Best Narrative Game

Playing Kafka

The definitive Kafka videogame

Free

Embark on an adventure exploring modern alienation and family issues through an absurdist lens. This game adapts three of Kafka's works, featuring a voiced branching story, atmospheric puzzles, and fateful decisions. Navigate unfair trials, unclear rules, and unresolved relationships.

ALTER EGO

Self-Discovery Clicker Game

Free

Explore your personality through a narrative-driven clicker game. Tap to gather EGO, progress through a story, and take personality tests. Your choices shape multiple endings and offer new perspectives on yourself and the game world.

The Get Out Kids

A spooky narrative puzzle.

Free

Embark on a spooky narrative puzzle adventure set in 1984. Follow Molly and Salim as they search for a missing dog, uncovering a story that unfolds through interactive 3D dioramas and challenging their friendship. The game includes nostalgic mini-games.

Erica - Interactive Thriller

Touch and Change the Movie!

Free

Experience a live-action interactive thriller where your touch shapes the narrative. Guide a young woman through her traumatic past by interacting with her environment and making hundreds of choices that lead to multiple endings.

Forgotton Anne

A breathtaking adventure!

Free

Embark on a cinematic adventure in a magical world where lost items come to life. Play as Anne, an enforcer tasked with maintaining order, as she navigates a rebellion and seeks a way back to the human world. Your choices shape the narrative in this beautifully animated puzzle platformer.

Gone Home

Go home again

$4.99

Explore an empty house to uncover the mystery of a family's disappearance. Interact with objects and discover clues to piece together their story at your own pace. This nonviolent game offers a rich narrative experience.

Hosted Games

Interactive novels made by YOU

Free

Explore a vast library of text-based interactive novels where your choices shape the narrative. Engage in diverse genres from horror and fantasy to romance and sci-fi, all powered by your imagination. Create your own stories using a simple scripting language.

My Child Lebensborn

Narrative nurture history sim

$2.99

Adopt and raise a child in post-WWII Norway, facing societal prejudice and historical trauma. Your choices shape their feelings, personality, and worldview as you balance resources and uncover their past.

Pawn to Don Mafia Crime Story

Choice driven narrative story

Free

A choice-driven narrative game where you must raise $100,000 in a limited time for your child's life-saving treatment. Navigate the criminal underworld or pursue honest paths, with every decision impacting the story and its consequences.

Blindscape

by Gavin Brown

Free

An experimental audio-driven narrative game set in an authoritarian society. Players experience a story told entirely through sound, focusing on a man's desire to escape his life. It offers a unique, emotionally involving plot with no typical game mechanics.

Life is Strange: Before Storm

Choice-based narrative game

Free

Experience a choice-driven narrative adventure as a rebellious teen forming an unlikely friendship. Your decisions shape the story, leading to multiple endings. Engage in unique conversation modes, customize your character's appearance, and leave your mark on the world with tags and drawings.

AI Game Master - Dungeon RPG

Role Playing Text Adventures

Free

Experience unparalleled AI-driven text-based RPG adventures. Create heroes, engage in battles, and explore an expansive world with a GPT-powered Game Master. Enjoy local multiplayer and AI-generated visuals for an immersive role-playing journey.

Dear Diary - Interactive Story

Decision Making Game

Free

Guide a high school girl through life-altering decisions in this interactive story game. Your choices shape her destiny, leading to multiple unique endings. Explore her diary and embark on exciting adventures.

there's this girl

fall in and out of starry love

Free

Experience a romantic story between two girls who love stargazing and are finding their way in life. The narrative unfolds through original hand-drawn art and animations, exploring themes of love, dreams, and uncertain futures. This short, emotional game is available on mobile and web.

Mariam Game

interesting story

Free

Embark on an atmospheric horror adventure inspired by 18th-century Middle Eastern folklore. Explore a compelling story with three distinct gameplay modes: story, card, and action. Experience dread through immersive atmosphere and narrative, not jump scares.

SIMULACRA: Pipe Dreams

What if a game plays you?

Free

This horror game simulates a phone experience where you uncover a dark mystery within a mysterious mobile game. Navigate through a new story, solve puzzles, and make choices that lead to multiple endings.

Old Man’s Journey+

A game about life, loss & hope

Free

Embark on a visually stunning adventure exploring themes of life, loss, and hope. Solve gentle puzzles by shaping the environment to guide an old man through his memories and life's journey.