- #1 Liar-for-hire
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Neo Vulgate Cycle
Windows
Follow the new worker of the disinformation agency day by day. Decide how to oppose news and people through the use of fake scandals and redirections. Ensure a win for your employers - or find some conscience after all.
Why similar: Political Sim 27.9% ★, Life Sim 11.2%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Management 8.7%, Text-Based 8.6%
- #2 The Newspapers of the day
96% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: divingstudio
Windows
Run a newspaper under censorship. Report, choose your articles, strike out words, lay out the page. Sharp reporting draws the censors; a compliant paper loses its readers. 1920s Gyeongseong — a newspaper management simulation adventure where you complete a single page, every single day.
Why similar: Political Sim 25.5% ★, Historical 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%, Dialogue Heavy 9%, Text-Based 8.8%
- #3 Archon
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tome & Blade
Windows
In this story-rich interstellar political drama, ascend as humanity's next leader. Rebuild a broken empire in a war-torn galaxy through might, diplomacy, or espionage. Every choice has a consequence. What will you choose, Your Eminence?
Why similar: Political Sim 31.6% ★, Choices Matter 8.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.8%, Text-Based 7.6%, Visual Novel 7.3%
- #4 The Iron and the Oath
95% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: FFire Studio
Windows
A narrative RPG of medieval intrigue and war. As Karl von Aiden, shape your destiny through five chapters of choices that matter. Build attributes, forge alliances, navigate court politics, and face consequences across three story routes and multiple endings.
Why similar: Political Sim 15.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Nonlinear 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Choices Matter 8.7%
- #5 Chronicles of Humanity
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Yun Games
Windows
Chronicles of Humanity is an expanding anthology of historical visual novels. Enter different eras, weigh conflicting testimony under political and personal pressure, and shape who is protected, what is recorded, and how each life is remembered. Complete stories are released as separate DLC.
Why similar: Historical 15.4%, Text-Based 14.3%, Dialogue Heavy 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.4%
- #6 Her Jentle Hi-ness
94% matchPositive100% of 16 reviews2022
Dev: Sky Bear Games
Windows · Linux
A fast-paced visual novel game where you must survive the whims of a mad queen, with a unique combination of classic art scenes and cartoon people
Why similar: Political Sim 24% ★, Life Sim 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Dialogue Heavy 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
- #7 Our Personal Space
93% matchPositive84% of 31 reviews2021
Dev: Metasepia Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A visual novel where your choices determine the future of your relationship and the success of your colony. Choose how to treat your husband and how to spend your free time in this frontier sci-fi story.
Why similar: Life Sim 13.8%, Dialogue Heavy 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Text-Based 10%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%
- #8 The Great Plague Exodus
92% matchMostly Positive70% of 27 reviews2021
Dev: Priory Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Year is 1665 and the Great Plague has struck London. Guide your family through the darkest period of English history as you flee across the country. Navigate 100s of random events that challenge your ethics and your drive to survive.
Why similar: Life Sim 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Text-Based 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.9%
- #9 Your Story: Games with Death
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BoldBox
Windows
A medieval text quest in the "Choose Your Own Adventure" genre, where each choice could be your last. Create your story with more than 2,000 events, 200 of which will prove fatal. In a world where death plays against you, can you outsmart it and write your own story?
Why similar: Life Sim 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Text-Based 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Choices Matter 10.3%
- #10 LifeSimOS
91% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Clayton Davis
Windows
A story-rich coming-of-age experience told through a 2004 desktop, where friendships, music, and late-night conversations shape who you become. Explore chats, drama, mini-games, and the early internet in a branching story about growing up, making mistakes, and finding your place.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Dialogue Heavy 15.7%, Text-Based 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Choices Matter 10.2%
- #11 Romance Club - Stories I Play
90% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,042 reviews2023
Dev: Your Story Interactive
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Immerse yourself in romantic visual stories where you control what happens!
