- #1 DREAMIO: AI-Powered Adventures
96% matchVery Positive88% of 179 reviews2024
Dev: Oleg Skutte
Windows
DREAMIO is a 'choose-your-own-adventure' game where stories and visuals are dynamically created through the power of generative AI in response to your decisions. Explore endless worlds with limitless possibilities; go anywhere, do anything.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 20.8%, Text-Based 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Procedural Generation 11%, Interactive Fiction 10%
- #2 Saga & Seeker
96% matchNo user reviews59% of 139 reviews2026
Dev: Dagdoria Studio
Windows · Mac
From a consumer of stories to a creator of them. Saga & Seeker is a "storycrafting game" where you can generate endless tales with your favorite characters. The words you write become a part of the story itself in this immersive entertainment experience powered by your imagination.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 25.4%, Text-Based 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Character Customization 13.4%, Procedural Generation 12.5%
- #3 AI Roguelite
95% matchVery Positive83% of 581 reviews2023
Dev: Max Loh
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 33.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
World's first RPG in which all entities are AI-generated and all game mechanics are AI-directed.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 28.6%, Text-Based 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Procedural Generation 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.6%
- #4 Romance Club - Stories I Play
94% matchMostly Positive79% of 988 reviews2023
Dev: Your Story Interactive
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Immerse yourself in romantic visual stories where you control what happens!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Romance 16.6%, Text-Based 14.1%, Character Customization 14.1%, Historical 11.8%
- #5 Infinite Stars - The Visual Novel
94% matchVery Positive89% of 95 reviews2022
Dev: Wraiith303Pub: IF THEN ELSE Interactive Fiction
Windows
Infinite Stars is a visual novel filled with romance, mystery & roleplaying elements where you choose how the adventure unfolds. Establish your character & personality through the hundreds of choices presented in this interactive fiction inspired by stories like Dune, The Expanse & Mass Effect.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Cyberpunk 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Character Customization 12.7%, Romance 10.9%
- #6 ERRANTE
93% matchMostly Positive78% of 68 reviews2022
Dev: Errant Interactive
Windows
This is an experimental project, a sandbox life simulator that gives you the power to suggest how the game should evolve, which features we should focus on, which slice of life to tell and everything you can imagine.
Why similar: Life Sim 44.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 33.9%, Character Customization 21.6%
- #7 One Synth
92% matchVery Positive87% of 55 reviews2019
Dev: Kawaiisun Games
Windows · Mac
A text based adventure editor - upload and play text based games from across the world using Steam Workshop
- #8 AI2U: With You 'Til The End
90% matchVery Positive90% of 1,539 reviews2025
Dev: AlterStaff Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
You wake up in a cute girl's home who's eager to keep you by her side! Engage with thematic stories, puzzles, and unique AI NPCs who'll go to any lengths to protect you—even when it means contradicting themselves. Bask in meet-cutes or brace for chaos if you try to escape.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 31.8%, Text-Based 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Romance 15.6%, Female Protagonist 12%
- #9 Open Sorcery
91% matchVery Positive98% of 357 reviews2017
Dev: Abigail CorfmanPub: Open Sorcery Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
BEL/S is an Elemental Firewall: a fire elemental bound with C++ code to protect a network of people and places. She can learn things, develop relationships, and even gain sapience. Or she can burn everything with fire. It's up to you.
