- #1 Reignfall: Fallen Crown
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Semih AlarPub: ITIAH Games
Windows
A dark fantasy roguelite card game where choices matter. Swipe cards, make moral decisions, build your skill tree and spin the Wheel of Kings and survive until the year 2000, or watch your kingdom fall.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 16.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Lore-Rich 10.1%, Text-Based 9.1%, Nonlinear 8.5%
- #2 StorySmith
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BigD Games
Windows
A live collaborative story game for you and your Twitch chat. AI generates each scene on your machine — no internet required. Chat votes, you narrate, together you write the story.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 20.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Text-Based 10.8%, Nonlinear 8.6%
- #3 Chrongrid
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Chrongrid Studio
Windows
Chrongrid is an AI-driven narrative experience. Inside an author's story blueprint, you make your own choices and the world responds in its own way — every choice echoes, no two journeys alike. Built-in blueprints are the start; play others' stories or write your own, in any language.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 16.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Text-Based 13.3%, Lore-Rich 12.6%
- #4 The Last Road
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Crow Station Studios
Windows
In this narrative-driven casual strategy RPG, you take on the role of The Driver, sworn to deliver goods along The Last Road. With each journey bringing different semi randomized events to challenge the player, you will need to manage your resources carefully in order to survive.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Perma Death 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Roguelite 11.9%, Text-Based 8.9%
- #5 Incarnata: Dormant Stories
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lodestar Team
Windows · Mac
Incredible depth, within an infinite world. Dive into this adventure simulation and become everything you decide to be. The game adapts and builds challenges, creates unique characters, places, and goals for you to weave your own story.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 21.4% ★, Text-Based 12.7%, Perma Death 9.9%, Nonlinear 8%, Procedural Generation 7.4%
- #6 Dead Gods Realm: Morar
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WAVE gamedev team
Windows
Narrative RPG, inspired by works of H.P. Lovecraft, celtic myths, rapiers and gunpowder. World awaits the Arrival of unknown creatures. It needs a hero who would stop the menace. Or not... He may even join them. Only you shall decide who would Morar become.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 18.5% ★, Text-Based 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Lore-Rich 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%
- #7 The Iron and the Oath
93% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: FFire Studio
Windows
A narrative RPG of medieval intrigue and war. As Karl von Aiden, shape your destiny through five chapters of choices that matter. Build attributes, forge alliances, navigate court politics, and face consequences across three story routes and multiple endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Dynamic Narration 12.9% ★, Nonlinear 12.1%, Lore-Rich 11.5%
- #8 OMEA
92% 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: Dynamic Narration 16.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Text-Based 13.3%, Nonlinear 11%
- #9 Long Shadow
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Many Riches
Windows · Mac · Linux
Guide one family across centuries of collapse, evacuation, settlement and interstellar expansion. Preserve memories, establish laws, command crews, inherit ships and face the Afterless as every choice becomes part of history.
Why similar: Perma Death 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Dynamic Narration 12.7% ★, Text-Based 9.6%
- #10 Beyond the Chiron Gate
91% matchPositive92% of 26 reviews2024
Dev: Space Goblin Games
Windows
Explore an endless text-based universe filled with exotic planets, strange life forms, and ancient civilisations. Manage a crew of space explorers, upgrade their ship, and brave dangerous worlds to gather the data you need to reach the mysterious Gatebuilders.
Why similar: Perma Death 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Roguelite 13.8%, Text-Based 10.8%, Roguelike 8.9%
- #11 DREAMIO: AI-Powered Adventures
89% matchVery Positive88% of 187 reviews2024
Dev: Oleg Skutte
Windows
DREAMIO is a 'choose-your-own-adventure' game where stories and visuals are dynamically created through the power of generative AI in response to your decisions. Explore endless worlds with limitless possibilities; go anywhere, do anything.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 15.5% ★, Text-Based 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Nonlinear 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.5%
- #12 Diaspora
89% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Text-Based 19.2%, RPG 13.6%, Lore-Rich 10.3%
- #13 Dream Enders RPG
90% matchPositive87% of 23 reviews2019
Dev: C.A.Withey
Windows
A visual, interactive story with unique characters, consequential dialogue choices, and branching story paths set in the world of an M.M.O.R.P.G.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 20.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Text-Based 11.9%, Lore-Rich 11.5%
- #14 God of Chaos
88% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Text-Based 17.3%, Lore-Rich 13.2%, RPG 13.1%
- #15 Tome of Fates
87% matchMostly Positive77% of 22 reviews2025
Dev: Grey Mount Studio
Windows · Linux
Adventure Gamebook: Dive into an interactive experience where you can create, play, and share your own unique stories. Use the intuitive story editor to craft narratives without coding, explore them solo or in co-op with friends, and share them on the Workshop for everyone to enjoy.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 25.5% ★, Text-Based 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Choices Matter 9.8%
- #16 Scribe
86% matchPositive91% of 33 reviews2024
Dev: TalesBar
Windows
Scribe is a scribe simulator in which you can secretly shape the destinies of the inhabitants of the estate: resolve disputes, influence the course of family intrigues, decide who lives and who does not. Choose what to write in letters and whether to change their recipients!
