
Alchemy, puzzles, and a crashed starship. Old-style interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No dialogue trees! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Indie, Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Text-Based.

Alchemy, puzzles, and a crashed starship. Old-style interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No dialogue trees! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next.

CLOSED HANDS
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.

Pixel: ru²
Play as a pixel adventuring through image files in a digital world where physics aren't constant. Run, jump, flip upside down, and rotate your gravity. Use weapons to destroy other pixels before they destroy you. Collect bits of data from challenging locations to find out why your world must survive at all costs.
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 38.1%, Text-Based 31.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Adventure 8.6%, Indie 2.2%
Play as a pixel adventuring through image files in a digital world where physics aren't constant. Run, jump, flip upside down, and rotate your gravity. Use weapons to destroy other pixels before they destroy you. Collect bits of data from challenging locations to find out why your world must survive at all costs.
A text adventure game about a 19th century explorer who finds himself stranded and alone.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 46%, Text-Based 39.6%, Adventure 8.6%, Indie 5.8%
Tenshu General, is a simple, elegant, Real Time Strategy (RTS) game for those who favor short play sessions over long sessions. Quick casual game play combined with the challenge of continuously adapting enemies allow for a surprisingly challenging exercise in strategy. It is a cross breed between a board game and a classic RTS.
Why similar: Indie 100%
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
A real-time (with casual option) Diary Driven PC Game. Simulating homesteading and survival in your own Log Cabin, deep in the Alaskan Wilderness.
Why similar: Text-Based 33.8%, Interactive Fiction 30.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Indie 11.3%, Adventure 4.3%
Venture Forth is an extremely challenging adventure game with a retro 90s shooter vibe. Forge your own path within its labyrinthine caves but beware the danger lurking around every corner.
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: Text-Based 33.4%, Interactive Fiction 31.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Adventure 6.5%, Indie 5.3%
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 38.3%, Text-Based 30%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Adventure 8.7%, Story Rich 1.8%
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: Text-Based 42.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.2%, Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Indie 4.3%
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 43.2%, Interactive Fiction 31.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Indie 5.9%
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: Text-Based 39.5%, Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Adventure 8.2%, Indie 5.9%
Interactive fiction starring Molly the Werezompire - a grad student who jumped into a portal, was killed by a werewolf, a zombie, and a vampire, and became a heroic werezompire! Also includes the sci-fi parody, Epiphany in Spaaace! Originally released on XBLIG.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.3%, Text-Based 31.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.5%, Adventure 5.6%
A funny, emotional text-based romance where your awkward crush meets accidental magic. Make branching choices, build relationships, and maybe ruin Valentine’s Day with a love potion that definitely shouldn’t have worked.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.4%, Text-Based 34.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, Indie 2.3%
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 40.2%, Text-Based 34.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Adventure 2.6%, Indie 2%
The neglected and despised toys of the world are angry and have escaped their forgotten toy box prisons and are seeking revenge. Fight 21 enemy from the beach to the model train store with an arsenal of 13 weapons and armed vehicles.
Why similar: Indie 100%
The toughest ronin in Hyuga returns! Heated battles and even hotter romances await you in the land of silk and steel!
Why similar: Text-Based 31.9%, Interactive Fiction 29.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, Adventure 7.8%, Indie 6%
Blackfaun is a fast paced roguelike with RPG elements, featuring challenging combat and replayability. Players join a faun tasked with a mysterious quest to prove her worth as heiress to the crown. Vibrant colors and a rich soundtrack bring dungeons to life for a fully immersive experience.
Why similar: Indie 100%
A colorful but challenging blend of classic RTS and tower defense. Build, expand, research, and defend your alien colony as you race to construct a teleportation device and escape a dying star.
Hinata has only just arrived in New York, but things are already going downhill. Then a handsome stranger offers his help, and suddenly Hinata finds himself in a shared apartment with three hot guys. A rollercoaster of emotions begins.
Why similar: Text-Based 67.1%, Indie 17%, Adventure 8.9%, Story Rich 7%
Beyond Eden is a Boy's love visual novel set in the Victorian era, centering on the themes of love-hate and revenge. As protagonist Alex, the player may proceed to destroy an aristocratic family while pursuing complex relationships with 6 different male characters. Does the fall await beyond Eden?
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: Text-Based 34.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.4%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Adventure 8%, Indie 6.2%
“The Charming Empire” is a dating simulation game set in the Taisho Roman era of Japanese history. Popular voice actors known for their talent in anime and video games bring our five main characters to life. Your ears will thank you to hear their performances across all the main scenarios.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
Fast-paced and furious arena combat, where split-second reactions are essential to dodge flying discs as they ricochet around at breakneck speed. Brave formidable single player adventures or meet up with your friends and challenge them to intense local multiplayer battles.
Why similar: Indie 100%
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 40%, Interactive Fiction 31.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.8%, Indie 2.8%, Story Rich 1.8%
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 46.1%, Interactive Fiction 28.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Adventure 5.1%, Indie 3.6%
