60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Choices Matter, Choose Your Own Adventure, Text-Based, Singleplayer.
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.
Celebria
From movie star to music icon, you run the show in Celebria. Guide your entertainer through landing roles, releasing music, touring the world, climbing global charts, chasing prestigious awards, and running a celebrity brand, all while navigating the pressures of fame.
Rule or Fall
Govern wisely in this narrative choice-based game set in the heart of the Middle Ages. Your choices will have a real impact on your entire adventure, the world and its characters! Skillfully manage your image and your throne to survive and prosper. Or fall.
From movie star to music icon, you run the show in Celebria. Guide your entertainer through landing roles, releasing music, touring the world, climbing global charts, chasing prestigious awards, and running a celebrity brand, all while navigating the pressures of fame.
Why similar: Life Sim 22.9%, Management 15%, Simulation 13.7%, Character Customization 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.2%
Govern wisely in this narrative choice-based game set in the heart of the Middle Ages. Your choices will have a real impact on your entire adventure, the world and its characters! Skillfully manage your image and your throne to survive and prosper. Or fall.
Why similar: Life Sim 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Text-Based 11.3%
My Music Label is a music management and simulation game where you take full control of your label. Discover young talents, manage legendary artists, and shape the evolution of the music industry. Every decision influences careers and the history of music.
Why similar: Life Sim 26%, Text-Based 15.2%, Simulation 14.3%, Management 12.6%, Character Customization 10.9%
Guide your character through it all, from their birth to their last breath. Make sure they remember you.
Why similar: Life Sim 24.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Text-Based 14.8%, Character Customization 11.8%, Management 11.6%
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 27.3%, Text-Based 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Simulation 14.2%, Character Customization 11.7%
A medieval text quest in the "Choose Your Own Adventure" genre, where each choice could be your last. Create your story with more than 2,000 events, 200 of which will prove fatal. In a world where death plays against you, can you outsmart it and write your own story?
Why similar: Life Sim 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Text-Based 12.2%
Play as an official’s daughter entering the imperial palace as a consort. Build relationships, shape your family’s fate, speak freely with memory-driven AI characters, navigate favor and political intrigue, or overturn the order of the court and pursue an entirely different ending.
Why similar: Life Sim 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Text-Based 11.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Choices Matter 10%
In Qinghe County during the Northern Song, manage businesses and household affairs, build relationships, gather rumors and evidence, and set schemes in motion. As Ximen Qing, balance time, wealth, reputation and favors while your choices reshape lives, fortunes and endings.
Why similar: Life Sim 23.8%, Management 14%, Text-Based 12.1%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Resource Management 10.3%
In Silk Roads: Caravan Kings you follow in the footsteps of the legendary Marco Polo on a journey into Cathay in search of riches and adventure.
Why similar: Life Sim 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Management 10.7%, Choices Matter 9.2%
Welcome to the Skyways, caravaneer. Complete missions, manage your ship’s resources and make tough decisions to keep your crew alive and happy. Or not. Choices have lasting consequences in this Text-Based RPG. You are the captain - and the clouds are waiting!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Management 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Resource Management 11%
Nobody – The Turnaround is a life simulator set in a parallel world that echoes modern society. Manage your time and resources carefully, strive to find a way through difficult times, and overcome the predicament you find yourself in.
Why similar: Life Sim 33.1%, Survival 11.9%, Simulation 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Management 8.2%
Every choice comes with loss. This is no power fantasy, but a ten-year reckoning with ambition, class, pride, and reality. Plan each week, face relentless comparison and locked paths, and find out what remains when you finally stop trying to become someone else.
Why similar: Life Sim 28.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Resource Management 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Text-Based 9.8%
Build a life from childhood to legacy. LIVORA is a choice-driven life simulation where education, work, money, relationships, family, health, time and where you live all connect — and the decisions you make can shape what happens years later.
Why similar: Life Sim 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Text-Based 14%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%
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 28.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Text-Based 19.7%, Character Customization 16.6%, Choices Matter 13.2%
Never stop running, not with the galaxy at stake. Save it at all costs, and save yourself if you can.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Character Customization 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Choices Matter 17.2%, Text-Based 15.4%
You are an Administrator serving your probationary period in a medieval town. Make decisions to affect the town's reputation, order, military and supplies. Choose wisely to deal with bandits, famines, cultists and plagues. The most difficult choices will decide the fate of your town!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Management 15.8%, Choices Matter 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Text-Based 11.6%
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%, Text-Based 19.1%, Choices Matter 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Character Customization 15.5%
Rule a mighty city, fight battles and go on adventures as the Ardent or Ardessa of the city of Lake Steelthorne. Find love, power, and a secret that could change the world.
