60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Text-Based, Interactive Fiction, Indie, Choose Your Own Adventure.
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.
e-River Cabin Journal
A real-time (with casual option) Diary Driven PC Game. Simulating homesteading and survival in your own Log Cabin, deep in the Alaskan Wilderness.
Thaumistry: In Charm's Way
Thaumistry: In Charm's Way is an all-new comedy text adventure from award-winning Infocom and Legend Entertainment author Bob Bates.
A real-time (with casual option) Diary Driven PC Game. Simulating homesteading and survival in your own Log Cabin, deep in the Alaskan Wilderness.
Why similar: Text-Based 33.6%, Interactive Fiction 30.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Indie 11.2%, Adventure 4.4%
Thaumistry: In Charm's Way is an all-new comedy text adventure from award-winning Infocom and Legend Entertainment author Bob Bates.
Why similar: Text-Based 39.2%, Interactive Fiction 37.2%, Adventure 13.4%, Indie 10.1%
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 38.1%, Text-Based 31.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Adventure 8.8%, Indie 2.2%
A text adventure game about a 19th century explorer who finds himself stranded and alone.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 46.1%, Text-Based 39.3%, Adventure 8.8%, Indie 5.8%
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 33.2%, Interactive Fiction 31.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.8%, Adventure 6.7%, Indie 5.3%
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: Interactive Fiction 39%, Text-Based 29.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Adventure 9%, Story Rich 1.8%
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 42.9%, Interactive Fiction 31.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Indie 5.9%
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: Text-Based 42.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.4%, Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Indie 4.3%
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 39.2%, Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Adventure 8.4%, Indie 5.8%
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 31.7%, Interactive Fiction 29.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.2%, Adventure 8%, Indie 6%
Interactive fiction starring Molly the Werezompire - a grad student who jumped into a portal, was killed by a werewolf, a zombie, and a vampire, and became a heroic werezompire! Also includes the sci-fi parody, Epiphany in Spaaace! Originally released on XBLIG.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.3%, Text-Based 31.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, Adventure 5.7%
A funny, emotional text-based romance where your awkward crush meets accidental magic. Make branching choices, build relationships, and maybe ruin Valentine’s Day with a love potion that definitely shouldn’t have worked.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.5%, Text-Based 34.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.9%, Indie 2.3%
Navigate school life, build friendships, survive rumours, and climb the social ladder through natural conversations with students who remember your choices. Every interaction shapes your reputation in this AI-powered social simulation.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 42.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Text-Based 21.9%, Adventure 7.1%, Story Rich 2.4%
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 40.2%, Text-Based 33.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Adventure 2.7%, Indie 2%
I found myself at the station. The story unfolds as you type commands on your keyboard. As the days repeat, I keep wondering what I can do for her. A command-driven adventure steeped in nostalgic pixel art and sound.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 49.8%, Text-Based 42.3%, Adventure 8%
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: Text-Based 34.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Adventure 8.2%, Indie 6.2%
Plunge into court politics and change the course of history, or pursue a love affair that rocks the kingdom to its foundations!
Why similar: Text-Based 33.9%, Interactive Fiction 32.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Adventure 6.3%, Indie 5%
Your robots will change the world! Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army? A 300,000-word epic interactive sci-fi novel.
Why similar: Text-Based 39.6%, Interactive Fiction 31.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Indie 2.7%, Story Rich 1.9%
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 37.5%, Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Adventure 7.1%, Indie 5.6%
Walk the path of a legendary mage, combining four different schools of magic to devastating effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.9%, Text-Based 33.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Adventure 8.3%, Indie 2%
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: Text-Based 37.1%, Interactive Fiction 31.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25%, Adventure 4.1%, Indie 1.9%
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 42.1%, Text-Based 37.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Indie 2.1%
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 40.9%, Text-Based 30.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Adventure 3.3%, Indie 2.5%
It is said that the last frontier is space, but the crew of the Soviet Frigate, The Peresmeshnik, is about to discover that the sea still hides a terrifying secret. Waiting to be found.
Why similar: Text-Based 36.1%, Interactive Fiction 34.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Adventure 3.9%, Story Rich 2.8%
Your first case as a detective is forcing you to open your eyes to a world bigger than you thought. Or maybe it's better to keep them closed. Seems the supernatural didn’t get the memo that nothing exciting ever happens in the little town of Wayhaven.
