- #1 Until the End
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 八萩
Windows
Love remembers you. Even if you’ve forgotten.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.2%, Text-Based 27.2%, Visual Novel 21.3%, RPG 8.9%, Adventure 6.2%
- #2 The Luminous Underground
96% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2020
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Blast spirits out of a haunted subway system! Can your team defeat rival exterminators, shoddy gear, and City Hall?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.6%, Dynamic Narration 17.5% ★, Text-Based 16.9%, RPG 13.2%, Lore-Rich 11.1%
- #3 HPL: Nyarlathotep Rising
96% match9 user reviews56% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Touched by GracePub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac
Dive deep into the twisted HP Lovecraft universe with this oversized narrative RPG. Slip into the intertwined souls of Mark, Anna, and Victor, surrounded by cult worshippers, as Nyarlathotep, the cosmic horror, strives to enslave humanity in 1929.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Text-Based 14.6%, Lore-Rich 13.1%, Visual Novel 10%
- #4 Reborn
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gecko Gaming
Windows
A visual novel written as a psychological horror RPG where your choices shape your life, leading to irreversible consequences and determining how your descent into darkness unfolds. The game can end in many different ways. Your choices determine how.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Text-Based 17.4%, Visual Novel 16.5%, RPG 14.8%, Psychological Horror 7.7%
- #5 Blackout: The Darkest Night
94% matchPositive88% of 25 reviews2021
Dev: MiniChimera Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
You have been part of something terrible, something so unspeakable that caused you to blackout and forget all the events from the past few days. Now you are faced with the choice of going after the truth, facing the shadows that hide within our world, or trying to forget and leave all this behind.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Lovecraftian 17.3%, Text-Based 16.2%, RPG 14.2%, Psychological Horror 7.8%
- #6 Choice of Rebels: Uprising
94% matchVery Positive89% of 145 reviews2017
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lead the revolt against a bloodthirsty empire! You grew up under the iron fist of the Hegemony. Now is your chance to end their blood-fueled magic, as you forge a ragtag outlaw band into a rebel army.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.3%, Text-Based 28.6%, RPG 15.4%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Adventure 7.1%
- #7 Heart of the House
93% matchVery Positive90% of 77 reviews2017
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
When your uncle Kent mysteriously disappears, you'll embark on a journey find out what really happened. What will you sacrifice when trapped in a haunted manor? Will you destroy this evil or claim its power? And can love bloom in a haunted house?
Why similar: Text-Based 31.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.5%, RPG 15.6%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Adventure 7.2%
- #8 Choice of the Cat
92% matchPositive93% of 28 reviews2017
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Knock things over. Take a nap. Enslave humanity. It's the biggest text-based cat simulator ever, over 600,000 words! They will give you belly rubs, or else.
Why similar: Text-Based 30.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.4%, RPG 14.6%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Adventure 7.1%
- #9 The Keytox Project
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BitRot Studios
Windows
The Keytox Project follows Anthony as he attempts to turn his life around. He takes a job at a government program, going to space, with his partner, Will. Their job is to hunt down alien lifeforms to ensure the safety of humanity. But what they find outside of Earth is far deeper than planned.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.4%, Lore-Rich 18.8%, Visual Novel 17%, Text-Based 13.4%, RPG 13.1%
- #10 Twinkle★Nights
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: シラビノ遊屋Pub: shirabino
Windows
夜の世界で「星のかけら」を集める少女アイの ゆるくてかわいい街ブラノベルゲーム!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.5%, Text-Based 29.6%, Visual Novel 23.8%, Adventure 10.9%, Indie 2.2%
- #11 Saga of the North Wind
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 16 reviews2016
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
The gods chose you to lead your tribe on a deadly pilgrimage to the North! When future generations recite your saga, will they sing of glory or downfall?
Why similar: Text-Based 28.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.4%, RPG 18.4%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Adventure 8.5%
- #12 Into Oblivion
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NanoLion
Windows
Into Oblivion is an immerse interactive novel where your choices shape the story. Set in the far-future, explore a galaxy on the brink of crisis with dynamic companions. So, settle your mind and pray you have what it takes to fly Into Oblivion.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Text-Based 18%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Lore-Rich 15.2%, RPG 15.2%
- #13 Choice of Magics
89% matchVery Positive93% of 163 reviews2018
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your magic can change the world, but at what cost? Battle dragons, skyships, and evil Inquisitors, as you protect your homeland, conquer it, or destroy it forever!
