- #1 Samurai of Hyuga Book 2
97% matchPositive88% 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 29.1%, Text-Based 20.4%, RPG 18%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Adventure 9.6%
- #2 Sabres of Infinity
96% matchVery Positive94% of 188 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 41%, RPG 20.2%, Text-Based 20%, Adventure 10.8%, Indie 8.1%
- #3 Samurai of Hyuga Book 4
96% matchVery Positive83% of 58 reviews2019
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Become the vagabond you always knew you were. Rely on your blade and wits, for little else will save you amidst the cold and unforgiving North! Retrace the steps of your past and rekindle a love once lost. Or try your best to snuff it out—either way, it’s going to burn.
Why similar: Text-Based 47%, RPG 26.2%, Adventure 15.3%, Indie 11.5%
- #4 Choice of Magics
95% matchVery Positive93% of 166 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 32.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.3%, RPG 17.4%, Adventure 10.4%, Indie 9.5%
- #5 Guns of Infinity
94% matchVery Positive96% of 138 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 32.2%, Text-Based 21.5%, RPG 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Adventure 9.7%
- #6 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
93% matchVery Positive88% of 12,656 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.8 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.9%, Interactive Fiction 25.6%, Text-Based 21.7%, RPG 16.5%, Adventure 4.1%
- #7 Champion of the Gods
94% matchVery Positive86% of 174 reviews2015
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Will you serve the gods or overthrow them? Battle ancient evils and destiny itself in this epic interactive novel inspired by Greek myth.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.5%, Text-Based 30%, RPG 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Indie 6.7%
- #8 Pendragon Rising
92% matchMostly Positive78% of 97 reviews2015
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Seize the throne in the age of King Arthur! Lead an army of Britons against the darkest of enemies in this epic interactive medieval fantasy novel.
Why similar: Text-Based 38.3%, RPG 26.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25%, Indie 9.9%
- #9 Fatehaven
91% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.6%, RPG 25.1%, Text-Based 24.9%, Adventure 13.4%, Indie 10.1%
- #10 Choice of Rebels: Uprising
91% matchVery Positive88% of 146 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 34.9%, Text-Based 27.2%, RPG 19.2%, Adventure 10.3%, Indie 8.5%
- #11 Mecha Ace
90% matchVery Positive87% of 157 reviews2014
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Step into the cockpit of a giant "mecha" robot, dueling with plasma sabers in an interstellar civil war!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.2%, RPG 22.6%, Text-Based 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Indie 10.3%
- #12 Choice of the Deathless
89% matchVery Positive91% of 324 reviews2014
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Battle demons and undead attorneys, and win souls to pay back your student loans! At the elite demonic-law firm of Varkath Nebuchadnezzar Stone, you'll depose a fallen god, find romance, and maybe even make partner, if you don't lose your own soul first.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 35.9%, Text-Based 30.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, RPG 14%, Indie 5.6%
- #13 Sorcery! Parts 1 and 2
89% matchVery Positive88% of 761 reviews2016
Dev: inkle Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 5.5 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 37.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, RPG 16.5%, Text-Based 14.3%, Adventure 7.9%
- #14 Tin Star
88% matchVery Positive95% of 306 reviews2015
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Ride out into the Old West as a U.S. marshal in the biggest interactive novel ever made! Confront outlaws, find romance, defy the elements, and craft an enduring legend as you uncover a conspiracy whose deadly web stretches from San Francisco to New York City.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 35.9%, Text-Based 25.8%, RPG 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Indie 7.6%
- #15 Creme de la Creme
87% matchVery Positive86% of 144 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: Text-Based 25.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.2%, RPG 24.6%, Adventure 14%, Indie 10.9%
- #16 The Soul Stone War
86% matchMixed69% of 111 reviews2020
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Become the Wielder of Soul Stone, an ancient artifact of untold power, and shape the fate of your world. Outrun the past so that you may have a future.
