>> 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 78%

43 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	I Was a Teenage Exocolonist	16 players	beats 80%
03	Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!	35 players	beats 78%
04	Scarlet Hollow	12 players	beats 79%
05	Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut	91 players	beats 75%
06	The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series	98 players	beats 75%
07	The Roottrees are Dead	48 players	beats 75%
08	The Rise of the Golden Idol	28 players	beats 76%
09	The Case of the Golden Idol	49 players	beats 75%
10	Esoteric Ebb	43 players	beats 75%
11	OPUS: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition	7 players	beats 81%
12	A Plague Tale: Requiem	31 players	beats 75%
13	Who's Lila?	19 players	beats 75%
14	I Wani Hug that Gator!	6 players	beats 79%
15	Suzerain	47 players	beats 73%
16	No Case Should Remain Unsolved	13 players	beats 75%
17	Heaven's Vault	26 players	beats 73%
18	Cabernet	6 players	beats 79%
19	Lost Records: Bloom & Rage	10 players	beats 76%
20	Lost Wiki: Kozlovka	9 players	beats 75%
21	Easy Delivery Co.	36 players	beats 72%
22	There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension	40 players	beats 71%
23	Between Time: Escape Room	5 players	beats 78%
24	Cats and the Other Lives	5 players	beats 78%
25	Terraformental	15 players	beats 73%
26	Confidential Killings - A Detective Game	6 players	beats 77%
27	Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Heart of the Forest	7 players	beats 75%
28	Forbidden Solitaire	7 players	beats 75%
29	AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - nirvanA Initiative	7 players	beats 75%
30	Homicipher	4 players	beats 79%
31	2064: Read Only Memories	16 players	beats 72%
32	Little Problems: A Cozy Detective Game	7 players	beats 74%
33	Road 96: Mile 0	6 players	beats 75%
34	Citizen Sleeper	56 players	beats 69%
35	Last Report	5 players	beats 75%
36	Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping	10 players	beats 71%
37	s.p.l.i.t	8 players	beats 71%
38	The Life and Suffering of Prince Jerian	8 players	beats 71%
39	Killer Chat! - Original Edition	11 players	beats 70%
40	Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown	6 players	beats 72%
41	Before Your Eyes	56 players	beats 67%
42	Road to Empress I	5 players	beats 72%
43	Thirty Flights of Loving	10 players	beats 69%
44	Tavern Keeper 🍻	14 players	beats 67%
45	Road 96 🛣️	79 players	beats 66%
46	Not Tonight 2	3 players	beats 75%
47	IMMORTALITY	18 players	beats 67%
48	The Mermaid Mask	5 players	beats 71%
49	Old Skies	3 players	beats 75%
50	This Bed We Made	9 players	beats 68%
51	Undusted: Letters from the Past	9 players	beats 68%
52	despelote	3 players	beats 75%
53	Grotto	4 players	beats 71%
54	Heavy Rain	73 players	beats 64%
55	The Casting of Frank Stone™	17 players	beats 66%
56	Five Hearts Under One Roof	10 players	beats 66%
57	The Letter - Horror Visual Novel	3 players	beats 73%
58	Loan Shark	4 players	beats 70%
59	Asbury Pines	12 players	beats 65%
60	Home Safety Hotline	10 players	beats 65%
61	Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector	16 players	beats 63%
62	Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines	5 players	beats 66%
63	The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood	13 players	beats 63%
64	Desktop Explorer	8 players	beats 63%
65	Kraken Academy!!	8 players	beats 63%
66	Tails Noir	8 players	beats 63%
67	Twin Mirror	8 players	beats 62%
68	Politics The Game	3 players	beats 66%
69	OPUS: Rocket of Whispers	4 players	beats 64%
70	Anomalous Coffee Machine	3 players	beats 65%
71	HackHub - Ultimate Hacker Simulator	3 players	beats 64%
72	Welcome To The Dark Place	4 players	beats 62%
73	Daemonologie	4 players	beats 61%
74	Caravan SandWitch	25 players	beats 57%
75	To the Moon	92 players	beats 56%
76	Card Shark	17 players	beats 56%
77	Not For Broadcast	50 players	beats 55%
78	Ten Dates	4 players	beats 57%
79	Coffee Talk	32 players	beats 54%
80	A Date in the Park	3 players	beats 57%
