- #1 Attorney Disbarment Adventure
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ambearth Games
Windows
A darkly comedic legal sim where your goal is to get disbarred—spectacularly. Play as a defense attorney or prosecutor in ethically disastrous cases full of bad decisions, weird clients, and Kafkaesque courtroom chaos. Succeed, and you lose.
Why similar: Text-Based 33.5%, Interactive Fiction 23%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Simulation 6.5%
- #2 Daria: A Kingdom Simulator
96% matchMixed44% of 18 reviews2024
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 36.9%, Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Simulation 19.8%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Multiple Endings 6.7%
- #3 Too Different
96% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Unravel the mysterious past of your parents and homeland while journeying through four unique lands in this exciting science-fantasy adventure!
Why similar: Text-Based 37.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Casual 13%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 9%
- #4 Lux, City of Secrets
95% matchMostly Positive74% of 31 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: Text-Based 34.6%, Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Multiple Endings 8.8%, Casual 7.6%
- #5 The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Verse and Vision
Windows
A narrative-driven psychological visual novel where every floor of an elevator reveals a key moment from your past. Face your regrets, uncover forgotten memories, and make choices that shape your future. Will you find closure, or remain trapped in your own mind?
Why similar: Text-Based 37.7%, Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Choices Matter 16.7%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Atmospheric 2.8%
- #6 Message in a Melody
94% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Can music save the human race? You and the Raqullan Empire will soon find out. Decide whether music, and the humans who make it, should survive.
Why similar: Text-Based 35%, Interactive Fiction 27.6%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Sci-fi 11.1%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
- #7 呪霊が見せる夢 Dreamscapes
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: アイエダゲームズ(Aieda Games)
Windows
Investigate six haunted properties and listen to the voices of spirits trapped in nightmares. Collect fragmented clues and discover the correct combination of names, locations, and vessels. A multi-ending horror adventure where the outcome changes depending on your choices during the ritual.
Why similar: Text-Based 50.2%, Interactive Fiction 32.9%, Casual 10%, Adventure 3.6%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #8 Don't Make Love
91% matchVery Positive84% of 482 reviews2017
Dev: Maggese
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Assume the role of a praying mantis in a relationship dilemma. Torn between their mutual love and the instinct to have sex – which could lead to the male mantis’s death – the couple is on the verge of making a decision. Type anything you want in response to your partner during this life-changing conversation.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.9%, Simulation 17.7%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
- #9 Silent Earth
91% matchPositive84% of 25 reviews2021
Dev: Fring Frang Games
Windows
Silent Earth is a short sci-fi text adventure about finding one’s place despite an uncertain future. Explore an off-world mining colony ship, navigate multi-linear character relationships, and steer the story toward one of five endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 36%, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Sci-fi 9.6%
- #10 Dreaming After You
90% matchPositive91% of 32 reviews2024
Dev: MangoPower
Windows
Play as a Duskweaver in this short "choices matter" story about self-sacrifice.
Why similar: Text-Based 31.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Choices Matter 19%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Casual 7.1%
- #11 Silent Orbits
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AlekPub: QuickNap
Windows
Explore a Fallout 2 inspired tactical grid map in this text-based sci-fi cRPG. You blacked out in 2089 and woke up 300 years later to a solar system reduced to ruins. Scavenge ships, craft items, and survive turn-based combat as narrative choices shape your journey.
Why similar: Text-Based 44.1%, Interactive Fiction 28.8%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Exploration 4.4%, Atmospheric 3.9%
- #12 Be Honest
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rebel Jester Studios
Windows
The horror personality q̷̦̈́͊u̸̠͗i̴͈͈̊̈z̴͈͇̳͗͌
Why similar: Text-Based 35%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Simulation 9.8%
- #13 A Familiar Fairytale Dyslexic Text Based Adventure
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2019
Dev: Alastair LowPub: Lowtek Games
Windows
A fantasy text based adventure from the eyes of a dyslexic.
