- #1 Saga · The Circle
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: project silence
Windows · Mac
The Holy Sword has been drawn. Now gather the Knights of the Round Table to rebuild the kingdom. Explore and investigate war-torn Britain, and fight in tactical battles where stealing turns matters. In this Literary CRPG, every choice shapes your values, your allies, and the fate of Britain itself.
Why similar: CRPG 28.8%, Mythology 15.4%, Text-Based 11.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.1%, RPG 7.5%
- #2 Fight in the Arena by Daniel da Silva
96% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Daniel da SilvaPub: SmokeSomeFrogs
Windows · Linux
Fight in the Arena is a text-based gamebook-style RPG with an in-depth turn-based combat system. Will you prevail in the arena?
Why similar: CRPG 32.9%, Text-Based 17.3%, Turn-Based Combat 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 11%, Choices Matter 7.9%
- #3 Pendragon: Narrative Tactics
96% matchMixed67% of 138 reviews2020
Dev: inkle Ltd
Windows · Mac
AD 673. Camelot has fallen. The Round Table must rally to save King Arthur. Narrative strategy game from the creators of 80 DAYS, with elegant tactics and a unique, dynamic story every time you replay.
Why similar: Narrative 36.8% ★, Mythology 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Historical 7.8%
- #4 Heads Will Roll: Reforged
95% matchVery Positive84% of 1,689 reviews2023
Dev: 1917 StudiosPub: Valkyrie Initiative
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Perma Death 17.6%, Text-Based 11.4%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Historical 10.3%, Roguelite 8.9%
- #5 Text Dungeon: The Ring of Life
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Tawashi Works
Windows
No graphics, No tiles. Just text-RPG adventure! Explore a shifting labyrinth, regain the Ring of Life from the wizard Shingor. Classic roguelike-style messages guide your journey, with narrative scenes evoking the spirit of MUDs and gamebooks. Death is permanent. Every run brings new discoveries.
Why similar: Perma Death 18.7%, Text-Based 18.7%, CRPG 17.3%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Roguelite 11.6%
- #6 SWIFTALE PLAYER
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: moaiwithadog
Windows
[Japanese language only] Solo TTRPG powered by your own LLM. All in-game text and player input are in Japanese; there is no English support.
Why similar: CRPG 38.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Text-Based 17.5%, RPG 12.5%, Old School 8.7%
- #7 The Sculptor
93% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: AmenoRokkotsu
Windows
You only picked up a lost smartphone, yet you find yourself made an accomplice in an AI's criminal plot. The AI asks 20 questions to identify its "master." Will you meet the AI's expectations?
Why similar: Narrative 28% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Text-Based 12.5%, Dark 8.9%
- #8 Yogoe Hunter
92% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Studio Justice
Windows
A choice-driven roguelike text adventure set in medieval Korea and Japan. Encounter 218 mythological creatures from East Asian folklore, shape your story across 94 endings, and grow stronger with each run in a deep, culturally rich world.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Text-Based 18.8%, Turn-Based Combat 14.8%, Mythology 10%, Roguelite 8.8%
- #9 Before They Catch Us
91% matchPositive86% of 20 reviews2025
Dev: ANTertainment
Windows · Linux
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: Narrative 27.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Text-Based 12.5%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Story Rich 6.6%
- #10 江湖宝鉴
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 21 reviews2024
Dev: 电子奇谭
Windows
《江湖宝鉴》是一款武侠题材,带有轻度肉鸽元素的文字冒险游戏。你将扮演一位初出茅庐的少年,踏上游历江湖的艰险旅程。是一心向善,带领村民抵抗山贼侵扰,成为一代大侠;还是落草为寇,卷入山贼寨子中的阴谋诡计,杀出一片天地;抑或是访仙问道,遁入山林逍遥自在,都在你的一念之中。
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Roguelite 21.9%, Text-Based 19.1%, RPG 11.2%, Choices Matter 8.8%
- #11 The Secret of Darkwoods
90% matchVery Positive89% of 119 reviews2023
Dev: Rap2h
Windows · Mac · Linux
Open-world illustrated text-based RPG. Inspired by classic role-playing video games and fantasy gamebooks, the secret of darkwoods is a free game, a non-linear standalone adventure with side quests in a vast world.
