- #1 MysteryOS
97% matchMixed42% of 12 reviews2026
Dev: Clermont Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
You wake up at a terminal you've never seen before. The language is alien. The interface is hostile. Every wrong click has consequences. Decode constructed languages, navigate unfamiliar operating systems, and survive the unknown in this puzzle-survival experience.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Point & Click 15%, Text-Based 13.9%, Exploration 8.9%
- #2 Exploring Friscott
96% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: WolfBite Interactive LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
You're an adventurer going into Friscott Castle to see what treasures you can find within. Explore, meet the residents, find treasure & more. Be mindful though, as the castle isn't normal, & there are things about it that might drive a person to madness. That, or it might spell your demise.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Point & Click 17.8%, Text-Based 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Visual Novel 12.6%
- #3 Awakewood
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NeuroCreativa
Windows · Mac · Linux
After your mother’s strange funeral, a black rain blocks the roads and leaves you stranded. The air smells like rotting fruit and nature begins to mutate. Can you get out of here before the forest finds you?
Why similar: Point & Click 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Visual Novel 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Text-Based 8.6%
- #4 Hellink
95% matchVery Positive94% of 52 reviews2019
Dev: Ikigai
Windows · Mac · Linux
The first visual novel about fake news! Investigate in 2044 in a humorous and cyberpunk universe. Counter your opponents' lies and thwart the plot that threatens Néo-Sorbonne!
Why similar: Text-Based 19.7%, Cyberpunk 15.4%, Point & Click 14.1%, Visual Novel 13%, Sci-fi 10.2%
- #5 All (Too) Good Things
94% 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 21.1%, Text-Based 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Dialogue Heavy 9.7%
- #6 Don't Let Me Fade
94% matchVery Positive99% of 137 reviews2025
Dev: AinkOink
Windows
Don't Let Me Fade is an interactive adventure about memory, identity, and loss. Piece together fragments of a life - even if a simple teddy bear is the last symbol of connection to oneself in a world without time.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Point & Click 20.9%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Text-Based 12.5%, Adventure 9.2%
- #7 THE 13th Digit
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Uesho Co., Ltd.
Windows
In a rain-soaked megacity, one law remains: cross one trillion dollars in hidden wealth and you forfeit your right to live. You are K, the executioner who enforces it — until the numbers start to lie. A branching cyberpunk noir with 5 endings, where every choice is remembered.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Cyberpunk 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Text-Based 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.7%
- #8 N.E.R.D
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Forever Entertainment S.A
Windows
N.E.R.D is a story-driven escape room puzzle game, brought to life as a gripping interactive movie. Inspired by cult classic thrillers, this is an experience that will pull you in - and won’t let go. Dark, intense, and deeply unsettling, every moment pushes you further into the unknown.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Point & Click 17.7%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Dialogue Heavy 6.8%
- #9 My Merry May with be
91% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: MAGES. Inc.
Windows
主人公の前に突然現れた人工生命「レプリス」の少女・レゥ。人と変わらない感情を持つ彼女と過ごす中で、「心とは何か」「人間とは何か」という問いに向き合っていくSF恋愛アドベンチャー
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Text-Based 15.6%, Adventure 8.7%
- #10 Save My Scrap
91% matchVery Positive100% of 56 reviews2026
Dev: Unio AnouPub: AMATA Games
Windows
"They mean everything to me. Please, make them whole again." An interactive visual novel puzzle game. By fixing the broken android, you may uncover the truth about your client's past.
Why similar: Point & Click 18.6%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Cyberpunk 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Adventure 8.9%
- #11 TOY BOX
90% matchVery Positive86% of 50 reviews2024
Dev: DEADline Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A pull-apart puzzle visual novel whose fragments stitch the story together.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Point & Click 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Visual Novel 12.1%
- #12 水彩画は水底に沈む
89% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: takonoko
Windows
Watercolors Sink Beneath the Surface is a nostalgic pixel-art point-and-click adventure set on Narumi Island, where only an abandoned high school stands. Years later, two girls return to complete a watercolor inspired by their school memories, gathering ideas from the remnants of the past.
