
Small in scope, detailed, gritty text-based fantasy RPG. Recreates the gameplay of the old gamebooks. Simple battle system and hassle-free inventory management.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include RPG, Interactive Fiction, Choose Your Own Adventure, Text-Based.

Small in scope, detailed, gritty text-based fantasy RPG. Recreates the gameplay of the old gamebooks. Simple battle system and hassle-free inventory management.

Bloodwood Dungeon
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.

Champions of Chaxia
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.
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Text-Based 14%, RPG 11%, Minimalist 9.4%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Text-Based 13.5%, RPG 11.3%, Minimalist 9.5%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Text-Based 21.8%, RPG 15.6%, Multiple Endings 7%
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: Text-Based 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, RPG 14.6%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
A choice-driven roguelike text adventure set in medieval Korea and Japan. Encounter 218 mythological creatures from East Asian folklore, shape your story across 94 endings, and grow stronger with each run in a deep, culturally rich world.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Text-Based 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Turn-Based Combat 13.6%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
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: Interactive Fiction 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25%, Text-Based 21.2%, RPG 17.4%, Fantasy 7.4%
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Text-Based 20.4%, Multiple Endings 8.9%, RPG 7.9%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Text-Based 21.1%, RPG 14.6%, Multiple Endings 7%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Text-Based 22.4%, RPG 15.2%, Multiple Endings 7.4%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Text-Based 22.9%, RPG 16.4%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Text-Based 21.1%, RPG 14.7%, Multiple Endings 6.9%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Text-Based 23.1%, RPG 15.8%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
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 26.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, Text-Based 25.2%, RPG 9.6%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Text-Based 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, RPG 14.7%, Fantasy 6.5%
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 31%, Text-Based 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, RPG 13.6%, Adventure 4.5%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Text-Based 23.6%, RPG 16.4%, Fantasy 7%
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 31.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, RPG 12.8%, Multiple Endings 6.8%
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 36.3%, Text-Based 33.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, RPG 11.3%, Indie 1.7%
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 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, RPG 10.2%
Walk the path of a legendary mage, combining four different schools of magic to devastating effects.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, RPG 13.5%, Fantasy 5.5%
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 34.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Text-Based 13.3%, RPG 12.4%, Story Rich 7.1%
Become the greatest of the goblin merchants in this gaslamp faery-tale! Buy and sell secrets and memories! Trade in time, shadows, and stranger things!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Text-Based 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, RPG 12%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
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 32.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, RPG 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%
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 34.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, RPG 15.3%, Indie 2.4%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.4%, Interactive Fiction 27.3%, Text-Based 23.9%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Adventure 6%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Text-Based 23.7%, RPG 13.7%, Fantasy 5.7%
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 31.9%, Text-Based 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, RPG 15.7%, Adventure 5.2%
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 31.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, RPG 13.7%, Adventure 5.7%
Swing a sword, delve dungeons, and lead a resistance against the tyrannical queen of a war-torn fantasy realm. Will you unite the realm and end the queen’s reign of terror... or join her and rule by her side?
Why similar: Text-Based 27.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, RPG 10.7%, Fantasy 8.6%
Will you spill the tea about the secret, cozy magical cafe on your college campus? Brew potions and romance on coffee dates with your new friends! A text-based novel of magic and romance, with hundreds of choices and without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Text-Based 23.2%, RPG 16.4%, Multiple Endings 7.7%
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 36.2%, Text-Based 33.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Adventure 3%, Story Rich 2.8%
Rush the university's secret societies as a first-year Magical Studies major! Will you keep your magic a secret from the mundanes or expose the truth?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Text-Based 22.3%, RPG 15.8%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
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 35.5%, Text-Based 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, RPG 15.2%, Adventure 5.2%
A text-based choose your own adventure game, with multiple stories, each with several endings. Stories you create through branching narratives are kept so you can read them again or show them to friends.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Multiple Endings 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Text-Based 13%, RPG 11.2%
