>> best Interactive Fiction games on steam the full ranking

These are the best Interactive Fiction games on Steam, as voted by our community.

Nobody wrote a review to land on this list. Players duelled Interactive Fiction games out of their own libraries against each other, and a game's percentage is the share of a typical library it beats — so the top of this ranking is what Interactive Fiction fans genuinely keep coming back to.

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beats 81%

41 players

percentile across every personal ranking, weighed by the crowd behind it

Games ranked by the share of a typical library they beat.
rk	game	players	beats
02	Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!	32 players	beats 78%
03	Scarlet Hollow	11 players	beats 81%
04	I Was a Teenage Exocolonist	15 players	beats 79%
05	The Roottrees are Dead	39 players	beats 76%
06	Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut	86 players	beats 75%
07	The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series	91 players	beats 75%
08	The Rise of the Golden Idol	24 players	beats 76%
09	The Case of the Golden Idol	45 players	beats 75%
10	Suzerain	43 players	beats 75%
11	Esoteric Ebb	37 players	beats 75%
12	OPUS: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition	7 players	beats 81%
13	A Plague Tale: Requiem	26 players	beats 75%
14	Who's Lila?	18 players	beats 74%
15	No Case Should Remain Unsolved	11 players	beats 75%
16	I Wani Hug that Gator!	5 players	beats 79%
17	Easy Delivery Co.	31 players	beats 71%
18	Lost Records: Bloom & Rage	7 players	beats 76%
19	Homicipher	4 players	beats 79%
20	Caravan SandWitch	21 players	beats 71%
21	Asbury Pines	9 players	beats 74%
22	Killer Chat! - Original Edition	8 players	beats 74%
23	Confidential Killings - A Detective Game	5 players	beats 77%
24	Heaven's Vault	19 players	beats 71%
25	Tavern Keeper 🍻	10 players	beats 72%
26	Between Time: Escape Room	4 players	beats 77%
27	Cabernet	5 players	beats 75%
28	Road 96: Mile 0	5 players	beats 75%
29	Undusted: Letters from the Past	5 players	beats 75%
30	Home Safety Hotline	10 players	beats 71%
31	Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping	10 players	beats 71%
32	Before Your Eyes	47 players	beats 68%
33	Lost Wiki: Kozlovka	8 players	beats 71%
34	The Life and Suffering of Prince Jerian	8 players	beats 71%
35	Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Heart of the Forest	4 players	beats 75%
36	Forbidden Solitaire	6 players	beats 72%
37	Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown	4 players	beats 75%
38	Little Problems: A Cozy Detective Game	4 players	beats 75%
39	Our Life: Beginnings & Always	9 players	beats 70%
40	AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - nirvanA Initiative	6 players	beats 72%
41	Road 96 🛣️	74 players	beats 67%
42	Road to Empress I	5 players	beats 72%
43	Citizen Sleeper	51 players	beats 66%
44	Not Tonight 2	3 players	beats 75%
45	Heavy Rain	63 players	beats 66%
46	The Mermaid Mask	5 players	beats 71%
47	Old Skies	3 players	beats 75%
48	The Casting of Frank Stone™	16 players	beats 67%
49	despelote	3 players	beats 75%
50	s.p.l.i.t	6 players	beats 69%
51	Grotto	4 players	beats 71%
52	IMMORTALITY	15 players	beats 66%
53	Loan Shark	4 players	beats 70%
54	Twin Mirror	6 players	beats 67%
55	Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery	14 players	beats 63%
56	Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector	16 players	beats 63%
57	Impostor Factory	12 players	beats 63%
58	Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines	5 players	beats 66%
59	The Complex	6 players	beats 65%
60	Thirty Flights of Loving	7 players	beats 64%
61	Desktop Explorer	8 players	beats 63%
62	2064: Read Only Memories	14 players	beats 62%
63	Cats and the Other Lives	4 players	beats 65%
