Games Like 雄关漫道，一梦万里

Newly hired for a revitalization program, work against a ticking clock and navigate a skeptical boss, a lousy friend, and discrimination while making hiring decisions. Interactive narrative with timed decisions Critical thinking Prosocial Empathy

Why similar: Education 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Text-Based 11.7%, Narration 7.3%

When a sudden election rocks the country, whose side are you on? In Civic Story, you'll encounter colorful characters & situations that show how the upcoming election affects you, your colleagues, and the nation in this comedic 8-chapter Visual Novel parody that helps you understand our world today.

Why similar: Political Sim 32.3% ★, Education 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Political 8.2% ★

In this short character-focused narrative experience you are a monarch of a small medieval kingdom and must name your successor before it is too late

Why similar: Political Sim 46.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Multiple Endings 5.7%, Story Rich 4.4%

The game recreates the Taïping Rebellion (1851-64), the deadliest Chinese civil war, costing the lives of millions. Play the Taïping rebels and their allies, fighting to create their own state, or be the Qing Emperor and crush the revolt and its foreign devils allies before it topples your dynasty.

Why similar: Political Sim 48% ★, Wargame 34.9%, Historical 11.4%, Story Rich 3.1%, 2D 2.6%

Professor of Magical Studies is an interactive magical school novel by Stephen Granade, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

Why similar: Education 23.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Text-Based 15.6%, RPG 8.4%

Stamped follows the journeys of six young travelers whose paths intersect across Asian urban landscapes. Bound by pleasure-fueled self-destruction, the group flounders from city to city, confronting the grief and discrimination that caused them to travel in the first place.

Why similar: Education 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Text-Based 12%, Narration 8.3%

Jena, GDR. Assel, Michael, and Hanna live in the same neighbourhood and fight against state surveillance. Can they bring about the necessary changes, or will they have to flee? Help them find their way! [Only available in German!]

Why similar: Education 23.7%, Historical 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Narration 9.3%, Female Protagonist 8.8%

Embark on a journey of this text anime quest with RPG elements! Walk through beautiful locations, overcome challenges and make Peter’s dreams come true. Every step you take matters. And don’t forget to take the diary - you’ll need it!

Why similar: Historical 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Text-Based 12.4%, Narration 11.6%

This grim interactive novel takes you directly into a period full of dread and peril - the Thirty Years' War in the 17th century!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Historical 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Education 13.6%, Text-Based 11.9%

Lead an ancient and crumbling noble house in a rich gunpowder fantasy setting. Lie, bribe, and conspire to secure power and prestige – or to save a doomed kingdom from itself.

Why similar: Political Sim 46.7% ★, Text-Based 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, RPG 9.6%

Ghosts over the Water: Changing the Tides of Japan's Future is an engaging strategy-based, multi-route historical visual novel. It is designed by a team of four undergraduate students associated with University of Texas, Austin's Japan Lab and Epoch Games Initiative.

Why similar: Education 25.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Historical 13.4%, Text-Based 11.9%, RPG 9.5%

This is a BETA VERSION of the Sagger game - historical simulator that will give you control over all Israel resources to face the Yom Kippur War. With the help of your advisor and knowledge, you will acquire, make the crucial decisions that will lead the state of Israel to Victory or Defeat.

Why similar: Political Sim 25.5% ★, Education 22.4%, Wargame 16.5%, Historical 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 9%

Welcome aboard EOS-503! As a professional DATA Agent, it's up to YOU to help the community resolve interpersonal disputes, navigate delicate political situations, and persuade fellow space travelers of new and different solutions to their problems. The future of humanity depends on it!

Why similar: Political Sim 26% ★, Education 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Text-Based 11.3%

In an engrossing interactive novel, live as the assistant to a remarkable historical figure: George Mueller, a man who witnessed orphans dying young in the streets of 1830's England and decided he would care for them, no matter the cost.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Historical 19.3%, Text-Based 12.7%, Multiple Endings 6%

Rule as a hobgoblin warlord in this kingdom management RPG. Balance resources and manage the shifting opinions of commoners, goblinoids, and elites. Face difficult decisions, and choose whether to rule with fairness… or with brutality.

Why similar: Political Sim 40.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Text-Based 11.2%, Multiple Endings 5.7%

Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make the decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?

Why similar: Political Sim 31% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Text-Based 10.2%, Political 9.5% ★

The complete American Revolutionary War from July 1775 to April 1783, with all units, weapons and events included on a two week turn base. The most complete strategy game made on this conflict. Fight for your ideals, and take command of America!

Why similar: Political Sim 43.9% ★, Wargame 32%, Historical 12.9%, Multiple Endings 4.6%, 2D 3.8%

The weight of the crown lies in your answers. Maintain the delicate balance within your council and discover the deep stories of your visitors. Every "Yes" or "No" will either turn your kingdom into a legend or bury it in history.

