60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Choose Your Own Adventure, Choices Matter, Text-Based.
In this narrative-driven casual strategy RPG, you take on the role of The Driver, sworn to deliver goods along The Last Road. With each journey bringing different semi randomized events to challenge the player, you will need to manage your resources carefully in order to survive.
Tower of the Ice Lich
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.
Dravora
A dark fantasy narrative roguelite about three lives on one hard road: a fallen mercenary, an oath-singer's apprentice, and the youngest of three fen brothers. No combat screens. Every choice is made in words, and every choice follows you down the road.
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 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Text-Based 15.1%, Lore-Rich 13.9%, Visual Novel 10.1%
A dark fantasy narrative roguelite about three lives on one hard road: a fallen mercenary, an oath-singer's apprentice, and the youngest of three fen brothers. No combat screens. Every choice is made in words, and every choice follows you down the road.
Why similar: Perma Death 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Text-Based 10.9%, Lore-Rich 10.8%
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 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Horror 16.7%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Text-Based 10.7%
A group of kids decide to leave the floating island they live on to go and explore a colossal world tree. They don't know yet how dangerous this choice will be. Feel their fear and try to survive in this Visual Novel with resource management systems.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Horror 10.3%
A dark fantasy horror visual novel where your choices reshape a nightmare‑ridden world. Explore surreal realms, solve narrative puzzles, and face the consequences of every decision.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Roguelite 13%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Text-Based 10.2%
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 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Horror 14.7%, Text-Based 14.5%
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 23.8%, Text-Based 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Dark Fantasy 11.8%, Choices Matter 8.4%
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 23%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Lore-Rich 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Horror 11.1%
Astronaut: The Best is an occult management adventure where people aren't just numbers: they're screwups. You must run a proper space academy using lies, witchcraft, and/or hard work. Guide cadets through a roguelite web of scandals and challenges, or the government will have you killed.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Roguelite 12.1%, Resource Management 10.5%, Visual Novel 10.4%
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: Dark Fantasy 16.6%, Text-Based 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%, Lore-Rich 11.2%
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 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 21%, Text-Based 17.6%, Horror 14.4%, Visual Novel 14.2%
Shatter civilization and avenge your pantheon as the world‘s last surviving god! Will you liberate humanity from tyranny, or let the world burn? A text-based interactive dark fantasy novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Text-Based 18.7%, Dark Fantasy 17.1%, Lore-Rich 13%
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: Lore-Rich 18.9%, Text-Based 16.7%, Dark Fantasy 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%
A grim, choice-driven interactive gamebook. As the First Ranger of a fortified homestead, you must defend the last survivors from the infected, manage critical resources, and investigate a dangerous internal conspiracy. Every decision shapes the survival of the living.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Visual Novel 13%, Text-Based 11.7%, Dark Fantasy 9.1%
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 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Dark Fantasy 12.4%, Horror 11.9%
A text-based space survival game inspired by The Oregon Trail. Lead your family 100 light-years across deep space to a distant colony. Every choice matters. Not everyone makes it. Some things out there are worse than death.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Text-Based 14.2%, Strategy 10.7%, Post-apocalyptic 8.4%
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 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Text-Based 20.7%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Dark Fantasy 8.6%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Text-Based 13.6%, Dark Fantasy 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%
Twelve years after humanity went blind in one second, survivors live by gentle rules in Haven Seven. Rations always arrive. Names on the list quietly disappear, and sound engineer Elias Ward finds the list has been altered. A narrative adventure about sight, memory and choice.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Text-Based 12.9%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%
Royal Duality is an immersive dark fantasy visual novel with 15 endings, various side stories and hidden Easter Eggs all set in an engaging lore-rich world
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Lore-Rich 14.5%, Dark Fantasy 9%
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 23.2%, Text-Based 22.1%, Visual Novel 18%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
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: Dark Fantasy 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Horror 13.5%, Visual Novel 9.1%
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 24.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Text-Based 20.1%, Post-apocalyptic 16.7%, Choices Matter 6.3%
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 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Text-Based 17.6%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 8.2%
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 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Text-Based 12.1%, Dark Fantasy 9.2%
When you discover that the Serpent of Chaos is trying to destroy Egypt, will you stand against him, or will you help spread his eternal darkness?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Text-Based 15.8%, Lore-Rich 14.3%, Dark Fantasy 11%
Follow an Emperor's bounty to a rain-soaked island where the locals are going strange, an ancient god is waking, and you are exactly where you were meant to be. A narrative text RPG with real consequences.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Dark Fantasy 12.9%, Visual Novel 12%, Lore-Rich 11.8%
A text-based litrpg where choices matter and death is permanent. Experience the brutal survival of a weakling, or the moral trappings of a hero. See what it really takes. Achieve A Cultivator's Death.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.2%, Perma Death 17.6%, Roguelite 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Choices Matter 9.2%
Discover the story of this point’n click and lead your town towards a better future! You’ll guide the town of Harmonium Point to a yet unbuilt future after a great war that ravaged the world. React to numerous events that punctuate the life of this town and build relationships with the other citizens!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Text-Based 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 16.1%, Visual Novel 14.7%, Lore-Rich 14.2%
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 18.8%, Dark Fantasy 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Text-Based 12.1%
The Last Bastion is a survival-management game where you lead an army of defeated soldiers across a setting inspired by medieval India. Fight overwhelming forces, manage dwindling resources and make choices with devastating consequences in a bitter struggle for survival and salvation.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Text-Based 13.7%, Roguelite 13.3%, Visual Novel 11%