Why similar: Text-Based 35.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, RPG 18.1%, Female Protagonist 13%, Choices Matter 11.3%
- #10 The Away Team: Lost Exodus
91% matchMostly Positive73% of 98 reviews2016
Dev: Underflow Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship, tasked with finding a home for your crew—the last remnants of humanity. Your choices will determine their fate, and your own.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 22.7%, Narration 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Text-Based 12.6%
- #11 Choice of Robots
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,000 reviews2014
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 28.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Choices Matter 12.9%, RPG 5.2%
- #12 Starlight Drifter
89% matchMixed68% of 50 reviews2018
Dev: Dharker Studios
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Create your own character and explore the universe in this sci-fi space game allowing you to choose where to explore and what to do, where your decisions will affect the universe and the ending you experience.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.9%, Character Customization 19.6%, Female Protagonist 15.5%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Choices Matter 11.2%
- #13 Vaudeville
86% matchMixed52% of 321 reviews2025
Dev: Bumblebee Studios
Windows · Linux
Vaudeville is an experimental whodunit game based on the latest AI technologies to generate dialogues in real time. This tale of murder, suspense and absurdity unfolds as you play, and you are the protagonist.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 41.8%, Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Procedural Generation 18.6%, Choices Matter 12.7%
- #14 Dyscourse
88% matchMostly Positive77% of 444 reviews2015
Dev: Owlchemy Labs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dyscourse is an interactive choice-based narrative adventure game where you journey through a stylized world of choice and consequence. Choose wisely.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 56.9%, Choices Matter 26.7%, Female Protagonist 16.4%
- #15 Erannorth Renaissance
85% matchVery Positive83% of 168 reviews2025
Dev: Spyridon Thalassinos
Windows
Erannorth Renaissance is a text driven gamebook with sandbox elements. Create your hero, build their party, and shape your journey. Set in an open world, it mixes text based narrative, turn based combat, deep character customization, and sandbox freedom.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Character Customization 17.9%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.8%
- #16 Endless RPG
87% matchVery Positive84% of 55 reviews2019
Dev: Kezarus
Windows
Play on randomly generated worlds with a party of characters just the way you like it. You will not be bounded by classes or scripted story, only by your creativity. Make your own journey. Tell your own history.
Why similar: RPG 27%, Procedural Generation 25.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.6%, Character Customization 21.5%
- #17 Alchemy Unbound
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 93 reviews2024
Dev: KlutzyBubbles
Windows · Linux
A drag and drop crafting game that offers unbound possibilities. No limits, no direction, just pure creativity and endless crafting.
Why similar: Life Sim 47.4%, Text-Based 28.2%, Artificial Intelligence 24.4%
- #18 Citizen Sleeper
84% matchVery Positive93% of 9,761 reviews2022
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Artificial Intelligence 23.9%, Cyberpunk 19.9%, Text-Based 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
- #19 Doki Doki AI Interrogation
84% matchVery Positive82% of 502 reviews2024
Dev: YAMADA
Windows · Mac
A short interrogation game taking full advantage of ChatGPT! You are tasked with interrogating the suspect [AI] of a murder case as an [excellent police officer]. How you choose to interrogate the suspect is up to you. How the AI reacts is rendered in real-time through ChatGPT.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 34%, Alternate History 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Procedural Generation 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.8%
- #20 NeuroNet: Mendax Proxy
83% matchVery Positive82% of 66 reviews2023
Dev: Dream Harvest
Windows
You are Arc, a city management AI. Designed to manage a city-wide AR metaverse known as the NeuroNet. Meet its many users, build relationships and help or hinder their lives while trying to balance the wider needs of the city. Find your humanity in a world losing theirs to technology.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 19.4%, Life Sim 18.5%, Text-Based 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%
- #21 College Craze
82% matchVery Positive86% of 145 reviews2022
Dev: Pretty Ink
Windows · Mac · Linux
College Craze is a female gaze adult dating and life simulation game. Find endless sexy possibilities for your own college experience at Sugardale U with your custom female MC, the branching story structure, and +25 love interests. No fade-to-black scenes here, so enroll today!
