Magic or Machinations?
A sci-fi choose your own adventure game!
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Games like The Gate
Remember how story-driven and mysterious The Gate felt at its best? Start with these games when you are ready.
Interstellar Airgap
Backed by interstellar weaponry, the nation of Panwestia has annexed half the globe. Resistance appears futile--but the hegemon has a very unique weakness...
Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
86% of 7 Steam reviews are positive$5.99STEINS;GATE
A self-styled mad scientist and his friends turn a microwave into a machine that texts the past. It starts as a joke, then the timeline starts biting back. A slow-burn time travel story with real science, real stakes and endings that depend on whether you answer your phone.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
97% of 25,645 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 89$8.99The Away Team: Lost Exodus
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship, tasked with finding a home for your crew—the last remnants of humanity. Your choices will determine their fate, and your own.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
73% of 101 Steam reviews are positiveFreeChoices That Matter: And The Sun Went Out
Take part in one of the most complex interactive adventure stories ever written! What if the sun inexplicably vanished only to return hours later? Investigate with your AI companion, Moti. Uncover conspiracies. Discover ancient religions. Travel the globe.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
68% of 28 Steam reviews are positive$5.99Beneath the Iron Gate
A grounded post-apocalyptic interactive narrative. Fortify the Black Box shelter, manage supplies, trust, and evidence, and decide who survives on either side of the iron gate.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
$3.99Plan B from Outer Space: A Bavarian Odyssey
Escape the grasp of the Barbvarians! Plan B from Outer Space is a stellar adventure in the style of an interactive book and takes inspiration from classic science-fiction stories and Bavarian culture. Every decision will affect the outcome of your mission; to leave this strange planet unscathed!
Story-driven, Replayable, Hand-drawn
90% of 31 Steam reviews are positive$12.49Choice of the Star Captain
Fight on the front lines of the war between humanity and the hideous Blobs. (Not that anyone has actually seen a Blob up close, but everyone knows they’re hideous!) Go on stealth missions, run alien blockades, and investigate mysterious planets, "aided" by Lloyd, your insufferably obnoxious shipboard computer.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
88% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$4.99揭谛/GATE
GATE is a text-based furry homo romance game developed by NVL maker, in which the player will play the role of the protagonist to "break the system" as an opportunity to establish a relationship with the furries and find a way to achieve peace between races.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
90% of 49 Steam reviews are positiveFreeThe Invincible
A hard sci-fi mystery on a dead alien planet. You are Yasna, an astrobiologist hunting for her missing crew across Regis III, armed with analogue atompunk gear and a radio voice in your ear. Slow, beautiful and philosophical, with 11 endings shaped by what you decide.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
86% of 10,607 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 129$8.99Choice of Robots
A 300,000-word interactive sci-fi novel about thirty years spent building robots. Design your first machine in grad school, then decide whether it learns love, obedience or conquest. Every choice shapes the story, and no two lives play out the same.
Story-driven, Replayable
96% of 1,891 Steam reviews are positive$6.99Distress: A Choice-Driven Sci-Fi Adventure
A sci-fi visual novel where the lives of your crew are in your hands. Investigate a mysterious space station. Make your choices, live with the consequences.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
100% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$5.99i feel very lonely and i don't remember myself
A short sci-fi visual novel about four scientists trapped in an underground lab. Explore their chat records to uncover the mysteries of Inturg Technologies. How can they escape their doom?
Story-driven, Mysterious
94% of 148 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Cheaper than The Gate
Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
You play CDI agent Neil Conrad, working a murder case whose outcome depends on the evidence you gather and the reports you file.
91% of 2,191 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$1.59
Vessels
Quarantined inside an airlock. No memories. No way out. The remaining crew thinks there’s something wrong with you, but the Voice says it’ll help…
95% of 117 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
The Gods of the Red Planet
Your team must uncover the secrets of the Terraforming Center on Mars and face an overwhelming battle for the future of the Red Planet.
86% of 7 Steam reviews are positive$1.49
CAT Interstellar
A short story inspired by Robert Heinlein's:The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
70% of 697 Steam reviews are positive$0.89
Console Space
You are the captain aboard a starship. Make decisions in the terminal's text logs: from repairing the reactor to moral dilemmas that irreversibly…
100% of 10 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
It's Time
Play as a young scientist who invents a time portal and uses it to bring back his dead wife. Soon, things become chaotic in his life.
