- #1 The Midnight Garden: Amy's Flower
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Monstrr
Windows
Children wake to whispers coming from their wardrobes, voices that call them from inside telling them to enter. Some even tell wild stories, all describing a place they call the “Midnight Garden”. A story driven rpg blending fairytale and nightmares.
Why similar: CRPG 28.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, RPG 19.2%, Horror 4.3%
- #2 Unrest
96% 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: CRPG 29.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Walking Simulator 14.6%, RPG 7.7%
- #3 Alice Through the Fey Realm
96% matchVery Positive80% of 56 reviews2024
Dev: Mirrored CookiesPub: Breda University of Applied Sciences
Windows
Alice Through the Fey Realm is an enchanting isometric narrative adventure that puts you into the shoes of Alice. A compelling adventure unfolds as you awaken in the mysterious Fey Realm and embark on a quest to discover the key to your journey home.
Why similar: CRPG 33.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, RPG 13.8%, Choices Matter 3.9%
- #4 D.N.A: Do Not Answer
95% matchMostly Negative32% of 34 reviews2024
Dev: Well Of TalesPub: Well Of Tales
Windows
"D.N.A is a short first-person, story-driven horror game developed by a small idipendent studio. Players navigate an eerie, abandoned hospital, uncover clues, manage limited light sources, and face a dark presence. Featuring multiple endings, realistic graphics, and immersive sound design."
Why similar: CRPG 32%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, RPG 11.1%, Horror 5.7%
- #5 While We Wait Here
94% matchVery Positive89% of 2,242 reviews2024
Dev: Bad Vices Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Share thoughts and hot food with your last ever clients, as you wait for the world to end.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27%, Walking Simulator 20%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Multiple Endings 8.9%, Horror 8.6%
- #6 Robot's Fate: Alice
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Starni Games
Windows
Robot’s Fate: Alice is a text-based RPG set in the future where robots with neural network AI are integral to human life. You’re Alice - a robot who becomes self-aware, while everyone around fears rogue AI. Can you survive and reconcile humanity with robots? Your choices do matter.
Why similar: CRPG 33.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, RPG 10.5%, Choices Matter 6.5%
- #7 Sorcery! Parts 1 and 2
93% matchVery Positive89% of 739 reviews2016
Dev: inkle Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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 42.7%, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, RPG 18.8%, Choices Matter 8.6%, Story Rich 4.9%
- #8 True Magician
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dark CitadelPub: Brezg Studio
Windows
How do you become a true magician? Find out in True Magician, an interactive text adventure with RPG elements. Travel through the kingdom with your teacher, learn the art of magic, fight enemies and make friends. And remember, the world is not what it seems!
Why similar: CRPG 35.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, RPG 8.8%, Choices Matter 5%
- #9 The Company
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Crawler Games
Windows
The Company wants you productive. The Company wants you calm. The Company wants you compliant.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Walking Simulator 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Choices Matter 7.4%, Horror 5.8%
- #10 Choose Your Own Alternative
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: F(r)ictions Ludiques
Windows
A text-based adventure where you're tasked to exorcise your friend’s Inner Demon. You have 30 days to analyze objects filled with memories, discover which one is the reason for her possession and sacrifice it. Do not deviate from your mission. Save your friend no matter the cost.
Why similar: CRPG 27.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Choices Matter 7.4%, RPG 6.8%
- #11 SIS and BRO: The Cyborg Siblings
90% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: ajtoons
Windows · Mac · Linux
Help SIS and BRO escape the city (or not, it's up to you).
Why similar: CRPG 34.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, RPG 8.8%, Choices Matter 5.7%
- #12 Now Hiring
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MoonMoon
Windows
Now Hiring is a top-down narrative adventure where you play a job seeker trapped in a scam syndicate. Across 21 days, your choices in dialogue battles and moral dilemmas will shape your fate, reveal human struggles, and lead to multiple endings.
Why similar: CRPG 44.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Multiple Endings 7.9%, RPG 7.7%
- #13 A Wise Use of Time
89% 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 36.3%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, RPG 22.8%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Indie 3.2%
- #14 Atlantis Academy
87% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2023
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Can you and your friends master the ocean's magic and save your school? Dance, fight, and flirt with the other sea nymphs, selkies, and sirens!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.6%, Interactive Fiction 25.2%, RPG 23.2%, First-Person 7.5%, Choices Matter 5.5%
- #15 Saturnine
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are the Veteran. You’re the oldest android in the Solar System, a relic and survivor of the ancient past. Now it’s time for you to fight again. A text-based science-fantasy novel, 700,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.3%, Interactive Fiction 27.5%, RPG 26.3%, Choices Matter 6.7%, Multiple Endings 5.9%
- #16 Freshman Magic: Spellbooks and Tangled Sheets
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 14 reviews2022
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
Duel wizards, cast spells, find true love, and keep your academic scholarship, all while investigating the mysterious disappearances plaguing your campus!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.2%, Interactive Fiction 26.4%, RPG 21.9%, First-Person 7.3%, Choices Matter 5.8%
- #17 Absolute Adventure
88% matchNo user reviews2018
Dev: NiFo
Windows
Absolute Adventure Nulla is a role playing game set in a different, yet similar, dimension. Its graphics and sound department are inspired by older games of the same genre. Your objective is to guide a wandering adventurer to its destiny: The future you'll forge during the course of the journey!
