Games like The Harbinger's Head
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A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight and Sabres of Infinity play most like The Harbinger's Head. Of the 18 closest games below, most share its choose your own adventure and text-based; 1 came out in the last year and 18 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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A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight
Nov 20, 2015 · Hosted Games
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based
Steam-powered mechs meet forbidden sorcery in this interactive steampunk novel, inspired by Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Jekyll & Hyde, and Jack the Ripper!
IndieRPGSteampunkChoose Your Own AdventureText-BasedInteractive FictionStory Rich👍 172Sabres of Infinity
Mar 29, 2016 · Hosted Games
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based
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👍 185The Nascent Necromancer
Nov 30, 2023 · Hosted Games
Both: Text-Based · Choose Your Own Adventure
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.
RPGInteractive FictionText-BasedChoices MatterChoose Your Own AdventureSingleplayerCharacter CustomizationMultiple EndingsAdventureIndieWayhaven Chronicles: Book One
Mar 8, 2018 · Hosted Games
Both: Text-Based · Choose Your Own Adventure
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👍 358Guns of Infinity
Mar 29, 2016 · Hosted Games
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based
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👍 138Keeper's Vigil
Jun 4 · Hosted Games
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based
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."
RPGInteractive FictionChoose Your Own AdventureText-BasedFantasySingleplayerCharacter CustomizationIndieChoices MatterAdventureFallen Hero: Rebirth
Mar 15, 2018 · Hosted Games
Both: Text-Based · Choose Your Own Adventure
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+👍 462The Golden Rose: Book One
Jun 2, 2022 · Hosted Games
Both: 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👍 159Temple of Endless Night
Nov 12, 2021 · Hosted Games
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based
When you discover that the Serpent of Chaos is trying to destroy Egypt, will you stand against him, or will you help spread his eternal darkness?
RPGChoose Your Own AdventureInteractive FictionCharacter CustomizationText-BasedHistoricalHorrorLore-RichChoices MatterMultiple EndingsThe Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Mar 4, 2021 · Sever, Schisma Games
Both: 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👍 8,159Highlands, Deep Waters
Sep 28, 2017 · Hosted Games
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based
While investigating a murder in a small Scottish town, you’ll find yourself embroiled in a world of secrets, cultists, and abyssal horror. What are you willing to do to solve the case? And what will you do when you don’t like the answer?
AdventureIndieRPGChoose Your Own AdventureText-BasedLovecraftianTin Star
Jun 5, 2015 · Hosted Games
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based
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.
IndieRPGChoose Your Own AdventureWesternText-BasedInteractive FictionChoices Matter👍 298Roadwarden
Sep 12, 2022 · Moral Anxiety Studio
Both: Text-Based · 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👍 4,491Fatehaven
Sep 16, 2016 · Hosted Games
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based
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?
AdventureIndieRPGChoose Your Own AdventureText-BasedInteractive FictionThe Soul Stone War
Mar 5, 2020 · Hosted Games
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · 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👍 107Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven
Oct 28, 2016 · Hosted Games
Both: Text-Based · Choose Your Own Adventure
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?
RPGIndieAdventureText-BasedChoose Your Own AdventureZombiesChoices Matter👍 234Trial of the Demon Hunter
Dec 19, 2017 · Hosted Games
Both: Text-Based · Choose Your Own Adventure
Battle the forces of evil in this thrilling interactive fantasy novel! When a powerful demon destroys your village, you embark on a perilous journey alongside your shape shifting companion, determined to avenge your shattered village and banish the devil back to the Netherworld.
IndieAdventureRPGText-BasedChoose Your Own Adventure
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