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Choose Wisely Festival Showcase 2025

Choose Wisely Festival Showcase 2025

A showcase of 50 choices matter games, accompanying the week-long digital event dedicated to celebrating branching narrative in games.

50 featured games

Featured Games(50)

All Our Broken Parts

All Our Broken Parts

锡鸟 Tin Bird, GCORES PUBLISHING

Experience a story-driven adventure game as a robot doctor. In a city of robots, illness is looming. Crack open ports and units to trace causes. Diagnose, repair and cross paths with robots and stories. Uncover secrets buried in the past and future, discover the truth that makes each robot unique.

AdventureIndiePoint-and-clickRPGSimulationVisual Novel
Ambition: A Minuet in Power

Ambition: A Minuet in Power

Joy Manufacturing Co., Iceberg Interactive

18th century Paris - a city of love, lies and revolution. You are a woman of fashion trying to survive the political turmoil. Date a cast of unforgettable characters. Amass the wealth and respect you deserve. Engage in gossip that can alter the course of history, or lead you to the guillotine.

AdventureIndieRPGSimulationVisual Novel
Shadow of the Road

Shadow of the Road

Another Angle Games, Owlcat Games

Shadow of the Road is a story-driven, turn-based RPG where feudal Japan meets magic and machine. Assemble your team from a diverse set of characters and test your skills against yōkai and steampunk contraptions. Carve your own path through an immersive story and change the fate of the Empire.

IndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)StrategyTacticalTurn-based strategy (TBS)
Lake

Lake

Gamious, Whitethorn Games

It's 1986 - Meredith Weiss takes a break from her career in the big city to deliver mail in her hometown. How will she experience two weeks in beautiful Providence Oaks, with its iconic lake and quirky community? And what will she do next? It's up to you.

AdventureIndieRole-playing (RPG)Simulator
Militsioner

Militsioner

TALLBOYS, CRITICAL REFLEX

Every move you make is being followed by a Colossal Policeman. Anger, flatter, disappoint, deceive or even romance him to escape in this kafkaesque immersive sim.

ActionAdventureIndiePuzzle
Scarlet Hollow

Scarlet Hollow

Black Tabby Games

Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.

AdventureCasualEarly AccessIndiePoint-and-clickRPGRole-playing (RPG)Visual Novel
A YEAR OF SPRINGS

A YEAR OF SPRINGS

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Experience the stories of Haru, Erika, and Manami, a trio of friends navigating their feelings of love, connection, and just wanting to belong.

AdventureCasualIndieSimulationVisual Novel
PEPPERED: an existential platformer

PEPPERED: an existential platformer

Mostly Games, Black Soup

An existential platformer where Doomsday is just around the corner. Save the world or become an eternal corporate slave for the God of Death. Choices matter. Or do they? Goof around and find out.

AdventureIndiePlatform
K-pop Idol Stories: Road to Debut

K-pop Idol Stories: Road to Debut

Wisageni Studio, PQube

The ultimate crossover between K-pop and Life Simulation! Step into the role of manager and build your dream idol group by scouting talent, managing schedules, choosing outfits, planning social media, and organizing the perfect album. Can you make it to debut?

AdventureCasualIndieMusicRPGRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulatorVisual Novel
This Bed We Made

This Bed We Made

Lowbirth Games

This Bed We Made is a third-person mystery game in which you play as a maid in a 1950s hotel and snoop around strangers' rooms to uncover their deadly secrets. Discover what links guests together in this tale of love, heartbreak and murder!

AdventureIndie
The Wolf of Derevnya

The Wolf of Derevnya

Nightwell Games

When the villagers of Derevnya begin turning up maimed, suspicion falls on you. Track down the beast to clear your name and save the village—but to unravel the mystery, you will need to confront your own past. A survival-horror choose your own adventure set in Kievan Rus'.

AdventureIndieVisual Novel
Of Sense and Soul

Of Sense and Soul

Forsythia Productions, Forsythia Productions Ltd.

A queer Victorian romance visual novel in which a gentleman running from the past and a poet hiding from the future collide through a lonely hearts ad. Suddenly, their lives can blossom—if you choose to change them.

