- #1 Celestial Return
97% matchVery Positive88% of 159 reviews2026
Dev: Metaphor GamesPub: Shoreline Games
Windows
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 29.4% ★, CRPG 13.6%, Tabletop 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 9%, RPG 8.7%
- #2 Duskpunk
96% matchVery Positive92% of 182 reviews2025
Dev: Clockwork Bird
Windows · Mac · Linux
A gritty dice-driven RPG, in a steampunk city. You escaped the War, but how to survive? Explore the city. Build up your skills. Decide who to trust. Choose carefully: you might just spark a revolution!
Why similar: Tabletop 24.1%, CRPG 15.5%, RPG 11.7%, Multiple Endings 9%, Story Rich 8.5%
- #3 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
96% matchVery Positive88% of 12,656 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, RPG 20.8%, Story Rich 15.6%, Tabletop 8.1%
- #4 The Thaumaturge
95% matchVery Positive83% of 5,876 reviews2024
Dev: Fool's TheoryPub: 11 bit studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Thaumaturge is a character-driven RPG with a rich story, morally ambiguous choices, and turn-based combat. In a city on the brink of change, use your mystical powers to read emotions, uncover motives, and command folklore-inspired demons — while resisting the temptation of your own pride.
Why similar: CRPG 24.3%, RPG 17.6%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Story Rich 11.5%, Choices Matter 10.6%
- #5 Sultan's Game
94% matchVery Positive94% of 34,938 reviews2025
Dev: Double CrossPub: 2P Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 24.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Survive a mad Sultan's reign in this brutal resource management RPG. Draw a card every seven days and complete its challenge. Make dreadful choices to stay alive: will you die a loyal servant, become a kingslayer, or call down the gods' judgement?
Why similar: Tabletop 32%, Multiple Endings 15.7%, RPG 15.3%, Story Rich 11.2%, Choices Matter 10.9%
- #6 The Endless Empty
94% matchVery Positive97% of 318 reviews2018
Dev: Erik Sheader-Smith
Windows
A surreal post-life adventure
Why similar: RPG 25.2%, Psychedelic 17.9%, Surreal 17.7%, Story Rich 9.4%, Choices Matter 7.6%
- #7 Moves Of The Diamond Hand
93% matchVery Positive100% of 120 reviews2026
Dev: Cosmo D Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Immerse yourself in a first-person urban RPG, powered by dice and intrigue. Along the way, you might even shape the fate of a city. Become a Master of Disguise, a Master Sandwich Maker or ... something else. Whatever it takes to get the gig, right?
Why similar: Dice 32.8% ★, CRPG 15.1%, RPG 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Psychedelic 9.6%
- #8 Citizen Sleeper
91% matchVery Positive92% of 10,481 reviews2022
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 31.9% ★, Tabletop 17.7%, RPG 9.5%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
- #9 An Outcry
92% matchVery Positive93% of 124 reviews2022
Dev: Quinn K.
Windows
A branching-path narrative horror RPG set in Vienna, Austria. Guide the Unnamed through the worst night of their life: Harass your neighbours. Debate with birds. Smoke to survive.
Why similar: RPG 23.9%, Multiple Endings 22.6%, Story Rich 17%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Dark 11.3%
- #10 Pathologic 2
91% matchVery Positive92% of 12,156 reviews2019
Dev: Ice-Pick LodgePub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.
Why similar: RPG 16.1%, CRPG 15.8%, Surreal 15.1%, Story Rich 14.2%, Choices Matter 13.2%
- #11 Kowloon's Curse: Lost Report
90% matchVery Positive95% of 271 reviews2023
Dev: Studio [notes.]
Windows
Explore a surreal world inspired by Kowloon Walled city in this turn-based RPG inspired by Japanese dungeon crawlers from the late 1990s.
