- #1 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
97% matchVery Positive90% of 9,503 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.0 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: Choices Matter 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Text-Based 10.3%, RPG 8.6%
- #2 Life of a Space Force Captain
96% matchVery Positive85% of 61 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Live a full life in the future as a human, an alien, or even a robot as you rise through the ranks to become captain of your very own starship.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, RPG 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Choices Matter 10.8%
- #3 Merchant of the Skies
96% matchVery Positive86% of 2,255 reviews2020
Dev: Coldwild Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Become the captain of a flying ship! Sell items, gather resources and build your own trade company in the clouds!
Why similar: Steampunk 37% ★, Management 32.8%, Resource Management 16.7%, Simulation 7.7%, 2D 3.5%
- #4 Dead in Antares
95% matchVery Positive82% of 155 reviews2026
Dev: Ishtar GamesPub: Nacon
Windows
Dead in Antares is a turn-based survival management game with RPG elements, set on an alien planet. Lead a crew of survivors sent on a mission to save humanity. Manage their needs, strengthen their teamwork, and explore this mysterious world to find a way back home.
Why similar: Resource Management 20.2%, Choices Matter 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Management 13.6%, RPG 9.8%
- #5 A Long Journey to an Uncertain End
94% matchMostly Positive75% of 57 reviews2023
Dev: Crispy Creative
Windows
Explore the known and unknown galaxy with a ragtag crew of eclectic new friends in this narrative management space opera. You are a sentient spaceship, an outlawed commodity, and there's an entire galaxy between you and freedom…not to mention your abusive ex on your tail.
Why similar: Resource Management 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Management 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Choices Matter 12.3%
- #6 The Away Team: Lost Exodus
94% matchMostly Positive73% of 98 reviews2016
Dev: Underflow Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship, tasked with finding a home for your crew—the last remnants of humanity. Your choices will determine their fate, and your own.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Choices Matter 18.3%, Text-Based 13.4%, Atmospheric 6.6%
- #7 Guns of Infinity
93% matchVery Positive96% of 136 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%, Text-Based 20.8%, RPG 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Adventure 10.3%
- #8 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,034 reviews2020
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.8 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: Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Management 13.6%, Text-Based 11.2%, Choices Matter 11.1%
- #9 Choice of Alexandria
92% matchVery Positive96% of 77 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 35.2%, Text-Based 23.5%, RPG 23.3%, Adventure 14.5%, Indie 3.5%
- #10 NeuroNet: Mendax Proxy
91% matchVery Positive82% of 66 reviews2023
Dev: Dream Harvest
Windows
You are Arc, a city management AI. Designed to manage a city-wide AR metaverse known as the NeuroNet. Meet its many users, build relationships and help or hinder their lives while trying to balance the wider needs of the city. Find your humanity in a world losing theirs to technology.
Why similar: Management 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Resource Management 11.9%
- #11 The Captain
90% matchVery Positive93% of 318 reviews2021
Dev: Sysiac GamesPub: Tomorrow Corporation
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
In this retro-inspired adventure game you will have to race back home across the galaxy. Collect new friends on your journey. Make new enemies. You won't be able to save everyone. Who will you leave behind? Which civilizations will you save - or destroy - along the way?
Why similar: Choices Matter 27.6%, Point & Click 18%, RPG 16.2%, Sci-fi 11.2%, Story Rich 9.3%
- #12 Caravaneer 2
89% matchVery Positive95% of 524 reviews2020
Dev: Dmitry Zheltobriukhov
Windows
A post-apocalyptic trade simulation game with turn based isometric combats. The game features detailed economics simulation and a rich branching story where your choices actually matter.
Why similar: Resource Management 31.6%, Choices Matter 27.4%, RPG 17.6%, Simulation 14.3%, Story Rich 9.1%
- #13 Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind
89% matchVery Positive82% of 476 reviews2019
Dev: A SharpPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Life between myths. Lead the Riders clan into legend or obscurity as you explore an ancient world. Plan ahead as you navigate this challenging storybook strategy game, immersing you in the land of old gods and magic also seen in King of Dragon Pass.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Management 15.2%, Resource Management 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.4%
- #14 The Pale Beyond
86% matchVery Positive89% of 2,115 reviews2023
Dev: Saltstone StudiosPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.
