- #1 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
97% matchVery Positive88% of 12,656 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Text-Based 9.6%, Visual Novel 7.5%
- #2 With Good Intentions
96% matchMixed59% 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: Dark Fantasy 10.9%, Tabletop 10.3%, Text-Based 9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.5%
- #3 말리온
96% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Tabletop 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Text-Based 9%
- #4 The Reeve
95% matchVery Positive87% of 53 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: Medieval 14.3%, Management 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Choices Matter 10%
- #5 Sacred Fire: A Role Playing Game
94% matchVery Positive95% of 511 reviews2021
Dev: PoeticPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
A text-based RPG full of choice and action. Fight for survival in the midst of the Roman invasion of ancient Caledonia. Strategize one dice roll at a time as emotions affect your performance. Use willpower to outsmart opponents, gain allies, wage war, or strive for peace. How will your story end?
Why similar: Tabletop 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Text-Based 10.2%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%
- #6 Isentroth
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Schedule 3 Wizards
Windows · Linux
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 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, RPG 12%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Dark Fantasy 9.8%
- #7 OMEA
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: AImmersive Pub: AImmersive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your words shape the adventure. Omea is a revolutionary AI-powered narrative game where your personal Game Master responds to everything you write. No menus, no limits. Just type and forge your own legend across fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, and beyond.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Text-Based 12.4%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Medieval 9%
- #8 Epic Tavern
92% matchMixed58% of 347 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: Tabletop 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Management 12%, Choices Matter 10.9%
- #9 Mercenary Guild Manager
91% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Code Dunamis
Windows
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 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Management 12%, Dark Fantasy 11.6%
- #10 The Will and Torment of El Brante
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Goosenior
Windows
A hardcore narrative RPG about an inquisitor who defied the Gods and returned from the Afterlife against Their Will. In a world where faith is fracturing, power is waning, and blood is spilled ever more often, your choices will decide what remains of the Empire. Complete the story of Sir El Brante!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choices Matter 14.3%, RPG 10.1%, Visual Novel 9.9%, Medieval 9.6%
- #11 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,040 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Text-Based 10.6%, Medieval 10.2%, Management 9.1%
- #12 Taina's Cursed Legacy
89% matchPositive82% of 34 reviews2025
Dev: dark_room_game
Windows
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 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Text-Based 15.4%, Visual Novel 10.9%, RPG 8.1%
- #13 Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle
89% matchVery Positive86% of 219 reviews2026
Dev: ジギタリス出版Pub: 15 Industry
Windows
Once you open this book, you are no longer just a reader. A "reading-style" fantasy adventure in the spirit of The NeverEnding Story — handcrafted over six years by a 30-year veteran from Vanillaware. 100% handmade, from the first page to the last.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Tabletop 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Text-Based 9.8%, Medieval 9.1%
- #14 Rule or Fall
87% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: Bad Concept, Retry
Windows · Linux
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: Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Text-Based 12.8%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Medieval 11.8%
- #15 Herald of the Mists
88% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Text-Based 14.1%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Dark Fantasy 9.4%
- #16 The Farm of the Living
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: PlayBook
Windows
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 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Visual Novel 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Text-Based 10.7%
- #17 Your Story: Games with Death
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BoldBox
Windows
A medieval text quest in the "Choose Your Own Adventure" genre, where each choice could be your last. Create your story with more than 2,000 events, 200 of which will prove fatal. In a world where death plays against you, can you outsmart it and write your own story?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Text-Based 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Medieval 10.9%
- #18 Grave Knight
84% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: Dreamlight Games
Windows
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: Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Visual Novel 14.6%, RPG 11.7%, Choices Matter 11.1%
- #19 Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk
85% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2018
Dev: Prime Games
Windows · Mac
The Battle for Murk is an interactive narrative set in a gritty medieval world. Play as Corporal Mandrake from the City Watch in a fantasy adventure game. Uncover the truth behind a treacherous conspiracy in a race against time to save your hometown from falling into the hands of a cruel leader.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Tabletop 15.7%, Text-Based 15%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Medieval 8.5%
- #20 Gold & Brown
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Side Project Games
Windows
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 18.1%, Medieval 15.5%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.5%
- #21 Dr. Kinderwood's Asylum
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Richday
Windows · Mac · Linux
Decide the fate of the son of a tailor and a witch doctor infected with an incurable disease in an interactive story with multiple endings depending on your actions.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Text-Based 11.8%
- #22 Sky Caravan
82% 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: Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Management 13.9%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Text-Based 11%
