Games Like Mainland

1872, with a steampunk twist. Phileas Fogg has wagered he can circumnavigate the world in just 80 days. Travel by airship, submarine, mechanical camel, steam-train and more. Race other players and a clock that never stops in TIME Magazine's Game of 2014.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 60.2%, Adventure 27.6%, Indie 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the same 19th-century exploration spirit with deep, text-driven narrative choices and a focus on travel.

Your robots will change the world! Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army? A 300,000-word epic interactive sci-fi novel.

Why similar: Text-Based 53.3%, Interactive Fiction 40.3%, Indie 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a complex, text-heavy narrative experience where your decisions significantly impact the world and your survival.

A stranger arrives at a quiet and isolated town... PIGBLUE.

Why similar: Text-Based 75.2%, Adventure 18.2%, Indie 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A text-based mystery adventure that relies on player choices to navigate its atmospheric world.

Steam-powered mechs meet forbidden sorcery in this interactive steampunk novel, inspired by Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Jekyll & Hyde, and Jack the Ripper!

Why similar: Text-Based 50.1%, Interactive Fiction 33.9%, Indie 16%

Why You'll Like It: Matches the Victorian-era aesthetic and text-based gameplay of the seed game perfectly.

Don't Let Me Fade is an interactive adventure about memory, identity, and loss. Piece together fragments of a life - even if a simple teddy bear is the last symbol of connection to oneself in a world without time.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 47.6%, Adventure 23.1%, Text-Based 22.5%, Indie 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: An interactive fiction title that focuses on atmospheric exploration and narrative-driven decision making.

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 38.9%, Interactive Fiction 34.8%, Adventure 15.6%, Indie 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A highly regarded text-based adventure that emphasizes character choices and branching storylines.

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: Text-Based 41.2%, Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Adventure 19.7%, Indie 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep, historical, text-driven experience that mirrors the narrative focus of the seed game.

Deepwell is a story-driven adventure game, about a small town surrounding a giant mystery hole.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 63.5%, Adventure 30.3%, Indie 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art interactive fiction game that emphasizes exploration and a sense of mystery.

Shipwreck is a top down adventure game in which you must travel the land, explore dungeons, and defeat monsters to earn safe passage off the island on which you are stranded.

Why similar: Adventure 59.9%, Indie 40.1%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the core theme of being stranded and exploring an unknown location through text-based interactions.

The train is the only escape.

Why similar: Text-Based 46.6%, Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Adventure 15.9%, Indie 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: A text-based psychological horror game that relies on atmosphere and narrative to build tension.

In an endless air ocean of an alien world, small lonesome plots of land float above the abyss. But sometimes approach each other, and lands which have never met before, reveal their secrets.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 52%, Adventure 28.2%, Indie 19.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines interactive fiction with adventure elements to create a story-rich experience about exploration.

Play a young peasant boy who becomes squire to a legendary knight. Travel the realm competing in jousts, archery, and melee competitions. Train hard in order to become a powerful knight and eventually compete in The Great Tournament to decide the fate of the realm in this medieval story.

Why similar: Text-Based 41.7%, Adventure 34.8%, Indie 23.5%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers a historical, text-driven experience that captures the same sense of personal stakes as the seed game.

The objective of the game is to explore a small island in the Atlantic Ocean, and uncover its secrets

Why similar: Adventure 60.5%, Indie 39.5%

Why You'll Like It: A point-and-click adventure that emphasizes the mystery of being stranded on an unknown island.

In the Darkness of the Sea is a short narrative game about a boy lost in the middle of the ocean.

Why similar: Adventure 50.8%, Indie 49.2%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric, text-adjacent adventure that captures the feeling of being lost in a dark, maritime setting.

Delve into a troubled student's mind as his grip on reality unravels . . .

Why similar: Adventure 59.7%, Indie 40.3%

Why You'll Like It: A visual novel-style adventure that prioritizes narrative depth and atmospheric storytelling.

A young adventurer Hugh Radcliff is in pursuit of one of the greatest mysteries of history: The Lost Colony. Deal with pirates, reveal conspiracies and make tough choices on your difficult journey for unveiling this mystery. Try the free prologue now!

Why similar: Adventure 100%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on historical mystery and exploration, mirroring the explorer theme of the seed game.

While searching for the anomaly, you find yourself trapped inside a facility on a remote sub-Arctic island. What is this place? Who built it? Why was it left abandoned? Explore the uninhabited complex you now find yourself trapped in, but be warned: you might not be as alone as you think...

