- #1 Odysseus: Homecoming
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Luca Games
Windows
Become Odysseus, the king who brought down Troy, and survive the cursed voyage home. Every choice is remembered, and every death becomes a clue for your next attempt. A narrative survival adventure with no hidden dice — where even your first instincts are woven into the song.
Why similar: Mythology 21%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Text-Based 10.8%
- #2 Exercise your Demons
96% 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: Mythology 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Text-Based 19.6%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
- #3 スマートフォン
96% matchPositive97% of 29 reviews2026
Dev: OwataStudio
Windows
見知らぬ密室で目を覚ました主人公。 頼れるものは、手元に残された一台のスマートフォンだけ。 通話、メッセージ、アプリなどに残された痕跡をたどりながら、脱出の手がかりを探していく。 しかし、情報を集めるほどに、 この事件の裏に隠された異様な真実が浮かび上がっていく。 スマートフォンを操作して進める、サイコロジカル・ホラーADV。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Text-Based 21.1%, Multiple Endings 6.8%, Adventure 6.4%
- #4 Yogoe Hunter
95% 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: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Text-Based 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Mythology 11.9%, Multiple Endings 8.2%
- #5 マンドラゴラ心中
94% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: マリヒコPub: rhizome village
Windows · Mac
ある高校のスクールカウンセラーである主人公は、二人の少女が起こした心中事件に巻き込まれていく……。画面を二分割し、二人の少女を見比べながら進める「二画面同時進行」システムを採用。食い違う証言から事件の全体像が浮かび上がる。「rhizome village」が送るファナティックガールズトークADV。
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.9%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Text-Based 21.3%, Choices Matter 8.7%, Story Rich 6.6%
- #6 Bootlegger: Moonshine Empire
93% matchPositive81% of 21 reviews2024
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 26.7%, Text-Based 25.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.3%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
- #7 The Wake of the Wyrm
92% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A crown upon your head, danger all around. Rule, marry, scheme, raise heirs, wage wars, fulfill prophecies, and survive the waking Wyrm. An interactive text-based dark fantasy novel, 850,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Text-Based 27.5%, Interactive Fiction 27%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Choices Matter 12%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
- #8 The Peresmeshnik
91% matchVery Positive92% of 111 reviews2020
Dev: Sean Arnold
Windows
It is said that the last frontier is space, but the crew of the Soviet Frigate, The Peresmeshnik, is about to discover that the sea still hides a terrifying secret. Waiting to be found.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Story Rich 7.5%, Choices Matter 7.5%
- #9 楚漢女子
91% matchNo user reviews2021
Dev: 株式会社Viola
Windows · Mac · Linux
Ancient China, the era of the Chu-Han War. This is a historical novel adventure that depicts the "what ifs" of the two leaders of the Chu-Han War, Han Yu and Liu Bang. ---Your choice will be the guidepost of this story.
Why similar: Text-Based 30.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Multiple Endings 14.9%, Story Rich 12.7%, Choices Matter 12%
- #10 CLOSED HANDS
90% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2021
Dev: PASSENGER
Windows · Mac · Linux
CLOSED HANDS is a groundbreaking work of interactive fiction that explores the tangled intertwined stories of five people thrown together by a fictional terror attack.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.5%, Text-Based 27.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.3%, Adventure 8.1%, Atmospheric 6.6%
- #11 Jolly Good: Tea and Scones
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 27.4%, Text-Based 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.5%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
- #12 The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Verse and Vision
Windows
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 27.2%, Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Choices Matter 13.6%, Multiple Endings 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%
- #13 All (Too) Good Things
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: YOWPY games
Windows
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 27.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Text-Based 22.2%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Choices Matter 7.5%
- #14 Mass of Consumption
87% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Wayward Woyrm Games
Windows
The church is impatient. The church is hungry. The church is willing to do anything to get you back.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27%, Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Text-Based 15.1%, Choices Matter 10%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
- #15 The Nascent Necromancer
86% matchMixed60% of 15 reviews2023
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 25.8%, Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Multiple Endings 10.8%
- #16 Aunewyth
85% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2023
Dev: Captain Cool
Windows
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%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Multiple Endings 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%
- #17 Hadean Lands
86% matchPositive92% of 49 reviews2016
Dev: Zarfhome Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
Alchemy, puzzles, and a crashed starship. Old-style interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No dialogue trees! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 36.2%, Text-Based 34%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.6%, Adventure 3.8%, Story Rich 3.3%
- #18 Glow Box
83% matchVery Positive94% of 64 reviews2026
Dev: 月刊湿地帯Pub: Waku Waku Games
Windows · Mac
A 60-minute adventure where all you do is glow.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.6%, Text-Based 18.9%, Multiple Endings 8.7%, Adventure 7.2%
- #19 What Is Sleeping In My Room?
