
Band of Mercenaries is a couch one-hit kill respawning arena game in which your lives (respawns) are the mercenaries you hired. To win you can either be good on the battlefield or have money sense to make the battle unbalance from the start.
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Band of Mercenaries is a couch one-hit kill respawning arena game in which your lives (respawns) are the mercenaries you hired. To win you can either be good on the battlefield or have money sense to make the battle unbalance from the start.

Dr. Kinderwood's Asylum
Decide the fate of the son of a tailor and a witch doctor infected with an incurable disease in an interactive story with multiple endings depending on your actions.

Spikehead
What if your most dangerous weapon was your head? Launch upward and spike your friends from below in this fast-paced local multiplayer party game. Tight controls, quick rounds, and chaotic matches all built around one simple twist: the low ground has the advantage.
Decide the fate of the son of a tailor and a witch doctor infected with an incurable disease in an interactive story with multiple endings depending on your actions.
Why similar: Nonlinear 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Choices Matter 11.6%
What if your most dangerous weapon was your head? Launch upward and spike your friends from below in this fast-paced local multiplayer party game. Tight controls, quick rounds, and chaotic matches all built around one simple twist: the low ground has the advantage.
Why similar: Party Game 26.9%, 2D Fighter 25.6%, Local Multiplayer 18.3%, PvP 14.1%, 2D Platformer 11.8%
Ember: ReIgnition is a local multiplayer competitive fighting game in which you and your friends play as a lost knight and his spectral adversary, engaging in combat to determine the final survivor.
Why similar: 2D Fighter 44.4%, Local Multiplayer 18%, PvP 15.7%, Medieval 7.9%, 2D Platformer 7.8%
Your words shape the adventure. Omea is a revolutionary AI-powered narrative game where your personal Game Master responds to everything you write. No menus, no limits. Just type and forge your own legend across fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, and beyond.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Nonlinear 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Text-Based 13.6%, Choices Matter 10.6%
Imagine a platform-fighter with guns... and paper towels. Supporting 2-8 local multiplayer, you can team up or go solo in fast-paced PVP combat!
Why similar: 2D Fighter 23.8%, Party Game 23.1%, Team-Based 14.9%, Local Multiplayer 13.5%, PvP 10.7%
Choose, explore, interact, fight, solve, gather, trade! Rise to rebel in this immersive text-based fantasy story that seamlessly merges the best elements of RPGs, choose-your-own-adventure stories, visual novels, and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Nonlinear 13.6%, Medieval 10.7%
The most lawless taunt-em-up has arrived! Smack them with a paper fan, then mock them while they're down, mock them from a distance, mock them out of pure spite — spam taunts and victory is yours. "So... how does it feel?"
Why similar: 2D Fighter 41.4%, Party Game 24.8%, PvP 17%, 2D Platformer 9.6%, Action 7.2%
Push your friends (or the computer) off the platforms in this chaotic 2D platform fighting game. With multiple gamemodes you can push as much as your heart desires!
Why similar: 2D Fighter 40.8%, Team-Based 16.6%, Local Multiplayer 15.3%, 2D Platformer 15%, PvP 6.3%
You are Hidu, a beastman mercenary in a port city. You must survive one very bad day. How? That’s entirely up to you. There are countless ways for events to unfold — and 25 endings.
Why similar: Nonlinear 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Multiple Endings 10%
In a village slowly being consumed by a supernatural curse, you are a witch’s apprentice charged with breaking it. Explore the town, uncover forbidden ingredients, earn the trust of its troubled inhabitants, and complete the ritual before the thorns claim everything.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Dark Fantasy 14.9%, Text-Based 14.4%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%
Test your platform fighting-game fundamentals in Kilnborn, a fast-paced platform fighting game where you die in one hit. Kilnborn's pottery protagonists may be fragile, but all play differently with depth to discover in every match.
Why similar: 2D Fighter 40.9%, Local Multiplayer 18%, PvP 16%, 2D Platformer 8.1%, Medieval 6.2%
A fighting game where you can control your reach! ? During the match, in exchange for your own health You can extend the reach of your weapon! Adjust your reach and grab a new sense of victory!
Why similar: 2D Fighter 44.5%, PvP 15.8%, PvE 15.5%, Local Multiplayer 9.6%, 2D Platformer 9.4%
Thirsty Princess is a fast-paced, top-down party game for 2–4 local players where you and your friends compete to drink beer with an impatient and unreasonable princess. Get drunk and slowly lose control while you brawl, steal from and sabotage your friends to win the favour of your princess.
