- #1 Artifact
97% matchMostly Positive78% of 49 reviews2022
Dev: Mesmerizers
Windows
Adult Lovecraftian horror-strategy. Stealthily transform your university into horny, blonde bimbos! Dynamically change genitalia and breast sizes, IQ, mind control your peers via eldritch powers or eldritch parasites, erase your competition, and avoid a mysterious rival faction!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Text-Based 16.5%, LGBTQ+ 14.8%, Hand-drawn 10.2%
- #2 Vogvhathos
96% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2023
Dev: Corvaena Games LLC
Windows
As an elf in a panicked flight from home, you discover a more dangerous secret: a human claiming to be a dragon.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Dragons 15.8% ★, Text-Based 15.6%, LGBTQ+ 12.6%
- #3 Taina's Cursed Legacy
96% matchPositive82% of 33 reviews2025
Dev: dark_room_game
Windows
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 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Text-Based 18.4%, Hand-drawn 13%, Dark Fantasy 6.8%
- #4 Pillar of Knight
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Soul Realm Art
Windows
A medieval fantasy text-based visual novel where you guide Santi’s choices, unlock secret routes, and discover hidden CGs through interactive scenes.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Hand-drawn 14.3%, LGBTQ+ 11.3%, Text-Based 8.9%
- #5 Monster F****r II: Dragon
94% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Lascivity
Windows
Set out to lay a fearsome dragon in this short, text-based, erotic interactive fiction.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Text-Based 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Dragons 17.9% ★, LGBTQ+ 9.9%
- #6 Sorcerer's Choice: Angel or Demon?
94% matchVery Positive94% of 50 reviews2023
Dev: VarenyettPub: JAST
Windows
A Boys Love visual novel with branching plotlines and two love interests. Features beautiful CGs and sprites, and top-notch voice acting throughout the game.
Why similar: Demons 17.2%, LGBTQ+ 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Dark Fantasy 13.2%
- #7 Paradise Inc
93% matchPositive82% of 11 reviews2023
Dev: Sinspirational Games
Windows
Sell your soul for happiness - and help others do the same. As the new demonic manager of a luxury high-rise, you'll use sex and diplomacy to uncover people's deepest desires and transform their bodies and minds - all while running a business! Text-based CYOA with over 1 million words of content.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Text-Based 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, LGBTQ+ 13.9%, Time Management 13.5%
- #8 City of Dolorosa
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cuelebre Cult
Windows
You've just died—and your trial for the ultimate sin begins. City of Dolorosa is an interactive fiction and first-person exploration game with handmade india ink graphics. Meet the Five Great Powers and uncover all the secrets that lie within Dolorosa, the cruelest city in Hell.
Why similar: Walking Simulator 21.7%, Demons 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.8%, Hand-drawn 14.2%
- #9 Eyes of Rain
91% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Corvaena Games LLC
Windows · Mac
As a humble baker in a quiet medieval town, your life takes a dark turn when a stranger arrives equipped for battle. Thrust into a hidden world of supernatural beings—elves, demons, fae, and more—you must make choices that alter the fate of the world you thought you knew.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Demons 16.3%, Dark Fantasy 13.5%, LGBTQ+ 12.3%
- #10 CLOSED HANDS
90% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2021
Dev: PASSENGER
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 32.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.5%, Text-Based 26.1%, Adventure 13.5%
- #11 Stronghold: Caverns of Sorcery
89% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Deep beneath the earth, the dragon is rising! Quest into ancient caverns, learn magical lore, and draw strength from friends and family to save your home! A text-based interactive fantasy novel.
