
Detailed, gritty text-based fantasy RPG centered on gladiatorial combat. Recreates the gameplay of the old gamebooks. Features hassle-free inventory management and a battle system that combines dice rolls with meaningful decisions and preparation.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include RPG, Interactive Fiction, Text-Based, Adventure.

Detailed, gritty text-based fantasy RPG centered on gladiatorial combat. Recreates the gameplay of the old gamebooks. Features hassle-free inventory management and a battle system that combines dice rolls with meaningful decisions and preparation.

Bloodwood Dungeon
Detailed, gritty text-based fantasy RPG centered on dungeon crawling with traps, puzzles, fights and loot. Recreates the gameplay of the old gamebooks. Simple battle system and hassle-free inventory management.

Greymarsh
Small in scope, detailed, gritty text-based fantasy RPG. Recreates the gameplay of the old gamebooks. Simple battle system and hassle-free inventory management.
Detailed, gritty text-based fantasy RPG centered on dungeon crawling with traps, puzzles, fights and loot. Recreates the gameplay of the old gamebooks. Simple battle system and hassle-free inventory management.
Why similar: RPG 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Minimalist 10.9%, Text-Based 10.5%
Small in scope, detailed, gritty text-based fantasy RPG. Recreates the gameplay of the old gamebooks. Simple battle system and hassle-free inventory management.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Text-Based 13.5%, RPG 11.3%, Minimalist 9.5%
You've spent years undercover, disguised as a human, infiltrating the city’s magical law-enforcement organization. They stole your magic from you. Can you steal it back? (A text-based interactive historical urban fantasy novel.)
Why similar: RPG 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Text-Based 14.9%, Adventure 14.3%
Go forth on a text-based, choose your own adventure where you can choose your role and embark on adventure as various different people who tread different paths.
Why similar: RPG 27.6%, Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Text-Based 15.4%, Fantasy 6.4%
Walk the path of a legendary mage, combining four different schools of magic to devastating effects.
Why similar: RPG 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Text-Based 17.5%, Adventure 13.8%
Your father stole his throne, intending to leave it to you. When the long-lost heir resurfaces, will you defend the king—or betray him to his enemies?
Why similar: RPG 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Text-Based 17.6%, Fantasy 5.6%
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. A text-based science-fantasy novel, 700,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: RPG 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Text-Based 17.2%, Multiple Endings 5.1%
Awaken your magic and break an ancient curse at a secret school of sorcery! What mysteries will you uncover at this crossroads between realms? A text-based fantasy novel, 280,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: RPG 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Text-Based 16.9%, Fantasy 5.7%
By the power of your Soul Stone and the strength of your own indomitable soul, uncover secrets held in blood and lead the charge that will change the world. A text-based fantasy novel, 260,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: RPG 26.4%, Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Text-Based 17.3%, Fantasy 6.2%
The toughest ronin in Hyuga returns! Heated battles and even hotter romances await you in the land of silk and steel!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.5%, RPG 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Text-Based 17.4%, Adventure 14%
When a new magic is discovered, it's up to you to unravel the mystery! Find answers from fae and humans, save your city, and maybe even fall in love! A text-based interactive fantasy novel, 400,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: RPG 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Text-Based 17.6%, Fantasy 6%
Samurai of Hyuga is a brutal, heart-pounding interactive tale. Prepare to enter the land of silk and steel, where fantasy clashes against grim reality, and where the good guys don't always win in the end. It's a harsh world with tough choices at every turn. Good thing you're the toughest ronin around.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.4%, RPG 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Text-Based 19.3%, Adventure 12.4%
As commander of a squadron of cavalry, what will you sacrifice to win the war of gunpowder and magic? Fight for power, riches, love, or glory!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.7%, RPG 23.8%, Text-Based 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Adventure 14.3%
《浊令》 是一款第一人称文字冒险游戏,融合视觉小说元素。玩家将沉浸于探索“宙与埃”世界观的互动故事,通过选择驱动叙事发展,解锁多样的剧情分支。体验引人入胜的对话、收集精美CG与成就,感受独特的情感旅程。
Why similar: RPG 30%, Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Text-Based 19.7%, Multiple Endings 8.7%, Gore 8%
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.7%, RPG 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Adventure 9%
An epic adventure in a land of monsters, traps and magic. Journey across the deadly Shamutanti Hills and through Kharé, Cityport of Thieves. Armed with your sword and over fifty spells with weird and wonderful effects, embark on a narrative adventure of a thousand choices where every one is remembered.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.2%, Interactive Fiction 21%, RPG 20.1%, Adventure 10.3%, Text-Based 9.8%
Run with unicorns, fly with pegasi, and swim with kelpies as a magical horse! Will you reunite the herds or drive them further apart? A text-based interactive fantasy novel with hundreds of choices and without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: RPG 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Text-Based 16.4%, Fantasy 5.6%
When a quiet Halloween night turns into a thrilling adventure, make sure to grab a weapon, eat candy, wreck monsters or leave them for dead!
