Games Like The Yawhg

Embark on a whimsical journey and bring joy to a bright fantasy world in this roleplaying adventure for 1-4 players. Craft your own story and solve quests how you like, but beware, for every time you fail the Dragon will send you back in time!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 37.2%, Local Co-Op 26.9%, Story Rich 9.3%, Local Multiplayer 8.4%, RPG 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same whimsical, cooperative tabletop-inspired storytelling where friends make choices that impact a shared world.

Live the life of a Monster, from birth to elderhood and beyond, making decisions that affect the world of Monsters and Humans. Solve problems. Meet animals and interesting people. Get to know them. Eat them. Make your own story!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 55.7%, RPG 12.3%, Multiple Endings 8.1%, Story Rich 7.1%, Indie 7%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on moral choices and character development through a series of branching narrative events similar to the structure of The Yawhg.

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 66%, RPG 13.5%, Story Rich 9.9%, Indie 4.6%, Fantasy 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: These games provide a high-quality, interactive fiction experience that rewards exploration and careful decision-making in a fantasy setting.

A role-playing game like no other. Your smartphone is your character! Eon Altar brings modern technology to the social experience of couch co-op gaming. Voice your character, choose which secrets to keep and what lies to tell. Gather your friends, order a pizza and descend to the depths of Eon Altar!

Why similar: Local Co-Op 52.2%, RPG 20.4%, Story Rich 8%, Local Multiplayer 7%, 4 Player Local 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is a rare example of a local co-op RPG that uses mobile devices as controllers to facilitate a shared, narrative-heavy adventure.

Set out on a cross-country journey to win back the love of your life and endure the hardship of making story-defining choices that affect your life and the lives of those around you.

Why similar: RPG 37.7%, Story Rich 25.7%, Indie 19%, Great Soundtrack 7.5%, Choices Matter 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the weight of your choices on a character's life path, mirroring the personal narrative focus found in The Yawhg.

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 58%, RPG 16.5%, Story Rich 15.9%, Fantasy 5.8%, Choices Matter 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title excels at managing a community through randomized narrative events where every decision significantly alters the fate of your people.

A branching folktale misadventure about a trio of large, bearded fishermen. Shape a custom tale that begins again where it ends, through waters where lurk creatures from Scandinavian folklore.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 42.7%, Visual Novel 20.6%, Story Rich 11.5%, Indie 9.5%, Great Soundtrack 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: The game features a beautiful, minimalist art style and a branching narrative structure based on folklore that feels very similar to The Yawhg's aesthetic.

Life between myths. Lead the Riders clan into legend or obscurity as you explore an ancient world. Plan ahead as you navigate this challenging storybook strategy game, immersing you in the land of old gods and magic also seen in King of Dragon Pass.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 40.7%, RPG 17.8%, Story Rich 17.7%, Multiple Endings 7.6%, Choices Matter 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: As a spiritual successor to King of Dragon Pass, it offers deep, choice-driven management gameplay set in a rich, mythological world.

Your choices affect the destiny of Alice, drastically changing her reality and allowing her to explore alternative destinies by modifying her past. Travel across European cities, meet colourful characters and solve the mystery.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.7%, Beautiful 21.7% ★, Visual Novel 12.3%, Story Rich 10%, Great Soundtrack 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This visual novel features a strong narrative focus where small decisions ripple out to create drastically different life outcomes.

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 43.1%, RPG 19.8%, Story Rich 11.7%, Visual Novel 8.6%, Indie 6%

Why You'll Like It: This text-based RPG combines exploration with meaningful choices, forcing players to manage their time and resources in a dangerous world.

Dyscourse is an interactive choice-based narrative adventure game where you journey through a stylized world of choice and consequence. Choose wisely.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 81.7%, Indie 11.4%, Choices Matter 5.4%, Casual 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is a survival-themed narrative game where your choices determine who lives and dies, creating high-stakes replayability.

Fhtagn! - Tales of the Creeping Madness is a text based adventure game, where choices matter. There's couch co-op and just a hint of betrayal. Play as one of four cultists intent on releasing the Ancient One!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 38.2%, Local Co-Op 28.1%, Local Multiplayer 8.5%, Indie 8.1%, Story Rich 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A Lovecraftian choose-your-own-adventure game that captures the same sense of impending doom and randomized storytelling.

A mature take on Cinderella that's all about player choices and breaking the classic fairy tale in any way you like.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 45%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Story Rich 11.6%, Beautiful 9% ★, Multiple Endings 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: This visual novel provides a mature take on classic fairy tales, focusing on player agency and multiple narrative paths.

Rule the world or die trying!Being a Princess is not an easy job. Being a Queen is even harder. Especially when you're only fourteen years old, and the reason you've inherited the throne is that your royal mother has just met an untimely end.Now power is up for grabs.

