VibeGameDB lists 19 games in this group, 39% of the 49 games on the Choice-Based page. Each one has a source for how it was made. 19 are free or free to play and 0 are paid; 2 can be played in a browser. The most recently added is The Last Beacon (November 2026). Developers with more than one game here: Commodore 64 Mania (2).
Ordered by editorial score, then player rating, then release date. Open a game for its sources.
A text-based xianxia life sim: cultivate, join a sect and climb toward immortality one year at a time.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — itch.io
Be born at random somewhere in Chinese history, then live that life one year at a time.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — official site
A Fighting Fantasy-style gamebook for the Commodore 64, coded by Claude under the developer's direction.
Download required
View on itch.io
A Chinese-language pixel life sim with branching timelines, mostly coded with Codex.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — official site
A dark-comedy household management game on a fake retro family computer: feed the family, chase reward points, outrun the debt.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — itch.io
Live a commoner's life in a medieval kingdom, from famine to a bid for the crown.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — itch.io
A gacha pull decides your birth year, prefecture and family; then you live through postwar Japan.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — itch.io
A text RPG about a rookie dungeon hunter, built in Twine with Claude Code.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — itch.io
A Korean life sim: be born into a random family and live a whole life, from starting school and the college entrance exam to retirement.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — itch.io
Somewhere you can't quite leave. Choose a way through.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — itch.io
A short choose-your-own-adventure about AI safety, coded mainly by Claude and ChatGPT.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — itch.io
A cyberpunk text adventure with three endings, made with Claude.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — itch.io
A horror gamebook for the Commodore 64: stranded at a cursed Maine manor in 1984, you have to survive until dawn.
Download required
View on itch.io
A story game about crisis negotiation: talk a man down on live radio, then work two phone lines at once while one of them lies.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — itch.io
A Turkish sci-fi visual novel played from both sides: the Earth crew in orbit and the Sevra tribe on the planet below.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — itch.io
A 15-minute choice-driven story: your startup's voice-cloning app launches in the morning, and you know its safety check can be fooled.
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Play free — itch.io
Keep one tower of a beacon chain through its last autumn: pass the fire on, and decide how the villagers' letters are sent.
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Play free — itch.io
A cinematic side-view survival story: break the city's six emergency rules to get your sister back.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — itch.io
A dynasty, one torch and the few things that survive being handed down, across eight generations of odd choices.
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Play free — itch.io