- #1 Shambles: Sons of Apocalypse
97% matchVery Positive80% of 348 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 21.7%, Post-apocalyptic 18%, Roguelike 16.6%, Visual Novel 13.1%, RPG 11.7%
- #2 SKALD: Against the Black Priory
96% matchVery Positive94% of 3,517 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 32.7%, Minimalist 29.5%, Choices Matter 11.7%, RPG 10.1%, Story Rich 8.5%
- #3 Broken Roads
96% matchMixed53% of 448 reviews2024
Dev: Drop Bear BytesPub: Versus Evil
Windows
Median: 6.5 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 25.9%, Philosophical 23.1%, Post-apocalyptic 18.1%, RPG 9.7%, Choices Matter 7.4%
- #4 翎之歌
95% 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 23.5%, Text-Based 22.6%, Post-apocalyptic 19.2%, Visual Novel 12.8%, RPG 9.8%
- #5 Dark Scavenger
94% 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 32.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.2%, Sci-fi 16.7%, Adventure 7.9%, Choices Matter 7%
- #6 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
93% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Choices Matter 20.3%, Text-Based 18.9%, Visual Novel 12.2%, RPG 12%
- #7 Sabres of Infinity
94% matchVery Positive93% of 183 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 42.3%, Text-Based 23.3%, RPG 19.3%, Adventure 8.9%, Indie 6.2%
- #8 SUNLESS SEA
92% matchVery Positive83% of 9,506 reviews2015
Dev: Failbetter Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 34.3%, RPG 23.5%, Story Rich 19.4%, Adventure 12%, Indie 6.1%
- #9 Space Wreck
91% matchVery Positive88% of 187 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 27.4%, Post-apocalyptic 17.8%, Lore-Rich 17.5%, Sci-fi 9%, RPG 8.9%
- #10 StarCrawlers Chimera
91% 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 39.7%, Roguelike 19.1%, Sci-fi 15.3%, RPG 12.6%, Stylized 8.4%
- #11 Subterrain: Mines of Titan
90% matchMostly Positive76% of 727 reviews2024
Dev: Pixellore IncPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 14.0 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 39%, Sci-fi 29.9%, RPG 23.3%, Indie 5%, Singleplayer 2.8%
- #12 Citizen Sleeper
88% matchVery Positive93% of 10,020 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: Text-Based 29.8%, Sci-fi 20.2%, Space 18.3%, RPG 14.1%, Story Rich 8.6%
- #13 StarCrawlers
89% matchVery Positive83% of 899 reviews2017
Dev: Juggernaut Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.5 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 39.2%, RPG 25.3%, Sci-fi 23.5%, Adventure 6.1%, Indie 5.9%
- #14 Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition
89% matchVery Positive84% of 3,440 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 24.5%, RPG 19.8%, Space 17.3%, Story Rich 11.9%, Choices Matter 11.9%
- #15 Betrayal At Club Low
87% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 571 reviews2022
Dev: Cosmo D Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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 27.1%, Roguelike 21.3%, RPG 12.3%, Choices Matter 11.4%
- #16 Vagrus - The Riven Realms
86% matchVery Positive85% of 1,734 reviews2021
Dev: Lost Pilgrims StudioPub: Lost Pilgrims Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Embark on a perilous journey across a realm forsaken by the gods and devastated by an arcane cataclysm. Accompanied by a hardy crew, you must trade, fight, and explore your way to success as the leader of a traveling company in Vagrus, an award-winning turn-based post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG.