IndieSimulationSimulatorVisual Novel
OPUS: Prism Peak

OPUS: Prism Peak

SIGONO INC., SHUEISHA GAMES

OPUS: Prism Peak is a narrative adventure where you play as a weary photographer stranded in the Dusklands, traveling with a girl who's lost her memories. Together, you'll uncover the mysteries of this land through your camera and find your way home.

AdventureIndie
Glasshouse

Glasshouse

FLAT28

Feudalpunk CRPG, with Turn-based combat, set in a lockdown apartment block at the dawn of a world war. Investigate the mysterious triple murder next door, fight the Political Conspiracy, and make terrible choices before the flatmates do it for you!

RPGRole-playing (RPG)
Yes, Your Grace 2: Snowfall

Yes, Your Grace 2: Snowfall

Brave At Night

Rule your crumbling kingdom as you try to satisfy the petty needs of your people in this cinematic kingdom management RPG. Balance your resources, collect taxes, hire agents and make difficult decisions to see your kingdom prosper or fail.

IndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulatorStrategy
The Posthumous Investigation

The Posthumous Investigation

Mother Gaia Studio, CriticalLeap, Infini Fun

A dead man hired you to solve his own murder. You have one day. Fourteen suspects. And as many attempts as it takes. A hand-drawn noir mystery set in 1937 Rio de Janeiro, where every suspect has a life, a schedule, and something to hide.

AdventureCasualIndie
Asbury Pines

Asbury Pines

Chaystar Unlimited LLC

A grisly mystery in a small town unfolds across centuries through the stories of its residents. Orchestrate their work, grow resources, upgrade skills, and create automated production loops between past and future eras. All to uncover a sprawling secret embedded in the flow of time.

AdventureCasualEarly Access
KILLA

KILLA

Black Tangerine, TOEI GAMES

A Master murdered. A dying wish: "Kill La." Nine suspects. One killer. All named 「La」. Valhalla hunts the truth by diving into their memories — in a world beautiful and cruel as a doll. Which 「La」 pulled the strings?

AdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulator
Celestial Return

Celestial Return

Metaphor Games, Shoreline Games

Loot, bribe, gamble, survive. The dice will be your savior or your downfall in this story-driven RPG. Every roll matters when trying to uncover cosmic horrors and outwit megacorps. Pray your next roll won’t be your last.

AdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)Visual Novel
Moses & Plato - Last Train to Clawville

Moses & Plato - Last Train to Clawville

The Wild Gentlemen, Toge Productions

A murder mystery where you are the main suspect! An ambassador on a peace mission has been killed on board the Clawville Express. Time progresses as you sniff out clues, eavesdrop on conversations, and interrogate passengers. Can you solve the case before the train reaches the last station? Or else.

AdventureIndiePoint-and-clickPuzzle
Fearbonding

Fearbonding

Night Asobu

Fearbonding is a Yandere x Demon BL Horror Visual Novel. Play as Hinata, a demon, and try to tame the deranged Kosuke. Will you get to satisfy your hunger for fear through your new hunting dog or will you be the one to get devoured?

AdventureIndieVisual Novel
Cairn

Cairn

The Game Bakers

Reach a summit never climbed before in this survival-climber from the creators of Furi and Haven. Climb anywhere and plan your route carefully, managing pitons and resources to survive unforgiving Mount Kami. Discover what Aava is willing to sacrifice to achieve the ascent of a lifetime.

ActionAdventureIndieSimulationSimulatorSportSports
Crimson Waves on the Emerald Sea: Amaranthine Moon

Crimson Waves on the Emerald Sea: Amaranthine Moon

Crystal Game Works

Find yourself in the middle of the mystery of your business partner's death in this Victorian vampire otome visual novel.

AdventureCasualIndieVisual Novel
Coffee Talk Tokyo

Coffee Talk Tokyo

Chorus Worldwide Games, Toge Productions

Coffee Talk Tokyo is the newest entry in the beloved series, set in a late-night café in Tokyo. Brew drinks, meet humans and yōkai, and experience heartfelt stories in a cozy, story-rich world.

