- #1 Until the End
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 八萩
Windows
Love remembers you. Even if you’ve forgotten.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, Visual Novel 20.9%, Text-Based 20.8%, RPG 13.6%, Adventure 11.8%
- #2 Follow the Black Kitten
96% matchVery Positive84% of 67 reviews2022
Dev: Total
Windows
You buy a laptop with your hands. You find an interactive collection of short stories on your laptop and something else. Or someone? What will all this lead to?
Why similar: RPG 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Adventure 14.1%, Text-Based 12.8%
- #3 The Fifth Horseman
96% match7 user reviews86% of 7 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: RPG 31.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Text-Based 15.6%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Adventure 6.9%
- #4 Choice of Rebels: Uprising
95% matchVery Positive89% of 144 reviews2017
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 29%, RPG 24.1%, Text-Based 22.4%, Adventure 13.8%, Choices Matter 7.5%
- #5 Choice of Alexandria
94% matchVery Positive96% of 77 reviews2016
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Can your steam-powered inventions save the ancient Library of Alexandria? Will you sacrifice the library to protect the city? Or the future king instead?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.6%, RPG 28.1%, Text-Based 20.1%, Adventure 18.6%, Indie 3.6%
- #6 Life of a Wizard
94% matchVery Positive81% of 67 reviews2017
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 33.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.3%, Text-Based 20.6%, Adventure 18.2%, Indie 3.9%
- #7 Saga of the North Wind
93% matchMostly Positive75% of 16 reviews2016
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
The gods chose you to lead your tribe on a deadly pilgrimage to the North! When future generations recite your saga, will they sing of glory or downfall?
Why similar: RPG 27.9%, Text-Based 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Adventure 16%, Choices Matter 9.1%
- #8 The Superlatives: Aetherfall
92% matchPositive89% of 27 reviews2017
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lead a superpowered team of "Superlatives" to defend 19th-century Victorian London! Battle a Martian warship, clockwork monsters, and nefarious inventors. Don your mask, take to the skies, and God save the Queen!
Why similar: RPG 33.3%, Adventure 19.1%, Text-Based 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Choices Matter 7%
- #9 Creatures Such as We
91% matchPositive94% of 35 reviews2017
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Living on the moon is lonely, and stressful, and exhausting. Video games have always offered you an escape to a better life. The easy, happy life you wish you had. Which makes it so frustrating when the game you've been playing ends badly.
Why similar: RPG 30.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Text-Based 24.1%, Adventure 17.5%, Indie 3.7%
- #10 Heart of the House
91% matchVery Positive89% of 76 reviews2017
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
When your uncle Kent mysteriously disappears, you'll embark on a journey find out what really happened. What will you sacrifice when trapped in a haunted manor? Will you destroy this evil or claim its power? And can love bloom in a haunted house?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25%, Text-Based 24.6%, RPG 24.4%, Adventure 14%, Choices Matter 8.9%
- #11 Fatehaven
90% matchMostly Positive75% of 87 reviews2016
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 32.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Text-Based 21.3%, Adventure 18.8%, Indie 4%
- #12 Sorcery Is for Saps
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 21 reviews2016
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
An apprentice sorcerer should never steal a master's identity! Will your powers save the king--or will you turn traitor and seize the throne yourself?
Why similar: RPG 30.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.1%, Text-Based 20.1%, Adventure 18.7%, Indie 4.2%
- #13 Highlands, Deep Waters
89% matchPositive83% of 36 reviews2017
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
While investigating a murder in a small Scottish town, you’ll find yourself embroiled in a world of secrets, cultists, and abyssal horror. What are you willing to do to solve the case? And what will you do when you don’t like the answer?
Why similar: RPG 31.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Text-Based 21.6%, Adventure 19.1%, Indie 4.1%
- #14 Choice of the Vampire
88% matchMixed53% of 43 reviews2018
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Slake your thirst, without becoming a Beast! Blessed with the blood-soaked gift of immortality, will you tend the flock of humanity—or twist it to your whims? When a brash young country butts heads with a brash young vampire, who will come out ahead?
Why similar: RPG 32.1%, Text-Based 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Adventure 18.5%, Indie 4%
- #15 Runt of the Litter
87% matchVery Positive80% of 51 reviews2017
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Steal and raise a baby war gryphon! Will you fight dragons together to save the empire, or defy the empire and lead your people to freedom?
Why similar: RPG 31%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.9%, Text-Based 23.1%, Adventure 17%, Indie 4%
- #16 Evertree Inn
86% matchMostly Positive80% of 44 reviews2017
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A mysterious tavern with a deadly secret! Check-in to this magical tale of murder and mystery where not everything is as it seems. Explore the tavern in secret or in style, meet and mingle with guests and staff, wield weapons and magic and uncover clues before the killer strikes again!
