
A perfectly normal text adventure. Explore 141 rooms, solve bizarre puzzles, collect questionable objects, and discover multiple endings in a world of dark humor and increasingly unreliable guidance.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Text-Based, Interactive Fiction, Adventure, Choose Your Own Adventure.

A perfectly normal text adventure. Explore 141 rooms, solve bizarre puzzles, collect questionable objects, and discover multiple endings in a world of dark humor and increasingly unreliable guidance.

Stranded 2
Following a not highly unexpected crash landing (which seems to happen to you a lot), you find yourself stranded on a hostile alien world full of humour, mystery and quite a bit of walking - Your task is clear, find a way off of this planet and get home. - Should be simple!

Ghost//Root
Enter a locked network through one surviving terminal. Read conflicting records, question witnesses, and use recovered programs to uncover why an autonomous machine refused its orders. A retro terminal mystery in four acts, with six endings shaped by your decisions.
Following a not highly unexpected crash landing (which seems to happen to you a lot), you find yourself stranded on a hostile alien world full of humour, mystery and quite a bit of walking - Your task is clear, find a way off of this planet and get home. - Should be simple!
Why similar: Typing 35.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Text-Based 15.5%, Dark Comedy 12.1%, Adventure 8.9%
Enter a locked network through one surviving terminal. Read conflicting records, question witnesses, and use recovered programs to uncover why an autonomous machine refused its orders. A retro terminal mystery in four acts, with six endings shaped by your decisions.
Why similar: Typing 50.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 22%, Text-Based 18.9%, Adventure 6.7%, Indie 0.9%
Type in what actions you want to take in this comedic text-adventure game inspired by choose-your-own-adventure books! Implight uses 3D visuals and absurdist humor to convey an entertaining and introspective story.
Why similar: Typing 43.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Text-Based 9.9%, Comedy 8.2%
Interactive fiction starring Molly the Werezompire - a grad student who jumped into a portal, was killed by a werewolf, a zombie, and a vampire, and became a heroic werezompire! Also includes the sci-fi parody, Epiphany in Spaaace! Originally released on XBLIG.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.2%, Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Text-Based 21.1%, Comedy 13%, Adventure 8%
Better than a birthday card. Use the Steam gift system to deliver this birthday present to your friends. The amazing Sergio Spellbound will ensure they have the magical birthday adventure of a lifetime. They will Point&Click their way to BIRTHDAY GLORY. If they’re lucky, they may even survive …
Why similar: Typing 28.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 18%, Dark Comedy 13.4%, Comedy 10.9%, Text-Based 10.6%
CLOSED HANDS is a groundbreaking work of interactive fiction that explores the tangled intertwined stories of five people thrown together by a fictional terror attack.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.5%, Text-Based 24.8%, Adventure 14%, Indie 1.4%
Time is running out after a meteor strikes your interstellar starship. While the crew is under full alert, only you seem to notice the strange red portals opening up throughout the ship. Old school text-based parser: no graphics, huge worlds, no hints. Recommended for text game veterans.
Why similar: Typing 52.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 23%, Text-Based 18.4%, Adventure 5.7%, Singleplayer 0.4%
Alchemy, puzzles, and a crashed starship. Old-style interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No dialogue trees! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 39.3%, Text-Based 30.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Adventure 6.6%, Indie 2%
The most anticipated game since chess! A text-based comedy adventure in which you interact with the world by slamming one of two brightly colored buttons: Harm or Other
Why similar: Text-Based 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Comedy 15.8%, Adventure 10.2%
12 Abroad St is a solo textual adventure game for PC set in a present and urban setting. You have been invited to a party you don't want to attend. Roam the city of Seaforth and try to dodge the party.
Why similar: Typing 47.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Text-Based 11.7%, Adventure 3.2%
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: Interactive Fiction 31.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.2%, Text-Based 24.5%, Adventure 14.5%, Indie 1.4%
One thousand years beyond the fall of Earth, one last drink may yet be your epitaph, in this post-post-apocalyptic hangover odyssey by a novelist you've never heard of! A parser-driven text adventure for the ages! Or at least a weekend! Fun for all the family (except the kids)!
Why similar: Typing 24.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Dark Comedy 17.6%, Text-Based 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%
In The Watch Post you will explore areas through a living CRT television in this atmospheric dark-fantasy text adventure. Find strange items, unlock hidden paths, solve optional mysteries, and decide whether the signal should ever be answered.
Why similar: Typing 28.2% ★, Text-Based 27.9%, Interactive Fiction 26.6%, Adventure 9.6%, Horror 7.2%
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 33%, Interactive Fiction 27.6%, Text-Based 25.8%, Adventure 10.4%, Indie 3.3%
Hysteria in Howlsbend is an Interactive Narrative Experience driven by conversational AI Characters, created with the cutting-edge ChatGPT Language Model.
