Games Like Choice of Robots

They called you a hero; you call them fools. Use your telepathy romance old friends and fight new enemies as you become the greatest villain Los Diablos has ever known!

Why similar: Text-Based 39.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.2%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, RPG 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A deeply psychological, character-driven interactive novel that offers unparalleled depth in how your choices shape the protagonist's morality and future.

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: Text-Based 40.4%, Interactive Fiction 27.4%, Sci-fi 12%, RPG 8.7%, Story Rich 8%

Why You'll Like It: This sci-fi narrative RPG features an android protagonist and focuses on the consequences of survival and choice in a decaying space station.

1872, with a steampunk twist. Phileas Fogg has wagered he can circumnavigate the world in just 80 days. Travel by airship, submarine, mechanical camel, steam-train and more. Race other players and a clock that never stops in TIME Magazine's Game of 2014.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.5%, Interactive Fiction 26%, Choices Matter 24%, Story Rich 8.3%, Indie 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: An exceptional interactive adventure that emphasizes branching paths and resource management within a beautifully realized steampunk world.

Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.

Why similar: Choices Matter 53.4%, RPG 21.7%, Story Rich 19.9%, Indie 3.6%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for text-heavy, choice-driven RPGs where every internal and external dialogue choice fundamentally alters the narrative trajectory.

Lead the revolt against a bloodthirsty empire! You grew up under the iron fist of the Hegemony. Now is your chance to end their blood-fueled magic, as you forge a ragtag outlaw band into a rebel army.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 35.3%, Text-Based 35%, Choices Matter 15.8%, RPG 9.2%, Indie 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: An epic-scale narrative that excels at tracking long-term consequences and the impact of your leadership on a rebellion.

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 38.4%, Text-Based 32.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, RPG 9.8%, Indie 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A military-focused interactive novel that provides a gritty, realistic experience with significant branching based on your tactical and social choices.

Pilot and customize a giant iron war mech in this alternate medieval history! The Papacy, Caliphate, and the Mongols are at war, and they all have mechs.

Why similar: Text-Based 55.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, RPG 17.4%, Indie 8.3%, Singleplayer 0.4%

Why You'll Like It: Set in an alternate steampunk history, this title mirrors the robotics and invention themes found in Choice of Robots.

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 30.6%, Text-Based 26.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Choices Matter 14.3%, RPG 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A political simulation that forces you to navigate complex, high-stakes decisions where every choice has long-term consequences for your nation.

Living on the moon is lonely, and stressful, and exhausting. Video games have always offered you an escape to a better life. The easy, happy life you wish you had. Which makes it so frustrating when the game you've been playing ends badly.

Why similar: Text-Based 44.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 35%, RPG 13.8%, Indie 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A philosophical sci-fi interactive novel that explores the nature of games and human connection through deep, contemplative choices.

Wage a war of gunpowder and magic! As a gentleman-officer of the Royal Dragoons, will you sacrifice your fortune? Your honour? Your men? Your own life?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 51%, Text-Based 31.6%, RPG 11.8%, Indie 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in military strategy and narrative choice, focusing on the life and career of a soldier in a sprawling fantasy world.

Steam-powered mechs meet forbidden sorcery in this interactive steampunk novel, inspired by Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Jekyll & Hyde, and Jack the Ripper!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 39.2%, Text-Based 31.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, RPG 9.4%, Indie 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A steampunk-themed interactive novel that balances mystery and character development with a strong, choice-based narrative.

The elders have entrusted you, an elite vampire courier, to deliver their secrets. Can you outrun the hunters, the other drivers, and the rising sun?

Why similar: Text-Based 30.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Choices Matter 14.4%, RPG 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A high-quality interactive fiction title that offers deep world-building and complex character relationships within the World of Darkness.

Step into the cockpit of a giant "mecha" robot, dueling with plasma sabers in an interstellar civil war!

Why similar: Text-Based 31.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, RPG 11.9%, Indie 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi interactive novel that focuses on mecha combat and the personal stakes of a pilot in a futuristic war.

