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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e-River Cabin Journal
Diary-driven survival strategy where wilderness tasks take real-world time
52% positive
60 reviews
Demo Samurai of Hyuga Book 4
Interactive samurai fiction about lost love and a forbidden power
83% positive
60 reviews
Anachronism\>
Text-based interactive fiction about choosing who you are online
65% positive
Free
Demo Interrogation Simulator
A dialogue puzzle game about questioning suspects to extract confessions
95% positive
60 reviews
疑案追了声
A detective puzzle game built around voices and overlapping conversations
77% positive
Free
Keyboard Soldier
Typing-based zombie survival where every correct letter fires a bullet
90% positive
Free
Demo Kiss And Cry：我的女友脑子有问题
A school romance visual novel about two girls growing closer
73% positive
Free
Hellink
A sci-fi visual novel about cybercrime and exposing false information
95% positive
Free
Mosaic Chronicles
Stained-glass jigsaw puzzles that reveal chapters of fantasy stories
81% positive
59 reviews
Demo Copy Editor: A RegEx Puzzle
A text-based puzzle game about rewriting passages with regular expressions
53% positive
59 reviews
Sinking Inn
A point-and-click puzzle adventure built around switching between realities
90% positive
Free
Demo The Bunker Notes - Horror/Drama Visual Novel
A psychological horror visual novel about isolation during a pandemic
75% positive
59 reviews
堕天者 ~Back to Origin~
A fantasy RPG with two story routes and nine endings
90% positive
Free
Chinese Characters
A tile-matching puzzle game centered on Chinese writing
81% positive
Free
My Summer Adventure: Memories of Another Life — Day 1
A romance visual novel about waking in someone else's body
93% positive
Free
Sorcerer's Choice: Angel or Demon?
Boys' love visual novel about choosing an angel or demon
93% positive
59 reviews
Guidelicious
A short mystery visual novel set in one strange room
86% positive
Free
Memary: Memory of the nameless one
Mystery visual novel with a cat guiding you through puzzles
97% positive
Free
Demo Syutyaku Gakuen
A horror visual novel about romance with dangerously possessive classmates
90% positive
59 reviews
The Day in a Life of a Dayfly
A visual novel about one day and eight lifetimes
92% positive
Free
Demo 痴情妹妹纱雪的兄控日记
A comedy visual novel centered on a single heroine
98% positive
59 reviews
A Place for the Unwilling
A branching narrative adventure set in a city's final days
67% positive
58 reviews
Survive In Russia
Choice-driven visual novel about everyday survival in provincial Russia
66% positive
58 reviews
NeuroNet: Mendax Proxy
A cyberpunk visual novel about managing a city through dialogue
74% positive
58 reviews