- #1 Dr. Kinderwood's Asylum
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Richday
Windows · Mac · Linux
Decide the fate of the son of a tailor and a witch doctor infected with an incurable disease in an interactive story with multiple endings depending on your actions.
Why similar: Nonlinear 18.1%, Text-Based 11.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Visual Novel 10.2%
- #2 Serania - Path of the Scion
96% 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 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Nonlinear 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 11.8%, Choices Matter 9.3%
- #3 Legends of Savvarah: Time of Pariah
96% matchVery Positive97% of 142 reviews2024
Dev: ST Sinovar
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are Hidu, a beastman mercenary in a port city. You must survive one very bad day. How? That’s entirely up to you. There are countless ways for events to unfold — and 25 endings.
Why similar: Nonlinear 19.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
- #4 True Magician
95% 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 14.9%, Nonlinear 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Text-Based 11.5%
- #5 THE DAY THAT WASN'T
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: MAD Tribe Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Relive the same day without remembering it. Your choices feed four inner alter egos (Shadow, Mad, Alex, and Bully) — shaping reality, glitches, and one of 16 possible endings. The day repeats. Your mind doesn’t. Or does it?
Why similar: Nonlinear 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Text-Based 13%, Visual Novel 11.9%
- #6 The Fifth Horseman
94% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2019
Dev: Angelo Parodi
Windows
The Fifth Horseman is a narrative adventure game, set in a fantasy-medieval world, where you will experience many unique stories. After years of war, hunger and diseases mankind finds itself on the verge of extinction and it's up to you to decide its fate.
Why similar: Text-Based 17.5%, RPG 17.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choices Matter 9.5%
- #7 Fixer's Tale
93% matchPositive95% of 19 reviews2024
Dev: Emblem Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A humorous sci-fi text-driven adventure where you play a support engineer sent to fix system failures in a secret research complex. Explore strange labs, investigate bizarre incidents, solve absurd problems, talk to depressed robots, and make choices that lead to multiple endings.
Why similar: Nonlinear 18.1%, Text-Based 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Choices Matter 10%
- #8 The Elevator: Beyond the Doors
92% 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 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11.8%
- #9 Taina's Cursed Legacy
91% matchPositive82% of 34 reviews2025
Dev: dark_room_game
Windows
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: Text-Based 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.8%, Visual Novel 10.3%, RPG 8.8%
- #10 Roadwarden
91% matchVery Positive94% of 4,990 reviews2022
Dev: Moral Anxiety StudioPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 28.8%, Interactive Fiction 13%, RPG 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Choices Matter 6.6%
- #11 Horny Academy
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Wet Ink
Windows
Horny Academy is an adult visual novel that blends interactive storytelling with a deep, branching narrative. Every choice you make leads to steamy animated scenes or unexpected twists within the mysterious walls of the magical Academy
Why similar: Text-Based 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Visual Novel 12%, Nonlinear 11.9%, Choices Matter 11.8%
- #12 Heart of Ice by Dave Morris
89% 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 19.5%, Text-Based 19.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Choices Matter 8.3%
- #13 Wildwake
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonhaze Games
Windows
Stranded after a plane crash in a freezing wilderness, you must manage body temperature, injury, and sanity as every decision shapes your survival.
Why similar: Nonlinear 18%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Choices Matter 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%, Visual Novel 10.9%
- #14 Vanakan
87% match1 user reviews100% of 1 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: Text-Based 21.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Adventure 8.9%, Choices Matter 8.7%
- #15 VERSUS: The Elite Trials
88% 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 25.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.5%, Choices Matter 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, RPG 12.5%
- #16 All (Too) Good Things
86% 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 20.7%, Text-Based 20%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Multiple Endings 9.9%
- #17 The Sin Collector: Repentless
86% matchVery Positive92% of 90 reviews2021
Dev: Sylen Studio
Windows
THE SIN COLLECTOR: REPENTLESS is a game on the border of a visual novel and a classic text RPG, set in the world of The Sin Collector, a series of books written by Michał Gołkowski. Action takes place a couple of years before the events presented in the books.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, CRPG 10%, Visual Novel 8.5%
- #18 Robot's Fate: Alice
85% 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: Text-Based 16.1%, CRPG 16%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Visual Novel 9.2%
- #19 A Spaceship Accident
84% 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: Text-Based 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Nonlinear 13.5%, CRPG 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%
- #20 Scribe
84% matchPositive91% of 33 reviews2024
Dev: TalesBar
Windows
Scribe is a scribe simulator in which you can secretly shape the destinies of the inhabitants of the estate: resolve disputes, influence the course of family intrigues, decide who lives and who does not. Choose what to write in letters and whether to change their recipients!
