- #1 Fight in the Arena by Daniel da Silva
81% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Daniel da SilvaPub: SmokeSomeFrogs
Windows · Linux
Fight in the Arena is a text-based RPG with an in-depth turn-based combat system.
Why similar: CRPG 22.1%, Text-Based 20.8%, Turn-Based Combat 14.7%, Choices Matter 8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8%
- #2 Grim Tides - Old School RPG
78% matchPositive90% of 41 reviews2023
Dev: Monomyth
Windows
A traditional RPG adventure, set in a detailed fantasy world with abundance of lore. Inspired by the classics of the genre, it tries to evoke both the simplicity and complexity associated with early RPG games, and can be played in short bursts of just a few minutes, or for hours at a time.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.1%, Turn-Based Combat 14.7%, Lore-Rich 10.8%, Dungeon Crawler 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%
- #3 The Nameless: Slay Dragon
72% matchVery Positive92% of 1,954 reviews2024
Dev: The Nameless EpicPub: WhisperGames
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
The Nameless: Slay Dragon is like a mix of CRPG and JRPG. In short - how to slay the immensely powerful and cunning evil dragon? You will play as a young man having a bloody feud with a dragon, and face powerful, sinister and tricky enemies with friends....
Why similar: Class-Based 20.1% ★, CRPG 17.3%, Turn-Based Combat 15.4%, Strategy RPG 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.4%
- #4 True Magician
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dark CitadelPub: Brezg Studio
Windows
How do you become a true magician? Find out in True Magician, an interactive text adventure with RPG elements. Travel through the kingdom with your teacher, learn the art of magic, fight enemies and make friends. And remember, the world is not what it seems!
Why similar: CRPG 22.9%, Text-Based 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Medieval 8.8%
- #5 Yogoe Hunter
71% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Justice
Windows
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: Text-Based 24.5%, Turn-Based Combat 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choices Matter 7.8%
- #6 Greymarsh
71% matchPositive87% of 23 reviews2023
Dev: Nimavoha Interactive
Windows
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: Text-Based 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Turn-Based Combat 14.9%, Old School 7.9%
- #7 The Golden Rose: Book One
71% matchVery Positive90% of 158 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Text-Based 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, RPG 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.9%
- #8 Tower of the Ice Lich
69% matchPositive100% of 17 reviews2025
Dev: Arcane Lorelabs
Windows · Mac
A pixelated homage to 16-bit RPGs, this former print-and-play card game has come full circle as a digital experience! Choose your champion, enter the tower, and make wise decisions on your ascent to face the Ice Lich at the top.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Lore-Rich 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Choices Matter 10.6%
- #9 The Secret of Darkwoods
69% matchVery Positive89% of 118 reviews2023
Dev: Rap2h
Windows · Mac · Linux
Open-world illustrated text-based RPG. Inspired by classic role-playing video games and fantasy gamebooks, the secret of darkwoods is a free game, a non-linear standalone adventure with side quests in a vast world.
Why similar: Text-Based 28.6%, CRPG 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, RPG 12%, Medieval 8%
- #10 A Crown of Sorcery and Steel
70% matchMixed65% of 20 reviews2022
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 29%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Medieval 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%, RPG 8.3%
- #11 The Sword of Rhivenia
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 72 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Text-Based 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, RPG 11.5%, Medieval 9.8%
- #12 Aunewyth
68% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2023
Dev: Captain Cool
Windows
Aunewyth is a text-based game with a focus on narration and decision making. It features a short yet versatile storyline that reveals itself according to the choices you make.
Why similar: Text-Based 35%, Choices Matter 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, RPG 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 8.5%
- #13 Road To Wealth
66% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Konithir
Windows
Embark on a text-based RPG in a brutal fantasy world. Make choices, manage gear, and battle enemies through a non-linear story. Explore diverse landscapes with immersive art and sounds. Enjoy mini-games like dice and lockpicking. Survive or save often in this challenging game.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.7%, Strategy RPG 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, RPG 11.5%
- #14 Bloodwood Dungeon
66% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2024
Dev: Nimavoha Interactive
Windows
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: Text-Based 21%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, RPG 12.2%, Turn-Based Combat 9.9%
- #15 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
65% matchVery Positive90% of 9,492 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Choices Matter 22.8%, Text-Based 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Story Rich 10.4%
- #16 Trawel
69% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2019
Dev: realDragon
Windows · Linux
Trawel is a historically-inaccurate open world text adventure RPG. Created as a re-imagining of old-school calculator and early command line games, it eschews their limitations but attempts to capture their spirit, and bring it in line with modern quality of life standards with a GUI.