Why similar: Text-Based 37.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 32.9%, RPG 15.4%, Adventure 8%, Indie 6.1%
- #14 Tutor X Hypnosis
88% matchMixed67% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: POISONPub: PRODUCTION PENCIL
Windows
The main character is looked down upon at her part-time job. Using a hypnotic object given to him by a college senior, we'll test the mother and daughter by making them do various naughty things.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28%, Text-Based 23.5%, Visual Novel 21.3%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, Adventure 8.9%
- #15 Days with the Ogre Girl
86% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: POISONPub: PRODUCTION PENCIL
Windows
Izumi, the demon girl you accidentally captured. A novel adventure game where you gradually connect hearts as you spend your days together with Izumi.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.7%, Visual Novel 25.3%, Text-Based 22.5%, Adventure 11.4%, Atmospheric 5.2%
- #16 Scribe
86% matchPositive91% of 33 reviews2024
Dev: TalesBar
Windows
Scribe is a scribe simulator in which you can secretly shape the destinies of the inhabitants of the estate: resolve disputes, influence the course of family intrigues, decide who lives and who does not. Choose what to write in letters and whether to change their recipients!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Text-Based 20.8%, Dynamic Narration 19.8% ★, Visual Novel 12.9%, Choices Matter 9%
- #17 The Hero Unmasked!
87% matchPositive86% of 29 reviews2017
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Impersonate your identical twin as the Swashbuckler, masked champion of justice! You have two weeks to rescue the REAL Swashbuckler and marry the mayor before superpowered criminals take over the city.
Why similar: Text-Based 30.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.3%, RPG 18.8%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Adventure 9.1%
- #18 Flesh Blossom
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crimson Pearl Games
Windows
You are Doctor Parsnip Green, the first and last line of defense against a grotesquely beautiful epidemic. Make difficult choices as you investigate the disease’s origin, operate on patients, and fight to save those you love - all while managing your own dwindling sanity.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Psychological Horror 17%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Lovecraftian 14.3%, Lore-Rich 9.5%
- #19 Ballad of the Midnight Man
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Marry Me Jester Productions
Windows
Survive the Midnight Man in this horror comedy visual novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25%, Dynamic Narration 21% ★, Text-Based 18.5%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Psychological Horror 10.6%
- #20 Sabres of Infinity
84% matchVery Positive93% of 183 reviews2016
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Wage a war of gunpowder and magic! As a gentleman-officer of the Royal Dragoons, will you sacrifice your fortune? Your honour? Your men? Your own life?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 44.9%, Text-Based 23.5%, RPG 18%, Adventure 8.3%, Indie 5.3%
- #21 Choice of Alexandria
83% matchVery Positive96% of 77 reviews2016
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 37.3%, Text-Based 27.4%, RPG 19.1%, Adventure 10.2%, Indie 5.9%
- #22 Memories of Tomorrow
82% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2021
Dev: Digital Bard Games
Windows
A Slice-of-life Anime Visual Novel about 4 friends trying to recapture old feelings. Has multiple story branches and endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Text-Based 18%, Lore-Rich 15.8%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Psychological Horror 10.3%
- #23 Buried: An Interactive Story
82% matchVery Positive95% of 161 reviews2016
Dev: Bromoco Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Buried is a playable, interactive story told through stunning photos, a haunting soundscape, and gripping text. You play the role of Roger Hastings, a logger who awakens to find his friends missing, uncovering something that should have stayed hidden...
Why similar: Text-Based 35.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.5%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Adventure 10%, Indie 6.9%
- #24 The Quiet After
80% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Grigsby's World Productions, LLC
Windows
The threat is on the road ahead and deep beneath her skin. A psychological visual novel about memory, trauma, and the cost of every choice.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.6%, Visual Novel 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Psychological Horror 15%, Lore-Rich 11.8%
- #25 Creatures Such as We
81% matchPositive92% of 36 reviews2017
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Living on the moon is lonely, and stressful, and exhausting. Video games have always offered you an escape to a better life. The easy, happy life you wish you had. Which makes it so frustrating when the game you've been playing ends badly.
