
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.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Interactive Fiction, Text-Based, Choices Matter, Story Rich.

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.

The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
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?

Roadwarden
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.
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: Text-Based 24.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Visual Novel 15.7%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
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 29.8%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.4%, Visual Novel 6.1%
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 18.3%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Lore-Rich 13.4%, Text-Based 10.5%
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 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Text-Based 20.6%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
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 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.4%, Text-Based 20.2%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Choices Matter 7.6%
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 20.9%, Text-Based 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.7%, Lore-Rich 14.4%, Dark Fantasy 7.8%
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 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Lore-Rich 12.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.3%, Visual Novel 9.7%
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 18.7%, Text-Based 15.4%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Lore-Rich 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.3%
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 20.1%, Text-Based 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Lore-Rich 14.3%, Visual Novel 12%
A text-based choose your own adventure game, with multiple stories, each with several endings. Stories you create through branching narratives are kept so you can read them again or show them to friends.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.2%, Multiple Endings 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Lore-Rich 14.1%, Text-Based 12.3%
In a future where memories are the last connection to a lost humanity, you are an advanced AI exploring fragments of past lives. Understand emotions, traumas, and choices in a journey to uncover what it means to be alive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Text-Based 21.8%, Lore-Rich 19.2%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Choices Matter 6.5%
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: Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Lore-Rich 16.1%, Text-Based 14.9%, Visual Novel 11.9%
Vanakan is the journey of Tadevos - a priest, who travels the 500s Armenia to find the monastery that suits for his goal of becoming spiritually closer to Jesus Christ. He meets different people on his way and makes choices which will define his future and that of the country.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.5%, Text-Based 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Choices Matter 8.1%, Multiple Endings 7.7%
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%, Choices Matter 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Text-Based 16.1%, Visual Novel 10.7%
Overcome all obstacles by trusting in your own strength, the power of your Soul Stone, and your loyal companions. Become the legend you were born to be.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Lore-Rich 17.6%, Choices Matter 7.8%
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 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Lore-Rich 11.8%, Visual Novel 11%
The abyss awaits. Descend into a minimalist visual novel about a girl in the future, and guide her through branching conversations, microgames, and explorable locations. Make friends with criminals, drink too much at dinner, or relax in a spa. Whatever happens, it was your choice.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Lore-Rich 15.2%, Text-Based 13.8%, Visual Novel 11.5%
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 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Lore-Rich 15.2%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Text-Based 10.5%
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: Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Text-Based 21.9%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Choices Matter 9.7%
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Text-Based 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Choices Matter 8.9%
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: Text-Based 24.9%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
Explore an alternative medieval Europe in this low-fantasy epic adventure! How far are you willing to go to take back your stolen treasure?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Text-Based 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.3%, Lore-Rich 12.5%, Choices Matter 8.3%
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 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Text-Based 21%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Story Rich 4.6%
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 22.9%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Lore-Rich 16.3%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Choices Matter 8%
"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested." Story about life, choices and a Man vs the System. This unique interactive literature adaptation. A game, brought to You in early visual novel, text-adventure style.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.1%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Choices Matter 10.1%
A story-rich coming-of-age experience told through a 2004 desktop, where friendships, music, and late-night conversations shape who you become. Explore chats, drama, mini-games, and the early internet in a branching story about growing up, making mistakes, and finding your place.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Text-Based 17.7%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.5%, Choices Matter 10.5%
Make your name as a whiskey-runner, a politician, or a gangster as you quench thirsts from rural Pennsylvania to the New York City nightlife!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.2%, Text-Based 26.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.1%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
Decide the fate of the son of a tailor and a witch doctor infected with an incurable disease in an interactive story with multiple endings depending on your actions.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Text-Based 15.4%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Multiple Endings 11.8%
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 22.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Text-Based 11.7%, Lore-Rich 10%
Infiltrate the orgiastic secret society beneath the modern-day Palace of Versailles! Will you expose their sex rituals or surrender to their pleasures? An interactive romance novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Text-Based 22.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Lore-Rich 18.7%, Choices Matter 6.5%
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 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, Lore-Rich 11.6%, Multiple Endings 10.1%
It's time to make a name for yourself in the big city. In this first half of a two-part epic, can you unravel the mysteries of Lux, City of Secrets?
Why similar: Text-Based 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 25%, Lore-Rich 20.2%, Choices Matter 9.4%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
Find a way out of the Do 11 app by doing missions that come from the mysterious Do 11 app. A choice awaits you to solve puzzles and change the fate of the protagonist. Escape the main character from the Do 11 app while savoring a profound worldview and intriguing story. An incredible twist awaits.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18%, Text-Based 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
