
Once you open this book, you are no longer just a reader. A "reading-style" fantasy adventure in the spirit of The NeverEnding Story — handcrafted over six years by a 30-year veteran from Vanillaware. 100% handmade, from the first page to the last.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Choose Your Own Adventure, RPG, Interactive Fiction, Text-Based.

Once you open this book, you are no longer just a reader. A "reading-style" fantasy adventure in the spirit of The NeverEnding Story — handcrafted over six years by a 30-year veteran from Vanillaware. 100% handmade, from the first page to the last.

Fighting Fantasy Classics
Ready your sword, pack your provisions and prepare to embark upon quests in which YOU are the hero! Choose what happens at every turn of the page with Fighting Fantasy Classics – text-based roleplaying adventures remastered.

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Play the game from the perspective of a traveler who comes to the dealer and is faced with numerous choices in a story prepared by the dealer. Experience a story that changes based on your choices and see the ending that changes based on your choices!
Ready your sword, pack your provisions and prepare to embark upon quests in which YOU are the hero! Choose what happens at every turn of the page with Fighting Fantasy Classics – text-based roleplaying adventures remastered.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Tabletop 11.9%, Text-Based 10.5%, Choices Matter 8.5%
Play the game from the perspective of a traveler who comes to the dealer and is faced with numerous choices in a story prepared by the dealer. Experience a story that changes based on your choices and see the ending that changes based on your choices!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.6%, Tabletop 20.4%, Interactive Fiction 18%, Choices Matter 9.6%, RPG 9%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Old School 12.7%, Text-Based 11.5%, Choices Matter 8.8%
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 32.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, RPG 11.6%, Text-Based 8.6%, Choices Matter 8.4%
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 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Hand-drawn 13.8%, Text-Based 12.3%, RPG 9.2%
Are you worthy of the throne? Or do your siblings deserve it more than you do? What kind of heir will you be?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, RPG 13.9%, Text-Based 13.3%, Medieval 8.7%
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%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Choices Matter 16%, Text-Based 9.8%, Story Rich 9.6%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 24.2%, Text-Based 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, RPG 13.2%, Choices Matter 11.9%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Interactive Fiction 20.8%, RPG 13.4%, Choices Matter 8.9%, Text-Based 8.9%
Rewrite history in this narrative RPG set in the last days of Imperial Russia. Born into nobility, you will shape both your destiny and the fate of a nation.Will you preserve the old order, ignite the flames of revolution, or carve out your own path? Every decision will echo through time.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Tabletop 17.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Text-Based 10%, Medieval 9.1%
Detailed, gritty text-based fantasy RPG centered on dungeon crawling with traps, puzzles, fights and loot. Recreates the gameplay of the old gamebooks. Simple battle system and hassle-free inventory management.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, RPG 14.9%, Old School 12.8%, Text-Based 11.5%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 21.2%, Tabletop 17.7%, Interactive Fiction 16%, Text-Based 12.2%, RPG 8.8%
Swing a sword, delve dungeons, and lead a resistance against the tyrannical queen of a war-torn fantasy realm. Will you unite the realm and end the queen’s reign of terror... or join her and rule by her side?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Text-Based 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Medieval 12.1%, RPG 10.7%
A text-driven dungeon crawler inspired by Ironsworn: Delve. Travel to a forbidden site full of treasure, roll dice, make choices, face danger, and find out the hard way why the site was forbidden in the first place! Or maybe you'll find the treasure. It could happen!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, Tabletop 16.5%, RPG 12.4%, Text-Based 12%
Roleplaying set in a dystopian universe inspired by early twentieth-century wars and Ukrainian folklore. You are Orest, and you might be the last hope of your occupied land. Establish the truths about the world getting drained of its energy, meet captivating characters, and make your land free.