Why similar: Local Multiplayer 25.2%, Party Game 21.7%, PvP 18.3%, 2D Fighter 17.3%, Medieval 12%
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: Choices Matter 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Text-Based 14.5%, Medieval 9%
Fight with your friends in this fast-paced brawler mixed with a platform game, where lovely 2D pixel art meets stunning visual effects. Choose a character and use its super-powers to defeat your opponents (up to 4 players).
Why similar: 2D Fighter 34.2%, Party Game 33.5%, Local Multiplayer 16.9%, PvP 6.1%, 2D Platformer 5.1%
A 2D side-scrolling rock-paper-scissors fighting game
Why similar: 2D Fighter 37%, Party Game 32.8%, PvP 14.4%, 2D Platformer 9.7%, Action 6%
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 22%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
Gather your friends for frenetic balloon-popping battles! Play as chickens in vibrant arenas, float with balloons, unleash magical tricks, and outlast your rivals in hilarious party matches for up to four players.
Why similar: Party Game 28.1%, 2D Fighter 18.2%, Local Multiplayer 16.6%, 2D Platformer 12.7%, PvP 10.3%
Relive the same day without remembering it. Your choices feed four inner alter egos (Shadow, Mad, Alex, and Bully) — shaping reality, glitches, and one of 16 possible endings. The day repeats. Your mind doesn’t. Or does it?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Nonlinear 17.8%, Text-Based 12.9%, Choices Matter 11.5%
The Broken Crown is a dark fantasy text adventure between game and novel. Read through a fallen kingdom, make choices at key moments, and face the weight of memory and sacrifice.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Text-Based 22.9%, Dark Fantasy 17.1%, Adventure 8.7%
Set off on an exciting swashbuckling quest in this classic Fantasy Choose Your Own Adventure! Meet charming characters, fight dangerous foes, and uncover a nefarious intrigue. Experience seamless and reactive storytelling. Prove your innocence, find your destiny, relish the journey!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Medieval 12.7%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
Aunewyth is a text-based game with a focus on narration and decision making. It features a short yet versatile storyline that reveals itself according to the choices you make.
Why similar: Text-Based 28.3%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%
Vanakan is the journey of Tadevos - a priest, who travels the 500s Armenia to find the monastery that suits for his goal of becoming spiritually closer to Jesus Christ. He meets different people on his way and makes choices which will define his future and that of the country.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Text-Based 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.9%
Punch Upon a Time is a team-based party fighter inspired by Smash Bros where you take on rounds of modes, mini-games, and combat alongside your friends. Assemble a squad of the biggest fairy tale names to punch, dunk, fly, score, and sumo your way to victory as the LAST TEAM STANDING.
Why similar: Party Game 27.9%, 2D Fighter 27.9%, Team-Based 25.5%, PvP 9.5%, Action 3.3%
Delve into a dark fantasy visual novel where evil isn't always as it seems. Make your choices and grow your skills to help determine who survives the Great Culling. Featuring the voice talents of Ralph Ineson, Simon Callow, Savannah Steyn, and more.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Dark Fantasy 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Medieval 11%
A narrative RPG of medieval intrigue and war. As Karl von Aiden, shape your destiny through five chapters of choices that matter. Build attributes, forge alliances, navigate court politics, and face consequences across three story routes and multiple endings.
Why similar: Nonlinear 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Multiple Endings 11%, Choices Matter 11%
In this pixel platformer, you can play through both the main storyline and an additional storyline, destroy enemies, interact with boxes (and TNT) and much more! You can even create your own levels and share them with other players!
Why similar: Party Game 35.9%, Team-Based 16.6%, 2D Platformer 14%, Action-Adventure 13.8%, Multiple Endings 7%
Swing a sword, delve dungeons, and lead a resistance against the tyrannical queen of a war-torn fantasy realm. Will you unite the realm and end the queen’s reign of terror... or join her and rule by her side?
Why similar: Text-Based 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Medieval 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Choices Matter 7.8%
Battle friends in 2D arenas with looping edges, random power-ups, and over a thousand loadout combinations
Why similar: 2D Fighter 28.1%, Party Game 23.9%, Local Multiplayer 20.8%, PvP 13.7%, 2D Platformer 9.2%
Ultimate Stick Battle (USB) is a fast-paced 2D fighting game where simple stick visuals meet deep, competitive gameplay. Master light and heavy directional attacks, outplay evolving stages, and climb the ranks with smooth rollback netcode. Easy to learn — hard to master — impossible to put down.
