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
Games like The Pilgrimage
Remember how story-driven and mysterious The Pilgrimage felt at its best? These games line up well for what comes next.
The Forgotten Nightmare Series
A crash leaves you upside-down in a wrecked van with no memory, in a world gone silent. Where is everyone? Explore, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth in this classic-style, faith-themed text adventure spanning three full chapters, with an auto-drawing map and built-in hints.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Minimalist
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$2.99Run 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?
Story-driven, Surreal, Funny
93% of 138 Steam reviews are positive$12.99Mainland
A text adventure game about a 19th century explorer who finds himself stranded and alone.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Minimalist
82% of 248 Steam reviews are positiveFreeLifestream - A Haunting Text Adventure
Find your missing father and uncover the dark conspiracy surrounding a sacred artifact and an enigmatic brotherhood in this haunting text adventure that combines the best elements of classic interactive fiction and gamebooks.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Minimalist
100% of 25 Steam reviews are positive$2.99the travelers
the travelers is a 2d mmo and text-based adventure. explore a massive wasteland full of history and danger. discover items, build bases, engage in combat, or work together to solve the world's hidden mystery.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Minimalist
100% of 17 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Panspermia - El eco de los antiguos
A narrative adventure where your words matter. Explore, decide, and uncover the secrets of the Panspermia universe in an experience inspired by classic text parser adventures.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Surreal
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$3.99Pilgrims
A playful point-and-click adventure from the makers of Machinarium and Samorost. Roam a hand-drawn fairy-tale land, turn friends and objects into cards, and solve every little story your own way. There is no single right answer, so the fun is in trying the wrong one first and seeing what happens.
Story-driven, Surreal, Funny
96% of 5,695 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$6.99Hadean Lands
Alchemy, puzzles, and a crashed starship. Old-style interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No dialogue trees! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Minimalist
91% of 44 Steam reviews are positive$11.99Never Gives Up Her Dead
Time is running out after a meteor strikes your interstellar starship. While the crew is under full alert, only you seem to notice the strange red portals opening up throughout the ship. Old school text-based parser: no graphics, huge worlds, no hints. Recommended for text game veterans.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Minimalist
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$11.99Subsurface Circular
A robot detective, a subway car full of strangers, and a mystery about missing workers. Subsurface Circular is a short, sharp text adventure where words are your evidence: collect phrases, spend them in conversation, and decide a city's future before the end of the line.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Minimalist
94% of 1,497 Steam reviews are positive$2.99The 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.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Minimalist
57% of 95 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Roadwarden
An illustrated text RPG about being the one person willing to ride a dangerous peninsula alone. Guard travellers, talk your way past suspicion, investigate what happened to your predecessor, and decide who deserves your help. Choices shape a grim fantasy world across a 30-hour campaign with multiple endings.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Minimalist
94% of 4,545 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 45$10.99
Hidden gems like The Pilgrimage
I, the Forgotten One
To defeat the rebel knights and stabilize the crown, you must journey through the most dangerous realm in the kingdom--your own wretched past.
89% of 200 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
The Archipelago
The Archipelago is a visual novel about brewing tea. The teas you choose determine who you encounter in the midst of a vibrant and changing world.
90% of 116 Steam reviews are positiveFree
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: 45$10.99
The Golden Rose: Book One
Explore an alternative medieval Europe in this low-fantasy epic adventure! How far are you willing to go to take back your stolen treasure?
89% of 159 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Pilgrims
Turn friends and odd objects into cards, mix them freely, and let each little fairy-tale scene play out however you please.
96% of 5,695 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$6.99
Subsurface Circular
Play a robot detective riding an underground train, questioning passengers to solve a string of disappearances.
94% of 1,497 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Wanderlust: Travel Stories
Wanderlust: Travel Stories is a bridge between literature and gaming.
82% of 123 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Star Story: The Horizon Escape
Join the journey of a funky space archaeologist who crashed on an unknown planet.
89% of 104 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Buried: An Interactive Story
Buried is a playable, interactive story told through stunning photos, a haunting soundscape, and gripping text.
95% of 155 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Newest games like The Pilgrimage
Diaspora
Navigate unknown waters, deadly politics, and ancient magic in this low-fantasy adventure.
82% of 17 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Never Gives Up Her Dead
Time is running out after a meteor strikes your interstellar starship.
100% of 3 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
Earth Must Die
These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom?
83% of 250 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
the travelers
the travelers is a 2d mmo and text-based adventure. explore a massive wasteland full of history and danger. discover items, build bases, engage in…
100% of 17 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
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
The Way Down
Absurdist Interactive fiction. Talk to the beings that inhabitant the world at its end. We forgot how to die.
95% of 43 Steam reviews are positiveFree
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
彼岸之旅
Travels to a different world, chooses to join different forces, made your character strong, defeat all enemies who stand against you
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Don't Wake Me Up
You’re trapped in a malfunctioning virtual reality with no memories—except of every video game you’ve ever played.
75% of 24 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
I doesn't exist - a modern text adventure
Classic Zork meets Existential Crisis. A modern text adventure that explores themes of control, isolation and mental health while levelling up the…
65% of 54 Steam reviews are positive$12.99