Games Like Tales of the Black Death

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 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Text-Based 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Story Rich 10%

A text-based RPG with a nonlinear story set in a free Slavic fantasy world. Shape the heroine's character through your choices and unlock multiple endings. Mystery, folklore, and relationships — your fate depends only on you.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Text-Based 15.2%, Hand-drawn 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Visual Novel 9.1%

Kolyma is a story-rich, unforgiving survival deckbuilder. Face off against GULAG convicts and try to collect enough resources to survive and hopefully escape the prison camp. Build winning decks, complete quests, and don't make too many enemies. Welcome to the North. May the Numbers dance for you.

Why similar: Unforgiving 58.4% ★, Choices Matter 8.9%, Dark 7.1%, Hand-drawn 6.4%, Story Rich 6%

Experience the triumphs and tribulations of two Caribbean immigrants in post-war Britain, in the world’s first Windrush video game, from the creators of the BAFTA nominated Before I Forget. How will you shape your story in this branching narrative interactive photo album?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.5%, Hand-drawn 18.9%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Text-Based 9.6%, Story Rich 9.1%

Chess. Love. Destiny. All the same things, really.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Hand-drawn 16.9%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Visual Novel 8.2%, Dark Fantasy 8.1%

You are the wizard of this interactive fantasy story! Stay alive, manage your spell power, find treasure, and smite evil. All 6 episodes are included for 20+hours of adventure.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Text-Based 15.6%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Story Rich 8.8%

Under developement, Grave Knight is an interactive RPG adventure inspired by SRD 5.1 ruleset and classical game books, where your decisions weave the fate of the characters and the story. Let the dice forge the fate of your hero and the realm by fighting the Grave knight and his horde.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%, Text-Based 11.3%

Embark on a journey of this text anime quest with RPG elements! Walk through beautiful locations, overcome challenges and make Peter’s dreams come true. Every step you take matters. And don’t forget to take the diary - you’ll need it!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16%, Text-Based 13.5%, Hand-drawn 12.9%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%

Your job is to make humanity happy. Observe the people living in your assigned district and make the best choices to ensure everyone's happiness.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Text-Based 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.7%

Delve into a dark fantasy visual novel where evil isn't always as it seems. Make your choices and grow your skills to help determine who survives the Great Culling. Featuring the voice talents of Ralph Ineson, Simon Callow, Savannah Steyn, and more.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Text-Based 16.3%, Choices Matter 13%, Hand-drawn 9.4%, Visual Novel 7.8%

A choose-your-own-adventure novel. ​Enter the mind of a black-ops team leader heading an impossible mission in a parallel universe. Choices are remembered, story events reflect past decisions, and freely rewind time to try different paths.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Text-Based 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Visual Novel 10.8%

Scribe is a scribe simulator in which you can secretly shape the destinies of the inhabitants of the estate: resolve disputes, influence the course of family intrigues, decide who lives and who does not. Choose what to write in letters and whether to change their recipients!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19%, Text-Based 15.2%, Choices Matter 14.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Dark 9.2%

Will you infiltrate the gods' Elite Courte, stealing their superpowers, or turn double agent and join them, taking your place among the divine?

Why similar: Text-Based 21.7%, Choices Matter 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Story Rich 9.4%

A hardcore narrative RPG about an inquisitor who defied the Gods and returned from the Afterlife against Their Will. In a world where faith is fracturing, power is waning, and blood is spilled ever more often, your choices will decide what remains of the Empire. Complete the story of Sir El Brante!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Choices Matter 19.3%, Story Rich 10.5%, Text-Based 9.2%, Visual Novel 9%

A dark text-based RPG set in a world gripped by a restless race for survival against a merciless mushroom Forest. As a prophet’s apprentice, guide your clan along the knife-edge between life and oblivion. Decipher misty visions, make critical decisions, and do whatever it takes to survive.

Why similar: Text-Based 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Choices Matter 13%, Dark 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%

In an engrossing interactive novel, live as the assistant to a remarkable historical figure: George Mueller, a man who witnessed orphans dying young in the streets of 1830's England and decided he would care for them, no matter the cost.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Text-Based 12.7%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Visual Novel 9.8%

Adventure as Geralt through the ballads of Dandelion. Swipe right, swipe left, seek glory, find death! Will you hunt monsters, upset the locals, or run a hot bath? Compose an inspiring epic to claim immortality.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.9%, Choices Matter 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Visual Novel 10%, Hand-drawn 9%

Once you open this book, you are no longer just a reader. A "reading-style" fantasy adventure in the spirit of The NeverEnding Story — handcrafted over six years by a 30-year veteran from Vanillaware. 100% handmade, from the first page to the last.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Hand-drawn 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Text-Based 10.7%

A unique adventure, where every choice shapes your fate. A classic gamebook brought to life, with countless paths to discover.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Text-Based 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.3%

