- #1 Silent Terminal
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bare Metal Xtreme
Windows
Silent Terminal is a terminal-based dark fantasy RPG with ASCII exploration, turn-based combat, branching quests, character progression, and persistent world changes. Create your character, explore ruined lands, and survive inside the terminal.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.7%, 4X 13.2% ★, Procedural Generation 13%, RPG 7.2%, Strategy 6.4%
- #2 Warsim: The Realm of Aslona
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,177 reviews2022
Dev: Huw Millward
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Warsim is a deep, rich text based kingdom ruling sim unlike anything else, complete with charming ASCII graphics. Navigate the millions of different procedurally generated races, events and areas with a huge emphasis on player choice. Don't let its look fool you, there is depth in every direction.
Why similar: Text-Based 42.1%, Procedural Generation 13.5%, RPG 10.2%, Simulation 8.9%, Strategy 8.3%
- #3 Khaldun: Text Based Strategy
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SkyWolf
Windows
Khaldun is a medieval-themed ASCII graphics kingdom management game. Take part in realistic war simulations and decide every detail of your kingdom, from its economy to its demographics! Your decisions will shape the life of a nation. Rise or be lost to history...
Why similar: Text-Based 21%, 4X 16.5% ★, Grand Strategy 14.5% ★, Management 11.8%, Strategy 7.6%
- #4 Confessional: Reality TV Manager
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mike Hurley
Windows
A reality TV production management game. Cast, create or download contestants, design your season, and watch drama unfold in the most complex relationship sim ever created. Scout hidden talent, manage moods, watch challenges play out, and survive dramatic tribal councils. Build your franchise.
Why similar: Text-Based 29.2%, Management 21.5%, Simulation 14.6%, Procedural Generation 10.6%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #5 Aunewyth
94% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2023
Dev: Captain Cool
Windows
Aunewyth is a text-based game with a focus on narration and decision making. It features a short yet versatile storyline that reveals itself according to the choices you make.
Why similar: Text-Based 38.4%, RPG 15.8%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.2%
- #6 Project Viper
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FennixIndi
Windows · Linux
Project Viper is a point-and-click RPG. The key to mastery is the items you use and how you use them. Find a variety of unique items to exploit your enemies with. Progression is key to finding out who you truly are...
Why similar: Text-Based 27.3%, Procedural Generation 20.5%, Management 14.5%, RPG 11.7%, Strategy 10.1%
- #7 Undying Fortress
93% matchPositive88% of 17 reviews2025
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Wield your magic sword against the monsters that fill a mysterious tower, and uncover the secrets of the past!
Why similar: Text-Based 33%, RPG 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Dark Fantasy 11.2%
- #8 Guild Manager
92% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Benjamin King
Windows
Build a legendary guild from scratch. Recruit adventurers, send them on dangerous missions, and watch their stories unfold. Every decision matters. Every mission could be their last. Will your guild become legend—or just another footnote in history?
Why similar: Text-Based 18%, Management 16.4%, Simulation 12.7%, RPG 12.7%, Strategy 12.1%
- #9 The Reeve
91% matchVery Positive86% of 50 reviews2024
Dev: Gray Muscat
Windows · Mac
You are an Administrator serving your probationary period in a medieval town. Make decisions to affect the town's reputation, order, military and supplies. Choose wisely to deal with bandits, famines, cultists and plagues. The most difficult choices will decide the fate of your town!
Why similar: Text-Based 19.2%, Management 17.4%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Choices Matter 10.6%, RPG 10.5%
- #10 Roadwarden
91% matchVery Positive94% of 4,990 reviews2022
Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 41.1%, RPG 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%, Dark Fantasy 8%, Multiple Endings 6.9%
- #11 Fallen Gods
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wormwood Studios
Windows
Shape your own saga in a harsh world that changes every game, offering thousands of paths through hundreds of events. You are a fallen god fighting to win your way back home. Whether you prevail will depend on your might, wits, powers, followers, and artifacts—and, above all, on your decisions.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 19.6%, RPG 19.5%, Dark Fantasy 17.4%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%
- #12 With Good Intentions
89% matchMixed61% of 33 reviews2022
Dev: Brezg StudioPub: Golden Dragon Games
Windows · Mac
"With good intentions" is a nonlinear visual novel. Escape from a cursed monastery, win over its mighty Overlord, save your love and uncover the mysteries of time itself!