Why similar: CRPG 21.9%, Text-Based 20.9%, Turn-Based Combat 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Dungeon Crawler 9.5%
- #17 Dark Blue Dungeon
66% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: JOAZCO
Windows · Mac · Linux
Dark Blue Dungeon is a dungeon crawler inspired by tabletop role-playing games and choose-your-own-adventure books.
Why similar: CRPG 19.4%, Strategy RPG 16.9%, Class-Based 12.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Dungeon Crawler 10.3%
- #18 The Use of Life
63% matchVery Positive90% of 728 reviews2025
Dev: だらねこげーむず/Daraneko GamesPub: PLAYISM
Windows
The Use of Life is a multi-ending adventure book style JRPG. The main character’s various attachments change in accordance with the choices the player makes, and the ending changes depending on “the use of life” you choose through your journey.
Why similar: CRPG 24.7%, Class-Based 18.3% ★, Turn-Based Combat 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Choices Matter 7.5%
- #19 Fabled Lands
65% matchVery Positive81% of 528 reviews2022
Dev: Prime Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Fabled Lands is a challenging old-school narrative RPG set in an open world. Complete quests, fight, trade goods and develop your character. Explore a vast land of adventure: travel across the war-torn kingdom, survive the plains of howling darkness, and escape the Court of Hidden Faces.
Why similar: CRPG 22%, Text-Based 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Strategy RPG 10.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%
- #20 VERSUS: The Elite Trials
67% matchPositive88% of 33 reviews2016
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Text-Based 30.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Choices Matter 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, RPG 10.7%
- #21 Grimmloch
65% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Opulent Code LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
A persistent text-based MMORPG where NPCs remember your secrets and shape a living world rooted in European folklore. Turn-based tactical combat, criminal gameplay, and collaborative storytelling that writes itself into canon. Built by Role-players for Role-players.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.3%, CRPG 18.1%, Story Rich 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Choices Matter 9.5%
- #22 History of Dragosa
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Violence in Video Games
Windows
A text-based choose your own adventure game, with multiple stories, each with several endings. Stories you create through branching narratives are kept so you can read them again or show them to friends.
Why similar: Choices Matter 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Text-Based 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Lore-Rich 11.3%
- #23 The Soul Stone War 3
63% matchMixed67% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Text-Based 28%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, RPG 14.3%, Choices Matter 9.7%
- #24 Ink and Intrigue
63% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2024
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Text-Based 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Lore-Rich 12%, RPG 12%
- #25 Valhalla Awaits
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tulip Interactive
Windows
Violence spreads across Europe as Viking raids intensify. In this choice-driven RPG, your fate is shaped by hard decisions, brutal turn-based combat, and a legacy system where death is permanent—but not the end. Live, die, and fight again. Valhalla awaits.
Why similar: CRPG 24.9%, Text-Based 16.4%, Turn-Based Combat 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Choices Matter 9.4%
- #26 Roadwarden
62% matchVery Positive94% of 4,888 reviews2022
Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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 38.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, RPG 11.3%, Choices Matter 8.5%
- #27 Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk
65% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2018
Dev: Prime Games
Windows · Mac
The Battle for Murk is an interactive narrative set in a gritty medieval world. Play as Corporal Mandrake from the City Watch in a fantasy adventure game. Uncover the truth behind a treacherous conspiracy in a race against time to save your hometown from falling into the hands of a cruel leader.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.5%, CRPG 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Medieval 7.3%
- #28 Revenge of the Firstborn
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sawtooth Games
Windows
Lead a party of heroes in this story-rich, tactical turn-based RPG based on the classic 3.5 SRD ruleset. Uncover the origin of the Firstborn and decide if their power will bring the world its salvation, or annihilation.
Why similar: Class-Based 19% ★, CRPG 14.8%, Turn-Based Combat 14.2%, Strategy RPG 11.8%, Choices Matter 9.6%
- #29 Herald of the Mists
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FromNiki
Windows
A narrative-driven RPG where every dice roll shapes your fate. Step into the role of the Queen's Herald and traverse a mist-shrouded realm to uncover the fate of her lost army. Will your choices uphold loyalty, or lead you down a path of betrayal? The secrets of the mists await.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Medieval 7.7%
- #30 Lux, City of Secrets
64% matchMostly Positive73% of 30 reviews2021
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
It's time to make a name for yourself in the big city. In this first half of a two-part epic, can you unravel the mysteries of Lux, City of Secrets?
