- #1 Mass of Consumption
97% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Wayward Woyrm Games
Windows
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Horror 12.4%, Text-Based 8.9%
- #2 What Is Sleeping In My Room?
96% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: CousinCatnip
Windows
Experience the hunt for the Monster living in your room in this Visual Novel experience. Your choices will determine the fate of both you and the Monster. Will you figure out what the Monster really is?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Text-Based 14.2%, Surreal 13.9%, Horror 8.5%
- #3 DnD Adventure: Rogue's Choice
96% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2022
Dev: CCSPub: Delight Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
With debts to pay to the underworld, you need to make a lot of coin fast! Perhaps worse, you're wanted by the King's men for desertion. Survival is your first priority...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Action RPG 14.2%, Text-Based 11%, Choices Matter 6.1%
- #4 Arderico's Journey
95% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Digital Masquerade
Windows
Set off on an exciting swashbuckling quest in this classic Fantasy Choose Your Own Adventure! Meet charming characters, fight dangerous foes, and uncover a nefarious intrigue. Experience seamless and reactive storytelling. Prove your innocence, find your destiny, relish the journey!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
- #5 10:16
94% matchVery Positive87% of 105 reviews2023
Dev: Catsket
Windows · Mac · Linux
To get to heaven, you must climb the Nine Circles of Hell. But you might never make it to the depths.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.6%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Surreal 15.3%, Text-Based 14.4%, Multiple Endings 8%
- #6 Whispers From The Rift
94% match5 user reviews80% of 5 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 24%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Text-Based 14.6%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Horror 10.7%
- #7 Grave Knight
93% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: Dreamlight Games
Windows
Under developement, Grave Knight is an interactive RPG adventure inspired by SRD 5.1 ruleset and classical game books, where your decisions weave the fate of the characters and the story. Let the dice forge the fate of your hero and the realm by fighting the Grave knight and his horde.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Text-Based 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.5%
- #8 Cold Bed on Route
92% matchPositive93% of 42 reviews2025
Dev: Old Retina Museum
Windows · Linux
"Cold Bed on Route" is an equation-like adventure game. Work with to find and dump unwanted items. Then, let's make up for the excess weight caused by having her on board. And let's prove that the universe is not yet completely cold and frigid. Now, pilot, it's your turn.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Roguelite 15.8%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Text-Based 12%
- #9 Before They Catch Us
91% matchPositive90% of 20 reviews2025
Dev: ANTertainment
Windows · Linux
A dark text-based RPG set in a world gripped by a restless race for survival against a merciless mushroom Forest. As a prophet’s apprentice, guide your clan along the knife-edge between life and oblivion. Decipher misty visions, make critical decisions, and do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Text-Based 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Visual Novel 12%, Choices Matter 8.5%
- #10 The Thief, the Witch, the Toad, and the Mushroom.
91% matchVery Positive100% of 184 reviews2024
Dev: Jack McNameePub: Ashtown Games
Windows
A fable from your childhood. Don't you remember it?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Surreal 12.1%, Text-Based 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.7%
- #11 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
90% 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: Interactive Fiction 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Choices Matter 17.4%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Text-Based 11.2%
- #12 Contra Spem Spero
89% matchPositive96% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: DADZINGO
Windows · Linux
Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Horror 11.5%, Choices Matter 9.9%
- #13 Shadows of Betrayal
89% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: JayzonBHPub: JayzonBH Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Recent high school graduates gather at a remote cabin for a celebration. What begins as a night of laughter spirals into a tense mystery full of secrets, twists, and chilling choices. Who will survive? Navigate friendships, and uncover the multi-layered mystery in Shadows of Betrayal.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Horror 7.4%
- #14 For Mother Matron
88% matchVery Positive91% of 163 reviews2022
Dev: Velvetique GamesPub: Neoclassic Games
Windows · Mac
A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths. A free atmospheric horror visual novel where you navigate life-or-death situations. SEEK PARADISE OR DIE TRYING
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Horror 9%
- #15 Serania - Path of the Scion
87% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Text-Based 15.2%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Choices Matter 9.6%
- #16 Into the Waves
86% matchVery Positive92% of 88 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 18.4%, Visual Novel 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Text-Based 9.5%
- #17 Paper Shakespeare 3: Girl Werewolf Hamlet Absolutely Solves the War of the Roses
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Stegalosaurus Game Development
Windows · Linux
Guide a squad of ten young adults through a kingdom on the brink of war! Navigate court politics, deadly rivalries, and magical chaos between Humans, Fae, and Werewolves... where every choice can make or break your future.
