- #1 Dr. Kinderwood's Asylum
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Richday
Windows · Mac · Linux
Decide the fate of the son of a tailor and a witch doctor infected with an incurable disease in an interactive story with multiple endings depending on your actions.
Why similar: Choices Matter 14.8%, Nonlinear 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Text-Based 12.4%
- #2 말리온
96% match8 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: BepavedPub: ARTAME
Windows
Play the game from the perspective of a traveler who comes to the dealer and is faced with numerous choices in a story prepared by the dealer. Experience a story that changes based on your choices and see the ending that changes based on your choices!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Tabletop 15.3%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Text-Based 11.6%
- #3 Aunewyth
96% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2023
Dev: Captain Cool
Windows
Aunewyth is a text-based game with a focus on narration and decision making. It features a short yet versatile storyline that reveals itself according to the choices you make.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.1%, Choices Matter 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, RPG 11.6%, Multiple Endings 10%
- #4 VERSUS: The Elite Trials
95% 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: Text-Based 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, RPG 12.2%
- #5 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
94% matchVery Positive88% of 13,129 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Choices Matter 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Text-Based 14%, RPG 8.5%
- #6 Fighting Fantasy Classics
94% matchVery Positive82% of 371 reviews2018
Dev: Tin Man Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Ready your sword, pack your provisions and prepare to embark upon quests in which YOU are the hero! Choose what happens at every turn of the page with Fighting Fantasy Classics – text-based roleplaying adventures remastered.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Text-Based 16.7%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Tabletop 9.6%
- #7 Sorcery! Parts 1 and 2
93% matchVery Positive88% of 762 reviews2016
Dev: inkle Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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 30%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Text-Based 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.8%, RPG 11.5%
- #8 Serania - Path of the Scion
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FableTree Productions
Windows · Mac
Choose, explore, interact, fight, solve, gather, trade! Rise to rebel in this immersive text-based fantasy story that seamlessly merges the best elements of RPGs, choose-your-own-adventure stories, visual novels, and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Choices Matter 13%, Nonlinear 9.5%
- #9 Dreaming After You
91% matchPositive91% of 32 reviews2024
Dev: MangoPower
Windows
Play as a Duskweaver in this short "choices matter" story about self-sacrifice.
Why similar: Text-Based 18%, Choices Matter 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Philosophical 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
- #10 The Nascent Necromancer
91% matchMixed60% of 15 reviews2023
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
When you're falsely accused of sorcery, corrupt inquisitors make you the object of a witch hunt. Now, sorcery might be the only way for you to survive.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Choices Matter 16%, RPG 9.8%
- #11 Diaspora
89% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Navigate unknown waters, deadly politics, and ancient magic in this low-fantasy adventure. Can you turn the tides of war and forge a future for your clan? A text-based interactive novel, 1 million words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, RPG 14.6%, Choices Matter 9.9%
- #12 Turncoat Chronicle
90% matchMostly Positive71% of 14 reviews2023
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your father stole his throne, intending to leave it to you. When the long-lost heir resurfaces, will you defend the king—or betray him to his enemies?
Why similar: Text-Based 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, RPG 15%, Choices Matter 10.1%
- #13 Bootlegger: Moonshine Empire
89% matchPositive81% of 21 reviews2024
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Text-Based 22%, Choices Matter 13.1%, RPG 9.4%
- #14 Jolly Good: Tea and Scones
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Extract yourself from another fine mess–this time, with your family watching! Mischief, mix-ups, and bewilderingly urgent capers at your ancestral estate.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Text-Based 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Choices Matter 17.2%, RPG 9.5%
- #15 Keeper's Vigil
86% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
As the Harbinger, you are the only Keeper who can cast spells. Stop a necromantic plague, uncover an Elven conspiracy, and decide the fate of a dying world! A text-based fantasy novel, 193,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects."