Why similar: Romance 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Dialogue Heavy 12%, Text-Based 11.5%, Visual Novel 11.3%
- #12 The King's Whisperer
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Demian Vrij Games
Windows
You are the Whisperer, hooded advisor to King Alric the Uncertain. Forty days. Twenty-five court crises. Four pillar-leaders pulling the realm in four directions. The King hears you last before every decision. Twenty-one endings. No correct path.
Why similar: Political Sim 29.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Text-Based 9.5%, Choices Matter 9.4%
- #13 THE DAY THAT WASN'T
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: MAD Tribe Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Relive the same day without remembering it. Your choices feed four inner alter egos (Shadow, Mad, Alex, and Bully) — shaping reality, glitches, and one of 16 possible endings. The day repeats. Your mind doesn’t. Or does it?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Nonlinear 12.5%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Text-Based 11.9%
- #14 1453: Fall of Constantinople
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 3Cats Studio
Windows · Mac
Constantinople, 1453. Four witnesses — a janissary, a baker's daughter, an engineer, a noble — live the same 53 days of the siege. Choices cross between their stories, and the city remembers. An illustrated, choice-driven historical novel where every ending is someone's truth.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Text-Based 15.8%, Historical 11.6%, Visual Novel 10.4%
- #15 Headliner: NoviNews
87% matchVery Positive89% of 817 reviews2018
Dev: Unbound Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Award-winning adventure where you control the news and its impact on society, your friends and career. Different choices lead to unique combinations of endings. Share your story with the community, and see what the players before you did.
Why similar: Political Sim 35.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%, Visual Novel 9.4%, Choices Matter 8.7%
- #16 NeuroNet: Mendax Proxy
86% 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: Dialogue Heavy 15.6%, Life Sim 13.4%, Text-Based 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%
- #17 Dr. Kinderwood's Asylum
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Richday
Windows · Mac · Linux
Decide the fate of the son of a tailor and a witch doctor infected with an incurable disease in an interactive story with multiple endings depending on your actions.
Why similar: Nonlinear 16%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Text-Based 12.5%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.8%
- #18 Lords of Infinity
85% matchVery Positive95% of 217 reviews2023
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lead an ancient and crumbling noble house in a rich gunpowder fantasy setting. Lie, bribe, and conspire to secure power and prestige – or to save a doomed kingdom from itself.
Why similar: Political Sim 34.5% ★, Text-Based 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Management 9.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%
- #19 Your Crown Is Mine
84% matchPositive85% of 40 reviews2026
Dev: Lyyycaena
Windows · Mac · Linux
Take the throne and fix the corrupt kingdom... or worsen it! A villainess life sim where you balance stats, manage a country, and romance 4 love interests. Your choices will affect the whole kingdom's story.
Why similar: Political Sim 25.3% ★, Life Sim 14.9%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Romance 8.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.4%
- #20 Successor To Your Throne
84% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: Adam Avramov
Windows · Linux
In this short character-focused narrative experience you are a monarch of a small medieval kingdom and must name your successor before it is too late
Why similar: Political Sim 36.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Choices Matter 7.2%
- #21 Haunted Hearts Hotel
83% match6 user reviews50% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
Check in to your hotel, and check out the ghosts! Sexy specters await you - but can you fix up the hotel in style so that the living guests will find luxury, too?
Why similar: Text-Based 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Romance 11.8%, RPG 10.1%
- #22 Peter's Journey
82% matchMixed52% of 42 reviews2024
Dev: Dreamer StudioPub: Start Game
Windows
Embark on a journey of this text anime quest with RPG elements! Walk through beautiful locations, overcome challenges and make Peter’s dreams come true. Every step you take matters. And don’t forget to take the diary - you’ll need it!
Why similar: Text-Based 14.5%, Historical 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Romance 10.3%
- #23 The Life and Suffering of Prince Jerian
80% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,542 reviews2026
Dev: Schisma GamesPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
This is a narrative role-playing game telling the story of a crown prince of the Blessed Arknian Empire. You possess great power, but are also burdened by duty. Can you change the world and stay true to yourself? Every decision comes with a cost.