Why similar: Adventure 82.1%, Indie 17.9%

Why You'll Like It: An adventure game that balances exploration and puzzle-solving within a mysterious, isolated setting.

Summerland is a first-person narrative game about morality and the afterlife. You take control of Matthew, a detective reliving the events of his past, being questioned on his morals along the way. In every door lies another memory, and every memory unlocks another door.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 70.6%, Adventure 29.4%

Why You'll Like It: A story-rich adventure that focuses on atmospheric exploration and personal discovery.

Indie Puzzle Game

Why similar: Adventure 57.2%, Indie 42.8%

Why You'll Like It: An adventure game that centers on the theme of exploration and survival in an island setting.

Hostil is a short emotional interactive tale about a young astronaut who has crashed on a extremely dangerous planet. No one will come to rescue him and his only hope is to move forward.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.6%, Text-Based 31%, Adventure 20.4%, Indie 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: A point-and-click adventure that uses a minimalist approach to tell a story about being stranded.

Space Bear is a multi-choice text adventure typing game! Sort of. I mean, there isn't many actual choices, and the typing is more "mashing"...

Why similar: Text-Based 51.8%, Adventure 29.2%, Indie 19.1%

Why You'll Like It: A text-based adventure that uses typing mechanics to drive its exploration-heavy narrative.

Get ready for an intense survival battle against an ever-growing horde of zombies. Play solo or co-op with friends, test your shooting skills and luck in this relentless combat and see how long you can stay alive.

Why similar: Adventure 65.5%, Indie 34.5%

Why You'll Like It: A text-heavy, story-rich adventure that focuses on the mechanics of survival in an unknown environment.

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: Text-Based 51%, Interactive Fiction 35.9%, Adventure 11.5%, Indie 1.6%

You wake up on a floating island with no idea how you got there. Find ways to reach new and strange islands and meet other survivors all while uncovering the story of how you all got there.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 65.9%, Adventure 20.4%, Indie 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: A story-rich, atmospheric adventure that focuses on the narrative journey of its protagonist.

Kith is free regular mini-adventure series, set on a planet covered in fractured plateaus above a dark and ominous mist.

Why similar: Adventure 62.4%, Indie 37.6%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven adventure that focuses on the journey and the choices made along the way.

Adventure Game Traveling around Iceland

Why similar: Text-Based 73.3%, Adventure 26.7%

"The Other Side of the Sky" is a short text adventure game with an alternate fantasy setting in a single-line ending narrative mode.

Why similar: Adventure 100%

She wakes up alone, missing, and trapped in the frozen tundra of Hyperborea, Hypatia must use her wits and wileys if she is to escape this accursed corner of the world. the choices she makes will determine not only her future, but that of the imperial exploratory legion.

Why similar: Adventure 84.8%, Indie 15.2%

Why You'll Like It: An adventure game that leans into the themes of exploration and discovery in a mysterious land.

Meridian 157: Prologue is the first in a series of point-and-click puzzle adventure games. Play as David Zander, a meteorologist who is investigating a mysterious weather signal on a remote island south of Alaska. Venture toward the remote island to discover the mystery behind the 157th meridian!

Why similar: Adventure 81.9%, Indie 18.1%

Outwit, Outplay, Outcast.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 47%, Adventure 32%, Indie 20.9%

A surrealist text-based RPG. You will explore an island, solve puzzles, and fight enemies, all in your attempt to get the Dark Egg.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 44.2%, Text-Based 42.5%, Adventure 8.2%, Indie 5.2%

Silence, cold, solitude… What lies ahead? A small atmospheric adventure about a robot lost in a frozen wasteland.

Why similar: Adventure 62.5%, Indie 37.5%

The Last Oath is a short story based game about a knight that fell in battle fighting for their king. You find yourself with a final task to keep your oath to the king. Complete this task as you find out more about the world by interacting with the environment through text based dialogue.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 72.5%, Adventure 25.6%, Indie 1.9%

Dear Esther immerses you in a stunningly realised world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the outer Hebrides. As you step forwards, a voice begins to read fragments of a letter: 'Dear Esther...' - and so begins a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 80.1%, Adventure 12.2%, Indie 7.7%

After a freak storm over the Atlantic, you find yourself stranded on the shores of a mysterious island. Do you have what it takes to escape the Lost Sea?