64	Alchemist Simulator	5 players	beats 64%
65	Terraformental	10 players	beats 61%
66	Erica	3 players	beats 66%
67	Last Report	4 players	beats 64%
68	Anomalous Coffee Machine	3 players	beats 65%
69	Finding Paradise	26 players	beats 60%
70	Five Hearts Under One Roof	9 players	beats 60%
71	Welcome To The Dark Place	4 players	beats 62%
72	To the Moon	83 players	beats 58%
73	Mystic Academy: Escape Room	5 players	beats 61%
74	Daemonologie	4 players	beats 61%
75	This Bed We Made	8 players	beats 59%
76	The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood	9 players	beats 58%
77	Not For Broadcast	41 players	beats 56%
78	There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension	33 players	beats 56%
79	A Date in the Park	3 players	beats 57%
80	Gone Home	32 players	beats 54%
81	Card Shark	15 players	beats 53%
82	Shift At Midnight	17 players	beats 53%
83	OPUS: The Day We Found Earth	5 players	beats 54%
84	The NOexistenceN of you AND me	45 players	beats 52%
85	Venba	15 players	beats 53%
86	Death and Taxes	56 players	beats 52%
87	OXENFREE II: Lost Signals	7 players	beats 52%
88	Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly	8 players	beats 52%
89	Coffee Talk	27 players	beats 52%
90	Storyteller	33 players	beats 51%
91	Duck Detective: The Secret Salami	19 players	beats 51%
92	Beacon Pines	9 players	beats 52%
93	SCARLET NEXUS	34 players	beats 51%
94	TR-49	13 players	beats 51%
95	LipTrip ~My Boss Is My Heat Suppressant?!~	3 players	beats 52%
96	Bahnsen Knights	3 players	beats 52%
97	Lords of Infinity	3 players	beats 52%
98	Love Is All Around	3 players	beats 52%
99	Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs	42 players	beats 51%
100	When The Past Was Around	8 players	beats 51%
101	Fabled Lands	3 players	beats 51%
102	Nobody Wants to Die	36 players	beats 51%
103	Puzzle Agent 2	16 players	beats 51%
104	Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story	3 players	beats 51%
105	Pentiment	15 players	beats 50%
106	Reigns: The Witcher	3 players	beats 51%
107	Roadwarden	37 players	beats 50%
108	7 Days to End with You	22 players	beats 50%
109	Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling	14 players	beats 50%
110	Kraken Academy!!	7 players	beats 50%
111	Orwell: Ignorance is Strength	29 players	beats 50%
112	A Case of Distrust	7 players	beats 50%
113	Highway Blossoms	5 players	beats 50%
114	OPUS: Rocket of Whispers	3 players	beats 50%
115	King of Dragon Pass	8 players	beats 50%
116	Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You	99 players	beats 50%
117	Her Story	49 players	beats 50%
118	Killer Frequency	25 players	beats 50%
119	Refind Self: The Personality Test Game	17 players	beats 50%
120	Puzzle Agent	15 players	beats 50%
121	The 39 Steps	11 players	beats 50%
122	7 Grand Steps: What Ancients Begat	9 players	beats 50%
123	Tails Noir	7 players	beats 50%
124	Rue Valley	5 players	beats 50%
125	If Found...	6 players	beats 50%
126	Super Seducer : How to Talk to Girls	3 players	beats 50%
127	Otaku's Adventure	5 players	beats 50%
128	Tiny Bunny	5 players	beats 50%
129	Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk	84 players	beats 50%
130	Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard	8 players	beats 50%
131	Tavern Talk - A Cozy Visual Novel	7 players	beats 49%
132	Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service	4 players	beats 47%
133	SEASON: A letter to the future	6 players	beats 46%
134	Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical	20 players	beats 45%
135	Kyle is Famous: Complete Edition	13 players	beats 45%
136	South of the Circle	4 players	beats 43%
137	Where the Water Tastes Like Wine	10 players	beats 44%
138	Star Trek: Resurgence	3 players	beats 41%
139	My Lovely Wife	3 players	beats 40%
140	Shooty Shooty Robot Invasion	3 players	beats 40%
141	No Longer Home	4 players	beats 41%
