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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Loan Shark The loan shark is coming for you. Catch enough fish to repay your debt before it is too late. Go fish.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 08 Aug 2025
The Narcotic Operation Step into the role of a shadowed undercover police officer in Dark Eyes, brave an area dominated by vice and crime, where allies and enemies blur. Every smirk, tear, and lie tightens the web of deceit—will you destroy the empire or lose yourself in its shadows?

Price 8.79€
Rating 8.2
Release 07 Aug 2025
this game will end in 205 clicks. What does a SUPERVILLAIN do, when he is forbidden from doing anything evil for the day? WARNING: This is not the type of game where you can make meaningful choices.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 05 Aug 2025
One-Eyed Likho One-Eyed Likho is a grim first-person horror adventure set in a world inspired by a dark, Slavic fairy tale. Explore an unsettling and twisted land set in 19th-century Russia in your endeavor to escape your own evil fate.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.9
Release 28 Jul 2025
Pact Between Us "Pact between us" is a FMV. After the loss parents, you and your younger sister become siblings who only have each other. You must tenderly care for her daily life.What kind of woman will your sister grow into? Every arrangement you implement during her upbringing carries profound weight.

Price 6.89€
Rating 8.0
Release 25 Jul 2025
No Sleep For Kaname Date - From AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES Iris has been abducted by aliens?! Finding herself on board a mysterious UFO and tasked with completing a bizarre escape game, Iris knows there's one person who she can always count on for help: Kaname Date, Psyncer!

Price 39.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 25 Jul 2025
Flower in Us Flower in Us is a short, story-driven mystery adventure that invites players to unravel hidden secrets.

Price 8.15€
Rating 8.7
Release 25 Jul 2025
s.p.l.i.t A short psychological horror game, where you attempt to gain root access into an unethical superstructure.

Price -53% 1.41€
Rating 8.9
Release 24 Jul 2025
and Roger It was a morning like all others, until she realized her dad wasn't home. In his place, a stranger who speaks nonsense and insists she "takes her medicine". Who is he? Where is dad?

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 23 Jul 2025
The Love's Ordeal Nengchi, can you hold yourself? On the cusp of immortality, the prodigy from Sect of Pure Retreat is forced to face his trail in "Eden of Yao"- a realm of seductive spirits. As the temptresses unleash their charms, can you hold your Chan mind?

Price -58% 5.39€
Rating 8.1
Release 19 Jul 2025
Conquer the world "Conquer the world" is a historical theme of live-action interactive film game. First-person immersive experience, super-long and massive endings,rich interaction with multiple gameplay. Here,you will cross the river of history, Against invaders!

Price 12.79€
Rating 8.8
Release 16 Jul 2025
Breaker of fatalism You were originally an ordinary young man, but due to an accident, you awakened the ancient artifact that was sleeping inside your body and became the "Lord of Destiny" focused on the three realms. All of this is written by your own hands with a unique destiny ending.

Price -40% 6.47€
Rating 8.5
Release 12 Jul 2025
Last Report Last Report is a dark horror game where you play as a night shift park ranger. While monitoring the camera footage, you start noticing strange events. Uncover the terrifying secret of the National Park. Something moved in the window, but don’t worry it’s probably just another deer, right?

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 11 Jul 2025
Shooty Shooty Robot Invasion An absurdist FPS/interactive fiction game where you murder stupid robots, chat with idiot people, and explore a painstakingly hand-drawn and highly animated world!

Price -93% 0.77€
Rating 8.4
Release 10 Jul 2025
Don't FOOL ME, Beauties! "Get out!!!" Kicked out in the dead of winter, you land a job at a shady hotel. But work’s not the only challenge, there’s the CEO’s cold-hearted granddaughter, a lazy senior, a diva model, and your childhood friend who makes you do her laundry?! Who will you charm in this chaotic love game?

Price -69% 3.18€
Rating 8.3
Release 07 Jul 2025
52 / 0 = ∞ This is a story with illustrations. You have to choose your destiny. You are obsessed with the idea of creating an ideal society. One day you come up with a genius idea, and you create a society that could live forever, BUT HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE!!?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 03 Jul 2025
ToHeart The late-’90s landmark visual novel from AQUAPLUS is back and fully remastered with 3D scenes and animations, full HD resolution, the choice between the original cast or all-new voiceovers, and international translations for the first time ever!

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.2
Release 25 Jun 2025
Revenge on gold diggers In this first FMV game about emotional fraud, you’ll face their true colors. As a hunter of hearts, strike back against a secret network of gold diggers. Unmask lies, evade traps, and let revenge ignite. Will they burn—or you? Or could love still rise from the ashes? The choice is yours to make.

Price 8.00€
Rating 7.9
Release 19 Jun 2025
Kindergarten 3 Kindergarten 3 is the long awaited threequel to the Kindergarten series! Explore a new school with old and new friends...and new ways to get ruthlessly murdered.

