60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Text-Based, Interactive Fiction, Adventure, Choose Your Own Adventure.
Buck Trucker must gamble and sweet-talk his way through The Golden Palm Casino, Las Vegas, to save an orphanage back home—or succumb to Sin City's many temptations in this choice-driven story featuring mini-games, multiple endings, and a cast of outlandish characters.
My Name is Uncle Groucho You Win a Fat Cigar
In this bizarre graphically-augmented text-adventure originally released in 1983 from the mind of Mel Croucher, Uncle Groucho is your guide in a wacky alternative Hollywood where cigars are currency and you are as likely to travel in a space shuttle as in a covered wagon.
Butter Side Down
Butter Side Down is a bizarro choose-your-own-choice game. Starring Basil Bonser, Adam Spargo, Grey Michael, Beatrice, Jeep Johnson, and Rotten Ruggerio. Answer questions, take calls, play card games, and solve one hell of a mystery.
In this bizarre graphically-augmented text-adventure originally released in 1983 from the mind of Mel Croucher, Uncle Groucho is your guide in a wacky alternative Hollywood where cigars are currency and you are as likely to travel in a space shuttle as in a covered wagon.
Why similar: Text-Based 18%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%, RPG 7.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.5%, Surreal 7.5%
Butter Side Down is a bizarro choose-your-own-choice game. Starring Basil Bonser, Adam Spargo, Grey Michael, Beatrice, Jeep Johnson, and Rotten Ruggerio. Answer questions, take calls, play card games, and solve one hell of a mystery.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Text-Based 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Gambling 12% ★, Dark Humor 10.2%
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 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Comedy 15.9%, Adventure 8.4%
Relive your summer vacations at your grandparents' house in the countryside, except things aren't going to go as planned. Intrigue, mystery, and unbridled capitalistic greed: it's time to grow up!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Text-Based 15%, Interactive Fiction 15%, RPG 10.6%, Action-Adventure 8.9%
In this classic graphical text adventure, originally released in 1985 for the Commodore 64 by the same studio that brought you The Hobbit, explore an adventure in the world of Count Dracula.
Why similar: Text-Based 19%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, 1980s 8.8%, RPG 8%
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 29%, Text-Based 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, RPG 15.4%, Adventure 8.4%
A voxel-powered comedy about clothes, pockets, and the people who need them.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Text-Based 14.1%, Dark Humor 10.5%, Adventure 7.2%
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 29%, Text-Based 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, RPG 18.3%, Adventure 10%
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 28.2%, Text-Based 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 19%, RPG 18%, Adventure 11.3%
Navigate unknown waters, deadly politics, and ancient magic in this low-fantasy adventure. Can you turn the tides of war and forge a future for your clan? A text-based interactive novel, 1 million words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Text-Based 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, RPG 18%, Lore-Rich 8.3%
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 29.8%, Interactive Fiction 26%, Text-Based 22.6%, Comedy 14.4%, Adventure 7.3%
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 29.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, RPG 16%, Adventure 11%
The year is 2074. “Spark” organization wants to «establish order» in your hometown of Eliseysk. It’s time to answer the call (of justice) and join the resistance. Will you be the one to shoulder the burden of this mission, and persist in this cruel and dangerous world in order to shape its future?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Text-Based 14.6%, RPG 11.9%, Exploration 7.5%
Eyes of Iyre is a Visual Novel with heavy RPG elements. Follow Barbak the Orc as he discovers more about the world and his past, all the while trying to keep his temper under control. Make friends, cast magic, and learn the truths hidden in the city of Iyre!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Text-Based 16.1%, RPG 12.2%, Action-Adventure 11.9%
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 27.4%, Text-Based 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, RPG 11%, Action-Adventure 10.1%
LOOK, USE, TALK, and TAKE your way through this old-school text-based mystery of a broken kingdom. Only you can pry at the castle cracks and discover what lies at the core of a heart-breaking disappearance.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.4%, 1980s 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, RPG 16.1%, Adventure 9.6%
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 32.4%, Text-Based 24.1%, RPG 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Adventure 10.1%
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 27.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.9%, RPG 22.2%, Text-Based 21.4%, Adventure 4%
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 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Text-Based 19.6%, RPG 17%, Adventure 10%
You’re trapped in a malfunctioning virtual reality with no memories—except of every video game you’ve ever played. Jack into a wild dream in cyberspace.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, RPG 17.3%, Dark Humor 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%
