60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, RPG, Choose Your Own Adventure, Choices Matter.
You are subordinate to the deranged dictator and must plan his doomed invasion in this text-based RPG / Visual Novel. Navigate the shark-filled waters of the Great Leader's presidential cabinet, try to save your family, and survive the purges in a world of power-hungry leaders and nuclear warfare.
I, the Forgotten One
To defeat the rebel knights and stabilize the crown, you must journey through the most dangerous realm in the kingdom--your own wretched past.
Heads Will Roll: Reforged
Hardcore survival RPG with non-linear story that lets you play as a young medieval soldier who over the course of battles and adventures becomes the most formidable and respected knight of his era. Or, if he’s not lucky enough, perishes in the chaos of the Hundred Years' War.
To defeat the rebel knights and stabilize the crown, you must journey through the most dangerous realm in the kingdom--your own wretched past.
Why similar: War 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Text-Based 14.5%, Psychological 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%
Hardcore survival RPG with non-linear story that lets you play as a young medieval soldier who over the course of battles and adventures becomes the most formidable and respected knight of his era. Or, if he’s not lucky enough, perishes in the chaos of the Hundred Years' War.
Why similar: War 19.2%, Historical 12.7%, Text-Based 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%
Ukraine War Stories is a set of visual novels about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Set in the early months of the war, it tells the stories of civilians trapped on Russian-occupied territory. All stories are based on real events and eyewitness accounts.
Why similar: War 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Historical 11.2%, Text-Based 11%
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: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Choices Matter 17.4%, Text-Based 14%, Visual Novel 11.6%
You decide how a civil war in the country of Izgub is supposed to end. Visual novel with strong themes of war, political violence and moral dilemma.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.2%, War 23.7%, Visual Novel 17%, Dark 10.7%, Adventure 6%
Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make the decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Text-Based 13.9%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Alternate History 12.5%
Heads Will Roll: Downfall is a combination of a tactical role-playing game and visual novel, in which you will assume the role of a medieval soldier.
Why similar: War 19.7%, Historical 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Text-Based 15.4%, Dark 9.1%
Survive a mad Sultan's reign in this brutal resource management RPG. Draw a card every seven days and complete its challenge. Make dreadful choices to stay alive: will you die a loyal servant, become a kingslayer, or call down the gods' judgement?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 38.8%, Choices Matter 21.3%, Story Rich 15.5%, Adventure 9.7%, RPG 8.8%
You play as Hitler, reliving some of your best and worst decisions and seeing where those lead you. Only you decide how this war will end.
Why similar: Historical 19.9%, War 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Text-Based 9.6%, Psychological 9.5%
Rule the land as you see fit, using alliances, intrigue or warfare to establish your House as a dominant force in the realm's politics.
Why similar: Text-Based 44.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 32.8%, Adventure 12.1%, RPG 10.9%
Become the Dictator of Gradnar! Rule the nation, choose between democracy and tyranny, wage wars with a unique card-based mechanic, and expand your empire. A political dystopia packed with satire and humor!
Why similar: War 36.9%, Visual Novel 28.4%, Choices Matter 21.7%, Atmospheric 7.4%, 2D 5.6%
Become the King in a story-driven 8-bit style game, where choice matters. And try not to die instantly...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Historical 17.8%, Resource Management 13.3%, Choices Matter 12%, Multiple Endings 11.9%
Sovietpunk is a cyberpunk story set in the setting of the Soviet Union after a global nuclear war. You have to guide the main character through the gloomy tunnels, in which the struggle for life is in full swing.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Alternate History 17.5%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Dark 9.5%, Story Rich 9.1%
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Choices Matter 9.4%
Berlin 1933. “Adolf Hitler is chancellor!” We all know the consequences this message bore. Unspeakable horrors and suffering would sweep across the world. Few would stand and fight the monstrosity that was the German Reich. Will you? Lead an underground resistance group Through the Darkest of Times.
Why similar: Historical 24.5%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Adventure 10.2%, Resource Management 10.1%, Dark 9.6%
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: Text-Based 30.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Story Rich 12.8%
Field Hospital is a text-based bureaucratic detective game about hard decisions. Decide who to treat and whom to refuse. Face consequences. Study patients’ info and read their stories. Investigate the tangled case of Dr. Taylor.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, War 13.3%, Military 12.3%, Alternate History 11.2%, Text-Based 11%
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 49.4%, Text-Based 26.4%, Adventure 12.7%, RPG 11.5%
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 36.1%, Text-Based 26.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Adventure 10.6%, RPG 9.2%
A branching-path narrative horror RPG set in Vienna, Austria. Guide the Unnamed through the worst night of their life: Harass your neighbours. Debate with birds. Smoke to survive.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Text-Based 17.2%, Dark 10.4%, Multiple Endings 10%, Psychological 9.6%
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 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Text-Based 17.7%, War 13.1%, Choices Matter 8.2%
MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Psychological 13.5%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
A surrealist text-based RPG. You will explore an island, solve puzzles, and fight enemies, all in your attempt to get the Dark Egg.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Text-Based 19.7%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Story Rich 6.6%
Survive in Russia is a survival quest in Russia. You will be available a selection of characters. Each of them presents survival mode and story mode. Only on your choice will depend on the life of the character.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Alternate History 16.6%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Choices Matter 11.1%
ArmaCulture is an indie factory-builder RPG set in the midst of a bitter, industrialized war between two nations in a fictional world similar to our own. The game combines illustrated character art with stylized pixel art to create a unique and dark historic atmosphere.