Why similar: Political Sim 26.5% ★, Life Sim 16.3%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%, Visual Novel 8.6%
- #24 Hearth & Holmes
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Abigail CorfmanPub: Open Sorcery Games
Windows · Mac
Did you ever have a virtual pet? Was your virtual pet responsible for solving mysteries in the cruel streets of Victorian London? Did your virtual pet forget to eat? Did he stay up to 3AM doing chemistry experiments? Your virtual pet is named Sherlock Holmes. Try to keep him alive.
Why similar: Life Sim 15.9%, Dialogue Heavy 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Historical 9.8%, Visual Novel 8.5%
- #25 Hedgehog's Dilemma
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Neo Vulgate Cycle
Windows · Mac · Linux
A story of love, connections, and separation, a story about philosophy and science. Marharyta and Mykhailo try to figure out their relationships - and cannot help but fall in love over and over again.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Nonlinear 10.2%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Female Protagonist 9.2%
- #26 Rule or Fall
79% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: Bad Concept, Retry
Windows · Linux
Govern wisely in this narrative choice-based game set in the heart of the Middle Ages. Your choices will have a real impact on your entire adventure, the world and its characters! Skillfully manage your image and your throne to survive and prosper. Or fall.
Why similar: Life Sim 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Text-Based 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Choices Matter 11.5%
- #27 EmyLiveShow: S&M story
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 58 reviews2023
Dev: Team Emily
Windows · Mac
Discover the depths of your fetishes and kinks with EmyLiveShow stars Emy and Nia! Spend amazing hours in the company of beautiful v-tubers and find out their secrets!
Why similar: Text-Based 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Nonlinear 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Romance 10.1%
- #28 重启人生
78% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: MR薛
Windows
The 14th straight day of crunch. Then your heart stops — and a voice asks: would you start over? Begin again at age zero, making new choices across school, love, work, life, and death. 31 endings, 17 companions, 10 career paths — what kind of life will you choose this time?
Why similar: Life Sim 19.9%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Romance 10.4%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
- #29 All (Too) Good Things
79% 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: Text-Based 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Dialogue Heavy 13.6%, Visual Novel 11.3%
- #30 Fields of Asphodel
78% matchVery Positive86% of 78 reviews2024
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Befriend misfit deities and make a life for yourself in the Underworld! Can you escape your arranged marriage to the King? Do you want to?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Text-Based 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Character Customization 12.3%, Choices Matter 12.2%
- #31 Yuika My Bestie
77% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Feeling Potion
Windows · Mac
Experience a pastel-toned emotional journey in Yuika My Bestie, a short visual novel you can complete in under 15 minutes per playthrough. With 5 unique endings and heartfelt choices, it takes just 30–40 minutes to explore every path of this soft, late-night cry.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Life Sim 10.9%, Text-Based 9.8%
- #32 Grimmloch
76% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Opulent Code LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
A persistent text-based MMORPG where NPCs remember your secrets and shape a living world rooted in European folklore. Turn-based tactical combat, criminal gameplay, and collaborative storytelling that writes itself into canon. Built by Role-players for Role-players.
Why similar: Political Sim 18.8% ★, Life Sim 14.1%, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%, Text-Based 11.3%, Nonlinear 10.9%
- #33 Cryspace
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 17 reviews2024
Dev: JIMMY DIAMOND
Windows
Cryspace is a fresh visual novel with a nostalgic flavor. Talk to your friends online, meet with them in-person, and allow your friend group to grow in numbers, or fall into despair through your own decision-making and discretion. Experience the first few dates with Sam for FREE.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
- #34 Scandal Notes
77% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2022
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
Find glamor, glitz, gossip, and love in 1920s London! You and your friends are the talk of the town - but will a malicious journalist turn the tables?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Romance 10.3%, RPG 9.7%, Text-Based 9.4%
- #35 Blood Without a Name
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Forgeborn Studios
Windows
A voice-acted dark fantasy political life sim. Shape Darian from childhood into rule, forge relationships and skills, uncover buried history, govern a living domain, draft laws and letters, and face consequences that unfold across decades.
