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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Highway Blossoms
A short visual novel about romance and desert treasure hunting
94% positive
2,751 reviews
Demo 再见断刀
Wuxia mystery visual novel with branching endings and evidence-based accusations
92% positive
2,720 reviews
Nicotine VS Fulanwang
A comedy visual novel with choices leading to twenty endings
97% positive
Free
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
First-person walking adventure across a deserted island with fragmented narration
79% positive
2,674 reviews
Demo Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly
Dialogue-heavy visual novel about brewing drinks for fantasy customers
96% positive
2,657 reviews
Demo Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter
Party-based JRPG with action combat and turn-based tactical battles
96% positive
2,649 reviews
Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping
Short detective adventure investigating a possibly haunted campsite
96% positive
2,646 reviews
Noctuary
Visual novel about two aspiring guardians with monster battles
94% positive
2,633 reviews
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Politics The Game
Political strategy adventure with turn-based battles for power in Poland
95% positive
2,622 reviews
1 to 1 humanoid edible toys
Romantic crime visual novel with three romance interests and branching endings
93% positive
2,620 reviews
Demo Desktop Explorer
A point-and-click mystery hidden inside an old computer's files
96% positive
2,606 reviews
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Psychological horror escape room inside a stranger's old computer
98% positive
Free
Hamidashi Creative
School visual novel about a randomly chosen student council president
95% positive
2,563 reviews
Venba
Short narrative cooking game about a South Indian immigrant family
94% positive
2,553 reviews
Last Report
Pixel horror about a park ranger's increasingly strange night shift
89% positive
2,546 reviews
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
Point-and-click folk horror mystery centered on an English burial mound
93% positive
2,536 reviews
Forbidden Solitaire
Horror solitaire with upgrades and Jokers that help or harm
96% positive
2,512 reviews
Demo While We Wait Here
First-person diner story with cooking, dialogue choices, and looming catastrophe
89% positive
2,466 reviews
Always Sometimes Monsters
Story-driven RPG about money troubles and difficult relationship choices
75% positive
2,447 reviews
Demo Hello Charlotte EP2: Requiem Aeternam Deo
2D psychological horror adventure guiding a puppet through surreal scenes
97% positive
Free
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
Text-heavy sci-fi RPG about dice rolls and risky contracts
91% positive
2,439 reviews
Bendy: Secrets of the Machine
First-person horror exploration with puzzles and a changing setting
80% positive
Free
Demo S4U: CITYPUNK 2011 AND LOVE PUNCH
Text-driven adventure about typing replies for clients and shaping relationships
91% positive
2,411 reviews
Five Dates
A live-action dating sim about finding romance through lockdown video calls
88% positive
2,380 reviews