Why similar: RPG 38.5%, Multiple Endings 22.5%, Dark 13.1%, Adventure 11%, Atmospheric 5.4%
- #12 Songs of Rats
89% matchMostly Positive78% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: Tesseract GamesPub: Salient Games
Windows · Linux
The Wreckage resounds with the echoes of countless songs, filling the air of a constantly shifting maze where bravery and sacrifice are key to staying alive. Then, without warning, one song goes silent. Will you step into this dicey labyrinth and uncover its secrets in this minimalist and dark RPG?
Why similar: CRPG 35.5%, RPG 28.6%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Story Rich 12.6%, Adventure 6.9%
- #13 Shards of Order
88% matchVery Positive90% of 543 reviews2026
Dev: FardustPub: Awaken Realms
Windows
A grim RPG with card-based combat where nothing stays dead. Lead a party of survivors through a world undone by shattered Laws. Restore them and reshape the rules of the game, but be ready to face the consequences.
Why similar: RPG 25.8%, CRPG 21.8%, Story Rich 17.7%, Dark Fantasy 16.2%, Dark 6.9%
- #14 Betrayal At Club Low
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 584 reviews2022
Dev: Cosmo D Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Tonight you're on a rescue mission, infiltrating a nightclub that was once a coffin factory. Will you succeed? Will you fail? Or will your night take an unexpected detour? Roll the Pizza Dice and find out!
Why similar: Tabletop 33.7%, RPG 15.9%, Surreal 15.8%, Multiple Endings 13.1%, Choices Matter 9.6%
- #15 Prophecy of Ashen
85% matchMostly Positive80% of 232 reviews2026
Dev: hhyuGame
Windows
Prophecy of Ashen: a dark fantasy tactical CRPG. Be a secret messenger between the Hall's judgment and the Ashborne's vengeance. Recruit allies, use terrain and magic in turn-based combat. Your choices reshape Rattalan: uphold order or ignite destruction.
Why similar: CRPG 28.4%, RPG 19.6%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Dark Fantasy 10.8%, Strategy RPG 9.6%
- #16 Tyranny
86% matchVery Positive87% of 13,315 reviews2016
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Experience a story-driven RPG where your choices mean all the difference in the world.
Why similar: RPG 32.8%, CRPG 25.3%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Story Rich 13.4%, Dark Fantasy 9.7%
- #17 Dream Sketcher
86% matchMixed58% of 495 reviews2023
Dev: RisingPunch Studio
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Dream Sketcher is a 1-4 player investigative adventure game. As an investigator of the special agency Dreamland Security, you will form a team and enter the weirdest dreams to conduct brain-diving investigation. Danger is imminent, investigate, make choices, roll the dice, and fight!
Why similar: RPG 20.8%, Multiple Endings 18.3%, Choices Matter 15%, Dark Fantasy 14.3%, Story Rich 14%
- #18 There Swings a Skull: Grim Tidings
84% matchVery Positive97% of 75 reviews2022
Dev: Conor WalshPub: Poison The Inkwell
Windows
Enter the doomed town of Pareildas. Watch as the flames turn bone and stone to ash. Like joined wicks, we'll all burn together.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 21%, Surreal 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Story Rich 16.3%, Dark 11.6%
- #19 Postmortem: One Must Die (Extended Cut)
87% matchMostly Negative40% of 187 reviews2013
Dev: Unbound Creations
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 20%
Narrative-adventure playing an Agent of Death who must take ONE life that could change the fate of a conflict-torn Nation
Why similar: RPG 35.2%, Multiple Endings 12%, Adventure 11%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.4%
- #20 Chaos Chain
84% matchVery Positive93% of 70 reviews2022
Dev: Corrosive Studios LLC
Windows
A dark cyberpunk RPG in a bleak dystopian future. Become a "freelancer" in the heart of Slade City, a sprawling urban nightmare of grimy asphalt and broken dreams where crime and disorder run rampant. - Stay Alert. Stay Armed. Stay Alive. Don't lose your humanity.
