Games Like Frosthaven: Official Companion

A companion app for the Destinies board game from Lucky Duck Games. Destinies is a competitive, story-driven, game of adventure and exploration, mixing an app and a board game.

Why similar: Board Game 18.3%, Tabletop 16.1%, Tactical RPG 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%

Road to Legend is a companion app for the Descent: Journeys in the Dark 2nd edition board game. When you play with Road to Legend, the app assumes the role of the overlord player, controlling monsters and inviting you to explore the dungeon in entirely new and unexpected ways.

Why similar: Board Game 40.7%, Tabletop 22.3%, RPG 18.9%, Adventure 11.4%, Co-op 6.7%

Play the game from the perspective of a traveler who comes to the dealer and is faced with numerous choices in a story prepared by the dealer. Experience a story that changes based on your choices and see the ending that changes based on your choices!

Why similar: Tabletop 26.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, RPG 11.3%, Text-Based 9.9%

Build a complete tabletop RPG game night from one seed: a battle map, a party-scaled encounter, ready-to-play heroes, and the whole night written up to run at the table. Export to Roll20 and Foundry or print it. Hand-made art, no AI, no account, fully offline. Buy once, own forever.

Why similar: Tabletop 40.5%, Board Game 36.8%, RPG 15.2%, Fantasy 6.9%, Singleplayer 0.5%

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 27.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, RPG 21.5%, Text-Based 15.8%, Fantasy 7.2%

Once you open this book, you are no longer just a reader. A "reading-style" fantasy adventure in the spirit of The NeverEnding Story — handcrafted over six years by a 30-year veteran from Vanillaware. 100% handmade, from the first page to the last.

Why similar: Tabletop 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, RPG 9.7%, Text-Based 9.5%

Run, Hide, or fight, either way you are at the mercy of the stack. You and your players tell a story, as the story builds, so does the risk. One slip and the stack falls. if the stack falls your player is out.

Why similar: Board Game 30.8%, Tabletop 26.6%, RPG 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Exploration 4.5%

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 29.3%, Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Text-Based 19.1%, RPG 16.2%, Adventure 10.1%

Ready your sword, pack your provisions and prepare to embark upon quests in which YOU are the hero! Choose what happens at every turn of the page with Fighting Fantasy Classics – text-based roleplaying adventures remastered.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Tabletop 17.3%, Text-Based 14.6%, RPG 10.8%

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 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, RPG 18.7%, Text-Based 16.2%, Adventure 12.7%

A Wild West chess adventure where every duel is settled on the board—explore towns, solve themed puzzles, and defeat the hall bosses to become a legend.

Why similar: Board Game 29%, Tactical RPG 27.1%, Tabletop 24.5%, Exploration 8.9%, RPG 7.6%

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 29.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, RPG 19.1%, Text-Based 18.1%, Adventure 11.9%

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 27.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, RPG 20.4%, Text-Based 17.7%, Fantasy 6.9%

The Battle for Murk is an interactive narrative set in a gritty medieval world. Play as Corporal Mandrake from the City Watch in a fantasy adventure game. Uncover the truth behind a treacherous conspiracy in a race against time to save your hometown from falling into the hands of a cruel leader.

Why similar: Tabletop 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Text-Based 14.7%, RPG 10.7%

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 27.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, RPG 20.8%, Text-Based 18%, Fantasy 6.6%

Can your steam-powered inventions save the ancient Library of Alexandria? Will you sacrifice the library to protect the city? Or the future king instead?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, RPG 18.9%, Text-Based 18.7%, Adventure 13.5%

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 27.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, RPG 21%, Text-Based 17.6%, Fantasy 6.6%

The Warlock of Firetop Mountain is a tabletop adventure come to life! This fantasy solo RPG combines unique, simultaneous turn-based combat with a journey that changes based on each figurine you take into Firetop Mountain! Which hero will you take into Zagor's lair THIS time?