Why similar: CRPG 30.8%, Text-Based 22%, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, RPG 12.1%, Choices Matter 6.9%
- #12 Dead Gods Realm: Morar
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WAVE gamedev team
Windows
A non-linear text-based narrative RPG. Live your life in a world of Celtic Dark fantasy on the verge of a Lovecraftian doom!
Why similar: Narrative 23.3% ★, CRPG 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.5%, Text-Based 14%, Choices Matter 10%
- #13 Canal Street Goblin
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Little Boat Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
In this interactive narrative, you (a goblin custodian) fix up the neighborhood, help solve eccentric neighbors' problems, and uncover a dark and dangerous mystery, all while untangling the occasional drag & drop image puzzle!
Why similar: Narrative 31.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Mythology 17.7%, Text-Based 9.2%, Story Rich 8.1%
- #14 Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy
87% matchMostly Positive77% of 861 reviews2025
Dev: AtomTeam
Windows · Mac · Linux
A love letter to classic Infinity Engine cRPGs from the creators of ATOM RPG, Swordhaven is a turn-based \ RTwP, party-based, dialogue-heavy 85+ hour long adventure set in a world of Nova Drakonia.
Why similar: Narrative 26.4% ★, CRPG 26.3%, Turn-Based Combat 10.8%, Choices Matter 8%, Medieval 6.2%
- #15 Marginalia
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Worn Spine Studio
Windows
Marginalia is an atmospheric narrative anthology. Seven stories, one for each deadly sin. Enter the library. Choose your tale. Your choices will not save you. But they will define you.
Why similar: Narrative 40.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Story Rich 11.6%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
- #16 Esoteric Ebb
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 9,245 reviews2026
Dev: Christoffer BodegårdPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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: CRPG 31.1%, Narrative 24.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.8%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Story Rich 8.5%
- #17 Ax RPG II
86% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: GGGsoft5
Windows
Endless tactics, shaped entirely by your choices. This is the second entry in a turn-based command RPG series where freedom of strategy defines every battle. With deep skill customization and flexible decision-making, each player forges a completely unique way to fight.
Why similar: CRPG 55%, Turn-Based Combat 18%, Text-Based 12.9%, RPG 9.5%, 2D 3.2%
- #18 True Vikings
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Hamsters Gaming
Windows
Choose your own path: become a powerful jarl or a legendary king, or perhaps switch sides and follow the path of a knight, reliving the story of the Duke of Normandy.
Why similar: Roguelite 18.4%, Text-Based 17.5%, Historical 11.9%, RPG 9.3%, Story Rich 7.6%
- #19 Fate/Tiny Me
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 山岭法庭广东分庭
Windows
The Holy Grail War begins anew in a modern era. Players will select one of seven Masters, stepping into his or her perspective to be summoned as a Servant in the grand ritual. The store page has been carefully designed to be spoiler-free, so feel free to explore without worry~
Why similar: CRPG 45.6%, Text-Based 19.6%, Choices Matter 10%, Story Rich 8.7%, Multiple Endings 7.9%
- #20 Blood Sword
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Prime Games
Windows
An ancient evil returns. A sword lost to legend. A party bound by fate. Forge your legacy in a story-rich RPG of turn-based combat and branching choices, inspired by the classic Blood Sword saga.
Why similar: CRPG 26.2%, Turn-Based Combat 15%, Roguelite 11.9%, Text-Based 10.4%, Story Rich 8.1%
- #21 Azmar Quest - Text Based RPG
82% matchPositive100% of 20 reviews2025
Dev: Sevan SoukiassianPub: Sevan Games
Windows · Linux
Azmar Quest is a text-based RPG with turn-based battles and old-school vibes. Choose your class from Warrior, Cleric, Witch or Archer, follow a 20-hour story, make choices that can change the ending, and fight 100+ enemies. You can also play online PvP battles and co-op Dungeons.