Why similar: Resource Management 21.4%, Choices Matter 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Simulation 8.4%
- #15 Sabres of Infinity
88% matchVery Positive93% of 182 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 42.6%, RPG 22.1%, Text-Based 20.2%, Adventure 12%, Indie 3.2%
- #16 King of Dragon Pass
87% matchMostly Positive80% of 550 reviews2015
Dev: A SharpPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 9.9 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 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Choices Matter 13%, Text-Based 11.3%, RPG 11.3%
- #17 Citizen Sleeper
84% matchVery Positive93% of 9,761 reviews2022
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.3%, Text-Based 23.1%, RPG 14.5%, Sci-fi 10.1%, Atmospheric 8.9%
- #18 Space Court
85% matchVery Positive98% of 160 reviews2020
Dev: Uphill Promise
Windows
As a newly appointed Judge, you will rule over Space Court and its denizens to keep the universe safe. Or possibly blow it all up. Either way, you’re tenured.
Why similar: Choices Matter 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Text-Based 12.6%, RPG 10.1%
- #19 Starship Inspector
86% matchMixed61% of 51 reviews2021
Dev: Vedanta Team
Windows
Starship Inspector is a Space Roguelike in which every choice you make matters. Save a galaxy or rescue your crew member? Serve an evil empire or help an ancient tribe? You'll constantly have to make hard decisions and deal with consequences.
Why similar: RPG 18.7%, Resource Management 16%, Simulation 15.7%, Adventure 15.2%, Sci-fi 9.9%
- #20 Airborne Kingdom
83% matchVery Positive87% of 2,333 reviews2022
Dev: The Wandering Band LLC
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.
Why similar: Steampunk 48% ★, Resource Management 28.8%, Atmospheric 7.9%, Simulation 7.8%, Singleplayer 4.7%
- #21 Duskpunk
82% matchVery Positive92% of 147 reviews2025
Dev: Clockwork Bird
Windows · Mac · Linux
A gritty dice-driven RPG, in a steampunk city. You escaped the War, but how to survive? Explore the city. Build up your skills. Decide who to trust. Choose carefully: you might just spark a revolution!
Why similar: Steampunk 36.8% ★, Text-Based 17.2%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, RPG 10.6%
- #22 Dark Scavenger
84% matchVery Positive87% of 243 reviews2014
Dev: Psydra Games LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Dark Scavenger is a bizarre point-and-click RPG adventure with a focus on exploration, gaining loot, and meaningful choices. Filling the role of a powerful space traveler, you find yourself stranded on a mysterious alien planet. Will you save the world or just yourself?
Why similar: RPG 26.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Point & Click 10.4%, Choices Matter 9%
- #23 BatteryNote
80% matchVery Positive100% of 186 reviews2025
Dev: 72studioPub: room6
Windows · Mac
BatteryNote is a multi-ending sci-fi adventure visual novel game. You can recharge three robots with limited lifespans, bringing them back to life. Interact with them through conversations or experiment by applying high voltage. How they spend their final moments is entirely up to you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.9%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Text-Based 10%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Sci-fi 9.3%
- #24 80 Days
82% matchVery Positive90% of 2,020 reviews2015
Dev: inkle Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 54%
1872, with a steampunk twist. Phileas Fogg has wagered he can circumnavigate the world in just 80 days. Travel by airship, submarine, mechanical camel, steam-train and more. Race other players and a clock that never stops in TIME Magazine's Game of 2014.
Why similar: Steampunk 23.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Choices Matter 18%, Adventure 7.1%
- #25 Airship: Kingdoms Adrift
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,027 reviews2023
Dev: Revolution IndustryPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Welcome to Suthseg! As the newly commissioned airship captain, forge a mercantile empire across the archipelago, until the great powers of Europa turn their attention toward it. Build up a fleet, chart trade routes, establish industries, and explore the frontier at your airship's helm!
Why similar: Steampunk 38.1% ★, Management 23.4%, RPG 15.6%, Simulation 8.4%, Adventure 8.3%
- #26 Void Sails
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 59 reviews2025
Dev: Ticking Clock Games
Windows
VOID SAILS is a single-player adventure where you captain a flying ship across uncharted space. Sail through mysterious worlds, battle powerful foes, and make story-defining choices. Uncover dark secrets in a game where every discovery could bring you closer to the truth—or to madness.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Steampunk 20.9% ★, Choices Matter 16.7%, RPG 13.1%, Atmospheric 9.6%
- #27 Keep Driving
78% matchVery Positive94% of 5,783 reviews2025
Dev: YCJY Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
An atmospheric management RPG about life on the open road. Pick up hitchhikers, work odd jobs, customize and repair your car, and map your route across the country. Use upgrades, skills and items to overcome challenges. And remember to take it easy. You’re young. You have time.
