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
323 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
Mirror 2: Project X
Match-three visual novel with choices across parallel worlds
24% positive
116K reviews
To the Moon
Pixel-art adventure through memories to fulfill a final wish
96% positive
87K reviews
The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty
Dark historical visual novel about escorting children amid famine
94% positive
60K reviews
The Henry Stickmin Collection
Comedy choice-driven adventure with six games and many branching endings
99% positive
60K reviews
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series
Choice-driven zombie adventure following Clementine across four seasons
97% positive
47K reviews
Love Is All Around
First-person live-action romance with six women and multiple endings
93% positive
46K reviews
LoveChoice
Choice-driven romance visual novel with three stories and multiple endings
92% positive
37K reviews
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
Short psychological horror visual novel about a difficult milk run
96% positive
34K reviews
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
Branching psychological horror visual novel about slaying a princess
97% positive
34K reviews
Unheard - Voices of Crime
Audio-based detective puzzle about tracing voices through past crime scenes
96% positive
34K reviews
Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
Psychological horror visual novel that twists school romance conventions
97% positive
32K reviews
Emily is Away
Retro chat-based interactive fiction about a relationship over five years
89% positive
Free
Heavy Rain
Cinematic detective thriller where choices decide who survives
86% positive
31K reviews
Tiny Bunny
Horror visual novel with branching paths through a winter mystery
83% positive
31K reviews
Sally Face - Episode One
Hand-drawn point-and-click horror mystery about speaking with the dead
97% positive
30K reviews
A Plague Tale: Requiem
Third-person action adventure with stealth and supernatural rat swarms
91% positive
27K reviews
Road 96 🛣️
First-person road-trip adventure with choices on the way to freedom
92% positive
26K reviews
There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension
Point-and-click comedy adventure with puzzles across video game worlds
98% positive
26K reviews
Before Your Eyes
First-person narrative adventure where your blinks move memories forward
98% positive
24K reviews
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
Surreal psychological horror visual novel about choices and existence
93% positive
22K reviews
Gorogoa
Hand-drawn puzzle adventure built around rearranging illustrated panels
97% positive
21K reviews
Finding Paradise
Top-down story adventure about fulfilling a dying patient's contradictory wish
98% positive
20K reviews
Until Then
Pixel-art visual novel blending romance, mystery, and psychological drama
97% positive
19K reviews
Gone Home
First-person story exploration in an empty 1990s family home
77% positive
18K reviews