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Text-Based 20.6%, RPG 16%, Choices Matter 9.1%
- #16 Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle
86% matchVery Positive86% of 247 reviews2026
Dev: ジギタリス出版Pub: 15 Industry
Windows
Once you open this book, you are no longer just a reader. A "reading-style" fantasy adventure in the spirit of The NeverEnding Story — handcrafted over six years by a 30-year veteran from Vanillaware. 100% handmade, from the first page to the last.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Tabletop 14.6%, Text-Based 11.3%, Choices Matter 10.5%
- #17 A Wise Use of Time
88% matchMostly Positive80% of 122 reviews2015
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
With the power to freeze time, you can ransack a casino, rescue a celebrity, or cheat death itself! A thrilling interactive sci-fi novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.2%, Choices Matter 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Text-Based 18.4%, RPG 14.3%
- #18 Hero of Hoofbeat Hollow
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Run with unicorns, fly with pegasi, and swim with kelpies as a magical horse! Will you reunite the herds or drive them further apart? A text-based interactive fantasy novel with hundreds of choices and without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Text-Based 20.1%, RPG 16.1%, Choices Matter 9.2%
- #19 A Crown of Sorcery and Steel
84% matchMixed67% of 21 reviews2022
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 23.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, RPG 10.1%, Choices Matter 9%
- #20 Fallen Hero: Revelations
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Face down your ghosts and unearth secrets better left buried as you prepare to take vengeance on the ones who wronged you. But be warned, burying your past only works if it stays put.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Text-Based 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, RPG 15.4%, Choices Matter 11.3%
- #21 Saturnine
83% matchMixed70% of 27 reviews2025
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Text-Based 20.6%, RPG 16.5%, Choices Matter 10.3%
- #22 An Imp and an Impostor
82% matchPositive100% of 10 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: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Text-Based 19.2%, RPG 14.9%, Choices Matter 9.9%
- #23 The Sword of Rhivenia
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 76 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Text-Based 19.6%, RPG 13.9%, Choices Matter 9.7%
- #24 History of Dragosa
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Violence in Video Games
Windows
A text-based choose your own adventure game, with multiple stories, each with several endings. Stories you create through branching narratives are kept so you can read them again or show them to friends.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Multiple Endings 14%, Text-Based 11.1%
- #25 Legends of Savvarah: Time of Pariah
80% matchVery Positive95% of 154 reviews2024
Dev: ST Sinovar
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are Hidu, a beastman mercenary in a port city. You must survive one very bad day. How? That’s entirely up to you. There are countless ways for events to unfold — and 25 endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Nonlinear 14%, Choices Matter 12.5%, RPG 8.2%
- #26 The Wake of the Wyrm
79% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A crown upon your head, danger all around. Rule, marry, scheme, raise heirs, wage wars, fulfill prophecies, and survive the waking Wyrm. An interactive text-based dark fantasy novel, 850,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Text-Based 23.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Choices Matter 14.9%, RPG 8.3%
- #27 Affairs of the Court: Choice of Romance
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 75 reviews2016
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 24.5%, Text-Based 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Choices Matter 15.9%, RPG 11.9%
- #28 Whiskey-Four
78% matchVery Positive91% of 112 reviews2024
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Never stop running, not with the galaxy at stake. Save it at all costs, and save yourself if you can.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Text-Based 17.6%, Choices Matter 17.5%, RPG 10.2%
- #29 OMEA
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: AImmersive Pub: AImmersive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your words shape the adventure. Omea is a revolutionary AI-powered narrative game where your personal Game Master responds to everything you write. No menus, no limits. Just type and forge your own legend across fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, and beyond.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Text-Based 15.1%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Nonlinear 11.2%
- #30 House of the Golden Mask
78% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Awaken your magic and break an ancient curse at a secret school of sorcery! What mysteries will you uncover at this crossroads between realms? A text-based fantasy novel, 280,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Text-Based 20.6%, RPG 15.6%, Choices Matter 9.5%
- #31 Samurai of Hyuga Book 6
77% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Return to Hyuga just in time for the new semester! Sword fights, love confessions, demonic rituals—nobody said graduating was going to be easy! A text-based novel, 300,000 words and hundreds of choices, without animations or sound effects.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Text-Based 20.5%, RPG 15.7%, Choices Matter 10.6%
- #32 The Soul Stone War 3
76% matchMixed67% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
