- #1 Near-Mage
96% matchVery Positive91% of 234 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: Visual Novel 26.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.9%, Adventure 19.3%, Casual 15.7%, Story Rich 12.9%
- #2 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 29.5%, Simulation 28.2%, Adventure 19.1%, Casual 18.2%, Indie 5%
- #3 Creme de la Creme
96% matchVery Positive87% of 141 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 23.7%, Casual 21.8%, Text-Based 21.6%, Indie 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%
- #4 Lust Academy - Season 1
95% matchVery Positive84% of 1,758 reviews2022
Dev: Bear in the Night
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 43.4%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Adventure 17.9%, Story Rich 16.1%
- #5 Arcana Academy
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 71 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 44.2%, Simulation 24%, Strategy 23.7%, Casual 8%
- #6 Tales of Justice Academy: Winds Arise
93% matchMostly Positive71% of 393 reviews2026
Dev: 九芽川 Ninth Leaf
Windows
You can play as a young martial artist entering Justice Academy. Train through various courses, customize your build with different weapons, skills, and inner techniques. Explore the jianghu, bond with companions, and shape your fate across branching stories and three romanceable heroines.
Why similar: Simulation 27.8%, Strategy 22.2%, Adventure 16.4%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Story Rich 10.8%
- #7 Whimel Academy
92% matchVery Positive87% of 230 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 38.8%, Visual Novel 31.1%, Story Rich 17.3%, Indie 12.9%
- #8 The Academy: The First Riddle
94% matchMixed67% of 93 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 46.6%, Casual 29.3%, Story Rich 24.1%
- #9 Magical Diary: Wolf Hall
91% matchVery Positive91% of 215 reviews2020
Dev: Hanako Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 35.6%, Visual Novel 25.6%, Adventure 22.9%, Indie 15.9%
- #10 Rose Academy
90% matchVery Positive94% of 63 reviews2026
Dev: KK Studio
Windows · Mac
A detective visual novel inspired by Danganronpa and Everlasting Summer. You play as a young agent sent to an elite girls’ academy to investigate a suspicious death. Interrogate suspects, gather clues, and build romantic relationships — truth or temptation?
Why similar: Visual Novel 21.6%, Text-Based 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Adventure 11.5%, Casual 10%
- #11 BOOK OF HOURS
89% matchVery Positive89% of 4,309 reviews2023
Dev: Weather Factory
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 37.6%, Strategy 20.3%, Simulation 19.7%, Text-Based 15.7%, Story Rich 6.8%
- #12 Arcadia Fallen II
89% matchVery Positive99% of 160 reviews2026
Dev: Galdra Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
In this sequel to the award-winning roleplay visual novel, Arcadia Fallen, you play as a senior student at the Seven Winds Academy. Choose from three different magical disciplines, and let your choices shape the personality of your character as you navigate school life during a time of great change.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.9%, Visual Novel 29.9%, Text-Based 29%, Story Rich 8.2%
- #13 Academagia: The Making of Mages
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 290 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 26.2%, Strategy 18.8%, Text-Based 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Adventure 13.6%
- #14 Choice of Life: Middle Ages 2
88% matchVery Positive94% of 981 reviews2022
Dev: Blazing Planet Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Explore your kingdom and rule wisely in the card game - Choice of Life: Middle Ages 2
Why similar: Card Game 25.5%, Strategy 15.1%, Simulation 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Adventure 11.4%
- #15 School Days
86% matchMostly Positive76% of 7,643 reviews2026
Dev: 白雨工作室
Windows
Median: 14.0 hrsMean: 27.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
《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: Card Game 33.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Story Rich 7.2%
- #16 Mystic Academy: Escape Room
87% matchMostly Positive77% of 243 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 30.3%, Adventure 26.7%, Simulation 21.9%, Casual 21.1%
- #17 Choice of Life: Middle Ages
86% matchVery Positive89% of 1,812 reviews2020
Dev: Blazing Planet Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 71%
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%, Strategy 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Simulation 11.2%, Adventure 7.8%
- #18 Wizdom Academy
85% matchMixed60% of 209 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 59.7%, Simulation 40.3%
- #19 Field Hospital: Dr. Taylor's Story
84% matchVery Positive89% of 107 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 29.4%, Text-Based 24.7%, Simulation 22%, Story Rich 13.2%, Casual 10.7%
- #20 Magical Diary: Horse Hall
83% 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 54.2%, Adventure 16.3%, Indie 14.1%, Simulation 9.2%, Story Rich 6.2%
- #21 Windy Meadow - A Roadwarden Tale
82% 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%, Visual Novel 26.4%, Adventure 22.5%, Text-Based 11.8%, Story Rich 6.2%
- #22 Roadwarden
80% matchVery Positive94% of 5,039 reviews2022
Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.4 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 32.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Adventure 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Indie 8.8%
- #23 Psy High
84% 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 36.7%, Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Indie 17.7%
- #24 FAKEBOOK
79% matchVery Positive91% of 754 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 20.9%, Text-Based 18.6%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Simulation 12.3%, Adventure 11.9%
- #25 Brookhaven Grimoire
82% matchMixed56% of 194 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 56.1%, Casual 43.9%
- #26 Ways of Alchemy
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 708 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 40.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Strategy 19.4%, Simulation 16.2%, Indie 1.4%
- #27 Lost Crew
81% matchVery Positive84% of 51 reviews2016
Dev: Gamecosm
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 99%
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 39%, Simulation 21.6%, Casual 14.8%, Indie 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%
- #28 Life of a Wizard
81% 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 29.1%, Text-Based 27.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Indie 20.7%
- #29 The Witch's Cauldron
77% matchVery Positive92% of 629 reviews2024
Dev: Harvey games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 33.2%, Simulation 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Casual 10.9%, Indie 9.4%
- #30 Wintermoor Tactics Club
78% matchVery Positive88% of 645 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 33.5%, Visual Novel 31.4%, Adventure 15.1%, Story Rich 12.8%, Indie 7.2%
- #31 The Secret of Darkwoods
77% 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 50.4%, Interactive Fiction 40%, Indie 9.5%
- #32 Spellchanted 2D Hidden Object Puzzle Adveture Tile-Matching
76% matchMostly Positive73% of 191 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 25%, Text-Based 22.8%, Casual 19.1%, Story Rich 3.5%
- #33 The Island: Into The Mist
78% matchMixed66% of 225 reviews2019
Dev: BADA Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.0 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 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Story Rich 10%
- #34 Ye Guild Clerk!
