Your Story: Games with Death
A medieval text quest in the "Choose Your Own Adventure" genre, where each choice could be your last.
39% of 38 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
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The Road Remembers
A roguelite told in plain words. Each seed is a road, and each hero who walks it leaves their mark: the thing they took stays taken, the village they saved holds a feast for the next stranger, their cairn holds their sword, and the guardian they fought is still wounded. The road remembers.
Story-driven, Replayable, Mysterious
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$11.99the fairytale of DEATH
A story that should never have been written…
Story-driven, Replayable, Mysterious
44% of 43 Steam reviews are positiveFreeYour Story: Games with Death
A medieval text quest in the "Choose Your Own Adventure" genre, where each choice could be your last. Create your story with more than 2,000 events, 200 of which will prove fatal. In a world where death plays against you, can you outsmart it and write your own story?
Story-driven, Replayable, Mysterious
39% of 38 Steam reviews are positive$6.99Dust and Salt
Dust and Salt is a text-based narrative adventure with a pinch of turn-based tactical battles which has you as the main hero leading your troops in a gritty, low-power, medieval fantasy world. You decide where to go and whom to form alliances with. Force your will with either diplomacy or through war.
Story-driven, Replayable, Mysterious
82% of 67 Steam reviews are positive$7.99The Specter Chronicles: Episode 1 - The False Prophet
The Specter Chronicles is a cyberpunk visual novel that combines text-based adventure with turn-based tactical combat.
Story-driven, Replayable, Mysterious
92% of 12 Steam reviews are positiveFreeThe Between
A haunting, text-driven roguelike RPG where every death reshapes you. Explore a shifting, dreamlike world, confront echoes of your nightmares, and harness the memories of past failures and games to evolve and grow stronger.
Story-driven, Replayable, Mysterious
75% of 4 Steam reviews are positive$3.99Memories of a Vagabond
You play as a young mercenary and travel from soul to soul to avenge your fiance and her family. While finding a way to change the flow of past events, you will encounter many obstacles and meet new allies. Will you be brave enough?
Story-driven, Emotional
76% of 62 Steam reviews are positive$29.99Knock on the Coffin Lid
You wake in a cold crypt with no memory and a stranger watching. To find out who killed you, you build decks, fight faction leaders and bend a whole kingdom to your will. A dark, story-heavy deckbuilder where every run reveals new secrets, and the throne of the Northern Gate waits at the end.
Story-driven, Replayable, Mysterious
82% of 2,744 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$24.99Star Story: The Horizon Escape
Join the journey of a funky space archaeologist who crashed on an unknown planet. A text turn-based adventure RPG in which your choices actually matter. Talk, explore, fight, make decisions to find a way out! Colourful graphics and the old comic book spirit.
Story-driven, Replayable, Mysterious
89% of 104 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Nick's Text Adventure
Nick’s Text Adventure is a cruel text-based RPG where everything unfolds one line at a time. Spells lie, gear gets worse, fishing can hurt you, and enemies mock your choices. Nothing is fair, nothing is explained, and the game remembers.
Story-driven, Replayable, Mysterious
50% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$2.99Chronicles of Taldun: The Remainder
A dark fantasy tale where death is not the end but the path to the truth. Two magi trapped in a collapsing tower must unravel a deadly mystery. Each death reveals another piece of the puzzle that is their shared past and forbidden love. For fans of House in Fata Morgana and literary dark fantasy.
Story-driven, Replayable, Mysterious
94% of 140 Steam reviews are positive$27.99梦魇：无归 Nightmare without return
This is a journey without return When you wake up... In the strange space, the bronze gate that eats people, the strange rules of the game, and the ever-changing nightmare world appear in front of you Everything starts from here
Story-driven, Replayable, Mysterious
95% of 606 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
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Dust and Salt
Dust and Salt is a text-based narrative adventure with a pinch of turn-based tactical battles which has you as the main hero leading your troops in…
82% of 67 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
The Between
A haunting, text-driven roguelike RPG where every death reshapes you.
75% of 4 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Nick's Text Adventure
Nick’s Text Adventure is a cruel text-based RPG where everything unfolds one line at a time.
50% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
梦魇：无归 Nightmare without return
This is a journey without return When you wake up... In the strange space, the bronze gate that eats people, the strange rules of the game, and the…
95% of 606 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Return to Ash
“The hospital was empty. Quiet, and brighter than usual... like waking up on a snow day. But I didn't feel cold. I didn't feel much of anything.”