Why similar: Text-Based 46.3%, Simulation 29.1%, Casual 16.6%, Adventure 4.3%, Indie 3.7%
- #14 A Brown Rabbit's Story
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TenaciousTibbar Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A Brown Rabbit's Story is an interactive storybook, a text-driven adventure where your choices lead to branching paths and multiple endings. In a quiet orphanage, a boy wishes his toy rabbit to life… and together, they must face the world’s cruelties and find hope.
Why similar: Text-Based 39%, Interactive Fiction 26.7%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Casual 10.8%, Multiple Endings 6.2%
- #15 Way Walkers: University 2
87% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2020
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Picking up right where you left off in part one, the city and school are still in shock from the mysterious attacks, and the question on everyone's mind is...who was behind them, and why?
Why similar: Text-Based 37%, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Casual 13.7%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
- #16 Pet
86% matchPositive95% of 21 reviews2023
Dev: beepsoft industries
Windows
A horror visual novel about trying to get home to feed your cat.
Why similar: Text-Based 23%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Simulation 12.8%, Multiple Endings 11.6%
- #17 Will Die Alone
85% matchMostly Positive76% of 67 reviews2022
Dev: Arianna Ravioli
Windows · Mac
Some memories aren't meant to stay. We are our memories and our experiences. What happens if you delete some of them? If you change your past and, thus, your future?
Why similar: Text-Based 29%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Dystopian 11.9%, Simulation 10.8%, Choices Matter 10%
- #18 Keeper of the Day and Night
84% matchPositive97% of 36 reviews2021
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You didn’t expect so many essays sophomore year. Or so many hellhound attacks. This year is shaping up to be a killer—hopefully not literally.
Why similar: Text-Based 36.6%, Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Casual 8.4%
- #19 Your Future Self
84% matchVery Positive81% of 95 reviews2019
Dev: Contortionist Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.
Why similar: Text-Based 30.2%, Casual 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Dystopian 12.9%, Sci-fi 6.6%
- #20 Aunewyth
83% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2023
Dev: Captain Cool
Windows
Aunewyth is a text-based game with a focus on narration and decision making. It features a short yet versatile storyline that reveals itself according to the choices you make.
Why similar: Text-Based 48.3%, Choices Matter 19.7%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Story Rich 3.4%
- #21 Tequila Moonrise
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Black Swan Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Take over a struggling bar on the politically tense Moon Village. Prepare and serve drinks, befriend and help your customers, find your purpose, and maybe even love... all while keeping the bar's lights on in this narrative driven bartending simulator set on the moon.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Text-Based 16.6%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Simulation 10.5%, Dystopian 9.6%
- #22 Emily is Away
82% matchVery Positive89% of 32,165 reviews2015
Dev: Kyle Seeley
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 19.8 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Choices Matter 21.4%, Text-Based 17.2%, Simulation 14.1%, Retro 7.4%
- #23 Mart Mayhem
81% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Eleven Dot Studio
Windows · Mac
Be a convenience-store clerk in a first-of-its-kind chat game—and kick out AI Karens. There are no preset choices. Say what you couldn’t in real life and enjoy how the AI responds differently each time. A stress-relief game where your what-ifs come to life!
Why similar: Text-Based 27.7%, Choices Matter 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Simulation 15%, Multiple Endings 12.8%
- #24 A Kiss from Death
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 49 reviews2021
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
As an immortal being in a world of epic fantasy, spend an eternity in romance with a host of unique, fantastical characters!
Why similar: Text-Based 38.9%, Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Casual 7%
- #25 Human.exe
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Weird EnginePub: Eternal Loop Studios
Windows · Mac
An AI has isolated the mind of a philosophy professor to evaluate human morality. Interface with the terminal, type system commands, and channel his responses through impossible ethical dilemmas. Your principles are on trial as every choice is recorded to determine your final profile.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Dystopian 10.7%, Simulation 10.2%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
- #26 Vanakan
79% 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: Text-Based 36.1%, Interactive Fiction 27.8%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Atmospheric 5.8%
- #27 Way Walkers: University
79% matchMixed60% of 10 reviews2020
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Embark on a magical adventure through a spiritual world.
