60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Choose Your Own Adventure, Text-Based, Indie.
This text adventure, beautifully illustrated in pixel art, invites you to explore a medieval abbey filled with secrets. You take full control by entering commands directly on your keyboard through a flexible command parser, allowing for free and immersive interaction.
Hadean Lands
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.
CLOSED HANDS
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.
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: Interactive Fiction 36.3%, Text-Based 31.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Adventure 5%, Indie 2.9%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.4%, Interactive Fiction 30.2%, Text-Based 25.8%, Adventure 10.6%, Indie 2%
Have you ever wanted to make choices that matter and you like cyberpunk? Delete the memories of humans in "Nice to NO you" - a dystopian dialogue game where you decide the fate of individuals and the world.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.3%, Text-Based 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Narration 14.3%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%
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 30.8%, Interactive Fiction 28.8%, Text-Based 23.4%, Adventure 10.3%, 2D 6%
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 36%, Text-Based 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Adventure 7.9%, Indie 4.7%
Welcome, future hero! Perciflette is a narrative adventure with a simple goal : Find the way out. Explore, move forward with caution, and make the right choices…or start over!
Why similar: Narration 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Text-Based 14.1%, Adventure 9.8%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 42.6%, Text-Based 34.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Indie 3.7%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.4%, Text-Based 32.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Adventure 10.1%, Indie 5.2%
Escape your captors…and endure your rescuers, but don't be late to the ball! Take charge of your rescue, and reclaim your rightful throne.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 35%, Text-Based 28%, Interactive Fiction 23%, Medieval 7%, Adventure 4.5%
Interactive fiction starring Molly the Werezompire - a grad student who jumped into a portal, was killed by a werewolf, a zombie, and a vampire, and became a heroic werezompire! Also includes the sci-fi parody, Epiphany in Spaaace! Originally released on XBLIG.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 38.4%, Interactive Fiction 28.8%, Text-Based 25.2%, Adventure 6.8%, Singleplayer 0.9%
The toughest ronin in Hyuga returns! Heated battles and even hotter romances await you in the land of silk and steel!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 37.6%, Text-Based 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Adventure 9.3%, Indie 5.2%
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 41.5%, Text-Based 26.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Adventure 9.3%, Indie 5.2%
You're a stranger who has come to Lostworth, a town full of people lost in the darkness of the Middle Ages. Your purpose: help them spiritually. For this, you've only books, potions, spells and words. In time, as you uncover the secrets of the city, you'll also have to face threats from the past.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32%, Interactive Fiction 30%, Medieval 10.8%, Adventure 10.8%, Mystery 7.6%
A funny, emotional text-based romance where your awkward crush meets accidental magic. Make branching choices, build relationships, and maybe ruin Valentine’s Day with a love potion that definitely shouldn’t have worked.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 39.5%, Interactive Fiction 29.4%, Text-Based 28.2%, Indie 2%, Singleplayer 0.9%
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 37%, Choose Your Own Adventure 31.8%, Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Indie 5.5%
Do you enjoy listening to stories and having the ability to influence their unfolding? If so, then immerse yourself in the role of an active participant as you join Yaren on her quest for freedom.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.5%, Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Text-Based 23.8%, Narration 18%, Adventure 5.7%
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 34.7%, Text-Based 28%, Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Adventure 7.6%, Indie 4.5%
A text-based sandbox PC game about exploring the world through short phrases in the terminal. The player roams through events, acquires new items, locations, facts, or acquaintances, and combines them to unlock new events.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Text-Based 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Narration 20.8%, Adventure 5.3%
The most anticipated game since chess! A text-based comedy adventure in which you interact with the world by slamming one of two brightly colored buttons: Harm or Other
Why similar: Text-Based 29.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Adventure 8.7%, Pixel Graphics 4.7%
Carolanne Marin, Princess of Prodo, is invited to Berlo, the capital of Birini and the great capital of Perfore, to see the Perforian in person for a request.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33%, Interactive Fiction 29.9%, Medieval 13.7%, Adventure 7.1%, 2D 6.7%
Swing a sword, delve dungeons, and lead a resistance against the tyrannical queen of a war-torn fantasy realm. Will you unite the realm and end the queen’s reign of terror... or join her and rule by her side?
