Games like Esoteric Ebb

If Esoteric Ebb scratched a story-driven and hand-drawn itch for you, keep reading. Give these games a try when the craving hits.

Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
You wake up hungover with no memory, a murder to solve, and 24 voices in your head arguing about everything. Disco Elysium is a dialogue-heavy detective RPG where talking, thinking, and embarrassing yourself matter more than shooting, and you can be a hero, a fraud, or both before lunch.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Funny
92% of 119,411 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,709$39.99
Sovereign Syndicate
A Victorian steampunk RPG with tarot cards instead of dice. Investigate the disappearance of society’s most vulnerable to uncover a mysterious cult. Play as three characters, each with their own skills and motivations. Customize your characters with narrative choices to unlock new tarot cards.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Surreal
79% of 586 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$7.99
Celestial Return
Loot, bribe, gamble, survive. The dice will be your savior or your downfall in this story-driven RPG. Every roll matters when trying to uncover cosmic horrors and outwit megacorps. Pray your next roll won’t be your last.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Surreal
83% of 154 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Disillusion
A mysterious muse calls upon you to investigate a Large tower in an oneiric land.
Story-driven, Surreal, Mysterious
95% of 912 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$2.99
Paradigm Island
Step into the shoes of a young mercenary in the midst of an identity crisis. Explore a surreal world on the edge of collapse, shape your identity through choice, and navigate a web of shifting loyalties, hidden agendas, and uncomfortable truths.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Funny
83% of 24 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Basements n' Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery
A visual novel paying satirical homage to the world’s greatest TTRPG. Make important choices, roll countless dice, build lasting relationships, explore magical lands and experience all the rest of the crap you expect from a fantasy game without the hassle of finding actual friends to play with!
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Funny
88% of 148 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle
A dice-driven dark fantasy RPG inspired by solo tabletop adventures. Charge in sword in hand, talk your way out of danger, or ignore it all and keep walking. Every roll, every choice has a price. Handcrafted over six years by a 30-year Vanillaware veteran.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Mysterious
85% of 241 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$16.99
Citizen Sleeper
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. You are a sleeper, a digitised mind in a borrowed body, hiding on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Roll dice, do the work, befriend the locals and decide what your future is worth. A tabletop-inspired narrative RPG with a story that lingers.
Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Surreal
92% of 8,404 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$19.99
The Necromancer's Tale
A gothic RPG about earning dark power the slow way: deciphering an ancient spellbook, digging up what killed your father, and talking your way past 180 townsfolk who would hang you if they knew. A 400,000-word descent into necromancy, madness and 18th-century intrigue.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Mysterious
90% of 983 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$24.99
Pillars of Eternity
An isometric fantasy RPG in the spirit of the 90s classics, built on a brand new world. Souls are its currency and its mystery: children are born without them, a stranger carries a borrowed one, and the truth runs all the way up to the gods. Eleven classes, six races, factions to side with, and a story that asks what you would trade.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
87% of 17,064 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 157
Gamedec - Definitive Edition
A detective RPG without combat, set in 22nd century Warsaw where people live inside virtual worlds. You solve crimes in those worlds by talking, exploring and deducing, and every choice shapes who you become. The game adapts to you, never judges, and the cases branch into multiple endings.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Mysterious, Replayable
78% of 1,134 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$29.99
Roadwarden
An illustrated text RPG about being the one person willing to ride a dangerous peninsula alone. Guard travellers, talk your way past suspicion, investigate what happened to your predecessor, and decide who deserves your help. Choices shape a grim fantasy world across a 30-hour campaign with multiple endings.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Hand-drawn, Mysterious
94% of 4,545 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 54$10.99

Cheaper than Esoteric Ebb

Sovereign Syndicate

A Victorian steampunk RPG with tarot cards instead of dice. Investigate the disappearance of society’s most vulnerable to uncover a mysterious cult.

$7.99

Celestial Return

Loot, bribe, gamble, survive. The dice will be your savior or your downfall in this story-driven RPG.

$14.99

Disillusion

A mysterious muse calls upon you to investigate a Large tower in an oneiric land.

$2.99

Paradigm Island

Step into the shoes of a young mercenary in the midst of an identity crisis.

$14.99

Basements n' Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery

A visual novel paying satirical homage to the world’s greatest TTRPG.

$2.99

Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle

A dice-driven dark fantasy RPG inspired by solo tabletop adventures.

$16.99

Citizen Sleeper

Roll dice, take odd jobs on a lawless station and decide what your future is worth.

$19.99

Roadwarden

An illustrated text RPG about being the one person willing to ride a dangerous peninsula alone.

$10.99

Duskpunk

A gritty dice-driven RPG, in a steampunk city. You escaped the War, but how to survive? Explore the city. Build up your skills. Decide who to trust.

$19.99

Sacred Fire: A Role Playing Game

A text-based RPG full of choice and action. Fight for survival in the midst of the Roman invasion of ancient Caledonia.

$18.99

Erannorth Renaissance

Erannorth Renaissance is a text driven gamebook with sandbox elements. Create your hero, build their party, and shape your journey.

$19.99

Alluris

Prepare to embark on a journey like no other in Alluris. Play as a reluctant hero or villain to save the world… or just save a colony of bears from…

$9.99

Hidden gems like Esoteric Ebb

Ledgerbound

Play an insurance adjuster who takes on tactical battles, office satire and office romance when the realm's heroes fall.

$29.99

Moves Of The Diamond Hand

Immerse yourself in a first-person urban RPG, powered by dice and intrigue. Along the way, you might even shape the fate of a city.

$19.99

The Lantern of the Laughless Saint

An open world RPG about a strange island where everyone arrived chasing the same dream.

$15.99

Ye Guild Clerk!

Play a guild clerk on trial, handing out quests and gold to animal adventurers whose stories bend around your choices.

Free

Duskpunk

A gritty dice-driven RPG, in a steampunk city. You escaped the War, but how to survive? Explore the city. Build up your skills. Decide who to trust.

$19.99

The Necromancer's Tale

Decipher a forbidden spellbook, investigate your father's death and keep your necromancy secret in an 18th-century town that would hang you for it.

$24.99

Disillusion ST

A strange journey throughout an elaborate labyrinth awaits, featuring hundreds of characters and happenings as you try to gather items that once…

$10.99

Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle

A dice-driven dark fantasy RPG inspired by solo tabletop adventures.

$16.99

Aether & Iron

Run contraband through a floating 1930s New York as smuggler Gia Randazzo, where dice rolls and choices shape a hand-drawn noir story and its endings.

$24.99