
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.
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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.

CLOSED HANDS
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.

Hadean Lands
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.
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: Interactive Fiction 29.7%, Text-Based 24.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Adventure 19%, Indie 1.5%
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 37.3%, Text-Based 30.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Adventure 9.3%, Indie 2.2%
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 30.4%, Text-Based 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Adventure 14.3%, Indie 3.5%
Claw your way to the top of Moreytown, a furry slum for human-animal hybrids. Will you take down the gangs who rule the town, or take them over instead?
Why similar: Text-Based 31.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Adventure 18.4%, Indie 4%
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 29.7%, Text-Based 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Adventure 19.3%, Indie 4.1%
The toughest ronin in Hyuga returns! Heated battles and even hotter romances await you in the land of silk and steel!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.9%, Text-Based 25%, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Adventure 17.2%, Indie 4%
Immerse yourself in a dark fantasy world that is inspired by traditional text-based adventure and interactive fiction games.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33%, Text-Based 31.3%, Dark Fantasy 22.2%, Adventure 11.3%, Singleplayer 1.6%
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 31.7%, Interactive Fiction 29.4%, Text-Based 24.9%, Adventure 12.6%, Singleplayer 1.4%
A text adventure game about a 19th century explorer who finds himself stranded and alone.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 40%, Text-Based 34.4%, Adventure 21.3%, Indie 4.3%
As commander of a squadron of cavalry, what will you sacrifice to win the war of gunpowder and magic? Fight for power, riches, love, or glory!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.4%, Text-Based 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Adventure 17.4%, Indie 4.1%
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: Interactive Fiction 29.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, Text-Based 23.6%, Adventure 18.9%, Indie 1.3%
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: Interactive Fiction 34.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.5%, Text-Based 17.7%, Adventure 15.7%, Indie 1.6%
Try again, as many times as it takes, to change the ending. You might be able to save everyone you couldn’t before. • Indie horror game • Playtime: approx. 2 hours • Graphics, dialogue, and the feel of the world change with each playthrough • Contains heavy themes
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.7%, Interactive Fiction 28.1%, Text-Based 18.6%, Dark Fantasy 11.1%, Adventure 9.8%
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 28.7%, Text-Based 27.7%, Interactive Fiction 26%, Adventure 14.1%, Indie 3.5%
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: Interactive Fiction 28.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Text-Based 24.2%, Adventure 20%, Indie 1.5%
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 38.4%, Text-Based 37.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Indie 3.2%
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 29%, Text-Based 27.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Dark Fantasy 8.2%, Adventure 8%
Walk the path of a legendary mage, combining four different schools of magic to devastating effects.
Why similar: Text-Based 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 27%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, Adventure 18.4%, Indie 1.3%
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 34%, Text-Based 28.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.1%, Adventure 6.3%, Indie 1.5%
A dark gamebook-inspired RPG where your choices, luck, and blade decide what the sea keeps. Climb a cursed lighthouse and uncover the name buried beneath the bell.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Text-Based 23.6%, Dark Fantasy 12.7%, Adventure 12%
Escape your captors…and endure your rescuers, but don't be late to the ball! Take charge of your rescue, and reclaim your rightful throne.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.7%, Text-Based 30.4%, Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Adventure 9.2%, Singleplayer 1.4%
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 37.1%, Interactive Fiction 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Adventure 11.1%, Dark Fantasy 8.7%
A funny, emotional text-based romance where your awkward crush meets accidental magic. Make branching choices, build relationships, and maybe ruin Valentine’s Day with a love potion that definitely shouldn’t have worked.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.9%, Interactive Fiction 32.2%, Text-Based 29.8%, Indie 1.7%, Singleplayer 1.5%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.1%, Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Text-Based 23.8%, Adventure 11.3%, Dark Fantasy 8.4%
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 31.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Adventure 16.2%, Indie 4%
Your first case as a detective is forcing you to open your eyes to a world bigger than you thought. Or maybe it's better to keep them closed. Seems the supernatural didn’t get the memo that nothing exciting ever happens in the little town of Wayhaven.