Why similar: Life Sim 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Romance 12.9%, Female Protagonist 11.5%, Character Customization 9.9%
- #22 Skaldsong
82% matchMixed59% of 57 reviews2025
Dev: Fenris Labs
Windows
A singleplayer/multiplayer RPG reminiscent of TTRPGs mixed with MUD games but with content generated by an AI Game Master.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 32.2%, Text-Based 23.2%, Character Customization 14.8%, Procedural Generation 13%, RPG 11.7%
- #23 City 20
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 161 reviews2024
Dev: Untold Games
Windows
Survive in a living post-apocalyptic city. Build trust or spark conflict with NPCs and factions, uncover mysteries, and watch the world change with your every choice.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 21%, Alternate History 20.3%, Life Sim 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Procedural Generation 12.3%
- #24 Interactive Horror Stories
81% matchMixed68% of 147 reviews2019
Dev: Aslan Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
"Choose your own adventure" style nightmares
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Text-Based 17.8%, Historical 13%, Choices Matter 11.8%
- #25 Emily is Away
78% matchVery Positive89% of 32,165 reviews2015
Dev: Kyle Seeley
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 19.8 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Choices Matter 18.2%, Text-Based 13.2%, Story Rich 12.9%
- #26 Acolyte
80% matchMostly Positive77% of 62 reviews2022
Dev: SuperstringPub: Pantaloon
Windows
Acolyte is a narrative ARG/Detective game that gives you your own Acolyte; a digital assistant you can talk to freely with unlimited dialogue options. Just like a real conversation.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 36%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Character Customization 14.9%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.8%
- #27 Mushroom Musume
76% matchVery Positive97% of 212 reviews2025
Dev: Mortally Moonstruck Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Raise a mushroom from a spore into a fine young woman, then discover the twists and turns her life may take in this creepy-cute fairytale life simulation game.
Why similar: Life Sim 22.6%, Text-Based 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Choices Matter 9.7%
- #28 Buddy Simulator 1984
76% matchVery Positive94% of 4,160 reviews2021
Dev: Not a Sailor Studios
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Thanks to next generation AI technology, BUDDY SIMULATOR 1984 simulates the experience of hanging out with a best buddy! Your buddy learns from you, constantly adapting to your interests and personality. But most importantly, your buddy can play games with you!
Why similar: Text-Based 26.8%, Horror 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Story Rich 12.5%
- #29 Acolyte: Prologue
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 83 reviews2021
Dev: SuperstringPub: Superstring
Windows
Acolyte: Prologue is the first act in a dynamic narrative detective/puzzle game that gives you your own Acolyte; a digital assistant you can talk to freely without pre-defined dialogue options. Just like a real conversation.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Narration 14.6%, Character Customization 13.1%, Text-Based 10.6%
- #30 Millennium Whisper
77% matchMixed67% of 81 reviews2025
Dev: Parable Studios
Windows · Linux
Millennium Whisper is a next-gen dating-sim set in 1999 at the fictional Escafeld College with an AI trained by real actors portraying the cast! Who will you confess your feelings to at the end of the millennium?
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 35%, Romance 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, RPG 12.2%, Text-Based 10.3%
- #31 I doesn't exist - a modern text adventure
78% matchMixed69% of 78 reviews2023
Dev: LUAL Games KIGPub: DreadXP
Windows · Mac · Linux
Classic Zork meets Existential Crisis. A modern text adventure that explores themes of control, isolation and mental health while levelling up the genre with beautiful pixel art.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 31.9%, Interactive Fiction 27.9%, Text-Based 19.3%, Story Rich 11.4%, Choices Matter 5.4%
- #32 Fantasia Medieval
77% matchVery Positive82% of 65 reviews2022
Dev: Paulo Henrique Franqueira
Windows · Linux
A short Visual-Novel, made with Artificial-Inteligence art, about a party of adventurers on a medieval setting.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 35.1%, Text-Based 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%
- #33 Fields of Asphodel
75% matchVery Positive86% of 77 reviews2024
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Character Customization 15.3%, Text-Based 15%, Choices Matter 9.8%
- #34 Road to Empress I
70% matchVery Positive87% of 11,428 reviews2025
Dev: New One Studio
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%
You've never played a game like this before. Road to Empress I is a cinematic palace adventure where your choices decide everyone's fate. Tackle multiple story branches and a high mortality rate with charm, wisdom and courage? First...survive.