Why similar: Text-Based 19.9%, Dark Fantasy 17.4%, Management 11.1%, RPG 11.1%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
- #13 Tale of Two Cranes
89% matchMixed57% of 21 reviews2024
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Fulfill your epic destiny in mythic ancient China! Lead armies, wield magic, and put an emperor on the throne - or become the emperor yourself!
Why similar: Text-Based 45.5%, RPG 14.5%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
- #14 Bloodweight
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: adarkfable
Windows · Mac · Linux
100 generations. one ledger. one heir at a time. you are the bloodline itself, guiding your lineage through the ages. you spend each life; the Soul Teller writes what it was. when your line ends, you read the chronicle of yourself. how will YOUR dynasty fall?
Why similar: Text-Based 23.7%, Procedural Generation 16.6%, Grand Strategy 15.7% ★, Choices Matter 10.1%, Simulation 9.2%
- #15 Decadent Heir
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PRdroid GamesPub: Valkyrie Initiative
Windows
Rewrite history in this narrative RPG set in the last days of Imperial Russia. Born into nobility, you will shape both your destiny and the fate of a nation.Will you preserve the old order, ignite the flames of revolution, or carve out your own path? Every decision will echo through time.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.3%, Management 14.2%, Dark Fantasy 12.5%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
- #16 Trees and Jellyfish
86% match6 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: TrefleV
Windows · Mac · Linux
After a questionable decision, Coral gains the ability to talk to jellyfish. Isn't it just so convenient that there's seven of them in her class?
Why similar: Text-Based 40.9%, RPG 16.9%, Multiple Endings 16.4%, Simulation 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%
- #17 Greymarsh
85% matchPositive87% of 23 reviews2023
Dev: Nimavoha Interactive
Windows
Small in scope, detailed, gritty text-based fantasy RPG. Recreates the gameplay of the old gamebooks. Simple battle system and hassle-free inventory management.
Why similar: Text-Based 29.8%, Old School 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, RPG 11.7%
- #18 Academagia: The Making of Mages
86% matchMostly Positive71% of 290 reviews2017
Dev: Black Chicken Studios, inc.
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Academagia, the greatest of the ancient schools for wizards. Build the legend of your mage with thousands of options, emergent storytelling and endless replayability. The definitive version of the magical life simulator is at last on Steam!
Why similar: Text-Based 29%, RPG 20.1%, Simulation 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Strategy 13.2%
- #19 Herald of the Mists
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FromNiki
Windows
A narrative-driven RPG where every dice roll shapes your fate. Step into the role of the Queen's Herald and traverse a mist-shrouded realm to uncover the fate of her lost army. Will your choices uphold loyalty, or lead you down a path of betrayal? The secrets of the mists await.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.4%, Dark Fantasy 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Old School 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%
- #20 Nova Historia
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BairdyDev
Windows
A unique 4X real-time historical strategy game, set on a procedurally generated globe. Play from ancient times, right through to the modern day. Expand your empire, build settlements, units, buildings and construct world wonders. Make History, Your Way.
Why similar: 4X 34.9% ★, Grand Strategy 17% ★, Procedural Generation 15.8%, Strategy 13.4%, Simulation 11.7%
- #21 The Nascent Necromancer
83% 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: Text-Based 33.7%, RPG 14.3%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11.8%
- #22 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
82% matchVery Positive90% of 9,604 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Text-Based 22.2%, Choices Matter 20%, RPG 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Dark Fantasy 8.5%
- #23 History of Dragosa
82% 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: Multiple Endings 19.8%, Text-Based 17.2%, RPG 15.3%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%
- #24 DICTOCRACY
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: A2B Games
Windows
Take charge as the President of a newly independent country, Adelphia. Build infrastructure, approve policies, juggle between conflicting priorities of the public, your ministers and other countries' leaders - All with only one action per turn and a different political landscape in each playthrough
Why similar: 4X 20.8% ★, Text-Based 18.4%, Grand Strategy 14.2% ★, Management 9.1%, Multiple Endings 8%
- #25 Faerie's Bargain: The Price of Business
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 18 reviews2021
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Become the greatest of the goblin merchants in this gaslamp faery-tale! Buy and sell secrets and memories! Trade in time, shadows, and stranger things!
