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
1,904 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
Short point-and-click mystery about a duck investigating a sausage conspiracy
95% positive
6,719 reviews
Demo Lay a Beauty to Rest: The Darkness Peach Blossom Spring
Branching mystery visual novel about a supposed paradise's dark side
96% positive
6,674 reviews
Demo Amanda the Adventurer
First-person horror puzzle game with cartoon characters addressing you
94% positive
6,493 reviews
Demo Five Hearts Under One Roof
First-person live-action dating sim with branching boarding house romances
91% positive
6,319 reviews
ERROR143
A short dating sim with hacker rivalry and verbal sparring
93% positive
Free
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
Point-and-click adventure about choices and cathedral building in medieval England
92% positive
6,246 reviews
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
Choice-driven narrative adventure about friendship, punk music, and mystery
87% positive
6,182 reviews
Nobody Wants to Die
First-person noir mystery tracking a killer in a city selling immortality
83% positive
6,168 reviews
Vampires' Melody
Branching vampire visual novel with choices and many endings
97% positive
6,142 reviews
Demo The Casting of Frank Stone™
Choice-driven horror adventure about a killer's legacy and branching fates
62% positive
6,008 reviews
Demo The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
Choice-driven visual novel about witches, divination cards, and coven politics
93% positive
5,871 reviews
The Test: Final Revelation
A psychological horror quiz built around increasingly personal questions
98% positive
5,831 reviews
Mandate Of Heaven
Live-action political drama with choices between ambition and personal loyalties
91% positive
5,789 reviews
Demo Sora no Kiseki the 1st
Story-driven JRPG combining real-time field action with turn-based party battles
97% positive
5,637 reviews
枝江往事
A visual novel following five virtual idols through branching stories
97% positive
Free
Demo Haven
Sci-fi RPG about runaway lovers surviving on a fragmented planet
89% positive
5,619 reviews
Demo I Wani Hug that Gator!
Choice-driven high school romance visual novel with four endings
99% positive
5,522 reviews
Mosaique Neko Waifus 4
An adult anime puzzle game with flirting and RPG progression
95% positive
5,433 reviews
Killer Frequency
First-person horror comedy about guiding callers away from a killer
93% positive
5,433 reviews
Left on Read
Choice-driven platformer about texting a crush during quarantine
79% positive
Free
Hypnospace Outlaw
Point-and-click detective game policing a fictional 1990s internet
96% positive
5,202 reviews
Demo Scarlet Hollow
Branching horror visual novel about a supernatural mountain-town mystery
98% positive
5,126 reviews
Swaying Girl
Adult interactive fiction about college romance and dialogue choices
89% positive
5,080 reviews
Class of '09: The Re-Up
Dark comedy visual novel with late-2000s drama and branching endings
98% positive
4,981 reviews