84% match7 user reviews88% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: CousinCatnip
Windows
Experience the hunt for the Monster living in your room in this Visual Novel experience. Your choices will determine the fate of both you and the Monster. Will you figure out what the Monster really is?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.4%, Text-Based 23.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
- #20 VERSUS: The Elite Trials
84% matchPositive88% of 33 reviews2016
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 28.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Choices Matter 15%, Story Rich 8.6%
- #21 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
82% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Infinite Zone
Windows
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 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Text-Based 22.3%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
- #22 Whiskey-Four
81% matchVery Positive91% of 112 reviews2024
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Never stop running, not with the galaxy at stake. Save it at all costs, and save yourself if you can.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.9%, Interactive Fiction 23.8%, Text-Based 21.1%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Multiple Endings 11.8%
- #23 Choice of Robots
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,000 reviews2014
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Your robots will change the world! Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army? A 300,000-word epic interactive sci-fi novel.
Why similar: Text-Based 30.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Story Rich 5.3%
- #24 Fields of Asphodel
81% matchVery Positive86% of 80 reviews2024
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Befriend misfit deities and make a life for yourself in the Underworld! Can you escape your arranged marriage to the King? Do you want to?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.3%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Text-Based 20.4%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
- #25 呪霊が見せる夢 / Dreamscapes
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: アイエダゲームズ(Aieda Games)
Windows
Investigate six haunted properties and listen to the voices of spirits trapped in nightmares. Collect fragmented clues and discover the correct combination of names, locations, and vessels. A multi-ending horror adventure where the outcome changes depending on your choices during the ritual.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20%, Text-Based 19.9%, Multiple Endings 12.3%, Choices Matter 10.9%
- #26 Tower of the Ice Lich
79% matchPositive100% of 19 reviews2025
Dev: Arcane Lorelabs
Windows · Mac
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 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Choices Matter 10.1%
- #27 History of Dragosa
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Violence in Video Games
Windows
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 21.8%, Multiple Endings 18.5%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Text-Based 13.5%
- #28 Dreaming After You
78% matchPositive91% of 32 reviews2024
Dev: MangoPower
Windows
Play as a Duskweaver in this short "choices matter" story about self-sacrifice.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Multiple Endings 14.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13%
- #29 Silent Earth
78% matchPositive84% of 25 reviews2021
Dev: Fring Frang Games
Windows
Silent Earth is a short sci-fi text adventure about finding one’s place despite an uncertain future. Explore an off-world mining colony ship, navigate multi-linear character relationships, and steer the story toward one of five endings.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.4%, Interactive Fiction 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Multiple Endings 12.7%, Choices Matter 9.7%
- #30 キズツケ kizutsuke
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 852話
Windows
To escape, you must hurt someone. KIZUTSUKE is a psychological suspense visual novel about four young men trapped together. Read their conversations, make difficult choices, and discover four endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.4%, Text-Based 21.9%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Multiple Endings 9%
- #31 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
76% matchVery Positive88% of 13,129 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 22.5%, Choices Matter 21.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Text-Based 18.1%, Story Rich 10.4%
- #32 Roadwarden
76% matchVery Positive94% of 5,205 reviews2022
Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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 35.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Choices Matter 7.6%, Story Rich 7.3%
- #33 Sorcery! Parts 1 and 2
77% matchVery Positive88% of 762 reviews2016
Dev: inkle Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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 36.6%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Text-Based 16.4%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Story Rich 8.5%
- #34 Diaspora
74% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Navigate unknown waters, deadly politics, and ancient magic in this low-fantasy adventure. Can you turn the tides of war and forge a future for your clan? A text-based interactive novel, 1 million words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.9%, Choices Matter 8.7%, Multiple Endings 6.9%
