Hidden Interactive Fiction Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated interactive fiction games.

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Maitetsu Humanoid modules that control all aspects of the railway cars called “Raillords” exist in this world.

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.7
Release 29 Jun 2018
Scheming Through The Zombie Apocalypse: The Beginning Join Hank and Larry, two small defenseless animals, as they manipulate their way through the zombie apocalypse. Meet various characters and get them to scavenge for you while guiding them to "safety." Make life-or-death decisions, bargain, manage inventory, trade, and gamble.

Price -93% 0.37€
Rating 7.7
Release 08 Jun 2018
Fighting Fantasy Classics Ready your sword, pack your provisions and prepare to embark upon quests in which YOU are the hero! Choose what happens at every turn of the page with Fighting Fantasy Classics – text-based roleplaying adventures remastered.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.5
Release 05 Jun 2018
Unforeseen Incidents Unforeseen Incidents is a classical style interactive mystery set in a beautifully hand-painted world. Join Harper Pendrell and experience a challenging investigation, smart dialog and a rich cast of characters in this thrilling new adventure game.

Price -24% 15.39€
Rating 8.3
Release 23 May 2018
Doodle Date Romance, seduce, and even marry your own drawings! Forget about finding true love; In Doodle Date, you create it!

Price 1.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 19 Apr 2018
Fallen Hero: Rebirth They called you a hero; you call them fools. Use your telepathy romance old friends and fight new enemies as you become the greatest villain Los Diablos has ever known!

Price 6.89€
Rating 8.9
Release 15 Mar 2018
Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One Your first case as a detective is forcing you to open your eyes to a world bigger than you thought. Or maybe it's better to keep them closed. Seems the supernatural didn’t get the memo that nothing exciting ever happens in the little town of Wayhaven.

Price 7.79€
Rating 8.5
Release 08 Mar 2018
Omen Exitio: Plague Investigate a paranormal disease that threatens to eradicate humanity in this unsettling Lovecraftian adventure, inspired by the choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks of the 80s and 90s. Your choices will determine the story, your character’s destiny… and the future of humanity.

Price -92% 0.81€
Rating 8.1
Release 05 Mar 2018
Speed Dating for Ghosts Branching dialogue! Hard choices! A cemetery's worth of phantoms, wraiths, and poltergeists lookin' for love in all the blight places.

Price 5.69€
Rating 8.9
Release 13 Feb 2018
Indecision. A haiku platformer. It's short and vague.

Price -83% 0.53€
Rating 8.0
Release 08 Feb 2018
A Case of Distrust A Case of Distrust is a narrative mystery from 1924 San Francisco. Play as private investigator Phyllis Cadence Malone in this historical 2D adventure game.

Price -98% 0.41€
Rating 7.7
Release 08 Feb 2018
Star Wars: Droid Repair Bay In Star Wars: Droid Repair Bay by ILMxLAB, Poe Dameron's sidekick needs your help. Repair BB-8 and his astromech droid friends, each with their own unique personalities, so they can roll back into the fight against the First Order.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 06 Dec 2017
Attentat 1942 Attentat 1942 is a historically-accurate adventure about World War 2. Face moral dilemmas and existential struggles as you uncover the troubled past of your family.

Price -7% 8.39€
Rating 8.6
Release 31 Oct 2017
Don't Make Love Assume the role of a praying mantis in a relationship dilemma. Torn between their mutual love and the instinct to have sex – which could lead to the male mantis’s death – the couple is on the verge of making a decision. Type anything you want in response to your partner during this life-changing conversation.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 26 Oct 2017
Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story Explore the social life of Laura in this spiritual sequel to A Normal Lost Phone.

Price -92% 0.55€
Rating 8.6
Release 21 Sep 2017
ICY: Frostbite Edition ICY: Frostbite Edition is a narrative-driven post-apocalyptic survival RPG set in a new Ice Age. Create your character, lead your family, make difficult choices, and try to survive in a frozen world.

Price -87% 1.74€
Rating 8.0
Release 11 Aug 2017
Crimson Gray John is a young man suffering from severe depression. As he loses his sense of purpose in life, he begins to see the world in unfocused gray. Just when he begins to lose all hope, John meets a girl... a very special girl.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 14 Jul 2017
All You Can Eat Meet a modern hero of our times, a man so lazy he decided to quit his job and just spend his life inside an All-you-can-eat diner. As years go by, his freeloading nature becomes legend, but then a tragedy occurs - the diner is about to close down! Will he settle down and get a regular job? Never!!!

Price -79% 0.43€
Rating 7.6
Release 13 Jul 2017
The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Type a question - patients reply in full screen video and have questions for you too but be careful what you say. Your words determine their eventual fates, and your own!