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 19.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Text-Based 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choices Matter 9.8%
- #17 Tower of the Ice Lich
86% 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: Text-Based 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Lore-Rich 16.7%, Choices Matter 8.4%
- #18 History of Dragosa
85% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Multiple Endings 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Lore-Rich 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.1%
- #19 Villienville. Echoes of Deception
84% matchPositive80% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: JAD Labs
Windows · Mac
A text role-playing game about the fate of a mercenary who finds himself in the strange village: Villienville. Investigate who benefits from the sudden appearance of “ghosts” and help residents protect their homes from a mysterious enemy. The main thing is not to make a mistake in your choice!
Why similar: Text-Based 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Nonlinear 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Choices Matter 8.4%
- #20 Text Dungeon: The Ring of Life
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Tawashi Works
Windows
No graphics, No tiles. Just text-RPG adventure! Explore a shifting labyrinth, regain the Ring of Life from the wizard Shingor. Classic roguelike-style messages guide your journey, with narrative scenes evoking the spirit of MUDs and gamebooks. Death is permanent. Every run brings new discoveries.
Why similar: Perma Death 19.6%, Text-Based 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Roguelike 11.9%, Roguelite 11%
- #21 Ostera : The curse of...
82% matchPositive91% of 34 reviews2025
Dev: Profits Troll Studio
Windows
Welcome to Ostera: The curse of... Join the Adventure! Shape Your Destiny, Kiss Rats, and Slap Kids!
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 15.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Text-Based 14.9%, Lore-Rich 13%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%
- #22 A Cat's Tale
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lahiri Abdalla
Windows
A Cat's Tale is an urban fantasy visual novel in Brazil's capital, where no cat is what it seems and tough choices have to be made.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 20% ★, Lore-Rich 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Nonlinear 10%
- #23 Mr. Mueller's Grand Experiment
82% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Scott Tipton
Windows · Mac · Linux
In an engrossing interactive novel, live as the assistant to a remarkable historical figure: George Mueller, a man who witnessed orphans dying young in the streets of 1830's England and decided he would care for them, no matter the cost.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Dynamic Narration 20.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Text-Based 13.5%, Choices Matter 7.1%
- #24 Mercenary Guild Manager
81% 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: Lore-Rich 19.8%, Text-Based 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choices Matter 10.2%
- #25 Silk and Secrets: Rites of Pleasure
80% match3 user reviews25% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
Infiltrate the orgiastic secret society beneath the modern-day Palace of Versailles! Will you expose their sex rituals or surrender to their pleasures? An interactive romance novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Text-Based 18.6%, Lore-Rich 16.8%, RPG 13.9%
- #26 Welcome to Victorville
79% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2026
Dev: Studio 7e
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your name is Gary Patterson. After waking up in a strange facility with your work partner Victor Adams, you must make a choice: Play along with Victor's plans? Or go it alone and make an escape? Only YOU can decide.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Lore-Rich 14.9%, Text-Based 10.9%, Exploration 8.9%
- #27 Astronaut: The Best
81% matchPositive91% of 34 reviews2023
Dev: Universal Happymaker
Windows
Astronaut: The Best is an occult management adventure where people aren't just numbers: they're screwups. You must run a proper space academy using lies, witchcraft, and/or hard work. Guide cadets through a roguelite web of scandals and challenges, or the government will have you killed.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Roguelite 12%, Lore-Rich 9.9%, Roguelike 8.7%
- #28 Gods of Savvarah | Part I
79% matchVery Positive98% of 168 reviews2023
Dev: ST Sinovar
Windows
Gods of Savvarah is a visual novel with the philosophy of a classic fantasy RPG. Defeat enemies, explore countries, make friends, and find your place in Savvarah.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 22.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Nonlinear 10.4%, Choices Matter 8.2%
- #29 La Dimensione Interna
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PolyTrauma Studios
Windows
La Dimensione Interna (The Dimension Within) is a third person 3D narrative adventure game in which you'll play as Giorgio, a journalist living in a small town in Tuscany, Italy, during his worst moment in life.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 25.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Nonlinear 12.6%, Lore-Rich 11.3%
- #30 The Golden Rose: Book One
78% matchVery Positive90% of 161 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore an alternative medieval Europe in this low-fantasy epic adventure! How far are you willing to go to take back your stolen treasure?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Text-Based 20.1%, RPG 12.8%, Lore-Rich 11.5%