Why similar: RPG 24%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Text-Based 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Adventure 12.5%
- #17 The Sword of Rhivenia
86% 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 29.6%, Text-Based 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 23%, RPG 20.8%, Indie 3%
- #18 Heads Will Roll: Reforged
83% matchVery Positive84% of 1,689 reviews2023
Dev: 1917 StudiosPub: Valkyrie Initiative
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Hardcore survival RPG with non-linear story that lets you play as a young medieval soldier who over the course of battles and adventures becomes the most formidable and respected knight of his era. Or, if he’s not lucky enough, perishes in the chaos of the Hundred Years' War.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.4%, Text-Based 29.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, RPG 15.8%
- #19 Breach: The Archangel Job
84% matchVery Positive91% of 93 reviews2019
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore the underground world of vigilantes as you wage war against the Chicago mafia. Roll the dice, and survive the consequences of your actions!
Why similar: RPG 49.1%, Adventure 29%, Indie 21.8%
- #20 Affairs of the Court: Choice of Romance
85% 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 28.1%, Text-Based 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, RPG 15.3%, Adventure 8.2%
- #21 Arcadie: Second-Born
82% matchVery Positive95% of 400 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 27.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.1%, Text-Based 26.2%, RPG 12.2%, Adventure 4.2%
- #22 SLAMMED!
84% matchVery Positive94% of 109 reviews2015
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Turn a scripted steel-cage wrestling match into a real fight in this 250,000-word interactive novel, the greatest text-based pro-wrestling RPG in the world!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.2%, RPG 27.3%, Text-Based 27.1%, Indie 11.5%
- #23 The Golden Rose: Book One
82% matchVery Positive90% of 161 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 29.5%, Text-Based 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 23.5%, RPG 19.6%, Indie 2.9%
- #24 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,040 reviews2020
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.2%, Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Text-Based 23.9%, RPG 12.7%, Adventure 4.3%
- #25 An Assassin in Orlandes
81% matchVery Positive82% of 97 reviews2015
Dev: Tin Man Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 17.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Search for a ruthless assassin in this Gamebook Adventure where YOU control the story!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.7%, RPG 33.7%, Adventure 18%, Indie 11.7%
- #26 The War for the West
80% matchVery Positive82% of 77 reviews2019
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rule the land as you see fit, using alliances, intrigue or warfare to establish your House as a dominant force in the realm's politics.
Why similar: Text-Based 34.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.8%, RPG 19.7%, Adventure 10.5%, Indie 7.9%
- #27 Fighting Fantasy Classics
79% matchVery Positive82% of 366 reviews2018
Dev: Tin Man Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 10.8 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 30.8%, Text-Based 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 22%, RPG 14%, Adventure 5.7%
- #28 Legends of Savvarah: Time of Pariah
77% matchVery Positive96% of 150 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 35.8%, Interactive Fiction 27%, RPG 17.4%, Text-Based 10.2%, Adventure 6.7%
- #29 Choice of the Pirate
78% matchVery Positive93% of 108 reviews2016
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Plunder ghost ships for cursed treasure! Battle the Crown Navy, sea monsters, and other bloodthirsty pirates on a quest to rival the Pirate King himself!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36%, Text-Based 26.7%, RPG 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.6%, Adventure 7.2%
- #30 Psy High
79% 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 30.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, RPG 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Indie 7.8%
- #31 Tally Ho
78% matchVery Positive94% of 118 reviews2017
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Only a perfect servant can solve a perfect mess! Being the perfect gentleman's gentleman or lady's lady doesn't make you an angel. Can you untangle your employer's knottiest problems with elegance and unruffled grace?
Why similar: Text-Based 35.6%, RPG 31%, Adventure 18.3%, Indie 15.1%
- #32 I, the Forgotten One
74% matchVery Positive90% of 200 reviews2023
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
To defeat the rebel knights and stabilize the crown, you must journey through the most dangerous realm in the kingdom--your own wretched past.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, RPG 14.3%, Adventure 9.4%
- #33 Ratings War
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 51 reviews2015
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Implant cameras in your eyes to win the news wars of 2061! Break stories, outwit rival reporters, and become a celebrity in this interactive noir novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 46.4%, RPG 38.7%, Indie 14.9%
- #34 Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One
75% matchVery Positive92% of 370 reviews2018
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your first case as a detective is forcing you to open your eyes to a world bigger than you thought. Or maybe it's better to keep them closed. Seems the supernatural didn’t get the memo that nothing exciting ever happens in the little town of Wayhaven.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.3%, RPG 18%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Adventure 9.3%
- #35 Sword of the Samurai
76% matchVery Positive91% of 160 reviews2014
Dev: MicroProse Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12 minMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Enter Japan in the age of warring states. At the center of this role-playing, action-adventure simulation of combat, statesmanship and intrigue, you are a samurai warrior struggling for honor!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.4%, RPG 29.6%, Adventure 24%, Indie 8%
- #36 Medieval Fantasy Survival Simulator
73% matchVery Positive97% of 253 reviews2022
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
You're gonna get yourself killed out here... There's monsters, bandits, and much, much worse roaming these lands... Do you really think you've got what it takes to survive? Or do you think you're cut out for much more than that... There's only one way to find out, and time is of the essence!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 71.4%, RPG 28.6%
- #37 The Lost Heir: The Fall of Daria
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 61 reviews2016
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Take back your throne from demon-summoning usurpers in this 145,000-word interactive fantasy novel! Will your prince or princess choose to be good or evil?
