Games Like VERSUS: The Lost Ones

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 47.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 31.9%, RPG 14.1%, Indie 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Like the seed game, this title features significant sci-fi themes and consequences that ripple throughout the entire story.

Lead the revolt against a bloodthirsty empire! You grew up under the iron fist of the Hegemony. Now is your chance to end their blood-fueled magic, as you forge a ragtag outlaw band into a rebel army.

Why similar: Text-Based 34.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.5%, RPG 27.1%, Indie 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a similarly intense, revolutionary narrative where every decision drastically impacts your survival and the world around you.

They called you a hero; you call them fools. Use your telepathy romance old friends and fight new enemies as you become the greatest villain Los Diablos has ever known!

Why similar: Text-Based 44.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.1%, RPG 22.9%, Indie 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a dark, complex power-fantasy experience with deep character customization and high-stakes narrative choices.

Step into the cockpit of a giant "mecha" robot, dueling with plasma sabers in an interstellar civil war!

Why similar: RPG 33.6%, Text-Based 30.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.5%, Indie 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: It combines high-octane sci-fi combat with the same text-based choice mechanics that define the Versus experience.

Live a full life in the future as a human, an alien, or even a robot as you rise through the ranks to become captain of your very own starship.

Why similar: Text-Based 46.9%, RPG 30.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.9%, Indie 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: This title captures the same space-faring adventure and sci-fi atmosphere found in the Versus galaxy.

Never stop running, not with the galaxy at stake. Save it at all costs, and save yourself if you can.

Why similar: Text-Based 35.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 31.1%, RPG 28.2%, Indie 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: This dystopian sci-fi adventure mirrors the survival-focused, high-stakes nature of being trapped in a hostile environment.

Become the Wielder of Soul Stone, an ancient artifact of untold power, and shape the fate of your world. Outrun the past so that you may have a future.

Why similar: RPG 39.6%, Text-Based 27.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Indie 14.3%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers an epic, high-stakes adventure where your choices directly influence your character's growth and magical abilities.

Will you serve the gods or overthrow them? Battle ancient evils and destiny itself in this epic interactive novel inspired by Greek myth.

Why similar: Text-Based 40.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 25.5%, RPG 24.9%, Indie 9%

Why You'll Like It: This game features a similar sense of scale and divine power-play that mirrors the alien-power absorption mechanics of the seed game.

Explore the known and unknown galaxy with a ragtag crew of eclectic new friends in this narrative management space opera. You are a sentient spaceship, an outlawed commodity, and there's an entire galaxy between you and freedom…not to mention your abusive ex on your tail.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 46.1%, RPG 41.9%, Indie 12%

Why You'll Like It: This title shares the sci-fi setting and strong LGBTQ themes while emphasizing resource management and character-driven storytelling.

As a criminal mastermind, choose a lair, rob a bank, hire a minion, and steal the world's largest ball of aluminum foil! Or, destroy the world. FINE.

Why similar: Text-Based 36.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28%, RPG 25.9%, Indie 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on a unique power-fantasy narrative where you navigate complex social and combat scenarios as a supervillain.

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: RPG 31.7%, Text-Based 29.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.7%, Indie 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This title explores unique supernatural abilities and the consequences of using them to alter the flow of events.

Living on the moon is lonely, and stressful, and exhausting. Video games have always offered you an escape to a better life. The easy, happy life you wish you had. Which makes it so frustrating when the game you've been playing ends badly.

Why similar: Text-Based 35%, RPG 32%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Indie 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a thoughtful, philosophical take on sci-fi that resonates with the interactive-fiction style of the seed game.

Take back your throne from demon-summoning usurpers in this 145,000-word interactive fantasy novel! Will your prince or princess choose to be good or evil?

Why similar: Text-Based 33.9%, RPG 33.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Indie 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a deep, stat-heavy RPG experience that rewards careful planning and character building.

