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Games Like Silent Terminal

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Text-Based, RPG, Singleplayer, Choices Matter.

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Silent Terminal is a terminal-based dark fantasy RPG with ASCII exploration, turn-based combat, branching quests, character progression, and persistent world changes. Create your character, explore ruined lands, and survive inside the terminal.

Reviews: No user reviews — 50%
Released: Coming soon
Developer: Bare Metal Xtreme
Genres: Action, Adventure, RPG
Platforms: Windows

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    97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,177 reviews2022
    Dev: Huw Millward
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Warsim is a deep, rich text based kingdom ruling sim unlike anything else, complete with charming ASCII graphics. Navigate the millions of different procedurally generated races, events and areas with a huge emphasis on player choice. Don't let its look fool you, there is depth in every direction.

    Why similar: Text-Based 37.4%, Procedural Generation 12.1%, RPG 7.8%, Simulation 7.6%, Strategy 6.4%

  2. #2 CultGame
    96% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Bucephalus Studios
    Windows · Linux

    Create your own cult, perform forbidden rituals, and crusade against the filthy non-believers. It's time to play god. CultGame is a retro cult simulator RPG where you start your own cult in a procedurally generated dark fantasy world with haunting ASCII art.

    Why similar: Text-Based 20.7%, 4X 13.2%, Procedural Generation 13%, RPG 7.2%, Strategy 6.4%

  3. #3 The Secret of Darkwoods
    96% 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 26.7%, CRPG 15.5%, RPG 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Open World 10.6%

  4. #4 Trawel
    95% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2019
    Dev: realDragon
    Windows · Linux

    Trawel is a historically-inaccurate open world text adventure RPG. Created as a re-imagining of old-school calculator and early command line games, it eschews their limitations but attempts to capture their spirit, and bring it in line with modern quality of life standards with a GUI.

    Why similar: Text-Based 20.1%, CRPG 15.6%, Procedural Generation 11.7%, Sandbox 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%

  5. #5 A Crown of Sorcery and Steel
    94% 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 30.1%, Medieval 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%, RPG 10.4%, Fantasy 9.4%

  6. #6 Daria: A Kingdom Simulator
    94% matchMixed44% of 18 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: Text-Based 30.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Simulation 13%, RPG 9.9%

  7. #7 Aunewyth
    93% 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 36%, RPG 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%

  8. #8 Turncoat Chronicle
    92% matchMixed69% of 13 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 28.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, RPG 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Fantasy 7.6%

  9. #9 The Sword of Rhivenia
    91% matchMostly Positive74% of 74 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: Text-Based 26.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, RPG 14.7%, Medieval 11.5%

  10. #10 Fight in the Arena by Daniel da Silva
    91% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2023
    Dev: Daniel da SilvaPub: SmokeSomeFrogs
    Windows · Linux

    Fight in the Arena is a text-based RPG with an in-depth turn-based combat system.

    Why similar: Text-Based 26.3%, CRPG 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.3%, Medieval 7.8%

  11. #11 Hero of Hoofbeat Hollow
    90% 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: Text-Based 27.2%, RPG 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Fantasy 7.7%

  12. #12 Keeper's Vigil
    89% matchNo user 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: Text-Based 27.2%, RPG 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Fantasy 7.7%

  13. #13 Upheaval
    89% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Alex Leone
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Spend your time well: in 30 days a powerful Magician arrives, and everything changes! Explore the wilds around your remote village, learn from mistakes, recover magical artifacts, and turn setbacks into advantages in this text-based open world roguelike adventure. Time's up: Upheaval is here again!

    Why similar: Text-Based 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Roguelike 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%, Multiple Endings 8.5%

  14. #14 The Nascent Necromancer
    88% matchMixed57% of 14 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 29.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, RPG 10.9%, Choices Matter 10.4%

  15. #15 House of the Golden Mask
    86% 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: Text-Based 27.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, RPG 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Fantasy 7.8%

  16. #16 Khaldun: Text Based Strategy
    87% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: SkyWolf
    Windows

    Khaldun is a medieval-themed ASCII graphics kingdom management game. Take part in realistic war simulations and decide every detail of your kingdom, from its economy to its demographics! Your decisions will shape the life of a nation. Rise or be lost to history...

    Why similar: Text-Based 22.5%, 4X 18%, Medieval 12.6%, Sandbox 11.1%, Strategy 7.1%

  17. #17 The Soul Stone War 3
    86% 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: Text-Based 28.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, RPG 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Fantasy 8.5%

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    84% matchMixed69% of 26 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: Text-Based 28.9%, RPG 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Multiple Endings 6.7%

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    85% 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 26.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Medieval 11.6%, Choices Matter 8.7%

  20. #20 The Reeve
    84% matchVery Positive86% of 50 reviews2024
    Dev: Gray Muscat
    Windows · Mac

    You are an Administrator serving your probationary period in a medieval town. Make decisions to affect the town's reputation, order, military and supplies. Choose wisely to deal with bandits, famines, cultists and plagues. The most difficult choices will decide the fate of your town!

