- #1 Tower of the Ice Lich
97% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Text-Based 18%, Lore-Rich 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.4%
- #2 1453: Fall of Constantinople
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 3Cats Studio
Windows · Mac
Constantinople, 1453. Four witnesses — a janissary, a baker's daughter, an engineer, a noble — live the same 53 days of the siege. Choices cross between their stories, and the city remembers. An illustrated, choice-driven historical novel where every ending is someone's truth.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Text-Based 15.7%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Historical 12.4%
- #3 Into Oblivion
96% 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: Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Text-Based 13.6%, Visual Novel 13.3%, RPG 11.8%
- #4 Diaspora
95% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2026
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Navigate unknown waters, deadly politics, and ancient magic in this low-fantasy adventure. Can you turn the tides of war and forge a future for your clan? A text-based interactive novel, 1 million words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Text-Based 20.1%, RPG 13.5%, Lore-Rich 8.5%
- #5 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
94% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Infinite Zone
Windows
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 25%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Text-Based 17.8%, Visual Novel 14.2%, RPG 7.4%
- #6 Mr. Mueller's Grand Experiment
94% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Scott Tipton
Windows · Mac · Linux
In an engrossing interactive novel, live as the assistant to a remarkable historical figure: George Mueller, a man who witnessed orphans dying young in the streets of 1830's England and decided he would care for them, no matter the cost.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Historical 15.3%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Text-Based 13.5%
- #7 Ukraine War Stories
92% matchVery Positive87% of 1,081 reviews2022
Dev: Starni Games
Windows
Ukraine War Stories is a set of visual novels about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Set in the early months of the war, it tells the stories of civilians trapped on Russian-occupied territory. All stories are based on real events and eyewitness accounts.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Text-Based 14.5%, Historical 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.1%
- #8 The Fifth Horseman
93% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, RPG 16.9%, Text-Based 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Visual Novel 12.3%
- #9 Imperial Bureaucracy Hero
91% 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 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Visual Novel 14.9%, RPG 10.8%, Text-Based 9.8%
- #10 Brageskålen
91% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2023
Dev: Tidvis Games
Windows · Mac
Travel to Veøya in the Viking Age and solve a dangerous mystery with cunning and song!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Historical 19.8%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Choices Matter 8.5%
- #11 Vanakan
90% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Erik Khachatryan
Windows
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Text-Based 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Mythology 14.9%, Choices Matter 7.9%
- #12 Temple of Endless Night
89% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2021
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
When you discover that the Serpent of Chaos is trying to destroy Egypt, will you stand against him, or will you help spread his eternal darkness?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Text-Based 16.4%, Historical 14.5%, Lore-Rich 12.1%
- #13 All (Too) Good Things
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: YOWPY games
Windows
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 27.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Text-Based 18.8%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Multiple Endings 7.7%
- #14 Telvoikai
88% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Corvaena Games LLC
Windows · Mac
You've been tasked with collecting data on an alien planet. Choose between exploring the jungle tropics or navigating deep into the bioluminescent sea.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Text-Based 13.3%, Lore-Rich 12.6%
- #15 Whispers From The Rift
87% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Interdimensional Games Inc
Windows
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Text-Based 19.2%, Visual Novel 15.9%, RPG 7.9%
- #16 Bootlegger: Moonshine Empire
86% matchPositive80% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Make your name as a whiskey-runner, a politician, or a gangster as you quench thirsts from rural Pennsylvania to the New York City nightlife!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Text-Based 22.4%, RPG 9.2%, Choices Matter 7.7%
- #17 The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Verse and Vision
Windows
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 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Visual Novel 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.6%
- #18 Gold & Brown
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Side Project Games
Windows
Gold & Brown is a choice-based visual novel set in the medieval era, enhanced with card mechanics. Embark on a challenging journey as a knight, shape your fate through card choices, and pursue an impossible love across multiple endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Visual Novel 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Lore-Rich 10.8%, Text-Based 9.6%
- #19 Saturnine
84% matchMixed70% of 27 reviews2025
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Text-Based 20.7%, RPG 15.9%, Choices Matter 6%
- #20 Silk and Secrets: Rites of Pleasure
84% match3 user reviews25% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
Infiltrate the orgiastic secret society beneath the modern-day Palace of Versailles! Will you expose their sex rituals or surrender to their pleasures? An interactive romance novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Text-Based 19.1%, Lore-Rich 14.1%, RPG 13.9%
- #21 Fallen Hero: Revelations
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 25%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Text-Based 21.2%, RPG 15%, Choices Matter 6.6%
- #22 Grave Knight
82% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: Dreamlight Games
Windows
Under developement, Grave Knight is an interactive RPG adventure inspired by SRD 5.1 ruleset and classical game books, where your decisions weave the fate of the characters and the story. Let the dice forge the fate of your hero and the realm by fighting the Grave knight and his horde.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Text-Based 12.7%, RPG 12.6%
- #23 The Golden Rose: Book One
82% matchVery Positive90% of 161 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore an alternative medieval Europe in this low-fantasy epic adventure! How far are you willing to go to take back your stolen treasure?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Text-Based 20.7%, RPG 12.8%, Lore-Rich 9.7%
- #24 True Roman
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Phantom Axis Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A hand-drawn cinematic interactive novel set in Ancient Rome. A roman game set in the roman empire with impactful choices and a well written story with deep characters. You will command legions, navigate relationships and immerse yourself in history. Shaping your fate or being shaped by it.