Why similar: Surreal 19%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Choices Matter 10.8%
- #18 The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Verse and Vision
Windows
A narrative-driven psychological visual novel where every floor of an elevator reveals a key moment from your past. Face your regrets, uncover forgotten memories, and make choices that shape your future. Will you find closure, or remain trapped in your own mind?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Text-Based 18.7%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11.6%
- #19 summer story
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: karol_thegame
Windows · Linux
Summer Story: An adventure game where you investigate and make choices that shape the story.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Text-Based 10.2%, Action-Adventure 9.3%
- #20 Herald of the Mists
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FromNiki
Windows
A narrative-driven RPG where every dice roll shapes your fate. Step into the role of the Queen's Herald and traverse a mist-shrouded realm to uncover the fate of her lost army. Will your choices uphold loyalty, or lead you down a path of betrayal? The secrets of the mists await.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Text-Based 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.2%
- #21 Moonbriar
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Oldblood
Windows · Mac · Linux
Delve into a dark fantasy visual novel where evil isn't always as it seems. Make your choices and grow your skills to help determine who survives the Great Culling. Featuring the voice talents of Ralph Ineson, Simon Callow, Savannah Steyn, and more.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Text-Based 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Visual Novel 11%, Dark Fantasy 10.4%
- #22 The Last Bastion
82% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2022
Dev: Voidpeak Games
Windows
The Last Bastion is a survival-management game where you lead an army of defeated soldiers across a setting inspired by medieval India. Fight overwhelming forces, manage dwindling resources and make choices with devastating consequences in a bitter struggle for survival and salvation.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Roguelite 14.5%, Text-Based 11.5%, Visual Novel 11.3%
- #23 Mycorrhiza
82% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2022
Dev: Distorted WanderersPub: Tim Reichert
Windows · Mac · Linux
A love letter to horror manga in the form of a visual novel. Welcome to a world of distorted minds.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Surreal 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Horror 10.2%
- #24 Taina's Cursed Legacy
80% matchPositive82% of 33 reviews2025
Dev: dark_room_game
Windows
A text-based RPG with a nonlinear story set in a free Slavic fantasy world. Shape the heroine's character through your choices and unlock multiple endings. Mystery, folklore, and relationships — your fate depends only on you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Text-Based 14.7%, Visual Novel 14%, Medieval 5.4%
- #25 桃の華は鮮血に染まる
81% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2023
Dev: 株式会社ワンコネクト
Windows
陰陽師の少女達が冒険をする純和風テキストアドベンチャーゲーム。 妖の蔓延る殺伐とした世界を、小説感覚で読み進んでいく。 ヒトに仇なす者には、容赦はしない。例えそれがヒトの形をしていたとしても━。 途中の選択肢で結末が変化するマルチエンディング形式を採用。 陰陽少女達の旅を見届けられるのは、アナタしかいない。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Surreal 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Text-Based 12%, Choices Matter 7.4%
- #26 Penrose
81% matchPositive88% of 32 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: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Text-Based 15.2%, Surreal 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.6%
- #27 Tower of the Ice Lich
79% matchPositive100% of 17 reviews2025
Dev: Arcane Lorelabs
Windows · Mac
A pixelated homage to 16-bit RPGs, this former print-and-play card game has come full circle as a digital experience! Choose your champion, enter the tower, and make wise decisions on your ascent to face the Ice Lich at the top.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Text-Based 15.8%, Visual Novel 13%, Choices Matter 8.7%
- #28 Creepy Crypt Critters
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Arcade Eleven
Windows
A surprising mix of adventure and memory games, featuring RPG-inspired mechanics and immersive storytelling. Explore a crypt filled with traps, dangers, and hostile creatures. Will you uncover the crypt’s secrets, or will you become its next victim? Make strategic choices to survive.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Dark Fantasy 12.4%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Horror 10.3%
- #29 All (Too) Good Things
78% 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 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Text-Based 15.4%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
- #30 DnD Adventure: Demon's Choice
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Another StudioPub: Delight Games
Windows
You're Azizella, Binder of Souls, and you have just escaped the Abyss. Now, a free demon, you seek to outwit the fiends that hunt you as you plot your own rise to ultimate power.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Roguelite 13%, Action RPG 12.4%, Text-Based 10.2%
- #31 Your Story: Games with Death
77% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Text-Based 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Choices Matter 10.7%
