Games Like The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante

Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make the decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Choices Matter 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Text-Based 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: Like Sir Brante, this political drama focuses heavily on branching narratives, ideological choices, and the immense personal and societal cost of ruling a nation.

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 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, RPG 13.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Choices Matter 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: This text-heavy RPG relies on intricate written descriptions, stat-based progression, and careful decision-making to survive a hostile, atmospheric fantasy world.

Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.

Why similar: Choices Matter 41.2%, Story Rich 20.7%, RPG 19.2%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Atmospheric 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a masterclass in text-driven storytelling and deeply philosophical internal choices that dictate your character's psychological and moral landscape.

These are troubling times, Your Grace. The petitioners’ petty matters exceed our limited resources, to say nothing of the war. A careful balance must be struck. Your throne awaits.

Why similar: Choices Matter 30.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Medieval 14.2%, Story Rich 11.5%, RPG 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: You must balance the needs of petitioners and your family in a medieval setting where every difficult decree carries heavy moral and political consequences.

Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Choices Matter 19.5%, Story Rich 15.6%, Medieval 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: Set in a meticulously researched historical era, it centers on complex social interactions, investigations, and life-altering narrative consequences over multiple decades.

Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.1%, Text-Based 23.3%, Story Rich 16%, RPG 14.7%, Tabletop 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the feeling of a high-stakes interactive novel combined with resource management and desperate survival choices in an unforgiving environment.

Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.

Why similar: Choices Matter 45.5%, Story Rich 22.5%, RPG 16.7%, Atmospheric 7.8%, Adventure 3%

Why You'll Like It: It immerses players in a grim, oppressive settlement where impossible choices must be made daily just to survive an unstoppable tragedy.

In this 2D, short narrative-based game, you assume the role of the Grim Reaper... on an office job. Your job is to decide which people are going to live or die. The consequences of your choices are yours to bear, while the mystery of your incarnation awaits revelation!

Why similar: Choices Matter 30.2%, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, Story Rich 13.3%, Simulation 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Though lighter in tone, it shares Sir Brante's core mechanic of deciding the fates of individuals based on strict rules and moral boundaries.

Experience a story-driven RPG where your choices mean all the difference in the world.

Why similar: Choices Matter 39.3%, RPG 26.9%, Story Rich 16.8%, Dark Fantasy 10.4%, Adventure 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: This dark RPG emphasizes moral ambiguity and narrative choices, letting you serve an oppressive regime where your judgments directly shape the world.

12th century, England: In a time of poverty and war, a small town begins the construction of a cathedral to claim wealth and safety for its people. In their struggle to survive, lives and destinies intertwine. Based on Ken Follett's world-bestseller ‘The Pillars of the Earth’.

Why similar: Choices Matter 30.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Medieval 13.1%, Story Rich 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: A rich historical narrative adventure that places deep emphasis on human struggle, political friction, and impactful character decisions in medieval times.

You are an intern at the central ministry of a totalitarian state with your whole career ahead of you. Work your way up the ladder by scheming against employees, spying on your boss, and completing paperwork. Or do you turn against the state and expose corruption. The choice is still yours to make!

Why similar: Choices Matter 47.5%, Story Rich 19.5%, Strategy 6.7%, Atmospheric 6.6%, Simulation 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: You navigate a bleak totalitarian bureaucracy where climbing the ladder requires making ruthless choices that impact the lives of everyone around you.

Hardcore survival RPG with non-linear story that lets you play as a young medieval soldier who over the course of battles and adventures becomes the most formidable and respected knight of his era. Or, if he’s not lucky enough, perishes in the chaos of the Hundred Years' War.

Why similar: Choices Matter 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Text-Based 14.7%, Medieval 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: This gritty medieval survival RPG forces you to carefully manage resources and make brutal choices under constant threat of permanent death.

The Thaumaturge is a character-driven RPG with a rich story, morally ambiguous choices, and turn-based combat. In a city on the brink of change, use your mystical powers to read emotions, uncover motives, and command folklore-inspired demons — while resisting the temptation of your own pride.

Why similar: Choices Matter 32.3%, Story Rich 16%, RPG 15.9%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Dark Fantasy 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: A story-rich isometric RPG that heavily emphasizes social manipulation, flaw exploration, and the deep consequences of interacting with a dark historical society.

As a judge of the Revolutionary Tribunal, preside over complicated cases of ordinary citizens, dangerous criminals, and enemies of the revolution in revolutionary Paris. Make judgments, plot political intrigue, and try to not lose your own head!

Why similar: Choices Matter 43.7%, Visual Novel 19.1%, Story Rich 18.3%, Simulation 6.4%, Strategy 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Set during the French Revolution, it forces you to preside over intense trials where personal survival depends on balancing politics, justice, and ideology.

Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.

Why similar: Choices Matter 28%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Story Rich 13.1%, RPG 12.7%, Tabletop 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It matches the dense reading material and obsessive management of an ominous, lore-rich narrative where poor choices lead to swift ruin.

Discover a brand new RPG from the creators of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Facing an imminent invasion, Meve — war-veteran and Queen of Lyria and Rivia — is forced to once again enter the warpath and set out on a dark journey of destruction and revenge.

Why similar: Choices Matter 27%, RPG 24.7%, Story Rich 20.8%, Medieval 6.6%, Dark Fantasy 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A rich royal adventure where a monarch must constantly make brutal tactical and moral choices that alter army morale and the storyline.

Decide the fate of the world in this ingenious story-driven card game. Foretales offers a unique take on the adventure genre, with a multitude of playstyles and story paths through which you can save the world… or bring about its end.

Why similar: Choices Matter 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Story Rich 12.9%, RPG 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-focused adventure utilizing card-based mechanics to determine character actions, moral paths, and the resolution of branching storylines.

“Black Book” is a dark RPG Adventure, based on Slavic myths, in which you play as a young sorceress. Fight evil forces in card-based battles and explore the world, where humans live alongside mythological creatures.

Why similar: Choices Matter 42.1%, Story Rich 19%, RPG 17.8%, Dark Fantasy 15.5%, Strategy 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Immersed in dark northern folklore, it combines narrative choices with card combat as you help desperate peasants deal with unholy forces.

The Age of Decadence is a turn-based, hardcore role-playing game set in a low magic fantasy world. The game features a detailed skill-based character system, multiple skill-based ways to handle quests, choices & consequences, and extensive dialogue trees.

Why similar: Choices Matter 37%, Story Rich 17%, Medieval 15.3%, RPG 12.6%, Dark Fantasy 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore, unsparing CRPG where player choice, dialogue, and political cunning are infinitely more important than brute combat strength.

This Is the Police is a strategy/adventure game set in a city spiraling the drain. Taking the role of gritty Police Chief Jack Boyd, you'll dive into a deep story of crime and intrigue. Will Jack reach his retirement with a nice stack of bills, or will he end up broken ... or worse?

Why similar: Choices Matter 40.7%, Story Rich 20.1%, Management 11.3%, Strategy 8%, Visual Novel 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a tense, story-driven management experience where you juggle corrupt city politics, scarce resources, and morally gray decisions.

Experience a Narrative Adventure where your choices and character growth truly matter. As a member of a 1793 secret society, live a tale of intrigue and manipulation on the hunt for your missing mother.

Why similar: Choices Matter 47.3%, RPG 17.1%, Story Rich 15.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Adventure 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: An episodic mystery game centered entirely around dialogue trees, character profiling, social manipulation, and irreversible narrative twists.

Sit on the throne as a benevolent (or malevolent) medieval monarch of the modern age and swipe your royal controller either left or right to impose your will upon the kingdom.

Why similar: Choices Matter 42.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Medieval 16.7%, RPG 8.2%, Story Rich 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: A quick-fire swipe-based simulator that distills the stressful balancing act of medieval rulership and consequence management into simple choices.

Embark on a journey to a realm overrun by demons in a new epic RPG from the creators of the critically acclaimed Pathfinder: Kingmaker. Explore the nature of good and evil, learn the true cost of power, and rise as a Mythic Hero capable of deeds beyond mortal expectations.

Why similar: Choices Matter 39.2%, Story Rich 17.9%, RPG 16.2%, Dark Fantasy 15%, Strategy 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A massive CRPG that lets players choose deep mythical paths, dictating whether they rule as angels, demons, or tragic mortals.

Interpret the law as you see fit! Run the sheriff’s department, manage your cops, make tough decisions – and try to keep out of prison yourself – in this story-driven mixture of adventure, strategy, and turn-based tactical combat.

Why similar: Choices Matter 32.9%, Story Rich 27.3%, Strategy 12.4%, Management 11%, Atmospheric 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Expands on the gritty narrative management formula with deeper tactical layers and unforgiving consequences for failing your officers.

Ash of Gods: Redemption is a turn-based RPG that combines tactical combat, CCG elements, and a constantly evolving story in which no one is safe from death, including the main characters.

Why similar: Choices Matter 31%, Story Rich 16%, RPG 14.8%, Medieval 14.6%, Dark Fantasy 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical turn-based RPG with a bleak fantasy story where even main characters can permanently die based on your strategic and narrative failures.

This is a narrative role-playing game telling the story of a crown prince of the Blessed Arknian Empire. You possess great power, but are also burdened by duty. Can you change the world and stay true to yourself? Every decision comes with a cost.

Why similar: Choices Matter 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%, Visual Novel 12%, RPG 8.9%

Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.

