The Best Text Games - Page 3

Update : Midnight Special added at rank #28.
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Wednesdays (2025)

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j PC Windows

"The hardest part is not to speak up. It’s being heard." Part video game, part graphic novel, Wednesdays seeks to raise awareness about child sexual abuse through a surprisingly hope-filled story.

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  • visual-novel
  • comic
  • park
  • emotional
  • interactive
  • psychological
  • fiction
  • hand-drawn
  • book
  • text
  • building
  • conversation
  • choices
  • narration
  • graphic

22

The Wild Case (2021)

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Linux Mac OS IOS iPhone Android Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Embark on a journey to an eerie village shrouded in mystery in The Wild Case. Solve puzzles, negotiate with inhabitants, and uncover supernatural occurrences in this atmospheric adventure. With stunning hand-drawn graphics and haunting sound effects, immerse yourself in an open world that will keep you on edge. Unravel the secrets of the forgotten village if you dare.


What we like:
  • Short but well-rounded gameplay
  • Intriguing mystery with satisfying ending
  • Beautiful hand-drawn artwork
  • Atmospheric music and sound effects
  • Adequate price point
What could be improved:
  • Lack of motivation for replayability
  • Rough English translation
  • Story not frightening for adults

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

23

Ukraine War Stories (2022)

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PC Windows

Ukraine War Stories is a set of visual novels about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Set in the early months of the war, it tells the stories of civilians trapped on Russian-occupied territory. All stories are based on real events and eyewitness accounts.

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  • choices
  • text
  • visual-novel
  • fiction
  • interactive
  • narration
  • multiple-endings
  • historical
  • emotional
  • war
  • thriller
  • stylized
  • 2d
  • psychological
  • drama

24

Shape (2023)

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Linux Mac OS Xbox One Android PC Windows

A minimalist style but inside a complex-minded With connecting word mechanism, you can make a rule for your rooms and solve the problem. Solve the puzzle and go to the door to the next room. explore new mechanism


  • atmospheric
  • platform
  • minimalist
  • surreal
  • exploration
  • psychological
  • narration
  • philosophical
  • walking-simulator
  • 2d
  • psychedelic
  • text
  • first-person
  • puzzle
  • emotional

25

The Wake: Mourning Father, Mourning Mother (2020)

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80
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PC Windows IOS iPhone Mac OS

The Wake is a record of past wounds opened at a three-day funeral. The journal is encoded with a simple substitution cipher that the player must break in order to reveal the writer’s psyche and discover the contradictions that define him.

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  • hacking
  • experimental
  • text
  • drama
  • immersive
  • pixel
  • atmospheric
  • story
  • simulation
  • visual-novel
  • education
  • exploration
  • 1990s
  • minimalist
  • stylized

26

AI Roguelite (2023)

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PC Windows

World's first RPG in which all entities are AI-generated and all game mechanics are AI-detected.

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  • rogue-like
  • text
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • procedural
  • perma-death
  • dungeon-crawler
  • choices
  • visual-novel
  • crafting
  • resource-management
  • rpg
  • post-apocalyptic
  • medieval
  • turn-based

27

Inua - A Story in Ice and Time (2022)

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Nintendo Switch IOS iPhone PC Windows Android Mac OS

Inua is a point & click narrative game where three protagonists roam the same places in the far North, decades apart. Explore each era, collect ideas, and influence their decisions to change the course of history.


  • space-time
  • manipulation
  • historical
  • narration
  • time
  • text
  • point-and-click
  • hidden-object
  • adventure
  • isometric
  • dynamic
  • military
  • stylized
  • nature
  • supernatural

28

Midnight Special (2026)

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early access PC Windows

Welcome to Midnight Special, a point-and-click survival horror game drenched in 16-bit pixel art and 1980s retro dread. On a thunderous night in 1978 in Maine, you awaken in a labyrinthine manor. You must click, explore, and solve puzzles to escape. Will you go gentle into that good night?

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  • horror
  • genres
  • 1980s
  • survival-horror
  • point-and-click
  • various
  • text
  • psychological
  • retro
  • historical
  • alternate
  • hand-drawn
  • dark
  • pixel
  • atmospheric

29

Lifeline: Beside You in Time (2022)

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Android IOS iPhone PC Windows Mac OS

Lifeline is a text-based adventure mobile game where you guide the main character through a texting conversation to survive an unknown moon after their spaceship crashes. The engaging storyline and real-time mechanics make it a great game for those who enjoy a challenging text-based adventure.


What we like:
  • Entertaining and engaging story with a likable protagonist
  • Pacing adds scope and suspense to the narrative
  • Real-time notification mechanic adds to immersion
  • Unique storytelling approach
  • Forgiving gameplay
What could be improved:
  • Waiting between interactions may be an annoyance for some players
  • Lack of text speed option
  • Invariably binary decision prompts limit player choice

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

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Scarlet Sails (2025)

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IOS iPhone Android PC Windows Linux Mac OS

Hoist the Jolly Roger and set sail to find the legendary Titan’s Treasure! Do you fight with a cutlass or with magic? Are you biding your time until you can shoot your captain in the back, or are you the reason the rum is gone?


  • text
  • interactive
  • choices
  • fiction
  • 000-word
  • pirates
  • character
  • rpg
  • adventure
  • novel
  • customization
  • multiple-endings

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