The Best Adventure text Games for Linux

Update, : Basements n\' Basilisks added at rank #40.
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Ord. (2019)

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Ord is a minimalist text adventure told three words at a time. Embark on a quest to defeat an evil warlock and find yourself confronted with a series of (more or less) serious decisions. Death is just one choice away, but do not worry - next time will be different. You can try again. And again. - Fast-paced storytelling. - Multiple endings. - Lots of secrets.

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  • text
  • minimalist
  • adventure
  • experience
  • story
  • narrative
  • perma-death
  • rpg
  • experimental
  • casual
  • innovative
  • fantasy

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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.


Pros:
  • Unique take on text adventuring
  • Choices that really matter and an organic sense of muddling through that feels lifelike
  • Nuanced and low-key atmosphere
Cons:
  • 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

3

The Wild Case (2021)

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The Wild Case is a 2D first-person point-and-click adventure. In this story-focused adventure, players meet a cast of colorful characters, experience mysterious encounters, and solve puzzles to progress through the game.


  • hand-drawn
  • puzzle
  • point-and-click
  • story
  • detective
  • adventure
  • atmospheric
  • crafting
  • exploration
  • mystery
  • text
  • 2d
  • colourful
  • survival
  • supernatural

4

Guns of Infinity (2016)

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As commander of a squadron of cavalry, what will you sacrifice to win the war of gunpowder and magic? Fight for power, riches, love, or glory!


  • text
  • novel
  • romance
  • choices
  • interactive
  • adventure
  • century
  • rpg
  • low-fantasy
  • war
  • war-time
  • fiction
  • book

5

Sabres of Infinity (2016)

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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

6

Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One (2018)

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Android IOS iPhone Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Your first case as a detective is forcing you to open your eyes to a world bigger than you thought. Or maybe it's better to keep them closed. Seems the supernatural didn’t get the memo that nothing exciting ever happens in the little town of Wayhaven.

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  • rpg
  • text
  • adventure
  • choices
  • book
  • romance

7

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

8

Snapshot (2021)

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Magic and science. Past and future. But what of the present?


  • platform
  • linear
  • fiction
  • visual-novel
  • narration
  • puzzle
  • interactive
  • text
  • casual
  • first-person
  • adventure
  • casually-paced
  • abstract
  • philosophical
  • action-adventure

9

Community College Hero: Trial by Fire (2015)

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Outwit your professors at superpower school! Ace your exams, date classmates, and bring down the nation’s most wanted villains to earn your degree.


  • text
  • book
  • crime
  • rpg
  • novel
  • adventure
  • detective
  • romance
  • choices
  • interactive
  • pause
  • replay-value

10

Choice of Robots (2014)

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Your robots will change the world! Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army? A 300,000-word epic interactive sci-fi novel.


  • text
  • robots
  • choices
  • interactive
  • novel
  • sci-fi
  • fiction
  • war
  • book
  • romance
  • adventure

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