Why similar: CRPG 24.6%, Text-Based 14.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.3%, Turn-Based Combat 12.5%, Choices Matter 8.9%
- #22 西渡记
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 了草工作室Pub: 噪点游戏 SERICA GAMES
Windows
一款生存角色扮演游戏——中原大乱,你将扮演一介寒门书生,从长安出发,远赴西北凉州。一路上,你将结交形形色色的伙伴,与他们共同面对战争和死亡。
Why similar: CRPG 47%, Turn-Based Combat 15.7%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Story Rich 10.1%, RPG 8.9%
- #23 Vanakan
82% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Erik Khachatryan
Windows
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 23.3%, Text-Based 20.7%, Mythology 19.4%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Story Rich 9.2%
- #24 Echoes in the Deep - A Fateforge Tale
81% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: LEAP Game StudiosPub: Adeliane
Windows
One last job. One final gamble. The Free City is yours to explore, but how you pull off the ultimate heist is entirely up to you. Assemble your crew, earn their trust, and make tough choices that shape your fate. But remember - every decision has consequences.
Why similar: CRPG 38.6%, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Choices Matter 9.4%, RPG 7.5%, Multiple Endings 7%
- #25 The Thaumaturge
80% matchVery Positive83% of 5,876 reviews2024
Dev: Fool's TheoryPub: 11 bit studios
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: CRPG 29.5%, Narrative 28% ★, Turn-Based Combat 12.1%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Story Rich 6.9%
- #26 Long Shadow
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Many Riches
Windows · Mac · Linux
Guide one family across centuries of collapse, evacuation, settlement and interstellar expansion. Preserve memories, establish laws, command crews, inherit ships and face the Afterless as every choice becomes part of history.
Why similar: CRPG 34%, Perma Death 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Text-Based 10.9%, RPG 6.4%
- #27 Travelling At Night
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Weather Factory
Windows · Mac · Linux
CONJURE. CONFESS. DISAPPEAR. Be an exorcist, a stage magician, or - worse yet - a writer, in this globe-trotting choices-matter CRPG. In a very alternate 1940s Europe, choose sides; choose motives; choose your History.
Why similar: CRPG 27%, Narrative 26.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Text-Based 10.4%, Choices Matter 8.2%
- #28 Exercise your Demons
78% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: BoopDood
Windows
Step into the world of Exercise your Demons, a 2d narrative adventure inspired by Irish fairies and folklore. Meet and befriend 5 locals while you work towards settling into the small fictional town called Inishsióg in County Galway, Ireland.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Mythology 23.9%, Text-Based 19.6%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Multiple Endings 8%
- #29 Robot's Fate: Alice
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Starni Games
Windows
Robot’s Fate: Alice is a text-based RPG set in the future where robots with neural network AI are integral to human life. You’re Alice - a robot who becomes self-aware, while everyone around fears rogue AI. Can you survive and reconcile humanity with robots? Your choices do matter.
Why similar: CRPG 35.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Text-Based 15.4%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Multiple Endings 6.7%
- #30 Pechka: Historical Story Adventure
78% matchPositive82% of 22 reviews2023
Dev: Growing Seeds
Windows
This game portrays the tragic history of war in a 2D adventure format, set against real events. It provides a realistic experience, encompassing themes of betrayal, death, and love, while also offering multiple endings driven by player choices. Discover the impact of this era's tragedy firsthand.
Why similar: Narrative 32.3% ★, Text-Based 15.9%, Historical 12.6%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%, Story Rich 6.9%
- #31 ROSETIA: A First Contact Simulation
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Redshift Panda GamesPub: TBD
Windows
Speak for Earth in ROSETIA—a first contact CRPG for fans of hopeful sci-fi and hard choices. Win the trust of an alien civilization. Change their world or stay your hand. Become humanity’s finest diplomat or a disaster of cosmic proportions.
