60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Text-Based, RPG, Singleplayer, Choices Matter.
A dark-fantasy RPG that lives entirely inside your terminal. Explore ASCII ruins, fight tactical turn-based battles, craft and grow your character, and make choices a persistent world never forgets. No textures. No filler. Just you, the numbers, and the dark.
Warsim: The Realm of Aslona
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.
CultGame
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.
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 11.9%, RPG 7.7%, Simulation 7.3%, Strategy 6.3%
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 20.6%, 4X 13.3% ★, Procedural Generation 12.9%, RPG 7.3%, Strategy 6.4%
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 26.4%, CRPG 15.6%, RPG 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Open World 10.8%
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 20.3%, 4X 16.3% ★, Medieval 10.9%, Sandbox 9.3%, Procedural Generation 8.9%
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 19.9%, CRPG 15.7%, Procedural Generation 11.6%, Sandbox 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
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 29.9%, Medieval 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, RPG 10.6%, Fantasy 9.5%
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 30.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Simulation 12.9%, RPG 10%
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 35.8%, RPG 13%, Choices Matter 11%, Multiple Endings 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
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 28.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, RPG 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Fantasy 7.6%
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 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, RPG 14.9%, Medieval 11.6%
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 27.5%, RPG 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Fantasy 7.7%
Fight in the Arena is a text-based gamebook-style RPG with an in-depth turn-based combat system. Will you prevail in the arena?
Why similar: Text-Based 26%, CRPG 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.3%, Medieval 7.8%
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 26.9%, RPG 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Fantasy 7.8%
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 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Roguelike 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
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 29.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, RPG 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.3%
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 27.7%, RPG 17%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Fantasy 7.8%
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 29%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, RPG 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Choices Matter 6.5%
A persistent, text-led open-world RPG roguelike set in the Reznara universe. Explore dangerous regions, shape your adventurer, and face every strange road on your own terms. Every decision matters.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.4%, Roguelike 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, RPG 12.9%
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 28.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, RPG 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Fantasy 8.6%
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 28.7%, RPG 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Multiple Endings 6.7%
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 26.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Medieval 11.7%, Choices Matter 8.6%
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 18.2%, Medieval 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Choices Matter 8.9%
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 28.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, RPG 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Fantasy 8.2%
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: Text-Based 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Medieval 12.4%, RPG 9.9%
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 29.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, RPG 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
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 31.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, RPG 11%, Choices Matter 8.6%
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 20.4%, Text-Based 16.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Medieval 11.7%
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 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, RPG 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Medieval 10.2%
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 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, RPG 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Fantasy 7%
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 30.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Choices Matter 11.5%, RPG 11.2%
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 32% ★, Roguelike 16.1%, Strategy 14.6%, RPG 10%, Simulation 6.8%
A fully voiced branching medieval RPG of over 800,000 words. Swear the oath, ride to a dying kingdom's war, and answer for every choice. When you fall, you are not reloaded, you are marked. Four origins, twelve chapters, and an ending that weighs what your oath was worth.
Why similar: RPG 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Simulation 13.9%, Strategy 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%
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 40.7%, RPG 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Choices Matter 5.9%
Relive your summer vacations at your grandparents' house in the countryside, except things aren't going to go as planned. Intrigue, mystery, and unbridled capitalistic greed: it's time to grow up!
Why similar: CRPG 23.8%, Text-Based 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, RPG 10.7%
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 24.6%, CRPG 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, RPG 9.8%
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 42.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, RPG 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Indie 6.1%
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 27.7%, RPG 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Fantasy 9.8%
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 22.5%, Medieval 21.8%, RPG 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%
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 33.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, RPG 10.6%, Fantasy 9.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.5%
A local AI-driven sandbox RPG where your prompt creates a new isekai to explore, solo or with friends, with no ongoing usage fees.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.3%, Sandbox 21%, Procedural Generation 21%, RPG 15.6%, CRPG 14.7%
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 26.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, RPG 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choices Matter 13.9%
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 27.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, RPG 16.8%, Simulation 16.2%, Strategy 11%
Raise a banner and run a mercenary guild in a grim medieval fantasy realm. Recruit and read your blades, negotiate contracts, send them into procedural missions, and survive a living political web where every payday bites and nothing is ever certain.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Choices Matter 9.4%, RPG 9.1%
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 33.6%, RPG 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Fantasy 9.9%, Multiple Endings 8%
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 29.4%, RPG 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Multiple Endings 7.2%
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 27.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, RPG 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Fantasy 7%
A RPG sandbox with huge procedural fantasy worlds. The World Master will generate unique lands for you to inhabit, explore, save, or destroy. Build your character from nothing, gain skills by using them, and affect the world by acting on dynamic objects in a vast sim.
Why similar: Procedural Generation 24.9%, Sandbox 16.9%, Open World 13.6%, Roguelike 10.8%, Simulation 9.4%
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 24.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, RPG 10.1%, Choices Matter 9.8%
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 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, RPG 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Medieval 11.8%
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 29.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, RPG 15.6%, Choices Matter 7.7%
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%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, RPG 14.7%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%
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 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, RPG 12.2%, Choices Matter 11.9%
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 12.7%, Medieval 11.9%, Choices Matter 9.8%
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 24.9%, RPG 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
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 32.6%, Medieval 16.6%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Choices Matter 10.9%, RPG 10.1%
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 21.4%, Choices Matter 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, RPG 10.7%
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 43.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, RPG 13.2%, Indie 4.5%
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 44.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, RPG 12.6%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
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: Text-Based 29%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, RPG 14%, Fantasy 8.3%
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 29.2%, RPG 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Multiple Endings 6.3%
