Games like The Play's the Thing
by Choice of Games
Choice of Robots and Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road play most like The Play's the Thing. Of the 17 closest games below, most share its choose your own adventure, text-based and interactive fiction; 12 are free or under $10. The best known is Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical, with 2,581 Steam reviews.
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Choice of Robots
Dec 19, 2014 · Choice of Games
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based · Choices Matter
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.
Choose Your Own AdventureText-BasedChoices MatterInteractive FictionRobotsIndieRPGSci-fiStory RichSingleplayer👍 1,892Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road
Sep 24, 2020 · Choice of Games
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based · Interactive Fiction
The elders have entrusted you, an elite vampire courier, to deliver their secrets. Can you outrun the hunters, the other drivers, and the rising sun?
Choose Your Own AdventureText-BasedVampiresInteractive FictionChoices MatterCharacter CustomizationRPGStory RichHorrorCasual👍 699Heroes of Myth
Jul 25, 2019 · Choice of Games
Both: Text-Based · Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure
Everyone thinks you saved the world, but it was all a lie! You faked a "prophecy" with magical illusions. But now, your prophecy is coming true.
AdventureIndieRPGText-BasedChoices MatterFemale ProtagonistChoose Your Own AdventureStory RichLGBTQ+Interactive FictionTally Ho
Dec 14, 2017 · Choice of Games
Both: Text-Based · Choose Your Own Adventure · Choices Matter
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?
IndieAdventureRPGText-BasedChoose Your Own AdventureChoices MatterInteractive FictionLGBTQ+👍 113The Golden Rose: Book One
Jun 2, 2022 · Hosted Games
Both: Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based
Explore an alternative medieval Europe in this low-fantasy epic adventure! How far are you willing to go to take back your stolen treasure?
CasualRPGInteractive FictionChoose Your Own AdventureText-BasedFantasyChoices MatterStory RichIndieLore-Rich👍 159Stronghold: Caverns of Sorcery
Jan 30, 2025 · Choice of Games
Both: Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based
Deep beneath the earth, the dragon is rising! Quest into ancient caverns, learn magical lore, and draw strength from friends and family to save your home! A text-based interactive fantasy novel.
RPGInteractive FictionChoose Your Own AdventureText-BasedDragonsFantasyLore-RichManagementMedievalSwordplayHeroes Rise: The Prodigy
Jun 17, 2014 · Choice of Games
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based · Interactive Fiction
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?
RPGChoose Your Own AdventureText-BasedIndieSuperheroInteractive FictionStory RichLGBTQ+Female ProtagonistChoices Matter👍 381Choice of Magics
Aug 10, 2018 · Choice of Games
Both: Text-Based · Choose Your Own Adventure · Choices Matter
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!
IndieAdventureRPGText-BasedChoose Your Own AdventureChoices MatterFantasyMagic👍 160Stars Arisen
Mar 15, 2023 · Choice of Games
Both: Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based
Will you rise to the heavens when you wield the magic of fallen stars? Call lightning, ride the wind, and raise the dead in this fantasy epic!
RPGInteractive FictionChoose Your Own AdventureText-BasedFirst-PersonAtmosphericDark FantasyEmotionalFantasyLGBTQ+Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One
Mar 8, 2018 · Hosted Games
Both: Text-Based · Choose Your Own Adventure · Interactive Fiction
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.
IndieRPGAdventureText-BasedChoose Your Own AdventureInteractive FictionRomanceLGBTQ+DetectiveChoices Matter👍 358Faerie's Bargain: The Price of Business
Dec 2, 2021 · Choice of Games
Both: Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based
Become the greatest of the goblin merchants in this gaslamp faery-tale! Buy and sell secrets and memories! Trade in time, shadows, and stranger things!
RPGInteractive FictionChoose Your Own AdventureText-BasedFantasyMagicSupernaturalChoices MatterMultiple EndingsStory RichStray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical
Aug 9, 2023 · Summerfall Studios
Both: Interactive Fiction · Choices Matter · Multiple Endings
Gods. Romance. Murder. Musical Numbers?! Play as Grace in a world where Greek Gods live in hiding among us. Change your fate as you draw friends, foes & lovers into song using your powers of musical persuasion to unravel the mystery of the Last Muse's death.
Interactive FictionStory RichChoices MatterMusicFemale ProtagonistSingleplayerMultiple EndingsMythologyAtmosphericAdventure👍 2,581The Soul Stone War
Mar 5, 2020 · Hosted Games
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Interactive Fiction · Text-Based
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.
RPGIndieAdventureCasualChoose Your Own AdventureInteractive FictionText-BasedChoices MatterRomance👍 107Cliffhanger: Challenger of Tomorrow
Nov 24, 2021 · Choice of Games
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Interactive Fiction · Text-Based
Punch out Fascists and unravel conspiracies in this pulp adventure set in a retro-futuristic 1930s world of airships, fast cars, and two-fisted action!
RPGChoose Your Own AdventureInteractive FictionText-BasedAlternate HistoryDetectiveHistoricalLore-RichChoices MatterMultiple EndingsSorcery! Parts 1 and 2
Feb 2, 2016 · inkle Ltd
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Interactive Fiction · Choices Matter
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.
Choose Your Own AdventureRPGAdventureInteractive FictionIndieStory RichChoices MatterFantasyText-BasedMagic👍 585A Wise Use of Time
Sep 4, 2015 · Choice of Games
Both: Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure · Interactive Fiction
With the power to freeze time, you can ransack a casino, rescue a celebrity, or cheat death itself! A thrilling interactive sci-fi novel.
RPGIndieChoices MatterChoose Your Own AdventureInteractive FictionText-BasedLGBTQ+👍 118The Dragon and the Djinn
Jul 28, 2022 · Choice of Games
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Interactive Fiction · Text-Based
You hold a djinn in a bottle. Make a wish! Will you slay the dragon, or overthrow the emir? Or will you free the djinn, and accept the consequences?
RPGChoose Your Own AdventureInteractive FictionCharacter CustomizationText-BasedDragonsLore-RichChoices MatterActionMultiple Endings
Also worth a look
Share some of the same DNA, but further from the original.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Mar 4, 2021 · Sever, Schisma Games
Both: Choices Matter · Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure
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!
Choices MatterStory RichRPGInteractive FictionChoose Your Own AdventureVisual NovelText-BasedMedievalIndieSingleplayer👍 8,159
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