Why similar: War 34.6%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Dark 8.4%, RPG 6.9%
A psychological text-based game where each day you are tasked with executing someone based on the limited information provided until one person remains with their full story revealed.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20%, Text-Based 19.2%, Psychological 15.3%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%
In an AI-powered age where original authors have become largely redundant, play as a dejected writer on the brink of losing their creative drive forever.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Psychological 14.5%, Story Rich 6.7%
“The world you knew is already collapsed.”As an explorer in a bunker, explore a new world 500 years in the future and decide its fate. You can lead the world back to doom or bring it to peace. It all depends on your choices.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.3%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Story Rich 9.5%
Players will enter the Town of Dusk, built on the eve of Empire of Japan's defeat in World War II, along with other characters. Avoid being killed by other characters! Find the mastermind behind the scenes, unravel all the conspiracies, and uncover the truth! Ultimately escape the Town of Dusk!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Text-Based 21.9%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Story Rich 7.6%
It's a choice-oriented story game. Play as a group of underground workers who fight in the dark, and stage a treacherous spy war story in Nanjing during World War II. How will you respond to identity crises, betrayals, and collapsed beliefs? Loyalty or betrayal, abandon others or be abandoned...
Why similar: Historical 21.8%, Visual Novel 21.4%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Story Rich 11.7%
As a criminal mastermind, choose a lair, rob a bank, hire a minion, and steal the world's largest ball of aluminum foil! Or, destroy the world. FINE.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 40.1%, Text-Based 35.3%, Choices Matter 14.9%, RPG 9.8%
A text-based RPG full of choice and action. Fight for survival in the midst of the Roman invasion of ancient Caledonia. Strategize one dice roll at a time as emotions affect your performance. Use willpower to outsmart opponents, gain allies, wage war, or strive for peace. How will your story end?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Text-Based 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Visual Novel 11.6%
This Is the President is a political thriller. You are the newly elected leader with a shady background. It is up to you to abuse the position of the most powerful man in the world to escape justice for past crimes – even if that pitches the country into utter chaos.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 48.9%, Visual Novel 31.8%, Adventure 12.2%, 2D 7.1%
THE SIN COLLECTOR: REPENTLESS is a game on the border of a visual novel and a classic text RPG, set in the world of The Sin Collector, a series of books written by Michał Gołkowski. Action takes place a couple of years before the events presented in the books.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Text-Based 13.9%, Alternate History 12.4%, Visual Novel 10.6%
You will take on the role of the Second Prince of Xuan, heir of the Southern Regime. With foreign invaders entrenched in the north and a complacent court content to linger in the south, you face a defining choice:The choice… is yours!
Why similar: Visual Novel 32.6%, Interactive Fiction 26.4%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, RPG 11.5%
The Advisor Series is a player-driven narrative where your choices & decisions, both in the game, and out of the game, determine how future episodes unfold. Play the role of villain protagonist Magnus the Magician, as he wreaks havoc across the land, one well-placed fireball at a time!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Choices Matter 13%, Multiple Endings 12.5%
Attentat 1942 is a historically-accurate adventure about World War 2. Face moral dilemmas and existential struggles as you uncover the troubled past of your family.
Why similar: Historical 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
Turn-based kingdom management simulator focused on decision-making. Will you survive and lead the kingdom to prosperity, or die in agony? The throne awaits.
Why similar: Historical 24%, Alternate History 18.1%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.1%
Broken Lines is a story-driven tactical RPG set in an alternate-history version of WWII. Lead a squad of soldiers and face the horrors of war. In the included expansion, 'The Dead and the Drunk', guide your troops through fights against both the living and the undead.
Why similar: War 36.3%, Historical 21.2%, Alternate History 16.7%, Choices Matter 10%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Type a question - patients reply in full screen video and have questions for you too but be careful what you say. Your words determine their eventual fates, and your own!