Why similar: Text-Based 30.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.3%, RPG 27.3%, Indie 11.5%
- #38 Sorcery! Part 4
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 133 reviews2016
Dev: inkle Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
An epic adventure through an open world of monsters, traps and magic. Infiltrate the Fortress of Sorcerers, and create your own unique story where every decision you make is remembered, no matter how small. Cheat death, uncover ancient mysteries, and recover the Crown of Kings - if you can.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 37.3%, RPG 33.9%, Adventure 16.1%, Indie 12.6%
- #39 Fabled Lands
72% matchVery Positive80% of 537 reviews2022
Dev: Prime Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Fabled Lands is a challenging old-school narrative RPG set in an open world. Complete quests, fight, trade goods and develop your character. Explore a vast land of adventure: travel across the war-torn kingdom, survive the plains of howling darkness, and escape the Court of Hidden Faces.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.7%, Text-Based 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, RPG 14.5%, Indie 4.9%
- #40 Arcadie II: Cold Lands
70% matchVery Positive84% of 103 reviews2026
Dev: Arcadie & Utopie
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are the Monarch. Choose between diplomacy and tyranny. Romance allies or enemies. Your decisions define your rule and the fate of those closest to you in this character-driven interactive tale.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.9%, Text-Based 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 24%, RPG 11.4%, Adventure 5.5%
- #41 Choice of Robots
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,000 reviews2014
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.8 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.4%, Text-Based 31.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, RPG 8.5%, Indie 4.1%
- #42 Choice of Alexandria
73% matchVery Positive95% of 79 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 28.2%, Text-Based 21.1%, RPG 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Adventure 10.9%
- #43 The Hero of Kendrickstone
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 108 reviews2015
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
As a wanna-be hero, you must rescue a city held hostage by an evil wizard, and somehow find money to pay your rent! A 240,000-word interactive novel.
Why similar: RPG 32.5%, Text-Based 27.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.1%, Indie 13.1%
- #44 Silmaris: Dice Kingdom
73% matchMixed66% of 98 reviews2020
Dev: PyrogenPub: Mi-Clos Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Unforgiving storytelling adventure with dice rolls and turn-based management. Make the right choices and roll the dice to rally the monarchs to your medieval kingdom by diplomacy, war or deception.
