60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Text-Based, RPG, Singleplayer, Choices Matter.
Create your own cult, perform forbidden rituals, and crusade against the filthy non-believers. It's time to play god. CultGame is a retro cult simulator RPG where you start your own cult in a procedurally generated dark fantasy world with haunting ASCII art.
Silent Terminal
A dark-fantasy RPG that lives entirely inside your terminal. Explore ASCII ruins, fight tactical turn-based battles, craft and grow your character, and make choices a persistent world never forgets. No textures. No filler. Just you, the numbers, and the dark.
Warsim: The Realm of Aslona
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.
A dark-fantasy RPG that lives entirely inside your terminal. Explore ASCII ruins, fight tactical turn-based battles, craft and grow your character, and make choices a persistent world never forgets. No textures. No filler. Just you, the numbers, and the dark.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.6%, 4X 13.3% ★, Procedural Generation 12.9%, RPG 7.3%, Strategy 6.3%
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 42.2%, Procedural Generation 13.2%, RPG 10.3%, Simulation 8.5%, Strategy 8.1%
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 20.1%, 4X 15.9% ★, Grand Strategy 13%, Management 9.8%, Procedural Generation 8.7%
Raise a banner and run a mercenary guild in a grim medieval fantasy realm. Recruit and read your blades, negotiate contracts, send them into procedural missions, and survive a living political web where every payday bites and nothing is ever certain.
Why similar: Text-Based 23%, Management 12.9%, Dark Fantasy 12.7%, RPG 9.4%, Choices Matter 9.3%
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 29.5%, Management 21.1%, Simulation 14.6%, Procedural Generation 10.6%, Sandbox 7.7%
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 38.1%, RPG 16.2%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.3%
In Qinghe County during the Northern Song, manage businesses and household affairs, build relationships, gather rumors and evidence, and set schemes in motion. As Ximen Qing, balance time, wealth, reputation and favors while your choices reshape lives, fortunes and endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.4%, Management 14.5%, RPG 11.6%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Strategy 9.3%
Wield your magic sword against the monsters that fill a mysterious tower, and uncover the secrets of the past!
Why similar: Text-Based 32.7%, RPG 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Dark Fantasy 11.2%
Build a legendary adventurers' guild and shape the heroes within it. Recruit unique adventurers, develop their classes and specialisations, equip them with powerful loot, send them on dangerous expeditions, and guide their stories as success, injury and corruption reshape who they become.
Why similar: Text-Based 24%, Management 15.9%, Dark Fantasy 15.3%, Simulation 13.6%, Strategy 10.1%
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 41.5%, RPG 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%, Dark Fantasy 7.7%, Choices Matter 6.7%
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 18.1%, Management 16%, RPG 13.1%, Simulation 12.6%, Strategy 12.1%
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 16.9%, RPG 10.8%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.6%
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: RPG 19.9%, Procedural Generation 19.3%, Dark Fantasy 17.3%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%
"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 19.8%, Dark Fantasy 17.4%, RPG 11.4%, Management 10.8%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
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 45.1%, RPG 14.9%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
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 23.6%, Procedural Generation 16.5%, Grand Strategy 15.9%, Choices Matter 10%, Simulation 9.2%
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 40.5%, RPG 17.3%, Multiple Endings 16.4%, Simulation 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%
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 28.7%, RPG 20.5%, Simulation 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Strategy 13%
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 29.4%, Old School 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, RPG 11.9%
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 21.2%, Management 13.8%, Dark Fantasy 12.5%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
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 25.1%, Dark Fantasy 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Old School 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
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 33.4%, RPG 14.6%, Choices Matter 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Multiple Endings 11.8%
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 20.9% ★, Text-Based 18.4%, Grand Strategy 14.4%, Management 8.8%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
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 35.2% ★, Grand Strategy 17.2%, Procedural Generation 15.6%, Strategy 13.3%, Simulation 11.6%
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 22.8%, Choices Matter 20%, RPG 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Story Rich 8.2%
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%, RPG 15.6%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%
Govern wisely in this narrative choice-based game set in the heart of the Middle Ages. Your choices will have a real impact on your entire adventure, the world and its characters! Skillfully manage your image and your throne to survive and prosper. Or fall.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.2%, RPG 13%, Management 12.2%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%
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 30.9%, RPG 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Multiple Endings 9.2%, Fantasy 8.8%
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 19.3%, RPG 11%, Strategy 10.6%, Multiple Endings 10.5%
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 27.8%, Old School 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.7%, RPG 11.4%
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 25.5%, RPG 21.5%, Old School 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
The world is the corpse of a fallen dragon — and its heart is beating again. Rendhelm is a deep text RPG of tactical party combat, magic that corrupts as it empowers, and millions of truly unique procedural weapons, armor, and artifacts. Forge legends, slay five dragons, or die trying like most do.
