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.
ITORAH
2D action platformer about a lone human among masked beings
73% positive
959 reviews
Sumire
Narrative adventure about a girl's one-day deal with a spirit
95% positive
957 reviews
Nocturnals
Short, choice-driven adventure about companionship in a post-apocalyptic town
86% positive
939 reviews
GIRLS MADE PUDDING
Dialogue-driven adventure through emptied towns with motorcycle travel and cooking
95% positive
928 reviews
突然＊恋人
Romance visual novel with customizable dates and heroine routes
97% positive
925 reviews
Eternal Threads
First-person puzzle game changing past choices to save housemates
86% positive
909 reviews
WHITE ALBUM: Memories like Falling Snow
Choice-driven romance visual novel with multiple relationship paths and endings
93% positive
905 reviews
Lamplight City
Point-and-click detective adventure where wrong conclusions change later cases
89% positive
877 reviews
FAKEBOOK
Point-and-click mystery investigating secrets across a virtual social network
91% positive
863 reviews
Draw
Side-scrolling puzzle platformer with mouse-drawn objects and a grief story
96% positive
Free
True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 2
Point-and-click horror mystery with puzzles inside an asylum at night
93% positive
842 reviews
Joe Dever's Lone Wolf HD Remastered
Illustrated fantasy gamebook RPG with choices and turn-based battles
75% positive
840 reviews
Heaven Will Be Mine
Sci-fi visual novel about mecha pilots choosing love or loyalty
92% positive
805 reviews
Rewrite+
Choice-driven visual novel about classmates investigating occult rumors
95% positive
793 reviews
My Lovely Wife
Gothic visual novel and management sim about sacrificing summoned demons
75% positive
775 reviews
7 Grand Steps: What Ancients Begat
Turn-based family strategy across generations of ancient society
54% positive
771 reviews
Sorcery! Parts 1 and 2
Fantasy gamebook adventure where spells and decisions shape your journey
88% positive
762 reviews
Methods: The Detective Competition
Detective visual novel about a competition with parole at stake
91% positive
762 reviews
Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road
Text-based horror RPG where a vampire courier evades hunters
90% positive
743 reviews
Best Served Cold
Speakeasy detective visual novel about serving drinks and solving mysteries
88% positive
742 reviews
Many Nights a Whisper
Short third-person archery game where wishes hinge on one shot
95% positive
740 reviews
Fall of Porcupine
Story-driven adventure about a new doctor at a small-town hospital
77% positive
733 reviews
Hana no No ni Saku Utakata no
Japanese-inspired fantasy visual novel with comedy and multiple endings
96% positive
719 reviews
Love, Ghostie
Cozy matchmaking sim where a ghost pairs manor residents
97% positive
659 reviews