Why similar: Choices Matter 24.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Visual Novel 13%, Story Rich 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative RPG where growing up on an alien planet involves life simulation and critical choices that permanently shape your future and society.

Big Brother has arrived - and it’s you. Investigate the lives of citizens to find those responsible for a series of terror attacks. Information from the internet, personal communications and private files are all accessible to you. But, be warned, the information you supply will have consequences.

Why similar: Choices Matter 76.5%, Simulation 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 4.7%, Story Rich 3.3%, Visual Novel 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: A surveillance thriller that forces you to interpret information and make invasive choices that directly impact citizens' lives.

A Victorian steampunk RPG with tarot cards instead of dice. Investigate the disappearance of society’s most vulnerable to uncover a mysterious cult. Play as three characters, each with their own skills and motivations. Customize your characters with narrative choices to unlock new tarot cards.

Why similar: Choices Matter 29.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, RPG 14.6%, Story Rich 14%, Visual Novel 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A steampunk Victorian RPG played out through tarot-card checks and rich branching dialogue trees reminiscent of classic tabletop adventures.

Play as the Sovereign of a magical tower in this story-rich, Round Table management RPG. Recruit eccentric Knights, assign quests and balance egos whilst carving out your kingdom's destiny. If destiny doesn’t go your way, keep turning back time, uncover secrets and rewrite fate again and again.

Why similar: Choices Matter 23.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Medieval 10.6%

Greetings your Excellency. Time to rebuild, reform and prepare for new challenges in the People's Republic of Basenji. In this thrilling political strategy, you will appoint ministers and lead the country to success. Be careful — you may find yourself replaced in the next election.

Why similar: Management 28.6%, Atmospheric 25.5%, Strategy 20.2%, Simulation 18.6%, Singleplayer 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A political strategy game focused on keeping a fictional autocratic nation stable through careful policy choices and managing factions.

A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Text-Based 10.7%, Visual Novel 9.5%

Explore your kingdom and rule wisely in the card game - Choice of Life: Middle Ages 2

Why similar: Choices Matter 26.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Medieval 12.4%, RPG 11.7%, Story Rich 11.5%

Turn-based kingdom management simulator focused on decision-making. Will you survive and lead the kingdom to prosperity, or die in agony? The throne awaits.

Why similar: Choices Matter 36.7%, Medieval 19.4%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Story Rich 10.3%, RPG 7.9%

A card game in a Medieval setting where you make decisions on which not only your life will depend, but also the future of the kingdom!

Why similar: Choices Matter 35.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Medieval 14.6%, RPG 10.6%, Strategy 5%

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: Choices Matter 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Medieval 10.2%, Text-Based 9.9%

Rule your crumbling kingdom as you try to satisfy the petty needs of your people in this cinematic kingdom management RPG. Balance your resources, collect taxes, hire agents and make difficult decisions to see your kingdom prosper or fail.

Why similar: Choices Matter 27.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Story Rich 14.5%, Medieval 12.9%, RPG 10.5%

Greetings. Your Mind Scanner request has been approved. Your duty is to diagnose and treat the citizens of The Structure. The patient list is long so don't waste your time. We’ll let you see your daughter soon...

Why similar: Choices Matter 28.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.5%, Story Rich 12.8%, RPG 11.8%, Management 6.8%

You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?

Why similar: Choices Matter 46.3%, Story Rich 18.5%, Atmospheric 6.7%, Strategy 6.1%, Simulation 6%

Play as three intrepid paladins through a terrible war of succession to save a sinister medieval kingdom from political turmoil. Pick a side amongst noble families to choose the future monarch and crush those who stand in your way through board-shattering tactical card combat!

Why similar: Choices Matter 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Story Rich 9.8%, Visual Novel 9.1%

Restore a crumbling occult library by a winter sea. Build the world’s foremost collection of grimoires and arcana. Master the invisible arts. BOOK OF HOURS is a narrative crafting RPG set in a 1930s world of hidden gods and secret histories. What sort of Librarian will you choose to be?

Why similar: Choices Matter 30.5%, Text-Based 16.6%, RPG 15.4%, Story Rich 12.4%, Tabletop 8.5%

Love, fight, scheme, and claim greatness. Determine your noble house’s legacy in the sprawling grand strategy of Crusader Kings III. Death is only the beginning as you guide your dynasty’s bloodline in the rich and larger-than-life simulation of the Middle Ages.

Why similar: Choices Matter 29.4%, Medieval 24.3%, RPG 18.8%, Strategy 9.5%, Management 9.4%

A text-based RPG full of choice and action. Fight for survival in the midst of the Roman invasion of ancient Caledonia. Strategize one dice roll at a time as emotions affect your performance. Use willpower to outsmart opponents, gain allies, wage war, or strive for peace. How will your story end?

