Games Like Legacy of Dorn: Herald of Oblivion (Classic)

YOU are the hero in Forest of Doom! Explore the sinister Darkwood Forest in the digital Fighting Fantasy Standalone version of Ian Livingstone's classic RPG gamebook!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 43.5%, RPG 30.3%, Adventure 16%, Visual Novel 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A faithful digital adaptation of a classic gamebook that mirrors the mechanics of the seed game.

Made in a close partnership with Games Workshop, Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader is a story-rich classical RPG from Owlcat Games, developers of the critically acclaimed game, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.

Why similar: RPG 63.4%, Adventure 36.6%

Why You'll Like It: A deep, narrative-driven RPG that offers extensive choice-based consequences within the Warhammer 40,000 setting.

YOU are the hero in Starship Traveller! Captain a futuristic Starship in Steve Jackson's classic sci-fi RPG gamebook!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 41.1%, RPG 36.6%, Adventure 22.4%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the same digital gamebook DNA while providing a sci-fi narrative experience.

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 49.6%, RPG 31.9%, Adventure 18.5%

Why You'll Like It: A highly regarded text-based adventure that focuses on military leadership and difficult moral choices.

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 46.9%, RPG 33.1%, Adventure 20%

Why You'll Like It: The direct sequel to Sabres of Infinity, offering even more complex narrative branching and character development.

YOU are the hero in House of Hell! Can you escape from the Earl of Drumer's malevolent mansion in Steve Jackson's Fighting Fantasy classic RPG gamebook?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 42%, RPG 35.1%, Adventure 23%

Why You'll Like It: Another classic gamebook adaptation that captures the same choose-your-own-adventure feel.

Forge your own path and embark on a perilous journey on board a ship of Thorwal raiders in this epic tale set in the award-winning world of The Dark Eye RPG.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 44.9%, RPG 26.5%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Adventure 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A visual novel that emphasizes player agency and narrative-driven decision-making.

Live a full life in the future as a human, an alien, or even a robot as you rise through the ranks to become captain of your very own starship.

Why similar: RPG 43.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 34.6%, Adventure 21.9%

Why You'll Like It: A text-based sci-fi RPG that captures the feeling of commanding in a vast, dangerous galaxy.

Walk the path of a legendary mage, combining four different schools of magic to devastating effects.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 39.2%, RPG 36.7%, Adventure 24.1%

Why You'll Like It: An immersive interactive fiction title with deep character-driven choices and branching paths.

MECHANICUS II ANNOUNCED! Take control of one of the most technologically advanced factions in the Imperium: the Adeptus Mechanicus. In this turn-based tactical game, your every decision will weigh heavily on the outcome of the conflict. Will you be blessed by the Omnissiah?

Why similar: RPG 100%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the grim atmosphere and tactical decision-making essential to the 40k experience.

Lead humanity’s greatest weapon, the Grey Knights, in this fast-paced turn-based tactical RPG. Root out and purge a galaxy-spanning plague in a cinematic, story-driven campaign, using the tactics and talents of your own personalised squad of Daemonhunters.

Why similar: RPG 100%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep, tactical narrative experience where every decision impacts the survival of your squad.

Take back your throne from demon-summoning usurpers in this 145,000-word interactive fantasy novel! Will your prince or princess choose to be good or evil?

Why similar: RPG 54.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 45.9%

Why You'll Like It: A classic text-based adventure with significant branching paths and character customization.

Search for a ruthless assassin in this Gamebook Adventure where YOU control the story!

Why similar: RPG 41.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 34.5%, Adventure 24%

Why You'll Like It: A text-based adventure that relies on player choices to navigate dangerous scenarios.

In this hex-based, turn-based strategy game, players will lead the Imperial forces of the Armageddon Steel Legion and Space Marines from a variety of Chapters against the Ork invasion through over 30 scenarios, on the hostile terrain of the planet and its gigantic Hive Cities.

Why similar: Warhammer 40K 75.4% ★, Games Workshop 24.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: A strategic turn-based game that captures the scale of 40k warfare.

Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach is a 3D turn-based strategy game like you’ve never seen before: fast, immediate, deep, impressive to look at and incredibly fun! Fight through a dark era of carnage and endless war and lead the Space Wolves in a struggle to defend the last bastion of mankind.

Why similar: Warhammer 40K 73.3% ★, Games Workshop 26.7% ★

Why You'll Like It: A tactical game that emphasizes the brutal combat of the 40k setting.

