- #1 SKALD: Against the Black Priory
97% matchVery Positive94% of 3,616 reviews2024
Dev: High North Studios ASPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
SKALD:Against the Black Priory is a retro-style party-based RPG set in a grim-dark fantasy world of tragic heroes, violent deaths and Lovecraftian horror. Take a chance and roll the dice as you embark on a compelling story filled with deadly creatures, branching story and tactical, turn-based combat
Why similar: CRPG 33%, Minimalist 29.4%, Choices Matter 11.3%, RPG 10.1%, Story Rich 8.8%
- #2 Shambles: Sons of Apocalypse
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 395 reviews2025
Dev: EXLIXPub: GRAVITY
Windows
“The world you knew is already collapsed.”As an explorer in a bunker, explore a new world 500 years in the future and decide its fate. You can lead the world back to doom or bring it to peace. It all depends on your choices.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.5%, Post-apocalyptic 18.7%, Roguelike 16.2%, Visual Novel 13.4%, RPG 11.6%
- #3 Shards of Order
95% matchVery Positive90% of 543 reviews2026
Dev: FardustPub: Awaken Realms
Windows
A grim RPG with card-based combat where nothing stays dead. Lead a party of survivors through a world undone by shattered Laws. Restore them and reshape the rules of the game, but be ready to face the consequences.
Why similar: CRPG 31.8%, Lore-Rich 31.3%, RPG 17.5%, Story Rich 10.6%, Adventure 4.3%
- #4 SUNLESS SEA
96% matchVery Positive83% of 9,550 reviews2015
Dev: Failbetter Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.
Why similar: Roguelike 33.7%, RPG 23.6%, Story Rich 20%, Adventure 12.2%, Indie 6.1%
- #5 Joy Malignant
94% matchVery Positive100% of 69 reviews2026
Dev: Petros Anastasiadis
Windows
A surreal dice-based RPG in a cursed city of gut-wrenching suffering. Here, your choices shape your skills and your appearance. Survive the city's hellish trials, meet tortured characters, and develop your own unique identity. Every choice matters as your actions will literally shape you.
Why similar: CRPG 35.5%, RPG 28.6%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Story Rich 12.6%, Adventure 6.9%
- #6 翎之歌
94% matchVery Positive89% of 125 reviews2025
Dev: YuKi制作组Pub: 崩溃猛犸
Windows
《Song of Feathers》 is a deeply immersive post apocalyptic survival adventure game. In this world shrouded in the shadow of the apocalypse, Players will play as the last human in this desperate land, searching for the meaning of survival and the opportunity to rebuild civilization.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 22.8%, Text-Based 22.3%, Post-apocalyptic 19.9%, Visual Novel 13.1%, RPG 9.7%
- #7 Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition
93% matchVery Positive84% of 3,471 reviews2019
Dev: Failbetter Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 17.5 hrs≥1hr: 66%
SAIL THE STARS. BETRAY YOUR QUEEN. MURDER A SUN. Sunless Skies is a Gothic Horror roleplay game with a focus on exploration and exquisite storytelling.
Why similar: Roguelike 24.3%, RPG 20.1%, Space 16.9%, Story Rich 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.5%
- #8 RECORD_DrowsyVortex
92% matchVery Positive100% of 61 reviews2024
Dev: LunarHillz
Windows
RECORD_DrowsyVortex is a post-apocalyptic exploration-focused RPG set in the future era of Space Immigration. It is one piece of recorded data transmitted from Planet Drowsy Vortex centuries later, offering an immersive experience of a local post-disaster survivor's weird and memorable story.
