Games Like Choice of Life: Wild Islands

A card game in a Medieval setting where you make decisions on which not only your life will depend, but also the future of the kingdom!

Why similar: Card Game 15.5%, Turn-Based 13.3%, Roguelike Deckbuilder 13% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Choices Matter 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is the direct predecessor in the series, offering the same signature card-based decision-making and humorous branching narratives.

Explore your kingdom and rule wisely in the card game - Choice of Life: Middle Ages 2

Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 16.7% ★, Card Game 11.7%, Turn-Based 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 7%

Why You'll Like It: A direct sequel that expands on the mechanics and charm of the original, maintaining the same engaging choice-based gameplay loop.

Sit on the throne as a benevolent (or malevolent) medieval monarch of the modern age and swipe your royal controller either left or right to impose your will upon the kingdom.

Why similar: Card Game 29.2%, Choices Matter 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, RPG 6.4%, Simulation 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive card-swipe game where every decision impacts the survival of your kingdom, mirroring the core mechanics of the seed game.

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 29.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.3%, RPG 13.4%, Story Rich 12.6%, Simulation 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an incredibly deep narrative experience where every choice significantly alters the protagonist's fate and the world around them.

Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.

Why similar: Card Game 33.7%, Survival 19.7%, Turn-Based 19.3%, Simulation 9%, Strategy 7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines deep survival simulation with card-based interactions, perfect for those who enjoyed the island-themed survival aspects of the seed game.

Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.

Why similar: Card Game 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, RPG 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A life-sim that uses deckbuilding and branching choices to tell a powerful story about growing up on an alien planet.

You're just a simple inhabitant of the endless Gigastructure. The best you'll get is seven shifts at a machine and a bowl of feed concentrate, and that for good service to the party.... Is that it? Or do you have a choice?

Why similar: Card Game 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Funny 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Another entry in the series that maintains the familiar card-based choice mechanics within a unique life-simulation setting.

Live the life of a Monster, from birth to elderhood and beyond, making decisions that affect the world of Monsters and Humans. Solve problems. Meet animals and interesting people. Get to know them. Eat them. Make your own story!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24%, Multiple Endings 18.6%, Choices Matter 12%, RPG 10.1%, Simulation 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A charming narrative-driven game that focuses on making choices to define your monster's personality and path through life.

These are troubling times, Your Grace. The petitioners’ petty matters exceed our limited resources, to say nothing of the war. A careful balance must be struck. Your throne awaits.

Why similar: Turn-Based 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, RPG 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on managing your kingdom through difficult moral choices and resource management, similar to the simulation elements of the seed game.

Card Survival: Fantasy Forest is a card-based deep survival simulator and the next installment in the Card Survival Series. Carve yourself a home in a primordial forest that has a will of its own. A day-to-day life simulator in a world where nature reigns with mystery, beauty and sometimes cruelty.

Why similar: Card Game 25.5%, Turn-Based 25.3%, Survival 15.7%, RPG 9.7%, Simulation 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Extends the survival-card mechanics of the series into a fantasy setting, offering more complex crafting and exploration.

Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make the decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 35.8%, Multiple Endings 18.3%, Choices Matter 16.7%, RPG 11.1%, Story Rich 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A complex political simulation that relies entirely on branching dialogue and high-stakes decision-making to shape the nation's future.

Deckbuilding comes to life in Hand of Fate! An infinitely replayable series of quests - earn new cards, build your deck, then try to defeat it! In a cabin at the end of the world, the game of life and death is played. Draw your cards, play your hand, and discover your fate.

Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 52% ★, Card Game 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.3%, RPG 6.5%, Fantasy 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Blends card-based adventure and deckbuilding with action sequences, capturing the feeling of a tabletop adventure brought to life.

Solve tactical puzzles in constantly changing battles and overcome circumstances that are NEVER in your favor. Defend your commander, win duels, capture points, experiment with your strategy to defeat a superior enemy, and make decisions that affect your story.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Card Game 21.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.6%, Choices Matter 14.7%, RPG 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical deckbuilder where narrative choices and character interactions are just as important as the card-based combat.

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, RPG 21.4%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Multiple Endings 11.4%, Story Rich 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: An illustrated text-based RPG that emphasizes survival, exploration, and the weight of every decision you make in a hostile world.

The Yawhg is a one-to-four player choose-your-own-adventure game that randomizes a unique story every time you play. The evil Yawhg is returning. How will the town’s locals lead their lives in the meanwhile, and what will they do when the dreaded Yawhg finally arrives?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 54.5%, RPG 12.2%, Story Rich 11.9%, Multiple Endings 6.8%, Indie 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A short, highly replayable choose-your-own-adventure game where your choices determine the fate of a town facing an impending disaster.

