- #1 The Weeping Swan: Ten Days of the City's Fall
97% matchMixed59% of 8,400 reviews2026
Dev: 零创游戏(ZerocreationGame)
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 17.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A visual novel of brutal beauty and tragic love. You wake up trapped inside your own dark fantasy, Lion Camel Kingdom. To escape a ten-day demon massacre, you must survive and recover your memories to solve the mystery of a drowned Yangzhou courtesan.
Why similar: Historical 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Anime 11.4%, Strategy 7.7%
- #2 Roots Devour
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 544 reviews2026
Dev: Rewinding GamesPub: GCORES PUBLISHING
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Extend your roots, imbibe fresh blood, and expand without end. Roots Devour is a strategic exploration game centered around a card-connecting mechanism. Drive your frenzied roots through swamps and over frozen mountains, invading human cities until the darkness... descends.
Why similar: Strategy 24%, Roguelite 15.3%, Exploration 15.1%, Atmospheric 14.1%, Story Rich 12.2%
- #3 The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty
95% matchVery Positive95% of 59,133 reviews2024
Dev: 零创游戏(ZerocreationGame)
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 24.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
He is a bandit who sells lives. She is a mute girl seeking revenge. In a famine-ravaged ancient China, a ruthless trafficker escorts four girls to a demon's feast. But when a deadly secret is revealed, a cold transaction turns into a journey of redemption. A dark visual novel about an unlikely bond.
Why similar: Historical 23.5%, Visual Novel 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Anime 9.6%, Medieval 9%
- #4 Knell of St. Godhrkar
96% matchVery Positive94% of 1,545 reviews2021
Dev: -二律背反-
Windows · Mac
In this game, you can watch as 7 protagonists come to a crossroad, facing their own destiny. You will witness their own choices and the blood-splattering consequence they have on one another. There is no way out except to plunge them into the abyss...
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Strategy 13.2%, Story Rich 11.2%, RPG 8.9%
- #5 GOD FORSAKEN
94% matchMixed69% of 1,770 reviews2026
Dev: insight studio
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The God - Forsaken Land is a roguelike survival adventure game that combines the features of Diablo. In this abandoned land of despair, you fend off endless monsters, light a fire in the darkness, and search for that faint glimmer of hope.
Why similar: Strategy 73.5%, Adventure 21.6%, Singleplayer 4.9%
- #6 Fateweaver: The Alchemist's Quandary
94% matchVery Positive98% of 99 reviews2023
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
You are The Fateweaver; an ancient beast of legendary status. It is your job to determine which way Fate will unravel as you dig deep into the psyche of those who beckon. Decide whether to help those who beg for your mercy, or invoke the wrath of the Gods upon those you deem unworthy of existence...
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, JRPG 16.5%, Anime 14.1%, Story Rich 10.7%
- #7 Shambles: Sons of Apocalypse
93% matchVery Positive80% of 348 reviews2025
Dev: EXLIXPub: GRAVITY
Windows
“The world you knew is already collapsed.”As an explorer in a bunker, explore a new world 500 years in the future and decide its fate. You can lead the world back to doom or bring it to peace. It all depends on your choices.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.2%, Roguelite 17.3%, Strategy 14%, RPG 11.5%, Story Rich 10.9%
- #8 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
92% matchVery Positive90% of 9,604 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 26.8%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Medieval 16.1%, Story Rich 13.3%, RPG 9.8%
- #9 The Nameless: Slay Dragon
91% matchVery Positive92% of 1,994 reviews2024
Dev: The Nameless EpicPub: WhisperGames
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
The Nameless: Slay Dragon is like a mix of CRPG and JRPG. In short - how to slay the immensely powerful and cunning evil dragon? You will play as a young man having a bloody feud with a dragon, and face powerful, sinister and tricky enemies with friends....
Why similar: JRPG 24.1%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Story Rich 11.7%, Strategy 11.7%, Anime 11.2%
- #10 Path of the Midnight Sun
91% matchVery Positive85% of 249 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Daimon
Windows
Protect a noblewoman reckoning with unholy powers as she wards off the soul of the Demon King sealed inside her. Doubt your own companions, survive against unforgiving hordes of monsters. But beware; every choice has consequences in this epic JRPG adventure of betrayal, romance & self-acceptance.
