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The best Text-Based games · Ludixa
The best Text-Based games
Ranked on the Metacritic score where one exists, and on the number of Steam reviews where it doesn't — because a game judged by a hundred thousand players is not less known than one judged by twenty critics. Titles with neither are left out.
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Desktop Explorer
2026 · Point & Click · Puzzle · Rummage through the abandoned profiles of an old PC to unravel an inherited mystery. What secrets hide in this eerie adventure of cryptic games and outdated software? Who was using this computer? And what happened to them?
The Crimson Diamond
2024 · Point & Click · Text-Based · Follow amateur geologist and reluctant detective Nancy Maple to the ghost town of Crimson, Ontario to investigate the discovery of a massive diamond in this retro-inspired, EGA text parser mystery adventure!
Wednesdays
2025 · Visual Novel · Interactive Fiction · "The hardest part is not to speak up. It’s being heard." Part video game, part graphic novel, Wednesdays seeks to raise awareness about child sexual abuse through a surprisingly hope-filled story.
Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
2021 · Interactive Fiction · Adventure · A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
Emily is Away Too
2017 · Indie · Simulation · Emily is Away Too is a brand new story featuring new characters and multiple different endings. Message your friends, surf the web and choose your path through this branching narrative.
Uncover the Smoking Gun
2024 · Immersive Sim · Interactive Fiction · A Battle of Wits with AI: Solve the case by conversing with a suspect robot using GPT to gather evidence. What single truth emerges from countless dialogues and pieces of information?
Trolley Problem, Inc.
2022 · Indie · Casual · Trolley Problem, Inc. is a darkly comedic narrative game based on real-world philosophical papers, in which you are asked to make a series of impossible choices from two awful answers. Wrestle with your moral compass, decide the fate of millions – and compare your choices with the rest of the world.
SIMULACRA 2
2020 · Horror · Immersive Sim · A dead influencer. An obsessed detective. Three suspects. Piece the truth together by going through the victim’s phone messages, videos, and social media in the follow up to the critically acclaimed SIMULACRA.
Sorcery! Parts 1 and 2
2016 · Choose Your Own Adventure · RPG · An epic adventure in a land of monsters, traps and magic. Journey across the deadly Shamutanti Hills and through Kharé, Cityport of Thieves. Armed with your sword and over fifty spells with weird and wonderful effects, embark on a narrative adventure of a thousand choices where every one is remembered.
The Silver Case
1999 · Adventure · Visual Novel · The Silver Case – the debut title from world-renowned developer SUDA51 has been fully remastered and localized to English for the first time ever!
No Case Should Remain Unsolved
2024 · Puzzle · Interactive Fiction · Twelve years after Senior Inspector Jeon Gyeong's retirement, she is visited by a young police officer: a woman who pleads with her to reexamine Seowon's case. But with each uncovered memory, only one thing becomes clear: everyone in Seowon's vicinity was lying.
The Farmer Was Replaced
2025 · Automation · Education · Program and optimize a drone to automate a farm and watch it do the work for you. Collect resources to unlock better technology and become the most efficient farmer in the world. Improve your problem solving and coding skills.
Aliya: Timelink
2024 · RPG · Interactive Fiction · The player connects to a girl in distress in space thousands of years later? How will they resolve the crisis and discover the truth? Through the mechanism of real-time synchronization, the game breaks through the dimensional wall and creates an immersive dialogue across time and space.
Bitburner
2021 · Automation · Text-Based · Bitburner is a programming-based incremental game. Write scripts in JavaScript to automate gameplay, learn skills, play minigames, solve puzzles, and more in this cyberpunk text-based incremental RPG.
Urban Myth Dissolution Center
2025 · Visual Novel · Adventure · Join forces with the psychic Director of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center and solve a variety of cases involving cursed relics, rental properties with shady histories, and dimensional anomalies. Monstrous oddities and otherworldly planes abound in this occult mystery adventure game!
私のリアルは充実しすぎている フルボイス版
2022 · Otome · Visual Novel · 顔良し、頭良し、性格良し。 完全無欠のリア充女子が送るドタバタラブコメディ！（たぶん）
The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles
2021 · Visual Novel · Adventure · Immerse yourself in a dramatic yet charming and witty world of evidence-gathering, deduction and courtroom battles with this double-pack of the adventures of rookie lawyer Ryunosuke.
Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp
2020 · Dating Sim · Indie · "Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp" brings you more of the world's best (and maybe only?) multiplayer dating sim; but in a way you've never expected!
SIGame
2025 · Trivia · Education · Exciting quiz game where you can test your knowledge, compete with friends and smart bots, and explore a variety of topics!
Maitetsu:Last Run!!
2020 · Visual Novel · Casual · 《爱上火车-Last Run!!-》是日本美少女游戏知名品牌Lose所制作的E-mote视觉小说。本作为本篇故事的二次强化版与各路线后日谈及续集的合集，拥有相当于两部作品的内容，字数高达200万字。本作由Cura担当原画与人物设计，进行豹负责剧本，并由tO(と)主导演出效果。中日文版同步在日本与海外进行发售。
Stories Untold
2017 · Horror · Adventure · Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.
