The Best Adventure text Games

Update, : Roadwarden added at rank #1.
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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

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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.

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

3

Lifeline: Beside You in Time (2022)

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Help Taylor make life or death decisions, and face the consequences together.


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

4

Zeus Quest - The Rebirth of Earth (2022)

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Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Playstation 4 IOS iPhone PC Windows Mac OS Linux

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

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

5

The Hand of Glory - The Blowtorch Files (2022)

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PC Windows

A young girl, Erica Thimber, vanishes into thin air overnight. Is it a classic teen runaway? That's not what Lazarus Bundy, renowned serial killer hunter in charge of the case, believes.

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  • point-and-click
  • text
  • detective
  • adventure
  • choices
  • exploration
  • 2d
  • gore
  • story
  • innovative
  • mystery

6

U-ena -Far fireworks- (2022)

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PC Windows Mac OS

The story is set in nondescript rural junior high scool. Tomoki belong to a club that mix literatureclub and tea ceremony club. That called "Kotonoha Circle." It was the night he saw Far fireworks. He meets soaked girl in the center of lake.

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  • visual-novel
  • dating-sim
  • emotional
  • choices
  • story
  • text
  • cute
  • casual
  • adventure
  • anime
  • atmospheric

7

Hana no No ni Saku Utakata no (2022)

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PC Windows

Michitaka is able to see the marks left by others. The paths they’ve followed and the objects they’ve touched are all tinged with colours that are unique to each individual. Even though it is useful at times, it is mostly a troublesome ability. Before his second year, his father asked him if he wished to live by himself at the old-fashioned Ouka-sou, which was managed by his cousins. Since he had always wanted to live alone, he jumped at the chance. However, when he arrived with great excitement, he was welcomed by the silver-haired Ouka. He did not notice any colours emanating from her. “I am what you call… a ghost.” Together with his cousins, childhood friends and various upperclassmen and underclassmen from his school, the most unforgettable days have begun this spring.

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  • word
  • fiction
  • visual-novel
  • drama
  • casual
  • text
  • interactive
  • comedy
  • cartoony
  • anime
  • story
  • cute
  • adventure
  • multiple-endings
  • fantasy

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Strange Town (2022)

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early access atari st amiga apple ii commodore 64 ibm PC Windows Mac OS PC Windows

Strange town is a very fun Multiplayer and local multiplayer role-playing game. You must find who the werewolf is in the morning and at night, you must fight and survive. Of course, hiding is a good option too.

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  • adventure
  • werewolves
  • rpg
  • text
  • local
  • surreal
  • first-person
  • pvp
  • strategy
  • survival
  • context-sensitive
  • multiplayer
  • comedy
  • shooter
  • 1980s

9

Community College Hero: Fun and Games (2022)

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Ever wonder how heroes-in-training spend their time between epic confrontations with dastardly villains? Join the students at Speck Community College as they enjoy a tabletop roleplay game, investigate a legendary small-town monster, and endure the embarrassments of Parents’ Day.

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  • text
  • fiction
  • interactive
  • choices
  • adventure
  • comedy
  • comic
  • rpg
  • superhero
  • book
  • light-hearted
  • novel
  • villain

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The Wild Case (2021)

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Linux Mac OS IOS iPhone Android Nintendo Switch PC Windows

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.


  • point-and-click
  • detective
  • hand-drawn
  • puzzle
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • 2d
  • text
  • adventure
  • investigation
  • linear
  • exploration
  • colourful
  • mystery
  • first-person

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