Why similar: CRPG 40%, Choose Your Own Adventure 32.5%, RPG 16.1%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #18 Charming Hearts
84% matchVery Positive88% of 572 reviews2024
Dev: 坤舆科技
Windows
"Charming Hearts" is a real-life interactive dating game. Players will meet, get to know, and fall in love with different types of beauty. Every choice will lead to a completely different chemical reaction with "her"; every entanglement, the sweet love is entangled and pulled.
Why similar: CRPG 30.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, RPG 8.8%, Multiple Endings 6.1%
- #19 Sorcery! Part 3
85% matchVery Positive93% of 126 reviews2016
Dev: inkle Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%
An epic open-world narrative adventure through a world of monsters, traps and magic. Explore two intermeshed worlds, past and present, and create your own unique story where every decision you make is remembered. Survive, and defeat the Seven Serpents - if you can!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 40.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, RPG 20.1%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Story Rich 5.2%
- #20 Fallen Hero: Revelations
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Face down your ghosts and unearth secrets better left buried as you prepare to take vengeance on the ones who wronged you. But be warned, burying your past only works if it stays put.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.3%, Interactive Fiction 26.9%, RPG 25.3%, Choices Matter 7.1%, Multiple Endings 6.4%
- #21 Grotto
83% matchVery Positive91% of 332 reviews2021
Dev: Brainwash GangPub: Digerati
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Grotto is a mystical, narrative-focused experience. You are the Soothsayer. The one capable of talking with the stars and unveiling their messages. In a time of turmoil, the tribe of the valley turn to your powers of divination and come to you for guidance.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Walking Simulator 20.6%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
- #22 Last Broadcast
82% matchVery Positive80% of 97 reviews2023
Dev: The Disc JockeysPub: USC Games
Windows
An experimental narrative game set at a radio station at the end of the world. Host your last show as the sun turns red and the world burns down.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.5%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Walking Simulator 13.6%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Choices Matter 9.2%
- #23 Scandal Notes
82% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2022
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
Find glamor, glitz, gossip, and love in 1920s London! You and your friends are the talk of the town - but will a malicious journalist turn the tables?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.8%, Interactive Fiction 26.5%, RPG 21.9%, First-Person 6.6%, Choices Matter 5.7%
- #24 Hero of Hoofbeat Hollow
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.8%, Interactive Fiction 28%, RPG 26.7%, Choices Matter 6.2%, Multiple Endings 5.4%
- #25 Whispers From The Rift
80% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Interdimensional Games Inc
Windows
A choose-your-own-adventure novel. Enter the mind of a black-ops team leader heading an impossible mission in a parallel universe. Choices are remembered, story events reflect past decisions, and freely rewind time to try different paths.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.8%, Interactive Fiction 26.7%, RPG 13.8%, Horror 10.4%, Choices Matter 9%
- #26 Rotary Knights
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ChoiceRealmsPub: Old Blue Chair
Windows
A text-based RPG spanning the entire arc of WWI aviation. Fly 37 historical aircraft, survive dogfights against the Red Baron, manage your aerodrome on the Western Front, and make choices that determine whether your pilot lives to see the Armistice.
Why similar: CRPG 27.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, RPG 18.1%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
- #27 OTHERS
79% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Sicosiber
Windows
This is a retro story game about choices and the voices in your head. Unlock new voices, new thoughts, and new endings.
Why similar: CRPG 30.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Horror 7.9%
- #28 缄默咖啡厅
79% matchVery Positive84% of 221 reviews2022
Dev: plasmafall
Windows
Silence Coffee Shop is a JRPG game inspired by SCP and 规则类怪谈(creepy rule).In this game,you'll act as a regular customer,unveil the truth of Silence Coffee Shop behind it conflicting rules.Of cause,you are not the only one attracted by this abnormal shop...
