60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Text-Based, Indie, Interactive Fiction.
You are hurtling through space aboard an industrial freighter. The crew already had their hands full with failing systems. But now there is a new threat on board. Something is hunting you. TERMINAL PANIC is a survival-horror "interactive fiction" text adventure RPG with '80s terminal aesthetics.
Tachyon Dreams Anthology
Time itself is breaking up, and Dodger, the dishwashing dude onboard Penrose Space Station, is the unlikely fixer. Join the chaos in this 80s-style comedy, sci-fi text-parser adventure as Dodger tackles a cosmic crisis like no other! This version includes all three episodes + new extra content!
Hyrax In The Rocks
LOOK, USE, TALK, and TAKE your way through this old-school text-based mystery of a broken kingdom. Only you can pry at the castle cracks and discover what lies at the core of a heart-breaking disappearance.
Time itself is breaking up, and Dodger, the dishwashing dude onboard Penrose Space Station, is the unlikely fixer. Join the chaos in this 80s-style comedy, sci-fi text-parser adventure as Dodger tackles a cosmic crisis like no other! This version includes all three episodes + new extra content!
Why similar: Typing 25.8% ★, Text-Based 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, 1980s 12.7%, Retro 11.4%
LOOK, USE, TALK, and TAKE your way through this old-school text-based mystery of a broken kingdom. Only you can pry at the castle cracks and discover what lies at the core of a heart-breaking disappearance.
Why similar: Text-Based 27.2%, RPG 20.9%, 1980s 15.2%, Retro 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%
Embark on a deadly journey for survival. Your ordinary school life quickly turns around when an unknown outbreak turns humanity into flesh eating monsters.
Why similar: Survival Horror 28.3%, Text-Based 22.5%, RPG 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Adventure 8.6%
A science-fantasy retro-flavoured textual adventure running in your terminal
Why similar: Text-Based 24.4%, Typing 19.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 14%, 1980s 13.4%, Sci-fi 11.5%
A retro early 1980s text adventure experience involving a murder mystery that is generated differently each time the game is played.
Why similar: Text-Based 31.7%, Typing 25.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, 1980s 11.2%, Adventure 8.2%
Thanks to next generation AI technology, BUDDY SIMULATOR 1984 simulates the experience of hanging out with a best buddy! Your buddy learns from you, constantly adapting to your interests and personality. But most importantly, your buddy can play games with you!
Why similar: Text-Based 21%, 1980s 16.7%, Typing 15% ★, Retro 14.1%, RPG 10.5%
Following a not highly unexpected crash landing (which seems to happen to you a lot), you find yourself stranded on a hostile alien world full of humour, mystery and quite a bit of walking - Your task is clear, find a way off of this planet and get home. - Should be simple!
Why similar: Typing 29.5% ★, Text-Based 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, 1980s 11%, Adventure 9.9%
A short space-horror game where you desperately try to keep the crew members of a defective spaceship alive, as you are all the last hope for humanity's survival.
Why similar: Survival Horror 19.5%, Text-Based 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.2%, 1980s 10.5%, Retro 10%
Live a full life in the future as a human, an alien, or even a robot as you rise through the ranks to become captain of your very own starship.
Why similar: Text-Based 34.9%, RPG 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Sci-fi 14.6%, Adventure 7.3%
In the text-adventure “Head in the Cloud,” you play as a Marine hacker on a mission to sabotage a crime syndicate’s supercomputer. When things don’t go to plan, you must use your head to survive, or risk losing it!
Why similar: Text-Based 28%, Typing 20% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Retro 13.8%, Sci-fi 6.2%
Become the vagabond you always knew you were. Rely on your blade and wits, for little else will save you amidst the cold and unforgiving North! Retrace the steps of your past and rekindle a love once lost. Or try your best to snuff it out—either way, it’s going to burn.
Why similar: Text-Based 54.6%, RPG 28.4%, Adventure 13.5%, Indie 3.6%
BEL/S is an Elemental Firewall: a fire elemental bound with C++ code to protect a network of people and places. She can learn things, develop relationships, and even gain sapience. Or she can burn everything with fire. It's up to you.