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: Multiple Endings 35.2%, RPG 25.3%, Story Rich 22.2%, Adventure 9.3%, Indie 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Uses dice and card-like mechanics to simulate survival and narrative progression in a beautifully written cyberpunk setting.

A darkly humorous life simulator where every decision matters. Swipe left or right to guide a life through hundreds of strange events while balancing Health, Money, Social, and Happiness. Live well, die horribly, and try again.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.8%, Card Game 25.4%, Survival 15%, Funny 7.9%, Choices Matter 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A life-simulation game that uses card-based choices to guide your character through various stages of existence.

Unleash your power in Dark Lord, a roguelike RPG filled with strategy, adventure, and sardonic wit. Rule your growing realm with an iron fist in Story Mode, dive deep into the legends created by other players, or forge your own in Community Stories Mode!

Why similar: Card Game 23.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Simulation 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Funny 9%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game that features dark humor and card-based management as you attempt to maintain your rule as a villain.

Become a medieval alchemist in this card game. Brew deadly potions, discover ancient recipes, hire adventurers, and outwit the Inquisition. Transform your humble shack into an alchemical empire. No wands are required — just knowledge and wit.

Why similar: Card Game 28.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Choices Matter 10.9%, RPG 10.4%, Fantasy 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: An RPG that incorporates choose-your-own-adventure elements and card-based mechanics to drive its historical narrative.

Create your own epic saga of survival, mythology and diplomacy! Rule your clan, make strategic decisions that affect the game world, win battles and expand your influence in this unique mix of RPG, strategy and story-telling.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26%, RPG 14.1%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Strategy 12.5%, Fantasy 12%

Why You'll Like It: A deep strategy and narrative game where you lead a clan through generations of choices and events.

Little Dungeon Stories is a challenging roguelike card-based RPG. Enter the dungeon full of secrets, hostile monsters, deadly traps, and legendary loots. How long can you survive?

Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 33.6% ★, Card Game 18.7%, Turn-Based 15.9%, Choices Matter 8.3%, RPG 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelike card-based adventure that focuses on quick, impactful choices while exploring dangerous dungeons.

In this 2D, short narrative-based game, you assume the role of the Grim Reaper... on an office job. Your job is to decide which people are going to live or die. The consequences of your choices are yours to bear, while the mystery of your incarnation awaits revelation!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Choices Matter 17%, Multiple Endings 16.5%, Story Rich 10.2%, Simulation 9%

Why You'll Like It: A humorous simulation game where you play as a Grim Reaper making life-or-death decisions based on paperwork.

You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?

Why similar: Choices Matter 22.8%, Multiple Endings 22.2%, Story Rich 12.5%, Strategy 11.9%, Simulation 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A tense simulation game where you must make difficult moral choices while managing your life under a totalitarian regime.

Rule the world or die trying!Being a Princess is not an easy job. Being a Queen is even harder. Especially when you're only fourteen years old, and the reason you've inherited the throne is that your royal mother has just met an untimely end.Now power is up for grabs.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Simulation 13%, Fantasy 11.5%, RPG 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes simulation game where you must manage your character's education and choices to survive a dangerous royal court.

Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.

Why similar: Multiple Endings 25.6%, Simulation 21.7%, Indie 14.5%, Story Rich 11.9%, Strategy 7%

Why You'll Like It: A dystopian simulation that forces players to make moral choices under pressure, similar to the decision-heavy nature of the seed game.

Mittelborg: City of Mages is a strategic adventure with elements of rogue-like and resource management. You are crowned to be Chancellor of the city, but this power is a heavy burden. Face tough decisions, fight mystical tempests, look for the cause of upcoming chaos. Will Mittelborg have a future?

Why similar: Turn-Based 25.7%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Strategy 10.3%, Survival 10%, Simulation 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that relies on narrative events and difficult choices to manage the survival of a magical city.

Investigate your own death, find ways to break free from a time loop, choose a hero who will ascend to the throne and rule the Northern gate! The fates of whole nations of the land of Midian depend on your choices.

Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 27.8% ★, Turn-Based 19.8%, Card Game 17.9%, Fantasy 8.8%, RPG 5.7%

Organ Trail is a retro zombie survival game. Travel westward in a station wagon with 4 of your friends, scavenging for supplies and fending off the undead. Members of your party might die of dysentery or you might have to put them down yourself when they get bit.

Why similar: Survival 22.9%, Strategy 22.7%, Indie 12.9%, Simulation 10.2%, RPG 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A survival game that uses card-like event triggers to force players into difficult, narrative-heavy decisions.

Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.

Why similar: Card Game 33.4%, Simulation 16.1%, Turn-Based 14.6%, Survival 11.1%, Strategy 10.4%

Survive, adapt, and research in the New World, with its rules, dwellers, and their laws. Head the colonization of these locations and ensure the independence and security of your population.

Why similar: Survival 26%, RPG 25.2%, Strategy 22%, Adventure 12.6%, Indie 10%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused adventure game that uses choice-based mechanics to manage your resources and progress on a deserted island.

Reign Your Football Club! Be the owner of your football club, make strategic choices, and climb through the amateur league to the first while making hard decisions to set everything in line for your club.

Why similar: Card Game 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Funny 8.8%, Simulation 7.3%

Prepare to fend off attacks from all directions in this hybrid strategy roguelite deck builder. On your journey through varied grid-based biomes, battle unique foes and make tough moral choices to restore a corrupted land and decide the fate of your world.

Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 30.1% ★, Card Game 21.3%, Turn-Based 17.7%, RPG 7.1%, Strategy 6%

Pirates? Pirates! is a Reigns-inspired pirate survival RPG. You are a pirate captain in charge of your ship and crew on the most dangerous adventure of all seas. Fight your way ahead, sort out emergencies, and discover legendary treasures!

Why similar: RPG 22%, Strategy 17.8%, Card Game 17.1%, Casual 10.6%, Adventure 10.4%

This is a wild and unpredictable life simulator, filled with laughter, banter, and endless possibilities. A strategy game that blends deck-building roguelike mechanics with Luck Be a Landlord-style gameplay. Shape your own life story from 400+ unique events and a deck of 380+ cards!

Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 36.3% ★, Card Game 22.6%, Multiple Endings 11.3%, Funny 9.5%, Simulation 5.5%

The Witch's Cauldron is a narrative roguelike game about being a medieval witch. Grab your cauldron and get brewing. Love, curses, laughter, wisdom for sale! Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. At least before the inquisitors come around.

Why similar: Card Game 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Fantasy 7.3%

Do you want to be a upright official or corrupt officials？Choose your choice,Reaching the pinnacle of power.

Why similar: Card Game 26.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Funny 10.9%, RPG 8.4%

Harvest cards to raise land from the sea, build settlements and rain fire upon invaders in this survival city-builder with roguelike deckbuilding mechanics. Choose from 4 gods with unique cards, playstyles and abilities to lead their civilisations to victory in strategic run-based gameplay!

Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 35% ★, Card Game 19%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Survival 9.7%, Strategy 6.9%

Prepare to embark on a journey like no other in Alluris. Play as a reluctant hero or villain to save the world… or just save a colony of bears from some lumberjacks. However you play, you’re sure to walk away with a few crazy stories about your adventure.

Why similar: Card Game 24.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, RPG 17.2%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Casual 9.4%

Destiny or Fate is a deck-building roguelite game. Choose a hero, build a deck and a party of mythical creatures, and set out on an endless adventure! Are you ready to make your own destiny, or will you succumb to an evil fate?

Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 26.5% ★, Turn-Based 22.1%, Card Game 20.8%, RPG 6.5%, Fantasy 6.2%

Dive into a massive 2-million-word immersive life sim. Use card-based strategies to survive office politics, rise from a rookie intern to a business tycoon, and find true love. Career, Romance, Wealth—why choose when you can have it all?

Why similar: Choices Matter 16.8%, Multiple Endings 16.6%, Story Rich 15.5%, Funny 14%, RPG 11.9%

A new hero rises to challenge the Dealer in Hand of Fate 2! Master a living boardgame of infinitely replayable quests - unlock new cards, build your adventure, then defeat your foes in brutal real-time combat! Draw your cards, play your hand and discover your fate!

Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 45.8% ★, Card Game 29.6%, RPG 11.5%, Fantasy 4%, Choices Matter 3.1%

Survive a mad Sultan's reign in this brutal resource management RPG. Draw a card every seven days and complete its challenge. Make dreadful choices to stay alive: will you die a loyal servant, become a kingslayer, or call down the gods' judgement?

Why similar: Card Game 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.1%, Choices Matter 10.9%, RPG 7.7%

Become the King in a story-driven 8-bit style game, where choice matters. And try not to die instantly...

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.5%, Multiple Endings 17.4%, Choices Matter 15.5%, RPG 9.8%, Story Rich 9.5%

Decide the fate of the world in this ingenious story-driven card game. Foretales offers a unique take on the adventure genre, with a multitude of playstyles and story paths through which you can save the world… or bring about its end.