Why similar: Tabletop 21.3%, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Text-Based 12.8%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Story Rich 9.1%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.5%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Text-Based 14.1%, Old School 13.5%, RPG 8.8%
By the power of your Soul Stone and the strength of your own indomitable soul, uncover secrets held in blood and lead the charge that will change the world. A text-based fantasy novel, 260,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 25%, RPG 17.1%, Text-Based 15%, Choices Matter 6.9%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Text-Based 14.8%, RPG 14.1%, Choices Matter 7.8%
Award Winner: PAX 10 2019 | Winner, Momocon 2018 Indie Games Awards | "A fascinating reverse-RPG" - PC Gamer | "A cross between The Sims and a rousing game of Dungeons and Dragons" - Geek & Sundry
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Tabletop 20.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Text-Based 7.4%
An epic open-world narrative adventure through a world of monsters, traps and magic. Explore two intermeshed worlds, past and present, and create your own unique story where every decision you make is remembered. Survive, and defeat the Seven Serpents - if you can!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32.3%, Interactive Fiction 20.6%, RPG 13.5%, Choices Matter 9.7%, Story Rich 8.9%
You're a stranger who has come to Lostworth, a town full of people lost in the darkness of the Middle Ages. Your purpose: help them spiritually. For this, you've only books, potions, spells and words. In time, as you uncover the secrets of the city, you'll also have to face threats from the past.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.7%, Interactive Fiction 26.6%, Hand-drawn 17.6%, Medieval 9.1%, Adventure 7.6%
As the Harbinger, you are the only Keeper who can cast spells. Stop a necromantic plague, uncover an Elven conspiracy, and decide the fate of a dying world! A text-based fantasy novel, 193,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects."
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25%, RPG 17.5%, Text-Based 15.3%, Choices Matter 6.4%
With the power to freeze time, you can ransack a casino, rescue a celebrity, or cheat death itself! A thrilling interactive sci-fi novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, RPG 15.6%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Text-Based 13.6%
Run with unicorns, fly with pegasi, and swim with kelpies as a magical horse! Will you reunite the herds or drive them further apart? A text-based interactive fantasy novel with hundreds of choices and without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, RPG 17.6%, Text-Based 15%, Choices Matter 6.4%
Navigate school life, build friendships, survive rumours, and climb the social ladder through natural conversations with students who remember your choices. Every interaction shapes your reputation in this AI-powered social simulation.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.9%, Text-Based 10.8%, Choices Matter 9.2%, Story Rich 7.2%
Go forth on a text-based, choose your own adventure where you can choose your role and embark on adventure as various different people who tread different paths.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.8%, RPG 19.3%, Text-Based 14.4%, Fantasy 7.1%
You've spent years undercover, disguised as a human, infiltrating the city’s magical law-enforcement organization. They stole your magic from you. Can you steal it back? (A text-based interactive historical urban fantasy novel.)
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%, RPG 16.2%, Text-Based 14.2%, Adventure 7.3%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.3%, Interactive Fiction 24.5%, RPG 16.6%, Text-Based 16%, Choices Matter 7.2%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Text-Based 12.2%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Old School 8.6%
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 28.5%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Text-Based 16.6%, RPG 12.8%, Choices Matter 11.1%
Detailed, gritty text-based fantasy RPG centered on gladiatorial combat. Recreates the gameplay of the old gamebooks. Features hassle-free inventory management and a battle system that combines dice rolls with meaningful decisions and preparation.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, RPG 15.1%, Old School 11.7%, Text-Based 11%
With debts to pay to the underworld, you need to make a lot of coin fast! Perhaps worse, you're wanted by the King's men for desertion. Survival is your first priority...
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.4%, Interactive Fiction 23%, RPG 11.8%, Text-Based 10.9%, Choices Matter 6.3%
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 29.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.4%, Text-Based 15.5%, Choices Matter 8.1%, Adventure 8.1%
A visual novel paying satirical homage to the world’s greatest TTRPG. Make important choices, roll countless dice, build lasting relationships, explore magical lands and experience all the rest of the crap you expect from a fantasy game without the hassle of finding actual friends to play with!
