Games Like A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight

1872, with a steampunk twist. Phileas Fogg has wagered he can circumnavigate the world in just 80 days. Travel by airship, submarine, mechanical camel, steam-train and more. Race other players and a clock that never stops in TIME Magazine's Game of 2014.

Why similar: Steampunk 51.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.2%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Indie 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A brilliant narrative-driven adventure that captures the same sense of Victorian-era exploration and steampunk wonder.

A Victorian steampunk RPG with tarot cards instead of dice. Investigate the disappearance of society’s most vulnerable to uncover a mysterious cult. Play as three characters, each with their own skills and motivations. Customize your characters with narrative choices to unlock new tarot cards.

Why similar: Steampunk 66.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, RPG 14.7%

Why You'll Like It: An isometric RPG set in a Victorian steampunk world that emphasizes character choices and narrative depth.

A steampunk-ish detective adventure from the creator of A Golden Wake and Shardlight! Can you help private investigator Miles Fordham find justice for his clients and track down his partner's killer before his entire world comes apart?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 54.3%, Interactive Fiction 29.1%, Indie 16.6%

Why You'll Like It: A detective adventure game set in a steampunk-inspired city that focuses on investigation and moral dilemmas.

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 39.2%, Text-Based 32%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, RPG 9.4%, Indie 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic interactive fiction title that offers the same high-quality branching narrative and impactful choices found in the seed.

A new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 100%

Why You'll Like It: A complex detective game that requires careful observation and deduction in a period-accurate setting.

Wage a war of gunpowder and magic! As a gentleman-officer of the Royal Dragoons, will you sacrifice your fortune? Your honour? Your men? Your own life?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 47.5%, RPG 22.6%, Text-Based 20.4%, Indie 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A highly regarded military-themed interactive novel that features deep character development and strategic decision-making.

Immerse yourself in a dramatic yet charming and witty world of evidence-gathering, deduction and courtroom battles with this double-pack of the adventures of rookie lawyer Ryunosuke.

Why similar: Steampunk 53.7% ★, Text-Based 23.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%

Why You'll Like It: A Victorian-era courtroom drama that perfectly captures the charm and mystery of 19th-century detective fiction.

Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.

Why similar: RPG 86.9%, Indie 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: A deep, text-heavy detective RPG that offers unparalleled freedom in how you shape your character's personality and investigative approach.

Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.

Why similar: Text-Based 40.7%, RPG 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 24%, Indie 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A text-rich RPG that focuses on survival and character-driven choices in a unique, atmospheric setting.

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 39%, Text-Based 22.9%, RPG 20.3%, Indie 8.9%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: The sequel to Sabres of Infinity, continuing the tradition of complex, choice-driven military narrative.

Experience a Narrative Adventure where your choices and character growth truly matter. As a member of a 1793 secret society, live a tale of intrigue and manipulation on the hunt for your missing mother.

Why similar: RPG 58.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 41.1%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy RPG where your investigative choices and social maneuvering significantly impact the story's outcome.

Lead the revolt against a bloodthirsty empire! You grew up under the iron fist of the Hegemony. Now is your chance to end their blood-fueled magic, as you forge a ragtag outlaw band into a rebel army.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 40.6%, Text-Based 27.9%, RPG 21.6%, Indie 10%

Why You'll Like It: A sprawling, choice-heavy epic that focuses on leadership and rebellion, much like the best of the Hosted Games library.

Explore the House, a parasite dimension that steals from other worlds, in a train that scuttles on mechanical legs.

Why similar: Steampunk 62.6% ★, RPG 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Text-Based 9.7%, Indie 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: An exploration-heavy, lore-rich game with a unique, surreal steampunk aesthetic.

Your magic can change the world, but at what cost? Battle dragons, skyships, and evil Inquisitors, as you protect your homeland, conquer it, or destroy it forever!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 35.6%, Text-Based 33.5%, RPG 19.7%, Indie 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A well-written interactive fantasy novel that emphasizes the consequences of your magical and political choices.

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 35.4%, Text-Based 24.3%, RPG 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Indie 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A popular interactive fiction series that provides a deep, character-focused story with high-stakes combat and choices.

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 35.2%, RPG 21.7%, Text-Based 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Indie 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A unique interactive fiction title that explores the consequences of manipulating time through your choices.

Step into the cockpit of a giant "mecha" robot, dueling with plasma sabers in an interstellar civil war!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.2%, RPG 24.3%, Text-Based 22%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Indie 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi interactive novel that captures the same thrill of piloting mechs found in the seed game.

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 39.6%, Text-Based 29.3%, RPG 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Indie 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A supernatural legal thriller that shares the same text-based, choice-heavy DNA as the seed.

