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Best Text-Based games on PC

Text-based games rely heavily on written dialogue, descriptions, and menus to present stories and interactions, often using choices, investigations, or branching narratives.

Related: Interactive Fiction, Visual Novel, Choices Matter, Story Rich

1,297 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.

1,297 games

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NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
Psychological visual novel about managing a troubled online streamer
94% positive 62K reviews
Firework Demo
Firework
Chinese horror mystery told through exploration and puzzles
98% positive 43K reviews
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
Short psychological horror visual novel about a difficult milk run
96% positive 37K reviews
Emily is Away
Emily is Away
Retro chat-based interactive fiction about a relationship over five years
89% positive Free
Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!
Psychological horror visual novel that twists school romance conventions
97% positive 35K reviews
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
A visual novel about a murder mystery party aboard a train
97% positive Free
Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
Psychological horror visual novel shaped by a girl's distorted perception
97% positive 24K reviews
60 Seconds! Reatomized Demo
60 Seconds! Reatomized
Post-apocalyptic survival strategy built on scavenging and hard choices
94% positive 21K reviews
A Date with Death Demo
A Date with Death
Supernatural dating sim about bargaining with the Grim Reaper
98% positive Free
Murders on the Yangtze River Demo
Murders on the Yangtze River
Side-scrolling detective adventure solving murders in early twentieth-century China
97% positive 16K reviews
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
A visual novel about a missing girl in a Soviet city
98% positive Free
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
First-person cosmic horror drawn from a Lovecraft short story
95% positive Free
Chill with You : Lo-Fi Story Demo
Chill with You : Lo-Fi Story
A work-focused sound novel with music and a virtual desk companion
98% positive 13K reviews
60 Seconds!
60 Seconds!
Survival strategy with a timed scramble before nuclear fallout
85% positive 12K reviews
Suzerain
Suzerain
Text-based political RPG where presidential choices reshape a nation
92% positive 11K reviews
No Case Should Remain Unsolved
No Case Should Remain Unsolved
Text-based detective puzzle about reconstructing a missing girl's case
96% positive 11K reviews
The Farmer Was Replaced
The Farmer Was Replaced
Farming automation game where Python-like code runs a drone
95% positive 9,946 reviews
Aliya: Timelink
Aliya: Timelink
Text-based sci-fi visual novel with timed messages and multiple endings
98% positive 9,088 reviews
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Text-based narrative RPG where choices shape a commoner's entire life
89% positive 8,733 reviews
Citizen Sleeper
Citizen Sleeper
Dice-driven narrative RPG about surviving on a ruined space station
93% positive 8,559 reviews
Homicipher
Homicipher
Point-and-click horror adventure built around deciphering monsters' language
97% positive 8,373 reviews
Bitburner
Bitburner
An idle programming RPG built around automating a hacker's work
94% positive Free
Katawa Shoujo
Katawa Shoujo
Choice-driven romance visual novel with five character-focused story paths
97% positive Free
Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim™
Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim™
Choice-driven dating sim about romancing killers on a strange island
90% positive 6,802 reviews