- #32 The Reeve
76% matchPositive91% of 47 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Medieval 11.4%, Text-Based 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.3%
- #33 Blood for Poppies
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2021
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Uncover the dark and tortured legacy of mad science in this psychological horror interactive novel about entrapment and the lingering echoes of trauma.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Action RPG 13.8%, Text-Based 12%, Action-Adventure 8%
- #34 阴桃花 (The Flowers of Yin)
76% matchPositive95% of 42 reviews2022
Dev: SnowyYANGPub: 逐夏
Windows
幻想若非幻想 自然可超自然 伴我梦中桃花 懒识人间滋味
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Surreal 16.9%, Text-Based 16.3%, Choices Matter 11.4%
- #35 Dr. Kinderwood's Asylum
75% 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: Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Multiple Endings 11.4%
- #36 Vanakan
75% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Erik Khachatryan
Windows
Vanakan is the journey of Tadevos - a priest, who travels the 500s Armenia to find the monastery that suits for his goal of becoming spiritually closer to Jesus Christ. He meets different people on his way and makes choices which will define his future and that of the country.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.6%, Text-Based 17.1%, Choices Matter 8.7%, Multiple Endings 8%
- #37 Parasite in Love
73% matchVery Positive94% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: Night Asobu
Windows
Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Visual Novel 17.6%, Horror 8%, Choices Matter 6.4%
- #38 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
73% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Text-Based 15.5%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Choices Matter 8.2%
- #39 Worn Out
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Morimichi
Windows
A presence lingers in the dark, waiting. It asks. It doubts. It knows. What happened? Why are you here? Do you deserve this? The answers are yours to decide. What you choose matters. Every path leads somewhere. But will you like where it takes you?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Visual Novel 13%, Text-Based 11.5%, Choices Matter 9.5%
- #40 Yogoe Hunter
72% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Justice
Windows
A choice-driven roguelike text adventure set in medieval Korea and Japan. Encounter 218 mythological creatures from East Asian folklore, shape your story across 94 endings, and grow stronger with each run in a deep, culturally rich world.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Text-Based 17.1%, Roguelite 10.1%, Multiple Endings 7.9%
- #41 Twisted: A Dark Fairytale
74% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2020
Dev: Fablesoft Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A dark fairy tale about the woods outside a small village and the monster that roams within them. Become Sage and play through to uncover the mystery when they're tossed away from everything they've ever known.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Dark Fantasy 11.4%, Text-Based 10.5%
- #42 Eyes of Iyre
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: D0Studios
Windows · Mac
Eyes of Iyre is a Visual Novel with heavy RPG elements. Follow Barbak the Orc as he discovers more about the world and his past, all the while trying to keep his temper under control. Make friends, cast magic, and learn the truths hidden in the city of Iyre!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Text-Based 12.6%, Action-Adventure 10.4%
- #43 Exploring Friscott
71% match7 user reviews100% of 7 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 23.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Text-Based 12%, Puzzle 9.8%
- #44 Witch Hunter: Our Secret
72% matchNo user reviews
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 29.9%, Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Multiple Endings 11%, Choices Matter 9.1%
- #45 The Nascent Necromancer
71% matchMixed57% of 14 reviews2023
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
When you're falsely accused of sorcery, corrupt inquisitors make you the object of a witch hunt. Now, sorcery might be the only way for you to survive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Text-Based 18.5%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
- #46 Siege of Treboulain
71% matchPositive93% of 43 reviews2022
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Defend your magical city from an enemy army in an epic fantasy game of swordfights, political maneuvering, and romance! Will you prove worthy of your crown?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Action RPG 16.5%, Text-Based 15.5%, Medieval 7.1%
- #47 VOID OBSCURA Part One: Lost Little Lilith
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Chaos Texture Games
Windows
Follow Joseph, Eric, and William (as well as a handful of other characters) as they awake from cryogenic stasis at the enigmatic facility known as Intermine Laboratories. But, deep within the abyss exists an ancient evil that is seeking to enact its own twisted machinations ...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Text-Based 13.8%, Horror 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
- #48 With Good Intentions
70% matchMixed61% of 33 reviews2022
Dev: Brezg StudioPub: Golden Dragon Games
Windows · Mac