Why similar: RPG 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Adventure 14.4%, Text-Based 14.3%
Claw your way to the top of Moreytown, a furry slum for human-animal hybrids. Will you take down the gangs who rule the town, or take them over instead?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Text-Based 22.7%, RPG 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Adventure 15.6%
Will you spill the tea about the secret, cozy magical cafe on your college campus? Brew potions and romance on coffee dates with your new friends! A text-based novel of magic and romance, with hundreds of choices and without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: RPG 27%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Text-Based 17.4%, Adventure 4.9%
Can you and your friends master the ocean's magic and save your school? Dance, fight, and flirt with the other sea nymphs, selkies, and sirens!
Why similar: RPG 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Text-Based 16.1%, Fantasy 4.9%
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Text-Based 16.1%, RPG 13.8%, Minimalist 9.1%
In a Persian steampunk empire, will you use your arcane alchemy to repair a spaceship, or pilot a mech? Ignite a revolution, or snuff it out?
Why similar: RPG 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Adventure 14.6%, Text-Based 14%
Swing a sword, delve dungeons, and lead a resistance against the tyrannical queen of a war-torn fantasy realm. Will you unite the realm and end the queen’s reign of terror... or join her and rule by her side?
Why similar: Text-Based 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, RPG 17.5%, Adventure 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%
Sword of Shandar is a narrative-driven light RPG focused on choice, consequence, and discovery. Engage in turn-based combat, resolve challenges through dice-roll skill checks, crack locks in hands-on minigames, and decipher ancient runes as you uncover the secrets of a fading world.
Why similar: RPG 26%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Adventure 13.6%, Text-Based 11.6%
Make your name as a whiskey-runner, a politician, or a gangster as you quench thirsts from rural Pennsylvania to the New York City nightlife!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Text-Based 20%, RPG 16.8%, Multiple Endings 6.2%
Back from hell and into Hyuga, enemies and allies clash in this epic sequel! Overcome ultimate despair or be consumed by it: the choice is yours, ronin!
Why similar: RPG 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Adventure 14.9%, Text-Based 14.6%
Celestial power thrums in your veins, Hell’s throne calls, and demons conspire. Will you ascend as savior, tyrant, or something in between? A text-based horror novel, 295,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: RPG 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Text-Based 18.3%, Fantasy 4.5%
Face down your ghosts and unearth secrets better left buried as you prepare to take vengeance on the ones who wronged you. But be warned, burying your past only works if it stays put.
Why similar: RPG 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Text-Based 17.5%, Multiple Endings 5.5%
Explore an alternative medieval Europe in this low-fantasy epic adventure! How far are you willing to go to take back your stolen treasure?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.4%, RPG 23.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Text-Based 18.6%, Fantasy 5.4%
Ever wonder how heroes-in-training spend their time between epic confrontations with dastardly villains? Join the students at Speck Community College as they enjoy a tabletop roleplay game, investigate a legendary small-town monster, and endure the embarrassments of Parents’ Day.
Why similar: RPG 24%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Text-Based 16%, Adventure 14.9%
When you're falsely accused of sorcery, corrupt inquisitors make you the object of a witch hunt. Now, sorcery might be the only way for you to survive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Text-Based 19.6%, RPG 17.7%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
Will you infiltrate the gods' Elite Courte, stealing their superpowers, or turn double agent and join them, taking your place among the divine?
Why similar: RPG 22.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Text-Based 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Adventure 12.8%
Vanakan is the journey of Tadevos - a priest, who travels the 500s Armenia to find the monastery that suits for his goal of becoming spiritually closer to Jesus Christ. He meets different people on his way and makes choices which will define his future and that of the country.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Text-Based 18.8%, Adventure 18.1%, Multiple Endings 6.3%
Your first case as a detective is forcing you to open your eyes to a world bigger than you thought. Or maybe it's better to keep them closed. Seems the supernatural didn’t get the memo that nothing exciting ever happens in the little town of Wayhaven.
Why similar: RPG 24.2%, Text-Based 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Adventure 13.6%
Learn the dark truth behind a gentle wyvern’s rampage, a cold-blooded murder, and a dragon-worshiping cult. Will you submit or defy the godlike creature?
Why similar: RPG 25.7%, Adventure 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Text-Based 14.3%
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?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.3%, RPG 22.3%, Text-Based 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Adventure 8.9%
Defend your magical city from an enemy army in an epic fantasy game of swordfights, political maneuvering, and romance! Will you prove worthy of your crown?