    Why similar: Text-Based 18.3%, Medieval 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Choices Matter 9%

  21. #21 Leas: City of the Sun
    83% 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: Text-Based 28.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, RPG 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Fantasy 8.1%

  22. #22 Fallen Hero: Revelations
    82% 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: Text-Based 29.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, RPG 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Multiple Endings 7.5%

  23. #23 Bootlegger: Moonshine Empire
    82% matchPositive80% of 20 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: Text-Based 31.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, RPG 10.8%, Choices Matter 8.7%

  24. #24 Siege of Treboulain
    81% matchPositive93% of 43 reviews2022
    Dev: Choice of Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Defend your magical city from an enemy army in an epic fantasy game of swordfights, political maneuvering, and romance! Will you prove worthy of your crown?

    Why similar: Text-Based 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, RPG 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Medieval 10.1%

  25. #25 True Magician
    81% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Dark CitadelPub: Brezg Studio
    Windows

    How do you become a true magician? Find out in True Magician, an interactive text adventure with RPG elements. Travel through the kingdom with your teacher, learn the art of magic, fight enemies and make friends. And remember, the world is not what it seems!

    Why similar: CRPG 20.3%, Text-Based 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Medieval 11.6%

  26. #26 Jolly Good: Tea and Scones
    80% 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: Text-Based 30.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Choices Matter 11.6%, RPG 11%

  27. #27 An Imp and an Impostor
    79% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2025
    Dev: Choice of Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    You've spent years undercover, disguised as a human, infiltrating the city’s magical law-enforcement organization. They stole your magic from you. Can you steal it back? (A text-based interactive historical urban fantasy novel.)

    Why similar: Text-Based 27.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, RPG 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Fantasy 6.9%

  28. #28 Hero Generations
    79% matchMixed55% of 224 reviews2015
    Dev: Heart Shaped Games LLC
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%

    The original roguelike/4X strategy game where every turn is one year of your life. Explore, find a mate, build a home, and raise a child before you die to keep your legacy going. Praised as "the offspring of Sid Meier's Civilization, Passage, and The Legend of Zelda." IndieCade Finalist.

    Why similar: 4X 31.9%, Roguelike 16.3%, Strategy 14.7%, RPG 9.9%, Simulation 6.9%

  29. #29 Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk
    78% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2018
    Dev: Prime Games
    Windows · Mac

    The Battle for Murk is an interactive narrative set in a gritty medieval world. Play as Corporal Mandrake from the City Watch in a fantasy adventure game. Uncover the truth behind a treacherous conspiracy in a race against time to save your hometown from falling into the hands of a cruel leader.

    Why similar: Text-Based 24.8%, CRPG 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, RPG 9.7%

  30. #30 War of Bellrook
    77% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2022
    Dev: Plagen Shiki
    Windows

    Go forth on a text-based, choose your own adventure where you can choose your role and embark on adventure as various different people who tread different paths.

    Why similar: Text-Based 28%, RPG 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Fantasy 9.7%

  31. #31 Roadwarden
    75% matchVery Positive94% of 4,990 reviews2022
    Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.5 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 40.2%, RPG 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Choices Matter 5.9%

  32. #32 Path to Knighthood
    77% match9 user reviews44% of 9 reviews2023
    Dev: Hosted Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Learn the dark truth behind a gentle wyvern’s rampage, a cold-blooded murder, and a dragon-worshiping cult. Will you submit or defy the godlike creature?

    Why similar: Text-Based 22.8%, Medieval 21.7%, RPG 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%

  33. #33 Psy High
    78% 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 42.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, RPG 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Indie 6.1%

  34. #34 Wizardry Level C
    76% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Hosted Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    The discovery of an old magic book turns your life upside down. Will you succeed in becoming a guild wizard—or will you travel a different path?

    Why similar: Text-Based 34.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, RPG 10.5%, Fantasy 9.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.4%

  35. #35 A Wise Use of Time
    76% matchVery Positive80% of 121 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: Text-Based 26.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, RPG 16.7%, Choices Matter 14.1%

  36. #36 Atlantis Academy
    74% 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: Text-Based 27.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, RPG 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Fantasy 6.9%

  37. #37 Fate of the Storm Gods
    75% matchMixed54% of 13 reviews2021
    Dev: Choice of Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Harness wind, earth, fire, and all the forces of nature to destroy your enemies! Will you stabilize the broken magic of the weather, or revel in its chaos?