Why similar: Text-Based 31.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Adventure 16.5%, Indie 4%
A 60-minute adventure where all you do is glow.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Adventure 21%, Text-Based 20.7%, Indie 1.5%
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 31.2%, Interactive Fiction 26.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Adventure 17.3%, Indie 1.4%
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 30.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30%, Text-Based 29%, Adventure 9.5%, Singleplayer 0.8%
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 39.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.2%, Interactive Fiction 28.1%, Indie 4.6%
This text adventure, beautifully illustrated in pixel art, invites you to explore a medieval abbey filled with secrets. You take full control by entering commands directly on your keyboard through a flexible command parser, allowing for free and immersive interaction.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.3%, Interactive Fiction 29.3%, Text-Based 25.2%, Adventure 11.3%, Indie 2%
I found myself at the station. The story unfolds as you type commands on your keyboard. As the days repeat, I keep wondering what I can do for her. A command-driven adventure steeped in nostalgic pixel art and sound.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 43.4%, Text-Based 37.3%, Adventure 19.3%
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: Interactive Fiction 34%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.1%, Text-Based 25.9%, Adventure 7.6%, Indie 1.8%
The Gate is an interactive science fiction graphic novel. At various points in the story, you will be asked to make a choice, these choices will take you down different paths in the story. Your objective as you guide the story is to return back to earth. The game features 3 possible story endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 32.8%, Adventure 25.5%, Indie 2%, Singleplayer 1.6%
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 39.2%, Interactive Fiction 27.1%, Text-Based 17.2%, Adventure 13.9%, Indie 2.6%
You have exactly 5. Bread is 4, the bus fare to school is 3. What do you give up? In this short narrative experience, you play as 13-year-old Adam. Confront an interface that reacts to a painful reality, and discover that freedom of choice is sometimes nothing but a privilege.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.6%, Text-Based 24.5%, Adventure 18.8%, Indie 1.2%
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: Interactive Fiction 33%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.3%, Text-Based 28.1%, Adventure 7%, Singleplayer 1.9%
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: Interactive Fiction 34.7%, Text-Based 28.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28%, Adventure 6.1%, Indie 1.4%
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: Text-Based 30.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.3%, Interactive Fiction 28.9%, Adventure 9%, Singleplayer 2.5%
Thaumistry: In Charm's Way is an all-new comedy text adventure from award-winning Infocom and Legend Entertainment author Bob Bates.
Why similar: Text-Based 31.7%, Adventure 29.9%, Interactive Fiction 29.8%, Indie 7%, Singleplayer 1.6%
Embrace lichdom: research powerful spells, recruit undead legions, manage your domains, rule the underworld, and become a demigod!
Why similar: Adventure 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Text-Based 17.6%, Dark Fantasy 15.9%
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: Interactive Fiction 33.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.6%, Text-Based 28.4%, Adventure 6.9%, Indie 1.6%
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: Interactive Fiction 33%, Text-Based 28.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.3%, Adventure 6.7%, Indie 1.6%
Your magic can change the world, but at what cost? Battle dragons, skyships, and evil Inquisitors, as you protect your homeland, conquer it, or destroy it forever!
Why similar: Text-Based 41.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 33.6%, Adventure 19.4%, Indie 5.5%
Ever wonder how heroes-in-training spend their time between epic confrontations with dastardly villains? Join the students at Speck Community College as they enjoy a tabletop roleplay game, investigate a legendary small-town monster, and endure the embarrassments of Parents’ Day.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.2%, Text-Based 24.3%, Adventure 19.4%, Indie 1.5%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 31.9%, Interactive Fiction 30.1%, Text-Based 26%, Adventure 10%, Indie 1.3%
With debts to pay to the underworld, you need to make a lot of coin fast! Perhaps worse, you're wanted by the King's men for desertion. Survival is your first priority...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.1%, Interactive Fiction 29.3%, Text-Based 19.8%, Dark Fantasy 10.5%, Adventure 8.5%
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: Interactive Fiction 34.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.4%, Adventure 22%, Text-Based 13.9%, Indie 1.5%
A man awoke by the lake with no memory. Guided by a pilgrim, he discovers he was once the sorcerer Merlin—and learns the truth about the "Saint" who sealed him away. A dark fantasy visual novel about unrequited love. Three endings await.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.2%, Text-Based 27.6%, Adventure 22.4%, Dark Fantasy 17.1%, Indie 1.6%
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: Interactive Fiction 32.2%, Text-Based 30%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.5%, Adventure 6.5%, Indie 1.5%
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: Interactive Fiction 32.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.2%, Text-Based 29.1%, Adventure 6.5%, Indie 1.6%
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: Interactive Fiction 29.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.8%, Text-Based 25.7%, Dark Fantasy 17.8%, Singleplayer 0.8%
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: Interactive Fiction 33.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.6%, Text-Based 28.3%, Adventure 6.8%, Indie 1.6%
The hero who stopped a world-eating calamity was branded a demon by history. Centuries later, an orphan carrying his last fragment pieces the truth together from rumor and record. No combat — only Ashen Flame, a power that costs you with every use. Two loops. One truth.
Why similar: Text-Based 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Dark Fantasy 14.1%, Adventure 13.6%
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 29%, Text-Based 27.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Dark Fantasy 10.3%, Adventure 6.4%
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 25.5%, Text-Based 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Dark Fantasy 16.9%, Adventure 10.3%
Eyes of Iyre is a Visual Novel with heavy RPG elements. Follow Barbak the Orc as he discovers more about the world and his past, all the while trying to keep his temper under control. Make friends, cast magic, and learn the truths hidden in the city of Iyre!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24%, Text-Based 20.8%, Adventure 13.1%, Dark Fantasy 12.6%
Plunder ghost ships for cursed treasure! Battle the Crown Navy, sea monsters, and other bloodthirsty pirates on a quest to rival the Pirate King himself!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.9%, Text-Based 31.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Adventure 12.4%, Indie 2.7%
Buried is a playable, interactive story told through stunning photos, a haunting soundscape, and gripping text. You play the role of Roger Hastings, a logger who awakens to find his friends missing, uncovering something that should have stayed hidden...
Why similar: Text-Based 38.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 31%, Adventure 24.3%, Indie 6.2%