142	Late Shift	12 players	beats 43%
143	Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island	14 players	beats 43%
144	This Book Is A Dungeon	4 players	beats 40%
145	The Bottom of the Well	3 players	beats 39%
146	Loren The Amazon Princess	4 players	beats 40%
147	College Kings - The Complete Season	6 players	beats 41%
148	Murder by Numbers	16 players	beats 42%
149	Florence	23 players	beats 42%
150	Princess Farmer	4 players	beats 39%
151	Neo Cab	10 players	beats 40%
152	Night Book	4 players	beats 38%
153	Old Man's Journey	8 players	beats 40%
154	Class of '09: The Re-Up	11 players	beats 40%
155	Workshop Simulator	3 players	beats 35%
156	Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series	24 players	beats 40%
157	cyberpunkdreams	6 players	beats 38%
158	Eternal Threads	6 players	beats 38%
159	Mosaique Neko Waifus 3	4 players	beats 35%
160	Amanda the Adventurer	20 players	beats 39%
161	The Excavation of Hob's Barrow	14 players	beats 38%
162	Dear Esther: Landmark Edition	24 players	beats 38%
163	Analogue: A Hate Story	5 players	beats 33%
164	My name is You and it's the only unusual thing in my life	6 players	beats 34%
165	Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft	21 players	beats 36%
166	Headliner: NoviNews	4 players	beats 30%
167	Contradiction: Spot The Liar	4 players	beats 29%
168	Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble!™	4 players	beats 29%
169	The Operator	18 players	beats 34%
170	CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs	6 players	beats 31%
171	Spooky Station	3 players	beats 25%
172	This Is the President	3 players	beats 25%
173	Next Space Rebels	3 players	beats 25%
174	Mosaique Neko Waifus 4	5 players	beats 29%
175	Love with Furry 🐺	3 players	beats 25%
176	Cibele	3 players	beats 25%
177	What Comes After	3 players	beats 25%
178	I Am Jesus Christ: Prologue	3 players	beats 25%
179	Dark Nights with Poe and Munro	3 players	beats 25%
180	Emily is Away	109 players	beats 35%
181	1953 - KGB Unleashed	3 players	beats 24%
182	Dread X Collection	8 players	beats 31%
183	A Normal Lost Phone	15 players	beats 32%
184	The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante	76 players	beats 34%
185	Elegy for a Dead World	4 players	beats 27%
186	To Be or Not To Be	3 players	beats 24%
187	Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York	13 players	beats 32%
188	Invincible Presents: Atom Eve	4 players	beats 26%
189	Unrest	3 players	beats 23%
190	A Bird Story	23 players	beats 32%
191	Overboard!	8 players	beats 28%
192	Telling Lies	10 players	beats 29%
193	80 Days	16 players	beats 30%
194	Adventure Escape Mysteries	5 players	beats 25%
195	Five Dates	5 players	beats 25%
196	Super Seducer 2 - Advanced Seduction Tactics	4 players	beats 22%
197	The Red Lantern	33 players	beats 30%
198	AI Dungeon	6 players	beats 25%
199	Retention	4 players	beats 22%
200	Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth	34 players	beats 29%
201	Depression Quest	9 players	beats 25%
202	Interrogation: You will be deceived	8 players	beats 24%
203	The Novelist	10 players	beats 25%
204	Cakey's Twisted Bakery	10 players	beats 25%
205	Scheming Through The Zombie Apocalypse: The Beginning	11 players	beats 25%
206	Mosaique Neko Waifus 2	5 players	beats 20%
207	Mirror 2: Project X	10 players	beats 24%
208	Wednesdays	12 players	beats 25%
209	TEST TEST TEST	13 players	beats 25%
210	Home	21 players	beats 26%
211	Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure	16 players	beats 25%
212	EarthRoyale	3 players	beats 12%
213	LoveChoice	13 players	beats 24%
214	Along the Edge	21 players	beats 25%
215	New Tales from the Borderlands	13 players	beats 23%
216	Sumire	4 players	beats 13%
217	Bendy: Secrets of the Machine	22 players	beats 16%
218	Make it indie!	7 players	beats 8%

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