60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Choose Your Own Adventure, Choices Matter, Story Rich.
Illustrated text-based RPG featuring a unique magic system. Develop skills, tend relations. Navigate complex social structures. Explore themes of identity and allegiance.
Hare Apparent
An ancient custom is invoked, and five kingdoms send their young heirs to play a legendary game. Build relationships, form alliances, and win the crown in this high-stakes game of woodland politics and social maneuvering.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
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!
An ancient custom is invoked, and five kingdoms send their young heirs to play a legendary game. Build relationships, form alliances, and win the crown in this high-stakes game of woodland politics and social maneuvering.
Why similar: Diplomacy 23.4% ★, Political 14.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Text-Based 12.2%
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: Diplomacy 27.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Gothic 10.7% ★, Text-Based 10.4%
House of stolen devil bargains and indolent angelic aristocracy: Nowhere Manor is doomed to disappear. You can leave if you’ve got a soul … but that’s not an option for an artificially created servant such as Liber. Just how far are you willing to go escape?
Why similar: Gothic 16.5% ★, Demons 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%, Lore-Rich 9.3%
"Escape from Death" is a 256,000-word interactive horror adventure novel by Tova Näslund. It’s entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
Why similar: Gothic 15.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Demons 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Dark Fantasy 9.6%
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 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Text-Based 16.5%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Hand-drawn 11.4%
Lead the first settlement on Jupiter's frozen moon, Europa! What alien life lurks beneath the ice? Who is sabotaging your mission? Who can you trust?
Why similar: Diplomacy 27.2% ★, Political 18% ★, Text-Based 17.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Lore-Rich 7.6%
Bleedings Moons is an interactive story revolving around the themes of fate, duty and free will. Your actions and decisions will shape the story of the game, so that Ian's story will be your story, with the logical consequences of your choices.
Why similar: Political 19.3% ★, Text-Based 13%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, War 9.4%
Into Oblivion is an immerse interactive novel where your choices shape the story. Set in the far-future, explore a galaxy on the brink of crisis with dynamic companions. So, settle your mind and pray you have what it takes to fly Into Oblivion.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Text-Based 13.7%, RPG 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.6%
Backed by interstellar weaponry, the nation of Panwestia has annexed half the globe. Resistance appears futile--but the hegemon has a very unique weakness...
Why similar: Diplomacy 22.3% ★, Political 16.3% ★, Text-Based 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%
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: Text-Based 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Dark Fantasy 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Lore-Rich 9.8%
Ukraine War Stories is a set of visual novels about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Set in the early months of the war, it tells the stories of civilians trapped on Russian-occupied territory. All stories are based on real events and eyewitness accounts.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Text-Based 14.2%, War 13.6%, Visual Novel 10.3%
Chess. Love. Destiny. All the same things, really.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Hand-drawn 14.5%, Dark Fantasy 12.9%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%
You return to your hometown but no one recognizes you. But that doesn’t matter, because you are not here for them. You are here for her. Midgårdsormen, singer and artist, pervert and goddess, a being truly out of this world.
Why similar: Psychological 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Hand-drawn 10%
Voices: From the Stars is a story-rich visual novel where every choice you make can tip the balance between war and harmony and reveal the mysteries behind the voices that echo across the cosmos.
Why similar: Diplomacy 25.9% ★, Political 17.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Text-Based 10.6%, Lore-Rich 9.8%
Slice into a dark fantasy world of celestial magic and violence-devoted talking animals in this visual novel RPG. MoonFire intertwines personal mystery and complex characters within a landscape of political intrigue, all unknowingly set against the threat of a looming cosmic apocalypse.
Why similar: Diplomacy 28.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Dark Fantasy 11.4%, Demons 8.7%
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: Text-Based 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Lore-Rich 15.1%, Visual Novel 11.6%
Shame & choices = possible apocalypse. You need to figure out what’s causing the apocalypse to happen, so that you can prevent it. 2 playable characters with different relations to shame → 2 unique perspectives of the same story. Complicated families, branching choices and unforgiving consequences.
Why similar: Psychological 15.2%, Text-Based 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.7%, Lore-Rich 10%
A short psychological horror interactive story. Five years after vanishing without a trace, the woman you once called your lover writes from beyond the silence: "I will give birth to our creation.” In three acts, descend into a fractured mindscape where obsession, memory, and myth intertwine.
Why similar: Gothic 16.1% ★, Text-Based 13.3%, Psychological 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.9%
You will play a hexfinder in the employ of Queen Charlotte’s Anglican Church, tasked with seeking out the witches and warlocks (colloquially known as hexcrafters) who threaten her fair nation. A story-rich, text-based RPG, Hexfinder is a supernatural alt-historical adventure!
