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.
Love is All Around: Echoes of Yesterday
First-person live-action dating sim with branching college romances
81% positive
2,215 reviews
恋爱绮谭 不存在的真相
Choice-driven romance visual novel about an investigation and strange forces
94% positive
2,212 reviews
New Tales from the Borderlands
Choice-driven adventure about three civilians facing corporate power
31% positive
2,155 reviews
Road 96: Mile 0
Narrative adventure about two friends with choices and musical rides
68% positive
2,146 reviews
Wild West Legacy
Open-world Western survival with homestead building and settlement management
37% positive
2,143 reviews
咸鱼殿下 / My journey
Live-action period romance with plot choices and multiple endings
85% positive
2,104 reviews
OXENFREE II: Lost Signals
Side-scrolling supernatural adventure driven by choices and radio signals
88% positive
2,078 reviews
Majotori
Trivia game where quiz answers shape branching character stories
96% positive
2,076 reviews
Maurice: In The Predator's Nest
First-person survival horror with survivors hunted by a predator
76% positive
Free
Rebirth:Beware of Mr.Wang
Adult story-driven puzzle game about a young man's crush
66% positive
2,066 reviews
80 Days
Choice-driven travel adventure racing to circle the world in eighty days
90% positive
2,038 reviews
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
Point-and-click detective comedy with paranormal cases in a cursed town
96% positive
2,024 reviews
Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines
Hand-drawn visual novel about office procrastination and multiple endings
98% positive
2,004 reviews
Choice of Robots
Text-based sci-fi adventure about building robots and shaping their future
96% positive
1,998 reviews
A Perfect Day
Time-loop narrative adventure about changing lives in 1990s China
85% positive
1,833 reviews
Super Seducer : How to Talk to Girls
Live-action dating sim with branching choices and awkward outcomes
83% positive
1,805 reviews
Trials of Innocence
Courtroom detective visual novel about exposing lies in murder trials
92% positive
1,800 reviews
Koi x Shin Ai Kanojo
Romance visual novel with multiple heroines and endings
89% positive
1,796 reviews
Tavern Talk - A Cozy Visual Novel
Fantasy visual novel about mixing drinks and sending adventurers on quests
89% positive
1,764 reviews
Pocket Mirror ~ GoldenerTraum
2D horror adventure through a mansion of puzzles and lost memories
93% positive
1,758 reviews
Super Seducer 2 - Advanced Seduction Tactics
Live-action dating sim where dialogue choices shape romantic encounters
82% positive
1,757 reviews
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
Narrative adventure across Depression-era America, trading stories to repay debt
76% positive
1,746 reviews
Layers of Fear
First-person psychological horror linking two games through new chapters
79% positive
1,736 reviews
King Of The Castle
Medieval multiplayer party game of votes, schemes, and rebellion
88% positive
1,734 reviews