The Best Text Games

Update, : Fallen Hero: Retribution added at rank #9.
1

Roadwarden (2022)

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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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Ord. (2019)

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

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

3

Open Sorcery (2017)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux IOS iPhone

BEL/S is an Elemental Firewall: a fire elemental bound with C++ code to protect a network of people and places. She can learn things, develop relationships, and even gain sapience. Or she can burn everything with fire. It's up to you.

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  • text
  • cyberpunk
  • interactive
  • rpg
  • fiction
  • adventure
  • fantasy

4

Warsim: The Realm of Aslona (2017)

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PC Windows

Warsim is a deep and rich text based kingdom management game unlike anything else. Complete with charming ASCII graphics, navigate the millions of different procedurally generated races, events and areas with a huge emphasis on player choice. Don't let its look fool you, there is depth in every direction.


  • text
  • kingdom
  • simulation
  • procedural
  • strategy
  • rpg

5

Word Spells: Word Puzzle Games (2022)

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early access PC Windows Android

In order to improve the efficiency of selecting talents, the Chicheng police specially developed a test system-the true detection system, with the black robe company. As a tester, you need to complete the cracking of the case under the rules of the system.


  • hacking
  • typing
  • text
  • word
  • detective
  • psychological
  • logic
  • horror
  • drama
  • mystery
  • 2d
  • story
  • puzzle
  • realistic
  • mech

6

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

7

Lacuna (2021)

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PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X Playstation 4

A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.


  • multiple-endings
  • noir
  • conversation
  • investigation
  • cyberpunk
  • text
  • thriller
  • linear
  • detective
  • narration
  • fiction
  • choices
  • sci-fi
  • crime
  • pixel

8

Lifeline: Beside You in Time (2022)

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Mac OS PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

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

9

Fallen Hero: Retribution (2023)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

So you're a villain now? Let's see if you survive the experience.

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  • text
  • rpg
  • casual
  • sci-fi
  • action
  • choices
  • adventure
  • protagonist

10

The Sin (2021)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

The depressing pictures of a dying village and its inhabitants to the dark ambient music of the underground performers make those who are still trying to survive in places where everything has long died, to plunge even deeper into the world of mystical horror and deep despair


  • idler
  • horror
  • crime
  • psychological
  • fiction
  • visual-novel
  • text
  • empire
  • mythology
  • narration
  • detective
  • demons
  • thriller
  • management
  • hand-drawn

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