By the power of your Soul Stone and the strength of your own indomitable soul, uncover secrets held in blood and lead the charge that will change the world. A text-based fantasy novel, 260,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Text-Based 21.3%, RPG 16.5%, Choices Matter 10.3%
- #33 Daria: A Kingdom Simulator
77% matchMixed42% of 19 reviews2024
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rule your realm, train heroes, and build a legendary kingdom in Daria. Experience strategy, storytelling, and diplomacy in this immersive sim.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Text-Based 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Choices Matter 10.2%, RPG 9.9%
- #34 The Golden Rose: Book One
76% matchVery Positive90% of 163 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore an alternative medieval Europe in this low-fantasy epic adventure! How far are you willing to go to take back your stolen treasure?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Text-Based 20.9%, RPG 13.5%, Choices Matter 11.7%
- #35 The Portal Pirate
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ZizihPub: Zizih Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Text-Based 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Psychological 7.9%
- #36 Roadwarden
74% matchVery Positive94% of 5,205 reviews2022
Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.4 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 29.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, RPG 12.9%, Choices Matter 9.1%
- #37 Atlantis Academy
75% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2023
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Can you and your friends master the ocean's magic and save your school? Dance, fight, and flirt with the other sea nymphs, selkies, and sirens!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Text-Based 19.4%, RPG 15.1%, Choices Matter 8.9%
- #38 Shadow of the Curse-Eater
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
The wilderfolk of Ushinega Island waste away in a rotting tropical paradise, haunted by a deadly malediction. Yet behind every curse lurks a secret. You have the power to save them... but should you?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Text-Based 19%, Choices Matter 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, RPG 10.9%
- #39 An Unexpectedly Green Journey
73% matchPositive98% of 49 reviews2024
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
From birth to death, craft your orc's legacy. Wield the powers of a shaman or chief. Conquer the world. Become a god or a demon lord. Do what orcs do best!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Choices Matter 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Text-Based 15.2%, RPG 10.6%
- #40 Scarlet Sails
73% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Hoist the Jolly Roger and set sail to find the legendary Titan’s Treasure! Do you fight with a cutlass or with magic? Are you biding your time until you can shoot your captain in the back, or are you the reason the rum is gone?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24%, Text-Based 23.4%, Choices Matter 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, RPG 12.8%
- #41 Fields of Asphodel
72% matchVery Positive86% of 80 reviews2024
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Befriend misfit deities and make a life for yourself in the Underworld! Can you escape your arranged marriage to the King? Do you want to?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Text-Based 17.5%, Choices Matter 16.5%, RPG 9.1%
- #42 マンドラゴラ心中
73% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: マリヒコPub: rhizome village
Windows · Mac
ある高校のスクールカウンセラーである主人公は、二人の少女が起こした心中事件に巻き込まれていく……。画面を二分割し、二人の少女を見比べながら進める「二画面同時進行」システムを採用。食い違う証言から事件の全体像が浮かび上がる。「rhizome village」が送るファナティックガールズトークADV。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Text-Based 19.6%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Psychological 7.1%
- #43 Honor Bound
71% matchPositive90% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Protect an exclusive boarding school and rebuild your life after scandal as a military bodyguard! How far will you go for ambition, duty, and your country?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choices Matter 18.7%, Text-Based 16.4%, RPG 11.1%
- #44 Choice of Robots
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,000 reviews2014
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Your robots will change the world! Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army? A 300,000-word epic interactive sci-fi novel.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Choices Matter 17.6%, RPG 5.7%
- #45 Leas: City of the Sun
70% matchPositive100% of 37 reviews2025
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 22%, Text-Based 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, RPG 15.3%, Choices Matter 8.7%
- #46 Grave Knight
71% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: Dreamlight Games
Windows
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 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choices Matter 14.1%, RPG 13.6%, Text-Based 13.2%
- #47 Your Story: Games with Death
69% matchMixed43% of 37 reviews2026
Dev: BoldBox
Windows
A medieval text quest in the "Choose Your Own Adventure" genre, where each choice could be your last. Create your story with more than 2,000 events, 200 of which will prove fatal. In a world where death plays against you, can you outsmart it and write your own story?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Choices Matter 15.2%, Text-Based 15.2%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
- #48 Villienville. Echoes of Deception
70% matchPositive80% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: JAD Labs
Windows · Mac
A text role-playing game about the fate of a mercenary who finds himself in the strange village: Villienville. Investigate who benefits from the sudden appearance of “ghosts” and help residents protect their homes from a mysterious enemy. The main thing is not to make a mistake in your choice!