Why similar: Political Sim 46.3% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Historical 13.8%, Multiple Endings 6.1%, Political 4.8% ★

Ukraine War Stories is a set of visual novels about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Set in the early months of the war, it tells the stories of civilians trapped on Russian-occupied territory. All stories are based on real events and eyewitness accounts.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Historical 16%, Text-Based 13.2%, Narration 11%

EarthRoyale is a Map simulation Observer game where the game each turn chooses one of many events to edit the world map

Why similar: Political Sim 42% ★, Wargame 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Narration 8.2%, Historical 7.8%

An interactive fantasy romance novel set amongst the Greek gods.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Text-Based 17.7%, RPG 15.3%, Female Protagonist 8%

Travel to Veøya in the Viking Age and solve a dangerous mystery with cunning and song!

Why similar: Historical 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Education 17.1%, Multiple Endings 6.1%

The Imjin War relates the story of one of the toughest conflict in the end of the 16th century, depicting the invasion of the Joseon kingdom of Korea by the Japanese, from 1592 to 1598.

Why similar: Political Sim 46% ★, Wargame 32.8%, Historical 13.7%, 2D 3.9%, Story Rich 3.5%

Evil Shogun® is our first iOS mobile game, and now on macOS! The fictitious story is set during the Japanese Shogunate period. You are a samurai hired by a wicked shogun to do all sorts of evil at his behest. What will be your punishment in the end? There are three different endings.

Why similar: Historical 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Text-Based 14.4%, Hand-drawn 6.8%

Warsaw: Paris of the North is a Choose Your Own Adventure Game, built on text, graphics with plenty of choices that develop the main character’s features and direct him to a variety of plots. Set in 1930’s Warsaw.

Why similar: Education 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Historical 13.2%, Political 9.3% ★

Pencil Plus: The Wrath of the Spankster is an interactive novel style choose your own adventure game in which players take the role of Conner, a normal high school kid that gains a very unique super power: the ability to pull limitless pencils out of his pockets.

Why similar: Education 27.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Narration 10.8%, Multiple Endings 5.6%

Not It: Spookiest Edition is a horror-filled visual novel full of suspense and mystery where you navigate Katie through a living nightmare. Her move-in day on Halloween throws her into a centuries-old curse. Can she make it through the night? Will her new neighbors perish? Decide their fate.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Text-Based 14.5%, Narration 13%, Female Protagonist 11.4%

Help the eccentric inventor navigate the intrigue of the emerging electrical industry! Can you outsmart Thomas Edison and electrify the world?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Historical 20.7%, Text-Based 18.7%, RPG 12.8%, Narration 10.8%

Better Than Us is a sci-fi narrative game about secrets, deception, and what happens when a few people hoard most of the world's wealth. By maintaining a complex web of lies, you'll convince the freakishly ultra-rich you belong among them long enough to take what they treasure most: their stuff.

Why similar: Political Sim 33.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Historical 13.4%, Philosophical 7.5%

Win duels and hearts as a swordswoman at Paris's finest luxury brothel! Fight for the honor of ladies of the night in this game of swords and seductions.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Historical 15.4%, Text-Based 13.4%, RPG 12.7%

A fully narrated branching narrative game set in occupied Netherlands during World War 2. Every choice shapes the fate of a young Dutch civilian. Will you resist the Germans? Simply try to survive? Or join them in the fight against Bolshevism? Based on real events.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Historical 14.9%, Text-Based 14.2%, Narration 10%

Follow the new worker of the disinformation agency day by day. Decide how to oppose news and people through the use of fake scandals and redirections. Ensure a win for your employers - or find some conscience after all.

Why similar: Political Sim 45.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Text-Based 9.7%, Education 9.5%, RPG 8.6%

Rule the world or die trying!Being a Princess is not an easy job. Being a Queen is even harder. Especially when you're only fourteen years old, and the reason you've inherited the throne is that your royal mother has just met an untimely end.Now power is up for grabs.

Why similar: Political Sim 61.4% ★, Female Protagonist 11.7%, Anime 9.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.4%, RPG 4.3%

What kind of game is this? This is a second fan game of Oriental project. This work contains different settings from the original, so please pay attention to the players who feel uncomfortable about it

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29%, RPG 14%, Text-Based 12.5%, Anime 9.8%, Relaxing 8.8%

In this story-rich interstellar political drama, ascend as humanity's next leader. Rebuild a broken empire in a war-torn galaxy through might, diplomacy, or espionage. Every choice has a consequence. What will you choose, Your Eminence?

Why similar: Political Sim 48.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, RPG 9.7%, Text-Based 8.2%, Multiple Endings 7.6%

Can your magic amulet save your Jewish village from destruction? Uncover the truth and forge alliances with soldiers, bandits, anarchists, and demons!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Text-Based 15%, Historical 14.6%, RPG 13.6%

Battle for love as a gladiator in this epic romance of swords and sandals! Win glory, victory, a better life, your freedom - and spark a revolution!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Text-Based 16.3%, Historical 16%, RPG 14.4%

Forge your own path and embark on a perilous journey on board a ship of Thorwal raiders in this epic tale set in the award-winning world of The Dark Eye RPG.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Historical 15.6%, Narration 11.6%, Female Protagonist 9.7%

You are a double agent between a break-off religious sect and an inquisition within a holy city. Gather intelligence from both sides, solve their puzzles, navigate between dark-truths, and collect insights to write reports that give you the power to shape an inevitable conflict to come...