Why similar: JRPG 29.6%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Anime 13.7%, Story Rich 10.1%, Atmospheric 7.1%
- #11 RGB GlitchGazer
89% matchVery Positive98% of 94 reviews2026
Dev: 群星闪耀时Pub: 群星闪耀时
Windows
A mad and romantic ADV. Unravel a strange world of science and philosophy with a mecha girl, zombie girl, or beastfolk. Some paths may disturb you... or thrill you.
Why similar: Visual Novel 27.3%, Anime 21.4%, Lore-Rich 20.2%, Mystery 11%, 2D 8%
- #12 Fateweaver: Smash or Pass
90% matchVery Positive94% of 80 reviews2023
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
You are The Fateweaver; an ancient beast of legendary status. It is your job to determine which way Fate will unravel as you dig deep into the psyche of those who beckon. Decide whether to help those who beg for your mercy, or invoke the wrath of the Gods upon those you deem unworthy of existence...
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.8%, Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Anime 18.4%, Roguelite 17.9%, RPG 11.4%
- #13 Break Wolf
88% matchVery Positive99% of 161 reviews2025
Dev: RE Atelier
Windows
"Have we all been acting waywardly?" An Adventure RPG that deals with the life and death of wayward humans, striving to escape a syndicate that creates monsters.
Why similar: JRPG 22%, Lore-Rich 20%, Anime 16.2%, Story Rich 13.6%, Atmospheric 9.6%
- #14 Suhoshin
87% matchVery Positive91% of 170 reviews2022
Dev: No More 500
Windows
Suhoshin is a 2D Visual Novel set in the medieval Joseon period of Korea. While investigating a series of mysterious murders, you will have to make choices that will lead you down different paths toward different endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.6%, Medieval 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Anime 16.2%, Story Rich 10.3%
- #15 Flashback
86% matchVery Positive86% of 454 reviews2023
Dev: Renka
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Flashback is a strategy game oriented to your choices. You will play the role of a deliveryman and live in a turbulent city for a month. You will meet various characters and experience events, and those characters' fates will cross and they will usher in their own futures based on your choices.
Why similar: Anime 24.4%, Medieval 20.9%, Roguelite 17.6%, Cartoon 8.6%, Mystery 7.2%
- #16 Tarnished Blood 🩸 [Tactic RPG]
84% matchVery Positive90% of 99 reviews2024
Dev: Juggler GamesPub: Galaktus
Windows
Tarnished Blood is a turn-based roguelite RPG with a unique time-bending battle mechanic. Hunt massive beasts, harvest their essence, and help a group of hunters survive in the brutal world beneath the Dome!
Why similar: RPG 33.5%, Adventure 21.8%, 2D 19.7%, Story Rich 16.1%, Strategy 7.7%
- #17 The Disguiser Of Fate
86% matchVery Positive91% of 67 reviews2019
Dev: Windward_BirdsPub: XNZONE
Windows
This is a world at the brink of destruction, but he comes from a destroyed world. Bearing the burden of changing the fate of this world and facing everything before him, especially the eminent destruction, what can he do, and what price will he pay?
Why similar: JRPG 25.7%, Anime 15.9%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Strategy 10.1%, Story Rich 8.9%
- #18 Heads Will Roll: Downfall
85% matchMixed68% of 417 reviews2022
Dev: 1917 StudiosPub: Valkyrie Initiative
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 34%
Heads Will Roll: Downfall is a combination of a tactical role-playing game and visual novel, in which you will assume the role of a medieval soldier.
Why similar: Historical 38.4%, Medieval 29.7%, Story Rich 12.6%, RPG 11%, 2D 6.7%
- #19 Stray Path
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,025 reviews2025
Dev: zidong gamesPub: Yogscast Games
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Stray Path is an innovative adventure and strategy game that blends FreeCell mechanics with roguelike gameplay. Choose from colourful characters and explore a randomly generated world. Drag cards, optimize your choices, select equipment, and uncover the mysteries of this mysterious stray world!
Why similar: Roguelite 30.2%, Strategy 28%, Exploration 13.8%, Adventure 9.9%, 2D 6.7%
- #20 Crown Gambit
81% matchVery Positive97% of 386 reviews2025
Dev: WILD WITSPub: Playdigious Originals
Windows · Mac
Play as three intrepid paladins through a terrible war of succession to save a sinister medieval kingdom from political turmoil. Pick a side amongst noble families to choose the future monarch and crush those who stand in your way through board-shattering tactical card combat!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Medieval 17.5%, Lore-Rich 17%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Strategy 9.1%
- #21 Age of Reforging: The Freelands
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,276 reviews2025
Dev: PersonaeGame StudioPub: Kunpan Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Age of Reforging: The Freelands is a medieval high-freedom sandbox adventure CRPG. You'll be a reforger in the freelands chosen by the Goddess to embark on a medieval adventure tour at your own pace, gathering teammates, fighting for survival, and craft your unique legend!
