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  1. #1 Breakout 13
    97% matchVery Positive88% of 7,394 reviews2023
    Dev: ALT Lab
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    Breakout 13 is a thrilling narrative game with interactive cinematic experience. Based on true stories. Embark on a revealing journey as you attempt to break free from a negligent correctional institute and carve out your own path to justice. Each decision you make shapes the story.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Detective 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.6%

  2. #2 Ukraine War Stories
    96% matchVery Positive87% of 1,079 reviews2022
    Dev: Starni Games
    Windows

    Ukraine War Stories is a set of visual novels about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Set in the early months of the war, it tells the stories of civilians trapped on Russian-occupied territory. All stories are based on real events and eyewitness accounts.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Text-Based 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Emotional 9.5%, Multiple Endings 9%

  3. #3 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 30.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, RPG 8.8%, Choices Matter 7%

  4. #4 Insects Awaken
    95% matchVery Positive90% of 445 reviews2025
    Dev: HelloMeow
    Windows · Mac

    Insects Awaken is a puzzle visual novel set in the 1940s. It follows the story of Chen Shan, a young man entangled in espionage while defending his family and homeland. He embarks on a journey between the isolated cities of Chongqing and Shanghai, braving the chaos of war with his passion and youth.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Drama 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%

  5. #5 Far Away
    94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,931 reviews2021
    Dev: Gratesca
    Windows
    Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Far Away is a visual novel full of dark humor depicting immersive storylines rather than romantic drama. You will play as Krosa, a typical girl who experiences gang conflicts, crimes, conspiracies, and family grudges in the port city of Bedjan.

    Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Dark Humor 17.8%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Multiple Endings 11%

  6. #6 Citizen Sleeper
    92% matchVery Positive93% of 9,761 reviews2022
    Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%

    Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.

    Why similar: Text-Based 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Hand-drawn 14.9%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Story Rich 10.9%

  7. #7 Murders on the Yangtze River
    91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 20,376 reviews2024
    Dev: OMEGAMES STUDIO
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    "Murders on Yangtze River" is an Ace Attorney-like detective game that takes you on a journey through early 20th century China as you solve a series of intriguing cases. Use your logical reasoning and deduction skills to uncover clues, interrogate suspects, and solve the mysteries.

    Why similar: Detective 41.8%, Drama 16.4%, Story Rich 13.8%, Text-Based 11.3%, Adventure 6.6%

  8. #8 Star Story: The Horizon Escape
    94% matchVery Positive83% of 183 reviews2017
    Dev: EvilCoGames
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%

    Join the journey of a funky space archaeologist who crashed on an unknown planet. A text turn-based adventure RPG in which your choices actually matter. Talk, explore, fight, make decisions to find a way out! Colourful graphics and the old comic book spirit.

    Why similar: Text-Based 19.7%, Nonlinear 17.1%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Hand-drawn 11.1%

  9. #9 The Night Fisherman
    93% matchVery Positive82% of 771 reviews2020
    Dev: de FaultPub: Far Few Giants
    Windows · Mac

    A short, twisted tale about a smuggler and a late night encounter in the English Channel. Control the camera and make tough choices, will you escape with your life?

    Why similar: Political 18.5%, Philosophical 16%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Text-Based 11.7%

  10. #10 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
    91% 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 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Text-Based 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Story Rich 10.6%

  11. #11 Minds Beneath Us
    89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,416 reviews2024
    Dev: BearBoneStudio
    Windows
    Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 12.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%

    MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.

    Why similar: Philosophical 25.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Multiple Endings 13.9%, Story Rich 10%

  12. #12 Wanderlust: Travel Stories
    90% matchVery Positive83% of 132 reviews2019
    Dev: Different Tales
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Wanderlust: Travel Stories is a bridge between literature and gaming. Step into the shoes of modern travelers—explore their desires, hopes and fears, and shape how their stories unfold. Make this journey your own.

    Why similar: Text-Based 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Choices Matter 12.2%

  13. #13 Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Purgatory
    88% matchMostly Positive79% of 101 reviews2024
    Dev: Different Tales
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A choice-driven RPG thriller set in the World of Darkness universe. Step into the shoes of Samira, a young werewolf refugee in Poland, as she battles dark forces and loneliness, caught between rage and despair. How will your story unfold?

    Why similar: Text-Based 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Multiple Endings 12%, Choices Matter 11.7%

  14. #14 The Wake: Mourning Father, Mourning Mother
    89% matchVery Positive82% of 269 reviews2020
    Dev: Somi
    Windows · Mac

    The Wake is a record of past wounds opened at a three-day funeral. The journal is encoded with a simple substitution cipher that the player must break in order to reveal the writer’s psyche and discover the contradictions that define him.