Why similar: Political Sim 36.2% ★, Life Sim 21.6%, Dialogue Heavy 11.6%, Choices Matter 8.9%, RPG 7.3%
- #36 The Reeve
75% matchVery Positive87% of 52 reviews2024
Dev: Gray Muscat
Windows · Mac
You are an Administrator serving your probationary period in a medieval town. Make decisions to affect the town's reputation, order, military and supplies. Choose wisely to deal with bandits, famines, cultists and plagues. The most difficult choices will decide the fate of your town!
Why similar: Management 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Text-Based 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.8%
- #37 Threads of You: Beyond the Bay
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lavendeer Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
1 broken down car, 2 weeks in a hidden seaside town, and 7 men waiting to sweep you off your feet. Will you follow the threads of destiny in Brine Bay?
Why similar: Life Sim 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Text-Based 10.9%, Dialogue Heavy 10.1%
- #38 Before Closure
73% matchMixed67% of 18 reviews2026
Dev: Twentysix InteractivePub: Dopoco Games
Windows · Mac
An experimental narrative game that tells its story through sound and memory. Sort through a box of personal mementos and relive memories from a relationship by closing your eyes in real life.
Why similar: Life Sim 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Romance 10.9%, Visual Novel 9.3%
- #39 Legends of Savvarah: Time of Pariah
73% matchVery Positive96% of 149 reviews2024
Dev: ST Sinovar
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are Hidu, a beastman mercenary in a port city. You must survive one very bad day. How? That’s entirely up to you. There are countless ways for events to unfold — and 25 endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Nonlinear 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
- #40 Devil on Your Shoulder
73% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
See your name in lights on Broadway! Find fame, fortune, and true love! All it costs is your immortal soul.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Text-Based 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Character Customization 10.3%, Female Protagonist 10.1%
- #41 Hearts in Hades: Divine Passion
72% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2026
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
An interactive fantasy romance novel set amongst the Greek gods.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, RPG 10.2%, Romance 9.9%
- #42 Jolly Good: Cakes and Ale
74% matchVery Positive96% of 53 reviews2020
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Get yourself into and out of another fine mess! Win glory, renown, and much-needed money through cunning schemes that will seem like good ideas at the time.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Dialogue Heavy 10.3%, RPG 9.8%
- #43 The Feudal
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SimTalesPub: SimTales Studio
Windows
It is a card game in the medieval setting, where you play a role of a feudal, manage your settlement, protect it and help the peasants resolve their problems.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 15.4%, Life Sim 14%, Text-Based 13.5%, Nonlinear 12.5%, Historical 11.7%
- #44 Sunset Magna Carta
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Eventide Birds
Windows
Sunset Magna Carta (formerly Fertility, Crime, and Economy) is a political simulation game. As a cabinet minister of the United Realm, you will implement policies, handle social crises, and try to sustain order and national prosperity. Be careful: consequences may defy your intentions.
Why similar: Political Sim 31.5% ★, Text-Based 15.3%, Life Sim 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%, Visual Novel 6.6%
- #45 Witch's Brew: Love and Lattes
70% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
Will you spill the tea about the secret, cozy magical cafe on your college campus? Brew potions and romance on coffee dates with your new friends! A text-based novel of magic and romance, with hundreds of choices and without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Text-Based 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Romance 12.1%, RPG 11.6%
- #46 I Hate My Waifu Streamer
68% matchVery Positive93% of 929 reviews2025
Dev: Nozori Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Get the streamer's attention at any cost before someone else does. Write comments, chat, and make donations to your waifu, but do not dare to hate her!
