- #1 巫师超凡者 Legend of the wizard
97% matchMixed65% of 111 reviews2019
Dev: MagicBook
Windows
Legend of the wizard is a wizard free exploration game. You explore the world through reading, understanding, research, dissection, battle and collection, thus becoming a mysterious wizard from a common person.
Why similar: Strategy 29.6%, Simulation 28.4%, Adventure 18.9%, Casual 18.2%, Indie 5%
- #2 Near-Mage
96% matchVery Positive91% of 221 reviews2025
Dev: Stuck In Attic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Attend a magic school, learn spells, and explore a folklore-rich Transylvania in this hand-crafted narrative adventure.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.1%, Visual Novel 27.1%, Adventure 20.4%, Story Rich 13%, Casual 11.3%
- #3 Creme de la Creme
96% 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: Adventure 23.4%, Text-Based 21.8%, Casual 21.8%, Indie 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%
- #4 Arcana Academy
95% matchMostly Positive78% of 68 reviews2025
Dev: 2A StudioPub: Luckycalf
Windows
Freely build your magic academy and choose qpprentices from over 200 traits: genius, eccentric, or perhaps a fool? Select from hundreds of wizard classes to face hundreds of different event challenges, resist the invasion of the abyss, and save the entire empire from crisis.
Why similar: Card Game 44.4%, Simulation 23.9%, Strategy 23.7%, Casual 8%
- #5 Lust Academy - Season 1
94% matchVery Positive84% of 1,741 reviews2022
Dev: Bear in the Night
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Lust Academy is a choice-driven adult Visual Novel about adventures and studying in the school of magic and wizardry. Play as a young guy who got invited to Cordale Academy. The whole world full of sorcery and passion awaits you!
Why similar: Visual Novel 56.1%, Adventure 23%, Story Rich 20.9%
- #6 The Academy: The First Riddle
94% matchMixed66% of 92 reviews2020
Dev: Pine StudioPub: Snapbreak
Windows · Mac
The Academy is a puzzle-packed adventure set in a school filled with mystery. Leave your mark on Arbor's Academy and find out why it only welcomes the best and the brightest.
Why similar: Adventure 46.2%, Casual 29.6%, Story Rich 24.2%
- #7 Magical Diary: Wolf Hall
93% matchVery Positive91% of 215 reviews2020
Dev: Hanako Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Design your own wizard to attend a magical school. Learn spells, explore dungeons, make friends, and find a date for the May Day Ball. But be careful, everyone has secrets - including you!
Why similar: Simulation 35.9%, Visual Novel 25.5%, Adventure 22.6%, Indie 16.1%
- #8 Whimel Academy
91% matchVery Positive86% of 206 reviews2025
Dev: Impossible Home
Windows
Live the day-to-day of a magic school student! Whimel Academy is a cozy magic school simulation game. Manage your time and balance between studying magic, part-time jobs, and befriending (or romance) classmates in this wholesome and enchanting world!
Why similar: Simulation 38.9%, Visual Novel 30.9%, Story Rich 17.2%, Indie 12.9%
- #9 BOOK OF HOURS
91% matchVery Positive89% of 4,152 reviews2023
Dev: Weather Factory
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 23.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Restore a crumbling occult library by a winter sea. Build the world’s foremost collection of grimoires and arcana. Master the invisible arts. BOOK OF HOURS is a narrative crafting RPG set in a 1930s world of hidden gods and secret histories. What sort of Librarian will you choose to be?
Why similar: Card Game 37.9%, Strategy 20.2%, Simulation 19.6%, Text-Based 15.5%, Story Rich 6.7%
- #10 Academagia: The Making of Mages
92% matchMostly Positive71% of 288 reviews2017
Dev: Black Chicken Studios, inc.
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Academagia, the greatest of the ancient schools for wizards. Build the legend of your mage with thousands of options, emergent storytelling and endless replayability. The definitive version of the magical life simulator is at last on Steam!
