- #1 Taina's Cursed Legacy
97% 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 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Text-Based 15.1%, Visual Novel 13.6%, RPG 11%
- #2 Imperial Bureaucracy Hero
96% 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%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Visual Novel 15.1%, RPG 14.4%, Text-Based 8.8%
- #3 House of the Golden Mask
96% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Awaken your magic and break an ancient curse at a secret school of sorcery! What mysteries will you uncover at this crossroads between realms? A text-based fantasy novel, 280,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, RPG 19.6%, Text-Based 18.1%, Magic 6.8%
- #4 Morhval: Ravenglaire
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Seven Weeks Studios
Windows
Morhval: Ravenglaire is a dark fantasy text RPG about survival, choice and consequence. Create your character, explore a fractured province, fight turn-based battles, pass skill checks, help the desperate or abandon them, and decide who deserves to survive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.1%, RPG 22.4%, Text-Based 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Dark Fantasy 11.3%
- #5 Saturnine
94% matchMostly Positive70% 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: Interactive Fiction 25.7%, RPG 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Text-Based 18.7%, Character Customization 5.7%
- #6 An Imp and an Impostor
94% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You've spent years undercover, disguised as a human, infiltrating the city’s magical law-enforcement organization. They stole your magic from you. Can you steal it back? (A text-based interactive historical urban fantasy novel.)
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, RPG 19.2%, Text-Based 17.3%, Adventure 10.9%
- #7 Roadwarden
93% matchVery Positive94% of 5,066 reviews2022
Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.4 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 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 18%, RPG 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Visual Novel 7.6%
- #8 The Soul Stone War 3
92% matchMixed67% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
By the power of your Soul Stone and the strength of your own indomitable soul, uncover secrets held in blood and lead the charge that will change the world. A text-based fantasy novel, 260,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, RPG 21.1%, Text-Based 18.9%, Character Customization 5.6%
- #9 Fallen Hero: Revelations
91% 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: Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, RPG 20.4%, Text-Based 19.1%, Character Customization 6.9%
- #10 The Farm of the Living
91% matchNo user reviews
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 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Visual Novel 14.7%, RPG 13.3%, Text-Based 11.4%
- #11 Sword of Shandar
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nexus Media
Windows
Sword of Shandar is a narrative-driven light RPG focused on choice, consequence, and discovery. Engage in turn-based combat, resolve challenges through dice-roll skill checks, crack locks in hands-on minigames, and decipher ancient runes as you uncover the secrets of a fading world.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.5%, RPG 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Text-Based 12.7%
- #12 Witchcraft U
89% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2021
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rush the university's secret societies as a first-year Magical Studies major! Will you keep your magic a secret from the mundanes or expose the truth?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, RPG 19.9%, Text-Based 17.6%, Magic 7.1%
- #13 Atlantis Academy
89% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2023
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Can you and your friends master the ocean's magic and save your school? Dance, fight, and flirt with the other sea nymphs, selkies, and sirens!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, RPG 19.4%, Text-Based 17.4%, Magic 6.8%
- #14 Bootlegger: Moonshine Empire
88% 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 28.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Text-Based 20.7%, RPG 12.7%, Character Customization 7.5%
- #15 The Nascent Necromancer
87% 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: Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Text-Based 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, RPG 13.3%, Character Customization 6.7%
- #16 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
86% matchVery Positive89% of 9,719 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Text-Based 13.1%, Visual Novel 13%, RPG 11.8%
- #17 Samurai of Hyuga
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 68 reviews2016
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Samurai of Hyuga is a brutal, heart-pounding interactive tale. Prepare to enter the land of silk and steel, where fantasy clashes against grim reality, and where the good guys don't always win in the end. It's a harsh world with tough choices at every turn. Good thing you're the toughest ronin around.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.4%, Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Text-Based 21.9%, RPG 17.8%, Adventure 9.2%
- #18 Until the End
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 八萩
Windows
Love remembers you. Even if you’ve forgotten.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.6%, Text-Based 22.9%, Visual Novel 22.5%, RPG 11.3%, Adventure 8.8%
- #19 X.E.H.A. Rogue
84% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Corvaena Games LLC
Windows · Mac
They steal your crew and force your ship to crash-land on an alien planet where you must start fresh with nothing but a dilapidated base and a... talking cat?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 22%, Visual Novel 15%, RPG 13.4%, Text-Based 8.2%
- #20 Keeper's Vigil
84% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
As the Harbinger, you are the only Keeper who can cast spells. Stop a necromantic plague, uncover an Elven conspiracy, and decide the fate of a dying world! A text-based fantasy novel, 193,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects."