Why similar: Text-Based 63.4%, Indie 36.6%
- #45 女儿国的诅咒 The Curse of Womanland
66% matchVery Positive95% of 484 reviews2026
Dev: 符离游戏(FuliGames)
Windows
A romance-adventure text-based game themed around the Land of Women. You will travel to the Land of Women, meet the mysterious young lady Jian Ling, and gradually uncover the bloody and dark secrets behind this realm. Death, resistance, or degeneration? Everything depends on your choices.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 52.4%, RPG 27.8%, Adventure 19.8%
- #46 Heart of the House
71% matchVery Positive90% of 78 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 30.7%, Text-Based 30.5%, RPG 19.9%, Adventure 10.6%, Indie 8.4%
- #47 Sorcery! Part 3
71% matchVery Positive93% of 138 reviews2016
Dev: inkle Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
An epic open-world narrative adventure through a world of monsters, traps and magic. Explore two intermeshed worlds, past and present, and create your own unique story where every decision you make is remembered. Survive, and defeat the Seven Serpents - if you can!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 39.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, RPG 20.7%, Adventure 11.1%, Indie 7.7%
- #48 Heroes Rise: The Prodigy
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 405 reviews2014
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Do you have what it takes to become a legendary Powered hero? "Heroes Rise" is an epic interactive novel where your choices control the story. The game is entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. How high will you rise?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.1%, Text-Based 28.3%, RPG 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Indie 5.4%
- #49 Sacred Fire: A Role Playing Game
68% matchVery Positive95% of 511 reviews2021
Dev: PoeticPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
A text-based RPG full of choice and action. Fight for survival in the midst of the Roman invasion of ancient Caledonia. Strategize one dice roll at a time as emotions affect your performance. Use willpower to outsmart opponents, gain allies, wage war, or strive for peace. How will your story end?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.1%, Text-Based 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, RPG 12.9%, Adventure 9%
- #50 Mask of the Plague Doctor
70% matchVery Positive86% of 64 reviews2020
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Stop a deadly plague in a medieval fantasy tale of swords and surgery! Unearth medical knowledge, prevent the town’s purge, or plot your own escape.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.9%, RPG 25.1%, Text-Based 24.9%, Adventure 13.7%, Indie 10.3%
- #51 RONIN: Two Souls CHAPTER 1
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 316 reviews2021
Dev: M11 Studio
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Create your own adventure with Kenji who wants to be a samurai and is trained for it. But beware, you might go out on your own way in this path, it is entirely up to your choices. Can someone else’s desire of revenge lead your purpose and choices? Or, does he decide that?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 41.6%, Text-Based 26.6%, RPG 21.1%, Adventure 10.8%
- #52 Medieval Fantasy Survival Simulator 2: Gladiator Edition
67% matchVery Positive95% of 74 reviews2022
Dev: Randumb Studios
Windows
You're gonna get yourself killed in there... There's beasts, warriors, and much, much worse in the coliseum... Do you really think you've got what it takes to survive? Or do you think you're cut out for much more than that... There's only one way to find out, and time is of the essence!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 71.1%, RPG 28.9%
- #53 King of Dragon Pass
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 566 reviews2015
Dev: A SharpPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Create your own epic saga of survival, mythology and diplomacy! Rule your clan, make strategic decisions that affect the game world, win battles and expand your influence in this unique mix of RPG, strategy and story-telling.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Text-Based 20.2%, RPG 18.5%, Adventure 8.3%
- #54 Fading Hearts
70% matchMixed65% of 192 reviews2014
Dev: Sakura River Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 186.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Your choices changes the GENRE of the story!Almost EVERY NPC LIES to you at some point in the game!Live a life of adventure or a normal life! A game with true choices!An interactive story/game where you play the role of Ryou, a seemingly normal high school student in the land of Sorayama.
Why similar: RPG 70.6%, Adventure 17.6%, Indie 11.8%
- #55 Gods of Savvarah | Part I
65% matchVery Positive98% of 168 reviews2023
Dev: ST Sinovar
Windows
Gods of Savvarah is a visual novel with the philosophy of a classic fantasy RPG. Defeat enemies, explore countries, make friends, and find your place in Savvarah.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 41.3%, Interactive Fiction 30.3%, RPG 19.2%, Adventure 9.3%
- #56 Community College Hero: Trial by Fire
68% matchVery Positive85% of 255 reviews2015
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Outwit your professors at superpower school! Ace your exams, date classmates, and bring down the nation’s most wanted villains to earn your degree.
Why similar: Text-Based 37.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.6%, RPG 23.9%, Indie 10.4%
- #57 Life of a Wizard
69% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 28%, RPG 25.3%, Text-Based 24%, Adventure 12.9%, Indie 9.7%
- #58 VERSUS: The Lost Ones
68% matchVery Positive82% of 168 reviews2015
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Steal alien powers and absorb their memories! Can you outlast your opponents to escape from planet Versus? An epic adventure in a new galaxy.
Why similar: Text-Based 33.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.9%, RPG 27.2%, Indie 10%
- #59 A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight
67% matchVery Positive96% of 178 reviews2015
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Steam-powered mechs meet forbidden sorcery in this interactive steampunk novel, inspired by Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Jekyll & Hyde, and Jack the Ripper!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.5%, Text-Based 23.2%, RPG 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Indie 8%
- #60 Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven
67% matchVery Positive86% of 240 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: Text-Based 33.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.9%, RPG 22.9%, Adventure 10.2%, Indie 7.7%