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 2,067 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 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Simulation 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Casual 11.3%
- #35 Growing Up
74% matchVery Positive88% of 3,644 reviews2021
Dev: Vile Monarch
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Visual Novel 17.7%, Adventure 14.3%, Casual 11.8%
- #36 Sanatorium - A Mental Asylum Simulator
75% matchMixed61% of 218 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 48.9%, Simulation 24.7%, Adventure 15.7%, Story Rich 10.6%
- #37 Jukai Maze
73% matchVery Positive90% of 103 reviews2026
Dev: 致意
Windows · Mac · Linux
Beneath the shadowed sea of trees below the volcanic mountain lies a mysterious facility probing the afterlife, as omens of the world’s end approach. A loved one missing, reality twisting, a volcano stirring below. Once more you enter the maze, seeking the exit hidden in spectral forest shadows.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.8%, Adventure 34.1%, Text-Based 11.7%, Visual Novel 7.2%, Indie 6.6%
- #38 Nocked! True Tales of Robin Hood
76% 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 26.6%, Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Visual Novel 16%, Story Rich 9.3%
- #39 Arcadie: Second-Born
73% matchVery Positive95% of 394 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 30%, Text-Based 26.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Story Rich 11.2%, Adventure 8.4%
- #40 角斗士学院(Gladiator School)
74% 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 33.9%, Visual Novel 32%, Strategy 22.4%, Adventure 11.7%
- #41 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
72% matchVery Positive89% of 9,675 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.1 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 20.1%, Text-Based 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Story Rich 8.7%
- #42 风信楼
71% matchVery Positive94% of 3,664 reviews2021
Dev: Pingfang Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.2 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 18.4%, Simulation 16.7%, Text-Based 16.2%, Adventure 10.1%
- #43 Dyscourse
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 444 reviews2015
Dev: Owlchemy Labs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 3.8 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%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Adventure 22.3%, Casual 15%, Indie 14.8%
- #44 I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,676 reviews2022
Dev: Northway GamesPub: Finji
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 15.8 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 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Simulation 15%
- #45 Spellcaster University
71% matchVery Positive83% of 4,264 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 33.5%, Indie 16.7%
- #46 Sable's Grimoire
73% matchVery Positive96% of 150 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 33.7%, Visual Novel 25.2%, Casual 23.4%, Indie 17.7%
- #47 Magic Research
70% matchVery Positive91% of 417 reviews2023
Dev: Maticolotto
Windows
Median: 23.0 hrsMean: 95.5 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%, Simulation 26.8%, Adventure 19.9%, Casual 3.3%
- #48 A Mage Reborn
70% matchVery Positive89% of 105 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 21.2%, Adventure 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Casual 15.8%
- #49 Recesses
69% 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 43.8%, Strategy 24.7%, Visual Novel 18.3%, Story Rich 8.2%, Indie 5%
- #50 UNMEMORY
71% matchVery Positive84% of 99 reviews2020
Dev: PATRONES & ESCONDITES
Windows · Mac · Linux
Unravel a mystery: A game you can read, a book you can play.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Adventure 17%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Indie 10.3%
- #51 Foretales
68% matchVery Positive85% of 1,154 reviews2022
Dev: AlkemiPub: Dear Villagers
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Decide the fate of the world in this ingenious story-driven card game. Foretales offers a unique take on the adventure genre, with a multitude of playstyles and story paths through which you can save the world… or bring about its end.
Why similar: Card Game 34.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Strategy 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Adventure 12%
- #52 Museum Mystery: Deckbuilding Card Game
68% matchVery Positive83% of 184 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 47.7%, Strategy 25.2%, Adventure 11.1%, Story Rich 9.1%, Indie 7%
- #53 Love in the distance
69% matchMixed66% of 335 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 25.3%, Indie 24.2%, Visual Novel 18.1%, Story Rich 12.4%, Adventure 10.6%
- #54 Arcadia Fallen
66% matchVery Positive95% of 561 reviews2021
Dev: Galdra Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 31%, Text-Based 27.2%, Story Rich 8.6%
- #55 High School Odyssey
65% matchVery Positive93% of 616 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 60.3%, Story Rich 19.9%, Casual 19.8%
- #56 Knights College
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,202 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 45.5%, Text-Based 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Simulation 9.9%, Adventure 7.3%
- #57 Dead Town Tales
66% matchVery Positive83% of 480 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 52.2%, Strategy 35%, Story Rich 6.4%, Indie 6.4%
- #58 我的时光:大学日记
67% matchMostly Negative29% of 408 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 21.1%, Text-Based 18.5%, Simulation 14.8%, Story Rich 9.4%
- #59 Little Witch in the Woods
61% matchVery Positive89% of 12,726 reviews2025
Dev: SUNNY SIDE UP
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Little Witch in the Woods tells the story of Ellie, an apprentice witch. Explore the mystical forest, help the charming residents, and experience the daily life of the witch.
Why similar: Simulation 36%, Casual 20.9%, Adventure 19.3%, Story Rich 12.4%, Indie 11.5%