Why similar: Medieval 38.7%, Strategy 21.6%, Exploration 14.9%, RPG 13.9%, Adventure 10.9%
- #22 Trillion: God of Destruction
84% matchMixed67% of 483 reviews2016
Dev: IDEA FACTORYPub: Idea Factory International
Windows
Median: 8.4 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
An ancient god consumes your world. Now you must train and build relationships with each of your Overlords in this challenging raising sim/roguelike/SRPG hybrid. How many Overlords will you sacrifice to defeat an enemy with a trillion hit points?
Why similar: JRPG 29.8%, Anime 20.1%, Strategy 19.5%, Visual Novel 16.8%, RPG 13.1%
- #23 Alder's Blood: Definitive Edition
83% matchMixed62% of 258 reviews2020
Dev: Shockwork GamesPub: No Gravity Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Alder's Blood is a tactical strategy game with stealth-based combat, RPG elements, crafting, resources gathering, and management, exploration, and a rich storyline. Set in a grim world, where mankind killed their God and is facing extinction.
Why similar: Gothic 52.5% ★, Strategy 13.2%, Story Rich 11.4%, RPG 9.2%, Atmospheric 7%
- #24 I, the Forgotten One
80% matchVery Positive91% of 193 reviews2023
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
To defeat the rebel knights and stabilize the crown, you must journey through the most dangerous realm in the kingdom--your own wretched past.
Why similar: Medieval 35%, Interactive Fiction 29.3%, RPG 11%, Adventure 9.4%, Story Rich 8.3%
- #25 Encounter: The Lost Cards
78% matchVery Positive84% of 68 reviews2026
Dev: Salvatore GrossoPub: Encounter GG
Windows · Linux
The unhinged roguelike for the tactically obsessed. Forget maps—your journey is a deck of Tarot cards you build on the fly. Manage a tight inventory, chain questionable combos, and watch your gear shatter. Got unlucky? The virtuous can resurrect; the sinful, however...
Why similar: Medieval 27.9%, Roguelite 23%, Strategy 20.2%, Anime 19.8%, Mystery 9%
- #26 Deadly Dice: Menherarium
76% matchVery Positive93% of 588 reviews2026
Dev: テスカトリポカPub: Phoenixx Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%
"Let's play together… forever, okay?" Menherarium is a deck-building roguelite where you survive 7 days of blood-staked Chinchiro against a clingy menhera girl. Trapped and forced to gamble your blood daily in twisted dice games, use cheat items and overcome her changing rules to survive.
Why similar: Anime 32.2%, Roguelite 25.1%, Visual Novel 23%, 2D 9.4%, Casual 6.9%
- #27 The wild darkness
77% matchVery Positive80% of 105 reviews2025
Dev: popeyed inc
Windows
Explore a survival-roguelike RPG set in an unknown and bizarre world. To withstand its many dangers, you'll need to gain new knowledge, scavenge for food, and acquire useful items. Craft, build, and learn your way through a crucial adventure to uncover the world's secrets.
Why similar: Medieval 23.4%, Roguelite 21.1%, RPG 14.5%, Adventure 13.4%, Exploration 9.9%
- #28 Overfall
82% matchMixed47% of 879 reviews2016
Dev: Pera Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Set sail in Overfall, a whimsical roguelike turn-based RPG of diplomacy and danger. Recruit unlikely heroes, forge alliances or crush your foes across ever-shifting seas to find a lost king. Every run is fresh with procedural worlds, permanent death, branching story encounters, and hand-drawn art.
Why similar: Roguelite 24.5%, Strategy 16.2%, Story Rich 15.9%, Exploration 14.3%, RPG 10.7%
- #29 Heads Will Roll
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 183 reviews2021
Dev: 1917 Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Hardcore survival RPG with non-linear story that lets you taste the life of a medieval soldier.
Why similar: Medieval 43.2%, Story Rich 17.7%, RPG 16.9%, Adventure 11.1%, 2D 9.5%
- #30 KAKUSANKIBOU / 扩散希望
79% matchVery Positive83% of 160 reviews2018
Dev: あみそ組Pub: Pujia8 Studio
Windows
Basically the story goes as visual novel form. Sometimes, the system switches into dot part, and you can control the character to continue the story.