Why similar: Card Game 26.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Story Rich 8.1%

Become the Final Boss! Play any way you want, combine followers from different factions, and win spectacular turn-based battles. Expand your Empire of Darkness and seek a powerful artifact that can change the fate of the world.

Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 35.2% ★, Turn-Based 21.1%, Card Game 17.9%, RPG 7.2%, Story Rich 6.8%

The Use of Life is a multi-ending adventure book style JRPG. The main character’s various attachments change in accordance with the choices the player makes, and the ending changes depending on “the use of life” you choose through your journey.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 19.1%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, RPG 9.2%, Choices Matter 9.1%

Your magic can change the world, but at what cost? Battle dragons, skyships, and evil Inquisitors, as you protect your homeland, conquer it, or destroy it forever!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 48.8%, RPG 25.3%, Adventure 13.5%, Indie 12.5%

Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!

Why similar: Survival 21.9%, Strategy 20.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 16.5%, Simulation 15.9%, RPG 13.1%

Control your environment, gather your party, and build your best deck to overcome outlaws and supernatural forces, across a rich fantasy world. Watch as your tactical choices and deckbuilding prowess play out through stylish fight sequences.

Why similar: Card Game 30.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 22.8%, Funny 13%, Fantasy 9.9%, Strategy 8.9%

Endless Road: Reborn is a roguelike card game where players use a variety of equipment & skills to defeat vile creatures lurking along a treacherous, endless road. Players will also be faced with choices that will test their decision-making abilities and survival skills.

Why similar: Card Game 36.1%, RPG 12.1%, Survival 10.8%, Funny 8.9%, Strategy 7.5%

Pirates Outlaws is a roguelike card game in which you navigate dangerous seas and challenge their masters. Your expedition will be full of ambushes and will not be easy. Build your deck and combos to become a reputed pirate.

Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 31.9% ★, Card Game 19.8%, Turn-Based 19.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.8%, Strategy 5.2%

In Deathless, elements of a collectible card game, roguelike, and turn-based strategy combine seamlessly. Build a unique deck of cards, discover unusual relics, and defeat legendary bosses. No two journeys will ever be the same with endless Path. Crush the Evil and save the world!

Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 38.4% ★, Card Game 22.5%, Turn-Based 21%, Strategy 5.9%, RPG 5.7%

Griftlands is a deck-building roguelite where you negotiate, fight, steal or otherwise persuade others to get your way. Every decision is important, be it the jobs you take, the friends you make, or the cards you collect.

Why similar: Turn-Based 19.3%, Card Game 16.9%, Roguelike Deckbuilder 16.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.6%

Cards of the Dead is a survival card game. Play your cards right and you might escape the zombie apocalypse!

Why similar: Turn-Based 27.4%, Card Game 24.7%, Survival 13.2%, RPG 8.3%, Simulation 8.2%

Cross Blitz is a unique RPG deckbuilder featuring fast-paced tactical combat with loads of cards to collect and synergies to wield. Explore, level up, craft new cards and build the perfect decks as you carve your own path to victory!

Why similar: Card Game 30.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.3%, RPG 11%, Funny 9%, Strategy 8.5%

Hero of Fate is a smooth and fun "rougue" game with "survivor" as the core gameplay. You will receive various tasks or meet unexpected events under monsters surrounded, and you can also recruit partners or battle alone. In this fantasy world, go to experience a exciting and unpredictable adventure!

Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 28.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Survival 11.8%, Fantasy 7.7%

Play your cards right to conquer the world in the Roguelite 4x. Explore mysterious lands, survive against the barbarian horde, and grow your stone age empire into the stars!

Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 46.1% ★, Card Game 20.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.7%, Strategy 8.5%, Simulation 5.3%

The inventory management roguelike! Collect rare items, organize your backpack, and vanquish your foes!

Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 32.3% ★, Turn-Based 23.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.1%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Fantasy 6.6%

The dead arise and only you can stand against them. Equip and train your character, grow your arsenal of cards, survive harrowing encounters and prepare for the final showdown with The Lost at ...The Last Hex! A RPG Deckbuilder with Roguelite elements.

Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 31.5% ★, Turn-Based 19.8%, Card Game 19.5%, RPG 7.1%, Fantasy 6.2%

Craft a legendary deck and lead your troops to protect the Kingdom for the glory of the Han Dynasty in this fast-paced deck-building strategy roguelike. The Kingdom is on the verge of disaster against the Yellow Turbans rebellion, and only you – and your skills as a general – stand in their way!

Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 33.4% ★, Card Game 23%, Turn-Based Strategy 13.7%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Strategy 6.7%