Why similar: Typing 39.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Text-Based 13.5%, Indie 0.9%
見知らぬ密室で目を覚ました主人公。 頼れるものは、手元に残された一台のスマートフォンだけ。 通話、メッセージ、アプリなどに残された痕跡をたどりながら、脱出の手がかりを探していく。 しかし、情報を集めるほどに、 この事件の裏に隠された異様な真実が浮かび上がっていく。 スマートフォンを操作して進める、サイコロジカル・ホラーADV。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27%, Text-Based 22.2%, Adventure 12.9%, Horror 6%
It's 1999 and your friend sends you a floppy disk, titled "RemBo". It turns out to be the installer for an old BBS service, filled with both strangers and a familiar face. How are you going to use it?
Why similar: Typing 40.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 22%, Text-Based 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Space Bear is a multi-choice text adventure typing game! Sort of. I mean, there isn't many actual choices, and the typing is more "mashing"...
Why similar: Typing 54.4% ★, Text-Based 26.3%, Adventure 14.8%, Indie 4.5%
In this hostage simulation, take the mic and negotiate the ransom to free the hostages. With advanced AI and complete freedom of choice, use your charisma, your narrative decisions, and your power of persuasion to manipulate unpredictable situations. Every word matters—and could come at a high cost.
Why similar: Typing 29.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Comedy 11%, Text-Based 10.5%
10 days until execution. Every choice could save you — or prove you deserve it. Escape or die.
Why similar: Typing 38.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Text-Based 10.1%, Adventure 9.1%
Play a role. Write your story. Step into a live AI story hall where every choice can reshape relationships, memories, and fate.
Why similar: Typing 43.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Text-Based 13.3%, Adventure 5.2%
Solve puzzles, enlist magic beans, eat soap, plan your escape, and confront the menacing mage who keeps you confined in his tower. Will you keep cracking jokes or learn from your mistakes? Your choices matter.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.9%, Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Text-Based 20.7%, Comedy 13.2%, Adventure 6.6%
Awaken into the quiet ruins of a world left behind in EVER, a narrative text adventure. Piece together lost memories, use protocols to uncover hidden choices. No more orders. What kind of robot will you be?
Why similar: Text-Based 27.8%, Typing 24.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Adventure 9.7%
Claw your way to the top of Moreytown, a furry slum for human-animal hybrids. Will you take down the gangs who rule the town, or take them over instead?
Why similar: Text-Based 31.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Adventure 13.6%, Indie 3.7%
A nostalgic interactive fiction game set in the early 2000's. Chat with your friends, update your LimeJournal, and discover yourself through a rich world of storytelling, love and friendship.
Why similar: Typing 39.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Text-Based 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Indie 1.4%
The toughest ronin in Hyuga returns! Heated battles and even hotter romances await you in the land of silk and steel!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.8%, Text-Based 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Adventure 12.6%, Indie 3.8%
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 32.7%, Text-Based 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Adventure 14.3%, Indie 3.9%
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 39.9%, Text-Based 35.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Indie 2.8%
A Neo-Western town is simmering with conflict: mysterious forces fight for power, and you're the lynchpin that can save or destroy it. With a novel dynamic text system, you can say and do anything to the NPCs, then they generate personalized actions and speech in response.
Why similar: Typing 55.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 30.1%, Adventure 13.7%, Singleplayer 0.8%
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 37.7%, Text-Based 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Adventure 12.8%, Indie 3.8%
Go forth on a text-based, choose your own adventure where you can choose your role and embark on adventure as various different people who tread different paths.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.6%, Text-Based 23.3%, Fantasy 7.5%, Adventure 5%
To Type a Tale is a fantasy choose-your-own-adventure story where the only method of interaction is typing. Story progress, choices, and menus are all achieved through typing highlighted words.
Why similar: Typing 45.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Text-Based 10.6%, Adventure 4.6%
Time itself is breaking up, and Dodger, the dishwashing dude onboard Penrose Space Station, is the unlikely fixer. Join the chaos in this 80s-style comedy, sci-fi text-parser adventure as Dodger tackles a cosmic crisis like no other! This version includes all three episodes + new extra content!
Why similar: Typing 42.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Text-Based 13.7%, Comedy 12.3%, Adventure 7.3%
Walk the path of a legendary mage, combining four different schools of magic to devastating effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.2%, Text-Based 25.9%, Adventure 12.8%, Fantasy 5.4%
You've spent years undercover, disguised as a human, infiltrating the city’s magical law-enforcement organization. They stole your magic from you. Can you steal it back? (A text-based interactive historical urban fantasy novel.)
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.6%, Text-Based 23.2%, Adventure 14%, Fantasy 5.5%
OPUS SCRIBA sends you on a hero’s journey through a magical world filled with unknown dangers, countless riches and an opportunity to become legend. Make choices to decide your fate or roll the dice and leave it to luck. Share your story with your friends and together you may just survive journey.
Why similar: Typing 41.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Text-Based 15%, Fantasy 1.5%
A crown upon your head, danger all around. Rule, marry, scheme, raise heirs, wage wars, fulfill prophecies, and survive the waking Wyrm. An interactive text-based dark fantasy novel, 850,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.5%, Text-Based 28.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Adventure 7.5%, Horror 4.5%
A retro early 1980s text adventure experience involving a murder mystery that is generated differently each time the game is played.