Why similar: Text-Based 40.2%, RPG 27.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Adventure 11.7%, Indie 4%
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 33.9%, Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Sci-fi 18.6%, RPG 17.7%, Adventure 4.2%
Romance is as easy as one, two...three lovers! Find love and ascend to new heights in your new home of Boulder, Colorado.
Why similar: Text-Based 46.8%, RPG 33.9%, Adventure 15.4%, Indie 3.9%
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 37.3%, RPG 27%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Adventure 13.6%, Story Rich 1.6%
A retro text-based RPG. The town of Silverbrook is in trouble. Goblins to the east. Undead to the north. A necromancer doing something unspeakable in the old dungeon. And somewhere beyond the mountain pass, something ancient is waking up — something that was sealed away for a reason.
Why similar: Typing 24.4% ★, RPG 23.6%, Text-Based 18.8%, Adventure 11.2%, 1980s 10.2%
Welcome to Midnight Special, a point-and-click survival horror game drenched in 16-bit pixel art and 1980s retro dread. On a thunderous night in 1987 in Maine, you awaken in a labyrinthine manor. You must click, explore, and solve puzzles to escape. Will you go gentle into that good night?
Why similar: Survival Horror 23.5%, Text-Based 21.2%, 1980s 13.8%, Retro 11.3%, RPG 9.3%
You play all four heroines in this big multi-chapter sci-fi text adventure. Negotiate underwater mechs, AIs, abandoned cities, crime, friendship, suspense, horror, humour, an art exhibition, virtual realities and a tank. Experience each PC via first-person prose as you puzzle, converse and explore.
Why similar: Typing 33.8% ★, Text-Based 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Sci-fi 13.8%, Adventure 4.8%
Defend Napoleon's heir in this steampunk alternate history game of political maneuvering, airship adventure, and romantic intrigue! Will you bring liberty to France, or plunge Europe into bloody war?
Why similar: Text-Based 43.4%, RPG 35.2%, Adventure 16.9%, Indie 4.5%
Outfly, outshoot, and outwit your enemies as an outlaw cyborg on the run! You're a cyborg copy of Ypsilanti Rowe, the interstellar outlaw, whose enemies (and exes) are gunning for you. Can you upgrade your brain and pull one last heist?
Why similar: Text-Based 42.5%, RPG 36.3%, Adventure 16.6%, Indie 4.6%
Become a road warrior in the arid plains! Take the role of a Highway Marshall, in a bid to enforce the rule of civilization on a post-apocalyptic world. Will you prevent the sacking of the last remaining cities, rule over them as a Warlord, or attempt to seek a better future for humanity?
Why similar: Text-Based 40.4%, RPG 38%, Adventure 17.3%, Indie 4.3%
Embark on a magical adventure through a spiritual world.
Why similar: Text-Based 33.9%, RPG 27.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Sci-fi 8.8%, Adventure 6.9%
Only a perfect servant can solve a perfect mess! Being the perfect gentleman's gentleman or lady's lady doesn't make you an angel. Can you untangle your employer's knottiest problems with elegance and unruffled grace?
Why similar: Text-Based 43.2%, RPG 35.1%, Adventure 16.8%, Indie 4.9%
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 43.8%, RPG 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Adventure 13.4%, Indie 3.2%
The Yeti, Loch Ness Monster, Chupacabra, and Mothman are aliens, sentenced to prison on Earth by the Pan-Galactic Prisons Bureau. As the Yeti's parole officer, you must defend the galaxy from these convicts, unravel their criminal conspiracy, and bring them to justice!
Why similar: Text-Based 39.5%, RPG 39%, Adventure 17%, Indie 4.5%
Become the greatest hero or villain that the world has ever seen! Balance the challenges of a normal life, while fighting evil... or wreak havoc yourself.
Why similar: Text-Based 39.5%, RPG 39%, Adventure 17%, Indie 4.5%
Saddle up and defend the town of Willow Creek from nefarious outlaws and city slickers! It all starts when a rancher's daughter goes missing, and it ends at the showdown at Willow Creek, where greed, lust, science and Mother Nature will face off at high noon.
Why similar: Text-Based 39.5%, RPG 39%, Adventure 17%, Indie 4.5%
Soulfused is a modern take on the classic text adventures from the early days of computer gaming. Dive into a dystopian future ruled by an empire focused on conquest and control. Take on the role of a newly converted Soulfused; a part human/part robot soldier in service to the Empire.
