then disrupted by a spaceship collision and cosmonaut Exo emerges. Cohabitation between them proves to be tricky.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.9%, Point & Click 18.7%, Drama 12%, Colorful 4.9%
- #34 Call Me Cera
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Toadhouse GamesPub: Team Toadhouse
Windows · Mac · Linux
A 'crunchy wholesome' game about making friends as an adult.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 17%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Hand-drawn 11.5%
- #35 Playing Kafka
74% matchVery Positive95% of 343 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: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Point & Click 17.2%, Psychological 10.2%, Drama 7%
- #36 Kluber's Adventure
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sundin Games
Windows
Kluber's Adventure. Finally, your choices matter... Unless Kluber has better plans. Welcome to an absurdist narrative experience.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.9%, Hand-drawn 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Point & Click 11.4%, Visual Novel 9.9%
- #37 NO MORE WORK FOR ITO
73% matchPositive97% of 35 reviews2026
Dev: Poética Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Trapped in a cursed office overnight, you must uncover a hidden password before morning... while reality distorts, blood seeps through the walls, and something watches you. Explore branching paths, face strange encounters, and survive this psychological horror visual novel.
Why similar: Visual Novel 18.5%, Point & Click 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Psychological 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%
- #38 On Love, On Monsters
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lighthouse Theory Games
Windows
On Love, On Monsters is a Frankenstein-inspired story with an emphasis on love in its many forms. Play as three characters with alternating POVs; the Doctor, The Priest, and The Exile. Bond with allies and enemies, avoid raising suspicion in the town of Blackmoore, and learn what it means to love.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Drama 13.8%, LGBTQ+ 12.5%
- #39 BEAST CRIMES
75% matchMixed64% of 66 reviews2022
Dev: LINK
Windows
Crimes across the times. Are you able to solve them all?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, LGBTQ+ 14.3%, Point & Click 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.9%
- #40 GOBLR: Goblin Date Night Simulator
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SunS3b
Windows
A bite-sized visual novel about going on dates with some absolutely disastrous goblins.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, LGBTQ+ 19.1%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Emotional 7.1%
- #41 Rockin' Racket
73% match1 user reviews50% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Pop Punk Paws Productions LLC
Windows
Rockin’ Racket is a narrative driven, fast paced, pop punk band management game with an undercurrent of teenage angst as you try to hold together a band of rowdy younger siblings, keep the crowd happy, and manage your frugal earnings while booking larger venues to rocket your band to stardom!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Point & Click 18.2%, Visual Novel 15.9%, LGBTQ+ 12.5%, Emotional 7.6%
- #42 The Zoo
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: R ButtonPub: Hierarch Games
Windows · Mac
You've had the same dream all week: a school field trip to a zoo you can't leave, where the lions always find you in the end. Wander the zoo exhibits, make your choices, and search for the way out. A short, hand-painted interactive story about a recurring dream, and finally resolving it.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Hand-drawn 9.8%, Story Rich 5.7%
- #43 Almost certain death.
71% matchMixed57% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: 画往时文化
Windows
After a failed rescue in northern Myanmar, Lin Wei and her friend fight to survive. Guide their escape through pivotal choices—with nearly 100 branching decisions that can trigger a butterfly effect, leading to vastly different endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.8%, Interactive Fiction 23%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Drama 13.3%, Psychological 9.1%
- #44 Chromatic Memories
71% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Perla Oculta
Windows · Mac · Linux
A visual novel about grief, memory and acceptance. Nayara is a painter of memories: she digs into her clients’ minds to change or even erase their memories. One day she realizes she has altered her own memory. What was so painful or unbearable that she wanted to forget it for good?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Visual Novel 19.7%, Emotional 13.2%, Hand-drawn 8.4%
- #45 Pillar of Knight
69% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2026
Dev: Soul Realm Art
Windows
A medieval fantasy text-based visual novel where you guide Santi’s choices, unlock secret routes, and discover hidden CGs through interactive scenes.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26%, Interactive Fiction 24.4%, LGBTQ+ 17.2%, Hand-drawn 14.6%, Stylized 5.9%
- #46 Seaside Picnic
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: unSAMEPub: Shepherd Games
Windows
A mini point and click puzzle + visual novel, an experience of Nihilism and self-salvation. The storm is coming. The storm has never left.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Point & Click 16.8%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Hand-drawn 8%
- #47 Into the Waves
71% matchVery Positive92% of 91 reviews2021
Dev: Flying Whale
Windows · Mac · Linux
Morin is a barkeeper with an unusual curse. All people look like shadows to him, except for one mysterious stranger... Solve the mystery of the curse, fight true darkness and mix the most unusual cocktails in the atmospheric visual novel — Into the Waves!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Point & Click 14.8%, Drama 12.8%
- #48 Becoming
72% match8 user reviews63% of 8 reviews2021
Dev: Atelier BecomingPub: ODBear Studios
Windows
A self-centered man faces his beliefs when the past comes back to haunt him in the form of a very close friend...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Drama 11.3%, LGBTQ+ 10%
- #49 Lone Bird in the Tree
68% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2026
Dev: Aosolagame
Windows · Mac
“Lone Bird in the Tree” is an adventure game with male and female versions of each of the four characters. The story alternates between the “future” of the main character, who is deeply traumatized by the grief of his/her best friend, and the “story leading up to the loss of his/her best friend”.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, LGBTQ+ 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Hand-drawn 14.9%, Visual Novel 12.6%
- #50 Too Small To Matter
68% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: André AntunesPub: GameDev Técnico
Windows
Journey of animals trying to survive a War. An emotional tale where you'll decide the fate of all who embark on this journey.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Hand-drawn 11.2%, Story Rich 5.9%
- #51 Sohee
67% matchPositive98% of 40 reviews2026
Dev: TwoDpixPub: Digital-Touch Co., Ltd.