Why similar: Text-Based 31.3%, RPG 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Multiple Endings 9.2%, Fantasy 8.7%
- #26 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,034 reviews2020
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Text-Based 20%, Management 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Dark Fantasy 9.6%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
- #27 The Matter of Being
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Common Logic
Windows · Mac
Set in the world of Cultist Simulator, haunt mortals and escape divine punishment in this unique relationship and resource management game. Strike Faustian pacts, manipulate mortals, and forsake your immortal life. Developed by Common Logic via Weather Factory's Sixth History License.
Why similar: Text-Based 27.3%, Management 19.8%, RPG 10.7%, Strategy 10.6%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
- #28 DnD Adventure: Wizard's Choice
79% matchPositive87% of 47 reviews2022
Dev: CCSPub: Delight Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are the wizard of this interactive fantasy story! Stay alive, manage your spell power, find treasure, and smite evil. All 6 episodes are included for 20+hours of adventure.
Why similar: Text-Based 28.2%, Old School 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.9%, RPG 11.2%
- #29 Daria: A Kingdom Simulator
78% 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: Text-Based 37.9%, Simulation 16.7%, RPG 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Choices Matter 8.3%
- #30 Bloodwood Dungeon
78% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2024
Dev: Nimavoha Interactive
Windows
Detailed, gritty text-based fantasy RPG centered on dungeon crawling with traps, puzzles, fights and loot. Recreates the gameplay of the old gamebooks. Simple battle system and hassle-free inventory management.
Why similar: Text-Based 26%, RPG 21.2%, Old School 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Multiple Endings 9%
- #31 College Basketball Manager
76% matchNo user reviews100% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: Lunacien
Windows
Take charge as head coach in College Basketball Manager. Recruit your dream team, whether that be through All-Americans or hidden gems. Strategize gameplay, schedule games, run practices, and manage your staff, because you are in control. The court is your canvas – create a powerhouse.
Why similar: 4X 21.2% ★, Text-Based 19.2%, Management 15.2%, Grand Strategy 13% ★, Simulation 9.3%
- #32 Turncoat Chronicle
77% 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: Text-Based 35%, RPG 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Fantasy 9.1%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
- #33 Late Night Empire
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ThroneGutter
Windows
Build your dream late-night TV empire in this deep management sim. Book celebrity guests, shape your show's identity, hire staff, craft unforgettable episodes, and battle rival networks for ratings, relevance, and cultural dominance in a living entertainment world of fame.
Why similar: Text-Based 34.5%, Simulation 22.6%, Strategy 22.2%, Management 18.6%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #34 Hero of Hoofbeat Hollow
75% 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: Text-Based 33.3%, RPG 24.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Fantasy 9.4%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
- #35 Keeper's Vigil
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Text-Based 33.3%, RPG 24.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Fantasy 9.4%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
- #36 Distant Worlds 2
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,504 reviews2022
Dev: CodeForcePub: Slitherine Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 42.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 37.3% ★, Grand Strategy 20.7% ★, Strategy 15.7%, Simulation 13%, Procedural Generation 11.9%
- #37 God of Chaos
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Text-Based 30.3%, RPG 21.6%, Dark Fantasy 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
- #38 楚漢女子
76% matchNo user reviews2021
Dev: 株式会社Viola
Windows · Mac · Linux
Ancient China, the era of the Chu-Han War. This is a historical novel adventure that depicts the "what ifs" of the two leaders of the Chu-Han War, Han Yu and Liu Bang. ---Your choice will be the guidepost of this story.
Why similar: Text-Based 42.6%, Multiple Endings 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Story Rich 10.8%
- #39 Fate of the Storm Gods
74% matchMixed54% of 13 reviews2021
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Harness wind, earth, fire, and all the forces of nature to destroy your enemies! Will you stabilize the broken magic of the weather, or revel in its chaos?