- #23 Blue eclipse-Rindo blooming on the ring finger-
82% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Dark Fantasy 17.5%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Text-Based 13%, RPG 9.5%
- #24 Vigil: A Knight Story
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: A Story Interactive
Windows · Linux
A fully voiced branching medieval RPG of over 800,000 words. Swear the oath, ride to a dying kingdom's war, and answer for every choice. When you fall, you are not reloaded, you are marked. Four origins, twelve chapters, and an ending that weighs what your oath was worth.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.3%, RPG 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Strategy 9.4%
- #25 Roadwarden
80% matchVery Positive94% of 5,150 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 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, RPG 11.6%, Choices Matter 7.5%
- #26 Bleeding Moons
81% matchPositive95% of 20 reviews2020
Dev: IAN GamesPub: Phoenix Online Publishing
Windows
Bleedings Moons is an interactive story revolving around the themes of fate, duty and free will. Your actions and decisions will shape the story of the game, so that Ian's story will be your story, with the logical consequences of your choices.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Text-Based 13.1%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Dark Fantasy 10.4%
- #27 Serania - Path of the Scion
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FableTree Productions
Windows · Mac
Choose, explore, interact, fight, solve, gather, trade! Rise to rebel in this immersive text-based fantasy story that seamlessly merges the best elements of RPGs, choose-your-own-adventure stories, visual novels, and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Medieval 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.4%
- #28 Freedom Tower
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fire Trail
Windows
Roleplaying set in a dystopian universe inspired by early twentieth-century wars and Ukrainian folklore. You are Orest, and you might be the last hope of your occupied land. Establish the truths about the world getting drained of its energy, meet captivating characters, and make your land free.
Why similar: Tabletop 19.5%, Text-Based 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Choices Matter 11.9%, RPG 7.7%
- #29 Basements n' Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery
78% matchVery Positive90% of 171 reviews2023
Dev: eNVy softworks
Windows · Mac · Linux
A visual novel paying satirical homage to the world’s greatest TTRPG. Make important choices, roll countless dice, build lasting relationships, explore magical lands and experience all the rest of the crap you expect from a fantasy game without the hassle of finding actual friends to play with!
Why similar: Tabletop 19.7%, Text-Based 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.7%
- #30 Crown Gambit
76% matchVery Positive95% of 453 reviews2025
Dev: WILD WITS GAMESPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac
Play as three intrepid paladins through a terrible war of succession to save a sinister medieval kingdom from political turmoil. Pick a side amongst noble families to choose the future monarch and crush those who stand in your way through board-shattering tactical card combat!
Why similar: Tabletop 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Medieval 11.6%, Choices Matter 9.4%
- #31 DnD Adventure: Wizard's Choice
77% matchPositive88% of 49 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Text-Based 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Visual Novel 9.8%
- #32 VERSUS: The Elite Trials
78% matchPositive88% of 33 reviews2016
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Will you infiltrate the gods' Elite Courte, stealing their superpowers, or turn double agent and join them, taking your place among the divine?
Why similar: Text-Based 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, RPG 12%
- #33 Moonbriar
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Oldblood
Windows · Mac · Linux
Delve into a dark fantasy visual novel where evil isn't always as it seems. Make your choices and grow your skills to help determine who survives the Great Culling. Featuring the voice talents of Ralph Ineson, Simon Callow, Savannah Steyn, and more.
Why similar: Text-Based 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Dark Fantasy 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Medieval 11.1%
- #34 The Sword of Rhivenia
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 76 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Are you worthy of the throne? Or do your siblings deserve it more than you do? What kind of heir will you be?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Text-Based 18.1%, RPG 13.2%, Medieval 12.5%
- #35 Whispers From The Rift
74% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Interdimensional Games Inc
Windows
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 22%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Text-Based 17.9%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Choices Matter 11.8%
- #36 The Trial
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NowakGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested." Story about life, choices and a Man vs the System. This unique interactive literature adaptation. A game, brought to You in early visual novel, text-adventure style.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Text-Based 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Visual Novel 11.8%
- #37 Fighting Fantasy Classics
75% matchVery Positive82% of 366 reviews2018
Dev: Tin Man Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Ready your sword, pack your provisions and prepare to embark upon quests in which YOU are the hero! Choose what happens at every turn of the page with Fighting Fantasy Classics – text-based roleplaying adventures remastered.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Text-Based 15.9%, Tabletop 13.1%, Choices Matter 12.8%
- #38 Adventurers Guild Receptionist
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio LITTE
Windows
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: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, RPG 14%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Management 8%
- #39 Arderico's Journey
73% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Digital Masquerade
Windows
Set off on an exciting swashbuckling quest in this classic Fantasy Choose Your Own Adventure! Meet charming characters, fight dangerous foes, and uncover a nefarious intrigue. Experience seamless and reactive storytelling. Prove your innocence, find your destiny, relish the journey!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Medieval 13.2%, Visual Novel 11.2%