Why similar: Dragons 24.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Text-Based 19%, Management 5.3%
- #12 Hadean Lands
89% matchPositive94% of 47 reviews2016
Dev: Zarfhome Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 39.6%, Text-Based 31.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Adventure 6.3%
- #13 Specters of the Deep
87% matchPositive89% of 27 reviews2025
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Climb out of your tomb to avenge your own death in this haunted fantasy epic! Defy dragons, duel the dead, and face the nightmare at the bottom of the sea! It's an interactive epic fantasy novel, without graphics or sound effects, fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
Why similar: Dragons 24.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Text-Based 19.9%, Magic 6.6%
- #14 Book of Coin
88% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2022
Dev: redisguise
Windows
Immerse yourself in a dark fantasy world that is inspired by traditional text-based adventure and interactive fiction games.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 32.1%, Text-Based 29.3%, Dark Fantasy 22%, Fantasy 9.6%, Adventure 7.1%
- #15 Hotel Hermes
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Adjective Noun Studios
Windows · Linux
Become a mailroom operator at Hotel Hermes and navigate an ancient mail system to deliver parcels on time. Learn about the hotel's guests and staff in this puzzle role-playing game, where your actions can alter the world. Hopefully for the best!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.1%, Time Management 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Text-Based 14.7%, Adventure 11.1%
- #16 Vanakan
86% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Erik Khachatryan
Windows
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 27.3%, Text-Based 23.2%, Adventure 12.8%, 2D 6.1%
- #17 The Dragon and the Djinn
85% matchMixed69% of 16 reviews2022
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Dragons 24.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Text-Based 18.7%, Magic 4.7%
- #18 Soulbond
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Floating Realms
Windows · Mac · Linux
Customize your fate in a fallen world: forge bonds and uncover secrets in a tale of power, love, and the weight of grief. Your choices define your path: how will you rise in the hierarchy of the damned?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Text-Based 15.7%, LGBTQ+ 13.8%, Demons 11.3%
- #19 A Mage Reborn
84% matchVery Positive88% of 104 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Walk the path of a legendary mage, combining four different schools of magic to devastating effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Text-Based 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.5%, Adventure 11.2%, Magic 8.3%
- #20 The Medieval Psychologist
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ODD Game Studio
Windows · Mac
You're a stranger who has come to Lostworth, a town full of people lost in the darkness of the Middle Ages. Your purpose: help them spiritually. For this, you've only books, potions, spells and words. In time, as you uncover the secrets of the city, you'll also have to face threats from the past.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27%, Hand-drawn 17.3%, Adventure 12.8%, Medieval 6.4%
- #21 Exercise your Demons
82% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: BoopDood
Windows
Step into the world of Exercise your Demons, a 2d narrative adventure inspired by Irish fairies and folklore. Meet and befriend 5 locals while you work towards settling into the small fictional town called Inishsióg in County Galway, Ireland.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.9%, Text-Based 22.4%, Walking Simulator 13.4%, Mythology 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%
- #22 Oremus
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Narkhos & Stormi
Windows · Linux
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 30.4%, Interactive Fiction 27.6%, Text-Based 22.8%, Adventure 6.9%, Medieval 6.4%
- #23 Beek: Familiar Spirit - Remastered
81% matchPositive84% of 31 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Klondike AustraliaPub: Studio Klondike
Windows · Mac
A call for help within a mysterious messaging app. Someone lost and wandering through a forest in a faraway place. And their destiny in your hands.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Text-Based 21.8%, LGBTQ+ 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Hand-drawn 13.3%
- #24 Maiden of Milk: Clarabelle
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KyraVisualNovels
Windows
Maiden of Milk is an adult, stat-based VN about managing the milk, moods, and schedules of five very busty women. Spend limited weekly energy on dates, milking, gifts, and intimate scenes to grow their curves and unlock new events.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Time Management 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Hand-drawn 10.9%, Adventure 10.6%
- #25 SACROSANCT
81% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2022
Dev: FEYXUAN
Windows
nothing is inviolate. and that which is sacrosanct gets fucked. fuck god, kill heaven, marry boyfriend. in that order.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Text-Based 19.1%, LGBTQ+ 17.4%, Hand-drawn 14.8%, Dark Fantasy 14.7%
- #26 Daria: A Kingdom Simulator
79% matchMixed44% of 18 reviews2024
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 32.1%, Text-Based 27.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.8%, Simulation 17.3%
- #27 Throne of Blood
78% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Text-Based 23.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.4%, Demons 16.7%, Fantasy 5.2%
- #28 Eden's Ritter - Paladins of Ecstasy
78% matchVery Positive87% of 143 reviews2020
Dev: WafflePub: Shiravune
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 54%
A virtuous princess and her lady knight battle depraved demons called Lustfiends, but struggle between shame and lust themselves... An erotic dark-fantasy visual novel.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 21.6%, Dragons 18.9% ★, Demons 18.7%, Medieval 9.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%
- #29 Cold Bed on Route
76% matchPositive93% of 42 reviews2025
Dev: Old Retina Museum
Windows · Linux
"Cold Bed on Route" is an equation-like adventure game. Work with to find and dump unwanted items. Then, let's make up for the excess weight caused by having her on board. And let's prove that the universe is not yet completely cold and frigid. Now, pilot, it's your turn.