Why similar: Visual Novel 34.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 32.1%, RPG 10.4%, Indie 6.4%, Story Rich 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: It uses a stat-management system to drive a narrative where failing to balance your skills leads to sudden, dramatic consequences.

Combat, romance, adventure, and of course—magic! Master four elements and take on fate itself in this epic, interactive fantasy tale! Six possible endings. Four hours for a single playthrough. Three love interests. Countless choices. Male or female? Leader or loner? Good or evil? What kind of mage will you be?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 60.2%, RPG 27%, Indie 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: A text-based RPG that focuses on character building and narrative choices in a classic fantasy setting.

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: Story Rich 37.2%, RPG 33%, Multiple Endings 16.4%, Indie 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: This RPG uses dice-based mechanics to drive a deep, choice-heavy narrative that explores themes of survival and community.

The Ballad Singer is an asymmetric adventure, inspired by RPGs and game books, where you can experience many dynamic stories. Forge the fate of Hesperia through the stories of four different adventurers in a fantasy world completely illustrated and narrated.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 40.5%, Beautiful 29.8% ★, Visual Novel 12%, Story Rich 8.6%, Indie 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: It uses a unique branching narrative system where your choices are narrated by a bard, creating a very similar storytelling feel.

Battle demons and undead attorneys, and win souls to pay back your student loans! At the elite demonic-law firm of Varkath Nebuchadnezzar Stone, you'll depose a fallen god, find romance, and maybe even make partner, if you don't lose your own soul first.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 78.5%, RPG 14.6%, Indie 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This interactive fiction title offers a deep, text-based RPG experience where your choices define your character's career and fate.

WE KNOW THE DEVIL is a visual novel about teens reluctantly fighting the devil at summer camp. Follow meangirl Neptune, tomboy Jupiter, and shy shy Venus as they get to know each other--but one always gets left out.

Why similar: Visual Novel 43.2%, Great Soundtrack 16%, Indie 15.9%, Story Rich 12.2%, Multiple Endings 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A short, character-driven visual novel that focuses on the dynamics between three protagonists facing a supernatural threat.

Solstice is a dystopian mystery visual novel about small personal disasters that turn into great catastrophes.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 50%, Visual Novel 17%, Story Rich 13.1%, Multiple Endings 6.6%, Choices Matter 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: It features a rich, branching story with multiple endings that reward players for exploring different narrative possibilities.

Seers Isle is a narrative game, set in a fantasy version of medieval northern Europe, where your choices impact the fate of a group of characters.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.2%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Story Rich 16.9%, Multiple Endings 7%, Indie 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A beautifully illustrated visual novel where your decisions directly influence the survival and relationships of a group of characters.

Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.

Why similar: Visual Novel 37.4%, Story Rich 27.3%, Multiple Endings 11%, Indie 8.4%, Fantasy 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a relaxing, narrative-focused experience where listening to stories and making small choices impacts the lives of your patrons.

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.5%, RPG 25.4%, Story Rich 23.4%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Multiple Endings 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a complex choice system where your skills and social interactions dictate the outcome of a mysterious, high-stakes plot.

Take back your throne from demon-summoning usurpers in this 145,000-word interactive fantasy novel! Will your prince or princess choose to be good or evil?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 61%, RPG 26.1%, Indie 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a classic choose-your-own-adventure experience with heavy RPG elements and stat tracking.

This is a text adventure game that combines the gameplay of desktop pets and mini-games. You can advance the plot by clicking on the dialogue, or play mini-games to accumulate values to trigger new plots, and you can also cultivate your favorite characters by hanging up.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 51.1%, Visual Novel 18.3%, RPG 14.9%, Story Rich 8.5%, Multiple Endings 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game turns a classic play into a hilarious, branching adventure where your choices lead to absurd and varied outcomes.

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: Choose Your Own Adventure 60.4%, RPG 20.1%, Story Rich 7.9%, Fantasy 3.6%, Indie 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: This interactive fiction game focuses on political intrigue and the consequences of your choices as a royal heir.

It's 1986 - Meredith Weiss takes a break from her career in the big city to deliver mail in her hometown. How will she experience two weeks in beautiful Providence Oaks, with its iconic lake and quirky community? And what will she do next? It's up to you.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 66.4%, Story Rich 19.8%, Multiple Endings 8.6%, Choices Matter 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-driven game that focuses on the personal stories of characters you meet, allowing for meaningful, choice-based interactions.

