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
1,297 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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The Moon Looks Beautiful Tonight: Definitive Edition
Sci-fi visual novel about two women stranded on the Moon
98% positive
Free
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墨仙箓
Text-based idle strategy with player trading and sect wars
91% positive
Free
Her Love, Like Poison
A visual novel mixing lesbian romance with mild body horror
96% positive
290 reviews
《奇门遁甲》
Text-based fortune-telling simulation built around a traditional Chinese divination system
87% positive
288 reviews
SIC-1
A programming puzzle game built around a single computer instruction
94% positive
Free
Demo マーダーミステリーパラドクス このひと夏の十五年
Text-based murder mystery where you investigate while under suspicion
86% positive
287 reviews
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The Real Face of a VTuber
Courtroom visual novel where several suspects claim to be one VTuber
90% positive
287 reviews
Pandemic Love
A dating visual novel about seeking connection during pandemic quarantine
93% positive
Free
Touhou: Fading Illusion
A visual novel with branching choices in a supernatural world
92% positive
Free
Academagia: The Making of Mages
Text-based life simulation about shaping a young wizard's school year
68% positive
282 reviews
I Am Your President
Text-based presidential strategy where your words can turn supporters against you
67% positive
281 reviews
The Wake: Mourning Father, Mourning Mother
Text-based puzzle adventure that reveals family history through coded journal entries
80% positive
279 reviews
Bird Game
An abstract exploration RPG with puzzles and turn-based battles
95% positive
Free
Mainland
A text adventure focused on exploration rather than difficult puzzles
82% positive
Free
Socialism Simulator
Turn-based political simulation about steering a country after civil war
95% positive
275 reviews
MATH EXPRESSions
Math logic puzzles with six attempts to guess each expression
83% positive
Free
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Idle Hacking: An Inaction RPG
A text-based idle RPG about optimizing your hacking build
79% positive
Free
Muv-Luv Alternative Total Eclipse Remastered
Military sci-fi visual novel about mech tests amid alien war
94% positive
274 reviews
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You are the Judge!
A courtroom simulation about passing judgment under political pressure
70% positive
274 reviews
I Just Want to be Single!! Season One
High school visual novel about making friends without starting romances
81% positive
273 reviews
Love Stories: When Pastel Meets Grotesque
A visual novel mixing romance, mystery, and psychological horror
87% positive
273 reviews
Social Democracy: An Alternate History
Text-based political card game about resisting fascism in Weimar Germany
96% positive
Free
Dream on
First-person walking simulator about inner thoughts and a final wish
97% positive
Free
Demo Ceiba
A biopunk visual novel about artificial explorers and alien ruins
94% positive
271 reviews