Games Like Ephemera

The Year is 1665 and the Great Plague has struck London. Guide your family through the darkest period of English history as you flee across the country. Navigate 100s of random events that challenge your ethics and your drive to survive.

Why similar: Life Sim 24.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Text-Based 14.8%, Management 11.9%, Character Customization 11.8%

A visual novel about life, love and death. The sequel to Laments of a Platinum Rose continues the story through the eyes of the abdicated Jane Perdita, who also must overcome insurmountable odds to save the one that she loves.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Life Sim 21.8%, Point & Click 11.4%, Lore-Rich 10.1%, Text-Based 9.6%

Live the metal dream. Rise from bedroom musician to stadium legend in this deep career simulation. Write songs, record albums, recruit bandmates, and compete against real licensed bands and procedurally generated rivals. Your metal empire starts now. FORGE YOUR LEGACY

Why similar: Life Sim 27.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, RPG 10.9%, Simulation 10.8%, Management 10.6%

Crazy Localization is an exploration-based interactive story adventure game themed around game localization. In a game world gradually descending into chaos, Fanfan wields her localization expertise as a weapon to set things right!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.3%, Text-Based 16.1%, Point & Click 15.8%, Exploration 11.5%, Lore-Rich 9.6%

New Day is an upcoming life simulation game where almost anything can happen! Create your own islanders, design their apartments, and get involved with their day-to-day life as they divulge into unexpected friendships, problems, and more!

Why similar: Life Sim 31.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Character Customization 15.8%, Management 15%, Dialogue Heavy 6.9%

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 38.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Character Customization 14.2%, Choices Matter 11%, RPG 9%

"Why did it come to this?" That's what the protagonist asks, his body and mind worn to the breaking point. From there begins a journey of rediscovering the self he had long neglected. A small action at a time, he plods forward — slowly, haltingly — toward recovery.

Why similar: Life Sim 32.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Text-Based 15.6%, Dialogue Heavy 13.2%, Choices Matter 8.5%

My Music Label is a music management and simulation game where you take full control of your label. Discover young talents, manage legendary artists, and shape the evolution of the music industry. Every decision influences careers and the history of music.

Why similar: Life Sim 29.9%, Text-Based 23.7%, Management 14%, Simulation 12.6%, Character Customization 10.3%

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: Life Sim 29.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Text-Based 18.5%, Choices Matter 8.8%, RPG 6.4%

BARPG is an arcade-style RPG that simulates life as a bartender, where every drink you serve brings you closer to uncovering the truth of your management’s dark secrets.

Why similar: Life Sim 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Text-Based 14.3%, Management 10.4%, Character Customization 9.1%

Wield your magic sword against the monsters that fill a mysterious tower, and uncover the secrets of the past!

Why similar: Text-Based 30.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.2%, Character Customization 15.5%, Choices Matter 11%, RPG 10.6%

Yours decisions matters, leading to multiple unique endings that reflect your influence on Iris’s fate.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.6%, Text-Based 19.8%, Point & Click 17.9%, RPG 10.3%, Simulation 7.6%

Willkommen in der IT-Hölle! Überlebe den Büro-Wahnsinn in diesem textbasierten SysAdmin-Simulator. Kämpfe gegen absurde Tickets, sammle Loot und senke deinen Puls mit Kaffee. Halte Chef-Radar und Aggro niedrig, um bis 16:30 Uhr deinen Job zu behalten – ohne den Monitor aus dem Fenster zu werfen.

Why similar: Life Sim 26.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Point & Click 15.1%, Text-Based 15%, Simulation 11.2%

A story of living with a woman whose identity is unknown for 30 days.

Why similar: Life Sim 30.4%, Text-Based 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Simulation 9.3%, Choices Matter 7.2%

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 25%, Text-Based 24.7%, Character Customization 15.6%, Lore-Rich 15.4%, RPG 7.7%

Crown Delights Deli is a visual novel with multiple dialect/language choices. As the cashier at a Brooklyn bodega, choose to talk in English, AAVE, or Spanish to a diverse cast of characters as you try to maintain a five-star rating for your boss.

