- #1 The Shadow
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PlayBook
Windows
What starts as a simple, highly-paid night shoot in an abandoned marble quarry descends into a psychological nightmare. You are Stefano Caldara, a photographer caught in a web of dark rituals and dangerous secrets. Every choice shapes your morality, your sanity, and your survival...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Noir 12.3%, Visual Novel 9.6%, RPG 9.2%
- #2 The Pigment
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PlayBook
Windows
Milan, 1963. Inherit your uncle's mysterious studio and discover a color that shouldn't exist. In this cosmic horror gamebook, you must balance your Sanity and Lucidity as you uncover the secret of the 12th canvas. Will you finish the work, or let the pigment consume your mind?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Noir 13.3%, RPG 9.9%, Visual Novel 9.7%
- #3 Imperial Bureaucracy Hero
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Munitions Mori
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Noir 13%, RPG 12.6%, Visual Novel 12.2%
- #4 Coalescence
95% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2022
Dev: Black Banshee Studios
Windows · Mac
Coalescence is a visual novel that takes you deep within Moniker Labs to explore its secrets. Play as one of three characters, each with their own storyline and dialogue options. Form relationships with the companions you encounter and try to make it out alive!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Noir 15.4%, Visual Novel 11%, Text-Based 9.7%
- #5 DnD Adventure: Rogue's Choice
94% matchPositive91% of 11 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 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Noir 14.3%, RPG 12.1%, Text-Based 9.4%
- #6 Whispers From The Rift
94% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Interdimensional Games Inc
Windows
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Text-Based 12.5%, Choices Matter 9.8%
- #7 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
93% matchVery Positive89% of 9,719 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Choices Matter 18.3%, Visual Novel 10.5%, RPG 10.3%
- #8 Shadows of Betrayal
92% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: JayzonBHPub: JayzonBH Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Recent high school graduates gather at a remote cabin for a celebration. What begins as a night of laughter spirals into a tense mystery full of secrets, twists, and chilling choices. Who will survive? Navigate friendships, and uncover the multi-layered mystery in Shadows of Betrayal.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Visual Novel 18%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Thriller 7.7%
- #9 The Meridian
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: PlayBook
Windows
Step into the high-stakes world of journalism in this Playbook! As a reporter at the "The Meridian" newsroom, YOU are the hero. Chase a massive investigative scoop, navigate ruthless office politics, and build deep relationships. Will you break the story, or will the deadline break you?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Visual Novel 12.5%, RPG 9.8%, Choices Matter 8.2%
- #10 Mass of Consumption
90% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Wayward Woyrm Games
Windows
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Horror 9.1%
- #11 The Fifth Horseman
91% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2019
Dev: Angelo Parodi
Windows
The Fifth Horseman is a narrative adventure game, set in a fantasy-medieval world, where you will experience many unique stories. After years of war, hunger and diseases mankind finds itself on the verge of extinction and it's up to you to decide its fate.
Why similar: RPG 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Text-Based 11.6%, Visual Novel 11%
- #12 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
89% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Infinite Zone
Windows
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 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Text-Based 12.5%, RPG 9.5%
- #13 Five Biggest Accomplishments
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Assembling Chickens GamesPub: Fennonauts
Windows · Mac · Linux
Five Biggest Accomplishments is a short Visual Novel where you play as someone who has held the same job for 30 years: push a button every 8 hours or the world will end. Suddenly, you get an email asking you to list your five biggest accomplishments for the week, or risk being fired.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.7%, Noir 18.1%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%, Choices Matter 8.4%
- #14 Grave Knight
88% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: Dreamlight Games
Windows
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Visual Novel 16.5%, RPG 15.7%, Choices Matter 10.4%
- #15 The Nascent Necromancer
87% matchMixed60% of 15 reviews2023
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Text-Based 15.1%, Choices Matter 12.7%, RPG 12.1%
- #16 呪霊が見せる夢 / Dreamscapes
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: アイエダゲームズ(Aieda Games)
Windows
Investigate six haunted properties and listen to the voices of spirits trapped in nightmares. Collect fragmented clues and discover the correct combination of names, locations, and vessels. A multi-ending horror adventure where the outcome changes depending on your choices during the ritual.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Visual Novel 16.1%, Text-Based 11.4%, Choices Matter 10%
- #17 Creepy Crypt Critters
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Arcade Eleven
Windows
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Choices Matter 11%, RPG 10.7%, Visual Novel 8.6%
- #18 Taina's Cursed Legacy