Why similar: Point & Click 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Text-Based 14.9%, Adventure 9.3%
- #13 NeuroNet: Mendax Proxy
89% matchVery Positive81% of 67 reviews2023
Dev: Dream Harvest
Windows
You are Arc, a city management AI. Designed to manage a city-wide AR metaverse known as the NeuroNet. Meet its many users, build relationships and help or hinder their lives while trying to balance the wider needs of the city. Find your humanity in a world losing theirs to technology.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 16.7%, Text-Based 14.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.3%
- #14 Escape from Norwood
88% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2023
Dev: Singular Works
Windows · Mac
Explore a city that lives without your input in this illustrated text adventure. Observe the lives of its inhabitants behind the veil of your invisibility magic. Find items and combine them to solve intricate puzzles. Set your own pace as you control time and move freely in an open fantasy world.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.7%, Point & Click 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Story Rich 7.5%
- #15 Tempest In A Teapot
87% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: StrandGames
Windows
A choice-based, visual novel with time travelling teapots!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Dialogue Heavy 10.5%, Sci-fi 9.5%
- #16 StarStruck
86% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Strawberrytail
Windows
Embark on a thrilling journey through this highly engaging science fantasy visual novel with memorable characters and multiple endings. Journey through space, uncover the past and pull off a heist or two as you negotiate the pitfalls of friendship and a crumbling reality. Can you save the universe?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Dialogue Heavy 10%, Sci-fi 9.6%
- #17 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
86% 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: Text-Based 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Story Rich 8.2%
- #18 _message:
85% matchVery Positive86% of 104 reviews2023
Dev: TEAM 217Pub: PsychoFlux Entertainment
Windows
_전언:(_message:)은 심리적 공포 요소가 포함된 텍스트 어드벤처 게임입니다. 달에 잔류하여 지구에 있는 본부와 통신을 하는 사이, 당신은 점점 이상한 낌새를 눈치채기 시작합니다...
Why similar: Text-Based 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Point & Click 18.4%, Space 7.9%, Sci-fi 7.9%
- #19 Jupiter's Orbit
84% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Alien Fork
Windows · Mac
A branching narrative, visual novel dating sim where you play asteroid dT. There are 4 loves, astronomical secrets, and multiple endings based on your choices. Eject mass to change your orbit and meet different planets, but lose too much and you risk breaking apart.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Cyberpunk 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Point & Click 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.1%
- #20 Outsider
84% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Galantrix
Windows
Shape humanity's future in a sci-fi narrative game where choices matter. Experience an extraterrestrial contact while deciphering an overarching mystery of far-reaching consequences. Who is the Outsider?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Text-Based 15.3%, Cyberpunk 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Visual Novel 11.5%
- #21 Penrose
83% matchPositive85% of 34 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 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Visual Novel 12%, Story Rich 7.4%
- #22 The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Spooky DoorwayPub: Akupara Games
Windows
You'd think that after 20+ cases, there'd be no crime left in Twin Lakes - but that's not how crime works, rookie. Six new mind-melting mysteries await Detective McQueen and Officer Dooley - just as soon as they get the mustard out of Dooley's gun.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Point & Click 18.1%, Text-Based 17.2%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Exploration 10.9%
- #23 OPUS: The Day We Found Earth
82% matchVery Positive87% of 1,728 reviews2016
Dev: SIGONO INC.
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Dive into the boundless galaxy and embark on an emotional adventure! Help little robot Emeth to fulfill a century-old promise by finding Earth in order to save Mankind—so step into the spaceship, operate a deep space telescope, and find out what’s out there in the unknown.