Battle demons and undead attorneys, and win souls to pay back your student loans! At the elite demonic-law firm of Varkath Nebuchadnezzar Stone, you'll depose a fallen god, find romance, and maybe even make partner, if you don't lose your own soul first.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 35%, Text-Based 32.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, RPG 13.9%
When a quiet Halloween night turns into a thrilling adventure, make sure to grab a weapon, eat candy, wreck monsters or leave them for dead!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Text-Based 18.8%, RPG 16.4%, Dark Humor 14%
Four thousand miles. Twenty thousand pounds. Four murderous rivals. One unforgettable adventure.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, RPG 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Text-Based 17.2%, Action-Adventure 13.4%
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 32.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, RPG 16.1%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%
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: Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Text-Based 22.8%, RPG 16.7%, Lore-Rich 9.2%
Interactive teen supernatural mystery! You and your friends have developed magical psychic powers. Solve the case, save your school, find a date for prom!
Why similar: Text-Based 33.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, RPG 18.7%
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: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Text-Based 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Lore-Rich 14.2%, Pixel Graphics 6.9%
The hero who stopped a world-eating calamity was branded a demon by history. Centuries later, an orphan carrying his last fragment pieces the truth together from rumor and record. No combat — only Ashen Flame, a power that costs you with every use. Two loops. One truth.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, RPG 9.3%, Lore-Rich 7.6%
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 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Text-Based 21.7%, RPG 19.1%, Adventure 11.5%
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 38.3%, Text-Based 32.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Adventure 6.2%, Story Rich 0.6%
Infiltrate the orgiastic secret society beneath the modern-day Palace of Versailles! Will you expose their sex rituals or surrender to their pleasures? An interactive romance novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Text-Based 21.6%, RPG 18.5%, Lore-Rich 13.7%
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: Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.6%, Text-Based 23.5%, RPG 21.3%, Adventure 3.8%
Walk the path of a legendary mage, combining four different schools of magic to devastating effects.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, RPG 17%, Adventure 10.6%
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 27%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Text-Based 23.7%, RPG 20.9%, Adventure 3.7%
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 26.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Text-Based 24.1%, RPG 21.2%, Adventure 3.6%
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 27.4%, Text-Based 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, RPG 15.3%, Adventure 8.3%
Death Mountain is a story-driven game with psychological horror, exploration, puzzles, and three main characters. A medical team gets trapped in the mountains on their way to a sanatorium. Explore the “Mind Maze,” face their struggles, and uncover the truth of the world.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Text-Based 23.9%, Dark Humor 19%, RPG 14.7%, Exploration 11.3%
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%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.6%, Text-Based 27.1%, Adventure 13.4%
Your crush is missing. They texted you last night. And now you’re reliving the same day over and over. Welcome to Sunset High — where drama, dilemmas, and time loops collide in this narrative-driven, 2D adventure.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Text-Based 16%, Dark Humor 14.3%, RPG 7.9%
Dazzle humanity or destroy it as a magical, two-tailed fox! Weave illusions, shapeshift, or control minds. You'll set the world on fire, one way or another.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26%, Interactive Fiction 24%, Text-Based 21.1%, RPG 12.4%, Action-Adventure 12.2%
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 26.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.6%, Text-Based 23.5%, RPG 21.4%, Adventure 3.6%
In a Persian steampunk empire, will you use your arcane alchemy to repair a spaceship, or pilot a mech? Ignite a revolution, or snuff it out?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Text-Based 18.7%, RPG 16.9%, Lore-Rich 10.7%
A classic text adventure - but you're not the one playing it. You're the game master for an idiot player named STEVE. Parse the player's enigmatic commands and decide how NPCs react to him. Who knew that running an RPG would be so frustrating?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Text-Based 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, 1980s 14.7%, Comedy 10.8%
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 26.3%, Text-Based 25.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, RPG 20.2%, Adventure 3.5%
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: Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.4%, Text-Based 24.4%, RPG 20.3%, Adventure 3.6%
(RPG) The Legends of Power Volume 1 is a pixel, adventure and horror game. You have to choose the fate determined of characters they'll be alive or death, but there might be other things that could help you to have advantage...