Ride out into the Old West as a U.S. marshal in the biggest interactive novel ever made! Confront outlaws, find romance, defy the elements, and craft an enduring legend as you uncover a conspiracy whose deadly web stretches from San Francisco to New York City.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 38.3%, Text-Based 35%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, RPG 9.5%, Indie 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A sprawling western interactive novel that offers immense depth in its branching story paths and character customization.

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choices Matter 19.8%, Sci-fi 8.8%, LGBTQ+ 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A life-sim with deep narrative choices and sci-fi themes that allow you to shape the future of a colony over many years.

Will you serve the gods or overthrow them? Battle ancient evils and destiny itself in this epic interactive novel inspired by Greek myth.

Why similar: Text-Based 30.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Choices Matter 11.2%, RPG 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A mythological interactive novel that provides significant player agency and explores the weight of divine intervention.

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: Text-Based 27.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Choices Matter 10.8%, RPG 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features rich world-building and complex character interactions that reward players for thoughtful, long-term decision-making.

Do you have what it takes to become a legendary Powered hero? "Heroes Rise" is an epic interactive novel where your choices control the story. The game is entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. How high will you rise?

Why similar: Text-Based 32.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, RPG 6.9%, Choices Matter 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A classic superhero interactive fiction title that explores the consequences of fame and morality in a world of powered individuals.

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 40.9%, Choices Matter 20%, RPG 13.5%, Female Protagonist 10.2%, Indie 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes strategy and narrative game where every choice is critical to the survival of your character and kingdom.

Plunge into court politics and change the course of history, or pursue a love affair that rocks the kingdom to its foundations!

Why similar: Text-Based 28.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Choices Matter 14.2%, RPG 7%

Why You'll Like It: A political intrigue-focused interactive novel that excels at branching relationship dynamics and social maneuvering.

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: Text-Based 48.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 35.7%, RPG 9.6%, Indie 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A fantasy-based interactive novel that offers deep world-building and allows you to experiment with different magical paths.

Befriend misfit deities and make a life for yourself in the Underworld! Can you escape your arranged marriage to the King? Do you want to?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.2%, Text-Based 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Choices Matter 15.9%, RPG 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A modern interactive fiction title that provides significant player agency and meaningful consequences within a mythological setting.

Become the Wielder of Soul Stone, an ancient artifact of untold power, and shape the fate of your world. Outrun the past so that you may have a future.

Why similar: Text-Based 26.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, RPG 13.1%, Choices Matter 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: A high-fantasy interactive novel with a strong focus on character-driven choices and emotional narrative arcs.

SAIL THE STARS. BETRAY YOUR QUEEN. MURDER A SUN. Sunless Skies is a Gothic Horror roleplay game with a focus on exploration and exquisite storytelling.

Why similar: Choices Matter 38.4%, RPG 25.9%, Story Rich 23.7%, Indie 9.4%, Singleplayer 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric sci-fi game that relies heavily on text-based storytelling and difficult, choice-driven encounters in a gothic space setting.

Live a full life in the future as a human, an alien, or even a robot as you rise through the ranks to become captain of your very own starship.

Why similar: Text-Based 35.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Sci-fi 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi adventure that allows you to define your career and moral standing through a series of high-stakes, choice-based missions.

Outwit your professors at superpower school! Ace your exams, date classmates, and bring down the nation’s most wanted villains to earn your degree.

Why similar: Text-Based 50.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.8%, RPG 12.1%, Indie 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A superhero-themed interactive novel that focuses on personal growth and the impact of your choices on your peers.

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: Text-Based 38.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 36.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, RPG 6.7%, Indie 3.1%

In this interactive tale of love and war, be the force of reason that your kingdom needs, or perpetuate its reputation as a force of destruction. Find love and weave friendships, or cast it all away for the sake of retribution.

Why similar: Text-Based 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Story Rich 5.4%

Take back your throne from demon-summoning usurpers in this 145,000-word interactive fantasy novel! Will your prince or princess choose to be good or evil?

Why similar: Text-Based 44.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 34.1%, RPG 14.5%, Indie 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic fantasy RPG-style interactive novel that focuses on character stats and the long-term impact of your choices.