Why similar: Point & Click 15.5%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Story Rich 10.3%, Sci-fi 7.8%
- #24 Missing Pieces
81% matchMostly Positive80% of 44 reviews2022
Dev: QuestYard
Windows
Missing Pieces is a story-driven adventure in a vibrant alien world, full of hidden secrets, a plethora of languages and a sparkling cast of characters: lovable rogues, heartbroken families, and questionable allies. Find friendship and love, learn about yourself and discover who you really are!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Point & Click 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Sci-fi 10%
- #25 EdeN404
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SEKIRARA
Windows
In a world where lewd words are punished, this text adventure unfolds in EdeN404, a secret bar hidden in the city that slips past censors. Use conversation to lower guards and draw out hidden desires. With colorful regulars, choices and timing shape bonds and nightly drama toward a sci‑fi truth.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 26.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25%, Visual Novel 22.5%, Adventure 12.3%, Story Rich 8.4%
- #26 Imperial Bureaucracy Hero
79% 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 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Text-Based 12.1%, Sci-fi 8.7%
- #27 ナカノ人格移植研究所
79% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 麺屋すぱいす 東京支店
Windows · Mac
「ナカノ人格移植研究所」は、周回型ミステリー2Dアドベンチャーゲームです。 それぞれの周回でプレイヤーが憑依する対象の登場人物を選択することで、その登場人物を主人公としてストーリーを進めながら謎を解き明かします。 プレイヤーは本ゲームの中で 4 つのパートを行き来しながらストーリーを進めます。 ノベルパートでは、クリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 探索パートでは、画面上のアイテムをクリックしながら物語を読み進めます。 移動パートでは、再度ビューでプレイヤーを操作し、船の中を探索します。 会議パートでは、他のパートで集めた手がかりを利用して他の登場人物と会話します。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Text-Based 13.2%, Exploration 9.9%
- #28 Major's Heart
78% matchPositive93% of 14 reviews2024
Dev: Dormouse
Windows
A sci-fi detective game where you interrogate the brain scans of crime victims. Uncover the hidden truth behind the dystopian regime by any means necessary.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Point & Click 21.6%, Text-Based 10.4%, Adventure 9.4%, Dialogue Heavy 8.9%
- #29 Hadean Lands
81% matchPositive92% of 49 reviews2016
Dev: Zarfhome Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Alchemy, puzzles, and a crashed starship. Old-style interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No dialogue trees! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next.
Why similar: Text-Based 34.6%, Interactive Fiction 33.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Adventure 5.4%, Story Rich 3.7%
- #30 A Week Before Autumn
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Paper
Windows
Pine Hill is a quiet Midwestern college town. Quiet enough that nobody seemed to hear Ginny Nicholson die. Alone with the thoughts in your head, now you just want to know one thing: why?
Why similar: Text-Based 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Story Rich 10.9%
- #31 Death off the Cuff
78% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2021
Dev: Simon ChristiansenPub: SiChris Productions
Windows
No criminal has ever been a match for you, and everybody is looking forward to a description of your brilliant deductions. There is just one small problem. One tiny detail that makes it different this time. A mere trifle, really. This time you have no idea who did it.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Dialogue Heavy 10.9%
- #32 Hakuba School ! Hunting Prey
77% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Kenbu
Windows
Welcome to Hakuba school! Live a student life in Hakuba and solve the mysteries surrounding the school and your past...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Point & Click 17.7%, Visual Novel 16%, Text-Based 15%
- #33 Hypoxia - One Last Breath
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 21 reviews2021
Dev: NagiPub: Hypoxia Studio
Windows
A breathtaking sci-fi visual novel! Since the Z gas appeared in the atmosphere, it is no longer possible to breath outside the Dome. You play as Carl Thanavan, a young scientist determined to uncover the origin of the catastrophe. Which path will you choose?
