60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Story Rich, Interactive Fiction, Choices Matter, Text-Based.
A story-driven RPG you play with text or voice. No jargon, use your own words and the game understands. A hand-written world of myth responds. Real dice, factions, and consequences underneath; a complete, cinematic voyage you can actually finish. Every word human-authored. AI only does the telling.
Isentroth
Swear an oath and walk into the Isenmarch — a cold Norse frontier that does not explain itself. A Machine Game Master narrates your saga, answers the choices you make, and rolls the dice at your side. No two sagas are alike. What breaks first — your isen, or your troth?
Freedom Tower
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.
Swear an oath and walk into the Isenmarch — a cold Norse frontier that does not explain itself. A Machine Game Master narrates your saga, answers the choices you make, and rolls the dice at your side. No two sagas are alike. What breaks first — your isen, or your troth?
Why similar: Dice 16.9% ★, Text-Based 14.7%, RPG 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Choices Matter 10.5%
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 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Tabletop 10%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Mythology 9.6%
A narrative-driven RPG where every dice roll shapes your fate. Step into the role of the Queen's Herald and traverse a mist-shrouded realm to uncover the fate of her lost army. Will your choices uphold loyalty, or lead you down a path of betrayal? The secrets of the mists await.
Why similar: Text-Based 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Dice 11.9% ★, Choices Matter 10.6%
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: Mythology 18.5%, Text-Based 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Choices Matter 10.4%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Text-Based 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Visual Novel 10.9%
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Choices Matter 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Text-Based 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Visual Novel 9.2%
Spend your time well: in 30 days a powerful Magician arrives, and everything changes! Explore the wilds around your remote village, learn from mistakes, recover magical artifacts, and turn setbacks into advantages in this text-based open world roguelike adventure. Time's up: Upheaval is here again!
Why similar: Narrative 14.8% ★, Text-Based 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Turn-Based 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
A young man disappeared in a Slavic village. You show up with three companions and a few days to find out what really happened, before the water decides to answer for itself. Based on Adam Wołoszczuk's award-winning scenario "A kto dziewczyna?", with 11 different ways it can end.
Why similar: Narrative 15.1% ★, Dialogue Heavy 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Text-Based 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%
Become Odysseus, the king who brought down Troy, and survive the cursed voyage home. Every choice is remembered, and every death becomes a clue for your next attempt. A narrative survival adventure with no hidden dice — where even your first instincts are woven into the song.
Why similar: Mythology 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Text-Based 9.9%
A story-rich coming-of-age experience told through a 2004 desktop, where friendships, music, and late-night conversations shape who you become. Explore chats, drama, mini-games, and the early internet in a branching story about growing up, making mistakes, and finding your place.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Text-Based 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.1%
Speak for Earth in ROSETIA—a first contact CRPG for fans of hopeful sci-fi and hard choices. Win the trust of an alien civilization. Change their world or stay your hand. Become humanity’s finest diplomat or a disaster of cosmic proportions.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Narrative 9.7% ★, Choices Matter 9.5%, Tabletop 8.1%
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
Why similar: Dice 24.7% ★, Narrative 13.8% ★, Text-Based 10.4%, Dialogue Heavy 9.8%, Interactive Fiction 8.7%
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 26.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, RPG 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Choices Matter 7.2%
A dice-driven RPG, in a human and heartfelt sci-fi world. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head and no memory of your past. Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt.
Why similar: Dice 25.2% ★, Narrative 13.7% ★, Text-Based 10.6%, Dialogue Heavy 9.3%, Interactive Fiction 8.8%
"The Silent Huntress" is a visual novel in the genre of a dark fairy tale with choices and different endings. Not only the development of events will depend on your choices, but also the conclusions that the main character makes about her life and the world around her.
Why similar: Mythology 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Dialogue Heavy 12%, Dark Fantasy 11.6%, Visual Novel 9.6%
Chess. Love. Destiny. All the same things, really.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Dark Fantasy 14.3%, Dialogue Heavy 10.6%, RPG 10.1%, Visual Novel 9.6%
Chronicles of Humanity is an expanding anthology of historical visual novels. Enter different eras, weigh conflicting testimony under political and personal pressure, and shape who is protected, what is recorded, and how each life is remembered. Complete stories are released as separate DLC.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 15.5%, Text-Based 15.4%, Visual Novel 13%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choices Matter 12%
Guilt Free is a visual novel crossed with a point and click made to offer perspective on mental health and eating disorders. Navigate a couple's rocky relationship and encounter "flaws" or "quirks" that may actually be symptomatic behaviors.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.3%, Choices Matter 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%
Rogue-lite RPG Dicebuilding game. Roll the dice, choose your companions, organize your gear, explore all of Kardia, and die. Then try again! Try again and again. Experience a different story each time. Until you find The Winds of Fate.