Why similar: Anime 30%, Visual Novel 25.1%, RPG 15.5%, Adventure 11.4%, Mystery 9.9%
- #31 Salthe
78% matchVery Positive85% of 215 reviews2020
Dev: SoireePub: Shiravune
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A dark, dramatic medieval visual novel. On a stage at the boundary between life and death, an actress struggles through her hardest performance—directed by a jester, she relives her past for the the prize of resurrection...
Why similar: Gothic 34.1% ★, Medieval 17.8%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Anime 12.9%, Mystery 6.5%
- #32 The Necromancer's Tale
74% matchVery Positive92% of 818 reviews2025
Dev: Psychic Software
Windows · Mac
A story-rich gothic RPG. Master the rituals of an ancient spellbook. Raise an undead army to march against your enemies. Commune with the realm of the dead & struggle with your descent into madness. Progress through secrecy, diplomacy, blackmail, coercion & seduction until ready to reveal yourself.
Why similar: Gothic 35.7% ★, Lore-Rich 16.7%, Historical 14.4%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Story Rich 7.6%
- #33 Sanator: Scarlet Scarf
77% matchVery Positive89% of 526 reviews2019
Dev: Ignis SanatPub: Ignis Sanat 🔥
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 117.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Scarlet Scarf is a visual novel inspired by the legend of Plague Maiden. Dive into the dark mysteries of a dying city with the fate of Sanator Richard Murdock in your hands. Perhaps it's not too late to stop the on-going calamity...
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.6%, Lore-Rich 20.1%, Anime 15.9%, Story Rich 11.3%, Atmospheric 7.9%
- #34 Journey to the Void
73% matchVery Positive93% of 57 reviews2026
Dev: RuneHeads
Windows · Mac
Prepare to fend off attacks from all directions in this hybrid strategy roguelite deck builder. On your journey through varied grid-based biomes, battle unique foes and make tough moral choices to restore a corrupted land and decide the fate of your world.
Why similar: Strategy 27%, Roguelite 26.2%, RPG 16.8%, Story Rich 16.3%, Adventure 8.5%
- #35 Raisond'etre
76% matchVery Positive94% of 78 reviews2022
Dev: C3 Games
Windows
Will you be able to uncover your raison d'être and solve the mysteries that await in this suspenseful thriller?
Why similar: Gothic 46.1% ★, Visual Novel 23%, Adventure 11.2%, Exploration 9%, Story Rich 7.9%
- #36 Trick and Treat - Visual Novel
75% matchVery Positive90% of 3,616 reviews2016
Dev: Eternal Night StudiosPub: Alberto Herrera
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Trick & Treat is a Visual Novel that test your instincts by making choices that can get you out from the cursed forest or drive you to death… or maybe just maybe your choices can guide you to something more?
Why similar: Visual Novel 46.5%, Anime 38.8%, Story Rich 5.3%, Casual 4.1%, Mystery 2.4%
- #37 BlightFog
73% matchVery Positive87% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: Zakroutil
Windows
Journey across a dying world. Manage your resources. Build relationships with anthropomorphic characters. Find a new home or become a fuel drinking madman.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 28.4%, Visual Novel 24.8%, Story Rich 15.1%, RPG 12.3%, Exploration 11.4%
- #38 Digimon Survive
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 3,644 reviews2022
Dev: HYDE, Inc.Pub: Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 17.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Digimon Survive presents a hybrid visual novel and tactical RPG set in a mysterious world filled with dangerous monsters and deadly battles that will test your ability to survive.
Why similar: JRPG 30.4%, Visual Novel 22.4%, Anime 18.2%, Story Rich 10.9%, Mystery 9.3%
- #39 Fallstreak: Requiem for my Homeland
74% matchVery Positive98% of 50 reviews2020
Dev: Centicerise Productions
Windows · Mac · Linux
A death march to the end of the world. Can humanity's lost future be reclaimed?
