60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Indie, RPG, Text-Based, Choose Your Own Adventure.
Round up the usual suspects—the mean girl, the new kid, the bully, the nerd, maybe even your best friend! Middle school crime doesn't stand a chance.
Highlands, Deep Waters
While investigating a murder in a small Scottish town, you’ll find yourself embroiled in a world of secrets, cultists, and abyssal horror. What are you willing to do to solve the case? And what will you do when you don’t like the answer?
Tally Ho
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?
While investigating a murder in a small Scottish town, you’ll find yourself embroiled in a world of secrets, cultists, and abyssal horror. What are you willing to do to solve the case? And what will you do when you don’t like the answer?
Why similar: RPG 46.6%, Text-Based 35.1%, Indie 18.4%
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: RPG 43.7%, Text-Based 36.4%, Indie 19.9%
Take a scientifically inaccurate romp in pirate-infested waters! Will you prove to the Royal German Marinological Society that mermaids really exist?
As the CEO of a corporation that sells superpowers to the highest bidder, you'll harness dark magic and travel through time to inflate your stock prices!
Why similar: Text-Based 48.2%, RPG 36.8%, Indie 15%
Infiltrate the enemy as a psychic spy, leaping from body to body by touch. Can you reveal the truth and find your own body before your mind disintegrates?
Become the world's greatest kung-fu fighter or find true enlightenment in this interactive fantasy novel. What question will you ask the Dragon Sage?
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: RPG 45.1%, Text-Based 37.1%, Indie 17.8%
Slake your thirst, without becoming a Beast! Blessed with the blood-soaked gift of immortality, will you tend the flock of humanity—or twist it to your whims? When a brash young country butts heads with a brash young vampire, who will come out ahead?
Why similar: RPG 46.3%, Text-Based 36.3%, Indie 17.4%
In the Empire of the Petal Throne™, will you find glory, or a knife in your back? A world where South American, Middle Eastern, and Indian cultures collide!
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 45.8%, RPG 38.9%, Indie 15.3%
As the world's second-greatest jewel thief, you must steal the Black Cat, the world's unluckiest diamond, in this thrilling interactive heist caper novel.
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: RPG 44.6%, Text-Based 40%, Indie 15.4%
Unite the kingdom to take back your capital city! You'll need dragons, elves, and perhaps even demons to avenge your parents' murder in this fantasy epic.
An apprentice sorcerer should never steal a master's identity! Will your powers save the king--or will you turn traitor and seize the throne yourself?
Why similar: RPG 46.9%, Text-Based 33.7%, Indie 19.4%
Lead a superpowered team of "Superlatives" to defend 19th-century Victorian London! Battle a Martian warship, clockwork monsters, and nefarious inventors. Don your mask, take to the skies, and God save the Queen!
Why similar: RPG 49.9%, Text-Based 30.1%, Indie 20%
20something is an interactive fiction game, a candid and honest look at dating, relationships and navigating life as a man in his twenties for whom interactions can provoke a little extra soul searching.
Saddle up and defend the town of Willow Creek from nefarious outlaws and city slickers! It all starts when a rancher's daughter goes missing, and it ends at the showdown at Willow Creek, where greed, lust, science and Mother Nature will face off at high noon.
Why similar: RPG 48.5%, Text-Based 33.2%, Indie 18.3%
Fight your way to box office glory, while fending off the gangs of New York! Will you spur a revolution or keep order in a fractious city?
Why similar: RPG 48.1%, Text-Based 32.9%, Indie 19%
Run from the darkness as you confront yourself with the demons that hunt you in a retro rpg style.
Would a hero like you assassinate the president? "Heroes Rise: HeroFall" concludes the epic "Heroes Rise" trilogy of interactive novels 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: RPG 47.7%, Text-Based 33.2%, Indie 19%
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: RPG 48.9%, Text-Based 33.6%, Indie 17.6%
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 43.5%, RPG 42%, Indie 14.5%
A mysterious tavern with a deadly secret! Check-in to this magical tale of murder and mystery where not everything is as it seems. Explore the tavern in secret or in style, meet and mingle with guests and staff, wield weapons and magic and uncover clues before the killer strikes again!
Why similar: RPG 47.4%, Text-Based 34%, Indie 18.6%
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: RPG 45.8%, Text-Based 36.2%, Indie 18.1%
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 50.4%, Text-Based 30.7%, Indie 18.9%
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 46.6%, RPG 37.8%, Indie 15.6%
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 44.4%, RPG 39.5%, Indie 16.1%
A story-driven RPG puzzle game where you solve color-based puzzles and engage in side-scrolling shooter action in an arcade.
Outfly, outshoot, and outwit your enemies as an outlaw cyborg on the run! You're a cyborg copy of Ypsilanti Rowe, the interstellar outlaw, whose enemies (and exes) are gunning for you. Can you upgrade your brain and pull one last heist?
Why similar: RPG 45.4%, Text-Based 35.9%, Indie 18.8%
Romance is as easy as one, two...three lovers! Find love and ascend to new heights in your new home of Boulder, Colorado.
Why similar: RPG 43.3%, Text-Based 40.4%, Indie 16.3%
Become the greatest hero or villain that the world has ever seen! Balance the challenges of a normal life, while fighting evil... or wreak havoc yourself.