Why similar: Typing 39% ★, Text-Based 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 22%, Adventure 9.5%, Indie 2.5%
You play all four heroines in this big multi-chapter sci-fi text adventure. Negotiate underwater mechs, AIs, abandoned cities, crime, friendship, suspense, horror, humour, an art exhibition, virtual realities and a tank. Experience each PC via first-person prose as you puzzle, converse and explore.
Why similar: Typing 48.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Text-Based 19.5%, Adventure 5.2%, Horror 1.7%
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 32.5%, Text-Based 28.6%, Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Adventure 6.3%, Fantasy 4.2%
By the power of your Soul Stone and the strength of your own indomitable soul, uncover secrets held in blood and lead the charge that will change the world. A text-based fantasy novel, 260,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.2%, Text-Based 25.7%, Fantasy 7%, Adventure 4.6%
Extract yourself from another fine mess–this time, with your family watching! Mischief, mix-ups, and bewilderingly urgent capers at your ancestral estate.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.3%, Text-Based 26.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Comedy 7.4%, Adventure 4.1%
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 39.4%, Interactive Fiction 27.2%, Text-Based 16.3%, Adventure 9.1%, Fantasy 5.9%
A text adventure game about a 19th century explorer who finds himself stranded and alone.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 44.4%, Text-Based 35.5%, Adventure 16%, Indie 4.2%
A funny, emotional text-based romance where your awkward crush meets accidental magic. Make branching choices, build relationships, and maybe ruin Valentine’s Day with a love potion that definitely shouldn’t have worked.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.1%, Interactive Fiction 33%, Text-Based 28.3%, Indie 1.5%, Singleplayer 1%
It is said that the last frontier is space, but the crew of the Soviet Frigate, The Peresmeshnik, is about to discover that the sea still hides a terrifying secret. Waiting to be found.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.3%, Interactive Fiction 28.6%, Text-Based 27.9%, Horror 6.5%, Adventure 6%
What if the winter season never ended? With an unique hunting mechanic, and a pixel aesthetic, unravel the tale of Boreal.
Why similar: Typing 39.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Dark Comedy 13.4%, Adventure 11.5%, Comedy 6.9%
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 35.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.8%, Text-Based 28%, Adventure 4.4%, Indie 1.3%
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 31.1%, Interactive Fiction 27.8%, Text-Based 27.6%, Adventure 10.3%, Indie 3.2%
As the Harbinger, you are the only Keeper who can cast spells. Stop a necromantic plague, uncover an Elven conspiracy, and decide the fate of a dying world! A text-based fantasy novel, 193,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects."
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28%, Text-Based 26.2%, Fantasy 6.7%, Adventure 4.4%
Don't Text and Drive is a challenging single-player horror game where you text for help as you are driving.
Why similar: Typing 61% ★, Text-Based 26.4%, Horror 10.8%, Indie 1.2%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Ever wonder how heroes-in-training spend their time between epic confrontations with dastardly villains? Join the students at Speck Community College as they enjoy a tabletop roleplay game, investigate a legendary small-town monster, and endure the embarrassments of Parents’ Day.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, Text-Based 22.2%, Adventure 13%, Comedy 9.6%
Intellica thanks you for volunteering in this short text-based Research Study. Pay attention to the participants answers, and classify them as either Human or Artificial. Join us in shaping the future of technology. Remember, think happy!
Why similar: Typing 28.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Text-Based 15.9%, Dark Comedy 15.9%
Auto-cannibalism. Demonic Seduction. Occult Rituals. Bloodfeasting Worms. This dark, horrific Twine-based dungeon crawler pairs edgy interactive fiction with grisly pixel art and light RPG elements. Navigate this sprawling narrative-driven labyrinth bristling with otherworldly doom.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.1%, Text-Based 12.7%, Adventure 10.2%, Horror 10%
Try again, as many times as it takes, to change the ending. You might be able to save everyone you couldn’t before. • Indie horror game • Playtime: approx. 2 hours • Graphics, dialogue, and the feel of the world change with each playthrough • Contains heavy themes
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.7%, Interactive Fiction 30.6%, Text-Based 18.8%, Horror 8.3%, Adventure 7.3%
Your father stole his throne, intending to leave it to you. When the long-lost heir resurfaces, will you defend the king—or betray him to his enemies?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.2%, Text-Based 27.3%, Fantasy 6.7%, Adventure 4.3%
Run with unicorns, fly with pegasi, and swim with kelpies as a magical horse! Will you reunite the herds or drive them further apart? A text-based interactive fantasy novel with hundreds of choices and without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.2%, Text-Based 25.7%, Fantasy 6.8%, Adventure 4.5%
A court-driven, text-based strategy game where your words become decrees. Two petitions per turn—type carefully, face the backlash, and remember: you WERE a King.
Why similar: Typing 51.4% ★, Text-Based 23%, Dark Comedy 21.8%, Indie 1.6%, Singleplayer 1.2%