The Best Adventure text Games

Update, : Roadwarden added at rank #4.
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Ord. (2019)

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PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Mac OS Linux IOS iPhone

Ord is a minimalist text adventure told three words at a time. Embark on a quest to defeat an evil warlock and find yourself confronted with a series of (more or less) serious decisions. Death is just one choice away, but do not worry - next time will be different. You can try again. And again. - Fast-paced storytelling. - Multiple endings. - Lots of secrets.

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  • text
  • minimalist
  • adventure
  • experience
  • story
  • narrative
  • perma-death
  • rpg
  • experimental
  • casual
  • innovative
  • fantasy
2

Stories Untold (2017)

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95
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PC Windows Mac OS Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One

Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.

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  • horror
  • text-adventure
  • text
  • adventure
  • 1980s
  • story
  • narrative
  • experimental
  • puzzle
  • parser
  • interactive
  • sci-fi
  • psychological
  • retro
3

Lifeline: Beside You in Time (2022)

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Mac OS PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

Help Taylor make life or death decisions, and face the consequences together.

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  • fiction
  • text
  • adventure
  • interactive
  • sci-fi
  • waiting
  • real-time
  • choices
  • survival
  • narrative
  • dos
  • well-written
  • story
4

Roadwarden (2022)

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85
Review score
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Linux PC Windows Mac OS

Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.

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  • rpg
  • fantasy
  • text
  • adventure
  • choices
  • visual-novel
  • fiction
  • pixel
  • story
  • interactive
  • novel
  • old-school
  • text-only
5

The Wild Case (2021)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Android IOS iPhone Mac OS Linux

The Wild Case is a 2D first-person point-and-click adventure. In this story-focused adventure, players meet a cast of colorful characters, experience mysterious encounters, and solve puzzles to progress through the game.

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  • hand-drawn
  • puzzle
  • point-and-click
  • story
  • detective
  • adventure
  • atmospheric
  • crafting
  • exploration
  • mystery
  • text
  • 2d
  • colourful
  • survival
  • supernatural
6

Life of a Mobster (2017)

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IOS iPhone Android Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Join the mob and rule the city! Will you become a celebrity mobster, or rule from the shadows?

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  • choices
  • text
  • rpg
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • interactive
7

60 Seconds! Reatomized (2019)

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PC Windows Android IOS iPhone Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One Mac OS

The post-apocalyptic dark comedy is back - remastered and even more radioactive than before! Scavenge supplies, rescue your family, and stay alive in your fallout shelter. Make difficult decisions, hunt mutant roaches... and maybe survive. Or not.

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  • survival
  • comedy
  • choices
  • post-apocalyptic
  • text
  • remake
  • dark
  • adventure
  • hand-drawn
  • simulation
  • difficult
  • point-and-click
  • rogue-like
  • funny
  • cartoony
8

In Other Waters (2020)

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Nintendo Switch Mac OS PC Windows

Play as an Artificial Intelligence guiding a stranded xenobiologist through a beautiful and mysterious alien ocean. A non-violent sci-fi story, enter a world of wonder, fear and vulnerability, unraveling the history and ecology of an impossible planet. What will you discover together?

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  • underwater
  • exploration
  • story
  • sci-fi
  • text
  • discovery
  • adventure
  • minimalist
  • atmospheric
  • aliens
  • horror
  • metallic
  • urban-apocalyptic
  • trading
  • turn-based
9

Guns of Infinity (2016)

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90
Review score
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IOS iPhone Android Linux Mac OS PC Windows

As commander of a squadron of cavalry, what will you sacrifice to win the war of gunpowder and magic? Fight for power, riches, love, or glory!

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  • text
  • novel
  • romance
  • choices
  • interactive
  • adventure
  • century
  • rpg
  • low-fantasy
  • war
  • war-time
  • fiction
  • book
10

Sabres of Infinity (2016)

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IOS iPhone Android Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Wage a war of gunpowder and magic! As a gentleman-officer of the Royal Dragoons, will you sacrifice your fortune? Your honour? Your men? Your own life?

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  • choices
  • text
  • adventure
  • rpg
  • war
  • book
  • rich
  • interactive
  • fiction
  • military
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