Ride out into the Old West as a U.S. marshal in the biggest interactive novel ever made! Confront outlaws, find romance, defy the elements, and craft an enduring legend as you uncover a conspiracy whose deadly web stretches from San Francisco to New York City.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 39.1%, Text-Based 24.8%, RPG 19.9%, Indie 8.4%, Interactive Fiction 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A lengthy and immersive western-themed interactive novel with a strong focus on character relationships and moral choices.

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 40.3%, RPG 24.5%, Text-Based 24.4%, Indie 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A historical interactive novel that focuses on education and political influence in the ancient world.

The Innsmouth Case is a text adventure game inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and the very first text-based adventure to combine horror and comedy in a fit and proper way.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 57.3%, Text-Based 35.6%, Indie 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A Lovecraftian detective game that blends humor with mystery and multiple branching paths.

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 34.5%, Text-Based 25.4%, RPG 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Indie 8%

Why You'll Like It: A character-driven interactive novel that excels in social maneuvering and political drama.

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.8%, Text-Based 24.7%, RPG 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Indie 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: A modern, highly detailed interactive fiction experience with a strong emphasis on world-building and romance.

Take back your throne from demon-summoning usurpers in this 145,000-word interactive fantasy novel! Will your prince or princess choose to be good or evil?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.7%, Text-Based 28.5%, RPG 27.6%, Indie 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: A classic fantasy interactive novel that focuses on character growth and political intrigue.

A gritty dice-driven RPG, in a steampunk city. You escaped the War, but how to survive? Explore the city. Build up your skills. Decide who to trust. Choose carefully: you might just spark a revolution!

Why similar: Steampunk 62.1% ★, Text-Based 19.4%, RPG 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 6.3%

Seize the throne in the age of King Arthur! Lead an army of Britons against the darkest of enemies in this epic interactive medieval fantasy novel.

Why similar: Text-Based 35.6%, RPG 27.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.4%, Indie 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A retelling of Arthurian legend in an interactive format that rewards strategic and moral decision-making.

Welcome to the Skyways, caravaneer. Complete missions, manage your ship’s resources and make tough decisions to keep your crew alive and happy. Or not. Choices have lasting consequences in this Text-Based RPG. You are the captain - and the clouds are waiting!

Why similar: Steampunk 40.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Text-Based 13.4%, RPG 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 11%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven management game that emphasizes choices and exploration in a fantasy setting.

As the CEO of a corporation that sells superpowers to the highest bidder, you'll harness dark magic and travel through time to inflate your stock prices!

Why similar: Text-Based 38.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.9%, RPG 23.5%, Indie 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A corporate-themed interactive novel that offers a unique take on the genre with its focus on business and ethics.

Write an archmage's autobiography in this 80-year 130,000-word interactive fiction! Play good or evil, man or woman, as you bring peace to the kingdom or take over the world with your sorcery. Brew potions, raise the dead, summon mythical beasts, control men's minds, and blast away your enemies.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.5%, RPG 29.3%, Text-Based 25.3%, Indie 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: A comprehensive life-simulation interactive novel that allows for deep customization and branching paths.

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 35.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, RPG 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Indie 6.1%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 35.1%, Text-Based 22.7%, RPG 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Indie 4.3%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 34%, Text-Based 29.5%, RPG 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Indie 7.6%

Walk the path of a legendary mage, combining four different schools of magic to devastating effects.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.3%, Text-Based 26.6%, RPG 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Indie 3.4%

Implant cameras in your eyes to win the news wars of 2061! Break stories, outwit rival reporters, and become a celebrity in this interactive noir novel.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 46.9%, RPG 37.8%, Indie 15.3%

Make the movie of your dreams amid the glamor and romance of 1950s Hollywood! Hire Alfred Hitchcock, seduce Greta Garbo, or build your studio into a powerhouse.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.6%, Text-Based 28.5%, RPG 25.9%, Indie 11%

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 45.8%, RPG 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Text-Based 13.9%, Indie 5.9%

Inspired by JCS videos and similar Interrogation analysis. Match evidence with statements. Play good cop/bad cop. Make choices. Learn what makes people tick. Unravel the mystery.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 41%, Text-Based 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, RPG 15.7%

Climb to the very top of the class at your exclusive private school for socialites! Will you study hard, find a perfect match, or embrace scandal?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.6%, RPG 28.9%, Text-Based 27%, Indie 13.5%

The Tesla Mystery is a puzzle-driven adventure game. Join the journey of investigation in a Paris infused with steampunk and Art Nouveau styles. Nikola Tesla, mastermind behind the Science Conference, has vanished under mysterious circumstances. Now, and uncover the truth hidden in the city...

Why similar: Steampunk 53.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Text-Based 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%

Adventure across a Wild West world in a rickety, steampunk airship! Inspired by the likes of Firefly and the classic CRPGs of old. A unique setting filled with rich lore, deep stories, and adventure! Contend with outlaws, gunslingers, and bounty hunters in an epic quest for redemption and revenge!