Price -80% 1.85€
Rating 7.8
Release 19 May 2017
Demonheart Discover the secrets of the witches and demons in this dark fantasy romance game, featuring a female protagonist whose personality is completely up to the player thanks to extensive dialog choices.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 24 Mar 2017
Darkarta: A Broken Heart's Quest Collector's Edition Haunted by strange curses from her orphanage days, Mary never knew the story of her dark past until that day. Enter the enchanted 'Netherworld' where your destiny was written in blood and which whispers of true love. A multi-award winner epic adventure game! Rated by many as their all time favorite!

Price -57% 4.27€
Rating 8.7
Release 08 Mar 2017
Open Sorcery BEL/S is an Elemental Firewall: a fire elemental bound with C++ code to protect a network of people and places. She can learn things, develop relationships, and even gain sapience. Or she can burn everything with fire. It's up to you.

Price -71% 1.19€
Rating 9.0
Release 22 Feb 2017
A House of Many Doors Explore the House, a parasite dimension that steals from other worlds, in a train that scuttles on mechanical legs.

Price -85% 1.75€
Rating 7.9
Release 03 Feb 2017
One Night Stand After a night of fun, passion, and one too many drinks, you wake up the next morning to find a complete stranger lying naked beside you in bed. What do you do?

Price -31% 2.07€
Rating 8.4
Release 07 Nov 2016
Lost in Secular Love A Otome game about romancing monks?! All the romanceable characters are monks?! Sweet yet seductive! The untainted body and soul that only you can touch… PS: The game is set in an alternate history with an alternate religion.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 28 Oct 2016
Along the Edge Following the loss of a baby, a breakup, and a surprise heritage, Daphné decides to leave everything behind to start a new life in the French countryside. There, she discovers she's the last descendant of a line of witches. Will she embrace the family tradition?

Price -73% 3.83€
Rating 8.4
Release 12 Oct 2016
The Warlock of Firetop Mountain The Warlock of Firetop Mountain is a tabletop adventure come to life! This fantasy solo RPG combines unique, simultaneous turn-based combat with a journey that changes based on each figurine you take into Firetop Mountain! Which hero will you take into Zagor's lair THIS time?

Price -98% 0.41€
Rating 7.1
Release 30 Aug 2016
Winter Novel Snow, dullness, depression. Constant dissatisfaction with work and superiors and feeling like there is no escape. Is this what life will always be? Perhaps… but I can always hope for change to be just around the corner!…

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 10 Aug 2016
Impossible Quest Very dumb adventure game about a very dumb person from a very dumb developer.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 03 Jun 2016
The Bottom of the Well Play as Alice who has just had an unsettingly life-like dream about the end of the world, and is retelling it to her friend. A single play-through might take as little as 20 minutes, but experiencing all the possible paths Alice can take through the ruins of her city will take you many hours.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 03 Mar 2016
Sorcery! Parts 1 and 2 An epic adventure in a land of monsters, traps and magic. Journey across the deadly Shamutanti Hills and through Kharé, Cityport of Thieves. Armed with your sword and over fifty spells with weird and wonderful effects, embark on a narrative adventure of a thousand choices where every one is remembered.

Price -44% 5.65€
Rating 8.4
Release 02 Feb 2016
BAD END It's rumored that those who play 'BAD END'- a Visual Novel will die in REAL LIFE if they make the wrong decision in the game itself.

Price -85% 0.92€
Rating 7.8
Release 25 Nov 2015
Swordbreaker The Game The Swordbreaker game is interactive fiction with lots of illustrations where you and you alone get to choose the storyline and the ending!

Price -83% 0.85€
Rating 7.8
Release 06 Nov 2015
King of Dragon Pass Create your own epic saga of survival, mythology and diplomacy! Rule your clan, make strategic decisions that affect the game world, win battles and expand your influence in this unique mix of RPG, strategy and story-telling.

Price -97% 0.45€
Rating 7.6
Release 28 Jul 2015
Ame no Marginal -Rain Marginal- The latest visual novel by Tomo Kataoka, the author of Narcissu 1st & 2nd, has arrived! An empty world with endless rain and only one person. Here there is no hunger, sickness or even death. Just what story does this world's one occupant have?

Price 12.79€
Rating 8.1
Release 07 Jul 2015
Portal of Evil: Stolen Runes Collector's Edition The gates to another world will open soon! You can stop the impending disaster, but to do so at all costs to return the stolen stamps! Vanessa is the only heiress of Abraham Van Helsinga, a member of the secret order of light guarding the peace of our world.

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.5
Release 26 May 2015

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Rating 9.5

293 players

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Rating 9.1

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