Games Like The Bone Dancer's Bane

Steel, strategy, sabotage - or forbidden magic? How far will you go to defeat your greatest rival and win glory in the grandest tournament in the entire realm? A text-based adventure.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Text-Based 13.5%, Politics 12.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, RPG 10.5%

Heed magic’s call! Find love as you explore ancient mysteries, craft dragon-rune tattoos, and discover your true loyalties. What passions shape your path?

Why similar: RPG 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Text-Based 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Lore-Rich 8.7%

Defy nature’s laws and avenge your slain pantheon! Humanity once feared and hated you, but now, awakened from a thousand-year slumber, you are their only hope. A text-based interactive game.

Why similar: RPG 19.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Text-Based 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Dark Fantasy 11.7%

Overcome all obstacles by trusting in your own strength, the power of your Soul Stone, and your loyal companions. Become the legend you were born to be.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Text-Based 16.2%, RPG 11.7%, Lore-Rich 10.5%

An interactive fantasy romance novel set amongst the Greek gods.

Why similar: RPG 20%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Text-Based 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Drama 9.8%

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: RPG 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Text-Based 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Magic 6.3%

Catch a magical arsonist before you lose your heart! Will you romance a rival agent, your hellhound shapeshifter partner, or your boss—an actual devil? A sweet romantic text-based, role playing game.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.9%, RPG 18.7%, Text-Based 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Lore-Rich 8.7%

Become the greatest of the goblin merchants in this gaslamp faery-tale! Buy and sell secrets and memories! Trade in time, shadows, and stranger things!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Text-Based 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, RPG 16.9%, Magic 6.5%

An interactive fiction epic fantasy.

Why similar: RPG 19%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Text-Based 15.8%, Dark Fantasy 10.3%

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: RPG 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Text-Based 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Fantasy 5.2%

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: RPG 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Text-Based 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Fantasy 5.2%

When a new magic is discovered, it's up to you to unravel the mystery! Find answers from fae and humans, save your city, and maybe even fall in love! A text-based interactive fantasy novel, 400,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.

Why similar: RPG 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Text-Based 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Romance 5.8%

Can you and your friends master the ocean's magic and save your school? Dance, fight, and flirt with the other sea nymphs, selkies, and sirens!

Why similar: RPG 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Text-Based 18%, Magic 6.2%

Will you spill the tea about the secret, cozy magical cafe on your college campus? Brew potions and romance on coffee dates with your new friends! A text-based novel of magic and romance, with hundreds of choices and without graphics or sound effects.

Why similar: RPG 23%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Text-Based 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Romance 7.7%

Dazzle humanity or destroy it as a magical, two-tailed fox! Weave illusions, shapeshift, or control minds. You'll set the world on fire, one way or another.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Text-Based 17.8%, RPG 14.1%, Drama 6.2%

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: RPG 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Text-Based 19.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Fantasy 5.6%

As a social media influencer recruited to a team of heroes, can you earn their trust, defend the city, and prove you’re worth more than your follower count? A text-based interactive superhero novel.

Why similar: RPG 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Text-Based 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Lore-Rich 11.2%

Infiltrate the orgiastic secret society beneath the modern-day Palace of Versailles! Will you expose their sex rituals or surrender to their pleasures? An interactive romance novel.

Why similar: RPG 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Text-Based 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Lore-Rich 11.6%

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: Text-Based 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, RPG 15%, Dark Fantasy 6.4%

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 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Text-Based 19.9%, RPG 19.8%, Lore-Rich 8%

Rush the university's secret societies as a first-year Magical Studies major! Will you keep your magic a secret from the mundanes or expose the truth?

Why similar: RPG 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Text-Based 18.6%, Magic 6.7%

See your name in lights on Broadway! Find fame, fortune, and true love! All it costs is your immortal soul.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Text-Based 15.8%, RPG 11.9%, Lore-Rich 10.3%

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: RPG 25%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Text-Based 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Character Customization 5%

Unleash your lust and your thirst in a battle for the soul of London! Will passion lead you back to humanity, or will you embrace the night as a vampire?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Text-Based 19.9%, RPG 18.9%, Dark Fantasy 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%

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: RPG 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Text-Based 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Character Customization 6.1%

The discovery of an old magic book turns your life upside down. Will you succeed in becoming a guild wizard—or will you travel a different path?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Text-Based 23.4%, RPG 14%, Magic 9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%

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: RPG 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Text-Based 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Character Customization 5%

Go forth on a text-based, choose your own adventure where you can choose your role and embark on adventure as various different people who tread different paths.

Why similar: RPG 27.4%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Text-Based 19.5%, Fantasy 6.4%

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: Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Text-Based 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, RPG 15%, Character Customization 6.7%

Duel wizards, cast spells, find true love, and keep your academic scholarship, all while investigating the mysterious disappearances plaguing your campus!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.4%, RPG 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Magic 7.4%, Romance 6.5%

Check in to your hotel, and check out the ghosts! Sexy specters await you - but can you fix up the hotel in style so that the living guests will find luxury, too?

