Games like The Play's the Thing
Games like The Play's the Thing include Suzerain, Roadwarden, The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante, Life is Strange: True Colors, and Choice of Robots. We matched them by the tags players give The Play's the Thing on Steam (Choose Your Own Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Text-Based, Romance, and Alternate History): closest matches first, and among equally close ones the better-known games.

Suzerain
Shared: Choose Your Own Adventure · Interactive Fiction · Text-Based

Roadwarden
Shared: Text-Based · Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure

The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Shared: Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based

Life is Strange: True Colors
Shared: Choose Your Own Adventure · LGBTQ+ · Choices Matter

Choice of Robots
Shared: Choose Your Own Adventure · Text-Based · Interactive Fiction

I Wani Hug that Gator!
Shared: Choose Your Own Adventure · Romance · Interactive Fiction

Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
Shared: Choose Your Own Adventure · Romance · Choices Matter

The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty
Shared: Interactive Fiction · Historical · Multiple Endings

Breakout 13
Shared: Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure · Lore-Rich

风信楼
Shared: Interactive Fiction · Choices Matter · Multiple Endings

LoveChoice
Shared: Romance · Choices Matter · Story Rich

Life is Strange: Double Exposure
Shared: Choose Your Own Adventure · LGBTQ+ · Romance

Late Shift
Shared: Choose Your Own Adventure · Interactive Fiction · Choices Matter

Dispatch
Shared: Choose Your Own Adventure · Choices Matter · Romance

Our Life: Beginnings & Always
Shared: Romance · Choose Your Own Adventure · LGBTQ+

The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
Shared: Choose Your Own Adventure · Interactive Fiction · Text-Based

The Wolf Among Us
Shared: Choose Your Own Adventure · Choices Matter · Story Rich

The Weeping Swan: Ten Days of the City's Fall
Shared: Interactive Fiction · Historical · Romance

The Three Kingdoms: Rebirth
Shared: Romance · Interactive Fiction · Choose Your Own Adventure

Love Is All Around
Shared: Romance · Interactive Fiction · Choices Matter

Arcadie: Second-Born
Shared: Interactive Fiction · Romance · Choose Your Own Adventure

Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Shared: Historical · RPG · Choose Your Own Adventure

BAD END THEATER
Shared: Choose Your Own Adventure · LGBTQ+ · Multiple Endings

Pentiment
Shared: Interactive Fiction · Historical · Choose Your Own Adventure