Games Like Hearts in Hades: Divine Passion

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 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Text-Based 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Romance 10.4%

Check in to your hotel, and check out the ghosts! Sexy specters await you - but can you fix up the hotel in style so that the living guests will find luxury, too?

Why similar: RPG 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Text-Based 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Romance 10.3%

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 24%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Text-Based 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Character Customization 6.9%

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 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Text-Based 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Romance 8.4%

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 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Text-Based 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Character Customization 8.3%

Befriend misfit deities and make a life for yourself in the Underworld! Can you escape your arranged marriage to the King? Do you want to?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Text-Based 15.8%, RPG 13.1%, Character Customization 10.7%

See your name in lights on Broadway! Find fame, fortune, and true love! All it costs is your immortal soul.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Text-Based 15.4%, RPG 11.7%, Romance 8.9%

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 23.5%, Text-Based 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, RPG 14.2%, Character Customization 9.2%

Never stop running, not with the galaxy at stake. Save it at all costs, and save yourself if you can.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Text-Based 17%, RPG 15.3%, Character Customization 12.2%

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 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Text-Based 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Character Customization 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 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Text-Based 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Character Customization 7.1%

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 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Text-Based 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Character Customization 6.4%

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 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Text-Based 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Romance 8.2%

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 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Text-Based 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Character Customization 6.6%

Hunt your prey as a vampire on windswept Victorian moors—but who will capture your unbeating heart?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, RPG 18.4%, Text-Based 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Character Customization 8.4%

Find the unfindable and do the impossible? It’s all in a day’s work for you. As a concierge, how far will you go to make billionaires’ dreams come true?

Why similar: RPG 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Text-Based 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Drama 8.5%

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: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Text-Based 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, RPG 12.7%, Romance 9.9%

A wealthy benefactor. A master lockpick. A magical bodyguard. A trusted ally. A skillful rival. All of them are out to steal priceless treasures. Which one of them will steal your heart?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, RPG 14.4%, Text-Based 12.2%, Character Customization 9.7%

Extract yourself from another fine mess–this time, with your family watching! Mischief, mix-ups, and bewilderingly urgent capers at your ancestral estate.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Text-Based 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, RPG 14.7%, Character Customization 8.7%

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 22.7%, Text-Based 21%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Character Customization 6.6%

Protect an exclusive boarding school and rebuild your life after scandal as a military bodyguard! How far will you go for ambition, duty, and your country?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, RPG 16.4%, Text-Based 15.6%, Character Customization 13.6%

Spark romance amid secrets in a crumbling mansion! What will you sacrifice for love? Can you trust your own heart?

Why similar: RPG 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Text-Based 13.1%, Drama 9.4%

Win duels and hearts as a swordswoman at Paris's finest luxury brothel! Fight for the honor of ladies of the night in this game of swords and seductions.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.4%, RPG 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Text-Based 14.1%, Drama 11.2%

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 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Text-Based 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Character Customization 7.2%

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: RPG 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Text-Based 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Romance 8.7%

In this enchanted sexual escapade across a kingdom on the edge of war, will you revel with mysterious rogues, wily Fae, the Prince, or the Princess?

Why similar: Text-Based 22%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, RPG 21.8%, Romance 11.9%, Character Customization 6.4%

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 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, RPG 15.5%, Character Customization 8.5%

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 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Text-Based 18.3%, RPG 14.6%, Romance 8.6%

Find glamor, glitz, gossip, and love in 1920s London! You and your friends are the talk of the town - but will a malicious journalist turn the tables?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.1%, RPG 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Romance 10%, Text-Based 9.6%

Unleash your lust and your thirst in a battle for the soul of London! Will passion lead you back to humanity, or will you embrace the night as a vampire?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Text-Based 20.4%, RPG 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%, Character Customization 8.8%

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 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Text-Based 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Character Customization 7%

Can you survive being a demon’s nanny? Uncover a world of paranormal secrets. Magic. Miracles. And a battle between order and chaos. And for your heart.

Why similar: Text-Based 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, RPG 12.2%, Romance 10.3%

The wilderfolk of Ushinega Island waste away in a rotting tropical paradise, haunted by a deadly malediction. Yet behind every curse lurks a secret. You have the power to save them... but should you?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.1%, Text-Based 18.5%, RPG 16.5%, Character Customization 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%

A 700,000-word epic fantasy interactive novel.

