The Best Adventure text Games - Page 2

Update : Apollo Justice Ace Attorney Trilogy added at rank #22.
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A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight (2015)

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IOS iPhone Android Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Steam-powered mechs meet forbidden sorcery in this interactive steampunk novel, inspired by Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Jekyll & Hyde, and Jack the Ripper!


  • steampunk
  • text
  • novel
  • romantic
  • interactive
  • romance
  • choices
  • victorian
  • mech
  • rpg
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • narrative
  • watson

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The Dark Room (2018)

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early access PC Windows Mac OS

Addictive and vicious retro-styled comedy puzzler chock full of profanity, abuse, unfairness and warped logic. Will You: Go North? Find Light Switch? Cower and whimper like a beaten swine? Make your decision and escape The Dark Room! Just remember - YA DIE! YA DIE! YA DIE! YA DIE!

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  • comedy
  • text
  • violent
  • gore
  • graphic
  • adventure
  • dark
  • retro
  • simulacra
  • episodic
  • atmospheric

13

A Wise Use of Time (2015)

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Android PC Windows Linux Mac OS

With the power to freeze time, you can ransack a casino, rescue a celebrity, or cheat death itself! A thrilling interactive sci-fi novel.


  • interactive
  • choices
  • text
  • fiction
  • casino
  • book
  • romantic
  • friends-and-family
  • rpg
  • novel
  • adventure
  • sci-fi

14

K Station (2016)

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PC Windows

It's New Year's Day, 2319, and the happy denizens of K Station are disappearing, one at a time. You are Maya, a lab assistant, trying to find a way out as she weaves her way through the altered lives of the friends and colleagues that remain.

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  • text
  • chess-playing
  • memory
  • point-and-click
  • mystery
  • adventure
  • romantic
  • chess
  • minimalist
  • puzzle
  • atmospheric
  • pixel
  • driving

15

DEVICE 6 (2013)

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IOS iPhone

Device 6 (stylized as DEViCE6) is a text-based adventure game developed by Swedish game developer Simogo for iOS. The game uses text, images and sounds to guide the player through a set of puzzles, which the in-game protagonist, Anna, needs to solve to escape from an unknown island. Device 6 uses mainly text in its gameplay, and the player swipes the screen to move through or review the story. The text may turn or split into branches in certain points of the game, adapting to the protagonist's movements in the story.


  • puzzle
  • interactive
  • narrative
  • mystery
  • adventure
  • surreal
  • text
  • fiction
  • scrolling
  • inventive
  • story
  • puzzling
  • corridor

16

Roadwarden (2022)

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Linux PC Windows Mac OS

Roadwarden is a text-adventure set in a downbeat fantasy world of magic, monsters, and grinding poverty. As a newly minted roadwarden, you are tasked with patrolling the highways and byways of a peninsula while also exploring its commercial possibilities for your mysterious paymasters. You have to manage your time carefully to get everything done in the 40 days before autumn sets in.


What we like:
  • Unique take on text adventuring
  • Choices that really matter and an organic sense of muddling through that feels lifelike
  • Nuanced and low-key atmosphere
What could be improved:
  • Depending on choices things can feel relentlessly downbeat
  • Lack of quest tracker can seem perverse
  • Very text heavy and not suitable for those who aren't into reading or plot

  • text
  • rpg
  • fantasy
  • adventure
  • visual-novel
  • choices
  • pixel
  • fiction
  • interactive

17

Sabres of Infinity (2016)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux Android IOS iPhone

Wage a war of gunpowder and magic! As a gentleman-officer of the Royal Dragoons, will you sacrifice your fortune? Your honour? Your men? Your own life?


  • choices
  • text
  • adventure
  • rpg
  • war
  • book
  • rich
  • interactive
  • fiction
  • military

18

Buried: An Interactive Story (2016)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Buried is a playable, interactive story told through stunning photos, a haunting soundscape, and gripping text. You play the role of Roger Hastings, a logger working the forests with his crew. When he awakens to find his friends missing and no memory of what's happened, he begins searching, uncovering something that should have stayed...


  • fiction
  • visual-novel
  • interactive
  • text
  • novel-type
  • horror-mystery
  • lovecraft
  • adventure
  • choices
  • telltale
  • horror
  • well-made
  • sci-fi

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Quarantine Circular (2018)

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Nintendo Switch Mac OS PC Windows

Dive into Quarantine Circular, a riveting, dialogue-driven adventure that puts humanity under the microscope. You'll navigate complex social dynamics and ethical dilemmas as you uncover an alien's intentions amidst a global plague. Be captivated by the well-crafted story, sharp writing, and stunning visuals, as your choices shape multiple endings. A game that will leave you pondering about human nature and our place in the universe.


What we like:
  • Engaging and thought-provoking story
  • Well-written dialogue
  • Multiple endings based on your choices
  • Stunning visuals
  • Interesting exploration of human nature and ethics
What could be improved:
  • Abrupt and unsatisfying endings
  • Lack of replayability due to linear gameplay
  • Inconsistent character development

  • text
  • casual
  • adventure
  • visual-novel
  • narrative
  • sci-fi

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Cannonfire Concerto (2016)

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Android PC Windows Mac OS Linux

In an 18th century symphony of intrigue, your supernatural virtuoso performance begins an overture to war! Spies, lovers, generals…who holds the strings?


  • text
  • instrument
  • romance
  • novel
  • supernatural
  • choices
  • interactive
  • adventure
  • rpg
  • war
  • book
  • fantasy-historical

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