Best Action Roguelike Choose Your Own Adventure Games on PC

Gump

I really liked this game! I like the concept, and the art style. It really fun! With really fun character. I do recommend this game, even though it bit confusing at first, I enjoyed it. The music is calm, and good too.

– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game

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Jumps you right in without instruction. Text on menu is blurry, buttons are off at points. Definitely takes a little bit to understand the concept of the game and to get into the actual gameplay. Enjoyed the music and art style however, with more polish and refining, could be a great game!

– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game

Gump on Steam

Witch’s Reign

So first things first, this game is not worth the $10 price tag. That’s a steep price for a game that is fairly short, at the time of this review.

I got this game on sale for $3 and that is a pretty good price!

This game is pretty good, it’s got some solid puzzle ideas and I like the simple art design. It’s a memory puzzle where you explore a dungeon of sorts and make sure you don’t die to traps and monsters. You have a small line of sight due to a candle that can be blown out or lit again in order to trick the monsters onto the traps.

– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game

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Lucky me gets to write the first review for Witch’s Reign. This is a very simplistic, bare bones top down “survival horror puzzle”, whatever that’s supposed to mean. What you really get is what seems like a mobile app where you can only see one square ahead, and in only one direction, so you need to move around an obscured grid/maze without getting eaten by baddies or falling in traps.

This has been slapped together with Unity, the game engine that’s been enabling mediocrity everywhere and giving Starbucks baristas delusions of grandeur since 2005. However, it’s very unpolished, to the point I don’t think this is an asset flip or a copy+paste of someone else’s tutorial or game demo. Nor could I find it on app stores, although they have higher QA than Valve, so probably wouldn’t permit this. So, I guess kudos to the developer for having a try. I think that’s more likely the explanation, that someone wanted to make a game but didn’t really know how, but put it on Steam anyway. I kind of wish Steam wasn’t a dumping ground for half baked ideas, there’s places like itch.io for that.

– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game

Witch's Reign on Steam

Fictorum

Note: I backed the game on Kickstarter, thus having played since the game’s alpha.

Fictorum is, in a word, wonderful. For me, it was the first experience I ever had with magic that actually feels really powerful. Magic that I can throw at a nearby house and watch it get blown to bits. But let’s start from the beginning.

In this game, you are a mage. The last mage of your order, the Fictorum. And you’re pretty mad at the ones responsible for the death of your order, and also pretty powerful. Logical conclusion, annihilate them all. And anyone that might be foolish enough to stand in your way. Or… just annihilate absolutely everything. You can, believe me.

– Real player with 49.0 hrs in game

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First off, if you want a high production value game with a long indepth story, I would recommend Skyrim or The Witcher. That being said, this game has the best magic based combat I have ever seen.

Spellcasting:

Spells are customizable and modular. You have a spell tome that casts a type of spell and you have runes that you can add to the spell to vastly alter the spell’s properties. These runes can do anything from simply increasing the power of the spell to creating a familiar that casts the spell for you. For example, you can take a spell that calls one lightning ball and change it into a spell that fires 4 lightning balls that each seek out enemies while firing their own lightning bolts. You can also find or buy scrolls. Scrolls act as support spells that cannot be modified but can be applied to armor and accessories. By the way, all buildings are completely destructable and can be used to crush enemies.

– Real player with 40.3 hrs in game

Fictorum on Steam

Barbarian

Barbarian is a low poly survival game, with a souls like combat system, where you can dodge, block, and parry attacks. This system is in place, to make combat more exciting and intense.

Parrying

In Barbarian, you’re able to gather materials, craft items, build homes, make farms, level your character up, have animal mounts, and explore the game in a free roam manner.

Barbarian will have 2 different game modes, normal, and hardcore. In both normal, and hardcore mode, your character progression will be saved. However, with hardcore, you will lose your character progression on death. This will be more for those hardcore gamers, who want to play a more difficult game.

Note

Barbarian is currently in it’s very early stages, screenshots shown are subject to be changed, and same with more information being added here in the future. For updates on the game, you can check out our YouTube channel for Dev logs.

Barbarian on Steam

Clarice Clairvoyage

Clarice Clairvoyage is a traditional roguelike adventure where you’ll need to navigate the open seas while exploring the islands which offer ‘choose your own adventure’ style quests. Venturing to new lands and fighting zombies (and killer mermaids) will reward you with different abilities and spells to become the ultimate naval spellcaster!

-Traditional roguelike gameplay where skill is more important than progression

-Manage your ship between naval navigation and mermaid ship defense

-Explore islands with ‘choose your own adventure’ decision making

-Combine spells to become the ultimate spell wielder of the seas

Clarice Clairvoyage on Steam

Finding Lulu: Global Challenge One

Based on two characters, Amy and Lulu, the game scene is set out in Vellar County. After an invasion by other world life forms that wiped out the entire population, Amy and Lulu are the sole survivors of the Alien encounter. Lulu, the younger of the two, frightened by the whole ordeal, has isolated herself and gone into hiding. She is aware that Amy has also survived.

Vellar County is split into three islands: Suburbs, Metropolis and Farmlands. You are required to locate all 10 gold coins that are hidden across these three settings. 4 in the Suburbs, 3 in the city, and 3 in the Farmlands. This will unlock Lulu’s location and you will then be required to search for her in all three islands. Once you locate her, Lulu will give you a Victory Code that you will then submit to Vellar International’s website for the challenge to officially end.

Your progress is saved and shown on the upper left corner of the gameplay screen.

Being a Global Challenge, Vellar International seeks to give back to its community of players. Therefore, to make things a little more interesting and fun, there is a giveaway to the first player who successfully completes the game and submits the Victory Code. The specified amount is stated on our website, at www.vellar.org , in the Games page, just before the purchase button. Kindly read through the legal document provided on the same page before purchasing the game.

The initial giveaway amount is $1000, and will change incrementally as more players join the challenge.

Finding Lulu: Global Challenge One on Steam

Mystiqa

Non-Linear and Randomly Generated

The whole overworld, caves and dungeons are randomly generated and designed in a non-linear way, so every playthrough is truly a fresh experience of the game.

Secrets & Puzzles

There’s a secret on almost every screen in the game!

Solving puzzles is integral to overcome the game’s dungeons.

Equipment, Combat & Boss Fights

There is large playstyle diversity using different types of equipment and magic.

Boss Fights are a major key gameplay element of Mystiqa and will challenge you greatly!

Built-in Randomizers

There are multiple built-in randomizers on top of the base random generation of the world, including an Item Randomizer with fully configurable randomization settings.