Why similar: Text-Based 29.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Medieval 15.4%, Adventure 10%
Medical clerk Manami Sorano discovers a medical record of a non-existent patient. The next day at a hot spring inn, a murder occurs—the victim’s name matches the record. Coincidence or fate? Using her skills and medical records, she unravels the truth in this mystery adventure!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 44.4%, Text-Based 28.9%, Mystery 10.2%, Adventure 8.2%, 2D 7.5%
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 33.2%, Interactive Fiction 32.4%, Text-Based 28.5%, Adventure 3.3%, Indie 1.8%
A classic text adventure - but you're not the one playing it. You're the game master for an idiot player named STEVE. Parse the player's enigmatic commands and decide how NPCs react to him. Who knew that running an RPG would be so frustrating?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.6%, Text-Based 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Narration 16.3%, Medieval 9.5%
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 33%, Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Text-Based 23.3%, Medieval 7.8%, Adventure 5.9%
Are you worthy of the throne? Or do your siblings deserve it more than you do? What kind of heir will you be?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.5%, Interactive Fiction 28.2%, Text-Based 25.1%, Medieval 11.6%, Indie 1.9%
The Die Is Cast is an interactive fiction set in a medieval-fantasy universe. You will have to balance your skills and make the right decisions to survive the scenario and reach your goal.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.8%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Text-Based 20.5%, Narration 17.1%, Medieval 7%
"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested." Story about life, choices and a Man vs the System. This unique interactive literature adaptation. A game, brought to You in early visual novel, text-adventure style.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 22%, Text-Based 21.7%, Mystery 8.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.3%
"Sign White" is a text visual novel set in a fictionalized medieval era. Send letters from your pigeon house to communicate with people for a limited period of time. Make connections to save people, listen to their worries, and participate in important decisions to change the fate of the world.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.8%, Text-Based 30.3%, Medieval 16.5%, Adventure 12.9%, Indie 2.4%
When a new magic is discovered, it's up to you to unravel the mystery! Find answers from fae and humans, save your city, and maybe even fall in love! A text-based interactive fantasy novel, 400,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.4%, Interactive Fiction 28.6%, Text-Based 27%, Mystery 7.5%, Adventure 3%
It is said that the last frontier is space, but the crew of the Soviet Frigate, The Peresmeshnik, is about to discover that the sea still hides a terrifying secret. Waiting to be found.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.8%, Text-Based 29.3%, Interactive Fiction 27%, Adventure 4.6%, Mystery 3.8%
Explore a city that lives without your input in this illustrated text adventure. Observe the lives of its inhabitants behind the veil of your invisibility magic. Find items and combine them to solve intricate puzzles. Set your own pace as you control time and move freely in an open fantasy world.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Narration 18.5%, Adventure 6%
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 36.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Pixel Graphics 7%, Adventure 6.1%
Transparent is a narrative game where every choice shapes Clara’s existence. On the eve of her 30th birthday, she revisits key moments of her life. Will her decisions anchor her to reality or make her fade away? Explore memories, face dilemmas, and discover multiple endings
Why similar: Narration 25.3%, Text-Based 24.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, 2D 4.3%
A sound, a flash, a portal… A pirate emerges, bringing a deadly threat. Five friends stand before him, and one of them is the target. But which one? Even they don't know.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Text-Based 25.1%, Narration 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Mystery 8.1%
The Gate is an interactive science fiction graphic novel. At various points in the story, you will be asked to make a choice, these choices will take you down different paths in the story. Your objective as you guide the story is to return back to earth. The game features 3 possible story endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 38.9%, Interactive Fiction 36.6%, Adventure 13.4%, 2D 7.6%, Indie 2.5%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.5%, Interactive Fiction 32.6%, Text-Based 25.6%, Adventure 4%, Indie 2.3%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.5%, Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Text-Based 24%, Adventure 6.5%, Mystery 6.3%
