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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Demo The Little Tomb: The Maholova Club and the Search for a Dead Body
A town exploration adventure starring a boy shaped like a tomb
94% positive
52 reviews
Gordy
First-person horror comedy about befriending a feral man in the woods
88% positive
52 reviews
召しませ！レミリアお嬢様！
A word puzzle game where rearranged characters become gifts
98% positive
52 reviews
Demo Toxic Yuri
Dark romantic comedy visual novel about dating a poisonous slime woman
100% positive
52 reviews
Island Off Outer Darkness
Narrative RPG mixing daily postal work with strange spatial distortions
98% positive
52 reviews
Smile Dog
Desktop psychological horror built around a suspicious spot-the-difference game
90% positive
52 reviews
The Christmas Cackler
First-person Christmas horror about finishing a drawing while keeping watch
98% positive
52 reviews
Demo MyDear.exe
A point-and-click puzzle story about decades of life together
100% positive
52 reviews
Eight
Short first-person horror about the past of your new home
57% positive
51 reviews
Demo Sainthood
Time-management adventure about serving an island community and pursuing sainthood
92% positive
51 reviews
Demo Forgotlings
A hand-drawn adventure where lost objects form tribes at war
76% positive
51 reviews
Encoded War
A point-and-click war simulation about handling messages in Morse code
78% positive
51 reviews
Demo Century of Anticipation
A point-and-click adventure about passing time while stuck at home
94% positive
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A Night at the Watermill
Point-and-click horror about escaping a watermill with no memory
94% positive
51 reviews
The happiness of maggots
A branching visual novel beginning at an after-work drinking party
90% positive
51 reviews
Demo I Write Games Not Tragedies
A rhythm game and visual novel about growing up emo
100% positive
51 reviews
Mistwinter Bay
Fantasy visual novel RPG about ruling a town through choices
84% positive
50 reviews
Anant Express
First-person horror where strange changes tell you when to turn back
78% positive
50 reviews
Buitopia DVD
Surreal interactive fiction built around choices and DVD-menu navigation
100% positive
50 reviews
Polda 5.5
A point-and-click adventure following a detective turned Egyptian pharaoh
94% positive
50 reviews
Demo No Murders in Grimwick
Point-and-click murder mystery amid a small town’s harvest festival
90% positive
50 reviews
Demo Ghost Simulator
Text-based horror RPG about haunting a family and uncovering your death
85% positive
40 reviews
SINce Memories: Off The Starry Sky
Anime visual novel about grief, relationships, and a family mystery
82% positive
39 reviews
Demo Stellifier - an otome game inspired by older idols
Choice-driven otome visual novel about older idols making a comeback
79% positive
39 reviews