The sequel to "Heroes Rise: The Prodigy." It's America's #1 reality show for heroes! As a contestant on "The Hero Project," you'll battle villains and heroes alike with your newly discovered "Infini" powers.

Why similar: Text-Based 38%, Choose Your Own Adventure 26.7%, RPG 25.4%, Indie 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a superhero-themed power fantasy that focuses on fame, competition, and complex moral choices.

Zombies rise again at the dawn of Apocalypse! In this companion to the smash-hit Zombie Exodus, can you survive the early days of society's collapse?

Why similar: Text-Based 40.5%, RPG 30.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Indie 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a gritty survival experience where every choice is critical to the survival of your group in a hostile world.

Outwit your professors at superpower school! Ace your exams, date classmates, and bring down the nation’s most wanted villains to earn your degree.

Why similar: Text-Based 40.5%, RPG 28.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Indie 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a grounded but engaging take on the superhero genre with a heavy emphasis on character relationships.

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: Text-Based 31.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29.3%, RPG 28.3%, Indie 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This military-focused narrative provides the same level of tactical decision-making and character development found in the Versus series.

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: Text-Based 36.4%, RPG 32.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.1%, Indie 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: It features an incredibly detailed world and deep narrative branching that will appeal to fans of high-quality interactive fiction.

Wage a war of gunpowder and magic! As a gentleman-officer of the Royal Dragoons, will you sacrifice your fortune? Your honour? Your men? Your own life?

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 33.5%, RPG 29.5%, Text-Based 26.4%, Indie 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is a masterclass in choice-based storytelling that emphasizes military leadership and the consequences of your actions.

Your magic can change the world, but at what cost? Battle dragons, skyships, and evil Inquisitors, as you protect your homeland, conquer it, or destroy it forever!

Why similar: Text-Based 40.7%, RPG 24.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Indie 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a vast, choice-heavy fantasy world where your mastery of different magical disciplines dictates your survival.

Do you have what it takes to become a legendary Powered hero? "Heroes Rise" is an epic interactive novel where your choices control the story. The game is entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. How high will you rise?

Why similar: Text-Based 38.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.9%, RPG 24.9%, Indie 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is the starting point for a series that excels at balancing personal identity with the demands of a power-based society.

As the CEO of a corporation that sells superpowers to the highest bidder, you'll harness dark magic and travel through time to inflate your stock prices!

Why similar: Text-Based 44.9%, RPG 27.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Indie 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game explores the corporate and power-hungry side of a superhero world, mirroring the competitive nature of the seed game.

Dominate undead politics through cunning and violence! Will a missing Prince give you the opening to betray your sire and seize power?

Why similar: RPG 36.6%, Text-Based 32.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Indie 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a complex political thriller set in a supernatural world where your choices determine your survival in a dangerous society.

Combat, romance, adventure, and of course—magic! Master four elements and take on fate itself in this epic, interactive fantasy tale! Six possible endings. Four hours for a single playthrough. Three love interests. Countless choices. Male or female? Leader or loner? Good or evil? What kind of mage will you be?

Why similar: RPG 35.1%, Text-Based 31.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.8%, Indie 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a classic fantasy adventure that relies on player choice to shape the protagonist's destiny and relationships.

You and your friends were teenage sidekicks of the world's greatest heroes. But now, the heroes are missing. It's your turn to kick @#$ and save the world!

Why similar: Text-Based 43.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.6%, RPG 24.4%, Indie 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: This title provides a fun, power-focused superhero narrative that emphasizes the growth of your character's abilities.

America's #1 reality show for heroes is back for another season! Harness your superpowers to steal the spotlight, win votes, and save your sister!

Why similar: RPG 40%, Text-Based 23.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.9%, Indie 14%

Why You'll Like It: It continues the high-stakes competition of the Heroes Rise series with a focus on redemption and public perception.

When your uncle Kent mysteriously disappears, you'll embark on a journey find out what really happened. What will you sacrifice when trapped in a haunted manor? Will you destroy this evil or claim its power? And can love bloom in a haunted house?

