60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Text-Based, RPG, Indie.
An interactive fiction game about identity and self-discovery. Decide your own path through the labyrinth's strange halls, and confront the terrors and mysteries within.
The Lighthouse of Black Salt
A dark gamebook-inspired RPG where your choices, luck, and blade decide what the sea keeps. Climb a cursed lighthouse and uncover the name buried beneath the bell.
Monsters of Little Haven
At the heart of the action are a twelve-year-old Kenneth and his younger sister Esme, children of the Murphy family, who hit the trail of a mysterious monster following series of entangled events.
A dark gamebook-inspired RPG where your choices, luck, and blade decide what the sea keeps. Climb a cursed lighthouse and uncover the name buried beneath the bell.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.1%, Nonlinear 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, RPG 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.5%
At the heart of the action are a twelve-year-old Kenneth and his younger sister Esme, children of the Murphy family, who hit the trail of a mysterious monster following series of entangled events.
Why similar: Nonlinear 27.4%, Text-Based 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Horror 10.8%, Psychological 9%
Tiara is an exploration-focused narrative game where you play through a number of days (and dream through a number of nights) to uncover the story of Tiara's life.
Why similar: Nonlinear 25.9%, Surreal 18%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Psychological 13%, Atmospheric 10.9%
A text role-playing game about the fate of a mercenary who finds himself in the strange village: Villienville. Investigate who benefits from the sudden appearance of “ghosts” and help residents protect their homes from a mysterious enemy. The main thing is not to make a mistake in your choice!
Why similar: Nonlinear 31.2%, Text-Based 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, RPG 7.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.6%
Walk the path of a legendary mage, combining four different schools of magic to devastating effects.
Why similar: Text-Based 32%, Interactive Fiction 24.6%, RPG 14.3%, Magic 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%
Experience the hunt for the Monster living in your room in this Visual Novel experience. Your choices will determine the fate of both you and the Monster. Will you figure out what the Monster really is?
Why similar: Text-Based 29.6%, Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Surreal 14.1%, Horror 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
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: Text-Based 35.5%, Interactive Fiction 33.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Adventure 10.3%, Atmospheric 9.1%
Choose, explore, interact, fight, solve, gather, trade! Rise to rebel in this immersive text-based fantasy story that seamlessly merges the best elements of RPGs, choose-your-own-adventure stories, visual novels, and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 29.1%, Nonlinear 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.1%, Atmospheric 7.1%
Dive into the 'Sacrifices', a narrative-driven adventure game where you unravel the poignant tale of a child's reality.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.6%, Text-Based 24.9%, RPG 17.7%, Psychological 9.3%, Horror 7.4%
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: Text-Based 42.8%, Interactive Fiction 38.5%, Atmospheric 10.4%, Adventure 8.3%
The discovery of an old magic book turns your life upside down. Will you succeed in becoming a guild wizard—or will you travel a different path?
Why similar: Text-Based 36.1%, Interactive Fiction 31.1%, Magic 14.9%, RPG 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 4.3%
A dialogue sim about eternity and our minds.
Why similar: Text-Based 27.5%, Nonlinear 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Surreal 11.3%, Atmospheric 6.9%
Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.
Why similar: Text-Based 28.8%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Surreal 10.5%, Psychological 10%, Atmospheric 8.1%
A game about presence.
Why similar: Nonlinear 27.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Text-Based 18.7%, Surreal 12.4%, RPG 9.6%
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: Text-Based 31.3%, Interactive Fiction 27.3%, RPG 17.2%, Magic 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
Explore a Fallout 2 inspired tactical grid map in this text-based sci-fi cRPG. You blacked out in 2089 and woke up 300 years later to a solar system reduced to ruins. Scavenge ships, craft items, and survive turn-based combat as narrative choices shape your journey.
Why similar: Text-Based 40.4%, Interactive Fiction 33.7%, RPG 11.4%, Atmospheric 5.2%, Exploration 4.6%
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: Nonlinear 36.1%, Text-Based 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, RPG 9.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.6%
Nightmare Tale is an interactive horror novel with dark secrets and intricate puzzles. Take control of the fate of the main character named Tom, who inherited an old hotel. You will have to keep your sanity while discovering the horrifying secrets of the hotel.