Why similar: Text-Based 36.1%, RPG 28%, Old School 19%, Fantasy 10.3%, 2D 4.7%
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 19.9%, Management 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Dark Fantasy 9.5%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
A choice-driven medieval RPG on a living world map. Settlements run their own economies, noble houses pursue their own ambitions, travelling parties move toward their own goals — and every choice you make is written into a chronicle the world remembers.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 19.1%, Text-Based 16.2%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Management 10.5%, RPG 9.8%
Shatter civilization and avenge your pantheon as the world‘s last surviving god! Will you liberate humanity from tyranny, or let the world burn? A text-based interactive dark fantasy novel.
Why similar: Text-Based 32%, RPG 20.9%, Dark Fantasy 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Multiple Endings 7.2%
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 37.6%, Simulation 16.5%, RPG 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Choices Matter 8.2%
Lead a nation through decades of political and economic challenges. Manage budgets, taxes, interest rates, crises, and public opinion in a deep grand-strategy simulation where every decision shapes your country's future.
Why similar: 4X 32.4% ★, Grand Strategy 18.9%, Simulation 15.6%, Strategy 15.5%, Management 9.5%
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 34.5%, RPG 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Fantasy 9.2%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
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 33.6%, RPG 24.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Fantasy 9.3%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
Great Houses of Calderia is a Feudal Grand Strategy game focusing on family dynamics & stories. Use your family strengths to compete against rivals to rise in the ranks of Calderia - produce, trade, scheme, bribe, and battle to build your legacy of power!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.6%, 4X 15.1% ★, Management 12.1%, RPG 11%, Strategy 9.4%
A crown upon your head, danger all around. Rule, marry, scheme, raise heirs, wage wars, fulfill prophecies, and survive the waking Wyrm. An interactive text-based dark fantasy novel, 850,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Text-Based 37.9%, RPG 12.6%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Dark Fantasy 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%
Run your own late-night TV show in a living entertainment industry. Book guests, write monologues, manage staff and money, battle rival shows for ratings, and survive your network. Every night is a fight for attention. Build the show. Run the room. Become the empire.
Why similar: Text-Based 34.7%, Simulation 22.6%, Strategy 22.3%, Management 18.3%, Singleplayer 2.1%
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: Text-Based 34.9%, RPG 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
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 32.9%, RPG 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Fantasy 9.4%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
Hell’s throne is empty. Will you seize it? Command demons, forge dark bargains, shape the future of the afterlife—or watch it burn as chaos reigns. A text-based interactive dark fantasy novel, 630,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Text-Based 30.8%, RPG 23.2%, Dark Fantasy 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Multiple Endings 7.1%
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 21.5% ★, Text-Based 19.3%, Management 14.7%, Grand Strategy 13.1%, Simulation 9.2%
Swear an oath and walk into the Isenmarch — a cold Norse frontier that does not explain itself. A Machine Game Master narrates your saga, answers the choices you make, and rolls the dice at your side. No two sagas are alike. What breaks first — your isen, or your troth?
Why similar: Text-Based 30.6%, RPG 21.8%, Dark Fantasy 13.9%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Story Rich 8.2%
Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.
Why similar: 4X 37.6% ★, Grand Strategy 20.9%, Strategy 15.5%, Simulation 12.8%, Procedural Generation 11.7%
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 37.7%, RPG 24.7%, Fantasy 11%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Choices Matter 9.4%
From movie star to music icon, you run the show in Celebria. Guide your entertainer through landing roles, releasing music, touring the world, climbing global charts, chasing prestigious awards, and running a celebrity brand, all while navigating the pressures of fame.
Why similar: Management 21%, Text-Based 18.8%, Simulation 18%, Strategy 13.8%, Choices Matter 12.1%
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 19.1%, Grand Strategy 15.8%, Old School 15.7%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Strategy 8.2%
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 18.3%, Choices Matter 13.3%, RPG 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
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 42.3%, Multiple Endings 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Story Rich 11%
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 12.2% ★, Old School 12.2%, Management 9.6%
It's late 2022 and the AI race just started. Train models with real personalities, fill the map with datacenters, survive the scandals, and get to superintelligence before the rival CEOs who trash-talk you on social media.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.3%, Strategy 15.6%, Simulation 15.5%, Management 12.1%, Text-Based 11%
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 27.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, RPG 12%, Dark Fantasy 11.5%, Old School 11%
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 33.7%, RPG 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Fantasy 9.5%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
A dark fantasy narrative roguelite about three lives on one hard road: a fallen mercenary, an oath-singer's apprentice, and the youngest of three fen brothers. No combat screens. Every choice is made in words, and every choice follows you down the road.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.3%, Procedural Generation 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, RPG 9.7%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
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 38.6%, RPG 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Fantasy 12.2%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