Why similar: Text-Based 37%, Interactive Fiction 24%, Casual 15.2%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Sci-fi 5.6%
- #28 Haze
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Glassmind Interactive
Windows
Pilot a biomechanical android through a derelict spacecraft consumed by alien corruption. Every scene, narrative, and horror is procedurally generated by AI. No two explorations are the same. Uncover what happened to the crew in this 16-bit sci-fi horror adventure.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.7%, Simulation 20.6%, Casual 13.3%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Multiple Endings 9%
- #29 Nikola Tesla: War of the Currents
77% matchPositive95% of 20 reviews2022
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Help the eccentric inventor navigate the intrigue of the emerging electrical industry! Can you outsmart Thomas Edison and electrify the world?
Why similar: Text-Based 35.5%, Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Multiple Endings 9%, Casual 7.8%
- #30 The Filmmaker - A Text Adventure
78% matchPositive93% of 28 reviews2017
Dev: Storycentric WorldsPub: Unimatrix Productions
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Explore an abandoned movie theater and step inside five black-and-white films in this mystery text adventure that pays tribute to classic Hollywood B-Movies and combines the best elements of interactive fiction, visual novels, and gamebooks.
Why similar: Text-Based 44.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Casual 16.3%, Exploration 5.4%, Adventure 4.4%
- #31 平安
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 无解
Windows
Hi!这是由我个人独立完成制作的一款模拟类文字游戏。 在这个游戏里你将会成为一个无父无母的名为平安的小乞丐,努力活下去将会是你唯一的目标。 在这段旅程里,你会认识到平安城中各种不一样的性格的人与事, 当然作为一个故事,它也有结局。 而这个结局...或许并不尽如人意,但我相信,平安有足够的勇气面对这一切。 2025年初,祝所有玩了平安的人都平平安安。 努力生存下去吧!用尽所有的办法,不管是乞讨还是捡垃圾。
Why similar: Simulation 25.7%, Text-Based 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Casual 16.1%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
- #32 Shadow of the Curse-Eater
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
The wilderfolk of Ushinega Island waste away in a rotting tropical paradise, haunted by a deadly malediction. Yet behind every curse lurks a secret. You have the power to save them... but should you?
Why similar: Text-Based 32.7%, Interactive Fiction 29.8%, Choices Matter 19.8%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Adventure 1.3%
- #33 命运之轮(序章)/Journey of Destiny(dependent origination)
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cai JiahePub: Changle Games
Windows
A Chinese ancient-style visual novel made with Ren'Py. Two factions fight for a mysterious relic. Your choices unlock multiple endings. The story includes suspense, time travel and soul fusion. Simple mouse and keyboard controls. Enjoy an immersive storytelling experience.
Why similar: Text-Based 35.5%, Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Conspiracy 6.9% ★
- #34 201 - The Bad Number
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 29 reviews2024
Dev: Pavel Kopylov
Windows
"201 - The Bad Number" is an interactive science fiction game-book set on a post-apocalyptic Mars. In a world where only 200 people remain, each new inhabitant may hasten civilization's end. Players make choices that impact the fate of humanity and the colony in a unique dystopian setting.
Why similar: Text-Based 29.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Dystopian 14.5%, Choices Matter 12%, Multiple Endings 11%
- #35 Frostline
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Raptor Entertainment
Windows
In a world gripped by the Ice Age, you manage the last telephone station in the city. Listen to incoming visitors and grant or deny communication according to government orders. Your decisions shape the fate of the region. An atmospheric, story-driven communication simulation: Frostline!