Why similar: Nonlinear 30.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Text-Based 16.6%, Horror 12.8%, Atmospheric 9.4%
Alchemy, puzzles, and a crashed starship. Old-style interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No dialogue trees! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next.
Why similar: Text-Based 44.5%, Interactive Fiction 41.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%, Adventure 5%
Open-world illustrated text-based RPG. Inspired by classic role-playing video games and fantasy gamebooks, the secret of darkwoods is a free game, a non-linear standalone adventure with side quests in a vast world.
Why similar: Text-Based 36%, Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Nonlinear 22.2%, RPG 16.6%, Singleplayer 0.8%
《禁忌》是一款关于表里世界、梦境与现实的悬疑恐怖剧情游戏。 故事围绕中学生徐灿的视角，讲述春游校车事故之后，徐灿意外觉醒某种诡异的感知能力，与神秘少女岳灵药一起重返废弃矿镇调查真相的同时，逐渐寻回被遗忘的记忆……
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.1%, Nonlinear 28.8%, RPG 18.8%, Horror 11.3%, Adventure 10.1%
Waking up alone in a derelict terraforming facility on an unknown (and distinctly not terraformed) planet, it's up to you to find a way to survive, learn what happened to the people who lived here and why you were abandoned in this narrative-driven incremental game.
Why similar: Nonlinear 37.8%, Text-Based 32.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Exploration 6.9%, Adventure 3.8%
What would be your first and last wish if you died tomorrow? Explore this mysterious and frightening island. Solve its puzzles. And discover the truth before sinking into the purest madness that can exist... That of knowing your death.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Nonlinear 21.7%, Text-Based 19.2%, Psychological 14.9%, Surreal 13.4%
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 46.8%, Interactive Fiction 25.9%, RPG 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%
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: Text-Based 28.7%, Interactive Fiction 25.1%, RPG 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Magic 8.7%
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 37.3%, Interactive Fiction 26.7%, RPG 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Adventure 7.7%
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: Text-Based 48.4%, Interactive Fiction 40.6%, Adventure 9.1%, Singleplayer 1.9%
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 43.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, RPG 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Adventure 9.5%
What do mirror reflections do once they have no one to repeat after anymore? Play as Iris, quite a sarcastic reflection torn between the urge to unravel the mystery of death of her “prototype” and the need to find her place in a mirrored world.
Why similar: Nonlinear 25.6%, Text-Based 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Psychological 8.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.2%
BEL/S is an Elemental Firewall: a fire elemental bound with C++ code to protect a network of people and places. She can learn things, develop relationships, and even gain sapience. Or she can burn everything with fire. It's up to you.
Why similar: Text-Based 41.4%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, RPG 18%, Adventure 8.6%, Female Protagonist 7.6%
You wake up at the bottom of the ocean, surrounded by your broken memories. Reclaim and compile your magic or drown in a sea of dreams.
Why similar: Text-Based 36.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, RPG 15.5%, Magic 10.2%, Adventure 7.1%
Yun Tianming gave Cheng Xin a small universe, and I also want to give you one!
Why similar: Nonlinear 30.2%, Text-Based 30.1%, Interactive Fiction 30%, RPG 5.5%, Hand-drawn 3.2%
Can you and your friends master the ocean's magic and save your school? Dance, fight, and flirt with the other sea nymphs, selkies, and sirens!
Why similar: Text-Based 30.4%, Interactive Fiction 27.8%, RPG 17.2%, Magic 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%
Rush the university's secret societies as a first-year Magical Studies major! Will you keep your magic a secret from the mundanes or expose the truth?
Why similar: Text-Based 30.8%, Interactive Fiction 28.8%, RPG 17.7%, Magic 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%
Succubus Stories is an erotic text-based adventure game. You play as a peasant girl turned succubus, plotting her revenge against the powerful people who stole her family's land. She needs to consume "a certain bodily fluid" to survive, and has to manage her lust as she gets closer to her goals.
Why similar: Nonlinear 32.3%, Text-Based 26.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Female Protagonist 8.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.9%
From the creator of Speed Dating for Ghosts comes a new weird text adventure about death and sleep paralysis set in the late 1980s.
Why similar: Nonlinear 26%, Text-Based 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Surreal 10.8%, Horror 8.1%
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 31.9%, Text-Based 31.5%, RPG 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Adventure 3.5%
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 46.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, RPG 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.1%, Adventure 5.3%
A text adventure game about a 19th century explorer who finds himself stranded and alone.