Why similar: Adventure 62.4%, Indie 37.6%

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 51.5%, Interactive Fiction 43.7%, Indie 4.8%

There's a spider haunting these hills.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 57.1%, Text-Based 31.6%, Adventure 6.3%, Indie 5%

Flightless is a tile-based puzzle adventure game. Navigate your way through a series of floating islands, each presenting a curious puzzle. A minimalist art style and calming piano soundtrack complement senses of wonder and discovery.

Why similar: Adventure 61.5%, Indie 38.5%

Tasked with finding humanity a new home, a lonely astronaut braves a desolate planet while making a fluffy friend along the way. homebound is a short 2D puzzle platformer that explores the feeling of home.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Baezult is a puzzle/action platformer set in a lost temple hidden for thousands of years behind a waterfall. You play as a brave explorer looking to find riches beyond his wildest dreams. But be careful, the people of the temple have protected their wealth very well.

Why similar: Adventure 58.3%, Indie 41.7%

Stranded at an Island, the Vessel is broked, do whatever it takes to survive.

Why similar: Adventure 62%, Indie 38%

Explore your way through mystical islands while learning about your characters past. In this adventure game you play as the protagonist of a memoire, telling a story from the pacific in the late 1800 century.

Why similar: Adventure 100%

Play as a mermaid, who has been sent to the human world to discover why they're building a giant ship called the Titanic.

Why similar: Adventure 59.3%, Indie 40.7%

A visual novel about the ever-changing nature of relationships and the hardships of dealing with loss.

Why similar: Adventure 59.8%, Indie 40.2%

The player finds himself on a desert island, where he meets the natives, carves a home, builds a ship and ultimately sails back home.

Why similar: Indie 100%

A short and mysterious free point and click adventure game, inspired by the feeling of oddness in an everyday situation.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 83%, Adventure 17%

A tribute to a friend who has passed — and to the adventures we still need to live. A story-driven adventure about a young polyglot traversing mystical islands and using the power of words to confront his own fate and save a world tamed by darkness.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 62.6%, Adventure 23.2%, Indie 14.2%

When night falls, she wanders into another world... Moonless Moon is a text-based adventure game following a girl as she travels through a variety of different worlds.

Why similar: Text-Based 69.6%, Adventure 23.9%, Indie 6.5%

Classic Zork meets Existential Crisis. A modern text adventure that explores themes of control, isolation and mental health while levelling up the genre with beautiful pixel art.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 51.5%, Text-Based 32.4%, Adventure 14.8%, Indie 1.3%

A Robinson Crusoe–inspired VR roguelike survival adventure set in the 17th century. Shipwrecked on a ruthless tropical island, you must survive without guidance. Trust your instincts as you face wild beasts, nature’s fury, and a mysterious local tribe.

Why similar: Adventure 100%

Imagined Leviathans is a narrative survival game set in a frozen British village. Explore the countryside and unite the survivors to face down your Leviathans together.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 65.1%, Adventure 21.8%, Indie 13.1%

Card Survival is a card-based survival experience. Stranded on a desert island you must use your wits and skills to stay alive. Use cards and combine them together to explore, gather resources and craft useful tools.

Why similar: Text-Based 52.9%, Adventure 39.3%, Indie 7.7%

Idle Adventure is a text-based, multi-player online RPG game. Even without astonishing graphics or special effects, it can offer you countless hours of enjoyment.

Why similar: Text-Based 56.7%, Adventure 27.1%, Indie 16.3%

Crashed on a desolate but mysterious planet you find yourself eye to eye with an ancient civilisation. Explore the planet, find powerful upgrades, and fulfill your destiny.

Why similar: Adventure 70.9%, Indie 29.1%

Enter the surreal, disturbing, and ridiculous world of the Knobbly Crook in this old-school style point-and-click adventure. Completely free. No ads, no tricks.

Why similar: Adventure 63.2%, Indie 36.8%

The Longest Walk is a deeply personal biographical walking-simulator game about my father's experience of living with depression.

Why similar: Adventure 65.7%, Indie 34.3%

A text based adventure editor - upload and play text based games from across the world using Steam Workshop

Why similar: Adventure 61.6%, Indie 38.4%

Imagine waking up on a small dock with no recollection of who you are or how you got there. The first person you find is a grumpy, old man who enlists you to work on his ferry boat which seems to have materialized behind you.

Why similar: Adventure 60.1%, Indie 39.9%