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Action-Adventure 16.3%, Exploration 9.1%, Adventure 8.2%
The main character is the usual average schoolboy, who can be found on the street after the 7th lesson. But it's not so simple, because he has a dream inside of his head, a dream that you have to implement!
Why similar: Text-Based 22%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Action-Adventure 13.4%, Pixel Graphics 12.2%, Dark Humor 8.6%
IBH is a rich role playing game at the end of time. You're a mid-level official in a dying sci-fi regime, given the impossible task of fixing a faltering machine; explore a vast world, define your mind, flex your authority, and become a sinner or a savior in countless other stories.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.8%, Interactive Fiction 24%, RPG 15.1%, Text-Based 11.6%, Exploration 8.1%
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: 1980s 23.7%, Text-Based 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%
Defy nature’s laws and avenge your slain pantheon! Humanity once feared and hated you, but now, awakened from a thousand-year slumber, you are their only hope. A text-based interactive game.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Text-Based 21.7%, RPG 18.9%, Lore-Rich 11.6%
A feud between old gods, a missing flock of faer, and every choice has consequences. Ren is in the middle of it all. What will her story be? You will decide in this narrative driven adventure.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, RPG 11.8%, Comedy 11.7%, Lore-Rich 11.1%
Into Oblivion is an immerse interactive novel where your choices shape the story. Set in the far-future, explore a galaxy on the brink of crisis with dynamic companions. So, settle your mind and pray you have what it takes to fly Into Oblivion.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, RPG 17.4%, Text-Based 17.1%, Lore-Rich 11.3%
This game is a nostalgic pixel-style racing game where players control their car using the ASDW keys.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.6%, RPG 21.1%, 1980s 19.1%, Action-Adventure 14.3%, Adventure 12.6%
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 30.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.7%, Text-Based 26.4%, RPG 12.8%, Adventure 3.7%
Will you infiltrate the gods' Elite Courte, stealing their superpowers, or turn double agent and join them, taking your place among the divine?
Why similar: Text-Based 28.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, RPG 17%, Adventure 9.3%
Heed magic’s call! Find love as you explore ancient mysteries, craft dragon-rune tattoos, and discover your true loyalties. What passions shape your path?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Text-Based 22.6%, RPG 18.3%, Lore-Rich 11.8%
A surreal indie RPG about dissociation, recovery, and the friends (imaginary or not) who help us survive. Guide Juno through a new town, (re)build her connections, dig through the static and find out what it means to see the world in color again.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, RPG 16.9%, Action-Adventure 14.3%, Dark Humor 12.1%, Adventure 9.9%
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 35.9%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, RPG 16.1%, Text-Based 15.2%, Adventure 7.8%
I excitedly opened the 250-yuan inflatable doll, only to find a real girl inside! "Can you speak? Do you remember anything?" I had to stay with her till she regained her memory to clear my name.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.4%, RPG 21%, Text-Based 19.4%, Lore-Rich 12.7%, Adventure 12.6%
A surrealist text-based RPG. You will explore an island, solve puzzles, and fight enemies, all in your attempt to get the Dark Egg.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Text-Based 18.6%, Surreal 9%, RPG 8.9%