Why similar: RPG 32.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Text-Based 21.3%, Adventure 18.8%, Indie 4.2%
- #17 The Hero Unmasked!
86% matchPositive85% of 27 reviews2017
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Impersonate your identical twin as the Swashbuckler, masked champion of justice! You have two weeks to rescue the REAL Swashbuckler and marry the mayor before superpowered criminals take over the city.
Why similar: RPG 28.2%, Text-Based 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Adventure 17%, Choices Matter 9.4%
- #18 Fort Valen
84% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2023
Dev: Tallewellyn Comics
Windows · Mac · Linux
A desert fantasy murder-mystery following young involuntary shut-in Vishara Vakricustos as she attempts to solve a murder plot to prove herself to her overprotective mother.
Why similar: RPG 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Adventure 15.5%, Text-Based 14.5%
- #19 Broadway: 1849
85% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2017
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Fight your way to box office glory, while fending off the gangs of New York! Will you spur a revolution or keep order in a fractious city?
Why similar: RPG 33.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Text-Based 20.7%, Adventure 19.2%, Indie 4.3%
- #20 Sabres of Infinity
83% matchVery Positive93% of 182 reviews2016
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 36.5%, RPG 27%, Text-Based 17.6%, Adventure 15.5%, Indie 3.3%
- #21 The Hero Project: Redemption Season
84% matchMixed63% of 108 reviews2016
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
America's #1 reality show for heroes is back for another season! Harness your superpowers to steal the spotlight, win votes, and save your sister!
Why similar: RPG 35.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Adventure 20.6%, Text-Based 15%, Indie 4.3%
- #22 Days with the Ogre Girl
82% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: POISONPub: PRODUCTION PENCIL
Windows
Izumi, the demon girl you accidentally captured. A novel adventure game where you gradually connect hearts as you spend your days together with Izumi.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.7%, Visual Novel 24.8%, Adventure 21.7%, Text-Based 17.2%, Atmospheric 6.8%
- #23 Choice of the Cat
82% matchPositive93% of 28 reviews2017
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Knock things over. Take a nap. Enslave humanity. It's the biggest text-based cat simulator ever, over 600,000 words! They will give you belly rubs, or else.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26%, Text-Based 24%, RPG 23.1%, Adventure 13.9%, Choices Matter 9.8%
- #24 Choice of Magics
81% matchVery Positive93% of 162 reviews2018
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your magic can change the world, but at what cost? Battle dragons, skyships, and evil Inquisitors, as you protect your homeland, conquer it, or destroy it forever!
Why similar: Text-Based 29.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.6%, RPG 23.8%, Adventure 15.3%, Indie 4%
- #25 The Great Tournament
81% matchPositive93% of 28 reviews2018
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: RPG 38%, Adventure 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Text-Based 17%, Indie 4.8%
- #26 Innsmouth 22
80% matchPositive82% of 11 reviews2024
Dev: Raven Novels
Windows · Mac · Linux
In this visual novel the main character, Lorenzo Righi, an Italian Professor, is invited to a meeting of History Scholars held in Boston. Excited and flattered by the invitation, he discovers that something else, hidden and mysterious, awaits for him.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Text-Based 17.6%, Visual Novel 16.4%, RPG 14.7%, Psychological Horror 7.8%
- #27 MOOZ
79% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: motsuhouse
Windows
This is an adventure novel of suspense and horror in which the story diverges depending on the choices you make. An online drinking session with friends. A person with a knife is lurking in the background. What will you do to rescue your friend?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.8%, Visual Novel 23.1%, Adventure 19.7%, Text-Based 15.1%, Horror 8.3%
- #28 Roadwarden
77% matchVery Positive94% of 4,905 reviews2022
Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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 27.4%, RPG 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Adventure 9.5%, Visual Novel 8.1%
- #29 Guns of Infinity
79% matchVery Positive96% of 136 reviews2016
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 32.6%, RPG 26.5%, Text-Based 21.6%, Adventure 15.9%, Indie 3.4%
- #30 Buried: An Interactive Story
78% matchVery Positive95% of 160 reviews2016
Dev: Bromoco Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Buried is a playable, interactive story told through stunning photos, a haunting soundscape, and gripping text. You play the role of Roger Hastings, a logger who awakens to find his friends missing, uncovering something that should have stayed hidden...
Why similar: Text-Based 27%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.3%, Adventure 19.1%, Visual Novel 17%, Horror 7.3%
- #31 Heart of mobius
78% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: gunsturn Inc.