Why similar: Text-Based 22.5%, Dystopian 19.9%, Simulation 14.2%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Multiple Endings 12.5%
- #36 Upheaval
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex Leone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Spend your time well: in 30 days a powerful Magician arrives, and everything changes! Explore the wilds around your remote village, learn from mistakes, recover magical artifacts, and turn setbacks into advantages in this text-based open world roguelike adventure. Time's up: Upheaval is here again!
Why similar: Text-Based 27.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Narrative 12.2% ★, Multiple Endings 11.6%, Choices Matter 10.8%
- #37 Alcyone: The Last City
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: Joshua Meadows
Windows · Mac · Linux
Alcyone: The Last City is an interactive sci-fi novel where your choices can lead to the salvation or destruction of the last refuge of civilisation in the universe. Immerse yourself in a branching narrative of diverse characters, intrigue, and world-altering decisions.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Dystopian 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
- #38 Emily is Away Too
73% matchVery Positive93% of 6,144 reviews2017
Dev: Kyle Seeley
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Emily is Away Too is a brand new story featuring new characters and multiple different endings. Message your friends, surf the web and choose your path through this branching narrative.
Why similar: Text-Based 29.1%, Choices Matter 19.1%, Simulation 18.6%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Casual 7.9%
- #39 The Vampire Regent
74% matchMostly Positive80% of 44 reviews2021
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rule over a secret society of vampires in a game full of political intrigue, occult powers, and conflicting loyalties. Will you play or be played?
Why similar: Text-Based 35.5%, Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Casual 7.2%
- #40 All (Too) Good Things
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: YOWPY games
Windows
Your job is to make humanity happy. Observe the people living in your assigned district and make the best choices to ensure everyone's happiness.
Why similar: Text-Based 34.1%, Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Casual 8.5%
- #41 Community College Hero: All Things End
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
The thrilling conclusion to your heroic journey! The Manipulator has destroyed the Speck campus, forcing you and your friends to flee the only home you’ve known. Can you survive the challenges of a new school while preparing for the ultimate showdown against the world’s most powerful villains?
Why similar: Text-Based 33.2%, Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Casual 15.2%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
- #42 Vespa's Test
71% matchVery Positive94% of 51 reviews2022
Dev: Lepisoft
Windows
Vespa's Test is a short, relaxing personality test based on real psychological research. Answer a multitude of thought-provoking questions, and receive a vision tailored to your answers; what, in life, is holding you back?
Why similar: Choices Matter 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Simulation 14.8%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Casual 12.8%
- #43 江湖宝鉴
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 21 reviews2024
Dev: 电子奇谭
Windows
《江湖宝鉴》是一款武侠题材,带有轻度肉鸽元素的文字冒险游戏。你将扮演一位初出茅庐的少年,踏上游历江湖的艰险旅程。是一心向善,带领村民抵抗山贼侵扰,成为一代大侠;还是落草为寇,卷入山贼寨子中的阴谋诡计,杀出一片天地;抑或是访仙问道,遁入山林逍遥自在,都在你的一念之中。
Why similar: Text-Based 36.5%, Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Casual 9.7%
- #44 Jolly Good: Tea and Scones
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Extract yourself from another fine mess–this time, with your family watching! Mischief, mix-ups, and bewilderingly urgent capers at your ancestral estate.
Why similar: Text-Based 39%, Interactive Fiction 29.1%, Choices Matter 19.4%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Indie 1.1%
- #45 We should talk.
72% matchMixed57% of 163 reviews2020
Dev: Insatiable CyclePub: Whitethorn Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 46%
It's not what you say, it's how you say it. We should talk is a short-form narrative game that will make you think carefully about the words you choose. Can your relationship survive the night?