    Why similar: Text-Based 44.9%, Drama 26.6%, Story Rich 15.7%, Adventure 7.4%, 2D 5.4%

  15. #15 The Golden Rose: Book One
    87% 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 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, RPG 10.3%, Choices Matter 10.2%

  16. #16 Forest Life
    86% matchVery Positive93% of 72 reviews2023
    Dev: 星辰重工Pub: B.I.G Technology Co., Limited
    Windows

    Players will play as five different characters and experience five environmental theme scenes relating to sustainable palm oil, orangutan conservation, rainforest protection, etc. Players need to make a variety of choices through their own understanding, and reach different story endings.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Modern 19%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Text-Based 13.2%, Drama 10.9%

  17. #17 Orwell's Animal Farm
    85% matchMostly Positive77% of 178 reviews2020
    Dev: NerialPub: The Dairymen
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 75%

    Orwell’s Animal Farm is a text-based choice-driven narrative game where all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. Immerse yourself in George Orwell's story of absolute power and corruption and follow the ups and downs of Animalism.

    Why similar: Political 25.8%, Text-Based 11.1%, Emotional 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%

  18. #18 Survive In Russia
    86% matchMixed65% of 57 reviews2020
    Dev: Alexander Sablin
    Windows · Mac

    Survive in Russia is a survival quest in Russia. You will be available a selection of characters. Each of them presents survival mode and story mode. Only on your choice will depend on the life of the character.

    Why similar: Nonlinear 23.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Drama 11.6%

  19. #19 Not Tonight 2
    84% matchMostly Positive80% of 447 reviews2022
    Dev: PanicBarnPub: No More Robots
    Windows
    Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 65%

    Immigration Enforcement Case #112: You are under arrest. Unless your friends can cross a broken America, retrieve your identifying documents and stay out of trouble... this is the end of the American dream for you.

    Why similar: Political 39.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Emotional 10.8%, Drama 9.6%, Choices Matter 6.7%

  20. #20 Interrogation Simulator
    83% matchVery Positive95% of 60 reviews2022
    Dev: Otis MillerPub: Fire Cycle Games
    Windows · Linux

    Inspired by JCS videos and similar Interrogation analysis. Match evidence with statements. Play good cop/bad cop. Make choices. Learn what makes people tick. Unravel the mystery.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Text-Based 19.8%, Dark Humor 18.5%, Story Rich 7.8%

  21. #21 Long Gone Days
    82% matchVery Positive89% of 549 reviews2023
    Dev: This I DreamtPub: Serenity Forge
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    A modern-day JRPG that imagines a world of war. Overcome language barriers, forge unlikely friendships, and find hope amidst conflict.

    Why similar: Political 34.6%, Modern 16.9%, Emotional 12.3%, Drama 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.7%

  22. #22 The Outcast Lovers
    84% matchMixed66% of 85 reviews2020
    Dev: ChardPub: Far Few Giants
    Windows · Mac

    Driving home late one night you encounter a refugee in distress. They are looking for salvation. Do you hand them over to violent authorities? Or risk sheltering them yourself?

    Why similar: Emotional 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Drama 14.1%, Choices Matter 12.1%

  23. #23 TOBOR
    81% matchVery Positive94% of 86 reviews2023
    Dev: Cogoo
    Windows · Mac

    A psychological surveillance adventure. Observe 16 real-time CCTV feeds as TOBOR, a spy unit uncovering secrets in a dystopian bunker. Monitor suspects, collect evidence, and choose who survives. Multiple endings.

    Why similar: Political 21.3%, Text-Based 13.5%, Detective 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Dark Humor 10.6%

  24. #24 Master Lemon: The Quest for Iceland
    79% matchVery Positive100% of 147 reviews2025
    Dev: Pepita Digital
    Windows

    A tribute to a friend who has passed — and to the adventures we still need to live. A story-driven adventure about a young polyglot traversing mystical islands and using the power of words to confront his own fate and save a world tamed by darkness.

    Why similar: Emotional 34.3%, Interactive Fiction 29.6%, Story Rich 16.7%, RPG 9.2%, Adventure 7%

  25. #25 You are the Judge!
    81% matchMostly Positive70% of 254 reviews2023
    Dev: Steel Games
    Windows

    As a judge of the Kobardde court, solve complex cases inspired by actual events. Your decisions will directly affect people's (and perhaps yours) lives. You may have to make difficult decisions for your family, country, and life. What kind of judge will you be?

