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.
SCARLET NEXUS
Anime action RPG with psychic combat and two interwoven stories
80% positive
18K reviews
Florence
Interactive romance built from everyday moments and simple puzzles
93% positive
16K reviews
Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You
Dystopian investigation game about deciding what security forces learn
90% positive
16K reviews
A Date with Death
Supernatural dating sim about bargaining with the Grim Reaper
98% positive
Free
Little Misfortune
Darkly comic story adventure about a child's search for happiness
92% positive
14K reviews
Yog-Sothoth’s Yard
Lovecraftian hotel management sim with dating and branching endings
94% positive
14K reviews
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
Choice-heavy visual novel about growing up with the boy next door
99% positive
Free
The Invincible
First-person sci-fi walking simulator about choices on an alien planet
88% positive
14K reviews
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Text-based narrative RPG where choices shape a commoner's entire life
88% positive
13K reviews
Impostor Factory
Top-down story adventure with time travel and mansion deaths
96% positive
13K reviews
Not For Broadcast
Live-action news simulation with censorship and branching political choices
94% positive
13K reviews
Coffee Talk
Dialogue-heavy visual novel about serving drinks and hearing stories
95% positive
13K reviews
Donut County
A physics puzzle game about growing a hole by swallowing objects
92% positive
12K reviews
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs
First-person horror mystery about missing children and an industrial machine
70% positive
12K reviews
Suzerain
Text-based political RPG where presidential choices reshape a nation
92% positive
12K reviews
魔女的夜宴
Anime romance visual novel with adult content and multiple endings
98% positive
12K reviews
The Case of the Golden Idol
Point-and-click detective puzzles trace connected deaths and a mysterious idol
98% positive
11K reviews
A Bird Story
Short, wordless pixel-art adventure about a boy and injured bird
85% positive
11K reviews
No Case Should Remain Unsolved
Text-based detective puzzle about reconstructing a missing girl's case
96% positive
11K reviews
Citizen Sleeper
Dice-driven narrative RPG about surviving on a ruined space station
92% positive
11K reviews
Her Story
Crime mystery built from searchable, out-of-order police interview clips
89% positive
10K reviews
The Roottrees are Dead
Detective puzzle game about reconstructing a wealthy family's bloodline
96% positive
10K reviews
Hobo: Tough Life
Open-world survival RPG about enduring winter on city streets
84% positive
10K reviews
Pentiment
Historical adventure investigating murders across decades in a Bavarian town
95% positive
9,827 reviews