Are you worthy of the throne? Or do your siblings deserve it more than you do? What kind of heir will you be?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Text-Based 23.1%, RPG 14.6%, Fantasy 5.6%
Dazzle humanity or destroy it as a magical, two-tailed fox! Weave illusions, shapeshift, or control minds. You'll set the world on fire, one way or another.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.4%, Interactive Fiction 23%, Text-Based 22%, RPG 10.1%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
Rebuild society after the climate apocalypse! Can you keep your settlement alive? Will you hold onto your humanity or lose it in the directionless expanse?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.8%, Text-Based 25.2%, RPG 9.4%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
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 23.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, RPG 16.9%, Text-Based 16.6%, Turn-Based Combat 10%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Text-Based 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Multiple Endings 11%, RPG 9.1%
Will you infiltrate the gods' Elite Courte, stealing their superpowers, or turn double agent and join them, taking your place among the divine?
Why similar: Text-Based 28.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, RPG 13.7%, Story Rich 7.5%
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: Interactive Fiction 28.6%, Text-Based 25.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, RPG 10.4%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
Celestial power thrums in your veins, Hell’s throne calls, and demons conspire. Will you ascend as savior, tyrant, or something in between? A text-based horror novel, 295,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, RPG 14.9%, Multiple Endings 6.4%
Rule your realm, train heroes, and build a legendary kingdom in Daria. Experience strategy, storytelling, and diplomacy in this immersive sim.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.4%, Text-Based 28.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, RPG 10.3%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
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 23.2%, Text-Based 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 22%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, Minimalist 9.8%
North Africa, 1942. Command a U.S. tank. Lead your men against the Axis powers. Learn the hard lessons of war. The odds are against you. A text-based historical novel, 900,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, RPG 15.8%, Multiple Endings 8.4%
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 31%, Text-Based 28.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, RPG 9.7%, Fantasy 4.5%
Never stop running, not with the galaxy at stake. Save it at all costs, and save yourself if you can.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Text-Based 21.1%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, RPG 10.9%
Fight in the Arena is a text-based RPG with an in-depth turn-based combat system.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.8%, Turn-Based Combat 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Minimalist 9.4%
Heed magic’s call! Find love as you explore ancient mysteries, craft dragon-rune tattoos, and discover your true loyalties. What passions shape your path?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Text-Based 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, RPG 14.7%, Fantasy 6.6%
Defend your magical city from an enemy army in an epic fantasy game of swordfights, political maneuvering, and romance! Will you prove worthy of your crown?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Text-Based 22.2%, RPG 14.8%, Multiple Endings 6.2%
The discovery of an old magic book turns your life upside down. Will you succeed in becoming a guild wizard—or will you travel a different path?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.7%, Text-Based 28.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, RPG 9.9%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
An interactive fantasy romance novel set amongst the Greek gods.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Text-Based 23.6%, RPG 15.6%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
In a Persian steampunk empire, will you use your arcane alchemy to repair a spaceship, or pilot a mech? Ignite a revolution, or snuff it out?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Text-Based 19.7%, RPG 14.1%, Multiple Endings 7.1%
With debts to pay to the underworld, you need to make a lot of coin fast! Perhaps worse, you're wanted by the King's men for desertion. Survival is your first priority...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.1%, Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Text-Based 17.7%, RPG 11.7%, Multiple Endings 7.9%
From birth to death, craft your orc's legacy. Wield the powers of a shaman or chief. Conquer the world. Become a god or a demon lord. Do what orcs do best!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Text-Based 17.9%, RPG 11.2%, Multiple Endings 11%
A text-based RPG with a nonlinear story set in a free Slavic fantasy world. Shape the heroine's character through your choices and unlock multiple endings. Mystery, folklore, and relationships — your fate depends only on you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.8%, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Text-Based 22.4%, RPG 10.2%, Multiple Endings 5.5%
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 31.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.9%, Text-Based 29.1%, Adventure 6.8%, Singleplayer 1.6%
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: Interactive Fiction 28.5%, Text-Based 27.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, RPG 13.6%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
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 28.6%, Interactive Fiction 26.2%, RPG 17.6%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Fantasy 8.3%
Lead a team of young heroes against criminals, cultists, demons, and midterms. Will you carry on your heroic legacy or forge your own path? A text-based, 600,000-word interactive superpower novel.
Why similar: Text-Based 24%, Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, RPG 15.5%, Multiple Endings 8%