    Why similar: Political 38.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Text-Based 12.9%, Choices Matter 7.7%, Multiple Endings 6.7%

  26. #26 Bury Me, My Love
    82% matchMixed68% of 174 reviews2019
    Dev: The Pixel HuntPub: PID Games
    Windows
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%

    Bury me, my Love tells the story of Syrian refugee Nour and her husband Majd, as Nour undertakes a perilous journey to safety in Europe.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 53.4%, Adventure 25.9%, Story Rich 20.8%

  27. #27 Duskpunk
    78% matchVery Positive92% of 147 reviews2025
    Dev: Clockwork Bird
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    A gritty dice-driven RPG, in a steampunk city. You escaped the War, but how to survive? Explore the city. Build up your skills. Decide who to trust. Choose carefully: you might just spark a revolution!

    Why similar: Text-Based 21.3%, Political 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Multiple Endings 10.1%

  28. #28 1979 Revolution: Black Friday
    80% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,085 reviews2016
    Dev: iNK Stories
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    1979 Revolution: Black Friday is a choice driven, narrative game that brings players into the brooding world of a nation on the verge of collapse. Play as Reza, an aspiring photojournalist, and make life and death decisions as you survive the gritty streets of Iran in the late 1970’s.

    Why similar: Political 47.7%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Story Rich 7.3%

  29. #29 Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
    79% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,703 reviews2018
    Dev: Dim Bulb GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a Narrative-Adventure game about traveling, sharing stories, and surviving manifest destiny.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 49.9%, Story Rich 22.4%, RPG 12.8%, Adventure 12.3%, Singleplayer 2.6%

  30. #30 Justice.exe
    78% matchMostly Positive71% of 102 reviews2022
    Dev: Late Game ClutchPub: Gameclaw Studio
    Windows · Mac

    Justice.exe is a dialogue-heavy dystopian legal drama in which you defend sentient AI in court. Discover key story elements in dialogue, build your case by studying arguments, and engage the opposing counsel in wits, charisma and skullduggery. Small choices might alter the fate of your clients.

    Why similar: Political 32.8%, Detective 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Multiple Endings 9.7%

  31. #31 Sinking The Boats
    75% matchVery Positive97% of 62 reviews2025
    Dev: 孟夏MengxiaPub: 糕薯科技
    Windows

    It's a choice-oriented story game. Play as a group of underground workers who fight in the dark, and stage a treacherous spy war story in Nanjing during World War II. How will you respond to identity crises, betrayals, and collapsed beliefs? Loyalty or betrayal, abandon others or be abandoned...

    Why similar: Detective 16.9%, Hand-drawn 15.6%, Drama 13.7%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Story Rich 10.8%

  32. #32 The Dark Egg Demo
    76% 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 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Story Rich 7.9%

  33. #33 Over the Alps
    77% matchVery Positive88% of 243 reviews2020
    Dev: Stave Studios
    Windows · Mac

    Over The Alps is a choices-matter narrative adventure game told through interactive postcards, sent from a secret agent to their handler, in 1930s Switzerland.

    Why similar: Text-Based 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Story Rich 11.3%

  34. #34 Twenty-second: Stories of Underground Kharkiv
    75% matchVery Positive89% of 75 reviews2024
    Dev: Brenntkopf DevelopmentPub: Brenntkopf Publishing
    Windows

    The Twenty-Second: Stories of Underground Kharkiv is a quest and a visual novel that will tell you in the first person about the events of 2022 in the Kharkiv metro.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.4%, Modern 17.7%, Emotional 15.8%, Philosophical 15.5%, Drama 13.3%

  35. #35 Cyber Manhunt
    74% matchVery Positive93% of 15,410 reviews2021
    Dev: Aluba Van+
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    Cyber Manhunt is a story-oriented puzzle game focusing on big data, hacking, citizen privacy, and social workers. It focuses on social issues such as cyber violence and privacy breaches.

    Why similar: Detective 46.5%, RPG 28.6%, Story Rich 15%, 2D 6%, Singleplayer 3.9%

  36. #36 December 1914
    76% matchVery Positive85% of 144 reviews2023
    Dev: 莉莉恩工作室
    Windows

    A comic-style narrative-oriented game based on the Christmas Eve Truce during World War I.

    Why similar: Emotional 29.4%, Interactive Fiction 28.3%, Drama 21.4%, Colorful 8.4%, RPG 7%

  37. #37 Amarantus
    73% matchVery Positive82% of 79 reviews2023
    Dev: ub4q
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Roadtrip across the country. Confront a tyrant. The revolution will be messy—but the relationships will be messier.