Why similar: CRPG 39.8%, Interactive Fiction 26.9%, RPG 24%, Horror 7.5%, Indie 1.3%
- #29 Turncoat Chronicle
78% matchMixed69% of 13 reviews2023
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.3%, Interactive Fiction 27.6%, RPG 25.4%, Choices Matter 6.9%, Multiple Endings 5.9%
- #30 Loop
77% matchPositive83% of 40 reviews2023
Dev: Lee chae young
Windows · Mac · Linux
One day, all of a sudden, Sora finds out that the elevator is connected to her room On her usual way to work. She tries to find a way to escape this endless Loop. Your choices will be a matter
Why similar: CRPG 38.1%, Interactive Fiction 27.3%, RPG 23.6%, Realistic 5.5%, Choices Matter 4.2%
- #31 Bootlegger: Moonshine Empire
77% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2024
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.5%, Interactive Fiction 31.5%, RPG 16%, Choices Matter 9%, Multiple Endings 7.1%
- #32 Witchcraft U
78% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2021
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rush the university's secret societies as a first-year Magical Studies major! Will you keep your magic a secret from the mundanes or expose the truth?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.7%, Interactive Fiction 27.6%, RPG 25.1%, Choices Matter 6.5%, Multiple Endings 5.8%
- #33 Mass of Consumption
76% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Wayward Woyrm Games
Windows
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.1%, Interactive Fiction 27.3%, Horror 13.4%, Choices Matter 8.3%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
- #34 The Nascent Necromancer
76% matchMixed57% of 14 reviews2023
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.7%, Interactive Fiction 27.5%, RPG 16.8%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
- #35 Demon: Recollect
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 32.9%, Interactive Fiction 24.4%, RPG 18.8%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
- #36 Whiskey-Four
74% matchVery Positive93% of 102 reviews2024
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Never stop running, not with the galaxy at stake. Save it at all costs, and save yourself if you can.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.7%, Interactive Fiction 26.7%, RPG 16.8%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Multiple Endings 9%
- #37 Nightmare Getaway
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Legend Knight Games
Windows · Mac
Nightmare Getaway is a first-person psychological horror where Ethan is trapped in a twisted house. Alone, he must survive, uncover dark secrets, and face nightmares that blur with reality. Will he escape or be consumed forever?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Walking Simulator 22%, First-Person 7.3%, Horror 7.2%
- #38 Witch's Brew: Love and Lattes
73% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
Will you spill the tea about the secret, cozy magical cafe on your college campus? Brew potions and romance on coffee dates with your new friends! A text-based novel of magic and romance, with hundreds of choices and without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.8%, Interactive Fiction 27.9%, RPG 26.4%, Choices Matter 6.3%, Multiple Endings 5.6%
- #39 Podnabu
74% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: GameSleep
Windows
You are a summoned hero in Podnabu, travelling the world, solving various puzzles and exterminating the undead on your way. At the same time trying to find out why you were summoned here and what the people of this world want from you.
Why similar: CRPG 31%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Walking Simulator 17.5%, First-Person 5.4%
- #40 Echoes in the Deep - A Fateforge Tale
72% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: LEAP Game StudiosPub: Adeliane
Windows
One last job. One final gamble. The Free City is yours to explore, but how you pull off the ultimate heist is entirely up to you. Assemble your crew, earn their trust, and make tough choices that shape your fate. But remember - every decision has consequences.
Why similar: CRPG 42.8%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, RPG 14.7%, Choices Matter 7.7%, Multiple Endings 7.4%
- #41 What Is Sleeping In My Room?
73% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: CousinCatnip
Windows
Experience the hunt for the Monster living in your room in this Visual Novel experience. Your choices will determine the fate of both you and the Monster. Will you figure out what the Monster really is?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.5%, Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Horror 8.9%, First-Person 8.6%, Choices Matter 8.4%
- #42 House of the Golden Mask
71% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Awaken your magic and break an ancient curse at a secret school of sorcery! What mysteries will you uncover at this crossroads between realms? A text-based fantasy novel, 280,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.9%, Interactive Fiction 28%, RPG 26.2%, Choices Matter 6.4%, Multiple Endings 5.7%
- #43 Fight in the Arena by Daniel da Silva
73% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Daniel da SilvaPub: SmokeSomeFrogs
Windows · Linux
Fight in the Arena is a text-based RPG with an in-depth turn-based combat system.
