The Best Text Games for PC Windows - Page 5

Update : Midnight Special added at rank #17.
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Heroes' Call - A Casual MMO Guild Sim (2025)

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PC Windows

Lead your guild and its members to conquer the challenges of perilous dungeons, all through a sleek and vibrant interface.

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  • simulation
  • text
  • rpg
  • medieval
  • 2d
  • pixel
  • casual
  • single-player
  • fantasy
  • mmo
  • farming
  • multiplayer
  • dungeon

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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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The Sumerian Game (2024)

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PC Windows ibm 7090

A game of strategy and management. The Sumerian Game is one of the earliest computer games. Developed and programmed between 1963 and 1965, it was designed to teach children math, economy and ancient history. The source code was lost but now you can play it again.

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  • text
  • education
  • management
  • strategy
  • historical
  • simulation
  • old-school
  • resource-management
  • city-building
  • turn-based

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HD (2024)

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PC Windows gamecube

Hongdu is a real dream that the developer happen in school when he was a young, because a dream developed this micro-puzzle game many years later. Independent pixel puzzle click game, the game is developed in Unity

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  • text
  • pixel
  • point-and-click
  • clicker
  • 2d
  • action-adventure
  • casual
  • single-player
  • drama
  • exploration
  • puzzle
  • sailing
  • platform
  • adventure
  • underwater

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TV Show Tycoon (2024)

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PC Windows

Get in charge of your own TV Show Company in this text-based tycoon game! Have you ever thought of your own TV Show? Design your dream shows down to the small details. Release your shows and witness your audience comment on your design choices! Make money and release more shows and seasons!

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  • text
  • moddable
  • clicker
  • movie
  • simulation
  • immersive
  • sandbox
  • strategy
  • management
  • choices
  • top-down
  • turn-based
  • casual
  • 2d

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Bloodwood Dungeon (2024)

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PC Windows

Detailed, gritty text-based fantasy RPG centered on dungeon crawling with traps, puzzles, fights and loot. Recreates the gameplay of the old gamebooks. Simple battle system and hassle-free inventory management.

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  • text
  • fiction
  • rpg
  • choices
  • adventure
  • minimalist
  • interactive
  • fantasy
  • multiple-endings
  • turn-based
  • inventory
  • old-school
  • mature
  • dungeon-crawler
  • story

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The Twisting Trail of Clues (2024)

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PC Windows

The Twisting Trail of Clues is a captivating and thrilling modern-day murder mystery. Set in a bustling city, the story follows detective Emma as she tries to solve a seemingly impossible case - the murder of a prominent businessman by a mysterious secret society.

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  • visual-novel
  • text
  • action-adventure
  • cartoony
  • detective
  • stylized
  • casual
  • colourful
  • crime
  • emotional
  • dark
  • 2d
  • atmospheric
  • drama
  • narration

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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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Dr. What & Detective Son (2024)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Join Dr. What and Detective Son on an exhilarating journey through mind-bending puzzles and perplexing mysteries in this immersive logic game! With multiple levels to conquer, sharpen your deductive skills and unravel intricate cases.

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  • text
  • logic
  • puzzle
  • detective
  • casual
  • adventure
  • mind-bending
  • mystery
  • colourful
  • 2d

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DREAMIO: AI-Powered Adventures (2024)

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PC Windows web browser

DREAMIO is a 'choose-your-own-adventure' game where stories and visuals are dynamically created through the power of artificial intelligence in response to your decisions. Explore endless worlds with limitless possibilities; go anywhere, do anything.

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  • narration
  • nonlinear
  • typing
  • text
  • dynamic
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • choices
  • fiction
  • visual-novel
  • interactive
  • procedural
  • multiple-endings
  • minimalist
  • adventure

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