Why similar: Life Sim 29.5%, Text-Based 21.2%, Dialogue Heavy 17%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Simulation 6.8%

My Final Cursed Days is a fantasy mix of dungeon-crawling RPG and time-management life-sim made for the Game Boy! Navigate a strange dungeon in the first-person. Fight monsters, find magic artifacts, make choices, chat with villagers! You only have so much time left after all.

Why similar: Life Sim 26.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Character Customization 12.8%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%, Exploration 8.5%

A story-rich role-playing game, TideBroker will take you to a fantasy world of secrets and machinations of three opposing factions. You will play the part of an envoy and determine the outcome of a peace conference through dialogue, letters and books.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.2%, Text-Based 24.3%, Lore-Rich 15.4%, Dialogue Heavy 11.2%, RPG 10.5%

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 32.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Simulation 13.4%, Character Customization 11.9%, RPG 8.9%

Welcome to the heartwarming world of Memories: Millennium Girl! Join your sister's journey through 8 unforgettable years, forming bonds with 25 adorable NPCs. With 50+ unique endings awaiting your choices, create a cute and captivating tale filled with connections, joy, and cherished memories

Why similar: Life Sim 28.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Text-Based 16.4%, Character Customization 13.2%, Simulation 8%

Deep beneath the earth, the dragon is rising! Quest into ancient caverns, learn magical lore, and draw strength from friends and family to save your home! A text-based interactive fantasy novel.

Why similar: Text-Based 24%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Lore-Rich 11.8%, RPG 11.3%, Management 10.3%

A brutal and honest look into the reality of petting a cute girl on her head. Enjoy the digital warmth of simulated physical affection. Pet Zen on her head. Try different cute outfits. Having fun is encouraged.

Why similar: Life Sim 30.1%, Point & Click 20.4%, Character Customization 20.3%, Simulation 18.1%, Pixel Graphics 4.9%

At your exclusive boarding school, will you rule the roost or be a royal disaster? Court publicity, sway the fate of nations, and find love!

Why similar: Text-Based 29.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.7%, RPG 12.9%, Character Customization 10%, Dialogue Heavy 9.2%

You wake up at a terminal you've never seen before. The language is alien. The interface is hostile. Every wrong click has consequences. Decode constructed languages, navigate unfamiliar operating systems, and survive the unknown in this puzzle-survival experience.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.9%, Text-Based 19.6%, Point & Click 17.3%, Exploration 12.4%, Simulation 9%

A pilot career sim-rpg where you climb from regional first officer to mainline captain. Bid for schedules by seniority, handle emergencies through quick-time events, manage finances and stress, and build your reputation with decisions that can make or break your career.

Why similar: Life Sim 31.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Management 14.6%, Choices Matter 8.6%, Simulation 7.7%

By day, you're just another citizen. By night, you defend the city. But don’t quit your day job, hero. A text-based superhero novel, 450,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.

Why similar: Text-Based 31.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.2%, Character Customization 15%, RPG 14.9%, Choices Matter 7.1%

Forget about real-life worries and dive into student life: settle into your rented apartment, keep up with your studies, and, of course, make close friends among your new classmates.

Why similar: Life Sim 28.6%, Point & Click 13.4%, Inventory Management 12%, Management 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 10.6%

You are Arc, a city management AI. Designed to manage a city-wide AR metaverse known as the NeuroNet. Meet its many users, build relationships and help or hinder their lives while trying to balance the wider needs of the city. Find your humanity in a world losing theirs to technology.