Why similar: RPG 48.5%, Text-Based 33.2%, Indie 18.3%
Create a mortal race to worship you and grow your strength. Guide them in their daily lives and help them grow. The power you collect will grow your mind and body. Dabble in the affairs of other gods or seek to destroy them and steal their power.
Why similar: RPG 47%, Text-Based 33.7%, Indie 19.3%
The Yeti, Loch Ness Monster, Chupacabra, and Mothman are aliens, sentenced to prison on Earth by the Pan-Galactic Prisons Bureau. As the Yeti's parole officer, you must defend the galaxy from these convicts, unravel their criminal conspiracy, and bring them to justice!
Why similar: RPG 48.5%, Text-Based 33.2%, Indie 18.3%
Defend Napoleon's heir in this steampunk alternate history game of political maneuvering, airship adventure, and romantic intrigue! Will you bring liberty to France, or plunge Europe into bloody war?
Why similar: RPG 44.5%, Text-Based 37%, Indie 18.5%
Jest your way from obscurity to royal acclaim as the King’s pet, beloved by all! As a talented young court fool with dreams of fame, scrabble with other young jesters to secure prestigious positions in the courts of Brenton's nobility.
Why similar: RPG 46.9%, Text-Based 33.7%, Indie 19.4%
Become a road warrior in the arid plains! Take the role of a Highway Marshall, in a bid to enforce the rule of civilization on a post-apocalyptic world. Will you prevent the sacking of the last remaining cities, rule over them as a Warlord, or attempt to seek a better future for humanity?
Why similar: RPG 47.7%, Text-Based 34.3%, Indie 18%
Battle heroes, wizards, and rival dragons in your insatiable thirst for gold and infamy. Start by dominating a local tribe of goblins, then usurp the kingdom, defending and expanding your despotic regime to annex neighboring kingdoms, incinerating the peasants in their thatched-roof cottages.
Why similar: RPG 49.2%, Text-Based 32.4%, Indie 18.5%
Beyond the Veil is a text-based horror game, with a focus on character-driven storytelling. Drawing on the rich history of New Orleans, the choices you make will not only alter the story, but also the personality of the protagonist.
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 44.5%, RPG 42.3%, Indie 13.2%
Make the movie of your dreams amid the glamor and romance of 1950s Hollywood! Hire Alfred Hitchcock, seduce Greta Garbo, or build your studio into a powerhouse.
Why similar: RPG 44.4%, Text-Based 38.9%, Indie 16.7%
In London, 1729, before they had police, they had you: thief-takers, hunting criminals for cash! Fire a flintlock and sip gin in the age of powdered wigs. Will you grow rich catching smugglers and highwaymen, show mercy, or become a crime boss yourself?
This game was made for my NMU CS120 Winter 2025 semester final project. It is a text-based game where you use number inputs to control the game through the console. Open JDK no longer needs to be installed and added to your systems PATH do not be alarmed when a Command Prompt window opens.
Why similar: Text-Based 50.4%, RPG 43%, Indie 6.6%
Play a young peasant boy who becomes squire to a legendary knight. Travel the realm competing in jousts, archery, and melee competitions. Train hard in order to become a powerful knight and eventually compete in The Great Tournament to decide the fate of the realm in this medieval story.
Why similar: RPG 53.1%, Text-Based 26.2%, Indie 20.6%
War threatens to engulf the world, and your choices will determine how it plays out.
The fedora: a mark of a true gentleman...
A beautiful hand-drawn turn-based RPG set in a world of questionable morals.
Raise livestock, make friends, and have fun farming!
This is an ordinary retro RPG, but the only difference is that your HP is 1. Although you may be confused at the beginning, you can feel fumbling around the world and make friends and items and advance quests.
Fight for survival in a world overrun by zombies! Can you stay alive long enough to get your friends to a place of safety? Will you keep your humanity intact or become a bloodthirsty zombie hunter? And will you discover the secret behind the zombie virus?
Steam Release October 21, 2016! Classic JRPG style action with turn based combat. Figure out how to stop an army of darkness despite wielding dark powers yourself. Use the enemies' abilities against them to gain the upper hand.
Why similar: RPG 100%
Choose your own path in this gladiator role-playing game. The player starts off as an incarcerated criminal, forced to fight for their life. After they leave the prison, they will embark on a journey to sharpen their skills.
Rock your way to the top of the '80s charts in this interactive tale of music and mayhem! But beware, mischievous managers, fickle fans, and gossiping groupies stand between you and rock immortality.
Elphame is a story-driven RPG with a "programming puzzle" battle system. Join four heroes as they conquer Elphame by using the hostile beasties' attack patterns against them.
Guide Heart and Soul, the guardian spirits of Soma, through a divided realm in a colorful RPG adventure where your choices decide the fate of the world.
Journey on an epic quest with Lethal and his elite party of warriors through a huge fantasy land. Play as Lethal and his companions in exciting turn based battles against a variety of fantasy creatures.
You are in a strange world, and if you want to leave, you have to go ahead and fight until you become strong enough to reach the last level to open the door. Keep fighting, winning, strengthening yourself with rewards, hitting all kinds of opponents, the most important thing is to keep trying.
Educative videogame in human values