Why similar: Character Customization 22%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Choices Matter 16.8%, Resource Management 10.8%
Protect an exclusive boarding school and rebuild your life after scandal as a military bodyguard! How far will you go for ambition, duty, and your country?
Why similar: Character Customization 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Choices Matter 18.1%, Text-Based 14%
Build your player's basketball career in a single-player management sim. Manage training and recovery, develop skills, weigh contract offers and build relationships with your team. Earn a starting spot and follow simulated games in 2D with play-by-play and stats, or use quick simulation.
Why similar: Life Sim 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Management 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.7%
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 23.3%, Character Customization 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Text-Based 15.2%
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: Choices Matter 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Text-Based 13.3%, Story Rich 8.3%
Cart Life was a retail simulation for Windows(tm).
Why similar: Life Sim 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Resource Management 9.7%
Step into the shoes of an ancient mutant and get thrown into the modern, mortal world. Learn what you can about your past as you don the mask of a villain!
Why similar: Character Customization 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Choices Matter 18.9%, Text-Based 11.2%
Between a child's first cry and someone's final breath, a tribe's history takes shape. Place its people in buildings, answer unexpected events, and lead the tribe for as long as it can endure in this turn-based tribal survival rogue-lite.
Why similar: Life Sim 19.2%, Simulation 18.7%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Survival 13.6%, Management 9.7%
The wilderfolk of Ushinega Island waste away in a rotting tropical paradise, haunted by a deadly malediction. Yet behind every curse lurks a secret. You have the power to save them... but should you?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.8%, Character Customization 19.9%, Choices Matter 18.9%, Text-Based 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%
A reality TV production management game. Cast, create or download contestants, design your season, and watch drama unfold in the most complex relationship sim ever created. Scout hidden talent, manage moods, watch challenges play out, and survive dramatic tribal councils. Build your franchise.
Why similar: Management 22.8%, Text-Based 20.6%, Simulation 16.8%, Character Customization 13%, Choices Matter 9.6%
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: Character Customization 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Choices Matter 18.4%, Text-Based 13.5%
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 26.4%, Text-Based 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Choices Matter 17.2%, Character Customization 15.7%
"Chinese Newcomer" blends deck-building with career simulation. Players choose one of three cards to collect, manage stamina. Use "Legacy Points" to grant Five-Elements talents to descendants, rectifying past regrets. Make choices along paths and embarking on a multi-generational journey.
Why similar: Life Sim 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.6%, Text-Based 14.7%, Choices Matter 14%, Resource Management 11.3%
You are Arc, a city management AI. Designed to manage a city-wide AR metaverse known as the NeuroNet. Meet its many users, build relationships and help or hinder their lives while trying to balance the wider needs of the city. Find your humanity in a world losing theirs to technology.
Why similar: Life Sim 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Text-Based 11.8%, Management 11.4%
Raise a banner and run a mercenary guild in a grim medieval fantasy realm. Recruit and read your blades, negotiate contracts, send them into procedural missions, and survive a living political web where every payday bites and nothing is ever certain.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Text-Based 16.9%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Management 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%
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: Character Customization 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Choices Matter 19.1%, Text-Based 12.4%
A crown upon your head, danger all around. Rule, marry, scheme, raise heirs, wage wars, fulfill prophecies, and survive the waking Wyrm. An interactive text-based dark fantasy novel, 850,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.7%, Text-Based 22.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Character Customization 12.4%
Create persistent AI characters, shape their personalities and relationships, and chat privately on your own device. Three conversation quality levels are included. Add local portrait generation with the optional NVIDIA DLC.
Why similar: Life Sim 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 25.2%, Simulation 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Text-Based 10%
第一人称古风官场生存 roguelike。你想做实事,也想往上爬——可这台「凭考绩升转」的机器,会一步步教会你虚报、火耗、程仪。没有作恶按钮,每个选择都理所当然。 一局一仕途,死了重来。
Why similar: Life Sim 28.6%, Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Simulation 16.3%, Management 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.7%
Road to Millionaire – Investing is an investment simulation where you start with $10,000 and have 480 in-game days to reach $1,000,000. Buy and sell stocks, collect and reinvest dividends, track company fundamentals, and adapt to bull, bear, and sideways markets.
Why similar: Life Sim 34.2%, Simulation 22.5%, Management 17.1%, Resource Management 12.1%, Strategy 12%
A pilot career sim-rpg where you climb from regional first officer to mainline captain. Bid for schedules by seniority, handle emergencies through quick-time events, manage finances and stress, and build your reputation with decisions that can make or break your career.