Why similar: Resource Management 28.3%, RPG 21.9%, Atmospheric 18.3%, Adventure 11.2%, Simulation 9%
- #28 HighFleet
79% matchVery Positive88% of 7,155 reviews2021
Dev: Konstantin KoshutinPub: MicroProse Software
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 16.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Battle for survival in the skies of a mysterious future Earth in this unique action-strategy game mixing arcade combat, exploration, management and diplomacy. As giant flying ships wage spectacular aerial warfare, a prophecy tells of one who will save the world – could it be you?
Why similar: Choices Matter 43.4%, Simulation 18.6%, Sci-fi 14.6%, Adventure 10.6%, Singleplayer 9%
- #29 Sky Oceans: Wings for Hire
78% matchMixed70% of 69 reviews2024
Dev: Octeto StudiosPub: PQube
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Sky Oceans: Wings For Hire is a homage to JRPG classics! Set in the open skies, experience adrenaline-filled turn-based dogfights as you take the role of captain and unite a party of rag-tag sky pirates setting upon an unforgettable, touching journey.
Why similar: Resource Management 42.1%, Fantasy 19.8%, Story Rich 18.1%, Adventure 13.5%, Singleplayer 6.6%
- #30 Lightracer Spark
77% matchVery Positive84% of 988 reviews2023
Dev: Smartmelon Games
Windows
Lightracer Spark is a Sci-Fi Narrative game. You are an amender from a high civilization, descending to various extraterrestrial worlds. Guide living beings to prosperity, or nip a spark in the bud. Accumulate strength through choices and strategies to grasp the rise and fall of all civilizations.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.2%, Text-Based 19%, RPG 17.2%, Sci-fi 11.8%, Visual Novel 11%
- #31 Caravan
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,033 reviews2016
Dev: it Matters GamesPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Are you ready to embark on a journey through deserts and dangers? Will you be able to safely navigate your fellowship through the lands of the Orient and uncover your destiny? Through strategic trading and traveling you will overcome obstacles and adversity.
Why similar: Simulation 52.1%, Adventure 35.9%, Indie 8.4%, Singleplayer 3.7%
- #32 Roadwarden
75% matchVery Positive94% of 4,905 reviews2022
Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.5 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 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, RPG 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Choices Matter 9.7%
- #33 maboroshi caravan
76% matchVery Positive93% of 101 reviews2023
Dev: Dear Done Dead
Windows
maboroshi caravan is a simulation game about a journey through the desert. Many are represented by small, abstract pixel arts. Set out on a journey through a vast desert with diverse expressions with companions. The game is played with mouse and keyboard.
Why similar: Resource Management 21.6%, Simulation 15.3%, Text-Based 14.5%, Management 14.4%, Fantasy 14%
- #34 Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown
73% matchMostly Positive80% of 3,623 reviews2026
Dev: GamexcitePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 15.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown is a story-driven survival strategy game in which the fate of the iconic starship is in your hands. Take the helm, manage the ship and resources, and make difficult decisions. Will you be able to bring home the ship and its crew?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.7%, Management 29%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Sci-fi 7.3%
- #35 Mandate Of Heaven
72% matchVery Positive92% of 5,678 reviews2025
Dev: 木焱工作室
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
You will take on the role of the Second Prince of Xuan, heir of the Southern Regime. With foreign invaders entrenched in the north and a complacent court content to linger in the south, you face a defining choice:The choice… is yours!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, RPG 22.2%, Choices Matter 19.3%, Simulation 18.2%, Visual Novel 14.4%
- #36 Steam Tactics
77% matchVery Positive88% of 59 reviews2017
Dev: Igor Rashkuev
Windows · Mac
Welcome aboard your airship, captain! Engage in tactical combats, upgrade your ships and weapons, level up your pilots.
Why similar: Steampunk 74.7% ★, RPG 19.2%, Singleplayer 3.4%, Indie 2.8%
- #37 Black Skylands
73% matchVery Positive84% of 4,328 reviews2023
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Become the captain of an airship and explore the world of the skies, gather resources and build powerful weapons, uncover ancient secrets and fight beneath your ship's sails.