Why similar: CRPG 26.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Lore-Rich 18.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, RPG 8.4%
- #17 Torment: Tides of Numenera
86% matchMostly Positive70% of 4,353 reviews2017
Dev: inXile Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 16.8 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 26.2%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Story Rich 8.4%, Sci-fi 7.9%
- #18 BlightFog
84% 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: Transhumanism 31.5% ★, Lore-Rich 15%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Visual Novel 9.2%, Choices Matter 8.4%
- #19 Tower Song
84% 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 53.2%, Sci-fi 26.3%, RPG 20.5%
- #20 RGB GlitchGazer
82% matchVery Positive98% of 94 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 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Lore-Rich 15.8%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Sci-fi 12.8%
- #21 RECORD_DrowsyVortex
83% matchVery Positive100% of 58 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 17.9%, CRPG 16.8%, Post-apocalyptic 16.5%, Lore-Rich 13.9%, Sci-fi 11%
- #22 City of Chains
85% matchMostly Positive72% of 340 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 41.8%, RPG 30.2%, Sci-fi 15.4%, Adventure 12.6%
- #23 Duskpunk
82% matchVery Positive91% of 167 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 29.3%, Lore-Rich 23%, Text-Based 22.1%, RPG 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.1%
- #24 THYSIASTERY
81% matchVery Positive81% of 266 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 35.8%, Singleplayer 4.2%
- #25 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: Lore-Rich 27.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, RPG 12.3%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Space 9.6%
- #26 Minds Beneath Us
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,730 reviews2024
Dev: BearBoneStudio
Windows
Median: 10.9 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, 2.5D 13%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Sci-fi 9.8%
- #27 Songs of Silence
79% matchVery Positive81% of 2,653 reviews2024
Dev: Chimera Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.0 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 53.7%, RPG 20.5%, Story Rich 12.6%, Adventure 9.3%, Singleplayer 3.9%
- #28 Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog
78% matchVery Positive91% of 920 reviews2025
Dev: Space Colony StudiosPub: Astrolabe Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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%, Space 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choices Matter 10%
- #29 The Endless Empty
79% matchVery Positive96% of 305 reviews2018
Dev: Erik Sheader-Smith
Windows
A surreal post-life adventure
Why similar: RPG 34.3%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Adventure 15.1%, Indie 11%, Story Rich 11%
- #30 Rencounter
80% matchMostly Positive71% of 374 reviews2016
Dev: SPVDPub: GrabTheGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 22.7 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 32.2%, Roguelike 29.8%, Sci-fi 22.8%, Indie 11%, Story Rich 4.2%
- #31 Cogmind
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,963 reviews2017
Dev: Grid Sage Games
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 40.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Cogmind is a sci-fi roguelike epic in which you play a robot building yourself from components found or salvaged from other robots. Explore a living, breathing world through turn-based tactical combat, or sneak, hack, and fly your way to victory.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 30.6%, Roguelike 27.5%, Sci-fi 20.2%, RPG 11.3%, Story Rich 8.6%
- #32 Caves of Qud
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 12,292 reviews2024
Dev: Freehold GamesPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 35.0 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 45.3% ★, CRPG 18%, Roguelike 10.7%, Sci-fi 9.8%, Choices Matter 5.8%
- #33 Choice of Alexandria
77% 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 34.9%, Text-Based 27.1%, RPG 20.3%, Adventure 10.8%, Indie 6.8%
- #34 Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
76% matchMixed66% of 2,511 reviews2019
Dev: Cultic GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 11.4 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 29.5%, CRPG 19.3%, Philosophical 18.7%, Choices Matter 8.4%, Indie 7%
- #35 Sub-Verge
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 56 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 26.5%, Choices Matter 18.7%, RPG 17.2%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Story Rich 12.1%
- #36 Omen Exitio: Plague
75% matchVery Positive85% of 626 reviews2018
Dev: Tiny Bull Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 31.7%, Visual Novel 17.8%, Choices Matter 17.2%, Text-Based 11%, Story Rich 9.1%
- #37 A Place for the Unwilling
76% matchMostly Positive72% of 69 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 32.2%, Choices Matter 26.1%, Adventure 15.5%, Story Rich 12.3%, Indie 11.1%
- #38 A House of Many Doors
75% matchVery Positive83% of 432 reviews2017
Dev: Pixel Trickery
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Explore the House, a parasite dimension that steals from other worlds, in a train that scuttles on mechanical legs.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 43.5%, Text-Based 17.2%, RPG 16.8%, Story Rich 11.4%, Indie 4.9%
- #39 A Dark Room ®
73% matchVery Positive91% of 65 reviews2023
Dev: Amir RajanPub: Scratchwork Development LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Critically acclaimed, minimalist text-based rpg. Come light the fire.