Fun word arcade game where you have to spell the words out of sliding letters. Use the power-ups or get busted. Casual and friendly entertainment featuring 4 game modes. The challenge for whole family is ON!
Why similar: Indie 100%
Plunge into court politics and change the course of history, or pursue a love affair that rocks the kingdom to its foundations!
Why similar: Text-Based 34.2%, Interactive Fiction 32.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Adventure 6.2%, Indie 5%
What if you could unhook the stars and fight your battles with black holes? With its mix of adaptative unit combination, space resource harvesting as well as visual and audio refinement, Devouring Stars aspires to bring a different scope to the RTS genre.
Why similar: Indie 100%
Walk the path of a legendary mage, combining four different schools of magic to devastating effects.
Why similar: Text-Based 34.1%, Interactive Fiction 33.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Adventure 8.1%, Indie 2%
Dandelion -Wishes brought to you- is a female-oriented game developed by Cheritz. The game was released in South Korea in August, 2012. The English translation for Dandelion was released on Nov, 2012. Dandelion is known as a unique dating simulation with a sensational storyline and charming characters.
Why similar: Story Rich 100%
Play the role of Professor Dyer, a geologist at Miskatonic University who travelled to Antarctica in 1930 as the leader of a research expedition, in this 3D first-person horror survival adventure game.
In this interactive tale of love and war, be the force of reason that your kingdom needs, or perpetuate its reputation as a force of destruction. Find love and weave friendships, or cast it all away for the sake of retribution.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38%, Text-Based 32.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Adventure 2.5%, Story Rich 2.4%
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: Interactive Fiction 37.1%, Text-Based 31.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Adventure 9.1%, Indie 2.2%
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: Interactive Fiction 39.5%, Text-Based 33.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Adventure 3%, Indie 2.3%
Plow, plant, water, and harvest as you build your ancient Egyptian farm from the ground up. Begin with nothing and unlock workshops, production buildings, and temples through your own hard work.
I found myself at the station. The story unfolds as you type commands on your keyboard. As the days repeat, I keep wondering what I can do for her. A command-driven adventure steeped in nostalgic pixel art and sound.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 49.7%, Text-Based 42.6%, Adventure 7.8%
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: Interactive Fiction 39.5%, Text-Based 33.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Adventure 2.9%, Indie 2.2%
Rule your realm, train heroes, and build a legendary kingdom in Daria. Experience strategy, storytelling, and diplomacy in this immersive sim.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 42%, Text-Based 37.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Indie 2.1%
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: Text-Based 38.4%, Interactive Fiction 29.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Adventure 7.2%, Indie 5.7%
A story-rich tale of breaking the bonds of fate... and meeting some cute guys along the way!
Why similar: Text-Based 72.2%, Adventure 16.6%, Story Rich 11.2%
Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.
It is said that the last frontier is space, but the crew of the Soviet Frigate, The Peresmeshnik, is about to discover that the sea still hides a terrifying secret. Waiting to be found.
Why similar: Text-Based 36.4%, Interactive Fiction 34.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Adventure 3.8%, Story Rich 2.8%
Sweet southern boy Cody always dreamed of living off the land. Now he's taken over his granddaddy's farm and can begin a wonderful new life in the village of Morningdew--a notorious Gayborhood! Loaded with interactive farming and sizzling gay romance!
Why similar: Story Rich 100%
Escape Lizards is simple: Tilt the platforms to roll your lizard egg from the start point to the finishing bell at the end of the level. However, things are never as simple as they seem...
Why similar: Indie 100%
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 37.8%, Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Adventure 6.9%, Indie 5.6%
VEmpire - The Kings of Darkness is a vampire themed digital deck-building game, inspired by one of history's most influential royal dynasties - the house of Habsburg.
Why similar: Indie 100%
Nameless ~The one thing you must recall~ is a visual novel game designed for female audiences. It was distributed by the publisher, Cheritz, in English, Korean, and Japanese on Nov. 11th, 2013 and now it is available on Steam.
Why similar: Story Rich 100%
The world has been thrown into chaos by an ancient evil from another dimension. As one of the last remnants of humanity, you must set out alone or alongside up to two other survivors to face down hordes of deadly enemies to try to carve a foothold, rebuild, and retake what was lost.
Why similar: Adventure 100%
In development since 1993, TAROTICA VOO DOO is an uncategorized Japanese adventure game with fully hand-drawn animation. Fight monsters and solve puzzles to cook dinner and save the family before the airplane crashes into their haunted mansion.
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: Interactive Fiction 40.9%, Text-Based 31.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Adventure 3.2%, Indie 2.5%
The temp worker Kenta is trapped in a lab with four sexy incubus aliens from another dimension. Kenta dates Incubi, incubi date each other, and even the lab workers can get together! A long gay sci-fi yaoi/bara dating sim loaded with 400 CGs!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 80.2%, Story Rich 19.8%
Once upon a time, a girl, her pet dog, and three companions made a journey to meet a great wizard who could grant their wishes. But what if the girl hadn’t believed that “there’s no place like home”? Explore a fairytale world through a dozen routes and 20+ endings!
Why similar: Adventure 100%
THE NEO-SANCTUM SHALL FALL. Claim retribution against the theocratic Faiths as you master vicious hack-and-slash combat in this action-RPG where style is salvation.
Why similar: Story Rich 100%
Cool aircraft, big guns, dogfight thrill, single player, multi player, modding support, moustaches and ladies. You'll like it.
Can music save the human race? You and the Raqullan Empire will soon find out. Decide whether music, and the humans who make it, should survive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 46%, Text-Based 35.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Adventure 2.9%, Indie 2.3%
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.