Why similar: Life Sim 29.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Management 14%, Simulation 9.2%
Play the game from the perspective of a traveler who comes to the dealer and is faced with numerous choices in a story prepared by the dealer. Experience a story that changes based on your choices and see the ending that changes based on your choices!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Choices Matter 17.1%, Text-Based 11.8%, Simulation 9.7%
A comedic life sim where the goal isn't to succeed — it's to be as gloriously stupid as possible. Forget your keys, park sideways across two spaces, argue with your dog, and level up your Idiot Rank one bad decision at a time.
Why similar: Life Sim 32.4%, Walking Simulator 21.3%, Simulation 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Choices Matter 7.4%
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: Interactive Fiction 28.4%, Text-Based 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Character Customization 13.7%, Choices Matter 11.1%
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 30.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Text-Based 20.3%, Character Customization 15.9%, Choices Matter 11.2%
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 27.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Text-Based 20.2%, Character Customization 16.9%, Choices Matter 12.4%
Can music save the human race? You and the Raqullan Empire will soon find out. Decide whether music, and the humans who make it, should survive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 33.6%, Text-Based 20.7%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Character Customization 14.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%
A text-driven political roguelite and life-management sim about building resistance across up to 100 lives. Choose a profession, survive monthly pressure, carry permanent legacies forward, oppose oppressive laws, organize aid, and return a fictional country to its people.
Why similar: Life Sim 22.3%, Text-Based 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Resource Management 12%, Management 11.6%
New Day is an upcoming life simulation game where almost anything can happen! Create your own islanders, design their apartments, and get involved with their day-to-day life as they divulge into unexpected friendships, problems, and more!
Why similar: Life Sim 33.6%, Character Customization 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Management 15.8%, Simulation 9%
Battle robots, make friends, and uncover a bizarre conspiracy to avert the apocalypse in this comedy of manners and mayhem with steampunk blasters!
Why similar: Character Customization 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Choices Matter 18.9%, Text-Based 11.1%
Welcome to IT hell! Survive as GlobalCorp's only sysadmin – for a single day or a whole week. Fight absurd tickets, collect loot and lower your pulse with coffee. Keep the boss radar and your aggro down to still have a job at 16:30 – without throwing your monitor out of the window.
Why similar: Life Sim 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Simulation 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Text-Based 10.9%
Play as a physionomist in a fractured society undergoing multiple crises. Face the dangers of nightlife, take on increasingly risky contracts, build a solid reputation with clubs, and buy equipment to secure a better future.
Why similar: Life Sim 24%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Character Customization 13.6%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Management 11.9%
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 29.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Text-Based 20.4%, Character Customization 14.4%, Choices Matter 11.5%
A darkly funny financial life sim. Start with $17 and chase $1,000,000 cash while surviving jobs, debt, taxes, relationships, bad decisions, and life itself.
Why similar: Life Sim 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Simulation 14.9%, Text-Based 12.9%, Strategy 8.1%
Raise a Zanmi egg at the "Academie des Zœufs". Care for it, choose its activities and training, and build relationships with the other students to shape its growth in this character-raising simulation. What kind of Zanmi will you raise?
Why similar: Life Sim 30.5%, Choices Matter 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.1%, Text-Based 10.5%
Award Winner: PAX 10 2019 | Winner, Momocon 2018 Indie Games Awards | "A fascinating reverse-RPG" - PC Gamer | "A cross between The Sims and a rousing game of Dungeons and Dragons" - Geek & Sundry
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Management 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Text-Based 9.9%
Hoist the Jolly Roger and set sail to find the legendary Titan’s Treasure! Do you fight with a cutlass or with magic? Are you biding your time until you can shoot your captain in the back, or are you the reason the rum is gone?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.5%, Text-Based 22.4%, Choices Matter 17.6%, Character Customization 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%
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: Interactive Fiction 28.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Text-Based 20.2%, Character Customization 17.3%, Choices Matter 11.7%
Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Choices Matter 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Story Rich 11.5%, Simulation 10.7%
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 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Choices Matter 14.4%, Management 14%, Text-Based 14%
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 30%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.4%, Text-Based 20.7%, Character Customization 14.2%, Choices Matter 11.4%
A wealthy benefactor. A master lockpick. A magical bodyguard. A trusted ally. A skillful rival. All of them are out to steal priceless treasures. Which one of them will steal your heart?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.6%, Character Customization 19.3%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Text-Based 12.4%