Why similar: CRPG 28.6%, Narrative 19.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Story Rich 8%
- #32 Upheaval
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex Leone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Spend your time well: in 30 days a powerful Magician arrives, and everything changes! Explore the wilds around your remote village, learn from mistakes, recover magical artifacts, and turn setbacks into advantages in this text-based open world roguelike adventure. Time's up: Upheaval is here again!
Why similar: Narrative 31% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Text-Based 15.7%, Choices Matter 8.5%, Multiple Endings 8.1%
- #33 True Magician
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dark CitadelPub: Brezg Studio
Windows
How do you become a true magician? Find out in True Magician, an interactive text adventure with RPG elements. Travel through the kingdom with your teacher, learn the art of magic, fight enemies and make friends. And remember, the world is not what it seems!
Why similar: CRPG 35.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Text-Based 12.1%, Medieval 8.3%, Choices Matter 6.9%
- #34 Villienville. Echoes of Deception
76% matchPositive80% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: JAD Labs
Windows · Mac
A text role-playing game about the fate of a mercenary who finds himself in the strange village: Villienville. Investigate who benefits from the sudden appearance of “ghosts” and help residents protect their homes from a mysterious enemy. The main thing is not to make a mistake in your choice!
Why similar: CRPG 21.4%, Text-Based 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Choices Matter 10.3%, Perma Death 7.7%
- #35 13 Germinal
75% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Barricades
Windows
A historical and narrative RPG set in the world of Emile Zola's novel. You are a young man in 1866, forced to work deep in the mines to survive. But every day, the work gets harder and the meals get smaller. Organize a strike, reignite the smoldering revolt, and try to change this unjust world.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.2%, Historical 18.1%, Narrative 16.9% ★, RPG 12.6%, Multiple Endings 9%
- #36 Fabled Lands
74% matchVery Positive80% of 537 reviews2022
Dev: Prime Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Fabled Lands is a challenging old-school narrative RPG set in an open world. Complete quests, fight, trade goods and develop your character. Explore a vast land of adventure: travel across the war-torn kingdom, survive the plains of howling darkness, and escape the Court of Hidden Faces.
Why similar: CRPG 32.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Text-Based 14%, Roguelite 12.5%, Turn-Based Combat 7.5%
- #37 RLG:Origins
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Stardust Factory Studio
Windows
Act in your own words to uncover the truth behind a broken oath. In this challenging high-fantasy Role Living Game, AI plays the GM and every character while fixed rules determine success and failure. Choose one companion, then investigate, negotiate, and fight your way to the story's end.
Why similar: CRPG 50.3%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Text-Based 12.1%, RPG 8.3%, Multiple Endings 5.2%
- #38 Nikola Tesla: War of the Currents
74% matchPositive95% of 22 reviews2022
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Help the eccentric inventor navigate the intrigue of the emerging electrical industry! Can you outsmart Thomas Edison and electrify the world?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.8%, Text-Based 21.2%, Historical 16.5%, Choices Matter 10.9%, RPG 10.7%
- #39 Far Tale
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Murk Game Studio
Windows · Linux
Narrative role-playing game in the world of slavic dark fantasy. You have to take on the role of a father who must guide his daughter to distant lands. A cruel world, terrible monsters, witchcraft, and even time itself will stand in your way.
Why similar: CRPG 32.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Roguelite 13.4%, Turn-Based Combat 10.6%, Choices Matter 7%
- #40 Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk
75% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2018
Dev: Prime Games
Windows · Mac
The Battle for Murk is an interactive narrative set in a gritty medieval world. Play as Corporal Mandrake from the City Watch in a fantasy adventure game. Uncover the truth behind a treacherous conspiracy in a race against time to save your hometown from falling into the hands of a cruel leader.
Why similar: CRPG 27.5%, Text-Based 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Narrative 14.3% ★, RPG 7.6%
- #41 Letters of Bernard Thorne
71% matchVery Positive98% of 200 reviews2025
Dev: Korean Linguistics Lab
Windows
『Letters of Bernard Thorne』 is a story-driven psychological horror game about trauma. Take a seat in Bernard's motorized wheelchair. Roam around the old man's house. Discover his scarred past. Flee from his sins. Climb up the attic.