Why similar: Philosophical 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, CRPG 15.3%, Lore-Rich 12.5%, Sci-fi 10%
- #9 Dark Scavenger
91% matchVery Positive86% 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 32.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.2%, Sci-fi 16.7%, Adventure 8.1%, Choices Matter 6.8%
- #10 The Endless Empty
91% matchVery Positive97% of 318 reviews2018
Dev: Erik Sheader-Smith
Windows
A surreal post-life adventure
Why similar: RPG 30.5%, Adventure 13.6%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Story Rich 10.1%
- #11 Subterrain: Mines of Titan
90% matchMostly Positive76% of 741 reviews2024
Dev: Pixellore IncPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Awaken from an abandoned stasis pod and discover a doomed mining camp on Titan in an uncompromising turn-based survival RPG. Survive the evolving horrors that lurk below and craft equipment, research new gear, fight against overwhelming odds, or even discover your true fate.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 40%, Sci-fi 29.3%, RPG 23.2%, Indie 4.9%, Singleplayer 2.6%
- #12 Broken Roads
89% matchMixed53% of 459 reviews2024
Dev: Drop Bear BytesPub: Versus Evil
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Broken Roads is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in a decaying, post-apocalyptic version of the vast Australian Outback, featuring a genre-redefining morality system. Survive, form bonds, and make tough choices that will shape your dangerous yet mesmerizing 25+ hour journey across the wilds.
Why similar: CRPG 27.1%, Philosophical 25%, Post-apocalyptic 19.8%, RPG 10.1%, Choices Matter 7.4%
- #13 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
88% 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 22.6%, Choices Matter 19.5%, Text-Based 19.2%, Visual Novel 13.1%, RPG 12%
- #14 The Carcass
89% matchMostly Negative28% of 75 reviews2026
Dev: PiqFocus Interactive
Windows
A typing-driven Lovecraftian colony sim. You wake inside the corpse of a dead god, adrift in space. Carve a roguelike colony from procedurally generated anatomy. Negotiate with rival alien factions, evolve occult mutations, find your ending. The carcass remembers.
Why similar: Text-Based 27%, Lore-Rich 19%, Roguelike 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, RPG 10.5%
- #15 Rencounter
87% matchMostly Positive71% of 375 reviews2016
Dev: SPVDPub: GrabTheGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 23.8 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Rencounter is a difficult, turn-based, RPG, roguelike game with a mysterious atmosphere. Help your squad survive while navigating through a network of tunnels and rooms. Distribute provisions and medicine to keep them alive.
Why similar: RPG 32.4%, Roguelike 29.4%, Sci-fi 22.8%, Indie 11%, Story Rich 4.4%
- #16 Sabres of Infinity
86% 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 42.2%, Text-Based 23.3%, RPG 19.3%, Adventure 9.1%, Indie 6.2%
- #17 THYSIASTERY
84% matchVery Positive82% of 318 reviews2026
Dev: DIRGA
Windows · Linux
THYSIASTERY is a dungeon crawler RPG featuring traditional roguelike and turn-based gameplay. Command a party of bearers of the Brand, drawn into a vast Labyrinth. Recruit while exploring the Labyrinth in hope of finding a way out, and its secrets will be revealed as you delve deeper.
Why similar: Roguelike 60%, RPG 36%, Singleplayer 4%
- #18 Void Sails
85% matchMostly Positive75% of 61 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: Lore-Rich 26.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.8%, RPG 12.4%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Space 9.4%
- #19 Omen Exitio: Plague
86% matchVery Positive85% of 638 reviews2018
Dev: Tiny Bull Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Investigate a paranormal disease that threatens to eradicate humanity in this unsettling Lovecraftian adventure, inspired by the choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks of the 80s and 90s. Your choices will determine the story, your character’s destiny… and the future of humanity.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.5%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Choices Matter 16.5%, Text-Based 11%, Story Rich 9.4%
- #20 Betrayal At Club Low
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 584 reviews2022
Dev: Cosmo D Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Tonight you're on a rescue mission, infiltrating a nightclub that was once a coffin factory. Will you succeed? Will you fail? Or will your night take an unexpected detour? Roll the Pizza Dice and find out!
Why similar: Lore-Rich 27.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.3%, Roguelike 21.2%, RPG 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.2%
- #21 Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
84% matchMixed66% of 2,521 reviews2019
Dev: Cultic GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Delve into a role-playing game of horror, loss and madness set in the strange worlds of HP Lovecraft. Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones offers a mix of rich role-playing and turn-based tactical combat, represented in an illustrative visual style. Can you find salvation in a dead world?