    Why similar: Choices Matter 15.4%, Emotional 13.6%, Hand-drawn 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Drama 12.9%

  38. #38 We. The Revolution
    73% matchMostly Positive75% of 2,370 reviews2019
    Dev: PolyslashPub: Valkyrie Initiative
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    As a judge of the Revolutionary Tribunal, preside over complicated cases of ordinary citizens, dangerous criminals, and enemies of the revolution in revolutionary Paris. Make judgments, plot political intrigue, and try to not lose your own head!

    Why similar: Choices Matter 34.3%, Hand-drawn 28.1%, Story Rich 22.2%, Adventure 10.3%, Singleplayer 5.1%

  39. #39 VED
    71% matchVery Positive80% of 75 reviews2024
    Dev: KaraclanPub: Fulqrum Publishing
    Windows

    VED is a story-driven, hand-drawn RPG with a unique turn-based combat system and roguelite elements. Set in two different worlds, VED tells the story of Cyrus, a young hero who sets out on a quest to become a master of sword and magic, and save everything he knows from destruction.

    Why similar: Emotional 24.2%, Hand-drawn 20.7%, Choices Matter 18.2%, Story Rich 13.9%, RPG 9.5%

  40. #40 Miss Peacock
    68% matchVery Positive100% of 77 reviews2026
    Dev: Otter Club
    Windows · Mac

    Between 1930 and 1933, Lieutenant Chen, an ambitious Asian officer, travels to a remote mine in the mountains of French Indochina to investigate a decrease in mineral production. Various forces become entangled in the power play, revealing the truth amid diplomatic mediation and supernatural events.

    Why similar: Detective 19.4%, Hand-drawn 17%, Drama 12%, Story Rich 10.8%, Text-Based 8.8%

  41. #41 The Wanderer: Frankenstein’s Creature
    73% matchVery Positive84% of 342 reviews2019
    Dev: La Belle GamesPub: ARTE France
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.7 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 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Emotional 10.3%, Hand-drawn 10.2%

  42. #42 Postmortem: One Must Die (Extended Cut)
    77% matchMostly Negative40% of 187 reviews2013
    Dev: Unbound Creations
    Windows
    Median: 12 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 20%

    Narrative-adventure playing an Agent of Death who must take ONE life that could change the fate of a conflict-torn Nation

    Why similar: Political 32.5%, RPG 13%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Adventure 9.5%

  43. #43 Road 96 🛣️
    69% matchVery Positive92% of 24,497 reviews2021
    Dev: DigixartPub: THQ Nordic
    Windows
    Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Hitchhike your way to freedom in this crazy procedurally generated road trip. No one's road is the same!

    Why similar: Political 22.4%, Nonlinear 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Emotional 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.9%

  44. #44 For the People
    72% matchMostly Positive74% of 788 reviews2020
    Dev: Brezg StudioPub: 101XP
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    For the People is a mix of a political management sim and a visual novel, putting players in the shoes of an idealistic young state official tasked with shaping the future of a communist factory town. Will the party provide for the people, or are the people just cogs in its machine?..

    Why similar: Political 40.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Story Rich 7.8%

  45. #45 Signs of the Sojourner
    72% matchVery Positive87% of 244 reviews2020
    Dev: Echodog Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%

    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: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Text-Based 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Choices Matter 13.9%, RPG 7.8%

  46. #46 Ishmael
    74% matchMixed57% of 84 reviews2018
    Dev: Jordan Magnuson
    Windows

    Ishmael is a short multimedia-enhanced hypertext story about perpetual cycles of displacement and violence as seen through the lens of a child. Takes about 15 minutes to read/play through.

    Why similar: Political 22.4%, Philosophical 16.5%, Text-Based 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%

  47. #47 Heads Will Roll: Reforged
    69% matchVery Positive85% of 1,603 reviews2023
    Dev: 1917 StudiosPub: Valkyrie Initiative
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 15.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Hardcore survival RPG with non-linear story that lets you play as a young medieval soldier who over the course of battles and adventures becomes the most formidable and respected knight of his era. Or, if he’s not lucky enough, perishes in the chaos of the Hundred Years' War.

    Why similar: Text-Based 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Multiple Endings 10.8%

  48. #48 Home Behind
    71% matchVery Positive84% of 6,095 reviews2016
    Dev: TPP Studio
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    In Home Behind, you take on the role of a refugee cast out from your homeland by a band of rebels. Your home and the peace you enjoyed has been destroyed, and your family has disappeared. Can you survive the struggle, famine, and sickness to make it to the safety of Europe?