Why similar: Time Management 29%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Text-Based 18.1%, 2D 4.7%
- #30 Twisted: A Dark Fairytale
77% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2020
Dev: Fablesoft Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A dark fairy tale about the woods outside a small village and the monster that roams within them. Become Sage and play through to uncover the mystery when they're tossed away from everything they've ever known.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Dark Fantasy 16.9%, LGBTQ+ 15.2%, Text-Based 14.9%
- #31 PhantomZone SemiDeus
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: phantomzone observation roomPub: keieru
Windows
"A dragon survivor, a rarity in these times." That's what she called herself. Mysterious, bizarre biographical tales unfold in a retro-futuristic world.
Why similar: Dragons 19.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Text-Based 17.6%, Hand-drawn 12.9%, Dark Fantasy 11.7%
- #32 The Great Plague Exodus
77% matchMostly Positive70% of 27 reviews2021
Dev: Priory Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Year is 1665 and the Great Plague has struck London. Guide your family through the darkest period of English history as you flee across the country. Navigate 100s of random events that challenge your ethics and your drive to survive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23%, Walking Simulator 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Text-Based 15.1%, Simulation 10.9%
- #33 Stars Arisen
75% matchPositive92% of 25 reviews2023
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Will you rise to the heavens when you wield the magic of fallen stars? Call lightning, ride the wind, and raise the dead in this fantasy epic!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Text-Based 21.1%, Dark Fantasy 14.5%, LGBTQ+ 13%
- #34 Skin Tailor
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Night Asobu
Windows · Mac · Linux
Skin Tailor is a medieval horror dress up game and visual novel hybrid. Skin your supernatural enemies, create disguises and infiltrate vampire owned blood farms to rescue your comrades.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.8%, Interactive Fiction 26.5%, LGBTQ+ 13.7%, Hand-drawn 8.9%, Dark Fantasy 8.4%
- #35 EmyLiveShow: Dragon & Mistresses Tale
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 44 reviews2024
Dev: Team Emily
Windows · Mac
Join four hot Vtuber girls on a kinky fantasy role-playing adventure. Roll the dice and break hearts in the new EmyLiveShow hentai visual novel!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Text-Based 15.2%, Hand-drawn 12.4%, LGBTQ+ 11.7%
- #36 Moonbriar
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Oldblood
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Text-Based 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Dark Fantasy 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Hand-drawn 9.8%
- #37 The Sin Collector: Repentless
73% matchVery Positive92% of 90 reviews2021
Dev: Sylen Studio
Windows
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 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Text-Based 17.2%, Dark Fantasy 12.2%, Hand-drawn 11.7%
- #38 Decadent Heir
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PRdroid GamesPub: Valkyrie Initiative
Windows
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 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Text-Based 16.9%, Dark Fantasy 13.3%, Management 7.9%
- #39 DnD Adventure: Rogue's Choice
72% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2022
Dev: CCSPub: Delight Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 28.5%, Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Text-Based 17.5%, Dark Fantasy 9.7%, Adventure 5%
- #40 Kidnapped! A Royal Birthday
73% matchMixed50% of 22 reviews2020
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 31.6%, Text-Based 28.3%, Interactive Fiction 25%, Adventure 5.8%, Fantasy 4.8%
- #41 Samurai of Hyuga
73% matchVery Positive80% of 66 reviews2016
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 33.8%, Text-Based 28.4%, Interactive Fiction 27.4%, Adventure 10.5%
- #42 X.E.H.A. Rogue
71% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Corvaena Games LLC
Windows · Mac
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 27.4%, Interactive Fiction 25.5%, LGBTQ+ 13.9%, Text-Based 10.6%, Hand-drawn 7.3%
- #43 House of the Golden Mask
69% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Interactive Fiction 29.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26%, Text-Based 24.8%, Magic 8.7%, Fantasy 7.4%
- #44 Tri City Monsters
70% matchVery Positive97% of 70 reviews2024
Dev: Studio Peaches
Windows · Mac · Linux
Tri City Monsters is a supernatural, monsterlovin' visual novel where you can romance and/or de-pants 3 demonic love interests. Navigate a dangerous urban jungle with their help and maybe you'll get a taste of what it means to be a monster.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Text-Based 16.8%, LGBTQ+ 13.5%, Demons 11%
