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
2,084 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Demo Wax Heads
A record-store puzzle adventure about matching music to customer requests
96% positive
555 reviews
Speed Dating for Ghosts
A dating visual novel about getting to know the dead
95% positive
553 reviews
Girls on Campus, from Freshmen to Faculty, All Fall for Me!
First-person live-action dating sim where several women pursue you
80% positive
553 reviews
Charming Hearts
Live-action dating adventure where your choices lead to different romantic endings
87% positive
551 reviews
Demo Ten Dates
Live-action dating adventure with branching conversations and changing romantic relationships
78% positive
549 reviews
Don't Make Love
A text-based relationship game where mating could mean death
83% positive
Free
Demo 女儿国的诅咒 The Curse of Womanland
Choice-driven visual novel exploring a cursed land across two eras
96% positive
547 reviews
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PatriotMemoirs
Live-action espionage adventure with branching choices in wartime China
83% positive
547 reviews
Demo Lost in Secular Love
A romance visual novel about courting monks in alternate history
86% positive
546 reviews
Demo Coffee Talk Tokyo
A café visual novel about serving humans and yōkai
90% positive
544 reviews
Demo Fabled Lands
Open-world gamebook RPG built around choices and risky encounters
80% positive
542 reviews
Schastye
An experimental visual novel built around writing someone else's story
69% positive
541 reviews
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Anon's Neko Waifus
Romance visual novel with catgirls and dice-based conversation checks
76% positive
541 reviews
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The Joker's Game
Live-action adventure with branching choices and deadly childhood games
83% positive
538 reviews
Demo Winter Novel
A workplace romance visual novel told through ASCII art
81% positive
537 reviews
Demo The Star Named EOS
A photography puzzle adventure about piecing together a family mystery
95% positive
536 reviews
Demo Bewitching Sinners
Romance visual novel about dating men in a witch-filled world
94% positive
536 reviews
Hate Plus
Sci-fi visual novel tracing a generation ship's slide into patriarchy
84% positive
535 reviews
Demo Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
A sci-fi detective adventure where mistaken conclusions change the story
88% positive
533 reviews
Matsuro Palette
A point-and-click horror mystery about surviving a cursed painting
98% positive
530 reviews
Mojika - Truth Rears Its Ugly Head
Dark visual novel about mind-reading, revenge, and branching choices
77% positive
527 reviews
[Chilla's Art] The Radio Station | 深夜放送
Japanese psychological horror with VHS-style visuals and multiple endings
72% positive
526 reviews
lure
First-person fishing horror set at a forbidden Shinto shrine
90% positive
Free
The NADI Project
First-person adventure about escaping an island used for corporate research
66% positive
Free