Why similar: Political Sim 51% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Text-Based 12.4%, RPG 7.6%, Multiple Endings 5.3%

你本是一个996打工人，机缘巧合之下得到了体验皇帝生活的机会。不料穿越到1627年，当上了大明末代皇帝，这开局也太惨了吧！此时距离清军入关还有17年，你能带领大明朝顺利渡过难关吗？别躺平呀，能拯救大明的只有你。在这款皇帝模拟器中，你需要制衡国库、军事、民众和官僚，才能活下去。

Why similar: Political Sim 36.8% ★, Historical 17%, Text-Based 15.5%, Multiple Endings 8.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.5%

A choice-driven narrative RPG set in China’s Warring States period. Rise from a nameless soldier to a legendary general through decisions with permanent consequences. Death is final. History remembers only the survivors.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Text-Based 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Historical 9.4%, RPG 7.1%

A flesh-eating dust leaves you to survive alone against hordes of Listless.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.4%, Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Female Protagonist 13.6%, RPG 12.3%, Text-Based 8.6%

Do you enjoy listening to stories and having the ability to influence their unfolding? If so, then immerse yourself in the role of an active participant as you join Yaren on her quest for freedom.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Text-Based 18.3%, Narration 14%, Multiple Endings 9.9%

Pax Astra is a political sim rpg set in a space opera setting. You are free to follow any ideology, pursue any strategy, and define your own path to power. Manage politics, elections, crisis, economics, secret scientific projects, external politics and more.

Why similar: Political Sim 45.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Political 11.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 9.9%, RPG 8.3%

A relaxing puzzle game about changing voting district lines in order to rig elections, an action called Gerrymandering.

Why similar: Political Sim 49.8% ★, Political 14.9% ★, Historical 11.5%, Education 7.7%, Relaxing 5.8%

The Nose knows. A text based adventure game set in an ancient temple full of secrets.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Historical 20.8%, Text-Based 18.1%, Multiple Endings 5.8%

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 27.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.6%, Text-Based 20.2%, RPG 18.9%, Multiple Endings 7.2%

Simple visual novel in which you play as a young upperclass woman preparing for her debut before the Queen and her royal relatives. All of your decisions lead to one of four very different endings. Who will you become? The jewel of the season or the outcast, never again mentioned by your family?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Historical 16.4%, Narration 13.2%, Female Protagonist 12.7%, Text-Based 12.5%

MINISTRY OF TRUTH: 1984 is a story-driven simulator in a totalitarian society. Become an official, manipulate facts, rewrite history, and provide the ‘truth’ to the public. Choose: obey or fight against the regime. Big Brother is watching you! This game is inspired by George Orwell’s classic novel.

Why similar: Political Sim 41.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Political 11.6% ★, Multiple Endings 6.5%

A Three Kingdoms Simulator ARPG Game

Why similar: Political Sim 44.8% ★, Wargame 27%, Historical 23%, 2D 3.3%, RPG 1.9%

Immerse yourself in Roman history with this management game! Gain acceptance of the goddess Cybele into the pantheon of Roman gods, influence public opinion, and go through many historical events. Will you be able to get Cybele adopted by the Romans?

Why similar: Political Sim 24.3% ★, Historical 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Education 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%

This is a narrative role-playing game telling the story of a crown prince of the Blessed Arknian Empire. You possess great power, but are also burdened by duty. Can you change the world and stay true to yourself? Every decision comes with a cost.

Why similar: Political Sim 39.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, RPG 7.9%

A singleplayer, story game where you can make decisions and read your way through history.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.3%, Historical 17.7%, Female Protagonist 14.6%, RPG 12.9%, Text-Based 10.7%

You have five days to save your husband, who has just been arrested by the Gestapo. Investigate, explore and form allegiances in this story-rich RPG-lite. Who will you trust?

Why similar: Historical 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Narration 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Female Protagonist 11.9%

Skylar is an student with anxiety. Walter is a farmer with social anxiety and PTSD. Jessica is a programmer with anxiety and agoraphobia. Li Wei is an technologist with intense anxiety. Navigate their stories, learn how they move through the world, and about methods of treatment and recovery.

Why similar: Education 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Female Protagonist 8.8%, Text-Based 8.3%

What Ancients Begat is a complete (~15 hour) game of family generations surviving the rise of western civilization. Survival is the ultimate goal. The sub-goals, you choose, build their story.Experience an abstract telling of the lives of our earliest recorded ancestors.

Why similar: Political Sim 33.8% ★, Historical 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Text-Based 10.1%

Check in to your hotel, and check out the ghosts! Sexy specters await you - but can you fix up the hotel in style so that the living guests will find luxury, too?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Text-Based 18.3%, RPG 16.2%, Female Protagonist 8.2%

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 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, RPG 15%, Text-Based 12.5%, Narration 8.8%