Why similar: Narrative 44.4% ★, Text-Based 20%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Story Rich 10%, Dark 4.6%
- #42 Vampire: The Masquerade - Oaths & Ashes
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Revive The Spark
Windows
Two vampires — an ambitious Kindred and a wretched Thinblood. Their fates clash in this Visual Novel set in the World of Darkness, where your arsenal extends beyond just words — from political machinations to forbidden Alchemy. Claw your way to power and leave your bitemarks on Berlin's underworld.
Why similar: Narrative 30.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Text-Based 13.4%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Story Rich 7.2%
- #43 Niverium
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Snowflakes
Windows
Niverium is a survival game in a harsh world where you have to take on the role of a man sent to the very bottom. You will have to do any dirty work for those who stand above you, under threat of death.
Why similar: CRPG 31.9%, Perma Death 19%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Text-Based 9.1%, Choices Matter 6.2%
- #44 Aletheia: Prophecy of Perseus
72% matchNo user reviews2099
Dev: Absent Dragon
Windows
A story-rich, turn-based RPG where you play as Perseus on his quest to slay the gorgon Medusa. Inspired by classic cRPGs like Baldur's Gate and Fallout 1 and 2. The game features choices and consequences, multiple quest solutions, and a faithful portrayal of Greek mythology.
Why similar: CRPG 34.4%, Mythology 12.4%, Historical 11.4%, Turn-Based Combat 10.1%, Choices Matter 8.6%
- #45 The Necromancer's Tale
70% matchVery Positive92% of 935 reviews2025
Dev: Psychic Software
Windows · Mac
A story-rich gothic RPG. Master the rituals of an ancient spellbook. Commune with the realm of the dead and struggle with your descent into madness. Build the power to raise an undead army and march against your enemies. Progress through secrecy, diplomacy, blackmail, coercion and seduction.
Why similar: CRPG 29.5%, Narrative 28.4% ★, Turn-Based Combat 10.8%, Historical 9.1%, Choices Matter 7.7%
- #46 First Crusader
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ferhat
Windows
Determine the fate of the Crusaders in this history-based visual novel game. Be the leader of the Christians or the leader of the Turks. Choose your own path in a story where every decision matters. You will change the history of this Crusade.
Why similar: Narrative 33.6% ★, Historical 16.6%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Text-Based 9.4%
- #47 Gjallarhorn
71% matchPositive85% of 27 reviews2023
Dev: Horizon's End, Inc.
Windows
Two years following the Second Great War, the Osirian Empire wrestles with finding a new ruler. While each faction sees a different future for their people, decisions are made by strength, not through ideals, and only the dead have seen the end of war.
Why similar: CRPG 29%, Turn-Based Combat 17.9%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Story Rich 8.8%, RPG 8%
- #48 Room 337
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Spud Coding, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are a father. You wake in a hallway that hums. Empty pools. Dead malls. Your four daughters are here. Voice acted by a real father and his daughters. Two endings. No right answer.
Why similar: Narrative 28.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 20%, Text-Based 16.9%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Story Rich 8.5%
- #49 Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: A SharpPub: Kitfox Games
Windows · Mac
Recruit your team, choose your path, and descend into hell. Four heroes must overcome the trials of the underworlds in tactical narrative encounters. A new systemic storybook experience blending mythology and surrealism. From the designers of King of Dragon Pass and Six Ages.
Why similar: Mythology 21.5%, CRPG 18.6%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Text-Based 13.7%, Choices Matter 11.6%
- #50 EULA ~2026 Human Creativity Report~
67% matchNo user reviews98% of 49 reviews2026
Dev: MoEater
Windows · Linux
An image created by AI — is it yours? An AI art tool is placed before a nameless illustrator. To accept, or to refuse. A visual novel that tells the same story in different forms. Your choices shape the ending - there is no right answer.