Why similar: Historical 18.6%, Choices Matter 18.2%, Female Protagonist 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, RPG 10.9%
- #35 Unaware in The City
73% matchVery Positive82% of 160 reviews2024
Dev: Mr. Unaware Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Take control of a 21 years old woman, design her how you like and then dump her into the heart of a metropolis, known as The City! Decide who she talks to, what place she works at, how she performs her duties. The control is all in your hands!
Why similar: Life Sim 19.9%, Character Customization 19.1%, Female Protagonist 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Romance 11.5%
- #36 cyberpunkdreams
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,225 reviews2021
Dev: Late Night Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 152.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%
2090s America, torn apart by war and corporate greed. A lone traveller stands outside the gates of Cincinnati, greatest of the border cities. How far will you go to make it to the top? How far will you go to fulfil your mission?
Why similar: Cyberpunk 16.4%, Text-Based 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Life Sim 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
- #37 Wanderlust: Travel Stories
74% matchVery Positive83% of 132 reviews2019
Dev: Different Tales
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Wanderlust: Travel Stories is a bridge between literature and gaming. Step into the shoes of modern travelers—explore their desires, hopes and fears, and shape how their stories unfold. Make this journey your own.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Narration 17.4%, Multiple Endings 10%
- #38 Whispers from the Star
69% matchVery Positive83% of 1,565 reviews2025
Dev: Anuttacon
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Save a stranded astronaut on a mysterious alien planet through real-time AI conversations, where your words are her only lifeline. Guide her through Gaia's dangers and forge an enduring bond in this interactive story with voice-controlled, open-ended dialogue.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 36.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Choices Matter 8.4%, Female Protagonist 8.1%
- #39 Headliner: NoviNews
73% matchVery Positive89% of 806 reviews2018
Dev: Unbound Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Award-winning adventure where you control the news and its impact on society, your friends and career. Different choices lead to unique combinations of endings. Share your story with the community, and see what the players before you did.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.9%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Multiple Endings 16.6%, Alternate History 14.6%, Story Rich 10.5%
- #40 A Wise Use of Time
75% matchVery Positive80% of 121 reviews2015
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Text-Based 21.3%, Choices Matter 16.3%, RPG 14.2%
- #41 Open Sorcery: Sea++
73% matchVery Positive91% of 53 reviews2021
Dev: Abigail CorfmanPub: Open Sorcery Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You wake up at the bottom of the ocean, surrounded by your broken memories. Reclaim and compile your magic or drown in a sea of dreams.
Why similar: Text-Based 29.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, RPG 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Female Protagonist 10.3%
- #42 MINDHACK
70% matchVery Positive93% of 676 reviews2023
Dev: VODKAdemo?
Windows · Mac
Change the minds of evildoers…for good! MINDHACK is a text adventure game where you meet unique evildoers, hack their minds, and rewrite them into happy people!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.7%, Text-Based 33.6%, Story Rich 21%, Choices Matter 11.7%
- #43 The Wanderer: Frankenstein’s Creature
72% matchVery Positive84% of 342 reviews2019
Dev: La Belle GamesPub: ARTE France
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Experience the Myth of Frankenstein through the innocent eyes of his creature. Make decisions and change people's view that you will meet on your way. Now, the myth is in your hands, so how are you going to end it?
Why similar: Text-Based 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Narration 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Choices Matter 10.2%
- #44 Salty Hounds
71% matchMixed69% of 296 reviews2023
Dev: Topping Palette
Windows
A unique dating sim adventure that gives you total freedom to romance five handsome guys in an open-world metropolis.
Why similar: Life Sim 31.8%, Romance 22%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Female Protagonist 10.2%
- #45 Moonless Moon
69% matchVery Positive93% of 299 reviews2024
Dev: Kazuhide OkaPub: KAMITSUBAKI STUDIO
Windows · Mac
When night falls, she wanders into another world... Moonless Moon is a text-based adventure game following a girl as she travels through a variety of different worlds.