    Why similar: Text-Based 33.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, RPG 18.5%, Fantasy 9.8%, Multiple Endings 8%

  38. #38 Samurai of Hyuga Book 6
    72% match5 user reviews100% of 5 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: Text-Based 29.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, RPG 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Multiple Endings 7.2%

  39. #39 Academagia: The Making of Mages
    74% 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: Text-Based 27.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, RPG 16.6%, Simulation 16.4%, Strategy 11.1%

  40. #40 Fighting Fantasy Classics
    73% matchVery Positive81% of 355 reviews2018
    Dev: Tin Man Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 55%

    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: Text-Based 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Choices Matter 9.9%, RPG 9.9%

  41. #41 Grave Knight
    73% 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: Text-Based 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, RPG 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Medieval 11.7%

  42. #42 The Golden Rose: Book One
    72% 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: Text-Based 30%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, RPG 15.4%, Choices Matter 7.8%

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    71% 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: Text-Based 33.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, RPG 14.4%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%

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    73% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2019
    Dev: Angelo Parodi
    Windows

    The Fifth Horseman is a narrative adventure game, set in a fantasy-medieval world, where you will experience many unique stories. After years of war, hunger and diseases mankind finds itself on the verge of extinction and it's up to you to decide its fate.

    Why similar: Text-Based 25.1%, RPG 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Multiple Endings 9.7%

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    70% 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: Text-Based 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choices Matter 12%, RPG 12%

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    70% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2025
    Dev: Umutcan ErkmenPub: Desire FOR Entertainment
    Windows

    A text-based, choice-driven adventure. Intrigue, trust, loyalty, luck, reflex... How high a position can you achieve in this medieval world?

    Why similar: Text-Based 32.8%, Medieval 16.5%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Choices Matter 11%, RPG 10%

  47. #47 Choice of the Deathless
    71% matchVery Positive91% of 323 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: Text-Based 43.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, RPG 13%, Indie 4.5%

  48. #48 Your Story: Games with Death
    70% matchNo user 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: Text-Based 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.8%, Medieval 11.8%, Choices Matter 10%

  49. #49 Faerie's Bargain: The Price of Business
    71% matchMostly Positive72% of 18 reviews2021
    Dev: Choice of Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    Why similar: Text-Based 29.2%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, RPG 13.8%, Fantasy 8.3%

  50. #50 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
    69% matchVery Positive90% of 9,604 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: Text-Based 21.1%, Choices Matter 17%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, RPG 10.5%

  51. #51 The Wizard’s Beans Or: A Short Period of Unplanned Internment
    69% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Pixel Prophecy
    Windows

    Solve puzzles, enlist magic beans, eat soap, plan your escape, and confront the menacing mage who keeps you confined in his tower. Will you keep cracking jokes or learn from your mistakes? Your choices matter.

    Why similar: Text-Based 26.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Procedural Generation 14.9%, Choices Matter 7.6%

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    69% matchMixed57% of 21 reviews2024
    Dev: Hosted Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Fulfill your epic destiny in mythic ancient China! Lead armies, wield magic, and put an emperor on the throne - or become the emperor yourself!

    Why similar: Text-Based 44.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Choices Matter 12.7%, RPG 12.4%, Multiple Endings 8.5%

  53. #53 Witch's Brew: Love and Lattes
    68% 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: Text-Based 29.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, RPG 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Choices Matter 6.3%

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    67% matchPositive88% of 17 reviews2025
    Dev: Hosted Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    North Africa, 1942. Command a U.S. tank. Lead your men against the Axis powers. Learn the hard lessons of war. The odds are against you. A text-based historical novel, 900,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.

    Why similar: Text-Based 31.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, RPG 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Choices Matter 7.2%

  55. #55 Shadow of the Curse-Eater
    68% 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: Text-Based 27.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, RPG 12.6%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Multiple Endings 11.7%

  56. #56 Mythscroll
    66% matchMixed70% of 23 reviews2025
    Dev: Seedborne
    Windows · Linux

    Forge your story in this fantasy RPG where every choice, encounter, and stat check shapes your journey. Explore the world, equip powerful weapons, master spells, and survive dynamic text-driven adventures, with D&D-inspired character building, turn-based combat, and branching outcomes.

    Why similar: Text-Based 25%, CRPG 21.5%, Sandbox 13.8%, Choices Matter 7.7%, Fantasy 7.6%

  57. #57 Whiskey-Four
    66% matchVery Positive93% of 106 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: Text-Based 26%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Choices Matter 12%, RPG 11.9%

  58. #58 Kidnapped! A Royal Birthday
    68% matchMixed50% of 22 reviews2020
    Dev: Choice of Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Escape your captors…and endure your rescuers, but don't be late to the ball! Take charge of your rescue, and reclaim your rightful throne.

    Why similar: Text-Based 35%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 16%, RPG 10.6%, Medieval 8.4%

  59. #59 Dravora
    67% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: Aveline Games
    Windows

    A narrative roguelite where you lead desperate people across a fractured dark fantasy continent. No combat screens — every choice is made in words and every consequence follows you. Your companions have their own reasons to leave. How you survive reveals who you are.

    Why similar: Text-Based 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Roguelike 10.8%, Procedural Generation 9%

  60. #60 Dawn of Heroes
    65% matchMixed60% of 14 reviews2026
    Dev: Hosted Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    By day, you're just another citizen. By night, you defend the city. But don’t quit your day job, hero. A text-based superhero novel, 450,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.

    Why similar: Text-Based 33.2%, RPG 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Choices Matter 7.5%

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