Why similar: Dice 29.9% ★, Text-Based 16.2%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%
A text-based RPG full of choice and action. Fight for survival in the midst of the Roman invasion of ancient Caledonia. Strategize one dice roll at a time as emotions affect your performance. Use willpower to outsmart opponents, gain allies, wage war, or strive for peace. How will your story end?
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 15.1%, Text-Based 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Tabletop 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
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 18.1%, Text-Based 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Choices Matter 9.1%
In this narrative card game about relationships and communication, navigate conversations in a colorful world reminiscent of our own. Learn and grow through the cards you choose to play. Who will you become? What will you leave behind?
Why similar: Narrative 13.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Dialogue Heavy 12.3%, Text-Based 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%
Step into the world of Exercise your Demons, a 2d narrative adventure inspired by Irish fairies and folklore. Meet and befriend 5 locals while you work towards settling into the small fictional town called Inishsióg in County Galway, Ireland.
Why similar: Mythology 24.9%, Text-Based 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.3%
A crown upon your head, danger all around. Rule, marry, scheme, raise heirs, wage wars, fulfill prophecies, and survive the waking Wyrm. An interactive text-based dark fantasy novel, 850,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Dark Fantasy 9.4%
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 17.7%, Text-Based 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Visual Novel 11.3%, RPG 9.2%
Rewrite history in this narrative RPG set in the last days of Imperial Russia. Born into nobility, you will shape both your destiny and the fate of a nation.Will you preserve the old order, ignite the flames of revolution, or carve out your own path? Every decision will echo through time.
Why similar: Text-Based 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Dark Fantasy 10.6%
In this pre-smartphone-era text adventure, use that good ol’ T9 phone to text your way through the highs and lows of school days. Choose replies piece by piece to shape your own story. Friendships grow; feelings get complicated; secrets flicker. Every reply matters—it all happens Between the Lines.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Narrative 12.4% ★, Text-Based 12.1%, Choices Matter 10.5%
Mistbound is a surreal narrative adventure about overcoming trauma, where the line between reality and dreams is blurred. Loneliness can be too loud. And salvation can be too quiet!
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 16.4%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Text-Based 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
In this interactive narrative, you (a goblin custodian) fix up the neighborhood, help solve eccentric neighbors' problems, and uncover a dark and dangerous mystery, all while untangling the occasional drag & drop image puzzle!
Why similar: Mythology 19.9%, Narrative 18.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Text-Based 9.3%, Visual Novel 8.5%
Loot, bribe, gamble, survive. The dice will be your savior or your downfall in this story-driven RPG. Every roll matters when trying to uncover cosmic horrors and outwit megacorps. Pray your next roll won’t be your last.
Why similar: Dice 26% ★, Narrative 14.5% ★, Dialogue Heavy 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Choices Matter 8.2%
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: Text-Based 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Tabletop 10%, Visual Novel 8.4%
Find a way out of the Do 11 app by doing missions that come from the mysterious Do 11 app. A choice awaits you to solve puzzles and change the fate of the protagonist. Escape the main character from the Do 11 app while savoring a profound worldview and intriguing story. An incredible twist awaits.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Text-Based 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Choices Matter 11.5%
A narrative-driven psychological visual novel where every floor of an elevator reveals a key moment from your past. Face your regrets, uncover forgotten memories, and make choices that shape your future. Will you find closure, or remain trapped in your own mind?
Why similar: Text-Based 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Choices Matter 14.3%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
How far will you go to keep your crown? A branching court politics drama, where every choice matters. Navigate treacherous lords, scheming family members, and angry peasants- all while trying to secure your kingdom’s future.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Visual Novel 9.2%
A visual novel with RPG elements set in a Cyberpunk dystopia where you play a detective tasked with solving a smorgasbord of cases.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Text-Based 16.3%, Dice 13.9% ★, Visual Novel 12.5%, RPG 11.5%
"With good intentions" is a nonlinear visual novel. Escape from a cursed monastery, win over its mighty Overlord, save your love and uncover the mysteries of time itself!
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 15.3%, Text-Based 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Choices Matter 8.8%
A choose-your-own-adventure novel. Enter the mind of a black-ops team leader heading an impossible mission in a parallel universe. Choices are remembered, story events reflect past decisions, and freely rewind time to try different paths.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.6%
Walk through a broken game with Yoka in this psychological horror visual novel. Move dialogue windows, peer through fragmented images, and read records no one answers. What you touch, preserve, or leave behind shapes your conversations and leads to six endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 13.8%, Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Visual Novel 12.2%
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 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Choices Matter 14.2%, RPG 10.2%
A dark text-based RPG set in a world gripped by a restless race for survival against a merciless mushroom Forest. As a prophet’s apprentice, guide your clan along the knife-edge between life and oblivion. Decipher misty visions, make critical decisions, and do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Narrative 16% ★, Text-Based 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Choices Matter 10.9%
A pixelated homage to 16-bit RPGs, this former print-and-play card game has come full circle as a digital experience! Choose your champion, enter the tower, and make wise decisions on your ascent to face the Ice Lich at the top.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Choices Matter 10.4%
A fantasy adventure visual novel with humor and heart, by acclaimed adventure game writer Lori Ann Cole. Starring the voice of Zehra Fazal as Tilly, a mischief-making rogue at Hero-U, the school for heroes.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 20.9%, Text-Based 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Visual Novel 10.5%
The Fifth Horseman is a narrative adventure game, set in a fantasy-medieval world, where you will experience many unique stories. After years of war, hunger and diseases mankind finds itself on the verge of extinction and it's up to you to decide its fate.
