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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Noctuary
Visual novel about two aspiring guardians with monster battles
94% positive
2,633 reviews
1 to 1 humanoid edible toys
Romantic crime visual novel with three romance interests and branching endings
93% positive
2,620 reviews
Demo Desktop Explorer
A point-and-click mystery hidden inside an old computer's files
96% positive
2,606 reviews
Hamidashi Creative
School visual novel about a randomly chosen student council president
95% positive
2,563 reviews
Venba
Short narrative cooking game about a South Indian immigrant family
94% positive
2,553 reviews
Last Report
Pixel horror about a park ranger's increasingly strange night shift
89% positive
2,546 reviews
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
Point-and-click folk horror mystery centered on an English burial mound
93% positive
2,536 reviews
Forbidden Solitaire
Horror solitaire with upgrades and Jokers that help or harm
96% positive
2,512 reviews
Demo While We Wait Here
First-person diner story with cooking, dialogue choices, and looming catastrophe
89% positive
2,466 reviews
Always Sometimes Monsters
Story-driven RPG about money troubles and difficult relationship choices
75% positive
2,447 reviews
Demo Hello Charlotte EP2: Requiem Aeternam Deo
2D psychological horror adventure guiding a puppet through surreal scenes
97% positive
Free
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
Text-heavy sci-fi RPG about dice rolls and risky contracts
91% positive
2,439 reviews
Bendy: Secrets of the Machine
First-person horror exploration with puzzles and a changing setting
80% positive
Free
Demo S4U: CITYPUNK 2011 AND LOVE PUNCH
Text-driven adventure about typing replies for clients and shaping relationships
91% positive
2,411 reviews
Five Dates
A live-action dating sim about finding romance through lockdown video calls
88% positive
2,380 reviews
Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York
Vampire visual novel about faction politics in modern New York
75% positive
2,373 reviews
Ye Guild Clerk!
A fantasy job simulator where your decisions shape adventurers' fates
99% positive
Free
Demo Five Hearts Under One Roof season2
Live-action dating simulation with returning characters and new boarding-house tenants
96% positive
2,368 reviews
Murder House
Retro survival horror with a killer stalking an abandoned house
94% positive
2,351 reviews
Demo 彷徨之街 The Street of Adrift
Branching visual novel with lesbian romance and line-connecting puzzles
76% positive
2,340 reviews
Vigil
First-person horror where blinking lets a roaming automaton move
85% positive
Free
Lovelorn sanatoriumⅠ
Comic-style role-playing game about uncovering secrets behind a troubled relationship
64% positive
2,308 reviews
State of Mind
Third-person sci-fi adventure tracing a missing family through dystopian Berlin
78% positive
2,303 reviews
Mosaique Neko Waifus 3
Adult puzzle game combining catgirl romance with RPG progression
94% positive
2,299 reviews