Why similar: Text-Based 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Nonlinear 14.4%, Choices Matter 12.4%
- #49 Faerie's Bargain: The Price of Business
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 19 reviews2021
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Become the greatest of the goblin merchants in this gaslamp faery-tale! Buy and sell secrets and memories! Trade in time, shadows, and stranger things!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Text-Based 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, RPG 12.3%, Choices Matter 10.6%
- #50 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
69% 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 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Text-Based 19.4%, Choices Matter 11.5%, RPG 8.5%
- #51 Witchcraft U
70% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2021
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rush the university's secret societies as a first-year Magical Studies major! Will you keep your magic a secret from the mundanes or expose the truth?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Text-Based 20%, RPG 15.8%, Choices Matter 10%
- #52 Specters of the Deep
68% matchPositive89% of 36 reviews2025
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Climb out of your tomb to avenge your own death in this haunted fantasy epic! Defy dragons, duel the dead, and face the nightmare at the bottom of the sea! It's an interactive epic fantasy novel, without graphics or sound effects, fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Interactive Fiction 19%, RPG 13.1%, Dragons 11.7% ★
- #53 Fursona Festival
69% matchVery Positive83% of 75 reviews2023
Dev: BubblegumDrgn
Windows · Mac
Wander into the carnival of a giant magical dragon lady, where nobody ever leaves unchanged! Answer an extensive list of questions disguised as mini games as you explore the carnival grounds to discover what animal spirit lives inside you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Philosophical 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Text-Based 10.1%
- #54 Vanakan
68% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Erik Khachatryan
Windows
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 23%, Text-Based 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
- #55 Rule or Fall
67% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: Bad Concept, Retry
Windows · Linux
Govern wisely in this narrative choice-based game set in the heart of the Middle Ages. Your choices will have a real impact on your entire adventure, the world and its characters! Skillfully manage your image and your throne to survive and prosper. Or fall.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Text-Based 15.7%, RPG 9.2%
- #56 Scales of Justice
68% matchMixed69% of 16 reviews2025
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Travel across a magical kingdom with four eccentric individuals! Will you find your destiny—or will you write it for yourself? A text-based interactive fantasy novel, 600,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Choices Matter 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Text-Based 14%, RPG 11.1%
- #57 Witch's Brew: Love and Lattes
67% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
Will you spill the tea about the secret, cozy magical cafe on your college campus? Brew potions and romance on coffee dates with your new friends! A text-based novel of magic and romance, with hundreds of choices and without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Text-Based 21%, RPG 16.5%, Choices Matter 9.7%
- #58 DnD Adventure: Rogue's Choice
67% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2022
Dev: CCSPub: Delight Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Text-Based 15.3%, RPG 11.3%, Choices Matter 9.4%
- #59 Professor of Magical Studies
67% matchPositive83% of 24 reviews2022
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Professor of Magical Studies is an interactive magical school novel by Stephen Granade, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Text-Based 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Choices Matter 13%, RPG 9%
- #60 Yogoe Hunter
66% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Justice
Windows
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 23.5%, Text-Based 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Multiple Endings 7.3%