Why similar: Roguelike 26.8%, RPG 23.1%, Minimalist 22.4%, Text-Based 12.2%, Adventure 8.5%
- #40 Kowloon's Curse: Lost Report
72% matchVery Positive95% of 259 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 36.8%, RPG 33.7%, Adventure 16.3%, Choices Matter 6.2%, Story Rich 3.3%
- #41 Roadwarden
70% 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 36.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, RPG 16.5%, Visual Novel 7.2%, Choices Matter 7.1%
- #42 Heads Will Roll: Reforged
71% matchVery Positive84% of 1,651 reviews2023
Dev: 1917 StudiosPub: Valkyrie Initiative
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 16.1 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%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.9%, Choices Matter 16.4%, RPG 13.4%, Story Rich 8.1%
- #43 Xenomarine
74% matchVery Positive84% of 64 reviews2019
Dev: Fourfold Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Experience hardcore, sci-fi dungeon crawling in this dark, atmospheric roguelike. Xenomarine offers tactical turn-based combat with hundreds of unique items and upgradable weapons and armor, as well as massive replayability thanks to its randomly generated content.
Why similar: Roguelike 62.2%, RPG 14%, Sci-fi 12.3%, Adventure 6.5%, Indie 5%
- #44 Prophecy of Ashen
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 217 reviews2026
Dev: hhyuGame
Windows
Prophecy of Ashen: a dark fantasy tactical CRPG. Be a secret messenger between the Hall's judgment and the Ashborne's vengeance. Recruit allies, use terrain and magic in turn-based combat. Your choices reshape Rattalan: uphold order or ignite destruction.
Why similar: CRPG 60.4%, RPG 19.4%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Story Rich 7.6%, Adventure 1.6%
- #45 Aeon of Sands - The Trail
73% matchVery Positive87% of 114 reviews2018
Dev: Two Bits Kid
Windows · Mac · Linux
Aeon of Sands – The Trail is a roleplaying game set in a post-apocalyptic desert world. It combines real-time exploration gameplay with classic gamebooks where you create your very own non-linear story adventure.
Why similar: CRPG 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Post-apocalyptic 18.6%, RPG 15.5%, Choices Matter 9%
- #46 The Thaumaturge
68% matchVery Positive83% of 5,600 reviews2024
Dev: Fool's TheoryPub: 11 bit studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Thaumaturge is a character-driven RPG with a rich story, morally ambiguous choices, and turn-based combat. In a city on the brink of change, use your mystical powers to read emotions, uncover motives, and command folklore-inspired demons — while resisting the temptation of your own pride.
Why similar: CRPG 43.6%, RPG 14.5%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Story Rich 8.2%
- #47 Aether & Iron
68% matchVery Positive84% of 436 reviews2026
Dev: Seismic Squirrel
Windows · Mac
Immerse yourself in this Decopunk Narrative RPG set in an alternate 1930s where anti-gravitational technology has taken cars, roads, and even New York City into the sky. Muster a crew, master tactical turn-based combat, and unravel the dark secrets lurking beneath the floating metropolis.
Why similar: Visual Novel 22.5%, Choices Matter 20.2%, RPG 19.9%, Sci-fi 17.8%, Story Rich 11.4%
- #48 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 40.2%, Roguelike 19.8%, Post-apocalyptic 19.4%, RPG 11.2%, Sci-fi 9.4%
- #49 INSOMNIA: The Ark
72% matchMixed59% of 1,256 reviews2018
Dev: Mono StudioPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
INSOMNIA is a dieselpunk sci-fi RPG about the slowly degrading remnants of human society attempting to survive on an abandoned space metropolis. Develop your character, explore lovingly handcrafted locations, interact with peculiar NPCs and factions and try to stay alive in this brutal world.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 22.5%, Lore-Rich 21.7%, Sci-fi 15.6%, RPG 11.6%, Space 10.7%
- #50 Dungeon Rats
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 710 reviews2016
Dev: Iron Tower Studio
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 58%
A turn-based, party-based RPG set in the Age of Decadence world and focused on squad level tactical combat. Fight your way out of prison mine or die trying.