Why similar: CRPG 29.2%, RPG 18.6%, Dystopian 13.7%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Exploration 10.3%
- #21 Whispers of the Eyeless
82% matchMostly Positive77% of 265 reviews2026
Dev: VenrisPub: Anshar Publishing
Windows
Become a cult leader and unleash divine power in this dark fantasy strategy RPG. You are the villain - you command disciples, outwit enemies in combat, and shape the fate of the fallen city as you awaken the Dead Gods — Wrath, Desire, and Madness.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 23.5%, Strategy RPG 22.6%, RPG 21.6%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Adventure 8.9%
- #22 Purgatory Dungeoneer
83% matchVery Positive87% of 55 reviews2022
Dev: Cannibal InteractivePub: Strange Scaffold
Windows
Purgatory Dungeoneer is a townbuilding roguelite RPG about plundering a psychic hellmaw for personal closure, and the resources to build a village beyond the grave.
Why similar: RPG 39%, Exploration 20.5%, Strategy RPG 20.4%, Story Rich 16.8%, Indie 3.3%
- #23 The Necromancer's Tale
80% matchVery Positive92% of 935 reviews2025
Dev: Psychic Software
Windows · Mac
A story-rich gothic RPG. Master the rituals of an ancient spellbook. Commune with the realm of the dead and struggle with your descent into madness. Build the power to raise an undead army and march against your enemies. Progress through secrecy, diplomacy, blackmail, coercion and seduction.
Why similar: CRPG 37.3%, RPG 21.6%, Story Rich 17.4%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Atmospheric 4.5%
- #24 Quasimorph
79% matchVery Positive82% of 7,882 reviews2026
Dev: Magnum ScriptumPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 27.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Take on a role of a hardened PMC fighter in a dark turn-based cyberpunk RPG. Engage in unforgiving combat, manage your ship and pile up the bodies of your clones to unravel the dark mystery behind threat to all life.
Why similar: RPG 40.4%, Dystopian 31.4%, Choices Matter 28.1%
- #25 Lawless Lands
82% matchVery Positive88% of 119 reviews2020
Dev: Corrosive Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Lawless Lands is a dark medieval role-playing game featuring a grim setting and innovative mechanics that allow players to delve into a low-fantasy, apocalyptic world of epic proportions. Defy and destroy the darkness that has taken hold over these Lawless Lands.
Why similar: CRPG 19.8%, RPG 17.1%, Multiple Endings 14.4%, Dark Fantasy 11.9%, Story Rich 11.5%
- #26 Hope Deferred
81% matchVery Positive98% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Tell All
Windows
Hope Deferred is a first-person psychological horror RPG. Explore nightmare worlds and search for understanding in this PSX inspired dungeon crawler.
Why similar: Psychedelic 20.1%, RPG 17.7%, Multiple Endings 17.2%, Surreal 16%, Choices Matter 11.7%
- #27 ANEURISM IV
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 6,227 reviews2025
Dev: Vellocet
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 31.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
A dystopian simulator where your choices shape a decaying city. Join other players to protect the metropolis from ruin, hasten its downfall, or simply work in the factories. With no set goals or rules, every action has consequences in a world teetering on the brink.
Why similar: Surreal 24.4%, RPG 24.1%, Psychedelic 23.9%, Dystopian 23.7%, Atmospheric 3.9%
- #28 City of Chains
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 343 reviews2015
Dev: Astronomic GamesPub: New Reality Games
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
City of Chains is a dark sci-fi RPG set in a dystopian city. Take control of a small group of escaped fugitives and lead them to their freedom. Decide whether to fight head on or to avoid combat, to help others or to go your own way, to show mercy or to kill. Your actions could affect the fate of the city.
Why similar: RPG 49.7%, Indie 21.1%, Dystopian 17%, Adventure 12.2%
- #29 Entropy
76% matchVery Positive95% of 190 reviews2026
Dev: Lovely HellplacePub: DreadXP
Windows
Entropy is a tactical turn-based RPG inspired by classic JRPGs. Assemble your party of mercenaries and forge your own path towards an expedition into hell to stop the demonic incursion. Choices you make along the way will determine the fate of your world.