- #40 King of Dragon Pass
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 566 reviews2015
Dev: A SharpPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Tabletop 11.2%, Text-Based 10.5%, Medieval 9.7%
- #41 The Shadow
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: PlayBook
Windows
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 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Text-Based 12%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Visual Novel 11.6%
- #42 DnD Adventure: Rogue's Choice
72% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2022
Dev: CCSPub: Delight Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
With debts to pay to the underworld, you need to make a lot of coin fast! Perhaps worse, you're wanted by the King's men for desertion. Survival is your first priority...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Text-Based 13.7%, RPG 10.4%, Choices Matter 7.9%
- #43 Eyes of Iyre
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: D0Studios
Windows · Mac
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: Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Text-Based 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.8%, RPG 9.7%
- #44 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
71% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Infinite Zone
Windows
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 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Text-Based 17.6%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Choices Matter 9.8%
- #45 A Crown of Sorcery and Steel
71% 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 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Medieval 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, RPG 10%
- #46 Memories Of Zattera
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: YouGo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 19.8%, Medieval 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Visual Novel 16.1%, RPG 9.6%
- #47 A Wise Use of Time
72% matchMostly Positive80% of 122 reviews2015
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choices Matter 18.8%, Text-Based 17.8%, RPG 14.3%
- #48 Sovereign Tower
67% matchVery Positive93% of 2,646 reviews2026
Dev: WILD WITS GAMESPub: Curve Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Play as the Sovereign of a magical tower in this story-rich, Round Table management RPG. Recruit eccentric Knights, assign quests and balance egos whilst carving out your kingdom's destiny. If destiny doesn’t go your way, keep turning back time, uncover secrets and rewrite fate again and again.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Medieval 15.6%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Management 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.5%
- #49 Into Oblivion
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NanoLion
Windows
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: Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Text-Based 14%, RPG 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.2%
- #50 Tower of the Ice Lich
69% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: Arcane Lorelabs
Windows · Mac
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: Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Text-Based 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Choices Matter 10.8%
- #51 Witch's Last Curse
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Granitefire Games
Windows
In a village slowly being consumed by a supernatural curse, you are a witch’s apprentice charged with breaking it. Explore the town, uncover forbidden ingredients, earn the trust of its troubled inhabitants, and complete the ritual before the thorns claim everything.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Dark Fantasy 14.7%, Text-Based 14.2%, Choices Matter 13.4%, RPG 10.3%
- #52 Sworn to the Depths
68% 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: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Text-Based 16.1%, Tabletop 16%, RPG 11.7%
- #53 The Nascent Necromancer
68% matchMixed60% of 15 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 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Choices Matter 14.9%, RPG 10%
- #54 Imperial Bureaucracy Hero
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Munitions Mori
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Visual Novel 13.1%, RPG 11.4%, Choices Matter 10.2%
- #55 Sorcery! Parts 1 and 2
69% matchVery Positive88% of 761 reviews2016
Dev: inkle Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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 30.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Text-Based 12.5%, Choices Matter 12.1%, RPG 12%
- #56 Affairs of the Court: Choice of Romance
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 75 reviews2016
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Plunge into court politics and change the course of history, or pursue a love affair that rocks the kingdom to its foundations!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Text-Based 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Choices Matter 14.4%, RPG 11.7%
- #57 Peter's Journey
67% matchMixed52% of 42 reviews2024
Dev: Dreamer StudioPub: Start Game
Windows
Embark on a journey of this text anime quest with RPG elements! Walk through beautiful locations, overcome challenges and make Peter’s dreams come true. Every step you take matters. And don’t forget to take the diary - you’ll need it!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Text-Based 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Medieval 13.4%, Visual Novel 10.4%
- #58 1453: Fall of Constantinople
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 3Cats Studio
Windows · Mac
Constantinople, 1453. Four witnesses — a janissary, a baker's daughter, an engineer, a noble — live the same 53 days of the siege. Choices cross between their stories, and the city remembers. An illustrated, choice-driven historical novel where every ending is someone's truth.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Text-Based 16.4%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Choices Matter 9.2%
- #59 Zugzwang
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Malice Studios LLC
Windows
Chess. Love. Destiny. All the same things, really.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Dark Fantasy 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Visual Novel 10.9%, RPG 10.4%
- #60 The Noob Adventures: Fool For Love
66% matchPositive93% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: Ping Group
Windows · Linux
A visual novel set in the world of 'The Noob Adventures'. Meet and talk to your favourite characters in this nostalgic fan-fiction.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Text-Based 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Tabletop 16.6%, Visual Novel 12.6%