Best Interactive Fiction games on PC
These are narrative-focused games in which players advance the story by reading or watching scenes, choosing dialogue, and making decisions. Many use visual novel or adventure formats, with choices that can branch the plot or lead to different endings.
- Narrative choices and dialogue
- Reading or watching story scenes
- Branching plots and multiple endings
Related: Visual Novel, Choices Matter, Story Rich, Multiple Endings
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Florence
Interactive romance built from everyday moments and simple puzzles
93% positive
16K reviews
Demo Our Life: Beginnings & Always
Choice-heavy visual novel about growing up with the boy next door
99% positive
Free
Demo SCARLET NEXUS
Anime action RPG with psychic combat and two interwoven stories
81% positive
15K reviews
Road to Empress I
Live-action historical adventure about surviving palace intrigue and pursuing power
88% positive
14K reviews
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
First-person cosmic horror drawn from a Lovecraft short story
95% positive
Free
Fears to Fathom - Home Alone
First-person psychological horror about a teenager left home alone
89% positive
Free
Demo Little Misfortune
Darkly comic story adventure about a child's search for happiness
92% positive
13K reviews
Impostor Factory
Top-down story adventure with time travel and mansion deaths
96% positive
13K reviews
Demo Coffee Talk
Dialogue-heavy visual novel about serving drinks and hearing stories
95% positive
12K reviews
Demo Shift At Midnight
Gas station horror where some customers are monsters in disguise
88% positive
12K reviews
Donut County
A physics puzzle game about growing a hole by swallowing objects
92% positive
12K reviews
Demo Sweet Home
A high school visual novel about relationships and family conflict
95% positive
11K reviews
Suzerain
Text-based political RPG where presidential choices reshape a nation
92% positive
11K reviews
Not For Broadcast
Live-action news simulation with censorship and branching political choices
94% positive
11K reviews
No Case Should Remain Unsolved
Text-based detective puzzle about reconstructing a missing girl's case
96% positive
11K reviews
Demo Yog-Sothoth’s Yard
Lovecraftian hotel management sim with dating and branching endings
93% positive
11K reviews
The Invincible
First-person sci-fi walking simulator about choices on an alien planet
86% positive
11K reviews
魔女的夜宴
Anime romance visual novel with adult content and multiple endings
98% positive
11K reviews
Road to Empress Ⅱ
Live-action palace adventure where dialogue choices shape your political rise
85% positive
10K reviews
The Roottrees are Dead
Detective puzzle game about reconstructing a wealthy family's bloodline
96% positive
10K reviews
Easy Delivery Co.
Open-world delivery driving game in a mountain town hiding secrets
95% positive
10K reviews
Demo The Case of the Golden Idol
Point-and-click detective puzzles trace connected deaths and a mysterious idol
98% positive
10K reviews
Pentiment
Historical adventure investigating murders across decades in a Bavarian town
95% positive
9,596 reviews
Knowledge, or know Lady
First-person live-action dating sim with branching romances at a women's university
95% positive
9,550 reviews