Why similar: Text-Based 38.1%, RPG 24.3%, Fantasy 10.9%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Choices Matter 9.6%
- #40 Sky Caravan
73% matchVery Positive98% of 56 reviews2022
Dev: Studio Bravarda
Windows
Welcome to the Skyways, caravaneer. Complete missions, manage your ship’s resources and make tough decisions to keep your crew alive and happy. Or not. Choices have lasting consequences in this Text-Based RPG. You are the captain - and the clouds are waiting!
Why similar: Text-Based 20.2%, Management 18.8%, Choices Matter 13.4%, RPG 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
- #41 Six Ages 2: Lights Going Out
71% matchVery Positive96% of 176 reviews2023
Dev: A SharpPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Survive as the last horse riders as the world ends and myths die. Plan ahead and manage your clan’s relationships with the remaining gods and their followers in this standalone survival storybook. Immerse yourself in the land of magic also seen in King of Dragon Pass.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 19.4%, Grand Strategy 15.7% ★, Old School 15.4%, Choices Matter 12%, Strategy 8.3%
- #42 Krypt
73% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: Sean MurleyPub: SW Games
Windows
Krypt is an old-school text adventure filled with excitement and peril. Fight monsters, make choices, and travel through forests and mountains to defeat the evil King Krypt in this epic fantasy tale. But watch out as you try to discover all the paths, because not every choice ends in victory.
Why similar: Text-Based 27.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, RPG 11.8%, Dark Fantasy 11.6%, Old School 10.9%
- #43 Roots of Harmony
71% matchPositive100% of 26 reviews2024
Dev: Guillaume Beaumel
Windows
Text-based 4X focused on turf war, victory conditions and resource management. Roots of Harmony is a strategy game where you have to lead your colony through puzzling challenges, while managing your doctrines and disciples. 100% gameplay, ASCII graphics only!
Why similar: Text-Based 25.6%, Procedural Generation 18%, 4X 12.1% ★, Old School 12%, Management 10%
- #44 A Crown of Sorcery and Steel
72% matchMixed67% of 21 reviews2022
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Swing a sword, delve dungeons, and lead a resistance against the tyrannical queen of a war-torn fantasy realm. Will you unite the realm and end the queen’s reign of terror... or join her and rule by her side?
Why similar: Text-Based 39%, RPG 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Fantasy 12.1%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
- #45 Guilds of Greybrook
70% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: Brava Games
Windows
Guilds of Greybrook is a roguelike management simulator where you don't play the hero, you pay the heroes! Operate the choppy waters of business ownership, hire adventurers, take contracts, and choose sides in the dangerous power struggles of the frontier.
Why similar: Management 28.1%, Roguelike 15.2%, Strategy 13.3%, Simulation 12.6%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
- #46 Hero Generations
72% matchMixed55% of 224 reviews2015
Dev: Heart Shaped Games LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
The original roguelike/4X strategy game where every turn is one year of your life. Explore, find a mate, build a home, and raise a child before you die to keep your legacy going. Praised as "the offspring of Sid Meier's Civilization, Passage, and The Legend of Zelda." IndieCade Finalist.
Why similar: 4X 36.3% ★, Strategy 19.5%, Roguelike 13.5%, RPG 13.3%, Simulation 8.2%
- #47 House of the Golden Mask
69% 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: Text-Based 34.2%, RPG 23.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Fantasy 9.4%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
- #48 Fantasy Hero Manager
71% matchMostly Negative33% of 21 reviews2019
Dev: Mykel Flynn
Windows
Recruit and manage a party of self-aware heroes in a quest to find the legendary land of Vrool and the Fountain of Eternal youth!
Why similar: Simulation 25.9%, RPG 22%, Management 21.1%, Strategy 20.2%, Fantasy 10.9%
- #49 A Kiss from Death
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 49 reviews2021
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
As an immortal being in a world of epic fantasy, spend an eternity in romance with a host of unique, fantastical characters!