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: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Choices Matter 15.4%, Text-Based 14.3%, Visual Novel 12.2%
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.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.8%, Interactive Fiction 26.5%, Text-Based 21.9%, Dark Fantasy 21%, Indie 2.2%
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 28%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Dark Fantasy 9.2%, Visual Novel 6.9%
A story of two brothers who must navigate the Fantasy World of Forvos after being reborn and reshaped by a powerful Rune Weaver. Will you, the Hand of Fate, be able to guide them to safety? To riches? To death? I who led the willing and dragged along the reluctant relinquish my control to you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Dark Fantasy 15.4%, Lore-Rich 15.4%, Visual Novel 13.2%
Nanma: A Tecelã das Sombras is a Brazilian dark high-fantasy visual novel where the loom of fate is in your hands. Take on the role of Nanma and discover whether your powers are a gift or a curse.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.9%, Dark Fantasy 22.3%, Visual Novel 18.4%, Text-Based 13%, Interactive Fiction 10%
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 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, Text-Based 18%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Dark Fantasy 8.9%
Play as Alice who has just had an unsettingly life-like dream about the end of the world, and is retelling it to her friend. A single play-through might take as little as 20 minutes, but experiencing all the possible paths Alice can take through the ruins of her city will take you many hours.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.4%, Visual Novel 24.3%, Post-apocalyptic 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Horror 7.6%
Contra Spem Spero is a text-based horror adventure with visual novel elements. Not every road leads out. You are lost deep in a twisted place — a forest one can only hope to escape.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Horror 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choices Matter 9.1%
Art imitates life. Horrifying, unclean life.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Text-Based 15.9%, Lore-Rich 14.4%, Horror 10.8%
The Keytox Project follows Anthony as he attempts to turn his life around. He takes a job at a government program, going to space, with his partner, Will. Their job is to hunt down alien lifeforms to ensure the safety of humanity. But what they find outside of Earth is far deeper than planned.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26%, Lore-Rich 17.4%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Text-Based 11.1%
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 23.1%, Visual Novel 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Lore-Rich 13.1%, Text-Based 9.6%
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 27.3%, Interactive Fiction 23%, Visual Novel 20.3%, Horror 10.5%, Choices Matter 9.3%
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%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Text-Based 14.1%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Horror 11.9%
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 28.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Text-Based 14.9%, Horror 14.4%, Dark Fantasy 12.6%
A dark fantasy roguelite card game where choices matter. Swipe cards, make moral decisions, build your skill tree and spin the Wheel of Kings and survive until the year 2000, or watch your kingdom fall.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Lore-Rich 13%, Text-Based 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%
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 27.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Text-Based 18.8%, Visual Novel 14.8%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
A text-based adventure where you're tasked to exorcise your friend’s Inner Demon. Explore an ever-reshaping palace to analyze objects filled with memories, discover which one is the reason for her possession and sacrifice it. Do not deviate from your mission. Save your friend no matter the cost.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Text-Based 16.6%, Lore-Rich 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Horror 10.6%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 25%, Text-Based 19.6%, Horror 11.6%, Multiple Endings 5.7%
Trapped in a mysterious cave system, four dungeon explorers struggle to find a way out before the light fades forever... Navigate a mysterious underground as you navigate through multiple story paths in this text-based, pixel-art, dark fantasy rpg, visual novel computer game
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Text-Based 14%, Lore-Rich 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%
"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: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Roguelite 15.7%, Text-Based 15.4%, Visual Novel 13.1%
The frontier does not want to be settled. A narrative highly replayable story game where your choices build a settlement, shape its story, and seal its fate. Every run ends. Every obituary tells a story only you lived.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Text-Based 13.9%, Lore-Rich 13.2%, Visual Novel 12.3%
Rebuilt and enhanced for PC – Until Dawn invites you to relive the nightmare, and immerse yourself in a gripping slasher horror where every decision can make the difference between life and death.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.4%, Horror 18.3%, Perma Death 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choices Matter 13.3%
Not It: Spookiest Edition is a horror-filled visual novel full of suspense and mystery where you navigate Katie through a living nightmare. Her move-in day on Halloween throws her into a centuries-old curse. Can she make it through the night? Will her new neighbors perish? Decide their fate.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Text-Based 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Horror 12.7%
A dark text-based RPG set in a world gripped by a restless race for survival against a merciless mushroom Forest. As a prophet’s apprentice, guide your clan along the knife-edge between life and oblivion. Decipher misty visions, make critical decisions, and do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Text-Based 13.4%, Dark Fantasy 12.2%, Lore-Rich 12%
A sci-fi drama about love, control, and the price of human emotion. Care for your wards, follow every order — or break the rules to discover who you truly are.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 20.1%, Dark Fantasy 18.5%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Horror 11.3%
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 22.2%, Visual Novel 17.3%, Horror 10.9%, Text-Based 6.8%
Experience the hunt for the Monster living in your room in this Visual Novel experience. Your choices will determine the fate of both you and the Monster. Will you figure out what the Monster really is?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Text-Based 19.9%, Horror 13.3%, Choices Matter 7.9%
"Life sometimes feels like it’s going in circles." Little Girl On Earth Asking Why She Asking Why is a short pixel art Visual Novel about a girl who tell herself this, forever. Maybe you can try to help her ?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.9%, Perma Death 13.4%, Text-Based 13%
Alcyone: The Last City is an interactive sci-fi novel where your choices can lead to the salvation or destruction of the last refuge of civilisation in the universe. Immerse yourself in a branching narrative of diverse characters, intrigue, and world-altering decisions.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Text-Based 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Visual Novel 12.1%
