The Best Novel Games

Update : Scarlet Sails added at rank #9.
1

Florence (2018)

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Florence Yeoh feels a little... stuck. Her life is an endless routine of work, sleep, and spending too much time on social media. Then one day, she meets a cello player named Krish who changes everything about how she sees the world and herself.


  • graphic
  • novel
  • interactive
  • narrative
  • puzzle
  • romance
  • fiction
  • cute
  • visual-novel
  • endless
  • story
  • fight
  • multi-piece
  • drama
  • music

2

Guns of Infinity (2016)

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Step into the role of a commander of a squadron of cavalry in Guns of Infinity. This 440,000 word interactive novel allows you to make choices that control the story. Will you befriend, betray, or romance the nobles, rogues, and spies? Will you fight for power, riches, love, or glory? Strategize to fight the Antari forces and support your family financially in this epic world. Combat, intrigue, and romance await in Guns of Infinity!


What we like:
  • Well-written and intricately designed CYOA game with several interesting paths and endings
  • Great character developments and story arcs
  • Game accounts for a whole lot of different choices, providing material for RP-ing your character through multiple playthroughs
  • Complex characters and decisions in moral grey-areas
What could be improved:
  • Romantic relationships are vague and unclear
  • Some choices seem confusing and less meaningful than the first game
  • Lack of decisions regarding your command may disappoint some players
  • Too much exposition by the end of some playthroughs

  • text
  • novel
  • romance
  • choices
  • interactive
  • adventure
  • century
  • rpg
  • low-fantasy
  • war
  • war-time
  • fiction
  • book

3

Record of Lodoss War-Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth- (2021)

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Play as Deedlit in Record of Lodoss War ~Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth~, a thrilling 2D action-exploration game. Using your sword and bow, fight against enemies and level up your elemental spirits to gain new abilities. With beautiful graphics and an engaging story by the original creator, both longtime fans and new players will enjoy this Metroidvania-style adventure.


What we like:
  • Fantastic gameplay and puzzles
  • Beautiful 2D sprites with great animations
  • Good music
  • Backtracking is not a chore
  • Smooth and responsive controls with continuous influx of new weapons and spells
What could be improved:
  • Extremely short gameplay for completionists
  • Grating music at times
  • Potentially difficult fights

  • anime
  • boss
  • "
  • action-exploration
  • exploration
  • pixel
  • novel
  • metroidvania
  • 2d
  • fantasy
  • rpg
  • boss-fight
  • platform
  • beat-em-up
  • ikaruga

4

The Blind Prophet (2020)

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PC Windows Playstation 4 Xbox One Nintendo Switch

Lead the apostle Bartholomeus through a comic book-style experience. The Blind Prophet offers a mature look at the Point 'n' Click genre. The gameplay and experience builds its foundation on a strong storyline, a sense of fluidity and a darkly pleasing ambience.


  • graphic
  • novel
  • watson
  • adventure
  • battle-hardened
  • inventory
  • casual
  • comic
  • rpg
  • puzzle
  • music
  • classic
  • point-and-click
  • story
  • reflexes

5

Wide Ocean Big Jacket (2020)

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A Camping Story starring: Uncle Brad, Aunt Cloanne, Mord (and Ben)


  • interactive
  • narrative
  • turn-based
  • novel
  • story
  • urn
  • good-natured
  • vignette
  • walking-simulator
  • puzzle
  • casual
  • park
  • visual-novel
  • dialogue
  • exploration

6

Moe! Ninja Girls (2019)

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You transfer to a school and start a new school life...all the while hiding you're a genius ninja.

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  • dating-sim
  • romance
  • novel
  • ninja
  • visual-novel
  • anime
  • fiction
  • dating-simulation
  • simulation
  • grand

7

Valiant Hearts: Coming Home (2023)

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Android PC Windows Playstation 4 Xbox One Nintendo Switch IOS iPhone

Valiant Hearts: Coming Home continues the story started with the award-winning Valiant Hearts: The Great War. This sequel continues and concludes the story of these ordinary people thrust into the extraordinary circumstances of World War I.


  • graphic
  • puzzle
  • novel
  • naval
  • historical
  • war
  • adventure
  • platform
  • interactive
  • 2d
  • battle
  • exploration
  • i
  • puzzling-solving
  • violin

8

MazM: The Phantom of the Opera (2021)

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A thrilling love story unfolds in a majestic Parisian opera house.


  • visual-novel
  • novel
  • thriller
  • romantic
  • immersive
  • point-and-click
  • romance
  • movie
  • gothic
  • classic
  • rpg
  • story
  • simulation
  • historical
  • book

9

Scarlet Sails (2025)

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Hoist the Jolly Roger and set sail to find the legendary Titan’s Treasure! Do you fight with a cutlass or with magic? Are you biding your time until you can shoot your captain in the back, or are you the reason the rum is gone?


  • text
  • 80
  • interactive
  • pirates
  • book
  • novel
  • 000-word
  • adventure
  • rpg
  • choices
  • fiction
  • fight
  • highly-interactive

10

Alcyone: The Last City (2025)

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Alcyone: The Last City is an interactive sci-fi novel where your choices can lead to the salvation or destruction of the last refuge of civilisation in the universe. Immerse yourself in a branching narrative of diverse characters, intrigue, and world-altering decisions.

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  • choices
  • interactive
  • sci-fi
  • novel
  • conversation
  • dystopian
  • fiction
  • text
  • post-apocalyptic
  • visual-novel
  • hand-drawn
  • multiple-endings
  • emotional
  • exploration
  • politics

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