Windows · Mac
Dive into a captivating standalone story in just an hour! Presenting the first installment of the "Handy Novel" series. Highly praised on smartphones, this acclaimed narrative is now ready for your enjoyment on Steam for PC/Mac!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Visual Novel 21.3%, Text-Based 20.9%, Adventure 18.2%, Multiple Endings 5.6%
- #32 Parasite in Love
76% matchVery Positive94% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: Night Asobu
Windows
Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Visual Novel 19.8%, Adventure 15.5%, Dark 7.7%, Psychological Horror 7.3%
- #33 Tutor X Hypnosis
75% matchMixed67% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: POISONPub: PRODUCTION PENCIL
Windows
The main character is looked down upon at her part-time job. Using a hypnotic object given to him by a college senior, we'll test the mother and daughter by making them do various naughty things.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Visual Novel 21.8%, Text-Based 18.7%, Adventure 17.6%, Psychological Horror 6.9%
- #34 VERSUS: The Elite Trials
76% 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 23.7%, RPG 23.6%, Text-Based 23.4%, Adventure 13.6%, Choices Matter 9%
- #35 CaliaQuest
74% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: CaliaCorp
Windows · Mac · Linux
CaliaQuest is an erotic hypnosis roleplaying game where you are the brave hero, on a quest for the Princess. Can you make it through six chapters full of branching paths, monster girls, and seductive women and complete your quest, or will you fall in love along the way?
Why similar: RPG 30%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Text-Based 12.4%, Choices Matter 6.2%
- #36 Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven
74% matchVery Positive86% of 231 reviews2016
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Zombies rise again at the dawn of Apocalypse! In this companion to the smash-hit Zombie Exodus, can you survive the early days of society's collapse?
Why similar: RPG 28.8%, Text-Based 27.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Adventure 13.8%, Choices Matter 5.3%
- #37 Welcome to Moreytown
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 42 reviews2017
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 27.3%, Text-Based 26.9%, RPG 24.5%, Adventure 17.8%, Indie 3.5%
- #38 HeartWare
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 32 reviews2024
Dev: Sabiá Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Yours decisions matters, leading to multiple unique endings that reflect your influence on Iris’s fate.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.1%, RPG 21.7%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Text-Based 14.8%, Choices Matter 5.5%
- #39 Metamorphosis
73% matchPositive82% of 22 reviews2024
Dev: AKAI KIRI
Windows
An interactive visual novel in the mystical genre. Mikey is admitted to an unusual institution for treatment, where he encounters supernatural phenomena and begins to prepare for a metamorphosis that will lead him into another world.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Adventure 14.4%, Text-Based 13.2%, Choices Matter 9.9%
- #40 Taina's Cursed Legacy
72% matchPositive82% of 33 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 25.2%, Text-Based 18.2%, RPG 17.6%, Visual Novel 16.7%, Adventure 9.7%
- #41 Samurai of Hyuga Book 2
73% matchVery Positive88% of 50 reviews2016
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 30.5%, RPG 28.5%, Text-Based 21.2%, Adventure 16.4%, Indie 3.5%
- #42 Stay Alive For Me
70% match8 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: OneRoomFilms
Windows
Survive a gripping psychological thriller in this visual novel. Make critical decisions, face a disturbed captor, and experience multiple chilling endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Visual Novel 19.5%, Text-Based 12.5%, Psychological Horror 9.3%, Dark 7.4%
- #43 狂信ちゃん
71% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: アルティネット
Windows
It is a multi-ending novel game depicting the fan of VTuber "Toaru" "Hinade-chan" and "I" go to an off-line meeting and finish the off-line meeting.