    Why similar: RPG 48.4%, Adventure 38.2%, 2D 7.8%, Singleplayer 5.6%

  49. #49 The Dawn is Inevitable
    69% matchVery Positive90% of 105 reviews2023
    Dev: Last Spring
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    The Dawn is Inevitable is an interactive crime drama/neo-western novel inspired by classic RPG games. A mysterious stranger is forced to hide in a village called Rassvet. This place is isolated from the outside world for the whole winter and keeps many dark secrets.

    Why similar: Nonlinear 17.4%, Text-Based 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Drama 9.5%

  50. #50 Vanity Fair: The Pursuit
    66% matchVery Positive88% of 4,461 reviews2024
    Dev: 木焱工作室Pub: Wave Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    Players follow Lu Yuan through important stages of his life and experience his growth trajectory from youth to maturity. It will take you to relive those decisions that you have never tried to make in reality, and feel the different life brought about by each choice.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Choices Matter 22.3%, Drama 20.6%, Story Rich 14.1%, RPG 11.4%

  51. #51 Gerda: A Flame in Winter
    67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 515 reviews2022
    Dev: BirdIsland/PortaPlayPub: DON'T NOD
    Windows
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 59%

    You have five days to save your husband, who has just been arrested by the Gestapo. Investigate, explore and form allegiances in this story-rich RPG-lite. Who will you trust?

    Why similar: Emotional 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Multiple Endings 13%, Hand-drawn 11.9%

  52. #52 HEADLINER
    70% matchMostly Positive77% of 925 reviews2017
    Dev: Unbound Creations
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%

    Short, thought-provoking adventure where you are a News Editor and decide what stories get published, set in a fictional city where most people are genetically modified. Multiple unique endings let you share your story and see what the Headliner before you did.

    Why similar: Political 45.3%, Choices Matter 18.2%, Multiple Endings 16.6%, Story Rich 7.7%, Adventure 6.4%

  53. #53 Nobody Nowhere
    66% matchVery Positive93% of 184 reviews2025
    Dev: 深渊标记 Tag:hadal
    Windows

    a side-scrolling, story-driven text adventure game in pixel art. The story is set in 2079, when a Replicant awakens in a lab facility amidst a life-or-death situation. The replicant aid agency tries to rescue him but fails. In the process they stumble on the real secret of the Replicant project...

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Text-Based 23.3%, Drama 21.7%, Story Rich 13.2%, RPG 6.4%

  54. #54 Unrest
    71% matchMixed68% of 195 reviews2014
    Dev: Pyrodactyl
    Windows
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Unrest is a role playing adventure game set in a fantasy interpretation of ancient India that adapts to death, failure, and the choices you make. Play as ordinary people in a struggle for safety, freedom, and a chance at peace. Use conversation, manipulation (and rarely, violence) to achieve your goals.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Hand-drawn 10.7%

  55. #55 Subsurface Circular
    68% matchVery Positive94% of 1,925 reviews2017
    Dev: Bithell Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 69%

    When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.

    Why similar: Text-Based 26.8%, Detective 26.3%, Philosophical 19.9%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Story Rich 8.7%

  56. #56 The Thaumaturge
    65% matchVery Positive83% of 5,424 reviews2024
    Dev: Fool's TheoryPub: 11 bit studios
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    The Thaumaturge is a character-driven RPG with a rich story, morally ambiguous choices, and turn-based combat. In a city on the brink of change, use your mystical powers to read emotions, uncover motives, and command folklore-inspired demons — while resisting the temptation of your own pride.

    Why similar: Detective 33.2%, Choices Matter 18.5%, Multiple Endings 16.3%, Story Rich 14%, RPG 10.5%

  57. #57 Pentiment
    64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 9,036 reviews2022
    Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
    Windows
    Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.

    Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Detective 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Hand-drawn 12.6%, Multiple Endings 11.9%

  58. #58 Field Hospital: Dr. Taylor's Story
    68% matchVery Positive90% of 106 reviews2020
    Dev: Gard Interactive
    Windows · Mac

    Field Hospital is a text-based bureaucratic detective game about hard decisions. Decide who to treat and whom to refuse. Face consequences. Study patients’ info and read their stories. Investigate the tangled case of Dr. Taylor.

    Why similar: Detective 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Text-Based 17.5%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Choices Matter 12.5%

  59. #59 IZGUB 2001
    65% matchVery Positive98% of 97 reviews2024
    Dev: Dbrhdk
    Windows

    You decide how a civil war in the country of Izgub is supposed to end. Visual novel with strong themes of war, political violence and moral dilemma.

    Why similar: Political 28.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Hand-drawn 11.8%, Dark Humor 10.3%, Emotional 8.5%

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