Play as a wise woman, help your neighbors, and they will help you in return. Fight alongside your closest friend to deal with the beasts threatening the village. Uncover the secrets of magic through your journey, and you might even have a chance to confront your inner demons.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 61.2%, Visual Novel 15.1%, RPG 13.4%, Story Rich 7.6%, Indie 2.6%

You are Hidu, a beastman mercenary in a port city. You must survive one very bad day. How? That’s entirely up to you. There are countless ways for events to unfold — and 25 endings.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 50.8%, Story Rich 12.3%, RPG 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Multiple Endings 5.3%

Just One Line is a fantasy RPG gamebook-like indie game heavily focused on choices and their consequences in which you may compete with other players in an interactive leaderboard. Create different Adventurers and embark on epic quests, unlocking new content for your next playthroughs or create and share your own adventures with the...

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 61%, RPG 12.9%, Story Rich 10.6%, Multiple Endings 5.7%, Indie 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist RPG where your choices define the story, emphasizing the impact of player agency in a short format.

This interactive adventure features no specific hero. YOU are the one who decides who makes it out alive - or not. Your actions determine the outcome of the story. In total there are 9 playable heroes and more than 50 different paths all featuring intense dialogues and thrilling events.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 60.3%, Story Rich 14.1%, RPG 10.9%, Multiple Endings 7.2%, Indie 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game centers on the consequences of your decisions, offering a story-rich experience with multiple endings.

The Use of Life is a multi-ending adventure book style JRPG. The main character’s various attachments change in accordance with the choices the player makes, and the ending changes depending on “the use of life” you choose through your journey.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 60%, Story Rich 12%, RPG 11.9%, Multiple Endings 5%, Indie 4.1%

Samurai of Hyuga is a brutal, heart-pounding interactive tale. Prepare to enter the land of silk and steel, where fantasy clashes against grim reality, and where the good guys don't always win in the end. It's a harsh world with tough choices at every turn. Good thing you're the toughest ronin around.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 73%, RPG 18.1%, Indie 9%

Why You'll Like It: A long-form, text-based adventure that emphasizes character growth and complex decision-making in a feudal fantasy world.

Guide Hamlet, Ophelia and Hamlet Sr. to hundreds of hilarious deaths in Ryan North's chooseable-path edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 78.4%, Visual Novel 11%, Indie 9%, Casual 1.6%

Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.

Why similar: RPG 34.9%, Story Rich 25.6%, Great Soundtrack 12.5%, Indie 9.9%, Fantasy 8.9%

YOU are the hero in Forest of Doom! Explore the sinister Darkwood Forest in the digital Fighting Fantasy Standalone version of Ian Livingstone's classic RPG gamebook!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 67.7%, RPG 17.1%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Indie 3.4%

Wildermyth follows heroes over their whole careers, from their pitchfork days to their powerful primes, and on into old age and memory. It’s a party-based procedural storytelling RPG where tactical combat and story decisions will alter your world and reshape your cast of characters.

Why similar: Story Rich 43.1%, RPG 23%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Fantasy 11.7%, Indie 8.2%

Take your rightful place on the throne in this multiplayer-only party game for 4+ players. Rule the kingdom with an iron fist or silver tongue as you steer through bloodshed, intrigue & madcap disaster! Can you keep your crown when others plot your downfall? More importantly, can you keep your head?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 58.8%, Story Rich 17%, Party Game 11.8%, Fantasy 6%, Choices Matter 5.4%

Embark on a swashbuckling adventure in The Pirate's Fate, a visual novel experience with a unique twist: the story, the crew, and who you are transform based on your choices. Seek treasure, find love, and choose your fate.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 60.8%, Visual Novel 17.5%, RPG 9.3%, Indie 6.6%, Story Rich 4.1%

An epic adventure through an open world of monsters, traps and magic. Infiltrate the Fortress of Sorcerers, and create your own unique story where every decision you make is remembered, no matter how small. Cheat death, uncover ancient mysteries, and recover the Crown of Kings - if you can.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 61.7%, RPG 26.6%, Indie 11.7%

Expose the dark secrets and mysteries of your seemingly idyllic hometown in this romantic thriller! Will you fall in love or fall victim to its horrors?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 64.8%, RPG 18.3%, Story Rich 9.5%, Choices Matter 3.5%, Indie 2.5%

Lead your own DnD-like adventuring party on an epic adventure narrated by Laura Bailey. Invite your friends for free to the group with the Friends Pass, or strike out on your own. Cooperation, betrayal, and the luck of the dice… what wild escapades will you and your teammates get up to?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 52.3%, Local Multiplayer 20.1%, RPG 12%, Multiple Endings 6.8%, Fantasy 4.6%

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 63.7%, Visual Novel 23.9%, RPG 12.4%

Set on Mars in an alternate Cold-War era, Super Motherload is a 1 to 4-player couch co-op digging adventure with storyline by Image Comics' Kurtis Wiebe, a fully voiced cast of Soviet and American characters, and a procedurally-generated world that changes each time you play.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 61.2%, RPG 11.4%, Indie 8.5%, Local Multiplayer 8.5%, Great Soundtrack 5.6%