Why similar: RPG 18.6%, Text-Based 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Choices Matter 11.2%
A grim, choice-driven interactive gamebook. As the First Ranger of a fortified homestead, you must defend the last survivors from the infected, manage critical resources, and investigate a dangerous internal conspiracy. Every decision shapes the survival of the living.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Text-Based 12.3%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.5%
To escape, you must hurt someone. KIZUTSUKE is a psychological suspense visual novel about four young men trapped together. Read their conversations, make difficult choices, and discover four endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%
Morin is a barkeeper with an unusual curse. All people look like shadows to him, except for one mysterious stranger... Solve the mystery of the curse, fight true darkness and mix the most unusual cocktails in the atmospheric visual novel — Into the Waves!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Text-Based 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.7%
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: Text-Based 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Mythology 11.9%, Choices Matter 7.9%
Decide the fate of the son of a tailor and a witch doctor infected with an incurable disease in an interactive story with multiple endings depending on your actions.
Why similar: Choices Matter 13.7%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Text-Based 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%
A medieval text quest in the "Choose Your Own Adventure" genre, where each choice could be your last. Create your story with more than 2,000 events, 200 of which will prove fatal. In a world where death plays against you, can you outsmart it and write your own story?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Text-Based 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Visual Novel 9.9%
Return to a hometown that hasn’t changed the way it should have. A psychological visual novel focused on atmosphere, relationships, and a reality that slowly refuses to stay still. Can you uncover the truth before it consumes you?
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Text-Based 13.4%, Visual Novel 11%
Embark on a thrilling journey through this highly engaging science fantasy visual novel with memorable characters and multiple endings. Journey through space, uncover the past and pull off a heist or two as you negotiate the pitfalls of friendship and a crumbling reality. Can you save the universe?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Dialogue Heavy 14.3%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Visual Novel 14%, RPG 10%
A fantasy RPG about saving a medieval town from a spreading curse as the Witch's Apprentice. Spend your limited daily actions investigating secrets, earning the trust of townsfolk, discovering the ingredients your ritual actually needs, and holding back the thorns before time runs out.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Text-Based 14.8%, Dark Fantasy 14.8%, Choices Matter 13%, RPG 10.7%
Relive the same day without remembering it. Your choices feed four inner alter egos (Shadow, Mad, Alex, and Bully) — shaping reality, glitches, and one of 16 possible endings. The day repeats. Your mind doesn’t. Or does it?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Text-Based 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.9%
A hardcore narrative RPG about an inquisitor who defied the Gods and returned from the Afterlife against Their Will. In a world where faith is fracturing, power is waning, and blood is spilled ever more often, your choices will decide what remains of the Empire. Complete the story of Sir El Brante!
Why similar: Choices Matter 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, RPG 12.2%, Dark Fantasy 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.9%
Alcyone: The Last City is an interactive sci-fi novel where your choices can lead to the salvation or destruction of the last refuge of civilisation in the universe. Immerse yourself in a branching narrative of diverse characters, intrigue, and world-altering decisions.
Why similar: Text-Based 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Dialogue Heavy 13.7%, Visual Novel 10.1%
A surprising mix of adventure and memory games, featuring RPG-inspired mechanics and immersive storytelling. Explore a crypt filled with traps, dangers, and hostile creatures. Will you uncover the crypt’s secrets, or will you become its next victim? Make strategic choices to survive.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Choices Matter 12.6%, RPG 9.2%
A conversation adventure where you spend the worst, best summer visiting your booze-loving senpai, making weird food, and sneaking out together at midnight.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Visual Novel 12%, Choices Matter 8.3%
Investigate six haunted properties and listen to the voices of spirits trapped in nightmares. Collect fragmented clues and discover the correct combination of names, locations, and vessels. A multi-ending horror adventure where the outcome changes depending on your choices during the ritual.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Text-Based 16.6%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Choices Matter 11.4%
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 24%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, RPG 13.3%
Hell’s throne is empty. Will you seize it? Command demons, forge dark bargains, shape the future of the afterlife—or watch it burn as chaos reigns. A text-based interactive dark fantasy novel, 630,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, RPG 15.8%, Dark Fantasy 14.1%