Why similar: Choices Matter 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Text-Based 10.6%, Story Rich 8.9%

For the People is a mix of a political management sim and a visual novel, putting players in the shoes of an idealistic young state official tasked with shaping the future of a communist factory town. Will the party provide for the people, or are the people just cogs in its machine?..

Why similar: Choices Matter 26.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.8%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Story Rich 11%, Management 5.5%

Create your own epic saga of survival, mythology and diplomacy! Rule your clan, make strategic decisions that affect the game world, win battles and expand your influence in this unique mix of RPG, strategy and story-telling.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Choices Matter 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Text-Based 10.6%, RPG 10.4%

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a Narrative-Adventure game about traveling, sharing stories, and surviving manifest destiny.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 38.6%, Story Rich 20%, RPG 15.1%, Visual Novel 10.1%, Adventure 5.7%

Visual novel loved by many – Everlasting Summer – now on Steam!

Why similar: Visual Novel 37.2%, Choices Matter 35.2%, Story Rich 22.6%, Singleplayer 1.6%, Adventure 1.5%

Esoteric Ebb is a single-player CRPG inspired by the freedom of tabletop adventures. Unravel a political conspiracy with your goblin sidekick. Roll dice in tense encounters. Become a cleric of legends or completely ruin the campaign.

Why similar: Choices Matter 31.8%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Story Rich 15%, RPG 12.7%, Visual Novel 7.6%

The Bookwalker is a narrative adventure in which you play as Etienne Quist, a writer-turned-thief with the ability to dive into books. Use your powers to journey between reality and book worlds, and steal legendary items like Thor's Hammer and Excalibur to restore your ability to write.

Why similar: Visual Novel 29%, Story Rich 27.9%, Dark Fantasy 22.2%, Atmospheric 10.4%, Adventure 6.9%

You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.

Why similar: Choices Matter 31.5%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Story Rich 13.7%, Simulation 4.5%

Step into a dark reimagination of Arthurian legends in this first person, open world RPG. Explore a world stuck in everlasting autumn, witness falling legends and make meaningful choices woven into a complex, branching storyline.

Why similar: Choices Matter 34.1%, RPG 22.6%, Dark Fantasy 20%, Story Rich 15.5%, Adventure 5.5%

Hitchhike your way to freedom in this crazy procedurally generated road trip. No one's road is the same!

Why similar: Choices Matter 34.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Story Rich 15.2%, Atmospheric 4.7%

Build an empire in a single sitting. All the strategy of a classic 4X in a faster format, which also shines in multiplayer.

Why similar: Management 36.8%, Strategy 24.1%, Simulation 23.4%, Singleplayer 8.8%, 2D 6.9%

A new political Party has won a landslide in the General Election, and for some reason the editor at the news station you work at has done a runner. Now it’s up to you, the Janitor, to take over the editing booth in this tumultuous time - will you help the government, or stand in their way?

Why similar: Choices Matter 27.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Story Rich 11.8%, Management 5.5%

Are you worthy of the throne? Or do your siblings deserve it more than you do? What kind of heir will you be?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Text-Based 15.6%, RPG 14.8%, Choices Matter 13.5%

Determine the destiny of Rome as you conquer foreign lands and navigate political intrigue in this turn-based RPG. Directly fight with your party of Praetorians, guide your legion to victory, and choose your own path in a story where every decision matters. How will you shape the future of Rome?

Why similar: Choices Matter 37.2%, RPG 32.2%, Story Rich 12%, Strategy 10.4%, Atmospheric 6.9%

In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite the past. Hold yourself together while it all falls apart.

Why similar: Choices Matter 42.4%, Story Rich 22.6%, RPG 17.2%, Atmospheric 7.7%, Simulation 5.9%

"Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp" brings you more of the world's best (and maybe only?) multiplayer dating sim; but in a way you've never expected!

Why similar: Text-Based 26.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, Visual Novel 22.5%, Story Rich 13.9%, Simulation 4.2%

The award-winning adventure continues in Banner Saga 2! This epic, story-based, role-playing game continues its emotional journey across a breaking world. Bold leadership decisions, wise use of resources, and skillful battle tactics are vital to ensure your viking clans make it through alive.

Why similar: Choices Matter 32.5%, RPG 25.6%, Story Rich 21.4%, Strategy 6.5%, Atmospheric 4.7%

Survive a mad Sultan's reign in this brutal resource management RPG. Draw a card every seven days and complete its challenge. Make dreadful choices to stay alive: will you die a loyal servant, become a kingslayer, or call down the gods' judgement?

Why similar: Choices Matter 25.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Story Rich 12.3%, RPG 11%, Dark Fantasy 10.1%