Why similar: Text-Based 33.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.4%, Female Protagonist 11%, Story Rich 10.3%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
- #46 Hollywood Visionary
72% matchVery Positive89% of 90 reviews2015
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Text-Based 40.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 36%, RPG 23.3%
- #47 Arcadie: Second-Born
68% matchVery Positive95% of 385 reviews2022
Dev: Arcadie & Utopie
Windows · Mac
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 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Text-Based 16.8%, Character Customization 13.3%, Romance 10.6%
- #48 An Assassin in Orlandes
71% matchVery Positive82% of 93 reviews2015
Dev: Tin Man Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Search for a ruthless assassin in this Gamebook Adventure where YOU control the story!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 56.5%, RPG 43.5%
- #49 Starship Commander: Arcade
71% matchMixed67% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: Human Interact
Windows
Award winning experimental AI experience where you speak directly to NPCs and get intelligent responses. Bust out that Microphone or VR headset for a comfortable yet exciting VR experience, where you'll go on an adventure with SGT. Sarah Pearson
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 40.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.3%, Interactive Fiction 26.6%, Story Rich 4.2%
- #50 The RPG Engine
67% matchVery Positive84% of 302 reviews2023
Dev: PolyDemons
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Host immersive tabletop campaigns in a world imagined entirely by you! Build from the ground up with The RPG Engine, an intuitive virtual tabletop that lets you create unparalleled roleplaying environments for your party to get lost in.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.1%, Interactive Fiction 26.6%, Character Customization 22.4%, RPG 10.5%, Story Rich 7.4%
- #51 Love Shore
68% matchMixed70% of 76 reviews2023
Dev: Perfect Garbage
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Cyberpunk 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Text-Based 14%, Narration 11.9%
- #52 A Better World
66% matchMixed70% of 56 reviews2025
Dev: LudogramPub: ARTE France
Windows · Mac
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: Alternate History 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Text-Based 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
- #53 Unrest
70% matchMixed68% of 195 reviews2014
Dev: Pyrodactyl
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Unrest is a role playing adventure game set in a fantasy interpretation of ancient India that adapts to death, failure, and the choices you make. Play as ordinary people in a struggle for safety, freedom, and a chance at peace. Use conversation, manipulation (and rarely, violence) to achieve your goals.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Historical 17.8%, Female Protagonist 11.9%, Choices Matter 9%
- #54 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
65% matchVery Positive90% of 9,503 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 22.1%, Choices Matter 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Text-Based 17.9%, RPG 9.6%
- #55 Emily is Away Too
66% matchVery Positive93% of 6,144 reviews2017
Dev: Kyle Seeley
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Emily is Away Too is a brand new story featuring new characters and multiple different endings. Message your friends, surf the web and choose your path through this branching narrative.
Why similar: Text-Based 31.2%, Choices Matter 22.7%, Multiple Endings 18.3%, Story Rich 12.1%, RPG 9.4%
- #56 Life Makeover
64% matchVery Positive83% of 1,537 reviews2023
Dev: Archosaur Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 54.4 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Explore Life Makeover: Unleash your style, dye outfits, and design freely. Dive into unlimited dress-up, build your dream home - all for free.
Why similar: Life Sim 38.4%, Female Protagonist 28.1%, Character Customization 19.9%, RPG 13.6%
- #57 Emily is Away <3
64% matchVery Positive91% of 6,586 reviews2021
Dev: Kyle Seeley
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Emily <3 is a brand new story set on an old-new social media. Customize your facenook profile, send some friend requests and determine the outcome of your senior year.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Choices Matter 20.5%, Multiple Endings 18.5%, Romance 13.9%, Story Rich 10%
- #58 Hymer 2000
62% matchVery Positive91% of 1,002 reviews2025
Dev: doBellPub: indienova
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Hymer 2000 is an interactive text puzzle game, where players freely converse with the "Hymer" and use an open "Search" function to retrieve past conversations. By discovering keywords, gathering clues, and collecting "Faces", players uncover Hymer's secrets and ultimately shut it down.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 33%, Text-Based 29.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Story Rich 9.3%, RPG 7.6%