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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Demo Heroes Rise: HeroFall
Text-based superhero roleplaying about political resistance and personal sacrifices
88% positive
148 reviews
Best Month Ever!
Point-and-click road trip where parenting choices shape a child's future
78% positive
148 reviews
Demo Wayhaven Chronicles: Book Three
Text-based interactive fiction about supernatural kidnappings and vampire romance
80% positive
148 reviews
Legends of Savvarah: Time of Pariah
Branching visual novel about crime and intrigue in a fantasy port
95% positive
148 reviews
POHMIELISKO
First-person adventure mixing apartment-block life with horror and dark humor
82% positive
148 reviews
Neighboring Islands
Pirate visual novel with choices that lead to different endings
78% positive
147 reviews
Demo Vampire: The Masquerade — Sins of the Sires
Text-based vampire fiction about political loyalties and hidden origins
40% positive
147 reviews
Demo Fishbowl
A choice-driven visual novel with a magical talking fish companion
95% positive
147 reviews
The Missing Parts of Maria Gwozdek
A horror visual novel where every wish costs an organ
97% positive
Free
Demo The Diary
A narrative puzzle game tracing a disappearance through several diaries
65% positive
147 reviews
Demo Decade
Sci-fi narrative adventure about sending children back to rewrite history
95% positive
147 reviews
Don't Let Me Fade
A first-person narrative adventure through an elderly man's fading memories
99% positive
Free
Demo 东北往事
Live-action crime drama with branching paths through China's underworld
82% positive
147 reviews
The Future Radio and the Artificial Pigeons
A mystery visual novel about radio broadcasts from the future
84% positive
146 reviews
Upwards, Rain! The Post Office of Farewells
A visual novel mixing word puzzles with letters from the dead
97% positive
146 reviews
Them's Tale - The Road To Her
First-person psychological horror with VHS visuals and multiple perspectives
77% positive
Free
The Grade 5B Case Files
Detective visual novel about two girls solving everyday school mysteries
91% positive
Free
HACK_IT
Hacking-themed visual novel with terminal tools and desktop missions
27% positive
145 reviews
Wheels of Aurelia
Isometric driving adventure built around conversations and branching road trips
51% positive
145 reviews
Rain City
A point-and-click puzzle adventure through a city of constant rain
55% positive
145 reviews
The Fan
Photo-based point-and-click horror from the perspective of a serial killer
73% positive
144 reviews
Demo Button City
A story-driven adventure about making friends and saving an arcade
95% positive
144 reviews
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Stained Roses & Lilies
An adult visual novel RPG about a household losing trust
84% positive
144 reviews
Dance of Death: Du Lac & Fey
Point-and-click mystery bringing Arthurian characters into Jack the Ripper's London
78% positive
143 reviews