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.8%, RPG 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Text-Based 19.3%, Character Customization 5.2%
- #21 Hero of Hoofbeat Hollow
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Run with unicorns, fly with pegasi, and swim with kelpies as a magical horse! Will you reunite the herds or drive them further apart? A text-based interactive fantasy novel with hundreds of choices and without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26%, RPG 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Text-Based 18.9%, Character Customization 5.3%
- #22 Samurai of Hyuga Book 5
82% matchPositive89% of 28 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Back from hell and into Hyuga, enemies and allies clash in this epic sequel! Overcome ultimate despair or be consumed by it: the choice is yours, ronin!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.4%, RPG 17.9%, Text-Based 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Visual Novel 12.7%
- #23 Turncoat Chronicle
82% matchMostly Positive71% of 14 reviews2023
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your father stole his throne, intending to leave it to you. When the long-lost heir resurfaces, will you defend the king—or betray him to his enemies?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, RPG 20.3%, Text-Based 20.1%, Character Customization 5.8%
- #24 A Mage Reborn
81% matchVery Positive89% of 105 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Walk the path of a legendary mage, combining four different schools of magic to devastating effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Text-Based 19.9%, RPG 17.6%, Adventure 10.3%
- #25 DnD Adventure: Wizard's Choice
81% 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 19%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Text-Based 16.4%, Visual Novel 12.7%, RPG 10.1%
- #26 Fox Spirit: A Two-Tailed Adventure
80% matchPositive90% of 30 reviews2020
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Dazzle humanity or destroy it as a magical, two-tailed fox! Weave illusions, shapeshift, or control minds. You'll set the world on fire, one way or another.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Text-Based 17.2%, RPG 12.7%, Action-Adventure 10.9%
- #27 Life as a Lich
79% match9 user reviews33% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Embrace lichdom: research powerful spells, recruit undead legions, manage your domains, rule the underworld, and become a demigod!
Why similar: RPG 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Text-Based 12.1%, Adventure 11.9%
- #28 Whispers From The Rift
78% match5 user reviews80% of 5 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: Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Text-Based 18%, Visual Novel 16.9%, RPG 11.1%
- #29 Sorcery! Parts 1 and 2
79% matchVery Positive88% of 753 reviews2016
Dev: inkle Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 30.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, RPG 16.1%, Text-Based 12.1%, Adventure 7.4%
- #30 Samurai of Hyuga Book 6
77% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Return to Hyuga just in time for the new semester! Sword fights, love confessions, demonic rituals—nobody said graduating was going to be easy! A text-based novel, 300,000 words and hundreds of choices, without animations or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, RPG 20.9%, Text-Based 19%, Character Customization 6.8%
- #31 Relics 2: The Crusader's Tomb
77% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Four thousand miles. Twenty thousand pounds. Four murderous rivals. One unforgettable adventure.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, RPG 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Text-Based 14.6%, Action-Adventure 12.5%
- #32 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
76% 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 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Text-Based 17.4%, Visual Novel 15.7%, RPG 10.9%
- #33 Samurai of Hyuga Book 2
78% matchPositive88% of 50 reviews2016
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
The toughest ronin in Hyuga returns! Heated battles and even hotter romances await you in the land of silk and steel!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, RPG 20.4%, Text-Based 20%, Adventure 10.5%
- #34 Memories Of Zattera
76% 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 20.7%, Visual Novel 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, RPG 13.1%, Exploration 8%
- #35 Vanakan
75% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Erik Khachatryan
Windows
Vanakan is the journey of Tadevos - a priest, who travels the 500s Armenia to find the monastery that suits for his goal of becoming spiritually closer to Jesus Christ. He meets different people on his way and makes choices which will define his future and that of the country.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24%, Text-Based 19.3%, Adventure 12.3%, 2D 5.2%
- #36 The Shadow
75% matchNo user reviews
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: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Visual Novel 14.7%, RPG 13%, Text-Based 12%
- #37 Into Oblivion
74% 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 22.7%, RPG 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Text-Based 13.8%
- #38 The Crown of The Vermillion Devil
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dylan WilliamsPub: River's Edge Gaming
Windows
Follow an Emperor's bounty to a rain-soaked island where the locals are going strange, an ancient god is waking, and you are exactly where you were meant to be. A narrative text RPG with real consequences.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Visual Novel 13.7%, RPG 10.8%, Text-Based 9.9%
- #39 God of Chaos
73% 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: Interactive Fiction 24%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, RPG 19.4%, Text-Based 17.6%, Dark Fantasy 10.9%
- #40 Witch's Brew: Love and Lattes
72% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
Will you spill the tea about the secret, cozy magical cafe on your college campus? Brew potions and romance on coffee dates with your new friends! A text-based novel of magic and romance, with hundreds of choices and without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, RPG 21.4%, Text-Based 18.9%, Character Customization 5.4%
- #41 The Fifth Horseman
74% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2019
Dev: Angelo Parodi
Windows
The Fifth Horseman is a narrative adventure game, set in a fantasy-medieval world, where you will experience many unique stories. After years of war, hunger and diseases mankind finds itself on the verge of extinction and it's up to you to decide its fate.
Why similar: RPG 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Text-Based 16.2%, Visual Novel 13.7%
- #42 Grave Knight
73% 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 23.1%, Visual Novel 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, RPG 17.8%, Text-Based 12%
- #43 Welcome to Moreytown
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 42 reviews2017
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Claw your way to the top of Moreytown, a furry slum for human-animal hybrids. Will you take down the gangs who rule the town, or take them over instead?