Why similar: Simulation 26.3%, Strategy 18.8%, Text-Based 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Adventure 13.4%
- #11 Choice of Life: Middle Ages 2
90% matchVery Positive95% of 967 reviews2022
Dev: Blazing Planet Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Explore your kingdom and rule wisely in the card game - Choice of Life: Middle Ages 2
Why similar: Card Game 25.7%, Strategy 15.1%, Simulation 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Adventure 11.2%
- #12 Mystic Academy: Escape Room
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 239 reviews2023
Dev: mc2games
Windows
Today is the day of your final exam to become a wizard. Within this enchanting escape room, you'll navigate a wizardry school, unravel puzzles, master new spells, and put your magical skills to the ultimate test. Will you emerge triumphant?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.5%, Adventure 26.4%, Simulation 22.1%, Casual 21.1%
- #13 Choice of Life: Middle Ages
89% matchVery Positive89% of 1,774 reviews2020
Dev: Blazing Planet Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 70%
A card game in a Medieval setting where you make decisions on which not only your life will depend, but also the future of the kingdom!
Why similar: Card Game 33.3%, Strategy 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Simulation 11.1%, Adventure 7.7%
- #14 Wizdom Academy
88% matchMixed61% of 199 reviews2025
Dev: Kipwak Studio
Windows
Headmaster, your academy awaits: Recruit young students and shape them into mighty wizards. Build, manage and customize your castle, manage your resources and send your squads in expedition to expand your school's prestige and influence.
Why similar: Strategy 59.6%, Simulation 40.4%
- #15 Field Hospital: Dr. Taylor's Story
87% matchVery Positive90% of 106 reviews2020
Dev: Gard Interactive
Windows · Mac
Field Hospital is a text-based bureaucratic detective game about hard decisions. Decide who to treat and whom to refuse. Face consequences. Study patients’ info and read their stories. Investigate the tangled case of Dr. Taylor.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.8%, Text-Based 27.8%, Simulation 24.6%, Story Rich 14.7%
- #16 Roadwarden
84% 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 32.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Adventure 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Indie 8.9%
- #17 Psy High
86% matchMostly Positive79% of 148 reviews2014
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 36.9%, Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Indie 17.8%
- #18 Windy Meadow - A Roadwarden Tale
84% matchVery Positive87% of 101 reviews2023
Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Windy Meadow – A Roadwarden Tale is an interactive slice-of-life visual novel about choosing your own path. Help three protagonists make the most important choices of their lives. Featuring a multitude of hand-crafted characters and a richly detailed village set in the Roadwarden story world.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.2%, Visual Novel 26.4%, Adventure 22.2%, Text-Based 12%, Story Rich 6.2%
- #19 Brookhaven Grimoire
86% matchMixed56% of 191 reviews2022
Dev: Little_Amethyst
Windows
A Wizard has trapped you in a dark storybook, transporting you to the magical town of Brookhaven. With spells, swords, and the power of friendship, begin your new life in this strange land. But remember, escape may yet be possible for those who unravel this world’s mysteries...
Why similar: Adventure 55.8%, Casual 44.2%
- #20 Magical Diary: Horse Hall
85% matchVery Positive90% of 1,019 reviews2012
Dev: Hanako Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You have been invited to attend a magical school. You can make new friends, learn spells, face exams, run for class office, and try to find a date for the May Day Ball.
Why similar: Visual Novel 54.1%, Adventure 16.1%, Indie 14.2%, Simulation 9.3%, Story Rich 6.2%
- #21 Ways of Alchemy
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 680 reviews2025
Dev: RocketBrush Games
Windows
Become a medieval alchemist in this card game. Brew deadly potions, discover ancient recipes, hire adventurers, and outwit the Inquisition. Transform your humble shack into an alchemical empire. No wands are required — just knowledge and wit.
Why similar: Card Game 40.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Strategy 19.4%, Simulation 16.2%, Indie 1.4%
- #22 Growing Up
81% matchVery Positive88% of 3,558 reviews2021
Dev: Vile Monarch
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
This is the story of your life. Experience the entire journey from toddler to adulthood. Go to schools, learn new things, meet new friends, and have wild adventures! Every choice you make will influence your future career, and decide who your romantic partner will be. Who will you become?
Why similar: Simulation 25.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Adventure 14.2%, Casual 11.8%
- #23 Lost Crew
83% matchVery Positive84% of 51 reviews2016
Dev: Gamecosm
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 98%
This is text adventure game of survival of the astronauts on the orbital station that is lost in time. You will have to take care of the rescue of the station's crew, and lots of complicated riddles and situations will make this adventure even more interesting.
Why similar: Adventure 38.6%, Simulation 21.8%, Casual 14.8%, Indie 10.9%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%
- #24 Life of a Wizard
82% 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: Adventure 28.7%, Text-Based 27.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Indie 20.9%
- #25 Wintermoor Tactics Club
80% matchVery Positive88% of 643 reviews2020
Dev: EVC GamesPub: Versus Evil
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Wintermoor Tactics Club is a story about surviving high school, with gameplay inspired by tactics RPGs and visual novels.