Why similar: Text-Based 47.1%, Interactive Fiction 42.1%, Adventure 10.8%
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: Text-Based 34%, Interactive Fiction 30.8%, RPG 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Adventure 3.2%
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 35%, Interactive Fiction 24.6%, RPG 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Adventure 9%
Non-Linear Text Quests is a bundle of text games of various genres. Here you can find interactive stories with branching plots and text-only versions of classic Point & Click quests, where you can communicate with different characters, use your inventory and combine items in various locations.
Why similar: Nonlinear 33.1%, Text-Based 31%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Adventure 7.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.3%
How do you become a true magician? Find out in True Magician, an interactive text adventure with RPG elements. Travel through the kingdom with your teacher, learn the art of magic, fight enemies and make friends. And remember, the world is not what it seems!
Why similar: Nonlinear 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Text-Based 19.2%, Magic 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.8%
Heliophobia is a first-person horror/mystery adventure presented through a surreal, non-linear narrative. You awake on a vacant plane, given only a singular task: kill the one with the initials "J.R.".
Why similar: Nonlinear 39.9%, Surreal 18.2%, Horror 14.7%, Atmospheric 9%, Adventure 8.3%
Heed magic’s call! Find love as you explore ancient mysteries, craft dragon-rune tattoos, and discover your true loyalties. What passions shape your path?
Why similar: Text-Based 31.5%, Interactive Fiction 26.5%, RPG 16.3%, Magic 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%
By the power of your Soul Stone and the strength of your own indomitable soul, uncover secrets held in blood and lead the charge that will change the world. A text-based fantasy novel, 260,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Text-Based 34.5%, Interactive Fiction 31.1%, RPG 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%, Adventure 3.1%
Eyes of Iyre is a Visual Novel with heavy RPG elements. Follow Barbak the Orc as he discovers more about the world and his past, all the while trying to keep his temper under control. Make friends, cast magic, and learn the truths hidden in the city of Iyre!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.7%, Text-Based 24.7%, RPG 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%, Magic 8.5%
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: Text-Based 32%, Interactive Fiction 29.1%, RPG 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%, Adventure 9.9%
2050, a future world we had dreamed about. But suddenly, a disaster arrived, bringing the human into a desperate situation.
Why similar: Text-Based 36.4%, Interactive Fiction 34.6%, RPG 12.7%, Exploration 12%, Adventure 3.4%
Vanakan is the journey of Tadevos - a priest, who travels the 500s Armenia to find the monastery that suits for his goal of becoming spiritually closer to Jesus Christ. He meets different people on his way and makes choices which will define his future and that of the country.
Why similar: Text-Based 34.5%, Interactive Fiction 33.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Adventure 10.6%, Atmospheric 8.2%
Dream Spectra is a visual novel about trying to hang out with your crush and escape your migraines, styled with surreal 90s 3D rendered environments.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Surreal 12.2%, Horror 10%, Female Protagonist 8.3%
Celestial power thrums in your veins, Hell’s throne calls, and demons conspire. Will you ascend as savior, tyrant, or something in between? A text-based horror novel, 295,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Text-Based 33.8%, Interactive Fiction 27.9%, RPG 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Horror 8.3%
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 49.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, RPG 13.4%
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: Text-Based 34.2%, Interactive Fiction 31%, RPG 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Adventure 3%
Your father stole his throne, intending to leave it to you. When the long-lost heir resurfaces, will you defend the king—or betray him to his enemies?
Why similar: Text-Based 36.5%, Interactive Fiction 30.2%, RPG 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Adventure 3%
A text-based cosmic horror adventure game
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.9%, Text-Based 27.4%, Horror 12.9%, RPG 10%, Exploration 9.8%
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: Text-Based 38.2%, Interactive Fiction 33.6%, RPG 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.4%, Adventure 5.2%
Paris’s life changes when she encounters a charming stranger who seems to be watching her. This choice-driven psychological visual novel delivers a tense, intimate story focused on curiosity, trust, and crossing dangerous boundaries.
Why similar: Nonlinear 23.4%, Text-Based 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Horror 8.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.1%
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: Text-Based 34.8%, Interactive Fiction 30.6%, RPG 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Adventure 3%
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 36.9%, Interactive Fiction 29.9%, RPG 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%, Horror 5.5%