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.8%, Anime 25.6%, Story Rich 16.6%, Atmospheric 9.4%, Adventure 8.8%
- #40 Swordbreaker The Game
75% matchVery Positive83% of 408 reviews2015
Dev: DuCats Games Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
The Swordbreaker game is interactive fiction with lots of illustrations where you and you alone get to choose the storyline and the ending!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.3%, Visual Novel 24.6%, Medieval 22.1%, Adventure 9.7%, Exploration 7.3%
- #41 Sin Slayers: Reign of The 8th
72% matchMostly Positive70% of 84 reviews2024
Dev: Goonswarm Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Seven Deadly Sins. Have you heard about the 8th? Delve into madness in Sin Slayers, a challenging RPG Roguelite where you decide how much sin to bear as you transform the world. Assemble a party of wicked adventurers, kill, and pillage to drive off a gluttonous nightmare in turn-based battles
Why similar: JRPG 31.9%, Strategy 23.4%, Roguelite 18.7%, RPG 10.4%, Exploration 9.4%
- #42 Under the River
69% matchVery Positive96% of 384 reviews2026
Dev: 夜火游戏(Night Fire Game)
Windows
Under the River: The Borrowed Skin-She saved you—but turned you into a monster. You live on, wearing her skin as your body rots. To survive, you must devour her. One begs you to eat her. One begs you to stay human. What will you choose?
Why similar: JRPG 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Cartoon 11.5%, RPG 8.9%
- #43 Knock on the Coffin Lid
70% matchVery Positive84% of 2,871 reviews2024
Dev: RedBoon
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 23.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Investigate your own death, find ways to break free from a time loop, choose a hero who will ascend to the throne and rule the Northern gate! The fates of whole nations of the land of Midian depend on your choices.
Why similar: Roguelite 26%, Strategy 23.1%, Story Rich 17.4%, RPG 13.6%, 2D 10%
- #44 The Fortress
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 147 reviews2026
Dev: Baryonyx Games
Windows · Mac
The Fortress is a dark fantasy dungeon crawler with turn-based combat, mixing strategy and risk. Choose a class, delve into cursed chambers, roll dice to fight brutal enemies, and grab loot. Face tough choices, survive epic bosses, and fight to escape... or fall to the shadows
Why similar: Gothic 55.4% ★, Medieval 20.6%, Adventure 8.9%, RPG 7%, 2D 5.5%
- #45 Dark Deity
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,017 reviews2021
Dev: Sword & Axe LLCPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Step into the world of Terrazael and lead soon-to-be legendary heroes in a quest to restore a land fractured by broken oaths, reckless wars, and untamed magic. Fight back in turn-based battles, manage character relationships, collect dangerous artifacts, and hopefully restore the world...
Why similar: JRPG 26.5%, Lore-Rich 26.2%, Anime 16.6%, Strategy 12.1%, RPG 7.8%
- #46 The Wind and Wilting Blossom
71% matchVery Positive95% of 188 reviews2020
Dev: Picklefeet Games
Windows · Mac
Navigate the war-torn lands of an alternate history Heian Japan battling yokai hordes in challenging turn-based combat. Encounter hundreds of story events, level-up your party, and unlock new allies and weapons. Die, learn from your mistakes, and try again.
Why similar: Strategy 54.5%, RPG 35%, Roguelite 9.2%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #47 VED
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 76 reviews2024
Dev: KaraclanPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
VED is a story-driven, hand-drawn RPG with a unique turn-based combat system and roguelite elements. Set in two different worlds, VED tells the story of Cyrus, a young hero who sets out on a quest to become a master of sword and magic, and save everything he knows from destruction.
Why similar: Visual Novel 31.8%, Story Rich 18.6%, Roguelite 16.7%, RPG 14.5%, 2D 9%
- #48 Medieval Fantasy Survival Simulator 2: Gladiator Edition
70% matchVery Positive95% of 74 reviews2022
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
You're gonna get yourself killed in there... There's beasts, warriors, and much, much worse in the coliseum... Do you really think you've got what it takes to survive? Or do you think you're cut out for much more than that... There's only one way to find out, and time is of the essence!
Why similar: JRPG 23.3%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Medieval 17.7%, Anime 12%, Historical 11.5%
- #49 Labyrinth of Zangetsu
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 76 reviews2023
Dev: ACQUIRE Corp.Pub: PQube
Windows
Fight Japanese-folklore-inspired Yokai in a ink-brush illustrated Dungeon Crawler! Set in the moonlit city of Ido, the world has blackened under the 'Ink of Ruin' disaster. Conscript & customise your team of warriors as you venture deep into labyrinths and ink your destiny in a winding narrative...
Why similar: Lore-Rich 30.9%, Historical 30.6%, Strategy 13.2%, Anime 11.2%, RPG 9.4%
- #50 Diablo The Abyss
69% matchVery Positive84% of 216 reviews2023
Dev: Friday Night
Windows
Diablo The Abyss is a strategic RPG full of random and roguelike elements. Within this randomized world, you can freely make strageties at your own pace and conquer formidable challenges, while shaping your unique adventure journey.