"With good intentions" is a nonlinear visual novel. Escape from a cursed monastery, win over its mighty Overlord, save your love and uncover the mysteries of time itself!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Dark Fantasy 12.7%, Text-Based 11.4%, Visual Novel 9.8%
- #49 The Music at the end of the World
69% match5 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Cihan Kuzu
Windows
"What music would you listen to at the end of the world?" Explore an abandoned world after the apocalypse of the final winter. Shape the story of a man whose loneliness threatens his sanity. Use violence to survive or avoid it to protect your mind. Experience the end of the world!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Text-Based 12.9%, Multiple Endings 11%
- #50 The Trials - Chapter Two
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hama Studios
Windows
A classic 90s choose your own adventure style horror visual novel. Escape the horrors hunting you, make decisions, forge your own path. An original complete story with multiple endings. Choose your own play style with a Text Adventure Mode, sound effects, and an ambient soundtrack.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.4%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Text-Based 11.6%
- #51 Good Morning
69% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: LcieKJPub: Lazy_Pegion_Art
Windows
Good morning! The story explores a distorted memory, blending reflection, twists, and roguelike chaos in a short game packed with hours of replayability.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Roguelite 19.9%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
- #52 Witchlight Woods
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Delphin Casado
Windows
Blending fairy tale fright with psychological horror, this narrative game challenges you to survive a weird journey through the woods while being hunted by the witch you were tasked with imprisoning. Sometimes charming, sometimes frightening, she’ll force you to make hard choices.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Visual Novel 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Horror 11.2%
- #53 Crash-Land Fantasy
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ArachnidAnt
Windows · Mac · Linux
A mysterious magic force knocks your research satellite out of orbit. You crash land and must try to survive on this planet ruled by nature. You meet character's and discover the mystery of the magic force as you try to get back home.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Action-Adventure 9.2%, Choices Matter 8.7%
- #54 Kidnapped! A Royal Birthday
70% matchMixed50% of 22 reviews2020
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Escape your captors…and endure your rescuers, but don't be late to the ball! Take charge of your rescue, and reclaim your rightful throne.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Text-Based 20.2%, Action RPG 11.1%, Action-Adventure 8.9%
- #55 Be Honest
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rebel Jester Studios
Windows
The horror personality q̷̦̈́͊u̸̠͗i̴͈͈̊̈z̴͈͇̳͗͌
Why similar: Text-Based 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Horror 11%, Surreal 10.8%
- #56 The Trials - Chapter One
67% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Hama Studios
Windows
A classic choose your own adventure story. Escape the horrors hunting you, make decisions, forge your own path. An original complete story with multiple endings and secrets to unlock. Choose your own play style with a Text Adventure Mode, sound effects, and an ambient soundtrack.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Text-Based 15.4%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Surreal 14.1%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
- #57 Skin Tailor
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Night Asobu
Windows · Mac · Linux
Skin Tailor is a medieval horror dress up game and visual novel hybrid. Skin your supernatural enemies, create disguises and infiltrate vampire owned blood farms to rescue your comrades.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.6%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Horror 8.1%, Choices Matter 6.8%
- #58 BBirthday - Visual Novel
67% matchPositive91% of 32 reviews2023
Dev: Yun Seven
Windows
Help Bianca to relive the 15 years of her life, but from another perspective 👁️. Enjoy this dreamcore style visual novel with escape room elements and hints of horror. Unlock different endings. ✨
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Text-Based 16.6%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Surreal 12.9%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
- #59 There Swings a Skull: Grim Tidings
67% matchVery Positive97% of 75 reviews2022
Dev: Conor WalshPub: Poison The Inkwell
Windows
Enter the doomed town of Pareildas. Watch as the flames turn bone and stone to ash. Like joined wicks, we'll all burn together.
Why similar: Surreal 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Horror 10%
- #60 Under the Heavens: Warring States Saga
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: April May
Windows
A choice-driven narrative RPG set in China’s Warring States period. Rise from a nameless soldier to a legendary general through decisions with permanent consequences. Death is final. History remembers only the survivors.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Text-Based 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Choices Matter 12.2%