Why similar: Text-Based 38.1%, Interactive Fiction 29.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Adventure 7.4%, Indie 5.7%
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 39.6%, Text-Based 33.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Adventure 3%, Indie 2.2%
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 39.6%, Text-Based 33.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Adventure 3%, Indie 2.3%
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 40.9%, Text-Based 33.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Adventure 2.6%, Indie 2%
You take a deep breath of salty air as the first raindrops begin to spatter the pavement, and the swollen, slate-colored clouds that blanket the sky mutter ominous portents amongst themselves over the little coastal town of Anchorhead.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 40.9%, Text-Based 38.5%, Adventure 8.1%, Indie 5.9%, Puzzle 3.7%
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 37.1%, Text-Based 31.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Adventure 9.3%, Indie 2.2%
Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 53.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Text-Based 15.3%, Indie 6.9%, Story Rich 0.6%
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 39.3%, Text-Based 34.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Adventure 2.9%, Indie 2.2%
Morhval: Ravenglaire is a dark fantasy text RPG about survival, choice and consequence. Create your character, explore a fractured province, fight turn-based battles, pass skill checks, help the desperate or abandon them, and decide who deserves to survive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 40.5%, Text-Based 37%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Indie 2.4%
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 38.2%, Text-Based 35.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Adventure 2.8%, Indie 2.1%
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%, Interactive Fiction 28%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Adventure 5.2%, Indie 3.6%
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: Interactive Fiction 46.1%, Text-Based 34.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Adventure 3%, Indie 2.3%
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 43.7%, Text-Based 35%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Indie 2.1%
This text adventure, beautifully illustrated in pixel art, invites you to explore a medieval abbey filled with secrets. You take full control by entering commands directly on your keyboard through a flexible command parser, allowing for free and immersive interaction.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.4%, Text-Based 30.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Adventure 5.1%, Indie 2.9%
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: Interactive Fiction 37.9%, Text-Based 35.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Adventure 3.8%, Indie 2.8%
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 39.1%, Text-Based 33.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Story Rich 2.2%, Indie 2.2%
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: Interactive Fiction 34%, Choose Your Own Adventure 31.4%, Text-Based 21.4%, Adventure 6.3%, Indie 3.8%
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 42.8%, Text-Based 37.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Adventure 4.9%, Indie 2.1%
The most anticipated game since chess! A text-based comedy adventure in which you interact with the world by slamming one of two brightly colored buttons: Harm or Other
Why similar: Text-Based 38.7%, Interactive Fiction 33.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Adventure 7.8%, Indie 2%
It's the ultimate battle between werewolves and human supremacists, and your werewolf pack is caught in the middle of a four-way fight!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 44.9%, Text-Based 37.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Adventure 2.9%, Indie 2.2%
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 38.4%, Text-Based 34.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Adventure 2.8%, Indie 2.2%
Return to Hyuga just in time for the new semester! Sword fights, love confessions, demonic rituals—nobody said graduating was going to be easy! A text-based novel, 300,000 words and hundreds of choices, without animations or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 39.3%, Text-Based 34.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Adventure 2.8%, Indie 2.1%
An interactive narrative in social engineering.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 43.9%, Text-Based 36.4%, Indie 16.1%, Story Rich 3.6%
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 39.2%, Text-Based 34.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Adventure 2.9%, Indie 2.2%
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 39.7%, Text-Based 33.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Adventure 2.9%, Indie 2.2%
Your job is to make humanity happy. Observe the people living in your assigned district and make the best choices to ensure everyone's happiness.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.2%, Text-Based 31%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Adventure 4.3%, Story Rich 2.2%
You have exactly 5. Bread is 4, the bus fare to school is 3. What do you give up? In this short narrative experience, you play as 13-year-old Adam. Confront an interface that reacts to a painful reality, and discover that freedom of choice is sometimes nothing but a privilege.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.1%, Text-Based 30.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Adventure 8.5%, Indie 1.8%
With the power to freeze time, you can ransack a casino, rescue a celebrity, or cheat death itself! A thrilling interactive sci-fi novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.4%, Text-Based 31.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.3%, Indie 6.2%
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 38.6%, Text-Based 34.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Adventure 2.7%, Indie 2%
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: Interactive Fiction 39.6%, Text-Based 33.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Adventure 3%, Indie 2.2%
You wake up at a terminal you've never seen before. The language is alien. The interface is hostile. Every wrong click has consequences. Decode constructed languages, navigate unfamiliar operating systems, and survive the unknown in this puzzle-survival experience.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.6%, Text-Based 23.5%, Puzzle 4.7%, Adventure 4.1%
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: Interactive Fiction 36.6%, Text-Based 31.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, Indie 4.7%, Adventure 3.7%
Small in scope, detailed, gritty text-based fantasy RPG. Recreates the gameplay of the old gamebooks. Simple battle system and hassle-free inventory management.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.2%, Text-Based 33.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.3%, Adventure 3.1%, Story Rich 2.8%
Solve puzzles, enlist magic beans, eat soap, plan your escape, and confront the menacing mage who keeps you confined in his tower. Will you keep cracking jokes or learn from your mistakes? Your choices matter.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.7%, Text-Based 30%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.6%, Puzzle 5.2%, Adventure 4.8%
A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.1%, Text-Based 31.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Adventure 3.8%, Story Rich 2.9%