Why similar: Text-Based 32.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.6%, RPG 20.8%, Adventure 9.6%, Indie 6.1%
- #26 空野まなみの事件録 ― 空白のカルテ ―
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rabbitly
Windows
Medical clerk Manami Sorano discovers a medical record of a non-existent patient. The next day at a hot spring inn, a murder occurs—the victim’s name matches the record. Coincidence or fate? Using her skills and medical records, she unravels the truth in this mystery adventure!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 40.1%, Text-Based 29%, Visual Novel 23.2%, Adventure 7%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #27 Runt of the Litter
81% matchVery Positive80% of 51 reviews2017
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Steal and raise a baby war gryphon! Will you fight dragons together to save the empire, or defy the empire and lead your people to freedom?
Why similar: Text-Based 31.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 31.5%, RPG 21.2%, Adventure 9.3%, Indie 6.5%
- #28 Imperial Bureaucracy Hero
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Munitions Mori
Windows · Mac · Linux
IBH is a rich role playing game at the end of time. You're a mid-level official in a dying sci-fi regime, given the impossible task of fixing a faltering machine; explore a vast world, define your mind, flex your authority, and become a sinner or a savior in countless other stories.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.6%, Visual Novel 17.4%, RPG 13.8%, Text-Based 12.7%, Lore-Rich 10.5%
- #29 Sign White
78% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: Team Marlo
Windows
"Sign White" is a text visual novel set in a fictionalized medieval era. Send letters from your pigeon house to communicate with people for a limited period of time. Make connections to save people, listen to their worries, and participate in important decisions to change the fate of the world.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.6%, Text-Based 29.7%, Visual Novel 23.8%, Adventure 10.7%, Indie 2.3%
- #30 狂信ちゃん
78% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: アルティネット
Windows
It is a multi-ending novel game depicting the fan of VTuber "Toaru" "Hinade-chan" and "I" go to an off-line meeting and finish the off-line meeting.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.9%, Visual Novel 26.4%, Text-Based 19.3%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Adventure 6.8%
- #31 Tower of the Ice Lich
77% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: Arcane Lorelabs
Windows · Mac
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 24.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24%, Lore-Rich 20.4%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Choices Matter 7.9%
- #32 The Fifth Horseman
77% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2019
Dev: Angelo Parodi
Windows
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 22.1%, Text-Based 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Choices Matter 8.6%
- #33 貴方が狼カードデス!
75% matchVery Positive93% of 56 reviews2023
Dev: toRipota
Windows
Accuse and execute the owner of the werewolf card. It's a 5-minute round of a repeated death game in the werewolf genre.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 38%, Text-Based 25.4%, Visual Novel 22.1%, Choices Matter 7.9%, Adventure 6%
- #34 Guns of Infinity
76% matchVery Positive96% of 137 reviews2016
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 40%, Text-Based 28.6%, RPG 17.6%, Adventure 8.5%, Indie 5.4%
- #35 The Trial
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NowakGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested." Story about life, choices and a Man vs the System. This unique interactive literature adaptation. A game, brought to You in early visual novel, text-adventure style.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Text-Based 21.6%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Psychological Horror 12.5%, Choices Matter 9.2%
- #36 Dream Enders RPG
76% matchPositive87% of 23 reviews2019
Dev: C.A.Withey
Windows
A visual, interactive story with unique characters, consequential dialogue choices, and branching story paths set in the world of an M.M.O.R.P.G.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Dynamic Narration 21.3% ★, Text-Based 16.9%, Lore-Rich 14.5%, Visual Novel 13%
- #37 Black Lazar
74% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: Pleon Words
Windows
A detective noir, choose-your-own-adventure game with hand-drawn art, over 250k words, and an immersive soundtrack.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 24.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Lore-Rich 16.2%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Text-Based 12.6%
- #38 Sorcery Is for Saps
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 21 reviews2016
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
An apprentice sorcerer should never steal a master's identity! Will your powers save the king--or will you turn traitor and seize the throne yourself?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.4%, Text-Based 27.9%, RPG 21.4%, Adventure 10.4%, Indie 6.9%
- #39 Tome of Fates
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: Grey Mount Studio
Windows · Linux
Adventure Gamebook: Dive into an interactive experience where you can create, play, and share your own unique stories. Use the intuitive story editor to craft narratives without coding, explore them solo or in co-op with friends, and share them on the Workshop for everyone to enjoy.