Why similar: CRPG 37.2%, Dystopian 20.4%, Dark Fantasy 17%, RPG 14.9%, Story Rich 10.6%
- #30 Inhuman Resources: A Literary Machination
77% matchVery Positive92% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: Finnegan MotorsPub: Indie Asylum
Windows · Mac · Linux
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Surreal 15.5%, RPG 14.2%, Dystopian 13.1%, Multiple Endings 12.6%
- #31 Heads Will Roll
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 184 reviews2021
Dev: 1917 Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Hardcore survival RPG with non-linear story that lets you taste the life of a medieval soldier.
Why similar: CRPG 20.1%, RPG 19.8%, Multiple Endings 18%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Strategy RPG 12%
- #32 Cultist Simulator
77% matchMostly Positive80% of 14,130 reviews2018
Dev: Weather Factory
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.
Why similar: Tabletop 38%, Resource Management 19.7%, RPG 18%, Story Rich 12.2%, Choices Matter 12%
- #33 The Fortress
76% matchMostly Positive70% of 160 reviews2026
Dev: Baryonyx Games
Windows · Mac
The Fortress is a dark fantasy dungeon crawler with turn-based combat, mixing strategy and risk. Choose a class, delve into cursed chambers, roll dice to fight brutal enemies, and grab loot. Face tough choices, survive epic bosses, and fight to escape... or fall to the shadows
Why similar: RPG 28.3%, Dark Fantasy 28.2%, Dark 20.7%, Adventure 13.6%, Story Rich 8.2%
- #34 梦魇:无归 Nightmare without return
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 627 reviews2022
Dev: 青衣工作室
Windows
This is a journey without return When you wake up... In the strange space, the bronze gate that eats people, the strange rules of the game, and the ever-changing nightmare world appear in front of you Everything starts from here
Why similar: RPG 42%, Multiple Endings 22.8%, Story Rich 15.2%, Adventure 10.3%, Surreal 9.3%
- #35 7 Days
74% matchVery Positive99% of 101 reviews2025
Dev: Daver The DavePub: IC Industries
Windows
Step into a world where dreams and reality mix. You find yourself in a dream-like world, and explore a different traumatic experience each day. Your choice determines if the boy accepts these moments and moves on, or stays in the past.
Why similar: Surreal 19.4%, Multiple Endings 16.6%, Psychedelic 15.1%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Story Rich 11%
- #36 Pathologic 3
73% matchVery Positive80% of 2,770 reviews2026
Dev: Ice-Pick LodgePub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.
Why similar: Surreal 21.1%, RPG 20.6%, Story Rich 17.6%, Dystopian 15.4%, Choices Matter 15.2%
- #37 Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
71% matchVery Positive93% of 130,397 reviews2019
Dev: ZA/UM
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 22.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.
Why similar: RPG 25.4%, CRPG 18%, Story Rich 17.9%, Choices Matter 16.4%, Surreal 10.7%
- #38 First Session
75% matchVery Positive81% of 90 reviews2021
Dev: Lappi Soft
Windows
First Person Psychological Horror. Addicted to virtual ecstasy, trapped in digital hell. Navigate glitchy dreamscapes and a city that never sleeps. Every mission brings you closer to your next dose, but will you follow your protective AI, or the man behind a liberating new drug?