- #31 Dr. Kinderwood's Asylum
77% 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: Nonlinear 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Text-Based 13%, Choices Matter 11.7%
- #32 The Soul Stone War 2
77% matchPositive90% of 29 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Overcome all obstacles by trusting in your own strength, the power of your Soul Stone, and your loyal companions. Become the legend you were born to be.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Text-Based 17.8%, Lore-Rich 16.4%, RPG 8.2%
- #33 The Portal Pirate
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ZizihPub: Zizih Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A sound, a flash, a portal… A pirate emerges, bringing a deadly threat. Five friends stand before him, and one of them is the target. But which one? Even they don't know.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Text-Based 20.7%, Dynamic Narration 14.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Choices Matter 11%
- #34 The Nascent Necromancer
76% 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 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Choices Matter 12.2%, RPG 9.8%
- #35 Wildwake
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonhaze Games
Windows
Stranded after a plane crash in a freezing wilderness, you must manage body temperature, injury, and sanity as every decision shapes your survival.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Nonlinear 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Text-Based 12%, Choices Matter 10.8%
- #36 Touhou: Fading Illusion
75% matchVery Positive90% of 242 reviews2022
Dev: Indie Game Order
Windows · Mac · Linux
A visual novel based on Touhou Project, made by fans for fans and others! Embark on the investigation of the greatest incident in Gensokyo's history and discover the terrifying truth of the youkai world with Reimu Hakurei, Marisa Kirisame, Sakuya Izayoi and other heroines!
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 23.7% ★, Lore-Rich 15.2%, Text-Based 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Nonlinear 12.3%
- #37 RepCell
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: atrefor games
Windows
What if attention became the most valuable thing in society? And everyone who lost it was sent to a container suspended above the ocean until they became visible again?
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 29.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.9%, Text-Based 22.4%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.7%
- #38 Bootlegger: Moonshine Empire
73% matchPositive80% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Make your name as a whiskey-runner, a politician, or a gangster as you quench thirsts from rural Pennsylvania to the New York City nightlife!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Text-Based 22.5%, Choices Matter 10%, RPG 9.5%
- #39 A Spaceship Accident
72% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Pick Your Universe
Windows
A choice-driven narrative game with RPG mechanics, filled with cosmic wonders and horror. Forge your own path across more than 50 unique endings. Barter, upgrade your character, fight, and explore alien worlds, overcoming every obstacle to find your way back to Earth… and to your daughter.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Text-Based 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Lore-Rich 13.5%, Nonlinear 10.3%
- #40 Superheroes Inc: #VictoryLeague
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
As a social media influencer recruited to a team of heroes, can you earn their trust, defend the city, and prove you’re worth more than your follower count? A text-based interactive superhero novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Text-Based 18.3%, Lore-Rich 16.6%, RPG 13.5%
- #41 Star Story: The Horizon Escape
74% matchVery Positive83% of 183 reviews2017
Dev: EvilCoGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Join the journey of a funky space archaeologist who crashed on an unknown planet. A text turn-based adventure RPG in which your choices actually matter. Talk, explore, fight, make decisions to find a way out! Colourful graphics and the old comic book spirit.
Why similar: Text-Based 14.8%, Lore-Rich 13.9%, Nonlinear 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Roguelite 10.9%
- #42 Faerie's Bargain: The Price of Business
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 19 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Text-Based 20%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, RPG 11.7%, Choices Matter 7.7%
- #43 Saturnine
71% matchMixed70% of 27 reviews2025
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are the Veteran. You’re the oldest android in the Solar System, a relic and survivor of the ancient past. Now it’s time for you to fight again. A text-based science-fantasy novel, 700,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Text-Based 20.9%, RPG 16.5%, Choices Matter 7.9%
- #44 Fugue of Delights
71% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Enygmage
Windows
A daemonic, handcrafted visual novel where your choices shape erotic dreams, secrets, and ritual desires.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Lore-Rich 13%, Text-Based 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Nonlinear 10.5%
- #45 Lucid Echoes
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Liminal Game Studios
Windows
Enter a World of Your Dreams!This immersive first-person action-adventure transforms your dream journal entries into a narrative-rich playground. Create, Explore, and Unravel. Expect the unexpected in this ever-evolving dream world - beware though - you are not alone!
