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
2,085 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Ashina: The Red Witch: Prologue
Exploration adventure about finding your way home from a spirit world
87% positive
Free
8/8/88 Needle AL
A point-and-click horror mystery about a town whose residents vanish
80% positive
Free
Gore Screaming Show
A psychological horror visual novel about a homecoming turned violent
89% positive
205 reviews
Demo A Tithe in Blood
Dark fantasy visual novel about blood magic and time travel
86% positive
205 reviews
Demo Project Songbird
First-person psychological horror about a musician recording in isolation
84% positive
205 reviews
This Winter of Ours
Fantasy visual novel about two girls surviving a winter forest
98% positive
Free
Demo Kyle is Famous: Complete Edition
Text-based adventure where you can eat an entire fridge
95% positive
204 reviews
Last Days
A sci-fi visual novel about the line between humans and gods
94% positive
204 reviews
Inbetween Land
A first-person puzzle adventure set on a floating island
84% positive
203 reviews
Afterlove EP
A Jakarta visual novel about grief, relationships, and making music
89% positive
203 reviews
Demo Uberich: Advent Sinners
A visual novel linking supernatural attacks to a wider conspiracy
82% positive
203 reviews
Demo Two Falls (Nishu Takuatshina)
First-person historical adventure follows French and Innu journeys through Canada
91% positive
201 reviews
定制女友
Live-action dating sim with a robot and an idol
78% positive
201 reviews
Essays on Empathy
A collection of short narrative games exploring different people's lives
79% positive
200 reviews
Spellchanted 2D Hidden Object Puzzle Adveture Tile-Matching
A fairy-tale puzzle game about matching objects against the clock
73% positive
Free
Channel 4 Midnight
First-person horror about performing an online ritual at an inn
87% positive
Free
Markus Ritter - The Lost Family
A 1990s-style point-and-click mystery built around live-action video
85% positive
Free
Gilded Shadows
Sci-fi romance visual novel with branching stories and a customizable protagonist
94% positive
199 reviews
Witch's Garden
Fantasy romance visual novel with six routes and animated portraits
87% positive
199 reviews
Seraphim Slum
A psychological horror visual novel about romance with fallen angels
95% positive
Free
The Book of Distance
First-person VR storytelling following a Japanese immigrant's life in Canada
96% positive
Free
For Mother Matron
Psychological horror visual novel built around choices with deadly consequences
91% positive
Free
halfmoon
A point-and-click adventure about taking a job after death
91% positive
198 reviews
SneakyDoggie
Point-and-click dress-up puzzles with a dog helping a fashion designer
97% positive
Free