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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Demo Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You
Dystopian investigation game about deciding what security forces learn
90% positive
9,426 reviews
Esoteric Ebb
A fantasy RPG where your own stats talk back
95% positive
9,388 reviews
Late Shift
Live-action crime thriller where timed choices lead to different endings
86% positive
9,271 reviews
Buy a Croquette!
Pixel-art mystery adventure about collecting coins for a croquette
99% positive
Free
Hobo: Tough Life
Open-world survival RPG about enduring winter on city streets
83% positive
9,216 reviews
OPUS: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition
Visual novel-style space adventure following starsongs to ancient asteroid temples
96% positive
9,109 reviews
Aliya: Timelink
Text-based sci-fi visual novel with timed messages and multiple endings
98% positive
9,088 reviews
At Home Alone Final
A pixel-art horror adventure beneath a cheerful-looking surface
97% positive
Free
Demo The Weeping Swan: Ten Days of the City's Fall
Historical visual novel about surviving a city besieged by demons
62% positive
8,869 reviews
Otaku's Adventure
Point-and-click dating adventure with puzzles and multiple endings
94% positive
8,864 reviews
A Bird Story
Short, wordless pixel-art adventure about a boy and injured bird
85% positive
8,798 reviews
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Text-based narrative RPG where choices shape a commoner's entire life
89% positive
8,733 reviews
Pyre
Story-heavy fantasy RPG where exiles compete in three-on-three matches
90% positive
8,712 reviews
Her Story
Crime mystery built from searchable, out-of-order police interview clips
89% positive
8,697 reviews
Storyteller
Comic-panel puzzle game about arranging scenes to match story titles
88% positive
8,570 reviews
Citizen Sleeper
Dice-driven narrative RPG about surviving on a ruined space station
93% positive
8,559 reviews
Demo Death and Taxes
Point-and-click narrative game about a reaper choosing who dies
86% positive
8,385 reviews
Homicipher
Point-and-click horror adventure built around deciphering monsters' language
97% positive
8,373 reviews
Far Away
Branching visual novel about a dockworker caught in city intrigue
95% positive
7,977 reviews
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
First-person horror mystery about missing children and an industrial machine
69% positive
7,883 reviews
Shiina Taki's Decameron
A fan-made visual novel about a drummer confronting mortality
99% positive
Free
Demo Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery
First-person puzzle adventure about missing colors and an artist's story
94% positive
7,731 reviews
Breakout 13
Live-action adventure with branching choices in a teen correctional center
87% positive
7,500 reviews
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
A space walking simulator with scenes timed to the soundtrack
98% positive
Free