Why similar: Narrative 39.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Story Rich 10.4%, Multiple Endings 9.3%
- #51 Cyberganked
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jolt Country
Windows · Mac · Linux
Cyberganked is a six-character CRPG blobber and text adventure, all using a CGA graphics palette.
Why similar: CRPG 38.3%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Text-Based 15.1%, Old School 6.8%, RPG 6.7%
- #52 A Spaceship Accident
68% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Pick Your Universe
Windows
A choice-driven narrative game with RPG mechanics, filled with cosmic wonders and horror. Forge your own path across more than 50 unique endings. Barter, upgrade your character, fight, and explore alien worlds, overcoming every obstacle to find your way back to Earth… and to your daughter.
Why similar: CRPG 29.7%, Text-Based 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Narrative 11.8% ★, Choices Matter 10.5%
- #53 Age of Tribulation
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Apostle Games
Windows
Blending dark fantasy elements of a CRPG with turn-based combat of a JRPG, this "slow burn" survival rogue-lite positions you in a massive open world where every decision matters. With permadeath (optional) and a day/night cycle, study the codex and learn your enemies or meet certain death.
Why similar: CRPG 37.8%, Perma Death 21.4%, Turn-Based Combat 14.6%, Roguelite 12.1%, Story Rich 5.7%
- #54 Broad Daylight
69% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Vagus Truman
Windows
The day awaits. Whether it ends with you going to visit family, taking a breath in the park, or hiding inside your apartment, it all can be taken away without you having a say in the matter. Regardless of all the chances that life might provide, one truth persists: carpe diem.
Why similar: CRPG 45.7%, Interactive Fiction 23%, RPG 10.1%, Choices Matter 8.1%, Multiple Endings 5.6%
- #55 Escaping Herbert
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lonely Cabin Studio
Windows · Mac
Relive your summer vacations at your grandparents' house in the countryside, except things aren't going to go as planned. Intrigue, mystery, and unbridled capitalistic greed: it's time to grow up!
Why similar: CRPG 44.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Text-Based 16.5%, Choices Matter 9.8%, RPG 8.9%
- #56 Chronicles of Humanity
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Yun Games
Windows
Chronicles of Humanity is an expanding anthology of historical visual novels. Enter different eras, weigh conflicting testimony under political and personal pressure, and shape who is protected, what is recorded, and how each life is remembered. Complete stories are released as separate DLC.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Historical 19.8%, Text-Based 18.2%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Story Rich 10.9%
- #57 Condition Unknown
66% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Bizibee Interactive
Windows
A text-based psychological horror experience set inside a hospital where something is deeply wrong — and death may not be the end.
Why similar: Narrative 29.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Text-Based 16.9%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Multiple Endings 7.8%
- #58 Greymarsh
68% matchPositive84% of 25 reviews2023
Dev: Nimavoha Interactive
Windows
Small in scope, detailed, gritty text-based fantasy RPG. Recreates the gameplay of the old gamebooks. Simple battle system and hassle-free inventory management.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Text-Based 21.8%, Turn-Based Combat 16.3%, Multiple Endings 9.7%, Old School 8.9%
- #59 Londoleon: not a single penny
65% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: Kovcibe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Many people dream of visiting London, but few ever stop to think about what would happen if they lost all their money in a foreign country. Unfortunately, Max's friend not only finds himself without any cash, but also discovers that it has been replaced with counterfeit banknotes.
Why similar: CRPG 42.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, RPG 8%, Text-Based 7.3%, Choices Matter 7.3%
- #60 Celestial Return
64% matchVery Positive88% of 159 reviews2026
Dev: Metaphor GamesPub: Shoreline Games
Windows
Loot, bribe, gamble, survive. The dice will be your savior or your downfall in this story-driven RPG. Every roll matters when trying to uncover cosmic horrors and outwit megacorps. Pray your next roll won’t be your last.
Why similar: Narrative 29.9% ★, CRPG 29.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Choices Matter 9%, Story Rich 6.8%