Why similar: Visual Novel 26.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Text-Based 15.1%, Adventure 13.3%, Choices Matter 9.5%
- #44 アパシー学校であった怖い話1995特別編
71% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: 七転び八転がり
Windows
怖すぎるにも ほどがある。新聞部は、夏休み前の学校新聞で「学校の七不思議」を特集することになった。七人の学生を集めて、彼らから怖い話を聞き、それを特集としてまとめるのだ。新聞部三年生の日野から命を受け、新入部員の坂上修一はその集会の聞き役を担当することになった。集会当日、放課後の新聞部部室に日野によって集められた七人の語り部と聞き役の坂上修一は初めて顔を合わせる。しかし、七人集められたはずの語り部は、何故か六人しかいなかった。七人目が姿を見せぬまま始まる七不思議の集会。七人目は、現れるのか。そして、この集会の終わりに待っているのは……。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.1%, Visual Novel 23.1%, Text-Based 22.1%, Adventure 19.5%, Horror 8.4%
- #45 Whispers From The Rift
70% match5 user reviews80% of 5 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 26.3%, Text-Based 19.4%, Visual Novel 18.6%, RPG 15.9%, Horror 8.9%
- #46 Into Oblivion
72% 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: RPG 24.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Adventure 15.6%, Text-Based 14.6%
- #47 Gal Mothers and Daughters who love sex
69% match8 user reviews63% of 8 reviews2024
Dev: POISONPub: PRODUCTION PENCIL
Windows
Enjoy the process of the timid protagonist using hypnosis to manipulate and subjugate his abusive mother and daughter, training them to his liking.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Visual Novel 21.8%, Adventure 17.2%, Text-Based 13.5%, Horror 7.1%
- #48 An Imp and an Impostor
68% match9 user reviews100% of 9 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: RPG 28.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Text-Based 19.5%, Adventure 18%, Choices Matter 5.2%
- #49 Electric Sleep
70% matchPositive93% of 14 reviews2019
Dev: Vlad Abadzhiev-JahnPub: Emotion and Soul
Windows · Mac · Linux
Electric Sleep is a pixel art interactive story. Explore a crumbling world through the perspective of different emotions.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.8%, Text-Based 24.3%, Visual Novel 21.8%, Multiple Endings 8.6%, Adventure 8.2%
- #50 memOriedit
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: いちか鉢
Windows · Mac
An adventure exploring two distinct types of information: conversation and memory. A district two stations away from the city, a night district who exude a atmosphere of alluring “Just listen to their desires, then do whatever you like.” —Told ya?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.3%, Visual Novel 20.4%, Text-Based 20.4%, Adventure 9.7%, Multiple Endings 6.9%
- #51 Samurai of Hyuga Book 5
68% matchPositive89% of 27 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Back from hell and into Hyuga, enemies and allies clash in this epic sequel! Overcome ultimate despair or be consumed by it: the choice is yours, ronin!
Why similar: RPG 26%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Text-Based 16.7%, Adventure 16.4%, Visual Novel 14.8%
- #52 喰人記
69% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2021
Dev: SukoyakaMeteor
Windows
A man-eating monster wakes up, in a snowy night. He meets a mysterious girl willing to die. This omnibus novel game tells the story of the strange interaction between them.
Why similar: Visual Novel 25.7%, Text-Based 23.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Adventure 14.7%, Multiple Endings 9.5%
- #53 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
67% 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 26.2%, Text-Based 18.8%, Visual Novel 17.3%, RPG 15.5%, Adventure 6.9%
- #54 Sign White
66% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: Team Marlo
Windows
"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 28.2%, Visual Novel 24.4%, Text-Based 23.8%, Adventure 21.3%, Indie 1.5%
- #55 Blackout: The Darkest Night
67% matchPositive88% of 25 reviews2021
Dev: MiniChimera Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
You have been part of something terrible, something so unspeakable that caused you to blackout and forget all the events from the past few days. Now you are faced with the choice of going after the truth, facing the shadows that hide within our world, or trying to forget and leave all this behind.
Why similar: RPG 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Text-Based 14.3%, Adventure 14%, Psychological Horror 5.3%
- #56 Creme de la Creme
67% matchVery Positive88% of 137 reviews2019
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Climb to the very top of the class at your exclusive private school for socialites! Will you study hard, find a perfect match, or embrace scandal?
Why similar: RPG 32.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Text-Based 21.7%, Adventure 19.8%, Indie 4.4%
- #57 Nimue
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nagi
Windows
A man awoke by the lake with no memory. Guided by a pilgrim, he discovers he was once the sorcerer Merlin—and learns the truth about the "Saint" who sealed him away. A dark fantasy visual novel about unrequited love. Three endings await.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.8%, Visual Novel 22.1%, Text-Based 20.2%, Adventure 18.4%, Atmospheric 4.8%
- #58 Sword of Shandar
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nexus Media
Windows
Sword of Shandar is a narrative-driven light RPG focused on choice, consequence, and discovery. Engage in turn-based combat, resolve challenges through dice-roll skill checks, crack locks in hands-on minigames, and decipher ancient runes as you uncover the secrets of a fading world.
Why similar: RPG 30.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Adventure 15.8%, Text-Based 14.1%
- #59 怪異番号~20✕✕(ニーマルバツバツ)~
64% matchPositive93% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: EBA GAME
Windows
A mysterious phone number on a park restroom wall leads to an unknown “voice,” quietly awakening the town’s hidden apparitions. This is a horror text adventure with no jump scares—no loud noises or grotesque surprises—designed for a safe and tension-focused experience.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.7%, Text-Based 25.3%, Dark 12.9%, Horror 11.7%, Adventure 10.1%