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Also Text-Based and Choose Your Own Adventure, like Diabolical.
- $6.99 (Price checked Nov 4)
- 2014
Games like Diabolical
- 30 games
- Updated May 5, 2026
Players who liked Diabolical also play
The closest matches to Diabolical: Choice of Robots, A Wise Use of Time, Heroes Rise: The Prodigy, Tally Ho, and Psy High. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
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Rank 02- $6.99 (Price checked Oct 31)
- Deck Verified
- 2015
Rank 03Why this
Shares character customization with Diabolical.
- $4.99 (Price checked Oct 31)
- Deck Playable
- 2014
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Fallen Hero: Rebirth
Why this: Also Villain Protagonist and Text-Based, like Diabolical.
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The full ranked list: top 24 games like Diabolical
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Also Villain Protagonist and Choose Your Own Adventure, like Diabolical.
- 96% of 100 reviews
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Also Choose Your Own Adventure and Interactive Fiction, like Diabolical.
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- Released: 2015
- Developer: Choice of Games
- Price: $4.99checked Oct 31
- 76% of 106 reviews
- Genres: Indie, RPG
- Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux
Players highlight
- Absurd humor and cheeky writing
- Customize your villains lair and minions
- Multiple playthroughs for different endings
- Comedic
- Funny
- Lighthearted
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Reviewers mention these as similar to Diabolical
Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.
Zombie Exodus
Why this: Also Text-Based and Choose Your Own Adventure, like Diabolical.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Diabolical at current Steam store prices.
Basements n' Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery
Why this: Also Text-Based and Choose Your Own Adventure, like Diabolical.
Impossible Quest
Why this: Also Choose Your Own Adventure and Interactive Fiction, like Diabolical.
Hypergalactic Psychic Table Tennis 3000
Why this: Shares character customization with Diabolical.
Reigns
Why this: Same funny mood as Diabolical.
Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes
Why this: Same comedic mood as Diabolical.
Free alternatives
Free games the recommender matches to Diabolical, limited to titles with at least 500 Steam reviews and 80% positive.
A Date with Death
Why this: Shares character customization with Diabolical.
Killer Chat! - Original Edition
Why this: Also Choose Your Own Adventure and Interactive Fiction, like Diabolical.
Trapped with Jester
Why this: Also Text-Based and Choose Your Own Adventure, like Diabolical.
More from Choice of Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Choice of Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road
Why this: Also Text-Based and Choose Your Own Adventure, like Diabolical.
Werewolf: The Apocalypse — The Book of Hungry Names
Why this: Shares character customization with Diabolical.
About Diabolical
The closest matches to Diabolical: Choice of Robots, A Wise Use of Time, Heroes Rise: The Prodigy, Tally Ho, and Psy High. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
If Diabolical is your kind of game, the closest matches are Choice of Robots, A Wise Use of Time and Heroes Rise: The Prodigy — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as comedic, funny and lighthearted, and single out its alliance formation and character customization. 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.
About Diabolical: As a criminal mastermind, choose a lair, rob a bank, hire a minion, and steal the world's largest ball of aluminum foil! Or, destroy the world. FINE.
Is Diabolical worth buying?
Mostly recommended
A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.
- 76% of 106 Steam reviews are positive.
- We don't track this game's daily reviews yet, so this is the all-time picture.
- Price: $4.99 (checked Nov 7).
- People who recommend it had played a median of 4 h when they wrote their review.
- Critics had played a median of 3 h before their negative review.
What fans praise · Themes mined from positive reviews
- Absurd humor and cheeky writing
- Customize your villains lair and minions
- Multiple playthroughs for different endings
- Play as a cartoonish supervillain with absurd freedom
Top critical reviews
The most up-voted negative English reviews in our sample, quoted as written.
“As much as I love "choose your own adventure" games, I wouldn't recommend this one. Why? Because while you'd think your choices would matter like in other similar games, they really don't. Most choices you face lead to the same exact…”
“Its a text based game for $4.50 (i'm in canada so the price may be skewed for my american friends). If you don't like reading then buy something like Evil Genius, and if you do, get a book so you don't need to be at your computer, when…”
People who play it also play: Choice of Robots, A Wise Use of Time, Heroes Rise: The Prodigy
Frequently asked about Diabolical
Can I run it?
How much does Diabolical cost?
Diabolical is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Diabolical?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Diabolical are Choice of Robots, A Wise Use of Time, Heroes Rise: The Prodigy.
Who developed Diabolical?
Diabolical was developed by Choice of Games.