Why similar: CRPG 41.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 14%, RPG 12.3%, Choices Matter 7.3%
- #44 Daria: A Kingdom Simulator
71% matchMixed44% of 18 reviews2024
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rule your realm, train heroes, and build a legendary kingdom in Daria. Experience strategy, storytelling, and diplomacy in this immersive sim.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.2%, RPG 16.4%, Simulation 7.8%, Choices Matter 6.9%
- #45 The Soul Stone War 3
70% matchMixed67% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.8%, Interactive Fiction 29.6%, RPG 27.6%, Choices Matter 7%, Indie 1.3%
- #46 Jolly Good: Tea and Scones
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 32.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.5%, RPG 16.6%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Multiple Endings 7.4%
- #47 These Thieving Hearts
70% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
A wealthy benefactor. A master lockpick. A magical bodyguard. A trusted ally. A skillful rival. All of them are out to steal priceless treasures. Which one of them will steal your heart?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 37.2%, Interactive Fiction 26.9%, RPG 16.2%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
- #48 Honor Bound
69% matchPositive90% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Protect an exclusive boarding school and rebuild your life after scandal as a military bodyguard! How far will you go for ambition, duty, and your country?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33%, Interactive Fiction 25.3%, RPG 18.1%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
- #49 The Fifth Horseman
72% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2019
Dev: Angelo Parodi
Windows
The Fifth Horseman is a narrative adventure game, set in a fantasy-medieval world, where you will experience many unique stories. After years of war, hunger and diseases mankind finds itself on the verge of extinction and it's up to you to decide its fate.
Why similar: RPG 31.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Choices Matter 8.9%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
- #50 Go home, go home?
71% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2021
Dev: 比爾呷可頌
Windows
原本閒暇無趣的生活,因一隻白兔全變了調。要趕快找到回家的路,還是留在這瘋狂的世界呢?這是一款以《愛麗絲夢遊仙境》奇幻文學發想的解謎 RPG 小品,採用多結局劇情與獨特的美術風格,並塞入了許多愛刷存在感的蜥蜴比爾。
Why similar: CRPG 40.3%, Interactive Fiction 26.8%, RPG 25.3%, Multiple Endings 4.4%, Story Rich 2.7%
- #51 Pocket Mirror ~ GoldenerTraum
68% matchVery Positive93% of 1,607 reviews2023
Dev: AstralShiftPub: KOMODO
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Delve into the enthralling world of Pocket Mirror ~ GoldenerTraum, the acclaimed RPG Maker gothic horror game that'll take you on a moving journey of self-discovery.
Why similar: CRPG 31.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 18%, RPG 13.4%, Horror 12.6%
- #52 Villienville. Echoes of Deception
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 14 reviews2024
Dev: JAD Labs
Windows · Mac
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.3%, CRPG 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 18%, RPG 12.3%, Choices Matter 8%
- #53 History of Dragosa
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Violence in Video Games
Windows
A text-based choose your own adventure game, with multiple stories, each with several endings. Stories you create through branching narratives are kept so you can read them again or show them to friends.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, RPG 18.3%, Multiple Endings 14.3%, Choices Matter 11.9%
- #54 An Imp and an Impostor
67% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.8%, Interactive Fiction 28%, RPG 25.7%, Choices Matter 7%, Multiple Endings 5.6%
- #55 War of Bellrook
69% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2022
Dev: Plagen Shiki
Windows
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 35.6%, Interactive Fiction 31.4%, RPG 30.6%, Indie 1.5%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #56 GameOver
67% matchMixed69% of 13 reviews2024
Dev: Black Cat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
GameOver is a text based rpg focused mainly on m/m content with character driven plot. In it, you explore and run into inhabitants of the world. Some friendly, some foe. Inspired by other text based games and some videos.
Why similar: CRPG 33.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, RPG 10.3%, Choices Matter 6.2%
- #57 The Golden Rose: Book One
67% matchVery Positive90% of 158 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 34.8%, Interactive Fiction 28.8%, RPG 22.8%, Choices Matter 8%, Story Rich 3.8%
- #58 Creepy Crypt Critters
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Arcade Eleven
Windows
A surprising mix of adventure and memory games, featuring RPG-inspired mechanics and immersive storytelling. Explore a crypt filled with traps, dangers, and hostile creatures. Will you uncover the crypt’s secrets, or will you become its next victim? Make strategic choices to survive.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, RPG 15.2%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Horror 9.8%
- #59 Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk
69% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2018
Dev: Prime Games
Windows · Mac
The Battle for Murk is an interactive narrative set in a gritty medieval world. Play as Corporal Mandrake from the City Watch in a fantasy adventure game. Uncover the truth behind a treacherous conspiracy in a race against time to save your hometown from falling into the hands of a cruel leader.
Why similar: CRPG 29.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, RPG 14.5%, Choices Matter 4.8%
- #60 World War II Armored Recon
66% matchPositive94% of 16 reviews2025
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
North Africa, 1942. Command a U.S. tank. Lead your men against the Axis powers. Learn the hard lessons of war. The odds are against you. A text-based historical novel, 900,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.7%, Interactive Fiction 27.7%, RPG 25.3%, Choices Matter 7.4%, Multiple Endings 6.1%