Why similar: Typing 31.2% ★, Text-Based 30.1%, RPG 13.2%, Sci-fi 9.5%, Interactive Fiction 8.2%
Create a mortal race to worship you and grow your strength. Guide them in their daily lives and help them grow. The power you collect will grow your mind and body. Dabble in the affairs of other gods or seek to destroy them and steal their power.
Why similar: Text-Based 40.2%, RPG 37.8%, Adventure 17.2%, Indie 4.7%
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 42.5%, Interactive Fiction 25.5%, RPG 19.1%, Sci-fi 5.4%, Atmospheric 3%
Battle heroes, wizards, and rival dragons in your insatiable thirst for gold and infamy. Start by dominating a local tribe of goblins, then usurp the kingdom, defending and expanding your despotic regime to annex neighboring kingdoms, incinerating the peasants in their thatched-roof cottages.
Why similar: RPG 39.3%, Text-Based 38.4%, Adventure 17.8%, Indie 4.5%
Jest your way from obscurity to royal acclaim as the King’s pet, beloved by all! As a talented young court fool with dreams of fame, scrabble with other young jesters to secure prestigious positions in the courts of Brenton's nobility.
Why similar: Text-Based 39.6%, RPG 37.2%, Adventure 18.6%, Indie 4.7%
Uncover the dark truth of a ruined lunar colony in this isometric survival horror. As an amnesiac prisoner, wield devastating elemental powers to battle mutated horrors and solve puzzles. But beware: power comes at a cost. Manage your Sanity to survive, or let the madness consume you.
Why similar: Survival Horror 36.8%, Retro 19.6%, Sci-fi 14.6%, Adventure 6.8%, Dark 6.3%
Space Bear is a multi-choice text adventure typing game! Sort of. I mean, there isn't many actual choices, and the typing is more "mashing"...
Why similar: Typing 42.5% ★, Text-Based 38.2%, Adventure 15.3%, Indie 4%
Deliver food through a city hunted by a serial killer. Deadlivery Night blends fast-paced arcade driving with survival horror as you complete deliveries, escape danger, meet strange characters, and uncover a world of cosmic conspiracies!
Why similar: Survival Horror 41.7%, Retro 20.6%, Sci-fi 18.6%, Dark 9.9%, Adventure 3.8%
Find your missing father and uncover the dark conspiracy surrounding a sacred artifact and an enigmatic brotherhood in this haunting text adventure that combines the best elements of classic interactive fiction and gamebooks.
Why similar: Text-Based 34.4%, RPG 27.6%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Adventure 13.7%, Indie 3.5%
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 46.4%, RPG 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Adventure 7.5%, Atmospheric 2.5%
Interactive teen supernatural mystery! You and your friends have developed magical psychic powers. Solve the case, save your school, find a date for prom!
Why similar: Text-Based 49%, RPG 28.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Indie 3.4%
In the game, you control a young boy who need to explore a strange mansion to find his sister and escape the place. But the house is haunted by Shadows and you have to fight them on your way.
Why similar: RPG 41.4%, Survival Horror 30.7%, Adventure 18.6%, Indie 4.7%, Atmospheric 4.5%
Hysteria in Howlsbend is an Interactive Narrative Experience driven by conversational AI Characters, created with the cutting-edge ChatGPT Language Model.
Why similar: Typing 31.6% ★, RPG 25%, Text-Based 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Dark 3.9%
An AI has isolated the mind of a philosophy professor to evaluate human morality. As the terminal operator, you access files, run programs, and take his consciousness through ethical dilemmas. Your decisions will train the AI's final algorithm.
Why similar: Typing 29.4% ★, Text-Based 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Retro 9.7%, Sci-fi 8.2%
An average college girl takes an elective class and everything is different. Death, spooky, enveloped her, uncovering the truth, looking for clues, making the right choice was the only way.
Why similar: Survival Horror 33.2%, Text-Based 28.4%, RPG 15.1%, Sci-fi 6.1%, Interactive Fiction 5.9%
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: Text-Based 39.4%, RPG 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Adventure 11.3%, Indie 3.1%
🚨 Emergency Alert 🚨 New security protocols have been activated. Remain indoors. Do not open your doors under any circumstance. Isolation is safety. Isolation is truth. Or is it?
