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 Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle
Dark fantasy gamebook RPG where a single roll can kill
85% positive
241 reviews
Perfect Tides: Station to Station
Point-and-click adventure tracing a young woman's changing life and relationships
98% positive
240 reviews
TET
Timed cooking minigames for a Vietnamese Lunar New Year dinner
98% positive
Free
Take a Hint
A visual novel about confronting a friend's toxic relationship
97% positive
Free
Demo Memory Brew: Tales of Underworld
A visual novel about brewing memory-erasing soup in the underworld
95% positive
240 reviews
Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet
A point-and-click pirate adventure about rescuing hypnotized birds
94% positive
239 reviews
Demo Tormentum II
Point-and-click horror adventure where your decisions change other characters’ fates
90% positive
239 reviews
Demo Over the Alps
A text-based spy adventure told through postcards from Switzerland
87% positive
239 reviews
Bartender Hustle
First-person bartending simulation with cocktail mixing and customer requests
84% positive
238 reviews
13:ORIGIN - Prologue
First-person escape-room adventure with riddles tied to an ancient mystery
77% positive
Free
好久不见 - Long Time No See
Live-action mystery about a class reunion that becomes a crime scene
77% positive
237 reviews
1953 - KGB Unleashed
First-person puzzle adventure inside a Soviet bunker hiding secret experiments
67% positive
236 reviews
Mystic Academy: Escape Room
Escape-room puzzles in a wizard school during your final exam
75% positive
236 reviews
Lingua Fleur: Lily
A visual novel about college friendship and sexual identity
97% positive
235 reviews
Misadventures of Laura Silver
Detective visual novel mixing supernatural investigation with a hotel mystery
86% positive
235 reviews
KONOSUBA - God's Blessing on this Wonderful World! Love For These Clothes Of Desire!
A visual novel about crafting clothes to undo a curse
91% positive
235 reviews
Paper Bride 7 Lethal Bond
Chinese horror puzzles in a town between two realms
92% positive
235 reviews
Saint Maker - Horror Visual Novel
Psychological horror visual novel about dark secrets in a convent
85% positive
234 reviews
Crap Game, Don’t Play
A casual adventure RPG built around wandering and narrator commentary
79% positive
Free
Bride into the Cave
Chinese folklore puzzle adventure about the ritual of a cave bride
43% positive
233 reviews
LOVEPICAL-POPPY!
Romantic comedy visual novel about life in an all-girls dormitory
92% positive
233 reviews
DISTURBING FEARS - Workplace
First-person psychological horror about working late in an empty office
91% positive
Free
Demo Wayhaven Chronicles: Book Two
Text-based supernatural adventure with branching choices and vampire romance
97% positive
231 reviews
春泥 Soil of Rebirth
A detective adventure with puzzles involving cooperation between two characters
73% positive
231 reviews