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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Demo Devlog: A Post-Modern College Experience
A college visual novel about romance and making games with dinosaurs
98% positive
56 reviews
Pearl - Meeting on an Autumn Day -
A visual novel about a student's missing memories and magic
96% positive
Free
In Her Eyes
A deckbuilding visual novel with rhythm-based battles and an assassination deadline
78% positive
55 reviews
Demo Jolly Good: Cakes and Ale
Text-based comedy about navigating scandal in a London social club
95% positive
55 reviews
Chronicles of Tal'Dun: The Remainder - Act 1
Dark fantasy visual novel built around a cycle of deaths
87% positive
Free
Demo I doesn't exist - a modern text adventure
A psychological text adventure with typed conversations about existence
65% positive
55 reviews
SOWON
A puzzle adventure through a world of strange, living toys
80% positive
55 reviews
Walking In The Abyss - Definitive Edition
2D survival horror with puzzles inside a monster-filled castle
93% positive
55 reviews
Crossword World Puzzle
A word puzzle game that pairs letter linking with park building
76% positive
Free
Demo 钟塔
A romance visual novel where moving clock hands changes fate
91% positive
55 reviews
My Legend of Immortal Cultivation
Text-based idle game with cultivation, crafting, and strategic combat
56% positive
55 reviews
终曲。
A romance visual novel with choices that shape its endings
91% positive
55 reviews
HoloType: Treasure Zombie Island
A typing game about curing zombies with Hololive quotes
89% positive
55 reviews
单身狗的最后机会
Dating sim about finding romance within a single week
85% positive
54 reviews
Entropic Float: This World Will Decay And Disappear
A mystery visual novel about choosing how time loops end
89% positive
Free
Disney Villains Cursed Café
Choice-driven visual novel about brewing potions for modern Disney villains
78% positive
54 reviews
Cow Girls 3 Stories
Adult jigsaw puzzles with animated artwork of cow-themed anime girls
81% positive
54 reviews
Avian Enigma
Sci-fi visual novel about a bird where none should exist
81% positive
54 reviews
A Better World
Text-based time travel adventure about changing history for your employer
65% positive
54 reviews
Near-Death-Expedition
Visual novel about guiding a beginner VTuber through her broadcasts
100% positive
54 reviews
Demo Prove You Can Win
Text-based logic puzzles where you enter code to prove propositions
85% positive
54 reviews
Demo Foxy Trouble
A romance visual novel about living with a fox spirit
96% positive
54 reviews
Knightfall Idle
A medieval idle RPG with trading and automated kingdom production
63% positive
Free
Demo Ratings War
Text-based cyberpunk mystery about a reporter competing for news ratings
75% positive
53 reviews