Why similar: Board Game 27.3%, Tabletop 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, RPG 7.9%

Walk the path of a legendary mage, combining four different schools of magic to devastating effects.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Text-Based 18.5%, RPG 17%, Adventure 11.9%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.7%, Text-Based 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, RPG 17%, Adventure 13.3%

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 32.7%, Text-Based 19.4%, RPG 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Adventure 12.1%

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 27%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, RPG 19.9%, Text-Based 18.9%, Fantasy 6.6%

Table of Tales: The Crooked Crown is a role playing adventure that brings tabletop gaming to life in virtual reality! Also includes a new non-VR mode for players without VR hardware. Join a band of scoundrels in this unique sea-faring tabletop RPG adventure!

Why similar: Board Game 27.5%, Tabletop 21.2%, Tactical RPG 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, RPG 8.6%

Decide the fate of the world in this ingenious story-driven card game. Foretales offers a unique take on the adventure genre, with a multitude of playstyles and story paths through which you can save the world… or bring about its end.

Why similar: Board Game 22.9%, Tabletop 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, RPG 5.8%

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 33.9%, Interactive Fiction 24.1%, RPG 15.6%, Text-Based 11.7%, Adventure 8.6%

Ludo Online is a strategy board game for two to six players, in which the players race their four pawns from start to finish according to the rolls of a single dice.

Why similar: Board Game 61.6%, Tabletop 35.6%, Multiplayer 2.8%

A dark gamebook-inspired RPG where your choices, luck, and blade decide what the sea keeps. Climb a cursed lighthouse and uncover the name buried beneath the bell.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Text-Based 16.3%, RPG 13.3%, Adventure 7.9%

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 27.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, RPG 20.5%, Text-Based 18.2%, Fantasy 6.7%

The complete 4th Edition experience of the classic fantasy adventure board game, Talisman. On your travels, you will need strength, courage and some good dice rolls to survive the dangers you face and beat your opponents to the centre of the board!

Why similar: Board Game 45.4%, Tabletop 35.8%, RPG 9.3%, Fantasy 3.9%, Multiplayer 3.2%

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

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, RPG 20%, Text-Based 19.4%, Fantasy 4.6%

The Witcher Adventure Game is a digital adaptation of CD PROJEKT RED’s board game set in the brutal fantasy universe of monster slayer Geralt of Rivia. Travel across the beautifully rendered world of The Witcher and complete a variety of quests — hunt deadly beasts, solve ancient mysteries and more.

Why similar: Board Game 46.2%, Tabletop 37.2%, Adventure 9.4%, Fantasy 4.5%, Multiplayer 2.4%

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 27.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, RPG 19.7%, Text-Based 18.6%, Fantasy 6.9%

Shuffle your cards and ready your dice - Card Hunter is a fresh new card gaming spin on classic tabletop RPGs. Battle your way through a massive campaign solo or with friends and compete with other players in ranked play and tournaments.

Why similar: Tabletop 28.4%, Board Game 27.2%, Tactical RPG 23.4%, RPG 7.5%, Co-op 5.3%

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 29.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, RPG 22.4%, Text-Based 18.7%, Adventure 4.5%

Your choices reveal what you value. Guide three adventurers through a kingdom in crisis, deciding whom to protect as its population and army decline. Character traits and dice shape the outcome, while every decision builds a five-principle value profile revealed at the end of your journey.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Tabletop 21.1%, Text-Based 15.7%, RPG 10.6%

Magic Sword is a medieval CRPG with synchronous turn-based strategy where you develop your character, explore the map, and compete for victory points in Combat, Knowledge, Capital, Reputation, and Fellowships.

Why similar: Board Game 27.2%, Tactical RPG 25.4%, Tabletop 22.8%, RPG 8.2%, Exploration 7.9%

A text-driven dungeon crawler inspired by Ironsworn: Delve. Travel to a forbidden site full of treasure, roll dice, make choices, face danger, and find out the hard way why the site was forbidden in the first place! Or maybe you'll find the treasure. It could happen!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Tabletop 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, RPG 16%, Text-Based 15.3%

A visual novel set in the world of 'The Noob Adventures'. Meet and talk to your favourite characters in this nostalgic fan-fiction.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Tabletop 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Text-Based 16.6%, RPG 8.1%

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 34.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.6%, Text-Based 21.5%, Adventure 15.9%, Singleplayer 0.4%

Detailed, gritty text-based fantasy RPG centered on dungeon crawling with traps, puzzles, fights and loot. Recreates the gameplay of the old gamebooks. Simple battle system and hassle-free inventory management.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, RPG 19.5%, Text-Based 14.8%, Adventure 9.4%

This adaptation of the Talisman board game focuses on solo play as you adventure through many epic quests using the full rule-set of the Revised 4th Edition.