Why similar: Life Sim 21.5%, Text-Based 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Dialogue Heavy 15.4%, Management 12.3%

A visual novel with RPG elements set in a Cyberpunk dystopia where you play a detective tasked with solving a smorgasbord of cases.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.1%, Text-Based 23.6%, Character Customization 16.4%, RPG 10.7%, Dialogue Heavy 9.8%

The frontier does not want to be settled. A narrative highly replayable story game where your choices build a settlement, shape its story, and seal its fate. Every run ends. Every obituary tells a story only you lived.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Text-Based 19.7%, Point & Click 15.3%, Lore-Rich 12.8%, Exploration 9.6%

This is the story of your life. Experience the entire journey from toddler to adulthood. Go to schools, learn new things, meet new friends, and have wild adventures! Every choice you make will influence your future career, and decide who your romantic partner will be. Who will you become?

Why similar: Life Sim 29.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Management 12.2%, Choices Matter 8.9%, Character Customization 8.6%

Mouse Life - Parenthood is a simulation type game in which you play as a little mouse who has to raise his child. You will have to scavenge for cheese, stop ants from stealing it and stay away or hide from the cats that wish you gone.

Why similar: Life Sim 27.7%, Dialogue Heavy 13.4%, Character Customization 13.3%, Exploration 10.4%, Inventory Management 8.1%

Thank You For Your Application! is a 'Dystopian Job Market Simulator' that is a satire of online job boards and the post-pandemic job market!

Why similar: Life Sim 29.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Point & Click 17.3%, Management 11%, Simulation 9.4%

You've lost everything and returned to your hometown, forced to start over to survive. This city is filled with both opportunities and dangers. Can you carve out a new life in this unforgiving environment?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.5%, Life Sim 28.2%, Character Customization 12.8%, Exploration 12.2%, Simulation 8%

No trip is alike! I WILL BE THERE is the love story of a lonely man with an RV in a zombie-infested world. It is a unique 'Survival-Adventure' game with visual novel aestethics and role-playing elements.

Why similar: Life Sim 27.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Text-Based 21.5%, Point & Click 18.7%, Pixel Graphics 4.3%

Modern life's greatest horror: waiting for takeout. You've got 40 minutes to kill before your order arrives. Stare, pace, join a cult, block a toilet—whatever it takes. Miss the delivery and face eternal hunger. The survival horror game nobody asked for.

Why similar: Life Sim 36%, Point & Click 20%, Exploration 15%, Simulation 8.8%, Choices Matter 7.2%

Lead the revolt against a bloodthirsty empire! You grew up under the iron fist of the Hegemony. Now is your chance to end their blood-fueled magic, as you forge a ragtag outlaw band into a rebel army.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 37.5%, Text-Based 35.1%, RPG 13.3%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Indie 3.4%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Text-Based 17.8%, Management 17.8%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Point & Click 9.9%

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: Text-Based 30.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.3%, Character Customization 15.4%, RPG 15.1%, Choices Matter 7.6%

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: Text-Based 32.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.4%, Character Customization 16.7%, RPG 9.3%, Choices Matter 9%

An interactive fiction epic fantasy.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, Text-Based 24.5%, RPG 12.7%, Lore-Rich 11.5%, Character Customization 9.2%

Hunt down the killer who murdered the Wolf god! As the Wolf's last avatar before his assassination, will you revive your god, take revenge on his killer, or destroy the pantheon and bring about a new order?

Why similar: Text-Based 48.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 34.1%, Choices Matter 17.1%

Never stop running, not with the galaxy at stake. Save it at all costs, and save yourself if you can.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.6%, Text-Based 25.2%, Character Customization 21.7%, Choices Matter 11.6%, RPG 9.7%

Knock things over. Take a nap. Enslave humanity. It's the biggest text-based cat simulator ever, over 600,000 words! They will give you belly rubs, or else.

Why similar: Text-Based 37.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 33.1%, Choices Matter 13.8%, RPG 12.6%, Indie 3.2%

Urban Tale is a realistic, vibrant and unique RPG that will allow you to fulfil your dreams, and pursue your most wanted goals in life. You start from scratch, having nothing in the city where you can meet a lot of people, that can help you throughout your adventure. Your goal is to succeed in life.