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: RPG 68.5%, Adventure 31.5%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy RPG where player choices and dice-based mechanics drive the story forward.

Embody the superhuman skill and brutality of a Space Marine. Unleash deadly abilities and devastating weaponry to obliterate the relentless Tyranid swarms. Defend the Imperium in spectacular third-person action in solo or multiplayer modes.

Why similar: Adventure 100%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive modern Space Marine experience that brings the intensity of the 40k universe to life.

They called you a hero; you call them fools. Use your telepathy romance old friends and fight new enemies as you become the greatest villain Los Diablos has ever known!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 48.6%, RPG 32.5%, Adventure 18.8%

Why You'll Like It: A complex, choice-heavy interactive fiction game that explores themes of identity and power.

In Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine you are Captain Titus, a Space Marine of the Ultramarines chapter and a seasoned veteran of countless battles.

Why similar: Adventure 100%

Why You'll Like It: A classic action-adventure that puts you in the boots of a Space Marine against overwhelming odds.

Talisman: The Horus Heresy is a digital board game based on the Talisman rule system and set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, during the cataclysmic events of the Horus Heresy.

Why similar: Warhammer 40K 69.6% ★, Games Workshop 29.4% ★, Adventure 1%

Why You'll Like It: A board game adaptation that brings the epic scale of the Horus Heresy to the screen.

Space Hulk: Ascension is a 3D, digital, turn based, strategy game, which re-interprets the classic board game experience, and adds new RPG style mechanics, new weapons and missions, new enemy types, 3 playable chapters and loads of other new features to the single player experience.

Why similar: Warhammer 40K 71.8% ★, Games Workshop 24.7% ★, RPG 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical adaptation of the classic board game that focuses on claustrophobic 40k combat.

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 46.8%, RPG 33.7%, Adventure 19.5%

Why You'll Like It: An extensive text-based strategy game where your choices determine the fate of a rebellion.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York is a narrative experience set in the rich universe of Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition. It presents the struggle for power between two vampiric factions - the Camarilla and the Anarchs - bathed in the night lights of the Big Apple.

Why similar: Visual Novel 60.2%, RPG 39.8%

Why You'll Like It: A visual novel that focuses on narrative choices and the dark atmosphere of its source material.

In this game, you can watch as 7 protagonists come to a crossroad, facing their own destiny. You will witness their own choices and the blood-splattering consequence they have on one another. There is no way out except to plunge them into the abyss...

Why similar: RPG 44.4%, Visual Novel 29.6%, Adventure 26%

Why You'll Like It: A visual novel that blends deep narrative with strategic elements.

You will take on the role of the Second Prince of Xuan, heir of the Southern Regime. With foreign invaders entrenched in the north and a complacent court content to linger in the south, you face a defining choice:The choice… is yours!

Why similar: RPG 62.3%, Visual Novel 37.7%

Enter the world of Narborion Saga: an epic, high fantasy, role-playing game. A mixture of game-book, tactical combat, rogue-like dungeoneering, minigames, and much more ̶ Narborion Saga will satisfy the fans of narrative, story-driven RPGs.[/b]

Why similar: RPG 63.3%, Adventure 36.7%

Why You'll Like It: An RPG adventure that leans heavily into the gamebook style of storytelling.

Once you open this book, you are no longer just a reader. A "reading-style" fantasy adventure in the spirit of The NeverEnding Story — handcrafted over six years by a 30-year veteran from Vanillaware. 100% handmade, from the first page to the last.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 55.4%, RPG 30.7%, Adventure 13.9%

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine returns. Enhanced for a new generation! Enjoy quality of life & graphical improvements that take the Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine experience to the next level.

Why similar: Warhammer 40K 77.4% ★, Games Workshop 10.3% ★, RPG 7.7%, Adventure 4.6%

Ready your sword, pack your provisions and prepare to embark upon quests in which YOU are the hero! Choose what happens at every turn of the page with Fighting Fantasy Classics – text-based roleplaying adventures remastered.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 54%, RPG 31.9%, Adventure 14%

The legendary Space Hulk returns in this epic turn based strategy game. Set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, an intriguing story of legendary battles and heroic actions unfolds.

Why similar: Warhammer 40K 79.8% ★, Games Workshop 20.2% ★

Space Hulk: Tactics is a faithful adaptation of the board game Space Hulk, set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, bringing a unique twist to the cult classic formula. Engage in bloody battles as either a squad of Terminator Space Marines or the deadly alien Genestealers.