Why similar: Life Sim 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Dialogue Heavy 11.6%, Romance 10.8%
- #47 AIdventure
71% matchMixed54% of 56 reviews2022
Dev: Lyaaaaa Games
Windows · Linux
No rules, no censorship, the only limit is your imagination, not someone else's. AIdventure is a text adventure game with an AI as a storyteller. It is shipped with more than 25 starting scenarios. Unleash your creativity by writing and sharing your own stories with other players.
Why similar: Life Sim 13.7%, Text-Based 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Historical 10.1%
- #48 Suzerain
70% matchVery Positive92% of 11,765 reviews2020
Dev: Torpor Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make the decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?
Why similar: Political Sim 26.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Text-Based 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.2%
- #49 Daria: A Kingdom Simulator
69% matchMixed42% of 19 reviews2024
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rule your realm, train heroes, and build a legendary kingdom in Daria. Experience strategy, storytelling, and diplomacy in this immersive sim.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Simulation 9.8%, Character Customization 8.1%
- #50 Ephemera
71% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: Ashley Moore
Windows
Guide your character through it all, from their birth to their last breath. Make sure they remember you.
Why similar: Life Sim 20.6%, Text-Based 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Management 10.6%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%
- #51 The Widow's Boutique
69% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2023
Dev: Tidvis Games
Windows · Mac
Step into a small town society of the 1820s in this historically accurate visual novel, filled with drama, dresses and danger.
Why similar: Historical 16.7%, Romance 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Female Protagonist 10.7%
- #52 Border of her Heart
70% matchMixed67% of 73 reviews2018
Dev: Tuomo LainePub: Tuomo's games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Border of her Heart is a VN about Border control.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Text-Based 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%, Nonlinear 10.4%
- #53 Fixer's Tale
68% matchPositive90% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Emblem Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A humorous sci-fi text-driven adventure where you play a support engineer sent to fix system failures in a secret research complex. Explore strange labs, investigate bizarre incidents, solve absurd problems, talk to depressed robots, and make choices that lead to multiple endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.2%, Nonlinear 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.8%
- #54 Guilt Free
69% 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: Dialogue Heavy 21.9%, Text-Based 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
- #55 Heart of Battle
68% matchPositive86% of 22 reviews2022
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
Battle for love as a gladiator in this epic romance of swords and sandals! Win glory, victory, a better life, your freedom - and spark a revolution!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Text-Based 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Historical 11.8%, RPG 9.7%
- #56 Bootlegger: Moonshine Empire
67% matchPositive80% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Make your name as a whiskey-runner, a politician, or a gangster as you quench thirsts from rural Pennsylvania to the New York City nightlife!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23%, Text-Based 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Character Customization 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.6%
- #57 Serania - Path of the Scion
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FableTree Productions
Windows · Mac
Choose, explore, interact, fight, solve, gather, trade! Rise to rebel in this immersive text-based fantasy story that seamlessly merges the best elements of RPGs, choose-your-own-adventure stories, visual novels, and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Nonlinear 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.7%
- #58 雄关漫道,一梦万里
67% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: JI HONGZE
Windows
Find a way out, for a dream that never fade away.
Why similar: Political Sim 30.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Historical 11.2%, Text-Based 11.1%
- #59 Summer Daze: Tilly's Tale
67% matchMixed62% of 21 reviews2023
Dev: Transolar Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A fantasy adventure visual novel with humor and heart, by acclaimed adventure game writer Lori Ann Cole. Starring the voice of Zehra Fazal as Tilly, a mischief-making rogue at Hero-U, the school for heroes.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20%, Text-Based 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.1%
- #60 Between the Lines
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: PastPulse Games
Windows
In this pre-smartphone-era text adventure, use that good ol’ T9 phone to text your way through the highs and lows of school days. Choose replies piece by piece to shape your own story. Friendships grow; feelings get complicated; secrets flicker. Every reply matters—it all happens Between the Lines.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.2%, Dialogue Heavy 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.7%