Why similar: Strategy 33.6%, Visual Novel 31.3%, Adventure 14.9%, Story Rich 12.9%, Indie 7.3%
- #26 The Witch's Cauldron
78% matchVery Positive92% of 619 reviews2024
Dev: Harvey games
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The Witch's Cauldron is a narrative roguelike game about being a medieval witch. Grab your cauldron and get brewing. Love, curses, laughter, wisdom for sale! Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. At least before the inquisitors come around.
Why similar: Card Game 33.4%, Simulation 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Casual 10.8%, Indie 9.5%
- #27 Arcadie: Second-Born
79% matchVery Positive95% of 385 reviews2022
Dev: Arcadie & Utopie
Windows · Mac
In this interactive tale of love and war, be the force of reason that your kingdom needs, or perpetuate its reputation as a force of destruction. Find love and weave friendships, or cast it all away for the sake of retribution.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.4%, Text-Based 27.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Adventure 7.9%, Story Rich 7.2%
- #28 The Secret of Darkwoods
79% matchVery Positive89% of 118 reviews2023
Dev: Rap2h
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 50.6%, Interactive Fiction 39.9%, Indie 9.5%
- #29 The Island: Into The Mist
81% matchMixed66% of 225 reviews2019
Dev: BADA Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
'The Island: In To The Mist' is an adventure game. It includes basic features of adventure genre and add some new systems to interest you. You have been given a chance to experience a group of university students, who confined in the island. There is a terrific but interesting story you will see.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Text-Based 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Story Rich 10%
- #30 School Days
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 7,352 reviews2026
Dev: 白雨工作室
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
《学生时代》是一款可自由构筑的校园人生模拟器。你将在高度还原的中国校园中,从入学一路走到高考,与多个性格鲜明的同学一起成长,互相陪伴。你的养成和选择,不但会决定你的人生,也会影响到朋友们的未来。
Why similar: Visual Novel 24.6%, Strategy 23.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Casual 17.5%, Story Rich 11.1%
- #31 Ye Guild Clerk!
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 1,828 reviews2025
Dev: Devclerk
Windows
The local Adventurer's Guild is hiring!... Not for adventurers, but for guild clerks! You play an important role in handing out quests, gold, and equipment as your actions shape the stories of these animal adventurers for better, or for worse..!
Why similar: Text-Based 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Simulation 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Casual 11.2%
- #32 FAKEBOOK
75% matchVery Positive91% of 732 reviews2024
Dev: banjihagames
Windows · Mac
Point-and-click mystery adventure on the virtual SNS! Find secrets hidden by family, friends, companies, and idols.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Text-Based 19.7%, Visual Novel 19.2%, Simulation 13%, Adventure 12.2%
- #33 Spellchanted 2D Hidden Object Puzzle Adveture Tile-Matching
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 189 reviews2024
Dev: Shaman Games Studio
Windows · Mac
Enter a magical world filled with legendary Fairy Tale characters. Become the greatest wizard. Help a young witch break an evil curse and save the Fairy Tale kingdoms!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.6%, Visual Novel 24.9%, Text-Based 23%, Casual 19%, Story Rich 3.5%
- #34 Introvert: A Teenager Simulator
77% matchMostly Positive72% of 869 reviews2021
Dev: Euphoric Brothers
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 47%
One of the new guys in school tells you he’s going to shoot up the school if he doesn’t make friends in 5 days. Discover the decisions, people, situations you will encounter while playing and trying to make friends of your own and living your own life.
Why similar: Adventure 45%, Casual 39.7%, Story Rich 15.4%
- #35 Nocked! True Tales of Robin Hood
78% matchVery Positive94% of 87 reviews2019
Dev: Andrew G. Schneider
Windows · Mac
You are Robin Hood! Forge your destiny and fight to liberate Nottingham in this epic story-driven RPG blending interactive fiction, resource management, and base building set within a lushly-illustrated Sherwood Forest.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.8%, Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Story Rich 9.2%
- #36 Sanatorium - A Mental Asylum Simulator
75% matchMixed63% of 206 reviews2025
Dev: ZeitglasPub: Shoreline Games
Windows · Mac
The year is 1923—step inside Castle Woods Sanatorium, where care and cruelty blur together. Disguised as a doctor, you’ll diagnose and treat patients using a deck of symptoms, tests, and outdated therapies. But tread carefully: one wrong move could expose you as an impostor.
