Console Space
You are the captain aboard a starship. Make decisions in the terminal's text logs: from repairing the reactor to moral dilemmas that irreversibly…
100% of 10 Steam reviews are positive$0.59
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> Terminal
Terminal is a command-line escape room. You aren't just reading a story; you're unlocking a machine. You are Tera, alone in your terminal window on a cold Illinois night. Your identity is lost, embedded somewhere within a haunted computer. Its code is a prison, but it's also your escape.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Surreal
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$5⟨Unknown_Terminal⟩
Retro terminal mystery: explore a live IBM PS/2, decode corrupted logs, and learn who waits behind the blinking prompt.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Retro
92% of 25 Steam reviews are positiveFreeTerminal Lucidity
In a concrete slab beneath the earth, a lone technician is sent for routine maintenance on a network of supercomputers. Each terminal operates on its own hidden rules, and the only way to escape is to learn how to speak their language. Crack the code, unlock the truth.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Retro
96% of 107 Steam reviews are positiveFreeOS:Path
Small but tricky indie game to spend your evening on playing. You'll have to determine the cause of a program's critical error and restore its modules by playing mini games and solving puzzles while using the console.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Retro
91% of 34 Steam reviews are positive$3.99Mu Complex
Play as a hacker and take control of an ultra secret company to reveal the darkest secrets. But beware , you seem not to be alone and what you will discover could change the world ...
Mysterious, Story-driven, Retro
79% of 192 Steam reviews are positive$8.99Console Space
You are the captain aboard a starship. Make decisions in the terminal's text logs: from repairing the reactor to moral dilemmas that irreversibly change the fate of the crew.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Retro
100% of 10 Steam reviews are positive$0.59Terminal ESC
NO DOCS. NO TUTORIAL. NO ESCAPE. Tackle an evolving spectrum of puzzles within a simulated computer system using only terminal commands. Inspired by a bad day with a package manager.
Mysterious, Retro, Minimalist
100% of 29 Steam reviews are positive$2.99Coldwake
Explore an abandoned facility in this narrative-driven terminal adventure. Unlock hidden files, solve text-based puzzles, and piece together a fragmented AI as you uncover the truth behind a failed salvation and a buried past in this cold, atmospheric mystery.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Retro
100% of 41 Steam reviews are positive$3.99Radiotext
Rise against the corporate overlords and become a cyber activist hacker. Join the uprising in a cyberpunk world using radio waves.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Minimalist
96% of 89 Steam reviews are positive$11.99Message: Read at Your Own Risk
a weird console message appears on your screen should you check it out or shut down the pc the choices are yours but be careful your choices will shift everything
Mysterious, Story-driven, Minimalist
$4.99ESC
An interactive novel about identity, roleplay, and dreams.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Surreal
99% of 102 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Terminal Tales: An Interactive Fiction Anthology
Terminal Tales: An Interactive Fiction Anthology features multiple text-based adventures from a variety of genres. Explore a curated vault of brand-new, modern mysteries and sci-fi epics. No graphics. No limits. Just your imagination and a world waiting for your command.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Retro
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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The Door Of Redemption
When you wake up in a dungeon full of peculiar smell, someone tells you: you must find a way to escape from this dungeon, and be careful, you are…
80% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
#!/bin/bash
#!/bin/bash is a typing adventure game using linux terminal commands as controls. Yum some cake, touch some loot and bash those enemies!
100% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Type Your Fate
Type your fate. Arm yourself with your keyboard and your wits, and try to escape from the abandoned house where you are.
88% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Internal Storm
This game let you dive into the nostalgia atmosphere of the old-school text-based PC games. You’ll have only few commands to use.
50% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Stories Untold
Play through four linked 80s horror stories, each with its own way of playing, in about three or four hours.
86% of 4,413 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
BORK
A perfectly normal text adventure. Explore 200 rooms, solve bizarre puzzles, collect questionable objects, and discover multiple endings in a world…
$1.99
Lost Crew
This is text adventure game of survival of the astronauts on the orbital station that is lost in time.
91% of 34 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
One Night Stand
After a night of fun, passion, and one too many drinks, you wake up the next morning to find a complete stranger lying naked beside you in bed.
89% of 668 Steam reviews are positive$0.74
Ozapell Mystery Text Adventure
A retro early 1980s text adventure experience involving a murder mystery that is generated differently each time the game is played.
33% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Five damned humans, trapped for 109 years in the bowels of an insane computer called AM.
88% of 3,701 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 79$1.49
outside the door
Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office.
93% of 764 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
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While searching for the anomaly, you find yourself trapped inside a facility on a remote sub-Arctic island. What is this place? Who built it?
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> Terminal
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⟨Unknown_Terminal⟩
Retro terminal mystery: explore a live IBM PS/2, decode corrupted logs, and learn who waits behind the blinking prompt.
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Explore an abandoned facility in this narrative-driven terminal adventure.
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