- #45 Yonder World: Interview with the Void
71% matchPositive93% of 14 reviews2022
Dev: Fluttering Abyss
Windows · Mac · Linux
A psychological horror story, with a spiking sense of danger and gentle melancholy. An out of this world adventure, revolving around books, memories and mortality. Along the way, perhaps you shall pick up pieces of a long forgotten heart, or some unlikely companions that you never knew you needed.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, LGBTQ+ 16.1%, Text-Based 14.6%, Hand-drawn 9.1%
- #46 The Wizard’s Beans Or: A Short Period of Unplanned Internment
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pixel Prophecy
Windows
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 30.6%, Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Text-Based 21.6%, Adventure 6.3%, Magic 6.3%
- #47 Sorcery! Parts 1 and 2
71% matchVery Positive89% of 739 reviews2016
Dev: inkle Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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 37.8%, Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Text-Based 14%, Adventure 8.4%, Magic 6.8%
- #48 Molly the Werezompire
70% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2023
Dev: Zeboyd Digital Entertainment
Windows
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 34.7%, Interactive Fiction 31.2%, Text-Based 25.4%, Adventure 8.6%
- #49 Roadwarden
67% matchVery Positive94% of 4,905 reviews2022
Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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 34.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Dark Fantasy 8.6%, Adventure 7.2%
- #50 A Crown of Sorcery and Steel
69% matchMixed65% of 20 reviews2022
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 28.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Adventure 12.2%, Fantasy 9.7%
- #51 Rebels - Under the Spell of Magic (Chapter 4)
68% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: BrotherWood Games
Windows
A Visual Novel game about adventure, fantasy, magic and friendship. This is a continuation of Chapter 3. There are only a few choices that can be made, and some paths to choose from. The decisions do not have an impact on the ending, instead they provide slightly different content.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Text-Based 15.4%, Hand-drawn 11.8%, Magic 9.5%
- #52 Life Eternal
68% matchPositive95% of 38 reviews2023
Dev: Star*CadetsPub: Project Ensō
Windows
A lonely necromancer awakens in a dilapidated tower with one goal: to revive his lord and get revenge on those who sought him harm. With three days to prepare the ritual and scattered notes left in the tower, guide his hand. A serene walking simulator by the developer behind Star Stealing Prince.
Why similar: LGBTQ+ 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Dark Fantasy 15%, Hand-drawn 10.7%, Walking Simulator 10.3%
- #53 Faerie's Bargain: The Price of Business
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 18 reviews2021
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 27.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.3%, Text-Based 24.2%, Magic 9%, Fantasy 7.4%
- #54 The Alchemist
68% matchMostly Positive70% of 10 reviews2022
Dev: Azephir Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Play the role of an apprentice alchemist on the road in a merchant caravan. During the journey you will discover many things, including love? A gay medieval fantasy visual novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, LGBTQ+ 19.3%, Magic 9.4%, Text-Based 7.9%
- #55 Eternal Affairs
66% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
Recover a stolen artifact and lose your heart as a secret magical agent! Can you uncover an arcane conspiracy before the clock runs out? An interactive, text-based magical romance novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Text-Based 19.2%, Demons 16.8%, Dark Fantasy 13.9%
- #56 Lone Bird in the Tree
65% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Aosolagame
Windows · Mac
“Lone Bird in the Tree” is an ADV with male and female versions of each of the four characters. The story alternates between the “future” of the main character, who is deeply traumatized by the grief of his/her best friend, and the “story leading up to the loss of his/her best friend”.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, LGBTQ+ 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Hand-drawn 17%, Text-Based 16.2%
- #57 MysteryOS
65% match5 user reviews20% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: Clermont Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 32.5%, Interactive Fiction 28.1%, Text-Based 17.3%, Simulation 12.2%, Adventure 5.5%
- #58 Solis
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gibberish Studio
Windows
A hand-drawn adventure about technology and deception in the city of Solis at nighttime.
Why similar: Hand-drawn 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Walking Simulator 19.4%, Text-Based 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%