Windows
is a story-driven adventure about a young woman who loses her balance in life after a major event and begins searching for her path again. Explore her daily moments, talk with people, and follow her journey toward finding answers.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Point & Click 18.5%, Drama 13%, Emotional 8.6%
- #52 Chronicles from the Abyss
67% matchPositive93% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: Aaron WisePub: Trial By Fire Games
Windows
Chronicles from the Abyss is a collection of 4 twisted Horror & Thriller stories that will play on the darkest corners of your mind, & every choice drips with dread. Twisted plots, haunting art, and chilling secrets await. Ready to uncover what lurks beneath?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Point & Click 15.4%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Hand-drawn 11.7%
- #53 The Second Reality Room: Unspoken Truths
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Shadow GlovePub: FINE Co., Ltd.
Windows
You can’t understand them—yet. Decode the “Second Reality” through Talk, Mind Read, and Translate in an empathy-driven psychological mystery adventure.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Hand-drawn 12.3%, Psychological 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
- #54 Return to Ash
66% matchVery Positive99% of 140 reviews2025
Dev: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac · Linux
“The hospital was empty. Quiet, and brighter than usual... like waking up on a snow day. But I didn't feel cold. I didn't feel much of anything.”
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 21.4%, Visual Novel 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Hand-drawn 14.6%, Emotional 11.9%
- #55 Invisible Wings: Chapter One
69% matchPositive83% of 30 reviews2021
Dev: Audune
Windows
Help Dawn, a young woman of faerie descent, with her first steps into loving and accepting who she is in a modern world where faeries and humans were supposed to live in harmony.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.3%, LGBTQ+ 16.9%, Point & Click 15.2%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Psychological 9.6%
- #56 Reigns: The Witcher
65% matchMostly Positive79% of 185 reviews2026
Dev: NerialPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Adventure as Geralt through the ballads of Dandelion. Swipe right, swipe left, seek glory, find death! Will you hunt monsters, upset the locals, or run a hot bath? Compose an inspiring epic to claim immortality.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.8%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Hand-drawn 8.5%, Story Rich 5.3%
- #57 BlueLine
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Going Places Studio
Windows
A visual interactive story about Blue, who is expected to be successful at work, be a good boyfriend, and at the same time... be happy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Hand-drawn 12.5%, Emotional 10.7%, Psychological 10.3%
- #58 Wednesdays
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,023 reviews2025
Dev: Pierre CorbinaisPub: ARTE France
Windows · Mac
Median: 54 minMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 49%
"The hardest part is not to speak up. It’s being heard." Part video game, part graphic novel, Wednesdays seeks to raise awareness about child sexual abuse through a surprisingly hope-filled story.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Hand-drawn 15.2%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Psychological 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
- #59 Midvinter
70% matchVery Positive87% of 106 reviews2016
Dev: Talecore Studios
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Midvinter is a cozy little point-and-click game, which invites you to explore Swedish folklore using puzzles and riddles as well as compelling music and voice over. In it, you as a player take on the role of gnome - the guardian of the farm - and get to interact with various dark and fantastical creatures.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Hand-drawn 15.2%, Point & Click 14.7%, Visual Novel 11.9%