Why similar: Text-Based 15%, Demons 14.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Political 12.8% ★
They steal your crew and force your ship to crash-land on an alien planet where you must start fresh with nothing but a dilapidated base and a... talking cat?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Lore-Rich 11.1%, RPG 9.9%
A brave hero and a bound lich rescue a legendary warrior from a forgotten tomb and put the romance back in necromancy. Necromance is a dark fantasy comedy visual novel with light puzzle elements, 3 endings, and 15 ways to die!
Why similar: Gothic 15.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Lore-Rich 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.9%
A story-rich role-playing game, TideBroker will take you to a fantasy world of secrets and machinations of three opposing factions. You will play the part of an envoy and determine the outcome of a peace conference through dialogue, letters and books.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.2%, Diplomacy 20% ★, Text-Based 17.7%, Lore-Rich 14.1%, RPG 11.1%
A short, linear story game of a random demon guy's life.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Demons 18.6%, Text-Based 17.5%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Psychological 12.1%
A psychological thriller visual novel where your choices deeply affect an 18-year-old woman's mental state, leading to multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Text-Based 16.1%, Visual Novel 13%, Hand-drawn 12.5%
As a humble baker in a quiet medieval town, your life takes a dark turn when a stranger arrives equipped for battle. Thrust into a hidden world of supernatural beings—elves, demons, fae, and more—you must make choices that alter the fate of the world you thought you knew.
Why similar: Demons 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Visual Novel 12%, Dark Fantasy 11.2%
IBH is a rich role playing game at the end of time. You're a mid-level official in a dying sci-fi regime, given the impossible task of fixing a faltering machine; explore a vast world, define your mind, flex your authority, and become a sinner or a savior in countless other stories.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Visual Novel 13.5%, RPG 11.3%, Text-Based 10.2%
Become an investigator in a dark fantasy story. People keep going missing in Maligree, before being forgotten by all who knew them. Will you solve the case before you forget?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Demons 13%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Hand-drawn 11.1%
This is the story of a family living in a haunted house in New Hampshire. And you're the one haunting them.
Why similar: Gothic 35% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Text-Based 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, RPG 11.5%
Investigate the murder of Evie Roots. Save the town from disaster. Learn the history of the Great Houses. Immerse yourself in the centuries-old history of Pineford.
Why similar: Gothic 17.2% ★, Text-Based 14.8%, Lore-Rich 14.2%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Psychological 9.8%
A Philosophical Discussion of Worms is a Kinetic Visual Novel that explores two characters, Vynder and Ophiel, as they navigate cohabitation in a strange, unfamiliar house when they don't speak the same language.
Why similar: Gothic 20.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Text-Based 18.7%, Visual Novel 12.9%, Hand-drawn 11.4%
These monsters aren’t just in the movies! Will you hunt the vampires, werewolves and others stalking Hollywood, or will you become a monster instead? An interactive, text-based game set in the World of Darkness shared story universe.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.6%, Gothic 16% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Text-Based 14.7%, Demons 14%
Not thrilled that fate has led him into the confines of a sinister place, Varlu is left with no choice but to come face to face with many types of demons, including his very own.
Why similar: Gothic 16.2% ★, Demons 13.9%, Text-Based 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%
Defy nature’s laws and avenge your slain pantheon! Humanity once feared and hated you, but now, awakened from a thousand-year slumber, you are their only hope. A text-based interactive game.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Text-Based 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, RPG 14.4%, Lore-Rich 12.4%
You decide how a civil war in the country of Izgub is supposed to end. Visual novel with strong themes of war, political violence and moral dilemma.
Why similar: Political 21.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, War 11.5%, Hand-drawn 11.4%, Visual Novel 10.7%
Eyes of Iyre is a Visual Novel with heavy RPG elements. Follow Barbak the Orc as he discovers more about the world and his past, all the while trying to keep his temper under control. Make friends, cast magic, and learn the truths hidden in the city of Iyre!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Text-Based 15.7%, Visual Novel 13.8%, RPG 10.1%
You are subordinate to the deranged dictator and must plan his doomed invasion in this text-based RPG / Visual Novel. Navigate the shark-filled waters of the Great Leader's presidential cabinet, try to save your family, and survive the purges in a world of power-hungry leaders and nuclear warfare.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Text-Based 14.8%, War 13.6%, Visual Novel 11.1%
Some memories aren't meant to stay. We are our memories and our experiences. What happens if you delete some of them? If you change your past and, thus, your future?
Why similar: Political 26.4% ★, Text-Based 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.5%
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 29.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, RPG 13%, Visual Novel 6.9%
Dive deep into the twisted HP Lovecraft universe with this oversized narrative RPG. Slip into the intertwined souls of Mark, Anna, and Victor, surrounded by cult worshippers, as Nyarlathotep, the cosmic horror, strives to enslave humanity in 1929.
