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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

1,152 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.

1,152 games

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Trivia Vault Baseball Trivia
Trivia Vault Baseball Trivia
A timed sports quiz where baseball knowledge opens locked vaults
67% positive 90 reviews
Professor Watts Word Search: Into The Ocean
Professor Watts Word Search: Into The Ocean
A word-search game with randomized puzzles and timed rounds
70% positive 89 reviews
Trivia Vault: Hockey Trivia
Trivia Vault: Hockey Trivia
A hockey quiz where faster answers earn higher cash rewards
71% positive 89 reviews
Your Future Self
Your Future Self
Text adventure about arguing with yourself inside a time loop
80% positive 89 reviews
My Summer Adventure: Memories of Another Life Demo
My Summer Adventure: Memories of Another Life
A romance visual novel about waking in someone else's body
88% positive 89 reviews
The Case of the Serialized Killer
The Case of the Serialized Killer
A murder mystery visual novel where your accusation determines the ending
89% positive Free
Destinies
Destinies
Digital companion for a competitive, story-driven dark fantasy board game
72% positive Free
green ogre gives you terrible life advice and dies
green ogre gives you terrible life advice and dies
A visual novel about paying an ogre for questionable advice
97% positive 88 reviews
Trivia Vault: Technology Trivia Deluxe
Trivia Vault: Technology Trivia Deluxe
Technology trivia with vault codes to crack against the clock
67% positive 87 reviews
Trivia Vault: Business Trivia
Trivia Vault: Business Trivia
Business trivia where correct answers crack vaults for bonus cash
68% positive 87 reviews
The Fog Knows Your Name Demo
The Fog Knows Your Name
Text-based teen horror about a classmate's death and lethal fog
85% positive 87 reviews
After You
After You
A first-person puzzle adventure with no hints or tutorials
70% positive 87 reviews
Shut your teeth
Shut your teeth
A dark visual novel about Russian travelers and Thai folklore
91% positive Free
*NEW* SCUFFED EPIC VISUAL NOVEL
*NEW* SCUFFED EPIC VISUAL NOVEL
A free visual novel following a bean outside his game
89% positive Free
Echoes
Echoes
A folklore-based visual novel about memories of the dead
82% positive 87 reviews
Crown Delights Deli
Crown Delights Deli
A visual novel about code-switching behind a Brooklyn bodega counter
80% positive Free
巧|合/co|incidence
巧|合/co|incidence
Science-fiction visual novel with surreal horror and a fixed romance
86% positive Free
Radiotext Demo
Radiotext
Terminal-based text adventure with branching conversations across a forgotten radio network
97% positive 87 reviews
The Ice Cream Culprit
The Ice Cream Culprit
A comedy visual novel about your girlfriend's missing ice cream
98% positive Free
Fatehaven Demo
Fatehaven
Text-based fantasy adventure with elemental magic and romantic choices
74% positive 86 reviews
Trivia Vault Olympics Trivia
Trivia Vault Olympics Trivia
Timed Olympics trivia where correct answers unlock a virtual vault
69% positive 86 reviews
Trivia Vault: Boxing Trivia
Trivia Vault: Boxing Trivia
Single-player boxing trivia with timed questions and vaults to crack
71% positive 86 reviews
Trivia Vault: Soccer Trivia
Trivia Vault: Soccer Trivia
Timed soccer trivia with cash rewards for quick answers
65% positive 86 reviews
World Empire 2027 Demo
World Empire 2027
Turn-based grand strategy about rebuilding a nation and conquering rivals
71% positive 86 reviews