Why similar: Text-Based 37.4%, RPG 18.5%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Dark Fantasy 9.2%
- #50 Epic Tavern
70% matchMixed58% of 346 reviews2017
Dev: Hyperkinetic StudiosPub: Epic Tavern Holdings
Windows
Award Winner: PAX 10 2019 | Winner, Momocon 2018 Indie Games Awards | "A fascinating reverse-RPG" - PC Gamer | "A cross between The Sims and a rousing game of Dungeons and Dragons" - Geek & Sundry
Why similar: Management 17.8%, Text-Based 16.9%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Fantasy 9.4%
- #51 Blue eclipse-Rindo blooming on the ring finger-
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PGB club
Windows
「Blue eclipse(Rindo blooming on the ring finger)」は吸血鬼とそれに対抗するハンター達を題材にした、シネマティックビジュアルノベルゲームです。吸血鬼と人間で成り立つ世界で刑事として働くアナタは、とある仕事をきっかけに自身の運命を歪めることになりました。物語進行中に現れる様々な状況での選択肢を選び、アナタを取り巻くキャラクター達とともに運命を見届けよう。
Why similar: Text-Based 24.4%, Dark Fantasy 23.6%, RPG 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Simulation 12.9%
- #52 Harlot's Diary
68% matchPositive86% of 21 reviews2024
Dev: Veratrum
Windows · Linux
In a ruthless world where you've lost everything, only desperate measures remain. Fight to survive as a sex worker and reach the top, avoiding deceit, murderers, and abuse on your path to success.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.4%, Management 14.2%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Simulation 10.2%
- #53 Sworn to the Depths
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Faceless Games
Windows
A text-driven dungeon crawler inspired by Ironsworn: Delve. Travel to a forbidden site full of treasure, roll dice, make choices, face danger, and find out the hard way why the site was forbidden in the first place! Or maybe you'll find the treasure. It could happen!
Why similar: Text-Based 28.2%, RPG 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Dark Fantasy 11.1%, Old School 10.5%
- #54 WHO THE HELL OPENED THE PORTAL?!
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Uberbax Gaming
Windows
A funny pixel art roguelite strategy. You manage a fantasy island kingdom connected by magical portals. By day — build, gather resources, hire heroes, and dive through portals to expand into new lands. By night — defend! The same portals unleash hordes of demons straight from Hell.
Why similar: 4X 24.8% ★, Grand Strategy 14.5% ★, Strategy 11.6%, RPG 10.5%, Management 9.3%
- #55 CaliaQuest
67% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: CaliaCorp
Windows · Mac · Linux
CaliaQuest is an erotic hypnosis roleplaying game where you are the brave hero, on a quest for the Princess. Can you make it through six chapters full of branching paths, monster girls, and seductive women and complete your quest, or will you fall in love along the way?
Why similar: RPG 25%, Text-Based 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Choices Matter 10.6%
- #56 Heart of the House
68% matchVery Positive90% of 77 reviews2017
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 44.9%, RPG 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Choices Matter 16.5%
- #57 Dravora
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Aveline Games
Windows
A narrative roguelite where you lead desperate people across a fractured dark fantasy continent. No combat screens — every choice is made in words and every consequence follows you. Your companions have their own reasons to leave. How you survive reveals who you are.
Why similar: Text-Based 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, RPG 11%, Procedural Generation 10.2%, Strategy 9.9%
- #58 Rogue Proxy
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kibernetinis Šakotis
Windows
Command a hacker crew in a gripping 4X roguelite. Plunge into mechanical networks, employing real cyber-skulduggery tactics. Roll the dice for new daring operatives, seize control of systems and exfiltrate resources. Time's a-tickin'! Coppers are tailing you! Regroup, then hit the wires again!
Why similar: 4X 24.7% ★, Grand Strategy 19% ★, Management 13.7%, Strategy 11.1%, Roguelike 10.1%
- #59 말리온
66% match8 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: BepavedPub: ARTAME
Windows
Play the game from the perspective of a traveler who comes to the dealer and is faced with numerous choices in a story prepared by the dealer. Experience a story that changes based on your choices and see the ending that changes based on your choices!
Why similar: Text-Based 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Strategy 15.4%, RPG 15%, Choices Matter 14%
- #60 Mercatoria
65% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Groundwork Studio
Windows
Turn-based grand strategy in the Age of Discovery. Develop a transport network, industrialise your economy, colonise the New World, and compete with five rival powers. Inspired by Imperialism 2. Early Access — built by one developer in his spare time.
Why similar: 4X 29.4% ★, Grand Strategy 17.9% ★, Old School 12.3%, Strategy 11.8%, Simulation 11.5%