Play as Erwin, a witch hunter navigating a fantasy world of magic and suspicion. Your decisions in this visual novel affect friendships, trust, and multiple story outcomes. Choose wisely—the fate of your journey rests with you.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Choices Matter 13%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Hand-drawn 11.4%

The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Text-Based 12%, Visual Novel 11.1%

A surprising mix of adventure and memory games, featuring RPG-inspired mechanics and immersive storytelling. Explore a crypt filled with traps, dangers, and hostile creatures. Will you uncover the crypt’s secrets, or will you become its next victim? Make strategic choices to survive.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Story Rich 10.2%, Dark Fantasy 9.2%

Vanakan is the journey of Tadevos - a priest, who travels the 500s Armenia to find the monastery that suits for his goal of becoming spiritually closer to Jesus Christ. He meets different people on his way and makes choices which will define his future and that of the country.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.2%, Text-Based 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Adventure 11.7%

Four thousand miles. Twenty thousand pounds. Four murderous rivals. One unforgettable adventure.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Text-Based 14.7%, Adventure 11%, RPG 10.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%

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 26.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, RPG 9.6%

The Vigilante Diaries is a narrative-driven role-playing game where you assume the role of a masked vigilante. Experience his life journey through his diaries spanning years, navigate the changes within his hideout, and make every decision that shapes his destiny.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Choices Matter 16.8%, Text-Based 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Visual Novel 10.1%

"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested." Story about life, choices and a Man vs the System. This unique interactive literature adaptation. A game, brought to You in early visual novel, text-adventure style.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Text-Based 16.1%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.3%

THE SIN COLLECTOR: REPENTLESS is a game on the border of a visual novel and a classic text RPG, set in the world of The Sin Collector, a series of books written by Michał Gołkowski. Action takes place a couple of years before the events presented in the books.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Text-Based 13.8%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Hand-drawn 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%

Are you worthy of the throne? Or do your siblings deserve it more than you do? What kind of heir will you be?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Text-Based 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Choices Matter 10.9%, RPG 10.7%

Decide the fate of the son of a tailor and a witch doctor infected with an incurable disease in an interactive story with multiple endings depending on your actions.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Choices Matter 17.7%, Text-Based 12.7%, Visual Novel 12%, Story Rich 11.1%

A narrative-driven psychological visual novel where every floor of an elevator reveals a key moment from your past. Face your regrets, uncover forgotten memories, and make choices that shape your future. Will you find closure, or remain trapped in your own mind?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.6%, Text-Based 22.3%, Choices Matter 18.8%, Visual Novel 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.2%

Explore an alternative medieval Europe in this low-fantasy epic adventure! How far are you willing to go to take back your stolen treasure?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27%, Text-Based 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Choices Matter 12.9%, RPG 10.2%

Vacation Terminal is a short 2D Psychological thriller, horror and survival based visual novel with evading based puzzle elements. Following the story of two strangers.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Hand-drawn 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Adventure 9.6%

A narrative-driven RPG where every dice roll shapes your fate. Step into the role of the Queen's Herald and traverse a mist-shrouded realm to uncover the fate of her lost army. Will your choices uphold loyalty, or lead you down a path of betrayal? The secrets of the mists await.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Text-Based 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Visual Novel 8.5%

Unravel the mysterious past of your parents and homeland while journeying through four unique lands in this exciting science-fantasy adventure!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Text-Based 22.7%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Adventure 11.6%, RPG 11.4%

Back from hell and into Hyuga, enemies and allies clash in this epic sequel! Overcome ultimate despair or be consumed by it: the choice is yours, ronin!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.1%, Text-Based 16.3%, RPG 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Choices Matter 10.3%

A pixelated homage to 16-bit RPGs, this former print-and-play card game has come full circle as a digital experience! Choose your champion, enter the tower, and make wise decisions on your ascent to face the Ice Lich at the top.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24%, Text-Based 19%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Visual Novel 9.8%

Gold & Brown is a choice-based visual novel set in the medieval era, enhanced with card mechanics. Embark on a challenging journey as a knight, shape your fate through card choices, and pursue an impossible love across multiple endings.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Text-Based 9.4%

It is said that the last frontier is space, but the crew of the Soviet Frigate, The Peresmeshnik, is about to discover that the sea still hides a terrifying secret. Waiting to be found.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25%, Text-Based 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Dark 9.2%

Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25%, Choices Matter 22.8%, Story Rich 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Text-Based 9.7%

IBH is a rich role playing game at the end of time. You're a mid-level official in a dying sci-fi regime, given the impossible task of fixing a faltering machine; explore a vast world, define your mind, flex your authority, and become a sinner or a savior in countless other stories.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Text-Based 9.8%