The Red Pearls Of Borneo
2026 · Adventure · Puzzle · A detective noir puzzle deduction game. Explore a non-linear timeline as a clairvoyant investigator in 1941 Borneo. Jump between time and locations to uncover motives and discover what truly happened in the Goodwill tobacco plantation that fateful night on the eve of the WW2 Japanese invasion.
Staffer Case: A Supernatural Mystery Adventure
2023 · Visual Novel · Strategy · Staffer Case is a new sort of mystery game, asking players to find clues, arrange them into documents, and point out the contradictions between them to solve a series of murders. Each mystery unraveled leads you closer to the truth lying at the heart of each case!
Depression Quest
2014 · Indie · Interactive Fiction · Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment. This game aims to show other sufferers of depression that they are not alone in their feelings, and to illustrate to people who may not understand the illness the depths of what it can do to people.
Soccer Manager 2026
2024 · Simulation · Management · Manage elite football clubs and lead your dream team as a football manager!
My Vow to My Liege
2020 · Otome · Visual Novel · 《My Vow to My Liege》is a visual novel dating game. Players get to play as a girl disguised as the King of Ng, a man. The 4 dateable characters are: the guide, the enemy, the minister and the guard.Will they choose the man over the country? Love over hate? Who will they finally end up with?
英雄黄昏-文字三国志&曹贼模拟器
2021 · Word Game · Indie · 这是一个独属三国玩家的幻想世界，新奇独特，内容丰富。你将扮演穿越者，在三国中自由实现各种幻想，体验别样乐趣，也可轻松挂机。但本作是纯文字形式，没有精美画面、上手略有难度，由一个业余作者凭热爱独立开发。如有任何反馈，欢迎随时联系作者。
Ace Attorney Investigations Collection
2024 · Adventure · Visual Novel · Miles Edgeworth's dramatic turnabouts take center stage! Experience both Ace Attorney Investigations games in one gorgeous collection! Investigate crime scenes and solve tough, intriguing cases through logic and deduction. When Edgeworth's past and present collide, his future begins!
CaseCracker
2022 · Text-Based · Puzzle · No flashy visuals, just pure mental gymnastics. Actively search, cross-reference, and unravel the truth from a complex database. In this hardcore text-based deduction game, the devil is always in the details. Detective, are you ready?
7 Days to End with You
2022 · Puzzle · Visual Novel · To know a language, know the world, and finally know you.
60 Parsecs!
2018 · Turn-Based Strategy · Text-Based · 60 Parsecs! is an Atomic Space Age adventure of scavenge and survival. Keep your crew alive and ready for action. Make difficult choices, face soup shortages and other horrors of outer space. And maybe reach your destination. Or not.
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy
2024 · Adventure · Visual Novel · Join rookie attorney Apollo Justice and his mentor, the legendary Phoenix Wright, in this collection of 3 games! This title features 16 episodes (including previously DLC-only episodes) and supports English, French, German, Japanese Korean, and Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator
2023 · Simulation · Life Sim · Simulator of an 80s Japanese stock market businessman. Chill, catch a retro vibe and watch your profits grow in the text-based game STONKS-9800.
修仙小屋
2025 · Casual · Simulation · 这是一款文字挂机类修仙聊天小游戏，主打的就是上班摸鱼聊天挂机修仙。（注：这是一个多人在线的文字网游，非单机游戏!）
Insomnia: Theater in the Head
2022 · Point & Click · Indie · Hickory dickory dock. The city's deep in sleep. The clock's ticking. The sheep's bouncing. Hickory dickory dock. The girl tosses again, only with more things swarming into her head... In this Point & Click puzzle game "Insomnia", the show in the head is rolling on again. Alas, any sleep tonight...
恋爱绮谭~不存在的夏天~
2020 · Visual Novel · Casual · 九省通衢之地的阴影里，不知名的存在正在蠢蠢欲动。普通到极点的学生顾韦，作为“非日常部”的一员，和女友苏半夏开始调查“虚拟偶像消失事件”的传闻。讲述都市怪谈的可疑直播间，废墟一般的住宅楼，等待在两人前方的是……
Home Safety Hotline
2024 · Horror · Interactive Fiction · Hearing noises? Seeing things? Call Home Safety Hotline! Our operators are standing by, waiting to give you the answers you need to protect your home from all manner of pests and household hazards.
他人世界末 On-looker
2020 · Visual Novel · Dating Sim · 这是属于不怎么开朗的我们，充满逃避、畏缩、胆怯、不切实际的单恋故事。 属于你的故事结局将会如何，由你的选择而定。
Your Chronicle
2021 · RPG · Text-Based · "Let's begin your own story." This is a text-based idle RPG game. There are already more than 3,000 unique story actions and it's still growing.
A Legionary's Life
2019 · RPG · Text-Based · A Legionary's Life lets you play as a Roman soldier during the years of the Second Punic War and beyond. Rise up through the ranks and win prestigious awards or just focus on making it home in one piece; it's up to you.
