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.
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
Choice-driven narrative adventure about friendship, punk music, and mystery
86% positive
6,370 reviews
Killer Frequency
First-person horror comedy about guiding callers away from a killer
93% positive
6,230 reviews
Haven
Sci-fi RPG about runaway lovers surviving on a fragmented planet
88% positive
6,109 reviews
The Casting of Frank Stone™
Choice-driven horror adventure about a killer's legacy and branching fates
62% positive
6,006 reviews
I Wani Hug that Gator!
Choice-driven high school romance visual novel with four endings
98% positive
5,754 reviews
Vampires' Melody
Branching vampire visual novel with choices and many endings
97% positive
5,731 reviews
Hypnospace Outlaw
Point-and-click detective game policing a fictional 1990s internet
97% positive
5,565 reviews
Scarlet Hollow
Branching horror visual novel about a supernatural mountain-town mystery
98% positive
5,305 reviews
Until Dawn™
Choice-driven third-person horror adventure where anyone can die
83% positive
5,295 reviews
Left on Read
Choice-driven platformer about texting a crush during quarantine
79% positive
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Roadwarden
Text-based fantasy RPG about investigating a dangerous, isolated peninsula
94% positive
5,193 reviews
Swaying Girl
Adult interactive fiction about college romance and dialogue choices
89% positive
5,080 reviews
CHUCHEL
Point-and-click comedy adventure with slapstick puzzles and a cherry chase
86% positive
4,974 reviews
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Sci-fi life sim where past lives shape new choices
96% positive
4,847 reviews
Class of '09: The Re-Up
Dark comedy visual novel with late-2000s drama and branching endings
97% positive
4,779 reviews
Vanity Fair: The Pursuit
Live-action drama where choices steer a filmmaker through show business
87% positive
4,595 reviews
月に寄りそう乙女の作法
Visual novel about a disguised student at an elite fashion academy
97% positive
4,568 reviews
KARMA: The Dark World
First-person psychological thriller investigating memories in dystopian East Germany
91% positive
4,558 reviews
Beacon Pines
Storybook mystery adventure where collected words change the plot
98% positive
4,514 reviews
Your Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority-
Point-and-click horror adventure where your votes decide who survives
98% positive
4,456 reviews
When The Past Was Around
Wordless point-and-click puzzle adventure through fragmented memories of love
95% positive
4,432 reviews
Buddy Simulator 1984
Retro psychological horror adventure with a buddy that learns about you
93% positive
4,363 reviews
Shelter 2
Single-player survival adventure about raising lynx cubs in a changing tundra
85% positive
4,319 reviews
Fort Solis
Linear sci-fi thriller investigating an alarm at a Mars mining base
67% positive
4,242 reviews