Why similar: 2D Fighter 36.3%, 2D Platformer 18.8%, PvP 17.3%, PvE 16.7%, Local Multiplayer 6.3%
A text role-playing game about the fate of a mercenary who finds himself in the strange village: Villienville. Investigate who benefits from the sudden appearance of “ghosts” and help residents protect their homes from a mysterious enemy. The main thing is not to make a mistake in your choice!
Why similar: Nonlinear 21.4%, Text-Based 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choices Matter 10.3%
Dancing with Shadows: Prologue is a 2D dark fantasy visual novel with CYOA-influenced branching storylines. Guide three protagonists through an interlocked and inexorably connected storyline. There are no wrong answers, but your decisions have consequences.
Why similar: Nonlinear 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Text-Based 11.7%, Dark Fantasy 10.2%
A narrative-driven RPG where every dice roll shapes your fate. Step into the role of the Queen's Herald and traverse a mist-shrouded realm to uncover the fate of her lost army. Will your choices uphold loyalty, or lead you down a path of betrayal? The secrets of the mists await.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Text-Based 17.2%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Dark Fantasy 11.6%
With debts to pay to the underworld, you need to make a lot of coin fast! Perhaps worse, you're wanted by the King's men for desertion. Survival is your first priority...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Text-Based 15.2%, Dark Fantasy 8.8%, Choices Matter 7.8%
A choice-driven roguelike text adventure set in medieval Korea and Japan. Encounter 218 mythological creatures from East Asian folklore, shape your story across 94 endings, and grow stronger with each run in a deep, culturally rich world.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.3%, Text-Based 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Medieval 8.6%
A pixelated homage to 16-bit RPGs, this former print-and-play card game has come full circle as a digital experience! Choose your champion, enter the tower, and make wise decisions on your ascent to face the Ice Lich at the top.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.6%
A sound, a flash, a portal… A pirate emerges, bringing a deadly threat. Five friends stand before him, and one of them is the target. But which one? Even they don't know.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Text-Based 22%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Nonlinear 12%
A text-based RPG with a nonlinear story set in a free Slavic fantasy world. Shape the heroine's character through your choices and unlock multiple endings. Mystery, folklore, and relationships — your fate depends only on you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Text-Based 19.2%, Medieval 8.5%, Dark Fantasy 7.4%
A fast-paced 2D action platformer where every attack can be parried with precise timing.
Why similar: Local Multiplayer 24.5%, 2D Fighter 24.5%, PvP 18.5%, 2D Platformer 15%, PvE 9.3%
Challenge your friends on a one-on-one simple, easy-to-handle 2D platform. Play as Aliens mastering elementary powers such as Fire, Frost and Arcanes. Customize your character as well as the Game modes.
Why similar: 2D Fighter 39.8%, Local Multiplayer 24.3%, 2D Platformer 16.9%, PvP 15.5%, Action 3.6%
Multi-Merge Mayhem is a chaotic party game for up to 8 players where multiple microgames play at the same time. Run, jump, and punch your way through overlapping challenges as you fight to outscore your friends in pure, unpredictable mayhem!
Why similar: Party Game 28.7%, 2D Fighter 19%, Local Multiplayer 14.9%, Team-Based 13.8%, 2D Platformer 11.7%
Take on the State's Largest Adventure Scavenger Hunt: Halloween Edition. Explore a massive indoor attraction, follow clues from the mysterious Host, discover hidden passages, and uncover the secrets of Adventure Mansion with friends.
Why similar: Party Game 28.8%, Team-Based 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, PvP 10.5%, Choices Matter 9.8%
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 26.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.5%, Text-Based 23.8%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
A non-linear text-based narrative RPG. Live your life in a world of Celtic Dark fantasy on the verge of a Lovecraftian doom!
Why similar: Text-Based 15.5%, Nonlinear 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Choices Matter 11.2%
Bleedings Moons is an interactive story revolving around the themes of fate, duty and free will. Your actions and decisions will shape the story of the game, so that Ian's story will be your story, with the logical consequences of your choices.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Text-Based 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Dark Fantasy 12.3%, Choices Matter 11.1%
A dark fantasy horror visual novel where your choices reshape a nightmare‑ridden world. Explore surreal realms, solve narrative puzzles, and face the consequences of every decision.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Text-Based 12.4%, Action-Adventure 9.6%, Dark Fantasy 9.4%
Hunt your prey, escape your predator - the 1v1v1 party brawler. Pick from 12 shamans with unique abilities and special attacks. Three forces, one fight - who will prevail? 🌱💦🔥
Why similar: Party Game 29.7%, 2D Fighter 29.3%, PvP 14.3%, 2D Platformer 13.4%, Local Multiplayer 10.5%
A minimal-input fighting game to determine who is the greatest Axecutioner of them all! Your huge, unwieldy axe ensures that each of your attacks are slow yet powerful, meaning you need to think and strategize before your next attack to claim victory over your opponent!