81	The NOexistenceN of you AND me	47 players	beats 54%
82	Finding Paradise	31 players	beats 54%
83	Storyteller	42 players	beats 54%
84	Gone Home	36 players	beats 54%
85	Beacon Pines	11 players	beats 54%
86	OPUS: The Day We Found Earth	8 players	beats 54%
87	Shift At Midnight	22 players	beats 53%
88	Tiny Bunny	7 players	beats 53%
89	The Complex	8 players	beats 53%
90	Murder by Numbers	19 players	beats 53%
91	Venba	17 players	beats 53%
92	Erica	5 players	beats 53%
93	Our Life: Beginnings & Always	13 players	beats 52%
94	Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road	3 players	beats 53%
95	Reigns: The Witcher	4 players	beats 53%
96	Nobody Wants to Die	40 players	beats 52%
97	Alchemist Simulator	7 players	beats 52%
98	Death and Taxes	64 players	beats 52%
99	Princess Farmer	5 players	beats 52%
100	OXENFREE II: Lost Signals	7 players	beats 52%
101	Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical	23 players	beats 52%
102	Duck Detective: The Secret Salami	21 players	beats 51%
103	TR-49	14 players	beats 51%
104	Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly	9 players	beats 51%
105	SCARLET NEXUS	43 players	beats 51%
106	LipTrip ~My Boss Is My Heat Suppressant?!~	3 players	beats 52%
107	Bahnsen Knights	3 players	beats 52%
108	Lords of Infinity	3 players	beats 52%
109	Killer Frequency	31 players	beats 51%
110	Love Is All Around	3 players	beats 52%
111	When The Past Was Around	10 players	beats 51%
112	Impostor Factory	13 players	beats 51%
113	Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery	18 players	beats 51%
114	7 Days to End with You	23 players	beats 51%
115	Her Story	54 players	beats 51%
116	Fabled Lands	3 players	beats 51%
117	Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs	45 players	beats 51%
118	Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story	4 players	beats 51%
119	Puzzle Agent 2	19 players	beats 51%
120	Refind Self: The Personality Test Game	20 players	beats 50%
121	Pentiment	15 players	beats 50%
122	A Bird Story	27 players	beats 50%
123	Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling	14 players	beats 50%
124	Event[0]	15 players	beats 50%
125	Orwell: Ignorance is Strength	32 players	beats 50%
126	Highway Blossoms	5 players	beats 50%
127	King of Dragon Pass	8 players	beats 50%
128	Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You	109 players	beats 50%
129	Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk	90 players	beats 50%
130	Roadwarden	39 players	beats 50%
131	Puzzle Agent	20 players	beats 50%
132	The 39 Steps	13 players	beats 50%
133	7 Grand Steps: What Ancients Begat	9 players	beats 50%
134	Eternal Threads	7 players	beats 50%
135	Rue Valley	5 players	beats 50%
136	If Found...	6 players	beats 50%
137	Super Seducer : How to Talk to Girls	3 players	beats 50%
138	Dark Nights with Poe and Munro	4 players	beats 50%
139	The Excavation of Hob's Barrow	15 players	beats 50%
140	Otaku's Adventure	5 players	beats 50%
141	Hymer 2000	3 players	beats 50%
142	Dread X Collection	9 players	beats 50%
143	Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard	8 players	beats 50%
144	Loren The Amazon Princess	5 players	beats 49%
145	Overboard!	11 players	beats 49%
146	Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series	29 players	beats 49%
147	Tavern Talk - A Cozy Visual Novel	9 players	beats 49%
148	Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service	4 players	beats 47%
149	Late Shift	17 players	beats 47%
150	Class of '09: The Re-Up	12 players	beats 45%
151	The Operator	21 players	beats 45%
152	Where the Water Tastes Like Wine	10 players	beats 44%
153	South of the Circle	4 players	beats 42%
154	Star Trek: Resurgence	3 players	beats 41%
155	My Lovely Wife	3 players	beats 40%
156	Shooty Shooty Robot Invasion	3 players	beats 40%
157	Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island	14 players	beats 43%
158	SEASON: A letter to the future	7 players	beats 42%
159	This Book Is A Dungeon	4 players	beats 40%
160	Kyle is Famous: Complete Edition	14 players	beats 42%
161	Headliner: NoviNews	5 players	beats 40%