Why similar: Surreal 30.8%, Story Rich 26.8%, Dark 16.6%, Exploration 11.4%, Atmospheric 7.1%
- #39 Underchoice
72% matchMostly Positive76% of 123 reviews2026
Dev: TG IndiePub: Targem Games
Windows
Become the overseer and shape the fate of those who come knocking at the door. Each decision you make, whether it is to let in a stranger, to use your resources on something, or to risk the safety of the bunker.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 20.2%, Resource Management 19.2%, Dystopian 18.7%, Choices Matter 17.5%, Story Rich 15.4%
- #40 Omen Exitio: Plague
74% matchVery Positive85% of 638 reviews2018
Dev: Tiny Bull Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Investigate a paranormal disease that threatens to eradicate humanity in this unsettling Lovecraftian adventure, inspired by the choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks of the 80s and 90s. Your choices will determine the story, your character’s destiny… and the future of humanity.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.9%, Choices Matter 24.7%, Story Rich 23.5%, Adventure 8.5%, Indie 4.5%
- #41 The Life and Suffering of Prince Jerian
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,581 reviews2026
Dev: Schisma GamesPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: RPG 19.8%, Multiple Endings 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Dark Fantasy 11.7%
- #42 IZGUB 2001
71% matchVery Positive97% of 117 reviews2024
Dev: Dbrhdk
Windows
You decide how a civil war in the country of Izgub is supposed to end. Visual novel with strong themes of war, political violence and moral dilemma.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, RPG 18.2%, Psychedelic 15.4%, Dystopian 14.5%, Surreal 11.2%
- #43 Dice Gambit
69% matchVery Positive88% of 1,135 reviews2025
Dev: Chromatic InkPub: Spelkollektivet
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Shape and lead your own fully customisable (and debt-ridden) family of Inquisitors in charge of hunting the chromatic monsters infesting the city. Unlock unique abilities, hang out with eccentric nobles, learn the secrets the city holds while occasionally delivering ice cream!
Why similar: RPG 54.9%, Strategy RPG 45.1%
- #44 Die For The Lich
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 299 reviews2025
Dev: MonovoidPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
Gather magical dice, adapt your gear and venture through a land haunted by folklore creatures.
Why similar: Dice 84.4% ★, Dark 8.3%, Adventure 4.2%, Atmospheric 3.1%
- #45 Silmaris: Dice Kingdom
73% matchMixed66% of 98 reviews2020
Dev: PyrogenPub: Mi-Clos Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Unforgiving storytelling adventure with dice rolls and turn-based management. Make the right choices and roll the dice to rally the monarchs to your medieval kingdom by diplomacy, war or deception.
Why similar: Resource Management 54.3%, Choices Matter 33%, Indie 12.6%
- #46 Knock on the Coffin Lid
69% matchVery Positive84% of 2,907 reviews2024
Dev: RedBoon
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 22.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Investigate your own death, find ways to break free from a time loop, choose a hero who will ascend to the throne and rule the Northern gate! The fates of whole nations of the land of Midian depend on your choices.
Why similar: RPG 35.8%, Dark Fantasy 34.8%, Story Rich 25.8%, Indie 3.7%
- #47 Wooden Ocean
71% matchVery Positive97% of 249 reviews2020
Dev: Leif Ian AndersonPub: Self
Windows
Kill cosmic gods and their fascist sycophants in a post-entropy future. Become Violence. Become Romantic.
Why similar: RPG 28%, Surreal 27.8%, Dark Fantasy 17.4%, Story Rich 15.3%, Atmospheric 5%
- #48 A Place for the Unwilling
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 72 reviews2019
Dev: ALPixel Games
Windows · Mac
You only have 21 days until this living city dies. The clock is ticking. You can’t be everywhere at once. Decide what to explore, who to meet and see every decision shape the curious stories and terrible secrets of this branching narrative game.
Why similar: Choices Matter 25.3%, Story Rich 22%, Dark Fantasy 16.6%, Adventure 13.9%, Exploration 12.6%
- #49 Minds Beneath Us
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,307 reviews2024
Dev: BearBoneStudio
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 20.7%, RPG 20.2%, Dystopian 18.5%, Story Rich 15.7%, Choices Matter 15.7%
- #50 Inkshade
68% matchVery Positive88% of 631 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Vezelle
Windows
Inkshade is a turn-based tactics game carved out of strange wooden miniatures, wrapped in a web of locked rooms, and orchestrated by an otherworldly game master. Victory is not guaranteed, and the only constant is the cruel black ink that flows within the pieces.
