Top 15 INSTEAD Alternative and Similar Games | Dec 2024

1. Cinders

Cinders is a visual novel where you make decisions that guide the retelling of a classic fairy tale....... TpSort Score | 549,000

2. Buried - Interactive Story

Buried is a playable, interactive story told through stunning photos, a haunting soundscape, and gripping text. You play the role of Roger Hastings, a logger working the forests with his crew. When he awakens to find his friends missing and no memory of what's happened, he begins searching, uncovering something...... TpSort Score | 18,300,000

3. Sorcery! (series)

Sorcery! is an epic four-part adventure through a land of monsters, traps, and magic an interactive story with the appeal of a classic, tabletop gamebook. With tens of thousands of choices, the story rewrites itself around your actions. Battle weird and deadly creatures, cast powerful spells, play with honour, or...... TpSort Score | 21,400,000

4. gist-txt

gist-txt - A minimal text adventure engine...... TpSort Score | 261,000,000

5. The Frankenstein Wars

The Frankenstein Wars is a storybook adventure based on the classic tale of Frankenstein and set during the Napoleonic era in revolutionary France. It features a branching, non-linear storyline, weather effects and strategic battles.FEATURES:* Explore 8 interactive maps to reach your objectives. * You direct both Tom and Anton Clerval...... TpSort Score | 57,400,000

6. Fallen London

Fallen London is a deep and compelling, though ever humorous, journey of interactive fiction set in the dark Victorian-Gothic underworld. It's played in classic, choose-your-own-adventure style where your choices determine how the story plays out.FEATURES:- Literary RPG with over 1.5 million delicious words- Befriend, beguile or antagonise hundreds of characters...... TpSort Score | 1,960,000

7. The Forest of Doom

YOU are the hero in Forest of Doom! Explore the sinister Darkwood Forest in Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy classic RPG gamebook!...... TpSort Score | 9,920,000

8. A Study in Steampunk

Steam-powered mechs meet forbidden sorcery in this interactive steampunk novel, inspired by Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Jekyll & Hyde, and Jack the Ripper!...... TpSort Score | 34,200,000

9. This Book Is A Dungeon

Auto-cannibalism. Demonic Seduction. Occult Rituals. Bloodfeasting Worms. This Book Is A Dungeon has it all and more. This dark, horrific Twine-based dungeon crawler pairs edgy interactive fiction with grisly pixel art and light RPG elements. Prepare to be disturbed, titillated, and savaged by unholy denizens aplenty in your quest to...... TpSort Score | 14,600,000

10. Caverns of the Snow Witch

Originally written by Ian Livingstone in 1984, Caverns of the Snow Witch celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2014. The ninth book in the Fighting Fantasy series, it expands upon the original version published in WARLOCK magazine, taking you beyond the Crystal Caves. Relive the adventures in the Icefinger Mountains, lovingly...... TpSort Score | 904,000

11. Wizards Choice

Wizard's Choice is a series of RPG text-based adventures that will engross you in a storyline while allowing you to make the decisions that will determine your fate....... TpSort Score | 299,000

12. Choice of Robots

Your robots will change the world! Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army? An epic interactive sci-fi novel.Choice of Robots is an epic 300,000-word interactive sci-fi novel by Kevin Gold, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based—without graphics or...... TpSort Score | 20,800,000

13. The Iconoclasts

The Iconoclasts is a graphically beautiful platform game with well written dialogue and flourishes with character.The game is in alpha stages but the author has made the claim that it is not abandoned. Gameplay is extremely smooth and intuitive and already very mature....... TpSort Score | 286,000

14. Zig Zag Zoe - Hardest Arcade Game EVER

Fun Addictive challenge for every one with sharp reflexes, I bet the most challenging arcade game ever built.Control and move the disc along the Zig Zag path and don't hit the obstacles. Move ahead between them too and fro.Tap fast left or right to switch the direction! How fast can...... TpSort Score | 760,000

15. Dragon Ninja Rush

Be the King or Queen of the Dragon Ninja Clan in the magical myth and legend! Train your ninja skill, and be the Ninja Master! Welcome to join fascinating jumps and flights of a ninja! Win a victory over ninja battles and share your triumphs with the worlds. Race with...... TpSort Score | 255,000