Why similar: Card Game 49.2%, Simulation 24.7%, Adventure 15.4%, Story Rich 10.6%
- #37 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
73% matchVery Positive90% of 9,503 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Interactive Fiction 20%, Text-Based 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Story Rich 8.7%
- #38 Dyscourse
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 444 reviews2015
Dev: Owlchemy Labs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dyscourse is an interactive choice-based narrative adventure game where you journey through a stylized world of choice and consequence. Choose wisely.
Why similar: Simulation 25.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Adventure 21.6%, Casual 15.1%, Indie 15%
- #39 Spellcaster University
72% matchVery Positive83% of 4,213 reviews2021
Dev: Sneaky Yak Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Develop a prestigious university of mages. Build rooms, train your students, fight orcs, slay the bureaucrats, manage your budget... a director's life is not a quiet one.
Why similar: Simulation 49.8%, Strategy 33.4%, Indie 16.7%
- #40 UNMEMORY
74% matchVery Positive84% of 98 reviews2020
Dev: PATRONES & ESCONDITES
Windows · Mac · Linux
Unravel a mystery: A game you can read, a book you can play.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Adventure 16.8%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Indie 10.4%
- #41 风信楼
71% matchVery Positive94% of 3,645 reviews2021
Dev: Pingfang Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
昏君误国,怨声载道,无数野心家暗起反心。在京城一家青楼的掩饰下,你培养手下、积攒钱财、收集情报、建立人脉,等待兵变夺权的最好时机……《风信楼》是一部拥有海量选项和丰富剧情的高自由度养成游戏——百种不同结局,尽在你的选择之中。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Simulation 16.8%, Text-Based 16.4%, Adventure 10%
- #42 Sable's Grimoire
74% matchVery Positive96% of 145 reviews2018
Dev: Zetsubou
Windows · Mac · Linux
Sable's Grimoire is a visual novel featuring monster girls in a magic academy setting. Play as Sable, an aspiring magic researcher, as he get sucked into the daily lives and troubles of his demi-human classmates.
Why similar: Simulation 33.8%, Visual Novel 25.1%, Casual 23.3%, Indie 17.8%
- #43 I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,518 reviews2022
Dev: Northway GamesPub: Finji
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.
Why similar: Card Game 26.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Simulation 15.2%, Visual Novel 14.9%
- #44 Magic Research
71% matchVery Positive91% of 412 reviews2023
Dev: Maticolotto
Windows
Median: 24.4 hrsMean: 97.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Magic Research is a text-based incremental game about Magic. You are the headmaster of a newly-created institution of Magic. Will you be able to lead your school to win the prestigious Tournament of Magic?
Why similar: Text-Based 50.4%, Simulation 26.9%, Adventure 19.5%, Casual 3.2%
- #45 A Mage Reborn
72% matchVery Positive88% of 104 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Walk the path of a legendary mage, combining four different schools of magic to devastating effects.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.5%, Adventure 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Casual 15.7%
- #46 Untitled Crossing Record
73% matchMixed66% of 91 reviews2022
Dev: NekoPad StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
未命名穿越记录是一款异世界题材的团队养成策略游戏,讲述一名小说家意外穿越到自己的作品中,在与自己创作的背景似是而非的世界里建立自己的公会、探险并获得足以影响世界的力量、揭露时空扭曲的真相并寻找同样迷失在异世界中的青梅竹马的故事。
Why similar: Strategy 26.9%, Simulation 26%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Adventure 16.9%, Story Rich 8.7%
- #47 Recesses
70% matchVery Positive97% of 70 reviews2024
Dev: Sanjuny
Windows
It's recess. Time to play cards, find your missing friend, discover the meaning of life. The usual 5th grade playground stuff.
Why similar: Card Game 44.1%, Strategy 24.7%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Story Rich 8.1%, Indie 5.1%
- #48 Knights College
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,192 reviews2021
Dev: KAIJYU-09
Windows
KnightsCollege is a kemono visual novel set in the Knight College, where elite knight candidates live. In this game, every choice is presented as a card, and the protagonist lives in the dormitory while collecting cards.
Why similar: Visual Novel 45.2%, Text-Based 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Simulation 10%, Adventure 7.2%
- #49 High School Odyssey
68% matchVery Positive93% of 613 reviews2023
Dev: 傲雪小组
Windows
A campus simulation game full of tons of surprising interactive gameplay elements along the way.