Why similar: RPG 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Text-Based 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Drama 9.8%

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 25.4%, Text-Based 22.7%, RPG 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Character Customization 8.9%

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 24.6%, Text-Based 23.1%, RPG 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Choices Matter 7.9%

Infiltrate the orgiastic secret society beneath the modern-day Palace of Versailles! Will you expose their sex rituals or surrender to their pleasures? An interactive romance novel.

Why similar: RPG 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Text-Based 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Romance 8.3%

By day, you're just another citizen. By night, you defend the city. But don’t quit your day job, hero. A text-based superhero novel, 450,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.

Why similar: RPG 24.8%, Text-Based 22.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Character Customization 8.9%

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 21%, Interactive Fiction 18%, RPG 16.4%, Text-Based 15.1%, Character Customization 13.7%

Step into the shoes of an ancient mutant and get thrown into the modern, mortal world. Learn what you can about your past as you don the mask of a villain!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, RPG 17.6%, Character Customization 14.1%, Text-Based 12.3%

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 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Text-Based 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Character Customization 6.6%

As a social media influencer recruited to a team of heroes, can you earn their trust, defend the city, and prove you’re worth more than your follower count? A text-based interactive superhero novel.

Why similar: RPG 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Text-Based 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Romance 8.7%

Lead a team of young heroes against criminals, cultists, demons, and midterms. Will you carry on your heroic legacy or forge your own path? A text-based, 600,000-word interactive superpower novel.

Why similar: RPG 23%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Text-Based 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Character Customization 6.8%

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 25.2%, Text-Based 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, RPG 15.3%, Character Customization 7.3%

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 22.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, RPG 18.2%, Romance 8.4%

Shrug off bullets, smash buildings with your bare hands, and soar through the air as you battle diabolical supervillains! A text-based interactive superhero novel.

Why similar: RPG 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Text-Based 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Drama 10%

Will you serve the gods or overthrow them? Battle ancient evils and destiny itself in this epic interactive novel inspired by Greek myth.

Why similar: Text-Based 23.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, RPG 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Romance 9.9%

Battle for love as a gladiator in this epic romance of swords and sandals! Win glory, victory, a better life, your freedom - and spark a revolution!

Why similar: RPG 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Text-Based 17.6%, Romance 8.4%

Rebuild society after the climate apocalypse! Can you keep your settlement alive? Will you hold onto your humanity or lose it in the directionless expanse?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Text-Based 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, RPG 14.1%, Character Customization 8.7%

Travel across a magical kingdom with four eccentric individuals! Will you find your destiny—or will you write it for yourself? A text-based interactive fantasy novel, 600,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, RPG 17.1%, Character Customization 14.3%, Text-Based 13.9%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.4%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Text-Based 24%, Romance 14.1%, RPG 9.4%

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 27.3%, Text-Based 22.4%, RPG 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Character Customization 7.9%

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 23.3%, Text-Based 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Character Customization 5.9%

Duel wizards, cast spells, find true love, and keep your academic scholarship, all while investigating the mysterious disappearances plaguing your campus!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, RPG 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Romance 9.7%, Character Customization 6.9%

A text-based adventure into the world of cheerleading!

Why similar: RPG 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Text-Based 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Character Customization 6.6%

With the power to freeze time, you can ransack a casino, rescue a celebrity, or cheat death itself! A thrilling interactive sci-fi novel.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, RPG 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Text-Based 19.2%, Choices Matter 10.7%

Get yourself into and out of another fine mess! Win glory, renown, and much-needed money through cunning schemes that will seem like good ideas at the time.

Why similar: Text-Based 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, RPG 21.8%, Romance 9.8%, Choices Matter 7.5%

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 30.8%, RPG 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Choices Matter 4.8%

A choice-driven narrative RPG set in China’s Warring States period. Rise from a nameless soldier to a legendary general through decisions with permanent consequences. Death is final. History remembers only the survivors.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Text-Based 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Drama 13%, RPG 11.1%

Battle robots, make friends, and uncover a bizarre conspiracy to avert the apocalypse in this comedy of manners and mayhem with steampunk blasters!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, RPG 17.5%, Character Customization 14%, Text-Based 12.3%