Why similar: Warhammer 40K 87% ★, Games Workshop 13% ★

A Lovecraftian investigative gamebook. New York, 1927. A case pulled from real history, wrapped in cosmic horror. His name was Billy Gaffney. The man who took him was real. But his purpose was from another plane of existence. You play a journalist. You make choices. The story remembers all of them.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 72.6%, Visual Novel 27.4%

Create your own epic saga of survival, mythology and diplomacy! Rule your clan, make strategic decisions that affect the game world, win battles and expand your influence in this unique mix of RPG, strategy and story-telling.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 46.1%, RPG 36.3%, Adventure 17.6%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 42.9%, RPG 31.8%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Adventure 8.5%

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: RPG 41.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 35.2%, Adventure 23.1%

An epic adventure through an open world of monsters, traps and magic. Infiltrate the Fortress of Sorcerers, and create your own unique story where every decision you make is remembered, no matter how small. Cheat death, uncover ancient mysteries, and recover the Crown of Kings - if you can.

Why similar: RPG 42.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 35.6%, Adventure 21.9%

Send Skaven ships to the murky depths, cut Khorne’s champions to pieces & battle sea monsters as you explore the Warhammer oceans. Turn pirate & become the scourge of the Empire, or trade your way to riches along the Bretonnian coast. Based on Games Workshop's classic Man O’ War.

Why similar: Games Workshop 87.5% ★, RPG 6.4%, Adventure 6.1%

For Sommerlund and the Kai! Lone Wolf is back with an exclusive storyline, stunning graphics and a deep combat system. Make meaningful choices and carve your own path.

Why similar: RPG 42.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 37%, Adventure 20.6%

A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 48.5%, RPG 24.3%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Adventure 8.9%

You are Hidu, a beastman mercenary in a port city. You must survive one very bad day. How? That’s entirely up to you. There are countless ways for events to unfold — and 25 endings.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 45.4%, RPG 28.9%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Adventure 12.1%

Heads Will Roll: Downfall is a combination of a tactical role-playing game and visual novel, in which you will assume the role of a medieval soldier.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 60.8%, RPG 39.2%

Step into the cockpit of a giant "mecha" robot, dueling with plasma sabers in an interstellar civil war!

Why similar: RPG 52.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 47.8%

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: RPG 41.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 33.9%, Adventure 24.3%

With just a swipe to the left or right, you can make all kinds of decisions. So, please embark on your own unique adventure tale through the continent of Astra!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 50.4%, RPG 30.8%, Adventure 18.8%

Seize the throne in the age of King Arthur! Lead an army of Britons against the darkest of enemies in this epic interactive medieval fantasy novel.

Why similar: RPG 58.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 41.6%

The Warlock of Firetop Mountain is a tabletop adventure come to life! This fantasy solo RPG combines unique, simultaneous turn-based combat with a journey that changes based on each figurine you take into Firetop Mountain! Which hero will you take into Zagor's lair THIS time?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 51.1%, RPG 28.9%, Adventure 20%

Command a squad of up to 20 Space Marines and battle the forces of Chaos led by Chaos Lord Zymran. Chaos Gate is a squad-level, turn-based tactical strategy game set in the grim Warhammer 40,000 world.

Why similar: Warhammer 40K 76.5% ★, Games Workshop 23.5% ★

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 56.9%, Visual Novel 22.5%, Adventure 20.6%

Survive the mystery that awaits the JFS Gun-Dog in deep space in this retro visual novel / graphic adventure.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 40.7%, RPG 25.5%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Adventure 15.4%

Become the Wielder of Soul Stone, an ancient artifact of untold power, and shape the fate of your world. Outrun the past so that you may have a future.

Why similar: RPG 45%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.5%, Adventure 25.5%

Hardcore survival RPG with non-linear story that lets you play as a young medieval soldier who over the course of battles and adventures becomes the most formidable and respected knight of his era. Or, if he’s not lucky enough, perishes in the chaos of the Hundred Years' War.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 60.4%, RPG 39.6%

The Advisor Series is a player-driven narrative where your choices & decisions, both in the game, and out of the game, determine how future episodes unfold. Play the role of villain protagonist Magnus the Magician, as he wreaks havoc across the land, one well-placed fireball at a time!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 50.5%, RPG 30.1%, Visual Novel 19.5%

Herald is a choice-driven adventure set on colonial tides. Board the HLV Herald and uncover its dark secrets in an intriguing tale about tyranny and servitude.

Why similar: Adventure 55.9%, Visual Novel 44.1%