Why similar: Rome 38.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Historical 13%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Choices Matter 6.3%
- #25 Taina's Cursed Legacy
80% matchPositive82% of 34 reviews2025
Dev: dark_room_game
Windows
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 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Text-Based 18.5%, Visual Novel 14.7%, RPG 9.1%
- #26 Peter's Journey
81% matchMixed52% of 42 reviews2024
Dev: Dreamer StudioPub: Start Game
Windows
Embark on a journey of this text anime quest with RPG elements! Walk through beautiful locations, overcome challenges and make Peter’s dreams come true. Every step you take matters. And don’t forget to take the diary - you’ll need it!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Text-Based 15.3%, Historical 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Visual Novel 12.3%
- #27 The Ghost and the Golem
79% matchPositive95% of 21 reviews2024
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Can your magic amulet save your Jewish village from destruction? Uncover the truth and forge alliances with soldiers, bandits, anarchists, and demons!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Text-Based 15.9%, RPG 11.9%, Historical 11.6%
- #28 Keeper's Vigil
78% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
As the Harbinger, you are the only Keeper who can cast spells. Stop a necromantic plague, uncover an Elven conspiracy, and decide the fate of a dying world! A text-based fantasy novel, 193,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects."
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Text-Based 21.5%, RPG 16.1%, Choices Matter 5.5%
- #29 Chronicles of Humanity
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Yun Games
Windows
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: Historical 19.2%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Text-Based 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choices Matter 8.6%
- #30 Turncoat Chronicle
78% matchMostly Positive71% of 14 reviews2023
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Text-Based 22.2%, RPG 15.1%, Choices Matter 6.1%
- #31 Vigil: A Knight Story
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: A Story Interactive
Windows · Linux
A fully voiced branching medieval RPG of over 800,000 words. Swear the oath, ride to a dying kingdom's war, and answer for every choice. When you fall, you are not reloaded, you are marked. Four origins, twelve chapters, and an ending that weighs what your oath was worth.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, RPG 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Historical 11.3%
- #32 The Nascent Necromancer
77% matchMixed60% of 15 reviews2023
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Text-Based 22.5%, RPG 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.7%
- #33 Hero of Hoofbeat Hollow
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 25%, Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Text-Based 21%, RPG 16.2%, Choices Matter 5.5%
- #34 A War of a Madman's Making
75% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Text-Based 14.4%, Historical 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.4%
- #35 An Imp and an Impostor
74% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Text-Based 19.8%, RPG 14.7%, Adventure 7.5%
- #36 小厨杂记
75% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: 山石
Windows
Please note: This game does not support English at current stage. 《小厨杂记》是一款融合了烹饪元素的视觉小说,通过为食客端上不同的菜肴与食客对话,并最终达成不同的结局。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Text-Based 23.5%, Visual Novel 21.8%, Historical 14.8%, Choices Matter 6.3%
- #37 呪霊が見せる夢 / Dreamscapes
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: アイエダゲームズ(Aieda Games)
Windows
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 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Visual Novel 18.9%, Text-Based 16.9%, Multiple Endings 8.6%
- #38 Affairs of the Court: Choice of Romance
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 75 reviews2016
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Plunge into court politics and change the course of history, or pursue a love affair that rocks the kingdom to its foundations!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.2%, Text-Based 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, RPG 11.7%, Choices Matter 9.4%
- #39 The Farm of the Living
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: PlayBook
Windows
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 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Text-Based 12.9%, RPG 10%
- #40 Echoes of Chang'an
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: N Studio
Windows · Mac
Echoes of Chang'an is a Chinese-style mystery visual novel developed by NSTUDIO. You play as the adopted son of the renowned mid-Tang general Duan Xiushi who is unexpectedly drawn into an inescapable conspiracy that threatens the fate of the Tang Dynasty while carrying out a mission.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Historical 19.5%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Choices Matter 6.4%
- #41 Roadwarden
71% matchVery Positive94% of 5,150 reviews2022
Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 29.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, RPG 12.5%, Visual Novel 7.5%
- #42 fulgor: i hate, therefore i am.
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rascal Devworks
Windows
Slay your lover, so that the god of Hatred may be reborn. Romance the invading soldier or the fearsome monster in this mythology-inspired visual novel set in ancient times. Will you return Hatred to your people, or will you be conquered and forgotten?