Why similar: Life Sim 26.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Management 12%, Simulation 9.1%, RPG 8.1%

Defy nature’s laws and avenge your slain pantheon! Humanity once feared and hated you, but now, awakened from a thousand-year slumber, you are their only hope. A text-based interactive game.

Why similar: Text-Based 27%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.9%, Lore-Rich 13.9%, RPG 13.8%, Character Customization 10.2%

When your uncle Kent mysteriously disappears, you'll embark on a journey find out what really happened. What will you sacrifice when trapped in a haunted manor? Will you destroy this evil or claim its power? And can love bloom in a haunted house?

Why similar: Text-Based 38.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 32.1%, RPG 13.5%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Indie 3.3%

This game puts you in the shoes of a dedicated mother uses her magical powers, your mission is to care for your home and children by cooking, cleaning, and caring, ensuring their needs are met and their happiness is preserved, But don’t forget the mother! this will be your double challenge!

Why similar: Life Sim 36.4%, Point & Click 17.6%, Simulation 15.8%, Management 13.8%, Character Customization 11.8%

Bouncer Story, a retro-inspired film-noir featuring a protagonist working as a bouncer to pay off a gambling debt to the underground mafia controlling the city. As a bouncer you are seeing, hearing and experiencing all kinds of events in the your daily work controlling the entrance to a bar.

Why similar: Life Sim 22.8%, Management 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Character Customization 9.3%, Choices Matter 9.3%

Protect an exclusive boarding school and rebuild your life after scandal as a military bodyguard! How far will you go for ambition, duty, and your country?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.5%, Character Customization 24%, Text-Based 22.8%, Choices Matter 12.1%, RPG 10.3%

Tropity is an open-world island where you can do anything and everything. From building cool functional houses where all the furniture works and serves a purpose, Getting a job that is fully interactable and immersive, Or your own in-game business doing anything you want? It's all here at Tropity!

Why similar: Life Sim 27.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Character Customization 9.9%, Dialogue Heavy 9.5%, Simulation 8.2%

Shape Your Life, Shape Their Stories!Life Choices is a fun and thought-provoking social simulation game where every decision you make shapes the fate of the characters. Every choice creates a story – your story!

Why similar: Life Sim 27.6%, Text-Based 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Character Customization 13.2%, Choices Matter 8.3%

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: Text-Based 25.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.9%, Lore-Rich 16.3%, RPG 13.3%, Character Customization 9.8%

In this sci-fi RPG/visual novel, you are an extraterrestrial movie director at a low-budget movie studio. Struggle against capitalism, corruption, and your eccentric coworkers to get the movie done on time and under budget.

Why similar: Life Sim 28.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Character Customization 9.9%, Text-Based 9.6%, Simulation 9%

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: Text-Based 26.3%, Point & Click 14.1%, Dialogue Heavy 10.5%, Choices Matter 9.6%, RPG 8%

See your name in lights on Broadway! Find fame, fortune, and true love! All it costs is your immortal soul.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.8%, Text-Based 23.8%, Character Customization 16.2%, Lore-Rich 15%, RPG 7.7%

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: Text-Based 28.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.2%, Lore-Rich 14.1%, RPG 13.4%, Character Customization 9.8%

From birth to death, craft your orc's legacy. Wield the powers of a shaman or chief. Conquer the world. Become a god or a demon lord. Do what orcs do best!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.6%, Character Customization 23.5%, Text-Based 21.6%, Choices Matter 12.1%, RPG 10.1%

Battle demons and undead attorneys, and win souls to pay back your student loans! At the elite demonic-law firm of Varkath Nebuchadnezzar Stone, you'll depose a fallen god, find romance, and maybe even make partner, if you don't lose your own soul first.

Why similar: Text-Based 43.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 43.1%, RPG 10.9%, Indie 2.5%

When the Arheid III is sabotaged by a spy aboard the spaceship, Captain John Will Smith must get to the bottom of it or risk another attack.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Text-Based 23.3%, Point & Click 16.6%, Lore-Rich 14.4%, Choices Matter 7.1%