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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Forgotten Hill: The Wardrobe
First-person horror adventure with puzzles inside a mysterious wardrobe
73% positive
63 reviews
Demo Fight For Mi
Choice-driven story adventure commanding blob soldiers through formation battles
95% positive
63 reviews
The Fire Nobody Started
Point-and-click adventure tracing a family's history through nine train cars
100% positive
63 reviews
Demo Inhuman Resources: A Literary Machination
Text-based horror adventure about surviving work at a secretive corporation
90% positive
63 reviews
R/A\W
Anti-war visual novels combining personal stories with supernatural elements
51% positive
Free
World for Two
A side-scrolling adventure about restoring animal life through DNA experiments
77% positive
62 reviews
Demo The Murder Hotel
Mystery visual novel about blaming humans for a demon's murders
94% positive
62 reviews
Demo Bangkok Story: A Stray Dog
A story-driven adventure about homelessness and bonding with a stray dog
100% positive
62 reviews
Native Hunter
Open-world survival about living off the land and joining a tribe
74% positive
62 reviews
Aliya's Ascent
A dialogue-heavy fantasy adventure with illustrations and full voice acting
48% positive
Free
Star Dream Journey
Live-action management sim about guiding four actors' careers
63% positive
62 reviews
Demo Boeckham's Football Manager
Retro soccer management with club building and a coaching career
90% positive
62 reviews
In Our Parlor
Horror walking simulator where music leads you through a nightmare
85% positive
Free
General Horse and the Package of Doom
Live-action space comedy with branching choices and resource management
97% positive
61 reviews
The Change Architect
Interactive fiction about directing protesters through a confrontation with police
64% positive
Free
Cypherpunk Essentials
An educational puzzle game that teaches cryptography through interactive videos
82% positive
61 reviews
Animal Trail ☆ Girlish Square
A visual novel about an idol group's magical double life
89% positive
61 reviews
Demo Inescapable: No Rules, No Rescue
A visual novel about a reality show with no rules
44% positive
61 reviews
Trail of the Wretched
Western visual novel about a photographer on a lawless frontier
90% positive
Free
Backspace Backspace Backspace
A psychological horror visual novel about a writer facing automation
98% positive
61 reviews
Demo The Bear - A Story from the World of Gra
An interactive bedtime story following two companions across tiny planets
100% positive
61 reviews
The Wide Open Sky is Running out of Catfish
A story-driven photography game aboard a giant flying catfish
100% positive
61 reviews
The Balldragon
Short visual novel built around anime parody and dark humor
82% positive
Free
Demo Ladies, Don’t Tempt My Immortality
Live-action romance adventure balancing relationships with a quest for immortality
90% positive
61 reviews