
Descend into an ever-changing dungeon, battle monsters, unlock dozens of achievements, and shape your legend in a fully text-based RPG inspired by classic terminal adventures.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Choose Your Own Adventure, RPG, Adventure, Indie.

Descend into an ever-changing dungeon, battle monsters, unlock dozens of achievements, and shape your legend in a fully text-based RPG inspired by classic terminal adventures.

Dura Vita Online
Dura Vita Online is a multiplayer RPG in a medieval fantasy setting. You are an ordinary citizen living your life when The Occurrence happens. Now evil has started to spread across the land and you have no choice but to take up arms and destroy it!

MicroCrawl
MicroCrawl is a bite sized point and click adventure game presented from a 2D first person perspective that brings memories of 80s home computer dungeon crawlers. Navigate your way through a dark fantasy world that includes three distinct adventures, and prepare to uncover the secrets around you.
Dura Vita Online is a multiplayer RPG in a medieval fantasy setting. You are an ordinary citizen living your life when The Occurrence happens. Now evil has started to spread across the land and you have no choice but to take up arms and destroy it!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.6%, Hack and Slash 28.4%, RPG 11.5%, PvE 10.4%, Open World 9.5%
MicroCrawl is a bite sized point and click adventure game presented from a 2D first person perspective that brings memories of 80s home computer dungeon crawlers. Navigate your way through a dark fantasy world that includes three distinct adventures, and prepare to uncover the secrets around you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.7%, Dungeon Crawler 28.7%, RPG 11.7%, Dark Fantasy 5.8%, Interactive Fiction 5.6%
Sword of Shandar is a narrative-driven light RPG focused on choice, consequence, and discovery. Engage in turn-based combat, resolve challenges through dice-roll skill checks, crack locks in hands-on minigames, and decipher ancient runes as you uncover the secrets of a fading world.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 23.6%, RPG 20.7%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Adventure 7.2%
Auto-cannibalism. Demonic Seduction. Occult Rituals. Bloodfeasting Worms. This dark, horrific Twine-based dungeon crawler pairs edgy interactive fiction with grisly pixel art and light RPG elements. Navigate this sprawling narrative-driven labyrinth bristling with otherworldly doom.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.4%, Dungeon Crawler 31.1%, Interactive Fiction 28.7%, Adventure 5.9%, Indie 2.8%
War of Paragons. A war for world dominion waged by "paragons", the representatives of their races. Once, it was the human paragon who won the war, damning elvenkind to the fate of slavery. A thousand years has passed. Another War of Paragons is about to begin.
Why similar: Hack and Slash 17.9%, Dungeon Crawler 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Visual Novel 9.8%
A text-based RPG with a nonlinear story set in a free Slavic fantasy world. Shape the heroine's character through your choices and unlock multiple endings. Mystery, folklore, and relationships — your fate depends only on you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Visual Novel 14.7%, RPG 12.4%, Medieval 4.6%
Play as Alice who has just had an unsettingly life-like dream about the end of the world, and is retelling it to her friend. A single play-through might take as little as 20 minutes, but experiencing all the possible paths Alice can take through the ruins of her city will take you many hours.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 39.7%, Visual Novel 26.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, RPG 13.3%
Memories of Zattera is a visual novel that merges fantasy and science fiction. Explore moral and political dilemmas from multiple viewpoints as tradition, progress and freedom collide. Will you see the world the same once all truths are revealed?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Visual Novel 19.5%, RPG 13.2%, Medieval 10.3%
COLORIDER is a 2D shooter with a top view whose task is to clear all the rooms from enemies and move to a new room, which in turn will bring you closer to the final of the game.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.3%, Dungeon Crawler 30.1%, Hack and Slash 29.1%, Old School 3.4%, Indie 1.1%
Always wanted a fantasy world desk job?! Manage eccentric adventurers like a lazy witch, tsundere fairy & useless bard! Approve quests, keep them alive, pay off Elfie's crippling tax debt, and rake in gold for the Guild!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.7%, Interactive Fiction 25.5%, RPG 20%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Medieval 4.4%
In Collective Corp, your job is to collect as MANY artifacts as you can without dying! IN VERY EARLY DEVELOPMENT.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Dungeon Crawler 16.8%, RPG 16.6%, Walking Simulator 13.5%
Under developement, Grave Knight is an interactive RPG adventure inspired by SRD 5.1 ruleset and classical game books, where your decisions weave the fate of the characters and the story. Let the dice forge the fate of your hero and the realm by fighting the Grave knight and his horde.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.3%, Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Visual Novel 19.8%, RPG 18%, Medieval 6.6%
Play as a young hero in a retro pixel top-down adventure: explore the land of Ethral, find secrets, conquer dark dungeons, and collect shards to restore the Ethral Pendant to defeat the Pirate King!