Why similar: Tabletop 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.9%, Text-Based 11.8%, RPG 8%
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 26.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.4%, RPG 18.5%, Text-Based 15.7%, Choices Matter 7.4%
Samurai of Hyuga is a brutal, heart-pounding interactive tale. Prepare to enter the land of silk and steel, where fantasy clashes against grim reality, and where the good guys don't always win in the end. It's a harsh world with tough choices at every turn. Good thing you're the toughest ronin around.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33%, Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Text-Based 17.9%, RPG 14.9%, Adventure 6.2%
Can you and your friends master the ocean's magic and save your school? Dance, fight, and flirt with the other sea nymphs, selkies, and sirens!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 24.3%, RPG 16.4%, Text-Based 14.3%, Choices Matter 6.2%
Awaken your magic and break an ancient curse at a secret school of sorcery! What mysteries will you uncover at this crossroads between realms? A text-based fantasy novel, 280,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.1%, Interactive Fiction 25%, RPG 17.2%, Text-Based 15.5%, Choices Matter 6.7%
Defend your magical city from an enemy army in an epic fantasy game of swordfights, political maneuvering, and romance! Will you prove worthy of your crown?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, RPG 15.3%, Text-Based 13.9%, Medieval 8%
Create your own epic saga of survival, mythology and diplomacy! Rule your clan, make strategic decisions that affect the game world, win battles and expand your influence in this unique mix of RPG, strategy and story-telling.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Tabletop 12.6%, RPG 9.3%, Text-Based 8.6%
Learn the dark truth behind a gentle wyvern’s rampage, a cold-blooded murder, and a dragon-worshiping cult. Will you submit or defy the godlike creature?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.8%, Medieval 17%, RPG 16.2%, Text-Based 12.1%
A text-based RPG full of choice and action. Fight for survival in the midst of the Roman invasion of ancient Caledonia. Strategize one dice roll at a time as emotions affect your performance. Use willpower to outsmart opponents, gain allies, wage war, or strive for peace. How will your story end?
Why similar: Tabletop 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Text-Based 9.7%, Choices Matter 9.6%
When a new magic is discovered, it's up to you to unravel the mystery! Find answers from fae and humans, save your city, and maybe even fall in love! A text-based interactive fantasy novel, 400,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 24.9%, RPG 16.6%, Text-Based 15.9%, Fantasy 6.3%
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 29.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.1%, Text-Based 17.3%, RPG 10.9%, Choices Matter 9.7%
Walk the path of a legendary mage, combining four different schools of magic to devastating effects.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 25.4%, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Text-Based 16.5%, RPG 14.9%, Adventure 7%
The toughest ronin in Hyuga returns! Heated battles and even hotter romances await you in the land of silk and steel!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, RPG 17.1%, Text-Based 16.4%, Adventure 7.1%
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 27.2%, Interactive Fiction 25.7%, RPG 17.7%, Text-Based 16.3%, Choices Matter 8.2%
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: Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.3%, Text-Based 17%, Choices Matter 12%, RPG 11.5%
Embark on a journey of this text anime quest with RPG elements! Walk through beautiful locations, overcome challenges and make Peter’s dreams come true. Every step you take matters. And don’t forget to take the diary - you’ll need it!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Hand-drawn 14.1%, Text-Based 11.8%, Medieval 10.2%
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 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, RPG 14.6%, Story Rich 7.7%
As commander of a squadron of cavalry, what will you sacrifice to win the war of gunpowder and magic? Fight for power, riches, love, or glory!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 37.6%, Text-Based 17.4%, RPG 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Adventure 7.2%
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: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.8%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Text-Based 19.8%, Choices Matter 12.5%, RPG 6.3%
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 21.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, RPG 14.3%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%
"With good intentions" is a nonlinear visual novel. Escape from a cursed monastery, win over its mighty Overlord, save your love and uncover the mysteries of time itself!
Why similar: Tabletop 16.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.2%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Text-Based 10.6%, RPG 9.4%
Back from hell and into Hyuga, enemies and allies clash in this epic sequel! Overcome ultimate despair or be consumed by it: the choice is yours, ronin!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, RPG 15.6%, Text-Based 13.3%, Adventure 7.1%
Escape your captors…and endure your rescuers, but don't be late to the ball! Take charge of your rescue, and reclaim your rightful throne.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 32%, Interactive Fiction 22.4%, Text-Based 18.5%, RPG 10.3%, Medieval 6.5%
Adventure as Geralt through the ballads of Dandelion. Swipe right, swipe left, seek glory, find death! Will you hunt monsters, upset the locals, or run a hot bath? Compose an inspiring epic to claim immortality.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.7%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Hand-drawn 9.8%, Story Rich 7%
A medieval fantasy text-based visual novel where you guide Santi’s choices, unlock secret routes, and discover hidden CGs through interactive scenes.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.3%, Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Hand-drawn 17.1%, Medieval 7.7%, Text-Based 6.7%
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 29.6%, Interactive Fiction 25.8%, Text-Based 15.3%, Choices Matter 10.1%, RPG 9.7%
Return to Hyuga just in time for the new semester! Sword fights, love confessions, demonic rituals—nobody said graduating was going to be easy! A text-based novel, 300,000 words and hundreds of choices, without animations or sound effects.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 26.4%, Interactive Fiction 26.4%, RPG 18.3%, Text-Based 16.3%, Choices Matter 7.9%