Games Like Temple of Egmelitia

Constantinople, 1453. Four witnesses — a janissary, a baker's daughter, an engineer, a noble — live the same 53 days of the siege. Choices cross between their stories, and the city remembers. An illustrated, choice-driven historical novel where every ending is someone's truth.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Text-Based 18.5%, Historical 15.9%, Choices Matter 5.7%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Historical 19.2%, Text-Based 15.5%, Choices Matter 5.6%

Alchemy, puzzles, and a crashed starship. Old-style interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No dialogue trees! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 35.3%, Text-Based 32.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, Adventure 4.6%, Story Rich 2%

Make your name as a whiskey-runner, a politician, or a gangster as you quench thirsts from rural Pennsylvania to the New York City nightlife!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.1%, Interactive Fiction 27.4%, Text-Based 25.7%, Choices Matter 7.8%, Multiple Endings 5.7%

CLOSED HANDS is a groundbreaking work of interactive fiction that explores the tangled intertwined stories of five people thrown together by a fictional terror attack.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.1%, Interactive Fiction 29.8%, Text-Based 27.2%, Adventure 10%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Navigate school life, build friendships, survive rumours, and climb the social ladder through natural conversations with students who remember your choices. Every interaction shapes your reputation in this AI-powered social simulation.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.6%, Interactive Fiction 29.4%, Text-Based 16.8%, Choices Matter 8.1%, Adventure 7.1%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 40.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Text-Based 15%, Choices Matter 7.9%, Adventure 5.7%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.1%, Text-Based 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Choices Matter 8.2%, Multiple Endings 7.1%

見知らぬ密室で目を覚ました主人公。 頼れるものは、手元に残された一台のスマートフォンだけ。 通話、メッセージ、アプリなどに残された痕跡をたどりながら、脱出の手がかりを探していく。 しかし、情報を集めるほどに、 この事件の裏に隠された異様な真実が浮かび上がっていく。 スマートフォンを操作して進める、サイコロジカル・ホラーADV。

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.6%, Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Text-Based 22.8%, Adventure 8.7%, Multiple Endings 4.7%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.4%, Text-Based 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Multiple Endings 6.9%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.8%, Text-Based 26.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Choices Matter 5.5%, Story Rich 4.8%

When you discover that the Serpent of Chaos is trying to destroy Egypt, will you stand against him, or will you help spread his eternal darkness?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Text-Based 19.6%, Historical 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Choices Matter 6.4%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.1%, Interactive Fiction 23.5%, Text-Based 22.5%, Multiple Endings 7.2%, Choices Matter 5.6%

Your father stole his throne, intending to leave it to you. When the long-lost heir resurfaces, will you defend the king—or betray him to his enemies?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.6%, Text-Based 26%, Interactive Fiction 25.2%, Choices Matter 6.3%, Multiple Endings 5%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.9%, Text-Based 28.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Adventure 7.1%

A fully narrated branching narrative game set in occupied Netherlands during World War 2. Every choice shapes the fate of a young Dutch civilian. Will you resist the Germans? Simply try to survive? Or join them in the fight against Bolshevism? Based on real events.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Text-Based 17.9%, Historical 15.2%, Choices Matter 7.5%

Your robots will change the world! Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army? A 300,000-word epic interactive sci-fi novel.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34%, Text-Based 30.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Story Rich 3.3%

The Broken Crown is a dark fantasy text adventure between game and novel. Read through a fallen kingdom, make choices at key moments, and face the weight of memory and sacrifice.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.9%, Interactive Fiction 29%, Text-Based 26.9%, Adventure 10.4%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Navigate unknown waters, deadly politics, and ancient magic in this low-fantasy adventure. Can you turn the tides of war and forge a future for your clan? A text-based interactive novel, 1 million words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29%, Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Text-Based 25.5%, Choices Matter 6.3%, Multiple Endings 4.3%

You've spent years undercover, disguised as a human, infiltrating the city’s magical law-enforcement organization. They stole your magic from you. Can you steal it back? (A text-based interactive historical urban fantasy novel.)

