The Best Adventure text Games for Xbox One

Update, : Steve Jackson\'s Sorcery! added at rank #4.
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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.


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

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Stories Untold (2017)

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PC Windows Mac OS Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One

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


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

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60 Seconds! Reatomized (2019)

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

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.


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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Xbox One Playstation 4 PC Windows Nintendo Switch

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

5

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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Zeus Quest - The Rebirth of Earth (2022)

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A classic and funny point & click adventure game. Designed for all the family, including the kids. 4K@120FPS


  • funny
  • cartoony
  • fantastically
  • point-and-click
  • mythology
  • 2d
  • family
  • text
  • adventure
  • action-adventure
  • puzzle
  • hand-drawn
  • platform
  • space
  • stylized

7

SELF (2020)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox One Mac OS

SELF is a suspenseful Kafkaesque text-based adventure game with simulation and puzzle mechanics. Could you seize the opportunity to find your father and your SELF back in this introspective journey?


  • kafkaesque
  • text
  • adventure
  • psychological
  • nonlinear
  • puzzle
  • word
  • mystery
  • experimental
  • story

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SELF: Where's my father (2021)

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Nintendo Switch Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One

SELF is a suspenseful Kafkaesque text-based adventure game with simulation and puzzle mechanics. Could you seize the opportunity to find your father and your SELF back in this introspective journey?


  • kafkaesque
  • stripped-back
  • psychological
  • kafka
  • text
  • nonlinear
  • adventure
  • mystery
  • visual-novel
  • word
  • experimental

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A Place for the Unwilling (2019)

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You only have 21 days until this living city dies. The clock is ticking. You can’t be everywhere at once. Decide what to explore, who to meet and see every decision shape the curious stories and terrible secrets of this branching narrative game.


  • lovecraftian
  • narrative
  • choices
  • exploration
  • adventure
  • atmospheric
  • open-world
  • mystery
  • dark
  • trading
  • text
  • dialogue
  • rich
  • story
  • freeform

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Takorita Meets Fries (2020)

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Deep under the sea, there is a princess who didn't know anything about french fries. This is her story, Princess Takorita's fated encounter with the french fries.


  • comic
  • choices
  • visual-novel
  • text
  • colourful
  • hand-drawn
  • magic
  • book
  • anime
  • family-friendly
  • 2d
  • comedy
  • adventure
  • cute
  • underwater

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