Why similar: Steampunk 71% ★, Text-Based 13.3%, RPG 10.9%, Indie 4.8%

Puzzlequest meets FTL in this Steampunk Victorian era roguelite.

Why similar: Steampunk 79.5% ★, RPG 14%, Indie 6.6%

Combat, romance, adventure, and of course—magic! Master four elements and take on fate itself in this epic, interactive fantasy tale! Six possible endings. Four hours for a single playthrough. Three love interests. Countless choices. Male or female? Leader or loner? Good or evil? What kind of mage will you be?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32%, RPG 29.2%, Text-Based 26.4%, Indie 12.4%

Topple the vampires from the streets below! Will you unite the homeless, the gangs, and the secret hunter societies to defy vampiric rule? An interactive novel set in the World of Darkness extended universe.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.3%, RPG 24.2%, Text-Based 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Indie 3.2%

An epic open-world narrative adventure through a world of monsters, traps and magic. Explore two intermeshed worlds, past and present, and create your own unique story where every decision you make is remembered. Survive, and defeat the Seven Serpents - if you can!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 49.7%, RPG 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Indie 9.6%

Imagine a place of wonder, where magick and technology coexist in an uneasy balance, and an adventurer might just as easily wield a flintlock pistol as a flaming sword. Welcome to the land of Arcanum.

Why similar: Steampunk 78.8% ★, RPG 21.2%

As a wanna-be hero, you must rescue a city held hostage by an evil wizard, and somehow find money to pay your rent! A 240,000-word interactive novel.

Why similar: RPG 32.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.3%, Text-Based 25.1%, Indie 13.8%

Search for a ruthless assassin in this Gamebook Adventure where YOU control the story!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 45.2%, RPG 40.1%, Indie 14.7%

SAIL THE STARS. BETRAY YOUR QUEEN. MURDER A SUN. Sunless Skies is a Gothic Horror roleplay game with a focus on exploration and exquisite storytelling.

Why similar: Steampunk 83.1% ★, RPG 12.7%, Indie 4.1%

An immersive sim-lite in a fictional historical setting. You are on the world's first airship about to crash down and have to find the culprit. Sneak around, break into cabins, interrogate passengers, find evidence - but be careful not to incriminate yourself!

Why similar: Steampunk 62.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, RPG 12.2%, Indie 3.9%

Recruit a team of misfits with unique abilities and unforgettable personalities, and chase the Banished Court to the ends of the earth in a mix of real-time infiltration, turn-based tactical combat, and a character-driven story of adventure and intrigue.

Why similar: RPG 100%

Investigate a paranormal disease that threatens to eradicate humanity in this unsettling Lovecraftian adventure, inspired by the choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks of the 80s and 90s. Your choices will determine the story, your character’s destiny… and the future of humanity.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 47.4%, Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Indie 13.6%, Text-Based 12.8%

Restore a crumbling occult library by a winter sea. Build the world’s foremost collection of grimoires and arcana. Master the invisible arts. BOOK OF HOURS is a narrative crafting RPG set in a 1930s world of hidden gods and secret histories. What sort of Librarian will you choose to be?

Why similar: Text-Based 51%, RPG 49%

Take active part in a nonlinear, interactive visual novel set against the atmospheric backdrop of the 19th century England.

Why similar: Indie 100%

The Thaumaturge is a character-driven RPG with a rich story, morally ambiguous choices, and turn-based combat. In a city on the brink of change, use your mystical powers to read emotions, uncover motives, and command folklore-inspired demons — while resisting the temptation of your own pride.

Why similar: RPG 100%

Expose the dark secrets and mysteries of your seemingly idyllic hometown in this romantic thriller! Will you fall in love or fall victim to its horrors?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.2%, Text-Based 28.2%, RPG 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Indie 2.3%

Mothmen 1966 is a 'Pixel Pulp' - a visual novel fusing exceptional writing and stunning illustration, inspired by mid-20th century pulp fiction and 80s home computer graphics - set amongst the strange occurrences of the Leonid meteor shower of 1966.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 62.7%, Interactive Fiction 28.8%, Indie 8.5%

Inspired by 16 and 32-bit classics, Gestalt: Steam & Cinder fuses tight 2D platforming and exhilarating combat with an engrossing, twist-laden narrative in a stunningly handcrafted steampunk world.

Why similar: Steampunk 74% ★, RPG 20.3%, Indie 5.6%

A mad and romantic ADV. Unravel a strange world of science and philosophy with a mecha girl, zombie girl, or beastfolk. Some paths may disturb you... or thrill you.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 100%

Unburied secrets burn like wild steam – nothing is what it appears!

Why similar: Steampunk 98.2% ★, Indie 1.8%