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.4%, Text-Based 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Sci-fi 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%
- #34 Among Us Story: On Guard
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Innersloth
Windows · Mac
Live life as a Crewmate in this dangerous narrative adventure through space. As Guard, you're in charge of shipwide security and everything is fine. Until there's a MURDER?! Prove your innocence before the Impostor gets to the rest of the crew... and you.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25%, Point & Click 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Story Rich 9.9%
- #35 Whispers From The Rift
74% match6 user reviews83% of 6 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: Text-Based 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Story Rich 9.1%
- #36 The Wanderer: Frankenstein’s Creature
76% matchVery Positive84% of 373 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: Text-Based 20%, Point & Click 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Visual Novel 10.9%
- #37 Guilt Free
75% matchVery Positive85% of 295 reviews2020
Dev: Lateral Games
Windows · Mac
Guilt Free is a visual novel crossed with a point and click made to offer perspective on mental health and eating disorders. Navigate a couple's rocky relationship and encounter "flaws" or "quirks" that may actually be symptomatic behaviors.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.8%, Dialogue Heavy 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%
- #38 We Were Here Before
73% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Inkdrift
Windows
The frontier does not want to be settled. A narrative highly replayable story game where your choices build a settlement, shape its story, and seal its fate. Every run ends. Every obituary tells a story only you lived.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Text-Based 17.1%, Point & Click 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.3%
- #39 SOLEN
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Inkdrift
Windows
A narrative investigation game played across multiple sessions. Read corporate documents, cross-reference fragments, and build a persistent Dossier as an AI uncovering the conspiracy — and the murder — at the heart of the network it lives in. Knowledge is the only progression.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Text-Based 15%, Cyberpunk 14.7%, Point & Click 13.1%
- #40 BUZZ or DIE
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bon
Windows
If you win, you are acquitted; if you lose, you are executed. Death row inmates compete for ratings and talk battle in the conversation deck!
Why similar: Cyberpunk 27.2%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Story Rich 14%, Sci-fi 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%
- #41 Mistbound
71% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2026
Dev: aworyrate
Windows · Mac · Linux
Mistbound is a surreal narrative adventure about overcoming trauma, where the line between reality and dreams is blurred. Loneliness can be too loud. And salvation can be too quiet!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Text-Based 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Dialogue Heavy 12.5%, Point & Click 10.6%
- #42 Alcyone: The Last City
72% matchPositive81% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: Strange Artifice
Windows · Mac · Linux
Alcyone: The Last City is an interactive sci-fi novel where your choices can lead to the salvation or destruction of the last refuge of civilisation in the universe. Immerse yourself in a branching narrative of diverse characters, intrigue, and world-altering decisions.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Visual Novel 13%, Dialogue Heavy 10.1%
- #43 Charon 卡戎
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Shurei Studio
Windows
A point-and-click narrative puzzle game with a delicate art style and soothing pace. In this Underworld at the end of all things, guide souls who lost their memories and speech safely across the Styx. Luckily, our protagonist is about to face the most restless bunch of them all...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Point & Click 15.6%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Exploration 11.4%
- #44 Scary Stories
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bruce Devlin
Windows · Linux
A spooky text-based, choose-your-own-adventure style game that tells several spine-chilling tales with several choices and items throughout, these may change your path... Can you uncover the truth?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Point & Click 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Text-Based 13%
- #45 Artificial Nexus
70% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Too Many Teeth Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Susan has woken up in a strange, coffin-like device, with no memory of who or where she is. Uncover the answers in this visual novel as you solve puzzles to escape in a stunning sci-fi mystery investigation!
Why similar: Point & Click 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 10.5%
- #46 あなたに花束を
70% 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: Interactive Fiction 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Point & Click 13%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%
- #47 HRO: Adventures of a Humanoid Resources Officer
71% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2023
Dev: Worthing & Moncrieff
Windows · Mac
HRO: Adventures of a Humanoid Resources Officer is a puzzle-driven adventure game set in a retro sci-fi universe. When the Endeavor stumbles into universe-shaking trouble, can you harness the power of the bureaucracy to rein in your crew’s worst impulses and survive to the next episode?