Why similar: Psychological 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Dark 15.5%, Multiple Endings 10.1%, Story Rich 9.7%
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: Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Text-Based 13.1%, Choices Matter 12%, Resource Management 11.8%
A Legionary's Life lets you play as a Roman soldier during the years of the Second Punic War and beyond. Rise up through the ranks and win prestigious awards or just focus on making it home in one piece; it's up to you.
Why similar: Historical 28.4%, War 27.3%, Text-Based 20.8%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%
Dark Scavenger is a bizarre point-and-click RPG adventure with a focus on exploration, gaining loot, and meaningful choices. Filling the role of a powerful space traveler, you find yourself stranded on a mysterious alien planet. Will you save the world or just yourself?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, RPG 16.8%, Multiple Endings 11.7%, Adventure 9.8%
You are an intern at the central ministry of a totalitarian state with your whole career ahead of you. Work your way up the ladder by scheming against employees, spying on your boss, and completing paperwork. Or do you turn against the state and expose corruption. The choice is still yours to make!
Why similar: Choices Matter 22.9%, Dark 20.1%, Multiple Endings 19%, Story Rich 14.5%, Atmospheric 9%
Raid On Taihoku is an adventure game with the backdrop of WW2 Taiwan. By controlling the characters pass through different danger and safe zones, you will experience the struggles of human nature and cruelty of war.
Why similar: War 37.8%, Historical 32.3%, Story Rich 10.8%, Choices Matter 6.7%, RPG 6.4%
Guide puny humans through Despot's Game - a rogue-like tactics army battler. Equip your team and sacrifice them through procedural dungeons as you fight enemies, and other players!
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 30.7%, RPG 17.7%, Adventure 17.2%, Atmospheric 15.1%, 2D 13.5%
As a young time traveler, you receive the opportunity to meet the greatest dictator of all time — Stalin. And then what? Everything's up to you! Speak with Joseph, reveal his most hidden secrets, give him advice, and help the vozhd come to world domination! Or... show him what true love is!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.1%, Historical 22.8%, Alternate History 20%, Visual Novel 18.7%, Story Rich 9.4%
A long-form, choice-driven psychological horror and depression game in which the protagonist’s ending changes based on the choices made by “you,” the voice he hears in his head.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.9%, Dark 19.2%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Pixel Graphics 12.1%, Story Rich 12%
If you don't sacrifice your neighbors, the world ends. Life Eater is a horror fantasy kidnapping simulator where you must become intimately familiar with your targets' lives one intrusive action at a time... and hope that the dark god you serve is even real.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.2%, Text-Based 28.5%, Alternate History 24.7%, Multiple Endings 7.6%, Atmospheric 7%
A story-rich gothic RPG. Master the rituals of an ancient spellbook. Raise an undead army to march against your enemies. Commune with the realm of the dead & struggle with your descent into madness. Progress through secrecy, diplomacy, blackmail, coercion & seduction until ready to reveal yourself.
Why similar: Alternate History 37.9%, Choices Matter 19.6%, Story Rich 16.2%, Atmospheric 10%, RPG 8.4%
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 71.8%, RPG 28.2%
As a judge of the Kobardde court, solve complex cases inspired by actual events. Your decisions will directly affect people's (and perhaps yours) lives. You may have to make difficult decisions for your family, country, and life. What kind of judge will you be?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.9%, Text-Based 16.9%, Alternate History 14.2%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
Survive the Blackout is a narrative survival game set in a dark post-apocalyptic world. Choose your adventure-type gameplay, squad-level management, exploration and scavenging, difficult moral choices. Modern-times tribute to Oregon Trail.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Resource Management 11.2%, Adventure 8%
A modern-day JRPG that imagines a world of war. Overcome language barriers, forge unlikely friendships, and find hope amidst conflict.
Why similar: Military 20.4%, War 18.8%, Alternate History 16.6%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.9%
A visual novel/roguelike hybrid where a simple mission spirals into a cannibalistic odyssey. You'll struggle as a fragile human, blood-soaked knight, or flesh-devouring Forsaker. Devour or be devoured—yet your fate dangles by unseen strings. Choose: cling to this broken world... or forsake it.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Historical 24.2%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Story Rich 9.5%, Adventure 6.6%
Double is an action-quest game telling about a fight with a mental disorder by immersing in dreams. Choose your way and find out how this mystical story ends.
Why similar: War 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Historical 12.3%, Psychological 12.3%, Visual Novel 8.8%
All Quiet in the Trenches is a narrative turn-based strategy RPG set in World War I. Get to know your soldiers, take care of their needs and lead them in battle, trying to strike a precarious balance between the ambitions of your superiors and the survival of your men.
Why similar: War 35%, Historical 21%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Psychological 9.6%, Story Rich 8%
Get ready to take part in the world war! It depends only on your choice who you will be - a winner or a loser! It's time to press the red button!
Why similar: War 21.6%, Military 21.2%, Alternate History 20.2%, Historical 15.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%