Why similar: Board Game 34.6%, Tabletop 34.1%, RPG 24.9%, Fantasy 6.2%, Singleplayer 0.2%

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 27.8%, Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Text-Based 20.6%, RPG 16.1%, Adventure 10%

Become a gambling master! Step into the Grand Vegas Casino and try your hand at 4 of the most popular gambling games in the world, with no need to get dressed up or risk your wallet!

Why similar: Board Game 57.8%, Tabletop 41.8%, Singleplayer 0.4%

Mysterium is a cooperative deduction game set in the 1920s in which a ghost guides a group of psychics to uncover a murderer, as well as the weapon and location of the murder, using only visual clues.

Why similar: Board Game 48.9%, Tabletop 42.3%, Co-op 5.3%, Multiplayer 3.5%

A visual novel paying satirical homage to the world’s greatest TTRPG. Make important choices, roll countless dice, build lasting relationships, explore magical lands and experience all the rest of the crap you expect from a fantasy game without the hassle of finding actual friends to play with!

Why similar: Tabletop 29.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Text-Based 14.4%, RPG 9.9%

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: Tabletop 29%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Text-Based 16.5%, RPG 11.3%, Adventure 6.7%

Battle demons and undead attorneys, and win souls to pay back your student loans! At the elite demonic-law firm of Varkath Nebuchadnezzar Stone, you'll depose a fallen god, find romance, and maybe even make partner, if you don't lose your own soul first.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.7%, Text-Based 27.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, RPG 15.2%

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 27.5%, Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.9%, RPG 20.4%

Alchemy, puzzles, and a crashed starship. Old-style interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No dialogue trees! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 42.7%, Text-Based 26.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Adventure 7.6%

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 28.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.6%, RPG 21.4%, Text-Based 19.6%, Adventure 4.3%

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 29.7%, Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Text-Based 21.9%, RPG 12.4%, Adventure 6.3%

Detailed, gritty text-based fantasy RPG centered on gladiatorial combat. Recreates the gameplay of the old gamebooks. Features hassle-free inventory management and a battle system that combines dice rolls with meaningful decisions and preparation.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, RPG 19.2%, Text-Based 13.8%, Adventure 13%

Legends of the Alliance is a companion app for the Star Wars: Imperial Assault board game, a scenario-based game of tactical combat. When you play with Legends of the Alliance, the app assumes the role of the Imperials, while you and your friends form a team of Rebel heroes fighting to bring down the Galactic Empire.

Why similar: Board Game 49.3%, RPG 25.3%, Adventure 16.2%, Co-op 9.3%

Longsword is a game of hardcore turn-based tactical combat. Build decks of spells and miniatures to fight against humans or the AI in skirmishes and campaigns. Earn cards through play or just pay once for the whole set.

Why similar: Board Game 59.7%, Tabletop 40.3%

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 27.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, RPG 20.4%, Text-Based 17.6%, Fantasy 5.9%

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 27%, RPG 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Text-Based 12.9%, Adventure 12.3%

Award Winner: PAX 10 2019 | Winner, Momocon 2018 Indie Games Awards | "A fascinating reverse-RPG" - PC Gamer | "A cross between The Sims and a rousing game of Dungeons and Dragons" - Geek & Sundry

Why similar: Tabletop 27.5%, Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Text-Based 9.5%, RPG 8.2%

Explore an alternative medieval Europe in this low-fantasy epic adventure! How far are you willing to go to take back your stolen treasure?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.3%, Text-Based 19.3%, RPG 18.6%, Fantasy 6.1%

The Broken Crown is a dark fantasy text adventure between game and novel. Read through a fallen kingdom, make choices at key moments, and face the weight of memory and sacrifice.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.2%, Text-Based 21.2%, Adventure 16.5%, Singleplayer 0.4%

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 33.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.1%, Text-Based 21.3%, RPG 13.6%, Adventure 4.4%