Why similar: 2D Fighter 42.2%, Local Multiplayer 17.7%, PvP 17.6%, Medieval 14%, Action 4.5%
A hardcore narrative RPG about an inquisitor who defied the Gods and returned from the Afterlife against Their Will. In a world where faith is fracturing, power is waning, and blood is spilled ever more often, your choices will decide what remains of the Empire. Complete the story of Sir El Brante!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Choices Matter 16.2%, Nonlinear 12.2%, Dark Fantasy 12%, Text-Based 10.8%
A dark gamebook-inspired RPG where your choices, luck, and blade decide what the sea keeps. Climb a cursed lighthouse and uncover the name buried beneath the bell.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Text-Based 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Nonlinear 18%, Dark Fantasy 11.6%
This is a Party/Couch game where wild Goofs fight for glory! Grab weapons from crates and battle your friends and family to be crowned the ultimate Goof! You may find a fish that knocks the wind out of others or a bottle containing a black hole. You never know what you may find...
Why similar: 2D Fighter 36.4%, Party Game 32.8%, PvP 18.6%, Local Multiplayer 8.3%, Action 4%
Succubus Stories is an erotic text-based adventure game. You play as a peasant girl turned succubus, plotting her revenge against the powerful people who stole her family's land. She needs to consume "a certain bodily fluid" to survive, and has to manage her lust as she gets closer to her goals.
Why similar: Nonlinear 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Text-Based 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Medieval 9.7%
Dash. Freeze time. Aim. Strike.Welcome to OnionXLayer: Extraction, a fast-paced 2D duel game where every jump could be your last and every dash is a deadly decision.
Why similar: 2D Fighter 49.5%, 2D Platformer 17.4%, PvP 16.8%, Local Multiplayer 7.3%, PvE 7%
The Dark Defender is a story driven adventure game where you play as a character who has been deserted, with no recollection of your past. With determination you make your way through a world with many friends to assist you on your journey, as well as enemies burdening your adventure.
Why similar: 2D Fighter 39.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, 2D Platformer 13.6%, Action-Adventure 12.1%, Choices Matter 7.8%
Escape your captors…and endure your rescuers, but don't be late to the ball! Take charge of your rescue, and reclaim your rightful throne.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.7%, Text-Based 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Action-Adventure 10%, Medieval 8.3%
久等了,斗士。 以火柴人为元素的全新2D格斗游戏《柴设格斗》。在这个黑暗的世界,只有战斗才能得以生存下去。 游戏支持双人对战。不同的火柴人,不同的故事,不同的战斗方式,不同的系统,各具特色。谁会成为最后的赢家? ——一切尽在《柴设格斗》。
Why similar: 2D Fighter 30.8%, Dark Fantasy 13.9%, PvP 13.5%, Multiple Endings 10%, Action-Adventure 8.8%
Ancient China, the era of the Chu-Han War. This is a historical novel adventure that depicts the "what ifs" of the two leaders of the Chu-Han War, Han Yu and Liu Bang. ---Your choice will be the guidepost of this story.
Why similar: Text-Based 27.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Multiple Endings 16.8%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Story Rich 12.3%
Bubble Battle is a retro online/local multiplayer fighting game inspired by arcade classics. Players fly around with one simple objective: burst opponents’ bubbles before they burst yours. Collect powerups and out-maneuver opponents for fast-paced, addictive fun!
Why similar: 2D Fighter 36.6%, Party Game 22.9%, Local Multiplayer 17.9%, PvP 9.7%, 2D Platformer 8.6%
Your job is to make humanity happy. Observe the people living in your assigned district and make the best choices to ensure everyone's happiness.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.4%, Interactive Fiction 22%, Text-Based 20.4%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Choices Matter 8.3%
Constantinople, 1453. Four witnesses — a janissary, a baker's daughter, an engineer, a noble — live the same 53 days of the siege. Choices cross between their stories, and the city remembers. An illustrated, choice-driven historical novel where every ending is someone's truth.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Text-Based 18.3%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Multiple Endings 9.1%