This is a retro story game about choices and the voices in your head. Unlock new voices, new thoughts, and new endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Lore-Rich 15.1%, Text-Based 12.4%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%
Welcome to Ostera: The curse of... Join the Adventure! Shape Your Destiny, Kiss Rats, and Slap Kids!
Why similar: Text-Based 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Lore-Rich 15%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Visual Novel 9.9%
A narrative-driven RPG where every dice roll shapes your fate. Step into the role of the Queen's Herald and traverse a mist-shrouded realm to uncover the fate of her lost army. Will your choices uphold loyalty, or lead you down a path of betrayal? The secrets of the mists await.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Visual Novel 10.6%
Become the greatest of the goblin merchants in this gaslamp faery-tale! Buy and sell secrets and memories! Trade in time, shadows, and stranger things!
Why similar: Text-Based 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Choices Matter 7.5%, Multiple Endings 7.4%
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: Text-Based 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Lore-Rich 16.4%, Choices Matter 7.9%
You are the Monarch. Choose between diplomacy and tyranny. Romance allies or enemies. Your decisions define your rule and the fate of those closest to you in this character-driven interactive tale.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Text-Based 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Lore-Rich 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.2%
Under developement, Grave Knight is an interactive RPG adventure inspired by SRD 5.1 ruleset and classical game books, where your decisions weave the fate of the characters and the story. Let the dice forge the fate of your hero and the realm by fighting the Grave knight and his horde.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Visual Novel 17%, Text-Based 15%, Choices Matter 10.2%
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 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Lore-Rich 14.5%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Text-Based 10.5%
Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Choices Matter 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Text-Based 11.9%, Story Rich 10.9%
Your words shape the adventure. Omea is a revolutionary AI-powered narrative game where your personal Game Master responds to everything you write. No menus, no limits. Just type and forge your own legend across fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, and beyond.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Lore-Rich 13.6%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Story Rich 8.5%
As a social media influencer recruited to a team of heroes, can you earn their trust, defend the city, and prove you’re worth more than your follower count? A text-based interactive superhero novel.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.7%, Text-Based 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Lore-Rich 18.4%, Choices Matter 5.9%
Extract yourself from another fine mess–this time, with your family watching! Mischief, mix-ups, and bewilderingly urgent capers at your ancestral estate.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.2%, Text-Based 25.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
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 18.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Text-Based 16.5%, Lore-Rich 14.8%, Visual Novel 11.4%
"What music would you listen to at the end of the world?" Explore an abandoned world after the apocalypse of the final winter. Shape the story of a man whose loneliness threatens his sanity. Use violence to survive or avoid it to protect your mind. Experience the end of the world!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Text-Based 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
Ancient science fiction theme text adventure game - and you will play a scholar who can't get fame because of the abolition of the imperial examination in the world's highest town, and meet two small town scholars who can't get the imperial examination to explore the secrets of the town.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.5%, Lore-Rich 16.9%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Text-Based 15.3%, Multiple Endings 11.8%
A horror mystery visual novel where a boy and a girl undergo a strange ritual in a remote mountain village. As eerie phenomena creep into their daily lives, they begin to uncover unsettling truths. Your choices shape how the story unfolds.
Why similar: Lore-Rich 23.4%, Visual Novel 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Text-Based 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%
An interactive fiction epic fantasy.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Text-Based 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Lore-Rich 13.1%, Dark Fantasy 7.2%
For five years, Licht lived as a mid-tier mercenary. Now he must not only escape from a dungeon teeming with giant insects and ancient secrets, but also decide whether to accept his ancestors' legacy or reject it once and for all.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.9%, Lore-Rich 17.8%, Text-Based 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
Picking up right where you left off in part one, the city and school are still in shock from the mysterious attacks, and the question on everyone's mind is...who was behind them, and why?
Why similar: Text-Based 26%, Interactive Fiction 24%, Lore-Rich 20.5%, Choices Matter 7.9%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
Set off on an exciting swashbuckling quest in this classic Fantasy Choose Your Own Adventure! Meet charming characters, fight dangerous foes, and uncover a nefarious intrigue. Experience seamless and reactive storytelling. Prove your innocence, find your destiny, relish the journey!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Text-Based 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choices Matter 11.8%
You are the wizard of this interactive fantasy story! Stay alive, manage your spell power, find treasure, and smite evil. All 6 episodes are included for 20+hours of adventure.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Visual Novel 11.1%, Choices Matter 11%
In a Persian steampunk empire, will you use your arcane alchemy to repair a spaceship, or pilot a mech? Ignite a revolution, or snuff it out?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Text-Based 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Lore-Rich 15%, Choices Matter 6.4%
Heed magic’s call! Find love as you explore ancient mysteries, craft dragon-rune tattoos, and discover your true loyalties. What passions shape your path?
Why similar: Text-Based 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, Lore-Rich 16.1%, Choices Matter 5.9%
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: Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.3%, Visual Novel 19.6%, Choices Matter 11.4%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
Will you infiltrate the gods' Elite Courte, stealing their superpowers, or turn double agent and join them, taking your place among the divine?
Why similar: Text-Based 29%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Choices Matter 13.8%, Story Rich 7.4%
Where are you, Cinderella? is a visual novel about Vietnamese culture and the world of entertainment. Will you be able to find the lost shoe’s owner? Or, will you find your shoe?
Why similar: Text-Based 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
Aunewyth is a text-based game with a focus on narration and decision making. It features a short yet versatile storyline that reveals itself according to the choices you make.
Why similar: Text-Based 33.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.6%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%