Games Like A Wise Use of Time

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 27.9%, Text-Based 23.6%, Choices Matter 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, RPG 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic sci-fi interactive fiction title that explores the long-term consequences of your technological creations.

They called you a hero; you call them fools. Use your telepathy romance old friends and fight new enemies as you become the greatest villain Los Diablos has ever known!

Why similar: Text-Based 27.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.6%, RPG 17.2%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a deeply complex, superpowered narrative where your choices regarding your morality and identity have profound consequences.

Steam-powered mechs meet forbidden sorcery in this interactive steampunk novel, inspired by Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Jekyll & Hyde, and Jack the Ripper!

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: It provides a rich, atmospheric narrative set in an alternate history where your choices define your path as an investigator.

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 34.7%, Text-Based 22.8%, RPG 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Indie 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This expansive western epic offers an incredible amount of agency and branching paths that truly reflect your character's personality.

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 25.9%, Choices Matter 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, RPG 18.2%, Text-Based 12%

Why You'll Like It: It blends supernatural abilities with a mystery-driven plot that requires careful decision-making to uncover the truth.

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 44.1%, RPG 26.3%, Text-Based 19.7%, Indie 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A military-focused interactive novel that excels at making every strategic decision feel impactful and tense.

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 34.4%, RPG 22.4%, Text-Based 21%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Indie 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: The direct sequel to Sabres of Infinity, it continues the high-stakes military drama with even more complex political choices.

Become the Wielder of Soul Stone, an ancient artifact of untold power, and shape the fate of your world. Outrun the past so that you may have a future.

Why similar: RPG 27.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Text-Based 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Choices Matter 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: This fantasy adventure features a strong focus on character growth and the weight of the choices you make while wielding ancient power.

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 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, RPG 20.1%, Text-Based 18.9%, Choices Matter 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an incredibly detailed world and a slow-burn narrative that rewards players for paying attention to every choice.

Do you have what it takes to become a legendary Powered hero? "Heroes Rise" is an epic interactive novel where your choices control the story. The game is entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. How high will you rise?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.6%, Text-Based 23.2%, RPG 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choices Matter 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A quintessential superhero interactive fiction title that focuses on the challenges of balancing fame, morality, and power.

Outwit your professors at superpower school! Ace your exams, date classmates, and bring down the nation’s most wanted villains to earn your degree.

Why similar: Text-Based 32.8%, RPG 28%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.7%, Indie 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a grounded, humorous take on the superhero genre that emphasizes character development over raw power.

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

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.4%, RPG 23.6%, Text-Based 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Indie 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: This title delivers a gripping, high-stakes story about magic and political intrigue where your past actions haunt your future.

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 37.1%, RPG 27.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Indie 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game allows you to manage a corporation dealing in superpowers, offering a unique corporate-thriller perspective on the genre.

Steal alien powers and absorb their memories! Can you outlast your opponents to escape from planet Versus? An epic adventure in a new galaxy.

Why similar: RPG 31.7%, Text-Based 29.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.7%, Indie 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi adventure that forces you to navigate a hostile alien world using your wits and newly discovered abilities.

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 37.2%, RPG 28.3%, Text-Based 23.3%, Indie 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: An educational yet engaging historical narrative that allows you to shape the intellectual future of an ancient city.

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 24.9%, Text-Based 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, RPG 16.5%, Choices Matter 15.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title excels at political intrigue and social strategy, making every conversation a potential turning point.

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 25.5%, Text-Based 22.9%, RPG 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Choices Matter 14.1%

Why You'll Like It: A mythological epic where your interactions with deities and mortals determine the fate of the world.

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 33.1%, Text-Based 32.3%, RPG 22.9%, Indie 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a creative magic system where your choices determine how you interact with the world and solve complex problems.

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 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 25.5%, RPG 25.2%, Choices Matter 19.6%, Indie 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A delightful and witty character-driven story that focuses on social maneuvering and personal reputation.

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 31.8%, RPG 29.8%, Text-Based 27.2%, Indie 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a creative look at the film industry, challenging you to balance artistic integrity with commercial success.

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 35.2%, Text-Based 27%, RPG 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Indie 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A unique blend of legal drama and high-fantasy that forces you to navigate complex rules and magical contracts.

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 26.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.3%, RPG 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Indie 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A supernatural teen drama that balances high school social life with mysterious, reality-bending events.

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: RPG 33.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.2%, Text-Based 25%, Indie 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: A classic fantasy adventure that focuses on the journey of a hero discovering their true potential.

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: RPG 33.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.6%, Text-Based 24%, Indie 12%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a massive scope, allowing you to shape your character's entire life from childhood to legendary status.

Turn a scripted steel-cage wrestling match into a real fight in this 250,000-word interactive novel, the greatest text-based pro-wrestling RPG in the world!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.6%, RPG 31.5%, Text-Based 23.6%, Indie 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: This sports-themed interactive novel captures the drama and intensity of professional wrestling through a compelling narrative.

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 37%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.5%, Text-Based 23.5%, Indie 13.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a traditional fantasy experience with a focus on building your reputation as a local hero.

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 32.2%, Text-Based 23.6%, RPG 20.1%, Choices Matter 16.2%, Indie 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It flips the script by letting you play as a villain, focusing on the choices required to maintain your dark empire.

