The Best Text Games for Mac OS - Page 2

Update : Dr. What & Detective Son added at rank #35.
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Athanasy (2022)

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Deep beneath the surface of the dead Earth, the City, the last refuge of humanity, hides. Engineering genius and efforts of all mankind; a giant structure of steel, concrete, and biopolymers. It keeps the remnants of civilization one step away from total extinction.

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  • narration
  • horror
  • visual-novel
  • dynamic
  • sci-fi
  • lore
  • text
  • lovecraftian
  • cyberpunk
  • conversation
  • post-apocalyptic
  • psychological
  • surreal
  • choices
  • multiple-endings

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Arcadie: Second-Born (2022)

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Mac OS PC Windows

In this interactive tale of love and war, be the force of reason that your kingdom needs, or perpetuate its reputation as a force of destruction. Find love and weave friendships, or cast it all away for the sake of retribution.

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  • choices
  • fiction
  • romance
  • text
  • interactive
  • dating-sim
  • fantasy
  • multiple-endings
  • character
  • emotional
  • lgbtq
  • lore

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Fallen Hero: Rebirth (2018)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows IOS iPhone

They called you a hero; you call them fools. Use your telepathy romance old friends and fight new enemies as you become the greatest villain Los Diablos has ever known!

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  • text
  • novel-quality
  • choices
  • villain
  • protagonist
  • novel
  • rpg
  • interactive
  • romantic
  • adventure

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Karisvale (2022)

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PC Windows Mac OS

Your next job awaits in Karisvale, detective. Will you fulfill your duty? Or become lost in the mystery... Explore a retro top-down world, question its citizens, and collect hidden items to uncover Karisvale's dark secret.

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  • collectathon
  • soundtrack
  • conversation
  • text
  • top-down
  • short
  • dark
  • detective
  • psychological
  • mystery
  • multiple-endings
  • pixel
  • exploration
  • horror
  • atmospheric

15

The Wake: Mourning Father, Mourning Mother (2020)

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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

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Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One (2018)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux IOS iPhone Android

Step into the shoes of a detective and experience a world beyond your imagination in Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One. The interactive fantasy novel by Mishka Jenkins offers 440,000 thrilling words that will take you through moments of romance, friendship, drama, and more. With options to play as female, male, or non-binary, and to be straight, gay, or bisexual, you'll be able to define relationships and start lasting romances with vampires. Fulfill your job of detective in a playstyle that suits your personality. Open yourself up to the unknown and uncover the truth of what awaits in Wayhaven.

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What we like:
  • Fantastic story with well-developed characters
  • Enjoyable read with good humor
  • Authentic relationships and slow-burn romances
  • Enthralling writing and vivid, distinct characters
  • Highly addictive and immersive experience
What could be improved:
  • Fairly linear with limited branching except for romance options
  • Detective aspect not prominent

  • rpg
  • text
  • adventure
  • choices
  • book
  • romance

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natsuno-kanata - beyond the summer (2021)

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PC Windows Mac OS

── In the summer of the world that has ended, the girl travels aimlessly. "natsuno-kanata - beyond the summer" is a text adventure game that depicts girls traveling in apocalypse. Through talking to the girls, we get to know them and approach the mysteries of the world ──

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  • modern
  • 2d
  • visual-novel
  • conversation
  • text
  • post-apocalyptic
  • anime
  • sci-fi
  • exploration
  • crafting
  • survival
  • atmospheric
  • story
  • platform

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Fabled Lands (2021)

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Mac OS Android PC Windows

Fabled Lands is a challenging old-school narrative RPG set in an open world. Complete quests, fight, trade goods and develop your character. Explore a vast land of adventure: travel across the war-torn kingdom, survive the plains of howling darkness, and escape the Court of Hidden Faces.


  • rpg
  • rogue-like
  • choices
  • hex
  • party
  • old-school
  • text
  • fiction
  • sandbox
  • turn-based
  • open-world
  • interactive
  • fantasy
  • grid
  • 2d

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Perfect Tides (2022)

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Mac OS PC Windows

Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen. Set in the year 2000, you follow Mara, an internet-obsessed young writer who lives on a so-called island paradise.

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  • point-and-click
  • philosophical
  • emotional
  • text
  • cartoony
  • 2d
  • drama
  • exploration
  • linear
  • pixel
  • romance
  • narration
  • cute
  • funny
  • retro

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Your Chronicle (2021)

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"Let's begin your own story." This is a text-based idle RPG game. There are already more than 2,500 unique story actions and it's still growing.

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  • text
  • idler
  • auto-battler
  • clicker
  • multiple-endings
  • rpg
  • collectathon
  • battle

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