Why similar: RPG 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Text-Based 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Romance 7.9%

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 28.7%, RPG 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Dark Fantasy 6.9%

Your magic awakes—and so does your heart! A whimsical, text-based interactive romance novel.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Text-Based 16.9%, RPG 14.7%, Lore-Rich 9.9%

Find the unfindable and do the impossible? It’s all in a day’s work for you. As a concierge, how far will you go to make billionaires’ dreams come true?

Why similar: RPG 20.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Text-Based 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Drama 7.8%

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 28.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, RPG 19.3%, Text-Based 12%, Magic 5.6%

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 26.3%, Text-Based 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, RPG 15.6%, Character Customization 6.4%

They steal your crew and force your ship to crash-land on an alien planet where you must start fresh with nothing but a dilapidated base and a... talking cat?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, RPG 16.3%, Lore-Rich 9.5%, Text-Based 9.2%

Interactive teen supernatural mystery! You and your friends have developed magical psychic powers. Solve the case, save your school, find a date for prom!

Why similar: Text-Based 31%, RPG 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Indie 2.7%

3 short stories set in a mystical fantasy universe. You are a newborn Face of God. Hear tales of human suffering and triumph. Decide which Face of God you are. Pick a different fate for each main character. A short, linear experience that is introspective, emotional and spiritual.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Text-Based 16.7%, Dark Fantasy 15.2%, Lore-Rich 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.5%

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

Why similar: Text-Based 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, RPG 18.9%, Romance 6.1%

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: Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Text-Based 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, RPG 11.9%, Lore-Rich 10.8%

North Africa, 1942. Command a U.S. tank. Lead your men against the Axis powers. Learn the hard lessons of war. The odds are against you. A text-based historical novel, 900,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.

Why similar: RPG 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Text-Based 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Character Customization 4.8%

Can you survive being a demon’s nanny? Uncover a world of paranormal secrets. Magic. Miracles. And a battle between order and chaos. And for your heart.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Text-Based 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, RPG 12.7%, Romance 7.5%

Walk the path of a legendary mage, combining four different schools of magic to devastating effects.

Why similar: Text-Based 22.6%, RPG 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Magic 7.2%

From birth to death, craft your orc's legacy. Wield the powers of a shaman or chief. Conquer the world. Become a god or a demon lord. Do what orcs do best!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, RPG 16.6%, Text-Based 15.4%, Character Customization 9.7%

The uprising continues! You fled the armies of the Hegemony into a nightmare wilderness. Now escape the storms of chaos magic to spread the flames of your rebellion in this epic fantasy RPG.

Why similar: Text-Based 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Politics 13.6% ★, RPG 12.4%

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: Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Text-Based 17.6%, RPG 14.5%, Character Customization 8.2%

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

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Text-Based 18.4%, RPG 16.4%, Character Customization 9.2%

Embrace lichdom: research powerful spells, recruit undead legions, manage your domains, rule the underworld, and become a demigod!

Why similar: RPG 25.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Text-Based 13.8%, Dark Fantasy 12.7%

It's time to make a name for yourself in the big city. In this first half of a two-part epic, can you unravel the mysteries of Lux, City of Secrets?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Text-Based 22.8%, RPG 19.9%, Lore-Rich 13.7%, Magic 5%

With the power to freeze time, you can ransack a casino, rescue a celebrity, or cheat death itself! A thrilling interactive sci-fi novel.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, RPG 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Text-Based 19.8%, Choices Matter 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: Text-Based 31.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 31.2%, RPG 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Indie 2%

Travel across a magical kingdom with four eccentric individuals! Will you find your destiny—or will you write it for yourself? A text-based interactive fantasy novel, 600,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, RPG 17.4%, Text-Based 14.2%, Character Customization 10.2%

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 23.2%, RPG 22.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Text-Based 21%, Fantasy 4.8%

You hold a djinn in a bottle. Make a wish! Will you slay the dragon, or overthrow the emir? Or will you free the djinn, and accept the consequences?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Text-Based 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, RPG 12.6%, Lore-Rich 11.2%

By day, you're just another citizen. By night, you defend the city. But don’t quit your day job, hero. A text-based superhero novel, 450,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.

Why similar: RPG 26%, Text-Based 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Character Customization 6.6%

Celestial power thrums in your veins, Hell’s throne calls, and demons conspire. Will you ascend as savior, tyrant, or something in between? A text-based horror novel, 295,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.

Why similar: RPG 23%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Text-Based 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Fantasy 4.2%

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 26.9%, Text-Based 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, RPG 15.9%, Character Customization 5.3%

Hunt your prey as a vampire on windswept Victorian moors—but who will capture your unbeating heart?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.8%, RPG 19.9%, Text-Based 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Character Customization 6.4%

Stalk the city streets with ancient technology! Will your sword clash with mages, or will you betray your order in exchange for power? Magehunter: Phoenix Flame is a dark fantasy text-based rpg.

Why similar: RPG 21.9%, Text-Based 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Lore-Rich 10.9%, Magic 6.6%