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 27.9%, Text-Based 23.5%, Choices Matter 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, RPG 8.4%

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 43.2%, Text-Based 37.7%, RPG 12.8%, Indie 6.3%

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 40.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, RPG 9.2%, Indie 4.5%

Steal alien powers and absorb their memories! Can you outlast your opponents to escape from planet Versus? An epic adventure in a new galaxy.

Why similar: Text-Based 47.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 32%, RPG 14.2%, Indie 6.1%

Make the movie of your dreams amid the glamor and romance of 1950s Hollywood! Hire Alfred Hitchcock, seduce Greta Garbo, or build your studio into a powerhouse.

Why similar: Text-Based 43.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 36.7%, RPG 13.4%, Indie 6.3%

Would a hero like you assassinate the president? "Heroes Rise: HeroFall" concludes the epic "Heroes Rise" trilogy of interactive novels where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

Why similar: Text-Based 31.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Choices Matter 14.5%, RPG 12.3%, Indie 6.1%

Turn a scripted steel-cage wrestling match into a real fight in this 250,000-word interactive novel, the greatest text-based pro-wrestling RPG in the world!

Why similar: Text-Based 39.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 38.9%, RPG 14.7%, Indie 7.2%

Combat, romance, adventure, and of course—magic! Master four elements and take on fate itself in this epic, interactive fantasy tale! Six possible endings. Four hours for a single playthrough. Three love interests. Countless choices. Male or female? Leader or loner? Good or evil? What kind of mage will you be?

Why similar: Text-Based 41.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 35.2%, RPG 15.6%, Indie 7.3%

Plunder ghost ships for cursed treasure! Battle the Crown Navy, sea monsters, and other bloodthirsty pirates on a quest to rival the Pirate King himself!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.7%, Text-Based 31.8%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 11%, RPG 5.9%

Seize the throne in the age of King Arthur! Lead an army of Britons against the darkest of enemies in this epic interactive medieval fantasy novel.

Why similar: Text-Based 53%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.2%, RPG 13.8%, Indie 5.9%

Climb to the very top of the class at your exclusive private school for socialites! Will you study hard, find a perfect match, or embrace scandal?

Why similar: Text-Based 42.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 33.6%, RPG 15.5%, Indie 8%

Your decisions will shape who is friend or foe, who will share in your secrets, and just how your romance with a certain vampire will grow!

Why similar: Text-Based 32.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, RPG 8.3%, Story Rich 3.1%

Write an archmage's autobiography in this 80-year 130,000-word interactive fiction! Play good or evil, man or woman, as you bring peace to the kingdom or take over the world with your sorcery. Brew potions, raise the dead, summon mythical beasts, control men's minds, and blast away your enemies.

Why similar: Text-Based 40.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 36.9%, RPG 15.7%, Indie 7.1%

Set out on a cross-country journey to win back the love of your life and endure the hardship of making story-defining choices that affect your life and the lives of those around you.

Why similar: Choices Matter 30.4%, RPG 26.2%, Story Rich 14.7%, Indie 13.1%, LGBTQ+ 10.8%

Implant cameras in your eyes to win the news wars of 2061! Break stories, outwit rival reporters, and become a celebrity in this interactive noir novel.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 63.7%, RPG 25.1%, Indie 11.3%

Your first case as a detective is forcing you to open your eyes to a world bigger than you thought. Or maybe it's better to keep them closed. Seems the supernatural didn’t get the memo that nothing exciting ever happens in the little town of Wayhaven.

Why similar: Text-Based 33.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, RPG 8.8%, Choices Matter 6.8%

As a wanna-be hero, you must rescue a city held hostage by an evil wizard, and somehow find money to pay your rent! A 240,000-word interactive novel.

Why similar: Text-Based 41.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 32.1%, RPG 18.1%, Indie 8.5%

HEAVEN WILL BE MINE is a visual novel about making terrible life decisions in the midst of a hot-blooded battle between giant robots. Select one of three terribly behaved girls to fight and/or make out with each other in their struggle for the fate of space.