Why similar: Text-Based 38.3%, RPG 27.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.8%, Indie 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This title provides a gothic, supernatural mystery that emphasizes atmospheric storytelling and meaningful choices.

Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 49.9%, RPG 43.8%, Indie 6.3%

Step into the shoes of an ancient mutant and get thrown into the modern, mortal world. Learn what you can about your past as you don the mask of a villain!

Why similar: RPG 34.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 33%, Text-Based 27.1%, Indie 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on regaining lost memories and powers, mirroring the core thematic hook of the seed game.

Battle demons and undead attorneys, and win souls to pay back your student loans! At the elite demonic-law firm of Varkath Nebuchadnezzar Stone, you'll depose a fallen god, find romance, and maybe even make partner, if you don't lose your own soul first.

Why similar: Text-Based 41.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 30.2%, RPG 21.1%, Indie 7.6%

Implant cameras in your eyes to win the news wars of 2061! Break stories, outwit rival reporters, and become a celebrity in this interactive noir novel.

Why similar: RPG 49.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 33.2%, Indie 17.1%

Plunder ghost ships for cursed treasure! Battle the Crown Navy, sea monsters, and other bloodthirsty pirates on a quest to rival the Pirate King himself!

Why similar: Text-Based 38.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 32.3%, RPG 21.6%, Indie 7.1%

Interactive teen supernatural mystery! You and your friends have developed magical psychic powers. Solve the case, save your school, find a date for prom!

Why similar: Text-Based 40.8%, RPG 27.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Indie 10.5%

Dead in Antares is a turn-based survival management game with RPG elements, set on an alien planet. Lead a crew of survivors sent on a mission to save humanity. Manage their needs, strengthen their teamwork, and explore this mysterious world to find a way back home.

Why similar: RPG 53%, Choose Your Own Adventure 47%

Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.

Why similar: Text-Based 54.4%, RPG 34.7%, Indie 10.9%

Turn a scripted steel-cage wrestling match into a real fight in this 250,000-word interactive novel, the greatest text-based pro-wrestling RPG in the world!

Why similar: RPG 33.6%, Text-Based 30.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.5%, Indie 12.7%

It starts with a daring escape from a zombie-infested city; it ends at Zombie Exodus, when a horde of zombies swarms outlying settlements like locusts.

Why similar: Text-Based 46.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24%, RPG 22.1%, Indie 7.6%

Explore the underground world of vigilantes as you wage war against the Chicago mafia. Roll the dice, and survive the consequences of your actions!

Why similar: RPG 71.5%, Indie 28.5%

As a wanna-be hero, you must rescue a city held hostage by an evil wizard, and somehow find money to pay your rent! A 240,000-word interactive novel.

Why similar: RPG 38.6%, Text-Based 29.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Indie 13.9%

Ride out into the Old West as a U.S. marshal in the biggest interactive novel ever made! Confront outlaws, find romance, defy the elements, and craft an enduring legend as you uncover a conspiracy whose deadly web stretches from San Francisco to New York City.

Why similar: Text-Based 33.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 29%, RPG 27.3%, Indie 9.9%

YOU are the hero in Starship Traveller! Captain a futuristic Starship in Steve Jackson's classic sci-fi RPG gamebook!

Why similar: RPG 45.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 37.7%, Indie 16.5%

Search for a ruthless assassin in this Gamebook Adventure where YOU control the story!

Why similar: RPG 52.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 31.7%, Indie 16.3%

Two lovers gave up everything and escaped to a lost planet to be together. Glide through a mysterious landscape, explore a fragmented world and fight against what’s trying to tear them apart in this RPG adventure about love, rebellion, and freedom.

Why similar: RPG 100%

Join the journey of a funky space archaeologist who crashed on an unknown planet. A text turn-based adventure RPG in which your choices actually matter. Talk, explore, fight, make decisions to find a way out! Colourful graphics and the old comic book spirit.