- #35 阴桃花 (The Flowers of Yin)
75% matchPositive92% of 49 reviews2022
Dev: SnowyYANGPub: 逐夏
Windows
幻想若非幻想 自然可超自然 伴我梦中桃花 懒识人间滋味
Why similar: Text-Based 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 24.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Multiple Endings 10.7%
- #36 Shadow of the Curse-Eater
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
The wilderfolk of Ushinega Island waste away in a rotting tropical paradise, haunted by a deadly malediction. Yet behind every curse lurks a secret. You have the power to save them... but should you?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.5%, Text-Based 22.9%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Multiple Endings 13.7%
- #37 Fallen Hero: Revelations
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Face down your ghosts and unearth secrets better left buried as you prepare to take vengeance on the ones who wronged you. But be warned, burying your past only works if it stays put.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.3%, Text-Based 26.1%, Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
- #38 Your Story: Games with Death
73% matchMixed43% of 37 reviews2026
Dev: BoldBox
Windows
A medieval text quest in the "Choose Your Own Adventure" genre, where each choice could be your last. Create your story with more than 2,000 events, 200 of which will prove fatal. In a world where death plays against you, can you outsmart it and write your own story?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Text-Based 18%, Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
- #39 After the Storm
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rebuild society after the climate apocalypse! Can you keep your settlement alive? Will you hold onto your humanity or lose it in the directionless expanse?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28%, Text-Based 26.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.8%, Choices Matter 8.9%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
- #40 Arderico's Journey
73% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Digital Masquerade
Windows
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 25%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Text-Based 13.4%, Choices Matter 13.2%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
- #41 EVER
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bada O Studio
Windows
Awaken into the quiet ruins of a world left behind in EVER, a narrative text adventure. Piece together lost memories, use protocols to uncover hidden choices. No more orders. What kind of robot will you be?
Why similar: Text-Based 29.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.5%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Story Rich 9.5%
- #42 1453: Fall of Constantinople
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 3Cats Studio
Windows · Mac
Constantinople, 1453. Four witnesses — a janissary, a baker's daughter, an engineer, a noble — live the same 53 days of the siege. Choices cross between their stories, and the city remembers. An illustrated, choice-driven historical novel where every ending is someone's truth.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.8%, Text-Based 21.1%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
- #43 The Zoo
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: R ButtonPub: Hierarch Games
Windows · Mac
You've had the same dream all week: a school field trip to a zoo you can't leave, where the lions always find you in the end. Wander the zoo exhibits, make your choices, and search for the way out. A short, hand-painted interactive story about a recurring dream, and finally resolving it.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Text-Based 14%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Multiple Endings 12.2%
- #44 Saturnine
70% matchMixed70% of 27 reviews2025
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are the Veteran. You’re the oldest android in the Solar System, a relic and survivor of the ancient past. Now it’s time for you to fight again. A text-based science-fantasy novel, 700,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.3%, Text-Based 25.9%, Choices Matter 9%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
- #45 Serania - Path of the Scion
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FableTree Productions
Windows · Mac
Choose, explore, interact, fight, solve, gather, trade! Rise to rebel in this immersive text-based fantasy story that seamlessly merges the best elements of RPGs, choose-your-own-adventure stories, visual novels, and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Story Rich 8.1%
- #46 Roll Value
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: = tale(JK, 3)
Windows
Your choices reveal what you value. Guide three adventurers through a kingdom in crisis, deciding whom to protect as its population and army decline. Character traits and dice shape the outcome, while every decision builds a five-principle value profile revealed at the end of your journey.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23%, Text-Based 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
- #47 Lord of Lords: Dawn of the King
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Neural Break Inc.