AdventureCasualIndieSimulationVisual Novel
No, I'm not a Human

No, I'm not a Human

Trioskaz, CRITICAL REFLEX

WARNING. Stay inside. Lock your doors. Close the blinds. Only let humans in. Eliminate all Visitors. An anxiety horror about paranoia in the End of Times.

IndieSimulationSimulator
Midnight Special

Midnight Special

Scared Stupid Inc

Welcome to Midnight Special, a point-and-click survival horror game drenched in 16-bit pixel art and 1980s retro dread. On a thunderous night in 1987 in Maine, you awaken in a labyrinthine manor. You must click, explore, and solve puzzles to escape. Will you go gentle into that good night?

IndiePoint-and-click
Dispatch

Dispatch

AdHoc Studio

Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero. All episodes out now!

ActionAdventureCasualIndiePoint-and-clickStrategy
The Wide Open Sky is Running out of Catfish

The Wide Open Sky is Running out of Catfish

ZIPIT! Games

A story-driven photography game... on the back of a giant, flying catfish! Transform clouds into sea creatures and bring abundance back to an empty sky!

Indie
Sister Ray

Sister Ray

The Growing Stones

2D RPG about the brutal daily life of Ray - an artist struggling with addiction, who takes care of her little sister. Look after your condition - no one should know about the addiction. Improve your skills, sell paintings, do everything to ease the withdrawal. Survive and look for a way out.

AdventureIndiePoint-and-clickRPGRole-playing (RPG)
In Ashes

In Ashes

Studio Ephua, Ephua Ltd

In Ashes is a medieval LGBTQ+ fantasy adventure where you must balance heroism and survival with rest, burn out, and trust. In this choice-driven visual novel, you must build a hero who can overcome the weight of their legacy. When faced with a choice, what kind of hero will you be?

ActionAdventureIndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)Visual Novel
ROCKBEASTS

ROCKBEASTS

Lichthund, Team17

A rock-and-roll management RPG where you guide a 90s grunge band from garage obscurity to stadium glory. Set up gigs, manage egos, and navigate the music industry in an alternative America inhabited by larger-than-life anthropomorphic characters. Make it big without selling out.

IndieRPGRole-playing (RPG)
Contra Spem Spero

Contra Spem Spero

DADZINGO

Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.

AdventureIndie
Inhuman Resources: A Literary Machination

Inhuman Resources: A Literary Machination

Finnegan Motors, Indie Asylum

A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.

AdventureCasualIndiePuzzleRPGRole-playing (RPG)Visual Novel
Ministry of Order

Ministry of Order

VoltekPlay

Match babies to their parents by solving genetics puzzles. Get paid for being right, fined for mistakes. Each choice in branching dialogues has different consequences. Immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the gloomy 1920s totalitarian state.

AdventureIndiePuzzleSimulationSimulatorStrategy
Teller's Duty

Teller's Duty

Hiscory

In 1980, you land a teller job at Kertasia Bank thanks to your distant uncle. But the bank follows bizarre rules set by a foolish government. Face strict policies, tough customers, and moral choices while saving for your mom’s medical bills. Your fate is in your hands.

IndiePoint-and-clickSimulationSimulator
Band of Crusaders

Band of Crusaders

Virtual Alchemy, Ironward, NC

Band of Crusaders is a dark medieval strategy RPG in which you become Grandmaster of a knightly order and lead it against a demonic invasion of Europe. Craft your sandbox adventure - explore a vast simulated world, recruit crusaders, grow your camp, and face demons & human foes in real-time combat.

ActionAdventureRPGRole-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulatorStrategy
The Demons Told Me to Make This Game

The Demons Told Me to Make This Game

Haunted Dude

Welcome to Red Hives, a lovely Midwestern town infested with demons. You're a little spirit stuck in a time loop, your only way to interact with the world is by possessing people and whispering into their ears. Explore timelines, solve mysteries, and please, try to keep your hosts alive...

