The Best Adventure text Games for Nintendo Switch

Update, : Menhera Girls Ensemble - Needy Girlfriends - added at rank #15.
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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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Stories Untold (2017)

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Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.

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  • horror
  • text-adventure
  • text
  • adventure
  • 1980s
  • story
  • narrative
  • experimental
  • puzzle
  • parser
  • interactive
  • sci-fi
  • psychological
  • retro

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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.

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

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In Other Waters (2020)

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Play as an Artificial Intelligence guiding a stranded xenobiologist through a beautiful and mysterious alien ocean. A non-violent sci-fi story, enter a world of wonder, fear and vulnerability, unraveling the history and ecology of an impossible planet. What will you discover together?

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  • underwater
  • exploration
  • story
  • sci-fi
  • text
  • discovery
  • adventure
  • minimalist
  • atmospheric
  • aliens
  • horror
  • urban-apocalyptic
  • metallic
  • trading
  • turn-based

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Quarantine Circular (2018)

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First, do no harm. From the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Subsurface Circular comes another experimental short, the next mutation in text-based adventure. In the middle of a world-ending pandemic, a group of scientists discover the galaxy has been watching.

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  • text
  • casual
  • adventure

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60 Seconds! Reatomized (2019)

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60 Seconds! Reatomized is a remastered version of the original game that released back in 2015, set in the 1950s and following the McDoodle family as they try to survive a nuclear apocalypse. The game is split into two parts - scavenging for supplies where you have 60 seconds on the clock and survival mode, making decisions inside a bunker to keep the family alive. Challenge modes give an additional layer of strategic gameplay.

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Pros:
  • Replayability
  • Wacky moments
  • Strategic challenge mode
  • Hand-drawn style visuals
Cons:
  • Clunky controls when scavenging

  • survival
  • comedy
  • choices
  • post-apocalyptic
  • text
  • dark
  • adventure
  • remake
  • simulation
  • hand-drawn
  • difficult
  • point-and-click
  • rogue-like
  • funny

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Steve Jackson's Sorcery! (2022)

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An epic adventure through a land of monsters, traps and magic, where every decision is yours and every choice is remembered. A narrative created from tens of thousands of choices. Battle strange creatures. Cast weird and wonderful spells. Discovers secrets in every corner of an open world.


  • book
  • rpg
  • multimillion-selling
  • adventure
  • text
  • narrative
  • choices
  • fantasy
  • ttrpg
  • fight
  • story-changing
  • roller-coaster
  • combat
  • stamina

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The Innsmouth Case (2020)

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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.

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

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A Dark Room (2013)

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- Official Android release of A Dark Room (registered trademark). - Made with love by indie game developers.


  • text
  • rpg
  • experience-driven
  • adventure
  • open-source
  • ascii

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Over the Alps (2020)

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Postcards written in invisible ink reveal a secret history... Travel back in time in the debut game from Stave Studios, OVER THE ALPS. Stay undercover, evade the police, and race across 1939 Switzerland in this Hitchcockian World War Two spy thriller.

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  • choices
  • world-war-2
  • multiple-endings
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • interactive
  • story
  • text
  • adventure
  • travel
  • beautiful
  • narrative
  • time

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