Windows
Betrayed in the Amazon, an elite Korean special forces commander crosses into a brutal fantasy world and rises as a lord. A dark military-fantasy visual novel with choices, light progression, and conquest.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.9%, Text-Based 12.6%, Choices Matter 8.9%, Multiple Endings 8.5%
- #48 King of Dragon Pass
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 571 reviews2015
Dev: A SharpPub: HeroCraft PC
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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: Mythology 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Text-Based 14.1%, Choices Matter 8.6%
- #49 Inflorescences
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FloriProductions
Windows · Mac
A visual novel strategy game where your floral fragrances determine the fate of your mysterious shop and its patrons. Make choices, talk to customers, and shape the story. Get ready for a journey of heartfelt connections and strategic decision-making.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Text-Based 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Multiple Endings 13.2%
- #50 Professor of Magical Studies
69% matchPositive83% of 24 reviews2022
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Professor of Magical Studies is an interactive magical school novel by Stephen Granade, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Text-Based 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Choices Matter 10.8%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
- #51 The Sculptor
67% match7 user reviews100% of 7 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: Interactive Fiction 23.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.4%, Text-Based 17.2%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
- #52 Honor Bound
67% matchPositive90% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Protect an exclusive boarding school and rebuild your life after scandal as a military bodyguard! How far will you go for ambition, duty, and your country?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Text-Based 19.8%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Multiple Endings 12.3%
- #53 Message in a Melody
68% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Can music save the human race? You and the Raqullan Empire will soon find out. Decide whether music, and the humans who make it, should survive.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.2%, Text-Based 27.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
- #54 Daria: A Kingdom Simulator
68% matchMixed42% of 19 reviews2024
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rule your realm, train heroes, and build a legendary kingdom in Daria. Experience strategy, storytelling, and diplomacy in this immersive sim.
Why similar: Text-Based 30%, Interactive Fiction 29.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
- #55 Affairs of the Court: Choice of Romance
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 75 reviews2016
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Plunge into court politics and change the course of history, or pursue a love affair that rocks the kingdom to its foundations!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.3%, Text-Based 28.2%, Interactive Fiction 23.2%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Adventure 5.4%
- #56 Scarlet Sails
67% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Hoist the Jolly Roger and set sail to find the legendary Titan’s Treasure! Do you fight with a cutlass or with magic? Are you biding your time until you can shoot your captain in the back, or are you the reason the rum is gone?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.7%, Text-Based 28.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
- #57 Recluses
69% matchPositive93% of 15 reviews2020
Dev: Timofei UsikovPub: cd-doma production
Windows
More than 30 orthodox sectarians underground. They locked themselves in man-made caves. You're a negotiator. Your task is to rescue recluses before Apocalypse.
Why similar: Text-Based 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Story Rich 10.4%
- #58 Mistbound
65% matchPositive90% of 21 reviews2026
Dev: aworyrate
Windows · Mac · Linux
Mistbound is a surreal narrative adventure about overcoming trauma, where the line between reality and dreams is blurred. Loneliness can be too loud. And salvation can be too quiet!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Multiple Endings 14.9%, Text-Based 14.6%, Choices Matter 13.8%
- #59 Turncoat Chronicle
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 14 reviews2023
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Your father stole his throne, intending to leave it to you. When the long-lost heir resurfaces, will you defend the king—or betray him to his enemies?
Why similar: Text-Based 27.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 26%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Multiple Endings 8.3%