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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Flower in the Snow - Resurrection
A romance visual novel about a bodyguard's mysterious winter assignment
84% positive
85 reviews
秋恋物语 Autumn Romance
A college romance visual novel about finding a place to belong
96% positive
Free
Demo Alaris
Fantasy romance visual novel about a healer who sees auras
98% positive
85 reviews
Songs of Life
A card-driven visual novel following doctors through an epidemic
81% positive
85 reviews
Young Hearts
Romance visual novel with branching stories and multiple endings
92% positive
85 reviews
Demo Nova Hearts
A magical girl dating sim with turn-based team battles
68% positive
85 reviews
Powers in the Basement
A retro point-and-click adventure with nine commands and challenging puzzles
86% positive
Free
Black Light Kills
First-person psychological horror about missing people and a deteriorating mind
74% positive
85 reviews
Very Unserious Game
Text-based job interview satire built around corporate training quizzes
91% positive
Free
艾斯菲尔的谎言
Interactive fiction with branching choices and characters keeping secrets
62% positive
84 reviews
Riddle of the Sphinx™ The Awakening (Enhanced Edition)
Point-and-click adventure built around ancient Egyptian puzzles and archaeological mysteries
83% positive
84 reviews
Follow the Black Kitten
A pixel-art visual novel with stories inside a secondhand laptop
85% positive
Free
Demo 梦蝶
A 2D puzzle adventure built around reshaping Chinese characters
93% positive
84 reviews
Fursona Festival
A personality quiz visual novel that assigns you an animal counterpart
85% positive
Free
Lost Connections
A visual novel about finding courage to ask for her number
95% positive
Free
The Painting
A linear visual novel about a grieving man's memories
98% positive
Free
Demo Human Fast Food
Cooking sim where you serve human meat to monsters
90% positive
84 reviews
Fostering Apocalypse
A post-apocalyptic visual novel about protecting a demon child
93% positive
Free
protoViolence - Definitive Edition
A dark sci-fi visual novel about children turned into cyborgs
96% positive
Free
Demo The Tragedy at Deer Creek
A supernatural point-and-click mystery in an abandoned logging camp
90% positive
83 reviews
Demo MultiEnding Heroes
A branching RPG adventure with dozens of endings to uncover
100% positive
83 reviews
My life with you
A point-and-click story about the daily demands of single motherhood
89% positive
Free
Demo Choice of Alexandria
Text-based adventure where your inventions can change ancient history
95% positive
82 reviews
Brewer
A brewery management sim with business competition and industrial espionage
77% positive
82 reviews