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  • Aliya: Timelink

    Connect with a girl in distress far in the future through real-time text messages. Help her survive and uncover the truth.

    Platforms
    • Windows
    Free to play
    No
  • Analogue: A Hate Story

    Investigate a long-lost generation ship through its archived logs. Your conversations with two onboard AIs shape the mystery.

    Platforms
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    Free to play
    No
  • Bunny e-Shop

    Help a rabbit fairy grow an online store selling homegrown carrots. Manage the shop in a comedic world of humans and monsters.

    Platforms
    • Windows
    Free to play
    No
  • Choice of Robots

    Make choices in a text-based science-fiction story about designing a robot. Your decisions shape the machine’s character and humanity’s response.

    Platforms
    • Android
    • iOS
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    Free to play
    No
  • Choices: Stories You Play

    Read interactive stories and make choices that shape relationships and plot. Explore romance, fantasy, mystery, and other genres.

    Platforms
    • Android
    • iOS
    Free to play
    Yes
  • Cibele

    Follow Nata's online relationship through a mix of role-playing game scenes and desktop files. The story explores intimacy and identity on the internet.

    Platforms
    • macOS
    • Windows
    Free to play
    No
  • Cinders

    Shape a new version of Cinderella through choices and conversations. Decisions influence the characters and lead to different endings.

    Platforms
    • macOS
    • PlayStation 4
    • Nintendo Switch
    • Windows
    • Xbox One
    • Xbox Series X/S
    Free to play
    No
  • Coffee Talk

    Run a late-night coffee shop and listen to customers from a fantasy-tinged modern Seattle. Brew the right drinks to help them.

    Platforms
    • macOS
    • Windows
    Free to play
    No
  • Depression Quest

    Read a branching story about living with depression. Make choices about daily life while the protagonist’s condition shapes which options are available.

    Platforms
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Browser
    • Windows
    Free to play
    Yes
  • Digital: A Love Story

    Use a retro computer interface to connect to bulletin boards and read messages. Follow an unfolding mystery through this interactive fiction game.

    Platforms
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    Free to play
    Yes
  • Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!

    Join a literature club and write poems for its members in an expanded edition of a psychological horror visual novel. Discover side stories that deepen the cast.

    Platforms
    • macOS
    • Windows
    Free to play
    No
  • Doki Doki Literature Club!

    Join a high school literature club and write poems to impress its members. Things are not quite what they seem.

    Platforms
    • macOS
    • Windows
    Free to play
    Yes
  • Emily is Away

    Chat with an old friend over a retro instant messenger during your school years. Choose what to type and watch the relationship change.

    Platforms
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    Free to play
    Yes
  • Far Away

    Follow Krosa, a girl with mechanical arms, through gang conflicts and conspiracies. A dark-humored visual novel with choices.

    Platforms
    • Windows
    Free to play
    No
  • Frozen Essence

    Follow Mina after she awakens from a crystal prison with no memory. Choices shape the romance routes and endings.

    Platforms
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    Free to play
    Yes
  • Hatoful Boyfriend

    Attend a school for talented birds as its only human student. Make choices and build relationships across branching story routes.

    Platforms
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    Free to play
    No
  • I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

    Grow up from age ten to twenty in a space colony on an alien world. Choose activities, build relationships, and face challenges with card-based play.

    Platforms
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    Free to play
    No
  • Katawa Shoujo

    Read a character-driven story at Yamaku High School and guide Hisao’s relationships through dialogue choices. Branching routes follow different classmates.

    Platforms
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    Free to play
    Yes
  • Life Is Strange

    Explore Arcadia Bay as photography student Max, who can rewind time. Choices shape her relationships and the course of the story.

    Platforms
    • Android
    • iOS
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • PlayStation 3
    • PlayStation 4
    • Nintendo Switch
    • Windows
    • Xbox 360
    • Xbox One
    • Xbox Series X/S
    Free to play
    No
  • Lifeline

    Receive messages from Taylor, an astronaut stranded far from help. Choose how to respond and steer this branching survival story.

    Platforms
    • Android
    • iOS
    Free to play
    No
  • Long Live The Queen

    Guide a fourteen-year-old princess through a year before her coronation. Choose her studies carefully to survive political intrigue.

    Platforms
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    Free to play
    No
  • Love and Order

    Start a new job with Dana Larose at a Montreal legal office. Manage daily work and stress while building relationships with colleagues.

    Platforms
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    Free to play
    Yes
  • LoveChoice

    Play short interactive love stories where choices decide how relationships unfold. Explore different chapters and endings.

    Platforms
    • macOS
    • Windows
    Free to play
    No
  • Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-

    A boy who distrusts androids finds a broken robot girl in a dump and repairs her. A visual novel about whether a robot can have a soul.