Why similar: Text-Based 27.6%, Dynamic Narration 26.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.8%, Choices Matter 9.4%, RPG 5.3%
- #40 Hollywood Visionary
73% matchVery Positive89% of 90 reviews2015
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Make the movie of your dreams amid the glamor and romance of 1950s Hollywood! Hire Alfred Hitchcock, seduce Greta Garbo, or build your studio into a powerhouse.
Why similar: Text-Based 35.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 35.5%, RPG 22.4%, Indie 6.6%
- #41 Cthulhu Mythos ADV The Isle Of Ubohoth
71% matchPositive88% of 34 reviews2024
Dev: Gotcha Gotcha Games
Windows · Mac
A horror dice roll adventure inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos. Much like in a tabletop RPG, "abilities," "luck," and "dice rolls" influence the story's progression. The protagonist is cursed on an island in the Seto Inland Sea. Investigate the island, uncover the mysteries, and break the curse!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 29.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Text-Based 11.7%, Psychological Horror 7.9%
- #42 VERSUS: The Elite Trials
73% matchPositive88% of 33 reviews2016
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 31.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.1%, RPG 15.7%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Adventure 7.2%
- #43 Life of a Wizard
73% matchVery Positive81% of 67 reviews2017
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Write an archmage's autobiography in this 80-year 130,000-word interactive fiction! Play good or evil, man or woman, as you bring peace to the kingdom or take over the world with your sorcery. Brew potions, raise the dead, summon mythical beasts, control men's minds, and blast away your enemies.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.4%, Text-Based 28.8%, RPG 23.1%, Adventure 10.2%, Indie 6.5%
- #44 Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven
72% matchVery Positive86% of 236 reviews2016
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Zombies rise again at the dawn of Apocalypse! In this companion to the smash-hit Zombie Exodus, can you survive the early days of society's collapse?
Why similar: Text-Based 36%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.2%, RPG 18.9%, Adventure 7.3%, Choices Matter 7%
- #45 Highlands, Deep Waters
72% matchPositive84% of 37 reviews2017
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
While investigating a murder in a small Scottish town, you’ll find yourself embroiled in a world of secrets, cultists, and abyssal horror. What are you willing to do to solve the case? And what will you do when you don’t like the answer?
Why similar: Text-Based 30.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.1%, RPG 22.1%, Adventure 10.7%, Indie 6.8%
- #46 Heart of mobius
70% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: gunsturn Inc.
Windows · Mac
Dive into a captivating standalone story in just an hour! Presenting the first installment of the "Handy Novel" series. Highly praised on smartphones, this acclaimed narrative is now ready for your enjoyment on Steam for PC/Mac!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.6%, Text-Based 28.1%, Visual Novel 22.2%, Adventure 9.8%, Choices Matter 6.7%
- #47 The Superlatives: Aetherfall
71% matchPositive89% of 28 reviews2017
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lead a superpowered team of "Superlatives" to defend 19th-century Victorian London! Battle a Martian warship, clockwork monsters, and nefarious inventors. Don your mask, take to the skies, and God save the Queen!
Why similar: Text-Based 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, RPG 23.2%, Adventure 10.8%, Choices Matter 9.9%
- #48 Follow the Black Kitten
70% matchVery Positive84% of 68 reviews2022
Dev: Total
Windows
You buy a laptop with your hands. You find an interactive collection of short stories on your laptop and something else. Or someone? What will all this lead to?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.9%, Text-Based 19.5%, Visual Novel 19.1%, RPG 16.4%, Adventure 8.7%
- #49 Sisters hypnosis sex
69% matchMostly Negative30% of 10 reviews2023
Dev: POISONPub: PRODUCTION PENCIL
Windows
This is "heroines serving heroines" play, not SM & training type. In addition to the usual blow-job and titty-slapping, you can enjoy soap play and other forms of "obedience" play that can only be performed in a situation of absolute submission.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.6%, Visual Novel 22.2%, Text-Based 18.9%, Psychological Horror 15%, Adventure 9.1%
- #50 Community College Hero: Trial by Fire
69% matchVery Positive85% of 254 reviews2015
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Outwit your professors at superpower school! Ace your exams, date classmates, and bring down the nation’s most wanted villains to earn your degree.