Ukraine War Stories is a set of visual novels about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Set in the early months of the war, it tells the stories of civilians trapped on Russian-occupied territory. All stories are based on real events and eyewitness accounts.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Text-Based 14.7%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Visual Novel 9.2%

An epic adventure in a land of monsters, traps and magic. Journey across the deadly Shamutanti Hills and through Kharé, Cityport of Thieves. Armed with your sword and over fifty spells with weird and wonderful effects, embark on a narrative adventure of a thousand choices where every one is remembered.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Text-Based 11.8%, Story Rich 10.1%

The supernatural mystery visual novel, "CAFE 0 ~The Sleeping Beast~" returns as a remastered version. Will the maid, Corliss, find out why she died within the 7 days time limit?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Hand-drawn 15.2%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Text-Based 11%

You are subordinate to the deranged dictator and must plan his doomed invasion in this text-based RPG / Visual Novel. Navigate the shark-filled waters of the Great Leader's presidential cabinet, try to save your family, and survive the purges in a world of power-hungry leaders and nuclear warfare.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Text-Based 13.8%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Dark 9.7%

When you're falsely accused of sorcery, corrupt inquisitors make you the object of a witch hunt. Now, sorcery might be the only way for you to survive.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27%, Text-Based 21.5%, Choices Matter 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, RPG 7.9%

Olympia is not for the faint of heart. Explore, hunt, and survive (or try) in this ultra-hard platformer that focuses on being airborne.

Why similar: Unforgiving 72.8% ★, Hand-drawn 14%, Adventure 7.6%, Difficult 2.6%, 2D 2.4%

A medieval text quest in the "Choose Your Own Adventure" genre, where each choice could be your last. Create your story with more than 2,000 events, 200 of which will prove fatal. In a world where death plays against you, can you outsmart it and write your own story?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19%, Choices Matter 16.8%, Text-Based 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Visual Novel 8.8%

Infected with the parasite commonly known as the “brain eating amoeba”, you have 10 days left before your death. One of the symptoms is hallucinations. And through that, “he” starts to talk and confesses his love to you. Can you convince the parasite to leave your body before it’s too late?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Dark 11.2%, Adventure 10.1%

Hope flickers against impossible odds. In this narrative RPG, step into the shoes of a retired soldier, thrust into a desperate last stand to save Jeomdo Village. With supplies dwindling and time running out, your decisions will shape the fate of those who look to you for salvation.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Choices Matter 18.8%, Hand-drawn 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.5%, Visual Novel 11.2%

Plunge into court politics and change the course of history, or pursue a love affair that rocks the kingdom to its foundations!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Text-Based 22.1%, Choices Matter 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, RPG 9.3%

Stranded after a plane crash in a freezing wilderness, you must manage body temperature, injury, and sanity as every decision shapes your survival.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21%, Choices Matter 18.7%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Hand-drawn 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%

BLÖCK is a hardcore and challenging 2D Platformer. The goal is easy: Get to the level end as fast as possible and try not to die. But let's be realistic. You will die. A lot.

Why similar: Unforgiving 92.7% ★, Casual 2.6%, Difficult 2%, 2D 1.7%, Singleplayer 0.9%

You only picked up a lost smartphone, yet you find yourself made an accomplice in an AI's criminal plot. The AI asks 20 questions to identify its "master." Will you meet the AI's expectations?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Choices Matter 19.2%, Dark 14.8%, Text-Based 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%

In pursuit of coin, hired dagger Arthur finds himself embroiled in conspiracy involving the daughter of a noble House. Who is really pulling the strings behind the scenes?

Why similar: Hand-drawn 17.4%, Choices Matter 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%

Human belief has the power to change reality. For millennia, alien races have been visiting Earth, gaining supernatural abilities and fantastic wealth by exploiting this remarkable power. But humans are advancing, and many aliens now find themselves leaving Earth with nothing but debts and regrets.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Hand-drawn 15.7%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Choices Matter 12%, Story Rich 11.8%

Travel to Veøya in the Viking Age and solve a dangerous mystery with cunning and song!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.9%, Choices Matter 17.6%, Visual Novel 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Historical 10.9%

Rewrite history in this narrative RPG set in the last days of Imperial Russia. Born into nobility, you will shape both your destiny and the fate of a nation.Will you preserve the old order, ignite the flames of revolution, or carve out your own path? Every decision will echo through time.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Text-Based 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Visual Novel 8.4%

Hoist the Jolly Roger and set sail to find the legendary Titan’s Treasure! Do you fight with a cutlass or with magic? Are you biding your time until you can shoot your captain in the back, or are you the reason the rum is gone?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.1%, Text-Based 22.8%, Choices Matter 18.6%, RPG 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.1%

Christian Tyler is ready to investigate a new case! Uncover the mystery of the tourist town of Alkelano in our new visual novel.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Hand-drawn 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Dark 9.6%