Why similar: LGBTQ+ 31.1%, Sci-fi 23.5%, Indie 13.4%, Story Rich 12.7%, Female Protagonist 10.9%

BEL/S is an Elemental Firewall: a fire elemental bound with C++ code to protect a network of people and places. She can learn things, develop relationships, and even gain sapience. Or she can burn everything with fire. It's up to you.

Why similar: Text-Based 43.2%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Choices Matter 14.2%, RPG 11.9%, Indie 7%

Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.

Why similar: Choices Matter 40.5%, Sci-fi 26.6%, RPG 16%, Story Rich 15.1%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Everyone thinks you saved the world, but it was all a lie! You faked a "prophecy" with magical illusions. But now, your prophecy is coming true.

Why similar: Text-Based 38.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Choices Matter 17.2%, RPG 7.5%, LGBTQ+ 4.7%

Play the role of a young alchemist apprentice who is unwillingly bound to an illegal spirit. Suddenly drawn into a war between humanity and magic, they must join a group of unlikely heroes to escape their own doom, hopefully saving the world along the way.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 37%, Text-Based 27.6%, Choices Matter 12.6%, RPG 6.2%, LGBTQ+ 5.9%

Eliza is a visual novel about an AI counseling program, the people who develop it, and the people who use it. Follow Evelyn Ishino-Aubrey as she reconnects with people from her past, gets to know the people of Seattle who use Eliza for counseling, and decides the course of her future.

Why similar: Choices Matter 37.1%, Story Rich 19.3%, Female Protagonist 17.3%, Indie 12.7%, Sci-fi 6.3%

It starts with a daring escape from a zombie-infested city; it ends at Zombie Exodus, when a horde of zombies swarms outlying settlements like locusts.

Why similar: Text-Based 52.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 34.9%, RPG 8.5%, Indie 3.8%

The sequel to "Heroes Rise: The Prodigy." It's America's #1 reality show for heroes! As a contestant on "The Hero Project," you'll battle villains and heroes alike with your newly discovered "Infini" powers.

Why similar: Text-Based 32.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.7%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Choices Matter 7.8%, RPG 7.2%

This is the story of your life. Experience the entire journey from toddler to adulthood. Go to schools, learn new things, meet new friends, and have wild adventures! Every choice you make will influence your future career, and decide who your romantic partner will be. Who will you become?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 38.6%, Choices Matter 31.3%, Story Rich 10.4%, RPG 10.1%, LGBTQ+ 8.6%

BatteryNote is a multi-ending sci-fi adventure visual novel game. You can recharge three robots with limited lifespans, bringing them back to life. Interact with them through conversations or experiment by applying high voltage. How they spend their final moments is entirely up to you.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.5%, Robots 26.1%, Text-Based 13.6%, Sci-fi 8.5%, Choices Matter 8.2%

When your uncle Kent mysteriously disappears, you'll embark on a journey find out what really happened. What will you sacrifice when trapped in a haunted manor? Will you destroy this evil or claim its power? And can love bloom in a haunted house?

Why similar: Text-Based 37.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.9%, Choices Matter 18.6%, RPG 9.2%, Indie 4.5%

You are Robin Hood! Forge your destiny and fight to liberate Nottingham in this epic story-driven RPG blending interactive fiction, resource management, and base building set within a lushly-illustrated Sherwood Forest.

Why similar: Text-Based 25.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Choices Matter 15%, LGBTQ+ 4.8%

Lead The Rebellion, build your army, and shape the world with your choices. A story-heavy adventure game with multiple endings, romance options, and non-linear storytelling. A vast fantasy world waiting to be explored. Inspired by Dragon Age, and Mass Effect. Fully voice acted by a stellar cast!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.4%, Choices Matter 27.3%, LGBTQ+ 12.5%, Story Rich 10.3%, RPG 5.4%

Loren The Amazon Princess is a fantasy epic combining intricate turn-based battles with a heroic tale of overcoming evil - with a twist! In this tale, you play as a loyal servant of the hero rather than the hero herself.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Choices Matter 15.7%, LGBTQ+ 8.1%, RPG 6.5%