Why similar: Text-Based 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Lore-Rich 11.6%, Demons 11.6%
An adventure visual novel with a pixel art style. About ghosts, past love, and a world of the unconscious.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Hand-drawn 15.1%, Dark Fantasy 9.8%, Stylized 8.3%
They have magic and fangs. You have red tape! When vampires, werewolves, wizards, and demons clash, you must mediate. Save your city, or sell your soul?
Why similar: Diplomacy 25% ★, Text-Based 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Lore-Rich 12.2%, Demons 12.1%
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 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Text-Based 20.4%, Visual Novel 14.7%, RPG 8.5%
Discover the world of Nadaca, meet emotionally rich characters and help them express their feelings through conversations, mini-games and a plant-growing system.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.2%, Hand-drawn 13.6%, Lore-Rich 11.3%, Visual Novel 9.2%, Stylized 8.9%
This is a train to 21C, via 19C. Passengers will require a valid click to use this service. Passengers are advised that this train consists of 9 cars, divided by each era. Please mind the fire. This train is ready to depart, please stand clear of the fire.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Hand-drawn 15.9%, Psychological 12.2%, Lore-Rich 12%, Dark Fantasy 11.3%
Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Psychological 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.9%
Customize your fate in a fallen world: forge bonds and uncover secrets in a tale of power, love, and the weight of grief. Your choices define your path: how will you rise in the hierarchy of the damned?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Text-Based 14.8%, Demons 11.9%, Visual Novel 11.2%
To defeat the rebel knights and stabilize the crown, you must journey through the most dangerous realm in the kingdom--your own wretched past.
Why similar: Psychological 19.6%, Text-Based 17.9%, War 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%
ALL THE PROMISED BURN is a hand-drawn Knowledge-based RPG about what an assassin does after the War ends. Can you learn new ways to be, when the past is still burned into you?
Why similar: Political 21.6% ★, Demons 13.2%, Lore-Rich 11.8%, Hand-drawn 10.2%, Visual Novel 9.7%
Christian Tyler is ready to investigate a new case! Uncover the mystery of the tourist town of Alkelano in our new visual novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Visual Novel 16%, Hand-drawn 12.4%, Psychological 11.5%
Do you enjoy listening to stories and having the ability to influence their unfolding? If so, then immerse yourself in the role of an active participant as you join Yaren on her quest for freedom.
Why similar: Text-Based 20%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Psychological 15.1%, Lore-Rich 9.7%
A daemonic, handcrafted visual novel where your choices shape erotic dreams, secrets, and ritual desires.
Why similar: Text-Based 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Psychological 12.3%, Lore-Rich 11.6%
A boy living as a warrant for a political marriage falls in love with a maid despite his unrequited love. You become a black rose fairy who grants wishes and discover that you were once human. Enter the bodies of the people in the mansion and trace their memories to discover their true identities.
Why similar: Gothic 21.5% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Dark Fantasy 11.2%, Interactive Fiction 10.8%, Text-Based 10%
Warsaw: Paris of the North is a Choose Your Own Adventure Game, built on text, graphics with plenty of choices that develop the main character’s features and direct him to a variety of plots. Set in 1930’s Warsaw.
Why similar: Political 21.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Hand-drawn 11.2%
The near future is just a few toes away. Journalist Iselda Aronica A man is asked to conduct an investigation in a certain town. The name of the town is Angelovale. The name of the town is Angelovale. It was a town where people still existed.
Why similar: Gothic 19.9% ★, Text-Based 16.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Hand-drawn 11.6%, Visual Novel 11.5%
You've been tasked with collecting data on an alien planet. Choose between exploring the jungle tropics or navigating deep into the bioluminescent sea.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Text-Based 14.5%, Lore-Rich 14.2%, Visual Novel 13.1%
An interactive fiction epic fantasy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Text-Based 18.3%, RPG 13.9%, Dark Fantasy 10.8%
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: Text-Based 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Dark Fantasy 10.6%
Awaken the Realm is a fantasy RPG visual novel where you explore various dungeons to solve puzzles and fight enemies in a quest to uncover your identity and save the kingdom!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Text-Based 15.6%, Visual Novel 12%, Lore-Rich 10.4%, Dark Fantasy 9.9%
3 short stories set in a mystical fantasy universe. You are a newborn Face of God. Hear tales of human suffering and triumph. Decide which Face of God you are. Pick a different fate for each main character. A short, linear experience that is introspective, emotional and spiritual.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Text-Based 16.9%, Lore-Rich 16.1%, Dark Fantasy 13.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%
Lead an ancient and crumbling noble house in a rich gunpowder fantasy setting. Lie, bribe, and conspire to secure power and prestige – or to save a doomed kingdom from itself.
Why similar: Diplomacy 35.6% ★, Text-Based 17.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, RPG 9.8%