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28%, Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Text-Based 23.1%, Adventure 9.1%, Choices Matter 6.1%

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

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.6%, Text-Based 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Adventure 6.6%

As the Harbinger, you are the only Keeper who can cast spells. Stop a necromantic plague, uncover an Elven conspiracy, and decide the fate of a dying world! A text-based fantasy novel, 193,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects."

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.8%, Interactive Fiction 26.1%, Text-Based 25.4%, Choices Matter 5.7%, Fantasy 4.7%

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

Why similar: Historical 26.6%, Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.6%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Adventure 6%

Extract yourself from another fine mess–this time, with your family watching! Mischief, mix-ups, and bewilderingly urgent capers at your ancestral estate.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.7%, Text-Based 26.2%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Multiple Endings 6.2%

Run with unicorns, fly with pegasi, and swim with kelpies as a magical horse! Will you reunite the herds or drive them further apart? A text-based interactive fantasy novel with hundreds of choices and without graphics or sound effects.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30%, Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Text-Based 24.8%, Choices Matter 5.8%, Fantasy 4.7%

Chronicles of Humanity is an expanding anthology of historical visual novels. Enter different eras, weigh conflicting testimony under political and personal pressure, and shape who is protected, what is recorded, and how each life is remembered. Complete stories are released as separate DLC.

Why similar: Historical 25%, Text-Based 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Choices Matter 9.1%

Echoes of Chang'an is a Chinese-style mystery visual novel developed by NSTUDIO. You play as the adopted son of the renowned mid-Tang general Duan Xiushi who is unexpectedly drawn into an inescapable conspiracy that threatens the fate of the Tang Dynasty while carrying out a mission.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, Historical 25.3%, Choices Matter 6.8%, Multiple Endings 5.8%

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

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.5%, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Text-Based 22.8%, Choices Matter 6.9%, Multiple Endings 5.9%

Samurai of Hyuga is a brutal, heart-pounding interactive tale. Prepare to enter the land of silk and steel, where fantasy clashes against grim reality, and where the good guys don't always win in the end. It's a harsh world with tough choices at every turn. Good thing you're the toughest ronin around.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 39.4%, Text-Based 28%, Interactive Fiction 25.2%, Adventure 7.4%

Battle demons and undead attorneys, and win souls to pay back your student loans! At the elite demonic-law firm of Varkath Nebuchadnezzar Stone, you'll depose a fallen god, find romance, and maybe even make partner, if you don't lose your own soul first.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 44.9%, Text-Based 36.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%

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

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Text-Based 19.1%, Historical 17.1%, Adventure 9.4%

Battle for love as a gladiator in this epic romance of swords and sandals! Win glory, victory, a better life, your freedom - and spark a revolution!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Text-Based 21.1%, Historical 16.9%, Choices Matter 4.9%

Interactive fiction starring Molly the Werezompire - a grad student who jumped into a portal, was killed by a werewolf, a zombie, and a vampire, and became a heroic werezompire! Also includes the sci-fi parody, Epiphany in Spaaace! Originally released on XBLIG.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 39.5%, Interactive Fiction 27.6%, Text-Based 25.9%, Adventure 6.2%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Rebuild society after the climate apocalypse! Can you keep your settlement alive? Will you hold onto your humanity or lose it in the directionless expanse?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.5%, Interactive Fiction 28.4%, Text-Based 26%, Choices Matter 6.5%, Multiple Endings 5.4%

Choose, explore, interact, fight, solve, gather, trade! Rise to rebel in this immersive text-based fantasy story that seamlessly merges the best elements of RPGs, choose-your-own-adventure stories, visual novels, and interactive fiction.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.6%, Text-Based 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Exploration 7.3%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Text-Based 18.5%, Historical 18.3%, Choices Matter 6.8%

Never stop running, not with the galaxy at stake. Save it at all costs, and save yourself if you can.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.5%, Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Text-Based 21.5%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Multiple Endings 7.7%

Face down your ghosts and unearth secrets better left buried as you prepare to take vengeance on the ones who wronged you. But be warned, burying your past only works if it stays put.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.3%, Text-Based 26%, Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Choices Matter 7.2%, Multiple Endings 6.1%