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 28.6% ★, Nonlinear 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Choices Matter 9%
- #46 Fallen Hero: Revelations
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Face down your ghosts and unearth secrets better left buried as you prepare to take vengeance on the ones who wronged you. But be warned, burying your past only works if it stays put.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Text-Based 21.3%, RPG 15.4%, Choices Matter 8.7%
- #47 Games of the Monarch's Eye
70% match8 user reviews25% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Steel, strategy, sabotage - or forbidden magic? How far will you go to defeat your greatest rival and win glory in the grandest tournament in the entire realm? A text-based adventure.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Text-Based 17%, Lore-Rich 15%, RPG 8.4%
- #48 Heavens' Revolution: A Lion Among the Cypress
70% match7 user reviews29% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a Persian steampunk empire, will you use your arcane alchemy to repair a spaceship, or pilot a mech? Ignite a revolution, or snuff it out?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Text-Based 16.4%, Lore-Rich 13.4%, RPG 12.9%
- #49 Exo's CYOA
69% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Stephan Birkl
Windows · Linux
Exo's CYOA is an LLM-driven choose-your-own-adventure that adapts to you. Guide a party through dangerous places, talk to characters, inspect the world, collect gear, craft solutions, and make choices that reshape the narrative. You describe your next move, and the game responds with new narration.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 30.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Text-Based 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Choices Matter 7.1%
- #50 Serania - Path of the Scion
69% 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 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Nonlinear 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.3%
- #51 A Blade for the Emperor
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
An interactive fiction epic fantasy.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Text-Based 17.2%, RPG 13.3%, Lore-Rich 12%
- #52 Ink and Intrigue
68% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2024
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
Heed magic’s call! Find love as you explore ancient mysteries, craft dragon-rune tattoos, and discover your true loyalties. What passions shape your path?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Text-Based 19.5%, Lore-Rich 14.5%, RPG 13.7%
- #53 When Silence Fell
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Maximilian Niebuhr
Windows
This grim interactive novel takes you directly into a period full of dread and peril - the Thirty Years' War in the 17th century!
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 21.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Text-Based 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Nonlinear 12.2%
- #54 VERSUS: The Elite Trials
70% 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 24.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choices Matter 13.8%, RPG 12.8%
- #55 Lux, City of Secrets
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 32 reviews2021
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
It's time to make a name for yourself in the big city. In this first half of a two-part epic, can you unravel the mysteries of Lux, City of Secrets?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Text-Based 22%, Lore-Rich 19%, RPG 12.3%, Choices Matter 9.7%
- #56 Imperial Bureaucracy Hero
67% 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 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 20%, RPG 11.6%, Text-Based 10.3%, Lore-Rich 9.5%
- #57 Innsmouth 22
67% matchMixed69% of 13 reviews2024
Dev: Raven Novels
Windows · Mac · Linux
In this visual novel the main character, Lorenzo Righi, an Italian Professor, is invited to a meeting of History Scholars held in Boston. Excited and flattered by the invitation, he discovers that something else, hidden and mysterious, awaits for him.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 23.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Text-Based 18.9%, Lore-Rich 16.6%, RPG 8.2%
- #58 Fallen Gods
67% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, RPG 14.5%, Nonlinear 12.7%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Procedural Generation 11.2%
- #59 The Last Bastion
67% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2022
Dev: Voidpeak Games
Windows
The Last Bastion is a survival-management game where you lead an army of defeated soldiers across a setting inspired by medieval India. Fight overwhelming forces, manage dwindling resources and make choices with devastating consequences in a bitter struggle for survival and salvation.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Text-Based 14.6%, Roguelite 13.2%, Roguelike 10.6%
- #60 Mistbound
65% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2026
Dev: aworyrate
Windows · Mac · Linux
Mistbound is a surreal narrative adventure about overcoming trauma, where the line between reality and dreams is blurred. Loneliness can be too loud. And salvation can be too quiet!
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 20.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Multiple Endings 12%