Best Interactive Fiction Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our 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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Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth 12th century, England: In a time of poverty and war, a small town begins the construction of a cathedral to claim wealth and safety for its people. In their struggle to survive, lives and destinies intertwine. Based on Ken Follett's world-bestseller ‘The Pillars of the Earth’.

Price -96% 0.89€
Rating 9.0
Release 15 Aug 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 -89% 1.45€
Rating 8.0
Release 11 Aug 2017
Pyre Pyre is a party-based RPG from the creators of Bastion and Transistor. Lead your band of exiles to freedom through a series of mystical competitions in the Campaign, or challenge a friend to a fast-paced ritual showdown in the head-to-head Versus Mode.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.8
Release 25 Jul 2017
The Letter - Horror Visual Novel When seven people fall prey to a vicious curse, they will discover that horror rests not from the shadows lurking about, but within themselves. To what ends will one go in order to survive?

Price -74% 4.98€
Rating 8.2
Release 24 Jul 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% 0.42€
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 -67% 2.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 19 May 2017
Old Man's Journey Old Man’s Journey, a soul-searching puzzle adventure, tells a story of life, loss, and hope. Interacting with the world around you, you'll shape the landscape to create the old man's path forward. Experience heartache and hope as you embark on a heartfelt journey through a sunkissed world.

Price -96% 0.40€
Rating 8.4
Release 17 May 2017
Late Shift Late Shift is a high stakes FMV crime thriller. Forced into a brutal London heist, your choices matter in this interactive cinematic experience with adaptable storylines that lead to one of seven conclusions. Your decisions are you.

Price -93% 1.17€
Rating 8.4
Release 18 Apr 2017
Majotori A narrative trivia game focused on video games, anime and cinema. How many lives will your ignorance ruin?

Price -81% 1.17€
Rating 9.2
Release 28 Mar 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
Hotel Anatolia What would you do if the hotel you checked in for the night turned into a death trap? Hotel Anatolia is a short, terrifying horror game which is about a man trying to run away from his past.

Price 0.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 20 Mar 2017
Darkarta: A Broken Heart's Quest Collector's Edition Haunted by mysterious curses from her orphanage days, Mary is finally forced to confront the truth behind her past. Step into the enchanted Netherworld—a realm where destiny is written in blood and every choice shapes her fate. An award-winning adventure blending mystery, emotion, and dark fantasy.

Price -76% 2.39€
Rating 8.7
Release 08 Mar 2017
Stories Untold Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.

Price -96% 0.42€
Rating 8.4
Release 27 Feb 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 -70% 1.22€
Rating 9.0
Release 22 Feb 2017
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition Dear Esther immerses you in a stunningly realised world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the outer Hebrides. As you step forwards, a voice begins to read fragments of a letter: 'Dear Esther...' - and so begins a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.

Price -91% 0.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 14 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
A Normal Lost Phone A Normal Lost Phone is a game about exploring the intimacy of an unknown person whose phone was found by the player.

Price 0.67€
Rating 8.5
Release 26 Jan 2017
Sally Face - Episode One Delve into a dark adventure following the boy with a prosthetic face and a tragic past. Unravel the sinister mysteries of Sally's world to find the truth that lies hidden beneath the shadows.

Price 2.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 14 Dec 2016
Hello Charlotte EP2: Requiem Aeternam Deo A eulogy for happiness, and a lament for connection that never was.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 21 Nov 2016
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 -32% 2.06€
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
Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You Big Brother has arrived - and it’s you. Investigate the lives of citizens to find those responsible for a series of terror attacks. Information from the internet, personal communications and private files are all accessible to you. But, be warned, the information you supply will have consequences.

Price -95% 0.58€
Rating 8.8
Release 27 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 -81% 2.75€
Rating 8.4
Release 12 Oct 2016
Disturbed Play as a farmer who struggles to manage a failing farm. You come to a point where there is no more hope, and you must do something.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 03 Oct 2016
Virginia Virginia is a single-player first-person thriller set in a small town with a secret. Experience a missing person investigation through the eyes of graduate FBI agent Anne Tarver.

Price -69% 3.17€
Rating 6.3
Release 22 Sep 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 -94% 1.18€
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
A Date in the Park A short and mysterious free point and click adventure game, inspired by the feeling of oddness in an everyday situation.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 19 Jul 2016
Highway Blossoms A yuri visual novel about Amber, a girl who's trying her best to be alone on the road, until she stumbles upon a young hitchhiker and the journal of a prospector from long ago. Fully voiced in English.

Price -94% 0.84€
Rating 9.0
Release 17 Jun 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 NADI Project The NADI Project it is a free-to-play, first person graphic adventure, in which you will face various obstacles to escape from your destiny.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.4
Release 01 Jun 2016
OPUS: The Day We Found Earth Dive into the boundless galaxy and embark on an emotional adventure! Help little robot Emeth to fulfill a century-old promise by finding Earth in order to save Mankind—so step into the spaceship, operate a deep space telescope, and find out what’s out there in the unknown.

Price -51% 7.39€
Rating 8.3
Release 22 Apr 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
Californium Taking the form of a first-person experience of a bad trip, Californium pays homage to sci-fi legend Philip K. Dick by transporting you into the life of a writer searching for his own identity. Explore, solve the riddles and conduct your investigation. Will you find what’s behind the simulacra ?

Price -94% 0.40€
Rating 6.7
Release 17 Feb 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 -77% 2.36€
Rating 8.4
Release 02 Feb 2016

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