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 47.8%, Story Rich 15.4%, Visual Novel 13.9%, RPG 12.9%, Choices Matter 7%

A fast-paced board game for up to 4 players featuring humorous quests, quick turn-based combat and multiple-choice events. Explore the board, equip your character, get a job, and fight to become Hero of the Week! Play locally or online with Steam Remote Play.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 35%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.2%, RPG 10.7%, Local Multiplayer 10.1%, Party Game 9%

Narrative-adventure playing an Agent of Death who must take ONE life that could change the fate of a conflict-torn Nation

Why similar: RPG 37.3%, Indie 17.7%, Story Rich 16.7%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Multiple Endings 7%

Forge your own story and explore the world of Athens in Athenian Rhapsody, a souls-like platonic dating simulator with cooking-mama and WarioWare style battle mechanics... and by that I mean it's a choose-your-own-adventure action RPG with the ability to trade ENTIRE PLAYTHROUGHS between friends!!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 68.1%, RPG 14.2%, Story Rich 9%, Multiple Endings 5.2%, Choices Matter 3.5%

Play on randomly generated worlds with a party of characters just the way you like it. You will not be bounded by classes or scripted story, only by your creativity. Make your own journey. Tell your own history.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 53.7%, RPG 32.1%, Indie 14.2%

A surreal dice-based RPG in a cursed city of gut-wrenching suffering. Here, your choices shape your skills and your appearance. Survive the city's hellish trials, meet tortured characters, and develop your own unique identity. Every choice matters as your actions will literally shape you.

Why similar: RPG 41.2%, Story Rich 32.3%, Multiple Endings 14.8%, Choices Matter 6.7%, Indie 5%

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

Why similar: RPG 48.1%, Story Rich 31%, Choices Matter 10.4%, Fantasy 5.8%, Great Soundtrack 4.7%

Emily is Away Too is a brand new story featuring new characters and multiple different endings. Message your friends, surf the web and choose your path through this branching narrative.

Why similar: Story Rich 23%, Visual Novel 21.6%, RPG 14.9%, Indie 14.3%, Multiple Endings 11%

A choices-matter spy thriller told through interactive postcards. Play a secret agent racing across 1930s Switzerland, sending coded reports to your handler. Charm, deceive or strong-arm your way through a Hitchcockian tale where every choice shapes the story.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 36.5%, Beautiful 18.5% ★, Story Rich 13.2%, Visual Novel 7.5%, Great Soundtrack 5.8%

Your magic can change the world, but at what cost? Battle dragons, skyships, and evil Inquisitors, as you protect your homeland, conquer it, or destroy it forever!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 69.1%, RPG 18.8%, Indie 12.1%

A terrible darkness threatens a world of overwhelmingly adorable mares. Can a new cute mare with amnesia save the world or will she lose more than her memories along the way?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 49.6%, Visual Novel 22.6%, RPG 15.7%, Choices Matter 4.4%, Multiple Endings 4.1%

A series of unlikely train robberies. A mysterious deck of cards. A fleet of deadly airships. An accidental mage. Choose from four stories, in any order, and discover how they intertwine in this turn-based RPG.

Why similar: Story Rich 36.9%, RPG 32.8%, Indie 17.4%, Fantasy 12.9%

Gods of Savvarah is a visual novel with the philosophy of a classic fantasy RPG. Defeat enemies, explore countries, make friends, and find your place in Savvarah.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 48.7%, Visual Novel 15.2%, Story Rich 11.4%, RPG 10.8%, Multiple Endings 5.9%

In a society where having the last word means having power over others, a small party is disrupted by a gentleman who politely issues orders via one-way intercom.

Why similar: RPG 52.4%, Indie 25.1%, Story Rich 10.1%, Great Soundtrack 5.6%, Casual 3.5%

Choose a path to adventure! Will you sneak into the dragon's lair, or challenge the beast openly? Will you fight for vengeance or for glory? Will you be tempted by elven romance? Will you be buried underground forever? Relive classic 1980s fantasy in this remastered gamebook.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 62.8%, Visual Novel 16.3%, Multiple Endings 7.3%, Fantasy 5.5%, Choices Matter 3.8%

Mayhem Brawler is an urban fantasy themed beat 'em up that brings back the 90s arcade vibe to present day. With comic book style art and kick-ass soundtracks, it offers a unique experience that you can tackle solo or as co-op with friends while defining the next step in the story with your choices.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 47.4%, Local Co-Op 30.6%, Local Multiplayer 9.9%, Multiple Endings 5.4%, Indie 3.4%