Why similar: Text-Based 28.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Lore-Rich 15.6%, Choices Matter 12%, RPG 10.6%
- #31 Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy
59% matchMostly Positive76% of 720 reviews2025
Dev: AtomTeam
Windows · Mac · Linux
Swordhaven is a party‑based low‑magic fantasy cRPG with a deep character creation system, rich storytelling, and seamless turn‑based/RTwP combat. Explore Nova Drakonia, uncover ancient secrets, meet hundreds of NPCs with unique quests, and shape the fate of the world through your choices.
Why similar: CRPG 21.1%, Turn-Based Combat 13%, Strategy RPG 11.9%, Lore-Rich 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.8%
- #32 Serania - Path of the Scion
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FableTree Productions
Windows · Mac
Choose, explore, interact, fight, solve, gather, trade! Rise to rebel in this immersive text-based fantasy story that seamlessly merges the best elements of RPGs, choose-your-own-adventure stories, visual novels, and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Medieval 10.2%
- #33 Sorcery! Parts 1 and 2
63% matchVery Positive89% of 739 reviews2016
Dev: inkle Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Text-Based 15.5%, Choices Matter 13.1%, RPG 10.7%
- #34 The Specter Chronicles: Episode 1 - The False Prophet
62% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2023
Dev: Forge 215
Windows
The Specter Chronicles is a cyberpunk visual novel that combines text-based adventure with turn-based tactical combat.
Why similar: Class-Based 22.8% ★, Text-Based 19.9%, Turn-Based Combat 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Strategy RPG 11.2%
- #35 Heavens' Revolution: A Lion Among the Cypress
62% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Text-Based 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, RPG 11.6%, Lore-Rich 11.4%
- #36 Absolute Adventure
66% matchNo user reviews2018
Dev: NiFo
Windows
Absolute Adventure Nulla is a role playing game set in a different, yet similar, dimension. Its graphics and sound department are inspired by older games of the same genre. Your objective is to guide a wandering adventurer to its destiny: The future you'll forge during the course of the journey!
Why similar: CRPG 27.9%, Turn-Based Combat 26.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Choices Matter 15.6%, RPG 8.7%
- #37 Turncoat Chronicle
62% matchMixed69% of 13 reviews2023
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Text-Based 29.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, RPG 13.7%, Choices Matter 10%
- #38 Faerie's Bargain: The Price of Business
62% matchMostly Positive72% of 18 reviews2021
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Text-Based 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, RPG 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.7%
- #39 The Soul Stone War 2
62% matchPositive89% of 27 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Overcome all obstacles by trusting in your own strength, the power of your Soul Stone, and your loyal companions. Become the legend you were born to be.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Lore-Rich 14.3%, Choices Matter 10.5%
- #40 Fighting Fantasy Classics
63% matchVery Positive81% of 347 reviews2018
Dev: Tin Man Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Ready your sword, pack your provisions and prepare to embark upon quests in which YOU are the hero! Choose what happens at every turn of the page with Fighting Fantasy Classics – text-based roleplaying adventures remastered.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Choices Matter 12.4%, CRPG 9.9%
- #41 Mythscroll
60% matchMixed70% of 23 reviews2025
Dev: Seedborne
Windows · Linux
Forge your story in this fantasy RPG where every choice, encounter, and stat check shapes your journey. Explore the world, equip powerful weapons, master spells, and survive dynamic text-driven adventures, with D&D-inspired character building, turn-based combat, and branching outcomes.
Why similar: CRPG 23.6%, Class-Based 22.2% ★, Text-Based 20.5%, Turn-Based Combat 12.9%, Choices Matter 9.4%
- #42 An Imp and an Impostor
60% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Text-Based 26.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, RPG 13.7%, Choices Matter 9.9%
- #43 Hero of Hoofbeat Hollow
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Text-Based 28%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, RPG 14.8%, Choices Matter 9.1%
- #44 Arkadia
61% match9 user reviews67% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: NogakKimchiPub: NogakKimchi(Sangmyung Univ.)
Windows
Explore Arkadia. Confront the evil beings, uncover their schemes, and fight for justice. Strategize and strengthen your characters to achieve victory.
Why similar: CRPG 27.1%, Strategy RPG 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Turn-Based Combat 13.1%, Choices Matter 10.1%
- #45 Choose Your Own Alternative
61% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: F(r)ictions Ludiques
Windows
A text-based adventure where you're tasked to exorcise your friend’s Inner Demon. You have 30 days to analyze objects filled with memories, discover which one is the reason for her possession and sacrifice it. Do not deviate from your mission. Save your friend no matter the cost.