162	Dear Esther: Landmark Edition	30 players	beats 42%
163	Florence	27 players	beats 42%
164	Telling Lies	12 players	beats 41%
165	Astrologaster	3 players	beats 36%
166	Night Book	4 players	beats 38%
167	looK INside - Chapter 2	4 players	beats 38%
168	Goodbye Volcano High	3 players	beats 36%
169	A Case of Distrust	8 players	beats 39%
170	cyberpunkdreams	6 players	beats 38%
171	Mosaique Neko Waifus 3	4 players	beats 35%
172	Neo Cab	11 players	beats 38%
173	Amanda the Adventurer	20 players	beats 39%
174	My name is You and it's the only unusual thing in my life	6 players	beats 34%
175	Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble!™	5 players	beats 32%
176	College Kings - The Complete Season	7 players	beats 34%
177	The Bottom of the Well	3 players	beats 29%
178	Workshop Simulator	4 players	beats 30%
179	Elegy for a Dead World	5 players	beats 31%
180	No Longer Home	5 players	beats 31%
181	Contradiction: Spot The Liar	4 players	beats 29%
182	Joe Dever's Lone Wolf HD Remastered	4 players	beats 29%
183	Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers	3 players	beats 27%
184	Mosaique Neko Waifus 4	5 players	beats 30%
185	CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs	6 players	beats 31%
186	Spooky Station	3 players	beats 25%
187	Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures	3 players	beats 25%
188	This Is the President	3 players	beats 25%
189	Whiskey.Mafia. Leo's Family	3 players	beats 25%
190	Bloodshore	3 players	beats 25%
191	Hate Plus	3 players	beats 25%
192	Heading Out	3 players	beats 25%
193	Love with Furry 🐺	3 players	beats 25%
194	Cibele	3 players	beats 25%
195	What Comes After	3 players	beats 25%
196	Five Dates	10 players	beats 31%
197	To Be or Not To Be	3 players	beats 24%
198	Fighting Fantasy Classics	3 players	beats 24%
199	The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante	81 players	beats 34%
200	A Normal Lost Phone	19 players	beats 32%
201	Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York	17 players	beats 32%
202	Unrest	3 players	beats 23%
203	Next Space Rebels	4 players	beats 25%
204	Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth	39 players	beats 32%
205	Analogue: A Hate Story	8 players	beats 29%
206	Invincible Presents: Atom Eve	5 players	beats 26%
207	Project DeepWeb	3 players	beats 21%
208	Harmony: The Fall of Reverie	3 players	beats 21%
209	1953 - KGB Unleashed	5 players	beats 24%
210	Super Seducer 2 - Advanced Seduction Tactics	4 players	beats 22%
211	Emily is Away	122 players	beats 31%
212	Retention	4 players	beats 22%
213	Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft	26 players	beats 29%
214	AI Dungeon	7 players	beats 25%
215	Mystic Academy: Escape Room	7 players	beats 25%
216	Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure	18 players	beats 28%
217	The Red Lantern	37 players	beats 29%
218	Interrogation: You will be deceived	8 players	beats 24%
219	Cakey's Twisted Bakery	10 players	beats 25%
220	The Novelist	11 players	beats 25%
221	Mosaique Neko Waifus 2	5 players	beats 20%
222	Adventure Escape Mysteries	8 players	beats 24%
223	Mirror 2: Project X	10 players	beats 24%
224	Scheming Through The Zombie Apocalypse: The Beginning	14 players	beats 25%
225	Home	23 players	beats 26%
226	80 Days	18 players	beats 25%
227	Wednesdays	16 players	beats 25%
228	ICY: Frostbite Edition	3 players	beats 13%
229	Ame no Marginal -Rain Marginal-	3 players	beats 13%
230	I Am Jesus Christ: Prologue	4 players	beats 16%
231	EarthRoyale	3 players	beats 12%
232	LoveChoice	14 players	beats 24%
233	Along the Edge	24 players	beats 25%
234	Depression Quest	10 players	beats 22%
235	Old Man's Journey	11 players	beats 22%
236	New Tales from the Borderlands	15 players	beats 23%
237	TEST TEST TEST	15 players	beats 22%
238	How We Got Here	3 players	beats 8%
239	it's always monday	3 players	beats 8%
240	Sumire	5 players	beats 13%
241	Bendy: Secrets of the Machine	22 players	beats 16%
242	Make it indie!	7 players	beats 8%

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