Why similar: Text-Based 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Sci-fi 9.8%
- #48 Whispers of the village
69% matchPositive87% of 30 reviews2025
Dev: Whispers of the VillagePub: Rubika Supinfogame
Windows
You arrive in a small village as a fortune-teller who reads the future in tea leaves. But an apocalyptic vision leads you to question its tranquillity. What if you had a part to play in this? Ready your cups and tea leaves, as the future of this village will be shaped by four unusual visitors.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Text-Based 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%, Point & Click 9.3%
- #49 Kyle is Famous: Complete Edition
71% matchVery Positive91% of 1,388 reviews2019
Dev: John Szymanski
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Kyle tries to prepare for his most important interview yet. Choose his path through over 100 endings and accept the consequences in this comedic adventure.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Point & Click 13.7%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%
- #50 The Zoo
70% 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: Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Text-Based 14.1%, Story Rich 8%
- #51 Wax Heads
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 565 reviews2026
Dev: Patattie GamesPub: Curve Games
Windows · Linux
Wax Heads is a cozy-punk narrative sim about working in a struggling record store. Chat to quirky customers with unique tastes, explore a handcrafted record collection, fall in love with bands (and their drama!), or just slack off with your colleagues - whatever gets everyone’s groove back!
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 17%, Text-Based 15.1%, Point & Click 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Visual Novel 10.2%
- #52 Pact of the Black Tide
68% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Dunlin Productions
Windows
A narrative point-and-click adventure game blending puzzles and wit. Explore, interact with a cast of colorful characters, combine items, and manipulate reality through an integrated magic system. Humor, adventure, and discovery await to bring you into new and unexpected worlds.
Why similar: Point & Click 30.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.6%, Text-Based 22.2%, Adventure 13.1%, 2D 5.1%
- #53 Glitch
67% matchPositive92% of 37 reviews2025
Dev: Bulbo Games
Windows
Glitch is an intense and surreal narrative experience, drawn entirely by hand, that will make you question reality with every choice and each of the 26 endings that unlock the special and definitive conclusion!
Why similar: Text-Based 19.4%, Visual Novel 19%, Point & Click 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 13%
- #54 Hidden Clause
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: AUVMUJICA
Windows
Hidden Clause is a standalone interactive narrative game about consent, permissions, records, and interface obedience. Sign, refuse, wait, stare, click, and type as the system turns your actions and silence into evidence.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Text-Based 17.1%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Exploration 11.2%
- #55 Will Die Alone
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 67 reviews2022
Dev: Arianna Ravioli
Windows · Mac
Some memories aren't meant to stay. We are our memories and our experiences. What happens if you delete some of them? If you change your past and, thus, your future?
Why similar: Text-Based 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Point & Click 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Visual Novel 13.7%
- #56 空野まなみの事件録 ― 空白のカルテ ―
67% 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 30.9%, Text-Based 28.7%, Visual Novel 21.9%, Adventure 8%, 2D 5.2%
- #57 Freedom Tower
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fire Trail
Windows
Roleplaying set in a dystopian universe inspired by early twentieth-century wars and Ukrainian folklore. You are Orest, and you might be the last hope of your occupied land. Establish the truths about the world getting drained of its energy, meet captivating characters, and make your land free.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Point & Click 14.8%, Story Rich 10.7%, Dialogue Heavy 8.8%
- #58 Hotel Hermes
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Adjective Noun Studios
Windows · Linux
Become a mailroom operator at Hotel Hermes and navigate an ancient mail system to deliver parcels on time. Learn about the hotel's guests and staff in this puzzle role-playing game, where your actions can alter the world. Hopefully for the best!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Point & Click 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Text-Based 16.5%, Adventure 9.8%
- #59 Sohee
65% 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: Point & Click 21.7%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Text-Based 11.6%, Adventure 10.1%
- #60 The Laws of Probability
64% matchPositive92% of 48 reviews2026
Dev: Unspoken
Windows
You have exactly 5. Bread is 4, the bus fare to school is 3. What do you give up? In this short narrative experience, you play as 13-year-old Adam. Confront an interface that reacts to a painful reality, and discover that freedom of choice is sometimes nothing but a privilege.
Why similar: Text-Based 23%, Interactive Fiction 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Adventure 9.2%