Why similar: RPG 31%, CRPG 20.7%, Philosophical 20.7%, Choices Matter 8.6%, Indie 7.3%
- #22 Duskpunk
81% matchVery Positive92% of 182 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: CRPG 29.4%, Lore-Rich 22.7%, Text-Based 22.1%, RPG 10.3%, Choices Matter 8.8%
- #23 StarCrawlers Chimera
82% matchMostly Positive76% of 63 reviews2024
Dev: Juggernaut Games
Windows
StarCrawlers Chimera is a first-person, turn-based, cyberpunk RPG. Customize your character skills and dive into the Chimera complex to find the elusive Dr. Cerberus. Are you a stealthy cyberninja? A crazed pyromaniac soldier? Mind-bending void psyker? Or... a bit of all of them?
Why similar: CRPG 39.9%, Roguelike 18.8%, Sci-fi 15.3%, RPG 12.6%, Stylized 8.4%
- #24 Space Wreck
82% matchVery Positive88% of 189 reviews2023
Dev: Pahris Entertainment SIA
Windows
The biggest little RPG in the world. Post-apocalyptic retro space adventure with an extreme focus on role-playing and replayability. Inch wide, miles deep - intentionally short yet surprisingly deep.
Why similar: CRPG 27.5%, Post-apocalyptic 18.5%, Lore-Rich 17.1%, Sci-fi 8.9%, RPG 8.8%
- #25 RGB GlitchGazer
78% matchVery Positive97% of 97 reviews2026
Dev: 群星闪耀时Pub: 群星闪耀时
Windows
A mad and romantic ADV. Unravel a strange world of science and philosophy with a mecha girl, zombie girl, or beastfolk. Some paths may disturb you... or thrill you.
Why similar: Philosophical 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Lore-Rich 15.4%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Sci-fi 12.6%
- #26 BlightFog
79% matchVery Positive87% of 63 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: Transhumanism 32% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Lore-Rich 14.5%, Visual Novel 9.4%, RPG 8.1%
- #27 Citizen Sleeper
78% matchVery Positive92% of 10,481 reviews2022
Dev: Jump Over The AgePub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.3 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: Text-Based 29.6%, Sci-fi 20%, Space 17.9%, RPG 14.3%, Story Rich 9%
- #28 Minds Beneath Us
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 6,307 reviews2024
Dev: BearBoneStudio
Windows
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.
Why similar: Philosophical 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Sci-fi 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.7%
- #29 Tower Song
79% matchVery Positive94% of 53 reviews2024
Dev: OI Games
Windows · Mac
Tower Song is a challenging turn-based RPG that rewards clever planning and decisive tactics in unrepeatable battles. Eldritch tower-borne beasts threaten to breach reality and overrun the capital of Qadam. Lead your chosen Mana Knight in this tightly plotted quest to push back the darkness.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 52.9%, Sci-fi 26.4%, RPG 20.7%
- #30 City of Chains
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 343 reviews2015
Dev: Astronomic GamesPub: New Reality Games
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
City of Chains is a dark sci-fi RPG set in a dystopian city. Take control of a small group of escaped fugitives and lead them to their freedom. Decide whether to fight head on or to avoid combat, to help others or to go your own way, to show mercy or to kill. Your actions could affect the fate of the city.
Why similar: Indie 41.7%, RPG 30.2%, Sci-fi 15.3%, Adventure 12.8%
- #31 A Place for the Unwilling
80% matchMostly Positive72% of 72 reviews2019
Dev: ALPixel Games
Windows · Mac
You only have 21 days until this living city dies. The clock is ticking. You can’t be everywhere at once. Decide what to explore, who to meet and see every decision shape the curious stories and terrible secrets of this branching narrative game.