Why similar: CRPG 20.4%, Text-Based 19.2%, Lore-Rich 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Choices Matter 11.5%
- #46 Grave Knight
61% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: Dreamlight Games
Windows
Under developement, Grave Knight is an interactive RPG adventure inspired by SRD 5.1 ruleset and classical game books, where your decisions weave the fate of the characters and the story. Let the dice forge the fate of your hero and the realm by fighting the Grave knight and his horde.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Choices Matter 13.3%, RPG 11.8%
- #47 Tome of Fates
60% matchMostly Positive76% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: Grey Mount Studio
Windows · Linux
Adventure Gamebook: Dive into an interactive experience where you can create, play, and share your own unique stories. Use the intuitive story editor to craft narratives without coding, explore them solo or in co-op with friends, and share them on the Workshop for everyone to enjoy.
Why similar: Text-Based 29.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Story Rich 7%
- #48 Champions of Chaxia
61% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nimavoha Interactive
Windows
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.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, RPG 12.5%, Turn-Based Combat 9.7%
- #49 Way Walkers: University 2
63% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2020
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Picking up right where you left off in part one, the city and school are still in shock from the mysterious attacks, and the question on everyone's mind is...who was behind them, and why?
Why similar: Text-Based 29.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Lore-Rich 15.6%, RPG 11.5%, Choices Matter 9.9%
- #50 Depths of Faveg
60% matchPositive81% of 27 reviews2024
Dev: guipadgon
Windows
Fight your way through hordes of monsters, and try to reach the fabled treasure at the bottom of the dungeon of Faveg in this brutal Roguelike RPG. Can you train a party strong enough?
Why similar: Class-Based 29.3% ★, CRPG 23.6%, Turn-Based Combat 16.5%, Dungeon Crawler 11.1%, RPG 5.5%
- #51 Way Walkers: University
62% matchMixed60% of 10 reviews2020
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Embark on a magical adventure through a spiritual world.
Why similar: Text-Based 28.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, RPG 13.3%, Lore-Rich 12.9%, Choices Matter 10.4%
- #52 Vanakan
60% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Erik Khachatryan
Windows
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: Text-Based 28.8%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Adventure 6.5%
- #53 House of the Golden Mask
59% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Text-Based 28.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, RPG 14.3%, Choices Matter 9.4%
- #54 Stronghold: Caverns of Sorcery
59% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Deep beneath the earth, the dragon is rising! Quest into ancient caverns, learn magical lore, and draw strength from friends and family to save your home! A text-based interactive fantasy novel.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, RPG 11.2%, Lore-Rich 11.1%
- #55 Choice of Robots
61% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,000 reviews2014
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Your robots will change the world! Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army? A 300,000-word epic interactive sci-fi novel.
Why similar: Text-Based 34.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Choices Matter 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Story Rich 5.8%
- #56 Forbidden Magic
60% matchPositive80% of 15 reviews2023
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
Catch a magical arsonist before you lose your heart! Will you romance a rival agent, your hellhound shapeshifter partner, or your boss—an actual devil? A sweet romantic text-based, role playing game.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, RPG 12%, Lore-Rich 11.9%
- #57 The Nascent Necromancer
59% matchMixed57% of 14 reviews2023
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Text-Based 30.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Choices Matter 16.4%, RPG 9.2%
- #58 Robot's Fate: Alice
59% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Starni Games
Windows
Robot’s Fate: Alice is a text-based RPG set in the future where robots with neural network AI are integral to human life. You’re Alice - a robot who becomes self-aware, while everyone around fears rogue AI. Can you survive and reconcile humanity with robots? Your choices do matter.
Why similar: CRPG 25.9%, Text-Based 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choices Matter 10.4%
- #59 Echoes of the Ashen
59% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BlinkimpGames
Windows
An engaging, casual RPG adventure, featuring bite-sized dungeon crawling with turn-based skirmishes, set in a story-rich, lore-filled world.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 22.9%, Strategy RPG 21.3%, Lore-Rich 15.5%, Dungeon Crawler 15.2%, RPG 8.3%
- #60 Sworn to the Depths
59% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Faceless Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A text-driven dungeon crawler inspired by Ironsworn: Delve. Travel to a forbidden site full of treasure, roll dice, make choices, face danger, and find out the hard way why the site was forbidden in the first place! Or maybe you'll find the treasure. It could happen!
Why similar: Text-Based 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Dungeon Crawler 9%, RPG 8.3%