98% of 134 Steam reviews are positive$4.19
A Mage Reborn
Walk the path of a legendary mage, combining four different schools of magic to devastating effects.
87% of 107 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$4.99
I, the Forgotten One
To defeat the rebel knights and stabilize the crown, you must journey through the most dangerous realm in the kingdom--your own wretched past.
89% of 200 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Feels
Feels is an ASCII and Text-Based RPG where every one of your decisions can influence the world in which you evolve.
100% of 12 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Roadwarden
An illustrated text RPG about being the one person willing to ride a dangerous peninsula alone.
94% of 4,545 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 54$2.74
The Rebornor
A casual and simple reincarnation game. You are granted the qualification for infinite rebirths—each new life can be a brand-new script, allowing…
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$0.89
The Sea of Death
The Sea of Death is a mystery puzzle adventure in which the story revolves around the people and experiences that the protagonist, who has lost his…
50% of 4 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Hidden gems like Return to ...
Return to Ash
“The hospital was empty. Quiet, and brighter than usual... like waking up on a snow day. But I didn't feel cold. I didn't feel much of anything.”
98% of 134 Steam reviews are positive$4.19
梦魇：无归 Nightmare without return
This is a journey without return When you wake up... In the strange space, the bronze gate that eats people, the strange rules of the game, and the…
95% of 606 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
I, the Forgotten One
To defeat the rebel knights and stabilize the crown, you must journey through the most dangerous realm in the kingdom--your own wretched past.
89% of 200 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Knock on the Coffin Lid
Wake up dead, rebuild your memory card by card, and fight your way through a grim kingdom to the ones who killed you.
82% of 2,744 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$24.99
In Stars And Time
A turn-based RPG about being stuck in a time loop only you remember.
96% of 8,018 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 93$19.99
Chronicles of Taldun: The Remainder
A dark fantasy tale where death is not the end but the path to the truth. Two magi trapped in a collapsing tower must unravel a deadly mystery.
94% of 140 Steam reviews are positive$27.99
Foretales
Decide the fate of the world in this ingenious story-driven card game.
86% of 795 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$19.99
Roadwarden
An illustrated text RPG about being the one person willing to ride a dangerous peninsula alone.
94% of 4,545 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 54$2.74
Grim Quest - Old School RPG
A dark fantasy RPG blending dungeon crawling, turn-based combat and roguelike mechanics with hand-drawn art and written storytelling.
91% of 155 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Rue Valley
A man wakes in Rue Valley, a small town stuck in a time loop, and so do you.
70% of 1,950 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
A Mage Reborn
Walk the path of a legendary mage, combining four different schools of magic to devastating effects.
87% of 107 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$4.99
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LOOP SYNDROME
There are no second chances in medicine. A medical suspense visual novel where a young doctor gains the power to rewind time.
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
DEATHLOOP 4 YOU
A university student, Hayato Ichijo, is trapped. In an endless prison of death.
96% of 69 Steam reviews are positive$7.39
Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle
A dice-driven dark fantasy RPG inspired by solo tabletop adventures.
85% of 241 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$16.99
Loopbound
An incremental story where every death feeds the next run: automate the grind, unlock strange worlds and piece together why the loop exists at all.
73% of 37 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$5.50
Too Real
A short, hand-drawn narrative about memory, loss, and final conversations.
100% of 7 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Run TavernQuest
A classic text adventure - but you're not the one playing it. You're the game master for an idiot player named STEVE.
93% of 138 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Rue Valley
A man wakes in Rue Valley, a small town stuck in a time loop, and so do you.
70% of 1,950 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
Shrouded Aspect
In this turn-based tactical combat RPG, lead your heroes across a medieval world inspired by Celtic mythology and uncover the source of a terrible…
83% of 12 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Return to Ash
“The hospital was empty. Quiet, and brighter than usual... like waking up on a snow day. But I didn't feel cold. I didn't feel much of anything.”
98% of 134 Steam reviews are positive$4.19
SkullX: Aibohphobia
You were hired to extract a bioengineer. Now your team is cut off, your comms are dead, and you're surrounded by something wearing human skin.
90% of 77 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Shambles: Sons of Apocalypse
“The world you knew is already collapsed.”As an explorer in a bunker, explore a new world 500 years in the future and decide its fate.
76% of 346 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Kill The Clock
Kill the Clock is a narrative time-loop mystery adventure where you relive the same week to solve a murder that keeps changing.
89% of 45 Steam reviews are positive$14.99