Why similar: CRPG 70.9%, RPG 19%, Indie 4.6%, Singleplayer 2.8%, Adventure 2.6%
- #51 Vampire: The Masquerade - Heartless Lullaby
70% matchVery Positive81% of 383 reviews2022
Dev: Entalto Studios
Windows
Experience Vampire: The Masquerade in a new way through this isometric cRPG. Change perspectives as you travel through the Heartless Club as a Human and a Vampire. Roll the dice, take your choices, and embrace the night in this narrative prologue.
Why similar: CRPG 31%, Lore-Rich 22.8%, RPG 12.1%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Minimalist 8.5%
- #52 A Song Of Sunlight
66% matchVery Positive99% of 123 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 37.5%, Visual Novel 34.8%, RPG 27.7%
- #53 Primordia
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,401 reviews2012
Dev: Wormwood StudiosPub: Wadjet Eye Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Life has ceased. Man is but a myth. And now, even the machines have begun to fail. Lead Horatio Nullbuilt and his sarcastic sidekick Crispin on a journey through the crumbling world of Primordia, facing malfunctioning robots, ancient secrets, and an implacable, power-hungry foe.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 43.9%, Sci-fi 29.7%, Adventure 9.9%, Story Rich 6.9%, Indie 4.8%
- #54 Sol Cesto
64% matchVery Positive91% of 4,195 reviews2026
Dev: TambouillePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 65.1%, Choices Matter 22.1%, Indie 8%, Singleplayer 4.9%
- #55 Path of Achra
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 3,147 reviews2024
Dev: UlfsirePub: Slouching Beast LLC
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Path of Achra is a dark fantasy roguelike of the ancient earth, with a focus on streamlined controls and rapid hero customization. A "broken build sandbox." Fight through the deadly lands of Achra to reach the horrors of the Obelisk, and discover what lies beyond...
Why similar: Roguelike 67%, RPG 29.7%, Singleplayer 3.3%
- #56 Knock on the Coffin Lid
66% matchVery Positive84% of 2,871 reviews2024
Dev: RedBoon
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 23.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Investigate your own death, find ways to break free from a time loop, choose a hero who will ascend to the throne and rule the Northern gate! The fates of whole nations of the land of Midian depend on your choices.
Why similar: Roguelike 47.9%, RPG 24.1%, Story Rich 14.8%, Indie 8.2%, Singleplayer 5.1%
- #57 Artificer: Science of Magic
69% matchMixed65% of 95 reviews2020
Dev: Psilocybe GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Your exploration ship crashlands on a mysterious planet where apparently magic is real. Learn how to survive in this hostile territory by applying your technical abilities to the arcane. Discover how to cast spells and craft elixirs. Uncover the planet's secrets to find your way out.
Why similar: RPG 47.2%, Lore-Rich 23%, Roguelike 17.9%, Adventure 6%, Indie 3.8%
- #58 Chaos Chain
67% matchVery Positive96% of 67 reviews2022
Dev: Corrosive Studios LLC
Windows
A dark cyberpunk RPG in a bleak dystopian future. Become a "freelancer" in the heart of Slade City, a sprawling urban nightmare of grimy asphalt and broken dreams where crime and disorder run rampant. - Stay Alert. Stay Armed. Stay Alive. Don't lose your humanity.
Why similar: CRPG 25.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Lore-Rich 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Sci-fi 9.6%
- #59 Rust of Steel
67% matchMixed65% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Fortress13 Game Studio
Windows
"Rust of Steel" is a post-apocalyptic ruins exploration RPG with a high degree of freedom. Take on the world in your own style with multiple scenarios, free stat distribution, and the option to play as the good guy or the bad guy!
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 34.1%, RPG 28%, CRPG 17.1%, Sci-fi 16.5%, Indie 2.7%
- #60 Lost Scavenger
69% matchMixed54% of 243 reviews2022
Dev: Rockbee
Windows
How long could you survive in a parallel universe where the Mist dictates its rules? Would you be able to find the way to your homeworld, or will you adapt to live under the Mist domain? Fight for resources, get together with other survivors and discover the secrets of this world.
Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 36.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.9%, Roguelike 18.8%, RPG 13.4%