Why similar: Text-Based 48.1%, RPG 28%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.9%

Write an archmage's autobiography in this 80-year 130,000-word interactive fiction! Play good or evil, man or woman, as you bring peace to the kingdom or take over the world with your sorcery. Brew potions, raise the dead, summon mythical beasts, control men's minds, and blast away your enemies.

Why similar: RPG 35.4%, Text-Based 30.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.9%, Indie 12.2%

Planet Stronghold is a sci-fi role-playing game with a turn-based combat system. You take the role of a young, new recruit that somehow gets assigned to the most well-known, and well-defended, human outpost in the whole galaxy: Planet Stronghold.

Why similar: RPG 47.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 35.1%, Indie 17%

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 39.1%, RPG 31.2%, Text-Based 21.8%, Indie 7.9%

Your first case as a detective is forcing you to open your eyes to a world bigger than you thought. Or maybe it's better to keep them closed. Seems the supernatural didn’t get the memo that nothing exciting ever happens in the little town of Wayhaven.

Why similar: Text-Based 38.3%, RPG 29.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.4%, Indie 10.7%

Steal and raise a baby war gryphon! Will you fight dragons together to save the empire, or defy the empire and lead your people to freedom?

Why similar: Text-Based 33.3%, RPG 32.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22%, Indie 12.3%

An epic adventure through an open world of monsters, traps and magic. Infiltrate the Fortress of Sorcerers, and create your own unique story where every decision you make is remembered, no matter how small. Cheat death, uncover ancient mysteries, and recover the Crown of Kings - if you can.

Why similar: RPG 50.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 32.4%, Indie 16.9%

Unleash custom attacks by combining words in this Super! Anime! Turn-Based! RPG! Collect all 200 words, earn Pep Ups from honorable victories and become a Kiai master. Befriend your rivals, uncover dark mysteries, and seek out the pieces of the Wanderstar map in a wild race across the universe.

Why similar: RPG 100%

Seize the throne in the age of King Arthur! Lead an army of Britons against the darkest of enemies in this epic interactive medieval fantasy novel.

Why similar: Text-Based 41.1%, RPG 31.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.6%, Indie 10.6%

Make the movie of your dreams amid the glamor and romance of 1950s Hollywood! Hire Alfred Hitchcock, seduce Greta Garbo, or build your studio into a powerhouse.

Why similar: Text-Based 34.4%, RPG 31.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.7%, Indie 11.4%

Dark Scavenger is a bizarre point-and-click RPG adventure with a focus on exploration, gaining loot, and meaningful choices. Filling the role of a powerful space traveler, you find yourself stranded on a mysterious alien planet. Will you save the world or just yourself?

Why similar: RPG 60.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.1%, Indie 11.7%

Within the Cosmos is a sci-fi RPG. After awakening in a secluded star system, you soon discover a fractured human society grappling with an emerging android threat. Explore planets, uncover mysteries, and navigate differing philosophies. Your choices will shape how the story unfolds.

Why similar: RPG 100%

Andromeda Six is a sci-fi inspired visual novel, with romance elements and an immersive, choice based story. Take on the role of a lost Traveler and uncover the truth of your past. Fight for a future for both yourself, and those you grow close to throughout your journey.

Why similar: Text-Based 100%

MINDS BENEATH US is an emotional sci-fi narrative game. Through the eyes of a humble individual, experience a mad world where humans are exploited as computing devices for AI. Listen to the concerns of those you meet and offer guidance. Together, face challenges and confront an uncertain destiny.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 54.5%, RPG 45.5%

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: Text-Based 36.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 31.3%, RPG 27%, Indie 4.9%

Only a perfect servant can solve a perfect mess! Being the perfect gentleman's gentleman or lady's lady doesn't make you an angel. Can you untangle your employer's knottiest problems with elegance and unruffled grace?

Why similar: Text-Based 42%, RPG 40.4%, Indie 17.7%

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: Text-Based 34.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 27.6%, RPG 27.2%, Indie 10.3%