Why similar: Strategy 24.3%, Roguelite 24%, Exploration 14.2%, RPG 12.6%, Adventure 11.2%
- #51 Heads Will Roll: Reforged
67% matchVery Positive84% of 1,651 reviews2023
Dev: 1917 StudiosPub: Valkyrie Initiative
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Hardcore survival RPG with non-linear story that lets you play as a young medieval soldier who over the course of battles and adventures becomes the most formidable and respected knight of his era. Or, if he’s not lucky enough, perishes in the chaos of the Hundred Years' War.
Why similar: Historical 23.3%, Medieval 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Roguelite 10.7%, Story Rich 8.6%
- #52 Mandate Of Heaven
63% matchVery Positive92% of 5,892 reviews2025
Dev: 木焱工作室
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
You will take on the role of the Second Prince of Xuan, heir of the Southern Regime. With foreign invaders entrenched in the north and a complacent court content to linger in the south, you face a defining choice:The choice… is yours!
Why similar: Visual Novel 29.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Strategy 19.5%, RPG 14.1%, Exploration 7%
- #53 The Succession of Changing Kings
65% matchVery Positive88% of 509 reviews2026
Dev: KwaKwaGames
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Turn-based kingdom management simulator focused on decision-making. Will you survive and lead the kingdom to prosperity, or die in agony? The throne awaits.
Why similar: Medieval 32.4%, Historical 26.1%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Story Rich 7.7%, 2D 7.1%
- #54 The Specter's Desire
67% matchVery Positive98% of 53 reviews2024
Dev: Themisian
Windows · Mac
This year's Desire Hierarchy has begun. The stakes are now deadly. Hop into The Specter's Desire, a Visual Novel in which you play against the city's top talents to save your parents. Includes puzzling gameplay that has you tearing down arguments, hatching schemes, and revealing the truth!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.2%, Visual Novel 24.8%, Strategy 15%, Anime 11%, Story Rich 8.6%
- #55 桃色武林
66% matchMostly Positive80% of 507 reviews2024
Dev: 人型ですカオス
Windows
玩家将扮演一个初出茅庐的江湖小生,在战斗和历练中结识红颜知己,并与她们共同闯荡这个充满危机与机遇的江湖世界。
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.9%, Anime 22.9%, Roguelite 13%, Story Rich 12.2%, RPG 11%
- #56 The Shimmering Horizon and Cursed Blacksmith
67% matchMixed58% of 1,019 reviews2025
Dev: Ason
Windows
"Try all you can, through hell and fire's end..."Forge yourself the best weapon you can, and jump into the ever-changing dungeon searching for your memory and the truth of this world!Roguelike X Smithing X Souls-like. Turn-Based Strategic Dungeon Crawling RPG
Why similar: JRPG 35.8%, Anime 17.3%, Strategy 9.9%, Story Rich 9.8%, Roguelite 9.5%
- #57 Frail Hearts: Versicorae Domlion
68% matchVery Positive84% of 79 reviews2022
Dev: SezhesPub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Frail Hearts: Versicorae Domlion is an old-school JRPG with a deep and mysterious storyline placed in a fictional dark city of Gris. Explore the story of four troubled souls and kill the abominations that threaten the existence of reality itself.
Why similar: JRPG 36.2%, Visual Novel 24.8%, Story Rich 12.8%, Mystery 9.8%, RPG 7.9%
- #58 Life Eater
66% matchVery Positive83% of 357 reviews2024
Dev: Strange Scaffold
Windows
If you don't sacrifice your neighbors, the world ends. Life Eater is a horror fantasy kidnapping simulator where you must become intimately familiar with your targets' lives one intrusive action at a time... and hope that the dark god you serve is even real.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 42.2%, Lore-Rich 35.4%, Atmospheric 12.1%, Mystery 10.3%
- #59 Hira Hira Hihiru
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 902 reviews2023
Dev: BA-KUPub: ANIPLEX.EXE
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 69%
"Hira Hira Hihiru" is a visual novel set in a fictional Taishō Era. It tells the story of its two protagonists' struggle against Aerodema, a terrifying disease which brings the dead back to life.
Why similar: Visual Novel 42.5%, Adventure 14.6%, Anime 11.6%, Casual 11%, Atmospheric 7.4%