Why similar: Tabletop 59.2%, RPG 28.6%, Atmospheric 6%, Dark 3.3%, Adventure 3%
- #51 A War of a Madman's Making
69% matchVery Positive97% of 116 reviews2024
Dev: Witching Metal Prod.
Windows
You are subordinate to the deranged dictator and must plan his doomed invasion in this text-based RPG / Visual Novel. Navigate the shark-filled waters of the Great Leader's presidential cabinet, try to save your family, and survive the purges in a world of power-hungry leaders and nuclear warfare.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Resource Management 15.2%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Story Rich 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.8%
- #52 Esoteric Ebb
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 9,245 reviews2026
Dev: Christoffer BodegårdPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Esoteric Ebb is a single-player CRPG inspired by the freedom of tabletop adventures. Unravel a political conspiracy with your goblin sidekick. Roll dice in tense encounters. Become a cleric of legends or completely ruin the campaign.
Why similar: CRPG 21.1%, Tabletop 17.5%, RPG 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Story Rich 11.7%
- #53 This Book Is A Dungeon
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 297 reviews2015
Dev: Nathan MeunierPub: Plug In Digital
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Auto-cannibalism. Demonic Seduction. Occult Rituals. Bloodfeasting Worms. This dark, horrific Twine-based dungeon crawler pairs edgy interactive fiction with grisly pixel art and light RPG elements. Navigate this sprawling narrative-driven labyrinth bristling with otherworldly doom.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 72.4%, Adventure 19.4%, Indie 8.2%
- #54 Dead Finger Dice
68% matchMostly Positive80% of 238 reviews2025
Dev: Rocket Adrift GamesPub: Black Lantern Collective
Windows · Linux
Play a sinister game of poker dice against blood-thirsty demon billionaires who’ve trapped you on their mega yacht in this rogue-like dice builder.
Why similar: Dice 85.7% ★, Dystopian 14.3%
- #55 Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
70% matchMixed66% of 2,521 reviews2019
Dev: Cultic GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Delve into a role-playing game of horror, loss and madness set in the strange worlds of HP Lovecraft. Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones offers a mix of rich role-playing and turn-based tactical combat, represented in an illustrative visual style. Can you find salvation in a dead world?
Why similar: RPG 51.9%, CRPG 16.2%, Story Rich 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Adventure 4.3%
- #56 The Testing Chamber
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 705 reviews2022
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
For every action, there is a reaction... For every choice, a result... Dive deep into your subconscious as you wander the halls of The Testing Chamber & join hundreds of thousands of other players in one of the biggest & most successful social experiments ever performed.
Why similar: Multiple Endings 32.4%, RPG 29.6%, Choices Matter 22.3%, Tabletop 14.3%, Atmospheric 1.5%
- #57 Shambles: Sons of Apocalypse
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 395 reviews2025
Dev: EXLIXPub: GRAVITY
Windows
“The world you knew is already collapsed.”As an explorer in a bunker, explore a new world 500 years in the future and decide its fate. You can lead the world back to doom or bring it to peace. It all depends on your choices.
Why similar: RPG 24.7%, Multiple Endings 18.2%, Dystopian 13.3%, Story Rich 13.1%, Exploration 12.8%
- #58 Entity Researchers: Prologue
68% matchVery Positive84% of 77 reviews2022
Dev: Newbuild-CPub: G-DEVS.com
Windows · Linux
You just got hired by EIRI; researching and battling the Visitors, a dark sci-fi RPG with themes of exploration and survival.
Why similar: CRPG 35.1%, RPG 21.1%, Surreal 17.8%, Exploration 13.3%, Dystopian 12.7%
- #59 Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
64% matchVery Positive91% of 2,629 reviews2025
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 31.7% ★, Tabletop 18.4%, RPG 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 9.1%, Multiple Endings 8.3%