Why similar: RPG 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Text-Based 16.9%, Fantasy 4.7%
A text-based RPG with a nonlinear story set in a free Slavic fantasy world. Shape the heroine's character through your choices and unlock multiple endings. Mystery, folklore, and relationships — your fate depends only on you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, RPG 17.2%, Text-Based 17.2%, Adventure 9.5%
Plunge into court politics and change the course of history, or pursue a love affair that rocks the kingdom to its foundations!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, RPG 20.8%, Text-Based 20.1%, Adventure 12%
Are you worthy of the throne? Or do your siblings deserve it more than you do? What kind of heir will you be?
Why similar: RPG 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Text-Based 18%, Fantasy 5.3%
North Africa, 1942. Command a U.S. tank. Lead your men against the Axis powers. Learn the hard lessons of war. The odds are against you. A text-based historical novel, 900,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: RPG 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 25.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Text-Based 19.8%, Multiple Endings 5.4%
Rush the university's secret societies as a first-year Magical Studies major! Will you keep your magic a secret from the mundanes or expose the truth?
Why similar: RPG 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Text-Based 17.5%, Multiple Endings 5.2%
It's the ultimate battle between werewolves and human supremacists, and your werewolf pack is caught in the middle of a four-way fight!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30%, RPG 23.3%, Text-Based 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Multiple Endings 5.5%
Never stop running, not with the galaxy at stake. Save it at all costs, and save yourself if you can.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.3%, RPG 19%, Text-Based 16.7%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
Battle demons and undead attorneys, and win souls to pay back your student loans! At the elite demonic-law firm of Varkath Nebuchadnezzar Stone, you'll depose a fallen god, find romance, and maybe even make partner, if you don't lose your own soul first.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.6%, Text-Based 27.4%, RPG 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%
Four thousand miles. Twenty thousand pounds. Four murderous rivals. One unforgettable adventure.
Why similar: RPG 26.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Adventure 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Text-Based 14.4%
From birth to death, craft your orc's legacy. Wield the powers of a shaman or chief. Conquer the world. Become a god or a demon lord. Do what orcs do best!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, RPG 19.3%, Text-Based 14%, Fantasy 7.4%
Interactive teen supernatural mystery! You and your friends have developed magical psychic powers. Solve the case, save your school, find a date for prom!
Why similar: Text-Based 27.1%, RPG 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%
Into Oblivion is an immerse interactive novel where your choices shape the story. Set in the far-future, explore a galaxy on the brink of crisis with dynamic companions. So, settle your mind and pray you have what it takes to fly Into Oblivion.
Why similar: RPG 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Adventure 14.4%, Text-Based 12.9%
An interactive fantasy romance novel set amongst the Greek gods.
Why similar: RPG 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Text-Based 18.7%, Multiple Endings 4.8%
Can your magic amulet save your Jewish village from destruction? Uncover the truth and forge alliances with soldiers, bandits, anarchists, and demons!
Why similar: RPG 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Adventure 15.1%, Text-Based 15%
Dazzle humanity or destroy it as a magical, two-tailed fox! Weave illusions, shapeshift, or control minds. You'll set the world on fire, one way or another.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 24%, RPG 17.5%, Text-Based 17.3%, Adventure 6.5%
A choice-driven roguelike text adventure set in medieval Korea and Japan. Encounter 218 mythological creatures from East Asian folklore, shape your story across 94 endings, and grow stronger with each run in a deep, culturally rich world.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Text-Based 19.1%, Turn-Based Combat 9.1%, Adventure 7.1%
Heed magic’s call! Find love as you explore ancient mysteries, craft dragon-rune tattoos, and discover your true loyalties. What passions shape your path?
Why similar: RPG 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Text-Based 18.1%, Fantasy 6.2%
CLOSED HANDS is a groundbreaking work of interactive fiction that explores the tangled intertwined stories of five people thrown together by a fictional terror attack.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.6%, Text-Based 21.9%, Adventure 19.8%, Singleplayer 0.9%
The Fifth Horseman is a narrative adventure game, set in a fantasy-medieval world, where you will experience many unique stories. After years of war, hunger and diseases mankind finds itself on the verge of extinction and it's up to you to decide its fate.
Why similar: RPG 32.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Text-Based 15.7%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
Become the greatest of the goblin merchants in this gaslamp faery-tale! Buy and sell secrets and memories! Trade in time, shadows, and stranger things!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, RPG 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Text-Based 18.3%, Fantasy 6.3%
With debts to pay to the underworld, you need to make a lot of coin fast! Perhaps worse, you're wanted by the King's men for desertion. Survival is your first priority...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 24%, RPG 19.8%, Text-Based 13.6%, Adventure 6.8%
Can your steam-powered inventions save the ancient Library of Alexandria? Will you sacrifice the library to protect the city? Or the future king instead?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.5%, RPG 29.6%, Text-Based 20.4%, Adventure 19.6%