Why similar: Steampunk 46.6% ★, RPG 13.4%, Simulation 11.7%, Atmospheric 10.3%, Sci-fi 7%
- #38 Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
72% matchVery Positive93% of 2,152 reviews2025
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
A dice-driven RPG, in a human and heartfelt sci-fi world. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head and no memory of your past. Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.2%, Text-Based 22.3%, RPG 16.7%, Sci-fi 11.1%, Story Rich 9.4%
- #39 Signs of the Sojourner
76% matchVery Positive87% of 244 reviews2020
Dev: Echodog Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
In this narrative card game about relationships and communication, navigate conversations in a colorful world reminiscent of our own. Learn and grow through the cards you choose to play. Who will you become? What will you leave behind?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Text-Based 13.3%, RPG 11.1%
- #40 Out There: Oceans of Time
75% matchMixed55% of 232 reviews2022
Dev: Mi-Clos StudioPub: Modern Wolf
Windows
Out There: Oceans of Time is a space exploration game that puts you at the helm of an interstellar mission of discovery spanning a vast and vibrant cosmos.
Why similar: Resource Management 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Choices Matter 17.4%, RPG 9.9%, Atmospheric 8.1%
- #41 SkyBrew: Entropic Strategist
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 556 reviews2025
Dev: ATRIC Games
Windows
Experience entrepreneurship in a floating cloud cafe. Manage your flying cafe, customize construction, train staff, handle random events, and uncover the secrets of the commercial empire, growing from a small shop to the sky's brightest star.
Why similar: Management 34.4%, Resource Management 30.1%, Simulation 17.7%, Story Rich 7.1%, 2D 4.4%
- #42 Legends of Savvarah: Time of Pariah
71% matchVery Positive98% of 133 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: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Choices Matter 15.8%, RPG 10.7%, Story Rich 5.8%
- #43 Titan Outpost
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 97 reviews2019
Dev: The Boar Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Titan Outpost is a hard science fiction role-playing game in which you must build a base, manage its crew, develop your character's skills and attributes, and explore Saturn's sixth moon, uncovering its mysteries and harvesting its resources.
Why similar: RPG 26.9%, Simulation 22%, Choices Matter 17.2%, Adventure 14.1%, Sci-fi 10.3%
- #44 CyberHive
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 77 reviews2020
Dev: Blazing Planet Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
CyberHive is a strategic space travel simulator with a non-linear story, in the cosmic opera setting, and in an anime visual style.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Management 21.5%, Choices Matter 16.3%, RPG 9.8%, Simulation 7.3%
- #45 SKY THE SCRAPER
70% matchVery Positive98% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: Ryo KobuchiPub: HYPER REAL
Windows
SKY THE SCRAPER is an action-packed adventure about Sky, a young man who pursues his uncertain dreams while working as a building window cleaner. Through exciting wire action and daily life management, endure two months of hard living and pave the way for Sky's future.
Why similar: Management 37.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Simulation 14.7%, Story Rich 10.5%, Adventure 9.8%
- #46 Saltsea Chronicles
70% matchVery Positive97% of 103 reviews2023
Dev: Die Gute Fabrik
Windows · Mac
It begins with a kidnapped captain and a stolen ship. Where it leads next? That’s up to you… In this story-driven adventure game you will explore strange and wonderful communities, uncover a deep conspiracy, and chart a journey through twists and turns, difficulties and delights.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Choices Matter 20%, Point & Click 11.1%, Story Rich 6.4%
- #47 Cruise Ship Manager
73% matchMixed41% of 128 reviews2023
Dev: Image Power S.A.
Windows
Take the challenge of managing a cruise ship! Maintain your vessel, plan your route, and sell tickets to the wealthiest passengers. Give tasks to your crew and keep their morale high. Choose the ship's layout and the offered amenities. Keep the prices right, passengers happy, and your wallet full!
Why similar: Management 37.4%, Resource Management 27.9%, Point & Click 19.1%, Simulation 13.3%, Singleplayer 2.3%
- #48 Sacred Fire: A Role Playing Game
69% matchVery Positive95% of 496 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: Choices Matter 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Text-Based 12.6%, RPG 7.1%
- #49 Lords of Infinity
68% matchVery Positive96% of 209 reviews2023
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lead an ancient and crumbling noble house in a rich gunpowder fantasy setting. Lie, bribe, and conspire to secure power and prestige – or to save a doomed kingdom from itself.
