The Best Text Games - Page 4

Update : Werewolves 3: Evolution\'s End added at rank #44.
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Lifeline: Beside You in Time (2022)

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Lifeline is a text-based adventure mobile game where you guide the main character through a texting conversation to survive an unknown moon after their spaceship crashes. The engaging storyline and real-time mechanics make it a great game for those who enjoy a challenging text-based adventure.


What we like:
  • Entertaining and engaging story with a likable protagonist
  • Pacing adds scope and suspense to the narrative
  • Real-time notification mechanic adds to immersion
  • Unique storytelling approach
  • Forgiving gameplay
What could be improved:
  • Waiting between interactions may be an annoyance for some players
  • Lack of text speed option
  • Invariably binary decision prompts limit player choice

  • fiction
  • text
  • adventure
  • interactive
  • sci-fi
  • waiting
  • real-time
  • choices
  • survival
  • narrative
  • dos
  • well-written
  • story

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I doesn't exist - a modern text adventure (2023)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Classic Zork meets Existential Crisis. A modern text adventure that explores themes of control, isolation and mental health while levelling up the genre with beautiful pixel art.

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  • text
  • short
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • text-adventure
  • interactive
  • pixel
  • fiction
  • conversation
  • psychological
  • modern
  • old-school
  • horror
  • atmospheric
  • adventure

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Goodbye World (2022)

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"GOODBYE WORLD" is a narrative adventure game. Play through 12 stages of a puzzle platformer while following the two protagonists through 13 chapters of their story.


  • platform
  • visual-novel
  • linear
  • text
  • cinematic
  • pixel
  • fiction
  • narrative
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • scroller
  • emotional
  • puzzle
  • interactive
  • adventure

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The Innsmouth Case (2020)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Mac OS Playstation 4 IOS iPhone Xbox One

The Innsmouth Case is a choose-your-own-adventure game inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and the very first text-based adventure to combine horror and comedy in a fit and proper way.


  • choices
  • lovecraftian
  • detective
  • text
  • horror
  • multiple-endings
  • visual-novel
  • adventure
  • mystery
  • comedy
  • atmospheric
  • story
  • combine
  • speculative
  • novel

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AI Dungeon (2019)

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Mac OS PC Windows web browser Android IOS iPhone

An AI-powered text-based RPG like you've never played before. Write stories, interact with realistic characters, and experience virtually infinite worlds and genres. Escape to alternate universes where you direct the action and anything is possible!


  • choices
  • text
  • nonlinear
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • conversation
  • multiple-endings
  • experimental
  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • post-apocalyptic
  • drama
  • fantasy
  • visual-novel
  • adventure

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Your Chronicle (2021)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

"Let's begin your own story." This is a text-based idle RPG game. There are already more than 2,500 unique story actions and it's still growing.


  • text
  • idler
  • auto-battler
  • clicker
  • multiple-endings
  • rpg
  • collectathon
  • battle

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eae (2024)

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PC Windows

"LOONG" is a dragon as the theme of the snake game, you will choose different styles of dragon civilization, through the snake to create the dragon totem.

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  • rogue-like
  • rpg
  • choices
  • 3d
  • 2d
  • text
  • casual
  • fiction
  • top-down
  • sokoban
  • platform
  • emotional
  • romance
  • board-game
  • surreal

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I am Your President (2023)

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Xbox One PC Windows

Play as a fictional US president in this satirical narrative strategy! Lead Democrats or Republicans to make America great again. Again.

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  • text
  • diplomacy
  • america
  • life
  • strategy
  • choices
  • destruction
  • city-building
  • management
  • multiple-endings
  • visual-novel
  • sandbox
  • turn-based
  • conversation
  • casual

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Arsene Lupin Once a Thief (2024)

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Discover the youth of a legend - Experience the transformation of Arsene Lupin, from whimsical thief to legendary hero, in 'Arsene Lupin - Once a Thief', an adventure and investigation game freely adapted from the works of Maurice Leblanc, with its events unfolding in the early 20th century.


  • text
  • point-and-click
  • visual-novel
  • investigation
  • colourful
  • detective
  • crime
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • adventure
  • historical
  • puzzle
  • stealth
  • narration
  • mystery

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Top Villain: Total Domination (2023)

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How would you conquer the world? In this text-based supervillain rpg, you can vanquish your nemesis, fight heroes and villains, and find yourself!


  • text
  • comedy
  • choices
  • 000-word
  • dark
  • comic
  • partner-in-crime
  • satire
  • speculative
  • humor
  • rpg
  • superhero
  • book
  • novel
  • first-person

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