Run TavernQuest
A classic text adventure - but you're not the one playing it. You're the game master for an idiot player named STEVE.
93% of 138 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
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Return of Red Riding Hood Enhanced Edition
This visual novel is a collection of alternative realities. How events would turn out and how they end will depend on your choices. Visit wolf's den and solve his secret, or try to tame the wild beast. Eat a pasty with mushrooms and experience something new, or feed it to the old lady, because it's her favorite filling.
Also in Visual novel · Replayable, Story-driven, Mysterious
88% of 50 Steam reviews are positive$2.99Impossible Quest
Very dumb adventure game about a very dumb person from a very dumb developer.
Also in Visual novel · Replayable, Story-driven, Minimalist
72% of 328 Steam reviews are positive$1.99Run TavernQuest
A classic text adventure - but you're not the one playing it. You're the game master for an idiot player named STEVE. Parse the player's enigmatic commands and decide how NPCs react to him. Who knew that running an RPG would be so frustrating?
Replayable, Story-driven, Surreal
93% of 138 Steam reviews are positive$12.99Follow the Black Kitten
You buy a laptop with your hands. You find an interactive collection of short stories on your laptop and something else. Or someone? What will all this lead to?
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Minimalist, Mysterious
83% of 77 Steam reviews are positiveFreeThe Lords of the Earth Flame
The Lords of The Earth Flame is a novel game created in the best traditions of interactive fiction and text-based role-playing. Non-linear structure, rich text core, and the “analog” feel of times past are certain to provide unforgettable gaming experience for hours on end.
Also in Visual novel · Replayable, Story-driven, Minimalist
57% of 95 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Storyteller
A puzzle game where the pieces are people. Drag characters and settings into comic panels until the story matches its title: love, betrayal, dragons, murder. You know how these tales go, but this time you are the author, and there is more than one way to write each one.
Also in Visual novel · Replayable, Story-driven, Mysterious
88% of 8,283 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 46$14.99Mainland
A text adventure game about a 19th century explorer who finds himself stranded and alone.
Story-driven, Minimalist, Mysterious
82% of 248 Steam reviews are positiveFreeWhateverland
Find your way out of a magical prison in this non-linear point'n'click adventure full of mini games and challenges. Get to meet the charismatic Whateverlanders, steal and deceive or be a good boy to discover all the different endings of Vincent's story.
Replayable, Story-driven, Mysterious
86% of 126 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Radiotext
Rise against the corporate overlords and become a cyber activist hacker. Join the uprising in a cyberpunk world using radio waves.
Replayable, Story-driven, Minimalist
96% of 89 Steam reviews are positive$11.99Swordbreaker The Game
The Swordbreaker game is interactive fiction with lots of illustrations where you and you alone get to choose the storyline and the ending!
Also in Visual novel · Replayable, Story-driven, Mysterious
82% of 275 Steam reviews are positive$4.99The Thief, the Witch, the Toad, and the Mushroom.
A fairy tale you read by the fire, except it reads you back. Befriend a thief, a witch, a toad and a mushroom, pick a godparent from God, Death or the Devil, and find out why this story feels so familiar. Hand-drawn, strange, and full of endings.
Also in Visual novel · Replayable, Story-driven, Mysterious
99% of 1,242 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4FreeChoice of the Pirate
Plunder ghost ships for cursed treasure! Battle the Crown Navy, sea monsters, and other bloodthirsty pirates on a quest to rival the Pirate King himself!
Replayable, Story-driven, Minimalist
92% of 107 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Hidden gems like Non-Linear Text Quests
The Thief, the Witch, the Toad, and the Mushroom.
Befriend a strange little cast, choose a godparent from God, Death or the Devil, and steer this hand-drawn story toward one of its many endings.
99% of 1,242 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4Free
Banebush
Hide in your childhood village, listen to the old tales, and find out which of six endings is yours.
94% of 2,204 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$2.99
It gets so lonely here
Run through a night forest, choose your path, and meet the three strangers waiting at the end of each one.
94% of 2,407 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6Free
Beacon Pines
A cute, creepy storybook adventure. You play Luka, a young deer snooping into his small town's strange events, and also the reader of the book…
97% of 3,116 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$19.99
The Secret of Darkwoods
Open-world illustrated text-based RPG. Inspired by classic role-playing video games and fantasy gamebooks, the secret of darkwoods is a free game, a…
89% of 121 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Blood Moon
You’re a werewolf. You’re in a city, infested with witches, hunters, ghosts, and vampires. That’s how this story starts. You decide how it ends.
89% of 104 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
The Passenger
Your eldritch existence is threatened when another abomination tries to feast on you.
89% of 128 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Roadwarden
An illustrated text RPG about being the one person willing to ride a dangerous peninsula alone.
94% of 4,545 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 54$10.99
Whateverland
Find your way out of a magical prison in this non-linear point'n'click adventure full of mini games and challenges.
86% of 126 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Storyteller
A puzzle game where the pieces are people. Drag characters and settings into comic panels until the story matches its title: love, betrayal…
88% of 8,283 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 46$14.99
ESC
An interactive novel about identity, roleplay, and dreams.
99% of 102 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Newest games like Non-Linear Text Quests
Radiotext
Rise against the corporate overlords and become a cyber activist hacker. Join the uprising in a cyberpunk world using radio waves.
96% of 89 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Run TavernQuest
A classic text adventure - but you're not the one playing it. You're the game master for an idiot player named STEVE.
93% of 138 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Beek: Familiar Spirit - Remastered
A call for help within a mysterious messaging app. Someone lost and wandering through a forest in a faraway place. And their destiny in your hands.
81% of 31 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Inhuman Resources: A Literary Machination
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
90% of 63 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
Kitsune
Meet the enigmatic stranger who’s been haunting your dreams and embark on a supernatural adventure of twists and turns, love and heartbreak, and…
79% of 28 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
NOX AETERNA - Veil of Darkness
He’s been searching for his missing friend for days. She’s been searching for her long-lost clan member for decades. Now their paths cross.
85% of 13 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Banebush
Hide in your childhood village, listen to the old tales, and find out which of six endings is yours.
94% of 2,204 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$2.99
Fixer's Tale
A humorous sci-fi text-driven adventure where you play a support engineer sent to fix system failures in a secret research complex.
100% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
The Thief, the Witch, the Toad, and the Mushroom.
Befriend a strange little cast, choose a godparent from God, Death or the Devil, and steer this hand-drawn story toward one of its many endings.
99% of 1,242 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4Free
Quest Giver
You're an NPC who gives quests to heroes. Play through 7 scenarios in this humorous narrative adventure with management sim gameplay and a real…
79% of 48 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
It gets so lonely here
Run through a night forest, choose your path, and meet the three strangers waiting at the end of each one.
94% of 2,407 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6Free
Blood Moon
You’re a werewolf. You’re in a city, infested with witches, hunters, ghosts, and vampires. That’s how this story starts. You decide how it ends.
89% of 104 Steam reviews are positive$7.99