Why similar: Text-Based 32.1%, Choices Matter 25.1%, Adventure 16%, Story Rich 13%, Indie 11.1%
- #32 A Song Of Sunlight
76% matchVery Positive99% of 151 reviews2026
Dev: RageForDragons
Windows
An RPG set in a distant, lonely future. Follow Arem, a young man lured from his small island community to explore the desolate megastructure beneath it: “The Well.” With the simple goal of finding the exit, Arem will burden himself with something more terrible than he ever thought possible.
Why similar: Sci-fi 29.3%, Visual Novel 28.3%, RPG 21.7%, Psychological Horror 20.6%
- #33 Sub-Verge
77% matchMixed69% of 59 reviews2025
Dev: Interactive Tragedy, LimitedPub: Pantaloon
Windows · Mac
Conversation is a dangerous game. Manipulate a fractured band of renegade divers to reach the depths of this short narrative puzzle. Uncover alliances and expose betrayals — before something horrific from the dark abyss silences you all. Don’t let the conversation get too deep.
Why similar: Sci-fi 26.4%, Choices Matter 18.1%, RPG 17.2%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Story Rich 12.5%
- #34 Vagrus - The Riven Realms
76% matchVery Positive85% of 1,858 reviews2021
Dev: Lost Pilgrims StudioPub: Lost Pilgrims Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Embark on a perilous journey across a realm forsaken by the gods and devastated by an arcane cataclysm. Lead a traveling company through a harsh, unforgiving world where survival is never guaranteed in Vagrus, an award-winning turn-based post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG.
Why similar: CRPG 26.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Lore-Rich 18.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, RPG 8.4%
- #35 Celestial Return
74% matchVery Positive88% of 159 reviews2026
Dev: Metaphor GamesPub: Shoreline Games
Windows
Loot, bribe, gamble, survive. The dice will be your savior or your downfall in this story-driven RPG. Every roll matters when trying to uncover cosmic horrors and outwit megacorps. Pray your next roll won’t be your last.
Why similar: CRPG 51%, Choices Matter 16.2%, RPG 15.1%, Story Rich 9.8%, Adventure 5.3%
- #36 Centum
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 192 reviews2025
Dev: Hack The PublisherPub: Serenity Forge
Windows · Mac
Every why has a wherefore. You are trapped, and you must escape. But is that really the goal? Centum is an unreliable narrative-driven adventure where everything may be a lie.
Why similar: Philosophical 28%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Visual Novel 15.6%, RPG 13.3%, Psychological Horror 9.7%
- #37 Mirklurk: Every Step Matters
73% matchVery Positive94% of 78 reviews2026
Dev: Edym Pixels
Windows
You've been exiled to The Mirk - an unforgiving swampland where every step could be your last. You must constantly make choices: what paths to take, which tree to shelter under, what beasts to engage or avoid, what items to bring into the darkness of dungeons, and what treasures to leave behind.
Why similar: Roguelike 59.2%, RPG 37.6%, Singleplayer 3.2%
- #38 Hope Deferred
73% matchVery Positive98% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Tell All
Windows
Hope Deferred is a first-person psychological horror RPG. Explore nightmare worlds and search for understanding in this PSX inspired dungeon crawler.
Why similar: Philosophical 27.5%, Lore-Rich 26.9%, RPG 11.8%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Psychological Horror 11.7%
- #39 A House of Many Doors
75% matchVery Positive83% of 436 reviews2017
Dev: Pixel Trickery
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Explore the House, a parasite dimension that steals from other worlds, in a train that scuttles on mechanical legs.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 42.9%, Text-Based 17.5%, RPG 16.8%, Story Rich 11.8%, Indie 4.9%
- #40 Cthulhu Mythos ADV Lunatic Whispers
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 108 reviews2022
Dev: Gotcha Gotcha Games
Windows
Immerse yourself in the captivating world of the Cthulhu Mythos with this 2D visual novel game featuring a thrilling TRPG-based experience! Roll the dice and use your skills and luck to escape the abandoned hospital, while experiencing the cosmic terror.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.4%, Visual Novel 20.8%, Psychological Horror 14.5%, Text-Based 9.8%, Story Rich 8.9%
- #41 Kowloon's Curse: Lost Report
72% matchVery Positive95% of 271 reviews2023
Dev: Studio [notes.]
