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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7 Grand Steps: What Ancients Begat
Turn-based family strategy across generations of ancient society
54% positive
771 reviews
Demo MINDHACK
Dystopian visual novel with typing sequences that rewrite minds
93% positive
749 reviews
Rewrite+
Choice-driven visual novel about classmates investigating occult rumors
94% positive
748 reviews
Age of Gladiators
Turn-based gladiator management with money and fighters at risk
78% positive
746 reviews
AIR
Choice-driven visual novel about family bonds and multiple endings
98% positive
723 reviews
Demo Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road
Text-based horror RPG where a vampire courier evades hunters
90% positive
721 reviews
Witches x Warlocks
Halloween dating sim about cramming for exams and finding romance
91% positive
Free
Hana no No ni Saku Utakata no
Japanese-inspired fantasy visual novel with comedy and multiple endings
96% positive
719 reviews
Petit Game Collection vol.1
Retro minigame collection combining dating scenes, shooting, and brick-breaking
87% positive
698 reviews
Demo Zeliria Sanctuary
A choice-driven visual novel about romance on an alien planet
89% positive
695 reviews
OZMAFIA!!
Otome visual novel with mafia rivalries and shifting romances
82% positive
690 reviews
Demo Never Second in Rome
Turn-based Roman RPG about training and commanding Caesar's soldiers
77% positive
684 reviews
START AGAIN: a prologue
Turn-based RPG about fighting through a castle in repeating loops
96% positive
681 reviews
Demo Long Knives
Text-based detective adventure set during the collapse of a dynasty
99% positive
Free
The Crimson Diamond
Text-parser mystery adventure about a geologist investigating a diamond discovery
97% positive
678 reviews
全网公敌：诡村
Supernatural investigation puzzles built around web searches and live-action footage
89% positive
Free
The Shell Part III: Paradiso
A detective visual novel about a murder mirroring a painting
96% positive
667 reviews
热血大唐
Historical strategy with customizable commanders and alliance-based military campaigns
96% positive
Free
Welcome To The Dark Place
Text-based horror built around exploration, strange rules, and sound
88% positive
Free
My 1/6 Lover
A romance visual novel about six personalities sharing one body
82% positive
656 reviews
Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins
A found-phone mystery involving a disappearance and the Weeping Angels
91% positive
653 reviews
Demo LoveKami -Divinity Stage-
An anime romance visual novel about goddesses becoming pop idols
83% positive
643 reviews
Night Shift Nurses
A hospital-set visual novel about an abusive doctor’s second chance
84% positive
638 reviews
The Shell Part II: Purgatorio
Detective visual novel connecting a postwar curse to a prewar murder
94% positive
635 reviews