Best 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. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Interactive Fiction games on Steam.

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Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! Welcome to the club! Write poems for your crush and experience the terror of school romance in this critically-acclaimed psychological horror story.

Price -33% 10.04€
Rating 9.5
Release 30 Jun 2021
SCARLET NEXUS Choose between Yuito and Kasane, elite psionics each armed with a talent in psychokinesis and their own reason to fight. Complete both of their stories to unlock all the mysteries of a Brain Punk future caught between technology and psychic abilities.

Price -90% 5.04€
Rating 7.9
Release 24 Jun 2021
WTF Is Wrong With You? Have you ever wondered WTF Is Wrong With You? Well, so have we... Let's find out together, shall we?

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 14 Jun 2021
Scarlet Hollow Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than a 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.

Price 21.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 11 Jun 2021
Motesolo : No Girlfriend Since Birth On a late afternoon in Seoul, you discover two people talking at a local cafe, and you spy on their conversation.

Price 18.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 09 Jun 2021
Tails Noir Tails Noir is a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.

Price -98% 0.62€
Rating 6.6
Release 08 Jun 2021
Critters for Sale Experience death from the comfort of your seat.

Price 8.19€
Rating 9.0
Release 03 Jun 2021
Overboard! GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.

Price -91% 1.24€
Rating 8.5
Release 02 Jun 2021
The Advisor - Episode 1: Royal Pain The Advisor Series is a player-driven narrative where your choices & decisions, both in the game, and out of the game, determine how future episodes unfold. Play the role of villain protagonist Magnus the Magician, as he wreaks havoc across the land, one well-placed fireball at a time!

Price 2.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 31 May 2021
幽灵高校(Ghost College) An average college girl takes an elective class and everything is different. Death, spooky, enveloped her, uncovering the truth, looking for clues, making the right choice was the only way.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 28 May 2021
The Longest Road on Earth A thoughtful and deeply personal title with stripped-down mechanics. The lack of dialogue or text allows you to create your own narrative through your time with four characters. Each short story will allow players to be swept away by the haunting lyrics of over twenty original, nostalgic songs.

Price -57% 4.38€
Rating 7.4
Release 27 May 2021
Sumire One Day, One Life. Sumire is a magical narrative adventure about choices made, and dreams lost and found. Embark on a mysterious journey to help Sumire achieve her deepest wishes, before the day ends and the sky turns to twilight.

Price -43% 3.39€
Rating 9.0
Release 26 May 2021
Erica Erica is a live-action, FMV thriller that puts you directly at the heart of the mystery. Your choices, your consequences.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 25 May 2021
Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.

Price -97% 0.63€
Rating 8.8
Release 20 May 2021
cyberpunkdreams 2090s America, torn apart by war and corporate greed. A lone traveller stands outside the gates of Cincinnati, greatest of the border cities. How far will you go to make it to the top? How far will you go to fulfil your mission?

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 14 May 2021
Purrfect Apawcalypse: Patches' Infurno Patches is dragged to school for the first ever cat-and-dog school day! All he needs to do is get this damn collar off and wreck some havoc! Will he prove cats and dogs can get along, or will he make this the Purrfect Apawcalypse?

Price 6.89€
Rating 9.1
Release 13 May 2021
Yoshiwara Higanbana --Whether I end up after falling in love, in your arms or in a scarlet prison? It's up to you to make my vow of higanbana fall or wither-- Even if it's only for one night, I want to be held by you...

Price 37.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 06 May 2021
7Days Origins 7Days Origins is a single-player story game where the storyline changes based on the player's choices. For 7 days, you will meet various characters in the world of the dead. You may become allies and embark on adventures together or become enemies and fight.

Price -66% 2.57€
Rating 8.0
Release 02 May 2021
Tiny Bunny Tiny Bunny is a non-linear horror visual novel. Those, who have heard the voice of the forest, are beyond help.

Price 10.79€
Rating 9.4
Release 16 Apr 2021
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.

Price -98% 0.44€
Rating 9.1
Release 15 Apr 2021
Hobo: Tough Life Hobo: Tough Life is an urban survival role-playing game where you play as a homeless person. Play alone or team up in online co-op. Explore the streets of Praslav, scavenge for food and supplies, beg, steal, and do whatever else it takes to survive the forthcoming winter.

Price 28.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 12 Apr 2021
Before Your Eyes Embark on an emotional first-person narrative adventure where you control the story—and affect its outcomes—with your real-life blinks. With this innovative technique you will fully immerse yourself in a world of memories, both joyous and heartbreaking, as your whole life flashes before your eyes.

Price -75% 2.48€
Rating 9.5
Release 08 Apr 2021
The Little Red Lie 2D side scrolling, adventure, horror game where you avoid monsters and solve puzzles.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 06 Apr 2021
[Chilla's Art] The Caregiver | 終焉介護 The Caregiver | 終焉介護 is a psychological Japanese horror adventure game about a caregiver.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 02 Apr 2021