AdventureEarly AccessIndiePuzzleRPGRole-playing (RPG)Visual Novel
Letter Lost

Letter Lost

FlatNine Games

You’re the sole employee at the Kharnym Isle post office, stamping, sorting, and delivering mail. But the job hides secrets, and the office itself holds mysteries you must uncover. This will be the only job you’ll ever need to work… unless you can escape.

AdventureIndie
Sucks To Be In The Sticks

Sucks To Be In The Sticks

CoAction

An interview with a vampire from a decaying post-Soviet town. A cursed life simulator: scrub floors, brew moonshine, follow strange routines - and drink blood as your sanity unravels. The world is broken. Can you find out why?

AdventureCasualIndieSimulationSimulator
Truth Scrapper

Truth Scrapper

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You have a case to solve, your memories reset each day, and two mysterious guides are vying for your attention– who will you decide to remember, and who will you decide to push aside…?

AdventureIndiePoint-and-clickVisual Novel
Livber: Smoke and Mirrors

Livber: Smoke and Mirrors

InEv Games

A short psychological horror interactive story. Five years after vanishing without a trace, the woman you once called your lover writes from beyond the silence: "I will give birth to our creation.” In three acts, descend into a fractured mindscape where obsession, memory, and myth intertwine.

AdventureVisual Novel
Tavern Talk Stories: Dreamwalker

Tavern Talk Stories: Dreamwalker

Gentle Troll Entertainment

Welcome Tavernkeep! In this D&D-inspired visual novel you will run a cozy seaside tavern, meet adventurers, gather rumours and mix fate-altering drinks to stop dreams from twisting into nightmares.

AdventureCasualIndieSimulationSimulatorVisual Novel
Deep Pixel Melancholy

Deep Pixel Melancholy

ok/no

Deep Pixel Melancholy is a visual novel about being stuck in a time loop inside a gray, soulless city. Unravel the mystery, and decide whether escaping is really worth it.

AdventureCasualIndieVisual Novel
My Wife is a Spy?!

My Wife is a Spy?!

Transparent Games, Error 300

In this otome isekai visual novel you're thrown into an arranged marriage with the cold Duke of the North. Explore political tension, shifting loyalties, and two routes: romance or rebellion. Support your husband or betray him like a true villainess and take control of your fate.

Casual
A Story of Questions

A Story of Questions

Under the Bridge Games by Tim Hertel

You are trapped, unable to walk, only a desk in front of you. The voice you hear is that of a woman on a speaker. Solve puzzles, interact with your surroundings, and make weighty decisions as you uncover a strange and disturbing story in this supernatural single-player horror mystery.

AdventureIndie
Mandrake

Mandrake

Failbetter Games

You are the last of the Mandrakes, a sorcerous line of gardeners. At long last, you’ve returned to your family's abandoned home. Make friends, tend your gardens, and put down roots. Fish, gather and delve in the wilds. Make a place for yourself, and uncover the mysteries your family left behind.

RPGRole-playing (RPG)
Dating and Dragons - A Love Quest

Dating and Dragons - A Love Quest

Twisted Twenty Studio

Dating & Dragons – A Love Quest is a narrative RPG dating sim packed with every fantasy trope you love. Sneak out with the thief, wreak havoc with the warrior, or flirt with the bard. Explore branching adventures with multiple endings and hidden secrets. Roll those dice and watch out for dragons!

Role-playing (RPG)SimulationSimulatorVisual Novel
Merry Crisis

Merry Crisis

Monsoon Games

Three loves. One week. Merry Crisis is an intimate, character-driven romance visual novel about love, loss, and belonging—is home what you left behind, or where you’re headed?

CasualIndie
Opona

Opona

Rory Carson

The reality TV show Popworld is a one-way ticket to pop stardom, and Mia and Noah came here to win! Fight your way through turn-based dance battles (and a whole lot of drama) in this hand-drawn idol adventure game.

AdventureIndie
Gap Year

Gap Year

Mythical Voltage

Gap Year is a story-focused point & click adventure played through comic book panels that reconfigure as you explore Vera Novak’s one-bedroom apartment. Vera is a bright young scientist, but the arrival of an unexpected guest and a strange fixation with a cosmonaut may derail her academic pursuits.

AdventureCasualIndie