Why similar: Text-Based 17.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Visual Novel 8.6%
- #21 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
83% matchVery Positive90% of 9,604 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Choices Matter 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Text-Based 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.4%, Visual Novel 9.3%
- #22 Grave Knight
82% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: Dreamlight Games
Windows
Under developement, Grave Knight is an interactive RPG adventure inspired by SRD 5.1 ruleset and classical game books, where your decisions weave the fate of the characters and the story. Let the dice forge the fate of your hero and the realm by fighting the Grave knight and his horde.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Visual Novel 14.1%, Text-Based 13.7%, RPG 13.1%
- #23 Saturnine
81% matchMixed69% of 26 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: Text-Based 22.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, RPG 16.7%, Choices Matter 8.1%
- #24 Aunewyth
82% 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 30.2%, Choices Matter 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Multiple Endings 12.6%, RPG 12.5%
- #25 Bootlegger: Moonshine Empire
81% matchPositive80% of 20 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: Text-Based 24.4%, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.1%, Choices Matter 10.4%, RPG 9.7%
- #26 Mass of Consumption
80% 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 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Text-Based 14%, Visual Novel 12%, Choices Matter 9.6%
- #27 Legends of Savvarah: Flowers and Scorpions
78% matchVery Positive96% of 93 reviews2026
Dev: ST Sinovar
Windows · Mac
You are Nikaria. An agent of a mysterious god, sent to another country. Does the end justify the means? Is the will of the god above the law? Is the death of a non-believer insignificant? The decision is yours alone.
Why similar: Nonlinear 19.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
- #28 The Nascent Necromancer
79% matchMixed57% of 14 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 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.3%, Choices Matter 12.9%, RPG 10.1%
- #29 Fallen Hero: Revelations
79% 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: Text-Based 23%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 19%, RPG 15.9%, Choices Matter 8.9%
- #30 Dead Gods Realm: Morar
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WAVE gamedev team
Windows
Narrative RPG, inspired by works of H.P. Lovecraft, celtic myths, rapiers and gunpowder. World awaits the Arrival of unknown creatures. It needs a hero who would stop the menace. Or not... He may even join them. Only you shall decide who would Morar become.
Why similar: Nonlinear 19.1%, Text-Based 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 12.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%, Choices Matter 8.5%
- #31 Your Story: Games with Death
77% matchNo user 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 17.3%, Text-Based 15.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.3%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
- #32 Five Biggest Accomplishments
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Assembling Chickens GamesPub: Fennonauts
Windows · Mac · Linux
Five Biggest Accomplishments is a short Visual Novel where you play as someone who has held the same job for 30 years: push a button every 8 hours or the world will end. Suddenly, you get an email asking you to list your five biggest accomplishments for the week, or risk being fired.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Nonlinear 14.9%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Text-Based 11.9%, Choices Matter 8.9%
- #33 The Will and Torment of El Brante
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Goosenior
Windows
A hardcore narrative RPG about an inquisitor who defied the Gods and returned from the Afterlife against Their Will. In a world where faith is fracturing, power is waning, and blood is spilled ever more often, your choices will decide what remains of the Empire. Complete the story of Sir El Brante!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 15.7%, Choices Matter 14.6%, RPG 12.1%, Nonlinear 11.8%, Text-Based 11.3%
- #34 An Imp and an Impostor
74% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Text-Based 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.3%, RPG 15.4%, Adventure 8.6%
- #35 OMEA
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: AImmersive Pub: AImmersive
Windows
Your words shape the adventure. Omea is a revolutionary AI-powered narrative game where your personal Game Master responds to everything you write. No menus, no limits. Just type and forge your own legend across fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, and beyond.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Choices Matter 15.5%, Nonlinear 11.5%, Multiple Endings 10.9%, RPG 10.2%
- #36 Affairs of the Court: Choice of Romance
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 74 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: Text-Based 25%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Choices Matter 12.7%, RPG 12.2%
- #37 Peter's Journey
75% matchMixed52% of 42 reviews2024
Dev: Dreamer StudioPub: Start Game
Windows
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: Text-Based 16.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Visual Novel 9.4%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
- #38 Turncoat Chronicle
74% matchMixed69% of 13 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 24.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.4%, RPG 15.9%, Choices Matter 8.3%
- #39 Whispers From The Rift
73% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Interdimensional Games Inc
Windows
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: Text-Based 21.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Choices Matter 10.9%
- #40 The Meridian
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PlayBook
Windows