Your name is Gary Patterson. After waking up in a strange facility with your work partner Victor Adams, you must make a choice: Play along with Victor's plans? Or go it alone and make an escape? Only YOU can decide.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Text-Based 13.9%, Exploration 11.4%, Choices Matter 6.8%

You are the Veteran. You’re the oldest android in the Solar System, a relic and survivor of the ancient past. Now it’s time for you to fight again. A text-based science-fantasy novel, 700,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.1%, Interactive Fiction 27.2%, Text-Based 25.7%, Choices Matter 6.6%, Multiple Endings 5.4%

Small in scope, detailed, gritty text-based fantasy RPG. Recreates the gameplay of the old gamebooks. Simple battle system and hassle-free inventory management.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.6%, Text-Based 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Multiple Endings 8%, Story Rich 4.8%

Awaken your magic and break an ancient curse at a secret school of sorcery! What mysteries will you uncover at this crossroads between realms? A text-based fantasy novel, 280,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.7%, Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Text-Based 25.4%, Choices Matter 6%, Multiple Endings 4.9%

A choice-driven roguelike text adventure set in medieval Korea and Japan. Encounter 218 mythological creatures from East Asian folklore, shape your story across 94 endings, and grow stronger with each run in a deep, culturally rich world.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.5%, Text-Based 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Multiple Endings 6%, Choices Matter 5.8%

By the power of your Soul Stone and the strength of your own indomitable soul, uncover secrets held in blood and lead the charge that will change the world. A text-based fantasy novel, 260,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.4%, Interactive Fiction 27.4%, Text-Based 26%, Choices Matter 6.5%, Fantasy 5.1%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Historical 20.3%, Text-Based 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choices Matter 7.1%

Aunewyth is a text-based game with a focus on narration and decision making. It features a short yet versatile storyline that reveals itself according to the choices you make.

Why similar: Text-Based 34.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Multiple Endings 9.3%

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 32%, Interactive Fiction 26.5%, Text-Based 25.6%, Choices Matter 7.3%, Fantasy 4.1%

The most anticipated game since chess! A text-based comedy adventure in which you interact with the world by slamming one of two brightly colored buttons: Harm or Other

Why similar: Text-Based 29.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Adventure 7.8%, Funny 5.4%

Befriend misfit deities and make a life for yourself in the Underworld! Can you escape your arranged marriage to the King? Do you want to?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.2%, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Text-Based 20.7%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Multiple Endings 6.4%

Solve puzzles, enlist magic beans, eat soap, plan your escape, and confront the menacing mage who keeps you confined in his tower. Will you keep cracking jokes or learn from your mistakes? Your choices matter.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 35.6%, Text-Based 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choices Matter 7.2%, Adventure 4.7%

Betrayed in the Amazon, an elite Korean special forces commander crosses into a brutal fantasy world and rises as a lord. A dark military-fantasy visual novel with choices, light progression, and conquest.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.9%, Interactive Fiction 28.2%, Text-Based 12.7%, Adventure 9.5%, Choices Matter 6.6%

Swing a sword, delve dungeons, and lead a resistance against the tyrannical queen of a war-torn fantasy realm. Will you unite the realm and end the queen’s reign of terror... or join her and rule by her side?

Why similar: Text-Based 29.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Adventure 8.9%, Fantasy 6.2%

You wake up at a terminal you've never seen before. The language is alien. The interface is hostile. Every wrong click has consequences. Decode constructed languages, navigate unfamiliar operating systems, and survive the unknown in this puzzle-survival experience.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 37%, Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Text-Based 17.6%, Exploration 12.6%, Adventure 4%

A 60-minute adventure where all you do is glow.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.2%, Text-Based 19.9%, Adventure 9.6%, Multiple Endings 5.9%

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 36.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Choices Matter 5.8%, Adventure 5.1%

Rule your realm, train heroes, and build a legendary kingdom in Daria. Experience strategy, storytelling, and diplomacy in this immersive sim.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.2%, Text-Based 30%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.6%, Choices Matter 6.5%, Multiple Endings 4.9%

Professor of Magical Studies is an interactive magical school novel by Stephen Granade, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.9%, Text-Based 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Choices Matter 7.9%, Multiple Endings 6.9%