Why similar: Text-Based 26%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, RPG 18%, Adventure 11.7%
- #44 War of Bellrook
71% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2022
Dev: Plagen Shiki
Windows
Go forth on a text-based, choose your own adventure where you can choose your role and embark on adventure as various different people who tread different paths.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.7%, RPG 24.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Text-Based 18.7%, Adventure 4.2%
- #45 Affairs of the Court: Choice of Romance
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 74 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 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Text-Based 21.5%, RPG 16.2%, Adventure 8.3%
- #46 CLOSED HANDS
71% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2021
Dev: PASSENGER
Windows · Mac · Linux
CLOSED HANDS is a groundbreaking work of interactive fiction that explores the tangled intertwined stories of five people thrown together by a fictional terror attack.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.2%, Text-Based 22.7%, Adventure 13.4%, Atmospheric 6.1%
- #47 Herald of the Mists
69% 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: Interactive Fiction 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Text-Based 15.9%, Visual Novel 12.8%, RPG 10.1%
- #48 Exploring Friscott
68% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: WolfBite Interactive LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
You're an adventurer going into Friscott Castle to see what treasures you can find within. Explore, meet the residents, find treasure & more. Be mindful though, as the castle isn't normal, & there are things about it that might drive a person to madness. That, or it might spell your demise.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Text-Based 13.7%, Adventure 7.8%
- #49 Wizardry Level C
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
The discovery of an old magic book turns your life upside down. Will you succeed in becoming a guild wizard—or will you travel a different path?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30%, Text-Based 22.9%, RPG 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%, Magic 9.9%
- #50 Guns of Infinity
70% matchVery Positive96% of 137 reviews2016
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
As commander of a squadron of cavalry, what will you sacrifice to win the war of gunpowder and magic? Fight for power, riches, love, or glory!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.3%, Text-Based 21.4%, RPG 20%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Adventure 10.7%
- #51 Bunker 2322
70% matchMixed56% of 34 reviews2022
Dev: DnovelPub: Studio2760
Windows
A visual novel in a post-apocalyptic setting. Find out what happened to humanity, traveling through the deserted world in search of the main character's family.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, RPG 18.7%, Visual Novel 18%, Adventure 10.7%
- #52 The Laws of Probability
67% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: Unspoken
Windows
You have exactly 5. Bread is 4, the bus fare to school is 3. What do you give up? In this short narrative experience, you play as 13-year-old Adam. Confront an interface that reacts to a painful reality, and discover that freedom of choice is sometimes nothing but a privilege.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Text-Based 17.6%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Adventure 10.3%
- #53 Kidnapped! A Royal Birthday
70% matchMixed50% of 22 reviews2020
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Escape your captors…and endure your rescuers, but don't be late to the ball! Take charge of your rescue, and reclaim your rightful throne.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.7%, Text-Based 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, RPG 12.4%, Action-Adventure 10%
- #54 Follow the Black Kitten
69% matchVery Positive84% of 68 reviews2022
Dev: Total
Windows
You buy a laptop with your hands. You find an interactive collection of short stories on your laptop and something else. Or someone? What will all this lead to?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, RPG 18.7%, Visual Novel 18%, Text-Based 14.6%, Adventure 10.9%
- #55 Scarlet Sails
67% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Hoist the Jolly Roger and set sail to find the legendary Titan’s Treasure! Do you fight with a cutlass or with magic? Are you biding your time until you can shoot your captain in the back, or are you the reason the rum is gone?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.5%, Text-Based 22.1%, RPG 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Adventure 6.1%
- #56 Whiskey-Four
67% matchVery Positive93% of 109 reviews2024
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Never stop running, not with the galaxy at stake. Save it at all costs, and save yourself if you can.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Text-Based 17%, RPG 14%, Character Customization 10.3%
- #57 The Sin Collector: Repentless
68% matchVery Positive92% of 90 reviews2021
Dev: Sylen Studio
Windows
THE SIN COLLECTOR: REPENTLESS is a game on the border of a visual novel and a classic text RPG, set in the world of The Sin Collector, a series of books written by Michał Gołkowski. Action takes place a couple of years before the events presented in the books.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Text-Based 14%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Dark Fantasy 8.4%
- #58 Days with the Ogre Girl
66% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: POISONPub: PRODUCTION PENCIL
Windows
Izumi, the demon girl you accidentally captured. A novel adventure game where you gradually connect hearts as you spend your days together with Izumi.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.6%, Visual Novel 25.1%, Text-Based 17.7%, Adventure 15.2%, Atmospheric 6.9%
- #59 Leas: City of the Sun
66% matchPositive100% of 37 reviews2025
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
When a new magic is discovered, it's up to you to unravel the mystery! Find answers from fae and humans, save your city, and maybe even fall in love! A text-based interactive fantasy novel, 400,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, RPG 20.6%, Text-Based 20.3%, Character Customization 4.6%
- #60 Nimue
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nagi
Windows
A man awoke by the lake with no memory. Guided by a pilgrim, he discovers he was once the sorcerer Merlin—and learns the truth about the "Saint" who sealed him away. A dark fantasy visual novel about unrequited love. Three endings await.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Visual Novel 20.9%, Text-Based 19.5%, Adventure 12.1%, Dark Fantasy 10.7%