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 Extra Case: My Girlfriend's Secrets
A horror dating sim about uncovering secrets through time loops
84% positive
173 reviews
Demo SLEEP AWAKE
First-person psychological horror where falling asleep makes people disappear
72% positive
173 reviews
December 1914
A comic-style visual novel about World War I's Christmas Truce
84% positive
Free
Some Goodbyes We Made
Short narrative minigames built around everyday moments of farewell
98% positive
172 reviews
下一个就是你
Live-action mystery adventure built around a deadly social deduction game
69% positive
172 reviews
Buried: An Interactive Story
Text-based horror adventure where your choices determine who survives
96% positive
171 reviews
The Secret of Retropolis
A VR detective adventure set in a city of robots
94% positive
171 reviews
Reimu Needs Help!? Aunn-chan to the Rescue!
A puzzle game where slot reels turn words into items
96% positive
171 reviews
The Trench
Submarine horror about recovering lost data in an ocean trench
85% positive
170 reviews
Mucorales
A horror adventure with a dark Red Riding Hood retelling
96% positive
170 reviews
Cross Concerto
A Japanese fantasy visual novel centered on a supernatural mystery
93% positive
169 reviews
Demo Centum
A point-and-click visual novel guided by an unreliable narrator
78% positive
169 reviews
NIGHT SHIFT NIGHTMARE
First-person horror mixing convenience store chores with late-night danger
85% positive
Free
Demo Zombie Exodus
Text-based zombie survival story shaped by your choices
85% positive
168 reviews
Demo The Golden Rose: Book One
Text-based fantasy RPG about mercenaries tracking down stolen forbidden maps
90% positive
168 reviews
Demo The Dawning Letters -Sunrise-
Historical romance visual novel about escaping an arranged marriage
96% positive
168 reviews
我亲爱的妹妹 Happy Sisters Life
Choice-driven visual novel about sisters and diverging endings
20% positive
168 reviews
Demo VERSUS: The Lost Ones
Text-based sci-fi RPG about surviving captivity by stealing alien powers
81% positive
167 reviews
Demo Jessika
FMV mystery about reconstructing a life through searchable digital files
68% positive
167 reviews
Fate of Kai
Comic-book puzzle adventure built around rearranging characters' thoughts
90% positive
167 reviews
PRODUCER 2021
A point-and-click adventure about working to disrupt the world's end
99% positive
167 reviews
Peculiar Tales of Mid-Lake Pavilion
A visual novel anthology mixing supernatural mysteries with quieter romance
88% positive
167 reviews
The Gallery
Live-action thriller with parallel hostage stories set decades apart
72% positive
167 reviews
Demo Fledgling Manor
Horror visual novel set inside a deadly vampire reality show
99% positive
167 reviews