84% matchPositive82% of 34 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 25%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Text-Based 12.8%, RPG 11.4%
- #19 The Trials - Chapter Two
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Hama Studios
Windows
A classic 90s choose your own adventure style horror visual novel. Escape the horrors hunting you, make decisions, forge your own path. An original complete story with multiple endings. Choose your own play style with a Text Adventure Mode, sound effects, and an ambient soundtrack.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Text-Based 9.4%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
- #20 Saturnine
82% matchMostly Positive70% of 27 reviews2025
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, RPG 20.5%, Text-Based 14.7%, Choices Matter 8.2%
- #21 THE DAY THAT WASN'T
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: MAD Tribe Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Relive the same day without remembering it. Your choices feed four inner alter egos (Shadow, Mad, Alex, and Bully) — shaping reality, glitches, and one of 16 possible endings. The day repeats. Your mind doesn’t. Or does it?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Noir 12.2%, Choices Matter 10.6%
- #22 A Wise Use of Time
84% matchMostly Positive80% of 122 reviews2015
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 28.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, RPG 17.9%, Choices Matter 16.5%, Text-Based 13.1%
- #23 Roadwarden
81% matchVery Positive94% of 5,066 reviews2022
Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, RPG 15.7%, Choices Matter 7.1%
- #24 The Peresmeshnik
82% matchVery Positive93% of 110 reviews2020
Dev: Sean Arnold
Windows
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 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Text-Based 16.1%, Choices Matter 7.3%, Horror 5.5%
- #25 Fallen Hero: Revelations
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, RPG 19.5%, Text-Based 15%, Choices Matter 9%
- #26 Man I Just Wanna Go Home
79% matchVery Positive95% of 739 reviews2024
Dev: JZPS Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 minMean: 1.2 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Man I Just Wanna Go Home is an "MSPaint-noir" visual novel with 13 endings, a unique visual style and a killer 80s inspired soundtrack. The story revolves around a delivery person stranded in an unfamiliar part of the city under the devastating rain. All he wants is to get home. Help him!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Noir 20%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Choices Matter 9.4%
- #27 Into Oblivion
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NanoLion
Windows
Into Oblivion is an immerse interactive novel where your choices shape the story. Set in the far-future, explore a galaxy on the brink of crisis with dynamic companions. So, settle your mind and pray you have what it takes to fly Into Oblivion.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, RPG 16.5%, Visual Novel 13%, Text-Based 10.5%
- #28 VERSUS: The Elite Trials
80% matchPositive88% of 33 reviews2016
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 24.8%, Text-Based 17.2%, RPG 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Choices Matter 14.5%
- #29 Flora Parasocial
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Laments_VN
Windows
Audiences connect to their favorite celebrities all the time. How does it affect these people when put into a game of life or death? Only time will tell.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choices Matter 7.5%, Text-Based 6.7%
- #30 Bootlegger: Moonshine Empire
77% matchPositive80% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 26.1%, Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Text-Based 16.2%, RPG 12.1%, Choices Matter 10.7%
- #31 Sorcery! Parts 1 and 2
78% matchVery Positive88% of 753 reviews2016
Dev: inkle Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 35.2%, Interactive Fiction 20%, RPG 15.2%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Text-Based 9.3%
- #32 Dr. Kinderwood's Asylum
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Richday
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Choices Matter 12.7%, RPG 10.2%
- #33 Worn Out
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Morimichi
Windows
A presence lingers in the dark, waiting. It asks. It doubts. It knows. What happened? Why are you here? Do you deserve this? The answers are yours to decide. What you choose matters. Every path leads somewhere. But will you like where it takes you?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Text-Based 10.3%
- #34 The Dust of the Violet Crystals
76% matchPositive95% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Corvaena Games LLC
Windows · Mac
A flesh-eating dust leaves you to survive alone against hordes of Listless.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Visual Novel 13.9%, RPG 13.8%, Choices Matter 7.1%
- #35 For Mother Matron
75% matchVery Positive92% of 168 reviews2022
Dev: Velvetique GamesPub: Neoclassic Games
Windows · Mac
A story about a girl named Lizzy living in a miserable world and her journey to its darkest depths. A free atmospheric horror visual novel where you navigate life-or-death situations. SEEK PARADISE OR DIE TRYING
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Choices Matter 10.1%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
- #36 Keeper's Vigil
73% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 23.7%, RPG 20.8%, Text-Based 15.3%, Choices Matter 7.5%
- #37 FORTUNE the FATED
75% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2023
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
To unlock ancient spells needed to defend the galaxy, can you navigate fantasy quests, noir cases, heroic competitions, dystopian worlds & space heists?