Step into the high-stakes world of journalism in this Playbook! As a reporter at the "The Meridian" newsroom, YOU are the hero. Chase a massive investigative scoop, navigate ruthless office politics, and build deep relationships. Will you break the story, or will the deadline break you?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Text-Based 11.7%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Choices Matter 8.9%
- #41 Jolly Good: Tea and Scones
72% 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: Text-Based 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Choices Matter 14.2%, RPG 10.1%
- #42 Non-Linear Text Quests
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 48 reviews2018
Dev: NLB project
Windows · Linux
Non-Linear Text Quests is a bundle of text games of various genres. Here you can find interactive stories with branching plots and text-only versions of classic Point & Click quests, where you can communicate with different characters, use your inventory and combine items in various locations.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.6%, Nonlinear 18.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Choices Matter 8.8%
- #43 Hero of Hoofbeat Hollow
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Text-Based 23%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, RPG 17.1%, Choices Matter 7.5%
- #44 Scarlet Sails
71% 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: Text-Based 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 21.7%, RPG 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%
- #45 Keeper's Vigil
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Text-Based 23%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.6%, RPG 17.1%, Choices Matter 7.5%
- #46 Whiskey-Four
70% matchVery Positive93% of 106 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 20.3%, Text-Based 19.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Choices Matter 14.1%, Multiple Endings 11%
- #47 Niverium
70% 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 14.6%, Nonlinear 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Text-Based 9.5%
- #48 Samurai of Hyuga Book 6
69% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: Hosted Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Text-Based 23.1%, Interactive Fiction 19.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.1%, RPG 16.4%, Choices Matter 8.6%
- #49 A Wise Use of Time
72% matchVery Positive80% of 121 reviews2015
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 23.2%, Text-Based 21%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Choices Matter 17%, RPG 15.2%
- #50 Tower of the Ice Lich
69% matchPositive100% of 18 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 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Choices Matter 9.8%
- #51 Monsters of Little Haven
70% matchVery Positive88% of 437 reviews2019
Dev: Nikita Igorevich Studio
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 66%
At the heart of the action are a twelve-year-old Kenneth and his younger sister Esme, children of the Murphy family, who hit the trail of a mysterious monster following series of entangled events.
Why similar: Nonlinear 19.4%, Text-Based 19%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.6%
- #52 Shadow of the Curse-Eater
69% 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 23.6%, Text-Based 21%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, RPG 11.2%
- #53 Windrush Tales
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 3-Fold Games
Windows
Experience the triumphs and tribulations of two Caribbean immigrants in post-war Britain, in the world’s first Windrush video game, from the creators of the BAFTA nominated Before I Forget. How will you shape your story in this branching narrative interactive photo album?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Text-Based 13%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Nonlinear 10.7%, Hand-drawn 10.1%
- #54 Circus Saboteur
68% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: No Sequels Cooperative
Windows
A hand-illustrated visual mystery adventure that can be beaten in one sitting.
Why similar: Nonlinear 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%, Text-Based 11.2%, Choices Matter 9.2%
- #55 The Secret of Darkwoods
67% matchVery Positive89% of 118 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: Text-Based 26.5%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, CRPG 16.2%, RPG 15.6%, Nonlinear 14.4%
- #56 Herald of the Mists
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FromNiki
Windows
A narrative-driven RPG where every dice roll shapes your fate. Step into the role of the Queen's Herald and traverse a mist-shrouded realm to uncover the fate of her lost army. Will your choices uphold loyalty, or lead you down a path of betrayal? The secrets of the mists await.
Why similar: Text-Based 19%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choices Matter 11.7%, Visual Novel 9.4%
- #57 Fields of Asphodel
66% matchVery Positive86% of 77 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 19.5%, Text-Based 19%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Choices Matter 13.2%, RPG 9.4%
- #58 Sorcery! Parts 1 and 2
68% matchVery Positive89% of 745 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 28.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Text-Based 14%, RPG 12.9%, Choices Matter 11.3%
- #59 The Trial
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NowakGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
"Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested." Story about life, choices and a Man vs the System. This unique interactive literature adaptation. A game, brought to You in early visual novel, text-adventure style.
Why similar: Text-Based 19.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.2%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Visual Novel 11.5%
- #60 Witch's Brew: Love and Lattes
66% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
Will you spill the tea about the secret, cozy magical cafe on your college campus? Brew potions and romance on coffee dates with your new friends! A text-based novel of magic and romance, with hundreds of choices and without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Text-Based 23%, Interactive Fiction 20%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.5%, RPG 16.8%, Choices Matter 7.7%