Windows
Explore a surreal world inspired by Kowloon Walled city in this turn-based RPG inspired by Japanese dungeon crawlers from the late 1990s.
Why similar: Visual Novel 37.6%, RPG 33.2%, Adventure 16.4%, Choices Matter 5.9%, Story Rich 3.4%
- #42 Cyber Rats
71% matchVery Positive91% of 150 reviews2025
Dev: Outpost Games
Windows
Cute rats in deadly mazes... Cyber Rats is a dark and brutal action game. Escape sadistic horrifying death mazes, Improve your rats with upgrades, and find your way out of this sinister facility.
Why similar: Stylized 62.3%, Indie 23.1%, Singleplayer 14.6%
- #43 Caves of Qud
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 12,599 reviews2024
Dev: Freehold GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 35.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.
Why similar: Transhumanism 46.2% ★, CRPG 17.8%, Roguelike 10.5%, Sci-fi 9.7%, RPG 5.7%
- #44 This is Interesting
70% matchVery Positive99% of 81 reviews2025
Dev: Scott Jund
Windows
This is Interesting is a psychological horror mystery based game with roguelite elements. You are being watched, and you aren't really sure why. Delve through the depths of memory to uncover the mystery behind the gray purgatory you find yourself in.
Why similar: Psychological Horror 27.3%, RPG 27.1%, Choices Matter 19%, Story Rich 10.9%, Adventure 8.3%
- #45 Underchoice
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 123 reviews2026
Dev: TG IndiePub: Targem Games
Windows
Become the overseer and shape the fate of those who come knocking at the door. Each decision you make, whether it is to let in a stranger, to use your resources on something, or to risk the safety of the bunker.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 31.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.5%, Choices Matter 17.6%, Story Rich 9.3%, Indie 5%
- #46 Torment: Tides of Numenera
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,370 reviews2017
Dev: inXile Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Torment: Tides of Numenera is the thematic successor to Planescape: Torment, one of the most critically acclaimed role-playing games of all time. Immerse yourself in a single-player, isometric, story-driven RPG set in Monte Cook’s Numenera universe. What does one life matter? Find your answer.
Why similar: CRPG 37.6%, RPG 26.3%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Story Rich 8.7%, Sci-fi 7.9%
- #47 An Outcry
71% matchVery Positive93% of 124 reviews2022
Dev: Quinn K.
Windows
A branching-path narrative horror RPG set in Vienna, Austria. Guide the Unnamed through the worst night of their life: Harass your neighbours. Debate with birds. Smoke to survive.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.6%, RPG 13.4%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Choices Matter 10.7%
- #48 PAGAN: Autogeny
72% matchVery Positive84% of 86 reviews2019
Dev: Oleander GardenPub: Hex Code Coven
Windows
A thousand worlds surround our own, composed of bits and bytes. When they die, where do they go; what secrets do they hide? Stumble ye, wayfarer, through the wreckage of a dead MMO.
Why similar: RPG 75.7%, Indie 24.3%
- #49 Entity Researchers: Prologue
71% matchVery Positive84% of 77 reviews2022
Dev: Newbuild-CPub: G-DEVS.com
Windows · Linux
You just got hired by EIRI; researching and battling the Visitors, a dark sci-fi RPG with themes of exploration and survival.