Groi Marito meets Princess Carolanne because he wants to build a mine to help him achieve his goals.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.5%, Interactive Fiction 31.4%, Adventure 11.8%, Medieval 6.9%, 2D 6.5%
Learn the dark truth behind a gentle wyvern’s rampage, a cold-blooded murder, and a dragon-worshiping cult. Will you submit or defy the godlike creature?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Medieval 21%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Text-Based 20.9%, Adventure 12%
You wake up at a terminal you've never seen before. The language is alien. The interface is hostile. Every wrong click has consequences. Decode constructed languages, navigate unfamiliar operating systems, and survive the unknown in this puzzle-survival experience.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 38.6%, Interactive Fiction 27.8%, Text-Based 18.4%, Adventure 4.7%, 2D 4.6%
A text adventure game about a 19th century explorer who finds himself stranded and alone.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 43%, Text-Based 38.3%, Adventure 12.6%, Indie 6.2%
Walk the path of a legendary mage, combining four different schools of magic to devastating effects.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.5%, Text-Based 28.4%, Interactive Fiction 27.3%, Adventure 10.2%, Indie 1.8%
No criminal has ever been a match for you, and everybody is looking forward to a description of your brilliant deductions. There is just one small problem. One tiny detail that makes it different this time. A mere trifle, really. This time you have no idea who did it.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Text-Based 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Narration 12.2%, Mystery 6.1%
With debts to pay to the underworld, you need to make a lot of coin fast! Perhaps worse, you're wanted by the King's men for desertion. Survival is your first priority...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 35%, Interactive Fiction 27.6%, Text-Based 19.3%, Medieval 6.7%, 2D 5.2%
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 31.1%, Interactive Fiction 29.3%, Text-Based 25.6%, Adventure 11.2%, Indie 2%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 37.8%, Text-Based 33.7%, Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Indie 2.5%, Singleplayer 0.3%
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 33.1%, Text-Based 31.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Adventure 8.8%, Indie 5.2%
The Battle for Murk is an interactive narrative set in a gritty medieval world. Play as Corporal Mandrake from the City Watch in a fantasy adventure game. Uncover the truth behind a treacherous conspiracy in a race against time to save your hometown from falling into the hands of a cruel leader.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.6%, Text-Based 23%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Medieval 8.7%, Adventure 6.6%
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: Text-Based 25.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Narration 16.7%, Adventure 8.7%
Rebuild society after the climate apocalypse! Can you keep your settlement alive? Will you hold onto your humanity or lose it in the directionless expanse?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33%, Choose Your Own Adventure 33%, Text-Based 28.3%, Adventure 3.2%, Indie 1.8%
An epic adventure in a land of monsters, traps and magic. Journey across the deadly Shamutanti Hills and through Kharé, Cityport of Thieves. Armed with your sword and over fifty spells with weird and wonderful effects, embark on a narrative adventure of a thousand choices where every one is remembered.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 46.7%, Interactive Fiction 27%, Text-Based 15.5%, Adventure 7.4%, Indie 3.3%
A family friendly adventure visual novel that makes reading fun! Accessibility is top of mind with voice-acted read-along narration with friendly fonts for readers with dyslexia. Experience hand drawn art and make important choices to determine how your story unfolds.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36%, Narration 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Mystery 10%, Adventure 9.5%
More than 30 orthodox sectarians underground. They locked themselves in man-made caves. You're a negotiator. Your task is to rescue recluses before Apocalypse.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Text-Based 22.2%, Adventure 11%, Indie 5.8%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.6%, Interactive Fiction 31.6%, Text-Based 27.8%, Adventure 3.7%, Indie 2.1%
A choice-driven roguelike text adventure set in medieval Korea and Japan. Encounter 218 mythological creatures from East Asian folklore, shape your story across 94 endings, and grow stronger with each run in a deep, culturally rich world.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.9%, Text-Based 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Medieval 8.3%, Adventure 4.6%
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 29.1%, Interactive Fiction 27.1%, Text-Based 17.1%, Narration 11.9%, Medieval 11.5%
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: Interactive Fiction 42.4%, Text-Based 37.7%, Adventure 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%