Why similar: Simulation 60.4%, Story Rich 19.8%, Casual 19.8%
- #50 我的时光:大学日记
70% matchMostly Negative27% of 393 reviews2026
Dev: WaterWood Studio
Windows · Mac
《College Diaries》 is a simulation game set against the backdrop of college life. Players take on the role of a college freshman, shaping their college career by choosing different majors, joining various clubs, participating in campus activities.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Visual Novel 21%, Text-Based 18.7%, Simulation 14.8%, Story Rich 9.3%
- #51 角斗士学院(Gladiator School)
68% matchVery Positive94% of 343 reviews2022
Dev: Together Game
Windows
[game type] AVG + simulated love cultivation[game rating] objects aged 18 and above[game theme] BL ancient Roman wind school daily + hot-blooded battle
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.5%, Visual Novel 36.1%, Strategy 25.4%
- #52 Valthirian Arc: Hero School Story
71% matchMixed59% of 357 reviews2018
Dev: AgatePub: PQube
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Build a school for RPG heroes in a mix of simulation and role-play adventure. As Principal of a school for the warriors and mages of the future, you must build your Academy to train the best in the land. Place and upgrade facilities, form teams of the best students and send them out on epic quests!
Why similar: Strategy 31.8%, Simulation 30.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Adventure 17.2%
- #53 Museum Mystery: Deckbuilding Card Game
68% matchVery Positive82% of 181 reviews2024
Dev: ST Stepanov Ivan AndreevichPub: Recently Played
Windows
Museum Mystery is a deck-building, story-driven roguelite adventure where museum exhibits come to life, wreaking chaos. Explore halls from different eras, battle works of art, collect your own deck of artifacts, and solve the mystery!
Why similar: Card Game 48%, Strategy 25.2%, Adventure 10.8%, Story Rich 9%, Indie 7%
- #54 Arcadia Fallen
67% matchVery Positive94% of 508 reviews2021
Dev: Galdra Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Play the role of a young alchemist apprentice who is unwillingly bound to an illegal spirit. Suddenly drawn into a war between humanity and magic, they must join a group of unlikely heroes to escape their own doom, hopefully saving the world along the way.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.2%, Visual Novel 30.8%, Text-Based 27.5%, Story Rich 8.4%
- #55 Dead Town Tales
67% matchVery Positive83% of 478 reviews2023
Dev: 拾遗工作室Pub: Pixmain
Windows
Dead Town Tales is a game that focuses on strategy card building and core Roguelike gameplay. You can learn about this romantic and mysterious world by fighting and exploring, meeting people, ghosts and monsters in Dead Town and experiencing the unknown and making choices together with them.
Why similar: Card Game 52.4%, Strategy 34.8%, Story Rich 6.4%, Indie 6.4%
- #56 Love in the distance
69% matchMixed66% of 334 reviews2021
Dev: Level-Buster Studio
Windows
A word adventure game based on a long-distance relationship. On high school and college campuses, pick up memories that belong only to that time. Ideal and reality, if we can chose it again, can we not have regrets?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Indie 24.4%, Visual Novel 18%, Story Rich 12.4%, Adventure 10.4%
- #57 A Perfect Day
66% matchVery Positive85% of 1,802 reviews2022
Dev: Perfect Day Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Revisit and repeat the final moments of China's turn of the century in this narrative puzzle adventure. Play a 6th-grade student and greet classmates, explore secrets, play mini-4WD, or just wander around town. Make your choices to create a perfect day for everyone!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 40.6%, Adventure 27.5%, Story Rich 16.7%, Indie 15.2%
- #58 The Fool's Apprentice
67% matchMixed53% of 53 reviews2025
Dev: The Planar Danse
Windows
A wizard academy management sim where you—an obviously benevolent professor—must manage & cast spells on your many apprentices so that they might study the right spells… and perhaps even survive the researching process. Some may die, but oh well, can’t save them all!
Why similar: Simulation 53.8%, Strategy 46.2%
- #59 The Horror at Highrook
63% matchVery Positive91% of 451 reviews2025
Dev: Nullpointer Games
Windows
The Horror at Highrook is an occult card crafting narrative RPG. Explore a haunted mansion with your team of investigators, summon dark entities, craft powerful protections, uncover the fate of the missing family, and choose your own path through the darkness.
Why similar: Card Game 63.4%, Simulation 22.8%, Story Rich 13.7%