Why similar: CRPG 40%, Post-apocalyptic 20.2%, Roguelike 19.3%, RPG 11.2%, Sci-fi 9.3%
- #50 Songs of Silence
68% matchVery Positive81% of 2,734 reviews2024
Dev: Chimera Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Lead armies, rebuild fallen kingdoms, and rise to greatness! Embark on an epic journey of strategy in a visually stunning world. Fight intense battles and uncover a captivating story.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 53.2%, RPG 20.6%, Story Rich 13.1%, Adventure 9.4%, Singleplayer 3.7%
- #51 Sol Cesto
66% matchVery Positive91% of 5,013 reviews2026
Dev: TambouillePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Sol Cesto is a tactical and frantic roguelite where mastering your luck is key. Choose a hero, upgrade them using cursed teeth and magical items, and descend to the bottom of an ever-changing dungeon. In this dark world, every action has consequences…
Why similar: Roguelike 65.2%, Choices Matter 21.8%, Indie 8.2%, Singleplayer 4.7%
- #52 The Dark Egg Demo
69% matchVery Positive96% of 228 reviews2022
Dev: Transcend Pixels
Windows
A surrealist text-based RPG. You will explore an island, solve puzzles, and fight enemies, all in your attempt to get the Dark Egg.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.3%, Text-Based 22.6%, Minimalist 14.1%, RPG 9.7%, Choices Matter 9%
- #53 Sultan's Game
65% matchVery Positive94% of 34,938 reviews2025
Dev: Double CrossPub: 2P Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12.4 hrsMean: 24.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Survive a mad Sultan's reign in this brutal resource management RPG. Draw a card every seven days and complete its challenge. Make dreadful choices to stay alive: will you die a loyal servant, become a kingslayer, or call down the gods' judgement?
Why similar: Lore-Rich 27.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Psychological Horror 11.1%, RPG 10.7%
- #54 CaseCracker3
66% matchVery Positive86% of 422 reviews2026
Dev: BlackRobe
Windows · Mac
Confronted with fragmented narratives and deceptive persons of interest, you must isolate crucial evidence. Shatter logical loopholes from testimonies and reconstruct the crime scene from subtle clues. Can you survive this immersive battle of wits?
Why similar: CRPG 27.9%, Text-Based 24.3%, Minimalist 15.7%, Psychological Horror 10.4%, RPG 9.1%
- #55 Heads Will Roll: Reforged
67% 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: Text-Based 31.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.9%, Choices Matter 15.9%, RPG 13.5%, Story Rich 8.4%
- #56 StarCrawlers
70% matchVery Positive83% of 899 reviews2017
Dev: Juggernaut Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
StarCrawlers is a modern take on a classic cRPG dungeon crawler set in a gritty spacepunk universe. Build a crew of renegade adventurers on the fringes of space, taking jobs from megacorps to hunt bounties, sabotage rivals and conduct corporate espionage.
Why similar: CRPG 39.1%, RPG 25.2%, Sci-fi 23.7%, Adventure 6.1%, Indie 5.9%
- #57 Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog
66% matchVery Positive91% of 957 reviews2025
Dev: Space Colony StudiosPub: Astrolabe Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Survive the mystery that awaits the JFS Gun-Dog in deep space in this retro visual novel / graphic adventure.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Sci-fi 16.7%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Space 12.2%, Choices Matter 9.7%
- #58 Kanna Maze
67% matchVery Positive89% of 388 reviews2024
Dev: 致意
Windows · Mac · Linux
In an isolated lab beneath the earth, a childhood friend is resurrected. Amidst sealed walls, a spree of killings unfolds. In a godless abyss, parallel worlds entwine like a maze. Where does one find the path to the sole universe of bliss?
Why similar: Lore-Rich 24.5%, Visual Novel 21.9%, RPG 17.3%, Psychological Horror 12.6%, Sci-fi 9.1%
- #59 Endless Dark
67% matchVery Positive99% of 121 reviews2024
Dev: Little Light Studios, LLC
Windows · Linux
An existential horror game in which you are tasked with keeping a sleeper colony ship intact. No enemies or NPCs share the ship with you - only creaking metal echoes and endless dark. Overcome random events, system failures, and the downward spiral of your sanity to see your mission through.
Why similar: Minimalist 25%, Roguelike 17.9%, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Sci-fi 9.9%
- #60 Cralon
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 207 reviews2026
Dev: Pithead StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
The shaft is your only escape. Explore a vast underground world and unravel the mysteries hidden in the darkness below. Inspired by classic dungeon crawlers and RPGs, CRALON is an immersive first-person adventure that tests your resolve as you face the demons around you, and within.
Why similar: CRPG 57.3%, RPG 16.2%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Adventure 7.3%, Indie 3.4%