Games like On the Run: Rogue Heroes
by Choice of Games
Heroes of Tomorrow: Hidden Potential and Heroes Rise: The Prodigy play most like On the Run: Rogue Heroes. Of the 16 closest games below, most share its choose your own adventure, text-based and interactive fiction; 6 came out in the last year and 14 are free or under $10. The best known is Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road, with 699 Steam reviews.
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Closest matches
Heroes of Tomorrow: Hidden Potential
Feb 19 · Choice of Games
Both: Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based
Lead a team of young heroes against criminals, cultists, demons, and midterms. Will you carry on your heroic legacy or forge your own path? A text-based, 600,000-word interactive superpower novel.
RPGInteractive FictionChoose Your Own AdventureText-BasedSuperheroCharacter CustomizationChoices MatterMultiple EndingsStory RichIndieHeroes Rise: The Prodigy
Jun 17, 2014 · Choice of Games
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based · Superhero
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👍 381The Last Scion
Jun 19, 2025 · Choice of Games
Both: Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based
Shrug off bullets, smash buildings with your bare hands, and soar through the air as you battle diabolical supervillains! A text-based interactive superhero novel.
RPGInteractive FictionChoose Your Own AdventureText-BasedAliensSpaceSuperheroCharacter CustomizationChoices MatterIndieVampire: 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👍 699Fallen Hero: Rebirth
Mar 15, 2018 · Hosted Games
Both: Text-Based · Choose Your Own Adventure · Superhero
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!
Text-BasedIndieRPGAdventureChoose Your Own AdventureVillain ProtagonistSuperheroChoices MatterInteractive FictionLGBTQ+👍 462Posthuman: Guardians vs PSION
Apr 23 · Choice of Games
Both: Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based
Choose from 20+ distinct superpowers! Lead your team of superheroes to the moon and beyond, and stop the supervillains of PSION—unless, of course, you join them. A text-based interactive superheroes game.
RPGInteractive FictionChoose Your Own AdventureText-BasedFuturisticLore-RichMilitaryRomanceScienceSuperheroDawn of Heroes
Apr 2 · Hosted Games
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based · Character Customization
By day, you're just another citizen. By night, you defend the city. But don’t quit your day job, hero. A text-based superhero novel, 450,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
RPGChoose Your Own AdventureText-BasedSingleplayerCharacter CustomizationChoices MatterInteractive FictionIndieMultiple EndingsAdventureCommunity College Hero: Trial by Fire
Dec 4, 2015 · Hosted Games
Both: Text-Based · Choose Your Own Adventure · Superhero
Outwit your professors at superpower school! Ace your exams, date classmates, and bring down the nation’s most wanted villains to earn your degree.
IndieRPGText-BasedChoose Your Own AdventureSuperheroInteractive FictionLGBTQ+👍 245Unsupervised
Jun 13, 2024 · Choice of Games
Both: Superhero · Text-Based · Choose Your Own Adventure
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!
SuperheroAdventureRPGText-BasedChoose Your Own AdventureCasualComic BookTime TravelInteractive FictionIndieWhiskey-Four
Nov 7, 2024 · Hosted Games
Both: Character Customization · Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure
Never stop running, not with the galaxy at stake. Save it at all costs, and save yourself if you can.
Character CustomizationRPGChoices MatterChoose Your Own AdventureInteractive FictionMultiple EndingsText-BasedSingleplayerIndieAdventure👍 110Cheerleader's Choice: New York Spirit
Dec 11, 2025 · Choice of Games
Both: Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based
A text-based adventure into the world of cheerleading!
RPGSportsInteractive FictionChoose Your Own AdventureText-BasedComedyCharacter CustomizationChoices MatterMultiple EndingsIndieWerewolf: The Apocalypse — The Book of Hungry Names
Apr 25, 2024 · Choice of Games
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based · Interactive Fiction
Save the living earth with Rage and spirit! Can your shattered werewolf pack defeat a Wyrm Spirit that manifests as a lie that you want to believe?
AdventureWerewolvesCasualRPGChoose Your Own AdventureText-BasedDystopian Interactive FictionSupernaturalChoices Matter👍 236Witchcraft U
Dec 9, 2021 · Choice of Games
Both: Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based
Rush the university's secret societies as a first-year Magical Studies major! Will you keep your magic a secret from the mundanes or expose the truth?
RPGInteractive FictionChoose Your Own AdventureCuteText-BasedMagicCharacter CustomizationChoices MatterMultiple EndingsStory RichHouse of the Golden Mask
Dec 4, 2025 · Choice of Games
Both: Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based
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.
RPGInteractive FictionChoose Your Own AdventureText-BasedFantasyMagicCharacter CustomizationChoices MatterAdventureIndieAn Imp and an Impostor
Nov 26, 2025 · Choice of Games
Both: Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based
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.)
AdventureRPGInteractive FictionChoose Your Own AdventureText-BasedFantasyCharacter CustomizationChoices MatterIndieSingleplayerHonor Bound
Dec 5, 2024 · Choice of Games
Both: Character Customization · Choices Matter · Choose Your Own Adventure
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?
Character CustomizationRPGChoices MatterChoose Your Own AdventureInteractive FictionMultiple EndingsText-BasedSingleplayerIndieAdventure
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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👍 1,892Guns of Infinity
Mar 29, 2016 · Hosted Games
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based · Interactive Fiction
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!
IndieAdventureRPGChoose Your Own AdventureText-BasedInteractive FictionChoices Matter👍 138
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