Price 19.50€
Rating 9.0
Release 18 Jun 2025
Crown Gambit Play as three intrepid paladins through a terrible war of succession to save a sinister medieval kingdom from political turmoil. Pick a side amongst noble families to choose the future monarch and crush those who stand in your way through board-shattering tactical card combat!

Price -40% 10.79€
Rating 8.9
Release 18 Jun 2025
Dichotomy Illusion: The Coser Disassembly Incident "Dichotomy Illusion" is a Shin Honkaku mystery visual novel that combines real-world entertainment elements with physical locations, utilizing ACGN (Anime, Comics, Games, Novels) subculture knowledge to solve criminal cases and uncover the truth.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 07 Jun 2025
Cellveillance "Cellveillance" is a detective drama entertainment product, you will visit the apartment every day, and the entire apartment is responsible for everything that happens in the apartment, a mysterious organization asks you to return the information of the residents.

Price 15.12€
Rating 8.1
Release 04 Jun 2025
Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping You are the one and only Duck Detective, a depressed and recently divorced duck who must quack the case. Inspect evidence, make de-duck-tions, and solve this no-murder mystery!

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.3
Release 22 May 2025
Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer In this point-and-click urban thriller, down-and-out private eye Kathy Rain will embark on her most dangerous case yet — the pursuit of the notorious serial killer known as the Soothsayer. Find clues, gather evidence, connect the dots, and confront the murderer before the hunter becomes the hunted…

Price -57% 8.69€
Rating 8.9
Release 20 May 2025
Time Space Rebuild In "Time Rebuild", human civilization stands on the brink of destruction. You will become a time-traveling hero, embarking on a journey to save the world while encountering and bonding with women of vastly different appearances and personalities.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 19 May 2025
One's Own Exile Follow Sybil in her pursuit for survival, having to sacrifice everything - her culture, her identity, her values - to achieve a single objective: escape from a place that is constantly trying to kill her. A short game about persecution and identity.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 15 May 2025
QUIET DAN His name is Dan. He is an ordinary guy who works as a floor washer. However, soon in his life there are events that forever change his fate and push him on the path of crime... A chilling thriller in visual novel format.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 07 May 2025
DUET DUET illustrates the Hifuu Club's first encounter. It is a wordless, narrative-driven experience about connection and small moments in life. Step into the subtle yet fateful daily interactions that intertwine Renko and Merry's lives.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 02 May 2025
Old Skies A time travel adventure spanning two hundred years! Dive into the past with time agent Fia Quinn as she embarks on seven trips through time. History is up for grabs, from the speakeasies of Prohibition to the vicious gangs of the Gilded Age to the World Trade Center on September 10, 2001.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.8
Release 23 Apr 2025
Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate Love Curse is a GL visual novel. You’ve fallen under a curse, and the only way to break it is to find your soulmate! The clock is ticking… Will you find true love? And what secrets will you uncover along the way?

Price 14.00€
Rating 9.1
Release 19 Apr 2025
GIRLS MADE PUDDING "When there's nobody there to see you, you disappear." In Girls Made Pudding, two girls tour a series of towns that people have disappeared from.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.7
Release 09 Apr 2025
KARMA: The Dark World KARMA: The Dark World is a first-person cinematic psychological thriller set in a dystopian world where the Leviathan Corporation is omnipresent. The year is 1984, the place is East Germany, and things are not quite what they seem.

Price -19% 20.49€
Rating 8.8
Release 27 Mar 2025
Trials of Innocence Trials of Innocence is an indie courtroom detective game. Step into the shoes of the main character, rookie lawyer Luna Ray, and navigate her journey through the legal world. Unravel a shocking conspiracy that changes the fate of many, including herself, and confront her inner choices.

Price -34% 11.00€
Rating 8.8
Release 25 Mar 2025
qualia Intellica thanks you for volunteering in this short text-based Research Study. Pay attention to the participants answers, and classify them as either Human or Artificial. Join us in shaping the future of technology. Remember, think happy!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 13 Mar 2025
咸鱼殿下 / My journey This is a Interactive Live-Action Game. You will travel back in time to become a noble Highness and experience the local customs and practices of ancient times. A series of your choices will influence the development trajectory of this world.

Price 11.79€
Rating 8.3
Release 28 Feb 2025
Sovereign Brain Empire “Who isn’t a baby anyway?”~You travelled to a parallel world governed by the Sovereign Brain AI. In SB Empire, you’re an adopted “one-year-old”, recognized as a "Monarch-level" prodigy! There will be beauties giving you a sheltered babyhood. Your brilliance and privileges will change their fates!

Price -50% 4.87€
Rating 7.9
Release 21 Feb 2025

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