    Platforms
    • Windows
    Free to play
    No
  • Magical Diary

    Attend a magical school, learn spells, and build relationships. Choices and character skills shape the story.

    Platforms
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    Free to play
    No
  • Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    Help a troubled girl make it to the store to buy milk. A short, surreal visual novel about everyday struggles.

    Platforms
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    Free to play
    No
  • Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk

    Return to the troubled girl from the first game and help her feel a little happier. A longer, surreal psychological visual novel.

    Platforms
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    Free to play
    No
  • missed messages.

    Accept a photo from a stranger's phone and step into a short interactive story. Your choices shape a story of love, loss, and memes.

    Platforms
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    Free to play
    Yes
  • Monster Prom

    Get a date for prom at a high school full of monsters. Raise stats and make absurd choices alone or with friends.

    Platforms
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    Free to play
    No
  • My Candy Love

    Begin a new school life and meet classmates in a choice-driven romance story. Conversations shape your relationships as the episodes unfold.

    Platforms
    • Android
    • iOS
    • Browser
    Free to play
    Yes
  • My Story: Choose Your Own Path

    Create a character and make choices as you read branching stories. Your decisions shape relationships and the direction of each plot.

    Platforms
    • Android
    • iOS
    Free to play
    Yes
  • Nicole

    Investigate disappearances at a university while building relationships with fellow students. Choices shape the story and its romantic routes.

    Platforms
    • iOS
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • PlayStation 4
    • Nintendo Switch
    • Windows
    • Xbox One
    • Xbox Series X/S
    Free to play
    No
  • OPUS: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition

    Join a young man and a girl who can hear starsong on a journey across a ruined galaxy. Explore asteroid temples in a story-rich adventure.

    Platforms
    • macOS
    • Windows
    Free to play
    No
  • Otaku's Adventure

    Help a lonely otaku on a bizarre quest to find love. Make choices that lead to many different endings.

    Platforms
    • macOS
    • Windows
    Free to play
    No
  • Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    Create your own character and grow up alongside the boy next door. Shape a customizable story across four summers.

    Platforms
    • Linux
    • Windows
    Free to play
    Yes
  • Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies

    Defend clients in a series of courtroom cases with Phoenix Wright and his fellow lawyers. Explore crime scenes, question witnesses, and expose contradictions in testimony.

    Platforms
    • Android
    • iOS
    Free to play
    No
  • Pyre

    Lead a band of exiles through mystical competitions called Rites. Win their freedom in a party-based RPG from Supergiant Games.

    Platforms
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    Free to play
    No
  • Raging Loop

    Survive a werewolf ritual in a fog-bound Japanese village. Relive loops to uncover the truth behind the feast.

    Platforms
    • Windows
    Free to play
    No
  • Re: Alistair++

    Help gamer Merui discover who stole her rare item in this visual novel. Balance school, gaming, shopping, and friendships as she searches for Alistair.

    Platforms
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    Free to play
    Yes
  • Signs of the Sojourner

    Run your late mother's store and travel between towns to trade goods. Win conversations by matching symbols with a deck that reflects who you become.

    Platforms
    • macOS
    • Windows
    Free to play
    No
  • The Flower Shop: Summer In Fairbrook

    Spend a summer balancing farm work and relationships in Fairbrook. Schedule activities, grow crops, and make choices that shape Steve’s story.

    Platforms
    • iOS
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • PlayStation 4
    • PlayStation 5
    • Windows
    • Xbox One
    • Xbox Series X/S
    Free to play
    No
  • The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante

    Live the life of a man born into a rigid caste society ruled by harsh gods. Every choice affects your stats, relationships, and fate.

    Platforms
    • Windows
    Free to play
    No
  • The Royal Trap

    Follow a royal court’s preparations for a diplomatic journey and marriage. Make choices in a story of court politics and relationships.

    Platforms
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    Free to play
    No
  • The Test

    Answer a series of uncomfortable questions that reveal your personality. Your answers lead to different endings.

    Platforms
    • Windows
    Free to play
    No
  • Tiny Bunny

    A boy moves to a village by a dark forest where children are going missing. Make choices in a non-linear horror visual novel.

    Platforms
    • macOS
    • Windows
    Free to play
    No
  • VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action

    Mix drinks for patrons of a small cyberpunk bar and listen to their stories. Your cocktails influence the conversations and how things unfold.

    Platforms
    • Linux
    • Windows
    Free to play
    No
  • X-note

    Investigate Essi’s mother’s death through a month of school life. Choices shape relationships and the mystery’s outcome.

    Platforms
    • Windows
    Free to play
    No