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 15.6%, Text-Based 14.8%, Character Customization 11.8%, Management 11.7%

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 23.7%, Life Sim 21.7%, Point & Click 11.4%, Lore-Rich 10%, Text-Based 9.5%

Rise from a broke bedroom musician to a stadium-filling metal legend. Write songs, record albums, build your band, and outlast real licensed bands and AI rivals in a deep music career sim built by someone who's actually lived the industry.

Why similar: Life Sim 27.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, RPG 11.1%, Simulation 10.8%, Management 10.5%

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: Life Sim 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Text-Based 18.8%, Management 10.7%, Choices Matter 8.8%

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 24.4%, Text-Based 15.9%, Point & Click 15.9%, Exploration 11.7%, Lore-Rich 9.4%

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 31.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24%, Character Customization 16.1%, Management 14.5%, Simulation 6.7%

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 38.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Character Customization 14.2%, Choices Matter 10.9%, RPG 9.1%

"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 32.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Text-Based 15.6%, Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Choices Matter 8.5%

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 29.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Text-Based 18.6%, Choices Matter 8.7%, RPG 6.4%

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 13.8%, Simulation 12.6%, Character Customization 10.4%

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 17.6%, Text-Based 14.2%, Management 10.2%, Character Customization 9.1%

Play as an official’s daughter entering the imperial palace as a consort. Build relationships, shape your family’s fate, speak freely with memory-driven AI characters, navigate favor and political intrigue, or overturn the order of the court and pursue an entirely different ending.

Why similar: Life Sim 20.6%, Text-Based 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Management 10.6%, Dialogue Heavy 9.9%

In Qinghe County during the Northern Song, manage businesses and household affairs, build relationships, gather rumors and evidence, and set schemes in motion. As Ximen Qing, balance time, wealth, reputation and favors while your choices reshape lives, fortunes and endings.

Why similar: Life Sim 26.8%, Text-Based 18.4%, Management 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9%, RPG 7.9%

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

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.4%, Text-Based 30.3%, Character Customization 15.4%, Choices Matter 10.9%, RPG 10.8%

Navigate unknown waters, deadly politics, and ancient magic in this low-fantasy adventure. Can you turn the tides of war and forge a future for your clan? A text-based interactive novel, 1 million words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.

Why similar: Text-Based 28.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.9%, RPG 13.4%, Character Customization 11.6%, Lore-Rich 9.8%

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

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.8%, Text-Based 19.7%, Point & Click 17.9%, RPG 10.4%, Simulation 7.6%

Welcome to IT hell! Survive as GlobalCorp's only sysadmin – for a single day or a whole week. Fight absurd tickets, collect loot and lower your pulse with coffee. Keep the boss radar and your aggro down to still have a job at 16:30 – without throwing your monitor out of the window.

Why similar: Life Sim 26.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Point & Click 15.3%, Text-Based 15%, Simulation 11.1%

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 24.4%, Lore-Rich 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Management 14.9%, Choices Matter 8.8%

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

Why similar: Life Sim 30.3%, Text-Based 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Simulation 9.2%, 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 25.3%, Text-Based 24.6%, Character Customization 15.5%, Lore-Rich 15.3%, RPG 7.9%

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 32.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Simulation 13.3%, Character Customization 11.8%, RPG 9%

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 25.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Character Customization 12.8%, Dialogue Heavy 9.8%, Exploration 8.6%

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 28.4%, Text-Based 24.2%, Lore-Rich 15.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11.1%, RPG 10.6%

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 28.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Text-Based 16.3%, Character Customization 13.2%, Simulation 7.9%

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 29.4%, Text-Based 21.2%, Dialogue Heavy 17%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Simulation 6.8%

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 23.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Lore-Rich 11.7%, RPG 11.5%, Management 10.1%

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 33%, Text-Based 19.4%, Point & Click 17.3%, Exploration 12.4%, Simulation 9.1%

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%, Point & Click 20.6%, Character Customization 20.3%, Simulation 18%, 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 27.5%, RPG 13.1%, Character Customization 10.1%, Dialogue Heavy 9.1%