Why similar: Hack and Slash 37.2%, Dungeon Crawler 31.3%, RPG 16.5%, Medieval 4.5%, Story Rich 4.2%
A grim, choice-driven interactive gamebook. As the First Ranger of a fortified homestead, you must defend the last survivors from the infected, manage critical resources, and investigate a dangerous internal conspiracy. Every decision shapes the survival of the living.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.5%, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Visual Novel 15%, RPG 14.1%, Dark Fantasy 4.9%
An epic adventure in a land of monsters, traps and magic. Journey across the deadly Shamutanti Hills and through Kharé, Cityport of Thieves. Armed with your sword and over fifty spells with weird and wonderful effects, embark on a narrative adventure of a thousand choices where every one is remembered.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 46.8%, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, RPG 16.8%, Adventure 5.7%, Story Rich 5.5%
IBH is a rich role playing game at the end of time. You're a mid-level official in a dying sci-fi regime, given the impossible task of fixing a faltering machine; explore a vast world, define your mind, flex your authority, and become a sinner or a savior in countless other stories.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 35.4%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Visual Novel 16.1%, RPG 16%, Story Rich 4%
Discover a new adventure with every playthrough in this unique fantasy RPG. Every choice matters as you uncover what secrets Infinium is hiding. Will you become a daring adventurer or a rich mogul?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.3%, Dungeon Crawler 24.1%, RPG 12.9%, Open World 11.9%, PvE 11%
Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.6%, Interactive Fiction 26.8%, Visual Novel 19%, Psychological Horror 9.5%, Adventure 7.8%
Society’s Paradigms is an action-packed social commentary based on the innovative combination of Rogue-lite and RPG elements. Explore a randomly generated world to obtain new skills and abilities. Experiment and combine passive and active skills to achieve insane combos and satisfying combat.
Why similar: Hack and Slash 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25%, Dungeon Crawler 19.3%, RPG 9.6%, Open World 9.4%
Darkness Consumes is a hack and slash dungeon crawler with procedurally generated dungeons. Crawl through the dungeon and see what mysteries you can unlock.
Why similar: Hack and Slash 35.6%, Dungeon Crawler 29.8%, RPG 13.5%, PvE 13.3%, Medieval 4%
The 4K Ultra HD Remaster of "Template!! An Angel's Gift"—a hilarious slice-of-life visual novel—is now on Steam! Follow Sakura Sora, whose bizarre new condition makes ridiculous "classic tropes" real, sparking a twist-filled daily comedy with unique companions.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.4%, Interactive Fiction 29.6%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Adventure 9.4%, RPG 7.6%
A visual novel in a post-apocalyptic setting. Find out what happened to humanity, traveling through the deserted world in search of the main character's family.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28%, Interactive Fiction 24%, RPG 19.3%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Adventure 8.1%
An epic open-world narrative adventure through a world of monsters, traps and magic. Explore two intermeshed worlds, past and present, and create your own unique story where every decision you make is remembered. Survive, and defeat the Seven Serpents - if you can!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 42.9%, Interactive Fiction 23%, RPG 18.5%, Adventure 7.1%, Story Rich 5.9%
Awaken in a world plunged into uncertainty. You must navigate hidden truths and make crucial choices. Will you uncover the secrets of your existence? Your path will determine your fate in this journey.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.3%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Visual Novel 21.6%, Psychological Horror 13.9%, Adventure 5.5%
Dive into an immersive dungeon crawler with strategic battles, intricate puzzles, and 100 challenging levels. Collect skills, face fierce monsters, and thwart Tormak's dark ambitions. Will you triumph or succumb to the endless depths?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.6%, Hack and Slash 26.9%, Dungeon Crawler 24.8%, RPG 10%, Dark Fantasy 5.1%
Gold & Brown is a choice-based visual novel set in the medieval era, enhanced with card mechanics. Embark on a challenging journey as a knight, shape your fate through card choices, and pursue an impossible love across multiple endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.9%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, RPG 12.1%, Medieval 9.6%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 28%, Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Visual Novel 13.7%, RPG 12.9%, Story Rich 6.9%
A narrative driven Visual Novel with turn based combat: Monsters are breaking through into reality. The government is covering it up. You survived — and gained the power to devour the dead and make them fight for you. Build your Shadow Legion.
Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 36.8%, Visual Novel 18.5%, RPG 17.3%, PvE 14.6%, Turn-Based Combat 8.5%
The toughest ronin in Hyuga returns! Heated battles and even hotter romances await you in the land of silk and steel!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 43.3%, Interactive Fiction 23%, RPG 21.9%, Adventure 8.4%, Indie 3.4%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.6%, Interactive Fiction 26.5%, RPG 20.9%, Turn-Based Combat 6.5%, Adventure 6.2%
AI-built 90s retro ARPG — tribute to Diablo 1 and Ultima Online. Set against the 1997 Rainz incident. Shifting dungeons, 100k+ gear combos, atmospheric crawler. No GPU, 95 languages. AI is at a turning point — see for yourself what an AI-made game looks like.
Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 28.9%, Hack and Slash 28.6%, RPG 11%, Dark Fantasy 9.7%, 1990's 5.2%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.4%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Dungeon Crawler 17.1%, RPG 17.1%, Dark Fantasy 6.2%
Samurai of Hyuga is a brutal, heart-pounding interactive tale. Prepare to enter the land of silk and steel, where fantasy clashes against grim reality, and where the good guys don't always win in the end. It's a harsh world with tough choices at every turn. Good thing you're the toughest ronin around.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 43.5%, Interactive Fiction 26.2%, RPG 19.6%, Adventure 7.5%, Indie 3.2%
Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 39.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 37.2%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Psychological Horror 4.9%, Indie 3.6%
Apoth is a real-time dungeon crawler ARPG. Venture to the town of Apoth where many exciting adventures await. Delve through randomly generated dungeons, sewers, caves, crypts and temples.
Why similar: Hack and Slash 35.1%, Dungeon Crawler 30.7%, PvE 14.1%, RPG 9.9%, Dark Fantasy 5.6%
A pixelated homage to 16-bit RPGs, this former print-and-play card game has come full circle as a digital experience! Choose your champion, enter the tower, and make wise decisions on your ascent to face the Ice Lich at the top.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.1%, Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Dungeon Crawler 12.4%, Dark Fantasy 5.5%
A flesh-eating dust leaves you to survive alone against hordes of Listless.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 37.7%, Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Visual Novel 16.7%, RPG 15.9%, Story Rich 3%
Hunt fearsome monsters and level up your character in a fantasy medieval setting. As your strength grows, so do the challenges, with ever more dangerous foes waiting just beyond the next horizon.
Why similar: Hack and Slash 37.5%, Dungeon Crawler 28.9%, PvE 15.2%, RPG 12.1%, Medieval 2.8%
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.8%, Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Visual Novel 16.5%, RPG 11.8%, Story Rich 5.3%
A choose-your-own-adventure novel. Enter the mind of a black-ops team leader heading an impossible mission in a parallel universe. Choices are remembered, story events reflect past decisions, and freely rewind time to try different paths.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 37.3%, Interactive Fiction 27.2%, Visual Novel 17.8%, RPG 12.1%, Story Rich 5.6%
Recent high school graduates gather at a remote cabin for a celebration. What begins as a night of laughter spirals into a tense mystery full of secrets, twists, and chilling choices. Who will survive? Navigate friendships, and uncover the multi-layered mystery in Shadows of Betrayal.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 38.4%, Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Visual Novel 23.5%, Story Rich 6.5%, Adventure 2.8%
Vacation Terminal is a short 2D Psychological thriller, horror and survival based visual novel with evading based puzzle elements. Following the story of two strangers.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.3%, Interactive Fiction 26.8%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Adventure 7.9%, Psychological Horror 6.8%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Visual Novel 13.5%, RPG 11.2%, Story Rich 5.7%
Morhval: Ravenglaire is a dark fantasy text RPG about survival, choice and consequence. Create your character, explore a fractured province, fight turn-based battles, pass skill checks, help the desperate or abandon them, and decide who deserves to survive.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.3%, Interactive Fiction 30%, RPG 25.8%, Dark Fantasy 10.6%, Indie 1.3%
Harness the power of a corrupted blade as you navigate forgotten ruins, kill monsters, and balance your soul between power and corruption in this dark, atmospheric dungeon souls-like game!
Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 25.4%, Hack and Slash 23.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, RPG 10.6%, Dark Fantasy 9%
A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths. A free atmospheric horror visual novel where you navigate life-or-death situations. SEEK PARADISE OR DIE TRYING
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.8%, Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Psychological Horror 12.9%, Dark Fantasy 7%
A haunted convent. Statues that move on their own. A buried past. Welcome to Saint Idelora’s convent, where becoming a saint comes with a price.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Psychological Horror 13.6%, RPG 8.5%
A 2D top-down RPG with turn-based combat, going from defeating small slimes to dragons, and much more. Travel many different maps and fight several foes, and level up to unlock new abilities.
Why similar: Hack and Slash 36.2%, Walking Simulator 19.9%, RPG 15.6%, PvE 15.3%, Turn-Based Combat 7.5%
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 48.6%, RPG 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Adventure 8.5%, Indie 3.5%
They steal your crew and force your ship to crash-land on an alien planet where you must start fresh with nothing but a dilapidated base and a... talking cat?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 35.8%, Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Visual Novel 16.2%, RPG 15%, Dark Fantasy 4.1%
You are a mighty knight - how powerful your blows are! And in the very center of a vast forest lies a fortress filled with evil and black magic. There, they raise the dead and hide great artifacts. You decide to explore the fortress and see what the black magicians are hiding.
Why similar: Hack and Slash 35.4%, Dungeon Crawler 29.9%, Dark Fantasy 9.7%, Medieval 6.7%, Adventure 6%
Eyes of Iyre is a Visual Novel with heavy RPG elements. Follow Barbak the Orc as he discovers more about the world and his past, all the while trying to keep his temper under control. Make friends, cast magic, and learn the truths hidden in the city of Iyre!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.2%, Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Visual Novel 17.1%, RPG 14.8%, Dark Fantasy 6.8%
这是一款以中式校园为背景的推理类文字游戏,你将扮演一名高中生司空茂,在开学第一天目击密室杀人事件的现场,并经过调查和推理解决案件,找出真正的犯人和真相背后更深的阴谋。但在享受侦探游戏的同时,请千万不要忽视学习。保持情绪稳定,尽量维持活下去的念头...记住,你的成绩,永远比案件要更重要。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Visual Novel 15.4%, RPG 11.7%, Psychological Horror 10.1%
Into Oblivion is an immerse interactive novel where your choices shape the story. Set in the far-future, explore a galaxy on the brink of crisis with dynamic companions. So, settle your mind and pray you have what it takes to fly Into Oblivion.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.7%, Interactive Fiction 25.1%, RPG 19.6%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Adventure 8.2%
Wrath of Mynah is a turn-based RPG adventure game that follows the gripping story of The Great Hanyem War. Hundreds of years after Mynah Smith arrived on Hanyem, you play as Pike Gilder, a young boy who wants to make a difference in the everlasting fight against the tyrannical Indigallo Federation.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.9%, Dungeon Crawler 25%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, PvE 10.6%, RPG 10.6%
What starts as a simple, highly-paid night shoot in an abandoned marble quarry descends into a psychological nightmare. You are Stefano Caldara, a photographer caught in a web of dark rituals and dangerous secrets. Every choice shapes your morality, your sanity, and your survival...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.3%, Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Visual Novel 15.6%, RPG 14.3%, Dark Fantasy 5.2%
In LOVE! again... every choice leads to consequences. Choose your romance, and write your own story.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.7%, Interactive Fiction 25.8%, RPG 19.7%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Adventure 8.2%
Play as a wise woman, help your neighbors, and they will help you in return. Fight alongside your closest friend to deal with the beasts threatening the village. Uncover the secrets of magic through your journey, and you might even have a chance to confront your inner demons.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.4%, Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Visual Novel 15.8%, RPG 13.8%, Medieval 4.3%
FATE fans! You asked for it and we delivered. FATE: Undiscovered Realms, the dungeon crawl-ier sequel to our classic dungeon crawler, is now available! Take up the quest to find a mysterious tome. Import your characters from the original FATE and start a new adventure today!
Why similar: Dungeon Crawler 39%, RPG 26.7%, Hack and Slash 26.5%, Adventure 7.8%
Did you bring your character sheet this time? We can’t start the game if you don’t know who your character is…anyway…we have an item to retrieve, do you accept this quest?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Dungeon Crawler 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Visual Novel 13.1%, RPG 11.8%