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.3%, Interactive Fiction 22%, Text-Based 19.8%, Choices Matter 15%, RPG 13.7%

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: RPG 31.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29%, Text-Based 27%, Indie 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: A classic fantasy quest that emphasizes survival and the strategic management of your character's skills.

Would a hero like you assassinate the president? "Heroes Rise: HeroFall" concludes the epic "Heroes Rise" trilogy of interactive novels where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

Why similar: RPG 29.6%, Text-Based 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Choices Matter 16.6%, Indie 11.8%

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: RPG 42.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 42.1%, Indie 15.3%

Dominate undead politics through cunning and violence! Will a missing Prince give you the opening to betray your sire and seize power?

Why similar: RPG 26.3%, Text-Based 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Choices Matter 12.1%

Only a perfect servant can solve a perfect mess! Being the perfect gentleman's gentleman or lady's lady doesn't make you an angel. Can you untangle your employer's knottiest problems with elegance and unruffled grace?

Why similar: RPG 43%, Text-Based 37.3%, Indie 19.6%

The sequel to "Heroes Rise: The Prodigy." It's America's #1 reality show for heroes! As a contestant on "The Hero Project," you'll battle villains and heroes alike with your newly discovered "Infini" powers.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.8%, Text-Based 23.1%, RPG 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choices Matter 9.5%

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: RPG 32.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.9%, Text-Based 25.5%, Indie 13.7%

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 33.8%, RPG 31.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Indie 10.8%

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 25.9%, RPG 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Text-Based 18%, Choices Matter 7%

A Better World Company is hiring! We’re looking for a skilled new recruit to alter the past and reshape the future! Use our Computer to travel back in time, and make game-changing choices to make the world a better place! You decide what to do… as long as you follow our internal policies.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.6%, Text-Based 24.8%, Choices Matter 21.5%

A former firefighter turned private investigator gains the power to freeze time in this choice-driven erotic thriller visual novel—where hidden supernatural abilities, corruption, and dangerous temptation collide.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 44.1%, Interactive Fiction 31.4%, RPG 24.5%

The player connects to a girl in distress in space thousands of years later? How will they resolve the crisis and discover the truth? Through the mechanism of real-time synchronization, the game breaks through the dimensional wall and creates an immersive dialogue across time and space.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.7%, RPG 26.6%, Text-Based 25.5%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Indie 1.4%

Immerse yourself in the first-person perspective, cross time and space, solve bizarre cases, save innocent victims, and catch a mysterious killer! You will solve murders, uphold justice, and also gain love. Are you ready? Play the "Game of Fate" that crosses time and space, life and death!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 44.1%, Interactive Fiction 34.6%, RPG 21.2%

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 31.3%, Text-Based 22.3%, RPG 20.8%, Choices Matter 17%, Indie 8.6%

Live a full life in the future as a human, an alien, or even a robot as you rise through the ranks to become captain of your very own starship.

Why similar: Text-Based 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, RPG 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Choices Matter 11.3%

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

Why similar: RPG 26%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.9%, Text-Based 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Indie 11.1%

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

Why similar: RPG 44.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 40.4%, Indie 14.6%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 47.7%, RPG 24.1%, Choices Matter 21.6%, Indie 6.6%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Choices Matter 19.3%, Text-Based 17%, RPG 14.9%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.6%, Choices Matter 28.9%, Interactive Fiction 27.2%, Indie 7.3%

As a newly appointed Judge, you will rule over Space Court and its denizens to keep the universe safe. Or possibly blow it all up. Either way, you’re tenured.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Choices Matter 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Text-Based 14.7%, RPG 14.4%

Kill the Clock is a narrative time-loop mystery adventure where you relive the same week to solve a murder that keeps changing. Customize your character, roll dice to influence story outcomes, and uncover the truth—before time resets again.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 40.6%, Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Choices Matter 23.2%, RPG 11.2%

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 28.6%, RPG 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Choices Matter 10.6%

Rewind time to save your girlfriend in a twisted high school death game. A gripping yuri visual novel: Investigate brutal murders, unravel psychological horrors, and fight for a forbidden love that defies death itself.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 76.1%, Indie 23.9%

An epic adventure through an open world of monsters, traps and magic. Infiltrate the Fortress of Sorcerers, and create your own unique story where every decision you make is remembered, no matter how small. Cheat death, uncover ancient mysteries, and recover the Crown of Kings - if you can.

Why similar: RPG 43.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 41.2%, Indie 15.2%

Play as Sam or Farah as they attempt to navigate the neon thrills of their cyberpunk city Love Shore, solve murders, fight gods and maybe fall in love.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Choices Matter 21.5%, RPG 16.7%, Text-Based 16%

Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear. Seed new movements, destroy others. Subvert the rise and fall of empires, art, ideologies, and individuals in this experimental narrative game.

Why similar: Choices Matter 36.6%, Interactive Fiction 28.6%, Text-Based 27%, Indie 7.8%

YOU are the hero in Starship Traveller! Captain a futuristic Starship in Steve Jackson's classic sci-fi RPG gamebook!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 46.9%, RPG 38.6%, Indie 14.5%

Plunder ghost ships for cursed treasure! Battle the Crown Navy, sea monsters, and other bloodthirsty pirates on a quest to rival the Pirate King himself!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.8%, Text-Based 21.6%, Choices Matter 16.5%, RPG 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%

Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 38.5%, Interactive Fiction 30.9%, Choices Matter 30.6%

Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30%, Choices Matter 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 24.1%, RPG 17.8%, Indie 2.7%