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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Trivia Vault: Movie Trivia
A timed movie trivia game with vault codes to crack
73% positive
77 reviews
Silmaris: Dice Kingdom
Turn-based kingdom management with dice rolls and text-based story choices
64% positive
77 reviews
汉字大冒险
A 2D puzzle game built around combining Chinese characters
90% positive
77 reviews
Letters
A free incremental clicker built around earning random letters
55% positive
Free
Glow Box
A sci-fi adventure where you communicate only by flashing light
92% positive
77 reviews
My Dangerous Life
A boys' love visual novel about roommates with dangerous secrets
78% positive
76 reviews
The Sin Collector: Repentless
Text RPG and visual novel about hunting sinners for Heaven
89% positive
76 reviews
It's Hasegawa-san!?
A romance visual novel where your date is a classmate
61% positive
76 reviews
TOBOR
Text-driven surveillance mystery where your choices decide who lives
97% positive
76 reviews
Of Frost and Flowers
Fantasy otome visual novel in a world divided by magic
89% positive
Free
Days With Ollie
Choice-driven visual novel about a reporter covering a zombie idol
70% positive
76 reviews
Snowkissed Romance
Dating sim mixing ski resort romance with daily life management
99% positive
Free
Laugh Track
Dark comedy visual novel about writing a sitcom under threat
92% positive
Free
Second Thoughts
Text-based psychological horror about choosing who dies with limited information
73% positive
75 reviews
Calculator: The Game
A calculator puzzle game with number manipulation and portals
96% positive
75 reviews
怪話
A supernatural horror visual novel using sound and text effects
95% positive
Free
The Final Prize is Soup
A horror visual novel about surviving an afterlife death game
95% positive
Free
Demo Phantom of the Twilight
Otome visual novel about vampires and murder in Victorian London
76% positive
75 reviews
Spooky Speakeasy
A bartending sim with monster customers and a closing deadline
89% positive
Free
Demo Amarantus
A choice-driven visual novel about rebellion, friendship, and messy romance
77% positive
74 reviews
My Academy's Special Place
A school romance visual novel involving your sister and classmate
89% positive
74 reviews
流木缘Driftwood Fate
A mystery visual novel with romance, fantasy, and surreal elements
92% positive
Free
World Wide Hack
Multiplayer hacking simulation about corporate secrets and control of networks
66% positive
73 reviews
Hell of Sins: soul
Horror visual novel set in a hell that imprisons souls
47% positive
73 reviews