Games like Specters of the Deep
by Choice of Games
Stronghold: Caverns of Sorcery and Sorcery! Parts 1 and 2 play most like Specters of the Deep. Of the 18 closest games below, most share its choose your own adventure, interactive fiction and text-based; 2 came out in the last year and 11 are free or under $10. The best known is The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante, with 8,159 Steam reviews.
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Stronghold: 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-RichManagementMedievalSwordplaySorcery! Parts 1 and 2
Feb 2, 2016 · inkle Ltd
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Interactive Fiction · Fantasy
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👍 585The Dragon and the Djinn
Jul 28, 2022 · Choice of Games
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Interactive Fiction · Character Customization
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 EndingsVampire: 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👍 699The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Mar 4, 2021 · Sever, Schisma Games
Both: Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based
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👍 8,159House 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 MatterAdventureIndieChoice of Magics
Aug 10, 2018 · Choice of Games
Both: Text-Based · Choose Your Own Adventure · Fantasy
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👍 160The 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👍 159God of Chaos
Sep 3 · Choice of Games
Both: Interactive Fiction · Text-Based · Choose Your Own Adventure
Shatter civilization and avenge your pantheon as the world‘s last surviving god! Will you liberate humanity from tyranny, or let the world burn? A text-based interactive dark fantasy novel.
RPGInteractive FictionText-BasedChoose Your Own AdventureDark FantasyLore-RichSupernaturalCharacter CustomizationChoices MatterMultiple EndingsGuns 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👍 138Werewolf: 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👍 236Games of the Monarch's Eye
Aug 14, 2025 · Choice of Games
Both: Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based
Steel, strategy, sabotage - or forbidden magic? How far will you go to defeat your greatest rival and win glory in the grandest tournament in the entire realm? A text-based adventure.
RPGAdventureInteractive FictionChoose Your Own AdventureFirst-PersonText-BasedDark FantasyFantasyLore-RichMagicRoadwarden
Sep 12, 2022 · Moral Anxiety Studio
Both: Text-Based · Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure
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.
RPGText-BasedAdventureIndiePixel GraphicsInteractive FictionStory RichChoose Your Own AdventureChoices MatterFantasy👍 4,491Sabres of Infinity
Mar 29, 2016 · Hosted Games
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based · 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?
IndieAdventureRPGChoose Your Own AdventureText-BasedInteractive FictionChoices Matter👍 185Faerie'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 RichThe 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👍 107Sorcery! Part 3
Apr 5, 2016 · inkle Ltd
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Interactive Fiction · Fantasy
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!
AdventureRPGIndieChoose Your Own AdventureInteractive FictionStory RichFantasyChoices MatterMagic👍 110Stars 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+
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