100% of 4 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
GateTail
Have you ever been suddenly swept to a new dimension via a Gate? Just find who you're looking for, and it'll all be worth it in the end!
94% of 17 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Faded Stories: Greenberg
Here in the city of Greenberg time is meaningless, and space is infinite. The city has endless history and yet... The whole place is fading away.
93% of 54 Steam reviews are positive$1.74
Invisible Wall
An interactive horror story based on a reality everyone eventually faces.
98% of 40 Steam reviews are positive$1.49
Last Signal
Last Signal is a short, story-driven, walking simulator visual novel.
73% of 41 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
RGB GlitchGazer
A mad and romantic ADV. Unravel a strange world of science and philosophy with a mecha girl, zombie girl, or beastfolk.
93% of 54 Steam reviews are positive$1.70
Hidden gems like The Gate
Whiskey-Four
Never stop running, not with the galaxy at stake. Save it at all costs, and save yourself if you can.
91% of 113 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
i feel very lonely and i don't remember myself
A short sci-fi visual novel about four scientists trapped in an underground lab.
94% of 148 Steam reviews are positiveFree
The Captain
In this retro-inspired adventure game you will have to race back home across the galaxy. Collect new friends on your journey. Make new enemies.
92% of 308 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
The Invincible
A hard sci-fi mystery on a dead alien planet. You are Yasna, an astrobiologist hunting for her missing crew across Regis III, armed with analogue…
86% of 10,607 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 129$8.99
Stars Die
A giant cathedral of flesh has appeared in the middle of the ocean on a dying world.
88% of 150 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Quarantine Circular
In the middle of a world-ending pandemic, a group of scientists discover the galaxy has been watching.
88% of 433 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
The Legacy: Forgotten Gates Collector's Edition
"The Legacy: Forgotten Gates" is a hidden-object adventure game packed with mini-games and puzzles, telling a story of a journey to another world…
93% of 115 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$9.99
Zarya-1: Mystery on the Moon
Text based quest, mix of Sci-Fi and horror in the veins of Alien and Dead Space.
87% of 143 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Buried: An Interactive Story
Buried is a playable, interactive story told through stunning photos, a haunting soundscape, and gripping text.
95% of 155 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight
Steam-powered mechs meet forbidden sorcery in this interactive steampunk novel, inspired by Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Jekyll & Hyde, and Jack the…
95% of 173 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Space Pilgrim Episode IV: Sol
Locked away in the most secure prison in the galaxy, with little hope of escape, Gail Pilgrim faces the most difficult ordeals of her life.
90% of 361 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Choice of Robots
You spend thirty years as a robot maker, and every choice decides how the future turns out.
96% of 1,891 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Newest games like The Gate
Welcome to Victorville
Your name is Gary Patterson. After waking up in a strange facility with your work partner Victor Adams, you must make a choice: Play along with…
100% of 17 Steam reviews are positiveFree
マイ・プラネット─MOON CHILD─
[Gameplay Mechanics]• Controls: Simple mouse-click navigation to advance the story.
100% of 10 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
The door has doubts
The Door Has Doubts is a very short and absurd narrative game about manipulation, dialogue, and the existential crisis of room furnitures.
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Prometheus in a jar
Take a look—watch how the “me” in the game is shaped by your choices, pushing the story forward step by step until the truth of this game (this…
88% of 16 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Outsider
Shape humanity's future in a sci-fi narrative game where choices matter.
100% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Saturnine
You are the Veteran. You’re the oldest android in the Solar System, a relic and survivor of the ancient past. Now it’s time for you to fight again.
68% of 28 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Alcyone: The Last City
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…
75% of 12 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Universe Has No Favorites
Interactive fiction, visual novel adventure with point & click controls and AI-assisted illustrations.
100% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Whiskey-Four
Never stop running, not with the galaxy at stake. Save it at all costs, and save yourself if you can.
91% of 113 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
The Icarus Experiment
Plumb the depths of a doomed leviathan on a mission to save a dying solar system. Unravel a mystery that could alter the fate of humanity.
85% of 13 Steam reviews are positiveFree
End Gate - The Last Passenger
You wake up, alone, in a hypersleep box, with no memories left.
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$4.99