Why similar: Management 18.7%, Text-Based 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, RPG 14.3%
- #50 Ye Guild Clerk!
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 1,828 reviews2025
Dev: Devclerk
Windows
The local Adventurer's Guild is hiring!... Not for adventurers, but for guild clerks! You play an important role in handing out quests, gold, and equipment as your actions shape the stories of these animal adventurers for better, or for worse..!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Choices Matter 17.6%, Text-Based 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Point & Click 9.4%
- #51 Neoproxima
68% matchVery Positive97% of 68 reviews2024
Dev: Lonestone Studio
Windows
Investigating a time-loop during the Cold War, light years away from Earth. Neoproxima is a text-based adventure game that combines exploration and simple RPG and survival mechanics. Plan your next loop carefully, and go as far as possible before time catches up with you.
Why similar: Resource Management 19.8%, Point & Click 16%, Text-Based 12.3%, RPG 10.9%, Sci-fi 10.6%
- #52 Star Story: The Horizon Escape
70% matchVery Positive83% of 183 reviews2017
Dev: EvilCoGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Join the journey of a funky space archaeologist who crashed on an unknown planet. A text turn-based adventure RPG in which your choices actually matter. Talk, explore, fight, make decisions to find a way out! Colourful graphics and the old comic book spirit.
Why similar: Choices Matter 20.5%, Text-Based 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Point & Click 11.5%, RPG 11.4%
- #53 Karaski: What Goes Up...
71% matchVery Positive85% of 62 reviews2016
Dev: Unbound Creations
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%
An immersive sim-lite in a fictional historical setting. You are on the world's first airship about to crash down and have to find the culprit. Sneak around, break into cabins, interrogate passengers, find evidence - but be careful not to incriminate yourself!
Why similar: Steampunk 36.2% ★, Choices Matter 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, RPG 10.3%, Story Rich 5.7%
- #54 Wayward Strand
68% matchVery Positive95% of 105 reviews2022
Dev: ghost pattern
Windows
Wayward Strand is a heartfelt story told in a curious way. Hop aboard an airborne hospital and meet its fully-voiced cast of eclectic characters. As time passes for everyone on board, explore the interwoven lives of the patients and staff; discover something new on each and every playthrough.
Why similar: Choices Matter 27.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.5%, Atmospheric 11.7%, Simulation 11.1%, Story Rich 9.4%
- #55 Choice of Magics
69% matchVery Positive93% of 162 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 33.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 32%, RPG 19.3%, Adventure 11.7%, Indie 3.7%
- #56 60 Parsecs!
67% matchVery Positive89% of 3,984 reviews2018
Dev: Robot Gentleman
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
60 Parsecs! is an Atomic Space Age adventure of scavenge and survival. Keep your crew alive and ready for action. Make difficult choices, face soup shortages and other horrors of outer space. And maybe reach your destination. Or not.
Why similar: Text-Based 31%, Management 28.9%, Point & Click 14.2%, RPG 12.4%, Sci-fi 10.1%
- #57 The Succession of Changing Kings
63% matchVery Positive88% of 482 reviews2026
Dev: KwaKwaGames
Windows
Turn-based kingdom management simulator focused on decision-making. Will you survive and lead the kingdom to prosperity, or die in agony? The throne awaits.
Why similar: Choices Matter 31.1%, Management 27%, Simulation 11.2%, RPG 9%, Visual Novel 7.5%
- #58 Silmaris: Dice Kingdom
69% 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: Resource Management 30.1%, Text-Based 26.5%, Choices Matter 26.4%, Fantasy 6.5%, Indie 5.9%
- #59 BlightFog
66% matchVery Positive87% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: Zakroutil
Windows
Journey across a dying world. Manage your resources. Build relationships with anthropomorphic characters. Find a new home or become a fuel drinking madman.
Why similar: Choices Matter 19.8%, Resource Management 18.4%, Point & Click 14.6%, RPG 13.6%, Visual Novel 9.6%
- #60 You are the Judge!
66% matchMostly Positive70% of 254 reviews2023
Dev: Steel Games
Windows
As a judge of the Kobardde court, solve complex cases inspired by actual events. Your decisions will directly affect people's (and perhaps yours) lives. You may have to make difficult decisions for your family, country, and life. What kind of judge will you be?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.7%, Choices Matter 16.3%, Text-Based 14.9%, RPG 13.8%, Simulation 9%