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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Arai-san Mansion Exploration Game: Incarnation
Text adventure with card battles across a mansion's paranormal floors
93% positive
Free
Elysium: Blood Games
Gladiator management sim about building careers and surviving arena seasons
57% positive
127 reviews
The Best Duck Clicker
Incremental clicker about defeating ducks and earning passive income
80% positive
127 reviews
Lovely Lady RPG
A text-based RPG about managing life with limited daily actions
99% positive
127 reviews
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Cultivation Idle
Incremental RPG combining automatic training with hands-on resource planning
75% positive
127 reviews
Omen Exitio: Hunger
A Lovecraftian investigative gamebook based on a real missing-child case
85% positive
126 reviews
Demo REPLAY BOYS
A visual novel about managing a boy band through time loops
94% positive
126 reviews
10:16
Choice-driven visual novel about a believer's encounter with a possessive demon
86% positive
Free
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Liar Game
Multiplayer deduction game where one player must fake knowing a word
82% positive
126 reviews
Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists
A tactical narrative RPG about four-person heists in mythological underworlds
84% positive
126 reviews
Zork Anthology
Text adventures combining exploration, puzzle-solving, and an absurd sense of humor
94% positive
125 reviews
Love Mystery Club
Mystery visual novel with color-coded facts and guesses
79% positive
125 reviews
Demo A Wise Use of Time
A text-based sci-fi adventure built around the power to freeze time
78% positive
124 reviews
Slobbish Dragon Princess 2
A romantic comedy visual novel about vacationing with dragon girls
98% positive
124 reviews
Late Bird
A short interactive story about birds and struggling with adulthood
94% positive
124 reviews
집착의 망자 - 집으로부터의 탈출
Text-based horror about surviving an intruder in your home
91% positive
Free
鲤氏奇人异闻录
Fan-made detective visual novel set in the world of Arknights
98% positive
Free
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久美子之死：昭和少女血色告白
A mystery visual novel connecting murders across twenty years
88% positive
124 reviews
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高三最后300天
School life simulation about balancing exam preparation and personal relationships
80% positive
124 reviews
Penny Black
Text-based dating adventure with choices that shape how a date ends
96% positive
Free
Universe For Sale - Prologue
Sci-fi visual novel about a woman who creates custom universes
89% positive
Free
The Shadow Over Cyberspace
A horror visual novel about eldritch gods controlling the Internet
90% positive
Free
Demo ALLBLACK Phase 1
A psychological sci-fi visual novel about amnesia and unexplained powers
75% positive
Free
The Peresmeshnik
Text-based horror adventure about trust aboard an isolated Soviet ship
91% positive
Free