Games like Choose Your Own Alternative
If Choose Your Own Alternative is your kind of game, the closest matches are Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut, 7Days Origins and Enelia: Dawn of Madness — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Choose Your Own Alternative: A text-based adventure where you're tasked to exorcise your friend’s Inner Demon. You have 30 days to analyze objects filled with memories, discover which one is the reason for her possession and sacrifice it. Do not deviate from your mission. Save your friend no matter the cost.
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Steam players who put hours into Choose Your Own Alternative also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
WHY THIS
Top pick for Choose Your Own Alternative fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Choose Your Own Alternative.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
7Days Origins
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Choose Your Own Alternative fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Choose Your Own Alternative.
7Days Origins is a single-player story game where the storyline changes based on the player's choices. For 7 days, you will meet various characters in the world of the dead. You may become allies and embark on adventures together or become enemies and fight.
Enelia: Dawn of Madness
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Choose Your Own Alternative fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Choose Your Own Alternative.
Immerse yourself in the enigmatic world of Nauris, where enchanting landscapes hide terrifying secrets: the strange behavior of elders, sinister rituals of priests, and the disappearance of citizens. Madness lurks everywhere – will you master it or become its victim? The choice is yours.
Basements n' Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Choose Your Own Alternative fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Choose Your Own Alternative.
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!
Suzerain
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Choose Your Own Alternative fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Choose Your Own Alternative.
Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make the decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?
TOUQI
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Ranked #6 for Choose Your Own Alternative fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Choose Your Own Alternative.
《頭七》（头七怪谈）是一款中式民俗恐怖解谜游戏。作为刚入职西封杂志社的成员，你需要根据主编的要求，整合“頭七”论坛中民间灵异故事贴之间的关联，并在必要时与同伴实地探索，以揭开帖子后隐藏的秘密。
The Three Kingdoms: Rebirth
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Choose Your Own Alternative fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Choose Your Own Alternative.
You, an ordinary modern person, cross into the Three Kingdoms. There you meet legendary heroes and beauties. Will you retreat with your love, or rise to conquer the land? Every choice rewrites history—or leads to your doom.
Star Story: The Horizon Escape
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Choose Your Own Alternative fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Choose Your Own Alternative.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Choose Your Own Alternative at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Choose Your Own Alternative on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Choose Your Own Alternative.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Choose Your Own Alternative on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Choose Your Own Alternative.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~57% under Choose Your Own Alternative on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Choose Your Own Alternative.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Choose Your Own Alternative on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with Choose Your Own Alternative.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Choose Your Own Alternative on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Choose Your Own Alternative.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Choose Your Own Alternative on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Choose Your Own Alternative.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Choose Your Own Alternative on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Choose Your Own Alternative.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Choose Your Own Alternative on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Choose Your Own Alternative.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Choose Your Own Alternative.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Choose Your Own Alternative.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Choose Your Own Alternative.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Choose Your Own Alternative.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Choose Your Own Alternative.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Choose Your Own Alternative.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Choose Your Own Alternative.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Choose Your Own Alternative.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Choose Your Own Alternative.
You're here to slay the princess. Don't believe her lies.
Basements n' Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Choose Your Own Alternative.
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!
Suzerain
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Choose Your Own Alternative.
Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make the decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?
Frequently asked about Choose Your Own Alternative
- How much does Choose Your Own Alternative cost?
- Choose Your Own Alternative is listed on Steam at 3.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Choose Your Own Alternative?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Choose Your Own Alternative are Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut, 7Days Origins, Enelia: Dawn of Madness.
- Who developed Choose Your Own Alternative?
- Choose Your Own Alternative was developed by F(r)ictions Ludiques.
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