Why similar: Survival Horror 23.1%, Text-Based 22.8%, 1980s 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, RPG 11.1%
Beacon 2010 is a short science fiction visual novel that, with the development of technology, humanity has embarked on an interstellar exploration. The story originates from a super jump project
Why similar: Text-Based 49.7%, Sci-fi 22.8%, RPG 17.8%, Adventure 7.4%, Indie 2.3%
You’re a regular teen living in a glass city on the ocean. It’s time to choose whether to take over the family shark farm, or to forge a different path.
Why similar: RPG 36.9%, Text-Based 28.8%, Adventure 16%, Sci-fi 13.9%, Indie 4.4%
Discover how to defend against Neptune’s hostile ecosystem. The inhabitants’ weaknesses are unique for every player and no amount of former knowledge will help you. See how far you can make it into the depths, before your equipment, or your knowledge fails you.
Why similar: Survival Horror 44.7%, Aliens 19.1%, Sci-fi 16.6%, Space 7.8%, Atmospheric 5.9%
Pilot and customize a giant iron war mech in this alternate medieval history! The Papacy, Caliphate, and the Mongols are at war, and they all have mechs.
Why similar: Text-Based 40.2%, RPG 31.5%, Adventure 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Indie 3.7%
You wake up at the bottom of the ocean, surrounded by your broken memories. Reclaim and compile your magic or drown in a sea of dreams.
Why similar: Text-Based 38.5%, RPG 26.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Adventure 10.4%, Retro 8.6%
IN SILENCE WAITS is a modern take on classic graphical adventures. Solve puzzles and avoid dangers as you explore the desolate wastes of a cruel world in search of a new home. In this world, not all monsters must be feared... and not all friendly faces should be trusted.
Why similar: Typing 30.5% ★, Text-Based 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Retro 11%, 1980s 7.9%
The toughest ronin in Hyuga returns! Heated battles and even hotter romances await you in the land of silk and steel!
Why similar: Text-Based 36%, RPG 29.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Adventure 12.9%, Indie 3.4%
Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.
Why similar: Text-Based 38.5%, 1980s 15.8%, Retro 11.5%, Sci-fi 9.5%, Adventure 8%
《浊令》 是一款第一人称文字冒险游戏，融合视觉小说元素。玩家将沉浸于探索“宙与埃”世界观的互动故事，通过选择驱动叙事发展，解锁多样的剧情分支。体验引人入胜的对话、收集精美CG与成就，感受独特的情感旅程。
Why similar: Text-Based 39.5%, RPG 35.4%, Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Indie 1.3%
Harness wind, earth, fire, and all the forces of nature to destroy your enemies! Will you stabilize the broken magic of the weather, or revel in its chaos?
Why similar: Text-Based 39.4%, RPG 31.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Adventure 4.3%, Story Rich 1.6%
In a dark world somewhere between dream and nightmare you find yourself alone, cold, and without memory of who you are or where you came from. Guided by little more than a silver locket and questions, you must find your way off an isolated island in pursuit of answers.
Why similar: Typing 28.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Text-Based 14.6%, Retro 12.3%, 1980s 11.6%
A text adventure game about a 19th century explorer who finds himself stranded and alone.
Why similar: Text-Based 49.1%, Interactive Fiction 31.6%, Adventure 15.7%, Indie 3.6%
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: Text-Based 33.2%, RPG 29.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Adventure 14.2%, Indie 1.2%
You’re trapped in a malfunctioning virtual reality with no memories—except of every video game you’ve ever played. Jack into a wild dream in cyberspace.
Why similar: Text-Based 36.3%, RPG 27.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Retro 10.9%, Adventure 3.7%
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: RPG 35.5%, Text-Based 33.6%, Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Adventure 5.1%, Indie 1.4%
Roleplaying set in a dystopian universe inspired by early twentieth-century wars and Ukrainian folklore. You are Orest, and you might be the last hope of your occupied land. Establish the truths about the world getting drained of its energy, meet captivating characters, and make your land free.
Why similar: Text-Based 30.4%, Tabletop 21.9%, RPG 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Adventure 6.7%