Why similar: Noir 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, RPG 15.6%, Text-Based 10.8%
- #38 Hero of Hoofbeat Hollow
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 23.8%, RPG 20.8%, Text-Based 14.9%, Choices Matter 7.6%
- #39 Tower of the Ice Lich
73% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: Arcane Lorelabs
Windows · Mac
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Text-Based 14.3%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Choices Matter 9.8%
- #40 Turncoat Chronicle
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 14 reviews2023
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 25%, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, RPG 19.6%, Text-Based 15.9%, Choices Matter 8.4%
- #41 Affairs of the Court: Choice of Romance
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 74 reviews2016
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 28.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Text-Based 16.4%, RPG 15%, Choices Matter 12.9%
- #42 Streams Upon Memories : Dawn of the Fractured Mind
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kashi Maadsen
Windows · Mac · Linux
Awaken in a world plunged into uncertainty. You must navigate hidden truths and make crucial choices. Will you uncover the secrets of your existence? Your path will determine your fate in this journey.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Noir 9%
- #43 The Trial
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NowakGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
"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: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Text-Based 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.4%
- #44 Samurai of Hyuga Book 6
70% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Return to Hyuga just in time for the new semester! Sword fights, love confessions, demonic rituals—nobody said graduating was going to be easy! A text-based novel, 300,000 words and hundreds of choices, without animations or sound effects.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, RPG 20.2%, Text-Based 15.1%, Choices Matter 8.7%
- #45 An Imp and an Impostor
70% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 23.9%, Interactive Fiction 22.9%, RPG 19.3%, Text-Based 14.2%, Choices Matter 8.2%
- #46 All (Too) Good Things
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: YOWPY games
Windows
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 28.4%, Interactive Fiction 22%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Text-Based 14%, Choices Matter 7.6%
- #47 Jolly Good: Tea and Scones
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 26.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Text-Based 15.9%, Choices Matter 14.5%, RPG 12.6%
- #48 The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Verse and Vision
Windows
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 24.3%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Text-Based 17.2%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
- #49 Whiskey-Four
69% matchVery Positive93% of 109 reviews2024
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Choices Matter 14.4%, RPG 13.1%, Text-Based 13%
- #50 Herald of the Mists
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FromNiki
Windows
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Text-Based 12.3%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.1%
- #51 Serania - Path of the Scion
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FableTree Productions
Windows · Mac
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 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Text-Based 14.3%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Choices Matter 11.2%
- #52 Parasite in Love
68% matchVery Positive95% of 57 reviews2025
Dev: Night Asobu
Windows
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 23.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Choices Matter 7%, Horror 5.4%
- #53 Gold & Brown
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Side Project Games
Windows
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 24%, Visual Novel 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choices Matter 11.6%, RPG 10.9%
- #54 Witch's Brew: Love and Lattes
67% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 23.7%, RPG 20.6%, Text-Based 14.9%, Choices Matter 7.7%
- #55 Morhval: Ravenglaire
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Seven Weeks Studios
Windows
Morhval: Ravenglaire is a dark fantasy text RPG about survival, choice and consequence. Create your character, explore a fractured province, fight turn-based battles, pass skill checks, help the desperate or abandon them, and decide who deserves to survive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, RPG 22.9%, Text-Based 17.1%, Dark Fantasy 8.6%
- #56 The Soul Stone War 3
67% matchMixed67% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 26.1%, Interactive Fiction 24.9%, RPG 21.2%, Text-Based 15.6%, Choices Matter 8.5%
- #57 Leas: City of the Sun
67% matchPositive100% of 37 reviews2025
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 25%, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, RPG 19.2%, Text-Based 15.5%, Choices Matter 7%
- #58 House of the Golden Mask
66% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 23.6%, RPG 20.3%, Text-Based 15.4%, Choices Matter 7.9%
- #59 Samurai of Hyuga Book 5
68% matchPositive89% of 28 reviews2022
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, RPG 17.7%, Text-Based 12.7%, Visual Novel 11.6%
- #60 Vanakan
67% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 28.3%, Interactive Fiction 27.6%, Text-Based 15.4%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Adventure 5.8%