Why similar: Text-Based 30.5%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Multiple Endings 11%, Simulation 7.4%
- #46 Scarlet Sails
70% 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: Text-Based 41%, Interactive Fiction 28.2%, Choices Matter 17.5%, Multiple Endings 8.6%, Adventure 2.1%
- #47 Newbie Hacker
70% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: WateryMu
Windows
Live as a rookie hacker. Monitor digital lives, uncover secrets, and shape your story.
Why similar: Text-Based 29%, Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Dystopian 20.4%, Simulation 15.1%, Casual 9%
- #48 The Nascent Necromancer
70% matchMixed57% of 14 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 39.8%, Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Choices Matter 18.4%, Multiple Endings 12%, Adventure 1.6%
- #49 Dear Edmund
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mind The Grease
Windows
As the new Street Overseer, every decision you make in this dystopian choice game carries weight. Enforce the rules, help the desperate, or exploit the people’s suffering for personal gain. Choose wisely.
Why similar: Dystopian 21.1%, Choices Matter 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Multiple Endings 14.4%, Simulation 10.6%
- #50 Your Story: Games with Death
69% 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: Text-Based 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Choices Matter 16.3%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Simulation 9.1%
- #51 Kafka at the Station
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Neji. Games
Windows · Mac
I found myself at the station. The story unfolds as you type commands on your keyboard. As the days repeat, I keep wondering what I can do for her. A command-driven adventure steeped in nostalgic pixel art and sound.
Why similar: Text-Based 51.5%, Interactive Fiction 36.2%, Atmospheric 8.5%, Adventure 3.8%
- #52 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
68% 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: Text-Based 34.1%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Casual 6.9%
- #53 7 Days in Dystopia
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YapabilityPub: Yapability Products
Windows
7 Days in Dystopia is a psychological dystopian game where you experience seven days by playing a series of games, making choices, and facing the consequences of winning and losing in a city where people hide behind masks.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Text-Based 17.4%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Dystopian 15.9%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
- #54 Lies Under Ice
68% matchMixed63% of 19 reviews2023
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lead the first settlement on Jupiter's frozen moon, Europa! What alien life lurks beneath the ice? Who is sabotaging your mission? Who can you trust?
Why similar: Text-Based 34.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Choices Matter 15%, Multiple Endings 12.2%, Casual 6.6%
- #55 Roadwarden
66% matchVery Positive94% of 4,905 reviews2022
Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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 52%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Multiple Endings 7.3%, Story Rich 3.7%
- #56 SKY HARVEST
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nadir Kaan Sezi
Windows
The Earth is dead. Take control of the ARC-7 terminal and manage the fate of 5,000 souls. Balance energy and credits, make moral choices, gamble, and survive the Loan Shark. Every keystroke has a price in this 100-day dystopian text-based simulation. Your shift begins now, Operator.
Why similar: Text-Based 30.5%, Dystopian 20.8%, Simulation 16.4%, Choices Matter 15%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
- #57 Trees and Jellyfish
67% match6 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: TrefleV
Windows · Mac · Linux
After a questionable decision, Coral gains the ability to talk to jellyfish. Isn't it just so convenient that there's seven of them in her class?
Why similar: Text-Based 49.8%, Simulation 18%, Multiple Endings 17.1%, Casual 13.4%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #58 Exercise your Demons
66% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: BoopDood
Windows
Step into the world of Exercise your Demons, a 2d narrative adventure inspired by Irish fairies and folklore. Meet and befriend 5 locals while you work towards settling into the small fictional town called Inishsióg in County Galway, Ireland.
Why similar: Text-Based 35.6%, Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Multiple Endings 12%, Exploration 3.2%
- #59 Interdimensional Gas Station
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hadi ChaabanPub: Twin Dragon Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Experience a sci-fi narrative where you run a gas station on a drifting asteroid in the infinite void. Service increasingly complex alien ships, upgrade and expand your gas station's operations, and shape the fate of the galactic stage through your choices!
Why similar: Simulation 16%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Choices Matter 13%, Retro 8.5%