Why similar: Text-Based 42.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.5%, RPG 20.7%, Indie 6.6%
- #51 Fatehaven
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 87 reviews2016
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Combat, romance, adventure, and of course—magic! Master four elements and take on fate itself in this epic, interactive fantasy tale! Six possible endings. Four hours for a single playthrough. Three love interests. Countless choices. Male or female? Leader or loner? Good or evil? What kind of mage will you be?
Why similar: Text-Based 29.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.8%, RPG 22.9%, Adventure 10.6%, Indie 6.7%
- #52 Evertree Inn
69% matchPositive80% of 45 reviews2017
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A mysterious tavern with a deadly secret! Check-in to this magical tale of murder and mystery where not everything is as it seems. Explore the tavern in secret or in style, meet and mingle with guests and staff, wield weapons and magic and uncover clues before the killer strikes again!
Why similar: Text-Based 29.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.7%, RPG 22.9%, Adventure 10.6%, Indie 7%
- #53 At Eve’s Wake Definitive Edition
67% matchPositive84% of 44 reviews2021
Dev: Sugar Rush Studios
Windows
An interactive Lovecraftian horror story about surviving a family you never knew and their servitude to a dark patron. True to the genre, you retain all knowledge from every play-through. Shape your fate and that of the family. Will you embrace this gift or rid humanity of their taint?
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 23.8% ★, Lovecraftian 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Visual Novel 14.2%, Psychological Horror 13.3%
- #54 Tale of Two Cranes
67% matchMixed57% of 21 reviews2024
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Fulfill your epic destiny in mythic ancient China! Lead armies, wield magic, and put an emperor on the throne - or become the emperor yourself!
Why similar: Text-Based 39.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28%, RPG 13%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Adventure 3.2%
- #55 Before They Catch Us
65% matchPositive90% of 20 reviews2025
Dev: ANTertainment
Windows · Linux
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: Text-Based 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Lore-Rich 13.2%, Narrative 10.4% ★
- #56 Welcome to Moreytown
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 42 reviews2017
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 35.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 33.3%, RPG 16.2%, Adventure 9.5%, Indie 5.5%
- #57 The Trials - Chapter Two
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hama Studios
Windows
A classic 90s choose your own adventure style horror visual novel. Escape the horrors hunting you, make decisions, forge your own path. An original complete story with multiple endings. Choose your own play style with a Text Adventure Mode, sound effects, and an ambient soundtrack.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.9%, Text-Based 17.7%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Psychological Horror 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.2%
- #58 Electric Sleep
68% matchPositive93% of 14 reviews2019
Dev: Vlad Abadzhiev-JahnPub: Emotion and Soul
Windows · Mac · Linux
Electric Sleep is a pixel art interactive story. Explore a crumbling world through the perspective of different emotions.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.5%, Text-Based 31.5%, Visual Novel 22%, Atmospheric 4.5%, Adventure 4.3%
- #59 Athanasy
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 529 reviews2022
Dev: WirionPub: 7DOTS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Deep beneath the surface of the dead Earth, the City, the last refuge of humanity, hides. Engineering genius and efforts of all mankind; a giant structure of steel, concrete, and biopolymers. It keeps the remnants of civilization one step away from total extinction.
Why similar: Dynamic Narration 19.9% ★, Text-Based 18.4%, Lore-Rich 16.3%, Lovecraftian 13.4%, Visual Novel 13.2%
- #60 VERSUS: The Lost Ones
68% matchVery Positive82% of 168 reviews2015
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Steal alien powers and absorb their memories! Can you outlast your opponents to escape from planet Versus? An epic adventure in a new galaxy.
Why similar: Text-Based 38.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 31%, RPG 23.8%, Indie 6.4%