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.
- Reading-driven interaction
- Frequent dialogue and descriptions
- Story-focused progression
Related: Interactive Fiction, Visual Novel, Choices Matter, Story Rich
1,152 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Perfect Tides
A point-and-click adventure about teenage life at the millennium
97% positive
343 reviews
Nightmare knock
A horror visual novel where your choices determine survival
86% positive
Free
Life Eater
A horror kidnapping simulator built around investigating your targets' schedules
85% positive
341 reviews
我的高冷女友 MY COLD GIRLFRIEND
An anime romance visual novel centered on a cold girlfriend
79% positive
340 reviews
Zafehouse: Diaries
Turn-based zombie survival strategy built around a divided survivor group
67% positive
339 reviews
SpaceCorn
Text-based adventure about a unicorn stranded on an alien planet
61% positive
339 reviews
CozyTyper
Untimed typing game focused on accuracy rather than speed
94% positive
338 reviews
SAS：绝响诡计 | Case 0 风暴蝴蝶
A detective visual novel where schoolwork competes with solving murders
88% positive
Free
Interrogation: You will be deceived
Noir detective game built around psychological puzzles and police management
79% positive
333 reviews
Demo Touhou Gensokyo Visitor
A fantasy visual novel about an outsider entering Touhou's world
95% positive
332 reviews
Demo Choice of the Deathless
Text-based fantasy RPG where legal work pays your student loans
92% positive
331 reviews
Demo Vampire: The Masquerade — Parliament of Knives
Text-based vampire mystery shaped by choices in undead politics
95% positive
328 reviews
Demo Art Reborn: Painting Connoisseur
Art gallery simulation with famous paintings and match-three battles
94% positive
327 reviews
女神保卫战
Choice-driven FMV visual novel about family troubles and hidden pasts
69% positive
327 reviews
Moonless Moon
A text-based adventure about a student visiting other worlds at night
90% positive
326 reviews
Ord.
Minimalist text adventures where a few words shape each story
92% positive
Free
Every Letter
A letter-writing simulation about putting other people's feelings into words
94% positive
Free
Open Sorcery
A text-based adventure about a fire elemental bound by code
98% positive
323 reviews
Demo Tin Star
Text-based Western RPG where your decisions shape a marshal's story
95% positive
321 reviews
Demo The Losers Team
A comedy visual novel about using superpowers against school bullying
83% positive
320 reviews
Ghost in the pool
A horror visual novel about a haunted school swimming pool
77% positive
319 reviews
My Cat Girl Lover
A romance visual novel about a loner and a catgirl
90% positive
317 reviews
Demo This Grand Life 2
Life simulation about managing households through an inflation-driven economy
86% positive
317 reviews
S-mail
An email-driven visual novel where replies shape an AI's future
91% positive
315 reviews