Why similar: Rome 30% ★, Visual Novel 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Historical 10%, Mythology 8.4%
- #43 God of Chaos
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Defy nature’s laws and avenge your slain pantheon! Humanity once feared and hated you, but now, awakened from a thousand-year slumber, you are their only hope. A text-based interactive game.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Text-Based 19.3%, RPG 14.2%, Lore-Rich 12%
- #44 Jolly Good: Tea and Scones
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Extract yourself from another fine mess–this time, with your family watching! Mischief, mix-ups, and bewilderingly urgent capers at your ancestral estate.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Text-Based 22.5%, Choices Matter 10.5%, RPG 9.7%
- #45 Samurai of Hyuga
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 68 reviews2016
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.9%, Text-Based 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, RPG 13%, Adventure 6.1%
- #46 Cliffhanger: Challenger of Tomorrow
71% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2021
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Punch out Fascists and unravel conspiracies in this pulp adventure set in a retro-futuristic 1930s world of airships, fast cars, and two-fisted action!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Text-Based 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Historical 14.1%, Lore-Rich 12.2%
- #47 Samurai of Hyuga Book 6
68% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Return to Hyuga just in time for the new semester! Sword fights, love confessions, demonic rituals—nobody said graduating was going to be easy! A text-based novel, 300,000 words and hundreds of choices, without animations or sound effects.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Text-Based 21.2%, RPG 15.6%, Choices Matter 6.3%
- #48 Coalescence
70% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2022
Dev: Black Banshee Studios
Windows · Mac
Coalescence is a visual novel that takes you deep within Moniker Labs to explore its secrets. Play as one of three characters, each with their own storyline and dialogue options. Form relationships with the companions you encounter and try to make it out alive!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Text-Based 16%, Visual Novel 14.3%, RPG 8.1%
- #49 The Soul Stone War 2
70% matchPositive90% of 29 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Overcome all obstacles by trusting in your own strength, the power of your Soul Stone, and your loyal companions. Become the legend you were born to be.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Text-Based 18.9%, Lore-Rich 14.2%, RPG 8.5%
- #50 Daria: A Kingdom Simulator
69% matchMixed42% of 19 reviews2024
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rule your realm, train heroes, and build a legendary kingdom in Daria. Experience strategy, storytelling, and diplomacy in this immersive sim.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Text-Based 24.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, RPG 9.7%, Choices Matter 6%
- #51 The Music at the end of the World
68% match5 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Cihan Kuzu
Windows
"What music would you listen to at the end of the world?" Explore an abandoned world after the apocalypse of the final winter. Shape the story of a man whose loneliness threatens his sanity. Use violence to survive or avoid it to protect your mind. Experience the end of the world!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Text-Based 15.8%, Visual Novel 15.4%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
- #52 Heavens' Revolution: A Lion Among the Cypress
68% match7 user reviews29% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a Persian steampunk empire, will you use your arcane alchemy to repair a spaceship, or pilot a mech? Ignite a revolution, or snuff it out?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Text-Based 16.9%, RPG 13%, Lore-Rich 11.3%
- #53 A Wise Use of Time
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 122 reviews2015
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
With the power to freeze time, you can ransack a casino, rescue a celebrity, or cheat death itself! A thrilling interactive sci-fi novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Text-Based 19.5%, RPG 14.6%, Choices Matter 12.7%
- #54 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
67% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Text-Based 15.3%, Choices Matter 15%, Visual Novel 13.5%
- #55 Exercise your Demons
67% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: BoopDood
Windows
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: Interactive Fiction 23%, Text-Based 20.2%, Mythology 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Choices Matter 8.2%
- #56 Royal Duality
69% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2022
Dev: Hyakuten Games
Windows
Royal Duality is an immersive dark fantasy visual novel with 15 endings, various side stories and hidden Easter Eggs all set in an engaging lore-rich world
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.4%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Lore-Rich 13%, Immersive Sim 8.2%
- #57 Whiskey-Four
66% matchVery Positive92% of 111 reviews2024
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Never stop running, not with the galaxy at stake. Save it at all costs, and save yourself if you can.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Text-Based 18.3%, Choices Matter 10.5%, RPG 10.2%
- #58 Dungeon of Departure
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: quite adept
Windows
Trapped in a mysterious cave system, four dungeon explorers struggle to find a way out before the light fades forever... Navigate a mysterious underground as you navigate through multiple story paths in this text-based, pixel-art, dark fantasy rpg, visual novel computer game
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Text-Based 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Lore-Rich 11%
- #59 VERSUS: The Elite Trials
69% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, Text-Based 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, RPG 12.9%, Choices Matter 10.9%
- #60 Superheroes Inc: #VictoryLeague
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
As a social media influencer recruited to a team of heroes, can you earn their trust, defend the city, and prove you’re worth more than your follower count? A text-based interactive superhero novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Text-Based 19.1%, Lore-Rich 14.1%, RPG 13.7%