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%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.4%, RPG 15.1%, Character Customization 14.9%, Choices Matter 7%

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 24.2%, Management 14.4%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Simulation 7.7%

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 13.6%, Inventory Management 11.9%, Management 11.7%, Dialogue Heavy 10.5%

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 17.3%, Dialogue Heavy 15.3%, Management 12.1%

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 24.3%, Text-Based 19.6%, Point & Click 15.4%, Lore-Rich 12.5%, Exploration 9.7%

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 30.4%, Text-Based 23.4%, Character Customization 16.4%, RPG 10.9%, Dialogue Heavy 9.7%

You’ve been given a chance to go back to 21. Build relationships, explore new paths, and pursue the passion you once buried. Beneath it all lies a deeper truth about the world that contains you. Or perhaps… that you contain.

Why similar: Life Sim 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Dialogue Heavy 12.9%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Exploration 6.8%

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 30.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Management 11.9%, Choices Matter 8.9%, Character Customization 8.6%

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 32.8%, Life Sim 28%, Character Customization 12.7%, Exploration 12.2%, Simulation 7.9%

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 29.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Point & Click 17.4%, Management 10.8%, Simulation 9.4%

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 13.3%, Character Customization 13.3%, Exploration 10.5%, Inventory Management 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 27.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Text-Based 21.3%, Point & Click 18.8%, 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 35.8%, Point & Click 20.2%, Exploration 15.1%, Simulation 8.7%, 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 37.7%, Text-Based 34.9%, RPG 13.5%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Indie 3.4%

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 30.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.5%, Character Customization 15.5%, 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 32.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.6%, Character Customization 16.7%, RPG 9.4%, Choices Matter 8.9%

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 48.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 34.4%, Choices Matter 16.9%

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 29.8%, Text-Based 25%, Character Customization 21.6%, Choices Matter 11.5%, RPG 9.8%

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 21.3%, Text-Based 17.8%, Management 17.4%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Point & Click 10%

An interactive fiction epic fantasy.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.4%, Text-Based 24.3%, RPG 12.9%, Lore-Rich 11.4%, Character Customization 9.1%

A text-based adventure where you're tasked to exorcise your friend’s Inner Demon. Explore an ever-reshaping palace to analyze objects filled with memories, discover which one is the reason for her possession and sacrifice it. Do not deviate from your mission. Save your friend no matter the cost.

Why similar: Text-Based 23.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Lore-Rich 14.3%, Point & Click 14.1%, Choices Matter 8.1%

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%, Choose Your Own Adventure 33.3%, Choices Matter 13.7%, RPG 12.8%, Indie 3.2%

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 26.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.1%, RPG 14%, Lore-Rich 13.7%, 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 38.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 32.3%, RPG 13.7%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Indie 3.3%

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 28.7%, Character Customization 24%, Text-Based 22.7%, Choices Matter 12%, RPG 10.5%

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 26.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Management 11.8%, Simulation 9.1%, RPG 8.2%

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 26.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25%, Lore-Rich 16%, RPG 13.4%, Character Customization 9.7%

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 22.7%, Management 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Character Customization 9.3%, Choices Matter 9.2%

《도깨비의 밤》은 한국 전래동화풍 세계관에서 펼쳐지는 호러 탈출 어드벤처 게임입니다. 당신은 알 수 없는 이유로 도깨비의 세계에 갇히게 됩니다. 어둠 속을 탐색하고, 곳곳에 숨겨진 단서와 아이템을 찾아 이 기묘한 밤에서 벗어나세요. 도깨비가 머무는 밤, 당신은 무사히 현실로 돌아갈 수 있을까요?

Why similar: Text-Based 34.4%, Point & Click 26%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Simulation 9.4%, Story Rich 7.8%

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 27.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Character Customization 9.9%, Dialogue Heavy 9.4%, Simulation 8.2%

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 17.8%, Simulation 15.8%, Management 13.6%, Character Customization 11.8%